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Chapter 43: Fierce Battle

In the middle of September of the second year of Taihe (that is, the second year of Guangshun of the Great Zhou Dynasty), Ma Yun, the emperor of Chu State, rushed before the Shu State, and spread the "Shuntian Punishment and Rebellion to the Thief Book" of Xu Zaizhou, the new champion Lang Xu Zaizhou's "Shuntian Punishment and Rebellion against the Thief Book" spread to the world, and the thief book listed Guo Wei's 12 major crimes and 65 minor crimes, and Guo Wei was criticized as useless from head to toe, and even the sparrow tattoo on Guo Wei's face was satirically called that painting a tiger is not an anti-dog. Immediately afterwards, Ma Yun issued an order to crusade against thieves, mobilizing an army of 20,000 on the east and west fronts to crusade against Guo Wei.

Why did the State of Chu preempt the State of Shu and spread the word to the world? is nothing more than to grab the title of the leading big brother, so that everyone in the world knows that it was Da Chu who took the lead in the Northern Expedition and was the boss, while Shu was like a little brother, just following up. In this way, everyone in the world knows that the state of Chu is a well-deserved leader of the Zhou Alliance. And the state of Chu himself in the last paragraph of "Shuntian Punishment and Rebellion against Thieves" is also enthusiastic self-proclaiming: The northern expedition of the army is in line with the will of heaven and the will of the people; Fight violence with benevolence, fight rebellion with obedience, and welcome those who obey; The people cheered and ate the pot pulp to meet the king's master... In this paragraph, the official of Great Chu pointed out that the Northern Expedition not only greatly increased the national pride of the people of the world, deepened the sense of identity of the Great Chu, but also expanded the international influence of the Chu State, which was of epoch-making significance.

It's a pity that because the Zhou-Chu border is blocked for a long time, this righteous rhetoric of the "Shuntian Punishment and Rebellion against the Thief Book" has not been transmitted to the Central Plains at all (during the Five Dynasties period, the ideological and moral level of the common people was extremely high, but unfortunately the cultural quality was very low, few people were literate, even if the wind catcher passed this text to the Central Plains, it had no impact on the entire war situation, but it was possible to expose itself), not only did it not spread to the Central Plains, but even Shu State, Hedong and other places, also due to ideological problems, It can't be passed on (the government in these places thinks that people are the destiny of the right people).

In the end, the official "people of the world" of Chu only refer to the common people in the area ruled by Chu, and this "international influence" only exists in verbal expression (the five major powers at that time, the Khitan and the Great Zhou did not hang the Chu State at all, and the Northern Han Dynasty was only submissive, and there was no porcelain truth; As for Shu, people still think that they are the boss). However, due to the momentum of public opinion in the Chu State, the national pride of the common people in the jurisdiction of the Chu State has risen unprecedentedly, and there is a great momentum in the world. Many young people have asked to join the army and fight across the Huai River to unify the whole of China.

In the eyes of high-level officials such as Ma Yun and Li Xiang of Chu State, it is correct to harass pseudo-Zhou. It would be wiser to harass the pseudo-weeks in October, when crops will be planted in mid-October. Their definition of this war is not so much the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains as the Northern Expedition to the croplands. Ma Yun even sent the only horse army in Chu to Xuzhou and Tangzhou, that is, when the army was dispatched, let the horse army gallop in the Central Plains and give the common people a scourge.

From this point of view, Ma Yun is quite a loss. In fact, fighting a war is already delaying farming. In ancient Chinese warfare, there was a big discrepancy in the calculation of troop strength, and there was an important factor, that is, the problem of the people's strength. In fact, in many cases, those people are the local people, and transporting military rations is actually a kind of conscription. But Ma Yun also sent Ma Jun (of course dressed as a horse thief) to prepare to burn people's houses and bad people's crops.

However, at the local level, such as Zhu Yuan and others, they do not agree with Ma Yun's harassment policy. A very important reason is because Ma Yun has always felt that the army of the Pseudo-Zhou is not easy to deal with, but Zhu Yuan and these people are different from Ding Sijin in Shannan, they do not think that the army of the Pseudo-Zhou is more powerful than the Chu army. Zhu Yuan also secretly put forward the "Xiao County Plan", he wanted to design a trap in Xiao County, so that the puppet Zhou army would jump in and fight with the puppet Zhou army in Xiao County.

Jack Ma pondered for a long time and finally agreed to the plan. Why? Although the real intention of the Chu State is Jinzhou, however, a war must be fought with the Zhou army in Huaibei, if the Zhou army cannot be put under great pressure in Huaibei, then once the Shu army is defeated and retreats, the white-clothed army in Guanzhong has no worries and tries its best to attack Shu in the south, it will not be good. It's good to let Zhu Yuan really fight in Huaibei. However, he repeatedly demanded that it was okay to fight, but the scale must be controlled within the scope of Xuzhou.

At the end of September, the Chu army officially sent troops.

On the eastern front, Zhu Yuan, the head of the camp on the east road (in Huainan and Xuzhou and other places, the state of Chu stationed 130,000 horses, in order to avoid autocracy, Ma Yun set up an official position of the head of the camp, governing Huainan Road and Henan Road (Xuzhou area)) is fully responsible, from Guangzhou (now Huangchuan, Anhui), Shouzhou (now Hefei, Anhui) to Haozhou (now Bengbu East, Anhui), this line is all south of the Huai River, a total of 70,000 soldiers and horses in these three states, have all been mobilized, boats and fighting ships on the Huai River, endless exchanges, unfortunately, It is dry thunder and no rain, and it is eyeing Caizhou (now Runan, Henan) and Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) of the pseudo-Zhou Dynasty.

However, in Xuzhou and other places, Ni Kefu, the old general of Henan Province, led an army of 40,000 people with Cao Bin, the defense envoy of Xuhai, jumped over Renshan, attacked Xiao County, and fought with Guo Chong's army in the pseudo-Zhou Xuzhou Jiedu (when Taihe fought for Xuzhou in the first year, although the Zhou general Wang Yan was defeated by Cao Bin, he still controlled Xiao County in Xuzhou).

On the middle line, Ding Sijin, the head of the middle road camp, ordered the general Shi Da to lead an army of 10,000 to attack Wuguan and approach Shangzhou as a response to the Shu army, while he led the main force of Shannan to go east out of Tangzhou and approach Caizhou. In this way, the two armies of the Chu State, one east and one west, put on a pincer offensive, as if they wanted to defeat Caizhou and Xuzhou, the outlying strongholds of Bianjing.

At the beginning of October, on the Western Front, Shu did not play any more suspicious tactics of three-way attack, and took the privy envoy Wang Zhaoyuan as the envoy, and led an army of 60,000 troops to disperse the pass, preparing to take Fengxiang and then enter Chang'an.

After all, Guo Wei, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, has experienced strong winds and waves, and he is also a person who is good at using soldiers, and after he got the news, he just smiled indifferently. Although the Chu army is violent, after all, the strength is limited, and he has tens of thousands of Chen soldiers in Huaibei, and the strength of the Chu army wants to be, as long as he copes with it properly, after a long time, the Chu army will naturally retreat. So, he issued an edict for Wang Yin of Caizhou and Guo Chong of Xuzhou to take strict precautions, and for Guo Rong in Guanzhong, he ordered him to move. Just in case, Guo Wei also transferred back from Hebei the 30,000 horses left behind in Yecheng to train as a reserve, ready to support at any time.

A big war kicked off on the front line of the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River.

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