Chapter 19: When the Dead Branches Are Missing (Part II)
Not to mention Liu Xuande's words when he sees people talking about people, and talking nonsense when he sees ghosts, what he wants, after the New Year's Day and during the spring ploughing, Jiangxia suddenly broke out another unbelievable event.
However, after the New Year's Day, the Son of Heaven officially appointed Liu Biao, the general of Annan, as the Taiwei Lingshangshi, and Liu Biao also gladly accepted, and his person accepted the position of Taiwei in Jiangxia Xiling City, and prepared to replace the Son of Heaven for this year's spring sacrifice.
But at the same time, Liu Bei, who was supposed to cross the river and return to Yuzhang, suddenly rode west alone, entered Nanjun, and took advantage of Liu Biao's stay in Jiangxia to take over Nanjun as a Jingzhou pastor.
Nanjun Wenwu, led by the Kuai clan and the Cai clan, chose not to resist or even acquiesced in the way to accept Liu Bei's arrival, and began to hand over the grain, grass, ordnance, soldiers and horses according to the requirements of this Liu Jingzhou, and gathered in Xiangyang City, and then withdrew one after another.
As for Liu Jingsheng, it is said that he tried to turn back at the beginning, but he was stopped at the mouth of the Shaxian River, and he had to make a statement, probably because he also understood Liu Xuande's ambition, so he simply went far away and had a chance to see each other again.
Immediately, after asking Cui Yan, a famous Qinghe scholar who was in Jiangxia, to convey the direction of Nanjun on his behalf, he simply returned to Xiling in Jiangxia and ignored Xiangyang.
And it seems that he has been prepared for a long time, Liu Jingsheng's three sons and one daughter have also come to Jiangxia safely, but his step-room, Mrs. Cai, has no intention of leaving Nanjun.
When the news came out, people in the world naturally felt surprised and incomprehensible at first, but soon they were relieved. After all, Jiangxia is already the end of the world, the more the end of the world, the more demons will appear, and strange things are common, Shu can be so ridiculous, Jingzhou can naturally be so weird.
Who looks down on whom?
In fact, when it came to the spring ploughing of the eighth year of Jian'an, the world generally believed that I was afraid that Yan Gong would truly unify the four seas within the year and overthrow the Han with Yan...... And if that's the case, then from the beginning of the discussion of Dong, no matter how you calculate it, Gongsun Wenqi's time to sweep the world may not exceed ten years.
Ten years and the world, it has far surpassed Guangwu, and can be compared with Han Gaozu.
Of course, people who really know how to do it will not agree with this conclusion, because Han Gaozu was in a hurry, and even the princes of the opposite sex, relatives and internal heroes did not have time to clean up, so they left, and the foundation of Yan Gong was obviously more secure than that one...... That's the real weirdness.
But at the same time, only a few people really understood that Yan Gong had completed the construction of the team before the complete collapse of the authority of the Han Dynasty, and had the core base and army of the beginning, and even huge financial and material resources...... Of course, this is also the situation of the times, before the discussion of Dong, no one can say that General Wei at that time was not a big man and loyal, right? No one can say that there was anything wrong with his prestige in Hebei and the military appeal within the Han system at that time, right? It is impossible for him to be scheming at that time, thinking about building his Yan and covering the Han of the Liu family, right?
When the Spirit Emperor came to life, he didn't have the face to say that!
"Not necessarily." The spring day is rushing, and in the cabinet of Tongquetai, which is gradually getting warmer, Gongsun Xun, who is sitting on the main seat, is thoughtful. "Xuande may not have been a trickster to get the Nanjun ......"
"The minister thought so, too." Jia Xu, who was standing at the front, almost blurted out. "There are many famous cities in Nanjun, the northernmost Xiangyang City, the southernmost Jiangling City, the southeast Huarong City, and the southwest Yiling City...... Each of these cities can hold on to each other, but none of them resist, could it be that Liu Biao has been in Jingzhou for many years, and he has no henchmen at all? What's more, his eldest son is already an adult, and his nephew Liu Pan is a veteran general in the army? I am afraid that Liu Jingsheng saw that the general trend had gone, and he had already retreated in his heart, but Liu Xuande was an indomitable hero, so he hit it off with the Nanjun clan who was extremely resistant to His Royal Highness, and tried to make a last stand...... It's just a tacit understanding. β
"Does Wenhe think Xuande's move is still a heroic act?" Gongsun Xun suddenly sighed when he heard this.
There was a sudden silence in the cabinet, and others were just fine, but Jia Wenhe, who was asked directly, had to say: "Liu Xuande has more than enough courage at this time, and can fight with all his might, how can he not be called a hero?" And ......"
"And?"
"And his current posture is like a posture of bringing together the remnants of all parties to concentrate on a battle, when the southeast half of the wall will be turned back, and the force will be turned back to the sky, and the forces in the Jianghan area that His Highness has long wanted to eradicate will also be like fish and meat in a pot, let His Highness do it...... Thinking that he took the initiative to hand over the matter of the two Huai before, in fact, he also faintly helped His Highness and made His Highness a little less troublesome. Jia Xu's words made the rest of the cabinet think for a while. According to the minister, it was just the other before, but after the battle of Guandu, Liu Xuande's behavior was faintly a bit of a sense of the overall situation, and the pattern was much higher. β
"yes." Gongsun Xun slowly bowed his head, and for a moment he was a little gloomy. "In fact, after the incident of Lianghuai, Lone was a little aware of it, and after he walked to Hedong, he already had some guesses...... At that time, I thought to myself, Xuande has today's difficulties, why isn't it forced to be alone? If he was estranged under Lu Shimen that day, with his heroic attitude, he might have personally played in the Central Plains War, and he would have died with Lone One, and he was killed at that time or today, and the two have nothing to do with each other, let alone anything else? And if Gu was a little stricter in Mengjin that day, he would have been in the pavilion today. In the final analysis, it was Lone's lack of courage when he was young that made him a man of the world who was not inferior to Cao Mengde, and ended up in today's difficulties. β
After all, Han Dang, Lou Gui, Wang Xiu, and even Yu Pei and others have known Liu Bei for a long time, and at this time, Lu Fan, who was in charge of the overall situation of the Central Plains and confronted him, was even more regarded as Liu Xuande's senior brother, and Liu Xuande was also his matchmaker...... Even the most front-line Runan Taishou was simply Liu Bei's friend when he was a teenager. As for Zhang Fei, the chief general under Liu Xuande, he also has a love affair with many figures under Gongsun Xun.
But how to say it?
Now that Liu Bei has embarked on the road of competing for power, there is nothing to say. And whether it is Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, or Jian Yong, according to the ranger style of the three of them, I am afraid that they do not take their life and death into account...... After all, the question is how likely it is to succeed or fail. How likely is it to lose?
The meaning of this can't help but make people feel emotional!
And as soon as he thought of this, a group of old people couldn't help but become more and more gloomy, and Dong Zhao sighed again and again.
"There's no need to think about it anymore." Gongsun Xun seemed to have an idea, and he was the first to come back to his senses, and then said calmly in the audience. "It can only be said that since Xuande is so magnificent, we can't waste his efforts......"
The ministers in the cabinet, plus Dong Zhao, Wang Xiang, and many righteous servants and documents, are all awe-inspiring and solemn.
"This battle is inevitable, and Lone intends to send Xuzhou and Yizhou generals to surrender their soldiers, and Liangzhou soldiers and horses to deal with it." Gongsun Xun paused for a while, and then said his own response plan. "How?"
Below Jia Xu, several ministers in the cabinet all had unchanged expressions, as if they had expected it a long time ago.
In other words, Gongsun Xun's meaning is actually obvious, since the war is inevitable, it is better to let some local stubborn forces that have survived for various reasons pay for this last large-scale war...... And in all fairness, these local forces are probably willing to fight this battle in order to gain a foothold in Yan Country in the future.
Once the battle is over, the local forces have been eliminated as much as possible, and if your subordinates can be satisfied, these people can also stand on their feet, why not?
That's right, the three places in Gongsun Xun's mouth are the three most stubborn places of the local remnants.
For example, Liangzhou, Liangzhou is still a problem left over from history...... The surrender of Han and Ma led to the defection of the leaders of the Haoqiang army below, but at that time, Gongsun Xun was planning a decisive battle in the Central Plains, so it was inevitable to focus on stability for Liangzhou and Hanzhong, who had just started. This has led to the fact that many large families with military strength are still prevalent in the Longshang region.
There is also Xuzhou, although this place is the area recovered in the Guandu War, but because of Guan Yu's magical sneak attack, almost the entire county chose to surrender, so compared with the orderly evacuation of the Lianghuai region and the 'clean' after the bloody battle in the hinterland of the Central Plains, Xuzhou's big households inevitably have some sense of blessing in disguise.
Not to mention Yizhou, the benefits of swallowing Yizhou in three months are self-evident, but the disadvantages are also self-evident.
In fact, as a political leader, the necessary dark mentality is indispensable, and Gongsun Xun also had a faint intention to consume the two local forces of Houliangzhou and Yizhou on the Shu Road, but he didn't think about it, but he was ruined by Xu Yuanzhi's sword.
So far, with Liu Bei's hand continuing to act, there seems to be nothing to say.
"It's not that it can't be done, the merits of the armies under Ye are enough, and the soldiers of the three states also have the intention of meritorious service, so they are naturally willing to go into battle." Although there was no opinion, the judge couldn't help but remind him. "But the key is to make sure that the war is safe? In any case, success or failure in the war is the number one priority......"
"It should be enough." Jia Xu lowered his eyebrows and looked at each other, thoughtfully. "Those wealthy families in Liangzhou are always useful in fighting, and the manpower and material resources of Yizhou and Xuzhou are even more sufficient. And in this battle, our army has too many chances to win. β
The rest of the ministers bowed their heads one after another...... Of course.
"Even so, be sure." Gongsun Xun seems to have plans and ideas in his heart. "In addition to the soldiers and horses of Sanzhou, Gu is ready to go to Luoyang in person, supervise the soldiers and horses of Sizhou and the two departments of Zhang Liao and Gao Shun under Ye, and go out of Luyang with Xu Huang and Huang Zhong as a relay. In this way, even if the front line is lost, Lone can move forward directly and continue to maintain the offensive. β
There is not much information in this sentence, but it is extremely heavy, but unexpectedly, including the trial, no one in the prime ministers said anything, and Dong Zhao was stunned for a while, but immediately returned to normal.
"And Zang Babu."
After a long time, it turned out to be Wang Xiu, who had rarely intervened in military affairs, to break the silence and put forward his own opinions. "Previously, when the Cao family, Xiahou family, Ding family, Li family and other Central Plains clans moved to Luoyang and Yexia, Zang Xuangao also took the initiative to relocate, but considering that Xuzhou was initially determined and suffered from waterlogging, he let the Langya tribes continue to stay there...... Is it possible to take the opportunity to let them move to Luoyang or Luyang, and officially move to Luozhong after the autumn? β
"Yes." Gongsun Xun immediately bowed his head. "Zang Xuangao is a general, and he didn't make any mistakes at the critical moment, he should be given a good result, just like Shuzhi said, so that his subordinates don't have to go to Xiangyang in person, just go to Tunluyang...... Anything else to add? β
"Can you let the soldiers and horses of Xuzhou bring some grain and grass from the state?" Xi Zhong suddenly suggested. "Didn't you say that there was a slight shortage of grain and grass?"
"If the war is prolonged, or if there is another disaster, it will be insufficient, and if the war can be successfully ended before the autumn harvest, it will be safe." Wang Xianse reiterated his part.
"I mean......" Xi Zhong smiled slightly wryly.
"It doesn't have to be this way." Gongsun Xun interrupted the communication between the two and interjected directly. "Whether it is Xuzhou or the Jianghan area in the future, they are all under the rule of Lone, and the necessary cleanup and weakening should be there, but we can't put the cart before the horse...... Food is a matter of stability, don't touch it easily, it's really not good, you can use the Amway to control it a little. β
As soon as these words came out, there was silence again...... There is no way, at this juncture, everyone understands that the time of earth-shaking is coming, and many big things may be hidden in a few words, and Gongsun Xun seems to be dealing with Liu Bei's attitude today, but the additional information revealed in the few words is more sensitive than the other, and one is more serious than the other.
And these things, even a few Xiangguo are not easy to intervene before the matter is completely spread out.
"So be it!" Gongsun Xun looked around, lifted his spirits slightly, and simply drove people away. "Three provinces, six departments and four stations, together to make the final strategy...... Yigong now resigned as a privy envoy, exchanged with Demou, and went to Luoyang in advance to arrange for Gu. β
Before the ministers left, they heard such a big thing, but they were a little numb.
In this way, Ye Xia set a general strategy for Liu Bei's actions, but only a few days later, another unbelievable 'big event' came from the south.
Things have some twists and turns, and here's how they look:
Zhu Zhi, the Huiji Taishou who returned to Wu County from Jiangxia, was directly detained by Xu Kun, who was an auxiliary minister, after reporting to Sun Quan the content of the Jiangxia Xiling court, and then Sun Quan's cousin and father-in-law Xu Kun immediately understood that Ji Taishou went to Huiji;
However, when Xu Kun crossed the Zheshui (Fuchun River) halfway, he encountered the armed resistance of Ling Cao, the commander of the Huiji Prefecture, and Xu Kun died on the spot;
Immediately, Ling Caofu pleaded guilty to Sun Quan and asked for Zhu Zhi's release;
In this regard, the young Sun Quan was as good as a stream, but Zhu Zhi was disheartened and went straight back to his hometown in Danyang County next door, and it is said that he went with Tao Qian, who was not dead, so Wu County and Huiji County completely fell into the hands of the young Sun Quan in a strange but reverie way!
The Lord Shaoguo is suspicious, turbulent, this is a fighter!
However, in the face of such a fighter, Gongsun Xun did not make any strategic adjustments, but only added an order to Guan Yu, which was to let Guan Yun Chang supervise the water division, and be sure to exterminate the habitual bandit Yu Yu who is said to have fled to 'Yizhou'...... Obviously, this is to continue to squeeze Sun Quan with the water army and force him to land, as for the last battle, it is still aimed at Liu Bei.
And Liu Xuande also 'lived up to expectations', and in February of this year, the spring ploughing was barely over, and a letter from Xiangyang and Cui Yan's handwriting 'Rebellion Text' was directly transmitted to Yexia. In contrast, Sun Xun, the grandfather of Yan, didn't care, he didn't make any verbal arguments, but issued a military order and directly recruited soldiers and horses from several states to deal with it!
For a time, the Yizhou soldiers and Liangzhou soldiers of the Gongsun Yue-Tianfeng-Zhaoyun group belonging to the direction of Yizhou were launched, and the army was divided into two, all the way out of the Three Gorges, trying to go down the river, all the way down the Han River from Hanzhong, trying to go straight to Xiangyang;
At the same time, the Xuzhou soldiers and Lianghuai local soldiers and horses belonging to the LΓΌfan-Xunyou-Handang group in the direction of the Central Plains also divided their troops into two routes, all the way to the city of Dengxian, trying to gather the soldiers and horses in the Hanzhong direction in Hanshui, and all the way to gather in the area of Broken Snake Hill in Suixian County from the eastern side of Tongbai Mountain (the later Xinyang area), as if they were going straight to Anlu and trying to invade Jiangxia;
In addition, the Qingxu Navy floated to the south, and the Jiaozhou soldiers and horses forced Jingnan, needless to say;
In the end, Yan Gong actually left Jia Xu, trial and other six phases to guard Ye, and personally led the most elite Gao Shun and Zhang Liao to Luoyang to supervise Sizhou soldiers and horses, and Xu Huang and Zang Ba rushed to the northernmost Luyang area of Nanyang to respond.
In other words, now the situation is really strong and weak, Yan Gong does not move, and his movement seems to be extremely restrained, but it seems to be a posture of all-out siege.
In fact, according to the semi-public official documents of the Yan army, intentionally or unintentionally, only the frontal enemy assigned to the direction of Xiangyang and Dengxian in the predetermined plan, that is, the soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, Yizhou, Liangzhou and other places, had as many as 28 battalions and more than 40 troops, with a total of 40,000 people! Not to mention the sum of the troops and horses of the various departments in the rest of the directions and the people who support logistics.
Of course, there are also good young officials in the military department, and they can easily conclude that under the overall situation, from the easternmost naval army at the mouth of the Yangtze River to the westernmost troops in the Bashu Hanzhong area, although Yan Gong tried his best to restrain himself, he still actually mobilized more than one million people, and the front-line army was about 150,000 or 60,000!
Of course, this number doesn't mean much at this time...... Everyone's eyes moved directly to the southernmost part of Nanyang County, that is, the area of Xiangyang and Deng County, because there was likely to be a final battle in the world there, so as to make a final end between Yan and Han.
On the fifth day of the first month of March, Duke Yan arrived in Luoyang, and Sizhou Muhan, who was preparing here, immediately went out of Nanyang as Lu Fan's deputy.
On the seventh day of the first month of March, Zhao Yun, the deputy governor of the Western Front and the champion general, led the soldiers and horses of Liangzhou and Hanzhong to arrive at Tin County (later Baihe) in the upper reaches of the river, which was less than 400 miles away from Xiangyang.
On the 10th day of the first month of March, the Grand Sima and the Grand Governor LΓΌ Fan arrived in Zhiwan City in Nanyang County from Runan, and gathered the two deputy governors, Han Dang, who was reappointed as the pastor of Sizhou, and Xun You, the general of the military division, and the three of them immediately established a new front-line base camp there.
On March 11, about 20,000 people from Xu Huang and Zang Ba arrived at Luyang, the northernmost point of Nanyang County.
On March 15, two new battalions from Luoyang, under the leadership of Sima Yi, the new Henan Governor and Han Fu, the former Luoyang Tuntian Commander, and Chen Deng, Mi Fang, Cao Hong, Kong Xiu, Chen Qun and others from the direction of Xuzhou, gathered in Xinye, totaling four battalions of soldiers and two battalions of auxiliaries;
And on the twenty-first day of March, with Zhao Yun's forward Meng Da leading Zhao Ang, Jiang Xu, Fu Gan, Han De, and Xie Zheng five battalions to Chaoyang, there were already eleven battalions of soldiers and horses in front of Deng County, who was at the forefront! Among them, there are eight battalions of soldiers and three battalions of auxiliaries, a total of fifteen troops, and 15,000 people!
At the same time, it is ridiculous to say that the soldiers and horses gathered in Xiangyang under Liu Bei's command were only seven or eight thousand...... There is no way, when it is really time to prepare for the decisive battle, the overall backwardness of manpower and material resources is undoubtedly revealed, coupled with the aftermath of the battle of Guandu, the influence of Jingzhou's full support for Yizhou before, and the refusal of the four counties of Jingnan to provide logistics, Nanjun also seems to have fallen into some kind of logistics crisis.
In this case, the soldiers and horses of Danyang and Yuzhang counties have not arrived for a long time, and only a few generals have come here, but they still have to divide their troops to Wen Ping, so that the latter can defend Gongsun Yue in Yiling...... So the question is, how many soldiers do you want to have left?
However, what is even worse is that as the power of the Yan army is once again revealed, some people are weak again, especially in the southeast of Nanjun...... More and more local clans refused Liu Bei's call on the grounds of defending the Han family, and instead gathered in Jiangxia.
It's ridiculous to say, at this time, in the Jiangxia region, Anlu, Xiling, and Shaxian, a total of thirty or forty thousand troops were gathered at this time!
Liu Bei sent Cui Yan to ask for reinforcements, Xiao Tianzi, Liu Biao, and Jing Ze all gritted their teeth and agreed, but these people were stunned and piled up in Sha Xian.
In such a situation, it is almost conceivable that once the main force of Zhao Yun's troops arrives, or Xu Huang and Zang Ba's troops move forward to Deng County, there is no need to wait for Gongsun Yue to break through the Three Gorges in the upper reaches or the navy of Guan Yu in the lower reaches to force Sun Quan to surrender, nor do they have to wait for the four counties of Jingnan behind them to turn against the water...... It's just that the gap in the number of troops in front of Xiangyang City will gradually turn into a desperate chasm.
In this situation, some of the bold words that are conclusive really seem meaningless.
"Forget it, don't wait!" On this day, at the head of Xiangyang City, the sun was setting, Liu Xuande looked at the Han Shui in the north and was silent for a long time, his face remained unchanged, but he calmly turned back and made a reasonable and reasonable decision to the Jianghan Wenwu in front of him. "I have made up my mind, I should take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold, take the initiative to attack first, and break the new recruits of the eleventh battalion!"
Jiang Han civil and military, all speechless.
On the twenty-third day of March, Liu Bei left only 1,000 soldiers and horses for Lu Su to defend Xiangyang, but he personally led 7,000 people across the Han River and went out of Deng County.
As soon as his troops crossed the river, Lu Fan, who had an absolute advantage in sentinel cavalry, did not dare to slack off, and he personally led about 10,000 local soldiers from Nanyang who gathered in Wancheng to the south, and asked Sima Yi, Meng Da and other generals to leave immediately...... The Yan army combined nearly 25,000 troops, and then immediately rushed forward along both sides of the river with a nearly four-fold superiority in strength.
After Liu Bei learned the information, he was not afraid at all, but continued to divide 1,000 troops and Mi Zhu to guard Deng County, and then with Zhang Fei as the vanguard and Li Tong as the rear, he only led 6,000 soldiers to the north along the water.
At this time, the news reached Luyang, and Xu Huang and Zang Ba, who had already received the order, immediately set up troops to the south, but they went to Suixian.
βββββI am the dividing line of the soldiersβββββ
"The case of Chen Song is powerful and gracious, brave and righteous, magnanimous and strategic, so it can win people and cover it with a heroic attitude. However, it is said that the matter is settled with love, and life and death are broad; Second, it is difficult to determine priorities, regardless of the general situation. If you live in China, you can mess with people but you can't rule them. If you take the risk, it is enough to be the master of one party. When he met Taizu, he was late and late, and he was finally a ranger in Yandi, and he did not become a weapon of Gaozu. βThe Dictionary. Yan. Pei Song's note
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