The sudden tearing up of the covenant by Shu and the occupation of the Wuchuan River Valley, which should have been classified as the territory of Great Chu, caused waves in Jinling City, which were far less remarkable than the recent large-scale gathering of soldiers and horses of the forbidden army along the Yangtze River and Shuzhou.

Even most of the scholars and gentlemen in the city and the children of the family may not be able to figure out where the Wuchuan River Valley is located.

In the vast majority of people's concepts, Shu and Chu only border the Changxia of Wushan and the river valley in the upper reaches of the Han River.

In Jingzhou, the lower reaches of the Wushan Changxia Gorge, and Junzhou in the lower reaches of the Hanshui River Valley, there are elite forbidden troops stationed in Great Chu, and there is no news of the Shu army's changes.

Where is the Wuchuan Valley?

And for those scholars and gentlemen who knew where the Wuchuan River Valley was located, they didn't care much about the actions of the Shu army.

Qianjiang and Qianzhong were originally synonymous with barbarianism, and Sizhou was only nominally attributed to Dachu.

In fact, in these places, the Great Chu Dynasty could not even send a sesame big official, collected less than half a basket of money and grain, and many fetters in Guizhou were unruly and free from the rule of the Great Chu.

The Wuchuan River Valley was originally also a territory that Sizhou had just taken from the hands of the Wu people.

Even in the Qin and Han dynasties, Wuchuan was subordinate to Ba County, the hometown of Sichuan and Shu, and it was also subordinate to Jiannan Dao, the hometown of Sichuan and Shu.

The Shu army took away the Wuchuan River Valley from Sizhou, not to mention the common people, even a considerable part of the officials in the court were more or less insignificant.

Only ministers with real political ambitions can see how far-reaching the gains and losses of the Wuchuan River Valley will have on the situation in the southwest controlled by Great Chu.

Of course, considering that Chu and Shu jointly faced the threat of the Liang army, and that the internal troubles of Great Chu north of the Yangtze River had not been completely resolved, most of the ministers in the DPRK and China did not advocate a complete tear with Shu.

In Jingzhou and Junzhou, Zhang Qian and Zheng Hui were only ordered to strengthen their vigilance, and there was no plan to increase troops for confrontation for the time being; For Wei Qun, the Shu envoy who sent an envoy to Great Chu, in the end, he only sent troops and horses to restrict his entry and exit from the capital under house arrest, and did not say that he was directly imprisoned.

Not to mention that he was ashamed and angry, and directly beheaded him to show that he broke off his relationship with Shu Guoen.

And carefully pondering the mentality of the monarchs and ministers of the Shu State, perhaps it was precisely because they expected that the people of Great Chu would have such a reaction, and they would feel that taking advantage of the civil strife in Sizhou and sending troops to occupy the Wuchuan River Valley would not hinder the overall situation of the union of Shu and Chu, and they would feel that as long as they could successfully control the Qianjiang channel first, the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State would eventually choose to compromise and acquiesce in this fact.

After Xuanwei made Huanghua to Hunan, it contributed to the Sizhou civil unrest ending in such an ending, Shen Yang, Yang En, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang, Yang Zhiyuan and others were still satisfied.

Without large-scale use of the resources of the hinterland of Hunan, the civil unrest was quelled, Sizhou was preserved, and the possibility of the Shu army taking full control of the Qianjiang channel was curbed.

No matter how harsh people are, they will feel that if anyone rushes to Hunan, they may not be able to do better than Huanghua.

The imperial court also did not fall into the embarrassing situation of having to compromise with the Shu army.

It was precisely because of this that the imperial court was able to make up its mind at this time to transfer 600,000 stone of grain from Xingshangshu Province in Hunan Province to Shuzhou as military salaries, so as to make final preparations for the next stage of the full-scale offensive against Chaozhou.

Even Xuzhou also took a lot of advantage in it, and even after the recovery of Wuchuan, the post of salt and iron court supervisor set up by Hunan Xingshangshu Province in Wuchuan County will also be temporarily controlled by Xuzhou and used to return the grain, soldiers, armor and other materials borrowed from Xuzhou during this period.

But all this is still within the scope of the political affairs hall and the princes.

After all, Xuzhou did not directly annex Sizhou, nor did it show too untimely ambitions, and the imperial court even directly stretched its hand into the lofty mountains and mountains along the Qianjiang River for the first time.

Otherwise, I really have to send troops to the remote place of Sizhou to confront the Shu army, and I really don't know how much food it will consume to stop.

At the same time, it will also lead the whole body, which will directly affect Da Chu's layout and military plan in other aspects.

As for whether Qianyang Hou Han Qian was docile and tame in his heart, the princes of the Political Affairs Hall also felt that they didn't need to care too much.

As long as Huang Hua, Wu Zun and others can really grasp the situation in Hunan, and when they have the spare strength to attack the rebels defending Yongzhou first, when the time comes, Hunan Xingshangshu Province will have enough soldiers and food, and there will be no worries about external troubles.

As far as the entire Great Chu is concerned, if the upcoming offensive can successfully recover Chaozhou and Shouzhou and annihilate the rebels of Anning Palace, the situation of internal and external troubles and torments between the two sides will also be completely changed.

When the time comes, there is more than enough strength to transfer a forbidden army to the Wuchuan River Valley to garrison, and the 3,000 soldiers and horses of Tianping Capital will be withdrawn to the hinterland of Hunan for rest, and the Marquis of Qianyang can still tear his face and obstruct it?

At present, along the Qianjiang River, there are Xuzhou soldiers as the backing of the back, the balance is threatened from the flanks, and there are Sizhou soldiers and Chenzhou soldiers joining forces to intercept in Shiqian head-on, and the Shu army wants to continue to fight south along the steep Qianjiang River valley, which is actually quite difficult and extremely risky.

Under the current situation, the Great Chu Dynasty does not have to worry about the situation in the Wuchuan Valley in a short period of time

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No matter how big the change is, even if there will be a stalemate and the situation will be strained, they don't have to worry about the situation over there will deteriorate further.

In the final analysis, the subsequent development of the situation in the Wuchuan Valley has not hindered the overall situation.

At this time, Shen Yang, Yang En, Yang Zhiyuan, Zheng Yu, Zheng Chang and others, even including Li Pu, the Marquis of Xinchang, still advocated that Li Zhihe lead his troops to attack Chaozhou as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

However, Emperor Yanyou issued several holy decrees, ordering Hunan Xingshangshu Province to urge Tianping to send troops to recover the Wuchuan River Valley as soon as possible, and insisted on waiting until the Shu army was expelled from the Wuchuan River Valley before deciding whether to launch an offensive against Chaozhou.

Even if Shen Yang and the others thought that whether the war in the Wuchuan Valley was going smoothly or not would not affect the overall situation, they were worried that the delay in the war in Chaozhou would have some subtle adverse effects on the morale of the army, but Emperor Yanyou insisted so much, and they were not in a rut.

They could only continue to put pressure on Hunan Xingshangshu Province, and ordered Tianping to strive to launch an offensive against the Shu army occupying the Wuchuan River Valley before the year, and expel the Shu army from the Wuchuan River Valley as soon as possible at all costs.

After nearly five months of brutal attack and defense, the rebel generals and Sizhou soldiers finally selected 3,000 soldiers to be incorporated into Tianping Capital.

However, even if Xuzhou provides sufficient supplies now, the armor and ordnance are also supplied according to the standards of the Xuzhou infantry battalion, and there are more than 100 military attachés led by Xi Fa'er, Dou Rong, Han Bao and others to assist Tan Yuliang in conducting assault and emergency training on the Tianping generals in all aspects, but it is also extremely hasty to complete the combat preparations for the Shu army within a month.

However, in addition to Fu Gengwen and others staying in Hujian Pass to supervise the battle on behalf of Hunan Xingshangshu Province, Huang Hua, the Xuanwei envoy, directly copied the edict of Emperor Yanyou and the official letter of the Privy Council to Tan Yuliang and Fu Gengwen to exert pressure on them.

Huang Hua also had a great deal of delay without fighting for a while, so he sent troops and horses from Shaozhou to fight in the Wuchuan River Valley.

Chai Jian was worried that the military power would be sidelined and didn't listen to Huanghua's greetings, but now that Emperor Yanyou has issued several holy decrees to promote war, it is really difficult to talk about anything.

According to the original plan, Xuzhou did not directly send troops, and Han Qian could only mobilize to the maximum extent in logistics with the fastest efficiency.

With the assistance of Xuzhou and the support of sufficient materials, Fu Gengwen and others transferred nearly 10,000 remaining adult men and able-bodied women from the rebel general's home, and entered the southern slope of the Caojing Mountains and the northern foot of the Panlong Mountains in the fastest time.

These people scattered along the Wuling Mountain Trail that connects the Wuchuan River Valley at Hujian Pass, repairing and widening this sheep intestine trail that is about 140 miles long and has to climb over a total of 16 large and small mountain beams along the way.

At the same time, Xuzhou also used thousands of strong people, using wheelbarrows, or directly shoulder-to-shoulder, bags of grain and bundles of arrows, through the sheep intestine trail, into the outpost base established by the Qingyan Temple on the east wing of the Wuchuan River Valley.

Almost before the time set by the government hall and the Privy Council, a large number of generals of Tianping officially set out from the Qingyan Temple on the northwest slope of Xia Ge Mountain and entered the Wuchuan River Valley to fight.

The so-called war is not always a clever plan, and most of the time it is a bloody and brutal confrontation and fighting.

The Shu army had already established a strong foothold in the Wuchuan River valley, and warships could come and go freely on the Qianjiang River.

In contrast, it is impossible for Xuzhou to transport warships from the Ruan River into the Qianjiang River in different water systems out of thin air.

The shipyard in Shiqian County in Sizhou is too pitiful in scale and poor in technical standards, so it can only build small canopy boats and oars, and it is difficult to compete with the warships of the Shu army on the Qianjiang River.

In this case, the Tianpingdu brigade could only forcibly advance to the bank of the Qianjiang River, withstand the pressure of the Shu army's land and water attack, establish a stronghold, and then use whirlwind cannons to occupy the steep cliff bank, block the Qianjiang River channel more than 100 zhang wide, and suppress the Shu army's warships in the lower reaches of the Qianjiang River.

This process seems simple, but it is an extremely bloody and brutal tug-of-war.

Especially in the early days, the transportation capacity of the sheep intestine trail was extremely limited, and there was no way to transport a large number of sophisticated weapons at all, and the balance had to pay a rather tragic price in order to occupy a foothold.

It was not until a large number of sophisticated weapons were transported in the later period that the balance did not fall into disadvantage, but casualties were also inevitable.

After all, the Shu army that entered and occupied the Wuchuan River Valley was also an elite combat force, and the weapons and armor were not weak, and the two sides could even be said to have directly entered the most brutal war of attrition.

It is difficult for anyone to give the other a fatal blow in a short period of time, but in fact, whoever can't bear such a consumption first, and who shows fatigue first, will lose in such a tug-of-war and ultimately lose.

Taking the dangerous and remote post road from Hujian Pass to transport people, horses, and materials into the Wuchuan River Valley, the logistical pressure borne by Xuzhou is even greater than that of taking 500 miles of waterways from Yuzhou to transport materials into the Wuchuan River Valley.

However, the most favorable point of the situation is that the Shu army is facing a more serious threat than Tianpingdu, Sizhou soldiers, and Chenzhou soldiers.

That is, the Shu army only opened the passage of the Qianjiang River before, and failed to clear the Wu people on both flanks of the Qianjiang River and hiding in the deep mountains and old forests in time

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Exterminate.

When the main military resources were concentrated in the Wuchuan River Valley at one end, the Shu army's control over the Wuchuan River Valley to the nearly 500-mile winding waterway from Yuzhou was naturally weakened.

The counterattack launched by the Wu people from the deep mountains and old forests seemed to be small in scale, but the short and sudden attacks launched every three forks and five times made the Shu army suffer frequent casualties, but the accumulation was not a small number.

And there are worries about the back road, which makes the Shu army who are fighting in the Wuchuan River Valley difficult to decide.

At the end of February of the second year of the war, Tianping originally had 3,000 soldiers, of which twice the last young and strong men were drawn from the family to supplement the soldiers, but under the consumption of the tug-of-war, there were still no 2,000 capable soldiers left.

The casualties of the Shu army are slightly better-looking, it seems that the Shu army has many generals and can withstand attrition, but in fact, as the Wu people attack more and more frequently on both sides of the Qianjiang River, and the mountain officials also carry out large-scale assembly in southern Sichuan, there is a great momentum to advance into the Qianjiang River, recapture Banan, and regain control of Yanyuan, the Shu army finally could not support it first, and chose to withdraw from the Wuchuan River Valley.

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After the end of the Wuchuan War, Han Qian entered the Wuchuan River Valley with the latest batch of grain transportation teams, surrounded by guards, standing on a stone cliff like a goshawk volleying in the sky, looking at the turbulent Qianjiang River, which was flowing northward.

As winter turns to spring, algae grow, the river reveals a lush greenery, and the wreckage of a sunken warship remains on the river's beach.

The Wu people rebuilt the city on the ruins of the old city of Wuchuan not far away, and then occupied it by the Shu army, and the broken city wall was still stained with flesh and blood, and was not completely washed away by the continuous drizzle of these two days.

To tell the truth, if there is more time, even if it is an extra month, to train the generals of Tianpingdu more fully, or wait for the Wuling goat intestine trail to be slightly widened and build a standard five-foot post road, so that more weapons from Xuzhou can reach the Wuchuan River Valley, it is completely possible to drive the Shu army out of the Wuchuan River Valley with much smaller casualties.

Instead of being like now, the scales are almost crippled and scrapped, and in just one or two years, don't think about restoring combat effectiveness.

Although nearly 20,000 people will migrate over in the fastest time in the future, from the Panlongling incident to the recovery of the Wuchuan River Valley, more than 6,000 young and strong men have either died on the battlefield or have been seriously injured and disabled, which also means that these women, children, old and weak want to take root and live and reproduce in the Wuchuan River Valley, and they have to pay more arduous hardships.

In the world, young and strong men are still the main source of labor.

Tianping wants to maintain a standing army of 2,000 people in the Wuchuan River Valley, which basically means that there will be no young and strong male laborers to participate in the subsequent cultivation of the tuntian.

Such a level of sacrifice can be said to be extremely tragic for the rebel army.

Tan Yuliang, who was once ambitious and full of desire to regain his fame, had even more frosty white hair at this time, and he looked a little depressed.

"Your Majesty shouldn't suspect that your lord is colluding with the Shu army anymore, right?" Zhao Zhixian leaned over, clasped his hands, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice.

Han Qian glanced back at Zhao Zhixian, and listened to the resentment in his tone, the generals who died in the tragic battle were not worth it, but there was no way to blame him.

Zhao Zhixian's youngest sons, Zhao Fangcheng and Pei Pu, although they were physicians and would not directly enter the frontline battlefield, were unfortunately killed in a surprise attack launched by the Shu army.

Zhao Zhixian had already written to Xingshangshu Province to ask for his resignation, and his eldest son Zhao Fanghai also insisted on not wanting to succeed him as the Cheng of Wuchuan County - of course, Zhao Zhixian had hoped to spend his old age in Chenzhong or Qianyang earlier, but at this time he decided to stay in the Wuchuan River Valley with his eldest son Zhao Fanghai to open a medical center.

"Zeguo entered the war map, and the people were happy to be happy. Relying on the words of the king to seal the marquis, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither. It is rumored that the First World War was full of sorrow, and the strong troops on both sides of the strait passed the last rest. Who said that Cangjiang is always fine, and recently there has been a long bloody battle......"

These are two poems written by the former dynasty poet Cao Song about the Anshi Rebellion, Han Qian chanted gently, but his expression was more resolute.

He once thought that Shen Yang and the others would first promote the war to recover Chaozhou, but as long as Li Zhihe successfully recovered Chaozhou, Dachu's internal and external troubles would be improved to a certain extent, and he would push the balance to recover the Wuchuan River Valley, the resistance would be much smaller, and the casualties would never be so heavy.

He really didn't expect Yang Yuanpu's suspicion of Xuzhou to such an extent that he even did not hesitate to delay in advance to recover Chaozhou and annihilate the rebels of Anning Palace first.

Or maybe Lu Qingxia and Yao Xishui have never given up on Xuzhou?

Seeing the brothers Feng Yi and Feng Yi coming from a distance, Zhao Zhixian decided to retire and had no intention of participating in any more confidential matters, so he decided to retire and leave first.

Han Qian didn't keep Zhao Zhixian, he stood on the cliff bank with his hands in his hands, relying on the river breeze blowing his robe, and after a long time, he said to Feng Yi who walked behind him: "I want to restart the intelligence network in Jinling!" You pick the people and report them to me! ”

Despite the heavy casualties, the results are optimistic.

Hearing Han Qian's new decision, Feng Mi was overjoyed and said, "Okay, I'll arrange ...... now."

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