In early June of the first year of Dading, Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, issued a document condemning Yang Jian, the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, for controlling the government and slaughtering the clan, and pointed out the troops of the governor's offices of Anzhou and Xiangzhou, known as 250,000 troops to fight against Yang in the north!

But this is only the second biggest news of the month, and it is completely detonated by the first news of the month.

Because at the beginning of June, the 'Eastern Zhou' Prime Minister Wei Chi Yuan, who had been scolding the 'pseudo-Zhou' prime minister Yang Jian for half a year, began to do it, and he made a big move:

Succeeded his father as the governor of Xiangzhou, Wei Chi Dan led 150,000 troops south to cross the river to attack Zhan Xingzhou, and then it seemed that he was going to attack Luoyang in the west.

Chi Qin, the governor of Qingzhou, led 100,000 troops to besiege Xiaohuang, the seat of the Maozhou governor's office, and the Xuzhou governor's mansion under the control of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty continued to oppress the Wuzhou governor's mansion in the south, which was still in the hands of the imperial court.

The highlight is the Turks in the north, Tubo Khan married the princess of Qianjin and became the son-in-law of Zhao Wang Yuwen, who had been killed by Yang Jian, I don't know if it was the pillow wind or the Eastern Zhou Dynasty Wei Chi promised any benefits, or the season to go to the Central Plains to fight the grass valley has arrived, and the Turkic nomadic army has a total of 200,000 whips south.

The Turkic army was roughly divided into two routes, Tong Bo Khan personally led the army to attack Guanzhong, and the wolf banner pointed directly at Chang'an, and the other way besieged and governed Taiyuan to avoid Li Mu, the governor of Xiangzhou, from stabbing in the direction of Xiangzhou.

Hearing that Wei Chi had moved, Prime Minister Yang Jian also moved quickly, as the so-called soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and his soldiers are strong and strong, and they are not easy to mess with:

The first is defense: In the Turkic direction in the north, Li Mu, the governor of the prefecture, was ordered to defend to the death, and mobilized reinforcements to support the key roads and checkpoints north of Chang'an to resist the southward movement of the Turkic army.

In the direction of Anzhou and Xiangzhou, he ordered Tu Wanxu, the governor of Jingzhou, to organize the military battle and beware of Yu Wenliang stabbing in the south, and ordered He Ba Zhonghua, the governor of Jiangling, who supervised the Liang State, to organize the armament and defense of Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou in the east, and Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou in the north.

Then came the attack: appointed Jiang Guogong Liang Rui as the marching marshal, led the Guanzhong soldiers out of Tongguan, together with the troops near Luoyang, a total of more than 200,000 troops, ready to meet Wei Chidun.

During this period, a case of rebellion was cracked: the father-in-law of the little emperor Yuwen Xian, Sima Zhen, together with the clan Yuwen Chun, intended to be the internal response of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty to launch a mutiny, but fortunately it was discovered and reported by the 'Chang'an masses' in time, and Prime Minister Yang Jian took immediate measures to extinguish this evil fire.

However, there was still an accident: Yang Lihua, the empress dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was unfortunately poisoned by a traitor and died.

As a result of the handling of the incident, Yuwen Chun and his five sons were taken to the execution ground to be beheaded after attempted rebellion, and the number of Yuwen clans was reduced by six; Sima escaped from Chang'an City by luck and his whereabouts are unknown, and then Emperor Yuwen issued an edict to depose his daughter, who was also his queen, Sima Lingji, as a concubine.

After getting the above exact news, Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, naturally would not give up and act immediately.

The Jingzhou Governor's Mansion referred to by Bing Feng, the Anzhou army was divided into three routes: the 50,000 East Route Army was led by Sima Anzhou, the governor of Anzhou, and Chi Shun, the public lieutenant of Angu County, to arrive in Yingzhou to prepare to attack the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion in the north.

The 150,000 troops of the Middle Route Army were personally led by Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou and Gongyu Wenliang of Qiguo, to attack the two states of Cai and Chang on the west side, and then attacked Fancheng in the north of Xiangyang in the west.

The 50,000 troops of the Western Route Army were seated in Xiangyang by Du Shijun, the governor of Xiangzhou, and after the Central Route Army took Fancheng, they crossed the river and went north, and then went north as a flank to attack the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion with the Central Route Army.

Xiangzhou Assassin Shi Yu Wenming led the rest of the troops to stay in Xiangyang to prevent the Liang State and the Jiangling Governor's Mansion from attacking northward.

Yang Jian knew that Yu Chi Yuan in the east would definitely make a move as soon as Yu Wenliang in the southeast made a move, so he naturally made preparations to kill Yu Wenliang's brother Yu Wenchun's family: appoint Liang Shiyan, the Duke of Yuguo, as the marshal of the march, and lead the troops and horses out of Wuguan to arrive at the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, and deal with Yuwenliang who was about to attack with nearly 150,000 troops under the command of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion.

In addition to clearing the Tongbai Mountain Barbarians, the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion also had to guard against the Anzhou army in the south going north, and the Jiangling Governor He Ba Zhonghua, who was stationed in Liang, acted cheaply, because first, to prevent the monarchs and ministers of Liang from coming from being brain-dead, and second, to prevent Chen Guo in Jiangnan from taking the opportunity to steal chickens and dogs.

In addition to the water planing the forces of all sides, how much can really be fought is only known by the leading generals, and outsiders have no way of knowing, but what the world can be sure of is that the Central Plains, which has been silent for nearly a year, has finally set off a new round of war......

To the west of Suizhou, Tangzhou Prefecture ruled Xucheng.

Yu Wenwen, the prince of Xiyang County and the unified army, led more than 2,000 soldiers and horses under his command to march westward, accompanied by a large number of grain transportation teams.

Not long ago, at the beginning of this month, the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou, uh, it was Yang Lihua in the side room who added a son to him, so the unscrupulous Xiyang County Duke used this as a 'threat' to find his father, Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, to ask for a 'project'.

I have a son, you have a grandson, and the third uncle has an heir, so let's give me a project!

Yu Wenliang's third brother Yu Wenyi died early, and the second son Yu Wenwen succeeded to his name as the heir to continue the incense and inherit the title of Duke of Xiyang County, so Yu Wenliang always used "You don't have a son, you go into battle to play with your life, what if you die?" What about your third uncle's lineage? ”

Yuwenwen put a hippie smile on the grinding, and the old manager added a grandson with a smile and waved his hand: "Then according to the plan, you go to the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion to take up the post of assassin!" ”

Yuwen Tongjun, who was bent on brushing up on the copy of the "Jingzhou War", quit: "Say okay? What to say good! Now prepare for war, father! The Jingzhou Governor's Mansion has not yet been taken down, and the hundreds of thousands of imperial army are dragging like something, or if the son makes up a number and becomes a head, he will follow the army to fight them to the death by the way? ”

So many experience points are waiting for the new army to brush up, and now you want me to go fishing by the Yangtze River? Besides, the Bazhou Navy is not powerful, how can you let me brush the copy of the 'Yangtze River Water War'!

For his son to follow him to fight against the imperial army, Yu Wenliang Qi did not agree at first, he felt that this time he was not honest when he did not have a son, and now that he has a son, he must be even more dishonest.

So there was a plan to choose the middle: let Yu Wenwen lead his troops to Yingzhou in the north of Anzhou to 'make a northern expedition' to the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion with his father-in-law Wei Chishun.

Yu Wenwen is not a fool, his father-in-law led 50,000 East Route Army in Yingzhou Prefecture to govern Yongyang, where is the 'Northern Expedition' Yuzhou Governor's Mansion, the real purpose is three: First, to prevent the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion from taking the opportunity to raid Yingzhou after solving the Tongbai Mountain Barbarian and stabbing Anzhou in the abdomen.

Second, to contain the forces of the Yuzhou Governor's Mansion and prevent it from advancing westward to support the Jingzhou Governor's Office.

Third, in case the main force of Anzhou in the middle of the road is copied back (Xiacheng, Tangzhou, the gateway to the west of Suizhou), the 70,000 troops of Yingzhou stationed on the east side of Suizhou are the firefighting team.

Whoever wants to be a firefighting team, I want to go to Xinye County, Jingzhou to set fire, Uncle Liu Huang is the one who burned Xinye and tossed Prime Minister Cao Cheng into disgrace!

Between the two fathers and sons, Yu Wenliang has already led the army west out of Suizhou, through the Tang Prefecture under his control, and attacked Cai and Chang in the west, and more than 2,000 people under Yuwen Wen were 'house arrested' in Anlu City, and he couldn't move, so he caught up with the army in a hurry to reason with his father.

After theorizing for a long time, he finally said that Tongyu Wenliang asked him to lead the troops to go out with the army, so he sent people to rush back to Chuanxin Anlu day and night, and he waited for the round with the troops in Xiawei, delaying for a few days, until now, Yuwen Wen finally led the new army to the expedition, and it happened that there was a large army of grain transport team, and they set off part-time as a grain guard.

The 150,000 troops of the Anzhou Middle Route Army marched westward from Xiawei in two routes, and with the help of the "long-range gravity projectile artillery across the era," it took only three days to simultaneously attack Changzhou, Guangchang, and Caizhou, and Caiyang in the northwest.

According to the time when the army left Xiahui, it could not be seen that the entire territory of Chang and Cai Prefecture would be taken in five days, and then the Central Route Army would march west and cross the mouth of the two rivers as planned to attack Fancheng on the edge of the Han River.

According to the plan, the western route army of the Xiangzhou Governor's Mansion should also cross the river from Xiangyang to the north to attack Fancheng on the north bank of the Han River, and when Fancheng can be taken, the two armies can cover each other and go straight north to attack Jingzhou Xinye County Zhijianyang, that is, near Xinye City during the Three Kingdoms.

More than 50 miles northwest of Jianyang is the Jingzhou Prefecture Zhiqicheng, which is also the location of the base camp of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion, so it can be inferred that the decisive battle between the two sides will take place either near Xinye or near the city.

It's hard to even take Fancheng, but it's still too late to set off, Yu Wenwen has already told the soldiers that this battle must work hard to make a 'big news'!

Speaking of Jingzhou, today's Jingzhou is not Jingzhou in the traditional sense, the Northern Wei Dynasty of the Northern Dynasty set up three Jingzhou: Jingzhou of Zhicheng, Jingzhou of Zhi'anchang, and Jingzhou of East of Zhibiyang, collectively known as Sanjing.

"Jingzhou, where Guan Yun lost his mindfulness, is now called Jiangling, which is the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty - the Liang State, and the imperial court set up the Jiangling Governor's Office in order to facilitate surveillance and protect the Liang State." Yu Wenwen was teasing, "So don't be mistaken about Jingzhou!" ”

As a person who traveled through the late Ming Dynasty, Yang Jizhi could understand what Yu Wenwen meant, and Xu Shao knew what it meant when he read since he was a child, but the rest of the generals who followed Yu Wenwen were inexplicable: Jingzhou was originally Jingzhou, which was governed by the state, who would regard Jiangling as Jingzhou, I don't understand!

"Ahem." Yu Wenwen felt that he was playing the piano to the cow, but there were two cows who could understand, "Okay, there are two estuaries in front, everyone work hard to cross the river"

In front of Yu Wenwen and his entourage was the downstream crossing of the two river estuaries more than 80 miles west of Changzhou, and a pontoon bridge spanned the river, and troops were stationed on both sides of the pontoon bridge.

After crossing the river, the army attacked Fancheng in the southwest along the Wanxiang Ancient Road, and after taking Fancheng, it joined the West Route Army in the direction of Xiangzhou and then turned back to attack Xinye County in Jingzhou to govern Jianyang.

The defenders set up camps on the east and west sections of the pontoon bridge to facilitate their garrison and prevent the Jingzhou army from sneaking attack.

Two iron cables were pulled upstream of the pontoon bridge in order to prevent the Jingzhou army in Xinye County upstream from setting fire to the pontoon bridge, and this pontoon bridge was very important and was the throat of the land grain road of the Anzhou army on the entire middle road.

More than 100,000 troops of grain and grass were transported from Suizhou to cross to the west bank through this pontoon bridge, and there were imperial court sailors attacking on the Han River north of Xiangyang, and it was a little unsafe to transport grain by boat on the Xiangyang side.

Therefore, the Anzhou army made a bloody investment in order to protect the pontoon bridge: 20,000 troops camped at both ends of the bridge to guard, and did not hesitate to pull up two iron cables on the north side of the pontoon bridge to protect it, and many giant crossbows were set up on both sides of the bank to prevent the enemy troops upstream from setting fire to the bridge and burning the bridge.

This arrangement is similar to the defensive line set up on the Hannan pontoon bridge during the attack on Xiangyang in July last year, which made the Xiangyang naval army almost unable to return.

The task of the defenders is very simple, after a few days the main force of the army conquers Fancheng, which is more than 40 miles to the southwest, it will go north again, and then it will be able to complete the task without fear of a sneak attack by the imperial army.

Yu Wenwen led his army to the camp on the east bank and met with the guards and obtained permission to cross the river on the bridge, but when he came to the river, he always felt that something was wrong.

"Heizong, what do you think?" Yuwen 'Renjie' looked at the river and frowned.

"County Lord, there must be something strange here!" Xu 'Yuanfang' also had a solemn face.