Chapter 699: Troubled Times
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The time goes back to August of the eighteenth year of Hongde.
On 14 August, the Korean cavalry finally marched out of Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass, and tens of thousands of light cavalry quickly attacked Shanyang County, Shangdang County, Wei State.
On the same day, the Shanyang War broke out, and Zhao Hongjiang, the fourth prince of Wei and the king of Yan, led more than 30,000 Shanyang troops to defend the city until dusk, which made the Korean cavalry retreat.
The next day, the Southern Yan Army, one of the six battalions of the Wei garrison, under the leadership of the general Wei Mu, urgently supported Shanyang, during which it was ambushed by the Korean cavalry.
On August 16, the West Korean Road sent troops from the direction of Beidi to attack Hedong County of Wei, and the Wei city of Chifenyin fell.
After that, numerous Korean cavalry invaded Hadong County.
During this period, Zhao Hongli, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace of Wei, led the title of commander of the Northern Xinjiang and the commander of the expeditionary force, and brought Zhao Hongxuan, the deputy marshal of Huan Wang, to Anyi, Hedong, to officially counterattack Korea on the West Road.
The outbreak of war in Shangdang and Hedong represented the official start of the Wei-Han War.
On August 18, Wei declared war on Korea by joining the alliance of friendly Sichuan tribes.
During this period, the Qingyang, Baiyang, Gray Sheep and other Qiang tribes, as well as the Lun and Meng tribes, as well as a few Qiang tribes, formed the Sichuan Army, entered Hedong, and fought with the Korean rangers.
The so-called rangers, as the name suggests, are cavalry that wanders around and is responsible for sweeping the enemy's territory against the forces, and is a flank force that assists the main army in combat.
Therefore, the rangers did not have a clear target to attack and enjoyed the highest degree of freedom, so since these rangers invaded the western part of Hedong County of Wei, they attacked everywhere, and Zhao Hongli, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace of Wei, who once led the war in northern Xinjiang and Hedong, felt that it was extremely tricky.
Note: The Ranger is not a cavalry class in the true sense of the word, but refers to the cavalry that is specifically responsible for harassing and fighting guerrillas, for example, the Huanhu Kou Cavalry and the Dangjun Cavalry should be classified as cavalry, not cavalry used in the frontal battlefield.
However, after the Sichuan cavalry entered Hedong, the situation of the Wei army's northern expeditionary force improved a lot, after all, the Sichuan cavalry was also a cavalry that was good at guerrilla warfare, and its strength was not inferior to that of Korean rangers.
On 20 August, South Korea intensified its attack on Shanyang County, and Zhao Hongjiang, the king of Yan, and Wei Mu, the general of Southern Yan, struggled to resist, and both sides won and lost each other's casualties.
During this period, Zhao Yuanxi, the king of Wei, ordered Shaohu, the newly promoted general of the military government, to bring 50,000 long-trained Great Wei Wu troops to urgently support Shangdang.
When General Shaohu and the 50,000 Great Wei Wu Army under his command arrived in Shanyang County, the Shangdang Wei Army immediately reversed the previous passive situation, but at this time, the battle situation in the Hedong Battlefield was very bad.
It's not surprising if you think about it carefully, after all, Zhao Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, and Zhao Hongxuan, the king of Huan, are both leading the troops for the first time, and the Northern Frontier Army under his command is also composed of a group of private troops of domestic nobles, in Zhao Hongrun's evaluation, it is a group of unusable rabble, so let alone counterattacking the Korean army, these people can't even resist the Korean rangers, if it weren't for the Sichuan cavalry to help, I'm afraid Anyi has been captured.
The bad news of Hedong's defeat reached Daliang, but Wei Tianzi was not a little angry.
After all, the Wei army invested in the Hedong battlefield was a private army composed of domestic nobles in Wei, and even if it suffered defeat, it consumed the strength of the domestic nobles, which had little to do with Wei.
Even, Wei Tianzi wished that these nobles had suffered too heavy losses.
However, considering that if the Hedong battlefield is eroded, it may affect the mood of the Chinese people, affect the Shanyang battlefield, and eventually lead to the defeat of the entire northern Xinjiang battlefield, therefore, on the one hand, Wei Tianzi ordered Zhu Hai, the general of the Chenggao army, to raise troops to Hedong and sit in Wangxiang and Wusui, and on the other hand, he sent Li Cheng, the commander of the Zongwei and the current commander of the Three Guards, to Anyi to assist Hongli, the prince of the East Palace, and Wang Hongxuan.
Originally, Wei Tianzi thought about whether to mobilize the 50,000 northern Sichuan cavalry recovered by his son Zhao Hongrun, but he didn't expect to find out that the 50,000 northern Sichuan cavalry had been secretly transferred to Shangshui.
So Wei Tianzi immediately understood.
August, for the Wei army in the northern Xinjiang is indeed a difficult test, because many of them do not know the strength of the Korean cavalry, so they have suffered a lot of defeats in vain, but fortunately, this time the Wei State invested a lot of troops in the entire northern Xinjiang, so although the battle situation is unfavorable, but it can still hold on.
By the end of August, the pressure on Wei in northern Xinjiang would be much less.
Because in this month, the Julu Navy of Julu County of Qi State, in accordance with the order of Lu Xi, the king of Qi, led by the general Tian Wei, officially launched an offensive in the east of South Korea, and the powerful fire crossbow warships frequently attacked Handan County in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Although South Korea had already taken into account the factors of Qi when it decided to attack Wei, so it deployed heavy troops in Handan County, which was adjacent to Julu County, but the Julu Navy of Qi carried too many war weapons, and the Korean army could not resist these war weapons carefully crafted by the craftsmen of Lu State, so that under the attack of Tian Wei, the general of Qi State, they were repeatedly defeated.
Generally speaking, the battle situation in the northern Central Plains is not very fierce at present, and both the Qi Wei side and the Korean side have maintained restraint and reason.
In the south of the Central Plains, the fighting was much more intense than in the north.
——Shangshui County——
On September 7, Ying Kang, the leader of the Green Crows, received an urgent message from Zhao Hongrun in Hao County, and the few Green Crows who delivered the message could be called a day and night journey, so they rushed to return the order of the King of Su back to Shangshui before the tenth day of the ninth month.
After receiving this news, Ying Kang did not dare to slack off, and immediately handed it over to Gu Liangwei, a general equivalent to the county guard of Shangshui County.
After reading the message, Gu Liangwei immediately invited Bo Xile, the governor of the 50,000 northern Sichuan archers, and the leader of the Youma light cavalry, to the mansion.
After seeing Bo Xile and You Ma, Gu Liangwei didn't talk nonsense, handed over Zhao Hongrun's handwritten letter to the two, and said to them: "His Royal Highness King Su has an order, and you two are ordered to immediately lead the cavalry under your command to attack the Chu State." …… This time the army marched, King Su ordered General Boshel as the main commander, You Ma as the deputy commander, the specific offensive line has been clearly written in the letter, you two to discuss on your own. ”
"You want to ride with me in the north of Sichuan?" Boshel asked suspiciously after hearing this.
Hearing this, You Ma's expression immediately fell, after all, no matter how he listened to it, he felt that Bosiler was disgusting him.
But it's no wonder, after all, the new army has only been trained for a long time, although the sergeant of the army has gradually improved his riding skills after rigorous training, but in the final analysis, this is still just a new army, how can it compare to the archers of northern Sichuan who have been fighting for many years?
Obviously, Bosil was worried about whether the new army of Youma would drag him back from the archers of northern Sichuan, after all, in the heart of this general of the Qiang tribe, it was normal for cavalry to travel hundreds of miles a day and run long distances, which was commonplace; However, in the Wei State, this is one of the criteria for measuring whether a cavalry can be called elite, what is this more than that?
Noticing Bo Xile's contempt and the angry look on Youma's face, Gu Liangwei had no choice but to make a round and say: "General Bo Xile, Dangshan Youma is my Great Wei used to ...... Well, you can understand that he is an elite, and Youma is also a veteran of Dangshan Youma, and he will give you a lot of advice. ”
However, Boshel was not convinced, shook his head and said lightly: "The cavalry of the Central Plains is too weak. …… Even if it's an elite, I'm afraid it's just that. ”
Hearing this, You Ma sneered and sneered: "Why would such a powerful Horned Cavalry submit to His Royal Highness King Su? ”
Bosil choked for a moment, and only then did he say after half a sound: "I just said that the cavalry of the Wei State was too weak, and I did not say that the infantry of the Wei State was weak. …… It was the infantry of Wei who defeated my tribe. ”
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Seeing that Bosil and Youma looked at each other unpleasantly, Gu Liangwei shook his head, and then said, "Okay, that's it!" …… No matter what the mood of the two of you is, in short, His Royal Highness King Su's orders cannot be violated! Got it? General Boshel, and General Youma? ”
Bossil and Yuma glanced at each other, and only then did they have to accept this kind of appointment, which made them very unhappy.
"Obey the orders of His Royal Highness King Su!"
On the 10th day of the ninth month, 50,000 archers from northern Sichuan and thousands of new troops from Youma, under the leadership of Bo Xile and Youma, went out to Shangshui and officially launched an attack on Chu.
Their first target was Xiangcheng, which was under the jurisdiction of Xiong Hu, the emperor of Chuping.
——Wu Yue, Huiji——
One day in early September, Shao Kang, the leader of the Eastern Vietnamese, received Feng Chen, an envoy sent by the Qi state.
Shaokang is the heir of the original king of Dongyue.
More than 100 years ago, the state of Chu attacked and destroyed Dongyue, and Dongyue was destroyed.
However, after the Chu State conquered Dongyue, the people of Wu Yue always refused to submit to the Chu State, they resisted fiercely, and even repeatedly organized an army similar to a death squad to go deep into the hinterland of the Chu State to retaliate, which is the origin of the Western Yue rebel army in the Chu State.
Don't look at Wu Yue as a nation that has died, but the strength of this nation should not be underestimated, such as the current leader Shaokang and the Dongou Army led by him, who have gradually recovered their homeland in the past ten years, and have already become a major problem for the Chu State, so the general of the Chu State Xiang Mo led the army to conquer Wu Yue.
“…… As I said below, the king of our lord Daqi is willing to make friends with Dongyue and His Royal Highness Shaokang for generations, and regard Qiyue as a friendly country. …… In the following opinion, the interests of Qi and Yue are the same, and the state of Chu is becoming powerful one day, which is not a good thing for my lord and His Royal Highness Shaokang. This time, my lord waved a large army to attack Chu, and privately thought that it was the time for the restoration of the Yue Kingdom. ”
Under Feng Tan's persuasion, Shaokang was obviously moved.
This is not unexpected, after all, Dongyue and Chu are old enemies for generations, and the hatred of the country is not shared, so as long as Shaokang is not stupid, he should understand that he should take advantage of this excellent opportunity to hit Chu hard.
However, Shaokang also has his concerns, that is, how long can the war against Chu last for the king of Qi, Lu Xi, after all, it is rumored that the physical condition of Lu Xi, the king of Qi, is getting worse, don't let them raise troops against Chu in a hurry on the side of Dongyue, but Lu Xu, the king of Qi, died, so that the bamboo basket was empty.
However, after pondering for a while, Shaokang still agreed to this matter.
On the tenth day of the ninth month, Shaokang, the leader of Wu Yue, led tens of thousands of Dongou troops to launch an offensive against the Zhaoguan Pass of the Chu State.
Almost at the same time, the West Vietnamese rebel army in the Shouling and Xiling areas in the Chu State also raised troops to attack the neighbors.
On the 10th day of the first month of September, the Sixth Route Army attacked the Chu State, and a magnificent battle that affected the entire southern Central Plains began. (To be continued.) )