249. The plot of Wenhe

It turned out that Jia Xu had expected that it would be impossible for the Wei State to sit idly by and watch the three families attack Jin and not save them, and sooner or later they would invade the army, so in addition to leading the troops back to Pinglu, he also had another layer of insurance - to create trouble for the Qin State.

The Qin State is located in the western border, and the adjacent grassland countries like to go to the border of the Qin State to fight the autumn breeze when they have nothing to do, which makes the Qin State very annoying.

The most powerful of the grassland countries, the Yiqu State and the Qin State, are feuding, and the kings of the Yiqu Kingdom in the past generations have taken the destruction of Qin as their own responsibility, but unfortunately the difference in strength between the two sides is too large, and the grassland is not monolithic, resulting in more defeats and fewer victories in the battle with the Qin army.

Jia Xu hit the idea of the Yiqu State, and when the envoys of the Jin State were still mediating in the Wei State, the envoys sent from Pinglu had already arrived at the royal tent of the King of Yiqu.

Jia Xu promised heavy benefits to the king of Yiqu, promising that as long as Yiqu sent troops to attack Xianyang, regardless of success or failure, the Tang State would have a big gift and everything in grain, grass and weapons.

It's a pity that before the Yiqu country reached an agreement, Wei Yu's army had already arrived under Pinglu City, and the 300,000 Chu army and 30,000 Tang troops were still dragged to the Qin-Chu border and could not move, so there was the siege of Pinglu.

Fortunately, the greed in the bones of the grassland people finally prevailed, and the lion of the king of Yiqu opened his mouth widely, asking Qin for grain, grass, thousands of stones, tens of thousands of weapons, and hundreds of craftsmen, and the Tang envoys all agreed to follow Jia Xu's instructions.

The king of Yiqu was overjoyed and immediately sent troops to attack the border of Qin, threatening Xianyang, and Qin was caught off guard and had to transfer troops from the eastern border to support.

Xiang Yan, the chief general of the Chu army, who was under reduced pressure, did not forget the little brother of Tang Guo, and when he learned that Pinglu was in danger, he hurriedly ordered the general Zhaoyang to lead an elite army of 30,000, together with 5,000 Tang led by Zhao Yun to ride fast horses and whip to aid Pinglu.

Zhou Yu, as the governor of the capital, did not leave the army, so he continued to hold his position with Xiahoudun and Ma Dai.

"The siege of Pinglu has been lifted, and our army fell far behind the Wei army according to Mr. Jia Xu's strategy and was not discovered."

The envoy of the Chu army hugged his fists and said, "General Zhaoyang ordered the villain to come and report to Tang Gong quickly, and asked Tang Gong to set a time to attack the Wei army on both sides!" ”

The amount of information in this passage was so great that Fang Li was stunned for a moment when he heard it, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Go to the grassland to make trouble for the Qin State, and let the Chu army have an empty hand to support the Tang State?

It's really a big circle. Sure enough, it's a great gift!

But recalling what the envoy had just said, Fang Li's joy had not yet dissipated, and the hair on the top of his head exploded with anger.

"Thousands of grains and grasses, tens of thousands of weapons, and hundreds of craftsmen?!" Fang Li was so angry that the roots of his teeth itched, "Who gave Jia Wen and so much power to agree to this kind of thing?" ”

Even the original lure of Zhao Guo didn't cost so much!

Besides, handing over these good things to the steppe barbarians, is it to strengthen their power so that they can enter the customs and slaughter the Central Plains?

Seeing that Fang Li's cheeks were flushed with anger, Fa Zheng, who had listened to it for a while, hurriedly explained: "Lord Calm your anger! The minister thought that the reason why Lord Jia Xu made his own decision was that he did not intend to fulfill his promise. ”

"Not going to cash in?" Fang Li slowly calmed down, but he still didn't believe it, "You mean, Jia Wenhe is fooling that group of Hulu?" ”

"Exactly." Fa Zheng arched his hand and said, "Although the minister has never met Lord Jia Xu, the situation was critical at that time, and in order to lure the Yiqu people to attack Qin, they had to agree to all their requests, but whether they are fulfilled or not depends on the future." ”

"Mr. Xiaozhi is right."

Lu Bu Ma Chao, who had a life-and-death relationship with Jia Xu in Hangu, also echoed, "Lord, you don't have to be faithful in the face of Yiqu people, Mr. Wenhe is not a person without measure, the reason why he makes decisions without permission must be just hypocrisy and wrongdoing!" ”

"He'd better be fooling." Fang Li said ruthlessly, "Even if it's not a fool, the widow has to let him become a fool." ”

After the qi passed, Fang Li's brain began to function again.

Wei Yu has an elite army of 100,000, chariots, siege equipment, and it is true that there is no other way to defeat such a strong force than a surprise attack if you want to win more with less.

The Tang and Chu reinforcements had a total of 35,000 cavalry, and there were 10,000 cavalry in the 50,000 Tang army in Anyi.

After making up his mind, Fang Li agreed with the Chu army to raid the Wei army's camp the next night.

In the afternoon of the second day, led by Zhang Liao, followed by Lu Bu, Ma Chao, Yingbu, Gao Shun, Xu Huang and other generals, the Tang army of 10,000 elite horsemen, rolled up the armor and ranks, and rushed straight in the direction of the Wei army.

Although Wei Yi marched cautiously, he never received information that the Chu army had intervened, and Zhao Yun, Zhaoyang and others were very careful and were never discovered.

There were still two days to go before Anyi, so Wei Yu decided to be cautious, and after nightfall, he sent scouts to confirm the safety of the surroundings according to the custom, and ordered the army to camp on the spot.

Around the time of the hour, the Wei army had all fallen asleep.

Zhaoyang and Zhao Yun led more than 30,000 cavalry to wait quietly in the woods about a kilometer away from the Wei army's camp.

After about two sticks of incense, a nightingale's cry suddenly came from not far away, Zhaoyang and Zhao Yun glanced at each other, and at the same time jumped up and jumped on the horse's back, shouting: "All the troops get on the horse, follow me to kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

At the same time, Zhang Liao and others also launched at the same time, and 10,000 Tang troops under the leadership of six fierce generals entered the Wei camp in an instant.

In a moment, the Wei camp became a sea of fire, and the Wei soldiers who suddenly woke up hurriedly met the enemy under the command of Wei Yi and others, but the enemy army suddenly attacked, and there were gods like Lu Bu and Zhao Yun who rushed left and right to kill, even if Wei Yi used his troops like a god, he could not quickly stabilize the army.

Lu Bu led a thousand elite cavalry to kill in the direction of the big tent, harvesting countless Wei army heads along the way, and beheading seven or eight partial generals in a row, as if entering a no-man's land.

But after all, the number of Wei troops was too large, and the momentum of Lu Bu and the others was slightly blocked, and when they were fighting, a shout suddenly came from not far on the right: "General Fengxian, burn the grain and grass of the Wei army with me!" ”

The Heavenly Painting Halberd in Lu Bu's hand flew over, and he cut off the head of a Wei general, and turned his head to look at it with his free hand, only to see a general with a white horse and silver spear, shouting in his direction.

When he was at a loss, the personal soldiers behind Lu Bu suddenly said in surprise: "General, that's my Tang Dynasty General Zhao Zilong!" ”

Is he Zhao Zilong?

Lu Bu didn't have time to think about it, so he led the troops to kill in the direction pointed by Zhao Yun, and the two generals joined forces together, and only 3,000 cavalry entered the heavily defended rear camp of the Wei army.

The rear camp guard was shocked when he saw this, and tried to lead the army to block it, but was overturned by Zhao Yun with a shot.

Lu Bu took back the half-out Fang Tian painting halberd, and laughed loudly: "Good kung fu!" ”

Zhao Yun was also not modest, and accepted Lu Bu's praise with a confident smile.

Without the main general, the tens of thousands of Wei troops in the rear camp were leaderless, and the 3,000 Tang troops were like wolves entering the flock, and the grain and grass were burned all over in a moment.

The rear camp fell into a sea of fire, and the Wei soldiers were even more panicked, and Wei Yu and the others tried their best to barely stop the signs of rout.

Seeing that the Wei army had reorganized its formation, Zhang Liao and Zhaoyang were not in love with each other, and each sent a signal to retreat tacitly.

Tang Chu's cavalry ordered to forbid it, and when they heard the order, they killed the Wei camp again, and the cavalry traveled quickly, and disappeared into the night in an instant.

When the lieutenant regrouped his troops and horses and prepared for another battle, there was no trace of the enemy.

In this battle, the Tang and Chu coalition forces killed 20,000 enemies with 45,000 horse infantry mixed regiments, and more than 10,000 Wei soldiers fled in the night.

Only half of the 100,000 elites remained, and the vitality of the Wei State was greatly damaged, and it fell from a first-class power to a second-rate country, and since then it can only rely on the Tang State to live.

Wei Yu was disliked by Weiss, although he was not punished, but he no longer had to be reused, and as time went by, he slowly had other thoughts.

Yiqu couldn't harass the Qin State for long, and realized that the Tang State would withdraw its troops after realizing that it was not ready to fulfill its promise, and the Chu army should not stay for a long time.

The crisis of the Tang State disappeared invisibly, but it was unable to fight with the Jin State in a short period of time, the rear of Yan and Zhao was tight, and the Qi State slowly tasted the bitterness of fighting on two fronts.

Forced by the situation, the six countries had to sit down and sign a temporary armistice.

Tongcheng and Wang Guan, which were occupied by the Tang State, were returned to the Jin State, and the naval army retreated to the Jin and Liang borders; The Jin State handed over the land and household registration of Anyi and Qingyuan to the Tang State, and compensated the Tang State with 200,000 stones of grain and grass, 300 taels of gold, 50 pairs of jade, and 200 pairs of pearls to replenish military funds.

Yan and Zhao withdrew from Jinyang and Jincheng, and the land they occupied did not retreat, and the Jin State was also forced to compensate the two countries for some gold, silver, grain and grass.

Wei suffered a big loss and remained silent, and the lion of Qi opened his mouth and asked for ten cities from Yan and Zhao respectively, becoming the biggest winner in this battle.

After the signing of the Covenant, the countries temporarily withdrew their troops in accordance with the agreement. But what they both know is that everyone is holding their breath, and this covenant will not exist long before it will be torn up, and the war will be rekindled.

Fang Li left Liu Bei and Ma Chao to garrison Anyi, ordered Cao Cao's army to return to Shaoliang, and he took Lu Bu, Fa Zheng, Xu Huang, Dian Wei, and Liu Feng who returned from Tongcheng and thousands of elite soldiers, and tied Jia Hua all the way back to Xingyang.

Since the establishment of the Tang State, the conquest has not stopped, although the territory and population have been expanding, but by the time of the battle of the Jin Dynasty, the country was already exhausted, and the treasury began to be urgent.

The armistice pact came at the right time, and Fang Li was ready to take advantage of this short period of peace to recuperate and recruit troops to prepare for war.

In addition, in Luoyang, Ji Zheng is also a restless guy, after knowing that Pinglu was surrounded, he secretly kept moving, and he actually wanted Weiss to send an army to Luoyang to "quell the rebellion"!

Fang Li was furious after getting the news, because he couldn't get out of his body for the time being, he didn't do anything to Ji Zheng, but just let the people in Luoyang take a good look at the Son of Heaven.

Now it's time to rectify it.

"What? The lord wants to move the capital? In the main hall, Gongsun Yan couldn't help but be surprised, "I don't know where the lord is going to move?" ”

Fang Li smiled faintly: "Luoyang." ”

Although he had expected it, Gongsun Yan was still taken aback, endured it and endured it, and finally persuaded: "Luoyang is the capital of Zhou, this... Not okay? ”