Chapter 638
Liu Bei's plan is actually quite crazy and extreme.
To say that the Yizhou generals who are still following Liu Bei now, they are impressed by Liu Bei's personal charm, and the other is the relationship of interests, and they can only have certain interests by following Liu Bei now.
In ancient times, people paid attention to loyalty, filial piety, courtesy, and righteousness, at least, and they had to be like this on the surface. They were impressed by Liu Bei's hypocrisy and his ability to outperform Liu Zhang, and they joined Liu Bei. And once they serve someone, they pay attention to loyal ministers and do not care about the two masters, and treat the lord they are willing to follow, and their most basic requirement is to support the lord unreservedly. In other words, in addition to the fact that his wife cannot be given to the lord, even his own life can be entrusted to his lord. Even, some guys, even their own women can be offered.
is very thorough, and the Yizhou generals who still follow Liu Bei are all some generals who are relatively loyal to Liu Bei. They completely tied their fate to Liu Bei.
Therefore, Liu Bei's plan will be related to their net worth and life, and they will also consider it carefully.
Liu Bei's plan, they all knew it was playing with fire. You must know that once the New Han army killed Zhu Ti, Liu Bei took them to evacuate and go straight to Chuncheng (Chuncheng is Kunming in later generations). This process has to be run quite cleverly, and if something goes wrong, it will be a situation from which there will be no return.
First of all, in case the New Han army is killed, they are very particular about the time of evacuation, and when to withdraw, they must be very accurate.
Secondly, retreat does not mean that retreat will be withdrawn, and it must wait for Meng Shu's barbarian army to withdraw when they can withdraw. Fill the void in the area of Juti County after they have withdrawn in time, and let the barbarian army defend Juti County instead of them. Because. If they withdrew, the New Han army would follow. Following them directly into the belly of the barbarian territory, then even if they retreat to Spring City, it won't make any sense. Because if the New Han army is allowed to enter the hinterland of the barbarian territory, it means that the barbarian region is not far from falling. The barbarians can't withstand the New Han army, so it doesn't make sense for them to seize a city or a place in the barbarian region.
Moreover, when retreating, they had to deal with Meng Huo's barbarian army, and Meng Huo could not be allowed to discover their intentions, otherwise, I am afraid that they would not be able to withdraw to Spring City. and was destroyed by the barbarian army.
Moreover, even if you arrive in Chuncheng, you must consider whether you can control Chuncheng immediately, otherwise, as soon as the barbarian army and the New Han army form a stalemate, Meng Shu is afraid that he will immediately transfer troops to destroy them.
The generals raised the worries in their hearts to Liu Bei one by one.
At this moment, Liu Bei looks like he is in his chest, and he is as good as a stream. One by one, the questions raised by the generals will be deduced and answered.
Liu Bei first said to the generals: "Ladies and gentlemen, Zhu Ticheng, in the southwest of the confluence of the Min River and the Yangtze River, the New Han Army is coming. It is estimated that it will have to be killed along the river. When the time comes, we can ask for help from the barbarian army in Xichang. The main thing is to tell Meng Shu that Liu Bei is taking advantage of the water army. Killing along the river makes the bank of the river we have to defend too long. There were not enough troops, and our army had to go out of the city on all fronts. Deploy troops on the riverside of the Min River and the Yangtze River. In this way, ask Meng to send an army into Zhuti Town to defend it. In addition, it is also necessary to tell Meng Shu vaguely that if our army is defeated by the New Han Army, his entire Nanban territory may be in danger. I think, Meng Shu is probably more worried about Zhu Dan's failure than us, right? In this case, he must send an army to help. ”
"As long as Meng Huo sends troops to help, we can send fast horses to inform Meng Huo. Tell Meng Huo that our army was not in a good position, and the New Han Army broke through the defense line we had arranged on the banks of the Min River and the Yangtze River. Well, it is necessary to continuously send fast horses to inform Meng Shu, so that Meng Huo can feel the urgency of the situation. Our people should also start from different precautions, so that Meng Shu can see that our Yizhou army has done its best to stop the New Han Army, because our defense line was not defeated all at once, but was defeated by the New Han Army one by one, and our army is still resisting stubbornly. In this way, Meng Shu will definitely not be suspicious of us, and will inevitably send more barbarian troops. ”
"Then, we will send the information that our army has been defeated on all fronts to Meng Shu. Our men and horses dispersed to the rear in batches as if they were defeated by the New Han army, dispersed their troops, and inserted themselves into Chuncheng. In this way, Meng Shu is also anxious to lead the army to defend Zhuti, and he will definitely not be embarrassed by our army that has fled. In this way, our army can preserve its strength and reassemble the whole army in Spring City. ”
"In the process of assembling, we can look at the situation, attack Spring City, take the city in one fell swoop, and even, if necessary, even if we forge Meng Shu's order, let the barbarian army of Spring City let our military horses enter the city to rest. Once we are allowed to enter the city, then, isn't Spring City in our hands? Hehe, Meng Shu led the army into our Chengdu city to plunder, tired us and lost Chengdu. Then, now we also let Meng Shu taste the taste of being stabbed in the back by his allies, he is tired of us losing a city, we will take a city from him, this is fair, or call one report for another, haha......"
After Liu Bei finished speaking, he felt that his plan should be feasible.
The generals also seemed to be persuaded by Liu Bei's plan, so they decided to follow Liu Bei to raid Spring City.
After the plan was decided, Liu Bei immediately arranged the following military horses and began to deploy defenses in Zhuti, especially on the banks of the Min River and the Yangtze River, and began to build anti-river fortifications. For these tasks, Liu Bei did not let the sergeants below discount, but seriously made targeted construction of fortifications for each section of the riverbank. Anyway, Liu Beijun's performance was to show the posture of fighting to the death between Zhu Ti and the New Han Army, as if he wanted to carefully arrange Zhu Ti's entire defense line before the New Han Army came. At least, at a glance, people feel that Liu Beijun is serious, and he is determined to fight to the death with the New Han Army in Zhu Ti.
Liu Beijun's movement really confused Meng Shu. Meng learned that Liu Bei began to deploy defenses in a targeted and serious manner, and he couldn't help but let go of his heart, feeling that Liu Bei really had no way to retreat, and had to work hard for him, so he didn't deliberately guard against what small moves Liu Bei would do, and he also hurriedly dispatched troops and dispatched them to be strictly guarded in strategic places that must be defended and guarded, and in important passes, he was ready to meet the New Han army that could be killed at any time.
So. Liu Beijun and Meng Huojun are all preparing in full swing.
On the side of the New Han Army. Because of Liu Zhang's surrender, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei brothers. and Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Wei Yan, etc., a group of generals of the New Han Army will gather in Chengdu. It can be said that it will be star-studded.
After handing over the affairs of Chengdu with Liu Zhang, the generals of the New Han Army and the civilian officials who came with the army began to formally exercise official rule over Chengdu.
Of course, because Liu Zhang's direct surrender also made the New Han Army play a major role in the recovery of the entire Yizhou. Guan Yu invited Zhang Fei, Wei Yan, Long Ge, Huang Zu, and Guan Ping, each to lead the army, and each took Liu Zhang's surrender document. One by one, the Yizhou defenders in those towns, whether they were still loyal to Liu Zhang, or had secretly betrayed Liu Zhang to follow Liu Bei, as long as the military horses of the New Han Army arrived, they did not resist anymore, and they all opened the city and lowered their flags to surrender to the New Han Army and accept the reorganization of the New Han Army.
This time Yizhou was collected, although the stalemate between the Yizhou army and the Xinhan army lasted for a long time. Strictly speaking, however, the war did not affect the main areas of Yizhou. That is to say, except for some Yizhou troops because they went to the front line of Padang with the army. In addition to some casualties in the battle with the New Han Army in Yangpingguan and other places, this battle was a battle for the people of the entire Yizhou. It didn't hurt them too much. So, Yizhou area. Most of the people in the towns were for the entry of the New Han Army. They all had a positive and welcoming attitude, and there were very few hostile to the hostile New Han army.
Of course, compared to Chengdu City, the people in the eastern city of Chengdu have suffered more damage. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of people will be affected.
On the same day, when Meng Huo's column army plundered in the eastern area of Chengdu, it was estimated that there would be more than 100,000 Chengdu people who died directly at the hands of Meng Huo's barbarian army. In other words, in the short period of plunder, the barbarian army plundered money and food while killing people. Twenty or thirty thousand barbarian soldiers were spread out, and each barbarian soldier had three or four lives of the people of Chengdu in his hands.
This situation, in fact, is also conceivable. For example, when a fierce barbarian soldier casually breaks into a house and loots, there are usually three or so people in the people's house, and these people, in a panic, are certainly not the opponents of those fierce barbarian soldiers.
It is estimated that if a barbarian soldier loots more than three households, then almost the entire people in the eastern urban area of Chengdu have been violated.
Anyway, when Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao and other generals led the New Han Army into Chengdu, Chengdu was full of mourning, crying bitterly, mourning all over the city, and the clouds were miserable.
Therefore, after the Xinhan Army took over Chengdu City, the first thing to do was to deal with the affairs of Chengdu Dongcheng District first.
No one wants such a tragedy to happen, something has already happened, so we have to face it.
Liu Ba, Sun Qian, and a number of Yizhou civil officials and ministers who had joined the New Han Dynasty were all involved in handling those affairs.
What needs to be done is first of all to clean up the battlefield, in fact, it is to send the New Han Army to collect the corpses of the people in the eastern area of Chengdu who have been looted by the barbarian army.
The people in the urban area of Chengdu, almost every family of them, have been shattered. In some families, their adults were killed by the barbarian soldiers, and some children were left to hide in time. The government office set up by the New Han Army in Chengdu must deal with these as soon as possible, and take in all the children who have lost their support relatives. Of course, during the containment process, it is also necessary to do a detailed registration of those children. At the very least, it is necessary to write down that a certain child, whether it is a child of a certain family in a certain street or alley, whose surname is the child, etc., including their ancestral hometown, etc., can be found from the original Yizhou government, or identified through the oral accounts of the survivors, etc., and these tasks must be done well and meticulously.
Because by doing these things well, when those children grow up, they will be able to know their respective origins. Let them know how they became orphans.
Anyway, this aspect of the work is the most difficult to do, but it must be done carefully.
In addition, the elderly, women and children, or the people of Chengdu who have lost their relatives, these are a little easier to do, the government sent people to appease them, stabilize their emotions, most of them can slowly accept the reality, and begin to cooperate with the collection of corpses and funerals.
And the best consolation is that the government directly sends people to deliver the survival materials they need to those surviving people, so that when they lose their loved ones, they will not also be deprived of the necessary materials for survival.
Many people, because their wives and children or the young people in their families were killed by the barbarian army, and those who lost their livelihood will have to live or die, and some even want to kill themselves. However, after the New Han Army was stationed in Chengdu, the government was set up, and the policy was distributed, those people suddenly felt that they would have something to rely on in the future, and their mood slowly stabilized.
It is precisely because the New Han Army wants to exercise substantial rule over the entire Yizhou on the one hand, and is busy dealing with the affairs of Chengdu. Therefore, for the time being, no army was sent to attack the barbarian areas.
In fact, the New Han Dynasty has always been accustomed to it, that is, every time it recovers a region, it will give priority to ruling the recovered area. It was not greedy for merit, because the New Han Dynasty from top to bottom believed that such a way would be more conducive to the rule of the New Han Dynasty and the areas it had recovered.
Thinking about it, it is true, every time the New Han Army seized a region, it first governed it well, formed a de facto rule over its area, and then used the people of its place to organize them in an organized manner, so that they could produce their own autonomy and self-defense, and form a relatively close relationship with the New Han Army, so that the people in the area would be young and strong, and everyone would become the reserve source of the New Han Army. In this way, when the young and strong people were organized, the New Han army could withdraw from its place and attack the next target again.
In this way, the New Han Army slowly formed a virtuous circle. Every time you capture a land, you will quickly straighten out the situation of your land, and soon gain the de facto dominance of your land.
The New Han Army is like this, which is equivalent to hitting and tightening its fists with one palm, and it is often invincible with one punch.
As for Liu Bei and Meng Shu's actions, Guan Yu and Zhao Yun and other generals of the New Han Army are not unaware, but they are not afraid of Liu Bei and Meng Shu's actions, and they will concentrate on handling the affairs in front of them first.
Of course, it doesn't mean that they completely ignore Liu Bei and Meng Shu's actions. Because, there is already another way of the New Han Army, which has integrated the minority tribes in the Li Yao region, and under the leadership of the tribal military horses of the Li Yao and other small tribes, the New Han Army has passed through the mountains and is about to kill the Nanban region. (To be continued......)