Chapter 406: Encounter with Wang Wende
Yang Zhong saw that the time had come, and immediately said: "What General Xue said is exactly what the old man thinks, no matter what the outcome of this war is, the prime minister has to show his own momentum, and we have to fight with them, as for the outcome of the victory, it is predestined, we just need to do our duty and leave no regrets." Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Everyone has agreed, so Yang Su began to assign the order of the expedition, the forward officers are Dou Luguang and Cao Huigong, they each led the headquarters of the people and horses from the north and south into Yongzhou, the Chinese army Yang Zhong personally led the team, and then followed, responsible for the grain and grass escort is Yang Su himself. After the distribution, all the generals received their military orders and returned to the camp to prepare for the next day's departure.
Dou Luguang and Cao Hui Palace set off in the afternoon of the same day, Dou Luguang went to Taibai Mountain in the south of Qizhou to enter the Chigu area of Yongzhou, and Cao Hui Palace went north to enter Fufeng County in Yongzhou, and the destination of both of them was the Yuwen Protector army of Baling. Yang Zhong's 40,000 men then followed him directly into the Wei River by boat Yongshui and headed east to Chang'an.
Li Bi's army set off three days later than Yang Zhong's army, originally his troops numbered as many as 100,000 people, someone asked, why Li Bi has so many troops, I will analyze with you, first of all, her own Liangzhou army has 40,000 people, leaving 10,000 people stationed in Liangzhou, 30,000 people entered Bashu, after taking Chengdu, he incorporated Bashu's troops and Wei Shouding's remnant army, a total of more than 30,000 people, defeated the Western Han Dynasty Wang Kuang incorporated more than 10,000 people, now he has 80,000 or 90,000 people, and finally Han Zhaowu in Hanzhong has nearly 20,000 people, In fact, Li Bi's troops have exceeded 100,000 people, but this time he only led 60,000 people to the Yongzhou front, he left his son Li Yao in Chengdu, gave him 20,000 people, and let Zuocai Wang Jinghe and 20,000 people garrison Liangzhou, and only brought the military advisers Liu Wenzhou and Han Zhaowu to the front line.
He listened to Liu Wenzhou's opinion, and did not go directly to Yongzhou to join Yuwenhu, but to meet the forces of Gaoyue, who were weaker in force and number than himself, and Gaoyue's 50,000 men were a combined army composed of the nobles of Southern Liang and the Qian clan of Minyue, as well as the Shiyan of Jiaozhou. Because of the poor tacit understanding between each other, this unit gathered and rectified in the area of Weixing County, Dongliang Prefecture for nearly two months before it was slightly effective, but even so they had already missed the military deployment of encircling Chang'an with Gao Huan's army, and at this moment they were stationed in the south of Yongzhou to play a role in intimidating and containing the enemy.
Liu Wenzhou's analysis is right, compared to the main force of Gao Huan, which has strong combat effectiveness, and the Huazhou army, which is in full swing, Gao Yue's miscellaneous army in the east and west is a relatively easy opponent, if Gao Yue's troops can be eliminated in one fell swoop, it will play an incalculable role in the entire battle situation, first of all, they may be much higher in terms of morale, and it plays a very important impression on expanding Li Bi's influence, and now the entire Guanzhong is spreading the news that Yang Zhong eliminated Hou Mo Chen Chong's war, but no one mentioned Bashu, Maybe it's because the Battle of Bashu is just Li Bi's personal intention, or maybe it's because Chengdu is too far away from Chang'an and no one cares.
In short, Liu Wenzhou thought far for Li Bi, no matter how the situation in Guanzhong changed, he wanted Li Bi to become the core political figure of the entire Western Wei Dynasty, so people like Yang Zhong, Dugu Xin, and Yuan Xin had to find ways to get rid of or weaken their strength. Li Bi, who does not have an advantage in political capital, can only rely on military strength to speak.
After the army arrived in Fengning, news came from the forward scouts that Gao Yue's main force was in Ankang City at the moment. Li Bi hurriedly convened a meeting of sergeants to discuss how to attack, Liu Wenzhou could plan and instruct, but he didn't know anything about the things in the battle array, he didn't know how to attack the city, how to fight, and even didn't know how to arrange the troops. Li Bi's subordinates just lack a powerful general, and even a half-irrigated person like Han Zhaowu can become a trump card that Li Bi relies on, but it is conceivable that Li Bikong has tens of thousands of horses, but no one leads them.
At this time, someone outside the door reported that the people here came to ****, which made Li Bi and Liu Wenzhou quite surprised, and the group came to the front of the camp, only to see a large group of people holding cattle and sheep holding chickens, ducks and grain stations standing in front of the camp gate and asking to see Li Bi. The pros and cons feel very strange, why is his prestige drifting far abroad? Liu Wenzhou signaled that he could meet with these people, just to increase his popularity.
Just when Li Bi stood on the high platform and was about to speak, a big man in the crowd stood up and bowed down to him, Liu Wen was stunned when he saw it, isn't this Wang Wende, who served as a general under Li Bi before? Later, he ran away and absconded because of the matter in Chang'an, why did he meet him here today? Li Bi didn't understand what was going on, Wang Wende stepped forward gratefully and knelt down and said, "The villain Wang Wende greets the lord." ”
Li Bi stepped down and helped him up and said, "Why are you living here?" Hurry inside and talk. At this time, Li Bi was lacking a battle-hardened and somewhat military talent like Wang Wende, so he immediately led him into the camp hand in hand. After everyone sat down, Wang Wende said: "Lord, the people outside are all sent by me, this place is close to the Meridian Valley, there is a small city occupied by the small one, and it has been operating for some time and now there are hundreds of soldiers, although it is not possible to divide one side, but it is not a problem to protect the people." ”
Li Bi said in surprise: "General Wang really has the ability, tell me where have you been all these days?" Wang Wende then told in detail how he was smuggled to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it turned out that he followed the two uncles and nephews to smuggle to the Eastern Wei Dynasty to make a living, who knew that he was captured by the defenders halfway, was sent to the stone mine in Luonan as a coolie, and almost died in the stone mine, and then escaped by luck He followed a horse gang all the way south to this place, and then he did not follow the horse gang back to Chengdu, because he knew that Li Bi had occupied Chengdu, but because of the previous things he felt faceless to see him, so he settled in a small city.
Later, the county magistrate in the small town was killed by the homeless, and the whole town fell into chaos, he took the opportunity to lead a few homeless people to occupy the county government, and simply became the emperor here. Yesterday he learned that Li Bi's army was going to pass here, so he lied to the people that as long as everyone went to ****, Li Bi's troops would not kill them, and even protect everyone.
So Wang Wende led this group of people to the **** in front of Li Bi's camp today. As soon as these things were said, even Liu Wenzhou felt that Wang Wende was quite talented, and he survived in this wilderness by self-reliance. Li Bi also said with appreciation: "General Wang, the old man doesn't care about his past suspicions, if you are willing to come back to me, I will also make you my general of the Chinese army, and the official will be reinstated, how about it?" "Wang Wende actually came to **** to return to Li Bi's account. (To be continued.) )