Chapter 292: Hands-on (Part II)
After everyone retreated, Li Bi asked, "What's wrong with the north?" Liu Wenzhou said: "The young general sent a letter saying that Hou Mo Chen Chong had already made a move against Ganzhou, and Yuwen Hu knew that we were going south to Chengdu, and he had ordered Han Zhaowu to take action to cut off our grain route. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Li Bi hurriedly took the secret letter and looked at it, the content in it was almost the same as what Liu Wenzhou said, then the problem came, Hou Mo Chen Chong went to attack Ganzhou It was actually beneficial for him, so that Yuwen Hu's attention would not be all on his side, but he was also worried about Han Zhaowu's backlash, so his 20,000 people trapped in Yizhou would be self-defeating.
But Han Zhaowu has a well-known problem: greedy for money and lustful, he can make a fuss about this. Liu Wenzhou thought it was inappropriate, and analyzed: "Our army is currently fighting in Yizhou, and the military expenditure is already large, and now with the bribe of Han Zhaowu, I am afraid that we can't afford such a huge expenditure at all, and since ancient times, the people's desires have been insatiable, how can we have so much money to satisfy Han Zhaowu for a long time?" ”
Li Bi thought for a long time and asked, "In your opinion, how should we deal with it?" "I think it's better to bring Han Zhaowu to Chengdu and promise him benefits, firstly, to control him by his side to prevent him from rebelling, and to strengthen our power, I think our battle with the rebel king Kuang is inevitable, at this time, there is more strength and more chance of victory." Liu Wenzhou is worthy of being a veteran with a unique mind, and Li Bi immediately agreed.
But the plan is still a little different, because Shen Mochou's movements are slightly faster than Han Zhaowu's, he shot the troops to surround Qitong County, and he led the main army to attack Huairen County, and the battle on both sides was almost launched at the same time, it can be seen that Wang Kuang still invested in fighting with Li Bi for Yizhou, but Liu Wenzhou reacted quickly, he suggested to Li Bi that he could let the local troops in Yizhou go to fight the enemy army in Qitong, and Li Bi himself led the Liangzhou soldiers to fight Shen Mochou. The advantage of this arrangement was that he could delay Shen Mochou as much as possible, so that the local army in Yizhou would have time to eliminate the living forces of the enemy army besieging Qitong County.
Why not the other way around, because Liu Wenzhou never believed in the local army in Yizhou, and he was afraid that these people would make peace with Shen Mochou in private because of their own interests, which was tantamount to directly betraying Li Bi. So after thinking about it, he decided to take a little pressure on himself and resist the attack from Wang Kuang.
Huairen County is a small city, with a radius of only ten miles, but at this moment it is crowded with troops from the southwest and northwest, and the two sides are in a position to fight a big battle, Shen Mochou in the southwest is mostly a phalanx dominated by infantry, and Li Bi is a fish-scale array dominated by cavalry and archers. The right army of Liu Wenzhou's commander took the lead in breaking through as the main attack phalanx and set an example for the whole army.
At the beginning of the battle, the battle was very stale, although the infantry was used against the cavalry, but Shen Mochou did not fall behind at all. This made Li Bi very impressed, but as time passed, the difference in endurance in manpower and horsepower became prominent, and Wang Kuang's troops gradually showed fatigue, at this time Li Bi's own formation entered the battle, and soon scattered all Shen Mochou's army.
The defeat was like a mountain, if Wang Kuang saw this scene at this moment, he didn't know how to feel, only to see the northwest cavalry all over the mountains and fields frantically chasing and killing the desperately fleeing southwest army, it was simply a bloody massacre, and the scene was simply outrageous. After this battle, Shen Mochou died in battle, the army was annihilated, Wang Kuang's army besieging Qitong County was defeated without a fight, and those who surrendered surrendered and fled, Li Bi relied on this battle to directly incorporate nearly half of Wang Kuang's army, and his strength suddenly expanded several times compared with when he entered Yizhou.
He now has more than 10,000 self-army, 20,000 Yizhou army, Wang Kuang's remnants of the army will be close to 30,000, Li Bi has completely become a small warlord in Liangzhou, into a warlord who can change the general trend of the world, this is a huge change. Han Zhaowu could only obey him at the moment, Yuwen Hudu decided to give up Bashu, and appointed Li Bi as the governor of Bashu and the general of Zhennan.
Hou Mo Chen Chong's battle did not seem to go well, Ganzhou's Wushi County, Jincheng, and Caohan fell one after another, but when his army reached the senseless, it encountered resistance, and Wuwei Taishou did not buy his account at all, and guarded against his attack behind closed doors. Attacking the city is not too difficult for Hou Mo Chen Chong, but the problem is that Wuwei is a dangerous city, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the more time he consumes here, the greater the possibility of Yuwen Hu organizing forces to counterattack.
Hou Mo Chen Shun meant that he would lead the death squad to raid in at night, and open the city gate to take the city, but Hou Mo Chen Chong felt that the risk was too great, and planned to let others do it for him, so he planned to recruit generals in his army who could lead the death squad. Everyone came to take the exam in three days, time waited for no one, the situation was getting more and more anxious, and it couldn't be dragged on, because there was news from Chang'an that Yuwen Hu planned to let Yang Zhong send troops to live in the Hexi Corridor, and the first thing was to attack Qinzhou.
Qinzhou is Hou Mo Chen Chong's lair, he has been running this place for five or six years, and now if he can't rush back to Qinzhou because his main force is dragged in Wuwei, then he will completely become a homeless lost dog. So he absolutely can't let Yang Zhong succeed. Because in the previous lawsuit with the Wei family, Yuwen Hu not only did not favor Yang Zhong, but favored the Wei family a little, so Yang Zhong and Yang Jian both felt that they should sit on the ground with Yuwen Hu at this time.
And Hou Mo Chen Chong, because he understood the inside story, specially wrote a letter to Yang Zhong, to the effect that the best general in the world is none other than Yang Gong, and now it is an eventful time, which is the so-called God's bestowality. As the old saying goes, the clouds and birds are good and the bows are hidden, the cunning rabbits are dead and the lackeys are cooked, and the enemy country is ruined and the ministers are killed. The imperial court wants to reuse Yang Gong at this moment, Yang Gong should love himself, and he must not forget the events of Chengdu. It means that now Yuwen Hu has a request for you, you better seize the opportunity yourself, don't wait until all of us are wiped out by you, and then there will be no opponent, and Yuwen Hu will kill you.
This hand is really slippery. Yang Zhong is not a fool either, such a thing is obvious, it is impossible for him not to know it. Waiting for the price and selling is also Yang Zhong's forte, taking advantage of this opportunity he made a lot of requests to Yuwen Hu several times, originally thought that Yuwen Hu would be angry and sent someone to reprimand him, but I didn't expect that this time Yuwen Hu actually said very refreshingly: "The northwest affairs are all in Yang Gong's own hands, and there is no need to discuss with me."
This meaning is very clear, Yuwen Hu intends to hand over all the territory of Yuwen Dao and Hou Mo Chen Chong to him to manage, and the other meaning is that he would rather Yang Zhong govern the Hexi Corridor than Hou Mo Chen Chonglai to take over. It can be seen how much Yuwen Hu hates Hou Mo Chen Chong. Yang Zhong couldn't believe his eyes, he also jumped from a warlord in Guanzhong to a warlord who was enough to influence the general trend of the world.
The two big tigers that Yuwen Hu personally cultivated at this moment: Li Bi and Yang Zhong later brought a lot of trouble to Gao Huan, of course, this is all a later story. So far, the situation in Guanzhong has begun to be chaotic, Gao Huan of Western Wei seems to have seen an opportunity, he has been secretly mobilizing a large army, planning to find an opportunity to enter Guanzhong and complete the final unification process. (To be continued.) )