In July of the first year of Yongchang, Sima Weishuo of the Jin Dynasty issued an order for the final battle against Hulu in the south of the country in the temporary camp of Xiangguo. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Subsequently, the Liaodong Army was divided into three armies and officially began to conquer Huainan and Huaibei in the south. As for the only excuse, it is naturally the remnants of the Qianhu who retreated to Huainan.

Liaodong's inscription is very gorgeously written, and the great Sima declared to the outside world that he would completely eliminate the remnants of the Qihu and prevent its resurgence and cause chaos in the world again.

“…… The kings have no way, and they fight endlessly for power and profit, resulting in the collapse of the world, and the people are not able to make a living, and the Hulu take the opportunity to make chaos and bring disaster to the world, especially the Huhu as the most, Shuo can't bear to see the people suffer from the Hulu again, and vows to wipe out all the Hulu......"

Originally, Wei Shuo didn't care about any excuses, but Pei Wei, Gao Zhan, Wen Qiao, Mo Han and others all paid attention to being famous, especially against the imperial court that occupied the righteousness, and the righteousness became more and more important.

In fact, at this point today, who in the world can't see Liaodong's intention to replace the Jin room?

Speaking of which, the fierce conflict between Liaodong and the imperial court because of Jiangzuo's recruitment of Kui'an this time was a thing that made Liaodong feel extremely excited. For the subjects of Liaodong, this marks the first step of Liaodong to break away from Jiangdong and become independent, everyone is the first to follow Wei Shuo from the dragon heroes, once Wei Shuo opens the country in the future, then each is the founding minister!

Therefore, Wei Shuo's southern expedition will be ordered, and the territory of Liaodong will suddenly be jubilant, and countless people are cheering that Liaodong will dominate the world, and some newspapers even openly and openly ask Da Sima to ascend the throne and be emperor.

No matter how public opinion in Liaodong shouted, the high-level leaders headed by Wei Shuo had no intention of breaking with Jiangdong for the time being, and the main purpose of sending a large army south this time was to recover Yanyu and Xu Sanzhou.

This time, Wei Shuo mobilized a total of nearly 200,000 troops, almost all of whom had participated in the war, and all of them were veterans on the battlefield.

The army of 200,000 was divided into three routes: the West Route Army was under the command of Mao Bao, and the lowest goal was to capture all the territory north of the Huai River and confront Jiangdong across the Huai River; The Middle Route Army was commanded by Xie Ai, crossing the Yellow River from Jizhou to the south to Yanzhou, and the goal was naturally to recover the entire Yanzhou; As for the Eastern Route Army, it was commanded by Sun Wei, with the goal of recovering Xuzhou and expelling Wang Dun's forces from Xuzhou.

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In July of the first year of Yongchang, the great Sima Weishuo announced that he would not accept the imperial court's appeasement of Kui'an, and sent a large army south.

At this point, the contradiction between Liaodong and Jiangdong was completely made public.

For a time, the atmosphere on the north and south banks of the Huai River was tense, and the first person to bear the brunt was naturally Kui'an, who guarded Pengcheng.

The situation in Xuzhou in the first year of Yongchang was somewhat similar to that in the second year of Taixing, the attacking side changed from Liaohu to Liaodong, and the person stationed in Pengcheng was the former general Kui'an who was appeased by Jiangdong, and the Jiangdong soldiers were still stationed on the Huainan front line in the rear.

The only difference is that Kui An, Su Jun, Zu Yue, and Guo Mo are all henchmen of the great general Wang Dun on the surface, and once they fight, they will definitely not stand still like last time.

The situation facing Liaodong was a little more complicated than it was back then, but this did not prevent Liaodong from taking Huaibei entirely.

When the Liaodong Army moved south, Jiangdong reacted differently to this. The royalists led by Wang Dao, the Son of Heaven, and Sima Shao naturally did not want to fall out with Liaodong, but the power of the imperial court was in the hands of the generals, and they could only watch Wang Dun confront Liaodong under the banner of the imperial court.

In recent years, Liaodong has expanded rapidly through the benefits of fish, salt, iron and tea, and there is a faint tendency to swallow Kyushu and unify the world.

Now with the capture of Shi Le, there is no longer any force in the north that can stop Wei Shuo from becoming the overlord of the north, but once Liaodong takes all the north, then Wang Dun will completely lose the opportunity to compete with Wei Shuo.

In the face of the menacing Liaodong Army, the general instructed Kui'an to hold on to Pengcheng; On the other hand, Su Jun, Zu Yue, and Guo Mo were asked to seize the time to rectify their troops and horses, and be ready to send aid to Pengcheng at any time; Finally, the Jiangdong Naval Division was ordered to go north to the Huai River.

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In July of the first year of Yongchang, nearly 200,000 Liaodong soldiers divided into three routes and began to act almost simultaneously. After Kui An learned the news of the Liaodong Army's southward movement, he immediately ordered the defenders to strengthen their defenses, and at the same time asked Zu Yue, Su Jun, and Guo Mo for help.

Who knew that Zu Yue, Su Jun, and Guo Mo didn't want to clash with Liaodong, because Liaodong was too powerful to be their enemy. Moreover, the core of the conflict between the north and the south this time is the dispute between the great Sima and the general, and the rest of the people are just supporting roles.

And the three of them did not join Wang Dun out of sincerity, but made a choice as a last resort. The main reason is that in recent years, many of the three brothers have died in the war, which has led to a great reduction in the strength of the three of them, so they have to take refuge in Wang Dun.

At the time when Zu, Su, and Guo were pregnant with ghosts, the army of the three roads in Liaodong had begun to move. Under the command of Xie Ai, the army of the middle route crossed the Yellow River and invaded Yanzhou, sweeping all the separatist forces along the way, and recovering Jibei, Taishan, Dongping and the northeastern counties of Yanzhou in just a few days.

The Eastern Route Army got up from Qingzhou, and when Kui'an was nervous and dispatched troops to arrange the defense of Pengcheng, Sun Wei did not lead the army to Pengcheng directly, but swept all the way south to Dongguan, Langya, and several counties in the East China Sea, and quickly joined Cao Hong, the governor of Xuzhou, in Tan County, the East China Sea.

The Liaodong Army did not directly attack Pengcheng, which made Kui An a little blindsided, and he was a little unclear about what Sun Wei wanted to do. But when he saw that the Liaodong Army continued to attack the lower Pi State in the south, Kui An immediately understood Sun Wei's intentions. That is, with the Liaodong Army's best big detour outflanking tactics, trying to surround Kui'an and other remnants of Qihu in Pengchengguo.

After seeing through Liaodong's intentions, Kui An no longer dared to stay in Pengcheng for a moment, he ignored Wang Dun's order to hold on, immediately abandoned all supplies and foot soldiers, and fled south with only tens of thousands of cavalry.

Kui'an's desperate escape to the south caught Sun Wei a little off guard, and he didn't have time to organize an effective interception, so he could only send 20,000 cavalry to try to stop Kui'an from fleeing south.

In the vicinity of Xiapi City, 20,000 Liaodong cavalry and the Qianhu cavalry led by Kui An collided, and the two sides immediately fought fiercely in Xiapi. In order to survive, the Liaodong cavalry broke out with strong combat power, and the Liaodong cavalry arranged the defense line to the left and right, and finally although the Liaodong army eliminated most of the Qianhu cavalry, there were still nearly 10,000 remnants of the cavalry under the leadership of Kui'an successfully escaped.

After Kui'an broke through the Liaodong interception, he didn't dare to stop halfway, and ran all the way to the bank of the Huai River before stopping. Subsequently, with the help of the Jiangdong Naval Division, nearly 10,000 cavalry successfully crossed the Huai River and safely entered the land of Huainan.

Seeing that Kui'an successfully broke out of the encirclement, Su Jun, Zu Yue, and Guo Mo, who were stationed on the front line of Huainan, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Now they no longer have to send troops north to fight the Liaodong Army, and finally have an explanation to the general Wang Dun.

Due to the failure to complete the important task of annihilating the Kui'an Ministry, Sun Wei was so angry that he entrusted Cao Hong with the responsibility of recovering Pengchengguo, and he himself personally led 30,000 foot cavalry south, and the army went south along the Surabaya road, directly to the north bank of the Huai River.

Due to the lack of help from sailors, Sun Wei's army pursued all the way to the bank of the Huai River and had to stop the south.

Looking at the Jiangdong Naval Division's warship on the river, Sun Wei couldn't help but say hatefully: "Hmph! Let you talk for a while, and then I will settle accounts with you when my Liaodong Navy Master comes up in the future. ”

After Sun Wei led his army to the bank of the Huai River, he suddenly went west along the Huai River to the east of Yuzhou.

At the same time, Mao Bao, who was in charge of passing through Yuzhou, had recovered Xiangcheng, Runan, Liangguo, Ruyin and other central and western counties in Yuzhou, and Bingfeng pointed directly to the line of the Huai River.

It can be said that in just over a month, more than 100,000 troops in Liaodong attacked all parts of the Central Plains in three ways, recovered a large territory north of the Huai River in one fell swoop, and wiped out more than 100,000 Hulu, only Kui'an fled to Huainan with less than 10,000 people.

During the southward movement of the Liaodong Army, the general Wang Dun took advantage of the convenience of the imperial court to accuse Liaodong of bullying the monarch. Especially after the Liaodong army general Kui An was driven out of Pengcheng, this accusation became more and more loud, and at the same time, the rumors about Liaodong about to break away from the Jin dynasty and stand on their own became more and more intense.

Although the first collision between the North and the South was only a small military war, the ensuing political collision had just begun.

The general Wang Dun seemed to be deliberately forcing Liaodong to oppose the imperial court, and the radical faction within Liaodong was also clamoring to push Sima Weishuo to the throne. However, Wei Shuo himself has no intention of leaving Jiangdong for the time being, and Sima Rui also does not want to lose Liaodong, a powerful foreign aid. (To be continued.) )