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In the 197th year of Huaxia, the holy decree issued by Liu Tai was finally sent to Chengdu in mid-July. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this holy decree, Liu Tai allowed Huang Zhong to have the power to make temporary decisions, and gave Huang Zhong a certain seal. However, the sealing is naturally not in the military position, after all, Huang Zhong is already a four-star Heavenly Sword General, and if he is sealed, he must be a five-star general! You must know that Liu Tai, who is the emperor of the North, only has a six-star marshal, and it stands to reason that a five-star general must be an honor that only a general can enjoy, and judging from Huang Zhong's current merits, it is obviously not suitable to be crowned a general, so Liu Tai can only change the law to reward, such as the official position of Huang Zhong's son Huang Xu.

Huang Zhong can understand this, as early as when the official was classified, Liu Tai had already stated that before the unification of the world, there would never be a five-star general in the northern Xinjiang regime, and the generals wanted to add a five-star, they must accumulate enough credit, and the size of the credit was naturally handed over to the Military Aircraft Department for judging, for example, this time Huang Zhong took the central Shuzhong region, it was Xun Yu and other important ministers to judge the degree of merit.

In fact, since the Southern Expedition, Huang Zhong's achievements have not been particularly large, after all, even if the credit is great, it has been almost consumed for a long time. You must know that the combat power of the soldiers in Northern Xinjiang is needless to say, and it is matched with elite equipment, but this is the case, and more than 30,000 soldiers have been killed and wounded, how much credit can Huang Zhong, as the chief general, have?

Of course, it cannot be denied that Huang Zhong's contribution in the Battle of Yizhou, after all, the difficulty of the Battle of Yizhou is also a well-known thing!

In the holy decree, Liu Tai asked Huang Zhong that within three years, the entire territory of Yizhou must be unified! In the high-level planning of Northern Xinjiang headed by Liu Tai, there are only three years left to unify the world at most, after all, three years later will be 200 AD. After 200 years, there will be a new century, which is nothing to others, but it is of extraordinary significance to Liu Tai.

Therefore, Liu Tai decided that no matter how difficult it was, the local campaign must be completely ended within three years, and in order to achieve this goal, Liu Tai had already begun to transfer all the legions left in the north to the south, except for the non-mobile corps, to participate in the unification war.

How many soldiers and horses are there in Northern Xinjiang?

Nearly a million heroes!

This withering order not only transferred the soldiers and horses of Mengzhou and Longzhou to the south, but even transferred the troops of the two legions from Xizhou (Western Regions). It can be said that the scale of the third stage of the southern expedition is completely incomparable with the previous battles, this battle, Liu Tai must win, and the northern Xinjiang must win!

Unification is imminent!

In 197 years in China, in early August, Huang Zhong, the general of the Western Expedition, strictly adhered to the holy decree of the Northern Emperor, and mobilized nearly 100,000 troops of the three legions for the first time to open Yong'an, this battle was nominally a test of the Southern Expedition, after all, Yong'an was not weaker than the Yinan defense line under the reinforcement of Zhou Yu, if the Tianci army could break through Yong'an in a short time, then there was also a little experience in the conquest.

In this battle, Huang Zhong personally went into battle, Dian Wei went out with the army, Zhang Liao was stationed in Jiangzhou, and Wen Chou stayed in Chengdu to closely monitor all the dynamics in Yinan. Huang Zhong instructed Wen Chou several times that no matter how dangerous the situation was, the Yinan army must be completely locked in Yinan, and it must not be allowed to take advantage of it.

You must know that at present, the Tianci army in Shuzhong is not more than 200,000, and Huang Zhong transferred 100,000 at once to conquer Yong'an City, and only 100,000 troops are left on the line from Jiangzhou to Chengdu. How could an army of 100,000 people block a defensive line of this magnitude without making a mistake?

And if something goes wrong and is stolen into the hinterland of Shuzhong by Gongsun Zhan, then the situation in Shuzhong, which has been established by the Tianci Army with great difficulty in a few months, will completely collapse, which is a huge blow to the northern Xinjiang, Huang Zhong can't be cautious, and he has to be cautious!

In order to restore the production and life of hundreds of thousands of people in Shuzhong, Northern Xinjiang has paid too much, so far, the materials, grain and grass transported south from Hanzhong have not been cut off, and even the scale of transportation is getting bigger and bigger.

Since he knew that the situation in Shuzhong could not go wrong, why did Huang Zhong mobilize three legions to conquer Yong'an? Although Sun Ce placed nearly 100,000 troops in Yong'an, Yong'an is just a county town after all, and it is not worthy of the title of county town, and it is only a county town in the Central Plains region that he killed!

Such a small city, need to send 100,000 troops?

Make a big fuss!

But in Huang Zhong's opinion, he didn't have the slightest idea of making a fuss, because what Huang Zhong was afraid of was not the 100,000 troops stationed in Yong'an, but Zhou Yu, the general of Yong'an!

It stands to reason that Liu Tai, who is in northern Xinjiang, should have known that Zhou Yu was born, but why didn't he send enough strategists to help? With the current group of strategists in northern Xinjiang, send one at random, even if you can't kill Zhou Yu, but at least you can be on par with Zhou Yu, right? With enough troops, it won't be a problem to repel Zhou Yu, right?

But Liu Tai just didn't send Guo Jia's top strategists!

At this moment, the military division team in Shuzhong is headed by Dongfang Jue, although Dongfang Jue can be compared to Guo Jia in the eyes of everyone, but it is only a comparison. You must know that everyone's achievements are different, and Guo Jia has been Liu Tai's personal military advisor since he was a child, and his abilities in all aspects are completely beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and Zhou Yu, a figure like Tiantian, can only be dealt with by Guo Jia.

There is still a line in the East!

So, why didn't Liu Tai send Guo Jia to Shuzhong?

It's very simple, because compared to Yizhou, the third southern expedition is more important, if the third southern expedition is successfully completed, then the Yizhou campaign has no point in continuing, because the third southern expedition is equivalent to the complete unification of the world, and when can a few grasshoppers in Yizhou jump?

In the plan, the launch time of the Third Southern Expedition will be the spring of Huaxia 198, and the end time should be in the winter of Huaxia 200. And the number of troops invested in the north of this battle is at least 700,000, and if you add the troops of Yizhou to conquer Yinan, the total number of troops will reach one million!

You know, millions of soldiers and horses are all regular troops, which does not include logistics soldiers and horses, if you add logistics personnel, then the third southern expedition, the soldiers and horses launched in northern Xinjiang will be extremely terrifying. And to maintain such a scale of consumption, northern Xinjiang will be extremely difficult.

Therefore, this campaign cannot be delayed for too long, and the northern Xinjiang cannot afford to drag it out, and if the logistics are interrupted at that time, then the situation will be so bad that it will be too bad to be worse.

Of course, all this is only the worst situation, generally speaking, with the reserves of Northern Xinjiang over the years, the million war within three years can still be supported, but after the war, it will be a bit difficult for Northern Xinjiang to return to the pre-war level.

But for the sake of the unification of the world, will Liu Tai be stingy in this regard? If the treasury is really unable to support the front-line war, it is necessary to launch the entire Kyushu Chamber of Commerce and Liu Tai's own treasury, you know, the wealth of Liu Tai's small treasury is comparable to that of the Northern Xinjiang treasury!

In 197 China, in mid-August, the Sun clan was not a princely force waiting to be killed.

When the news that Chengdu sent 100,000 troops to the east to conquer Yong'an reached Jiangling, all the high-level leaders of the entire Jingnan Army Group gathered, among them, who led the Battle of Jiange and blocked the Tianci Army from the Sword Pavilion.

During this discussion, the high-level leaders of the Jingnan Army headed by Sun Jian and Sun Ce discussed many times, and most of the officials' opinions were relatively unanimous, that is, to abandon Yong'an County, retreat to Jingzhou, and use Jingzhou's original defense line to resist the possible invasion of the Tianci Army.

In fact, everyone, including Sun Jian and Sun Ce, understood that the Tianci Army intended to recover Yong'ancheng in this battle, and it was impossible to fight the Jingnan Army on the spot. But the problem is that the Jingnan Army can't let go of this face, you know, if Yong'an is taken back by the Tianci Army, it will be fine, but the Jingnan Army will take the initiative to give up this situation, which will make the morale of the Jingnan Army very demoralized!

Therefore, Sun Ce and Sun Jian hesitated, and Zhou Yu, who was in Yong'an, couldn't give enough weight to give advice. Because in Yong'an, the Jingnan army must not lose too much, otherwise it will be the third southern expedition of the Tianci army, how can the Jingnan army resist? And as early as in the high-level discussion of the Sun family, all regions, including Jingnan and Jiaozhou, can choose to give up their surnames, so what's the point of sticking to Yong'an?

Over the years, the Sun family has made many moves in private, in order to avoid being served by the Tianci army, most of the sons of the Sun family and the high-level of the Jingnan Army were all sent to Jiuzhen, Yuenan and other counties in Jiaozhou, and there is a possibility of further westward migration. In order to meet Sun's earlier plan, all counties, including Jingnan, had people move westward.

Sun is preparing!

Prepare to withdraw from the Chinese mainland!

In Sun's view, the area that Liu Tai wanted to unify was at most the native region of China, and the many barbarian states west of Yuenan County would definitely not be noticed by the Tianci army, so why didn't Sun prepare this retreat?

The Sun clan is a southern scholar clan, and the southern scholar clan has been relatively open-minded since ancient times, in the eyes of outsiders, those barbarian lands are simply places that cannot survive, but in the eyes of the Sun family's high-level leaders, the land west of Nanjun may not be worse than the Central Plains!

Why? Because over the years, the Sun clan has been dealing with many barbarian countries west of Yuenan, and for those places, the Sun family knows very well that in the large land west of Yuenan, except for a country called the Satavahana Kingdom that is relatively strong, the others are some small countries, and most of the countries have only 30,000 or 40,000 or even 10,000 or 20,000 troops!

Heaven, this kind of small country has no pressure on the Sun clan at all, and Sun Ce has also conquered these countries in the past, leaving a great reputation in these areas, if Sun Ce is the general to attack the city and pull out the city in the west of Yuenan, he will definitely be able to lay countless lands in the least time.

In fact, the Sun clan had long been preparing to officially open up the foundation of the area west of the south of Yuenan, but as the leader of the Sun clan, Sun Jian, the uncrowned king of Jingnan, couldn't make a decision for a while! Why? Because if you want to open up a new world, Sun Jian, as the lord of Jingnan, will inevitably not be able to go to the front line in person, so the front line coach can only be Sun Ce!

But the question is, is Sun Ce's reputation in the Sun clan and the Jingnan and Jiaozhou regions still weak? If it is handed over to Sun Ce to capture a large area of land west of Yuenan, then Sun Ce's prestige is definitely above Sun Jian! How embarrassing will the situation then? I'm afraid that Sun Jian will be forced to step down.

So Sun Jian hesitated!

But now the matter of Yong'an has made up his mind to Sun Jian!

The Tianci army is already approaching step by step, if the Sun family can't open up their own new world, sooner or later they will follow in the footsteps of Cao Ying, Liu Xiang and other princes, and the Sun family doesn't want to fall, at least they don't want to follow in the embarrassing footsteps of Cao Ying so quickly.

After discussion, the high-level of the Jingnan Army headed by Sun Jian and Sun Ce made a resolution.

Abandon the county seat of Yong'an, negotiate peace with the Tianci army, and privately increase the scale of the southward migration. Sun Jian, who was the lord of Jingnan, personally came forward to play Huacheng and crowned Sun Ce as the Taishou of Tianxi (the land west of the south). Began to mobilize the Jingnan Army, intending to dispatch 100,000 troops to the west to conquer the land of Tianxi.

The reason why Sun Jian went to Huacheng was naturally to paralyze Liu Tai's urgent southward thoughts, and the name of the southern place Tianxi was also the decision of the Sun family's high-level leaders. The Sun family's conquest of Tianxi will never be able to hide Liu Tai, so why don't you say it openly?

During this period of time, the dialogue between Liu Tai and Cao Ying under Shouchun City has also been circulated. From the dialogue, some princes self-righteously understood Liu Tai's thoughts, such as Liu Tai was not against the king, but the land and kingdom established by the king must be outside of Middle-earth.

And according to the speculation of the princes, not only is the land of the king outside of Middle-earth, but also the land of the king must also be taken by the person who wants to be the king!

It's a very simple cause and effect, so Sun resolutely decided to openly report to Huacheng, as for Liu Xuan, the son of heaven who had just been found by the alliance of princes, he was naturally ignored by the Sun family, in Sun's opinion, the alliance can continue to be maintained, but respect Liu Xuan? Obviously impossible!

You must know that Sun Ce can tear off a piece of flesh from Liu Xuan's body, and Liu Xuan will definitely not share the sky with the Sun family, so why should the Sun family try to reconcile with Liu Xuan? There's no need at all!

(To be continued)