Chapter 798: World War I
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Lou annoying, Linquan City.
Liu Wuzhou fled all the way here with thousands of remnants of the defeated generals, throwing away his armor and being extremely embarrassed. Yesterday, he fled from Loufu Fenyang Palace to the border of Mayi overnight, but was defeated in an ambush, and only a few thousand cavalry remained of the 50,000 soldiers and horses. After another day of running away, it was already evening again when he fled back to Lou Fu, and in the dim twilight, Liu Wuzhou was frightened and frightened, hungry and thirsty.
"Open the city, open the city quickly, His Majesty the Emperor is coming, don't open the city quickly to greet you!" A general beside Liu Wuzhou, a cavalryman, stepped forward and shouted at the foot of Linquan Pass.
Looking at the sparse guards in Linquan under the twilight, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help but feel sad. A year ago, on the occasion of the covenant again, he made an alliance with Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, Zhang Changxun and others in this city. At the banquet on the day of the alliance, he arranged for Song Jingang and Zhen Zhai'er to lead the knife and axe men to suddenly kill Liang Shidu, Guo Zihe, Zhang Changxun and their subordinates. At that time, he dared to do this, in fact, it was related to the situation he judged at that time.
Two years ago, Chen Kefu, who is the largest force in the world, suddenly and comprehensively reduced his forces, improving his posture and reversing his strategic defense posture. At the beginning, all the heroes in the world were uneasy, and they all thought that Chen Kefu was brewing some of the latest conspiracy, even if he was not planning to wipe out all the heroes in the world, it was also shrinking the troops and horses, gathering a large army, and preparing for a key assault and a breakthrough.
At that time, Liu Wuzhou and other forces were very uneasy, and Shen Luoyan, the daughter of Shen Faxing, the king of Wu of the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, had even begun to send envoys to all parties one after another. Prepare for an alliance of all parties to fight against Chen Kefu together, destroy Northern Chen first, and then divide the world equally. At that time, the alliance had already begun to have a preliminary framework. All parties, including Liu Wuzhou, have already understood Chen Kefu's toughness, and are ready to destroy Chen Kefu together first, and then compete for the world.
Just when all parties were preparing for the first alliance, Chen Kefu's side was in chaos first. At the beginning of autumn in August of the previous year, news of famine broke out in most areas of Beichen, and then a large-scale migration involving millions of people began in Beichen.
First there was famine, then there was great migration, and the alliance did not wait for the alliance to negotiate a plan to attack Beichen. Turmoil began to arise within Beichen. Henan, Shandong, and Hebei were the most famine areas, as well as Huaibei and Huainan, two areas that were originally the land of Southern Chen, and most of the rich households were unwilling to emigrate, and were spies and spies of other forces. and a small number of wealthy families, instigated by rebellions.
For a time, it was like a spark burning the prairie like a spark, and all of a sudden, Beichen Feng smoke was everywhere.
Unexpected. At this time, Chen Kefu took the initiative to send envoys to all parties, expressing his willingness to coexist with all parties equally, and offered to borrow grain from all parties. Nan Chen even put forward the condition of returning Jiujiang and other five counties south of the Yangtze River in exchange for their grain.
The situation is so abrupt. It would have been a great thing for all parties. But in fact, this was not the case, when Shen Luoyan finally held the first alliance with the envoys sent by all parties in Hanzhong. Shen Luoyan proposed to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to put aside their grievances for the time being. Sent troops together to defeat Bei Chen. The envoys of all parties all nodded in agreement with this proposal on the surface, and even publicly elected Shen Luoyan as the marshal of the Allied forces.
However, when Shen Luoyan gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses of Southern Chen in September of the first year of Northern Chen Shenlong, led Du Fuwei, Fu Gongyi, Li Zitong and others to take the lead in the war against Northern Chen, and sent troops to recover the five counties of Jiujiang and other counties south of the Yangtze River, Yu Wenhua and Liu Wuzhou and other forces were all waiting and watching from the rear. None of them actually sent troops.
Liu Wuzhou's idea at that time was very simple, before Beichen was powerful, showing the intention and strength to annex each family in one fell swoop, everyone had no way out, only to fight against the water. And when Beichen was in civil strife, and even after Shen Luoyan's first victory, he changed his mind. …,
The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the hundred-legged worm dies without borders. After there was no urgent crisis, Liu Wuzhou began this deceitful personality again. Bei Chen is weak, he wants to see the two tigers of Nan Chen and North Chen fighting, and then sit on the wall and watch the fight, and wait until the end to pick up the cheap.
Especially after Shen Luoyan won a series of battles at the beginning, he even had such thoughts. Let Shen Luoyan fight with Chen Kefu first, and after Chen Kefu transfers all the soldiers and horses to the south, he will send troops to capture Hedong, Taiyuan and other counties. Even Haoqiang thought about it at the time, feeling that Beichen had continuous civil strife and a great famine, and it was difficult to win in the face of Nanchen's fierce counterattack this time. Even if it wins, it will be a pyrrhic victory.
With such a thought, from August of the first year of Shenlong to June of the second year of Shenlong, most of the time passed unconsciously, although there were still rebellions in various parts of Beichen, but in fact, most of them were just small rebellions, and most of the news received by the heroes was exaggerated by Beichen himself and released. In the past year, the large-scale migration from all parts of Beichen has basically been completed, and even in June, several provinces in the Central Plains of Beichen have begun to harvest summer grain.
In July, with the end of the summer grain harvest in the Central Plains and the provinces south of the Yangtze River, the Northern Chen army, which had been at a disadvantage in the southern battle with Shen Luoyan, suddenly became powerful. In July, Yang Shanhui, the marshal of Northern Chen, suddenly sent 100,000 troops, and in one fell swoop, he severely damaged the army of Shen Luoyan, Du Fuwei, and Li Zitong in Jiujiang, and annihilated the army of Southern Chen by more than 50,000. Shen Luoyan, Du Fuwei, Li Zitong and others were forced to retreat eastward.
Yang Shanhui led the army to chase all the way, attacked the counties south of the South Chen River, and took advantage of the super transportation power of Zhang Zhongjian's naval fleet to begin to sack the granaries of the counties of Nanchen along the way. In the end, Yang Shanhui's 50,000 soldiers and horses and Zhang Zhongjian's 50,000 soldiers and horses were built under the city of Jiankang in the south of the Chen State. If it weren't for the critical time, Shen Faxing personally led 100,000 soldiers and horses from Jiangling all the way south to rescue, but I am afraid that this time, Jiankang City has been broken by the Northern Chen army.
Afterwards, although Nan Chen rescued Jiankang City, and the Northern Chen army also withdrew to Huainan before the Southern Chen army arrived, even most of the prefectures occupied by Jiangnan were recovered by Nan Chen, and only sent troops to defend Jiujiang and other five counties in Jiangnan. But after this battle, everyone suddenly realized that they had just fallen for Chen Kefu's delaying tactics.
Chen Kefu deliberately showed weakness before, exaggerated the civil strife and food shortage in Northern Chen, and even turned the soldiers and horses everywhere to defense, giving all parties the illusion. Even Chen Kefu was repeatedly defeated in battles with Shen Luoyan.
After the Northern Chen army inflicted heavy losses on the Southern Chen army and stole most of the grain from Southern Chen, the news of the rebellion in various parts of Northern Chen was also quelled at once. Faced with such a result, all parties regretted it and sighed that they had missed a good opportunity to attack Beichen. They know that last year was indeed a relatively fragile year for Beichen, although it was not as fragile as it looked, but it was also the most fragile year ever. But they actually missed such an opportunity, in September, Liu Wuzhou was not reconciled, and immediately led the integration of Liang Shidu and other troops and horses of Longshang, gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yanmen, and soon captured it.
After so successfully capturing the dangerous pass of Yanmen, Liu Wuzhou was extremely confident, and on the one hand, he led the army south to attack Taiyuan, and on the other hand, he ascended the throne in Fenyang Palace, the old palace of Emperor Sui, and the country was called Han. After being proclaimed emperor, Liu Wuzhou personally led the army to besiege Taiyuan on the one hand, and sent Song Jingang out of Dingxiang on the other hand, making a detour to attack the capital of the army, wanting to seize Beijing.
As a result, the two places attacked for three months, and at this time, the Northern Chen army suddenly took advantage of the internal response arranged in Yanmen City to recapture Yanmen Pass through tunnels. For a time, Liu Wuzhou was in a disadvantageous situation, and finally insisted on besieging Taiyuan and Beijing for more than a month, and had no choice but to retreat.
This year, after a break in the first half of the year, Liu Wuzhou also plans to regroup his troops and horses to fight Wang Rengong. Unexpectedly, his troops and horses did not move, and Wang Rengong, who had been shrinking in the city like a turtle for the past two years, made the first move. He originally wanted to retreat to Mayi first, gather troops and horses and then fight, but he did not expect to suffer such a big defeat at the Sanggan River. The countless red-clothed cannons still made him feel that his ears were full of buzzing sounds. …,
"Squeak!"
The gates of Linquan City slowly opened, and in the twilight, the gates of the city were like the monster's hideous mouths, waiting for them to automatically send them to the door.
Seeing the city gate open, thousands of soldiers and horses who were hungry, thirsty and tired poured into Linquan City. Liu Wuzhou slowly advanced towards the city under the arch guard of dozens of guards, but when he reached the gate of the city, he finally saw the soldiers on the city head in the twilight and seemed a little strange. Linquan City is just a small county town, and there are only so many soldiers and horses. Liu Wuzhou looked at it for a long time just now, and all he saw were some unfamiliar faces, but Yang An, the guard of Linquan City, didn't see it once.
Thinking of the ambush in the morning, Liu Wu Zhoule stopped his horse and shouted towards the city: "Where is Yang An, tell him to see me quickly?" ”
"General Yang led a team of men and horses to patrol outside the city at dusk and has not returned, please Your Majesty enter the city first, and the little one will immediately send someone to look for him." Said an unfamiliar face in the city's lieutenant's attire.
Liu Wuzhou's heart was vigilant, and he refused to move forward, and immediately said: "Liu Zhao, lead a hundred people to the city to investigate." ”
"Yes"
Captain Liu Zhao beckoned, and immediately took a hundred horsemen into the city, but he still didn't see anyone back for a long time. The subordinates were impatient and wanted to enter the city, but at this moment, they suddenly heard the sound of countless horses' hooves, and the ground shook slightly. Suddenly, a cavalry came out of the city gate, and it was speeding towards them.
"It's not good, Linquan has been captured by Chen Jun, retreat quickly!" Liu Wu shouted, turned the horse's head and left.
A shout of killing sounded behind him, Wang Rengong took the lead, and shouted on the horse: "The one in front of the golden helmet and golden armor is Liu Wuzhou, take Liu Wuzhou whether he lives or dies, the reward is 1,000 coins, and the official is promoted to one level." ”
When Liu Wuzhou heard this voice immediately, his frightened soul was gone, and he shouted in his heart, is my life resting today! At that moment, he hurriedly took off the golden helmet and abandoned the horse, and untied the golden armor on the horse, and galloped wildly on the horse with only a battle robe. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )