Chapter 438: Half of the Country
It's really only one day in the mountains, and it's been a thousand years in the world.
Chen Kefu went to the grassland, and when he returned to Liaodong, he didn't expect that the Central Plains had undergone such earth-shaking changes.
He held the fold in his hand, but he felt as if it weighed a thousand pounds, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and he couldn't help but read this information carefully again, and tried to sort out the messy information in it.
Yang Guang fought with Shibi Khan Yanmen, Shibi had an army of 300,000, and the final evacuator was only 70,000 horses, with heavy casualties. And Yang Guang is also not much better, as the son of heaven in the Central Plains, he was surrounded by grassland Hulu in Yanmen for nearly a month. Of the 150,000 elite Praetorian Guards around him, only 8,000 died in the end. In addition to the 150,000 guards, 30,000 Sui soldiers from the three counties of Dingxiang, Mayi, and Yanmen were also killed. Yang Guang discounted a full 180,000 horses, which was a little less than Shibi's people, but the dignity and prestige of the emperor of the Celestial Empire were swept away.
Shi Bi led the remnants to retreat back to Yanmen, and the army of King Qin of the Sui Dynasty also arrived. Yang Lai, the king of Liao, had 30,000 troops, Li Yuan of Taiyuan had 100,000 troops from Hedong, Pei Renji of Hebei had 100,000 soldiers, Wei Wensheng of Guanlong Chang'an had 60,000 troops from Guanzhong, and Jianghuai Wang Shichong had 100,000 Jianghuai soldiers. The rest of the soldiers and horses who arrived from all over the country added up to nearly 100,000, and most of the soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty gathered in Hedong.
And now, Yang Guang is paralyzed by a stroke and has not woken up, and the queen and the crown prince have been taken captive by the Turks.
The ministers of the imperial court, and the commanders who led the troops to King Qin, did not follow Yang Guang's plan before the stroke..., sent troops to the grassland, and rescued the crown prince, but there was an internal dispute.
Yang Han, the king of Liao, was supported by Yu Shiji and many Sui ministers, and demanded to return to Luoyang.
However, Yu Wenhua, Wei Wensheng and other ministers from Guanlong nobles demanded to return to Chang'an. The two factions did not give in to each other, but in the end, Li Yuan intervened in it, so that both sides agreed to return to Taiyuan first, and now the army has arrived in Taiyuan. Although the ministers unanimously asked those soldiers and horses of King Qin to return to their places, except for a few small armies and horses that returned in place, Taiyuan City has now gathered nearly 500,000 horses, and each faction has its own heart. But as Yang Guang's injuries became more and more serious, in Taiyuan City, the various factions had changed from a secret fight to an open fight.
Yang Lai, the king of Liao, had 30,000 troops in his hands, and was supported by veterans such as Yujuluo, Tu Wanxu, and Dong Chun.
Among the ministers who accompanied him, Yu Shiji, Pei Yun and other upstarts who were later Yang Guang had basically fallen to the Liao Wang faction. In addition, there is also Pei Renji, the commander of the Hebei Army, the deputy marshal of the Hebei Army surnamed Yang, and the right Yiwei general Sima Dekan in the Praetorian Guard, and the support of the powerful faction such as Yang Wu, the commander of the Xiaoguo Army and the black-clothed Iron Guard, and the current King of Liao has become the largest faction in Taiyuan City.
And the current power of the Guanlong clan is not weak, basically the civil and military forces from Guanlong belong to this force. Among them, it was headed by Wen Sheng, the general of Zuo Yiwei, and Yu Wenhua, who stayed behind in Chang'an.
They also had nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in their hands. And behind these people, there is also the powerful Guanlong family group.
Even if Taiyuan stayed behind, Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guo, was faintly inclined to them at present.
In addition to the two factions of Luoyang and Chang'an, there is also a force in Taiyuan City, which seems to have chosen to stand in the middle, including Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guogong who stayed in Taiyuan, and Wang Shichong, the commander of the Jianghuai Army. These two Li Yuan seem to be leaning towards the Chang'an faction, and Wang Shichong seems to be leaning towards the Luoyang faction. But in fact, both factions are now desperately trying to win over the two of them, but until now, these two important ministers, each commanding 100,000 troops, are still standing on the wall and watching.
When Chen Kefu saw this, he couldn't help but be shocked by the situation in Taiyuan.
If Yang Guang doesn't die this time and can wake up, maybe the situation in Taiyuan can still be controlled. But if Yang Guang dies like this, this Taiyuan is estimated to explode like a powder keg.
It's just that in Taiyuan City, there are too many old foxes gathered now, and there is no simple character, and it is really unknown who will have the last laugh in the end. Especially Li Yuan and Wang Shichong, Chen Kefu knows that in the original history, the last two were both heroes in the world.
And as the soldiers and horses of the world gathered in Taiyuan, they refused to return to the place. The situation in the Central Plains is also undergoing tremendous changes. First of all, Jiangnan's defense was empty, and it had lost the two armies of Laihu'er and Wang Shichong, under the initiation of the Jiangnan Society. The entire Jianghuai Lingjiang area has completely rebelled, and the only remaining strength of the Great Sui is only Yang Shanhui and Yang Shihong and Chen Ling's 50,000 imperial soldiers and horses who have now retreated to Jiangdu. …,
In Henan, the Wagang army took advantage of the fact that the imperial army was transferred to Hedong, and also quickly defeated the soldiers and horses of the Qu Tutong brothers, and now most of Henan has fallen into the hands of the Wagang army, and even the land of Shannan has fallen into the hands of the Wagang army. In the whole of Henan, only the eastern capital Luozhu and those counties bordering Guanlong and Hedong in the west are left.
The Chen dynasty in Jiangnan occupied the entire Yangtze River from Jiangling to the sea, while Wagang occupied all the canal sections in Henan. And Hebei is also not calm, taking advantage of this opportunity, Sun Anzu,
Dou Jiande gathered the people in Gaojibo, Hebei Plain County, and Liu Badao was in the Bohai Douzihang in Hebei, which already owned the whole county, and the department was called the Uncle Army, with 100,000 troops. Gao Shida, one of the three major forces in Hebei today, also settled in Gaojibo in his early years, and was later surrounded and suppressed by the imperial court and fled to Taihang Mountain. In recent years, his power has gradually grown, and now he sees that the soldiers and horses of the imperial court have gone to Hedong, and he has also returned to his hometown from Taihang Mountain, and now he has occupied the entire Hejian County.
Hejian County, Pingyuan County, and Bohai County are the southernmost counties of Hebei, and the southernmost part of Pingyuan County and Bohai County is the easternmost part of the Yellow River on the border with Shandong. The border of the three counties is the Grand Canal, and nearly half of the canals in Hebei are surrounded by the three counties.
The Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the canal, the three most important transportation lifelines of the Great Sui have fallen into the hands of the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, the Wagang Army in Hebei, and Sun Anzu, Gao Shida, and Liu Badao in Hebei.
The entire southeast and northeast of the Great Sui, except for Shandong, most of Hebei, and a small part of the south of the Yangtze River are still under the control of the Sui Dynasty, and basically half of the country is no longer guaranteed. Yang Guang's favorite Jiangdu has been completely surrounded by the Chen Dynasty, and even the eastern capital Luoyang, now in the south, is already full of peasant troops.
After reading this excerpt of the Central Plains' intelligence, Chen Ke's face was very dignified, and he opened another excerpt on the side, but it was Jiangnan's belated intelligence. Today's Jiangnan is even more surprising to him, his uncle Shen Faxing has now occupied Danyang, Yuhang, Xuancheng County, Biling, Xin'an County, Haoyang County, and Jiujiang County.
With 70,000 troops, sitting in the land of the seven counties in the south of the Yangtze River, even the current Chen Dynasty's capital Jiankang City is also under the direct control of the Shen family, and their power is in the south of Jiangdu City.
The soldiers and horses of Du Fuwei, the righteous son of Du Fuwei, who was supported by Wang Zhizhi, the head of the Wang family, were equally extraordinary, and they occupied the five counties of Liyang, Huainan, Zhongli, Lujiang, and Tong'an, west of Jiangdu and west of Jiankang.
Li Zitong's soldiers and horses occupied the five counties of Hailing, Wu County, Huiji County, Dongyang County, and Sui'an County, east of Jiangdu, and the border with Shen Faxing. Another major force of the Chen Dynasty, Zhu Cang, occupied the four counties of Yiling County, Nan County, Chuyang County, and Jiangxia County in Shannan.
In the Chen Dynasty, these four families alone have occupied the entire Jianghuai and 21 counties. In addition to these twenty-one counties, the Southern Dynasty now also occupies, Xianchun County, Yiyang County, Yuzhang,
Yichun, Lin11, Luling, Nankang, Jian'an, Yongjia, Yong'an, Anlu, Jingling, Shannan Jiangbiao 12 counties.
And the Lingnan Tu people, who were the land of Nanchen back then, also returned to the Chen Dynasty, and the thirteen counties of Lingnan all rebelled against Sui and returned to Chen overnight. As a place where the Tu people are based, the Lingnan people are basically the Tu people, but the Slang people are the largest, with more than 100,000 tribes. At that time, the daughter of the leader of the Slang clan, the Xijia family, married Gao Liang, who was still an official of the Liang Dynasty, and guarded Feng Bao. Later, Mrs. Xi got acquainted with Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of Southern Chen, who was only a governor at the time, and helped Chen Baxian ascend to the throne of Southern Chen with the soldiers of the Lingnan Tu tribe. Chen Baxian also sealed Mrs. Xi to protect Mrs. Hou.
Later, Feng Bao died early, and Mrs. Xi became the chief of the Slang clan and was revered as Our Lady of Lingnan.
When the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, Mrs. Tai raised the Lingnan army to avenge the Chen Dynasty, but later Yang Jian, with his extraordinary political skills, sent an envoy to show the letter of surrender of the Empress Chen and the token "Funan Rhino Staff" given by the Empress Chen. After knowing that Chen was dead, Mrs. Xitai gathered thousands of leaders to "weep all day" before returning to the Sui Dynasty, and after entering the Sui Dynasty, she was crowned as the Lady of Song Kangjun, and gave her the power of soldiers and horses in Lingnan Prefecture.
Mrs. Xi went through 80 years of Liang, Chen, and Sui, but on the contrary, she gradually unified the Lingnan tribes, making the Xi family the soil emperor of Lingnan. This time, Chen Shen restored the Chen Dynasty and proclaimed himself emperor, and Shen Faxing got another pair of Funan rhino rods that Mrs. Xi had withdrawn from Emperor Wen of Sui. After seeing the situation of the Sui Dynasty, Feng Yun, the fourth-generation granddaughter of Mrs. Xi, the great leader of the Lingnan Slang Clan, did not think much about it, and let the thirteen counties of Lingnan rejoin the Chen Dynasty. …,
Although the thirteen counties of the Lingnan people are mostly self-governing by the natives. But after obtaining these thirteen counties, the Chen Dynasty completely mastered the entire Jiangnan and owned forty-six counties. There are 190 counties in the Great Sui world, and Nan Chen has already won 46 counties in the south of the Yangtze River in a short period of time, and a quarter of the Great Sui has been torn apart.
Coupled with the seven counties occupied by the Wagang Army in Henan today, the three counties occupied by the three peasant armies in Hebei, and the fifteen counties occupied by Chen Kefu in Liaodong, the Great Sui has now lost seventy-one counties, leaving only one hundred and nineteen counties. Moreover, today's counties in Shandong are already surrounded on three sides by the Henan Wagang Army, the Jiangnan Chen Dynasty, and the Hebei Peasant Army, and sooner or later will be annexed by all sides.
If the Jianghuai River is lost in Lingnan and Henan, and Shandong is lost again, then the whole Hebei will also be surrounded on three sides, leaving only a few dangerous passages in Taihang, which are connected with Hedong. Moreover, the Jianghuai River and Henan were lost, and the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the canal were cut off again. Even if the imperial court still had supplies and grain and grass to be transported to Hebei, it could only be transported from the sea in Shandong or the Taihang Mountains in Hedong.
After studying for a long time, Chen Kefu suddenly discovered that half of the original huge Great Sui Dynasty had fallen.
After thinking about it like this, he finally understood why Xue Shixiong obviously had food, but he didn't let go of the food outside the city, and he still wanted to grab his food outside the city. Everything is only because Xue Shixiong, Li Jing and other Hebei generals already know that their material transportation channels have been cut off, and the current situation, it is estimated that no one will take care of them for a while.
Shandong is now too busy to take care of itself, and it is impossible for them to be managed. And on the east side of the river, even if they want to transport grain, the endless Taihang mountains are there, they can transport it, and how much can they transport?
At present, it was easy for the army of the Central Plains to advance westward, but it would be difficult to return to Hebei and Shandong. Xue Shixiong and Li Jing are both handsome, of course they understand the situation in front of them, and now they are taking precautions, but they are also unavoidable plans.... Thinking about this, Chen Kefu couldn't help but ponder in his heart, maybe Xue Shixiong and they didn't come to fight with themselves at all, maybe this kid just wanted to take advantage of the ripe wheat and wanted to come to Liaodong to grab a vote.
Thinking of this, Chen Kefu couldn't sit still. He originally thought that if the Great Sui was going to be chaotic, it would not be possible to mess up so quickly. But who would have thought that during the siege of Yanmen, an edict from King Qin suddenly transferred the world's soldiers and horses to Hedong, making half of the Central Plains extremely empty, giving those careerists an opportunity to take advantage of. On the contrary, he was the promoter behind the Yanmen War, who was busy for most of the day, plotting again, and revolutionizing the troops into the grassland.
Jiangnan will win most of the Jiangnan, and even the Wagang army has won the land of seven counties in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and now it is about to come to Luoyang City. It's good that he didn't receive any benefits, but let Xue Shixiong rush to Liaodong with people to grab his own food.
It's tolerable, it's unbearable.
Chen Kefu took out a map from his arms and looked at it carefully for a long time. Today's southeast and northeast, most of the Central Plains, the rest of the two places are Hebei and Shandong. At present, the imperial court is still fighting for power, no matter which one in Taiyuan City wins, it will definitely immediately turn around and go east to sweep Dàng. There's never been a better time to grab land, but don't miss it.
Hebei, Shandong! This is the territory that he has already decided, and he has to take this opportunity to swallow them first.
Dropping the map, Chen Kefu raised his eyes and looked at the military camp in the distance, Chen Kefu said to himself, "I wanted to wait a little longer, but there is no time, Xue Dashuai, I'm sorry." ,!。