Chapter Ninety-Five: Entering the Kingdom of Zhao
As the saying goes: it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country.
Although Li Chenfeng had basically eliminated the main force of the Qin army in Dongjun and won more than a dozen cities, how to govern it next made him difficult.
Not only did Li Chenfeng himself not know how to face this kind of scene, but even among his subordinates, no one knew how to govern the place.
Just when he was a little anxious, a person who took the initiative to come to the door solved the problem for him.
Zhang Cang, a native of Yangwu County, Wei State. In history, he was the prime minister and calculian in the early Western Han Dynasty. In his early years, he studied under Xunzi and went out of the same school with Li Si and Han Fei.
At the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, he served as the imperial historian and fled for crime. Following Pei Gong Liu Bang's uprising, worshipping Changshan Taishou, quite meritorious. After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, he successively served as the acting minister of state and the minister of Zhao.
From the rebellion of Zang Di, the king of Pingyan, he was named the Marquis of Beiping, and entered the dynasty as the prime minister and chief planner, and managed financial affairs. Moved to the south of the country, into the imperial history of the doctor. In the fourth year of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, after the death of the baby, he took over as prime minister. Later, due to different political views, he took the initiative to become a leader.
This is Zhang Cang's resume in history, and it can be said that he is also a rare talent.
However, now Zhang Cang has just left Songhai, said goodbye to his teacher Xunzi, went down the mountain to find his future, and when he passed through Diqiu City, he knew that this place had just been occupied by the general of Wei and his son Wei Feng, so he took the initiative to go to the general's mansion to meet Li Chenfeng, and Mao recommended himself.
Li Chenfeng, the name Zhang Cang, had never heard of it, but when he heard that the other party reported to his family, he said that he was from Xunzi's door, so he invited him in and prepared to meet him.
After some temptation, Li Chenfeng felt that this was a talent, and he was stronger than himself anyway, so he directly appointed him as the county Sima and temporarily helped him manage Dongjun, and by the way, he also saw if this guy could only talk on paper.
Half a month has passed in a flash, Qian Ge has returned with his army, and several cities south of Diqiu have been taken, directly opening up the original border with Wei State, connecting them together, and making Diqiu City more stable.
And during this time, Zhang Cang really did not disappoint Li Chenfeng, whether it was the city that had been occupied by the Wei army, or the newly captured city, he arranged it one by one in an orderly manner, and only needed to recuperate in peace for a year or two, and the production in these places could be quickly restored.
As for the lost population, there is no way but to wait for the war to end, and then after decades of recuperation, it will be restored to its former number.
In that case, I don't know when it will be......
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Li Chenfeng didn't care too much about the governance of Dongjun, he now focused on the whole world in a big way, and in a small way, it was also to restore the territory of the former Wei State, as for the governance of one county and one county, just leave it to others.
If he, the son of Wei, has to worry about everything, then what else do his officials do?
Putting down all this, Li Chenfeng's army was pulled out, and after leaving 50,000 defenders to Diqiu City, he himself took 10,000 Wei soldiers and 30,000 ordinary soldiers, and then the cavalry in the hands of Qian Ge, the deputy general of the cavalry, expanded to 10,000, and continued to take his soldiers and Li Chenfeng to start going north in two ways.
Li Chenfeng led all the foot soldiers, and the march route started from Diqiu City, all the way west to the mouth of Yuanjin to cross the Yellow River, take Liyang, and then continue to go north to Dangyin, cross the water and go straight to Anyangyi. By the time they arrived at Anyangyi, the Wei army, which originally consisted of less than 50,000, had almost expanded to 70,000, most of whom were young men who had been captured by the Qin army.
Anyangyi was originally an important town of Zhao, but was captured by Wei when Wei attacked Zhao, and finally fell under the rule of Qin.
When Li Chenfeng led his troops to the city of Anyangyi, Qiange from the other road had already arrived to meet them.
Qiange marched farther than Li Chenfeng and them, from Diqiu to the north after taking Guanze, Gangping, all the way north to Liaocheng, from the modern geography, Liaocheng has been almost at the same latitude as Handan, and then left the garrison and then returned, crossed the Yellow River in Nanle and went straight to Fanyang, and finally went around a large circle from Huangcheng to Anyangyi, all the way to march hundreds of miles, and gathered countless remnants.
After the round of the two armies, the number of people reached more than 110,000, known as 150,000, there was no nonsense at all, and they directly attacked Anyangyi, which had only 20,000 defenders.
Although Anyangyi was also garrisoned by 20,000 Qin troops, like other cities, most of them were just young men captured by the Qin army from the surrounding areas after occupying this place, and they were forcibly charged into the army, and their combat effectiveness can be imagined.
In the face of the world's elite Wei Wushu, it took less than an hour for Anyangyi to be breached.
In this battle, more than 2,000 people died on both sides in total, after breaking the city, Li Chenfeng in addition to killing the only remaining 3,000 Qin troops in the city, the other Zhao and Wei young men were directly disrupted again and filled into his own army, and then left 10,000 defenders and a general, and he himself led his troops to continue north.
This is also the norm in this era. "Chao Qin and Twilight Chu", these people were still Qin troops at the last moment, but as soon as they re-carried the banner of Wei in a blink of an eye, they became Wei troops again.
But it's not so easy going any further.
After passing Anyangyi, crossing the Huanshui, less than a hundred miles is Yecheng, which is already the territory of Zhao State.
Speaking of this Yecheng, it can be regarded as the pain of the Wei State.
Because this was originally the territory of Wei, when Wei Wangzeng had just succeeded to the throne, because the Qin army attacked Wei and Zhao, Zhao Wangyan united hundreds of thousands of elite armies of Zhao, Chu, Wei and Yan, with Zhao general Pang Xuan as the commander, to attack Qin's land, but because he failed to conquer it, he turned to attack Qi and captured Rao'an of Qi.
In the same year, the five kingdoms of Zhao, Han, Wei, Wei, and Chu formed a north-south alliance to jointly crusade against Qin. King Chu Kaolie, the monarch of Chu State, served as the chief of the longitudinal covenant, and Huang Xie, the king of Chunshen, was in charge of military affairs, and the coalition army captured Shouling, and waved his army to Hangu Pass.
However, the Five-Nation Alliance seemed to be strong, but when the Qin army came out to meet the battle, the Five-Nation Alliance fell apart in an instant, and they all fled in defeat.
Instead, the Qin army went east to Hanguguan and defeated Yique in Korea all the way, and then Meng Fu and Wang Jian marched in the south and the north.
Meng Fu went all the way from the north to the east, first destroyed the Eastern Zhou Dynasty and took Luoyang, and then successively attacked Korea and the territory of Wei, Wei Wangzeng had no choice but to cede Ye land to Zhao, and then in exchange for Zhao sent the general Fu to be stationed in Pingyi; The general Qingshe led the troops outside the Dongyang River to defend the Yellow River bridge, giving Wei a chance to breathe.
There is also a very interesting character in this period, that is, Chang Anjun.
It was the protagonist of the Empress Dowager Zhao in the Chinese textbook, the uncle of the current Zhao Wangyan, who was sealed to Rao by Zhao Wangyan before the Wei State ceded the land.
Then it was Zhao Wangyan who forcibly took Ye land from Wei State, Li Chenfeng was very suspicious that Zhao Yan felt that it was too much of a loss to seal a large piece of rich land to his uncle, so he thought about making up for it from Wei State.
However, in the face of strong Qin, both Zhao and Wei were in a weak position, and this Zhao Wangyan didn't know if he was stupid, so he went to fight with Yan at such a critical juncture, and finally Qin found an opportunity to break through the defense of the Zhao army in one fell swoop, and successively seized large tracts of fertile land in Zhao and Wei, and even destroyed the Wei State in the end......
Wei Yuanjun cried to death in the wild king...... Who would have thought that Zhao and Yan would fight, but it was Wei who destroyed the country in the end......
He Wei Yuanjun didn't recruit anyone to provoke anyone, he just wanted to be a peaceful marquis honestly, but in the end he became the biggest loser......