36. The spoiler of the battlefield
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"I didn't think it was when I fought with the Bingzhou Army, the Xiliang Army, and even the Qiang people before, but now I feel that these soldiers who are good at riding and shooting are so annoying! I can't catch it, I can't break through it, I can't break through it, this battle is really unfought! ”
"In the northwest, General Huangfu either ordered us to set up camps and defend cautiously, or forced the Qiang people to fight a decisive battle on the battlefield we chose. As for the Bingzhou Army, people regard us as Qiang people who have been cut off from the back, and they can't take a step back, what do you say the battle will look like...... "As for the Xiliang Army, those "barbarians" who like to go on a rampage under the influence of Dong Zhuo are also good at riding and archery, but the probability of using them is almost infinitely close to duck eggs.
"But that's not bad, although the enemy's adoption of such means has contained us, but doesn't this also mean that the enemy has no strength left to continue the attack? Otherwise, their choice should be to annihilate us instead of this painless delay, how to say that we should also have enough trust in the soldiers who stayed in Bohai, although they may have been caught off guard by Gongsun Zhan's horseman, but as long as they have time to react, that horseman will not be able to kill the entire Bohai County into nothing. ”
While commanding the troops to deal with the archers and cavalry units of the Gongsun Army who came to attack them, Wen Chou, Yan Liang, and Gao Ran still had the strength to discuss the changes in the battle situation on horseback, and by the way, they killed a few enemies who were not so open-eyed and entered their "range".
Facing the menacing Gongsun Zhan. Liu Bei's coalition army, although the war in Wei County was about to come to an end. Yecheng was like a stunning girl who had been stripped of all the clothes that could cover her body and was waiting for his final blow in front of Yuan Shao, but after weighing it again and again, Yuan Shao finally gave up the tempting cake in front of him and turned the main force to the line of blocking the coalition forces.
After all, compared to Yecheng, which is about to arrive, but has not yet arrived. As the foundation, the strategic value of Bohai County in this period of time is obviously much higher, and if you can't win the former, at most Yuan Shao's hegemony will be delayed for a while, but if you can't get the latter back, then for Yuan Shao, then he will really become a rootless Ping and a lost dog.
Although the strategists that Yuan Shao relied on at this stage had faintly shown signs of factional confrontation, their opinions on this issue were unprecedentedly unanimous, which made Yuan Shao, who had already weighed it in his heart, even more convinced at this time.
What's more, the appearance of another incident also made him completely abandon the fantasy of solving Yecheng first and then returning to the division to fight a decisive battle with Gongsun Chan - although he knew that Gongsun Zhan. Yuan Shao blocked the news at the first moment when Liu Bei's coalition army swept the two counties, but the wealthy clan on Yuan Shao's side already had a wide range of contacts in the local area, and Gongsun Zan deliberately spread the news after the tactical success, even if the credibility of these news from the enemy would be discounted somewhat, but it was not difficult to confirm it.
Therefore, the Haoqiang troops located in Wei County soon had a great commotion. There are even signs of disintegration - if Yuan Shao really stubbornly continues to stay here. It is clear that the situation will slide to this step and even deeper.
So even in order to ensure the support of the powerful people in Jizhou. Yuan Shao also had to lift the siege of Wei and mobilize troops to block the offensive from the north.
Of course, Jizhou Haoqiang was shaken by the attack of the coalition forces. However, most of the heads of the families only expressed some concern about the situation, and did not directly turn into a wall grass or anything. After all, compared to other careerists around him, Yuan Shao can be regarded as a high-quality candidate in terms of camp attributes and ability, and if all factors are considered, it is even more of a superior choice, and it is difficult for them to give up their support for Yuan Shao in the context of Liu Yu's obvious intention to stand on his own.
So as long as Yuan Shao's performance does not disappoint them too much, they are willing to continue to support it. The only slight difference from the previous one is that there may be a certain reduction in strength, at least to leave a way back for yourself.
Unlike the powerful families who have started a new round of brain games, Yuan Shao is now full of anger at Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bei's actions, and he also has a little bit of a feeling of happiness echoing in his heart - at least. Before Gongsun Chan and Liu Bei raided, Yuan Shao had already moved himself and his main subordinates out of Bohai, and at the same time, those family members were followed by various materials that were originally hoarded in Bohai, so Yuan Shao may not be as big as Gongsun Chan imagined in various losses.
This situation can also occur thanks to Yuan Shao, who has the idea of "moving the capital" in the face of the upcoming Wei County.
Although Bohai County is the place where Yuan Shao raised his troops, because the impact in the Yellow Turban Rebellion was relatively small and after several years of operation by Yuan Shao, it has become very prosperous, and Nanpi, as the seat of Bohai County, has become a prosperous city comparable to Yecheng and Jiangling, but no matter how prosperous Nanpi is, Yuan Shao and his advisers will not be more attached to it, their goal is the sea of stars...... Oh no, it's Koshien...... It's not right, it's dominating the whole country...... Well, although I always feel that something is wrong with this, I can barely use it, at least it is not easy to do this in the face of interference from the organs.
Both Nanpi and Bohai County are located in the northeast of Jizhou, not only the geographical location is close to the border, but even in Jizhou is a little far away from Wei County, which is economically large in the south, except for being closer to Qingzhou to facilitate Yuan Shao's Qingxu strategy, Nanpi really has nothing enough to make people regard it as the political center of the entire Jizhou, not to mention that its distance from Luoyang, the political center of the Han Dynasty, can be regarded as the biggest sin.
Therefore, from the very beginning, the ideal ruling core in the minds of Yuan Shao and his advisers was not in Nanpi, even if there were many options for backup.
Among them, the highest voice is Xindu County, Anping County, which has often become the seat of Jizhou since the founding of the Han Dynasty.
Compared to the other candidates, Xindu is the farthest away from Luoyang, and it is also the area that was completely destroyed in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. As a result, after the end of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Jizhou assassins could only relocate the administrative office to Wei County, which was basically not affected much, but Xindu still had advantages that several other options could not match.
First of all, this is the center of Jizhou, whether it is to Zhongshan in the northwest, Bohai County in the northeast, or Wei County in the southwest, the distance is basically the same. It can be said that no matter which direction there is a problem, it can be supported relatively quickly.
Secondly, not only does it have fertile soil, but also the Zhangshui River in the north, the Weishui River in the south, the Qinghe River in the south and the Hutuo River in the north build a dense water network that extends to all parts of Jizhou, and Xindu, as the central area, can use water transportation to develop a strong transportation network, so even if Xindu has been destroyed by the war, it is easy to recover.
Finally, it is conducive to defense, after all, it is obviously not easy to cross the border area to attack Xindu without being known, unless it is like Zhang Jiao who directly raised troops from the hinterland of Jizhou, otherwise Xindu has a considerable guarantee of security. Even the loss of Xindu at the beginning was very successful, because the slackness of the defenders at that time gave the Yellow Turban Army an opportunity to take advantage of.
The second highest demand is now the Yecheng that makes Yuan Shao feel depressed - this city built on Zhangshui not only has a natural moat, but also can use the advantages of water transportation to ensure that the material resources produced from the Jizhou Plain are continuously sent here. The surrounding mountains are also able to block peeps from the west.
Most importantly. Yecheng is very close to Luoyang-Chenliu, the core area of the Han Empire. It is even possible to use it as the ruling core of the region north of the Yangtze River in the future. It is the key and pivot of the world.
Of course, Yecheng also has a disadvantage that gives Yuan Shao a headache, that is, compared to Yecheng in the history of another plane. Because Hanoi County was not in the hands of Wang Kuang but fell into the hands of Li Shushi, and at the same time, although the Shangdang still belonged to Zhang Yang, it was still under the control of Li Shushi, which made the position of Yecheng quite awkward - not only was Hanoi very close to the southern area of Yecheng, but there were not many dangerous places to block the enemy's attack, and if it was coupled with harassment from the west, it was enough to involve Yuan Shao's energy and troops, which obviously had a great impact on Yuan Shao's strategic goal of advancing eastward.
As for others such as Handan, Ganling and other places, although they have their own advantages, they are still inferior to the above two after all.
However, from the current point of view, in this situation, Xindu seems to have become the only suitable choice, even if this choice needs to face the soldiers from the allied forces of Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei. But compared to the pressure given to Yuan Shao by Li Shushi, there are still some psychological advantages in Yuan Shao's heart to deal with Gongsun Zhan, especially when he still has a lot of cards to play.
Therefore, in addition to the regular dispatch of the three generals Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Gao Ran, who he relied on the most, to lead elite troops to intercept Gongsun Zhan's troops, Yuan Shao soon began his own counterattack.
By the way, the commander sent by Yuan Shao to stop Liu Beijun was his eldest son Yuan Tan, and the deputy general was Jiang Qi, another person in the "Hebei Four Court Pillars". At the same time, in order to prevent the stiff and immortal Han Fu from taking the opportunity to give himself a mouthful, Yuan Shao still left a certain amount of soldiers and horses in Wei County and handed them over to Chun Yuqiong, who once had a comradeship with him in Xiyuan.
Although this inevitably dispersed Yuan Shao's own forces, it can also be seen that in Yuan Shao's eyes, the enemy's threat is different—after all, compared to the extremely aggressive Gongsun Zhan, Liu Bei is in Yuan Shao's impression that he can be appeased through negotiations or even some kind of exchange of benefits, not to mention that the personal relationship between the two is not bad. As for Han Fu in the south, in Yuan Shao's eyes, he can already be regarded as having lost his courage, unless Chun Yuqiong is too careful, he can ignore it at all.
As many members of Yuan Shaojun speculated, although Gongsun Zhan took Bohai by surprise with his wind-like attack and sudden fierce attacks, and even Nanpi, the seat of Bohai's governance, and Xiucheng, which was close to the southern border, were captured one by one, such brilliant achievements could not hide the hidden dangers - for example, Fuyang City, which was bypassed, and a certain number of troops were stationed in places such as Chonghe, Yangxin, and Gaocheng, which were not visited by Gongsun Jun, in the southeast. In addition, the support of the big and small families of Bohai County for Yuan Shao is also the earliest, deepest and most determined, even if the strength has been greatly withdrawn, but it can still bring a lot of trouble to the Gongsun army that divided the troops to attack.
Although Gongsun Chan has a short temper, he is not lacking in cruelty when facing foreign races. But when he faced the clans in Bohai County who opposed him, this set was not entirely useful. It's like Li Shushi, no matter how bad his relationship with those powerful families is, it is difficult to really completely eradicate the power of those families, unless you kill all the people of a county, otherwise you can't get anything but gain a huge amount of hatred from the huge kinship network of those families that have been rooted here for at least a hundred years.
The alien land, Gongsun Zhan, basically has little interest in occupying it, so he can naturally implement cruel policies. And those attached alien races, even if they kill all the land, they can be handed over to the Han landlords to take care of. However, if all the population of Dahan County is killed, not to mention what kind of moral reproach will be suffered, how should the area that has become a dead land be governed? If you can't get benefits, you have to get into the war of countless resources, not to mention Gongsun Zhan, who can't afford it, even if you are so happy that you can't do it anymore, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty can only issue an "edict of guilt" to admit your mistakes.
Therefore, this kind of thing has always been both suppressed and appeased, and even how to appease those families is more important than exterminating them.
Under the stalemate, the Gongsun army naturally did not have enough strength to continue advancing, and it could only adopt delaying tactics for Yuan Shaojun, who was in a hurry to return to help, in the hope that he could basically stabilize the situation between the Bohai Sea and the river before Yuan Shao rushed back, so that he could put himself in a more favorable strategic environment, and then whether it was a decisive battle, a peace negotiation, or a stalemate, it would be more beneficial to his own side.
So under the instruction of Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Jun simply withdrew more manpower to eliminate those "diehards" in the county. Although it is impossible to kill all the people in a county. But kill the most determined leaders and supplement it with a propaganda offensive. Bohai County is not an absolute monolith after all, not to mention that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu played with those aliens at the beginning, although now they can only play two roles by themselves. The power is inevitably a little worse, but barely enough to have some effect.
Gongsun Chan was unable to continue the attack, Yuan Shao was relieved to receive the news from the front and no longer ordered the troops to continue the march, but let them keep the battle line with the Gongsun army, after all, it was a sudden incident before, and now the most dangerous time period has passed, so he also needs to adjust the troops and restore the morale of the whole army before taking the next step.
It can be said that at this moment, both sides acquiesced to a temporary truce and prepared for a larger-scale head-on confrontation.
As for Liu Bei and Yuan Tan in the north, they also tested each other several times in Zhongshan and then stalemate, Yuan Tan followed his father's orders to deal with Liu Bei, and Liu Bei didn't seem to plan to fight hard. So it even seems that the two sides are quite in harmony with each other.
Of course, although the war seems to have come to a standstill for the time being, both sides have not forgotten to make trouble for each other, such as Gongsun Zhan's so-called "ten major crimes" of letting his subordinates widely disperse in the densely populated areas of Jizhou, including disloyalty and filial piety, the following crimes, unclear punishment, digging ancestral graves, harming the imperial family, etc., destroying Yuan Shao's glorious image in the eyes of the Jizhou family, and also using some relationships with Jizhou to lobby some families and promise heavy profits.
And Yuan Shao's side did not make a small move, in addition to continuing to lobby the alien races in the north in the hope that they could go south to contain Gongsun Zhan's forces, he also set his sights on another force, a force that he completely spurned before.
"How long has it been since we made an appearance?"
"I can't say this clearly, and I don't know if it should be said at the beginning of last year or across the three chapters and hundreds of small chapters, anyway, I always feel that it should be a very distant thing, so far away that I almost forget that I have such a number one person."
For this kind of words that are full of resentment and seem to mean something, the companion who asked wisely ignored these complaints, after all, the other party still has a lot of opportunities to act, and he got this hard-won opportunity easily, if you offend someone who shouldn't be offended because of what you said, it will be a big bad thing.
Although the daily bento is either a sour sauerkraut with tasteless kohlrabi, or an old eggplant with salty pickles and tongue-numbing tofu, it is a dream to see high-end bento boxes such as parent-child rice, and naturally it cannot be compared with those high-level actors who can't swallow a standard set meal of 15 yuan in the City Hall cafeteria.
"But isn't it overkill for the lord to let you and me go?" So let's change the subject.
Looking at the woods in the distance, and looking up at the sun in the sky, feeling the heat that has not yet dissipated, the young man touched the dense beads of sweat on his forehead, but this behavior has no other use except for letting the sweat continue to take away the water in the body, and in desperation, the young man can only take the water bladder from the hands of his entourage, even if the water temperature in the water bladder is quite high, it really does not play much role in relieving the heat and cooling down, but the young man still can't help but take a big sip before putting down the water bladder in frustration.
"Don't drink too hard, although we still have enough drinking water for a few days, but when we enter the realm of Youbeiping, I understand why Gongsun Bogui is so eager to start a war with his father, it seems that what the newspaper says is not only not exaggerated, but a little cautious and conservative. If it weren't for his father who gave the other party a chance to give it a go, maybe this grandson Bogui would have won without a fight. ”
"But in that case, wouldn't we have to face a 'beast' that is crazy for survival, and the loss will not be small."
"There are pros and cons. But now that the matter is over, there is no point in mentioning these things now. However, seeing the situation here, I have more confidence in the task assigned by my father. ”
"You can really see it, but are you really willing to be a 'stealth' just like this, looking at those who are far less talented than you, just because you have a good background, you can unscrupulously get the favor of your father and endless resources."
"So what do you think I should do? After all, my father is now at the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and this moment is also a critical moment for my Runan Yuan clan to compete for the world. Before the geese were shot, I was thinking about how to fight, and I was not the brother of the wild goose. ”
Beyond the wilting woods, which are not much life, the blue sky and the magnificent sea reflect each other, and the sky and the earth seem to merge into one with each other. Nearby on the sea surface of the stars floating in the waves and sinking and floating, near the fishing boats are hovering out of the crisp chirping white seabirds, such a wonderful and harmonious picture in the gentle blowing of the sea breeze, as if it has the magic of washing the soul, let people forget the irritability in the heart, and then the mind is condensed, the body disappears, the flesh and bones melt, unconsciously float with the wind, suddenly east and west, as if the wind walks......
"Finally, we have arrived at the destination of our trip......
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ps: I didn't feel anything about Sunday this week, should this be considered the sequelae of the Spring Festival......