Chapter 368: A Big Victory
The messenger obviously didn't understand Mu Yunge's thoughts, but he had always been used to doing her will, and soon, a team of people followed the two men to Huainan and secretly escorted the two.
Finally waited for the message from the Huainan Realm, saying that the two protons had successfully reached the Huainan Realm, so Mu Yunge directly repaired a copy of the book and gave it to Wei Yunyi. In the letter, Mu Yunge bluntly told Wei Yunyi that his two elder brothers had escaped from Beijing and hoped that he would be captured and sent back to Kyoto.
Wei Yunyi was a smart man, and it was effortless for a smart person to talk to a smart person, and he quickly understood what Mu Yunge meant, and threw himself into another battle in Huainan.
How could two protons, who had no power and no power in the capital, kill the guards of the Huainan Palace, and dig a secret passage through the city under the surveillance of so many eyeliners, which is a mystery. If the two of them have this ability, Mu Yunge will never believe it. This can only show that some people took advantage of the situation and tried in vain to muddy the already turbid water in the Eastern Wei Dynasty!
This person is either Duan Rongxuan of Southern Chu or Murong Kai of Northern Yan!
Mu Yunge didn't want to spend this effort on the two protons, so he had to hand over this arduous task to Wei Yunyi. The two protons returned to Huainan, and the most dangerous thing was not Wei Shi, but him, the current prince of Huainan.
Wei Yunyi also knew the truth of casting a long line to catch a big fish, and he quickly figured out the escape routes and methods of the two elder brothers, and found out who was their foreign aid in the process of escaping. Then, he checked and broke them one by one, and soon mastered the basic connections and existing weapons of the two elder brothers.
Faced with the messy informants, Wei Yunyi spent three days and finally found the real mastermind behind the scenes.
At the time of Wei's wedding, a group of people sneaked into Kyoto in a vain attempt to kidnap Lin Juzheng. However, some people disappeared without a trace before entering Beijing, and although they were noticed by Momen, they were not noticed by the shadow of Wei Shi. Therefore, in the Great Purge of the Wei Dynasty, these people survived by luck, and later came to Beijing one after another. There are also some smart people who have learned the experience and hide in the countryside, waiting for the right time to do it.
However, Lin Juzheng was tightly defended, the county lord's mansion was airtight, and these people couldn't even touch the corners of Lin Juzheng's clothes, so Duan Rongxuan had to change his plan.
His plan is nothing more than to make Huainan uneasy, so that Mu Yunge is distracted and unable to deal with the spies in the capital, and now Nangong Jin is not in the county lord's mansion, Lin Ju is being protected by Wang Qian, Wang Jian is a man with five big and three rough, it is not easy to snatch people from Nangong Jin, and it is not easy to rob people from a brave and unscrupulous horseman?
It's a pity that Duan Rongxuan has calculated everything, but he didn't calculate that his biggest opponent now is not Nangong Jin, not Lin Juzheng, not Wei Shi, but the young queen who has been ignored by him!
Mu Yunge's slap on Duan Rongxuan was very loud, which caught Duan Rongxuan off guard.
Wei Yunyi also told Duan Rongxuan with his actual actions that if he wanted to make waves in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it depended on whether Wei Yunyi agreed or not.
The two protons who escaped from Kyoto stayed in the Huainan realm for less than three days before they were caught by Wei Yunyi's men and kept under close guard. The Nanchu spies who came with the two protons were killed one by one, and immediately, Wei Yunyi questioned the two elder brothers in the name of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and quickly stabilized the situation in Huainan.
The war in the Eastern Wei Dynasty continued, only the Huainan side was peaceful for many years, and the people hated most were the struggles for power and profit of these sons, Wei Yunyi was in power for nearly a year, and in the past year, he continued to implement local policies that were beneficial to the people, and even wrote to the imperial court, canceling the household tax that was originally mixed in the people's accounts, and the people of Huainan were full of hope for his leadership, how could they give up on the deliberate sabotage? The decision to sentence the two protons who collaborated with the enemy was changed again and again, and finally ended with a beheading demonstration, which calmed the hearts of the Huainan people.
At this time, it was the time when the Eastern Wei Dynasty needed Huainan the most, Wei Yunyi and Mu Yunge had an agreement in advance, once she needed Huainan, Huainan must stand in front of the prancing horse without hesitation.
In late November, Wei Shi held Luyuan County, and with several successive victories, forced the army of Southern Chu to Xuefeng Mountain, on the border between the two countries.
In Xuefeng Mountain, Wei Shi personally led his troops to fight for three days and three nights, and finally fought with his last bit of strength to slaughter the 100,000 army of Southern Chu!
This 100,000 army is undoubtedly the elite troops of Southern Chu, Duan Rongxuan was so angry that he jumped one after another in the camp of the Chinese army, and even ordered the troops to pick up the generals, personally led the other 100,000 troops to pursue while they were hot, surrounded the Xuefeng Mountain, and carried out small-scale attacks from time to time, threatening to exhaust him even if he starved to death Wei Shi!
The army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty was trapped in the valley of Xuefeng Mountain, and for three whole days, the exhausted army could only rest on the spot, waiting for rescue from the rear.
However, the army led by Lin Yi, who was closest to Wei Shi, would take five days to reach Xuefeng Mountain at the earliest, and it would undoubtedly be a test of everyone's physical strength to resist eight days of cold and hunger. Even Wei Shi himself was a little unsure, and secretly decided that if the rescue did not arrive in two days, he would lead the troops to break through immediately.
The masters of Momen, who were hiding in the army, played a huge role at this time.
The Tianji Battalion and the organs and formation masters of Taixuguan joined forces, and used the wood and boulders in the mountains to arrange the formation in all directions of the whole army, and Wei Shi used the subtlety of the formation to lure the enemy deep and break them one by one, and in the past three days, Duan Rongxuan has lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses.
Duan Rongxuan didn't dare to attack rashly, he could only cut off the water source of the Wei army and surround Xuefeng Mountain, if it weren't for the rain in winter and the damp trees in the southern border, he actually wanted to set fire to the forest and let the Wei army suffocate in the valley.
As soon as the Wei army fell into the Wei army, the assassins of the Momen Yijian Pavilion were dispatched one after another, often taking advantage of the dead of night to infiltrate the army of Southern Chu, and after killing the two generals of Southern Chu, they began to create panic in the army. By the evening of the second day, the soldiers of Southern Chu were all terrified, afraid that the Wei army would come out of nowhere, and their heads would move......
At the same time, these highly skilled Yi Jian swordsmen escaped from the valley, or sent messages to Kyoto, or went to Huainan to ask for help, but they couldn't be trapped at all.
This time, there was no need for Mu Yunge to order, as soon as Wei Yunyi received Momen's request for help, he knew that Wei Shi was trapped in Xuefeng Mountain, so he immediately ordered his troops, gathered 20,000 horses on the boundary of Huainan, rode lightly and quickly to the south, bypassed Luyuan County, and rushed to the camp of Southern Chu at the fastest speed.
In a day and a half, this group of crazy soldiers attacked the Nanchu camp with an impossible speed, flattening this almost empty city!
In this surprise attack, Duan Rongxuan's grain and grass were all removed by the Huainan army, and those that could not be taken were burned.
The Huainan army that was killed from the Southern Chu camp immediately drank the army of Wei Shi, and the people of Momen mixed into the army of Southern Chu, spreading the news that the Southern Chu camp was razed to the ground, and the soldiers of Southern Chu were panicked, and they suddenly collapsed, not only did not stop Wei Shi, but were rampaged by the Wei army, nearly 90,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, and even Duan Rongxuan's own helmet was left behind in the battle. In desperation, Duan Rongxuan could only order to return to the border of the Chu State.
The army led by Wei Shi was supplied, all of them were battlefield men, and after so many days of sulking, everyone was holding back the fire in their hearts, and after a short rest, several generals asked for orders to pursue while they were victorious, and Wei Shi immediately agreed.
This battle, which lasted nearly half a month, finally ended with the Wei army breaking through all the way to Pinghe County of Chu State and occupying Pinghe County.
Later, the historian wrote a history, and he wrote a lot about this battle, calling it the "Battle of Snow Peak".
The Battle of Xuefeng was the most famous battle in the history of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, which inspired the long-standing decadent military spirit of the Eastern Wei army in the face of the Southern Chu army since February.
After this battle, the confidence of the Eastern Wei soldiers doubled, and under the leadership of Wei Shi, they approached all the way to the south.
The Southern Chu army was disheartened, and there were many complaints in the army about Duan Rongxuan's violent killing policy, coupled with the gradual prolongation of the march, the hands and feet around them continued to become bones under their feet, and the soldiers' desire to go home became stronger and stronger, and they could no longer hold the sword in their hands.
By the middle of December, the whole land had entered the cold season, and the Southern Chu army had lost a lot of cities one after another, and the three counties and forty-one counties of Pinghe County, Lulu County, and Jiuling County were all incorporated into the territory of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and since then they have become the land of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
When he arrived in Jiuling County, Wei Shi ordered the army to stay in Jiuling County to rest.
As soon as the Wei army entered the city, the soldiers restrained each other, were not allowed to harass the local people, and were not allowed to rob gold, silver and money, which won a good reputation.
When he was in Lupu County, he was suffering from the locust plague in Lupu County, and the people had no harvest. Wei Shi took Lu Lu County, and seeing that the local people were starving, he immediately organized the Wei army to maintain order, open warehouses and release grain, and distribute all the grain hoarded in Lu Lu County to the hands of the victims.
The common people are the easiest to appease, although they have the concept of the state, but in the moment of life and death, whoever cares about them, they are willing to support whomever they want.
This move of the Wei army immediately spread in Southern Chu, and the three counties taken from Duan Rongxuan were unexpectedly stable, and there was no phenomenon of revolt and rebellion among the people.
There are three large rivers running through Jiuling County, and floods occur every summer, and when it comes to winter floods, it is all up to luck to save the day.
Wei Shi saw that this place was flat and the climate was mild, so he moved the idea of permanently incorporating this place into the territory of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Since he wanted this place, he had to be responsible for this place, and while the army was still staying here, Wei Shi ordered hundreds of thousands of soldiers to change their usual military drills to excavation activities. The people of Jiuling County were naturally grateful, and they didn't need the government to organize them, and many young strong men spontaneously carried hoes and shovels to help the soldiers of the Eastern Wei Dynasty.
For more than half a month, the Wei army built nine ditches in Jiuling County to dredge the river, which made it convenient for the people in this county to irrigate and avoid floods.
At this time, it was the last month of the year, and he had been separated from Mu Yunge for a long time, and the elite of the Southern Chu army had also been wiped out.
Remarks: Supplemental changes.