Chapter 46: Before the Second Crusade

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Of course, what Zhang Jiashi didn't expect was that out of some considerations, Ying Yuexi would actually ask Zhang Jiashi to take Ji Xing'er to their mansion after knowing about Ji Xing'er, the princess of the Zhou royal family.

"I didn't think of this at all. ”

Seeing that his wife had a good relationship with the princess of the Zhou royal family, and this Ji Xing'er also had a good relationship with his concubine Ying'er, Zhang Jiashi could only muttered helplessly in the end.

However, Zhang Jiashi quickly put his energy into the upcoming autumn harvest.

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In 204 B.C., it was a bumper harvest year for the farmers and Tuntian soldiers under Zhang Jiashi.

Since the end of August, from Shu County in the south to Biansai County in the north, Zhang Jiashi has received reports of bumper harvests.

Zhang Jiashi knew that this harvest would speed up his pace of dominating the world again.

Because of this year's bumper harvest, according to the estimates of Ximen Xin and others, it is fully able to support the 200,000 army to launch at least eight months of conquest.

The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, Zhang Jiashi knew such a thing very well, so after receiving the estimate from Ximen Xin and others, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

While stockpiling up grain and grass, Zhang Jiashi also made corresponding personnel transfers in this matter.

Xiao He was transferred back to the Guanzhong area from Liaodong County and was responsible for the overall planning of the grain and straw for this expedition.

Cao Shen served as the commander of Shu County, and Li Mian and others, who were previously transferred back to Shu County, were responsible for the battle against Ba County and the transfer of grain and grass.

In addition to being responsible for the defense of the east of Sanchuan County, Su Teng is responsible for mobilizing the main force to the south, ready to lead the army to attack Zhang Han's department at any time.

In the direction of Wuguan, Wang Li became the vanguard army, leading the army to raid the northern part of Nanyang County, which was originally under the jurisdiction of Shenyang, which was divided by Zhang Han and Liu Bang.

Because Shen Yang was killed by Li Scab in last year's battle, this place has long become a borderless land, if Zhang Jiashi didn't see that this place was basically unsafe, and he didn't want to continue to fight with Liu Bang and Zhang Han in the case of the army fighting for months, otherwise he would have let Wang Lisuo, who was stationed in the Wuguan area, go out of Wuguan and seize the northern area of Nanyang County.

It's just that Zhang Jiashi is very puzzled about one thing, that is, in the past six months, Liu Bang can be said to be quite peaceful, and he has not even received news that proves that Wu Rui was indeed eliminated by Liu Bang.

"When did Wu Rui become so powerful?" Zhang Jiashi couldn't help but muttered in front of Chen Ping.

But even Chen Ping and the others could not have made a correct judgment without the support of accurate intelligence.

Everyone, including Zhang Jiashi, didn't expect that Wu Rui was actually waiting for the help of a person who had already died and those who thought they had already separated themselves from the Qin army of the Southern Expedition, and beat Liu Bang to a miserable point.

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And in the past half a year, the Kwantung princes continued to uphold the consistent dog-eat-dog style, and fought with each other again.

First of all, because the news of Tian Shi's death and Tian Jiao's defection to Chu reached Linzi, Tian Dan, the king of Qi, was extremely angry, because he thought that it was Tian Du and Tian Jiao's two bastards who killed Tian Shi, and even buried his elite army of 70,000.

It was naturally unlikely that Zhang Jiashi would let Tian Dan know so easily that of the 70,000 troops under his command, at least 50,000 were arranged by him to carry out development work in the area of Shangjun and Yanmen County.

The dedication of these laborers has raised Zhang Jiashi's armament development to a higher level, which has a very great contribution.

And Tian Dan, who didn't know such a situation, at the suggestion of Tian Heng and Tian Rong's two younger brothers, proposed to Xiang Yu to let the other party return Tian Jiao and Tian Du's two rebellions.

If Xiang Yu is so unconcerned, then he is not Xiang Yu.

So, the historical trajectory of this world has returned to the track that Zhang Jiashi knows, of course, there are some differences in this track, that is, Tian Dan has not stopped cooking at this time, and the people who are responsible for commanding the Qi army are Tian Rong and Tian Heng brothers, and the strength of Qi at this time is not the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located, and the national strength of Qi at that time can be compared.

Although the Qi State of this world even lost 70,000 officers and soldiers a few months ago.

The two sides fought happily in an area north and east of Pengcheng. Even with Fan Zeng's great help, it is still impossible for Xiang Yu to solve the Qi army and Tian Heng Tian Rong brothers, who are almost attacking with all their strength, for a while and a half.

It is true that the Chu army has won more than defeated, and the battle line between the two sides is indeed constantly moving towards the territory of Qi, but in the territory of Qi, the Chu army under Xiang Yu is still a bad habit that is difficult to change, and it is further resisted by the civilians in Qi.

In this case, Xiang Yu's offensive was often subject to the surprise attacks of the people of Qi on the logistics troops.

That is why the stalemate between the two sides continues in the region.

After Zhang Jiashi knew such a situation, he couldn't help but show a smile, because once Qi and Western Chu pinched each other, then it would naturally be impossible for them to provide too much support to Zhang Jiashi's next combat goals. Once Zhang Jiashi completed the second phase of the battle plan, then for Qi and Western Chu, they would have to face a situation of isolation and helplessness.

As for whether Qi and Western Chu would temporarily cease fighting because of his re-dispatch of troops and fully support the princes attacked by him, Zhang Jiashi thought that such a thing was quite unrealistic.

Because Tian Rong and Tian Heng should not give up so easily, and they are not the kind of people who really have a far-sighted vision, maybe they understand, but if they want them to give up this opportunity so easily, I'm afraid it will be difficult.

In history, if it weren't for the fact that the Qi State delayed the main force under Xiang Yu, it would not have caused a successful surprise attack on Pengcheng by the coalition of princes led by Liu Bang.

Of course, Liu Bang was able to lose in that situation, which was careless, but if he hadn't relaxed his vigilance against Xiang Yu, he would naturally not have caused such a fiasco comparable to the Battle of Changping.

In this case, Zhang Jiashi was very relieved that Western Chu and Qi would not stop fighting each other so easily, and they would always be external.

And Zhang Jiashi naturally will not make such a mistake.

Besides, from that place in the Qi State, to support Zhang Han, who is closest to the Chu State, I am afraid that it will be impossible without a week.

Zhang Jiashi didn't think that he would follow Liu Bang's mistakes, but he knew that for Xiang Yu, this kind of thing was actually completely sloppy.

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Zhang Jiashi's second-phase battle plan was to eliminate Zhang Han and Liu Bang, and if possible, to recover Ba County and Qianzhong County.

After all, it is still a very difficult thing to cross the Dabie Mountain and go south.

The most ideal direction of attack is naturally not to cross the Dabie Mountain to the south and attack Nanjun, but to move east from Ba County, both by land and water.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi ordered the 30,000-strong army standing by in Shu County to start the offensive against Ba County after mid-September.

Zhang Jiashi did not intend to directly intervene in this attack plan, because he was not very clear about the situation in Ba County.

However, after inquiring about the battle plan of Li Shuang and others, Zhang Jiashi had to emphasize one point, that is, in the previous advance, it was best to advance along the river and land at the same time.

Because he is also helpless about the rolling mountains of Ba County.

Although, in such a period of more than a year, Zhang Jiashi trained more than 50,000 infantry units that can be considered to have a certain combat capability in the mountain and forest environment, and equipped these troops with corresponding light armor.

But in the environment of Ba County, if he wanted to clean up the mob in Ba County, Zhang Jiashi felt that he had a headache when he thought of this matter.

Therefore, Zhang Jiashi's plan was to use the river water as a foundation, and then open up a relatively solid logistics base in the Three Gorges area to maintain the battle plan against Nanjun.

What Zhang Jiashi didn't expect was that in early October of this year, after he was preparing to send troops to Nanyang County, he received an unexpected piece of good news.

That is, near the area where Zhang Jiashi planned to establish a logistics base, a group of officers and soldiers with the banner of the Qin army actually appeared.

In such a situation, Li Xiong, the son of the Li family, who was the vanguard commander of the Qin army in Shu County, was naturally stunned, and he even let the officers and soldiers under his command prepare to fight with the other party at any time.

However, after the other party sent someone to contact them, Li Xiong knew that this Qin officer and soldier was actually a brigade that crossed the river to the north to conquer the Qin army.

After many negotiations and exchanges, the personnel sent by Li Xiong met Tu Sui.

After Tu Sui understood the situation, he decided to personally cross the river from the west of Changsha County, get off the boat from Chengdu County, and go to the Guanzhong area.

Zhang Jiashi, who knew about this, was indeed very surprised:

He was shocked that Tu Sui did not die, and once again became the commander of the Qin army in the southern expedition, and the good news was that if such a matter was handled well, then his next operation would be more than half successful.

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On November 5, 204 B.C., on the morning of this day, Zhang Jiashi personally led the important civil and military forces under his command to the intersection of Xinzhan Road, which is located in the area of twenty miles southeast of Shuangyueyi, to greet the arriving Tu Sui.

This is an unprecedented high-level welcome from Zhang Jiashi himself.

Of course, if there was his baby son present on this occasion, the scene would be more grand, but Zhang Jiashi didn't really want his baby son to do bad things, and he didn't want Tu Sui to have any thoughts because of such an arrangement, so he had to arrange this reception ceremony again.

He asked Li Xin, "General, I don't know what kind of person Captain Tu is?"

Li Xin showed a wry smile: "Your Majesty, I am not familiar with the relationship with Tu Guowei, and when you ask me about this, you are really asking the wrong person." ”

Li Xin was not wrong, because there was indeed no communication between him and Tu Sui.

Because before Tu Sui led the army to the south, he and Meng Wu and others gradually faded out of the Great Qin military.

And Zhang Jiashi couldn't help but nod after hearing Li Xin's words, he then turned his eyes on Wang Li and the others, unfortunately, the connection between them and Tu Sui is not too much, and the generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army who are really familiar with Tu Sui have either become dead people, just like Meng Tian and Fusu, or they are far away in the border counties.

In such a situation, Zhang Jiashi's question was really difficult for them to answer.

But no matter what, when a knight of about 300 people appeared on the south side of the new plank road, Zhang Jiashi knew that Tu Sui was coming.

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In Zhang Jiashi's heart, a "resurrected" Tu Sui is not worthy of such a high-level reception, Zhang Jiashi is more to give face to those officers and soldiers of the southern expedition to Qin.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhang Jiashi to say such an idea.

Before Tu Sui was about to kneel in front of him, Zhang Jiashi hurriedly supported Tu Sui directly, not letting him kneel, but smiled softly: "Tu Guowei, Gu doesn't like this, and today is a big day for you and me, and even Daqin, so let's dispense with all vulgar etiquette." Everyone, please take it. ”

"The ministers have written about the grace of the king. ”

Tu Sui said this sentence directly, he looked at this young man he met for the first time, but reached this height in just a few years, and he was quite admired in his heart.

If it weren't for this young man's efforts to turn the tide, I'm afraid he would never have returned to the Guanzhong region again.

He knew very well that the importance that the First Emperor Yingzheng attached to this son was not unreasonable, on the contrary, Tu Sui knew very well that the First Emperor might have expected that Great Qin would fall into chaos, so he would support this son and even avoid the other party's sin of being able to break up many times.

Tu Sui was not jealous, nor did he have any bad thoughts about Zhang Jiashi's current power.

After all, the other party does have luck, and he also has his own pay.

The Great Qin Empire was able to recover to this point in the adversity of a few years ago, and the young man in front of him can be said to have made great contributions.

Maybe a lot of credit can't be monopolized by Zhang Jiashi alone, but Tu Sui knows that if it weren't for Zhang Jiashi as the leader, others would not be able to do this.

He bowed deeply to Zhang Jiashi: "Your Majesty is not wrong, on behalf of the officers and soldiers of the Southern Expedition, the minister said to the king that if the king has a place to get the ministers, the ministers should be Daqin, for Your Majesty, for the king, clear the rebellion, and return Daqin to a bright tomorrow!!"

Hearing Tu Sui's loyalty, Zhang Jiashi was very amazed in his heart, but it was impossible for him to say too much to Tu Sui in this place, because it was a very rude thing.

"Captain Tu, please share a car with Gu, Gu has already set up a banquet in his mansion to entertain you, please." ”

"The king is kind, but the minister is disrespectful, please. ”

Tu Sui didn't say anything polite, because he knew that Zhang Jiashi's invitation to share a car with him was not only an honor, but also a representation of his hope to be able to envelop him.

He didn't feel disgusted by Zhang Jiashi's approach, otherwise, he wouldn't have come here.

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At noon that day, Zhang Jiashi's mansion held a grand banquet again.

In this banquet, Zhang Jiashi gave Tu Sui a surprise. That is, he sent someone to bring Tu Sui's family to the banquet.

Faced with Zhang Jiashi's arrangement, Tu Sui was very moved.

Because he didn't expect that he would see his family again one day.

And Zhang Jiashi raised his hand lightly and said with a smile: "Tu Guowei, if it weren't for the importance of family, Your Majesty should hope that you can tell him about the magical experience of Guowei." ”

Tu Sui heard Zhang Jiashi's words, and raised the wine lord to the main seat behind a silk screen: "The minister is ashamed, and the minister is very grateful for the arrangement between His Majesty and the king. ”

After saying this, Tu Sui saw Zhang Jiashi pick up the wine jue, so he gently stabbed his family, and everyone also drank the liquid in front of them after Tu Sui and Tu Sui's family drank the wine in the wine jue.

And Zhang Jiashi signaled to his butler Zheng Fu and asked the other party to officially start the banquet.

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This banquet lasted for more than an hour, and after the banquet was over, Zhang Jiashi did not let everyone go back, but gathered his subordinates, including Tu Sui, into his study.

Zhang Jiashi left his subordinate martial arts, so he naturally wanted to revise the next battle.

Because of the emergence of Tu Sui's new force, Zhang Jiashi knew very well that there would inevitably be many variables that conflicted with the original plan in the next battle.

After two hours of discussion, Zhang Jiashi and others formally negotiated a revised battle plan:

One: Wang Lijun, Su Tengjun, and the army under Zhang Jiashi, who then went south to Wuguan, continued to attack Zhang Han.

Two: Tu Sui sent 20,000 material officers to the north, united with the local Qin army troops of Shu County, and wiped out the mob in Ba County, if possible, to exterminate and pacify as much as possible, and go hand in hand.

Three: Shu County Navy moved along the river, after breaking through the boat troops under Liu Bangjun's command, covering the Changsha County troops under Tu Sui's command to attack Nanjun in the north, if the offensive of the northern troops went smoothly, it was along the Dabie Mountain to the south, pinching Liu Bang's army in Nanjun, and recovering Nanjun.

Four: Xiao He was transferred to Shu County, responsible for the corresponding material dispatch of the Nanjun offensive, and Xiao He had the right to dispatch some ordnance materials in Hanzhong County and Guanzhong.

These four plans formally determined Zhang Jiashi's basic operational policy for the Second Eastern Crusade.

He plans to settle the fighting in Zhanghan and Nanjun by June next year.