Chapter Ninety-Eight: Breaking Wu and Destroying Shu
At this time, the camp of the Wu army was miserable, Xu Sheng dispatched more than 10,000 elite soldiers, and built a fake city and dummy overnight, causing the image of the Wu army to be all over the mountains, intending to use this sudden blow to deter the Cao army in the north, and then carry out sneak attacks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
How do you know that Ye Ke didn't eat that set at all, an arrow shot for more than ten miles, and even burned dozens of dummies tied to the reeds, and there was a big fire, plus the wind was rising, and it rolled into the Wu army camp with a huge fire.
Poor Wu Jun worked overtime last night, most of them were sleeping at this time, getting up in a daze to fight the fire and flee for their lives, and before he could make up his mind, Cao Jun had already crossed the Yangtze River and set foot on the south bank.
The drums and horns roared, and the armor was sonorous. The flag flew like a cloud, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers who landed first on the shore came slowly like a moving forest, and the cold light of the shining blades and guns, and the flags of various colors fluttering high, were as strong as a mountain for a while.
The war began in a hurry, the shouting and killing was deafening, the Cao army occupied the Central Plains, the material reserves were abundant, and the vanguard elite soldiers brought enough longbows and arrows, shooting all over the sky, like endless rolling thunder, low pressure across the sky.
The Wu army was already exhausted, and when it was hit by a rain of arrows, the terrible shouts were endless, and countless soldiers threw away their swords and guns, ignoring the overseers behind them, desperately fleeing.
Xu Sheng was ashamed and angry, fainted and did not wake up, Ding Feng, who was temporarily in charge of the command, saw that he could no longer stand at this time, so he had to lead more than a thousand personal guards, take Xu Sheng, and desperately rush to the Wuchang area.
Three days later, Ye Ke's army all landed on the south bank, and at this time, from Nanxu to Stone City, all of them had fallen into the hands of Cao's army.
Ye Ke ordered Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Xiahou Shang, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Zhang He and other generals to lead their troops to attack cities and territories in the south of the Yangtze River, and he himself led 50,000 elite soldiers to attack Wuchang.
When Sun Quan heard that Ye Ke had defeated Xu Sheng's army and sent a fierce general to attack Jiangdong, he personally led an army of 50,000 to attack Wuchang City, where he was stationed, and was terrified for a while, while shouting: "Xu Sheng misunderstood me." On the one hand, he wanted to pass on the order to Lu Xun and lead the army back to Wuchang for defense.
Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and others stopped him and told him that if Lu Xun's army was sent back to help at this time, he would only be attacked by Cao and Liu under Wuchang City, and it would really be over at that time!
But at this time, Zhou Yu, Lu Su, Lu Meng and other Jiangdong people with military strategic vision all died one after another, and only General Pi and Zhu Huan, the Marquis of Yicheng Pavilion, stepped forward and shouted: "The last general is willing to borrow 5,000 elite soldiers to raid Cao's army and kill Cao Zhang's dedication to the lord." ”
Sun Quan was in a hurry to seek medical treatment, and without thinking, he granted him military power. Regardless of the persuasion of everyone, he led 30,000 troops, as well as the clan surnamed Sun, plus some loyal ministers, to retreat to Yuzhang County.
And Ye Ke led the army all the way to conquer the city, and in June of the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an, he conquered Jiujiang, and Jiujiang was martyred in the battle of the whole palm.
In July of the 26th year of Jian'an, Zhu Huan attacked Ye Ke's camp and was beheaded by Wang Lie, the captain of the Xiao Cavalry, and the whole army was annihilated, and all the mobile forces of Eastern Wu were lost.
At the same time, the Eastern Wu army stationed in Yiling heard the news that the rear was captured by the Cao army, the whole army was in chaos, scrambling to flee, Liu Bei's army took the opportunity to attack, Lu Xun could not control the army, so he had to commit suicide and martyrdom.
Liu Bei, who escaped the fire of Yiling, did not know that his life had turned a corner, he was also an old man, he immediately seized the fighter plane, waved his army eastward, and at the end of July of the 26th year of Jian'an, he captured Nanjun, and the partial division captured Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, Guiyang and other counties, entered Jiangxia County, and confronted Ye Ke's army across the river.
Ye Ke captured Wuchang, Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and other civil ministers begged to surrender, Ye Ke did not allow it, the army attacked the city, and all the civil and military generals of Eastern Wu were imprisoned.
Liu Bei was very sober at this time, and immediately took the initiative to make peace with Ye Ke and divide the territory along the river with Cao Jun.
Ye Ke sent Sima Yi to lead the army to occupy Jiangxia, and he ordered the other armies to attack together, even if it was to search the mountains and check the sea, they must also capture Sun Quan.
In October of the twenty-sixth year of Jian'an, Sun Quan was captured by his traitors in Linchuan County and presented to Ye Ke, and since then, the entire territory of Eastern Wu has been returned to the central government.
Ye Ke escorted the Eastern Wu monarchs to Xuchang, handed them over to Tingwei for punishment, and sentenced Sun Quan, Zhang Zhao and other 50,000 Eastern Wu people to Ming Zhengzheng for the crime of rebellion.
Ye Ke seized the opportunity, destroyed Wu in a battle, expanded the territory for thousands of miles, and greatly increased his prestige. Chen Qunxian "Nine Products in the Positive System", Ye Ke said: "This policy only cares about the present, regardless of the future, one or two hundred years later, the children of the family are corrupt and degenerate, the small people hold the military power, our clan will be slaughtered, this is the policy of the dead family!" ”
At the same time, he vigorously promoted the sages of the Han family, promoted the lineage of the army, and dismissed some old ministers of the Han and Wei dynasties in various names, and tried his best to suppress the family, and his prestige increased day by day.
In July of the twenty-seventh year of Jian'an, Ye Ke ascended the throne as the emperor in Luoyang, with the country name Wei and the year name Hongwu, and announced that Han Zuo had died, and named Liu Xie, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, as the Duke of Shanyang, and lived in Shanyang in vain. The news reached Shu, and Liu Bei ascended the throne as emperor.
In the second year of Hongwu, Ye Ke announced that Liu Bei split the country and was a rebel prince, so he ordered Cao Ren to go south from Xiangyang and Sima Yi to the west from Jiangxia to capture Jingzhou.
In July of the fourth year of Hongwu, Ye Ke ordered Sima Yi to lead the army to approach the White Emperor City, and he personally led an army of 300,000 to inspect Chang'an, with Cao Zhen as the main commander and Cao Zhi as the overseer, attacking Hanzhong, Liu Bei personally led the army to the north to meet the attack, and sent Zhuge Liang to guard the White Emperor City against Sima Yi.
At the end of September, the two armies were held in Hanzhong, Ye Ke secretly led 5,000 warriors to conquer Jiangyou Pass from the Yinping Trail, and then conquered Mianzhu.
When Liu Bei heard that the rear was being ended, he sighed: "Heaven's will belongs to Meng Deye", and he drew his sword and committed suicide. Most of the more than 300 civil and military generals under his command committed suicide and martyrdom.
After Zhuge Liang heard about it, he committed suicide and martyrdom in the White Emperor City, and since then Shu Han has died, and the world has been unified.
Ye Ke's army occupied Shu, when the southern barbarian Meng Shu took the opportunity to make trouble, Ye Ke personally led the army, went deep into the barbarian, captured Meng Huo and other barbarian chieftains, all beheaded, attacked and killed 30,000 barbarians, and the rest of all the strong barbarians moved out of the valley, and those who did not obey were all slaughtered.
In the fifth year of Hongwu, in 227 AD, Ye Ke unified the world, and Cao Zhao, the son of Mrs. Xin, was the crown prince, and the family surnamed Cao was sealed.
Due to Ye Ke's policy of supporting the clan, the poor and the poor, and trying his best to suppress the big families, the major families rebelled one after another.
In the fifth year of Hongwu, Ye Ke destroyed Hongnong Yang's family.
In the seventh year of Hongwu, Ye Ke slaughtered the Li family of Zhao County.
In the eighth year of Hongwu, Ye Ke wiped out the Boling Cui clan again.
In the ninth year of Hongwu, Sima Yi colluded with three families to launch a mutiny together, intending to kill Ye Ke.
Ye Ke had already prepared, and with a counterattack, he wiped out the Sima clan in Hedong, and the rest of the families who participated in the rebellion were all wiped out.
During this period, Ye Ke encouraged fertility on the one hand, distributed the family's land to the commoners, and on the other hand, encouraged industry and commerce, and promoted education.
With the development of the commodity economy, the country was peaceful, the policy was strong, and by the 15th year of Hongwu, the population of the country had reached 70 million, and the national strength was at its peak.
He reformed the rule of officials, set up a system of three provinces and six ministries, and began to implement the compulsory military system, stipulating that the children of the imperial family must serve in the army for more than six years before they can be eligible for the imperial treatment.
Ye Ke began the Northern Expedition to the West, what Xianbei Xiongnu, Di Karasuma, all the men who were taller than the wheel were all killed, and the women were assigned to the Han people, and occupied the fertile land, relocated the Han people, and developed settled farming, fishing and hunting.
In the next 20 years, he destroyed Sanhan in the east, Yamatai in the east, and the Champa and Chenla kingdoms in the south, and then went all the way to the west, conquered the Kushan, and defeated the Sassanid Empire.
In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, in 247 AD, Ye Ke killed nine million, and then passed on the crown prince Cao Zhao and abdicated. Known as Wei Shengzu in history.
And under the witness of everyone, Ye Ke disappeared in a piece of brilliance, and people thought that he had become a god and stepped into the fairyland.