Chapter 380: The Afterglow of the Overlord
The land of Sanqi could have been the foundation of the king's hegemony, but because of the war between Wang Yong and the Northern Qi Dynasty, a land of Sanqi that was originally rich and rich became desolate, so in the past, Wang Yong crossed the river and launched an attack on Hebei under the advice of Puyang Xun.
The north of the river is fertile, the terrain is flat, and it is where Gao Huan started, it can be said that almost all the richest states and counties in the Northern Qi are concentrated here, and most of the Gaomen families in the Northern Qi are concentrated here, and it is also the place where the Han landlords are the most powerful.
However, after all, the north of the river is thousands of miles long, the terrain is flat and there is no danger to defend, Wang Yong occupied the three counties of Cangzhou Bohai, Fuyang and Leling according to the plan, and began to encourage the people of Hebei to move to the land of Sanqi in large numbers according to the original plan of Puyang Xun.
For this reason, Wang Yong did not hesitate to offer the condition that each person should be granted 50 acres of land, which was extremely attractive to the poor Han people who had no land to stand in the Northern Qi Dynasty, which existed in name only.
Especially after Wang Yong was influenced by Wang Ze, Liu Xin, Pu Yangxun and others in these years, he attached great importance to the credibility of the government, so even in Hebei, where Wang Yong's forces had never arrived, the people here had heard of Wang Yong's deeds.
After learning that Wang Yong issued such a high land grant order for the people who moved to Sanqi, the poor people in the three counties of Cangzhou enthusiastically signed up to relocate.
Just kidding, these people are like a mirror in their hearts, when Wang Ze seized Bohai County in one fell swoop under the leadership of the three brothers Huang Rui, some people still remember it vividly, and now Wang Ze's Laozi suddenly attacked again, if you don't leave quickly, then this place will become a battlefield, and it is likely that everyone's head will become the battle exploits of the Qi army.
What's more, Wang Yong, Wang Ze's father and son's excellent reputation for the people has long been spread, so Wang Yong just let the soldiers shout, and the people who came to sign up for the relocation suddenly crowded the registration office, which shocked Wang Yong and Cheng Chong all of a sudden.
Of course, most of these people who signed up to move to Sanqi were poor Han people with no money to spare, and many wealthy people were not moved by Wang Yong's conditions, but even so, Wang Yong was still happy.
Although Cangzhou is relatively barren in Hebei's Northern Qizhou County, there are seven or eight hundred thousand people in these three counties, and even if half of them follow Wang Yong, it is still an extremely huge wealth.
What's more, not long after Wang Yong occupied Cangzhou, he sent Cheng Chong out to occupy the three counties of Yingzhou, Zhangwu, and Gaoyang, although these three counties were destroyed to a great extent because of the continuous battle between the Zhangwu army and the Qi army here, but there were still four or five hundred thousand people.
The people here originally did not like the rule of the Gao clan of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and because of the Zhang Wu Yi Army led by Fan Yong, Zhang Hui, Gao Qian and others, the Great Yan Kingdom was established here, which led to the siege of the Qi army, and many people in these three counties were killed by mistake, or in fact, they killed the good and risked the merit.
After Cheng Chong attacked, the local heroes and people killed local officials and went out of the city to Cheng Chong, although Cheng Chong didn't know much about civil affairs, but naturally Wang Yong matched him with a deputy, and Zhang Hang and Cao An, the blue wolf army supported by Wang Ze, helped migrate the people here.
Because the Qinghe River, a large river in the north of the river, connects the three counties of Cangzhou, and flows into the sea two hundred miles east of Zhangwu County, it is undoubtedly the most convenient to use sea boats to relocate the people here, so Qu Liulang's naval army came in handy again, and many ships that were not suitable for combat were concentrated.
In addition to helping to relocate the people, Zhang Hang and Cao An also had to assist Cheng Chong to attack the counties around Zhangwu, Yingzhou, and Gaoyang, where the Northern Qi forces were relatively weak.
Changli, Zhongshan, Boling, and Changle counties, which are on the verge of the three counties of Yingzhou, have all been affected, and for a time the entire Hebei people are panicked, and the high gate of the scholar clan is either guarded by the city, or the family is evacuated, and even Yecheng, the capital of the Northern Qi State, is also shocked three times a day.
Once, in the morning market, because someone was playing a prank at the city gate and shouting that Xia Jun had entered the city, it caused a big chaos, although the prank man was finally found and beheaded for public display, but in the end it caused a stampede in which hundreds of people were killed and injured.
Fortunately, the young emperor Gao Wei in the city did not know about it because of the blockade of the news by the ruling Heshikai, otherwise the young emperor who had just fled from Jinyang because of the attack of the Northern Zhou and the Turks did not know what he would be scared of.
Although this is because the main forces of the Northern Qi are concentrated on the battlefield fighting against the Northern Zhou and the Turks, this does not deny the elite of Wang Yong's army, especially the 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry, which is very capable of bluffing.
At the beginning, many heroes in Hebei came to defect after seeing Wang Yong's might, but now it is different from the past.
But now all the troops under Wang Yong's command have been regularized, and the requirements for military discipline are very strict, and it is precisely because of Wang Yong's strict requirements for military discipline that many heroes left in a hurry soon after they arrived, and finally Wang Yong only took in four or five thousand warriors who were willing to abide by discipline. Love Me eBook
Just when Wang Yong wantonly moved the people of Hebei to enrich Sanqi, under the leadership of Gao Changgong, the king of Lanling, the 100,000 troops of the Northern Qi who withdrew from the northern Xinjiang defeated the army of Xi Chengxing of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in Hedong, and the troops pointed directly at Wang Yong's troops who were raging in the north of the great river.
When Wang Yong invaded here before, because the main force of the Northern Qi army was not there, the soldiers of the rest of the states and counties were unable to resist Wang Yong's army, so they asked for surrender from all over the country.
But as soon as Gao Changgong's army was about to arrive, the situation was immediately different.
The heroes from all over the country who were very deferential to Wang Yong before raised troops to respond to Gao Changgong's army, and even some of the strongmen who had convulsions dared to lead hundreds of people to ambush Wang Yong's army, although Wang Yong under the annoyance killed a lot of these people, but with the cooperation of these people, Wang Yong quickly lost the three counties of Yingzhou.
Fortunately, at this time, Zhang Hang and Cao An, who were responsible for presiding over the relocation of the local people, also relocated 200,000 people from the three counties of Yingzhou, so Wang Yong did not suffer too much.
As long as there is such a population, even if you go overseas to establish a country, you can build a strong country in just a few years, not to mention that in addition to the population that moved away from Yingzhou, Cheng Chong also took nearly 100,000 people from these states and counties when he attacked the surrounding counties of Changli, Boling, Zhongshan, Changle and other counties.
But Wang Yong and Cheng Chong were unwilling to retreat like this after all, and they felt that the cavalry team they led was more or less forty or fifty thousand people, plus the existence of tens of thousands of infantry troops was still worthy of a battle, so the two were ready to have a big battle with Gao Changgong in Cangzhou.
But Wang Yong forgot that the essence of war ultimately depends on people, and many of the cavalry under his command have no experience in cavalry combat, and it is okay to deal with the state and county soldiers of Northern Qi on weekdays, but at this time, in the face of Gao Changgong's 100,000 army, there are more than 30,000 battle-hardened Xianbei cavalry, and suddenly these newly formed rookie cavalry can't eat.
Fortunately, Zhang Hang and Cao An, who assisted in the battle from the beginning, were not optimistic about this big battle, and prepared early to stabilize their positions, otherwise this time Wang Yong would lose like last time, and after seeing that his army was still inferior to the Northern Qi, Wang Yong died after all.
Thanks to the strategy set by Pu Yangxun from the beginning, he migrated the people north of the river early to enrich the sparsely populated Sanqi land, so even if Wang Yong was defeated one after another, but in terms of overall strategy, Wang Yong had actually achieved his goal.
From the beginning of occupying the three counties of Cangzhou to the withdrawal of the troops of King Lanling from the north of the river, Wang Yong moved a total of nearly 500,000 people from the three counties of Cangzhou, and it can be said that the entire three counties of Cangzhou have been completely emptied of all the family funds by Wang Yong.
Many domestic slaves, domestic servants, and slaves and maids of the powerful families of the local county scholars in Cangzhou took advantage of this chaotic opportunity to get rid of the oppression of the master's family, and followed the tide of immigration to Sanqi to become their own free people, and when they arrived in Sanqi, they could get dozens of acres of land.
Just when Wang Yong's last army was forced by the strong pressure of the Qi army and retreated to the land of Sanqi in the south of the great river, the army of Nan Chen, which had been taking advantage of it before, finally suffered a big loss on the boundless plain when it marched into the Central Plains.
Previously, because of the lack of troops in the Northern Qi Dynasty, although the troops led by generals such as Pi Jinghe and Murong Yan successively blocked the army of Southern Chen, but under the command of more than 100,000 soldiers of Southern Chen, the Qi army led by these generals was also defeated one after another.
As a result, under the leadership of Cheng Lingxi and Wu Mingche, the army of Nanchen successively captured East Taishan County, Lanling County, North Xuzhou, South Qingzhou and other prefectures and counties south of the Taishan Mountains, and even surrounded Pengcheng for a time.
It may be that Chen Ji has been carried away by the victory of the Chen army, and before Pengcheng was captured, he ordered Wu Mingche to launch a large-scale attack on the Central Plains at the same time, and it was here that Wu Mingche met Pi Jinghe, who had been prepared here for a long time.
Pi Jinghe was originally a general who was better at cavalry combat in the Qi army, although he had been defeated one after another, but the strength in his hands was not damaged at all, and after receiving the support of the cavalry mobilized by Gao Changgong from northern Xinjiang last month, the strength of the army he led increased sharply.
Wu Mingche always thought that Pi Jinghe was just a general of the defeated army, a long-distance running general, but he didn't know that now Pi Jinghe had 30,000 infantry troops and more than 20,000 cavalry in his hands at this time, and the Chen army, which was originally good at fighting in the Jianghuai and Huaisi places with dense water networks, couldn't help but feel a little panicked when he arrived in the Great Plains with fewer rivers because of the lack of support.
In this way, Wu Mingche suddenly encountered Pi Jinghe, who had been prepared, and the army couldn't help but panic, and then the only flaw in the combat cooperation of the Chen soldiers was caught by Pi Jinghe, he launched an attack as soon as possible, and after a fierce battle, although most of the Chen army fled under the leadership of Wu Mingche, there were 40,000 or 50,000 people killed on the battlefield.
This battle was also the last large-scale annihilation of the enemy army by the Northern Qi, which was the overlord of the past, and since then, the Northern Qi has declined more and more.