Where did Wei Chi Yu go?

If someone came to ask this question yesterday, it would definitely make Wang Yong feel inexplicable, but now this question makes Wang Yong and others feel a headache, yes, where did Wei Chi Yu go?

Because Jinan City is surrounded by a very well-developed and densely populated area, especially twenty miles to the west where the Northern Zhou army is stationed, the vicinity of Jishui is basically a plain, and the number of cavalry of the Northern Zhou army is very large, it is difficult for the Xia army scouts to approach, so they did not grasp the first movement of the Zhou army.

Could it be that Wei Chi Yu knew that his lone army was too deep and that he was already out of touch with the Zhou army of other departments? Or did he already know that he had received reinforcements from the East China Sea, so he urgently withdrew his troops?

In an instant, there were countless possibilities in Wang Yong's mind, but he finally denied these assumptions, and suddenly he thought of a possibility, could it be that Nan Chen suddenly kept his word and began to cooperate with his attack on the back road of the Northern Zhou? In this way, Wei Chi Yuan, whose grain route was threatened, had to withdraw his troops to help?

Although intellectually he felt that it was impossible for Nan Chen Junchen, who had always been selfish, to do this, Wang Yong still felt that only this idea made Wei Chi Hui more likely to withdraw his troops, otherwise it would not be possible to explain the strange reason why Wei Chi Hui suddenly retreated.

After thinking of this, Wang Yong immediately prepared to lead a large army to counterattack, if the Chen army attacked, he would attack from behind, and he could also make Wei Chi suffer a big loss.

But Wei Chi Yu left suddenly, how could he not guard against Wang Yong's pursuit? So Wang Yong was almost ambushed by tens of thousands of Northern Zhou Mabu troops dozens of miles north of Jibei County, which made Wang Yong, who had been rushing to the south, have to stop his pace of going south.

After being blocked by the Zhou army, Wang Yong's confidence in regaining the lost territory was also lost, Jeju and Jibei counties had been firmly controlled by the Zhou army, and the plain counties north of the river had also fallen into the hands of the Zhou army because of Zhou Guang's withdrawal, and it was a lot of effort to attack again.

The most important thing is that at present, Wang Yong's army has suffered losses in several major battles, and now there is no point in expanding the territory again, not to mention that the surrounding counties have been scraped by themselves, not to mention people, even rats are not willing to stay here.

If Wang Yong went to take away these lands again, I am afraid that he would only disperse his own forces, and there would be no other benefits, so although Wang Yong still had a large number of gunpowder weapons that could be used to attack the city, Wang Yong finally gave up his attempt to continue south.

It's just that where did Wei Chi Yu go? This is a topic that everyone cares about.

Ten days later, that is, at the end of January of the twenty-first year of the Xia calendar, suddenly the news of the attack on Nanchen by the Northern Zhou army came from the south, and the main army led by Wei Chi Hui was really there, which made Wang Yong's heart feel relieved, after all, the enemy that could not be found was the most dangerous.

Soon after Wei Chi was outside the city of Jinan, he received an urgent order from Yu Wenyong, telling him to temporarily abandon the attack on Wang Yong and instead attack Nan Chen.

So after he left 50,000 troops to guard Jeju and Jibei County, he led an army of 100,000 to urgently go south to Gaoping County, where he joined with Yu Wenjian and united with Yu Wenjian, a total of 150,000 troops went south along Surabaya, and struck a thunderous blow to the Nanchen army stationed in Pengcheng County.

Originally, when Wang Yong occupied the first line of West Yanzhou and Yongchang County, Pengcheng County, the northernmost part of Nanchen, had Wang Yong's army in front, and there was no need for Nanchen to send too many troops, but as Wang Yong quickly gave up West Yanzhou, Yongchang County, and even Puyang County and Gaoping County, Pengcheng County suddenly stood out in front of the Northern Zhou.

As the gateway to the Central Plains, Pengcheng County is a barrier to protect the safety of the counties in Huaibei, and it is also an important stronghold for Nanchen to open up the land of the Central Plains in the future.

After some careful consideration, Chen ordered the general Wu Mingche to lead 100,000 troops of Nan Chen to garrison Pengcheng County to guard Pengcheng and more than a dozen surrounding county seats.

Nan Chen suddenly increased his troops in Pengcheng County, and of course the Northern Zhou was afraid that they would take advantage of their attack on Wang Yong to copy their own back road, so Yu Wenjian's department had always been responsible for protecting the safety of Wei Chi's army's food route, and on the other hand, it was mainly to guard against the surprise attack of Nan Chen's army.

In fact, Yu Wenyong has not been like outsiders think that the strategic goal is simply set as the land of Sanqi, he has always combined the general trend of the world to arrange the direction of the army's attack, stationed in Xiangyang Qiguo Gong Yu Wenliang, Suiguo Gong Yang Jian led the 100,000 army is definitely not just a deterrent.

Yu Ji, Li Mu, Hou Mo, Chen Rui and others who led the army to threaten in Huaibei were not simply to guard against Nan Chen's possible Northern Expedition, they were ready to fight at any time, and once Yu Wenyong's order came down, they could launch an attack on Nan Chen at any time.

However, the Southern Chen side did not have such a consciousness, they always thought that the strategic goal of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was only Wang Yong, so although Chen Ji also concentrated most of the army along the Huai River and opposite Xiangyang in Yingzhou, Suizhou and other places, but they did not have any preparations for battle. There is no mistake

Even Wu Mingche, a general stationed on the front line of Pengcheng County, was the same, although he was already a general who was relatively proficient in military affairs in Nan Chen, he still insisted that the Northern Zhou would not attack Nan Chen before he attacked Wang Yong's troops.

In Wu Mingche's view, although the Northern Zhou Dynasty was already very powerful, it was still very difficult and risky to attack two countries at the same time.

Although the forces combined by Nan Chen and Wang Yong were slightly smaller than those of Northern Zhou, the forces that erupted at the critical moment were still very strong, and Northern Zhou would still fail if he was not careful, so he judged that the Zhou army would not launch an attack on Nan Chen before breaking through Qingzhou.

Only by sweeping away the hidden dangers in the north first, and then when the Northern Zhou army marched south, it was the final showdown between the north and the south for hundreds of years, so he had only paid close attention to the battle of Sanqi all along, but he had not prepared for the battle he should do.

After Wei Chi Hui suddenly launched an attack, the 30,000 Nan Chen troops stationed in the counties around Pengcheng County were quickly wiped out by Wei Chi Hui's army, and then the 150,000 Northern Zhou army surrounded Wu Mingche's Pengcheng County.

The Southern Chen side was taken aback by the sudden southward movement of the Northern Zhou army at first, but after learning that the more than 100,000 people were only besieging Pengcheng County, they did not feel too anxious.

After all, this city has always been the north and south of the country, in the past hundreds of years of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, this city has already become a fortress, and now Pengcheng County has been operated by the Nanchen side for more than ten years, all kinds of defensive weapons are available, so no matter how powerful the Northern Zhou is, it can't be taken down without more than half a year of siege.

However, they never imagined that the Northern Zhou Dynasty already possessed a lot of powerful gunpowder, and after Wei Chi Yu sacrificed a small number of gunpowder weapons in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, this seemingly impregnable city fell in just three days.

Not only were more than 60,000 Southern Chen soldiers in the city captured, but even the general Wu Mingche also fell into the hands of the Zhou army.

However, Wu Mingche's death could not save Nan Chen's defeat, and with Wei Chi Hui's attack on Pengcheng County as a signal, the Northern Zhou Dynasty began an attack on Nan Chen from east to west almost simultaneously, which was a premeditated attack.

After capturing Pengcheng, Lieutenant Chi Hui led an army of 80,000 in the middle, Yu Wenjian led an army of 70,000 in the east, Yu Ji, Hou Mo, Chen Rui, and Li Mu a total of 60,000 people in the west, and more than 200,000 troops went south.

Under the fierce offensive of more than 200,000 Northern Zhou troops, the Southern Chen army was caught off guard, and all the prefectures and counties on the north bank of the Huai River were almost completely lost in just half a month.

In Huaibei, only Donghai County, which was isolated overseas, repelled Yuwenjian's attack because of the presence of the Southern Chen Water Army, and was not captured by the Zhou army, and all the other Huaibei prefectures and counties fell, and the Southern Chen lost at least 200,000 troops in this round of war.

At the beginning, Nan Chen originally deployed most of his army along the north and south lines of the Huai River, but he lost 100,000 troops in Pengcheng County alone, and the other 100,000 troops were scattered in the counties and counties north and south of the Huai River, and they could not resist the fierce offensive of the 200,000 troops of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.

In the face of the powerful offensive of the Northern Zhou army, the southern Chen counties along the way took the initiative to surrender, and the place where the two Huai Yimin killed the officials of the Northern Qi Dynasty and returned to Chen Baxian was staged again The scene of the county officials who voluntarily surrendered when the Northern Qi attacked the Southern Liang was staged again.

In the face of the large-scale attack of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the ministers from Chen Ji to the following did not react for a long time, and even allowed the Northern Zhou army to continue to cross the Huai River to the south, and only the reactivated naval general Chun Yuliang commanded the naval army to intercept the Zhou army that tried to go further south on the Yangtze River.

Taking advantage of the slow reaction of Nanchen Junchen, Yu Wenliang, the Duke of Qiguo, and Yang Jian, the Duke of Suiguo, who were stationed in Xiangyang, took the opportunity to attack with all their might, and took all the Southern Chenzhou counties north of the Great River such as Suijun and Yingzhou in one go, and the front army had already threatened Wuchang County on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Only the Northern Zhou army in Yizhou was hindered by the Three Gorges natural hazards, and the Chen army here resisted desperately, so they failed to make much progress, but even so, the Three Gorges natural hazards that Southern Chen originally shared with the Northern Zhou have almost been lost, and the Northern Zhou only needs to attack again and may break out of the Three Gorges at any time.

This large-scale offensive was very successful, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty successfully cut off the land connection between Wang Yong of Sanqi and Nanchen, and the Northern Zhou not only occupied all the prefectures and counties north of the Yangtze River in Nanchen, but also occupied Northern Xuzhou and Southern Qingzhou adjacent to the eastern part of Sanqi, which had threatened the safety of Wang Yong's Sanqi from three sides.

In this battle, Northern Zhou almost broke Nan Chen's last family foundation in one breath, and lost more than 300,000 troops one after another, if it weren't for the existence of a natural danger on the Yangtze River, plus Nan Chen still had a strong naval army to rely on, I am afraid that this time Northern Zhou could destroy Nan Chen.

From then on, Nan Chen could only stick to the south of the Yangtze River, and there was no chance of the Northern Expedition, and the Northern Zhou, which was becoming more and more powerful, could finally concentrate his forces to deal with Wang Yong, who seemed to be weak but was actually powerful.