Because of the juxtaposition of the two central governments of Jinyang and Luoyang, the formation of one country and two systems is not a great attempt.

However, the unification of the national attributes of the Eastern Wei Dynasty belongs to the general trend, and the Central Plains culture centered on Luoyang must have a trade-off with the old Xianbei customs centered on Jinyang.

As a traverser, Gao Cheng knows the answer, but the old-fashioned 200,000 Bingzhou Hu is not only the foundation for maintaining Gao's rule, but also an obstacle on the road to sinicization.

Liu Yanshou, who joined the Gao Cheng Guard with Xue Hu'er, was deeply touched by this subtle feeling.

Seventeen years ago, the people of Huaihuang Town were oppressed, and in order to obtain grain from the warehouse, they took the lead in raising the matter and gathered people to attack and kill the town generals.

In the spring of the following year, the Xiongnu Shan Yu descendants broke the Liuhan Baling and launched an uprising in Woye Town, and as a Xianbei Xiongnu, Liu Yanshou also participated in it.

Like countless people at the bottom of the Six Towns, Liu Yanshou blamed Emperor Xiaowen for his own suffering, believing that Emperor Xiaowen betrayed the military and people of Daibei, and it was he who moved the capital to Luoyang and caused the six towns in northern Xinjiang to defend the old capital of Pingcheng to be no longer important, and it was also his admiration for Han culture that made Daibei, who pursued Xianbei old customs, excluded from the court and replaced by Hebei scholars.

Because the geographical location of the six towns is no longer important, the imperial court no longer provides blood for it, and the northern Xinjiang is bitterly cold, and the military and civilians live in hardship.

The elites of the upper class were squeezed out by the Hebei scholars, and they also vented their grievances on the low-level soldiers and civilians.

Based on these two reasons,The bottom of the six towns generally has no good impression of sinicization.。

However, since Liu Yanshou was transferred to Duan Shao with Xue Hu'er, left Jinyang, and joined the Luoyang Jinggi Army, he inevitably went against his heart and began to contact and learn Han culture.

There is no way, Xiao Gao Wang Enwei is both powerful, he speaks Chinese well, there are rewards, and if he can't learn or doesn't want to learn Chinese, he will face the punishment of halving or even reducing his military salary, and he cares about his personal interests, and no one dares to do anything.

After the first battle of Tongguan, Xue Huer and his subordinates entered the capital of Gaocheng's cronies, because most of the cronies were Han, which also deepened the degree of sinicization of Liu Yanshou and others.

Up to now, this former Xianbei Xiongnu can even be called a Sinicized Xiongnu, what has not changed is the clan, but what has changed is the language and culture used.

Gao Cheng naturally understands the changes under his command, Liu Yanshou is not an exception, the number of Han Hu in the Gyeonggi army is equal, but Luoyang has a strong Han style, and in this environment, the change of people is also natural.

He doesn't even need to make too many coercive measures, and he is biased between Han and Hu.

In order to cover up the truth, Gao Cheng also asked the soldiers of the Han army to learn Xianbei language in the army, but if Xianbei culture can really compete with Han culture, there will be no Emperor Xiaowen.

Letting backward civilizations compete fairly with advanced civilizations is itself an unfairness, but no one can blame Gao Cheng, even the most extreme Xianbei ethnic elements in Jinyang, after all, Xiao Gao Wang has never openly advocated the Chinese language at all, and let the Han and Hu soldiers learn each other's languages, and there is also an excuse for close ties between the soldiers.

And now with 200,000 Hu Xizheng, thanks to Gao Cheng's helpless move to cover up the truth, even the Han soldiers in the Gyeonggi army have no obstacle to communicate with the Hu soldiers.

Of course, there will inevitably be many conflicts between them, but Gao Cheng has to patrol the camp every day to mediate for them, although it is only with the mud, but now at the critical moment when the war is about to start, he can only go to the mud.

These things also made Gao Cheng understand that the estrangement could not be easily eliminated, and afterwards he found Gao Huan, and Gao Huan also agreed to the proposal that on the battlefield, the soldiers under the command of the two should go their separate ways.

Although it is taboo to give orders on the battlefield, the two of them do not belong to each other's subordinates, and based on each other's trust in the judgment of the battlefield situation, there will not be too much of a problem.

Before Gao Cheng went to Jinyang, he ordered Lou Zhao to summon 100,000 soldiers and horses from the five states of Xiang, Ji, Ding, Cang, and Ji to dominate the south.

They are basically Han people, and Duan Shao, who jointly commands this army, although most of the old troops under his command are six towns Xianbei, but after living in Henan for so many years, they have basically achieved sinicization, so there has indeed been no irreconcilable national contradictions.

Wang Ajing, as a member of the Xiangzhou Prefecture soldiers, they were different from the Bingzhou Hu and Gyeonggi soldiers, and they returned to the team to follow Lou Zhao south after they were busy with their family's farm work.

This is also the fundamental reason for the huge disparity in combat effectiveness between the state and county soldiers and the full-time soldiers, which has little to do with their physique, and the full-time soldiers do not produce anything, and what they practice and ponder every day is concise killing skills, while the state and county soldiers spend more time working in the fields.

As the saying goes, every hard work is a harvest, so the state and county soldiers can only be used to defend the city, while the full-time soldiers are the basis for decisive victory in the field.

However, this time it was only to respond to the defense of the southern front, and the 100,000 soldiers from the south could be of great use, whether it was Gao Cheng, Lou Zhao, or Duan Shao, they never thought of letting them fight with the Liang people in the field.

Relying on the defense of the city wall and delaying the Liang people under the city is the purpose of this army.

Now Kwantung is not without an army that can confront Southern Liang, such as Duan Shao's original 5,000 soldiers belonging to the Gyeonggi Army, but Zhu Hunyuan's 3,000 troops also defeated Zhao Gui head-on in Qinzhou back then, and there were even Hou Jing, Yaoxiong, and Gao Yue's old troops who each followed them to guard the place.

Gao Cheng's arrangements for Henan are not inappropriate, and even Hou Jing has the absolute henchman of Gao Jishi, the assassin of Guangzhou, leading the 5,000 soldiers who originally belonged to the Gyeonggi Army as the second line of defense.

But it was the Henan region that first sounded the horn of war.

Huainan was far away from Guanzhong, and the front-line generals did not know that the Liang-Wei coalition army was recuperating with the Eastern Wei in Bashang and Yubi respectively.

After Xiahou Kui's death, it was his former partner Yang Yaren who replaced him in guarding Huainan, and from the perspective of Yang Yaren, he learned that the Eastern Wei army had entered the customs and was ordered to attack the eastern part of the country, and he must immediately send troops, and it was best to break through the southern defense line of the Eastern Wei Dynasty and force the Gao father and son to return to help.

Otherwise, when the war in Guanzhong has a result, what is the point of going north slowly.

Yang Yaren did not choose Jingzhou as the direction of breakthrough, not to mention Hou Jing's ability, he was already a pioneer general during the Er Zhurong period.

Among the three generals on the southern front, Hou Jing has the strongest troops, with 10,000 old troops and 20,000 state and county soldiers.

And in Yuzhou, Yang Yaren was even more reluctant to take a look, Chen Qingzhi was a mythical figure in the Southern Liang army, but he was bloodied in Yuzhou, and was repeatedly defeated at the hands of Yaoxiong.

Although there is no first in literature, no second in martial arts, and people with strong martial arts often boast about themselves, Yang Yaren understands that Chen Qingzhi's commanding talent is not comparable to himself, everyone is a famous general, but Chen Qingzhi's famous generals have a gold content significantly higher than himself.

As a result, the Eastern Wei Dynasty had three sections of defense, and in the end, only Gao Yue, who was guarding Xuzhou, was left.

Due to the appearance of Gao Cheng, Gao Yue in this time and space is a little lonely.

First of all, the battle of Hanling, because Gao Cheng offered a secret car formation, Gao Huan's Chinese army defended according to the formation, and did not suffer much impact, and there was no Gao Yue to lead five hundred horsemen to attack, and the savior in danger turned the tide with Gao Aocao.

And because Gao Cheng showed his military talent too early and monopolized the command of the war in Henan, Gao Yue has been useless, and can only follow the expedition under Gao Huan, although he has participated in a series of wars such as the Battle of Xiurong, the pacification of the Sudouling tribe, and the promotion of Jihu Liu Lisheng, but there is no too bright performance.

The surprise attack on Xiurong was Dou Tai's elite cavalry for three hundred miles in one day and one night, forcing Er Zhu Zhao to death, subduing Yin Li of Sudouling was also Gao Huan's infantry to attract attention, and then Dou Tai attacked his tribe, captured women and children, and waited for Yin Li to chase after Sudouling.

Liu Lisheng was provoked by Zhao Yanshen sent by Gao Cheng and was killed by his generals.

Therefore, in Yang Yaren's view, Gao Yue can still be in a high position after making a big mistake, but he relies on his kinship with Gao Huan, but he is just a useless person.

So naturally, under the contrast of the two hard bones of Hou Jing in the west and Yaoxiong in the middle, Yang Yaren decided to pinch the soft persimmon and raise the Huainan army of 70,000 to invade Xuzhou.

Among the 70,000 troops, there are also 10,000 elites under the command of Xiahou Kui, who are known as the best in the world.

This Xiahou clan's private army, since Xiahou Kui's death, because the eldest son Xiahou wrote to become a civilian, he was appointed as a servant, and it fell into the hands of the second son Xiahou Xuan.

In the past, Gao Cheng led the light cavalry to attack Xiahou Xun in the north, and the soldiers of the state and county led by him were either killed, surrendered, or fled, and also made the Xiahou Kui and Yang Yaren, who originally occupied the advantage of troops, regret and retreat, so that the Eastern Wei Dynasty took the opportunity to seize Qiaozhou and renamed it Southern Yanzhou.

In that battle, Xiahou was beaten in a suspicious life, and in the end it was a slap from his father Xiahou Kui that woke him up, even though several years have passed, he has never forgotten that humiliation.

Now that his father has died, his brother thinks that he can only be transferred to a civilian position without commanding the army, and the burden of recasting the glory of the Xiahou clan has fallen on Xiahou Xun's head.

Since he crossed the Huaishui with Yang Yaren to the north, Xiahou Yi fought desperately, and he had many achievements in attacking the city and pulling out the village, and he was even praised by Yang Yaren, who was good friends with his father.

Another reason why Nanliang was so strong was that Gao Yue had shrunk his forces and was determined to rely on Pengcheng and wait for rescue.

Of course, Gao Yue has reinforcements, Lou Zhao led 100,000 troops south, and Duan Shao divided the lead, and is now stationed in the slipway, when he received the news that Yang Yaren had gathered troops, he had already asked for help from the slipway, and the messenger who reported the news had already returned to Pengcheng, informing him that Duan Shao would lead his old army of 5,000 people and 50,000 Hebei troops to the rescue.

Duan Shao is now not famous in the eyes of outsiders, he has fought with Gao Cheng several times, and he has many meritorious achievements, but he has been covered by the light of that cousin, and few people know what he can do.

But as Gao Huan's cousin, Gao Yue is undoubtedly one of them.

After Gao Huan was defeated in the Western Expedition, he sighed with Gao Yue:

Every time I discuss military affairs with Duan Shao, I can hear many brilliant opinions, and if he had been a staff officer at that time, maybe there would have been no one in the north who could make me feel tired. ’

The reason why Duan Shao was not brought with him in this expedition to the west is that Henan must have someone who is trustworthy enough to sit in charge, and this trust is not only loyalty, but also ability.

And this candidate is either Gao Cheng or Duan Shao, in military affairs, both Lou Zhao and Gao Yue are inferior to Gao Cheng and Duan Shao in terms of ability.

Hou Jing and Yaoxiong can be trusted in terms of ability, but they are not their own family members in the end.

In the case that Gao Cheng was bent on following his father to the west, Gao Huan could only discuss with him and leave Duan Shao in Henan.

Gao Cheng also knew Duan Shao's ability, after all, he was the head of the three heroes of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so he allocated 50,000 horses for him in Lou Zhao's 100,000 army.

Gao Yue knew that Duan Shao would come to help, and he strengthened his belief in sticking to it, he rarely got along with Duan Shao, he only knew that this person was stingy but lustful, but he was convinced that his cousin Gao Huan looked at people, and he also had a hunch that after this battle, Duan Shao would definitely become famous all over the world.

Duan Shao, who was on the march, didn't know Gao Yue's hunch, but he did have plans to use Yang Yaren as a stepping stone.

Of the 55,000 people under Duan Shao's command, only 5,000 were full-time soldiers, but there were 70,000 soldiers under Yang Yaren's command, and there were also a large number of state and county soldiers.

It's just that in terms of the quality of the generals, there is no doubt that Nanliang is stronger, not only the 10,000 elites of the Xiahou clan, but also the Yang Yaren himself has raised more than 5,000 full-time soldiers.

5,000 soldiers against 15,000, 50,000 soldiers against 55,000 soldiers in the state and county, the Eastern Wei Dynasty was at a disadvantage, but the war was not a few heads, otherwise Gao Huan would not have had the first defeat in the Western Expedition.

Most of the generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were born in Beizhen martial arts, they like to rush into battle, and they are good at martial arts, and even Gao Ao Cao, who supported the façade of the Han army, is actually a reckless man, such as Yaoxiong, who has both wisdom and bravery, but it just so happens that Duan Shao is one of them.

Compared with the frontal fight between the two armies, Duan Shao was more willing to use stratagems, but he was no different from Gao Cheng in the past.

Now in the westward expedition, the reason why Gao Cheng agrees that the two armies are facing each other squarely is that in the face of Yuwentai, a cunning opponent, he is unwilling to use tricks to take risks under the premise of the battle of the country.

can look down on the command ability of the large corps of Yuwentai and Gao Huan, there are many people, and these two people are very stretched, for example, Yuwentai lost the two battles of Heqiao and Bishan.

Even if Yuwentai killed the Eastern Wei general Gao Aocao, it could not change the outcome of the Western Wei army that left Henan after the Battle of Shayuan and was driven back to Guanzhong.

But their resourcefulness must not be underestimated, whether it is Gao Huan's two rumors to win the battle of Guang'a, easily seize control of Hebei, and four attempts to send troops to Xiurong but return halfway, so that when Er Zhuzhao relaxed his vigilance, he and Yuan Ri ordered Dou Tai to smash Huanglong and force Er Zhuzhao to death.

It was Yuwentai who counted strategies when the situation was difficult, so that the Western Wei Dynasty successfully resisted the early offensive of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and let the world see the wisdom of the two of them.

Most of the so-called schemes can only work on stupid things, such as Gao Huan playing with Er Zhu Zhao, and Gao Huan who was hit by the intelligence reduction buff was rubbed by Yuwentai.

At this stage, Yuwentai is undoubtedly a wise man, rather than pinning his hopes on the phenomenon of descending sapiens between Gao Huan and Yuwentai, it is better to use the two armies to face each other and win a decisive victory.

But the question is whether Yuwentai will make the Gao family father and son satisfied, set up their carriages and horses with them, and fight each other?

Duan Shao didn't think about the upcoming war in Guanzhong, he had his own responsibilities.

In the past, the commander of the army never exceeded 5,000 people, but he was entrusted with 50,000 horses by Gao Huan and Gao Cheng, all he could do was not to let the Gao family father and son who had already entered the customs be distracted by Henan anymore.

Now that Yang Yaren has committed a crime, Duan Shao is determined to beat the other party in this battle, so that he will leave an unforgettable impression for a lifetime.

Unlike the early Northern Expedition, which was smooth sailing and conquering the city all the way, when Yang Yaren's army marched to Pengcheng, it encountered the most stubborn resistance.

But if the fortified city is broken, there are only four possibilities:

First, there is internal chaos.

Second, there is no external help.

The third grain is cut off.

Fourth, the defenders were insufficient.

After Gao Cheng's counterinsurgency, there was only one family in Pengcheng who survived the death of the scholars, and they were frightened and dared not make trouble behind their backs, and the poor people in Pengcheng did not have the oppression of the former scholars, and there were various policies to benefit the people formulated by the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and the living standards were visibly improved.

Duan Shao is leading the army to come, and the lack of external assistance can also be ignored.

At this time, Xuzhou had sufficient food, even if it was salt, vegetables and wood for making fires, Gao Yue had already prepared, unless Yang Yaren besieged the city for a year, it was impossible to cut off the phenomenon of grain use.

As for the number of defenders, thanks to Gao Yue's decision to shrink his forces, there are now plenty of troops in the city.

Pengcheng is not a strong city, but these four points are not satisfied, and Yang Yaren can only storm the city, which also brings a large number of casualties to the soldiers of the prefecture and county under his command.

Yang Yaren can't always be consumed under Pengcheng City, otherwise even if he tries his best to take Pengcheng, he will have to rest for a long time, and by then he is afraid that Guanzhong will have already divided the victory and defeat.

His mission was not to conquer the city, but to force the Gao clan to return from Guanzhong, so after three days of siege, Yang Yaren finally stopped this behavior.

Yang Yaren convened the generals in the Shuai tent and put forward his own views, hoping to go deep into the hinterland of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, regardless of the gains and losses of one city and one place, focusing on burning and destroying, quite the style of Gao Cheng sending Duan Shaoma to the Guanzhong Plain.

It stands to reason that this plan is indeed more likely to force the Gao family to return to help, but it is also strongly opposed by the generals.

The court had its own considerations, so it tried to encircle Wei to save Zhao, and used the Northern Expedition to force the Eastern Wei to return to the division.

The generals also have their own ideas, and the situation in the Kanto region is different from when Duan Shao's horses set foot in the pass, when Yuwentai's main forces were fighting a decisive battle with Gao Huan, and Duan Shao's cavalry came and went like the wind.

Since ancient times, cavalry has always been the shortcomings of the southern army, and even the private soldiers of the Xiahou clan, who are the best in the world, only have 2,000 horses, and they are only one person and one horse, which cannot be equated with one person, two horsemen or even three horsemen in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Although the main army of the Eastern Wei Dynasty entered the customs, there were still a large number of troops left in Henan, after all, only the Gyeonggi Army under Gao Cheng was really transferred from Henan, and Lou Zhao led 100,000 troops to the south, so there is no such thing as the emptiness of Henan.

With a small number of cavalry and a large number of foot soldiers, even if Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the emptiness of Henan and created brilliant results, in the end, he was only a monk and escaped back to Nanliang, while none of the sergeants who followed him north were spared, not to mention that Henan is now heavily guarded.

Perhaps Yang Yaren's strategy could force the Eastern Wei to return to the division, but these Southern Liang generals did not want to put themselves to death for the sake of the Western Wei.