As for the evaluation of the battle of the western hills of Jinan, even the two sides involved in this battle may have underestimated it.

In fact, this battle was a change in the war of the Taishan army in the Central Plains.

Previously, Zhang Chong had been taking the Taishan region and the central and southern Lu regions as the starting point for exploring the hinterland of the Central Plains from the consideration of the battle situation all day, and for this reason he specially deployed Guan Yu, a major general, to this place.

In this year, Guan Yu did fulfill Zhang Chong's expectations, and while operating the base area in central and southern Lu, he continued to attack Xuzhou and Qingzhou, successively defeating Tao Qian in Xuzhou and the Yellow Turban in Qi, and also opened up the base area in Jiaodong.

But with the change of the situation in the whole world, the pressure on Guan Yu as a salient began to increase.

In the past, the center of the Han Dynasty was overturned, and the local Taishou naturally guarded each realm, and the Taishan army that did not take the initiative to attack itself was also resigned.

But with the division of the world, all states and counties have risen new power lords, they already have some ambitions, after reintegrating the local forces, they are naturally no longer as peaceful as the Han family Taishou in the past, and began to show a very strong aggressiveness.

And in this process, the Taishan army resting north of the river is like an elephant in the house, which cannot be ignored.

In order to resist the storm attack after the Taishan army, they will inevitably join forces as they did in history to fight against the tyrannical Qin, and this time the battle of the western hills of Jinan, including the previous battle of Pingyuanjin, is the result of this logic.

Feeling the pressure of the Taishan Army, not only did Qingzhou begin to integrate internally, but even Qingxu also seemed to have some kind of tacit understanding.

Of course, this change in the general environment, including Zhang Chong, and many high-level officials of the Taishan Army can foresee it, and they also have corresponding responses.

However, judging from the two major wars launched successively by the Left Army and the former army marshal's headquarters under his command, the current problems of the Taishan Army should not be underestimated.

First of all, the Ding Sheng army did not pay enough attention to the forces in Qingzhou, and they thought that the plain army was the general of the defeated army, so they regarded it as a fish belly.

At first, he did not decisively assemble a large army to attack at the beginning of the conflict, and then failed to cooperate with Guan Yu's troops further east, causing him to face the siege of Cao and Xian's large corps alone.

And Guan Yubu didn't have any problems in terms of overall strategy and tactics, but there were also a few times in this battle that he didn't expect.

The first one did not expect that the situation in Qingzhou, which was originally Wentun, would continue to boil because he took the initiative to attack Dongpingling, so that Bian Bing, who was originally in the south, could organize a sufficient number of troops to come to support.

Another thing he didn't expect was that he didn't expect Xuzhou to make a move north to support Cao Cao so quickly. Obviously, Guan Yu underestimated the determination of the Qingxu Haoqiang to resist the Taishan Army.

The last thing I didn't expect was how many handsome people there were in the land of Qingxu.

First, there was Linpu Chen Deng, who was heroic and energetic, and then there was Langya Zangba, who fought to the death.

Of course, what Guan Yu didn't expect the most was that Cao Cao would be so good at using soldiers.

In the two great wars of the plains and hills, this Cao Cao fully demonstrated his whimsical and decisive style of using his troops.

This time, the opposite side thought of him Guan Yu together, and went out of the ambush together, if Guan Yu came one step late this time, then his two main forces of the lieutenant department would be devastated.

If such a situation really happens, then the entire situation of the Taishan army in central and southern Lu will collapse.

On July 14, as night fell, the Taishan Army and the Qingxu Coalition Army withdrew from the battlefield with restraint.

In the end, Guan Yu withdrew to Licheng and made Zhang Nanbiao the Taishou of Jinan, so that he was stationed here as the flank portal.

And after Cao Cao watched Guan Yu retreat in an orderly manner, he did not pursue further.

Because compared with the Taishan army, Cao Cao's losses in this battle were even greater.

First, he lost Licheng, opened the western gateway of Qingzhou, and lost several generals, one of his cousins died under Guan Yu's soldiers.

And like the losses of other troops, the loss of Dingkou, not to mention the loss of Dongpingling being broken.

But fortunately, Cao Cao was not a loser this time, because it was with the battle of Pingyuanjin that he completed the whale swallowing of the entire Qingzhou.

In this battle, Beihai Shihao sacrificed his land to serve, and the civil and military forces of the plain also recognized Cao Cao's ability, and the horse was the first to look forward. Today, Cao Cao has occupied five counties in Qingzhou in less than half a year, leaving only the most remote Donglai.

In this way, he has completed the previous step of Xun Yu's prison pair, and the next step can be Yingyang Xuzhou.

It's just that whether Qingxu and Xu will be conquered by force or formed an alliance is not necessarily at present.

If it weren't for the bloody battle between Chen Deng and Zang Ba to prove the honor of the Xuzhou army, maybe this time Cao Cao would have set his sights on Xuzhou after he eased up.

But now that Xuzhou has Chen Deng and Zang Ba, all this is unknown.

So are Chen Deng and Zang Ba losers this time?

I'm afraid not, although in this battle, Chen Deng's Jianghuai soldiers seem to have suffered a lot of losses, but he has gained first-hand experience in fighting against the Taishan army.

After learning a fresh lesson, this time Chen Deng has a clearer understanding of himself and the combat strength of the Taishan Army, and he can also make targeted improvements.

And Chen Deng gained not only that, but he also gained fame.

Xuzhou is a big state in the East, how can Junyan in the state not stop the amount of vehicles? Not to mention that there is no male lord in Yangzhou now, and those who are interested in the Quartet have seen the possibility of Chen Deng as a new force from this battle.

Compared with the conservative patrols of many Xuzhou generals, Chen Deng's determination to forge ahead attracts the enterprising faction in the state like the rising sun, and I believe that with Chen Deng's return to Xuzhou, his strength will inevitably rise to a higher level.

And unlike Chen Deng, Zang Ba may not get much.

He was not the first to go north, so his name had nothing to do with him. He was not as good as the allies who sat in the battle behind him, and those men did not lose anything in this battle.

So Zang Ba seems to be very embarrassed, that is, he has paid everything he should have paid, but he doesn't seem to have gained anything.

But in fact, this is not the case, at least a little Zang Ba is obtained.

That is, after this battle, many of the Langya under his command came out of the shadow of the Taishan army. Just this point, Zang Ba thinks it's worth it.

So in this battle, it seems that no one has won or lost.

But the Taishan army has lost a little bit of the future.

In this war, they failed to nip the emerging forces in Qingzhou in the bud and allowed them to grow up in the flames of war.

Then the next time the Taishan army wants to attack Qingzhou, it will be doubly difficult.

In fact, this is also the view of the previous political affairs hall, that is, if you don't move, you will be thunderous. But unfortunately, it backfired and turned it into a dumb battle.

At that time, people may not say much, but later historians often blamed Zhang Chong for ignoring the situation in the southeast behind the defeat of the Taishan army in this battle.

From the outbreak of the conflict in early July to the strike of the two sides in mid-July, Zhang Chong neither gave sufficient instructions to the front nor provided enough reinforcements, as if the entire Yecheng did not care about the battle of Pingyuanjin.

Such accusations are certainly justified, but they are not objective.

In fact, when Ding Sheng's military newspapers were continuously sent to Yecheng, Zhang Chong had already attached great importance to this battle, and even held three joint meetings for it.

But just when Ding Sheng's battle was unfavorable and the news of requesting reinforcements reached Yecheng, two pieces of news were suddenly sent to Yecheng from the south and the north.

To the north, the remnants of the Han family in Liaoxi, Liaodong, Xuansu County, and Lelang County united some Xianbei tribes in the Xianbei Mountain area, and took advantage of the low tide of Shanhaidao to attack the Youbeiping land.

This combined army is obviously another group formed by the exiled warriors of Youzhou and the naturalized generals of the northern captives outside the Guan, engulfing the military town of the Han family here, and combining with the local tyrants.

From the very beginning of its existence, this group was designed to eliminate the Tarzan army.

Unlike the common understanding of borders, the northern borders of the Han dynasty tended to be volatile. It is always subject to the results of the confrontation between the strength of the Han family and the Xianbei.

When the Han dynasty was prosperous, the territory of the Han family in the north could be extended to the Songliao Plain, that is, the area north of the Great Wall of Yanbei.

The Great Wall of Yanbei is the result of the Yan people's expansion to the east of Yanshan during the Warring States Period.

At that time, in order to relieve the pressure of Zhao and Qi, the Yan people began to expand towards the east of Yanshan, which is now the location of the Liaodong Peninsula.

In this area, there is a vast plain called the Liaohe Plain.

It is bounded by the Songliao Plain to the north, the Mongolian Plateau to the west, the Bohai Sea to the south, and the Korean Peninsula to the east.

At the same time, geographically, the Liaohe Plain is sheltered by three huge mountain ranges.

To its northwest, that is, the area where it borders the Mongolian Plateau is the Xianbei Mountain, which is also the future Great Khing'an Mountains; To its southwest, there is the huge Yan Mountain; To the east of it, there is the Changbai Mountain.

It can be said that the Liaohe Plain is an independent geographical unit outside the Yanshan Mountains, and no matter which ethnic group is based on it, it can divide one side.

Fortunately, the Yan people were the first to enter here and began to operate this area.

After the Qin and Han dynasties were unified, they still occupied this plain and became the master of this place.

But the Yan also discovered that the threat to the area came more from the fishing and hunting peoples further north, and these Donghu and Sushen people often went south in autumn to attack the Han people's cultivated areas to get enough food to survive the winter.

Therefore, the Yan people relied on Xianbei Mountain and Changbai Mountain to build an east-west Great Wall in the middle, specifically to resist the Hu people in the Songliao Plain going south.

And this Great Wall became the dividing line between the farming power and the fishing and hunting power. Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was a great martial artist back then, did not open up to the north after defeating Wei's Joseon, and still maintained his current sphere of influence.

For the harsh cold of nature is always more powerful than the ambition of individual human beings.

And now this Liaodong region is the Han family's four counties east of Yanshan.

But even though the Han family has occupied this area for hundreds of years, it is still important not to overestimate the degree of control over this area by the central government.

More often, the Han family generally adopted the administrative measures of restraint here, but in the future, Xianbei rose, in order to resist the Xianbei people along the Xianbei Mountain and the Wuhuan people here, the Han family set up a subject state of Liaodong here, and began to directly govern the Wuhuan people in the territory.

For more than 100 years, the Han family fought repeatedly with the Xianbei people in this area, and finally ended in the victory of the Han people.

Among them, countless Han generals grew up from this area, such as Gongsun Zhan, who had died in the Zhongrenting War, and rose to the position of the governor of Liaodong.

In order to maintain the defense line of the Great Wall of Yanbei, the Han family built a complete beacon guard system here, with five miles per Sui and ten soldiers per Sui.

Behind these beacon defense lines is the Han people's reclamation area, because of the moisture of the Liao River, even if this area is ripe once a year, it can still raise tens of thousands of soldiers.

And these reclamation areas provide a steady stream of soldiers and materials for these beacons.

In other words, just by relying on the plains of the Liao River Valley, this place can completely support this northern defense line, which greatly reduces the burden on the central government.

It's just now, with the collapse of the Han family, the Han regime in the Youji area began to fully collapse, and today's Liaodong region has become more and more an isolated island.

Those who were not tolerated by the Taishan army, except for those who went south to Qingzhou, all the rest flowed into the Liaodong region from the passage of the Yanshan Mountain Range.

While these people brought population, wealth, and culture to the Liaodong region, they became more and more politically anti-Tarzan Army. And because of the existence of a large number of Beihu generals in this group, their relationship with the local Xianbei people and Wuhuan people began to change.

In the past, the north of the Great Wall was the country of the bow, and it was ordered to be single. Within the Great Wall, the room of the crown belt is made by the Han family.

But now, some kind of Hu-Han confluence has begun to appear in the land of the four counties of Liaodong, and this operation is a manifestation of this trend.

And Zhang Chong also saw the change in this trend, so he had to spend most of his energy in Liaodong.

Because the consequences of this incident are very terrifying.

Not to mention that the biggest variable in future history is the Xianbei people from the northeast region, let's just say that now, with the force of the Hu people and the system of the Han people, if you don't pay attention to it, this area will soon be able to form a powerful force group that threatens the rear of the Taishan army.

Not to mention, with the transmission of Han technology among the Hu people, it will inevitably make the strength of the Hu people in the entire north be rapidly improved, which will bring unimaginable pressure to the defense line of the Taishan army in the northern Xinjiang.

At that time, Yuan Shao or Cao Cao in the Central Plains will integrate all parties, and then fight with the Hu people in the north to fight in the north and south, and Hebei will really become the death place of the Taishan army.

Therefore, when the Ding Sheng Army and the Guan Yu Army were fighting in Qingzhou, Zhang Chong repeatedly discussed with Du Man and other subordinates, and finally decided to take advantage of the fact that the forces in the Liaodong region had not yet been formed, and broke through first, so as to win the safety of the Taishan Army in the external situation.

It's just that in the past half a month, because the existence of the war in Qingzhou has consumed Yecheng's resources and energy to a certain extent, this matter has been kept in preparation.

It wasn't until the southeast finally sent back the military report of the two strikes, and the military strategy of the eastern expedition to Liaodong finally came to fruition.

This time, the war machine of the Taishan Army finally turned again.

Look at Liaodong with your eyes.

In ancient times, the limit of agricultural civilization in the north was north of the Daling River, and there was no way to retain people further north. Only with the addition of modern science and technology can the Northeast region develop.

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