Chapter 416: Tang Zheng backstabbed
Why does Lu Yuan hate Zheng Guo so much?
Here's why.
Originally, Tang Guo suddenly opened his mouth and wanted to swallow the three counties in the east of Liang State in one go, but he had almost hit Liang Guo's Achilles heel and almost knocked him down.
Why?
First of all, let's take a look at how much territory Liang Guo has now.
After the Northern Expedition of Chu, Liang lost first, half of Guangling County, one Jiangxia County, one Xingyang County, one Donghai County, one Jiyin County, and four and a half counties, all of which were lost in one go.
Since then, the eastern part of Qingguo has lived up to the Liang Own.
Then in the middle of Qingzhou, the state of Xu in the north robbed Dongping County, and the east road camp of the state of Chu entered Chengyang County and Rencheng County.
In these two counties, they occupy half, or more than half of the territory, and the Liang State is hot.
Therefore, in the central part of Qingzhou, Liang only occupied the territory of Liang County, Shanyang County, the northern part of Chengyang County, and the northeast of Rencheng County, almost three counties.
And these territories are all on the front line, millions of Chu and Liang troops are tugging back and forth, and the local people are affected by the war, and a large number of people have fled and died, and they have already become a wasteland.
A site like this is simply not able to concentrate on production and provide any profits.
Except for using it as a line of defense and providing strategic value, it did not benefit Liang at all.
Therefore, the real logistics base of the two countries is actually only a small piece of territory in the eastern part of Qingzhou.
That is, Qingping County, Jiaoxi County, Donglai County, Yingling County, Jiaodong County, these five counties are just the land.
But now?
Jiaodong County has become a battlefield last year, and the two armies of Chu and Liang, nearly three million people, are fighting here.
The impact of the war here is even more serious than that of the central part of the Liang Kingdom, and in this case, it is naturally impossible to use it as a logistics base.
Therefore, the Liang State is in the east of Qingzhou, which can actually be regarded as the territory of the rear hinterland, and there are only four counties.
But just like that, the territory of the four counties, the last lifeline of the Liang State, has now been stabbed in the back by the Tang State, which has been completely broken.
Qingping County was directly robbed by the Tang State, and Jiaoxi County and Donglai County were also invaded by 700,000 Tang troops.
If these two counties are taken away again, then the territory that Liang State can really rely on will only be one Yingling County.
The scale of the Liang Kingdom has expanded rapidly, and the number of soldiers and horses has reached nearly four million.
It's desperate to think about, it's impossible.
No.
Maybe even this last county may not have one.
Because no one knows whether South Korea will continue to go south after taking away the two counties of Jiaoxi and Donglai, and rob the last remaining Taiping Yingling County of Liang State.
After all, judging from the current performance of the Tang State, the other party doesn't care about it at all, and doesn't care at all about whether he can stop it after the fall of the Liang State and the eastward advance of the Chu State.
Although this is a time of great strife, it is not uncommon for countries to join forces with each other, and for weak countries to unite against strong ones.
But not every country can take a long-term view and is willing to think for the long term.
Some people just want short-term benefits, and only care about what they can gain in the present, and they don't care about whether they will lose anything later.
From the current point of view, Tang Guo is undoubtedly the latter.
People don't care about the Chu State.
He wanted to take away the five eastern counties of Liang State, first eat 20,000 miles of mountains and rivers, tens of millions of people, and then talk about it after he had enough money.
As for the state of Chu after that, after eating the eastern part of Qingzhou, I have nearly doubled, and I ask myself that my strength is no longer weaker than that of the Liang State before the war.
At that time, there is no problem with having such strength, not seeking to defeat the Chu State, and learning to defend the same place like the Zhao State and the Xu State, right?
Tang Guo didn't believe it.
With millions of troops blocking the front line, can the Chu State really break through?
Even if it's broken, it's not a big deal.
At most, he will spit out the territory he has eaten now, and lead the soldiers and horses back to the Tang Kingdom.
Anyway, in front of the Tang State, there are also Zhao States, Xu States, and Zheng States in the way, these countries are closer to Chu State, and the border area is also more.
The threat to the Chu State is greater than that of the Tang State.
Even if you are unlucky, it is the three kingdoms that are unlucky first, and Tang Guo can hide behind and continue to play his own left and right, making a big profit.
Well, I have to say, the idea is really short-sighted.
But it's also realistic.
If the fire doesn't burn in front of your eyebrows, you will never feel heat or pain.
Tang is such a country, and their monarchs and ministers are such people.
Even if countries hate each other, there is nothing they can do in the face of such a shameless country.
However, compared to the hatred of various countries, the state of Chu is naturally happy.
Tang Guo was so wise, the strange soldiers came from the northeast, and hit the seven inches of Liang State in one breath, which can be said to have helped Chu State a lot.
In the face of such a good person, the whole country of Chu is naturally very grateful.
When Lu Yuan heard the news, he immediately sent an envoy to the Tang army camp, wanting to discuss with the other party about the joint attack on the Liang army.
After all, regardless of whether the Tang State wanted to take away the eastern part of Qingzhou, at this time, the two countries would join forces to defeat the Liang State, which would always be no harm to both sides.
If the Tang State does not come, the Chu State will have to fight to the death with the Liang State in the Great Liang City in the central part of Qingzhou, and spend time and countless lives to grind this central defense line, and compete with the Liang State and the countries behind the Liang State.
When the Tang State came, the Chu State could take advantage of the opportunity of the two countries to break through its central defense line and eat the central counties.
That's a real benefit.
As for the eastern part of Qingzhou in the back, as well as some of the territories occupied by the Xu State in the north, it is completely possible to wait until the central part is eaten and the Liang State is defeated, and then slowly deal with the other party.
There are still a lot of money and grain savings in the Chu State, and this year, an iron fist operation, after cleaning up the western part of Qingzhou, seized a large amount of money and grain from those local wealthy clans.
Coupled with the stable environment after the clean-up of the western part of Qingzhou, it is expected that next year, these places will be able to start production, and provide money and grain for the Chu State to pay taxes, which is another income.
Therefore, the money and grain reserves of the Chu State today can be described as extremely rich.
Therefore, even if we continue to maintain the current 18 million soldiers and horses, and the 18 million immigration project, we can still last for another two years.
If you have money and food, you will have confidence and confidence.
After Lu Yuan sorted out these family gains, he was ready to continue to fight a protracted war with Liang and other countries.
This is also the reason why he doesn't care that after the Tang State annexed the eastern part of the Liang State, it was possible that another Liang State would quickly swell.
A Liang State with one heart and one mind, the Chu State can be defeated in a year.
So a well-fed Tang Kingdom, even if it looks huge and scary, can it still compare to the original Liang Kingdom?
The left and right are just a remake of the battle of Liang and Chu, no, it may be a further and hearty battle.
Therefore, Lu Yuan didn't care about Tang Guo's profits, the greater the other party's appetite, the better it would be for Chu State.
There are some things that you can't eat and use right away.
I don't see that after the Chu State seized the eastern part of Qingzhou, how many enemy people rose up in those local county capitals, and how many chaos occurred?
And the state of Chu was still upright and defeated the state of Liang openly, so many people were not convinced, and so many rebels emerged.
Tang Guo, a guy who stabs a knife in the back and is despised by all countries, who will obey this kind of villain?
Tang Guo is thinking very well now, when he really eats the tempting poisonous apple, he will know what kind of poison is hidden in the sweetness.
And when the other party was poisoned and half of his body was paralyzed, it was Chu State who stood up and gave him the chance to strike the final blow.
What a perfect plan, what a perfect partner.
But such a plan and partner were finally disrupted by a Zheng Guo.
The Tang State invaded the two counties of Jiaodong and Donglai, and this sudden attack divided the Liang State into two at once.
One is the central part of Qingzhou with Daliang as the center, and the other is the eastern part of Qingzhou with Jiaodong County as the core, although there are still some passages between the two territories.
But in reality, it has been divided into two halves and has become a de facto enclave.
In both Liang and Jiaodong, Liang has hoarded a large number of soldiers and horses.
At this time, these soldiers and horses were divided into two parts, the logistics were cut off, and almost all of them fell into a mortal situation.
Fortunately, Daliang has the support of the Xu State, and there is a powerful country that provides him with a large amount of money, food and materials, and the logistics of the millions of troops can be maintained for the time being, so that they will not collapse due to lack of food.
However, on the Jiaodong side, the west and east are the Chu State, the north is the Tang State, and the south is the sea and the sea, which can be said to be enemies on all sides and has become a dead place.
Not only is there no logistics, but there is no even a stable rear.
The more than 1 million troops of the Liang State fell into such a dead place, and it can be said that the defeat was a foregone conclusion.
The Chu army in Yangxia County only needed a little force to eat this Liang army and achieve the biggest victory since the Northern Expedition.
It was at this time of critical survival that Zheng Guo, who had always had a good relationship with the Chu State, made a move.
First, the logistics of the Chu army in Yangxia County were cut off, and the Chu State was prevented from continuing to obtain supplies on the territory of the Zheng State.
Then he sent sailors to block the sea passage and cut off the passage for the Yangxia camp to obtain supplies from the mainland.
In the end, this mobilized troops and horses, gathered 800,000 soldiers and horses on the territory of Zheng State on the border of Yangxia County, and made a defensive posture against the Chu army.
This pile, one by one, all illustrates Zheng Guo's jealousy and hostility towards the Chu State.
Obviously, after the state of Chu revealed the situation of attending the entire Qingzhou, especially in the territory of Yuzhou, there were still millions of Chu troops.
Zheng Guo, who was right next to Qingzhou, already felt a deep threat and fear.
Therefore, under the survival instinct, Zheng Guo did not hesitate to choose to break off diplomatic relations with Chu State, and made a certain containment and threatening posture to express his support for Liang State.
Why don't you say that this is a world of great controversy?
Liang and Zheng, who were originally enemies of each other and feared each other, only because of the reversal of the situation and their mutual needs, they instantly became friends and began to unite.
Of course, although Zheng Guo began to lean towards Liang Guo, he and Chu Guo had a past friendship in the end, and he didn't really tear his face.
Now he is only making a posture of containment and threatening, and has not really started a war with the Chu State.
Well, the display of the Chu army's fierce combat power caused Zheng Guo to be afraid, and it was also one of the reasons why Zheng Guo did not dare to go to war.
In short, today's Zheng Guo naturally does not dare to be an enemy of Chu on the surface.
But are his cover-ups really useful?
The logistics were cut off, and the 800,000 Zheng troops were staring at the side, and there were more Zheng Guo's troops, who were mobilizing in the country, and as long as there was a demand, they could drive to the front line at any time.
In this case, is it really difficult for the Chu army in Yangxia to be the Zheng army?
The Yangxia camp led by Huang Xuan, after Zheng Guo's change, instantly fell into the situation of Liang Guo's Jiaodong army.
Logistics was cut off, and there were enemies on all sides.
There is no doubt that Zheng Guo's backstab this time also hit the seven inches of Yangxia Xingying.
With Zheng Guo's containment, the Chu army had to devote most of its energy to dealing with the threat from Zheng Guo's side.
Zheng Guo's side shared more, and Liang Jun's side naturally beared less pressure.
Therefore, when Yan Yunqing saw that the Chu army was indeed inseparable, he immediately made a decision, leaving only 300,000 people to hold on to the two big cities in Jiaodong County.
Then he led the main force of 700,000 and reflexively entered the two counties of Donglai and Jiaoxi to teach those arrogant Tang troops a lesson.
At the same time, the envoys of the Liang State also went to the Xu State and asked the other party to send troops to help solve the pressure from the Tang State.
After a period of eloquence and much deliberation, Xu Guo finally made a decision, believing that Liang Guo really could not die at this time.
The Tang State's act of taking advantage of the fire to rob is really excessive, and has seriously endangered the interests of all countries, and must be curbed and taught a lesson.
So Xu sent 300,000 troops from Le'an County to Qingping County, which was controlled by the Tang State, and directly cut off the back route of the Tang army that had entered the hinterland of Liang State from the front.
The back road was cut off, and he was in an enemy country, facing the attack of Liang and Xu, the defenseless Tang army was naturally not an opponent.
In just one or two months, under the attack of the armies of the two countries, it was crushed, and the 800,000-strong army was annihilated in the Liang State.
The Liang army successfully regained the lost ground and re-established the rear.
Subsequently, Yan Yunqing allocated 200,000 troops and returned to Jiaodong, bringing the number of troops in this county to 500,000.
Another 200,000 troops were allocated to Qingping County to join the 300,000 Xu army of the army, which also brought the strength of the county to 500,000.
The total of one million troops before and after constituted the eastern defense line of the Liang State.
As for Yan Yunqing himself, he led the remaining more than 200,000 soldiers and horses into Rencheng County to contain the increasingly aggressive Chu army and defend the safety of the hinterland.
One more thing happened during this period.
That is, the Tang army was defeated and lost, and the 800,000 army was wiped out, and it can be said that most of the main domestic forces were lost.
This kind of loss, which can be called a great injury to the vitality, naturally made the Tang Kingdom indignant, and he couldn't swallow this breath at all.
Therefore, after getting the news of the fiasco, Tang immediately re-recruited and mobilized troops and horses in the country, preparing to go to Liang again to find this field.
But just as the Tang State was preparing to send troops, the border between the two countries of Xu State and Chen Bing made a threatening and warning posture.
However, such warnings are of little use.
Because in Tang Guo's view, half of the reason for the previous fiasco was because of Liang Guo's backstabbing sneak attack.
Therefore, fighting Liang and Xu are revenge, and there is no need to hesitate at all.
But after Xu Guo expressed his attitude, immediately after, Xu Guo also gathered a large army and camped on the border of Tang State.
Even Zheng Guo, who had been beaten by them, even sent envoys to strongly advise and condemn them and not to send troops to Liang Guo.
This made Tang Guo uncomfortable.
To the west of the Tang State is the State of Xu, to the east is the State of Xu, and to the south is the State of Zheng.
These three countries are undoubtedly not the hegemon of one state and the power of Kyushu.
In fact, because of a Liang State, they all stood up against the Tang State and made a gesture of not hesitating to go to war.
This sudden deterioration in international relations had to make Tang Guojun and his ministers reflect on whether there might really be something wrong with their own international situation.
Therefore, under the threat of the border army of Xu Xu and Xu, the carriage of the Tang Kingdom, which was about to get off the leash, had to hurriedly pull the reins and stop the plan to send troops.
However, although no more troops were dispatched, the threat of the Three Kingdoms this time still made the Tang Kingdom angry.
After giving up on the plan to send troops, they did not disband the army, but continued to recruit new soldiers and expand their armaments.
And the number of soldiers and horses in the Tang State was increased from the original 1.5 million to 2 million.
Obviously, after losing 800,000 main troops and horses, Tang could not resist the pressure of neighboring countries, so this time it had to choose to retreat.
But giving in doesn't mean giving up, nor does it mean being convinced.
This time, not only did they not reap the benefits, but they also suffered a big loss, Tang Guo, who undoubtedly hated Liang and Xu Erguo, who made them defeated.
Perhaps even Zheng and Xu were also on the small book of the Tang Kingdom.
This greedy Jingzhou country is still accumulating strength at this time, ready to show its fangs again.
And around him, various neighbors are also feeling the pressure.
In other words, they foresaw the general trend that swept the world and the torrent of the times brought about by the rise of the Chu State.
They don't want to be the crushed stone under the wheel of the times, so they can only resist at this time.
Therefore, following the Tang Dynasty, either passively or actively, various countries began a new round of extreme military competition and began to expand their armed forces.
And the state of Chu, which led the torrent of the times, also began to make its own counterattack after being stabbed in the back by Zheng Guo and losing the opportunity to destroy the eastern Liang army.
200,000 Chu sailors crossed the sea, carrying 500,000 troops separated from the middle route camp, formed a new waterway camp, and marched along the East China Sea and the sea frontier towards Yuzhou.
The Yangxia camp led by Huang Xuan, after confirming that it could no longer threaten the Liang army in Qingzhou, finally gave up the original plan to attack the Liang army with the camp on the west road under Lu Yuan's order, and instead implemented a new plan.
That is, Yuzhou Raiders, or Zheng Guo Raiders.
Yes, since I can't beat Qingzhou, then okay, I can always fight Yuzhou, right?
Didn't you Zheng Guo want to fight my Da Chu?
I grant you that wish.
Yangxia Xingying has a million-strong army, don't fight Liang Guo, I'm going to fight you.
In the past, it was not too late for Lu Yuan to take revenge.
But now that he is already the Emperor of Chu, how can he still endure this breath.
Now he takes revenge, from morning till night.
Zheng Guo, a traitor, he has taught a lesson.
However, a villain like Zheng Guo, after Lu Yuan was angry for a while, he didn't pay much attention to the other party after he finished the retaliation action.
Although the Yuzhou strategy is important, it is only a partial battlefield of the entire Northern Expedition, and it cannot affect the frontal battle situation.
What is really important is that it is still in the main battlefield of Qingzhou.
Therefore, his focus soon shifted to the other protagonist of the main battlefield, Wei Guo.
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