Chapter 20: The Guardian of the Western Jin Dynasty
What will Wang Zhang do with Wang Cui, to be honest, Liu Tai doesn't know.
However, Liu Tai understood that it was impossible for him to persuade Wang Cui to surrender, and only Wang Zhang, or even Wang Mi, who had been mixed in Luoyang, could persuade Wang Cui to persuade him.
However, the original Wang Cui was the legendary "Twenty-Four Friends of the Golden Valley" and Wang Mi, who likes rangers, is not in the same circle.
To be honest, Liu Tai didn't dare to guarantee that Wang Mi would be able to persuade Wang Cui, and what the final result would be, he couldn't control it anyway.
At this moment, Liu Tai took the opportunity to ask Wang Zhang, hoping to get him some readers who had studied the "Book of Han".
Wang Zhang did not refuse Liu Tai's request, and agreed very happily.
Compared with Liu Tai being able to hand over control of Yecheng so smoothly, the most important thing is that Liu Tai himself is ready to let the soldiers train well in Yecheng, which saves him a lot of trouble, which not only meets Liu Tai's requirements, but also avoids extraneous branches.
It must be mentioned that compared to finding people who understand the Book of Han in Zuoguocheng, Yecheng is almost the essence of the north, and it is much easier to find talents in this area.
For example, if you want to find it in Zuo Guocheng, you basically have to find people over forty years old, but here in Yecheng, it is not impossible to find people who can recite the "Book of Han" at the age of twenty.
It can only be said that some resources will be difficult for you to obtain when you do not reach a certain level, but for those who have reached certain levels and understand the rules of this level, it is only a matter of words.
Liu Tai was very satisfied when he saw that Wang Zhang agreed, and completed the defensive handover with Wang Zhang, especially reluctantly handed over the leather armor to Wang Zhang, and was pulled over by Wang Zhang to meet Wang Mi.
In the final analysis, Wang Zhang only came to play an outpost, although he had the right to decide, but in the end he served Wang Mi.
Since Wang Mi is here, Wang Zhang, Li Gu, and Liu Tai are naturally going to come out to greet Wang Mi.
After the gathering, everyone held a banquet, eating meat and drinking wine, and they were very unhappy for a while.
However, after Wang Mi and Wang Zhang met, Wang Mi naturally knew Liu Tai's thoughts through Wang Zhang.
After all, it was the initial strategy to seize Yecheng and establish a bridgehead east of Taihang Mountain, so as to attack the North China Plain, but no one expected to take Yecheng so easily.
So what should be done next naturally requires a certain degree of deliberation.
At this moment, Wang Mi watched Shi Le, Cao Wei, and even Tian Yu and others arrive, and said:
"This time, Liu Tai captured Yecheng with 500 people to establish a miraculous feat, and won Yecheng for our army, which can be described as an outstanding achievement.
Therefore, he temporarily took a leave of absence as Sima of other departments, commanded 2,000 troops, and recruited them on the spot in Yecheng for reorganization. When I play Your Majesty and establish your merits, I will remove this false word.
I hope you will take this as an encouragement, establish meritorious deeds, and help me to be a great man! ”
When everyone heard Wang Mi's words, they looked at Liu Tai's gaze with more or less envy.
After all, they all know that Liu Tai has made such a meritorious service this time, and there will definitely be a reward, but he is still somewhat envious of other Simas who can become the commander of two thousand troops, after all, Liu Tai's age is too young now.
Of course, because they are all brothers from Qingzhou, everyone knows the roots, except for Liu Ling, a monster with natural divine power, who has not been beaten by Liu Tai.
So after Liu Tai had meritorious service, he became Sima of other departments, although he felt young, he was not unconvinced.
After all, if anyone is not convinced, they can naturally eat Liu Tai's fist.
As for Shi Le, to be honest, he saw that the people around him did not object, so he naturally didn't dare to say anything, but the doubts and curiosity in his heart were indispensable after all.
"Thank you, General! Tai will definitely go through the army and serve the Han! Liu Tai said without hesitation.
When Wang Mi heard Liu Tai's words, he nodded with a smile on his face and said to Liu Tai:
"You will train soldiers and horses in Yecheng next, and if you are hindered next, you may need your assistance!"
"No!" Liu Tai heard Wang Mi's words and replied.
Wang Mi looked around at everyone and continued, "We have successfully obtained Yecheng, and I have written a report to play Your Majesty.
Now after taking Yecheng, what do you say about the next offensive direction of our army, you can speak freely, speak freely! ”
Cao Wei came out decisively and said, "We have taken Yecheng, and all the way to the east can be described as unimpeded, naturally it is to cross Yangping, fight Qinghe, and then fight all the way back to Qingzhou!" ”
For Cao Wei's words, to be honest, he was beaten all the way from Qingxu to Xuchang, and then from Xuchang to Luoyang, Luoyang was beaten across the Yellow River, and now for a group of Qingzhou people who have occupied Yecheng, this idea is almost instinctive.
"No!" Schler immediately stood up against it.
Because Shi Le does not have any Qingzhou plot, on the contrary, for Shi Le, Liu Tai's capture of Yecheng has proved that Wang Mi's subordinates are full of talents, and if he continues to let Wang Mi lead him, then he will not have any credit at all.
So either you have to go it alone, or you have to be in a familiar environment, which makes Schle speak:
"Qingxu is too far away, and it is easy to go deep alone, so you should go north to take Handan, Changshan and other places to build a solid foundation for the Han Dynasty."
"Actually, I want to go south to the Tiger Prison Pass and touch Luoyang again to take revenge!" Wang Sang said.
And for the next strategic direction, to be honest, everyone began to argue.
Because everyone knows that if they follow the strategy they have proposed, then the country does not know, but at least they have a lot more opportunities to make meritorious contributions.
Wang Mi calmly watched everyone discuss, watched Shi Le not retreat, and understood that Shi Le really wanted to go north.
As for the people on their own side, although they put forward opinions one by one, most of them also went south or eastward, and there was no direction at all.
So as the debate became more and more intense, Wang Mi frowned slightly, saw that Liu Tai did not interject at all, and said to Liu Tai:
"Tai'er, in the end you took Yecheng, don't you come out to talk about it?"
Everyone's eyes followed Wang Mi's words, and naturally fell on Liu Tai.
"No goal...... Why don't you check them all out! Liu Tai looked at Wang Mi and yawned.
"It's ridiculous!" Li Gu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard Liu Tai's words, and couldn't help but say, "You need to be cautious in using soldiers, how can you fight!" ”
"But our strategy is only until we attack Yecheng, so either wait until Your Majesty's order comes, or we will attack everywhere, and we will attack wherever there is a advantage, and we will focus on where there is a advantage, what's so strange about this!" Liu Tai said as a matter of course.
To be honest, in Liu Tai's opinion, Lingdu has occupied Yecheng and the army has arrived, so do you still need to think about it next?
Of course, it is blooming on all sides, and it would be nice to fight a battle line from the banks of the Yellow River all the way to the edge of the Great Wall, so that the whole of North China will be plunged into chaos.
If you lose, then you will go back to Taihang Mountain, and if you win, basically the entire north will change the sky.
Of course, because whether it is Wang Jun, Gou Xi, or Beigong Chun, they are actually quite difficult to deal with, and when they are at their peak, they feel that they are playing as if they are playing, and they are really strong.
But put them together and look at them from the perspective of the commander of the Great Army, in fact, they don't look down on anyone, and they are all looking at each other, since this is the case, then directly fight this kind of large-scale war.
Anyway, the entire Jizhou is in a mess, and the one who suffers is definitely not the rebellious Xiongnu Han State, and the one who suffers even more is definitely the Sima clan who is now in charge of Huaxia.
After all, do you think everyone is called Huangfu Song, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was pacified from south to north within a year.
Wang Mi glared at Liu Tai fiercely when he heard Liu Tai's words, Liu Tai raised his eyebrows, but he shut up.
Wang Mi's eyes fell on Shi Le's body, and he understood that Shi Le and the Qian tribe he led wanted to be independent, at least the merits he made belonged to him.
So Wang Mi finally knocked on the table and decided, "My army will be stationed in Yecheng for the time being, but you can lead the headquarters to fight in the north, south and east, and try the strength of the Jin army, after all, the Jin army has not fought against us this time, and it is not clear whether the Jin army is strong or weak, and it is not easy to set goals." ”
"I'll do as I was told!" When everyone heard Wang Mi's words, they immediately agreed.
Liu Tai couldn't help frowning when he heard Wang Mi's words, but he didn't mean to care.
Because Liu Tai didn't expect that Wang Mi really accepted his joke.
It's not that the tactics are bad, the main thing is that Wang Mi shouldn't be the kind of capable person who can carry out large-scale strategic command, and if this tactic is implemented, it will be a chaotic war with the Jin court.
Obviously, the upper echelons of the entire army are now in a strategic confusion, and there is not a little clarity about what to fight next, whether it should be fought or not, and why it should be fought.
I only instinctively felt that I had taken down Yecheng, and if I didn't fight around, I wouldn't have come for nothing!
This is more or less related to the nature of the composition of Wang Mi and the current army of the Qiang people.
One is an alien mercenary army, and the other is a peasant rebel army, for them, it is a normal rhythm to pass through the bandits, of course, it is now the Han army, so it is also a routine operation to pass through the army.
For the upper class, it is necessary to attack a certain place, but for the soldiers of the lower class, they are attacking a certain place for the sake of property or women, and there is no need for any other reason at all.
But Lin Xi and Yecheng were both taken by Liu Tai, and they didn't participate, so they couldn't move these two places according to the rules, so they naturally needed to find another target.
In this regard, the first thing why Wang Zhang came over was to make Liu Tai give up and continue the war, and there was a great reason for that.
Even if you can win the battle, you can take the lead, but you can't block the brothers' wealth, if you Liu Tai takes everything, then what will the remaining brothers eat.
To a certain extent, Wang Mi's army is more or less modern in the nature of a criminal syndicate, emphasizing friendship rather than discipline, respecting morality rather than the world, and even strategically being like street hooligans fighting without a clear purpose.
But it is Wang Mi's way that for those who just want to mix, not think about the world, it is not a bad thing to follow such a boss.
After everyone listened to the order, they led their headquarters one by one to attack the surrounding cities, and Liu Tai couldn't stop such an act of harming the surrounding cities anyway.
Of course, don't think that they are rebels and think how kind they will be, and even because they are rebels who have nothing, they want everything when they plunder, so they are really like locusts.
And with the looting of the army, it seems to have seen through, and the Chinese army under Wang Mi, in addition to his own headquarters, has also been dispatched one after another.
It can be said that the chaos around the entire Yecheng is not good, but because Yecheng was captured by Liu Tai, and now there is Wang Mi in charge, so the security is a little better.
This made the Yecheng clan family know about the surrounding disasters, especially after seeing the scene of continuous branches taking refuge in them, they couldn't help but feel that it was quite good to be captured by Liu Tai at the beginning, at least their own lives are still there!
Of course, the rebel army under the command of Wang Mi is like locusts crossing the border, but it is aimlessly causing trouble everywhere.
The discipline of Shile's army is much better, and one of the important reasons is that Shile is more observant.
Liu Yuan was benevolent and righteous, and his subordinate Liu Jing drowned more than 30,000 people in the Yellow River after defeating the Jin general Wang Kan in Yanjin.
Liu Yuan was furious when he found out and said, "What kind of face does Liu Jing have to see me!" How could Heavenly Dao accept such a thing! What I want to eliminate is only the Sima clan, what is the crime of the civilians! So he demoted Liu Jing's official position, and Liu Jing never saw anyone from then on.
And because Wang Mi and Liu Yuan are friends, his behavior is a little unscrupulous.
But Shi Le does not have such conditions, for Shi Le, he must be careful and careful in every step, since his immediate boss pays attention to benevolence and righteousness, then he must also pay attention to benevolence and righteousness.
But when Schler found that his interests could not be satisfied, Schler would not hesitate to make a cut.
In any case, even hypocrites have existential significance in this day and age.
Because Shi Le himself was able to fight well, coupled with the military discipline that was at least good in this era, he soon took Handan, Changshan and other places.
And because he felt that he seemed to be too weak compared to Wang Mi's power, he began to consciously gather Han celebrities and celebrities to gather them together and call them the Junzi Battalion.
Of course, the current Junzi camp is probably just an empty shell, but for Shi Le, he has a direction to catch up, don't talk about it, and be stronger than Wang Mi first!
It can be said that with the capture of Yecheng, the army of the Xiongnu Han State can be said to have developed vigorously.
In fact, not only Yecheng's side, but even Liu Cong began to organize an offensive to coerce Luoyang, which can be regarded as two flowers!
At this time, the Jin court was in chaos within the Sima clan, and there was no time to pay attention to the Xiongnu Han Kingdom.
Because the king of Sima Yue returned to Luoyang and continued their messy struggle for power and profit in the Sima family, as for such a trivial matter as being seized Yecheng, it really bothered them.
However, just when the situation of the Xiongnu and Han States was very good, Liu Kun, who was almost ignored by everyone and was appointed and dismissed by the Jin court a year ago as the general of Zhenwei and Zhenwei, was awarded by the Jin court as ridiculous as the "Mongolian Navy".
At this moment, Liu Kun looked at the generals and elites he had accumulated with great difficulty in the past year, saluted very solemnly, and said: "This plan is almost nine deaths, but I only have this opportunity if I want to contain the Xiongnu puppet Han."
I would like to salute you all and wish you all the best of luck! ”
After everyone drank the wine, the leader Wu Ming looked at Liu Kun and said, "Please rest assured that Liu Bingzhou, we are willing to repay the general's kindness with death, if this battle is won, it will be remembered in history, if this battle is lost, then the soul will return to his hometown, and please Liu Bingzhou add more meals, wait for me to triumph!" ”
Between the words, the three thousand people were led by Wu Ming all the way to the south.