Chapter 111: The Battle for Hegemony (I)
After the Mao king Wu Yun designed and ordered Zhang Yanhu to depose the emperor Zhou Huan, he found a teenage child from the descendants of the imperial Zhou family and became the new emperor.
The new little emperor was arranged in a courtyard of the palace by Wu Yun, the king of Mao, and his movements were strictly restricted.
Mao Wang Wu Yun arranged the main officials of the imperial court according to his own wishes, and from the emperor to the ministers, it was completely controlled by Mao Wang Wu Yun.
Then King Mao Wu Yun reorganized the remaining 60,000 Zhou family's army: killed all the officers surnamed Zhou, divided the 60,000 soldiers into 20 teams, and incorporated them into the Wu family's army.
The 200,000 troops of King Wu Yun controlled the entire capital area, and these areas were the sphere of influence controlled by the Zhou family forces of Emperor Zhou Huan.
In this way, coupled with the original sphere of influence, King Mao Wu Yun has become the biggest force in today's dynasty.
After King Mao Wu Yun controlled the situation in the capital area, he ordered a minister appointed by himself to select three thousand palace maids for the little emperor.
The minister who accepted the order of King Mao Wu Yun sent officials to the more than 30 counties of the six prefectures and nine counties to which the capital area belonged and issued a decree on the selection of a quota of palace maids.
A month later, the three thousand palace maids selected from all over the country entered the palace.
These 3,000 palace maids entered the palace and were subjected to a number of strict examinations by eunuchs and palace maids, such as appearance, teeth, voice, virgin status, illness, family origin, and personality.
After two months of examination, these three thousand palace maids were divided into three, six, nine and so on.
King Mao Wu Yun occupied most of the palace harem, and he took the list of high-ranking hundred palace maids selected from the three thousand palace maids, and smiled lewdly.
A few days later, King Mao Wu Yun ordered the eunuchs to send dozens of low-level palace maids into the small closed courtyard of the little emperor.
When choosing a palace maid, Mao Wang Wu Yun also added dozens of imperial kitchens to the palace and established a music workshop and a theater workshop.
Just when King Mao Wu Yun was eating, drinking, and having fun in the palace, the army of King Hong Zhou Lizhong launched an attack on the capital area from the northwest.
Zhou Lizhong, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the western part of the Jin Dynasty, and Wu Yun, the commander of the soldiers and horses in the north of the Ji, are the two strongest forces in the northern region.
Although there has been no direct war between these two powers, it is because they both have their own room for development.
This time, Mao Wang Wu Yun took advantage of the geographical advantage to occupy the capital area and obtained huge benefits and geographical space advantages.
The balance of the two forces was broken at once, and King Mao Wu Yun knew that King Hong Zhou Lizhong would never tolerate all this, so King Hong Zhou Lizhong came to attack the capital area, which was expected by King Mao Wu Yun.
Zhang Yanhu led an army of 100,000 troops to guard the northwest of the capital area to prevent the army of King Zhou Lizhong from attacking the capital area.
The army of King Hongwang Zhou Lizhong must be led by Zhou Xiaosheng, who led 10,000 troops to the capital area first.
Zhang Yanhu heard that Zhou Xiaosheng led the army to invade the capital area, so he led a team of men and horses to meet the battle.
The sphere of influence of the commander of the soldiers and horses of Jibei and the commander of the soldiers and horses of the western Jin Dynasty, King Mao Wu Yun and the commander of the soldiers and horses of the western Jin Dynasty, was precisely in the transition zone between the nomadic nomadic peoples in the north and the farming peoples of the Central Plains. The inhabitants of this area are extremely complex in terms of race and power, so conflicts and fights often occur, which also contributed to the reputation of Zhang Yanhu and Zhou Xiaosheng as invincible generals. As long as there are these two men in the battle, the final victor can only be these two people. But these two behemoths have their own vast realms, so they have never met each other.
Now that the dynasty is in turmoil, the conventional boundaries of the realm have been completely broken, and the two giant beasts have finally met on the northwest border of the capital region.
When Zhang Yanhu and Zhou Xiaosheng were facing each other's heads on the battlefield, they were both very excited.
The two have admired each other for a long time, but they both have a strong desire in their hearts, that is, to defeat each other on the battlefield and become a true invincible general.
Zhang Yanhu waved the three-stop knife weighing more than 50 catties in his hand and launched an attack first.
Zhou Xiaosheng's hand was pulled off by Shi Dewa's Yutian spear, and the hammer head boring wing lance of the boring wing head was broken, staring at Zhang Yanhu's three-stop knife that slashed at him, and when he felt that the other party could no longer change his move, he used eighty and a half percent of his strength to swing the hammer head boring wing lance and smashed the knife bar of Zhang Yanhu's three-stop knife.
The knives and lances collided together, and a loud sound shook people's hearts. Zhang Yanhu and Zhou Xiaosheng were shocked to the point that their arms were numb, and the war horse "Da Da Da" took a few steps back.
Zhou Xiaosheng reined in his war horse and said, "It's really good! It seems that your name as an invincible general is not in vain, but today I, the invincible general, want you to become an enemy general." ”
Zhang Yanhu saw that he had just used ninety percent of his strength to slash and did not gain the upper hand, so he knew that Zhou Xiaosheng was difficult to defeat.
Zhang Yanhu listened to Zhou Xiaosheng's words, and did not speak, urged the horse to swing the knife, transported ten percent of his strength, and slashed at Zhou Xiaosheng for the second time.
Zhang Yanhu had a premonition that his strength was not dominant, so he wanted to rely on the preemptive method to gain a little advantage.
Zhou Xiaosheng is just the opposite, he wants to find out the strength of the opponent and then formulate a way to defeat the enemy.
Zhou Xiaosheng saw that Zhang Yanhu's second knife was full of strength, so he used ninety percent of his strength to knock Zhang Yanhu's knife out with a lance.
This time, the two fought to a tie again.
After Zhou Xiaosheng figured out the strength of his opponent, he still did not use all his strength to fight with his opponent.
After the two fought for ten moves, Zhang Yanhu felt that he couldn't defeat Zhou Xiaosheng, but Zhou Xiaosheng couldn't defeat him, so he relaxed his vigilance.
The two fought a few more moves, and Zhang Yanhu felt that Zhou Xiaosheng's momentum was no longer as sufficient as it was at the beginning, and the power on the lance had become smaller.
Zhang Yanhu wanted to make peace with Zhou Xiaosheng, so that they could all keep the reputation of the invincible general.
Zhang Yanhu was about to find an opportunity to talk to Zhou Xiaosheng, when Zhou Xiaosheng's lance smashed at him, and he used ninety percent of his strength to raise his knife and knock it out.
Zhang Yanhu's three-stop knife was smashed and fell extremely quickly, and Zhang Yanhu, who was in severe pain in his arm, tried his best to collect the falling knife.
The stunned Zhang Yanhu had just retracted the three-stop knife, and Zhou Xiaosheng's hammer head boring wing lance immediately smashed over again.
Zhang Yanhu was in a hurry, and he was no longer able to exert all his strength. His knife was smashed by Zhou Xiaosheng's lance and almost hit his horse's head, Zhang Yanhu was so frightened that he let out a "ah——!", and he was at a loss for a while.
Zhou Xiaosheng's third consecutive lance smashed into Zhang Yanhu again, and Zhang Yanhu, who had become frightened from shock, subconsciously smashed his own lance with a knife.
Zhang Yanhu didn't hold the three-stop knife in his hand this time, and the three-stop knife was shocked to the ground by Zhou Xiaosheng.
Seeing that the knife had been knocked off, Zhang Yanhu turned his horse's head and ran back to the team.
Zhou Xiaosheng led a team of cavalry under his command to chase closely, and the speed of the cavalry of King Zhou Lizhong was faster than that of King Mao Wu Yun. After a while, Zhou Xiaosheng and his cavalry caught up with Zhang Yanhu's team and launched a killing.
As a result of this battle, Zhang Yanhu not only lost his troops, but also lost the county town he guarded.
Zhou Xiaosheng's defeat of Zhang Yanhu made Hongwang Wu Yun's army lose its sharpness, because it has always been the army of King Wu Yun to chase and kill the enemy, and once the confidence cultivated by continuous victory is leaked, it will be difficult to accumulate again.
In less than a month, Zhou Xiaosheng led 10,000 cavalry to capture eight counties, four counties and two capital cities in the capital area.
After Zhou Xiaosheng, the king of Hong, led a large group of men and horses to arrive, he divided the territory seized by Zhou Xiaosheng to the veteran generals who founded the Zhou family army with him.
Hongwang Zhou Lizhong never treated Zhou Xiaosheng as an outsider, he wanted to entrap his officials first, and then divided the eight counties, four counties and two prefectures in the capital area to an extremely important subordinate.
Hongwang Zhou Lizhong did not expect that his decision would be a big mistake that he would regret for the rest of his life.