Shu Chen

Chapter 220
The forces that could intrude on Wei's northern border were the Liaodong Gongsun clan, Wuhuan, Xianbei, and the Xiongnu.

Among them, the Xiongnu were divided into five internal vassals during the period of Wei Wu and Cao Cao, and they were not enough for a long time.

Wuhuan, the three counties in the east, was attacked and moved inland by Wei Wu Cao Cao, and Wuhuan in Daibei was attacked by Cao Zhang. Gu Jin, the only leader who managed to escape to Mobei, was also beheaded by Tian Yu later, and the family began to decline.

As for Xianbei, the west fell into civil strife and was unable to invade the country to cause chaos; Su Li, the master of the east, first won five battles with Tian Yu, and then was forced to be attacked by Ke Bineng, so he chose to attach himself to Wei, and his power was exhausted; plus the central Xianbei Ke Bineng was killed now, and the entire Xianbei fell into mutual aggression, and since then, Monan has had few incidents.

And the Gongsun family in Liaodong has also been destroyed.
In other words, with the end of the Battle of Liaodong and the Battle of Pingcheng, Wei's northern border ushered in a long-lost peace.

Cao Rui finally had a stable rear, and he could mobilize more troops and have a steady stream of supplies to fight against Han and Wu without distractions.

But he didn't have enough time to plan.

When he disregarded the objections of the Dukes of Gun and Gun on the grounds of frequent wars and too long hard labor of Li and Shu, he decided to support the great Sima Cao Zhen to fight against Shu with the power of Hexi, Soochow also sent troops.

Sun Quan finally turned his attention back to the land after several times of losing countless soldiers in the sea and reaping the harvest.

In particular, in recent years, the big man has frequently sent troops to report success, but Soochow has no achievements to speak of except for the Battle of Shiting, which makes him very anxious.

The Three Kingdoms stand together, originally the Wei State was the dominant state, and the Han and Wu were both weak.

He didn't want to see that the Han and Wei dynasties would become divided into rival courts in the future, and the Soochow family would be alone.

Therefore, from the end of spring to the beginning of summer, he prepared his troops for the Northern Expedition.

Coincidentally, in mid-June, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, sent an envoy for the first time, inviting him to practice the alliance against Wei.

When the military report of capturing the fortress of Yuyin spread to Longyou, the prime minister began to prepare for the attack of Wei State.

In any case, it is impossible for the State of Wei to sit back and watch Shuyinsai fall into the hands of the big man.

Because if you don't seize Huiyin, Liangzhou will break off with Guanzhong-when Luoyang's prestige cannot be conveyed, Liangzhou will not be able to defend.

Even the State of Wei has already adopted the policy of "people on the border rule the border".

After all, there are only a few counties in the Hexi Corridor, which can only benefit a few people.

However, the leaders of Hexi Haoyou and Qianghu tribes abound, and it is impossible for everyone to benefit equally.

Those who can't share the benefits, or those who feel that the benefits are too little, will want to redistribute the profits when the Wei State cannot pose a threat to the Hexi Corridor and the Han army advances.

The Han army that entered Hexi was like a kindling, igniting the wild hope in the hearts of countless people who were uneasy about the status quo.

Break the old order, reshuffle the power, and change the pattern of benefit distribution.
The new nobles are destined to rise on the corpses of the old dignitaries.

Even the illiterate leader of the horse bandits knows this well, and would be willing to provide intelligence to the Han army and become a pawn in order to get an official position.

And what will happen to Wei Guo, who has lost Liangzhou?
In less than five years, the great Han will sweep Guanzhong with tens of thousands of riders; and once the big Han invades Guanzhong, he will have the foundation of the strong Qin who swept the six kingdoms in the past.

There is something even more frightening - once the big men are still in Chang'an, it will also be a fire that ignites people's hearts.

That means: Han Zuo is still alive!
Wei Liguo's time was too short to resist the 400 years of Han dynasty's prestige.

It is a belief that has long been in people's minds, and it can only be gradually weakened by the accumulation of time, and it cannot be wiped out by setting off one or two "Wei satire cases".

This point, Wei Guo is well aware of it.

So they will do their best to stop the root cause of all this, and take back the last link that shows Liangzhou belongs to Wei State!

In this regard, the prime minister also knows clearly.

That's why he sent envoys to Jiangdong, asking Sun Quan to send troops to attack Wei, so as to reduce the number of troops from Wei to attack Longyou.

For example, the army guarding Wei Guogong in Luoyang did not dare to come to Longyou.

The big man has taken the initiative to send troops to attack year after year, and his background has been consumed too much.

If Soochow sent troops, no matter what the outcome of the battle, even if it only allowed Wei Guo to transfer some materials to Guanzhong, it would be beneficial to the big man.

For this reason, although the prime minister knew that Soochow was planning to send troops to attack Wei, he still gave him a lot of benefits.

Mainly in the war horse trade.

Sun Quan said that there were too many soldiers lost in Fuhai, and he had already used the captives of Shanyue as a supplementary source of soldiers and farmland, and claimed that he would no longer exchange the captives for war horses; he also sent troops to attack Wei, and there was not much food for trade, so he asked the big man They are allowed to use extravagant and unrealistic materials such as water essence and pearls to offset part of the trading fodder.

These prime ministers agreed.

On the grounds of the alliance between the two countries, he sent more than ten Qianghu herdsmen to Soochow to teach them to take good care of war horses.

Then, there was a cryptic mention in the letter of credence: Most of Wei's troops will come to attack Longyou, and there will not be too many troops to fight against your country. Don't be as anticlimactic as the last time you sent troops to attack Wei.

This made Sun Quan feel a little angry after seeing it.

But he also did not refute the reasons for being underestimated by the big man.

Anyway, the last time he personally led the army out of Huainan, he only beheaded a few hundred people under the command of Wang Ling, the governor of Wei Yangzhou, and then retreated on the grounds of a leaked plan.

Therefore, Jiangdong used a lot of troops this time, and it was very determined to make a contribution in World War I.

Moreover, before the Han-Wei Longyou War broke out in advance, they took the lead in sending troops at the beginning of Xia Qi.

But the soldiers came out in three ways.

All the way is Jingzhou.

The army led by Lu Xun and Zhuge Jin set off from Xiakou and went up the Han River to attack Xiangyang.

Along the way, with Sun Shao as the main general and Zhang Cheng as the deputy general, he entered Guangling County, went up the middle and small Dushui Canal, and marched towards Huaiyin.

These two groups of soldiers and horses both consisted of more than ten thousand people, and they mainly focused on support, in order to disperse the garrison forces of Wei State.

The main force was the [-] army led by Sun Quan, who set off from Ruxukou to attack Hefei.

The route of the three routes of soldiers and horses is almost the same as that of Wei Wen and Cao Pi when they first attacked Wu. The difference is that this time it is the Northern Expedition of Eastern Wu rather than the Southern Expedition of Cao Wei.

The results of the battle seem to be a sign that Cao Pi has begun to develop in vain.

Needless to say, Lu Xun and Sun Shao led more than [-] people each, and neither dared to go too deep nor let go. They were held back by Sima Yi who rushed back to Jingzhou and Wang Ling, the governor of Wei Yangzhou, respectively.

However, after the main force led by Sun Quan arrived at the battlefield, it wasted more than 20 days without disembarking!

The reason is that Man Chong gave him a problem.

Man Chong believed that Wei State invested too much troops on the northwest front, and concluded that Soochow, which was allied with the Han Dynasty, felt that there was an opportunity to lead a large army to attack Huainan, so he gave Luo Yang a petition early on, requesting the construction of a new city in Hefei.

The former city of Hefei, located on the Nanfei River, was built 30 years ago by Liu Fu, the governor of Yangzhou. It has survived many wars and has never been captured.

But Man Chong felt that the location of Hefei City was not good for Wei State in the war.

In Jiangdong, the navy can go up against the Nanfei River and reach the city directly. If it is defeated, it can quickly retreat in a boat, which can be said to be advanced and retreated freely.

Moreover, he felt that Jiangdong was only an elite navy, and if he went ashore to fight in the field, he would not be able to compete with Wei Guo at all.

Therefore, he wanted to move the city of Hefei to the north of Nanfei River.

At that time in Luoyang, this table still sparked endless debate.

For example, Jiang Ji, who is well versed in the Jianghuai military affairs, clearly holds opposing views.

Thinking that Hefei City was not captured by Jiangdong, but would be destroyed by his own people. Such a voluntary retreat will make the lieutenant generals think that Wei is powerless to fight against Soochow because of the northwest front.

But in the end, Cao Rui and many courtiers still chose to believe in Man Chong's judgment.

Therefore, when Sun Quan led his army back against the current, he found that the old city of Hefei was in ruins, and the new city of Hefei was thirty miles away.

If you want to attack the city, you have to travel another thirty miles northward from the shore.

This distance was too far, and he fell into a battle between heaven and man.

If they marched, they had to worry about whether the Wei Congress would ambush along the road, or use the mobility of the cavalry to surprise the fleet left on the Nanfei River, leaving the army nowhere to go.

But if you don't march, you may hurt the spirit of the soldiers.

The morale of the gathered army is like a rainbow, so you can't just retreat without a shot, can you?
Therefore, after he sent Quan Cong to lead a partial army to attack Lu'an, he was in a dilemma, and he did not make a decision for [-] consecutive days and stood still.

However, for the big man, it doesn't matter whether Sun Quan goes ashore to attack the city for thirty miles or not.

In the prime minister's heart, he never expected that Jiangdong would still have the bravery of Sun Ce in the past, marching forward triumphantly, defeating Wei Wei and retreating steadily.

Sun Quan sent so many troops that he had already completed the containment for the big man.

For example, Sima Yi, who was in Jingzhou, did not dare to lead the army to harass Hanzhong County from the west city.

For example, the army that had just returned to Luoyang from the Liaodong expedition showed no signs of entering Guanzhong.

On the contrary, it is said that the news from Xizuo seems to be that Cao Rui plans to lead the army to fight Sun Quan in Huainan in order to solve the plight of Wei Yangzhou's lack of troops.

However, Cao Zhen's current military strength should not be underestimated.

In June of Xia, Tuoba Liwei, the head of Xianbei Suo, sent his eldest son Tuoba Desert Khan to Luoyang to accept the official position of Wei State as a proton, and then began to migrate.At the end of July, it crossed Beidi County and entered the northern part of Anding County, which became a barrier in the north of Wei Guoguan.

This allowed Cao Zhen to use up the defensive strength of the Guanzhong Sanfu, about [-].

Moreover, Cao Rui ordered some of the garrison forces in the two counties of Jizhou, Bingzhou, Sizhou Hedong and Hanoi, totaling about [-], to transfer grain, fodder and luggage to Guanzhong for dispatch by Cao Zhen on the grounds that there was no fighting in northern Xinjiang.

It is worth mentioning that the attached Southern Huns were also confiscated by the State of Wei.

In the past, Wei Wu Cao Cao divided the Southern Huns into five tribes, left Shanyu Huchuquan in Luoyang as an official, and ordered Youxian King to go to Beidai to lead the tribe. Therefore, the Southern Xiongnu has always been very peaceful towards Wei.This time the conquest was led by Zuoxian King Liu Bao (son of Yu Fuluo and nephew of Shan Yu Huchuquan) as the supervisor, leading more than [-] Hun cavalry to Anding County to follow the conquest.

That is to say, excluding the military strength of Liangzhou, Cao Zhen alone commanded 110,000 cavalry!
(End of this chapter)