Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 315 Northern Expedition (5000)

Because of the juxtaposition of the two centers of Jinyang and Luoyang, one country and two systems are formed. This is not a great attempt.

However, the unification of the national attributes of the Eastern Wei Dynasty belongs to the general trend. There must be a trade-off between the Central Plains culture centered on Luoyang and the old customs of Xianbei centered on Jinyang.

As a time traveler, Gao Cheng knows the answer, but the conservative 20 Bingzhou Hu is not only the foundation for maintaining Gao's rule, but also a stumbling block on the road to Sinicization.

Liu Yanshou, who joined Gaocheng Guards with Xue Huer, was deeply touched by this subtle influence.

17 years ago, the townspeople of Huaihuang could not bear the oppression. In order to ask for granary food, they took the lead in rioting and gathered a crowd to attack and kill the town general.

In the spring of the following year, the descendants of the Xiongnu Shanyu broke the Liuhan Baling and launched an uprising in Woye Town. As a Xianbei Hun, Liu Yanshou also participated in it.

Like the bottom of countless six towns, Liu Yanshou blamed his own experience on Emperor Xiaowen, believing that Emperor Xiaowen betrayed the army and people of Daibei. It was because he moved the capital to Luoyang that the six towns in northern Xinjiang that defended the old capital Pingcheng were no longer important. It was also because he admired Han culture. , so that Daibei, who followed the old customs of Xianbei, was excluded from the court and replaced by scholars from Hebei.

Because the geographical location of the six towns is no longer important, the imperial court no longer provides blood transfusions for them. The northern border is bitterly cold, and the life of the soldiers and civilians is difficult.

The upper-class rich and powerful were squeezed out by the scholars in Hebei, and they also vented their grievances on the soldiers and civilians at the bottom.

Based on these two reasons, the lower classes of the Six Towns generally do not have a good opinion of Sinicization.

However, since Liu Yanshou followed Xue Huer and was transferred to Duan Shao's command, left Jinyang, and joined the Luoyang Gyeonggi Army, he inevitably violated his original intention and began to contact and learn Han culture.

There is no way, Xiao Gao, Wang Enwei, and both. If you speak Chinese well, you will be rewarded. If you still can’t learn or don’t want to learn Chinese, you will face the penalty of half or even a full reduction of the military salary. It’s about personal interests, and no one dares to be vague .

After the First World War in Tongguan, Xue Hu'er and his subordinates entered the capital of Gaocheng's cronies. Since most of the cronies were Han Chinese, the degree of Sinicization of Liu Yanshou and others was further deepened.

Up to now, this former Xianbei Hun can even be called a Sinicized Hun. What remains unchanged is the ethnicity, but what has changed is the language and culture used.

Gao Cheng naturally understood the changes under his command. Liu Yanshou was not an exception. The Gyeonggi Army had a similar number of Han Hus, but Luoyang was full of Han style. In this environment, people's changes were also natural.

He didn't even need to make too many coercive measures, and he was biased between Han and Hu.

In order to cover up his facts, Gao Cheng also asked Han soldiers to learn Xianbei in the army, but if Xianbei culture could compete with Han culture, Emperor Xiaowen would not appear.

Allowing backward civilizations to compete fairly with advanced civilizations is unfair in itself, but no one can blame Gao Cheng, even the most extreme Xianbei ethnic elements in Jinyang. After all, King Gao never openly advocated Chinese. Let the Han and Hu soldiers learn each other's language, and there is also an excuse for the close connection between the sergeants.

And now with the 20 Bingzhou Hu Xizheng, thanks to Gao Cheng's helpless move to cover up the facts, even the Han soldiers in the Gyeonggi Army can communicate with the Hu soldiers without hindrance.

Of course, there will inevitably be many conflicts between them, but Gao Cheng has to patrol the camp every day to mediate for them. Although it is just a peace, but now that the war is about to start, he can only go to make peace.

These incidents also made Gao Cheng understand that the estrangement could not be easily eliminated. Afterwards, he found Gao Huan, and Gao Huan also agreed to the proposal that the two soldiers should fight separately on the battlefield.

Although it is a big taboo to order multiple sects on the battlefield, the two do not belong to each other's tribes, and based on mutual trust in the judgment of the battlefield situation, there will not be too many problems.

Lou Zhao's army going south was not so moth. Before Gao Cheng went to Jinyang, he ordered Lou Zhao, the governor of Jizhou, to summon [-] soldiers and horses from the five prefectures of Xiang, Ji, Ding, Cang, and Ji to march south.

They are basically all Han Chinese, and Duan Shao, who jointly controls this army, although most of the old troops under his command are Xianbei from the six towns, he has lived in Henan for so many years and has basically realized Sinicization, so there is indeed no difficulty in reconciliation ethnic conflicts.

Wang Ajing, as a member of Xiangzhou County Bing, they are different from Bingzhou Hu and Gingji Bing, they returned to the team to go south with Lou Zhao after finishing the farm work at home.

This is also the root cause of the disparity in combat effectiveness between prefectural and county soldiers and full-time soldiers. It has nothing to do with physical fitness. All the time is busy in the fields.

As the saying goes, no pains, no gains, so state and county soldiers can only be used to defend the city, while full-time soldiers are the reliance for decisive victory in field battles.

But this time it was just to support the defense on the southern front, and the [-] prefecture soldiers going south would be of great use. Neither Gao Cheng, nor Lou Zhao, nor Duan Shao thought of letting them fight Liang Ren in the wild. battle.

Relying on the defense of the city wall and delaying Liang people under the city is the usefulness of this army.

Now the Kwantung is not without an army capable of confronting Nanliang. For example, Duan Shao originally belonged to the Gyeonggi Army's [-] soldiers, but Zhu Hunyuan's [-] troops also defeated Zhao Gui in front of Qinzhou, and Hou Jing, Yaoxiong, and Gao Yue The old men of the three followed them to guard their places.
Gao Cheng's arrangements for Henan were not inappropriate. Even behind Hou Jing, there was Guangzhou governor Gao Jishi, his absolute confidant, who led the [-] soldiers who originally belonged to the Gyeonggi Army as the second line of defense.

But it was the Henan area that sounded the war horn first.

Huainan was far away from Guanzhong, and the frontline generals didn't know that the Liang Wei coalition forces were resting in Bashang and Yubi respectively with the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

After Xia Houkui's death, it was his former partner Yang Yaren who guarded Huainan instead of him. From Yang Yaren's perspective, he learned that the Eastern Wei army had entered the pass and was ordered to attack the Guandong. , forcing Gao's father and son to return to aid.

Otherwise, what's the point of slowly going north after the Guanzhong war has come to an end.

Yang Yaren did not choose Jingzhou as a breakthrough direction, not to mention Hou Jing's ability, he was already a vanguard general during Er Zhurong's time.

In terms of military strength alone, among the three generals on the southern front, Hou Jing has the strongest military strength, with [-] old troops and [-] state and county soldiers.

As for Yuzhou, Yang Yaren was even more reluctant to take a look at it. Chen Qingzhi was a mythical figure in the Nanliang army, but he was beaten badly in Yuzhou and repeatedly defeated by Yaoxiong.

Although it is said that there is no one in literature and no second in martial arts, people with high martial arts skills often boast, but Yang Yaren understands that Chen Qingzhi's commanding talent is not comparable to his own. Everyone is a famous general, but Chen Qingzhi's famous general has a higher gold content than himself.

So the three lines of defense in the Eastern Wei Dynasty, in the end only Gao Yue who guarded Xuzhou was left.

Because of Gao Cheng's appearance, Gao Yue in this time and space is a little unknown.

The first was the Battle of Han Ling. Gao Huan's army defended against the formation due to Gao Cheng's strategy and did not suffer too much impact. Gao Yue led the five hundred cavalry to attack, the savior in danger, and Gao Aocao. Let's turn the tide together.

And because Gao Cheng showed his military talents prematurely and monopolized the command of the war in Henan, Gao Yue has been useless and can only be recruited under Gao Huan's command. , Ji Hu, Liu Lisheng and other series of wars, but there was no outstanding performance.

In the surprise attack on Xiurong, Dou Tai led the elite cavalry to attack three hundred miles a day and one night, forcing Erzhuzhao to death, and subduing Hedouling Yili. It was also Gao Huan's infantry who attracted attention, and then Dou Tai attacked his tribe, arrested women and children, and waited When Hedouling was chasing after Yili, the two armies attacked, and the Hedouling tribe was incorporated in the First World War.

Liu Lisheng was instigated by Zhao Yanshen sent by Gao Cheng, and was killed by his subordinates.

Therefore, in Yang Yaren's view, Gao Yue was able to remain in a high position after making a big mistake, but he relied on his relatives with Gao Huan, and he was just a useless person.

So naturally, under the comparison of the two tough bones of Hou Jing in the west and Yaoxiong in the middle, Yang Yaren decided to squeeze the soft persimmons and mobilized [-] troops from Huainan to invade Xuzhou.

In the [-] army, there are also [-] elites who were once under Xiahou Kui's command and were known as the best in the world.

This trilogy of Xiahou's private army, since Xiahou Kui died of illness, because the eldest son Xiahou Zhuan became a civil servant and served as a servant, it fell into the hands of the second son Xiahou Yu.

This time, Xiahouzhu's enthusiasm for the expedition was high. He was determined to wash away the original shame through this battle. Xia Houkui and Yang Yaren, who were superior in military strength, retreated with regret, which made the Eastern Wei take the opportunity to seize Qiaozhou and change its name to Nanyanzhou.

In that battle, Xia Houzhen was beaten and doubted his life. In the end, his father Xia Houkui's slap woke him up. Even though it has been several years, he has never forgotten the humiliation.

Now that his father died of illness, his elder brother believed that he had no military command to switch to a civilian job, and the burden of recasting the glory of the Xiahou clan fell on Xiahouzhen's head.

Ever since he crossed the Huai River with Yang Yaren in the north, Xia Houzhen fought desperately, and he had many achievements in attacking cities and villages.

But another reason why Nanliang is in such a difficult position is that Gao Yue has shrunk his troops and is determined to rely on Pengcheng to wait for rescue.

Of course Gao Yue has reinforcements. Lou Zhao led a hundred thousand troops southward and split up with Duan Shao. He is currently stationed at the slippery platform. The messenger has already returned to Pengcheng, telling him that Duan Shao will lead 5000 people from his old army and [-] Hebei troops to rescue.

Duan Shao's reputation is not obvious to outsiders now. He fought with Gao Cheng several times and made many achievements, but he has been overshadowed by the light of his cousin, and few people know his ability.

But as Gao Huan's cousin, Gao Yue is undoubtedly one of them.

After Gao Huan was defeated in the Western Expedition, he and Gao Yue expressed emotion:

'Every time I discuss military affairs with Duan Shao, I can hear many brilliant opinions. If I had had his staff at that time, maybe there would have been nothing in the north for me to worry about. '

The reason why Duan Shao was not brought with him during the Western Expedition was simply that there must be someone trustworthy enough to sit in Henan. This trust is not only loyalty, but also ability.

And this candidate is either Gao Cheng or Duan Shao. In military terms, both Lou Zhao and Gao Yue are inferior to Gao Cheng and Duan Shao in terms of ability.

Hou Jing and Yaoxiong can be trusted in terms of ability, but they are not their own family members.

With Gao Cheng wholeheartedly following his father west, Gao Huan could only discuss with him and leave Duan Shao in Henan.

Gao Cheng also knew Duan Shaozhi's ability well, after all, he was the head of the three heroes of the Northern Qi Dynasty, so he allocated 5 horses for him in Lou Zhao's [-] army.

Knowing that Duan Shao will come to help, Gao Yue strengthened his belief. He rarely gets along with Duan Shao, he only knows that this person is stingy but lustful, but he firmly believes that his cousin Gao Huan has a premonition in his vision of people. Afterwards, Duan Shao will surely become famous all over the world.

Duan Shao, who was on the march, didn't know Gao Yue's premonition, but he did have plans to use Yang Yaren as a stepping stone.

Of the 5000 men under Duan Shao's command, only 5000 are full-time soldiers, but Yang Yaren has 7 men under his command, and there are also a large number of state and county soldiers.

It's just that in terms of the quality of the soldiers, Nanliang is undoubtedly stronger. Not only does the Xiahou clan have [-] elites, but Yang Yaren himself is a full-time soldier who has raised more than [-] people.

Fifty thousand soldiers against fifteen thousand soldiers, and fifty thousand against fifty thousand soldiers from prefectures and counties. The Eastern Wei Dynasty was at a disadvantage, but wars were not about killing people, otherwise Gao Huan would not have had his first major defeat in the Western Expedition.

Most of the generals of the Eastern Wei Dynasty were from Beizhen warriors. , Duan Shao is one of them.

Compared with the two armies fighting head-on, Duan Shao is more willing to use tricks, just like Gao Cheng in the past.

Now in the Western Expedition, the reason why Gao Cheng agrees with the two armies facing each other head-on is that, facing Yu Wentai, a cunning opponent, he is unwilling to resort to tactics to take risks under the premise of a war that will destroy the country.

You can look down on Yuwentai and Gao Huan's ability to command a large army. When there are too many people, these two people are very hip. For example, Yuwentai lost the two battles of Heqiao and Mangshan.

Even if Yu Wentai killed Gao Aocao, the general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, it could not change the ending of the Western Wei army that left Henan after the Battle of Shayuan and was driven back to Guanzhong.

However, their resourcefulness should never be underestimated. Whether Gao Huan won the battle of Guang'a with two rumors, easily seized the control of Hebei, and tried four times to send troops to Xiurong but returned halfway, which made Er Zhuzhao relax. When he was vigilant, Yu Yuanri ordered Dou Tai to go straight to Huanglong and force Er Zhuzhao to death.

It was Yu Wentai who figured out strategies when the situation was difficult, so that the Western Wei Dynasty successfully resisted the early offensive of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and let the world see the talents of the two of them.

Most of the so-called tricks can only work on stupid people, such as Gao Huan playing with Er Zhuzhao, and Gao Huan who got the buff of reducing intelligence was rubbed by Yu Wentai.

At this stage, Yu Wentai is undoubtedly a wise man. Instead of pinning his hopes on the phenomenon of descending wisdom from person to person between Gao Huan and Yu Wentai, it is better to face off with the two armies and win the battle.

But the question is whether Yuwentai will make Gao's father and son happy, show off their chariots and horses with them, and fight each other for consumption?
Duan Shao didn't think about the upcoming Guanzhong war, he had his own responsibilities.

In the past, the commanding army never exceeded 5000 people, but Gao Huan and Gao Cheng entrusted 5 troops. All he could do was to prevent the Gao family and his son who had already entered the customs from being distracted by Henan.

Now that Yang Yaren has violated the border, Duan Shao is determined to fight this battle so that the opponent dare not look north, leaving an unforgettable impression on him.

Unlike the early days of the Northern Expedition, which went smoothly and conquered the city all the way, when Yang Yaren's army marched to Pengcheng, they encountered the most tenacious resistance.

Whenever a strong city is broken, there are no more than four possibilities:
One is internal turmoil.

Second, there is no external support.

The three grains are cut off.

Its four defenders are insufficient.

After Gao Cheng’s suppression of the rebellion, there was only one gentry family in Pengcheng who survived by chance. They were scared out of their wits and did not dare to make trouble behind their backs. The various policies to benefit the people formulated by the church have improved the living standard visible to the naked eye. Naturally, they are also heartfelt to the Gao family and are willing to guard the city with Gao Yue. Internal chaos can naturally be ruled out.

Duan Shaozheng is leading the army here, and the lack of external support can also be ignored.

At this time, Xuzhou had sufficient food, even if it was salt, vegetables, and firewood, Gao Yue had already prepared for it. Unless Yang Yaren besieged the city for a year, it would be impossible for the food to be cut off.

As for the number of defenders, thanks to Gao Yue's decision to shrink his troops, there are now sufficient troops in the city.

Pengcheng is not considered a strong city, but none of these four points are satisfied, and Yang Yaren can only attack the city by force, which also caused a lot of casualties to the state and county soldiers under his command.

Yang Yaren can't spend all his time under Pengcheng City, otherwise even if he tries his best to capture Pengcheng, he will have to rest for a long time. By then, Guanzhong may have already won the battle.

His task from beginning to end was not to conquer the city, but to force the Gao family to return from Guanzhong for help. So after three days of the siege, Yang Yaren finally stopped this behavior.

Yang Yaren convened all the generals in the handsome tent and put forward his own views, hoping to go deep into the hinterland of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, regardless of the gains and losses of a city or a place, focusing on burning, killing and destroying, which is quite similar to when Gao Cheng sent Duan Shaoma to the Central Plain elegant demeanor.

It stands to reason that this plan is indeed more likely to force the Gao family to return to aid, but it also met with strong opposition from the generals.

The court had its own considerations, so it tried to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and used the Northern Expedition to force Eastern Wei to return to the division.

The generals also have their own ideas. The situation in Kanto today is different from when Duan Shaoma stepped into the pass. At that time, Yuwentai's main force was fighting Gao Huan, and Duan Shao's cavalry came and went like the wind.

Since ancient times, cavalry has always been the weak point of the southern army. Even the private soldiers of the Xiahou family, which is the most powerful in the world, only have [-] horses.

Although the main force of the Eastern Wei Dynasty entered the customs, there were still a large number of troops in Henan. After all, only the Gyeonggi Army under Gao Cheng’s command was transferred from Henan, and Lou Zhao brought another [-] troops to the south. Therefore, there is no such thing as an emptiness in Henan. .

With a small number of cavalry and a large number of infantry to go deep into the enemy's territory alone, even though Chen Qingzhi took advantage of the emptiness of Henan Province and created brilliant results, in the end he was the only one who became a monk and escaped back to Nanliang by chance, while none of the soldiers who followed him to the north were spared , not to mention that Henan is now heavily guarded.

Maybe Yang Yaren's strategy can force the Eastern Wei Dynasty to return to the teacher, but these Nanliang generals did not want to put themselves to death for the Western Wei Dynasty.

　There is something wrong with the computer, and the speed of typing with the mobile phone is a bit slow. The 5000 words in the next chapter will be in the early morning, because there may be a break in the middle, after all, the fingers are sore, it may be very late, about three or four o'clock Left and right, you don’t have to wait, just get up and watch tomorrow morning.

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