Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 400 Magna Carta (VIII)
One month later

Wu Guo
Jianye
Royal Palace
"Call, envoys from the Kingdom of Yan have an audience!"

"Call, envoys from the Kingdom of Yan have an audience!"

"Call, envoys from the Kingdom of Yan have an audience!"

Amidst the loud summons, Wang Xue and Xunbiao, envoys of Yan State, entered the hall, and respectfully said to Sun Xiu, the honorable emperor of Wu State, who was seated in the main hall: "Envoy of Yan State Xun Biao/Wang Xue, See Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Wannian!"

Sun Xiu looked at the two envoys of Yan State, a man and a woman, and was very happy.

He also became emperor during the civil strife in Wu a few years ago, and he had just eradicated the powerful ministers a few months ago and gained real power.

Now he is busy cultivating cronies internally, recuperating and recuperating, while strengthening the alliance with the Shu Han externally, and at the same time contacting the Yuan Zhao Huainan rebels not long ago.

But he didn't expect Sima Zhao to put down the rebellion so quickly, and the Huainan rebels were quickly suppressed by Sima Zhao.

Naturally, he had heard about the turmoil in Yan, but he didn't know much about it. He only knew that Yan, the prince of Yuan and Zhao, seemed to be fighting internally, and the rest of the news was completely black.

"My country of Yan is willing to surrender to the country of Wu and become a subject of the country of Wu. I only ask that the country of Wu can protect my country of Yan." Wang Xue explained the purpose of coming.

Yanhou Wang Ting fled to Luoyang to seek asylum from Sima Zhao. Wang Ba repeatedly asked Sima Zhao to hand over Wang Ting, but was refused.

Even Sima Zhao threatened Wang Ba with force, demanding that Wang Ba and others hand over the entire Liaodong.

This rude request was naturally rejected, so Wang Ba wanted to cooperate with Wu Guo and use Wu Guo to restrain Sima Zhao's energy.

Faced with the active submission of the Yan Kingdom, the Emperor Sun Xiu of the Wu Kingdom was naturally overjoyed, and immediately conferred Wang Ba as the Liaodong prefect, Youzhou Mu, Yan Wang, envoy, governor of the three prefectures of Youqing and Hebei, Jia Jiuxi, Jian Stepping up to the palace, entering the court without tending, and worshiping without being famous.

A lot of false names without money were given to Wang Ba, not only all kinds of false names, but also a lot of actual benefits.

Sun Xiu sent envoys to follow Wang Xue and Xunbiao to cross the sea to Yan State by boat, and the ship was filled with all kinds of precious ritual vessels, gems, and gold.

At the same time, Wu State gave [-] million [Liao Pay] to the Liaodong royal family (Yan State) every year as an annual reward, so as to encourage Yan State to continue to submit to Wu State.

The state of Yan surrendered to the state of Wu, and the state of Wu sent money to the state of Yan. This transaction was very fair and just.

another month later

Shanhaiguan

Dark clouds overwhelm the city

Sima Zhao sent 20 troops to attack Liaodong in four directions.

They are led by Wen Yang, Zhong Hui, Zhuge Xu, and Deng Ai respectively.

Among them, Wenyang led [-] troops to take the north road, bypassing Yanshan Mountain, and walking through the Yanbei Grassland, and by the way, see if the Xianbei people in the Yanbei Grassland are still loyal.

Deng Ai led [-] troops on the Yanshan Mountain Road, shuttled among the high mountains, and attacked the rear of the Yan State.

Zhuge Xu led [-] troops by sea, starting from the mouth of the Yellow River and heading straight for the base camp of the State of Yan.

Zhong Hui led [-] troops to walk along the best Liaoxi Corridor. Taking advantage of the low tide of the sea, he captured Shanhaiguan and opened the door from the Central Plains to the Kingdom of Yan.

Shanhaiguan originally belonged to the territory of the Li family, but because the Li family was involved in the civil strife in Yan, they were wiped out by the Yan State's parliamentary army, and the Liaoxi Corridor ruled by the Li family was also directly brought under the rule of the Yan State.

Looking at the densely packed crossbows on the city wall of Shanhaiguan, Zhong Hui felt very helpless.

The pass is too narrow, there are fortresses everywhere, and the walls are full of crossbows, it is too difficult to attack.

Unless you go around and cut off the logistical supplies of the Shanhaiguan defenders, forcing them to surrender in hunger.

However, the logistics supplies of the Shanhaiguan defenders mainly rely on sea transportation, so if they want to cut off their logistics, they can only count on Zhuge Xu to defeat the royal warships at sea.

When Zhong Hui was worrying about the city defense system of Shanhaiguan...

Liaodong Bay
Zhugexu was inexperienced in naval battle for the first time, so he fell into Wang Shuang's trick to lure the enemy deep. Hundreds of Yuan Zhao ships were lured into a reef area that was easy to run aground, and then ran aground one after another.

The Central Plains Navy had never been to this sea area, so they naturally didn't know that this place was easily stranded by rocks when the tide was low, so they fell into the trick of the Yan State Navy's trick to lure the enemy deep.

"Quick, use the oars!" Since they were all stranded, they could only rely on manpower to paddle out.

However, when they were paddling with manpower, Yan Guo's fire attack ship rushed over while they were unable to move.

Dozens of small pointed boats were rushing towards Zhugexu's navy along the direction of the wind. When they were about to approach, these pointed boats lit kerosene one after another and slammed into Yuan Zhao's navy fleet.

boom!
boom!
crackle crackle crackle!

"what!--"

thump!
The sound of the hull being smashed, the sound of the fire burning, the sound of the crowd screaming in panic, and the sound of soldiers jumping into the sea.

Just like the reappearance of the Chibi War decades ago, the water army in the Central Plains was once again defeated by fire.

It's just that last time it was on the river, this time it was on the sea.

The main force of Yuan Zhao's water army was defeated, and the commander Zhuge Xu was captured.

five days later

Twenty miles west of Liaoyang City
After Deng Ai's 3000 troops crossed the lofty mountains of Yanshan Mountain, only 7000 people were left alive, and the remaining [-] people fell to death halfway, contracted diseases, and so on.

Today, he finally arrived in the hinterland of Liaodong.

"Smuggle across Yanshan, go straight to Liaodong!"

Deng Ai yelled at the three thousand soldiers who were still alive, hoping to boost morale.

However, before his encouragement ended, five hundred Iron Buddhas had already been killed from afar.

Due to the need to climb mountains and ridges, Deng Ai's army did not carry armor, and they could not climb the mountain if they did.

Five hundred armed soldiers attacked three thousand infantry who had no formation, no armor, exhausted, and defenseless, and the result can be imagined.

Tatata!
Pooh! ——

"Wow!--"

Five hundred mounted cavalry killed Deng Ai's three thousand exhausted soldiers, and Deng Ai's army scattered and fled in all directions. Even Deng Ai himself could only flee into the Yanshan Mountains in despair, relying on the cover of the mountains to escape. After a catastrophe, he fled all the way to the southwest and returned to the Central Plains.

at the same time
Gao Xiancheng

Wenyang took [-] Central Plains cavalry to cross the Yanbei grassland and enter Liaodong through the Yanbei grassland, but the Xianbei people in Yanbei were worried that Wenyang would learn from the Liaodong royal family to engage in "sweeping holes", so they rejected Wenyang's [-] troops. The cavalry entered the country and refused to grant military access.

Wen Yang had no choice but to kill through the Yanbei grassland and force the Yanbei Xianbei people to give up a passage, but he himself suffered heavy losses, with only 1 of the [-] cavalry left.

When Wen Yang came to Gaoxian City through the Yanbei Grassland, he found that there were swamps everywhere, and there was only one place to pass through, and that was Gaoxian City in the middle of the swamp.

Before that, Yanhou Wang Ting took the initiative to open Gaoxian City and put the Xianbei people into Liaodong.

Today, Gaoxian City has been retaken by the parliamentary army, and thousands of strong crossbows are guarding this swamp-fortified city.

The fortified city built by the four major families in Liaodong for hundreds of years would have been almost impossible to break through if there hadn't been an inner ghost.

Looking at the surrounding mountains and swamps, and the indestructible Gaoxian City directly in front of him, Wen Yang had no choice but to go back the same way. When passing by the Yanbei Grassland, he also forced the local Xianbei people to pay a large amount of livestock.

So far, Sima Zhao's 20 troops divided into four groups have failed one after another.

Zhuge Xu on the sea road was captured, Deng Ai on the Yanshan Mountain Road was wiped out, and fled back to the Central Plains alone. Wen Yang on the grassland lost a lot of troops just by attacking the Xianbei people who blocked the way, and had no strength to attack the city built in the swamp. Zhong Hui stationed troops for several months, but he couldn't do anything to the city defense system of Shanhaiguan. In the end, he ran out of food and grass, so he had no choice but to withdraw his troops.

(End of this chapter)