Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 780 Victory in the First Battle
After Zhang Song left the Han camp, Yizhou was torn apart from the Han Dynasty.For Yizhou to make such a decision, Liu Xie had expected it.

Sometimes the environment can change a person very much, and living in a safe environment for a long time, people there will inevitably have a mentality of arrogance and luck.

In fact, if Liu Xie was allowed to step in, he would not surrender without even fighting.After all, Yizhou is too difficult to attack.

Sometimes, Liu Xie wondered, how could Yizhou be captured?Especially attacking from east to north to west.You know, before February of the 26th year of the Republic of China (AD 1937), that is, before the entire line of the Sichuan-Shanxi Highway was opened to traffic, there were only three roads from the inland of the Central Plains to Shu.

One is Jinniu Road, which is well-known as "Jianmen Shu Road"; the other is Yinping Road; the third is Micang Road.There is no way to make people who enter Sichuan comfortable, let alone attack with their lives desperately.

Micang Road is a road from Hanzhong along the Lianshui Valley Road and Bajiang Valley Road. The way people walk is worse than Yinping Road, and marching and fighting are completely negligible.

As for the Yinping trail, it starts from Yinpingdu and needs to cross Motianling, pass through Tangjiahe, Yinping Mountain, Mazhuanguan, and Jingjun Mountain before arriving at Jiangyouguan in Pingwu County.This road is very steep, but it is also very famous, because Deng Ai destroyed the Kingdom of Shu through this road.

But Liu Xie, who has really verified the history, knows that Deng Ai's choice of this road is actually a desperate situation, not to mention rolling down the Yinping Road and narrowly escaped death, and there is no turning back after that.Moreover, the thousands of soldiers with big bales that he didn't fall to death didn't even have a horse, so why fight?It was all because Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang's descendants were so fucked up that he got away with it.

The only thing left is the golden bull road, which is the road Liu Xie chose this time.This road is relatively easy to walk, and the distance is relatively short, but the terrible thing is that it is also called "Jianmen Shu Road". It is more difficult than going to the blue sky!" Well, it is the danger of the sword gate.

However, 'If you want to get Sichuan, you must go to Jianmen Pass'.The ancient Jianmen refers to a mountain range that stretches more than a hundred kilometers from east to west, 53 kilometers north of today's Guangyuan, and 72 kilometers south of Jiange County.Among them, the [-] peaks are rolling and undulating, high into the sky, and the two mountains face each other like a door at the steep wall, so the situation is dangerous, so it is named.

This is the real situation where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it.During the Three Kingdoms period, Jiang Wei blocked Zhonghui's 3 army with [-] horses here.After a protracted period of stalemate, Deng Ai had to fight to the death and sneaked around from the Yinping trail to the back of Jianmen to destroy the Shu Han.

Therefore, to deal with Yizhou, Liu Xie did almost everything.First, he resorted to the poisonous plan of the brothers to fight against the wall, disintegrating the strength of Yizhou from the inside, and making the people think of Han.Then it gave up the interests of a large area of ​​Jingzhou, just to get the Yangtze River waterway.It was only under such a good situation of the three in one of the right time, the right place and the right people that they dared to launch the conquest of Yizhou.

Even so, Liu Xie actually had no confidence in his heart.

However, he has done everything he can, and he has done what he shouldn't, and now he has no choice but to do so.

This time, the Han Dynasty army sent [-] troops to Shouchuan in two routes, the north and the east.Among them, on the east road, Tai Shici was the main general, and Jia Xu was the supervising army. Zhang He, Gan Ning, two generals and dozens of generals commanded [-] infantry and cavalry, and traveled back to the west of the Yangtze River from the Three Gorges.

On the North Road, it was Liu Xie who personally led [-] infantry, and led all the elite veterans of the Han Dynasty from Hanzhong to the south of Shu.The two armies split up and attacked together, and agreed to join forces to attack Chengdu.

This time with the army on the North Road, Liu Xie once again promoted new generals and insisted that Wei Yan be the vanguard.According to Liu Xie's investigation, Wei Yan at this time was brave and aggressive, and also had his own unique thinking about the battle situation, which was the most suitable time to show off his talents.Of course, Wei Yan also had shortcomings in history. One is that he likes to strive for success, and the other is that he loves to boast.However, Liu Xie doesn't need to consider these issues for the time being. Wei Yan hasn't made great achievements in the Han Dynasty, and he doesn't have the capital to be arrogant.Right now, as long as Liu Xie can win, he will not insult the prestige of the Han army.

Xu Huang, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun, Wenpin, Gao Lan, Zhou Cang, Liu Pi, Huangfu Jianshou, Sima Yi, Pang Tong, Fazheng and others followed the army. This time Liu Xie used the elite infantry of the Han army , because in Yizhou, although the cavalry plays a great role, it is difficult to climb those high mountains and cross those rugged trails.Therefore, this time Liu Xie even transferred the Yellow Turban Army under Zhou Cang and Liu Pi, and what he valued was their ability that was once hidden in the deep mountains and old forests.

Not only that, Liu Xie specially formulated three strategies for this conquest.

First, in view of the fact that there are many people who fled from the Central Plains in Yizhou, in order to divide the interior of Yizhou, as long as they can lead the crowd to surrender, lead the army, and provide food for the army, they will be rewarded immediately; Those who assist the Han army will be treated equally and rewarded heavily.

Second, wherever the Han army arrives, it is not allowed to burn huts, plunder officials and people, develop mounds and graves, and cut down sangzhe.Violators will be dealt with according to military law and will not be tolerated.

Third, in view of the difficulty in collecting food after entering Sichuan, the Han army stipulated that the fortress of Fanke, its weapons and armor, and food and grass should be uniformly distributed by the army. After pacifying Yizhou, make up for its shortcomings.

Here Liu Xie deliberately emphasized the third point. Everyone can see that this time Liu Xie gave twice as much rewards to boost morale.No one didn't believe that Yizhou's money and silk were not enough to reward military exploits, but Liu Xie also stipulated that after Yizhou was pacified, the troops would be rewarded again when they returned to the court.

The reason for this is that during the turbulent period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the real turmoil in the world was in the north, and within the Shu Road, it was a completely different world.Relatively speaking, Yizhou is safe and rich, and there are no weapons, especially near Chengdu, the Land of Abundance, where it is really rich.

Such a special case to change the reward system, Liu Xie is to enable soldiers to implement the second iron law with doubled benefits.Otherwise, blindly suppressing people with military discipline will cause soldiers to develop thoughts that they shouldn't have under the huge benefits.Even for this reason, Liu Xie also brought Huangfu Jianshou, the son of Huangfu Song, a great talent who took care of everything.

The war machine was rumbled, and at least [-] sharp knives were forced to Yizhou.On the way to march, Liu Xie also received a snowflake-like battle report.Among them, Liu Xie is still very satisfied with Yizhou's reaction.

The general Liu Zhang sent was naturally Zhao Wei who held military power in Yizhou.For this reason, Liu Zhang even surpassed the system and worshiped Zhao Wei as the general who conquered the North, and was fully responsible for Yizhou's defense against the Han army.Before leaving, Liu Zhang also held a grand wine party for Zhao Wei with the upper echelons of various clans in central Shu.During the meeting, Zhao Wei generously expressed his position - I have not only defeated the Han army during this trip, I have [-] Dongzhou vicious youths under my command, and it is easy to take the Central Plains!
For Zhao Wei, Liu Xie really doesn't have much information.After all, Comrade Zhao Wei did not leave much ink in the history books, and Liu Xie can only speculate on Comrade Zhao Wei's temperament through sporadic historical records and various intelligences.Then, after discussing with Sima Yi, Pang Tong, Fazheng and others, they came to the conclusion: this Zhao Wei should not be Wei Yan's opponent.

Judging from the fact that Comrade Zhao Wei did not leave much ink in history, Liu Xie judged that Zhao Wei was not a very capable person.The reason why he turned around in this time and space was because of good luck. After all, there is no strong name here in Sichuan to be his opponent.

Don't take Gan Ning as an example. Gan Ning was just a young man who hadn't yet become a weak champion at that time, and he hadn't studied military tactics yet; moreover, Gan Ning was a bandit, and he was always mentally short when facing the officers and soldiers; more importantly Yes, there were definitely not as many people under Gan Ning as Zhao Wei at that time, nor did he have the desire to fight Zhao Wei to the death.

In addition, after drinking a little wine, he made big claims about being able to take the Central Plains, which made Liu Xie look down on Zhao Wei even more: Cao Cao, a generation of treacherous heroes, was still battered by the power of the Han Dynasty, and the arrogant little overlord did not dare to say this. Waiting for crazy words, where did Zhao Wei get his self-confidence?

Sure enough, three days later, Liu Xie received the battle report from the front line, and he almost bared his front teeth with a smile: Comrade Zhao Wei led the Dongzhou soldiers to Yangping Pass in high spirits, but it was a pity that he had not yet fought Wei Yan. On the way, he was raped by the leader of the Di clan Duan was attacked once.

Immediately afterwards, after entering Yangping Pass, Zhao Wei's performance was somewhat excellent. He ordered people to set up many camps before Yangping Pass to protect the corners of Yangping Pass, trying to keep Wei Yan, the vanguard of the Han army, out of Yangping Pass.

However, this move had no effect at all. Wei Yan, who was a pioneer for the first time, was extremely excited and even anxious.He led the Han army to attack with all its strength, enjoying the excitement of being in charge of an army alone.

On the day of the battle, Zhao Wei's painstakingly managed defense lines were breached one by one by Wei Yan like boiling soup and snow. Zhao Wei was so frightened that he was not convinced and took the initiative to fight Wei Yan, whose morale was high.In the end, he was beaten by Wei Yan again, and he stayed in Yangping Pass for two days.Seeing this situation, Wei Yan fought in the pass every day, calling Zhao Wei a shrinking turtle.

Zhao Wei was outraged, so he ordered his lieutenant general Gao Pei to fight, but he won a small victory unexpectedly.Later, Zhao Wei couldn't believe it, and ordered Yang Huai to fight Wei Yan again, winning another small victory.After the two victories, Comrade Zhao Wei clapped his head and understood: the first defeat was an accident!
Later, when Wei Yan fought again, Zhao Wei led an army of [-] to attack suddenly, broke Wei Yan, and chased him ten miles away.But when he was about to return to the pass in victory, he realized that Wei Yan had fallen into the trap of ambush.At that time, his formation was scattered, his soldiers were exhausted, and he was wedged into his weakness by the Han army in one fell swoop.Wei Yan fought back against the army again, and immediately won a complete victory, beheading the lieutenant general Yang Huai.If it hadn't been for Dongzhou soldiers to protect Zhao Wei to the death, Wei Yan might have broken Yangping Pass.

At this point, Zhao Wei was really convinced, and he nested in Yangping Pass and never came out again.At this time, the main force led by Liu Xie arrived at Yangping Pass...

(End of this chapter)