The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 234 During the Northern Expedition ([-])

The end of September in AD 267.After the autumn harvest of this year was basically completed in his country, the great Sima Guanyi of the Shu Han led the northern expedition very low-key.

It's really very low-key, and I didn't do anything to be a teacher, and I didn't do any prayers to kill cattle and animals.The armies from all walks of life quietly concentrated on the two counties of Hanzhong and Wudu.After all the people and property were prepared, the troops were dispatched in a very low-key manner.

He didn't mention the specific time of dispatching troops in front of Liu Chan at all, and Liu Chan was very smart and didn't ask.Then he sent a simple envoy to Soochow, saying at the Soochow Hall that his country was going to send troops after the end of spring plowing next year.That is to deceive his allies.

"Hmph! Jin's advance is really not easy. If it weren't for the various secrets of the Northern Expedition, we would not have known that the enemy had already infiltrated the Da Sima Mansion."

"Hehehe, Ling Xing. This is not right, a guy who has been lurking for such a long time has been dug out."

"Hehehe, speaking of it, my brother is also a thief. He actually deliberately deceived Soochow, using news from Soochow to mislead Jin."

"Huh, Soochow said that after Sun Yuanzong came to power, he really meant to cheer up and refresh. But the time he was in power was too short after all. So the current Soochow is full of loopholes in the intelligence network. As a brother, I deliberately let Soochow go Misleading Jin. In this way, we have won at least two to three months."

"Hey, brother. Next year's spring plowing won't start for at least five months, right?"

"Stupid! The Kingdom of Jin may have planned to start the war in March and April next year. But as soon as our side goes out of the praise ramp, the fool will know that he has been cheated. Will they not change the plan temporarily?"

"Oh, that's right. But brother, in this way, Soochow..."

"Well, with the urinating nature of those Wu dogs, it would be nice to be able to move after the autumn harvest next year. I hope that after Sun Hao, those tortoises can be faster. But it doesn't matter, Brother Wei didn't expect those Wu dogs to be able to move." What an effect."

"Hehehe, my little brother agrees with this point. Then, brother, where do we go after entering Guanzhong after we leave the praise ramp?"

"Well. If there is no obstacle at the north exit of Baoxie Road, we will go to Mei County first after entering Guanzhong."

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The so-called Baoxiedao is the combined name of Baoshui and Xiegu, a tributary of the Han River.Guan Yi's marching route was to start from Lecheng in Hanzhong and go upstream along the valley of Baoshui.Then enter the inclined valley between Baoshui and Wugongshui and continue on.And the exit of Xiegu in the north is Wuzhangyuan.

This road is the most convenient road among the six passages between the Guanzhong Plain and the interior of Yizhou.In addition, at least before this year, due to the high alcohol business, Sima Wang turned a blind eye to the Shu Han government's re-strengthening of the plank road on the Baoxie Road.Therefore, the road condition of Baoxie Road is the best.After abandoning his plan to raid Chang'an through the Meridian Valley, Guan Yi marched towards Guanzhong, which he chose as a matter of course.

Of course, since this road is the most suitable for advancing troops, the enemy must also be able to see this.Therefore, in Guan Yi's plan, there should be enemy troops stationed at the exit of Xiegu, and it is estimated that there will be a fight.Moreover, Guan Yi is also mentally prepared for a long-term attack that cannot be overcome.

However, 500 soldiers and 3000 civilians walked on Baoxie Road in fear for nine days. Zhao Yi, who was in the vanguard, was very excited and sent a messenger to announce that there was a military camp at the exit of Xiegu, but there were less than [-] defenders.The forward's [-]-man brigade appeared behind its sight, and the enemy had already fled quickly.At present, all the forward troops have entered Wuzhangyuan and started to set up camp!
"Hiss~~ Sima Wang is not a mediocre general. How could he be so careless?! No matter what, the whole army speeds up the march, quickly enters Wuzhangyuan, and then deploys them all!"

"promise!"

So, what is Sima Wang doing at this time?Hey, Zi Chugong's life is not easy right now.

The entire Guanzhong Corps has 6 people, which sounds like a lot, but it is not enough to use it.

Chang'an, after all, was the imperial capital of the Western Han Empire, a super big city.For such a huge city, it is extremely rare to place [-] troops around it.

The importance of Tongguan cannot be overemphasized.Sima Wang sent Wang Tao to join the army in the West General's Mansion and led 1 people to stay here for a long time.

The Fuyi Hujun Headquarters in the north of Chang'an is where the Di, Qiang, and Xianbei people who migrated inland live together.It is not enough to set up a military headquarters in this place, there must be soldiers, and there must be enough troops to deter.So there are also 1 people here.

In addition, there are 3000 people at Yaoguan, and the six roads of the Qinling Mountains, such as Ziwu Valley and Baoxiedao, must be guarded separately.Of course, Sima Wang is not a mediocre general, and he will not evenly distribute the remaining 7000 people among the valleys.The most important Xiegu Taniguchi, the army he deployed at the beginning was a full 5000 people.

But on the one hand, Sima Wang has been out of Guanzhong for more than four years, and Guan Yi has been very quiet in Yizhou.On the other hand: in Beidi County in the north of Chang'an, those Xianbei people have begun to be dishonest again!
Beidi County in the Eastern Han Dynasty was a large county with an extremely vast area.However, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, on the one hand, the Han people have been busy fighting civil wars, and the management of the border areas has indeed become less vigorous.On the other hand, the small glacier climate is becoming more and more obvious, and the ethnic minorities in the north continue to move inward.So in the middle and late period of Cao Wei, the area of ​​Beidi County, which was originally vast, had shrunk by [-]%!

But in the remaining [-]%, the proportion of Han people still does not dominate.It is Xianbei's bald department that has the advantage here.

The so-called baldness is Tuoba.This tribe later established Nanliang, one of the sixteen kingdoms.And the Tuoba tribe, which is of the same origin as them, later established the Northern Wei Dynasty that "finally did not degenerate into the No. 17 country".

In the era in which Guan Yi lived, the Tufa tribe was already a large Xianbei inland tribe with a prosperous population and many branches.The scope of its nomadic pastoralism involves Yongzhou, Liangzhou and even Qinghai, which has not yet been included in the territory of the Central Plains.The entire tribe has a population of no less than [-].There are millions of heads of livestock.

Unfortunately, in this year when natural disasters are getting worse day by day, the bigger the family is, the more miserable the head of the family will be.

Due to the continuous drought, the area of ​​the grassland has been reduced, and a large number of various livestock have died.The livelihood of the baldness department has been getting worse and worse in recent years.

For nomads, administrative divisions and national borders do not exist.In their eyes, wherever there are lush aquatic plants, there is a home.Since the grasslands in the north are gradually disappearing, we should move south.

And moving south will naturally gradually enter the core area where the Han people live together.This cannot be tolerated by any Central Plains regime.

In August 267 AD, the Bald Hair Department started to go south from the northern part of Beidi County, chasing aquatic plants all the way, and came to Fuping County at the southern end of Beidi County.This touched Sima Wang's bottom line.

Sima Wang's political standard is still good.Since he returned to Guanzhong in 263, he has mainly treated the foreign tribes in Yongliang with softness and appeasement, and he has achieved very good results-at least the vacuum in Yongliang in a short period of time did not cause great anger among the foreign tribes in this place. rebellion.

But this kind of gentleness has a bottom line: Jingzhao County with Chang'an as the core does not allow large-scale foreign tribes to enter.Where is Fuping County?It is not far from the north of Chang'an.

"General Zhengxi, it's not that the tree function doesn't know the rules. It's just that the weather is getting colder and the rain is getting less and less. If you want to survive, you have to move south. The tree function is guaranteed, only in Jingzhao County this winter. During the winter in the north, there are Jingshui and Luoshui, the grassland will not disappear... When the spring is warm and the flowers bloom next year, I will definitely lead the tribe back to Beidi County. During the winter in Jingzhao County, we must restrain the people and try not to talk to you There is a conflict between Jin people. If there is a conflict, we will definitely hand over the person to your Dajin government..."

Of course, the migration of more than [-] large tribes cannot be stopped by ordinary county soldiers.So Sima Wang was forced to shrink his troops and concentrate all the troops scattered outside in Chang'an just in case, and then he took the [-] field army stationed in Chang'an to the north to Beidi County, which was able to block the southward migration of the bald army .

The Han people in this era are still huge and terrifying beasts in the eyes of other surrounding nations.Although due to the pressure of survival, they did not listen to the warnings of ordinary local officials of the Jin State during their southward migration, but when Sima Wang appeared in front of them with [-] field troops led by Sima Wang, their stance suddenly became extremely low.

"Of course I can understand your difficulties, but let's see where you are going? It is Chang'an! This is the second most important town in the world after Luoyang! Don't talk about you, even Maodun Shanyu (the most outstanding Xiongnu) The leader who molested Empress Lu. During his rule of the Huns, the Western Han Dynasty could only endure the humiliation) and he had never been to a place so close to Chang'an! If I let you enter Jingzhao under the hands of this official, I am afraid that I will It has been a bad smell for thousands of years. So, bald-haired leader, you either retreat. Or, everyone fights!"

Fighting is definitely impossible: the Zhuxias of this era, no matter Wei Jin or Shu Wu, are not something they can afford.But you can't retreat: if you retreat, the entire tribe will not be wiped out.However, it is certain that a large number of livestock died of freezing and starvation, and the power of the tribe was greatly weakened.On the grasslands, tribes whose power was weakened would have much less chance of survival.

The confrontation between the two sides began in early September, and at the beginning of October, news of Guan Yi's advance came.Sima Wang couldn't hold it anymore.

On the fifth day of October in AD 267, 234 Han troops led by Guan Yi suddenly appeared on the Guanzhong Plain.At the same time, the 33 main force led by Jiang Wei, the general of Shu Han, and Zhang Yi, the general of left chariot cavalry, also set off from Qishan camp.In a blink of an eye, Xixian County, Tianshui County at the foot of Qishan Mountain was taken down.Then the whole army rushed towards Shangbi without stopping.After Zhuge Liang's fifth Northern Expedition in 10 AD, after [-] years, the Shu Han once again launched a Northern Expedition with a scale of more than [-] people!

(End of this chapter)