The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 438 Prelude to the Battle ([-])

Regarding Desert Khan's opinion, Wen Yang was unable to give a reply: the authority is not enough.

But Wenyang has nothing to worry about, just report it.Leave these matters to Da Sima.

Guan Yi at this time is still trapped in Jiexiu County.

Because Du Yu stepped forward in time, he seized the key position.In the case that his own troops were not completely dominant, Guan Yi didn't want to finish his work in one battle, and started a decisive battle with Du Yu in advance.Besides, even if he wanted to fight, Du Wuku would not give up his location to fight him around Jiexiu County.

In recent months, relatively large changes have taken place on the state front.

Now at the junction of Taiyuan County and Shangdang County, Guan Yi led an army of 7 to sit in Jiexiu.Du Yu also led 5000 troops to guard Yangtou Mountain.In addition, under the premise that Sima Yan refused to mobilize large-scale support from the Luoyang Central Army, Taiyuan King Sima Gui and Bingzhou Governor Wang Jun had joined forces and settled in Mianshangju.After the two joined forces, their strength had reached [-].It is a trend of horns with Du Yu's main force.Effectively curbed Guan Yi's momentum to continue going south.

After Wang Jun withdrew from Pubanjin, Zhang Yi had no intention of crossing the Yellow River: Guan Da Sima had already taken away all the follow-up 7 people who originally belonged to his team.Even if the chariot general with only more than [-] soldiers crossed the Yellow River at this time, before the friendly troops on the northern line broke through the pass and went south, they would be easily besieged by the enemy's heavy troops.Therefore, Zhang Yi just continued to strengthen his defense near Puban and cross the river?This can happen, but at least it happened after Guan Yi broke through the Yangtoushan defense line.

For Guan Yi, the biggest problem now is food.A prefect of Taiyuan County sold 100 million shi, which is not a good price.But the good thing is that this is where the food is collected in Taiyuan, and the transportation loss is extremely small.But for a large army of 15, this amount of food is still not enough.Therefore, it is still necessary to cross Luliang Mountain and continue to carry grain.

In the past two months, Guan Yi, in addition to leading 7 people to pre-Jiexiu.Of the remaining 8 people, 5 were stationed in Jinyang, and they sent troops to extend north—the idea was the same as Jiang Wei's insistence on going south, and they wanted to open up the grain road in Wuyuan County.The other 3 people, together with [-] to [-] civilian husbands, moved between the Yellow River and the Luliang Mountains, desperately carrying food.

"I would like to report to Da Sima, as of today, our army's food storage in Jiexiu has reached 150 million shi. Jinyang City has 60 shi in storage."

"Oh? How did it grow so fast? I remember that Jiexiu had less than 100 million food reserves ten days ago, right?"

"It's mainly because the general has achieved great results on the northern front. Gaoliu City and the Great Wall defense line are no longer harmful to our army's transportation line. Therefore, the food that our army previously stored in Wuyuan County can go south smoothly."

"Very good. I have always thought that if our army is short of food, we should not rush to swallow Shangdang County, so that the burden on our army will be smaller. Now that the food channel is open, let's start to take down Shangdang County. Party."

"Then what does Da Sima mean?"

"Well, I ordered the rear of our army in Taiyuan County to move south to approach me. The 3 people who maintain the grain road transportation will remain the same for the time being. Speaking of this, Fang Bo, how much has our army lost on Luliang Mountain in the past two months? How much did you gain?"

It can be said that since Guan Yi crossed Luliang Mountain, Jia Chong and Jia Cheqi, who was in charge of Jinzuo Cao, really went crazy: If Jin falls, other ministers can surrender, but he cannot!As kingslayers, Jia's family is truly tied to the state of Jin.If any new conqueror wants to win people's hearts quickly, is there anything more effective than the heads of Jia Chong and his three clans?
Therefore, some time ago, Jia Cheqi went crazy and sent a large number of soldiers into Luliang Mountain.There is only one purpose: it is impossible for you secret agents to go into battle, but aren't assassinations and lurking all your specialties?Is it okay to give me a food road to attack Shu thieves in the mountains?

He sent agents, and Lu Ya refused to show weakness.So in the past two months, on Luliang Mountain, the two major spy agencies, Jinzuo Cao and Si Wencao, have launched countless small-scale battles on sabotage and anti-sabotage.

"Reporting to the Great Sima, as of yesterday, we have lost 360 five Siwen envoys, 130 soldiers, 720 grain transporters, and more than 37 stones of grain. A total of 240 five people from Jin State Jinzhao Cao have been beheaded. , captured 350 people."

"So, the grain road over Luliang Mountain is basically stable?"

"Stable, but the loss along the way is not small. At least [-] shi of every [-] shi of food was spent on the road."

"Hehehe, you guys, it's so easy to forget the hard times before. In the past, the prime minister and the general lost more than [-]% of their food during the Northern Expedition. So, I think this loss is acceptable. "

"Well, Chang'an has sufficient food reserves. According to Wushuang and Gaizhi's letter, this year's autumn harvest is also very successful. Let us not have to worry about the food problem."

"Then it's over. Give the order to let the follow-up troops of Jinyang City go south."

"promise!"

Here, Huo Zai was just about to take the order to leave, when a messenger rushed over outside the big tent: "Report to Da Sima and Huo Changshi. There is an urgent report from General Wen of the Northern Front!"

"Huh? Uh... Uncle Fang, what do you think?"

"Huh? Da Sima, this is a good opportunity!"

"Hahaha~~ Fang Bo, who knows me well, come here, take care of me with pen and ink, I will write back to Ciqian right now."

"promise!"

After Guan Da Sima gritted his teeth and finished writing the letter, another messenger hurried in: "Da Sima, Huo Changshi, report urgently! The Huns have risen!"

Speaking of which, the Xiongnu's position is closer to Luoyang than Tuoba Xianbei, so Liu Yuan returned to his tribe earlier than Desert Khan.

He has many sons with Desert Khan's father, Tuoba Liwei. After returning to the tribe, Desert Khan had to act in a high-profile manner in order to quickly recruit different forces within the tribe.Liu Bao's left side of the Xiongnu and the central part under its effective control have long recognized Liu Yuan as their future leader, so after returning to the tribe.The treatment Liu Yuan received was much better than Desert Khan's.

At this time, the problems faced by the left and central Huns were very troublesome.

Originally, according to Cao Cao's arrangement of dividing Huchuquan's tribe into five, the left side is in the west and the right side is in the east.As a result, because the right part was a Tiefu hybrid, the other four joined forces to exclude the right part, and the right part had to move westward to the barren Luliang Mountains.Then let the right part make friends with Da Sima in the Han Dynasty in advance.

Now, Liu Meng, the leader of the right department, has made great contributions to Guan Yi's strategy of marching into Bingzhou. Guan Yi has made it clear that the great Han supports Liu Meng, the wise king of the right, to become the new Xiongnu Shanyu, and requires the other four departments to obey.Such a request made it difficult for the Xiongnu nobles in the left and middle who claimed to be Luan Ti's pure blood to accept it.

The area where the Huns in the north (front) were active had long been occupied by the Xianbei, while the Huns in the south (rear) were almost completely Sinicized because they were too close to the Han people.The power of these two departments has been negligible, so the current internal situation of the Xiongnu is very simple: the right department said that our Xiongnu Shanyu was canonized by the emperor of the Han Dynasty from the day he moved south.Now that the big man is back, and the big Sima has already promised, then, those of you who claim to respect the tradition most from the left and the middle, don’t hurry to pay homage to the new Shanyu.

Of course Liu Meng is the authentic descendant of Luan Ti, but the right side he is in charge of now is from Tiefu!After such a person comes to power, in order to stabilize Shanyu's position, he will definitely promote the people on the right to take power. In this way, wouldn't those Tiefu bastards come to us?This is simply intolerable!
For the leaders of the grassland nation, loyalty, filial piety and righteousness are nonsense.Obey the strong and ensure the survival of your tribe is the most important thing.In the current situation, everyone can see the strength of the big man and the passivity of Jin.Therefore, according to the original intention, the left and central parts of the Xiongnu are also very willing to move closer to the big man.But my great Sima, if you do this, you are forcing us in the direction of Jin.

Of course, this was deliberately done by the upper echelon of Ji Han: Otherwise, how could you Huns fight a civil war?Otherwise, how can we have enough name to weaken you?You know, the left, middle and right tribes of the Huns, after many years of recuperation in Bingzhou, the population is almost 50 according to rough calculations!Liangzhou has a larger population than Jihan.How can everyone sleep without weakening it severely?
Therefore, after Ji Han's army crossed the Yellow River and went south to Jiexiu, Guan Yi sent a considerable part of his troops to support Liu Meng to put pressure on the left and center led by Liu Bao.As for Liu Bao, the old man is old after all. Apart from swallowing his anger and giving up some pastures that used to belong to the right, he just kept sending envoys to Jiexiu to cry and complain to Guan Yi.

Guan Yi ignored all these requests and instead urged Liu Meng to step up his pace.If it weren't for Liu Meng's own little Jiujiu in his heart, and he didn't want to arouse too much resentment against the left and central urging too much, it would be inconvenient for him to rule in the future. No way, before Liu Yuan came back, the left and central Xiongnu would have been forced to rebel.

(End of this chapter)