Chapter 438
It’s really only one day in the mountains, and it’s been a thousand years in the world.
When Chen Kefu went to the grassland and returned to Liaodong, he did not expect that such a drastic change had taken place in the Central Plains.
He held the note in his hand, but it seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He couldn't help reading the information carefully again, and tried to figure out the pieces of information.
Yang Guang fought with Shibi Khan Yan. In the end, Shibi's army was 300,000, and the last one was evacuated was only 70,000, and the casualties were heavy. Yang Guang was also not much better. As the emperor of the Central Plains, he was surrounded by the grassland barbarians for nearly a month. The 150,000 imperial guards were killed by the 150,000 imperial guards. In the end, only 8,000 Sui army soldiers from Dingxiang, Mayi and Yan were also killed. Yang Guang discounted a total of 180,000 troops, and died a little less than Shibi's people, but the dignity and prestige of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty was wiped out from then on.
Shibi led the remnants to retreat to Yanmén, and the Sui Dynasty's army also arrived. The Liao Dynasty's King Yang Lai had 30,000 troops, Li Yuan in Taiyuan had 100,000 troops in Hedong, Pei Renji in Hebei ruled 100,000 troops in Hebei, Wei Wensheng in Guanlong and Chang'an in Guanzhong, and King Shichong of Jianghuai ruled 100,000 troops in Jianghuai. The remaining soldiers and horses arrived in various places were still nearly 100,000. Most of the soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty were gathered in Hedong.
Now, Yang Guang has suffered a stroke and is still unconscious, and the queen and the prince have been kidnapped by the Turks.
The ministers of the court followed the commander and the commander who led the troops to serve the king did not follow Yang Guang's plan before the stroke... and sent troops to the grassland to save the queen and prince, but instead had an internal dispute.
The Liao King Yang Liang received support from Yu Shiji and many Sui ministers, and demanded his return to Luoyang.
However, Yu Wensheng and other ministers from Guanlong nobles, demanded to return to Chang'an. The two factions refused to give in to each other, but in the end, Li Yuan kicked them out, asking both sides to agree to return to Taiyuan first. Now the army has arrived in Taiyuan. Although the ministers unanimously asked the soldiers who were serving the king to return to the place, except for a few small soldiers or two, Taiyuan City has gathered nearly 500,000 people, and each faction has his own heart. However, as Yang Guang's injuries became heavier and worse in Taiyuan City, the various factions have changed from secret struggle to open struggle.
King Yang Lai of Liao had 30,000 troops, and was supported by veterans such as Yu Kuluo, Tu Wanxu, and Dong Chun.
Among the ministers who followed the army, the upstarts of Yang Guang, such as Yu Shiji, Pei Yun, and Yang Guang, had basically turned to the Liao King faction. In addition, there were also Pei Renji, the commander of the Hebei soldiers, Yichen, the deputy commander of the Hebei army, and the general of the Right Guards in the Imperial Guards, and Yang Wu, the commander of the Black Iron Guards, and other powerful factions. Now the Liao King has become the largest faction in Taiyuan City.
The Guanlong clans are currently not weak in the same column. Basically, the civil and military officials from Guanlong belong to this force. Among them, the Chang'an guard Wensheng Zuoyi Guard was headed by Yu Wenwen and the general of the Zuoyi Guard.
They also had nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses in their hands. Behind these people was the powerful Guanlong Family Group.
Even the Duke of Tang Li Yuan, who is left behind in Taiyuan, currently has a vague intention of being inclined to them.
In addition to the Luoyang and Chang'an factions, there is another force in Taiyuan City that seems to have chosen to stand in the middle, including Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang in Taiyuan, and Wang Shichong, the commander of the Jiangdu army in Jiangdu. These two Li Yuan seemed to be inclined to the Chang'an faction, and Wang Shichong seemed to be inclined to the Luoyang faction. But in fact, both factions are now desperately trying to win over them, but so far, these two important officials who each command 100,000 troops are still standing on the wall and waiting.
When Chen Kefu saw this, he couldn't help but be shocked by the situation in Taiyuan.
If Yang Guang did not die this time and could wake up, the situation in Taiyuan might be under control. But if Yang Guang died like this, Taiyuan would probably explode like a fire bucket.
However, there are too many old foxes gathered in Taiyuan City now, and there is no simple character. It is really an unknown number who laughs to the end. Especially Li Yuan and Wang Shichong, Chen Kefu knew that in the original history, these two men were the heroes who were the three-part world.
As the world gathered in Taiyuan and refused to return to the local area, the situation in the Central Plains was also undergoing huge changes. First of all, the defense of Jiangnan was empty, and the two armies of Laihuer and Wang Shichong were lost one after another. Under the launch of the Jiangnan Association, the entire Jianghuai Ling Nanjiang area had completely rebelled. The only force still retained in the Sui Dynasty was left with only 50,000 imperial troops from Yang Shanhui, Yang Shihong and Chen Ling, who were retreating to Jiangdu.
In Henan, the Wagang Army took advantage of the time when the imperial army was transferred to Hedong, and quickly defeated the 10,000 concubines of Qu Tutong's brothers. Now most of Henan has fallen into the hands of the Wagang Army, and even the southern part of the mountain has fallen into the hands of the Wagang Army. In the whole of Henan, there are only the counties and counties bordering Guanlong and Hedong in the west.
The Chen Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River occupied the entire Yangtze River from Jiangling to the east to the sea, while Wagang occupied all the canal sections in Henan. Hebei was also uneasy, so taking advantage of this opportunity, Sun Anzu,
Dou Jiande gathered in Gaojibo, Pingyuan County, Hebei, and Liu Badao had already occupied the entire county in Bohai Douzihang, Hebei. His subordinates were named Ajiu Army and his subordinates were 100,000. Gao Shida, one of the three major forces in Hebei, also fell into trouble in Gaojibo in his early years, and was later surrounded by the court and fled to Taihang Mountain. In recent years, the power has gradually grown. Now he saw that the imperial army has gone to Hedong and returned to his hometown from Taihang Mountain. Now he has occupied the entire Hejian County.
Hejian County, Pingyuan County and Bohai County, these three counties are located in the southernmost part of Hebei. Pingyuan County and Bohai County are located in the easternmost part of the Yellow River, which is bounded by Shandong Jiāo. The boundary of the three counties is the Grand Canal. Nearly half of the canals in Hebei are surrounded by the three counties.
The three most important transportation lifelines of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Canal, and the Sui Dynasty have fallen into the hands of five troops from the Chen Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, the Wagang Army in Hebei, Sun Anzu, Gao Shida and Liu Badao from Hebei.
The entire southeast and northeast of the Great Sui Dynasty, in addition to Shandong and most of Hebei, a small part of Jiangnan is still under the control of the Sui Dynasty, and basically half of the country is no longer safe. Yang Guang's favorite Jiangdu has been completely surrounded by the Chen Dynasty. Even the eastern capital Luoyang and the south are now full of peasant troops.
After reading this Central Plains intelligence note, Chen Kefu was very serious and opened another note next to him. This was the belated information from Jiangnan. Jiangnan is even more surprised. His uncle Shen Faxing has now occupied seven counties of Danyang, Yuhang, Xuancheng County, Piling, Xin'an County, Haoyang County, and Jiujiang County.
With 70,000 troops, they occupied the seven counties in the south of the Yangtze River. Even the current capital of the Chen Dynasty, Jiankang City, is under the direct control of the Shen family, and their power is on the south side of the Jiangdu City.
However, the troops of Du Fuwei, supported by Wang Zhihui, the head of the Wang family, were also extraordinary. They occupied the five counties and five counties of Liyang, Huainan, Zhongli, Lujiang and Tong'an, west of Jiangdu and west of Jiankang.
Li Zitong's troops occupied the five counties of Hailing, Wu County, Kuaiji County, Dongyang County, and Sui'an County, east of Jiangdu, and bounded with the Chen Faxing Ministry. Zhu Can, another major force in the Chen Dynasty, occupied the four counties of Yiling County, Nan County, Mianyang County and Jiangxia County in Shannan.
In the Chen Dynasty, these four families alone occupied the entire Jianghuai area and the 21 counties. In addition to these 21 counties, the Southern Dynasty also occupied Braun County, Yiyang County, Yuzhang County,
Yichun, Lin 11, Luling, Nankang, Jian'an, Yongjia, Yong'an, Anlu, Jingling, Shannanjiang, and the twelve counties.
The Lingnan Tu tribes, who were in the Southern Chen area, returned to the Chen Dynasty. All the thirteen counties in Lingnan rebelled against the Sui Dynasty and returned to the Chen Dynasty one night. As the land where the Tu tribes were occupied, the Lingnan people were basically Tu autonomous, and the Li tribe was the largest, with more than 100,000 families. At that time, Xi Ying, the leader of the Li tribe, married Feng Bao, the prefect of Gaoliang who was still an official of the Liang Dynasty. Later, Mrs. Xi met Chen Baxian, the founding emperor of the Southern Chen Dynasty who was still a commander at that time, and helped Chen Baxian ascend to the throne of Southern Chen with the soldiers of the Lingnan Tu tribe. Chen Baxian also appointed Mrs. Xi as the protection of Mrs. Hou.
Later, Feng Bao died early, and Mrs. Xi became the leader of the Li clan and was respected as the Holy Mother of Lingnan.
When the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, the Grand Lady raised troops from Lingnan to avenge the Chen Dynasty. Later, Yang Jian used his extraordinary political skills to send envoys to express his surrender letter to the emperor of Chen and the token "Fu Nan Xi Bo'er". After confirming that Chen was destroyed, Grand Lady Xi summoned thousands of leaders to "cry all day long" before surrendering to the Sui Dynasty. After entering the Sui Dynasty, he was granted the title of Lady of Song Kang County and granted her great power to the military and horses of the prefectures in Lingnan.
Mrs. Xi lived in Liang, Chen and Sui 80 years, but gradually integrated the tribes of Lingnan, making the Xi family the local emperor of Lingnan. This time, Chen Shen regained the Chen Dynasty and became the emperor of Lingnan. Chen Faxing came another branch of the pair of Funan rhinoceros poles that Mrs. Xi took back from Emperor Wen of Sui. He obtained the token given to the Chen Dynasty by the Holy Mother of Lingnan. Feng Yun, the contemporary leader of the Lingnan Li tribe, and the fourth-generation grandson of Mrs. Xi, did not consider it much after seeing the current situation of the Sui Dynasty, so he brought the thirteen counties of Lingnan back to the Chen Dynasty.
Although most of the thirteen counties of the Lingnan people were autonomous. After obtaining these thirteen counties, the Chen Dynasty completely controlled the entire Jiangnan and occupied 46 counties. The Sui Dynasty was 190 counties in the world. In just a short period of time, the Southern Chen had already captured the forty-six counties in Jiangnan and split one-quarter of the Great Sui Dynasty.
In addition, the seven counties occupied by the Wagang Army in Henan, the three counties occupied by the three peasant army in Hebei, and the fifteen counties occupied by Chen Kefu in Liaodong. The Great Sui Dynasty has lost 71 counties, leaving only 119 counties. Moreover, the counties in Shandong are now surrounded by the three sides of the Wagang Army in Henan, the Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, and the Hebei peasant army in Hebei, and will sooner or later be annexed by all parties.
If the Jianghuai River is lost in the south and Henan, and Shandong will lose again, the entire Hebei will be surrounded by three sides, leaving only a few dangerous passages of Taihang, connected to Hedong. Moreover, the Jianghuai River, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and the canal are separated. Although Hebei is fine for the time being, the food and supplies of the Hebei army can no longer go far from the south. Even if the court still has materials and supplies to Hebei, it can only be transported from the sea in Shandong or from the Taihang Mountains in Hedong.
After studying it for a long time, Chen Kefu suddenly realized that the huge Sui Dynasty had fallen halfway.
After thinking about this, he finally understood why Xue Shixiong clearly had food, but he still didn't let go of the food outside the city and wanted to rob his food outside the city. It was just because Xue Shixiong and Li Jing and other Hebei generals already knew that their material transportation channels had been cut off, and the current situation was probably no one would care about them for a while.
Shandong is now unable to take care of itself, and it is impossible for them to be able to manage them. On the Hedong side, even if they want to transport grain, the endless Taihang Mountains are everywhere, can they transport it, and how many can they transport it?
At the moment, it was easy for the army in the Central Plains to advance westward, but it would be difficult to go back to Hebei and Shandong. Xue Shixiong and Li Jing were both the generals. Of course, they understood the situation in front of them. Now they are planning ahead, but they are unsuccessful... After thinking through these, Chen Kefu couldn't help but ponder in his heart. Maybe Xue Shixiong and the others were not here to fight with him at all. Maybe this kid just wanted to take advantage of the wheat ripe and come to Liaodong to grab a vote.
When Chen Kefu thought of this, he couldn't sit still. He thought that the Sui Dynasty would not be able to get up so quickly. But he could not have thought that once the siege of Yanmeng and a royal edict transferred the troops of the world to Hedong. Half of the Central Plains was empty, giving those ambitious people an opportunity to take advantage of it. On the contrary, he, the promoter of the Yanmeng war, worked hard for most of the day, made plans and relocated troops to the grassland. After doing so for so long, the benefits were actually made by others.
The Jiangnan Association won most of the Jiangnan, and even the Wagang Army had seven counties in the heart of the Central Plains. Now they are about to reach the city of Luoyang. However, they are better off, but they have not received any benefits. Instead, Xue Shixiong and his men rushed to Liaodong to steal his own food.
It is tolerant, but who is tolerant?
Chen Kefu took out a map from his arms and looked carefully for a long time. Now, in the southeast, northeast, most of the Central Plains, the only ones left are Hebei and Shandong. The court is still fighting for power and power. No matter which one in Taiyuan City wins, it will definitely move too far and eastward to sweep dàng. Now is the best time to grab territory, but you must not miss it.
Hebei, Shandong! This is a territory that I have already decided on. No matter what, I have to take advantage of this opportunity to swallow them first.
Leaving the map, Chen Kefu raised his eyes to the military camp in the distance. Chen Kefu said to himself, "I originally wanted to wait a little longer, but I don't have time anymore. Mr. Xue, I'm sorry...
Chapter completed!