Chapter 2 War
?In early June of the first year of Dading, the general manager of Anzhou, Yuwen Liang, issued a proclamation to criticize the Prime Minister of the Zhou Dynasty, Yang Jian, who controlled the government affairs of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and slaughtered the royal family. He raised his command of An and the general managers of Xiang and the two prefectures, said that the 250,000 troops in the north attacked Yang!
But this is just the second biggest news of the month, and it was completely ignited by the biggest news of the month.
Because in early June, the Prime Minister of the "Eastern Zhou" Yuchi Jiong, who had been cursing against Yang Jian for half a year, began to take action, and he would make a big move:
Yuchi Dun, who succeeded his father as the general manager of Xiangzhou, led 150,000 troops to cross the river to attack Xingzhou, and then he wanted to attack Luoyang in the west. The Yuzhou General Manager of the south was restrained by the Tongbai Mountain Baman, who was instigated by Yuchi Jiong, and was temporarily unable to move.
The Qingzhou General Manager Yuchi Qin led 100,000 troops to besiege Xiao Huang, where the Haozhou General Manager Office was located. The Xuzhou General Manager Office under the control of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty continued to oppress the Wuzhou General Manager Office, which was still in the hands of the imperial court in the south.
The highlight is the Turks in the north. Tuobo Khan married a daughter-in-law and became the son-in-law of Zhao Wang Yuwen, who had been killed by Yang Jian. I don’t know if it was the wind beside him or the benefit of Yuchi Jiong of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, or the season for going to the Central Plains to hunt grass valley, the Turkic nomadic army whipped south for a total of 200,000.
The Turkic army was roughly divided into two groups. Tuobo Khan personally led his army to attack Guanzhong Langqi and pointed directly at Chang'an. The other group besieged Bingzhou Prefecture to govern Taiyuan to prevent Bingzhou Li Mu, the general manager of Bingzhou, stabbed Li Mu, in the direction of Xiangzhou.
Hearing that Yuchi Jiong had actions, Prime Minister Yang Jian was also very quick. As the saying goes, soldiers come to block the water and soil, his men are not easy to mess with, and they are not easy to mess with:
First of all, we should defend: in the north direction of the Turkic Turks, Li Mu, the general manager of Bingzhou, strictly guarded the death to the death, and mobilized reinforcements to support the important roads and checkpoints in the north of Chang'an to withstand the Turkic army to move south.
Anzhou and Xiangzhou direction, ordered the general manager of Jingzhou Tu Wanxu to prepare for war and beware of Yuwen Liang stabbing the knife in the south, and ordered the general manager of Jiangling, Heba Zhonghua to supervise Liang's army to prepare for war and defend against the general manager of Anzhou Yuwen Liang and the general manager of Xiangzhou to the north.
Next is the attack: Appointing Duke of Jiang Guoliang Rui as the marshal of the army to lead Guanzhong troops out of Tongguan and the troops near Luoyang, a total of more than 200,000 troops were preparing to fight against Yuchi Dun.
During this period, a case of rebellion was solved: the father-in-law of the young emperor Yuwen Chan, Sima Xiaonan and his royal family member Yuwen Chun, intended to launch a mutiny in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Fortunately, they were discovered and reported by the "Chang'an people" in a timely manner. Prime Minister Yang Jian made a quick decision to take measures to extinguish the evil fire.
However, an accident happened: Yang Lihua, the Queen Mother of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was unfortunately poisoned and died of poisoning by a traitor.
The result of the incident was that Yu Wen Chun and his five sons were taken to the execution ground for attempted rebellion, and the number of Yu Wen's royal family was reduced by 6. Sima Yingnan escaped from Chang'an City by chance and was missing. The whereabouts of Emperor Yu Wen Chan later issued an edict to depose his daughter, Sima Lingji, to a commoner.
After getting the exact information above, Yu Wen Liang, the general manager of Anzhou, naturally would not give up and take action immediately.
The general administration of Jingzhou was pointed to by the Bingfeng. The Anzhou army was divided into three routes: the eastern route army was 50,000, and the general administration of Anzhou, Sima, and the Duke of Angu County, Yuchi Shun, led the invasion of Yingzhou to prepare to attack the Yuzhou general administration in the north.
The 150,000th Central Army was under the command of Anzhou, and the Duke of Qi, Yuwen Liang, personally led Suizhou to attack Cai and Changzhou on the west side, and then attacked Fancheng on the north of Xiangyang in the west.
The 50,000th Western Route Army was headed by Xiangyang by Xiangzhou General Manager Du Shijun, waiting for the Central Route Army to take Fancheng and cross the river to the north. Then, as a flank, he went north with the Central Route Army to attack the Jingzhou General Manager Office.
The governor of Xiangzhou Yu Wenming led the remaining troops to stay in Xiangyang to prevent the Liang State and Jiangling General Administration from going north to attack.
Yang Jian knew that Yuchi Jiong in the east would definitely take action as soon as he took action on Yuwen Liang's side, so he was naturally prepared to kill Yuwen Chun's family: He appointed Liang Shiyan, Duke of Hui as the marshal, to lead troops out of Wuguan to the Jingzhou General Administration Office, and to fight with nearly 150,000 troops under the Jingzhou General Administration Office to fight Yuwen Liang who was about to attack.
In addition to clearing out the Tongbai Mountain Baman, the Yuzhou General Administration Office must also be wary of the Anzhou army going north in the south. Heba Zhonghua, the Jiangling General Administration stationed in Liang State, acted cheaply, because one must prevent the Liang State from being crazy and indiscriminate, and the other must prevent the Chen State in Jiangnan from taking the opportunity to steal.
The troops from all sides can really fight except for water, only the generals in the leading army know that outsiders have no way to know, but what the world can be sure of is that the Central Plains, which had been silent for nearly a year, finally set off a new round of war.
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To the west of Suizhou, Tangzhou Prefecture governs Xialicheng.
The Duke of Xiyang County and the commander Yuwen Wen led more than 2,000 troops under his command to march westward happily, and accompanied a large number of grain transport teams.
Not long ago, at the beginning of this month, the Empress Dowager of the Great Zhou Dynasty, uh, was the side room Yang Lihua who gave him a son, so the unscrupulous Duke of Xiyang County used this as a "threat" to find his father, the Anzhou General Manager Yuwen Liang, to ask for a "project".
I have a son, you have a grandson, and my third uncle has a grandson. At least I can give you a project!
Yuwen Liang's third brother Yuwen Yi died early, and his second son Yuwen Wen adopted him as his heir to continue the incense and inherit the title of Xiyang County Duke. Therefore, Yuwen Liang always said, "If you don't have a son, you will go to battle and die if you die? What should you do if your third uncle's lineage?"
Yuwen Wen put his smile on his face and rubbed it. The boss and the boss added a grandson and smiled and waved his hand: "Then as agreed, you go to the Huangzhou General Administration to govern the chin of Bazhou to serve as the governor!"
Yuwen Tongjun, who was determined to brush the copy of the "Jingzhou War", quit: "It's okay? What's OK! Now I'm going to fight a war! The Jingzhou General Administration hasn't taken it down yet, and the army of more than 100,000 imperial courts are so arrogant that they can be like a big shot. Why do my son make up for the number of things and follow the army to fight with them to the death?"
So many experience points are waiting for the new army to go and sweep the results now, please let me go fishing by the Yangtze River? Besides, the Bazhou navy is not strong enough, how can you let me sweep the copy of the "Yangtze River War"!
Yuwen Liangqi refused to agree to his son's request to follow him to attack the court army at first. He felt that he was not honest when he had no son this time, and now he would definitely be even more humble if he had a son and had a son.
So there was a choice: Yuwen Wen led his troops to Yingzhou in northern Anzhou and his father-in-law Yuchi Shun to "northernly" the Yuzhou General Administration Office.
Yuwen Wen is not a fool. His father-in-law led 50,000 Eastern Army to manage Yongyang in Yingzhou Prefecture. What is the "Northern Expedition" of the Yuzhou General Administration. There are three real purposes: First, prevent the Yuzhou General Administration from solving the problem of Tongbai Mountain Baman, and then took the opportunity to go south to raid Yingzhou and stab Anzhou in the abdomen.
Secondly, restrain the troops of the Yuzhou General Administration Office from being restrained from allowing it to move westward to support the Jingzhou General Administration Office.
Third, if the main force of Anzhou in the middle is "declined" and someone is trampled on the back (the gateway to Tangzhou Xialicheng on the west side of Suizhou), the 70,000 Yingzhou troops stationed on the east side of Suizhou will be a firefighting team.
Whoever wants to be a firefighter? I want to go to Xinye County, Jingzhou to set fire. Uncle Liu burned Xinye and made Prime Minister Cao go to pieces!
While the father and son were talking, Yuwen Liang had already led his army to Suizhou and went west to Suizhou through Xiali City, Tangzhou, which was controlled by his side, to attack Cai and Changzhou in the west. More than 2,000 people under Yuwen Wen were "under house arrest" in Anlu City and could not move. In order to hurry, he rushed to catch up with the army and argued with his father.
After a long argument, he finally said that Tong Yuwen Liang asked him to lead his troops to fight with the army, so he sent people to rush back to Anlu day and night, and he waited for Xia and the troops to join the army. It took several days until Yuwen Wen finally led the new army to fight. The grain transport team with the army was just around the way, and they worked as the grain protection army and set off together.
The 150,000 troops of the Anzhou Central Army advanced west from Xiali in two groups. With the help of "long-range gravity-type projectile artillery across the ages", it took only three days to capture Guangchang, Changzhou and Caiyang, Chang and Caizhou Prefectures in the northwest.
According to the time when the army left Xiali, it took only five days to capture the entire territory of Chang and Caizhou. Then the central army advanced westward across the Lianghekou and attacked Fancheng on the edge of the Han River as planned.
According to the plan, the western army of the Xiangzhou General Administration should also cross the river from Xiangyang to the north and attack Fancheng on the north bank of the Han River. After taking down Fancheng and supporting each other, the two armies could go straight north to attack Jiyang, the capital of Xinye County, Jingzhou, which is near Xinye City during the Three Kingdoms period.
More than fifty miles northwest of Jiyang are the capital of Rangcheng, Jingzhou Prefecture, and it is also the location of the headquarters of the Jingzhou General Administration. According to this, it is inferred that the decisive battle between the two sides will either take place near Xinye or Rangcheng.
Maybe even Fancheng has been taken down, but now it is still time to set off. Yuwen Wen has told the soldiers that he must work hard to perform in this war to create a "big news"!
Speaking of Jingzhou, today's Jingzhou is not Jingzhou in the traditional sense. The Northern Wei Dynasty established three Jingzhous: Jingzhou in Rangcheng, Jingzhou in Anchang, and Jingzhou in Biyang, collectively known as Sanjing.
"Jingzhou, which was careless in the growth of Guan Yun, is now called Jiangling. It is the capital of the Great Zhou vassal state - Liang State. The imperial court set up the Jiangling General Administration for convenience of surveillance and protection of Liang State." Yuwen Wen showed off his lips, "So don't make any mistakes about Jingzhou!"
As a time traveler in the late Ming Dynasty, Yang Ji could understand what Yuwen Wen said, and Xu Shao also knew what it meant since he was a child, but the other generals who followed Yuwen Wen were puzzled: Jingzhou was originally Jingzhou, which was dominated by Rangcheng. Who would regard Jiangling as Jingzhou? I don’t understand!
"Ahem." Yuwen Wen felt that he was playing the piano with a cow, but at least two cows could understand it. "Okay, there is the mouth of Lianghe River in front, everyone can cross the river with all their strength."
In front of Yuwen Wen and his group was the lower reaches of the Lianghekou, more than 80 miles west of Changzhou, where a floating bridge spanned the river and troops were stationed on both sides of the floating bridge.
They were the troops left to guard the floating bridge after crossing the river from east to west. After crossing the river, the army attacked Fancheng along the Wanxiang Old Road. After taking down Fancheng, they met with the Western Army from Xiangzhou and then returned north to attack Jiyang, Xinye County, Jingzhou.
The defenders set up camps in the east and west sections of the floating bridge to facilitate their garrison to prevent the Jingzhou army from attacking.
Two iron cables are pulled upstream of the pontoon bridge to prevent Jingzhou Army from setting fire boats in Xinye County upstream from burning the pontoon bridge. This pontoon bridge is very important. The throat of the land grain channel of the Anzhou Army in the middle route is located.
The food and grass of more than 100,000 troops were transported from Suizhou to the west bank through this pontoon bridge. It was a bit unstable for the imperial navy to rush on the Han River north of Xiangyang to transport grain by ship alone.
Therefore, the Anzhou army spent a lot of money to protect the pontoon bridge: 20,000 troops camped and protected at both ends of the bridge, and did not hesitate to raise two iron cables to protect the pontoon bridge. At the same time, many giant crossbows were set up on both sides of the pontoon bridge to prevent the enemy's upstream arson ships from setting fire to burn the bridge.
This arrangement was like the defense line set up on the Hannan Floating Bridge when attacking Xiangyang in July last year. That time, the Xiangyang navy almost never returned.
The task of the defenders is very simple. After a few days, the main force of the army conquered Fancheng, which is more than 40 miles southwest, will move north again. At that time, you will not be afraid of sneak attacks from the court army and you will be able to complete the task.
Yuwen Wen led his troops to the East Bank camp to meet the guards and obtained permission to cross the river. However, when he came to the riverside, he always felt something was wrong.
"Sizong, what do you think?" Yuwen 'Renjie' looked at He Shui and frowned.
Chapter completed!