Chapter 992 Extra Cai Yong: It only showed his power five years after his death

Relying on the Han army pulled out by the senior officials to make up for the defense gap, the real main force of Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban were able to drive straight in the first moment of his attack, breaking through the Yanshan defense line from the Lingzhi in Youbeiping, and crossing the Great Wall to enter the pass.

The same thing is said, the Great Wall is too long and it is impossible to set up defenses everywhere.

The Han Dynasty never expected the Great Wall to make the prepared nomads unable to cross the sneak attacks, and only hoped that the nomads would not be able to let go even if they came, otherwise they would have to worry about being destined to come back.

After Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban joined forces to enter the pass, they were soon overjoyed by the emptiness of the garrisons in Youbeiping and western Liaoning. Except for some county-level counties, there were almost no people defending other places.

The total front-line combat troops of these two counties plus Yuyang were only more than 10,000, less than one-tenth of the main force of the invading Xianbei Wuhuan Alliance.

No wonder the Han army is temporarily in a short position. After all, it has been nearly ten years of peace today. The court has been reducing expenses to pay off debts, and it has to take back its fists so that it will hurt even more when it is hit next time.

Sixty percent of the old combat troops under Liu Bei's command had been transferred to military camps or served as engineers. The combat troops of the standing army were only about 200,000.

This is due to the differences in the system between the Han people's agricultural civilization and the nomadic grasslands. The Han people have to generally engage in production, but there is no way.

Of course, if the war is really intensified, the Han people's mobilization ability is still terrible. If Liu Bei gives him a few months, he can reorganize the military camp and put it on the front line. At that time, he will transform into another 500,000 regular army with long-term military training and rich practical experience.

If it is a decisive battle of life and death, especially when the Han people can defend the inside, they can fully mobilize the strong men.

With the current recovery of the people's livelihood and population and national strength of the Han Dynasty, it is fine to launch a million troops to fight the National Defense War. But this has not reached that level. Especially when the war is limited to the northern border, the young and strong people who can mobilize are mainly Youzhou people and Bingzhou people, plus some Jizhou people.

The other dozen states in the Han Dynasty could only pay for money and food. In terms of directly mobilizing civilians to participate in the war, they could not help the frontline. This is the case for countries with too vast territory.

Under this situation, the Han Dynasty had 200,000 permanent troops, and the total number of troops stationed in each border in the northern border would definitely not exceed 150,000. The front-line troops stationed in Youzhou were usually only 70,000 to 80,000, accounting for half of them.

Here, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun's defense zone need to be divided. Zhang Fei usually takes out 20,000 to the west of Ji County and 20,000 to the east of Ji County. Because of the feint attacks of senior officials, the troops east of Ji County were pulled out to the west by a large number of troops, so they are naturally extremely weak for the time being.

After Tuoba Liwei drove straight in, he divided his troops to surround Tian Yu, the prefect of Youbeiping County, Tuyin County (Tangshan), and Tian Choo, the prefect of Liaoxi County, Linyu County (Qinhuangdao), while divided his troops to surround Tian Choo, the prefect of Liaoxi County, Linyu County (Qinhuangdao).

Then, the remaining troops were used to rage and plunder on the fertile plains along the Bohai Sea coast. The troops quickly approached the wealthy Bohai County, where Yuan Shao started his own business.

Fortunately, this situation is only temporary. After the initial ten or eight days of surprise, the situation will change.

Tuoba Liwei's march route was indeed a bit unexpected. The main reason was that the Han people did not think that this place was difficult to defend. The top leaders of the Han army were confident in their naval mobility, speed and scale of the troops' transportation dispatch.

Perhaps in the era of Gongsun Zan, the Xianbei people walked this road and the Central Plains army had to overcome many obstacles before they could rush to assist the battlefield in western Liaoning, but this situation does not exist now.

The Xianbei people have read the old altar calendar that has expired for twenty years. They relied on the lack of culture in the nomadic peoples and did not understand the rapid changes in Central Plains technology and infrastructure.

After learning that the Xianbei people were fighting against the west, Zhao Yun from Liaodong immediately lit up all the cavalry under his command, regardless of whether he was rubbing against the Goguryeo people at that time, he went upstream along the Liao River and wanted to encircle the Xianbei army's retreat that invaded western Liaoning.

Going back to the old path of "Cao Cao's conquest of Wuhuan" in history was just the opposite, from Liaodong to Liucheng in the upper reaches of the Liaohe River, and cutting off the way Lu Longsai came out of the pass and returned to the grassland.

On the other hand, Zhuge Liang, who was stationed in the hinterland of Jizhou, immediately commanded Gao Shun and Liu Bei to connect the 50,000 mobile troops from Luoyang to recruit a sufficient number of sea ships, and went from the mouth of the Yellow River to the Bohai Sea day and night, and then took the Bohai Sea Road, landed in the later Tangshan and Qinhuangdao area to support Tianchou and Tianyu's defense.

Zhang Fei's reaction was slower, mainly because he was dragged by the high-ranking officials. However, it didn't take a long time. At most, it was only seven or eight days later than Zhao Yun. After a sudden attack, Zhang Fei quickly turned around and rushed back east, trying to support Tianchou and Tianyu from west to east.

A huge sweeping picture is unfolding in various plain areas along the Bohai Bay coast, and a situation of pulling nets on three sides is about to form.

...

On October 15th, Guanzicheng near Linyu County, western Liaoning.

Tian Chou, the prefect of western Liaoning, did not expect that he had been in the northern border for so many years, assisted Liu Yu, contacted Gongsun Zan, and later assisted Mi Zhu. In the end, he was directly under His Majesty and entrusted the important task of connecting the defense zone between the General of the Cavalry and the Taiwei. In the end, he would temporarily fall into such a miserable situation.

There is no way, Tian Chou has good ability, but with one force, he has to surrender for ten times. There are too few combat troops at present, and it is hard to cook without rice. He only has two or three thousand combat soldiers under his command, so how can he withstand hundreds of thousands of people on the opposite side? He can only organize the people and defend the city first.

This Guanzi City is also an important military fortress in western Liaoning. Anyone who enters through the Great Wall through the Yanshan defense line will be stuck by this fortress, which is very uncomfortable.

Twenty-four years ago, Gongsun Zan was surrounded by Qiu Liju. Now it is Tian Chou's turn to experience Gongsun Zan's original experience again. Moreover, the one who besieged the city this time was Qiu Liju's son Lou Ban.

These Wuhuan people really don’t know how to write the word “death” and insist on telling Yuan Shao about old things. They think that Yuan Shao is Liu Yu’s inheritance, and they are really helpless.

On this day, it was another day of siege battle. The Rong Di relied on the large number of people and power, and despised the rare Han army, so even though the siege weapons were not very complete, they still chose to attack.

However, Tian Chou fully recruited ordinary people, controlled the divine arm crossbow and the continuous crossbow. Lian Lian defeated the enemy with his firepower advantage, causing the Xianbei Wuhuan coalition to drop thousands of corpses.

When the battle was temporarily stopped, Tian Chou seized the opportunity to drink water and rest on the city tower, running around to comfort the soldiers and boost morale. He also talked with his staff and said some comments that he despised the enemy strategically.

"When Liu Yu persuaded Qiu Liju to surrender, he was the prime minister of Youzhou to protect the Wuhuan school captain and the chief secretary of the Jieshi. Even Liu Yu's own son surrendered to the court, and his important diplomatic aide at that time was the head of the court.

Qiu Liju's son will be bewitched by the high-ranking officials. When General Zhao comes, his death will be the time for him. If he doesn't make a ruthless move, those Wuhuan factions who insist on surrendering to the court will probably not know how correct and lucky their choices are."

Seeing the prefect so calm, the soldiers under his command could not help but feel that Tian Chou was a little hypocritical even though he was surrounded by 100,000 people.

The person responsible for direct military command of this defense zone was a surrendered general who surrendered from Gongsun Zan to Yuan Shao, and later when Zhang Fei restored Youzhou, he surrendered twice anyway, and was named Wangmen.

Wang Sect has a very old qualification. He followed Gongsun Zan to participate in the siege of Guanzicheng twenty-four years ago, but at that time he was just a middle-level military and middle-level junior high school.

After 24 years of hard work, everyone is old. He is still a commander in the same county in his fifties. It is obviously a bit inconsistent with his qualifications. Who told him to surrender more times, so he will not be valued.

It is precisely because of the frequent surrenders that people like Wang Sect are more likely to have a failure-minded mood, and he couldn't help but remind Tian Chou:

"Mr., this is the time, that is the time. If Gongsun Zan had not had His Majesty's rescue, he would have died in Guanzi City. Although we will have rescue now, we cannot underestimate the enemy so much.

The number of coalition forces between Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban was at least two or three times higher than that of Qiu Liju back then. However, the number of troops and horses that were surrounded by our army was two-thirds less than that of Gongsun Zan back then.

After a while, it will be another seven or eight times. If the General of the Cavalry arrives half a month later, we might have all been dead bones in the tomb, alas."

Tian Chou changed his expression and said, "What's the point! Gongsun Zan was besieged for half a year and was defeated because he had no food and had to drive out the people in the city and consume the food and grass that he had lived in the clouds.

Now our army is just short of troops, but the food and grass are quite abundant. His Majesty originally hoarded a large amount of food and grass on the front line for the sake of next year's Northern Expedition, and this place is a major grain town in western Liaoning. Otherwise, how could the Hu people suddenly attack the city at such a cost? It must have been that they had captured prisoners after entering the pass, questioned the military information, and knew that the military rations from western Liaoning were gathered here!

Since our army has food, we can defend it even if there is insufficient warship! We use crossbows, fork poles and spears, rolling wood and stones to defend the city, and there is no need to practice. The people in western Liaoning are fierce, and ordinary people can fight to the death to defend their homes. Even if there are only two thousand soldiers, it is not scary at all!

Today we can successfully repel the enemy, which is a clear proof! Anyone among you who have doubts will make it clear! I don’t blame you! But when you arrive on the battlefield, whoever neglects the morale of the army..."

The Wangmen hurriedly cleared: "Mr. Mansion! I'm not afraid! I'm a Han Chinese and I'll definitely fight to the end, but you also know that the people in western Liaoning are complex, including the Youbeiping next door and Yuyang, which is also the Wuhuan part of the three counties, which occupies several years of population!

In the past, the imperial court used those Wuhuan people who were truly sinicized and attached to the inner ranks. Compared with the Han people, they used the household registration to collect taxes. Now that the enemy is coming, you are treating these people equally and using them to defend the city! But I am worried that some of them will be more likely to be shaken and become the inner ranks of the building team! After all, they are the same language and the same race!"

Tian Chou's face changed. He didn't expect that there were many people in the army who thought this way. At this time, he was still afraid of his reusing the Wuhuan people to defend the city.

That's right, there are indeed many Wuhuan people in western Liaoning. After all, Wuhuan was known to be able to attract 200,000 strong men back then, but now Lou Clan takes only 60,000 to 70,000. It can be seen that only one-third of the Wuhuan people follow Lou Clan, and two-thirds are truly the Han people.

Following the senior officials, Lou Ban, and those who are interested in the Yuan family, Han and Wuhuan, but none of them are mainstream.

If this incident is sought to cause internal recognition to collapse again, it will be more than worth the loss. The damage to the strength of the Han Dynasty and the stability of the northern border is even greater than the direct military damage of the Lou Ban.

Compared with the policy tone of nomadism, Your Majesty and the Prime Minister are still assimilated. If you sincerely say that Chinese characters are learned and who yearn for the lifestyle of the Han people, you must be naturalized and thoroughly Chinese.

Tian Chou was good at pacifying the barbarians. At this time, he certainly knew the importance of uniting the Chinese people who sincerely surrendered, and could not force more people to rebel.

If you do this well, foreign enemies are not afraid of it.

He wanted to use the Wuhuan who was attached to the city to defend the city to kill the Wuhuan rebels who attacked the city! This is the most cost-effective way of fighting that saves the lives of the Han people and is also the most conducive to long-term unity.

After thinking about it again and again, Tian Chou prepared to make another war-time mobilization speech to the city.

In particular, the Wuhuan family members who had more or less learned from the Chinese, had all been brainwashed and cleared the origins of the grassroots officials, minor officials and military officers who had more or less learned from the Chinese.

Tian Chou in history was also good at doing this. But in this life, he had a better tool, which was the "Records of the Grand Historian" written by the late Grand Tutor Cai Yong a few years ago.

That night, Tian Chou held an open-air banquet in the military camps in the city, and invited all the Wuhuan officers and powerful leaders to drink.

He was worried that those people would be worried about themselves, so he did not choose to go to the prefect's mansion, for fear that those people would mistakenly think that he was going to "fall the cup as a sign", and suspected that some of them colluded with the Lou team.

Tian Chou knew how to deal with people with strong folk customs, so he came up and started to have a few bowls together, and then took out a book. It was "Records of the Grand Historian Suoyin" and began to use plain language combined with vivid examples to tell these Wuhuan people about national identity.

"Everyone, you are a little scholar, and I, Mr. Tian, ​​don't keep you from keeping me. Today I will ask you something. Does anyone know why this Guanzi City in western Liaoning is called Guanzi City?

Some of you elders experienced the siege of Qiu Liju against Gongsun Zan twenty-four years ago? Do you know how the Prime Minister convinced Qiu Liju to repent and turn to the light, knowing that the Wuhuan people and the Han people are closer nations, but not the same path as the Huhus in the grassland!

Therefore, today's Lou Ban's move is not only a traitor in the country, but also a rebellious son of Qiu Liju! He is traitorous and rebellious! The court believes that such blind people who are not eye-catching are only a very small number, so there is no need to worry about the spread of Lou Ban's people. Whoever sins should be the one who sins, and they will never be implicated in the innocent!"

After Tian Chou finished speaking, many of the Wuhuan powerful men in the city who really surrendered did not understand the cause and effect, but they still understood the questions raised by Tian Chou at first. After all, this kind of question and answer is too down-to-earth and illiterate can understand it.

Then a few bold and straightforward Wuhuan strong and illiterate spoke:

"Mr. I don't understand the twists and turns behind it. Let me first talk about why this Guanzi City is called Guanzi City? Could it be that the city is small and sturdy, and looks like a pipe? Hahaha, if you say it wrong, don't blame us for not studying."
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