Xu Huai was on his way to Biyang when he received a report that Yue Hailou had killed his wife and children and set himself on fire.
The carriages and horses stopped by the roadside for a while. After listening to the messenger's report that Yue Hai Tower set fire to himself, Gao Xiangzhong returned to his house and hung himself from a beam. Liu Shiwang said with emotion:
"My lord arranged for the wives and children of the in-laws to go to Jiaopi to weaken their fighting spirit. I didn't expect them to be more decisive. However, compared to the heinous crimes they have committed over the years by working as an aide and aiding the tyrants, this result is still an advantage for them..."
Xu Huai stood on the cliff out of Tongbai Valley and looked at Biyang City in the distance, feeling filled with emotion in his heart.
He did not sympathize with Yue Hailou's tumultuous fate. Yue Hailou's journey to this day was purely a heinous crime and he deserved all the blame.
But the moment he walked out of Tongbai Mountain, Yue Hailou had always been him, Chushan, and the enemy of Beijing and Xiangzhou. Yue Hailou killed his wife and children and then set himself on fire. It can be said that he destroyed him physically and mentally.
The complete destruction was achieved with the blood and tears of countless generals and countless living lives. There were too many things that were not easy.
"Yue Hailou set fire to himself, which would have greatly shocked the Heluohan army. Cao Shixiong might have fled north with his troops, and before the Battle of Taihe, the Zhennan Sect
The palace does have a plan to forcibly move the Han people from the west of Beijing to the north," Chen Zixiao stood aside and admonished. "We should send troops to Heluo and the west of the capital to exert pressure on Heluoduo, which may allow a small group of people to bypass Wan'an.
The mountains move into the banks of the Yi River..."
When the Chihu people were facing a disadvantage in the war and carried out strategic contraction, they also wanted to force the Han people in Hehuai and other places to move north, turning the Hehuai, which is thousands of miles away, into an uninhabited wilderness and a buffer for their elite cavalry to make roundabout passes.
District, it can be described as a poisonous plan.
However, it was not easy for the Chihu people to forcibly relocate millions of Han people from the Hehuai area.
First of all, in the western region of Beijing, except for Xuzhou, Chen Erzhou and the northern part of Yingzhou, which Yuehailou once focused on, all have been recovered. Previously, the general administration of the military and horse capital in western Beijing had a total of
The Han military households were resettled, with a total of 400,000 households and about 1.5 million people. At this time, they can generally be incorporated under the jurisdiction of the western and southern camps of Beijing. Some of the population can also be relocated to fill in the dilapidated Pingyu.
, Suiping, Huaichuan, Yingshang and other counties have resumed agricultural production.
Although there are still more than a million people from Luyi, Zhecheng, Yanling, Changge to the north, all the way to the banks of the Yellow River, due to the Han troops in western Beijing and Bianzheng and other places, they suffered heavy losses in the Yingzhou Battle.
After a devastating blow, the Zhennan Zong Palace currently has only 40,000 to 50,000 remaining soldiers in Luyi, Zhecheng and other places. However, facing the military pressure exerted by the two major camps in the west and south of Beijing, it obviously does not dare to disperse its troops and forcefully drive them away.
People from these places moved north.
However, Cao Shixiong's army of more than 60,000 elite troops still controlled the entire Heluo area, and the Prince of Pingyanzong still controlled the entire eastern Hehuai area, and the Han army under his command had not suffered heavy losses.
The Chihu people then forcibly drove the Han people northward in these two areas, and it was difficult for the Sikong Prefecture to intervene much in a short period of time.
Although the Battle of Yingzhou achieved a brilliant victory and completely reversed the situation of passive defeat in the Central Plains, the armies had experienced several hard battles and were in urgent need of replenishment and rest.
In addition, from the end of the Second Battle of Huainan to the launch of the Battle of Yingzhou, there was a gap of more than a year. During this period, there were events such as the escape from Beijing and the relocation of the capital. The road and state capitals consumed a lot of food and fodder, and the state capitals rotated garrison troops.
The horses suffered heavy casualties and needed a period of rest and recuperation.
Now for the eastern part of the Hehuai River, in addition to the two major camps in the west and south of Beijing, the Shouhao camp and the Chuzhou soldiers and horses commanded by Han Shiliang need to be more active in building military strongholds north of the Huaihe River.
The enemy forces exert greater military pressure, so that the Hehuai soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of Prince Ping Yanzong's palace cannot spare too many manpower to force the people to move north; at the same time, they can also actively guide the local people to rely on Yimeng and other mountains.
Launch a more active resistance movement, or go south to fill in places such as Sihao.
For the Heluo area guarded by Cao Shixiong, we must not easily let Cao Shixiong take away the 700,000 to 800,000 people in the Heluo area. In addition to actively preparing for the army to enter Luo in the autumn, we need to send a small group of troops now.
Infiltrate and launch more active guerrilla operations organized by the resisting people, and try to destroy the enemy's control of the grassroots in Heluo as much as possible.
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"The minister's car has passed the valley entrance! There are still twenty miles to go to Anran Pavilion!"
The post rider galloped to the Anran Pavilion, ten miles east of Biyang City, and reported to the hundreds of civil and military officials who were already waiting inside and outside the Anran Pavilion.
In addition to the civil and military officers led by Xu Wuqi and Shi Zhen in Sikong Mansion and the pacification envoy department established in Jingxiang Road, Zhou He, Gu Fan, Zhao Yi, the king of Wuwei County, Qian Zerui, the secretary of the Privy Council, and others also came from Xiangyang.
Welcome Xu Huai's class back to Biyang.
At this moment, there were also banners on both sides of An Ran Pavilion. More than a thousand armored soldiers in armor came out of the city to take charge of security, clearing a space of two to three hundred feet deep outside An Ran Pavilion. However, thousands of people who came after hearing the news,
Outside the cordon, An Ran Pavilion was completely surrounded.
At this moment, most people were excited and their faces were filled with joy.
Although Dai Viet had repeatedly won great victories in the past, they had barely managed to repel the Chihu people's offensive in defense, keeping the Qinling-Huaihe line of defense intact.
Generally speaking, the situation facing Dai Viet is extremely dangerous and passive, and it has never emerged from the shadow of national subjugation and genocide.
This time, the victory of Yingzhou was not only the first time that Dai Viet turned from defense to offense, but also the first time that Dai Viet's army pushed the central defense line from the Tongbai Ridge area northward to the Yingshui coast.
Not only did Dai Viet emerge from the shadow of national subjugation and annihilation for the first time, but recovering the Central Plains was no longer a wishful thinking.
Of course, not only among the people watching, but also among the hundreds of civil and military officials standing inside and outside Anran Pavilion to greet him, there were also people with mixed feelings.
After the escape from Beijing incident, the capital was moved to Xiangyang, and Xu Huai took charge of the government in the name of Sikong Mansion. In fact, he implemented the hegemony system of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In fact, he also appointed "Sikong Mansion" unique to the Wei and Jin Dynasties under the Sikong Mansion.
Official positions such as "military advisor offering wine".
Isn’t his wolfish ambition clearly revealed?
Those gentry Jin Jin who "invaded" the land for the New Deal were afraid of the overwhelming power of the Sikong Mansion, even though they saw the Jin family in Jinzhuang being imprisoned after the escape from Beijing.
He was expelled from his family and exiled. He did not dare to express his joy and anger, but deep down in his heart, he hoped that the domineering Sikong Mansion would one day be extremely happy and sad.
The great victory in Yingzhou undoubtedly made their expectations even slimmer.
Especially in response to the Sikong Prefecture's recruitment of troops and supplies, the various prefectural governments once sent envoys to Biyang at various intervals to cry out about the difficulties in various places and beg the Sikong Prefecture for mercy.
After raiding Ruyin and encircling Jiaopi and Quanhe, they became extremely active.
After the Escape from Beijing Incident, the Sikong Prefecture and the various prefectures agreed that the number of garrison troops along the Huaihe River would be 50,000. However, in the later stages of the Yingzhou Battle, they were actually transferred to Shouhao, Yingzhou and Rucai Prefectures who participated in the war.
The number of soldiers and horses, excluding Jingxiang Road, is as high as 150,000, and not a single family has complained.
In the early days of the Yingzhou Campaign, Gao Junyang once abandoned the forts outside the West Qinling Mountains and retracted his troops to the territory of Wuzhou and the southern flank of Chencang Road. He also secretly encouraged Xishu Road and Jiazhou to set up blockades to block Zhufengtang's merchant ships from heading to Li.
Prefecture also built a military fort and added checkpoints to the west of Jiazhou at the pass where Dadu River exits Qionglai Mountain.
At this time, Jiazhou not only removed the checkpoint at Qionglai Mountain Pass, Xishu Road also sent people to Biyang to complain, saying that many of the previous actions were actually caused by the severe banditry on both sides of Qionglai Mountain. At this time, the remaining bandits were eliminated, and the checkpoint naturally ceased to exist.
It's necessary.
The Sikong Mansion once asked the Guangnan West Road Transport Envoy to expand the scale of the sale with Dali and expand the supply of horses, but the Guangxi Transport Envoy refused. Recently, Guangnan West Road also sent people to Biyang to discuss expanding the sale.
In the name of the Sikong Prefecture, Xu Huai once asked the prefectures and counties to reduce or reduce the service and tax of the garrison generals and limit the rents - not to mention the Jingnan, Guangxi, and Western Shu roads, even Liu Yan and Wang Fan were appointed to pacify them.
Jiangdong and Zhejiang were envoys to Jiangdong and Zhejiang, and Kong Changyu was appointed as the pacification envoy. In the later period, Jingbei Road, which had a close relationship with Jingxiang, was difficult to implement.
The resistance mainly came from prefectures and counties. Even though Sikong Mansion controlled the road-level government offices in the three places through Liu Yan, Wang Fan, and Kong Changyu.
By this time, the huge resistance that once existed was quickly dissolving.
Everyone knows the reasons for all these changes.
The great victory in Yingzhou further increased the reputation of Pingliang County Duke in various counties.
The prestige here is no longer pure or even illusory, but a large number of middle and lower-level military officers and soldiers from various prefectures who participated in the battlefield and garrison along the Huaihe Defense Line have actually turned into supporters of the Sikong Prefecture -
- They returned home from the garrison. Not only did they publicize the great achievements of the Sikong Prefecture, and encouraged their brothers, nephews and fellow villagers to enlist in the war, they also actively participated in the management of local affairs with the support of the Sikong Prefecture.
In other words, the Sikong Mansion began to bypass the state and county government offices, and through these generals who had participated in garrison operations, they returned to their hometowns to get more deeply involved in local affairs.
At this time, who would dare to maliciously obstruct the reduction or exemption of rent for the generals and their families, without fear of being caught and killed by the Sikong Mansion?
Although there were no massacres during the escape from Beijing, only one or two hundred heads fell to the ground, but among the tens of thousands of criminals and their dependents who were exiled to the Tubo Highlands west of Qionglai Mountain, how many of them would eventually be pardoned and return home alive?
