Xu Wei looked at Jia Xu and asked: "How many troops are needed for our full-scale attack on Xiliang?"
Jia Xu knew that Xu Wei wanted to occupy Xiliang at a lower cost! If there were too many troops, Daqian would not be able to support him!
So Jia Xu said: "It will take a lot of food, grass and time to fully occupy Xiliang, but if we only occupy Beidi County and Anding County, and establish a buffer zone with Ma Teng and others, it will be difficult for the Xiliang rebels to invade Bingzhou. At most, With only 50,000 soldiers and horses, Ma Teng and the others are short of food, so it is impossible for them to fight us head-on! Naturally, it is impossible to resist our attack!"
"As long as our Daqian army occupies Beidi County and Anding County, it can use food to lure people in other places in Xiliang to join them. Now in Xiliang, whoever can get food can gain a foothold in Xiliang. Even Ma Teng and Han Sui's subordinates will be attracted to us, and even if we don't attack, we can make Ma Teng and Han Sui's forces disappear!"
Xu Wei doesn't like passive defense. Since war is inevitable, Xu Wei prefers to actively invade the enemy's territory and keep the war away from Daqian's land!
Then Xu Wei ordered Wang Lei of the Mobei Governor's Mansion to summon 40,000 cavalry, and he took the artillery battalion and the first cavalry battalion to go north to Fushi County, preparing to completely eliminate Ma Teng and Han Sui!
In early September, Ma Teng and others were caught off guard and the Dagan Army reacted quickly. The militia from Shang County and Shuofang County quickly assembled and began to assemble on the side near Guanzhong.
In less than 10 days, Shangjun and Shuofangjun gathered 100,000 troops to guard various counties. With preparations in place, it would be very difficult for Ma Teng and others to sneak attack Dagan, no matter ordinary villages or towns. A large number of militiamen were prepared to prepare for their raid. As soon as they saw them, the militiamen would light beacons and pass on their location information. At this time, Wang Lei quickly came over with 20,000 cavalry.
Ma Teng and Han Sui found that Wang Lei's army was only half of theirs, so they wanted to annihilate Wang Lei's cavalry so that they could continue to plunder Bingzhou!
So the armies of both sides met in the wilds of Gaonu!
Compared with the Daqian cavalry, which has been completely ironed, Ma Teng and Han Sui's armaments have not improved over the years. They are still made of iron swords and leather armor. Many of them don't even have leather armor! Weapons have not been replaced yet. But there are already substitutions on the armor.
Not to mention that the Xiliang rebels of Ma Teng and Han Sui have never fought any major wars in recent years. The most they have done is to maintain robbery operations of hundreds of people, while the Daqian army has fought against the Han Dynasty many times. In a battle involving hundreds of thousands of people, it can be said that the Xiliang rebels are no longer as good as the Han and Daqian in terms of tactics and combat effectiveness. The Xiliang rebels, who had suffered a cholera epidemic in the Han Dynasty, have been reduced to horse thieves and bandits. !
There was no way such a large army could be a match for the Da Gan Army. Wang Lei's attack on them was very simple. He first fired a thunder cannon, which blew up Ma Teng's army and turned them upside down. Then he led his cavalry to charge forward and fight Ma Teng and the others in a hand-to-hand fight! Only one charge. They completely defeated the coalition forces of Ma Teng and Han Sui!
Han Sui was famous as a long-legged general. He was also the leader of the first batch of rebellions in Xiliang. Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou, and even the subsequent kingdoms were all dead. He was the only one who survived well because of his knowledge. With Feng Zhiruo's ability, as soon as he saw that the situation was not good, he immediately led his army to flee to Xiliang and sold Ma Teng, Li Jue and the others!
Wang Lei's army surrounded them on both sides and almost wiped out all of Ma Teng and Li Jue's men. Ma Teng and Li Jue tried their best to escape from Wang Lei's pursuit. After a great battle, half of Ma Teng and Li Jue's men were wiped out.
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But after this battle, Ma Teng, Han Sui and Li Jue were all frightened by the killings. They did not dare to stay in Bingzhou anymore and could only flee back to Xiliang in disgrace!
And not long after the war ended, Xu Wei's reinforcements arrived in Shangjun!
Wang Lei led his men to greet Xu Wei outside Gaonu City!
When he saw Xu Wei excitedly said: "Government!"
Xu Wei also laughed and patted Wang Lei on the shoulder and said: "Wang Lei, we haven't seen each other for several years. Now you are getting more and more powerful. 20,000 cavalry fought against 40,000 Xiliang rebels, but you all fled.
Got it!"
Wang Lei said with a smile: "This is because Ma Teng and Han Sui have not made any progress in these years. At least they were as rebellious as us back then. Now we have occupied the entire land of Hebei and established a brand new country."
"But they have been unwilling to make progress in these years. They have not yet broken out of Xiliang. They have not even built Xiliang. Their subordinates are like horse thieves. They even do the same things as horse thieves. If they don't have food, they will rob us.
, they don’t know anything about construction, and they are no longer worthy of being our enemies!”
Xu Wei also lamented during the first battle. You must know that the Xiliang rebels were the most powerful enemy of the Han Dynasty. The millions of Yellow Turbans were not suppressed by the 100,000 Han Central Army, but they were treated like this.
There were also many famous generals who suppressed them. Dong Zhuo, Huangfu Song, and even Sun Jian, Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian and other later princes came to Xiliang, but even so they failed to suppress the Xiliang rebels, which shows their strong fighting power.
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And now they have 200,000 troops, and the princes of the Han Dynasty have no less than 100,000 troops. All the princes are trying to make their soldiers fully iron-armed, and the starting point of the Xiliang rebels is higher than that of the princes of the Han Dynasty.
There have been many, but now they have become disgraceful horse thieves and have not attacked at all in these years!
Their original history was also like this. The separatist forces that originally required the entire Han Dynasty to suppress were not seen in the years when the princes were fighting for hegemony! After decades of chaos in the entire Han Dynasty, Cao Cao, who occupied half of the Han Dynasty, could easily suppress them.
!Cutting off beards and losing robes became the last glory of the Xiliang rebels!
Wang Lei took Xu Wei all the way to Shangjunfu Yamen!
Xu Wei smiled and said: "This time I brought troops to support you, mainly to see if there is a chance to capture Xiliang. If it is not difficult, we will completely solve the problem of Xiliang. If it is difficult, we will occupy the north."
Prefectures and Anding counties should establish buffer zones for Bingzhou to reduce the occurrence of incidents like this!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this time, Wang Lei reflected: "In power, this time it was my carelessness that allowed Ma Teng and others to rush into Bingzhou to burn, kill and loot!"
Xu Wei stopped him and said, "Bingzhou and Xiliang have thousands of miles of defense lines. If Ma Teng and the others want to make a sneak attack, it's impossible for you to prevent them. You can defeat Ma Teng and the others quickly, which is already a great achievement!"
Then Xu Wei said seriously: "I just want to ask you now, how confident are we that our 50,000 cavalry can occupy Xiliang?"
Wang Lei thought for a while and said: "For information about Xiliang, Chief Shi Li Ru has been collecting information. It is better for Li Ru to answer the question of governing!"
Li Ru immediately came out and said: "The rebels in Xiliang are not a threat at all! This year's drought has caused the entire Xiliang to collapse. Now they can only survive by looting! But now Ma Teng and Han Sui have not grabbed much at all.
As long as our army attacks, their rule in Xiliang will definitely collapse!"
"Moreover, Niu Fu came to join us not long ago. With Niu Fu as our guide, we can quickly establish a foothold in Xiliang, and then rely on the advantage of food and grass to quickly defeat the various rebels in Xiliang!"
Xu Wei asked strangely: "Why does Niu Fu want to join us when he is doing well?"
Xu Wei remembered that most of Dong Zhuo's old subordinates like Niu Fu went to Xiliang to become kings and hegemons. He didn't believe that Niu Fu would leave a good local bully to join him. Xu Wei understood Niu Fu and these warlords too well, so he could
They will never be the eldest brother, let alone run away and become their own little brother. Neither he nor Niu Fu has ever met him!
Li Ru hated iron and said: "This is a waste. Even his own subordinates can't suppress him. He was driven out of Wuwei County by his own subordinates, so he had to seek refuge with his subordinates. I think he has some use.
That’s why we took him in!”
In the organization of Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou Legion at that time, the boss was Dong Zhuo, followed by several middle-ranking generals, such as Niu Fu, Dong Yue, Duan Xuan, Hu Zhen, etc., and below the middle-ranking generals were the school captains, such as Li Jue and Guo Si.
Fan Chou, Zhang Ji, etc., these are the core of Dong Zhuo.
It can be said that Niu Fu was the number two figure in the Xiliang army after Dong Zhuo's death. However, after Dong Zhuo's death, he was greedy for life and feared death. He either wanted to seek refuge with the court or escape back to his hometown in Xiliang. Such half-heartedness made Dong Zhuo's
All the generals looked down on Niu Fu, so when Chang'an rebelled, he was excluded from the core group of Dong Zhuo's generals.
Historically, Niu Fu defeated Li Su with only a few troops at his disposal, but he was cowardly and suspicious, so he killed Dong Yue out of suspicion. He was also afraid of an army mutiny, so he abandoned his troops and fled, but was killed by his followers.
In this world, his fate is better. Even if he is ostracized, he doesn't care. With Xu Wei's control, Dong Zhuo's subordinates basically returned to Xiliang alive, which is much better than their ending in history.
Niu Fu took tens of thousands of confidants to occupy his hometown in Wuwei County, separatist power and became king, and began to dominate Wuwei County. He had already been plundering Guanzhong, and after returning to Xiliang, he lived a good life, and then he
They also went on a crusade against the Qiang tribes and robbed the war horses of these tribes and sold them to the Central Plains. With this way of making money, Niu Fu would be better off than in the hands of Dong Zhuo!
But he was too greedy. He made a lot of money every day, but the soldiers in his hands didn't even get much of the soup and water. It would be fine if it was like this. After all, in this troubled world, everyone's requirements are very low, as long as they can eat
Just be full!
Following Niu Fu, the boss, he could barely make ends meet, and the big man at this time was actually the most stable in Xiliang. Hundreds of thousands of troops were fighting in the Central Plains at every turn. They old fritters were frightened when they heard this. If they stayed in the Central Plains, they would definitely die.
undoubtedly!
In Xiliang, the most they could do was fight against the Qiang. In the past, the Huns and Xianbei would invade Xiliang, but now both the Huns and Xianbei have been annexed by Lei Gong. Lei Gong looks down on Xiliang and will not attack at all.
Here, the other princes of Xiliang and Niu Fu are all old friends, and no one will attack the remote Wuwei County, so Niu Fu's territory actually feels a bit like a paradise!
But this year's drought caused the Xiliang Taoyuan in Wuwei County to completely collapse. Niu Fu's soldiers could not even meet the simplest requirement of having enough to eat. All the princes in the Central Plains stopped sending food to Xiliang, and Niu Fu himself
I didn’t cultivate grain in my hometown, and usually went to other places to buy grain to survive. But like this year’s once-in-a-century drought, everyone began to restrict grain exports. Even several of Niu Fu’s friends lost their foreign supplies.
As for food, the price of food in Wuwei County has exceeded sky-high prices. The price of food per stone exceeds 100,000 yuan, which is affordable for small soldiers.
Niu Fu himself refused to use his wealth to support these soldiers. He even felt that there were too many soldiers in his hands. There were not many people in Wuwei County and could not afford to support so many soldiers, and the surrounding forces did not care at all that he had them.
No matter how many troops he has, he can't defeat any of them anyway, so it doesn't seem to matter if he has fewer soldiers.
So Niu Fu came up with the idea of disarmament! If you can't afford it, cut it off. There is no shortage of soldiers in Xiliang!
This offended all his subordinates. In the year of the great disaster, Niu Fu actually drove them out of the military camp. Niu Fu even ate meat himself and refused to give bones to his subordinates. Now he is not willing to give even a sip of soup.
, and wanted to take their lives in such a disaster year, Niu Fu simply wanted to kill all his soldiers!
The Xiliang Army had seen the world before, and had experienced countless mutinies and rebellions. Since the boss Niu Fu refused to give them a way to survive, they had no choice but to find a way to survive.
So the 10,000 Xiliang troops in his hands rebelled and rushed directly into Niu Fu's home, killing all of Niu Fu's family. Fortunately, Niu Fu escaped and ascended to heaven with some of his guards!
After escaping from Wuwei County, Niu Fu thought for a long time and decided to seek refuge with Li Ru in Shuofang County! And Niu Fu was luckier than in history and actually came to Shuofang County alive to meet Li Ru!
The reason why Niu Fu took refuge with Li Ru was because the two of them were still related. Niu Fu was the son of Dong Zhuo's subordinate and was deeply loved by Dong Zhuo. He married his eldest daughter to Niu Fu when he came of age and arranged for him to join the army.
, quickly became the Zhonglang General, and even became the second core of the Xiliang Army! And Li Ru was Dong Zhuo's second favorite confidant. He married his second daughter to Li Ru. From this aspect, Li Ru
Ru still wants to call Niu Fu brother-in-law!
When Jia Xu heard the news, he said happily: "If we can occupy Weiwu County, it will be equivalent to cutting off the connection between the east and west of Xiliang and completely surrounding Ma Teng and the others! At that time, we can divide our troops into three groups to encircle and suppress Ma Teng and the others.
, the first army went directly south from Weiwu County and attacked Hanyang, Jincheng, and Longxi counties.
"The second army attacked in the southeast direction, Anding County and Beidi County, completely dividing the forces of Han Sui and Ma Teng, making it difficult for them to support each other,"
"The third army attacked Beidi County and Anding County from Shangjun, leaving Ma Teng and Han Sui to flee to Guanzhong. If they force Ma Teng, Han Sui and the others to fight with Yuan Shao, we may even be in trouble.
Que Zai later captured Guanzhong, which will be of great benefit to our future attack on the Central Plains!"