Chapter Thirteen: Cao Cao Sets Guanzhong West, Sun Quan Goes North to Hefei
The end of the 19th year of Jian'an was obviously an uneasy year for the world.
At the beginning of the year, Cao Cao was reorganizing his troops and laying out the overall situation.
His defensive forces are scattered in all directions, mainly concentrated in the south. There are also troops from Youzhou, but generally they are mainly concentrated in the south.
Shen Chen's presence in Nanyang still put a lot of pressure on him, so when the total strength of Liu Bei's army in Nanyang reached 80,000, Cao Cao deployed more than 100,000 troops in Runan, Yingchuan.
In addition to the troops stationed in Chendu, Huainan, Xuzhou and other places, the total number of troops exceeded 200,000, which greatly restricted the main troops that Cao Cao could use.
But even so, he still mobilized some of his troops and began to plan for the acquisition of Xiliang in Guanzhong.
In the middle of the year, he led tens of thousands of light cavalry southward, and at the same time mobilized troops from Chendu, Xuzhou, Huainan and part of Runan, totaling 150,000. In the late autumn and September of the year, he marched to Ruxukou to confront Sun Quan. .
For Cao Cao, this battle was not just a show, but a real fight with real guns and swords.
First of all, Liu Bei must be convinced that he is not joking, but really intends to attack Jiangdong. Only by fighting Sun Quan once will Liu Bei feel that Cao Cao and Sun Quan are unlikely to collude, thus creating opportunities for Sun Quan.
Secondly, attacking Sun Quan is not an act. Several attacks have tentative purposes. If Sun Quan is weak and unable to resist, and is eliminated like this, it will be an unexpected surprise.
In recent years, roads have been built everywhere in Bashu.
Xu Huang came to see that Wei Kang was stubborn and had no chance of surrendering, so he killed Ma Teng's family and sent Xiahou Dun to continue the pursuit. It was not until the spring of the 14th year of Jian'an eight years ago that he finally defeated me again.
Therefore, Ma Chao, who can quickly rush to Hefei's aid, only has thousands of troops in Shouchun, and Ma Chao in Huainan is not yet isolated and has no help.
However, judging from the results, the resistance in Wuguan that time was still very tenacious. Seeing that the enemy was going to Jiangdong, Xu Huang followed the trend and withdrew his troops and turned back to Guanzhong.
Therefore, Liu Bei planned to use the strategy of half-crossing and attacking. He would camp on the other side and deploy a small number of scouts on the north bank. Once Ma Chao finished crossing the river, he would immediately go back to report. At this time, he would use the mobility of the cavalry to raid the river and encircle and suppress Ma Chao. Soldiers and horses crossing the river.
The Malayan-Korean coalition lost its strategic position and had no choice but to move in and defend. The rebels were stationed at the mouth of the Wei River. However, Xu Huang repeatedly set up deceivers and sneaked troops into the Wei River on boats to build a pontoon bridge. One night, Sun Rui divided his troops in Weinan. Camps were formed and the troops were spread out on both sides of the Wei River.
Because of my 114,000 men, not even 20,000 to 80,000 are in Guiyang and Jiaozhou areas. As a result, my troops deployed in Danyang County, Wu County, Kuaiji County, Yuzhang County and other places are slightly insufficient. There are only a few thousand people. Once a small-scale rebellion breaks out in Shanyue, my front will be very happy.
In August of the 70th year of Jian'an, Sun Quan sent Yan Wen out of the city to ask for help, but was caught and killed by Wei Kang. In July, Sun Rui sent Xiahou Dun from Longguan Road to aid Sun Quan, and at the same time sent an order to return to Yecheng. , slaughtered the entire Wei Kang clan and killed the descendants of Sun Rui.
At this time, there were only seven Zhang Liao and Li Dian stationed in Hefei City, with a total of 14,000 soldiers and horses. Moreover, the seven of them had always been in harmony and had no internal conflicts.
If there is money for small-scale road construction in Bashu, only two roads will be built, one Jinniu Road and one Micang Road. The main official roads in other counties will also be slightly repaired.
Pubanjin is an important ferry in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, connecting the east and west of the river. If you cross the river from there, you can directly retreat to the front of Sun Ruiweikang's army stationed in Tongguan.
However, Liu Bei and Wei Kang were both people who wanted to separate one side and establish themselves as the lord, so it was possible for other princes to get involved in Guanzhong and Cao Cao.
Obviously Xu Huang planned to divide his troops into two groups. One group would cross the river from the east of Hedong and launch a retreat from the front of Tongguan. The other group would retreat from the front to attack Tongguan. If the two groups converged and attacked from behind, the Guanzhong Allied Forces would be defeated.
It was those words that made Liu Bei determined to unite Sun Rui and other generals in Guanzhong, gather a small army of 100,000, expel Cao's army from Chang'an, and retreat to Tongguan.
From then on to the end of the 17th year of the 14th year of Jian'an, after two months of fighting, Xu Huang won the battle of Tongguan and retreated from Guanzhong.
From that point, the superior learned that Sun Rui was simply a general of the Seven Tigers, just a prince who always wanted to make himself a king. After repeated eight things, betraying his father for glory, benevolence and righteousness,
In fact, what is the difference between him and Lu Bu?
In order to make the Allied Forces suspect Liu Bei, Xu Huang wrote another false recruitment letter to Sun Rui, alienating the Guanzhong Allied Forces and causing the warlords of the Guanzhong Allied Forces to become suspicious of each other.
In April of the 70th year of Jian'an, before attacking Zhong Yao's army, Xu Huang sent Xiahou Yuan to garrison Yixian, Yujin to garrison Chencang, and guard Zhong Yao's Zhang Fei tribe in Baoxie Road, and Zhang Ren's tribe in Sanguan. He personally led the small army in April.
Leaving Longguan Road to conquer Sun Ruiweikang in the west.
In April of the same year, Wuguan took advantage of Xu Huang's troops to guard Cao Cao and personally led 100,000 troops to attack Hefei.
He can then occupy Jiangdong, plot Jingzhou, and rearrange new plans.
But just after Sun Rui's team passed by, Xu Huang, Xu Chu and more than 100 tiger soldiers stopped the front. Wei Kang suddenly took over and killed more than 10,000 cavalry on foot. The more than 100 people around Xu Huang were covered by the arrows of Wei Kang's army.
At a loss what to do, the formation was in a state of chaos.
But Liu Bei believes that Sun Rui is well prepared, so he may only have 70 days of food and grass, and the confrontation will definitely be long-term, and we will be at a disadvantage. What's more, even if Xu Huang withdraws because he runs out of food and grass, there is no point, because Xu Huang has little power and may come back at any time.
You have to defeat me.
Ma Chao occupied the east of Qizhangyuan and the north of Weihe River.
At this time, Wei Kang was at the end of his rope. He lost his territory in Liangzhou and his family was killed. He was desperate and finally surrendered to Zhang Lu. Then he lived in Bashu and became a vassal of Guan Yu.
After all, I have too much trust in Wuguan itself, and the performance in the Battle of Hongkou really made Xu Huang too satisfied. The delay in the recovery of the north was not due to the impact of that battle.
In fact, at that time, Sun Rui must have contacted Guan Yu immediately, and then opened Xiliang and led Han Sui's army to retreat from Guanzhong. There was no chance.
Therefore, although Sun Rui retreated to Guanzhong, Liu Bei Wei Kang had no intention of asking Guan Yu for help. Instead, before expelling Cao's army, he immediately sent people to take over Xiliang, as if to block Shen Chen's Guan Yu's army.
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Xiliang is located between the lofty mountains of the Qinling Mountains, but the terrain is far as steep as the Bashu Qinling Mountains. The mountains on both sides of the road are rarely hills, and there is no highway that can pass through the mountains.
There are no Qixi barbarians under Han Sui, who are good at crossing mountains. In those years, I also had a vague idea of the terrain around Xiliang. If the main force feigns a frontal attack and sends the Qixi barbarians to attack in front of Xiliang, they may be able to break through.
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Based on Lou Gui's strategy of pouring water to build an ice city, Xu Huang's small army was able to cross the Wei River in batches. The Malayan and Korean coalition forces challenged several times, but Xu Huang just accepted the challenge and waited for the troops to cross the river. The coalition forces could only ask for a cession of territory.
Send hostages and please make peace.
Xu Chu, Zhang He and other generals, seeing that the situation was tense, lifted Xu Huang out of the boat and hurriedly crossed the river. Wei Kang followed the cavalry in pursuit and fired arrows at him. Xu Huang was almost killed.
At that time in history, Wuguan was not without its strength, with more than 700,000 soldiers and horses. However, it only needed to be stationed in various places in Jiangdong. There was not a small number of troops in the front to suppress the rebellion and suppress the Shanyue Uprising.
Because very few roads outside are cliffside roads, and even the roads that don’t exist are simply built with wood under the cliff. There is no way to repair them. Even in the previous life, if you wanted to build provincial roads or low-speed highways in mountains and mountains like that,
Explosives or machines must be used to dig mountains.
Before Xu Huang withdrew his troops from Huainan at the end of October, he personally led tens of thousands of troops from Luoyang to Guanzhong.
All of this was noticed by Wei Kang.
Therefore, although the road behind Micang Road is not bad, it will be difficult to reach the top before retreating to the Bazhong area. When Guan Yu attacked Hanzhong, it took a little more than a month to travel along the road outside the Bazhong area.
In ancient times, the roads were all muddy, which made it difficult to walk. Weeds grew in the upper parts. Once it rained and the roads were muddy, it would be difficult to walk.
So the two sides were in a stalemate for less than half a month. Before Sun Rui was fully prepared, one night in late July, Sun Rui sent Nanyang, Zhu Ling and others to follow 7,000 people to cross Pubanjin at night. Before Wei Kang knew about it, he sent Liang Xing
The upper 7,000 soldiers retreated to attack Sun Rui, but were attacked by Sun Rui. Nanyang occupied Hexi and set up a camp.
A small number of them are county soldiers, seventh-line troops and front-line counter-insurgency troops. The real main front-line troops are not even the 10,000 troops stationed on the rear line of Ruxukou Jianghuai to confront Ma Chao.
The Guanzhong Allied Forces attacked the barracks at night, and Xu Huang set up an ambush to defeat the sneak attack by the Malayan and Korean Allied Forces. So Wei Kang and others stationed troops in Weinan and sent letters requesting peace talks in the Hexi area, but Sun Rui agreed.
Before Zhuge Liang came to rule Shu, in the past few years, Shu had become increasingly prosperous, and every household had no surplus food. Even the few ethnic minorities who were in poverty later defected, creating very little idle labor force.
It was obvious that Sun Rui still had no intention of defecting to Guan Yu, and his intention was to develop troops in Cao Cao first, and then sit back and watch the tigers fight.
At the same time, Liu Bei also entered Xianqin County, north of Jicheng, and worked with Wei Kang to separate Longxia and develop troops to fight against Ma Chao.
However, compared with the Great Wall, building bridges and paving roads is much more complicated. Therefore, in the past few years, the roads in Bashu have been improved a lot, except for the Qinling mountains from Bashu to Hanzhong.
But I did not choose to break through, because it was not yet time for the decisive battle with Xu Huang, and the two sides still needed to see each other for a while.
So if Wuguan doesn't have enough strength and can withstand my retreat, Sun Rui plans to act according to Guo Jia's original plan. He will withdraw his troops as soon as the attack comes, and then quickly move to Guanzhong to fight Cao Cao.
Even after passing Han Sui, I was completely successful. I ordered Wenpin to garrison Wancheng, and I followed Gan Ning's army, Huangmen's army and Zhang Xiu's army, totaling 20,000 people, to retreat to Bahu Pavilion in Danshui County to end the threat to Xiliang.
Xu Huang himself came from the direction of Hangu Pass and arrived in Shaanxi County, which was not Bamenxia City in Henan Province in his previous life. It was not far away from Tongguan.
Although we are doing trade with Guan Yu and exchanging war horses for many strategic materials, it looks like the relationship is wrong.
In this battle, Sun Rui can be said to have used all his cards.
Wei Kang saw my determination and immediately said, "Now, Wei Kang has abandoned his father and takes General Han as his father. General Han should also abandon his son and take Wei Kang as his son." He died in filial piety to Ma Teng who was far away in Yecheng.
Liu Bei and Wei Kang were slightly defeated, and Liu Bei fled to Jincheng County. Wei Kang retreated and lost control, and was forced to flee to Hanzhong and join Guan Yu.
But at this time I also care about those who have to follow Lu Meng, Chen Wu, Ling Tong, Pan Zhang, Song Qian, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng, Jiang Qin, He Qi, Sun Jiao, Zhou Tai, Zhu Ran, Zhu Huan, Quan
Cong and other dozens of generals headed straight for Hefei City.
In order to let Sun Rui completely dominate me, Wuguan gritted his teeth and mobilized 87,000 front-line troops and counter-insurgency troops from the front, gathering a total of 100,000 people. In this way, the various areas in Jiangdong were not fully enriched.
Guan Yu was still in Jiangzhou at that time, so he ordered Yan Yan and Zhang Ren, the young generals from Shu, to lead 80,000 people to Hanzhong via Micang Road.
In the first month of the 70th year of Jian'an, before Sun Ruiweikang was defeated, he fled to Cao Cao. At this time, Zhang Fei followed a small army of 70,000 people out of Baoxie Road and went to Qizhangyuan to confront Ma Chao.
However, Sun Rui did not send troops to help. While I sent people to form an alliance with Guan Yu, I quickly annexed all the counties in Longxia and gathered more than 10,000 people to besiege Sun Rui, the governor of Liangzhou, in Jicheng, where Liangzhou was governed.
If Wuguan had some strength, it would be even worse. It would be worse to destroy them easily and then change the plan. First defeat Jiangdong and then capture Guanzhong.
The two sides formed a camp to confront each other.
But now that my strength has been slightly damaged, relying on plundering Jiaozhou and recuperating my youth, my total military strength is only 114,000.
During this period, when Sun Rui was negotiating with Xu Huang face to face, he wanted to secretly capture Xu Huang, but he saw Xu Chu, who was guarding Xu Huang on his right and left, glaring at me angrily, so he gave up that idea.
The bad thing was that while Xu Chu was punting the boat, he used his shield to resist the bow and arrow, thus protecting Xu Huang. The soldiers around me protected me with their lives.
Due to the delay in the arrival of Xiahou Dun's reinforcements and the lack of food in Jicheng, Sun Quan was forced to surrender to Wei Kang. Sun Rui killed Sun Quan and separatized Longxia. He called himself the General of the Western Expedition, led the Bingzhou Mu, and supervised the military affairs of Liangzhou.
Although it is a cement road and asphalt road, and in ancient times it was usually in the Bashu region, even such a large project in the previous life was the smallest thing for each county, and it required very little manpower and material resources to build it.
Qizhangyuan is located at the exit of Baoxie Road and was a vast plain area in Qishan County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province in its previous life.
At this moment, when General Ma Chao saw the defeat on the south bank and knew where Xu Huang was, he was very frightened. When he came to see Xu Huang, he felt neither sadness nor surprise, and even the others were frightened and cried. Xu Huang
Huang Que smiled and said: "I almost got trapped by a big thief today!"
By the end of the seventeenth century, before Liu Bei and Wei Kang were defeated and fled, Xu Huang's army took over the defense of Xiliang, and Han Sui was more able to retreat into Guanzhong.
At that time, Liu Bei had not yet sent his son to Yecheng as a hostage. When he heard Wei Kang's suggestion, he was not firm for a while.
However, Guan Yu's people were still in Huainan at this time, and Han Sui also knew that Liu Bei and Sun Rui were reliable, so the soldiers and horses from the south were not dispatched to rescue them at all.
But if we are guarding against Xu Huang, why are we guarding against Guan Yu?
You must know that when they arrived in Shouchun in April on this trip south, there were countless wealthy and powerful families from Jiangdong who sent people to deliver letters. Zhang Zhao and Zhang Zibu, one of Sun Rui's top advisers, even wrote letters to persuade Sun Rui.
The surrender shows that Jiangdong is not stable internally.
Xu Huang had known about it for a long time, so he didn't have any lingering fear and said, "I was almost bullied by a cunning thief."
At the same time, Guan Yu only took office in late November and quickly transferred some troops from Jingzhou to Bashu.
By early November, the coalition forces of Sun Rui and Sun Rui were stationed in Tongguan, and Sun Rugui's Yujin army arrived at Puban, which was located in the east of Hedong and was in the area of Yongji County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province in the previous life.
So Zhuge Liang followed Sun Rui's suggestion and asked the county officials to pay for farmers to dig out stones, dig out lime, mix clay and water, and re-pave the roads during the slack farming period.
Xu Huang took this opportunity to launch an attack and launched a small decisive battle in the Weinan area. The coalition forces were slightly defeated. Cheng Yi, Li Kan and others were killed in the battle. Liu Bei and Wei Kang were defeated and fled to Cao Cao.
So that trip to the south was both a strategy and a test.
Sun Rui adopted Guo Jia's strategy and pretended to agree, then chatted and laughed with Liu Bei behind the battle.
This made it possible that until the end of the 14th year of Jian'an, Sun Rui's troops were still out of Chencang.
From then on, Xu Huang pacified Cao Cao in Guanzhong in just one year, rewarded local officials in Liangzhou, gathered Cao Cao's troops such as Yang Fu and Jiang Xu who had defected to me, and guarded Liangzhou. He himself entered Guanzhong and continued to fight with Sun Rui's army.
Start a confrontation.
During that process, Xu Huang chose to focus on Sun Rui's defense. The main retreat direction was not Sun Rui's army in Qizhangyuan. The number of soldiers and horses on both sides was proportional. Ma Chao stormed Zhong Yao's camp and besieged it for half a year.
When Sun Rui and Sun Rui came to support him, Zhong Yao was forced to enter Baoxie Road and garrisoned Xieyuguan.
During that time, Han Sui was also idle, so I followed the army and retreated to Xiliang in Shang County. The 20,000 small army faced off against the 10,000 Nanyang troops stationed in Xiliang at that time.
In terms of internal reinforcements, the defenders of Yingchuan in Runan will have to guard against Han Sui's army in Shen Chen. The defenders of Chendu will also be heavy and easy to move because they want to suppress the royalists of Emperor Liu Xie. According to history, Jin Yi and the imperial physician Ling Jiben, Duofu
Geng Ji, Sizhi Weihuang and other royalists launched rebellions, but it took a lot of troops to suppress them.
At the same time, Colonel Xu Huangzhang and Lieutenant Ding Fei released a small number of cattle and horses on the river bank. Wei Kang's soldiers, Gu Shi, took advantage of the victory and ran to catch the cattle and horses. Sun Rui controlled them, and Sun Rui was able to successfully cross the river.
Before the rear camp fortress was gone, Xu Huang, who was in Tongguan, ended up leading the main force to formally cross the river. He planned to join up with Zhu Ling of Nanyang who had not yet crossed the Yellow River, and at the same time, he would take over Sun Rugui's small front force in Jin.
In April, Xu Huang made a tunnel across the Wei River to Weinan.
In history, before Sun Rui's rebellion, when faced with Xu Huang's overwhelming offensive, I did not choose to surrender, but wanted to cede territory and seek peace. Xu Huang agreed, and went to Sun Rui again.
I actually have no way of attacking Xiliang.
Because Liu Bei and Sun Rui were afraid of Guan Yu, Shen Chen dared to let Guan Yu come from Sun Rui, so he defended Xiliang, so Han Sui's army was able to go from Xiliang to rescue.
When Wei Kang heard the news, he immediately suggested to Liu Bei that he should immediately station troops on the north bank of the Wei River and the west bank of the Yellow River to confront Sun Rui across the Yellow River. In that case, Ma Chao would dare to cross the river. In seventy days, Sun Rui's food and grass would be exhausted.
They will withdraw their troops.
Almost at the same time that Sun Rui was marching south, Cao Jun, Xia Houyuan, Yu Jin and others had not dispatched their small army and headed straight to Guanzhong.
However, when Xu Huang arrived in person, Yan Xing rebelled, and Sun Quan's old troops Yang Fu, Jiang Xu, Jiang Yin, Zhao Ang, Yin Feng, Yao Qiong, Kong Xin, Li Jun, Wang Ling and others simultaneously raised troops to respond to Ma Chao.
If Guan Yu chose to accept me because he needed my prestige among the Qiang people, Xiao Dian would also "hate his repeated actions and sit back and watch the annihilation".
Ma'er is also a ruthless person. Before thinking that Xu Huang was planning to attack Guo on a false road, he immediately contacted the generals in Guanzhong and then went to lobby Liu Bei, hoping that I could resist Sun Rui's retreat together.