The war in Henan quickly developed into unexpected situations.
After the Yanzhou army crossed the chasm, although the Han army reorganized its army, it did not take a counterattack posture. Instead, it repaired the city and barracks on the west bank and camped for nearly 200 miles from Xingyang to Kaifeng. The Cang army also followed on the east bank.
The company's camp is about three hundred miles from Hucheng to Chenliu. Both sides have high bases and deep ditches, and they are not fighting.
At this moment of confrontation between the two armies, General Liu Bei first issued two guilt orders to Hanoi County.
The first criminal order was to order Wang Kuang, the prefect of Hanoi, to come to Xingyang to report on his duties and explain why he could not stop the Black Mountain Army. After Wang Kuang arrived in Xingyang, Liu Bei immediately ordered Jingzhao Yin Sima Fang to go to Hanoi to practice martial arts and take over Wang Kuang's army temporarily.
The story of the governor of Hanoi.
The second crime was to denounce the late general Yuan Shu. Chen Chong had previously presented to the emperor in court, describing the rights and wrongs of Yuan Shu's attack on Dong: Although he had meritorious service in the attack on Dong, he also acted without authorization when he was going to attack Dong Chuicheng.
Withdrawing his troops, he privately took control of Yuzhou and Jingzhou, and privately carved seals. These arrogant actions could be said to be equal to their merits and demerits. Now he sent troops to Yangzhou, privately killed the governor of a state, attacked the country's county guard, and detained the imperial envoys.
The crime was appalling and unforgivable. Therefore, the imperial court called on all the prefectures and states under Yuan Shu's rule to guard each other, to abandon the dark side and surrender to the bright side, and to welcome Zhengshuo. If he was successful in defeating Yuan Shu, he could be promoted to a high rank and receive great rewards.<
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Later, Liu Bei sent Guo Kai to the counties in Yuzhou to publicize the matter. He also sent Liu Deran to lead two thousand troops to Yingchuan and take over the defense of Yingchuan in the name of general. Qiao Yun, the prefect of Yingchuan appointed by Yuan Shu, saw that there was a large army approaching from the north.
Not daring to resist, Yingchuan County immediately fell into the hands of the Han army.
After Chen King Liu Chong learned of the news, he also sent a letter to Xingyang in Chen County, saying that he also had more than ten thousand soldiers under his command and was willing to raise troops in Chen State to respond. Liu Bei happily responded to the letter and gave him the right to recruit troops and control the counties in Yuzhou. p>
Most of these measures were planned by military advisors to offer wine to Xu Shu. When Cao Cao abandoned the city and came to surrender, he analyzed the situation and said that he knew that Yanzhou Jiancheng was completely in the hands of the enemy, and he also knew that they were unwilling to join the battle with our army. It was obvious that he wanted to defend the city.
Waiting for our attack. If the army fails to attack the city, its morale is exhausted, and the enemy's army waits for work, the offensive and defensive momentum will be reversed in an instant. The current plan is to extend the front line, contain all the enemy's main forces here, and waste food and property.
If you cannot advance and cannot retreat, the morale of the army will be easily confused, but it can be broken but it can be achieved.
Therefore, the Han army took the initiative to extend the front line, setting up new battlefields outside Henan and in Hanoi and Yingchuan. The front line on both sides further expanded to more than 400 miles. On this long front line, the Han army on the west bank had integrated You, Yan, and
The number of soldiers and horses in the three states of Jing has reached 100,000. The Gengcang side on the east coast is even more exaggerated. Guan Hai, Zhang Yan, and Wu Ba have all rushed to the front line of Honggou, plus Guan Cheng's troops who are still guarding Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren.
, with a strength of nearly 300,000, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an army that will overwhelm the country.
The accumulation of troops on both sides reached an alarming level, but the battle line was extremely calm. Except for Chen Wang and Liu Chong who led their troops into Yanzhou from time to time to harass, the two sides remained in a stalemate on the east and west sides of the divide. At least the soldiers were firing arrows back and forth on the shore.
There were not many casualties, and soldiers from both sides even began to cultivate fields on the defensive ground. The war continued until the summer wheat harvest season, and there was no sign of ending.
By the eighth day of June, Chen Chong waited for the summer harvest to be on track and began to clean up the domestic economy.
Since Dong Zhuo came to power, Dong Zhuo has been collecting bronzes from all over the country and casting them into small coins. Even the twelve bronze figures left by the First Emperor were not spared. In the end, only one bronze figure was left. These small coins are small coins.
It was also thin, not only light in weight, but even the writing on it was blurry, and I don’t know how many impurities were mixed with it. Then I used force to force it, and asked my subordinates to buy and sell it with small money, and collect materials to use as military supplies.
In the past three years, Dong Zhuo's workshop was magnificent and magnificent, but the people suffered from it. Everyone knew that small money is worthless, so they either bought it at a discount or simply discarded it. As a result, prices across the country soared, and rice, grain, silk and cloth were a hundred times more expensive than usual.
.Today, the five baht is almost no longer used in various places in Kansai, and rice grains are used as currency for transactions.
Prior to this, Chen Chong resettled all subordinate officials in Chang'an. He first transferred the gold and silver of the Shaofu to Taicang, and then transferred the gold and silver of the Xiongnu royal court to Taicang. Then in March, he sent people to all the counties in Guandong to convey orders.
It was said that before June, if merchants went to Chang'an to buy or sell goods, the state would buy them with gold and silver, and no customs duties would be collected by the counties along the way. Merchants from various states were outraged when they heard this, and traveled thousands of miles to come to the west city of Chang'an, even if they were affiliated to the
Some of the more prosperous Xuzhou merchants went to Chang'an to sell cloth and brocade.
In March, the officials sold official paper, official brocade, and official salt, and purchased goods with Taicang gold and silver. They obtained 140,000 pieces of cloth, more than 30,000 horses, and 2 million shi of corn and other grains. p>
Now, Chen Chong felt that everything was ready, so he ordered all the officials in Chang'an to go to various places in Sanfu and issue a money exchange order. That is to say, new money was exchanged for small coins, and a hundred Dongzhuo five bahts were exchanged for one Yanxing five baht.
As soon as this order came out, the big families everywhere were in an uproar. Although the five baht newly issued by the imperial court were exquisite in style and full in weight, Dong Zhuo's five baht was indeed despicable, but how could one new money be worth a hundred? Although the head of Guizhou is favored by small money
The ones who suffered the most, but had little savings and the most small amounts of money, were the rich and powerful. For a time, people from all over the country kept asking Chen Chong to revoke the money exchange order.
Chen Chong issued another edict on this, claiming that after exchanging money, he could take the new money to the officials in various places to buy and sell rice and grain, and exchange 20 new money for a bucket of grain. The price of grain in Guanzhong was about 1,000 small coins at this time.
A fight means that one can exchange fifty Dong Zhuo five baht for one Yanxing five baht, but there are still frequent protests.
So when the officials were buying grain in various places in Sanfu, the wealthy families in various places were hoarding grain and raising the price of grain, and at the same time sending people to exchange money for the grain at the officials, hoping that by doing so, the officials would have no food to exchange, and the money exchange order would naturally
That’s all.
Unexpectedly, all the officials in each county had more than 200,000 dendrobium in grain reserves. No matter how much the wealthy families in the three auxiliaries hoarded grain, the county government always had grain to exchange, so that the local grain prices did not rise but fell. Until the beginning of July,
The autumn harvest has begun. While collecting taxes in various counties, the imperial court also used new money to purchase surplus grain from farmers. The wealthy families in various places were afraid that the price of grain would continue to fall, so they could only exchange all the small money in their hands for new money.
By this time, the market price of grain had stabilized at more than 20 new qian per dou, and all the officials bought grain from the rich families in various places at the price of 30 new qian per dou, and there were all those who would not sell it. Until the end of August, people from all over Sanfu
The money exchange order has been basically implemented. Chen Chong recovered nearly 4 billion Dong Zhuo's five bahts and issued only about 300 million Yanxing five bahts. The small money from various places was recycled and recycled, and hundreds of millions of new money could be obtained.
Taking this opportunity, Chen Chong established uprising warehouses in Guanzhong and Bingzhou counties. The warehouses were managed by Junshu officials. According to regulations, if there was a good harvest, all counties could buy grain and store it in the warehouse.
If the county loses grain, it can sell grain to provide disaster relief, thus preventing disasters and rescuing people in urgent need.
Within half a year, the scenery in Guanzhong was greatly improved, and the people all rejoiced and sang: "The Han family is prosperous, and there is a strong courtyard. I wonder when the Yellow River will clear, and the defeated Chanjuan will also be peaceful." This is to praise the scene in the first year of Yanxing. In the past,
Those local powerful celebrities who opposed the money exchange order had to admit: "Guan Zhong's political governance in Qi State was nothing more than this."
In contrast, there was still no major progress in the war in Kanto. It was not until the end of July that the situation on the battlefield finally changed.
After Cao Cao arrived in Henan, he often talked to Liu Bei. Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and other 20,000 soldiers were still besieged in Shanyang. If they sat idly and did nothing to save them, it would hurt the morale of the army and lose the strength of the troops. Liu Bei kept talking about the opportunity to send troops to relieve the siege.
Before they arrived, they refused to send troops and built more than a hundred boats at the river bridge.
It wasn't until June and July that there was heavy rain in Henan and the river swelled. Liu Bei sent Guan Yu and more than 6,000 men in a boat to suddenly go down the river. The Cang army was not good at water warfare and did not expect such a strange move, which allowed Guan Yu to successfully break out of the encirclement and pursue him.
Not as good as that.
After Guan Yu re-entered Yanzhou, he rowed south from Puyang to Juye Ze, then detoured from Juye Ze to the southwest, entered Jishui from Heze, and went straight to the foot of Changyi City. Changyi City was built along the water, and the Guan Cheng Department could only lay siege to the city.
On three sides, at this time, a large ship was suddenly seen riding the waves from the water, as if there was no way to deal with the giant water beast. The soldiers along the coast were shot by the archers on the ship with a hail of arrows, but they were unable to fight back. In the end, they could only break the siege and watch helplessly.
The Yanzhou soldiers, who had been besieged for nearly three months, left with the ships.
After the rendezvous, Guan Yu immediately marched eastward, repeating his old tricks to relieve Dongmin, and rescued Cao Ren's tribe. Then he went south to Pei County, and grandly abandoned his ship ashore from Pei State, which was ruled by Yuan Shu.
During the Battle of Guangcheng, Sun Xiang and Xu Kun, who stayed in Peixian County, had a good relationship with Guan Yu. When they met again, they naturally drank and chatted. After all, after the guilt order was issued, Sun Jian's old troops were suspicious of following Yuan Shu.
, but Yuan Shu was really generous to his subordinates, and no fewer than six people from Sun Jian’s old army were promoted to county guards, which made them unable to make up their minds anyway. When they met Guan Yu, they wanted to do both, so how could they treat Guan Yu badly?<
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So Guan Yu led nearly 30,000 people to stay overnight in Peixian County for two days. After having a hearty meal on the third day, Shi Shiran left Peixian County and detoured from Linsui and Qiao County to the State of Chen to talk with Liu Chong, the king of Chen.
After some time, they rested in Chen Guo for five days before returning to Henan from Yingchuan.
The two sides had been confronting each other for nearly half a year, and both were already a little tired. However, Guan Yu's trip to Yanzhou prompted both sides to make changes. Although Guan Yu did not win a major victory over the enemy, he traveled freely between the two states and rescued two people.
The people who were bound to die greatly boosted the morale of the Han army, and also depressed the morale of the Gengcang army. Various ministries vaguely requested a withdrawal and a truce.
Guan Hai, the leader of the army, could not suppress the internal opinions, so he had to send troops to Linzi and asked General Zhang Rao to come and take charge of the overall situation.
After Zhang Rao thought deeply, he led the shogunate to move to Dingtao and inspected the situation of the front army. Liu Ye saw that the garrisons on both sides were solid and could not be easily overcome by soldiers, so he agreed to let the sergeants of each department take turns to rest in Yanzhou.
Only 100,000 people were left on the east bank of Honggou. In addition, he also suggested that Zhang Rao set up iron cables in the north of Puyang City to cross the river to prevent the Han army from breaking through the river defenses from here again, and Zhang Rao followed suit.
Seeing that a large army was withdrawing from the chasm, the Han army tentatively launched a pursuit. However, the Gengcang camp was heavily defended and the Han army failed to make any gains, so they had to retreat along the original road.