Speaking of the war situation in Hebei at this time, it was actually even worse than what Zhong Yu described. More than 60,000 Beifu soldiers and horses were divided into nine groups before the war, stationed in Lulong, Juyong, Jixian, Zhuoxian, and Fanyang respectively.
, Wuruan, Yijing, Zhending, and Jingxing each had no more than seven or eight thousand people. However, Cao Zhen entered Peiping via Bailang Mountain. The Lulong defenders did not get the news, so that just after the warning of the war, Lulong fortress became the Liao army.
Surrounded by legions.
The Eastern Dynasty captured hundreds of thousands of people from Dingkou, Hebei, and entered Liaodong. In the past two years, they also annihilated Goguryeo, Fuyu and other places. Therefore, although Hebei was lost, an army of 70,000 was actually built. Counting the Wuhuan tribes and Murong who were persuaded by him,
Xianbei had no less than 100,000 troops at one time. Now that they are fighting back to Hebei, they will not send troops to attack Hebei. Instead, they will divide their troops into three groups. There will be about 10,000 people on the way, led by Xia Houyuan, heading straight to Jingxing, and about 20,000 people on the way, led by Zhang He.
Cao Zhen led the attack on Juyong, while Cao Zhen led most of his troops to gradually sweep Beiping, Yuyang, Jixian and other places.
In fact, according to common sense, there is nothing wrong with the layout of Beifu. In terms of the topography of Youzhou, the Yanshan Mountain in the north is steep and the rivers are flowing. It is the backbone of the world and controls the defense of Yixia. Among them, the two most important roads are,
It is Juyong and Lulong who control the west with one pass and the east with the other. They are the auxiliary wings of Youyan. In the south, Jingxing leaps over Taihang and communicates with the place where Hebei merges. If they are guarded by elite troops, one can be as good as ten.
But as Zhou Buyi said, the governor of the Northern Prefecture was in Beijing, and the generals were leaderless, and the army had no one to control it. As a result, they were at a loss as to whether they were advancing or retreating. They fought on their own and suffered setbacks one after another. Then chaos broke out in Hebei, and various Wubao groups responded to Cao Zhen, and there were bandits and bandits.
Taking advantage of the situation to cause chaos, news from various places was cut off, and the remaining ministries that had not been assembled were in chaos.
After allowing the Liao army to strike first, Zhong Yu and Lu Yu were in Fanyang and hurriedly summoned all the ministries to gather in the Zhuoxian area. However, after the news was sent out, only the five ministries of Yijing, Jixian, Fanyang, Zhuoxian and Zhending came to gather.
There are about 40,000 people.
However, Sun Zi, who was guarding Jingxing, was attacked by Xia Houyuan. He defeated him before he could set up defenses. He did not know the overall situation of Youzhou, and finally led more than a thousand people back to Taiyuan. Gao Lan, who was granted the title of Yongguan, met Liu Bei. After Chen Deng died of illness one after another, Prime Minister Chen Chong returned to Taiyuan.
Withdrew from the court, thinking that the power of the court was over, and was immediately persuaded by Zhang He to surrender anyway. Chen Zhang's troops at Wuruan Pass tried to rescue Jingxing, but were ambushed by Xia Houyuan, losing more than half of them, and had to evacuate to the capital in a hurry. Lulong's Wangji Station
The troops were besieged by Cao Zhen's army and could not fly.
At this point, there were originally more than 60,000 Beifu elite soldiers in Hebei Province, but now there are only more than 40,000 people left, and they are trapped in Zhuoxian County.
However, Zhong Yu, Lu Yu and others did not know that the situation had deteriorated to this point. Fortunately, although they were not familiar with military affairs, they were cautious by nature, so they did not rush to join the enemy. After discussing with Guo Huai and others in the army, Zhong Yu decided to face the imperial court
He flew to report the matter, and at the same time stationed himself in and outside Zhuoxian County, waiting for the imperial court to send troops to rescue him. No matter how the situation outside the city changed, he remained unmoved.
Under such a situation, Cao Zhen basically took control of the overall situation in Youzhou. After appeasing the rebels and surrendering to the fortresses, he slowly moved into Jicheng and directly surrounded Zhuoxian. However, he did not attack by force. Instead, he cleared the strongholds around Zhuoxian and stayed in Jin.
He led his troops to monitor. He continued to go south, encircling Yi Jing while continuing to incite rebellion in Wubao in Hebei Province.
In fact, in the original plan of the Eastern Dynasty, Cao Zhen did not expect to achieve such great results. Before Liu Bei's death, Cao Pi and Sun Quan exchanged messengers across the sea to discuss military affairs and proposed three strategies: upper, middle and lower. If they could "join the army"
"Guandong, spread the word to the world, take advantage of the new mourning of the old thief, use the pretext of restoring orthodoxy, and fight to the death with the Westerners", this is the best policy; and "the north and the south echo each other, make the enemy unprepared, criticize the arrogant and undermine the weakness, and gradually make progress", this is
This is the middle strategy. "Fight on your own, sit back and wait for the enemy to arrive, and segregate and be trapped" is the worst strategy and will surely lead to defeat.
Therefore, the two sides have agreed that the Wu people will attack first in the summer to contain most of the Han army, and then wait until autumn and winter to attack Youyan and cut the north of Yishui, making the Han army exhausted from running back and forth. However,
Although the Wu people mobilized a large army to the Huai River area, which seemed to be huge, in fact there was no real war and not many Han troops were mobilized at all.
Although Cao Pi saw Sun Quan's intention to prey on the Liao people, he had no choice but to do so. Although Liaodong had more troops and horses, it was short of food and the war could not be delayed, so he still ordered Cao Zhen to send troops. But since it was too complicated with his plan
There were discrepancies, so he didn't expect much. Unexpectedly, after the Liao soldiers entered Yan, they achieved such results in just two months. Cao Pi couldn't help being happy, and wrote one after another to praise Cao Zhen, praising him as "Today's
"Zhi Leyi", he also went to the Changli area to personally supervise the transportation of grain and grass to ensure smooth flow of the front line.
After Cao Zhen received the award, he was not happy about it. He knew that although the Liao army was powerful, the main force of the Han army had not yet been dispatched. Although Liu Bei was dead, there were still famous generals such as Chen Chong and Guan Yu in the Western Dynasty. Once they led the army,
Can he hold Youzhou? Cao Zhen was not sure. But fortunately, after capturing Jixian, the Liao army obtained more than 100,000 grains, and the most urgent issue of military supplies did not need to be considered for the time being.
Therefore, he wrote back to Cao Pi, informing Cao Pi of the current situation in Youzhou. He thought that although the army had occupied Youzhou, the soldiers had already tried their best, and there were tens of thousands of Beifu still holding strong in Zhuoxian, so it was not appropriate to go south easily. He planned to follow Lu Lin's example in rebelling against the new mang.
For example, take Yijing as Kunyang and Zhuoxian as Wancheng, cut off the Western reinforcements from outside, and attack and destroy the trapped people from inside. If Sun Quan can be allowed to respond to Qingxu again, it should be like a green forest with red eyebrows from the north to the south.
As long as we can persist until the turn of spring and summer next year, it may not be impossible to restore Hebei.
But the speed of the Westerners' actions was beyond his expectation. When Cao Zhen came, it would take two months for the Western Dynasty to send out troops after receiving the news. As a result, by late August, the Westerners' message had not yet been released, and his south side
Xi Zuo then came to report that Han knights had appeared in the Xindu area, and their number was probably no less than ten thousand.
When Cao Zhen heard this, he did not bother to continue the attack on Yijing. He immediately gathered all his troops and marched south from Hejian to garrison Yishui on his back. Just one day later, in Linchen, he received another news that the Western Dynasty's forwards
It seems that the troops of General Wang Ling of the Military Guard are heading north towards Yi Jing at high speed. In the afternoon, the flying cavalry came to report again, saying: "The Western Army, with thousands of cavalry and heavy baggage, is coming from the north, both day and night, and the forward has passed Wudi Pavilion.
.Rumors say that tens of thousands of people are starting their journey behind."
At this moment, the sun was shining brightly, and Cao Zhen was resting in a tent surrounded by a curtain. The main generals were in his tent. Everyone did not have silk armor, but they were all wearing military uniforms. His servants were waiting with armor, bows and arrows. Everyone watched.
Cao Zhen did not expect the reinforcements from the south to move so quickly, but he remained extremely calm on his face. He said, "I think they will arrive at night. When he has been running for a day and his troops are tired, hit his head first!"
Order the soldiers to disarm and rest, waiting for dark.
At no time, the reconnaissance cavalry reported again: "The Southern Army cavalry came all the way north along the west bank of Sushui River. They only stopped once to change horses and did not light a fire for cooking. They were less than thirty miles apart."
Cao Zhen stood up and ordered all the troops to wear armor. He deployed his horse and foot troops in the poplar forest to the east, leaving more than a thousand horsemen to march several miles forward and line up across the river bank.
When Shen and You met, the thunderous sound of horse hooves gradually approached on the post road on the shore, and the black mass was the leading cavalry of the Han army. Seeing that the road was blocked by the defenders, the Southern army stopped and waited for the arrival of the following cavalry.
After a while, the Confederate army gathered more and more. It was not completely dark yet, and the Confederate army saw that Cao Zhen's army had few horses, so they thought they were scouts in advance, so they rushed over on horseback without waiting for the formation to be formed.
Cao Zhen's army did not wait for the enemy to approach, and all fled with their horses. The southern army actually rushed to pursue it, killing and capturing more than a hundred knights of Cao Zhen's army, and fled for several miles in an instant. At this time, in the dim poplar forest, there were faint figures.
Among the white trees, Cao Zhen's army came out in full force to launch an interception. Suddenly, arrows and stones came flying like rain, and the Confederate army was all on light cavalry. Countless horses were killed when their horses were hit by arrows, and the knights on horseback fell off their horses and died. The knights and horses of Cao Zhen's army were both stunned.
A, a soldier wearing armor and carrying a long sword, rushed in from the side. The southern army was defeated, and the soldiers in the way were killed and wounded. The soldiers behind rushed to rush. It was dark, the road was narrow, and the crowded people and horses crushed the slope of the shore. The soldier fell
Entering the river, they overlap each other and block the flow of water.
After the Confederate army fled, Cao Zhen ordered his trusted governor to lead thousands of cavalry, all of whom had lost their armor, and pursued them with light cavalry armed with bows, arrows, swords, and knives. The chasing cavalry shot and killed the fleeing Confederate army along the road. The defeated army fled in panic and fled for their lives. They could not stop themselves and could not escape.
After traveling for dozens of miles, the fearful and thirsty sergeants crossed the Beizhang River overnight and arrived at the military town in Anping County. The infantry and baggage were still in the military town and had not set off, so they could only stop when they saw what was happening.<
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The vanguard of the Han army was defeated, and the follow-up recruitment of the army began to enter Xindu. At this time, the nominal general in charge of the northern expedition was Wei Yan, and the commander-in-chief of the army was in charge of the northern expedition. The Henan armies arrived at Xindu and advanced northward along the Zhang River. Cao Zhenwen
Hearing the return of the Southern Army, he asked Xizuo: "Who is the commander-in-chief of the Westerners?" He replied: "Wei Yan, the former governor of Nanfu." Cao Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and said to the generals: "The new king of Luoyang has lost his head.
If Chen Chong and Guan Yu are not needed, but a fighting general from Wei Yan is sent over, can we still be victorious?"
But as the army from the south gradually approached Youzhou, more and more news came to Youzhou. At that time, the scouts sent a message saying that there were about tens of thousands of Han troops approaching, but there was an endless stream of people crossing the river. Some people not only saw Wei Yan
We also saw the banners of the Jizhou governor, and even the banners of the cavalry general Huang Zhong. They came to Yao for a while, and no one could tell who the real commander of the Confederate army was. By mid-September, as a group of people came together,
With a pole of two feet, the sun, moon and stars, the flag was raised on the top of Xindu City. Only then did the Liao people suddenly realize: It turned out that Emperor Luoyang was personally marching! The number of accompanying soldiers and horses even reached one hundred thousand.
The people in Hebei Province were shocked for a while, but unexpectedly, after Liu Bei, his son was also so strong. After Liu Xie settled in Xindu, he sent a letter to the military: "The Liao captives blocking the mountains can still be solid, but now they are doing the opposite and coming from far away from the mountains and seas.
, He not only combines military skills to teach people, but also is greedy for states and counties, knowing how to advance but not knowing how to retreat. Now, at this time, the enemy will be defeated."