Yuan Shu broke through Hulao Pass and marched to Luoyang City, with great prestige. Although Yuan Shao was very unhappy about this, he was currently at war with the Zhang Yan-Gongsun Zan coalition and was unable to spare his troops to take care of Luoyang's affairs.
, so he secretly instigated Cao Cao to put him in trouble with Yuan Shu.
Cao Mengde's previous strategy was to "grow to the south of the river", that is, with Yuan Shao occupying Hebei, develop along the south bank of the Yellow River. After Liu Dai's death, Cao Cao led Yanzhou Mu on his own and quickly occupied Changyi and Suiyang.
, Chenliu and other places, he governed the army harshly and won almost every battle in the Central Plains battlefield, and his reputation increased rapidly.
Taishan thief Zang Ba and others were in awe and fear of Cao Cao. However, because Cao Cao was too harsh in governing the army and the people, Zang Ba and others did not dare to surrender. Instead, they attached themselves to Xuzhou Mu Tao Qian. In the territory under Cao Cao's rule, Zang Ba and others did not dare to surrender.
The "taxi family system" was implemented, that is, soldiers and their families were registered separately and became "shi family".
Soldiers live together in centralized areas and are directly managed by military camps or counties. At first glance, it sounds like Cao Cao's "taxi family system" is very similar to the "fu army system" implemented by Chen Chengyuan in the border areas of Xiliang. In both cases, men serve as soldiers and their father dies.
The son succeeds, the elder brother and the younger brother succeed each other, farming in peacetime and fighting in time of war.
However, the nature of the two sides is still different. Chen Cheng is planning to select civil and military officials from various places along the route of Fubing-Yabing. Except for some directly recruited scholars and powerful men, most of the middle- and lower-level officials must
Only those with a record of serving in the dental army can be appointed.
If you want to become a fan soldier, you must either go through local selection, first become a county soldier, then become a government soldier, and finally pass the assessment and enter the fan soldier system. Or wait for the edict to be issued by the state and pastoral government at some unknown time.
, to increase the number of additional tooth soldiers, there will be no need for such trouble at that time. As long as there is no violation of the laws of the Xiliang regime, everyone can take the assessment.
In Xiliang, becoming a soldier is the way to the ruling class. It is common for people to switch from civilians to soldiers, or from soldiers to officials. But this is not the case under Cao Cao's rule. Soldiers are soldiers, and they can rise to the top if they stand up to the sky.
Even middle and lower-level officers must serve continuously. Those who can become generals and officials are all powerful men and scholars in the state. Soldiers are actually like slaves and will never get ahead.
Because it was located in the center of the Four Wars of the Central Plains, Cao Cao had just established a foothold in Dongjun and began to form a large-scale standing army, including tiger and leopard cavalry, five school camps, etc. In order to prevent soldiers from fleeing, Cao Cao also formulated the "wrong service"
"System" and "Senior Exile Law". Among them, "Miscellaneous Service System" means that soldiers cannot serve in their hometown and must at least be transferred to the next county.
The "Senior Exile Law" means that if a soldier flees, his family members will be severely punished, up to and including death, or no longer be an official slave. Once he becomes a soldier, he cannot leave. Only by achieving military merit can he be exempted from becoming a civilian. Individuals have special status.
Only those with meritorious service can be crowned knights, and the sons of scholars cannot be officials.
Relying on such harsh punishments, Cao Cao quickly raised a large army, cleared the territory of Dongjun, and frightened the surrounding princes. Many powerful people wanted to make a difference in troubled times.
They joined Cao Cao's command one after another, such as Xu Chu, Li Dian, etc., who all became generals under Cao Cao during this period.
In this way, Cao Cao's group formed a government system in which Cao Cao and Xiahou held military power and led the troops inside; powerful men were middle- and high-level generals who led the troops outside; and scholars served as civil servants and governed the local area. This system is very efficient.
It only took Cao Cao two years to become Yanzhou Mu.
Since he had taken over Yanzhou Mu, Cao Mengde naturally wanted to regain the entire Yanzhou first. After Yuan Shu looted Chen State, Yuan Shao secretly sent people to lobby, and Cao Cao immediately sent troops to annex Chen State, gaining hundreds of thousands of people and tens of thousands of people.
Ten thousand troops.
The people and troops of Chen State were angry that Yuan Shu had killed Liu Chong and Luo Jun, and they all joined Cao Cao's side. Originally, Cao Mengde wanted to take over Yingchuan County in one fell swoop, because Xun Yu under his command, Xi Zhicai
, Guo Jia and others all came from Yingchuan, and it was easy to annex them. However, considering that Yuan Shu had strong soldiers and horses, and when he attacked Luoyang, Cao Cao did not want to bear the reputation of the soldiers, so after annexing Chen, he stood still.
, wait and see the changes in the current situation.
Sun Jian advanced quickly and quickly reached the gates of Luoyang City, but the young men and grain around Luoyang had already been moved into the city. The number of thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses that had been withdrawn, plus the young men and horses in the city, was even greater than that of Sun Jian's troops.
More. Sun Jian attacked for three days in a row, but failed to achieve a breakthrough. Instead, he suffered more than a thousand casualties.
Hearing that Sun Jian had already reached Luoyang City, Yuan Shu was overjoyed and recruited 60,000 soldiers and horses. In addition to the civilians who transported grain and fodder and did miscellaneous tasks with the army, there were more than 100,000 people in total. It was said to be an army of 200,000, and they all attacked Luoyang City. However,
Luoyang is a strong city in the world. The city is high and the city is thick. It cannot be conquered by a large number of people.
At the last moment, He Jin seemed to wake up from a big dream. He spent all his family's money, distributed his concubines and maids to the meritorious soldiers, and opened the treasury to reward all the troops. As a result, morale was boosted.
Resurrection. Yuan Shu had not dared to go into battle before, but now he was full of energy. After arriving at Luoyang City, he deprived Sun Jian of his military power and put them under the command of Yuan Gongliu.
The siege lasted for more than ten days, and both the attackers and defenders suffered heavy casualties. But for He Jin, it was better to kill some people, as this would save a lot of food. General He Jin ordered the city to be demolished
Some palaces and houses in the city had masonry and wood transported to the city walls to resist Yuan Shu's army's attack.
Luoyang City has countless supplies stored in its arsenal and Taicang. Even if it is besieged, it can persist for a long time. However, Yuan Shu's army needs to transport food from Yingchuan, Runan and other places. There are also many generals leading troops.
Those who went out to collect food did not gain much.
The surrounding area had already been plundered by He Jin. Where could he find food? Instead, he fought many times with the numerous bandits around him. While killing many refugees and bandits, he also lost some soldiers, horses, and even food and grass.
It was also robbed by robbers several times.
"I've never heard of anything like this!"
When he heard that the food and grass had been robbed, Yuan Shu was furious and furious in the military camp, "You idiots, it's just that you don't know how to fight. Now you can't even deal with some rioters!"
He shouted loudly outside: "Send Sun Jian over immediately!"
After waiting for a while, Sun Jian walked in fully clothed. Sun Wentai defeated the generals all the way and went directly to Luoyang City, monopolizing all the military achievements. While winning great reputation, it also attracted a lot of hatred for him.
.You Sun Jian are so good at fighting, doesn’t it mean that others are useless? Now that you have made so many achievements, is it someone else’s turn to take the military merit of Luoyang?
Yuan Shu had previously promised the position of Nanyang Governor to Sun Jian, but he regretted it after Sun Jian conquered Nanyang County and gave the position of Nanyang Governor to someone else from a noble family. In this regard, Sun Wentai, who had always been unruly and sinister in character, actually tolerated this.
This time, Yuan Shu deprived Sun Jian of his command over the frontline troops, but Sun Wentai still endured it.
After entering the tent, Sun Jian clasped his fists in salute and asked, "Duke Ming called me here, but do you want me to lead troops to attack the city?"
He was a world-famous brave general. After being idle in the military camp for more than ten days, he could not sit still for a long time. However, Yuan Shu said: "Attacking the city will inevitably cost many soldiers. Wentai is my confidant and beloved general. How can I bear to give up?"
Are you risking the stone to attack the city? There is another thing for you to do here."
Sun Jian was a little disappointed and asked, "I wonder what it is?"
So Yuan Shu told Sun Jian that there were thieves robbing the grain transport team on the road, and asked Sun Jian to exterminate the thieves and maintain the smooth flow of grain roads. Sun Jian was even more disappointed. They were just thieves, so why did he, Sun Wentai, need to take action? But he still listened to Yuan Shu.
Dispatch and lead troops to attack the bandits entrenched in Funiu Mountain and other places.
Sun Jian was a fierce man who could defeat even the Northern Army. How could those bandits in the mountains be his opponents? In just a few days, he had leveled more than a dozen mountain strongholds, killed tens of thousands of bandits, and seized a lot of money.
Hearing that Sun Jian quickly solved the problem, Yuan Shu was very happy. He stroked Sun Jian's back at the banquet and said: "I have Sun Wentai, who else in the world can rival him?"
Overjoyed, Yuan Shu appointed Sun Jian as the governor of Yuzhou on the spot, and set the governorship in Yangcheng. By this time, Yuan Shu had been marching under Luoyang for more than 30 days, and the veterans of the division were exhausted. Even though Sun Jian had wiped out the bandits along the way, there were still no soldiers in the army.
There was never enough food and grass to eat, so more and more soldiers fled.
The reason for appointing Sun Jian as the governor of Yuzhou was firstly because Sun Jian's past achievements were too great and no reward could be justified. Secondly, he wanted to use Sun Jian's bravery to break through the city of Luoyang, which he had been holding on to. Sun Jian was overjoyed when he got the position of governor of Yuzhou.
He expressed his position on the spot: "Don't worry, Ming Gong, I will go to reorganize the troops and horses and attack Luoyang the next day!"
However, just when Sun Jian led his troops to attack Luoyang, Yuan Shao, who had defeated Zhang Yan and Gongsun Zan, appointed Zhou Ang as the shepherd of Yuzhou and took advantage of Cao Cao's territory to lead his troops to attack Yangcheng. Yuan Shu's
His hometown of Runan was in Yuzhou, and Yuan Shao's knife hit Yuan Shu's vital point.
Among the generals under Yuan Shu, except for Sun Jian, no one could fight. Facing Zhou Ang's army, the defenders in various places were severely defeated. As a last resort, Yuan Shu could only fight to the death with his troops and conquered Luoyang.
Sun Jian led troops thousands of miles back to help resist Zhou Ang's army.
It was because of this incident that the two brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu changed from secretly competing to openly quarreling with each other. Each of them attracted a large number of allies and officially started the battle. After Sun Jian captured Luoyang, he prepared to continue the pursuit and escape to the west.
He marched to the remnant army, but Yuan Shu issued several military orders, asking him to return to Yuzhou to aid.
As a last resort, Sun Jian had no choice but to give up the military operation to kill He Jin and led his troops back to Yuzhou. After returning to Yuzhou, the angry Sun Wentai showed his usual brave style and personally led the troops into battle, defeating him in just one turn.
Zhou Ang's army, which had been invincible before, was killed and defeated.
Seeing Sun Jian's bravery, Cao Cao deployed his troops and generals on the border of Yanzhou and Yuzhou to prepare for any eventuality.
