With such a famous general from the old generation of Nanchen watching, the Northern Zhou army in Guanzhong naturally did not dare to move. But the Northern Zhou did not know that the Han Dynasty was actually bluffing. With the current grain and grass storage and follow-up troops in Jiangling and Xiangyang,
It's simply not enough to sustain a war.
So things quickly improved.
Xiao Shilian left five thousand soldiers and horses to garrison Nanxiang, and then returned to Xiangyang. Chunyucen and Huang Wan also retreated respectively. Seeing that the Han army retreated, the Northern Zhou garrison did not directly come back, but divided its troops to guard various important roads.
Obviously Li Xingchen did not intend to attack Guanzhong directly at this time, and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, whose main force was still in the north, was naturally not suitable to act rashly.
It will be clear what the situation will be like when Yang Jian returns with his army.
"Xiao Boqing did it neatly," Li Xingchen looked at the changes on the map. Although this change was very subtle, it meant that the entire front line had changed from the original criss-crossing to the one where the big men now had the upper hand.
The smooth road means that Hanzhong, Jingzhou and other places of the Han Dynasty have been completely connected. The Han army can calmly move out of Hanzhong and Xiangyang to attack the key points. If Nanyang in Yang Jian's hands is also lost, then Yuwen Yun's small court will really be in trouble.
There are only one Guanzhong and Hetao left, which is not even as good as Yu Wenxian who occupies Qingzhou and Hebei.
"We can't attack Yang Jian anymore." Yang Su said slowly, "After getting the news, Yang Jian will most likely lead his troops south. Even if he doesn't start a war with us, a big fanfare will probably be necessary. If we insist on putting pressure
, I’m afraid there will inevitably be a battle between the two sides.”
"Why can't this battle be fought?" Huang Qi, the secretary supervisor next to him, said in surprise. As a close civil servant around Li Xunchen, he was in charge of the exchange of news and asked himself that he could also clearly see the situation in the world.
If we don’t provoke Yang Jian now, will we provoke Yu Wenxian again?
The current situation in the world is actually a bit strange. Li Xingchen is the largest family in territory, but the number of soldiers, horses and population is not as good as that of Yu Wenxian. He can only be said to be richer than Yang Jian. It is somewhat similar to the Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Although the territory is large, most of it is deserted.
Li Xingchen seemed to be on good terms with Yang Jian. The two sides not only cooperated in fighting the Turks in the northwest, but also signed a complete trade treaty, etc., and had normal exchanges between the north and the south. This was almost the same as the peace period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
In contrast, the relationship between Li Xingchen and Yu Wenxian was relatively cold. Originally, the only place bordering the two sides was the Huaihe River, and this can be said to be the place where the most conflicts and battles broke out between the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the past hundreds of years. There are strict barriers on both sides of the Huaihe River.
There is an attitude of never having contact with each other until death.
But in fact, the two sides were at war with each other on both sides of the Huai River, but they never really took action. Even during this period, Wu Huijue went south to attack Guangling and Jingkou, helping Li Xinchen resolve the flanking threats on the way to Jiangnan. By the same token, sitting in command
Wang Gui of Huaibei and Liang Shiyan, who had relied on northern Xuzhou to resist Wu Mingche for several months, also sent troops north to prepare to support the Luoyang war.
The two sides seem to have maintained a tacit understanding, and if you don't come, I won't go either. Although there is a reason for this, after three hundred years of operation on the Lianghuai Defense Line, all the cities are in the form of fortresses, and all of them have been fortified and cleared.
, even if the main force of the army leaves, as long as the number of defenders in the city remains at a certain level, the opponent will have to pay a very heavy price if they want to break through this line of defense.
When Wu Mingche led the main force of Nanchen to attack North Xuzhou, Liang Shiyan, the defender of North Xuzhou, was just here and was ordered to do so at the last moment. The defenders in the city were mostly composed of surrendered troops from the Northern Qi Dynasty. When the Northern Qi Dynasty had just been destroyed, it can be said that
He had no fighting spirit, but even so, Liang Shiyan still resisted Wu Mingche's several attacks and waited until reinforcements from the Northern Zhou Dynasty arrived one after another before giving up some important strongholds.
But at that time, Wu Mingche had no need to continue the attack and could only retreat to the Luliang Mountains.
This shows how strong the defense line between the Huaihe River and Huaihe River is, and why Li Xingchen and Yu Wenxian maintain such a strange peace now, and even maintain a certain tacit understanding in dealing with Yang Jian and the situation in the north.
In contrast, Li Xingchen and Yang Jian had contacts, but the border between the two sides did not have a long and solid defensive line like the Lianghuai Defense Line, so frictions naturally continued. What's more, Guanzhong was originally planned by Li Xingchen to go north.
This route can bypass the two Huaihe Rivers and go straight to the Central Plains.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the situation in the world is so weird.
But now that Yang Su has provoked Yang Jian, is it possible that he will turn his attention to Yu Wenxian? After all, after Huang Wan and Chun Yucen took over Deng County and other places on the north side of Suizhou, they have already moved westward to the territory controlled by Yu Wenxian.
This is why Huang Wan and Chun Yucen did not place too many troops in these newly acquired places.
It would be bad if it attracts Yu Wenxian's attention or even counterattacks.
And now Yang Su seems to be planning to take the initiative to provoke him? Doesn't this put the big man on the opposite side of Yang Jian and Yu Wenxian?
This is definitely not in line with the current national policy of the Han Dynasty. Although the Han Dynasty has a large territory, it does not have that many soldiers and horses to fight two enemies at the same time. It should be done to sow discord and then slowly encroach.
Just because he thought of this, Huang Qi had such doubts. Of course, his words also contained some distrust of Yang Su. This is also a common problem among officials from the Southern and Northern Dynasties. After all, they have been hostile for so long.
, suddenly sitting together, not believing that this is normal.
What's more, Li Xingchen was born in the Southern Dynasties anyway, so this suspicion and distrust mainly focused on officials from the Southern Dynasties and officials from the Northern Dynasties.
And Yang Su smiled slightly and said: "If we directly go to war with Yang Jian, it's probably self-evident who will gain the advantage. Yu Wenxian is also eager to watch us lose both sides in the fight, and then take advantage of it. So it's time for us to think about how to deal with it.
Yu Wenxian is gone."
"Start a war with Yu Wenxian?" Huang Qi raised his eyebrows. If Li Xingchen hadn't still been here, he would have been ready to draw his sword.
Yang Su waved his hand: "Of course not, we and Yu Wenxian only talk but don't fight."
"talk?"
"That's right, let's talk!" Yang Su said with a smile, "Not to mention that Yu Wenxian's army is still in the north at this time, there has been a stalemate here in Luoyang, which has also been his long-standing worry. Without taking Luoyang, there is no way to control the entire Central Plains.
, there is no way to enter Guanzhong directly from the east side."
This is also a fact. In the past few years, Yu Wenxian and Yang Jian have been fighting back and forth around the line from Luoyang to Tongguan. Both sides want to compete for this passage connecting Guanzhong and Hebei. Although Luoyang is now controlled by Yuchi Jiong, the passage from Luoyang to the west or even south
Shenyuan Pass and other places on the side are all under Yang Jian's control. (To be continued)