Nine hundred and twentieth chapters night dispatching troops
"Divide Wei equally?"
Guo Song sneered and said: "Let's talk about it in detail, what is the method of equal division?"
Wang You couldn't help but shook his head and said: "What the other party means is that they can give up Weizhou to us, but if we give up Xiangzhou, they want Xiangzhou, Huaizhou, Weizhou, Bozhou, and the rest of Wei's territory
They all recognized the state of Jin, and in addition, they promised not to interfere with the transit of salt ships."
"When he made this request, didn't Zhao Changde have any shame on his face?"
Wang You smiled and said: "I think they are just asking for a high price. Xiangzhou is already under our control, and they still want to go back? They proposed Xiangzhou just to keep Bozhou."
Guo Song walked to the map with his hands behind his back and asked, "Are their troops still in Wei County now?"
"I just heard from Zhao Changde that in order to show sincerity, their army has withdrawn to the south. He doesn't know exactly where it will be withdrawn, but news from the scouts should come soon."
"Since Zhu Si wants to bargain with us, I guess he won't withdraw too far. He must still be in Weizhou."
"Your Highness...want to send troops?" Wang You vaguely guessed what Guo Song was thinking.
Guo Song nodded slowly, "We can negotiate if we want, but I only have one request. Zhu Si's army must completely withdraw from Hebei. I guess they won't agree, so let's see the outcome on the battlefield!"
"What should I say to Zhao Changde in my humble position?"
"You stabilize him, and then you say that I have gone to Qingzhang County and will not come back until tomorrow."
Wang You nodded, "I understand."
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An hour later, Guo Song received intelligence from the scouts that Zhu Si's army camp had withdrawn to Changle County, a hundred miles away.
Guo Song immediately sent an eagle letter to the party, ordering Li Bing, who was stationed in Jincheng County, to lead 30,000 troops south to Huaizhou. He must defeat the enemy in one fell swoop and seize Huaizhou and Liyang.
That night, Guo Song set out with 50,000 cavalry. He did not intend to attack the enemy at night. The reason why he succeeded in attacking Li Na's army at night was because Li Na had no tents or camp fences. He was camping in the open air, which was of course easy to attack.
Zhu Si's camp was a board-walled camp, tall and solid. There was no point in attacking at night and it would not be able to move the enemy at all.
The cavalry did not move fast. At the third watch, the army dismounted and took a nap. The next morning, 50,000 cavalry arrived ten miles north of Changle County.
At this time, Guo Song found that many people were helping each other to go north. This made him a little strange. The flow of refugees going north had not ended, so why was it coming again?
At this time, the soldiers brought two old men up. When the two old men heard that they were the kings of Jin, they quickly knelt down and saluted. Guo Song smiled slightly and said: "Two old men, please excuse me, where are you from? This is where you are going.
where?"
"Your Highness, we are from Changle County. Zhu Si drove us out of the county. We have nowhere to go but to Mingzhou to make a living."
Guo Song was startled and asked: "How could they drive you out of the county? Did Zhu Si occupy the county?"
"Just like this, their army stationed in the county town and drove all the people out of the city. Even the county magistrate was beaten out of the city with random sticks."
Only then did Guo Song understand that Zhu Si had no time to build a wall and directly occupied the county seat as a military camp. But...how many people would be driven out?
"How many people are there in your county?"
Another old man said: "There are about 40,000 to 50,000 people in our county, but most of them went to Mingzhou before. There are only a few thousand people left in the county, and most of them are old and weak. It's so far to go to Mingzhou, but why?"
Do it!”
It turned out that there were only a few thousand people left. Guo Song saw that most of the refugees on the road were old and weak. It was still about two hundred miles away from Qingzhang County. The cavalry could arrive in two days, but these old and weak people would have to walk for at least seven or eight days.
, there was no food on the road, and he had died of cold and hunger long ago.
Guo Song couldn't bear it, so he found Lu Zhan, the marching commander, and told him: "I will give you three thousand cavalry, and you escort these people to Yuancheng for resettlement. There are so many vacant houses in Yuancheng, let Wang Changshi arrange for them to stay.
Ensure that they have food and medicinal materials, and also set up two porridge relief and rest points on the way, and arrange hundreds of large tents at each porridge relief point. I don't want any of them to starve to death or freeze to death!"
Lu Zhan clasped his fists and said, "I will definitely do my best to put them in a good place!"
Guo Song also asked Zhonglang General Yang Qing to lead 3,000 cavalry to follow Lu Zhan.
The two old men could hear clearly. They were moved to tears and knelt down to kowtow desperately. Guo Song asked his soldiers to help them up, comforted them with a few words, and asked Lu Zhan to take them away.
Now that he knew that Zhu Si had occupied Changle County as a military camp, Guo Song was not in a hurry and ordered his troops to cut down trees nearby to build a camp. He wanted to build a board-walled camp.
He immediately sent people to Qingzhang County and ordered the left-behind general Zhang Tuo to lead an army of 20,000 to go south, and at the same time transport a large amount of logistics supplies to Changle County.
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Guo Song led his army to Changle County and was soon discovered by enemy spies, who immediately sent the information back to the county.
Changle County is a medium-sized county. Its population and city rank third in Weizhou, second only to the capitals Yuancheng County and Wei County. It is the outer defensive city of Yuancheng. The city wall is twenty miles in circumference and about two feet high. It is built
Got to be very strong.
When the first round of refugee waves began, most of the residents in the county fled to Qingzhang County, leaving only 30% of the population in the county, all of them old, weak, women and children who didn't want to bother.
But fate was never decided by them, and they didn't want to make trouble. Zhu Si directly occupied the county seat as a military camp and drove all the last six to seven thousand county residents out of the county seat.
The county is also in chaos. The 80,000-strong army is living haphazardly. There are a dozen people living in this courtyard and a dozen people living in that compound. They are not as neat and tidy as the military camp. Moreover, the soldiers are rummaging through boxes and cabinets and digging into the ground.
They tried every possible means to search for money and food in people's houses. Their logic was very simple. Copper coins were inconvenient to carry and could not be carried when fleeing, so they would definitely be buried.
They did find a lot of grain and copper coins, but unfortunately they were all small coins from the Wei State. After the fall of the Wei State, these money could no longer be used, and they were basically just a pile of scrap copper.
Zhu Si couldn't find a suitable place to live, so he still lived in the royal tent. The tent was located in a school field in the center of the county. All the surrounding buildings were razed to the ground. Hundreds of guard tents surrounded his royal tent.
In the big tent, Zhu Si got the news from the spies. Ten miles away, more than 50,000 Jin cavalry were found building a camp. This made Zhu Si stunned. He had sent people to negotiate just the day before yesterday, so why did the Jin army come to kill him?
, did the negotiations break down? Or was it for some other reason?
Zhu Si quickly sent someone to find Liu Sigu. Liu Sigu had already heard the news, which really made him extremely depressed. He had already reminded Zhu Si that when Guo Song had just occupied Yuancheng and had no time to consider the opportunity of the Qin army, the army
They quickly withdrew their troops and returned to Luoyang, but Zhu Si did not believe in evil and sent people to negotiate, causing them to miss the opportunity to withdraw.
Guo Song led his army south, making it clear that he did not want to negotiate with them, but wanted to fight them decisively, and would not let them evacuate Hebei so easily.
But the lord summoned him and Liu Sigu had to come. He had no choice but to go to the king's tent. When Zhu Si saw him entering the tent, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "What does the other party mean? Could it be that he wants to put pressure on us?"
Force us to negotiate and make concessions?”
Liu Sigu smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, the negotiation is just our wishful thinking. Wei Chen said that Hebei is very important to Guo Song, and he will never let us control his salt channel, so Weizhou will definitely not give
We, I think he wants to unify the north of the Yellow River, so he won’t give way to Bozhou and Huaizhou, and we can’t even think of Liyang County.”
Zhu Si finally understood. His face suddenly became very ugly. He snorted heavily and said: "Guo is so arrogant. He thinks that he can take away my interests at will? I will never put Huaizhou and Weizhou
Give it to him."
Liu Sigu was secretly worried, why didn't his lord understand?
He simply said bluntly: "Your Majesty, the question now is not whether we can keep Huaizhou and Weizhou, but whether we can escape unscathed. Guo Songming plans to fight a protracted war with us. After the spring, the Yellow River thaws, we
How to return to the south bank of the Yellow River?"
The expression on Zhu Si's face froze. He had never really thought about fighting Guo Song to the death. Now he suddenly realized that a big battle was inevitable.
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Li Bing led 30,000 troops and was stationed in Jincheng County, Zezhou. He was waiting for his lord's order to cross the Taihang Mountains and launch an attack on Huaizhou at any time.
In fact, all the dangerous passes in the Taihang Mountains are controlled by the Jin army. During the last Wei-Jin negotiation, Guo Song gave up Huaizhou, but the troops at the dangerous passes did not withdraw. This can ensure that his army can always
Crossed the Taihang Mountains and entered Huaizhou.
Li Bing still received the eagle letter from Guo Song. The order contained only eight words, 'Capture Huaizhou and capture Liyang'.
That night, Li Bing led an army of 30,000 to attack Baixing in the Taihang Mountains. From Baixing through the Taihang Mountains, you could directly reach Hanoi County. Zhu Si's 5,000 troops guarding Huaizhou were stationed in Hanoi County.