Chapter 440: The Battle of the Central Plains (16)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 440: The Battle of the Central Plains (16)

Four years later

Summer of the 159th year of Yanhou (369)

The rice planted in spring has just been harvested, and the rice planted in autumn has not started. Just a few months ago, Murong Ke, the pillar of Murong Yanguo, passed away.

So, Huan Wen defeated the opposition and chose to launch the Northern Expedition in the summer of this year, and a total of 50,000 infantry and cavalry were unified.

Although the Former Yan had a large army of 200,000, most of them were used to prevent refugee uprisings, and were only responsible for public security wars. Only 50,000 were able to carry out field battles in large corps.

Huan Wen was unstoppable along the way, and all the people in the Central Plains were eating pots of slurry to welcome the Jin army. Wherever they went, the people welcomed them sincerely.

However, on the way to march, some Jin soldiers also left the large army and scattered to surrounding villages to rob.

However, these are all small problems. It would be strange if the army in this era did not rob. Robbery is actually a behavior that is so normal that it cannot be more normal.

Huan Wen captured Yuzhou and Luoyang, and continued to seize Yanzhou northward, leading all the way to Fangtou.

Fangtou is located next to Puyang, where Wang Jue slaughtered the gentry of Dongjun.

Even though more than a hundred years have passed, the legend of Wang Jue is still circulating here.

There is a nursery rhyme in Puyang: Wang Jue arrived and the gentry died.

In Fangtou, Huan Wen also saw the execution platform built by Wang Jue, which was specially used to massacre the gentry of the Dongjun County in public to enhance the morale of the Tiger and Leopard Knight soldiers.

"I remember Wang Heyu, who fought south and north, was invincible, and everyone in the world surrendered. If Wang Heyu was resurrected today, what would be the only thing that Murong Xianbei would have to say!" Huan Wen watched these torture instruments stained with blood and fantasized that he was as erect as Wang Jue back then."

The world is even sealed with wolf residence.

However, when Huan Wen thought that Wang Jue's family was actually separatist and independent, he did not take the Central Plains court seriously at all, he couldn't help but shake his head.

Wang Jue is Wang Jue, and the Wang family is Wang family, so it cannot be confused.

Huan Wen also wanted to slaughter the aristocratic family like Wang Jue, and rely on his own personal authority to build a powerful cavalry unit that was only loyal to him, Huan Wen.

Just when Huan Wen was still admiring Fangtou's torture instruments.

Step by step!

Many Xianbei cavalry arrived, while the Jin soldiers were busy burning, killing and looting in Fangtou, and there was no time to reorganize the troops and line up, so they were immediately caught off guard.

It turned out that this was the bait tactic of Yan State. Many Han women were deliberately migrated in Fangtou and other places, luring Jin soldiers to plunder Han women here. Then when the Jin soldiers were relaxed, the cavalry of Murong Yan State suddenly came out and could be great.

Win a complete victory.

Huan Wen had expected that the reserve team would withstand the attack of the Murong Xianbei cavalry, and then arranged for the Jin soldiers to start retreating.

After a few days of fighting and retreating, Huan Wen heard that the Qin general Deng Qiang led troops to support Murong Yan State, so he completely gave up the plan of the Northern Expedition and prepared to retreat all the way back to Jiankang.

When retreating, Huan Wen pretended to be defeated, trying to lure Murong Xianbei to chase him, and then he shot him back and killed him.

However, Murong Chui saw through Huan Wen's forests and did not directly pursue Huan Wen, but followed Huan Wen all the time.

After several days of continuous operation, Huan Wen and Murong Xianbei never launched an attack, so they simply canceled the counterattack plan and ordered the troops to march southward with a rush, wanting to return to Jiangdong as soon as possible.

However, when he gave up his counterattack plan and switched to the marching, Murong Chui immediately launched a raid.

Huan Wen was defeated, with 50,000 infantry and cavalry losing more than 30,000. He fled back to Jiangdong in a panic with more than 10,000 defeated generals.

On the way to escape, Huan Wen saw the willow tree that he passed by during the last Northern Expedition and found that the willow tree had withered and he was already old. He couldn't help but sigh: "The tree is still like this, how can people bear it!"

After sighing, he murmured to himself: "A real man is born between heaven and earth. If he cannot be remembered for thousands of years, he should be infamous for thousands of years. He should not be ignored by people in future generations."

Since the Northern Expedition is no longer successful, it is impossible to be as famous as Wang You'an and Wang Heyu for generations, then we will usurp the throne and become the emperor and will be infamous for thousands of years from now on.

This battle was really frustrating. If Wang Jue was asked to fight, he would have to eat people from Jiangdong to the grassland. There was no need for logistics at all. The enemy and the people were logistics. This would make the army very fast, otherwise he would have to wait for the transportation of logistics materials.

, which delays the speed of the march very much, so it is difficult to achieve unexpected military results.

If the enemy army attacks, avoid the edge, harass the enemy's vital places, force the enemy to send reinforcements, and then our army will concentrate its superior forces to take the opportunity to annihilate the enemy's singles.

Huan Wen did not have Wang Jue’s military talent or Wang Jue’s cruelty, so how could he accomplish anything?

But it’s hard to say, after all, Wang Jue has extremely strong control over the army. If Wang Jue is asked to be a general for the Eastern Jin court, the first thing may be to do is not to fight the Northern Expedition, but to first enter Jiankang City and to bring all royal relatives and families into the royal family.

The massacre was completely slaughtered to prevent these people from being dragged down before launching the Northern Expedition.

With Wang Jue's ruthlessness, in order to win the final victory, he would not care even if he killed millions of corpses in Jiangdong.

After returning to Jiangdong, Huan Wen asked his adviser: "I want to be infatuated for thousands of years and take control of power. What should I do?"

The adviser replied: "Deposing the emperor can make you lose your own despicable life for thousands of years, and it can intimidate the court officials, making your power more stable, just like Dong Zhuo back then."

Huan Wen felt it made sense, so he began to spread rumors that Emperor Sima Yi could not have sex, so he was not qualified to be the emperor, and he spread news that he wanted to abolish the emperor.

The Wang family of Langya and Xie family of Chenjun did not dare to speak in the face of Huan Wen's aggressiveness. Even Xie An stayed behind closed doors and was unwilling to have conflicts with Huan Wen.

Xie Daoyun, a talented woman who just turned 20, was also warned by her husband's Langya Wang family, not to discuss national affairs at this nervous moment to prevent her from accidentally annoying Huan Wen.

The four major families of Wang, Xie, Yu and Yin were respectful to Huan Wen on the surface, but secretly discussed the plan to overthrow Huan Wen.

Nowadays, the imperial court of Jin has the royal family Sima family, the powerful minister Huan family, the four major families of Wang Xie Yuyin, and a bunch of other small families.

Huan Wen used facts to tell the families of the Jin Dynasty that in the face of military power, your family background is nothing. If you dare not accept it, you will kill your whole family directly. No matter what kind of family you have for hundreds or thousands of years, you will be ants in front of the butcher's knife.

Facts have proved time and time again that the most effective way to deal with these aristocratic families is to use the butcher knife.

Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao, Wang Jue and others have set an example for Huan Wen, and now they are waiting for Huan Wen to do the same.

Even the famous Yuan family of Runan was trembling in front of Dong Zhuo's butcher knife, and could only cry and beg for life?

The self-righteous Dongjun gentry lived like a year under Wang Jue's butcher's knife. When facing Wang Jue's tiger and leopard cavalry, they didn't even dare to breathe.

The noble gentry in Xuzhou, Qingzhou, were robbed by pirates sent by the ancestors of the Wang family again and again, but they had no way to deal with the Wang family and could only swallow their anger. Even if the family's children were massacred by the Wang family, even if the family women were defiled by the Wang family, they could only

To reconcile with the Wang family, in the middle of winter, with snowflakes on his head, kneeling outside the Wang family manor, and apologizing humbly to the Wang family.

In the face of absolute strength, the so-called noble family background is a joke.

There are no aristocratic families who cannot deal with it. Only whether the means are clever enough and the mind is ruthless enough. If you cannot deal with it, it does not mean that the aristocratic family is strong, it only means that you are not good enough.

Since we are ready to usurp the throne, we must fight with the royal family and aristocratic families of the Jin Dynasty.

So, Huan Wen began to study how Wang Jue eliminated the Dongjun gentry. When he found out that Wang Jue's way to deal with the aristocratic gentry was to "kill and kill", Huan Wen couldn't help but breathe rapidly and his heart beat faster. This was what he wanted to do in his dreams.

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"I should be like Sun Zhongmou, and I have a father like Wang Heyu. I, Huan Wen, will be the second Wang Jue."
Chapter completed!