The changes in Hanoi quickly spread to Binh Duong, but they caused almost no splash because Emperor Liu Cong personally went to conquer the city.
On July 20th, on the mountains in the north of Beiqu County, Pingyang County, Liu Cong's emperor's canopy almost reached the sky.
At least one-third of the Han Dynasty's capable troops gathered here, densely distributed in various valleys, ready to fight.
At the time of life and death, Liu Cong became much more awake.
The five stones are scattered and cannot be knocked.
Women don't play anymore.
The fish stopped watching.
He put on the iron armor, rode on the back of a majestic horse, held a curved bow and a sharp blade, and looked like he was fighting to the death.
Chen Yuanda wiped his tears.
Vaguely, he saw the manly spirit of the emperor leading the charge with his elite cavalry during the Battle of Changping.
The emperor also had a glorious past.
At that time, he was not afraid of death, dared to fight hard, and was extremely brave. If not, he would not have gathered a group of brave men around him to successfully seize the throne at the critical moment.
It's a pity that after the government was stabilized, the emperor fell into the gentle love of women, and his spirit was drained away, leading to this.
Fortunately, at the critical moment when Xianbei invaded in large numbers, the emperor came to his senses and took charge of the expedition himself, vowing to fight the traitors to the death.
A small-scale fighting has begun at the foot of the mountain.
All the Forbidden Army battalions were dispatched, and even the armored cavalry had chosen their starting positions, waiting for the final word.
There are also armored cavalry on the Xianbei side, but the number is smaller than here, and they are also watching eagerly.
But today's battle doesn't seem to require their dispatch.
In the narrow and rugged valley, the armored cavalry could not move, so the Xianbei heavy cavalry charged straight up.
The Han Dynasty also sent out well-armored guards and elite cavalry to charge against the enemy. For a moment, the people fell on their backs and their horses neighed in pain.
On the gentle slopes on both sides, the Xianbei people were fierce and shouting for a fierce battle.
The Huns' imperial troops who fought with them were light cavalry. After provoking arrows in front of the formation, they successfully aroused the anger of the Xianbei people. When they saw them charging towards them, they immediately turned around and ran away.
While running, he turned around and shot arrows, continuing to tease the Xianbei people.
People in Xianbei kept falling off their horses, and they became even more angry, and they kept biting at the back without stopping.
But as we chased each other, because of the rugged mountains, the horses on both sides slowed down and felt like they couldn't run.
Upon seeing this, the Xiongnu brigade split into groups of more than a thousand cavalry and turned around to outflank them.
They crossed streams, rushed through gentle slopes, and galloped through pine forests. Their superb riding skills were astonishing.
While charging, they kept firing arrows, and the Xianbei people fell down every time.
Fighting in such rugged valleys, neither side can raise their horse speed, and often encounter obstacles, or go up mountains and down slopes, or jump across streams, and the overall speed is appallingly slow.
In this environment, what is tested is the ability to control horses, and what is tested is superb riding skills. There are very few opportunities for hand-to-hand combat between the two sides. The Xianbei people are completely unable to take advantage of the impact. Instead, they are knocked off their feet by the Huns' bows and arrows.
, suffered heavy casualties.
After hitting the back, they finally collapsed.
The Tuoba Xianbei cavalry armed with long spears fell off their horses in large numbers, and hundreds of people knelt down and begged for surrender.
Pugen, Yilu's nephew, was furious and sent out another group of miscellaneous Hu Qingqi.
The fighting continues...
Under the canopy, there was a burst of cheers.
Liu Cong's face relaxed.
Liu Kun colluded with Tuoba Yilu and set out from Jinyang to attack Xihe and Pingyang counties.
The Jin army was divided into three groups.
The first route was led by Liu Kun himself, mainly the soldiers he recruited in Zhongshan. They set out from Taiyuan and marched into Langu. They wanted to go west from the Fen River and then turn south. However, they were blocked by Liu Can before they left. Both sides were in the mountains.
Confrontation.
The second route, led by Han Ju, the supervisor of the shogunate, went south from Jinyang, marched along the Fen River, passed Guanjuejin (commonly known as Queshu Valley), and entered the Xihe territory, but was rejected by Lan Yang, the general of the Han Dynasty.
The third route, led by Tuoba Pugen, traveled from the north to the south, along the east bank of the Yellow River, across the entire Luliang Mountains, and suddenly appeared in Pingyang while Liu Kun's troops attracted the attention of the Xiongnu.
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Judging from the advance route, the first two groups were weak, with Jin soldiers as the main force and Xianbei soldiers as the supplement. They attracted the attention of the Han army from the front. The Xianbei cavalry led by Tuoba Pugen made a sneak attack from the side and rear, trying to capture Pingyang in one fell swoop.
The plan was very good, and the Huns indeed divided their forces to attack Liu Kun, and Han occupied it. But how can I put it, these two groups were too weak to attract the main force of the Huns.
When the traces of Tuoba Pugen were discovered, Pingyang was shaken. Emperor Liu Cong led the main force of the imperial army on a personal expedition and intercepted the Xianbei cavalry that was surging southward in Beiqu County.
The Huns were not slow to respond.
If the Xianbei cavalry were allowed to break into the flat Fenshui River Valley, the situation would be difficult to deal with.
Now meeting them in the endless mountains is actually conducive to the Huns riding on foot.
The so-called Beiqu County is located in the north of today's Ji County. In the Tang Dynasty, it was Jichang County, the seat of Cizhou. Tuoba Pugen actually came from the Zhenwu Army of the Tang Dynasty when they went south, passed through Zhelu Army City, Kelan Army, and Shilou Pass, and entered
Xizhou, then go south to Cizhou.
If the Xiongnu had discovered it a little later, they would have really entered the valley and plains. Fortunately, they were blocked in the mountainous areas.
The two sides have been confronting each other in the mountains for several days, and have fought in more than ten small and large battles, with each side winning or losing.
Tuoba Xianbei went south in a hurry, carrying not much supplies, and in order to march quickly, he left behind the old, weak, women and children who were driving their cattle and sheep all the way south to graze. There is no doubt that the stalemate is not good for them. The longer the stalemate lasts, the more likely they will fail.
The bigger it is.
Liu Cong is also a veteran of war and understands this very well.
After seeing that the battle between the two sides was gradually ending and everyone had withdrawn their troops and returned to their camps, he turned to look at Ting Wei Chen Yuanda with a rather complicated look on his face.
"Chen Qing." Liu Cong said.
"Your Majesty." Chen Yuanda took a step forward and bowed in salute.
"Chen Qing is the pillar of the country, and I trust you." Liu Cong said, "Now we can lead ten thousand people north to Xihe and Taiyuan, and intercept Tuoba's retreat."
"I obey the decree." Chen Yuanda responded in a deep voice.
"Ask the heroes in the mountains again." When he said this, Liu Cong's face turned ugly. He just heard him say: "Why did Xianbei advance hundreds of miles without any obstruction? Have the people in the mountains turned their backs on the big men?"
"According to the order." After Chen Yuanda agreed, he added: "Your Majesty, Xianbei came too quickly, and it is understandable that the tribes in the mountains did not respond in time. In this critical autumn, your Majesty should be lenient."
"Humph." Liu Cong snorted coldly and said: "I can be tolerant, but some people are wolf-hearted and have both snake and rat tendencies, but they may not be pure ministers. But Chen Qing went north, and Xianbei couldn't hold on for a few days. Once he was defeated, he
, I will chase them one after another, and then I will ask those mountain chiefs what their intentions are."
Chen Yuanda was silent.
Compared to the late Emperor, I am not a magnanimous person, and he understands this very well.
Just a few months ago, he was almost killed by Jin Shang.
This incident originated from Queen Liu.
In the first month of this year, the Empress Dowager Zhang passed away. When Empress Zhang (the Empress Dowager's niece) heard about it, she was "overwhelmed with grief" and also passed away.
In March, the emperor appointed his concubine Liu E as the queen and built the Yi Palace (huáng, Tonghuang) for her.
He was the first to advise, thinking that the palace was enough for living, and building a new palace was too extravagant, which made the emperor furious and wanted to kill his whole family.
All the ministers remonstrated with him, but the emperor refused to obey.
At the critical moment, Empress Liu secretly sent someone to inform her of the suspension of the execution, and then she issued a warning to Shu to death before the execution was stopped.
Chen Yuanda knew that Empress Liu also wanted to protect herself and did not want to offend the civil and military officials of the court, but she was indeed a smart and sober person.
The emperor is different.
Although he was reluctantly pardoned in the end, the words he said made Chen Yuanda feel secretly in his heart: "You should be afraid of me, but it makes me afraid of your evil!"
These words were obviously filled with resentment.
Yes, the civil and military officials from all over the dynasty came to persuade him, and the emperor was forced to submit, but he must have been very uncomfortable in his heart, right?
Chen Yuanda knew that he was already hated by the emperor.
But he didn't feel too scared. As a minister, you only have to be loyal.
The late emperor was very kind to him. Even though he is extravagant and willful now, he is not disobedient at all. He only tries his best to carry out state affairs until the day of his death.
Seeing that the emperor had nothing else to say, Chen Yuanda saluted again and prepared to retreat.
"Wait a minute." Liu Cong stopped him and asked: "We just came from Hanoi to report that the Jin thief Shao Xun sent his troops northward and attacked fiercely. Liu Anxi asked for reinforcements to attack Heyang. What do you think?"
Chen Yuanda thought about it for a while and replied: "Your Majesty, the imperial court has decided on the policy of 'crossing the Yongzong River' and should not change it. Although the three cities of Heyang are blocking my way south, we will have to fight sooner or later, but not now."
When Liu Cong heard this, he nodded slightly.
In fact, not only Chen Yuanda, but also the entire DPRK and China have this attitude.
After Jinyang was gained and lost, the situation became unstable. The imperial court faced strong pressure from Tuoba Xianbei and found it difficult to take care of all directions.
Not to mention Hanoi, they have even shrunk in the direction of Guanzhong.
Liu Yao actually fought very well. With a partial division and a weak military strength, he won repeated battles and once occupied Chang'an.
If Tuoba Xianbei had not moved south in a large scale and the imperial court had transferred some troops from Guanzhong, the Jin generals might have been defeated and the situation in Guanzhong would have been completely clear.
But things were not as they should be. Tuoba Xianbei did move south, and Liu Yao had to retreat to Feng Yi again, holding on and waiting for the situation to change.
Speaking of which, the imperial court actually owed something to Liu Yao, which caused many twists and turns in the good situation in Guanzhong.
Liu Yao is like this, and it is even harder for Liu Ya to get support.
To put it bluntly, the stall was a bit big and we were attacked everywhere. It was like a battleground and we had to give up one or two directions.
Hanoi was clearly in a state of abandonment, but—
You can't just ignore it.
"Chen Qing." Liu Cong said hesitantly: "What if Shi Le is called upon to reinforce Hanoi? Will he respond to the imperial edict?"
Chen Yuanda said without hesitation: "Since this year, the tributes of Shi Le and Cao Yi have gradually become less and less, but they still dare not separate themselves and stand on their own. Especially Shi Le, who is sandwiched between Liu Kun, Wang Jun, and Shao Xun, and General Zhenyuan is watching closely.
, I will not dare to cause chaos. At this time, the troops will most likely come."
"Don't dare to cause trouble?" Liu Cong asked: "Does that mean Shi Le has the heart to be independent?"
"Your Majesty has already made up his mind, and I dare not speak nonsense." Chen Yuanda replied.
Liu Cong was silent.
There are not many stupid people who have reached this point.
Don’t the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty know what Shi Le is thinking? It’s just that everyone is pretending to be stupid.
Cao Yi agrees.
The tribute sent this year is less than last year, which shows that it has developed a lot of ambitions.
But can we touch him? No. It’s even more unnecessary.
At least so far, Cao Yi has not shown any obvious signs of rebellion, and is still willing to cooperate with the court's general strategy.
Shi Le needed the court's help more than Cao Yi.
He has neither the capital nor the behavior to be independent.
In the Battle of Jamati, although he was reluctant, he sent troops after all.
With this reinforcement in Heyang, Shi Le weighed the pros and cons. Even if he was dissatisfied, he had to put on a show and send troops according to the order.
This is the game between monarch and ministers.
I know your thoughts, you know that the imperial court knows your thoughts, and the imperial court also knows that you know...
"Pass an order to General Shi Le, who conquered the East, to send troops to Hanoi to obey the orders of General Anxi." Liu Cong made up his mind and ordered.
Chapter completed!