Six years ago, Liu Xiang led 7,000 troops to annihilate 50,000 Xianbei Shanyu cavalry in a battle at Longmen Gate, defended Hedong County, and broke the backbone of the Xianbei people.
Six years later, his men will break out of Longmen and capture Hedong.
Fate seemed to have turned a circle, and Longmen once again became the focus of the Battle of Hedong.
Liu Xiang sighed. This time, he couldn't go to Longmenmen.
He had to find Yuan Shao, a middle-aged uncle, and play a game of fighting and being beaten. Of course, the premise was that the Five Kings Alliance dared to bare their teeth at Yuan Shao. If they dared to pounce on him, the Anping Army would follow up and beat them up.
A meal with Yuan Benchu.
In this way, the purpose of dividing the Central Plains will be truly achieved.
The princes are rising together, and the stage of horse racing and land encirclement is coming to an end. There is not much free land for the Han Dynasty, and only Wu Commandery, Kuaiji Commandery and Yuzhang Commandery in Yangzhou are left.
Oh, by the way, there is also the Jiaozhi Governor's Department in the far south.
At this time, the Han Dynasty only had twelve states plus one, and the Jiaozhi Governor's Department could not be called Jiaozhou. It was only more than ten years later, in the eighth year of Jian'an, that Boss Cao changed the name to Jiaozhou and recognized it as one of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty.
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Jiaozhou has a large area, bordering Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou, including modern Guangdong, Guangxi, and central and northern Vietnam. It has seven counties and 56 counties, with a population of more than one million.
But its sense of existence is too low. If that place wants to enclose the territory for self-protection, still has some room for execution, and wants to dominate the world, there is no chance at all.
Regardless of geography, population, technology, or cultural recognition, Dahan is the worst.
Since the Qin Dynasty, Jiaozhou has been beaten for hundreds of years.
Not talking about the problem of their strength, but just talking about their sense of identity, no matter Jiangdong, Central Plains, or Hebei, from the aristocratic families to the capital of Guizhou, they will not recognize these southern natives as their rulers.
Public support is the biggest obstacle.
Before the Han people moved south in large numbers and developed Guangdong and Guangxi, the territory of Jiaozhou was not qualified to participate in the struggle for the world.
In Liu Xiang's heart, Jiaozhou was never a threat.
The real threat is Guanzhong, the Central Plains, Jiangdong, Jingzhou, and perhaps Bashu.
Dong Zhuo who occupied Guanzhong, Liu Yan who occupied Yizhou, Liu Biao who occupied Jingzhou, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, and Yuan Shao in the Central Plains were his opponents.
Maybe there is also Liu Chong who he raised.
The coldness of the twelfth lunar month is receding day by day, the temperature is gradually rising, and the second year of Chuping has arrived quietly.
On the first day of the new year, he received good news.
Last year Zhang Lu assassinated Zhang Xiu at a banquet, annexed his tribe, reorganized Tianshi Tao with the teachings of the Five Dou Rice Way, ate the followers of the Five Dou Rice Way, and took control of Hanzhong.
Sun Jian failed to attack Yangping Pass.
Jushou used another counter-intuitive plan, forcing Puhu, the seventh-surnamed Yi king, to rebel. Sun Jian took the opportunity to attack again, and Zhang Lu's troops were mobilized. Tan Mianmen suddenly rushed out from the Xie Valley and led his troops to surprise Nanzheng. He attacked Nanzheng by force for three days and nights.
, broke into the city and killed Zhang Lu.
Then this guy subdued Zhang Xiu's original subordinates, the Yi king Pu Hu and the leader of the Jin people, Du Yi, in the name of offering Liu Xiang five measures of rice and offering wine.
Hanzhong was pacified.
However, Tan Minsun was very straightforward. Without Liu Xiang's order, no one could take away Hanzhong's territory, not even Sun Jian, who had fought alongside him.
Sun Jian said that Tan Mingshu had stolen Hanzhong, Tan Mingshu sent a letter to report his merits, and Jushu sent a letter to offer advice. Wudu and Hanzhong can be separated but cannot be combined.
Three letters, three waves of messengers, arrived on the same day.
Of course Hanzhong cannot be given to Sun Jian. He is not Liu Xiang's general yet. Although Sun Jian sent his family to Jizhou, he never said anything about surrendering. He is now the prefect of Wudu in the Han Dynasty and can only be regarded as an ally when he rebels against the general.
He could not give him his own territory, so Jushou went there as a guest under the guise of helping to resist Dong Zhuo and Liu Yan.
Tan Mianfu must be rewarded heavily because he came with territory. Although he always regarded himself as Liu Xiang's subordinate, the nature was different.
Liu Xiang wrote replies respectively.
"Appoint Tan Mianxian as the prefect of Hanzhong and the title of Marquis of Guannei. Appoint Pu Hu as the left captain of Hanzhong and Du Yi as the right captain of Hanzhong."
"Jushou was promoted to the rank of Military Advisor Zhonglang General, in charge of controlling the troops and horses in Hanzhong and managing all affairs in Hanzhong."
These appointments were promulgated by the envoy Chijie, and the seals and ribbons and military symbols were also brought with them.
Although Liu Xiang had the power to make false festivals, he really had no control over the land of Hanzhong. He wanted to pay homage to the Eight Classics in order to make Baima Qiang Tan avoid being harmed by Pu Hu and Du Yi, who thought this was orthodox.
The appointment had a sense of ceremony, which made the three of them identify more with Liu Xiang.
Anyway, they were not clear about the power structure of the imperial court, so they used the orthodox talismans given by the late emperor to appoint officials to prevent them from being attracted by the "fake emperor" of Chang'an, which was just an insurance policy.
Hanzhong was too close to Chang'an, so some tricks had to be used.
The letter to Sun Jian was half private and half official.
The letter stated that Hanzhong was captured by his own subordinates, and he could not give it to him because it would make his subordinates feel cold. He wanted to appoint Sun Jian to concurrently serve as the governor of Liangzhou. When he attacked Dong Zhuo, he hoped that he could send troops together. After that, he would like to express his gratitude to Sun Jian.
He was the pastor of Liangzhou and the general who conquered the west.
This can be regarded as a test. If he is willing to accept the appointment as governor of Liangzhou, he has joined his own camp and is no longer a tacit ally.
Letters need to go through thousands of mountains and rivers, and the responses from Hanzhong and Wudu cannot receive specific information in a short time.
It was impossible for Liu Xiang to put down what he was doing and wait for feedback from over there.
On the fifth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Chuping, he led four thousand horsemen towards Qingzhou. He did not go to his own territory on the north bank. Instead, he crossed the Yellow River at Liyang and whizzed past the boundaries of Chenliu County and Dongjun.
In order to scare Zhang Miao, Chen Gong and others who stayed behind in Yanzhou to prevent them from having any evil intentions, although the troops in Yanzhou were transferred to the Nanyang battlefield by Cao Cao, Boss Qu Cao, the private soldier of the family, could not move them.
We need to be on guard against them taking advantage of the opportunity to attack Yuan Shao to sneak attack on the territory of the Five Kings Alliance, thus affecting Liu Chong's determination.
Seeing Zhang Miao and others huddled in the city, as if they were refusing to go out, it should have some effect, right?
The Hu Qi camp crossed Yanzhou and headed towards Qingzhou, and another group of Hu Qi was also traveling at high speed.
Yan Rou handed over the infantry to Xu Rong, and took five thousand horsemen with him to rush towards Longmen along the Yellow River.
The hooves of the war horses were wrapped in thick linen. He was afraid that the large groups of horses would break the ice when they got together. He divided the cavalry into teams of a hundred people, with each team separated by more than a hundred meters, and into groups of a thousand people, with each group two miles apart.
The march of five thousand barbarians stretched to eighteen miles.
Marching like this is very risky. If there is a sneak attack in the middle, at least one group of cavalry will be unable to react, but the enemy will not be able to take advantage of it. The cavalry in front and behind are galloping for exactly two miles, which is the distance where the impact can be best exerted.
"Speed up and arrive at Longmen before the tenth day of the lunar month."
Yan Rou was in the middle of the team, standing on the high slope of the river bank. She was holding a small black stick and hitting it on her head, making strange comparisons before and after.
The subordinates were very surprised. Is this a new popular dance in Ye County?
Not pretty.
Yan Rou didn't tell anyone about the telescope, she just carried it with her.
"My lord is a true god. With this, we don't have to worry about the length of the marching team." He sighed in a low voice and continued to order to speed up.
In six days, the Duliao camp marched five hundred miles, rushed out of Longmenkou, and reached Pishi County.
The journey is smooth and without any obstacles.
"Thieves are just thieves. They don't understand military strategy at all. I am worried that they will block Longmen. I really think highly of them."
Looking at the few defenders on the city, Yan Rou felt that she and her lord were worried because they had overestimated their opponents. Pi's poor place was in need of people and food, but those Baibo thieves didn't pay attention at all.
"Send orders to Xu Rong to speed up the march. Send orders to Zhang Liao and Xu Huang to advance to Hedong."
One thousand light cavalry were left behind to guard the dragon gate, while Yan Rou led four thousand cavalry directly south.
The Huns were near Tong County in the south. Looking at the situation in Pishi County, they had no defense against the Longmen direction.
With such a good opportunity, of course we must launch a sneak attack. Even if we cannot destroy the enemy's main force, we must reduce their combat power.
The Huns had a lot of cavalry. Even if they made a living by robbing Han people in recent years and did not use large-scale herding, the city could not support so many horses. They did not have the logistics capabilities of the Han people, so they would have to go out of the city to herd horses.
Du Liaoying was very good at sneak attacking the herdsmen's horses, and he had done this frequently over the years.
The vast grasslands allow the Hu people to hide everywhere. In the inland areas like Hedong, where will you go?