"I didn't want to fight, but the humble border general of the Shu army actually caused a lot of losses to our town army general! Unfortunately, the opportunity has been lost, and the Shu army can't move at this moment. Please remember the URL of this website:...
." Situ Liang sighed with a little pity.
"Your Majesty, since the Shu army in the north of Yizhou is not very strong, even if the Shu army in the north is resisting, it is not our opponent. Why not increase the number of troops in Yizhou and make the east and west lines equal in strength? Even if the Shu army in the north of Yizhou is
The Shu army is resisting and cannot take care of both the east and west sides." Someone suggested.
Zhao Xun smiled, rejected these proposals, and said: "That is no longer necessary. If we could break through the northern defense line of Yizhou and reach the northern part of Chengdu at the beginning of the operation, we can naturally continue to increase the number of troops. But now,
If we continue to increase our troops, it will only allow us to add another strong enemy, and even let the Shu army in Hanzhong join forces with the Han army to flank our army in northern Yizhou. In addition, if Hanzhong cannot be defeated, we can only go south from southern Liangzhou.
It’s not the best place to invade Yizhou.”
"Now, there is a dispute between the Shu army and the Han army in the land of Hanzhong. What we need is an internal fight between them, so that the so-called alliance of southern princes can completely collapse, which will also be conducive to our actions in Qiguo and Jingzhou.
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There is another point that Zhao Xun did not explain clearly. Now the battle line has been stretched too far, and it is almost a full-scale war with the southern princes. The logistical pressure on Zhao is really not small, and Zhao Xun is also worried that there will be some severe drought or heavy rain this summer.
A major disaster in Zhao State would affect the entire occupation.
The land under the current jurisdiction of Zhao State extends from Qingxu to the east, Liaozhou and the Turkic Grassland to the north, the two states of the Western Regions to the west, and the Central Plains to the south. The territory is vast, and the scope affected by the weather is also very broad, from east to west, north to south.
, severe drought and heavy rains are not impossible. This is the feudal era, and when a major disaster occurs, treatment is not a simple matter.
"Then the land in northern Yizhou is left alone? Doesn't the occupied area have to be handed back?"
"Of course not. We will not continue the attack. The areas we occupy will be regarded as our frontline boundaries. The defense of these areas is more dangerous than the areas occupied by our army in Liangzhou, and the Yizhou Shu Army is also more suitable.
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Situ Liang saw that some generals were a little confused and said with a smile: "In the past, the Shu army was unprepared. When our army went south, it was possible to directly attack the northern part of Chengdu Prefecture, and let the dangerous places in the northwest of Yizhou become our jurisdiction. In this way,
The Shu army will also be under the power of our troops, making it always wary of us and not daring to easily send reinforcements to support us when we attack other princes. But now that we have not been able to achieve full success in one battle, the northern part of the Shu army is also
It is not so easy to fight. After this battle, the northern Shu army will definitely strengthen its defense, and reinforcements will definitely increase as we continue to attack. If we move too much, the Shu army in Hanzhong will eliminate conflicts with the Han army.
They even joined forces to attack the flank of our army in Liangzhou."
"In that case, the third town will receive flanking attacks from the south and east. In addition, we will also draw the Shu army onto the battlefield, allowing us to add another enemy and tens of thousands of troops. The King of Shu will also fight with
The King of Hanzhong has reached a deeper alliance, making the Southern Alliance even closer. If King Situ Che of Shu becomes angry because of this and mobilizes all his strength to fight us, it will not be a good thing for us."
Zhao Xun nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, what Situ Aiqing said is very much what I want! Although the Liangzhou army operation failed to continue southward and win the southern pass, it did not exceed our expectations. With the current situation
Judging from the situation, the third town occupies the land it currently occupies, which is just right. If we don't continue the attack, the King of Shu will not go north because of us. In addition, our action is also a warning to him, so that he does not dare to easily attack him.
A large army is sent to support others, because we can go south at any time to attack Yizhou, and its own interests are higher than those of other princes, right?"
"Secondly, if we stop taking action, the confrontation between the Shu army and the Han army in Hanzhong will continue to deepen, and the King of Shu will be interested in Hanzhong. At the very least, the alliance between them will be broken."
"Our top priority now is to annex Xiyong Prefecture now. We must eat our food one bite at a time and gradually swallow up the southern princes. Don't rush to start a war on all fronts."
Having said that, it is indeed very difficult to attack Yizhou from Liangzhou south. The northern part of Yizhou is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is dangerous. It is extremely difficult for the Zhao army to go south. In addition, Hanzhong is still in the hands of the Han army, and they want to kill it.
When entering Yizhou, it is right to defeat Hanzhong first. Of course, for Zhao Xun, it is more appropriate to attack Yizhou and attack from Jingzhou and Hanzhong.
As Zhao Xun expected, the actions started by the Zhao army really worried the King of Shu. Because of this, he eagerly hoped that the Shu army in Hanzhong could quickly support the northern part of Yizhou. But at this moment, the Shu army in Hanzhong was opposed to the Han army.
, even food and grass are about to become a problem.
After hearing the news, Situ Che, the king of Shu, angrily cursed the King of Hanzhong and the Han army for their unrighteousness. I sent people to support you. It would be better for you not to kill my soldiers, but also to cut off the food of my army. But because of the situation in Yizhou,
Situ Che questioned the King of Hanzhong and asked Hanzhong to provide food and grass for the Shu army in Hanzhong to support the army in counterattacking the Zhao army. At the same time, he was preparing to contact the Han army in Hanzhong. If necessary, he would first let the Shu army in Hanzhong bow to the Han army in order to
Let’s solve the Yizhou problem first.
Of course, this does not mean that it has no complaints against the Han army in Hanzhong, but Yizhou is the most important. When the Yizhou issue is resolved, the Han army in Hanzhong must look good.
However, just when Situ Che, the king of Shu, was about to send people to make peace with the Han army in Hanzhong, or even to bow his head, he received a response from He Qingzhang, the general of Dingbei in the north, saying that the Zhao army had retreated and did not continue to attack. Knowing this,
While Situ Che breathed a sigh of relief, he also gave up making peace and bowing his head to the Han army. Of course, he still mobilized troops and began to gradually send troops northward from Mianzhou, Mianyang, and Jiangyou to guard against the Zhao army.
After arranging these, Situ Che, the king of Shu, began to look at the land of Hanzhong that made him gnash his teeth. More than 30,000 Shu troops were trapped in the western part of Hanzhong, which made him very annoyed. In anger, Situ Che immediately broke off
In order to provide logistical support to the Luo army sent by Jingzhou to Wuguan, in addition, they also threatened to withdraw the reinforcements for attacking the Zhao army in Xiyongzhou, and asked Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, to order the Han army to let the Shu army withdraw to Yizhou.
At this time, Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, began to panic. Because of the fall of Qingni Pass, the Luo army supporting Jingzhou no longer had much effect and could be put aside. Under his command, the Luo army attacking Henan Prefecture in Xiyongzhou
If the coalition forces withdraw the 10,000 Shu troops, it will definitely not be good news for him.
While the King of Hanzhong urgently ordered the land of Hanzhong to resolve the Hanzhong dispute, he also appeased Situ Che and asked Situ Che to stop the withdrawal. In addition, the King of Hanzhong hoped that Situ Che would continue to send Hanzhong troops north to support Xiyong Prefecture. After all, without the support of the Shu army,
It is difficult for Xiyongzhou to persist.
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After Zhao Kang settled the defense of Luogu Pass, he led his army straight to Sanguan and Chencang. However, before arriving, he already learned that the Sixth Town of the Forbidden Army stationed in Liangzhou had captured Chencang on the north bank, but
However, the Sanguan garrison on the south bank was not able to defeat the enemy in a single battle because the garrison at Sangguan was vigilant and received news. Moreover, the garrison at Sangguan gathered the Han troops from the surrounding counties and defended the city.
Because the city of Sanguan is steep, there are no thunderbolts in the Sixth Town of the Forbidden Army, and there are not many transport teams traveling with the army. Therefore, it is not possible to build too many siege equipment, making it very difficult to attack the city. Especially the defender of Sanguan himself
Knowing that he was outmatched, he deliberately defended the city and refused to leave, leaving the sixth town of the Forbidden Army unable to attack repeatedly.
It was difficult to conquer, and because most of the troops in the Sixth Town of the Forbidden Army were stationed north of Chencang to contain the Sanfu Han Army, they were worried that the Han army from the east of Sanguan would come to help. After Zhao Kang's troops approached Sanguan, the Sixth Town of the Forbidden Army was
I thought of a plan.
The Sixth Town sent a clever soldier into the city with a forged letter, pretending to be reinforcements from the Han army. Luo Dingyuan had ordered a general to lead more than 10,000 reinforcements to the nearby neighbors. In order to prevent the besieging Zhao army from knowing the situation, and the reinforcements coming from afar, they could not communicate with Zhao.
The army fought for a long time, and the armor and equipment were not as good as those of the Zhao army. Therefore, the defenders and reinforcements were asked to attack from inside and outside to break the siege of the Zhao army.
When the Sanguan guard saw that it was the military order of the commander of the Hanzhong reinforcements, and the secret order of Luo Dingyuan on it, the Sanguan guard naturally believed what the soldier said. But he did not know that the forged document in the soldier's hand was that the Zhao army had conquered the cities around Chang'an.
After getting it, and with the cooperation of some surrendered generals, there was naturally no omission.
The military order agreed that reinforcements should attack the Zhao army's camp in the east outside the city. When the defenders saw the fire in the Zhao army's camp in the east, they immediately sent troops to respond and attacked the Zhao army. The defender was naturally overjoyed and decided to follow the plan and asked the soldiers to reply to the agreement.
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As a result, the Sixth Town handed over the task of cooperating with Zhao Kang's First Town of the Forbidden Army. Zhao Kang naturally had no objections and decided to cooperate with the Sixth Town.
One night later, the army of the Sixth Town first set up an ambush outside the city and sent people to contact the army of the First Town to take corresponding actions. In order to achieve good results, Zhao Kang deliberately asked all his cavalry to cooperate with the Sixth Town.
After receiving the signal from the first town, the cavalry immediately began to pretend to attack the Zhao army's camp in the east of Sanguan, and set fire to the camp. It also made the camp full of shouts of killing and chaos. This was naturally
The sixth town camp deliberately made the soldiers scream and run around, pretending to be attacked, and also attracted the defenders in the city to attack.
The Han army garrison who had been well prepared was also unambiguous. When he saw the Zhao army sabotaging outside the city, he immediately reorganized his army and personally led his troops out of the city, fighting all the way to the Zhao army camp in the east of the city. However, he was attacked by the Zhao army's cavalry.
Seeing that they had fallen into the trap, the Han army was immediately in chaos, and the Han army's defender immediately ordered the army to retreat. However, at this moment, their retreat route was filled with soldiers from Zhao's first line of defense.
As a result, Wu Qian and the Han army defenders were surrounded by the Zhao army. At this moment, the Zhao army also sent a partial division and went straight to Sanguan. At this moment, most of the defenders in the city came out of the city to fight, and almost all the generals left the city. The defenders
The army had no generals, and when the Zhao army outside the city shouted that the Han general was dead, Sanguan was quickly lost.
When the guards of Sanguan fought desperately and led hundreds of people to the foot of Sanguan City, the lights above Sanguan were brightly lit. However, what was erected on the top of the city was not the flag of the Han army, but the flaming unicorn flag of the Zhao army.
.As a last resort, the remnants of the Han army surrendered to the Zhao army. At this point, the connection between Hanzhong and Xiyong Prefecture was completely severed.
Because Sanguan is located in the northwest of Hanzhong and southwest of Xiyong Prefecture, it is the link between Hanzhong and the western part of Xiyong Prefecture. Therefore, after taking Sanguan, the returning army, under the suggestion of Yang Wangqing, immediately used the banner of reinforcements from the western part of Hanzhong.
Huaili, Maoling, Pingling, Huxian and other counties began to take action.
Some of these counties were in a state of hostility to Zhao Jun's Sixth Town army. At this moment, when they saw reinforcements arriving, they still bothered to conduct a detailed investigation. In addition, there was the testimony of the general guarding the pass, and in the end, Zhao Jun was released in a confused manner.
After entering the city, these cities were easily captured by the Zhao army.
As these cities were captured by the Zhao army, and as the various armies of the Zhao army converged, the three western prefectures of Chang'an soon fell into the hands of the Zhao army. Some of them were captured by the Zhao army, and some were found to be difficult for the Han defenders to fight against.
Zhao Jun's offensive was to sacrifice the city and surrender. In addition, some of them directly contacted Zhao Jun and surrendered to Zhao Jun after seeing that Zhao Jun's occupation of Xiyong Prefecture was a foregone conclusion. In addition, there were no reinforcements from outside.
By the end of June, only two large cities, Xianyang and Chang'an, were left in the land of Western Yongzhou. In addition, in addition to surrendering to Zhao, most of the Han army also retreated to this place.
In a short period of time, various prefectures and counties in the west of Xiyong Prefecture fell one after another. Even Zhao Xun was a little surprised at such a speed. However, after learning that many of these prefectures and counties surrendered because they took the initiative and even directly contacted Zhao Jun to surrender.
, Zhao Xun understood that this was the general trend.
Compared with the success of the Zhao army in Western Yongzhou, the actions of the King of Hanzhong in Eastern Yongzhou are not worth mentioning. It has to be said that although the original plan of the King of Hanzhong was good, it was to surround Wei to save Zhao, and to attack Eastern Yongzhou and even Luoyang to pull back the westward advance.
The Zhao army in Dong Yong Prefecture freed Western Yong Prefecture from danger.
However, it is a pity that the troops under his command cannot be hostile to the Zhao army. Among the 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers under his command, except for 30,000 soldiers from his own Han army, the remaining 20,000 are from the Shu army and the Qi army.
Each army has 10,000 reinforcements. Although the King of Hanzhong is the commander-in-chief, it is difficult for him to give the order to mobilize 20,000 reinforcements.
In the two cities of Yiyang and Lu in Dongyong Prefecture, King Situ Fei of Hanzhong attacked continuously but failed to break the city. Not only that, in order to make the 20,000 reinforcements under his command obey the orders, he mostly used his own Han troops and horses when attacking the city.
Action. After half a month of fierce attack, King Situ Fei of Hanzhong finally got a taste of Zhao Jun's ability to defend the city. Especially these cities were taller and more difficult to attack under the reinforcement of Zhao Jun's iron bars and concrete. Coupled with Zhao Jun's sharp armor and equipment, the three
The Wanhan Army lost more than 13,000 men, causing considerable losses to the soldiers under its command.
Because of the successive sieges and great losses, the Han soldiers under his command were a little war-weary. Of course, these soldiers did not dare to express their war-weariness to the King of Hanzhong easily. However, during the siege, their current
Actions are far worse than at the beginning of the war.
What made the King of Hanzhong even more annoyed was that his troops suffered heavy losses, but he did not command the 20,000 reinforcements. Especially since the food and supplies for the 20,000 reinforcements were provided by the King of Qi and the King of Shu respectively. Of course, this is not to say that
The 20,000 reinforcements did not move at all. They each lost more than 3,000 people in the siege. However, because of these losses and the effect of the siege, the 20,000 reinforcements gave up hope of continuing the siege.
Especially because of the outbreak of the Hanzhong problem, the Shu army began to refuse to carry out the military orders of the King of Hanzhong, and almost withdrew directly. In this regard, the King of Hanzhong was angry and helpless.
The reason why it was so difficult to attack the city was not only because Zhao Jun's defense was sharp and the Han army's siege equipment was insufficient, but also because Zhao Jun had won the hearts and minds of the people in Dongyongzhou. Speaking of which, Dongyongzhou was also under the jurisdiction of the Luoyang King in the past.
As mentioned earlier, this is the territory under the jurisdiction of King Yong. However, this Eastern Yongzhou has only been under the control of Zhao Jun for one year. Zhao Jun’s system and policies have been widely welcomed by the people and businessmen. Except for a few wealthy gentry
In addition, Zhao Jun has basically won the hearts and minds of all the people in Dongyong Prefecture and gained their support.
Therefore, when the Han army attacked the city, the area it reached had already been cleared by the Zhao army, and the people who defended the city were assisting them, so that the strength of the Zhao army to defend the city was no longer a problem for them. The internal affairs were not focused, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting, and Zhao wanted to attack.
The army is very powerful, and the contrast between the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides is obvious.
Now the King of Hanzhong did not know much about the situation in Western Yongzhou, but he had begun to feel hopeless in regaining Western Yongzhou. His actions in Eastern Yongzhou were not successful, and the Zhao army that advanced westward in Eastern Yongzhou did not return at all.
King Zhao also personally led his army from Bingzhou to West Yongzhou and joined the Zhao army marching westward from East Yongzhou.
The next two reinforcements, the first one was the Hanzhong reinforcements, which are now deeply trapped in Xiyong Prefecture. Judging from the subsequent information, this reinforcement force failed to save the situation in Xiyong Prefecture. At most, it postponed the capture of Xiyong Prefecture.
It's just the time occupied by Zhao Jun.
Not to mention the second reinforcement, there were two routes of reinforcements. On the east route, the Luo Army sent troops, and the Qi Army and Shu Army sent grain and grass supplies. However, the Qingni Pass to the north of Wuguan and the surrounding checkpoints were occupied by the Zhao Army, making
The reinforcements could not move north smoothly and were blocked in the north of Danshui. Especially the last heavy rain made the army's logistics a problem. After the King of Shu stopped supporting the reinforcements along this route due to the Hanzhong dispute, they had to start to retreat.
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Naturally, the west route will be reinforcements from the Shu army, but now it seems that can we count on it? There is no chance at all. Not only is there no chance, the Shu army has now added trouble to itself in Hanzhong, making its head as big as a bucket.
Reinforcements from both the east and west routes failed to enter Western Yongzhou smoothly, and I could not open up the situation here. Judging from the current local garrison operations of the Zhao army in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, even if they open up the residents, the Zhao army in East Yongzhou will not withdraw.
Instead, they faced a counterattack from the Zhao army in the eastern states.
There were no reinforcements, and Xiyongzhou itself could not resist. The Zhao army arrived. Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, was very worried about the situation in Xiyongzhou, and even began to lose hope...
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