Although the appearance of Huang Ying made Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao take this matter to heart, their top priority was not to worry about a mere Huang Ying.
Meng Tian initially had 20,000 Barbarian Bear Legion soldiers and horses, plus 5,000 Golden Fire Cavalry. In addition, there were 30,000 Yanbei Navy, and later the 50,000 Kwantung Army. In the previous battle, they completely wiped out the enemy.
The army had 80,000 soldiers and horses, but he only lost about 7,000 to 8,000 men.
Therefore, at this time, Meng Tian really had nearly 100,000 troops in his hands.
And the enemy's 80,000 soldiers and horses were all lost. How could Huang Ying fight against their nearly 100,000 army with his own strength?
Therefore, for Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao, the real priority is to sweep through the counties of Qingbei in the shortest possible time according to their original plan, lead their troops and horses, go straight to the plains, and attack Lin'an, the capital of Dongcang Kingdom.
However, Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao had different opinions on the division of troops.
Needless to say, the soldiers and horses along the river into Yuanjiang County can only be Mo Peng's Yanbei Navy. For the soldiers and horses along the river, the Yanbei Navy can only be the only choice.
Only the Yanbei Navy could make a large circle by water, bypassing Pingyao, and attack Yuanjiang County along the river. The remaining soldiers and horses could only attack land one by one safely.
However, who led the troops to sweep across Pingyang, and then led the troops to the plains, then neither Meng Tian nor Yang Yanzhao were willing to give in.
Mo Peng also wanted to fight for this opportunity, but he knew from the beginning that it had nothing to do with him.
If you want to extend the Great River into Yuanjiang County, sweep across the Yuanjiang River as quickly as possible, and block the south side of the plain, only the Yanbei Navy can do this.
Although the Great Han Whale Corps still has a Tianhe navy, they can't spare it at this time.
The Fierce Whale Legion, at this time, not only had to ensure control of the river system between Hebei and Henan, but also was responsible for escorting Wang Yu's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to transport supplies.
In addition, they also had to help Xue Rengui control the large river system between Hedong and Hexi, help Xue Rengui intimidate the small court of Hexi Road, and prevent the small court of Hexi Road from threatening Wang Yu's southern expedition.
Besides, at this time, no matter how empty Qingbei is, Lin'an, as the capital of Dongcang, still has thousands or even ten thousand soldiers and horses. If it is based on the strength of Yanbei Navy,
, I’m afraid I won’t be able to chew it off.
The navy lacks those large-scale engineering equipment, and compared to those landlubbers, it is certainly impossible for their navy to be completely incompetent in attack tactics, and they also have more or less normal training.
But it is certainly impossible to compare with those landlubbers in this regard.
Not to mention, as the capital of Dongcang, Lin'an is definitely tall and solid at that level, and its city defense strength will definitely not be bad.
Therefore, even though he knew that he would gain a lot if he succeeded, Mo Peng still never thought about taking his brothers to fight in such a place.
And lead the troops to sweep across Pingyang, and then lead the troops to Pingyuan, and where is Pingyuan County, that is where Lin'an, the small court of Dongcang, is located. In other words, if any general leads the troops along this road, then
, it is also possible that it can be used to break the enemy's capital.
In fact, if Huangfu Minghan can be stopped and killed, he can even achieve the goal of destroying the country.
If it were for other functions, for the sake of the overall situation, Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao might be able to give in. After all, these two people are not the kind of generals who have no awareness of the overall situation.
However, such merit, whether it is the achievement of destroying the enemy's capital or even the achievement of destroying the country, cannot be given away.
If they really contribute to the destruction of the country, for a general, it is almost their highest honor. It doesn't matter if they die in this battle! For many people, there are many things for them.
The importance goes beyond life and death.
Therefore, whether it was Meng Tian or Yang Yanzhao, they both wanted to take charge of the war and let the other person attack Pingyao County.
If it is above the official position, then of course Meng Tian is higher. The general of the Kwantung Army is Wen Zhong, and Wen Zhong is only equal to Meng Tian in terms of official position. Both of them are generals of the same main army.
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Therefore, in terms of grade, Meng Tian can definitely beat Yang Yanzhao.
However, the problem is that now, half of the nearly 100,000 troops and horses under their command are Kwantung Army troops.
In other words, if we want to invade Lin'an next, we will have to rely mainly on the Kwantung Army as the main force.
In this case, it would be impossible for Meng Tian to forcefully use his higher official position to completely ignore Yang Yanzhao's opinions and let him attack Pingyao instead of sweeping Pingyang.
If this is really the case, the officers and soldiers of the Kwantung Army will definitely be dissatisfied with Meng Tian.
Discord between generals is a big taboo when it comes to war.
However, both of them want this opportunity, and neither of them want to give up this opportunity easily.
In the end, coupled with the factor of time, the two sides had to compromise with each other. Meng Tian took the lead, with Yang Yanzhao as his deputy, leading the Kwantung Army soldiers and horses, plus five thousand golden fire cavalry, sweeping Pingyang, and then marched into Pingyuan City.
Forced Lin'an, the capital of Dongcang.
As for the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Barbarian Bear Corps, under the leadership of Bi Zaiyu, he led Yang Zaixing, Cheng Yaojin and other generals of the Barbarian Bear Corps to capture Pingyao as quickly as possible, and where they are now.
Pingyang is connected into one.
And Bi Zaiyu, a young general who had just joined the army and was now just a partial general, easily got the opportunity to lead the war.
In itself, this kind of opportunity would not be his turn, but if Meng Tian didn't come, he would be the only one among the remaining generals who had considerable ability to lead troops.
This is not to say that apart from Meng Tian, there is no one left in the Savage Bear Legion who can lead the troops, but the main force of the Savage Bear Legion is on Han Xin's side, and most of the generals are naturally on Han Xin's side.
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The 50,000 Kwantung Army had swept through the remaining half of Pingyang County in just a dozen days. Since then, Pingyang County, one of the eight counties in Qingzhou, has completely fallen into the hands of the Han Dynasty.
Since the main force of 80,000 soldiers and horses was lost, there was almost no resistance in the places they passed. Most of the county magistrates in various places surrendered. Only 20 to 30% of those who really had the courage to resist resisted.
But even if there are still a few people who are stubbornly resisting, if they don’t have the power in their hands, they will just end up being swept away along the way.
Therefore, Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao were able to completely capture the remaining half of Pingyang in just ten days. As long as they arrange the defense here, the army will officially force Pingyang.
County land.
At this time, the Dongcang Imperial Court had just received the news of the defeat on the front line for four or five days. At this moment, the hearts of everyone in the Dongcang Imperial Court were in turmoil, and everyone was frightened.
On the other hand, Huangfu Guhan himself showed a bit of panic when the bad news first came five days ago, but he quickly calmed down and issued several orders in an orderly manner.
Eighty thousand soldiers and horses, almost all of them were wiped out. At this time, the entire capital, plus the scattered cities around the capital, could only muster up to 10,000 soldiers and horses.
Although Dongcang still had troops to fight, they were all dragged back to the Zhushan battlefield and were temporarily transferred back to support Lin'an.
The remaining tens of thousands of scattered soldiers and horses are also distributed in the parts of Heyang and Qingnan occupied by Dongcang. Not only are these soldiers and horses beyond reach at this time, but they are also unable to do anything about it in a short time.
Gather together.
Facing the imminent killing of Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao's army, Huangfu Gu Han followed the advice of counselors Wen Qing and Huang Chao, and reduced his troops to prepare to defend Lin'an. At the same time, he ordered all the cities on the front line to defend behind closed doors to delay Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao's attack for a month.
time.
Meng Tian was worried that Huangfu Guhan would escape early, but this was just the worst outcome.
In fact, Huangfu Guhan was more or less the number one figure in this world, and he was not so scared that he even gave up the country when a powerful enemy arrived.
As long as you can persist for a full month, there may not be no chance of turning the table.
In this month, it was more than enough for Yang Su to mobilize some of his troops to return to defense.
Furthermore, when Han Xin's troops came to Qingbei, Huangfu Guhan immediately sent people to Tianshi Dao.
It's been such a long time now. If they persist for another month, even if Tianshi Dao's soldiers and horses haven't arrived yet, they're almost there.
The reason why the soldiers and horses of Tianshi Dao came so slowly is because they were saving other families, not their own, so there was no need to be so bold!
After all, no matter how weak Dongcang is at this time, the ones attacking them are not the main force of the Han Dynasty, but only the second line of troops.
Even if they linger for a while, Dongcang won't be able to hold on against the Han's second-line troops, right?
Letting them delay for a while is also to let Dongcang consume more of its strength.
Allies are just allies!
But whether it was the Dongcang court or the Tianshi Tao, no one would have expected that Dongcang would really be so unrestrained in fighting. In a short period of time, the situation in Qingbei would directly deteriorate to this extent.
At the same time, Huangfu Guhan planned to take advantage of this time to mobilize the people in each county to defend the plain. Even if he could not hold on in the end, he would use the counties in the plain to consume half of the troops of Meng Tian and Yang Yanzhao.
With Huangfu Guhan's full mobilization, various counties temporarily organized a large number of strong men.
The Han Dynasty re-established the imperial examination, while Zhao and Song Dynasty pursued the slogan of sharing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats to attract talents.
As for Huangfu Guyuan and Huangfu Guhan, they have vigorously strengthened their ties with aristocratic families, large and small, and relied heavily on the strength of those aristocratic families.
Especially Huangfu Guyuan, driven by Tianshi Tao, directly pushed over big families like the Nangong family, and his power once again expanded.
Although Huangfu Guhan did not have such good luck, under the basic national policy of being close to aristocratic families, he still received the support of most of the aristocratic families within his rule.
However, because of the incident between Tianshi Dao and the Nangong family, Huangfu Guhan was also implicated in various aspects. The financial blow was naturally the heaviest. Similarly, the originally good relationship with the various families was also affected by this incident.
Things have been somewhat affected.
A big family like the Nangong family still has a considerable influence on those smaller families.
On this basis, Huangfu Guhan finally accepted the advice of counselor Chen Qun, and officially launched the nine-level Zhongzheng system on the day Dong Cang established the dynasty half a year ago.
Although the Nine-Rank Zhongzheng System could not save Dongcang's economic crisis, it could reunite those large and small aristocratic families and bring those large and small aristocratic families closer to the Dongcang Imperial Court.
This is why, it was not until the last resort that Yuan Shao began to consider Da Han. Before that, among the various forces, Da Han's status in Yuan Shao's heart was only in front of Tianshi Dao Dayan.
It has to be said that among all the forces in Da Cang, Zhao Song and Dong Cang are the two most friendly families to the aristocratic families. It is precisely because of the slogans and systems they put forward that they have received support from a large number of aristocratic families.
Compared with Zhao Song, Dongcang's biggest disadvantage is that it is weaker. Therefore, those aristocratic families consider Zhao Song more than Dongcang. But at least these aristocratic families in the area ruled by Dongcang are all won over by Huangfu Guhan
Together.
The nine-level Zhongzheng system determines people based on family status and talent, awards official positions, and gives very preferential treatment to the nobles. As soon as it appeared, it became an important way for the nobles to obtain political power. If it develops for a long time, the nobles can even monopolize almost all official positions through Zhongzheng officials.
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How could such a system not be welcomed by aristocratic families of all sizes?
Although Zhao Song launched the slogan of co-ruling the world with Qing Dafu, Qing Dafu refers to people who are officials. People from aristocratic families are officials as Qing Dafu, and people born in powerful families are also Qing Dafu. Similarly, ordinary people
If you become an official, you can also be called a senior official.
In essence, Zhao Song never cut off the advancement path from bottom to top for ordinary people, and Zhao Kuangyin never thought about it this way.
But looking back at the nine-level Zhongzheng system introduced by Chen Qun, it completely cut off the advancement path for the lower class to the upper class, and firmly held the power of being an official in the hands of aristocratic families.
It’s not that Huangfu Guhan can’t see this, and it’s not that he can’t see that this system is completely reversing the course of history.
However, given his harsh environment at the time, he could only grit his teeth and continue on this path.
No matter how big the disadvantage is, it can only be considered after he wins. If he loses halfway, the disadvantage will be nothing more than rootless duckweed.
Therefore, with the support of aristocratic families from all over the plains, Huangfu Guhan easily raised a militia team in each county.