"Third brother, let me ask you, since spring, we and Yuan Shao have had several battles and dozens of small battles. Why?"
"For what else?" Zhang Feibao rolled his eyes and shouted without thinking: "Yuan Shao is shameless. He first united with Liu Yu to plot for usurpation, and then ignored the imperial decree and occupied Jizhou. We, the loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty, will naturally deal with him.
, clean it up hard!”
What he said was so righteous, and Wang Yu snickered. Mr. Zhang was indeed not really heartless, otherwise he should have said at this time: grabbing money, food, and territory.
"The third brother is right." Wang Yu nodded and asked: "Then in the third brother's opinion, how can we say that Yuan Shao has been dealt with severely?"
"Of course it is..." Zhang Fei was picking up the wine bottle to drink, and he subconsciously wanted to answer, but when the words came to his mouth, his heart suddenly moved. Wang Yu's question seemed simple and easy to answer, but if he thought about it carefully, it was not at all
That's not the case.
It's easy to understand grabbing money and food. If you put things in your own warehouse, you've got it. However, grabbing land is very sophisticated. How does a piece of land count as a grab? Zhang Fei really has no idea about this.
There is no way, Liu Bei has never had this precious resource so far, how can Zhang Fei have practical experience.
For example, except for Yuan Shao who took Jizhou by force without going through formal procedures, most of the territories of other princes were appointed by the imperial court and recognized by local powerful people. The latter one is particularly important. Therefore, although Yuan Shao did not obtain the imperial edict in advance, he still
The foundation of rule in Jizhou is still very solid.
"Well, then Pengju, tell me, how far did we go in this battle? Can we be considered completely victorious?" Zhang Fei never liked complex thinking, so he simply threw the question back to Wang Yu, the questioner.
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"If we win completely, we can only kill Yuan Shao or drive him out of Jizhou completely." Wang Yu smiled, stretched out two fingers and shook it, "The first one was easier to achieve, but last time it was a little bit worse.
He didn't show up this time, so if you want to kill him, you have to fight all the way to Yecheng, which is obviously not easy."
Of course, it is not easy. The entire journey from Qinghe to Yecheng is Yuan Shao's territory. Although the battle was defeated at the front, the centipede insect did not die, and Yuan Shao's ruling foundation in several southern counties of Jizhou was not shaken. He wanted to win
Yecheng can only be fought all the way through step by step.
"Intelligence shows that Yuan Shao has deployed heavy troops in Cangting and Guantao. The man stationed at Guantao is Gao Lan, the Hebei general who is as famous as Zhang Jia..." Wang Yu dipped his fingers in wine and drew on the table.
A simple diagram to illustrate Yuan Shao's specific defense situation.
After all, Yuan Shao was a hero. Although he also had the weaknesses of a noble man, he quickly stabilized his position after the initial panic. In order to seize the opportunity for Wang Yu's attack, he built a strong line of defense in Guangping and Yangping counties.
, from Cangting in the south, to Guantao, and then to Ping'en, several strategic passes were guarded by famous generals and heavy troops.
It is not easy to pass this line of defense. Gao Lan is a general as famous as Zhang Jia. From Zhang Jia's performance, we can infer Gao Lan's ability.
"Attack one city at a time, even if you can win every battle, there will only be a few soldiers left when you reach Yecheng. If you leave them alone and go around, then you will be alone and your army will be cut off at any time.
Dao, and even fell into siege, turning victory into defeat."
There are many examples of sneak attacks on the enemy's base camp with light troops, which resulted in victory in one fell swoop. Emperor Zhu Di did this when he was in trouble. However, the specific situation must be analyzed in detail. Zhu Di dared to do this because he had internal contacts in Nanjing and someone opened the city gate for him.
Wang Yu and Gongsun Zan did not have this convenience.
Whether it's Qu Yi or Zhang Jia, all the officials and generals in Jizhou who can look down on the wind have already been surrendered, and the rest have a firm stand. This is an era that advocates loyalty, and no one will change their family easily.
, It has been less than a year since Jizhou changed its owner. Anyone with a bit of blood will not change its two owners within one year.
The current situation is different from the Battle of Guandu in history. Before the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao seized Jushu's military power and imprisoned him along with Tian Feng. The Jizhou faction had a voice in the shogunate, and only the achievements of Shenpei remained.
Facing internal and external troubles, Gao Lan had no choice but to surrender with his jaw open.
Although the current war situation in Jizhou is unfavorable, it has not yet reached the point of complete despair. It was Qu Yi and Chun Yuqiong who lost the battle, not Yuan Shao and Ju Sue, so it will not have a subversive impact on the people of Jizhou.
And Jizhou still has soldiers and food. As long as the defense lines of Guangping and Yangping are defended, Wang Yu will not take them away in one fell swoop.
The most important thing is that at present, the internal situation in Jizhou is quite stable. The outside faction has not yet been able to overwhelm the Jizhou faction. Most of the real power is in the hands of the Jizhou faction.
Therefore, Zhang Zha, Gao Lan and other famous Jizhou generals chose to fight to the end.
As for whether there would be unrest within Ye City, Wang Yu had no way of knowing. But he knew very well that the surprise attack on Ye City was a big gamble. The moment the troops approached the city, it might give the city a huge shock and cause instability.
The soldiers and those who took refuge acted as internal agents and defeated the city in one fell swoop; but it is more likely that they would go on an expedition and go deep alone, and then force the troops under the fortified city.
This is a veritable gamble. When he first time traveled, Wang Yu might have taken the chance, but now, his family fortune is so big that he can't afford to risk his life for such a pitiful success rate.
Zhang Fei nodded and smacked his lips. He didn't know whether he was smacking his tongue or feeling sorry for the wine Wang Yu brought to draw the picture. After Wang Yu finished speaking, he suddenly asked: "Where is Zhang Yan? The Black Mountain Bandits dispatched one hundred thousand
After the army captured Handan, can Yuan Shao still be so calm?"
"Don't mention him." Wang Yu curled his lips angrily: "He launched it at the wrong time. If he hadn't done this, Yuan Shao wouldn't have set up this turtle formation at all, and maybe he would have led the army himself.
Counterattack! It's okay now. They have frightened Yuan Shao, and they can't capture Handan themselves. They might as well stay in the mountains and leave everyone with something to remember."
Zhang Yan's large-scale attack was not what Wang Yu had expected. It's not that Wang Yu looked down on Zhang Yan's strength and recruited the Yellow Turbans. He had an innate advantage. Zhang Yan's followers numbered at least several hundred thousand, so
A large population is a huge wealth in itself. How could Wang Yu dislike it?
However, it is true that Zhang Yan launched the attack at the wrong time. Since his troops are also from the Yellow Turbans, they have the same advantages and disadvantages. The Yellow Turban Army's attack ability is not ordinary scum.
Handan guard general Yin Kai is not a famous general, but Handan City is the old capital of Zhao State. The walls are high and the pool is deep, and the city defense is very strong. As long as there are thousands of warriors who dare to fight, the one hundred thousand Yellow Turbans can only look forward to it.
Son.
The mobility of the Black Mountain Army is also not very good. The soldiers and civilians of the Yellow Turban Army are not divided into families. When the army is dispatched, they often support the old and the young. If they cannot capture Handan City and cannot guarantee their retreat, they can only stay around Handan.
Spin.
Therefore, Zhang Yan's massive attack had no effect other than frightening Yuan Shao and pinning Yuan Shao to Ye City. On the contrary, it destroyed Wang Yu's strategy of luring the snake out of its cave.
He divided his troops into many places. He originally wanted to show the enemy's weakness and provoke Yuan Shao, who was eager to regain his face, to attack.
Wang Yu concluded: "So, unless other forces join the battle and break the situation, capturing the thief first will definitely not work. Now, we can only try to erode Yuan Shao's territory and increase his power bit by bit.
Squeeze out."
Zhang Fei understood: "I see. So you issued a decree in the three counties of Pingyuan and asked the people to come west to eat and be counted as corvee? This trick is a bit interesting."
Wang Yu laughed, raised his hand and pointed outward, saying: "Ninety percent of the fields outside are owned by local powerful people. Since they don't know the current affairs and are ready to be loyal to Yuan Shao, what's there to be polite about? Use their food.
Coming to help the hungry is the best punishment, haha!"
Peasant uprisings occurred one after another in the late Han Dynasty. The root cause was that the gap between the rich and the poor was too large. The powerful used their power to annex land crazily. As a result, more and more farmers lost the land they relied on for survival and were reduced to a state of abject poverty.
In order to survive, one has to rise up.
Jizhou and Yanzhou were the areas where the Yellow Turban Uprising was most concentrated, and the suppression was also the most effective, which shows that the powerful forces here are relatively strong, and at the same time, there are more victims of land annexation.
The reason why they refused to surrender may not be due to the influence of the Qingzhou New Deal implemented by Wang Yu.
The Qingzhou New Deal was a policy that tended to protect the weak, and had a fundamental conflict with the traditional Chinese bureaucracy, which always focused on protecting the interests of the family, which always focused on the protection of the interests of the family.
Historically, before the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao's policies were quite similar to the Qingzhou New Deal. However, after the war, in order to appease the power of Jizhou, Cao Cao had to change his policy and restore the policy to the traditional model.
Wang Yu can actually take the same approach now to change the internal affairs and obtain the support of Jizhou's powerful powers, thereby consolidating the occupied territory more quickly.
It's a pity that Wang Yu is not a politician at heart. Although he knows how to listen to opinions and will not stick to his own opinions because of things like face, he will not make the slightest concession on principled matters.
How can China change its destiny that has been in a cycle of prosperity and decline for hundreds of years?
Not consuming too much population in civil war? Is it useful?
You must know that the opportunity for the Five Husties to disrupt China was not the Three Kingdoms, but the Eight Kings Rebellion during the Western Jin Dynasty! In that internal strife, the leaders of the famous Sima family attacked each other, and those who lost refused to give up, and each led an invasion from outside. This
Only then came the dark ages that followed for hundreds of years. Can civil strife be avoided just by preserving the vitality of the Central Plains during the Three Kingdoms era?
Even if you solve the problem of the Sima family, and prevent internal strife between the royal family and the powerful factions in the next one or two hundred years, as long as you continue to pursue the traditional policy of respecting the gentry and despising the common people, the dynasty will still enter the stage of disgrace a few hundred years later.
The Eastern Han Dynasty followed, just like the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties in later generations, first there was civil strife, and then it attracted the covetousness of foreign barbarians, and finally the Central Plains was filled with a smell of mutton.
Therefore, Wang Yu plans to correct the direction of Chinese civilization from the root.
Of course, this is difficult, very difficult! Cao Cao, a talented and strategist, failed to persist to the end and soon succumbed to the pressure of reality.
But Wang Yu still had to give it a try. He knew that his political strategy and writing skills were countless times worse than Cao Cao's, but he also had his own advantages. He had traveled through time and had gained two thousand years of experience!
His foresight allows him to conquer famous generals, build a team, and accept allies more easily; he can also calmly choose the most suitable base according to his own needs; to a certain extent, he can also predict the enemy's choice; it is more difficult than in troubled times.
The other princes, who were struggling hard and in darkness before their eyes, were too much stronger.
In addition, his tactics that were ahead of his time also made it easier for him to win battles. Those advanced new technologies not only brought equipment like paper armor, but also brought him huge economic benefits.
With such a powerful golden finger, even for a hero like Cao Cao, the impossible task may not be impossible in Wang Yu's hands.
Wang Yu has a temperament that is not afraid of difficulties. How could he shrink back from difficulties and just go with the flow?
Since the powerful people in Jizhou refused to give in, Wang Yu had no intention of accommodating them. He simply came to recruit people and try to win over the people to the end. If Yuan Shao wanted to carry out the shrinking strategy to the end, Wang Yu would use this move to advance step by step, little by little.
encroaching on Yuan Shao's territory.
The powerful are actually landlords. Without their land, they may be able to jump around a little in the short term, but over time, they will become nothing. By then, even if Wang Yu does not surrender, these people will respectfully surrender.
Come to the door and let Wang Yu slap him in the face.
"Of course, before finally surrendering, they will definitely resist for a while, such as going out of the city to attack while the people are harvesting."
Of course Wang Yu would not explain so much to Zhang Fei. He just explained the effect of expelling people from the country, then pointed at the map drawn with wine and said with a smile: "So, there will be wars soon, many battles!
If the third brother is interested, he might as well choose a few places and let the younger brother make the decision on behalf of Brother Bogui. Whoever captures the city will be in charge, how about that?"
"Seriously?" Zhang Fei suddenly raised his head, his drunken eyes suddenly lit up. Wang Yu's trick was extremely clever. Even though people knew there was something wrong, they would still be fooled. The success rate was extremely high.
The powerful people hiding in the city knew that the coalition forces were small and the main force had to watch Zhang Jaw in Yan County. Therefore, they could not watch the hungry people from outside snatching their food, so they could only go out of the city to drive them away.
On Wang Yu's side, he can send a small number of elites to hide among the people, and launch a counterattack as soon as the city gate opens. Except for Yan County, there are only some county soldiers in other cities in Qinghe County, and there are no generals.
, my brother's remaining soldiers of more than a thousand are enough to capture a city. Maybe I can divide my forces with my second brother and capture the city at the same time!
Of course, Wang Yu will not be idle here. He doesn't need too many people to keep an eye on Zhang Jia. The initiative lies with the besieging party. It is impossible for Zhang Jia to see the slightest sign of trouble and send his entire army to fight.
If that were the case, the Qingzhou Army, in addition to infantry, also had 200 armored cavalry and 800 light cavalry. Their mobility was far superior to that of the defenders. If Zhang Jaw rushed the entire army to fight, it would only make it easier for Wang Yu to remove them as soon as possible.
It's just a nail.
As for the fact that some places are poorly guarded and Qinghe's powerful forces successfully raid, it doesn't matter. The hatred of the people will not be directed at Wang Yu, but the hatred will only be doubled towards the powerful people in Qinghe. The people's support will be more and more favorable to Qingzhou.
, if the time is long enough, Qinghe will completely become the territory of Qingzhou.
Wang Yu smiled slightly: "It's true that military aircraft are important matters."
"I understand!" Zhang Fei tugged on his beard and said with great joy: "No wonder the second brother said that you have far-reaching plans and don't need me to worry too much. Today I saw that this is really the case! Okay, that's it.
, I will go tell my eldest brother and my second brother to choose a location as soon as possible and set off with the brigade today!"
After saying that, he rolled out of the military tent like a gust of wind.
"This Third Brother Zhang is really impatient. He didn't wait for me to finish what I said..." Zhang Fei left too fast, and Wang Yu didn't have time to finish what he said. He shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter, Mr. Xuande is sure of it anyway."
I will come again, just tell him when the time comes."
"My lord, are you really giving them such a huge advantage?" Taishi Ci had endured it for a long time. He spent his own troops to surround the most capable Zhang Jaw and let the Youzhou army take advantage. It was very unfair in the first place. Now,
Even Liu Bei, the defeated general, got a bargain, which is really frustrating.
"It's someone else's thing anyway, wouldn't it be nice to use it as a favor?" Wang Yu picked up the wine glass, shook it at the tip of his nose, and said with a smile: "Winning first doesn't count as winning, and it's not like you can defend the city by attacking it. I think
Ah, Yuan Shao cannot be dealt with so easily."
"At this time, what other options can he have?" Tai Shici said disdainfully.
"Hard to say." Wang Yu shook his head noncommittally.
In terms of strategy, he rarely underestimated the enemy. Even Yuan Shu, the pure second generation ancestor, relied on his family background to fight repeatedly. He had more and more territories and troops. Yuan Shao, a tycoon who was several times more powerful than Yuan Shu in history.
, how could it be solved so easily?
"Therefore, we must not attack Yan City, and we must reserve enough troops to deal with the situation."
"Could it be that Cao Cao will come to the rescue?" Taishi Ci counted them one by one with his fingers: "Well, Zhang Yang in Hanoi only looks after Yuan Shao... Liu Dai is a grassroots, but there is no guarantee that he won't feel the coldness... Don't tell me, right now...
The situation is really a bit tricky!”
"It's not just these roads? There's a lot of trouble!"
Wang Yuyun smiled lightly and said: "So, we should give more benefits to Brother Bogui and the others. The stronger they are, the more beneficial it is to us. It doesn't matter if Yuan Shao is not as strong as we thought. When the time comes, Zhang Ning, a certain sect
If we go to Montenegro and then send people to Hedong, won’t our momentum rise immediately?”
"It makes sense!" Taishi Ci made a fist with his right hand and hit it on his left palm, making a crisp sound.
"It's best to capture all of Hebei. If you can't capture it, it's good to occupy Qinghe. Even if you can't capture Qinghe in the end, it doesn't matter. Anyway, Qingzhou will be safe before spring plowing next year. This is enough. Use offense to defend.
Qingzhou’s development wins time, isn’t this our original intention?”
Wang Yu chuckled and said: "Anping is far away, let alone him, the people of Qinghe and the three counties have benefited so much from someone. When Yuan Shao comes back, will they still be able to enjoy their good fruits? By then they will
How to do it? What can be done? So, as long as we survive this autumn, then it doesn’t matter even if we give up Qinghe."
Taishi Ci's expression changed from indignation to wonder, and finally to a look of admiration.
The Lord was not dazzled by the great victory, his thoughts were still so clear, he was not greedy for small gains, and he had the backhand to control the situation. This ability to control his emotions freely is really incredible! (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, novels Better updates faster!)