sweeping the world

Chapter 275
"It's really too difficult to do something." The person Yu Bing was talking to was no longer Wang Tanzhi, but Yu Ying.He didn't need to hide anything in front of his brother, and said exhaustedly: "The restraint is too severe, and the strife between the families has almost never stopped."

Yu Ying came from Jingzhou. He also got the news that the Han army had wiped out the main force of Xuzhou army. He knew about it a few days earlier than Yu Bing before he came to Qu'a by boat.

Qu'a is now the general hub of the Jin army in Yangzhou, and it is here that Yu Bing controls the overall situation.

Yu Ying knew what was going on with those aristocratic families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so it was a very helpless reality.

As early as when the Wang family was the biggest family south of the Yangtze River, the Yu family did not cause any less trouble to the Wang family as the number one family. It should be said that there was competition in the cooperation. Otherwise, how could the Yu family have climbed to the position of the number one family?
"What did Yuanzi say?" Yu Ying is most concerned about the Han army, he asked: "Is the Han army really that elite?"

More detailed information was sent back one after another, confirming that the Han army had wiped out the main force of the Xuzhou army. Liu Yan assumed the posture of attacking Xiapi County but did not take action because Shi Zun in Pengcheng responded.

"The Han army has been increasing its troops." Yu Bing actually lost a lot of weight in just a few days, with big bags and dark circles under his eyes. The population will be transported back to Qingzhou, and then soldiers will be transported. The number of Han troops on the southern front is estimated to have exceeded [-], and even more and more, no one knows how many there will be in the end."

Looting is not a very good word, it can be seen that Yu Bing is disgusted with Liu Yan's actions.

Then again, Liu Yan was plundering people, and he was plundering wantonly. Not only people, but almost anyone who could be robbed was never let go. Wherever they passed was like locusts crossing the border, Xuzhou was already regarded as something in his pocket. How could the old Yu Bing be happy?

It is true that the Yu family's mobilization is for the hatred of the country and the family, but the hatred of the country and the family needs to be rewarded. If all the benefits in Xuzhou are plundered by Liu Yan, how can the Yu family make up for the loss by grabbing the land? Is it just to get the land? ?
"A tribe that has been developing for four years has tens of thousands of troops?" Yu Ying was incomprehensible: "Are they all elites?"

Yu Bing is not sure if it is the elite, he only knows that many forts and fortresses in Lanling County and Donghai County have been breached, which in a way reflects the Han army's ability to produce and apply equipment.

Yes, those docks were basically destroyed by bed crossbows and catapults. Every time one was broken, the core figures of the family were killed. The family property was taken away, and the family became slaves.

"So cruel?" Yu Ying was too surprised, and said: "Every time there is resistance, the whole family will be killed, and the rest of the households will be slaves?"

"That's right..." It was because of this that Yu Bing was full of disgust towards Liu Yan. He squinted his eyes and said, "Those who follow me prosper and those who oppose me perish. It's too domineering."

Yu Ying shook his head: "The Central Plains is corrupt, and Wubao and castles are everywhere. In troubled times, heavy scriptures should be used. I began to understand why the Han Dynasty was able to rise rapidly in just four years." He paused and said slowly: "If Speaking of Wubao and Walled City, where is this not the case in the south of the Yangtze River? As in the Central Plains, relying on Wubao and Walled City, there are very few taxpayers. Such people are useless for development. But we can’t get rid of it, Liu Yan It can be destroyed with impunity."

"Those who follow me will prosper and those who oppose me will perish. Liu Yan publicly shouted such remarks." Yu Bing knew that his brother was somewhat intellectually ill and idealistic. Sometimes he didn't care about the interests of the family at all, or he wouldn't make peace with him. Seeing that Huan Wen, who wanted to borrow strength, became a good friend, there would be no harm in being used by Huan Wen."I have decided to send more troops north of the Yangtze River," he said.

Jiangdu on the opposite side of the Yangtze River has been captured by Xie An, and Zhao Jun of Shijie of Jiangshui Temple fled after Jiangdu was breached, which means that the gate to Xuzhou has been opened by the Jin army.

Except for Shi Zun's private army in Pengcheng, the rest of Xuzhou has no established national armed forces. This is definitely a great opportunity for the Jin army to cross the river and make a northern expedition.

Because Liu Yan was scrambling in the north of Xuzhou, many people, including Yu Bing, felt a sense of urgency, and subconsciously felt that it would be difficult to drink soup any faster.

"The main force of the Han army is confronting Shi Zun's private army on the front line of Pengcheng, and there are only some local armed forces in the rest of the area. I plan to send [-] more troops to the north bank to attack Huaiyin first." Yu Bing stood up as he spoke, and he walked to the hanging map of mountains and rivers. In front of the wall, waited for Yu Ying to come over before continuing: "Use the convenience of boats, take advantage of the chaos of the defenders, capture Tangyi, Yuxian, Guangling, and Hailing, and then advance to Gaoyou. Try to win the Huaishui River within a month." The surrounding territories are approaching the front line of Surabaya."

"If the Xuzhou army is really wiped out by the Han army, it will not be difficult to achieve such a strategy within a month." Yu Ying thought for a while and asked, "Do you need cover from Jingzhou?"

The Jin army only has about [-] troops on the Huaiyin battlefield. Yu Bing is determined to send another [-] troops to the north bank of the Yangtze River. Adding the troops already invested, there will be nearly [-] Jin troops participating in the battle, which is tantamount to mobilizing One-fifth of the entire Eastern Jin Dynasty army.

Family private army?They are not used to fight for the country, but as the last force of the family. If Yu Bing had no other choice, he would not send his family's private soldiers to the battlefield. It is enough to follow the national force to keep the food and roads safe. The war went smoothly. It's the turn of the private army to come forward to eat meat. It's not bad to save some soup and water for the country's armed forces.

Not only the Yu family did this, but all the aristocratic families in the Eastern Jin Dynasty did this, so there is no accident at all.This is also the reason why the Jin army always seems procrastinated every time it fights, and it is easy to collapse when it encounters a fierce battle.

The two brothers chatted a lot, and the next day Yu Ying returned to Jingzhou by boat, and he would send a boat from Jingzhou to assist Yu Bing in marching into Huaiyin.

Seriously speaking, Yu Bing's plan to advance three hundred miles north in a month is already the fastest and furthest in decades. Several major advances.

The Yu family still needs to do some work before entering the army, such as bringing more aristocratic families into the water, among which the Wang family and the Xie family are indispensable. In modern times, this is called risk sharing.

Liu Yan soon learned that the Jin army was about to rise up. He was leading the main force of the Han army to engage in low-intensity battles with Shi Zun's private army in Boyang and Wuyuan. It was actually a confrontation.

One moment Liu Yan was still happy that the Jin army was finally going north, but the next moment Liu Yan received news that the Jin army would not go north. This time the Northern Expedition ended with the capture of Jiangdu and Jiangshui Temple.

Liu Yan was a little confused. How could military operations be so trifling? After many inquiries, he found out that it was the Sima imperial family who called for the Northern Expedition to stop.

"Using huge manpower and material resources back and forth, the Xuzhou Army was wiped out by us again, Sima's family called to stop?" Liu Yan felt as disgusted as if he had eaten a dead fly: "How could they do this!"

There is no way to get more news from the Han Department. The Sima royal family is actually a shield that was pushed out. It is a large number of families who are behind the scenes. Even the voices inside the Yu family are not so unified. Not to mention the Wang family, Xie family, The Huan family didn't agree that much either.

The objections were relatively clear. Zhang's Liang State and Murong Yan State did not launch an attack on Shijie State of Zhao as previously agreed, so they decided that the time for the Northern Expedition was not ripe.

Yu Bing returned to Jiankang in person in a rage, explaining the fact that the Xuzhou Army of Shijie Zhao State had been destroyed, and also talked about the impact of Ran Min's separatist regime on Guanzhong on Shijie Zhao State.But it was useless, what Yu Bing said was treated as a joke, most of the aristocratic families did not believe that the Han tribe, which rose up in only four years, could annihilate more than [-] Xuzhou troops. The trap was set to let the Jin army go north.

The family background of Xiao~chao~ting in the Eastern Jin Dynasty was so small, and the troops that could be deployed on the Yangtze River defense line were basically considered frontier troops.In fact, the frontier army should be the most capable army in a country, and any loss would seriously damage a country's vitality. Some aristocratic families opposed the Northern Expedition not entirely out of bad intentions, but because they believed that the timing was too late and the situation was unclear.

The Yu family is currently the number one family in the south of the Yangtze River, but they can't break with more than half of the families. What makes Yu Bing most angry is that the Huan family not only betrayed the alliance, but also sided with the Xie family, and the Xie family and the Wang family are actually the same. Wearing the same pair of pants made Yu's family isolated.

By the way, because Huan Wen was detained by Liu Yan, the head of the Huan family has become Huan Yun.Huan Yun is the younger brother of Huan Wen.

The first time Huan Yun became the head of the Huan family, he arranged for the daughter of Emperor Ming of Jin and the sister-in-law named Sima Xingnan, the title Princess of Nankang, including several of Huan Wen's children, to be sent to Jiangdu by the family's private soldiers. Please ask Xie An Wang Tanzhi sent someone to contact Huan Wen, who was with the Han army, to reunite the family.

On the other hand, Yuan Qiao's Yuan family also had a similar arrangement, but because Yuan Qiao only had one son named Yuan Fangping, he had to keep the son, and the heirs of some brothers were sent to serve. concubine.

As a result, Liu Yan was dumbfounded when he heard the news. The Jin army will not cross the river to the north. Even the captured Jiangdu and Jiangshui Temple will be burned and discarded. Be a coward?

"The good news is that Wang Tanzhi is here." Ji Chang's eyes lit up when he said this: "Your Majesty, Wang Tanzhi has such a talent at the age of 13, it's a pity not to keep it."

Liu Yan was still in a daze, that was a major military matter, why did the Eastern Jin small~chao~ting be so silly, there was no Shijie Zhao army to stop the Jin army, and they stopped the northern expedition?Don't even eat the southern part of Xuzhou, which has no defensive troops?

"It's unreasonable!" Sang Yu continued to sneer: "As expected of the descendants of a group of rats who lost the Central Plains. Your Majesty, in the future when our army goes south, such people can be killed!"

(End of this chapter)