sweeping the world

Chapter 318
Sometimes what some people lack is such a trace of luck.People with good or bad luck, they may change their life's destiny because of a gust of wind or a stone, and then change the course of a period of history.

Huan Wen felt that he was very lucky. It was an ordinary task, and he was persistent enough to seize the opportunity. He picked up a military exploit that others could not envy, and became one of the few generals in the Han army. The title of noble has also risen to doctor.

The position of partial general in the Han army system is not low, and can even command an official position of [-] troops. Levy General.The generals of the four expeditions go up, that is, the generals of the chariots, the generals of the champions, the generals and the Taiwei.

At present, the Han Dynasty has not yet established a state, and quite a few positions are actually vacant. Take Xu Zheng as an example. The positions of Zhen, Sizheng, and Three Generals are not filled at all.

Liu Yan will establish a country is a matter of iron nails, the difference is when.Anyone is very clear about this point, everyone is trying their best to have a high position after the country is established, so what merits are achieved becomes the key.

After conferring official titles and then conferring titles, Huan Wen received his own direct troops, which were [-]-step cavalry field troops.

The field troops of the Han army are the so-called main battle troops, and the sources of troops are all actual soldiers, and not everyone is stuffed in it.

After the troop handover, Huan Wen was ordered to march westward as the leading troop. Their marching method was infantry by boat, cavalry along the Wenshui line, and their destination was Dongping County.

The Han army dispatched after Ma Qiu's death in battle, only a day later, and the posture was to take advantage of Ma Qiu's death in battle, when Shijie's Zhao army lost command.

According to the scout's report, the Shijie Zhao army in Dongping County had already retreated that day, and how many Shijie Zhao troops would be caught in this attack by the Han army depends entirely on whether the movement is fast or not.

"Zhao Jun's organizational skills are not strong. As long as we move fast enough, we will definitely be able to take a big bite!" Huan Wen was still in a state of excitement: "Ben will lead the cavalry as the leader, and Chang Shi will lead the infantry to follow up." superior."

Naturally, Xie An didn't have any opinions, but he needed to be reminded: "When Ma Qiu dies in battle, Sun Fu will take over the command. He is also a brave general in Zhao's army."

Huan Wen didn't care so much at this time, what he wanted was to reach Dongping County quickly, but he just nodded, waved his hand, and galloped away with the cavalry.

At this stage, seizing Dongping County earlier than planned, stabilizing the western front along Juyeze, and then turning around to focus on Yao Yizhong's battle along the Yellow River was pretty much the theme.

What Huan Wen and Xie An didn't know was that Xu Zheng had already led the Han army from Xuzhou into Lu County.

During Xu Zheng's journey, the Han army entered Lu County very easily, almost taking over half of the territory without encountering any enemy troops. It was only along the line of Rencheng County that they fought with Shijie's Zhao army, but the fighting force was not great.

Juyeze is very wide and is located in the upper reaches of the Surabaya River System. It connects several surrounding counties and becomes the central hub of a huge water network.

The troops in the north who are not good at water warfare have always had a headache for the terrain of Juyeze, but the troops in the south who are good at water warfare will take advantage of this terrain.

The Han army is not an army in the traditional sense. For them, whether it is cavalry combat, infantry combat, water combat, or naval warfare, there is actually not much difference, it is nothing more than what kind of troops are invested.

There are two lines of Han troops attacking westward. Considering that the Yellow River will soon be thawed, the investigation along the Yellow River is also in full swing.

As far as what can be confirmed so far, it is not that Yao Yizhong does not have a navy in his hands, but the number is not huge.

The navy in Yao Yizhong's hands was the result of Shi Hu's earlier gathering of craftsmen. It was originally intended to be used to conquer the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Before it could be used, Qingzhou was occupied by Liu Yan's army.

Xingyuan moved to Fenggao because he needed to deal with the Maqiu Corps on the western front first. Maqiu's death would definitely force Shijie's Zhao army to retreat, tantamount to temporarily losing the threat.In that way, Liu Yan would no longer need to pay attention to the affairs in the west of Yanzhou, but he had to pay attention to Yao Yizhong's movements.

Liu Yan moved the Xingyuan again, and moved the Xingyuan to the vicinity of Dongping Mausoleum in Jinan County. Plain County.

After the Xingyuan was settled properly, Liu Yan led people to the north, and personally came to the bank of the Yellow River to check.

The Yellow River at this time is actually not too turbid. It should be said that the water in the Yellow River is still relatively clear.Then the tongue twister that is not a tongue twister is that the Yellow River is not called the Yellow River now, it is called the River.

The water of the Yellow River became extremely turbid after the severe soil erosion in the Northwest Plateau. Before that, the most turbid river was the Jingshui, and there is a record of "a stone in the Jingshui has several buckets of mud".

The Yellow River that Liu Yan saw was full of ice slags all over the river surface, which may be due to the difference in the river section, and the rolling river water he saw did not appear to be turbulent.

The Yellow River can be wide or narrow. In special periods, you can even drive your horse across the riverbed directly. However, most of the time, you can wait for the ice period without using boats.

"Shijie's navy is currently on the front line of the Duma River." Sang Yu seemed to feel cold even though he was wrapped in a cloak, and he tightened his neckline and said, "There should be nearly a thousand boats?"

It didn't take a day or two for Shijie Zhao to go south to attack the south of the Yangtze River. Shihu recruited craftsmen a long time ago, but he really went crazy to build boats after he conspired with Li's Chenghan to carve up Jiangnan.

The previous time when the Han army attacked Qi County, they rescued a large number of craftsmen who were forcibly recruited by Shihu on the south bank of the Yellow River. That time they also captured nearly [-] inland river boats, but they were only a batch built by Shijie in the later period of Zhao State. The previous boats were sent to the north bank of the Yellow River.

In history, Shihu did not let the fleet go south to the Yangtze River, and the ships that were built fell into the hands of Murong Yanguo who went south.After Murong Yanguo got the warship there, part of it was brought back to Youzhou, and the other part was chopped off as firewood, but he treated those craftsmen who were not tortured to death by Shijie Zhao Guo kindly, and served the people behind Murong Yanguo. The artisan system has been completed.

Liu Yan asked: "How many people can they transport across the river at one time?"

The northern army is not good at water, but there is no problem just crossing the river by boat. Moreover, the Yellow River is too long. If you want to, you can always seize the opportunity to cross the river. The Han army knows where the fleet of Shijie Zhao is, but it does not mean Can keep an eye on it all the time.

The order Yao Yizhong received was to conquer Liu Yan in Qingzhou, which indicated that it would be an offensive battle, so how many people Shijie Zhao's navy could transport at one time became the key.

"Not sure." Sang Yu finished telling the truth, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, you mean to let the Qiang army cross the river?"

Liu Yan responded flatly: "That depends on Yao Yizhong."

The reality is that instead of taking the initiative to fight across the Yellow River, the Han army still expects Yao Yizhong to fulfill Shihu's orders enough to let the Qiang army cross the river to fight, not the Han army to cross the river to attack.

But he didn't know that Yao Yizhong knew the sharpness of Han warships?Thinking about it, it should be clear.

Is Yao Yizhong loyal to Shi Hu?No one knows this except Yao Yizhong himself.The traditional sphere of influence of the Qiang nationality, that is, the northwest is being ravaged by Zhang's Liang Kingdom.At this time, Yao Yizhong, the leader of the Qiang tribe, had to lead his army to approach Qingzhou, what a tangled matter that was.

Liu Yan didn't know what Yao Yizhong was doing now, but he could generally guess that the Qiang army needed enough food and fodder.

Jizhou has been a large state since the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is a truly large state in terms of population and arable land.This point has not changed even in the Cao Wei and Western Jin Dynasties, that is, Shi Le caused a certain degree of damage after occupying the Central Plains, but then recovered.

The Shijie State of Zhao is currently recruiting troops on a large scale. Considering that Shijie's national policy is to turn the Central Plains into a horse ranch, the farming system of the entire Central Plains has actually become extremely fragile.

Before that, Shi Hu was not only recruiting troops, but also collecting food and grass extensively. The phenomenon was that there were wanton escapes in various places, and those who did not escape could only commit suicide if they could not pay taxes.

"So we came to the conclusion that it was difficult for Yao Yizhong to collect enough food and grass." Sang Yu had introduced a lot about Jizhou just now, who made the Sang family have many relatives and friends in Jizhou.He said lightly: "Yao Yizhong's correct choice is to wait for the autumn to be tall and the horse will be fat before entering the army."

It is only the first ten days of spring at present, and there is at least half a year until autumn.For such a long period of time, if neither side has the desire to cross the river, it will become inevitable to see each other across a river several hundred meters wide.

"Is it possible that Yao Yizhong will wait so long?" Lu Yi also seemed afraid of the cold, and kept trembling when he spoke: "Autumn is only half a year, which doesn't meet Yao Yizhong's starting point of wanting to go back to the Northwest."

But Sang Yu said with a smile: "Then there are special circumstances, which is also the reason why your majesty moved the Xingyuan to Dongping Mausoleum."

What's the meaning?It was nothing more than Yao Yizhong catching him by surprise and using the most swift and violent gesture to deal with Liu Yan.

It was still the same old routine. The last time he moved forward was to attract Ma Qiu. Halfway through the process, Ma Qiu was killed by Huan Wen when it didn't show the expected effect.This time Liu Yan moved the Xingyuan again, it was an action with great fanfare, and Yao Yizhong's experience of fighting wars for half his life could not be ignored.

Why did Liu Yan come to the Yellow River?Isn't it also to show your sense of existence!Even though there were only about [-] guards around him, the troops hidden around him were not small. If Yao Yizhong crossed the river with ice scum to attack, the Han army would dare to eat it happily.

"Your Majesty, let's see." Ji Chang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke out, pointing to the other side of the Yellow River, where a group of people appeared, which seemed a little blurry from a distance: "Could it be that Yao Yizhong got the news and came to check it out in person? "

That would be a very interesting thing, but it was Liu Yan's deliberate plan, and Yao Yizhong's impromptu plan, both of which had the intention of luring the other party to send troops across the river.

"But I think too much." Liu Yan didn't mean that the person on the other side could not be Yao Yizhong, but that the Han army's ships did not appear in the Yellow River, and it was not like Shijie that the Zhao army's navy could come from Duma. The river facilitates transfers.He took the binoculars from his attendant, and saw that there were nearly a hundred people on the other side: "What does Yao Yizhong look like?"

One sentence from Liu Yan turned people off. None of them had seen Yao Yizhong with their own eyes. Some rumors only said that Yao Yizhong had a majestic face, but there were no obvious characteristics.

In fact, Yao Yizhong was really among the people who appeared on the other side.At this moment, he was also looking at the other side, wondering if Liu Yan was there.

"Father?" Yao Yisheng, who was only 12 years old, was slightly confused: "Those people on the opposite side are the Han army?"

Yao Yizhong had a lot of sons, and it was impossible to show closeness to each of them. The Qiang people had absorbed too much Han culture, including the division of legitimate sons and daughters into a family. He focused on cultivating the line of legitimate sons.

In fact, Qiang is also a part of Yanhuang Miao in terms of blood inheritance. The difference is that they have been separated from the culture of the Central Plains for a long time, and are gradually assimilated by some barbarians like Rongdi.Therefore, it is very depressing to distinguish ethnicity based on bloodlines, but cultural identity is the real thing, and there should be no obvious differences in natural appearance.

Yao Yizhong still doesn't know that Ma Qiu has died in battle, let alone that the Han army has marched westward in a large scale. He will know whether the Han army appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River or whether it was Liu Yan's intentional movement.

There are quite a lot of Qiang people gathered along the Yellow River in Qingzhou, and there are new Qiang tribes moving over every now and then, and a huge number of Zahus are also moving with them, which is a good thing and a bad thing for Yao Yizhong.

Yao Yizhong may have a certain loyalty to Shi Hu, or it is obvious that his old nest is being ravaged by Zhang's Liangguo, or someone persuaded Shi Hu to be jealous and still prepares to conquer Qingzhou with great fanfare.

The fact is that, Shi Hu did it too obviously, almost plainly showing that he is afraid of the growth of the Qiang and Di tribes, but both Yao Yizhong and Fu Hong showed resignation.In some respects, the reaction of Yao Yizhong and Fu Hong was also one of the reasons that made Shi Hu even crazier.

"It's the Han army." Yao Yizhong actually couldn't see clearly at all, he could only see a blurry figure.He squinted his eyes and said softly: "Only when we wipe out them can we have a chance to return to the northwest."

Perhaps Liu Yan's performance was too obvious. The moment Yao Yizhong knew that the Han army appeared on the south bank of the Yellow River, he almost understood what was going on without much thought.

For Yao Yizhong, the appearance of the Han army is a trouble, everything depends only on Shi Hu, not from the actual pressure of the Han army, it means that Liu Yan has put up a battle, and Yao Yizhong will definitely make him suffer if he does not take any action. Shi Hu, who was far away in Yecheng, made new moves after knowing about it.

Yao Yizhong from the north bank of the Yellow River said, "It's terrible."

Liu Yan from the south bank of the Yellow River said, "It's very interesting."

(End of this chapter)