Chinese New Year

Chapter 610 Fighter Plane (Part )

When Sun Wei was escorted to Ji County, he saw a scene of people shouting and horses neighing.

Liu Ying saw Sun Wei and turned his head away awkwardly.

Everyone has a scale in their heart. Even though they knew that Wang Jun was no good, he had done a lot of evil.

For example, he allowed the Xianbei to massacre Yecheng, killing tens of thousands of people;
For example, he allowed the Xianbei people to rob 8,000 women and eventually drowned them in the Yishui River;
For example, not distributing grain for disaster relief caused countless people to starve to death, etc.

But in the final analysis, they were still rebellious people. Liu Ying was too young and could not make that turn. He was not mentally prepared enough and actually felt a little ashamed when he saw Sun Wei.

"Director Sun, please follow me." Zhang Yu, a secretary of the shogunate, stepped forward and said in a low voice.

Sun Wei glanced at him.

Zhang Yu was the grandson of the famous official Zhang Hua.

In the third year of Emperor Wu's Taikang reign (282), Zhang Hua, a native of Fanyang, returned to his hometown to serve as an official, serving as the governor of Youzhou, the commander of the Wuhuan Guard, and the general of Anbei.

During his tenure, Hu people sent envoys one after another, grain harvests increased year after year, and the Youzhou army was reorganized. It can be said that he greatly stabilized the situation on the border and restored the prestige of the Jin court.

The descendant of such a famous minister actually assisted the tyrant in committing atrocities. What can be done?
Sun Wei was in despair and too lazy to say anything. When the soldiers fled in large numbers, morale fell to the bottom, and he was defeated by the troops of the Fanyang nobles, his heart was already dead.

The situation in Youzhou cannot be reversed by human power.

There was a rustling sound of footsteps coming from the side.

Sun Wei looked up and saw team after team of infantry leaving the city.

Zhang Yu and others took him to wait at the city gate.

Sun Wei watched silently.

The army marched for a long time, and he counted them, probably no less than 5,000. In the western parade ground, there were even more infantry and cavalry marching in formation, with baggage carts and horses following behind, busy and restless.

"General, the army is about to set out." Seeing that he was interested, Zhang Yu explained.

"Who gave the order?" Sun Wei asked.

"Sima Youtong."

"Who gave the order?" Sun Wei asked again.

Zhang Yu sighed and said, "It's Liu Anzhi, the Zhonglang of the Cavalry Department."

"Liu? From Hedong?" Sun Wei was stunned and asked.

"I heard so." Zhang Yu said.

Hedong is also Hebei in a broad sense - north of the Yellow River.

Sun Wei had heard of the Hedong Liu family, a very small aristocratic family, where not every generation could become an official. If such a family was not well managed, it would decline, and the Hedong Liu family was originally like this.

But now it seems that this family has found a powerful supporter and is on a very good upward trend.

Some of them also serve as officials on the Xiongnu side, divided into two parts. Whoever develops well will represent the Hedong Liu family in the future.

He had not heard much about Liu Anzhi and was not very familiar with him. Seeing how he came to Youzhou to issue orders in a dignified manner, he must have won Shao Xun's trust and had surpassed You Yi.

"Does Liu Anzhi have any strategies?" Sun Wei asked again.

Zhang Yu was a little stunned, and subconsciously asked: "Does the governor want to surrender? Mr. Chen said--"

"Forget it." Sun Wei waved his hand and said, "I'm just worried that Liu Anzhi won't fight and will bury the Youzhou people. Forget it, it has nothing to do with me anymore."

Sun Wei lowered his head and sighed.

If he stood on the wrong side, not only would he die, but his entire family would be killed as well - fortunately, the rules of the Yi San tribe were no longer in place, otherwise it would be even more tragic.

"Why do you have to sigh, Governor?" An endless stream of grain carts drove out of the city gate. Seeing that they could not enter the city for the time being, Zhang Yu said a few more words: "If the prince was still in Youzhou, do you think the people would have a better life? During the locust plague, drought, and flood, did the prince provide relief to the people? To put it bluntly, if the prince cared about the people and tried his best to provide relief, would so many people have defected to Murong Xianbei?"

This question hits the point.

Wang Jun not only didn't care about the lives of the people of Jizhou who came to Youzhou to escape the war, but he also didn't care about the lives of the local people of Youzhou. In the past ten years, he sent hundreds of thousands of people to Murong Xianbei for nothing. Now these people have been settled in their territory by Murong clan, and they are farming and grazing, providing them with food.

Sooner or later, the powerful Murong Xianbei will be unable to resist and occupy Youzhou. Who will resist him then?

Sun Wei remained silent, looking at the city gate blankly.

The troops are still leaving the city.

Behind the infantry and baggage camp, there were also the people of Jicheng who were temporarily conscripted. They all cried and saw them off from afar.

These people were not going to fight, but to serve as laborers to transport food, fodder and equipment.

The conscription has been launched onto the people of Jicheng. It looks like this time they are serious.

But they had been defeated repeatedly by Shi Le, could they really win a battle?

The Youzhou soldiers today are no longer the powerful Youzhou troops of the past.

The troops continued to march until the evening. Before the city gates were closed, Zhang Yu took Sun Wei to the shogunate and assigned people to guard him.

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In fact, when Sun Wei saw the troops from Jicheng moving south, thousands of soldiers stationed on the north bank of Yishui had already crossed the bridge and headed south.

The leader of the troops was named Sun Bo.

Coincidentally, he and Sun Wei are of the same clan, both from the Xincheng Sun family. Xincheng County was under the jurisdiction of Zhuo County in the Han Dynasty, and was called Beixincheng in the Jin Dynasty. It belonged to Gaoyang State and was located on the south bank of the Yishui River.

Sun's ancestor was the eunuch Sun Cheng of the Later Han Dynasty. Because of his merits, he was granted the title of marquis together with 19 other eunuchs and eunuchs, and was given the title of marquis with an allowance of 10,000 households.

After Sun Cheng died, his younger brother Sun Mei and adopted son Sun Shou divided his title and fiefdom.

More than a hundred years later, the Sun family had taken root in Beixincheng and became a local family between the poor and the powerful. Their occupation changed from eunuchs to military strategists. After the change of government in Youzhou and Sun Wei's "rebellion", the Sun family of Beixincheng immediately cut ties with him. Even Sun Bo, who was also an official in the Youzhou shogunate, wrote to Zao Song, Zhu Shuo, You Tong and others to express his loyalty.

Some time ago, Sun Bo entered Jicheng alone and gained You Tong's trust, who still ordered him to command the 6,000 infantry and cavalry of the Yishui camp.

After Liu Anzhi arrived in Jicheng, Sun Bo was ordered to lead his troops south and first to Beixincheng.

The city was flying the Liu Han flag in the first half of the year, then changed to Jin in the middle, and changed to Han again a while ago.

After Sun Bo's army arrived, they quickly took out the Jin flag from the warehouse and replaced it, and put the Han flag into the warehouse for storage...

Sun Bo did not stay here for long, and then he quickly headed southwest, heading straight for Puyin.

Two days later than Sun Bo, on the 13th, Zu Ying led 3,000 troops and several thousand surrendered soldiers from Sun Wei's army who were temporarily gathered, with 2,000 Wuhuan cavalry as the vanguard, and set out from Qiu County (now Laishui) and arrived in Yi County one day later.

At this time, Liu Yao was still gathering his troops and preparing to retreat.

On the night of the 15th, Zu Ying's army arrived at Beiping County (now north of Mancheng) in Zhongshan State, and the vanguard cavalry went further and reached the Tang County area. If they had not needed to wait for supplies, they could have continued to move forward.

Everyone in Tang County was in a state of confusion.

Wasn't the situation very good a few days ago? The King of Zhongshan led his army to pursue the thief general Jin Zheng, and the momentum was overwhelming. How come so many Youzhou soldiers came in the blink of an eye?

We can only blame them for not being well-informed.

It has been half a month since the Youzhou mutiny, but we still don’t know what happened to our neighbor to the north. Who can we blame?

The gates of Tang County were closed tightly, and the whole city was trembling with fear, deciding to pretend to be dead.

The world is changing too fast, and they dare not make any bets easily. Let's wait and see.

On the 17th, the Wuhuan cavalry, having obtained some supplies, continued to advance, first heading south to the northwest of Wangdu, where they defeated a grain transport team and killed more than a thousand people.

On the evening of the 18th, they captured Xinshi County (near today's Xinle) with lightning speed.

This was an area that the Jin army had never invaded since the war began. The arrival of the Youzhou cavalry greatly shocked the Huns.

The next day, after the two thousand cavalrymen had completed their supplies, they crossed the Zishui River and detoured to the southeast of Jiumen County.

At that time, Kui An was fighting with Zhang Chai, the governor of Julu, who was advancing from the direction of Feilei City. Suddenly, a large group of cavalry attacked from behind. The whole army was in an uproar and fled thousands of miles.

Kui An was beheaded by Zhang Chai's soldiers and died a very miserable death.

After winning a great victory, Zhang Chai did not hesitate. He led more than 10,000 infantrymen to the northwest and captured the place that had blocked him for several months with tears in his eyes. During these months, he really did not know how many people had died, and it was always difficult to move forward. The only consolation was that the combat effectiveness of the troops had been trained.

The death of Kui An in battle, the loss of the Nine Gates, and the massive southward march of Youzhou troops, these few events together greatly shocked the Huns.

When the news reached Zhending, Shi Le was speechless for a long time.

When the two sides are in a stalemate and are advancing and retreating, what will be the result if one side suddenly has tens of thousands of soldiers and attacks from behind?
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October 15th, Gaoyang County.

Liu Mi climbed to the top of the city wall and looked at everything in front of him in amazement.

"Don't just stand there. Hurry! Go out of the city and chase them." Liu Mi reacted quickly, slammed the battlements heavily and gave the order.

"Yes!" The generals and guests of Pingyuan Liu went downstairs one after another. Some put on their armor, some checked the soldiers, and they were very busy.

Liu Mi suddenly laughed.

A few days ago, the Jin cavalry fled from the south of the city and the Huns pursued them fiercely. At that moment, his heart sank.

Three days later, 5,000 troops led by the bandit general Zhang Hepu arrived at the city to persuade the enemy to surrender.

To be honest, he was a little desperate at that time.

If Governor Jin ran away, wouldn't he be abandoned? Is it necessary to defend Gaoyang? Can it be defended?

If the three thousand soldiers from the plains he brought with him were not mostly descendants of the Liu family and farmhands, even if he wanted to defend, the morale of the army would probably have been in chaos.

At the critical moment, he thought of his sister who had given birth to two children for Mr. Chen, and felt unwilling, so he gritted his teeth and stood firm, and beheaded the envoy sent by Zhang Yupu to persuade him to surrender.

Zhang was furious and led his troops to attack Gaoyang for a whole day but failed.

Today, Liu Mi went up to the city for inspection and suddenly saw Zhang Yupu gathering his troops and retreating. Siege equipment and baggage vehicles were thrown all over the ground. The soldiers were shouting loudly and running westward in a disorderly manner.

This is a retreat! In a fit of excitement, he immediately ordered the entire army to leave the city to attack.

However, after giving the order, he suddenly regretted it: What if Zhang Yupu was cheating?
He wanted to withdraw the order, but stopped himself: How can you change your orders every day? How can you still maintain morale?
With no other options, he could only stand blankly on the top of the city wall, watching the soldiers from various camps leaving the city one after another, following behind Zhang Yu's soldiers, chasing after them.

It’s not a scam! It’s not a scam! It’s definitely not a scam!
Liu Mi muttered silently in his heart, his eyes wide open, looking at the Liu family troops who had caught up with the rear of the Huns.

Hit its tail! Hit its tail! Hit its tail quickly!

Liu Mi slapped the city wall so hard that he didn't realize his hands were red. He looked extremely excited and thought to himself: As long as we defeat the enemy's rear, even if we fall into a trap and are defeated, it won't be too much of a loss.

Maybe God heard his voice.

Liu's army followed behind the Huns and killed them wantonly. The enemy was defeated and suffered heavy casualties.

Zhang Yupu seemed to have gathered some brave men and personally left the rear. However, the Liu family army was in high spirits and charged and attacked fiercely. The two thousand enemy troops who were left behind were on the verge of collapse under the repeated attacks of the three thousand Liu family soldiers.

Zhang Yupu seemed to have lost confidence and fled in panic.

The morale of Liu's army was even higher, and they kept chasing and killing.

Liu Mi laughed loudly, looking like a madman.

It was also on this day that Jin Zheng issued an order to all camps in Shuzhou: except for the Yicong Army, counterattack on all fronts!

(End of this chapter)