The Three Kingdoms become stronger when they get treasures

Chapter 499

Sima Yi doesn't care if you surrender or not, you f*ck rebelled at such a critical time, causing me to go all the way here to be frozen, and still want to survive?So an order was sent to behead Gongsun Yuan, and after entering the city, all Gongsun Yuan's branch was beheaded, and Gongsun Gong was released from prison, and he was reinstated as an official and put on the list to calm the people.

Sima Yi basically killed all the rest of the Gongsun family, leaving only Gongsun Gong, not because of Sima Yi's kindness, but because he wanted to use Gongsun Gong to quickly stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

Now the Chu army is aggressively attacking the Wei state. According to the original plan, Sima Yi was going to Chang'an to assist Xia Houmao in the Yongliang war. However, the chaos in Liaodong was related to the life and death of the Wei state, so Sima Yi personally led troops to Liaodong.Now that Gongsun Yuan is dead, Sima Yi needs to quickly stabilize the situation in Liaodong, and then return to Luoyang quickly.

After all, the Gongsun family has ruled Liaodong for so many years, and it still has a certain prestige and foundation here. Therefore, if you want to quickly stabilize the situation in Liaodong, you need to rely on the influence of the Gongsun family.

If there was no great threat like Zhang Wu, Sima Yi would definitely wipe out the Gongsun family, bring Liaodong into the rule of Wei State, and ensure the safety and stability of Youzhou, the rear area.

Anyway, Gongsun Gong is a useless person, unable to have children, and the other men in the Gongsun family were killed. Once Gongsun Gong died, the Gongsun family would be considered completely extinct, and it would be fine to send other officials to govern Liaodong at that time.

Gongsun Gong was very grateful to Dade for saving his life, so he didn't dare to think about it, he could only obey Sima Yi's orders.

After Sima Yi settled the affairs of Liaodong, he just returned to Yecheng with his troops, and got the news that the Wei army was defeated in all the east and west battlefields. Not only lost Guangling and Wudu, but even the five good generals died.

Sima Yi felt that things were not good, and the joy of pacifying Liaodong disappeared immediately. Wei's situation would become more difficult in the future. If this continues, Zhang Wu's Northern Expedition may not be stopped.

In fact, even if Guangling and Wudu are lost, the situation of Wei State is the same as that of the Three Kingdoms period in history.After the Battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao voluntarily gave up Wudu, but moved all the people in Wudu away; after Cao Pi became emperor, Guangling County was not actually in the hands of Cao Pi, but became a buffer zone between Wei and Wu , Even the southern part of Guangling near the Yangtze River has been occupied by Sun Quan.

On the territory of Jingzhou, after Sun Quan sent Lu Meng to attack Guan Yu from behind, Guan Yu was defeated and killed. Most of Jingzhou's territory belonged to Wu State, and Wei State still only occupied Xiangyang and Fancheng.Wei State had no navy, and even if it occupied Xiangyang, it would not be able to cross the Yangtze River to attack Nanjun. Therefore, Wei State and Wu State were basically at loggerheads in Jingzhou.

Therefore, although Wei State once again lost the territory of two counties, the strength of Wei State was not much different from that of Wei State in history. At that time, Wei State was still the strongest among the three countries.

However, what Wei State is facing now is not two lame countries, but a unified southern country, a Chu State whose economic strength and military strength have far surpassed Wei State.

After Zhang Wu learned that Sima Yi had killed Gongsun Yuan and pacified Liaodong, he was not surprised or regretful at all. In Zhang Wu's view, from the moment Gongsun Yuan planned to have both sides, he had become an abandoned son, and his only role was to contain Sima Yi and [-] elite Wei troops were captured, making it impossible for Luoyang to send troops to support Guangling or Wudu.

If Gongsun Yuan can really help Zhang Wu seize Youzhou and surrender sincerely, Zhang Wu will not treat him badly, because this will allow Zhang Wu to unify the world in advance, but Zhang Wu will not place his hope on uncertain things, anyway, he is now Take advantage and don't take the risk.

Now that Wudu has been obtained, the next step is to rely on Ma Chao's influence in Liangzhou to attack Liangzhou, obtain war horses, expand the cavalry team, and then have a decisive battle with Wei.

The place of the decisive battle is Guanzhong, which is Chang'an.

The first is the geographic location of Chang'an. It is undeniable that in this era, the area around Chang'an and Luoyang is still the center of the world, the hinterland of the Central Plains, and a transportation hub extending in all directions.

The second is the political status of Chang'an. Chang'an was the capital of the Western Han Dynasty and Luoyang was the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty.The state of Wei was established under the abdication of the great man. If Chang'an fell into the hands of Zhang Wu, people all over the world would feel that the fate of the world had fallen to Zhang Wu.

Therefore, the battle of Guanzhong will be the decisive battle between Wei and Chu.If the Wei State is defeated and loses Guanzhong, even if it does not perish immediately, it will enter a countdown.Because after passing through Guanzhong, the whole north will have no danger to defend. At that time, the cavalry of the Chu army will be enough to compete with the Wei army on the plain, but the various equipment and weapons of the Chu army are not comparable to the Wei army.

If you can't stop the Chu army head-on on the battlefield, there is no city that can defend against gunpowder.

After taking Guangling in the east, Zhang Wu did not intend to continue to expand, because no matter whether he took Xuzhou in the north or Yuzhou in the west, he needed cavalry and a large number of infantry. Most of the troops deployed by the Chu army on the eastern battlefield were navy troops.

Even if the cavalry of the Chu army takes shape in the future, it is impossible for Zhang Wu to transfer the cavalry to Yangzhou or Xuzhou to fight. War horses are very delicate, and it will be over if they are not acclimatized.

In 216 AD, Zhang Wu started a new round of military expansion and preparations for war. This time the main expansion was cavalry and navy.

After occupying Wudu, the gate of Liangzhou has been opened, and Wei Guo can no longer effectively prevent the Chu army from obtaining war horses.Taking advantage of the Ma family's prestige and the horses captured in the Battle of Wudu, the Chu army's horses were enough to double the cavalry.

But there are war horses, but there are not enough qualified cavalry, and it takes time to train.

If you want to recruit those Qianghu people who can ride horses since childhood, Zhang Wu will soon be able to form a cavalry force of at least 3 people, but Zhang Wu is unwilling to use those foreigners.

There is a saying that goes well, people who are not of my race must have a different mind.

As a time traveler, Zhang Wu is very aware of the virtues of these people and what they have done to the Han people. The Hu people are afraid of power and do not cherish virtue. They never know gratitude, but only know about benefits and surrender to powerful forces.

If your strength is stronger than them, they will be obedient kittens and puppies; if your strength is not as good as them, then they will turn into ferocious beasts to eat you.

Moreover, Zhang Wu also planned to completely eliminate the threat of the northern nomads after he unified the world. At that time, he would definitely rely on cavalry to fight.

So Zhang Wu would rather spend more time training the Han cavalry than recruit those barbarians.

In order to complete the expansion of the cavalry as soon as possible, Zhang Wu issued a notice that as long as Han people from Liangzhou or Guanzhong came to Wudu to be recruited as cavalry, they would provide housing allowances and allocate land for their families.

With this policy, relying on Ma Chao's reputation in Liangzhou and Longyou, many people came to apply for the recruitment every day. Zhang Wu arranged for people to carefully investigate and rule out the intrusion of Wei Jun spies.

(End of this chapter)