Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 361 Situation

The next day, just after noon, a soldier came to report that Zhai Xing had arrived outside Luanchuan City.

Wang Xiaolie and Wang Ruohai led people out of the city, followed by Zhai Xing and his party.After the greetings were over, the two parties sat down in the county government office.

Asked about the hard work on the road.Zhai Xingdao: "I received the letter from the governor, saying that the army arrived in Luanchuan, and they did not dare to be negligent, so they hurried over. Fuping was defeated in the first battle, and the Jin people took Guanzhong. It is not as good as before. We are some generals guarding the place. We should unite as one, so as not to be taken advantage of by the golden men."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Dengzhou is far away from this road. I don't know what the situation is now. Zhenfu is near this road, so it should be clearer. Can you tell me something important?"

Zhai Xing said: "This is the proper meaning."

After finishing speaking, he casually picked up a small stick beside him, drew a few circles on the ground, and said: "After the Battle of Fuping, this area was naturally centered on Luoyang and Shanzhou. The Jin army came south this time. There are 8000 fine cavalry who are mainly skilled in art, and Wei Yi who surrendered gold in Guanzhong led 9000 people, and Gao Qiong, an old general of the dynasty who surrendered gold, led 4 people. A total of about 1 people attacked Guozhou. Li Yanxian's troops have about 2000 people in Guozhou, another 500 people are stationed in Shangzhou led by Shao Xing, and [-] people are stationed in Lu Shi led by Geng Sizong. The capital inspected Meng Bangxiong to surrender to the enemy, and was appointed as the puppet Xijing to stay behind. It is said that he has more than [-] soldiers."

Wang Xiaolie said: "It turns out that Meng Bangxiong has surrendered to the enemy, but I haven't heard about it yet. There is still Ding Jin in the Songshan area. I don't know what to do?"

Zhai Xing said: "Ding Jin still has a backbone, Liu Yu sent someone to surrender, but he drove him back."

Wang Ruohai said: "In this way, Li Yanxian in Guozhou is facing 3 gold troops and nearly [-] puppet troops. In addition, there are more than [-] men from Meng Bangxiong in the direction of Xijing, and they may come west at any time."

Zhai Xingdao: "Not only that. Apart from Meng Bangxiong's more than [-] people in Luoyang, there are other bandits, large and small, who have surrendered to the puppet Qi, with a total force of more than [-]. If Meng Bangxiong can't integrate these people, the total force will be nearly [-]. Dong Xian has five thousand soldiers stationed in the four counties of Shouan, Fuchang, Yongning and Changshui on both sides of Luoyang. When Meng Bangxiong comes to the west, he must first face Dong Xian.”

According to a rough estimate, the Jin army plus the vassal puppet army has 7 to [-] people in this area.This is the regular soldiers, plus those who transport grain and grass, do all kinds of chores, and raise horses, the number is more than doubled.This battle has been fought in an all-round way, and the scale is even greater than that of the rescue of Shanzhou at the beginning of the year.

Sighing, Wang Xiaolie said: "Every time the Jin army wins a game, there will be many more servants. This matter is really a headache. These servants are not powerful, but they can't be ignored. If they are accidentally killed Take a bite, but it hurts a lot!"

Wang Ruohai said angrily: "These people are only greedy for wealth and honor, and have no regard for family and country.

Wang Xiaolie said: "Swearing is not of much use, you have to beat them hard to let them know the disadvantages of treason. The court is incompetent, unable to defeat the invaders, unable to defend their homeland, such people will naturally come out."

Since the five chaos in China, the Chinese have seen a lot of people who treason and surrender to the enemy.The Jin army defeated the Kaifeng government, the Yuan army destroyed the Song Dynasty, and the Qing army destroyed the Ming Dynasty. There were a large number of Han troops as the vanguard of foreign regimes.Even in the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were still a large number of puppet troops.

Those who treason to the enemy and work as a minion for a tiger should naturally be condemned and even punished.But for the court, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is to win the enemy on the battlefield.The more the main force of the imperial court has the upper hand on the battlefield, the fewer people treason and turn to the enemy, and the situation is getting better and better.

For those who lead troops in battle, this must be clear.For the puppet army, of course, we must strike hard and give them a hard blow.But we must not forget that our main task is to defeat the enemy on the battlefield.While retreating steadily, he scolded some people for defecting to the enemy and being hopeless.

After analyzing the nearby situation, Wang Xiao said: "Guozhou is on the bank of the Yellow River, beyond the mountains, so it's not easy to rescue. At the beginning of the year when Lousu surrounded Shanzhou, I concentrated all my money and food, and I put all my money and food into it. With Li Yanxian's cooperation in the city, I was able to save it." Defeated the Jin army. Now the main force of our army is in Ruzhou, and it will take a lot of time to gather it together. It is difficult to do so. We can only let Li Yanxian temporarily withdraw to Lu's, where he will resist the Jin army. Three hundred soldiers from Lu's to Guozhou Lishan Road is difficult for us, and it is even more difficult for the Jin army. After defending the Lu family, when the Jin army runs out of food and grass, they will naturally withdraw. At that time, it will be much easier to counterattack Guozhou."

Zhai Xing pondered for a while and said: "Li Yanxian's defense of Shanzhou can be said to be exhausting. Let him withdraw from Guozhou again, I'm afraid he won't want to."

Wang Xiaolie said: "The situation is like this, there is really no way. To transport grain and grass to Guozhou, I must at least gather all the young men in Dengzhou. To be honest, the impact on Dengzhou is too great. Twice a year, the people toss Sorry."

Wang Ruohai said: "We can only let Li Yanxian withdraw from Guozhou, and can't just sit and guard the isolated city. At the beginning of the year guarding Shanzhou, there was Zhang Shumi's army from Jingzhao to rely on. What can we rely on to guard Guozhou now?"

Wang Xiaolie thought for a while, and said: "I have already sent an official document to Li Yanxian, suggesting that he immediately abandon Guozhou and retreat to the Lu family. If an army of [-] to [-] comes to attack, all of us will be threatened. Mrs. Lu, let's get together and discuss what to do."

Zhai Xingdao: "A few days ago I ordered Dong Xian to go to Yiyang to discuss matters, but there has been no news. I don't know—"

Wang Xiaolie's heart tightened, and he had an ominous premonition.Dong Xian is a very complicated person, Wang Xiaolie is a little uncertain.

Dong was originally from Luoyang. He raised troops in the chaos of Jingkang, and later became the commander of Zhai Xing's former army.He is a brave man, and he must strive to be the first in every battle. He is a rare warrior.In the past two years, Dong Xian has been stationing troops along the Luo River, not with Zhai Xing.Dong Xian's current military strength has surpassed that of Zhai Xing, and he doesn't really listen to Zhai Xing's orders.It's just that Zhai Xing is a big family in Luoyang, so he didn't tear his face.

Dong Xian is capable of fighting, loves wealth, longs for fame and wealth, and is unwilling to nest in a ravine.However, unlike Meng Bangxiong and others, he has the most basic bottom line and does not want to surrender to the enemy and betray the country.But the temptation is big enough, and the bottom line may be broken through.After all, for Dong Xian, his loyalty to Zhao Song was not enough to make him work hard.But he doesn't want to betray the country, given the chance.

In this day and age, there are actually many such people.As long as the Song Dynasty is a little more decent on the battlefield, not to mention gaining the upper hand, it doesn't matter even if it loses a little. As long as it is not a thousand miles away, a large number of people in the north will respond.In the history of Yue Fei's Northern Expedition, after winning several games in a row, thousands of miles responded.As far as Taihang in the north, there are rebels using their banners to fight against the Jin army.

The problem of the Song Dynasty was that the Kaifeng Mansion was breached, and then the Lien Zhan was defeated.Moreover, Zhao Gou was as fearful of the Jin army as a tiger, so he really couldn't boost the morale of the army and the people.Without the support of the imperial court, a large number of rebels were defeated by the Jin army and the puppet Qi.The rebel army is gone, and the last ones left are those who are determined to surrender to the enemy.Those who were not firm with the court and did not want to surrender to the enemy gradually surrendered to the enemy.

During the war, the imperial court, or the government is the mainstream.The mainstream attitude is very important.If you firmly resist the enemy, even if you are temporarily weak, there will be a large number of forces following.Once the government is not firm in resisting the enemy, how can we count on the people?

At this time, the Jin army was in full swing, and a large number of puppet troops joined when they broke through a place.If you can't defeat the Jin Army on the frontal battlefield, it will be difficult to change this situation.Before entering Guanzhong, there were no more than [-] elite riders in Wushu.After the Battle of Fuping, there were more than [-] soldiers under his command.

(End of this chapter)