Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 861
Xie Ai had the honor to attend the event and felt quite strange.

He had no similar experience before, after all, he was just a Confucian scholar in Liangdi.However, about the topics of Shenzhou Luchen and Hulu raging in China, people often hear people talking about them, and the words are either indignant or sad.

But in the banquet, he heard people in Huainan discuss all kinds of Jiehu, without anger or heaviness, as if they were discussing a very ordinary thing.They just put it simply, but in this calm atmosphere, they revealed an indescribable self-confidence.

Xie Ai is no stranger to this kind of mentality, as if he encountered any problems in his academic studies. This problem is not difficult, but when Xie Ai faced it, he was not afraid of difficulties, because he knew very well that this problem It may be difficult, but as long as he studies deeply with his heart, the problem will be solved sooner or later.

Everyone in Huainan seems to have this kind of mentality. They can discuss things calmly, not because they underestimate problems and opponents, but because they know their mission well. Discussing whether problems are difficult or not is what spectators do, and their task Just solve the problem.

The Jie Kingdom is now divided into several parts, but it does not mean that Huainan's military pressure is less.A person may be able to defeat an opponent who is impossible to defeat by various tricks, but when an opponent is split into several, the strength may be weakened a lot, but the game environment will become more than a few times more complicated, and more opportunities will be added. variable.

When the eight kings of China and North Korea rebelled and killed each other, they probably didn't expect that the one who got cheap in the end was the miscellaneous Yicong they looked down upon.The Hulu prospered successively, and each was rampant for a while, probably never expecting that it was the humble Tuoba family in Daibei who had the last laugh.The Tuoba clan in the Northern Wei Dynasty made a vigorous Sinicization reform, but the soldiers of the Six Towns who they ignored and gave up rebelled.As a soldier in the six towns, Gao Huan owns the five towns alone. He probably once had the ambition to conquer the world, but he was still counterattacked by the Yuwen clan.

In the original history, Shi Kan was originally just a discordant syllable in the civil strife in Shi Zhao, and Wu Xingshen's family was just a small bug with a little head in the eyes of Jiangdong Gaomen.Who would have thought that these two parties could become the main force in the current competition in the Central Plains.

Shi Kan's strength is not weak, it can even be said to be very strong.The territory he controls spans the Yellow River and the Taihang Mountains. From Yecheng to the west, almost all of the original Shizhao territory is accepted, and he has received a considerable number of imperial guards from the Jie Kingdom. People and horses, as for their hometown Yecheng, they maintain an army of at least 5 people.

These armies should not be regarded as mobs. It must be known that this group of troops was separated from the core forces of the Jie Kingdom, and must have inherited a considerable part of Shi Le's legacy.This can be seen from the rapid westward expansion of his people. Earlier, the Huainan army marched into southern Henan, and even as far as Hanoi, there were local clansmen who were willing to contact them, but now such voices have long since disappeared.

However, the size of power is one thing, and the power that can be exerted is another matter.However, Shen Zhezi knew very well that in the future war, one cannot rely on the opponent's internal strife.

It is also a funny thing to say. When Shi Le was still alive, although there were conflicts and suspicions among the various people in the Jie Kingdom, at least there was a co-owner, which was also the pinnacle of the country's prosperity.As a result, hundreds of thousands of troops rushed south, but they were unable to cooperate with each other, and conflicts broke out, resulting in a big defeat.

Now it seems that the country of Jie has split into several parts, and the prestige of Shi Kanqi is far less than that of the public, but with the strong rise of the Huainan army, the current situation provides them with the possibility of uniting and helping each other.

In the past few years, although Huainan's focus was on managing localities, Shen Zhezi did not fail to encircle and suppress some rebel troops in Henan to relieve part of the pressure on the border.You must know that as the Huainan army pushed into the south of Henan, the natural dangers of the Huai River were no longer enough to rely on, and the entire south of Henan had no special dangers to defend, and the long surrounding borders could be said to be completely undefended.

Especially in Zhengbei, there is Chen Guang, the head snake of the rebellious army. In order to prevent his people from coming south to plunder, the Huainan army had to prepare heavy troops between Yingchuan, Qiao, and Liang.Once the Huainan army showed signs of massing their troops, whether it was Taobao in Luoyang or Liu Zheng in Surabaya, they were all ready to move, as if they wanted to copy Huainan's back road.Therefore, before there was a sure chance of winning a quick battle, Huainan was also restrained by these groups of people and was not very calm.

With such a flat and unobstructed terrain in southern Henan, even a heavily fortified fortress can play a minimal defensive role.Just like the Huainan army successfully attacked Qiaocheng guarded by Shi Cong a few years ago, now the Huainan army is also facing such a predicament.Therefore, in order to guard against intrusions from the surrounding area, the Huainan Army not only built a fortress in southern Henan for security, but also spent a lot of money to build a strong cavalry team. environment.

Of course, this confrontational situation can be maintained, and there is no lack of results of mutual connivance between the two sides.For the Huainan Army, although there are some scruples in gathering heavy troops to destroy one of them, it is not a price they cannot afford or have to pay.

But Shen Zhezi still allowed this situation to continue. In fact, he also used these hostile forces to squeeze the living space of the village clans around the realm.People just have a temperament that will not die until they reach the Yellow River. The Huainan Army regards themselves as the master of the king. Although the township clans are powerless to fight, they are also quite confident, thinking that the Huainan Army dare not oppress them too much, and even hide evil intentions.

Shen Zhezi didn't want to compromise with them, nor did he want to allow the Huainan army to plunder the countryside, and simply let those rebels ravage them.The number of registered households in the Huainan Governor's Mansion has increased sharply in recent years, and this has a lot to do with it.The rebellious army will not have any friendship with these villagers, so they will naturally squeeze their lives to survive.They either attached to the rebel army or fled south.Once they fled the country, it didn't matter what their wishes were.

And these hostile forces in the surrounding area are also suffering. Even if they get a place to live, they can't organize production at all, and they can't form a stable rule.To survive, robbery seems to be the only option.

But looting also requires costs, and those village walls are also non-renewable resources in the short term.Seeing Huainan's rapid development and rise, on the one hand, there is an increasingly severe pressure to survive, and on the other hand, why not keep Huainan as a dolphin dog, and occasionally rob and prey.

At least as far as Shen Zhezi knew, the surrounding villages who traveled to and from Runan for business transactions had many backgrounds in the chaos.Shen Zhezi was not overly angry about this, but occasionally picked out one or two to slaughter and demonstrate.After all, in business transactions, Huainan benefits more, and he also needs to fish these disorderly troops around, and kill them as soon as he is fully prepared.

This is a rather cruel confrontation game for survival. The two sides indulge each other, but no matter which side shows obvious flaws, it will immediately attract a brutal blow.Obviously, in this competition, the Huainan army has an absolute advantage, so if those chaotic troops want to obtain greater security, they need to cooperate more closely.

From this point of view, the Huainan Army also helped Shi Kan's forces across the Yellow River a lot.

Among the surrounding parties, the most powerful is the Peach Leopard Army in Luoyang.Taobao's troops were originally a part of the slave country's southern expedition army. Although they were defeated in Xuanhu a few years ago, Huainan mainly dispatched naval forces at that time.In the follow-up decisive battle at the mouth of the mouth, Taobao did not participate in it, so its military strength should not be underestimated, so it dared to go straight to Luoyang.

More than three years have passed, the Huainan army has never pressed Luoyang again, and the slave country is completely divided, so Taobao has been allowed to stay in Luoyang for so long.But it is not an easy task to maintain tens of thousands of people eating horse chews, and the surrounding area of ​​Luoyang has been fighting endlessly during the Sino-Korean period, and then it was called the core area of ​​the war between the two Zhaos, and it has long lost its former prosperity.

The Peach Leopard is trying its best to maintain it, and there should be an army of nearly 3 at the moment, but there are considerable cavalry among them, so the threat is very great.Moreover, the surrounding terrain of Luoyang is rather complicated. Even the Huainan army has an absolute advantage in strength, and it is difficult to completely kill it in Luoyang. Once its army flees again, it will have a very serious impact on Huainan's business system that has been developing for several years. hit.

Recovering the old capital of Luoyang is a great temptation, but after a long discussion, the generals finally decided that Luoyang should not be the primary goal.The reason why the rebellious army is difficult to deal with is that there is no pressure to defend the soil.Moreover, there is the enemy of Huainan nearby, and Nanyang in the south has fallen again, so it is impossible for Taobao to hold Luoyang as a base.

Shen Zhezi still remembers his first battle across the river. The slave general Huang Quan who was supposed to be defending in Hefei suddenly appeared in the water hundreds of miles away. I hope that the army can advance together and besiege the isolated city.Therefore, the goal of the first battle is still Chen Guang in the north, first to wipe out the enemies in Yuzhou.

Chen Guang's own strength is not very strong. Although he boasted a lot when he asked to surrender in the early years, in the past few years, under the slow push of the Huainan Army, the living space has become smaller and smaller.But to deal with Chen Guang, we must guard against Shi Kan on the north bank of the Yellow River.Therefore, this battle is to cooperate with the Xuzhou Army and advance on two fronts. The Huainan Army will seize the Langdang Canal upstream, and the Xuzhou Army will seize Fangtou downstream to control the waterway of the Yellow River, and then carry out a thorough attack on the chaos in the territory. mopping up.

As for Luoyang, Sima Wuji, king of Qiao, was required to go north to guard the south gate of Luoyang.But King Qiao's Nanyang Army may not be the opponent of Taobao on the frontal battlefield, so they still need reinforcements from the Huainan Army.This is a war with a huge geographical span and many battle steps, and it is also a great test for the Huainan Army.

　Finally, I finished talking about the situation. I may not be able to make it out in the early morning. I will update it tomorrow. I am finally looking forward to the weekend, and I haven’t slept well for a week. . .

　　
　
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