Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 929
After August, the climate in the Yellow River Basin has changed significantly. Although it is still hot during the day, the temperature drops a lot at night.

The temperature difference between day and night is huge, and it also makes people feel the impact of the current Little Ice Age on the climate, which is more serious in the north than in the south.As the temperature dropped, Hebei, which had been drought for many days, finally ushered in several rainfalls.

This round of rainfall is naturally a good thing for ordinary people. It happens to be able to rush to sow a round of crops and harvest a crop before the arrival of cold winter.But this vitality only exists in theory, because the current situation in Hebei really makes people see no hope of living and working in peace.

The turbulent strife in Jie for a long time finally came to an end, and Cheng Xia and others who were trapped in Xiangguo were finally defeated by Shihu. Among the important ministers of Xiangguo, hundreds of people under Chengya, including his relatives behind him, were all executed.As for Shi Daya, the young ruler whom Cheng Xia supported, he was directly banned and deposed by Shi Hu.

In the end, Shi Hu still did not choose to directly usurp the rule, but formally supported Nanyang Wang Shi Hui to inherit the Datong before the mausoleum of the former master Shi Le. Not changed.

This is really embarrassing. The land of Shizhao State was originally the old state of Zhuxia Zhao and Wei. Zhao has already become the country name, and the title of King Wei was taken by Shi Kan long ago.Although Shi Kan has been completely defeated at the moment, and most of the land in the old Wei Dynasty was acquired by the Huainan Army, this title of king is a bit ominous at the moment, and Shi Hu's temperament is unwilling to imitate others, so he simply does not change it.

After all, the young master Shi Hui is just a pure puppet, and people at that time knew that Shi Hu would definitely replace him in the future, but right now because of the strong enemy in Huainan, they had to hold back temporarily.

After taking charge of Xiangguo, the first thing Shihu did was to summon the six barbarian soldiers to attack the Huainan army from the south, recapture Yecheng, and restore the land of Hebei.

For a time, not only was there a turbulent storm near Xiangguo, but even further north, there were frequent voices. In addition to a group of Hu followers who were originally in the Shihu army, there were also many Hu tribes in the land of Yan Dynasty.The acting master Tuoba Yihuai personally led three thousand cavalry to the south to help in the battle, and Murong Jun from Liaodong also sent two thousand cavalry to the south with his brother Murong Ke as his general.

These two Hu tribes are already considered the top forces in the north. After they clearly expressed their support for Shihu, the other tribes, large and small, rarely dared to disobey orders, or help soldiers, or help cattle and horses.

Soon, Xiangguo gathered a huge army of 30, and Shihu's momentum in Hebei reached its peak for a while, and it was recognized as the only choice to rejuvenate Jieguo.

Relatively speaking, the Huainan Army in the south was weaker, and there were almost no major actions or declarations.Of course, they didn't need to say anything at all. Simply entering Hebei forcefully, wiping out all the people in Shikan, and capturing Yecheng at the same time, these points are enough to demonstrate the strength and unstoppability of the Huainan army.

Speaking of which, the reason why Shihu has built up such a huge momentum in such a short period of time is also due to the oppression of the Huainan Army, which made the miscellaneous beards feel a sense of crisis, so they gathered around Shihu.

After the First Battle of Liyang, Shen Zhezi naturally no longer stayed in Henan Suanzao, but went north into Liyang.Liyang has also become the Huainan Army's headquarters in Hebei, with nearly [-] Huainan Army officers and soldiers gathered, and there are also several divisions in Yecheng and other places.

March to the north, August Liyang victory, six months of hard work, the Huainan army can be said to be fruitful.First of all, the entire territory of Yuzhou was recovered, and the Chen Guang rebellion army that had been lingering in Chenliu County also disappeared.The second is to enter Hebei with troops, recover Jijun, Weijun and other large areas of Hebei's lost land, and directly point troops to Xiangguo, the capital of Jieguo!
Especially the latter, it is the only great pioneering work of Master Wang after Yongjia. After more than ten years, the battle flag of Master Wang is flying again in the land of Hebei, and it is still in an unprecedented powerful posture!
After Shen Zhezi arrived in Liyang, he was not in a hurry to announce the next battle goal. The only military action was to continue to reinforce Yecheng with cavalry, and ordered as many centers as possible to appease and recruit Hebei Jinmin and Zahu with Yecheng as the center. To the king.

After sorting out and summarizing for more than half a month, the results of Li Yang's battle were finally sorted out.Not counting the usefulness, the soldiers and civilians captured in Liyang alone amounted to more than [-]!The vast majority of them are Hebei Ding Zhuang, with mixed Jin and Hu.

Taking advantage of the strong deterrence of the Liyang victory, Shen Zhezi directly ordered that the more than [-] captives be transported back to Henan in batches. .

Such a tough move by the Huainan Army also aroused strong resistance among the prisoners.It is one thing that they dare not fight when the army is assembled, but it is another thing if they are forced to leave their hometowns.

In addition, those who defected to the enemy after a little contact with the Huainan Army did not receive commensurate treatment, and there was inevitably a gap in their hearts, and many people wanted to incite the captives to riot.

Therefore, in the short period of more than ten days, large and small riots occurred frequently in Liyang Daying Camp.However, Shen Zhezi is not Shi Kan's kind-hearted temperament. No matter who the participants are, he has only one attitude towards these riots, and that is to suppress them with iron blood!

Originally, there were not many casualties on both sides in the first battle of Liyang, but in this short period of ten days, more than 3 prisoners were killed because they were involved in the riots, as many as nearly [-]!
Such brutal suppression finally killed all these captives with fear, and they no longer dared to give birth to the heart of rebellion.So the rest of them had to be sent to Henan obediently.

At the same time, Shen Zhezi added nearly [-] troops to Guo Song's side to suppress these captives and subsequent surrenders.If there are no major changes in the future, Guo Song will be responsible for guarding Xingyang, Chenliu and other places, so for now, he is also training in advance.

The more than 3 captives were not all harvested. Because Xie Ai occupied Yecheng first, the Huainan army obtained almost all the people and materials in the former land under Shikan's control.

The so-called rotten boat also has three catties of nails. Although Hebei has been in turmoil for many years, Shi Kan is also one of the original three giants in Hebei, and it occupies the essence of Jie.

In the follow-up Huainan army confiscated the places, there were more than [-] households of Shengmin alone, and this was only around Yecheng, Liyang and other large cities. Many powerful Wubi in the countryside have not yet been counted. Reaching the level of meticulous control of the Huainan Dudufu, Shen Zhezi would not be surprised if this number doubled.

This alone made Shen Zhezi feel that even now that Hebei has collapsed, the vitality accumulated by the people is still much greater than that in Jiangdong.Right now, due to frequent wars, people's strength is seriously wasted, but as long as the situation calms down a little, Hebei's recovery speed will still be extremely fast.

Shen Zhezi was still somewhat dissatisfied here, but he didn't know that Shi Kan, who was imprisoned in the army, was shocked when he learned about the Huainan Army's gains.He has ruled Yedi for so many years, and he doesn't even know that there are so many people under his rule. In his concept, [-] households is the sky.In the past, there were not even [-] households that could really be governed.

Originally, he thought that those powerful township clans were at most just doing some small tricks to constrain them, but in fact, their courage and courage were limited.But he didn't expect that the courage of these people was far beyond his imagination.The strength they have swallowed and concealed has far surpassed him, the nominal Lord of Yedi!
For being able to capture Shi Kan alive, Shen Zhezi was not lacking in surprises.To be honest, in such a large-scale battle, even if one side was completely defeated, it would be extremely difficult to capture the enemy general alive.In particular, the Huainan army fought in Hebei, and they were not familiar with the mountains and rivers of Hebei. Even if Shi Kan couldn't win, it was easy to escape.

Especially this time it was Xiao Yuandong who captured Shi Kan alive!This Zaozhuang fellow's luck is so strong that it is amazing that even Shen Zhezi is secretly jealous, and he almost doubts whether this person is the son of a plane blessed by luck.

However, this son of the plane is only keen on bragging right now, and what he has done has aroused so much resentment in the army that Shen Zhezi had to send him out to avoid being annoying in the camp.

Shi Kan can be regarded as the most important official of the Jie Kingdom that Shen Zhezi has acquired since the Northern Expedition, so naturally he cannot be simply killed.Therefore, no matter whether people are good or evil, as long as they can achieve a height that is difficult for most people to reach, they will always be different. Rare things are more precious, and people cannot avoid it.

In terms of crime alone, those Hebei military leaders are definitely not as good as Shi Kan. Shen Zhezi alone can't count the famous generals in the Xuzhou army who died in Shi Kan's hands.As a result, Shi Kan is still living well in the Huainan army camp, eating and drinking without worrying about food and drink, but those army leaders were thrown into the river and fed fish and shrimp because they incited the captives to riot.

For this distinction, Shen Zhezi didn't have much psychological burden. He did evil to the point of being unreliable. If you don't die first, whoever dies first!
After Shi Kan joined the army, he behaved very peacefully and resigned himself to his fate.Although Shen Zhezi scolded him fiercely before, he didn't deliberately treat him harshly. Although this guy is old and evil, he is still loyal enough to the Huainan Army.If the skills improved a bit, it would be more difficult for the Huainan army to win this time, and the income may not be so rich.

But what is a little strange is that Shi Kan expressed his desire to meet Shen Zhezi several times while in prison, but he didn't know what his intentions were.But Shen Zhezi was too lazy to pay attention to it. For him, the only meaning left for this guy right now is to save his life and send him back to Jiangdong to be beheaded in public, so that the people of Jiangdong will also be happy.

He also doesn't believe that anyone who is about to die speaks well, and Shi Kan will offer him some good strategies to fix the chaos in Hebei. First, he doesn't have that kind of heart, and second, he doesn't have that kind of brain.

When the Huainan army was still striving to expand the results of the war with Liyang and Yecheng as the center, the Xuzhou army finally came belatedly and joined forces in Liyang.

(End of this chapter)