Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 392 Yuan Zhao (22)

another year later
Winter of the 43rd year of Marquis Yan (253)

The Great Sima Sima Yi died of illness, and his son Sima Shi was appointed as the Great Sima, and wanted to take advantage of the death of Sun Quan, the Lord of Wu, to attack Soochow.

For this Southern Expedition, Yuan Zhao mobilized another 20 troops, including 15 Southern Huns servant cavalry, [-] Qiang Hu servant cavalry, [-] Central Plains cavalry, [-] Xianbei servant cavalry, and [-] infantry.

In order to increase the population, the three countries are trying their best.

Yuan Zhao asked local officials to investigate widows. Once widows appear, they must be sent to Luoyang immediately, and then the court will distribute widows to unmarried soldiers and farmers. Unfilial tax] If there are more than three children, the family can be exempted from military service, if there are more than five children, they can also be exempted from corvee service, and if there are more than eight children, they can be exempted from taxation.

However, in the process of implementing this policy, there have also been many incidents of harming the people in order to complete the targets.

For example, a soldier went to the front line to fight, and in order to complete his political achievements, the local governor would take advantage of the soldier's going out to fight and forcibly define the other party's wife, daughter, mother, and sister as widows, and then forcibly send them to Luoyang.

For example, Zhao Yan, the prefect of Hedong, is a very famous celebrity. People all over the world praise him for his benevolence, righteousness and love for the people. He is a Confucian scholar who really understands the way of Confucius and Mencius.

However, in order to complete the "widow" target and increase his political achievements, he actually sent officers and soldiers to ordinary people's homes to arrest women, and then sent the women to Luoyang.

Yuan Zhao's place is full of smog, and Shu Han and Dong Wu are not much better.

Since Jiang Wei came to power last year, he canceled the national policy of recuperation and intensified the Northern Expedition. The whole country revolved around the Northern Expedition, draining the power of the people just for the Northern Expedition.

Soochow entered the era of enfeoffment after the death of Sun Quan. The gentry and generals could legally own their own fiefdoms, subjects, and soldiers, and they did not have to pay taxes to the Jianye court.

Yuan Zhao began to degenerate, advocating extravagance and debauchery, and despising honesty and honesty. The Shu Han was crazily squeezing the power of the people, and the whole country became a war machine. Catch slaves, we all have a bright future.

In this rotten era, the relatively peaceful Liaodong has become a paradise.

Due to the thriving slave trade, people in Liaodong even spontaneously organized groups to go to Goguryeo, Buyeo, and Yanbei Grasslands to capture slaves. These scattered slaves would be bought by the big buyer, the Wang family, and then transported to the Central Plains for sale.

In particular, Goguryeo, which is the closest, has become the main target of capture. The population of Goguryeo has dropped from 200 million 100 years ago to 15 today.

The entire Goguryeo has a total population of only 15, and it has been divided into dozens of tribes.

Three months later
冬末
After the 20 troops were assembled, they came to Hefei one after another.

The governor of Hefei is still Lu Lingqi, but she is now 68 years old.

Sun Quan invaded Hefei five times on a large scale. The first time he was defeated by Zhang Liao, and the next four times he was defeated by Lu Lingqi.

"When my father was still alive, he once said that if you want to destroy Wu, you should use all the troops of the whole country to advance in multiple directions, so that the southern country cannot take care of it, and it will perish."

"Now it's just a matter of concentrating the army to force the crossing from Ruxukou. Although there are a lot of soldiers, this place is full of swamps, and it is difficult to transport food and grass. It will definitely fail."

The water network between Ruxukou and Hefei is densely covered with swamps, and it is very difficult to transport food by land. The only way to transport food and grass is by water. However, the combat effectiveness of the Central Plains water army is far inferior to that of Soochow, and it is easy to be cut off by the Soochow water army. , the risk is very high.

Yuan Zhao is good at plain cavalry warfare, Eastern Wu is good at river and water army warfare, and Shu Han is good at mountain infantry warfare. This is the consensus of the world.

Lu Lingqi kindly reminded Master Sima, who personally led the troops to fight, not to think that he is invincible because he has more troops, and the war is not about whoever has the most soldiers can win.

Once the food road is cut off, the side with more soldiers will be unable to hold on first, and the mutiny of the army alone is a big problem.

After all, not everyone can fight by eating corpses without logistics like Wang Jue's tiger and leopard cavalry.

In today's world, the only one who is not afraid of the enemy cutting off the grain road is Wang Jue back then.

Master Sima didn't listen, he said to himself: "We have 20 soldiers in a big country, Soochow is a tiny country, how can we stop it?"

Sima Shi is very mature in intrigue and political struggle, but his military combat ability is very average, far inferior to his younger brother Sima Zhao.

Sima Yi has the top conspiracy methods in the world today, as well as top combat capabilities, but his two sons have inherited two abilities respectively.

Sima Shi is more inclined to strategy, and Sima Zhao is more inclined to combat.

Half a month later, Sima Shi approached Ruxukou with an army of 20, and was about to cross the river.

"Report! The Soochow navy passed through the waterway and cut off our army's food supply!" The scouts came to submit the information.

In this battle, the commander of Soochow is Zhuge Ke. This man is well-regulated in combat. He has no great talents, but he will not make any low-level mistakes. Far inferior to Lu Lingqi.

"If the food road is broken, it will be broken. Don't worry about it. Back then, Wang Heyu could fight without logistics. Couldn't I, Sima Shi?" It is necessary to select good seedlings in advance for extreme human training. Ordinary soldiers cannot fight without logistics. If you let them fight without logistics, the consequence is mutiny.

Sure enough, after only one day and one night of starvation, commotion began to appear in the barracks, and many Yuan Zhao soldiers were clamoring to go home for dinner.

"The only plan for now is to withdraw the troops, otherwise it may cause a mutiny in the army!" Jia Chong persuaded from the side.

"Damn it!" Master Sima cursed inwardly, feeling very upset. He fought this battle, but he was cut off from food supply as soon as he went out to fight. The 20 troops had to go back in despair before they even saw the enemy's shadow.

"Withdraw troops, return to Fei!" Master Sima ordered helplessly.

Subsequently, the army finally stopped restlessness and began to return to the original place.

however……

"kill!"

When Yuan Zhao's army was packing up and withdrawing its troops, tens of thousands of Soochow soldiers were killed in the surrounding hills.

shhhhhh!
Whoosh!
"what!--"

Yuan Zhao's army was killed by surprise, and 20 troops crowded together and scrambled to escape from the battlefield.

Many soldiers accidentally fell to the ground and were trampled to death by their comrades in arms. Some accidentally stepped into the nearby swamp, and the whole person was stuck in the swamp and could not move.

"Big Sima, retreat quickly!"

"Run, our army is defeated!"

Sima Shi fled in embarrassment, he was really aggrieved in this battle.

"I regret not listening to Dudu Lu's advice." Master Sima regretted his reckless behavior.

However, Lu Lingqi had already made preparations. She expected that Master Sima would be defeated with a high probability, so she personally brought elite soldiers to meet Master Sima and escorted Master Sima to Hefei.

The war among the Three Kingdoms has reached a stalemate, and whoever takes the initiative to attack will lose.

Yuan Zhao took the initiative to attack Ruxukou and lost, and Soochow took the initiative to attack Hefei and lost.

A few years ago, Yuan Zhao took the initiative to attack Hanzhong, but his entire army was wiped out. Jiang Wei took the initiative to attack Guanzhong, which also suffered heavy losses.

The defender can wait for work at ease, but the attacker has to bear the cost of food transportation and the risk of being out of food.

(End of this chapter)