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

Chapter 470 Competing in the Central Plains (31)

one year later
When the Yan State in Liaodong was opening up wasteland in the southern Woju area, a shocking news came from the Central Plains.

Liu Yu... the second Northern Expedition!

In the past few years, Liu Yu first eliminated the Yizhou Qiaoshu separatist regime, and then killed the Sima royal family and the aristocratic families who supported the Sima royal family.

Liu Yu re-measured the acres of land, checked the population, and incorporated the northern expatriates into household registration, which weakened the power of the wealthy families.

As a result, some aristocratic families surrendered to Liu Yu and sold part of their own family's interests, and some families fought against Liu Yu, and were finally killed and fled to the Yan Kingdom in Liaodong for refuge.

Holding a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, Liu Yu slaughtered the gentry who opposed him while cooperating with the gentry who supported him. It was quite like Wang Jue's style of killing the gentry in Dongjun County while giving privileges to the gentry in other counties.

Pulling one faction, attacking another faction, and killing another faction, the classic method from ancient times to the present, can be said to be extremely useful.

Only killing will make him the enemy of the world, such as Dong Zhuo, and only wooing will make the opponent gain an inch, such as Sima Yan.

Killing and wooing at the same time, so as to divide the opponent's internal group and turn the opponent into a mob.

After slaughtering the opponents and taking full control of the government, Liu Yu was granted the title of Song Gong, and took advantage of the opportunity of Qin's new king ascending the throne and Qin's domestic and foreign troubles, to launch the Northern Expedition.

At this moment, the State of Qin is already in a state of subjugation. The State of Xia in the northwest keeps going south to attack the State of Qin in the middle of the pass, the Xianbei people in Longxi continue to attack the State of Qin in the middle of the pass, and the State of Tuoba Wei in the northeast takes advantage of the vacancy and invades. In the east of the Qin State, there were peasant uprisings one after another. The clan of the Qin State took advantage of the chaos to rebel and seize power, and Liu Yu in the southeast even launched the Northern Expedition against him.
From east to west, from north to south, they are all enemies!

Facing enemies from all directions, Qin Emperor Yao Hong chose to divide his army into five groups, and at the same time, he fought against the peasant uprising army, Qifu Xianbei, Xiongnu Xia State, Tuoba Wei State, and Jin State Liu Yu.

It is no surprise that the Central Plains separatist regime was often besieged from all sides. At the beginning, Shihu also attacked from southeast, northwest, and central areas at the same time, and later Fu Jian also chose to attack from all sides.

This is also an important reason why the nobles of the Yan State Council in Liaodong were unwilling to get involved in the war for hegemony in the Central Plains.

Involved in the Great War in the Central Plains, it was hard to win a piece of land. It will not be long before this piece of land will be coveted by enemies from the southeast, northwest, and central regions. In order to keep this piece of land, the Liaodong Yan Kingdom needs to consume a lot of national power, which is really not cost-effective. Moreover, if this land is lost, the previous investment in this land will be in vain, and the risk is too great.

Therefore, honestly open up wasteland overseas, as long as the wasteland is opened up, there will basically be no competition from foreign enemies, and it can continue to generate income. Except that the investment in land reclamation in the early stage is too large, in fact, the continuous income in the later period is much higher than that in the Central Plains. After all, there is no need to worry about being taken away by other forces. .

Building high walls, accumulating grain widely, and becoming king slowly are the national policies of the King of Yan family. They silently open up wasteland and develop overseas. world.

Liu Yujun marched to the south bank of the Yellow River, and ran into Wei cavalry who came to monitor the movement of the Jin army. After some mutual testing, Liu Yujun relied on the Yellow River to form a moon formation, and defeated the Wei cavalry with infantry.

The so-called Queyue formation is to use the Yellow River as the line of defense, then use chariots to form an arc of defense on the other side, and then use pikemen to block the gap
In the middle, the crossbowmen are used to resist the cavalry, and in the middle are the commander, the standard bearer and the messengers.

It sounds like there is not much difference from the full moon array in Yan Kingdom, it is nothing more than the shape changed from a full moon to a missing moon, the overall structure and idea are actually the same.

The Queyue Formation is not invulnerable, as long as a large arc-shaped chariot formation is placed outside the Queyue Formation to block it, then dig deep trenches, and starve the enemy troops in the Queyue Formation to death in the encirclement of the trench.

There is no invincible formation, only commanders who can adapt to changes and soldiers who can execute orders.

In contrast, trenches are a simple and practical tactic with multiple functions and a wide range of applications. The King of Yan has used them hundreds of years ago and is still using trench tactics.

A few months later, Liu Yu's subordinates, Shen Tianzi and Wang Zhen'e, one across the Qinling Mountains, and the other smuggled across the Yellow River in Tongguan, bypassing the Qin army's defense line.

Changan
"Now we have no way out, and the river is behind us. Only by fighting with our backs and fighting the enemy bravely can we have a chance of survival!"

Facing more than 1000 Qin soldiers in front, Wang Zhen'e gave a speech to his [-] dead soldiers: "Confess your wife and son, add an official to a noble, and glory and wealth are right in front of you!"

"Forward! Forward! Forward!"

"Follow me to kill the enemy!"

The Jin army's momentum was like a rainbow, while the more than 1000 Qin soldiers on the opposite side were just strong men temporarily pulled onto the battlefield. Although they were large in number, their combat effectiveness was low.

Wang Zhen'e is the grandson of Wang Meng. After the Battle of Feishui, his father migrated to Jin.

While Wang Zhen'e's [-] dead soldiers defeated the Qin soldiers, Shen Tianzi in Bashang also restrained a group of Qin soldiers.

However, in the end it was Wang Zhen'e who attacked Chang'an first and captured Qin Emperor Yao Hong.

"If I hadn't restrained the main force of the Qin State in Bashang, how could he, Wang Zhen'e, invade Chang'an? The credit for destroying Qin should have been mine!" Hearing that Wang Zhen'e invaded Chang'an first, Shen Tianzi was very annoyed and felt It was his own credit that was taken away.

Most of Liu Yu's generals came from poor families, and some came from wealthy families, and they were not in harmony with each other.

In fact, this was also Liu Yu's deliberate intention. At the beginning, he himself relied on the support of his generals to control the Jin dynasty, so how could he not be worried that someone would follow suit?

That's why the generals who hate each other are deliberately gathered together, and the generals who get along with each other are separated in different regions, so that the generals can check and balance each other, and they cannot unite to form a small group that poses a huge threat.

What's more, his son Liu Yizhen is only 12 years old, and he can't control the situation at all. He can easily be turned into a puppet by the generals below, so it is even more necessary for the generals below to check and balance each other.

Tongwancheng

Hearing that Liu Yu's army captured Chang'an, the Xiongnu Emperor Helian Bobo (Liu Bobo) couldn't hold back and wanted to go south to capture Guanzhong.

His counselor suggested to him: "Liu Yu is old, let alone Liu Muzhi died of illness. He is now in a hurry to return to Jiankang to usurp the throne, and has no intention of continuing the Northern Expedition. Wang Zhen'e, Shen Tianzi and others in Guanzhong refused to accept each other. Yizhen is only a 12-year-old child, and he can't control the situation at all, His Majesty just needs to be patient for a while, when the time comes, there will be civil strife in Guanzhong, and at that time, it will be easy for His Majesty to send troops to attack Guanzhong again!"

Helian Bobo's real name was Liu Bobo, he was from the Huns. He felt that the surname Liu was brought to the Huns by a princess of the Han Dynasty, and it belonged to his mother's surname.

Because in the context of the Xiongnu, Helian means heaven, so he took Helian as his surname, which is equivalent to the Central Plains people using "Tian" as their surname. According to the understanding of the Central Plains people, it is similar to naming themselves "" Tianbo".

(End of this chapter)