Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 61 The troops leave Longshan (3000)

The imperial edict had not yet arrived at Longguan, but Huan Xi's officers and men all called Wang Meng "strategist" under his instruction.

The position of military advisor general was first created by Liu Bei. During his tenure as General Zuo, he appointed Zhuge Wuhou as military advisor general and acted as the agent for General Zuo's affairs.

Cao Wei also appointed military advisor generals as the sixth rank. Cao Cao appointed Xun You as the military advisor general, who was responsible for all military and state elections and criminal and prison legal systems.

Huan Xi's trust in Wang Meng was no less than that of Cao and Liu's trust in Zhuge and Xun You, and he almost entrusted all daily government affairs to him.

Only military elections remain in his own hands, but in terms of personnel, Huan Xi will also listen to Wang Meng's opinions.

Huan Xi smiled at Wang Meng and said:
  "Now I regard you as the military advisor and general. From now on, you will be the military advisor to the officers and soldiers of the three armies. I am the husband of Huan Xi."

Wang Meng was deeply moved. He knew that Huan Xi had always regarded him as the best of the world.

And Wang Meng has always been encouraging himself with Zhuge Liang's life story, and he is determined to devote himself to Huan Xi until his death.

When you treat others with courtesy, you must have something to ask for. Huan Xi no longer has to deal with the burden of writing documents, and he is free and easy.

As for Wang Meng, he deals with the tedious government documents all day long. He works hard at night and dares not to slack off. It is difficult to have a chance to breathe.

Wang Meng did not follow Huan Xi to Qinzhou, but was ordered to move to Yongxian County and take charge of the government affairs of the fifteen counties of Yongzhou and Liangzhou.

Yong County is the seat of Fufeng County, one of the three auxiliaries. It controls the transportation artery connecting the three prefectures of Yong, Liang and Qin. It controls Sanguan in the west and Longguan in the north. Its geographical location is extremely important.

At this time, Huan Xi's strategic focus was on the west side, with Yong County as the seat of the shogunate. If Wang Meng had a major issue that was difficult to decide, he could be sent to the front line in time, so Huan Xi made the decision.

When Huan Xi issued a proclamation, claiming that he was going to attack Zhang Chonghua, Wang Zhuo's first reaction was not to ask Qian Liang for help, but to send an envoy to Qiuchi.

Liangzhou is thousands of miles away, and Huan Xi's army is close to Longguan. How can they have time to rescue them.

The Qiuchi Kingdom was founded by the Yang family of the Di tribe who lived in Qingshui, Lueyang. At its largest territory, among the six counties of Qinzhou, Qiuchi occupied the two counties of Yinping and Wudu, as well as the southern parts of Tianshui and Lueyang counties. Most areas in Longnan.

However, in the past few years, after Shi Hu sent troops to seize Wudu County, Qiu Chi's national power was not as good as before.

Wang Zhuo's envoy rushed to Qiuchi at starry night. Xiao, with his lips and teeth cold, finally persuaded Yang Chu to put aside his grudges and personally led four thousand soldiers and horses to the north.

During the civil strife in Zhao before and after, Yang Chu sent troops to try to capture Tianshui, but was head-on attacked by Wang Zhuo.

Now they finally arrived at Tianshui City, but as friendly troops.

Wang Zhuo came out of the city to greet him. There was no time to greet him, so Yang Chu asked anxiously:

"General Wang, do you know how many soldiers and horses the Jin army has?"

This is the issue that Yang Chu is most concerned about.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and the enemy means you can fight a hundred battles without danger. Huan Xi attacked Anding and other places. Although Wang Zhuo did not rescue him, he had been paying attention to Huan Xi's military strength and had roughly figured it out.

He laughed:
  "It's just 20,000 foot soldiers."

When Yang Chu heard this, he breathed a long sigh of relief. There were only 20,000 people. What should he be afraid of when he joined forces with Wang Zhuo today?

However, Wang Zhuo concealed something from him. The 20,000 infantry and cavalrymen under Huan Xi's command were all selected elites.

Wang Zhuo never told the truth because he was worried about scaring away the Qiuchi reinforcements.

In the sixth year of Yonghe (AD 350), on Zhengdan, Governor Huanxi led infantrymen out of Longguan and attacked Qingshui County, Lueyang County.

Qingshui County was originally the ancestral land of the Yang family, but now it is under the rule of Hou Zhao and is only seventy miles away from Longguan.

At first, the Jin army was stationed in Longguan, and the people of Qingshui were still a little frightened, fearing that they would be attacked by the Jin army. However, during this period of time, they never saw the Jin army coming down the mountain to plunder, and they gradually got used to the 20,000 Jin troops on Long Mountain.

While the people in the city were still celebrating the New Year, Deng Xia led five thousand cavalry as the vanguard and had already reached the outside of the city.

Before Shibao attacked Chang'an, there were 10,000 cavalry in the army. After these cavalry surrendered, Huanxi selected 4,000 soldiers from them, and combined them with the 1,000 cavalry of the Jin army before, to form 5,000 cavalry, and paired each of them with two horses. , barely possessing a certain ability to run.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The garrison on the tower raised his voice to warn.

But it was too late. The Jin army who specifically chose to go down the mountain on the first day of the new year did not give the Qingshui County defenders time to react. More than a hundred cavalry seized the city gate, allowing the cavalry behind them to pour into the city continuously.

A moment ago, Qingshui County was a scene of joy, but now, the entire city's soldiers and civilians are in panic.

"The Jin army is coming down the mountain!"

"The Jin army is coming to kill!"

There were screams everywhere, but since the Jin army under Huan Xi had not committed any atrocities against civilians, although the people of Qingshui were panicked, they did not react too violently.

Deng Xia sent people everywhere to read out the discipline of the king's division. In each lane, patrolling Jin army cavalry were shouting in various ethnic languages ​​to reassure the people.

Huan Xi arrived in Qingshui County in the evening, and the infantry's marching speed could not be compared with the cavalry's attack.

Seventy miles a day can be regarded as a rapid march. Generally speaking, the normal marching speed of infantry is only forty or fifty miles a day.

It's not that they can only go so far during the day, but the infantry march lightly, and no matter where they go, they must be carefully searched by scouts to prevent an ambush. Deng Qiang escorted Huan Xi and followed him into the city.

With Shen Jin guarding Fennan Gaoyuan, Zhu Xu staying in Hanzhong, and Huan Yi staying in Longshan, Deng Qiang was able to quickly rise to power and become an important general around Huan Xi.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that he was able to show off his power outside Anding City. He was able to fight on a par with Deng Xia. Even with his bravery, he could impress the generals in the army.

Du Zhou followed Deng Xia out of the city to greet him. Even though it had been a long time, Du Zhou felt uncomfortable whenever he saw Deng Qiang. It always reminded him of his overestimating his ability to challenge Deng Xia outside Anding City. In the end, he humiliated himself.

Huan Xi also noticed something strange about Du Zhou. He called Du Zhou to his side in front of all the generals, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile:
  "Is it possible that General Du is still worried about stability?

"You know, when Ying Yuan (Deng Xia) was in Xiangyang, he went into the water to kill the evil dragon that was causing harm to one party.

"And Pohu (Deng Qiang) can draw with Ying Yuan, why do you still feel ashamed when you lose at his hands?"

When Du Zhou heard this, he completely eliminated the grudge in his heart.

After all, Deng Qiang showed mercy and did not harm his life. Du Zhou was still grateful to Deng Qiang in his heart.

Deng Qiang also looked at Huan Xi gratefully. Since he surrendered the city to Huan Xi, Huan Xi had included him among his trusted generals.

At present, there are not many people who can be regarded as Huan Xi's trusted generals, including seven including Wang Meng, Quan Yi, Zhu Xu, Deng Xia, Huan Yi, Shen Jin, and Deng Qiang, as well as a non-staff member named Xi Chao.

Since having Wang Meng as his assistant, Huan Xi has almost forgotten about Xi Chao. If Xi Chao hadn't often written to him and talked about the major events in the south, this former number one confidant under Huan Xi would have almost died in Huan Xi's life. There is no such person in my mind.

Of course, in his replies to Xi Chao, Huan Xi would still express his thoughts about him from time to time.

When Wang Zhuo and Yang Chu learned that Huan Xi's troops had left Longshan and occupied Qingshui, they hurriedly marched from Tianshui County to the east of Gui County. Among them, Wang Zhuo led 30,000 troops and Yang Chu led 4,000 troops, totaling 34,000 people. Stationed in Lueyang County.

Lueyang County is located at the intersection of the Lueyang River and the Wei River. The Lueyang River, also known as the Qingshui River, originates from Longshan in Qingshui County.

Wang Zhuo and Yang Chu moved to Lueyang to prevent Huan Xi from going south along the river valley.

Huan Xi was also interested in fighting a battle with the two in Lueyang.

Logically speaking, Huan Xi could instruct Zhu Xu to station troops on the border with Qiuchi and force Yang Chu to return for reinforcements.

But after finally luring the snake out of its hole, there is no reason to scare people away.

Longnan is a mountainous area. The reason why Qiuchi can survive to this day is also related to the fact that the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Since Huan Xi intends to capture Guanlong, he will naturally not let go of Qiu Chi who is entrenched in Longnan. Instead of letting Yang Chu retreat and defend against the mountain, while he leads his soldiers to attack the mountain, it would be better to destroy Qiu Chi's effective force in Lueyang. .

The Jin army did not stop at Qingshui and went south along the river valley the next day.

Just as the Longyou Battle was about to begin, Wang Zhuo's envoy for help came to Liangzhou with Huan Xi's message.

"How dare Shu Zian bully me!"

Zhang Chonghua tore the paper on which Huan Xi's message was copied to pieces.

His chest was rising and falling, and he was furious.

Wang Zhuo's envoy struck while the iron was hot and asked Zhang Chonghua to send troops to rescue.

Not to mention that Huan Xi's message angered Zhang Chonghua. Even without this message, Wang Zhuo had already surrendered to him, and Zhang Chonghua could not save him.

But Zhang Chonghua fell into hesitation as to who should be the general.

If it were the same as before, there would be no need to think too much and I would just thank Ai as my general. I believe he will be able to live up to his expectations just like before.

But now there was a rift in the relationship between the two, and Xie Aidu was sent to Jiuquan to guard the west border.

There are also rumors circulating in Guzang City that Xie Ai is resentful because of this. This is of course the work of Wang Meng.

Yongjian is also one of the military methods, otherwise "Sun Tzu's Art of War" would not have the "Yongjian Chapter".

It's not that Huan Xi and Wang Meng are afraid of Xie Ai, but they know that Xie Ai is a famous general in the world, and there is a rift between him and Zhang Chonghua. Huan Xi and Wang Meng should make more use of it, so that Qianliang abandons Xie Ai and uses Xie Ai instead. others.

Zhang Chonghua has naturally heard of those rumors, and it is inevitable that he will judge a gentleman with a villain's heart.

He felt that if he were Xie Ai and was treated like this after making so many achievements, he would definitely feel resentful.

Therefore, it was really difficult for Zhang Chonghua to decide whether to use Xie Ai as his general.

It's just that Huan Xi's sending troops to Qinzhou was too important, and the ministers asked Zhang Chonghua to re-appoint Xie Ai.

Just when Zhang Chonghua couldn't stand the invitation of the ministers, his concubine brother Zhang Zuo, the Marquis of Changning, sneered:

"Could it be that there is no one in Liangzhou, so Xie Ai is indispensable? If things continue like this, the soldiers and people in Liangzhou will only know that there is Xie Ai, but not the king."

Wang Meng never sent anyone to bribe Zhang Zuo, but this did not prevent Zhang Zuo from speaking out to prevent Xie Ai from becoming a general again.

Zhang Chonghua was shocked. As the saying goes, great achievements shock the master. Xie Ai was in such a situation now. Even if he did nothing, in Zhang Chonghua's eyes, he was a threat that could not be ignored.

　In the first chapter, Deng Qiang’s name was not recorded, and Pohu was made up based on his name.
  　　
  　
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