Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 166 One Country, Two Emperors
Chapter 170 One Country Two Emperors

"Anyway, the news has already spread in the north. Murong Juan is really dead, but Murong Ke said that Murong Ping committed the crime and killed Murong Jun. However, Murong Ping's side announced that Murong Ke was the murderer of Murong Juan. Say the public is right, the mother-in-law says the mother-in-law is right, the two sides quarrel so much that they often fight!"

Ran Feng continued: "It's very interesting. After Murong Juan's death, Murong Ping made his second son, Murong Wei, the emperor and set his capital in Jicheng (now Beijing). Murong Ke made Murong Ye, the eldest son of Murong Juan, the emperor. Dulong City! Both sides say that they are the orthodox of the Yan Kingdom, and Murong Ke and Murong Ping are gathering troops to prepare for a big battle and a showdown!"

"One country, two emperors!" Ran Ming said with a smile, "That's interesting. There is a saying that the snipe and the clam fight each other for the fish. This is indeed the best chance for the Wei country to solve the Xianbei tribe in one fell swoop. What a pity!"

Ran Ming secretly hated the state of Jin for being too insignificant. In fact, the Jin Dynasty was different from the Southern Song Dynasty. The national power of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was far stronger than that of the northern countries during this period, and there was a long period of civil strife in the north. Qin, Xiongnu, Jie, Xianbei, Di, you sing, I will sing, fighting endlessly, but the Eastern Jin Dynasty is partial to the southeast, and does not want to make progress.

In the parallel history, the Eastern Jin Dynasty had many opportunities to recover the Central Plains. For example, when Jin Zhun rebelled against the Xiongnu Han (formerly Zhao), the Eastern Jin Dynasty had the opportunity to recover the Central Plains, but the result was good, and Shi Le took advantage of the chaos.

Shi strangled to death, Shi Hu usurped the throne, and later Zhao was in chaos. At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also an opportunity, which was also missed in vain.

When Shi Hu died, Ran Min took advantage of the chaos and rose up, willing to welcome the master of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. As a result, the idiots of the Eastern Jin Dynasty also missed it.

Huanwen's third Northern Expedition failed, and Qianyan fell into civil strife. At this time, the Eastern Jin Dynasty still had a chance, but it also missed the opportunity to unify the world, but Fu Jian was in vain.

In this time and space, Ran Ming used bewitching methods to make Fu Sheng usurp the throne, causing internal turmoil in the former Qin Dynasty, and the originally weak former Qin Dynasty was completely vulnerable.

At the same time, both Yan and Liang countries fell into civil strife. This was an excellent opportunity for Wei to unify the north. As a result, the Eastern Jin Dynasty did not know which one was wrong, and unexpectedly launched a 23-strong army for the Northern Expedition.

Ran Ming also didn't understand what those ministers in the Eastern Jin court, the famous ministers and ministers in history, were thinking about. The Eastern Jin Dynasty could tolerate Shi Le's unification of the north.

He could tolerate Murong Jun's unification of the North, and Fu Jian's unification of the North, but he couldn't tolerate Ran Min.

The Han people have a bad root, that is, internal fighting is expert, external fighting is layman, external sage and internal king, they are cruel to their own people and kind to their enemies.

Thinking of this, Ran Ming was also full of helplessness.

Immediately Ran Ming came to his senses and asked, "Brother, what instructions does the emperor have?"

Ran Feng wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth, and took out a secret letter from his underwear.

Ran Ming continued to write a letter, which was written by Ran Min himself, telling Ran Ming that Cui Tong was in a desperate situation, and the whole of Jinyang was out of food, and within three days at most, Jin Chengyang would be destroyed.

The letter also mentioned a problem, that is, because of the domestic turmoil in Yan, Ran Min wanted to take advantage of the victory of Wei State to conquer Yan State in the north, capture Youzhou, Jizhou, and Bingzhou's strategic locations.

However, considering that it was winter, the weather was extremely cold, and there was an extreme shortage of food, carts, horses, supplies, and clothing to keep out the cold, Ran Min was also worried that the State of Yan, under the pressure of the State of Wei, would force Murong Ke and Murong Ping to make peace and jointly deal with Wei. country.At that time, Yan State and Jin Dynasty will attack Wei State from north to south, and Wei State will fight on both sides, which will definitely hurt its vitality.

In the end, Ran Min proudly said: "I have made up my mind. I will wait for the Great Wei Dynasty to recuperate for three years to accumulate strength. I will conquer Guanzhong first, and then plan for the Yan Kingdom. I will pacify the north, send my troops to the south, and unify the world!"

Seeing Ran Min's strategic layout, Ran Ming's heart sank.

At this time, Ran Feng said: "I am ordered by my father to lead the Tiger Roaring Battalion with [-] fine horsemen for Your Highness to drive!"

"What!" Ran Mingqi said: "Isn't the Tiger Roaring Battalion five thousand soldiers? How come the number of troops has doubled in just half a year?"

Ran Feng said, "It's all thanks to King Xiangguo of Chu. When he went north to resist the enemy, Wang Xiangguo deliberately provoked Murong Ping and led Murong Ping's army by the nose, leading Murong Ping's army to Qinghe Xiajin. The army successfully rescued more than 8000 captured Han people. Most of the young and strong were willing to join the Wei army. Now not only the Huxiao Camp has more than 3 people, but even the Huben Army has exceeded [-] troops, and the Beiwei Army has [-] troops. There are more than [-] soldiers in the Sujie Army, more than [-] in the Canglang Battalion, and [-] in the Gale Wind Battalion."

"Good boy! It's amazing!" Ran Ming clicked his tongue secretly.

"Wang Meng and Wang Jinglue are really amazing.

Ran Ming has not recovered yet.Ran Feng said again: "Father commanded me and Su Jue to lead [-] soldiers and horses to support Your Highness, so as to repel Huan Wen!"

When Ran Ming heard this, his confidence in defeating Huan Wen increased greatly.

This Huanwen Northern Expedition was almost on the scale of his third Northern Expedition, the only difference being the route of march.

In fact, Ran Ming didn't know that Huan Wen also lied to Ran Min this time. He was not in the middle army at all, but led his champion general Mao Husheng and chief counselor Xi Chao to Qiaocheng.

To be precise, Dai Shi and Yin Hao belonged to Sima Yu, the king of Kuaiji, and they didn't deal with Huan Wen at all.

In the camp of the Chinese army in Qiaocheng, Yin Hao and Dai Shi quarreled.

According to Yin Hao's plan, he went directly from Qiaocheng to Liangcheng (now Shangqiu), went straight to Huangxu (now Lankao), passed Kaifeng, and went straight to Yecheng.Thus once and for all.

But Dai Shi disagreed. His plan was to start from Qiaocheng, go east to Pei County, to Pengcheng in Xuzhou, enter Hulu, Keren City, and then turn to attack Qingzhou.

Opinions differ, and the two start arguing.

Yin Hao was unwilling to give in, and his reasons were very good: "From Qiaocheng via Liangcheng to Huangxu in the north, this distance is the simplest, most direct and most effective way for them to win at the least cost."

Of course Dai Shi retorted: "Why doesn't the general know that if we don't attack Qingzhou, then the Wei army in Qingzhou will suddenly rush out from behind us and cut off our army's food and grass. How can the general defend against the enemy?"

"This... this... this." Yin Hao couldn't say a word.

Obviously he didn't consider this issue, Yin Hao said: "As long as we are more careful and send more soldiers to protect the food, we can sit back and relax!"

Dai Shi sighed helplessly, the first rank of the official would crush someone to death, Yin Hao worried that Dai Shi would continue to quarrel with him, so he took the initiative to say: "General Dai's words are reasonable, but this general is the leader of the three armies, considering the way of food is the key to victory." The key point is, so I ask General Dai to sit in Qiaocheng and take charge of commanding our Jin army to attack Liangcheng." Yes, Yin Hao completely rejected his own strategy, and Dai Shi was also unhappy.

At this moment, a loud roar came from outside the big tent of the Chinese army: "Grand Sima Huanwen is here!"

At this moment, Dai Shi also became uneasy, and said in a low voice, "Why is Huan Wen here?"

Yin Hao got up and bowed to salute: "The last general will see the chief Sima!"

In parallel history, Huan Wen was a tragic figure.

The master of high meritorious deeds, although he wanted to usurp the throne, but his health was not good, so he was played to death by Xie An and Wang Tanzhi.

However, in this time and space, Huan Wen can be said to be proud of his spring breeze. He has just experienced the unsurpassed prestige established by the elimination of the Chenghan regime, and this Northern Expedition was two years earlier than the first Northern Expedition in history.

And the army is stronger. In this time and space, the situation in the north is more favorable to Huan Wen than in the parallel history.The State of Yan was far stronger than it had been in parallel history. Not only did it not occupy the Central Plains, but it did not even keep the territory of Jizhou.

And Di Qin was even more unbearable, let alone attacking, he even lost Hangu Pass and Tongguan, the gateways of Guanzhong.At this time, Huan Wen learned from intelligence that the northern front where the main force of the Wei army was concentrated, and the southern front was extremely empty.

Huan Wen didn't pay attention to Ran Ming, a yellow-haired boy, who had tens of thousands of recruits.

Huanwen's Northern Expedition did not really want to regain the Central Plains, but aimed to establish his prestige. He tried to establish his personal prestige through the Northern Expedition, and waited for an opportunity to replace the Jin family.

With this in mind, Huan Wen pointed the butcher knife at his own people before the war between Wei and Jin.

In Yin Hao's large tent of the Chinese army, nearly a hundred Yamen generals gathered together, and Huan Wen sat on the chief seat instead of the guests.

The atmosphere in the Chinese army tent was a bit weird. Although Huan Wen was the nominal commander of the Northern Expedition, in fact he had no master-slave relationship with Yin Hao and Dai Shi.

On the contrary, the appearance of Yin Hao is actually to restrain Huan Wen.

Therefore, the general of Yin Hao's trilogy did not have a good impression of Huan Wen.

"Generals!" After the ceremony, Xi Chao, Huan Wen's chief strategist, stood up and said loudly: "I think you all know that His Majesty aims to recover the Central Plains and eliminate the traitor Ran Min. If you want to recover the Central Plains, defeat the The villain Ran Min, all the Jin troops must be united and commanded in a unified way! For this reason, the Duke of Nanjun, Shizhong, Da Sima, the governor of all Chinese and foreign military forces, Yangzhou Mu, and Lu Shangshu Shi Huan formulated a unified order to fully accept the three routes of the Northern Expedition. Army Command!"

As soon as Xi Chao's words fell, Yin Hao stood up and said: "Dare to ask Da Sima, is there a military amulet for His Majesty's deployment of troops?"

Huan Wen shook his head, "No!"

Yin Hao said again: "Does Da Sima have the authorization and appointment of His Majesty's imperial decree?"

Huan Wen replied, "Nothing!"

"Hehe!" Yin Hao sneered and said, "There is neither a military talisman nor an imperial decree. Soldiers, state affairs, must be investigated! Such a name is not correct, and words are not right. It is difficult for Juhao to follow his orders!"

Huan Wen shouted: "I have the power to supervise all Chinese and foreign military forces. Why not accept the military power of the East Route?"

Huan Wen's power of superintendent of Chinese and foreign military forces is actually similar to the meaning of "Marshal of the World's Soldiers and Horses".

Dai Shi is Xie Shang's general, and has always been with Yin Hao.

However, he didn't have Yin Hao's courage to directly contradict Huan Wen, so he said softly but with force: "Unifying orders and uniting as one is a good way to defeat Ran Min. When war considerations arise, Da Sima's proposal is all right, and Da Sima will accept it." Do we have to wait for the military power of the Eastern Route Army, and wait until His Majesty's imperial decree arrives, and then I will obey the orders of the Great Sima!"

(End of this chapter)