Chapter 1040: The new Yizhou Mu Liu Yu

Before I knew it, it came to February of the second year of Chuping (191).

In the past year, there have been too many big events:

In January of the first year of the first year of the First Ping, the alliance of the princes of the 36th Route discussed Dong;

In the same month, Qin Hao, the leader of the alliance, promoted high-yield grain, which became the greatest gospel for farmers in the world;

In February, the Third Battle of Tiger Pass;

In March, the Tiger Prison Rain Battle;

In the same month, the coalition forces were divided into three routes;

After that, the Battle of Longmen Array, the Battle of Luoyang, the decisive battle between Li Yuanba and Li Cunxiao at the top of Luoyang, the retreat of the coalition army with a plan to seal the king, the meeting of Michi, the death of Dong Zhuo, and the coalition of the southern princes......

Each of the above events is extremely significant, but they all happened in the same year, which shows what a wonderful year the first year of Chuping was, and the two sides of Chuping that followed were also not calm.

In the second year of the first peace, on February 1, the southern barbarian king Chiyou led 100,000 barbarian soldiers, falsely claimed to be 300,000, and invaded the counties of southern Sichuan in Yizhou for the third time.

Chi You has not yet been arrogant to the point of declaring war on Er Liu at the same time, and before the main army arrives, his main target is only Liu Yan's family.

Although Liu Yan has always been on guard against Chi You, nearly half of his troops are used to guard against Liu Ji, who has a tense relationship, so it is naturally difficult to resist Chi You's invasion.

The Chiyou army is not superior in terms of strength, but Yizhou County is afraid of Chiyou like a tiger, so the Chiyou army is simply overwhelming, and it has not even been half a month before it captured the entire county of Jianning, and half of Xinggu County has also fallen.

The rapid deterioration of the war situation forced Liu Yan to transfer troops from the northern front to resist the invasion of the aggressive Chiyou, and Liu Yan also fell ill from exhaustion.

Chengdu, the state of the pastor's house.

"Yu'er ......"

Liu Yan on the sickbed groaned weakly.

Liu Yu took Liu Zhang and other brothers and sisters to kneel in front of Liu Yan's bed, and when he heard his father's shout, Liu Yu hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Liu Yan's hand, and said sadly: "Father, Yu'er is here." ”

Liu Yan opened his cloudy eyes and said bitterly: "Yu'er, it's useless to be a father, and the good foundation of Yizhou has ruined the current situation......

Liu Yu immediately shook his head and comforted: "Father, it's not your fault, Zhu Rongchi (Chiyou) is a hero who came out of Nanban once in a thousand years, and no one in the world will do better than you, father." ”

"Yu'er, you don't have to comfort your father, if you lose, you lose."

The bitterness on Liu Yan's face was even worse, and he said: "Yu'er, for my father, I wanted to lay a solid foundation for my son like Qin Wen, but I didn't expect to leave you with only a mess.

Now I'm afraid that my father will not be able to, Yu'er, you are the eldest son in the family, and this mess can only be taken over by you. ”

"Father, this is Yu'er's responsibility, and Yu'er will never back down."

Liu Yu said very firmly, and when Liu Yan saw this, a trace of relief flashed in his eyes.

"Yu'er, you are proud of your father, and your father believes that you will be able to keep this inheritance and take care of your younger brothers and sisters, and you must be careful, be careful of Liu ......"

As he spoke, Liu Yan seemed to have suffered a great deal of pain, and he couldn't even speak a complete sentence.

Liu Yu was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly said, "Father, don't say it." Doctor, doctor, come on......"

"Be careful of Liu Ji, he is, the eldest son of the emperor."

Liu Yan used the last strength of his life to finally reveal this amazing secret.

Liu Yu was stunned after hearing this, and understood why his father was so jealous of Liu Ji, after all, compared with the Han family, the identity of Liu Jihuang's eldest son is easier to win the support of the family and the people!

In the second year of the first peace, on February 20, Yizhou Mu Liu Yan died of illness and Chengdu, and his son Liu Yu succeeded him as the new Yizhou Mu.

Soon after Liu Yu finished the funeral for Liu Yan, he led an army of 80,000 to the south and personally went to confront Chi You.

Compared with Liu Yan, who would only hide in Chengdu, Liu Yu dared to directly confront Chi You, and his move to the battlefield in person was also recognized by the Yizhou generals, and the morale of the Yizhou army was greatly increased.

When Liu Yu's 80,000 reinforcements arrived, the defenders of southern Sichuan were only 70,000 strong, and the combined strength of the two armies reached 150,000.

Liu Yu far surpassed Chiyou in terms of troops, but in the face of the morale of the Chiyou army, Liu Yu did not dare to be careless, but instead adopted a steady and steady way of fighting.

Liu Yu, with his superior troops and sophisticated equipment, also blocked Chi You's fierce offensive, forcing Chi You to suspend the attack.

But this situation did not last long, when the 100,000 reinforcements in the rear of Chiyou arrived, Liu Yu, who had lost the advantage of troops, was suppressed by Chiyou again.

Chi You, who has an army of 200,000 in hand, and the two god of war generals himself and Gonggong, can be described as monstrous.

Liu Yu is inferior to Chi You in terms of troops, and the generals are even worse, but he still refuses to compromise and retreat even half a step, and the two sides are fighting for every inch of land.

In the face of the repeated defeats of the Nanban Yizhou army, under the leadership of the new lord Liu Yu, it exerted a combat power that Chi You couldn't help but marvel at, but the cost of doing so was also huge.

In terms of soldiers, Liu Yujun suffered a total of nearly 50,000 casualties, and as for the losses of generals, they can only be described as tragic.

Among the generals who were born with Liu Yu, He Wuji, Tan Pingzhi, Tan Shao, Meng Chang, and Meng Huaiyu, five generals died in battle.

The casualties of the local generals in Yizhou were even more tragic, Jia Long, Cheng Yu, Zheng Du, Li Yi, Yang Huai, Lei Tong, Yonghong, Zhu Bao, and eight generals were killed in battle.

Among the thirteen members of the army who died in the battle, six died at the hands of Chi You, four died at the hands of Gonggong, and the other generals of the Nanban only killed three people in total, and even Liu Yu himself narrowly escaped several times.

Liu Yu paid such a tragic price and also wiped out Chiyou's nearly 35,000 troops, which was an unprecedented victory for the Yizhou army, which had been defeated repeatedly.

In the past battles between the Yizhou army and the Southern Barbarian Army, the number of victories was simply a handful, and the most time was only a thousand barbarian soldiers, but it paid the price of nearly 3,000 casualties.

And this time, under the leadership of Liu Yu, the Yizhou Army finally raised its eyebrows, and Zhang Ren, Yan Yan, Huang Quan and other veterans in the army also agreed with Liu Yu, the new master.

Through the war with Chiyou, although Liu Yu did his best to benefit the hearts of the ministers, he still lost strategically.

Liu Yu, who only had 100,000 troops left in his hands, finally failed to hold Xinggu County, and chose to retreat to Zhuti County in time when he saw that the situation was not good.

Chi You put too much pressure on Liu Yu, forcing Liu Yu to transfer troops from the Eastern Front to help, but when considering Liu Ji, who was eyeing Liu Ji on the side, this made Liu Yu unable to make up his mind.

In the end, Liu Yu decided to cede Guxing County, which had been occupied by Chiyou, in order to reach an alliance with Liu Ji again, and the two families once again joined forces to fight against Chiyou's invasion.