Cheng Han Chapter 3
In the original history, Huan Wen took over the Yu family to take charge of the military and political power in Jingzhou for a long time, so he sent troops to destroy Shu in line with the principle of pinching soft persimmons first, and first established his authority.
At that time, Huan Wen traced the river with the elite army of Jingzhou, since November of the second year of Yonghe in Badong Yufu White Emperor City, to February of the third year of Yonghe, the army has arrived at the Tsing Yi River in the heart of Shudi, and there is almost no obstruction and resistance along the way.
It was not until the Huanwen army arrived in Tsing Yi that the upper echelons of the Cheng Han were alerted and sent a large army south to Heshui near the Min River to resist. However, Zan Jian, the general of the Cheng Han unified army, made a mistake in judgment at the critical moment, and did not choose to stick to the vicinity of Heshui, but chose to continue to move forward and cross the river into Qianwei to defend it, which happened to miss Huanwen's army perfectly.
Thus, without encountering any resistance, Huan Wen's army reached Pengmo in Shuzhong in March of the third year of Yonghe, which was only 200 miles away from Chengdu. At this time, the Cheng Han general Zan Jian also led the army in Qianwei in the rear to look for traces of the enemy.
After the Huan Wen army arrived in Pengmo, it was Yuan Qiao who proposed to concentrate his forces at a critical moment and take Chengdu directly. The Jin army was taken by surprise when it entered Shu this time, and Cheng Han had no time to mobilize troops to resist, and not long before that, he had just divided part of Chengdu's already insufficient forces, because when Huan Wen's troops came to Chengdu, it could be said that they had broken through the empty door.
The two armies fought at the bridge outside the city of Chengdu, and the Jin army won a great victory and broke through Chengdu, and the Han lord Li Shi fled in panic, and soon after, he surrendered to Huan Wen under the persuasion of his courtiers.
The Cheng Han regime, which ruled Shuzhong for more than 40 years, fell in less than half a year after Huan Wen sent troops, and Huan Wen also took advantage of this battle to formally establish his authority as a heavy minister in Shaanxi, becoming the first person in the Dianwu Dynasty, which made a solid foundation for the Northern Expedition later.
It is no exaggeration to say that the battle of Huan Wen to destroy Shu, not to mention that under the background of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, even in any period in history, it was a glorious battle worth talking about.
Although there are many lucks in the process, there is no battle in the world, and variables in war are inevitable, and the ability to skillfully use variables to strive for maximum results is the indispensable endowment of generals. The elite army attacked, and the quick battle was decisive, and Huan Wen's performance in this process can be said to be one of the highest moments in the Guozuo inheritance of the Eastern Jin Dynasty!
Although for various reasons, His Majesty the Emperor of Great Liang finally failed to take Huan Wen for his own use, and even went into hostility with each other, but he has always had a high respect for Huan Wen. However, when Daliang was planning to destroy Shu, the process experience of Huan Wen's destruction of Shu in history was not a big reference.
With a mere number of tens of thousands, in just a few months, such a unique regime as the Cheng Han Dynasty was defeated, and there was no room for such a glorious battle to be replicated. Any slight change in the elements can make a big difference.
In terms of attitude towards the matter of Shu alone, Emperor Daliang is completely different from Huan Wen in history. Different from Huan Wen's magnificent radicalism, today's sage's meritorious thinking itself is difficult first and then easy, focusing on the Central Plains and the broader Hebei. As for the Cheng Han in Shuzhong, it was a deliberate moderation and even a blind attitude for a long time before.
The reason for this difference in attitude lies in the fact that the positions and foundations of the two sides are different. Today's sage is based in Wuzhong, and his achievements are in Huainan, and he is not qualified or strong to meddle in such an important town as Jingzhou before the climate is completed. And when you have this kind of strength and prestige, the rewards you can get from chasing the Central Plains are even greater.
Jingzhen has always been the weak control of today's sages, if Jingzhou defeated Chenghan before the northern affairs were decided, Jingzhou and Yizhou were connected as one and complemented each other, it would cause greater centrifugal force, and even divide one side and become its own system.
Now that the new dynasty of Daliang was founded, the chapter system was determined, and the general trend was the same, and greater forces could be mobilized to deal with the hidden dangers in the southwest, and the cutting of Shu was put on the agenda. The root of this is that in the pattern of Jingyang confrontation in the old years, His Majesty the Emperor failed to master the important towns in the upper reaches of Shaanxi.
Of course, the timing is different, and the opponents you face are completely different. Now it is imperative for Daliang to attack Shu, and it is impossible to skillfully use the suddenness like Huan Wen to attack Shu, such as the opportunity for the army to suddenly advance into the hinterland of Shu, and it can only be attacked by force.
Today's domestic situation in the Cheng and Han dynasties is also very different from the original history, although the Cheng and Han dynasties established the state of Shuzhong, but if you want to compare, its political characteristics are somewhat similar to those of the Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms.
Although the Sun family of Eastern Wu was born in Jiangdong, Sun Ce's entrepreneurial team was not a Wu person, and he had a lot of help from the Huaisi Haoqiang, and it was not until the Sun Quan period that the local Haoqiang of Sanwu gradually joined the ruling order of Eastern Wu.
Although the Cheng Han Li clan is a native of Brazil, the force it really relies on is still the armed forces of the displaced people of the six counties of Qin Yong, but it is only after gaining the recognition of the Bashu Haoqiang represented by Fan Changsheng that it really dominates Shuzhong.
For example, in the key battle of Yizhou Thorn Shi Luoshang to capture Chengdu, the army lacked food, and it was with Fan Changsheng's funding that he was able to maintain the army's momentum, and finally entered Chengdu, and under the advice and assistance of Fan Changsheng and others, he was called the emperor in Chengdu and established his rule.
In order to gain the support of Fan Changsheng and other local tycoons, Li Xiong had to admit that the Bashu tycoons actually occupied the land and population, and even pushed it to the Bashu magnates. Therefore, the foundation of the Cheng Han Dynasty is very different from the Shu Han Dynasty where the Li State was before, but it is the same as the Eastern Wu that divided the Jiangzuo, and they are all powerful clan associations.
After the death of the lord Li Xiong, the Cheng Han clan fell into a brutal internal strife, and under this appearance, it was also the struggle and friction between the six county homeless clans and the Bashu Haoqiang.
After that, Guozuo was transferred from Li Te's line to Li Shou's lineage, and Li Shou represented that this contest returned to a new balance point, but the armed forces of the six counties no longer had an absolute advantage, and many Bashu Haoqiang became important ministers of the Cheng Han Dynasty.
After Li Shi succeeded to the throne, his younger brother Li Guang wanted to be the prince and won the support of a group of Bashu Haoqiang, Li Shi killed Bashu Haoqiang with the support of Li Yi, the representative of the displaced people in the six counties, and forced Li Guang to commit suicide. Later, Li Yi rebelled in the country, although it was extinguished, but after this series of turmoil, the national strength of Cheng Han was also lost to the extreme.
In particular, the Bashu heroes who originally supported the Li clan also completely lost their confidence in continuing to support the Li clan and advised Li Shi to surrender to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
However, after Huan Wen Pingshu, although he was also trying his best to win over Bashu Haoqiang, the Eastern Jin Dynasty court did not accept Bashu Haoqiang out of vigilance against Huan Wen and its own closedness. For example, Chang Xuan, a native of Shu County who strongly persuaded Li Shi to surrender, was discriminated against after entering the dynasty and died of indignation.
As a result, after the destruction of Shu, the Eastern Jin Dynasty court failed to enjoy more benefits, and the powerful people of Shu also rebelled repeatedly, and broke out such as Fan Ben, the son of Fan Changsheng, and the wealthy family of Brazil successively called the king a rebellion.
In the current world, Li Shi did not force his brother Li Guang to kill, but established himself as the successor and entrusted him with an important task, leading the army to garrison Langzhong, Brazil.
The Bashu heroes who originally abandoned the Li family were also full of a sense of crisis because the Liang Zhang system was full of malice towards the local heroes, and there was still no lack of dead heart for the Cheng Han regime. For example, the Fuling wealthy Xu clan Dafa County Soldier, tens of thousands of people were stationed in Jiangzhou City, Ba County. Fan Ben, the son of Fan Changsheng, also gathered Hao's strong tribes and was stationed in Qianwei.
In other words, Yuan Qiao's proposal to attack the elite army, before really attacking the hinterland of Shuzhong, also needed to conquer the two great river fortresses of Jiangzhou City and Qianwei City.
At present, the troops that can be dispatched by the Badong side have a total of 8,000 people under the command of the king of Runan, and the follow-up countries are still increasing their troops one after another, with a total of 20,000 troops coming from the south in the middle of the day. As for the men and horses of Jingzhou's headquarters, the only ones who can directly fight in action are the five thousand barbarian soldiers commanded by Xiangzhou Assassin Shi and Nanban Captain Ji Mu.
However, when this strategy was agreed, before it could be officially implemented, riots broke out again in the Padang realm. There was no shortage of Jingzhou headquarters troops who were dissatisfied with the inability to participate in the battle and complained incessantly, and even some boats blocked the waterway, unwilling to miss this good opportunity to pursue success.
Shen Yun, the king of Runan, was already resentful, and finally discussed this strategy and was constantly harassed by the Jingzhou soldiers, and the anger in his heart can be imagined, and he brazenly ordered that those who dared to delay the military and gather riots were arrested on the spot, and they would be punished and beheaded under the White Emperor City!
After learning of this, the entire Badong realm was also shaken, and the atmosphere was solemn to the extreme for a while. In particular, Li Yang, Zhou Fu and other original Jingzhou town generals were even more frightened, lest Jingzhen would be in chaos before Shu was cut down.
If there is really a mutiny among the sergeants and go straight to Tianque, there are still hundreds of thousands of elite troops stationed in Tianzhong who have just returned from Hebei to recuperate, once the army comes south, Jingzhen will be bloodied and miserable!
Therefore, on the one hand, Li Yang and others asked the king of Runan to withdraw his order for the time being, and on the other hand, they rushed and relied on their prestige to suppress the Jingzhen army who were about to riot, lest the situation slide to the most dangerous situation.
The major affairs of the country are in worship. Sergeants gathered to riot, this is an iron law that cannot be crossed during the period of the Huainan Governor's Mansion, although Li Yang and others tried their best to plead and plead, but the king of Runan only took a small step back, only punished the first evil, and under an order, there were still nearly 100 Jing Town commanders whose heads fell to the ground!
In addition, because Zhou Fu, who was involved in the incident, was deprived of his post and imprisoned, he was immediately escorted to Luoyang for the crime, and his ministry and troops were temporarily taken by Tao Hong, the Duke of Luling. Li Yang, Deng Yue and other generals could not be strict with the public, resulting in unbridled military discipline, and they all placed their crimes on Shu to be punished.
Although Li Yang and others have high positions, Jingzhen's long-standing private military structure also makes their functions and powers unable to be implemented from top to bottom.
The current situation is already very clear, it is a fact that the imperial court is going to completely purge the Jingzhou army, and for the soldiers of Jingzhen, the current attack on Shu is one of their few opportunities. If they are excluded from this war, their prospects will be even more worrying.
The king of Runan punished Li Yang and other generals, on the one hand, he was naturally demonstrating the solemnity of the national law and establishing the authority of the metropolitan governor, and on the other hand, he was actually protecting them, in order to avoid the generals of Jingzhen from electing the original generals in tandem to riot when their interests were damaged.
Once such a thing happens, the imperial court will definitely suppress it with iron and blood, and Li Yang and the others will definitely be shown to the public as the first evil, no matter how much their previous reputation or intentions were.
The king of Runan was furious, and the generals of the original Jingzhen were punished individually, but the fundamental problem was still not solved. As time passed, the atmosphere in Padang became more and more tense day by day, and even in the north, which they didn't know, 30,000 troops had entered Nanyang in batches!
Under such a tense atmosphere, Jin Xuangong, who was the deputy envoy of the military department of the Dadu Governor's Office, said to the king of Runan that the reorganization of the armies in Jingzhou was by no means a short-term success, and the period of the army of Shu could not be delayed.
Jin Xuangong's suggestion was also divided into two parts, and the advance of the frontal battlefield was to be carried out by the Wang Division, which had already been reorganized, and directly attacked the front line of the river.
As for the other Jingzhou troops that have not yet been reorganized, they will not set up specific combat routes and targets for each side of the battle, but only after obtaining definite results, they will allocate money, food, and meritorious service as a supplement to the frontal battlefield with the battalion as a unit.
Jin Xuangong's line of thought is mainly based on their tribal combat model of Liaodong Xianbei. The Xianbei tribes do not have sufficient storage and logistics, nor do they have a complete military structure, and it is the norm to feed the war with war. Often, the fierce battles between the tribes are all poured out, and the results of the battle are checked afterwards and then rewarded for meritorious deeds.
At present, the chaos of the Jingzhou troops is incalculable, so we might as well put it aside for the time being, and the various service and war units will attack first, and then carry out posthumous recognition and reorganization through the number of combat achievements. Even if there was no unified plan for the march in the early stage of the war, the realization of the war achievements after the fact could only be recognized by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and the battle was fought first and then reorganized.
By reversing the order, an otherwise unsolvable problem can be solved, and the fighter can be easily defeated. Using the battalion as the unit for settling the merits of the war can also ensure that there will be no large armed units in the course of the war.
Of course, this strategy also has its limitations, if it is used in the open terrain of the Hebei Plain, the large army in the open terrain of the Hebei Plain is tantamount to self-defeating. However, on the battlefield in Shuzhong, where the terrain is already complex, this kind of offensive method of spreading all over the mountains and making mistakes is more conducive to the cleanup and control of the Bashu region.
After some discussion, all the staff officers of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion agreed with this idea put forward by Jin Xuangong. And Shen Yun, the king of Runan, was indeed tired of the current stalemate, and immediately made a decision and ordered the army.
After receiving this new order, the reactions of the Jingzhou armies were different. One of the very important reasons why they are so diligent in the expedition is that the imperial court has allocated money and food in advance, but now they are told that they need to pay in advance, and they can only be reimbursed after they have made merit, and it is inevitable that their enthusiasm will cool down and hesitate for a while.
But just when the others were still hesitating, some soldiers had already taken the initiative to attack, from Padang along the river to the west, over the Wushan Mountain, and rushed into the Brazilian ditch, encircling and suppressing the barbarian tribes such as the people and the fangs between the mountains and fields.
These barbarians are widely distributed in Wushan, Daba Mountain, Wuling Mountain and other mountains and wilderness, often dozens of families live together as a tribe, and there are few large tribes, so naturally they will not be the opponents of the Jingzhou warriors. And these tribal populations and furniture have become the spoils of these Jingzhou warriors.
At the same time, the king of Runan also gathered more than 15,000 people in the armor and marched up the river to attack Jiangzhou City, where the county capital of Ba County is located.
Jiangzhou City tightly chokes the big river, has its own Fuling, Ba County and other places to lead the people to defend, is the first checkpoint of the waterway into Shu, although the king has a strong boat, but itself is against the current to attack, so the war for a time slightly stalemate.
However, a few days after Wang Shi's army was stuck in Jiangzhou City, the Jingzhou troops who were fighting separately on the back road caught up and swarmed into the counties along the way, burning and looting.
A lot of bad news from the countryside continued to pour into the city of Jiangzhou, and those Bashu heroes who were stationed here never expected that the Great Liang Wangshi would attack the weak with the strong, and they would actually use such a combat method to lead the war to the countryside.
The reason why they resisted stubbornly was that they were afraid that the entry of the Great Liang Wangshi would deprive them of their township capital, but now that Bashu has not changed hands, the war has already burned to their respective villages, so what's the point of resisting stubbornly in Jiangzhou City?
The so-called wicked people have their own wicked people to grind, when the Jingzhou army entered Fuling and Ba County in a big way, tens of thousands of strong troops in Jiangzhou City quickly collapsed without a fight, and Wang Shi successfully broke through Jiangzhou City, and then went to Shuzhong Qianwei.
Qian's battle for this is also a copy of the battle of Jiangzhou, the main force of the Wang division on the river to attack Qianwei defenders, and the rear road scattered soldiers continue to rush into the four fields of Shuzhong. In the end, the Qianwei defenders could not stand the devastation of this tactic, and they were defeated after holding out for a few days.
In mid-August, Wang Shi conquered Qianwei and transferred to the Minjiang River, so that he could go straight to Chengdu in Shuzhong!