In fact, Zhao Xu said that the four states of Qin, Feng, Cheng, and Jie are the land of the Central Plains, and there is a reason why these four states became the four states of Houshu later

The impression that Mengchang of Hou Shu gave to future generations is probably the feeling of a merry emperor and a dim emperor who is indulged in luxury and pleasure, indulges in beauty and gentleness, and has no way to govern the country and attack the scheming.

But in fact, these do not prevent Meng Chang from being an ambitious and enterprising local overlord.

It was during Meng Chang's tenure that the four prefectures of Qin and Feng became the administrative regions of Houshu, which has to be said to be a political achievement of Meng Chang.

In the seventh year of the Later Shu Guangzheng Dynasty, which was also the first year of the Later Jin Dynasty's fortune, Wang Junhuai, the military attache and commander of the righteous army of a unit stationed in Jiezhou (now southeast of Wudu, Gansu), was dissatisfied because he was armed with the people's army under his jurisdiction and was discriminated against and excluded by the commanders.

So he angrily led more than 1,000 people to Shu Realm. Wang Junhuai even expressed his attitude to the border generals of Later Shu that he was familiar with the military and political situation and the dangers of the mountains and rivers in Longyou, and was willing to lead his troops as a vanguard to lead the Shu army to attack the two states of Jiejie and Cheng (now Chengxian County, Gansu).

When the news reached Chengdu, Meng Chang was so moved that he almost couldn't sit still, and it can also be said that he jumped up happily.

You must know that if Houshu can enter Longyou, then this place can be united with Hanzhong, which can not only form a stable military defense line in the northwest, but also use it as an offensive base to collect the soldiers, war horses and various military materials that are in short supply in the two Sichuan, and then go straight to Guanzhong with a commanding position.

At that time, the Northern Expedition strategy of Zhuge Wuhou of Shu Han was basically the same.

And Wuhou Liu's exit from Qishan could not return the land of Longyou to Shu Han, and later Longyou eventually became a disaster for Shu Han.

Later, Deng Ai, a famous general of Cao Wei, went south along the tributaries of the Bailongjiang River from Yinping (now Wenxian County, Gansu), crossed the Motianling Pass, walked the Qingxi River Valley, climbed the Jingjun Mountain and rolled down, went out of Pingwu, attacked Jiangyou and Mianzhu, and arrived in Chengdu.

Meng Chang is no stranger to this. Therefore, he immediately ordered the generals along the border: answer Wang Junhuai and quickly take Jiezhou.

However, the Longyou defense line of the Later Jin Dynasty was not empty. The city of Jiezhou was well defended, and the garrisons of Qin and Cheng were also extensive.

In particular, He Jian, the envoy of the Xiongwu Festival stationed in Qinzhou, successively served as the marshal of the six states along the border, and was completely promoted step by step by relying on military merits and political achievements, and was promoted step by step to the famous generals of the Later Tang and Later Jin dynasties, which can be called the pillar of the northwest.

Therefore, despite Wang Junhuai's surrender to Shu and the Shu army attacking Jiezhou on a large scale, the Later Jin still had enough strength to resist Hou Shu. Within a few days, reinforcements from Qinzhou (present-day Tianshui, Gansu) arrived and defeated the Shu army.

Although Shu was finally defeated after the Battle of Jiezhou, Meng Chang was determined to follow the example of Wuhou, pass through the right side of Longxi, and expand the northwest of the border. After all, Meng Chang was only twenty-six years old this year, which was the age of ambition and ambition.

The luck of the Meng family's father and son seems to be abundant. Who says pie doesn't fall from the sky? Just over two years later, the three states of Longyou arrived as promised!

In the first month of the tenth year of Guangzheng, the Khitan envoy who flaunted his military might came to Qinzhou and read out a surprising edict to He Jian, the Xiongwu army of the Later Jin Dynasty:

After the Jin Dynasty fell to the country, Kaifeng fell, Shi Chonggui was escorted to the Khitan, and the Khitan lord Yelu Deguang ascended the throne in Kaifeng and called the emperor reads;. The new emperor demanded that the military and political governors everywhere must be honest and loyal to the Great Liao Dynasty!

He Jian immediately took the case, angrily pulled out his sword and slashed it, and said to his generals with a resolute attitude:

"How can I have today's status, the honor of being a very popular minister, it is completely the appreciation and trust of the two generations of the sons of heaven of the Shi family of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Now, the Khitan Hu'er has destroyed my Central Plains and destroyed my race. It's a pity that we, the generals, can't sweep away the wolf smoke for the country, how can we bend our eyebrows, be Yidi's lackeys, and slaughter our own compatriots? ! ”

Strictly speaking, however, He Jian was not a true Han Chinese, and his ancestors were Uighurs from the Western Regions, and later followed the Shatuo tribe in the Hedong region.

However, the five dynasties at the end of the Tang Dynasty were a matter of ethnic integration. Even the three dynasties of Shatuo have been integrated into the Central Plains, the melting pot of the Han ethnic community.

The crisis of the Khitan forces breaking into the Central Plains and the extinction of the country and the species aroused the common antagonism and fear of all ethnic groups active in the Central Plains. The formation of a new foreign threat has in fact accelerated the process of ethnic integration in the Central Plains.

He Jian believes that instead of surrendering to the Khitan, it is better to lose sincerity to Houshu. After all, the former is the country that destroys me, the seed that destroys me, and the "Yidi" who has the enmity of the sky.

And the latter, although it has also fought against each other many times, but after all, it is a civil war, and everyone is from the Central Plains. What's more, the Meng family and the son of heaven of the Shi family are still cousins, Meng Zhixiang married the eldest daughter of Emperor Wu (Li Keyong), and Shi Jingjiao married the third princess of Mingzong.

Investing in the Meng family is cheaper than taking refuge in the Khitan and selling yourself for glory! Therefore, He Jian dedicated all the lands of Qin, Jie, and Cheng Prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Xiongwu Army to Houshu.

He also suggested to Meng Chang that he should take advantage of the chaos to quickly take Guzhen (now southeast of Fengxian County, Shaanxi) and Fengzhou (now southeast of Fengxian County, Shaanxi).

Meng Chang smiled, because He Jian's pattern is too small, can Guzhen and Fengzhou satisfy this young emperor in Houshu? Do you want to disperse? Do you want Yong, Liang Erzhou, and Guanzhong Tianfu?

Guzhen (now Huixian County, Shaanxi) is in the west of Fengzhou, northeast of Qingniling in Xingzhou (now Luoyang, Shaanxi), is the intersection of Qin, Jie, Cheng, Feng and Xing Zhuzhou, and the key crossing of Gansu and Shaanxi into Shu.

Capture Guzhen, the game of chess in the four states of Longyou can be lived, and the Shu army can enter the realm of no one.

Fengzhou, connecting Dasanguan in the north and Baochuan Road in the south, is a strategic place connecting Longyou and Hanzhong. When the Shu army won Fengzhou, it was able to connect Longyou and Hanzhong as a whole, and put the last strong lock on the northern border defense of Xichuan.

On the contrary, it is to put a noose on Fengxiang (now Baoji, Shaanxi) and place a sharp sword on the top of Guanzhong's head.

And Dasanguan is the gateway of Fengzhou and the throat of Fengxiang. This Xiongguan is on the Dasan Ridge fifty-two miles southwest of Baoji.

Located at the western end of the Qinling Mountains and the boundary between Longshan Mountain, the valley area of the upper reaches of the Jialing River, it is an important passage between the north and south of the western Qinling Mountains. The pass is at the north end of this passage, and the road stands according to the danger. Longshan Mountain and Zhongnan Mountain meet here.

Huangshui (from Longxian County, Shaanxi, confluence with Weishui in Baoji), Weishui (from Weiyuan, Gansu, through Baoji South, across the Shaanxi Plain, into the Yellow River) lingers, the terrain is dangerous, known as the "throat of Qinshu".

Since ancient times, it has been a traffic channel between Sichuan and Shaanxi. From then on, Fengzhou bore the brunt of the southward journey into Shu, and then through Lizhou (present-day Guangyuan, Sichuan), you could reach Jiange (present-day Sichuan) on the northern edge of the Sichuan Basin.

And the west steps and texts are the old roads of Deng Ai's attack on Shu. For the two places of Sichuan and Shaanxi, which are scattered in the north and south, there is no way to enlighten Liangyi, and there is no way to pass the middle in the south.

It has always been a place where soldiers must fight, and later Gu Zuyu summed up the rise and fall of history and came to a law: "If Liang Yi has something, he will be scattered!" ”

If Meng Chang wants to go north to the Central Plains, he must first capture Guanzhong. If you want to take the pass, you must first take the four states of Longyou, and the key point to realize this strategic intention is the Dasanguan.

After He Jian's surrender, Meng Chang was immediately keenly aware of the great changes in the situation in the Central Plains: the Later Jin Dynasty overthrew and the Khitan gained a unstable foothold, and policies such as fighting grass valleys not only hurt the vital interests of all strata in the Central Plains, but also stimulated the latter's strong national feelings.

At this time, if you can take the opportunity to capture Guanzhong, you can go straight to the Central Plains, and even settle the world. After all, in terms of strength, Hou Shu has 200,000 soldiers, and has two Sichuan, Hanzhong, and Longyou, with strong soldiers and strong horses, and most of the generals at all levels are people from the Central Plains and Hedong, and they are very familiar with the situation in the interior;

In terms of appeal, the Meng family is a Jinzhi royal family of the Later Tang Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, and they are themselves authentic Han people in the Central Plains.

Meng Chang appointed Li Jixun, the general of the Right Qianniu Guard, as the envoy of Qinzhou, and brought He Jian a large number of Shuzhong specialties to appease the hearts of this new army.

Subsequently, Li Jixun joined Liu Jing, the assassin of Xingzhou, to lead his troops to capture Guzhen. According to He Jian's suggestion, Meng Chang formulated the tactics of controlling the danger, intercepting reinforcements, and gathering troops to attack the city.

Mobilize 3,700 Shu troops from Shannan West Road, go north from Xingyuan, and assemble in Guzhen with the soldiers of Cheng Erzhou led by He Jiansuo to form the East Advance Corps to coerce Fengzhou.

Sun Hanshao led an army of 20,000 to disperse the pass, taking the north to block the enemy, closing the door and beating the dogs. Subsequently, the two armies jointly attacked Fengzhou. Forced Fengzhou to defend Shi Fengqi to surrender the city to Shu. The land of Qin, Jie, Cheng and Feng has been pocketed by Houshu so far.

Meng Chang's luck was really too good to be a mess, Sizhou had just received it, and the two towns of Fengxiang and Jinchang (now Xi'an, Shaanxi) sent Hou Yi and Zhao Kuangzan's request to surrender to Chengdu, and the two suggested that Hou Shu send troops to Guanzhong.

Although Hou Yi and Zhao Kuangzan temporarily changed their hexagrams, and Wang Jingchong, the general of the Later Han Dynasty, drove the Shu army back to Shuzhong, Meng Chang believed that the time was ripe for the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Zhao Sijuan of Fengxiang and Wang Jingchong of Guanzhong to meet Li Shouzhen in the river and set off a new rebellion**, they all surrendered to Hou Shu, and the newly established Later Han regime was in danger!

Meng Chang seems to have seen the dawn on the throne of Tokyo, this is a great time that his father will not dare to hope for in his life!

Shi Jingjiao and Liu Zhiyuan were both born in Hedong Jiedu, and if Meng Zhixiang didn't go to Xichuan, he might not be able to go south to become emperor.

Today, the Meng family is in Shuzhong, with strong strength, and it is not impossible to settle Guanzhong, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, and realize the imperial ambition of unifying the world.

However, unfortunately, Meng Chang's opponent was Guo Wei, who was scheming and good at strategy. Compared to the latter, the former is significantly greener.

By the time Zhou Shizong ascended the throne, although Meng Chang had already put his main energy on eating, drinking, having fun and beautiful women, he was sitting on the dangers of mountains and rivers, and the Houshu Dynasty, which was solid in Hanzhong and Longzhong, was like an iron walnut with a hard shell.

In this way, the four states of Qin and Feng fell into Houshu, but the decadent rule of Houshu has provoked the people of these four states, and they hope to return to the Central Plains, which is why the people of Qinzhou came to it.

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