After a winter of adequate preparations, Liu Yin decided to cross the river to the east. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the news from the Kwantung region, the Jin army has been repeatedly hit on several fronts, and it is obvious that Sima Yan no longer has the strength to defeat the Hu people.

Historically, the fuse of the Wuhu chaos was the battle of the eight kings, the royal family of the Jin State in order to fight for power and profit, launched a protracted war, Sima Liang, King Sima Liang of Runan, Sima Wei, Sima Wei, Sima Lun, King of Qi, Sima Yi, Sima Ying, King of Chengdu, Sima Hao, King Sima Yue of the East China Sea, took turns on the stage, you sang and I appeared, and the melee was endless, resulting in the Central Plains for thousands of miles, and the national strength of the Western Jin Dynasty declined, so the Wuhu rebelled one after another, and the Western Jin Dynasty was wiped out. The land of the Central Plains fell into a three-hundred-year-old Wuhu Rebellion.

Although the drama of the Eight Kings Rebellion has not yet been staged, the Wuhu Rebellion took the lead in kicking off, which is obviously inseparable from the decline of the Jin State's national strength.

In history, the Jin State destroyed Shu and swallowed Wu, unified the world, and indeed reached the peak of national strength. In fact, Wuhu has never stopped, the rebellion of the Xianbei people in Liangzhou, and the rebellion of the Qi people in Yongzhou in Yongzhou were both protracted and had a huge impact, and the national strength of the Jin State was still on the rise at that time, and it took a lot of effort to finally suppress these two rebellions.

It was not until after the Rebellion of the Eight Kings that the national strength of the Jin State declined, and in the face of the surging Zhuhu rebellion, it was already powerless, and under the joint attack of Zhuhu, the Western Jin Dynasty soon became one of the shorter-lived dynasties in Chinese history.

Therefore, it is obvious that the Rebellion of the Eight Kings is only the fuse of the Five Hu Chaos, not the decisive factor, and what really plays a decisive role is the strength and military strength of the Jin State.

Sima Yan's hasty replacement of Wei when he did not achieve absolute superiority was a fatal flaw in itself, and the turmoil caused by the change of dynasty was also something he did not expect. The rise of Shu and the strength of Wu made the early Jin State not only not inherit and carry forward the strength of Wei, but in this competition, it fell behind.

Including the power of the Huns, the power of the Wuhu is there, will not increase or decrease, after decades of continuous internal migration, millions of Hu people infiltrated into the Central Plains, perhaps Sima Yan with colored glasses, never looked at them squarely, but the strength of the Hu people is constantly growing, in the subtle and imperceptible, in fact, it has reached a rather terrible level, only a critical point.

And Liu Yuan stood at the cusp of the wind at this time.

Maybe it's an accident, if Sima Yan hadn't deprived Liu Yuan of his position as the party taishou and moved him to the belt, maybe Liu Yuan might not have the heart of rebellion.

But there is still inevitability in the accident, whether the ambitious Liu Yuan will stay in the position of the party is too guarded, this is no one can be sure, but one thing is certain, even if there is no Liu Yuan, there will be Zhao Yuan and Wang Yuan who will rebel, and the Wuhu Rebellion is an irreversible trend, and it is impossible for the Chinese nation to escape this catastrophe after all.

Liu Yin naturally has no reason to sit back and ignore the strength of Wuhu, if the Jin State really perishes, the general trend of the world will reach the point of being out of control, so when he sent troops to the east, Liu Yin had already made up his mind to eliminate Hu Ren when he was fledgling, which would be far easier than after gaining power in the future.

Jin and Shu fight, to put it bluntly, it is a wall of brothers, even if you fight to the death, after all, it is still an internal matter of the Chinese nation, but the Wuhu is different, what they bring to the Chinese nation is the difficulty of extinction, this kind of hatred has risen to the point of national survival, and it is absolutely intolerable and tolerated.

At the moment when the Chinese nation was in danger, the dispute between the Three Kingdoms of Jin, Shu and Wu had become less important, and what we had to do now was to share the same hatred and hatred and unite with the outside world.

In order to prepare for the Eastern Expedition, Liu Yin has been planning a whole winter, the three field corps have also completed the replenishment and rest, and the garrisons of each county have also been reorganized.

At that time, the Eastern Expedition was not just such a simple matter as preparing the army, the soldiers and horses were not moved, the grain and grass went first, involving the logistics supply of 130,000 horses and horses, especially the cross-border operations, the scale and quantity were unprecedented, Yongzhou Thorn Shi Yizheng held the position of logistics minister this time, and all the grain, grass, baggage, materials and military supplies were handled by him.

This Eastern Expedition is as significant as Liu Yin's original Northern Expedition, it will surely open the prelude to the strategic general offensive of Shu, with the same role as a milestone, and the generals of the Shu army are full of confidence and high morale, and they have great confidence in this Eastern Expedition.

From Qin to Jin, the Yellow River stretches hundreds of distances, but the Yellow River runs through the steep Qin-Jin Grand Canyon, the water flow is turbulent, and there are not too many places to choose to cross the river, among which Pubanjin is the most important one.

However, it was not the most advantageous to choose to join the state from Pubanjin, and although the Jin state had lost most of the territory of the state and Hedong, the city had remained firmly in the hands of Sima Jun, the king of Ruyin. Although Jin Shu is now in a state of truce, if you want to enter the state, you must first cross the pass of Pubanjin, and Sima Jun will definitely not agree.

However, Liu Yin has another idea, even if Sima Jun agrees with the Shu army to cross the river, crossing the river from Pubanjin may not be the best path, the Huns' nest is in Zuoguocheng, if you cross the river from Pubanjin, and then hit Zuoguocheng, it will be quite detoured, and it will go around very far, and the entire marching route is intercepted by the Huns.

If the army crosses the Yellow River, as soon as the river is crossed, it can directly attack Zuoguo City and deal a fatal blow to the Huns' lair, which is the ideal choice.

The military crossing is in the middle of the Qin-Jin Grand Canyon, when the Di people escape, it is the Yellow River that the army crosses this belt, but it is winter, the Yellow River is frozen, Qi Wannian crosses the Yellow River is quite easy, as long as it is guaranteed that there is no situation where a large number of people and horses cross the river at the same time, the ice on the river surface can still be carried. It was in this way that Qi Wannian easily crossed the Yellow River, entered Bingzhou, and defected to Liu Yuan.

At this time, it was spring, and it was time for the peach blossom flood, the river was surging, and the water was turbulent, and it was not easy to cross the Yellow River by joining the army. (To be continued.) )