Chapter 809: Letter from Huan Wen

At this time, Huan Wen began to think about how to disrupt the transmission of the imperial court's will, so that the Hua'an army and the Yan army could continue to confront each other on both sides of the Yishui River, so that it would be beneficial for him to gradually annex Yangzhou and obtain all the land in the core area of the Great Jin.

Of course, it is very inappropriate to directly send troops to intercept the ministers who convey their will, such a blatant act is bound to arouse the disgust of the people of the Great Jin Shi clan, thus greatly reducing the prestige of Huan Wen, and if it is ignored, once Hua'an accepts the imperial court's construction, takes Yishui as the boundary, and makes peace with the Yan State, then the military forces under Hua'an will inevitably return to the south of the Yellow River, thus causing a deterrent to the northern part of Jingzhou.

After thinking about it, Huan Wenji decided to use the national righteousness as a gimmick and wrote a letter to Hua'an, expressing his full support for Hua'an's Northern Expedition to recover the lost territory.

After writing the letter, Huan Wen immediately dispatched his henchmen to send the letter to the south bank of Yishui as quickly as possible and handed it over to Hua'an.

Huan Wen believes that with Hua'an's nature, he is willing to continue the Northern Expedition and recover all Youzhou and Pingzhou, but now, the imperial court will soon issue a decree for peace, which will cause certain constraints to Hua'an's continuation of the Northern Expedition, and as long as he fully supports Hua'an, Hua'an will have no worries, so as to go all out to attack the Yan army in Youzhou and Pingzhou.

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On the south bank of Yishui, the main army under Hua'an has made all preparations for the attack, and as long as Hua'an gives an order, it can immediately launch an attack on the north bank of Yishui.

In order to test the vigilance of the army under Murong Ke and the time to launch a large-scale counterattack, Hua'an deliberately launched a counterattack at different times and places. Send a small group of soldiers and horses to secretly cross Yishui and reconnoiter the enemy situation on the north bank of Yishui.

The vigilance of the Yan army was even faster than Hua An imagined, and the small group of men and horses had just crossed the Yishui when they were discovered by the Yan sentry cavalry, and then, the soldiers and horses in the nearby Yan State camp arrived at the location where the small group of soldiers and horses of the Jin army crossed the river within two moments, and launched a fierce attack.

The Jin army was originally a temptation, therefore, after the Yan cavalry launched an attack. He immediately retreated. However, after some probing, Hua'an was able to figure out how long the Yan army needed to find out how many people they had crossed the river and how long it would take to launch an attack. So as to deduce a certain size of soldiers and horses under his command. After crossing the easy water. How much time is there to form a moon formation to determine if you can attack immediately.

After Hua'an's careful calculation, before the Yan army launched a counterattack. The soldiers and horses under his command who crossed Yishui could completely form a 2,000-strong Qiyue array, so that they could resist the impact of the Yan cavalry and hold the beachhead to meet the follow-up soldiers and horses crossing Yishui.

After thinking about the offensive strategy, the next thing is to consider the timing of the attack, although, at this moment, the soldiers and horses under the command of Hua'an have occupied a great advantage, but across the Yishui attack, the casualties must be not small, for this reason, Hua'an decided to lead the soldiers and horses under the command of Xie Ai when they arrived near Youzhou, and then led the soldiers and horses under his command to cross Yishui, so that the army of Yan Guo cared about the Xie Ai army behind him, and it was bound to not be able to defend Yishui well, which was the best time to attack.

Xie Ai's 60,000 troops are already on the way to Youzhou, so it will take a few days to reach Youzhou, and Hua'an can use this time to continue to train the army under his command, so that the army under his command will have stronger combat effectiveness.

A few days later, Hua An was standing on the high platform on the south bank of Yishui with his subordinates to review the troops under the stage, and a small colonel rushed up and hugged his fists and said: "King Qiqi, news has come from the direction of Daijun that General Xie's 60,000 horses have arrived in Pingshu City, and they will be able to approach Jicheng City within three days." ”

Hua An and his subordinates were very happy when they heard this, in the case that they have now achieved absolute superiority, the arrival of Xie Ai's army is completely like a tiger's wings, as long as Xie Ai's army is approaching Jicheng, Murong Ke's main army must return to help, at least send some people to rescue Jicheng, after all, Jicheng is the capital of Yan Kingdom, and it cannot and cannot be given up at will.

"Your Majesty, General Xie's soldiers and horses are really here! Now, our army is attacking from two sides, and it will definitely be able to break the main army under Murong Ke and destroy the Yan State in one fell swoop. Chen Poyu shouted loudly.

"Your Majesty, if you don't attack immediately at this time, let alone when, the last general will be the vanguard." Chen Xuanhu shouted for his life.

"Your Majesty, there are only 60,000 horses under General Xie's command, and our army must launch an attack to instigate the capture of Jicheng by the soldiers and horses under General Xie." Zhuge Xiong said loudly.

Hua An nodded and said loudly: "The whole army immediately made preparations before the battle and launched an attack on the north bank of Yishui tonight." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The ministers will answer with a loud voice.

"Report, Your Majesty, the King of the South sent his henchmen to send an urgent letter." Just when Hua'an ordered to cross Yishui at night and attack the Yan army, a henchman ran to the high platform and handed over Huan Wen's handwritten letter to Hua'an.

After receiving the letter, Hua An frowned and was surprised, although Huan Wen was canonized as king almost at the same time as himself, but between each other, almost never in contact, at such a time, Huan Wen sent his henchmen to send letters, which really made Hua An and his subordinates feel very strange.

"Your Majesty, the last general heard that the king of the south has put down the rebellion in Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, and when he returned triumphantly, he exterminated a group of bandits in Jiangzhou by the way, and now, its main army is stationed in Xunyang City in Jiangzhou." Wang San reported softly.

When Hua An heard this, he was slightly stunned, and said in surprise: "Huan Wen's main force is stationed in Xunyang City? Could it be that the imperial court handed over Jiangzhou to the governor of Huan Wen. ”

Due to all the energy focused on dealing with Yan and Dai, Hua'an has not bothered about anything south of the Yellow River at all in recent times, so he does not know that the main force of the Huanwen army has been stationed in Xunyang City.

Xunyang City is an important town in the north of Jiangzhou, the city is built according to the river, the north gate of the city is the river, the main force of the Huanwen army occupies Xunyang City, you can go straight down the river at any time, and control Jiankang City in one fell swoop.

However, even so, Hua An still couldn't guess the content and intention of Huan Wen's letter, and after taking a breath, Hua An slowly opened the letter in his hand and read it carefully.

"Your Majesty, what does the King of the South mean?" Seeing Hua An's surprised expression after reading the letter, Wang San hurriedly asked.

Hua An said softly: "Huan Wen fully supports this king's attack on Yan Kingdom, and let this king rest assured that he will boldly recover Youzhou and Pingzhou, so as to inherit the legacy of General Zu Ti back then." ”

"Our army has been attacking Youzhou with all its might, why should King Nan talk too much, it's really strange." Deng Qiang frowned and said.

"Your Majesty, what does it mean that the King of the South suddenly supports our army to recover Youzhou and Pingzhou?" Wang San also felt that Huan Wen's statement was very strange, after all, at this time, the Hua'an Army had already begun to attack Youzhou, and Huan Wen's statement was simply redundant.

Hua An frowned and thought for a moment, and said softly: "Maybe Huan Wen just wants to win the trust of this king, so that this king will not have to worry about the future when he attacks Yan Kingdom." ”

Of course, Hua'an's heart doesn't think so, after all, the main force of the Huanwen army is stationed in Xunyang City, which has a great deterrent ability to the capital Jiankang, therefore, Huan Wen's statement of support for his recovery of Youzhou and Pingzhou is fundamentally something else, in history, Huan Wen's ambitions, Hua'an is still very clear.

"Report, Your Majesty, the imperial court sent envoys to convey the emperor's will." Just when Hua'an and his subordinates were wondering about Huan Wen's intentions, the envoys of the imperial court arrived at the south bank of Yishui.

As a courtier, Hua An did not dare to slack off, and immediately led his subordinates to run down the high platform, and took over the will of the court with the courtier's court.

At this point, Hua'an and his subordinates finally understood Huan Wen's intentions, it turned out that Huan Wen had already learned that the imperial court was going to negotiate peace with Yan State, in order to prevent the hostility between Hua'an's army and Yan State's army, so he expressed to Hua'an that he would fully support Hua'an's attack on Youzhou and Pingzhou.

"Your Majesty, now that our army has an absolute advantage, and the 60,000 horses under General Xie have entered Daijun, it is such a good time, but the imperial court has ordered our army to negotiate peace with the Yan army, which is really unreasonable." Deng Qiang was the first to express his dissatisfaction.

"Your Majesty, our army has completed preparations for war, and the so-called generals are not subject to the orders of the kings abroad, how can they withdraw because of an order from the imperial court." Zhuge loudly expressed his dissatisfaction.

"Your Majesty, the King of the South has expressed his full support for our army to recover Youzhou and Pingzhou, and our army can completely ignore the will of the imperial court." Chen Poyu said loudly.

After all, at this time, most of the soldiers and horses of the Great Jin Dynasty are in the hands of Hua'an and Huan Wen, and now, since Huan Wen fully supports Hua'an to continue the Northern Expedition, the will of the imperial court is a little insignificant, after all, this is an era in which strength determines the right to speak, since there is the support of the powerful Huan Wen army, ignoring the will of the imperial court, it is not a big deal, is it possible that the imperial court still has extra strength to crusade against Hua'an.

Hua An smiled slightly, and said softly: "The 60,000 soldiers and horses under the command of General Xie have arrived in Dai County, and the main force of soldiers and horses under the command of this king has also been prepared for a long time, how can they use Yishui as the boundary and negotiate peace with Yan Guo because of an order from the imperial court, and tonight's actions will remain unchanged, and the generals will immediately return to the camp to prepare." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The ministers will lead with a loud voice.

After the generals left, Hua An thought deeply, although with Huan Wen's support, he could continue to attack the Yan army without ignoring the will of the imperial court, but it was obvious that Huan Wen's intentions were not pure.

Hua'an could clearly feel that Huan Wen led the main force of troops and horses into Xunyang City with the intention of deterring Jiankang City, and supporting himself to launch an attack on Yan State was to let his main army fall deep in Hebei, which would be conducive to his influence on the Great Jin Dynasty. (To be continued......)