Chapter 609 Fighter Plane (Part 1)
Shao Xun had been in Anping for a long time, and some shogunate attachés and Shao Mansion servants rushed over.
On the tenth day of October, Lu Zhi also arrived from Yecheng.
Several carriages stopped on the path covered with thin snow.
Shao Xun jumped off the carriage and looked around.
On the empty wilderness, the grass is withered and yellow, and it is extremely desolate.
The north wind blows hard all the time, and the rotten thatch on the roof of the abandoned house dances high.
The river water is cold, with broken ice hidden in it.
The red sun hung in the sky, without any warmth.
Seeing the big from the small, this is the village in Hebei at this time.
"The situation in Youzhou has changed. Wang Jun, who was at his peak, suddenly fell to the ground, which makes people lament that things have changed." Shao Xun looked at Lu Zhi who was following him and said, "However, this saved the people from a military disaster. I don’t know how many people have died.”
It is said that in troubled times, human lives can be used to clear up the accumulated evil, but when you see no longer numbers, but living people, the feeling is completely different. .
One is from the perspective of a bystander, the matter has nothing to do with oneself.
One is from the perspective of a person who has experienced it, and feels the same way.
Youzhou can send troops to defeat it, even if the killing continues.
Youzhou can be offered by others to avoid wasting troops, money and food, or it can be accepted.
On the one hand, Shao Xun felt sorry for the hardships of the people's livelihood and wanted them to live a better life without so many deaths. For this reason, Shao Xun did not hesitate to give up part of his own interests.
On the other hand, if necessary, they will not hesitate to harm the interests and even lives of the people.
Two thoughts coexisted in him at the same time. After all, people are not diodes, it is too complicated.
But if you continue to deconstruct, the conclusion will be very clear: he loves others, but he loves himself most. The prerequisite for loving others is to love himself.
This is the ruler.
"Why doesn't Ming Gong lead Youzhou Mu himself?" Lu Zhi followed and asked.
Shao Xun did not answer and asked instead: "How do Zidao think the arrangements for the governor and governor of Youzhou are arranged?"
Lu Zhi thought for a while and said: "It is very appropriate."
< br>Although they are not the candidates he wants to recommend, Liu Han and You Tong are also good, and they are all related to him.
"Who should be appointed as the governor of Jizhou?" Shao Xun asked again.
Lu Zhi was silent.
What Mr. Chen said was actually a polite rejection of official positions such as Youzhou Mu and Jizhou Mu.
He will not come to Hebei, at least not for the time being.
In addition, half of Jizhou was captured last year, but the governorship has been vacant.
Lu Zhi never mentioned it because he couldn't bring it up and had to avoid suspicion. If Shi Le and Liu Yao are defeated this year, then the entire territory of Jizhou will be captured, and it will be inappropriate to have no more governors.
Today Mr. Chen mentioned the governor and asked him to recommend him. The meaning is unclear.
"Zidao." Shao Xun urged and said: "The overall situation in Hebei depends on Zidao to teach me."
Lu Zhi felt unhappy and could only say: "Sanqi Chang Shi Hua Heng can be appointed as the governor. "
Hua Heng is the son of the former minister Ling Hua, the Prince Consort, and the regular servant of Sanqi.
The most important thing is that Hua Heng’s mother was born in the Lu family of Fanyang and was Lu Zhi’s aunt.
Master Lu really does not shy away from relatives when he promotes talents. Since the Northern Expedition, he has obtained a prefect for the Pingyuan Hua clan. If there is another governor, the Hua clan will become more powerful.
“Yes.” Shao Xun agreed.
Lu Zhi was a little surprised, but then he realized: if Hua Heng is appointed as the governor of Jizhou, then Lu Zhi will probably return to the court.
This is exchange.
Mr. Chen is a kind man and also very sober.
What else are you doing? Lu Zhi thought for a while, and he probably had an idea: among the three men, Sikong happened to be vacant, and that was probably it.
I sighed silently in my heart. After working hard for so long, I still didn’t get the results I wanted.
"Liu Yao has launched a full-scale counterattack and crossed the Hengshui River in a large scale. What does Zidao think?" Shao Xun walked into the bare farmland, pushed aside the snow, picked up a piece of top soil, and looked carefully With.
"Liu Yao wanted to attack the Xianbei people from front to back and surround the Jindudu in Gaoyang and Hejian." Lu Zhi said.
Shao Xun nodded, Lu Zhi still understood the situation of the battle.
In fact, Kim Jong-dae can stand firm and not retreat. The Yi Congjun returned to cover the grain roads. Although the grain and grass supplies would be affected to a certain extent, most of them could still be transported to the front line. The biggest trouble now is that winter is here and rivers tend to freeze, which greatly affects transportation. The food and grass that was originally expected to last for two months may not last that long.
Of course, the Jin army is in difficulty, and the Huns are also in difficulty.
Even if Shi Le had stockpiled a large amount of grain and grass in advance, even if the two counties of Changshan and Zhongshan were wiped out three feet, and even if the Huns had few soldiers, they could no longer hold on, and they wanted a quick victory. This is the background.
Shao Xun made this judgment with basis, because just after Jin Zheng gave up the territory he had conquered west of Hengshui and retreated across the entire line, the Xiongnu pursued them vigorously. As a result, Jin Zheng personally led his troops to the west of Zhongren City and attacked halfway across the river, resulting in numerous casualties. Three thousand, more and more people will be defeated.
But even after such a setback, Liu Yao still ordered the pursuit, which shows that they are also tired of this year's war and want to quickly decide the outcome.
So when the opportunity arose, they decisively invested their troops.
For Shao Xun, fighter planes actually appeared.
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An overwhelming number of cavalry appeared in the Wangdu and Puyin areas.
The Jin army that set up a stronghold on the road only resisted for half a day, and then collapsed under the siege of the Huns' infantry and cavalry.
Qingqi from both sides caught each other and fought in the wild.
Liu Yao climbed to the high platform in the camp and looked carefully.
The infantry commanded by Liu Zheng and Zhang Zoupu marched forward bravely, chasing the scattered Jin soldiers.
The soldiers on both sides spoke with similar accents. One side came from Changshan, Zhongshan, and Zhaojun, and the other side came from Bohai, Qinghe, and Pingyuan. The former were Han soldiers and the latter were Jin soldiers.
After half a day of fierce fighting, the broken Jin soldiers could no longer hold on and broke away.
The Han soldiers were as powerful as a rainbow, following closely behind them, chasing and killing them endlessly.
The cavalry on both sides also took action.
One side wants to pursue the Jin army and defeat the infantry, and the other side wants to intercept it.
The accents of these two warring groups are complicated, including Chinese, Xianbei, Xiongnu, Diqiang, Jie, and Wuhuan, which is similar to Xianbei.
Those who speak Chinese may not be fighting for the Han people, but they may be killing the Han people.
Speaking the Xiongnu language does not mean they are fighting for Liu Han. In fact, they from Anping are outflanking Liu Yao's Qingqi. Arrows are falling in the north wind, and the Huns who are advancing are killed and injured.
However, the most active ones are the Jie people. They are the hardest working, and because they are good at close combat, they are responsible for frontal interception. Their sword and shield skills make them superb, which is a different style from the Central Plains cavalry with spears and cavalry.
“These gang thieves!” Liu Yao looked a little dissatisfied.
Just change the family. If you still work so hard after changing the family, that's too much.
The generals around Liu Yao also spat at him.
In fact, as the Xiongnu tribe, the Jie people have never been treated seriously by them.
In addition to their low status, their appearance and culture are also incompatible with the Xiongnu.
Among them, except for a few who look similar to the Xiongnu, most of them have high noses and deep eyes, and a small number of them even have blond hair. The language they speak is also a mixture of Western Region vocabulary, Xiongnu words, and Chinese.
The most important thing is that they believe in Zoroastrianism. Before the expedition, they collectively knelt down to worship "Hu Tian Shen" (the name of the Jin people, namely Ahura Mazda, the main god of the ancient Persian Zoroastrian religion). Not only the Jin people could not stand it, but the Huns also felt resentful.
"Capricious people." Liu Yao thought to himself: "There are still a large number of Jie people on the Shangdang side, so we must find a way to eliminate the hidden dangers."
"Disperse!" The general pointed to the battlefield ahead and said.
Liu Yao looked around and saw a chaotic battlefield with people and horses intertwined. The horses of both sides slowed down, and even stood still, waving their weapons on horseback, hacking and stabbing each other. After fighting, the Jin cavalry began to retreat slowly and collapsed backwards. The Huns cavalry took advantage of the situation to pursue them, and they were extremely brave.
Liu Yao breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Go to Puyin to spend the night tonight."
This year's war was too torturous. From July to October, both sides were exhausted. From the perspective of the Jin army, the war started in May and the fighting lasted longer.
Unexpectedly, the final decision on the direction of the war was Shi Le's genius: using money to lure Duan Xianbei to go south and cut off the Jin army's retreat.
At this point in the war, there is nothing to hesitate but to pursue.
Chasing the Jin army to pieces, defeating them, and chasing them to death, until they no longer have the courage to turn around and fight, completely regain the lost ground - it may be a little difficult, but as much as they can recover is what they need.
“Let’s go.” Liu Yao waved his hand, calling for the soldiers to follow him.
After leaving the camp, the soldiers brought the horses. Liu Yao jumped up, took out a bag of koumiss from under the saddle bag, raised his head and drank a few mouthfuls, and laughed: "It's so happy!"< br>
That’s it, that’s the feeling!
After drinking the wine, I suddenly felt a surge of blood all over my body, as if possessed by a god, with infinite power.
The Jin soldiers in front of him were no longer people, but plants and trees, which could be easily chopped down by him.
“Chase!” He shouted and ran out first.
The soldiers followed closely behind, shouting.
Above the snowy field, the Hun cavalry was crowded with people and the sound of hooves was thunderous, passing through the avenue, fields and wasteland, all the way east.
On the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, we arrived in Puyin.
The pursuit reached Gaoyang territory on the tenth day of the lunar month.
On the evening of the 11th, when they arrived at Gaoyang City, three thousand plain soldiers were trapped in the battle and did not dare to fight.
Liu Yao was in high spirits and sent people to contact Duan Bu Xianbei on the spot to prepare for a flanking attack on the Jin army.
It was at this time that he received the news of the changes in Youzhou.
(End of this chapter)