[Operation "Right Hook"]
In this melee between bronze and king, only Li Siyuan can still match Meng Zhixiang.
Kuizhou is facing an increasingly serious threat from Xichuan. These 1,500 "hostages" have become Kuizhou's internal ghosts. It is better to release them to gain Xichuan's favor and delay their offensive momentum.
Meng Zhixiang immediately expressed his gratitude to the court for its tolerance and generosity.
Everyone is happy, the brilliance of humanity is reflected in the cruel war, and there seems to be hope for peace talks.
So how did Meng Zhixiang express his gratitude to the court with practical actions?
Answer: Capture Suizhou; forcefully resist Jianmen Pass.
Suizhou has run out of ammunition and food, and there are no reinforcements from outside. The situation is critical. Under the fierce attack of Xichuan general Li Renhan, Suizhou was finally captured, and Xia Luqi committed suicide and died for his country.
Meng Zhixiang ordered people to cut off Xia Luqi's head, took it to Jianmen Pass, and showed it to Shi Jingtang.
Xia Luqi first joined the Bianzhou Xuanwu Army and worked for Zhu Wen. Later, due to conflicts with his superiors, he angrily switched to the Hedong Group and switched to Li Cunxu. Following Zhou Dewei's crusade against Liu Shouguang of Youzhou, he had a duel with Shan Yangui and Yuan Xingqin, the powerful generals of Yan State. The excitement was almost as exciting as "Three Heroes Fighting Lu Bu". The soldiers fighting on both sides unconsciously put down their weapons and stood stunned. They watched dumbly and clapped together, and the atmosphere suddenly became harmonious.
During the bloody battles along the river between Liang and Jin, Xia Luqi rescued Li Cunxu from danger many times. In one of the battles, Xia Luqi personally killed more than a hundred Liang soldiers, leaving them covered with bruises. Li Cunxu named him "Li Shaoqi" to show his favor.
During the "Left Hook" operation, Xia Luqi captured "Wang Tiejian" Wang Yanzhang alive.
During the "three-pronged army conquering Jingnan", Xia Luqi was the deputy commander-in-chief and followed the commander-in-chief Liu Xun to fight.
When the imperial court laid out its plans for the two Sichuan provinces, Xia Luqi was appointed as the military governor of the Suizhou Wuxin Army, stationed in the southeast of the two Sichuan provinces, forming a pincer offensive with the Central Army in northern Shaanxi, and serving as the forward position and foothold of the Yangtze River waterway.
It's a pity that Meng Zhixiang had already seen through the court's tricks, predicted the court's prediction, and carried out military infiltration into Suizhou Wuxin Army in advance. At the beginning of the war, he directly besieged Suizhou and cut off Suizhou's connection with the outside world. Xia Ruqi was unable to exert any strength, and the powerful general could only be trapped in the isolated city with great frustration, like a beast in a cage.
With food and grass cut off and no reinforcements from outside, Sharuchi still resisted tenaciously. When the city fell, he chose to commit suicide and die for his country.
Xia Luqi was also included in "The Biography of Death" by Ouyang Xiu.
Meng Zhixiang took Xia Luqi's head from Suizhou in the southern battlefield to Jianmenguan in the northern battlefield and showed it to Shi Jingtang. This severely dampened the morale of the Central Army and seriously undermined the fighting spirit of the main force of the Central Army. Because its significance is far more than the fall of a strong general, it also represents the annihilation of the imperial army in the southern battlefield. The two Sichuan soldiers have been able to control the Ningjiang Army and push the front to Kuizhou, like a right hook. Get into the hinterland of the imperial court. After the Sichuan and Sichuan armies captured Kuizhou, the battle at Jianmen Pass would be meaningless.
Xia Luqi's two sons were fighting with Shi Jingtang at Jianmen Pass. When they saw their father's head from a distance, they cried bitterly and begged Shi Jingtang to allow them to go to the enemy camp to recover their father's head and bury it in their hometown.
With tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, Shi Jingtang said to the two children: "Meng Zhixiang is a loyal elder. He will definitely bury your father's body properly. If you take back the head, your father's head will be in a different place."
Sure enough, after using Xia Luqi's head to disintegrate the Central Army's fighting spirit, Meng Zhixiang put Xia Luqi's body together and buried it properly.
Shi Jingtang believed that both Langzhou and Suizhou had fallen, the strategic position of Jianmen Pass had plummeted, and the serious problems in logistical supplies did not support his efforts. The main force of the Central Army at Jianmen Pass should be dispatched quickly, otherwise Li Siyuan would be reinstated. Follow Li Cunxu's mistake.
You will be outside, and your orders will not be accepted. Shi Jingtang made a decisive decision and without Li Siyuan's order, he burned down the camp without authorization, abandoned the station and marched to Luoyang.
News of Shi Jingtang's retreat came back to Meng Zhixiang. Meng Zhixiang put the report aside, deliberately looked sad, and asked Zhao Jiliang: "The Central Army at Jianmen Pass is advancing with all its strength. What should we do?"
Zhao Jiliang fanned his feather towel and said with a slight smile: "Then he can advance to Mianzhou at most, and then he will definitely retreat."
Meng Zhixiang asked him the reason, and Zhao Jiliang analyzed it: "We are waiting for work, Shi Jingtang goes deep alone, and his food and grass are cut off, why don't we retreat?"
Meng Zhixiang laughed "haha" and showed the report to him, "Sir, you really have a clever plan!"
As the main force of the central government retreated, Li Yanqi, the military commander of the Zhaowu Army in the northeast of Jianmen Pass, also took the initiative to abandon Lizhou. Both Sichuan and Sichuan took over Lizhou randomly. Meng Zhixiang appointed Zhao Tingyin to be the rear guard of the Zhaowu Army in Lizhou.
Zhao Tingyin reported to Meng Zhixiang secretly, saying that Dong Zhang was cunning by nature and that he could share adversity with him but not wealth and wealth. Moreover, sooner or later there would be a war between the two Sichuan provinces. Why not I kill him directly when he comes to Lizhou to work for the army? In this way, the two rivers will be unified. This opportunity cannot be missed, and the time will never come again.
Meng Zhixiang firmly refused.
Zhao Tingyin sighed helplessly, saying that my lord is kind-hearted, but he is also kind-hearted as a woman. If he refuses my suggestion, he will be in trouble in the future!
Meng Zhixiang is not a kindhearted woman, but more foresighted. There are "no two masters in the country" in Shu, and there will definitely be a war between the two Sichuan, but now is not the time to kill Dong Zhang, and the "Hongmen Banquet" is not a way to kill Dong Zhang.
We have already appreciated Meng Zhixiang's writing skills and political wisdom. War needs to be justified, it must be launched with a reputation, it must occupy the moral commanding heights, and it must be justified to defeat the unjust.
Today, both Sichuan and Sichuan are cooperating and are united in foreign affairs. Although victory is in sight, the war is still short of success. At this time, if he betrays his trust, suddenly becomes a comrade in the same room, and stabs his close ally in the back, then Meng Zhixiang will lose his moral support and become a cross street that everyone wants to beat. mouse.
Later, when the two Sichuan sides really fall out, we will see how Meng Zhixiang's team "revitalized the Yishi".
Not only is this not the time for civil war between the two Sichuan provinces, but it is also not the time to sell goods to stop profits. Meng Zhixiang, a master of strategy and an old political fox, wants to win greater political benefits for both Sichuan and Sichuan. What achieved this feat was Operation Right Hook.
Meng Zhixiang ordered Li Renhan to take command of the "camp on the Xia Road to recruit envoys" and continued to lead the naval force eastward along the Yangtze River to advance the front eastward.
Li Renhan was so powerful that he captured Zhongzhou and Wanzhou one after another and reached Kuizhou. An Chongruan, the military commander of the Ningjiang Army in Kuizhou, and Yang Hanbin, the military commander of the Wutai Army in Qianzhou who had fled earlier, abandoned the city and fled again.
At this point, the Xichuan Army captured the entire Ningjiang Army in Kuizhou.
The heroes see the same thing. As Shi Jingtang expected, after the fall of Suizhou, the Kuizhou Ningjiang Army was just a display. With the fall of Suizhou Wuxin Army, Qianzhou Wutai Army, and Kuizhou Ningjiang Army, the two Sichuan forces completely controlled the Yangtze River waterway, and Push the front to the Jingnan area.
