Gaodu County was captured.
It didn't take long, only ten days. This time point made Deng Ai and Wang Jun puzzled.
This is too fast.
Logically speaking, it would take at least a month or ten days to send people to spread rumors about the Xianbei people's rebellion, wait for the rumors to ferment, and then Su Shang learns about it and believes it to be true. I'm afraid the rumors haven't even spread yet.
As a result, it only took seven or eight days for Deng Ai to send people out to spread rumors. Su Shang, who was guarding Gaodu County, couldn't hold back and took the initiative to leave the city and look for opportunities to fight.
Although he didn't know where Su Shang's fault was, he had such a good opportunity in front of him. If Deng Ai didn't seize it, he would be so sorry to God.
Afterwards, after interrogating Su Shang, Deng Ai understood why Su Shang was in a hurry to leave the city to fight. It turned out that the Xianbei people had really rebelled.
Moreover, unlike the Bingzhou rebellion in history, Kebineng actually persuaded Bu Dugen to start a rebellion this time, and united with the southern Xiongnu tribe to sweep the entire northern Bingzhou in an instant.
With the Han Dynasty suppressing the surrounding foreign races for more than 400 years, the living environment of the foreign barbarians in the North was not very good.
Although there are also Hu people like Wuhuan who took advantage of the decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty and took advantage of the trend, Wuhuan was an unlucky guy. In his early years, he encountered Cao Cao's personal conquest and was defeated at Bailang Mountain. His own Shanyu Tadun was killed by Zhang Liao's formation. , which directly interrupted Wuhuan's upward momentum.
The remaining Wuhuan troops finally got some practice to recuperate, but they happened to get involved in Gongsun Yuan's rebellion, and were attacked by Cao Zhen like a violent storm. The remnants of Wuhuan's troops, who had easily improved a little, were dealt with.
Wuhuan, a nomadic nation, has slowly entered a period of decline.
As Wuhuan gradually withdrew from the stage of history, other nomadic peoples on the grassland gained more living space.
Among them, the Southern Xiongnu who were originally attached and the Xianbei people who migrated from Moxi more than 20 years ago benefited the most.
There was no way, Wuhuan was finished, the grassland and tribal groups were scattered, and they happened to be annexed by these two groups.
Needless to say, the Southern Xiongnu have been living in the northern part of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years. The skinny camels are bigger than horses. They have absorbed the natural advantages of these remaining Wuhuan tribes. As for the Xianbei tribe, they have just migrated here and are already relatively powerful. In addition, Ke Bineng, the leader of the Xianbei people, is still very skillful and capable. He not only integrated the surrounding Jie people, Di people and other foreign races, but also took the initiative to show weakness and curry favor with Cao Wei, gaining more pasture and enclosed land. Opportunities to slowly develop and expand their own tribe.
As the Southern Xiongnu ethnic group slowly regained its strength, the Xianbei ethnic group gradually grew stronger, and now Cao Wei's strength was weakening, many foreign leaders began to feel ready to make a move.
Once the nomadic people develop to a certain scale, they are limited by their own lifestyle and serious lack of productivity. The only way to expand the group is to go to war with the farming civilization in the Central Plains and plunder the necessary survival resources.
This method is not the best way for nomadic people to survive and develop, but it is the easiest way to think of.
Liu Bao, the ethnic leader of the Southern Xiongnu, was a tolerant man and had lived in the Han region for a long time, so he had a deeper understanding of the Han court.
At the same time, the Southern Xiongnu invaded very early, and the Xiongnu were ravaged back and forth by the Han Dynasty in the early years. Therefore, Liu Bao did not feel that now was the best time to start an uprising.
But the Xianbei people are different. The Xianbei people have just migrated here and have never been severely beaten. Their leader Kebineng is very ambitious and feels that he is very skillful. Such a person will naturally not be willing to live under others for a long time. .
Previously in Bingzhou, no matter who Cao Wei appointed as the governor of Bingzhou, he would basically guard against the Xianbei people. On the one hand, he would support the attached Southern Huns to fight against the Xianbei people. On the other hand, he would create rifts within Xianbei, such as Budu. The root is the support of the Cao Wei Group to check and balance Kebineng.
Even Bi Gui pays great attention to this aspect.
Therefore, Kebineng has never found a suitable opportunity.
However, with the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty, Bi Gui led troops from Bingzhou and counties to fight in Hanoi, and Bingzhou's cavalry and infantry were repeatedly mobilized. Under such circumstances, not to mention Ke Bineng, even Bu Dugen could not sit still.
Bu Du is not a smart person at all, he is just ambitious, otherwise Cao Wei would not support him to fight against Ke Bineng.
But now that Cao Wei was weak, Kebi Neng sent people to persuade Bu Dugen to rebel together, promising that the two would equally divide the grassland north of Bingzhou in the future. This guy actually believed it.
So, in fact, there is no need for Deng Ai to send rumors. The Xianbei tribe is really rebelling. Su Shang has already known about this situation.
For this reason, Su Shang was actually a little worried.
Su Shang is indeed, as Wang Jun predicted, not very capable.
There were Shu thieves who invaded the territory before, and there was a Xianbei rebellion later. Apart from asking Qin Lang for help, the only way Su Shang could think of to break the situation was to take the initiative.
In Su Shang's view, the Shu thieves divided their forces and marched eastward, traveling long distances and laboring on expeditions. As long as they took the initiative to attack when the enemy's foothold was not stable and defeated the enemy's forward in one fell swoop, the Shu thieves would not dare to act rashly.
At that time, I will have enough time to wait for Qin Lang to return to the army.
As long as Qin Lang returns to the army, Qin Lang will naturally stop the Shu thieves. He can lead his troops back to the eldest son and assist Dong Bi, who stays behind with the eldest son, to put down the Xianbei rebellion.
Kill two birds with one stone.
From Su Shang's point of view, this is his only way to break the situation. He must take the initiative and win with one blow.
However, it was obvious that Su Shang overestimated himself and underestimated Deng Ai. With this attack, he would never have a chance to return to the city.
The city of Gaodu was destroyed and Su Shang was captured, explaining the current situation in Bingzhou. This actually made Deng Ai a little embarrassed.
In fact, according to the strategy formulated before the war, Deng Ai could choose to go north to attack the northern part of Bingzhou at this time, or go south to support Zhuge Liang in Hanoi and block Qin Lang's retreat.
However, no matter which one of these two routes is chosen, the Xianbei rebellion in the northern part of Bingzhou cannot be taken into account for the time being, which will give the Xianbei people the possibility of gaining power.
As Zhang Xi's direct disciple, Deng Ai has always been influenced by Zhang Xi, and his attitude towards the surrounding foreign races cannot be said to be very good.
Especially when this kind of alien rebellion affects the people, Deng Ai really can't bear it.
As for aliens, Deng Ai was greatly influenced by Zhang Xi. He believed that these people could be used and planned, but they had to be controlled. Obviously, the rebellion of the Xianbei people today is not only not under the control of Cao Wei, but also under the control of Cao Wei. Under the control of Deng Ai. .
Yes, Deng Ai actually knew that in marching operations, decisions should be made based on the overall situation. The Xianbei rebellion in the north of Bingzhou can indeed help Deng Ai contain the Cao Wei forces in Bingzhou, so that Deng Ai can then march eastward to Jizhou and sneak attack Yecheng from From the perspective of major events, Deng Ai should not care about the Xianbei people's rebellion in Bingzhou. He really should worry about the Xianbei people's troubles. It would be too late to wait until Cao Wei is pacified before sending troops to conquer.
But there are some things that Deng Ai really can't ignore. If we look at the overall situation, God knows how long it will take to completely pacify Cao Wei and stabilize the north. How long will these Xianbei people be allowed to wreak havoc? During this period, how many people will be killed? !
For this reason, Deng Ai must make a decision.
Deng Ai only had 25,000 men at hand, 17,000 of whom were ordinary county soldiers, and the remaining 8,000 were unworthy flying troops.
With this amount of troops, it may be enough to march into northern Hebei and attack Yecheng by surprise, but if you choose to go north to quell the Xianbei rebellion, it is actually not enough.
But, after thinking about it, Deng Ai thought that there were some things that could take the overall situation into consideration, but there were some things that he couldn't ignore.
This time, Deng Ai did not consult with Wang Jun and Wang Ping, but chose to act arbitrarily.
At the beginning, still according to the strategic layout, the whole army went north along the official road to seize Huguan.
After occupying Huguan, Deng Ai decided to abandon his original strategy of advancing eastward from Huguan and entering Jizhou. Instead, he chose to continue northward and enter Taiyuan County from Shangdang County to attack the flanks of the Xianbei rebels raging in Taiyuan County.
Obviously, this approach somewhat disregards the overall situation. After seizing Huguan, the Wei army in Jizhou must be aware of it. If it cannot advance eastward as soon as possible, the Wei army in Jizhou will inevitably react, whether it is to shrink its troops to defend the northern part of Jizhou, or to Assembling troops to counterattack Huguan would seriously undermine the plan of the Northern Expedition.
Therefore, when Deng Ai proposed this strategy, Wang Ping and Wang Jun both opposed it.
However, in the name of General Zhenbei and the commander of the partial division, Deng Ai forcibly suppressed the objections of the two men and went his own way.
In this way, Deng Ai continued to go north. According to the original plan, when Cao Wei's defenders were unable to take care of the situation, he used the mountain combat capabilities of the Wudang Feijun to surprise Huguan and defeated them in one battle.
But then, Deng Ai left Wang Ping and five thousand Wudang flying troops to guard Huguan, while he took Wang Jun and 20,000 soldiers to continue northward and entered Taiyuan County.
Conquer Xianbei rebellion.
(End of chapter)
