Youshui is also the "White River" written by Shen Cong in later generations. Follow this wide water path to the west, turn slightly to the northeast, and go up the mountain until it turns into the narrow Luoyi River. After walking two miles, you can see the broad platform on the top of the mountain, which is clearly visible. A large-scale city - Xizhou City.
Since the Tianfu period of the later Jin Dynasty, Peng Shichou gathered five major barbarians here and ordered them to swear an oath to attack Chu. Through the establishment of a pillar alliance with the Ma Chu regime, he obtained the autonomous status of "the state provides rents and supports himself; the soldiers of the capital will not be sent out". After that, Xizhou City officially became the power center of the Dongxi barbarians and even the entire Youshui River Basin. After years of expansion and construction, it has now become a city with a length of more than 11 or 2 miles and can accommodate more than 100,000 soldiers and civilians. The big city.
In fact, as the foundation of the Peng family's rule over Dongxi, Xizhou City was not the first built by the Peng family.
As early as a thousand years ago when Qin and Chu were fighting for hegemony, there was a fierce competition on the Youshui Channel. According to historical records, the Qin people went eastward along the You River from the land of Bashu, passed through the mountains and mountains, and fought with the Chu people who occupied the cities along the You River. From then on, they embarked on a smooth road to annex the Chu Kingdom.
After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Qianling County was officially established here, the city was built, and household registration was compiled. This was the prototype of Xizhou City. After the city was built, this important water and land area, which "connected to Youyang Prefecture in Sichuan Province and connected to Beihe River in Chen Prefecture below", became the passage and key for successive dynasties to control "Wuling County" and "Middle Guizhou Road".
In the second year of Wu Zetian Tianshou (691), the Tang Dynasty established Xizhou with Daxiang and Santang counties that originally belonged to Chenzhou. This was the first time that the name Xizhou City was created.
But for Xizhou City, where "birds cannot fly and animals dare not come", the degree and scope of control is extremely limited because of the direct administration of counties and counties, because there are always problems that give the rulers a headache. ——The "barbarians" are several times larger than the civilian population.
From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, because the royal power was beyond the reach of the king, the barbarians continued to rebel, and the Han people had gradually fled.
It was not until the arrival of the Peng family that the Han people changed their original strategy of oppressing the slave barbarians and instead united and integrated into the local barbarians. Finally, after forming an alliance in Xizhou, Peng Shichou successfully stood on his own feet, interrupting the history of Xizhou as a directly governed county. The era of separatism began.
Peng Shichou dared to stand on his own here not only because of the foundation laid by his fathers, but also because of the excellent terrain resistance of Xizhou City. The mountainous area where Xizhou City is located is surrounded by the remnants of the Wuling Mountains on both sides. The deep mountains are hundreds of feet high. They are steep, dark, and filled with miasma, making it impossible for foreign armies to cross the mountains.
Therefore, there are only two ways to enter Xizhou City. Either go north from Chenzhou and then enter the Youshui River from the Yuanjiang River and walk along the coast, or go straight across the Youshui River from east to west and enter the ancient road pass. There is no other way.
As a native of the Dongxi barbarian tribe, Tian Hongyou had followed Peng Shichou on several expeditions even though he did not understand military matters. When he learned that Linyuan City had been lost a few days ago, Li Yuan's army wanted to cross the You River, and ordered Chai Kewu to do so. When he led the army to attack Chenzhou, he was extremely shocked.
During these days, Tian Hongyou seemed to be feeling happy, but in fact he was in a lot of pain.
After years of planning, Peng Shichou finally died and Peng Shiyu fled. Tian Hongyou took control of the three states in one fell swoop. While intoxicated with victory, of course he dreamed of becoming a "local emperor" like Peng Shichou, not to mention Peng's. He is just a Han Chinese, but he is a real barbarian.
But dreams are just dreams after all. When Tian Hongyou led his troops to occupy Xizhou City and sent orders to Chenzhou, Jinzhou and other places, he quickly summoned the leaders of the five barbarians and civil and military officials from all over the three states to prepare for his position, but he never thought The prestige of the Peng family is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Even though Peng Shiyu was now charged with killing his father and brother, the thoughts of most people present were not to support Tian Hong's right-hand position, but to demand that envoys be dispatched as soon as possible according to Peng Shichou's "last order". The Tang Dynasty welcomed the second master Peng Shigao back to Xizhou to preside over the situation.
Seeing that everyone was speaking in unison, Shimoda Hongyou was immediately dumbfounded. Others did not know the authenticity of this so-called suicide, but he knew it clearly, and he could only say that he was suffering. What's more, how could he really give it back to Peng for everything he had worked so hard to plan?
Peng Shichou died, and Xizhou was at a time when people's hearts were floating. Tian Hongyou, who had finally succeeded in seizing power, naturally did not want to conflict with everyone. He knew that the time had not come yet, so he decided to use the word "drag" as the essence.
According to everyone's wishes, he created the name of the Grand Governor of Xizhou. He first respected Peng Shigao, who was far away in the Tang Dynasty, as the Grand Governor of Xizhou, and then he named himself the Deputy Governor of Xizhou on the grounds that the three states had no owner and the situation was uneasy. The commander-in-chief envoys the military forces in the three states of Chijie to "temporarily take charge" of important military and political affairs for Peng Shigao.
After Tian Hongyou reluctantly took office, he immediately issued two orders. One was to send soldiers to continue hunting the "rebel" Peng Shiyu, and the other was to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for Peng Shigao.
But this move was ultimately a calculated one. Tian Hongyou had known this for a long time, thinking that Master Peng was thousands of miles away and the journey was so long, how difficult would it be to travel there? What's more, this second master used to follow Ma Xi'e to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but now he is an out-and-out Tang general. Even if he is willing to come back, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty Li Jing may not be willing to let him go.
Therefore, the top priority right now is to quickly hunt down his son-in-law who "killed his father and his brother". Now that almost all the young men of the Peng family have been killed, Tian Hongyou is always worried about the remnant of the Peng family. An, I was also absent-minded when dealing with government affairs. Especially when I saw the huge memorial tablet of Peng Shichou in the palace hall, I couldn't help but tremble all over.
After waiting unbearably for several days, Tian Hongyou finally received an urgent report from the guard of Linyuan City. He originally thought it was Peng Shiyu's head, so he immediately opened the report and watched it with joy. As you can imagine, he almost rolled his eyes. I didn’t take my breath away.
To a large extent, Tian Hongyou's success in seizing power must be attributed to Tian Sidao, the adopted son who guarded Xizhou City. If he had not been hiding beside Peng Shiyu for many years, if he had not opened the city gate to cooperate with the outside, I am afraid that Tian Hongyou would have died. .
But now Tian Hongyou doesn't feel sad about the death of this adopted son without a complete body. While cursing "Zhu Zi is incompetent", he only feels infinite anger in his heart, and more of panic.
The Peng family brothers and sisters were rescued by the Tang army while fleeing along the Jiashan Trail. Without too many guesses, they must have gone to Langzhou.
Everyone in Xizhou, including Tian Hongyou, knew that Peng Shiyu had a close friendship with Li Yuan, the military commander of Wuping Jiedu in the Tang Dynasty, and they even swore an oath to heaven according to the ancient Dongxi ritual. And this Marshal Li, who was only 21 years old, not only He holds a large number of troops and is a world-famous general. It is said that the Battle of Jiashan in the past was planned by him.
Therefore, Tian Hongyou was already frightened when he heard the news. Peng Shiyu was burdened with a blood feud. How could he just let it go if he escaped by chance?
Now that he has surrendered to Li Yuan, he must have borrowed troops for revenge. The available troops in the three states now are only 40,000 to 50,000. Most of them are young barbarians recruited recently in the past two months. They have almost never been on the battlefield. If Zhen and Lang How could the main force of the Wuping Army, who had experienced hundreds of battles in the state, get even half a cent when they were fighting?
When he felt anxious, Tian Hongyou had to summon the generals for discussion. The Dongxi barbarians had already enmity with the Tang army. Now Peng Shiyu defected to the Tang Dynasty and wanted to raise troops to invade. The generals didn't know what was going on. Of course, the crowd was furious. In a "kill them all" "Tang Dog" calls, and they all called for troops to fight.
But high morale is just morale after all. Tian Hongyou naturally knew the strength of Xizhou, so on the advice of his younger brother Tian Hongbin, he had the courage to give Li Yuan of Langzhou and the Han army coach outside Tanzhou the same time. Pan Chongche each wrote a letter to expand the scale of the war to protect himself.
Tian Hongyou ordered the three states to quickly reorganize and strengthen the city defenses to prepare for the invasion of foreign enemies. At the same time, all available troops were concentrated in the three states' administrative offices, and 30,000 sergeants were selected to concentrate in Xizhou City, and each tribe was ordered to replenish weapons and food. Supplies and supplies were collected, and it seemed that they were ready to wait for Wu Ping's army to arrive.
The leading generals in Xizhou were also not vegetarians. Although they had not really experienced the power of the Wuping Army under Li Yuan, they had been at war with the Chu State for many years, and they claimed to understand the Han's fighting methods, so they offered a series of strategies. .
It is nothing more than taking advantage of the natural advantage of the Dongxi barbarians to use various means to fight against the Tang army in small-scale raids in dense forest valleys, and try to avoid frontal field battles with the main force of the Tang army, especially the cavalry.
This strategy seems simple, but Peng Shichou used it on the Chu army many times in the past. Although Tian Hongyou agreed to the invitation of the generals, he was still very uneasy in his heart. He knew that he was not as good as Peng Shichou, and Li Yuan was even more uneasy. Ma Xifan, not to mention Peng Shiyu, an insider who is familiar with the terrain of Xizhou...
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