The war in Japan is in full swing, and the situation here in Dahan is even more turbulent.
However, many princes are now paying more and more attention to the small place of Japan. Especially after the news came back that there are indeed a large number of gold and silver mines in Japan, it makes all the princes feel like hungry wolves who have seen their prey. Same.
To put it bluntly, war is all about money, otherwise there would be no such thing as a cannon firing and a thousand taels of gold.
Moreover, not only war, but also construction requires financial support. No matter how powerful the princes are, if they don't have money, they will be unable to move forward.
And the topic is temporarily transferred back to the Han Dynasty. Since Liu Che was born, apart from the war against the Southern Barbarians, this should be Liu Che's first official expansion.
After all, the previous battle against the Jin army was not for expansion, but to support other princes.
Liu Che was also very vocal about his first expansion, with Xu Shiji as the commander-in-chief, Chen Qingzhi, Chen Tang, and Zhao Chongguo as deputy generals, Fazheng and Shen Luoyan as military advisors, and his subordinates Yang Jian, Liu Zhiyuan, Jiuchong, Jiufeng, and Huangpao. , Yushi, Yan Yan, Zhang Ren, Cheng Bushi, Dongfang Bo, Pang De, Fu Xiong, Fu Xiong, Fei Wei, Gan Ying, Ji Chang, Yang Duanhe, Yang Shuang and a series of elite soldiers and generals, gathered together A total of 200,000 soldiers and horses plus 50,000 barbarians marched directly from Nanzhong to Jiaozhou.
Among them, it can be said that there are many powerful generals. There are many famous generals with a commander value of 90, and there are countless fierce generals among them. Even if there are powerful generals who have reached the level of divine generals, there are enough Yang Jian, Jiu Chong, Jiu Feng, and Huang Pao, not to mention the peerless generals below, whose number is even greater.
The changes in this battle have simply blinded the eyes of everyone in the world.
To be honest, Xiang Yu didn't take Yizhou Liu Che seriously. After all, many years ago, the Xiang family also took action against Yizhou. However, the terrain in Yizhou is like that. If people insist on holding on there, you may really be unable to do anything to them!
Therefore, that battle did not go smoothly for the Xiang clan. Kong wasted a lot of time there, but did not gain enough results. Fortunately, Xiang Yu opened up the second battlefield of Jiaozhou and achieved a huge victory here.
And for so many years, Yizhou soldiers and horses basically only played in their own one-third of an acre of land. Except for Li Xiang, they had no dealings with the soldiers and horses of other princes. Therefore, in the final analysis, those generals did not have any outstanding achievements.
In terms of strong generals alone, in the eyes of outsiders, there was only one Yang Jian under Liu Che who could take action, but Yang Jian still switched to Yang Jian after his death.
At the beginning, Liu Che's generals were even bullied by the Nanman generals, which naturally made Xiang Yu look down upon them. What kind of strength can barbarians have, but Liu Che's generals can't even defeat these people.
Moreover, this time Xiang Yu also heard that one of the military advisors sent by Liu Che actually had a woman.
Moreover, unfamiliar names like Jiuchong, Huangpao, and Shen Luoyan, let alone other people's ears, would have no impression on them even if they were placed in Yu Ji's ears!
Even after hearing the name Shen Luoyan, Yu Ji took a long time to get an impression of this person. It was also because of the name Song Que that I had a certain impression of the name Shen Luoyan.
After all, first of all, not everyone likes to watch martial arts, and not everyone is a historian. For many people, they have only heard of it, and they have not even heard of many names.
Secondly, just by using the two names Jiuchong and Huangpao, any normal person would think of the two people Nine-Headed Insect and Huangpao Monster as soon as they hear these two names.
Speaking of Song Que, Yu Ji persuaded Xiang Yu to reuse this person, but Song Que really looked down on Xiang Yu and deliberately hid his clumsiness and wanted to be a civil servant.
And even if you exclude these things that Yu Ji has no impression of, the remaining ones are enough for her to remind Xiang Yu to be more vigilant.
Although the problem between Xiang Yu and Yu Ji has not been resolved, Xiang Yu can still hear Yu Ji's words.
The most important thing is that 250,000 troops is not a small number. In a sense, it can definitely attract Xiang Yu's attention. Therefore, he was quite vigilant about this battle.
This may sound contradictory. While looking down on the other party, you are also wary of the other party. However, human beings are inherently contradictory creatures.
Xu Shiji entered Jiaozhou with great force, but unexpectedly he encountered Waterloo in his first battle.
The cavalry made a circuitous and lightning attack for thousands of miles. This should be Xiang Yu's specialty. However, there have been no available opportunities before.
After all, Xiang Yu's previous target was Liu Xiu. His cavalry could not cross the Yangtze River no matter what, let alone launch an attack. But this time, Xiang Yu was finally able to give full play to his advantages.
At first, Xu Shiji wanted to imitate Yue Fei's example, striking out with lightning and quickly biting the enemy hard.
Because of Liu Xiu, Xiang Yu's initial focus was indeed not in Jiaozhou, and most of his troops were not in Jiaozhou.
Therefore, this created the possibility for Xu Shiji to strike with lightning. Even if Jingnan is close to Jiaozhou, it will definitely take time to send reinforcements. As long as Xu Shiji moves quickly enough, it will be enough for him to do a lot of things during the time when Xiang Yu's reinforcements arrive.
The force of 250,000 troops is indeed a force that is difficult to resist for Jiaozhou now.
However, how could Xu Shiji have expected that Xiang Yu's reinforcements would not arrive so quickly in theory. However, Xiang Yu abandoned the large-scale infantry troops and instead gathered all the cavalry troops. He only relied on the cavalry troops and went straight to Xu Shiji.
Xiang Yu used all his strength and nearly 20,000 cavalry came in for a surprise attack. Xu Shiji, who was not prepared for this moment, was immediately fooled. In particular, the 250,000 troops were spread out like a large flat surface, but Xiang Yu's 20,000 cavalry were like an awl digging into a flat surface.
In this battle, Xu Shiji returned defeated, although half of Xiang Yu's men were left behind because of his timely dispatch! However, their losses were even greater, losing tens of thousands of men and horses!
Wu Ban, Lei Tong, Dou Yihu, Mu Kun, Zhang Tianyong and other generals were all killed in this battle.
Fortunately, Yang Jian, Jiuchong, Huangpao, Jiufeng and other generals provided timely support, otherwise, Xu Shiji's life might have been in danger.
If nothing happened later, Xiang Yu would have truly been a complete victory this time.
It's a pity that although Xiang Yu traveled thousands of miles, he captured Xu Shiji's tens of thousands of troops in one battle. This not only caused heavy losses to the enemy, but most importantly, demoralized the enemy.
By the time Xu Shiji reorganized his troops, Xiang Yu's reinforcements had officially arrived. Logically speaking, it seems that the situation is beginning to develop in Xiang Yu's favor.
However, not long after this great victory, the Yizhou Army's counterattacks had already defeated Xiang Yu one after another, and he was almost unable to withstand it. And the beginning of it all comes from one person...
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