The emperor called me, but I resisted. Brother calls me, I punch hard!
Previously, Emperor Chen Li Xuanji had sent three gold medals to Wang Dachui, who was hiding in Bingzhou, urging Wang Dachui to march as soon as possible to regain the lost lands of Qing and Youzhou.
The first time, Wang Dachui refused to send troops on the grounds that the soldiers' ordnance in Bingzhou was dilapidated and unfit for their duties;
So Emperor Li Xuanji asked Yan Song to urgently mobilize the necessary ordnance for 50,000 horses and horses from Jinling, Gusu, Bianjing and other places.
The three armies did not move, and food and grass went first. The second time Wang Dachui refused to send troops again, citing food shortages.
So Yan Song sent people from Jiangnan and Guangxi to bring in a large amount of grain.
Not to mention, it can be seen from this that the traitor Yan Song still has a few brushes if he does things seriously.
Ordnance, food and grass have been delivered. Huangdi Li Xuanji originally thought that Li Feiyu would send troops to regain the lost territory of Qing and Youzhou immediately.
Unexpectedly, Wang Dachui once again rejected the emperor's request to send troops for the third time, citing insufficient military training and unclear enemy military conditions.
Li Xuanji, who was very happy about this and wanted to regain the lost ground as soon as possible, was extremely angry. During this period, Li Xuanji even wanted to remove "Li Feiyu" from his military post and replace him with someone else.
Fortunately, no one in the Ministry of War above the court was willing to take over the mess created by "Li Feiyu". Although Wu Changgong of the Fifth Army Camp asked for a fight, Li Xuanji refused on the grounds that he was garrisoning important areas in the capital.
In addition, "Li Feiyu" had his godmother Li Wanji and godfather Yan Song to help keep him out of trouble, so Wang Dachui was not replaced in the end.
But it was different now. As soon as Wang Dachui received the gathering information from his good friend Zhou Yi, he immediately ordered the entire army to pack up their belongings and set off towards Yongding City in Youzhou three days later.
Because Qingzhou's seventeen counties had been completely occupied, the 50,000 Bingzhou Army led by Wang Dachui were full of displaced people with families and families on their way out.
Unlike some people in Youzhou who could escape to the northeast to Yongzhou in Zhouyi, the people in Qingzhou could only escape all the way.
Along the way, Wang Dachui gathered the refugees and used the food that Yan Song had painstakingly dispatched to help the people, gaining his reputation as an official in Yongzhou.
"Remember, it is Yongzhou Fenwu General Li Feiyu who gives you porridge."
For this reason, these displaced people are grateful to Yongzhou and General Li Feiyu. Many young and strong laborers even offered to join Li Feiyu's army to fight northward against the Huns.
A lot of oil is not a bad thing. After confirming that these people were not the spies of Xiongnu, Qiang, and Di, Wang Dachui also included these people into his team.
Anyway, now he has many weapons and sufficient food.
Whether it was Wang Dachui or Zhou Yi, it was their first time to lead an attack. In order to avoid overturning this time, both of them were as steady as old dogs, constantly sending out a large number of scouts to inquire about the enemy's situation.
What surprised Zhou Yi and Wang Dachui was that after the Xiongnu and Qiang tribes conquered the land of Qingzhou with thunder and lightning, they actually seemed to be in a state of cessation.
It turned out that in order to allow the Qiang and Di tribes to send troops together, Wuwan Shanyu divided his troops into two groups this time. He led an army of 100,000 to attack Qingzhou together with the Qiang tribe. The other group of troops was led by his general Zhan Mutie and joined the Di tribe. Attack the eighteen counties of Youzhou together.
Although Youzhou had been captured by nine counties before, it was because it was caught off guard.
However, the Youzhou soldiers were not as easy to defeat as the Qingzhou soldiers. Under the counterattack of the 30,000 Youzhou soldiers led by the prefect Jiang Zichuan and the Youzhou military envoy An Pinbai, they were able to withdraw even though we were outnumbered. Three counties.
It turns out that the Xiongnu Chanyu had promised the Qiang clan chief that in the future all the land he had captured in Qingzhou would be given to the Qiang people as part of the purchase of the disputed land between the Qiang and Di clans.
Now that Qingzhou has been completely captured, the Qiang tribe leader is no longer willing to waste his troops for the Di people and the Xiongnu, so he is unwilling to continue to advance.
There is a saying in "Zhongshuo": Use benefits to create a relationship, and when benefits are exhausted, they will disperse. When the momentum intersects, when the momentum fails, it will fall. Intersect with power, give up when power is lost. Friendship is based on love, and if love is broken, it will hurt.
This is the case for the Qiang people now. With the help of the Xiongnu Wuwan Chanyu and his 100,000 troops, the land of Qingzhou has been taken over by the Qiang people, so Dian Liang, the leader of the Qiang people, no longer plans to send troops.
The Qiang tribe did not send many troops this time, only 50,000 troops. They also knew that they could not swallow up more territory.
It is even more idiotic to continue to help the Di people, who already have a feud with them, to capture Youzhou.
If this had happened in the past, Wuwan Shanyu would have relied on the strength of his numbers and the 200,000 soldiers and horses in his hands to directly annex the 50,000 Qiang troops in Dianliang.
But now his rear is the territory of the Qiang people. If he annexes Dian Liang's troops, he will most likely be attacked from both sides. He will be attacked from the front by the Chen army and retaliated by the Qiang people in the rear.
Therefore, Wuwan Shanyu, who was originally violent and violent, also began to talk to the Qiang tribe leader Dian Liang. Xiaozhi used his emotions to reason, and tried to persuade the Qiang tribe leader Dian Liang to continue to join him to join the Di tribe troops who attacked Youzhou. , and jointly captured Youzhou.
Since this period of time, the scouts sent by Wang Dachui have been unable to find the main force of the Xiongnu and Qiang armies. This made Wang Dachui and others think that the Xiongnu coalition forces were planning some suspicious tactics, and wanted to surprise their own army after sending reinforcements.
This was not good in ancient times. Information and communication were too lagging behind. Therefore, the reason why Wang Dachui refused Emperor Chen's order to send troops for the third time was not made up by Wang Dachui.
However, Wang Dachui dared to speed up his advance after learning that Youzhou prefect Jiang Zichuan and Youzhou military envoy An Pinbai used 30,000 Youzhou soldiers and horses to fight against the Di people and recover the three counties of Youzhou.
Wang Dachui divided his troops into ten thousand and ordered Zhao Tiezhu to garrison Baofuguan at the junction of Qingzhou, Youzhou and Bingzhou. This was not only to prevent the Xiongnu coalition forces from moving further south, but also to preserve the retreat route of their own army.
Wang Dachui went all the way north and did not encounter any enemies. Instead, he gathered the refugees and arrived at Yongding City, the capital of Youzhou, ahead of Zhou Yi.
By the time he arrived at Yongding City, the total number of troops he had gathered together numbered more than 60,000.
The bloody Li-character flag fluttered in the wind, announcing the arrival of Wang Dachui's army.
Jiang Zichuan, the governor of Youzhou, was extremely happy that the imperial court had sent tens of thousands of reinforcements. He immediately left Ding'an City to greet Wang Dachui and his party.
Seeing that Zhou Yi was not with Jiang Zichuan, the governor of Youzhou, Wang Dachui couldn't help but become a little suspicious: "Brother Yi asked Yang Xiu to take a detour to Bingzhou and invited me to meet him in Yongding City. It stands to reason that he left nearly half a month before me. I've already arrived, Brother Yi, why hasn't he arrived yet?"
Wang Dachui suddenly felt a deep sense of worry in his heart.
