Chapter 753. Guan Yu's Northern Expedition
Wang Hou's troops have always been in short supply.
The bad side of the feudal soldiers is reflected, because the Han Dynasty generally served for more than three months and one hundred days, and Wang Hou did not want to easily break the rules and extend the service period, so the landlord cavalry recruited and the 20,000 entourages were disbanded by him after repelling Liu Bei at the end of last year. He was released back to Guanxi and returned home for the New Year, and only 3,000 entourages were kept on the front line.
Therefore, even if the Wei army won a great victory in the Battle of Dingjunshan, Wang Hou's troops were still at a disadvantage. The troops who could fight and the crippled Yangping Pass defenders were only more than 22,000.
However, in opposition to the establishment of a Confucian family in Guandong, Guanxi Shangwu's enthusiasm was completely aroused by him. After the beheading of the Battle of Hanzhong was reported, the left-behind prince Cao Pi in the Yecheng court did not make any trouble. He gave titles to the public for several titles. The road to titles to enter the officialdom aroused the already warlike old Qin people even more fanatical. The structure of the Guanlong military aristocrats in the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the later generations showed a little prototype at Wang Hou's hands.
In order to achieve military merit, in addition to the three thousand Guanzhong landlord knights who were recruiting service, some knights and children of the decaying family brought their own food, grass and horses, and took the initiative to join the war in Hanzhong. Last night, I received a warning from the sentry tower, and these wild knights arrived at the battlefield as soon as possible.
It is quite similar to later online games. The young knights who came from Luo Gudao and Chen Cangdao from voluntary cavalry took on tasks in the Wei army camp after Yangping Pass, and were assigned to the patrol area of the mission location. After being beaten to monsters, they escorted the prisoners to Hanzhong camp to receive a bounty. If they were greedy, they would go back to schedule tasks. If they were more pragmatic, they would escort the prisoners back to Guanzhong.
Captives are also one of the reasons why they attract Guanzhong knights to take the initiative to join the war!
Wang Hou accepted the Qiang people as a Chinese citizen and agreed with the Guanzhong group to maintain the 30-1 tax in the early Han Dynasty, especially in Chang'an, which actually caused special damage to the interests of the land nobles in Guanzhong, which increased the labor cost of agricultural production! The value of people was improved. In order to recruit tenant farmers, the landlord grandfather, who was originally arrogant, even had to bend down to show a smile. Like the factory owner in the south during the labor shortage, he gave cigarettes and bonuses to the tenants, and even could not show off his majesty.
However, the prisoners are different! In the Battle of Hanzhong, more than 20,000 Shu troops were captured, but the Guanzhong master who participated in the war would rather not report military merits than hide the prisoners. The prisoners of the Shu army could be transported back to be ten-ten slaves or to show off their master's power. Last Spring Festival, he brought more than 10,000 prisoners back to Guanzhong. A manor could divide ten ten-ten slaves into a knight happily like the New Year.
It can completely exploit the surplus labor force captured by the Shu army, and can also play the power of the landlord's grandfather! The capitalist greed that Wang Hou wanted was aroused in Guanzhong. In this case, Wang Hou had to let go of the red line of prisoners of war.
In the camp, groups of prisoners of Shu army were driven away with their heads dejectedly, and the Guanzhong knights who brought the prisoners back were excited and shouted loudly. The camp was still quite Renaissance-like. The devastating literati who relied on writing to make a living were pinching their pens. On-site interviews, Sasha recorded the battle situation of the knights, and the bragging wind also became louder. It was so exaggerating to be written into stories and played in the Grand Theater in Chang'an.
Just like the battle last night, there were obviously more than a dozen Shu army short sword light infantry to look at the situation. They were a few hundred meters away from Daba Mountain, but they chose to surrender. They were blown away by a few guys and were as wonderful as fighting with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei for three hundred rounds. The white-bearded old man was also blown into Huang Zhong's clan brother Huang Luo. The Shu army captives were almost vomited.
However, the situation was getting very good, and Wang Hou was still worried while sitting in the central army's tent.
The situation in Hanzhong is not so stable, but rather being dragged into the quagmire of war like Bashu. The heavy troops of Liu Bei were suppressed in front of Micang Mountain in Yangpingguan. He did not dare to retreat at all, and he advanced southward. With the 20,000 people in his hands, he was really a little powerless.
It would be fine if he only supported a battlefield in Hanzhong. The problem was that the burden Cao Cao threw to him was too narrow and long, and the disadvantages were exposed.
Liaodong's small-scale war and the already-climate Liaodong Trust Committee could handle it, but something happened in the naturalized city. Some northern nomadic barbarians who claimed to be Rouran went south from Siberia and began to invade the Xianbei grasslands. The Xianbei people were too weakened by Wang Hou, and in recent years, with the prosperity of industry and commerce, they were not opponents of these northern barbarians, and they suffered several defeats on the southern edge of the desert.
Another section of the Western Regions was a mistake in Wang Hou’s employment of people! He used Wang Shuang as the protector of the Western Regions. Wang Shuang was indeed a powerful general, and he was loyal and straightforward in character. The problem lies in his straightforward in character.
Although the Western Regions are not as complex and colorful as the thirty-six countries in the era of Bowang Hou Zhang Qian, there are also political forces from more than a dozen countries and dozens of ethnic groups. Back then, Ban Chao was able to shake the Western Regions because of his two sides. His fists were hard at critical moments. Who dared not give me the face of the boss of the man? I really fuck you with a knife. Dozens, hundreds of people dared to attack the opponent's tens of thousands or tens of thousands, and with the courage of the Han cavalry, he could really kill the boss of the opponent.
But usually, Ban Chao is dozing off in his work. As long as you don’t move the Western Regions Protectorate and do not provoke the business path of the Han Dynasty, what kind of small country kings and small tribe chiefs fight, he doesn’t care about how the small tribe chiefs fight! As long as there is no such strong man who suddenly rises like the Later Jin Dynasty and may threaten the dominance of the Han Empire, you can fight it anyway, and it doesn’t matter if the human brain is beaten into a dog brain. Anyway, the Han will benefit in the end.
But Wang Shuang is the kind of person who can't stand the sand in his eyes! He recognized the Western Regions Protectorate. After the 5,000 troops arrived in Luntai, he had fought more than 30 battles in the past two years. Even the Cheshiqian Kingdom, Xiaowan, Pishan and other countries that had welcomed the return of the Han army, had slight remarks.
Under such circumstances, it is already foreseeable that a major border chaos will occur in the near future of the Western Regions.
But the problem is that all the main energy is involved in Hanzhong, and Wang Houshi has no strength to invest in the development of the Western Regions.
Seeing the notices sent by Guihua City in the Western Regions, Wang Houzhen felt a little embarrassed, but the clever wife couldn't cook without rice.
After reading it one by one, he threw the official documents aside and creaked. As he looked at the next one, Wang Hou's eyes suddenly couldn't help but straighten.
It was actually sent by Cao Ren!
Cao Ren is now working on Jingzhou's remaining bases, guarding Cao Wei's last two bases in Jingzhou, located in Xiangyang City, which is now north of the Yangtze River. Wang Hou has no high opinion of this number one general of the Cao clan, but the relationship between the two sides is not bad.
This old turkey sent a letter to remind Wang Hou, who was also fighting with Liu Bei, that the Jingzhou Pass thieves collect Luo ships and will head north in the near future, reminding Wang Hou that perhaps Liu Bei will launch a second wave of attack!
Wang Hou was stunned for a few seconds after reading this news, and then he slapped his thighs tragically.
"Forgot this!"
Chapter completed!