What is ultimate freedom?

After fighting this battle, are you really free?

The eagle circled loudly in the sky. Just below, countless troops rolled forward, like a long dragon, penetrated into the vast Taihang Mountains.

To be honest, if Wang Hou had the right to choose, he would definitely not. He chose to go north to Bingzhou to fight against Sima Laozhe. The most unparalleled combat power in Guanxi is not the cannon, but the iron cavalry.

Just like the later Ming Dynasty, there were a large number of red-clothed cannons, which still made the Iron Cavalry of the Tartars beaten to the point of falling flowers and flowing water.

Wang Hou had more than 40,000 iron cavalry under his command, and even more light cavalry were included, including those who could ride horses, with nearly 100,000 people. After all, Guanxi was close to the place of horse production, and the trade with the grassland was gone, and horses were cheap. Just like buying a car in later generations, Guanzhong could buy a horse with a little condition. This time, Wang Hou went to the expedition to more than 200,000 military, horses and civilians. If the emperor of the Song Dynasty saw this number, he would probably have to flow his mouth with jealousy.

Unfortunately, this time it was not his challenge, and Sima Yi was not stupid. He led the main force of Yecheng and the troops of the Central Plains gentry, and carried a large army of 400,000. He entered the Taihang Mountains directly from Handan and preset the battlefield between the Jinzhong Basin, the second-year-old Basin of Shanxi, and the Dingxiang Basin.

This move was actually really wonderful. If Wang Hou did not fight, he went down the Yellow River and attacked his Yecheng, Hebei, and his huge army dominated by infantry would go south to attack Luoyang and exchange his family with Wang Hou.

However, if Yecheng was lost, Sima Yi had little influence. After all, this was not the Han Dynasty capital in the traditional sense. He put the capital in Jinzhong, Quwo, Qufu and even Youzhou. However, if Luoyang was lost, Cao Pi's tomb was taken back, which means that he had obtained the orthodox. Sima Yi had just lost all the political points and could get them back.

And it is not only politically but also strategically. Although Wang Hou is very popular in Luoyang, there are actually many Kanto people who support Sima Laozhe, and they can account for 70% of the total. The remaining 30% of those who support Wang Hou are mostly fence-bearing like Wang Yun. If Luoyang is lost, Wang Hou's army will be trapped in the Central Plains, and those who can return to Guanxi or Liaodong alive will probably not even have half of them.

So although the mountainous Shanxi is particularly unsuitable for the afterglow of the cavalry, Wang Hou had to fight Sima Yi in Bingzhou.

However, the decisive battle in Bingzhou is not all a disadvantage. Although Wang Hou’s hometown, Jinyang, is here, he doesn’t expect to borrow much power. However, Wang’s granary is also on this land. He goes there and is "her own family". He doesn’t have to be "polite" and eat it casually.

Moreover, Jiuyuan Cloud is right next to it, and Wang Hou’s main force can reopen this transportation line nearby, directly supplying supplies from trains from Liaodong to the army, and supporting the war will take longer.

War does not wait for anyone. Although the world was still quite cold in January and February of the Spring Festival, the huge army of 400,000 has been transporting supplies for a month since the battle in Luoyang. Only then did they arrive at the preset battlefield, the Jinzhong Basin.

The terrain of Bingzhou has a famous saying in later generations, that is, two mountains and one corridor, Taihang Mountain on the right, Luliang Mountain on the left, and Fen River and Xin River in the middle impacted a series of plain corridors, forming five basins, and adding to the Changzhi and Jincheng Basins in the mountains, a total of seven basin farming areas in Shanxi.

Wang Hou's "hometown" Jinyang, which later became Taiyuan, is now the base camp of Sima Laozhe. The terrain here is also particularly special. It is a two-mountain corridor between the Dingxiang Basin and the Jinzhong Basin. There is also a mountain road to the east to lead directly to Hebei. Sima Yi advanced to the core of Bingzhou from here.

However, it was a bit different from the war that Wang Hou had expected. He originally thought that Sima Yi would give him all the way to the Yuncheng Basin to the Jinzhong Basin, and the decisive battle was preset in Jinyang City, where the terrain was dangerous.

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After all, in the plain basin, the Guanxi Iron Cavalry was still very powerful. Sima Yi had a army of 400,000 and less than 40,000 cavalry, so he would not choose to spend his troops with Wang Houtu on the plain.

However, Wang Hou forgot the saying that war is a continuation of politics, so when the army was approaching Quwo, the old capital of Jin State in the Spring and Autumn Period, he actually encountered the first Eastern Wei army on the Great Plain, and was caught off guard.

"Big Travel Platform!"

Now there are many soldiers in Guanxi, and the vanguard Wang Hou, who are not aware of them. Six young generals who don’t know whether they graduated from Chang'an or Liaodong are urging them to kneel on one knee in dejected manner.

"We are guilty! Please punish the crime in Taishang!"

Holding a telescope, looking over, under the rammed earth wall of Quwo City built in the early Eastern Han Dynasty, more than 20 Western Wei troops fell down from place to place. On the top of the city were cheering soldiers of the Eastern Wei family, and the banners such as Chen, Li, Cui, and Zhao could be vaguely seen.

It was indeed the negligence of several vanguard generals. Without exploring the enemy's situation, they sent cavalry to the base of the opponent's city wall, allowing the crossbowman to catch him.

However, it is no wonder that the Wang family in Jinyang was surrendered to Yecheng because of Wang Hou's relationship. In this way, basically all the county towns surrendered, without any resistance. Who would have thought that there was an army of 40,000 to 50,000 troops squatting here?

Moreover, Quwo is still a distance from the nearest valley. It is a typical agricultural city without terrain. It faces more than 200,000 pioneers and main forces of the Western Wei, especially the 40,000 real Guanxi Liaodong Iron Cavalry. Aren't you looking for death?

"Your sins are unforgivable, and your feelings are understandable. Remember them in the book of merits and demerits, and then you will be punished after the war!"

Wang Hou did not learn from Chongzhen. When fighting this battle, the other one took down the general and cut it down. The general was in a state of turmoil. The on-the-job general only wanted to make achievements and defeated the wars they could fight. During the war, in addition to betraying the enemy, all the merits and demerits were recorded in small notebooks. After the war, if you kill the enemy bravely and establish a sufficiently great achievement, you will not only get promotion rewards, and encourage the three armies to kill the enemy bravely.

"Thank you lord!"

Although he already knew the result, after hearing Wang Hou say it in person, the several pioneer lieutenants were grateful and kowtowed heavily.

Listening to the military order to settle accounts in Qiu Hou, the other pioneer soldiers who were not punished were all shocked. However, before Wang Hou could say a few words to inspire, the opponent started to clamor.

At the corpses of the twenty Western Wei soldiers who had just lie down, a hundred cavalry suddenly ran out, with the one behind cutting their heads and the one in front making vulgar gestures, especially the one in front wearing a leopard helmet and the brightest and most fancy carved armor on Ma'anshan, who arrogantly pointed at Wang Houdao and shouted.

"Tuqiu, when I saw this knife, I should use this knife to take your head!"

Following him, a group of young families of Eastern Wei who were riding horses and dressed in gorgeous clothes were also shouting in swear words.

"Dust Western Pirates!"

"The despicable Qin thief!"

"Grandpa Cell and other heads!"

Seeing these Kanto gentry children look arrogant and arrogant, Wang Hou suddenly understood why Sima Yi had to send such an army to death here.
Chapter completed!