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Chapter Thirty-Six: The Great War Begins


Suddenly, Wang Ting thought of something and reached into her sleeve pocket with one hand.

The eunuch's eyes suddenly widened, his entire facial expression stiffened, and then he slowly released his hands that were holding Wang Ting, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Wang Ting's hand was still turning.

She held a delicate knife in her hand, and the blade had already been thrust into the eunuch's belly.

This knife is the foldable "spring fruit knife" that Sima Yu gave to Wang Ting.

By the time Wang Ting's trembling hands pulled out the knife from the eunuch's stomach, he had already died.

Wang Ting, who was shouting, finally attracted people inside and outside the palace.

Sima Yu also heard the noise and ran back from the garden.

He looked at the body lying in a pool of blood and Wang Ting who was trembling.

He already guessed the situation, took the queen into his arms, and comforted her softly.

At the same time, he scolded the palace maids and eunuchs who were so frightened that they knelt down: "Why are you still standing there, let's clean up quickly."

The assassination attempt was quickly investigated by the special lieutenant transferred from the Acropolis.

Let’s start with the identity of this Huangmen, how he obtained the poison, how he entered the Palace of Qinzheng, and how he knew the emperor’s work and rest habits.

Tingwei uprooted the intelligence network of Hejian King Sima Yong that had been hidden in Luoyang City for many years.

At this time, Sima Yong had also spread the proclamation to the world.

The princes who had been contacted by Li Han before heard the news and responded to the proclamation one after another, gathering troops to rebel.

Even as far away as Zhang Chang in Jingyang, who was defeated by Liu Hong, Shi Bing pretended to respond to Sima Yong's appeal and wanted to lead "rebels" to do justice for heaven.

Sima Yu was also unambiguous.

Following the last edict to the world, he issued another edict, asking the world's state pastors, prefects, and county magistrates to express their stance against these rebellious people.

Many state pastors, prefects and even some princes had expressed their support for Sima Yu before.

After this edict was issued, no one could stand on the wall.

Because Sima Yu clearly stated in the edict that the ambiguous wall-riding faction was also a traitor.

A war to determine the fate of the Jin Dynasty is about to begin in the Central Plains.

Fortunately, Liu Hong made smooth progress on the counter-insurgency battlefield in the south.

Zhang Chang, Shi Bing and other rebels have been compressed into a small area along the line between Jiangzhou and South Jingzhou.

Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Yingzhou, Liangzhou, Liangzhou, and Xuzhou in the north all sided with Sima Yu.

Especially Zhang Gui, the governor of Liangzhou, was originally under the control of Sima Yong, the king of Hejian, and more than a dozen of Sima Yong's king's troops were stationed near the territory.

But he still supported Sima Yu without hesitation.

Sima Yong ordered Li Han to be the governor, and the fierce general Zhang Fang was the commander, leading an army of 100,000 people to advance westward; Sima Ying personally led an army of 150,000 people to go south again, heading towards Luoyang; Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, also led several princes who were granted the title.

An army of 50,000 soldiers from all over the country marched westward.

In addition, large-scale frictions and battles began to break out between the two adjacent camps in various states and counties.

Suddenly, the building was full of wind and rain, and dark clouds pressed down on the city.

Sima Yu was confident, and he was not worried at all about whether he could win this war.

The only thing he is worried about is how long this war will last.

If the war lasts too long, even if he wins the final victory, the entire Jin Dynasty will be hollowed out and extremely weak.

In the end, it will be difficult to avoid the Wuhu chaos and the fall of Yongjia. tragedy occurred.

He set a goal for himself, at most, to bring peace to the world within two years.

And the time that the property confiscated by slaughtering Shi Chong can support this war is exactly two or three years.

Sima Yu held two consecutive court meetings and three military meetings in one day, and quickly made arrangements.

At present, there are nearly 90,000 forbidden troops in the entire Luoyang City.

Sima Yu ordered Sima, King of Changsha, to lead 50,000 imperial troops to cross the Yellow River north and intercept Sima Ying's army on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The food and supplies were supplied from the Heluo area.

Xia Yue was ordered to personally lead 20,000 forbidden troops to sweep away Sima Yue who came from Qingxu.

The logistics were handled by Henan and Yanzhou.

The last 20,000 imperial troops stayed in Luoyang, under the command of Sima Yu himself, waiting for Zhang Fang's arrival, and at the same time protecting the rear food routes for the other Sima army that crossed the Yellow River north.

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His request for Sima was only to be able to confront Sima Ying's 150,000 troops on the north bank of the Yellow River.

The requirement for Xia Yue is to completely annihilate Qing Xu Sima Yue and other thieves.

After hearing Sima Yu's arrangement, Sima asked a little worriedly: "Your Majesty, there are only 20,000 soldiers and horses left in the capital.

It is not only to defend the city, but also to ensure that Zhang Fang's 100,000 troops will not cut off the connection between Heluo and Hanoi.

Liangdao.

Is this a shortage of troops?

Your Majesty, why don't you let me guard Heluo with you?

Our troops are already small, so we should concentrate our troops."

Sima Yu explained to Sima: "It is precisely because we have fewer troops and the opponent has more troops that we have to spread out the battle line.

In this way, we can avoid the opponent's advantage of having more troops and help take advantage of our army's strong mobility and elite soldiers.

Otherwise, Two to three hundred thousand troops gathered If we reach the land of Heluo with a radius of only 200 miles, Luoyang City will definitely be surrounded into a dead city.

Tens of thousands of our imperial troops will be trapped in Heluo like turtles in a jar.

Even if the opponent cannot attack it for a while, it will be enough.

Trapped us until the situation in the world changes dramatically."

Sima still had his own opinions on the art of war.

After listening to Sima Yu's explanation, he immediately understood Sima Yu's intention.

He kowtowed to Sima Yu and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your guidance.

I understand."

The armies of Sima and Xia Yue were like two giant black dragons, meandering toward the east and north respectively.

Sima Yu handed Xia Yue his most elite cavalry, the Wang Ting Heavy Cavalry of 600 riders.

At this time, six hundred knights riding on tall horses with a shoulder height of 16 meters and full armors passed through the East City Gate majestically.

People near Luoyang lined up three floors inside and outside on both sides of the street.

Although Sima did not have systematic cavalry, he did have Kaizi horses and Tiefutu trained from the original Forbidden Army cavalry.

This was also a weapon that allowed him to compete with the 150,000 Sima Ying army on the Hebei Plain.

After Sima Yu and the queen watched the two counter-rebellion armies disappear from sight at the city head, they immediately summoned Sima Ya, Chen Hui, Zhao Jun, Huangfu Shang and other generals to lay out a battle plan against Zhang Fang.

At this time, the 100,000 troops led by Zhang Fang and Li Han had already passed Tongguan.

Some magistrates of Hongnong counties turned down and said they would accompany the King of Hejian, while others abandoned the city and fled.

Only a few county towns put up complete resistance, but these stubborn cities were quickly defeated by Zhang Fang's tiger and wolf soldiers who were half Qiang and Hu people, and the whole city was massacred.

After the counties of Hongnong fell, Li Han and Zhang Fang left some soldiers behind and led an army of 90,000 non-stop towards Luoyang.

When they arrived at Luoshui, they saw the contiguous camps of the Luoyang Forbidden Army.

Ten thousand Luoyang Forbidden Army had built a camp on the bank of Luoshui.

Now Zhang Fang must pull out or block this nail before he can continue to advance towards Luoyang, otherwise the grain road in the rear will always be under the threat of these 10,000 forbidden troops

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