The red sun in the south of the Yangtze River in July is scorching, but the July in the north is already a little cool.
This year's northern wind and rain are smooth, the mountains outside Jixian County are yellow and clear, and the boundless rice is swept by the wind of early autumn, swaying with the wind like a wave, exuding a refreshing grain fragrance.
However, the people who had planted the crops did not dare to come back to harvest, and they all helped the old and the young to the south into Jizhou a few months ago to escape the war.
The people in the villages, township pavilions, and small towns have abandoned their homes and businesses, led their cattle and carried their burdens, and went south into Jizhou to make a living on Cao Cao's territory.
With Jixian as the center, extending to the east and west and then expanding to the north and south, at least nearly 800,000 troops from all sides have gathered within a radius of hundreds of miles, the situation is complicated, a big war may break out at any time, who dares to stay in Jixian to die In the northwest of Jixian County, there are 40,000 cavalry led by the Xiongnu princes Tuo Lei and Jebe, as well as the newly reorganized 20,000 Han Liaison Army.
Yuyang, one hundred and twenty miles north of Jixian County, was stationed with 40,000 Xianbei cavalry under the command of Murong Jun himself, and the two armies surrounded Jixian County with horns.
This is still an enemy, in the south of Youzhou, the Xiongnu general Daxi Changru led 30,000 cavalry, 10,000 Han troops occupied Zhuo County, the seat of Fanyang County, and the north of the tow mine, Murong Jun echoed in the north and south, forming a front and rear attack on Gongsun Zhan.
Before the birth of Temujin, the Huns were purely nomadic people, and their habit was to plunder rather than attack cities.
However, with Temujin's ascension to the throne of the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu began to change their strategy, and "seizing the world and enslaving the Han people" became a strategic goal.
So he began to siege the city wherever he went, and adopted Timur's policy of "ruling the Han with Han", and recruited a team of traitors to assist the Xiongnu army in controlling the place.
In the past six months, the Xiongnu cavalry expanded from west to east, in addition to controlling the vast territory of Xinjiang and Mongolia before Liu Wei crossed, they also defeated Ran Min and successively captured more than 20 counties of Shanggu, Fanyang and Yuyang, forming a semi-encirclement situation for Gongsun Zhan's old nest Ji County.
Just when Daxi Changru echoed with Tuo Lei and Murong Jun in the north and south, and eyed Gongsun Zhan, Shan Yu Temujin, who was respected by the Huns as a god, ascended the throne and became the emperor in Shengle City on the grassland, proclaimed himself Tian Khan, and named the country Yuan.
Subsequently, Timur, who changed his name to Wang Baobao, led 50,000 Hun cavalry and 20,000 Han allied troops into Zhulu, 200 miles west of Jixian County, and controlled Jixian County in the west and Dai County in the south.
There were as many as 160,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu and Xianbei allied forces, and another 50,000 forced or voluntary Han allies fought together, which was the pressure on Gongsun Zhan to the west.
Temujin swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger, and it took three or four years to integrate the various tribes of the steppe and fully border Jizhou, which made it difficult for Cao Cao, who straddled both sides of the Yellow River, to sleep and eat.
So he left his eldest son Cao Ang, who escaped from Wu Song's hands, to sit in Ye County, and ordered Zhicai, Manzhong, Kuai Liang, Wen Ping, Cao Chun and other civil and military assistants to supervise 60,000 soldiers to garrison Laochao Yecheng.
Cao Cao personally raised 150,000 troops, led Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Dong Zhao, Liu Fu and other strategists, Cao Bin, Wang Yanzhang, Xia Luqi, Dian Wei, Shan Xiongxin, Cao Wenzhao, Li Tong, Niu Jin and other generals, as well as the second son Cao Pi stationed in Zhongshan State, closely monitoring the movements of the Hun cavalry, ready to resist the enemy outside the territory at any time.
And the place where Cao Jun is stationed is also Zhen Mi's hometown, which is only about sixty miles away from Zhen's house in Wuji County, which gives Cao Pi the opportunity to go to Zhen's house from time to time to harass Zhen Mi, and sends a lot of eyeliner to secretly monitor Zhen's every move.
As a heroic hero, Cao Cao naturally took precautions like Liu Bian, while Liu Bian was wary of Cao Cao everywhere, Cao Cao was also keeping a close eye on every move of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In addition to leaving Cao Ren to lead Cheng Yu, Yu Ban, Xiahou Shang, and Cao Zhen to raise 80,000 troops to sit in Chenliu, defend Luoyang in the west, and Yue Fei in the south of the Eastern Han Dynasty; He also sent Xiahou Yuan to lead the two generals of Le Jin and Li Dian, and his fifteen-year-old son Cao Zhang, who was 15 years old, raised 50,000 troops to sit in Dong'e, preventing Qin Qiong's army from taking advantage of the situation and raiding the Central Plains.
In the territory of Bingzhou, Xiahoudun continued to sit in Jinyang, with Xun You as his adviser, and his troops included Han Baohu, Zhu Ling, Lu Zhao, Jia Kui, and Wang Ling; Ordered Guo Ziyi to lead Pang De and Hao Zhao to raise 20,000 troops to go north to Dai County, and join Zhang Xiu's 30,000 horses to guard the forward fortress of Dai County, to prevent the Hun cavalry from entering Kou and annexing the state.
A month and a half ago, Su Qin, who had failed to persuade Liu Bei, left Chengdu, stopped all the way to the camp of the Cao army of Zhongshan State, met Cao Cao, and persuaded Cao Cao to oppose the Eastern Han Dynasty and reach an alliance with Luoyang to discuss Liu Wei.
But Cao Cao didn't say no, and set up a banquet every day to entertain Su Qin and let him enjoy the mountains and rivers in Jizhou, but he didn't give a reply.
And Su Qin also knew that Cao Cao was sitting and watching the situation change, so he was not in a hurry to leave, so he stayed at the Cao battalion commander, and sometimes even gave Cao Cao military staff to deepen the relationship between them.
"If you can persuade Cao Cao to join the alliance, it is ten times better than Liu Bei, and with Cao Cao's manpower and material resources, plus our Western Han Dynasty, it is enough to suppress Liu Wei.
Don't say that waiting for a month, even a year is worth it," Su Qin said to himself in his heart.
In the face of strong enemies on three sides, Cao Cao's defense is not leaky, but Gongsun Zan does not have such a great ability.
In addition to the aggressive Hun iron cavalry in the west, he was terrified, and the Li Tang army swept in the east also made Gongsun Zhan uneasy.
In the autumn of last year, Li Ji, the general of Li Tang's expedition to the east, led Li Yuanba, Li Guangbi, Li Siye, Chen Ziyun, Zu Dashou, Mao Wenlong and others to raise 150,000 troops, conquer Liaodong in one fell swoop, behead Gongsun Yuan, and bring the entire Liaodong region into his palm.
After the beginning of spring this year, it continued to advance westward, all the way down to Changli, Liaoxi, and Youbei Pingdi.
After that, he recuperated for two months in the Lingzhi branch of western Liaoning, expanded the recruitment of troops to 180,000, and arrived at the foot of Xu Wu Mountain, one hundred and eighty miles east of Jixian County, half a month ago, quietly watching the changes in the situation in Youzhou, waiting for an opportunity to move.
Of course, it was neither Temujin's Xiongnu cavalry nor Cao Mengde who sat in Zhongshan to deter Li Tang's 180,000-strong army, nor Gongsun Zhan, who was trapped in Jixian County and was at the end of his rope, but Li Jing's army that crossed the Yellow River to the north.
Li Jing crossed the sea to attack Li Tang in May last year, broke through Wang Jiancheng, captured Li Yuan, the emperor of Li Tang, and his concubines and ministers, and wrote the most humiliating chapter in the history of Li Tang.
At the same time, it made Li Jing's name powerful Goguryeo, and formed a huge deterrent to the entire Li Tang's civil and military affairs, even Li Ji was no exception, and he did not dare to enter easily before he could figure out Li Jing's movements.
Li Jing was far away from the base camp in Qingzhou, and did not dare to advance lightly against the enemy, so he marched slowly north along the seashore step by step, leaving a general every hundred miles to lead a team of about 2,000 people to build a fortress, set up camp, and ensure a way out.
Just as Li Jing was cautiously marching, Wei Qing and Ma Chao led 60,000 reinforcements across the Yellow River to join the Northern Expeditionary Army, which made Li Jing like a tiger with wings.
He then ordered Hua Mulan to guard Yangxin, and Guan Sheng to guard Zhang Wu to ensure the route connection between Youzhou and Qingzhou, so as not to cause Cao Cao to suddenly turn against him and cut off the grain and grass supply route.
After that, Li Jing led Li Cunxiao, Yujuluo, Gao Gao, Chen Deng, Xu You and others to lead 120,000 troops to speed up the march, and arrived at Fangcheng, one hundred and fifty miles south of Jixian County, half a month ago; Wei Qing, Ma Chao, Tai Shici, and Qin Liangyu led 60,000 horses to take another route and arrived at Quanzhou, which was 70 miles away, at about the same time, and Li Jing's main force was at each other's horns.
Within a radius of hundreds of miles centered on Jixian County, nearly one million troops from all sides gathered, fierce generals gathered, and armor was numerous; All forces on all sides are cautious and cautious, and no one dares to act rashly, so as to avoid losing all the games and falling into an unfavorable situation first.
In this way, since the beginning of July, the situation of confrontation has taken shape in the north, until the news of the death of Tang Wan, the empress of the Eastern Han Dynasty, spread all over the world, and all forces are still watching from the sidelines, and no one dares to act rashly.
As the seat of Youzhou, the permanent residents in Jixian County are about 120,000, because the Xiongnu iron cavalry came from the west, and the Li Tang army marched from the east, so Gongsun Zan ordered to open the city gate and absorbed 780,000 township people into the city to escape the war.
The population of Jixian County soared to nearly 200,000, coupled with the 80,000 horses under the command of Gongsun Zhan, resulting in the medium-sized Jixian County being overcrowded, and every day was spent in noisy and chaotic order.
In the summer, it was okay, and the people were still able to sleep on the streets and live in tents, but it was a little muddy when it rained.
But after the weather turns cold for another month, life is not so good, and if there is no warm shelter, freezing to death on the streets is not alarmist, which makes those who have no home to return to have the idea of going south.
"Open the door, we want to go out of the city, we don't want to freeze to death in Jixian County" "Open the door, we have to take refuge in Jizhou, even if we go home, it's better than freezing to death in the city" Early in the morning, tens of thousands of homeless people in Jixian County began to surround Gongsun Zhan's mansion and shout, clamoring to open the city gate and release them.
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Gongsun Zhan, accompanied by the strategist Luo Guanzhong and his friend Ran Min, went out of the mansion and said to the people: "Okay, okay, don't quarrel, I will stay in the city for at least two months, you can leave, whether men, women and children will go out of the city to harvest rice for me, each person can harvest enough twenty stones and send them to the city to be free, whether it is to go south to Jizhou, or go home and wait for death, this will no longer care." ” The people shouted: "Why did you harvest it and hand it over to the general, the rice was originally ours?"
Gongsun Zhan reprimanded: "The rice around Jixian County is at least hundreds of thousands of people, how much do you have and you have eaten white food in the city for two months, you should also do something for General Ben."
People are swords, I am fish and meat, and the helpless people can only leave one hostage in the city for each household, and the others received sickles, baskets and other agricultural tools, and under the supervision of 30,000 horses led by Luo Cheng and Tian Yu, they went out of Jixian County and went to the fields to harvest ripe rice for Gongsun Zhan.
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