Yingyin is the gateway to the west of Xuchang, and there are still fifty miles away from Xuchang, the seat of Yingchuan County, and you can go straight to Xuchang if you take Yingyin County, and if Xuchang City is broken, Yingchuan County will return to Han.
Due to the change of historical ruts, Cao Cao's administrative center has not been in Xuchang, in the early days with Chen Liu as a base, after pacifying Hebei, he moved the administrative office to Ye County north of the Yellow River, so Xuchang's status is not as important as in the history of the Three Kingdoms.
However, Yingchuan County has fertile land, abundant water flow, dense population, 17 county seats, and 800,000 people, of which Xuchang City alone has more than 100,000 residents.
It is one of the few large counties in the world, and if it can take Yingchuan from Cao Wei, it will undoubtedly be an inspiring victory.
Yingchuan has a long history and profound cultural heritage, according to the official history, the first dynasty in Chinese history, the Xia Dynasty, once set the capital in Yingchuan County, and the name at that time was Yangzhai.
And Yingchuan people are outstanding and capable, the founding emperor of the Xia Dynasty such as Dayu and Xia Qi is a native of Yingchuan, and other famous historical figures are endless, the heavyweights before the Three Kingdoms are Han Fei, Lu Buwei, Zhang Liang, Chao Cuo, after the Three Kingdoms, there are Wu Daozi, Chu Suiliang and other writers, and the local Yingchuan historical figures of the Three Kingdoms are like carp across the river, too many to mention.
If you want to ask which county has the most celebrities during the Three Kingdoms period, Yingchuan dare not say the most, but it is definitely one of them, Guo Jia, Xun Yu, Xun You and others are the mainstays of Cao Wei, and Xu Shu, Zhong Xuan, Zhong Hui, Chen Qun, Chen Tai and others are also leaders for a while, or good at internal affairs, or stronger than the use of soldiers, but also let the name Yingchuan in the history of the Three Kingdoms written a strong stroke.
It is precisely because Yingchuan is like a bright pearl that Liu Wei has always coveted this strategic town, whether it is economic, cultural, or military, this Yingchuan can be regarded as an important town.
When Wu Qi was like a bamboo, and when the Western Expeditionary Army swept Bashu, Yue Fei was bound to win Yingchuan, and vowed to take Yingchuan to let the soldiers under his command raise their eyebrows and express the depression in their hearts.
At this moment, it is the middle of March, the earth is springing, green shoots are beginning to sprout all over the mountains, and the willow branches are also full of green.
Yue Fei was dressed in golden armor, shining in the sun, and the whole person looked radiant, accompanied by Sun Bin, Liu Ye, Pang Juan and others, he climbed the Yingyang city wall, and glanced at the 100,000 troops under his feet.
Since the end of the first month, Yue Fei adopted Sun Bin's strategy of dividing troops, and ordered Sun Bin to take Yue Yun, Gao Changgong, Pang Juan, Dong Xi and others to select 30,000 elite soldiers, quietly crossed Yaoshan, and attacked Kunyang, cutting off Yang Su's grain and grass supply route in one fell swoop, so that Yang Su could only choose to retreat.
Yue Fei took the opportunity to lead Gao Chong, Yang Jiye, Lü Meng, Feng Sheng, Huo Jun and others to follow and kill, chasing and annihilating more than 30,000 Cao-Yang coalition troops all the way, and achieved the biggest victory in the five years of confrontation with Yang Su.
And taking advantage of the victory, Lianke Luyang, Yexian, Kunyang, Xiangcheng, Wuyang, Dingling and other ten counties, two-thirds of the land of Yingchuan County into the territory of the Han Dynasty, realized the first foreign expansion of Yue Fei's army in the real sense.
As the earliest top commander under Liu Wei, Yue Fei's record over the years is not as brilliant as Li Jing and Wu Qi, especially Wu Qi swept all the way through the natives of Southeast Asia, conquered Peshawar, the capital of the Kushan Kingdom, captured Ying Zheng, and called the Kushan Annihilation of the Four Great Empires together with the Han Dynasty, which nearly doubled the territorial expansion of the Han Dynasty.
It even made Wu Qi's prestige reach its peak, and he was crowned as the general of the expedition to the south, and there was a tendency to surpass Li Jing and Yue Fei faintly.
Compared with Wu Qi's recent scenery, Li Jing has been relatively quiet in recent years, since advancing north to the Bohai Bay, he encountered the 300,000 Tang army led by Li Mu and Li Ji, and the war between the three Li fell into a stalemate, and Li Jing, who was at a disadvantage in strength, could no longer make breakthroughs.
When Gongsun Chan had not yet been destroyed and the Grassland Alliance still existed, the Han army led by Li Jing and Wei Qing could still extend its tentacles into Youzhou.
With the fall of Gongsun Zhan, Cao Cao expelled Temujin to distant Central Asia and reached a strategic alliance with Li Tang, Li Jing's pressure increased greatly, and he could only withdraw from Youzhou and hold on to the Tang and Wei coalition forces in the areas of Zhangwu, Gaocheng, and Yangxin in Bohai County.
Li Jing's credit comes more from the Qingzhou siege planned five or six years ago, independently commanding the total annihilation of Yuan Shao's 200,000 horses, so that Yuan Shao's father and son died in Qingzhou, and the Yuan group was wiped out and withdrew from the stage of hegemony.
After taking charge of Qingzhou, Li Jing took a step further, seized the opportunity of Li Shimin's cross-sea attack on Jinling, and returned the favor to the other in his own way. led tens of thousands of Han troops to attack the Tang capital across the sea, broke through Wang Jiancheng in one fell swoop, captured more than 10,000 people, including Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, staged a copy of the "Shame of Jingkang", made his prestige surpass Yue Fei in one fell swoop, and established the position of the number one commander of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Compared with the glory of Li Jing and Wu Qi, as the three top commanders of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yue Fei's record of the official worship of the general of the Western Expedition is much bleaker, and compared with the lack of representative battles between Wu and Li, this makes Yue Fei feel depressed in recent years.
Yue Fei, as the earliest commander under Liu Wei, successively had the merits of breaking Liu Xuan, destroying Yuan Shu, and capturing Wancheng, but under the light of Li Jing and Wu Qi, these battles have long been insignificant.
Even Sun Wu and Xu Huang can defeat Zhao Kuangyin, Liu Yu and others, and Qi Jiguang also has the merits of pacifying Songzhou and Lu Xun pacifying Yizhou.
Yue Fei's main offensive campaign was to break through Xiangyang and capture Sun Ce, but unfortunately because of Liu Fei's personal participation, this credit cannot be completely attributed to Yue Fei.
Moreover, although Sun Ce was captured, the Sun clan forces with Sun Quan and Zhou Yu as the backbone were still active in Jingnan until two years later.
In addition, the Battle of Xiangyang lasted for two years, which made the Battle of Xiangyang insufficient and could not be compared with the classic battles of Li Jing and Wu Qi.
In fact, Yue Fei's grievances have nowhere to tell people, Xiangyang City has thick walls, and Fancheng is a horn to each other, and there is a moat wide up to a thousand zhang outside the city, which is actually the first strong city in the world.
In addition, Sun Ce, Zhang Dingbian and others are familiar with water warfare, Zhu Sheng is resourceful, and Zhou Tong, Zhang Ren, Sun Li and others are all fierce generals who defend the city, so Yue Fei has been unable to break the city for a long time.
But when the king is defeated and the king is defeated, when the world talks about the battle of Xiangyang, they will not say how difficult Xiangyang is, and they will not say how powerful Sun Ce and Zhang Dingbian are; It will only be said that Yue Fei attacked a Xiangyang and fought for two years, and finally broke the city by relying on the Son of Heaven's personal expedition, and was successfully broken through by Zhu Sheng and Zhang Dingbian to Liu Yu.
This is not the same as Li Jingquan's annihilation of Yuan Shao, the capture of Emperor Tang, Wu Qi's sweep of Southeast Asia, and the annihilation of Guishan In fact, laymen look at the lively insiders, and those who really understand military affairs understand that Yue Fei's greatest contribution is not in attacking, but in defending If there was no Yue Fei to guard Wancheng, and if there was no Yue Fei to guard the western gateway of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Li Jing and Wu Qi would not have been able to conquer the south and north Zhang without worries.
If Wancheng is lost, the entire north of the Yangtze River will be driven straight into by the enemy, and the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty will fall apart.
When Yue Fei first took over Wancheng, it could be said that there were many strong enemies, surrounded by enemies on three sides.
In the west, there is the Western Han Dynasty regime controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang, Yang Jian, and Liu Che, and there are Lu Bu, Li Guang, Yang Xuangan, Yang Lin, Shi Wansui, Yang Dayan, Zhang Xutuo, Li Wenzhong, Zhang Liao, Lan Yu, Gao Shun and other fierce generals, as well as Yang Su, Zhu Di, Xu Da, Zhou Yafu and other outstanding commanders, as well as Su Qin, Dou Ying, Chen Gong and other strategists, who had 400,000 soldiers and horses and nearly 10 million people when they were at their strongest.
And in the south, there is Liu Biao with a hundred thousand, and after Liu Biao is destroyed, there is a more powerful Sun Ce, Shangyong and Liu Yu, an ambitious guy, Liu Bei in Bashu, Zhao Kuangyin and Chang Yuchun in Tianshui.
To the north, there is the ill-intentioned Cao Ren army, which has been looking for an opportunity to reap the benefits of the fisherman.
Looking around Wancheng, the enemy armies from all walks of life add up to seven or eight hundred thousand, and there is no territory in the world that is in the place of four battles like Wancheng, but Yue Fei relied on 150,000 or 60,000 horses to defend Wancheng and withstood the repeated attacks of the princes from all walks of life.
After Liu Biao, Sun Ce, Liu Bei, Liu Yu, Zhao Kuangyin and other princes withdrew from the stage of hegemony one after another, Wancheng still stands, defending the splendid rivers and mountains of the Eastern Han Dynasty like an iron wall.
After Liu Biao and Sun Ce were killed in battle, the threat in the south of Wancheng was completely eliminated, but when the gourd was pressed and the scoop was lifted, Cao Ren in the north began to attack again, waiting for an opportunity to march and invade the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
With the annihilation of Zhu Yuanzhang's army in the Battle of Xiangyang, Huo Qujian attacked Chang'an, Guan Yu counterattacked Shangyong, and the threat of Wancheng was further lifted.
Yue Fei and his soldiers saw the hope of counterattack, but who knew that they met Yang Su, one of the strongest commanders of the Western Han Dynasty, and they were unable to achieve an overwhelming victory and launch a counteroffensive against the Western Han Dynasty.
Through careful analysis of Yue Fei's use of troops and the battle of Xiangyang to destroy Sun Ce, Yang Su found that Yue Fei was stronger than infantry and the weakest in water warfare; Therefore, every time the troops were dispatched, the water of the Yellow River would be irrigated to the south, so that the rivers and ditches near Nanyang County, such as the Shushui, Ruhe, Yingshui, Tuanhe, and Surabaya, would overflow, and then Yue Fei's unfamiliar water battle would be used to hold on to it.
Moreover, with the division of Xue Rengui's legion, Yang Zaixing died in battle, Chang Yuchun mutinied, Zhang He, Yang Liulang, Wu Song and others were transferred, and Yue Fei's legion was repeatedly weakened, so it was unable to counterattack externally for a long time, and it has always maintained a defensive posture under the attack of all parties.
And all this with the demise of Liu Bei, the collapse of the Liu-Zhao coalition army, and the decline of the Western Han Dynasty, Yue Fei finally waited for the opportunity to counterattack, relying on Sun Bin's strategy of cutting off Yang Su's grain road, and finally opened the prelude to a comprehensive counteroffensive, vowing to lead the soldiers under his command to spit out the evil anger in their hearts, counterattack Xuchang, sweep the Central Plains, point the sword at Luoyang, and tell the world with his achievements, "I, Yue Fei, am definitely the commander of the same level as Li Jing and Wu Qi" t1706231537: