Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 554 Competing in the Central Plains (51)

Two months later
Spring of the eighth year of Yan State 340 (558)
Gangneung
The news of Hou Jing's extermination spread to Jiangling, and Xiao Yi couldn't wait to proclaim himself emperor.

Since Jiankang City was slaughtered and it was too far away from Jiangling base camp, Xiao Yi directly made Jiangling City his capital.

Today, Xiao Yi still has many enemies, including Xiao Lun who ruled Bashu as emperor, Yu Wentai who went south, Gao Yang who went south, and Yan Xu who took the opportunity to go ashore to plunder.

Xiao Yi asked Wang Sengbian to guard Jiankang City and guard against Qi State, asked Chen Ba to recover the Kuaiji and Sanwu areas that had been occupied by Yan State first, asked Mrs. Xian to lead troops north to Yiling to guard against Xiao Lun, and prepared to fight Yuwentai himself.

The plan was perfect, and the first step was aborted.

Xiao Yi was not Yuwentai's opponent at all, and he was defeated very quickly, and Jiangling City was surrounded by Yuwentai's army.

When he was in despair, he, who had loved reading all his life, said: "Reading thousands of books, I still have today, so it is better to burn them!"

Xiao Yi suffered from eye disease since he was a child, and one eye was born blind, but he loves reading very much, especially Confucian sage classics and Taoist classics.

However, after reading so many books, he was given a hammer by Yu Wentai, a martial artist who hadn't read much, on the battlefield, which made him unacceptable.

After all, reading thousands of volumes is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.

No matter how in-depth the theoretical research is, it is not as good as actually practicing it a few times.

The art of war has been studied tens of thousands of times, and it is not as good as others' accumulated experience on the battlefield over the past few decades.

After reading so many books, the result was a disastrous failure. He suddenly felt that reading was meaningless, so he planned to burn all the books in his collection.

More than [-] books were burned by Xiao Yi, and he himself was buried in the flames.

In this era, even a single book is very precious, but Xiao Yi burned more than [-] books at one time.

Yu Wentai's army invaded Jiangling City, and supported Liang Guo's clan, establishing a puppet regime in Jiangling City.

After Yu Wentai captured Jiangling City, he was not in a hurry to continue to attack Jingzhou, which was easy to attack but difficult to defend. Instead, he turned to attack the Bashu area.

More than a month later, when the news of Xiao Yi's self-immolation after his defeat spread to Jiankang City, Chen Baxian and Wang Sengbian, the partners, began to disagree.

Wang Sengbian wanted to welcome Xiao Yuanming as emperor in an attempt to collude with Qi State, while Chen Baxian wanted to support Xiao Fangzhi as emperor, hoping that the Southern Dynasty would be independent.

Xiao Yuanming defected to Qi State long ago, if Xiao Yuanming was supported as emperor, wouldn't the Southern Dynasty become the puppet of Qi State in the Northern Dynasty?
The two who were originally brothers of different surnames turned against each other and attacked and killed each other.

In the name of the emperor, Wang Sengbian ordered Chen Baxian to enter Jiankang City alone, intending to capture and kill Chen Baxian.

However, Wang Sengbian argued that what happened to Tu Jiankang in the past was already outraged, which made him unpopular, so everyone told Chen Baxian the news in advance.

Chen Ba used his plan first, killed his good brother instead, captured Jiankang City, and supported Xiao Fangzhi as emperor.

After capturing Jiankang City, Chen Baxian was busy eliminating the remnants of Wang Sengbian's forces.

After Wang Sengbian's death, some of Wang Sengbian's trilogy turned into bandits, hid in the mountains and forests, and robbed Chen Baxian's logistics supplies.

The changes in Jiankang City also spread to Yecheng. At this moment, Gao Yang had just defeated Khitan and Kumoxi, forcing these two tribes who had been plundering Youzhou south all the year round to pay tribute to them.

He didn't stop for a moment. He had just ended the war in the north and began to intervene in the civil strife in the south.

However, after crossing the Yangtze River, the tens of thousands of troops of the State of Qi were cut off by Chen Baxian. The fleet of Chen Baxian was full of ships on the river. .

However, looting must be carried out in a dispersed manner. It is impossible for tens of thousands of people to rob a village. In that case, the food they plundered would not be enough to restore the physical strength consumed by tens of thousands of people during the robbery.

Therefore, the tens of thousands of Qi's army had to be divided into hundreds of groups, each with hundreds of people, and robbed everywhere.

The result is obvious. Although this can temporarily solve the problem of food shortage, it is easy to be defeated by Chen Baxian one by one.

Chen Ba first led thousands of troops to attack everywhere, and wiped out one group after another of the Qi State's looting squads, and finally wiped out all the Qi State's army of more than 5 in Jiangzuo.

Therefore, robbery is also a technical job, and if it is not done well, it will be broken by the opponent one by one. It is not as easy as imagined to support war with war.

Many people imagine that the army can be invincible only by looting, which does not exist.

There is a high probability that one's own army will be broken up by the enemy's main force as soon as it is dispersed into robbery squads.

Only a powerful army is qualified to rob casually, because he is not afraid of the opponent's attacking him one by one, not because he is robbed, he is powerful, and the logical relationship cannot be reversed.

It is because he is already powerful that he can rob everywhere, not because he robbed, so he is powerful.

The [-] army of Qi State wanted to rely on robbery to maintain supplies in the south of the Yangtze River, so it was quickly wiped out by Chen Baxian.

Although the [-] troops of Qi State were wiped out, Chen Baxian did not take advantage of the victory of the Northern Expedition, but took the initiative to negotiate peace with Qi State.

This is the case for weak countries, even if they have won the opponent through untold hardships, they still have to initiate peace.

Because you Chen Baxian can win a hundred times, but as long as you lose once, you will be forever lost.

And Qi Guo has his own basic game, so he can lose a hundred times, but as long as he wins once, he can occupy Jiangzuo.

During the peace negotiation, Chen Ba first recognized the legitimacy of Qi State’s occupation of the area north of the Yangtze River, and promised that he would not go north to recover the lost land, and Qi State also promised that he would not go south to interfere in the internal affairs of the Southern Dynasty. .

In the past, Gao Yang would never have agreed to a peace negotiation. In his opinion, Chen Baxian was nothing more than an ant, at best a very capable ant. As long as the Qi State attacked a few more times, it would definitely be able to capture Jiangzuo.

However, the northern Turks suddenly sent troops half a month ago to attack Rouran, who was still alive.

This incident made Gao Yang very vigilant. After all, the Turks were Yuwentai's allies, so he had to give up the idea of ​​interfering in the internal affairs of the Southern Dynasties and devote more energy to dealing with the alliance between Yuwentai and the Turks.

And during the more than half a year when Jiangzuo was in turmoil, Yu Wentai's army finally invaded Bashu and wiped out Xiao Lun, and then he died of illness on the way back to Chang'an.

With the background of a low-level military family, from a low-level military officer to finally creating the Guanlong Group that unified the world, Yu Wentai is also a generation of heroes.

After Yuwentai died of illness, his son Yuwenjue became the head of the family, and then with the support of the family elder Yuwenhu, he usurped the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, with the country name "Zhou".

However, just as the little emperor came to the throne, he had a fierce conflict with the power minister Yu Wenhu. Less than two months after he took the throne, the little emperor Yu Wenjue was poisoned and killed by the power minister Yu Wenhu.

At this time, the time has come to the spring of the ninth year of Yan Guo 340. (559 years)
In the Southern Dynasties, the Kingdom of Liang was divided into many separatist forces. Chen Baxian joined forces with Mrs. Xian to fight in the east and west to defeat these separatist forces.

However, Chen Baxian really had no way to deal with Yan State, which plundered the southeast coast. After all, he had too many opponents, and Yan State had the advantage of commanding the sea and a huge overseas base, which he could not deal with now.

Therefore, Chen Baxian chose to negotiate peace with Yan State, just like he negotiated peace with Qi State half a year ago.

Chen Ba first admitted [two Liang countries], one Liang country in Jiankang City, and one Liang country in Kuaiji County.

In fact, Jiangling City also has a state of Liang supported by the state of Zhou, and there are three states of Liang in total.

During the peace negotiation, Chen Ba first recognized the legitimacy of Kuaiji Liang, and claimed that he would not attack Kuaiji. At the same time, Yan Xu also promised that as long as Chen Ba did not attack Kuaiji, Yan would stop plundering the southeast coast.

Chen Baxian and Yan Guo also came to a "non-aggression treaty".

Soon after, Chen Baxian sent representatives to negotiate a peace with Zhou Guo, recognizing the legitimacy of Jiangling Liang State, and the two sides will not violate the river water.

While negotiating peace with Zhou, Yan, and Qi, Chen Baxian wiped out more than a dozen warlords, large and small, who were separatist, and unified the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Lingnan area with lightning speed.

After eliminating many separatist warlords, Chen Baxian couldn't wait to force Xiao Fangzhi to abdicate, founding a country and proclaiming himself emperor, and the country was named "Chen".

Because he asked the little emperor to canonize himself as "King Chen", so the country name is "Chen", but there are so many kings to choose from, such as King Wu, King Chu, King Yue, etc., but he chose Let the little emperor canonize himself as "Chen Wang", which also has a little relationship with his own surname Chen, and it is not completely related.

There are already three puppet regimes supported by Yan State in the Central Plains, namely Wei State in Yecheng, Jin State in Buqicheng, and Liang State in Shanyin City (Kuiji County).

The monarchs of every puppet country are from the orthodox clan of the Central Plains Dynasty.

Yan belongs to Wei State, Yan belongs to Jin State, and Yan belongs to Liang State. Yan State is exploring a new mode of conquering the Central Plains, that is, not directly occupying the Central Plains, but supporting the comprador regime in the Central Plains, and letting the comprador regime wholeheartedly betray the people of the Central Plains The interests of the people in the Central Plains will be sucked by the Yan State for a long time.

The exploration of this new mode of conquest was initially just to reduce resistance during occupation, but now it has become a feasible solution that can be extended to the entire world.

(End of this chapter)