The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 42

What Liu Cong meant by saying this was not to focus on this first achievement at all, but to express his gratitude.

The last time I openly chose to accept Yuan Yan, Yuan Yan ended up treating him as a fool.

If it weren't for Liu Tai's skillful command of the troops and his ability to reorganize the army even in the dark and save him from the chaos, Liu Cong really felt that he would die last time.

How could Liu Cong not remember such an encounter in his heart, and regard it as a heart-wrenching hatred.

Therefore, this time Liu Cong holds an army of [-] and attacks Yiyang again. He has only one request, and that is Yuan Yan!
Among the people here, whether it is Liu Yao, Liu Jing, Hu Yanyi or Wang Mi, each one represents the clan, the old tribe, relatives, and Han people.

For them, even if their positions at the top are not insurmountable, they are basically as far as they can go at this stage.

Under such circumstances, if Liu Cong, the king of Chu with a heavy army, could make good friends, it wouldn't matter what the appreciation was, but it would definitely be a great benefit to himself in the political ecosystem of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty.

Therefore, basically everyone targeted Yuan Yan's head as Liu Cong's political commitment, which was a big gain.

Of course, Wang Mi didn't have much idea at this time. He just felt that Liu Cong's promise was worth a try.

However, Liu Yao, Liu Jing, and Hu Yanyi were familiar with the political ecosystem of the Southern Xiongnu. Although the Xiongnu Han Kingdom was called Han, in essence, it still had more Xiongnu elements.

It doesn't matter when the Han people need to be called on, but when the regime changes, the strong-willed gene rooted deep in the Xiongnu's marrow will be instinctively stimulated.

Liu Yuan is already old, and no one can guarantee how long he can live. Although he made Liu He the crown prince, Liu Cong is also a prince with real power. Even if Liu Cong takes a chance and takes the position of emperor, Not impossible.

And if that happens, the favor Liu Cong talks about will be even more precious.

Soon, Liu Cong organized an attack on Yiyang. At this time, even though Liu Cong's heart was full of hatred, he was not blinded by hatred. He sent out four generals to besiege the four city gates without giving a damn. A way to survive in Yiyang.

Instead, they still chose to surround the three men and leave the south gate without troops.

Of course, Liu Cong will hand over the subsequent specific siege tasks to Liu Yao, Liu Jing, and Hu Yanyi respectively, while the remaining ambush task at the south gate will be handed over to Wang Mi.

Because of this incident, Wang Mi came back from the military camp and said angrily, "In today's battle, the three tribes are fighting for the general. The King of Chu actually doesn't use me to wait for the Han soldiers, but uses the Xiongnu tribe. It's really annoying to me." also!"

As the saying goes, four people compete for three positions, so whoever fails to win will naturally be embarrassed, which makes Wang Mi very angry.

After all, in Wang Mi's view, when Liu Cong was in crisis, he led his troops to rescue him. However, now he was not given relatively good tasks, but was handed over to the other three, which really made him feel chilled.

At this moment, Wang Mi not only has Wang Zhang beside him to provide logistics support, but also Zhang Song, the long history official, is responsible for making suggestions.

Hearing Wang Mi's complaint, he smiled and said, "General, the King of Chu obviously knows the general well, why don't you believe it!"

At this time, Wang Mi calmed down a little after hearing Zhang Song's words, and then said: "The King of Chu asked me to send an elite team to ambush outside the city. What if Yuan Yan refuses to retreat? What if he is beheaded by someone else first?" I'm not wasting my time in vain.

Instead of doing this, it is better to attack the city first and work hard to win this meritorious service. "

Although everyone knows that taking Yuan Yan’s head is definitely the first achievement, the problem is that this is a big gift package, just like buying lottery tickets to donate welfare to society. Who really expects to win the special prize? .

Therefore, in Wang Mi's opinion, the opportunity cost of ambushing outside was too high. It was better to attack the city honestly in exchange for merit.

At this time, Zhang Song said, "The King of Chu has cooperated with you, and he knows your ability to command troops.

However, the King of Chu and General Jianwei Huyan Sikong and others did not have much cooperation, so they naturally wanted to use Yiyang to attack the city to test their abilities.

And the King of Chu must already know your ability, so naturally there is no need to get along! "

"That's it. Thank you Zhang Changshi for clarifying the confusion!" Wang Mi heard Zhang Song's explanation, and his doubts were more or less solved. But even so, he didn't really want to go around the original route and ambush!
Liu Tai looked at Wang Mi and hesitantly took the initiative and said, "Why don't you let Tai lead the headquarters to go for your uncle?"

When Wang Mi heard Liu Tai's words, he nodded and said: "For things like an ambush, a small but capable army should be used to go forward. Your army is the elite of our army. If you are willing to make such a trip, it will be a good thing." But it’s only you who suffers!”

When Liu Tai heard this, he shook his head at Wang Mi and said, "Maybe I'll be lucky enough to catch Yuan Yan!"

Wang Mi smiled when he heard Liu Tai's words, but also asked Liu Tai to take a detour to the south to ambush.

Liu Tai didn't talk much. After receiving enough naan cakes and a big coat from Wang Zhang, he set off to the far south of Yiyang City and began to ambush.

After all, it is already October, and even if the weather in the north is not cold enough to snow, it is already quite cold.

If it weren't for this, Wang Mi wouldn't have cursed. After all, the environment outside was really uncomfortable.

Of course, such news soon fell into Liu Cong's hands. Liu Cong nodded when he made such an arrangement for Wang Mi.

At least from Liu Tai's performance all the time, Liu Cong can be reassured that Liu Tai is ambushing in the south.

Yiyang was not considered a big city after all, even if Yuan Yan had actually made preparations after the Xiongnu and Han troops retreated.

But even so, Yuan Yan also estimated that the Huns would not be able to attack until at least next year. He did not expect that the Huns would be so unreasonable and continue to fight.

As for the supplies for the war, although logistics will also provide a part, the Han people are still responsible for supplying a large part.

Of course, the Han people at the bottom cannot afford the supply, but some local wealthy Han families will be fine if they supply food obediently. But if they don't supply food, and an army of [-] comes down, no Wubao can resist it!

Wubao did indeed provide the northern Han people with a barrier against the Xiongnu, but Wubao was not the regular army of the ethnic minority regime, because if the state power really wants to destroy you, even if it has a city, it cannot resist it, let alone Wubao .

What Wubao really resists are those disorderly troops and bandits. Even some Wubao have become stronger. It is not cost-effective for the regular army to uproot Wubao. It is better to let the Han people in Wubao take the initiative to hand over the hostages and live in peace with each other. Thoughts of nothing.

How to keep the regular armies of ethnic minorities from feeling troublesome without rising to a political issue is the political positioning that Wubao, a rather special kind of wealthy manor economy, has been looking for to survive the Five Husties in China.

Just like this, the Wubao masters almost fully demonstrated their attitude of being a coward. While they were cowardly with the ethnic minority regimes, they were colluding with the Eastern Jin regime. Basically, they surrendered to whichever side was stronger.

At this moment, the Huns and Han Kingdom defeated Wang Kuang in the Battle of Changping and gained the initiative on the battlefield against the Jin army. This had a great impact on many local families, large and small.Needless to say, when Liu Cong came over, they would take out the food in a hurry to show their support for the Wang division. The main purpose was to prevent Liu Cong's army from targeting them because of the lack of food.

But Yuan Yan did not consider this level, or his vision was not far-sighted enough to see the impact of the Jin-Han Changping War.

In comparison, Chunyu Ding was so smart. He ran directly to Luoyang in the name of announcing the good news and never came back.

At this moment, Yuan Yan was conscientiously directing the entire defense of Yiyang, guessing where the Huns and Han troops would attack mainly and where they would attack in detail. He could also defend Yiyang to the maximum extent and then delay the arrival of reinforcements.

Yuan Yan thought he had done a good job in psychological construction, but this time Liu Yao, Liu Jing, and Hu Yanyi attacked vigorously from three sides.

Support is needed everywhere, and the defenses prepared in advance and the strength accumulated in hand are all consumed in almost a day.

The most important thing is that in just one day, the psychological expectations that the Yiyang County soldiers had built up due to the sneak attack on Liu Cong completely collapsed, especially when the Huns rushed to the top of the city to fight with them head-on, and the city was almost breached.

Yuan Yan was so complacent that his attack and defense were completely defeated in just one day.

At this moment, Yuan Yan clearly realized the gap between the county soldiers under his command and the Huns and Han troops.

The last time Chunyu Ding and Cao Wu attacked Liu Cong secretly, but Liu Tai pushed back. Yuan Yan thought that Chunyu Ding and Cao Wu were really bad, so he didn't stop Chunyu Ding from leaving and let him take away a lot of them. Taxi soldiers.

But this time, he actually fought with the Xiongnu and Han troops, and Yuan Yan discovered that the other party was as ferocious as an animal.

And the county soldiers under his command are just sheep guarding the sheepfold, not even dogs!

Yuan Yan was extremely scared, but he still pretended to be fearless in front of others and patrolled the city defense.

It's okay to be afraid, but you can't let others see that you are afraid, let alone the common people!
And this ability to force himself to calm down and show what he should show is perhaps Yuan Yan's greatest skill.

At least with Yuan Yan's comfort, the Yiyang soldiers who fought a fierce battle were indeed comforted a lot.

But this kind of comfort only lasted for two days. Two days later, facing the absolute strength of the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom, Yuan Yan, who was not very good at leading troops, would inevitably see Yiyang defeated.

Liu Yao, holding a long spear, personally took the lead in attacking the city, and all his officers and soldiers were inspired.

In one go, he directly captured the city gate, and then killed him directly in the direction of Yuan Yan with overwhelming force.

Yuan Yan sighed helplessly when he saw Cheng Po, and decisively chose to break through with the few remaining soldiers.

After all, Yuan Yan is not the kind of military commander who purely fights and kills, nor is he a pedantic loyal minister who commits suicide when the city is broken.

To be more precise, no one in the entire Sima Dynasty was loyal to the Sima clan. The vast majority of people sang loudly to demonstrate their humanity in these troubled times, either for the sake of the nation, their duties, or their morality.

But dying purely for the Sima clan...that would definitely go down in the history books.

Now, although the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty are gaining momentum, the conflict between the Huns and Han has not yet risen to the main conflict.

Under such circumstances, Yuan Yan could no longer defend Yiyang and chose to decisively break out of the encirclement. Even Sima Yue could not say anything.

After all, the Jin Dynasty was not the Wei Kingdom, and the Jin Dynasty was really very kind to the nobles.

Besides, if losing one's land after trying one's best to resist can be considered a serious crime, then Wang Kuang would have chosen to surrender, and then the Langya Wang family would have been extinguished by the nine clans.

Not to mention, look at how the Han Dynasty treated Li Ling who surrendered to the Huns, and then look at how the Sima family treated Wang Kuang's Langya Wang family.

You can almost know how comfortable the aristocratic family lived in the late Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, it was impossible for Yuan Yan to commit suicide. He decisively changed into the clothes he had prepared in advance, infiltrated into the soldiers, and decisively exited the south gate, which was unguarded.

Yuan Yan naturally saw through the trick of surrounding three people and one person.

If his men were capable of fighting, Yuan Yan would prefer to force his way out of one of the other three routes where the enemy troops were numerous.

Yuan Yan judged that after he was killed, he should reach the Tongtian Avenue, but the strength of his county soldiers did not allow it.

Yuan Yan was sure that his county soldiers were fighting these wolf-like Huns soldiers, and he was afraid that if they came face to face with them, these soldiers would be completely scattered, and he would have no choice but to survive in the chaos.

Therefore, Yuan Yan chose to blend in with the fleeing refugees and defeated troops. Even if there was an ambush, they would not be able to recognize him.

That's what Yuan Yan thought and did, but Liu Yao seemed to be born in the year of the dog. Not only was his personal strength quite extraordinary, he was even terrifyingly strong intuitively.

Although he didn't recognize Yuan Yan's appearance, Liu Yao decisively chased him to a place where many people gathered.

If Yuan Yan had no military protection, he would probably be completely unable to protect himself in such a chaotic army, so it was impossible for him to abandon his soldiers.

Several groups of soldiers went to stop Liu Yao, but they were all easily defeated by Liu Yao's personal guards. At this moment, Liu Yao looked at Yuan Yan who was running in panic in front of him. To be honest, he didn't recognize Yuan Yan, but Liu Yao didn't care.

Just kill them all and let the soldiers who know Yuan Yan come over to identify them.

Liu Yao thought of this and was about to rush forward to implement his plan, but countless arrows were fired from both sides, making the fleeing Yuan Yan's army seem to have fallen into a trap.

"Put down your weapons and don't kill, put down your weapons and don't kill!" Liu Tai asked the soldiers to shout, and at the same time he asked the soldiers to rush out, but they went towards the defeated army in front of them.

At this time, Liu Yao discovered that Liu Tai's soldiers' helmets, leather armors, and even their bodies were covered with branches of various plants. If they hadn't looked closely, they really didn't look very conspicuous.

These county soldiers were almost defeated in one blow. Liu Tai looked at Yuan Yan who was surrounded by his own troops, then looked at Liu Yao and saluted, "General Liu has worked hard in pursuit. The next step is to leave it to our army. Here But south of the city!"

"伱!" Liu Yao couldn't help but feel angry when he heard Liu Tai's words!

(End of this chapter)