Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 763 Guan Yu’s Northern Expedition

Wang Hou's troops have been in a state of shortage.

The bad side of feudal soldiers is reflected, because the longest military service in the Han Dynasty was more than three months and one hundred days, and Wang Hou didn't want to easily break the rules to extend the service period, so there were still [-] landlord cavalry recruited. The retinue was disbanded by Liu Bei after repelling Liu Bei at the end of last year, and he returned to Kansai to go home for the New Year. He only kept [-] conscripted cavalry and his retinue on the front line.

Therefore, even if the Wei army won a complete victory in the battle of Dingjunshan, Hanzhong Wang Hou's troops were still at a disadvantage. There were only 2 soldiers capable of fighting and the Yangping Pass defenders who were disabled.

However, in opposition to the Kanto Confucian family establishment, Kansai martial arts enthusiasm was fully aroused by him. After the Hanzhong War decapitated military achievements were reported, the imperial court in Yecheng, the eldest son Cao Pi who stayed behind did not make things difficult, and he was conferred as many knights as possible. The path of officialdom aroused the enthusiasm of the warlike old Qin people, and the structure of the Guanlong military aristocracy of the later Sui and Tang Dynasties took shape in Wang Hou's hands.

For the sake of military exploits, in addition to the [-] landowner knights recruited to serve in the pass, there are even some knights and children from dilapidated families who prepare their own food, grass, equip horses, and take the initiative to participate in the battle in Hanzhong. They were alerted by the sentry tower last night, and these were the first to rush to the battlefield. Wild Rider.

It’s a bit like the online games of later generations. The young knights who volunteered cavalry from Luogu Road and Chencang Road received the mission at the Wei Army camp after Yangping Pass, and were then assigned to patrol the mission site. The task of battalion delivery is to receive rewards, the greedy ones go back and arrange tasks, and the more pragmatic ones are to escort the prisoners back to Guanzhong.

Captives are also one of the reasons why the Guanzhong knights actively participated in the war!

Wang Hou accepted the Qiang people into Han nationality, and agreed with the Guanzhong group to maintain the thirty-one tax in the early Han Dynasty, especially in Chang'an, which greatly damaged the interests of the land aristocrats in Guanzhong, which increased agricultural production. human cost!The value of human beings has been raised. In order to attract tenant farmers, the grandpa landlord even had to bend down and show a smiling face. Like the factory owners in the south during the labor shortage, they gave cigarettes and bonuses to tenants. come out.

However, captives are different!In the Battle of Hanzhong, more than 2 Shu troops were captured, but the Guanzhong masters who participated in the war would rather not report military merits, but also hide the prisoners. Thousands of captives returned to Guanzhong, and the knights who could divide a manor into ten tenants were as happy as they were during the New Year.

It is absolutely possible to extract the surplus labor force of the prisoners of the Shu army, and it can also play the prestige of the landlord grandpa!The capitalist greed that Wang Hou wanted was aroused in Guanzhong. Under such circumstances, Wang Hou had no choice but to let go of the red line of prisoners of war.

In the big camp, groups of Shu army captives were driven away with their heads down, and those Guanzhong knights who brought back the captives were elated and yelling loudly. The dilapidated literati who make a living by writing hold their pens and interview on the spot. Salsa records the battle situation of the knights, and the wind of bragging has also grown. It is too embarrassing to be able to write a story and play it in the Grand Theater of Chang’an. up.

Just like the battle last night, it was clearly a dozen short-sworded and light infantry soldiers of the Shu army. Looking at the situation, they were a few hundred meters away from Daba Mountain, but they couldn't run and chose to surrender. The three hundred rounds of fighting in person were so exciting, and the old man with white beard was blown into Huang Zhong's clan brother Huang Luo, and the prisoners of the Shu army who heard it almost vomited.

However, the situation was very good, sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army, Wang Hou himself was still worried.

The situation in Hanzhong is not so much stable as it is being dragged into the quagmire of war like Bashu. Liu Bei's heavy troops are suppressing in front of Micang Mountain in Yangping Pass. He dare not retreat a step and is advancing southward. With 2 people in hand, it's really powerless.

It would be fine if he only supported a battlefield in Hanzhong. The problem was the heavy burden Cao Cao threw on him. The territory under his command was too narrow and long, and the disadvantages were exposed.

The Liaodong Trust Committee, which has already become a climate, can handle it. But something happened in Guihua City. Some nomadic barbarians from the north who called themselves Rouran people came south from Siberia and began to invade the grasslands of the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people were weakened too much by Wang Hou, and with the prosperity of industry and commerce in the past few years, they were not the opponents of these more northern barbarians, and suffered several defeats on the edge of Monan.

The other part of the Western Regions was a mistake made by Wang Hou himself!He used Wang Shuang as the guardian of the Western Regions. Wang Shuang is indeed a fierce general, and he is loyal and straightforward. The problem lies in his straightforward personality.

Although the Western Regions are not as complex and colorful as the 36 countries in the era of Bowanghou Zhangqian, there are also dozens of ethnic groups and political forces in more than a dozen countries. Back then, Ban Chao was able to shake the Western Regions because of his duality. If you don't give me the face of the big man boss, I will really kill you with a knife. Dozens of people and hundreds of people dare to attack the opponent's tens of thousands, and with the bravery of the Han army cavalry, they can really kill the opponent's boss.

But usually, Ban Chao dozes off when doing things. As long as you don't move the Western Regions Protectorate, and don't provoke the business routes of the big men, he doesn't care how the rulers of the small countries and the chiefs of the small tribes under the Protectorate fight back and forth. of!As long as there is no strongman who suddenly rises like Hou Jin and may threaten the dominance of the Han Empire, you can fight as you like, and it doesn't matter if your brain is beaten into a dog's brain, anyway, the big man will benefit in the end.

But Wang Shuang belonged to the kind who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes!He recognized the Protector of the Western Regions. After the garrison of 30 troops arrived in Luntai, he has fought more than [-] small battles in the past two years. Slightly resigned.

Under such circumstances, it is already foreseeable that there will be a big border chaos in the Western Regions in the near future.

But the problem is that the main energy is all involved in Hanzhong, and Wang Hou really doesn't have the strength to devote himself to the development of the Western Regions.

Seeing the notices sent by Guihua City in the Western Regions, Wang Hou really smelled danger, but he felt embarrassed that a clever woman could not live without rice.

Flipping through one by one, and then throwing piles of official documents aside and creaking, Wang Hou couldn't help but straighten his eyes suddenly when he was flipping through the next one.

It was actually sent by Cao Ren!

Cao Ren is currently staying behind in Jingzhou, guarding the last two bases of Cao Wei in Jingzhou, which are located in Xiangyang City, which is now north of the Yangtze River. Wang Hou does not think highly of this No. [-] general of the Cao clan, but the relationship between the two parties is also not bad.

This old turkey sent a letter, reminding Wang Hou, who is also at war with Liu Bei, that Jingzhou Guan thieves are collecting ships and will go north in the near future, reminding Wang Hou that maybe Liu Bei will launch a second wave of attack!
Seeing this news, Wang Hou was stunned for a few seconds, and then tragically slapped his thigh.

"Forget this crop!"

(End of this chapter)