Chapter 637: The Decisive Battle of the Central Plains (Part 1)
Chapter 635: The Decisive Battle of the Central Plains (Part 1)
Although both Yuan Meng and Manchu Qing have been successfully established, there are too many potential obstacles, so their internal situation is not stable.
And it is not a matter of overnight success to completely consolidate the internal situation.
Temujin and Nurhaci obviously knew this, and all the empresses chose to rest and recuperate in a tacit understanding.
Whether it was the Yuan Meng or the Qing Dynasty, their strength expanded too quickly, and it would be impossible to completely indige the situation without several years of renovation.
Therefore, both sides are preparing to undergo a years-long major renovation, first twisting themselves into one rope, working hard to tap internal potential, and then continuing to fight all sides. This is the safest way.
Yuan Meng chose to stop his troops and cultivate, which gave the Jin army valuable rest time, and took advantage of this slightest to build Zhenbei Pass in one fell swoop.
Zhenbei Pass and Yanmen Pass have since become two pillars of the sky-raising in the northern border. If Yuan Meng wants to go south to the Central Plains, he must conquer one of them, and neither of them is so easy to conquer.
The Qing Dynasty''s cultivation and restoration also allowed the Youzhou army to move south with confidence until the Huang Chao was completely wiped out.
The fourth year of Zhongping (187), July 10th.
Just over a month after the establishment of the Yuan Meng, ten days after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Xiang Yu and Zhu Yuanzhang finally completely defeated Fang La''s rebels under the attacks.
Fang La failed to break through and was captured alive by Xiang Yu. Except for a small number of his troops who died in battle, most of them expressed their willingness to surrender, and were immediately assigned to the front line of resisting the Han Dynasty.
As for Fang La himself, on the way to the Ming capital Chenliu, he left a thousand-word confession and bit his tongue and committed suicide.
The princes who once dominated the Jianghuai River ended up regretting suicide, which really made people feel bored.
At this time, Liu Yao''s Yangzhou coalition had already attacked the Jianghuai River and Sun Jian had even taken the lead in capturing the important city of Hefei. If he allowed him to continue his march, the southern defense line of the Ming Dynasty would be completely defeated.
In order to block the enemy in the south, Zhu Yuanzhang and Xiang Yu''s troops were divided into two groups, and Zhu Yuanzhang went to resist Liu Yao''s Yangzhou coalition, while Xiang Yu led the main force to support Emperor Ming Zhang Sheng.
The Sizhou coalition forces are really too strong. In addition to Li Yuanba, the "No. 1 strong general in the world", there are also the top ten generals such as Yuwen Chengdu and Wu Yunzhao. In addition, there are elite players in the world like Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
Although Zhang Sheng is not weaker than the Sizhou coalition forces, the combat power of the generals and soldiers on both sides is very different, so Zhang Sheng can only defend passively and it is extremely difficult to defend.
So Xiang Yu also had to go to support him, because if he didn''t go, the Eastern Army led by Zhang Sheng would really not be able to hold on.
In the fourth year of Zhongping, on July 28, Xiang Yu and Zhang Sheng met.
When the Ming army saw Xiang Yu return, their morale was greatly boosted and they were no longer afraid to avoid war.
The next morning, Xiang Yu went to fight, and in the first battle, he fought against Wu Tianci, and in three rounds he killed him and fled. Later, his brother Wu Yunzhao joined forces to fight against the enemy, but he was still defeated Xiang Yu for fifteen rounds.
Lu Zhi originally wanted Yuwen Cheng to cooperate with the Wu brothers, and the three of them joined forces to defeat Xiang Yu, but Yuwen Cheng directly refused.
After the Wu brothers were defeated, Yuwen Cheng and they fought against Xiang Yu alone and fought with him for more than 200 rounds, but unfortunately they were defeated in the end.
Yuwen Cheng-After the defeat of the war, the Han army could only send Li Yuanba.
On August 1st, under the gaze of everyone, Xiang Yu and Li Yuanba fought again, and this battle was so dark.
The two sides fought for a day and a night, and finally ended in a draw.
After more than a year, Xiang Yu was shot down from the peak by Li Yuanba, he regained the top with his own strength, and almost reversed the battle situation on the east road of the Ming army with almost his own strength. He deserved the title of the God of War.
On August 7th, at night, Xiang Yu led a hundred cavalry to rob the camp again. Although Li Shimin saw this operation out, Xiang Yu still relied on his outstanding cavalry command ability to disrupt the Han camp and kill the Han general Yuwen Zhiji. In the end, only Xiang Yu was still the only one who broke out.
After a series of setbacks, the Han army commander Lu Zhi eventually fell ill due to overwork.
At this moment, Dong Zhuo, who was far away in Liangzhou, seized the opportunity and directly crossed the court to appoint Li Shimin as the head coach.
At such a critical moment, the court did not dare to break up with the Liangzhou army, and could only abide by Li Shimin as the chief general, ready to say that after the Yellow Turbans were eliminated.
But the court never expected that Li Shimin would really completely control the Sizhou coalition, and then Sizhou was completely controlled by the Liang army.
After Li Shimin took over as head coach, he not only changed Lu Zhi''s previous tactics, but instead adopted a conservative strategy of turning to offense and defense.
Li Shimin, who was determined to seek stability, wanted to hold back the main force of the Ming army and waited for the emergence of the fighter''s opportunity.
Now the Ming army seems to be dominant, but in fact it seems to be walking on a steel wire. As long as one front makes a mistake, the entire line will collapse.
August 20th.
Dou Jiande, who was guarding the two counties and two countries in southern Jizhou, was lured out by Han Xin''s design, and was forced to fight a small decisive battle with the Jizhou coalition forces.
In this battle, Han Xin personally led the army, with 30,000 Han troops fighting for 40,000 Ming troops, but the result was a great victory for the Han army.
Liu Heita, under Dou Jiande''s command, fought against several Han generals in this battle, but was eventually stabbed by Zhang He with one shot on the horse when he was weak.
Even Dou Jiande himself was seriously injured and almost died in battle.
Of course, the Han army won it too easily. Chen Youliang''s brother Chen Yougui was killed by Liu Heita. Only one of Chen Youliang''s three younger brothers was left.
Dou Jiande, who escaped for life, finally gave up Anping County and came down to defend himself.
But due to the previous defeat, it had a great impact on the morale of the Ming army in Jizhou. Even if Dou Jiande was determined to defend, it would be difficult to prevent the fall of a large area of ??land.
Seeing that the situation was getting more and more difficult, Dou Jiande was anxious, which also caused his already serious injury to become seriously injured and his body eventually deteriorated, and he fell ill and fell unconscious.
Dou Jiande''s life was hanging on the line. The Ming army in Jizhou lost its commander, so he could only ask for help from the Ming court.
After Zhang Sheng discussed with the counselors, considering that Jizhou was related to the safety of the northern line, he decided to order Xiang Yu to stay in Yanzhou and sent Fan Zeng to assist him in resisting Li Shimin, while he personally led the army to stabilize the war situation in Jizhou.
With the arrival of Zhang Sheng and Zhang Liang, the Ming army in Jizhou finally had a backbone, and with the addition of Yanzhou reinforcements and powerful generals, the situation in Jizhou once again reached a deadlock.
In order to break the deadlock, Han Xin once again designed to plot against Ming Jun, but Zhang Liang saw it through.
August 28th.
Huang Chao personally led the army, set up an ambush on Kong Rong''s march, and defeated the Beihai 20,000 troops.
The only shortcomings in this battle were that the Beihai generals Taishi Ci and Wu Anguo arrived in time and rescued Kong Rong at the critical moment, otherwise the Beihai prefect Kong Rong would die.
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