And look at the eastern battlefield. Since the beginning of autumn, it has been too difficult for Yang Guang, who guarded Shangqie (today's Water City)!

As an opponent, Wan Xiu and Xiao Geng, who likes to make his own ideas, Wu Han, who is rushing forward, have completely different styles. Except for occasionally taking risks, he is very cautious at the rest of the time, and will firmly implement the orders from the fifth reunion and be willing to be the tool man for the emperor.

Shangqie is located on the south bank of the Wei River and is a very important base for mai in Longyou.

The Wei army crossed the Wei River very early and came over in mid-August, but had no interest in the strong Shangji City. Instead, they focused on cutting autumn grains or preventing the Long Army from going out to collect grains.

In order to save food, Yang Guang sent many people to fight: the land near Shangji was flat, which was the home court of the Liang family's cavalry, but the fifth reunion also transferred some of the Bingzhou cavalry to the south. The two sides fought repeatedly outside Shangji City, basically a small battle of hundreds of people, repeatedly fighting for a mature field.

The remaining good family members were still brave, but the more they fought, the fewer and fewer they were killed: the main casualties were horses. The horse-producing land in Longyou were basically taken away by the Wei army. The enemy could get constant supplies for food, but one of them died less than one. If they continued to fight, they would become infantry like a certain "General Yaoqi".

After several incidents of Wei army pretending to be Long soldiers and trying to sneak into the city, Yang Guang simply lay down and refused to send people out of the city.

So the Wei army swayed the ground and scattered the millet. Five thousand people watched Shangji, and five thousand people were busy harvesting. The skilled workers could harvest one acre of land a day. After a few days, the millet outside Shangji City had been gone, but the Wei army on the front line had enough food for several months.

For one bell of food for the enemy, when I am twenty bells, both the Fifth Reun and Wan Xiu knew how long the battle in Longxi could last, to a large extent, it depends on how long the supply of both sides could last.

The fifth reunion is now in war, and he likes to release Xiao Geng, Wu Han and other brave generals to create miracles on the flanks, and on the front, a cautious general will be appointed to compete with the enemy for national strength.

In his letter to Wan Xiu, he instructed: "Although Longshan is difficult to cross and it is difficult to transport grain into Liangzhou after mid-winter, his previous Ren Guang had transported grain several times, and at least he had stockpiled more than 100,000 stones, which was enough for our army to use in winter."

"And Gongsun Shu wants to send troops and food to save Long, which is more difficult than us!"

The base camp of the fifth reunion is only separated by a mountain by Guanzhong and Longyou, while Gongsun Shu’s Shuzhong Plain has two natural dangers from Longdi: one is the road from the big sword to the small sword pass, which is the way from the sword gate, so that you can enter the Hanshui Basin; after you arrive in the west of Hanzhong and Wudu, you have to go through a road called "Qishan Road" to enter Longxi.

However, the terrain of the Qishan area is quite complex. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Loess Plateau, and the Hanzhong Basin, and the three major geological zones meet here, with ridges crisscrossing. You can imagine how complicated the terrain is. The so-called Qishan Road is actually composed of a series of basins, valleys, valleys and hills. This terrain can barely be marched, but it is a complete nightmare for transporting supplies, food and grass.

Fifth Lun heard from those who surrendered from Longdi that the Shu army also sent some rice and grain, but because the wheels could not climb up the steep slope, they could only transport them by donkeys and horses, and the losses along the way were as high as four-fifths.

The fifth reunion asked them: "Isn't there a Western Han River at the foot of Qishan Mountain? The drop is not big. Even if this water flows from north to south, allowing the boatman to move against the current, it is better than taking the land."

"There are many large rocks and huge trees in the Western Han Dynasty, which are difficult to sail. During the Han Dynasty, Di rebelled against Wudu during the Han Dynasty, and they were all transported by land and never had any waterways."

Now the fifth reunion was relieved, and Wan Xiu wanted to deceive the Shu army into Long and cooperate with Wu Han to fight a large annihilation battle!

Unfortunately, there were also talents in Shu who saw the intention of the fifth reunion. Gongsun Shu decided not to fight the fifth reunion in Longyou to bet on the national destiny, but chose to be timid and save Wei Xiang a little.

Wei Xiang gave up Didao, Angu and retreated south to Lintao.

Yang Guang, the Long general who guarded Shangji in the east, felt relieved when he gave up Shangji. Under the cover of the Shu army and the good family cavalry, Yang Guang gave up his food and ate all his food. He later retreated to Xi County near Qishan (now Li County, Gansu).

Wu Han in the west also sent people to repay him. Lintao is also an easy-to-defense and difficult-to-attack place. Although his troops relied on surrendering troops to solve the problem of lack of winter clothes, their food was over. Moreover, there were poor places around him and there was no place to rob him. Although Wu Han was brave, he went deep into the enemy's territory and even after breaking the two cities, he was already at the end of his strength and could only stay in Angu for a while.

The Wei army was so idle that all the ministers congratulated the fifth reunion: "Gongsun and Long bandits were afraid of the power of Your Majesty, and fled to the dust and the battle of Longyou was a complete victory."

But Wu Ren couldn't be happy: "No, it's not considered a complete victory."

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When the Longshu Alliance retreated, the supply line of the Wei army was extended in a flat and white manner, while Shu grain could be less than 100 miles. At the same time, the terrain near Xixian was quite unfavorable to the Wei army, which already had the advantage of cavalry.

The fifth reun then came to Shangqi and discussed the subsequent combat strategy with Wan Xiu. After crossing the Wei River, he found that Wan Xiu's subordinates were distributing grain to the people in various townships.

The lieutenant in charge reported: "General Wan said that the food we harvested in autumn was originally from the people of the Shangbei people, and they had to be harvested in the war. Now that Longshu has retreated, the general keeps enough for the army, and the rest should be distributed to allow the locals to have the food for this winter and the seeds for next year."

This is what Wan Xiu thought: "If the people of the Supreme Being have no clothes or brown clothes, are hungry and are incited by others after winter, they will rebel!"

"Every time an extra family gets relief, letting them survive by barely, our army is in Longxi, and there is one less enemy."

Not only that, one rises and the other falls, one can even have one more civilian husband!

On the other hand, when the Longshu coalition forces retreated, they still used the idea of ​​"strengthening the walls and clearing the fields" to burn the granaries along the way and even filled the well water. Local scholars scolded Wei Xiang and Yang Guang's voices were heard all the time. After the fifth reunion's Huairou policy was promulgated, the middle and upper classes of Longyou had begun to try to cooperate with the new rulers. If they could not defeat them, they would join. It would be not embarrassing.

Wan Xiu's relief strategy has also weakened the hostility of the lower class towards outsiders.

The fifth reunion was quite satisfied and thought to himself: "You have to use Wu and Han to destroy Long, but you need a general like Jun You to defend Long."

After arriving in Shangji City, Wan Xiu took everyone out of the city to greet him. The fifth reunion told him not to salute: "What's wrong with the waist injury?"

Wan Xiu, who had lost a lot of weight, said: "It has been much better if you have the care of His Majesty's Imperial Doctor."

The fifth reunion was still not very comfortable when he saw Wan Xiu's movements. The imperial doctor also reported that Wan Xiu often felt so painful that he couldn't sleep all night, but he still had to get up early the next day to prepare for office work.

But in front of the fifth reunion, Wan Xiu's face did not change, which made the fifth reunion even more distressed. At the same time, he also secretly sighed: "Jing Dan had been ill for a long time, Geng Chun was injured in his shoulders, and now Jun You's waist is no longer possible. In addition to Ma Yuan's "Old" being stronger, the old friends who followed me at the beginning were mostly scarred."

However, Wu Han, this guy, was injured in Hebei last time and could hardly walk. Now he is jumping around again.

The two of them were discussing affairs in Shangqiu County Mansion. The fifth reun saw a portable charcoal stove in the hall, steaming hot to dispel the winter chill. There were some dough cakes on the stove, all of which were cooked and placed on it to warm up.

He heard that Wan Xiu loved his subordinates the most, and he always baked a few cakes in the hall. The scouts came and rode the posts and rode back and forth, so they let them eat hot before leaving, and they also let the sentries outside stand guard all day long, so they won’t be hungry and told not to be so simple that they eat. The front line is not easy, and everything is simple. General Wan only eats this on weekdays.

It shows his style of leading troops, no wonder many soldiers want to be assigned to him.

Wan Xiu forgot that he was still in the hall, and wanted to let someone take it away in embarrassment, but Di Wulun was not polite. He sat down with a smile, reached out to touch a piece, and slapped it in his palm: "Junyou is thoughtful, I am so hungry all the way in the cold weather."

Seeing that the fifth reunion was not disgusted, the two of them ate dry cakes around the fire and started fighting.

Xixian, which was retreating south by the Longshu Alliance, also known as Xichui, was the hometown of the Qin people in ancient times. It was the entrance of Qishan Road. The two sides were blocked by the remnants of Qishan and Qinling Mountains, limiting the cavalry's best-known roundabout interweaving tactics. In addition, there are many hills and gentle slopes, and small ditches and small ridges and undulations. Putting the battlefield here is equivalent to offsetting the advantages of the Wei cavalry.

On the contrary, the Shu army, which was good at mountain warfare, was able to rely on the powerful crossbows to guard the pass.

The fifth ethics said: "The ministers have said that it is not easy to attack forcefully. What do you think if you advise me to stop here?"

Over the past six months, the Red Eyebrows have swept across the Central Plains, becoming more and more braver in the battle. Perhaps as long as there are enemies to fight, they will not collapse.

Liu Xiu took Pengcheng County and entered Si Shang from February to October for more than half a year. He actually took only one county. What are you trying to do? The fifth eun has reason to suspect that Liu Xiu was paddling. Are you hustling? Are you in arrears?

But this also means that Liu Xiu was able to control his desires and focused on consolidating the eastern base of the Yangtze River in the two Huai Rivers, carefully avoiding the conflict with the Red Eyebrow and the King of Qi. King Zhang Bu of Qi was not vague, swallowing several counties in Yanzhou in one breath, and eating them became fat.

The former arrogant Liang Han has become as if it is destroyed, so there is no need to describe it in detail.

Ma Yuan seized Chenliu County and had a small confrontation with Chimei, but according to the plan of the fifth reunion, it was enough to just block it east of the gap. Ma Zhangren's main energy was to train troops and consolidate the Central Plains.

The east is full of trouble, and the fifth reunion has invested more than half a year in Longyou. Now the war is almost the same. The ministers believe that since the annihilation of the Shu army and the war has been dragged down, His Majesty the Emperor does not have to waste it in the west. He should take the main force back to Chang'an and leave a few people to guard it.

"Otherwise, heavy snow will block the mountain, and our army's main force will be stranded in Longdi and will only be able to return eastward in the spring next year."

This means that if something happens in the East in the next three months, the fifth reunion will not even be able to support it.

Wan Xiu firmly opposed it and urged: "Your Majesty, you must cultivate virtue and eliminate evil!"

"In the past, Fuchai's army came to Kuaiji but did not attack, and Goujian finally slept on firewood and tasted gall."

"Today, Wei Xiang's troops are stronger than the three thousand remaining soldiers in Kuaiji, and behind them is the support of Gongsun Shu. They control Xixian and Lintao, just to wait until His Majesty returns east and then go north to retake Longxi and advance to Tianshui."

Wan Xiu believed that in Longyou, you either don’t fight or you have to fight to the end! If you can’t cut the mess quickly, once the Di Qiang changes, Longyou will become a difficult abscess that will continue to rot!

Fifth reunion pondered, his eyelids twitched recently. He always felt that something big would happen in the east and he really wanted to go back. At this time, someone came to report that it was an envoy from Shu and sent a manifesto.

"The manifesto? It's just coming now?"

The fifth rein was immediately happy. He used Wang Yan to ask her to issue a book to denounce Wei Xiang, and by the way, abolished the throne of Ruziying in the name of "therefore the Empress Dowager", which also achieved the original intention of "using the Empress Dowager to abolish the Han Dynasty".

Wei Xiang was originally a famous scholar and had a good literary talent. At that time, all the families issued manifestos to fight against Mang, but Wei Xiang's manifestos were even more out of the circle than those of the fifth reunion. After all, from the standpoint of the Han family, it was widely circulated by scholars from all over the country. In contrast, the fifth reunion's rise did not mention "Han" in a few words, and ambitions appeared. What's the point!

However, Longyou rushed to fight and was defeated before he could fight back in public opinion. Until the fifth reunion was about to take all the Long land, Gongsun Shu sent someone to write an article "Anti-Five Declaration" as a counterattack.

"The first day of Jiyou in the second year of Longxing, Chengjia."

"Therefore, the fifth relationship between the county magistrate of the new Wei Dynasty, invited fame and raised hope, and falsely claimed to be filial and righteous. However, being a minister is not loyal to him, it is not filial to him..."

At the beginning, he denounced the fifth reunion for Wang Mang. In addition, he was unaware of his knowledge and ignorant, and he even claimed that he had all five virtues. He was simply arrogant insult to the world and contrary to the truth. By the way, he promoted Fu Rui, who was the founding power. When he read this, the fifth reunion shook his head: "Wen Yuan said that Gongsun Shu was a frog in the well, and he was arrogant and did not say anything wrong."

However, Gongsun Shu had something in common with the fifth relationship. He actually recognized the orthodox nature of the new dynasty. Huang inherited the red and inherited the yellow, Jin was Baide in the West, and Gongsun reigned on the Wang family, which was in line with the order.

But then, in the manifesto, Gongsun Shu regarded himself as an agent of a powerful tyrant, denounced the fifth reunion to treat the powerful Guanzhong and the Liu family in Hebei, while Gongsun wanted to seek justice for them!

The fifth reunification understood that Gongsun Shu wanted to be a takeover knight! Seeing that the men were defeated one after another, they wanted to absorb their legacy. Where is Xiu'er in the southeast?

The most interesting thing is that later, Gongsun Shu accused the fifth republic of bullying the widows and orphans of the Han family, filthing the man and the new harem, especially the imprisonment of Empress Dowager Xiaoping and the Huang royal family Wang Yan in the palace, forcing him to abolish the child.

The ministers held their breath, but the fifth reunion was watched with a smile, and they were relished and had no headache at all.

How to bully you, please make it clearer!

Should I sleep in the dragon bed overnight, or sleep with a big quilt?

Unfortunately, it's just an ambiguous sentence without any details.

After reading the fifth reunion, he said with a serious expression: "If the body is upright, the shadow will be upright, and if the body is wrong, the shadow will be wrong. What the manifesto says is so absurd, and the wise will understand it."

Everyone who accompanied him, Wan Xiu and others agreed to the promise, only looked at each other when they lowered their heads, and some even smiled. All things in the world were born from existence, and existence was born from nothing, and some rumors were not all created out of nothing.

When everyone suggested whether to write a proclamation to fight back, the fifth reunion shook his head: "Gongsun Ziyang, like Wang Mang, lives in his own country, but does not live in reality. I am completely opposite. If I don't learn from him, I dare not confront the two emperors of Yu, and I only dare to hide in the south to show off my verbal pleasure."

Wu Lun turned his attention to Wan Xu and agreed with his opinion: "Pushing the army to the foot of Qishan Mountain and looking at Shu with Long is the best response to the Gongsun family!"

The fifth poem is not worthy of copying, but the historical lessons in it have to be read in my heart:

"It is better to pursue the enemy with the remaining courage, and not to seek fame and learn from the overlord!"

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Chapter completed!