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- Chapter 293 Founding of the People's Republic of China
Liu Bei hated him so much that he gritted his teeth, but he hated him. Even he knew that at the moment, his own strength was not enough to protect himself, let alone avenge his third brother.
Soon after paying homage to Zhang Fei, Liu Bei redeployed the troops he had on hand.
In the first battle of the Wild King, the number of casualties was fifty thousand, and most of them were veteran soldiers who had experienced battles for a long time. Now that Liu Bei has united the three states, he can barely cobble together a regular army of seventy or eighty thousand.
In terms of Bingzhou, Liu Bei ordered Wu Yi and Ma Dai to garrison troops in Taiyuan County and Hedong County respectively. With less than 20,000 troops, he tried to rely on the danger of Bingzhou to barely hold on to the state.
On the Yongliang side, Liu Bei also ordered Li Yan and Li Hui to lead five thousand troops respectively and garrison them in Chencang and Qishan to guard against enemies in Hanzhong.
Regarding Tongguan, Liu Bei ordered Zhao Yun to lead 10,000 troops to garrison as a barrier to the east of Chang'an.
Under such distribution and deployment, the remaining mobile troops in Chang'an were less than 30,000.
In order to make up for the lack of troops, Liu Bei had to order a vigorous recruitment of troops in Yongliang and the three states. At the same time, he promised heavy profits to the Qiang and Hu from Xiliang and borrowed brave Hu cavalry from them.
When Liu Bei was struggling to restore his troops, Liu Feng was not idle either.
Due to the victory in the Battle of Hanoi and Sima Yi's surrender, there were almost no enemies in Hebei.
Under such circumstances, Liu Feng ordered Ling Tong, Pan Zhang and other generals to lead their own armies, each with about 40,000 soldiers and horses, to march towards Hebei in separate routes. Within two months, all hope was gone.
Liu Feng's Northern Expedition was a great success, and his territory was opened up unprecedentedly. Although his territory was very large, his soldiers were exhausted from hundreds of battles, and the hearts of the new states were not appeased, so he was unable to raise troops on a large scale in a short period of time.
So, while Liu Feng assigned generals to control the various states, he returned to Luoyang with 100,000 troops and horses, and officially assisted in the affairs of the court as the Grand Sima.
Liu Feng has a good way of fighting, but governance is not his strong point. In this regard, he also has the name of autonomy.
Therefore, shortly after returning to Luoyang, Liu Feng followed the Han Emperor's orders and worshiped Pang Tong as Shangshu Ling, ordering him to handle all government affairs on his behalf.
At the same time, Liu Feng did not hesitate to reward Liu Ba, Kuai Liang, Gu Yong and other civil servants, who were either meritorious officials from the Yuan Dynasty or famous and powerful new officials who had returned to the Yuan Dynasty, ranking them among the nine ministers. Use your talents to the fullest.
As for military generals, Liu Feng also generously rewarded generals such as Wei Yan, Huang Zhong, Gan Ning, and Ma Di, who were assigned to the front, left, and right generals, and the remaining old and new generals such as Chen Dao, Xu Shu, Wenpin, Meng Da, Pan Zhang, and Ling Tong. , each also has a reward.
Three months after the Han Emperor returned the capital, Qingzhou Zang Ba and other semi-separatist and semi-separatist forces saw that Liu Feng had firmly established himself in the Central Plains, and the general trend had been settled. They did not dare to hesitate anymore and sent their families to Luoyang one after another as hostages. Zang Ba himself also resigned from the post of governor of Qingzhou and became an official in the court.
Liu Feng took the opportunity to agree to Zang Ba's request, named him General Zhenbei, transferred him to the court as an official, and appointed Jiang Wan as the governor of Qingzhou, ordering him to succeed Zang Ba.
Once the Qingzhou incident is resolved, there will be no worries in the East. The wounds of the war in the Central Plains are slowly being healed, the hearts of the people are gradually returning, and everything is developing for the better.
This spring, some people started to feel restless.
The first person who felt restless was Ma Di. He publicly presented to the court, praised the achievements of the great Sima Liu Feng, and asked the Han Emperor to make Liu Feng the Duke of the country to show his merit.
Since the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang has been the only one to claim the title of Duke. Everyone knows that claiming the title of Duke is the first step towards usurping the throne.
When Cao Cao was in power, there was a wave of public opinion in the court supporting Cao Cao's title of Duke of Wei. At that time, Cao Cao adopted a tacit attitude.
Originally, the Han Emperor had been defeated and had no choice but to make Cao Cao the Duke of Wei. However, after losing consecutive battles, Cao Cao had no intention to think about it anymore.
Liu Feng¡¯s current environment is as high as that of Cao Cao. While his strength has increased dramatically, Liu Feng certainly hopes that he can obtain a correspondingly higher position of power.
So, with Liu Feng's tacit approval, following Ma Di, Pang Tong, Kuai Liang, Liu Ba and other important ministers expressed their gratitude to the Han Emperor one after another, and then local officials from various states and counties also followed suit.
Like snow flakes, Liu Xie flew up to the imperial court. Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty had no reason and did not dare to refuse. In desperation, he had no choice but to issue an edict to make Liu Feng the Duke of Song Dynasty.
Liu Feng naturally followed the example of Cao Cao in those days. He showed himself modest and declined the Han Emperor's reward.
The Han Emperor also knew that Liu Feng was just going through the motions, so he had no choice but to issue another edict.
After three concessions, Liu Feng no longer refused, so he appreciated and accepted the reward from the Han Emperor and was officially called Song Gong.
existAt Liu Feng's suggestion, Liu Xie not only made Liu Feng the Duke of Song Dynasty, but also gave him nine tins that symbolized his power, and designated Qiaojun, Liangguo, Peiguo, Chenjun, Shanyangjun, and Ji. Yin County, Runan County, Chenliu Kingdom, and Pengcheng Kingdom, a total of nine counties, served as the fiefdom of Liu Feng Song Kingdom.
After Liu Feng became the Duke of Song Dynasty, he made Chenliu the capital of the Song Dynasty, and established his son Liu Yu as the crown prince. At the same time, he granted many official positions in the Song Dynasty to the civil and military ministers of the court, and gradually transferred the military and political management agencies of the court to his own. came from the principality system.
Liu Feng holds the land of 11 states including Jingyi, Ji¨¡oyang, and already has two of the three-thirds of the world. It is natural for him to proclaim himself a duke and establish a country. Naturally, there are people who oppose it, but they are also some people who shake the tree like a worm. There is simply no way to reverse the trend.
However, Liu Feng's proclaiming himself a duke and founding the country made Liu Bei in the west unable to sit still.
Less than three months after Liu Feng was promoted to Duke of Song, Liu Bei sent an envoy to Luoyang to declare to the Han Emperor that he was the King of Guanzhong.
Liu Feng proclaimed himself duke first, and Liu Bei went directly to the king. This was really a big deal.
But it¡¯s no wonder. No matter how much Liu Bei hated Liu Feng, their anti-Cao stance was consistent.
Furthermore, Liu Bei was the emperor's uncle recognized personally by the Han Emperor, and he held the title of General Zuo conferred by the imperial court. At least in terms of status, he was much higher than Liu Feng, the "wild warlord".
But now, Liu Feng has captured the Han Emperor. Not only is he legally qualified to take charge of the military and state power, but he has also proclaimed himself a duke and founded the country. Such a status has not only thrown Liu Bei a few blocks away.
How could Liu Bei swallow this breath? In order to outdo Liu Feng, and to find a reason to win over people by appointing officials and titles to his subordinates, after careful consideration, Liu Bei decided to proclaim himself king.
After Liu Bei's performance arrived in Luoyang, Liu Xie naturally couldn't see it, but it was directly delivered to Liu Feng's hands.
Seeing Liu Bei's performance, Liu Feng smiled.
Since he claimed to be the Duke of Song Dynasty, Liu Feng has been planning to conquer Liu Bei in the west and unify the Central Plains. Now, Liu Bei's becoming king just gave him a perfect excuse.
Three days later, the Han Emperor issued an edict to strip Liu Bei of his imperial status and denounced him as a traitor.
The ministers in the government and the public soon smelled the smell of fire. They came to the court one after another to rebuke Liu Bei for being a traitor, proclaimed himself king, and asked the Han Emperor to issue an edict to send troops to fight against the rebellion.
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty could not make the decision himself. After he sent someone to consult Liu Feng, Duke of Song Dynasty, he determined that Liu Feng was ready to attack Liu Bei. Only then did he dare to issue an edict, ordering Liu Feng to command the army in the country in the name of Grand Sima and fight for peace. Liu Bei is a traitor.
The order to mobilize troops was quickly issued by Song Gongfu, and armies from all over the country quickly began to assemble. Within a month, all armies were assembled one after another, and Liu Feng ordered the Western Expedition in the name of punishing thieves.
After destroying Cao, after more than a year of management, Liu Feng had nearly 400,000 regular troops in his hands. In order to destroy Liu Bei in one fell swoop, in addition to guarding the capital Luoyang and other key places, Liu Feng mobilized a total of more than 400,000 regular troops. Three hundred and fifty thousand soldiers and horses.
As for Liu Feng's strategy of attacking Liu Bei, he adopted the "Legendary Strategy to Destroy Liu" left by Sima Yi before his death.
In Hebei, Liu Feng's former general Wei Yan was the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army, and ordered him to command one hundred thousand troops in three routes, from Yanmen, Changshan and Hanoi counties to attack Bingzhou.
On the southern route, Liu Feng appointed Huang Zhong as commander-in-chief, and together with Ma Su and Meng Da, they led 50,000 troops to attack Guanlong from Chencang and Qishan respectively.
On the middle route, Liu Feng commanded an army of 200,000, of which Wenpin commanded 50,000 troops. He launched an attack on Wuguan from Nanyang and threatened Chang'an from the southeast.
Liu Feng sent his 100,000 infantry and cavalry from Luoyang and attacked Tongguan through the Hongnong Army. He also led Gan Ning to lead a 50,000-strong naval force and marched westward along the Yellow River, advancing by land and water together with Liu Feng's 100,000 infantry and cavalry.
The 350,000-strong army launched in a mighty manner, launching a semicircular attack on the three states ruled by Liu Bei from the north, center, and south.
Liu Bei seems to have expected that his proclaimed king would lead to a military attack from Liu Feng, so while he was enfeoffing his ministers, he was also intensively deploying various defenses.
After more than a year of recovery, Liu Bei has barely expanded his troops to 100,000. Liu Bei's plan is to rely on the four fortresses in Guanzhong and the dangerous mountains and rivers to defend and not attack, and defeat Liu Feng's attack with a protracted war. .
As for Bingzhou, if you can, you can defend it. If you can't, you can give up. The soldiers will retreat to Guanzhong and gather all their strength to retreat to Yongliang Prefecture.
As Liu Feng had predicted in advance, the Wei Yan army on the northern route had won consecutive battles since the beginning of the war, and successively captured Changshan, Leping, Yanmen, Xinxing and other counties, and led the troops directly to Taiyuan County of the Bingzhou Governor's Department.
 Liu Bei saw that the situation in Bingzhou was unfavorable, so he moved 50,000 households in Bingzhou into Guanzhong, and 30,000 soldiers and horses withdrew into Guanzhong and stationed them on the Pubanjin line to prevent Liu Bei's army from crossing the Yellow River westward from here.
After the enemy abandoned Bingzhou, Wei Yan's commander drove straight in and wiped out Bingzhou within half a month. In addition to leaving some troops to garrison, 80,000 elite troops entered Hedong County southward, preparing to cross the Yellow River westward.
Except for the Wei Yanjun on the north route, the other two routes were blocked.
Not to mention Huang Zhong's Hanzhong Army Corps, relying on the natural dangers of the Qinling Mountains, Liu Bei blocked Huang Zhong's northward advance with only 10,000 troops.
As for the middle route, Liu Bei personally led 50,000 elite troops to sit in Tongguan. Liu Feng's main army, a 150,000-strong army on land and water, made no progress in the attack for half a month.
In the late summer and early autumn, the two sides fell into a stalemate on the Tongguan front line. - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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