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Return to the Central Plains, Chapter 327, Expedition to the Qiang and Di Joint Army

Chapter 327 Expedition to the Qiang and Di Joint Army

Even in the hundreds of years since then, the thrift was fanatically sought after by clergy within the church, and many management personnel were proud to eventually starve to death in their posts.

Fortunately, this extreme fanatical tendency lasted for more than three hundred years, and was gradually corrected to prevent the tragedy from continuing.

In the same winter of 201, the Martyrs' Shrine and the Hall of Fame were completed one after another.

As mentioned earlier, these two buildings are the only one in the court that no one in the court opposed it among Wu Fan’s fifteen proposals. Among the people, news of building a temple of heroes and a hall of fame spread wildly, and the general public was even more excited about it.

The construction dates of the two buildings are about three days apart. The Hall of Fame is in front and the Martyrs' Shrine is behind. Both buildings are located thirty miles north of Luoyang City, with the Hall of Fame in the east and the Martyrs' Shrine in the west, and are built next to each other.

The two buildings cover an area of ​​about 50 acres. In addition to the main building in the center, there are also a large number of pavilions, towers, green pines, cypresses, and rivers. The architectural layout of the Hall of Fame is intended to highlight a kind of silence, which makes people feel suddenly; while the artistic conception in the Temple of Martyrs is quiet and solemn, which makes people feel solemn as soon as they enter the garden.

As the construction dates of the two buildings approach, which characters should be included in the garden became the more urgent agenda every day.

In the end, after Cao Chong's nomination, the veterans debated repeatedly, and the House of Representatives voted repeatedly. The following figures entered the two buildings in advance.

Hall of Fame: Yao, Shun, Yu, Jiang Ziya, King Wu of Zhou, Gongdan of Zhou, Sun Wu, Xiang Yu, Su Wu, bsp; Some people entered the Hall of Fame: Yu was because of his merits in controlling the flood, so that the Han people could not suffer from the suffering of water. Sun Wu was the basis for the victory of the Han people in the war against foreigners because of his military strategy. He ended the HN battle of the princes and implemented many positive reform measures.

The Temple of Martyrs: Li Mu, Li Guang.

Li Mu was a famous general in the Zhao State's fight against the Huns during the Warring States Period and had no defeat in his life. Later, he was killed by the sects in the hands of his own people in the war against the powerful Qin Dynasty. Three months after Li Mu's death, Zhao State was destroyed.

Since the figures who entered the Martyrs' Temple must fight against foreign races, fight for interests for the country and nation, and have a great impact, the most important thing is that they fail to end well, otherwise they will enter the Hall of Fame. Due to these many rules and regulations, it is not surprising that there are few people entering it.

In addition, the characters such as Fuxi, Shennong, Xuanyuan and other emperors have long been included in the Yanhuang mythology system, which is well-known to everyone. The portraits and deeds can be seen in the Longguan Temple in various places, so they are not included in the Hall of Fame. Because these characters can no longer be measured by celebrities.

On the day when the Hall of Fame and the Martyrs' Temple was constructed, Cao Chong and all officials went to participate in the relevant ceremonies in person. According to Wu Fan's additional proposal when building these two buildings, the emperor would take Chinese civil and military officials to the Hall of Fame and Martyrs' Temple in the early days to perform worship ceremony to show that the imperial power is under the interests of the country and the people, and to express his admiration for the predecessors who made outstanding contributions to the country and the people. Since then, the worship ceremony was fixed on January 16th of each year, which is the first day after the Lantern Festival.

After the steadiary ceremony, a large number of people poured into the two buildings like water, paying homage to their predecessors who had long been famous. Of course, the guards on duty in the two buildings are essential. The strict restrictions on the visiting people are not allowed to touch any relics of their previous lives or other related objects. They can only see them with their eyes, otherwise they will be punished and even go to jail.

Although this seems to be too strict, it is a forced era in this era. Human evolution is not only physical function, but also ideological quality. For example, today's reputation card system was absolutely not good in ancient times. There are many reasons, but the most basic reason is that people's ideological quality has not reached the height of today.

And so on, the Hall of Fame and the Martyrs' Temple are open to the maximum extent in this era. On this basis, strict management must be provided, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable.

The second month after the completion of the Hall of Fame and the Martyrs' Temple, that is, in mid-January 2022, Yuan Shao, the Southern Central Herder, sent an urgent military information to Caochong, Qiang and Di army to start invading Nanzhong.

When foreign tribes invade, even if the national strength is exhausted, they will fight hard. This time, Cao Chong made a quick decision and sent troops to attack and appointed the Taiwei Xiahou Dun as the commander of the army, leading the Central Army to 400,000 to Nanzhong. After arriving in Nanzhong, Yizhou, Jiaozhou and Nanzhong provinces sent 100,000 troops to fight together. Among them, the military's resources were two-fifths from the three states and three-fifths from the central government.

This time the dispatch order was also voted by the Senate by overwhelmingly.

Five months later, Xiahou Dun led his army back to the DPRK, and the results were not optimistic: both sides of the war were injured. It was just because the Han army was large and advanced, and the Qiang and Di army could not get any benefits, so they withdrew to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Xiahou Dun learned the lessons of Zhang Liao, so he did not lead his army to pursue him. After two months of stationed in Nanzhong, the food and grass were consumed more and more severely, and it was difficult for Nanzhong, Yizhou and Jiaozhou to support him, and the transportation from the mainland was far away, so he led his army back.

After listening to Xiahou Dun's words, Wu Fan said sadly:

"The Qiang and Di Joint Army must see through our army's weaknesses and find it difficult to fight against it on the plateau, so it deliberately retreats back to the plateau. I believe that less than a month after the fifth brother withdraws his troops from Nanzhong, the Qiang and Di Joint Army will inevitably fight back; this is a repetition that we are tired of our army, forcing our country to give up Nanzhong and become the object of his hand."

Wu Fan's words were soon fulfilled. On the tenth day after Xiahou Dun withdrew his troops and returned to the court, the emergency military information of Yuan Shao of the Southern Central Pastoral Yuan Shao was handed over to Cao Chong again. The description above was exactly the same as Wu Fan said: After Xiahou Dun led his army to withdraw, the Qiang and Di army, which had been almost resting, counterattacked. The defenders of the Southern Central have rushed to fight and could not resist. On the day of military information, a county under Yongchang County of Ailao had been captured by the Qiang and Di army and were approaching Yongchang.

Wu Fan silently calculated in his mind: According to the date, it took nearly half a month for this military situation to reach Cao Chong. Judging from the abnormal genus Xng of the barbarian army, Yongchang had basically fallen into the hands of the Qiang and Di Joint Army at this time.

This urgent military situation caused an uproar in the throne of the dynasty. Zhang Liao and Xiahou Dun were both generals with unquestionable leadership skills, but they were helpless against the Qiang and Di joint army. As a result, everyone looked at Wu Fan one after another.

There is no doubt that in this case, only if Wu Fan, who is known as the world's number one, can lead the army forward personally to give everyone a little hope.

However, Wu Fan has not made any statement for a long time, and has not spoken silently.

It’s not that Wu Fan was afraid of the enemy, but that he had some concerns in his heart - he had himself in charge of the court, and fifteen reforms were able to break through all obstacles and implement them. Now, although the general trend of reforms has been determined, there are still several of them at the end. If he leaves the court at this time, he is very worried that something will go wrong.

This is also the fundamental reason why Wu Fan never proposed the root cause of the Qiang people from the beginning when he was expeditioning.

However, the war in South Central is too tight to be delayed.

After much thought, Wu Fan decided to let go of his concerns first, focus on protecting the territory and consolidating the territory, and lead his army to expedition to the Qiang and Di Joint Army.

So, under the expectant gaze of the elders, including Cao Chong, Wu Fan finally raised his head, looked at Cao Chong, and nodded.

Cao Chong and all the elders were very pleased to see this. Then, Cao Chong quickly wrote a military order, with the Grand Sima Wu Fan as the commander, leading 500,000 horse-striking bows, 500,000 wells, thunder chariots, hundreds of wooden beasts, and five million military supplies to fight against the Qiang and Di Joint Army.

Although the Senators in the House of Representatives were directly selected by the local authorities, even three-year-old children could speak nonsense about Wu Fan's deeds, and they had long heard of Wu Fan's deeds. Hearing that Wu Fan was going to lead the army to fight in person this time, all the Senators could not help but booed, and the voting result was successfully passed with unanimous support.

On the day of the war, Wu Fan said goodbye to the whole family and the young, and there was a scene of farewell. Xiao Qiao originally wanted to go on the war with Wu Fan, but Wu Fan had a more important task to her, that is, to teach the two children He Yuan and He Quan with all their efforts.

Before going to the expedition, Wu Fan had already been angry with Zhang Liao, Xun Yu, Guo Jia, Tian Feng, Xun You and other veterans who supported Wu Fan's reform, and asked them to closely monitor the progress of things related to the reform during the period when they left the court. Once there were signs of shrinkage, they should report to Cao Chong as soon as possible and write a letter to inform themselves.

After such careful arrangements, Wu Fan led his army to leave Luoyang and rushed to Nanzhong.

The generals who went to the expedition with Wu Fan were all appointed by Wu Fan personally, namely: Lu Bu, Hua Xiong, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhao Yun, Gan Ning, Tai Shi Ci, Zhou Yu, and 6 Xun. These generals were well-known in history, including Hua Xiong, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the three sworn brothers of Wu Fan. In the process of following Wu Fan to fight in various places for a long time, they also received great training and are now able to be the leading generals.

It took nearly half a month to ride from Luoyang to Nanzhong, and it took more than half a month to ride alone, and the 500,000 army would take more than a month. Along the way, the emergency military situation from Nanzhong to Luoyang was like snowflakes, and he could receive two to three letters every day, but was stopped by Wu Fan.

In order to reduce the consumption of military capital, the Central Army has made large-scale cuts. After Wu Fan led 500,000 Central Army to Nanzhong, the Central Army was only about 300,000, and most of the military rations and equipment were accompanied by Wu Fan's expeditionary army. In this way, it was useless to send these emergency military information to the court, and it would only increase the pressure on Cao Chong and the civil and military officials in the court.

A month later, Wu Fan led this 500,000 expeditionary force to marches all the way, arrived at the boundary of Nanzhong several days in advance, and entered Jianning. At this time, not only Yongchang had already fallen, but the Qiang and Di army continued to invade wildly after success, and had surrounded Yunnan, the prefecture of Nanzhong.

The Qiang and Di Joint Army surrounded Yunnan City had a total of 300,000, and although the number was not as large as Wu Fan's expeditionary army, don't forget that the perverted XNG possessed by the barbarians in the "Three Kingdoms" game, the 300,000 Qiang and Di Joint Army had neither siege equipment nor ladders, and only relied on the bows and arrows in their hands toward the city walls. Although this was the case, the city defense of Yunnan City was down sharply, and the scale was even greater than that of hundreds of Thunderbolt vehicles.

Yuan Shao, the Southern Central Pastoral, had a good relationship with the deceased Emperor Wu of Wei. In his early years, he supported each other in the killing of Shi Changsh and opposing Dong Zhuo's entry into Beijing and worked together. Although the battle in Hebei made Yuan and Cao meet each other, after the intermediary Wu Fan, the relationship between the two had already resolved their past grudges after Yuan Shao surrendered to Cao.

Now, facing the crazy attack of the Qiang and Di army in the Qiang and Di army, Yuan Shao still endured the pain and came to the front line to command the soldiers to defend themselves. He even made up his mind to live and die with Yunnan City at any time.

——I just hope to thank my friend Meng De for his kindness to my Yuan family

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Let’s talk about Wu Fan. After leading his army to the Jianning territory, the emergency military situation did not increase but decreased.

Just because Yunnan City has been surrounded, it can no longer send people to send information.

However, although the emergency military situation decreased, Wu Fan knew the progress of the war.

However, he issued an incredible order: slow down the march. From the original 100 miles of journey every day to eighty miles.

The generals were puzzled and asked Wu Fan, but Wu Fan shook his head and refused to answer. Only Zhou Yu and 6 Xun could understand Wu Fan's painstaking efforts, and they were silent and worried.

Wu Fan's military strategy this time was a bit cruel, and his target was the defenders of Yunnan City, including Yuan Shao and other city guards.

The combat power of the 300,000 Qiang and Di army is equivalent to that of about one million troops in the Middle-Turkey Army.

Even though Wu Fan was the best in the world and many famous generals went to the expedition with the army, these generals, including Wu Fan, were personal power after all. Their leadership was still only 500,000 expeditionary troops.

These 500,000 expeditionary forces are already equivalent to the family of the Central Army. Once defeated by the Qiang and Di Joint Army, not to mention how much loss the troops will be, they will not be able to lose their morale alone.

The food, grass and military funds transported by the army almost emptied the national treasury; even if Cao Chong wanted to send another army to fight, he could not get the food. In other words, the Central Army must win this battle between the two armies born in Yunnan City. If he wins, there is hope of defeating the Qiang and Di joint army; if he loses, no one can afford the domino effect caused by this.

As a result, Wu Fan could no longer advance as quickly as before, causing the entire army to appear in front of the Qiang and Di Joint Army exhausted. If that were the case, the two armies would confront each other and the Central Army would be defeated.

And in this way, the slow marching not only prevents the soldiers from being overly tired, but another reason is that Wu Fan’s military strategy.

Of course, whether it is to relieve the fatigue of soldiers or to use military strategies, the most intuitive effect brought by the marching is that Yunnan City will last longer under the siege of the Qiang and Di Joint Army. In this way, it is difficult to guarantee that Yunnan City will not be captured by the Qiang and Di Joint Army before the arrival of the Central Army, and the blood of the defending soldiers will stain the long streets...

And this is also the cruelty of Wu Fan's military strategy this time.
Chapter completed!