As Zhong Xing guessed, the ice and snow melting season began half a month later, but even if the ice and snow had begun to melt, it would not be possible to carry out large-scale action for a while and a half.
Xie an led a large army to Didao before the ice and snow melted, bringing two cavalry armies, an infantry army and nearly 30000 County soldiers.
A large number of troops arrived at Didao, making the camp densely covered.
Of course, such a big movement of the Han army can't hide from the intentional spies. Zhang Zuo can know that the Han army will invade Zhang's cool country on a large scale when the weather permits.
Less than a year after he succeeded to the throne, Zhang Chonghua was captured near langju Xu mountain, and 10000 or 20000 Liang army elites were included. For Zhang Liangguo, he was really hit hard both politically and in terms of strength.
When the king of a country is captured, it will inevitably have a serious impact on the military and people's morale of the country. People's panic is only the foundation, but people's mind will cause great trouble.
Only when the news of Zhang Chonghua's capture was confirmed, many aristocratic families in Xiliang began to sit still.
Since ancient times, aristocratic families only value their own family, and what country and country are secondary. In times of peace and prosperity, they were attached to the imperial power and took advantage of their power and local power, like moths taking the people as nutrition. Whenever they encounter the squeeze of imperial power, they will do their best to make the country chaotic. Powerful aristocratic families either directly participate in the deer race or look for the so-called real dragon to stir up the situation.
There is no country in the eyes of aristocratic families, but only family interests, so there will be no loyalty. Seeing the collapse of the state of Shi Jie Zhao in just six or seven years, the Tuoba generation state will not die under the advance of the Han army. According to the family's cognition, the state of Han will obviously become a royal dynasty that has the hope of completing reunification. Unable to resist, we can only choose to join it.
Similarly, there are not many aristocratic families who want to jump from a broken ship to the giant ship of the state of Han. The difference is that the situation of Zhang's cool country is more serious, which is related to the large number of fine works sent by the state of Han to Zhang's cool country. More is the capture of Zhang Chonghua and some actions of Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi.
The Lord is captured, and his eldest son is just a child with a yellow mouth. On the contrary, the two brothers of the Lord are old and have been working hard. When the country meets great difficulties and there is power strife inside, how to deal with the external crisis?
There are many factors for the demise of a country. Sometimes, external pressure is not the main reason for the demise of the country. It is that the country is not united internally while there is external pressure, which leads to the demise of the country under internal and external difficulties.
Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi are ambitious people. They have long spied on the throne of the cool king. Zhang Chonghua's position was set by Zhang Jun himself. Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi have no big name and can only hide their ambitions. If Zhang Chonghua didn't have any accidents, Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi could only endure and be good ministers of imperial relatives and relatives no matter how unwilling they were. But Zhang Chonghua had an accident, that's two words.
In fact, without much provocation or encouragement from the Han side, Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi will have their own actions after Zhang Chonghua's capture.
Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi dare to act rashly when the Han army is about to invade? Their idea is actually more practical. It is precisely because the Han army wants to invade that they should seize the throne as soon as possible.
Zhang Yaoling, the eldest son of Zhang Liangguo, has not been made Prince in advance. He is too young. His mother family is not strong enough to affect the trend of the country at one fell swoop. Is it a good thing to have such a child who can't do anything as the king of Liang in difficult times?
Zhang Zuo has a confidant named Zhao Chang. Zhao Chang is the right Sima sealed by Zhang Chonghua. This right Sima has done a great deal for Zhang Zuo.
About two months ago, as soon as the news of Zhang Chonghua's capture was confirmed, Zhao Chang began to operate, solicited and bought the civil and military forces in the court, made Zhang Chonghua's fake imperial edict, cooperated with the 20000 troops dispatched by Zhang Zuo back to the court, and took out the fake Imperial edict to read out at one fell swoop.
The false imperial edict only has one core meaning, that is, if there is any accident in Zhang Chonghua, Zhang Zuo will be appointed as the envoy to hold the festival, the governor of all military and Fujun generals at home and abroad, and assist the government.
Not one step in place is what Zhao Chang and Zhang Zuo agreed. They probably think that they should leave some face. They should not do things too ugly. They should grasp the overall situation first and wait until they are ready to ascend the throne.
"According to the letters from those aristocratic families who took refuge in, Zhang Tianxi did not recognize the legacy order, and Zhang Peng, Zhang Yong and others refused to recognize it." With some pity, Xie an said, "they just kept considerable restraint and didn't attract troops to attack Zhang Zuo and his subordinates."
The snow and ice are melting. It's sunny weather recently. The road will become hard in another ten days and a half months. That's when the Han army invaded Zhang's cool country on a large scale.
"Jincheng is guarded by Zhang Chong. There are about 30000 border troops of Liangguo in the city, and nearly 50000 soldiers are recruited from around." Zhong Xing is a forward commander, and it is inevitable to collect enemy intelligence: "the deputy general is easy to guess."
Each country will divide its own army into levels. Of course, the central army belongs to the most richly equipped echelon, but it is definitely the border army that can fight the most, and some temporarily recruited young and strong troops are the weakest.
The Liang state of Zhang family is the same family politics as the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The difference is that Zhang family itself is the strongest family in Xiliang, unlike Sima family, which is weak and strong.
Because they are all family politics, whether civil servants or military generals, in fact, they all come from various large and small families. The main stratum who can become an army is basically the children of large families.
Xie an knew what the family politics was like, so he asked, "is there an enemy who secretly knows the music?"
"Make the main material correct." Zhong Xing said mockingly, "apart from some generals and schools, vice general Jincheng has secretly taken refuge in the big man and promised that our army will cooperate inside and outside as soon as it arrives."
Before the war broke out, the enemy country had important generals to take refuge in advance. Apart from the poor prospect of Zhang's cool country, it was inseparable from the strong performance of the Han country. Although it was good for the Han country that the enemy would take refuge in secret, they should look down on the anti skeleton.
Jincheng is an important military town in the east of Zhang Liangguo. It has been built and reinforced for many years. The urban defense facilities are complete. If you really want to attack hard, it doesn't mean you can't fight, but the loss will be heavy.
Zhang Chong is the son of a local big family in Jincheng. He has been the governor of Jincheng for some years, as early as when Zhang Jun was in charge.
What are you talking about? This is probably the case with Zhang Chong. Zhang Chong's family has always had a good reputation in Jincheng and made friends with most of the families in the city. He led the army to defend the city, which can not only coordinate the assistance of most families in the city, but also get the maximum support of the people in the city.
Han generals, including xie'an, certainly have enough confidence in the combat effectiveness of their troops, but they are naturally happy to be able to easily seize Jincheng, an important military town, but they can't take it for granted.
"... it is not ruled out that it is the enemy's plan, but as long as we are careful enough, we are not afraid of the enemy's deception." Zhong Xing did not dare to make any guarantee and said, "everything depends on the war experience?"
Xie an knew what Zhong Xing meant, smiled and just nodded.
Time flies. On the eighth day after the ice and snow melt, the Han Army in the di Dao army camp began to pull out in batches.
As a vanguard, Zhong Xing led his headquarters to LHAn first. On the way, he did not encounter Zhang's Liang army, but was only harassed by some small groups of Qiang, Di and zahu.
The northwest of Chudi road is a flat plain. During this period, only a river called Tao River blocked the way. Qianfeng had the responsibility to build a bridge in case of water. Zhong Xing spent three days building three floating bridges on the side of Tao River.
"Those Hu people are too annoying." Dou a was really upset: "the number of shares is too small, but there are too many teams."
In addition to opening the way in Fengshan and filling the bridge in case of water, Qianfeng still has the responsibility to eliminate threats for the rear army. No one knows how many Hu people remained when the Fu family transferred. Judging from their continuous attacks on the Han Army, it should be that each tribe left some people.
Part of doua's headquarters was left by Zhong Xing to eliminate the threat. They continued to explore around the March. They found some Hu people and cleaned them up, but the cleaning process was not smooth. It's not that they can't defeat the Hu people, but that the Hu people will disperse and flee once attacked. The Han army can catch some, but there will always be fish caught.
The enemies that can be found cannot be eliminated. There are still enemies that have not been found. Eliminating the threat has always been a big trouble. It may not be possible to eliminate all those guys at the end of the war. Dou A is eager to participate in the war. He really doesn't want to be dragged into this kind of trouble.
Seeing that his boss was upset, Lv Liang gave a suggestion: "can you pretend to be a baggage team to attract those Hu people to attack?"
When the Han army went out, either there was no baggage team, or because most of the supplies depended on the convenience created by the system warehouse, the baggage team would only be used when the main force and small forces without warehouse. For a long time, it has not been that no enemy wants to target the grain road of the Han Army, but it can only cause insignificant trouble again and again, and it can not affect the material supply of the main force of the Han Army at all.
His family knew his own business, but the enemy could only make a shadow of it. Dou ah nodded as soon as he heard it: "it's really possible to have a try."
That attempt really achieved great results. After all, the remaining Hu people also had to eat. They usually played some game and ate fruit. It would be better if they could eat food and fodder. Moreover, there was no behavior that could cause losses more than attacking the baggage team of the Han army.
Doua achieved great results, and may have been lucky. When xie'an's main force arrived, other colleagues took over to clean up military affairs, which finally liberated them.
"Yes, yes, we are pretending that the baggage team attracts Hu people to attack." Dou ah was more or less beaming: "Hu people are very short of a muscle. Even if they know that there is fraud, they will continue."
They have killed a lot of Hu people recently, but they have earned a lot of military merit. However, their losses are not large, so there is no reason to be unhappy.
Xie an thought of something else: [knowing that the trap is still going on, do you think those Hu people are extremely short of food?]
Hunting and gathering are the survival mode of primitive society. It is because there is no guarantee of sufficient and fixed food that we will try all kinds of means to increase food. Whether it is nomadism or settlement farming, it comes from the need for food.
Nomads have no harvest without grazing. They stay with hatred. Long-term hunting must be to hunt a large number of nearby animals. If hunting alone can ensure the source of food, why should people tame animals to be livestock and farm.
The lack of food for the remaining Hu people is good news for the Han army. Those Hu people who constantly attack the Han Army are like mosquitoes and flies. They may not be able to cause too much loss to the Han Army at one stroke, but will cause trouble and bleeding to the Han Army in repeated attacks. It is good to clean up to the greatest extent.
Dou a chases Zhong Xing's headquarters with his headquarters. While Xie an continues to March, he continues to spill out small troops.
Jincheng is standing there. On the premise of knowing that a war will break out, Jincheng must have made sufficient preparations. The Han army is not in a hurry to attack. The effect will be very much better when the Hu people are short of food.
In fact, Xie an didn't want to attack Jincheng alone. He also had to understand the specific situation. If Zhang's Liang army concentrated its military strength in urban defense, the form of operation should be changed.
In the spring of the seventh year of Yuanshuo, the Han army first arrived at the foot of Jincheng. Of course, it was Zhong Xing's headquarters that arrived first.
"No wonder it's an important military town." After Zhong Xing's arrival, he must personally see what Jincheng looks like. He found a place with a relatively high terrain and commented on Jincheng: "the height of the city wall is more than four feet, and the width is no less than two feet and four feet. Looking at the color of the rammed earth of the city wall, the top one foot should be an emergency heightening?"
Four feet? Sima 1 Jin's measurement is the continuation of the Cao Wei Dynasty. One Zhang is two meters and 42 meters in modern times, so the four Zhang is close to the height of ten meters.
The walls of Jincheng are tall. There are bed crossbows placed about 30 steps apart. The walls are equipped with many kinds of equipment. The width of the moat is slightly exaggerated. Many corridors are arranged outside the city in advance, which really meets the specifications of a military town,
"There are urn cities inside and outside each city gate..." Zhong Xing frowned and said to the left and right: "there is still a large area of open space reserved in the city. The trees within 20 miles outside the city have also been cut down. No siege equipment can be left. The enemy general guarding the city is a defense master?"
The defense master in Zhong Xing's mouth, that is, Zhang Chong, the governor of Jincheng, stood on the tower and watched the Han Army outside the city.
"Those who come are less than 10000." Zhang Chong looked very calm. He turned to Yi Chuai and said, "these are the forwards of Han General Zhong Xing?"
Yi Chuai also looked at the Han Army outside the city and said, "they have begun to set up camp. Do you open the city gate and send troops to harass? If the enemy is careless, it may be annihilated or severely damaged, which will frustrate the prestige of the enemy."