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Chapter 498 What do you think of Liu Yuan?

The tree wanted to be quiet but the wind did not stop. War broke out in the two prefectures of Youbing, Hebei. The news that Zhang Fang led his troops into Qingzhou poured cold water on Sima Yi who wanted to reorganize the rivers and mountains. He didn't know who was right or wrong now, and he couldn't tell whether it was right or wrong. The two sides who took action were the Grand Marshal of the Grand Marshal of the Grand Marshal of the Grand Marshal of the Jin, and both identities were among the Eight Dukes, and they were nominally more noble than him, the General of the Cavalry.

Sima Yi could only keep a wry smile. He could not interfere, nor did he have the strength to interfere. He actually understood in his heart that by now, almost no real power vassal kings took Luoyang's words seriously. However, his attitude still needs to be brought out. Sima Yi reconciled the conflict between Sima Yong and Sima Ji in the name of the emperor, and gave his best to fate.

Then he continued to send envoys to Chang'an to stabilize Sima Ying and took the fact that King Yan and King Hejian started a war, hoping that Sima Ying would take into account the overall situation and that the world was in danger of chaos. If Sima Ying also led his troops to mess around, the whole world would fall into war.

Regarding the war between the two vassal kings in Hebei, most of the opinions of the court officials were on Sima Yong's side, mainly because Sima Ji's sequelae of scraping the land in Luoyang. Unfortunately, the opinions of the court officials were equal to having no opinions. They tended to have no opinions because the latter wanted to kill Sima Yi with a knife. Sima Yi, who is in power, is not so forgetful and has forgotten this matter before long. That is too sorry for the soldiers who died in Luoyang.

So what did the Hejian King in Luoyang say after all, Sima Yi didn't express his opinion, nor did he tend to be inclined to any side of the war in Hebei. This caused dissatisfaction among many Hejian Kings, and also conveyed this dissatisfaction to Sima Yong in Yecheng through letters.

Hebei is not the only one who has a chaotic situation. Sima Yi has drawn the Jingxiang army to supplement the imperial guards. On the one hand, it is because the Xinye king Sima Xin is relatively weak. There are two aspects of this weakness. On the other hand, Sima Xin himself is relatively cowardly, and on the other hand, there are other military generals in the Jingxiang army, which Sima Xin cannot fully control.

Sima Yi and his brother King Chu were both in Jingxiang's territory, which was quite prestigious. They were able to take advantage of this prestige. Under various factors, Sima Yi and Sima Ying jointly issued an edict to draw the Jingxiang army.

At this time, Sima Yi didn't know that his father, Emperor Wu of Sima Yan, had made a mistake in his judgment. The real chaos was not the north, but the south, Guanzhong, Jingxiang and Huainan themselves were dealing with the rebellion in the south. Now this change is still brewing.

Compared to Sima Ji, Zhang's difficulties were obviously much smaller than that of Sima Ji. Since Sima Ji died, Qingzhou has been without a leader and the boss has been killed. Naturally, his subordinates will not fight for the dead. Although Zhang Fang's speed is not fast, it is very smooth. On the premise of being very smooth, he is even less anxious.

"How is it happening recently? Has the opponent's small group of harassing cavalry?" Sima Ji sat upright in the middle of the military camp and asked, yawning in the middle of the military camp.

"Yes, the cavalry that was launched should belong to Wang Jun rather than Liu Yuan. Killing nearly a hundred enemies in this battle is considered to teach Wang Jun a lesson." Zhang Da said calmly, "As for our losses..."

"As the rules!" Sima Ji interrupted, "Bingzhou was the original vassal state of Emperor Wen, and its troops under its jurisdiction were more than Youzhou. Wang Jun's troops and Liu Yuan's troops were probably 110,000 to 120,000."

Sima Zhao was named King of Jin, which was also the national name of the Jin Dynasty. Jin literally refers to Bingzhou, so Bingzhou is also considered the Longxing land of the Great Jin Dynasty. Of course, it is better than Youzhou, which grandma does not love his uncle and does not love him. Having said that, except for the higher status than Pingzhou, Youzhou seems to be able to overcome only a few prefectures and counties.

In normal times, there were nearly 40,000 troops under Bingzhou, which was a lot. Before the army was expanded, there were only more than 20,000 people in Youzhou. Sima Ji did not believe that Wang Jun came to attack without recruiting troops. Now the estimated enemy forces should not be wrong.

As for his side, the number of people was close to 100,000, including the soldiers and horses he brought, were all cavalry, and the proportion to infantry was almost half and half. This proportion was already very high for the farming nation. For example, before the Anshi Rebellion, the ratio of infantry and cavalry was probably one to three to four. Of course, this is not the data that some people secretly recruited soldiers and horses.

Judging from the military force, Sima Ji's troops were smaller than Wang Jun, but this was not an irreparable gap. In ancient wars, the real number of people on one side of the war was already a huge number. No matter how many people were, they could not feel it on the battlefield.

"Where did you find Wang Jun to go to the village?" Sima Ji spread out the map and asked the generals and schoolmen in the big tent. Zhang Da pointed out the location where Wang Jun went to the village. Sima Ji knew it was indeed a good place. It was backed by the valley but there was no shortage of water. It had a wide view and it was not easy to steal a camp. Wang Jun could not wonder that he could have been entangled with Shi Le for so long.

"If Wang Jun wants to wait until Sima Yong draws his hands and joins forces to attack Youzhou, the situation may be unfavorable to us." Zhang Da said with some concern, "The last general naturally believes in the combat effectiveness of the army under his command, but Youzhou will inevitably suffer a lot."

"It makes sense to worry!" Sima Ji reached out to Zhang Da, nodding with satisfaction, but changed his sentence, "But it depends on the relationship between Wang Jun and Sima Yong, whether it is the real lord and subordinate. If so, Wang Jun will not move, I may be in a hurry, but if Wang Jun also has his own ambitions in his heart, this matter is not accurate. If he is suspected of separatist and independent, he will never wait for Sima Yong, because if he can defeat me, he will no longer need to rely on others' breath to occupy Youzhou."

When Wang Jun came to Bingzhou, he couldn't wait to marry his daughter to Liu Yuan's son and marry the Huns. This was not like something that a person without ambition could do. In fact, Wang Jun in history was indeed ready to be in separatist and independent, but he had never beaten Shi Le.

History cannot be accurate. From the current perspective, Wang Jun should also wait for Sima Yong's army to go north instead of sending troops first, and would not actively send a small group of cavalry to test it. It can be seen that Wang Jun wanted to take over Youzhou by himself. That's fine, which shows that Wang Jun still has some confidence in his strength and believes that he can kill the King of Yan and replace him.

"It only takes a few days for all battalions to be on guard against Wang Jun's army to steal the camp at night. Wang Jun himself will tell me whether my judgment of him is right." Sima Ji chuckled and ordered, "I have never had any good ideas for attacks. What I rely on is the strength of armor and the sharp weapon, but the defense is that I have not been stolen from the camp and cannot afford to lose this person."

At this stage, the small cavalry of both sides fought several times and just tested each other's strength. Sima Ji was not in a hurry. He was not short of military rations. Youzhou prepared very well for this. I don't know if Wang Jun, who had just arrived in Bingzhou for a short time, had the foundation to sit firmly on Diaoyutai.

"If Wang Jun had no movement within three days, he would mainly harass the rear of Bingzhou and cut off his food and grass." Sima Ji turned to Li Shan and ordered, "Even Liu Yuan's Huns would not have many war horses in their hands. They had moved inward for a long time. The Thousand-man team was enough. Within two hundred miles of Bingzhou, if they could fight, they would run away. If they could find the traffic volume team, they would kill me."

Bingzhou is not Youzhou. The entire Youzhou is almost flat except for the Yanshan Mountains in the north as a barrier. However, Bingzhou is different. The terrain in Bingzhou is not flat. If you transport military rations, there are only a few grain channels, so it should not be difficult to find them. Sima Ji has such a great cavalry advantage, it would be a pity.

It is impolite to come but not go. Why do cavalry have advantages in Sima Ji's hands? Isn't it just a large range of activities? Is it really used to hit the wall? It is used to rush to the infantry phalanx? It is used to take the initiative. Sima Ji wanted to make Wang Jun unable to stalk the camp and he couldn't help but come out to fight the decisive battle.

In the next three days, the imagined stolen camp appeared, but the two sides fought back and forth with small groups of cavalry and were still testing each other's strength. Finally, the time for Sima Ji Ding was up. Zhang Da selected 10,000 Jurchen cavalry and divided them into ten thousand teams, and ordered them to rush straight to the rear of Wang Jun's camp, with a range of two hundred miles. When they saw the transport volume team, they would take action. If they didn't meet, they would go again the next day.

Hearing the order, the entire army followed the horse and the horse power he had accumulated for three days was finally used. Suddenly, a black dragon was raised in the plain, rolling forward, and a stream of dust and smoke formed behind the horse's hooves.

The first battle was a coincidence. When they met the Bingzhou cavalry who came out to investigate the situation, they thought it was like the previous few days, but then they found that something was wrong. Why are there so many cavalry on the other side? Before they could figure out what was going on, they were submerged in a large number of cavalry. The enemy was large and we were few, and they were instantly smashed into rotten meat.

"Why are these cavalry using such bastard weapons?" Before his death, Bo Chang looked bloody like a ghost. Why didn't he see Youzhou cavalry using maces a few days ago? His pain was like being crushed by a carriage, swallowing his mind and finally dark.

Almost all the scattered soldiers sent by Wang Jun met the Jurchen cavalry who were dispatched. They were either killed or injured by maces, or broken bones and tendons shot by heavy arrows. They wailed back to the camp. When the large group of people arrived, only the corpses of the soldiers in Bingzhou were left.

"General Liu Yuan, do you know the Jurchens under the King of Yan?" Wang Jun couldn't help but frown and asked, "The Huns were the overlords of the grassland at the time."
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