Chapter 204: Has the problem been solved?
Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

Li Yuanhui, who had just been filled with ambition, proposed to his staff and generals his idea of ​​capturing Caishi and crossing the river.

Except for a few people who responded, everyone advised him to be cautious.

"Cao Yuanjing is a great man, he is a tiger in Jiangdong, he should not be underestimated."

"The father and son of the Cao family are kind and benevolent, and they enjoy great prestige in Jiangdong, but the people are terrified when they mention the word 'Yan'. Please be careful, General."

"General, think twice. Cao Yuanjing has been in Jiangdong for two years, and the heroes of Jiangdong are vying to join him."

All the staff members were opposed.

First of all, the Eastern Wei currently has an army of 200,000, and the Cao father and son are quite popular in Jiangdong. This is also thanks to Li Yuanhui's father-in-law, the late Emperor Murong Ying.

The Caos were salt smugglers, and they knew the hardships of ordinary people. They also had the capable Zhang Hongping as their guide, so they were lenient in their administration.

He also promoted Gu, Lu, Zhu, Zhang and other prominent families in Jiangdong to be officials and generals, so both the common people and the prominent families in Jiangdong were loyal to him.

On the contrary, Li Yuanhui represented Dayan in Jianghuai after all.

The people of Jiangdong now deeply hate the more than ten years of Dayan’s rule.

Whether it was the previous Wei Dynasty, or the Southern Wei Dynasty that controlled half of the country, or even earlier, dating back to the Sun Wu Dynasty, life in Jiangdong had never been so difficult.

Dayan not only imposed heavy taxes on Jiangdong, but also frequently imposed forced labor, built canals, and conquered Goguryeo.
We finally waited for Murong Ying to die, and Emperor Cao rebelled. Life has become better now. Now you, Great Yan, are at it again?

When it comes to people’s support, you have to have faith and reverence for it.

Li Yuanhui was a man who listened to advice. After being persuaded by his subordinates, he took the initiative to attack first, which became a "feint attack."

If you can't really fight, how can you pretend to fight? Even if you pretend to fight, you can still get scared.

A new round of preparations has begun.

Just like last year, Li Yuanhui began to inspect the city defense conditions at various key passes along the river.

The first stop is Guangling and Jiangdu.

He also specially asked Zhang Yan and the Zhang brothers to accompany him.

When Zhang Lin heard that Li Yuanhui was coming, he took several of his sons and grandsons to the gate of Jiangdu City to greet him and even held a banquet to welcome him.

"General Lee."

"Junior greets Mr. Zhang."

"General, you have failed me."

Although Li Yuanhui considered himself a junior, Zhang Lin never acted like an elder.

The two men walked into the city side by side, followed by everyone else, and had a banquet in Zhang Jian's garden.

After the banquet, Li Yuanhui, who was a little tipsy, lay down on the couch to rest. Zhang Yan brought him some sobering soup and asked him to drink it.

The Zhang brothers each followed their elders to the old house to talk.

"General Li is coming to Jianghuai this time, and our Zhang family must show some appreciation." The eldest brother Zhang Gongcheng spoke first.

The third son, Zhang Gongping, said, "How do you express this? Sanlang and Wulang both served under General Li, and they married Jiuniang to him. How do you express this?"

Zhang Gongcheng said: "The Qiao family of Wan County, the Zhou family of Shu County, the Li family, and the Liu family of Lujiang County have all entrusted their entire families to us. Our Zhang family is so big and powerful that we cannot just send a few of our sons to settle the matter."

Zhang Lin said: "What the boss said is true. Now the Duke of Tang has occupied Yizhou, Liangzhou, and Longyou, and Governor Li is gaining prestige in Jiangbei. The Li family is in power. Our Zhang family has no shortage of people or money and food." When Li Yuanhui joined Jiangdu, Zhang Gonglie, the fifth master, led 5,000 troops to join the army. In addition, many green forest heroes and powerful clans in Jianghuai joined the army with their troops. There were more than 10,000 people in total.

Li Yuanhui appointed Zhang Gonglie as the General of the Tiger Guards, commanding more than 10,000 new troops.

At the same time, the Zhang family also donated 100,000 dan of military rations and 2,000 dan of crude salt. This made Li Yuanhui feel like he was eating free food.
He also understood that this was the Zhang family's investment.

This shows that the Zhang family is very optimistic about the Li family's prospects and future, so they continue to increase their investment.

Among them, the vast majority of factors are because my father and second brother have accumulated the strength to compete for the world in Liangyi and Yizhou.

At present, because the news of the Battle of Taoxi has spread, the fact that Li Erlang led 3,000 cavalry to defeat 20,000 elite troops from Liangzhou, and then drove the surrendered soldiers to seize Liangzhou has become famous far and wide.

But throughout the whole year of last year, namely the first year of Guangping, there were no large-scale military operations in either Yizhou or Longyou.

There are two reasons for this. One is that Li Er needs time to control the Liangzhou Army.

After all, he was only commanding the army as a guard, and was nominally under the control of Xiao Juan.

The second reason is that the war the year before last consumed a lot of food. It was not easy to transport food from Hanzhong across the Qishan Road, and the consumption was not small.

Over the past year, Longyou, Hanzhong, Yizhou and Liangzhou have actually been preparing to send troops.

After a year of running-in and training, Li Erlang was able to make more than 20,000 Liangzhou troops and the surrounding vassal states obey his orders wholeheartedly.

In addition, after a year's accumulation of military rations, it was enough for Liangzhou to send troops to fight for several months.

Feeling that everything was ready, Li Er wrote letters to his third brother in Longyou and his father in Hanzhong, asking whether he could send troops after the ice and snow melted.

After reading Erlang's letter, Li Yuan, who was in Hanzhong, laughed out loud, then wrote back and set a specific date for the troops to be dispatched.

The guys in the west are gearing up to attack Guanzhong, while Li Yuanhui is still waiting for the other side to attack him.

But unexpectedly, something happened in the north again.

The army led by General Lou Jushi included more than 10,000 elite soldiers he brought from Yanzhou, 18,000 Jianghuai troops, 10,000 Xuzhou troops, 40,000 troops from the four outer armies led by Murong Deyu, and more than 20,000 troops from the Tianwu and Tianxiong armies. Although Murong Hui died in the battle, the elite troops led by Pu Gusu and Xue Qi still had more than 20,000 troops. The total army was about 100,000.

Although the combat effectiveness of these 100,000 people varies, most of them are elite.

Under the command of General Lou Jushi, the Yuzhou rebels were surrounded between Runan and Chenjun from multiple directions.

However, no matter how much he planned, Mr. Lou never expected this.

The 20,000 Yuzhou troops led by the governor of Yuzhou, Qu Tushi'an, were originally confronting the Western Wei army in the three passes of Yiyang. Unexpectedly, the Western Wei general Han Xiu led 3,000 elite soldiers to bypass Biyang and attack Qu Tushi'an from behind.

The Western Wei Grand Marshal Martin Jingzhen led another 50,000 Western Wei troops, marched out from three passes, attacked the Yuzhou army from both sides, and defeated it outside the city of Yiyang.

Thousands of heads were beheaded and nearly 10,000 enemies were captured. Qu Tushi'an fled with only a thousand men, and the rest of his troops were scattered.

Ding Jingzhen then marched straight in and captured Ancheng, which was under the jurisdiction of Runan County. This opened a big hole in the encirclement originally prepared for the Yuzhou rebels.

It was only then that the generals of Eastern Yan realized that the rebellion in many places in Yuzhou was instigated by Western Wei!

The Western Wei sent troops to rescue the rebels in Yuzhou, opening a gap for them. Sun Bai and others quickly led their troops to retreat towards Yiyang.

Ding Jingzhen held out in Ancheng and assisted most of the Yuzhou rebels, allowing them to retreat into Jingzhou through the three passes of Biyang and Yiyang.

He then led his troops to fight and retreat, and the entire army returned to Jingzhou.

After receiving the battle report, Li Yuanhui had a question. Now that all the troublemakers had left, the problem in Yuzhou should be solved, right?

(End of this chapter)