Chapter 303: Counterattack on Wei State(1/2)
The fake King of Wei has been in Yangzhou for many years. He seemed to be free and happy, regardless of political affairs, but in fact he had secretly bribed the defending generals of Yangzhou City.
So it doesn't matter if Yang Shuang was not arrested in Wanjing Garden. He has ordered people to block Yangzhou City, and Yang Shuang can't escape with her wings.
But the fake King of Guard was a little whimsical.
Since Yang Shuang suspected him and secretly dispatched Yang Su over, how could she ignore the army defending Yangzhou City?
When the fake King of Guard left Wanjingyuan and went to the military camp stationed in Yangzhou City, he was about to take charge of the troops himself and sent troops to capture Yang Shuang.
Unfortunately, after the fake King of Guard entered the military camp, he found something strange.
Because he saw an unexpected person, Long live Shi!
Shi Wansui, Minister of War, came in person. Behind him, the person kneeling was a general from Yangzhou City. He was already subdued and tied up in all directions.
"Prince Wei, don't be fine!" Shi Wansui said with a smile.
After saying that, the barracks were tightly surrounded, trapping the fake guard king here.
In fact, Shi Wansui didn't know that King Wei was fake at this time, but this did not affect the trap of him.
The Fake King's face changed drastically and he asked, "Why are you here?"
Shi Wansui smiled and said, "I came to Yangzhou City two days ago and didn't show up. Today, I came to Yangzhou when King Ming came down to Yangzhou. I pretended to pass on the reward order, and then took the opportunity to capture the generals of the Yangzhou City garrison!"
"The will of Emperor Sui?" The fake King of Guard sighed and immediately lost his fighting spirit.
He never expected that the Emperor Sui actually sent Shi Wansui himself. After the other party arrived, he pretended to give him a reward. The generals of Yangzhou City gathered in the military tent to receive the orders, and then were controlled by Shi Wansui.
The people who the fake King of Guards are all generals, and it is impossible to win over middle and lower-level generals. You must know that he has to conceal his plans and win over others with great fanfare. Isn’t that explicitly telling the court that he has the intention of being unjust?
After a while, Yang Shuang arrived in person, and the fake King of Guard had been controlled.
At this moment, Shi Wansui realized that the King of Wei in front of him was actually fake.
After everything was settled, Yang Shuang and Shi Longsui entered the camp to rest. Shi Longsui said, "Longsui Shi Longsui greets His Highness!"
Yang Shuang smiled and said, "Please ask for help. Thank you for your hard work this time. I can't believe the others, and I can only make you tired."
"Your Highness, you are polite. This is what the officials should do. I thought King Wei was willing to rebel, but I never expected that King Wei was fake. If it weren't for Your Highness's predictions, it would be dangerous!" Shi Wansui was still scared.
Yang Shuang nodded with a smile.
Indeed, this time was very dangerous.
If Yang Shuang didn't come here, the result would be that Yangzhou City would be occupied, and the Wei army would attack east and west with Yangzhou City. By then, it would be too late for the Sui Dynasty to send troops to attack. At that time, all the Yangtze River coasts fell into the hands of Wei. If they wanted to grab these territory back then, it would be even more difficult.
So Shi Wansui was still scared.
The last time that Shi Wansui was able to come, she wrote a letter to Emperor Sui after Yang Shuang resisted the order and refused to return to Beijing. In the letter, Yang Shuang not only introduced the power of gunpowder, but also mentioned the issue of King Wei, and hoped that His Majesty would send Shi Wansui to assist.
If it were in the past, the Emperor Sui would have considered it again and again, because King Wei was the younger brother of Emperor Sui and the prince, how could he be suspicious? But now Yang Shuang holds gunpowder in his hand, which is a powerful weapon for the Great Sui Dynasty to expand its territory and invincible world. Emperor Sui attaches importance to Yang Shuang, so he naturally believes in his words.
Moreover, in the letter, Yang Shuang also mentioned Gao Feng.
After Emperor Sui asked Gao Yang, Gao Yang told the truth and reported the clues to the investigation of Gong Xuesong's rebellion and put them on the body of King Wei.
To sum up, the Sui Emperor General Shi Longsui sent him.
The two chatted for a while, then went to Wanjingyuan again and found a doctor to check Prince Wei's condition. The result was heartbreaking. Prince Wei had no consciousness, just like a living dead, that is, a vegetable.
Then, Shi Wansui took over Yangzhou City and completely eliminated the relevant personnel colluding with the fake King of Wei in the city, without letting go.
Yang Shuang interrogated the fake King of Wei.
The fake King of Guard claimed to be a clever method and could force him to ask any situation. Will Yang Shuang's interrogation methods be weak?
When Han Qinhu brought the tools of rat punishment, as well as a series of tools such as wooden donkeys, the fake King Wei was dry and he was very self-aware of the confession and lenient, and he tried to break it up with a quick and easy way.
It turned out that this person's name was Wang Xiao, but he was just an ordinary citizen of the Great Wei Dynasty. One day, he was suddenly discovered by Jia Xu and accepted as a guest. Then he began to cultivate living habits, character and demeanor.
Later, Wang Xiao realized that Jia Xu asked him to pretend to be King Wei.
After ten years of Wang Xiao's arrival in the Sui Dynasty, everyone who suspected his identity had an accident, such as the princess's concubine, the housekeeper at that time, and he hid in Yangzhou, and the emperor was far away, making his disguise more and more sophisticated, enough to disguise the real one.
Yang Shuang curled her lips. All of this was Jia Xu's plan. She was worthy of being a poisonous man. She had been buried for so long with just one step of a secret chess. If Yang Shuang had not been alert and had discovered the clues, it might have been a bad thing.
Then, Wang Xiao did not hide it and told everything he knew, including the person who colluded with him at Kyoto Nakata, who was no one else, but Yang Guang, the King of Jin.
Yang Guang didn't know that King Wei was fake. In Yang Guang's opinion, he and King Wei were just using each other. However, Yang Guang was deceived this time, and he was the only one who was exploited.
At the same time, Wang Xiao provided a powerful news, that is, the person sent by Yang Guang was still in Yangzhou City.
This was a favorable opportunity for Yang Shuang to eliminate Yang Guang in one fell swoop, so she naturally sent Yang Su to lead people to search. Unexpectedly, the two opponents were extremely tall and defeated Yang Su, killed dozens of soldiers, and then fled.
Even Yang Su was injured!
Yang Shuang, who received the news, immediately guessed that these two people must be Yu Wen and Yu Wen Chengdu, and only they have the courage to hurt Yang Su.
And the two of them were a big problem, so Yang Shuang ordered a search for the whole city.
At the same time, Yang Shuang arranged for Yang Su to lead his troops to search the nearby mountains and forests, and look for the Wei army lying ambushed around him. This Wei army was preparing to conspire with the fake King of Guards, so the place where he hid would not be too far away from Yangzhou City.
Soon, Yang Su found out the other party.
It turned out that it was the 5,000 cavalry led by Cao Hong, who was ambushed in a forest thirty miles southwest of Yangzhou City.
Yang Su led 20,000 troops to encircle and suppress, but unfortunately, Cao Hong was defeated and fled in the end and failed to completely wipe out.
After searching from house to house in Yangzhou City for several days, Yu Wenhua and his father and son were not found. Yangzhou City is so big, either the other party hides or escapes from the city.
Now that something happened to the fake King Wei, Yu Wen and the whereabouts of the father and son were exposed, they must leave the city as soon as possible and report the news to the King of Jin, so that King of Jin would prepare early. So Yang Shuang could conclude that Yu Wen and his son would definitely escape from the city and rush to Kyoto.
So, Yang Shuang sent a soldier and horse carrying a strong bow and crossbow, and followed the official road to hunt down Yu Wen and Yu Wen Chengdu as much as possible.
These two people are so skilled in martial arts that they are definitely at the peak of this era. If they cannot be used by themselves, they are enemies. Since they are enemies, what should they keep them? They will naturally kill them.
Next today, Yang Shuang rectified Yangzhou City, and Shi Wansui was preparing to return to Beijing.
However, before returning to the capital, Shi Wansui had an important task. He only heard him say, "Your Highness, this time he came to Yangzhou, Your Majesty gave a death order, so I must take you back. But the official knew that this task could not be achieved. So the official retreated and looked for the second best. Can you see the power of gunpowder with your own eyes? Take some back and let Your Majesty see it? Your Majesty, you don't know, Your Majesty's heart is like growing grass, and he's almost crazy about gunpowder. If you didn't know that you have a heavy responsibility, please send the imperial guards to capture you!"
"Haha, I understand Your Majesty's anxiety. Shi Wansui's request is fine. Let's go, I'll take you to see it!" Yang Shuang and Shi Wansui had a good relationship and wanted to win him over, so he took him back to the military camp on the Yangtze River and let him see the power of gunpowder.
When Shi Wansui saw the power of gunpowder, he was shocked.
He was the Minister of War at least and had seen the world, but this time he was indeed ignorant.
After seeing the power of gunpowder, Shi Wansui was very excited and said in a trembling voice: "Heaven blesses the Great Sui, God blesses the Great Sui! With this magical artifact, the Great Sui will sweep the world. Who can compete with it?"
After saying that, he bowed to Yang Shuang for a visit.
Yang Shuang didn't care and smiled and said, "This is nothing!"
When Shi Wansui heard this, he respected Yang Shuang even more as a god.
However, Yang Shuang did not let Shi Wansui visit the process of making gunpowder, and then gave him two packs of explosives, told him what to pay attention to and how to use it, and then watched him leave.
While Shi Wansui returned to Beijing, he also took away Wang Xiao and the unconscious King of Wei. Wang Xiao had signed and stamped his confession. I believe that after Shi Wansui returned to Kyoto, it would be time for King Yang Guang of Jin to be unlucky.
Colluding with foreign enemies, this charge was confirmed and directly caused him to lose the position of prince. However, His Majesty will scold him, but he probably won't abolish his position as prince. So what Yang Guang will do in the future depends on his enlightenment. If he doesn't give up, then Yang Shuang won't mind destroying his relatives for the most.
When Yang Shuang solved the problem in Yangzhou, Yang Lin and Lai Huer also began to encircle Zhang Liao, Xu Huang and Cao Ren in Jiangzhou. Although the Wei army sent troops from Poyang Lake, they ended with the Wei army's defeat.
In the end, only tens of thousands of Wei troops fled back to Wei by boat.
A total of 300,000 troops were fled back in the end, and the Wei army was defeated very thoroughly this time. For Yang Shuang, the only regret was that Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Cao Hong and Cao Ren were not captured and all fled.
Yang Shuang was relieved to drive the enemy out of the country and then he could take the initiative to counterattack.
So taking advantage of the disarray of the Great Wei army, Yang Shuang gave an order, and the 100 tower ships and countless flying huts and ships were ready to go, transporting 40,000 troops, and rushing towards the south bank.
Yang Shuang attacked Wei and just gave Wei some color to see. Even with gunpowder, it would not be possible to destroy Wei.
Wei cannot conquer the Great Sui Dynasty. By the same token, Yang Shuang cannot destroy Wei. Only when the two countries have a huge gap in strength can they be destroyed. The current Wei State is very strong unless Yang Shuang's gunpowder development reaches the next stage.
So this attack was only to intimidate the Wei State, and Yang Shuang's goal was also clear, that is Runzhou.
Runzhou City is similar to Yangzhou City, very close to the Yangtze River. It is a larger city near the Yangtze River in Wei State. It also has strong troops stationed there, and the general led the army was Pang De.
Because of Zhang Yun's defeat, the Wei navy on the opposite side of the river was gone, so the warship led by Yang Shuang directly docked, then rectified the troops and headed towards Runzhou City.
Pang De of Runzhou City had already received the news. After thinking about it, he did not choose to take the initiative, but instead used the city to defend.
Pang De could see through the situation. The enemy had only 40,000 troops. This was not an attack on Wei, but only a humiliation of Wei. Moreover, the opponent lacked siege equipment, so what should he use to attack the city?
When they arrived at the back army, they would curse for a few days at most. After the scolding was over, when the troops of Wei began to mobilize to Runzhou City, they would have to leave in shame.
So Pang De was not worried about these 40,000 enemy troops.
In less than two days, Yang Shuang led 35,000 troops to Runzhou City, and the five thousand troops were still on the riverside to guard the warships.
The arrival of the Great Sui Dynasty made the people of Runzhou City panic. Pang De ordered the people in the city to appease the people in the city and let the soldiers in the city prepare for the battle.
Yang Shuang was not in a hurry and ordered the army to set up camp more than ten miles outside the city. At the same time, he sent Han Qinhu to lead two thousand soldiers and began to insult outside Runzhou City, mocking the Wei people as timid and cowardly, etc.
Pang De's subordinates were all angry and asked to go to the battle.
But it was stopped by Pound.
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At this time, the imperial capital of Wei State.
Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Cao Ren and Cao Hong have returned to Beijing, and Cao Cao did not punish them severely, but only their salary.
To be continued...