Chapter 758 Yuchi leaves Shu

Chapter 758 Yuchi leaves Shu

Unlike Yuchi Jiong's previous smooth entry into Shu, Yu Wengui and his party began to be harassed by border residents after passing through Jiange.

Their marching army plus soldiers numbered tens of thousands, and there was no shortage of elite soldiers. However, the rugged mountain roads severely restricted the deployment of military formations, and the border rebels were familiar with the nearby mountains and rivers, and they were elusive. The harassment also brought a lot of trouble to the march.

However, after a little adaptation, Yu Wengui also arranged for elite soldiers to fight back, and captured and killed a group of border residents who were not afraid of death. Only then did they stop these border residents from harassing the Wei army.

Through the interrogation of the prisoners, they found out that there were insurgents in Brazil and Zitong counties in central Sichuan, and they were generally distributed along the Fushui River. In the area south of Jiange and north of Chengdu, except for a few cities in Tongzhou, Mianzhu and Langzhong, which were still guarded, many other places were crowded with rioters and were not controlled by the Western Wei Dynasty.

Only after Yu Wengui entered the country did he realize that the situation was already so serious. Because the specific enemy situation was not fully known yet, after Yu Wengui led his army out of Jiange, he did not march rashly. Instead, he sent his elite cavalry to contact the nearby Tongzhou City and Langzhong City. He ordered each of the two parties to send troops to help his troops enter Shu.

Two days later, Li Qianzhe from Langzhong led a thousand fine cavalry to arrive here first. Yu Wengui has not been idle these two days. Although he did not dare to go deep, he dispatched troops to uproot several strongholds occupied by nearby rebels and captured and exterminated thousands of rebels.

"The last general is Li Qianzhe, a subordinate of General Li, the Duke of Taiyuan, and a subordinate of the General Manager of Jingzhou. I have met General Yuwen!"

After arriving at Yu Wengui's camp, Li Qianzhe solemnly greeted him.

"Li Kaifu doesn't need to be polite. Although we are meeting for the first time, I already knew that Kaifu's famous work was in Shannan. It is a great blessing for our army to have Kaifu and his army to help us when we enter Sichuan."

Yu Wengui said to Li Qianzhe in a pleasant manner, not neglecting him because they were unfamiliar with each other. After Li Qianzhe sat down at the table, he asked again: "Our army marched into Jiannan, and it was already quite disturbed by the chaos. , Li Kaifu has been here for a long time, and he must be familiar with the situation in Shu. Can you give me some answers? "

"Since Duke Hua Zheng asked, the general would naturally not dare to hide anything. He told everything he knew in the hope that it would be helpful."

After hearing this, Li Qianzhe hurriedly said: "Nowadays, the rebels in the south of Jiannan can be roughly divided into two groups. Zhao Xiongjie, the Di chieftain in Wucheng County, gathered tens of thousands of people to counterattack Tongzhou along the Fulishui River, and there were also rebels in Zitong. The crowd responded, and the rebellion that Zhenggong saw was transformed. In addition, the territory of Baxi County was also unrest. A few days ago, Baxi Qiaoyan sent his followers back to his hometown and gathered the township party with the intention of attacking Langzhong. Although the generals and others occupied the city and defeated it, they failed. His followers fled south along the Yangtze River, but failed to pursue and annihilate them..."

At this time, more than a month had passed since Yuchi Jiong ordered the massacre of Chengdu citizens. What was originally just a spontaneous resistance by the people to the rule of the Wei army has now become an organized and large-scale resistance action.

Previously, Di Chief Yang Qianyun took Tongzhou and surrendered to the Western Wei Dynasty, but Yang Qianyun was not the only one in Tongzhou.

Other powerful Di and Qiang chiefs did not share enough benefits in the Western Wei's campaign to conquer Shu, and were shocked by the cruelty of the Western Wei army. Coupled with some other reasons, they launched a rebellion, and soon followed the trend. The Fushui line has grown rapidly, with tens of thousands of people covering almost the entire northwest corner of the Chengdu Plain.

The same was true for the Brazilian County that Li Qianzhe and others entered. Although they had won over many Bashu powerful people in advance, local powerful factions like the Brazilian Qiao family still refused to give in. This also made some Brazilian wealthy families ready to make moves. And tried to seize control of Langzhong City.

Although his actions were counterattacked and collapsed, Qiao Yan's headquarters did not suffer much losses and was still active between Suining and Dianjiang in the lower reaches of Fulishui River.

Since Li Qianzhe and others have been stationed near Langzhong, their understanding of the overall situation changes in Shuzhong is not comprehensive enough. After he finished explaining the information he knew, he said to Yu Wengui: "After the general learned the news, he immediately led the crowd to greet him. There are still He Ruokai's governors stationed in Langzhong City. Now the situation along the Fushui coast is boiling and chaotic. The army ants are gathering, and the Hua Zheng Gong Shi and the new soldiers have arrived. They can also temporarily move to Langzhong to rest for a while, and then march to Chengdu when the time comes. "

The turmoil in the fringe areas of central Shu was already so serious, and there was no good news coming from Chengdu. To be on the safe side, temporarily moving to Langzhong would be a stopgap measure.

But when Yu Wengui thought that he could only lead 2,000 troops when he entered Shu, but the troops from Jingzhou had 10,000 troops, if he followed Li Qianzhe's suggestion and went to Langzhong, if any differences of opinion arose between them, he would But they may not be able to instruct these Jingzhou people.

Although this is only a very small probability, when he thought of Grand Master Yuwen's hints and instructions before leaving, Yu Wengui couldn't help but feel a little guilty. After thinking about it, he waved his hand and said: "The military situation is so fierce that I have no time to sit around. While my master The brigade is new and its morale is strong. It is time to defeat the enemy as soon as possible. It is not advisable to turn around and avoid fighting! "

Even so, even Li Qianzhe could not provide accurate information about the rebel army here. They did not even know where the main force of the rebel army was, so naturally they could not act rashly.

So Yu Wengui continued to dispatch envoys to urge Tongzhou City, and at the same time sent additional scouts to investigate the distribution of the rebel forces.

It was not until the day after Li Qianzhe arrived that the marching commander Shi Chiluo Xie, who was stationed in Tongzhou, arrived late. It was not that he deliberately ignored Yu Wengui, the newly appointed general manager of Yizhou, but he personally escorted a batch of food and grass baggage to Chengdu. He just returned today and came to see him immediately.

"Although the rebel army here is large in number and not weak in momentum, it is composed of many rural soldiers and mobs, with insufficient armor and no chariots and cavalry. Each of them is guarding the river valley and the Gulf Stream. Our army is moving in and out with light cavalry, and the thieves are difficult to stop..."

Chiluo Xie undoubtedly had a better understanding of the situation of the rebels, but after talking about the shortcomings of these rebels, he also said with a worried look: "The only problem we have now is that the thieves are not afraid of death and will flee as soon as they are pursued. They dispersed after the attack, but soon after retreating, they gathered in Xiaochuanye again. The Shu people are greedy and happy for misfortunes, which is really worrying and difficult to solve. It seems that the only way to eliminate future troubles forever is to kill them all!"

Speaking of this, Chiluo Xie also looked helpless. In fact, he had attacked these rebel forces entrenched in Fushui many times, and most of them were victorious. But even if these rebels are chased and dispersed, they will only gather again within ten days. Just like this, although they are not as quick as the elite cavalry troops, they are still struggling to deal with it.

"Chiluo Changshi may not know, but there are many bureaucrats and barbarians between Bashu and Shu. These races are not good at farming and weaving, and are not good at production. They are short and strong, like to fight, prone to chaos, and have been a scourge on the surface of the earth for a long time!"

After hearing what Chi Luo Xie said, Li Qianzhe explained again.

The Liao people were not natives of Shu, but moved to Shu from the southwest in large numbers during the Cheng Han Dynasty. These Liao people have low production skills and a very low social organization. They do not respect their parents, do not care about grudges, and are cruel and aggressive in character. Because Sichuan has suffered from successive wars, which has greatly reduced the population, these Liao people have poured into Sichuan in large numbers. .

After that, every time there was a military disaster or riot in Shu, these officials were indispensable. They naturally make a living by raiding, and because of their aggressive nature, they are cultivated by many powerful clans. Especially when many powerful people in Shu are in trouble, they are used to inciting the Liao tribe to build momentum.

For these officials, there seems to be no big difference between gathering people to cause chaos and farming, fishing and hunting. Although the risk is higher, the income is also rich, so there are frequent and uneasy situations.

Just looking at the situation described by Chiluo Xie, it is obvious that the rebellious Di chieftains also incited a large number of officials to join the rebellion.

Not to mention that Chi Luo Xie was helpless about this, even Li Qianzhe, who was familiar with its habits, had no good way to deal with it, because other armed forces with a higher degree of organization could basically put down the leader. But if you kill their leader among the Liao people, they will elect another one at any time. They might as well not even want the leader, so everyone can just find the right target and grab it.

Therefore, the best way for these officials who are incited to rebel is to temporarily confine them in a fixed area, hunt and kill them for a long time, and gradually suppress and integrate them, so that their ferocity can be gradually worn away. Reorganization and education are better than Other races take longer.

Although Yu Wengui understood this, he still ordered an attack and elimination of the rebel camps along the Fushui River. The process was lackluster. After all, as Chi Luo Xie said, although these rebels were powerful, their armor was rough and their mobility was not strong. They dispersed in a rush after a slight impact. They were not at the same level as the elite cavalry of the Western Wei Dynasty.

Of course, Yu Wengui did not have time to stay here and wait for the rebels to regroup. He originally wanted to arrange for a team of elite cavalry to continue patrolling along the Fushui River, but there was no stronghold along the Fushui River that could provide supplies. He was already very busy raising the supplies needed for the Chengdu garrison, and he had no savings for this arrangement.

So Yu Wengui could only lead his troops to Chengdu for the time being. Although he occasionally encountered traces of some rebels on the Chengdu plain, most of them did not dare to go forward and make trouble, so they swam away early.

Looking at the short Shu horses running away, Li Qianzhe couldn't help but sigh: "There were no strong cavalry in Shu. Xiao disciplined Shu for many years before gathering thousands of cavalry, and they all went east. Now there are Shu horses again. Running in the wilderness, the defeated troops must have traveled far and returned to the west. If they are not lured and defeated quickly, I am afraid that the situation in Shu will be even worse. "

A few days later, the group arrived at the northern suburbs of Chengdu, and Yuchi Jiong had already led his generals to wait here. This was the place where he accepted the surrender of the Shu people before, but now it became the place where he handed over military and political power. His mood was extremely complicated.

After delivering the token of the military talisman to Yu Wengui in person, Yuchi Jiong looked back at the city of Chengdu in the south. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and said in a deep and angry voice: "Li Boshan, you are a villain! You can't tolerate me, so... …”

"Please be careful what you say, Mr. Wei An! The public army has lost its skills and it makes people laugh. How can it be forced by General Li!"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Yu Wenshan who was following Yu Wengui. Immediately, Li Qianzhe and other Jingzhou generals also stepped forward and glared at Yuchi Jiong.

When Yuchijiong saw this scene, he was slightly stunned at first. After a moment, his heroic face suddenly turned red with shame. He gritted his teeth, raised his eyebrows angrily, and the beard under his jaw trembled slightly. Until Yu Wengui scolded his son, Then he turned around and walked towards his trusted subordinates.