Chapter 1221 Three Kingdoms

Wang Yue answered seriously this time. He said firmly, "The soldiers and horses you come to Youzhou this time must be your elite. I need to bring them back to Qingzhou for training. When the time is right, I will also Rely on them and help me take down Jingzhou."

King Liang was a little dumbfounded. He hadn't even begun to surrender yet. Wang Yue had already made arrangements for him clearly.

He saw that Wang Yue was calculating in one move and that his loss this time was not unjust. He could also understand that Wang Yue would not want him to die, so he had nothing to fear.

After all, if the emperor hadn't forced him too nervously, he would have wanted to be a dashing prince, and of course have the power to save his life.

In fact, he didn't understand at all. He didn't understand why the old emperor insisted on getting rid of him instead of dealing with so many disobedient governors.

But the old man had already died of illness, leaving King Liang with no place to ask, so he sighed and said melancholy, "In this case, I will go back to Qingzhou with you, but I just want you to take care of my family from now on." Wancheng will be taken to Youzhou."

Gu Jiusi felt relieved when he saw that Wang Yue had really persuaded Prince Liang. He felt that his elder brother was so awesome, how could he persuade Prince Liang so easily.

You know, he had been persuading me for several days, and my mouth was dry, but it was of no use at all.

Wang Yue was not as simple as Gu Jiu thought. He looked at King Liang on the tower and said in a very indifferent voice, "In this case, please also ask King Liang to send troops out of the city to surrender. I, the Qingzhou soldiers, will escort them to the designated place for training." .”

Seeing that Wang Yue was still so cautious at this time, King Liang sighed in his heart. He signaled his men to follow the second step of the plan, and then said loudly, "In this case, we will leave the city and surrender immediately."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and descended from the city wall, then put his helmet on his head and mounted his horse in military uniform. This posture did not look like surrender.

Of course he didn't want to surrender. He had 80,000 troops in his hands. As long as he could break through the siege and go to Yongliang to join his other men, he might still have a chance to dominate the world.

The reason why he said that just now was to paralyze Wang Yue and the soldiers on both sides and create a good opportunity for himself.

You know, most of his people were obviously convinced by Wang Yue. If he insisted on defending, many people would definitely defend passively or even counterattack, making it impossible for him to defend the city.

In addition, there is indeed not much food in the city. If Wang Yue besieges him for another month, he will run out of food and will not be able to escape even if he wants to.

So he planned to take advantage of the opportunity to leave the city and suddenly attack the Qingzhou soldiers who were waiting to accept their surrender.

When the two armies were fighting together, King Liang did not think that his soldiers would dare to surrender at this time.

After all, after a bombing, it was difficult for the Qingzhou soldiers to trust them. The Jingzhou soldiers who came with him could only accompany him all the way to the end.

It's just that he calculated very well. After leaving the city, he suddenly took the lead and rushed towards Wang Yue with his troops and horses. Several other generals also followed his instructions and rushed towards the Qingzhou soldiers outside the city who were ready to accept the surrender. The phalanx rushed over.

The distance between the men and horses on both sides was too close, and King Liang almost succeeded. However, when they were less than 20 steps closer to the Qingzhou soldiers, a dense rain of arrows suddenly shot out from behind the Qingzhou soldiers and horses, knocking out the Jingzhou soldiers in front of Wang Yue. The man who was shot by the soldiers and horses fell on his back.

The arrow rain seemed to be free of charge. Wave after wave, the overwhelming rain of arrows killed and injured most of the Jingzhou soldiers and horses rushing at the front. Even the King of Liang was hit by a few arrows.

Although Gu Jiusi was good at martial arts, he was obviously too naive, or lacked some experience. Just now, he really thought that Prince Liang was really said to have surrendered. As a result, after the city gate opened, he suddenly saw the scene just now, and he was completely frightened.

He looked at the countless hedgehogs in front of him and said with some surprise, "Brother, you had expected this?"

Wang Yue didn't say anything. He took out the special long sword from his hand, snorted coldly, and then shouted loudly, "The King of Liang is dead. Surrender without killing him!"

After Wang Yue finished speaking, he took the lead on horseback and rushed into the Jingzhou soldiers and horses, killing several generals who were still in shock.

Wang Ping and Wang An had long known Wang Yue's tactics. They left the infantry behind and followed the cavalry charge. While shouting that King Liang was dead and surrendering, they quickly rushed into the enemy's formation and killed those who tried to resist. , all of them were killed.

Those who rushed to the front with King Liang were originally those who did not want to surrender, but in the end, most of them were turned into a hornet's nest.

After those who were rushing behind were scattered by the Qingzhou cavalry, their resistance was not strong at all. Most of them gave up their weapons and chose to surrender.

The battle broke out for Wang Yue and ended quickly. By the time Wang Yue entered the city after dark, Wang Ping and Wang An had already gathered the surrender troops and arranged for people to rescue the injured. Even those injured in Jingzhou Soldiers and horses, as long as they were not dead, were all given medical treatment.

After Wang Yue pacified Youzhou, of course he could not give up again. He left Gu Jiusi in Youzhou to manage the government affairs of Youzhou, and then left a large army to guard the border, and then stationed heavy troops in Qinghe and left a front line to prevent the Great Xia East. Jin, as for Youzhou City, he has not sent troops to garrison for the time being.

He did this for two reasons.

He left Gu Jiusi in Youzhou City and wanted to see which one Gu Jiusi would choose between him and Zhou Ye.

Anyway, Youzhou City was obtained for free. Even if it was lost, it would not be a pity. He would first consolidate the Yanzhou, Xuzhou and most of Yuzhou he had just acquired.

As for Youzhou, after he calms down, he can send the troops stationed in Jizhou northward and he can easily get it back.

Another point is that Gu Jiusi is kind to everyone in Youzhou. He is the most secure guard here and can play a more important role in guarding the territory and calming the people.

It can also make the people of Youzhou no longer miss Fan Xuan, the governor of Youzhou, and slowly accept that they are from Qi.

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When Wang Yue set out, there were more than 100,000 troops. When he returned to Qinghe, there were 200,000 troops.

Tens of thousands of them were refugees along the way. When they heard that Qingzhou soldiers were allotted land, they decisively joined the Qingzhou Army.

After Wang Yue returned to Qingzhou, he decisively dispersed the Jingzhou army and assigned them to various military camps for training. Each military camp had dedicated people to promote Qingzhou's policies. Wang Yue was very confident that the results of the transformation would be as long as these Jingzhou troops Jun is not from a rich family, so he will definitely join them in Qingzhou sincerely.

At the same time, Wang Yue must throw out a bait so that Fan Xuan and Liu Xingzhi have no time to look around, so that he can take advantage of this time to consolidate himself.

In order to fear that Liu Xingzhi and Fan Xuan would unite, Wang Yue put a knife on the neck of King Liang and asked King Liang to write a letter to his cronies in Yongliang, asking them to evacuate from Yongliang to southern Yuzhou and northeastern Jingzhou, and imprison them. He firmly controlled the place and prevented Liu Xingzhi from advancing eastward.

The cronies of King Liang originally thought this letter was suspicious. After all, King Liang's defeat in Youzhou had been widely known to the world.

But they found that they actually had no choice. If they continued to stay in Yongliang, they would have to face the siege of Fan Xuan and Liu Xingzhi at the same time. They might as well obey the orders and go to the designated location, and there would be reinforcements to help.

What's more, the location designated by Wang Yue is very close to their hometown of Jingzhou, unlike when they stayed in Yongliang without any support.

So, after receiving the order, King Liang's men only had a little discussion before decisively executing the order.

After doing all this, Wang Yue arranged for his men to seize dangerous areas in Yongzhou, Yuzhou, and arrange defense on the spot.

Then, he began to measure the land within the scope of his control, confiscate the land of those aristocratic families, and at the same time limit the number of private soldiers of these families.

At this time, Wang Yue no longer had so much business, so he was asked to share it with the wealthy families. He could only provide some tax policies so that these families would not have to pay taxes for the time being to offset the land they donated. After the deduction is completed, tax collection will resume.

The aristocratic families who were still within Wang Yue's control for the time being understood Wang Yue's plan. Although they were not satisfied, they even found someone to intercede with Wang Yue.

But Wang Yue ignored him at all. After measuring the land, he immediately divided the fields equally and at the same time handed over the remaining land to the garrison.

Most of these soldiers and horses' families were allocated land belonging to aristocratic families, so they could also monitor the local area during their farming operations, which had the effect of killing two birds with one stone.

However, not all aristocratic families are so ignorant. Because of the tax exemption, the items sold in their stores are slightly cheaper than other stores. At that time, relying on this benefit, they obtained more money than the previous land output.

Because Qingzhou's soldiers and horses are so powerful, those wealthy families who were still looking for someone to support their connections had no choice but to bite the bullet and start doing business.

In the past, although they also preached that everything was inferior except for good education, many of the shops they controlled relied on doing business to make money. They just made money while talking about the bad taste of money.

Now Wang Yue has put everything on the table. After they lost their land, they could only compete with those businessmen.

The reason why Wang Yue was so quick to deal with these aristocratic families was that the flood disaster in Yanzhou and Jizhou under Wang Yue's new control was too serious. He needed to send a lot of manpower and material resources to dredge the rivers and cultivate the fields at the same time. There was really no time to slow down. Slowly adopt a gentle policy towards these wealthy families.

After all, those aristocratic families who resisted Wang Yue the most fiercely were not as knowledgeable as the Cui family of Qinghe, and their reputations were not as good as the Cui family.

Cui built bridges and roads in Qinghe County to help the victims, but she did not take advantage of the disaster to force poor families to sell their children and land.

The aristocratic families in Yanzhou and Yuzhou took advantage of the great disaster and the people had no food left, and took the opportunity to annex a lot of land, without caring about the lives of the people.

Wang Yue didn't have the patience to play with them anymore. He felt that if he didn't seize the time to dredge the water conservancy and let the people in the territory live in peace as soon as possible, he would have no time to train soldiers and horses, let alone compete in the Central Plains.

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Originally, seeing Wang Yue, the King of Qingzhou, quickly sweeping across a large area of ​​Darong, Yizhou Liu Xingzhi and Daxia Emperor Fan Xuan were wary.

After all, Wang Yue's Qi State and Jingzhou soldiers and horses have some kind of cooperation. The combined strength of both sides is not something that either of them can defeat.

Now that they saw what Wang Yue did to offend the wealthy families in Qingzhou again, they all felt relieved and began to fight for the land of Yongliang.

If Liu Xingzhi can get the land of Yongliang, the areas he controls will be connected together, and he can get more taxes and train more soldiers and horses.

If he could capture Hangu Pass, he would be invincible, so he didn't have time to think too much. He took advantage of King Liang's men to leave and quickly sent his troops into Yongliang, heading towards Han Heading to Guguan.

Fan Xuan moved faster here. After all, they were relatively close to Hangu Pass. He simply asked Zhou Gaolang to lead the army to quickly occupy Hangu Pass, relying on Hangu Pass to attack the land of Yongliang.

Both heroes knew very well that whoever seizes the land of Yongliang first will be able to destroy the other party, and whoever destroys the other party first will have the opportunity to destroy Wang Yue.

Fan Xuan was even more afraid that Wang Yue's side was too stable. He knew that Youzhou would definitely not be able to return now. After all, Chen Liu's army stationed along the Qinghe River was to prevent him from contacting Youzhou.

Therefore, he issued several imperial edicts in succession, naming Gu Jiusi as the governor of Youzhou, and Liu Tong of Yangzhou as the governor of Xuzhou.

After Wang Yue got the news, he was very speechless. This was done to create a rift between him and Gu Jiusi.

After all, Liu Tongpan and Gu Jiusi were related by marriage. The two of them were in the south and the other in the north. If there was any friction, Wang Yue's territory would be torn apart.

Wang Yue was very clear about this. He had already adjusted his deployment and had no intention of controlling Youzhou or Yangzhou. It was now very difficult for Liu Tongpan to control the eastern part of Yangzhou, let alone Xuzhou.

As a result, the merger of Youzhou and the states in the world was relatively peaceful, while the land of Qi controlled by Wang Yue was busy with land equalization and disaster relief.

Yangzhou is still a battle between you and me, but because no one has the absolute power to control the entire Yangzhou, there is friction between the two sides, but the people are living better than before.

After all, both Liu Tongpan and Wang Shanquan need to win over people's hearts now. Of course, they cannot disturb the lives of the people. Even in war, they must be more cautious and appear to be timid.

But Fan Xuan and Liu Xingzhi, who were fighting in the land of Yongliang, were anxious. Both parties wanted to take this unowned land as their own, and the fight was fierce.

Although they also had some scruples, they still broke Yongliang, who was not very wealthy, into even more pieces.

There are only three people who have the strength to compete for the world. King Yue of Qi, Fan Xuan of Zhongzhou, who has a large number of cavalry, and Liu Xingzhi, who has occupied Yizhou and Jingzhou.

This is like the Three Kingdoms!