Chapter 637 Recovering the Central Plains

At the same time when Sima Yi was defrauding the military power of Qingzhou in Linzi and Ma Su was confronting Sima Shi in Langya, the entire Central Plains was in chaos.

At first, Sima Shi and others did not notify many states and counties at all in order to conceal the news of their withdrawal from Ma Su. It was not until Ma Su was fighting with the Huainan Army in Langya that the entire Yu and Xu states reacted.

They have been abandoned by Cao Wei!

This result is unexpected and unacceptable to everyone.

You know, Yuzhou and Xuzhou, as the Central Plains in a broad sense, are not ordinary rich. Even in the Cao Cao era, these two places experienced a 20-year melee, and the remaining population was more than that in the south.

In addition, the core area of ​​the military farming system, the foundation of Cao Wei's founding, is here, and every year this place will provide massive taxes to the Cao Wei court. No one would have thought that the court would give up such a large territory in order to add insurance to Hebei!

For a time, Yuzhou and Xuzhou were in chaos, and officials of all sizes abandoned their posts and fled. The entire Central Plains fell into chaos, and the scene of vigorous vitality and everything competing was still before our eyes.

However, these officials were only a minority. The real panic in the Central Plains was the wealthy and powerful families. After hearing that their only hope, the Cao Wei court, had abandoned them, fear quickly enveloped their hearts!

Before, because of Ma Su's Huai Ming, these wealthy and powerful people all vowed to live and die with the city. The Central Plains families, who were originally half-hearted, became loyal ministers of Cao Wei in an instant.

In a sense, the Heyin Incident also helped Cao Wei, allowing them to stabilize their rule over the Central Plains for more than half a year.

However, their courage was based on the premise that the Cao Wei court was still willing to divide its troops to defend the Central Plains, and that they still had hope for resistance.

With Ma Su stopping Sima Shi in Langya, the Han army defeated the Wei army in Yanzhou, and the fall of the Central Plains had become an established fact. At this time, this group of powerful people panicked instantly, all of them were at a loss, and had no idea who to join.

At the same time, Dongwu also received news that the main force of the Wei army had taken the initiative to retreat to Hebei. The Huai and Si rivers, which they had been unable to conquer with all their efforts, were now like garbage thrown on the roadside.

This made Sun Quan so excited that he almost kicked the table over, and immediately issued an edict to order Lu Kang to lead his troops north to take over the entire Huainan.

According to Sun Quan's idea, the main force of Cao Wei had withdrawn, and there was basically no one to resist in Huainan. As long as Lu Kang went north, the entire Huainan would surrender.

In fact, Sun Quan's guess was not wrong. When the Wu army just went north, the large counties of Huai and Si took the initiative to offer surrender to Dongwu as if they had grabbed a life-saving straw.

After all, although joining Dongwu might be suppressed by the Yangzhou gentry, it was better than Ma Su killing his entire family because of a disagreement.

For a time, it seemed that Dongwu's northern expedition was successful and the navy was about to enter the Huai River. As long as they opened up the road to Shouchun, the navy that Dongwu was proud of could enter the Central Plains water system.

However, when Dongwu's 50,000 troops came all the way to their fateful place - Hefei, they were turned away.

Zhuge Dan led 3,000 Wei troops to defend the city and refused to surrender to Dongwu.

Lu Kangyu and his deputy Zhuge Ke immediately led their troops to attack the city, intending to make a final strong attack. The result was that the offensive was frustrated and many people died...

Facts have proved that there must be consequences for every cause, and Dongwu's retribution was Hefei.

Now, Dongwu's kidney-deficient combat power once again appeared in the entire Central Plains. Since then, all forces in the Central Plains have completely given up struggling.

TMD surrender to Dongwu, and the future will also be settled after being conquered. So it is better to surrender directly to Ji Han, at least the other party can show mercy because of their own voluntary surrender...

So, when Liu Yin and Jiang Wei finally defeated the enemy in Jiyin Shanyang and were able to divide their troops to collect Yuzhou, they surrendered all the way. No matter how many Han troops went, no matter how many enemies they faced, there would be no conflict.

There were even cases where dozens of Han soldiers were surrounded by thousands of local soldiers and forced to accept their surrender.

The entire Yuzhou surrendered in just half a month and was re-incorporated into the territory of Ji Han.

Thirty years ago, Cao Cao risked his life to fight for this place. The Central Plains, which was occupied after ten years of desperate fighting, was re-submitted to Ji Han in just half a month.

This may be amazing, but the more amazing thing is yet to come. As the Han army entered Xuzhou, the momentum of surrender became more intense.

For example, when Jiang Wei led his troops to Langya to support Ma Su, he was stopped by a group of old men when he passed by Peiguo and kowtowed, asking if Lord Xuande was still there.

Unfortunately, Jiang Wei had no way to reply to them, after all, this former county official in Longyou had never met Liu Bei.

For this question, perhaps the prime minister should answer it...

In short, as Cao Wei took the initiative to give up the entire Central Plains. The territory of Ji Han expanded by one-fifth in a very short time, swallowing up two large states in the Central Plains in one go.

In such a large Central Plains, the Han army encountered almost no resistance.

While Liu Yin and others divided their troops to take over the states in the Central Plains, Ma Su was still confronting Sima Shi in Langya. Although the two sides had very different forces, they still maintained an extremely strange balance.

Sima Shi led 60,000 Huainan troops to station in Kaiyang, the capital of Langya State, and defended the city. Ma Su led thousands of Han troops to station in a mountainous area north of Kaiyang, also defending the dangerous area.

The two sides avoided conflict in this way and confronted each other in Langya State for two months. During this period, reinforcements from both sides continued to reinforce this side.

Among them, the total strength of the Wei army reached 100,000 again after Sima Yi pulled the Qingzhou army into the water. For this reason, Sima Yi also specially transferred Guanqiu Jian, Guo Huai, Yang Hu and others.

And Ma Su was also constantly dispatching troops. Not only from the front line of Yanzhou, but also from Luoyang to reinforce.

This was also inevitable. Ma Su could not let 60,000 Wei troops run to Hebei. And Sima Yi could not give up the iron vote warehouse in Huainan.

Therefore, both sides inevitably continued to reinforce, and a decisive battle in Langya became inevitable.

So, after an unknown number of years, the Wei army finally had to fight a decisive battle with the Han army again.

However, looking at the reaction of the Wei army, it seems that they do not intend to start a decisive battle immediately. Although I don’t know why, because the other side has the natural barrier of Qinan, Ma Su can’t take the initiative to force a battle.

At the same time, Ma Su has also been puzzled by a key issue. That is, I have emptied all the troops in Luoyang, so why is Luoyang still peaceful?

Are these Luoyang clans really masochists? After being slaughtered, they all became more obedient?