Chapter 1118: Youzhou Battlefield
Zhao Yu led a group of envoys to Taishan County at Xingye, crying about how cruel Yuan Shu's army was, and begging Liu Bei to send troops to rescue Taishan County.
Liu Bei said: "I've heard that Yuan Shu's army did all kinds of crimes by killing, burning, looting and looting. I wanted to come to Yuan Shu to be the son of the Yuan family. When he was begging Dong, he also fought bloody battles. He didn't want to harm the people. He thought it was a villain deliberately slandering him. It's really so heartless!"
Immediately afterwards, Liu Bei decisively dispatched troops, with Guan Yu as the general, leading 100,000 vanguards to quickly support Tao Qian, and then Liu Bei himself made the best of his elite army, under the banner of aiding Xu, and marched southward to Xuzhou mightily.
With Liu Bei's joining, disputes in the world immediately became fierce.
In the north, Shang Ji, Gongsun Zan, Qingzhou Army (Guan Hai), and Kong Rong fought endlessly, and the intensity of the three-party battle between Lu Bu, Diao Chan, and Cao Cao suddenly increased; in the south, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, and Liu Bei also fought continuously.
The only place in the Central Plains that can be said to be relatively quiet is Jizhou!
Yuan Shao really, really wanted to go north to Youzhou immediately and partner with Gongsun Zan to fight against the merchants, but the actual conditions simply did not allow it.
Han Fu has been operating in Jizhou for a long time, and he has a lot of hardcore confidantes. Yuan Shao turned against customers with the momentum of swallowing, and entered Jizhou. There are too many internal things that need to be sorted out.
Without a stable internal environment, rashly sending troops to Youzhou is a typical behavior of giving away heads.
In addition, don't forget that there is Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army in Jizhou.
Don't think that they are all the same just because Yuan Shao has presented Zhang Yan as the general of Zhonglang, on the contrary, it is Yuan Shao who wants Zhang Yan's life the most!
The reason for the alliance before was that Yuan Shao spared no effort to support Zhang Yan because of the common enemy Han Fu. Now that Yuan Shao is in charge of Jizhou, Zhang Yan immediately became Yuan Shao's confidant after the roles were reversed.
At the same time, the problem of Koji also needs to be handled carefully.
Yuan Shao really wanted to take Qu Yi under his command. After all, Qu Yi's ability was obvious to all, no worse than any general under Yuan Shao's command.
But Qu Yi's character is rebellious and rebellious, and there are lessons learned from history, so he has been reluctant to surrender for a long time, which caused Yuan Shao quite a headache.
Regardless of the disputes in the world and Yuan Shao, we will continue to focus on the Youzhou battlefield.
After Shang Ji added the Gao Xiang and Zhao Shen legions to Zhang He,
The mobile forces in Zhang Yun's hands increased greatly, leaving two legions stationed at the border to guard against Yuan Shao, while the rest attacked everywhere to constantly eliminate the bandits that had infested wildly due to the war.
With Zhang He personally in charge and hundreds of thousands of elite troops, the situation in Zhuo County and Dai County improved at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then he slaughtered a few small local warlords who took advantage of the chaos to frighten monkeys, and the rest of the forces in the territory fell down.
Relying on an elite fighting army under his command, Zhang Xi forcibly completed the reorganization of the local armed forces in Dai and Zhuoer counties with the method of righteousness + force + gold coins.
Eliminate the weak and retain the strong, and finally reorganized more than 600,000 troops of the fifth rank and above.
Zhang Xi took the original combat army as the core, assisted by the 600,000 surrendered troops that had been reorganized, and nearly a million troops directly attacked Shanggu County.
Before Tian Kai's army was defeated, and Gongsun Zan's mobile army in Guangyang, Yuyang and other places was wiped out, Guo Biao was rampant in Guangyang County.
At the same time Zhang Yun attacked Shanggu County, the bloodthirsty tiger and ben army led by Guo Biao also successfully forced the capital of Guangyang County Army to surrender. So far, there are only three cities left in Guangyang County: Jixian, Guangyang, and Changping.
The three cities were able to persist because of the strength of the city walls. Guo Biao lacked the necessary siege equipment in his hands, and it was difficult to pose a real threat to such a giant city and royal city, so the three cities survived.
However, as all the land outside the three cities fell, the three cities also fell into a desperate situation. There were rebellions in the cities one after another, and there was also a shortage of food. It was like a flat boat in a storm, which might capsize at any time.
However, Guo Biao's gaze was no longer on them.
In order to conquer these three cities head-on, especially Jicheng, which is the royal city, it is necessary to send out an army of manipulators and bombard them indiscriminately. Guo Biao obviously does not have this condition at this time.
If military means do not work, then political means are the only option.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as Gongsun Zan is dealt with, these three cities will surely surrender without a fight.
Therefore, Guo Biao only left a small number of troops to contain the defenders in the three cities, and the rest of the main force marched eastward, pointing directly at Yuyang County.
And Guo Biao's eastward advance made Gongsun Zan's already miserable situation worse.
Gongsun Zan dare to say that he has never fought such a useless battle in his life!
Gongsun Zan was still a little uneasy when he heard that the leader of the army this time was Zhao Zilong, the silver dragon known as the six dragons of Pingzhou. In the battle against Dong, Gongsun Zan paid close attention to Zhao Yun's performance all the way. He saw Zhao Yun's performance one by one. Confronting such a general, Gongsun Zan felt a little guilty unconsciously.
However, after the real battle, Gongsun Zan would rather replace his opponent with Lu Bu!
The battle situation at this time was like this. Zhao Yun led three combat legions and some of the elite troops stationed at Lulong Fortress, a total of one million troops, and aggressively attacked You Beiping County.
Gongsun Zan fought Zhao Yun, lost three times in the field battle, and suffered heavy losses. He retreated to Tuyin, trying to use the advantage of the land to consume Zhao Yun's army, and then forced Shang Ji to retreat.
According to Gongsun Zan's understanding, in order to conquer a well-defended giant city like Tuyin, it would take 1.8 million people to fill it, and Zhao Yun's total strength is only 1 million!
However, Gongsun Zan overlooked one point - the Shang army never relied on human lives to attack the city!
With a wave of Zhao Yun's hand, a hundred city-breaking dragon cannons and five hundred explosive torch chariots with enhanced power fired at the same time, and the thunderous roar could be heard hundreds of miles away.
In just one day, a section of the city wall to the east of Tuyin City showed a tendency to collapse.
Facing the foul attack, Gongsun Zan was so angry that he almost vomited blood.
That night, Gongsun Zan personally led elite troops to attack the camp in an attempt to destroy the heavy siege equipment that had shown great power during the day. However, Gongsun Zan's little trick failed to catch Guo Jia's eyes. On Guo Jia's suggestion, Zhao Yun set up an ambush and wiped out Gongsun Zan's elite raiding force in one fell swoop. Gongsun Zan only escaped with his body.
In order to cover Gongsun Zan's retreat, Tian Yu, a general of Gongsun Zan's army, took the initiative to stay behind and was captured alive by Zhao Yun.
This defeat also completely broke Gongsun Zan's backbone. Facing the menacing Zhao Yun army, Gongsun Zan left A Luopan, Wang Tong, and Wang Ji to guard Wuyin City, while he led the elite main force to retreat overnight.
A Luopan, Wang Tong, and Wang Ji are all former tribes of Wuhuan. They were the tribal leaders who defected to Gongsun Zan after Wuhuan was destroyed by Shang Ji. They were extremely afraid of Shang Ji's army, but this time they were abandoned by Gongsun Zan as pawns in Wuyin City. , Of course, I will no longer be stubborn and work hard.
After Gongsun Zan left the bounds of Wuyin City, the three of them deliberated for a while, and decisively offered the city to surrender.
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