Jia Xu and a group of staff marked the information obtained on the battlefield on an extremely huge sand table. This sand table included the topography and cities and forts of Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yuzhou of the Han Dynasty. Now all of them represented the Han army and the Han Dynasty. Army soldier model!
"The latest battle report, Huang Long has joined Duan Peng. They defeated Lu Bu's 50,000 cavalry in Lihu, annihilating and killing 30,000 people, and our army suffered 8,000 casualties! Now everyone has marched towards Juyang, and Dingtao will be in the Our army is under attack!" Jia Xu pointed at the sand table and said. Then he pushed the soldier models representing Huang Long and Duan Peng to Juyang City!
"General Wang Yong has conquered Wuyan City and is now marching towards Rencheng Kingdom. The journey of this army is a little longer. If he wants to attack Changyi, there is still more than 600 miles to go. In addition, there are several cities that need to be wiped out. It will take about ten days to reach Changyi! This will still require the Han army not to continue to reinforce."
Xu Wei looked at the sand table and said: "Let Huanglong Pushui River attack Chengshi City first. Chengshi City is sandwiched between Dingtao and Changyi. It separates our two armies and makes it difficult for them to form a joint force. It is a threat to our army. , and Huanglong and the others are marching too fast. Attacking Chengshi City can just sweep the outskirts of Dingtao and Changyi, and at the same time, Huanglong and the others can wait for Wang Yong and the others! After all, Liu Bei has nearly 200,000 troops in Dingtao and Changyi!"
A staff officer conveyed Xu Wei's order! Although there was no radio in this era, Xu Wei had already popularized flying pigeons to send messages throughout Daqian, so the news could still be quickly conveyed to Huanglong and others!
To be honest, Xu Wei was still a little worried about Huang Long facing Liu Bei and others. Because even though he himself was frightened when he saw the generals coming from Dingtao and Changyi, four of Liu Bei's five tiger generals (Ma Chao is now in Xiliang, can be regarded as a big cadre) After the army was established), almost all the fierce generals from Jiangdong came together, even the little overlord Sun Ce was in Changyi, Cao Cao had five good generals, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Xia Houyuan, Cao Ren, Cao Hong, etc.
It can be said that most of the famous ministers and generals of Wei, Shu and Wu have become the enemies of the Daqian army. There are dozens of generals with no surnames. The soldiers of the Han princes' coalition may not be the most elite, but the generals are definitely an unprecedented group. !Facing such a lineup, how could he allow Huang Long to face Liu Bei and the others with inferior troops!
Jia Xu waited for Xu Wei to issue the order and continued: "General Yang Feng of the West Route Army has completely occupied Chenliu County, and is now tentatively attacking the two cities of Yuanwu and Yangwu, but there is no progress. There are more than 30,000 people in both cities. We have more troops, and more and more reinforcements are coming from Luoyang City, and Yuan Shaojun even started to counterattack!"
"Fortunately, we annihilated Yuan Shao's 100,000-strong army in Yanzhou in the early stage. Yuan Shao mobilized the Yuzhou army to support Dingtao. Now the two sides are in a stalemate on the border."
Xu Weidao: "Let Yang Feng guard Chenliu County. His main task is to contain the army in Luoyang City and make it difficult for them to join Yuan Shao and others in the Central Plains!"
Jia Xu continued: "General Li Gang has not made much progress on the east road. Taishan County has the Taishan Mountains. Now Zang Ba commands an army of 50,000 to block us from Taishan County, while Xiahou Yuan leads an army of 30,000 and is stationed at Licheng. Our army is blocked outside Qingzhou. General Li Gang requested naval support to attack Qingzhou from the Yellow River! General Li Gang believes that Qingzhou has been surrounded by us on two sides, and Cao Cao's strength is relatively weak. Now that the coalition forces of the princes are contained in the Central Plains, we can First annihilate Cao Cao's army and cut off the arm of the coalition of princes!"
Xu Weidao said: "Refuse to accept it. If Qingzhou cannot be conquered, let Li Gang act as a containment. Our first task now is to defeat the Han army in Yanzhou!"
Then Xu Wei said to Zhang Baiqi: "Tomorrow I will lead an army of 100,000 across the Yellow River to support Huanglong and the others. You will sit at the headquarters and have the power to ensure the safety of food, grass and baggage on the front line. This will directly affect whether we can conquer Dingtao and Chang. The city defeated Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, the three largest princes of the Han Dynasty!"
"If nothing else happens, Huang Long and Wang Yong's armies will reach Dingtao and Changyi within 10 days. Adding my 100,000 troops, there will be 400,000 troops in the entire Central Plains. Such a huge army consumes food, grass and weapons. The quantity is very large. The food and grass baggage is very important, and it even affects the victory or defeat of our army in the Central Plains!"
Zhang Baiqi said, "Now the people from all over Jizhou are quickly transporting grain, grass and baggage to the Central Plains. However, my subordinates feel that the government should send some officials to Yanzhou to organize the people of Yanzhou. This can reduce the pressure on the people of Jizhou! Now We have occupied most of Yanzhou, and there should be tens of millions of people living in these places, and given the current situation in Yanzhou, recruiting these people now will also help them survive!"
This year Yanzhou not only suffered from drought, but also suffered from military disasters. Hundreds of thousands of troops were galloping in Yanzhou. It is inevitable that Yanzhou will have no harvest this year. Now recruiting these people as civilian husbands will also help them find a job to eat.
Although Jizhou has many young people, it has provided 200,000 troops and nearly one million civilians this time. There are really not many young people in Jizhou now. Zhang Baiqi is also worried that recruiting too many young people will affect Jizhou's grain harvest. !
Xu Wei nodded and said: "You can find a way to dispatch a group of officials from Jizhou to Yanzhou to organize the people of Yanzhou and ensure our logistics!"
After arranging the logistics, Xu Wei led an army of 10 troops across the Yellow River from Weijun, and the army marched towards Dingtao!
Yanzhou Dongping State, Dongping Lu, and Wang Yong's army surrounded Dongping Lu on three sides! Then the artillery bombardment for half an hour, which bombed the city into craters, then the three armies attacked Dongping Lu with artillery. Dongping only had 3,000 defenders. Lu was captured within half an hour!
Seeing that the city could no longer be defended, Han Meng retreated from the south gate with his defeated troops. However, as soon as he retreated into the city, he was chased by Duan Yun's cavalry. Thousands of soldiers in his hands fled to death. Han Meng himself He was even chased by Duan Yun and hacked to death!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Dongpinglu was captured, only Ningyang in the entire Dongping Kingdom had not yet been conquered. Wang Yong immediately ordered Duan Yun to send 10,000 cavalry to conquer Rencheng Kingdom. Rencheng, Kangfu, and Fan County! The remaining cavalry was divided into two groups by Wang Yongbing, attacking Jinxiang in Shanyang County and Juye in Shanyang County.
Wang Yong already knew through the intelligence system of the Daqian Army that Huanglong and the others had conquered Juyang and Chengyang, and were now only a few hundred miles away from Dingtao. Relatively speaking, he was not only five or six miles away from his original target of Changyi City. It was a hundred miles away, and there were many cities blocking him, so he divided Duan Yun's cavalry into three groups, hoping to allow Duan Yun and the others to quickly clear the obstacles between the attacks on Changyi!
This is what makes Wang Yong irritable in Yanzhou now. Each city fort has a small number of troops, but it is extremely strong. Without gunpowder and not enough troops, it is difficult to conquer.
But they can't leave it alone. These forts and cities will affect the safety of the army's food routes. And because these cities delay Wang Yong and the others' march, Huanglong and the others only need to deal with the forts and cities within the area of two counties at most. , and Wang Yong needs to penetrate 5 counties if he wants to reach Changyi, which is almost the entire Yanzhou. His route is all prosperous areas with many cities and many people, so he needs to attack the cities. There are much more than Huanglong and the others!
Shanyang County, Changyi is established!
Guan Yu led some of his guards out of Changyi City and looked at the sky in the north! Although the sky was clear, Guan Yu could feel that the red fire in the north had filled the sky!
Several groups of people have come from Juye, Jinxiang and other places to ask for help from Tanma, all of them asking for support from Guan Yu! However, all these messages for help were rejected by Guan Yu!
"Marquis Guan Jun, why don't we take the initiative to attack the Daqian army passing by Dongping? That Wang Yong is so arrogant that he dares to divide his troops into three groups in the face of our 80,000-strong army. We should take this opportunity to take the initiative to annihilate Wang Yong's group or Two groups of people! Let them know that even a big man like me is not easy to bully." Sun Ce suggested to Guan Yu.
Wang Yong was too arrogant. Knowing that their 80,000 troops were stationed in Changyi City, he actually dared to take the initiative to divide his troops. This was simply not taking them seriously!
Guan Yu stroked his beard and said helplessly: "We only have 1,000 cavalry. We will definitely not be the opponent of Daqian's army in a field battle. If we send out a large army now, we will give up the strong city of Changyi and face the strengths of Daqian's army. This will Not the work of a wise man!"
In the entire Yanzhou, there are few cities as strong as Changyi, especially the moat in front of Changyi is the Sishui River. This is the most natural barrier, which can effectively isolate most of the thunder cannon attacks in Daqian. Although the artillery can It has a long range, but to be honest, it is not as powerful or lethal as the thunder cannon. With the strong city wall of Changyi, Guan Yu is not worried about the artillery, but the flying thunder cannon!
After all, a cannonball weighs more than ten kilograms of gunpowder, and no one can survive within 10 steps, which makes the bravery of these generals completely useless.
As long as you are hit by a thunder cannon, no matter whether you are a ten thousand enemy or a small soldier, you will be completely destroyed.
So after he led the army to Changyi, he was appointed as the general of Changyi by Liu Bei, Yuan Shao and others, and he began to command the soldiers and the surrounding people to dig deep trenches, build low walls, and expand the moat to a hundred steps away. In a word, If you try to find a way to enhance Changyi's ability to withstand the flying thunder cannon, Guan Yu will be powerless if the cannon fires more than 1 mile away!
As for counterattack, Guan Yu didn't dare to think about it. There were 50,000 cavalry on the opposite side and he would definitely lose in a wild battle. Now he could only wait in Changyi for Wang Yong to attack.
Shanyang County, Juye City.
Zhang Huo looked up to the sky and screamed. He was unstoppable. His sword was as powerful as thunder. Anyone who came close to him would be killed by him! Then he pushed the body down the city wall! "Kill, kill the enemy!"
Encouraged by Zhang Huoyong, the morale of the Han army was greatly shaken. They fought fiercely with the large number of soldiers who had climbed up the city wall, and knocked down the soldiers who had climbed up the city wall again.
The hero of the enemy and my enemy, Wang Yong saw such a brave general under the city wall and said angrily: "Blow him to death with a thunder cannon!"
Immediately, the three flying thunder gods were placed 100 steps below Zhanghuo City!
"Puff puff!"
"General, be careful!" Zhang Huo protected him!
"Boom, boom, boom!" But the shock wave of the explosion blew them up instantly. Zhang Huo hit the city wall. Suddenly he felt the blood and energy in his body boiling, and he spat out a mouthful of blood!
"Kill!" The officers and soldiers of the Daqian army roared like thunder below the city. Taking advantage of the opportunity for the flying thunder cannons to attack, they all quickly climbed up the ladder and tried their best to climb the city wall!
Already having experience in attacking more than a dozen cities, Wang Yong and the others finally have some idea of combining infantry and artillery. Although it is not too strong yet, it can already more than double their efficiency in attacking cities.
Several cities of the Han army were bombarded by their artillery, and then soldiers attacked and attacked them in one wave.
Artillery bombardment and infantry charge have become Wang Yong's trump card tactics. As long as the defenders in the city are not particularly brave, one wave can usually defeat the morale of the defenders.
Just when the Daqian army was about to climb the city wall, a spear came down and immediately stabbed the soldier on the ladder. With a long and shrill cry, the Daqian army soldiers fell down the city wall, and corpses were piled up and down on the city wall. Like mountains, the blood is like gurgling streams, there are large cadres and Han soldiers!
"Boom, boom, boom." Seeing the fierce resistance of the Han army, Wang Yong increased the frequency of bombing with thunder cannons. The sound of the cannons was deafening. Every time it happened, a large number of Han soldiers would fall! A huge shell would appear ten steps away. If there is a vacancy, all soldiers in this range will bleed to death.
The soldiers of the Han army fell in pieces, and their death was so terrifying. They finally became frightened and no longer wanted to face such a terrifying enemy, so they abandoned their swords one by one and escaped from this hell!
The soldiers of the Daqian Army climbed onto the city wall one after another after the number of Han soldiers on the city wall decreased, and then formed a military formation and quickly rushed to both sides of the city wall to kill them!
Zhang Zan was seriously injured, and he watched helplessly as his city was captured by the Daqian army! He roared angrily: "Our reinforcements are there!" and then collapsed to the ground.
Wang Yong looked at Zhang Zan under the city wall and said with a smile: "From now on, it is not the era of strong generals, but the era of artillery!"
At this time, the soldiers on the city wall had already climbed down the city wall and opened the city gate!
Wang Yong waved his hand and said: "Enter the city wall and ask the Han soldiers to surrender to us!"
The soldiers of Daqian Army entered through the city gate and kept shouting loudly: "Surrender without killing, surrender without killing!"
The commanders of the Han army were all dead and the city walls were conquered. So after hearing the voice of the whole city surrendering without killing, the Han soldiers found Da Gan's army one by one, then abandoned their swords and surrendered to them.
Juye, the gateway to Shanyang County, was captured!
With Juye being captured, the other two armies of Daqian Army also received good news frequently. One city must be captured every two days, and soon only Changyi was the only city left in front of them!
Huang Long had already captured Chengshi City and led his army to surround Dingtao City. At the same time, he also made contact with Wang Yong's army.
As far as Liu Bei and the others were concerned, the troops were already approaching the city.