Compared with the unlucky Yuan Shao, Zhang Fei's escape was much smoother. He was a general who could defeat tens of thousands of people. Most people were no match for Zhang Fei, not to mention that he still had 500 highly mobile cavalry in his hands, and Da Gan Most of the cavalry on the army's side was used to intercept Liu Bei. There was only one battalion of cavalry, but it was not here.
So when Zhang Fei used himself and 500 cavalry as arrows to easily kill the large army blocking him, he not only escaped by himself, but also brought out tens of thousands of soldiers! He fled towards the Liang Kingdom!
Although the soldiers of the Daqian Army who blocked them wanted to pursue Zhang Fei and the others, there were too many soldiers fleeing from Dingtao, more than 100,000 in total, and Xu Wei now only had 140,000 soldiers in his hands. The strength of both sides was about the same. It was one to one. It was easy for Daqian's army to defeat the Dingtao defenders with 140,000 troops, but it was more difficult to annihilate them all. When the pursuing defenders saw Zhang Fei and his men fleeing further and further away, they simply gave up the pursuit. Zhang Fei turned around and surrounded and suppressed the soldiers who were easier to capture!
At this time, after Xu Wei knew that the coalition forces wanted to escape, he first ordered his few cavalry to block the fleeing Han army on the outside, and then ordered the battalions to contact each other to form an encirclement, and ordered his subordinates to ignore even if a small group of soldiers escaped. But the main force of Dingtao soldiers cannot be allowed to escape from Dingtao City!
The soldiers left Dingtao City and fled in all directions. However, they were soon overtaken by the cavalry of the Daqian Army and were shelled for a month. The entire Dingtao City defenders did not fight at all. Courage, when they saw the Daqian army chasing them, they thought not of fighting their way out of the encirclement, but of surrendering to the cavalry. They no longer wanted to fight.
In this way, Xu Wei captured more than 80,000 Han soldiers all night, of which more than 5,000 were lightly or seriously wounded. About 20,000 Han soldiers escaped from Dingtao City. The casualties of the Daqian Army did not exceed With 3,000 men, it can be said that with the help of artillery, the Daqian Army won a complete victory in this battle!
Especially Fuyun said to Xu Wei: "In power, I captured Yuan Shao of the Han army!"
This is the highest-ranking general captured by the Daqian army in this battle. More importantly, Yuan Shao is the leader of the Yuan family. His defeat and capture may cause the Yuan family's power to collapse. In this way, the Daqian army attacks Yuzhou and Sili. It will get easier!
The red sun rises in the east, those who can escape have already escaped, and those who cannot escape are quietly waiting for the prisoners of the Daqian Army. The entire battlefield begins to quiet down!
Dingtao City, government office!
Now it has become the main tent of the Chinese army of the Daqian Army!
At this time, Xu Wei, Huang Long, Jia Xu and other dozens of generals above the rank of captain of the Daqian army gathered here. Everyone excitedly recounted their results. This Yanzhou battle lasted for more than two months. Now they have achieved a decisive result! Among other things, Yanzhou was defeated by them!
"Sun Qing, Fan Xian! You work harder and bring the artillery army to support Wang Yong and the others. Within a month, I will hear the news that Changyi City has been captured. The autumn harvest of the Central Plains will be here in a month. I don't want the autumn harvest to happen. , this war is not over yet!”
The artillery unit moves slowly. Changyi is four to five hundred miles away. If it is transported by land, it will only take ten days and a half. But if the artillery is put on the transport ship and then transported down the river through Surabaya, it will not take more than a day. You can reach Changyi!
Sun Qing and Fan Xian came out and said: "No!"
Then Xu Wei looked at Jia Xu and said: "Send the good news to the Hebei camp and tell everyone that we have won the battle at Yanzhou. We have defeated the main force of the Han army!"
Jia Xu cupped his hands and said: "I will pass the news of the great victory to the camp now!"
Then Jia Xu said: "In power, now that Yuan Shao has been captured by us, Sili and other places must be leaderless. Can our soldiers support General Yang Feng, pursue the victory, and advance the front to Sili to prepare for the next attack on Luoyang?"
Get ready!"
"It's a good idea!" Xu Wei walked to the map, looked in the direction of Luoyang City and said: "Huanglong, lead 50,000 soldiers to support Yang Feng and try to push the front to Luoyang City! Make preliminary preparations for our next attack on Sili.
Prepare!"
Huang Long came out of the queue and saluted with his hands raised: "No!"
Then he said to Jia Xu: "Order Zhang Baiqi to lead 20,000 soldiers to attack Chaoge City in Hanoi. It would be best if we can defeat the entire Hanoi!"
Jia Xu bowed his hands and said, "No!"
Xu Wei continued: "Yuzhou cannot be let go. We must pass the news of this victory to Duan Peng and ask him to find ways to go deep into Yuzhou as much as possible, capture cities and territories, and maximize the results of the victory!"
Duan Peng was sent out by Xu Wei to pursue Liu Bei and others, but the situation did not go well. Liu Bei was indeed a long-legged general in history. Liu Bei and 15,000 cavalry fled to Liang State and were overtaken by Duan Peng. The two sides fought a bloody battle. Duan Peng
Peng completely defeated the last cavalry of the coalition of princes at the cost of 5,000 casualties. However, Liu Bei escaped, and all important generals like Lu Bu and Yuan Tan also escaped.
Duan Peng only killed Wei Xu, an unknown third-rate general like Cao Xing, and also captured Xu You, Guo Tu, and other counselors of Yuan Shao's army!
Then Liu Bei and the others fled to the Liang State, and Liu Bei and the others relied on the Liang State to establish a defense line to continue to block Duan Peng's attack!
Liang Guo has arrived in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the city has a large population. Yuan Tan easily summoned tens of thousands of soldiers to continue to block Duan Peng. Although these soldiers were newly recruited soldiers and did not have much combat effectiveness, they could still defend the city, and Duan Peng
Although he can be invincible in the field, he still feels a little powerless when facing the numerous cities of Liang State. Now he is trying to think of ways to attack some easily captured fortresses to use as a stronghold.
Liu Bei took advantage of the battle between Duan Peng and Yuan Tan and fled back to Jingzhou. It is said that he is still recruiting a large army and looks like he will continue to fight against the large army.
Jia Xu pointed in the direction of Xuzhou and said: "If General Wang Yong conquers Changyi, should he send troops to Xuzhou? Xuzhou has few troops now, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao also plundered Xuzhou's noble families last year, so Yuan Shao and Cao Cao
It can be said that there is a lot of anger in Xuzhou. Our army can easily get help from the locals when entering Xuzhou, and Xuzhou is a flat area. With the strength of our cavalry, it should not take much effort to conquer Xuzhou.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The most important thing is that after we captured Xuzhou, we completely surrounded Cao Cao. Judging from this Yanzhou battle, Cao Cao is still very capable.
Li Gang's troops were almost defeated by him! If we don't find a way to limit Cao Cao's development now, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to our army's unification of the world in the future!"
Cao Cao's actions really scared Xu Wei into a cold sweat. After he returned to Qingzhou, he immediately integrated the entire Qingzhou army and led an army of 50,000 to support Zang Ba who was stationed in Mount Tai. Li Gang never thought that Cao Cao would counterattack him. The Qingzhou Army's 100,000-strong army was defeated steadily and retreated directly to Dongping State, relying on the city to defend Cao Cao's attack!
Fortunately, Zhang Baiqi of Jizhou had been paying attention to the actions of the Qingzhou Army. When he found out that Cao Cao wanted to find a way out of Wang Yong's retreat, he immediately summoned Pingyuan County, Bohai County, Anping State, etc. to personally organize 200,000 militiamen. Cao Cao looked like he was going to attack Qingzhou in a big way. He was really frightened and immediately withdrew his troops and stationed his army on the line of the Yellow River to prevent the large army from attacking his home base!
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "It depends on the situation. If you can capture it, capture it. If you can't capture it, we'll talk about it next time. Anyway, Xuzhou is undefeable and is the easiest place for us to acquire! Our main attack direction in the next stage. It’s still Sili!”
The main enemy of the Daqian Army is Yuan Shao. After capturing the Central Plains this time, Xu Wei's next target is Sili. The next battle he will attack is Chang'an City and Luoyang City. Relatively speaking, although Cao Cao is powerful, he will never Since the Daqian Army occupied Yanzhou, the Daqian Army has blocked the direction of Cao Cao's development. No matter how great Cao Cao's ability is, he will not be able to use it unless Cao Cao is determined to abandon the foundation of Qingzhou and vigorously develop the navy, and then sail from Qingzhou to the present The country of Izumo, which was still desolate, once again established dynasty hegemony!
But this is basically impossible. Unless there is another time traveler who joins Cao Cao, he will no longer be limited and see the Han Dynasty as the whole world! Otherwise, it is impossible for the natives of this era to have such an idea.
In early September, Dingtao fell, and news of Yuan Shao's capture reached the Xiangyang court, and the officials were shocked.
Even the 800,000-strong coalition army could not defeat Lei Gong, and even allowed Lei Gong to occupy the entire Yanzhou. No one in the world could stop Lei Gong from taking over the entire world. And with Lei Gong's hatred towards them, they, the powerful nobles, had to fight for their survival. At that time, the whole Jiangnan was extremely restless.
When Taiwei Yang Biao heard that Yuan Shao was captured and his 120,000-strong army was wiped out in one battle, he said sadly: "Lei Gong is really an unprecedented demon king. The Central Plains is occupied by Lei Gong, and Ben Chu is also captured. The Han Dynasty is in danger."
Situ Wang Yun asked: "There are still 80,000 troops in Changyi City. Can General Guan bring out these 80,000 elites? If too many elites are lost at once, I am afraid that not only Yanzhou will be occupied by Lei Gong, but Xuzhou and Yuzhou may also fall to the In the hands of Thunder Lord!
This year when Liu Bei just went to war, Situ Zhang Wen died of illness, and then this position was taken by Wang Yun!
Liu Bei said in a hoarse voice: "It's impossible. The Daqian army has too many artillery. They used artillery to block the waterway, and 40,000 cavalry blocked the land route. Now the 80,000 elite troops in Yun Chang's hands have been unable to escape! We Now we must find a way to establish defense lines in Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Sili, so that Lei Gong cannot take advantage of the opportunity to continue to expand his victory!"
Then Liu Bei said firmly: "At the same time, we need to cast a large number of artillery. This time Lei Gong's victory lies in the fact that the number of artillery is more than ours. Thousands of artillery bombardment. None of our cities can stop such an attack!"
"And our Xiangyang City is even more dangerous. Lei Gong's artillery can be placed on the building boats. There are no big rivers in the Central Plains, so the building boats are difficult to deploy. Therefore, the building boats of the Daqian Army did not achieve much merit this time, but the Yangtze River But it is more than ten miles wide. Although we have built a huge navy, it is impossible to defeat the large ships equipped with artillery. If our navy is annihilated by the Daqian army, the artillery of the Daqian army will be destroyed. We can bombard the walls of Xiangyang City from the Yangtze River, but without artillery we simply cannot withstand the attack of the navy of the Daqian Army!"
The civil and military officials in the imperial court remembered that the artillery defeated their hundreds of thousands of troops, and thought of the navy of the Daqian Army coming up the Yangtze River to attack Xiangyang City. This scene made them shudder. Naturally, they were attracted by Liu Bei's emphasis on artillery. They nodded and spoke one after another asking the imperial court to cast more artillery!
Only Yang Biao hesitated and said: "Xuande, the imperial court has been quite effective in developing Jiangnan in the past few years. The products in Jiangnan have begun to increase. The copper coins in Jiangnan are no longer enough. There has even been a situation where materials are cheap and money is expensive. Now the court wants a large amount of them." Casting artillery requires hundreds of thousands of copper coins for one cannon. Hundreds of millions or even billions of copper coins for thousands of cannons. Prices in Jiangnan will be completely disrupted. Now that the imperial court has suffered heavy losses, it is what needs to be restored. At that time, if there is another turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that it will give the Thunder Lord an opportunity to take advantage of it!"
But at this time, Wang Yun said firmly: "What economic problems are there to care about now? If there were no artillery, the Han Dynasty would no longer exist. These problems are the problems of Lei Gong. Now we can only suffer the common people. The people can Barter. When we destroy Thunder Lord, we can melt these cannons and use them to make copper coins!"
Other civil and military officials also agreed with Wang Yun's statement. The imperial court was about to cease to exist. Who would care about the living conditions of the common people? It's not like the big Han had never bartered!
But Liu Bei was worried about Yang Biao's words. Back then, the imperial court did not pay attention to the problem of Jizhou, and that's why Thunder God was born. If they don't pay attention to the problem of Jiangnan now, who knows if there will be a Thunder God among the people!
But now the Han Dynasty really has no way to defeat the Thunder Lord without artillery. If the Han Dynasty no longer exists, these people are no longer the subjects of the Han Dynasty. Does the court still need to care about their life and death?
The people? The court? Liu Beite had a headache for a while!
After going to court, Liu Bei summoned his subordinate officials and told them about the issue of casting artillery and Jiangnan. He also told them about the situation in the court and asked them to discuss a solution!
Yuan Ji thought for a while and said: "Without artillery, it is impossible for us to defeat Thunder God, so no matter how difficult it is, artillery must be cast!"
Yuan Ji thought for a while and said: "The entire Jiangnan area is vast, occupying half of the world of the Han Dynasty. There must be a large number of mines under these mountainous lands. Let us relax restrictions on the mines, just like in the early Han Dynasty. Likewise, there were many big businessmen at that time who started out in the mines, and they could even cast copper coins. This shows that the Han Dynasty did not lack copper coins, but they just lacked the methods to discover copper mines!"
Liu Bei nodded and approved Yuan Ji's idea. Although the development of mining bans will easily create big businessmen who are as rich as the enemy, he can't control so much at this time! The big man must survive first before he can think of other solutions!
Jian Yong said curiously: "Thousands of artillery pieces were cast by Lei Gong, but he didn't seem to have heard of the copper coin crisis in Hebei!"
At this time, Su Shuang, who was sitting at the end, smiled bitterly and said: "Because copper coins no longer circulate in Hebei, but banknotes!"