Chapter 1006: Occupation of Suiyang

The incident at the city gate shocked the soldiers at the top of the city. Chief Shi Cai Shen was so frightened that he collapsed on the city wall. Sima Xing reacted immediately, ignoring Chang Shi who was already slumped on the ground. While shouting loudly, he ordered his personal guards to set up defenses at the entrance to the city, and ordered the soldiers at the top of the city to lower the iron gate at the city gate.

But the busier they were, the more busy the soldiers made mistakes. The capstan that released the iron gate was actually stuck by the iron rope, and it could not be freed no matter how hard it was. In desperation, Sima Xing had no choice but to order the soldiers to cut off the iron rope on the capstan as soon as possible. As soon as the iron gate is lowered, the hundreds of soldiers of the Eastern Conquest Army who entered the city can be slowly cleared.

But things went counterproductive. Ordinary soldiers could not compare with generals like Guan Haidianman. Moreover, the weapons in their hands were only ordinary weapons. Facing an iron rope as thick as an arm, they could not cut it off in a short while.

The Zhengdong Army soldiers who quickly entered the city killed all the Cao Army soldiers inside the city gate. At this time, Guan Hai also led dozens of his Tiebei Camp guards to the city and saw those who entered the city first. The soldiers fought together with the city defenders, but they were unable to break through the opponent's defense line.

When Guan Hai saw this, he shouted loudly: "Get out of the way and hand it over to me!"

When the soldiers of Zhengdong heard this, they quickly retreated to both sides to make way for Guan Hai. Guan Hai picked up his ghost-headed sword, took three steps and two steps at a time, and rushed directly towards the opposite defender's defense line.

"Yeah!" Following his sharp shout, Guan Hai jumped up, raised his sword with both hands, and flew straight towards the defenders. The ghost-headed sword rolled up its powerful blade, like a huge sharp arrow, and shot directly towards the defenders. Nailed into the iron plate-like defense.

Immediately afterwards, several garrison soldiers were shot away by Guan Hai like cannonballs. The defense line was opened by him in an instant. Immediately behind, the guards of the Tiebei Battalion followed Guan Hai and quickly entered the battle group. .

The defense at the passage of the city wall was defeated by Guan Hai in an instant. Dozens of Sima Xing's personal guards were killed or injured, and no one could continue to stand there.

After the passage was opened, hundreds of Zhengdong soldiers poured into the city wall like a flood from a broken embankment, and instantly reached the city tower. At this time, Chief Shi Cai Shen had already retreated into the city tower under the protection of his own soldiers. , I didn’t expect that the army of the Eastern Expedition Army would reach the city wall so quickly, which frightened everyone on the city tower.

Seeing this situation, Sima Xing also knew that he was helpless. There were less than 200 soldiers on the entire south gate wall, and the Eastern Expedition Army alone that rushed up the city wall already exceeded 200. Just when he was about to order a retreat, the rumble of horse hooves sounded again outside the city. This was the arrival of 5,000 cavalrymen from the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

At this time, Sima Xing immediately ordered: "Quick, everyone, retreat towards the east city, quick..."

With that said, he and his personal guards guarded Chang Shi and evacuated towards the east gate without looking back.

Half an hour later, the Eastern Expeditionary Army finally took control of the entire Suiyang. At this time, the sun in the east just rose above the horizon. Under the red light, the soldiers on the city wall gave out loud cheers. The sound resounded through the sky, making it clearly audible to Cai Shen and Sima Xing who had escaped several miles away.

The four gates of Suiyang City were closed again. Guan Hai would not order them to be opened until the Eastern Expeditionary Army's combat barracks and follow-up troops arrived. At this time, he led three young generals and the cavalry battalion captain in the city. In the Prime Minister's Mansion, Suiyang City has now been completely controlled. The two thousand county soldiers have suffered hundreds of casualties, hundreds have escaped, and the remaining thousand have been captured.

The treasury in the city has been controlled. Hundreds of thousands of stones of grain and grass, tens of thousands of weapons and armor, and hundreds of thousands of properties have all been sealed up under Guan Hai's order. Guan Hai has no intention of intervening in the civil affairs, so these things have arrived. All the time can be handed over to the officials who come to take over the management of Suiyang.

Of course, after taking control of Suiyang City, Guan Hai immediately sent cavalry to Qiao County's generals Wang Ran and Huangfu Li to report the victory, and at the same time request the next strategy.

By noon, the five thousand soldiers arrived outside Suiyang City. The timely arrival of these five thousand soldiers made Guan Hai let out a long sigh of relief.

You know, there are only 5,000 cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry in the city. It is possible to control a county in Nuoda with more than 10,000 households and a population of nearly 100,000. However, the situation outside the city is still nothing. You know, Guan Hai didn't dare to send out the cavalry easily.

After the five thousand soldiers arrived, Guan Hai immediately handed over the defense of the city to the five thousand soldiers, and then sent three thousand cavalry outside the city to carefully explore the surrounding situation.

In the afternoon, Huang Zhong's military order came. He appointed Guan Hai as the false captain of the Liang Kingdom. With more than a thousand soldiers as the backbone, he recruited soldiers in the city, formed 10,000 garrison troops, and added 5,000 infantry soldiers for the war camp. and five thousand cavalry, a total of 20,000 troops were guarding Suiyang, waiting for Huangfu Chaobo's follow-up orders. Of course, 10,000 defenders mobilized by Chen Guo and Yingchuan would soon arrive in Suiyang to strengthen Suiyang's defense.

Also arriving at the same time as Huang Zhong's military order were the appointment of three young generals, Zaoping as the fake Suiyang order, Dianman and Huangfu Li as the fake deputy captains, each with 5,000 guards to obey Guan Hai's dispatch.

The four people who received Huang Zhong's order immediately got busy. Zaoping began to take over the internal affairs of the city, while Dianman and Huangfu Li went to the military camp to recruit troops. They had more than a thousand soldiers as the backbone and ten thousand defenders. The recruitment was completed quickly. I believe that as long as the two of them are given enough time, they will be able to train these 10,000 guards very quickly.

The most important thing for an army is these grassroots officers. With a thousand elite soldiers as the backbone, this is why Huang Zhong was confident in letting two young guys who had just come out of the army serve as the main generals. As Huang Zhong expected, the two were soon busy in Suiyang.

That night, under Dingtao City, in Huangfu Chaobo's North Camp Central Army Tent, two pigeon letters from Beihai and Qiao County Huang Zhong's camp were delivered to Huangfu Chaobo.

Looking at the two pigeon letters, Huangfu Chaobo was happy and worried. The good news is that the battlefield in Yuzhou was the last to attack and took the first city, Suiyang City, the seat of Liang State, which cut off Cao Cao's way to directly support Qiao County from Changyi. If he really wanted to support Cao Hong, he could only transfer troops from Xuzhou, and Xuzhou was restrained by Sun Ce's army. I believe that Cao Cao would not be able to mobilize many troops, and he would not have enough time.

The annihilation of tens of thousands of Liang troops, the capture of Prime Minister Jia Kui, and the rapid return to capture Suiyang were all the work of Lu Ling, the second son of Lu Zhi. It seems that Lu Ling is indeed a qualified military strategist. The two brothers of the Lu family reversed their previous muddled state and went all out, which really surprised Huangfu Chaobo.