Chapter 1,273 Lu Bu, Are You Going to Heaven?
The next morning, Zhang Liao sent troops to take over Jiuyuan City, which had its gates wide open, and then sent troops north to Wuyuan City. As he expected, two hours later, the cavalry came back and reported that the situation in Wuyuan City was the same as that in Jiuyuan City, with its gates wide open.
When he learned that Wuyuan City had been abandoned by Zhao Zilong, Zhang Liao had an intuition that the battle in Wuyuan might be much simpler than they had imagined at the beginning. After sending two thousand infantrymen to occupy Wuyuan, Zhang Liao sent out ten thousand cavalrymen to continue westward.
Just as Zhang Liao thought, Yiliang, Chengyi, Xi'anyang and Wuliangsu City all had their gates wide open, and there was no army defending them. All the money inside had been emptied, and there was no food and supplies. However, the population in each city did not decrease much.
It took the Zhao army less than half a month from the beginning of the expedition to the complete occupation of the entire Wuyuan County. Its speed was so fast that the princes of the world were dumbfounded.
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Youzhou, Yan Wang Palace, when he learned that Zhao Wang Lu Bu's army appeared in Wuyuan instead of Shanggu, Yan Wang Gongsun Zan breathed a sigh of relief. If Lu Bu really sent troops to Shanggu, he would be attacked from both sides. Now the Wei army has appeared in Zhuo County and is approaching Zhuo County, so Gongsun Zan had to send 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry to support, but his army did not directly enter Zhuo County, but entered Liangxiang County.
Now that Lu Bu's army is already attacking Wuyuan and Shuofang, the 10,000 troops in Shanggu can also be withdrawn.
However, just when Shanggu Prefect Yan Gang breathed a sigh of relief, 20,000 Zhao cavalry, led by General Cao Xing, suddenly appeared in the southwest of Shanggu County City Juyang City, cutting off the connection between Juyongguan. If the Juyongguan garrison had not been alert and saw through Cao Xing's sneak attack, perhaps even Juyongguan would have been occupied by the Zhao army.ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм
In desperation, Gongsun Zan, who had received a warning from the commander of Juyong Pass, sent the 10,000 elite infantrymen who had just been recalled to Jicheng to Juyong Pass again. The back and forth made the Yan army soldiers exhausted. At the same time, for safety reasons, Gongsun Zan also sent 10,000 cavalrymen to Juyong Pass.
On the afternoon of the second day after Cao Xing's army appeared under the city of Juyang, the 30,000 infantrymen led by Zhao general Zhang Yang appeared under the city of Juyang. After that, after a night of rest, the Zhao army launched an attack on Juyang. Facing the attack of the Zhao army, Yan Gang, the governor of Shanggu of Yan State, led his army to resist for three days, but was finally broken by the Zhao army. Then Yan Gang suddenly escaped under the protection of a thousand personal guards and disappeared.
After Juyang, Juyongguan was tightly guarded by Cao Xing's 20,000 cavalry. In the next month, Zhang Yang and Daijun Duwei Hou Cheng led their troops to sweep Shanggu and brought the entire Shanggu County under the rule of Zhao.
When the battle of Shanggu in the east of Zhao's army basically came to an end, Lu Bu's army in the west was still fighting. Zhao Zilong and his three men gave up Wuyuan, but Shuofang Taishou Xia Ke was unwilling to give up his hard-earned county so easily. You know, he gave up his territory and came to the north, and spent so much energy to get a county. Now he was asked to give it up again, how could he be willing.
After getting the news of Yang's fall, he immediately ordered all cities to shrink their defenses. Unlike the cities in Wuyuan, among the cities in Shuofang, Guangmu, Shuofang, Woye and Linrong were all built close to the river. So after he got the news that Yang was captured by Zhao's army, he immediately ordered to abandon the three counties and move all the other people scattered everywhere to these four cities to deal with the attack of Zhao's army.
Moreover, in the past few years, with the help of Huangfu Chaobo, the knight also built a lot of ships. Although they were not as good as the ships of the Tang Navy,
they were enough to transport supplies and personnel between these four cities. It was because of these ships that the knight did not agree with the retreat plan of Zhao Zilong and the other two, but chose to defend the city.
In the east of Yan State, Gongsun Zan was tricked by Zhao's army and lost Shanggu County. Even Shanggu's governor Yan Gang disappeared. This was not the end. Now the Wei army had launched a fierce attack on Zhuo County. Gongsun Zan had to order 40,000 reinforcements to leave Liangxiang and support Zhuo County.
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Inside the palace of Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo just received the news that the Zhao army had started fighting on two fronts at the same time. His first reaction was: "Damn it, Lv Bu, are you going to blow the sky up?"
At this moment, the eunuch reported beside him: "Your Majesty, Lord Guo, Lord Xun, Lord Lu and Lord Xu are already outside the palace!"
"Announce!" Huangfu Chaobo said hurriedly;
Soon, the four people appeared in the side hall.
"Greetings to the king!"
"No need to be polite, everyone!"
Raising the information in his hand, Huangfu Chaobo said: "You should all know it, right?"
As soon as he got the information, Huangfu Chaobo sent someone to invite the four people. Now Pang Tong has gone far to Shangjun with Tian Yu's army, so Huangfu summoned the four of them to discuss the matter. As for the three dukes and nine ministers, Huangfu Chaobo planned to have a preliminary outline before summoning everyone to discuss the matter.
"The King of Zhao's move was indeed unexpected!" Guo Jia said;
"Chen Gong is indeed a man of talent. He was able to deceive us with such a series of schemes, which were closely linked step by step." Xun You also said;
"Yes, it is not easy to capture three counties for Zhao in a short time!" Lu Su also praised;
"Chen Gong is not a mediocre person. You should know that he united three princes to besiege Luoyang and almost drove me out of Luoyang. If it weren't for Shi Yuan and Yuan Zhi's outstanding strategy, and Zilong's sudden return to help, the situation would have been broken. This time he actually came up with a series of plans to take three counties for Zhao. I am afraid he has a backup plan!" Huangfu Chaobo pondered; New 81 Chinese website updates the fastest PC version:
The four people were silent when they heard this, and carefully recalled the step-by-step arrangements of the Zhao army, hoping to see some clues from it.
"What is the situation among the other princes?" Xun You asked after a long time;
Shi A heard this and stepped out to answer: "The intelligence collected by Shadow shows that there is no unusual movement among the other princes. Yan and Wei are now fighting in Zhuo County. It is said that Wei has sent more than 100,000 troops. It seems that the entire Zhuo County is determined to be won. The King of Yan has also sent more reinforcements to support Zhuo County."
"Qi, Wu and Langya have also begun to gather troops in the direction of Xuzhou. The three armies should start in the near future. There is no abnormal situation in Guanzhong. The Ma-Han coalition has also begun to gather troops, and Qin is also mobilizing its army. As for the princes of all sizes in the south, there are no special movements."