The World of Yellow Sky

Guo Tai led the army to the Western Regions, Zhang Liao also followed Guo Tai, and Lu Bu led the Xiaoqi Battalion to the north to suppress the northern border.

Yu Du, Liu Shi, and Zhao Zhi are the military commanders of the military area, guarding the military area outside.

Zhang Yan was appointed governor of Yizhou, and now sits in Chengdu, guarding Yizhou.

Xu Huang, He Man, Zhang Yang, Ma Teng four generals.

The six books are Gong Du, Wei Lu, Yang Wei, Ge Zhou, Fu Qi, and Yang Ji.

There are also Yan Zhong, Xu You, Liu Pi, and the thirteen important ministers of the Ming court who are currently in Chang'an City all gathered in Yongning Pavilion.

Xu An strode to the front of the hall, put the whip in his waist, and sat on the head seat.

Except for Yan Zhong who was sitting on a chair, the rest of the people were all standing in the lobby.

Xu An's face was a little gloomy. The silk script was sent from Qingzhou Yingwei, and it was sent all the way to Zhongzhou. It has been nearly two months since the date of sending.

With the passage of time, the evil spirit and the embroidered clothes messenger have gradually grown up, and they have the support of their own forces in their own land. Now the local forces of the evil spirit and the embroidered clothes messenger have suppressed the Eagle Guard. Now the Eagle Guard is sending information has slowed down a lot.

However, although the charm and the embroidered clothes messenger are developing, the wolf guards still firmly control the land of the four states that Taipingdao now occupies.

Xu An held the silk scroll in his hand, if it wasn't for the confirmation of the Eagle Wolf Guard several times, he would never have believed the contents of the silk scroll.

Because the content on the silk book is too unbelievable.

As early as late March last year.

The Han Army on the East Road had already captured the southern part of Beihai Kingdom in Qingzhou, and the Han Army on the West Road had also invaded Jinan Kingdom.

Zhu Zhi, the leader of the Eastern Route Army, wanted to expand the results of the battle, continue to attack, command the army to attack Pingshou, and wanted to include the central part of Beihai Kingdom in one go.

However, during the battle, Tian Feng suddenly dispatched tiger and leopard cavalry, and at the same time sent cavalry to outflank, almost wiped out the Eastern Army led by Zhu Zhi. In the end, Sun Ce led the Danyang soldiers to fight desperately. At the cost of more than half the casualties, this It was only then that the army was stabilized without a rout.

The Han army on the East Road had no choice but to withdraw to the south, temporarily stationed in Yingling City in the central part of Beihai Kingdom, and temporarily lost the ability to attack.

The Han army on the West Road was also surrounded and annihilated because they were afraid of being cut off from the rear.

The two sides were locked in a stalemate and tug-of-war that lasted nearly a year.

Although the Han army was frustrated, it still had the advantage.

Therefore, in order to contain the attack of the Han army, Xu An sent an order to Zhao Zhi to send troops to harass the south of Jingzhou. At the same time, he also sent an order to Ji Ang who was guarding Hanzhong County to harass Nanyang County in the north of Jingzhou, and Wang who was guarding Wuguan. Ren went south to cooperate with Ji Ang to attack and harass Nanyang County.

Although Zhang Lu is nominally the sheriff of Hanzhong County, in fact all the military and political power has been handed over to Ji Ang.

Although there is no military region in Hanzhong, most of the specifications are implemented in accordance with the military region system.

Ji Ang stationed troops in Shangyong, and could threaten Nanyang County in Jingzhou at any time.

The three fronts sent troops to attack and harass at the same time, in order to consume the strength of the Han court.

Indeed, certain effects were received. Zhonglang finally recalled Huang Zhong to Jingzhou, and at the same time, there were [-] Jingzhou troops who returned to Jingzhou with him.

At that time, Sun Jian garrisoned troops in Puyang, East County of Yanzhou, and withdrew in an all-round way, and put his troops mainly on the ferry to prevent the Wei army from crossing the river in order to ease the situation in Qingzhou.

And Yuan Shao also fell into a very embarrassing situation.

Occupying the Luoyang area, apart from giving him an excuse to proclaim himself emperor and laying a certain foundation for proclaiming the emperor and founding a country, has no other use at all.

The Luoyang area was completely burned by Dong Zhuo, and there was not much output at all.

The population in the Luoyang area has long been wiped out, and the food consumed by the soldiers defending the Luoyang Pass and Luoyang City is transported all the way from Jizhou.

Occupying Luoyang did not allow the Wei army to occupy much of a strategic advantage, as long as the two passes of Shenyuan and Guangcheng were still in the hands of the Han army for one day.

There was no way for Wei Jun to pose too much threat to the hinterland of Hanting.

Although Wei's occupation of the Revolving Gate Pass can pose a certain threat to the west of Yanzhou, such a threat is limited after all. Yuan Shao also arranged to attack Yanzhou before and stationed troops at the Revolving Gate Pass in order to defeat Sun Jian, but in the end he failed wish.

The small role that the revolving door pass can play is not worth the so much food and manpower consumed in the Luoyang area.

In particular, although the Yellow Turban Army has no intention of expanding eastward during this period, it seems that famines have broken out one after another in the occupied areas, leaving them with little food and grass to support their large-scale support. However, the Wei Army occupied Hanoi County and Luoyang area , Still need to free up a lot of soldiers to guard against the Yellow Turban Army.

In the Luoyang area, it is really tasteless to eat, and it is a pity to discard it.

Occupying the Luoyang area, so a lot of manpower and force were consumed in Luoyang.

But after losing the Luoyang area, it would undoubtedly cost a lot more to occupy the Yique, Dagu, and Revolving Gates again.

What's more, occupying Luoyang can also damage the prestige of Hanting.

Chang'an and Luoyang were the former capitals of the Han court. Now Chang'an is in the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, and Luoyang is in the hands of the Wei Army.

Now both are not in the hands of the Han court, which makes most people think that the Han court is indeed in the sunset and the destiny is gone.

But if the Luoyang area is abandoned and the Han court takes back Luoyang, then the direction of public opinion may change.

Regardless of whether Wei Jun voluntarily gave up or not, it may cause an irreparable impact on reputation.

Under such circumstances, Yuan Shao was completely caught in a dilemma.

Successive defeats and offensive setbacks also caused great problems within Wei Ting.

But under such circumstances, the sudden change in Qingzhou brought Wei State to a precarious situation.

In order to solve the predicament in Qingzhou, Tian Feng saw the situation where the east and west armies of the Han army were divided and fought on their own. He assembled most of his troops, and joined forces with the Jizhou army led by Ju Yi, and even sent the Tigers led by Jiang Yiqu The leopard cavalry were all dispatched to the battlefield in the west, and then they attacked the West Route Army of the Han Army with all their strength, and encircled the West Route Army stationed in Jinan from three sides at the same time.

The West Route Army of the Han Army was thus caught in a dilemma.

If it does not retreat, there may even be the danger of the entire army being wiped out. Regarding the heavy cavalry of the Wei army, the Han army really has little means to stop it.

Most of the West Road Han Army under Cao Cao is the Yanzhou Army. Relatively speaking, the training and morale of the Yanzhou Army is only slightly better than that of the Qingzhou Army, but not as good as that of the Jizhou Army.

But if they retreat, they will lose Jinan, and they can only retreat all the way to Taishan County. The Qingzhou Army can block the pass in the north of Taishan County and close their way to go north again.

In this way, the Han army on the East Road became a lone army, unable to fight alone, and it was very likely that they would be defeated one by one.

Originally, according to the original plan, the two Han armies should march at the same time, besieging Qingzhou's Qi County from both sides, joining forces at Linzi, Qingzhou's prefecture, besieging Tian Feng and Qingzhou's Wei army in the city, and annihilating them in one fell swoop.

It's a pity that although the plan was good, the East Route Army's attack was thwarted and suffered heavy losses. Even being almost defeated completely declared the bankruptcy of the Han Army's plan.

The follow-up Yellow Turban Army's harassment of Jingzhou also caused the Han army to lose its strong reinforcements, and its successor was weak.

The Wei army has gained a considerable advantage on the Qingzhou battlefield, and the Han army's Northern Expedition this time is likely to end without a problem.

Even if the losses are too large when retreating, the Wei army may take advantage of the victory to pursue them, and may lose a lot of cities and territories.

It seems that the situation is very good, and Wei Jun can regain the advantage.

But all these advantages and the great situation finally declared bankruptcy with the opening of the city gate of Linzi City.

Qingzhou, who was staying in Linzi City, turned away from Wang Xiu. When Tian Feng led the army to attack the Han army on the West Road, Wang Xiu gathered the generals in the city.

In the Linzi city government office, Wang Xiuyan said that although he was an old official of the Yuan family and received the favor of the Yuan family, but now Yuan Shao went against the grain and acted against him, saying that the founding of the emperor was an act of rebellion, and declared that he would rebel against it.

In the government office, Wang Xiu had already ambushed the swordsmen, and all the generals of the Yuan family were beheaded the moment Wang Xiu's words fell, and the rest of the generals were frightened by their weapons and surrendered.

Wang Xiu's surrender was not a temporary idea, but the contribution of the Embroidered Cloth Messenger who instigated rebellion. Of course, Yuan Shu was the one who made Wang Xiu's final decision to rebel.

Wang Xiu was upright, honest and upright, and respected promises and righteousness. When Yuan Shao became emperor, he expressed his objection, but Yuan Shao had made up his mind at that time, so how can a few objections be changed.

Wang Xiu's application was rejected, Yuan Shao did not reprimand Wang Xiu, but wrote a letter to appease Wang Xiu.

But this matter did not end, but was found out by the embroidered clothes messenger and sent this information back to the Han court.

After being sent back to Hanting, a plan was slowly conceived.

The fourth generation and three princes of the Yuan family in Runan, most of the main branches were killed by Dong Zhuo in Luoyang, and the uprising was precisely because Yuan Shao summoned the princes to challenge Dong. Dong Zhuo was resentful and beheaded all the Yuan clan members who stayed in Luoyang .

According to the right of succession in law, Yuan Shu is actually the real successor of the Yuan family in Runan, and most of the Yuan family members in Runan are still in Runan County in Yuzhou.

Yuan Shu then sent a letter to Wang Xiu through the hand of the embroidered clothes messenger, in which Yuan Shu mentioned Wang Xiu's above table.

He also said that Yuan Shao was indeed going against the grain. He rashly formed an alliance at the beginning and caused the main branch of the Yuan family who stayed in Luoyang to be killed. Later, when he attacked Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shao even stood by and stood still.

In the end, Wang Xiu was shaken and decided to fight back.

Wang Xiu's rebellion was completely beyond Tian Fengle's expectations. After all, although Wang Xiu opposed Yuan Shao's proclaiming the emperor at the beginning, the matter was not resolved in the end. Later, Wang Xiu also led the Qingzhou Army to go south to fight against the enemy with Zang Ba. .

The Han army on the East Road entered Linzi City and advanced into Qi County in Qingzhou, which completely plunged Tian Feng into an extremely embarrassing situation.

The East and West Han armies are no longer in a relatively isolated state. Now the East Han army can march west at any time to support the West Han army.

Facing one Han army alone, Wei Jun has a great chance of winning, but facing two Han armies, Wei Jun's final winning rate is less than [-]%.

If the land is lost and people are lost, all people and land are lost; if people are saved and land is lost, all people and land remain.

Tian Feng knew that if the generals in the army knew about the destruction of Linzi City, the Wei army in Qingzhou might collapse, so he immediately blocked the news, and then immediately ordered to evacuate northward.

And Zhu Zhi's speed is also very fast, the fighters on the battlefield are fleeting, he led the East Han army non-stop, and before the Wei army in Qingzhou completely evacuated Jinan, they had already arrived in Jinan.

The Han army suddenly appeared in the east, and Tian Feng had been hiding the news that Linzi City was destroyed all along, and finally he could no longer hide it.

The morale of the Qingzhou Wei army plummeted, and Cao Cao, who was still wondering why the Qingzhou Wei army suddenly rescued, also received the news that the city of Linzi had been breached by Zhu Zhichuan at this time.

Cao Cao suddenly realized, and immediately led his troops north to join Zhu Zhihui, and the two Han armies merged and went north.

As a natural barrier, the Yellow River can stop the enemy's attack. When Yuan Shao was not strong, he relied on the Yellow River's natural barrier to block the Han army's Northern Expedition.

But at this time, the Yellow River has become an obstacle to Wei Jun.

Wei Jun wanted to retreat north and leave Qingzhou, but was blocked by the Yellow River.

When Cao Cao and Zhu Zhi arrived with their troops, the Wei army was still crossing the river.

Ju Yi has led the Jizhou Wei army to the north bank, and about half of the Qingzhou Wei army has also successfully evacuated to the north bank.

Tian Feng did not evacuate to the north bank ahead of time, he led his subordinates as the rear of the army.

No matter why Qingzhou was lost, someone must always be responsible for losing Qingzhou.

In the sixth year of Chuping (195), March [-]th.

Tian Feng died in battle, and more than [-] Qingzhou soldiers were captured. On the same day, Zang Ba, who was besieged in Donglai County, also surrendered.

The battle of Qingzhou ended, and the Han court took over the land of Qingzhou south of the Yellow River.

And that's not the end.

Less than a few days after the Battle of Qingzhou, Sun Jian suddenly launched an attack on the north bank, conquering Liyang and other important ferries in one fell swoop.

Sun Jian also mobilized dozens of improved catapults, which seemed to be called "throwing catapults", and at the same time mobilized tens of thousands of soldiers to attack the Revolving Gate Pass, which also declared its fall a few days later.

Although the catapults of the Han army were not counterweight catapults like the Yellow Turban Army, they still used manpower, but they increased the power of the catapults by more than one level.

The catapults of the Han army used nearly a hundred people to pull the gun cable as power to throw stone bullets. The range was almost a hundred steps, and the revolving door was broken because of this.

Liyang and other ferries quickly fell because of the dumping of the car.

Now the Han army is continuously crossing the Yellow River and entering the territory of Jizhou, and the soldiers are pointing directly at Yecheng, the capital of Wei State!

7 Chapter sixty

Now Sun Jian led the Han army to fight and win victories all the way to Huangcheng in Wei County, Jizhou. It is only a hundred miles away from Yecheng, the capital of Wei State, and it can be reached in a few days.

In order to support the war in Xianbei in the east, Yuan Shao dispatched a lot of troops and even conscripted a lot of cavalry from Wuhuan in the three counties in order to contain Xu An's deployment and strategy in northern Xinjiang.

Moreover, in order to stabilize the situation in Qingzhou, Yuan Shao not only ordered Ju Yi to take five thousand of his most elite soldiers to go to Qingzhou, but also asked Lu Zhao to lead Youzhou to ride four thousand to the south. Ta Dun led [-] Wuhuan fine riders to the south to help Qingzhou, and all the new tiger and leopard riders were also handed over to Tian Feng by him.

It's just that after thousands of calculations, no one figured out that Wang Xiu would choose to rebel in the end, causing the entire Wei army to collapse on the Qingzhou battlefield and slide into the abyss of extinction.

In the Luoyang area, a lot of soldiers were assigned to guard, which further dispersed the strength of the Wei army.

So now the entire Wei County still has Qinghe County and Dong County in the east. The Wei Army has a total of more than [-] infantry, and the cavalry army still has [-] cavalry.

However, 8000 of them were Wuhuan cavalry, and they were not equipped with much new-style riding equipment, so their combat power was relatively weak. Only 7000 were cavalry soldiers of the Han army in Youji, and there were no more than 6 cavalry on foot.

However, the Han army had more than 8 infantry, more than 9 cavalry, and more than [-] cavalry, which was more than [-] more than the Wei army.

This time Sun Jian led the army to the Northern Expedition not on a whim, but after careful consideration, and Guo Jia, Xun You and others were beside him to make suggestions and formulate an incomparably detailed plan.

At the beginning, the Han army on the East Road was frustrated in its attack, lost the ability to advance, and was unable to form a siege with the Han army on the West Road.

The Han court quickly responded, and Liu Bei was secretly transferred from Jinan State in Qingzhou to Yanzhou. In addition to Liu Bei himself, more than [-] Youzhou cavalry under his command were also in the sequence of recruitment.

In order to avoid the evil spies in Wei Tingzhong, more than [-] Youzhou cavalry followed the logistics transportation troops and planned to evacuate Jinan in batches. The messenger's attention.

The main reason why the Han army on the West Road did not act rashly after they invaded Jinan is that there are still many Wei troops in the Yellow River in the north. Once they go too deep into Qingzhou, the rear road may be cut off. Caught in Qingzhou, and finally completely wiped out by the Wei army.

But the more important reason is that Liu Bei and his Youzhou cavalry have left Qingzhou's Jinan Kingdom, and Cao Cao's command does not have many cavalry that can be mobilized.

Liu Bei's departure did not attract the attention of the Mei Mei spies. The Embroidered Cloth Messenger was only established for more than a year shorter than the Eagle Wolf Guard.

Because of the gradual growth of the embroidered clothes envoys, Yingwei became more and more difficult to move.

With Liu Bei's [-] fine cavalry from Youzhou, Sun Jian also has the capital to fight in the field. Although the new equestrian equipment in the Han army has not been fully installed in the entire army, it has covered more than [-]% of the cavalry, at least two feet Stirrups are all owned.