Chapter 114: The Fall of Jiangdong
Liu Bei was defeated in this battle, but fortunately, Prime Minister Cao Cheng helped him drive away Ma Dai's soldiers and horses. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The three battalions fell into an ambush, and Zhang Feichi fell into a trap pit, was seriously injured by a spear, and was rescued by the soldiers. Huang Zhong's troops were mainly postponed, and the front army fell into a trap, causing panic, and the rescue route was also blocked.
The Chinese army was ambushed by the Yuzhou army in the camp, the strong crossbow suddenly broke out in the camp tent and the foot soldiers rushed left and right to kill caused a lot of trouble, many soldiers were killed by the strong crossbow penetration, and many subordinates panicked over the wooden fence and fell into the pit outside the camp, and finally only more than 7,000 soldiers and horses were withdrawn from the original way and were also wounded, but fortunately Ji Ling, Liu Pi, He Yi three generals saved their lives.
70,000 troops, five generals, only Zhao Yun's 6,000 soldiers and horses came to the aid in the end, and after finding that Zhang Fei fell into the pit, he led the light cavalry to the north gate to join Liu Bei, and gathered less than 20,000 soldiers and horses.
Wei Yan's department was even more miserable, the long knife that the general Wei Yan made was chased by the soldiers of the Liang State and sent to the soldiers who were defeated to the west, asking them to transfer it to Liu Bei, and when Liu Bei saw the long knife, he already knew that this battle was a great general.
Ma Dai didn't have time to pursue Liu Bei's rout, and he himself was seriously injured in the battle, and he couldn't even mount his horse alone, but his heart was extremely relaxed.
This battle is too fruitful!
There were more than 20,000 people in the ranks, and they even defeated Liu Bei's army, which can be said to be captured everywhere, and more than 10,000 people finally surrendered.
There are also countless Jingzhou soldiers and horses scattered towards the east and west.
When Ma Dai gathered his soldiers and horses, and joined forces with the men and horses led by Yang Feng and Li Hu, there were 40,000 people, and he was about to march west to besiege Tongguan, but he received the news that a large number of soldiers and horses were coming to the west from the sentinel horse.
The cavalry returned, and it was impossible to see how many men and horses there were, under various banners...... There are Yanzhou, Jingzhou, and Luoyang's generals, all over the mountains and fields, everywhere.
Frightened, Ma Dai had no choice but to lead the army south to the foot of Huashan, ready to take the dangerous road of Huashan to withdraw from the east of Tongguan at any time.
There are more people than them, could it be that Cao Cao knew that Cao Ang died at his own hands?
The fact was far from what he thought, and the large number of soldiers and horses had no time to take care of Liu Bei's five simple camps, so they ran all the way east for a hundred miles overnight, and they were about to retreat into the Yin boundary of Henan before setting up a camp.
When Ma Dai sent a sentry to Tongguan to reconnoitre, he was overjoyed to receive a reward.
Tongguan has been replaced with the horse-shaped banner of Liangguo, and the Liangguo sergeants are transporting catapults from the pass to the east.
When he led the army to Tongguan at night, he didn't know the ins and outs of the army's crossing last night until he joined forces with Han Sui in the early morning.
Liu Bei's soldiers and horses retreated in the direction of Tongguan, and Prime Minister Cao Cheng was also slowly withdrawing from the pass with tens of thousands of garrisons in Tongguan, just as he combined his troops to retreat eastward...... Along the way, Cao and Liu were full of worries that Ma Dai's soldiers and horses would suddenly kill them by surprise, and Ma Dai's temporary evasion was a blessing in misfortune for them.
Cao Cao was unable to station a large number of troops and horses on the west side of Tongguan, and then dispersed his forces because Cao Ang took Dian Wei's troops, and finally was caught off guard under the large-scale attack of the Liangguo army, and lost Tongguan.
Tongguan was given up by Cao Cao himself, not by Ma Yue.
There were too many soldiers and horses in Liangguo, and the battle line of Tongguan was very long, from the mouth of the Yellow River to Huashan, and the all-round attack and defense not only cut off Cao Cao's protruding road to the west...... If you fight a war like this, you will lose many roundabouts.
Let's say the food is cut off...... This was Cao Cao's best way to deal with Ma Yue's huge army, but if he was unable to repel Tong Pass, he would never have such an opportunity.
Therefore, Cao Cao chose to retreat, and slowly withdrew eastward when Ma Yue commanded the soldiers to climb the head of Tongguan City, and ordered Xu Chu and other fierce generals to lead the army to break off along the way.
He had no other way but to lead the Liangguo army to the plain battlefield in order to preserve the living forces.
Cao Cao was reluctant to have a final decisive battle with Ma Yue, his chips were too small, only the 120,000 troops, and there was nothing else to rely on...... The final decisive battle can only be fought outside Luoyang City, and it must not be here.
If it starts here, regardless of the fact that 5,000 imperial court soldiers and horses can't defeat 5,000 Liangzhou people, even if he wins in Tongguan, it will definitely be a remnant victory, and there are not many soldiers and horses left...... What will he do to face Guan Yu, who is eyeing the Kanto region?
Under Guan Yu's banner, there are also 100,000 Youji coalition troops, and even Yan Xing and other veteran Liangzhou generals are assisted.
One east and one west, forcing the imperial court into a situation from which there is no return.
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In this era, war is raging in every land that is not illuminated by the flag of the cool country, which is terrifying.
In the face of Liu Bei's wave of troops to the north, Sun Jian will never let go of this opportunity to encroach on Jingzhou, as long as Jingzhou is captured and held, and Xuzhou has another record on the battlefield, then Jiangdong can play a role in dozens of counties in the south and divide the world with the king of Liang in the north.
It's not that Sun Jian hasn't thought about the world, but when they come here, can they still turn back?
Hundreds of Jiangdong Hao clans relied on Sun's snort to survive, and if he gave up at this time, what would they do?
There are too many people in the world, and who to protect and who to hurt is always a choice for the ruler, and Sun Jian chooses to protect those who trust him.
The war in Xuzhou continued, Sun Jian led the army west to Jingzhou, and the Xuzhou battlefield was handed over to the eldest Sun Jian.
Unexpectedly, Dong Zhongying's speed was even faster than him, and he had already stationed his soldiers and horses in Wuling County, Jingzhou, and even relied on the help of the Shanyue people to continue to advance the front to the east.
The meat that fell into the tiger's mouth was half eaten by this old man in Liangzhou, can Sun Jianyan not be angry? Immediately waved his army and Dong Zhuo to fight in Jingzhou.
This battle lasted for more than half a month, Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo's military talents are almost the same, and there is not much difference in age, and even the staff of both sides are comparable, and what they compete in Jingzhou is no longer the military ability of the two of them.
Behind one is Liangguo Yizhou, and the other is fighting on multiple fronts but relying on the rich Jiangdong, and the war situation is in a stalemate.
Even when there was a change, it did not appear in the means of the two of them, the battle between Dong and Sun was enough to write into the history of the art of war, and the two outstanding commanders of the north and south of this era pulled the entire Jingzhou into the raging flames of war...... In this case, Sun Jian received a letter from Wu Jun.
The person who dictated was Sun Quan, the second son, and the person who wrote was a registered disciple of Cai Bojiao and the commander of the Liangguo Naval Army...... Gan Ning, Gan Xingba.
Gan Ning, who revisited the old place, did not let go of this opportunity to show off his might, and the Liangguo naval army invaded the hinterland of Jiangdong by sea...... The Liang State was well guarded in Longdu, that was because the counteroffensive troops and horses of Zhang Lu's seven sons could not be withdrawn some time ago, and the Sun family did not have this kind of worry, Wu County has Chaisang North and the Yangtze River in the west, and the east and south are all vast seas, where will anyone attack them from the sea in this era?
Of course, Gan Ning's fleet was attacked from the sea, and the sailors led by the fierce Qingliang soldiers.
The predecessor of the Qingliang warriors, but most of them were either unruly pirates or mountain bandits who were rampant in the wilderness, and now they surrendered to the king because of the personal treatment of the king of Liang, and they have been supported by the best armor in the world to reach a higher level.
And their commander is not a mediocre hand, Jiang Ling'er Gan Xingba, who was rampant in the rivers and seas with eight hundred brocade flags, is back!
Today, Gan Ning was still extravagant, but he was extremely annoyed that he did not have enough precious Shu brocade to decorate his incomparably large fleet of third-century ships, but this sentiment only bothered him for a short time...... The black characters on a white background have become his best sails.
Hundreds of huge Liangguo ships and thousands of large Liangguo ships roaring in the shallow sea, attacking the coastal areas of Jiangdong one after another, destroying seven water villages in Jiangdong in succession, and taking over all the ports connecting the north and south of Jiangdong.
The Liangguo warships loaded with catapults and spear-fighting crossbows were frustrated in the water battle with the Sun clan in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River a few years ago, but this does not mean that the performance of the Liangzhou ships is not excellent enough, but because the commander who controls the ships is Dong Zhongying, who is accustomed to cavalry, and most of the sailors are Liangzhou landlubbers.
Today...... It's not the same as it used to be!
However, with more than 300 lines of robbery, Gan Ning spent a very short time to find out the deployment of Jiangdong people's forces around Wu County, and immediately ordered the fleet to storm Chaisang City in the northwest of Wu County.
This was a feint, and he wanted to follow the example of besieging Wei to save Zhao, so that Jiangdong's soldiers and horses were exhausted.
When Guan Cheng led his troops to besiege Chaisang, Gan Ning still led the brigade of men and horses in the opposite direction and went straight to Wu County.
There is nothing more exciting than taking a direct attack on the enemy's base camp, and there is nothing more anxious for the enemy's front-line sergeants than a backyard fire.
The one who stayed in Wu County was Sun Jian's second son, Sun Quan.
Compared with Sun Jian's eldest son, Sun Ce, this son seems to be a little obscure, and he has hardly done anything big except for raising troops into the sea and stationing in Yizhou, even if Kaiyizhou is useless in this era.
Dead soil!
Sun Quan lacked experience in battle, and was afraid that Chaisang, an important place in Jiangdong, would be attacked, and even sent troops and horses from the base camp to aid Chaisang, which made the headquarters empty and hit Gan Ning's heart.
The fierce Qingliang warriors invaded the land of Wu, which had been ruled by the Sun clan for decades.
The battleship locked the river, and the news of the fall of Jiangdong was blocked for half a month, Gan Ning sent people north to pass the news to Xu Huang, who was in danger under Sun Ce's attack, and Xu Huang's troops immediately rose in morale and continued to fight with the Jiangdong army in the north of Xuzhou.
It wasn't until half a month later that Sun Jian found that there was no grain and grass to be transported, and he found that the Yangtze River had been blocked by the Liangguo Water Division.
At this time, Gan Ning forced Sun Quan, who was under house arrest, to write a letter to his father, and the people of Liangguo transcribed more than 1,000 copies of the letter, transported it to Jingnan in a small boat, and shot it to the shore with a strong crossbow...... The Jingzhou Expeditionary Force in Jiangdong was defeated on all fronts.
The home is gone...... What other battles are fought?
But they couldn't go back, all the ports on the north bank of the Yangtze River were destroyed under the catapults carried by the ships of the Liang Kingdom, the boats were scuttled, and the shore was heavily guarded by spears and crossbows...... This army, or the entire Jiangdong, was cut off by the Liangguo Water Division.
People never thought about conquering the seas.
Ma Yue plays the war in the palm of his hand!