Chapter 1212: The death of Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng

The person who most wanted Bai Qi to leave and the four southern counties was naturally Wang Mang who hid in the deep mountains and old forests.

Wang Mang can be said to have lost all his family wealth this time, but he did not escape from the state like a lost dog, because before leaving, he had to calculate Qin Hao one last time.

Wang Mang now only has hundreds of personal soldiers in his hands, and it is basically impossible to pose a threat to the rule of the Qin army, and his only chance is to wait for Bai Qi to leave with the main force, and provoke the 80,000 in the prisoner of war camp to start a rebellion, so that the four southern counties will be in chaos again, and he can take advantage of the situation.

But as long as Bai Qi's hundreds of thousands of Qin troops were stationed in Bingnan, Wang Mang was destined to have no chance, but he also guessed that Bai Qi would definitely lead the army to leave soon.

Now that the war in Hetao is tight, it is impossible for Qin Hao to idle more than 100,000 elites in the south of the country, and once Qin Hao transfers Bai Qi's main army, Wang Mang's opportunity will come.

Therefore, Wang Mang led his subordinates to evade the search of the Qin army, while waiting for Bai Qi to leave and go south.

Huang Tian lives up to his wishes.

Just after hiding in the mountains for more than half a month, when Wang Mang and the others were about to become savages, Bai Qi finally led the army to leave Bingzhou, and Wang Mang started his final plan, of course, he himself would definitely not take the risk of participating.

"How?"

Wang Mang looked at the returning general, and asked expectantly, "Did you succeed?" ”

"My lord, Su Dingfang seems to have expected that we would go back, so he set up an ambush in advance, which not only easily suppressed the riot in the prisoner of war camp, but also left us with few men."

"What?"

Wang Mang's pupils shrank and clenched his fists unconsciously, he had tried his best to overestimate Su Lie, but he didn't want to underestimate it in the end, Su Lie beat him with an army of 10,000 in the early days of Song City, and now it has ruined his final plan, Wang Mang no longer has any chance.

Glancing at the few wounded soldiers left behind the general, Wang Mang sent out more than 300 people, but less than 10 people came back.

"Alas......"

After Wang Mang sighed, he said in a deep voice: "That's it, since we can't do anything, let's leave and merge the state." Let's go to Jizhou to join Chen Youliang. ”

Chen Qingzhi on the side couldn't help but smile when he saw this: "Mr. Wang Mang has great talents, and the lord will definitely reuse you." ”

Chen Qingzhi, Chen Baxian, and Ju Wuba did not participate in this operation, after all, Wang Mang also knew the danger of this trip, so naturally he would not let the few remaining talents under him take risks.

Chen Youliang's 10,000 army that assisted Wang Mang was lost by Chen Qingzhi, which is a huge mistake, but if Chen Qingzhi can take Wang Mang, a wise man, and the giant Mac, back to his own camp, he can barely make up for it.

"The dog who lost his family, I don't dare to ask for anything else, but it is enough to ask Chen Gong to give me a place to live."

Wang Mang said with a wry smile, but he was extremely disdainful in his heart, he naturally couldn't really take refuge in Chen Youliang, if he really wanted to surrender, he would also surrender to Qin Hao, Chen Youliang's level of goods couldn't get into Wang Mang's eyes at all.

A month later, Wang Mang and the others crossed mountains and rivers, went through all kinds of hardships, and finally entered the Jizhou territory, but just as they were about to go to Chen Youliang, they received an extremely shocking bad news...... Chen Youliang died.

"What? It's absolutely impossible. ”

Chen Baxian grabbed the collar of the soldier who came back from inquiring about the news, and shouted in disbelief: "The lord occupies the land of Qinghe and other three counties, and has more than 60,000 soldiers, how can he be defeated so quickly?" ”

Seeing this, Wang Mang hurriedly stepped forward to pull Chen Baxian away, and said, "Brother Baxian, calm down, listen to him first." ”

Chen Baxian couldn't help but regain his composure when he heard this, and when he heard the soldier's explanation, everyone couldn't help but show shock.

Since Yuan Shao and Han Fu each raised an army to attack Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, it can be said that they have won many battles and are like a bamboo, especially on Han Xin's side, obviously you don't have to have much more troops than Zhang Shicheng, but they crushed Zhang Shicheng almost throughout the whole process.

Although the results of Yuan Shao's side were much inferior to Han Xin's, Chen Youliang did not dare to fight out of the city, and the battle was about to stalemate, but at this time, the Ming army suddenly sent troops to attack the rear of Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang.

This time, Emperor Ming personally led the army, Prime Minister Zhang Liang served as the military advisor, Yue Xi, Li Jin, Yu Ziqi, Zhong Liyi and others were generals, and even transferred back 30,000 troops from Longyang in Huguan, a total of 80,000 troops were dispatched, and the troops were divided into two routes, directly penetrating the key points of Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang.

Under Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, there were also many old generals of the Yellow Turban period, many of whom were devoted to the Ming Dynasty, and when they saw the Ming army coming back, they surrendered directly without resistance.

Under the personal intervention of Emperor Ming, the main forces of Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang were all on the front line to resist Yuan Shao and Han Xin, so that the rear forces were weak and could not stop the invasion of the Ming Dynasty at all.

Soon, the Ming army seized nearly half of the territory of both sides, and Zhang Shicheng accidentally fell into Zhang Liang's ambush plan on the way back to help, not only the army under his command was annihilated, but even he himself died under the heart of ten thousand arrows.

After Wang Shichong, another Yellow Turban traitor, Zhang Shicheng, was killed by the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhang Shicheng's death, Chen Youliang also fell into a situation of fighting alone, with Yuan Shao in front and Ming in the back, and most of the territory has also fallen, and his defeat is obviously just around the corner.

However, Chen Youliang did not die at the hands of the Ming army, nor did he die from Yuan Shao's calculations, Chen Youliang died from the betrayal of his own people, and the person who betrayed him was Xiao Yan.

Under the attack of Yuan Shao and Emperor Ming, Chen Youliang was destined to not be able to hold out for too long, but Chen Youliang was bent on holding on to it, and would rather die than surrender again, but Xiao Yan and other important ministers were unwilling to give Chen Youliang a funeral.

Late one night, Xiao Yan launched a mutiny, and after taking away the military power, he killed Chen Youliang, and then surrendered to Yuan Shao with tens of thousands of troops and Chen Youliang's head.

After all, Xiao Yan belongs to Chen Youliang's family, and Chen Youliang's identity as a traitor to the Yellow Turban makes Xiao Yan destined to be unable to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, so the only choice Xiao Yan can choose is Yuan Shao.

After Xiao Yan surrendered, Yuan Shao not only added Xiao Yan an official to the knighthood, but also ordered him to continue to lead the generals under his command, which can be said to be extremely generous to Xiao Yan.

With the death of Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, the forces of the Qinghe Army and the Changshan Army also disappeared, and half of their territory was seized by Han Fu and Yuan Shao, and the other half was seized by the Ming Dynasty of Taihang.

So far, the situation in Jizhou has also gone from the top four to the three-legged.

Among them, Yuan Shao occupies the largest territory, owning nearly half of Jizhou.

Han Fu was second, occupying one-third of Jizhou.

Daming is the weakest, only occupying one-sixth of Jizhou's territory, but Daming's strength is not weaker than any other.