Chapter 450: The Battle of Merging States (8)

The time of the day is very short, and Gongsun Du won more cities and got more news.

Gao Ran and Zhang He "came back to their senses" from the rest and once again embarked on the road of conquest. However, when they set off, Gao Ran and Zhang He obviously had different opinions, so the two almost had to decide on a heads-up.

"Lu Bu has already led his army south, if we still have to delay time in Yuci, it is difficult to guarantee that Lu Bu will not be allowed to take more cities. Therefore, it is better to attack Jinyang directly, although Wang Shou has drawn a lot of men and horses from other cities in Taiyuan, but it is far behind us. "Zhang He's vision is very good and forward-looking.

However, Gao Ran's words are also very reasonable: "There is only less than half a day's journey between Yuci and Jinyang, and it will become a corner, if it is to attack Jinyang, Yuci will definitely not sit idly by, whether it is to take the opportunity to sneak attack from behind, or to cooperate with the outside and the inside, it is the way to defeat!" ”

"Hmph, as long as Jinyang is broken and Wang Shou is captured, the rest of the cities will be self-defeating."

"Self-defeating? It's the same for Lu Bu! ”

"Attack Jinyang ...... first"

"No, attack Yuci ...... first"

“……”

"What the two generals said makes sense, why don't you just attack one city by one?" Fortunately, when the two couldn't help but want to do it, the judge spoke. The previous trial did not speak, because Gao Ran belonged to a neutral faction and was one of their targets, if Zhang He had a bad relationship with him, even if he could not increase the chance of being co-opted, at least it would reduce the possibility of being co-opted by the three princes. It's just that Yuan Shao is still here now, and everyone is a colleague, if they see a big trouble, they may be held accountable.

It's just that then Gao Ran and Zhang He had a dispute over who attacked Jinyang and who went to take Yuci, after all, the credit for winning Jinyang was greater than the credit for winning Yuci. No one is stupid, and everyone wants to take great credit. However, since the attack on Jinyang was proposed by Zhang He, it was finally handed over to Zhang He, and it was naturally handed over to Gao Ran.

Arriving in Yuci, Gao Ran besieged but did not attack, but it was to buy time for Zhang He. It wasn't until half a day later that Zhang He had already arrived in Jinyang and began to attack the city.

As Gao Ran expected, Wang Shou did not think of resisting stubbornly with Jinyang City, but also deployed heavy troops in Yuci to help Jinyang Guard. Therefore, when it was dark, Gao Ran failed to take Yuci, and although he attacked the city several times, he was driven down the city immediately after.

When the troops were collected, Gao Ran estimated that Yuci's defenders had at least 2,000 people. In this way, according to the information about Taiyuan, the defenders of Jinyang should not exceed 5,000, but not less than 3,000.

With this speculation, Gao Ran did not enjoy it exclusively, but sent someone to pass it on to Zhang He.

When Zhang He arrived in Jinyang, it was almost dark, and it was only in order to find out the situation of the defenders that he hastily launched an attack.

Early the next morning, Zhang He received the news from Gao Lan, but he was relieved in his heart, and then ordered to attack Jinyang in turn. At this time, he completely abandoned the idea of taking Jinyang alone, but hoped to drag Wang Shou, and when Gao Ran took Yuci, the two would besiege Jinyang together.

Strive for merit, but don't be greedy for merit!

But it is Zhang He's way of life, and it is also the main reason why he was reused by the three generations of the Cao family in his original history.

The reason why Yuci's Gao Ran sent a letter to Zhang He is actually the same meaning. As a result, after dawn, Gao Ran discussed with the judges, and then led the troops to attack the West Gate, and Ma Yan and Jiao Touch led the troops to attack the East Gate. Gao Ran led his troops to storm the south gate alone, leaving the north gate and Yuci defenders alone.

Or escape, or reinforcements.

Gao Ran can lead the army alone to win the party and Zhang Yang, and he is one of the four pillars of Hebei, so he is naturally not general. In addition, the people on the left and right sides restrained many of the defenders of Yuci, and after paying more than 1,000 casualties under Gao Ran's full attack, they finally took it.

The Yuci guard general fled before breaking the city, intending to flee to Jinyang, not wanting to be stopped by the trial as soon as he left the north gate, and then was chased by Gao Ran from behind, and finally only a few soldiers escaped under the attack on both sides, less than 100 people. In the battle, the defender was stabbed by Gao Ran's hand and fell off his horse with a shot, and then was trampled into a pulp by the war horse.

And at this moment, Gao Ran received the news that Meng County in the north had fallen and that Lu Bu's army had entered Wolf Meng.

This made Gao Lan, who originally planned to take a short rest, only to stay in Yuci and Shi Lian, and lead two thousand sergeants himself, and go to Jinyang to support Zhang He with the trial and others, intending to take it down as soon as possible.

Returning to Gongsun Du, he set off in a hurry in the middle of the night, and the war in Mengxian County did not stop, and he immediately ordered Liu Yi and Yangyi to lead the men and horses to attack the two gates, and took Zhang Liao and a thousand personal soldiers to show off their might at the last gate.

Oh, but it's a show of strength and a surrender of the army defending the city.

The Youzhou army is strong, and there is a fixed process for attacking the city, which seems to be easy to catch flaws, but in fact it is well organized. It was so orderly that it doubled the pressure on the defenders, especially when the arrows fired didn't cause any damage at all.

After the defenders of Mengxian County were transferred by Wang Shou, there were only 1,200 people, and now they were surrounded by more than 10,000 people and beaten violently.

After the war, the inventory of losses did not exceed ten people, and Gongsun Du was too lazy to rest and continue to go south. However, unlike the news received by Gao Ran, Zhao Yun led his troops from Meng County to Wolf Meng with great fanfare, but the speed of movement was much slower than before, but it was difficult to detect for a while.

And Gongsun Du led Liu Yi and Yangyi to Jinyang in the starry night, but he wanted to muddy the water of Taiyuan.

There is no way, Jinyang is a strong city, the city is high and thick, it is the first city in Bingzhou, even in Dahan, it is also a strong city that can be ranked. In the hands of Wang Shou, Gongsun Du believed that even if he surrendered, it would be much smaller than when Zhang He and others defended the city.

When Wang Shou of Jinyang saw Gao Ran leading his troops to kill, he understood that Yuci had been lost, after all, although he was a straw bag, the plan he had made earlier had not seen reinforcements, and a fool could understand that it was not.

Wang Shou lost the heart to continue to defend the palace, and directly opened the city gate and surrendered.

When Gongsun Du received the news, he had already rushed to the north of Jinyang less than two hundred miles: "This damn bastard, can't you have a little backbone?" Can't you be a little confident in a huge city? Hmph, you really deserve to be destroyed! ”

Gongsun Du was annoyed with Wang Shou's incompetence here, but Cao Cao in Xuchang was annoyed with Yuan Shu's ambition, and the headache occurred directly at that time. Cao Cao is close, and it is indeed time to receive the news at this time.

"What do you think about this?" Cao Cao endured the headache and gathered a group of civil and military officers under his command.

Xun Yu was most concerned about this matter, and immediately said: "Although there is chaos today, but all of them are edicted, and the hearts of the people are all towards the Han family, Yuan Shu's move is really a big rebellion, perverse, and the Ming Dynasty will raise troops to attack it!" ”

Cheng Yu then said: "What Lord Shizhong said is extremely true, Yuan Shu is arrogant, and if he wants to ascend to the Ninth Five-Year Plan, he should quickly raise troops and destroy it with the power of thunder." Otherwise, it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be followed by the rest of the princes, and the world will be in chaos at that time! ”

Isn't it messy now?

However, no one talked about it at this time, and then Liu Ye, Jiang Ji, Chen Qun, Zhong Xuan and others all echoed and said: "Yuan Shu rebels, please raise troops to get rid of them!" ”

Everyone was united, but Xun Yu was quite unhappy in his heart, because what everyone said was to let Cao Cao raise troops to eliminate Yuan Shu, not to ask Liu Xie to issue an order to get rid of the thief.

The gap between them is difficult to count!

"Okay, then, Cao immediately entered the palace to ask for troops." Fortunately, Cao Cao did not mean to overstep, but took the initiative to mention it, but the subsequent words, but-

"Immediately reorganize the army, prepare food and grass, and set off immediately after His Majesty's order!"

Chop first, play later!

Such a word suddenly appeared in Xun Yu's heart. But this is the best way to deal with it, and you can only be silent.

However, he didn't know that when Cao Cao walked out of the room, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, as if he had a headache.

Half a day later, Cao Cao was ordered to go on an expedition, leading dozens of generals such as Xiahoudun and Cao Ren at the city gate, and tens of thousands of troops set off.

In the past, it only took an hour to give the decree, and I don't know if Cao Cao's legs and feet were not good, or if the hand that wrote the decree was shaking, but today it took most of the day.