Chapter 572: Bohai Fights Again
In the first battle of Ren County, Lu Bu killed Han Qiong with the strength of one person under the Five Elements Ring Heaven Array of the five strong men under Yuan Shao's command, and then took advantage of the situation to break through the defense of Yuan Shao's army and take Ren County, and then quickly seized Pingxiang and Nanhe from Yuan Shao, forcing Yuan Shao to flee. And Lu Bu did not give up, he pursued all the way, first killed Yuan Shaojun's general Chun Yuqiong, and then seriously injured Wen Chou after Yuan Shao's break, but was entangled by Yan Liang, who broke through to the Xuan Transformation Realm with the intention of death, and failed to leave Yuan Shao, of course, Yan Liang, who had just entered the Xuan Transformation Realm, fought with Lu Bu for a long time, and the injury was not light.
Although Yan Liang broke through to the Xuan Transformation Realm in the battle, so that Yuan Shao's side had a strong man who could fight with Lu Bu, but Yan Liang broke through too late, and Yuan Shao's army was already in Julu, and Yan Liang alone could not recover. In such a situation, Yuan Shao and the others could only retreat into Wei County, and then lay down heavy defenses, first resist the offensive of Lu Bu's army, and then make other plans.
For Yuan Shaojun before, Lu Bu's strength was too strong, so some strategies had no effect at all. And now, although Yan Liang is not Lu Bu's opponent, he can at least entangle Lu Bu, so that many strategists under Yuan Shao begin to plan, as long as someone can block Lu Bu and Lu Bu cannot directly interfere with the battlefield, they can start to show their plans.
Lu Bu couldn't interfere in the frontal battlefield, so although the rest of Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Chen Gong and others were also very strong, they were not unstoppable, at least before they broke through the Xuan Transformation Realm, there was no qualitative gap in the strength of the powerhouses who manifested the bloodline phantom level, and a strong man in the late stage of the Ning Gang Realm was certainly not the opponent of the peak of the Ning Gang Realm, but it was enough to entangle the peak of the Ning Gang Realm.
However, Lu Bu's side is not easy to mess with, Chen Gong's resourcefulness is not weak, and it is also first-class in the world, although there is only one person, but it also makes Yuan Shao's side several calculations ended in failure, and Lu Bu's army was like a rainbow before, and the two sides have increased their forces in each other's situation, but it is inseparable on the border between Julu and Wei County, but no one can achieve a decisive advantage, so it is a temporary stalemate.
However, the wise men on both sides can see that such a stalemate is temporary, and only as soon as there is a change, the stalemate will be broken, and such a change should be imminent.
At this time, at the border of Qingzhou, Liu Bei had a solemn face, his male and female double-strand swords hung from his waist, and beside him were Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Meng Fang, Sun Qian and other civil and military personnel. After that, it was Liu Bei who spent a certain amount of effort to rectify the 50,000 army. Qingzhou once had a million yellow scarves, and later these million yellow scarves were subordinated to Liu Bei under the leadership of Guan Hai, and Liu Bei also selected young and strong from among them, and pulled out hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers.
Now, after years of fighting, Liu Bei's hundreds of thousands of soldiers have lost a lot of money, plus the soldiers and horses needed to guard Xuzhou and Qingzhou, these 50,000 troops are already the most powerful force that Liu Bei can come up with now.
"Ziyi, is Yuan Shao indeed defeated?" Liu Bei looked at the 50,000 army in front of him, turned his head and asked Tai Shici beside him. Previously, Yuan Shao and Liu Bei did not participate in the Bohai War because they went to contact Lu Bu, but later after Lu Bu sent troops, Tai Shici also relied on his own strength to cross Jizhou and returned to Qingzhou, and along the way, Tai Shici also got the news that Lu Bu defeated Yuan Shao in Ren County, and at the same time figured out the situation of Yuan Shao's troops left to guard the Bohai Sea.
"Lord, Lu Bu broke the army of Han Qiong before Changshan, and later beheaded Han Qiong in Ren County, breaking three cities in a row, and now Yuan Shao and Lu Bu are fighting in the border area between Julu and Wei County, and Lu Bu's army is gaining momentum, but Jizhou is Yuan Shao's territory after all, so the two are now a little stalemate."
"Hmm!" Liu Bei nodded, then looked at Meng Fang beside him, and asked, "Strategist, is it the best time for us to attack the Bohai Sea at this time?" β
Meng Fang said: "Don't worry, my lord, at this time, Yuan Shao and Lu Bu are deadlocked with each other, and there are only two people in Bohai, Zhang He and Gao Ran are guarding it, although the strength is not weak, but we are also pouring out of the nest now, and Zhang He and Gao Ran are definitely not opponents." And now Yuan Shao and Lu Bu are deadlocked with each other, which is where our opportunity lies, at this time to attack the Bohai Sea, we only need to face Zhang He Gaolan and the two, as long as we defeat Zhang He Gaoran, Bohai is our bag, Yuan Shao has no other strength to stop us at the moment, and then we can take advantage of the situation to take Qinghe, Hejian and other places. β
Liu Bei nodded, and after getting the news of the battle between Lu Bu and Yuan Shao, he also figured out the defense situation of the Bohai Sea, and Liu Bei once again had the heart to get involved in Jizhou. At this time, most of Yuan Shao's forces were contained by Lu Bu, and Liu Bei only needed to face Zhang He and Gao Ran in the Bohai Sea if he wanted to march into Jizhou, which was indeed the best time.
Therefore, after making a decision, Liu Bei led a group of civil and military forces under his command to attack, this time, he wanted to take Bohai, or even go further, taking advantage of the battle between Lu Bu and Yuan Shao, to capture Jizhou.
At this time, the situation in the world has begun to become clear, and Yuan Yao, who occupies half of Yuzhou, Jingzhou, Jiangdong, and Xuzhou, is already very strong, and at this time he is digesting himself and wants to transform his potential into strength. Cao Cao sits on Yanzhou and Sili, and now he is attacking Liangzhou, and he is holding the Son of Heaven, once he succeeds, his strength will not be weaker than Yuan Yao.
Others, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong, Liu Zhang in Yizhou, and Sun Quan, who has now won Jiaozhou, although they have a certain strength, they are unlikely to seize the world, on the one hand, these princes all want to divide one side, and there is no intention to seize the world, on the other hand, it is also the limitation of the terrain.
Now in the north, there are the four princes of Yuan Shao, Liu Bei, Lu Bu and Gongsun Du, and the winner of the final decision of these four princes is qualified and able to compete with Cao Cao and Yuan Yao. During this time, there were constant wars in the north, because the four princes were competing with each other and wanted to unify the north.
Now Yuan Shao, who has the best chance to achieve this goal, was suddenly joined by Liu Bei, LΓΌ Bu, and Gongsun Du, and fell into a situation of one hit and three, although Liu Bei was repelled in the Bohai Sea before, but Yuan Shao himself was defeated by Lu Bu, and the situation in the north fell into a stalemate. And this situation also made Liu Beisheng have a different mind, and gathered 50,000 troops to enter the territory of the Bohai Sea, to set off another war in the place where Yuan Shao started.
And Liu Bei's dispatch of troops also marked that the chaotic war between the four northern princes was about to enter the most intense and tragic stage.