Zhang Liao gave the order, and the whole army turned eastward and moved south to Wuyin.

Not long after leaving, the scout who served as a guard in the rear came with the news that the Jingzhou army in Duyang County had followed Zhang Liao's army south.

When passing by Bowang, the 5,000 elite infantry of Bowang also joined the Jingzhou army, and the generals they saw were "Wei" and "Li".

Zhang Liao had detailed information on the generals of the Jingzhou Army, Wei should be Wei Yan, and Li could be Li Yan.

But isn't Wei Yan and Cai Mao in the Tiger Prison? When did you return to Jingzhou, and there was no news from the Ministry of Intelligence?

What do they want to do after them?

It's a pity that he hasn't received the latest information from the Ministry of Intelligence, and Zhang Liao can't guess what this means.

When Zhang Liao's army was still thirty miles away from Wuyin County, the scout came to report again, saying that a large number of garrisons had been found in Wuyin County, with a conservative estimate of 20,000 people, but they were not Jingzhou military uniforms and could not be identified.

Because the military uniforms of the Kwantung princes are all evolved from the military uniforms of the Han army, the colors and costumes are similar.

When Zhang Liao's army was twenty miles away from the city, the army in Wuyin City also went out of the city and lined up outside the city.

This time, the scout saw the other party's banner clearly, it turned out to be the Xuzhou Army, and the military commanders who led the team were Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and there were veterans among the scouts, and they had seen Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Zhang Liao had already vaguely felt the strong conspiracy of the situation at this time, was this coming for himself?

Wei Yan, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei all came here from Tiger Prison Pass to deal with themselves, and the Kwantung Coalition Army really looked up to me, are they trying to surround me?

Or are they driving me to their preset battlefield?

Where could it be? Tongbai Mountain? Wuyang Pass?

There are capable people in the Kwantung Coalition Army who have already calculated the three routes I want to take from Jingzhou to Yuzhou, so there must be people blocking Tongbai Mountain there!

Zhang Liao asked the scouts to go out to reconnoiter the situation in Fuyang, Yuyang, Xinye and other places.

At this time, the person in charge of the intelligence department of Nanyang County personally sent Zhang Liao a flying pigeon biography of Lu Bu, relaying the warning of the tiger-faced military division.

Zhang Liao was convinced that the guy who might be named Guo Jia had set up a net for his subordinates, and now although he knew the general situation of the matter, he was afraid that this net had been completed.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the information from Fuyang to come back, and the banner of the Yanzhou Army appeared in Fuyang, with about 25,000 people.

In the direction of Xinye, 15,000 people led by Liu Pan were stationed, and Yuyang was also garrisoned by 5,000 people.

The Ministry of Intelligence also sent a piece of information, which was a few days ago, saying that Huang Zu, the Taishou of Jiangxia, had led an army of 20,000 troops to the north on the warship of the Jingzhou Navy Army, and it was estimated that the time should arrive in Xiangyang.

However, it seems that the enemy's focus is still on preventing his own eastward and southward advances, with the elite Xuzhou Army and Yanzhou Army both in the east, and the armies of Liu Pan and Huang Zu in the southwest.

Zhang Liao also received the news that Lu Bu had sent Gao Shun to help, and it seemed that he should go north to join Gao Shun.

Zhang Liao didn't expect that the enemy would have hundreds of thousands of troops in his periphery, it seemed that he was bound to win, and how to break through needed to be well planned.

The Central Army relied on horses to maneuver, and many times had to take wide avenues, so the enemy forces on all sides were guarding the communication points, and the Central Army was trapped in the center.

Liu Pan is Liu Biao's nephew, and this time he led the army into Xinye, Liu Biao told him that he should cooperate with Guo Jia, the military advisor of the Yanzhou Army, and the military order sent to him by Guo Jia was to defend Xinye.

If Zhang Liao comes to attack, he must hold the city, and the armies from all walks of life will move closer to him.

At this time, Liu Pan knew that this Guo Jia had mobilized the armies of various princes to set up an ambush and surrounded Zhang Liao's central army.

Yesterday, Liu Biao also sent someone to deliver a letter to him, saying that Huang Zu's army had set off from Xiangyang and went north to encircle Zhangliao.

In this way, the encirclement has been formed, and Zhang Liao is difficult to fly, tsk, Zhang Liao is a generation of famous generals, an important figure in the Central Army!

Just thinking about how to make meritorious service, someone came to report, saying that Yuyang County had sent people to ask for help, saying that Zhang Liao's army was attacking the city, and the defenders of Yuyang suffered heavy casualties.

Liu Pan hurriedly ordered someone to bring the messenger, who was covered in blood, saying that he had been cut when he broke through.

The deputy general has already experienced injuries and confirmed that it is correct, Liu Pan took the letter, but it was a handwritten letter from Yuyang County.

The letter said that Zhang Liao's central government besieged the city yesterday and attacked it very urgently today, and hoped that Liu Pan would quickly send reinforcements to help him.

Although the Yuyang garrison had 5,000 men, it was mainly recruits. Liu Pan asked the messenger carefully, but the messenger had a strong Jingzhou accent, saying that Zhang Liao had already sent someone to attack the city by ladder, and when he broke out, there was a fierce battle in the city!

Liu Pan also knows the art of war, and if Yuyang is occupied, Zhang Liao may escape from Yuyang back to Wuguan.

After thinking about it for a long time, Liu Pan decided to send troops to rescue Yuyang, he left 5,000 people to defend Xinye, and sent people to Liu Biao, Huang Zu and Guo Jia to send letters respectively, asking them to move closer to him or send reinforcements.

Xinye was very close to Yuyang, only forty or fifty miles, and it only took a few hours for Liu Pan to lead the army to Yuyang City.

However, at this time, Yuyang was calm, only the corpses of the Jingzhou army and the wounded soldiers who were still alive everywhere showed the fierce battle before.

Liu Pan questioned a few wounded soldiers, only to know that two hours ago, the Central Army did not know what magic weapon to use to destroy the city gate, only to hear a loud noise that shook the sky, followed by billowing smoke.

As soon as the city gate was opened, the cavalry of the Central Army swarmed into the city, and the defenders in the city either died or fled, and the county commander was also killed and martyred.

After the Central Army broke through the city, it took the corpses and wounded of its own people and headed west.

As soon as Liu Pan heard that he was going west, he only felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly sent someone to send a letter to Liu Biao, Guo Jia and others, and he also sent someone to Wancheng to deliver a letter.

At this time, Zhang Liao was anxiously urging the whole army to rush westward, although there was Gao Shun's army in the direction of Luyang, but if he could jump out of the encirclement, he could better cooperate with Gao Shun.

So he chose the weakest point of the army, Yuyang as a breakthrough.

He used the most common bamboo in the area to make a novel ladder, which is the width of one person and can only be climbed by one person.

The bamboo ladder he made was an idea of Lu Bu when he was explaining siege tactics when he was in the military academy, that is, he used bamboo to weave a bamboo wall dozens of zhang wide and several zhang high, or similar to the scaffolding when building a city.

In this way, when attacking, you can hide below to resist the attack of arrows, and after reaching the city, you can stand up for dozens of people to climb up at the same time.

The weight of so many people will also firmly press the bamboo ladder, and the defenders of the city can't push it down if they want to.

This idea has finally been proved feasible by Zhang Liao's practice today, and the efficiency of the siege has been doubled, and there is such a huge gap between climbing the city wall one by one and climbing the city wall ten by ten.

The Central Army itself was brave and tenacious, so the siege of Yuyang ended quickly, especially after the detonator blew the city gate open, and the cavalry rushed directly into the city.

Most of the 5,000 defenders of Yuyang were recruits, dead or fleeing, and they were about to surrender, but Zhang Liao couldn't take the prisoners to fight, so they were all driven away, and the weapons were destroyed after they were collected.