Chapter 215: Chen Cang's Dao is broken

When Wu Qin led the officials of Chen Cang and the wealthy squires to open the city gate and surrender the land, Li Dian had already handed over the blockade task to Yonghong, and he went to Chongqing and Wangxian non-stop.

When Yonghong took over the household registration register and the key to the treasury from Wu Qin's hands, he was very depressed, his fifteenth division as the only one composed of all barbarians, since the formation of the army, he was deeply shocked, and finally got the battle, he was deploying how to annihilate the enemy, but he surrendered by himself, he felt that his heavy punch was like smashing on cotton, not only did not hurt the enemy, but flashed his waist, Is there anything more depressing in the world? However, the military discipline of the Yizhou Army strictly forbade harming the surrendered enemy troops, and violators were severely punished, so he had to reluctantly accept Wu Qin's surrender.

After bidding farewell to Yonghong, Li Dian divided the soldiers and horses into two, one was led by the deputy brigade commander to capture Yulu, and he led the rest to capture Wangxian.

Yulu, Huangxian, and Chencang were also facing a severe shortage of troops, and the situation in both places was even worse, and they had no dangerous terrain to hold onto.

Yu Ling is very knowledgeable about affairs, just heard that the Yizhou army arrived, immediately led the crowd to surrender, to the county of Huangxian Zhou Yuan was a little loyal, seeing that Li Dian's army not only did not surrender, but ordered to close the gates, stick to Dong Zhuo's reinforcements. He was originally a member of the Xiliang Army, he was injured in the Battle of Luoyang, and after he escaped by luck, he was physically disabled and could not continue to stay in the army, so he used his years of looting to buy the post of Huangxian Commander and became his county magistrate. Of course, the officials who spent money to buy them could not lose money, so he vigorously "carried forward" the set in the Xiliang Army in Wangxian County, and it can be said that burning, killing, and looting were all evil, and in just a few years, he amassed as much as dozens of times the wealth of the officials who bought them. After doing all the bad things, he knew that once he fell into the hands of the Yizhou army, he would inevitably die, and his huge wealth would become the spoils of others, so he chose to resist stubbornly. But not everyone is as guilty as him, the county lieutenant and the county Cheng plan to secretly open the city gate and welcome the Yizhou army into the city after hard persuasion to no avail, why didn't they capture Zhou Yuan and hand it over to Li Dian, so wouldn't the credit be greater? It's not that they are thinking of the name of master and servant, and they don't want to meet Zhou Yuan's sword soldiers, it's really that they can't do anything!

It turned out that Zhou Yuan knew that he had done all the bad things and enemies everywhere, in order to save his own life, he spent a lot of money to raise a private army of 500 people, this army was well-equipped, the food was sufficient, and the combat effectiveness was not even weak Xiliang elite soldiers, no matter where Zhou Yuan went, this private soldier would not leave the left and right. The hundreds of county soldiers in Wangxian were far from their enemies, and they were undoubtedly self-defeating, and the county lieutenant and the county Cheng had to choose to steal the city gate and let the Yizhou army clean up Zhou Yuan's plan. What they didn't know was that in order to prevent his subordinates from betraying him, Zhou Yuan secretly arranged a small number of soldiers and horses at each gate, and their actions soon fell into the eyes of Zhou Yuan's private soldiers. Fortunately, a few clever defenders took advantage of the opportunity of fighting with others and had no time to care, opened the city gates, and then they rushed out of the city without looking back, shouting as they ran: "We surrender, surrender ......"

Along the open city gate, Li Dian saw the situation inside, only to see more than 100 defenders overwhelmed by more than a dozen enemies, and some people kept falling and some fleeing......

The county lieutenant also shouted on the city wall at this time: "The general of the Yizhou army, I am the county lieutenant of this county, and I and the county commander are determined to surrender, but the county commander Zhou Yuan is obsessed and unwilling to surrender, and we and the county commander have a fire and ...... Our men are almost unable to hold on, please send troops to attack as soon as possible, otherwise once our men are killed and scattered, the city gate is closed, and the general wants to break through again, it will inevitably greatly increase the casualties of the general's soldiers......"

In order to prevent fraud, Li Dian decided to test it, he called a tun commander and ordered him to lead his troops to capture the city gate.

The commander answered the order and led his troops straight to the city gate. When they arrived, the defenders at the city gate had all been killed, and none of the thirteen Zhou Yuan's private soldiers had died, only two were slightly wounded, and they were desperate to close the city gate......

"Fortunately, it's in time, otherwise it would be really difficult for my First Cavalry Brigade to take this small Wangxian County!" Li Dian looked at the soldiers who rushed to the city gate at the last moment and thought secretly.

Thirteen private soldiers against more than 100 county soldiers is really arrogant, but when the opponent was replaced by Yizhou elite cavalry, the Yizhou cavalry only used a round of crossbow strikes, so they suffered ten casualties, there is no suspense, these thirteen private soldiers did not hurt a single Yizhou army, they were all killed, and the city gate was firmly in the hands of the Yizhou army.

Li Dian called three tun chiefs, each led the department to block the east, south, and north three gates, he personally led the army from the west gate to rush into the city, as soon as he entered the city, he met the oncoming Zhou Yuan's private soldiers, the narrow street is not suitable for cavalry galloping, Li Dian ordered the troops to kill and wound more than 100 enemies with a round of crossbow arrows, and ordered the whole army to dismount, foot battle against the enemy.

Zhou Yuan's private soldiers were indeed good, and they fought as soon as they clashed, but they cut down more than 20 Yizhou troops. The long and narrow streets made Li Diankong have the advantage of strength but could not expand, and most of the soldiers could only watch their comrades fight with the enemy in the back, and they could not do anything but wave their flags and shout. Li Dian immediately ordered someone to bring the county lieutenant up, ordered him to lead the way, and led a battalion of soldiers and horses around behind the private soldiers to attack back and forth.

This decision was quickly effective, and the enemy troops surrounded in the middle of the street were caught in a flanking attack, and the position was in disarray, and it took just over a quarter of an hour to suffer casualties, and finally fifty or sixty enemy troops were outnumbered and chose to surrender.

The small Huangxian County actually let the First Independent Cavalry Brigade pay the price of 96 killed and 84 wounded, looking at the slowly cold corpses of the soldiers, Li Dian's heart was furious, he ordered someone to escort the captured Zhou Yuan to the bloodstained battlefield, after listing his crimes, he beheaded Zhou Yuan in front of the people of the county, that is, to comfort the dead soldiers, but also to avenge the innocent people who were persecuted by Zhou Yuan over the years, and Zhou Yuan was killed along with 28 people who aided in the abuse and became notorious.

The people of Huangxian County, who had suffered a lot, saw Zhou Yuan and others beheaded, and many people fell to the ground with excitement, crying uncontrollably. Li Dian, who eliminated the harm in Wang County, was immediately regarded as a benefactor by the people of the county, and hundreds of people knelt in front of him and expressed their gratitude with tears in their eyes.

After learning that Yonghong and Li Dian captured the three counties, Wei Yan did not stop in moderation, leaving the elite troops to guard the three counties and Sanguan, he divided the troops into several branches, ranging from 5,000 to 15,000 each, and attacked Yu County, Yongxian County, Yuli and other counties to the east, in order to completely shake Dong Zhuo's foundation, Wei Yan ordered the main force to go north deep into the hinterland of Liangzhou, aiming directly at Anding, Tianshui, Longxi and other counties, at the same time, a group of less than ten capable soldiers took off their bright armor, disguised as Qiang herdsmen, and went all the way to the northwest.