Wellcome fled, and so did the state soldiers.

Yang Feng's army, which launched a back attack on the west bank of the river, was like a devastating force, killing more than 4,000 people in a battle, and defeating the largest support army in Jicheng in one fell swoop, Wei Kang, Yang Fu, Zhao Ang, Pang Yu and others with more than 3,000 remnants did not dare to go to the direction of Jicheng, where the enemy army gathered, but fled to the warrior city that had not yet fallen, avoiding the pursuers.

As Yang Fengjun escorted a large number of state soldiers to return to Jicheng, Guanzhong rode under the city in front of the guards to show off their might, and these complex emotions brewing in the city reached the critical point of outbreak.

That night, there was a small-scale unrest in Jicheng City, and several city defenders left the city and defected to the Guanzhong soldiers and horses outside the city.

In addition, the reinforcements from various cities that Wei Duan had high hopes for were also nowhere to be seen. I heard that Wangyuan City has surrendered, in addition, except for the four cities of Xixian, Shangtai, Qidao, and Warriors, who have not yet received the news of the fall, the other cities have either surrendered or been captured, and have fallen into the hands of the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong.

The reinforcements that Wei Duan could have relied on were gone.

However, Wei Duan still refused to surrender immediately, and he was already desperate to rely solely on his own forces to repel the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong, and secretly hoped in his heart that other cool land forces would rush to support, or that the Diren tribes in Hanyang would riot, forcing the Ganling army outside the city to break the siege of Jicheng.

In fact, Li Piao, who withdrew after following the state soldiers, did send people to Jicheng, but their mission was not to rescue Wei Duan, who was trapped in a lonely city.

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Outside the city of Jicheng, Ganling camp.

"Jia Gong, look, how are we going to deal with the envoy sent by Longxi?"

Gan Ling and Li Biao are also old acquaintances, in the Liangzhou Coalition Army, Li Biao was a new talent in the army, and Gan Ling was a confidant under Yan Xing, the two have met many times, and they have some impressions of each other.

This time, Li Biao sent an envoy to Jicheng to meet Ganling, mainly to ask Yan Xing in the Tiger Pass for the official position of Taishou of Longxi, and took the initiative to ask for assistance to Wang Shi to attack the remnants of Weikang who were cowering in Warrior City.

Although Li Biao defeated Han Sui, whose strength was greatly damaged, and took over the position of the Jincheng Han family, his internal situation was not stable. The battle against Wuwei Zhang Meng this time, because of the temporary retreat of the state soldiers led by Wei Kang, the allied forces were defeated, and then the futile return of Li Biao in Longxi exacerbated the dissatisfaction of all the people under his command.

He urgently needs to be recognized by the righteousness of the imperial court or another more powerful force, and at the same time, he also wants to know how big the appetite of the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong is in reality.

Gan Ling couldn't get his idea, so he immediately invited Jia Xu and asked him how to deal with it.

Jia Xu seemed to have expected the situation of Li Biao's envoy coming, he stroked his goat's beard, and said indifferently to Gan Ling:

"Before the army was in the cold, the hussar general and I discussed it. At present, Han Sui and Handan Shang are either fleeing or dying, Zhang Meng is too busy to take care of himself, and our army is attacking Wei Duan, and the only one who may react is Li Piao's family. ”

"If Li Biao has the intention of being the enemy, he will only lead the army to rescue Jicheng at this time, and naturally he will not stand still and send an envoy to visit him."

"It can be seen from this that Li Biao's foundation is not stable, and secondly, he is also afraid of the army after experiencing the Huaili War, so he wants to test our army's attitude towards his people by sending envoys to seek officials, and by the way, he also wants to try to see if he can take the opportunity to annex Nan'an County."

Therefore, the general can promise to ask the two counties of Longxi and Jincheng for him and Li Yuebiao, which is also the meaning of the hussar general. As for sending troops to Nan'an County, he sternly refused, and ordered his soldiers and horses to strictly abide by the imperial court decrees and not cross the border to attack thieves without authorization. ”

After listening to Jia Xu's words, Gan Ling thought about it, still had concerns in his heart, and asked again:

"Let him and Li Yue serve as the Taishou of Longxi and Jincheng respectively, which will inevitably give their Li family too many benefits, I am afraid that in the name of the imperial court, and then let it sit big, the Li family will form a big tail in the future!"

Jia Xu nodded and said:

"General Gan's concerns are not unreasonable, it's just that Li Piao's foundation is still shallow, and he suddenly became a high position, so he must first stabilize the internal before he can make a difference externally. Since he has no intention of being an enemy of the army now, we might as well make peace with him first, and after solving the Wei family's father and son, it is not too late to free up our hands to solve Li Biao in Longxi. ”

"Okay, since the meaning of Ming Gong and Changshi is the same, then Ling will not repeat it. I then received Li Biao's envoys, allowed him to be the Taishou of Longxi and Jincheng, and ordered him not to cross the border to attack Nan'an County. ”

"In order to appease Li Piao's heart, you might as well send Zhao Jun to return with Li Piao's envoy and go to Li Piao's army to lobby to stabilize Li Piao's soldiers and horses."

"This matter is very good, just according to Jia Gong!"

Gan Ling and Jia Xu quickly finalized their strategy for dealing with Li Biao, and then Zhao Hong also followed Li Biao's envoy back to Li Biao's army and explained to Li Biao the attitude and decision of Yan Xing's side.

Accidentally got one more Jincheng Taishou, Li Biao and his subordinate Li Yue and others were naturally happy in their hearts, and from Zhao Hong's words, Li Biao also tested Yan Xing's current attitude towards himself:

For the two counties of Longxi and Jincheng, which had fallen under his control, Yan Xing simply chose to admit his control over the two counties, while for the other counties under the rule of Liangzhou, Yan Xing had a tough attitude and would never allow other forces to get involved.

This attitude of both soft and hard is also in line with Li Biao's expectations, he has no intention of rescuing Wei Duan and the Ganling army as enemies, and no longer invests most of his attention on Hanyang and Nan'an counties, but concentrates his strength, and instead focuses on the unstable interior of Longxi and Jincheng counties under his control.

So far, Jicheng has truly become a lonely city isolated from the outside world and without reinforcements.

Wei Duan's situation became more and more difficult, and the number of people who openly and secretly advised him to go out of the city and surrender every day also increased.

In this way, after the two sides inside and outside the city of Ji held each other for another ten days, Wei Duan finally couldn't withstand the huge pressure inside and outside the city, and with the assistance of Yan Wen, Jiang Xu, Yin Feng and others, he chose to surrender to the Ganling army.

Jicheng was down, and the cities of Xixian, Shangtai, Qidao, and Warriors were also spread in the following days. The main general Gan Ling commanded the army to enter Jicheng, feasted on soldiers, and then sent troops and horses to control the cities under the rule of Hanyang and Nan'an, and firmly planted the military flag of the hussar general Yan Xing on the land of Liangzhou.

For the Wei family father and son who had a stubborn heart of resistance, Gan Ling and others, who had already won the victory, did not insult them and their families, but sent soldiers and horses to send the Wei family and the army back to Guanzhong and handed them over to the hussar general Yan Xing for disposal.

The remaining Yang Fu, Yan Wen and other well-known Liang people, Jia Xu, who began to preside over the political affairs of Liangzhou, will also continue to serve in the state capital, and actively select talents and talents, so as to win the support of more people in Liangdi and realize the smooth replacement of the state government in the future.

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Liangzhou has been pacified, but the mission of the Ganling army has not been completed, and the grain and grass supplied by Guanzhong are still entering Liangdi in an endless stream.

According to the relevant military documents, Gan Ling and other generals learned about the current situation in Yongzhou:

After Wei Kang and Li Biao withdrew their troops one after another, Yan Jun, He Luan, and Zhang Jin under the city of Dun could not hold on for a long time, and several families and horses who came to profit and had their own thoughts were even more angry, and the violent He Luan and Zhang Jin joined forces to kill Yan Jun, who was the object of their rescue at the beginning, and plundered Yan Jun's military resources, coerced Yan Jun's soldiers and horses, gave up the tricky Guzang City, and withdrew the army back to Zhangye.

Zhang Mengli, who was stubbornly guarding Guzang, was unable to catch it and could not pursue, so he could only wait until He Luan, Zhang Jin and others retreated before recovering Wuwei's lost territory one after another.

The Huang family in Jiuquan took advantage of the Yongzhou rebellion in which Handan merchants died and each family crusaded against Zhang Meng, and simply pulled the flag to rebel, and Huang Hua and Huang Ang raised troops to kill Jiuquan Taishou, cut the county and county, and dominate one side.

The Dunhuang County Imperial Court appointed Taishou Ma Ai, I heard that it was also unusable, and became a puppet figure who sat and painted a promise, in order to avoid disaster, he even said that he was ill, and handed over all the military and political affairs of a county to the surname Zhang Jia.

There is no doubt that the four counties of Hexi have been freed from the nominal control of the imperial court to varying degrees because of the great rebellion in Yongzhou, and careerists from all sides no longer have any scruples, imitate each other, support each other, and openly divide the counties in their own territory, and openly oppose the entry of any foreign forces.

In this case, Yan Xing's side must not sit idly by, and the use of troops in Hexi has been put on the agenda of the army.

It's just that how to pacify Yongzhou, but the generals in the army have disagreements:

According to Ganling's assumption, the army had just calmed down the cool land, and Yongzhou was shaken. At present, if the families and horses who are separating counties and rebelling against them see the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong entering Yongzhou again, they will definitely panic and ask for help, raise troops and unite to resist the soldiers and horses of Guanzhong.

Therefore, it is better to show the enemy weakness first, sit back and watch the chaos in Yongzhou, while sand and train the state soldiers who surrendered from Liangzhou, while waiting for the regeneration of disputes between the families and horses of Yongzhou with different thoughts, and then take the Liangzhou state soldiers who are familiar with geography as the lead, and the soldiers and horses in Guanzhong will follow up and calm the chaotic land of Yongzhou in one fell swoop.

However, according to the idea of Yang Feng, a partial general who had just won a big victory, at this time they should select elite soldiers and horses, quickly march into Yongzhou, defeat He Luan, Zhang Jin and others who had just committed rebellion and undecided people's hearts, and pacify Yongzhou as soon as possible before the cold winter of the cool land arrived.

The marching strategies advocated by these two people are very different, but Ganling is the commander of the army who is steady and steady, while Yang Feng is the deputy general of the army who is determined to forge ahead, which makes the wind of the military discussion stalemate for a while, and the generals can only turn to Jia Xu, who is the military advisor, and Pei Ji, who is the supervisor of the army, for advice.