795, the battle of Jinyang City
With the end of the war in Taishan County, Xuzhou, Huang Zhong and Tai Shici naturally sent letters of good fortune to Luoyang and Xiangyang as soon as possible, waiting for Zhu Wei's next military arrangement for them.
However, Zhu Wei had already learned about the war situation in Xuzhou through the Three Kingdoms game system, but at the same time as they sent a letter of victory, he sent a new military order to their side.
Of course, it will still take some time to send the military order from Zhu Wei's side to Huang Zhong and Tai Shici in Taishan County, Xuzhou, maybe ten and a half months later.
Xuzhou and Luoyang are still separated by Yingchuan and Yanzhou controlled by Cao Cao, for the safety of the military order transmission, it is naturally impossible for the herald to arrive directly through the official road, so it is still necessary to take a detour to deliver the military order information.
In this way, Zhu Wei only agreed with Huang Zhong and Tai Shici to send troops to Yanzhou and Yingchuan County where Cao Cao was located at the same time in mid-to-late September, almost in early autumn.
It can be said that Zhu Weijun has prepared Cao Cao's attack strategy, and the next thing is to wait for time to send troops.
Of course, at this time, there were new changes in the war in Jinyang City, Bingzhou, Jiang Wan personally went to Montenegro to see Zhang Yan and successfully said that Zhang Yan brought troops to help, so Zhang Yan sent 40,000 troops from Montenegro, and went to Jinyang City to exchange the Zhu Wei army led by Zhang Liao and Wei Yan.
At this time, Zhu Wei's military order also arrived, and he basically agreed to Jiang Wan's suggestion before, and then let Wei Yan, Jiang Wan, and Zhang Yan continue to stay in Jinyang City to attack Gaogan, as for Zhang Liao's Huyi Battalion light cavalry, he was transferred back to Shangdang County first, waiting for Zhang Xiu to join the Huyi Battalion heavy cavalry and the 40,000 cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu.
As for Ma Teng's Fubo battalion, it was also transferred together, and things have developed to the present, and Ma Teng is not allowed to continue to return to Chang'an to station, so that Ma Teng can also join the final battle against Yuan Shaojun, which can allow Zhu Wei to strengthen his control over Ma Teng's Fubo battalion, and can also increase the strength of Zhu Wei's army.
It can be said that now Zhu Wei has begun to mobilize his available military forces everywhere and is ready to assemble a large army to launch a major counteroffensive against Yuan Shao.
It's just that the war on the side of Jinyang City has just begun, even with the support of the Black Mountain Army brought by Zhang Yan, it is difficult for Wei Yan to break through Jinyang City in a short period of time, and Wei Yan still encountered great difficulties in excavating the city wall of Jinyang City before.
As I said before, the foot of Jinyang City used a large number of stones as the foundation, and with the continuation of Jinyang City from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present, the stones at the foot of the city almost condensed into a whole large rock, so Wei Yan let people dig the foot of the city is naturally very slow.
It is no wonder that in the original history, Jinyang City was besieged many times, even if it was digging water to besiege the city, it was difficult to make the city wall collapse, and the foundation of this city wall was really good.
In this way, after the arrival of Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army, Wei Yan could only use the normal ant-attached siege tactics, with the assistance of various siege equipment, and use the lives of soldiers to climb the walls of this city.
But just as Wei Yan was worried about before, although Zhang Yan led troops to support Zhu Wei's attack on Jinyang City, he was not prepared to be cannon fodder after all, so how to arrange troops to attack Jinyang City still needed Wei Yan and Zhang Yan to discuss.
Fortunately, because of the victories in several previous battles, now Zhu Weijun can directly use the captured weapons and equipment to provide redress for the Montenegrin army brought by Zhang Yan, and it can be said that many weapons and equipment were captured from the 10,000 defeated soldiers before Han Suijun and Gao Gan.
Therefore, with such equipment support, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain soldiers can be regarded as enhancing their combat effectiveness a lot, and Zhang Yan felt Zhu Wei's sincerity, so he was also willing to help attack Jinyang City with all his might, rather than really coping with it.
After discussing this, Wei Yan and Zhang Yan agreed to send troops to attack a city wall area of Jinyang City, and they didn't say who would be cannon fodder or anything, but it was agreed that whoever could attack Jinyang City first would be the first to break through Jinyang City.
In this way, the siege battle on the side of Jinyang City was also fiercely launched.
It's just that Wei Yan still secretly kept a careful thought, he actually didn't care about the credit for breaking Jinyang City, anyway, this time Zhu Wei sent him to participate in the battle of Guanzhong, and he had already gained a lot of credit.
The exploits of capturing Jinyang City can only be regarded as chicken ribs in Wei Yan's opinion.
For the current Wei Yan, he hopes to end the war in Jinyang City as soon as possible, and then participate in the war on the Luoyang side, only by joining the battle in Luoyang can be regarded as the key to participating in Zhu Wei's battle for hegemony in the Central Plains, and can it be counted in the merit book as the founding of the country to assist the lord and the lord to set the world.
As for the gains and losses of Jinyang City, it is just an ordinary work of increasing land, how can it be compared with the work of founding the country.
To be honest, Wei Yan was a little envious of Zhang Liao, this guy was now leading the light cavalry of the Tiger Wing Battalion to get rid of Jinyang City and directly participate in the battle of Luoyang, which made Wei Yan even more unwilling to spend time and troops on Jinyang City's side.
After all, it is still necessary to rely on his army to fight, and since Wei Yan has no way to directly break away from the Battle of Jinyang now, he can only reduce the unnecessary loss of troops as much as possible, and in the next Battle of Luoyang, it will not affect the combat effectiveness of his army because of the problem of troops.
Therefore, Wei Yan took the initiative to restrain some of his strength in the battle against Jinyang City, and relatively preserved his strength, so Zhang Yan seemed to be more vigorous in the war.
However, Zhang Yan does have his own little abacus, on the one hand, he really wants to show his strength through this battle, so as to leave a good impression on Zhu Wei's side, and strive for higher treatment for him to join Zhu Wei in the Black Mountain Army in the future.
On the other hand, Zhu Wei had promised Zhang Yan that he could temporarily settle down after capturing Jinyang City, and also allowed Zhang Yan to move the population hidden in the mountains to Jinyang to settle down.
This is equivalent to allowing the people of Montenegro, who were originally hiding in the mountains and living hard, to have a rich land to settle down and start a business, so this battle can also be regarded as a new home for the Montenegrin army.
As mentioned earlier, the Montenegrin Army under Zhang Yan's current control has gradually come to an end.
After all, life in the mountains is miserable, even if the population controlled by the Montenegrin army cultivates fields in the mountains to grow food, it cannot meet the needs of everyone's food and other materials, otherwise there is no need for the Montenegrin army to go out to plunder, they can be self-sufficient in the mountains and become a small country of their own.
But now, with the previous battles against Yuan Shao, a large number of elite Montenegrin soldiers have died, and there are fewer and fewer Montenegrin young men who can go out of the mountains to rob, so more and more old and weak women and children who stay in the mountains can only survive on their own.
However, the output in the mountains is completely unable to meet the needs of life, and if it goes on for a long time, I am afraid that the population in the mountains will starve to death, which may be one of the reasons why the population of Montenegro has been greatly reduced in the original history.
In this way, if Zhang Yan can get the land of Jinyang, then he can completely let the population of Montenegro hidden in the mountains move to Jinyang to live......