750. Advance to Taishan County
This Guan Yu thought it was very beautiful, but Tai Shici didn't pay attention to it at all.
Tai Shi Ci is now the main general of the first army, how can he easily fight with others, if he is a general, he may be happy to compete with Guan Yu in front of the battle, after all, Tai Shi Ci himself is also a fierce general.
But this time, Tai Shi Ci directly set up a goose-shaped offensive formation and rushed towards Liu Beijun led by Guan Yu.
Guan Yu came out to challenge with only more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and saw that Tai Shi Ci completely ignored himself, where did he dare to use more than 1,000 people to meet Tai Shi Ci's more than 15,000 people, so he hurriedly retreated back to Langqiu County.
As a result, Tai Shici did not delay time, and led his troops to chase Guan Yu to Langqiu County, and launched a strong attack on the county seat.
The city wall of Langqiu County was not high, so Tai Shi Ci just let the crossbow archers and archers press the formation in the rear, and drove three or four thousand sword and shield men to carry the siege ladder in front and launched a strong attack.
Guan Yu had just fled back to the city, and he didn't even have time to command, and Mi Fang, who stayed in Langqiu County and was in charge of the city defense, was already a little unable to resist.
Zhu Weijun of the Divine Arrow Battalion led by Tai Shici and Liu Beijun led by Guan Yu, not to mention that there is a big gap in training and morale, and now there is a gap of three or four times in terms of strength.
In addition, Guan Yu originally wanted to fight Tai Shici alone to delay Zhu Weijun's tactics and completely failed, Guan Yu hurriedly withdrew to Langqiu County, so naturally there was no way to organize any effective defense.
Therefore, the one who originally stayed in Langqiu County to be responsible for defense was Liu Bei's brother-in-law Mi Fang.
But this Langqiu County is just a small county, although there is a rammed earth city wall, but the city wall is no more than two stories high, Zhu Weijun only needs to use the siege ladder to go up, can rush up the city wall after three or five steps.
In addition, Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion was originally an army that specialized in archery, so when the siege infantry in front charged, at least four or five thousand archers in the rear covered the city wall and inside the city wall.
Liu Beijun, who stayed in Langqiu County in this way, really couldn't resist, where could he organize an effective defense, and was soon rushed to the city wall by the siege infantry of the Shenjian battalion.
Having lost the defensive advantage of the city wall, how could Liu Beijun, who was not superior in strength, resist the attack of Zhu Weijun, so Guan Yu, who had just fled back to the city, saw Mi Fang lead his troops to withdraw from the city wall before he had time to take a breath.
In this way, Guan Yu had nothing to say, so he could only retreat directly from the north gate of Langqiu County after converging with Mi Fang.
Tai Shici led the troops to chase and kill all the way, and directly killed most of Liu Bei's 4,000 elite main forces, and Guan Yu and Mi Fang finally fled back to Kaiyang County with only more than 1,000 remnants.
Later, although Tai Shici also gathered the main force of the pursuing army, he still sent Ma Zhong with 3,000 troops to continue the pursuit, and directly followed the defeated troops of Guan Yu and Mi Fang to the territory of Kaiyang County.
After Liu Bei sent Guan Yu and Mi Fang to block Tai Shici on the side of Kaiyang County, he also used the fastest time to clean up his family, originally Liu Bei thought that if he had time, he could take away the people he migrated from Xiaopei, but Guan Yu's side was defeated too quickly.
Hearing the news of Guan Yu's defeat from the scouts, Liu Bei couldn't care about anything else, so he could only lead his troops to retreat at the first time, so Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to bring some soldiers and horses to meet Guan Yu, and then he didn't dare to counterattack the pursuers led by Ma Zhong, and the whole army withdrew to Taishan County.
Ma Zhong occupied Kaiyang County effortlessly, and after Tai Shi Ci's follow-up main force arrived, Tai Shi Ci simply dealt with the local civil affairs in Kaiyang County, and then led his troops to chase Liu Beijun to Taishan County.
Since things are going so well, then the battlefield can be directly placed in the territory of Taishan County.
Therefore, Tai Shici quickly sent military orders to Xu Shu, Bao Long, and Chen Ying, who were left in Donghai County, and asked them to lead troops to Taishan County to join him, and they could go north directly to attack Zang Ba.
However, Taishan County is the nest that Zang Ba has occupied for many years, so Tai Shici did not dare to venture easily, so he first occupied Feiguo County in the south of Taishan County and stopped.
This Taishan County is located in the central Lu region, the territory is mostly mountainous, especially in the north of Mount Tai, Lu Mountain, Culai Mountain terrain is the most complex, there are many peaks up to six or seven hundred meters, there are also many precipitous mountains by granite structure.
The Taishan thieves of Zang Ba are mainly based on the mountainous areas in the north of Taishan County as their nest, and now Zang Ba occupies Taishan County Zhifeng Gao County, which is almost in the area between Mount Tai and Culai Mountain.
The southern area of Taishan County is also full of mountains, a Mengshan Mountain traverses the middle of Taishan County, and Zhongni Mountain, which is said to be the hometown of Confucius Sage, also spreads in the southern part of Taishan County.
In fact, this side of Zhongni Mountain originally belonged to Donghai County, and now Feiguo County, which Tai Shici occupies, is also divided from Donghai County to Taishan County.
According to the direction of the official road in Xuzhou, from Pengchengguo, which Zhu Weijun now occupies, to Taishan County, there is indeed only one way to bypass Zhongni Mountain in the south of Taishan County, enter Langya County from Donghai County, and then enter Feiguo County of Taishan County along the Wushui River.
Next, it is along the Wushui River to the northwest to reach Nanwuyang County, and then diagonally through the Mengshan area in the central part of Taishan County, and to Liangfu County, which is located in the north of Taishan County.
According to Tai Shici's estimates, if he leads his troops into Taishan County, he is likely to engage the combined forces of Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei's remnants here.
Because if you continue to take the official road to the north to Fenggao County, Zangba's old nest, you will have to follow the Wenshui River, from the west of Culai Mountain, bypass Yangguan City, Longxiang City and two small towns to Bo County, and then Fenggao County is located.
It can be said that Taishan County has formed an E-shaped landform with the help of the mountains, except for the three horizontal lines of the E-shape, the rest of the place is a mountainous area, which is not easy for the army to pass through.
Therefore, Zang Ba will definitely send troops to Liangfu County to meet the Zhu Wei army led by Tai Shici, only in this way can Zhu Weijun be blocked on the periphery of his territory, and this Zang Ba does not want the war to spread to the territory under his control, then the foundation he has developed in Taishan County for many years will also be destroyed in the war.
Of course, if Zang Ba really can't resist it, he can still retreat into the mountains of Mount Tai, Lushan, and Culai Mountain.
In that case, for Zhu Weijun, if he wants to completely exterminate Zang Ba, it will be time-consuming and laborious, but compared to Zang Ba, he must also abandon the territory he has been operating outside the mountains for many years and hide back in the mountains to be a bandit.
Now Yuan Tan led the army from Qingzhou into Taishan County, and he also wanted to enter the territory of Taishan County from Ying County in the north of Taishan County and then through Fenggao County, and then advance along the route of Fangcai to the inner hinterland of Xuzhou in the south.
Zang Ba was a little worried that after Yuan Tan led his troops into his old nest Fenggao County, he would take the opportunity to swallow his territory first, and then coerce Zang Ba's army to attack Pengcheng.
That's why I bargained with Yuan Tan, hoping that Yuan Tan could guarantee that he wouldn't do anything when he borrowed the road......