Chapter 311: The Fierce General
Cao De occupied Chang'an in the east, recovered Duan Xuan without spending a single soldier, and won Tongguan and Hangu Pass. The www.biquge.info of Cao De and Cao Cao's territories are finally connected.
In the west, Cao De asked Xu Shu and Cao Ren to take the Suzaku Cavalry, the Xuanwu Cavalry and the Sharp Spear Battalion to take the right Fufeng, and Chen soldiers were near Wangxian County.
At present, the enemy Xu Shu is facing is mainly the general Li Dao who retreated to Liangzhou and the more than 60,000 soldiers and horses under his command.
Xu Shu's current consideration is whether to take advantage of Li Wei's panic and take Liangzhou in one fell swoop.
However, the most important thing for Cao De at present is Chang'an. Therefore, Xu Shu stopped, ready to take a look at the situation of Cao De in the east before making plans.
Cao De didn't let Xu Shu wait for a long time. On the third day after Xu Shu's camp was built, Cao De's fast horse came. Let Xu Shu prepare for the army to go west to Liangzhou.
Four days later, the army sent by Cao De arrived. Xiahou Yuan, Lu Bu, Zhang Liao, and Duan Xuan came with nearly 70,000 people.
Xu Shu looked at it and was dumbfounded, where did the lord get the 70,000 army. In this expedition, there were only 46,000 infantry brought from home, and now there are 10,000 around Xu Shu, 10,000 in Ganting and Juxian, and 70,000 troops from where did they come from.
After Xiahou Yuan's explanation, Xu Shu finally understood. Cao De gathered the troops in this war and threw them to Xu Shu.
The current Cao De seems to have 180,000 troops, but it is a little insufficient. There are 70,000 troops left in Yizhou, and the newly arrived Hangu Pass is the focus, and Chang'an is the top priority. Therefore, Cao De could only use forty or fifty thousand people to attack Liangzhou.
This is too few men and horses for the more than 60,000 soldiers and horses who are fierce and have Li Wei. Therefore, Cao De used a risky trick.
It is very dangerous to surrender troops. In case they pick their picks at a critical moment, they really have nowhere to cry. But Cao De did it anyway. It's not that Cao Deyi is bold, but he can't help it.
Now Li Dao is already a frightened bird, and it is likely that only one straw will be needed to break Li Dao's backbone. And if Li Dao returns to Liangzhou and gains a firm foothold, it will not be so easy for Cao De to take Liangzhou again. So, Cao De did it.
The 120,000-strong army has been assembled near Wangxian. Cao De stayed in Chang'an and didn't come out, so Cao Ren became the chief general of this army, and Xu Shu was the military advisor.
Although Cao De did not come, he asked Xiahou Yuan to bring an order, an army of 120,000 troops, divided into four routes, to take Liangzhou together.
And the generals of these five roads are the young generals that Cao De has always wanted to experience.
Zhang Liao and Lu Bu all the way, Wei Yan and Zhang Liao all the way, Ma Chao and Xiahou Yuan all the way. They led 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry in a forked shape, marching in unison. And Cao Ren and Xu Shu took the remaining troops as the Chinese army, followed behind the three of them, step by step.
Cao De's 120,000-strong army entered Hanyang County from Longguan in a menacing manner.
And now Li Dao is also very sad. With more than 60,000 troops, he has been wandering around the land of Liangzhou for more than half a month, but Li Dao found that every city on the land of Liangzhou would not open the city gate to them.
It's not fun. If you can't enter the city, you won't be able to replenish it, and the more than 60,000 people in Li Dao will only starve to death.
It's not that Li Dao hasn't attacked the city with a ruthless attack. But after the city was broken, Li Dao found that the men, women, and children in the city regarded themselves as robbers. Even if you die, you will not be obedient to the people.
Li Dao slaughtered the city, and there was no one alive in the tens of thousands of people in the city, but Li Dao did not find enough food from this city for 60,000 troops to eat.
Li Wei forgot, forgot how he had carried out the expropriation of Liangzhou in the past two years.
It's April and May, so the grain in the field has just grown a few feet long, and it's still early to harvest. And now the people have to calculate the amount of food that is almost gone, how can there be so much food to feed 60,000 young and strong laborers.
In recent years, Liangzhou, as Li Wei's hometown, not only did not do anything serious for the villagers, but intensified the expropriation and expropriation. Therefore, when Li Dao returned to his hometown, he should have been a fellow with tears in his eyes, but he couldn't wait to pick Li Dao's skin and eat Li Dao's meat.
When Li Dao walked to the next city with the half-fed soldiers, but before Li Dao could launch another siege, Li Dao arranged for the sentinels to stay behind to monitor the movements of Cao De's army, and found the 120,000 Cao De army starting from Youfufeng.
Li Dao's sentry cavalry hurriedly rushed in the direction of Li Dao, but now Li Dao was still busy attacking the city.
A day later, Li Daoman, who had just eaten enough, thought that he could finally sleep peacefully, but the news brought back by the sentry rider made Li Dao's sleepiness disappear immediately.
An army of 120,000 marches together! Don't let people live! How did Cao De send troops at this juncture. It's really taking advantage of people's illness to kill people.
There was no way, Li Dao hurriedly summoned the main generals under his command and discussed, what should we do. Cao De's 120,000-strong army is coming soon. Previously, we had Chang'an as a base and had to avoid Cao De's edge, but now it's good, people have hit the gate directly.
In the current situation, the best option for Li Dao is to surrender. But who is Li Dao, the general. Isn't it a joke to let Li Dao, a great general, the man who dominates the world's soldiers, surrender to a chariot general who is several orders younger than himself.
Li Dao didn't want to surrender, but he had a fight with Cao De, and his own grain and grass were not enough. Moreover, he is already rootless, and the soldiers under him know that they don't even have a home, how should this battle be fought.
Li Dao didn't do it, and his elder brother generals also came up with some good ideas. And at this moment, Li Dao suddenly said: "I have endured all kinds of hardships in the past few years, and I have enjoyed all kinds of glory and wealth." But let General Ben surrender to Cao De, wouldn't he be ridiculed by the world. You are my generals, you go to surrender to Cao De, and no one in the world will gossip. Go ahead, and if Cao De won't believe you, take my head with you!" Even the last thing I did for my 60,000-odd brothers. ”
Could it be that Li Dao has changed his mind, and Li Dao's conscience has found out.
No, when many generals persuaded Li Dao, there were still a few generals who complained to Li Dao that they were drunk, and then they were ready to surrender to Cao De. However, the ten axemen who came in from outside the door chopped them into pulp in an instant.
The generals understood that this was the general testing us. Li Wei looked at the people who understood what he meant and nodded with satisfaction. "In that case, then I'll take you to the Western Regions!"
The Western Regions, in fact, Dunhuang County in Liangzhou can be regarded as the Western Regions. If Li Dao really pulled the 60,000 people under his command to the Western Regions, it would be no problem to make a name for himself. However, Li Dao did not wait for that day.
On the night when Li Dao made up his mind to go to the Western Regions, Li Dao was chopped into pulp in his sleep by five or six generals who had the intention of surrendering to Cao De but did not dare to speak out at that time.
A man of more than 180 pounds, in addition to the fact that the head is complete, where is there a piece of good meat. And Li Dao's head also played its biggest role in the end.
Li Dao's head was given to Cao De by several renegade generals, and he surrendered to Cao De with this as a vote!