Chapter 310: Annexation of Qinghe Kingdom
In November, when Tao Ying captured Cao Cao's pioneer Le Jin, Cao Cao heard that Le Jin was captured, and his eyes were almost fainted. He has not lost a single general in the southern and northern wars for so many years, but he doesn't want to fight with Tao Ying in the past two years, first he was beheaded by Zhang Liao Xiahou Yuan, and now he was captured by Tao Ying Lejin, and he lost two generals in a row, which made Cao Cao suddenly feel that the road to the east was full of hardships. When the vanguard was captured, the morale was reduced, so Guo Jia suggested that it was better to raise enough morale after the winter to fight again. After hearing this, Cao Cao felt that he could not miss the opportunity, so he ordered all his troops to seize the time to attack the city.
In December, winter came, and the smell of war spread in Xuzhou. Ma Teng led his troops from Xiliang to Bingzhou, and Zhuge Liang led Zhang Liao and Zhang He to meet Ma Teng in Bingzhou. Zhong Miao led his troops to attack Hexi County, and Deng Ai led his troops to defend Hexi and fought with Zhong Xuan. In the south, Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao raised another 20,000 troops to attack Nanyang Liu Xiu, and Liu Xiu led the troops to fight back. Little by little, the battle report came, and in the spring of 209, news came from the south that Sun Quan led his troops to attack Huainan County.
The battle reports were placed in front of Tao Ying's table, making Tao Ying feel that his scalp was blowing up. Tao Ying consulted with Jia Xu and others, and Jia Xu said that the current strategy can only be a full-scale declaration of war, and at the same time declare war, let Deng Ai send a surprise army to break through Xu Du and take out the Han Emperor to reduce the crisis. So Tao Ying began to dispatch troops again, and Jia Xu suggested that Zang Ba first lead the Qingzhou soldiers and horses out of Qingzhou to attack Taishan County, and then join Tao Ying in Shanyang County, and then attack Liu Bei together.
So in the spring of 209, Zang Ba led his troops to Taishan County. Mount Tai is Zang Ba's old nest, and Mount Tai knows that he is not Zang Ba's opponent, so he will sacrifice the city. Zang Ba effortlessly won Taishan County, and then led Qingzhou soldiers and horses to attack Lu and Jibei. Qingzhou has been in war for a long time, the soldiers are brave, and in recent years, Qingzhou has developed rapidly, the industry is developed, and the military industry is also developed, so Zang Ba led the troops to break through the northern country of Jibei in a month. Gao Shun led the trapped camp to break through the Lu State, and the two joined forces to break through the Dongping Kingdom, and entered the territory of Shanyang County from the Dongping Kingdom.
At this time, Tao Ying led Wen Chou and Tai Shici to resist Liu Bei in Changyi, and the two killed each other for a winter. Liu Bei's generals Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were invincible, and Tao Ying guarded the city and did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle. Guan Yu attacked the city, Tao Ying came into contact with the power of the artillery and Guan Yu's consumption, Guan Yu's equipment was poor, not only did he not break through Changyi in one winter, but also left nearly 1,000 corpses under the city of Changyi.
After Zang Ba led his troops and Gao Shun to Shanyang County, the war in the south had already begun. First of all, Yuan Shang led 5,000 soldiers and horses to attack Peiguo from Runan, and Peiguo's defender Lu Qian and Xuzhou defenders Ban and Li Dian led troops to repel Yuan Shang's soldiers and horses. After defeating Yuan Shang, Zhou Yu had already broken through the four cities in the south of Huainan County, and Yu Ban was busy with Li Dian to defend Shouchun City, the capital of Huainan. Zhou Yu led the troops to kill until Shouchun, and surrounded Shouchun with a ban on death.
Yu Ban hurriedly rescued Xuzhou, and Tao Ying ordered a full-scale war against Sun Quan, and all the nearly 500,000 troops recruited were lined up on the battlefield to fight to the death with Cao Cao's coalition army! So Gan Ning led Xuzhou's most advanced naval army from the Yangtze River to Danyang County to attack Sun Quan's army and horses stationed in Danyang.
After Gan Ning set off, Jiangnan Fu sent Dong Xi and Jiang Qin to lead the Jiangnan Navy Division to attack Liyang, Jiangnan Fu planned to rely on the flexible advantage of small and medium-sized warships to first break through Wanling, the capital of Danyang County, and seize the first merit of the battle against Sun Quan, and then go all the way north to join Gan Ning to attack Lujiang County, and fight to the death with Sun Quan's water division on the Yangtze River.
After the full-scale war between Jiangnan and Guangling, all the warships of the two provinces went to the Yangtze River, and two large shipyards were also rushing to build the Jiangnan battleship day and night. In order to let the Jiangnan be launched into service as soon as possible, the two governments abandoned their previous suspicions and transferred all the workers to the construction factory of the Jiangnan, so the work started day and night, and the Jiangnan was soon built.
As the two wealthy prefectures of Jiangnan and Guangling also declared war on Sun Quan, Sun Shao of Jiujiang Mansion also declared war against Jingzhou. A large number of military horses in Jingzhou were concentrated in attacking Wancheng, although Wancheng Zhang Xiu fought back, but he was helpless, and was soon attacked by Jingzhou in six counties. After Jiujiang Mansion declared war on Jingzhou, Jiangxia Huang Zu took the lead in leading troops to attack Nanjun, and Jingzhou had to lead troops south to resist Huang Zu, which relieved the pressure on Zhang Xiu in Nanyang in the north.
After Huang Zu entered the war, Xu Sheng led the troops of Jiujiang from Jiujiang City to the north to attack Luyang County in Yangzhou, and Sun Quan was forced to return to Zhou Yu to defend Xu Sheng and Sun Shao in Jiujiang County in the south. After Zhou Yu left, Sun Quan led his troops to personally resist the naval forces of Gan Ning and Jiang Qin, and the north ordered the veteran Huang Gai to block Yu Ban's offensive in Huainan, and Sun Quan's threat to Pengcheng was relieved for a while.
After solving Sun Quan's threat, news came from Bianjing again, Cao Cao himself led his troops and horses to attack Liang State, but behind his back let Cao Ren lead the troops to attack the three cities of Bianjing, at this time the three cities of Bianjing and Hexi County fell into the encirclement of Cao Ren and Zhong Xuan, Deng Ai has sent several urgent letters in a row, how can Zhuge Liang and Ma Teng over there fall into a bitter battle, unable to support the three cities of Bianjing, so Tao Ying bothered a lot of brains.
The three cities of Bianjing have so much grain and grass that they can't lose, if they lose the three cities, Cao Cao will have grain and grass, and then this war will continue to be fought. After thinking about it, Tao Ying ordered Deng Ai to abandon Hexi County and concentrate the soldiers and horses in the three cities of Bianjing, and then wait for Zang Ba's rescue.
When Cao Cao declared war on Tao Ying, Cao Cao concentrated his main troops and horses in Yanzhou, so the northern Jizhou army was lacking, and Liu Ye of Liaoning Mansion saw that this was an opportunity, so he and Liu Xiang raised 20,000 troops from Liaoning Prefecture to attack Jizhou through Youzhou. Liu Ye wanted to use this to attract Cao Cao's troops, so as to relieve the pressure on the various departments in Xuzhou. After Liu Ye arrived in Youzhou, Youzhou Gao Lan saw that he had a meritorious service, so he led his troops with Liu Ye to attack Jizhou.
So in May, Liu Ye and Gao Ran went to Jizhou together. The sudden killing of the Liaoning Army and the Youzhou Army made Jizhou unexpected, so they were caught off guard. When Jizhou organized the resistance of soldiers and horses, and because there was no general defense, Liu Ye and Gao Ran beat nearly ten cities, Jizhou Mu saw that it was difficult to resist so he told Xu Du urgently, Cao Cao hurriedly transferred Xiahoudun to defend Jizhou, Xiahoudun rushed to Jizhou, Jizhou has been Liu Ye and Gao Ran hit nearly half of the territory.
After Xiahoudun arrived in Jizhou, he organized soldiers and horses to defend, but at this time, the three counties of Zhongshan Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom, and Hejian Kingdom in the north of Jizhou had been captured by Gao Ran and Liu Ye, and Xiahoudun wanted to organize forces to recover the north, but because of the lack of food and grass, Xiahoudun was deeply tired.
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