Ma Chao suddenly shuddered when he heard Liu Qi's words, because Jia Xu's strategy was too poisonous, and it was too clever, not to mention Cao Cao, in other words, no one would have thought that someone would not avoid life and death, hide on the frozen river as a disguise, and then detonate the gunpowder, killing hundreds of sergeants on the spot, and sending hundreds of sergeants into the icy river. I am afraid that in the future, as long as Cao Jun sees the Yellow River frozen, he will involuntarily think of this scene that happened today.

After more than half an hour, Cao Cao's army returned to Hebei under the response of reinforcements, and the whole river was quiet again, at this time Zhao Yun also led the army to Dongping, received the county that had no garrison, and then led the army to garrison here, quietly waiting for the arrival of Liu Qi's army, and waiting for the next order.

Two days later, Liu Qi led all the remaining armies to Shouzhang, the capital of Dongping, where Zhao Yun was stationed, except for the wounded Liao Hua and Meng Shu, who led 3,000 Janissaries and 5,000 Wudang Fei troops to defend Baima, Puyang, and Dunqiu, respectively.

Liu Qi knew that Cao Cao was injured and that the Wei army was shocked after the defeat, and he would never dare to send troops from Hebei to attack again, so he decided to concentrate all his efforts and capture Taishan County and Qingzhou's Henan in one go, so he ordered Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Cheng Pu, Wei Yan, Yu Ban and other generals to make preparations and turn the whole line into the attack, and must capture all the territory south of the Yellow River within a month.

Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Wei Yan, Yu Ban and others naturally heard the news that Liu Qi led the main army to defeat Cao Cao, forcing Cao Cao to flee back to Hebei and causing Cao Cao to be seriously injured. Except for Zhang Liao's small attempt to take Jibeiguo, the entire eastern front has not organized a decent attack, which is simply a torture for them who are eager to make contributions.

Fortunately, now they have finally begun to attack, and these generals have launched a counterattack with unprecedented speed like bows and arrows ready to shoot.

All of a sudden. Cao Cao's forces south of the Yellow River immediately faced an unprecedented grim situation.

First of all, Zhang Liao and Cheng Pu launched a fierce attack on Taishan County in the east and south at the same time.

Taishan County's Taishou Lu Qian died on the battlefield of Yanzhou due to the battle, although the county lieutenant Guo Zu, the county prince Sun Qian and others carefully dealt with it, but now they are like a chicken and a dog, and they can't resist the onslaught of the two generals at all. What's more, today's Zhang Liao has long been famous in the area of Yanqing and Xu, and this period of time is even more notorious, and many places even use Zhang Liao's name as a scare to disobedient children, so that Zhang Liao's crying has become a local folk custom, how can Guo Zu and others resist? As a result, after the two sides fought, Zhang Liao suddenly stepped forward. Killed Gongsun Calf with a knife, the morale of the Chu army was greatly shocked, and the Wei army was defeated, and Guo Zu led the soldiers to hide in Mount Tai in shock.

At the same time as Zhang Liao's army fought with Guo Zu, Cheng Pu took advantage of the emptiness of Guo Zu's army to break through the defense line and capture Nanwuyang, Feixian, Huaxian, Nancheng and other places in the south, and occupied all the southern land of Taishan County as his own. Join Zhang Liao's army and be stationed in Fenggao County, Taishan County. After Zhang Liao asked Cheng Putun to garrison Fenggao, since he led the army into the depths of Mount Tai on foot, only three days later, the two armies in a fierce battle at Zhongtianmen, Zhang Liao led the army to annihilate the rest of Guo Zu, killing Guo Zu, the commander of Taishan County. The power of the Wei army was completely eliminated.

At this time, the army led by Liu Qi also came to Fenggao, and got in touch with Wei Yan and Yu Ban and other generals, and decided to send Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao to Laiwu to attack Qi. with Zhao Yun as the main general and Zhang Liao as the deputy general; Tai Shi Ci and Cheng Pu were stationed in Linqu and attacked Beihai, with Tai Shi Ci as the main general and Cheng Pu as the deputy general; Yu Ban was in Dongguan, Wei Yan was in Kaiyang, and Mi Fang was in Zhuqi to attack Chengyang County, and then the three-way army with Tai Shici as the main general entered and occupied Donglai.

This is not because Tai Shi Ci has the highest military position and the strongest command, but because Donglai is Tai Shi Ci's hometown, and similarly, because Tai Shi Ci once rescued Kong Rong in Beihai and had a certain influence, so he was the main general to attack Beihai Kingdom.

Liu Qi led Lü Meng, Zhang Fei, Ma Chao and other troops to set out from Fenggao and attack Jinan and Le'an counties.

Although Zang Ba, the assassin of Qingzhou, was a famous general of Cao Wei, but in the face of a full-scale attack by Liu Qi's army with nearly five times his own strength, now the guards could not take care of each other, so he had no choice but to gradually shrink his forces and garrison the army in Jinan, Qi and Le'an, among which Qi and Jinan were the main cantonments of the army.

Due to the emptiness of the troops of Beihai Kingdom and Chengyang County, coupled with Tai Shici's fame, the Chu army entered and occupied the two places, and then Tai Shici led the army to his hometown Donglai County, relying on his reputation in his hometown, he won the support of the local major families, and Qing Yiyi gained a firm foothold there.

The two armies occupied two counties and one country without blood, and they were naturally happy in their hearts, but whether it was Wei Yan or Tai Shici, or even Cheng Pu and Yu Ban, they all came out of the war, and they were full of strong desire to go into battle to kill the enemy, so they all expressed regret that they could not fight to the death with the enemy army in a dignified manner.

Immediately after, I heard that Liu Qi sent a general, and ordered Tai Shi Ci to lead the Qingzhou Assassin History, and led the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to guard Beihai, Le'an, and Beihai, and at the same time ordered other generals to lead their armies to attack the Qi State where Zang Ba was heavily garrisoned.

It turned out that Zang Ba personally led the army to garrison Linzi, the capital of Qi State, Linzi City has been operating for many years, the city wall is strong, the grain and grass are sufficient, there are 30,000 garrisons in the city, Zang Ba mobilized 50,000 people to defend the city, and at the same time ordered to close the city gate, no one is allowed to enter or exit, all those who violate the order will be killed without forgiveness, Zhao Yun led the army to fight hard for half a month, and the army still did not climb the city, but injured four or five thousand people.

Liu Qi was shocked when he heard the news, and hurriedly ordered Wei Yan, Yu Ban, and Cheng Puzhu generals to support Zhao Yun, and entered Qi from Xixian, Shouguang, and Bochang respectively, surrounded Linzi City, and attacked day and night.

Although it is difficult for the four-way army of nearly 100,000 people to break through Linzi in a short time, Liu Qi is not in a hurry, he knows that the most important thing at present is not Linzi, as long as the main army led by him breaks through Jinan and cuts off the connection between Qi and Hebei, then it will be a matter of time before Linzi City is broken.

And if you can't take Jinan, once spring comes, the Yellow River thaws, Hebei's reinforcements will attack their own back road, and then their main force has to withdraw their troops, and Zang Ba as long as he persists, he can wait until the reinforcements arrive, and then I am afraid that his side will not only not be able to obtain Qi, but even the Donglai, Chengyang, Beihai and other places that he has just obtained may be lost.

Therefore, the main army led by Liu Qi surrounded Licheng, the capital of Jinan, and attacked day and night, and at the same time sent a small number of troops to garrison the north bank of the Yellow River to prevent the arrival of reinforcements from Hebei.

In the camp outside the city, Liu Qi and the civil and military forces discussed the strategy of taking the city.

Liu Qi spoke first and asked softly: "The guard of Licheng is Mao Jue, this person is a famous strategist under Cao Cao's account, when Cao Cao was called king, his henchman Cui Yan because of a sentence 'When the time comes, when there is a change, he angered Cao Cao, and then went to prison and was killed, Mao Jue was unhappy in his heart, and there were many disgraceful words. Cao Cao was furious when he heard the report and put this person in prison, and later because of the tension of the war on the Eastern Front, he relied on Zang Ba's words and reactivated it and ordered him to be the prime minister of Jinan. This person is quite resourceful, it is difficult for us to break through the city by those conventional siege methods, and at this time we have run out of rockets and gunpowder, and if we want to attack the city, we can only rely on conventional means, I don't know what the princes have to do? ”

After Liu Qi said this, he heard the silence in the tent, but Zhang Fei first said: "In fact, this matter is also simple, now our army is bravely attacking, and the defenders have suffered heavy losses, in fact, as long as we persist like this, we will definitely be able to break through Licheng in less than half a month." ”

Lu Meng frowned and said, "General Zhang's words are certainly reasonable, but how many men and horses should we lose?" ”

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "How can there be immortals in the battlefield?" As the saying goes, we have injured 1,000 enemies, 800 self-inflicted losses, and 10,000 bones have withered, although we have killed many soldiers, but the enemy's losses will definitely be even heavier. ”

Liu Qi also shook his head with a smile and said: "This plan is not appropriate, it is easy for us to recruit soldiers, but it will take too much time to train them into elite soldiers in a hundred battles, so our strategy should be to not only strike at the enemy to the greatest extent, but also to protect our own people, and we must not fight hard until we have to do so, not to mention that we have just won Qingzhou, if we immediately recruit and increase the number of soldiers, we will definitely lose the hearts of the people." ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Qi looked at Jia Xu again, and asked softly: "Jia Xiangguo, I don't know what your plan is?" ”

But I heard Jia Xu say slowly: "Weichen has a plan to avoid casualties of our army, but I am afraid that it will be similar to the story of Cheng Zhongde's dried meat, and it is easy to lose the hearts of the people, in fact, when the northern Hulu attacked my Central Plains, there was a siege method, that is, to drive the local people to the city to call the city, the enemy will lose the righteousness if they do not open the city gate, if the door is opened, their cavalry can follow behind......."

After Jia Xu finished speaking, even Lu Meng thought that this strategy was still desirable, and Zhang Fei couldn't help but clap his hands in admiration.

But Liu Qi shook his head and said: "This plan is not appropriate, in this way, the image of our army's benevolence and righteousness will be gone, and it will become a brutal army that is not even as good as Dong Zhuo back then, and it will definitely lose the popularity of the people." ”

Zhang Fei on the side was annoyed, and muttered: "This is not appropriate, that is not appropriate, do you want to directly let the people go out of the city by themselves with benevolence and righteousness?" ”

Liu Qi and Xun Yu listened to Zhang Fei's words, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they said in unison: "This is a clever plan. (To be continued......)