Chapter 188: A Great Victory
"Sure enough, Yuan Shao's two sons are incompetent."
Although the other party is less than 10,000 men, Wei Tao is not afraid of its numerical advantage, but I have to say that if there is a war, Wei Tao's strength at this time will also suffer heavy casualties.
At this time, Yuan Shang retreated, and Wei Tao also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Zilong, quickly order someone to rescue Gongming and Gongjin from the city, and if you can extinguish the fire, it will be extinguished as soon as possible."
Wei Tao also sighed when he looked at the already burning Hejian City.
Originally, Hejian City was also a big city in Jizhou, which was quite prosperous, but after the arrival of the Jizhou Black Mountain Army, it was here that the disaster began, so that many people stayed away from this city.
However, Rao is like this, there are still many people who still live in the city, this fire together, and many soldiers have entered the city, I am afraid that the people who died during the period do not know how many people are in the road.
Although it is said that Ci is not in charge of the army, thinking of this, Wei Tao is still a little unhappy in his heart.
But if this is not the case, even if Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are opposed, this battle will not be so profitable.
"Lord, now that Zhou Yu's military division and General Xu Huang are leading the troops to confront Yuan's army, what should we do if the passage is opened?"
At this time, Xun You stopped Zhao Yun, and then said.
"In fact, Gong Jin's meaning is very clear, Gong Jin should guess that in order to prevent me and the state army from supporting each other, the Yuan army will definitely transfer the army to the west gate, and it will be led by someone else, and then it will be heavily arranged in the city, so that the fire will burn rapidly and trap the Yuan army. And he himself occupied the walls of the heights, and if anyone approached, he shot them with a crossbow. Such a stalemate. Wait until it is in the midst of the fire. Even though it stopped the fire and prevented it from spreading, after a long time, its people were naturally weak and could be caught under the smoke and fire. ”
As for what will happen when they are besieged and roasted by fire, strategists like Zhou Yu and Xun You naturally know, and Wei Tao is not very surprised.
"You mean to wait?"
"If it's just for Gongjin and Gongming. Should wait. With Gong Jin's wisdom, he should be fully prepared, so the situation of Gong Jin and the two seems to be dangerous, but there is no big problem. If the lord does this, the 10,000 soldiers of the Yuan army can be captured at will. ”
Xun You said with certainty.
"Of course, in this way, not to mention the time it will take quite a lot, I am afraid that this rivercity will be burned down by then. But if this is not the case, then the Yuan army may be counterattacking, with the current strength of our army. But it's hard to keep them all. ”
Wei Tao looked at Xun Yu and couldn't see anything from his face. There was only a calm face.
Whether the suggestion is good or bad, but it is beneficial to the lord to put it forward, this is the duty of a strategist, it can be said that Xun Yu is doing his job as a strategist.
"Hehe, other people don't know me, don't Xun You know me either. Even if all the 10,000 Yuan troops were just gone? Am I still afraid of Yuan Tan and the three of them? In order to win, it is just a matter of using some means, Ci is not in charge of the army, and I am not the kind of pedantic person, but now that our army has won, I will not compensate the entire Hejian City for such a 10,000 Yuan army, and order someone to extinguish the fire in Hejian City. By the way, inform Gong Jin that if Yuan Jun cooperates and helps, then let him go. ”
"No!"
Xun Yu responded, and then bowed deeply to Wei Tao.
"The lord is broad-minded and respectful!"
The city was not far from the river, so it was soon brought in a steady stream of water, and soon a passage was opened from the west gate.
However, to Wei Tao's surprise, after discovering his arrival, Ju Yi did not immediately command the army to rush out, but just made the team wait.
Then Ju Yi slowly walked out of the lineup and bowed his hand to Wei Tao.
"General Wei, it's been a long time."
"General Juyi, what does this mean? Do you have to fight with our army? ”
Wei Tao frowned slightly, but he couldn't figure out what Ju Yi was, according to Wei Tao's knowledge, although Ju Yi was brave, he was extremely loyal to Yuan Shao, but he didn't know why he was doing this.
"Humph! You trapped me here, even if it was a war? I'll just ask one thing, what do you want? If you want to fight, you can fight, if you don't want to fight, get out of the way! ”
Ju Yi snorted coldly.
Rao is Wei Tao has always been courteous to talents, and at this time, he couldn't help but feel angry, I don't know what to do!
Obviously, Ju Yi didn't believe in Wei Tao's previous rumors about Zhou Yu, but thought that he had other conspiracies and tricks to wipe them out.
Therefore, Ju Yi did not follow Wei Tao's instructions to order people to stop the fire as much as possible, nor did he break through the siege at the first time, but waited for Wei Tao's arrival here, even if he fought to the death for it.
"Haha......ha Ju Yi, I was indeed going to let you go, after all, this Riverside City has been included in my hands, I don't want to burn this Riverside City, but since you are like this, then you can't blame me! ”
I have to say that Wei Tao is quite tired of this stubborn temperament, even if such a person lets it go himself, he will not get the slightest gratitude, but will make the other party think that he is weak and can be bullied.
So Wei Tao laughed a few times before giving the order.
"Someone! Shoot me! ”
Wei Tao gave an order, and suddenly the arrows rained down, and they fell one after another.
Because he didn't know the idea of Ju Yi, Wei Tao was ready to break through the Ju Yi meeting, and when he gave an order, all the soldiers occupied a favorable position, eyeing Yuan Jun.
"Damn it!"
This scolding, but Ju Yi scolded himself again.
Ju Yi is not stupid, he can hear the true feelings, but from Wei Tao's words, he knows the truth, even if he was warned before, but as long as he said good words, then maybe Wei Tao will also be compromised.
In fact, not only Ju Yi, after hearing that he could have escaped from this cage, but because of Ju Yi's reasons, there were already many people in Yuan Jun who were already very annoyed, and even looked at Ju Yi's eyes were not good.
"Retreat!"
Seeing that Yuan Jun was stopped by a rain of arrows from himself, Wei Tao gave another order, and at the same time, there were bursts of vehicles piled up with hay behind him being pushed up.
According to Wei Tao's thoughts. If Yuan Jun is uncompromising. Then the road is resealed. Now this preparation is exactly what comes into use.
Originally, Wei Tao's passage was not large, as long as one more fire was added, it could be resealed, and once Wei Tao made up his mind to burn Hejian City, he could still put in a steady stream of things like this, and then Yuan Jun would have to die.
Seeing this scene, many Yuan Jun's eyes showed a look of despair, and some even rushed up despite the rain of arrows, but they were quickly shot down.
"Slow down."
At this moment, Xun You suddenly whispered a few words in Wei Tao's ear.
Yuan Jun listened. I, Wei Tao, is the pastor of Jizhou! In the name of the governor, I promise that as long as you capture Na Juyi and his own soldiers, then I will allow you to surrender, and all your past will be unaccountable! ”
Hearing Wei Tao drink like this, the already desperate soldiers in the Yuan army suddenly turned all their eyes on Ju Yi.
"Humph! Wei Tao is cunning, his words and deeds must be different! All the armies will kill me with me, and they will surely be able to rush out ......"
Ju Yi was hard-hearted, and when he heard Wei Tao shouting so loudly, he was immediately even more angry.
It's a pity that he didn't wait for Ju Yi's words to finish. Someone had already made a move, and then more soldiers rushed up. Rao is righteous and brave, but his two fists are invincible to his four hands, and he was soon captured along with more than 100 relatives.
"Bastard! Darn! ”
Although he was captured, Ju Yi scolded him angrily, in this case, people were speechless at all, Wei Tao waved his hand and ordered someone to take him down.
More than 10,000 Yuan troops surrendered, Wei Tao naturally would not waste these labors, and immediately ordered them to join the ranks of extinguishing the fire, but Wei Tao was heading towards Zhou Yu and the others.
"Meet the Lord!"
Seeing Wei Tao coming, Zhou Yu and Xu Huang hurriedly came.
Looking left and right, Wei Tao had to say that Zhou Yu had indeed made complete preparations, this section of the city wall was in the upper hand, and it would not be burned by smoke and fire, and the surrounding area had already been emptied by Zhou Yu's order early, and the fire was not so easy to spread.
What's even more speechless is that dozens of thick ropes are placed on the city wall, and they can escape across the city at any time, of course, this must be on the basis of Yuan's army has retreated.
Of course, this also shows Zhou Yu's confidence in Wei Tao, believing that Wei Tao can defeat Yuan Tan, and he will immediately lead the army to come to the rescue, otherwise Zhou Yu will never leave such a way back.
"Gongjin, Gongming, this time thanks to you!"
Wei Tao sighed, it is true that Zhou Yu has made all preparations, but there is always a case for things, once something happens, the two of them will also be buried in the sea of fire, so Wei Tao can't help but sigh.
"After this battle, although the Yuan army has not retreated, there is a good chance that Hejian is in my hands, and you should take the first credit for this battle!"
Originally, after experiencing such a big war, Wei Tao was going to hold a banquet to celebrate.
But this time there was no such leisure.
Although the rescue was timely, the entire Hejian City was still burned down a lot of buildings, many people were killed and injured because of this, and more importantly, after such a while, the entire Hejian city wall was not stable, and it took a lot of time and labor to repair it.
And the defection of 10,000 soldiers also made Wei Tao have to worry about it.
Fortunately, these soldiers were all involved in the capture of Ju Yi, and it was almost impossible to return to the Yuan army, but Rao was like this, and Wei Tao was also very busy.
It has only been two months since Wei Tao invaded Jizhou, but in these two months, Wei Tao has already captured nearly half of Jizhou's territory.
Although he is still facing the attack of the three Yuan brothers, Wei Tao, who has already fought with the three Yuan brothers several times, is naturally not afraid.
More importantly, after this battle, Wei Tao understands very well that the Yuan brothers are definitely the kind of 'one plus one is less than one' model, if all the armies are concentrated in one person, Wei Tao will also have to consider a war, but now Yuan Tan, Yuan Xi, and Yuan Shang are all concentrated together, and the contradictions are enough to make them pull each other's back.
Especially for Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, I am afraid that hitting each other in their hearts is much more important than expelling Wei Tao.
In fact, it is exactly like this, at this time, Yuan Tan is already in the same position with Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang.
However, at this time, the two didn't care about Wei Tao's threat at all, and they were already fighting with each other, fighting for the right to command Yuan Jun.
At this time, the judges, Guo Tu, Xin Ping and others were also divided into two factions to fight each other.
However, in general, Yuan Tan had the upper hand, after all, although he was also fighting with Wei Tao, but in fact, he was only afraid of Wei Tao's ambush at that time, and when Yuan Tan retreated, it was still orderly and did not spend many troops.
On the other hand, Yuan Shang is different, after several battles in a row, all of them were defeated, not to mention the damaged troops, that is, even the generals who were originally under the command of Yuan Shang were all injured, or captured, or simply surrendered, except for a Zhang He who Yuan Shang was already unwilling to believe, there was no general who could handle it.
A few days after the battle with Wei Tao, the power in Yuan's army was taken away by Yuan Tan, making Yuan Shang's reputation for guarding Jizhou an empty name.
I have to say that such a situation was something that Yuan Shang naturally did not expect.
It's a pity that there is no one under him, and Yuan Shang is also powerless, so he can only make Yuan Tan more proud.
Especially after seeing Yuan Tan's victory, Yuan Shang secretly held a grudge in his heart, if there was a chance, Yuan Shang would definitely not hesitate to drag Yuan Tan's hind legs.
"Huh...... Second brother, third brother, rest assured, as long as the army in your hands is handed over to me for command, just one Wei Tao is nothing. ”
Looking at Yuan Shang's changing face, Yuan Tan couldn't help but add a fire.
"And General Yan Liang has recovered, in a few days, I will definitely let that Wei Tao know what kind of fate will happen if he invades our Jizhou!"
"Humph!"
In the face of Yuan Tan's provocation, Yuan Shang could only snort coldly to express his disdain.
However, there was a trace of expectation on Yuan Xi's face, even if it was Yuan Tan, as long as he could defeat Wei Tao and let him relieve the anger in his chest, Yuan Xi also thought that this was not an unacceptable thing.
"Report!"
Just when Yuan Tan's heart was bursting with joy, a report was made, and a guard broke into the tent and reported to Yuan Tan.
"The eldest prince of Qiqi, someone outside who claims to be an envoy from the state has come to ask for a meeting, I wonder if the eldest prince of Lu Dao wants to see him?"
"And the state envoy? That Wei Tao knew that he was invincible, and he decided to surrender? ”
Yuan Tan was slightly stunned, and then said with a sneer, but for Yuan Tan's words, Yuan Xi and Yuan Shang, who were also sitting in the tent, didn't feel anything funny.
"Well, let the envoy of the state come in, and let me see what he has to say."
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