After being traumatized by the first part of the Jiani, Lu Bu led the army to quickly rush to Xiangping City and joined the battle here. With his joining, the army of Samhan, which was already somewhat irresistible, suddenly collapsed.

With a strong enemy in front and a blockade in the back, everyone was a little overwhelmed, and the chaos became even more serious.

Although Li Buche had the intention to kill the enemy, there were very few people who could listen to him under the chaos, and in desperation, he had to take a part of the main force and the generals to make a detour and retreat.

Zhang Chao's instructions were to ignore the enemy's commanders, just destroy the enemy's living forces, which created an opportunity for Li Bu to escape. Just four hours after he escaped with 30,000 main forces, more than 80,000 Samhan soldiers under the eight orders were either killed or surrendered, and were completely disintegrated.

At this time, Jia Xu and Pang Tong and General Huang Zhong also rushed over with the soldiers of the Second Army, Zhang Chao handed over the task of cleaning the battlefield to Pang Tong, and he personally took Huang Zhong and Jia Xu to chase in the direction of Xinchang City. As soon as the enemy army was heavily damaged, it was time to regain the lost ground with a rush of energy.

More than 80,000 Sanhan soldiers were killed, nearly half of them were killed, and the remaining more than 40,000 people were collected by Pang Tong with 20,000 soldiers of the 22nd Army Corps, and then what awaits them will be a life that is worse than death.

The cavalry of the Zhangjia Army, the Dragon and Tiger Army, the Vanguard Army, and the 20,000 infantry of the Second Army Corps, totaling nearly 100,000 people, pursued all the way and rushed straight behind Li Buche.

Lebuche, who fled to the front, saw more than 7,000 corpses under Jia Ni's subordinates on the way forward, and immediately felt a Geden in his heart, feeling that he might not have any reinforcements in the short term. And that's exactly what happened, as early as a few hours ago, Jia Ni had escaped with people, and at a very fast speed, he had now walked out of dozens of miles.

Without reinforcements, I am afraid of the strength of Zhang Chao's army, and I dare not fight hard, and the only way left is to continue to retreat. After such a month and a half, the previous achievements were all buried, and Xinchang City, Anshi City, Wenxian County, and Xi'an Pingcheng were all recovered by Zhang Chao one by one.

After waiting for more than 20 days, when Zhang surpassed Xi'an Pingcheng and came to Zengdi City in Donglang, he was finally resisted by Li Buqi. At this time, he had already joined up with Gani, and the number reached about 60,000.

In front of Zengdi City, Zhang Chao was stationed outside the city, and then called Jia Xu, and the two studied the next response in front of the sand table.

The army marched for more than 20 days, and did not get any rest all the way, it was already due to the lack of people and horses, Jia Xu meant to wait for the battle, Zhang Chao also recognized this result after seeing the appearance of the soldiers below. Of course, he also wanted to take this time to wait for the arrival of a regiment of 50,000 soldiers.

The battle report had already been delivered in front of him, and Tai Shici, the former general of Youzhou, was rushing to the outside of Zengdi City with a corps of 50,000 soldiers. A while ago, Tai Shi Ci returned to Jinyang to get married, and Zhang Chao deliberately gave him a leave, but he never thought that Sanhan would take advantage of this time to suddenly attack, and now he knows that there is a change in the battle ahead, and General Tai Shi is naturally going to come.

"My lord, Lelang, and Obifang County are temporarily occupied by Sanhan, but it hasn't been for long, and these people's hearts are still facing us, and we are fully capable of winning this battle." Jia Xu looked at the sand table and summed up the battle situation and came to his own conclusion.

Zhang Chao did not express his position immediately after hearing this, but looked at the sand table seriously, his eyes were mainly on the place where Sanhan was now, and then asked after a long time: "Wenhe, do you think it is possible for us to solve the matter here in a war?" ”

Jia Xu's eyes were on Lelang County and Daifang County at this time, but he didn't expect Zhang Chao to come to such a sentence, and he was immediately stunned.

To say that this is not Jia Xu's lack of resourcefulness, there are really some things that he did not dare to think about as Zhang Chao as the lord. Just thought about Sanhan, all he thought of was to take back the lost territory, and he never thought about doing something directly against Sanhan, after all, intelligence showed that there was a population of more than 1.5 million people, and there were as many as 300,000 men in the prime of life. This is a lot of power, and it is not easy to occupy it.

Jia Xu knew the strength of Sanhan, and he really didn't dare to guarantee the ticket in this matter, so Gu Er didn't say anything. Zhang Chao smiled and said: "I know what Wen and are worried about, you are worried that Sanhan is not easy to attack." But at this moment, it is difficult to attack, and it must be captured. At this time, Yuan Shao was just defeated by me, for the time being, he didn't have the courage to find trouble with me, all the princes of the Central Plains were fighting for interests, and it was the chaos that no one put their eyes on us, if we didn't take the opportunity to solve the problem of Sanhan now, it would be more difficult to find an opportunity in the future. ”

Zhang Chao said a lot, which undoubtedly shows that now is the best time to capture Sanhan, if you give up now, I am afraid that it will be difficult to have a better opportunity in the future.

Now that Zhang Chao has made a decision, as a military advisor, what he thinks about is not whether it is feasible or not, but how to do it. For this reason, Jia Xu immediately clenched his fists and said: "That is, the lord has a life, and he should try his best, but no matter what he wants to do, the enemy of increasing the land must be solved first." ”

"Not bad." Zhang Chao nodded, he knew that Jia Xu knew what he meant, and he would also find a way to enter Sanhan next, so he said with confidence: "Okay, trouble Wen He to think of a good way, as for the matter of Zengdi City, it can be solved after waiting for the soldiers of the first army to arrive." ”

Among the corps established by Zhang Chao, the First Legion has always been directly under his management, and it is also the strongest infantry corps. And especially in the direction of defending the city and attacking the city, there are other construction techniques, waiting for them to come, this is Zhang Chao's plan to attack the dungeon city.

In Zengdi City, Li Buche and others are also strengthening the city walls and preparing some supplies to defend the city.

However, the people in the city did not cooperate, and most of them hid the food, and some sharp things were also hidden like fire oil, so that the Samhan soldiers searched for several days, but did not gather enough war materials.

Seeing that the soldiers who went to collect supplies did not complete their tasks, Chen Han's general Dezhong said angrily: "These people, I think they have to kill some people to work." ”

"No." Hearing the words of the public, General Benhan Ka Ni hurriedly shook his head. "At this time, there is Zhang Chao's army besieging outside, if we are killing the people and causing trouble in the city, it will be very unfavorable to us." And after saying these words, he also looked at General Lebuche, who was sitting in the middle.

After feeling the gaze of Jia Ni, Li Buche nodded and said, "Yes, now that our soldiers are demoralized and food is insufficient, we can't make any trouble." Alas, I just heard that this Zhang Chao is powerful before, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful, if we had known this, we should have adopted a steady and steady policy. ”

Before Li Buche made a move on Youzhou, he naturally got some information, and there were some records about Zhang Chao. only hated that he was too arrogant at that time, and he didn't pay attention to the things written on it at all, which led to today's defeat.

After sighing, he was afraid that because of his emotions, others would also have pessimistic thoughts, so he quickly adjusted his tone and said: "Okay, no matter what, we now have a city to defend, and then we just need to wait in place, waiting for the domestic army and food to arrive, it is time for us to counterattack again, I want to see, but it is just a prince of the Central Plains, how can it be compared with the national strength of our Three Kingdoms." ”

The source of Li Buche's self-confidence is the development of Samhan over the past 100 years. Under the premise that there is no war, the economy is prosperous, the population is increasing, and there are countless iron tools in the library, and it is this kind of national strength that dares them to march to Youzhou. It's just that I never thought that this Zhang Chaojun's combat power was so strong.

Li Buche was determined to defend the city, and at the same time, he was also waiting for reinforcements and food.

Zhang Chao was also waiting for reinforcements and food, and decided to fight in one battle, so he had to be prepared for food. So with his thoughts, now the entire county and county of Youzhou have taken out the surplus grain from the treasury and sent people to the front line day and night.

At this time, Jia Xu's ability was fully demonstrated, and it was he who did enough work during his tenure as Youzhou Mu that would make the military food worry-free once the war began.

Both sides are waiting, and the balance of victory will be tilted in favor of whoever is faster. Six days later, Zhang Chao's reinforcements finally arrived first.

The person who came was Tai Shici, the general of the unified army of the three legions, and he not only brought with him 50,000 horses from the first legion, but also the remaining 20,000 men from the third legion.

Before, Jia Xu had brought most of the people of the three legions to a bloody battle with Sanhan, and now there are not many seeds left in this legion.

Seeing that another 70,000 reinforcements came, Zhang Chao's face was even more confident. This time, he's going to do his best to solve the Samhan problem.

In the big tent, Zhang Chao called all the generals, and then sat at the head, looked at Jia Xu on the side and said, "Wenhe, you can tell the plan." ”

"No." Jia Xu agreed, and then swept his eyes on the generals and said: "Generals, the lord has an order, start attacking the city tomorrow morning, with a legion as the main force, adopt a chain attack method, and will capture Zengdi City within two days, this battle Lord will personally command, and the other generals must be ready to capture the city." General Lü Bu was ordered to take the vanguard army to use troops in Dongle after the city was broken; General Tai Shici led 40,000 troops to move in the direction of the Japanese side; General Huang Zhong led 40,000 troops to move in the direction of Siwang. Please ask the three generals to gather in Hai Ying City within 20 days to cut off the retreat of the three Han armies, and then cooperate with the lord to kill the enemy in Youzhou. ”