Chapter 489: The Alliance Under the City

Qiao Mao led more than 40,000 soldiers to leave, eliminating Liu Dai's forces and restoring his own influence in Dongjun.

Early in the morning of the second day, Liu Dai sent a messenger out of Puyang City again to meet Yang Rui to deliver a message to express his strong desire for peace, but on the condition, Liu Dai hoped that Yang Rui would make another concession, and some of the conditions proposed by Yang Rui were really unbearable for Liu Dai.

However, Yang Rui did not have the slightest intention of retreating, after solemnly rejecting Liu Dai's request, Yang Rui organized a siege for the first time, more than 100 rushing cars came out, although he did not use other forces to attack, and finally did not cause much impact on Puyang City, but the momentum came out at once.

Moreover, the javelin exclusive for rushing cars is a little farther than the range of the highest 6th rank long-range archers in Puyang City, so the defenders on the Puyang city wall can be regarded as suffering a small loss.

This is Yang Rui's determination to show his strength and siege the city! Liu Dai also understands this truth, but in the shape he is in, although he knows that it is Yang Rui's demonstration, he still has no way.

In the next few days, both the offensive and defensive sides of Puyang City seemed to have put aside the matter of peace talks, Yang Rui did not send any more messengers into Puyang City, and Liu Dai did not send people out of the city to communicate with Yang Rui.

In fact, Liu Dai has always wanted to send someone to communicate with Yang Rui again, but he is passive enough now, and if he is shy again, it will only make the situation worse, and the conditions proposed by the other party are really unacceptable to him, otherwise Liu Dai may have given in.

And judging from the current situation, although there are as many as two or three hundred thousand soldiers in Qingzhou, and Puyang City is besieged. However, it seems that there are not many effective ways to siege the city.

This also made Liu Dai feel a little lucky.

After a few days, the Qingzhou soldiers in addition to using the rushing car to cause some damage to the soldiers guarding the city. And there were no other real siege moves. Not even a stone's throw from the walls of the city has ever come close, let alone posed a threat to the city.

As a result, Liu Dai even saw the scene when the other party failed to attack the city and finally had to retreat!

However, even Liu Dai himself felt that such an idea was very unrealistic, these soldiers and horses in Qingzhou were not simple roles, and the two cities of Guanxian and Lihu could also be said to be heavily guarded before, but they were all taken down by the Qingzhou soldiers and horses commanded by Yang Rui!

Thinking of this, Liu Dai was faintly worried, Guanxian and Lihu were both taken down by the other party using stratagems. At first, it was the same as Puyang City, and now it looks like this, and there is no sign of it, and it is also not forcibly attacking the city.

Therefore, the soldiers of Qingzhou may not know what conspiracy they have against Puyang City now!

Liu Dai shook his head with a headache, the strategy used by the Qingzhou army to take Guan County and Lihu before was too unbelievable, I don't know what means it will use to deal with Puyang City?

Of course, the previous two plans did not play a role, with the terrain of Puyang City, it did not have the conditions to be attacked by water, and Liu Dai believed that he would not be deceived out of the city in any form. However, the appearance of the Qingzhou tribe is really amazing, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no other actions.

After another day passed, what Liu Dai was worried about seemed to finally appear, and several messengers from around Puyang City appeared abnormally in Puyang City, passing on the fact that Qiao Mao Taishou was recovering his influence everywhere to Liu Dai.

The land of East County was originally Qiao Mao's territory. Qiao Mao appeared again to gather his forces, obviously not giving Liu Dai a way to live!

Qiao Mao has roots in East County. Now it is not too difficult to take advantage of the Qingzhou soldiers' influence in Dongjun, and Liu Dai also knows what Taishan County's Taishou Ding Yuan troops are doing, if the Qingzhou state soldiers, Qiao Mao's troops and Ding Yuan's troops divide up all the territory of Dong County, even if Puyang City is finally saved, what is the use?

In order to be able to hold Puyang City for as long as possible, Liu Dai also evacuated the NPC people in the city at the beginning, and if all the places in Dongjun were occupied by Qiao Mao and a few people, Liu Dai would lose all the foundations on which he could stand.

At the same time, the soldiers of Qingzhou are not sure how long they will besiege Puyang City, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be for Liu Dai!

It can be said that Liu Dai is not only facing the loss of his foundation, but also the loss of the people's support more directly......

Thinking of this, Liu Dai thought about it and sent an envoy out of the city directly, found Yang Rui, and agreed to all the conditions that Yang Rui had put forward before.

Liu Dai's reaction was beyond Yang Rui's expectations, originally in recent days, Yang Rui was still discussing with Guo Jia and others how to force Liu Dai to comply, or what strategy could be taken down Puyang City, but he didn't expect that after Yang Rui deliberately let a few of Liu Dai's communication soldiers enter Puyang City and bring the news of Qiao Mao's actions to Liu Dai, it will have the current effect.

In this way, Yang Rui was saved a lot of effort, after all, it was by no means a simple matter to capture Puyang City.

To be honest, the conditions proposed by Yang Rui were enough to force Liu Dai into a desperate situation, and it was not so important whether to attack Puyang City or not, and these conditions were not even much better than the agreement reached between Yang Rui and Dong Zhuo at the beginning.

First of all, in terms of territory, Yang Rui put forward great restrictions to Liu Dai, and only left the area south of Fan County in Dongjun to Liu Dai, which made Liu Dai's territory change from most of the original Yanzhou to only half of the county.

Liu Dai as the assassin of Yanzhou, except for Beihai and Dongjun, his power involved almost all other regions of Yanzhou, although it was only loosely controlled, and it was gradually gained more real power after changing the history to pastoral, but it is undeniable that nominally he once had a large territory.

This situation was broken by Yang Rui after the group of heroes fought against Dong, first assisted Qiao Mao to resist the attacks of Liu Dai and Yuan Shao, and compressed Liu Dai's strength to the area of Dongjun, Dongpingguo, and Dingtaoguo, and then Yang Rui took the initiative to provoke the incident this time, leaving Liu Dai with only half of the land of Ladong County.

Liu Dai can be said to have been completely planted in Yang Rui's hands!

Secondly, in terms of compensation, the amount proposed by Yang Rui is still 10 million gold coins, which is the same as the compensation agreed with Dong Zhuo in the previous time.

Liu Dai has been the assassin of Yanzhou for a long time, and he should have accumulated a lot during this period, and he himself is from the Han clan, and the amount of money in his hands should not be small. This can be seen from the speed of Liu Dai's army expansion.

Recently, Liu Dai Shao said that he has also expanded the number of soldiers by two or three hundred thousand, and according to the standards for the recruitment of soldiers at all levels of state soldiers, county soldiers, and county soldiers, there is no millions of gold coins that cannot be spent, and there will even be more.

At this point, Yang Rui can compare the cost of his own conscription, some time ago he expanded the number of soldiers by about 300,000, spending as much as three or four million gold coins, and many of them are Yang Rui's own private soldiers.

Although Liu Dai has some financial accumulation, it is obviously much inferior to Dong Zhuo, who once occupied the Luoyang Imperial City, the same is 10 million gold coins, it may only hurt when it is placed on Dong Zhuo, and it may cost half a life on Liu Dai!

The third condition, Yang Rui asked for more than just money, he also tried his best to get the more than 20,000 soldiers captured by Liu Dai into his name in disguise, eliminating the need to try to surrender again.

This is still a method that Guo Jia thought of, in fact, it is not troublesome to implement, that is, let Liu Dai come forward and transfer all the soldiers captured by Yang Rui to Linyi County in the north of Dongjun in his name, and then divide the county under Yang Rui's rule.

The Dongjun area north of Fan County was originally given up by Yang Rui to Liu Dai, and the location of Linyi counties is close to Pingyuan County, and it has been set by Yang Rui under his own name, and the rest of Liu Dai's territory will be allocated to Ding Yuan and Qiao Mao if Yang Rui is not enough to eat, and it will be coordinated and divided to Ding Yuan and Qiao Mao, and it will need to be discussed in detail at that time.

Guo Jia's method was ingenious, solving the problem of recruiting more than 20,000 soldiers and prisoners, and at the same time providing Yang Rui with an idea to solve similar problems in the future, and it also has reference value when encountering similar problems.

It's just that it's just to provide ideas, you must know that anyone who is not forced into a blind corner will not cooperate like Liu Dai!

On the fourth condition, Yang Rui noticed that there were some 6th-order long-range archer soldiers among Liu Dai's subordinates, so he tentatively asked Liu Dai for 10,000 sets of 2nd~6th-order long-range archer skill books, but the other party actually agreed.

Judging from the number of 6th-order long-range bows in Liu Dai's hands before, it was only a few thousand at most, but now at Yang Rui's request, he actually took out 10,000 sets of skill books at once, and Yang Rui even doubted that there would be more long-range bow skill books in his hands.

However, Yang Rui was not too worried that Liu Dai would get more long-range archers, because the fifth condition proposed by Yang Rui was to limit Liu Dai's military strength.

In order to restrain Liu Dai and prevent him from making a comeback, Yang Rui not only divided most of his territory, but also restricted the number of his troops from exceeding 150,000, which means that in addition to the existing soldiers in Liu Dai's Puyang City, basically no longer able to expand the army!

Once Liu Dai violates the agreement and the number of soldiers exceeds the threshold of 150,000, Yang Rui can conquer him at any time, which is also the most important condition for Yang Rui to restrict Liu Dai.

On the premise of not expanding the number of soldiers, if Liu Dai wants to improve his own strength, he can only improve the rank of the soldiers themselves, but according to the current situation, the strength that can be improved in this way will be very limited.

And the last one, which Guo Jia thinks is very important, as a prerequisite for accepting Liu Dai's surrender, Liu Dai must win the relevant title for Yang Rui as a Han family, and the minimum title standard proposed by Yang Rui is above the county marquis! (To be continued......)