Although Fan County is a large city, the previous methods of attacking Shouliang City can still be translated and misappropriated, but it is more troublesome in comparison, and it took Yang Rui's troops about two hours to roughly control the county seat of Fan County.

In the process, Yang Rui obtained more than 100,000 plot points and merit points, as well as a small amount of grain, gold coins and other items left in the Fanxian treasury.

At the same time, Yang Rui's side also lost some soldiers, and damaged several rushing cars, one of which was more severely damaged, almost unusable, but compared with the siege gains, it was not a loss, and the damaged soldiers were resurrected with points value.

Yang Rui noticed that in addition to the points and merit points obtained from the capture of Fan County, these two values had increased a few times not long ago, and it should be that the soldiers and horses led by Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo took action again!

The means of communication at hand at hand are too monotonous, and since receiving the news of Gao Shun's soldiers and horses all the way, there has been no second news so far.

This reminded Yang Rui of the carrier pigeon used by Zhang Rang, He Jin and others, if there is a carrier pigeon in hand, it will be much more convenient to transmit the news. At this time, Yang Rui only sent more messengers and traveled everywhere to learn the latest news.

However, Yang Rui still secretly wrote down the matter of carrier pigeons, and prepared to ask him for carrier pigeons or related training methods the next time he saw Zhang Rang.

"Report! Han Fu, the assassin of Jizhou, replied, saying that he should have responded to the state pastor to jointly send troops to Puyang, but the situation in Jizhou was turbulent, Gongsun Zan and Yuan Shao competed fiercely, and the general Liyi defected to Yuan Shao in Bohai. Han Fu's assassination history is really limited in the number of troops at hand. Therefore, they did not dare to act rashly. I would like to apologize to the Governor of the State.

However, Han Fu also promised to strengthen the defense of the four county towns of Li'an, Neihuang, Fanyang, and Yin'an, so as to cut off Liu Dai's road to the north."

After the siege ended, after Yang Rui pacified the NPC people in Fan County, it happened that news also came from Han Fu in Hebei. After the messenger replied, he handed over a letter written by Han Fu to Yang Rui.

At that time, Yang Rui invited him to send troops together, but he didn't have much hope, because the number of soldiers and horses that Han Fu could control was really limited, and it was not easy to maintain the situation in Jizhou. Yang Rui invited him to strengthen his momentum.

Moreover, Yang Rui never thought that at this time, Lu Yi betrayed Han Fu again and went to Yuan Shao, so Han Fu would have no extra strength to send troops, which was very clear in his personal letter, and apologized to Yang Rui repeatedly.

Koji Yi is also a rare and powerful general, and even played a key role in the duel between Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan, and its exclusive special class, the First Dead Soldier, was exposed in the game forum in his previous life, and should be stronger than the First Warrior Soldier who has upgraded through the guò skill book in the player's hand!

At this time, Koji Yi defected from Han Fu and defected to Yuan Shao, and it was the right time. It seems that although Yuan Shao was weakened a lot by Yang Rui before, it is difficult to say the result of his battle with Gongsun Zhan.

"Let's go to Jizhou again. Spread my intentions and persuade Han Fu to assassinate Shi not to worry too much about the matter of Koji, if there is something in Jizhou, Qingzhou will definitely not stand idly by.

Moreover, although Jizhou does not have to really send troops, it can make the four counties of Li'an, Neihuang, Fanyang, and Yin'an get some information and actions to send troops, so as to create momentum, oppress Dongjun, and play the role of disturbing Liu Dai's hearing and hearing."

Yang Rui explained to the messengers, and also ordered him to go to Han Fu in Jizhou to deliver information, and then prepare the soldiers and equipment, and discuss the direction of the next march with Zhang Ning and Guo Jia.

After Fan County was taken, Yang Rui's troops and horses had also begun to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Dongjun, and they could march in the northwest, west, and southwest directions.

The northwest of the army can directly point to Dong'e County and Dongwuyang, and meet with Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo all the way to the soldiers and horses, although it is very stable, but it is a bit of a detour, and it will be farther and farther away from Liu Dai's nest in Puyang.

Directly marching westward to Guanxian County and Dunqiu County, it is gradually advancing into Puyang City, and it can also form an outflanking trend with Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo's soldiers and horses, but in this way, it violates the original intention of deterring Liu Dai in multiple ways.

After Yang Rui and several people discussed, they prepared to send troops to the southwest, enter Li County, and then enter Puyang City through Juancheng in Dingtao County. In this way, the offensive line is relatively close, and the situation of multi-way deterrence is still maintained, Liu Dai will definitely be overstretched to deal with it!

However, for the sake of safety, Yang Rui still decided to wait for a day, wait for the news from the direction of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo, and then make the next move, and at the same time let the soldiers rest for a day to recover their combat strength.

It happened that within a day of resting and recuperation, the latest news also came from the two directions of Qiao Mao and Ding Yuan.

After Qiao Mao got Yang Rui's agreement, he actively reorganized the soldiers and horses, and left the territory of Changyi three days ago, crossed the Wenshui tributary, Bishui, and directly surrounded Dingtao City.

Dingtao City is the easternmost county seat of Liu Daikong's territory, and it is a county town at the level of a special city, so although there are less than 20,000 guards in it, Qiao Mao sent more than 80,000 soldiers, and failed to make any progress in the siege for several days!

Yang Rui was not much surprised after hearing the news, Qiao Mao was full of revenge, it was not easy to make up 80,000 soldiers, and it was difficult to guarantee how high the combat power of the soldiers was!

Moreover, the defense of Dingtao City is really too high, even if it is changed to Yang Rui's troops and horses to attack, it will definitely take a lot of effort to come, and it will not be possible to lose some soldiers.

Not all county cities have such a high defense, among the county cities that Yang Rui saw, only Dingtao City was a super-grade city, and Julu City at the time of the Yellow Turban Uprising was also a super-level city, but it did not belong to the county.

Others, such as Plains City, are mostly just high-level cities, and the defense is not much higher than that of ordinary county towns, and Dingtao City is also a special case in this regard.

In this regard, Yang Rui just asked the messenger to comfort Qiao Mao with good words, and passed on the situation of his own two-way troops and horses to the past, so that he would not be in a hurry, Yang Rui even built a siege without attacking, just disperse Liu Dai's troops, and then Puyang City, Dingtao City will not be attacked.

Ding Yuan's situation along the way was much easier, he had already organized 60,000 soldiers and horses at this time, and he marched out of Taishan County two days ago, following behind Yang Rui's troops all the way to maintain the stability of the city under him.

Yang Rui's earliest Fuyang City has been taken over by Ding Yuan's soldiers and horses, and when the herald soldiers came, Ding Yuan was already in command of the army and was about to settle in Wuyan City, so Yang Rui had nothing to worry about, but just ordered the herald soldiers to return, and urged Ding Yuan to garrison Fan County as much as possible to jointly deter Liu Dai.

The day passed quickly, and after Yang Rui was ready to march for a while in the early morning of the second day, the messengers quickly caught up with Yang Rui's troops and reported the news of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo's soldiers and horses.

Fortunately, although the news came late, it was all good news, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo had once again won the three cities of Qingxian, Faping, and Dong'e, and they didn't spend much effort, and the loss of soldiers was even less than before!

Since Gao Shun and the three of them received Yang Rui's advice, they naturally acted more cautiously, but they did not restrain themselves, especially when Tanma learned that Liu Dai's defenders had a tendency to retreat, Gao Shun and the three of them decisively decided to continue to advance, and still divided their troops into three ways and quickly took the three cities of Qingxian, Faping and Dong'e.

Liu Dai should also feel the pressure, originally with Yuan Shao's clamp, he did not have many defensive troops and horses stationed in the vicinity of Pingyuan County, at this time Puyang received the news of the march from almost all directions, so he naturally chose to retract the turtle to defend, and first withdrew a part of the soldiers and horses in the northern counties of Dongjun.

In Liu Dai's view, it was difficult to keep the northern part of Dongjun, and it would be a bit uneconomical to waste defensive forces, so it was better to pull the troops back to the vicinity of Puyang as soon as possible to hold on, so more than half of the high-ranking soldiers in the northern counties were withdrawn by Liu Dai, and the defensive forces in each county town barely exceeded two or three thousand people, and they were all low-ranking soldiers.

In this way, the difficulty of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo to attack the city has been greatly reduced, and the siege equipment assigned to this side has also been put in place, and Gao Shun and the three of them will not be able to attack the city.

Moreover, the retreating Liu Dai troops obviously underestimated the reaction speed of Gao Shun and the others, they did not expect that they would be discovered by Tanma when they had just retreated out of the city, let alone that several cities would be lost so quickly.

Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Wu Anguo all the way there are more than 2,500 5-order cavalry soldiers, at the beginning of the three of them divided the troops to advance, Gao Shun gathered all the cavalry to follow behind him, ready to pursue Liu Dai retreating troops, the capture of the county seat of Qingxian is just piggybacking, Gao Shun's original plan was to besiege but not attack, with the cavalry to pursue a period of Liu Dai's main force and horses and then come back to attack the city is not too late.

However, when Gao Shun arrived near the county seat of Qingxian County, he only made a tentative attack by the front army for a while, but he didn't want the situation to collapse at the touch of a button, and the Qingxian guards only symbolically resisted a few times, and then chose to tie his hands and capture, and the whole process was only two quarters of an hour.

This is also due to the reason why Yang Rui attacked Liu Dai this time and did not kill the prisoners, and the soldiers and horses of Gao Shun and the three of them also did the same, and the news had already spread. Moreover, the soldiers who were originally left by Liu Dai to defend the city had resentment in their hearts, which was also a big reason.

This also created conditions for Gao Shun's commander 5th order cavalry to pursue the retreating soldiers, these soldiers reached the scale of nearly 10,000 people after the combined army, and they were supposed to retreat to Yangping County for a little rectification and then continue to retreat, but they were caught up by Gao Shun's cavalry just half the way!

The footmen in the wilderness were pursued by cavalry, and the situation was undoubtedly very passive. (To be continued......)