Chapter 476: Go hand in hand

Liu Dai, as the assassin of Yanzhou, although he was defeated by Yang Rui and Qiao Mao before retreating to Puyang City, he still has some roots in Yanzhou, and most of his Middle East Pingguo is still under his control.

Fuyang County is located at the junction of Dongping Kingdom near Taishan County, and it is also the area closest to Taishan County in Liu Dai's sphere of influence, not far from Yang Rui's mountain city. After Yang Rui, Zhang Ning, and Guo Jia led the army to Guò Taishan County, they chose Fuyang County nearby to provoke an incident.

On the eastern front, the troops under the command of Yang Rui included 10,000 fifth-order sword and shield soldiers, more than 6,500 fifth-order first-order warriors, 1,500 fifth-order Yellow Turban wrestlers, 50,000 fifth-order Qingzhou state soldiers, and 80,000 fourth-order Yellow Turban soldiers, totaling nearly 150,000 people.

So many soldiers and soldiers came to the city of Fuyang County, it was simply a situation that the soldiers guarding the city could not imagine, not to mention that when the incident started, Fuyang County City had not even had time to close the city gate, and a large number of soldiers had already emerged from all directions.

In the case of having a mind or not, the number of guards in Fuyang County was only a few thousand, and Yang Rui's army of more than 100,000 people only experienced a slight resistance, so he took control of the whole city of Fuyang by the way.

In the process, the number of injuries of Yang Rui's troops was very small, and even the number of enemies killed was not much, and the vast majority of the city defenders were directly captured and charged.

At the same time, Yang Rui also focused on rectifying military discipline, and all those who abused civilians, stole people and property, killed innocent people indiscriminately, forced women to commit adultery, and did not listen to restraints will all be severely dealt with.

As a result, Yang Rui's troops who attacked Fuyang County treated NPC civilians and their belongings almost without committing any crimes. After going down to the city, Yang Rui came forward to calm the people again. As a result, Fuyang City changed hands. The movement is not big, except for the large number of soldiers and soldiers who appeared in Yang Rui inside and outside the county, the whole process seems to be more like a normal official transfer.

When Yang Rui on the eastern front captured the county seat of Fuyang, the three generals of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo on the western front also got the news at the first time, and immediately took action according to Yang Rui's words in advance.

The soldiers under the command of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo on the western front included 40,000 fifth-order iron guard guards, more than 2,000 fifth-order cavalry soldiers, 100,000 fifth-order Qingzhou state soldiers, and 2,000 fourth-order archers, which were also close to 150,000.

These soldiers were originally stationed in the counties of Pingyuan County to prevent the threat of Yuan Shao from the north, so they included all the iron guards, fifth-order cavalry, and a large number of archers. The combat power is even much higher than that of the Eastern Front troops led by Yang Rui.

Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo are very extraordinary, and they have a large number of strong soldiers.

Originally, Yang Rui had explained when he ordered the three of them, with Gao Shun as the main general, Zhang Liao and Wu Anguo as the deputy generals to assist, and when necessary, the three of them could agree to act cheaply, which led to Gao Shun's decision to divide the troops now.

Rao is like this, and Gao Shun's decision to divide the troops was also unexpected by Yang Rui. And it wasn't until later that Yang Rui learned the news of the division of the three troops.

The reason why Yang Rui explained that the three of them could act cheaply was because Gao Shun and Zhang Liao already had extraordinary commanding talents. I don't want to restrain a few people, but the division of three people will inevitably cause some unforeseen accidents.

The division of troops is undoubtedly a bit risky, but it is indeed very efficient, Yang Rui just took Fuyang County on the southeast side for a day, and Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo on the northwest side have quickly taken the three county towns of Liaocheng, Chiping, and Linyi!

Gao Shun attacked Chiping in the center, Zhang Liaoju attacked Liaocheng on the left, and Wu'an Guoju attacked Linyi on the right. Since they had all been scouted by cavalry beforehand, the number of guards in the three counties should have generally only been a few thousand.

The three of them each led about 50,000 elite soldiers, and each of them had the bonus of the main general's auxiliary stunts, and the combat power was already very strong, and all of them launched a surprise attack, Liaocheng, Chiping, and Linyi The three cities were almost unprepared, and they fell one after another without much effective resistance.

Among these three county seats, only Liaocheng County Commander has a stronger will to resist, and after Zhang Liao's commander's troops and horses raided into the city, the county commander still organized people to launch some resistance against Zhang Liao's troops.

However, in the face of Zhang Liao's strong forces, this improvised patchwork resistance did not have much effect at all, and only caused some minor damage to Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses, and then they were forcefully extinguished.

In the two county towns of Chiping and Linyi, almost after the troops of Gaoshun and Wu'an Kingdom had just entered the city gate, the guards in the city gave up their resistance one after another, and all of them were captured by the two people, and the two county commanders were also captured alive.

In fact, this is also due to Yang Rui's policy explained in advance, when the enemy soldiers gave up resistance, they did not raise their swords again, but collected all the other party as prisoners.

At the same time, in terms of military discipline, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo's soldiers and horses also obeyed Yang Rui's intentions very well, and they almost did not commit any crimes against the NPC people in the three cities, which did not cause much panic.

Since Yang Rui has a large number of soldiers and horses on the eastern and western fronts, it is impossible to be as agile as before, but to ensure logistics supply, step by step to attack the city and advance strategically, Yang Rui also experienced the constraints of large-scale operations on supply for the first time.

Yang Rui, Zhang Ning, and Guo Jia in the southeast are better, from the very beginning, Yang Rui's choice of the location to enter the army is very close to Dashan City, and the supply can be directly transported from Dashan City, which is several times closer than from Qingzhou.

Moreover, Yang Rui has currently coordinated with Ding Yuan, the Taishan County Taishou and Qiao Mao, the Taishou of Dongjun, if the supplies are really unable to keep up, they can also temporarily find a way from the territory of these two people, with Yang Rui's friendship with the two, Yang Rui is confident that there is still no problem at this point.

However, the three departments of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, and Wu Anguo on the western front had to rely entirely on Qingzhou itself for supply.

Fortunately, Pingyuan County is directly adjacent to the current territory of Liu Dai, Dongjun, and at present, there are Cheng Yu, Du Yang, Han Dai and others in Pingyuan County, so it is not very troublesome to replenish.

It's just that the speed of Gao Shun's three advances was a little fast, and later the supply team couldn't keep up, and the supply line was a little long, so Han Dai had to take charge of the task of escorting grain and grass, and transported the prisoners produced in front of him back to the plain one after another.

In fact, there are 1,500 fourth-order sailors, 10,000 fourth-order Qingzhou state soldiers, more than 200 Ge boats, more than 500 small transport ships, and more than 100 clippers as a route, led by 50 junior and intermediate generals such as Sun Bao, cruising on the surface of the Yellow River, specializing in sniping Liu Dai's various warships, transport ships and other water forces.

Sun Bao is one of the first few generals Yang Rui obtained, although now he is only the strength of the peak of intermediate generals, but Yang Rui does not have a decent water general in his hands, so the route of sailors is the most suitable for his leadership.

Although the 50 generals who commanded the army were all at the same level as Sun Bao, the task assigned to them by Yang Rui was also very simple, that is, to inspect the surface of the Yellow River and randomly eliminate the water forces of Liu Dai that they encountered, mainly for the purpose of harassment, and there would be no accidents when the surface forces were superior.

And under the condition of ensuring safety, Yang Rui also gave Sun Bao and others enough freedom and allowed Sun Bao and others to act independently, which even led Sun Bao and others to smash Huanglong from the beginning, and the handsome sailors and boats went straight to the Yellow River section near Puyang, waiting for the opportunity to give Liu Dai a strong blow! It fully embodies the adventurous spirit of Sun Bao's water thief.

At the same time, Qiao Mao and Ding Yuan also sent troops!

After Qiao Mao was driven to Changyi City by Liu Dai, he had been holding his breath, and now as soon as Yang Rui's direction moved, Qiao Mao got the news, and followed the soldiers out of Changyi and went all the way to the west; Ding Principle waved troops in the southern part of Dongping Kingdom, and Yang Rui in the north reflected each other!

Yang Rui even sent someone to Jizhou to assassinate Shi Han Fu, hoping that he could send troops to threaten Liu Dai's north, but there is no news yet.

Rao is like this, now under the shape of shì, many soldiers and horses are advancing in the direction of Puyang in Dongjun, and Liu Dai has fallen into a passive situation of being attacked everywhere!

Let's say that Yang Rui, Guo Jia, and Zhang Ning did not stop after quickly taking Fuyang County, and only stayed for half a day to appease the people, and then set off again to go straight to Wuyan County in the southwest.

Of course, there were also more than 3,000 Liu Dai soldiers captured by Yang Rui, including the county commander, county Cheng, and county lieutenants of Fuyang County.

The reason why Yang Rui left these soldiers behind was on the one hand to reduce their resistance, and on the other hand, he also had the idea of surrendering them.

According to Yang Rui's thoughts, the soldiers captured in the battle between the princes were not from the absolute opposing camp, and they should not be as difficult to surrender as the Yellow Turban captives and Dong Zhuo captives. And if it is really possible to surrender in large quantities, it will save a lot of time for military training, and maybe it may even be possible to avoid the cost of conscription?

If it weren't for this plan, maybe Yang Rui would have disposed of these captives directly, and at least he could get some plot merit points and points, right?

Of course, it is impossible for the system to make these captives surrender lightly, otherwise wouldn't the stronger side be like a snowball? Yang Rui had persuaded several people such as the Fuyang County Commander, the County Cheng, and the County Lieutenant to surrender, but they were unsuccessful. (To be continued......)