Chapter 631: The Wind and the Clouds
"Lord Lieyang Prefecture Mu and King Bohai, Liu Bei is willing to pursue one of the deserters with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei under the command of the soldiers of the two counties, and please show me."
When Mao Jie, Le Jin, Bao Xin, and Yu Ban each took more than 10,000 subordinates and fled south in four directions, Liu Bei took the initiative to admonish.
Liu Bei took the initiative, and Yang Rui agreed, even if he vaguely felt that there was something wrong in his subconscious at that time, Yang Rui didn't care too much.
"Lord Zhou Mu, Liu Bei Xiaoxiong, I have seen the strong strength of Lord Zhou Mu before, I am afraid that after this person goes, I am afraid that Cheng Dù will not come back."
It wasn't until Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei commanded their seventy or eighty thousand troops to leave that Guo Jia reminded Yang Rui in the Sky City Discussion and Political Room.
No wonder Yang Rui felt that something was wrong just now, even if Mao Jie, Le Jin, Bao Xin, and Yu Ban fled separately, with the speed of Sky City, there should be a chance to catch up with the soldiers and horses from all walks of life and break them one by one.
In this case, there is almost no need to directly lead troops to chase, Liu Bei took the initiative to ask Ying to leave Yang Rui and his territory!
Yang Rui suddenly realized that he was going to recover Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, but he was stopped by Guo Jia again.
"Ahem, Lord Zhoumu, at this time, the situation of the various princes is treacherous, Liu Bei is a restless person, he has great ambitions but nowhere to show them, and my lord does not have to leave this person. by the side.
With the strength of this person, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, although it will not cause any big trouble, it cannot be said that it will disturb the stability of Qingzhou and Yanzhou. Therefore, it is not impossible to let this person go. Take the situation in the world at this time. It is difficult for Liu Bei and the others to develop to the point of threatening the state pastor Cheng Dù for the time being."
After listening to Guo Jia's words, Yang Rui and the rest of the people also suddenly felt reasonable, there were too many tricky things at this time, Yang Rui really didn't have much energy to take care of Liu Bei's small force, and judging from Liu Bei's previous situation of preparing for the army, his thoughts could already be seen.
If it weren't for Yang Rui's strong appearance and coercing him to leave, Liu Bei would probably choose the opportunity to move according to the change in his form. It is almost certain that some trouble will be created, at least Liu Bei's so-called "assistance" remarks must be false.
"Kill!"
"Whoosh"
"Poof! Burst! Poof"
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In the process of chasing the deserters, the speed and mobility of the Sky City were once again vividly reflected, except for Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei who pursued the southeast on foot, the remaining three soldiers and horses were caught up by the Sky City one after another, and they were killed again.
In the end, the three-way rout was also hit hard again, losing most of the troops, if it wasn't for Yang Rui finally giving up the pursuit, its losses would have been higher, but as Bao Xin analyzed. Yang Rui's purpose was not to inflict as many casualties as the other party, but to try his best to get back the Yanzhou territory.
And at this time, if there is a loss of soldiers in the battle. There is no way to resurrect it, and if you fight hard, the gains outweigh the losses, so Yang Rui only uses long-range forces to ambush most of the time, and it is enough to cause enough damage to the other party, and the fleeing troops let Cao Cao devote himself to the battle with Yuan Shu.
In the case that Yang Rui did not do his best, the commander of the three-way rout was naturally able to escape, and in this case, it can be regarded as retaining some family foundation for Cao Cao.
According to Yang Rui's intentions, it is of course the best to be able to capture these generals alive, and even if it is not enough to kill one or two, it can greatly reduce Cao Cao's strength, but in the middle of the night environment, plus the strength of each general is also extraordinary, and the other party is bent on escaping, Yang Rui has not many ways.
As for the situation of Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei chasing all the way to the soldiers and horses, Yang Rui does not know, but since Liu Bei's real intention is to find a reason to leave, it is conceivable whether he will invest in the real pursuit of strength!
Therefore, in comparison, the soldiers and horses on the southeast road should be the easiest to escape, and in order to preserve his strength, Liu Bei will not do this kind of useless pursuit and killing, not to mention that it will not benefit him at all.
In the battle of Changyi City, Yang Rui took the city of Yanzhou in a smooth manner, and the difficulty of advancing in the next step was greatly reduced, and Yang Rui's recovery of Qiao Mao's lost Yanzhou territory was a matter of course.
Moreover, in the battle of Changyi City, the figures of Bao Xin and Yu Ban appeared in Changyi City, which basically clarified the trend of Bao Xin's forces - they have joined Cao Cao's camp!
On the surface, it seems that Bao Xin, Yu Ban and Yuan Shao have merged or strengthened Cao Cao's strength, but it is not entirely a bad thing for Yang Rui.
In the case of Bao Xin's defection to Cao Cao, it means that Bao Xin in Jibei cannot go back, and this territory, which has been in the hinterland of Qingzhou and Dongjun before, basically cannot run away and must be returned to Yang Rui's territory, as long as Yang Rui is willing to take it!
After Shun Lì captured Changyi City, and pursued the rout troops from all walks of life for most of the night, Yang Rui ordered all the soldiers to rest for half a day, starting from the afternoon of the second day, Yang Rui ordered Fu Zhi and Han Dai to command 100,000 soldiers and horses to guard Changyi City, and he took the rest of the troops all the way to Yanzhou to kill other lost territories.
At the same time, Yang Rui also sent fast horses to send messages to Xu You, who was left behind in Dashan City, as well as Qiao Mao and Ding Yuan in Fenggao County, so that after the two men and horses got the news, they would send troops to cooperate with Yang Rui to seize the city, at least they could guard the city that had been recovered.
A day later, Yang Rui operated Sky City to fight in several places, and successively won most of the territory in Dingtao, including Dingtao City, Juyang City, Chengyang City, and Juancheng, and only a small part of the southern territory Yang Rui did not occupy.
Two days later, Yang Rui once again took a large area including Shanyang City, Fanxian County, and Luxian County, and most of Shanyang, Rencheng, and Lu were recovered by Yang Rui.
Three days later, Yang Rui hooked back again, took control of most of the territory of Dongping Kingdom, including Dongping City, and relocated Qiao Mao and his men to Changyi City, and Ding Yuan helped him to sit in the county seat of Lu County, which was adjacent to Taishan County.
So far. Yanzhou region in the northwest of Jiuli Mountain and Mangdang Mountain. has basically been re-controlled by Yang Rui, Qiao Mao, and Ding Yuan. Even some regions have expanded out of place.
Even as long as Yang Rui and the others are willing, they will have the opportunity to pocket the nearby counties and counties at any time, but whether it is Yang Rui or Qiao Mao and Ding Yuan, the strength at this time is far from meeting the requirements of controlling such a wide area, but the current territory is large enough, and it is good to be able to hold it.
It only took more than three days, and the messy situation when Yang Rui returned had been cleaned up again. In the whole process, there was no very decent resistance, and the situation in the land of Yanzhou suddenly became clear.
Of course, while Yang Rui plowed most of Yanzhou's regional key cities, there were still some small towns, towns, and villages with hostile camp forces, and these small forces were no longer to worry about, and it was more than enough for Qiao Mao to deal with them himself.
In fact, in the process of recovering lost territory, the most difficult thing is the individual player and the player power, although most of the players or player organizations are far behind the first-class players or player organizations in terms of strength, but they have their own demands.
There are players or player organizations in between. Before that, he had been forced to join Cao Cao's forces, and some were even loyal fans of Cao Cao. Therefore, it takes a lot of effort to coordinate the interests of these players and player organizations.
The most labor-saving way is to adopt Yang Rui's practice in Qingzhou and Dongjun, and limit the rights of players to the greatest extent, so that most players with other ideas will take the initiative to leave the region, and the players who stay in Qingzhou and Dongjun are basically law-abiding.
However, Yang Rui's approach requires extremely strong strength to maintain, even if Yang Rui himself has a large number of county soldiers and county soldiers, there has been a situation where players have made trouble, and it is basically difficult to achieve the same strategy with Qiao Mao's strength.
In the process of Yang Rui's recovery of Yanzhou's lost territory, there were more than several conflicts with some of these players, and fortunately, the player forum was closed at this time, otherwise it would have been full of various remarks.
Rao is like this, and in private, a wider range of players against Yang Rui has quietly begun to brew, until when it happened, Yang Rui was almost caught off guard!
Of course, these are all later words, at this time, how to deal with the affairs of the players in the territory is left to Qiao Mao to worry about, Yang Rui cannot have the energy to help him deal with these things after recovering the lost territory, in that case, it is completely unnecessary to have Qiao Mao as an ally.
However, it is said that while Yang Rui recovered various important cities in Yanzhou, he also joined forces with Xu You's troops again, and at the same time, 100,000 Yang Rui's troops stationed in Changyi City, such as Fu Zhu and Han Dai, were also replaced and reunited with Yang Rui.
The total strength of the soldiers and horses of the two roads and the troops commanded by Yang Rui has reached more than 60 thousand, and Yang Rui put all these troops in the sky city, and went towards Fengqiu and Kuangting while resting.
Yang Rui had already heard clearly in advance that the main battlefield of Yuan Shu's attack on Cao Cao was in Fengqiu and Kuangting.
And this time Yuan Shu came to attack Yanzhou Cao Cao, in fact, he was also famous, before the army was sent Yuan Shu had already written to the Han Dynasty official, and obtained the official position of Yanzhou Assassin for Jin Shang, and this time he came to send Jin Shang to take office.
Of course, Yuan Shu's direct purpose was to eliminate Cao Cao's forces, and he brought his general Liu Xiang and hundreds of thousands of troops to come, so that Jin Shang's appointment was just a name.
Regarding the turf competition between Yuan Shu and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's camp, the position of Yuzhou Assassin has been involved earlier, and in the end, Yuan Shu is better, although most of them rely on Sun Jian's strength to achieve this result, but it is to let Yuan Shu taste the sweetness.
This is why the two sides once again competed for the position of Yanzhou Assassin, which led to the occurrence of the current war.
However, due to the influence of Yang Rui's forces, the strength comparison between Cao Cao and Yuan Shu in the current game is different from historical facts and romances.
Cao Cao only gained more territory in Yanzhou after Yang Rui left recently, and he had been confined to Chenliu County before, and his troops did not have any advantage over Yuan Shu, which led to the confrontation between the two sides for a long time before the winner was decided.
There was even a situation where Cao Cao, who had just captured many territories in Yanzhou, and because of the lack of troops, he transferred troops from Changyi City to help, and among the two warring sides in the confrontation, Yuan Shu had a big advantage for the time being.
With Cao Cao's ability to use troops and many good generals, if Mao Jie, Le Jin, Bao Xin, Yu Ban and others can lead troops to arrive in time, it should not be too difficult for him to defeat Yuan Shu in the end.
However, at the same time that Changyi City was captured by Yang Rui, Mao Jie, Le Jin, Bao Xin, Yu Ban and other soldiers had been completely damaged, although the four of them fled after two or three days, and finally arrived at Fengqiu, but the added combat power was very limited.
"Lord Zhou Mu, Guo Jia secretly thinks that if we make a careful layout for this trip, we can eliminate the threat of Yuan Shu and Cao Cao's two potential opponents at the same time, at least make both of them suffer heavy losses, and we will not be able to threaten the land of Qingzhou and Yanzhou for a long time."
On the way to Fengqiu and Kuangting, when Yang Rui discussed with everyone how to deal with Cao Cao and Yuan Shu's strategies, Guo Jia spoke first.
"Oh? This is the best, and I would like to invite Mr. Guo Jia and all of you here to open up ideas and make plans for this trip."
After hearing Guo Jia's words, Yang Rui was also very moved, and nodded slightly in response.
Originally, there were still many things that had not been dealt with in Qingzhou and Yanzhou, and at the same time, he had to face the threat from Yuan Shao in Jizhou and Liu Dai in the south of Dongjun, the reason why Yang Rui did not rush back to deal with these things, but rushed to the place where Yuan Shu and Cao Cao were fighting, of course, the purpose was not to hang out.
As the saying goes, there must be an injury when two tigers fight, with the current appearance of Yuan Shu and Cao Cao, in the end, the two must be greatly injured, even if one side wins, its strength will definitely consume a lot, and this is the purpose of Yang Rui's here.
Yang Rui does not seek to be the profit-making fisherman, but only wants to make Yuan Shu and Cao Cao fight more fiercely, and it is best that the two can no longer gain a foothold among the princes after this battle, so that the threat around Yang Rui's sphere of influence will be greatly reduced.
"Yuan Shupifu, do you dare to send someone forward to die? As long as you dare to come, I promise to give him a good time with a knife in my hand, and I will not suffer any sin."
As soon as Yang Rui arrived in the sky outside Fengqiu City, he heard a burly general on Cao Cao's side who was in heads-up mode and shouted in front of the formation. (To be continued......) R1292