Chapter 472: Changes in the Situation

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Of course, Yang Tian's biggest gain this time was to capture the other party's leading figure Yan Xing, you must know that Yan Xing is not comparable to ordinary second- and third-rate historical generals, he is a first-class historical military general who attaches equal importance to force and commander, and this alone is enough for Yang Tian to spend effort to capture him.

It's just that although Yan Xing has been captured now, he doesn't have the heart to surrender for the time being, after all, they are Han Sui's cronies, and they are also a well-known figure, he can't choose to surrender lightly, and the system won't let him surrender so lightly. If you want to completely subdue it, you have to work hard for Guo Jiaduo.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Yang Tian led the army to embark on the journey again, but this time they did not advance in the direction of Di Dao City, and they were not stupid, and they had nothing to do to attack other people's fortified cities.

However, at this time, Li Xiangru's army had reached more than twenty kilometers south of Di Dao City, and several player leaders of the imperial court camp were carried away by the victory just now, and actually built a new army to exterminate the rebels led by Li Xiangru.

Their idea is indeed good, in terms of the comparison of the strength of the two sides, the imperial army does have a great advantage, but you must know that this is the territory of the Xiliang rebels. There are still two million rebels in Di Dao City, and more than 100 kilometers behind the imperial army, there are more than 7 million troops led by Han Sui.

Therefore, in the end, they still shifted their direction and headed towards the east, with the purpose of taking the army of the Xiliang rebels in a circle. At this time, Yang Tian did not know that Han Sui had notified the rebels of Qinchuan City to go out of the city and cut off their grain routes. Yan Xing knew the news, but although this guy was captured now, he had not yet surrendered, so Yang Tian had not been able to extract any news from him.

Yang Tian's purpose in doing this now was to make Han Sui lose his patience and let him give an order to Qinchuan City to make the army in the city go out of the city, so that Chen Gong would have a chance to capture Qinchuan City.

After almost half a day, Yang Tian finally received a message from Chen Gong that they had successfully captured Qinchuan City, and that Zhang Wen had led a large army to Hanxing.

After Yang Tian got the news, he was immediately ecstatic. After all, it is also a very dangerous thing to take Han Sui's army around in this area, and it is really not a joke if one is accidentally surrounded by the other party. But now that he can finally be freed, how can he not be happy?

Immediately, Yang Tian ordered the army to begin to retreat, and the target was directly aimed at Qinchuan City. At the same time, he also told the other player power leaders the news, and those people were also very excited when they heard this, after all, this is the key to whether they can hold the results of the previous war.

Soon after Yang Tian got the news, Han Sui also learned about the fall of Qinchuan City, and while he sighed, he also ordered the army to speed up and catch up with the imperial army.

If she didn't know why the imperial army had accelerated its retreat to the east, now it was completely clear. It's just that this is not the most tangled and painful thing for him now, what makes him most sad now is that the 500,000 cavalry led by Yan Xing has been wiped out.

You must know that there are less than 800,000 cavalry under his command, and now 500,000 have been cut down by the imperial army with one sword, which is basically a crippled cavalry. You must know that although the Xiliang region is rich in war horses, it is not easy to gather 500,000 horses, otherwise there would not be a total of 780,000 cavalry under his command.

Now watching the imperial army speed up and withdrawing, he was helpless, after all, his remaining 300,000 cavalry did not dare to send out alone. Therefore, after joining up with Li Xiangru's army, he pulled up 10 million men and horses and chased after the imperial army together.

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When Zhang Wen led the army to retreat to Hanxing City, Fufeng Ma Teng's strength also reached a peak, and together with more than 10 million players, it was enough to make Han Sui, the first person to rebel, embarrassed.

After Ma Teng's power expanded, he began to plot against the surrounding cities, and the first thing he did was to raise troops to attack Wugong City. Its purpose is obvious, because Wugong City is located east of Meiyang and Hanyang is west of Xinping City, once Wugong City is captured, then Meiyang City and Xinping City will be surrounded on three sides. And Wugong City is only a small city, and the difficulty of attacking this city is naturally much lower than attacking the important city of Meiyang.

Ma Teng was very concerned about the first battle after his rebellion, and sent his son Ma Chao to the expedition in person. Also because of Ma Chao's influence, players in the rebel camp responded in droves.

In less than two days, Ma Chao led millions of troops to besiege Wugong City, and in less than a day, Wugong City had fallen. At the same time, the kingdom led the rebels under his command to march into Hanxing, and seemed to want to take Hanxing City when Zhang Wen led the army back.

This can be sitting on the temple of Emperor Han Ling frightened, you must know that after the martial arts city is Xianyang, and after Xianyang can go directly to Chang'an, Chang'an City is the western gateway to Luoyang, if the rebels hit here, then Luoyang City may be dangerous. Therefore, from the emperor to the junior officials, there was an unprecedented unanimity of opinion, that is, to try a way to resist the rebels outside Xianyang City.

Without any resistance, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty once again appointed Huangfu Song as the general of Zuo to lead a large army of millions drawn from all over the world to Xianyang, and at the same time appointed Dong Zhuo, who was stationed in Xinping City, as the former general.

At this time, Emperor Ling of Han also made a bloody investment, and took out a large amount of money to let Huangfu Song lead the army to teleport directly to Xianyang City, and formed a left and right attack with Dong Zhuo's army. And Huangfu Song not only brought a large number of troops, but also brought a large number of defensive equipment. This undoubtedly boosted the morale of the NPC army and the players guarding Xianyang. Originally, when Ma Chao quickly captured Wugong County, they were still planning to slip away! Now it doesn't seem necessary to do that. Although it is still not advantageous in terms of numbers, with the advantage of the city wall, Ma Chao wants to attack Xianyang, and the difficulty is really not ordinary, especially with Huangfu Song, a generation of famous generals here, it is indeed very exciting.

After Ma Chao captured Wugong City, he did not continue to advance eastward in one go, but instead sent two elite cavalry to fight Meiyang and Xinping, dragging the two cities into a state of war, making the teleportation array in the city completely become a decoration. You must know that the state of war does not have to be triggered by thousands of troops attacking the city, but as long as someone deliberately attacks the city, the city will trigger the state of war, and at the same time, the teleportation array will be closed. Ma Chao's approach is undoubtedly very wise, now the two cities of Meiyang and Xinping are surrounded by rebels, as long as the people in the city are not allowed to have the opportunity to obtain external materials and personnel supplies from the teleportation array, then it will take a while, and this city will be self-defeating. If the outside world wants to come to the rescue, they must first take the rebel city. In this way, the status between them has changed.

At this time, the two cities of Meiyang and Xinping have completely become an isolated island, although the carrier pigeon communication has not been interrupted, but the role it can play is minimal. As the highest-ranking general in the two major cities, Dong Zhuo is also very troubled now.

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When Wang Guo led his army of two million to the outside of Hanxing, Zhang Wen's army had indeed not yet returned. The kingdom did not hesitate to launch a frenzied attack on Hanxing City.

At this time, the supreme commander of Hanxing City was Yuan Peng, who left him in Hanxing City when Zhang Wen listened to Yang Tianjian and led his army to attack Qinchuan. At that time, Zhang Wen and the others did not expect that there would be a fire in the backyard, so there were not many troops left in Hanxing City, plus the players' soldiers, there were only about 500,000, and there was no elite army.

When he heard that the kingdom was leading an army of two million, he was immediately dumbfounded, but fortunately, yesterday he had already received a message from Zhang Wen that he would lead the army back in two days, which means that as long as he could hold Hanxing City for two days, it would be considered a victory.

After this battle started, the two sides found that things were not as smooth as they imagined. The kingdom is clear about the reality in Hanxing City, in his opinion, as long as his army arrives, although this Yuan Peng will not be scared to give up the city obediently, but it will definitely be in turmoil! In such an obvious disadvantage, as long as you attack the city with all your might, it is only easy to take Hanxing City. Similarly, Yuan Peng also felt that his army belonged to the defenders, even if there were more troops on the other side, how many people could directly participate in the siege battle? And he had already heard that there were not many siege equipment in the kingdom's army, but on his side, on the contrary, when Zhang Wen left Hanxing City, he did not take any siege equipment with him, and left all these things in Hanxing City. Therefore, although the imperial army of Hanxing City did not have an advantage in numbers, it was also superior to the rebels in terms of the power of equipment. In light of this situation, he felt that it was perfectly possible to keep it for two days.

However, after a day of war, the kingdom still failed to capture Hanxing City, but the effect was obvious, that is, the walls of Hanxing City had cracked in many places, and nearly half of the defenders in the city had been killed and wounded. As long as the attack can be increased tomorrow, Hanxing City will definitely be able to take it. In fact, according to the normal situation, things will not develop to the current state, the kingdom did not calculate that Zhang Wen led the army and was about to rush back to Hanxing City, and the army on his side pressed the border, which did not have any impact on the imperial army. Yuan Peng did not take into account the situation that Hanxing City in just over a month, experienced several major battles, whether it was the initial calcination of fire oil, or the subsequent catapult attack, there was huge damage to the wall, although later occupied by the imperial army, Zhang Wen also sent people to repair the city wall, but its strength was far less than before. This is also the reason why there are many cracks in the city wall after just half a day's attack. (To be continued)