Chapter 1203: Rout
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Yang Tian finally withdrew from the Xiangyang City Lord's Mansion, after all, he only had more than 10,000 Iron Eagle Warriors in his hands, if the ninth-order soldiers of the other main legions of Baiyun City did not participate in the war at this time, he might really be able to consume Liu Biao until all the Xiangyang defenders were consumed. (Please search for the fastest novel website!) But now, it can't be done.
Don't look at the side of Baiyun City that is only guarding the City Lord's Mansion, but there are also five or six thousand soldiers who are invested each time. Yang Tian divided the Iron Eagle Legion into three teams to defend in turn, but such a high-intensity war still couldn't last long. By noon the next day, Yang Tian gradually put away the Iron Eagle Ruishi and withdrew from Xiangyang City as a whole.
However, the impact of this battle did not end with Liu Biao's recapture of Xiangyang City, Baiyun City held out for more than a day under the siege of Jingzhou's million-strong army with tens of thousands of horses, and finally retreated, which was absolutely disgraceful for the Jingzhou army. The most important thing is that until the end, the army of Xiangyang City failed to cause too many losses to the Iron Eagle Legion, although there were many wounded, but they were all transferred to Xuanji City by Yang Tianxun for treatment, and less than 200 people were really killed in the battle. Although the Jingzhou side is not very clear about the specific loss of Baiyun City, it can also estimate a rough one.
When the news reached the eastern front, the entire Jingzhou army was silent, coupled with the fact that Liu Biao hid in the city when he was attacked in the city lord's mansion to avoid a fight, it was a big blow to the Jingzhou soldiers, and they had a doubt in their hearts, is there really a future for following such a lord?
After the Battle of Xiangyang City, the Baiyun City army once again fought several wars with the Jingzhou army. However, the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou side was much worse than before, and once the battle did not go well, the number of people who surrendered greatly increased, which increased the advance of the Baiyun City side a lot.
Yang Tian was not idle, now Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang's two armies are still attacking Lujiang and Jiujiang two counties, although his harassment in Yuzhou has had a certain impact on Yuan Shu's army, but it is difficult to change the overall situation.
After all, the city attacked by the armies of Yuan and Liu was only the county seat, and the Baiyun City side was constantly repairing and reinforcing the city wall when defending the city, but it was indeed much easier to destroy than to repair. After several days of fierce fighting, the walls of each city were already showing signs of crumbling. The generals of Baiyun City in those cities had already proposed to Yang Tian to withdraw their troops. Exchange space for time. Continue to defend in the next city and maximize the opponent's living forces.
This is also something that Yang Tian discussed with Guo Jia and others before, Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang's army is menacing, and the war is bound to be fierce. Although the army on the side of Baiyun City is sufficient. But if there is no resistance from the walls. These Baiyun City soldiers, who did not belong to the main army, were still difficult to compete with these two armies. At that time, Guo Jia proposed to build yƬ, once the walls of the defending city collapsed. The defending army immediately broke through the siege and retreated, and continued to block the enemy in the next city.
Yang Tian immediately agreed to the request put forward by the generals of the defenders of the two counties of Lujiang, anyway, in the north of Lujiang and Jiujiang, the people in the towns have moved to the southern region, and the loss of retreat will not be great.
However, Yang Tian promised to return the promise, he still had some worries in his heart, in case Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang's forces were advancing one after another, and even reinforcements appeared again, then the two counties of Lujiang and Jiujiang would be in danger. Therefore, he planned to do his best to end the war in Jingzhou, and then go all out to fight against Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang.
Therefore, after Yang Tian left Xiangyang, he did not stop his harassment tactics, but instead extended his tentacles into some of the cities that the main army of Baiyun City was about to attack, and his purpose was only one, that is, to disturb the morale of the army. Although those cities are heavily garrisoned, they can't help Yang Tian, who has no intention of fighting hard at all.
Due to Yang Tian's direct involvement, the Jingzhou army, which was already weak, was no longer able to resist, and the defense line of Liu Biaoyi's barrier was beaten by the main army of Baiyun City in a few days, and the entire Jingzhou army was routed.
You must know that in the east of Jingzhou, seventy percent of the entire Jingzhou army has been gathered, and in terms of combat effectiveness, these armies are almost ninety percent of Jingzhou's strength. Now, such an army was actually defeated on all fronts under the attack of Baiyun City, which indicated that Liu Biao was no longer capable of organizing an effective defense.
The army of Baiyun City was like a bamboo, and within a few days, they took most of the land of Jiangxia, Changsha, and Guiyang counties, and the world was shocked! Especially Cao Cao, it is like burning his eyebrows. If this situation continues, within half a month, Jingzhou will inevitably change hands. At that time, Baiyun City lost its clamp to the west, and it was even more impossible for Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang's troops to capture Yangzhou.
Cao Cao regrets it now, why did he agree to the alliance with Baiyun City in the first place? If they hadn't signed that damn agreement, he would have been able to send troops directly to rescue Liu Biao now. He believed that as long as he joined in, the Baiyun City army would definitely not attack Jingzhou so smoothly.
Now Cao Cao couldn't find other allies who could pose a threat to Baiyun City for a while, and he had also thought of letting Yuan Shu and Liu Zhang's troops enter Jingzhou to jointly resist the attack of the main army of Baiyun City, but in this way, the initiative of the war was completely in the hands of Baiyun City, and they could only defend passively. This is the last thing Cao Cao wants to see. In his eyes, it was nothing if Liu Biao was eliminated, as long as he could inflict a blow on Baiyun City, it would be considered a success.
Fortunately, the news that came back in the past few days was not all bad, at least his deployment in the other two places was completely successful, one of which was the confrontation with Zhang Lu's forces in Yizhou, with the masters he borrowed from Yuan Shao, he finally broke through Zhang Lu's layers of defense all the way and completely leveled Zhang Lu's forces.
However, now Zhang Lu's forces were still controlled by Cao Cao, and he took advantage of this to put forward conditions to Liu Zhang, asking the other party to send more troops to Yuzhou to participate in the battle of Baiyun City. Liu Zhang had no choice but to agree to increase the troops. Cao Cao also talked about credibility, and directly ceded this large piece of land to Liu Zhang. In fact, even if Liu Zhang did not agree to Cao Cao's conditions at this time, Cao Cao would not be able to control Zhang Lu's forces for a long time. The reason is simple, Cao Cao's army is also limited, and he has more important things to accomplish.
Now, Cao Cao has withdrawn part of the elite army from Yizhou, and the rest of the army continues to stay in Yizhou, because now Liu Zhang is dragged on the battlefield in Yangzhou, although he has just occupied Zhang Lu's territory, but he is unable to expand. According to Cao Cao's original plan, the main purpose of his trip to Yizhou was not to attack Zhang Lu's forces, but to sweep the Flattening Wind Alliance. In Cao Cao's opinion, the strength of the Flowing Wind Alliance could not be compared to Zhang Lu, and it was a waste to leave all the elite forces here. It is inevitable that some elite soldiers will be sucked away. (To be continued......)