Chapter 518 The night harvest of the county town is not enough, and it cannot be re-enlisted
The officials in Weicheng knew about the daytime battle early in the morning, and when it was night, the spies in the city came to report that the Qin and Wei soldiers were fighting at night, and the Weicheng officials knew that if the Wei army won, they would definitely enter Weicheng, so they had been watching and waiting on the city tower, and soon after an hour, they saw a group of people and horses holding torches and slowly approaching the city, and when they were trying to figure out whether the comer was friend or foe, the people and horses had already arrived at the city of Weixian.
Looking at it again, I saw that the leader was holding a spear and wearing green clothes and green armor, and then looked at the costume of the team behind him and the banner he carried, it was obviously not the people and horses of the Wei State, and when he was panicked, he thought that the number of troops in the city was less than a thousand, and it was a fool's dream to resist the tiger and wolf army that could be destroyed by these 150,000 horses!
Immediately, he held the official seal and led the officials in the city, opened the city gate, welcomed the people of Chuyang into it, and surrendered to the Han State.
Chuyang entered the city, first ordered to arrange the transfer of men and horses to the three cities of Chizhu, Zhongliang and Xialiang, respectively, Han Zheng led 30,000 men and horses, and Qiulu guarded Chizhu together, Zhao Fan took 30,000 people to Xialiang to find Tao Dai, Zhou Bei led 10,000 people to defend the city in Wei County, and finally led 50,000 troops to lead Dan to Zhongliang to defend Anyu people.
Looking at the vigorous and resolute Chu Yang, Guo Feng, who was only listening to the slightest interjection on the sidelines, only had admiration left in his heart.
After arranging the men and horses to pack up everything, the generals led the soldiers and horses to rush to the cities overnight, according to Chuyang's arrangement, Guo Feng was originally going to return to Lengzhou, but Guo Feng could clearly realize his shortcomings after thinking for a long time, and thought that he could learn a lot of things by following Chuyang, and it would be beneficial to himself, so he finally followed Chuyang's side.
After rushing overnight, he finally arrived at Zhongliang City at dawn, and Cheng Yuan, who had already sent a report to explore the horses, greeted him under the city gate early in the morning, and after welcoming the people and horses of Chuyang into the city, Cheng Yuan asked after arranging for someone to prepare a meal as soon as possible: "What is the general's next move?"
"The reason why the capture of the city can go so smoothly this time is because Wei State did not expect that we would suddenly send troops to occupy the city, and the 150,000 troops outside should only be regarded as disturbing the sight of our Han people, and not as a war, so I let my three-way men and horses smoothly bypass them, and victory is better than taking them by surprise and attacking them unprepared! Now we should take advantage of Wei's failure to react and step up our troops to seize the city to stabilize our position! It's a pity that I have very few troops in my hands, and it is not enough to raise troops and horses to leap forward. Chu Yang sighed, extremely disappointed that he could no longer continue to occupy the cities of Wei.
Guo Feng, who was on the side, couldn't help but sigh after hearing this, and couldn't help but sigh: This godbrother is really capable, he occupied four cities of Wei within three days after setting off from Lengzhou, and wiped out his 150,000 army in one fell swoop, not to mention greatly hurting the vitality of Wei State, at least it also made him suffer for a long time! This is a very high achievement for anyone, but this godbrother doesn't seem to be satisfied, and even has some unfinished meaning! I don't know if he is a genius or a greedy talent!
The general of the four towns who has been in contact with Chuyang for the longest time is Cheng Yuan, and he is also Chuyang's good big brother, and when he appointed the general of the town army to Chuyang, he was also the first to identify with Chuyang, so Cheng Yuan and Chuyang's mood and thoughts are also the closest.
After thinking about Chu Yang's train of thought for a while, Cheng Yuan asked, "Why don't you borrow soldiers and horses from Uncle Ru again?"
Chu Yang glanced at Guo Feng, and then said: "No, there are only 120,000 people left in Lengzhou now, and if 200,000 people in Anyu make a detour to Lengzhou, it will be a big disaster!"
"But if there are no more soldiers and horses, won't you lose this opportunity to march?" At this time, Cheng Yuan was already anxious.
Chu Yang stood up and paced in the hall, took the four city topography maps to watch, Cheng Yuan looked at it for a while and then asked: "Bozhou is the territory of the Han Kingdom, and it is adjacent to Lengzhou, why don't you transfer troops from Bozhou?"
Without waiting for Chu Yang to speak, Guo Feng shook his head and said: "There are 180,000 horses in Lengzhou City, of which 60,000 are transferred from Bozhou to guard the border by His Majesty, and it is estimated that there are no more than 50,000 or 60,000 people in the city now." ”
"Fifty or sixty thousand, such a vast and prosperous state, there are only 1120,000 horses?" Cheng Yuan asked in disbelief.
"Although Bozhou is a vast area, it is popular with people, and there are many businessmen and merchants, so it is often not in Bozhou, so it is sparsely populated, and there has never been turmoil, so at first it was only 350,000 soldiers. The increase to more than 100,000 was a year ago, when the Wei soldiers pressed the border, and the imperial court ordered Bozhou to transfer troops to support Lengzhou. Guo Feng explained.
Cheng Yuan sighed and sat back decadently, this is difficult to do, it seems that a vessel full of gold and silver is placed in front of him, but he can only stare dryly but can't reach it.
"Could it be that after a victory, you can only defend after occupying the four cities?" Cheng Yuan slapped his left palm with his right hand back down, full of anger and grievance.
Chu Yang, who had been looking at the map, finally spoke, and he said: "Anyu is nearly a thousand miles away from Zhongliang, if you count it according to the marching distance, it will not be less than three days to come to Zhongliang, during which you will spy as soon as possible to see if he divides his troops to defend Shangliang, Xia County, and Peihe, or if he will raise a large army to press Zhongliang." ”
Cheng Yuan heard that he hurriedly called in the people, and instructed again as Chu Yang said.
After the spies went out, Cheng Yuan asked, "What if Wei divides its troops to defend the city? What if it raises a large army to attack the city?"
"I'll talk about it then. Chu Yang said with a yawn.
Cheng Yuan wanted to ask in detail, but when he saw Chu Yang and the others yawning, he remembered the battle that lasted for days yesterday, and finally rushed all night, and hurriedly let Chu Yang and the others go back to the room to rest.
I slept until the bright moon hung high before waking up, and when I went to the hall to see everyone, Cheng Yuan said: "Three waves of horses were sent during the day, and there was a wave of reports at dusk, and the soldiers and horses in Anyu did not move, and there were no troops in Shangliang City to defend. ”
"Could it be that the people and horses were transferred to Peihe and Xia County?" Zi Dan, who came in one step later than Chu Yang, asked.
Without waiting for Cheng Yuan to answer, Chu Yang shook his head first and said: "Impossible, the two cities of Peihe and Xia County are compared to Shangliang, and they are slightly far away from Zhongliang and Chizhu, if they divide troops to defend, it is impossible for him to ignore the adjacent cities, and take care of the distance, unless he doesn't plan to go to Shangliang City." ”
"Then what did he plan, could it be that as Chu Yang said, Anyu City didn't intend to take care of the safety of other cities, just to protect Anyu, so he didn't divide troops to defend?" Guo Feng guessed.
Chu Yang shook his head and didn't speak, it's in vain to guess now, it's better to wait for Tanma to come back, and it is a good thing for him to not move.
Chuyang, who didn't wake up until late at night, didn't feel sleepy until late at night, and Zidan and Guo Feng were the same, and the last three of them simply looked at the map at night in the hall, in order to think of the best way to transfer troops from Lengzhou and not be afraid of being discovered by An Yu.