Chapter 442: The Thunder Strikes Youzhou

Yuyang City Head. Gongsun Zhan, who looked surprised, asked Li Jinwu, "When did Zhao Guochang come to Youzhou?"

Li Jinwu replied with a smile: "Lord Taifu is not in Youzhou, and now I am afraid that he is drinking on Danhan Mountain!"

Gongsun Zhan was very depressed and asked again: "I don't know how many soldiers and horses the Protector Army sent to Youzhou this time?"

Li Jinwu did not hide it, and said truthfully: "Don't hide that General Gongsun knows that this time the Jin Kingdom sent a total of 130,000 troops, divided into six armies: Xiong Zhen Army, Xiongwu Army, Dingyuan Army, Flying Tiger Army, Blue Wolf Army, and Dragoon Army, and now only the Crouching Tiger Army and the Vanguard Army are left in their own country!"

In fact, there is moisture in Li Jinwu's words. Not to mention that the Blue Wolf Army made a feint to the Yanmen area and turned around and went to Liangzhou, even the Dingyuan Army also had 10,000 people who followed Ma Chao to Xiliang Wuwei. The reason why Li Jinwu said this was to deter Gongsun Zhan, and the other was to prevent outsiders from getting the inside story of some troop movements.

Hearing Li Jinwu say that the Protector Army almost poured out, and the Six Route Army all entered Youzhou and the western Liaoning region, Gongsun Zhan was very shocked in his heart. couldn't help but make him nervous, even Tian Yu heard Li Jinwu's words, and felt that Zhao Xing's methods were really like thunder, either as stable as Mount Tai, or as shocking as the sky.

A few years ago, the 130,000 troops of the East Road besieged Huguan, and afterwards Gongsun Zan learned that the defenders of the pass were only 6,000 people, so he realized how stupid it was for him to take 10,000 people south. Now the powerful Protector Legion has dispatched six armies at a time, and I don't know how big a piece of territory Zhao Xing wants to lay.

Gongsun Zhan, who came back to his senses, was a little dazed and didn't know what to say, and finally had to ask with a squirming promise: "Now that Yuyang City is in the hands of the general, I don't know how Taifu Zhao will deal with our guilty people?"

Li Jinwu saw that Gongsun Zhan's mouth had softened, so he no longer suppressed people with power, and replied very calmly: "In this Northern Expedition of the Jin Army, Yuyang City is just one of the many targets. My army set out from Dai County, captured Zhang Ju and Pingji County, and won Yuyang, but it was only a small credit. Presumably, now Wuhuan Qiu Liju has been beheaded by Xiong Zhen's army, and the 30,000 Xianbei on Danhan Mountain have turned into dust, and the victory of the armies from all walks of life is just around the corner. General Gongsun went down to the city with me, temporarily lived in the house, and arranged to wait until Lord Taifu came, and he would see for themselves. ”

After listening to Li Jinwu's bland dictation, Gongsun Zhan's heart, which had already calmed down, once again set off turbulent waves. From Li Jinwu's words, Gongsun Chan clearly knew the intention of Zhao Xing's Northern Expedition, not only to attack his family, but to take advantage of the situation to pacify the forces of the Quartet and completely control the western part of Youzhou and a large area of western Liaoning. If there was no Zhang Ju's rebellion, if Zhao Xing was just looking for revenge on him, there would be no need to use such a large and astonishing force.

At the request of Li Jinwu, he immediately ordered the soldiers in the city who were still resisting to the death to lay down their swords and obey the fate of the Xiongwu army. The soldiers in Yuyang City, who were still fighting, were much more honest and had no heart to resist after hearing that it was not the rebels who entered the city, but the terrifying Xiongwu army.

Under the leadership of Gongsun Zhan, Li Jinwu led people to find Tian Chou, Xu Rong, Guan Chun, Geng Wu and other deputy generals in the city. Seeing that their lord had been controlled by others and that there was not much pain, these generals obeyed Gongsun Zhan's request and walked out of their respective mansions one after another, beckoning the soldiers scattered in Yuyang City to lay down their weapons and obey the disposal of the Xiongwu army.

After quickly controlling the situation in Yuyang City, Li Jinwu immediately asked people to send out a fireworks signal at the head of the city to the Xiong Zhen army that had been in ambush for a long time not far away.

A few days ago, Qiu Liju had been eliminated, and the Xiong Zhen army that successfully captured the city was successfully captured, leaving 5,000 soldiers to garrison the city and guard the Wuhuan prisoners, and the remaining 10,000 people went south to Yuyang under the leadership of Xu Shu, preparing to work with the Xiongwu army to clear the rebels around Yuyang City.

After seeing the signal that the Xiongwu army had succeeded, Xu Shu immediately ordered 10,000 Xiong Zhen troops to march towards Yuyang City, and exterminated and captured all the rebels encountered along the road. After seeing Xu Shu's army coming from the north, Li Jinwu immediately ordered the 5,000 cavalry led by Ye Xiong and the 5,000 infantry under his command to go out of the city together, starting from the south gate to both sides, 5,000 people were responsible for solving the rebels between the south gate and the east gate, and 5,000 people were responsible for solving the rebels between the south gate and the west gate.

In one day, all 30,000 rebels outside Yuyang City were wiped out. This battle, for the Xiong Zhen Army and the Xiongwu Army, which were at the forefront of the army, was easy and enjoyable, and the momentum was like a bamboo. Without Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun's Yuyang rebels, in front of the Protector Army, they are like a child who can walk, and how to clean up is just a matter of words.

While Li Jinwu and Xu Shu quickly gained a foothold in the Yuyang area, the Flying Tiger Army, which went deep into the desert, captured all the Xianbei people in the place they passed, like a snowball that was getting bigger and bigger, and nearly 50,000 Xianbei old and weak women and children were concentrated in one breath and rushed to the upper reaches of the Lightning River, and after the victory of the Dingyuan Army, they stopped and gasped.

After the Dingyuan army and the Flying Tiger army met, only the Hun cavalry division that needed to rest after a bloody battle was left to take care of the Xianbei prisoners, and the rest of the troops were divided into two roads, north and south, gathered for 300 miles, and marched east together, plundering all the living creatures in the place they passed, until the army marched to the foot of the Great Xing'an Mountains, which stopped the crazy horse racing action.

If the Dingyuan Army and the Flying Tiger Army crossed the Great Khing'an Mountains and continued eastward, they could enter the territory of Fuyu Kingdom (Inner Mongolia near Jilin and Heilongjiang).

The dragoons, who had already won a great victory at the foot of Daqing Mountain, quickly withdrew to the territory of the Jin State after Budugen fled north, leaving only Zhao Xing and 20,000 Youzhou soldiers posing as Xiongwu. Knowing that Zhao Yun had succeeded on the bank of the Lightning River and that Bu Dugen, the leader of Xianbei in Western Liaoning, had been given the head, Zhao Xing took 20,000 rookie troops and guard regiments to the south and came to Dong'anyang in Dai County.

After stabilizing the situation in Yuyang City, Li Jinwu and Xu Shu, who joined forces, each divided 10,000 soldiers and horses to march eastward to clear the remnants of the Zhang Ju rebels entrenched in Youbeiping County, and at the same time incorporated a small number of soldiers and horses of Gongsun Fan, Zou Dan, Shan Jing and others under the command of Gongsun Zhan stationed in Xu Wu, Wuzhong and Junmi.

So far, since Zhang Ju pulled the flag on the sixth day of the sixth month of June to the whole territory of Youzhou was flattened, it took less than three months before and after, and in early August, the forces that were originally entrenched in the vicinity of Youzhou, under the thunderous momentum of the Protector Army, were either forcibly cut off (such as Wuhuan Qiu Liju, Liaoxi Xianbei Budugen), or were deterred and controlled (Gongsun Zhan's army), or were captured (such as Zhang Ju's rebels), or were successfully incorporated (such as Youzhou Mansion soldiers), and Zhao Xing's initial Northern Expedition goal was successfully achieved.

This time, the Jin State sent 100,000 troops, and attacked the territory back and forth, which was broader than the three annexed states, and suddenly expanded the strategic depth of the Jin State to the north and east, and in the future, there will be Gongsun Du and Sanhan in Liaodong and other places, waiting for Zhao Xing to make a move and slowly clean up. As for the Xianbei people and Wuhuan people who have been in the north and northeast of the Han Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, after this battle, they have completely walked towards the road of destruction, and it is difficult to escape the final result of being annexed and sinicized.