Chen Tai is different from Chen Qun, he actually doesn't have too deep feelings for Da Wei.

Chen Tai was born very late, since he can remember, his father has been an important minister under Cao Cao, he does not have many memories of experiencing troubled times, and as his father's power is getting higher and higher, his status and treatment are getting better and better.

Therefore, Chen Tai did not think that everything he was doing now was brought to him by the Cao Wei court to have his current status, Chen Tai felt that he relied on his own ability, relied on the background of the Yingchuan Chen family, and relied on the protection of his father.

Really, if it weren't for Chen Qun's very good tutor and instilling in Chen Tai the correct values, I'm afraid that the first thing Chen Tai would think of now would not be to stick to it, but to surrender to the county.

Now Chen Tai is still sticking to it, just because of his duties, and as a Confucian, he has his own persistence and ethics, which has little to do with whether he is loyal to the monarch and patriotic.

Therefore, although Chen Tai did not have the idea of surrendering to the situation, Chen Tai had actually considered the issue of abandoning Yingchuan.

There's no way, I can't keep it.

Faced with such a large gap in forces and an already quite unstable internal environment, Chen Qun really didn't think he had the ability to hold Yingchuan.

Moreover, if the Yingchuan clan chooses to surrender to Ji Han, it must be after careful consideration and can protect the interests of the family, and it is impossible for Shu Han's side to persecute the Yingchuan family too much when the overall situation has been decided.

Abandoning Yingchuan, retreating into Yanzhou, and preserving strength to continue fighting, in Chen Qun's view, is actually a pretty good strategic choice.

It's just that if he does this, Chen Tai thinks that Guo Huai should not agree.

Guo Huai is different from Chen Tai, he is a veteran of the Great Wei Dynasty, and a person who is deeply favored by the monarchs of the Great Wei and Wei dynasties. Chen Tai thinks it is feasible to abandon Yingchuan before the fight starts, but Chen Tai estimates that Guo Huai will not approve of it.

For this reason, although Chen Tai has always had this idea, he has never mentioned it in front of Guo Huai, and even, he is ready to stick to Xuchang and wait for help.

But now, Guo Huai, an old general, actually took the initiative to let Gao Tanglong guard the back road, which really surprised Chen Tai.

And Guo Huai naturally has his own reasons.

As a commander with excellent strategic vision, Guo Huai also knew very well that the current internal and external situation of Yingchuan County was not suitable for holding on.

In this case, it is better to save the troops and retreat, try to lengthen the logistics supply line of the Shu thieves, and look for other flaws in the Shu thieves, which is what a military commander should do.

However, this place in Yingchuan County can't be left unguarded.

After all, the current general Sima Yi is counterattacking Luoyang, and if he directly abandons Yingchuan County without saying a word in Gong County, and completely exposes Sima Zhengxi's flank to the Shu thieves, it will be a big trouble.

Therefore, the idea and suggestion given by Guo Huai was to temporarily shrink the forces and hold on to Xuchang for a while, and at the same time quickly inform Sima Yi and let him withdraw his troops and recover the Tiger Prison Pass At that time, Guo Huai and Chen Tai could fight and withdraw in Yingchuan and withdraw into Yanzhou.

In this case, Yan Ling's gains and losses are very important, this is related to Guo Huai and Chen Tai's retreat route, and no one can defend the purpose of letting Gao Tanglong lead the troops into Yan Ling, which is also here.

After listening to Guo Huai's thoughts, Chen Tai also expressed his agreement with this, and after a little discussion between the two of them, they began to recruit the county soldiers scattered in various counties and assemble in Xuchang to defend with all their might.

And when these two people gathered all the county soldiers from all over the country to Xuchang and prepared to defend to the death. At this time, Xu Shu had just led the troops and arrived in Xiangcheng.

There is no way, the marching speed of 150,000 soldiers and horses can't be fast.

When Xu Shu led his army to Xiangcheng and learned from Zhang Wei about the recent troop movement in Yingchuan County, he immediately understood Chen Tai's strategic intentions.

Okay, since you want to defend to the death and give up the outer defense line, then you don't easily accept these county seats, aren't you sorry for your hard work?!

Xu Shu immediately ordered that the whole army be divided into three routes.

The Northern Route Army was commanded by Jiang Xu, Wang Ping was the deputy general, with the Wudang Fei Army as the front and 30,000 Qinzhou soldiers as the central army, and went north to seize Yangzhai and Changshe counties, cut off the connection between Xuchang and the north of Yingchuan, and then turned to the east to attack Yanling, where Yingchuan and Chenliu were connected, and cut off the retreat of Yingchuan County soldiers into Chenliu.

The Middle Route Army was led by Xu Shu himself, led Biqiu Jian, Hu Zun and other generals, led 100,000 troops, crossed Rushui and Yingshui, stationed in Yingyin, and approached Xuchang.

The Southern Route Army was led by Kou Feng with 20,000 Xiangyang County soldiers, with 20,000 Liangzhou cavalry under Pang De's department, along the route of Jiang Wei's detour to attack Xuchang, all the way to the counties, and finally joined Xu Shu under the city of Xuchang.

Since you, Chen Tai, have chosen to stick to Xuchang, then I will fulfill you, completely surround Xuchang, and see where you are running this time.

After the arrangements were made, Jiang Xu and Kou sealed the orders of each leader and prepared to set off.

Kou Feng and Pang De's journey, Xu Shu was not too worried, after all, there was really nothing difficult about that way.

But Jiang Xu's journey, Xu Shu was a little uneasy, and personally admonished Jiang Xu.

In fact, the main thing is to tell Jiang Xu that this march must be done "without any offense in autumn", not only for the people, but also for the big families.

There is no way, the two counties of Yangzhai and Changshe are the third and fourth largest family settlements in addition to Xuchang and Yingyin.

This time to march into Yingchuan, Xu Shu and Zhuge Liang have discussed it several times, and they don't think that they will encounter any big battle array test, and the biggest test is how to appease the Yingchuan family, so that these Yingchuan families can accept the rule of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, this way of military horses, Xu Shu had to give Jiang Xu more advice.

Although Jiang Xu is also from the Tianshui family, he knows the style of the family very well, but there are still some differences in style between the family family in Xiliang and the family in the Central Plains.

Although Jiang Xu is also a rare talent in the Tianshui family, in the eyes of these Central Plains families, even a talent like Jia Xu can be regarded as a Liangzhou turtle, what is a mere Jiang Xu? !

Therefore, Xu Shu could only tell Jiang Xu again and again to treat him politely. Even if you have suffered a little grievance, don't get angry easily, so as to damage the majesty of the "royal teacher".

There is no way, if you want to pacify Yingchuan County as soon as possible, then these big families are the objects that the Han needs to fight for, give them enough face now, what is the problem, wait until the end of this Northern Expedition to settle the account, it is not too late.

Xu Shu said so, what else can Jiang Xu say?!

Jiang Xu's current identity is also different, he is already a state assassin, and he is not without hope of entering the central court in the future, he is in a high position, there is no need to worry more about some wild families.

Again, even if Jiang Xu doesn't think about himself, he should think about Jiang Wei. Today's Jiang Wei is not only a confidant of the Son of Heaven, but also has nominally replaced Wu Yi as the supreme commander of the Northern Army of the Han Dynasty.

Jiang Wei's future is broader than his Jiang Xu's future, and from the perspective of the Tianshui Jiang clan, Jiang Xu will not cause trouble to his nephew Jiang Wei.

Therefore, this time he led the troops to attack the Changshe, even if someone pointed at him Jiang Xu's nose and scolded him, he had to endure it.

With such an awareness, Jiang Xu and Wang Ping led the troops together and went straight to Yangzhai County.

But the facts proved that Xu Shu and Jiang Xu were thinking a little too much.

When Jiang Xu led his army to a distance of ten miles from Yangzhai, the scouts found that a large number of people had gathered outside Yangzhai City, and these people were still holding things similar to food and wine jugs in their hands, kneeling on both sides of the road.

Wang Ping didn't have much knowledge, and the Wudang Flying Army he led had always been fighting a tough battle, so he hadn't seen this scene at all, but Jiang Xu knew it.

Ten miles out of the city, eating pot pulp, in order to welcome the king, this process is really standard.

As soon as he saw this posture, Jiang Xu immediately ordered the whole army to stop, and then asked Wang Ping to help restrain the army, and he took more than ten personal guards to personally step forward and talk to the head of the local family in Yangzhai County, surrender, and enter the city.

Well, the process to go through is to go through a little.

After completing these processes, Jiang Xucai, accompanied by the county order and the local family, led 500 soldiers into the city to symbolically take over the city defense, and the remaining soldiers, under the leadership of Wang Ping, were stationed outside Yangzhai County.

First, this is to give Yang Zhai's local family face, not to go into the city to harass their lives, and it is also a means to buy people's hearts.

Second, if there is anything in this Yangzhai County, which causes Jiang Xu to have any accidents, there is also Wang Ping in the army outside the city, and it will not delay the big event.

Best of both worlds.

And with Jiang Xu entering the city and appeasing the people, Yang Zhai captured it bloodlessly.

Follow Yangzhai to the east, come to Yingshui, which is Changshe County.

In the long society, Jiang Xu and Wang Ping encountered such a drama again, this time even Wang Ping has experience, and he knows what to do without Jiang Xu's instructions.

This kind of situation is happening everywhere in Yeongcheon-gun.

Xu Shu led the troops into Yingyang, Yingyin County, Kou Feng led the troops to occupy Linying, and they all got such a "Qi eat pot pulp, in order to welcome the king's division" treatment To a certain extent, Chen Tai's approach is really correct, as far as the hearts of the people in Yingchuan County are now, he will divide his troops and defend it, and he will only be completely sold by the county orders and families in various places.

But even so, when Chen Tai learned that the Shu army had gone all the way unhindered and easily occupied the counties of Yingchuan, he was also surprised.

It only took less than half a month for the Shu thieves to completely pacify the surrounding counties of Xuchang, and now more than 100,000 troops have surrounded these bastards in Xuchang, and the speed of surrender is inevitably too fast, right?!

No, let's make a face. Surrendering one by one like this, doesn't it seem that our Yingchuan family is too undisciplined?!

(End of chapter)