An hour later.

Outside the city of Jinxiang, the war drums thundered.

Yang Zhao ordered an attack on Jinxiang, and Yuan Yi gathered a large army to defend, but he couldn't prevent the bombing thrown from the thunderbolt. Medicine, with the sound of a burst of artillery fire, echoed above the tower of Jinxiang City, and the city was quickly blasted open.

Yuan Yi led his troops back to the city to defend, as Yuan's people, he resolutely refused to surrender, and had to fight with Yang Zhao in the streets, doing a battle of trapped beasts.

Zhang Liao and Xu Huang led their troops into the city, chased and killed Yuan Yi, and after a while, they came back with a bloody head.

"Lord, this is Yuan Yi's head." Xu Huang said.

Yang Zhao nodded slightly and said, "Wen You, you first go to control the warehouse and the arsenal, and then appease the people and try to calm the impact of the war." ”

Li Ru and the others received the order and immediately went to make arrangements.

"How many troops have we received?"

Yang Zhao asked again.

Yuan Yi was reluctant to surrender, but the soldiers under his command, seeing that the general trend had gone, would basically surrender if they didn't want to die.

Li Tong responded: "We fought all the way from Dongping to Shanyang, and the total number of surrendered troops accepted was more than 5,000. ”

"More than 5,000 troops."

Yang Zhao pondered for a moment and said, "Gather the surrendered troops, and in the future to fight with Yuan Shao, you can use them as the vanguard to charge." ”

These more than 5,000 people, he wanted to use them as cannon fodder, and when he ran out, he would collect the rest into the army and bring them back to Qingzhou.

As the army entered the town, the city of Jinxiang quickly returned to calm.

Yang Zhao walked into the government office and spread out a map, which now occupies most of Yanzhou, and Xuzhou also occupies the big county of Langya, if you can control these counties in your hands, you can expand to Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

"Cao Mengde ......"

Yang Zhao began to think again, if Cao Cao came to ask, should he pay it back?

"Forget it, let's talk about it later!"

Yang Zhao put away the map, no longer entangled, and ordered the whole army to rest and go to Rencheng tomorrow.

Early the next morning.

The whole army was assembled, and just as they were about to leave, news came from the shadows again.

"Yuan Shu has come to the south of Shanyang, Cao Mengde does not participate in the war at all, does not refuse Yuan Shu's army to go north, but only sends troops to guard the state border to prevent Yuan Shu's dove from occupying the magpie's nest."

"In addition, the current Yuzhou Assassin Sun Ben is a protégé of the Yuan family, and the position of Assassin is also appointed by Yuan Shu, not only will not prevent Yuan Shu from going north, but also send troops and food to fund Yuan Shu."

"Next, Yuan Shu will be handed over to Wen Yuan and Gongming to deal with, and Wen You will assist."

"It should be noted that Lu Bu took refuge in Yuan Shu, he can't fight easily, try to defend as much as possible, if he can delay, he can't drag it, retreat back to Jibei, and then unite Langya, Jibei and other defense lines to block Yuan Shu."

"You get it, right?"

Yang Zhao asked.

"Got it!"

They said in unison.

Li Ru said again: "Please rest assured, Lu Bu is brave and strategic, and Yuan Shu's ability is not good, so he will definitely not be able to break through our defense line in Shanyang." ”

"That's right!"

Yang Zhao trusted them, left 30,000 men in Shanyang, and then integrated the whole army and went to Rencheng to the east.

Zhang Liao led 30,000 men and quickly swept other counties in the south of Shanyang, and finally stationed at the border.

Looking to the south, they could see Yuan Shu's military camp, stationed in the wilderness, with the military flag waving and the momentum was huge, but they came from a long distance and did not immediately fight Zhang Liao and them.

The Han Dynasty was parallel to the county state.

Rencheng, just within Rencheng, this is a feudal country.

As soon as Yang Zhao entered the territory of Ren Chengguo, he got the news from the front, saying that it was the king of Ren Chengguo, and he went out of the city to surrender directly, after all, Yang Zhao's sweep in Yanzhou had already spread all over the world, making them timid and afraid to resist.

"Accepted!"

For surrender, Yang Zhao will not refuse, without spending a single soldier, take a feudal country, and when he is about to continue to the east, he gets news from the front.

Next to Ren Chengguo, a feudal state called Lu State, under the leadership of Kong Rong, also came to surrender.

"I almost forgot that Kong Gong is from Lu."

When Yang Zhao saw Kong Rong coming to his military camp, he was still polite to him, invited him to sit down, and said, "Say goodbye to Kong Gongying's mausoleum, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

Kong Rong said with emotion: "Back then, when I gave up Beihai, Mingguang was just a county guard, and now it is easy to take Yanzhou, I really didn't see the wrong person." ”

Yang Zhaozuo said: "If it weren't for Kong Gong, I wouldn't be where I am today, and now I am still leading Lu Guo to surrender, Kong Gong is my benefactor." ”

With that, he bowed his hand.

Kong Rong happily accepted it, and he could bear it, nodding and saying: "To fight a war is to die, I just don't want to see too many people sacrificed, I hope Mingguang can treat the people of Lu Country well." ”

"I will!"

Yang Zhao solemnly agreed.

Kong Rong said with satisfaction: "I believe in Mingguang, I will definitely be able to do it, and I am also relieved!" ”

He didn't stay long, and soon went back to Lu State, Yang Zhao asked people to escort him, and then opened the map.

It can be seen on the map that within Yanzhou, in addition to the first county of Taishan, the east and north are basically Yang Zhao's territory, and Langya on the eastern side of Taishan is also, that is to say, the county of Taishan was surrounded by Yang Zhao.

Cao Cao retreated to Chenliu, but asked about these things, the current Taishan Taishou was probably hiding in the city tremblingly.

"Next, we can enter Peiguo."

Guo Jia pointed to the side of Lu Guo, another feudal country, Xiao Pei is here, and continued: "Entering Pei Guo and occupying Xiao Pei, we are far from Tao Xuzhou's Xiapi, and there is only one Peng Cheng left in the distance, and next to Pei Guo, it is still Shanyang, so Wen Yuan and them can take over at the same time to resist Yuan Shu." ”

Yang Zhao looked at Xiao Pei's range and asked worriedly: "If Wen Yuan and the others take over Xiao Pei at the same time, will it stretch the battle line and cause the troops to disperse?" ”

"We can keep another 10,000 people."

Guo Jia suggested: "Our 150,000 people left Linzi and scattered to various places, and after removing the battle losses, plus the replenishment of some of the surrendered troops, now there are about 50,000 people around the lord, leaving 10,000 people, and the remaining 40,000 will go north, and after meeting with Uncle Zhi, it will be enough to fight with Yuan Shao." ”

Yang Zhao thought for a moment and agreed: "Ren Chengguo and Lu Guo surrendered, the number of surrendered troops increased to more than 8,000, I will take the surrendered troops away, it is not appropriate to stay in Peiguo, after taking Peiguo, leave 10,000 people, and at the same time notify Gongming that they will take over, then march into Peiguo tomorrow." ”

"Good!"

Guo Jiadao.

Not only were the troops scattered, but the generals around him were also separated by Yang Zhao.

The generals who are now following him are only Li Tong, and the strategists are Guo Jia.

The day after the strategy was decided, Yang Zhao marched to Peiguo.

The king of Peiguo, who only knew how to eat, drink and have fun, was completely incapable, and when he learned that Yang Zhao was going to call, he directly took his belongings and fled to the south, and the rest simply surrendered.

At this moment, Yang Zhao's prestige spread all over Huainan, north of the Yangtze River and other regions.

Some small feudal countries did not dare to compete with Yang Zhao at all, except for escaping, that is, surrendering, Xiao Pei easily changed owners.

Soon after Yang Zhao entered Xiaopei, he got the news that Yuan Shu and Zhang Liao were fighting.

Yuan Shu got the news of Yuan Shao and was eager to break through Zhang Liao's defense line to save Yanzhou, but was bombed. The medicine exploded back, and there were heavy casualties, and he did not dare to attack rashly for the time being.

In addition, Tao Qian, who was in Xiapi, was panicked when he got the news that Yang Zhao had come to Xiaopei!

Langya is gone, and the Qingzhou soldiers in the north are pressing.

Xiao Pei then also lost, Yang Zhao in the west was only separated from Pengcheng, Tao Qian was worried that Yang Zhao would take advantage of the situation, and regretted agreeing to Yuan Shao's text and sending troops.