Chapter 225: Guangling
There were people and horses neighing everywhere on the official road, boats and guerrillas walking everywhere in the river, and the general attack of the Yan clan on the Yuan clan began. In a few days, Xu Huang had advanced from Huaiyin, the northernmost part of Guangling, to one hundred and ten miles of Guangling County, and many cities on the way were almost heard of the wind, and no one dared to face the Yan soldiers in this land.
The huge strength of the Yan clan made the enemy's thoughts extremely complicated, and the morale was extremely low. Now the resistance of the Yuan clan is only more than 10,000 soldiers, if these soldiers are brought out individually, no one is willing to fight with the Yan clan, even if they lose their weapons and run wherever they want, but the soldiers are silent, they do not have enough say in decision-making, not to mention that no one dares to disobey their direct superiors, so this battle still has to be fought.
Even if in the field, they took a huge risk to face the Yan clan directly, and then every time they fought with an irresistible act, they still had to rush forward with their weapons wielded next time.
The soldiers have no choice, and it is always those nobles who have a choice.
The most hateful is of course Yanbei, the good Yuan clan Yuan Shao Yuan Benchu, just let him go crazy, from the earliest but small decision-making mistakes, to now he is crazy to swing the butcher knife at his subordinates, God knows what Yuan Shao has experienced.
But all this was excellent for Xu Huang, he received the news yesterday evening that his subordinates had captured a few Yuan clans who had escaped from Guangling City, or the national soldiers of Guangling County, and they easily got the news of the civil strife in Guangling City without even pressing. There are now six or seven thousand defenders in Guangling City, and more than two thousand of them are willing to defect when they attack the city, help the Yan clan capture Guangling, and even explain a tunnel that can go to the same direction in the city.
The heavens are helping them.
This is the best thing for Xu Huang, the city has internal response, which means that they can break through the city at a very fast speed, so that the battle will skip the most brutal siege and turn into street fighting, in street and street fighting, the advantage of the defenders will be reduced to the minimum, and their strength advantage will be magnified to the maximum.
This means that Yuan can't run.
In addition, the speed of the soldiers also means that the Sun clan who are swimming on the river will not be able to capture Guangling City faster than them, and there will be no way to even capture any city, and they will be able to get enough deterrence...... In this way, the Sun clan, who saw how the Yuan clan was destroyed, is likely to withdraw any resistance and accept the Yan clan's official seal.
At that time, he handed Xu Huang a letter, in which Yanbei thought that it was acceptable to give Sun Ce the official position of general to break the captivity, and then transferred the troops of Jiangdong to the west to attack Cao Cao in Runan, and then helped them pacify the Liu clan in Jingzhou. If you want to join the Yan family, naturally Yangzhou Mu has another candidate, Yan Bei has no intention of setting up a pastoral mansion in Yangzhou at all, for the arrangement of the Sun family, King Zhao thinks that after Sun Ce led the troops to the west, it is more appropriate to give his younger brother Sun Quan Wu Jun Taishou the official position is a more appropriate reward.
Xu Huang could see that as the Yan clan's domination of the world was getting closer and closer, King Zhao was becoming more and more careless in terms of official position rewards. In the past, no matter who belonged to the Yan family, even if it was just a wild general with thousands of soldiers, he could be ranked as a marquis if he was attached to the Yan family, and he would have no worries about food and clothing. There were even some powerful princes, such as Ma Teng's subordination, so that King Zhao was willing to hand over the official position of the state pastor to the Ma family, not counting Ma Chao's general Fubo.
What now? The Sun clan has a very deep foundation in Jiangdong, with tens of thousands of soldiers, so much so that it is called Jiangdong with thousands of people, with flags covering the sky and ships locking thousands of miles of rivers. Kure County Taishou? Xu Huang wanted to laugh a little.
In fact, this is also an inevitable result, just as the treatment of the persuaded generals is completely different from the unpersuaded generals, at that time the situation in the world was not clear, and the Ma family naturally had to award high-ranking officials and choose to reuse, so as to gain people's hearts. Does the Yan clan still need the hearts of the princes now? Cao's family was beaten to Runan and couldn't do it, not to mention the north of the Yellow River, even the north of the Huai River has been pacified and is in the hands of the Yan family, and the Sun family, which is entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River, will not surrender at this time, will there be a place for him to surrender in the future?
One state against the world?
Brave is brave, but obviously demented.
The current situation is a matter of course!
By the evening, Xu Huang had advanced the vanguard soldiers and horses to the north of Guangling City fifty miles, and even in the slightly higher places, he could see the subtle population in the south from a distance.
After ten years of fighting, the winner can finally be decided.
The main army was encamped seventy miles north of Guangling City, and the more it was at this time, Xu Huang's heart was not so anxious. Now that the winner has been decided, don't be reckless. They came quickly, but no matter how fast they were, they couldn't compare to the Yuan clan stationed on this land, and there were still more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the end, and the combat strength was not weak, if they were too reckless and fell into the enemy's encirclement and ambush, it would not be wise to increase casualties.
At night, the Tanma from the east brought a message from Tian Yu, and his sailors also gathered in Guangling after receiving a request for help from Xue Zhou in the city, bypassing Sheyang and gathering in Guangling, and defeated two small groups of Yuan's men and horses in the process, with only a few hundred troops, all of them were defeated at the touch of a button and had no fighting spirit. The warships of the Yuan clan on the river saw the Yan clan fleet from a distance and fled, even if the Yan clan ships could not enter the White Horse Lake, they could still drive into the lake with groups of warships and crush all the Yuan warships that had no time to escape along the way!
The Yuan clan has no ability or opportunity to make warships for a long time, although most of the craftsmanship of making warships today is the same, but there are only a few kinds of fighting ships, ships, and building ships, but the need for craftsmen, wood, and time is not something that the Yuan clan can invest in fleeing all the way from north to south, and naturally, Yuan's navy is vulnerable to the sea tigers and wolves under Tian Yu's command.
In the past, when he was in the Bohai Sea, the Yuan clan also had a lot of ships, especially in the first battle of Donglai, and several large fighting ships participated in the battle, so that they once defeated Tian Yu's defenders in Donglai Port. However, with the southward migration step by step, the offshore power possessed by the Yuan clan was gradually eroded by Tian Yu...... The war on the sea and in the big rivers is different from the land, there are not so many opportunities to arrange troops, strong is strong, weak is weak, there are not so many accidents, most of the time victory or defeat depends on the quality of the warship.
In the successive conflicts, once the ships owned by the Yuan clan were sunk or captured, they had no ships. However, Tian Yu relied on the north, and the power of the naval army became stronger and stronger, so how much strength did the Yuan clan have left on the water?
Before I knew it, it was dawn.
The first thing Xu Huang said when he woke up was to summon the herald cavalry, and said: "General Chuanxintian, this evening, attack Guangling!" ”