Peiguo County is a special place because it is Cao Cao's hometown. Although Cao's hometown basically has no Cao Cao people...... His father Cao Song and a group of relatives died at the junction of Xuzhou that year; In the past few years of war, the Cao family who originally lived in Qian County either died on the battlefield or followed Cao Cao into the army; Where else is the Cao family still living in Qian County?

In the final analysis, the only people who really live in Qian County are those who can't afford to go out.

In the past two years, with Cao Cao establishing his hegemony in Yanyu Prefecture, the situation in Peiguo has only stabilized slightly, but this stability is obviously just a flash in the pan in the overall situation of the world. Since Zhang Liao set foot on the land of Peiguo with his army, this kind of stability no longer exists.

After the main force under Yanbei arrived in Henan, Zhang Liao's troops swelled rapidly, and the three kingdoms of Rencheng, Dongping, and Ludi were recruiting troops throughout the winter, and he pulled up a huge number of 'Yanzhou Army' under his command, and fully armed with armor, so that Zhang Liao's subordinates soared in strength and combat power.

"I thought that I could lead the troops to attack the Liang State and work with the king to defeat the main force of the Cao army, but I didn't expect to get the military order to attack the Chen State." Zhang Liao raised his whip and chuckled, although Chen Guo and Liang Guo were only separated by a mountain, but Chen Guo was going a little west, but it meant nothing to him. There is no depth in attacking the Liang State, and it is directly necessary to kill side by side, but if the Chen State is attacked, there is room for maneuver, which is exactly what he is good at. "First break through the city of Qiaoxian, take Cao Mengde's hometown, lead him to divide his troops to the east, and we will jump away."

Zhang Liao didn't know that Cao Cao's main force was also advancing from Liang to Pei, not to mention that even if he knew, it wouldn't be regarded as a serious matter. However, Chen Gong, who served as a military advisor with the army, thought of it and said to Zhang Liao: "General, the current Cao army is defeated and lost, and the soldiers and food must be insufficient. If Apo is not in the area of Yingchuan and Chenliu, he will come to this side, so we have to be careful. ”

"The main force of the Cao family?" Zhang Liao thought about it carefully, and felt that what Chen Gong said made some sense, after all, Chen Gong had drawn a topographic map for him to memorize, and knew that there was a mountain range between the two countries, which was not good for the Cao family, so he nodded and asked: "If you encounter the main force of the Cao family, can Gongtai have a strategy to break the enemy?" ”

"Not at the moment, General, let me think about it." Chen Gong is very smart and can detect the clues of the enemy army from the changes in the situation, but it always takes a long time to plan, and the battlefield changes rapidly, and a slow siege field battle may be a big thing. Zhang Liao has worked with Chen Gong for a long time, so he naturally knows his problem, and waved his hand and said: "It's okay, since there is no good way to break the enemy in the public platform, then listen to Zhang first...... The main force of the Cao family, if you catch it, you will hit them and they are afraid! ”

Zhang Liao, who had a crescent moon face, suddenly waved his hand when he said this, as if he had defeated the main force of the Cao family, and said with a momentum like Lu Bu: "It's not last year, I'm going to be beaten and flee from all over the world!" ”

Zhang Liao, who has been in Xinghe for three years, is no longer the Zhang Wenyuan of the past!

Not to mention Zhang Liao's strong confidence in himself, even if he randomly picked out a soldier who fought with him, he would not think that they would fail when they encountered the main force of the Cao army at this time. Last year, Zhang Liao defeated the Cao general Xiahou Yuan without food, baggage, and armor and arrows, and fought with Cao Ren, Li Dian, Le Jin and others.

What about this year?

Since the attack on the Three Kingdoms in the late autumn of last year, he recruited troops and horses to prepare the army, and King Zhao sent enough armor to arm 10,000 people and enough grain and grass for them to fight a few big battles...... Zhang Liao's army was like a heavily armed and warlike warrior, invulnerable.

The only place that could be hit was the junction from Ren Chengguo to Peiguo, but it was still separated from Liang by a Kunshan Mountain, and the army of Wuhuan King Bangdun was also on its way, and it would pass through there in the near future.

"Further on, it's Qian County, right?" Zhang Liao sent an order to his subordinates: "Tell all the soldiers and horses, stop and rest, and the scouts will release fifty miles to the city of Qiaoxian, tell the rear grain road, put the grain and grass in Xiangxian, leave 8,000 soldiers and horses here to respond, and let the soldiers prepare three days of grain and grass, install stone cannons, and capture Qiaoxian within three days!" ”

It's not that Zhang Liao is high-spirited, I heard Chen Gong say that Qian County is not a big city, and the garrison will not be too sufficient, and the fifty stone cannons are pushed up to conquer in three days...... Just like Pei Guoxiang County behind them, it is also a small city, the stone cannon was erected outside the city for just a moment, and the county lieutenants in the city were all crushed to death by the collapsed city gate tower, and the three elders in the county surrendered out of the city, and there was no room for resistance.

This is not three or five thousand soldiers and horses running around, making the people in the city think that it is a chaotic army or something, more than 20,000 troops outside the city can not see the edge at a glance, how long can the city hold without Cao's regular army? It's already good that you don't just look at the wind.

The county soldiers are useless.

Speaking of Yan Zhi's major event, Cao Cao's recruitment of 60,000 people to escort grain and grass was nothing, but most of the 60,000 people died in Pushui, which was too deterrent to the people everywhere. It would have been better to have killed 60,000 troops, at best defeated. Seeing the death of 60,000 people directly hit the hearts of the people, and no one dared to serve the Cao family anymore...... That war invisibly weakened Cao's dominance over the people under his rule.

After resting for two hours, Zhang Liao led the army to continue to march westward for 30 miles, and then ordered more than 10,000 soldiers to be stationed and rest, and early the next morning, nearly 3,000 newly recruited soldiers who were not equipped with weapons pushed stone cannons, and Zhang Liao escorted more than 9,000 soldiers to fight in various places to march to Qiaoxian.

The clouds of war have shrouded this land for several days, when Zhang Liao's army captured Xiangxian, the people of Qian County have heard of it, at this time those who can run have run, and those who can't run or don't want to run hide in the city, people have long known that Zhang Liao is leading the troops, and people know that Cao Cao is also on the way to lead the army...... But they don't know which one will come first, Cao Cao or Zhang Liao!

Zhang Liao arrives first!

Cao Cao's march from the north of Liang was not slow, but it was not as sufficient as Zhang Liao had been preparing since last winter, not to mention that Zhang Liao traveled all the way, except for the traffic arteries such as Xiangxian, all the counties were not attacked, and it was regarded as a direct attack on Qian County, so when Zhang Liao arrived in Qian County, the vanguard of Cao Cao's army had just walked to Gushu, and it was still more than 90 miles away.

However, Cao Cao also received the news from Qiaoxian, and immediately ordered the former army generals Xiahou Yuan, Li Dian, and Le Jin to lead the army to march quickly, and Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong also led the troops to follow.

Zhang Liao sprinkled the scouts for fifty miles under the city of Qiaoxian, and after failing to persuade the county to surrender, he ordered the siege of the city.

Amid the roar of the stone cannon, a great battle began.