Chapter 160: Youzhou Water Master
The decisive battle line between Cao Cao and Yanbei advanced to the south step by step, and pushed to the edge of Yuzhou with the main force of Yanbei's army moving south. All this is because of Tian Yu's Youzhou Water Division, landed.
Tian Yu's sailors had previously helped Wang Yi to quell the chaos in Lizhou, but after more than a year of chaos, there were no more rebellions in Lizhou, so the fleet set sail west to respond to the attack of the Yuan clan by the Lu Yi army.
It's just that before coming, Tian Yu moved to the south end of the territory of Sanhan with a fleet of sailors to the east, and sent 5,000 troops to land on Wadao Island last year, sweeping all the tribes along the Northeast Peninsula, and those tribes with only a few hundred soldiers were unable to resist at all, and they were slaughtered in a blink of an eye. The reason for this was that the exiled son of Goguryeo, Yi Yinmo, was forced by Tian Yu to the territory of Himiko in the west, and immediately joined forces to send troops to Qing.
It's just that when Tian Yu's soldiers came to Qingzhou and docked at Donglai Port, they were full of vigilance and thought that a fierce battle was about to be ushered in, but they were told by the soldiers of the Luyi Department who rushed to hear the news that Donglai Port was their rear baggage camp!
Tian Yu couldn't help but be dumbfounded, this is Donglai, the southeasternmost county in Qingzhou, and it is already a rear camp?
"Take the map." Tian Yu beckoned his subordinates, raised his head and asked the soldiers of the Luyi Division, "Where is your general?" β
"General Koji fought Taishan Zangba in Langya, and more than 2,000 wounded soldiers have been withdrawn, and the battle is almost over. General Xu was in the Xiapi area and fought with the Yuan clan. Hearing what the soldiers of the Lu Yi Department said, Tian Yu pulled out a battle line of hundreds of miles on the map and secretly smacked his tongue and asked: "General Xu didn't send the wounded soldiers back, has the delivery of military rations been reduced recently?" β
Tian Yu and Zhao glanced at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes, they were in a remote location, even if Yanbei wanted to mobilize them, the letter set off from the Central Plains in the spring of last year, and when they transferred their troops, it was already a spring and summer in the past, not to mention that the affairs on the northeast border have been continuous, so that they have no overall insight into the situation in the Central Plains...... There is only one Yanbei in the world, and no one can control the situation in the world within a month except him.
"Yuan Benchu, this is out of breath, right?" Tian Yu held back such a sentence for a long time, but he clenched his fists tightly and did not speak. However, the adjutant general who was involved, Shi Lu, the commander of Lelang, licked his smile at Tian Yu and said: "General Tian is right, the Yuan family has long been dead!" β
Yuan's family is a big mountain pressed in the bottom of Zhao's heart, and his teacher Le Wei was a staff member of the chariot general He Miao in his early years, and died in a coup d'Γ©tat against the eunuchs by the scholars. At that time, Yuan's majesty was enough for him to hold his son and remember it for a lifetime!
But now, the Yuan family was executed by Dong Zhuo, Yuan Shu died of illness, and even Yuan Shao was just surviving, losing control of the land under the Yan army. Yuan and Yan, but from the earliest Bohai dispute, after several years of never ceased war, although this battle continues to this day affects half of the world, even if the Cao family, the kings, and Liu Biao are pulled into the battlefield, it cannot change the disadvantage of Yuan's defeat from Jizhou to Qingzhou and then to Xuzhou.
There's no going back!
Jiangdong's surname is Sun and not Yuan, and he has no place to retreat. It's just that Tian Yu knocked his head and asked the subordinate officials left by Lu Yi: "This general is not ordered to crusade against Yuan Benchu, how can he fight with Zang Xuangao of Mount Tai?" β
Tian Yu has been on the frontier for a long time, and he doesn't know much about the current situation in the Central Plains due to the limitation of time, but he can know what happened half a year ago, not to mention that since he wants to transfer troops to fight in Qingdao, he always has to work hard and entrench in the Zang Ba generals at the junction of Qingdao and Xuzhou...... It shouldn't be an enemy!
"Last year, Zhang Wenyuan wanted to borrow Mount Tai, at that time the Cao clan was still in Yandi, and Zang Ba did not attack, why is it that now the Cao clan and the Yuan clan are retreating to the south, and General Koji is fighting with Zang Xuangao?" Tian Yu's gaze crossed the shoulders of the subordinate officer of Lu Yi, looked at the wounded soldiers camp in the distance, and pursed his dry lips and said softly: "It seems that the situation is stuck." β
The subordinate officer had already said that it was only a few months after the beginning of the year, and it was expected that the two sides had exchanged troops for less than three months, but they sent back 2,000 wounded soldiers. In a battle in the hands of Tian Yu, usually one of the wounded two will die, this ratio means that the army between Lu Yi and Zang Ba has lost a school captain in less than three months!
The subordinate officer accompanied the smiling face and said angrily: "It's not that Zang Ba is too rude!" β
Needless to say, Tian Yu raised his arm to show that he had understood the inside story, and asked, "General Koji, does he need support?" β
This is a real polite remark, Tian Yu will not support if he needs support, this is not his duty. This is not the time when he was in charge of Youzhou in the early years, the generals of the meeting had different orders, and the battle was more like a grass platform, and nearby support was the norm. Now that the lords and kings have become kings, there is moderation among the generals, and the etiquette is even more powerful than the current court, and everything cannot be done as you like.
In Tian Yu's view, the battle between Lu Yi and Zang Ba is nonsense, although it is said that Zang Ba is rude, but according to Tian Yu's understanding of Lu Yi, this Bahu general is really rude. Zang Ba can still coexist peacefully with Zhang Liao, who is a tiger leaping Yanyu, obviously wants to remain neutral in this war, and may not be able to tolerate Lu Yi, who has a higher status and more reputation in the Yan clan?
"Thank you General Tian for your intentions, General Koji has said first, if the general leads the army to stop at Donglai Port, he will just rest, and I will send a good bag and a good wine and food, and the wine and food will be enough to go south according to the king's order to help General Xu pacify the Yuan family."
The subordinate officials left by Lu Yi were as arrogant as him, although he had a lot of respect for Tian Yu, but his words had learned seventy percent of Lu Yi's energy, and he obviously didn't take this sailor who had crossed the ocean to heart. It is also said that Tian Yu's sailor is counting the Lelang army that is recruited, and there are less than 20,000 people in the full battle, but the Luyi department alone has more than 30,000 soldiers and nearly 40,000 horses, where can you look down on this sailor who has been fighting in the border land.
This is also the embarrassment faced by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, their enemies are fighting more and more, the northern part of Yanzhou and the entire Qingzhou have resumed production, not to mention the continuous support of Jizhou and Youzhou, so that after occupying Erzhou, Yanbei put down the right to recruit troops Zhang Liao and the Yiyi Department were enriched, but they were unable to recover the lost territory, so the soldiers who could be recruited became fewer and fewer, and in the long run, how could they counterattack Yan's?
Tian Yu didn't think anything about this, nodded and smiled and let the subordinate officials leave, then shook his head with a smile, and said to him: "Let our people camp on the shore, rest for half a month and set off south into Xuzhou...... Zijing, I want your junior brother to go to Mount Tai. If General Koji wins, he will leave Zang Ba and others dead; If the Koji general is defeated, he will take advantage of the situation to persuade Zang Ba to surrender, and it will not hurt the king to surrender such a local army. β