Chapter 126: Yanyu Chaos
Dian Wei ran away from Yangxia as if no one was around, five hundred horsemen fled all the way to Chenliu from south to north, and finally got in touch with the more than 2,000 foot cavalry left behind in Chenliu County after galloping hundreds of miles in the starry night, although the distance between the chasing troops on the back road was only thirty miles, and the breakthrough of the checkpoint all the way made Chen Liucao's army get an early warning, but Dian Wei still stubbornly ordered his infantry to break down the Chen Liucao army that was ambushed on all sides, and then scattered all the three thousand soldiers and horses, and rampaged in all directions in Chenliu County.
Why?
Because the west of Chenliu is also a battlefield, from the west of Yongqiu, it is now Jiang Jin's territory. To be precise, Dian Wei's soldiers and horses are resting on the heavy grain road of the soldiers and horses of Chenliu County to resist Jiang Jin's troops, how can this kind of position not take advantage of the situation?
This was only known when Dian Wei rushed to Xiangyi, because the deputy general who stayed behind told him that in the days after they went south, the Minfu team that carried grain from Xiangyi to the west had gone seven or eight teams, nearly 10,000 people, and countless people were escorting grain and grass.
After Dian Wei learned the news, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, scattered the soldiers and horses, let them attack everywhere, disturb the grain and grass countryside in various parts of the county, and look for Jiang Jindu Liao in the west or the main force of the Yan clan in the north.
Don't go.
The most elite pro-guards in the northern part of Yan, the three thousand feather forest cavalry guards, were dispersed like this.
Because Dian Wei felt that the army could not go, their movements could no longer be concealed, and they were in the hinterland of the Cao army, and they would definitely be surrounded and suppressed. In order to escape the pursuit, the 500 cavalry who went to the Yangxia Alliance with them were almost completely dead, and even the 2,000 most elite infantry cavalry could not withstand a long battle in a large army formation. This is not because the soldiers and horses are not elite enough, nor is it because there is no food and grass, but Dian Wei has this self-knowledge...... He is not Zhang Liaoyi, charging into battle is his strength, but leading troops to fight is not.
Even in Chenliu, where he has lived for twenty or thirty years, it can't be.
In fact, Dian Wei was too worried, Cao Cao couldn't take care of him at all, or he couldn't take care of anyone or anything at all...... The high-spirited Cao Cao is now dying of sorrow, and it is no exaggeration to say that all day long, the urgent reports rushing from all over the country under his rule have hardly stopped!
The main army of Cao Cao's subordinates had retreated to Liang, and the front army had slowly shrunk from Jiyin County, and the main force of Yanbei had moved south.
The only reason for this was Cao's reluctance to fight in the field. Cao Cao was also worried that if the army and Yanbei were defeated in the field, both sides would be greatly injured and bulldozed by the coalition of kings behind him, so he wanted to defend the city and wait for the winter to pass, and then crusade against Yanbei with the alliance of kings in the spring of the following year.
But I didn't expect that Yanbei was most afraid of the field battle, Cao Ren, the brother of the Cao clan who was known for his perseverance, went through the battle of Puyang but did not hurt the vitality of the headquarters, but was surrounded by the Yan army when he was stuck to Lihu, and then was smashed by the stone cannon on the city and couldn't raise his head, but the city wall was collapsed after holding on to the fox for ten years, and he could only lead the army to retreat from the south of the city to Juyang.
But as soon as the fox was broken, it was equivalent to giving up the gate of Jiyin County, and the main army of the Yan clan immediately crossed Huaishui, bypassing Juyang and going south to occupy the western part of Jiyin County, and once coerced Dingtao. Dingtao is Cao Cao's previous grain hoarding rear army town, threatening the grain route of the whole army. So far, Cao Cao, who was fighting against Gao Shun's division in the direction of Fan County in the northeast of Jiyin County, could only withdraw from Chengyang in the middle of Jiyin County successively, and stood with Cao Ren to bear the pressure on both sides, but still made the Yan army connect together and form a semi-encirclement from north to south, this situation was too dangerous, Cao Cao could only choose to continue to retreat, this retreat, he gave up the entire Jiyin County, leaving only Xiahou Yuan and Yu Ban to garrison the last two cities in the south of Jiyin County.
What really made him anxious was after withdrawing into the Liang Kingdom. Previously, in Jiyin and even Dongjun, the battle report from the rear came and the situation was very good, and it was Liu Biao's envoy who said that it was a misunderstanding that his subordinates had sent troops privately, and they wanted to transfer Zhang Xiu Liu Bei and send troops to the division; Either this king, that king's leading troops crossed the border, went to Chen Guoyang's Xia Huimeng, and tens of thousands of kings joined forces to make a huge noise.
How do you know that when he leads his troops to retreat into the Liang Kingdom, hey, guess what? He can't be the master in Yanzhou and Yuzhou!
Zhang Liao led his troops to be driven out of Mount Tai by Zang Ba, turned his head to the north and killed the king of Jibei who went south to the alliance, led the troops to plunder the northern kingdom of Jibei, and suddenly replenished enough grain and grass to make a comeback to fight Dongping! It was so hard that King Lu, who had just led troops west from the feudal country, ran to Liang to ask for help first, saying that Lu was also under the threat of the thief Zhang Liao, and he cried so much that he cried a handful of tears...... Is this any reason to think about it, I didn't fight the Lu State before because I was afraid that the soldiers would cut off the morale of the soldiers, and then I would run into the army of the kings, and now the good brother of the King of Lu, the king of Jibei, and Zhang Liaobing's armor, grain, grass and ordnance, then I had to level the Lu country easily?
Cao Cao didn't plan to go there at all, what were he doing there? Fight with the momentum of Zhang Liao and leave your ass to Yan Zhongqing?
Cao Cao was neither so anxious and righteous, nor so stupid, he set up a man in Bo County, the northernmost part of the Liang State, and then ordered Xiahou Yuan and Yu Banlejin's partial division to enter Shanyang County, forming a corner to guard Yanbei, and finish this winter first.
The kings of the Liu clan who gave Cao Cao hope are becoming more and more disappointed by Cao Cao, what kind of things are these? It's better to fight Dong Shi in the past than the history of the alliance's assassination! Before I got to the place of the alliance, there were already several princes and kings dead, the king of Dongping, the king of Rencheng, and the king of Lu who is now like ashes!
Simply the kings of the fourteen countries lined up to send Zhang Liao one by one!
"Eh, the King of the River is dead, too?" Cao Cao looked at the letter sent from the front line, rubbed his forehead and frowned and asked the scribe near Zuo: "Didn't he just borrow from Chen Liu a few days ago, did he meet the soldiers and horses of Duliao Jiang Jin?" ”
"Back to the general, I did receive the news that the king of Hejian requested customs clearance in the first half of the year." The scribe couldn't figure out the situation, so he flipped through the book and found the record: "General, the king of Hejian asked for customs clearance, which was a matter of Chen Liu's in the first half of the year, but today I received an eyeliner from Jizhou that the king of Hejian encountered Zhang Junyi's department in Hebei, and the soldiers and horses were scattered and died, yes...... It was last month! ”
Fake!
The King of the River who entered Chenliu in the first half of the year is a fake!
Cao Cao only felt dizzy, then flipped through other news, and then saw another fake news, "Zhang Xiu led the troops to occupy Yingchuan, and the people of Yingchuan asked for reinforcements, this was three days ago...... Didn't Liu Biao say that Zhang Xiu retired from the army! Liu Jingsheng, dare to lie to me! ”
"Report!"
With an urgent report, the rider covered in mud knelt down in the tent and reported loudly to Cao Cao: "Yuzhou Mu Xunwen is in a hurry, Liu Xuande occupies the west of Runan, and leads his troops to fight with our army in Pingyu Shenting; Yan's war general Dian Wei entered the Chen State, destroyed the alliance of kings in Yangxia, beheaded Liu Cheng, Liu Yao, Liu Yao, the king of Liang, the prince of Rencheng, and the prince of Jibei, wounded Liu Pet, the king of Chen, and took him captive, fleeing all the way to Chenliu! ”