Chang Yuchun's words woke up Li Jing, who was intoxicated with victory, yes, his decision was completely against the intention of the lord. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info everything he has is given by the lord, and if he goes against the will of the lord because of the pursuit of credit, it will really outweigh the losses.

Just when Li Jing came to his senses, Li Yi's latest order was also delivered to the front line. Li Yi asked Li Jing to immediately divide troops to support the front line of Luyang and Kunyang, ensure the safety of Yingchuan, and prevent the Jingzhou army from threatening the periphery of Luoyang.

As for the battle of Yuzhou, Li Yi believed that the purpose of the attack had been achieved, and the army not only occupied the entire territory of Liang and Chen, but also possibly occupied Runan, and Yuan Tan was devastated after this heavy blow, and it was difficult to make a comeback, so there was no need to worry.

Now that the army of the West Road was defeated in Nanyang, and the army of the East Road was blocked by the line of Pengcheng and Tancheng, if the situation of the battle was not stabilized quickly, the victory of the Battle of Yuzhou may be fleeting.

Li Jing was dumbfounded, he never expected that Li Yi would disregard the safety of the Yuzhou battlefield, and categorically ordered Guan Yu and Wei Yan to withdraw from Pengcheng and Tancheng, and ordered Lu Yi to withdraw to Wuguan.

The meaning of this order is very clear, the war in the south is over, and the lord is going to lead the army to the western frontier.

If Guan Yu withdraws from Xuzhou, Wei Yan withdraws to Langya, and Lu Yi withdraws to Guanzhong, then the Jingzhou army on the battlefield on the west road can do its best to storm Luyang and Kunyang and threaten Yingchuan, and Cao Cao can also quickly assemble an army and fully support Yuan Tan's counterattack on Yuzhou.

That is to say, in the case of Li Jing dividing his troops to return to Luyang and Kunyang, it is impossible for Li Jing to take all of Yuzhou and drive Yuan Tan out completely in the remaining handful of time.

For Li Jing now, the top priority is to consolidate the existing gains and redeploy the forces to ensure that the army can hold the three counties of Runan, Chen, and Liang, and that the battle of Yuzhou will not fall short and achieve nothing.

Li Jing quietly wiped away the cold sweat and asked respectfully: "Brother Boren, what ......is the countermeasure now?"

"Directly kill Xiangxian ......" Chang Yuchun walked to the map hanging on the side of the big tent in two steps, pointed to the Peiguo County on the map, and said to Li Jing, "In the eyes of the imperial court, we have a great advantage on the southern battlefield, as long as we don't fight, the rebels will never dare to counterattack." But please see, in the case that Wei Yan and Zang Ba have occupied Langya State, the Pengcheng and Tancheng fronts in Xuzhou have directly faced our threat, if we gain a foothold in Suiyang in Liangguo, Yuzhou, then Peiguo will have no danger to defend, and Pengcheng and Xiaoxian will be under our direct attack, Xuzhou will be attacked on three sides, and the situation is precarious. ”

"The situation in Xuzhou is so critical, Jiangdong will inevitably feel cold lips and teeth, and he will definitely help. The loss of Yuzhou was a fatal blow to the situation of Xiangyi's rebellion trying to form a confrontation between the north and the south, and Jingzhou had to do its best to help Yuan Tan recapture Yuzhou and reunite Jing, Henan, and Xu as one. In this way, Yuzhou will definitely be attacked by the rebels from the east and west for a period of time in the future, and the situation in Yuzhou will continue to be chaotic, and the war may continue. ”

"The imperial court can't afford to fight this battle. When we returned to Luoyang at the end of last year, the lord repeatedly said that the imperial court was unable to support the two-front battle. Therefore, the imperial court saw that the purpose of inflicting heavy losses on the rebels had been achieved, and immediately ordered the withdrawal of troops from the east and west battlefields, and the Yuzhou battlefield in the middle was transferred to defense, which was consistent with the purpose of the lord's request to launch an attack in the south at the beginning of the year, and there was no problem with the lord's order. ”

"But the lord obviously ignored the determination of the rebels to counterattack, and ignored the importance of Yuzhou to the rebels to maintain the confrontation between the north and the south......" Chang Yuchun paused for a moment and continued, "Perhaps the lord did not ignore these problems, but did not want to change the purpose of launching the southern war at the beginning of the year, and did not want to occupy Yuzhou and plunge the southern battlefield into a protracted war, thus consuming a lot of money from the imperial court and seriously affecting the imperial court's strategy of advancing westward into Pingqiang." ”

Chang Yuchun looked at Li Jing, who had a serious expression, and said with a wry smile: "The reason why the lord agreed to the request of the pharmacist and Yun Chang to attack Yuzhou is probably to encourage the morale of the army, and he doesn't want to attack the indomitable determination of the front-line soldiers at this time, and at the same time, they probably didn't expect that the pharmacist would take Yuzhou within three months, so they ......"

"So it is possible for you to return to your respective stations immediately...... "Li Jing sighed, "Yuzhou is bound to be gained and lost." ”

Chang Yuchun nodded and said: "If you want to change the current predicament, you can only fight Xiangxian, approach Pengcheng, and quickly start a duel with the armies of Yuan Tan and Cao Cao, and attract more rebels to the north, so that the main force of the army is all trapped in the Peiguo battlefield, and it is unable to return to the front line of Luyang and Kunyang." When the war on the eastern and western flanks of Yuzhou was critical, the imperial court had no choice but to continue fighting. Because Nanyang has already lost a battle, if it loses another battle in Yuzhou, the morale of the entire army will be hit hard, which will seriously affect the defense of Luoyang and the Central Plains. Yuzhou was defeated again, and we immediately fell into passive defense, and the purpose of the active attack at the beginning of the year was to change the passive defense to the active defense, to attack instead of defending, so the imperial court will never allow Yuzhou to be defeated again. ”

Li Jing did not hesitate at all, waved his hand and said: "Go north, immediately go north to attack Xiangxian." ”

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In mid-May, Guan Yu received an order from Li Yi to quickly withdraw his troops. Wei Yan and Zang Ba also led their troops to retreat to Langya.

Sun Quan replied to Cao Cao that the Shanyue Rebellion broke out in Huiji County, and the main force of the Jiangdong Army would go south to conquer Shanyue and intend to attack Jiaozhou. Because Shixie, the assassin of Jiaozhou, refused to reply to Xiangyi's holy decree, Xiangyi was very angry and planned to let Sun Quan join the army of Guiyang in Jingzhou to go south to threaten Jiaozhou.

Sun Quan said: "Now that I Jiangdong is too busy to take care of myself, and I am responsible for the heavy responsibility of going south to Jiaozhou, I can't go north to help, please understand Cao Gong." ”

Sun Quan was reluctant to help, which was expected by Cao Cao, but Sun Quan went south to Jiaozhou under the pretext of the Shanyue Rebellion, which was unexpected by Cao Cao. From this point of view, Sun Quan was already very pessimistic about the situation in Jianghuai, and he had no intention of going north to fight Cao Cao for Jiujiang and Lujiang counties, but instead concentrated on going south to Jiaozhou.

Cao Cao was not worried, but happy. Since Sun Quan went south to Jiaozhou, the Yangtze River defense line was temporarily safe, and the troops stationed on the Huai River line could be quickly transferred to the north of Xuzhou to resist the attack of the Northern Xinjiang Army.

Cao Cao immediately ordered the troops of Xiahou Yuan, Man Chong, Li Dian, Liu Xun and others to go north to support.

Yuan Tan withdrew to Peiguo Xiang County and asked Cao Cao for help. Cao Cao ordered Cao Hong and Cao Chun to lead their troops to help, and ordered Man Chong and Liu Xun to lead their troops directly to Xiangxian to help Yuan Tan launch a counteroffensive and do everything possible to recapture Yuzhou.

At the same time, Cao Cao wrote to Liu Biao in Xiangyang, asking him to attack Yuzhou in order to form a flanking attack with him in the east and west.

Due to the loss of Runan, the letter could only be sent to Jingzhou by water, and the time was greatly delayed.

Li Jing led the army to attack Xiangxian, and flew a pigeon to send a message to Li Yi, detailing the current situation of Yuzhou, begging Li Yi to try to transfer troops to support Yuzhou, and ensure that the army's grain and grass would be raised by Yuzhou, and would not compete with the army of the Western Expedition for the wealth of the imperial court.

At the same time, Li Jing did his best to raise food and grass for the army. If the difficulty is too great, they will temporarily borrow credit from the wealthy people of the gate lord clan in the Yingru area, and in any case ensure that the grain and grass of the army are heavy.

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On May 18, Xuzhou's reinforcements rushed to Xiangxian, and the two sides fought fiercely.

On May 24, reinforcements from Man Pang and Liu Xun rushed to Xiangxian, and the battle between the two sides became even bloodier.

On May 25, Li Jing led the army to retreat to Liang Guodang County, and the strength of the army was replenished, and then he attacked Xiangxian again.

On May 26, Li Yi's handwritten letter to Li Jing arrived at the front.

Li Yi rewarded Li Jing and the front-line soldiers, agreed to his request, and sent 10,000 troops from Luoyang to support the Luyang and Kunyang lines, and ordered Chang Yuchun and the two armies to stay on the battlefield in Yuzhou, and Xingyang and Chenliu would send another army to garrison.

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In late May, Guanzhong, Chencang.

Zhang Fei made all the preparations, and after Li Yi arrived at Chencang, he swore to go on the expedition.

On May 25, Jiang Jian, the general of the Xiliang Army, rushed to Chen Cang to report the news. Han Yi, the commander of the Western Liang Army, was killed, and Hanyang was in chaos.

Since Zhang Ren and Yang Ren led the Yizhou army and Zhang Lujun to withdraw respectively, Han Yi was in a predicament, he was unable to attack Jincheng in the west, even when the Hexi Qiang cavalry and the northern Xinjiang cavalry fought the north bank of the Yellow River, he could only watch the great fighter plane quietly glide past him.

Liu Bei brought more than 40,000 troops to Liangzhou, plus thousands of troops from Weiduan of Wudu County, plus more than 20,000 troops from Xiliang, Bashu and Hanzhong had to supply grain and grass for about 70,000 troops, and the amount of grain and grass that Wudu County could supply was too small to be negligible.

Bashu and Hanzhong could not afford such a heavy burden, so Liu Zhang and Zhang Lu ordered Zhang Ren and Yang Ren to withdraw their troops respectively, and also reduced the number of people to save money and food to the greatest extent.

In this case, the Xiliang army can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, let alone travel thousands of miles to recover the border fortress.

The anger of the Xiliang soldiers grew, and Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi and others kept complaining, thinking that Han Yi had misheard Wei Kang's words at the beginning, thinking that Liu Bei and the Bashu people would help him drive out the Qiang people and recover Liangzhou County, but now it seems that these are all lies. The purpose of Liu Bei and the Bashu people was only to occupy Longxi and Longnan to ensure the safety of Bashu, and they had no intention of helping the Xiliang people to recover their territory, and the Xiliang people were fooled.

Han Yi also regretted it, seeing that the soldiers were starving, angry, and demoralized to the extreme, he had no choice but to be cheeky and send Yang Fu and Zhang Ji to secretly rush to Chencang to ask for help from Huangfu Li and Zhang Liao.

Huangfu Li and Zhang Liao ignored their previous suspicions, helped the Xiliang people at this critical moment, and then pulled the Xiliang people over.

The Xiliang army got the food and was safe for the time being, but the matter was immediately learned by Liu Bei, Wei Duan and others, and they questioned Han Yi. Han Yi repeatedly explained, saying that this was his expedient measure. Liu Bei was not at ease, worried that the capricious Han Yi would give him a knife in the back, so he hurriedly sent Yan Yan, Cao Bao, Pang Tong and others to lead the army to Hanyang to garrison, so as to watch the Xiliang people and block the westward advance of the Northern Xinjiang Army.