As the war heated up, Han Jian moved the military headquarters of the Dongwang Mansion out of the Dongwang Mansion.

Originally, the Dongwang Mansion was in the government office where Han Jian was preparing a separate office, after all, the Dongwang Mansion was where Han Jian lived, and it would be entangled when official and private affairs were mixed together. Before, Han Song was Zhang Luo for Han Jian, and Han Jian had been dragging it out, but when the war reached a critical moment, he also knew that he had to move out.

All battle reports on the front line will be transmitted to the military command post set up fifty paces away from the Jiangdu Chengdong Mansion. Han Jian is the coach, all the battle reports must be handed over to him, and Han Jian has many assistants, but only Yang Li'er can stay in the command post from time to time.

Yang Li'er is not only the princess of the East, but also Han Jian's military advisor this time, and she must be able to influence the course of this war.

Since the soldiers and horses of Dongwangfu attacked on all fronts on the fourth day of May, by May 14 or 10 days, the cavalry of the Beiwang Army around Jiangdu had been basically annihilated. There are also small groups of deserters, and the Eastern Wangfu is also sending troops to encircle and suppress.

From the ninth day of the fifth month, the soldiers and horses on other lines of the Dongwangfu also attacked one after another, and the Luoyang Army and the Beiwang Army started a frontal confrontation on the battlefield. A few days later, by May 14, good progress had been made.

The Luoyang Army and the Northern Wangjun Army obviously did not adapt to the rhythm of the Dongwangfu for a while, and had already occupied the absolute initiative, only waiting for the Dongwangfu to surrender itself, but now the Dongwangfu suddenly sent more than 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers and horses to confront them head-on, so that the Luoyang Army and the Beiwang Army also had to temporarily retreat, and gradually did not confront the Jiangdu soldiers and horses.

"Your Highness, continue like this. If our army continues to attack, it will fall into the quagmire of the rebels going deep into the hinterland, and they will not be able to extricate themselves. Please also ask His Royal Highness to think twice, and don't enter the army lightly. ”

Since the victory of Dongwangfu, the generals under Han Jian have been persuading him with similar words to "accept it when he sees it".

At present, there are three types of ideas among the military and political officials in Jiangdu, one is to stand on the side of the Dongwangfu, so persuasion is to maintain the "moderation" thinking, and it is in line with the current interests to accept it when it is good. The second group of people is from the imperial court faction. They may not stand on the side of the East Palace. But now they have to be in the same boat with the East Wangfu, and they are relatively more hopeful to "recover" Luoyang, so there are few people who persuade Han Jian so much. The third category is the generals who eat inside and outside, many of whom are spies sent by Luoyang or the Northern Prince's Mansion. I want Han Jian to "accept it when I see it". In fact, it was to give the Luoyang Army and the Northern Wang Army a chance to breathe.

Han Jian understands very well. The war has continued to such a situation that it is difficult to "accept it when it is good".

Now that the East Wangfu has exposed its hole cards, although it temporarily occupies the initiative on the battlefield. But when the Luoyang Army and the Northern Wang Army come to their senses, they will not sit idly by and watch the Dongwang Mansion become bigger. Originally, they wanted to get rid of the East Wangfu and then hurry up, but now that the East Wangfu is powerful, they will not sit down and negotiate peace, unless the East Wangfu occupies an absolute advantage on the battlefield and forces the Luoyang Army and the North Wang Army to do the "alliance under the city".

Han Jian ignored the questioning voices around him, he had already made up his mind in his heart, so he would not be disturbed by the outside voices. If you don't take the initiative to attack and defeat the Luoyang army in one fell swoop, the best result in the future can only turn into a stalemate.

If this situation continues, it is likely to be a year and a half or even three and a half years. The East Palace's Mansion will gradually be dragged down.

The soldiers and horses sent by Han Jian were also very targeted, facing the Northern Wang Army with the "elite" originally stationed in the Southern Front of the Eastern Wangfu, and facing the Luoyang Army with the "New Army" led by Lin Zhan and Zhang Xing.

The original elite division of Dongwangfu was transferred to the northern front line with about 60,000 soldiers and horses, and with the local garrison, there were about 100,000. It can be regarded as the "trump card" of the entire East Palace.

The Eastern Palace's arrangement will make people think that the Eastern Palace's Mansion is preparing to focus on fighting with the Northern Wang's army, and use the elite against the elite.

In fact, Han Jian secretly made a dispatch and transferred a part of the soldiers and horses to fight the Luoyang army, and the soldiers and horses led by Zhang Xing and Lin Zhan seemed to be local garrisons, but because of the successive victories before, the morale was booming, and they would not be much inferior in terms of combat effectiveness.

The Northern Monarch Army occupies the eastern part of Nakju, while the Western Monarch Army occupies the western part of Nakju. There are more than a dozen cities controlled by both parties, and these cities were originally under the jurisdiction of Jiangdu.

At the beginning of the battle on the Western Road, Jiangdu's soldiers and horses successively took several county towns that had been lost, and then advanced step by step. The Luoyang army was losing and retreating.

On the eastern battlefield, because of the rich combat experience of the Beiwang army, after several small-scale contacts, the two sides turned to a phase of stalemate, and the two sides deployed their own defenses in a narrow area of more than 100 miles south of Luozhou, relying on cities and mountains and rivers, and prepared to fight a long-term tug-of-war.

After the battlefield on the eastern road entered a relatively peaceful situation, the offensive on the western route gradually turned ferocious, gradually exposing the true intentions of the eastern palace. The reinforcements sent by Han Jian one after another all went straight to the battlefield on the West Road, so that the East Wangfu sent nearly 170,000 troops, which can be said to be the limit of the troops and horses that the East Wangfu can mobilize.

Among the 170,000 soldiers and horses, nearly 100,000 gathered on the battlefield on the West Road, and the Luoyang army was only 70,000 or 80,000 at this time.

On May 19, on the battlefield of the West Road, more than 10,000 soldiers and horses under Li Shangqing of the Luoyang Army were trapped in Raocheng by more than 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Zhang Xing. Li Shangqing's department can be regarded as Yang Yu's "descendant troops", and Li Shangqing is also a general second only to the commander Yunjin in the Luoyang Army.

Li Shangqing's department was trapped, Yun Jin knew that there were 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses from the East Wangfu around Raocheng at this time, and he could not be a hard enemy.

For Dongwangfu and Han Jian, they wished for a decisive battle earlier at this time. The more the battlefield on the western road dragged on, the easier it was for the Northern Wang Army to counterattack after slowing down, and then the plan to send troops this time would be in vain. Because the news was not smooth, when Han Jian learned the news, it was already the early morning of May 22, and at this time, the main force of the Luoyang Army led by Yun Jin was also approaching Raocheng.

Originally, Raocheng was just a small county town, with a population of only a few thousand, and the county lieutenant of Raocheng took the initiative to surrender the city. And the city wall itself is not high and thick, and it may be captured in two or three days to fight with siege baggage.

After Han Jian learned the battle report from the front, he immediately ordered Lin Zhan, who was originally completing the recovery of some county towns in the middle of the road, and ordered him to lead his subordinates, about 30,000 or 40,000 horses, to the north of Raocheng and officially start a decisive battle.

As soon as the order came out, Han Jian knew that a big battle was imminent. This time, Han Jian's order was to conquer Rao City at any cost, and only gave a one-day deadline. Han Jian wanted to take advantage of the main force of the Luoyang Army to conquer Raocheng before it arrived, and then rely on Raocheng to launch a decisive battle on the anomalous plain within about sixty miles north of Raocheng to the Huai River, and completely defeat the main force of the Luoyang Army.

In order to coordinate the battle, Han Jian also immediately sent an order to the side of the Eastern Route Army, ordering it to drag the main force of the Northern Wang Army at any cost, only in this way can the soldiers and horses of the Western Route be given time.

On May 23, there seemed to be calm on the ground in Jiangdu. But at this time, Raocheng was engaged in a bloody battle.

In the absence of siege baggage, Zhang Xing's troops were attacking Raocheng with crowd-style tactics. The corpses inside and outside the entire city of Rao were intertwined, and the fighting never stopped from early in the morning until sunset and dusk.

At the beginning, Li Shangqing thought that the Dongwangfu was just the end of the crossbow, and the rash siege of the city was just a humiliation, but after seeing the fierceness of the frontal offensive of the Jiangdu army, he realized how resolute the determination of the Dongwangfu to capture Raocheng was.

Besieging the city on all sides and not giving a way to live is to completely capture the city of Rao and leave no room for survival. Li Shangqing personally commanded the battle at the head of the city until noon, when he was hit by a stray arrow and had to go down to treat his wounds.

Fortunately, the Luoyang army also knew that it was in a desperate situation and could not resist stubbornly. But after all, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and the cavalry is the mainstay, and there are not too many weapons and equipment to prepare for the siege in advance.

By sunset, Zhang Xing's troops had already attacked the city from the east of the city and started a street battle with Li Shangqing's troops in the west of the city.

By the second watch in the evening, the entire Raocheng had fallen on all sides, and Li Shangqing originally planned to let his soldiers rely on the streets and alleys of the city to make the final defense, but by midnight, the city had fallen into flames on all sides, and the streets and alleys were full of corpses.

Li Shangqing was about to ride out of the city from the north of the city, but was stopped by a group of people who wanted to escape from the city.

After Zhang Xing's troops attacked Raocheng, they counted the losses, and the entire Luoyang army had been "annihilated". Although many soldiers who surrendered in street battles were all executed by Zhang Xing's order. Zhang Xing himself was benevolent and righteous and did not want to be killed, but the order issued by the Eastern Prince's Mansion was also very clear: if Raocheng could not be captured before dawn on May 24, he would be held accountable for military justice. And Han Jian's order was also to "shoot and kill" and "leave no one alive", just to ensure that the soldiers and horses of the Eastern Wangfu could rely on Raocheng to start the final battle.

When Li Shangqing was twisted to the county office, Zhang Xing had just entered the city from outside the city, and the sky was about to dawn, Zhang Xing didn't even look at Li Boqing, but just left a "kill", and Li Boqing was cut off along with the officials who were originally Raocheng, who were also tied up.

Less than six hours after Zhang Xing captured Raocheng, at noon on May 24, 20,000 reinforcements sent by Yunjin arrived less than ten miles north of Raocheng. At this time, the reinforcements of the Northern Wang Army knew that the day before, the Dongwangfu had conquered Raocheng, and Li Shangqing and his more than 10,000 soldiers and horses had been completely destroyed.

Just before the reinforcements were preparing to make a tentative attack on Raocheng, the generals with the troops got the news that Dongwangfu had sent another army to the north of Raocheng. Unexpectedly stationed in place. (To be continued......)