After several tug-of-wars, Wu Jue's army retreated, and the Xuzhou army captured Bowang and controlled the pass to Xianghan.

Bowang bears Funiu Mountain in the north, Hidden Mountain in the south, and Baihe River in the west.

The Central Plains army could also pass through Bowangpo and enter the Nanyang Basin to attack Jingxiang.

Chutian asked everyone to rest in Bowang and probe the enemy's deployment in Wancheng.

Wancheng was no longer Chu Tian's sphere of influence.

Xia Liang led the army to follow from the rear and joined Chutian.

"When I was in Xuchang, the players in the rear got information that Tang had obtained the guard Zhang Xun after the national war. Although Zhang Xun is not a particularly powerful commander, his ability to defend the city is top-notch. It is said that Tang is likely to garrison Wancheng. ”

After Xia Liang entered Xuchang, he obtained information from players in Xuzhou and brought the information to the Chutian camp.

"Zhang Xun? He doesn't have a great reputation......"

Chu Tian remembered this person, in order to defend the city, the people of the whole city died, and he was probably the most ruthless guard.

However, unless the player princes have a deep hatred for each other, they should not come to that point. After all, there is only the concept of Huaxia among players, and it is not a question of who unifies Huaxia.

Even so, with Zhang Xun's bonus of defending the city, it is extremely difficult to capture Wancheng.

Wancheng is located in the northern part of Jingzhou, and Yang Shilang will definitely help Tang to defend Wancheng.

"There is also an important piece of information, the reinforcements of the Jingzhou army are assembled in Xinye, ready to support Wancheng."

"In this way, we can only give up attacking Wancheng."

Chu Tian is not yet capable of attacking Jingzhou, and once he fights with the behemoth of Jingzhou, he will miss the opportunity to annex Hebei.

In Chutian's strategic plan, Hebei has a higher priority than Jingxiang.

Wancheng gathered nearly 200,000 people, Xinye came tens of thousands, Xiangyang, Jiangling, Jiangxia in the rear are still mobilizing troops, Wancheng with guards will become a meat grinder, and all the main forces of Chutian will be handed over to Wancheng.

Chu Tian stared at Xia Liang: "From your point of view, what should I do?" ”

"Defend the city of Xia Dao, and then sow discord, Jingzhou will fight with Jiangdong and Yizhou. Tongque is about to unify Jiangdong, and as long as he cannot expand to Jiangbei, he can only march to Jingzhou...... For Don, we can also co-opt. ”

Summer Ryo spoke her opinion.

The "Fangcheng Xia Road" she said is the area of Bowangpo, which is the key pass for entering and exiting Jingxiang.

Fang Xuanling and Xun You listened to her opinion and nodded slightly.

This is probably Chu Tian's opinion.

To deal with Tang, in addition to using force, it is not impossible to use the policy of softness.

Chutian needed a guard general to garrison Bowang, guard Fangcheng Xia Road, and block the Jingzhou army from entering the Central Plains.

"Xiahoudun and Li Dian can keep Bowang."

Chu Tian sent two generals to guard Bowang to block the exit of the Jingzhou army, and then sent one general to guard Xuchang and support at any time.

"Change Xuchang to the seat of Yingchuan County."

After making up his mind to withdraw the army, Chutian changed the seat of Yingchuan County without authorization, and planned to garrison troops in Xuchang Tuntian.

The terrain in Xuchang is flat, suitable for Tuntian, Kong Ling, Yuan Shu, and Tang were once in Tuntian, and now they are all cheaper than Chutian.

The information brought back by the Iron Eagle scouts who went to Wancheng to reconnoitre was not much different from the information inquired by the players in the rear, Wancheng's fortifications were complete, and in Xinye, a reinforcement of about 70,000 or 80,000 people was assembled, and under the command of the general Wen Ping and other generals, they were ready to go north for reinforcements and turn Wancheng into a Shura field.

Tens of thousands of people in Runan County used the teleportation array to arrive in Wancheng and strengthen the city defenses of Wancheng.

After confirming that the news was correct, Chutian secretly withdrew from the division, personally commanded the army, and moved to Xuchang.

Yuzhou was basically occupied by Chutian, but the people's hearts have not yet been calmed, and Chutian needs to sit in Yuzhou and readjust the official structure of Yuzhou.

"Chu Zimou has withdrawn!"

Yang Shilang of Wancheng and Tang said that when they learned that Chutian had withdrawn from the army, they breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but feel regretful.

If a big battle can be fought in Jingzhou and Chutian, maybe it can turn defeat into victory.

"The morale of my Yuzhou army has been exhausted, and for a year and a half, I have not been able to enter the Central Plains."

It is said that Tang counted his troops and suffered heavy losses.

Because Tang said that he had been operating in Runan County for many years and was deeply popular, about 50,000 people came to take refuge in him.

But Tang found that one of the most important people was missing, and that was Feng Yi, the general of the big tree.

Feng Yi is the commander under his command second only to Guo Ziyi, and he is also loyal to Tang. If Feng Yi doesn't come to Wancheng, then there is only one possibility - to die in battle or be captured.

Not only Feng Yi, but the teleportation array of Runan County has failed, indicating that the governance of Runan County, Pingyu (Zhumadian), has been lost. Even if there are still people loyal to the Tang Dynasty, they are blocked in Runan County and cannot come to Wancheng.

"Feng Yi, Cheng Biting Jin, and the entire Yuzhou...... The losses this time were considerable. ”

Say that the Don mentality is on the verge of collapse.

He finally occupied Yuzhou and worked hard to run Runan County for many years, but as a result, Chutian was cheaper.

The population and agriculture of Runan County were quite good under the management of the Tang Dynasty, and they were probably even richer than the Langya Kingdom.

"Since Chu Zimou has withdrawn from the army, then I will return to Xiangyang, and Nanyang County will be handed over to you to defend. This time, my loss was not small. ”

Yang Shilang also sighed.

Yang Yanzhao was captured, and all the legions were damaged, and his losses were so great that he was unable to eat Tang's soldiers and horses.

At this time, he could only cooperate with Tang in order to keep Jingzhou.

Said Don asked, "What are you going to do?" Only Jingzhou is not Chu Zimou's opponent. ”

"In Xiangyang, Jiangling, and Dongting Lake, Tuntian, train water masters. If possible, unify the south of the Yangtze River, or, wait for Chu Zimou's main force to attack Hebei, and then enter the Central Plains. ”

Yang Shilang began to work on the withdrawal of the army.

……

Runan County, Pingyu City, soldiers are under the city.

The city gate opened, and a group of officials came out and surrendered to the combined forces of Yanzhou and Xuzhou.

Not everyone is willing to follow Tang, after all, those who know the times are Junjie.

Two of them held the official seal of Yuzhou Mu, representing the subordinates of Yuzhou, to welcome the army into the city.

"Who are you?"

Cao Cao was dressed in a red robe and squinted his eyes.

The father and son replied: "Chen Ji and Chen Qun, who are from Xu County, Yingchuan, are the pastoral officials of Yuzhou, and the pastor of Yuzhou has abandoned Runan, so he is willing to descend to Yanzhou." ”

"It turned out to be Chen Ji."

Cao Cao had an impression of this scholar who was once active in Luoyang.

Chen Ji, Chen Qun and his son are figures of the Yingchuan family.

The world's families, with Yingchuan, Nanyang, and Runan being the most active.

Chen Ji, Chen Qun, father and son not only presented the official seal of Yuzhou Mu, but also handed over the account books that recorded the money and grain of the population of various counties and counties in Yuzhou.

It is said that Tang, as a player lord, implemented policies that were basically the same as those of Chutian, such as the combination of population statistics, the inspection system, and the imperial examination system......

Of course, the winner takes all, saying that all the fruits of Tang farming became Chutian's spoils.

……

In Yecheng, Jizhou, Zhou Yafu's soldiers approached the city, causing panic among the defenders in the city.

This is the second time Yecheng has been besieged.

It was no one else who led the way, but Xu You, a strategist who went south to seek refuge in Chutian.

Xu You tried to persuade the defenders, but Zhao Long had already changed his henchmen Gao Gong (Jiong) and Han Baohu, and all the city gates were Zhao Long's people, and Xu You could not shake the Yecheng defenders.

Zhou Yafu saw that Zhao Long left 30,000 soldiers to defend Yecheng and 15,000 soldiers to guard Handan, which were horns of each other, and it was difficult to capture them for a while, so he changed his tactics.

He brought the civilians of Liyang to harvest the wheat in the area of Yecheng, and collected part of the wheat planted in Yecheng this year, so that Yecheng fell into a situation of food shortage.

Not only that, Zhou Yafu also moved the people of the villages and towns near Yecheng to fill the population of Liyang and strengthen Liyang.

Seeing this, Han Baohu couldn't help but be furious, and led a team of cavalry out of the city to attack Zhou Yafu's camp.

Zhou Yafu set up an ambush to flank Han Baohu.

Han Baohu originally wanted to break Zhou Yafu's general flag and capture Zhou Yafu alive.

However, Chutian specially arranged Li Guang as Zhou Yafu's deputy general, in order to protect Zhou Yafu and strengthen the offensive ability of Zhou Yafu's army.

Li Guang almost killed Han Baohu with an arrow, and after Han Baohu left hundreds of cavalry casualties, he fled back to Yecheng.

Zhou Yafu continued to harvest wheat and migrate people without hurry.

According to Du Ruhui's rough statistics, a total of 60,000 people and 150,000 units of grain and grass were captured, which was enough to meet the annual needs of 150,000 people.

In order to ensure that Yecheng was foolproof, Gao Gong and Han Baohu could only defend Yecheng and did not dare to come out. As with Xu You's judgment, the hearts of Yecheng were undecided, once Gao Gong and Han Baohu led the main force out of the city to fight Zhou Yafu in a decisive battle, there would probably be a rebellion in Yecheng, so Gao Gong did not dare to take risks.

Han Baohu dared to be reckless, but he was subject to Gao Gong.

Gao Gong thought that Han Baohu was not Zhou Yafu's opponent, and only gave Han Baohu part of his troops, and constantly harassed Zhou Yafu to send a wheat-cutting team.

Zhou Yafu was attacked by Han Baohu and could not take all the wheat away, but it had already dealt a big blow to Yecheng.

The harvested grain and grass was completely enough for the defenders of Liyang for a year.

In addition, Du Ruhui organized the people to take advantage of the fact that Zhao Long went north to confront Huma and Yecheng was too busy to take care of himself, and went to dig a canal to introduce Qi water into Baigou, so that the water level of Baigou rose.

Baigou communicates Yanzhou, Liyang, and Yecheng, that is to say, after the water level in Baigou rises, Yanzhou's grain ships can enter Jizhou. In the future, Chutian's main force will pacify Hebei, and there is basically no need to worry about the shortage of grain and grass.

This is also in Xu Yu's strategy.

In order to defeat Hu Ma as soon as possible, Zhao Long himself also paid a lot of price, not only compromising with Liu Bei and Tian Qi, but also giving up Liyang and being occupied by Zhou Yafu.

Zhou Yafu and Du Ruhui made small moves right under his nose, but he was unable to divide his troops to defeat Zhou Yafu.

Zhou Yafu and Du Ruhui were obviously preparing for Chutian's pacification of Hebei.

Under the management of the two of them, Liyang City became a fortress located in Hebei, and there was a steady stream of grain ships entering Baigou to transport soldiers, grain, grass and weapons to Liyang......

"Damn, Zhou Yafu, and Du Ruhui......"

At this time, Zhao Long, who entered Changshan Kingdom to confront Huma, received a report from his henchman Gao Gong that his spies in the Chutian forces had obtained the corresponding information, and it was Zhou Yafu and Du Ruhui who captured Liyang.

Zhou Yafu played a stable role and wanted to inflict heavy damage on Zhou Yafu and drive him from Hebei to Henan, unless Zhao Long personally led the army south.

Du Ruhui, who has never had a sense of existence, is a difficult figure for Zhao Long.

There are too many strategists and ministers under Chu Tian's command, and Du Ruhui usually does not have many opportunities to perform, so that many people forget that Du Ruhui and Fang Xuanling are strategists of the same level, or Wenchen.

When Du Ruhui had the opportunity to be on his own, he became the big demon king who gave Zhao Longtou a headache.

A character who is good at both resourcefulness and internal affairs, with the calm Zhou Yafu, is in Liyang, Hebei, and can't be driven away.

"Order Gao Gong and Han Baohu to continue to defend according to the established plan. Yecheng is the most important, and some of the grain and grass can be transported from other counties. ”

Zhao Long was irritated by Zhou Yafu and Du Ruhui's mood, and still focused on defeating Huma.

Liu Bei and Tian Qi received the promise of Zhao Long to split the earth and seal the king, and led some soldiers and horses to support Zhao Long and start the battle of Changshan Kingdom with Huma.

This is a game between Jizhou and Merge State.

Jizhou Zhaolong has the advantage.

Zhao Long not only owned most of the land in Jizhou, but also occupied half of Youzhou, with Liu Bei and Tian Qi as minions, and Huma only had the state.

Hu Ma originally took advantage of Zhao Long and Yuan Shao to turn against each other and capture Jizhou.

However, Zhao Long quickly captured Yuan Shao alive and annexed his men, causing Huma to be in an extremely embarrassing situation.

Huma's Bingzhou army invaded Changshan State in Jizhou, Zhao Yun's hometown, and Zhao Long had already gathered Jizhou and Youzhou soldiers and horses, and had an encounter with Huma's Bingzhou Army in Changshan State.

"Yuan Shao failed too quickly, I am not the opponent of Zhao Long, Liu Bei, and Tian Qi......"

Hu Ma faced Zhao Long's army and was timid.

He owned Li Mu and Lian Po, and he should have annexed Jizhou in one go, but Zhao Long had Yang Su under his command who was not under Li Mu and Lian Po.

Yang Suke was a ruthless man, the marching marshal of the Sui Dynasty to destroy the Chen Dynasty and unify China, and then defeated the Turkic Datou Khan, suppressed the Han King Yang Liang to raise troops and rebel, fought in the south and the north, won a hundred battles, and entered the prime minister.

In addition to Yang Su, Zhao Long also subdued Hu Lu Mingyue, Lanling Wang, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Ju Yi and other fierce generals under Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei's Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Wu Han, Ashina Sheer, Tian Qi's generals Tian Ji, Gongsun Jie, Tian Kaijiang, Gu Yezi and others helped.

"Taiyuan urgently, the Southern Xiongnu tribe has rebelled again, and the Montenegrin army has a tendency to attack Taiyuan!"

When Huma was ready to give it a go and fight to the death with Zhao Long, the backyard caught fire again!

Huma's face was gloomy, this was the second time that Zhao Long had used diplomatic tactics to tease him.

The Bingzhou army had to retreat back, otherwise once Taiyuan was lost, the Bingzhou army would be trapped in Jizhou and homeless.

"The state army has retreated!"

"The time has come to pacify and annex the state."

Zhao Long ordered Liu Bei to the left, Tian Qi to the right, and himself in the center, to jointly flank and merge the state army.

The three-way soldiers marched together, and the Bingzhou army, which was shaken by the army's heart, was defeated again!

Zhao Long took advantage of the situation to regain the well and attack the state!

Liu Bei stationed on the horse, looking at the mighty Jizhou army attacking Taiyuan County from the Jingjing Trail, he couldn't help but sigh: "Two military divisions, the north is really the land of tigers and wolves." ”

Liu Bei thinks that his talent is not weak, but in the north, where the heroes are rising together, it seems that he can't take advantage of it.

Chu Zimou of Xuzhou pressed Cao Cao to rub in Dongjun, while Zhao Long in the north was so powerful that even Hu Ma, who owned Li Mu and Lian Po, was defeated by him twice.