"Dolgon, the imperial court has sent millions of troops, and the soldiers are divided into two ways to attack us, what should we do?"

When Guan Hai, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army, realized that the assassins of Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou had joined forces with Taishou, the crusading army had already entered Jinan and Beihai.

Dolgon led the cavalry to march from Jimo to Gaomi County, and at this time Guan Hai did not know the progress of the march of the various assassins and Taishou.

Guan Hai's strength is not low, but he lacks resourcefulness, and it is okay to bully literati who can't fight such as Kong Rong and Jiao He, but when they encounter Cao Cao and other princes joining forces, they are at a loss.

Dorgon held a map in his hand: "The soldiers will come to block, and the water will cover the earth." The officers and soldiers claimed to be a million-strong army, and according to the information provided to me by the aliens, there were only two or three hundred thousand people at most. In addition to the main force, they had to leave at least tens of thousands of people to guard the grain road. ”

"The two of us will guard the Beihai Kingdom, so who will guard the Jinan Kingdom?"

"I have sent a fierce general to Jinan to command the defense, and he will definitely make the head of the Western Road crusade army bleed."

Dolgon was undaunted by the 270,000 imperial crusades, because he had more soldiers and horses.

Guan Hai saw that Dolgon was confident, so he was relieved: "Where should I go next?" ”

Dolgon pointed to a county in the North Sea Country on the map: "Go to Anqiu County to ambush you." If the Xuzhou army wants to meet with Beihai, it must pass through Anqiu County. ”

Dongwu County, like Zhuxian, was a county in the northern part of the Langya Kingdom, which was occupied by the Yellow Turban Army at this time.

This is also the ninth county that Chutian plans to occupy.

On the occasion of the crusade against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, he unified the Langya State and became the veritable Langya Prime Minister.

Zhou Yafu was responsible for coordinating the siege, the war drums were beating, and the shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth!

There were about twenty or thirty thousand Yellow Turban troops in Dongwu County, and in the face of Zhou Yafu's siege, the Yellow Turban Army defending the city felt unprecedented pressure.

Zhou Yafu managed the army strictly, and the troops could maintain high morale, even if they could not attack the city for a long time, they would not be frustrated, and they could continue to storm Dongwu County.

At the same time, Zhou Yafu's troops were highly defensive, and the losses in the siege were few.

However, the advantage of the defenders of the city was too great, and Zhou Yafu supervised the army to attack for one day, killing and wounding more than 1,000 Yellow Turban troops.

Chutian ordered the whole army to be stationed in Dongwu County overnight, and then attack Dongwu County in the coming day, and ordered Xu Sheng to lead soldiers to patrol, and Xueyue, Sun Kang, and Wu Dun to be stationed in Zhuxian.

Then Chutian summoned Fang Xuanling, Zhou Yafu, Hua Mulan, Li Guang, Xue Rengui, Zang Ba, and Sun Guan to discuss the capture of Dongwu County.

Fang Xuanling said: "If you want to capture Dongwu County as soon as possible, please ask the lord to form a team to attack the city first." ”

Li Guang made meritorious contributions: "Lord, please order the end of the general to go first!" ”

Xue Rengui, Hua Mulan, Zang Ba, and Sun Guan also asked for orders: "The last general, please be the first!" ”

"If all the generals go to the first place, who will command the soldiers and horses?"

Chu Tian naturally wouldn't use all the generals as the first to use: "Hua Mulan led the cavalry to guard against Wu Sangui on the flank, I suspect that he still hasn't fled far." Zang Ba was retained as a reserve, and Li Guang, Xue Rengui, and Sun Guan each led a team to attack Dongwu City tomorrow. ”

"Whoa!"

Among the three first-ascending generals, Sun Guan had the lowest force, and he was thrilled that Chutian had appointed him as the first-ascending general.

Death for a confidant.

Chu Tian knew that among the thieves in Mount Tai, Zang Ba had the strongest ability, and Sun Guan was the most desperate. Therefore, although Sun Guan's force is not high enough, it is only relative to Li Guang and Xue Rengui. In fact, Sun Guan's force was enough to make ordinary Yellow Turban soldiers desperate.

In the woods thirty miles away from Chutian's camp, Wu Sangui led a cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army and a team of Yellow Turban Commanders to hide in it, and there were 50,000 Yellow Turban Army infantry in the distance.

He was sent by Dorgon to deal with Chutian. Wu Sangui, who had been repeatedly frustrated at the hands of Chu Tian and the generals under Chu Tian, gradually grew up, and he found that he had to be as cunning as a fox before he could bite Chu Tian.

"Tomorrow you will definitely continue to attack Tobu County, and then I will lead the cavalry to attack from the flank, and join forces with the defenders, and I will definitely be able to defeat you!"

Wu Sangui nibbled on the charred flatbread, slept in the open air, and did not hesitate to hide in the damp woods, in order to defeat Chu Tian. If Chu Tian knew that Wu Sangui was so attached to him, he would definitely be quite moved, and then kill him.

The next day, Zhou Yafu really continued to organize the siege of the city, and the war drums continued to beat.

Unlike yesterday, Chutian risked sending three first-ascending generals to capture Dongwu County as soon as possible at the cost of being injured or even killed.

By capturing Dongwu County, Chutian opened the gateway to the Beihai Kingdom, and at the same time included Dongwu County in his sphere of influence.

Xue Rengui, Li Guang, and Sun Guan were wearing iron armor and wearing sharp clothes, and each led a team of soldiers from the Xiliu Battalion, preparing to ascend first.

The soldiers of the Xiliu Battalion are currently the best infantry in Chutian's forces, and they are not easily thrown into attacking fortifications, and they are used as the first team at this time, which is enough to show Chutian's determination.

The three generals, each equipped with 200 soldiers of the Willow Battalion, a total of 600 people, were the main force of this battle.

Zhou Yafu commanded the archery battalion and the Xuzhou crossbowmen to suppress the Yellow Turban archers on the city wall, and then threw in low-level light infantry to confuse the Yellow Turban Army in the city to cover the sudden attack of the three generals.

When the battle of Dongwu County was underway, Wu Sangui estimated that the time was about the same, so he led the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Commander, and the Yellow Turban Infantry to leave the woods in the hilly area and make a desperate attempt to raid the flank of the Chutian army.

He wanted to use Chu Tian's best tactics to attack Chu Tian.

Wu Sangui couldn't wait to see Chu Tian's desperate expression when he was defeated by the tactics he was best at.

Wu Sangui was only thirty miles away from Chu Tian's army.

A black war eagle hovered in the air, and from a bird's-eye view from the air, a mighty army walked out of the woods one after another, forming a long dragon that was more than ten miles long, marching quickly in the direction where Chutian's army was.

The fastest of them was Wu Sangui's cavalry, and he only needed to ensure that the cavalry broke Chu Tian's formation and fell into a fierce battle with Chu Tian, and the Yellow Turban Infantry Archers in the rear arrived in time.

The warhawk circled for a moment and swept south.

Wu Sangui had no intention of seeing the war eagle in the sky, but he didn't care.

The siege of Tobu County was once again at a stalemate, and Wu Sangui left a team of overseers in Tobu County to ensure that the Yellow Turban Army in the city would not collapse easily. According to Wu Sangui's assumption, Tobu County could hold on for at least seven days. Seven days is enough for Wu Sangui to play on the periphery.

Hua Mulan led the cavalry to watch the tragic siege battle, but Chutian did not let her take the lead.

The warhawk returns and lands on Mulan's shoulder.

"Huh?"

Hua Mulan received important information from the war eagle and came to Chu Tian to whisper in her ear.

Although Mulan's tone was like an orchid, Chu Tian was even more interested in intelligence: "I didn't expect Wu Sangui to dare to come and raid me. Fortunately, he was discovered by the war eagle and was not successfully attacked by Wu Sangui. In the future, I will make this warhawk an official general. ”

Chutian immediately mobilized Hua Mulan, Zang Ba, and Xu Sheng to lead cavalry, infantry, and archers to ambush Wu Sangui, and then continue to attack the city.

Chutian was very greedy, and he wanted to defeat Wu Sangui and capture Dongwu County.

Wu Sangui led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, of which the cavalry of the 3,000 Yellow Turban Army was the fastest.

"It's coming! Soon you will lose! ”

Wu Sangui's cavalry was galloping, and he was experienced in marching and fighting, and he could roughly calculate how many miles away from Chutian's army were.

Suddenly, Wu Sangui saw the black eagle just now appear in the air in front of him, and the soldier's intuition made Wu Sangui have a bad premonition in his heart.

"It's probably my delusion."

Wu Sangui suddenly panicked, but he couldn't say why.

At this time, he had already decided to raid Chutian, and the army had moved, and there was no turning back.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Wu Sangui's cavalry fell into an ambush set by Mulan, Zang Ba, and Xu Sheng, and under the command of Xu Sheng, the crossbowmen fired thousands of arrows!

Among Xu Sheng's archers were also sailor archers. Sailor archers can also fight on land, and sailors who can't fight on land are not good sailors, but their abilities will be weakened.

Hua Mulan led a team of heavy cavalry to block the front, she changed into heavy Mingguang armor, and held the four-meter-long horse lance that Chu Tian specially brought to her.

Behind Hua Mulan was a group of Goguryeo heavy cavalry and Xuzhou heavy cavalry, who also raised their horse lances.

This kind of horse lance is produced in Shangbi Town, Xia City, and is a special weapon for gold-level heavy cavalry.

The sound of heavy horses' hooves sounded, and time seemed to stand still around them, and all the Yellow Turban cavalry held their breath and sweated.

Da! Da! The horse's hooves are trampled, leaving deep horseshoe prints! The cavalryman's boots stepped on the stirrup, clamped the horse's belly, and launched a charge of steel!

Anyone is weak in the face of the torrent of steel!

The light cavalry of the 3,000 Yellow Turban Army encountered the terrifying heavy cavalry, knowing that the opponent's number was small, but there was only one thought - escape!

The light cavalry was assaulted head-on by the heavy cavalry, without any suspense!

Wu Sangui took off his shield, blocked the arrows fired by Xu Sheng's archers, turned his horse's head, and fled backwards. His raid was discovered and he had lost his chance to win the surprise attack.

Mulan's heavy cavalry crashed into the Yellow Turban cavalry, and the sharp horse lance pierced two Yellow Turban cavalry at the same time!

The torrent of steel ran over, and dozens of Yellow Turban cavalry were stabbed to death, and they were crushed with one blow!

"Ascend first, attack the city!"

In Tobu County, after Zhou Yafu used ordinary soldiers to consume the defenders, he finally sent the first team as a hole card.

Li Guang, Xue Rengui, and Sun Guan each led 200 soldiers of the Xiliu Battalion to carry the ladder to attack the city!

The three advance teams were hidden by Zhou Yafu among the ordinary soldiers, making it difficult for the defenders to distinguish them for a while.

The heavy cloud ladder framed the city wall, Xue Rengui held the Fang Tian painting halberd, walked as fast as flying, stepped on the cloud ladder, as if walking on the ground, behind him a group of soldiers of the fine willow battalion followed closely, holding a shield to block the stones.

The Yellow Turban Army did not expect that the other party would suddenly have a general participate in the siege of the city, and it was too late to pour fire oil, so it was killed by Xue Rengui to the city wall.

Xue Rengui swung Fang Tian's halberd and killed the Yellow Turban Army guarding the fire oil!

The infantry of the Hosoliu battalion in the rear successively climbed the city wall, formed a circle formation, and began to expand the scope of occupation of the city wall.

On the other side, Li Guang also killed the city wall, and under the cover of the soldiers of the Xiliu Battalion, he used bows and arrows to deal with the incoming Yellow Turban Army. The Yellow Turban Army on the city wall was relatively dense, and Li Guang could shoot one or two Yellow Turban soldiers with one arrow even with his eyes closed.

Soon the bow and arrows behind Li Guang ran out, Li Guang simply pulled out his saber and slaughtered into the Yellow Turban Army, cutting down the defenders on the city wall all the way, blood splashing!

Compared with the ferocity of Xue Rengui and Li Guang, Sun Guan is not so fierce, but he was born as a thief and dared to fight hard, holding a sword and shield, and on the premise of being stabbed by the Yellow Turban Army, he still led the soldiers of the Xiliu Battalion to kill the city wall.

After the three generals ascended first, the Yellow Turban Army defending the city was in turmoil, exhausted, and full of flaws.

Zhou Yafu saw the flaw, and successively sent more reserves to grab more city walls.

It's a matter of time before the city is breached.

Chu Tian saw Xue Rengui and Li Guang ascending the city, and knew that Dongwu County had arrived.

The attack on Tobu Prefecture was also somewhat dangerous. If it weren't for Mulan's war eagle discovering Wu Sangui's ambush in advance, then Chu Tian wouldn't have dealt with it so calmly.

Xue Rengui, Li Guang, and Sun Guan fought all the way to the city gate, and killed the Yellow Turban army at the city gate, opened the city gate, and allowed the army outside the city to enter the city.

The morale of the Yellow Turban Army in Dongwu County dropped greatly, and even if there was a warlord, it was impossible to continue fighting, so they chose to surrender to Chutian.

In two days, Chu Tian killed 2,000 Yellow Turban troops and captured 20,000, many of whom were still old and young women and children.

"Migrate them to the Yihe River and resettle them separately to avoid further chaos."

Chu Tian divides and conquers.

Then count the merits of this battle, Zhou Yafu has the merit of commanding the siege, and Xue Rengui, Li Guang, and Sun Guan have the merit of ascending first, and Chutian has the merit of making people record them one by one.

Hua Mulan, Zang Ba, and Xu Sheng pursued Wu Sangui for thirty miles all the way before returning.

By the time Fang Xuanling made statistics, there were about more than 1,000 beheadings, 3,000 prisoners, and a large number of Yellow Turban troops were defeated, covering the mountains and fields, and it was difficult to capture them alive.

Chutian successfully took Dongwu County and expanded his territory to nine counties.

Further north, it is officially the territory of the North Sea State.

Chu Tian didn't know if he could occupy the territory of the Beihai Kingdom.

Chu Tian's official position is the minister of Langya, and Kong Rong is the minister of Beihai, before Emperor Ling of Han died, Chu Tian occupied the counties of Beihai without authorization, maybe there will be negative punishment.

"If there is a punishment, then do not occupy the territory of the North Sea State, but the population, I must take it."

Chutian consumed troops on the Northern Expedition, and the main purpose was to plunder the population.

The army rested in Dongwu County for a day, and then Chutian ordered Xueyue in Zhuxian to move to Dongwu County, and Chutian led the army forward and officially stepped into the territory of Beihai Kingdom.

"All the other soldiers should be doing well, right?"

Chu Tian had already felt the resistance of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and before he entered the Beihai Kingdom, Wu Sangui began to block it.

In the Kingdom of Jinan, the 50,000 Yanzhou troops of Liu Dai, who had just entered Qingzhou, were surrounded by 200,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, and a fierce general led tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army cavalry to defeat the Yanzhou Army!

The big knife in his hand cut off the heads of the soldiers of the Yanzhou Army, and the Chinese army of Liu Dai was brave!

Liu Dai's face was pale, and he fought and retreated under the protection of his own soldiers, while the Yanzhou army he brought was defeated and retreated.