The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 799 Swept across Jizhou, and troops approached Xiangyang
Yuan Tan and Yuan Xi were designated as rebels, while Yuan Shang was named Marquis of Wei, handed in the seal, and gave up inheritance. Therefore, Wei State was merged into Ming State.

Just when the jurisprudence was successfully handed over, Xu An also signed the mobilization of the army, and a large number of troops were mobilized.

Part of the army stationed troops from Hedong County, Shangdang County, and Taiyuan County and marched towards Jizhou along the Taihang Baxing. Xu An needed them to take over the original mission of the Jizhou Army and maintain the order of Jizhou.

The army stationed in Hongnong County was also mobilized by Xu An to go to the Luoyang area. The Taihang Ming Army led by Zuo Xiao and the Hangu Guanming Army led by Li Heng separated. Li Heng led the troops to continue eastward, while Zuo Xiao led the troops. Going south, crossing the river from Mengjin, advancing all the way to Luoyang, preparing to receive Luoyang.

The Luoyang area is still under the control of Wei Ting, and the western part of Taigu, Yique, and Zhiyuan Pass is also under the control of the Wei Army. The Wei Army has stationed a lot of soldiers in these three passes.

The Han army did not take advantage of the Wei Jun war to attack the Luoyang area. It was not because they didn't want to, but because they were powerless. In order to quickly defeat the main force of the Wei army in this Northern Expedition, the Han army almost took out all their wealth, even the Central Committee The imperial guards were all pulled to the front line.

The rest of the army, except the ones left in Qingzhou, were dispatched to Nanyang County to assist Jingzhou and guard against possible attacks by the Ming army.

Both Wuguan and Jiangguan are in the hands of the Ming army. The Ming army holds the initiative in the war, but they are passive defense. This feeling is not good, but the Han army has no way to change it. It was the Han army's attempt to regain the initiative.

But, they still failed after all.

The Northern Expedition of the Han army this time, after all, made wedding dresses for others.

In the second year of the Ming Dynasty (195), June [-]th.

Qu Yi announced his surrender to Ming, and there was an uproar in Qingzhou.

In the second year of the Ming Dynasty, June [-]th.

After Liu Shi received a stern letter of reprimand from Xu An, he finally waited for the cavalry from behind to arrive before continuing to march towards Fanyang City.

Liu Shi, Zhu Jiu and Fan Yangcheng successfully joined forces, assembled more than [-] soldiers, and surrounded Yuan Xi in Fanyang City.

Outside Fanyang City, there were only a few empty camps left.

Gongsun Zan had already fled back to Yijing, where he fled back to Yijing, and retreated into the city again.

In fact, Gongsun Zan was not weak. He still had nearly ten thousand elite cavalry under his command, and he also engulfed tens of thousands of refugees as infantry.

If it were the former Gongsun Zan, the Ming army might have gone through a tough battle, and it is not known whether they will be able to win.

But the current Gongsun Zan has lost all his vigor, and this time he went out of Yijing to fight, but he was moved by the conditions offered by the Han court. He saw the hope of victory, so he agreed to go out of Yijing and help Han court.

But Gongsun Zan never expected that the situation would suddenly take a turn for the worse. At this critical juncture, the Ming armies of the two counties entrenched in the northwest of Youzhou would leave the border and attack the hinterland of Youzhou.

However, Wuhuan, the three prefectures who were originally subject to Wei Ting, actually became the internal response of the Ming army, and Gongsun Du also sent a large army to kill him. Xu Rong is moving!
The defeat of the main force of the Han army and Qu Yi's surrender made Gongsun Zan panic. Under pressure from all sides, Gongsun Zan made a decisive decision and chose to lead his cavalry to flee to Yijing again.

However, when Gongsun Zan fled to Yijing, there were less than [-] generals left under his command, and the rest of the cavalry were scattered along the road.

And when Gongsun Zan arrived in Yijing in a hurry, many people in Yijing also fled. They all heard the shocking changes in Ji and Youzhou, and they were all panicked.

When Gongsun Zan returned to Yijing, seeing that the forces under his command were about to fall apart, he ordered his cavalry to raise their butcher knives, and a massacre had already begun.

It wasn't until Haishi on the [-]th that the turmoil in Yijing stopped.

No one knows how many people died in this turmoil, and Gongsun Zan finally regained control of Yi Jing.

Yi Jing's gate was closed again, returning to the previous state, and once again isolated from the outside world.

In the second year of the Ming Dynasty, June [-]th.

The envoys of the Ming army arrived in Pingyuan County, and Qu Yi was named General Zhengxi, governor of Qingzhou, and led the army of Qingzhou.

In the afternoon of the same day, Qu Yi swore an oath in Pingyuan County and dispatched his generals to march to Bohai County in Jizhou to conquer Yuan Tan.

Yuan Tan was replaced by Yuan Shao from the post of Qingzhou Mu, and finally assigned to Bohai County as the county guard. Naturally, it was impossible for Yuan Tan to surrender, and Xu An had no intention of letting Yuan Tan go, so he ordered Qu Yi to raise troops to go north. .

The reason for this is also Xu An's attitude towards Qu Yi. As long as Qu Yi attacks Yuan Tan, then Qu Yi can only rely on the Taiping Dao and the Ming Army in the future, and completely draw a line with those powerful families.

The Yuan family is regarded as the former owner of Qu Yi. Although Qu Yi did not go to the rescue in the battle of Wei County, he still had a plausible excuse. But once he attacked Yuan Tan, the nature of everything changed. Qu Yi was among the scholars. The reputation will also fall to the bottom.

However, Qu Yi had already seen the real faces of those high-ranking officials above the temple, and saw their weakness.

He knew that the military power in his hands was the capital for his promotion.

Now Ming Ting has an absolute advantage, and there are only two roads in front of him.

One is to hug Xu An's thigh and follow Taiping Road forward.

The second is to throw at the opposite side of Taiping Road, and then be ruthlessly crushed to pieces by the Ming army.

How to choose is not difficult.

June twenty-seventh.

The victory and defeat of the Battle of Fanyang has been completely spread throughout the three prefectures of You, Ji, and Qing, and has also spread into the Luoyang area.

Qu Yi's surrender also made those who were lucky enough to let go of their last unrealistic fantasy.

Under the persuasion of the judge, most of the Wei army put down their weapons and surrendered to the Ming army.

In name, Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou north of the Yellow River, and the Luoyang area all declared their annexation.

The territory of Taiping Road has officially expanded to the Central Plains.

Yuan Tan was appointed as the governor of Bohai County. In fact, this is already a idle position. Bohai County is located in the inland area of ​​Wei State, and there is no war at all. After the Qingxu War, Yuan Shao was very disappointed with Yuan Tan's performance. In fact, it can be regarded as Yuan Tan's fiefdom. Yuan Shao sent Yuan Tan to Bohai County to keep Yuan Tan away from the political center and wanted Yuan Shang to inherit his position.

Bohai County didn't have many soldiers, and Qu Yi was naturally victorious all the way, and soon reached Nanping, the prefecture of Bohai County.

Yuan Tan knew that he was bound to die, and Xu An would never spare his life, so he ordered the city gates to be blocked. At the same time, he also began to follow Gongsun Zan's example in building mounds and building "Beijing" to defend itself.

Qu Yi has a certain idea of ​​preserving his strength, and he really lacks large-scale siege equipment,

Nanpi City was solid, and there were many soldiers inside, so it was difficult to capture it for a while.

After Tian Zhong, who was with the army as the supervisor, asked him to suspend the attack, Qu Yi also stopped the attack and ordered to encircle but not attack.

Now there is really no need to rush to attack. The Ming army never had the idea of ​​using surrendered soldiers as cannon fodder.

Every manpower is extremely important. When the Ming army attacked a city, it always mobilized a large number of catapults to bombard the city indiscriminately, destroying almost the entire city wall before starting a formal attack.

The generals of the Ming army seem to have a severe fear of insufficient firepower.

More bows and crossbows, more ballistas, more catapults, and more weapons are better.

The battle of Nanpi City came to a standstill, but the battle of Fanyang City did not stop for a moment.

June twenty-eighth.

After nearly ten days of indiscriminate bombing, the city wall of Fanyang City was overwhelmed and collapsed, revealing a huge gap, and the buildings of Fanyang City were also dilapidated.

Following the gap, the Ming troops of the two counties, under the leadership of Liu Shi, took only one hour to completely break through Fanyang City.

After the city was broken, Yuan Xi led his personal guards and fled into the government office to resist stubbornly. He did not let him go without a fight. Finally, seeing that the Ming army had entered the city, he set fire to himself and died.

Fanyang city was destroyed, and the whole territory of Youzhou was captured by the Ming army since then, and it belonged to the Taiping Road.

The two counties of Yuyang County and Youbeiping County fell apart under the joint attack of Xu Rong and Wuhuan of the three counties.

Xu An authorized Xu Rong to act cheaply and ordered him to control the three counties of Wuhuan.

All over the country one after another handed down the form, only a very small number of people resisted, and the strength of the resistance was negligible.

The powerful families in Hebei removed a small number of people. Before Quyi had surrendered, the Ming army had just defeated the main force of the Han army, passed through Qinghe County and went south to Qingzhou, and no one escaped from the border of Jizhou. up.

After all parts of Jizhou announced their surrender, Xu An ordered Li Heng to go to Qinghe County to block the road going south, and at the same time sent troops to Nanpi with catapults to assist in the siege.

Bai Rao was appointed to lead the army to guard Liyang. At this time, the Han army at Liyang port had already withdrawn. Yuan Shu returned to the south of the Yellow River with the remaining [-] Han troops and stationed in Puyang, the state capital of Yanzhou.

Although Bai Rao only had more than [-] cavalry and a few infantry under his command, and there were more than [-] Han troops in Puyang, they were enough for defense.

Now it is the Han army who is worried that the Ming army will take the opportunity to go south, and has no intention of going north at all. Their morale has fallen to the bottom amidst successive defeats.

The sharp whistle was deeply engraved into his bone marrow, and many people had already developed a kind of fear of the sharp whistle. As long as they heard the sharp sound, some people even trembled all over, unable to speak.

The mobilization order was spread to Bingzhou and Zhongzhou, and generals from all over the country were mobilized to take over the defense of Wei Jun.

Xu An didn't stay in Yecheng for too long. After staying in Yecheng for a while, he headed towards Xiaquyang.

Xiaquyang is located in the northern part of Julu County, in the center of Youzhou and Jizhou. It is not far from Qingzhou. It extends in all directions and belongs to the important place where the three states meet. From Xiaquyang, you can better control Qingzhou, Hebei, and Youzhou. Land of three states.

Although Xu An is not from Jizhou, he knows all the roads here after he set foot on the official road to the north, and he has walked on the official road before.

Jizhou at that time was not what it is now.

At that time in Jizhou, the ground was scorched and starved as far as the eye could see.

Xu An raised his hand to cover the sun above his head, and the gaze in Xu An's eyes was reflected through the gaps between his fingers, which reminded Xu An of the scene in the first year of Zhongping.

"Guangzong..."

Xu An stared at the low city wall not far away, where Guangzong City existed in his deepest memory.

Seeing Guangzong's city wall, the Ming soldiers who were singing military songs at first stopped singing.

All the generals following Xu An also fell silent.

On the official road, only the sound of soldiers and horses advancing was left.

Even the breeze that had been blowing seemed to disappear without a trace.

Xu An held the reins and led the horse forward slowly.

The walls of Guangzong City were getting closer and closer, and his heart seemed to be pressed against a big rock, making it almost difficult for him to breathe.

Not far from the official road, there are criss-crossed rice paddies, criss-crossed and intertwined, and one piece after another of the fields appeared before Xu An's eyes.

There are countless green crops in the fields, and those crops are growing gratifyingly. You can tell at a glance that this is a bumper harvest year.

Xu An stared at the soil under his feet with a gloomy expression.

The fertile field of hundreds of miles outside Guangzong City was not formed naturally, but poured from the blood and corpses of countless people.

A rush of horseshoes interrupted Xu An's recollection.

"Jingzhou, the military situation is urgent!"

A messenger with three flags on his back galloped from the south. The moment he saw Xu An, he immediately got off his horse and delivered a letter.

"Jingzhou?!"

Xu An's eyes were fixed, and he unfolded the letter in his hand.

The letter in his hand was the military news from Jingzhou.

"it is good!"

Xu An gripped the rein tightly, with a smile on his face.

"How is the battle in Jingzhou?"

Xu You was slightly taken aback. Seeing the smile on Xu An's face, he knew that the battle of Jingzhou should be extremely smooth.

"In the Battle of Nanyang, our army won a big victory and beheaded [-] people. Gong Ming has now led his troops to the city of Xiangyang and is preparing for the siege."

"In the water battle in Nanjun, Gan Xing defeated Chen Jiu, the governor of Nanjun, and captured [-] warships, severely injuring the Nanjun navy."

"What a Gan Xingba, what a Jinfan Ranger!"

The original depression in my heart was also dispelled by this news from Jingzhou.

If you want to conquer Yangzhou and Jingzhou, the navy is an unavoidable obstacle.

The south is densely covered with rivers and hills, and Taipingdao's powerful cavalry cannot be used here. Although infantry combat is not feared, water combat is a problem.

The residents of Yang and Jing are well-versed in water and are good at water warfare. In the original time and space, the main reason for the defeat in the Battle of Chibi was that the northerners did not understand water warfare.

Living in the north for a long time, it is extremely difficult for people with no water access to draw strings and shoot arrows on the swaying warship. When two ships meet, the force of the collision, if the people with no water access, is likely to be destroyed. Dive into the water.

Ten years of the army, a hundred years of the navy.

The environment of inland rivers is undoubtedly much better than that of the sea, but it still takes a lot of time to train. To form a navy requires not only ships, but also people.

Although the Ming army had a navy in Liaodong, it was an offshore navy. The warships were suitable for sailing in the sea, but it was inconvenient to enter the inland river network to fight.

The Battle of Nanjun not only proved Gan Ning's strength in water warfare, but also proved Gan Ning's ability to train troops.

According to the information reported by the Yinglangwei, the number of warships of the Hanting Nanjun Navy and the Ming Army Jiangguan Navy is almost the same, and the ships are even better. Gan Ning not only defeated the Nanjun Navy, but also captured more than [-] ships The warship greatly enhanced the strength of the Jiangguan Navy.

Both the northern and southern armies have won big victories. If they can break through Xiangyang this time, then Ming Ting will control most of Jingzhou.

Xiangyang is the throat of Jingzhou, whoever wins Xiangyang, embraces Jingzhou!
"Order Ji Ang to order [-] soldiers from Yingtian County to station in Nanyang and obey Xu Huang's command."

Xu An did not hesitate, and ordered immediately.

Now the Han court absolutely has no way to spare many people to help Jingzhou. Xu Huang may be able to capture Jingzhou in one fell swoop with the prestige of Nanyang's victory this time.

(End of this chapter)