I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 461, expanding the results of the battle

Compared with the unlucky Yuan Shao, Zhang Fei escaped much more smoothly. He is a general who can be defeated by tens of thousands of people. Most of the cavalry on the army side were used to intercept Liu Bei. There was only one battalion of cavalry, but it was not here.

So when Zhang Fei used himself and 500 cavalry as arrows to easily kill through the large army blocking him, he not only escaped by himself, but also brought out tens of thousands of soldiers!Flee to Liang Guo!

Although the soldiers of the Dagan Army who blocked them wanted to chase Zhang Fei and the others, there were too many soldiers fleeing from Dingtao, with a total of more than 14 soldiers. Now Xu Wei has only 14 soldiers, and the strength of the two sides is about the same. It is one-to-one. It is easy for the Dagan army to defeat the Dingtao defenders with a force of [-], but it is more difficult to wipe them out. The pursuers saw that Zhang Fei and his men were fleeing farther and farther, so they simply gave up the pursuit. Zhang Fei turned around and suppressed soldiers who were easier to capture!
At this time, after Xu Wei knew that the coalition army wanted to escape, he first ordered his few cavalry to block the fleeing Han army on the periphery, and then ordered the battalions to contact each other to form an encirclement circle, and ordered his subordinates to ignore even if a small group of soldiers escaped. But the main force of Dingtao soldiers cannot be allowed to escape from Dingtao City!
When the soldiers left Dingtao City, they ran away in all directions.But they were quickly overtaken by the cavalry of the Dagan Army, and after being bombarded for a month, the defenders of the entire Dingtao City did not have the courage to fight. When they saw the Dagan Army chasing and killing them, they did not want to kill Instead of encircling them, they surrendered to the cavalry, who now no longer wanted to fight.

In this way, Xu Wei arrested all night and captured more than 8 Han soldiers, of whom more than 5000 were lightly or severely wounded. About 2 Han soldiers escaped from Dingtao City.However, the casualties of the Dagan Army did not exceed 3000. It can be said that with the help of artillery, the Dagan Army won a complete victory in this battle!

In particular, Fuyun said to Xu Wei: "In power, I have captured Yuan Shao of the Han army!"

This can be regarded as the highest-ranking general captured by the Dagan army in this battle. More importantly, Yuan Shao is the leader of the Yuan family. If he is defeated and captured, it may cause the power of the Yuan Clan to collapse, so that the Dagan army can attack Yuzhou and Sili will get easier!
The red sun is rising, those who can escape have already fled, those who cannot escape are quietly waiting for the captives of the Dagan Army, the entire battlefield began to quiet down!
Dingtao City, government office!

Now it has become the main tent of the Chinese army!

At this time, Xu Wei, Huang Long, Jia Xu and dozens of generals above the school lieutenant of the Dagan Army gathered here, and everyone excitedly recounted their results. This Yanzhou battle lasted for more than two months. Now they have achieved decisive results!Apart from other things, Yanzhou was defeated by them!
"Sun Qing, Fan Xian! Work harder, take the artillery army to support Wang Yong and the others. Within a month, I will hear the news that Changyi City has been conquered. In a month, the autumn harvest in the Central Plains will come. , this war is not over yet!"

The artillery troops are slow to move. Changyi is four to five hundred miles away. If it is transported by land, it may take ten and a half months. You can reach Changyi!

Sun Qing and Fan Xian came out and said, "No!"

Then Xu Wei looked at Jia Xu and said: "Send good news to Daying, Hebei, and tell everyone that we have won the battle of Yanzhou, and the main force of the Han army has been defeated by us!"

Jia Xu cupped his hands and said, "This subordinate will pass the news of the great victory to the camp!"

Then Jia Xu said: "In power, now that Yuan Shao has been captured by us, there must be no leader in Sili and other places. Can our soldiers go to support General Yang Feng, take advantage of the victory and pursue, advance the front to Sili, and conquer Luoyang in the next step?" The city is ready!"

"Good idea!" Xu Wei walked to the map, looked in the direction of Luoyang City and said, "Huanglong, lead 5 soldiers to support Yang Feng, and try to push the front line to Luoyang City! Prepare for our next attack on Sili Prepare!"

Huang Long went out and bowed his hands, "No!"

Then he said to Jia Xu: "Order Zhang Baiqi to lead 2 soldiers to attack Chaoge City in Hanoi. It would be best to take down the whole of Hanoi!"

Jia Xu cupped his hands and saluted, "No!"

Xu Wei continued: "Yuzhou can't let it go, we must pass the news of this victory to Duan Peng, let him find a way to go deep into Yuzhou as much as possible, attack the city, and expand the results as much as possible!"

Duan Peng was sent by Xu Wei to pursue Liu Bei and others, but the situation was not so smooth. Liu Bei is worthy of being a long-legged general in history. Liu Bei and 1.5 cavalry fled to Liang Guo and were caught up by Duan Peng. The two sides fought a bloody battle. Duan Peng At the cost of 5000 casualties, Peng completely defeated the last cavalry of the coalition forces of the princes.But Liu Bei escaped from birth, and all important generals like Lu Bu and Yuan Tan also escaped.

Duan Peng only killed Wei Xu, Cao Xing, an unknown third-rate general, and captured Xu You, Guo Tu, Yuan Shaojun's advisors!
Then Liu Bei and the others fled to Liang Guo, and Liu Bei and the others relied on Liang Guo to build a defense line and continue to block Duan Peng's attack!

Liang Guo has already reached the hinterland of the Central Plains, and the city has a large population. Yuan Tan easily summoned tens of thousands of soldiers to continue to block Duan Peng. Although he can be invincible in the field, he still feels a little powerless in the face of the many cities of Liang State. Now he is trying to find a way to attack some easy-to-take Wubao as a stronghold.

And Liu Bei fled back to Jingzhou while Duan Peng and Yuan Tan were fighting. It is said that he is still recruiting a large army, and he looks like he wants to continue fighting the big army.

Jia Xu pointed in the direction of Xuzhou and said: "If General Wang Yong conquers Changyi, should he send troops to Xuzhou? Now Xuzhou's troops are scarce, and Yuan Shao and Cao Cao wantonly captured Xuzhou's powerful families last year, so Yuan Shao and Cao Cao In Xuzhou, it can be said that the sky is angry and people complain. Our army can easily get help from the locals when entering Xuzhou, and Xuzhou is flat. With the strength of our cavalry, it should not take much effort to conquer Xuzhou.

The most important thing is that after we captured Xuzhou, we completely surrounded Cao Cao. Judging from this Yanzhou battle, Cao Cao is still very capable, and Li Gang was almost defeated by him!If there is no way to restrict Cao Cao's development now, I'm afraid it will be detrimental to our army's unification of the world in the future! "

Cao Cao's actions really scared Xu Wei into a cold sweat. After he returned to Qingzhou, he immediately integrated the entire Qingzhou army, and led 5 troops to support Zang Ba who was stationed on Mount Tai. Li Gang never thought that Cao Cao would fight back against him. The Qingzhou Army's 10 troops were beaten and retreated, and they retreated directly to Dongping Kingdom, relying on the city to defend against Cao Cao's attack!
Fortunately, Zhang Baiqi in Jizhou has been paying attention to the actions of the Qingzhou Army. When he found out that Cao Cao had the intention of Wang Yong's retreat, he immediately summoned Pingyuan County, Bohai County, Anping State, etc., and organized 20 militiamen. As if he was about to attack Qingzhou on a large scale, Cao Cao was really frightened. He immediately retreated and stationed his army on the line of the Yellow River to prevent the large army from attacking his lair!

Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "It depends on the situation. If you can occupy it, you can occupy it. If you can't take it, you can talk about it next time. Anyway, Xuzhou has no danger to defend, and it is the easiest place for us to obtain! Our main attack direction in the next stage Still Si Li!"

The main enemy of the Dagan army is Yuan Shao. After capturing the Central Plains this time, Xu Wei's next target is Sili. The next battle is to attack Chang'an City and Luoyang City. Relatively speaking, although Cao Cao is powerful, he never Since the Dagan Army occupied Yanzhou, the Dagan Army has blocked the direction of Cao Cao's development and growth. No matter how great Cao Cao's ability is, he will not be able to use it unless Cao Cao is determined to abandon Qingzhou's foundation, vigorously develop the navy, and then take a boat from Qingzhou to the present The desolate country of Izumo once again established a dynasty!
But this is basically impossible, unless there is another traverser who joins Cao Cao, he will no longer be limited to see the big man as the whole world!Otherwise, it is impossible for the natives of this era to have such an idea.

At the beginning of September, Dingtao fell, and the news of Yuan Shao's capture reached the Xiangyang court, and the officials were shocked.

The 80 allied forces couldn't defeat Lei Gong, and let Lei Gong occupy the entire Yanzhou. No one in the world can stop Lei Gong from taking the whole world, and with Lei Gong's hatred for them, they, the nobles, have to fight for survival. For a time, the whole Jiangnan was extremely restless.

When Taiwei Yang Biao heard that Yuan Shao was captured and the 12 troops were defeated in the first battle, he said sadly: "Lei Gong is really an unprecedented demon king. The Central Plains was occupied by Lei Gong, and Ben Chu was also captured. The great Han society is at stake."

Situ Wangyun asked: "There are still 8 troops in Changyi City. Can General Guan bring out these 8 elites? If too many elites are lost at one time, I am afraid that not only Yanzhou will be occupied by Lei Gong, Xuzhou, Yuzhou may also fall to the In Lei Gong's hands!

Situ Zhang Wen died of illness when Liu Bei just played this year, and then Wang Yun took the position!

Liu Bei said in a hoarse voice: "Impossible, the Dagan army has too many artillery, they blocked the waterway with artillery, and the 8 cavalry blocked the land road, now the [-] elite in Yunchang's hands are already unable to escape! Now we have to find a way to build a defense line in Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Sili, so that it is difficult for Lei Gong to take the opportunity to continue to expand the results of the battle!"

Then Liu Bei said firmly: "At the same time, we will cast a large number of cannons. Lei Gong's victory this time is that the number of cannons is more than ours. Thousands of cannons bombarded. No city of ours can stop such an attack!"

"And our Xiangyang City is even more dangerous. Lei Gong's artillery can be placed on the building boats. There are not too many rivers in the Central Plains, and it is difficult to use the building boats. Therefore, the building boats of the Dagan Army did not achieve much merit this time, but the Yangtze River But it is more than ten miles wide. Although we have built a huge navy, it is impossible to fight against the large ships equipped with artillery. We can bomb the walls of Xiangyang City from the Yangtze River, and without artillery we cannot resist the attack of the Dagan Army Navy at all!"

Civil and military officials at the imperial court thought of the artillery that defeated their hundreds of thousands of troops this time, and thought of the Dagan army sailing up the Yangtze River to attack Xiangyang City. This scene made them shudder. Nodding their heads, they spoke one after another asking the imperial court to cast more cannons!

Only Yang Biao said hesitantly: "Xuande, the imperial court has developed Jiangnan in the past few years, and it has been quite effective. The products in Jiangnan have begun to increase, and the copper coins in Jiangnan are no longer enough. There is even a situation where things are cheap and money is expensive. Now the imperial court wants a lot. Casting cannons costs hundreds of thousands of copper coins for one piece of artillery, hundreds of millions or even billions of copper coins for thousands of doors, and the prices in the south of the Yangtze River will be completely disrupted. Now that the imperial court has suffered heavy losses, it is time to recover. At that time, if there is another turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River, I'm afraid it will give Lei Gong an opportunity!"

But at this time, Wang Yun said firmly: "What economic issues are we still dealing with now? If there is no artillery, the world of the big man will no longer exist. These problems are the problems of Lei Gong. Now we can only suffer from the common people. Barter. When we eliminate Lei Gong, we can melt these cannons and use them to make copper coins!"

Other civil and military officials also agreed with Wang Yun's statement. The imperial court is almost gone. Who would care about the living conditions of the common people? It's not like the big man didn't barter!

But Liu Bei became worried about Yang Biao's words. The court also did not pay attention to the problem of Jizhou, so Lei Gong appeared. If they did not pay attention to the problem of Jiangnan, who knows if there will be a Lei Gong among the people!
But now that the big man has no artillery, there is really no way to defeat Lei Gong. If the big man no longer exists, these people are not the subjects of the big man. Does the court still need to care about their life and death?
common people?Court?For a while, Liu Beite had a headache!
After going to court, Liu Bei summoned his officials and told them about the issue of casting artillery and Jiangnan, and also told them about the situation in the court, and asked them to discuss a solution!
Yuan Ji thought for a while and said: "Without artillery, we would not be able to defeat Lei Gong, so no matter how difficult it is, we must forge artillery!"

Yuan Ji thought for a while and said: "The entire Jiangnan area is vast, occupying half of the world of the Han Dynasty. There must be a large number of mines under these mountains and land. We let go of the restrictions on mines, just like the early Han Dynasty Similarly, at that time, many big businessmen started their business in mines, and they could even mint copper coins, so it can be seen that the big men did not lack copper coins, but they just lacked the method to discover copper mines!"

Liu Bei nodded and approved of Yuan Ji's idea. Although the development of mining bans may easily lead to wealthy businessmen, but at this time, there is no more control!The big man must survive before he can think of other ways!

Jian Yong said curiously: "Lei Gong has cast thousands of cannons, but it seems that he has not heard that there is a crisis of copper coins in Hebei!"

At this time, Su Shuang, who was sitting at the end, smiled bitterly: "Because copper coins are no longer in circulation in Hebei, but banknotes are in circulation!"

(End of this chapter)