I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 511, no military spirit

April 197th in the second year of Jian'an (AD [-])!
Zhang Baiqi, governor of Xiliang, led 10 Xiliang troops into two groups, attacking Long County and Qi County in Longxi County respectively!The [-] defenders in the two places opened their doors and surrendered after only resisting for a day!The Guanzhong portal is completely opened!

Then the two armies attacked the city all the way, and the terrain was like a broken bamboo. Among them, the army on the right conquered Chencang in three days and Mei County in five days, and the army on the left also conquered Yongshou County and Qian County all the way.
On the way, the [-] defenders did not play any role. Instead of trying to resist the Dagan army, they directly killed the officers who told them to resist, hung up the white flag, and opened the city gate to join the Dagan army.

It can be said that Zhang Baiqi took down 3 Guan Zhongjun without encountering any war along the way!Zhang Baiqi couldn't believe that this march and battle went smoothly.

Facing the Central Army of the big Han back then, even though they had more than ten times the advantage, they were still beaten most of the time. Now, although they are not more than ten times less than the Xiliang Army, the difference in combat effectiveness is worse than that of the Yellow Turban Army and the Xiliang Army. The central army of the big Han is even worse, at least they still dare to fight, but now the Guanzhong army has no fighting spirit at all, and the only thought when seeing their flag is to surrender.

Zhang Baiqi couldn't help sighing: "This is really a good reincarnation!"

Li Ru, who was following him, sneered and said, "Yuan Tan has already ruined his Yuan family's foundation. He thought that only his own army, food and grass would be able to resist our big army. He never thought that the soldiers are also ordinary How could the soldiers be loyal to him now that Sili is outraged by others! Do these soldiers want Yuan Tan to continue occupying Sili and starve his family to death!"

Zhang Baiqi thought that he had won food and Jing Cong on the way, and sighed: "No one is a fool. Yuan Tan's soldiers also know that we can save their families only by occupying Sili. Soldiers don't want to fight anymore!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Bai rode on and asked, "Is there enough food and grass for our army? The people in counties and counties along the way must be fed by us, but don't let these people survive Yuan Tan with great difficulty, but starve to death in our hands!"

Li Ru sneered and said: "Don't worry, Commander. Although I have insufficient food in Xiliang, there is plenty of food in Guanzhong. I have asked people to fetch it. I dare not say how much. I guarantee that as long as the people who rely on us can get a year's ration !"

In a dock not far from Zhang Baiqi and the others!
Niu Fu led tens of thousands of people to completely surround the Wubao, and asked the people to dig a trench more than ten feet deep and three feet wide, trapping the people in the Wubao to death!
Niu Fu led his personal guards and said loudly: "Everyone, dig quickly, don't let these bastards escape, whether everyone can survive this year depends entirely on the grain in Wubao!"

At this time, a young man shouted loudly: "The Wubao of the Zuo family has hundreds of thousands of shi of grain, but they would rather the grain get moldy than lend us to live on, he won't let us live, we want them to die now! "

When Niu Fu heard this, he laughed loudly and said, "The people from the Zuo family can give it to you. We will take half of the food and money for the army, and the rest will be yours!"

"Thank you, sir!" The crowd cheered, they are all locals and naturally know how rich the Zuo family is, they claim to own half of the city, and half of the old storehouses!

Niu Fu continued: "Hurry up, everyone, there is not only one Wubao in the Zuo family in Guanzhong, we will find the next one after conquering the Zuo family's Wubao, if we are too late, the Wubao may be taken by someone else!"

When everyone heard this, they accelerated the speed of excavation, and the people from the Zuo family also wanted to break out with their guards, but they were forced back by the soldiers led by Niu Fu with crossbow arrows, but Wubao was completely trapped. Use the dynamite pack!

"Boom!" Wubao was blown out a huge gap, and the people rushed into Wubao with cheers!

Seeing this, Niu Fu laughed happily and said, "President Guo, we can avenge you again, and this time we won't let any of our enemies go!"

In this way, the auxiliary soldiers of the Dagan Army led the people in the entire Guanzhong to pry open the tortoise shells in the Guanzhong one by one, and then Zhang Baiqi found that the food and grass on his journey not only did not decrease, but continued to increase!

After receiving the food support, Zhang Baiqi laughed happily and said, "The Guanzhong army can't help but fight. At this speed, we may not be able to reach Chang'an City in a month! If we knew it would be like this, we and the ruling party don't need to pay so much attention to it." The defenders of Sili should mobilize their main force to deal with Yuan Tan in Yuzhou!"

Li Ru smiled and said: "It's not impossible for the commander-in-chief to completely wipe out Yuan Tan at once. Judging from the current situation, the army in Guanzhong is already lifeless. Even if there is an army of 3 in Chang'an City, it will be difficult to stop us." Zhang He, the defender of Chang'an City, must have understood this, so we simply recruited Zhang He, so that it would take less than half a month to take all of Guanzhong, and the ruling party can mobilize the troops to attack Sili to attack Yuzhou!"

Zhang Baiqi looked at Li Ru and said, "I remember that you have stayed in Sili for several years. If there is any way to make Zhang He surrender, then use it. Zhang He really sacrificed Chang'an City, and I will report your contribution!"

Li Rudao: "Subordinate, find someone to contact Zhang Xi!"

In order to avenge Dong Zhuo, Li Ru has been paying attention to the situation of Sili. The spies sent to Guanzhong these years are even more ignorant!But now that Yuan Tan was defeated like a mountain, those who didn't want to be buried with the Yuan family naturally had to find ways to find a relationship to survive, which made the spies sent by Li Ru even more comfortable!
Soon Li Ru contacted Zhang Xi, asking him to sacrifice Chang'an City to save his life!

Zhang He is a little moved. He didn't want to be buried with Yuan Shao in history, and he doesn't want to be buried with Yuan Tan even more now. It's just that the conditions for the big army are too bad. He doesn't want to fight for decades, lose everything once and become an ordinary person again. People, he wants to use the [-] soldiers in his hands as bargaining chips to get a good deal!After all, the city he donated is Chang'an City, the capital of your big man, which is of great significance!
But Li Ru lost his patience.He solemnly warned Zhang Yun that if he did not decide to dedicate his sacrifice to the city of Chang'an when their army arrived, the big army would capture Chang'an City, and he would only be a prisoner and sent to an overseas island to dig for guano stones. , you are going to accompany Yuan Shao and Gao Lan!

Zhang Xi turned a deaf ear to Li Ru's threats. He had 50 elites, [-] cannons, and hundreds of flying thunder cannons in his hands. There was enough food and grass for a year's worth of troops in Chang'an City. If he resisted desperately, he would not It is said that Chang'an City can be defended, but it can still be done for half a year!
These alone are of immeasurable value, but Daganjun doesn't want to promise anything, he just wants to annex the entire Chang'an city of these ordnance, even if he agrees, his subordinates can't agree!

They can surrender. Lei Gong will either let them continue to join the army, or convert the food, grass, weapons and equipment in Chang'an City into money and give them to them. Otherwise, there will be no discussion, and everyone will fight according to their own abilities.

Li Ru had no choice but to tell Zhang Baiqi the terms he had negotiated with Zhang He and the others!
Zhang Baiqi said: "Zhang He and the others are not allowed to join the army. Our main army must maintain the purity of the army. We generally will not accept big men like Zhang He who help the big Han princes to do evil!"

"It's not enough for Zhang Yun and the others to say that it is unacceptable to convert the weapons, food and salaries of Chang'an City into money and hand them over to them! You can ask the ruling party!"

Li Rudao: "Chang'an has Yuan Tan's largest arsenal and granary. These grains and weapons may add up to more than one billion yuan. This is an incomparably rich figure. Instead of giving Zhang He and the others so much money, we might as well Conquering Chang'an City with a large army, anyway, with the morale of Yuan Tan's soldiers now, Zhang Yun and the others can't resist for a few days!"

Zhang Baiqi said with a smile: "The ruler said a word to us, and now I tell you that it is something that can be solved with money. It is not a problem at all. I am not short of money for my hard work!"

Li Ru was silent and speechless, yes!Most of the problems in this world are caused by money. Back then, the big man would not have cruelly oppressed the people if he hadn’t lacked money, so that people rebel every year in the world, and finally even Zhang Jiao appeared.

When the Prime Minister of the State was in charge of the power of the great man, money was the most worrying thing. Even because of money, the nobles of the Kanto and the nobles of the Kansai fell out.

And if there is a God of Wealth in this world, Lei Gong must be the God of Wealth. He seems to have never worried about money, and only a leader like Lei Gong can cultivate such subordinates who don't even care about billions of dollars. Emperor Ling cared very much about millions of dollars, and felt that he was losing money if he sold an official for less money!
Zhang Bai rode a flying pigeon to pass the letter to Taiyuan County. Xu Wei saw Zhang Baiqi's letter and said with a smile: "You can use the enemy's money to buy the enemy's city. This is a business that guarantees no loss. Why not do it!"

Wang Ge and Jia Xu looked curious, Xu Wei showed them the letter!
Jia Xu was surprised and said: "Zhang He was also with Huangfusong in the past, and it is said that he was very praised by Huangfusong, saying that he was a famous general, but now he has become so greedy for money, even betraying his lord! "

Wang Ge said disdainfully: "What kind of master is Yuan Tan? Look at what he has done over the past year. He is completely a prodigal son. If Zhang He really had the ability, he would not recognize Yuan Tan as the master. Now we will fight The army doesn't take him in either, it's normal for him to fight for some interests for himself and his subordinates now!"

Xu Weidao: "Send a message to Zhang Baiqi and ask him to accept Zhang Xi's conditions, but the price of these materials must be calculated according to our Dagan. Ask Zhang He if he wants our Dagan banknotes, or gold and silver!"

Then Xu Wei asked Wang Ge, "Now that Zhang Baiqi is invincible in Guanzhong, when will we be able to break through Hedong?"

Wang Ge said distressedly: "Most of the Hedong Army are private soldiers of powerful families. They block our way like lunatics. Even if we have artillery, it will take some time to invade Hedong County, but as long as the passage is opened, The defenders of Hedong County are lambs waiting to be slaughtered!"

Inside and outside the mountains and rivers of Bingzhou, it is difficult for the big Han to conquer Taiyuan County from Hedong, but it is also difficult for the army from Taiyuan County to conquer Hedong County. Tens of thousands of private soldiers blocked a canyon, making it difficult for soldiers from Taiyuan County to invade Hedong County!
Xu Wei said at this time: "Now the people in Hedong County are miserable, and the situation in Hedong County can be described as boiling against the sky. We can arrange some elites to enter Hedong County and lead the people to rebel against the elites, so that Hedong County can be conquered from the inside. Already!"

Wang Ge said: "I will follow the ruling method!"

While Zhang He was discussing surrender with his subordinates, Feng Ji hurried to Chang'an and brought Yuan Tan's letter!

Yuan Tan said in the letter that the Han Dynasty will form the Kwantung Allied Forces again, and the general Liu Bei has sent 5 troops to support them. Yuan Tan asked Zhang He to stick to Chang'an City for half a year to buy time for the Han Allied Forces to concentrate their forces to support them!And as long as Zhang Xi can persist for half a year, he will definitely recommend him to the court to become a lieutenant of the great man!
After listening to Feng Ji's words, Zhang He smiled wryly and said, "General Cheqi asked us to persist for half a year, it is impossible to do it, let alone half a year, it is difficult for us to persist even for half a month!"

Feng Ji was surprised and said: "How is this possible? No matter how powerful the Dagan army is, this is Guanzhong, a golden city thousands of miles away. Back then, the princes of the six countries with millions of troops couldn't come in. Why can't we hold on for half a year!"

But Zhang Yun said: "On April [-]th this year, the Xiliang army began to attack Guanzhong, but they conquered Longxi in one day, and then it was even more overwhelming. They fought all the way to Wugong County. At most three days, the Xiliang army will come to Chang'an." Under the city!"

Feng Ji couldn't believe it and said: "It's only been a few days, and the average army's marching speed is not so fast, isn't it true that there are no soldiers on the front line to resist the attack of the big army!"

Zhang He said helplessly: "How could there be no soldiers? Our army has already captured [-] soldiers by the Dagan Army!"

"The [-]-strong army, with the advantage of the geographical advantage, was defeated again and again. It did not create any obstacles for the large-scale army. How did you train your soldiers, and how did you defend the city! Even [-] pigs defended the city! City, it is impossible for the big army to catch them all in half a month!" Feng Ji said angrily!

At this time, Zhang He's subordinates mocked: "It's not a disaster caused by you big men. The banknotes have wiped out all the family property we have accumulated for decades, and the soldiers can't even support their own families. How can they fight with peace of mind? Now In the situation in Guanzhong, when the big army came in, the families of the soldiers could still get relief from Lei Gong, but if they helped us defend the city, the families of these soldiers would starve to death because of their actions. Tell me what the soldiers will choose ?”

"If you dare to go up to the Chang'an city wall and say that you will resolutely resist Lei Gong's attack on Guanzhong, you will be beaten to death by the soldiers on the city wall!"

(End of this chapter)