Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 541 535. The whole territory fell
At this point, Wang Ji had no other options. The Han army had already taken advantage of the situation, and Wang Ji and Xu Yi were like two little ants in the face of the current situation, and they would be blown away by the storm and never found again.

Deng Ai, Xu Sheng, together with surrendered generals from Eastern Wu such as Lu Dai, led an army of 50,000 to besiege Wang Ji and Xu Yi. In just six days, the two men and their 20,000-strong army were completely wiped out.

Xu Yi is the son of Xu Chu, and his father is a loyal man of Cao Wei, famous throughout the world. Now Xu Yi naturally cannot bring disgrace to his father's reputation and save his life.

Xu Yi led more than a hundred fearless soldiers under his command to charge into the Han army. He was hit by more than ten arrows and suffered more than twenty wounds. He killed the Han soldiers like a madman and refused to fall. In the end, Xu Yi was killed by Xu Sheng, Lu Dai, and Quan Cong. The battle stopped only after Xu Yi's head was cut off.

Wang Ji was defeated and captured, but he refused to surrender. There was nothing they could do but take him to the Tianlao in Jianye to let him eat prison food for a few days and think about his life.

The fall of Guangling City meant that the Han army would no longer have any obstacles on its way north.

The policy pursued by Guangling was to defend against the enemy on the Yangtze River with an iron barrel defense. On the other hand, as long as the defense of Jiangbei was broken, there would be no effective resistance.

The Han army was divided into two groups. One group was led by He Qi, He Da and his son, and Lü Dai, who led 20,000 troops to attack the heartland of Xuzhou. Donghai County was still controlled by Deng Ai's several thousand troops, so there was no big problem along the way, just recovering the counties.

On the other hand, Deng Ai and generals including Xu Sheng headed west, preparing to capture Jiujiang first, and then attack Shouchun from Jiujiang, cutting off Cao Xiu's retreat and joining forces with Ding Feng and others in Huainan.

Naturally, the news of the great victory in Guangling soon spread back to Jianye City. Li Yan was so delighted to hear the news of the recovery of Guangling and the great victory of the Han army that he couldn't stop smiling. He toasted a glass of wine to the white-haired old man opposite him who looked like an immortal.

"Military Advisor Xu, the generals under the Grand Commander are really capable. They used such a clever strategy to capture Guangling. I admire them."

The person sitting opposite Li Yan was naturally Xu Shu. Feng Xi thought again and again. First, he was the commander of the Jingzhou Army himself. Even if Sima Yi faced him, Feng Xi was confident that he would not be at a disadvantage. Although Feng Xi's mind might not be as good as those great military strategists, his ability to overturn the table was not comparable to theirs.

For example, if these military strategists and counselors can create maze-like strategies, Feng Xi's ability to walk through a maze may be only slightly better than that of ordinary people, and even inferior to some of the top counselors. However, he has the means to directly blow up the walls of the maze, or fly into the air to leave the maze, which is where the current counselors cannot catch up with him.

In addition, Xu Shu is now old. Although he says that he has the courage of Lian Po, Feng Xi still can't bear to let Xu Shu, with a white beard, go to the battlefield to work hard.

So in the end Feng Xi let him stay in Yangzhou to assist Li Yan in conquering the Huainan area, which could be regarded as making up for the lack of a commander-in-chief and military advisor in the Huainan area.

However, Xu Shu did not really contribute much this time. He basically just made sure that nothing would happen to the Yangzhou army. However, when Deng Ai mobilized the Wei army in Guangling, Xu Shu, as the military advisor and general of Jingzhou, was well aware of Feng Xi's arrangements.

When he saw the unusual movements of the enemy troops in Guangling, he immediately realized that this matter was probably related to Deng Ai. He made a prompt decision and ordered Xu Sheng to cross the Yangtze River and successfully attack Guangling County.

The situation of the Han army in Huainan is very good now. Originally, after the demise of Wu, the biggest concern of Wei was Jingzhou, followed by Guanzhong, so the treatment given to Cao Xiu was the worst among the three governors, and the quality of the soldiers could not be completely compared with Guanzhong and Wancheng. Originally, because the Wei army was not good at water battles, and there were many water networks in Huainan, it was difficult for war horses to move, and there were also many inconveniences for infantry to fight, so Wei simply pursued the strategy of guarding important towns and blocking water networks. However, this trick was okay against the equally biased Eastern Wu, but now it is naturally a bit powerless against the Han army.

This feeling is like a force that is used to fighting security battles suddenly facing off against a regular army and is completely unable to adapt to the opponent's tactics.

Now Cao Xiu was still in a stalemate with the Han army in Hefei, and as a result, Guangling collapsed. There is probably no need to say more about the outcome.

Deng Ai had successfully landed, so there was no need to say more about Fu Rong who landed in Bohai. While Deng Ai was still pretending to be Jiang Ji and giving orders, Fu Rong led his troops to land in Bohai County. In just a few days, he captured Bohai County, Hejian County and the Qingzhou area north of the Yellow River.

Even the officials of Xuzhou could not foresee the arrival of the Han army, let alone Jizhou. Even for the people of Jizhou, the words "Han army" were a fantasy.

After all, no matter how you look at it, by the time the Han army can reach Jizhou, Luoyang and Xudu will have fallen, and the defeat or destruction of Wei will have nothing to do with them.

Therefore, Fu Rong's arrival made all the officials in Jizhou a little overwhelmed, but fortunately, Fu Rong was a sincere and honest person. Feng Xi told him to appease all places and said that as long as they were willing to cooperate with the Han army, they would not be held accountable. Therefore, the officials in Jizhou cooperated with the arrival of the Han army.

When Hebei learned that the Han army had arrived, it once again launched a riot against Wei, regardless of how the Han army came.

However, at this time, the State of Wei was vulnerable on all sides, and it was unknown whether it had the ability to suppress the rebellion of the Tuntian people again.

After Feng Xi's instructions, Fu Rong also knew that Hebei had been suffering from heavy taxes for a long time, so Fu Rong did not need to do anything else. He just needed to send people to publicize the current tax rate of the Han Dynasty, and naturally there would be people who were interested in responding to the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Nan personally led a fleet to patrol the Yellow River and block the Wei army's communication between the north and the south.

As a result, the southeastern part of Qingzhou and the southeastern part of Jizhou all fell into the control of the Han army. The core areas of Cao Wei were still in Sili and the Central Plains, and these peripheral areas were captured by the Han army in large areas.

More than a month after the Northern Expedition officially began, the Han army successfully invaded Liangzhou, Huainan, Xuzhou, and Jizhou. The territory of Wei State shrank by two or three tenths in an instant. In addition, the two major defeats in Huainan and Wancheng resulted in a serious shortage of Wei Army's mobile forces. At this moment, Wei State only had the power to defend.

Cao Li was in Luoyang, and reports of the loss of various places came in one after another. He was completely numb. He had tried his best to drive Cao Rui away, only to be defeated by the Han army and be infamous for eternity?
"Guangling, why did Guangling fall again?! Chen Qun, didn't you say that Guangling was an important town with a large army defending it since Emperor Wu, and it would never fall? As a result, the news of the defeat in Wancheng came, and Guangling was also lost. The Han army was able to march unimpeded and headed straight for Xuzhou and Yanzhou. What should we do now, Great Wei!"

Cao Li was almost going crazy now, so he didn't care whether Chen Qun was an important official or not, and he scolded Chen Qun. After all, if he couldn't solve the Northern Expedition of the Han army, his Cao family would probably be wiped out, so why would he care about Chen Qun's face?

(End of this chapter)