Chapter 492 Cao Jun successfully occupied the four cities
Zhuge Liang's resolute statement made Liu Bei and others accept Zhuge Liang's emergency plan: take retreat as progress, exchange space for the time to prepare for a counterattack... If others say so, they will definitely be strongly opposed by Liu Bei himself, not to mention those brave generals.
For several days in a row, Liu Bei's side did not lead the general out of the city to fight against the provocation of Cao's generals. The battlefield of Fufeng County is the same as that of Runan. In the past few months of stalemate, the two sides have been fighting one-on-one between fierce generals and have not launched a large-scale position battle at all. Both sides are afraid of throwing rats. Dogs are afraid of biting wolves. They are afraid that the result of a fierce battle will damage the lives of soldiers for no reason. Therefore, neither of the two sides has sent their secretly trained elite troops to the battlefield. Both sides have clear feelings: under Liu Bei, there is a gossip army specially trained by Zhuge Liang, and under Cao Cao, there is a five-line army specially trained by Sima Yi.
Five days later, Zhang Liao, the general of Cao, suddenly saw that the number of defenders standing on the wall of Fufeng County decreased a lot: it turned out that there was a soldier standing behind every arrow pile on the wall, but now there is a soldier standing behind every three arrow piles... What does this situation mean?!
Just as Zhang Liao felt puzzled, there was a drum beat behind him that heralded the siege. Zhang Liao turned his face and looked back. He saw that the infantry phalanx, which could not see the head at a glance, was gushing out of the Cao army camp like a tide. Four or five generals were carrying the ladder, and more than a dozen soldiers were pushing the cloud cart... Even if they were very fast, they still maintained a neat team.
Seeing this, Zhang Liao, regardless of the enemy's situation, he obeyed the command of the drum. He waved the Fang Tianhua halberd forward with one hand and led 10,000 iron cavalry to the wall thousands of meters away.
Two hundred meters away from the moat suspension bridge, Zhang Liao was on a fast-running war horse, bowed and arrows, and shot two carved arrows at the same time. In the blink of an eye, he broke the rope of the suspension bridge, and the dozens of meters long suspension bridge fell on the surface of the moat. In the dust and smoke, Zhang Liao rushed by like lightning.
At four or five hundred meters away from the gate, the defenders on the city wall were not ready to attack the enemy, but left the city wall calmly and quickly... This move made Zhang Liao understand one thing: Liu Bei was ready to abandon the city.
Zhang Liao rushed under the city wall without hindrance all the way. He knew that when the wall imprisoned his strength, he could not break open the heavy gate alone. He didn't naive to think about this.
He stood quietly under the gate. In front of him was the silent and closed gate, and behind him was an overwhelming offensive team. In the front, he didn't attack the target, but he couldn't do nothing. Zhang Liaofei attached himself to the wall, used gecko skills, and quickly climbed up the cold wall. Some agile iron cavalry covered the arrow stacks with extended horse poles, and then climbed the wall with the help of thick ropes.
The reaction of Zhang Liao and others was greatly appreciated by Cao Cao, who was on the high platform of the Cao army camp. In the attention of Cao Cao and Sima Yi, the 100,000 siege troops of Cao's army had not yet reached the gate, and Zhang Liao had led the soldiers to open the thick gate from inside.
At this time, Cao Cao and Sima Yi looked at each other and smiled: A few days ago, Sima Yi judged that Liu Bei's side did not send generals to fight, which showed that Liu Bei's side was ready to give up Fufeng County...
The facts in front of him have been expected by Sima Yi. Under the protection of Huzhi Xu Zhu, Cao Cao, Sima Yi and others walked down the earthy platform and rode straight to the city.
Cao's soldiers and soldiers who occupied the city shouted in unison at Cao Cao and others who came slowly on the towering wall, while Cao Cao waved gently to the soldiers with a smile.
After the bloody occupation of Fufeng County, Cao Cao was not carried away by the unexpected victory. According to the principle of speed, he sent another 200,000 troops to attack Meicheng and Chencang respectively. These two cities are also empty. After Cao's army successfully occupied the city, they appeased the people according to Cao Cao's order.
After the two cities were slightly renovated, Xu Huang and Zhang Liao led troops to attack the military town of Tianshui City, and Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ju led troops to attack Pingyang Pass. As a result, Xu Huang and Zhang Liao easily occupied Tianshui City again, and Zhang Xiu and Zhang Ju were hit hard when they attacked Pingyang Pass! Zhang Xiu and Zhang Jian were seriously injured by Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong respectively!
After four cities, Cao Cao's military strength was invisibly scattered. In order to consolidate the fruits of the victory, Cao Cao's side can only give up Pingyang Pass, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. At the same time, Cao Cao can only look from afar and feast his eyes.
Of course, the high-level role of Cao Cao's side also knows the strategy of Liu Bei's side at this time: it is to take retreat as progress, regardless of the gains and losses of one city and one pool, and consume Cao Cao's military strength with space. If Cao Cao concentrates his forces on Pingyang Pass or Wuzhangyuan at this time, the city he gets will defend the void, and Liu Bei's side will definitely take it back.
In the face of the reality that the fish and the bear's paw cannot be both, Cao Cao's side can only temporarily give up the attack on Liu Bei's side. Cao Cao's side began to consolidate the fruits of victory: Xu Huangshou led 50,000 Cao soldiers to guard Tianshui City. Due to the prohibition, he led 40,000 Cao's army to garrison Chencang, and Lejin led 30,000 generals to guard Meicheng. Xiahou Yuan of Wu Shuangquan led 50,000 elite soldiers to guard Fufeng County, while Daxiahou, who was brave with ghosts and gods, led 100,000 soldiers to station in Chang'an City. The new super fierce general Cao Chun and the injured Zhang Xiu are responsible for the safety of the northern city and deal with the invasion of Xiliang fierce general Ma Chao at any time.
After Cao Cao arranged the military deployment, he led the remaining 20 troops back to Luoyang City, Kyoto. So far, Cao Cao's Western Expedition has come to an end with a significant victory. Even if Cao Cao did not occupy Hanzhong County as he wished.
In the face of Cao Cao's deployment of troops, Liu Bei's side also responded calmly: Zhao Yun led 10,000 soldiers to guard Wuzhangyuan to prevent Cao's army from attacking from the waterway of Fufeng County and attacking from Meicheng land; Huang Zhong led thousands of soldiers to guard Pingyang Pass, in case Cao's army suddenly launched an attack from Meicheng and Chencang, led by Liao Hua. Lead 10,000 elite soldiers to guard Mianzhu Pass to prevent Cao's army from attacking from Tianshui City.
Liu Bei's side guarded Wuzhangyuan, Pingyang Pass and Mianzhu Pass to ensure that Hanzhong County was foolproof. After actually occupying Hanzhong County, Liu Bei's side knew how dangerous the geographical location of Hanzhong County was. If Hanzhong County is lost, Liu Bei's side will not be able to deal with the invasion of Cao's army at all.
If relying on Hanzhong County, in time, Liu Bei's side can completely attack Tianshui City in the west and the west; Chencang in the north and Fufeng County in the northeast; it can reach Weixing County in three days from the waterway. If the troops gather in Weixing County, Liu Bei's party can completely launch an attack on Chang'an City. War!
After Liu Bei learned that Cao Cao led the army to retreat, he personally led Yan Yan and Zhang Ren, the fierce generals of Yizhou, to capture Nanxiang City all the way. Chenggu City, Shangyong City... Finally, in the snowy winter, he led his troops to attack Weixing County with lightning and took it down in one fell swoop!
In the spring, the Marquis of Daxia led his troops to defeat Liu Bei's army and recaptured Weixing County. When the Marquis of Daxia led his troops back to Chang'an City, Liu Bei led his troops to re-occupy Weixing County... In this way, there was no war in other battlefields where the two sides confronted, and in Weixing County, the two sides launched a protracted tug war.
In the tug-of-war in Weixing County, there were not many troops invested by both sides: but Daxiahou was afraid that Liu Bei would gather heavy troops again with the intention of attacking Chang'an City, and Liu Bei was also afraid that Cao's army would gather here, and then the soldiers went south... Because of this profound reason, neither side would let the other party occupy Weixing County at ease.
Although the military disasters in Weixing County continue, his people's hearts are towards Liu Bei: When Liu Bei withdrew from the city for the first time, he advised the people to leave with him. As a result, only a few people, were still poor people without a cone. They followed Liu Bei to leave his hometown... After the Marquis of Daxia re-occupied the city, because of Daxia Hou Zhi's army was so lax that the army harassed the people. Therefore, when Liu Bei occupied the city for the second time and faced the attack of the Marquis of Daxia, when he once again asked the people to migrate, most of the people followed Liu Bei out of the city and migrated to other counties in Yizhou.
In the end, Weixing County became an empty city. It's such an empty city. Both sides compete as treasures and don't give up to each other!
Finally, Liu Bei handed Shangyong City over to Zhang Ren and Yan Yan, and he returned to Chengdu. Under Zhuge Liang's administration, he formulated and implemented a number of decrees and policies to appease the ordinary people: the government office increased revenue and expenditure, open source and reduce expenditure; the drastic reform, weakened the privileges of the rich clans in various places, and reduced the taxation of the people; the vigorous and vigorous bad habits of governing the officialdom, rather than to lack! ... Degrading talents from all levels, promoting talents from all levels, and then using them properly; implementing the military merit system, as long as a family is a soldier, it will be exempted from corvée and tax; if I get military achievements in the army, I will not only get preferential promotion, but also give preferential treatment to my family... < /P>
At the beginning, the clans of the rich families in some places did not buy Zhuge Liang's decrees, but immediately followed by the ruthless blow of Zhuge Liang, which made these rich families a cicada and did not dare to offend Zhuge Liang's majesty.
Under the strong leadership of Zhuge Liang, Jingzhou and Yizhou began to be abandoned, and the situation began to flourish. Zhuge Liang is really busy: while training gossip soldiers, he has to deal with big and small government affairs... Day and night, he forgets to eat and sleep.
Because Zhuge Liang is too capable, Uncle Liu has no better choice but to act as a shopkeeper. Recently, in order to strengthen contact with the local government, Liu Bei accepted the in-laws proposed by the local gentry and four concubines. Therefore, Liu Bei discussed academic issues with the four concubines as soon as he was free... Liu Bei was very busy communicating academic issues with the four concubines! But there is another person who is busier than him: Liu Chan, Liu Bei's only son. Liu Chan is only more than ten years old at this time, but he is born with divine power and especially likes to stay with women.
He dared not be interested in anyone who teaches her martial arts. He is only interested in women: Liu Bei is a little busy dealing with four women, but Liu Chan has no problem dealing with ten women at a time!
Liu Bei is very dissatisfied with his son Liu Chan's value orientation. But he can't effectively stop Liu Chan's chaotic behavior. Sometimes Liu Bei doubts that Liu Chan is his own... But because Liu Chan looks like his mother, others, including Liu Bei, can't tell from his appearance that Liu Chan is his own seed!
Sometimes, when Liu Chan is angry, his expression is very similar to that of a person... That is the person Liu Bei doesn't want to recall: Wenhou Lv Bu! However, Lv Bu is tall and big, and Liu Bei is only as tall as Lv Bu's shoulder socket; and Liu Chan is only a little taller than Liu Bei.