Chapter 655 Unified Jizhou

Apparently, Qin Qiong didn't like the Liangshan forces represented by Wu Yong, and revealed their courtship towards Qin Muchu and the framing of Lin Chong's wife.

Dian Wei said angrily: "It's good for him to surrender to Zhao Kuangyin. If they surrendered to us, I wouldn't do anything to my own people. Now they surrender to Zhao Kuangyin. I, Dian Wei, will cut off the head of that villain Wu Yong. flagon."

The rest of the generals were also filled with righteous indignation, cursing and talking about wanting Liangshan to look good.

Liu Bian waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, since Liangshan is a wall, and people from Qin, Mu, and Chu fell on both sides, I will naturally not let them go. The most urgent thing now is to make troubles. I wonder if the military master has a plan to break it?"

"Destroy the enemy? Why do you want to destroy it? Your Majesty just ignore it!" Guo Jia chuckled.

"Although the enemy army is weak and not a soldier, but there are [-] people, if you don't pay attention to it, it will inevitably lead to a disadvantageous situation. How can this be done?" Yang Zaixing stared.

Guo Jia laughed and said: "General Yang, don't worry, not to mention that there are thousands of cavalry from General Yang Yansi in Dangyin, and there are also young and strong defenders in every city in Hanoi. With their mob, what can they do?"

"Although that's the case, I have to guard against it!" Yang Zaixing shook his head and said.

"What do you think of the military adviser?" Liu Bian looked at Liu Bowen and asked.

Liu Bowen pondered for a while and said: "Zhao Guangyi's purpose is to besiege the city and fight for aid. He must be waiting for our army when our army is heading to the land of dangyin, and our army is going to rescue him. It is enough to last for more than a month, if our army divides up to rescue, then Zhao Kuangyin will definitely look for opportunities here, so we are bound to fall into a passive situation, it is better to turn passive into active!"

Liu Bian nodded after hearing this: "The military adviser is right. Although most of the enemy troops are composed of grassroots bandits, there are Chen Gong, Shi Wansui, Du Xue and others. Although attacking cities is not their strong point, they set traps to take the initiative and wait for me. If the army enters an ambush, nothing will go wrong. To save Dangyin, you must be passive, but you don't know how to turn passive into active?"

Liu Bowen looked at Guo Jia and said: "I have two strategies. Fengxiao said to ignore Yanzhou's reinforcements. It is actually the best strategy, but he didn't say it is comprehensive. Fengxiao, don't you think so?"

Guo Jia is a flamboyant and exaggerated person, and Liu Bian has many advisers, so he often does not make any effort, and occasionally makes a few suggestions, but he also directly says what to do.

Guo Jia laughed and said, "Since you know it well, then you should say it all!"

Liu Bowen smiled and said: "The worst strategy is to cut off the food road for reinforcements in Yanzhou, but they have carried a month's worth of food and grass, and they have to wait for a month before they run out of food and grass before going to the Yellow River to cut off the food road for soldiers and horses in Yanzhou. Come on, delaying time for too long is not the best policy!"

"Indeed, a month is enough for too many things to happen. A big battle in Longxi is imminent. If our army continues to procrastinate on the Jizhou battlefield, I'm afraid it will become more passive! What is the best strategy? Can it resolve our passive situation?" Liu Debate nodded and asked.

"The best policy is to turn passivity into initiative. Your Majesty will send a troop to Jizhou quietly, regardless of Yanzhou's reinforcements, and cooperate with Governor Xue Rengui to encircle Yan Liang's army. Now that Yuan Shao is dead, the troops in northern Hebei are in panic, and only two troops are needed. Double-teaming, a battle can be decided, and when the 11 soldiers of General Xue Rengui are combined, our army will have [-] elite troops, and we will not lose the slightest advantage in terms of strength against Yanzhou, and we can completely take the initiative!"

After hearing this, Liu Bian was overjoyed and said: "The military commander's plan is very fast! Zhao Guangyi's reinforcements are weak soldiers, and attacking cities is not a strong point, so our army doesn't care about it. We can send an elite team to set up northern Hebei first!"

The generals saw Liu Bian's plan to agree with Liu Bowen, and prepared to send troops to the north of Jibei. One by one, they stood up and asked for a fight, mainly led by Yue Fei and Chen Qingzhi.

After pondering for a while, Liu Bian decided to go out in person, mainly because he was really bored after staying in the camp in Yecheng for the past two months.Now there is only Yan Liang, a strong general in northern Hebei, and the counselors are no more than judges. Feng Ji and others, what are you afraid of?
"I decided to go north in person. Chen Qingzhi's white-robed army plus [-] elite infantry will go with me. In addition, Guo Jia, Cheng Yaojin, and Yang Miaozhen will go with me. The rest will stay in southern Hebei. After I leave, the affairs of the army will be shared by the military division and Yue Fei. Make a decision!" Liu Bian said loudly.

The generals didn't dissuade them at all, because Yan Liang's army is now in a mess, Liu Bian led the army to the north, and it was too late for them to escape, so how could they have the ability to attack Liu Bian?
All the generals took orders one after another, and the next day, Liu Bian went north to northern Hebei, preparing to join Xue Rengui's army to wipe out northern Hebei and completely unify Jizhou.

Jizhou is known as the first state of the Han Dynasty. It is located in a plain, without steep places, with a lot of people and many cities.Therefore, counties are also divided into many counties.

There are Wei Jun, Guangping, Yangping, Qinghe in the south of Hebei, Julu, Pingyuan, Zhao Guo, Anping in the middle of Hebei, and Hejian, Bohai, Zhongshan in the north of Hebei.

Now that Yan Liang is leading the army, because of the news of Yuan Shao's death, the army's morale is unstable and they have lost consecutive battles, and they have retreated to Xiaquyang, Julu County.Xia Quyang is also a strong city. Liu Bian sent Yue Fei to capture Julu City a few months ago, and Yan Liang sent troops to move supplies from various counties to Xia Quyang, preparing to resist Xue Rengui here.

There is no steepness, unable to build a defense line and can only garrison the city. Although it can resist for a long time, the disadvantage is that it is easy to be eaten away. Therefore, Xue Rengui, like Liu Bian, sent various troops to take Bohai, Hejian, Anping and other eastern parts of Jizhou. counties.

Now in Yan Liang's hands, there are only three counties in the northwest of Jizhou, namely Julu, Changshan, and Zhongshan, among which the seat of Julu was taken down by Liu Bian.

Yan Liang's retreat to this point actually had some deep meaning, because these three counties can not only go south to Yecheng directly, but also are very close to Taihang Mountain, and they can escape to Taihang Mountain by heading west for a hundred miles from Quyang.

Moreover, Zhang Yan is stationed in Taihang Mountain, which is actually Yan Liang's back road. The best strategy is to go south and join Zhao Kuangyin.
When Liu Bian led his troops northward, he went straight to Xia Quyang!

As for Yecheng, because Yecheng was besieged and the Han army sent cavalry to stop the scouts sent by Yecheng, the news that Zhao Guangyi had sent troops could not reach Yecheng for a long time.

Zhao Kuangyin was looking forward to Zhao Guangyi leading the army to come to help every day on the top of the city, but he didn't want to wait and wait for the reinforcements to join.Zhao Kuangyin was even more anxious when he found out that Liu Bian sent troops to the north. If Liu Bian pacified northern Hebei and joined Xue Rengui's army to go south, they would be in danger.

But Zhao Kuangyin didn't know that his good brother went to attack Dangyin in order to make meritorious deeds, so that Liu Bian took advantage of the loophole again.

Five days later, Liu Bian sent a large army to the city of Xiaquyang.Xue Rengui's army in the north got the news that two armies, one from the south and one from the north, surrounded Quyang with water.

In the camp outside the city in the south, Liu Bian said to the generals: "Xue Rengui sent people to report earlier. After several battles, Yan Liang's original 5 army only has [-] horses left, and the morale of the army is weak. Everyone is in danger. Wait." Is there any strategy to take down Xiaquyang without bloodshed?"

Chen Qingzhi murmured: "Your Majesty can go ahead and deceive him by saying that now that Zhao Kuangyin has been defeated and retreated, they are the only ones in Jizhou who can resist, let them put down their weapons and surrender, and promise that the past will not be blamed."

"If they surrender, I'm afraid they will surrender when Yuan Shao dies. Although Yuan Shao is incompetent, there are still people who are loyal to him or keep his morals. It may not be easy to feign surrender to them!" Guo Jia shook his head and said.

"Even if Yan Liang, Shen Pei and others don't intend to surrender, what about the soldiers? They don't want to die. Your Majesty will follow the law. Even if you can't take Yecheng without bloodshed, it will still demoralize them!"

Liu Bian agreed: "Ziyun is right. It would be good if we can't take down Quyang and make them lose their morale! All the generals will follow me out of the city to have a try!"

The crowd surrounded Liu Bian and came to the city, Liu Bian hurried forward and said loudly: "Where is Yan Liang, come out and meet!"

Yan Liang got the news and led Han Meng, Shen Pei, Feng Ji, Guo Tu, Xin Ping and others to the top of the city.

"Yan Liang is here again, Xia Quyang is indestructible, if you have the ability, come to the city! I, Yan Liang, will never be captured!" Yan Liang said the words to death, with a look of determination on his face.

Liu Bian said loudly: "Yan Liang, I think you are a fierce general, and you have the heart to subdue you. Don't be ungrateful. Now that Zhao Kuangyin's army has retreated to Yanzhou, you are the only one resisting in the whole Jizhou. The Yuan family has been destroyed. You yourself want to keep the chastity, but your soldiers don't want to! Do you want to sacrifice the lives of your brothers who have been with you for several years just because of Yuan Shao?"

"Hmph, you killed my sons and angered me, my lord. I have a mortal hatred with you. If you want me, Yan Liang, to surrender, don't even think about it!" Yan Liang said, turned and left the city.

"Unexpectedly, this Yan Liang is still a bloody man, and he really wants to live and die with Xia Quyang!" Qin Qiong said with a sigh.

"Not necessarily. If he really planned to keep the festival for Yuan Shao, he would not have retreated to Xiaquyang. To the west of Xiaquyang is Taihang Mountain, and to the south, he can reach Yecheng unimpeded. Firstly, he wanted to seek refuge with Zhao Kuangyin, and secondly, he planned to escape. Entering Montenegro. He doesn't want to die, but he also doesn't want to seek refuge with His Majesty!" Guo Jia analyzed.

"Now it seems that they are planning to break out of the siege these few days, and Xue Rengui is ordered to take strict precautions and not run away from Yan Liang!" Liu Bian ordered.

Liu Bian brought nearly [-] soldiers and horses, and Xue Rengui had [-] soldiers and horses, which made a total of [-] soldiers and horses.Among them, soldiers and horses were divided equally, with more than [-] people in each gate. Xue Rengui guarded the north gate, Wu Yunzhao, Zhang Shigui guarded the west gate, Chen Qingzhi, Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong guarded the east gate, and Liu Bian, Yang Miaozhen, Cheng Yaojin and others guarded the south gate.

The [-] troops surrounded Quyang, and Yan Liang's remark that he intended to fight to the death without retreat caused panic among the soldiers in the city.

That night, all the people in the city will gather together with a group of counselors.

Guo Tu looked at Yan Liang and said, "The general retreated here, obviously leaving a way out. Now that Zhao Kuangyin is retreating, is it possible that you really want to fight Liu Bian to the death?"

Hearing Guo Tu's meaning, everyone knew that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and wanted to surrender under the general trend.Yan Liang looked cold, but he didn't intend to do anything to Guo Tu. He didn't want to die, but he didn't want to surrender to Liu Bian. He also wanted to survive, and he didn't intend to surrender to Guo Tu.

"I want to break out of the city tomorrow, what should you do?" Yan Liang sighed, looked at the crowd and said.

(End of this chapter)

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