Among the four options given, Ge Zhaodu chose to cut off taxes. As a separatist prefect and a local king, after all, his relationship with Dong Zhuojun was so bad, so he should not expect to compete for the dominance of Chang'an.
But Ge Zhaodu did not expect that when he gave up the opportunity to take control of Chang'an, Li Jue refused to give up on him. After the news of Wuwei's separatist regime reached Chang'an, Li Jue actually chose to raise troops to attack.
From the console, we can see the weight of various factors on Li Jue when he made this decision. The main factor that stimulated Li Jue to attack Wuwei was greed.
It is true that Wuwei was not rich originally, but Ge Zhaodu used the console to modify it into the Kingdom of Abundance, causing Li Jue, who was greedy, to covet it.
In fact, Dong Zhuo was also greedy for this place when he was still alive, but counselors such as Li Ru and Jia Xu were still playing a role and focused on opening up the pass, which reduced the weight of sending troops. But now no one can stop Li Jue.
Then the strategy is still the same as before, setting up an ambush on the official road that must pass through the Jiuqu Yellow River. With Ge Zhao, a god general who commands hundreds of troops, setting up an ambush circle, Li Jue, a fool, can't see through it at all, and he will fall into the ambush. After that, almost the entire army was wiped out and fled.
Li Jue's defeated army directly caused the morale of the army behind him to plummet and reduce the distance. Ge Zhao took advantage of the victory to pursue and crush him all the way, and finally directly invaded Anding.
After Wuwei was captured by Ge Zhao, Ma Teng's army was left with only the city of Tianshui. When Dong Zhuo was still alive, he attacked Wuwei once, but was easily repelled by Ge Zhao, and then went dormant to this day.
Taking advantage of the great opportunity when Ge Zhao and Dong Zhuojun fell out, Ma Teng's army once again sent troops to try to regain Wuwei. Since Ge Zhaodu's main force was attacking Anping at this time, Ma Teng's army could easily surround the main city of Wuwei.
Ge Zhao did not panic when he learned that Wuwei had been invaded. He divided the army in Anding into two groups in an orderly manner, one to suppress the surrounding towns of Anding, and the other to set up camp on the official road at the Jiuqu Yellow River Ferry in order to cut off Ma Teng's army. road.
At this time, Ma Teng's army was already in a difficult situation. On the one hand, it was unable to capture the main city of Wuwei, which had full statistics. On the other hand, its retreat was about to be cut off, and it was instead trapped in a situation of being surrounded.
Ma Tengjun did not have a wise enough mastermind, so when he fell into this situation, he began to hesitate, which led to Ge Zhao's favorite scene.
At first, Ma Teng's army wanted to attack Wuwei by force. As long as they could attack this big city, the existing strategic crisis could be easily solved.
Unfortunately, the two stormings ended in failure, and they had to try to lure the defenders out of the city to fight in the field. However, the defenders in the city strictly abided by Ge Zhao's military orders before the expedition, and remained motionless despite all the temptations of Ma Teng's army, making his plan completely bankrupt.
After the attack failed, Ma Teng's army gave up this plan and instead tried to attack the troops blocking the official road. However, the opposite army had used so much time to repair the military defense buildings, and Ma Teng's army suffered a bloody head injury here.
So Ma Teng's army turned around and returned to the city of Wuwei. This time, he was not determined to conquer Wuwei quickly. So on the one hand, he surrounded Wuwei and cut off contact. On the other hand, he dispersed his troops and levied money and food from various nearby towns.
Time was wasted in the conflict between Ma Teng's army and Ma Teng's army. After Ge Zhao settled An Ding calmly and left the necessary troops, he returned to the army, preparing to close the door and beat the dogs of Ma Teng's army, which had been blocked in Wuwei.
During this period, Ma Teng's army still achieved nothing with its mighty strategy. Morale was low and the army was exhausted, leading to them fleeing one after another. So they left the official road and wanted to lead their elite troops to forcibly cross the river to escape the siege.
This was not difficult for Ge Zhaodu, who had a console. He accurately saw the direction of Ma Teng's army through the full-screen view, then teleported to the other side of the river and attacked Ma Teng's army halfway across the river.
At the same time, the troops from various annexes in Wuwei were also teleported to the rear. Ma Teng's defeated and retreating army was blocked and completely annihilated before they could regroup. Ma Teng himself was killed on the spot and was succeeded by his son Ma Chao. Bit.
In the next six months, Ge Zhaodu did not open the console and continued to develop and stabilize. In this way, the time entered the spring of 193, and the Kansai War resumed.
Li Jue's army, which had recovered from the last disastrous defeat, sent troops again. This time the goal was still stability, but there was nothing to say about the process. Ge Zhao easily defeated the opponent in defense.
After the autumn harvest, it was Ge Zhao's turn to take the initiative, targeting Ma Chao's army that was separatist in Tianshui. Even though its leader Ma Chao was unparalleled in bravery, he had to surrender after the spring of 194. At this point, Ma Chao's army was declared destroyed and Ge Zhaoquan took Longxi.
As mentioned before, due to game setting issues, Cao Cao's army must be at odds with Dong Zhuo's army at the beginning of every stage, which seriously slowed down its initial expansion.
Cao Cao had better luck with Ge Zhaodu. He managed to defend Chenliu until Dong Zhuo's death. He also took advantage of Li Jue's loss of troops in the west to attack Luoyang. Then, in order to coerce the emperor and order the princes to set up a plan, he invited Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty back. Xuchang.
Here Ge Zhaodu discovered another idiotic setting of "Three Kingdoms". Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty would be in Chang'an at the earliest. After the Serial Plan incident, Wang Yun took control of the government for a short period of time. Due to his loyalty to the Han Dynasty, he would directly move the Emperor of Han back to the old capital.
Later, when Li Jue killed Wang Yun and killed him, Chang'an returned to the control of Dong Zhuo's army, but the emperor of the Han Dynasty fled to Luoyang. As a result, as soon as Cao Cao attacked Luoyang, he "hijacked the emperor to order the princes" in advance.
However, Cao Cao's good days did not last long. At this time, Yuan Shu's army had already pacified the surrounding princes and began to attack Cao Cao's army from the south to the north.
The most direct result of this march was that Li Jue's army recaptured Luoyang and began to compete with Cao Cao's army for Hulao Pass. During this process, Hulao Pass changed hands three times, but was eventually controlled by Li Jue's army.
Taking advantage of the endless battle between Li Jue's army and Cao Cao's army, when all the last elites were suppressed in Guanzhong, Ge Zhao sent troops after the autumn harvest in 194 to attack the opponent's home base of Chang'an.
Regardless of whether it was during the rule of Dong Zhuojun or Li Juejun, the originally fertile land of Guanzhong has faced endless wars since 190. Years of continuous conflicts have left the place plundered and the country and people exhausted.
Therefore, Li Jue's army was lazier than Ma Chaojun in dealing with it. You must know that Ma Chaojun only had Tianshui, which was not very rich, and could survive until the following year before falling.
Li Jue's army held Chang'an and Luoyang, the two best places of the Han Dynasty, but they were vulnerable to the powerful Ge Zhao's army. After the disastrous defeat in Chang'an City in the first battle, they could not survive even 194 years. Li Jue abandoned Luoyang, the last territory of the capital's hastily fleeing forces.
Just as Ge Zhaodu was preparing to continue his eastern expedition, he learned that Li Jue had been killed. He was killed by Niu Fu, the prefect of Luoyang, and Li Jue's army was transformed into Niu Fu's army.
After Li Jue was killed, many generals and soldiers fled. The power controlled by Niu Fujun was even worse than before, so he sent envoys to hope for peace talks and expressed his willingness to recognize the territory now controlled by Ge Zhao.
Ge Zhaodu laughed when he heard this. Wouldn't it be better for me to continue the Eastern Expedition and kill you directly? Why still have peace talks? So he continued to attack eastward.
Ge Zhaodu didn't even know what was going on in Niu Fu's head. He insisted on killing Li Jue to take over this mess. After the fall of Chang'an, their home base, they only had Luoyang, which they had just recaptured from Cao Cao's army, in their hands. At the same time, they should deal with the pincer attack by Ge Zhaojun and Cao Caojun.
Niu Fu's army seemed to think that Ge Zhao was a greater threat, so he sent out all his elite troops to fight Ge Zhao west of Tongguan. Ge Zhaodu didn't even know what Niu Fu was thinking.
This kind of stupid behavior led to a natural ending. Niu Fu's army that had just fallen to the Western Front was wiped out, and Tongguan became Ge Zhaodu's next target.
