Li Jue tried to defend the dangerous pass to maintain his rule. However, Ge Zhaodu, who was old at the game, easily figured out a way to deal with it.
Ge Zhaojun's troops were restrained in front of the pass, while he personally led his elite troops across the small road and launched an attack from behind the pass towards the dangerous pass. With the cooperation between the two parties, the gate of Chang'an fell, and Li Jue's army opened its arms to Ge Zhaojun.
The next step was to drive straight in. Before Li Jue's army was ready to come, the majestic Chang'an City came into view.
Originally, although Chang'an City has become more and more dilapidated over the years, the foundation of the high-end city has always been there, and it will take a lot of time to really attack it.
Ge Zhaodu was originally prepared for a long-term war, but as soon as the vanguard arrived at the gate of Chang'an, he saw the gate open. When he asked, he found out that Li Jue had actually fled on his own initiative.
Chang'an was captured without a fight, and it was only a matter of time before other areas fell. In short, by the end of 198, the fourth year of the game's start, all the territory west of Tongguan belonged to Ge Zhao.
The game version at this time already had a faction system, but Ge Zhao was not a minister but a monarch, so he was not very familiar with the faction system.
The most powerful faction under Ge Zhao is the veterans of the Western Regions who started with him, followed by the Han people from Kansai recruited. On the contrary, the indigenous factions of the Western Regions are the weakest, and they are getting weaker as time goes by.
Today, the Han faction in Kansai is mainly responsible for civilian governance, while the veterans of the Western Regions control the military, and the indigenous factions of the Western Regions are responsible for stabilizing trade routes. There has been no factional conflict.
After talking about the factions and looking eastward to Guandong, it feels like a mess. The Battle of Guandu in this world line seems to be impossible to fight. Cao Cao does not rule the Central Plains, and Yuan Shao is dead.
At present, there are two main forces in the Central Plains, Cao Cao's army occupying the west, and Liu Bei's army occupying the east. In addition, there are some miscellaneous fish that are not worth mentioning.
As for Hebei, Yuan Shao died in a surprise attack during the battle with Gongsun Zan, which prevented the Yuan family from splitting. At this time, Yuan Shao's territory was controlled by Yuan Tan, who controlled the southern part of Hebei, while the northern part was Gongsun Zan's territory.
These are the four main forces in Guandong. Among them, Yuan Tan's army formed an alliance with Cao Cao's army, and Liu Bei's army formed an alliance with Gongsun Zan's army. The current battle between the two sides still has no winner.
Ge Zhaodu did not rush to Guandong, but first returned to control other small states in the Western Regions to ensure that the Western Regions did not threaten his own regime, and then sent troops in the summer of 199.
The army entered the Yellow River from the ferry in the north of Chang'an, went down the river and bypassed Hangu Pass, and rushed directly to Luoyang controlled by Cao Cao's army. Cao Cao's army was caught off guard by the surprise attack of Ge Zhao's army, and they lost the upper hand for a moment.
With such an important territory in Luoyang in danger, Cao Cao naturally couldn't give up, so he drew a large number of troops from the front line to return reinforcements in an attempt to lift the siege of Luoyang by Ge Zhao's army.
Ge Zhaodu surrounded Luoyang for reinforcements and defeated Cao Cao's supporting troops three times. At this time, Luoyang finally couldn't hold on and fell.
After the fall of Luoyang, the emperor fell into the hands of Ge Zhao. Why didn't the plot of moving the capital to Xuchang be triggered this time? This is because of trade-offs.
The biggest difference between the game and history is that when Zhang Xiu left the Xiliang Army to work alone, he did not stay in Wancheng for too long. Instead, he was recruited as a mercenary by Yuan Shu and chose Runan as his base.
In this stage, Zhang Xiu was like a god of war, and he quickly completed the occupation of Yuan Shu's army, and then almost controlled most of the Jiangbei area, seriously threatening the security of Xuchang.
Although Liu Biao is still holding the reins in the south, Zhang Xiu is currently fighting fiercely with Liu Biao, and Xinye has changed hands several times in the battle, but Xuchang is still in a relatively dangerous situation.
On the other hand, although Li Jue was not divided, he was still beaten to the ground by Ma Chao. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Cao Cao's army did not choose to move the capital to Xuchang, and Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty stayed in Luoyang.
This stay actually gave Ge Zhao an advantage. After gaining the title of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, he chose to coerce the emperor to order the princes to live up to the desire of the three princes.
As early as three failed support attempts, Hulao Pass was short of major generals and had already fallen, so Ge Zhaodu chose to send troops to Guandong, thinking that 200 years in history was the year of the decisive battle of Guandu, but this world line was completely different.
The game's message transmission simulates history, so it has a certain lag. When Cao Cao's army was defeated one after another, other forces did not realize the threat of Ge Zhao's army.
Because Zhang Xiujun abandoned Liu Biao's army and instead attacked Cao Cao with Liu Bei's army. As for Liu Biao, the housekeeper's temper was violated again, and he actually sat back and watched Cao Cao be besieged.
Under the attack from three parties, Cao Cao was unable to resist, and finally defected to Yuan Tan's army with his remaining subordinates. This was how the Central Plains forces ushered in a reshuffle.
A few years ago, Ge Zhaodu played a game of burning bridges across the river, and joined forces with Li Jue's army to fight back after destroying Ma Chao's army. I don't know if it was intentional by the game system, but it actually followed the same plan.
Ge Zhaodu was planning to farm for a while and wipe out the newly annexed Central Plains land. As a result, Zhang Xiu first declared war on him, and then Liu Bei quickly followed.
After all, it seemed that Ge Zhaodu, who had just entered the game, was the weakest, so these two old powerful vassals in Guandong unanimously chose to carve up Ge Zhaodu's army.
At this time, a rebellion also broke out in the Western Region, and a bunch of city-states were unwilling to be squeezed and made trouble. Seeing this situation, Ge Zhaodu decisively chose to abandon the Kanto territory and withdraw all his forces back to Hulao Pass.
After retreating back to Hulao Pass, they no longer encountered strong attacks. The main reason was that the relationship between Liu Beijun and Zhang Xiujun began to deteriorate sharply due to territorial issues, and there was no time to deal with the hard nut of Ge Zhaojun.
So during the next period from 200 to 201, Ge Zhaodu farmed in Guanxi, stabilized the Western Regions, controlled Hanzhong, conquered the grasslands, and then sat back and watched Guandong merge into one.
Yuan Tan's shortcomings in ability were exposed as his territory expanded. Actually, when the war against Gongsun Zan was going smoothly, rebellions broke out one after another in the territory.
Zhang Xiujun and Liu Beijun also formally broke up and started fighting. Not only did the two sides fail to win, but they also benefited other forces.
First, Liu Biaojun took advantage of Zhang Xiu's main force to move north, and finally determined to control the land from Xinye to Jiangxia, and continued to exert pressure on Zhang Xiu.
The second is that Cao Cao's army, which was a vassal of Yuan Tan's army at this time, took this opportunity to establish a foothold in Puyang, and his power actually showed signs of revival.
It was under such circumstances that Ge Zhaodu joined the battle, not to join the melee in the Central Plains again, but to bypass the Yellow River through the grasslands to attack Yuan Tan's army's Hebei territory.
