After the Yanqi King's City was breached, Zhang Fei quickly cut off the logistical food routes for the expeditionary troops based on the intelligence obtained by the surrendered officials in the King's City, causing them to lose their food supply.
In this way, regardless of whether they succeed in the conquest, they will lose logistical support, which may deal a decisive blow to them.
The latest news Zhang Fei learned showed that Wei Xuguo seemed to be still resisting, and Yuliguo seemed to have knelt down.
The main reason is that Wei Xu State has a relatively complete royal city defense system, and the generals responsible for the defense of the royal city in Yuli State were bribed by Yanqi State very early to become the leading party, so the military attack on Yuli State went very smoothly.
Zhang Fei thought for a while and felt that in this way, the victory over the Yanqi King's City was not complete, because the army that had already defeated the Yuli Kingdom might come back to take revenge, so... this battle is not over yet, and there is still time. Keep fighting!
So, how to fight?
Zhang Fei advocated doing nothing and never stopping. If you want to be rash, be rash to the end. There is no need to stop. He continues to lead his troops to the Yuli Kingdom, fight to the death with the Yanqi Kingdom's army that has not gained a foothold, and kill them there to achieve the final victory. victory.
The subordinates generally believed that this was too risky. If the army that attacked Weixu Kingdom withdrew, or the army that attacked Moshan Kingdom came back, then the royal city would be undefended and would be recaptured by Yanqi Kingdom's army. Isn't this battle in vain?
And in that case, the logistics of the Han army would also be greatly affected, wouldn't it?
While Zhang Fei was hesitating, a piece of good news came.
Dong Zhuo, Zhao Qi and the king of Cheshi Qian came to support them with a thousand troops from Cheshi Qian.
It turned out that after Zhang Fei's attack, Dong Zhuo and Zhao Qi felt uneasy and felt that they still needed to give Zhang Fei some support. After all, the number of soldiers Zhang Fei brought was too few.
If Zhang Fei really can't defeat the people of Yanqi State, then bringing a team of troops to ensure Zhang Fei's safe retreat can be considered a help to Zhang Fei and can save the situation.
So Zhao Qi and Dong Zhuo discussed it, and together they found the king of Cheshiqian State, stated their interests to him, explained the benefits of this matter, and hoped that the king could make the right choice and dispatch troops to help the Han army launch a military campaign. Actions like this will definitely get generous rewards from the Han Empire.
And if something happened to Zhang Fei, given the friendship between Zhang Fei and Emperor Liu Bei, the Han Dynasty would definitely send a powerful army to avenge Zhang Fei.
At that time, the emperor was so angry that no grass grew anywhere where the army passed. Dogs passing by were slapped twice, and all the earthworms in the soil were turned up and cut into two pieces. However, no support was provided that could have been provided. Cheshi Qianguo, who is very close at hand, will also become a tool for the emperor to vent his anger.
Who told you not to send troops to help?
There is no reason to say to the angry emperor. You have no relevant obligations, but will the angry emperor listen to your statement? He will only think that you are quibbling!
So, Your Highness the King, you don’t want to be used as a tool to vent your anger by the emperor, right?
Dong Zhuo stated his "interests and losses" to the king of Che Shiqian with a strange look on his face.
After Wu Gui, the former king of Cheshi, listened to Dong Zhuo's suggestion, after a short period of thinking, he immediately realized that he turned out to be a great man and a loyal man.
Although the body is that of a driver, the heart is already that of a man.
In his heart, the emotion called loyalty was surging crazily.
Then, I only have one choice left.
That is to be loyal to the Emperor of Han Dynasty!
So he decided to send half of the country's military strength, that is, a thousand men, to help the Han army move.
Che Shiqian's country was not a powerful country in the first place. Earlier, the whole country could only send out more than a thousand people to fight. Now it has been recuperating for many years and the population has increased, but it is not much. It can only send out two thousand people to fight. Very good.
Under the current situation, they dispatched a thousand people to help fight, which is indeed interesting enough.
Therefore, Dong Zhuo and Zhao Qi did not continue to ask for anything. Together with Wu Gui, they led a thousand charioteers along the road Zhang Fei set out to find Zhang Fei. They hurriedly and slowly hurried along, just in time for the most critical moment. Arrive at Yanqi King City.
When Zhang Fei saw them coming, he was overjoyed. He praised Wu Gui for his "loyalty", and then asked these thousand Che division soldiers to guard the Yanqi King's city instead of him. Then Zhang Fei took all the Han troops and continued to rush to Yuli Kingdom. , we must take the initiative and catch them off guard in Yuli Country.
The task of Dong Zhuo, Zhao Qi and Wu Gui is to prepare for the return reinforcements from the Yanqi Kingdom in the direction of the Xu Kingdom and the Moshan Kingdom in case of danger.
In any case, the Yanqi King's city should not be lost, and everything in the city, except for the loot that has been collected by the Han army, can be handled by the Cheshi soldiers themselves.
Zhang Fei still knows that not every army has as good welfare benefits as the Han army, so the Han army is not interested in burning, killing, looting, and its discipline does not allow it, but the armies of other countries may be the ones who burn, kill, and loot. The only way to get paid is to fight in the war.
Just like when Ban Chao organized the Western Regions Allied Forces to deal with the Yanqi State Alliance, he won the battle, but he also allowed the soldiers of the Western Regions Allied Forces to completely rob the Yanqi State Alliance.
If not for property, who would sacrifice their life for you?
Wu Gui was very happy about this, and the soldiers of the chariot division were also very happy, so they quickly entered the city. After Zhang Fei left, they looted the city for three days, almost digging three feet into the ground. Finally, they Every inch of land was looted, and then they fulfilled the tasks assigned to them by Zhang Fei with great satisfaction.
Zhao Qi was very disdainful of this and felt that these people were not a serious army, but simply bandits and robbers.
But Dong Zhuo felt inexplicably familiar, and even a little bit inexplicably moved, as if he saw the shadow of the army he once owned.
Dealing with the Han army every day, where discipline was more important than anything else, he almost thought he was living in heaven somewhere on earth. Only when he finally arrived in the Western Regions did he realize that the same old routine was the mainstream of the world, and the Han army was the exception among the exceptions.
Zhang Fei led the Han army to the Yuli Kingdom under the guidance of the guide. Along the way, Zhang Fei learned that the Yuli Kingdom was quite interesting.
Yuli City, the capital of Yuli Kingdom, was built on a stone hill. The terrain was dangerous and formed a natural barrier, making it difficult for the city to be breached by invaders.
In other words, if there weren't internal ghosts inside and outside cooperation this time, Yuli State might not be captured so simply by Yanqi State, and it would definitely have to go through some twists and turns.
For the Han army at the moment, if the Yanqi army chooses to defend, there will definitely be a problem. The Han army will be more difficult, so a strong attack is not a good way out.
But the problem is that this problem doesn't seem to be a problem.
Because when Zhang Fei's army arrived in the territory of Yuli Kingdom, news came from the outpost that an army was rapidly advancing in their direction. That army was under the banner of Yanqi Kingdom and its number was about three thousand.
Zhang Fei was overjoyed when he heard this.
He looked at the guide and smiled.
"It looks like this issue has been resolved and we don't have to worry about it anymore."
The enemy army took the initiative to come out of the city, which was not good for Zhang Fei and the Han army.
Regarding field battles, Zhang Fei dared to say that no army was better at field battles than the Han army.
However, Ali, who led the attack from Yanqi State, was actually in extreme anxiety now.
He was very happy because with the help of his inner ghost, he successfully took over the royal city of Yuli, easily wiped out their royal family, killed them all, and then announced that Yuli Kingdom had been annexed and supported Those who support can live, those who do not support must die, and no one can survive.
Most of the officials of the entire Yuli Kingdom chose to surrender. Only a few people felt very sad and angry because of the massacre of the royal family, so they angrily scolded Ali, who was leading the matter, and the Yanqi Kingdom would not end well. Then they were angered by the angry Ali. Without the order to kill, nearly two thousand people were killed together with their families and those who resisted.
The population of the entire Yuli Kingdom was only about 15,000, and he killed one-seventh of them in this killing. The casualties were very heavy.
The rise of killing on his side basically controlled the entire Yuli Kingdom. As a result, the logistics route was suddenly cut off. News came from the rear that contact with the rear was lost. After further investigation, traces of the Han army were discovered!
Ali was not very surprised, and then he immediately reacted and quickly blocked the news and did not allow the news to spread.
Then they secretly sent people to continue to explore the relevant information, and finally came to an accurate conclusion. They did find traces of the Han army's activities, and they even had a small-scale encounter with the Han army's sentry cavalry.
Ali didn't feel that the situation was bad, so he decided to lead his troops back to Yanqi Kingdom to see what happened.
Some of his subordinates suggested that he should not act rashly and should continue to explore the news, but Ali did not care about Long Kuang's safety. He was worried that the royal city would be besieged by the Han army and Long Kuang would be in danger. He felt that as Long Kuang's subordinates, he should immediately lead the army to support. Avoid more dangerous situations.
So Ali ignored the dissuasion of his subordinates and left 500 soldiers to guard the royal city of Yuli. He led the main force to march towards the Yanqi Kingdom, and then encountered 2,000 Han troops commanded by Zhang Fei in the wilderness midway.
Then came the confrontation between the two armies.
The result was no surprise. Ali's troops were crushed to pieces by the Han army after they persisted for just one stick of incense.
Zhang Fei showed his might and personally led the army to charge into the battle. He led the cavalry to fight through the Yanqi army's formation and easily won the victory. However, Long Kuang's first general Ali Bu was under Zhang Fei's command. During the charge, he was surrounded by Zhang Fei's personal guards, knocked off his horse, and trampled to death.
The Yanqi army was completely wiped out, more than 700 people died in the battle, and the rest all surrendered.
After Zhang Fei won the victory, he further moved towards King Yuli City. When he arrived at King Yuli City, he was surprised to find that King Yuli City was in a melee, and there was also a melee at the city gate. The city gate was wide open, so Zhang Fei immediately waved his troops Attack, the army entered the city, and after a chaotic battle, Zhang Fei took control of the situation.
Then, he found out that after Ali stopped fighting, he only left 500 people to defend the royal city of Yuli, and these 500 people acted arrogantly and insulted the people of Yuli in all kinds of ways. The people of Yuli were not popular, and they deeply hated the people of Yanqi for treating them. The Chinese people brutally massacred them, so they launched a resistance at night and wanted to kill all the 500 Yanqi soldiers.
However, because of their own strength, they were not completely successful from fighting at night to daytime. They were even killed by the Yanqi army at one point. Fortunately, the Han army arrived in time and ended the chaotic situation.
Knowing that the Han army was coming, the survivors of Yuli State, led by the surviving officials, cried to Zhang Fei, crying about the inhumane massacre they had suffered before and the royal family who had been brutally killed, expressing their willingness to surrender to the Han and their sacrifices to the Han. I will sacrifice everything, but I hope Zhang Fei can seek justice for them.
When Zhang Fei heard about this, he couldn't help but pulled in the previous group of prisoners and asked the people of Yuli to identify those who had insulted and killed them. After identifying them, he handed these people over to the people of Yuli to let them vent their anger. The anger in my heart.
After the battle, Zhang Fei asked the prisoners some questions and made some judgments. He believed that the current situation had gradually become clearer. As long as the army returned to the Yanqi King's City and the Yanqi King's City was preserved, the overall situation would be determined.
Even if Yanqi State attacks Wei Xu State's army and Moshan State's army returns later, he is confident that he can defeat them head-on. After that, his power to act expediently will no longer be directed against Yanqi State.
However, he did not feel that this was an unnecessary move.
This military action was completely forced. Under normal circumstances, he would not use only three thousand cavalry to deal with several countries, even just a few small countries.
It is an extremely dangerous behavior to use the few against the many. Even if the Han army is really strong, Zhang Fei does not want to fight such a battle. Whenever there is a slight possibility, he also likes to use the more to bully the less, and he also likes the army to push forward to achieve peace and stability. A steady victory.
This time he found wealth through danger, but he also believed that he would not be so lucky every time.
Therefore, he did not dare to stay longer in the royal city of Yuli. He only arranged for a village commander to station here with a hundred soldiers to maintain order and wait for the latest instructions from the Han envoy. Then he hurried back with the main force of the army. The city of Yanqi King.
Fortunately, this time, good luck always accompanied him.
When he returned to the King's City of Yanqi, the latest military intelligence showed that troops were coming from the direction of Weixu and Moshan. The King's City of Yanqi was in danger, and Zhang Fei's timely return brought them Possibility of victory.
Originally, Dong Zhuo and Zhao Qi were preparing to defend the city with the troops of Che Shiqian, and they were seizing the time to heighten and thicken the city wall. However, Zhang Fei's timely return increased the victory rate of this battle a lot.
"Thanks to the general's speed, otherwise we might have to rely on just a thousand men to defend the isolated city. Although there will be enough food by then, we don't know how long we can hold on."
Zhao Qi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and sighed at Zhang Fei's speed.
Why doesn't Zhang Fei sigh with emotion at his speed and luck?
"If I don't fight like this again in the future, it will really scare me to death. If I'm not careful, I may have to flee for my life. I don't want to lose my official position then!"
Seeing Zhang Fei's frightened look, Dong Zhuo and Zhao Qi both felt speechless.
This guy is so bold that he probably only pretends to be nervous at times like this. In fact, he's not nervous at all, right?
But they really misunderstood Zhang Fei. Zhang Fei was really nervous and anxious, otherwise, he would not have returned so quickly.
In his memory, there had never been such an urgent battle since the battle against the Qiang people in Liangzhou.
After Liu Bei became the shepherd of Liangzhou, he had a stable logistics base, so he could always maintain the best condition of the army, and the number of troops also continued to increase. Five years after Zhongping, Zhang Fei no longer had any wars in his memory. After such a cramped battle, he had always fought in a wealthy state.
I hope this speed of life and death will never happen again in the future.
Well, at least after the heat in his body subsided and he entered the Sage Time, Zhang Fei felt that he should not be like this. As the commander of the army, he should not be so impatient and aggressive, but should be calm and composed...
He hypnotized himself like this.
As for whether it will happen again next time.
Let’s talk about that next time.
After that, Zhang Fei asked the soldiers to have a good rest, and then ate several hot meals and hot dishes. He was full of food and meat. He ate several good meals to let the soldiers adjust to their best condition, and then chose He took the initiative to go out of the city to meet Yanqi's army.
(End of chapter)
