Qingzhou.
Although Hua Tuo still had some doubts about Liu Bei's suggestion, in the end he couldn't bear Liu Bei's warm invitation and chose to agree to Liu Bei's invitation.
After all, with Li Xiang's previously established medical craftsman in front of him, Hua Tuo couldn't help but be tempted. Although the medical institute has trained a large number of military doctors who specialize in dealing with trauma, it has also trained a large number of doctors for people's livelihood.
Hua Tuo also felt that Zhang Fei's words were reasonable. After all, his power alone was limited. As long as he could teach ten disciples, he would definitely be able to treat more patients than he could treat alone. What's more, if he really cultivated them, how could he only cultivate ten disciples.
After handling Hua Tuo's matter, Liu Bei immediately continued to contact Dou Jiande to deal with Guo Wei together. Now, after Liu Bei and Dou Jiande join forces, their strength in all aspects is no less than that of Guo Wei. Even more so in terms of talent.
Although Liu Beijun's generals such as Guan Yu, Qin Ming, and Suo Chao were temporarily unable to go to the battlefield due to injuries. However, the Bull Demon alone was enough to beat Guo Wei to the point where he couldn't hold his head up.
In terms of civil servants and counselors, although Guo Weijun had Guo Wei and Fan Zhi, Su Qin and Ling Jing among Dou Jiande's forces, and Liu Xuanchu, Liu Wenjing, Liu Yong, Wu Yong, Zhu Wu, Jian Yong, and Shen Bu among Liu Bei's forces Xie and others are not vegetarians.
As a result, the situation in Qingzhou gradually began to turn against Guo Wei. However, Guo Wei can be regarded as a big family and a big business. In the battle situation in Qingzhou, it is difficult to determine the final outcome in a short period of time.
Guanzhong.
With the arrival of a cold wind, a heavy snowfall also quietly arrived, and a thin layer of ice began to form on the Weishui River. Originally, Li Xiang was ready to fight to the other side in one fell swoop. After half a month, when the river was completely frozen and the ice was reinforced, he ordered Yue Fei to initiate the final decisive battle across the river.
But at this time, two pieces of news came one after another, which made Li Xiang feel happy and worried. At the same time, Li Xiang was caught off guard.
These two pieces of news are one good and the other bad. Let’s talk about the good news first. Although Zhang Xutuo is a good general, he is still not as good as Su Lie after all. Previously, he could barely stop Su Lie only by relying on the strength of the city.
But with the arrival of Bai Qi, Zhang Xutuo was no longer able to fight back, and Qian County was finally declared defeated under the joint attack of Su Lie and Bai Qi.
Except for Zhang Xutuo and Zuo Tiancheng, who led less than 10,000 remnants of the Sui army stationed in Qian County, who were defeated in Chang'an, and less than 20,000 people who were captured by Bai Su, all the other soldiers died. During this battle.
In that battle, Bai Qi ordered a small number of troops to pretend to march as a whole army at normal speed, while most of his troops concealed themselves and accelerated their march. The arrival speed was three or four days faster than Zhang Xutuo expected. So Zhang Xutuo was not fully prepared at all.
Qianxian County was already extremely damaged under the continuous attacks of Su Lie's army, but while Zhang Xutuo was resisting Su Lie's attack, Bai Qi suddenly led his army to join the siege.
Unprepared and in a hurry, Zhang Xutuo faced a joint attack from two famous generals, Bai Qi and Su Lie, but in the end he still failed to persist.
After successfully capturing Qian County, Bai Qi and Su Lie were unequivocal and assigned three thousand men to guard the prisoners, while the remaining 140,000 troops advanced towards Chang'an.
After the good news, there is bad news. The Xiang clan who occupied Jingnan and Jiaozhou finally took action. As Yue Fei had guessed, the Xiang family either did not send troops, or once they sent troops, they directly made the decision to enter Wuguan openly and attack Guangchengguan secretly.
Guangcheng Pass is an important passage connecting Wanxiang and Jingchu areas to Luoyang, and it is also one of the southern gateways to Luoyang. Since receiving news of the unusual movement in the south, Li Xiang has ordered Cen Peng, who is stationed here, to be on guard day and night.
Fortunately, Cen Peng took Li Xiang's order to heart and was lucky enough to discover the enemy in time and defend Guangcheng Pass without letting the situation completely collapse.
On the surface, Xiang Yan led all the troops and horses toward Wuguan in a mighty manner, but secretly Xiang Yu led the three cavalrymen of Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying, totaling 6,000 people, to attack Guangcheng Pass overnight.
The three legions of Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying currently only have 2,000 men each, and they are led by three generals: Long Qie, Ying Bu, and Ji Bu.
These three legions totaled 6,000 cavalry, which was all the cavalry that the Xiang clan could produce.
There are few horses in the south. Although there are many horse dealers in the north, under Li Xiang's control, even in the Youzhou area, horse prices have skyrocketed.
Moreover, the same war horse was sold to the Central Plains for one price, but sold to the south for another price. Therefore, the princes of Southern Horse simply could not afford the high price of horses, so they bought war horses on a large scale.
Xiang Yu, or the princes in the Central Plains and the South, were able to form a certain size of cavalry, and they had to thank that team for the harvest of the grassland war.
In order to train the three legions of Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying into real elites, the Xiang family concentrated almost all their war horses on these three legions, and finally made these three legions capable of one man and two riders. .
Li Xiang's floating house still has a lot of eyes and ears in the Xiang clan's army, but it's just the middle and lower classes.
But even for some of the middle and lower classes, the news of all the cavalry dispatching in the camp was naturally not enough to satisfy them. However, neither Xiang Yan, Fan Zeng, Xiang Yu nor Yu Ji, who was visiting Jingbei at this time, thought of hiding the news.
The three legions of Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying, with a total of 6,000 cavalry, charged at starry night. Even if the spies from the Floating Water House sent out the news, there was no time to transmit the news in time. By the time the news of the floating house spreads, Xiang Yu should have arrived at the destination of his attack. Moreover, these spies could only detect the cavalry dispatch, but did not know the final destination of the cavalry dispatch.
On the contrary, Yu Ji not only did not think about concealing the news of the dispatch of the three legions of Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying, but she also controlled the command in Jingbei. She used this incident to lure snakes out of their holes and dug out many floating houses. The Xiang family's eyes and ears in the army caused a lot of losses to Floating Water House.
However, although the floating house did not transmit the news in time, Cen Peng, who was always on tight defense, still discovered the opponent at the moment when Xiang Yu's cavalry rushed towards him.
Xiang Yu and the others were attacking all night, so naturally they would not carry any military equipment. Without a surprise attack, they didn't know what to do!
Let's attack the key points. They are obviously at a disadvantage in terms of numbers and lack siege equipment. Trying to forcefully attack the key points in this state is no different than seeking death!
Although Xiang Yu is a bit tough, he is not stupid. Naturally, he will not use the cavalry he has worked so hard to build for such meaningless losses. Last time, they were able to catch up with the opportunity of the grassland war and obtain such a large number of war horses, but next time, they would not have such a good opportunity.
But if they were to leave just like that, it would be absolutely impossible. They would never give up sending troops this time and just sit back and watch Li Xiang grow and develop again and again.
In desperation, they had no choice but to declare that the surprise attack mission had failed and began to organize a frontal attack. Of course, they had to wait until Xiang Yan's large troops came over before a strong frontal attack. They themselves did not have this ability with their own cavalry.
