"How is the situation at General Wei Liao's place?" Letting go of Li Tang's question for the time being, Sima Wu turned to talk about the situation at Wei Liaozi's place.
In this battle, no matter what, it was the battlefield on Liu Bang's side that ultimately played a decisive role. If they can get rid of Liu Bang in time, then Li Tang to the east will naturally not be able to pose a threat to them in the end.
And if they are unable to deal with Liu Bang and the war continues to drag on, then when the two fronts start fighting, the Qin army will naturally become more and more difficult as time goes by.
However, after Sima Cuo asked this question, he obviously did not get the news he wanted to hear. Fan Ju just sighed and shook his head and said, "Le Yi insists on defending, Jicheng cannot be broken overnight!"
Indeed, in the battle between the two sides, the side defending the city definitely has a huge advantage. Otherwise, Qin Zheng would not have decided on the strategy of attacking from the west and defending from the east.
The side defending the city already has a huge advantage, not to mention that the general defending the city is a famous general like Le Yi. It is really not easy to achieve results.
"Next, I'm afraid I have to borrow the power of Du Chong!" Sima Cuo said with a frown.
As early as a few days ago, Wei Liao had already sent a letter to Sima Cuo, wanting to borrow Du Chong. Although Sima Cuo could not guess the specific content of Wei Liao's plan, he could clearly guess that it was definitely related to Du Hui, the most powerful general of the Yan army.
After all, these two people have an uncle-nephew relationship anyway. Du Chong caused such a big loss to Liu Bang this time, and it is absolutely impossible for him to have the slightest impact on Du Hui.
Perhaps, for the sake of the overall situation, Liu Bang would choose to suppress this incident temporarily, but it is absolutely impossible to treat it as if nothing had happened.
"General Sima, when will our army continue to march next?" Fan Ju asked directly to Sima Cuo.
If Sima Cuo continues to march, he can effectively threaten Liu Bang. If nothing else happens, Liu Bang is very likely to be willing to send some troops to return reinforcements.
After all, no matter how good Le Yi's defense is, if there is a problem with Liu Bang himself, it will be meaningless in the end.
And if Wei Liao insists on holding on, it will certainly be difficult for Wei Liao to find any good breakthrough point. Only by forcing the opponent to take action can Wei Liao have a chance to find a way to defeat the enemy.
However, when Fan Ju asked about this, Sima Cuo's face began to look ugly. In the end, he could only sigh helplessly and explain the reason to Fan Ju.
Although Sima Cuo also wanted to take advantage of this good opportunity to further advance towards Liu Bang, so as to support Wei Liao's side from the side. But if you want to continue to advance further, you need to consider various issues. Obviously, Sima Cuo did not think that they could continue to advance in the shortest time.
Sima Cuo only had Gongsun Shu's 30,000 bandit troops under his command. They were able to win this battle. It was not easy to achieve such results. And behind this battle, some losses are naturally inevitable.
With the troops he currently has at his disposal, it is simply not suitable for him to continue to be too aggressive. If one thing is not done well, the results already achieved may even be lost.
After the battle, although they also captured more than 10,000 Yan troops who had no time to retreat. But Sima Cuo did not dare to use such a large number of surrendered troops.
It is normal to use the force of surrendered troops during a war, but if you want to use surrendered troops, the prerequisite is to control the number of surrendered troops within a certain proportion. And at this time, Sima Cuo was far from being able to do this.
It was precisely because he wanted to make full use of the power of this surrendering army that Sima Cuo eagerly hoped to use various means to surrender the Yan army generals Ju Xin, Lang Ding, and Wei Ji.
Only by using the prestige of the Yan army generals Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Yan to integrate this surrendered army can we utilize this power in the shortest possible time.
However, due to the failure of the actions of Ju Xin, Lang Ming, and Wei Jian, Sima Cuo's idea of using Ju Xin, Lang Ming, and Wei Jian to integrate and surrender the troops was stillborn.
Therefore, if Sima Cuo wants to continue to advance, he may really need to give him a certain amount of time to prepare.
After hearing Sima Cuo's words, Fan Ju also became silent, thinking about the solution. In this battle, no matter what kind of difficulties they encounter, they can only try every means to solve it without any thought of retreating.
Facts have proved that Fan Ju is worthy of being a famous figure in history. After frowning and thinking for a while, he really thought of some other methods. Even if it can't completely solve Sima Cuo's problem, it can at least help a little bit.
No matter how you say it, the Taihang Mountains are the largest den of thieves in the world. Although Gongsun Shu has conquered all the bandit forces in the Taihang Mountains, he has only done so in name. It is impossible to truly conquer all the bandits in the Taihang Mountains. They all gathered under Gongsun Shu's hand.
In any case, Taihang includes bandits from the three states of Bing, Hebei, and You. Those large bandit forces may no longer exist, but there must still be some smaller ones.
Although the remaining bandits are small in scale and the quality of the bandits is indeed limited, if they can make proper use of their strength, they may be of some help to themselves. It would be good to have a little more strength at this time. .
At least, as far as Fan Ju knew, there was a force headed by Chun Yuqiong and Zhao Rui on the side near Bingzhou. Although the number of people is not very large, only about a thousand, but after all, no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat, and they must not be put down when they need to be eaten.
Chunyu Qiong and Zhao Rui were also generals under Yuan Shao at the beginning. It's a pity that when transporting grain and grass, it was burned down by a fire caused by the unknown thirteen.
Afterwards, these two people were worried that they would be punished by Yuan Shao, so they simply did not do anything, and finally decided to betray Yuan Shao and go to Taihang Mountain to become the mountain king!
Worried about Yuan Shao's revenge, these two people have kept a low profile for so many years and minimized their presence as much as possible.
When Gongsun Shu began to conquer various forces in the Taihang Mountains, these two men did not express resistance, but expressed surrender from a distance. In the end, they were not directly merged with Gongsun Shu, but were only nominal subordinates of the other party.
Therefore, these two people have lived with difficulty until now. But now, they are worried about Fan Ju again.
