at the same time.
On the Shaanzhou side, Cao Kang's troops also gathered and headed towards Hezhou.
Because before, when Cao Kang's men attacked Hezhou, they were trapped by the river network in Nanxiang County.
for the situation at that time.
After Ma Yaohan was trapped, he had no other options, so he rebelled later.
But the situation now is completely different.
After entering winter, it snowed several times in a row, and the river water had completely frozen. The original river network no longer existed at all.
From Shaanzhou to Heyang County, it's basically a smooth stretch of land.
They only need to pass through the previous valley, or in another direction, to directly attack Heyang County.
This time, Cao Kang and his troops did not enter Hezhou from Shaanzhou with great fanfare like before. Instead, they pretended to be various business travelers or refugees in advance.
Every encounter leads to wisdom, and I also learned something during the battle with Hezhou.
Before the attack officially started, they had already broken into pieces and approached Hezhou from Shaanzhou and assembled on the Hezhou side.
As for Nanxiang County in Hezhou, Wu Dayong and others used to defend with catapults and explosive packs.
But later, because of the incident in Jeju, Wu Dayong and others were transferred to Zhao Sunlong and others.
So at this time.
On the Nanxiang County side, there are no traces of Wu Dayong's defense.
For Wu Dayong and others, the reason why they were able to trap Ma Yaohan's hundreds of thousands of troops before was entirely by relying on the natural moat of the river and cooperating with catapults to throw explosives.
But as things stand now, they have lost the cover of these rivers.
If they were still allowed to use the catapults and explosive packs from before, in fact, for Wu Dayong and the others, it would be the same as committing suicide.
This is also the reason why Zhang Bao asked Wu Dayong and others to withdraw.
Their catapults moved very slowly when facing these people.
Only under the circumstances of absolute geographical advantage can the power of the catapult be brought into play.
But once this geographical advantage is lost.
For a catapult, it's easy to get stuck.
so.
When the troops from Xiazhou arrived at Nanxiang County, they did not encounter any obstruction.
The success even surprised them.
The person leading the attack in Shaanzhou was Yang Kang, one of Liu Xiu's former generals.
At this moment.
Yang Kang is in the military camp, looking at the information that was sent up first.
He has sent troops in advance to Nanxiang County for investigation.
After all, this journey has been too smooth.
Since the last time Ma Yaohan rebelled, the entire Shaanzhou area has actually been in a state of no one management.
There is no one to manage it, which means that spies are likely to be planted everywhere in advance.
Hezhou is so close to Shaanzhou and has such a good opportunity. Hezhou will definitely be prepared.
But it’s a journey.
Although he was scared and walking on thin ice.
But he did not encounter any resistance.
This was very surprising to Yang Kang, and he even became more and more afraid to leave as he walked.
After all, he also knew that Ma Yaohan and the others were attacked in Nanxiang County before.
It sounded unbelievable to them at the time, but it just happened.
Hundreds of thousands of people were trapped in a small Nanxiang County and were unable to move forward. However, they now only had 10,000 to 20,000 people, but they were able to march straight in.
He simply didn't believe that these people from Hezhou didn't notice them.
In Yang Kang's opinion, there must be some conspiracy.
Now that he had successfully attacked all the way, he didn't dare to move forward anymore.
After the soldiers he led gathered together, they stopped at the junction of Hezhou and Shaanzhou.
"General, you are really crazy. We have gone deep into Nanxiang County, and all the troops we sent have returned. We have not found any signs of troops gathering in Nanxiang County."
"Now, all the rivers in Nanxiang County have frozen. There is no problem for people to walk on the ice, and there are no soldiers and horses on the other side of the river."
"Let's take advantage of the opportunity to fight in!"
A general said to Yang Kang.
"Nothing at all?"
"Is this true?"
"If we march straight in, we can directly enter Heyang County!"
"I heard that their current capital is in Heyang County, so we can go straight to Huanglong!"
"It seems that this time, the people here in Hezhou must have been negligent. In this case, let everyone prepare immediately to cross directly to the north!"
"The troops were divided into two groups. One group of people and horses rushed through the valley, and the other group of people and horses went around the mountain from the official road on one side to kill them!"
"Must be quick!"
"Before they can react, rush in and we will win!"
Yang Kang said excitedly.
Now that we are here, even if the people from Hezhou gather, what will happen?
Without the cover of the river network, they would have nothing to fear from real swords and guns.
"General, we only have 20,000 troops. Isn't it too thin?"
"The capital city of Hezhou must be heavily guarded!"
The general hesitated.
“We have 20,000 people, and they don’t have many people in Hezhou!”
"Two hundred thousand horses are in Fan Hanzhong's hands and have been entangled by General Liu Xiu. There are still 10,000 or 20,000 people messing around in Jeju. Recently, I heard that there are a lot of actions in Dongzhou."
"If you calculate how many people there are in Hezhou now?"
"Besides, once we get in, Fan Hanzhong won't defend back?"
"The troops from Jeju and Dongzhou won't return to defense?"
"This is called pulling a hair and moving the whole body. When they come back in a hurry to rescue, our people can take advantage of the situation and rush forward, and Hezhou can go down!"
"And our breakthrough point is not the first achievement?"
Yang Kang said to several generals.
"The general is still foresighted!"
"I admire you!"
Several generals raised their hands and said.
…
JiZhou.
There were also 50,000 troops, charging towards Jeju in a mighty manner.
Their team, unlike Yang Kang's troops, can still have a certain disguise.
The fifty thousand of them couldn't disguise themselves even if they wanted to.
so.
Che Wuyang led his men and horses and quickly rushed towards Jeju.
In their opinion, all their team needs to do is to be fast.
Come to Jeju quickly, capture Jeju quickly, and invade Haju quickly.
Only in this way can we move at the same time as the other two teams.
They also knew before that there was a group of troops in Hezhou that had already invaded Jeju, but they did not take this group of troops seriously.
Judging from the information they received, the number of people in this team was actually very small.
Although some methods were used to capture some cities in Jeju.
But capturing a city is completely different from fighting a war.
To capture the city, there may be some heavy weapons or some methods, but these methods, these siege weapons are just decorations for their cavalry.
They couldn't let Xiazhou's people pass by. As long as they took a detour, they would be able to lure them out.
So they plunged into Jeju unscrupulously.
