Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 191 Letting Ruo Rong Go
Just when Ze Rong took Luling City, Zhu Wei also let Ling Cao break Yichun County.

Yichun County is a small county. The city wall made of loess and stone blocks is at most three stories high and four or five steps wide. There are gaps in many places. There are few wars in the south, so naturally no one will be there for no reason. Repair these walls.

And Zhu Wei prepared several cave carts for Ling Cao, so that Ling Cao's Ruo Rong Buddhist soldiers in disguise could rush to the wall of the Tucheng, and find a place where there was a gap to continue digging the city wall.

Coupled with the fact that there are archers shooting arrows at the defenders on the city wall to cover them, it is enough to make the county soldiers and private soldiers of various ethnic groups in Yichun County helpless.

After the city wall was dug up, Ling Cao led eight thousand Yue soldiers into Yichun County, which was naturally unstoppable. Under Zhu Wei's suggestion, Ling Cao unceremoniously ransacked the wealthy families in Yichun County, and then Then they searched for those big houses and forts in the countryside around Yichun County to attack and loot.

With [-] mountain Yue soldiers in hand, even the county town can be captured, and the houses and forts in these places are naturally irresistible. For a while, Yichun County was also swept away by Ling Cao.

Of course, Zhu Wei deliberately appeared in pursuit at the right time, received the food, grass and money looted by Ling Cao, received the wounded soldiers from Ling Cao's side, and then took over Yichun County in the official name.

In fact, Zhu Wei's actions can be seen through by anyone with a discerning eye, but no one can say anything about Zhu Wei.

Zhu Wei has given you face before, but you are the one who refused to accept the face. Relying on your secret relationship with Jingzhou, you want to fight against Zhu Wei, who has become the master of Yuzhang. Of course, there is no need for Zhu Wei to give you any more face. up.

It's just that Zhu Wei took Yichun County like this, and Ai County couldn't hold on anymore. Hearing that the so-called Ruorong bandits who captured Yichun County came to Ai County again, Ai County finally sent someone to see Zhu Wei said that Ai County was willing to accept Zhu Wei's order to act, and only asked Zhu Wei to prevent the so-called Ruo Rong bandits from going to Ai County.

The situation here in Ai County is actually similar to that in Yichun County. Although Ai County is close to Changsha County and Jiangxia County in Jingzhou, many wealthy households in Ai County are related to the Huang family to which Huang Zu belongs in Jiangxia County, but it is far from being solved at the moment. thirsty.

However, Zhu Wei did not believe in Ai County's sincerity. After discussing with Wang Yuyan, Zhu Wei felt that Ai County's current move was a tactic to delay the attack. If Ai County was just let go, Ai County might become the place where Jiangxia Huangzu set foot in Yuzhang in the future. springboard.

Therefore, Zhu Wei only appeased Ai County on the bright side, saying that he would step up pursuit of Ling Cao's pretended Ruo Rong bandit army, and then deliberately asked Ai County to send military rations and supplies to express his sincerity, as if he really believed it. The surrender of Ai County.

But in fact, Zhu Wei secretly ordered Ling Cao to lead troops to step up the raid on Ai County, lest Jiangxia Huangzu would send any reinforcements to Ai County.

So Ling Cao entered Ai County the next day, plundered all the way, and once again killed the county seat of Ai County.

The county seat of Ai County is similar to that of Yichun County, but the people of Ai County have also made some repairs to the city wall these days, and at the same time strengthened the defense of the county seat.

There are also only 4000 to [-] people defending the city in Ai County, and many of them are temporarily transferred young men, who can be regarded as mobs. Therefore, it took only half a day for Ai County to be broken by Ling Cao's troops.

In this way, it took Zhu Wei almost half a month to win Yichun and Ai County side by side, and pacified the northwest of Yuzhang.

However, Yuzhang County is separated from Jingzhou Jiangxia County and Changsha County by the Luoxiao Mountains and Mufu Mountains. Without the local forces in Yichun County and Ai County as internal support, the forces in Jingzhou Jiangxia and Changsha cannot easily extend their hands into Yuzhang County. chapter.

However, Zhu Wei did not divide his troops to garrison here. Now Zhu Wei's men are really short of manpower, so Zhu Wei just pretended to disperse the so-called Ruo Rong bandits, and after Ling Cao returned to the team, he led the troops back to Yichun County. , began to threaten to occupy Luling Ruorong again.

Zhu Wei's purpose is to let Ruo Rong help eliminate the power of local gentry and powerful clans, but not to really give Ruo Rong time to recover his strength. Interested in.

Although Yuzhang County is not a famous state in the history of the Three Kingdoms, it can only be regarded as an ordinary state in the east of the Yangtze River. Besides the area around Poyang Lake and Yuzhang River, many places are also mountainous and not suitable for farming. Therefore, in the Three Kingdoms game system, only Yuzhang City is recognized as a game system city, and other counties are basically ignored.

But in any case, in the granaries of many gentry and powerful families in Yuzhang, there is also a lot of food stored.

Zhu Wei got a lot of money and food through the raids of Ruorong bandits pretended by Ling Cao in Yichun and Ai counties, not to mention Ruorong who occupied Luling County.

Zhu Wei asked Ling Cao to pretend to be Ruo Rong's bandit soldiers only to attack some big and wealthy families, and still let go of many small families and ordinary people. Ordinary people.

So Ruo Rong was like locusts crossing the border in Luling County. Almost all the places where his soldiers and horses passed by turned into no man's land, and everyone was surrounded by his soldiers and horses and turned into rioters.

Now Ruo Rong's manpower has grown to more than [-] people, including tens of thousands of women, children, and children, so his combat effectiveness has been weakened instead.

Many times his troops were not used to fight the enemy, but to guard the Luling people who had been brought here.

Therefore, Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan felt that it was almost enough to let Ruo Rong go. As Zhu Wei's army returned from Ai County to Yichun County, Zhu Wei first sent Pang Yan and Tai Shici to command six thousand new troops and six thousand Lingyang County The coalition of private soldiers of various ethnic groups is going to loosen Ruo Rong's muscles and bones, and drive Ruo Rong to Jiaozhou.

This time in Yichun County and Ai County, Ling Cao led the troops to fight in the front, and Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan just watched and acted in the back, so Pang Yan and Tai Shici did not hang out with them. Leading troops to prepare in Yichun County, waiting for the military order to go out to fight Ruorong at any time.

Letting the two of them lead troops to attack now is tantamount to releasing the two tigers that have been hungry for a long time.

However, Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan decided to drive Ruo Rong to Jiaozhou after some consideration. Ruo Rong rushing over will not make Ruo Rong a threat.

The Nashibian family is also a local gentry, a powerful local snake, and it is not a big power now. It has no official status to rule Jiaozhou, so driving Ruo Rong over like this, just in time for a strong dragon to fight against the local snake, maybe It can disrupt the situation in Jiaozhou.

It's like a tactic to drive the tiger away. After Ruo Rong and Shichang these local snakes and tigers fight each other, then Zhu Wei will be able to reap the benefits of the fisherman if he enters Jiaozhou again.

According to Wang Yuyan's plan for Zhu Wei, Zhu Wei can at least take the two eastern coastal areas of Jiaozhou, Nanhai County and Hepu County, in Jiaozhou.

As for Cangwu County, Yulin County, etc., which are located in the mountains of Guangxi, or even Jiaozhi County, Jiuzhen County, and Rinan County on the Vietnamese side, it is entirely possible to wait for Zulang to move the people of Jing County. After that, let Zu Lang, who is good at mountain warfare, lead the troops to slowly clear the same mountainous area here.

In this way, Zu Lang's strengths can also be brought into play, and Jiaozhou may be handed over to Zu Lang to govern in the future, which can be regarded as not treating Zu Lang badly.

After Zhu Wei takes control of Jiaozhou, he can obtain an extended land in the rear. If the development is appropriate, it can also provide Zhu Wei with a lot of food and grass supplies. At the same time, it can also allow Zhu Wei to directly threaten Yizhou, perhaps. Take the opportunity to do something about Yizhou.

Moreover, driving Ruo Rong to the direction of Jiaozhou can also prevent Ruo Rong from continuing to run around, which can be regarded as driving Ruo Rong into a desperate situation.

At the same time, letting Ruo Rong promote Buddhism in areas where many barbarian tribes live in Jiaozhou seems to be able to help Zhu Wei solve the chaotic situation where barbarian tribes are mixed here in Jiaozhou.

Thinking about it, Ruo Rong will definitely help Zhu Wei to educate the place in order to get his religious unification policy done. Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan even decided to drive Ruo Rong to Jiaozhou to give him some time to develop.

In short, after deciding on this strategy, Zhu Wei didn't think about anything else...

(End of this chapter)