Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 422

In fact, in the Three Kingdoms game played by Zhu Wei, the location of Wancheng is also very critical.

Wancheng just blocked the north of Xiangyang, and there is Xinye City in the middle as a buffer. As long as Wancheng is defended, Xiangyang can be kept in a safe rear, and through Wancheng, Chang'an can be attacked to the northwest, Luoyang can be attacked to the north, and Luoyang can be attacked to the northeast. The direction is to attack Xudu, Chenliu and other places in the Central Plains.

In the Three Kingdoms game, Wancheng was originally occupied by Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu had a large number of troops, so when Zhu Wei played the game, he would use food consumption tactics and send an army to pull Yuan Shu's huge army on the war map. Go around in circles until Yuan Shu's food and grass are exhausted, and then he can receive Yuan Shu's more than [-] surrendered troops.

This can be regarded as a way to play the Three Kingdoms game.

It's a pity that in the real world of the Three Kingdoms, Yuan Shu had already been driven from Wancheng to Shouchun in Huainan. At the same time, it was impossible for Zhu Wei to apply the tactics of food consumption to the real world, so Zhu Wei could only recruit and train troops by himself.

Fortunately, the recruitment of soldiers in the real world is much easier than in the Three Kingdoms game. It does not need to consume much gold and food, and it will not reduce the loyalty of the people too much, so Zhu Wei has gradually built an army of more than [-].

However, Wancheng's position in the real world is indeed crucial, and it can be regarded as the gateway to guard Jingzhou.

It's just that although Wancheng has great military strategic significance, Wancheng itself is not a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This Wancheng is located on the Basin Valley Plain, and like Fancheng, it does not pose much difficulty to the attackers. Therefore, in the original history, once Cao's army approached Wancheng, they could easily capture Wancheng.

Zhang Xiu had been captured by Cao Cao many times before Wancheng, and had to retreat to other counties, and then recaptured Wancheng with the help of reinforcements sent by Liu Biao.

Therefore, the forces stationed in Wancheng generally go to the north of Wancheng to meet the enemy from the north. Bowang Slope, which extends from Funiu Mountain, takes advantage of the terrain advantages of Bowang Slope and is more defensive than directly stationed in Wancheng.

This time the Zhu Wei and Zhang Xiu allied forces faced Cao Jun commanded by Xia Houyuan, and the main battlefield was also on Bowangpo. Wancheng can only be regarded as the military city of the rear garrison.

At the same time, as mentioned above, the population of Nanyang has been greatly reduced after the war and plague.

There are actually less than [-] people in Wancheng now. Therefore, when Zhu Wei led his army into Wancheng, what he saw was a dilapidated city.

Wancheng changed hands several times between Cao Cao and the coalition forces of Zhang Xiu and Liu Biao. In addition, when Zhang Xiu rebelled against Cao Cao, he set off a fire in Wancheng. Therefore, many houses in the city are now abandoned and collapsed.

Even the rammed earth walls of Wancheng collapsed in many places, leaving only two or three meter high notches, and even gaps appeared directly in some places.

But Zhang Xiu was too lazy to rebuild it. Anyway, after repairing it, he couldn't rely on the city to defend Cao Cao's army from attacking, so he might as well let it go. Anyway, Wancheng was not his real territory. He was just temporarily stationing troops here to raise troops.

It's no wonder that Zhang Xiu doesn't care about Zhu Wei's stationing in Wancheng now, and even handing over Wancheng directly to Zhu Wei doesn't matter, because Wancheng is really not worth his nostalgia.

However, Zhu Wei's army stationed in Wancheng did not cause any changes in Wancheng. The people of Wancheng have become accustomed to changing the king's banner at the top of the city. As long as the new owner who enters Wancheng does not slaughter the city, they can continue to live on.

Of course, Zhu Wei didn't care about the thoughts of these Wancheng people at the moment, and more attention was placed on Bowangpo's side.

According to Jia Xu's strategy, Zhang Xiu led the troops directly to Bowangpo, and at the same time sent envoys to Xiahouyuan's troops, as if preparing to lead the troops to join Xiahouyuan's troops, and seemed to have completely surrendered to Cao Cao .

This was Jia Xu's plan to fake surrender.

Zhang Xiu's false surrender can be regarded as taking advantage of the trend, because Cao Cao had indeed asked Xia Houyuan to send someone to contact Zhang Xiu before, saying that he was willing to continue to accept Zhang Xiu regardless of previous suspicions, as long as Zhang Xiu was willing to surrender and cooperate with Xia Houyuan. The soldiers and horses of the army attacked Nanyang and Xiangyang, and Zhang Xiu would naturally be rewarded in the future.

So now Jia Xu asked Zhang Xiu to pretend to agree, and then made a gesture of being driven out of Wancheng by Zhu Wei's army, directly counting as going to Xia Houyuan for help.

Now, among Zhang Xiu's troops, there are about [-] Xiliang cavalry left behind by Zhang Ji. These cavalry can be regarded as the core elite of Zhang Xiu's army, and they are the foundation for Zhang Xiu to stand in this troubled world.

Zhang Xiu also treated these cavalry very well, and these Xiliang cavalry basically had two cavalry per person, and they could change cavalry to fight, and their combat effectiveness was indeed good.

In addition, Zhang Xiu also recruited 2000 spearmen and more than [-] infantry consisting of archers and sword shields in Nanyang. In fact, there were more soldiers and horses before, but they had lost a lot in previous battles.

However, the loss of these infantry was not on Zhang Xiu's mind. Anyway, if they died, they could be recruited again, and it was relatively easy for infantry to train.

In addition, there are more than 2000 foreign Hu cavalry and infantry under the command of Hu Che'er in Zhang Xiu's army, which can be regarded as a relatively good fighting force in Zhang Xiu's army. It was Hu Che'er who was stationed by Zhang Xiu in Bowangpo to defend Cao's army before. of this troop.

Now Zhang Xiu has also joined Hu Che'er's troops and retreated to the north side of Bowangpo together, preparing to join the [-] Cao troops commanded by Xia Houyuan.

And the Xiongba camp on Zhu Wei's side also took over the defense line of Zhang Xiu's army on Bowangpo's side little by little. A posture of chasing Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses.

Therefore, it seems that the Xiongba Battalion took over Bowangpo's defense line because Zhang Xiu's army had no fighting spirit and was able to take over the defense easily. Anyway, on the surface, this scene seems to be somewhat real.

Now that Zhu Wei is in Wancheng, he can watch what is happening ahead through the Three Kingdoms game system like a live broadcast, and at the same time inform Jia Xu at any time, so that Jia Xu can also respond immediately.

Of course, when Zhu Wei led his army into Wancheng, the forward troops of Cao Jun under Xia Houyuan had also approached Bowang Slope, so Zhang Xiu's troops had already contacted Cao Jun.

The soldiers and horses of the Xiong Ba Camp commanded by Pang Yan also stopped the so-called pursuit in time, and found a dangerous place to camp in Bowang Slope, as if they were preparing to confront Cao Jun commanded by Xiahou Yuan here.

This famous Bowangpo in history is roughly located about [-] miles southwest of Wancheng, with Funiu Mountain in the north, Yinshan Mountain in the south, and Baihe River in the west. A kind of undulating low and gentle hilly landform environment.

There is also an ancient Xianghan pass in Bowangpo, which was opened among the hills and woods, allowing business travelers from south to north to pass through it, and it is also convenient for business travel vehicles to pass north and south on the ancient road.

And now this Xianghan pass has naturally become the main road for the northern and southern armies to pass through Bowangpo...

(End of this chapter)