Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 751 The Battle of Xuzhou Begins

Zhu Wei's battle against Cao Cao and Yuan Shao's allied forces in Luoyang gradually fell into a protracted war.

On the north bank of the Yellow River, Yuan Shaojun continued to attack Zhu Weijun like a water mill, but for several days in a row, he still failed to touch the outer wall of Zhu Weijun's camp. As for Cao Cao outside Hulao Pass, it was a waste of time.

Although Cao Cao was also thinking of various ideas and strategies that could affect Zhu Weijun's battle in Luoyang, he couldn't play any key role for a while.

As far as Zhu Wei is concerned, it is a good thing that the frontal battlefield on Luoyang's side continues to be delayed.

Zhu Wei now has to wait for the development of the peripheral wars in Bingzhou and Xuzhou. As long as the peripheral wars can have a good result, it can have a qualitative change in the wars in Luoyang.

At this time, the first battle that broke out on the peripheral side was still on Xuzhou's side.

Ever since the news that Yuan Tan joined forces with Zang Ba and Liu Bei to send troops together, Xuzhou Taishici has made preparations. After discussing with Xu Shu, Taishici took the initiative to send troops to the north, preparing to put the battlefield outside his own territory. .

The first battlefield chosen is Donghai County. As long as Tai Shici's Shenjian Battalion can intercept Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei's coalition forces in Donghai County, the three counties of Pengguo, Xiapi, and Guangling, which are recovering people's livelihood, will not be affected by the war. Impact.

Therefore, Tai Shici first led the army to Tan County, the prefecture of Donghai County, where he reinforced the city wall as the command center before facing Yuan Shao's army, and then sent Bao Long and Chen Ying to lead [-] troops to Lanling County. Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei's coalition forces defended.

Afterwards, Tai Shici discovered that the coalition forces of Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei had not formally dispatched troops, so he left 5000 troops for Xu Shu and Zhang Shuo to garrison Tan County first, and led Chen Wu and Ma Zhong to lead more than [-] troops to actively kill them. After entering Langya County, he was ready to attack Liu Bei's army with a backhand first.

Of course, Tai Shici had also communicated with Huang Zhong who was stationed in Shouchun before. At this time, Huang Zhong had also led the [-] troops of the Jingnan Camp northward, moving towards Pei County.

Huang Zhong left Lv Dai and Li Feng still stationed in Shouchun, and brought the chief minister Lu Su and three generals, Liang Gang, Chen Ji, and Le Jiu, to Pei County for a temporary garrison. On the other hand, they can go west to Liang Guo at any time, and pass through the ambush of Liang Guo's garrison general Che Zhou, and then they can enter the belly of Dagon Prefecture.

Tai Shici, Huang Zhong, Xu Shu, and Lu Su all know Che Zhou's identity as an internal response, and it was originally for the convenience of their communication and cooperation, so as to avoid unnecessary internal friction when a real war breaks out.

Of course, now facing Yuan Shaojun's southward march, after communicating with Huang Zhong, Tai Shici, Xu Shu, and Lu Su, they felt that they should first repel Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei before they could attack Gunzhou with peace of mind.

At least after ensuring the stability of Xuzhou, Huang Zhong's Jingnan camp can enter Gunzhou. As for Tai Shici's Shenjian camp, it can only be determined according to the situation.

Therefore, after Taishi Ci had Huang Zhong's Jingnan Camp to assist in defense, he was very relieved and dared to take the initiative. The best defense is to attack. After all, Taishi Ci's Shenjian Camp can now be regarded as the main field force in Zhu Wei's army. Facing The three coalition forces of Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei are not necessarily in a weak position.

Of course, after Zhu Weijun's communication with Tai Shici, Huang Zhong, Xu Shu, and Lu Su before, they also believed that Liu Beijun was the weakest of the three armies of Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei. The relatively barren Langya County has not received much development.

Therefore, if Tai Shici attacks Liu Bei's army now, he can completely drive Liu Bei's army from Langya County to Taishan County. Then maybe Tai Shici will be able to advance the battlefield from Donghai County to Taishan County.

Fighting in the enemy's territory, you can use what the enemy has, so no matter how the war is fought, it will only destroy Zang Ba's foundation in Taishan County, and will not affect the territory controlled by Zhu Weijun in Xuzhou at all.

At the same time, advancing the battlefield directly to Taishan County will also be beneficial for the recovery of Taishan County in the future.

As for Liu Bei, after he moved from Xiaopei to Langya County, he maintained a military force of less than [-], of which the main force was only [-] or [-], which is really not an opponent.

But Liu Bei did not expect that Tai Shici would take the initiative to attack him first. After receiving the news of Tai Shici's attack, Liu Bei hastily accelerated his preparations for the battle, but Liu Bei also knew in his heart that he might not be able to withstand Tai Shici. attacking.

Liu Bei had no choice but to follow Yuan Tan's order to dispatch troops before, but Liu Bei was a little reluctant in his heart. He originally wanted to just follow suit.

Now Liu Bei had to think about how to preserve his strength. At this time, Yuan Tan's soldiers had just come out of Qingzhou, but they were hindered by Zang Ba on how to march through Taishan County.

Originally, Yuan Tan wanted to lead his army directly through Taishan County and attack Pengcheng, but Zang Ba was worried that Yuan Tan would use a false way to destroy Guo. When Yuan Tan's army entered Taishan County, he would have no way to invite him away, so Zang Ba Yuan Tan put forward some requirements on how to march Yuan Shaojun into Taishan County.

It took some time for the two sides to communicate with each other, so Yuan Tan did not lead his troops into Taishan County. Instead, Liu Bei was attacked by Taishi Ci first.

This made Liu Bei a little bit blind. He saw that the current situation was not right.

Yuan Tan and Zang Ba's coalition forces don't know when they will start from Taishan County, but he is currently stationed in Kaiyang County, Langya County, which happens to be at the forefront of Zhu Weijun and their so-called coalition forces attacking Xuzhou.

As a result, the so-called coalition forces attacking Xuzhou were still there, but Tai Shici's soldiers and horses had already entered Langya County, and would soon reach Kaiyang County.

This made Liu Bei feel as if he had been driven away. He could only let Guan Yu and Mi Fang lead the main force of [-] troops to Langya County to fight against Tai Shici. Qian and Jian Yong started to clean up their family property in Kaiyang County, so they planned to retreat to Taishan County first.

It can be said that Liu Bei never thought of being able to resist Tai Shici's attack, but just asked Guan Yu to delay for a while, so that he could retreat to Taishan County safely.

In this way, the more than 5000 elites of the Divine Arrow Battalion led by Tai Shici soon met the [-] Liu Bei army led by Guan Yu in Langqiu County.

Although most of the landforms in Langya County are terraced and hilly, that is, a flat terrain with large raised area and low altitude, generally speaking, the slope in the center of the terrace is gentle, and the surrounding is steeper, standing upright on the surrounding lowland hills.

But this Langqiu County happened to belong to the gentle slope area in the center of the platform, so although Guan Yu led troops to station in Langqiu County for defensive purposes, this Langqiu County did not have much defensive advantage.

In addition, Langqiu County was originally an ordinary small county with low and dilapidated city walls, so facing the Divine Arrow Battalion led by Tai Shici, whose troops were far superior to his own, Guan Yu was really not sure how long he could resist the attack with Langqiu County.

For this reason, when Taishi Ci's army arrived, Guan Yu took the initiative to lead his troops to the front of Taishi Ci's army to invite a battle, saying that he wanted to have a one-on-one battle with Taishi Ci...

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