Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 752 Advancing to Taishan County
Guan Yu's thought was very beautiful, but Tai Shici didn't pay attention to it at all.

Now that Tai Shici is the chief general of an army, how can he easily single out others? If he were a member of the army, he might be happy to fight Guan Yu before the battle. After all, Tai Shici himself is also a fierce general .

But this time Tai Shici directly set up an offensive formation in the shape of a wild goose, and rushed to Liu Bei's army led by Guan Yu.

Guan Yu came out to challenge with only more than 1000 soldiers and horses. Seeing that Tai Shici ignored him completely, how could he dare to use more than 1000 people to meet Tai Shici's 5000-odd people, so he hurriedly withdrew and fled back to Langqiu County.

As a result, Tai Shici did not waste time, led his troops to chase Guan Yu to Langqiu County, and launched a strong attack on the county.

The city wall of Langqiu County was not high, so Tai Shici just let the crossbowmen and archers hold the formation in the rear, and drove three or four thousand sword shieldmen in the front to carry the siege ladder and launched a strong attack.

Guan Yu had just fled back to the city, and he didn't even have time to command. Mi Fang, who stayed in Langqiu County and was in charge of the city defense, couldn't resist anymore.

There is a big gap between the Zhu Wei Army of the Shenjian Camp led by Tai Shici and the Liu Bei Army led by Guan Yu, not to mention their training and morale. There is now a gap of three or four times in strength.

In addition, Guan Yu's strategy of delaying Zhu Weijun by single-handedly fighting Tai Shici failed completely. Guan Yu withdrew to Langqiu County in a hurry, so naturally he couldn't organize any effective defense.

Therefore, Liu Bei's brother-in-law Mi Fang was the one who stayed in Langqiu County to take charge of the defense.

But this Langqiu County is just a small county. Although it has a rammed earth city wall, the wall is only two stories high. Zhu Weijun only needs to use the siege ladder to climb up, and he can rush up to the city wall in three or five steps. .

In addition, Tai Shici's Divine Archery Battalion is an army that specializes in archery. Therefore, when the siege infantry charged in front, at least four or five thousand archers from the rear made covering arrows on and into the city wall. Rain cover.

In this way, Liu Bei's army staying in Langqiu County was really unable to resist. How could they organize an effective defense, and was soon rushed to the city wall by the siege infantry of the Shenjian Battalion.

Losing the defensive advantage of the city wall, how could Liu Bei's army, which was not superior in strength, resist Zhu Weijun's attack, so Guan Yu, who had just fled back to the city, saw Mi Fang leading his troops back from the city wall before he had time to catch his breath.

So Guan Yu had nothing to say, so he could only retreat from the north gate of Langqiu County after joining Mi Fang.

Tai Shici led the troops to chase all the way, and directly killed most of Liu Bei's four thousand elite main force. Guan Yu and Mi Fang finally fled back to Kaiyang County with only a thousand remnants.

Although Tai Shici also gathered the main force of the pursuing army, he still sent Ma Zhong with [-] troops to continue the pursuit, and directly followed Guan Yu and Mi Fang's defeated soldiers to Kaiyang County.

After Liu Bei sent Guan Yu and Mi Fang to stop Tai Shici in Kaiyang County, he took the fastest time to clean up the family property. Originally, Liu Bei thought that if he had time, he could also take away the people he moved from Xiaopei, but Guan Yu's defeat came back too fast.

Hearing the news of Guan Yu's defeat from the scouts, Liu Bei didn't care about anything else, so he could only lead his troops to retreat immediately, so Liu Bei asked Zhang Fei to bring some soldiers and horses to meet Guan Yu, and then he didn't dare to fight back at all. Zhong Suo led the pursuers, and the whole army withdrew to Taishan County.

Ma Zhong occupied Kaiyang County effortlessly. After Tai Shici's follow-up main force arrived, Tai Shici simply dealt with the local civil affairs in Kaiyang County, and then led his troops to chase Liu Bei's army to Taishan County.

Since things are going so smoothly, the battlefield can be directly placed in Taishan County.

Therefore, Tai Shici soon sent military orders to Xu Shu, Bao Long, and Chen Ying who were staying in Donghai County, asking them to lead troops to join him in Taishan County, so that they could go north directly to attack Zang Ba.

However, Taishan County was Zang Ba's lair that had been occupied by Zang Ba for many years, so Tai Shici did not dare to rush in, so he first occupied Feiguo County in the south of Taishan County and stopped.

This Taishan County is located in the central Shandong area, and the territory is mostly mountainous, especially the northern Taishan, Lushan, and Culaishan Mountains.

Zang Ba's Taishan bandits mainly used the mountainous area in the northern part of Taishan County as their lair. The Fenggao County of Taishan County, which is now occupied by Zang Ba, is almost in the area between Mount Tai and Mount Culai.

The southern area of ​​Taishan County is also full of mountains. A Mongolian Mountain runs through the middle of Taishan County. It is said that Zhongni Mountain, which is the hometown of Kong Shengren, is also spreading in the south of Taishan County.

In fact, Zhongnishan originally belonged to Donghai County, and now Feiguo County, which Tai Shici occupies, was also divided from Donghai County to Taishan County.

According to the direction of the official road in Xuzhou, from Pengcheng State occupied by Zhu Weijun to Taishan County, the only way is to bypass Zhongni Mountain in the south of Taishan County, enter Langya County from Donghai County, and then enter Taishan along the Wushui River County Feiguo County.

The next step is to go northwest along the Wushui River to South Wuyang County, and then obliquely pass through the Mengshan area in the middle of Taishan County to reach Liangfu County in the south of Culai Mountain in the north of Taishan County.

Liangfu County is basically an outlying county occupied by Zang Ba's forces. According to Tai Shici's estimation, if he leads his troops into Taishan County, he will probably fight with Yuan Tan, Zang Ba, and Liu Bei's remaining troops here. Allied forces fight.

Because if you continue to take the official road north to Fenggao County, Zang Ba’s hometown, you will have to follow the Wenshui River from the west of Culai Mountain and go around the two small towns of Yangguancheng and Longxiang City to Bo County, and then This is where Fenggao County is located.

It can be said that Taishan County has formed an E-shaped landform with the help of the mountains. Except for the three horizontal lines of the E, other places are mountainous areas, which cannot be easily passed by the army.

Therefore, Zang Ba will definitely send troops to Liangfu County to fight Zhu Weijun led by Tai Shici. Only in this way can Zhu Weijun be blocked at the periphery of his territory. If this Zang Ba does not want the war to spread to the territory he controls, then he is in Taishan County The foundation that has been developed for many years will also be destroyed in the chaos of war.

Of course, if Zang Ba really couldn't resist, he could still retreat into the mountains of Mount Tai, Mount Lu, and Mount Culai.

In that way, for Zhu Weijun, it would take time and effort to completely wipe out Zang Ba, but compared to Zang Ba, he had to abandon the territory he had operated outside the mountain for many years and hide back in the mountain to become a bandit again.

Now that Yuan Tan led the army from Qingzhou to Taishan County, he also wanted to enter the territory of Taishan County from Ying County in the north of Taishan County and then through Fenggao County, and then followed the route just now to the south of Xuzhou's inner hinterland.

Zang Ba had been a little worried that after Yuan Tan led his troops into his hometown of Fenggao County, he would take the opportunity to swallow up his territory first, and then coerce Zang Ba's army to attack Pengcheng.

That's why I started bargaining with Yuan Tan, hoping that Yuan Tan can guarantee that he won't do anything when he borrows the road...

(End of this chapter)