The strongest Marquis in history

"As long as my brother is here, my country of Wei will still be able to fight. As long as my brother is here, the rest of us will be there. We lost our territory, and we can also make a comeback in the future."

"" Now, I want to mobilize all the remaining troops, withdraw to Ji County, and first destroy the Qi army that came from Beidi County and Wudu County.After destroying this group of troops, I will come and guard Longguan with my elder brother to resist Wang Qi's attack. "

Cao Yuanli immediately understood.

He was guarding Longguan, and he wanted to block Wang Qi's attack and give Cao Xuan a chance to destroy the rear.This problem also has an extremely dangerous situation.

Once Cao Xuan withdrew to Ji County and failed to encircle and suppress Qi's army, Cao Yuanli was caught in the middle, unable to advance or retreat.At that time, Cao Yuanli will be alone, and he will definitely lose.

Cao Yuanli is a wise general, he knew it in his heart, but although he explained it clearly, he never had the slightest fear, and said loudly: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I am willing to sit in Longguan. I am here, and Longguan is here. Even if I withdraw my troops, I will not be afraid." It will make Wang Qi feel better."

Cao Xuan nodded a little excitedly, and said approvingly: "I feel at ease with my brother's words. In this way, I can go all out to encircle and suppress the Qi army in the rear."

Cao Yuanli said: "Your Majesty, just go, here at Longguan, leave it to the minister."

Cao Xuan said again: "Brother, I still say that people are the most important thing. If my brother is here, I won't worry, and I can continue to make a comeback. If there is something wrong with my brother, it will be a big trouble. My brother is in Longguan. Do what you can, don't be careless, and don't be brave, if you really can't hold it, just withdraw your troops."

Cao Yuanli said: "I understand."

Cao Xuan didn't stay any longer, and immediately left with Jiang Jiuge, Cheng Lin and the others, went directly to mobilize the army, and left overnight. After all, the situation was critical, and Cao Xuan didn't dare to delay any longer.

Standing on the tower, Cao Yuanli looked at Wang Qi's camp of the State of Qi in the distance outside the city. Seeing Wang Qi's camp lit up with flames, he took a deep breath in his heart, pulled himself together, and wanted to fight the enemy with all his strength. .

"General, Your Majesty withdrew the army and left us to guard. Aren't we abandoned now?"

Beside Cao Yuanli, a general spoke.

The general's name is Mo Xingkong, and he is Cao Yuanli's confidant. After all, Mo Xingkong was just a young general in the army in the past, but he was spotted by Cao Yuanli, and then he was continuously promoted. Only then did Mo Xingkong become the current Mo Xingkong , Become a hero in the army.

Cao Yuanli said, "Mo Xingkong, what do you mean by that?"

Mo Xingkong said: "General, the last general's meaning is very simple. His Majesty has already given up on you and made you a sacrificial child. You should just give up and stop resisting. With our little strength and the weapons we have, we must It is impossible to resist Qi's attack. So I think it is possible to surrender."

Cao Yuanli's eyes sharpened, and he said, "Mo Xingkong, do you know what you're talking about?"

Mo Xingkong said: "The last general naturally knows what he is talking about. Now that Beidi County and Wudu County have fallen, and the two places have been captured, Wei State is already irresistible and will definitely be defeated. You stay here at this time Guarding is asking for death. General, why do you have to do it for Wei, just like this..."

Clang! !

There was a sound of a sword being unsheathed.

A cold light swept over the city tower.Under the light of the burning torches, the sword light passed over Mo Xingkong's neck, and the next moment, blood spattered.

Before Mo Xingkong finished speaking, his eyes widened, and his body immediately fell to the ground.

After Cao Yuanli killed Mo Xingkong, his eyes glanced at all the soldiers on the tower, and he said coldly: "Everyone, listen to me, we are born as Wei's people, and we will be Wei's ghosts when we die. If you want to surrender, don't be afraid." Xingkong is an example. Come here, bind Mo Xingkong to General Ben and hang him on the tower to show the public. Let everyone know the consequences of wanting to be weak."

The guarding soldiers on the tower were all silent and trembling, because Cao Yuanli's methods were too harsh.

In fact, this is Cao Yuanli's disposition.

As the chief general in the army, he has always been strong, just like that, he has the appeal and deterrence in the army.

This is also the reason why Cao Xuan left Cao Yuanli behind.

After Cao Yuanli killed Mo Xingkong and frightened the soldiers, he went straight back to the room above the tower to rest.Now he has to defend against the army of Qi State, and he lives on the tower, ready to deal with it at any time.

Chapter 818 Blasting

In the early morning of April, the sun rises.

The golden sunlight sprinkled on the entire land, causing the entire land outside Longguan to be covered with golden light.In Wang Qi's camp, the soldiers in the army had already dressed neatly, and even the soldiers had gone out for morning exercises and had breakfast, and now they gathered together, ready to send out troops.

Wang Qi also rushed over.

Early in the morning, when Wang Qi just got up to do morning exercises in the camp, Zhuge Feng had already reported to Wang Qi that the tunnel leading to Longguan had been dug and all the gunpowder had been buried.

Longguan can be blown up just by arranging soldiers to ignite it.

Everything is ready, Wang Qi wants to break through directly.

In front of all the soldiers, Wang Qi said something to the effect that today he would break through the Long Pass and destroy the soldiers of the Wei army guarding the Long Pass.After encouraging the soldiers, Wang Qi directly gave the order to march.

The army is only a few miles away from Longguan.In less than half an hour, the army arrived neatly.However, the army at this time was about [-] steps away from the checkpoint, never too close.

Anyway, Wei Guo's army also has rifles.

Within two hundred steps, within the range of the rifle, that is to seek death by oneself.

So, keep your distance.

As soon as Wang Qi's army arrived, he gave the order to ignite the fire. Following the order, the soldiers in the rear camp directly ignited the fuse that was several miles long.

The fuse spread from the underground of Longguan all the way to the camp.

As soon as the fire wire was ignited, there was a buzzing sound.In the dark tunnel, it looks like a fiery snake, scurrying around rapidly, moving forward continuously.Compared with the speed of people rushing, the ignited fuse moved forward quickly with a few miles, and it didn't take long to reach the place where the gunpowder was buried under Longguan.

Buried gunpowder, packs of explosives stacked together.Each pack of explosives has a fuse, and the fuses of all the explosives are brought together.Now it burns, and all the dynamite packs will ignite.

When the fastest-burning explosive package, the fuse was completely burned, an explosion occurred with a bang.

Boom boom boom! ! !

Incomparably dense explosions sounded, and an overwhelming force came from the towers of Longguan.The soil was flying, the ground was shaking, and the city of Longguan was visibly collapsing and sinking.

At this moment, the originally majestic Xiongguan began to fall crookedly.

The soldiers of Wei State guarding on the tower were all panicked.

The tower has collapsed!

Cao Yuanli was also terrified by the scene in front of him.However, his own qualities were excellent, and the moment the city tower began to collapse, Cao Yuanli understood that this was the method of Qi's army.

Qi's army actually dug underground tunnels early, ambushed and exploded with gunpowder.

It's really insidious!

Cao Yuanli was also terrified of such a method in his heart.Before he had time to think about it, he quickly ordered all the soldiers to stabilize and prepare to resist the enemy.

At this point, it is inevitable to fight and start a war, so Cao Yuanli quickly gave the order.

When Cao Yuanli gave the order to fight to the death, Wang Qi outside the city saw that Longguan was beginning to collapse, so he immediately issued two orders.

The first order was to mobilize all the cannons and divide them into two batches to aim at the hillsides on both sides of Longguan and bombard them. With the help of the intensive explosive power of the cannons, they weakened the firepower on both sides and suppressed the troops on both sides.

With the second order, the army began to attack and directly entered Longguan.Even this time's arrangement, it is even more important to hurry up and kill them as soon as possible.

The sound of rumbling cannons sounded, and the cannons aimed at the positions outside Longguan and bombed indiscriminately.Under the continuous bombing, the mountains on both sides trembled continuously, and even put tremendous pressure on the Wei soldiers on the mountain.

Many soldiers of Wei State were tired of avoiding and did not dare to show their heads.

Qi's army began to charge forward in a mighty manner.One by one, the soldiers charged quickly, and within a short period of time, they had rushed downstairs in Longcheng and launched an attack directly.

In the original Longguan, the rifle firepower arrangement was very strong.Coupled with the suppression of firepower on the mountains on both sides, it can take advantage and guard the checkpoint.But now, there is no such opportunity.

The forces on the mountains on both sides were suppressed, the towers collapsed, the walls were crooked, and the soldiers had no intention of resisting.When encountering Qi's army, even Cao Yuanli ordered to resist, but fled in panic.

All the soldiers charged, climbed up quickly, and then climbed onto the tower, and then quickly shot and killed all the Wei soldiers who were guarding and hadn't escaped.

Under the cover of the army, the soldiers of Wei State were killed one after another.

Cao Yuanli had already left Longguan, and he kept ordering to stop him.Compared to Qi State's offensive, the soldiers under Cao Yuanli's command, even those who are brave and skilled in combat, are now terrified, and in a short period of time, they are at a disadvantage.

Cao Yuan left himself, panicked.

The enemy is too fierce.

Unstoppable.

Cao Yuanli still ordered a counterattack and mobilized his soldiers to fight to the death. The problem was that the previous explosion caused the entire Longguan to collapse. Everyone was so frightened that they no longer had the fighting spirit they had before.Therefore, even if Cao Yuanli gave the order, the fighting spirit of the soldiers was not high, and it was already good if they didn't just run away.

The two sides clashed, and within a short time, all the soldiers under Cao Yuanli's command collapsed.

The one who fled fled, the one who surrendered surrendered.

The [-] troops completely collapsed, and they could no longer guard Longguan.

Cao Yuanli sighed, he stopped resisting and shouted: "Withdraw, withdraw!"

He himself turned around and retreated.

With Cao Yuanli's withdrawal, the Longguan defense line was completely defeated and there was no more resistance.There were still a group of troops on the mountains on both sides outside Longguan.Under the constant bombardment, the firepower of this group of troops was suppressed. Even if they occupied the high ground, the situation was not very good.

Now that Cao Yuanli retreated, this army became alone.If they want to go down the mountain to evacuate, they have to meet Qi's army, if they don't go down the mountain to evacuate, they will be trapped on the mountain.

In an instant, this became an abandoned child.

When the Qi army came to kill, all the Wei soldiers on the mountain surrendered directly without resisting at all.

The Qi army, after crossing the Long Pass, pursued Cao Yuanli and his party.

The army chased and killed for a while, and did not withdraw until noon.After the army counted the results of the battle, Zhuge Feng came to Wang Qi's side and reported: "Your Majesty, we have won this battle completely."

"The general situation here at Longguan. After the interrogation, I learned that Cao Xuan had led his troops to withdraw yesterday, leaving Cao Yuanli to lead 2 people to guard. After we broke through Longguan, Cao Yuanli withdrew his troops and left."

"After this battle, more than 960 people were captured and 200 five people were beheaded. Our own casualties were less than [-]. Longguan is now broken."

Zhuge Feng felt a little regretful and regretful.

In this battle, even if Longguan was broken, it was still far from enough. After all, Cao Xuan was not captured.

Wang Qi nodded and said: "No matter what, it's good to win. The army will rest for a while. After lunch, they will continue to march in the afternoon. Wudu County and Beidi County have been taken, and Hanyang County should also be taken. "

"As ordered!"

Zhuge Feng made arrangements immediately.

The army had lunch at Longguan, and after resting, the army continued on its way.

All the captives were escorted forward together.

The army is in front, and the prisoners are behind.

Although the speed of the army has slowed down a little, it has not affected the overall situation at all.

Wang Qi's army went all the way to the west, and when they approached Long County, they suddenly found that Long County was empty, there was no guarding army at all, Cao Xuan never guarded, and Cao Yuanli did not stay in Long County.

The county magistrate of Long County surrendered directly.

After Wang Qi's army captured Long County, they took a short rest and replenished food in Long County.

As for all the captives, Wang Qi had already started reorganization along the way. After all, there was Zhou Zishan's political and industrial department, and people from all levels of political and industrial departments quickly did ideological work to persuade everyone to return to Qi and reorganize into the army.

When they left Long County, more than 1 soldiers from the original Wei State broke up and rushed into the Qi State Army.

The army continued westward and went straight to Ji County, the prefecture of Hanyang.

Chapter 819

On the way to Ji County, the seat of Hanyang County.

The army led by Cao Xuan has been on its way quickly, and his army is about to arrive in Ji County.Originally, Cao Xuan's plan was to temporarily retreat to Long County.Just considering that the troops from Beidi County and Wudu County came, once guarding Long County and Ji County was attacked, his retreat would be cut off, so Cao Xuan finally went straight to Ji County.

When Cao Xuan led the army on the way, there was a sentry rushing from the rear.

The sentry came to Cao Xuan's side and reported: "Your Majesty, General Cao Yuanli has sent a message to the rear. Please wait a moment, Your Majesty. His men are about to catch up with us."

Cao Xuan froze when he heard this.

Cao Yuan's departure means that Longguan has been lost, and even Long County in the rear has been handed over to Wang Qi.

Wei Guo is now wide open, completely without the east line of defense.

Cao Xuan never refused, he temporarily ordered to rest in place.After waiting for about half an hour, I saw an army rushing quickly on the official road behind.

The army led by Cao Yuanli traveled day and night, without any pause along the way.If not, it would be impossible for him to catch up with Cao Xuan's team that retreated first.

Cao Yuanli now has more than 4000 people under his command, and many scattered along the way, so there are more than 4000 elites left.After Cao Yuanli and Cao Xuan met, he stood in front of Cao Xuan with a miserable look on his face, bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, I have failed to defend Longguan, please forgive me."

Cao Xuan stretched out his hand to support Cao Yuanli, and said: "Brother, I am already very grateful for you staying behind at Longguan. Without you, Wang Qi's army would have chased after you directly. Originally, before this, I asked you to do everything to protect yourself. Premise. Now you are back, great!"

Cao Yuanli sighed, "I'm incompetent, but Wang Qi is too ruthless."

Cao Xuandao: "How did he break through?"

Cao Yuanli said: "Your Majesty, we were all deceived by Wang Qi. During this period of time, it was indeed Wudu County and Beidi County that Wang Qi's army attacked, causing damage to our two places."

"But Wang Qi is not doing nothing outside Longguan, nor is he just delaying time. In fact, Wang Qi has been quietly arranging people to dig tunnels."

"This tunnel was dug from his camp all the way to the tower of Longguan. Then the morning after you left, Wang Qi arrived with his troops and directly set fire to blow up Longguan."