Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1704
Chaoge City.

Mu Jing was not in a hurry, he was still waiting. In his opinion, since Shangdang was already the general trend, the rhythm of the war had already been controlled by him.

Next, it depends on how Yan Jun moves.

If the main force of the Yan army goes south, then he doesn't mind fighting with all his strength. Only when Liu Bei is defeated can he focus on dealing with Cao Cao.

I only hope that before Liu Bei is defeated, the main force of the Wei army will be suppressed in Yuzhou, otherwise this battle will be difficult to fight.

"Your Majesty, it was sent urgently from the front line eight hundred miles away!"

Xi Zhicai rushed in from the outside again.

He held a secret paper in his hand.

This is a confidential letter from Shangdang, written by Zhang Liao himself.

Mu Jing put down the pen in his hand to review the notebook, his eyes flickered, stood up, took the secret letter, and then tore off the wax.

Opening it and looking at it, his eyes suddenly brightened.

"it is good!"

Mu Jing laughed loudly: "Hahaha, Zhang Wenyuan lived up to expectations and gave me a very perfect answer sheet. I have to say, well done!"

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" Xi Zhicai hurried up.

Mujing didn't care too much, and handed it to him directly for review.

Xi Zhicai took a closer look, and immediately took a deep breath: "This result is much better than we expected!"

Surrendering Ju Yi and beheading Zhang Fei, what an achievement.

Shangdang is safe.

Moreover, the entire western battlefield may no longer be sufficient. Even if there is still Zhang Xiu in the Northland, without the support force, he will not be able to become a great weapon.

Next, Mu Jing can focus on the fight to the death with Liu Bei.

"Come on!"

"exist!"

"Immediately send an order to the various military departments and give them one night to integrate their forces. We will break out of the camp and head north early tomorrow morning!" Mu Jing ordered.

At this time, he couldn't wait any longer, and he acted first. Now that he had killed Zhang Fei, he would kill Guan Yu again.

"Your Majesty, as long as Guan Yu knows that the Shangdang has lost support, he will not dare to fight us to the death. He still has a way to go!" Xi Zhicai said worriedly: "From the north of Hanoi, he can still go back to Hebei over the mountains and mountains. !"

Although the road in the middle is not easy, as long as Guan Yu makes up his mind, he still has the opportunity to lead the elite to leave the battlefield and leave Hanoi.

"Where is Zhang Fei's body?"

"Should still be in the party!"

"You write to Zhang Liao and ask Zhang Liao to restrain Zhang Fei's body, don't send it too far, and send it to Guan Yu's camp!" Mu Jing said coldly: "I want to see whether Guan Yu escaped or Battle to the death?"

"Will he fight to the death for Zhang Fei at all costs?"

Xi Zhicai was a little skeptical.

"Hard to say!"

Mu Jing is not very confident, but he knows the history, so he wants to give it a try. In history, Guan Yu was the first to die in battle. Zhang Fei was furious and sent troops. Liu Bei sent troops irrationally in order to obey the two brothers regardless of strategic deployment. Jiang Dong, it's all because of brotherhood.

No matter how you evaluate the relationship between Liu Guanzhang and the three, Mu Jing still believes that their bond of friendship is much deeper than that of blood.

Besides, the name of Guan Yuyi and Bo Yuntian has been passed on for more than 800 years, and it is not unfounded. His loyalty will also become his weakness in a certain way.

"The soldiers are very fast!"

Mu Jing thought for a while, and said: "Zhicai, I will lead the Divine Guard Army to hold back the formation, you lead the Sun Moon Army to go north first, and let Zhaoming's Fourth Army join the battlefield as soon as possible!"

Zhaoming's fourth army is the cavalry army. The cavalry led by Pang Xi had a good record in the battle against the Xiongnu in Liangzhou. Now they are encamped in Guanzhong and Beidi and are on their way to the battlefield.

"promise!"

Xi Zhi nodded.

He thought for a while, and then asked: "Should we build a line of defense in Xiliang!"

"no need!"

Mu Jing put his hand across and said: "We have already fought to this point, so we can't care about the gains and losses of one land and one city. I must gather our troops and kill the main force of the Yan army!"

He gritted his teeth, and there was a touch of coldness and firmness in his words: "At this time, no matter where the gains or losses are, it is difficult to shake the strategic deployment of our Ming army!"

As a king, you have to learn to gain and lose.

Even if he is unwilling, he is not reconciled, if he can exchange the survival of the Northland for victory in this battle, he will not hesitate.

Even if he failed the people of Xiliang in the end, there was nothing he could do.

That's the big picture.

For the sake of the overall situation, it is inevitable to sacrifice some things. After all, Mu Jing is not invincible, and there are things that cannot be helped.

"Understood!"

Xi Zhicai nodded: "I will use the command center to order all ministries to assemble, give up all other places, and fully reinforce us to win this battle!"

"Shangdang, you still have to pay attention!" Mu Jing reminded: "Be careful, they will shoot back!"

"Zhang Wenyuan won't give them such a chance!"

Xi Zhicai is confident.

In his opinion, Zhang Liao is a meticulous coach who will not make some low-level mistakes before victory. Since Shangdang is in the hands of their Ming army, basically there will be no accidents.

"I also believe in Zhang Wenyuan!"

Pastoral nod.

That's all he said. Zhang Liao's decisiveness and prudence are far superior to him and Xi Zhicai. There are some things that he doesn't need to remind.

"Your Majesty, the news of Shangdang will not be hidden for long. I guess at this time, Liu Bei's main force has almost gone south. It will not take long to go south from Taiyuan and enter Shangdang!"

Xi Zhicai said: "Can we attack and ambush them halfway?"

"Can consider it!"

Mu Jing thought for a while: "But neither you nor I know about the Shangdang situation. This matter is left to Zhang Liao to decide. Whether to attack or not, he will decide for himself!"

"it is good!"

Xi Zhicai nodded, although the Shangdang battlefield obeyed the orders of their command center, but they were not in the Shangdang battlefield, and they didn't understand many things thoroughly, so Shangdang should make its own decisions.

"After defeating Zhang Fei and eating Shangdang, our main force on the western front can be liberated. Give Zhang Liao a few days to rest, and then order Zhang Liao to press the front line!" Mu Jing turned his head and looked at the picture on the screen. Marching map, said: "Even if you don't send troops, I will put pressure on Lord Yan Jun!"

"Yes!"

Xi Zhi nodded.

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When the Ming army was celebrating their victory in the Shangdang Campaign, the east gate of Guanzhong had already been knocked open.

An army drove straight from Hulao Pass without hindrance.

In less than half a day, the Yanjin Ferry had already been breached directly, pointing directly at Luoyang City.

"What, Hulao Pass is guarding, and an army has entered Henan, and it has arrived at Yanjin Ferry?"

As the highest official in Luozhou, Xu Shu has always been conscientious and cautious, not daring to relax in the slightest. After all, Luozhou's new policy is related to the promotion scale of the whole new policy.

Xu Shu had great confidence in the Ming army, so he rarely had any worries about the military. He just didn't expect that at this time, there would be an enemy army heading straight to Luoyang from the east.

"Can you be sure that the enemy has entered Yanjin Ferry?"

Xu Shu looked at a soldier covered in blood in front of him.

"Your Excellency, this news is definitely not wrong. When our army went north, we left two garrisons staring at Hulao Pass, but..."

He gritted his teeth and said: "We were completely wiped out overnight, and the escaped soldiers were less than a slap in the face!"

I thought it was just an easy job, but no one thought that the Hulao Gate was really opened, and a wolf-like army rushed in quickly, and they didn't even have time to react.

So all the soldiers and horses in the two villages were wiped out, and the two major military lords were killed before they had time to bubble up. In the panic, there were at most three or five people who could escape.

He is one of them.

"Is it Wei Jun who has seen the serial number?" Xu Shu became a little anxious. The front line is very good, and the backyard is on fire at this time?
"seems not!"

The soldier said: "I saw that their attire is not Wei Jun, and their robes can be changed, but it is difficult to change their armor and weapons, and they have at least tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. It is impossible to use the weapons of so many soldiers and horses They are all pretending, their battle armor and weapons should all belong to the Yan army!"

Every prince of the road has certain characteristics for the weapons and armor of his army, and it can be inferred based on the iron smelting technology he controls.

On the battlefield, even an ordinary soldier can tell which army the enemy's weapons come from.

This is a basic skill, and a homework that must be understood, so that you can know who the enemy is against you. "Yan Jun?"

Xu Shu jumped up suddenly, and paced back and forth in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion, obviously anxious: "Impossible, how could Yan Jun appear here?"

The Yan army should all be on the northern front, coming in from Yanzhou, which is unlikely.

unless……

Xu Shu suddenly understood: "Wei Jun gave them an excuse!"

Only this analysis can explain why the Yan army entered Henan from the east, and at such a fast speed, they directly crossed Hulao Pass and entered Yanjinkou.

After passing Yanjin, it is Luoyang.

The city of Luoyang is not very important, but it is very important for this battle, because Luoyang has now hoarded a large amount of weapons and food.

This is the logistics transit point for the main force of the Ming army.

Once Luoyang falls, the 30 to [-] main force of the Ming army on the front line will face the danger of being cut off from the rear, the backyard will catch fire, and even the food road will be cut off.

There could be an immediate rout.

Thinking of this, cold sweat kept breaking out on Xu Shu's forehead.

"Come on!"

"exist!"

A middle-aged man walked in.

"Master Tan, how many soldiers and horses are there in Luoyang?"

"Report to the governor, most of the main force of our army has already gone north, only two logistics battalions are responsible for transporting grain and grass, and they are currently resting in the East School Field!"

"Go immediately and invite their captain!"

"promise!"

After about half an hour.

Two burly middle-aged men in battle armor strode into the governor's mansion from outside.

"Lieutenant Liu, Captain Chen!"

Xu Shu knew them and bowed his hands to them.

One is from the logistics battalion of the first army of Zhaoming, and the other is from the logistics battalion of the fourth army of the sun and moon. They are responsible for transporting grain and grass to the north, so they take root in Luoyang.

"Governor Xu, I don't know what's important to invite us here?" In front of Xu Shu, the two school lieutenants are not very afraid. Civil and military divisions, Xu Shu has no power to command them. Of course, they still respect Xu Shu. , after all, the governor of a place is far above them.

"You two, the news just came back from the Hulao Pass in the east. At least [-] Yan troops have broken through the Hulao Pass, entered Yanjin, and are heading towards Luoyang!"

Xu Shu didn't hide it from them either, but told them directly.

"what?"

The two captains suddenly panicked.

They looked at each other, and the taller Colonel Liu cupped his hands and asked, "Governor Xu, is this news true?"

"When His Majesty went north, he didn't leave too many soldiers and horses behind. He only left one in charge of guarding the Hulao Pass. Now all the soldiers and horses have been wiped out, and only two or three people escaped!"

"How could this be?"

These two school lieutenants are all logistics battalions, and most of the logistics battalions are responsible for logistics and transportation. The soldiers under their command are the weakest in combat effectiveness, and the number is also the smallest.

"Governor Xu, have you informed His Majesty?"

"I have sent someone to send a letter to His Majesty as soon as possible, but I'm afraid it's too late, we have to defend Luo Yang first!"

Xu Shu asked, "How many troops do you have now?"

"We add up, at most one thousand and five sons, because we are a logistics battalion, focusing on logistics and transportation. Although we are not inferior to the main force in terms of physical fitness, we are definitely not as good as the main force in terms of military formation. In addition, there are about a thousand recruits. Here comes the young and strong peasants!" Captain Liu replied.

"Just this little force?"

Xu Shu frowned.

This is embarrassing for him, Mujing still left some troops before, but gradually all his attention was placed on the battlefield in the north, even some soldiers and horses in the east were transferred north.

The Ming army has strong combat effectiveness, but few troops. This is a fatal shortcoming. If you care about the front, you can't care about the side.

I thought that Wei Jun would not dare to move easily, so the danger to the east was not great, but I didn't expect that Yan Jun would use Yanzhou to enter the pass from Hulao.

This time, Luo Yang was completely exposed to the enemy's attack range.

"There may be some on the north bank of the Yellow River, they should be logistics soldiers of other armies!"

Captain Chen thought for a while and said.

"No matter what, send someone to contact first, and see if we can gather all the troops around Luoyang!" Xu Shu is a decisive person, and he said in a low voice: "You two, from now on, Luoyang's defense will be left to you." You guys, the other six gates of Luozhou can dispatch more than a thousand police officers to assist them in defending the city!"

He sighed: "It's really impossible. The Governor has spent all the food and money of the Governor's Mansion, and personally summoned Luoyang's young and strong to defend the city. No matter what, defending Luoyang City is the most important thing for us now!"

Such a sudden change made him a little hard to accept.

But under the current situation, he has no other choice, he can only hope that Mu Jing can receive the news quickly, and then send troops back to help.

Only in this way can Luoyang City be protected. If Luoyang City falls, the Ming army will face a much more dangerous situation.

(End of this chapter)