The Assassin Empire of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 423 Xia Houyuan's retreat

The fall of Chang'an City was entirely due to Xia Houyuan's wrong decision.The battle lasted from morning to night, and the sound of fighting gradually stopped.Most of Cao's army was killed, and the rest surrendered.Zhang Ji led the remnant troops to fight out of the north gate, and only then did they save their lives.Looking at the Dragon Army battle flag raised above the city, Zhang wanted to cry but had no tears, so he appointed himself as the prefect of Chang'an, and was always on guard against Han Sui and others.It can be said that he did his best and died.

Chang'an is the important town in the northwest of Cao Jun and also the northwest gateway of Cao Jun.Now that it was captured by Long Fei, Cao Jun's northwest gate was wide open, and there was no defense at all, and Luoyang was in danger.Losing these two places would be a serious blow to Cao Cao's plan to attack Long Fei.

This time Chen Dao and Ma Yunlu were able to approach Chang'an quickly, thanks to Wei Yan's suggestion.Wei Yan suggested to take Ziwu Valley and go straight to the city of Chang'an, and everyone knows that the road in Ziwu Valley is difficult. If Cao Jun lays an ambush again, Long Jun will definitely go there and never return.But Wei Yan said that it was precisely because the road was difficult to walk, easy to defend and difficult to attack, that Cao Jun felt that they would not live from now on.

Wei Yan's words reminded Long Fei of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang refuted Wei Yan's unexpected plan, and made Shu Han miss the good opportunity to dominate the world.Long Fei was not so stupid, since he knew the result, he didn't hesitate.Immediately ordered Chen Dao to lead his troops across from here, bypassing all the checkpoints set up by Zhang Ji, and unexpectedly appeared outside Chang'an City.Sure enough, Zhang Ji was unprepared, and joined forces with Xian Yufu inside and outside to capture Chang'an.

The handsome Long Fei came to Chang'an, stroked the city wall, and looked at the familiar reception.It was here that Long Fei obtained the greatest wealth in his life, that is, several good brothers.Starting from here, I led my troops to go to Wancheng, Jingzhou, and went west to take Yizhou and Hanzhong. Now I come back here again, I can't help feeling a little bit emotional.Thinking about my struggles over the years, I finally have a foothold now.

"Order Fei Yi to be the governor of Xiliang, to manage Xiliang and Chang'an, and to have many political affairs, and Zhao Yun to be the general of Zhenxi, and to lead troops to garrison Chang'an!"

At the same time, Long Fei made adjustments to the soldiers and horses in the name of the imperial court, appointing Xu Huang as the general who conquered the east and stationed in Chaisang; Gao Lan as the general who conquered the south and stationed in the South China Sea; General Xi, stationed in Tianshui; Gao Shun stayed in Yizhou as the general of Zhennan, Huang Zhong stayed in Xiangyang as the general of Zhenbei, and Zhang Liao was the general of Zhendong, stationed in Nanjun. .The commanders of the four major personal guards were left as support, and they stayed in Xiangyang, and appointed Zhang Ren as the general supervising army and military counselor.

Jia Xu, Guo Jia, Xu Shu, Li Ru and others were the generals of the four major military divisions in the east, west, south, and north, and Huang Yueying was the general of the Chinese army, forming a military department responsible for Long Fei, the king of Chu, and had nothing to do with the court.At the same time, Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi, Leng Bao, Ma Dai, Pound and other generals were transferred back to Xiangyang to study, redistributed troops and horses, and cooperated with the generals to guard.And Huang Xu, Lu Xun, Deng Ai, Lu Meng, Dianman, Xu Yi and other young generals were also named generals of miscellaneous names to lead the troops.

After the reorganization and expansion of the army, the total strength of the dragon army has rapidly expanded from less than 23 at the beginning to [-].

In terms of civil servants, Xun Yu was still in charge of official affairs in various places, and Xun You, Zhong Yao, Chen Qun, Ju Shou, Zhen Rao, Mi Huan and others around Liu Xie were assigned to Xun Yu's command.Jiang Wan was appointed governor of Yizhou, Fei Yi was governor of Liangzhou, Chen Qun was governor of Jingzhou, and Jushou was appointed governor of Jiaozhou.Supplementing that Long Sheng, Guo Yi and others cooperate with Xun Yu to handle the government affairs of the court is also to give the future controllers a chance to practice.

In other aspects, Wang Wei's business is still going on as before, Yan Rou's map drawing work has to be stepped up, Ma Jun's weapon development must be improved, and Talun's war horse breeding has to be expanded.The most important thing is the saltpeter refining work of Master Qingyu, the Daoist Master of Zhongnan Mountain. He is the key to the weapon reform. If someone can understand the development of thermal weapons from these gunpowder, it will be an achievement across the ages.

While making drastic reforms to his internal affairs, Long Fei did not forget the war in Xiliang.With Zhao Yun blocking Tongguan, he was very relieved.The inability of Cao Cao's reinforcements to enter meant that Xia Houyuan's troops attacking Xiliang had nowhere to retreat.As long as I stick to Chang'an, those people will run out of ammunition and food sooner or later.

I learned the news of Chang'an's fall in one afternoon.Xia Houyuan had just had a shopping battle with Yan Xing's troops in Jincheng.Sure enough, as Jiang Wei expected, when Xia Houyuan attacked Xiliang, Cheng Yin and others ran away blindly. They were waiting for Yan Xing to make a move, and then they were watching the situation themselves.If Yan Xing wins, he will help Yan Xing. If Xiahou Yuan wins, he must have surrendered.As long as they can keep their seats and put all their strength in their hands, they don't care about being with that master.

For the sake of his own destiny, Yan Xing also went all out this time, and assembled all the soldiers and horses in his hands in Jincheng to fight Xiahouyuan decisively.The double-handed fight was brutal, and in just one noon, no less than [-] people were killed or injured.

Xia Houyuan slammed his fist on the map: "Yan Xing is crazy. He didn't care about Wuwei and came here to fight with us. If you leave and send someone to lead an army to seize Wuwei, then we will win this battle!"

"No!" The lieutenant just went out.Jiang Wei hurried in, sweating profusely and said to Xia Houyuan, "General, something serious has happened!"

The officer who was about to go out also stopped when he heard these words, and turned his head to look at Jiang Wei.Xia Houyuan wondered: "What's the matter? Did Long Fei come too? Just right! Let him see how good we are!"

Jiang Wei shook his head: "No, Long Fei didn't come to Xiliang, but went to Chang'an!" Jiang Wei waved his hand, and Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu walked in with a Cao Jun supported by him.The man looked tired, and the dust all over his body told everyone that he had driven a long way.When the man saw Xia Houyuan, his eyes lit up with joy, and he hurriedly took out the letter from his chest and handed it to Xia Houyuan.

Through the back of the silk, you can see the bright red color. Because of the sweat stains, the handwriting is a bit blurred, but Xia Houyuan can still see that it is Zhang Ji's handwriting.Hastily opened, the blood book appeared in front of him.After carefully reading it several times, I sat down on the chair with a plop: "This! How is this possible! Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

All of a sudden, Xia Houyuan stood up from his handsome seat, staring at Jiang Wei fiercely with both eyes: "Say! Are you a spy? If you don't tell me, I'll kill you!"

"This...!" Jiang Wei didn't know how to answer. He had already read this letter, and Zhang Ji deduced that the most likely enemy among them was the spy Jiang Wei based on the speculation of the war.Before Chang'an was attacked, Zhang Ji wrote this letter to Xia Houyuan, expressing his doubts and worries about Jiang Wei in detail.

Jiang Wei untied his saber, pulled out the sword half a foot, and looked at Xia Houyuan: "Since the general doesn't believe me, why should Jiang Wei die?"

Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu quickly hugged each other.Jiang Wendao: "Brother, since people don't believe us, let's go! There's no need to die! Generals like them won't care about the lives of little people like you and me. Let's go!"

Jiang Wu drew out his saber and pointed it at Xia Houyuan: "You ungrateful villain, our brother went through life and death for you, yet you doubt my elder brother, okay! Come on! Let's see who kills who today?"

The scene was almost out of control at one point, the soldiers came in and surrounded the three of them in the core, the two sides were at war with each other, and they were almost about to fight.Xia Houyuan closed his eyes and thought for a long time. After reading Zhang Ji's letter, he also had a little doubt about Jiang Wei in his mind.Thinking about it carefully, Jiang Wei did his best to promote the plan to attack Xiliang, but it was also agreed by himself, and he, as the main general, was definitely more responsible than Jiang Wei when he ended up in this situation.

Jiang Wei reached out and pressed Jiang Wu's saber down, and said to Xia Houyuan: "General, the dragon army is fierce. They occupied Chang'an and cut off our army's retreat. If we can't retreat, the whole army may be wiped out. I know there is a small road from Jincheng. Anding and Northland can reach Hexi, as long as we reach Hexi, we can join the troops of King Wei!"

Jiang Wei spoke soft words, and Xia Houyuan couldn't hold it any longer. He nodded slightly and signaled everyone to put down the weapons in their hands: "Bo Yue is familiar with Xiliang, and this time life and death are all on Bo Yue's body. From today on, Bo Yue has changed In order to advise the general, I will report to the King of Wei for the official title when we arrive in the Northland!"

If the back road is cut off, Jincheng will not be able to flow.Cao Jun's defeat was a great thing for Yan Xing.Before Yan Xing sent troops to pursue, Cheng Yin, Li Kan and others couldn't wait to lead their troops to follow.Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by Xia Houyuan on the way and suffered heavy losses.Yan Xing was very happy, and said to the crowd: "These guys are acting on the wind, let's see what they are doing against me!"

Because Jincheng was in a hurry, Yan Xing had to ask Sima Yi for advice, released Sima Yi from prison, and became a military advisor again.In this battle, it was with the help of Sima Yi that Cao Jun could be stopped in Jincheng.Seeing Yan Xing's happy look, Sima Yi said: "Your Majesty, you can lead your troops to pursue again at this time, and you will definitely defeat Cao Jun!"

Yan Xing nodded and said: "Okay! The military master has made great achievements in battle. When he returns to Wuwei, the lonely king will reward him a lot! Come on, send orders to pursue!"

Xia Houyuan ambush Cheng Yin and Li Kan, so he felt that there would be no more pursuers, so he just walked with his head buried.Before they reached Shicheng, they were overtaken by Yan Xing, and the two sides fought for a while. This time Cao Jun suffered a lot, and all the food, grass and supplies were robbed.Fleeing to Anding, he had no choice but to protect himself, and waited for Yan Xing to retreat before continuing to walk.Without food and grass, the soldiers complained, and many people took the opportunity to slip away.There were [-] troops when they came, and less than [-] left when they left Anding.

Jiang Wei said: "General, don't be discouraged. As long as you reach the Northland, you can stop there and rest not far from the Wei King's fiefdom. This place belongs to Xiliang, so it's not suitable to stay for a long time."

The army went straight to the north without stopping.Just after leaving Anding City, suddenly, smoke and dust billowed in front of them, and the deafening sound of horseshoes came, and a large group of cavalry rushed towards them from the horizon.Cao Jun's soldiers were terrified and at a loss.

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