Chapter 403 The battle situation took a sharp turn After besieging Jinan City for several days, the Yan army finally gave up and attacked Dongchang Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion instead.Because of Li Jinglong's Northern Expedition army before, many of them were directly requisitioned from Shandong in the later period, and the troops of Dongchang Mansion were empty, and when the Yan army controlled Dezhou and Jinan did not dare to send troops, the Pingshan Wei of Dongchang Mansion was almost useless, and there was no effective resistance to the Yan army.There are only a few small counties in Dongchang Mansion that are closed and guarded under the organization of the magistrate, but all of them are because there are inexplicable people in the city who make trouble, and they take the initiative to open the city gate and break down.The Yan army swept through the entire Dongchang Mansion, and not even a single city was seriously attacked.But on the other hand, Qingzhou City, under the command of Zhu Xianyang, the prince of Qi, resisted the attack of the Yan army.And the other states and counties of Qingzhou Mansion have also been able to have a backbone, and they have not been like Dongchang Mansion, looking at the wind and descending.In fact, Zhu Xianhui can no longer be called the king of Qi, it is said that the Qi domain has been cut down when Zhu Yu died, and it is only because Zhu Xianhui cooperated with the imperial court to reduce the domain, so he did not immediately move him out of Qingzhou and continued to let him stay in the palace of the king of Qi.However, the number of guards has been greatly reduced, and they can only ensure the safety of the palace in front of them.However, when the imperial court's Northern Expedition army was defeated in the Battle of Jingzhou and Dezhou fell, the whole Shandong was panicked.Except for constantly sending letters to the capital to ask for help, civil and military officials did not know what to do.Most of the troops of the left and right guards in Qingzhou were also transferred north for Li Jinglong's deployment, and now Qingzhou has no available troops.After Zhu Xianyang learned of the defeat in Jingzhou, he took up the treasury of the palace and took the remaining hundreds of guards to collect the defeated soldiers who retreated to Qingzhou.These defeated soldiers, belonging to many troops, relying on the generals of Qingzhou alone, it is impossible to collect them, but Zhu Xianyang relied on the name and money of the palace, as well as the few personal guards in his hands, but he successfully collected and reorganized thousands of defeated soldiers before the Yan army entered the boundary of Qingzhou, so that he was able to successfully hold Qingzhou City, so that the vanguard of the Yan army tried to attack twice, and then returned with a feather.So when the reinforcements mobilized by the imperial court entered Qingzhou, they did not recapture the thousands of soldiers collected by Zhu Xianyang, but re-gave him the official establishment of the three guards.In the end, the imperial court did not allow Li Jinglong to continue to stay on the front line to be responsible for the Northern Expedition, recalled him to the capital, and promoted Tie Xuan, who had made meritorious contributions to Jinan, to participate in the politics of Shandong, as the political envoy of Shandong, and temporarily acted as the acting defense of Shandong.At the same time, he ordered Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, to lead an army to aid Shandong and fight against the Yan army.However, just when the imperial court thought that the situation in Shandong had been controlled and the Yan army's offensive was blocked, the king of Yan suddenly led the main force in person, directly bypassed Jinan, and went all the way south to attack Qingzhou.After receiving Qingzhou's request for help, Tie Xuan also sent troops from Jinan, preparing to attack the vanguard of the Yan army with the Qingzhou army.But what I didn't expect was that the Qingzhou Mansion that originally blocked the Yan army, after getting the reinforcements of the imperial court this time, was directly crushed by the Yan army, and the most important thing is that Zhu Xianyang, the king of Qi in Qingzhou, directly raised troops to join Jingnan, not only opened the city gate to let the Yan army enter Qingzhou City, but also cooperated with the Yan army to defeat the 20,000 troops of the imperial court to aid Qingzhou, and together with the Yan army, the troops led by Tie Xuan fell into a heavy siege.Tie Xuan's entire army was annihilated, and Tie Xuan fought to the death without surrendering, and was beheaded by Zhang Jue.Subsequently, Jinan fell.On the twelfth day of the first month of the third year of Jianwen, the Yan army attacked Qingzhou, and on the 20th he cut Tie Xuan, who came to help, and captured Jinan on the 22nd.Originally, when Tie Xuan sent troops, he explained that in case he was ineffective in the battle, Jinan needed to defend to the death, and he must not go out of the city to fight.But when the news of Tie Xuan's army being wiped out and Tie Xuan's killing came back, there was chaos in the city, and the guards who stayed behind were killed, and the defenders were in chaos, the city gate was opened, the Yan army entered the city, and Jinan was lost.Almost the entire territory of Shandong fell under the control of the Yan army, but Zhu Di, the king of Yan, did not take the time to consolidate the chassis, but continued to move south without delay.On the third day of the second month of the third year of Jianwen, the vanguard of the Yan army arrived in Xuzhou and fought with Xu Huizu's troops.On the sixth day of the first month, Xu Huizu was defeated and retreated to Xuzhou City.The Yan army was not entangled in Xuzhou, but continued to advance, forcing Suzhou, and encountered the southern army all the way, all of which were defeated in a battle, and had no power to resist.The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that the Yan army is a division of a hundred battles, more elite and good at fighting, and the speed of the southward movement is too fast, so that the imperial court has no time to do enough defense and deployment, and can only respond to the battle in a hurry, the most important thing is Zhang Jue's play.Because of the protection of the three grandmasters of Wuzhen, Zhihai, and Miaoshi, and the addition of a group of warrior monks to the personal guard of King Yan, Zhang Jue no longer needs to be bound to King Yan to be responsible for his safety, and can exert his strong force on top of the battle array.If it is a general battle with tens of thousands of people opening up a formation like the Battle of Jingzhou, then even if you have the ability of a grandmaster, it will be very difficult to directly kill all the way and kill the opponent's boss.But in a small-scale encounter of thousands of people, once the fight starts, after Zhang Jue catches the position of the opponent's commander, he can take advantage of the chaos to find an opportunity to rush forward quickly and capture the flag!
Just like before, Tie Xuan led his troops to aid Qingzhou, but he calculated for Zhu Xian, the king of Qi, and surrounded the Yan army and fell into a desperate situation.Although Tie Xuan's soldiers were also well-trained, they resisted desperately under his leadership and did not surrender.But in the midst of the chaotic battle, for Zhang Jue to get a glimpse of the opportunity, within twenty steps of his body, a sword turned into innate true qi slashed down, and the guards around Tie Xuan were useless no matter how brave they were, and they were killed instantly.Then he went all the way south, and when he encountered the southern army, Zhang Jue had been waiting for an opportunity with an elite army, looking for an opportunity to break through to the opponent's main general, and capture the flag.Even Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, was almost beheaded by Zhang Jue.If it weren't for the fact that Xu Huizu was escorted by a master with super first-class strength, and there were many first-class masters in the guards who were secretly protected, and he discovered Zhang Jue's desire in advance and gave up his life to resist, he probably wouldn't have had a chance to retreat to Xuzhou City.Next, Zhang Jue's name spread all the way in the northern and southern armies, and the generals in the southern army were very troubled by this, and even when they were commanding in battle, they did not dare to stand in a conspicuous place, but only wore the same armor as ordinary soldiers.But in this way, the command will have an impact, and it is easy to defeat the Yan army, which is already more elite and good at fighting, which is also meaningless.As far as Lingbi County, the southern army gathered a large army to intercept the Yan army here.Emperor Jianwen specially sent a master master from the Ouchi Imperial Palace to protect the main general in the army, so that he could command the army with confidence to fight against the Yan army.However, Zhang Jue did not reproduce the brave performance of the generals and capturing the flag, but Dao Yan successfully designed a night attack on the southern army, causing Lingbi to fall.And in the chaotic battle, Zhang Jue had a brief fight with the grandmaster master from Ouchi, and he had the advantage.