Since Yuan Shao's defeat in Liyang, after the turtle could not shrink, the power of the imperial court has been in full swing, although the unification of the world has not been restored, but when the princes face the imperial court, it is inevitable that they will have a sense of anger, even if Sun Ce, who has a great tendency to sweep the south, did not dare to provoke Nanyang after occupying most of the southern part of the war, you know, Nanyang's 30,000 main forces were transferred to the front line by Zhao Yun to fight, and there are not many garrisons in Nanyang now.
In the fifth year of Xingping, the battle of Jizhou fell into a stalemate, but for the whole world, it was an extremely lively year.
Qingzhou, under the joint attack of Tai Shi Ci and Zang Ba, with the occupation of Qinghe and Pingyuan two counties, Yuan Tan was defeated in a row, after barely supporting a winter, after the beginning of spring, it was driven to Jinan by Tai Shi Ci, when Tai Shi Ci blocked Yuan Jun's southward Pingling, now it has become Yuan Tan's last barrier, as long as Pingling is broken, with Yuan Tan's less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, the entire Qingzhou will be re-occupied, and Qingzhou will officially return to the imperial court, no longer an enclave.
And Tai Shici was obviously not prepared to give Yuan Tan a chance to breathe, and after driving Yuan Tan into Jinan, he made a little repair, and led his army to attack Pingling.
Although Yuan Tan has always wanted to conceal the battle of Liyang, the back roads of Qinghe and Pingyuan were cut off, and Tai Shici kept sending people to shout, where can he hide it, the morale of the Yuan army in Qingzhou was not high because of a big defeat in Liyang, and on the battlefield, after the Qinghe family withdrew the soldiers and horses, it was driven all the way from Beihai to Jinan by Tai Shici, and every battle must be defeated.
"Kill" With the Pingling city gate was breached, the fierce Qingzhou soldiers roared into the city, along the way Yuan army almost did not resist, or fled, or surrendered, after a year of fighting, these Yuan Shao left in Qingzhou soldiers and horses have long lost their fighting spirit, at this moment only hope that this battle can end as soon as possible, therefore, the city garrisoned by 5,000 people, in less than half a day, was broken by Tai Shici, this is Yuan Tan now in the hands of most of the power, Yuan Tan has high hopes.
"Pingling has fallen, Yuan Tan this time, it is impossible to escape."
Half an hour later, Tai Shici, Li Ru, and Zang Ba were already sitting in the Pingling County Yazhong, looking at this city, Tai Shici couldn't help but sigh: "At the beginning, I fought hard in Yanliang here for several months, but in the end, due to the lack of troops, I had to retreat to Jiaodong, who would have thought that in just two years, I would return to this place." ” Li Ru glanced at Zang Ba, who looked a little embarrassed, the reason why Tai Shi Ci was weak was because Zang Ba surrendered to Cao Cao at the beginning, and now the court is powerful, Zang Ba has turned against him, although Tai Shi Ci did not mean this, but at this time, Zang Ba was naturally embarrassed, coughed lightly, and changed the topic: "As soon as this battle is won, Yuan Shao's forces in Qingzhou will be completely swept away by our army, and then, the general will be Your Majesty, return the military power, and ask Your Majesty to allow the implementation of the imperial court military system in Qingzhou." ” As an enclave, Qingzhou is the state with the greatest autonomy under Liu Xie, and as the nominal lord of Qingzhou before, after this battle, if Tai Shici continues to hold the military power of Qingzhou, he will definitely be suspicious of Liu Xie, Li Ru has been studying the situation of the imperial court in recent years, Liu Xie attaches great importance to military power, and it is precisely because of this that with the support of 100,000 elites behind him, Liu Xie can be arbitrary in the middle of the court, overwhelm the scholars, and make the Guanzhong clan almost become an ornament.
Now the fierce generals in the DPRK are like clouds, including Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, these generals who have commanded tens of thousands of battles, although they have great prestige, but with the military system of the imperial court, even if these people rebel, the soldiers under their command will never follow together, but Tai Shici is different.
The Qingzhou army was almost brought out by Tai Shici, and the military system is similar to that of the princes, not that they are unwilling to implement the imperial court military system, but that Qingzhou is not better than the imperial court, not to mention that it is poor and white, but if it is implemented in Qingzhou according to the way the imperial court raises soldiers, it is high incense to be able to raise 10,000 soldiers.
Although there are Gan Ning, the pirates plundering materials in the surrounding small countries, but Qingzhou has a lot of money, especially when he retreated to Jiaodong and developed Jiaodong, it was almost a bottomless pit, building a city, running a school, and raising the people.
Therefore, Tai Shi Ci can only use the means of the princes to raise troops, so that if he is really a prince, there is nothing wrong with it, but Tai Shi Ci is a general of the imperial court and was ordered to come here, and Tai Shi Ci obviously has no intention of being self-reliant, plus with the current situation, even if Tai Shi Ci wants to be self-reliant, he can be crushed every minute.
Therefore, Li Ru was worried that Tai Shici would be like Han Xin back then, and no one would be able to save him.
"What Mr. said is polite, the battle of Qingzhou is over, and the next thing is to deal with the main force of Yuan Shao in Jizhou, if you miss this battle, wouldn't you regret it for life" Tai Shici nodded without thinking, turned his head to look at Li Ru and said: "Is Mr. going to Liyang with me?"
Zang Ba couldn't interject at this time, but he couldn't help but glance at Tai Shi Ci when he heard the words, he was really worried that Tai Shi Ci's ambition was inflated and he wanted to be self-reliant, the reason why he was willing to lead the Taishan army to help was the name of the imperial court, if Tai Shi Ci was self-reliant, he would definitely turn against him again, but at that time, the reputation was not very good.
"Let's go to the table first, and then see what Your Majesty means."
Li Ru shook his head with a smile and said: "The ceremony cannot be abolished, besides, Jinan has not yet been arrested, so don't be careless." ” "What the gentleman said is very true."
Tai Shi Ci laughed, he didn't care, now that Pingling was broken, Jinan was no longer in danger, he couldn't think of any chance for Yuan Tan to turn over.
A few hours later, Yuan Tan got the news that Pingling was broken and the general Cen Bi was beheaded, and he was shocked, but in half a day, his last barrier was broken by Tai Shi Ci, and now there are only more than 3,000 troops left, how to compete with Tai Shi Ci's army "How is this good" Yuan Tan looked at the few generals around him with a panicked face, and said in a panic.
"The eldest prince, for today's plan" The general Yan Jing looked around and said in a low voice: "I am equal to Qingzhou, there is no danger to defend, and the strength in my hands is not enough to compete with Tai Shici. ” "Abandon the army" Yuan Tan said incredulously when he heard this, he had already retreated, but three thousand soldiers and horses are not a lot for today's Yuan army, and the most important thing is that without the protection of these three thousand men and horses, how can they escape back to the three counties of Wei County, Pingyuan, and Qinghe in Jizhou, and now they have all become the imperial court.
"Yes, abandon the army" Yan Jing said in a deep voice: "Three thousand men and horses, the goal is too big, if the prince takes these horses, how to avoid the eyes and ears of the court will only attract the siege of the imperial army, it is better to follow lightly, just wait for the henchmen, leave in disguise, there are these three thousand soldiers and horses to attract the enemy, the court for a while, I am afraid it will be difficult to detect, just give me time to cross the river." ” When Yuan Tan heard this, he nodded silently, and also felt that this plan was feasible, so he nodded and said, "Good, quickly recruit Peng An and others to come over and travel with me in disguise."
"Oh" Yan Jing agreed: "And when the last general goes to make arrangements, Tai Shici will not see the flaws, and I can escort the son to take the opportunity to cross the river." ” "There's General Law."
Yuan Tan was a little master of the six gods at this time, and nodded when he heard the words.
Half an hour later, Yuan Tan changed into a business travel attire, took Yan Jing, Peng An and other henchmen, quietly went out of the city, and only a quarter of an hour after the group left did someone come to give an order to block the city gate to prepare for war When Tai Shi Ci led the army to Dongping Mausoleum, Dong Ping Ling looked like a stern battle, so that Tai Shi Ci once thought that Yuan Tan was ready to refuse to defend the city, although the three armies won consecutive battles, morale like a rainbow, but also could not use morale as physical strength, at the moment Tai Shi Ci ordered to camp and repair, tomorrow in one fell swoop to break Yuan Tan in this last city in Qingzhou.
It's just that in the middle of the night, Tai Shici was sleeping soundly, but was woken up by the guards.
"What happened" did not find the night attack, Tai Shici came to the big tent with his guards, but saw that Li Ru and Zang Ba were already waiting in the tent, and asked puzzledly.
"At the time of the third watch, I waited for the soldiers on patrol at night to catch some of the fleeing Yuan soldiers to know that in the Dongping Mausoleum, there was no general, before we arrived at the Dongping Mausoleum, the general under the command of Yuan Tan ordered the troops to block the city gate after a quarter of an hour, strictly guard the city, after our army arrived, someone went to report, but did not find a general, the soldiers in the city knew that there was no general in the city, not long after I waited for the camp, the city was in turmoil, after nightfall, the soldiers quietly opened the city gate and fled."
Zang Ba explained to Tai Shici with a wry smile.
Who would have thought that Dongping Ling, who was like a great enemy, as if he was going to fight to the death, in fact, there was no general, and the highest official position in the city was only a few military marquis, after learning that he really wanted to, the defenders in the city were still willing to defend the city, and after nightfall, they opened the city and fled.
"Damn" Tai Shi Ci hammered his fist with some regret, glanced at the Dongping Mausoleum, there was a faint firelight, knowing that it was impossible to catch up with Yuan Tan at this moment, the other party obviously did not leave with the troops, but a small wave of people and horses fled, even if the army chased and killed, there was no direction.
"Order the three armies to enter the city, Zhang Bang Anmin" sighed, Li Ru said.
Without the restraint of the generals, the defenders of Dongpingling did not harm the people in the city before leaving, just look at the faint fire in the city now, and know that the city is not very peaceful.
Tai Shi Ci nodded and said, "In addition, immediately send a message to the imperial court, block it along the way, and detain that Yuan Tan as much as possible." ” The road from Qingzhou to Yecheng is already the territory of the imperial court at this moment, as long as the inventory along the way is stricter, it may not be impossible to leave Yuan Tan behind, but this credit is not too Shi Ci's, which makes Tai Shi Ci very uncomfortable.
"Why should the general be discouraged, just let him go back to Yecheng, and he may not have the opportunity to capture him with his own hands in the future."
Li Ru said with a smile.
Tai Shi Ci nodded, feeling a lot better, and immediately led troops into the city to appease the people, and at the same time clear the Yuan army that was still in the city. t1706231537: