Chapter 267 End this war as soon as possible

"Meng Qi." Ma Yue said in a deep voice, "My brother must tell you now that the Liangzhou Legion is facing an unprecedented crisis."

Ma Chao said: "Brother?"

Ma Yue said: "Gongsun Zan, the governor of Youzhou, Zhang Yan, the bandit of Heishan, and Yuan Shao, the governor of Jizhou, gathered a total of 150,000 troops to attack Yunzhong, and Teng Shu was defeated and defeated Meiji. At present, Yuan Shao is leading his army to attack Meiji. If no reinforcements arrive, at most, Meiji City will be captured!"

"Ah?" Ma Chao said in a lost voice, "Damn Yuan Shao, he actually assembled an army of 150,000!"

"Once Hetao falls, the consequences will be unimaginable!" Ma Yue said in a deep voice, "Hetao is not only the old camp of the Liangzhou Legion, but also a symbol of the strength of the Liangzhou Legion. Once Hetao falls, the deterrence of the surrounding weak forces will be greatly weakened! Our Ma family's high-pressure rule in the Western Regions will collapse first, and then the connection between Mobei and Guan and Liang will be completely isolated. Under the siege of Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao, the Heishan Army, the Eastern Xianbei, and the Dingling people in the Northern Dingling people, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao will also be defeated and eventually lose control of the Mobei grassland. In this way, our army's forces in Mobei and Western Regions will be uprooted!"

Ma Chao looked stern.

"The more serious consequences are still behind!" Ma Yue continued, "Once Hetao falls and the Western Regions rebelled, Guan and Liang land will no longer be the rear that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Our army will completely lose its strategic advantages. Using the geographical advantage of Hetao and the ranch in Mobei, Yuan Shao can form a powerful cavalry that is enough to threaten Guan and Liang's hinterland within a few years."

"Also, after this war, Guan Liang's young and strong have consumed a lot. It is afraid that it will be difficult to recover without ten years of rest. But Cao Cao and Yuan Shao cannot give us time to rest with peace of mind!" Ma Yue said this, patted Ma Chao's shoulder heavily, and said in a voice, "The survival of Hetao is related to the life and death of our army!"

Ma Chao said sternly: "Brother, why not condemn the reinforcements?"

Ma Yue sighed and said, "Fang Yue's army is at Wild Bison, closest to Hetao, but he only has 10,000 troops under his command. He is now confronting Zhang Ji, Wang Kuang, Zhang Yang, and Kong Rong's 120,000 troops across the river, and he cannot draw reinforcements at all! Apart from Fang Yue, there are only 30,000 county soldiers under Xu Huang, who is guarding Chang'an, but Chang'an is thousands of miles away from Hetao. When Xu Huang arrives in Hetao, Meiji City will have been broken long ago."

Ma Chao said: "In this way, I am willing to lead the Iron Cavalry of our troops to help at night."

"Yeah." Ma Yue nodded heavily and said in a deep voice, "If you want to break the siege of Hetao, you and my brothers have to rely on you and my brothers! However, it is not to let your 20,000 cavalry return to Hetao to save Meiji, but to advance into Hebei to attack Yuan Shao's old nest Yecheng! Meng Qi, listen, when you go to Hebei, you don't aim to capture the city and plunder, just to burn, kill and rob! In one sentence, you must make the whole Hebei a mess, the more chaotic it is, the better!"

"Are you going to surround Wei and save Zhao?" Ma Chao said in a silence, "I'll take care of it!"

Ma Yue said: "The harassment of Hebei will last at least half a month, and then drive north to continue harassing Youzhou, then go from Dai County and Shanggu to Mobei, join the two cavalry troops of Zhoucang and Pei Yuanshao, defeat the Eastern Xianbei first, and stand by on the spot, waiting for your brother's next order."

Ma Chao clasped his fists and said, "I will accept the order!"

"Military information is urgent." Ma Yue said in a deep voice, "Meng Qike raised his troops overnight."

"Affect the order."

Ma Chao bowed with his fists, turned around and left.

After Ma Chao's figure disappeared into the night, Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "Dian Wei."

Dianwei's iron tower-like body suddenly appeared in the tent and said in a gull: "What are the lord's instructions?"

Ma Yue said: "Let Li Meng, Jutu and Gan Ning come to the big tent immediately."

"Affect the order."

Dian Wei took the order and left.

Meiji, Yuan Shao's central army tent.

Yuan Shao looked unhappy after he was on the verge of the case.

The army has been attacking Meiji for several days, but it has not even been broken into Jiaobao, let alone Meiji City! Ju Yi, Zhang He, Jiang Qi, Han Meng and other generals all looked ashamed and dared not look at Yuan Shao's eyes, especially Jiang Qi and Han Meng. If it weren't for the ineffective interception of the two, most of Fa Zheng's 20,000 people fled back to Meiji City, and this city would have been broken long ago.

Seeing that all the generals were silent, Yuan Shao had to turn his eyes to the military advisor Tian Feng and asked, "Does Yuan Hao have a good plan to destroy the city?"

Tian Feng said: "Meiji City has a high ditch and deep, and is blocked by the carbonite combustion zone. There are also horn forts built at four corners of the city to be protected. Whenever our army wants to lift water to put out the fire, they are shot and killed by archers at the defenders of the Jiaobao. Therefore, they have been attacked for several days without any progress. In view of this, Feng thought that if they want to destroy Meiji, they must first break the Jiaobao."

Yuan Shao said: "How to break the horn fort first?"

Tian Feng said: "There are carbide burning barriers around the city, and it is difficult to attack without waiting for the fire to be extinguished. Therefore, the safest way is to wait until the carbide outside the city burns out before siegeing the city."

"Who knows how deep the carbonaceous combustion belt is and how long it will take to burn it out?" Yuan Shao frowned, "If it doesn't burn it out in ten days, wouldn't my tens of thousands of troops be waiting outside the city for ten days?"

Tian Feng said helplessly: "Then we can only continue to attack."

"Then continue to attack!" Yuan Shao said coldly, "However, the elite soldiers in Jizhou cannot be consumed anymore. Zhang Yan has the most Black Mountain Army, so let his people go first!"

Xun Chen's face changed and he hurriedly stepped out and said, "Lord, no."

Yuan Shao said: "What's wrong?"

Xun Chen said: "Recently, Gongsun Zan often invites Zhang Yan to have a banquet. The two seem to be close. If the lord sends Zhang Yan's army to attack the city at this time, he will inevitably mistakenly think that he wants to take the opportunity to weaken his troops. In this way, it is very likely that Zhang Yan will be forced to Gongsun Zan."

Tian Feng also said: "What Youruo (Xun Chen's name is very true) is very true, and the lord thinks twice."

"This is not OK, that is not OK, then what do you think should you do?" Yuan Shao said sternly, "The army of more than 100,000 people can't do anything to a small Meijicheng! As military advisors and strategists, don't you feel ashamed? And you, as generals of the commanding army, don't you feel ashamed?"

All the generals, Tian Feng, Xun Chen and others were ashamed.

"Huh~~" Yuan Shao breathed a long sigh, and felt much more relaxed after venting, so he said, "Forget it, follow the military advisor's plan to siege the city and slow the attack!"

"The lord is wise." Tian Feng bowed and said, "Feng has something else."

Yuan Shao said: "What's the matter?"

Tian Feng said: "For a detailed return, Ma Chaozheng, the brother of the butcher clan, led his army to loot on the north bank of the river. Feng thought he must be guarded."

"Oh?" Yuan Shao said in a deep voice, "Ma Chao led his army to loot the north bank of the river. I think the war in Hangu Pass was tight, and Jia Dushi asked Ma Chao's troops to go out. It should be to restrain Meng De's central coalition, right? Moreover, Ma Chao's army is all cavalry, and no matter how brave and good at fighting, it is impossible to attack cities and plunder land, and it should not pose a threat to Hebei."

"Feng thinks so too." Tian Feng said this and continued, "But if the news about Hetao reaches Ma Chao's army, it is difficult to guarantee that Ma Chao will not be anxious to jump over the wall, give up the plan to restrain the central coalition forces, and break into Hebei regardless of everything! Ma Chao is a victorious general of Xiliang, who can be both civil and military, and his Xiliang Iron Cavalry under his command is also the elite old subordinate of the Ma Butcher. If this tiger and wolf army is allowed to rush into Hebei, the land of Jizhou may be full of wolf smoke and its vitality will be severely damaged."

Tian Feng meant that if Ma Chao knew that Ma Teng had died in battle, he would inevitably burn, kill and robbery in Hebei to vent his anger. In this way, even if dozens of major cities in the Hebei Plain were preserved, the villages and people outside the city would suffer. In this way, Jizhou would still suffer a lot.

Yuan Shao was shocked when he heard this and said deeply: "Well, what Yuan Hao said is extremely true, you must be careful."

Tian Feng said again: "The lord is leading a large army to fight outside, and there is only Feng Ji in Hebei. Shen Pei is the leader of the two masters. I am afraid that they are not the opponent of Ma Chao. Why don't the lord general Zhang He lead 5,000 light cavalry to return to Jizhou first? General Zhang He is a famous general in Hebei, and his martial arts are not inferior to Ma Chao. If he has him in the formation, then Feng Ji, Shen Pei is assisted by the two masters. He will be worried about Hebei."

"Well." Yuan Shao thought for a while and said, "Let the official li (Ju Yibiao) go back to Hebei first."

Compared to Zhang He, Yuan Shao obviously trusted Ju Yi more. After all, Zhang He was shortly after his subjugation, and Ju Yi was the old subordinate of Yuan Shao's family. Of course, the close relationship cannot be compared. Ju Yi was the number one general under Yuan Shao's command, so he was of course more suitable for Hebei than Zhang He. Tian Feng had no objection to this.

White horse.

Ma Chao had led 20,000 cavalry to set out overnight and attack Hebei. Only the seven thousand cavalry of Ma Yue and the Jinfan Navy stationed on the pier were left in the camp.

Ma Yuezhong's army's tent.

Jutu, Li Meng, and Gan Ning generals entered one after another. Ma Yuezheng was on his desk to look at the map and was unaware of the generals' entry. The situation is now very obvious. The Southern and Western coalition forces were defeated one after another, and the Central coalition forces were then destroyed, and most of the Kanto coalition forces had collapsed.

Now only the Northern Alliance and Yuan Shao's Jizhou Army are still remaining to continue attacking!

In order to dismantle the attack of the Kanto Alliance, the Ma Yue group paid an extremely heavy price. The war resources accumulated over the years have been exhausted. The young and middle-aged people in Guan and Liang were even more injured, which can be said to be a trauma! Ma Yue concluded pessimistically that if the Liangzhou Legion did not rely on plunder, it would be difficult for the Liangzhou Legion to recover within ten years.

The problem now facing Ma Yue is how to end this war as soon as possible.

The reason why Ma Yue concealed the news that Ma Teng died in battle was to prevent Ma Chao from avenging his revenge and attacking Hebei regardless of his desire to avenge his revenge, and eventually further expanded the war and evolved into a decisive battle between the Liangzhou Military Group and the Jizhou Military Group! Ma Yue did not want to fight the Jizhou Military Group at this time. Not only did this have no benefit to the Liangzhou Military Group, it also gave in vain the two ungrateful wolves, Gongsun Zan and Cao Cao.

Moreover, what's even more terrible is that the Liangzhou Legion, which had just experienced the 23 coalition forces of the princes, could no longer bear a large-scale decisive battle! When the decisive battle with the Jizhou Military Group was the beginning of the collapse and destruction of the Liangzhou Military Group, Ma Yue was not a fool, and of course he understood the benefits and interests of this.

Therefore, the most urgent task now is to drive the Jizhou Army, Youzhou Army and Heishan Army out of Hetao as soon as possible. Only in this way can the Liangzhou Military Group win a precious opportunity to breathe!

At that time, even if the Kanto thieves such as Cao Cao, Sun Jian, Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shu are unsuccessful, they will only have the will but lack strength. After experiencing this war, the Liangzhou Legion was indeed severely damaged, but the various Kanto troops also need to rest and recuperate and prepare for war.

As long as the news that Ma Chao and the Western Liang cavalry swept Hebei was spread to Yuan Shao's army, Ma Yue believed that with Yuan Shao's personality, he would definitely choose to withdraw his troops! Yuan Shao would never take risks with the creatures in Hetao for the sake of Hetao. For Yuan Shao, if Hebei makes people turn the world upside down, even if Hetao is captured, it will be a failure.

After all, Yuan Shao was not Cao Cao, so he could not know the importance of Hetao to the Liangzhou military group! As for Tian Feng, of course, he would urge Yuan Shao not to withdraw his troops, but Yuan Shao was stubborn and could listen to Tian Feng's words for other things, but when it was related to the safety of Hebei, it was afraid that it would be difficult to listen to it.

After all, Yuan Shao's family was young in Yecheng.

"Huh~~"

Ma Yue breathed a long sigh, his thoughts returned to reality, and then he realized that the generals had already arrived.

"Oh, you're all here."

"Master."

"Master."

"Master."

The generals of Gan Ning bowed one after another.

Ma Yue said in a deep voice: "I asked Dian Wei to invite you overnight. There is a big thing for you to do."

The generals said in unison: "My lord is just instructed."

"Jutu."

"The last one will be there."

"Send all the explorers to thoroughly find out the troops of Wei County, Yangping County, Pingyuan County and Dong County within three days. In addition to the county soldiers and county soldiers of each county, you should pay special attention to the regular army of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao! Once you find that a regular army is mobilized, you should immediately return to the camp."

"Affect the order."

"Ganning."

"The last one will be there."

"Prepare the ships quickly and prepare for large-scale transportation of personnel and supplies! As for the ships, Chen Hu and Zhang Bao's fleet will return east as soon as possible after unloading the supplies. In addition to these 35 building ships, all the ships of all sizes and sizes along the river coast must be collected. Within ten days, this general will ask you to prepare at least 10,000 large and small ships!"

Gan Ning clasped his fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"

Ma Yue finally turned to Li Meng and shouted, "Where is Li Meng?"

Li Meng took a step forward, clasped his fists and said quickly: "The last one will be there."

Ma Yue's eyes showed cruel expression and said to Li Meng: "Starting tomorrow, we will lead our army to loot the counties of Wei County. This time we don't have food or supplies, just people! Don't have the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, only rob healthy young men and women, and children! As long as those who meet the conditions, they will grab as much as they can, and they will be robbed!!!"

Although Li Meng was puzzled, he still agreed to his promise: "The last general will take the order!"

Ma Yue nodded gently, his eyes cold! The cruel and cold-blooded butcher Ma is already preparing for the future and plans to restore his vitality after the war. After all, after this battle, the young and strong people in Guanliang area suffered a lot of losses. If you don’t use a surprise trick to make up for this loss, you will be delusional to restore your vitality in a short period of time.

Hetao, Meiji.

The night was as bright as ink, and Fa Zheng's slender figure was standing on the top of the city in the wind. Behind him were more than a dozen Liangzhou generals, who successfully brought the 15,000 army back to Meiji. This somewhat gave these generals from the ranks a preliminary approval for Fa Zheng's ability. At least this white-faced scholar was not as useless as it seemed.

Standing on the city wall, looking out, the flame retardant belt of carbohydrate (coal) was emitting a scorching red light, reflecting the surrounding ground red. Although it was dozens of steps apart, the defenders on the city seemed to still feel the scorching heat wave! The soldiers of Jizhou were really pitiful. They had to keep the water and fire out of fire at any time, and they had to endure the arrows on the corner forts on both sides, but they had to endure the suffocating heat wave. It was crazy to think about it.

The carbonite flame retardant belt was a unique plan that Guo Tu thought of when he rebuilt Meiji City. He was to dig ten deep troughs around the city beforehand, fill the carbonite in the trough, and wait for the enemy to attack in large quantities and lack sufficient garrison power in the city, ignite the carbonite in the outermost trough, and then ignite it layer by layer, using the layer of burning of the carbonite to block the enemy's attack.

Once this carbonite is burned, it will be difficult to extinguish. In addition, the bows and arrows of the surrounding koo forts make it difficult for the attacking party to approach the city. If it is only bombarded with catapults, it will be difficult to form a substantial threat to the defenders on the city. Only in this way can Yuan Shao have no choice but to use Meiji.

"This is really a genius' idea!" Fa Zheng slapped the female wall heavily and sighed, "Why can our army defend the enemy with some genius' idea without fighting back?"

"Yeah, fight back?"

"How to fight back?"

"I'm afraid there's something wrong?"
Chapter completed!