Because the territory of Pei Kingdom is like a "y", and the connection between the left and right branches and the "丨" below is the narrowest, with an east-west width of only more than 150 miles, and it is easy to be attacked and cut off by people. In Zhuyi here, the troops in Zhuyi County were extremely empty, and Dong Yue dared not risk the danger of cutting off the rear. At this time, his troops were insufficient and he dared not continue to advance. After Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui retreated, only 500 Dong Si's soldiers and 2,000 prisoners were left, and the rest of the troops were all withdrawn to Xiang County.

The incident in Xiang County was too sudden. Except for the time when Dong Yue was closest to responding, the rest of the people had no time to react. This also gave Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui the opportunity to reinforce Sun Ce. Otherwise, once Yingchuan prefect Zhang Xiu and Chenliu prefect Dong Shang went south to enter Chen State, they could directly kill Xiang County along Langtang Canal. Once the empty Xiang County was taken down, the four counties of Yilu, Xinyang and Song State in the east would fall one after another, and cut off the retreat of Zhang Xun's old nest Chengfu County.

Dong Yue retreated to Xiang County. Whether Zhang Xun or Qiao Rui was willing or not, they had to retreat immediately. At the same time, the two asked Ji Ling, who was in Pingyu County, the capital again, and Yuan Shu of Shouchun. The nine counties east of Yingshui were too empty to resist the attacks from Pei County and Chen State.

As Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui were worried, since Long Kang retreated to Chengfu along the Wohe River, Dong Hu had led more than 10,000 cavalry south to Xiangxian County. At the same time, Guo Si led 10,000 Chang'an Camp and then entered the four counties of Fengxian, Peixian, Zhuqiu, and Xiaoxian County. Nearly 10,000 Qingzhou troops had almost no resistance. When Guo Si quickly advanced to the front, he also surrendered without exception.

At the same time, Yingchuan County and Chenliu County launched an attack on Chen State at the same time.

Zhang Xiu personally led 10,000 Yingchuan troops to station troops in Yan County, and threatened Runan County from the west. General Hu Cheer led 3,000 troops from Xinji County to Chen State; Chenliu Prefect Dong Shang personally led 5,000 troops to fight along Langtang Canal to fight into Chen State Fule County...

Pei State, Chen State had never wanted to fight with the Liangzhou army from the beginning. Before Li Jin went south to chase Sun Ce, he had already sent letters to various counties. Liu Yao rebelled and killed the general. The news came to the ears of Zhang Chao, the left-behind general of Chen State. When he learned that Zhu Yan had killed his brother Zhang Miao, he almost died of grief and vomited blood in court. He pointed to Xiang County and cursed. The next day, he personally led 3,000 troops to kill Xiang Pei State, as if he had not killed Zhu Yan, and Liu Yao would not give up.

There was no desire to resist at all, and Zhang Chao left Chen State with three thousand soldiers. After Dong Shang and Hu Cheer and eight thousand soldiers entered, all counties in Chen State opened the city to surrender.

The Liangzhou Army, Huainan Army, and Xuzhou Army did not expect that Zhu Jun would take a gamble and had no time to react. When the three parties discovered an accident in Xiangxian County, they could only see who had a faster reaction speed. Dong Yue, who was closest to Xiangxian County, obviously had an advantage.

Tao Qian in Xuzhou passed away. The Xuzhou local faction and the Danyang faction in the territory are fighting openly and secretly for Xuzhou's right to speak, and they are unable to respond to Yuzhou for a while.

The central brain of the Huainan Army was in Shouchun. Even if Yuan Shu mobilized 100,000 troops to head north, the two-legged infantry would definitely not be as fast as the four-legged Liangzhou horse.

Liangzhou Army took the lead in taking the advantage of speed. After receiving Dong Yue's emergency letter, Dong Hu personally led 3,000 heavy armored cavalry, Dong Gu Third Cavalry Battalion, and Zhang Liao Fourth Cavalry Battalion went south day and night. Along the way, Fengxian County, Zhuqiu County even opened the city gates, and even if the ten thousand light and heavy cavalry were over ten thousand light and heavy cavalry ignored it. It took only two days to run for 300 miles. Before Dong Yue returned to Xiang County, Liangzhou Cavalry had already taken over most of the burned cities.

Dong Hu didn't expect that Zhu Jun was still so impulsive and disrupted his expected plan, but his decisiveness also scared Zhang Xun and Qiao Rui, and sent letters of help to Pingyu and Shouchun...

"Dong Shang, Hu Cheer has entered Chen County and is taking over the Chen State counties to stabilize the people's hearts."

"Guo Si led 10,000 troops to Xiaoxian, and his general Yu Shuang stationed 8,000 troops in Peixian..."

The chief envoy Dong You looked up and said, "Guo Si asked for an order to tell him that he could enter Pengcheng Kingdom?"

Dong Hu frowned and looked around the generals in the hall again.

"Do you think you can attack Pengcheng Kingdom?"

Dong Chong was the most prestigious among the brothers and stood up first and said, "Tao Qian in Xuzhou died of illness. Xuzhou was in chaos, so we think we could give it a try."

Dong Hu nodded silently and looked at Zhang Liao again.

"Wen Yuan, what do you think?"

Zhang Liao frowned and said, "The Qingzhou Army has just surrendered. We are short of troops now. We can continue to let their commanders, the small and small Qu commanders lead the troops for the time being, but the soldiers must be disrupted and reorganized, and they also need to be delegated to some commanders, which will take some time... And now, these things have not been done. It is difficult for General Guo Si to say whether he can fully command them to attack Pengcheng. Even if he can command, how much specific combat power is? These are all big questions."

"I thought that it was too short for us to regain Yanzhou. Qingzhou was too short and it took some time to stabilize our position. Before, we could make Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Tao Qian, and Yuan Shu of Xuzhou..., including Zhu Jun, who had not dared to move around before, because our army would win every battle. It was the strength of our army that shocked them and did not dare to move around."

Zhang Liao frowned again and said, "Pengcheng Kingdom has 500,000 people in eight cities. Although the military pressure in Pengcheng was not high before and Pengcheng Kingdom did not recruit troops to prepare for war, Pengcheng County is the capital of Pengcheng Kingdom, and its population must have reached 100,000. The temporary transfer of young and strong guarding the city can reach 20,000."

"Yu Shuang's troops are 10,000, and he can attack the nearby Guangwei City from Pei County. He has half the chance of success. Guo Si leads 10,000 to attack Pengcheng 60 miles away from Xiao County. The last general thinks that there is only 30% chance unless the guard of Pengcheng is a fool!"

"Yu Shuang attacked Guangwei and had the advantage of troops, but he was the city of attack. Therefore, the last general thought that there was only 50% chance of success. Guo Si attacked a solid city with 20,000 people and strong people. The probability was only 30%. During the siege, Guo Si and Yu Shuang had eight cities that allowed the Qingzhou army that had just surrendered to take the lead in siege. Once they could not capture for a long time, the Qingzhou army would inevitably suffer too much loss. It is hard to say whether it would arouse the Qingzhou army's rebellion in the face of the battle."

"So, I thought that Guo Si could attack tentatively, but only test Pengcheng Kingdom's will to resist, and it is not advisable to attack and destroy too many troops."

Zhang Liao's words were reasonable and well-founded, and even Dong Hu nodded in agreement, but he still looked at Dong Gu.

"Bone, do you have any suggestions?"

Dong Gu clasped his fists and said, "The last general agrees with Wen Yuan's words. You can test it, but it is not advisable to attack and destroy the troops, and you must not neglect to be defeated in the battle and damage the military's power."

Dong Hu nodded silently and looked at Zhang Chao who was running towards him unexpectedly.

"What do you think Zhang Taishou thinks?"

Zhang Chao didn't expect Dong Hu to call his name, and for a moment he was a little stunned and didn't know how to speak...

"The officials...the officials thought several generals had a lot of sense, so they should...be careful."

When Zhang Chao rushed to Xiangxian from Chen State, Dong Hu had already led more than 10,000 cavalry to take over Pei State. He also became much more low-key and took the initiative to hand over the three thousand Qingzhou troops.

Dong Hu seemed to be very satisfied with his "senior official" and smiled and said, "The incident in Xiang County was too sudden. In order to avoid the destruction of chaos and soldiers, our army had to enter Pei State. But you also know that once our army enters, this place will become a battlefield and must be guarded by war-going generals. Therefore... Zhang Taishou can go to Chenliu County to succeed the prefect."

Zhang Chao was stunned, and Dong Hu turned to look at Dong You.

"I wrote to Chang'an, and the General Administration recommended Zhang Liao as the general manager of Yuzhou, Zhang Chao as the prefect of Yingchuan County, Liang and Chen States merged into one county, Dong Shang as the prefect, Pei State changed the county, Guo Si as the prefect, Zhang Xiu, Dong Shang and Guo Si as the deputy of Zhang Liao, and the Censorate also asked the Censorate to select the governor of Yuzhou, and the Ministry of Personnel to select officials from various counties."

"promise!"

Dong You quickly recorded the appointment list, and Dong Hu frowned again about Pengchengguo.

Li Jue and Guo Si are the Yellow Turban partners, one is cunning and good at planning, the other is brave and good at fighting. The two have strong complementarity. If Guo Si is just attacking Pengcheng Kingdom, just as Zhang Liao and Dong Gu said, if Pengcheng Kingdom are like Pei Kingdom and Chen Kingdom, they will be fine if they all go to open the city and surrender everywhere. But if the situation is the opposite, Guo Si may be defeated, which will affect the "invincible" image of the Liangzhou Army.

But who can be a partner with Guo Si?

If Zhang Ji had not died of illness, Zhang Ji could have partnered with Guo Si. After all, during the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Ji mediated the conflict between Li Jue and Guo Si, in addition to Zhang Ji, Jia Xu could have it.

Who else can besides Zhang Ji and Jia Xu?

Dong Hu glanced around and his eyes suddenly froze on Dong Yue, and he couldn't help but smile.

"Dian Wei, Xu Chu, you will command all the Qingzhou troops in the city and tell them that as long as half of the looted goods are handed over, we will be exempted from their guilt..."

"They were not in our army before and they surrendered voluntarily. We shouldn't have been too harsh, but they looted and slaughtered unarmed people!"

"Punishment is not important, it is important to tell them that killing people for the sake of wealth is not allowed!"

"According to the rules of the mercenary camp in the early years, 30% of the gains were collected into the public, and 40% of them belonged to us personally, and they could only get 30% of them. Now we leave them 50% as a reward for taking the initiative to surrender. If anyone dares to make any strange words, they will be sold, chop their fingers and exil to Mobei and Hexi as slaves."

"This is undiscussed."

Dian Wei and Xu Chu clasped his fists heavily.

"promise!"

Dong Hu said again: "You are temporarily the deputy generals under Dong Yue's name, and you will give you ten days to rectify your troops."

"promise."

Dong Hu nodded to the two of them, and they stepped out of the hall and headed to the south camp in the city to rectify the seven or eight thousand Qingzhou troops.

"You, the commander Guo Si to attack Pengcheng this time is with him as the main general, Yu Shuang and Dong Yue as the deputy, and he can decide how to attack... But! If he is accidentally defeated, no matter what the reason is, he will stay in Chang'an and retire in this life."

"promise!"

Dong Hu thought for a while and added another sentence.

"In our name, I wrote a letter to every general under my uncle's name. We can accept their defeat on the battlefield, but we will never accept the defeat of arbitrary struggle for merit. We value not only victory on the battlefield, but also the maturity and stability of the general. Even if we are far away from the grasslands in the north of the Moxi, far away from the four counties in Hexi, and far away from the corners of the plateau, we have never forgotten their contributions. Moreover, in our hearts, they will never have the chance to achieve great military achievements in their lives. As long as they are stable and undisturbed, their contributions are above you!"

"Whether Dong Buyi is in the same line or originally belonging to the uncle's line, we attach great importance to every general. You can have competition, but this kind of competition only involves the training of soldiers, abiding by military rules and regulations, and abilities, rather than taking military risks in order to fight for power and profit!"

A group of generals bowed and clasped their fists together.

"Abide by the princess's orders!"
Chapter completed!