Vol 2 Chapter 2671: Cao Wei's Macedonian defense line, Li Cunxiao was captured alive

Chapter 2671 Cao Wei’s Macedonian defense line, Li Cunxiao captures Liu Yan alive

Chapter 2667: Cao Wei’s Macedonian defense line, Li Cunxiao captures Liu Yan alive

 Let alone Li Cunxiao, who is the best in the world, even an ordinary God of War is a strategic weapon for all the major forces in the world.

Li Cunxiao, Yang Jian, Jiang Song, Li Yuanba, Xing Tian, ​​Chi You, Yuan Jiuling, Niu Mowang and other top generals are almost unsolvable, and they must be rivaled by opponents of the same level.

Therefore, all the princes and kings in the world attach great importance to this.

 Great Qin had always announced to the outside world that Li Cunxiao would be sent to the Qingnan battlefield, and Cao Wei did not have too much doubt about this.

  After all, Zhu Ming's most powerful general, Niu Mowang, is also recognized as the most powerful general in the Central Plains. Even if his strength is not as good as Li Cunxiao, he is at the same level as Jiang Song and Li Yuanba, and is fully qualified to challenge the world's best Li Cunxiao.

It is completely reasonable for Da Qin to send Li Cunxiao to the Qingnan battlefield.

What Cao Wei never expected was that the news that Li Cunxiao was sent to the Qingnan battlefield was actually false news deliberately released by Da Qin. In fact, Li Cunxiao had come to Hulao Pass a long time ago.

 Cao Wei was the weakest among the three kingdoms of the Central Plains. To deal with the weakest Wei State, Da Qin not only dispatched the general Bai Qi, the poisonous scholar Jia Xu, but also Li Cunxiao?

This is a bit too much. After all, how could Cao Wei, a mere Cao Wei, deserve to be taken so seriously by the Qin Dynasty?

 Isn’t this killing a chicken with a knife?

How could Cao Cao and others not understand that the Qin Dynasty spent so much time and effort to deal with Cao Wei, the chicken with a killing knife, in order to use absolute power to completely destroy Cao Wei in the shortest time and not give Cao Wei any chance to fight back.

 Once Cao Wei is destroyed, it will only be a matter of time before the Song and Ming Dynasties are destroyed.

Cao Cao knew Ying Hao's sinister intentions, but he had no idea what to do.

In order to prevent the Ming and Song dynasties from interfering, the Qin Dynasty first attacked the Ming Dynasty with three armies, land and water, and restricted the Ming army to Qingnan and Xuzhou. Then it sent 50,000 cavalry into Runan, so that the Song army did not dare to go north to aid Cao Wei. .

The four Qin armies, Su Dingfang, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Gongjin, and Xue Rengui, contained all the energy of the Ming and Song Dynasties, and left Cao Wei completely isolated and helpless.

 Cao Wei can now only rely on himself to fight against the four Qin armies, but the strength gap between the two sides is too huge.

The invincible Li Cunxiao alone has left Cao Wei with nothing to do, let alone Ying Hao and Bai Qi.

"Report...to inform my lord, the 10,000 Qin vanguard troops led by Li Cunxiao will not make any stop after arriving at Xingyang City and continue to march towards Longcheng."

“Li Cunxiao has come in person, how can our army resist him?” Cao Cao asked Fan Li and Cheng Yu.

Fan Li and Cheng Yu looked at each other, but they were both speechless. After all, Cao Wei had no generals who could match Li Cunxiao, and even the strongest Yin Shou might not be his opponent.

Seeing that Fan Li and Cheng Yu were both silent, Cao Cao also knew that Cao Wei had no way to deal with Li Cunxiao and could only hold on as hard as possible.

After a long time, Fan Li stood up with a serious face and said: "My lord, the purpose of the Qin Dynasty is already obvious. The reason why it launched three armies to attack the Ming Dynasty was just to drag the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties into the water and force the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties to seize the opportunity. Just an alliance.

Now among the eight Qin armies, four are mainly attacking our Wei Dynasty, and there are also generals such as Bai Qi and Li Cunxiao. Even Ying Hao has personally led the army. If Song and Ming do not support us, they will only rely on our Wei family. With such power, it is absolutely impossible to block the four Qin armies at the same time. "

“But Zhu Ming was trapped by three Qin armies, and Zhao Song was also dragged by 50,000 Qin cavalry in Runan. They will not be able to support our country in a short period of time.”

Cao Cao said with a distressed look on his face. He did not expect that Da Qin would be so ruthless. As soon as he took action, he hit Wei Guo seven inches away, leaving Cao Wei in a situation where he was fighting alone.

“My lord, it is true that the Song and Ming countries cannot allocate troops to support our country in the short term, but it is still possible to allocate some generals to support us.”

Hearing Fan Li's words, Cao Cao's eyes suddenly lit up.

That’s right, the Song and Ming countries couldn’t send troops to support, so couldn’t they also send generals? One of them can always take some of the pressure off Cao Wei.

Once Cao Wei was really defeated by the Qin Dynasty, it would be bad news for both the Song and Ming Dynasties.

“What the military advisor said is true, but are there other ways to resist the Qin army?”

Hearing Cao Cao's words, Fan Li hesitated for a while and then said: "If the Qin Dynasty is really allowed to occupy the Central Plains, it will not only be damaged by the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming, but also the interests of the various sects of the devil.

Kui Gang, who was the leader of Xiu Luo, was invited to come to Yixian to sit in the town.

 Hence, we, Da Wei, can definitely join forces with the Demon Sect and use the masters of the Demon Sect to deal with Da Qin.

It is not necessary that anyone in the Demon Sect can defeat Li Cunxiao. As long as he can barely block him, the pressure on the Western Front will be much less. "

Naturally, Cao Cao didn't care about the criticism and infamy he suffered for joining forces with the Demon Sect. After all, his reputation was already bad because he set up a gold-touching school captain and robbed tombs to make money to support the army. How could he care about it anymore? How many insults?

Besides, the country is about to perish, so why do you care about reputation?

 Cao Cao has long wanted to unite with the Demon Sect, and he has also sent people to invite him, but the effect is not obvious. Neither Kui Gang of the Shura Sect nor Yuan Jiuling of the Heavenly Demon Sect paid any attention to Cao Wei.

"The lonely king has contacted the Demon Sect a long time ago, but the masters of the Demon Sect are as afraid of the Great Qin as a tiger, and they don't dare to go down the mountain and become the enemy of the Great Qin." Cao Cao sighed.

"Song State's national teacher Shen Gongbao has friends all over the world and is close friends with many masters of the Demon Sect. If he goes out to invite them, it might be miraculous," Fan Li said.

Cao Cao had no other better way, so he immediately sent a message to Zhao Kuangyin, hoping to send Shen Gongbao to invite the Demon Sect to come out.

As Ying Hao expected, Li Cunxiao and Jia Xu immediately attracted all of Cao Cao's attention as soon as they took action. He did not realize that the leader of the Qin army had been replaced along the way.

Of course, this is also related to the three lines of defense deployed by Cao Cao on the western front.

Not all of the twenty-one counties in Henan County were actually owned by the Qin Dynasty. The eight counties in the east, including Kaifeng, Yangwu, Zhongmu, and Juanxian, were actually under the rule of Cao Wei. After the heroes rebelled against Dong, Ying Hao indeed took advantage of the situation and occupied the entire Yin 21 County in Henan Province, renamed it Henan County, and still established his administrative office in Luoyang.

 At that time, there were dozens of large and small forces in the Central Plains including Cao Cao, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, etc., and they were in constant melee with each other.

The ten counties east of Hulao Pass are in close contact with the Central Plains, so they are also implicated in the melee in the Central Plains. They are always affected by wars from time to time.

The ten counties east of Hulao Pass are not protected by majestic passes such as Hulao Pass, nor are they all fortified cities like Xingyang. The flat terrain is not easy to defend.

Da Qin needs to continuously invest troops to ensure the effective rule of these ten counties, and this will undoubtedly tie up a lot of Da Qin's energy.

 At that time, Li Zicheng's resurrection coincided with another wave of peasant uprisings in the Central Plains. Daqin had not yet had time to carry out reforms, so a large number of poor people in the eastern counties of Henan County also responded to Li Zicheng's uprising.

At that time, the Qin Dynasty was fighting for the Hetao with Temujin and was unable to send troops to suppress the rebels. Therefore, it strategically abandoned the eight rebel counties and concentrated its forces to suppress the rebellions in Xingyang and Jingxian counties to ensure that the two As the barrier of Hulao Pass, the county temporarily lost its control over the eight eastern counties.

After the Qin Dynasty won the First Battle of Hetao, the peasant uprisings in the eight counties in eastern Henan had been suppressed by Qiao Mao, the then governor of Dongjun. Qiao Mao was later defeated by Cao Cao and annexed, so Xingyang was Eight counties including Kaifeng in the east fell into Cao Cao's hands.

At that time, Jia Xu had already welcomed back the emperor. Ying Hao used the emperor to command the princes, but he lacked influential supporters among the princes. In addition, the eight counties in the east had no danger to defend, which made them useless to the Qin Dynasty, so he acquiesced. ended Cao Cao's rule over the eight eastern counties.

Now that the Qin Dynasty is going out to attack Wei, the eight counties in the east of Henan County will bear the brunt, and Cao Cao has also built these eight counties into the western barrier of Chenliu County.

Cao Cao built three lines of defense in eight counties in eastern Henan.

The four most western cities of Longcheng, Guancheng, Hucheng and Mi County were the first line of defense, directly facing the Qin army at the Xingyang line of Hulao Pass.

Among these four cities, only Mi County is among the eight counties in Henan. The other three cities are all new cities built by Cao Cao to defend against the Qin Dynasty after the emergence of cement technology.

 After the first line of defense, there is the second line of defense consisting of the six cities of Juanxian, Yuanyong, Putian, Peilin, Suohou and Xinzheng.

 After the second line of defense, there is the third line of defense consisting of the six cities of Yuanwu, Yangwu, Guandu, Zhongmou, Kaifeng and Yuanling.

 Cao Wei used these eighteen cities to form three lines of defense as the western barrier of Chenliu County, and behind them were Suanzao, Fengqiu, Chenliu and other Cao Wei hinterlands.

Cao Cao regarded the three defense lines west of Chenliu as Cao Wei's Macedonian defense line. He wanted to use this to resist the Qin army's attack on the western front, and rely on defensive counterattacks to weaken Qin's power layer by layer.

Ying Hao was naturally aware of this, so he pretended to attack Chenliu personally, allowing Cao Wei to concentrate more troops on the western front, while he himself led the army to surprise Yingchuan.

Longcheng was the core of Cao Wei's first line of defense. Once Longcheng was lost, the role of Guancheng, Hucheng and Mi County would be greatly reduced. That's why Li Cunxiao attacked Longcheng first.

Cao Wei's Longcheng defender was Liu Yan, a famous general who was good at guarding.

During the Battle of Guandu in original history, Cao Cao sent Liu Yan, the governor of Dongjun at the time, to lead more than 3,000 soldiers to guard Baima together with Yu Jin. Yan Liang led tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry troops to attack, but it was still difficult to break the city.

 Liu Yan's performance in this era was stronger than in original history. He once guarded Chenliu City with 2,000 defenders and blocked Li Zicheng's 40,000 army for a month.

 In the three Central Plains wars, Liu Yan also performed well in the duels between Wei and Ming. The most famous one was the battle against Zhu Wenzheng, a Ming general who was also famous for his good defense.

At that time, Cao's army had just captured Xiaopei, but they had to divide their troops. Liu Yan guarded Xiaopei with 3,000 defenders, but he actually blocked Zhu Wenzheng's 20,000 army for two months.

It was precisely because Longcheng was so important that Cao Cao asked Liu Yan to guard it and also gave it 3,000 elite soldiers.

 Cao Cao's order to Liu Yan was to defend Longcheng for a month. This task was naturally not easy, so Liu Yan had been strengthening the defense of Longcheng since he took over Longcheng.

If other Qin generals led their troops to invade, Liu Yan was still sure that he could defend it for a month. However, when he saw the neat military appearance of 10,000 Qin troops outside the city and the generals leading them, Liu Yan's heart suddenly went cold.

The Qin general who came to attack Longcheng this time was actually Li Cunxiao, the most powerful general in the world. How could Liu Yan still have the confidence?

After Li Cunxiao saw the defensive layout of Longcheng, he knew that the city's defenders would be difficult to deal with. If he did not take action personally and relied solely on his soldiers, even if he could break the city, he would pay a high price, so he prepared an attack while doing so. While preparing for the city, he sent people to persuade Liu Yan to surrender.

Liu Yan naturally directly refused Li Cunxiao's persuasion to surrender. After all, Cao Cao discovered and activated him, so how could he surrender without a fight.

Li Cunxiao saw that Wei generals refused to surrender, so he launched an attack on Longcheng the next day and personally participated in the siege.

Liu Yan had long been on guard against Li Cunxiao's attack on the city, and had reserved fifty catapults and five hundred crossbows for Li Cunxiao in advance. However, when Li Cunxiao attacked, he discovered that these arrangements were of no use to Li Cunxiao.

Li Cunxiao's speed was so fast that ordinary soldiers could not catch him. Li Cunxiao easily boarded Longcheng and then killed the guard Liu Yan alone.

Liu Yanze quickly mobilized catapults and powerful crossbows to focus fire on Li Cunxiao on the only way. Although it had a certain blocking effect, it was only a little.

In this way, Li Cunxiao killed more than a thousand Wei troops by himself, rushed to Liu Yan's front and back, and grabbed him by the throat like a chicken. However, Liu Yan, whose force value was only 88 points, had no power to fight back at all.

As the general, Liu Yan was captured. The morale of the Wei army plummeted and they lost their fighting spirit. Under Li Cunxiao's coercion, they all knelt down and surrendered, and Longcheng was defeated.

Cao Cao had high hopes for Liu Yan, hoping that Liu Yan's three thousand defenders could stay in Longcheng for a month. However, they were defeated by Li Cunxiao in just two days.

 Cao Cao, Fan Li and other senior officials of Cao Wei were all shocked when they learned about it.

Chapter 2 is still being written, but it may not be finished. If it is finished, it will be posted tomorrow morning. If it is not, it will be posted tomorrow night.

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