"How is the situation at General Wei Liao's place?" Letting go of Li Tang's question for the time being, Sima Wu turned to talk about the situation at Wei Liaozi's place.
In this battle, no matter what, the battlefield on Liu Bang's side played a decisive role in the end. If they could deal with Liu Bang in time, then Li Tang to the east would naturally not be able to pose a threat to them in the end.
And if they are unable to deal with Liu Bang and the war continues to drag on, then when the two fronts are at war, the Qin army will naturally become more and more difficult as time goes by.
However, after Sima Cuo asked this question, he obviously did not get the news he wanted to hear. Fan Ju just sighed and shook his head and said, "Le Yi insists on defending, Jicheng cannot be broken overnight!"
Indeed, in the battle between the two sides, the side defending the city definitely had a huge advantage. Otherwise, Qin Zheng would not have decided on the strategy of attacking from the west and defending from the east.
The side defending the city already has a huge advantage, not to mention that the general defending the city is a famous general like Le Yi. It is really not easy to achieve results.
"Next, I'm afraid I have to borrow the power of Du Chong!" Sima Cuo said with a frown.
As early as a few days ago, Wei Liao had already sent a letter to Sima Cuo, hoping to borrow Du Chong. Although Sima Cuo could not guess the specific content of Wei Liao's plan, he could also clearly guess that,
It is definitely related to Du Hui, the most powerful general of the Yan army.
After all, these two people are uncle-nephew relationship anyway. Du Chong caused such a big loss to Liu Bang this time, and it is absolutely impossible to have the slightest impact on Du Huibu.
Perhaps, for the sake of the overall situation, Liu Bang would choose to suppress this incident temporarily, but it is absolutely impossible to treat it as if nothing had happened.
"General Sima, when will our army continue to march next?" Fan Ju asked directly to Sima Cuo.
If Sima Cuo continues to march, he can effectively threaten Liu Bang. If nothing unexpected happens, Liu Bang is very likely to be willing to send some troops to return reinforcements.
After all, no matter how good Le Yi's defense is, if there is a problem with Liu Bang himself, it will be meaningless in the end.
If Wei Liao insisted on defending, it would be difficult for Wei Liao to find a good breakthrough point. Only by forcing the opponent to take action could Wei Liao have a chance to defeat the enemy.
However, when Fan Ju asked about this, Sima Cuo's face began to turn ugly, and in the end he could only sigh helplessly and explain the reason to Fan Ju.
Although Sima Cuo also wanted to take advantage of this good opportunity to further advance towards Liu Bang in order to support Wei Liao's side from the side. But if he wanted to continue his advance, he needed to consider various issues. Obviously, Sima Cuo did not think so.
They can proceed in the shortest possible time.
Sima Cuo only had Gongsun Shu's 30,000 bandits under his command. They could win this battle. It was not easy to achieve such results. And behind this battle, there were inevitable losses.
of.
With the troops he currently has, it is simply not suitable for him to continue to be too aggressive. If he doesn't do it right, he may even lose the results he has already achieved.
After the battle, although they also captured more than ten thousand Yan troops who had no time to retreat, Sima Cuo did not dare to use such a large number of surrendered troops.
It is normal to use the power of surrendered troops in a war, but if you want to use the surrendered troops, the prerequisite is to control the number of surrendered troops within a certain proportion. And at this time, Sima Cuo is far from able to do it.
at this point.
It was precisely because he wanted to utilize the power of this surrendered army as much as possible that Sima Cuo eagerly hoped to use various means to surrender the Yan army generals Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Ji.
Only by using the prestige of the Yan army generals Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Ji to integrate this surrendered army can we utilize this power in the shortest possible time.
However, due to the failure of the actions of Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Yan, Sima Cuo's idea of using Ju Xin, Lang Ling, and Wei Yan to integrate and surrender the troops was stillborn.
Therefore, if Sima Cuo wants to continue to advance the army, I am afraid that he really needs to be given a certain amount of time to prepare.
After hearing Sima Cuo's words, Fan Ju also began to fall silent, thinking about the solution. In this battle, no matter what kind of difficulties they encountered, they could only try their best to solve them.
, without any thought of retreating.
Facts have proved that Fan Ju is worthy of being a famous figure in history. After frowning and thinking for a while, he really thought of some other ways. Even if he cannot completely solve Sima Cuo's problem, at least he can
Just a little bit can help.
No matter how you say it, the Taihang Mountains are the largest den of thieves in the world. Although Gongsun Shu has conquered all the bandit forces in the Taihang Mountains, he has only done so in name. It is impossible to truly conquer all the bandits in the Taihang Mountains.
They all gathered under Gongsun Shu's hand.
In any case, Taihang includes bandits from the three states of Bing, Ji, and You. Those large bandit forces may no longer exist, but there must still be some smaller ones.
Although the remaining bandits are small in scale and the quality of the bandits is indeed limited, if they can make proper use of their strength, they may be of some help to themselves. It would be good to have a little more strength at this time.
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At least, as far as Fan Ju knows, there is a force headed by Chun Yuqiong and Zhao Rui on the other side of Bingzhou. Although the number of people is not very large, only about a thousand, but after all, mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are, and they need to be eaten when they reach the age
Never let it go.
Chunyu Qiong and Zhao Rui were also generals under Yuan Shao's command at the beginning. Unfortunately, when they were transporting grain and grass, they were completely burned by a fire from the Unknown Thirteen.
Afterwards, because they were worried that they would be punished by Yuan Shao, these two people simply did not do anything, and finally decided to betray Yuan Shao and go to Taihang Mountain to become the king of the mountain!
Worried about Yuan Shao's revenge, these two people have kept a low profile for so many years and minimized their presence as much as possible.
When Gongsun Shu began to conquer various forces in the Taihang Mountains, these two men did not express resistance, but expressed surrender from a distance. In the end, they were not directly merged into Gongsun Shu, but were only nominal subordinates of the other party.
Therefore, these two people have lived with difficulty until now. But now, they are remembered by Fan Ju again.