Although Hua Tuo still had some doubts about Liu Bei's suggestion, in the end he couldn't bear Liu Bei's warm invitation and chose to agree to Liu Bei's invitation.
After all, there was no reason why Hua Tuo would not be tempted by the Medical Craftsman Institute established by Li Xiang. Although the Medical Craftsman Institute trained a large number of military doctors who specialized in dealing with trauma, it also trained a large number of doctors for people's livelihood.
Hua Tuo also felt that Zhang Fei's words were reasonable. After all, his power alone was limited. As long as he could teach ten disciples, he would definitely be able to treat more patients than he could treat alone. What's more, if he were
How can we really train only ten disciples?
After handling Hua Tuo's matter, Liu Bei immediately contacted Dou Jiande and jointly dealt with Guo Wei. Now, after Liu Bei and Dou Jiande join forces, their strength in all aspects is no less than that of Guo Wei. Even in terms of talents, they are not inferior to Guo Wei.
Much better than that.
Although Guan Yu, Qin Ming, Suo Chao and other generals of Liu Bei's army were temporarily unable to go to the battlefield due to injuries. However, Niu Mo alone was enough to defeat Guo Wei to the point where he could not hold his head up.
In terms of civil servants and counselors, although Guo Weijun had Guo Wei and Fan Zhi, Su Qin and Ling Jing among Dou Jiande's forces, and Liu Xuanchu, Liu Wenjing, Liu Yong, Wu Yong, Zhu Wu, Jian Yong, and Shen Bu among Liu Bei's forces
None of the others are vegetarians.
As a result, the situation in Qingzhou gradually became unfavorable to Guo Wei. However, Guo Wei could be regarded as a big family and a big business. It was difficult to determine the final outcome of the battle in Qingzhou in a short period of time.
Guanzhong.
With the arrival of a cold wind, a heavy snowfall also quietly arrived, and a thin layer of ice began to form on the Weishui River. Originally, Li Xiang had already made preparations to reach the other side in one fell swoop, and only waited for half a month.
Afterwards, the river was completely frozen and the ice was reinforced, so Yue Fei was ordered to initiate the final decisive battle across the river.
But at this time, two pieces of news arrived one after another, which made Li Xiang feel happy and worried. At the same time, it also caught Li Xiang off guard.
These two pieces of news are one good and the other bad. Let’s talk about the good news first. Although Zhang Xutuo is a good general, he is still not as good as Su Lie. Previously, he could barely stop Su Lie only by relying on the strength of the city.
But with the arrival of Bai Qi, Zhang Xutuo was no longer able to fight back, and Qian County was finally declared defeated under the joint attack of Su Lie and Bai Qi.
Except for Zhang Xutuo and Zuo Tiancheng, who led less than 10,000 remnants of the Sui army stationed in Qianxian County, who were defeated in Chang'an, and less than 20,000 people who were captured by Bai Su, all the other soldiers died.
During this battle.
In that battle, Bai Qi ordered a small number of troops to pretend to march as a whole army at normal speed, while most of his troops concealed themselves and accelerated their march. The arrival speed was three or four days faster than Zhang Xutuo expected.
As a result, Zhang Xutuo was not fully prepared at all.
Qianxian County was already in great ruin under the continuous attacks of Su Lie's army, but while Zhang Xutuo was resisting Su Lie's attack, Bai Qi suddenly led his army to join the siege.
Inadequately prepared and in a hurry, Zhang Xutuo faced the combined attack of Bai Qi and Su Lie, but in the end he still failed to persevere.
After successfully capturing Qian County, Bai Qi and Su Lie were unequivocal and assigned 3,000 men to guard the prisoners, while the remaining 140,000 troops advanced towards Chang'an.
After the good news, came the bad news. The Xiang clan who occupied Jingnan and Jiaozhou finally took action. Just as Yue Fei guessed, the Xiang clan either did not send troops, or once they sent troops, they directly adopted the Ming Dynasty.
Wuguan, the decision to secretly attack Guangcheng Pass.
Guangcheng Pass is an important passage connecting Wanxiang and Jingchu areas to Luoyang, and it is also one of the southern gateways to Luoyang. Since receiving news of changes in the south, Li Xiang has ordered Cen Peng who is stationed here to be on guard day and night.
Fortunately, Cen Peng took Li Xiang's order to heart and was lucky enough to discover the enemy in time and defend Guangcheng Pass without letting the situation completely collapse.
On the surface, Xiang Yan led all the troops and horses toward Wuguan in a mighty manner, but secretly Xiang Yu led three cavalrymen, Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying, totaling 6,000 people, to attack Guangcheng Pass overnight.
There are three legions of Tenglong, Leibao and Huying. Each army has only 2,000 men for the time being, and they are led by three generals: Long Qie, Ying Bu and Ji Bu.
These three legions totaled 6,000 cavalry, which was all the cavalry the Xiang clan could produce.
There are few horses in the south, and although there are many horse dealers in the north, under Li Xiang's control, even in the Youzhou area, horse prices have skyrocketed.
Moreover, the same war horse was sold to the Central Plains for one price, but sold to the south for another price. Therefore, the southern princes simply could not afford the high price of horses, so they bought war horses on a large scale.
Xiang Yu, or rather the Central Plains, the princes in the south were able to form a certain size of cavalry, and they had to thank that team for the harvest of the grassland war.
In order to train the three legions of Tenglong, Leibao and Huying into real elites, the Xiang clan concentrated almost all their war horses on these three legions, and finally made these three legions capable of one man and two riders.
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Li Xiang's floating house still has a lot of eyes and ears in the Xiang clan's army, but it's just the middle and lower classes.
But even for some middle and lower-level people, the news of all the cavalry in the camp being dispatched was naturally not enough to satisfy them. However, neither Xiang Yan, Fan Zeng, Xiang Yu nor Yu Ji, who was visiting Jingbei at this time, had ever thought about it.
Keep this news to yourself.
The three legions of Tenglong, Leibao and Huying charged with a total of 6,000 cavalry in the starry night. Even if the spies from the floating water house sent out the news, there was no time to spread the news in time. By the time the news from the floating water house was passed, Xiang Yu should have arrived for this attack.
The destination. Moreover, these spies could only detect the cavalry dispatch, but did not know the final destination of the cavalry dispatch.
On the contrary, Yu Ji not only did not think about concealing the news of the dispatch of the three legions of Tenglong, Leibao, and Huying, but she also controlled the command in Jingbei. She used this incident to lure snakes out of their holes and dug out many floating houses.
The eyes and ears in the Xiang clan's army caused considerable losses to the Floating Water House.
However, although the floating house did not transmit the news in time, Cen Peng, who was closely guarding at all times, still discovered the opponent at the moment when Xiang Yu's cavalry rushed towards him.
Xiang Yu and the others were attacking all night long, so naturally they didn't carry any military equipment. Since they couldn't attack by surprise, they didn't know what to do!
Let's attack the key points. They are obviously at a disadvantage in terms of numbers and lack siege equipment. In this state, trying to forcefully attack the key points is tantamount to seeking death!
Although Xiang Yu is a bit tough, he is not stupid. Naturally, he will not use the cavalry he has worked so hard to build for such meaningless losses. Last time, they were able to get such a large number of horses when they had the opportunity to catch up with the grassland war.
But then, they won't have such a good opportunity.
But if they were to leave just like that, it would be absolutely impossible. They would never give up sending troops and just sit back and watch Li Xiang grow and develop again and again.
In desperation, they had no choice but to declare that the surprise attack mission had failed and began to organize a frontal attack. Of course, they had to wait until Xiang Yan's large army arrived before the frontal attack. They themselves did not have this ability with their own cavalry.