Chapter 2667: Cao Wei Macedonian defense line, Li Cunxiao captured Liu Yan alive
Chapter 2667: Cao Wei’s Macedonian defense line, Li Cunxiao captures Liu Yan alive
Let alone Li Cunxiao, who is number one in the world, even an ordinary God of War is a strategic weapon for all the major forces in the world.
Top generals such as Li Cunxiao, Yang Jian, Jiang Song, Li Yuanba, Xing Tian, Chi You, Yuan Jiuling, and Niu Mo forget are almost invincible, 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.
Da 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 best general Niu Mowang is also recognized as the best general in the Central Plains. Even if his strength is not as strong as Li Cunxiao, he is still at the same level as Jiang Song and Li Yuanba, and is fully qualified to challenge the world's best Li Cunxiao.
It was completely reasonable for Da Qin to send Li Cunxiao to the Qingnan battlefield.
But 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 the Qin Dynasty. 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 warrior 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 Da Qin?
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 was destroyed, it would only be a matter of time before the Song and Ming countries were destroyed.
Cao Cao knew Ying Hao's sinister intentions, but he couldn't do anything about it.
In order to prevent the Ming and Song Dynasties from intervening, 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.
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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 great.
The invincible Li Cunxiao alone had left Cao Wei at a loss, not to mention Ying Hao and Bai Qi.
"Report... to inform my lord that the 10,000 Qin vanguard troops led by Li Cunxiao will not make any stops after arriving at Xingyang City and continue to march towards Longcheng."
"Li Cunxiao has come in person, how can our army resist?" 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 Zhou 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 Qin 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, we 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 into Runan by 50,000 Qin cavalry. They will not be able to support our country in a short time."
Cao Cao kept saying distressedly, he did not expect that Da Qin would be so ruthless, and he hit the seven inches of Wei State as soon as he took action, putting Cao Wei into a situation of fighting alone.
"My Lord, it is true that the Song and Ming Dynasties cannot allocate troops to support our country in the short term, but it is still possible to allocate some generals to support us."
Upon hearing Fan Li's words, Cao Cao's eyes suddenly lit up.
Yes, if the Song and Ming countries couldn't send troops to support them, couldn't they also send generals? One by one, they could always share some of the pressure from Cao Wei.
Once Cao Wei was defeated by Qin, it would be bad news for both Song and Ming.
"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 Wei, Song, and Ming Dynasties, but also the interests of the various sects of the Demonic Way.
Kui Gang, the former leader of Shura Sect, was invited to come to Qiao County to take charge, which is enough to show that the Demon Sect does not like Da Qin.
Therefore, I, Da Wei, can definitely join forces with the Demon Sect and use the masters of the Demon Sect to deal with Da Qin.
It doesn’t matter if anyone in the Demon Sect can defeat Li Cunxiao, as long as he can barely block him, then 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 the extra charges?
How many insults?
Besides, the country is about to die, why do you care about reputation?
Cao Cao had long wanted to unite with the Demon Sect and had sent people to invite them, but the effect was 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 Master 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 expected by Ying Hao, Li Cunxiao and Jia Xu immediately attracted all of Cao Cao's attention as soon as they took action, without even realizing that the leader of the Qin army had been replaced.
Of course, this is also related to the three lines of defense deployed by Cao Cao on the western front.
In fact, not all of the 21 counties in Henan County were owned by Da Qin. The eight counties in the east, including Kaifeng, Yangwu, Zhongmou, and Juanxian, were actually under the rule of Cao Wei.
After the heroes conquered Dong, Ying Hao did take 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, and are always affected by wars from time to time.
The ten counties east of Hulao Pass are neither protected by majestic passes such as Hulao Pass, nor are they all fortified cities like Xingyang, nor are the flat terrain easy to defend.
Da Qin needed to continuously invest troops in order to ensure the effective rule of these ten counties, and this undoubtedly restricted a lot of Da Qin's energy.
At that time, Li Zicheng's resurrection set off another wave of peasant uprisings in the Central Plains, and 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 counties.
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
Kaifeng and eight other counties 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 was useless to the Qin Dynasty, so he acquiesced.
ended Cao Cao's rule over the eight eastern counties.
Now that the Qin Dynasty is 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 cities of Longcheng, Guancheng, Hucheng and Mi County in the far west are the first line of defense, directly facing the Qin army on 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 spinning 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 to serve as the western barrier of Chenliu County, and behind them were Suanzao, Fengqiu, Chenliu and other hinterlands of Cao Wei.
Cao Cao regarded the three defense lines west of Chenliu as Cao Wei's Macedonian defense line, hoping 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.
Naturally, Ying Hao was well aware of this, so he pretended to personally conquer Chenliu, 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 also be greatly reduced. That's why Li Cunxiao attacked Longcheng first.
The Longcheng garrison of Cao Wei was Liu Yan, a famous general who was good at garrison.
During the Battle of Guandu in original history, Cao Cao sent Liu Yan, the governor of Dongjun at that 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 Chenliucheng with 2,000 defenders and held off Li Zicheng's 40,000 troops 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 the Ming general Zhu Wenzheng, 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 gave him three thousand 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 Longcheng's defense since he took over.
If other Qin generals led their troops to invade, Liu Yan was still sure that he could defend for a month. But when he saw the neat troops of 10,000 Qin troops outside the city, as well as the generals at the head, Liu Yan's heart instantly 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 feel confident?
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?
Seeing that Wei generals refused to surrender, Li Cunxiao 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 powerful crossbows for Li Cunxiao in advance. However, when Li Cunxiao came up together, 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 the front and rear of Liu Yan, 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.