Chapter 2670 Cao Wei’s Macedonian defense line, Li Cunxiao captured Liu Yan alive


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


    Not to mention Li Cunxiao, the world''s number one, even an ordinary **** of war is a strategic weapon for all 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 Mowang are even more almost unsolvable. Opponents of the same level must compete with them.


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


    The Qin Dynasty had always announced that Li Cunxiao was 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 also at the same level as Jiang Song and Li Yuanba. He is fully qualified to challenge Li Cunxiao, the world’s number one Li Cunxiao.


    It is completely reasonable for Daqin 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 fake news deliberately released by the Qin Dynasty. In fact, Li Cunxiao had already come to Hulao Pass.


    Cao Wei was the weakest among the three Central Plains Kingdoms. When the Qin Dynasty dealt with the weakest Wei Kingdom, it not only dispatched General Bai Qi, but also dispatched the poisonous soldier Jia Xu, but also sent Li Cunxiao from the world?


    This is a bit too much. After all, Cao Wei is so virtuous and worthy of taking Daqin so seriously?


    Isn’t this a slaughter to kill a chicken?


    Cao Cao and others, how could they not understand that the Qin Dynasty spent so much effort to deal with the chicken Cao Wei with a killing knife, which was to completely destroy Cao Wei in the shortest time with absolute power, 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 two countries of Song and Ming dynasties are destroyed.


    Cao Cao knew Ying Hao''s sinister intentions, but he had no choice.


    In order to prevent the Ming and Song dynasties from intervening, the Qin Dynasty first attacked the Ming army with three sea and land lines, and restricted the Ming army to Qingnan and Xuzhou. Later, 50,000 cavalry were sent to Runan, making the Song army afraid to go north to aid Cao Wei.


    The four Qin troops, Su Dingfang, Zhuge Liang, Zhou Gongjin and Xue Rengui, restrained the entire energy of the Ming and Song dynasties, and completely put Cao Wei in an isolated and helpless situation.


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


    The invincible Li Cunxiao alone has left Cao Wei with no choice, let alone Ying Hao and Bai Qi.


    "Report... Report to the lord, the 10,000 Qin vanguard army led by Li Cunxiao did not stop after arriving in Xingyang City and continued to march towards Longcheng."


    "Li Cunxiao is here himself, how should our army resist?" Cao Cao asked Fan Li and Cheng Yu.


    After Fan Li and Cheng Yu looked at each other, they were speechless. After all, Cao Wei had no general who could match Li Cunxiao, and even Yin Shou was probably not his opponent.


    Seeing that Fan Li and Cheng Yu were not speaking, Cao Cao knew that Cao Wei had no way to deal with Li Cunxiao, so he could only hold on to the death and persevere as much as possible.


    A long time later, Fan Li stood up with a serious expression and said, "Lord, the purpose of the Qin Dynasty is already very obvious. The reason why he first launched three armies to attack the Ming Dynasty was just to drag the Wei and Song dynasties into the water and force the Wei, Song and Ming three-nation alliance.


    Now, among the Eighth Route Qin Army, four routes are mainly attacking our Great Wei, and there are also generals such as Bai Qi and Li Cunxiao. Even Ying Hao has led the army in person. If Song Ming does not support it, it will never be possible to block the four Qin army with the power of our Great Wei family at the same time. ”


    "But Zhu Ming was trapped by the Qin army of three routes, and Zhao Song was dragged to Runan by 50,000 Qin cavalry, and he would not be able to support our country in a short period of time."


    Cao Cao said with a distressed look on his face. He didn''t expect the Qin Dynasty to attack so ruthlessly. He hit the Wei State with just one move, putting Cao Wei in a situation of fighting alone.


    "Lord, the Song and Ming dynasties will not be able to distribute troops to support our country in the short term, but it is still possible to distribute some generals to support us."


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


    Yes, Song and Ming dynasties cannot send troops to support them. Can''t they send generals? If you count one, you can always share some pressure from Cao Wei.


    If Cao Wei is really defeated by the Qin Dynasty, it will be bad news for both Song and Ming countries.


    "What the military advisor said is very true, but are there any other ways to resist the Qin army?"


    Hearing Cao Cao''s words, Fan Li hesitated and said, "If the Qin really allowed to occupy the Central Plains, it would not only be the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming, but also the interests of the major sects of the Demonic Way would be damaged.


    Kui Gang, the leader of the Shura Sect, was invited to Qiao County to take charge, which is enough to show that the Demon Sect does not like the Great Qin.


    Therefore, our Great Wei can join forces with the Demon Sect and use the masters in the Demon Sect to deal with the Great Qin.


    Not asking anyone in the Demon Sect to beat Li Cunxiao. As long as he can barely block him, the pressure on the Western Front will be much smaller. ”


    Cao Cao naturally didn''t care about the criticism and insults suffered by joining forces with the Demon Sect. After all, the establishment of a gold-touching lieutenant and robbing the tomb to obtain wealth and raising the army has made his reputation bad. How could he care about reciting a few more insults?


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


    Cao Cao had long wanted to unite with the Demon Sect and had sent someone to invite him, but the effect was not obvious. Neither Kui Gang from the Shura Sect nor Yuan Jiuling of the Heavenly Demon Sect, he ignored Cao Wei.


    "The Lone King has contacted the Demon Sect for a long time, but the masters of the Demon Sect are all afraid of the Great Qin like a tiger and dare not go down the mountain to become enemies with the Great Qin." Cao Cao sighed.


    "Song State National Master Shen Gongbao made friends all over the world, and he was very close to many masters of the Demon Sect. If he went out to invite him, it might have a miraculous effect." 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 Cao Cao''s full attention as soon as they took action, and they did not realize that the chief general of the Qin army had already been replaced.


    Of course, this is also related to the three lines of defense arranged by Cao Cao on the Western Front.


    The twenty-one counties in Henan County are actually not all owned by the Qin Dynasty. The eight counties in the eastern part, including Kaifeng, Yangwu, Zhongmu, and Juan County are actually under the rule of Cao Wei. After the heroes attacked Dong, Ying Hao did take advantage of the situation to occupy the entire territory of Yinxian County, Henan, and renamed it Henan County, and still set up the capital in Luoyang.


    At that time, there were dozens of large and small forces including Cao Cao, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Tao Qian, Yuan Shu, etc., and there were constant melee between them.


    The ten counties east of Hulao Pass have close contact with the Central Plains, so they are also implicated in the melee of the Central Plains and are always affected by war every now and then.


    The ten counties east of Hulao Pass are neither protected by the heroic passes like Hulao Pass nor are they all hard cities like Xingyang. The flat terrain is not easy to defend.


    The Qin Dynasty needs to continuously invest troops to ensure effective rule over these ten counties, which undoubtedly restrains a lot of the Qin Dynasty''s energy.


    Li Zicheng was revived at that time, and another wave of peasant uprisings was set off in the Central Plains. The Qin Dynasty had not had time to carry out reforms, so a large number of poor people responded to the Li Zicheng uprising in the eastern part of Henan County.


    At that time, the Qin Dynasty was competing with Temujin for Hetao and was unable to send troops to suppress the rebel army, so it strategically gave up the rebellious eight counties and concentrated its forces to suppress the rebellion in Xingyang and Jing counties to ensure that these two counties act as barriers to Hulao Pass, so it temporarily lost its rule over the eight eastern counties.


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


    At that time, Jia Xu had already welcomed the emperor back. Ying Hao used the emperor to order the princes, and he lacked influential supporters among the princes. In addition, the eight eastern counties had no danger to defend, which was like a useless to the Qin Dynasty, so he accused Cao Cao of the rule of the eight eastern counties.


    Now that the Qin Dynasty went out to attack Wei in the east, the first one was the eight counties in the eastern part of Henan County, and Cao Cao also built these eight counties into a western barrier for Chenliu County.


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


    The four cities of Longcheng, Guancheng, Hucheng and Mixian at the westernmost end are the first line of defense, directly facing the Qin army on the Xingyang line of Hulaoguan.


    Among these four cities, only Mi County belongs to the eight counties in Henan, and the other three cities were new cities built by Cao Cao in order to prevent the Qin Dynasty after the emergence of cement technology.


    After the first line of defense, it is the second line of defense composed of the six cities of Juan County, Yuanyong, Putian, Pei Lin, Zuohou and Xinzheng.


    After the second line of defense, the third line of defense consists of the six cities of Yuanwu, Yangwu, Guandu, Zhongmu, 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 the hinterlands of Cao Wei such as Sourzao, Fengqiu, and Chenliu.


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


    Ying Hao naturally knew this, but instead pretended to attack Chenliu personally, asking Cao Wei to concentrate more troops on the Western Front, while he himself led his army to attack Yingchuan.


    The core of the first line of defense in Longcheng, Cao Wei, once Longcheng is lost, the role of Guancheng, Hucheng and Mixian will be greatly reduced, so Li Cunxiao will first attack Longcheng.


    The defender of Longcheng of Cao Wei was the famous defender Liu Yan.


    During the Battle of the former Shiguandu, Cao Cao sent Liu Yan, the then prefect of Dongjun, to lead more than 3,000 soldiers to guard the Baima together with Yu Jin. Yan Liang led tens of thousands of infantry and cavalry troops to attack and still could not break the city.


    Liu Yan''s record in this era was stronger than that of the original Shi. He once guarded Chenliu City with two thousand defenders and blocked Li Zicheng''s 40,000 army for one month.


    In the three Central Plains Wars, Liu Yan also performed well in the duel between Wei and Ming countries. The most famous one was 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 had to divide the troops. Liu Yan guarded Xiaopei with three thousand defenders, and actually blocked Zhu Wenzheng''s 20,000 army for two months.


    It is precisely because Longcheng is too important that Cao Cao asked Liu Yan to guard the city and gave him three thousand elite soldiers.


    Cao Cao gave Liu Yan the order to defend Longcheng for one month. This task is naturally quite difficult, so since Liu Yan took over Longcheng, he has been strengthening Longcheng''s defense.


    If other Qin generals led their troops to invade, Liu Yan was still sure that he could defend for a month, but when the neat military appearance of the 10,000 Qin troops outside the city and the generals in charge, Liu Yan''s heart suddenly became cold.


    The Qin general who came to attack Longcheng this time was actually the world''s number one strong general Li Cunxiao. How could Liu Yan still have confidence?


    After Li Cunxiao saw the defensive arrangements of Longcheng, he knew that the city''s guards were not easy to deal with. If he did not take action personally and rely on his soldiers to be strong, he would pay a considerable price even if he could break the city. So while preparing to attack 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, how could he surrender without fighting?


    Seeing that the Wei general refused to surrender, Li Cunxiao launched an attack on Longcheng the next day and personally participated in the siege.


    Liu Yan had been preventing Li Cunxiao from sieging the city, and reserved 50 catapults and 500 powerful crossbows for Li Cunxiao in advance. But just when Li Cunxiao attacked, he realized that these arrangements were of no use to Li Cunxiao.


    Li Cunxiao''s speed was too fast, and ordinary soldiers could not catch it at all. Li Cunxiao easily climbed to Longcheng and then killed the defending general Liu Yan alone.


    Liu Yan quickly mobilized the catapult cart and strong crossbow to gather fire on the road that must be passed. Although it had a certain blocking effect, it was only a little bit.


    In this way, Li Cunxiao killed more than a thousand Wei troops alone and rushed to Liu Yan, catching a chicken, directly strangling his throat. Liu Yan, who had a force value of only 88 points, had no power to fight back at all.


    As the main general, Liu Yan was captured, and the morale of the Wei army fell sharply and his desire to fight was lost. Under the threat of Li Cunxiao, they 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 live in Longcheng for one month, but he was captured 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.


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