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Just when everyone's eyes were focused on Qingzhou, Lu Bu suddenly took action and rushed to the critical moment of spring plowing. Is Lu Bu's purpose of destroying the enemy's spring plowing, or is he trying to seize the enemy's territory before spring plowing?

Lu Bu personally took action and surrounded Yan County. Now Yan County is lonely and there is no way around. Yan County is like a piece of fat meat. Everyone wants to eat it, but they are all concerned about their opponents. Of course, Liu Dai is not an opponent. Now that Lu Bu takes action first, others are concerned about it. At least until Liu Dai reacts effectively, it is unlikely that everyone will take action.

Song Hufeng's letter of help was placed on Liu Dai's case early, but Liu Dai was still worried. According to Liu Dai's information, the Iron Army had close contacts with Lu Bu's envoys in recent times. Just when Liu Dai thought the Iron Army would surrender to Lu Bu, Lu Bu suddenly sent troops to attack Yan County. What's strange about it? Is it a trap to lure him to send troops?

In fact, in Liu Dai's heart, he was not willing to take risks for the Iron Army, nor was he willing to offend the strongest enemy, Lu Bu. The so-called Iron Army had close contacts with Lu Bu, etc., more of it provided Liu Dai with an excuse not to send troops.

As Lu Bu encircled Yan County without attacking or attacking but failed, Liu Dai became increasingly suspicious of the iron army and Lu Bu any shameful deal.

So, Song Hufeng's letter of help turned into meat buns to beat dogs. Liu Dai's uncontrollable troops surprised the princes around him, but thinking about Liu Dai's personality, it is not difficult to understand.

When Yan County completely cut off foreign aid and logistics, Song Hufeng wrote an ultimatum to Liu Dai. Liu Dai scoffed at it and was lazy to even write a reply. However, Liu Dai didn't know that because he was afraid of losing the letter halfway, he sent many letters, and some of them fell into the hands of others. So Liu Dai's reputation of not saving him was spread. When Liu Dai found out, it was too late.

Yan County changed its flag! The iron army turned to Lu Bu, allowing Lu Bu's power to extend to the edge of the Yellow River for the first time. This is of great significance. First, it means that Gongsun Zan was attacked by Lu Bu on both sides. Secondly, Lu Bu can conduct large-scale trade from the Yellow River, etc.

Of course, the most important thing is that Liu Dai lost the effect of Lu Bu in Yan County. This was not until Lu Bu suddenly rushed his army eastward. Liu Dai understood this.

Lu Bu immediately divided his troops into two groups, one of which was the Iron Army headquarters that had just changed its flag. Song Hufeng led his army to occupy Changyuan. He pointed at Dongming and Lu Bu personally led the attack on the wrongful ju. The wrongful ju was the western gate of Dingtao in Jiyin County. If Dingtao was lost, he would face Lu Bu's troops.

Although Liu Dai knew the importance of the wrongful words and devoted himself to the guardianship, it was useless to face Lu Bu's strong combat power. Fortunately, Lu Bu did not like to climb the city, but liked to slowly siege with cavalry, completely zeroing in the morale of the defenders in the city, and then easily seized the city.

Lu Bu and Fang Zhiwen have different military concepts. Fang Zhiwen strives to fight quickly. If the war is delayed, Fang Zhiwen will reduce the intensity and focus on the sense of rhythm and key strikes. Lu Bu likes to destroy the enemy's will and does not care much about the cost of time. Because Lu Bu has a very strong control on the battlefield, he ignores the impact of time on the battlefield. In addition, the battles of the ancients are usually protracted, so Lu Bu does not think that there is any problem with the time spent in his thoughts.

Although Pang Yuan felt that the issue of time should be paid attention to, since Lu Bu's army was biased towards cavalry and the infantry's defense ability was sufficient, the attack was not large enough. Therefore, from a tactical perspective, it could only adopt the form of cavalry siege. In comparison, this is the most efficient tactical choice.

Lu Bu launched an attack earlier than Song Hufeng. Song Hufeng had to establish a supply point in Changyuan with Cao Xing before he could rush his army to attack Dongming in the east. The purpose of choosing to attack Dongming was actually to block Han Fu's attempt to go south and prevent Han Fu from coming to take advantage when Lu Bu annexed Liu Dai.

As for other princes, Pang Yuan was not worried. Now Yuan Shao was having a headache about how to deal with Fang Zhiwen's bloodletting operation. Cao Cao had just ended the Xuzhou War and his injuries were not healed. More importantly, even if Cao Cao wanted to start a war, he would first choose Zhang Liang. Otherwise, Cheng Yu would not be repaid for his hatred, so where would Cao Cao's face be put?

Finally, it is Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu should pay more attention to Runan now. If Cao Cao attacked Zhang Liang in Runan, Zhang Liang's defeat of Runan and Chen County may be Cao Cao's next target. At this time, it is obviously not a good choice to get into evil with Lu Bu.

Therefore, Han Fu is the only one who can compete with Lu Bu for Liu Dai's territory, and seizing Dongming is the best position to block Han Fu's southward journey.

Although the Iron Army marched into Dongming a little later, the attack form of the Iron Army was completely different from that of Lu Bu, and the defenders of Dongming themselves were far less than that of unjustly words. With the cooperation of Cao Xing's cavalry, the Iron Army used long-range troops to bombard Dongming. One day after day, Song Hufeng personally led the heavily armored infantry to attack at night. In addition, Dian Wei's fierce attack, Dongming was captured by the Iron Army one day and one night. The Iron Army, who had been silent for a while, suddenly took action again, and one move was a big victory!

Cao Xing also witnessed the powerful infantry of the Iron Army, especially the heavy armored infantry. When he saw Dian Wei crushing the defenders like gods and demons on the top of the city, Cao Xing knew that he was definitely not an opponent. He just didn't know whether the Gao Shun brothers, who were famous for commanding heavy infantry, could stop this crazy-like powerful man!

At the same time, Cao Xing was even more impressed by the military advisor's vision and ability. With his sharp mouth and lips, the military advisor settled such a powerful army as the Iron Army. The enemy, which was originally a troubled enemy, became a weapon in Lu Bu's hands in the blink of an eye. This wonderful thing that was light and light could only be done by a smart man like a military advisor!

When the Dongming was lost, Juyang and Heze were both exposed to the Iron Army's military attacks. Cao Xing's cavalry took the lead and directly sent troops to Juyang. The Juyang defender was worried that the Iron Army would attack Heze. If Heze was lost, Juyang would become an isolated city. Therefore, Cao Xing appeared under Juyang, and the defender immediately panicked. At night, taking advantage of Cao Xing's repeated attacks and physical strength, the Juyang defender quietly slipped out from the east and then fled to Heze in a circle.

However, these fleeing defenders did not expect that Lu Bu, who was originally besieging Wuju, quietly divided his troops northward and attacked the infantry pulled out of Juyang outside Heze City. In front of Lu Bu's powerful Bingzhou wolf cavalry, these infantry were really like a dish.

Afterwards, Lu Bu ordered Hou Cheng to pretend to be a defeated army and swarm towards Heze. The defenders of Heze were easily captured by Hou Cheng. Then Lu Bu's cavalry broke into the city, and Heze was captured by Lu Bu without even making a decent resistance.

The fall of Heze made the existence of Wuju meaningless. Moreover, Lu Bu's cavalry had already arrived outside Dingtao City from the north. Liu Dai, who was panicked, immediately ordered the garrisons in Wuju City to withdraw to Dingtao. This wrong order once again sent Wuju's defenders to death.

Although there were as many as 80,000 defenders in the unjust Ju, how could these 80,000 infantry run past Lu Bu's cavalry? Wei Xu, who was left outside the unjust Ju City, immediately joined the retreating defenders, constantly harassing and entangling, slowing down their pace. Before they could get halfway, Lu Bu's cavalry had arrived from Heze. As a result, a few of these 80,000 infantry were annihilated, and most of them became Lu Bu's army.

I have to say that a fool like Liu Dai is really a qualified transportation team leader!

On March 9, the fourth year of Guangxi (the third year of Yonghan), Dingtao was surrounded. Liu Dai did not escape, but stayed in Dingtao to fight Lu Bu. Although Lu Bu was strong, Dingtao was a first-class city with high walls and strong city. It was a bit whimsical to try to conquer with cavalry. Of course, Lu Bu still has a powerful infantry in his hands, which is the Iron Army.

There are also nearly 100,000 newly surrendered Liu Dai's army, all infantry, and with a little training, it can come in handy.

So Lu Bu left Chen Gong and Cao Xing in Dingtao, controlled the 100,000 infantry, and cooperated with Song Hufeng to attack Dingtao. Lu Bu led the cavalry to capture the Cheng family, Ji family, Chengwu, Shanfu and other cities of Jiyin County. Even the Changyi occupied by Liu Dai in Shanyang County was lost to Lu Bu's hands.

Under Pang Yuan's operation, Lu Bu concentrated the population in the city, and then sold part of the small town to Yiren, and then invested the materials in exchange for them into urban construction. In addition to the slight reduction of cultivated land, it has a positive effect on the defense and development of the city. After all, the Central Plains are now unstable, so focusing on defense is the right choice. As for the problem of reducing cultivated land, it can be purchased or shared from players who have acquired cultivated land, and the problem is not big.

In less than a month, under Lu Bu's thunderous offensive, Liu Dai's territory was almost completely lost, leaving only Dingtao City. Basically, it was only a matter of time before Liu Dai's demise. Lu Bu's actions further simplified the situation in the Central Plains. Now the Central Plains are the four families of Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Lu Bu and Cao Cao who are competing for it.

As for Gongsun Zan and Kong Rong, they are basically just a character who is good at it.

In Fang Zhiwen's view, the current situation in the Central Plains has stabilized due to the similar strength of the four schools. At this point, the war in the Central Plains has finally entered a relatively stable period.

Perhaps, these warlords in the Central Plains will turn their attention to the surrounding areas soon. Unless there are any drastic changes and serious mistakes among these four warlords, the internal structure of the Central Plains will be difficult to break for a while.

In contrast, Gongsun Zan, Zhang Liang, Cai Mao, Zhang Bao, Sun Ce and other princes who were not good at strategy will bear more pressure from the four major warlords of the Central Plains. This is the general trend. The four warlords have grown into big tigers, so these monkeys will naturally become their next target to swallow.

Of course, the Central Plains will not calm down immediately. At least Qingzhou will fight again, and Runan is about to see the wars coming. Perhaps Cao Cao and Yuan Shu need to collide again!

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Chapter completed!