The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 65

[Chapter 65 Breakthrough]

After the pacification of Xicheng County, Zhong Yu did not set out in the direction of Zhongjun City in the Western Han Dynasty.

Instead, they turned to the north and attacked the four northern counties of Shangyong County, Xunyang County, Changli County, Yan County, and Wuling County.

Except for Wuling County, the defense of the other three counties is a little tighter, because each of them has some checkpoints to guard the traffic between Yizhou and Guanzhong.

This is also the reason why Zhong Yu wants to attack them first. If he doesn’t break them separately, snatch their fortresses, and cut off communication with Guanzhong, how can he rest assured and capture the entire Hanzhong!

Yizhou is blocked by mountains and is full of dangerous places. Often, only one road needs to be guarded, and the army of the imperial court can look at Guan and sigh and do nothing.

So I only need to send a few hundred people to guard these levels, basically without any accident, you can sit back and relax.

Unless the imperial court sends him an army of tens of thousands of people to attack and fight fiercely regardless of life and death, and use human lives to fill these levels.

But it is impossible to think about it, the entire court is troubled by internal and external troubles.

In the north, there are Xianbei people who are always on the border, and in the west, there are Qiang people who are always in chaos.

Only the east is because of the sea, and there is not much trouble, but there are also many pirates seeking a living there.

There are also constant people inside. Because life can’t go on and rebel, bandits are everywhere, traffic is blocked a lot, and the imperial court’s control over local areas is gradually weakening.

Soldiers are needed everywhere, so how can it be possible to use his omnipotence to fill these levels?

What’s more, he is not without troops and horses to send reinforcements.

I just said that the defenses of those three counties are stricter than those of other inland areas.

But it is not mainly aimed at the hinterland of the south, but to take care of the refugees in the north.

In recent years, natural and man-made disasters have continued, and people from all over the world have been displaced and kept running around, hoping to find a place to live in various places.

But the county governors in various places often dare not accept them, and their own county food is not enough, how can they not distinguish their refugees?

They can only be expelled forcibly. If they can’t be expelled, they will just let them go, but they will also send troops to keep them under strict supervision.

Therefore, at those levels, the main duty now is to see if there are any refugees among the passing pedestrians.

Identify them and stop them from entering Hanzhong.

If it is found that there are daring people who want to forcibly break into Hanzhong, then it is the moment when their role is reflected.

Just shoot for the kill and warn all the refugees with bloody corpses.

During this time, there was another disaster in the north, and the number of refugees increased.

I don’t know how many people take the risk and want to enter the prosperous Hanzhong in the south.

There are dozens of corpses in front of the gate, but he still can’t stop the enthusiasm of those people.

Therefore, the defense in the north of the checkpoint is often very well constructed, and it feels majestic at first glance.

The defense in the south was not very good, it could even be said to be rudimentary.

This is also the characteristic of ancient feudal dynasties. After all, all city defenses are used to defend against the enemy, so why would they deliberately build something to defend their own people?

Not to mention the waste of resources for nothing, but to make the insiders detached.

Even if you really suspect that someone under your subordinate is rebelling, you will only investigate secretly, and will not say it plainly and startle the snake.

However, their cheapness just gave Zhong Yu the opportunity to be able to easily break through from the rear, which is usually easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Taking advantage of their defensive omissions, they finally led the troops around the county town and went straight to the checkpoint in the north of the county town, wanting to take the checkpoint first.

At that time, the county seat will be the turtle in the urn, and it will be its own territory. Where can it go?

A few miles away from the checkpoint, Zhong Yu asked his soldiers to change their clothes and do some chores, and he changed into a businessman.

Pretend that the caravan went to the northern Guanzhong to do business, and a group of soldiers hid in the carriage.

There are caravans traveling to the north, and these soldiers can also charge a generous toll, so they are not too embarrassed.

This is their God of Wealth. If you offend them now, and they won’t take this road in the future, it’s not that they have lost a fortune for nothing.

So finally, I just took out a heavy wallet a little and handed it to the chief guard at the city gate with a smile on his face.

The city gate chief smiled and chatted with himself a few words, and then ordered the soldiers behind to open the city gate and let him pass.

The city gate was easily opened, and Zhong Yu suddenly launched an attack. He took out a few knives from the carriage and slashed repeatedly, killing all the soldiers at the city gate.

The soldiers’ eyes that were still open when they died, clearly told the people that they still couldn’t believe that the businessman with a friendly face turned out to be the enemy.

If there is an enemy, why didn’t anyone in the counties along the way come to report?

Or there are people in this county who rebelled. In short, their resentment must be very heavy.

After occupying the city gate, Zhong Yu has a road leading to the city gate.

He signaled the soldiers behind him to rush forward, saying that before those people in the level could react, they would try to occupy those dangerous terrains as much as possible.

and he slowly retreated to the back,

Under the protection of several cavalry, they came to the safe rear, away from the battlefield.

He wouldn’t really rush up and joke with his life, just now it was just a last resort.

There are some rough people under their hands, they all look like they are out of their own way, and they don’t have much culture.

How can they be expected to convince the level guards that they are a businessman?

There is only myself, who is usually pampered, UU reading www.uukanshu.

People who know some characters in com went up to deal with those guards.

The main reason is that there are too few talents. With enough talents in the future, I will never do such a risky thing again.

After opening the door of the level, I entered the interior of the level. The most dangerous level has been given by myself, and there are no major twists and turns in the rest.

The soldiers under his command are all extremely elite. Although the soldiers at the checkpoint have killed a few refugees, they are still inferior to the soldiers who have gone through battle formations and have been on the battlefield.

After resisting for a while, and realizing that he was no match for the enemy at all, he simply put down his weapon and surrendered, or turned around and ran away.

However, even if those people wanted to escape, they couldn’t escape anywhere, it was just a waste of time, and they even had to take their own lives.

Zhong Yu, who had foresight for a long time, sent his cavalry to the city gate leading to the north as early as the moment he entered the city.

With those elite cavalrymen there, no one would want to go north through that city gate to inform them.

However, in half an hour, this small level was quelled by his own soldiers. All the guards were captured or surrendered, and all the tough ones were shot to death by a crossbow arrow.

For his soldiers, Zhong Yu still cherishes them very much, those are all luck points.

Therefore, if they can, save their lives as much as possible, and never use them for meaningless consumption.

So if there are conditions, those who try to resist and occupy the dangerous enemy, Zhong Yu will try to use the advantage of weapons to make those people despair.

Just like the guards in this level, trying to fight with their own soldiers, he directly ordered those cavalrymen to take out their crossbows and shoot them with an arrow, keeping their accounts at the time.

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