Qin Zhao never dreamed that he would occupy Le'an so effortlessly.

He had only 1,500 cavalrymen. But Le'an was left with only some old, weak, sick, disabled, and young and strong. Qin Zhao took advantage of the night and took it down easily.

There were no established enemies around. The scouts sent out and the news brought back were all the Xuanwu army hurried towards Huguan.

In order to take down Huguan, Zhu Youzhen didn't even care about the way out. What a determination! Qin Zhao was so moved that he could only pause in Le'an. Because after carefully calculating the existing enemies in Huguan, he regretfully found that even if he arrived, he would not have any effect. He could not even see Huguan and would be intercepted and beaten up by the enemy.

His troops were already quite tired and they also needed to rest. There were still many food, grass and supplies left in Le'an City that Xuanwu soldiers had no time to take away when they left, and now they were all cheaper than Qin Zhao.

The only thing he is worried about now is whether Huguan can survive Zhu Youzhen's attack without regard for the consequences.

But thinking about the Hedong army and Wuwei army in Luzhou, Qin Zhao persuaded himself to let go, how could he watch the fall of Huguan with a total of more than 150,000 troops in Hedong and Wuwei?

Once Zhu Youzhen suffered a severe blow in Huguan, Le'an is also one of the important ways for him to return. If he gets stuck here, he might even bite him, which can be regarded as avenging the hatred that Zhu Youzhen has been chasing him like a rabbit in the past few months.

After understanding all this, Qin Zhao stayed at Lean with peace of mind. While urging the young and strong people in the city to repair the city walls and prepare for battle, he sent a large number of scouts to inquire about the outcome of the Huguan war.

The matter was not beyond his expectations. Just a few days later, news from Huguan came out, and Zhu Youzhen had indeed failed. Now Xue Xiong's troops are coming towards Le'an.

"Keep Le'an, then close the door and beat the dog." Qin Zhao said excitedly.

Xue Xiong's army had more than 20,000 troops, which was indeed a terrifying number compared to him, but there was more than one good news brought back by the scout. The 20,000 cavalry commanded by the Wuwei general Li Ze himself were already on his way to Weizhou, and his intention to cut off Zhu Youzhen's return was revealed.

Now there are only a few choices in front of Zhu Youzhen.

First, the entire army ran to Luzhou, met with Tian Yue, and then was made into dumplings by the east of the Wuwei River, struggling in Luzhou City, or waiting for a turnaround.

2. Zhu Youzhen abandoned his large army and only took all his light cavalry, and fled back to Weizhou before the rear was blocked. But in this way, Zhu Youzhen almost became a bare general. More importantly, when he escaped, he was afraid that Zhaoyi's morale would immediately disintegrate.

But Qin Zhao felt that Zhu Youzhen could not choose the second path. He would definitely try first whether he could lead the large army to escape back. Then fighting Le'an is a good choice.

After being stuck in Le'an, they only maintained the passage towards Chang'an. Even if Weizhou was thrown away, they still might escape back.

Zhu Youzhen did think so. After retreating from Huguan, he immediately ordered Xue Xiong to lead his cavalry to travel day and night to Le'an, and to occupy this life level that was originally inconspicuous but now is crucial to them.

However, neither Zhu Youzhen nor Xue Xiong expected that Qin Zhao, who had brought them a lot of trouble in the past few months but had repeatedly suppressed them, thought of this in advance. He took down this small county before them and was ready to withstand their attack.

When Xue Xiong led his thousands of cavalry vanguards to Le'an, he saw the flying Qin Zhao flag, the only thing he could do was to order the cavalry to dismount and launch an attack immediately.

Compared to Qin Zhao's current news, Xue Xiong knew more. Wuwei's 20,000 cavalry were like a big sword hanging on their heads, and could fall at any time. Li Cunzhong, deputy general of the Hedong Army who had already taken Tunliu, led his troops to march towards Changzhi. Once he could not take Le'an and Changzhi was conquered by Li Cunzhong, their army would be stuck in this narrow area and could not move forward or retreat.

The battle entered a white-hot stage as soon as Xue Xiong's troops arrived at the city of Le'an.

One side wants to open the escape passage, the other side wants to close the door and fight the dog. Although the other side has a large population, there are no perfect siege equipment, and time has left them with no time to prepare these things. The other side has few people, but after so many months of hard fighting, both combat effectiveness and fighting will have increased by more than one level. More importantly, now their morale is high, and they are in sight of victory, and they are eager to make more contributions.

Xue Xiong spent more than two tortures and failed to capture Le'an. As time went by, the despair began to spread in the army. Two days later, with a cavalry in Wuwei, Han Rui, who was originally affiliated with Hedong, led three thousand cavalry to gallop towards Le'an, Xue Xiong ran away helplessly.

He left his infantry and did not approach Zhu Youzhen, who was still stationed in Changzhi and waiting for him to capture Le'an. Instead, he took the remaining more than 3,000 cavalrymen and ran away.

The remaining troops of Qin Zhao were impossible to pursue him at all, not to mention that Xue Xiong's infantry was still here at this time under the city of Le'an!

The commander ran away, and more than 15,000 infantrymen suddenly became headless and became in a mess. Some turned around and ran towards Changzhi, while others dispersed directly, took off their military uniforms, threw away their weapons, and hid in the corners. After the war passed, they could get into a commoner again. And more, after Han Rui arrived in Le'an and met with Qin Zhao, they surrendered directly to them.

Xue Xiong's troops were originally Zhaoyi soldiers. This army did not have a clear goal like Xuanwu's army. Most of them were just following the main general. Now that the main general Xue Xiong has escaped, what else can they do? Surrender is the only choice.

Xue Xiong ran away. Zhu Youzhen, who was still in Changzhi, had no other choice but to go towards Luzhou, preparing to join Tian Yue to defend Luzhou. Once his son Zhu Wen took Chang'an and freed up his hand, he would definitely send troops to Luzhou. I think Zhu Wen would never give up this strategic location easily.

As Zhu Youzhen retreated to Luzhou, Li Cunzhong occupied Changzhi, Gongsun Changming occupied Huguan, and other troops in Wuwei occupied Licheng, Wuxiang, Rangyuan and other places. Luzhou was already surrounded.

However, the encirclement seems a bit large, and there are a lot of soldiers and horses surrounded.

The total number of Tian Yue's troops and Zhu Youzhen's troops exceeded 100,000.

At this time, the more than 10,000 main cavalry led by Li Ze had successfully captured Weizhou City. It was exactly the same as Qin Zhao's capture of Le'an. When the Weizhou garrison saw the overwhelming cavalry appearing in front of them, when he saw Li Ze's central army flag, he made the decision to surrender.

Li Ze, who entered Weizhou City, commemorated the Fu Wang Li Xin and Luoyang who were here to pay tribute to Niu Furen. No matter what, the fat man, Fu Wang, was quite friendly to Li Ze at the beginning, and Li Ze still admired such a person who dared to die.

He took Weizhou and handed it over to the former Luoyang Chief Pei Ju three thousand cavalry, and after he was allowed to reorganize the army in Weizhou and restore order, Li Ze carried the remaining more than 10,000 cavalry unstoppable and advanced towards Luzhou.

For him, his strategic goals have been basically achieved.

The entire Zhaoyi had been included in his bag. The last task left was to bite the hard bone of Luzhou. After digesting Luzhou and the entire northern region, he could basically do whatever he wanted with him.

Whether it is Li Ze, Min Rou, Tu Lichun, they are all very excited now.

Only Chu Sheng came to them from Huguan.

Chu Sheng is now the fourth-rank Qianniu Guard General. He rushed over from Huguan to deliver the letter, so it was naturally impossible to be a simple battle report. Only when it could be a very important matter would someone of his identity come to report to Li Ze in person.
Chapter completed!