Chapter 1154 Retracting the guards
This time, the Knight Camp played the role of a final killer again, chasing thousands of miles away, and chased Zhang Wu from Liucheng outside the Great Wall to Jizhou in one breath, successfully annihilated Wei Guan and Wang Qi's Youzhou Legion, and achieved Cao Liang's established goal.
This military operation was actually quite hasty, because Cao Liang had only deployed a corresponding blocking plan in western Liaoning, and the heavy troops of the Bingzhou Army gathered outside the frontier to deal with the Xianbei people and capture Liucheng. He was completely following the trend. After defeating the Yuwen Xianbei, he captured Liucheng and opened the door to attack Liaodong.
Liucheng's loss made Wei Guan completely panic, abandoning Linyu Pass and fleeing regardless of everything, and also disrupting Cao Liang's strategic deployment.
If Wei Guan and Wang Qi continue to defend Linyu Pass after Liucheng fall, Cao Liang would not use any means to Linyu Pass, but instead conquer Liaodong first, making Linyu Pass a real lonely city.
The Youzhou Army spent a lot of effort to operate Linyu Pass. They gathered heavy troops in Linyu Pass, carefully deployed defense lines, and were ready to face the battle, just to block Bingzhou Army in western Liaoning so that they could not cross half a step beyond Liaodong.
It can be said that the defense of Linyu Pass has devoted a lot of Wang Qi's efforts. Although Linyu Pass is dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, its status cannot be compared with Shanhai Pass, which later generations claim to be the number one pass in the world. In order to build this fortress that can block the Bingzhou Army, Wang Qi still spent a lot of effort and energy.
Suddenly, the Bingzhou army bypassed Linyu Pass and captured Liucheng behind Linyu Pass, which instantly paralyzed the entire Liaodong defense line. Wang Qi and others must have been unacceptable for a while.
For ordinary people, most people will choose to wait and see at this time, because the loss of Liucheng will not threaten the defense of Linyu Pass, but it is just a loss of defensive value. For a defensive city like Linyu Pass, it has invested so much effort and suddenly given up. It is difficult for anyone to accept emotionally.
Based on this consideration, Cao Liang also felt that he could take action against Linyu Pass for a while, but he did not expect that Wei Guan was so decisive at this time. After receiving the news that Liucheng had fallen, he did not stop for a moment and left the pass and fled.
After Cao Liang received this news, he immediately sent the cavalry camp to pursue it, but whether he could catch up was left to fate.
After all, Liucheng is too far away. Even if the speed of the Xiaoqi Camp is extremely fast, no one can accurately calculate whether it can catch up with the Youzhou Army and wipe out the Youzhou Army before the Youzhou Army arrives in Jizhou.
Judging from the results, the operation of the Cavalry Camp was still very powerful. After a long-distance raid, they finally wiped out the Youzhou army under Zhangwu City, captured Wei Guan alive, and killed Wang Qi, and won a great victory.
Wen Qin was not greedy for merit, but reported according to fact that if it were not for the "full cooperation" of Zhangwu County Magistrate Jia Cheng, it would be almost impossible to completely annihilate the Youzhou Army. It was precisely because Jia Cheng refused Wang Qi to enter the city that the Xiaoqi Camp gave the opportunity to completely annihilate the Youzhou Army. From this point of view, Jia Cheng was "indestructible".
After the battle, Jia Cheng even surrendered voluntarily. Now with Wen Qin, he has returned to Linyu Pass, waiting to meet Cao Liang.
Cao Liang was quite surprised about this situation. He learned that Jia Cheng should be Jia Chong's clan's brother and belonged to a branch of the Jia family. Logically speaking, the Jia family has a very short relationship with the Sima family. Jia Chong's father Jia Kui and Sima Yi have a close relationship. With Jia Chong's later success, Jia Cheng was even a marginal figure in the Jia family, and his future was also bright.
But Jia Cheng's actions in Zhangwucheng are incredible. If he really wanted to surrender to Bingzhou, there was no movement in advance, which was enough to prove that Jia Cheng did not have any connection with the Bingzhou army.
But Wang Qi, a dignified Youzhou governor, fell into the hands of a small county magistrate. No matter what the reason Jia Cheng refused to enter the city, objectively speaking, it did help the Xiaoqi Camp a great favor. If he couldn't enter the city, the Youzhou army was like a lamb to be slaughtered, and was no match for the Xiaoqi Camp at all. The destruction of the entire army was also a matter of a flash.
Since Jia Cheng was successful, Cao Liang certainly did not hesitate to reward him. He met Jia Cheng at Linyu Pass and appointed him as the governor of Liaoxi County, and immediately took office.
When Jia Cheng heard this, he was overjoyed. The main reason why he surrendered to the Bingzhou Army was that he had no choice but to be afraid that the court would hold him accountable. After surrendering to the Bingzhou Army, at least this level of worry was gone.
According to his idea, if he could save his previous position as the chief of the county after surrendering to the Bingzhou Army, he would be satisfied. Even if he could not become a county magistrate, it would be better to be a low-level official than to lose his head.
But unexpectedly, Cao Liang was promoted to the county magistrate of Liaoxi, and the county magistrate, which was a difference between the county magistrate. The prefect is the prefect. As long as he is a good county magistrate, he will have a great chance to be promoted to the prefect. Being the prefect means that his career has entered a new stage. Jia Cheng never dreamed that his original vague decision would have gained such great benefits.
Jia Cheng kowtowed Cao Liang repeatedly and thanked him for his gratitude.
After a few short conversations, Cao Liang had already learned about Jia Cheng's character. This guy was just a speculator. In fact, he had no real talent. However, he made contributions after all. Cao Liang could not bury his contributions. Therefore, Cao Liang arranged him to be the county magistrate in Liaoxi County to manage government affairs and civil affairs. As for military power, Cao Liang would not arrange it for him at all. Fragmentists like him are easily turned against him. For his own interests, anyone can betray him.
The reason why Cao Liang made this arrangement was to tell the world that as long as he was willing to surrender to Bingzhou, no matter what kind of person he was before, he would be recruited in his original position or even rewarded according to his merits. The Bingzhou Army would not treat any meritorious minister unfairly.
After repelling Jia Cheng, Cao Liang ordered the central army to bring Wei Guan. Compared to an insignificant person like Jia Cheng, Cao Liang was more willing to subdue a capable and talented person like Wei Guan.
Now Cao Liang's famous generals are full of talents, but civil officials are as beautiful as the stars. The combination of civil and military affairs has shown serious inclination. Perhaps when conquering the world, military generals are much more important than civil officials, but it is only civil officials who govern the world.
Chapter completed!