Multiverse: Beginning with Forced Binding

It is not impossible to attack the enemy camp by force, but the loss is relatively large, and Chen Xi is unwilling to bear such losses.

Jinyiwei is not a regular army. It is okay to let them fight a smooth battle, but it is a bit difficult to force them to attack the camp.

Since it is impossible to attack by force, just burn them all.

The catapults were all improved by Zhuge Liang. The drawings were sent to Jingzhou, and the official craftsmen of Jingzhou began to work overtime to manufacture them.

Black oil was also discovered accidentally. The output is not large, but it is enough for setting fires.

Chen Xi arranged enough catapults and placed black oil jars on them. This is a large Molotov cocktail.

Different catapults set different coordinates and attack ranges. With an order, all catapults launched the Molotov cocktail.

More than 20 Molotov cocktails flew towards the Jiangdong military camp with a whistle. The Jiangdong sentry sounded the alarm, but was unable to stop the Molotov cocktail from falling.

The Molotov cocktail fell to the ground, shattered and exploded. The splashing black oil was instantly ignited and flowed to various areas, instantly setting everything around it on fire.

Different Molotov cocktails fell in different ranges. In a moment, a large area of ​​the Jiangdong military camp was set on fire. Tents, soldiers, and food and grass were all on fire.

Chen Xi ordered again: "Keep throwing, throw all the Molotov cocktails to me."

The catapult changed its target again and continued to throw towards other unlit places.

The Jiangdong military camp soon burned on a large scale, forcing Sun Shao to lead people out of the military camp. The fire was not that he didn't want to save it, but that he couldn't save it.

The fire was too fierce. It couldn't be wiped off when it touched the soldiers. The food and grass were burned to pieces, and the rescued ones were useless.

Taking advantage of the Jiangdong army's embarrassment, Chen Xi once again led his army to kill.

The battle decided the outcome. Sun Shao was pierced through by Chen Xi, and his body flew more than ten meters away.

Ding Feng wanted to lead the army to escape from the battlefield, but was shot in the head by Chen Xi from a distance, and fell to the ground immediately.

Most of the well-known Jiangdong generals were slaughtered by Chen Xi, and he was too lazy to kill the remaining small Karami.

Someone in the Jiangdong army became the first to surrender, and like a chain reaction, the second and third soon appeared, until finally surrendered in batches.

The lucky Jiangdong army escaped from this battlefield by chance, and fled in various ways, preparing to take a detour back to Jiangdong, but was sadly surrounded by Zhuge Jun's Jinyiwei.

Don't say anything, just surrender.

The surrendered Jiangdong soldiers were used as cannon fodder by Chen Xi and sent to the Xiangfan battlefield. As long as they could survive three sieges, they would be free.

The cannon fodder had to agree, because there were soldiers from Jingzhou watching behind them, and the supervisory team would not be polite to them.

Either fight to the death in the siege, or die under the knife of the supervisory team.

When Sun Quan received the news of Sun Shao's defeat, he hurriedly sent envoys to Jingzhou to discuss the redemption of these soldiers, but at this time, the cannon fodder was almost dead.

Under the premise of the Jiangdong cannon fodder sacrificing themselves to attack, the Xiangfan fortifications arranged by Cao Ren began to be broken one by one, and Guan Yu led the Jingzhou soldiers to continue to advance.

Cao Cao was not much better, and was chased and beaten by Liu Bei, and Hanzhong was completely lost.

Cao Cao's rear began to be unstable again, forcing him to abandon the battlefield. After leaving some troops in Chang'an, he led his troops back to the court to deter those restless factors.

Xu Huang led a small number of troops to support Xiangfan. When he arrived, Cao Ren was already trapped in the city of sorrow.

What Xu Huang saw was the Jingzhou soldiers attacking the city. Without saying a word, he led his army to support it, but was stopped from the side by another army.

There were not many people, and the equipment did not look like a regular army, but the person who led them had the buff of the hero halo.

Jinyiwei also has a certain combat power under the blessing of buff, not to mention that there is Chen Xi, a human-shaped beast in front.

In the Battle of Changbanpo, Xu Huang escaped, but this time he was not so lucky. He fought with Chen Xi for less than ten rounds, and was slashed by the horse lance.

Xu Huang and his horse were split into two parts and died tragically on the spot, and the morale of Cao's army dropped sharply.

Cao Ren in the city was not much better. He was commanding the battle, and suddenly a soldier rushed in front of him. Before he could react, a knife pierced Cao Ren's neck.

This is a special force trained by the shadow guards. They sneaked into the city, changed into the military uniforms of the Cao army, and waited for an opportunity to assassinate the generals of the Cao army.

Man Chong was still allocating supplies and was beheaded by the shadow guards.

The rest of the generals, big and small, also suffered different degrees of assassination. Even if they were not killed on the spot, they were seriously injured.

Cao's army lost its commander for a while, and the special forces captured the city gate. The city gate was wide open, and the Jingzhou soldiers attacked from all sides.

Cao Cao had just returned to the base camp when he received the news of the fall of Xiangyang. Not only that, his confidants Cao Ren and Xu Huang died in the battle.

Cao Cao's headache recurred, and the pain was unbearable.

Cao's army began to deploy troops to defend against the Jingzhou army's continued attack. Cao Cao even thought about moving the capital. Xudu was too close to Jingzhou, so he went to Yecheng.

Xiahou Dun, Zhang He and others set up defense lines in Wancheng and Runan. If these two places were opened up, Xudu would become the front line.

Sima Yi had not yet made a name for himself at this time, and he could not get the command of the army, so he could only play the role of a counselor.

Guan Yu did not pursue the victory, at most he took back Xinye and stabilized his territory. He had insufficient troops under his command, and he was very satisfied to take Xiangfan and Xinye.

The soldiers from Jingzhou who entered Sichuan also completed the established strategy and eliminated a large number of nobles who were preparing to rebel. They were so familiar with the subsequent procedures that they were able to do it smoothly in Jingzhou.

Liu Bei also temporarily stopped his steps and did not continue to attack Chang'an. He chose to stabilize Hanzhong. He needed to go back to Chengdu to sit and stabilize the political situation in Yizhou.

The reform in Jingzhou had a series of fixed procedures. Jingzhou was like a test field. The subsequent territory only needed to copy the model of Jingzhou.

It happened that the nobles in Yizhou had been killed almost, and Liu Bei took this opportunity to carry out reforms in Yizhou and Hanzhong, killing those who did not obey.

Instead of getting the support of the nobles in Yizhou, it is better to take the property of those nobles and cultivate trustworthy talents by himself.

This is a long-term plan. Liu Bei had to do this for long-term stability. Even if he could not see the revival of the Han Dynasty during his lifetime, he had to leave a stable foundation for Liu Chan.

At this age, Liu Bei has already seen things very clearly. Even if he cannot unify the country, it is good to be able to completely control Yizhou and Jingzhou.

Being a local emperor in these two largest states is also worthy of his ambition.

Zhuge Liang was persuaded by Chen Xi a long time ago and no longer obsessed with the question of who the Han Dynasty belongs to. Anyway, the world is ruled by the surname Liu, as long as it is still called Han.

Liu Bei is stable and steady. He is not in a hurry to capture cities and territories, but to cultivate talents and stabilize his territory. When Liu Chan comes to power, he will not be unable to sit in this position.

Sometimes things are so coincidental. Liu Bei did not think about expansion, but the territory was delivered to him.

Ma Chao subdued the ethnic minorities in Longyou and, under the leadership of these ethnic minorities, recaptured Liangzhou. This time, Liangzhou also belonged to Liu Bei's territory.

In the future, Jiang Boyue of Tianshui will probably be a member of Liu Bei's group when he enters the government.

Liu Bei took Hanzhong, Liangzhou and Tianshui, forming a pincer attack on Chang'an, which frightened Zhang Ji, the governor of Chang'an, to ask for help again, fearing that Liu Bei would attack him on impulse.

Cao Cao had no one to use at this time, as too many of the generals who followed him died in battle.

Zhang Liao was guarding Hefei and could not move, while Xiahou Dun and Zhang He were guarding against Guan Yu and could not move either.

Xiahou Yuan, Xu Huang and Cao Ren had all died in battle, and Cao Hong was not a talented general who could lead troops, as he was too impulsive.

In desperation, Cao Cao could only look for a suitable candidate among his advisers, and after much selection, he chose Sima Yi.

Sima Yi led the army to sit in Chang'an to defend against Liu Bei.

The governor of Hanzhong was Wei Yan, and Tianshui was handed over to Ma Chao. With these two fierce generals, Sima Yi did not dare to attack easily.

Huang Zhong's health began to deteriorate after the Battle of Dingjun Mountain, as if killing Xiahou Yuan was his life mission. He had no regrets after completing his mission.

Huang Zhong died of illness before Liu Bei even took office as the King of Hanzhong.

After Chen Xi got the news, he thought it was a good idea, so that Liu Bei would not miss Zhao Yun when he appointed generals.

The Five Tiger Generals were just good names. There were only four positions for real generals. Without Huang Zhong, it would definitely be Zhao Yun's turn, otherwise other generals would not agree.

As for Chen Xi, although he was so good at fighting, he belonged to the civil service sequence.

Shadow Guard and Zhuge both belonged to the special sequence and were not in the traditional official positions. As the commander of the Jinyiwei, his power was equivalent to that of the four generals.

In Jiangdong, Sun Quan sent envoys to make peace with Liu Bei again. He was also afraid that Liu Bei would follow the trend and destroy him.

The loss of Sun Shao's troops severely damaged Jiangdong's vitality. Jiangdong's population was not large to begin with, so it was easy to recruit soldiers. This wave killed 30,000 people.

Now Jiangdong's defense forces are concentrated at Ruxukou, and they are also worried that Zhang Liao will attack.

The three forces are afraid of each other, but it is rare to have a peaceful period.

Cao Cao is getting older, and he has less and less intention to go out to fight, and he puts more energy on the court.

In 219 AD, Liu Bei submitted a memorial to the court, claiming to be the King of Hanzhong. Anyway, whether the court recognizes it or not, he has become the king.

Cao Cao was furious, but he had no way to deal with Liu Bei, and he couldn't beat him.

Emperor Xian of Han was just a puppet, but he was not stupid. Now looking at the so-called Uncle Liu's style, what is the difference between him and Cao thief?

But it doesn't matter, isn't it the position of King of Hanzhong? I will give it to you, as long as you can make trouble for Cao thief.

Emperor Xian of Han happily approved it and recognized the legalization of Liu Bei's position as King of Hanzhong.

That's right. They are all surnamed Liu and are also relatives of the Han Dynasty. What can't they do? On the contrary, Cao Cao's position as King of Wei was not legitimate.

Gaozu said that people with different surnames could not be kings.

Liu Bei launched a propaganda war against this matter, and made all kinds of propaganda that Cao Cao was a traitor to the Han Dynasty.

In fact, at this time, no one cared about the Han Dynasty. The people in Cao Cao's territory only recognized the King of Wei. Whether the Han Dynasty existed or whether the emperor was surnamed Liu had nothing to do with them.

During the reigns of Emperors Huan and Ling, the people were living in poverty. After Emperor Xian of Han came to power, if it weren't for Cao Cao, the people would not have had a good life.

So Liu Bei's propaganda war was not very effective. At most, it just made his position as King of Hanzhong a little more legal, or at most disgusted Cao Cao.

Cao Cao was indeed disgusted, and his health was getting worse. In 220 AD, Cao Cao finally couldn't hold on.

After Cao Cao died of illness, Cao Pi succeeded to the throne and was ready to usurp the Han Dynasty as soon as he became the King of Wei.

Liu Bei, who had a lifelong love-hate relationship with Cao Cao, was not in good health after Cao Cao's death.

It was as if his energy and spirit had been drained away, and all those old age diseases came to him one by one.

It is estimated that without the Battle of Yiling in the original book, Liu Bei would not have lived long.

Chen Xi did not care about the birth, aging, illness and death of these people, and outsiders did not even know that he had medical skills.

Guan Yu was alive and well, and Zhang Fei was fine. Liu Bei was not as overly sad as in the original book. It can only be said that he was not motivated enough.

Without Cao Cao, Liu Bei felt that he could not find an opponent, and the nerves that had been stretched all the time were relaxed.

In 220 AD, Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty and established the Wei Dynasty, announcing the complete demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Sun Quan submitted a letter of submission, which indirectly proved the legitimacy of replacing the Han Dynasty with the Wei Dynasty and recognized Cao Pi as the only emperor of the time, unlike Yuan Shu in the past, who was not recognized after he became emperor.

Cao Pi canonized Sun Quan as the King of Wu, which was also considered to be an acknowledgement of Sun Quan's legal right to manage the land of Jiangdong.

Only Liu Bei was thrown out of the wall by the two families, and they just treated him as if he didn't exist.

Liu Bei was not polite either, and directly announced his enthronement in 221. This enthronement was much more grand than in the original book, because Jingzhou was still in his hands.

The one with the smallest territory was Sun Quan, so he was only the King of Wu.

Liu Bei's territory was not as good as Cao Wei, so he didn't give up much. He didn't care if he was not recognized after he became emperor, so he fought, and whoever won in the end would be recorded as the orthodox by the historian.

Since Qin Shihuang, the concept of emperor has been defined, and there must be only one, and no more than one is acceptable, and the other must be destroyed.

The Jin Dynasty was regarded as the successor of the Wei Dynasty. In the records of the historians, of course, the Wei Dynasty was recorded as the orthodox, so there was no Three Kingdoms in the change of dynasties.

To be more precise, the Wei Dynasty replaced the Han Dynasty. Before the unification of the Jin Dynasty, there were two separatist regimes, the unrecognized Shu Han and the Eastern Wu.

Now the situation has changed. As long as Shu Han eliminates Cao Wei and Eastern Wu, Shu Han will become the orthodox in the records of the historians.

Cao Wei usurped the Han Dynasty, Shu Han restored order, Liu Bei was equivalent to Liu Xiu, and continued the glory of the Han Dynasty. As for what Han Shu Han will be called in the future, it is hard to say.

Maybe it will be something like the Later Han Dynasty.

After Liu Bei became emperor, he conferred titles on civil and military officials. The prime minister was undoubtedly Zhuge Liang. It was not abrupt for Chen Xi to be appointed as the Taifu, after all, Adou was his student.

Chen Xi, who had completed the Jingzhou Reform, was also ready to lead his family to move to Chengdu.