The eyes of the world also gathered in Liaodong again. From the Youzhou Army, the princes felt a strong threat. Unlike the Bingzhou Army, the Youzhou Army was formed for a short time. In such a short time, Lu Bu became even more terrifying in their eyes.

From Lu Bu's actions, they felt that a prince was full of aggressiveness, and even remote places like Liaodong was unwilling to give up. Once such people were freed up, it would be so terrible to the princes in the Central Plains. However, at this time, the princes were immersed in their respective interests and lacked enough attention to remote places like Bingzhou and Youzhou.

At this time, Jizhou was unable to attack Youzhou and Sili. Last year's Battle of Dangyin caused the Jizhou army to lose troops and lose generals. Yuan Shao did not want to provoke Lu Bu at this time. Cao Cao's eyes were staring at Xuzhou and would not cross the Yellow River to attack Hedong. Li Jue and Guo Si had some conflicts due to the distribution of interests, and it was impossible to pose a threat to Bingzhou. They could only watch Lu Bu's expansion.

What's more, Lu Bu's pacification of Youzhou was a great power. Anyone was unfavorable to Youzhou and Bingzhou at this time, and it would be difficult for him to gain a moral foothold. Just like this time when Jizhou supported Gongsun Du's crossbow, it would become an excuse for Lu Bu to attack Jizhou in the future.

Besides, the Bingzhou Army has not been dispatched, and no one is willing to provoke the Bingzhou Army at this time.

After learning that Lu Bu was attacking Liaodong, Liu Biao followed Kuai Liang's advice and sent envoys to Liaodong, vigorously praising Lu Bu's behavior of maintaining the Han Dynasty. In a great sense, the Gongsun family in Liaodong was untenable. Being king was the biggest provocation to the Han Dynasty. Liu Biao also agreed with Lu Bu's ability to attack Liaodong.

The 20,000 army entered Liaodong. When the counties along the way found that the Youzhou army had no atrocities as they imagined about the cities they surrendered, they surrendered, and the number of Liaodong soldiers gathered in Xiangping reached 20,000. This was also the last force that Liaodong could mobilize. In order to resist the Youzhou army, Liaodong can be said to be making the final effort.

At this time, people from all over Liaodong were in panic. After many years, Liaodong had not experienced war. This situation changed because of the Youzhou army.

Xiangping is the county seat of Liaodong and the foundation of the Gongsun family in Liaodong. In recent years, the Gongsun family has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in Xiangping to build Xiangping City into a strong city in Liaodong.

The city wall in Xiangping is as high as five zhang, and the thickness of the city wall is also four zhang. On the flat city wall, cavalry can even be driven to gallop. This is incomparable to the city wall of Changli. The moat is wide and the food and grass in the city are enough for 20,000 troops in two years.

After the bed crossbow from Jizhou arrived in Liaodong, it gave Gongsun Du great confidence and made the soldiers in the army show the power of the crossbow. Gongsun Du was overjoyed and putting such a sharp weapon on the city wall was definitely an indelible nightmare for the soldiers who were sieging the city. Judging from the news from the scouts, the range of the bed crossbow of Youzhou Army could reach about 180 steps, while the range of the bed crossbow of Jizhou reached 200 steps. In addition to the advantages of the city wall, the range could reach 210 steps.

Gongsun Du knew that Youzhou's army also had bed crossbows, but on the battlefield in Liaodong, he did not see the Youzhou army using bed crossbows. The Youzhou army went to Liaodong to attack cities more. Compared with the thunderbolt chariot, the intimidation of bed crossbows to attack cities was much smaller. In more cases, the crossbows of bed crossbows were provided with a place to climb the city wall for siege soldiers.

The 20,000 troops arrived in Xiangping and set up camp outside the city, which caused a great shock in Xiangping. If they had never had any fear of the enemy before the war, but the war told them that the elite Liaodong Army was so unbearable when facing the Youzhou Army, especially the soldiers who fled back from Changli, they would inevitably discuss the war in Changli.

In the army, after reading the information sent by Zhao Shu, Lu Bu frowned. He did not expect that at this time, Jizhou would actually support Liaodong bed crossbows, and he was still on the water route. This is also the shortcomings of the Youzhou army. Lu Bu had a navy army, but this navy army was difficult to play a role in the battlefield of Youzhou between Jingzhou and Jiangdong.

"Let the Feiying soldiers closely investigate the news in the city and wait for an opportunity to act." Lu Bu ordered. He could have a foreseeable feeling that it would be a very difficult thing to attack Xiangping. The Gongsun family had been operating in Liaodong for too long, and there were 20,000 defenders in Xiangping City. Without internal support, even if there were powerful weapons such as Pili Che in the army, it would be difficult to capture Liaodong in a short time.

The 20,000 Youzhou Army not only had to attack Xiangping, but also had to be wary of the army in the city. It would be impossible for anyone to attack Xiangping, which had 20,000 people to guard it.

Long before the Youzhou army entered Liaodong, the flying eagle soldiers entered Xiangping City to provide information to the army. They were good at hiding and were not worried about being exposed in the city.

"Here." Zhao Shu clasped his fists and left.

"I ordered the prefect of Liaoxi Sun Guang to send 5,000 troops and horses to come, and sent Guo Jia to draw 10,000 troops and horses to come." Lu Bu ordered that Liaodong must be captured.

Several cavalrymen rushed towards all parts of Youzhou with fast horses.

In Xiangping City, Gongsun Du was bedridden. He was worried that his age and illness made him exhausted. Liaodong, which had been struggling all his life, had to face the elite Youzhou army.

"The matter of guarding Xiangping is handed over to you to wait." Gongsun Du said with a light cough.

Liu Tai stepped forward and said, "Don't worry, my lord, we will definitely assist the young master in defending Xiangping and repel the Youzhou army."

Gongsun Du showed a smile on his pale face, "What do you think Kang'er doesn't understand? I need to ask Lord Liu in time."

"Children obey the order." Gongsun Kang bowed. Gongsun Du was ill in bed, which put a lot of pressure on him. In the past, when Gongsun Du was there in Liaodong, he could not feel anything. Suddenly, there was a missing person behind him who decided on major issues, which made him feel at a loss. He had no favoritism for the Liu family.

The main officials in Liaodong gathered in the house, most of whom witnessed Gongsun Du's growth step by step. They have confidence in the Gongsun family, which is also the result of the Gongsun family's efforts over the years.

But they were also a little confused when facing the Youzhou army.

After Gongsun Kang took over the military affairs in Xiangping City, he immediately took big moves. What excited the soldiers in the army the most was the generous bounty offered by Gongsun Kang. He killed a soldier in Youzhou and rewarded 100 coins. He killed the sergeant commander, and he was two hundred coins. From soldiers to generals and even Lu Bu, as long as he could kill, he would be rewarded.

This caused an uproar in the army, and more soldiers sharpened their swords and prepared to earn more money on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!