Chapter 1195: Emergency Military Information

Time passed day by day, and all preparations were carried out in an orderly manner.

On August 24, King Lu Bu of Zhao issued a royal decree, saying that Wuyuan County Governor Zhao Zilong and Shuofang Governor Xia Ke disrespected the royal decree and provoked border conflicts, which led to the Xianbei army invading Bingzhou, causing heavy losses to Dai County and Yanmen County. King Zhao declared the governors of the two counties to be traitors and ordered General Zhang Liao, the General of the Northern Expedition, to lead the army to fight against them.

On the second day, Zhang Liao's 50,000 troops appeared to the east of Fuyang City, the easternmost city of Wuyuan County. Subsequently, 50,000 Zhao troops launched a fierce attack on Fuyang City.

Outside Fuyang City, Zhang Liao looked gloomily at the several general flags raised on the top of the city. In addition to the two large flags with the words "Xia" and "Zhao", there were also two general flags with the words "Gao" and "Sun". At this point, Zhang Liao knew that the other side had already prepared. The one under the Gao character flag was Gao Lan, the top general under the Shuofang governor Xiake, and the one under the Sun character flag was Sun Jin, a general under Zhao Zilong. These two were infantry generals, and the two cavalry generals Qu Bei and Qian Zhao, who were good at cavalry in the two counties, were nowhere to be seen. They must have led the cavalry to watch from the side.

But now the arrows were on the string and had to be fired. Zhang Liao had to order the army to attack Fuyang. Almost at the same time, 20,000 Zhao cavalry appeared on the shore of Wuliangsuhai, north of Wujiahe City. The 20,000 cavalry were the 20,000 ordinary Zhao cavalry led by Zhao general Cao Xing. Their mission was to attack the two counties from the grassland north of Yinshan Mountain.

After arriving at Xijiahe City, Cao Xing arranged 10,000 cavalrymen to dismount and join the battle, trying to figure out the defense situation of Wujiahe City. In his opinion, the defense here should be average. The Xianbei army was not good at attacking cities, so it did not quickly attack the hinterland of the two counties from here. Although the 20,000 soldiers and horses he led were cavalry, their ability to attack cities was many times stronger than that of the Xianbei people.

But Cao Xing soon found out that he was wrong. The first round of attack caused the loss of nearly half of the 2,000 cavalrymen who attacked. Not only were the soldiers defending the city very tight, but there were also a large number of crossbows in the city, at least more than a thousand. Seeing such a large loss of soldiers, Cao Xing had to stop the attack. Now he could only wait for the battle situation in Fuyang.

Unfortunately, Cao Xing was destined to be disappointed. A total of about 20,000 troops from the two counties were gathered in Fuyang City, almost all of them were combat soldiers. Facing the crazy attack of Zhang Liao's army, Gao Lan easily repelled it every time. Come to think of it, since Zhao Zilong took over the town of Qiyang, he has been constantly strengthening the defense of this town, and has never stopped. Especially after knowing that it was upgraded to a city, he spared no effort to strengthen the defense. In addition, there are nearly 5,000 crossbowmen concentrated here, and Gao Lan is also one of the five best generals of Cao Wei in history. Compared with Zhang Liao, the difference is not too big, so the defense is not difficult at all.

Ten days later, Zhang Liao had lost more than 5,000 people. As a last resort, Zhang Liao had to order the army to retreat ten miles to camp and wait for further orders from Zhao Wang Lu Bu. If Zhang Liao thought so, there was no need to continue this battle. But Lu Bu was absolutely not allowed to retreat. In that case, it meant that he, Lu Bu, had failed twice in this city. With Lu Bu's character, how could he swallow this breath?

Sure enough, a few days later, Lü Bu personally led 30,000 Bingzhou wolf riders to Zhang Liao's camp. With him came 20,000 county soldiers gathered by Zhao State in Yunzhong County. After arriving at the camp, Lü Bu immediately led the army to attack Fuyang City again.

With the addition of Lü Bu, the pressure on Fuyang City increased almost exponentially. However, this was expected by Zhao Zilong and others. In order to deal with the possible attack of Lü Bu, no, Lü Bu would definitely attack, several families had already drawn the most elite soldiers, equipped them with the best armor and weapons, and armed them all to deal with Lü Bu. Every time Lü Bu attacked the city, there would be a group of elite dead soldiers as many as one village appearing in front of Lü Bu. They were all wearing heavy armor and formed a tight formation to deal with Lü Bu alone.

At the same time, there was also an elite crossbowman of more than one song to provide them with support.

So every time Lu Bu was able to successfully attack the city wall, but facing the siege of hundreds of heavily armored elite soldiers, he could not hold out for half an hour and had to retreat to the army under the city. There was no way. Although Lu Bu was called the God of War, he was not riding the Red Hare. It was already amazing that he could exert 70% to 80% of his strength in the surging crowd of people. After all, he was not a real god.

The battle in Qiyang was like a huge magnet, firmly attracting the hundreds of thousands of elite troops of Zhao State there, and also attracted the attention of the king and ministers of Zhao Army there. No, not all of them, at least there were two people among the king and ministers of Zhao State who occasionally looked at the Tang Army in the south, that is, Prime Minister Chen Gong and General Zhang Liao. However, what made them feel a little relieved was that the Tang State was still not moving at all, and the news sent back by the wolf pack did not find any unusual movements in the Tang State.

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In Luoyang City, the Shadow Guards continuously reported the battle situation in Fuyang City every day. As time went by, the defenders in Fuyang City were under increasing pressure. Gao Lan had to move more and more troops to the top of the city to deal with the increasingly fierce attacks of the Zhao army.

In the hall, Huangfu Chaobo was gathering all the ministers to discuss matters. Today was the last meeting. After today's meeting, he would lead the last 2,000 guards in Luoyang City to Hanoi. Tomorrow, Tian Yu, who had already prepared, would break through the last 20 miles of Baixing and kill directly to Gaoping Pass. At this time, the 25,000 Tang troops led by Tian Yu had arrived in the mountains 20 miles west of Gaoping Pass.

Just as Huangfu Chaobo was about to end the court meeting, Huang Wudie, who was on duty outside the hall, suddenly asked for a meeting outside, saying that the Shadow Guard had intelligence on 100,000 fire fights.

Everyone in the palace felt nervous, and Huangfu Chaobo's heart was beating wildly, as if something was going to happen. Hearing Huang Wudie's request for an audience, Huangfu Chaobo winked at the eunuch beside him, and the eunuch immediately said, "The king has an order, pass it on!"

A moment later, a captain in charge of the Shadow Guard in the palace rushed in with a red pigeon letter in his hand. The letter tube had been opened, and the pigeon letter inside was already in the captain's hand. He must have run all the way here, and now his clothes were a little disheveled, but he didn't notice it at all. After running into the palace, he ran straight to the jade steps and stopped in front of the eunuch on duty.

The captain knelt on the ground, handed the pigeon letter in his hand to the eunuch on duty, and reported loudly: "Report to the king, Youzhou has a hundred-thousand-urgent intelligence. Ten days ago, Yan Wang Gongsun Zan had led 30,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry, a total of 80,000 troops, to the south of Hebei to attack Wei!"