Chapter 1,278: Prepare to Meet the Enemy
Zhao Yun recognized the words of Yi and Yan Xiang very much. After all, they are all experienced in war, and the key to it can be seen at a glance.
"Yes, so I decided to personally lead the cavalry to the two cities. Firstly, it is to boost the morale of the soldiers in the two cities. Secondly, I also want to carefully inquire about the specific situation of the two armies." Zhao Yun said solemnly: " Therefore, Lord Prefect, I would like to advise Yecheng to close the city gates immediately, prepare all troops and horses to defend against the enemy, and at the same time, immediately send a pigeon message to Luoyang to ask for help from the king. "
"Okay, I will write down the situation immediately and ask for help from Luoyang." Shi Yi nodded, then turned to Zhao Yun and said: "I will leave the defense of the city to the general, and the comfort of the people in the city. This officer and Mr. Yan will be responsible.”
Zhao Yun immediately nodded and agreed to Shi Yi: "Okay, Captain Chen, please organize the garrison to board the city immediately and prepare for defense."
As he said that, he looked at Shi Yi and Yan Xiang and said, "If the general's prediction is correct, the cities on the outskirts of Wei County may not be able to be defended, so I am going to order He Ren, the general guarding Fukou Pass, to All the 1,000 soldiers in Wu'an City were transferred to Fukou Pass, and another 2,000 garrison troops from Wu'an and Shexian County were transferred to Fukou Pass. In this way, there were a total of 3,000 soldiers and 7,000 guards in Fukou Pass. Soldiers, coupled with the favorable terrain of Fukou Pass, even if Handan loses, we can still control the east entrance of Fukou Xing. "
"General, take your order!" Chen Lan, the captain of Wei County, quickly bowed and took the order;
"Don't worry, general. I will immediately order officials from the two cities to assist Captain He. We will do a good job in the defense of Fukou Pass." Shiyi nodded immediately;
[ ] The one they call Captain He is the young general He Ge who originally suggested changing the military system to Huangfu Chaobo. After Zhao Yun's careful training in the past few years, he has now reached the rank of Captain at Fukou Pass.
Now Yecheng has 10,000 infantry soldiers of the Longxiang Camp and 10,000 white-horse Yicong. In addition, there are 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry under the commander-in-chief, making a total of 45,000 soldiers and horses. If the Wei army does not have many cavalry, Zhao Yun can lead troops to support it. However, now that Zhao has 30,000 cavalry, Zhao Yun does not dare to lead these 15,000 cavalry into battle easily. If these 15,000 cavalry are lost, If it fails, Wei County will basically have no possibility of holding on.
The only chance now is to wait for Luoyang to send cavalry support. After receiving the cavalry support, Zhao Yun will be able to contain Lu Bu's 30,000 cavalry. Only in this way can Wei County have the possibility to defend.
"Okay, the city is temporarily left to you. I will lead Baima Yicong out of the city! Please, everyone!" After Zhao Yun arranged the defense in the city, he clasped his fists and saluted several people;
"General, be careful!" Several people responded in return;
Zhao Yun nodded, turned around and left, speeding towards the camp of the white horse Yi Cong at the south gate. Soon, 11,000 White Horse Yi Cong left Yecheng and galloped towards Handan in the north!
After Zhao Yun led the Baima Yicong to leave, warning bells rang in Yecheng, and then the whole city boiled instantly. Countless pedestrians ran towards their homes, and soldiers from several camps in the city poured out of the camps. , heading towards their respective pre-arranged defense zones.
In the prefect's mansion, several homing pigeons took off into the sky. After circling the city for a few times, they found their direction and flew to the southwest without hesitation.
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In Shangjun, in Fushi City, Tian Yu looked at the king's order coming from Hedong Pegasus. Although there was no reason stated on it, Tian Yu could still see some clues from it. He handed the king's order to Pang Tong and said: "In the opinion of the military advisor, why is the king urging you so urgently?"
Pang Tong didn't speak.
He carefully looked at it front and back twice, lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and then said: "If the prediction is correct, the accident should have happened to Lu Bu's cavalry. Now Lu Bu's cavalry is still missing, and the target they are targeting is nothing more than Lu Bu's cavalry." It’s the Yan State and our Tang State. If they are targeting us, then General Zhao Yun’s cavalry alone is not enough to deal with them.”
"Well, if that's the case, let's attack with a large army, first break through Yulin Pass, and then attack Qiuci non-stop. After annihilating the Jiangshan Army in one fell swoop, we will immediately let the Baotao Army and Xiong Qu Army return as soon as possible to deal with the possible war. "
After that, Tian Yu ordered five thousand soldiers and horses to be left to garrison Fushi, and personally led the rest of the soldiers and horses to Yulin Pass.
One day later, the army arrived at Yulin Pass. The battle at Yulin Pass had already begun for four days. Facing the attack by Hua Xiong's troops, Jiang Shan led his subordinates to resist desperately. After several days of fighting, they had reached the end of their strength.
The arrival of reinforcements from the Tang Army made the morale of the Jiangshan Army even lower. After handing the reinforcements to Hua Xiong, Tian Yu didn't say much and just asked Hua Xiong to attack with all his strength.
Although Hua Xiong didn't know what Tian Yu meant, he still ordered the army to attack the city with all his strength. After a half-day attack, the Tang army finally captured the pass. Jiang Shan once again led more than a thousand remaining soldiers to retreat in embarrassment.
Hua Xiong was about to order the army to rest, but Tian Yu said: "General Hua, immediately lead all the cavalry to pursue the remaining army, and I will immediately lead 20,000 infantry to follow!"
Hua Xiong was stunned: "General Tian, the army has just captured the pass, why don't you rest for a day before setting off?"
"It's too late!" With that, Tian Yu handed Luoyang's order to Hua Xiong. After he finished reading, he added: "We must annihilate Jiangshan Army as soon as possible, and then the general's headquarters and General Shegan's headquarters will return to their respective military locations as soon as possible. Shangjun will be temporarily guarded by this general."
"promise!"
After hearing this, Hua Xiong said no more, and returned the king's order to Tian Yu, then got on his horse and said, "Xiliang Iron Cavalry, follow me to pursue the remaining enemies!"
With his order, thousands of Xiliang Iron Cavalry followed him, passed through the pass directly, and chased the remnants of Jiangshan Army outside the pass.
Perhaps because after several battles, the Tang army did not continue to pursue, so the Jiangshan army did not immediately return to Qiuci City. Instead, after escaping from the pass, they rested more than ten miles outside the pass. Unexpectedly, the army stopped for only a quarter of an hour, and the Tang cavalry followed closely. Jiangshan had no choice but to order Liu Bao to lead the army to resist the Tang army, while he himself fled to Qiuci City with Fa Zheng under the protection of dozens of personal soldiers. New 81 Chinese website is the fastest to update. Mobile version: https:/
Among the more than 1,000 soldiers led by Liu Bao, there were less than 500 cavalrymen, and the remaining 600 soldiers were all infantrymen, and they were all exhausted. How could they stop the thousands of Xiliang cavalrymen of Hua Xiong's army who had been well-rested? In one charge, more than half of the 500 Xiongnu cavalrymen were lost, and Liu Bao was captured by Hua Xiong in one move. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining soldiers laid down their weapons and surrendered.
Hua Xiong left a thousand cavalrymen to guard the captured Jiangshan Army, and led the remaining cavalrymen to chase in the direction of Qiuci City.