Chapter 1,291 The Upcoming Cavalry Showdown
What disappoints Huangfu Chaobo is that Guo Jia has no good solution to this matter. He can only order the generals in each city to take strict precautions, especially night inspections and city guarding, which require more attention.
Huangfu Chaobo was silent, and then said to Shi A: "Send the order, let everyone pay more attention!"
After Shi A took the order and went out, Huangfu Chaobo said to Guo Jia: "How should the army behave now? Why don't we lead the Guards across the river, join Zilong's cavalry, and concentrate on solving the war in Hebei first, and then turn around to deal with Qi , As for the direction of Wu State, there should not be many problems with Lujiang. "New 81 Chinese website updates the fastest computer version:
Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Don't act rashly for the time being. It is precisely because the king's 20,000 elite cavalry are in Chenliu that both Qi and Wei are afraid. Moreover, there are more than 60,000 elite cavalry in Hebei, Wei and Zhao. If they can be defeated in one fell swoop, It's okay to eliminate them, but if they fail to kill the tigers and are injured by the tigers, not only will the crisis in Hebei not be resolved, but the direction of Yanzhou will also be in danger. If not, the situation of the Tang army in Henan will also worsen. "
"Then when is the best time to send out the army?" Huangfu Chaobo said unwillingly;
"The only solution now is to wait until the situation in Hebei turns around before we can dispatch the 20,000 elite men in the king's hands."
"It's just that with Zilong's more than 30,000 and less than 40,000 cavalry, how can he deal with the 60,000 cavalry of Wei and Zhao?"
"The king also said just now that Wei and Zhao have 60,000 elite cavalry, which is good, but they are a coalition. Since they are a coalition, the cooperation between them cannot be close. What's more, Wei Wang Yuan Shaonai comes from a noble family, and Zhao Wang Lu Bu He is an ordinary son of a good family, not even a son of a good family. Moreover, in the eyes of the aristocratic family, Lu Bu is still a slave of the third surname, and his reputation is very bad. Moreover, your Majesty, please see, Zijing also said that Lu Bu is now. There is already some gap between us and the Wei army. The Wei army broke through the city overnight but did not notify Lu Bu. This shows that there is a gap, so please wait patiently for a few more days, and a turnaround should come soon. "
Huangfu Chaobo could only nod helplessly. Fortunately, the pigeon mail communication between Shangjun and Luoyang has been opened. Luoyang had received the pigeon mail sent back by Tian Yu yesterday. Hua Xiong and Shegan's armies have begun to return. In terms of pick-up time, it should only take five to six days to arrive.
At least if Hua Xiong's Xiliang cavalry can arrive smoothly, Huangfu Chaobo will have more elite cavalry at his disposal.
In Handan City, Yan Liang sat on the chief seat of the county government office with a happy face. After six or seven days of hard fighting, he finally captured this strong city of the Tang Dynasty. Although he also paid nearly 10,000 casualties, but in this way A city is a large city with hundreds of thousands of people, and the harvest is self-evident.
After spending half a day, Yan Liang finally took full control of Handan City. After discussing with Xu You, Yan Liang couldn't wait to report his victory to Yuan Shao. Then the army rested and reorganized at Handan Chuan, quietly waiting for Yuan Shao's next order. Yan Liang was not kept waiting. In the afternoon, Yuan Shao's order came, ordering Yan Liang to leave enough troops and horses to defend Handan. The other troops continued south and attacked Liang Qi, the last city to the north of Ye City. As long as Liang Qi attacked. , there is no longer a barrier to the north of Yecheng. As for the conflict with Lu Buqi, Yuan Shao had automatically ignored it.
That night, Yan Liang immediately summoned Xu You and his two lieutenants, and announced Yuan Shao's order. After discussing with several people, Yan Liang decided to leave one army to defend Handan, while the rest of the army went south to attack Liang Qi. .
The seven-day battle left nearly 10,000 Yan Liang's troops dead and seriously injured.
Ten thousand people were slightly injured, so Yan Liang left all the lightly injured ten thousand people to defend Handan City. The remaining 60,000 soldiers and horses, plus the thousands of captured Tang army prisoners in Handan City, headed for Liangqi City in the south. As for Zhao King Lu Bu's 30,000 cavalry, they were once again ignored by Yan Liang.
Early the next morning, Yan Liang sent troops south. After his army left Handan, the four gates of Handan City were closed again. No matter what Lü Bu said, the garrison in the city would not open it to let the Zhao army enter the city. In anger, Lü Bu led the three Wan ran to Wei County to find Yuan Shao.
However, Lu Bu was doomed to be disappointed. After staying in Wei County for a day, he returned to the north again, but what he got in exchange was that Yan Liang was scolded by Yuan Shao. Of course, after this, Yan Liang's attitude towards Lu Bu and others did improve a lot, but it was still impossible for Zhao Jun to enter the city.
The reason why Yan Liang's attitude improved, in addition to Yuan Shao's scolding, was that when Lu Bu's cavalry went to Wei County, Zhao Yun led the white horse Yi Cong to conduct a surprise attack on Yan Liang's army. Yan Liang's army lost more than two thousand people. If Lu Bu's army had not returned in time, it is estimated that Yan Liang's loss of troops and horses would have been at least 5,000.
The reappearance of Zhao Yun's army gave Lu Bu a hard time. If the attitudes of Yan Liang and Wei Jun made Lu Bu just angry, then Zhao Yun's actions were provocative to Lu Bu. After Cong's surprise attack killed thousands of people, Lu Bu was completely angry. Under his order, the 30,000 Zhao Jun cavalry were divided into three teams and six groups, and they pulled a net in the direction where Baima Yicong left. He chased after him closely.
If you can look down from the sky at this time, you can see that there is a white horse cavalry of up to 10,000 people in front, running wildly towards the northwest. Ten miles behind them, three cavalry of different colors surrounded the cavalry in front from three directions, like three huge arrows surrounding the white horse cavalry in front.
Looking at the rolling dust in front and the vaguely visible white horse cavalry, Lu Bu felt infinite joy in his heart. More than ten days have passed, and he finally caught this hateful cavalry.
"Pass the order, don't let the Tang cavalry run away again." Lu Bu ordered loudly;
Perhaps it was because Zhao Yun didn't expect that he would return from Wei County so quickly, so they were relieved to attack Yan Liang's infantry, but they didn't expect that when the white horse volunteers and the Wei army were fighting in a group, they led 30,000 Zhao cavalry to appear. Caught off guard, Zhao Yun had to lead the cavalry to flee to the northwest.
Upon seeing this, Lu Bu immediately divided his cavalry into three groups. Each group was led by a school of wolf cavalry as the vanguard and a school of ordinary cavalry followed closely behind. They surrounded the White Horse Volunteers from three directions.