Chapter 1,370: Gathering Troops
"Three Kingdoms Online Game: Princes Struggle for Hegemony ()"
When Lu Lingqi was talking to Chen Gong, Wei Xu's figure finally appeared in their sights. He was the last one to leave. When everyone entered the secret passage, Wei Xu appeared neatly on the city wall several times to confuse the Tang army outside the city.
"Lord!" Seeing Lu Lingqi above the camp gate, Wei Xu quickly stepped forward and bowed to him;
"Thank you for your hard work, uncle. Has everyone come out? Have the entrance and exit of the secret passage been sealed?" Lu Lingqi nodded and asked Wei Xu;
"It's not hard work. The entrance to the secret passage was sealed by Chen Xuan. I watched it with my own eyes before leaving. The exit has also been sealed with huge rocks, and the disguise has been restored outside."
"Well, since everyone has come out, let's leave quickly! If you stay for a moment longer, the danger will increase." After hearing this, Lu Lingqi immediately ordered: "Come here, pass the order, and the army will set off!"
"promise!"
Following her order, the last thousand guardsmen in the secret camp quickly gathered and headed west towards Lishi City. As for the other people, they had already left the secret camp in batches under the escort of soldiers and horses.
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When the first ray of sunshine in the morning rose from the east, the Tang Army camp became lively again. The soldiers of the Tang Army who had had breakfast began to line up and approach Jinyang City.
Tens of thousands of troops arrived a few hundred steps below Jinyang City and stopped. After a while, several Tang Army cavalry lined up and rode a hundred steps away from the city wall. The leader shouted loudly to the defenders at the top of the city. He said: "Listen carefully to the defenders in the city. Your Majesty has an order. Fight or surrender. Within one stick of incense, there must be a reply. When the time is up, the army will attack the city immediately!"
After saying that, he dismounted, lit a stick of incense, planted it on the ground, then mounted his horse, turned away and returned to the central army to resume his duties.
On the city wall, Chen Xuan and Zhang Wei were already on the city wall, but Chen Xuan did not want to surrender so quickly. He wanted to buy more time for the people who left.
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In Lishi, inside the county government office, Chen Yi was woken up early in the morning by his generals. Yesterday afternoon, he received a secret order signed by the princess, the captain and his father. He learned that King Lu Bu had died in the battle, and now his father and a large part of Zhao's officials and generals had served the princess.
Although he didn't quite understand the arrangement for the army to flee Jinyang and flee west, he didn't say much. After getting the secret order, he immediately made preparations.
Although he is the commander-in-chief of Lishi, and Lishi is also Zhao's last line of defense against the Tang army's attack from Hetao to the west, Lishi's troops are really not many, with only 5,000 troops in total, and there are even more elites among them. There are only 1,500 people, 1,000 infantry and 500 cavalry. The remaining 3,500 people are all newly recruited soldiers.
If it weren't for the natural dangers of the river, the Tang army would have already invaded the east bank of the river. Now his main troops are deployed at two ferries on the east bank of the river.
Among them, there are three thousand troops at Yongheguan Ferry in the south, because opposite them is the Yanshuiguan Ferry where the Tang army is heavily stationed, and there are more than 10,000 Tang troops opposite. In addition, he arranged 500 soldiers at the Tukou Ferry in the north. The Tukou Ferry is different from the Yongheguan Ferry. It is more convenient to cross from east to west, but it is more difficult to cross the river from the west to the east bank.
After receiving the news, Chen Yi immediately sent people to learn about the situation at the two ferries and the Tang army on the opposite side. Now it was the soldiers sent out to investigate who came back to report the situation to him.
"General, news has come back from the two ferries. The Tang army at Yanshui Pass in the south is still stationed and there is no abnormal reaction. The situation across the Tukou Ferry in the north is also normal. General Wei sent People sneaked over to investigate overnight and found that there were less than a hundred Tang soldiers on the other side. "
"What's the terrain like on the other side? Is there a suitable location for a large army to camp?"
"There is no suitable location. According to the brothers who came back, the valleys opposite are only a few to ten steps wide.
There simply isn't much room for too many people. "
After Chen Yi walked back and forth in the hall twice, he said: "You will take another two hundred tonight... No, take five hundred soldiers and sneak over quietly. After meeting with the previous soldiers, they will patrol the sentry point of the Tang Army." Those nearby are lurking, waiting for my order. As soon as my order comes, you will lead the troops to annihilate all the Tang troops on the opposite side, and no one will be left behind. "
"General..."
"Remember, no one should slip through the net! Then, prepare to help the army cross the river!"
Seeing that his subordinate was hesitant to speak, Chen Yi didn't say much. He just waved his hand and asked him to go down to rest and prepare to cross the river at night. It's not that he doesn't trust this subordinate, it's just that he doesn't want too many people to know about this matter. After all, the matter is too important.
Almost at the same time, Zhang Quan, the chief general of Lengquan Pass, also received the secret order. Zhang Quan is Zhang Yang's eldest son and has always been valued by Lu Bu. Even though Zhang Yang lost his party in the previous episode, Lu Bu still did not criticize Zhang Yang more. Instead, Give more importance to their father and son.
Zhang Quan was appointed by Lu Bu as a fifth-rank Yangwei general because of his extraordinary martial prowess and thoughtfulness, and ordered him to lead the troops at Lengquan Pass. Lengquan Pass is located south of Jiexiu in a rather steep position. It is the only passage for the Tang army to go north from Hanoi to Taiyuan.
Although there were only 5,000 soldiers in the pass, 3,000 of them were combat soldiers, 500 cavalry, and 1,500 newly recruited soldiers. Even though Lu Bu repeatedly drew soldiers from the player's territory to supplement his troops, he did not withdraw a single soldier from Lengquan Pass. Instead, he increased the number of soldiers from the original 3,000 to 5,000.
There were not many battles at Lengquan Pass. Although there were tens of thousands of Tang troops stationed at Lingshi South Pass in the south, except for the initial attack by Yang Feng and his men on Lengquan Pass, which failed, the Tang army never stepped out of Lingshi South Pass again.
After receiving the secret order, Zhang Quan did not hesitate for long. He quickly summoned his confidant. After a while, he ordered the combat soldiers and cavalry to assemble and evacuate to Jiexiu, leaving only his confidant to lead 100 cavalry to guard the pass. He told the 1,500 soldiers at the pass that the Tang army was now attacking Lishi and he was ordered to lead the army to support.
The army rushed all the way and arrived at Jiexiu in just half a day. After resting in Jiexiu for half a day, they set out overnight with Xu Gai and more than 200 elite Jiexiu soldiers to Zhongyang City in the west to join the troops of other cities.
On this day, officials and garrisons in the cities south of Jinyang received secret orders, saying that the Tang army was at Yanshui Pass, trying to cross the river to attack Taiyuan, and asked them to personally lead the most elite soldiers in the city to rush to Zhongyang to join up and prepare to send troops to support Zhongyang.
However, there was another strange thing about their secret order, which was that they were asked to bring all the taxes in their respective cities, saying that they would be used to motivate the soldiers in front of the army. Not only that, the spare weapons and equipment of each city were also brought as much as possible to prepare for the needs of war.