Fight for hegemony from a desert island

Chapter 572
Since the failure of the ugly man's provocation, the steppe empire began to attack.

To be honest, [-]% of the elite of the Prairie Empire are cavalry, and the cavalry is indeed quite powerful in the open plains, especially the cavalry of the Prairie Empire, which is simply invincible.

But if it is used to attack the city, then the cavalry is very powerful and has nowhere to use it.

And the Prairie Empire was also reluctant to let their elite cavalry touch this steel-like city, and it was the 150 million prisoners of war who finally attacked Yanmen Pass.

However, although these 150 million are prisoners of war, they must not be underestimated.

The combat effectiveness of these prisoners of war is no worse than that of some well-trained soldiers from Dazhou, and their attacks are more wild and extremely fierce. They are almost desperate to fight Lu Bu here. .

This made Lu Bu very confused. After all, any individual could see what kind of role these 150 million prisoners of war played in the grassland empire army.

The Prairie Empire obviously regarded them as cannon fodder. Under such circumstances, it was difficult for Lu Bu to understand why this group of cannon fodder could risk their lives so desperately.

In fact, the reason why the Prairie Empire was able to make these prisoners of war fight so desperately was entirely because the cannon fodder was collected from the colonies of the Prairie Empire.

These cannon fodder still have their own relatives in their hometown. Once they don't work hard or fight desperately on the battlefield, the grassland empire will take their relatives and execute them with the cruelest means.

And if these cannon fodder prisoners of war died heroically on the battlefield, then the Prairie Empire would not only not embarrass their families, but also promised that within 20 years, they would not collect taxes from their families or take prisoners of war or war slaves.

This set of management methods is simple and crude but effective, allowing the war slaves under the Prairie Empire to fight with the craziest way and mentality when a battle breaks out.

150 million prisoners of war who were almost determined to die broke out with astonishing and terrifying fighting power.

Although they did not have a commander, the despair, madness and hysteria of the 150 million people gathered together and gave birth to a special force, which made the soldiers in Yanmen Pass inexplicably depressed.

If Yanmen Pass cannot properly handle this issue, the strength of Yanmen Pass soldiers will continue to decline, their emotions will continue to be controlled and swayed, and eventually there is even the danger of collapse.

Fortunately, there is still Gao Shun at Yanmen Pass.

As soon as the battle broke out, Gao Shun, who commanded an army of 30 at Yanmen Pass, directly gathered the army.

Although he didn't have a talent for commanding, the assembled army was strong enough to withstand the army of the Slaves Army. With the help of Gao Shun's good defense and command skills, and the various city defense equipment prepared in advance at Yanmen Pass in the past two years However, Gao Shun still easily suppressed the attack of the slave army.

Of course, Gao Shun himself knew very well that this kind of relaxed fighting situation would not last long.

The opponent's army is really too much. If the opponent does not retreat, it will be difficult for them to deal with the 150 million extremely crazy army, let alone the 150 grassland empire's real elite behind the 50 million army. .

If they didn't have reinforcements on their side, even if they were fighting well now, he would still be destroyed in the end.

Gao Shun knew this, Lu Bu knew it, and so did the middle-aged man who had just left Yanmen Pass not long ago.

That's why the middle-aged man didn't dare to delay for a moment. After leaving Yanmen Pass, he went directly to their neighbor Youzhou.

Hurry up, with the accompanying guards constantly using their skills to hurry, the middle-aged literati came to Youzhou in only three days and met the current ruler of Youzhou, Emperor Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty.

When the middle-aged literati arrived, in fact, Yang Jian had already received more or less news about Yanmen Pass.

However, although he received the news, Yang Jian still has doubts about the authenticity of the news, the size of the grassland empire's army, and the strength of that grassland empire.

In addition, Da Sui is now at a critical moment, so Yang Jian is somewhat uncertain about this matter.

The middle-aged literati seemed to have seen Yang Jian's hesitation, and without further ado, he signed an agreement with Yang Jian as soon as he arrived.

As long as Yang Jian is willing to send troops for reinforcements, they will send those troops to the two counties near Youzhou directly to Youzhou.

The middle-aged literati moved for profit, directly breaking Yang Jian's hesitation, and Yang Jian made a decision on the spot to support Bingzhou.

After negotiating with the Sui side, the middle-aged literati did not dare to delay at all, and went directly south to Jizhou. When they arrived in Jizhou, the middle-aged literati felt much more relaxed.

When he arrived, the battle at Yanmen Pass had already broken out for ten days.

Within ten days, the battle situation at Yanmen Pass had spread to Jizhou.

The big Han had a more detailed understanding of the strength of the steppe empire, and they also knew that Lu Bu would definitely not be able to withstand the attack of the steppe empire.

So the big man had already started making pre-war preparations before the arrival of the middle-aged literati.

However, it is one thing for the big man to make pre-war preparations. When the middle-aged literati came, the big man still took a bite in Bingzhou and divided up two counties from Bingzhou before agreeing to send troops.

The middle-aged literati who sold the four counties in the two countries did not stay in Jizhou too much, and turned around and went to Sili.

When the middle-aged literati came to Sili's side, the person who received him told him directly that Sili's side had already dispatched troops, and the army was on its way to Bingzhou.

Hearing this news, the middle-aged literati breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, after he was relieved, the middle-aged literati did not forget to ask what he wanted.

Middle-aged literati would not believe that Cao An was so kind and did not ask for anything in return.

In fact, Cao An did have conditions. He wanted to appoint Lu Bu as the general of Zhenbei, and he would regularly support Bingzhou in the future.

This request seems to be a benefit at first glance, and it is much clearer than the little goblins in the two important places of the Han Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, Cao An's appetite was much greater than theirs, and he was about to tie Lu Bu to his chariot.

Regarding Cao An's request, the middle-aged literati who had never sold land before hesitated for the first time.

This matter is too big, he has no choice, and he can't ask Lu Bu to call the shots, even if it's just a simple perfunctory.

Of course, the middle-aged literati at this time didn't know that Yanmenguan was about to fail when he was struggling. If he knew this, he wouldn't be struggling...

(End of this chapter)