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Chapter 331 The Final Attack Is Coming?

The commander of the Han army in the direction of Yuzhou is Xu Zheng, the commander of the march is Cai You, the master is Su Ding, and there are Li Tan, Fu Wei, Xie Ziyu and others under his command, with 1 cavalry soldiers and 13 infantry soldiers. There are also [-] auxiliary soldiers, servants, and new attached troops, and a total of [-] soldiers.

Coincidentally, Xu Zheng also chose to fight in the field when facing the Zhao army's advance in Shijie, but Yuzhou was much larger than Dongping County, and Huan Wen's army was only able to go out to fight in one county. On one side, the war started in three directions at the same time.

Xu Zheng had relatively rich troops. He chose to use infantry soldiers and second-line troops to advance to Gaoping County, and used most of the cavalry soldiers to intersperse and detour Liang County. Finally, he went out of Pengcheng County and marched into Pei County.

The fighting in the direction of Yuzhou was very fierce from the beginning. The first battle broke out in the direction of Peijun. The Zhao army in Shijie was led by Lu Yong, and the leader of the Han army was Li Kuang. The two sides were on the edge of Bianshui. A collision occurred in Xiao County.Li Kuang's troops defeated Lu Yong's route, and the battle line began to burn to the south bank of Bianshui. Lu Yong's defeated army retreated to Peiguo City, and Li Kuang pursued to the city before forming a confrontation.

Liangjun's side was the site of the subsequent outbreak. The two sides, totaling more than [-] people, had their first confrontation in Xiayi.The Han army on this road was all cavalry, and they couldn't eat Shijie's Zhao army in the first battle. They made a roundabout maneuver to the south. After the Han army won, they attacked the Shijie Zhao army who was also pursuing them. They defeated the Shijie Zhao army in one fell swoop and forced them to retreat to Dangshan.

The main force led by Xu Zheng fought against the Zhao army in Shijie led by Liu Kai at the Wutang Pavilion on the edge of the river. At first, it was a tepid situation. Liu Kai once wanted to attack the Han army halfway across the river, but the battle The season is summer, and some of the rivers under the non-flood season have shoals that can be waded through. Liu Kai's half-crossing attack was stillborn before it started.

Compared with the other two offensives going smoothly, Wu Tangting's side was cautious enough to close the camp as much as possible because Liu Kai was cautious enough. Most of Xu Zheng's hands were second-line troops, and the two sides' battles were difficult to determine the winner, so the stalemate came to an end.

Reports on the battle situation from various places were sent to Luoyin, and the battle between the Han army led by Liu Yan and the Qiang army led by Yao Yizhong had entered an extremely fierce state.

"So now we are fully suppressing Shijie and Zhao Guo in the general situation?" Liu Yan had a very satisfied expression on his face. He was more or less worried about Shijie Zhao Jun's counterattack. How could he be uneasy when he heard the report of the battle situation? down.He glanced at the people in the tent, and said: "Yao Yizhong's colleagues have not been able to suppress us, no wonder he will become more and more crazy."

Just as Liu Yan convened a meeting between the military and the off-duty generals and schools, the sound of fighting outside could be heard all the time.

Yao Yizhong's attack on the Han army was going on every day. After the Qiang army suffered heavy casualties, they built many barriers that could block arrows, most of them were some mounds, [-] steps away from the Han army's camp.

With a barrier that blocks sight and arrows, it can be said that the deployment of the Qiang army has become much easier, but within [-] paces is still a restricted area. Recently, the Qiang army is doing everything they can to push forward. Trenches can also be fortifications similar to tunnels that have been set up repeatedly, forcing Liu Yan to send troops to destroy them many times, and hand-to-hand combat will inevitably occur.

Liu Yan said that there is absolutely reason for the Qiang army to become crazy. Yao Yizhong is eager to make progress, and he does not care about casualties, even if thousands of people are killed or injured just to advance ten steps. , and then advance.

The reason why Yao Yizhong was anxious was related to the appearance of more and more Han troops in the periphery. Liu Yan's first batch of reinforcements landed from Jishui, and more than 2 infantry once advanced to a distance of [-] miles from Luoyin. Yao Yizhong sent enough Some of the cavalry went to block it, and it was only after adding troops again and again that the Han army was blocked, and it was only after paying heavy casualties that the Han army was forced to retreat to the edge of Jishui.

The reinforcements along the way alone forced Yao Yizhong to dispatch [-] troops to stop them, and a Han army came later, which was mainly cavalry and had about [-] Han troops. Army, Yao Yizhong sent another [-] troops to Jian County on the eastern front of the main battlefield.

For Yao Yizhong, Liu Yan on the main battlefield was so difficult to deal with with only [-] troops at hand, but if Liu Yan's troops were expanded to [-], what would happen?He must be desperately trying to prevent the Han army who came to help from joining Liu Yan!
It can be said that Yanzhou has already become one, and even Yuzhou is in full swing. The war in Qingzhou has also opened two new battlegrounds with the arrival of Liu Yan's reinforcements. It's a big fight.

The latest information about Xiangguo and Yecheng has reached Liu Yan. Shihu is already enlisting the soldiers of the Jie tribe on a large scale. I heard that Shijie's most powerful Dragon Guards Corps is also preparing for battle. Shihu ordered Shi Xuan No matter how you look at it, the formation of a wrestler group looks like they are preparing for a personal conquest.

The full name of the wrestler group formed by Shi Xuan is called "Donggong Gaoli". Tall and strong people of all ethnic groups were selected as wrestlers. After they were formed in history, they were exiled to the west by Shihu. The Jin general Liang Du launched a rebellion.

Shi Hu mobilized his clan to prepare for war, and no one could ignore this, and at the same time, no one wanted to be the target of Shi Hu's own conquest.

"Your Majesty?" Ji Chang asked with some urgency, "When will our fleet block the Dahe (Yellow River)?"

Ji Chang had an urgent reason. Seeing that Shi Hu might lead an army to go out, he guessed that Shi Hu would lead his troops to attack Guanzhong, but no one except Shi Hu was sure where he would go.They have been fighting with Yao Yizhong in Jinan County for half a month. If they continue to fight, the chances of Shi Hu leading an army to personally attack will definitely increase.

Don't look at the fact that the Han army is fighting against the Shijie Zhao army in Yanzhou and Yuzhou, but look at the composition of the Shijie Zhao army that the Han army is currently facing. Those Shijie Zhao troops only have a small number of county soldiers. Some of them are tribal soldiers, family soldiers and civilians recruited from the local area, but they are not the elite troops of Shijie Zhao State.

The Han army confronted Shijie with only the Qiang army led by Yao Yizhong, and the other elite army was Fu Hong's Di army. After all, the biggest helpers in Shijie's rule of the Central Plains were the Qiang and Di family.

How come the Qiang and Di people, who can be regarded as the biggest helpers by Shi Jie, don't have corresponding background?As for the Qiang army that appeared on the Luoyin battlefield, one unit briefly appeared before. They were Qiang assault cavalry whose knights were equipped with iron armor and the front half of their horses also had vests. There was also a troop that looked like they were wearing heavy armor. Armored Qiang infantry.

No matter how you say it, the Qiang people are really the largest ethnic group in the Central Plains. They have even managed the Northwest for more than two hundred years.

Furthermore, the Qiang people can become Shijie's biggest helpers, and they don't simply rely on their numbers. The Jin people are also numerous and powerful in the Central Plains, but why the Jin people are the targets of bullying must be because the Qiang people are rich enough. ferocious.

"Wait." Liu Yan also wanted to end the war here quickly. He said: "At present, Yao Yizhong is only using his elite troops to conduct a test. Waiting for him to actually let his elite troops join the war is to block the Yellow River with his fleet. time."

It must be said that Liu Yan is used to calling the Yellow River, but the Yellow River is not yellow at all now, and Jingshui is more like the Yellow River.Compared with the Yellow River, which is still clear at present, the Jingshui in the northwest plateau is really turbid.

There are already [-] Han fleets in Yizihe. They are currently hidden, and most of them are hidden on the edge of Taocheng, Jibei County, which is not a combat zone.There was no man's land the last time Shijie Zhao State was clearing the walls, and not many people paid attention to it because it was not a war zone.

The Yizi River section in Taocheng is about 150 miles away from the Yellow River, and it is more than 150 miles away from the battlefield on the Luoyin side. Even if Yao Yizhong searched seriously around the battlefield, it is impossible to explore [-] miles away. inside and outside.

Just now Liu Yan and others were still talking about the elite army in Yao Yizhong's hands, and someone came to report immediately, saying that the elite Qiang army appeared on the battlefield again, attracting Liu Yan to go out of the big tent and go to the watchtower.

With the evolution of the battle situation, the surrounding area of ​​the Han army camp was completely besieged.It was because Yao Yizhong had an absolute advantage in troops, and the starting point was to tell Liu Yan here, so there was no way a real attack would leave a gap.

Liu Yan led people up to the observation deck about 15 meters away. He raised his binoculars and looked towards the battlefield on the north side. There were arrows flying in the sky and crowds on the ground.

Without too much discernment, on the extremely complicated landscape, a Qiang troop armed with iron shields advanced steadily against the falling arrows.

Liu Yan and others used the convenience of telescopes to observe carefully. The metal used by the Qiang soldiers was definitely not comparable to that of the miscellaneous soldiers. The shields in their hands were made of iron and they were wearing iron armor. Furthermore, even when they advanced, they looked organized, unlike the miscellaneous soldiers. The soldiers were in a panic.

Accompanying the attack by the elite Qiang troops was a larger number of miscellaneous soldiers.If the Qiang elite formed a shield formation and advanced steadily, the miscellaneous soldiers relied on the trenches dug earlier or followed the shield formation formed by those elites.

Ji Changchi asked, "Are they going to attack?"

In the past half month, the number of times that can be called a general attack is not small, but Yao Yizhong will dispatch a large-scale elite for the first time, which has to confuse Ji Chang.

Liu Yan looked up at the sky and saw that the position of the sun should be Si time ([-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] am). The possibility of Yao Yizhong launching a general attack cannot be ruled out.

Probably the attacking Qiang troops advanced to within 150 steps of the Han army camp in the face of the rain of arrows, and there were loud shouts of killing in the other directions, so Liu Yan had to be cautious.

(End of this chapter)