At the same time, Zhao Yun in Taiyuan had no choice but to lead his army after receiving Liu Cheng's military order.
There is only one way to attack Changshan Junjun from Bingzhou.
This road is not a flat road, but has to go over high mountains and pass through the narrow path.
The terrain is extremely dangerous, Jingxing.
There is a pass on this passage called Tumen Pass, also known as Tumen Pass.
Jingxingguan.
However, Yuan Shao stationed 3,000 elite troops at Tumen Pass, which could not be easily broken due to the dangerous terrain.
Therefore, Zhao Yun's army did not take this route.
Instead, it set out from Taiyuan and went north into Yanmen County, and then headed east across the border between Bingzhou and Jizhou Zhongshan Kingdom to Lingqiu.
There is a road in the mountains called Feihuxing, also known as Feihukou.
This is a grand canyon that is more than 100 miles long.
It is deserted and dense, and some places are not exposed to sunlight all year round.
The cliffs on both sides of the valley are like knives and axes chopping them.
Their majestic and majestic appearance will terrify all those who look at them.
Zhao Yun gave up taking the shortcut to Jingxingguan and chose to take the long route, which had unintended consequences.
Yuan Jun's troops at Feihukou are not many, and they are all used to being lazy.
The chance of success in attacking here is much higher.
The danger of the Feihu Ancient Road is actually not at the Feihu Pass, but in the Black Rock Ridge.
It is located in the middle of the Feihu Ancient Road.
Yuan Shao's men and horses occupied the pavilion barriers and beacon towers in the Black Rock Ridge.
Although the terrain of Black Rock Ridge is difficult, because of its remote location and the difficult terrain, it is difficult to transport food and grass supplies.
The soldiers stationed here by Yuan Shao lived a very hard life and could only eat one meal a day.
Where is the fighting power to speak of?
Zhao Yun did not act rashly.
He stationed the army thirty miles away from Black Rock Ridge and sent a team of elite soldiers to reach Black Rock Ridge while it was dark.
The Yuan army on Black Rock Ridge had been stationed here for several years and had never encountered the Bingzhou Army.
During the attack, only one person was left standing guard, and the rest all slept.
It was impossible not to sleep.
There was only one meal a day, and the stomach was growling with hunger.
There was no energy left.
Only sleeping could save energy.
The people standing guard had no intention of standing guard at all.
They were dozing with their spears on their backs while standing guard.
The elite soldiers sent by Zhao Yun could easily touch him without even knowing it.
The fighting came suddenly.
The two hundred Yuan troops stationed here were unprepared.
They were blocked by Zhao Yun's army in the pavilion and hacked to death.
All two hundred people were killed before they could hold on for a quarter of an hour.
When Zhao Yun came up, the battle had already ended.
Xiahoulan, who led the attack, was Zhao Yun's fellow villager and Zhao Yun's pioneer officer.
"What's the situation?
How many casualties are there?"
Zhao Yun asked as he came up with his guards.
Xia Houlan came up to him and clasped his fists and said: "There are only more than twenty brothers injured and killed.
These Yuan soldiers seem to have not eaten.
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They have no strength at all and have no fighting power at all.
In the past, under such circumstances, the enemy soldiers would have to fight to the death." , these people have no strength to resist.
My subordinates just checked and found that their food storage is pitiful and their cooks have been captured by us.
Because the terrain here is difficult, it is not easy to transport food and grass supplies.
These Yuan troops only eat food every day. a meal” "No wonder" Zhao Yun suddenly realized.
He walked around the Black Rock Ridge and ordered 300 men and horses to be stationed here and transport enough food and supplies.
This position must be defended.
Once this place is defended, you can attack if you advance and defend if you retreat.
Then the army continued to set off, and finally arrived in Guangchang before dawn, and rushed into the hinterland of Zhongshan Kingdom.
Yuan Jun of Zhongshan Kingdom was originally guarding Gongsun Zan in the north, but he did not expect that Zhao Yun came out from behind with an army of 20,000, and Yuan Jun collapsed at the first touch. .
The cities of the Zhongshan Kingdom quickly raised their flags and surrendered one after another.
Zhao Jun led his army all the way south and effortlessly captured Lu Nuding Prefecture, the seat of the Zhongshan Kingdom.
The news that Zhao Yun's army suddenly entered the Zhongshan Palace and captured Lunu, the administrative center, had not yet reached Yuan Shao in Yecheng, Wei County.
He had already led his army to attack Changshan County.
Changshan County is Zhao Yun's hometown.
To protect the people in his hometown, Zhao Yun ordered his soldiers to strictly observe military discipline.
After entering the city, he did not commit any crimes against the people.
This earned him a good reputation and the support of the people in Changshan County.
But when Yuan Shao got the news that Zhao Jun had entered the Zhongshan Kingdom, he had actually captured Yuanshi County, where it was governed.
Yuan Shao was horrified that the Bingzhou army had reached the Zhongshan Kingdom silently.
He immediately summoned his staff to discuss countermeasures.
Xin Ping, Chen Lin and others believed that they should immediately order Qu Yi to lead his army from Yijing to attack Zhao Yun's tribe.
Tian Feng and others believed that Qu Yi's troops could not move lightly and could send 20,000 troops from Yecheng to the north to meet Zhao Yun.
However, Feng Ji believed that Zhao Yun himself had an army of 20,000 and had the power of victory, so he sent other troops to fight because of the lack of troops.
If there is less, there is not enough confidence to defeat Zhao Yun, so he should send 50,000 troops to have a chance of winning.
However, at this time, Qu Yi in Yi Jing had 50,000 soldiers and horses, and Yan Liang took away 50,000 more.
There were only 50,000 soldiers and horses left in Yecheng.
If all of them were sent out, Yecheng would almost become an impenetrable city.
A fortified city.
At Ju Shou's suggestion, Yuan Shao adopted a compromise plan and sent 30,000 troops, led by general Gao Lan, to march north to attack Zhao Yun.
Gao Lan then led 30,000 soldiers and horses back to Zhongshan Kingdom, but Zhao Yun had already captured Changshan County at this time.
After Gao Lan led his army into Zhongshan Kingdom, he got the news that Zhao Yun's army was marching westward to Changshan County, and he immediately led his army to advance westward.
Changshan County.
Han Hao of Hanoi County led his army to Huai County and then joined up with Xu Shu's army.
The two sides discussed and decided that Han Hao would lead the army to enter the city and defend it, while Xu Shu would lead the army to build a camp outside the city.
The two sides were horns with each other, and Yan Liangjun If you only attack one place, you will be threatened by another one.
If you want to attack Huai County and Xu Shu's camp outside the city at the same time, you will not have enough troops.
Yan Liang was not a reckless man.
After he led his army to the vicinity of Huai County, he discovered that there was a large camp outside the city.
After inquiries by spies, he found out that Xu Shu led the troops from Luoyang, but he did not know the strength and combat capabilities of Xu Shu's army.
He had no strength, so he sent a group of soldiers and horses to block the city of Huai County and Xu In the middle of the Shu camp, another group of troops was sent to conduct a tentative attack on the Xu Shu camp.
However, they encountered strong resistance from Xu Shu's army and could not capture it within a day.
Yan Liang had to lead his army to retreat and set up camp.
After all, There is no defense facility in the wild at night to prevent Han Haojun's sneak attack.
In the next few days, Yan Liang tried to attack Xu Shu's camp several times, but each time he was destroyed by Han Hao's army in Huai County.
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If Yan Liang wants to launch an attack on Xu Shu's army, he must use 20,000 people, so he only has a mobile force of 25,000 people, but these forces cannot besiege Huai County at all, because Han Hao has more than 10,000 people.
Yan Liang's force of 2.5 times wanted to besiege the city twice.
Han Hao's army broke out from the city and defeated Yan Liang's army besieging the city, and promptly reinforced Xu Shu's camp.
Yan Liang had to lead his army to retreat.
After a few days, Yan Liang not only failed to make any progress, but also lost four to five thousand men and horses.
From the time he sent out troops to this time, he had lost a total of 10,000 people and only had 40,000 left.
He had to stop the attack and rack his brains to find a way. , looking for opportunities to defeat the enemy.
In Changshan County, Zhao Yun's army traveled long distances and fought for nearly half a month.
The soldiers were severely mentally and physically exhausted.
After Gao Lan led his army to attack, Zhao Yun did not take the initiative to lead his army to fight, but took the defensive.
Gao Lan Lan kept leading his troops to attack, but was beaten back every time.
For several days, Gao Lan did not get any advantage.
His troops did not have much advantage, and the soldiers of Zhao Yun's army were all well-trained elite soldiers.
Although they lost a lot of energy and physical strength during this period of fighting, However, in the case of defense, Gao Lan's army did not get any advantage and had to suspend the attack.
The two sides began to confront each other for a time.
When the war between the north and the south was in a tense state, Zhang Liao appeared with 20,000 elite troops, and they appeared in Yexi without any sound.
There is only one road from Shanxi to the west of Ye in the Taihang Mountains of Shandong, and that is Fukouxing.
The mountains are high and the ravines are deep.
It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
Although Yexi is controlled by Yuan Shao, Fukouxing has always been controlled by the Bingzhou Army. , so Zhang Liao's army passed through Fukouxing and reached Yexi without any hindrance.
When the news reached Yecheng, people in Yecheng were suddenly panicked.
Yuan Shao and all his advisers were horrified.
Now there were only 20,000 troops in Yecheng.
According to the investigation, Zhang Liao's troops were also 20,000.
Although Zhang Liao did not necessarily have 20,000 troops based on this.
It is not fun to be able to conquer Yecheng, but to be attacked by this huge army.
At this time, even a fool knew that Zhang Liao could not lead his army to the city.
Yuan Shao immediately ordered Wen Chou to lead an army of 15,000 to fight Zhang Liao, leaving 5,000 to guard Ye City.
The armies of both sides met unexpectedly on the north bank of Zhang River.
When the two sides discovered each other, the two armies were only less than five miles apart.
Zhang Liao's army was in the south and Wen Chou's army was in the north.
When Zhang Liao saw the Pingchuan in the north, he immediately gave the order without waiting for the entire army to gather and form a military formation: "Ma Chao, I order you to lead 3,000 fine cavalry to attack immediately and defeat the enemy before they can form a military formation."
"Take the order."
Ma Chao agreed with his fists clasped, and he led three thousand cavalry and galloped away to the north.
Here Zhang Liao immediately organized his troops and horses to form a military formation, and then slowly approached Wen Chou's army in the north.
Wen Chou received the report and learned that Zhang Liao's army had 3,000 cavalry to attack first.
He didn't care about setting up military formations, and immediately ordered his generals to attack with 3,000 cavalry.
Ma Chao's three thousand cavalry came with great momentum, while Jiao Chu's three thousand cavalry rushed to fight.
Ma Chao had participated in the battle against the Western Qiang.
In the past few months, he had become proficient in cavalry assault tactics and learned the essence of Qiang cavalry assault tactics.
He commanded his three thousand cavalry.
They formed a neat and dense formation and launched a fierce assault on the three thousand cavalrymen in focus.
The Hebei cavalry, which hastily responded to the battle and was in a loose formation, was attacked by Ma Chao's army and was knocked to pieces.
Ma Chao immediately expanded the victory and chased and killed the Hebei cavalry who fled north.
The defeated Hebei cavalry once rushed into the military formation just arranged by Wen Chou, causing large-scale chaos.
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When Wen Chou finally stabilized the team, Ma Chao led his men to kill again.
The momentum of Ma Chao's cavalry attack had lost its sharpness.
Instead of attacking Wen Chou's formation head-on, he passed by from the right, smashed the left corner of Wen Chou's formation, and then headed north.
Wen Chou had just breathed a sigh of relief when Zhang Liao came forward with 17,800 troops in neat formations.
Wen Chou had no choice but to fight.
Wen Chou saw that Zhang Liao's army had stopped.
He thought for a moment and ordered: "Zhang Nan, go call the formation and kill a few of their generals first to weaken their spirit."
"Take the order."
Zhang Nan agreed, clasping his fists and galloping out with his horse and gun drawn.
After a while, he came to the front of the two armies, raised his spear and shouted: "Zhang Nan of Hebei is here, who comes to die?"
Zhang Liao smiled when he heard this and said to Yan Xing: "General Yan, there are people on the other side who want to challenge each other.
You are the only one with the best martial arts here, so I would like to trouble you to deal with them.
By the way, you can also show your face in front of Yuan Shaojun, so that Yuan Shaode can I know there is also General Yan Xing in the court."
"Dare you disobey me?"
Yan Xing agreed with a smile and cupped his fists, holding an iron gun and galloping towards Zhang Nan.
"Xiliang Jincheng Yan Xing teaches you your brilliant tactics"
As a loud shout was heard and drowned out the sound of the horse's hooves, Zhang Nan immediately faced him with a gun.
The battle failed, and Zhang Nan was stabbed under the horse by Yan Xing with a spear.
The imperial army immediately cheered loudly, and their momentum suddenly increased.
On the other hand, Yuan Jun's momentum dropped drastically in an instant, and all the soldiers raised their voices in mourning.
Wen Chou's face looked a little ugly, and he immediately shouted: "Which general will kill that Yan Xing?"
"Go and kill him," the general Su You shouted, and galloped out to fight with Yan Xing.
The battle was not close, and Su You was not low.
In a hurry, he hit his horse and tried to escape back to the main formation, but Yan Xing quickly caught up with him and stabbed him under the horse with a spear.
"Okay, General Yan is mighty" "Mighty, mighty" the imperial soldiers stamped their weapons on the ground to cheer in unison.
Yuan Junjun's expression changed, and many people were so frightened that they couldn't help but take a step or two back.
Wen Chou's face turned green, and he shouted: "Which general dares to fight?"
No one in Yuan's army dared to respond "How come no one of these generals dares to fight again?"
Wen Chou shouted again, but still no one went to fight.
"Forget it, if our momentum is weakened, there is no need to fight this battle.
Since you don't dare to fight, let's see how I, Yan Liang, kill him.
All you have to do is restrain your troops."
After Wen Chou finished speaking, he immediately picked up a big sword, slapped his horse and galloped towards Yan Xing, shouting: "Yan Liang is coming from Hebei, why don't all the men in Yan Xing die quickly?"
"I'm not ashamed to speak loudly.
Look at the gun."
Yan Xing rode up to meet him, pointed his gun and stabbed him.
Wen Chou immediately waved his sword to block, and only heard two clanging sounds.
The two men had already passed each other, and they turned around and rushed towards each other.
Since there was no long-distance acceleration this time, the two of them were fighting together.
The two sides were going back and forth, and they were having a great time killing each other.
After only thirty rounds, Wen Chou felt that he could no longer hold on.
He used a heavy weapon like a broadsword, which required much more energy than a spear.
If he continued to fight for a long time, he would easily become exhausted.
However, Yan Xing used a heavy weapon.
Although the iron gun is not small in weight, it is much lighter than the broadsword, and its moves are much more flexible and labor-saving.
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Feeling that if he continued to fight, he might get lost here, Wen Chou used a false move to force Yan Xing back, and immediately charged his horse and galloped towards the main formation.
How could Yan Xing let him go?
He immediately charged and chased him.
Although he suspected that Wen Chou might be trying to drag him out, he did not hesitate at all, pursuing him while taking strict precautions against Wen Chou.
Sure enough, Wen Chou really used the knife trick, but Yan Xing saw through it just in time.
He leaned back to avoid Wen Chou's fatal blow.
When he got up again, he flew up and stabbed Wen Chou in the back with his gun. .
Wen Chou's moves were too old and he had no time to block, so he could only move his body to dodge, but Yan Xing still stabbed him in the shoulder with a shot.
Wen Chou let out a scream, but was horrified in his heart.
He lay on the horse and ran away with all his strength.
Zhang Liao saw this clearly and immediately raised his halberd and waved forward: "Kill" As Zhang Liao's army rushed forward, Yuan's army, which had already been demoralized, could no longer calm down and fled in all directions.
The soldiers of the imperial court immediately dispersed to pursue and kill countless people
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