Chapter Seventy-Two: The Battle of Yangxiang

Are there 100,000 people in Zhuo County?

Zhuo County is the county with the most people in Youzhou, a county is enough to top the number of counties in Youdong, Liu Yu era of Youzhou has experienced several times that the people of the Central Plains have moved east to avoid disasters, and nearly half of the millions of officials who moved to Youzhou have stayed in Zhuo County, looking forward to the Central Plains to return to their hometown.

It's just that no one could have predicted that the war at that time was only the beginning, not the end.

According to the household registration of the people in the county over the years, the people in Zhuo County were close to 600,000 at the most in previous years, not to mention those fugitive people in the township, if Gongsun Zhan's army plundered 100,000 people and wanted to bring them to Jizhou, Yanbei would have 10% of the willingness to believe, definitely more than 100,000!

Hearing this news, where can Yanbei still sit still, ruling the people means military service, forced labor, and taxes, almost everything for every prince in the world!

Now that Gongsun Zhan's army wants to take away these people, Yan Beicai doesn't care if they really want to return to their hometown...... Could it be that Youzhou is a place where you can come and go when you want?

"Send troops, send orders to the high school captain, lead the troops into Zhuo County, and pursue them along the way...... Yan didn't believe it, how fast he could go with 100,000 people! ”

Yan Bei had great trust in Guo Jia at this time, and even took Guo Jia's arm with a slight tremor on his lips and said: "Thanks to the foresight of Fengxiao, otherwise Bo Gui will succeed!" ”

Five days ago, more than 3,000 people from the headquarters of the Lu Yi Command went straight down to Zhuo County from Shanggu County, and now the distance should have been out of Shanggu County and into Zhuo County, which will not be too far from Wuruan Pass. As long as Lu Yi can take the lead in capturing Wuruan Pass, he can block Gongsun Zhan's troops and horses and hundreds of thousands of people in Zhuo County, and when the thieves of Zhuo County are pacified, these people will naturally still belong to Youzhou!

Now that the situation is urgent, Yanbei was afraid that something would go wrong in the battle, so he immediately ordered more than 2,000 people from the Pan Ling Department to guard Jixian County to prevent possible invading enemies, and personally took command and went out with Gao Ran, and poured thousands of troops directly down to Zhuo County.

It's not that Yan Bei is making a big fuss, he has enough reason to worry. He is not afraid of the defeat of the Lu Yi army, if he can't capture the Wuruan Pass, it is just to let Gongsun Zhan's army leave, and the long-term planning means that as long as this battle starts, Zhuojun will definitely not lose it to Gongsun Zhan. What he was afraid of was that the troops under Gongsun Zhan who held the people hostage used the soldiers and horses as shields...... At that time, the subordinate generals did not make a decision, and if they fought, they would hurt the hearts of the people of Yanbei in Youzhou, and if they did not fight, they would delay the fighters.

Such a decision, no matter how you choose, is not something that Gao Ran and others can do.

In the entire Youzhou, only Yanbei is the only one who can make a decision, whether to fight or not, it is all decided by him, and the benefits and losses are borne by him.

"General, you are especially careful in this operation, the army has not yet figured out the enemy's disposition...... Take care! ”

With Guo Jia's message, Yanbei and Gao Ran marched from Guangyang to the southwest, swept through Guangyang County, and entered Zhuo County. There are always accidents in battles everywhere, although it is safe for the general to catch turtles in the urn and grasp every detail after everything is arranged, but the recklessness of a wild general like Yan Bei, he is familiar with it is not that he plans and then acts.

Meeting on a narrow road and fighting for life and death is the fate of the Yan family.

Approaching Yangxiang north of Fangcheng, the White Horse Army, which was out of the day and night to avoid scouts, and the Yanbei Army, which was traveling day and night, met in the field...... No one expected the war to start here.

When the elite more than 1,000 white horse Yicong crossed the hillside and appeared in Yanbei's gaze, anyone knew that it meant that they had entered the enemy's defense area. Even, their scouts were anxious to search for the city of, which was fifty miles away, and relaxed the vigilance of, but they were taken advantage of by the enemy.

In the whistling hunting wind, the White Horse Army galloped out from the west under the leadership of a small general, and the most elite White Horse Yi came in an instant with the most violent roar, and the banner of Gongsun who was flying around was waving, and the cold arrow rain was like a blade in late autumn with a palpitating coldness to attack the Yanbei Army.

"Protect the general, line up to meet the enemy!"

With Dian Wei's rough roar, more than 3,000 people lined up their formation. Yan Bei took out the ring knife at his waist and raised it high in the direction of the enemy, but silently faced the direction of the enemy's charge with the most heroic attitude, straight to the direction of the blade.

The number of soldiers and horses under the command of Yanbei has been divided into four parts, Sun Qing's scout battalion as the front to explore the enemy, Gaolan headquarters will follow the Janissaries of Goguryeo Wangcheng and go straight to Fangcheng, leaving as two wings is Tai Shici's archers and horses to and fro, tens of thousands of troops spread out in the north of Zhuo County, and the various departments are twenty or thirty miles apart...... This white horse is really admirable from being able to touch here, that is, Gongsun Chan is in person, and it is not an exaggeration to have such a ability.

However, at this time, it was obvious that the young general who was charging with Bai Ma Yicong on the other side of the army was not Gongsun Zhan himself, whether it was his appearance of a smaller figure or the smooth jaw from a distance, it was revealed that the enemy general's age was even younger than that of the young Yanbei.

The stray arrow shot in front of the formation, Dian Wei did not protect Yan Bei, and after asking for battle, he wore a heavy armor and rushed to the front of the battle, carrying a big iron halberd and the long flag of the personal guard headquarters to order his subordinates to be calm and waiting...... Speaking of easy, even this Yanbei personal guard foot soldier with great courage, when faced with the white horse cavalry in front of him with the fierce arrows to stamp, no one can be as sad as water, bowing their heads and holding a shield to withstand the enemy's strong shooting without disrupting themselves is the best they can make.

Dian Wei was calm, and his eyes full of courage were revealed on his lowered figure, staring straight at the white horse righteous servant who was getting closer and closer. The soldiers on the left and right covered his majestic figure with large shields, and his arms tightly clutched the black and white banners, and he listened to the sound of the horses' hooves without saying a word.

Dian Wei couldn't make a sound, he was the vanguard of this battle, at this moment the soldier's heart was in his throat, no matter what he shouted, his subordinates would think that this was the general of the charge.

"Dian Sima, the enemy army has advanced a hundred steps!"

Dian Wei only felt that his arms were swollen, he raised his hand to stick the iron halberd obliquely on the ground, and his wide palm clutched the long banner battle flag more than a zhang high to the ground tighter, and his own soldiers held the halberd for him, but he still did not make any movement, and Yan Bei, who was a hundred steps later, also maintained the war knife raised high, with a resolute face.

In a moment, there was a panic in the military formation, and the soldier shouted in Dian Wei's ear: "Dian Sima, the enemy army has advanced fifty steps!" ”

The long banner slowly sank and pointed diagonally to the sky.

"Three, thirty steps!"

With the panicked roar of the foot soldiers, Dian Wei suddenly roared out of his mouth, and strode forward, his voice like a tiger's roar: "Rush!" ”

Zhangyu's long banner was for a ride, and Dian Wei ran out of the formation, leading the front curve of the entire army formation to charge out against the rain of arrows thrown by the enemy and the hooves of the horses that came straight ahead. At this moment, Bai Ma Yi had never had time to sweep past the battle formation, and the movement of the foot soldiers suddenly forwarded was beyond their expectations, and the two armies collided with each other in the most ferocious posture.

In Yan Bei's palm, the long knife fell, pointing straight ahead.

"Whole army, charge!"