Guan Yu surrounded Luyang with 8,000 troops, and 48,000 troops were deployed in Lushan, ten miles north of Luyang City, preparing to encircle and annihilate Wenpin, who came from rapid support, and sent 8,000 men and horses to intercept Lu Jie, who was supported from Kunyang, at Dingshan, fifteen miles south of the city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's great surprise, Wen Ping led the army to stop thirty miles away from Niulan Leiting. Lu Jie, who came from the southeast to support, did not quickly approach Dingshan.

The armies of the two sides were in a stalemate for a day.

On the third day, the scouts came to report that Yuan Xi of Guangchengguan led the army to meet Wenpin, and an army of 40,000 was coming to Lushan.

Guan Yu was overjoyed and personally rushed to Lushan to command. He originally planned to use 50,000 men to encircle and annihilate the 20,000 people of Wenpin, but now that the enemy has become 40,000, the difficulty of encircling and destroying them has greatly increased.

Just when he was discussing with his generals and others whether to draw troops from the direction of Dingshan, the scout Pegasus reported that a rebel army had been found east of Luyang, which was moving rapidly in the direction of Dingshan.

Guan Yu was taken aback, where did the troops come from? How many people?

The scout reported that it was the Jingzhou army, with at least 30,000 horses.

Guan Yu hurriedly ordered: "Quick, Feige passed a message to Xu Huang, asking him to quickly retreat to Luyang City." ”

Guan Yu's order had just been sent out, and the scouts reported again, and Yuan Xi and Wen Ping's army had approached Lushan.

"Second brother, shall we fight or not?" Zhang Fei looked at Guan Yu, who was frowning and contemplative, and asked loudly.

Guan Yu thought for a while, made a resolute decision, and said, "Yide, you take 20,000 horses and withdraw from the battlefield immediately. ”

"Won't fight?" Zhang Fei asked angrily, "What are you afraid of?" When the two armies meet, the brave wins. Let Gongming hold back the main force of the rebels in Dingshan, and we will encircle and annihilate Yuan Xi and Wenpin here. ”

"No, it's not that you don't fight, but you fight in another place." Guan Yu said very calmly, "Yuan Xi's army has left Guangcheng Pass, and the defensive forces on the pass must be weak. We dragged Yuan Xi and Wen Ping here, and after dark, you led the army around the back of the rebels, rushed to Niulan Leiting, and then crossed Huoyang Mountain and took Guangcheng Pass. ”

"As long as we capture Guangcheng Pass, we will successfully cut off the gallop between Luoyang and Luyang." Guan Yu spread out the map, pointed to the Dagu Pass on the map, and said, "Luoyang has lost this galloping road, Yuan Shao will definitely let Jiao Touch retreat to defend Yuyuan Pass, so that Yu Ban can free up his hands and quickly support you from Yangzhai, while you continue to attack Dagu Pass north." ”

Zhang Fei nodded again and again and said, "I know." However, the eldest brother won't let us attack the pass, and we do this, isn't it ......?"

"This time and that time." Guan Yu waved his hand vigorously and said to Zhang Fei, "The situation in Yingchuan is different. Liu Biao in Jingzhou increased his troops again, causing us to lose the best opportunity to conquer Luyang. If we don't seize this only opportunity, I'm afraid we won't be able to clear the periphery of Luoyang by the end of this year. ”

Zhang Fei bowed down to receive the order and flew away.

Guan Yu ordered again: "Spread the word to Sima Ju and Yu Poison, give up the ambush strategy, gather a large army to meet it, and confront the rebels head-on." ”

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Xu Huang reported urgently, Lu Jie suddenly attacked, and the army was dragged in Dingshan and could not retreat. Enemy reinforcements are outflanking and the army is trapped in Dingshan, please hurry to support.

"Whose army? Isn't it Liu Bei? Guan Yu glared and asked murderously.

"It's Deng Yi and Pang Ji's army." The herald was out of breath and said breathlessly, "We didn't find Liu Bei's army. ”

"Where did Liu Bei go?" Guan Yu looked at the surrounding mountains and asked puzzledly, "Could it be that he died?" ”

Li Zhong urgently reported that Xu Huang was besieged in Dingshan and was in critical condition, did he send people from the besieging army to support?

"Order the generals to immediately let their personal guards rush to the Chinese army to assemble." Guan Yu waved his hand and said to the herald, "Go back and tell Li Zhong to surround the city to the death, and don't let the rebels in the city come out." ”

At dusk, Guan Yu led 1,200 cavalry composed of various generals' personal guards into the Dingshan battlefield, tearing through the rebel defense line and helping Xu Huang's army successfully break through.

After dark, Xu Huang and Ji Ling led the army to retreat into the camp, and the Northern Xinjiang Army retreated ten miles back and camped.

At the same time, Zhang Fei led his army north overnight and raided Guangcheng Pass.

Yuan Xi, Wen Ping, Deng Yi, Pang Ji, and Lu Jie each led a large army to Luyang City.

Pang Ji was very angry about the failure to encircle and annihilate the Northern Xinjiang Army in Dingshan today, especially for Deng Yi's cowardice. If it weren't for Deng Yi's elder, it is estimated that he would have made accusations on the spot.

Kuaiyue is kind and comforting. Deng Yi had participated in the Central Plains War, and he had an instinctive fear of the Northern Xinjiang cavalry, and it was normal for the defense line to be torn apart by the Northern Xinjiang cavalry.

Kuai Yue said to Pang Ji: "If it were me, when I saw a cavalry sweeping over, I would also be broken and flee in embarrassment." ”

Since Kuai Yue said so, Pang Ji had no choice but to laugh at it, but he still said a little unwillingly: "We have been preparing carefully for several days, but we fell short at the last moment, it's a pity." The Northern Frontier Army failed to suffer heavy losses, and the following battles were not easy to fight. ”

"Although we failed to inflict heavy losses on the Northern Frontier Army today, because of your support, we have the strength to fight a decisive battle with the Northern Frontier Army." Kuai Yue smiled, "The next thing is to force the Northern Frontier Army to fight a decisive battle." ”

Deng Yi and Pang Ji's army had actually arrived in Luyang many days ago.

When Deng Yi and Pang Ji led their troops to Luyang, it happened that Yuan Tan's letter also arrived.

Yuan Tan said in the letter: "I was forced to divide my troops to support Suiyang, and I could not contain the Northern Xinjiang Army in the southern front battlefield of Yingchuan. ”

Yuan Tan's letter made Kuai Yue and the others very excited, and they immediately made arrangements to counterattack the Northern Xinjiang Army.

When Guan Yu led the army to kill, Kuai Yue realized that he had miscalculated the strength of the Northern Frontier Army, so he immediately adjusted the deployment of troops and asked Yuan Xi to lead the army south to support. If only a large army of Wenpin went south to support Luyang, it would almost certainly be surrounded and annihilated by the Northern Xinjiang Army. Wenpin was defeated, and even if the strategy of besieging Dingshan was successful, it would not be worth the loss.

Now that the Northern Frontier Army has been repulsed, and its own forces have a clear advantage, Kuai Yue decided to take the initiative to attack and fight a decisive battle with the opponent. In the absence of cavalry support, even if the Northern Frontier Army is undefeated, the casualties must be very staggering. The Northern Xinjiang Army had no superiority in strength and failed to clear the periphery of Luoyang, so the attack on Luoyang naturally failed.

Guan Yu fulfilled Kuaiyue's requirements for a decisive battle, and the two sides fought fiercely under Luyang City, winning and losing each other.

For three days in a row, Kuai Yue did not receive any letters from Guangchengguan, and most of the scouts sent to Guangchengguan were intercepted and killed, and he began to feel uneasy.

Yuan Xi comforted him and said, "There are still two thousand defenders in the pass, it should be no problem." If the pass is attacked by the Northern Xinjiang Army, the defenders of Yique and Dagu, which are more than 100 miles away from Guangcheng Pass, will rush south to support, and the pass will not be lost. ”

On the fourth day, a scout finally returned, and he brought the astonishing news that Guangchengguan had been captured by Zhang Fei, the general of the Northern Frontier Army.

Kuai Yue was so enraged that he almost fainted. called back and forth, but still fell for Guan Yu.

"How many people does Guan Yu have in his hands?" Pang Ji asked angrily, "You still haven't figured it out?" ”

Kuai Yue, Yuan Xi and others were speechless in shame. After fighting for so long, Guan Yu still has troops in his hands, which is unbelievable.

"Now there is still hope for salvage." Pang Ji pointed to the map and said, "The Northern Xinjiang Army's capture of Guangcheng Pass is just to cut off the gallop between Luoyang and Nanyang, and it has not yet broken through Luoyang's outer defense line. As long as we defeat Guan Yu under Luyang City, so that he has no chance to increase his troops in Guangcheng Pass, and there is no time to fight Yique Pass and Dagu Pass, we can fight with the defenders of Luoyang in the north and south, and then take Guangcheng Pass back. ”

"What if Guan Yu still has troops in his hands?" Wen Ping asked.

Pang Ji looked up to the sky and sighed: "If he still has troops in his hands, we have nothing to do." ”

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Guan Yu led the main army to fight the front line of Luyang and the coalition army, and Zhang Fei commanded the forward army of his headquarters to quickly approach Dagu Pass.

Yuan Shao waited patiently for a few days and ordered Jiao Touch to intensify his attack on the Yangcheng front, hoping that the army in the direction of Luyang would be able to reopen the Chi Road, but Yuan Shao's letters from Yuan Xi and Kuai Yue disappointed Yuan Shao.

This letter was sent from the direction of Yiyang, and the messenger crossed the mountains and mountains and went down the Luoshui River, bringing the latest battle situation of the Luyang battlefield to Yuan Shao. The first line of Guangcheng Pass and Huoyang Mountain was firmly controlled by the Northern Xinjiang Army, and there was no possibility of opening up the Chi Road in the short term, so Yuan Shao was asked to immediately shrink the defense and block the Northern Xinjiang Army outside the seven passes such as Hangu and Tiger Prison.

Yuan Shao was helpless and immediately ordered Jiao to lead the army to withdraw to Yuyuan Pass and hold on. Ordered Lou Gui to give up the line of Xingyang and Hugao Pass. Ordered Han Qiong and Zhao Rui to find fighters as soon as possible and drive Sima Yi's army back to the north bank of the Yellow River.

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April of the fifth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Yanzhou, Chen Liu, the general Xingyuan.

Shi Xushu, the head of the general's mansion, stood in front of the map and gave Li Yi a detailed description of the situation on each battlefield.

On the battlefield in Henan, Li Jing, the general of Zhengxi, was commanding the fifth, sixth, and seventh infantry corps to attack Hugao Pass.

After the offensive began last month, General Li Jing commanded the baggage battalion to build a large camp with a capacity of 50,000 men outside the south gate of Xingyang City. This large battalion can not only store grain and grass, but also deter the rebels in the city.

Lou Gui was really fooled and divided his troops to garrison Yuting to ensure a way out, which reduced the army's losses to a certain extent.

In late March, after General Guan Yu captured Guangcheng Pass, Lou Gui abandoned Xingyang and defended the line of Chenggao and Tiger Prison. General Li Jing waved his army forward, and the two sides fought fiercely in Chenggao.

At the beginning of this month, two generals of the Eighth Army, Li Yi and Wu Ba, commanded the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Battalion to take the lead in breaking through the city and capturing Chenggao. The rebels retreated to the Tiger Prison and relied on the danger of the Tiger Prison Pass to block the attack of our army.

Now the army is fighting fiercely in the Tiger Prison, because the Tiger Prison is strong, the combat terrain is narrow, and the heavy siege equipment is difficult to function, and the attack progress is very slow.