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In the afternoon, Qingting.

The army immediately began to set up a formation according to the topography of Qingting, preparing to block Gongsun Zan from breaking through.

At this time, the scout reported urgently: a Gongsun army was killed from the direction of Jieqiao, only five miles away from Qingting.

Li Yi and Li Jing were incredulous. The Gongsun army, which quietly ran behind the Northern Frontier Army, took the opportunity to seize the boundary bridge and was already very lucky, could it be that they were still unsatisfied? Do you want to help Gongsun Chan break through?

"Awesome, it's a man." Li Jing couldn't help but blurt out praise, "Gongsun Chan has such subordinates, how can he not dominate the world?" ”

"Who's coming? Do you see their battle flags? Li Yi was a little puzzled, there were only a few people under Gongsun Zhan, now Yan Gang and Wang Men are dead, Zou Dan was captured, and Tian Kai is still in the south, could it be his younger brother Gongsun Fan or his son Gongsun Xu?

"It's a Liu character on the battle flag." The scout replied, "Except for Liu Bei, there seems to be no one surnamed Liu under Gongsun Zhan's subordinates. ”

Li Yi was stunned, then thought of something, hurriedly leaned over to look at the map, and said to Li Jing, Xu Maogong and others next to him: "We have been tricked, there may be an empty camp in the shelter pavilion." ”

Li Jing: When they heard the word "Liu Bei", they were also secretly frightened. Listening to Li Yiyi again, he suddenly realized.

"Tian Kai and Liu Bei's reinforcements went around behind us." Xu Maogong said in surprise, "So, the reinforcements of the Shelter Pavilion and Panhe are all tricks to lure the enemy?" ”

"If Liu Bei is the front army and Tian Kai's army is behind, then today's battle ......" Li Jing looked at the map, suddenly angrily pulled out a whip in the air, and shouted loudly, "Xu Da, where is Xu Da's army?" ”

Li Yi looked up at the angry Li Jing, shook his hand and said, "Pharmacist, don't worry, Tiande will come soon, and we still have time." ”

Then he asked Guo Jiadao: "Fengxiao, how many casualties did the army suffer today?" ”

"There are no specific numbers yet." Guo Jia said, "However, according to the preliminary reports of the various departments, there should be 2,000 casualties among the foot soldiers, and there are probably nearly 1,000 iron cavalry, and the number of troops capable of fighting is already less than 20,000. Now we are being flanked by the Gongsun army, with less than 20,000 troops, it is very difficult to trap Gongsun Chan firmly south of Qingting, unless ......"

He pointed to the south and said helplessly: "Unless Xu Da immediately rushes to Qingting to participate in the battle, we can only let Gongsun Chan successfully break through." ”

"Let's fight, what are you hesitating about?" Li Jing said, "The lord is here to command and block Gongsun Zhan, and I will take someone to stop Liu Bei." I want to see what kind of character this Liu Bei is. ”

"Pharmacist ......" Li Yi stood up and stretched out his hand to stop Li Jing, "You wait......

Li Yi lowered his head and walked back and forth on the hillside, unable to make up his mind.

Now if Gongsun Chan is completely annihilated at any cost, then the casualties of the army will be very staggering under the front and rear attacks of the Gongsun army, even if Xu Da can come in time, it will be difficult to stop the crazy attack of the Gongsun army.

When a person sees a way to live, it is like a drowning person who grasps the straw that saves his life, how can he let go easily? Gongsun Chan will go crazy when he sees reinforcements coming.

In addition, Liu Bei appeared, is Tian Kai at Jieqiao? At night, if Tian Kai also killed and his army was caught in the middle, it would not be able to stop Gongsun Zhan's attack no matter what.

The reason why Tian Kai and Liu Bei's army were able to appear at the boundary bridge unconsciously was, in the final analysis, their own responsibility, and they were too negligent.

Li Yi blamed himself and shook his head again and again.

Since you can't stop Gongsun Chan, it's better to let Gongsun Chan go. Gongsun Zhan broke through, Liu Bei and Tian Kai's goal was achieved, and they would leave the boundary bridge.

In this way, there will be no fierce battles between the Northern Xinjiang Army and Tian Kai and Liu Bei, and the casualties of the Northern Xinjiang Army will be greatly reduced. Gongsun Chan fled, and his follow-up army lost its command, morale was bound to be low, and his goal of annihilating Gongsun Army was achieved.

More importantly, the Northern Frontier Army was able to reduce some of its losses.

Gongsun Zhan, who has no army, is just a white horse fleeing for his life.

Li Yi barely squeezed out a smile and said, "Forget it, let Gongsun Chan go." I owe him a favor, and I paid it back to him this time. As for Liu Bei, he is also considered a clan, although many people do not recognize it, but this is a fact, and he cannot be killed for the time being. ”

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Gongsun Chan led the army to Qingting.

Without waiting for Gongsun Zhan's army to gain a firm foothold, Zhang Liao took the lead in killing the left flank of Gongsun Zhan with iron cavalry. Gongsun Fan led the army to meet the enemy, and the northern frontier cavalry fought and retreated.

At this moment, there was a big chaos behind the Northern Frontier Army, and the war drums of the alarm were louder than one.

Zhang Liao saw Ling Qi waving continuously, and shouted: "Turn back, turn back and kill the enemy's reinforcements......"

The iron cavalry of the northern frontier roared back. Gongsun Fan was overjoyed and waved his army to attack. Gongsun Zhan did not listen to Guan Jing's dissuasion, and took Bai Ma Yi to follow up. The Iron Cavalry Army miraculously broke out of the encirclement of the Northern Frontier Army.

Liu Bei and 4,000 soldiers held the heart of death and attacked all the way. Suddenly, they saw Gongsun Zhan's battle flag, and they saw the iron cavalry of Gongsun Zhan's army galloping towards them.

Liu Bei was overjoyed and yelled: "Brothers, withdraw, withdraw......"

Gongsun Zhan saw the battle flag of the word "Liu" from a distance, and saw Liu Bei covered in blood, tears suddenly blurred his eyes, and he choked up and said: "Good brother! ”

The two joined forces and quickly retreated towards the boundary bridge.

The infantry of the Gongsun army was blocked in the encirclement, and the whole army quickly collapsed.

Zhang Liao pursued all the way with the iron cavalry, and the elite infantry brought by Liu Bei was wiped out because they could not keep up with the retreat speed of the iron cavalry.

Thick smoke billowed over the boundary bridge, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

Gongsun Zan and Liu Bei were shocked, and rushed towards the boundary bridge like a hurricane with more than 5,000 iron horses.

Jian Yong sweated profusely to meet him, and when he saw Liu Bei caught in the middle of everyone, he immediately let out a long sigh of relief. However, seeing that there were few of the 4,000 foot soldiers who followed Liu Bei to the rescue, he couldn't help but feel very uncomfortable.

Gongsun Zhan was worried that he would be caught up by the iron cavalry of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and asked to go north directly and retreat from the direction of Anping Kingdom. Liu Bei objected, because the army had no food and grass, and made a detour from Anping to withdraw to Hejian and Bohai, and there would be a delay in time.

"Grab it all the way." Gongsun Chan whipped and shouted, "Go, to the north, all the way to the north." ”

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In the early morning of the eighth day of the first month of March, Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, and Gao Changgong led 18,000 iron cavalry and suddenly launched an attack on the Shelter Pavilion.

Tian Kai had already prepared and led the soldiers to abandon the camp and flee. Because the river was muddy and the horses could not move an inch, the pursuit had to be stopped.

Facing the empty camp, Zhao Yun, Lu Bu and Gao Changgong couldn't cry or laugh for a while.

After many years of fighting, this was the first time an attack on an empty camp.

The 18,000 Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry led by the famous auxiliary general Zhao Yun, the Huya general Gao Changgong and the Xiaocai Zhonglang general Lu Bu were actually on the top of Tian Kai. If this thing gets out, it will really make people laugh out of their teeth.

Zhao Yun was worried that the boundary bridge would be lost, so he hurriedly returned with Gao Changgong and his army. He ordered Lü Bu to lead his army to inspect the area along the Great River, especially the reinforcements of Gongsun Zan in Gaotang and Panhe, and to take strict precautions.

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On the ninth day of the first month of March, the Northern Xinjiang Army gathered under the city of Ganling, preparing to launch an attack on the city of Ganling.

The generals discussed the military meeting of Li Yi's Chinese army battalion.

Li Yi's evaluation of the Battle of the Boundary Bridge was that he won a complete victory and achieved all his pre-war goals.

Later, Guo Jia gave a comprehensive explanation of the before and after of the Battle of Jieqiao.

There were several key factors for the Northern Frontier Army to achieve a great victory in the Battle of Jieqiao.

The first is that the 50,000 infantry reinforcements of the Northern Xinjiang Army secretly rushed to Julu City in mid-December last year, and have not been discovered by the Jizhou Army and the Gongsun Army. This is a very fortunate thing.

The second is that Yuan Shaoneng led his army to leave Qingyuan City and approach Ganling City. If Yuan Shao insisted, after Xu Da's army attacked Yecheng, it was very likely that Yuan Shao would be discovered, and then Yuan Shao would turn the spearhead to attack Xu Da, and the plan to encircle would fail. The generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army fought to the death with the Gongsun Army at the Jieqiao, and neither Wei County nor Qinghe Kingdom could take it.

The third is that Xu Da's army took Yecheng in one day, which was not estimated by anyone in advance. If Yecheng cannot be taken for a long time, the strategy of encirclement will become a matter of paper.

The Battle of the Boundary Bridge also had several things that the Northern Frontier Army did not expect.

The first is that the Yellow River thawed ahead of schedule, and Tian Kai's army quickly crossed the river to support, resulting in the Northern Xinjiang Army having to divide its troops to block it.

The second is that Yuan Shao escaped from the encirclement. Yuan Shao escaped from the encirclement, and the first target of the Northern Xinjiang Army disappeared, which immediately led to great disagreements and disputes among several generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army on the encirclement and annihilation of Gongsun Zhan.

The third is that Gongsun Chan chose the direction of the breakthrough very accurately at the boundary bridge where the Northern Xinjiang Army has the weakest strength, which is also something that the Northern Xinjiang Military did not expect before. Gongsun Chan continued to attack the boundary bridge, and always used the boundary bridge as the direction of the breakthrough. The Northern Xinjiang Army fought to the death in the face of an extremely inferior force, and as a result, suffered huge casualties.

Guo Jia went on to describe the number of casualties on both sides of the war.

Before the Northern Xinjiang Army started the war, there were more than 50,000 troops of Xu Da and Guan Yu and others, more than 20,000 troops of Li Jing and others, 24,000 iron cavalry troops of Zhao Yun and others, and 6,000 hussar guards led by Li Yi, a total of more than 100,000 troops.

After several battles in the direction of Xifeng Pavilion, Yunting, Qingting, Shelter Pavilion, Jieqiao, Yecheng, Tobu Castle and Beiqiu, more than 7,000 people were killed and more than 15,000 were seriously wounded, and the total casualties reached 23,000.

In more than ten days, the Northern Xinjiang Army annihilated about 150,000 enemies, of which about 40,000 Jizhou Army and Gongsun Army were killed and more than 110,000 were captured.

Since it was impossible to know exactly where Yuan Shao and the Jizhou army were now, Yecheng had to send troops again to prevent Yuan Shao from launching an attack on Wei County. Li Yi ordered Li Jing to lead the army back to help, and at the same time escorted more than 110,000 prisoners back to Yecheng, and selected strong men to recruit into the army.

Li Yi also ordered Zhao Yun and Lü Bu to lead their troops north, and Li Xuan followed up and quickly occupied Anping. Gao Changgong and Zhang Liao led the iron cavalry to guard the area of Gaotang and Panhe. Xu Da, Xu Huang and Zhao Zhao led an army to attack the Qinghe Kingdom. (To be continued.) )