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Eight hundred miles of fast riding rushed into the city gate.

In the palace, Zhao Yun, Zhang Fei, Lu Bu, Chang Yuchun, Li Jing, and Wei Jun Taishou Ding Li and others were sitting in the quiet garden, chatting together, and there was no tension at all in the city.

Feng Dao, the middle man of the Great General's Mansion, hurriedly walked in with a bamboo slip in his hand, and said to Zhao Yun, who was sitting in the first place: "General Zhao, Tian Chou's urgent letter. ”

Zhao Yun saw that he was sweating profusely, and hurriedly handed over the pu fan in his hand, and said, "It's too hot, fan it." ”

Li Jing pointed to the stone drum beside him and said with a smile: "Kedao, sit down first and take a breath." ”

"What's the urgency of Zitai?" Lu Bu waited for Feng Dao to sit down, pointed to the bamboo slip in his hand and asked, "Has the war horse arrived in Handan?" ”

"War horses have arrived in Handan, a total of 100,000." Feng Dao slapped the fan a few times, "Tian Chou said that on the eight-hundred-mile road from Handan to Lecheng, there were seven grain and grass battalions to replenish the iron cavalry army with forage and food. ”

Li Yi wanted to win in this big battle at the lowest cost, there were not many ways, he chose to move the war, that is, to make the coalition forces of the princes move, and then find out and defeat the enemy in this movement and achieve victory.

And if you want to achieve the purpose of moving, in this era of cold weapons, the mobility of cavalry is undoubtedly the best choice.

There are many cavalry in Jizhou, with four standing cavalry regiments and one garrison cavalry regiment, and the total number of cavalry is as high as 90,000. But it is still unrealistic to defeat the alliance of princes with an absolute advantage with such a small number of troops.

Therefore, the Northern Frontier Army needed more cavalry.

Fortunately, this is not too difficult for the Northern Frontier Army. Many of the soldiers in the Northern Xinjiang Army grew up on horseback since childhood, and basically everyone can ride a horse. Thus, the most basic problem of forming more cavalry was solved. As for the other problem of horses, it is still not a big problem for today's northern Xinjiang.

For the cultivation of war horses, since Li Yi came to the end of the Han Dynasty, he has paid great attention to it. He exchanged the information on horse training to the system early, and through these materials, in the past ten years. Northern Xinjiang has cultivated a large number of war horses. Not to mention anything else, the standing cavalry corps and garrison cavalry corps in the Northern Xinjiang Army alone have a total number of more than 200,000, and the number of war horses equipped with them is more than 500,000.

Today, the total number of horses in northern Xinjiang exceeds 10 million. The vast majority of them are raised by herdsmen of the Xianbei, Xiongnu and Wuhuan ethnic groups, and the sale of horses is the largest source of income for the people of these ethnic groups today.

With so many horses, it is naturally not difficult to make up some war horses. For this war, before Li Yi left Jicheng, he ordered to select war horses from the herdsmen, and until now, he finally got enough war horses, and there were even leftovers.

As for the troops, Li Yi chose the Fifth Infantry Legion and the Sixth Legion of the Infantry to which Li Jing and Chang Yuchun belonged, the soldiers of these two legions are basically Youzhou and Bingzhou people, and everyone's riding skills are good, as long as there is a war horse, they can immediately be transformed into cavalry who are good at fighting.

Lu Bu nodded and said, "The iron cavalry hasn't arrived at the Handan camp yet?" ”

"I'll be there tonight." Feng Dao took a sip of cold water and wiped the water stains on his mouth, "The army of foot soldiers has arrived in Handan. ”

"Third brother, Brother Fengxian, Boren, Pharmacist, which of the four of you will go first?" Zhang Fei looked at Zhao Yun and the four of them, and asked with a smile.

"Let's go with Boren first." Zhao Yun said, "Boren and I will go to Handan and leave with the First Cavalry Corps and the Fifth Infantry Corps first. Brother Feng Xian and the pharmacist showed their faces in front of Yuan Shao's camp, and then went to Handan with the Fourth Cavalry Corps and the Sixth Infantry Corps to follow. ”

"Brother Fengxian, Senior Brother Yao, if Yuan Shao fights tomorrow, you can have a good time." Draw Zhao laughed on the side.

"Yuan Shao is taking refuge in Pingyang City for the summer, and he is expected to fight at least until autumn." Lu Bu sneered, "It seems that he has made up his mind not to shoot an arrow, it doesn't matter if I show my face or not." ”

Then he arched his hand and said to Zhang Fei: "Yide, we are all leaving, you are going to be tired." ”

"It's too easy for 30,000 people to defend a city." Zhang Fei shook his hand and smiled, "When you brothers arrive in the east, there are bloody battles in the field, and it is not easy to fight." ”

"100,000 iron horsemen slaughtered into the battlefield, how many killed." Yue Yun waved his hand vigorously and said arrogantly, "General Zhang, we'll see you on the bank of the Yellow River." ”

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At the beginning of August, the northern expedition of the princes of all walks of life, under the command of Cao Cao, slaughtered the Qinghe River with overwhelming force.

The Northern Frontier Army held back for three days, and then withdrew across the Jiangshui River.

In early August, Jiangshui River, Yangfang crossing.

Huatai sat on the hot grass, looking at the busy chariot battalion soldiers in the distance, and the corners of his mouth lifted up with a mockery. In vain, I worked hard all day against such a big sun, and it turned out that I had to tear it down before I could project a few stones. Retreat, retreat, retreat all day long, what kind of battle is this? I have fought in the Northern Xinjiang Army for so many years, and I have never fought such a bad battle. This is just like when I was in the Yellow Turban Army more than ten years ago, I ran in a battle, and I ran for dozens of miles and hundreds of miles, where is the majesty of the Northern Xinjiang Army?

A few soldiers lay down under their shields, cursing and cursing while hiding from the scorching sun. Huatai doesn't have to listen to what they are scolding. Retreating from the banks of the Yellow River to the Jiangshui River, the soldiers' grievances became bigger and bigger, and their hearts became more and more uneasy. Why retreat on earth? Can't beat the enemy? Or is his own Shangguan's brain broken? Is this battle really going to be lost?

Resentment and panic gradually permeated the entire Northern Frontier Army with the increasingly terrifying heat of this summer.

"Uncle, I suspect that General Guan is a traitor!" Guo Zhen lay on the grass, put his mouth to Du Hong's ear, and whispered, "He wants to betray the general." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, you will be killed if you say this." Du Hong was startled, hurriedly got up and looked around, and then slapped Guo Zhen hard, "Don't talk nonsense!" ”

Guo Zhen grinned aggrievedly and muttered unconvinced: "We have so many people, why do we want to withdraw?" Can't we beat the enemy? My family is not here, my home is in Tobuyang. Even if I die in battle, I will die in Dongwuyang. ”

"You know what?" Du Hong lay down lazily, closed his eyes and yawned, "This is a fight, not a fight." Wherever Shangguan tells you to fight, you will fight wherever you want, what do you want to do? ”

"Of course I want to." Guo Zhen pointed to his head, pursed his lips, and said unhappily, "My head is going to fall off, can't I still think about why I want to fall off?" ”

Du Hong ignored him and slept with his eyes closed.

"Uncle, what do you say the general is doing now? Does he know that we have withdrawn to the Jiangshui River? Guo Zhenbai was bored, and couldn't help but lean into Du Hong's ear and whispered.

Du Hong responded lazily: "Yes." ”

"He certainly doesn't know." Guo Zhen said, "The general has won a hundred battles, and he will never let us retreat." ”

Du Hong opened his eyes to look at him, suddenly thought of something, and sighed softly. General, where are you? This battle shouldn't have been fought like this. If I lose, I'll be gone, my wife and children, the grass house, and my happiness will be gone.

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"Knock knock ......" The war drums sounded weakly.

Yang Bo, the military candidate, turned his head and glared at the soldiers beating the drum, and said angrily: "Three meals a day, eat for nothing? Knock me hard! ”

The drum beat was a little louder, but still weak.

Yang Bo came up angrily, he rushed to the side of the soldier in a few steps, raised his leg is a kick, and scolded: "You kid is looking for death......"

The soldier was also angry, smashed the drumstick to the ground, and said, "Isn't it just retreating?" What's there to be angry about? I've retreated for hundreds of miles, my face is all lost, what kind of drum are you beating? If there is a sound, it will not do. ”

"You kid don't want to live anymore?" Yang Bo roared angrily.

"Are you still alive? If you continue to withdraw like this, you will die sooner or later. The soldier threw his neck sideways and roared louder than Yang Bo.

Yang Bo wanted to fight but was reluctant to fight, he had nowhere to vent his anger, so he kicked the war drum on the ground with his foot and shouted: "Give me the drum, assemble, retreat......"

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Five hundred people staggered and listlessly followed Yang Bo and walked north.

"**** wait, and you want to retreat again?" Huatai caught up with Yang Bo and said angrily, "The enemy is still more than ten miles away from the Jiangshui River, why are you in such a hurry to retreat?" ”

Yang Bo lowered his head and shouted angrily: "When I become a general, I'll tell you why?" ”

Huatai knew that he was getting more and more angry recently, so he didn't dare to say anything, so he hurriedly stopped, opened his mouth and scolded him silently.

"You scolded me?" Yang Bo turned his head sharply, his eyes widened and he shouted, "Are you looking for a fight?" ”

Huatai was so frightened that he turned around and wanted to run, but he collided with a rushing herald and sat on the ground.

The herald ignored Hua Tai, but said loudly to Yang Bo: "**** wait, Captain Sun has an order, ordering you to hurry east and rush to Bai Lingdu to meet him." ”

"...... to the east" Yang Bo's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and he asked in disbelief, "You said to the east?" ”

The herald did not answer him, and had already turned and ran.

Huatai jumped up from the ground and shouted happily: "**** wait, it's east, not north, we don't have to retreat, we're going to fight!" ”

Yang Bo was in good spirits, raised his arms high, stood on the side of the road and shouted: "Brothers, to the east, we ...... to the east."

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In early August, the city of Xindu, the general marched.

Sima Yi walked into the big tent with a few volumes of documents.

Li Yi, Xu Maogong and several other military advisors were lying on the map spread in the center of the big tent and discussing in a whisper, when they saw Sima Yi walking in, he hurriedly raised his head and asked, "When will the army of Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, Chang Yuchun and Li Jing arrive in Hejian Kingdom?" ”

"It's going to be there, it'll be there in two or three days." Sima Yi bowed and replied, "According to the lord's order, they will cross the Zhangshui River and enter Bohai County in the near future. ”

Li Yi asked again: "Where is Gao Shun's army?" ”

"I'm about to enter Anping Country and arrive at the front line of Xindu City." Sima Yi said, "General Zhang He is leading the army to Bohai County in a hurry. ”

Li Yi looked at the map and was stunned for a moment before he spoke: "Three days later, order the army to withdraw to Xindu City." (To be continued.) )