Yan Liang leaned close to Kuai Yue's ear and said, "It is precisely because Li Yi has rich experience in defeating cavalry with an army of foot soldiers that he will not make the same mistake. Pen%Fun%Pavilion www.biquge.info do you think he can be compared to those guys who lost at his hands? He is Li Yi. ”

Yan Liang accentuated his tone and said word by word: "He is a real tiger. ”

Kuai Yue glared at Yan Liang, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Do you think you can defeat Guandu by defending Guandu and not fighting Li Yi in a decisive battle?" He withdrew this year and won't come next year? There will always be war horses and fierce horsemen in northern Xinjiang, so are we going to give up the Northern Expedition, give up pacifying the world, and initiate the great cause of revitalizing the community? ”

Yan Liang stopped talking, he closed his mouth tightly and didn't say a word.

In Yan Liang's opinion, these people are now crazy, carried away by the few victories in front of them, and they have completely forgotten the lessons of the fiasco in the Battle of Jizhou. How similar is the retreat of the Northern Xinjiang Army today to the battle the year before last, Li Yi started with cavalry, and is good at cavalry warfare, as long as he is given the opportunity, he will use cavalry to tear us to pieces.

"Xeno, let the departments close the distance, slow down, we just need to reach Pingyang Pavilion before dark." Yan Liang thought about it for a while, but he couldn't help but persuade, "The soldiers are already exhausted from marching and fighting continuously, so it's better to slow down." ”

"We are tired, and the Northern Frontier Army is even more tired, do you think they can still fight?" Kuai Yue sneered, "Now the two sides are comparing resilience and physical strength, and whoever can hold on to the end will be the winner." ”

Kuai Yue no longer ignored Yan Liang, ordered the army to speed up, and urged Yuan Shao to lead the Chinese army to catch up as soon as possible.

If the Northern Xinjiang Army could not be severely damaged this time, and Yuan Shao's strength could not be consumed in large quantities, even if the victory in the Central Plains War was achieved, it would be difficult to have any impact on the situation in the world, and it would not be of any help to the Han Dynasty.

If Hebei's strength still exists, Yuan Shaoquan takes the Central Plains, and the power of vainly trying to usurp the Han Sheji will become stronger and stronger, and the Han will have no hope of reviving.

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A puff of smoke and dust suddenly rose from the sky, and then an army of cavalry rushed out of the horizon and roared like a tidal wave. The sound of the galloping horses grew louder and louder, gradually deafening.

The earth trembled violently at this moment.

The war drums of the alarm resounded through the field.

The soldiers of the coalition army quickly formed a dozen phalanxes and erected huge shields in front of the formation. All kinds of chariots were pushed to the front of the formation, staggered. Hundreds of ballistas lined up, opening their mouths. In the battle array, more than 10,000 strong archers were ready to attack.

The cavalry of the northern frontier slaughtered mightily, and hundreds of battle flags flew in the wind, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

"Shoot ...... Shoot...... "Shooting ......" did not wait for the cavalry army of Northern Xinjiang to approach, Kuai Yue gave the order to shoot. Although the first volley could not shoot the enemy cavalry, it was also a great boost to the morale of your own side.

In an instant, the arrows were like locusts, covering the sky and the sun.

"Uh......h Naruto ......"

The horn sounded.

The cavalry of the northern frontier gradually slowed down, and dozens of cavalry took the lead in rushing out, approaching the enemy formation to observe.

Gray dust and mist swept over the sky, and the sky suddenly darkened.

Kuai Yue was shocked, and ordered again and again: "Shoot...... Give me continuous ......."

The roar of the ballista instantly rang out.

The horn sounded again, the smoke and dust became even greater, and the roar of the galloping horses gradually faded away.

The cavalry of the northern frontier withdrew.

The soldiers of the coalition army were in disbelief, they looked at the northern cavalry that disappeared into the sky for a long time, and they couldn't imagine that they had forced back the strongest army of the day.

"Knock...... Boom ......" The drums of war suddenly burst into the sky.

The soldiers were awakened by the high drums, and everyone raised their weapons and roared wildly, and the excited cheers lasted for a long time, and the heavy sound pierced the clouds and cracked the stones and went straight to the sky.

"We won, we won." Kuai Gao raised his arms and yelled at Yan Liang.

Yan Liang's expression was indifferent, looking at the dust and mist still floating in the air, thoughtful.

The cavalry of the Northern Frontier Army was not as large as expected, not even 10,000 people. And what about their main cavalry forces? Did you return to Jizhou? If Zang Ba and Chen Deng have already entered Jizhou, and Li Yi wants to block them as quickly as possible, then sending cavalry back to help is the best way.

Is that really the case?

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When the coalition army advanced thirty miles away from Pingyang, Zhang Fei and Zhang Yan turned back again to block the enemy.

This time, the coalition forces were reluctant to fight with the Northern Frontier Army, they were worried that after the formation dispersed, they would be raided by the Northern Frontier cavalry, so they only met the battle with an arrow array and blocked the Northern Frontier Army in front of the two armies.

The two sides were at a stalemate for a while, and the smoke and dust rose again in the sky, and the Northern Frontier cavalry appeared again.

Probably because the infantry army failed to lure the opponent into attacking, the cavalry army of Northern Xinjiang turned around and withdrew after running for hundreds of paces.

Kuai Yue and the others figured out the intentions of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and the 150,000 troops immediately hugged each other tightly, and the speed of the march was greatly slowed.

Kuai Yue told Yuan Shao and Liu Biao, he said in the letter: "Some of the northern cavalry have returned to Jizhou, and with the current number of cavalry in the northern Xinjiang, it is obviously impossible to make a breakthrough from the front, so he estimates that the northern Xinjiang army will give up the strategy of using cavalry to sneak attack the coalition army, and instead take advantage of its strong infantry army, Baima, Puyang and other fortified cities, as well as the proximity of the battlefield to the Yellow River, and the advantages of grain and grass can be replenished nearby, and continue to confront us." ”

"In order to shatter the dream of the Northern Xinjiang Army to hold the south bank of the Yellow River and occupy Yanzhou, and also to prevent the Northern Xinjiang Army from breaking through the battlefield on both flanks, so that our strategy of destroying the enemy will fall short, please ask the general and the lord to immediately lead the army to follow, join us, and attack Pingyang Pavilion together, so that tomorrow we can go north to kill the White Horse City, and drive the Northern Xinjiang Army across the Yellow River as quickly as possible."

Yuan Shao led Tao Yi, Wang Mo, Ji Ling, Sun Fu, Lu Su and other 100,000 troops to follow behind the vanguard army and walked slowly. After receiving Kuai Yue's letter, Yuan Shao's heart that had been hanging was finally relaxed.

What he was most worried about was the cavalry in the northern frontier, but at present, it seems that Li Yi has not deployed the main cavalry force on the frontal battlefield. It should be that after the grain and grass in Wuchao and the old city were burned, Li Yi probably changed his strategy and planned to withdraw his troops back to the line of Baima and Puyang, so he sent all the main cavalry forces to the two flanks of the battlefield, in order to use the advantage of the cavalry to quickly make a breakthrough in the two flanks of the battlefield, so as to threaten Henan and the grain route of the coalition army, and drag the coalition army in Henan.

This strategy was indeed good, but Li Yi did not expect the coalition army's attack to be too fast, and his deployment was disrupted, so he lost sight of one or the other. This is the best opportunity to defeat the Northern Frontier Army, and it must not be missed.

As soon as Yuan Shao's worries disappeared, he immediately ordered all departments to speed up and quickly close the distance between them and the forward army.

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Binh Duong Pavilion.

The general Li Yi, the general Guan Yu of Zhengdong, the military advisers Xu Maogong, Jia Xu, and the general's mansion Sima Xu Shu and others listened to Cheng Lian's account, and their expressions gradually became solemn.

Today, Cheng Lian and Xian Yuyin were ordered to take the cavalry of their headquarters to feint against the rebels, first, to create the illusion that the main cavalry of northern Xinjiang had left the line of Baima and Pingyangting and moved to the battlefields of Hanoi and Yanzhou, so that the rebels could reduce their vigilance and speed up their attacks, and second, they wanted to test the defensive ability of the rebels to see if their offensive and defensive battle formations would pose a threat to the cavalry attack.

"Now it seems that our first goal has been achieved, but ......" Cheng Lian looked at Li Yi and hesitated for a moment before continuing, "The rebels' offensive and defensive battle formations are very strong, and if they attack forcibly, the casualties will be very large, and it will also seriously delay the attack time of the army. Once we delay too long on the battlefield of Pingyangting, or are dragged by the rebels into the evening, it will be difficult for us to completely annihilate the rebels north of Yancheng. ”

"Yuan Shao and Liu Biao have learned all the methods we used to deal with Hu Qi back then." Guan Yu waved his hand hatefully, gritted his teeth and said, "Both of them participated in the Liaodong War that year, and they are clear about the process of our defeat of tens of thousands of Hu cavalry. The fiasco of the Battle of Jizhou the year before last probably reminded them of the past, so this time they specially prepared a lot of equipment, intending to face off with our cavalry. ”

"We fought several big battles in Bingzhou and Damo, especially the two blockades at Gouzhu Mountain and Yanmen Pass, which not only blocked the Xianbei people, but also dealt them a heavy blow." Cheng Lian said to Li Yi, "This time I went south, and many tribesmen were worried that they would be too damaged and might be annexed by other tribes in the desert in the future, so they were panicked. If the lord orders them to attack from the front of the battlefield at any cost, they will immediately think of the bitter lessons of the past, and their determination and confidence in attacking will be greatly diminished. ”

Li Yi thought for a moment and asked Xu Maogong: "Duke Mao, how many people are there in the middle of the rebel army?" Is it the same as their forward army, which also has a very solid offensive and defensive battle formation? ”

"Judging from the scouts' exploration, there are about 100,000 people in the middle army, and they saw Yuan Shao's battle flag, as well as the battle flags of the Jiujiang Army and the Jiangdong Army." Xu Maogong said, "This road army has brought a lot of baggage, and the battle formation is not as solid as their forward army. ”

"This time we retreated quickly, and the pursuit speed of the rebels was also very fast, and many heavy equipment were left behind, while the Jiujiang Army and the Jiangdong Army had almost no heavy equipment, so the defensive ability of this group of men and horses was much worse than that of their forward army." Jia Xu continued, "If the rebels want to defend against the attack of our cavalry army, they need not only giant shields, giant spears and strong bows and crossbutes, but also many experienced soldiers. Most of the rebels' vanguard armies were the troops that participated in the Jizhou War the year before last, such as Kuai Yue, Yan Liang, Jiang Qi, Xiahou Yuan, Liu Pan, Wen Ping, and Zhu Ling. ”

"Has the number of rebel vanguard troops been determined?" Li Yi asked again.

"It can be determined that it is about 150,000 people." Xu Maogong said, "We have carefully checked, the commander of the vanguard army is in Kuaiyue's army, this army is now under his command, in addition, Jiang Qi, Xiahou Yuan, Zhu Ling's subordinates are all elite soldiers from all over the country, if we forcibly attack, our casualties are indeed not small." (To be continued.) )