"Kill! Charge in!" Yan Liang's Mo Dao flew up and down, killing dozens of Han soldiers along the way! It can be said that he was unstoppable.
The Han troops around him were also frightened by Yan Liang's bravery. They formed a circle but did not dare to approach Yan Liang.
"Blow him up with artillery!" The Han army commander ordered the soldiers to shoot at Yan Liang with thunder cannons!
Yan Liang was startled when he saw a dark bundle rushing toward him. He knew it was an explosive bag, and immediately jumped away from the explosive bag!
"Boom!" The deafening roar of artillery sounded. Although Yan Liang escaped from the center of the shelling, he was still dizzy from the shock.
"Dang, Dang, Dang, Dang!" At this moment, Da Qian Ming Jin's voice of withdrawing his troops sounded, and the soldiers around Yan Liang pulled him and quickly fled the battlefield.
After returning to the Chinese army's tent, Yan Liang was unconvinced and said: "General, I'm about to capture Gulao Pass, why are you asking for money to withdraw my troops now?"
Yang Feng said with relief: "Yuan Xi and the others have done a lot of preparatory work at Hulao Pass. It is not that easy to conquer Hulao Pass. This battle cannot be rushed. We will slowly dismantle its peripheral formulas one by one. It will be better then." Conquer Hulao Pass!"
Luoyang City can be said to be the center of the world. It is naturally impossible for Yuan Tan to hand over Luoyang City to Xu Wei so easily. When Yuan Shao was in power, he tried his best to strengthen the defense of Luoyang City. When Yuan Tan took over, he It took a year to set up a solid defensive posture at Hulao Pass.
When Yang Feng and the others arrived at Hulao Pass, they faced an area full of various blocking facilities such as Juma, Luzhai, trenches, Fengyuan, small beacon fires, and earthen platforms, as well as ballistae, artillery, and three bows. Heavy ordnance such as crossbows and crossbows are densely distributed at the commanding heights of Hulao Pass to strengthen the pass.
Any army attacking Hulao Pass will be attacked by crossfire from these weapons and suffer a heavy blow.
The soldiers defending Hulao Pass were close associates of the Yuan family, and their morale was much higher than that of the ordinary Han army. At least they saw that the Daqian army would not surrender immediately. Instead, they defended behind various defensive positions and used these complete The fortifications blocked Yang Feng and the others. The two sides fought continuously for more than half a month. At the beginning, Yang Feng's army suffered relatively heavy losses.
Xu Huang and others found that Hulao Pass could not be defeated quickly, so they suggested to Yang Feng to stop the attack immediately and reformulate the attack strategy.
Yang Feng faced the iron-barrel-like defense of the Han army. The Daqian army could only rely on the powerful power of artillery to smash the turtle shells one by one and advance step by step.
Relying on this strategy, Yang Feng attacked again for more than half a month, relying on the powerful power of artillery. They captured most of the peripheral defenses at Hulao Pass, and the casualties were extremely light, which effectively attacked the Han defense forces at Hulao Pass. military.
If they continue to advance like this step by step, they will be able to conquer Hulao Pass in half a month at most.
But at this time, news came that Zhang Baiqi had captured the entire Guanzhong. Now Yang Feng and the others became anxious. They did not even break through Hulao Pass, and the Xiliang army was almost reaching Luoyang at their speed. City.
So Yan Liang and others stormed Hulao Pass, hoping to conquer the pass as soon as possible and arrive at Luoyang City as soon as possible.
But unfortunately, the effectiveness of the soldiers was not very good. Even though Yan Liang had the martial arts to defeat thousands of people, Yan Liang himself was almost killed by the artillery, and the attacking army suffered heavy casualties.
"General, we can't fight anymore." Xu Huang hurriedly advised.
"We lost more than 1,200 people in today's battle, but we didn't even touch the city wall of Hulao Pass. But the Han army hid behind a strong defensive formation, so their losses were very small, and their casualties may not have exceeded a hundred people. If we continue to fight with this kind of exchange ratio, even if we conquer Hulao Pass, I'm afraid the government will blame us!"
Daqian has always taken the casualties of the army very seriously. If there are a large number of meaningless casualties, the generals will be severely reprimanded. They are originally striving for merit, but in the end it becomes punishment. This is a bit more gain than loss.
"Who is the guard of Hulao Pass? It's time for the trees to fall and the hozens to scatter, but there is still a guard who is so tenacious!" The more Yang Feng thought about it, the angrier he became. All the armies in Hebei were advancing at a great speed, but he was the only one here who was like How could he hold his head up in front of other people?
Li Le said: "The guard of Hulao Pass is named Gao Gan, and he is Yuan Shao's nephew. Naturally, he cannot betray Yuan Tan like Zhang He and others!"
Yang Feng said unwillingly: "Are we just going to watch other people enter Henan like this!"
Xu Huang said helplessly: "Yuan Tan is very well prepared at Hulao Pass. There are many defensive formations, the high ground has been occupied by them, and the number of artillery is not inferior to ours. If we want to attack Hulao Pass, we will have to pay a lot of money." price.
It is better to wait for other armies to enter Henan. The defense of Luoyang City's eight passes is integrated. As long as our army breaks through any pass, the soldiers at the other seven passes will naturally retreat."
Yan Liang was unconvinced and said: "How can this be the same? If we conquer Hulao Pass and Luoyang City, we will have half of the credit. If other armies enter Henan, then even if Luoyang is conquered, we will have no credit! "
Li Le said: "Everything must be done within our capabilities. We have decided to concentrate our main efforts on destroying Yuan Tan in Yuzhou. We should stop thinking about the credit for conquering Luoyang City. Otherwise, if we are too greedy, we will easily lose more than we gain."
Xu Huang also followed up and said: "Now the army attacking Luoyang City exceeds 200,000. After Guanzhong was captured, Sili has been able to find something for us. He didn't get much credit for attacking Luoyang. Our army, but Yuzhou, we want to Pay more attention!”
"Liu Bei's courage is beyond our imagination. We thought that since he is short of food and cavalry, he would not risk the entire army to support Yuan Tan!"
But judging from the information we have now, Zhang Fei, who was stationed in Nanyang, has led an army of 50,000 to the north since May. We still don’t know whether he wants to support Yuan Tan in Yuzhou or Yuan Xi in Luoyang City."
"But no matter which direction Liu Bei decides to support, the addition of these 50,000 elite Jingzhou soldiers will not be a good thing for us. You must know that Liu Bei is not a waste like Yuan Tan, and the combat effectiveness of the Jingzhou army is not bad."
Li Le also said: "Yuan Tan is also lucky. Not to mention the drought broke out in Yanzhou at this time, and the locust plague also came. In this war, we may have to find a way to quickly conquer Yuzhou, otherwise the situation may be unfavorable to us. We have a lot of experience in dealing with droughts, but we don’t have much experience with locust plagues. If the locust plague continues to expand, there may be no grass growing in the entire Yanzhou, and it may even spread to Bingzhou and Jizhou. By then, we will start this war We may have to stop here. I think it may not be a bad thing for us to stay outside Hulao Pass. Then we can quickly support Yuzhou. After all, conquering Yuzhou is the greatest contribution of our Yanzhou Army!"