No matter what, at this time, Xuanyuan Pass has been broken. Next, they will face the most dangerous situation, and Li Xiang must respond in time. Moreover, he must respond as quickly as possible.
"The general is here!" Xue Rengui strode out of the queue.
As a god-level commander, Xue Rengui had already guessed his next mission.
Although Luoyang has eight levels of danger, these eight levels are equivalent to eight gates. If one is broken, it is equivalent to opening a gap in the wall. Then the other gates are actually useless!
Once one gate is broken, the other gates are useless! In fact, if they insist on continuing to defend these gates, it will make their situation even more dangerous!
No matter how powerful Xiongguan is, if attacked from both front and back, it will be much easier to break through than before!
Since they will inevitably face the most direct pressure from the other side, the most precious thing at the moment is their troops. They cannot waste even a single soldier! The more troops they can save, the easier it will be for them in the future.
Therefore, their top priority now is to withdraw all the troops from the Eight Passes except Hangu Pass.
Since Hangu Pass was considered a rear area in the past, it actually had few troops, so only 10,000 troops were stationed there. If the enemy army poured in, this troop strength would indeed be thinner.
But there is Bai Qi in Yongzhou, so there is no need to think too much about this issue. Bai Qi, who is sitting in Wuguan, may not receive the news that Xuanyuan Pass has been breached much later than them. With Bai Qi's ability, he will help them seal the seal.
This flaw will not allow Si and Yong to become battlefields at the same time. Even if Hangu Pass needs additional troops, it does not require too many.
If the Jin army really took the opportunity to eliminate the highly mobile cavalry unit, Han Xin's battle would not only be completely meaningless, but it would also lose six or seven points.
It is impossible for the heavy cavalry to compete with the light cavalry in speed. Moreover, the heavy cavalry cannot go at full speed. Otherwise, even if they reach there at full speed, with their heavy equipment, they will already be exhausted by that time.
If there is any combat capability left, it is not to support them, but to kill them.
And next, where the Central Plains princes will set their goals will directly affect the direction of this battle.
If the princes of the Central Plains abandon Nanyang and fight in Sizhou, then the pressure the Jin army will face in Sizhou will not be 250,000...
As far as Chi You is concerned, after conquering Yongzhou, it can help him solve the problem. But now an open-door Sizhou has appeared, which can also help them solve the problem.
Huo Qubing considered it as a commander-in-chief, and after dispatching troops, his main target was Chi You. Later, due to the appearance of Ma Yin and others, Li Xiang and others did not make much intervention here.
However, Chi You was different from other princes in the world. This man was born in the Yellow Turban Revolt. Huo Qubing once again cleared hundreds of thousands of victims from his territory this time, but Chi You, under Fan Li's suggestion, forcibly reorganized
They intercepted their Yellow Turban skills and directly organized half of the victims into an army.
These fifteen thousand heavy cavalry are Li Xiang's treasure! Even with his background in the Jin army, being able to raise so many heavy cavalry is already close to the limit.
Needless to say, Cao Cao gained the greatest benefit from moving his target to Sizhou due to territorial considerations.
"After hearing this, Guo Ziyi orders you to lead 10,000 heavy cavalry, postpone the dispatch of troops, and be responsible for the response!"
Of the 15,000 heavy cavalry, 5,000 were deployed on the Jingzhou battlefield, and here are the remaining 10,000.
Therefore, the situation in these two levels is currently quite unfavorable. Xue Rengui knew that his mission this time was probably to withdraw the troops and horses that responded to these two levels back to Luoyang.
Light cavalry and heavy cavalry have different tactical priorities. Under such critical circumstances, it is of course impossible to let them set off together.
Yongzhou is the logistical grain and grass supply base of the Jin army. Is the grain production in Sizhou poor?
Sure enough, everything went as Xue Rengui expected, and this was his mission. Moreover, the military situation was so fierce that he could not waste even a moment, so Xue Rengui immediately set off with 10,000 light cavalry.
Since Mengjin and Xiaopingjin in the north had the Yellow River Navy to help guard the waterways, they did not have many troops stationed, each only had a few thousand people. Moreover, the troops in the north had enough time to retreat to Luoyang.
On Chi You's side, Li Xiang found that their Jin army seemed to be somewhat self-defeating.
The speed of light cavalry is much higher than that of heavy cavalry. Xue Rengui leading the light cavalry one step ahead can produce a response effect in the first time.
The target of the northern princes must be Sizhou, there is no need to doubt this.
The next target of the southern princes will still be Jingbei, and there is no need to doubt this. Just like when the northern princes attack Jingbei, the supply line is too long. If the southern princes march to Sizhou, they will bypass Xuzhou from Yangzhou, and then
It goes around Yuzhou and then Sizhou. This supply line is also extremely long.
But the latter is unlikely. There are only a few cavalry in the coalition army, not to mention the few cavalry in Kuang Zhang's army. The Jin army will only be faster than them.
On the opposite side are the Yique and Dagu passes in the south. The situation here is more dangerous. Once the enemy troops pour in along the breached Xuanyuan Pass, they will immediately attack these two passes to eliminate the effective strength of the Jin army.
.Or, that is to take Qingqi directly to Luoyang.
"Zhao Kuangyin is unknown, Cao Cao, Chi You are here..." Li Xiang was also feeling a little stressed at this time.
Li Xiang made a brief analysis. Cao Cao and Chi You might not really change their goals and go to Sizhou!
If Han Xin abandoned their overall strength advantage and used their relatively small number of cavalry to engage in cavalry battles with the Jin army, wouldn't that be suicidal?
Before the opponent's follow-up infantry reinforcements arrive, they don't know how long they will have enough cavalry to fight!
Although there are only 150,000 left, the later problems are still a huge test. Even if Chi You really followed the suggestions of Fan Li and Cao Cao, their current method is just a delaying tactic, and it is impossible to adopt this method forever.
If someone really lost his life because of a tactical mistake, then even he, Li Xiang, would definitely be injured!
"My lord! Now that the Luoyang Pass defense is in vain, the armies of the northern princes will surely flood in. At this time, we still have to see how the princes of the Central Plains make their choices?" Liu Bowen said worriedly.
Li Xiang couldn't even think about it with his toes. If Xuanyuan Pass is broken, Chi You will probably lead the hungry ghosts under him to grab food soon!
Therefore, at this moment, Li Xiang's expression became more serious. If this were the case, there would be no problem with Yue Fei, but they would be in big trouble here!
The Jin army can afford to lose Jingxiang, but it doesn't look like the Jin army can afford to lose Luoyang.
However, Li Xiang did not expect that the problems he was worried about here had been basically solved under Zhuge Liang's extreme operations!
