Let's talk about Zhang Fei's westward march, hoping to disperse the power in Guanzhong to prevent Marquis Zheng from being scheming and catching Guan's second brother alone to cause trouble. Lu Xun also saw the fierce appearance of Xu County Saihou.
At Lu Xun's suggestion, Zhang Xiu ordered the Wancheng Second Division to attack Xu County!
At the same time, Taishi Ci, who was stationed in Yiyang, Runan, also raised troops and rushed to Cai area, attacking Yingchuan from both sides.
Wenpin, who was also in the Jinghu North Road War Zone, was also ordered to order the Second Xiangfan Division and the Third Division to move north to provide backup. Lu Meng moved west from Donglai and joined Guanping to resist Wei's southward advance...
The Chu State's speed of transporting troops within the country once again forced both Wei State and Sima Yi to give up their "common sense" and recalculate!
And this time, after Zhang Xiu sent his troops to Xu County, he followed directly behind the engineering team and laid the "railway" all the way.
At this time, Wei Guo and Sima Yi also roughly understood what this "railway" was...
The area connected by this east-west connection can basically be regarded as the "absolute territory" of Chu State - troops within a hundred miles can be mobilized within a day, and any army on the mainland can be mobilized within half a month.
And the logistics are very smooth.
For other princes, probably only their own heartland and some must-win areas can be regarded as territories under absolute control...
And Xu County is a land in the Central Plains. The land is flat and the railway tracks are very comfortable.
Yang Feng of Xu County had already withdrawn from Hulao Pass, and without much effort, Chu State captured the southern part of Yuzhou, while the northern part of Yuzhou, bounded by Chen County and Liang County, was still under the control of Wei State.
Therefore, Zhang Fei entered Sili, or Sizhou, as he had a first-class and smooth road.
Sizhou Henei County is a border county of Wei State. When Zhang Fei entered Yin, Henan Province where Luoyang was located, Wei State had not yet sent troops to take over Henan, which surprised Zhang Fei and Jian Yong.
However, Lu Xun, the governor of the Northern Expedition along the Jingbei route of Chu State, immediately realized that there was a problem and ordered Zhang Fei to advance slowly.
However, Zhang Fei was far from returning home. Although he was grateful to the Chu State, he was now worried about his second brother. How could he listen to the military orders of the "coach" who had not yet joined forces?
Determined to go to Hulao Pass!
As a result, at Hulao Pass, we were surrounded and suppressed on three sides, including the Zheng Army guarding the pass, the Wei Army and the "Bingzhou Army"!
Zhang Fei was not surprised that the Wei army would be here, but the Bingzhou army...
The Bingzhou Army was nominally commanded by Gao Gan, but in fact it was a coalition of Southern Huns, Hetao Qiang, and a large number of foreign troops!
The Hetao area in the central and western part of Bingzhou was originally the place where the Xiongnu moved inward. Since the Western Han Dynasty, it has been suppressed and suppressed, and then suppressed and rebelled again. It has produced famous generals in Bingzhou and Liangzhou for generations in the Han Dynasty. After the Xiongnu moved inward,
In all dynasties, as long as the court acted with sincerity, suppressing rebellion was not a big problem.
However, during Yuan Shao's period, the Han princes fought together, and the local Huns were basically out of control. The nominal governor of Bingzhou only occupied Yanmen, Taiyuan, Shangdang and a few areas east of the Hetao.
county.
After Yuan Tan was completely expelled from Hebei, he first wanted to seek refuge with his cousin Gao Gan, but the Gao Gan only funded some food and grass. Yuan Tan had no choice but to continue westward and "seek refuge" with the Khan of the Southern Huns!
Of course, Yuan Tan didn't want to be so embarrassed, so they formed an alliance in name only.
And with Yuan Tan as the middleman, Gao Gan and the Xiongnu were recruiting each other...
At first, Bai Tu thought this was a huge moral flaw, but later he found out from other people's attitudes that this was not the case.
Nowadays, cooperation between Han princes and foreign races can only be regarded as "disgraceful" and must be "controlled" to not lose face. However, there is no serious idea of "bringing in foreign enemies" or even "bringing wolves into the house".
For the Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu were no longer regarded as opponents by the princes of the Central Dynasty. Only the soldiers of Liangzhou, the real Bingzhou, had their ferocious side in their impressions.
Indeed, the current Xiongnu are more like "domesticated". Even when Liu Xie returned to the East and escaped from Li Jue and Guo Si and came to Cao Cao's clutches, the Huchuquan Shanyu of the Southern Xiongnu sent troops to help...
Whether it is the Qiang people or the Southern Huns, they have not been regarded as "big enemies" by Zhengshuo of China for a long time. Before the Five Husties invaded China, they were only regarded as "eagle dogs" that were wild but could be exploited.
Without the experience of the "Five Husbands", even the state of Chu could only "laugh at" the state of Wei based on the current situation, but could not make people think much else.
Even in name, the Huns and the Wei State came here for the "King Qin", and they laughed at the Han Dynasty.
After all, Bai Tu and others are now saying that the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan, and even the Qiang people will pose a threat to Huaxia Zhengshuo in the future, and may even be on the verge of destruction... which will only make people laugh!
And after the emergence of infuriating crossbows and artillery, this is indeed the case.
Bai Tu is not discriminating against the IQ and ability of the Hu people. What gives him confidence is not how far ahead the technology is, but that productivity has entered the stage of "national power competition". He is no longer a nomad and can take advantage of the battlefield if he is wilder.
era!
Even if one of the "Five Hus" had an Edison and learned all about air guns and artillery, with their productivity, they would only be crushed by the Chu State.
This time it was Yuan Tan who was persuaded by Sima Yi, and Huchuquan was persuaded by Yuan Tan. At the same time, the Bingzhou Qiang people had been subdued by the Southern Huns. Naturally, with the characteristics of the Qiang people, the Qiang people in the Hetao area also surrendered.
Southern Huns...
The Wei State also specially left an opening for them to be called "King Qin" - Shangdang County in Bingzhou is not far from Luoyang!
As long as Hanoi County does not blockade, the Bingzhou army can directly go south.
The Wei State alone mobilized nearly 80,000 Wei troops this time... If the Nanpi area was not blocked by "An Weihou", the Wei State could mobilize more.
Originally, these 80,000 Wei troops alone were enough to force Zhang Fei back.
Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang took away most of the elite troops in Xuzhou, and Zhang Fei had "escaped" from Pengcheng before. Most of the troops left behind in Xuzhou were in Pengcheng and were directly taken over by the Chu State. However, Zhang Fei led only those who originally stopped at Xiapi.
The 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed there, together with some of the cronies he brought out, as well as newly recruited soldiers and horses, are said to be 100,000, but the full number is only 30,000.
Moreover, 70% of the Qi army led by Zhang Fei was a second-line army, and 20% was a new army, while the Wei State assembled a first-line elite, commanded by Xiahou Dun.
Coupled with the Bingzhou Army led by Gao Gan himself and mixed with many Huns, Zhang Fei simply couldn't resist it...
From the front of Hulao Pass, we fought and retreated all the way, heading east towards Xu County, retreating more than 100 miles in seven days.
Passing through the Honggou water system area - the place where the "Chu River and Han boundary" existed four hundred years ago - the Qi army was almost chased by the Bingzhou cavalry front army.
However, Zhang Fei directly entered the "powerful mode". He looked like he was only 30 years old. He still had a handsome face and a black armor, like a black tiger general.
Not only did Kazuo stand guard at the bridge, he even fought hard for half an hour. When he was about to run out of energy in Kamui mode, he let out a thunderous roar and formed a huge phantom of a black tiger descending from the sky...
Accompanied by this thunderbolt, a wave swept across the battlefield. Even Huchuquan, under the banner of Khan King Jin, more than 300 steps away, was shocked by it and stood dumbfounded!
After Zhang Fei released the divine power mode, he directly equipped himself with gold and jade, and shot three arrows at Huchuquan. When the arrows just spurted out, they were all thigh-thick black light.
The black light of the first arrow was blocked by the Hun warriors who woke up in time. The second arrow missed awkwardly and shattered half of the flagpole. The third arrow hit the chest directly and made a hole as big as a fist...