Chapter 858: The White Rise of Inaction

The three families of Cao, Liu and Song Dynasty attacked the city fiercely for a total of three days, causing nearly 1,500 casualties to the Liang army.

Although the coalition army paid more casualties, the three-day onslaught showed the majesty of the coalition army, and now it has completely overwhelmed the Liang army in terms of momentum.

After that, it is naturally impossible for the coalition forces to continue such a high-intensity siege, after all, the consumption of this kind of unskilled death attack is too great, even if the coalition forces are strong, they still can't bear it.

Three days later, the coalition army changed its previous style of fighting with both defeats and losses, and instead adopted a conservative and calm siege method, while consuming the materials of the Liang army to defend the city, it also sharpened the strength of the Liang army little by little.

This style of play does greatly reduce casualties, but the disadvantage is that it is more time-consuming and laborious, and if it continues to be attacked according to this trend, it may take a year for the coalition forces to completely capture the Tiger Pass, which is still the premise that the Luoyang reinforcements do not support.

At the same time, the 100,000 army led by Yuan Shao on the southeast road has also successfully arrived at Xuanyuan Pass.

After Yuan Shao arrived, after several days of exploration, he finally figured out the details of Xuanyuan Pass.

There are a total of 20,000 defenders in Xuanyuan Pass, and the defender is Yuwen Chengdu's father Yu Wenhua, although the defense on the pass is also tight, but there is still a gap compared with the Tiger Pass.

After clarifying this, Yuan Shao immediately convened a meeting of the princes and made a decision to break through the barrier with all his might.

In the meantime, Liu Xiu raised objections and proposed that as long as the Tiger Prison Pass was breached, Xuanyuan Guangcheng Yique Sanguan would not be attacked, so there was no need for him to attack this way.

Liu Xiu's opinion went straight to the core, but Yuan Shao couldn't listen to it at all, because he needed fame and prestige.

When he was under Qin Hao's command before, no matter how Yuan Shao behaved, the limelight must still be Qin Hao's, but now that he is finally out of Qin Hao's side, how can Yuan Shao continue to be silent?

Thinking that he is the fourth generation of the Yuan family and the third prince's protégé, and he Yuan Shao is the son of the Yuan family, how can he be a foil for Qin Hao's outbreak?

Therefore, Yuan Shao wanted to attack Luoyang before Qin Hao, not only to make a name for himself and prove himself, but also to slap Qin Hao and the princes in the face, so that those people would understand that it was wrong not to choose himself as the leader of the alliance.

I, Yuan Shao, can lead the partial army to arrive in Luoyang before the main force, if I serve as the leader of the alliance, I will definitely do it better than Qin Hao, so that you fools chose Qin Hao instead of me!

Yuan Shao didn't show it on the surface, but in his heart he was still very angry about Qin Hao stepping on himself to ascend to the position of alliance leader.

Qin Hao also knows this very well, so he will let Yuan Shao lead the army alone, because Yuan Shao, who is out of the cage, will also do everything possible to break through Xuanyuan Pass.

In this way, the battle of Xuanyuan Pass also started, and the coalition army divided into three routes has already started fighting on two routes, and only Guangcheng Pass has not moved.

Guangchengguan is located in the south of Sizhou, at the junction of Yanjing and Jingzhou, and it is hundreds of miles from Yanzhou to the past.

Sun Jian set out from the army of Suojube, in addition to making a detour, he also had to pass through the two counties of Yingchuan and Runan in Yuzhou, and it was impossible to arrive without more than a month's march.

At this time, the Bai Qi Department outside Guangcheng Pass also received news of reinforcements.

"The 100,000 coalition troops who came to support this time will not arrive in half a month, the main will be Sun Jian, the Taishou of Wujun, and the deputy general is Qin Siye, the father of General Qin Wu, and he will be accompanied by the princes of the Five Roads."

Bai Qi put down the intelligence scroll in his hand, then looked at the generals in the hall, and said lightly: "The specific strength of our army is a secret, and it is not appropriate to expose it to the princes at present. Where is Zhou Yu? ”

Zhou Yu, who joined Bai Qi's command as he wished, immediately stood up after hearing Bai Qi shouting to himself, and said with a respectful fist: "The end will be." ”

"I now order you to lead 50,000 troops and withdraw to the camp of the Northern Army."

The northern army camp is the large battalion in Nanyang, which is specially designed to guard against the threat of Sizhou in the north.

Before Zhou Yu could respond, Qin Wu stood up at this time and said with an unhappy face: "General Bai, our army has a full 60,000 elites, and it has surrounded Guangcheng Pass for nearly two months, but it has not launched a single attack, and it has not even shot an arrow. ”

Since Qin Hao led the army to the alliance, Bai Qi led 60,000 elites to Guangcheng, but during the past two months, he has been practicing and has not had any military operations.

The most incomprehensible thing for Qin Wu was that even if Han Baohu, the general of Guangcheng Pass, took the initiative to lead the army out of the customs to challenge, Bai Qi still hung up the battle exemption card and did not fight with him.

60,000 elite Qin troops, this is not a small number, and the soldiers and horses that the lord brought to the alliance are only 60,000.

Bai Qi has such a huge combat force, even if he doesn't use it well, he will still waste military rations in vain, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of some generals led by Qin Wu.

In the past, Qin Wu definitely didn't dare to question Bai Qi, but at this time, he was Bai Qi's deputy general, and after adding Bai Qi for two whole months, Qin Wu really couldn't hold it back, so he said a happy word.

Seeing this, Zhou Yu said: "General Qin, if you don't withdraw now, the secret of our army's strength will be exposed in front of the princes, and it is likely to bring unnecessary trouble to the lord at that time." ”

"This ...... Quite right. ”

Qin Wu was immediately deflated, and then he held his head in his hands and said with a frantic expression: "General Bai, if you really have any calculations, it doesn't matter if you can't tell everyone clearly, but do you have it or not?" ”

At this moment, two handsome young men, one black and one white, broke in, and they officially started Mo Crow and his younger brother Bai Feng, who were seconded from Qin Hao's side.

"Meet the General." The two saluted in unison.

Then Bai Feng stepped forward, and .cm whispered something in Bai Qi's ear, but a trace of waves flashed in Bai Qi's flat eyes.

"Ladies and gentlemen, after half a month, you will know for yourself."

Bai Qi still didn't say it explicitly, but there was a deep meaning behind this sentence, which made everyone present feel refreshed.

Bai Qi is a famous general in the world, and like the lord, he has not lost a battle yet, so inaction is not his style at all.

Including Qin Wu and many generals, in fact, they all thought that Bai Qi had a plan in secret, but they couldn't say it before the time came, and now that they heard that Bai Qi had finally spoken, their hanging hearts could also be put down

After enduring it for more than two months, I can finally do a big job. Qin Wu thought excitedly in his heart.

Fifty thousand troops were withdrawn at once, and such a big movement naturally couldn't hide from the Liang army.

This move also frightened Han Baohu, and he thought that Bai Qi was finally going to attack the city, but then he realized that it was the Qin army that withdrew.