Chapter 917: Battle of Yique Pass

After the Battle of Tiger Prison, the Kwantung Coalition Army was divided into three.

Qin Hao, the leader of the East Road Alliance, attacked the Tiger Pass, Yuan Shao, the main general of the southeast, attacked Xuanyuan Pass, and Sun Jian of the South Road attacked Guangcheng Pass, and the three counties surrounded Luoyang in two directions.

Among the three road armies, the first to make contributions was Sun Jian's army on the South Road.

Soon after Sun Jian arrived at Guangcheng Pass, this Xiongguan was easily captured by Bai Qi, and 10,000 Liang troops were captured, while the 100,000 troops on the South Road only paid the price of 10,000 casualties;

After Guangcheng Pass, Yuan Shao was not willing to lag behind, and also launched a large army to forcibly attack the fortification, with more than 40,000 casualties, which barely broke through Xuanyuan Pass and captured 5,000 Liang troops.

So far, coupled with the disappointment of the Eastern Route Army of 3,000 prisoners, the coalition army has captured a total of 58,000 Liang troops.

In addition, after the two armies of the southeast and south routes met, they also faced the situation of one army and two commanders, so of course a new chief general must be elected.

Yuan Shao's prestige among the princes was second only to Qin Hao, and Sun Jian couldn't compete with Yuan Shao, but the battle of Guangchengguan was too beautiful, which also gave Sun Jian the qualifications to compete with Yuan Shao.

To everyone's surprise, Sun Jian deliberately did not fight or grab, so that the position of the main general of the South Road easily fell into the hands of Yuan Shao.

After the Liang army joined the division, there were still nearly 160,000 troops, and Yuan Shaochu was in charge of such a huge force, so he was naturally eager to make meritorious contributions, so he set his sights on the last southern gate of Sizhou, Yique Pass.

Originally, there were only 25,000 defenders at Yique Pass, and the defending general Yang Su could only barely resist with this little force, but with the arrival of reinforcements from Luoyang and Hujiao, Yique Pass, which had 45,000 troops, changed its battle situation into a different situation.

Because Yuan Shaoping broke through the Xuanyuan Pass, he killed Yu Wenhua, the father of the Liang army general Yuwen Chengdu, and Yuwen Chengdu went to challenge on the grounds of 'improving morale' after arriving in Yique, but in fact he wanted to avenge his father.

After thinking deeply, Yang Su also felt that it was necessary to improve morale, so he made an appointment with the coalition army and led 10,000 troops to a decisive battle ten miles outside the pass.

Seeing that the coalition army had been shrinking, the coalition army dared to take the initiative to make an appointment this time, so they naturally agreed with joy.

Before the war, the two sides naturally inevitably fought generals, and Yang Su naturally sent the strongest Yuwen Chengdu, Yuwen Chengdu hated to shoot, and the combat power was even more than the usual three, and it was very easy to save and kill the three generals of the coalition army.

In the face of the aggressive Yuwen Chengdu, the coalition army successively sent five generals, including Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Qin Wu, Wei Wentong, and Gai Yan, to join forces, but they could only compete with it and failed to defeat it, and Yuwen Chengdu was once again powerful because of this record.

Yuan Shao saw that Yuwen Chengdu was so brave, because he had a grudge against him for killing his father, which made Yuan Shao extremely jealous of Yuwen Chengdu, and he wanted to be punished immediately.

So, just when the fighting generals were inseparable, Yuan Shao once again sent several generals to sneak attack.

Seeing this, Yang Su immediately sent Yu Juluo, Shi Wansui and other generals to support.

Another smaller-scale scuffle was over.

The lineup of generals in the Southeast and Southern Coalition Army was far inferior to Qin Hao's Eastern Route Army.

In the case of the strongest generals, who were restrained by Yuwen Chengdu, even Sun Jian and Sun Ce's father and son fought in person, but they could only barely compete with the generals of the Liang army.

Yuan Shao saw that the battle situation was getting worse and worse, so he could only take the initiative to start a decisive battle, but such momentum was naturally inferior to the Liang army, and this was also what Yang Su was eager to see.

After the decisive battle began, Yuan Shao did not listen to Bai Qi's opinion, so that he was easily defeated by Yang Su in an ambush.

If it weren't for Bai Qi and Qin Jian to come to the rescue, Yuan Shao might even be in danger of being wiped out.

Yuan Shao was defeated because he didn't listen to Bai Qi's advice, so he also learned his lesson afterwards and listened to Bai Qi's persuasion and didn't fight easily.

After Yang Su's big victory, he naturally wanted to expand the results of the battle, but it can be seen that Yuan Shao was not in the battle, so he had no choice but to send people to spread rumors, saying that Bai Qi did not want Yuan Shao to make meritorious contributions, so he persuaded him not to fight.

Yang Su wanted to force Yuan Shao to fight with this trick, and Yuan Shao also understood this under the admonition of the strategist Tian Feng, but he also had his own considerations.

Yuan Shao is in a different position now, reactive, for him, that is the biggest fault.

Yuan Shao insisted on fighting Yang Su, and after losing two more battles, he completely grew his memory.

And because of Yuan Shao's arrogance and stupidity, the coalition army paid nearly 20,000 casualties, and the morale of the Liang army rose greatly under the successive victories, allowing Yang Su to eliminate the weakness of the Liang army, and it was no longer as weak as before.

Coupled with Yang Su's proper command of defending the city, the current Yique Pass is almost a seamless egg, and the only way to capture Yique Pass is to attack it, but the strength of the Liang army is enough to defend it.

Yuan Shao can be said to have exhausted all means, no matter how strong the attack, Yique Pass is still as stable as Mount Tai, and in desperation, he finally remembered Bai Qi again.

But even if it is Bai Qi, in the face of Yique Pass, who has no flaws, there is no good plan for a while.

Although Bai Qi did not have a plan to break the city, he still offered several plans, and after Yuan Shao adopted it, it also caused great trouble to the Liang army.

In the subsequent siege, the coalition suffered another 20,000 casualties, but only 5,000 casualties to the defenders.

Even if Yuan Shao was distressed about the casualties and wanted to give up, Yang Su actually took the initiative to burn the pass and retreat.

Naturally, the news that the Eastern Route Army broke through the Tiger Prison Pass followed.

The Tiger Prison and Dagu Pass are the east gates of Luoyang, but the Dagu Pass has not yet been rebuilt, and once the Tiger Prison Pass is broken, the coalition army can drive straight into Luoyang City directly.

Therefore, as the guard of the south gate of Luoyang, Yique Pass naturally has no need to continue to defend it.

Before the fire at Dagu Pass was ignited, Li Shimin ordered Yang Su to retreat, and Yang Su also burned down Yique Pass quite decisively.

This fire is together, Yuan Shao just wants to chase it, but he can't get past the wall of fire at all, and after the fire is extinguished, Yang Su is almost to Luoyang.

Because of Yang Su's active retreat, although Yuan Shao successfully passed the Yique Pass, he suffered 40,000 casualties, while Yang Su's army did not even have 10,000.

The contest between Yuan Shao and Yang Su almost ended with Yuan Shao's complete defeat.

Before going to Luoyang, Bai Qi left 10,000 troops to garrison Guangcheng, and Xuanyuan Pass was in the hands of Yuan Shu, and it was difficult for Bai Qi to send troops to take it before the coalition army was disbanded.

In the first battle of Yique Pass, the coalition army suffered 40,000 casualties, and because Bai Qi left 10,000 troops, the Southern Route Army that arrived in Luoyang was only a little more than 100,000.

The 340,000 troops led by Qin Hao on the east road suffered 110,000 casualties, and the southeast and south roads also suffered 100,000 casualties.

Unconsciously, the Kwantung Coalition Army, which had nearly 55 troops, had lost 210,000 troops, and the total strength had dropped to 330,000.