This time, it was the Yue cavalry battalion led by Deng Ai who served as the pioneer battalion, but at this moment, the total number of soldiers and horses in the Yue cavalry battalion has reached 5,000 people, and it is not the same in terms of scale or momentum.

And the entire Pingbei Army, the appearance is also a new look, more than half a year the Pingbei Army has been in a state of training, that is to say, the knife of the Pingbei Army, has not drunk blood for half a year, this expedition, the Pingbei Army is high-spirited, with a state of thirst for a war, embarked on the journey.

This is also Cao Liang's first expedition since the expansion of the Pingbei Army, and this will also be a battle to test the effect of the expansion of the Pingbei Army.

Jinyang is more than 100 miles away from Jiuyuan, for the Yue cavalry battalion, it is just a short distance, but because of the need to achieve a coordinated pace with the infantry behind, it has to suppress the speed of advance, but despite this, the Yue cavalry battalion still in the early morning of the next day, in the Qingyang River, thirty miles away from Jiuyuan City, fought an encounter with the Hun cavalry.

This Hun cavalry is not the real main force of the Huns, but a patrol team, and they are responsible for the vigilance on the periphery of Jiuyuan. This cavalry from the central Xiongnu also just came out of the bloody Jiuyuan City, originally they also wanted to come out to breathe, but they didn't expect that in this foggy early morning, they would encounter the main cavalry of the Wei army.

Obviously, the Hun cavalry was not psychologically prepared for this, because the news revealed in advance was that the Wei cavalry had been disarmed and returned to the field, and the war horses even played the role of ploughing oxen and driving ploughs the fields.

In such a short period of time, it is impossible for the Wei army to appear on the outskirts of Jiuyuan under any circumstances.

But when the Hun generals who led the troops saw the banner of the Wei army, their eyes suddenly straightened, as if they had seen a ghost, oh my God, isn't this the cavalry of the Wei army, how could they appear here?

There was almost no suspense in this encounter, and the Yue cavalry quickly routed the Hun cavalry in a devastated manner.

The Hun cavalry is fleeing from the wind, the battle of Dongguan half a year ago, for them, it is simply a nightmare existence, the final attack of the Wei cavalry, killing them to the ground, collapsed.

So the memories of that battle were not good at all for the Huns, and now, they completely lost the courage to fight the Wei cavalry, and as soon as the two sides entered the confrontation, the Huns began to flee north.

Encountering such a timid Hun cavalry was also unexpected by Deng Ai, who originally planned that the Yue cavalry battalion could reach the city of Jiuyuan, but he didn't expect to meet them.

Although the Hun cavalry took the initiative to retreat and left in embarrassment, losing a lot of men and horses, it was equivalent to providing a signal to the Huns in Jiuyuan, that is, the Wei army's team was killed!

Originally, the three Xiongnu on the left, center and right were pacifying the chaos in Jiuyuan City, but the battle of Qingyang River showed that the Wei army was not far from Jiuyuan City, and it would soon be killed under Jiuyuan City.

Liu Meng, Liu Bao, Liu Jiao, when they received this news, their faces suddenly sank, and they all secretly felt that something bad was wrong, it seems that they all fell for the Wei army's suspicious strategy, and the Wei army was able to reach Jiuyuan City in such a short time, which means that the Wei army has long been ready to attack, what is the so-called news of the Wei army's Tuntian, it is completely false news that confuses the public, and they are all fooled.

They even had a trace of remorse, if they knew that the Wei army really had to attack Jiuyuan, then this operation aimed at targeting Liu Teng would probably be postponed, or even not happen.

Of course, the cause of this civil strife was not what they wanted to do, but because of Liu Teng's aggressive momentum, forcing them to surrender, and they had to fight and kill Liu Teng.

Obviously, what the Wei army is waiting for is such an opportunity, now that Liu Teng has just died, and the northern Xiongnu have just surrendered, Jiuyuan City has still not recovered from the civil strife, so it must be hastily responded.

Whether to go out of the city to fight, they had a disagreement, Liu Meng believes that the strength of the Huns is in the cavalry, and the cavalry is conducive to field warfare, defending the city is not the strength of the Huns, but Liu Bao believes that in the previous several cavalry battles, the Huns rarely have won a victory, if the battle out of the city is defeated, it will definitely greatly weaken the garrison of Jiuyuan City, Liu Bao believes that it is most important to hold the city.

This time Liu Jiao did not stand on Liu Meng's side, after all, the thousand-man cavalry team that had just returned from a fiasco was the people of the Xiongnu in their central part, and the nightmare of the Dongguan Battle had not disappeared, Liu Jiao was afraid of the Wei army in his heart, so even if he and Liu Meng were on the same front, he still couldn't stand with Liu Meng at a critical time.

Two to one, Liu Meng had to give up his opportunity to attack, after all, now that the Wei army is coming, the situation is urgent, and we must unite in order to have a glimmer of vitality.

So the gates of Jiuyuan City were closed, the drawbridge was hung high, and the Huns shrank all the forces outside the city into the city, preparing to hold the city and fight the Wei army to the end.

After the battle of Qingyang River, Deng Ai had already missed the best opportunity to sneak attack Jiuyuan City, so he slowed down his march, waited for the main infantry army to arrive, and then attacked Jiuyuan together.

After all, the speed of the cavalry is extremely fast and the impact is very strong, but the weakness is also obvious, that is, there is no good way to face the city wall, no matter how fast the war horse is, it is impossible to fly to the head of the city.

Cao Liang led the army, and the speed of the march was not slow, and soon they rushed to the Qingyang River, and joined the Yue cavalry battalion that had arrived in advance and fought a battle, and then continued to move forward, and the troops came to the city.

The Wei army has been busy expanding the army and training for half a year, and the Huns have not rested, and the city wall of Jiuyuan has been strengthened one by one, and now the wall of Jiuyuan City has been increased by several feet, and even looks higher than Jinyang, standing majestically.

In fact, for Cao Liang, the most difficult thing to do, not only the height of the city wall of Jiuyuan City, but the defenders of tens of thousands of people in the city, you must know that even after the merger of the Pingbei Army and the Bingzhou Army, there are only 25,000 people, and the strength of the Huns is at least twice that of the Wei army.

The Huns defended the city with superior forces, which can be described as thicker and thicker, and it was not easy for the Wei army to break through Jiuyuan City.

But Cao Liang was not intimidated by the difficulties, this time, he will sacrifice another big killing weapon, for Jiuyuan City, Cao Liang is determined to win!