Chapter 224: The Battle of Hanoi 1
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Although the Third Route Army of Cao De and others was the latest to set off, it was the earliest to arrive at the battlefield. Moreover, Cao De did not launch any attack on Tiger Prison Pass. However, Lu Bu came to challenge Zhang Fei, which must be regarded as Dong Zhuofang's active provocation!
As the first army, Yuan Shao, Tao Qian, Han Fu, Qiao Mao and Yuan Yi were the second to set off.
They crossed the Yellow River directly north from Zhongmu County, and then the army drove straight to the first destination, the city of Qinghe City!
Here I have to say something about Yuan Shao and Yuan Legacy.
Yuan Shao and Yuan Yi, according to what we now say, are brothers from their fathers. In other words, Yuan Shao's father and Yuan Yu's father are brothers.
Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's father is Yuan Feng, and Yuan Feng is the official of the dynasty. And Yuan Yi's father is Yuan Kui, and Yuan Kui is also a character who once worked as a Taifu!
However, since their father's generation, the two brothers Yuan Feng and Yuan Kui have been at odds. Therefore, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu also looked down on Yuan Yi. But Yuan Yi is actually much more shrewd than Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, but unfortunately Yuan Yi was dragged down by his father and mother.
Every time Yuan Yi wanted to go out and do a big business, Yuan Kui said to Yuan Yi, your mother and I are old, what if there is no one to take care of under our knees.
As a result, the filial Yuan Yu couldn't go out.
After Yuan Yi took off and dragged it out again and again, after the old man and the old lady drove the crane to the west, Cao Cao had already killed Yuan Shao. At this time, there was nothing to do with Yuan Yi. Therefore, Yuan Yukong has ambitions, but in the end he has no great achievements!
Cao De obviously didn't know about these dirty things of the Yuan family, and Cao De also thought that Yuan Shao and Yuan Yu were likely close relatives and should be able to help each other. Therefore, Cao De arranged Yuan Shao and Yuan Yi together.
It's just that Cao De didn't expect that he had arranged it with good intentions, but he pressed the two criminals into a box!
By the time Yuan Shao and the others' army came to Qinghe City, it was not very late. Because the army had already rested once after crossing the Yellow River.
However, Yuan Shao discussed with the rest of the leading brothers, rested for the night, and attacked the city tomorrow!
Therefore, Yuan Shao and the others were not in a hurry and left Dong Zhuojun in Qinghe City enough time to prepare.
And it was because of the rest of Yuan Shao's army that it was Lu Bu and Zheng Tai, who were staying in the Tiger Prison Pass, that got the news that the coalition army was attacking Qinghe City.
In fact, Qinghe City is very important as an important junction connecting the prefecture with the Sili area. Moreover, Qinghe City is still the only relatively large exit in the south of Taihang Mountain!
Therefore, Dong Zhuo arrived in Luoyang from Qinghe City. Therefore, how could Qinghe City's defense be weak!
When Dong Zhuo entered Bingzhou from the pastures of the Huns, he brought 40,000 troops. After fighting with Ding Yuan's subordinates and integrating Ding Yuan's troops, Dong Zhuo's troops in Bingzhou once reached 70,000 horses in one fell swoop.
However, after discarding its dross, the size of the army of 70,000 was reduced to 50,000.
After Dong Zhuo received He Jin's first secret order, he led an army of 40,000 to Qinghe City to station. Soon after, Dong Zhuo selected 20,000 elites from the 40,000 army to go to Luoyang.
And after Niu Fu served as the pastor of Bingzhou, he never touched the 20,000 horses of Qinghe. So now there are at least 20,000 troops in Qinghe City.
And Yuan Shao and others gave the defenders of Qinghe City two days to prepare. I'm afraid Qinghe City won't be so easy to fight!
The next day, Yuan Shao and others discussed how to attack the city in the big tent of the Chinese army.
Yuan Shao and the other five leading brothers brought a total of 77,000 troops, of which Yuan Shao, Han Fu and Tao Qian each sent 20,000 troops. And Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao combined are also 17,000 people.
Therefore, as soon as everyone is combined, then let's surround Qinghe City and attack the four gates together!
As a result, Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao joined forces to attack one gate, and the other three were each assigned a city gate.
However, the coalition forces did not know that Dong Zhuo had actually given an order to Niu Fu to station the army near the Yellow River. First, it is to prevent the coalition forces from directly crossing the Yellow River from the north of Luoyang, and second, if the Tiger Prison Pass is not held, Niu Fu can immediately lead his troops to attack the coalition forces in Luoyang from the north.
However, Niu Fu is actually a character who may not be able to do well if he is not Dong Zhuo's son-in-law, and even a school captain. Niu Fu is embarrassed to know his identity, so Niu Fu has been studying hard recently. Therefore, Niu Fu recently understood a truth, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass go first! Therefore, Qinghe City has become the logistics support base of Niu Fu. Therefore, although Niu Fu's army has not yet arrived in Qinghe City, there are too many ordnance, grain and grass in Qinghe City to count.
And neither Cao De nor Yuan Shao and others knew the news. And it's not just them, even Dong Zhuo didn't expect that half of the ordnance, grain and grass that had been concentrated in the state were piled up in Qinghe City.
Therefore, when Yuan Shao gave the order to attack, Yuan Shao's army was greeted by countless and continuous rain of arrows.
Yuan Shao didn't care about it at the beginning, after all, in a city with such an important geographical location like Qinghe City, it was strange that there was less ordnance and equipment. Therefore, Yuan Shao did not stop the attack because he was distressed by the casualties, but under Yuan Shao's urging, more soldiers rushed to the head of Qinghe City like ants.
And the rest of the people who attacked the other city gates, after receiving the news that Yuan Shao had been the first to attack, also immediately launched an attack on the city gate they were responsible for!
However, although Han Fu Taoqian and the others, who were on the battlefield for the first time, had experienced several small battles, such cruel casualties were unacceptable to them.
Especially the coalition of Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao.
The soldiers and horses brought by the two were already few, so why did they have to pay such a big price to attack the city. Therefore, the combined forces of Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao, who launched the attack in the end, were also the first to withdraw.
But the two didn't go far. Instead, he ran away to discuss.
One said, "Look, the defense of the city is so tight, isn't it too unreasonable for me to attack the city myself?"
The other nodded, "I agree with you."
If you agree, see what to do.
The two pondered for a while and came up with a solution. Let's do that, let's half the city wall for each of us. I will go to as many people as you want. The number of casualties depends on the will of God!
The other nodded, "I'll see what to do."
So, the two regrouped their troops and launched an attack again.
However, the two soon found out. The defenders on the walls of the city were not weaker than they had just been.
No matter what, the soldiers who finally braved the rain of arrows to run under the city wall can't let them run back in the rain of arrows. In that case, let's storm!
Yuan Yi and Qiao Mao can still discuss, as for Han Fu and Tao Qian, who do you want them to find to share the casualties equally. Therefore, the two of them stormed their respective city walls for a long time, and there was almost no effect at all.
The tallest soldier who climbed was just touching the female wall on the city wall and was thrown down by the defenders on the city wall, and then fell to pieces!
As for Yuan Shao's side, it is a little stronger, although Yan Liangwen did not appear, but the soldiers under Yuan Shao's command are not the recruits under the command of the other four. But even so, Yuan Shao's best achievement was to send a group of vain ghosts to the city wall! (To be continued.) )