The troops went down to Quyang, and the Yan Liang department that defended Gongsun Zhan's attack was known as 12,000 to the outside world; The Ministry of Literature and Ugliness is known as 10,000 to the outside world. However, for Dong Zhao, who is the Taishou of the giant deer and is responsible for providing supplies for the army of the two, of course he knows the details of these two very well.

The total number of troops of Yan Liang and Wen Chou is more than 10,000 in total. Among them, there are 5,000 elite soldiers, 3,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 2,000 people. Because Dong Zhao had different intentions before, he controlled the grain supply of Yan Liang and Wen Chou's department very well, and deliberately found various reasons in the past ten days and did not send grain to Quyang. In this way, the grain in the hands of Yan Liang and Wen Chou's subordinates can support about half a month.

Therefore, when the arrogant army drove the army to rush to Quyang, Yan Liang and Wen Chou automatically cut off the possibility of holding on to and waiting for help due to the lack of food and grass. The choice the two of them could make was to either fight or flee.

Zhang Qi hoped that Yan Liang and Wen Chou would see that the situation was not good and flee quickly.

He has been quietly cultivating in Bingzhou for several years, but he is not idle and sleeping. In addition to restoring production in various parts of the prefecture, especially strengthening the reclamation of the Hetao Plain, and accumulating grain for future conquests in the world, most of his arrogant thoughts were placed on the construction of the army, especially the cavalry.

Bingzhou produces good horses, and Yan Liyou, an arrogant and cheap man, will also send thousands of war horses from the grassland to Bingzhou every year. In the northeast, after agreeing to negotiate peace with Zhang Yan, his subordinates were not forbidden to trade horses with the people of the state. In this way, there are so many good horses in Bingzhou that they can be said to be the best in the world, and even Han Sui and Ma Teng's army from Liangzhou are afraid that they can't compare.

There are good horses, and there are hundreds of thousands of border people and zahu who have practiced the art of riding and archery since childhood as cavalry candidates. The number and strength of the cavalry under the command of Zhang Qiang can be imagined. Equipped with equipment such as Takahashi saddles, bilateral stirrups, and horseshoes that Zhang Maoma later came up with, cavalry has become the kind of powerful force that can complete the entire battle process independently.

Moreover, Zhang Qiang not only built several pure cavalry units, but even infantry regiments. There was also a large number of cavalry. For example, the "Zhichong Battalion" of the Yu Forbidden Department, which was responsible for the task of attacking the vanguard of Quyang, also had a separate cavalry team of 1,000 people.

Of course, the formation and maintenance of cavalry is extremely expensive. Although the insolence of taking advantage of the border characteristics of the annexed states can greatly reduce the recruitment and maintenance costs of cavalry, the financial situation of the states is still completely beyond their means. If there is no major move to collect money for the army, it will be another two or three years at most. The goods obtained from the Taiping Road and the seizures in the previous battles will be consumed by the arrogant army.

Therefore, Zhang Qiang's strategy for Jizhou is also ready to shoot and has to be sent. Even if there is no Dong Zhao's internal response, in a similar period of time, the invasion of Jizhou will also occur. Only by taking the rich Jizhou will the arrogant finances not be completely bankrupt. to be qualified to continue his journey to world domination.

This is also the reason why Zhang Mad has no interest in going south to attack Guanzhong Sili - even if there is a cheap genius there. The local economy of Si Li's place has experienced Dong Zhuo's many attempts to scrape. It's almost bankrupt!

Having said that, why would Zhang Qiang want Yan Liang and Wen Chou to run away without a fight?

Yuan Shao's original strength was no worse than that of Zhang Qiang, and Zhang Qiang didn't take advantage of the opportunity of Yan Liang and Wen Chou being divided by his own side to swallow their army first, in case Yan Liang, Wen Chou and Lu Yi and other departments converged, wouldn't it be even more troublesome to fight?

The fact is. If Yan Liang and Wen Chou choose to escape, they will soon experience the pain of the pursuit of the cavalry rank and tail of the brigade.

For the Jizhou army, which has few cavalry, it is simply impossible to outrun the four-legged cavalry on the open and flat Jizhou Plain. Maybe force the march. Can maintain a mobility similar to that of cavalry. But in that case, no matter how strong the Jizhou army is, it will not be able to support it for long, and it will collapse sooner or later.

Once the Jizhou army collapses, for the pursuing Bingzhou cavalry, the rest of the matter is nothing more than picking up heads.

Of course, Yan Liang and Wen Chou still have a choice, that is, they expect Lu Yi in Raoyang to come to the rescue quickly. In this way, Lu Yi joined forces with Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and he had enough strength to confront the state army head-on.

However, Yuan Shao, who was terminated in the old nest Yecheng, will let Lu Yi give priority to rescue is not too critical [Yuan Shao thinks? ] Yan Liang and Wen Chou are in the department?

According to common sense, under the current situation, Yuan Shao should first mobilize the main force of the army and gather near the city of Qiuqiu near Yecheng, so as to wait for the opportunity to recapture Yecheng when Zang Ba's foothold is not stable.

You must know that the Yecheng area is not only rich in money and food, but also an important channel for Yuan Shao to contact his little brother Cao Cao in Yanzhou. Yecheng was captured, Yuan Shao was extremely sad, and Cao Cao's old nest Dongjun would also be greatly threatened. This situation is a huge trouble for the alliance of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao!

What Yuan Shao thinks, Zhang Qiang will not know. However, what Yan Liang and Wen Chou thought, Zhang Qiang soon knew.

The striker reported in a hurry, and twenty miles outside the city of Xiaquyang, Yan Liang came to attack!

Yan Liang's offensive came extremely suddenly and fiercely.

As a native of Jizhou, Yan Liang's department obviously has geographical advantages. Although Jizhou is dominated by plains, there are still a few small forests and a few small hills. Hiding thousands of people in the woods and hills is not a difficult task at all.

Yu Ban's temperament is extremely cautious, which ensures that he will not be easily ambushed as he advances. However, Yan Liangjun's ambush was obviously done very well this time, and he actually succeeded in evading the scouts sent by Yu Ban.

Of course, the scouts of the Forbidden Army cannot be blamed entirely on the matter.

The scout's range of exploration cannot be too far from the main road, and it is usually enough to ensure that there are no ambushes within four or five miles of the main road. However, the ambush location of Yan Liangjun's army was a little farther away than the exploration range of the forbidden army scouts. When Yu Ban's scouts retreated, Yan Liang took his subordinates and quietly began to advance towards the direction of Yu Ban's department. This kind of plot to take advantage of people's psychological weaknesses is hard to imagine coming from Yan Liang, who is known for his bravery.

Due to Yu Ban's vigilance, at such a distance, Yan Liang failed to ambush Yu Ban after all. However, if the ambush was changed to an assault, Yan Liang's tactics were still quite successful.

With the help of the cover of the terrain, after Yan Liangjun avoided a wave of ears and eyes of the forbidden army's scouts, it was not until he was two miles away from the main force of the forbidden army that he was discovered by the patrol rangers sent by the forbidden army. However, at this time, Yan Liangjun had already begun to advance with all his might.

The weather in February is still cold and windy. However, since there was not much snow last winter, Yan Liangjun's advance was not stagnant by the snow. Stepping on the frozen hard soil, Yan Liangjun's charge speed was quite fast.

"Formation! Form a small circle! Fight for yourself! ”

Because Yan Liang's army came too suddenly, and it was killed from the flank of the "Zhichong Battalion", no matter how strong Yu Ban's command was, it was impossible for the thousands of troops to change from a marching formation to a combat formation at once.

However, with the good training on weekdays, the camp was not panicked. Under Yu Ban's timely command, most of the soldiers successfully formed a small circle formation with their surrounding comrades, ready to resist the enemy's surprise attack.

It's just that this kind of circular formation formed by only a few dozen soldiers is still a little suspicious in terms of combat effectiveness. Will they really be able to withstand Yan Liangjun's ferocious assault?

It's too late, it's too soon. Yan Liangjun, who came rushing wildly, would not leave Yu Ban with sufficient opportunities for dispatch at all. Omit the crossbow and crossbow fire in normal combat, and at the beginning of the battle, enter the hand-to-hand contact of the two armies.

Yan Liang took the lead and rushed to the front. Behind him were more than one hundred and fifty elite Jizhou cavalry. These elite soldiers of the Jizhou Army learned the experience of using bilateral stirrups from the cavalry of the Youzhou Gongsun Zhan Army, and immediately used them on one of the communicators of bilateral stirrups and the state army!

"Dead open!"

Yan Liang roared, and the "Qiushui" long knife in his hand with a puff of dark green "Zhanqi", as if destroying the withering and decaying, broke the three shields in front of him in one fell swoop, and cut off the two hands and a human head behind the shield on the spot!

As a "10,000 enemies", Yan Liang smashed a small circle formation of more than 60 people with a single sword!

"Autumn water" is vertical and horizontal, and there is no enemy under the knife. The brave name is the first of the "Hebei Four Court Pillars" of the three armies, and it really deserves its name!

After killing more than ten people in one go, Yan Liang temporarily stopped, so that the subordinates behind him could also see blood. He looked at the blade of the "Qiushui" knife, but saw that there was a touch of blood red on the blade, and there was a cold beauty in it.

This "autumn water" knife is already the third autumn water knife in Yan Liang's hand.

The first "Qiushui" knife was used by Yan Liang to practice knives when he was a child, but it was made of wrought iron, the handle was one foot five three, the blade was three feet nine inches long, and it weighed 16 catties.

The second "Qiushui" knife was given by the patriarch of the Yan clan when Yan Liang performed the crown ceremony. This knife is made of one hundred and twenty refined stainless steel, the handle is one foot five inches long, the blade is four feet eight inches long, the blade is slender, the shape is like the feathers of wild geese, and it weighs twenty-one catties. In the first year of Zhongping, this knife was destroyed by Dian Wei in the battle of Yan Liang and Dian Wei, and was seriously injured in the battle, and was left on the battlefield, and I don't know what happened.

Now the third "Qiushui" knife in Yan Liang's hands was carefully built by Yuan Shao after Yan Liang recovered from his injuries and broke through the realm of "ten thousand enemies" in one fell swoop. The shape of the knife is like the second "autumn water", the handle is one foot nine inches long, the blade is five feet six inches long, and it weighs thirty-three pounds. (To be continued......)