Zhao Yun broke through the Yangtze River and passed through the battle, if you look at the battle situation, it is not a lot of results, but the significance for the psychological level is extraordinary.

If the riverside barrier can hold on for a month, or more, then it proves that it is effective to fight against the Jingzhou army by virtue of the dangerous terrain, which will greatly boost the morale of the Yizhou army, and at the same time strike at the invincible momentum of the Jingzhou army.

Under the premise that the soldiers of Yizhou are generally afraid of the Jingzhou army, this is the only psychological advantage, if this advantage is also lost, the consequences are self-evident, and even the army that they think will lose will naturally not be able to win the war.

This small effect is like a small piece of rotten stinky meat in fresh rice, although it is not visible for the time being, but it is accelerating the deterioration of the whole bowl of rice, and the source of this deterioration is from the veterans who have fought against the Jingzhou army.

At the beginning, the veterans of Jiangzhou, the veterans of the two northern expeditions to Hanzhong, had a shadow from the heart, and with the loss of the shallow fortress, the news that Jingzhou had hit the Longtou Pass came out, and they recalled their fears again.

Especially in today's Yizhou, no general dares to lead troops to meet the enemy head-on, which makes them even more uneasy, and the speed of infection has always been the most direct, and it began to spread rapidly in just a few days.

It was not only the Jiangyang garrison that had problems, but also the troops on the other side of the Dianjiang River who were afraid of the soldiers.

Fortunately, the main generals of Yizhou had long expected this kind of problem, and soon selected their cronies and soldiers to form a team of supervisors, and forbade the soldiers to talk about it in private. It is forbidden for soldiers to act in any way that is cowardly. It is even forbidden to talk about the Jingzhou Army.

So tightly controlled. Although the restless emotions were suppressed, the symptoms were not cured, and in addition to making the soldiers more depressed, it could not fundamentally solve the problem.

If you want to say that the solution is also very simple, that is, to win a few games, but unfortunately this truth Yizhou ministers and generals all know, but they can't do it, even small-scale tentative confrontations. They were all defeated.

On the side of Dianjiang, there were several young radical generals who did not believe in evil and came out of the camp to challenge, but for Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Huang Zhong, Xu Sheng, Han Meng and other generals who were at a loss, it was the food that was sent, no matter how big or small, they ate it first.

If it is called a heads-up, those young generals who don't know the height of the sky will not be able to walk on the twenty in Zhang Liao's hands at all, and even most of them will have a few moves, so that they are not very interested. In the end, he simply let the second- and third-rate generals in the army go into battle.

What's more, when the Yizhou army avoided this kind of duel between generals. And when a few soldiers were allowed to carry out a tentative attack, they faced the same defeat.

The wars between Jingzhou and Yizhou are not once or twice, and the generals are already familiar with each other, so they can't pretend to be able to pretend, Zhang Liao and other generals simply fought bravely to the end, and did not give any opportunity to cheer up the morale of the army over there.

In several encounters, Yizhou lost miserably.

There are a total of five large camps near the Dianjiang River in Jingzhou, plus two important grain strongholds, as well as several strategic locations, totaling more than ten contentious places, but no matter which one is fought, the combat effectiveness is a big difference, which makes Yizhou hit a wall everywhere.

Now they do not have an advantage in troops, combat effectiveness, generals, materials, and even the strategic and tactical experience of civil and military generals.

Of course, the main generals of Yizhou knew that after many attempts, the last bit of luck was also dispelled, and they did not send people to fight, but just stuck to the dangers and three large battalions, and were always on guard, just hoping that they would not make mistakes, so that Jingzhou would not be able to advance an inch.

This kind of war is the most difficult to fight, and when the other side makes up its mind to stick to it and fight a war of attrition head-on, it will never happen overnight.

Although he had long been prepared to face this situation, Zhang Liao and other generals still hoped to find a better way to break the enemy, and originally he proposed to send an army to detour to the north and attack Chengdu from a farther mountain road.

However, it was strongly opposed by Xu Shu, Gao Shun and others, because the main force of Yizhou in Dianjiang was not defeated, then this army that detoured thousands of miles, the soldiers did not have any supplies, and the cities and passes along the way were heavy, it was almost impossible to achieve.

The most important thing is that Chengdu is not empty, even if this lone army goes through many hardships to fight in Chengdu, how many people and how many supplies can there be, even if it is under the city of Chengdu, it is just looking at the city and sighing. As for the lurking past, I have never heard of an army of more than 10,000 people who can sneak thousands of miles without being detected.

In the end, after repeated consideration by everyone, they had to attack, relying on superior combat effectiveness and materials and equipment, to defeat Yizhou's resistance.

On the second day of the first month of March 197 AD, on the fourth day of Zhao Yun's fierce attack on Longtou Pass, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and other generals who took the land route finally launched an attack on the main force of Yizhou, because there was no large area of flat and open land near the Dianjiang River, so it was impossible for the whole army to attack, and only 30,000 people were gathered in the first battle, and the troops were concentrated to attack the large battalion on its leftmost flank.

The three major battalions in Yizhou are only more than 20 miles apart from each other, and they are located in several key roads. The strength of the left wing battalion was relatively weak, but it was the cornerstone of the main camp in the center, and if the left wing was broken, the Jingzhou army could attack its rear with impunity.

Yizhou Wu Yi, Wu Ban, Ling Bao, Liu Bi, Zhuo Ying and other generals quickly responded, and while assembling on the side of the Jingzhou camp, they also dispatched sergeants to meet the battle, and the two sides confronted each other in a wide area 20 miles away from the Yizhou left wing camp, and set up a position.

After looking at each other from a distance and finding that they were only regular military formations, Yizhou did not give the Jingzhou generals a chance to call for battle, and quickly ordered the front to advance.

A quarter of an hour later, the front of the two sides approached, and the fierce confrontation finally broke out in the war between the two forces.

There is not much difference in the arrangement of the study, all of which are mixed and matched with sword and shield soldiers and long soldiers as the front, short soldiers and strong soldiers as the main attack force, crossbowmen as the second echelon in the rear, and cavalry are located on both flanks to cover, waiting for the opportunity to break the enemy at any time.

In addition to the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, the most important thing in the frontal battlefield competition is the commander's command. In this regard. Although the Jingzhou generals are more experienced. But Yizhou's side is not weak. Not to win, but to be safe, and try to fight a war of attrition.

The war drums roared, and in the shouting and killing in the sky, the flags of the two armies continued to wave, and orders were issued one after another, and the sergeant array kept changing.

By noon, most of Yizhou's reserves had already participated in the battle. However, the Jingzhou army only had 20,000 troops on its side, and 10,000 people were left in the rear to listen to orders at any time, and the advantage was very obvious.

It's just that if the opponent's army formation is not disrupted, there is no chance of victory, and just piling up the number of people is of little use.

This is only the first day, and the scale of the battle is not particularly large, and the time for the decisive battle is not enough, so Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others are not in a hurry. The special units of each department have not moved, and they are still in each other's attrition strength. The stage of getting to know each other.

Before the sun set, the Yizhou generals Wu Yi and Leng Bao had the intention of retreating, and put the last reserves into the battlefield to deter, and at the same time Mingjin withdrew his troops.

Because the sergeants retreated to a certain extent, Zhang Liao and other generals did not make meaningless pursuits, and soon commanded the soldiers to break away from the other party, and each collected his troops and returned to the camp.

This kind of head-to-head duel, the soldiers fought very lively, and the sound of "ping pong" weapons colliding was endless, but the lethality was small, as long as it was not a decisive battle with all its might, or one side was in chaos, then the casualties were not large.

After counting, the Jingzhou sergeants were killed no more than 700 people, and more than 1,500 corpses were left in Yizhou.

On the way back to the camp, Gao Shun looked for an opportunity, pulled Zhang Liao aside, and asked softly: "Wenyuan, what do you think of today's battle?" ”

Zhang Liao's brows furrowed tightly, and he said helplessly: "It's inconclusive for a while, although our army has obvious advantages, but if we continue to fight like this, it is difficult to say whether we will win or lose, after all, we are a labor expedition, if we can't conquer it for more than three months, I'm afraid we have to withdraw because of fatigue." ”

"yes!" Gao Shun sighed and continued: "Yizhou Wu Yi, Leng Bao and others still have some skills, the army is in strict order, it is difficult to overcome in a short time, and if our army has more than 30,000 casualties, but there is no heavy result, we will have to retreat!" ”

Zhang Liao was silent, and said for a long time: "Let's try our best to fight first, it is not clear on the battlefield after all, as long as we are always vigilant, once they show their flaws, we will decide the victory in one fell swoop." ”

Gao Shun didn't refute, but he said a little stunned: "The lord doesn't know why, he insists on sending troops at the beginning of this year, if we can wait for another year, our army can be neatly organized, and then there will be soldiers and horses all the way into Ba County, and the strength of Hanzhong will be more sufficient. ”

"Don't worry too much, maybe the lord has other plans!" Zhang Liao smiled, took over and said: "Xu Junshi, they have been dissuaded several times, but they have all been refused, and the lord is not an arbitrary person, there should be other plans, besides, doesn't Guo Junshi also support it?" ”

"I hope so!" Gao Shun said helplessly.

The two did not speak again, and quietly rode back to the camp......

In the next half a month, the two armies launched a fierce tug-of-war, and the Yizhou army defended to a certain extent, so that Jingzhou could not find a chance, and did not dare to fight a large-scale decisive battle, so they could only use guò consumption to find each other's flaws.

On the other side, Zhao Yun took the lead in making contributions, and after a strong attack on Longtou Pass for more than half a month, he relied on the large siege equipment such as trebuchets, giant crossbows, and siege towers that were continuously transported from Jingzhou to tear apart Longtou Pass.

The defenders led by Wu Lan and Lei Tong were in a critical situation, using a large number of stones, wood, corpses and other objects to barely block the collapsed city walls and gates, and resisted stubbornly.

Although they still failed to break through completely, the victory was achieved, and Xu Huang also came up, and it was only a matter of time before the two of them worked together to break through.

For a while, the urgent documents kept being sent to Jiangyang, but Deng Xian, as the main general, did not dare to send reinforcements, he knew that Long Tho Pass would not be able to hold it, but he just told the two of them to delay as long as they wanted, and it was a credit to delay one more day, and at the same time, he also sent people to Chengdu again for help.

At present, there are only more than 30,000 people in Jiangyang, first of all, the strength is not as good as Jingzhou, even if Wu Lan and Lei Tong can finally withdraw with the remnants of the troops, the combat power is not as good as Jingzhou, after all, many of the soldiers and horses in his hands are miscellaneous troops, so he can only ask Liu Zhang for help......

ps: The update is to be updated, don't worry, after being busy for a while, it will speed up, and the book will be completed around the year, and a new book will be opened at the same time as the book is finished!

It's a fact that the update has been unstable these days, but everyone should know that the end of the year is the busiest time for work, and Yi Ming can't help it, who makes Yi Ming not qualified to be a professional writer, hehe! (To be continued......)