Chapter 407: The Battle of Tiger Prison Pass I
Facts have proved that Li Yuan deliberately gave a little opportunity to the family, and after the princes who contacted the family and the royal family formed a coalition army, with the help of Nanhua Lao Xiandao Technique, the family alliance that successfully captured Bishui Pass originally wanted to conquer the Tiger Prison Pass in one go, and then directly open the last Xiongguan to Sili and Luoyang, trying to catch Li Yuan off guard.
However, although the alliance of the family and the princes is the same, it is much stronger than the situation in the plot of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, except for a few people who sell their strength to save and others are watching the excitement and even dragging their feet and demolishing the stage, but in the face of Li Yuan, who has been prepared for a long time, is still within the scope of his expectations - when two days later, the combined army of the family and the princes who successfully captured Bishui Pass was ready to play a first-hand cavalry siege drama again with the help of Nanhua Laoxian, there were 30,000 elite guards and Jia Xu, Zhang Xiu and several other captain-level powerhouses stationed the defenders of Tiger Prison Pass, and they simply gave the mentally ill-prepared princes' coalition army a head-on blow!
In the face of 30,000 elite soldiers who have raised a minimum of one breath of internal qi, as well as Zhang Xiu, a top military general who has stepped into the rank of Qi Training, led by the team, and with the assistance of Jia Xu, a bull man military advisor who was found and subdued by Li Yuan, the earth immortal technique of intervening but not wanting to be entangled in too much karma was cracked by the bombardment of the military array, and then Zhang Xiu led 10,000 elite cavalry into battle and almost directly defeated the 5,000 cavalry led by Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Xiahou Yuan, and Xiahou Dun. Even the battalion of the coalition army of several roads was directly picked.
- It's not that Zhang Xiuniu can easily pick four, and use the cultivation who has also stepped into the stage of Qi Cultivation Chenggang to fight against Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Xiahou Yuan, and Xiahou Xuan, the four enemies who have stepped into the stage of Qi Cultivation Chenggang. But Zhang Xiu, as Zhao Yun's senior brother, is probably the same as the four opponents in terms of strength, even if the probability of victory in 1VS1 is five or five, but the cavalry led by both sides is an asymmetrical battle in all directions in terms of quality and quantity.
Under Zhang Xiu's command, there are 10,000 elite cavalry, and the lowest are elite cavalry who have cultivated internal qi and experienced several major battles!
Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Xiahou Yuan, Xiahou Yuan four commanders of the 5,000 cavalry, of which more than 3,000 are subordinate to Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu under the elite of the two commanders, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Yuan two total commanders of more than 1,000 elite, combat effectiveness and combat experience inferior to the cavalry under the command of Zhang Xiu on the opposite side is not a point or two!
As a result, after Zhang Xiu and 10,000 elite cavalry formed a military formation, it was almost a large cavalry formation that penetrated Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Xiahou Yuan, and Xiahou Dun, and even almost bulldozed the large camp of several princes and family alliances.
- After forming a military formation and hooking up the internal qi, lethal spells and individual top-level general attacks are nothing to charge the cavalry led by Zhang Xiu. However, the ability of non-lethal spells to change the landscape and the formation of military divisions can still restrain the terrifying charge formed by the cavalry under Zhang Xiu's command.
It's a pity that after Zhang Xiu's assault was stopped by the family and the princes' coalition forces, the coalition forces did not hesitate to block it in the tiger prison with their superior high-end forces and cooperation with a large number of foot soldiers, and then carried out a crazy attack on the road with human lives under the urgency of time.
However, this time, without the crushing and internal response of high-end forces, the coalition army directly dropped tens of thousands of corpses in front of the Tiger Prison Pass, which proved the solidity of the Tiger Prison Pass, the last male pass that connects the division and the outside of the pass!
After three days of siege and more than 40,000 casualties, even Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, the children of the family who don't take human life very seriously, and the heroes had no choice but to temporarily stop the siege - not that they didn't want to continue, but now there are only a few coalition forces of more than 100,000 people at most, and the casualties of more than three layers in a short period of time have reached a cordon, and if they continue to fight, they will send the heads of the defenders of Tiger Prison Pass and may cause a mutiny in the army. Cao Cao and the others could only rest for a few days, straighten out the army's morale, and wait for the arrival of the princes and the army of the family!
But at this time, the reinforcements led by Li Yuan had also arrived outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and almost arrived with Liu Bei, Tao Qian, Han Fu and other princes' reinforcements who had just arrived outside the Tiger Prison Pass......
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On the night of the fifteenth day of the release of the Qing Jun's side text, the mansion of the guard in the Tiger Prison Pass.
"Zhang Xiu, I've seen the lord!"
"Jia Xu, I've seen the lord!"
"Zhang Liao, I've seen the lord!"
"The last general, Tai Shici, has seen the general!" ……
In the hall of the mansion, the defending generals and military advisors of the Tiger Prison Pass respectfully greeted Li Yuan, who was seated.
In the defenders of Tiger Prison Pass, Zhang Xiu, who was valued because of his relationship with Zhao Yunshi's brother and broke through the rank of Qi Cultivation Chenggang by chance, needless to say, was obediently loyal after Zhao Yun persuaded him to fight with Li Yuan a few times.
Because the Liangzhou army was defeated and absorbed, Jia Xu, who wanted to continue to hide but was caught by Zhao Yun, and Zhang Liao, who was captured when he annexed the state army, both of them were among the strategists and generals in the Three Kingdoms and their famous later powerhouses were subdued by Li Yuan.
As for the generals and strategists who served Tai Shici and other military generals and strategists who were out of the body because of the martial arts of the imperial examination? Well, compared to the powerful Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu, needless to say, the potential and fame are also inferior to Zhang Liao at least a few chips (Tai Shici's potential may not be much worse than Zhang Liao, but Zhang Liao has already worshiped Li Yuan as the main father, and Tai Shici has not yet made a decision), so for Li Yuan, the focus is still on Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu and Zhang Liao and others.
"Haha, Wen He, Wen Yuan, you don't need to be polite! Sit down!"
Looking at the respectful faces of Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu, Zhang Liao, Tai Shici and other generals and Wenchen stationed in Tiger Prison, Li Yuan greeted the generals under his command with a smile. Then when Zhang Xiu and the others just sat down, they said approvingly: "This time, the alliance of those families and princes cannot be underestimated, Bishui Pass was broken by it within a day, and the tiger prison is solid in your hands, it is indeed hard work for you!"
Li Yuan's words are indeed not exaggerated, although the rapid fall of Bishui Pass is due to Li Yuan's release of a lot of water in it, but he did not expect that the alliance of princes would suddenly have three more powerhouses who were at least the peak of the captaincy. Fortunately, Li Yuan did not release water on the side of Tiger Pass, and not only arranged Zhang Xiu and other henchmen and generals to garrison, but also 30,000 elite defenders cooperated with the strong defense of Tiger Pass, which made it impossible for the coalition forces to break through smoothly.
No matter from what point of view, Zhang Xiu and the others firmly guarded the Tiger Pass, and took advantage of the situation to make the coalition forces that originally wanted to attack Sili lose their sharpness, Li Yuan should praise Zhang Xiu and others.
"The lord has won the award!"
"It's our business!" ……
Hearing Li Yuan's praise, Zhang Xiu, Jia Xu, Zhang Liao, Tai Shici and others also responded respectfully.
After all, when they hear the boss's praise, except for a few people with solid eyes, most generals and civil servants will shirk a few words to express their modest attitude.
"Haha, you're too modest! Forget it, let's have a feast!"
Seeing the performance of Zhang Xiu and others, Li Yuan also laughed a few times, and then waved his hand to hold a banquet.
When the delicacies and wine were served one by one, except for the lack of singing and dancing, the unusually rich banquet began, and the atmosphere with Li Yuan's presence gradually eased.
Especially when Zhang Xiu and others found out that Li Yuan was also very good at the banquet and chatted with them with a kind face, these generals gradually let go of their original cautious attitude, and when they drank with Li Yuan and talked to each other, they gradually began to talk with their original personalities.
“…… Lord, a few days before the coalition army, the guy named Nanhua Lao Xian performed a spell, and there were a few difficult guys who were entangled with the military advisor, otherwise we would have already leveled the coalition formed by those families!"
Zhang Xiu, who was about the same age as Zhao Yun, drained one-third of the bowl of wine in front of him, and after feeling the hot feeling of the clear wine in his throat, he said to Li Yuan with some pride.
As Zhang Xiu, who was valued by Li Yuan and led an army alone at a young age, of course had arrogance, especially in the face of this anti-Li coalition army's fierce attack on the Tiger Prison Pass, Zhang Xiu, who had just sat in the Tiger Prison Pass a month ago, almost led the troops to beat him into a bear, and he was very complacent and unwilling.
"Well, those coalition forces are not to worry about, but now there are some things to look forward to!"
Listening to Zhang Xiu's boastful words, Li Yuan didn't say anything, but nodded slightly to express his views and told him to attach importance to the current coalition army, before turning his head to look at Jia Xu and Zhang Liao on the side, and asked, "Wen He and Wen Yuan, what do you two think of the coalition army?"
"Lord, I don't think the allied soldiers on the other side are good, the elites who fought before are not even as good as the number of our defenders, but the generals and warlocks surpass us, if there is no tiger prison, it is difficult to say what the victory will be!"
In response to Li Yuan's inquiry, Zhang Liao put down the wine glass in his hand and said very seriously.
Zhang Liao is still at the level of internal qi detachment, and has not yet reached the peak state of his 800 cavalry in Xiaoyaojin to break through the 100,000 troops of Eastern Wu according to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but he also vaguely shows the signs of a famous general.
Listening to Zhang Liao's not too prominent, but it was not a character that ordinary soldiers could see, Li Yuan nodded and didn't say anything, and turned his head to look at Jia Xu, who was gently sipping wine and dishes.
"Lord, you already have a plan in your heart, Wen He can only say...... If you don't have absolute certainty, you can start to eradicate the coalition forces as soon as possible, or directly stick to the Tiger Prison Pass and wait for the return of the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army, you will naturally win the final victory!"
Seeing Li Yuan looking at him, and Zhang Xiu, Zhang Liao, Tai Shici and even Dian Wei, Xu Zhu and others who were standing behind Li Yuan to escort him, Jia Xu whispered his judgment with a wry smile on his face.
Jia Xu's resourcefulness and methods are still quite powerful, even if Li Yuan did not give him all the authority and information, but under Li Yuan's strong subduation, he sat in the Tiger Prison Pass, and found that the many pieces of intelligence sent over were extremely detailed about the composition of the coalition army, and even the confidential information such as the main generals and troops, and he understood that there must be something wrong with the current situation - this kind of terrifying intelligence network, could Li Yuan still not be aware of the intentions of the family and the situation of raising troops? Moreover, the weakening of the defenders of Bishui Pass is too obvious, and the preparation of Tiger Prison Pass is too sufficient, making it difficult for Jia Xu not to doubt it!
Jia Xu doesn't have much information about Li Yuan's plans and hole cards for the time being, but after looking at Li Yuan's hidden toughness and the victory of the Northern Expeditionary Army just delivered, Jia Xu still expressed his views and opinions, and then Li Yuan, the lord, made the final decision.
"Not bad! Rest assured, this time I will remove all obstacles!"
Listening to Jia Xu's words, Li Yuan showed a satisfied smile on his face, but he didn't answer immediately, but raised the wine glass in his hand and drank it all while answering......
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After Li Yuan's slightly suggestive banquet, the more than 80,000 troops gathered at the Tiger Prison Pass did not move, but watched the opposing coalition army within ten days, except for Liu Yan, the assassin of Yizhou, and Zhang Lu, the Taishou of Hanzhong, who could not arrive due to geographical factors, the rest of the armies of the princes of the Sixteenth Route successively converged in front of the Tiger Prison Pass.
Compared with the eighteenth road princes' crusade against Dong Zhuo, the current eighteenth road princes have certainly changed, but at most, the coalition army of the sixteenth road princes is much stronger than the eighteenth road princes with ghosts in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The princes who were able to respond to the spread of the Qing monarch's side text were either from the family or the royal family, and they all had the idea of overthrowing Li Yuan.
However, compared with the situation when the Eighteenth Route Princes crusaded against Dong Zhuo, although the Sixteenth Route Princes' coalition army stationed in front of the Tiger Prison Pass now exceeded 300,000, more than half of them were newly recruited soldiers, and the other half of the elite (referring to at least one breath of internal qi) had only reached about seventy percent, and compared with the eighty thousand elites in the Tiger Prison Pass, there was still a lot of distance.
Of course, the coalition army that had just gathered the princes of the Sixteenth Route also understood that the situation was not very good for them, but the coalition army with more than double-digit Qi training Chenggang or high-end martial arts of the same level, and the internal qi separation level generals were almost four digits, and they still had the confidence to take advantage of this rare opportunity to directly capture the Tiger Prison Pass or even kill Li Yuan.
Similarly, after making sure that those big fish and the dead guys almost jumped out, Li Yuan also planned to end the war that had been planned for a long time! (To be continued.) )