Volume 6 Respective Calculations] Chapter 315 The First Shot Fired on the Eastern Front -

Yuan Shao has been so excited recently that he often can't sleep at night, just because he sees that Zhao Xing, who is in great trouble in his heart, is going to be unlucky, as long as the scourge of Bingzhou is eradicated by the coalition forces, it will not be a problem for the Yuan family to "five times and three dukes" or even "six times and three dukes" in the future.

In the past seven or eight years, Yuan Shao was very angry and even depressed whenever he remembered that Zhao Xing was just a reckless tenant farmer, and he could steal a high position, be on an equal footing with himself, or even be half a head taller. Yuan Shao really couldn't figure out why the group of eye-catching fierce men under Zhao Xing were willing to take their own hands instead of turning to the towering tree of the Yuan family. What Zhao Xing can give them, the Yuan family can give the same, and even more generously, but these people are just determined and unmoved.

Yuan Shaosī once sent envoys to Jia Xu, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Tian Feng, Guo Jia, and even the generals who originally belonged to Ding Yuan's subordinates to hint and woo them, but the result was very sad, and the people who went were all swept away, and they didn't even give a good face.

Since these people were willing to follow Zhao Xing all the way to the black, they had no choice but to take advantage of the encirclement of the army this time to exterminate it in one fell swoop, saving the legacy of disaster. For example, Zhao Yun, who guarded the Huguan this time, and his group of generals, Yuan Shao was very greedy, but these people's loyalty to Zhao Xing can be described as fanatical, and there is no possibility of buying and using them at all.

The imperial court's army against Zhao Donglu was all in place and stationed in Lin County, near Huguan, in Guangping County. Today's coach Zhu Jun promoted the account, and after some deliberation, he was ready to launch a tentative x-ng attack on Huguan in the coming day, and this leading task was spread on Yuan Shao's head after some bargaining.

After careful investigation, the main guard of Huguan will be Zhao Xing's fourth brother Zhao Yun, and the rest of the generals are currently unknown, and the total strength will not exceed 10,000. Zhao Yun wanted to use 10,000 troops to resist the attack of 130,000 people of the Eastern Route Alliance, which was really beyond his strength. Even if Zhao Yun is a rare "10,000 enemies", just by throwing a bag of soil under Huguan City with 130,000 allied troops, he can also pad up a one-zhang high soil slope. Yuan Shao didn't believe that Zhao Yun could hold the pot pass, so he confidently took over the task of taking the lead.

After Yuan Shao returned to his army, he convened the generals to discuss the matter and wait for tomorrow's combat mission, and then asked his generals who could be the vanguard, Zhang Nan, Zhang Kai, and Zhang Xu The three brothers immediately got up at the same time and asked Yuan Shao for help, so Yuan Shao readily agreed and appointed Sanzhang as the vanguard of tomorrow's first battle.

The Huguan under the shroud of the night S-is majestic and tall, like a giant beast entrenched in the middle of the Taihang Mountains, guarding the choke point between Bingzhou and Jizhou. Zhao Yun, who was standing on top of the Huguan, calmly stared at the mountains that were already a little blurred in the distance, and his body gradually dissolved with the night s-, if he didn't get closer and take a closer look, he thought it was a buttress ear protruding above the parapet.

As for how important this task assigned by the third brother is, Zhao Yun knows very well in his heart. Since he led the army to fight, Zhao Xing has never given him a military advisor, but this time he has matched the military advisor Li Fu, definitely not to doubt his resourcefulness, just to better assist him in guarding the pot pass. As a native of Jizhou, Li Fu is familiar with the characteristics of the generals and soldiers in Hebei, and can provide some information for reference, and sometimes he is willing to play a key role in reminding him.

Zhao Xing only gave Zhao Yun 6,000 main soldiers of the vanguard army, and he actually asked Zhao Yun to hold Huguan to the death, not to let the East Road Coalition Army step through Huguan for half a step, such a task is really cruel and ruthless, but Zhao Yun felt very excited.

The clay pot is always broken by the well, and the general will inevitably die before the battle, Zhao Yun has never been afraid of life and death, he only cares about being able to help the third brother Zhao Xing do more things, show what he has learned in the good young Huali, and live up to the expectations of the master. In the past, Zhao Yun was responsible for battlefield assault combat missions, and rarely fought battles to hold positions or counterattack, which made him feel that he lacked a challenge. This time, without waiting for Zhao Yun to take the initiative, Zhao Xing actually threw him the arduous task of guarding and merging the state Dongda M-N, which made his heart warm.

Since marrying Wulan, Zhao Yun's x-ng personality has become more and more calm and steady, and at the age of his twenties, his cultivation is somewhat similar to that of Jia Xu in his forties. Wulan had already given birth to a boy and an NV child for Zhao Yun, and without waiting for Zhao Yun to call the shots, Zhao Xing preemptively named Zhao Yun's eldest son, called Zhao Haoxu. Actually, there is no need for Zhao Xing to be so anxious, Zhao Yun would never name his son Zhao Xing, it is purely a guy who is a thief, and he always remembers that the name of the child of Zhao Yun's family is Zhao Xing in history.

In addition to the main general Zhao Yun and the military advisor Li Fu, the generals of the Zhenbei Army guarding Huguan, there were also several deputy generals who had been matched by Jīng's heart, these people were: Zhou Cang, Cao X-ng, Liu Shi and Huang Long.

Zhou Cang, as an old man in the party, was the first to follow Zhao Xing under his command, and his loyalty and bravery were enough to serve as the deputy general of the guard, and this black guy had guarded the Huguan alone before, so he was familiar with the road.

Cao X-ng, as a veteran general under Lu Bu, later switched to Zhao Xing, and served as the commander of the light cavalry division under Zhao Yun when he served as the commander of the Blue Wolf Army.

Liu Shi and Huang Long were born in the Yellow Turban Lu-N people, were originally abducted by Zhao Yun to enter Bingzhou, and later were recruited by Guan Yu into the vanguard army, belonging to a typical "barefoot not afraid of wearing shoes", because of the courage in battle, as if death was home, and later took over the position of Hou Cheng and Xue Lan, and became the commander of the first and third divisions of Qingbu. These two people have always been jealous of the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and they have no idea of being loyal to the Han court, they will only obey the orders of the main general, and they are best used to deal with the soldiers and horses of the imperial court.

The armies confronted each other, and the night was calm. When the scorching sun on the morning of early autumn sprinkled the brilliance of Jin S- on the Huguan city wall, the soldiers of the vanguard army guarding the pass saw the dust billowing in the distance, and an army of tens of thousands of people turned their backs to the red sun and walked neatly towards Huguan.

In the middle of this large army, a large banner with the character "Yuan" was hung high, and in front of it were three banners with the character "Zhang", swaying and stretching in the early morning breeze. Yuan Shao sat upright on his horse, in the position of the Chinese army, beside Yan Liang and Wen Chou, and behind him were the strategists Fu Zhu and Xu You. Yuan Shao, who sent 50,000 troops, brought 20,000 foot soldiers from Linxian this time, and the remaining 30,000 stayed in place with Zhang He.

Because the terrain before Huguan was not suitable for large-scale corps operations, even if it was a dense offensive formation, people rushed to Huguan together, and at most 5,000 people rushed to the front at a time, and the rest could only line up in the back to watch the battle. In addition, today is just a test of X-ng's attack, that is, the foundation of the mō and mō state defenders, creating a momentum that preempts people, so Yuan Shao only brought 20,000 foot soldiers, as well as a small number of large weapons for siege.

Coming to a place one mile away from Huguan, Yuan Shao ordered the army to stop advancing, and after arranging the formation, he said to the three brothers Zhang Nan, Zhang Kai, and Zhang Xu, who were in the vanguard: "I am here to watch the three generals come out on top!"

The three Zhang brothers then took a small number of guards and came to Huguan.