Chapter 161: Another Night Attack
There was no suspense about the fall of Nanpi, and under Liu Ke's harsh order, the defenders of Nanpi City did not support it, and they were frightened to open the city gate and surrender to the city at noon that day. Liu Ke didn't want to do the aftermath at all, his heart had already flown to the front line of Qingyun Pass, so Liu Ke was very irresponsible and threw the matter here to his subordinates, and then personally took the cavalry brigade and 20,000 regular troops and went straight to Qingyun Pass.
It takes at least two days to travel from Nanpi to Qingyun Pass, and the speed of the march along the way with a lot of ordnance and armor is greatly reduced, which can make Liu Ke anxious, but no matter how urgent this matter is, he can't be in a hurry. In the end, Liu Ke, who was in a hurry to the front, came up with a good idea, he led the cavalry brigade to take the lead, while the 20,000 foot soldiers slowly followed behind. Liu Ke is still very relieved about such an arrangement, and there will be no enemies in Jizhou here.
On the other side, Yuan Shao sent spies to reconnoiter around, but in the end, he came to the conclusion that there was no trail nearby that could bypass Qingyun Pass. However, at this time, the trial and match offered a clever plan, suggesting that Yuan Shao contact the Jizhou Shi clan again and ask them to attack Qingyun Pass on both sides for the way that the Qingyun Pass defenders should be carried out behind Qingyun Pass, and if someone really cooperates, Qingyun Pass can be won in a few days.
However, whether this strategy can succeed is really a little worrying, the Jizhou army began to partially block the passage to other states when it launched a sweep of the Shi clan, and when Yuan Shao led the army from Qingzhou, the Jizhou army carried out a comprehensive blockade of the area around Bohai County, so at this time, Nanpi had been recaptured by the Jizhou army Yuan Shao did not know.
Fan Xiwen had thought about competing with the princes of the late Han Dynasty when he first came to this turbulent era, and now with the growth of Jizhou's power, Fan Xiwen's ambition has become clearer and clearer, and the whole person's mind revolves around this. Fan Xiwen's neighbors include Yuan Shao, Cao Boss, Ding Yuan, Liu Yu, etc., among which Cao Boss and Fan Xiwen are allies, so it is natural to rule out; And Ding Yuan has the invincible Lu Bu under him, and Fan Xiwen can't afford to provoke him now; Liu Yu has the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang plus Gongsun Zhan, which is a combat force that cannot be underestimated, and Fan Xiwen does not want to ask for hardship for the time being.
After all possibilities are ruled out, only Yuan Shao, who was once the first major warlord in the late Han Dynasty in history, but now he is entrenched in Qingzhou, Yuan Datou, to say that if there is a previous life between Fan Xiwen and Yuan Shao, the two must be enemies, Fan Xiwen came to the end of the Han Dynasty and the relationship with whom he handled it very well, but after meeting Yuan Shao, he had a bad relationship with Yuan Shao and Wei Zhongdao. These are still secondary, and the most important thing is that now Fan Xiwen still occupies Jizhou, where the foundation of his family's future fortune is located, and he has also killed all the major generals who should belong to Yuan Shao, such as Gao Ran and Zhang Jaw, the four famous generals of Hebei. As for Guo Jia, a king-level strategist who had played soy sauce under Yuan Shao for several years, he didn't even need to fight soy sauce, so he skipped it directly.
It can be said that to put it mildly, Fan Xiwen snatched away all the roots of the original fortune, leaving only Yuan Shao, Yan Liangwen, and Chou, the two major generals, and the two major strategists of the trial and matching, plus a Qingzhou with yellow turbans everywhere, just with these Yuan Shao will definitely not be able to become a climate.
Now that you've become an enemy, let's destroy you completely! That's what Fan Xiwen thought, so he did the same.
Fan Xiwen's control of Jizhou is unimaginable to others, and the strength of the Jizhou Legion suppresses all the forces against Fan Xiwen on the surface, but this is just a child's trick, and what is really surprising is the Jinyi Wei department. After years of development by Wang Fan, Jinyiwei is intricately entangled in the underground of Jizhou, and it can be said that everything in Jizhou is in control. The Bohai County Shi clan coalition army captured Nanpi without Fan Xiwen's acquiescence, it would definitely not have been successful, and whether these Shi clans could raise troops alive was a question.
Since he decided to use Yuan Shao as the first stepping stone to conquer the world, Fan Xiwen naturally had to find an excuse to send troops to attack Yuan Shao openly, and he couldn't just bring someone to the door without saying anything, right? In this way, Fan Xiwen was not drowned by those self-proclaimed righteous scholars with saliva articles, which is still the reason why Fan Xiwen's skin is thick enough and his swimming skills are good enough.
However, if Yuan Shao brought someone to the door first, then the situation would be different, Fan Xiwen would definitely not come out to put a word of bullshit when he brought someone to the door.
And the reason why Yuan Shao was able to receive the invitation letters sent by those Shi clan coalition troops was all instructed by Fan Xiwen, and there was absolutely no defensive gap on the Jizhou border.
So at this time, Fan Xiwen had already begun to think about how many troops to deploy to march to Qingzhou, as for the safety of Qingyun Pass, Fan Xiwen was absolutely confident, he didn't believe that Yuan Shao's straw bag could take Qingyun Pass.
When reviewing the strategy, it is actually debatable to unite with the remnants of the Shi clan in Bohai County to attack the rear of Qingyun Pass, because whether there are any Shi clans in Bohai County is a problem. After Fan Xiwen's high-pressure policy, the Shi clan in Jizhou immediately reduced more than half of their personnel, and after the Shi Clan coalition army captured Nanpi, it immediately attracted the counteroffensive of the Jizhou army.
The scholars are not fools, Fan Xiwen made it clear that he wanted to suppress the scholars, and it was difficult for the scholars to have a living space in Jizhou, so it was not advisable to stay in Jizhou for a long time, and it was better to move as soon as possible.
After discussing the strategy, Yuan Shao also ordered the troops to continue to rest, as long as the scouts sent out to contact the Shi Clan coalition army returned, Yuan Shao would immediately launch an attack and take Qingyun Pass in one fell swoop. In Yuan Shao's mind, there are tens of thousands of people in the Shi clan coalition army, and no matter how bad it is, it can hold Nanpi for half a month, Yuan Shao has been underestimating Fan Xiwen, which needs to pay a price.
After resting like this for two days, the scouts sent out still did not move, and at this time Yuan Shao finally began to be anxious, so he sent out three scouts in a row. Yuan Shao, who was bent on taking Qingyun Pass and entering Jizhou, did not know that a huge crisis was coming towards Yuan Shao, and this crisis almost killed him.
Liu Ke led the cavalry brigade all the way to Qingyun Pass and quietly entered Qingyun Pass, which did not alarm any Yuan Jun. Liu Ke, who arrived at Qingyun Pass, immediately took over all the defenses on Qingyun Pass, and then began to arrange a counteroffensive against Yuan's army.
After closing the return of the defenders, Liu Ke could be 100% sure that Yuan Shao was playing tricks, otherwise it would be impossible for so many days without a single movement. Originally, Liu Ke wanted to take someone to meet Yuan Shao, a celebrity who had never met but was like thunder, but considering that the cavalry brigade was already a little tired from coming from afar, he had to fade this idea.
Yuan Shao, who didn't know anything about Liu Ke's arrival with his troops, ordered the troops to rest and recuperate and not fight again, which just gave Liu Ke a good opportunity to arrange an attack.
That night, Liu Ke decided to continue his old job. Take a cavalry brigade for a sneak attack. The Jizhou army was quite skilled in doing this kind of thing, and under the leadership of their respective officers, the cavalry brigade secretly touched the vicinity of Yuan's camp, and then collectively mounted their horses and launched a charge. Once the more than 3,000 cavalry launched a charge, it was definitely a torrent beast that immediately formed an irresistible momentum.
The wooden horse fence set up by the Yuan army has no effect at all, and the cavalry of the cavalry brigade are equipped with double horse pedals, and the whole person can make countless fancy movements on the horse.
The cavalry brigade rushed to the front of the Yuan army's camp, only to see that the Yuan army's gate was closed, but there was no movement in the Yuan army's camp, and it seemed that these people did not know that the disaster had come.
As long as the Yuanmen cavalry brigade breaks through, it will be able to rush in and slaughter it fiercely, but the Yuanmen is tightly closed, but this is not a problem. The cavalry rushing in front didn't know where to find a few thick hemp ropes with baby arms, and the other end of the hemp rope was a sharp hook and claw, and the cavalry raised the hook in his hand and turned it in a circle, and then threw the hook out with force.
The hook claw lassoed Yuan Jun's gate from a long distance, and then all the cavalry rode back together, and Yuan Jun's gate was pulled by the huge force generated by the cavalry and the horses. Seeing this, the rest of the cavalry also followed the movements of their companions and threw out the hooks they brought, and then slapped their horses and galloped back, and only once back and forth was Yuan Jun's gate was overturned.
"Kill." The commander of the cavalry brigade raised the chopping knife in his hand and shouted loudly, and the cavalry who had just solved the gate immediately responded, and the sound shook the sky for a while, and the sleeping Yuan soldiers were immediately awakened, and hurriedly got up and put on their armor and rushed out of the camp with the weapons in their hands, only to open the corner of the tent to reveal a head and be killed by the oncoming horse chopping knife, and countless Yuan soldiers were killed in a hurry.
The cavalry brigade that rushed into Yuan's camp immediately moved out, set fire to it, and waited for Yuan's army to come out and send him to death, and rode back and forth on horseback, and if they waited too long, they burned the tent with a fire. The entire camp of the Yuan army was suddenly shrouded in the flames of the sky, and the shouts of killing gradually rose.
The most hateful thing is that Liu Ke, who was on Qingyun Pass, watched Yuan Jun's camp catch fire and actually ordered someone to move all the ten drums in Qingyun Pass out, and then ordered the soldiers to beat it hard, which was considered to encourage those warriors who were fighting.
But it was said that the commander of the cavalry brigade was moving around with a battalion of cavalry, and accidentally walked to the vicinity of Yuan Shao's camp, and at this time the lights in Yuan Shao's big tent had been lit, and he could vaguely see someone wearing armor.