"Where is Xue Rengui?"
No matter what, at this time, Xuanyuan Pass has been broken. Next, they will definitely face the most dangerous situation, and Li Xiang must respond in time. Moreover, it is necessary to respond as quickly as possible.
"The general is here!" Xue Rengui strode out of the queue.
As a god-level commander, Xue Rengui had already guessed his next mission at this time.
Although Luoyang has eight dangerous passes, these eight passes are equivalent to eight gates. If one is broken, it is equivalent to opening a gap in the wall. The other gates are actually useless!
One gate is broken, and the other gates are useless! In fact, if they insist on continuing to defend these gates, it will make their situation even more dangerous!
No matter how powerful Xiongguan is, if attacked from both front and back, it will be much easier to break through than before!
Since they will inevitably face the most direct pressure from the other side, the most precious thing at the moment is their military strength. They cannot waste even a single soldier! The more troops they can save, the easier it will be for them next.
Therefore, their top priority now is to withdraw all the troops outside the Eight Passes except Hangu Pass.
Since Hangu Pass was considered a rear area in the past, it actually had very few troops, so only 10,000 troops were stationed there. If we wait until the enemy army pours in, this force will indeed be thinner.
But there is Bai Qi in Yongzhou, so there is no need to think too much about this issue. Bai Qi, who is sitting in Wuguan, may not receive the news that Xuanyuan Pass has been breached much later than them. With Bai Qi's ability, he will help them seal the If there is this flaw, Si and Yong will not be reduced to battlefields at the same time. Even if Hangu Pass needs additional troops, it doesn't need too many.
Since Mengjin and Xiaopingjin in the north have the Yellow River Navy responsible for helping guard the waterways, they do not have many troops stationed, each only has a few thousand people. Moreover, the troops in the north had enough time to retreat to Luoyang.
On the opposite side are the Yique and Dagu passes in the south. The situation here is more dangerous. Once the enemy troops pour in along the breached Xuanyuan Pass, they will immediately attack these two passes from front to back to eliminate the effective strength of the Jin army. . Otherwise, Qingqi will go straight to Luoyang.
But the latter is unlikely. There are only a few cavalry in the coalition army, not to mention the few cavalry in Kuang Zhang's army. The Jin army will only be faster than them.
If Han Xin abandoned their total strength advantage and used their relatively small number of cavalry to engage in cavalry battles with the Jin army, wouldn't that be suicidal?
Before the opponent's subsequent large infantry reinforcements come over, they don't know how long it will be enough for their cavalry to fight!
If the Jin army really took the opportunity to eliminate the highly mobile cavalry unit, Han Xin's battle would not only be completely meaningless, but he would also lose six or seven points.
Therefore, the situation at these two levels is currently quite unfavorable. Xue Rengui knew that his mission this time was probably to withdraw the troops who had taken care of these two levels back to Luoyang.
Sure enough, everything will go as Xue Rengui expected, and this is his mission. Moreover, the military situation was so fierce that there was no time to lose. Xue Rengui immediately set off with ten thousand light cavalry.
"Guo Ziyi heard this and ordered you to lead 10,000 heavy cavalry, delay the dispatch of troops, and be responsible for the response!"
Light cavalry and heavy cavalry have different tactical priorities. Under such critical circumstances, it is of course impossible to let them set off together.
The speed of light cavalry is much higher than that of heavy cavalry. Xue Rengui leads the light cavalry one step ahead, which can produce a response effect in the first time.
It is impossible for heavy cavalry to compete with light cavalry in speed. Moreover, it is impossible for heavy cavalry to travel at full speed. Otherwise, even if they arrived there at full speed, with their heavy equipment, they would have already fallen down from exhaustion and would have no combat capabilities. They would not be there to respond, but to kill people.
Of the 15,000 heavy cavalry, 5,000 were placed on the Jingzhou battlefield, and here are the remaining 10,000.
These fifteen thousand heavy cavalry are Li Xiang’s treasure! Even with his background in the Jin army, being able to raise so many heavy cavalry was already close to the limit.
If someone really lost his life because of a tactical mistake, then even he, Li Xiang, would definitely be injured!
"Lord! Now that the Luoyang Pass Defense is useless, the armies of the northern princes will surely flood in. At this time, we still have to see how the princes of the Central Plains make their choices?" Liu Bowen said worriedly.
The target of the northern princes must be Sizhou, there is no need to doubt this.
The next target of the southern princes will still be Jingbei, and there is no need to doubt this. Just like the northern princes attacking Jingbei, the supply line is too long. If the southern princes march to Sizhou, they will go from Yangzhou, bypass Xuzhou, then to Yuzhou, and then to Sizhou. This supply line is also extremely long.
Next, where the Central Plains princes set their goals will directly affect the direction of this battle.
If the princes of the Central Plains abandon Nanyang and fight in Sizhou, then the pressure the Jin army will face in Sizhou will not be 250,000...
"Zhao Kuangyin is unknown. Cao Cao and Chi You are here..." Li Xiang was also feeling a little stressed at this time.
Li Xiang made a brief analysis. I am afraid that Cao Cao and Chi You will really change their goals and go to Sizhou!
Needless to say, Cao Cao gained the greatest benefit from moving his target to Sizhou for the sake of his territory.
On Chi You's side, Li Xiang found that their Jin army seemed to be somewhat self-defeating.
Huo Qubing considered it as a commander-in-chief, and after sending troops, his main target was Chi You. Later, due to the appearance of Ma Yin and others, Li Xiang and the others did not intervene much here.
However, Chi You is different from other princes in the world. This person was born in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Huo Qubing once again organized hundreds of thousands of disaster victims on his territory this time, but Chi You, under Fan Li's suggestion, abruptly resumed the skills they had started with the Yellow Turbans and directly organized half of the disaster victims into an army.
Although there are only 150,000 left, the later problems are still a huge test. Even if Chi You really followed the advice of Fan Li and Cao Cao, their current method is just a delaying tactic, and it is impossible to adopt this method forever.
For Chi You, after conquering Yongzhou, it can help him solve the problem. But now an open-door Sizhou has emerged that can also help them solve their problems.
Yongzhou is the logistical grain and grass supply base of the Jin army. Is Sizhou's grain production poor?
Li Xiang couldn't even think about it with his toes. If Xuanyuan Pass was broken, Chi You would probably lead the starving ghosts under him to grab food soon!
Therefore, at this moment, Li Xiang's expression became more solemn. If this is the case, there will be no problem with Yue Fei, but they will be in big trouble here!
The Jin army can afford to lose Jingxiang, but it doesn't look like the Jin army can afford to lose Luoyang?
However, Li Xiang did not expect that the problems he was worried about here had been basically solved under Zhuge Liang's extreme operations!
(End of chapter)
