Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 919 The Battle of Yique Pass

Chapter 917: The Battle of Yique Pass

After the Hulao Rain Battle, the Kwantung Allied Forces were divided into three.

Qin Hao, the leader of the East Route, attacked Hulao Pass, Yuan Shao, the leader of the Southeast Route, attacked Xuanyuan Pass, and Sun Jian attacked Guangcheng Pass on the South Route.

Among the three armies, it was Sun Jian's army from the South that made the first contribution.

Not long after Sun Jiang led the army to reach Guangcheng Pass, Bai Qi easily designed and captured this pass, and captured [-] Liang troops, while the [-] troops on the South Road only paid the price of [-] casualties;

Seeing that Sun Jian had breached Guangcheng Pass, Yuan Shao was unwilling to lag behind and mobilized a large army to forcibly attack the pass. After more than [-] casualties, he barely broke through Xuanyuan Pass and captured [-] Liang troops.

So far, together with the [-] captives of the Eastern Route Army, the coalition forces have captured a total of [-] Liang troops.

In addition, after the southeast and south armies join forces, they will face a situation of one army and two generals, so of course a new general must be elected.

Yuan Shao's prestige among the princes is second only to Qin Hao. Originally, Sun Jian could not compete with Yuan Shao, but the battle of Guangcheng Pass was really beautiful, which also made Sun Jian qualified to compete with Yuan Shao.

But to everyone's surprise, Sun Jian deliberately did not fight or grab, so that the position of the South Road leader easily fell into Yuan Shao's hands.

After the Liang army joined forces, there were still nearly 16 soldiers, and Yuan Shaochu was in charge of such a huge force, so he was naturally eager to make meritorious service, so he set his sights on the last southern gate of Sizhou, Yique Pass.

Yiqueguan originally had only [-] defenders, and the guard Yang Su could barely resist with this strength. However, after the arrival of reinforcements from Luoyang and Hulao, Yiqueguan, which had [-] troops, changed its situation. Also changed into another look.

Because Yuan Shao killed Yu Wenhuaji, the father of the Liang army general Yuwen Chengdu when he broke through Xuanyuan Pass, and after Yuwen Chengdu arrived in Yique, he went to challenge him on the grounds of 'improving morale', but in fact he wanted to fight for his father. revenge.

After Yang Su thought deeply, he also felt that morale must be improved, so the envoy met with the coalition forces, and each led an army of [-] to fight a decisive battle ten miles outside the pass.

Seeing that the Liang army, which had been shrinking all the time, dared to take the initiative to make an appointment this time, the coalition army naturally agreed with joy.

Before the start of the war, it was inevitable for the two sides to fight each other, and Yang Su naturally dispatched the strongest Yuwen Chengdu. Under Yuwen Chengdu's attack with hatred, his combat power was [-]% higher than usual, and he easily killed three generals of the coalition army.

Facing the aggressive Yuwen Chengdu, the coalition forces successively dispatched five generals including Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Qin Wu, Wei Wentong, and Gai Yan to join forces, but they could only contend with it and failed to defeat it. Yuwen Chengdu also once again shocked the world with its record.

Yuan Shao saw that Yuwen Chengdu was so brave, because he had revenge for killing his father, this made Yuan Shao extremely jealous of Yuwen Chengdu, and wished he could get rid of it immediately to avoid future troubles.

Therefore, at the time when the battle between the generals was inextricably linked, Yuan Shao sent several generals to attack again.

Seeing this, Yang Su immediately sent Yu Juluo, Shi Wansui and other generals to support him.

Another melee on a smaller scale ended here.

The lineup of generals in the Southeast and Southern Alliance armies is far inferior to Qin Hao's East Route Army.

With the strongest generals held back by Yuwen Chengdu, even Sun Jian and Sun Ce's father and son fought in person, but they could barely compete against the generals of the Liang army.

Yuan Shao saw that the battle situation was getting worse, so he could only take the initiative to start a decisive battle, but such momentum was naturally not as good as that of the Liang army, and this was what Yang Su wanted to see.

After the decisive battle started, Yuan Shao didn't listen to Bai Qi's opinion, so that he fell into an ambush and was easily defeated by Yang Su.

If it weren't for Bai Qi and Qin Jian leading the army to help, Yuan Shao might even be in danger of annihilating his entire army.

Yuan Shao was defeated because he didn't listen to Bai Qi's opinion, so he also learned his lesson later, and listened to Bai Qi's persuasion not to fight easily.

After Yang Su's big victory, he naturally wanted to expand the results of the battle. It can be seen that Yuan Shao is not going to fight, so he had no choice but to send people to spread rumors.

Yang Su wanted to use this trick to force Yuan Shao to fight, and Yuan Shao also understood this under the advice of counselor Tian Feng, but he still had his own considerations.

Yuan Shao is in a different position now, for him to have no merit is his biggest fault.

Yuan Shao insisted on fighting Yang Su, and after two rounds of defeats, he completely grew his memory.
And because of Yuan Shao's arrogance and stupidity, the coalition army suffered nearly [-] casualties, and the morale of the Liang army naturally rose after winning streak, allowing Yang Su to eliminate the weakness of the Liang army, and it was no longer as weak as before.

Coupled with Yang Su's command of defending the city properly, the current Yique Pass is almost a seamless egg. The only way to capture Yique Pass is to attack it by force, but the strength of the Liang army is enough to defend it.

It can be said that Yuan Shao exhausted all means, no matter how hard he attacked, Yiqueguan was still as stable as Mount Tai, and he had no choice but to think of Bai Qi again.

But even Bai Qi, facing Yiqueguan, which has no flaws, has no good plan for a while.

Although Bai Qi didn't have a plan to break the city, he still offered several plans. After Yuan Shao adopted it, it also caused great trouble for the Liang army.

In the subsequent siege, the coalition forces suffered another [-] casualties, but only caused [-] casualties to the defenders.

Even though Yuan Shao felt sorry for the casualties and wanted to give up, Yang Su took the initiative to burn the pass and retreat.

What followed naturally was the news that the East Route Army had breached Hulao Pass.

The Hulao Pass and Dagu Pass are the east gates of Luoyang, but the Dagu Pass has not yet been rebuilt. Once the Hulao Pass is broken, the coalition forces can drive directly to the city of Luoyang.

Therefore, as the Yique Pass, which guards the south gate of Luoyang, naturally there is no need to continue to defend it.

Before the fire at Daguguan was ignited, Li Shimin ordered Yang Su to retreat, and Yang Su also decisively burned Yiqueguan.

When the fire came together, even if Yuan Shao wanted to chase him, he couldn't get past the wall of fire. After the fire was extinguished, Yang Su could only reach Luoyang.

Because of Yang Su's voluntary retreat, although Yuan Shao successfully passed the Yique Pass, he suffered [-] casualties, while Yang Su's army did not even reach [-].

The contest between Yuan Shao and Yang Su almost came to an end with Yuan Shao's complete defeat.

Before going to Luoyang, Bai Qi left [-] troops to garrison Guangcheng, and because Xuanyuanguan was in Yuan Shu's hands, it was not easy for Bai Qi to send troops to seize it before the coalition forces were disbanded.

In the battle of Yiqueguan, the coalition forces suffered [-] casualties, and because Bai Qi left behind [-] troops, only a little over [-] of the Southern Army arrived in Luoyang.

The 34 troops led by Qin Hao on the East Road suffered a full 11 casualties, while the Southeast and South Routes also suffered [-] casualties.

Unknowingly, the Kwantung Allied Forces, which had nearly 55 troops, had lost 21 troops, and their total strength had dropped to 33.

(End of this chapter)