Three Kingdoms: Everything Can Be Gamified

Chapter 358 The troops approach Qinghe
"Li Jing, you and Huo Jun are guarding Pingyuan County. I don't want to hear about Cao's army crossing north again." After expelling Cao's army and conquering Pingyuan County, Zhang He arranged for defense.

"Here!" Li Jing had nothing to say. Given the dangers of the Yellow River, he would not be able to see anyone if he was smuggled across here.

Zhang He wanted to go to Qinghe County. In the final analysis, he was to assist Ma Chao in dealing with the Southern Huns.

With Wei Yi and Pang De's troops present, Li Jing was not worried about Zhang He's safety.

When necessary, I will go to support you.

But having said that, when that time comes, Tai Shici will also come to support.

After autumn, the imperial army advanced so quickly.

In the blink of an eye, they regained Youzhou, then went south to conquer Hejian Kingdom, Bohai County and Pingyuan Kingdom, and now they were heading towards Qinghe County.

As expected, Hebei will be calm before winter.

"How is the war situation in various places?" Zhang He looked at Jushou and asked casually.

After all, intelligence will be collected one after another, most of which are battle reports from Hebei.

Battle reports from other places must be obtained through the Di newspaper in Chang'an.

In other words, there was a delay of more than five days for the battle reports from various places to reach Zhang He.

If it's delayed, just delay it. Could it be that Guan Yu and Zhang Fei can be asked to send an additional battle report to themselves?

After all, they are not under his control and there is no need to report to him.

Of course, if you send someone over to ask for it, there is a high probability that it will be given. It is just an extra copy of the battle report.

The reason why Zhang He didn't want it was to prevent them from misunderstanding that he didn't trust their abilities.

"The last round of battle reports were from five days ago." Jushou replied.

Only when I came here did I find out that Zhang He was also paying attention to the intelligence of several other war zones.

"It's only been five days before I asked if any new reports have been delivered." Zhang He said casually.

"It hasn't been sent yet, maybe it has been sent to Pingyuan County. We have already started heading west." Jushou shook his head.

Not only is communication slow these days, but the delivery of messages is also tricky.

After all, the messenger couldn't locate Zhang He's position. He could only send it to a fixed point first, and then send it towards the front line based on the information he received.

Zhang He had better take the official route. If he takes some unknown trails, he may even miss the messenger.

"Then wait a minute..." Zhang He shook his head. The carrier pigeon must be built as soon as possible.

The homing pigeons that were previously sent to Chang'an have been raised there, and the role of the homing pigeons has begun to be tested.

If it proves to be really useful, then the use of homing pigeons to deliver messages will gradually be promoted.

It is difficult to say how long this promotion will take. The main reason is that the number of homing pigeons may not be able to keep up. After all, each station must be equipped.

It’s not just one or two. In theory, at least five should be equipped to meet normal expenses.

During wartime, the front line was afraid that more than ten of them would be needed to meet the communication needs.

There is no artificial reproduction technology these days. Relying on natural reproduction, the population of homing pigeons is not growing very fast.

If Zhang He did it himself, he could probably speed up the process, but only faster.

The breeding pigeon has been cultivated and is already a mature homing pigeon. As for the subsequent training, at least until he returns to Jinyang.

The location of the Southern Xiongnu is not far from Wei County, probably because they want to go there and join Yuan Shao at any time.

In fact, Yuan Shao now has too much to take care of himself, let alone send troops to support the Southern Huns.

Fortunately, Yuan Shao could not sit back and watch the Southern Xiongnu be completely defeated, so he sent [-] infantry to help, led by Yan Liang.

The previous surprise attack on the stronghold was unsuccessful, and even the judge was captured. Although Yan Liang was a general of the Yuan family, he had to be punished.

The reason why it has gradually lost its importance is that it was blinded in the first place.

Later, I finally cleaned it with grease, but my eyes were still affected to some extent and I couldn't see very clearly.

Since then, martial arts has changed from first-rate to second-rate, and naturally it is not reused.

Yan Liang's strength was greatly reduced, but his experience in commanding troops was still there, and his cooperation with the Southern Huns did bring some trouble to Ma Chao.From the beginning of the war to the present, small groups of conflicts between the two sides have continued. It seems that no one can do anything about the other, but in fact, Ma Chao has suffered a hidden loss.

The other party is obviously trying to tire the enemy out, but even if he knew it, he couldn't do anything to the other party.

He charged head-on, but the opponent blocked him abruptly. He fired with a crossbow and put on his shield.

Not to mention that the Southern Huns were also capable of riding and shooting, seizing the opportunity to counterattack.

Ma Chao had no other option but to withdraw from the shooting range.

The problem of a single type of troops was highlighted. He was not afraid of facing the Southern Xiongnu's surprise troops alone, but with the addition of Yan Liang's infantry and crossbowmen, he would be unable to withstand the encirclement from both sides.

Ma Chao thought about asking for help, but he heard that Taishi Ci's side was also fighting fiercely.

Yuan Shao took personal command, and with Han Mengshen taking the lead, he could barely withstand Huang Zhong's attack.

It doesn't matter who has the advantage. Mainly, Taishi Ci is not too anxious.

According to Xun You, as long as the stalemate continues, Yuan Shao's supplies will be exhausted in a month.

They were at the end of their rope and had to either retreat south or fight to the death.

No matter what, that is the best time to destroy them.

As a result, Taishi Ci had no way to support Ma Chao.

Just when he was unable to do anything, some soldiers came to report that there was an army approaching them from the east!

East?Isn't that where Cao's army was stationed?
Ma Chao was stunned, thinking that Cao Jun was coming to join forces with the Southern Xiongnu.

In fact, Cao Ren had thought about this before, but what the military advisor meant was that Yuan Shao's defeat was inevitable. Instead of wasting time and troops, it would be better to firmly occupy the plains and Bohai County.

As a result, they just used troops against Bohai County and received news that Zhang He defeated Lu Bu and officially began to move south.

So I planned to use the terrain characteristics of the Plain Country to launch a surprise attack. Who knew that the opponent would find out.

Not only did they lose [-] Yuexi troops, but they also eliminated Cao Chun's [-] heavy cavalry.

Fortunately, the casualties suffered by Lu Qian and Cao Ren were not very large. In terms of territory, Pingyuan Kingdom was not originally Cao Cao's territory, so it would be lost if it was lost.

Ma Chao was busy fighting, obviously not paying much attention to the intelligence, and did not know the news that Cao Cao had been defeated.

Seeing an army coming, be careful immediately.

As for about five or six miles away, Yang Lang came over to inform them, and then he realized that they were friendly troops.

"In other words, in just a few days, the general destroyed Cao's army in Pingyuan?" Ma Chao was a little unbelievable.

After Lu Bu was defeated, he was transferred to support Taishi Ci. As a result, Zhang He went south like this for only a few days and destroyed thousands of enemy troops.

He even felt that he should follow the general south, so that he could gain some military exploits.

Anyway, we have to join forces in the end to deal with the Southern Huns and Yuan Army in front of us.

"There's nothing surprising. After all, it's an army commanded by a general." Yang Lang replied.

Not long after, Yang Lang arrived and naturally learned about the situation on the front line immediately.

"General, I'm sorry, we haven't made any progress in the past few days..." Ma Chao took the initiative to confess.

"No, it's pretty good to be able to reach this level now." Zhang He nodded approvingly. With Ma Chao's temper, being able to calm down and deal with it slowly is already a great growth.

Otherwise, if they are provoked by the other party and kill them directly, problems may arise.

"In addition, if you don't deal with the Southern Xiongnu here, what will happen if they attack General Taishi from behind?" Zhang He asked back.

With Ma exceeding 2000 people, dragging thousands of people here is already a good result.

After a pause, he continued: "Besides, wouldn't I be here now? Get ready, the counterattack begins!"

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