The last three kingdoms

Chapter 837

Don't look at Liu Yuan's dignified appearance, imposing manner, and his gentle and elegant style. People who are new to Liu Yuan are easily confused by his good appearance. Those who have really been in touch with him for a long time know that Liu Yuan is a kind-faced A person with a poisonous heart and cruel means.

Abandoning Qi Wannian and others this time shows the viciousness of his methods.

When Qi Wannian led an army to join him, Liu Yuan greeted him with a smile, and appointed Qi Wannian as General of Pingnan and Hanoi Prefect to control the armies of all roads in Hanoi. He also lost trust.

Zhao Gu's Xiongnu army is Liu Yuan's direct lineage, and Liu Yuan must save them no matter how much he pays, and Liu Yuan naturally doesn't care about Qi Wannian's miscellaneous soldiers, if he can be saved easily , Liu Yuan was saved, but the problem is that Qi Wannian's men and horses were intercepted by the Jin army. If he wanted to rescue them, Liu Yuan didn't know how much he would have to pay. Liu Yuan is not that selfless to change the lives of these miscellaneous people. It is reasonable for Qi Wannian and others to be abandoned.

Liu Yuan saw that the Jin army was busy besieging the Qi Wannian tribe, which undoubtedly gave him a good chance to get rid of the battle. He decisively ordered the Huns to retreat northward and disengage from the Jin army.

Yang Hu targeted the Qi Wannian tribe within the encirclement. Liu Yuan gave up on the rescue and evacuated northward on his own initiative. Yang Hu was naturally quite satisfied, and now more than 2 people from Qi Wannian became members of the network. Zhiyu had no chance to escape. As for Liu Yuan's Hun army, Yanghu didn't have enough troops to deal with it at this time, so he naturally took care of it flawlessly and let him go.

In despair, Qi Wannian chose to surrender, which was a bit beyond Yang Hu's expectation, but of course Yang Hu enjoyed the success of defeating an enemy without fighting.

After recruiting Qi Wannian's troops and occupying Gaodu City, the battle of Gaodu came to an end, and the Jin army won a decisive victory.

Winning Gaodu is equivalent to seizing the gates of Shangdang and even Bingzhou, which created conditions for the Jin army to recover and lose in the next step. Yang Hu did not rest on the merit list. On the one hand, he gathered his troops and marched northward to pursue Liu Yuan.

At this moment, Liu Yuan was on his way to retreat to Huguan. Hearing that Yang Hu led the army to chase after him, Liu Yuan was not too worried. From Gaodu to Huguan, there were many passes along the way. Liu Yuan only needed to send a small part of the army to go. Now that he was able to resist the Jin army's pursuit, what really worried Liu Yuan was the Shu army who had already occupied the Hanshan Fortress and Tunliu City. This was a hindrance to his return to Huguan.

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After taking Tunliu, Liu Yin's next offensive target was of course Huguan. Huguan is the county seat of Shangdang and the center of Shangdang. Only by taking Huguan City can he declare control of Shangdang County.

However, Huguan was guarded by Liu Jing, the king of the Xiongnu with 2 horses, and it was not easy to win.Just as Liu Yin was planning how to capture Huguan, news came from the southern front that Liu Yuan had given up Gaodu and returned to Binghuguan.

Unexpectedly, Liu Yuan was so decisive. When he heard that the Shu army had captured the Hanshan Fortress and the city of Tunliu County, he left the important town of Gaodu and went back to Huguan.

It seems that Liu Yuan attaches great importance to Huguan beyond imagination, and even wants to return to Huguan at all costs. According to intelligence, Liu Yuan lost nearly 3 horses in the Battle of Gaodu, most of them were in the Liu Yuanning lost one-third of his troops when he was evacuated from Gaodu, and he had to return to Huguan forcibly, which shows the importance of Huguan to Liu Yuan.

Although Liu Yuan lost 3 people, he still has an army of [-], which is more than twice the number of the Shu army. If Liu Yin goes to attack Huguan at this time, he will probably fall into the situation of being flanked by the Huns. So Liu Yin also decisively gave up his plan to attack Huguan.

But not hitting Huguan does not mean that Liu Yin will do nothing. Although it is not realistic to ambush Liu Yuan on the way with the current force, it will cause Liu Yuan a little trouble and make his return road not go smoothly. , Liu Yin can still do it.

Returning from Gaodu to Huguan, there are two ways to go. One is to go directly to Huguan via the eldest son and Tunliu. Now that Tunliu is under the control of the Shu army, it is obvious that Liu Yuan will not choose this way. It may be to choose the road to the east, from Xuanshi to the north via Huguan Pass and return to Huguan.

If Liu Yin wanted to create some trouble for Liu Yuan on this road, Huguankou was undoubtedly the most suitable place.

Huguankou is located sixty or seventy miles south of Huguan County. The two peaks stand between each other and are empty in the middle. And got its name.Li Yan, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, praised Huguankou in his poem "Xingsheng in Luzhou" and said: "Hukou is facing the mountains in the east, and it is full of haze and purple emerald. Bend. Five dragons fly to the old pines and firs, Wanjing is hustle and bustle for a month. Tourists suddenly wake up with dusty eyes, who will hold the entrance in the fairyland?"

Huguankou is the southeast pass of the entire Shangdang Basin, and its geographical location is still very important. When Cao Cao pacified Bingzhou, Gao Gan sent troops to garrison Huguankou. Cao Cao sent generals Le Jin and Li Dian to attack, but failed. Later, Cao Cao He personally led the army out of Yecheng, walked through Yangchangban, and used a tactic of feigning surrender to break through the Huguankou, defeating the high-ranking officials, forcing the high-ranking officials to flee from the Hu people, and finally died. Cao Cao successfully pacified Bingzhou.

During the Wuhu Rebellion, Huguankou was an important pass for Jin and Hu to compete for. Liu Yuan captured Huguankou and finally controlled the entire Shangdang, laying the foundation for advancing Luoyang.

But today, even Liu Yuan himself may not realize that this time he defeated Gaodu and Huguan Pass, which is very different from him in history.

Such a dangerous battle is the most ideal place to fight an ambush. However, Liu Yin has no plan to completely block Liu Yuan at the Huguan Pass. There are two main reasons. First, the strength of the Shu army is not enough to support such a battle. In a big ambush, if you want to eat Liu Yuan's 6 horses, the current [-] troops of the Shu army alone are not enough; secondly, Huguankou is close to Huguan County, if Liu Jing hears the news of Liu Yuan's distress , will definitely send troops to rescue, Liu Yin does not want to be flanked by the Huns.

However, setting up an ambush at Huguankou to beat up the fleeing Xiongnu army would be the best policy, and it would also let Liu Yuan understand that the current Shangdang is far from being a time for the Huns to overwhelm the sky with one hand.

(End of this chapter)