The last three kingdoms

Chapter 846
Yang Hu waved his hands and said, "Don't chase after the poor!"

In fact, Yang Hu knew in his heart that the so-called poor bandits should not be pursued was just a rhetoric, which was equivalent to giving himself a step down. Now that the Jin army has just experienced a fierce battle, the entire army is extremely exhausted, and it is true that it has no strength to pursue.

In addition, the Huns were dominated by cavalry, which was extremely fast, and the infantry could not catch up at all. With a small number of cavalry alone, they might not be able to catch up with them. Until the counterattack of the Huns, the Jin army may not be able to bear such a loss.

So Yang Hu simply ordered the Jin army to gather troops and stop chasing.

However, Fu Zhu, the general guard of the Tiger Cavalry Army who fought on the side of the Shu Army, was not satisfied. He had just led the Tiger Cavalry Army to kill the Huns, and the Huns retreated. However, Fu Zhuo continued to chase for dozens of miles relentlessly, but he also beheaded many Huns.

Liu Yin was worried that Fu Zhu would be ambushed by the Huns, so he led his army to chase after him closely. However, the Huns really retreated this time, and they had no intention of counterattacking, so they retreated to Huguan City.

Fu Zhu chased to the city of Huguan, but in the end he could only look forward to the city and sigh. Although the tiger cavalry army is brave and good at fighting, attacking the city is by no means their strong point.

Liu Yin ordered the Shu army to retreat, and set up a camp ten miles away from Huguan City, facing the camp of the Jin army far away, but the two sides seemed to have a tacit understanding. its matter.

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This defeat made Liu Yuan heartbroken. Not only did Liu Yuan's proud cavalry suffer heavy losses, but more importantly, the Huns lost their strategic depth outside Huguan City. Now the Huns have to retreat Huguan City started to defend the city, which they are not good at, to make a living.

This situation has become much more difficult. If it is only to deal with the Jin army, although the number of the Jin army is twice that of the Shu army, Liu Yuan is very confident in defending Huguan City.

The Shu army, which is not dominant in military strength, is Liu Yuan's real worry. Liu Yuan knows the Shu army well. Chang'an City was so strong back then. It took the Shu army less than three days to take it down. It was a miracle. Secondly, the Shu army broke through the Hanshan fortress twice, both of which ended within a few hours.

The strong offensive ability of the Shu army really made the army defending the city shudder.Liu Yuan didn't know how strong Chang'an City's defenses were, but the Hanshan Fortress was a defensive facility personally deployed by Liu Yuan, which was as solid as a rock, but under the strong attack of the Shu army, it was wiped out in less than half a day.

Liu Yuan knew very well that what the Shu army relied on were those firearms. The astonishingly powerful firearms could easily destroy any defense facilities, whether it was a city or a fortress, the so-called impenetrable in front of it was just a joke.

With the defensive conditions of Huguan City, it is simply unable to resist the firearms of the Shu army. If you stick to it, it will definitely not work.

Liu Yuan said to Cui You, "I don't know what trick Dr. Cui has?"

Cui You shook his head helplessly this time and said: "Your Majesty, even if I want to break my head, there is nothing I can do. According to my plan, this Huguan City will definitely not be able to hold. After ten days and a half months, look at the postures of the Jin people and the Shu people, can you wait for ten days and a half months? The Shu army's firearms are powerful, and the rock-solid Hanshan Fortress can't stop them. Huh How can Guancheng be able to stop it? In my opinion, it is better to abandon Huguan as soon as possible and retreat to Jinyang, thinking that it is a surefire plan."

Liu Yuan nodded, and said: "This king also has the same intention. The isolated city cannot be defended. It is better to return to Jinyang as soon as possible, concentrate our forces, and then fight the Jin people and the Shu people."

Liu Yuan had made up his mind, and he would not give the Jin army a chance to besiege the city. He gathered his men and horses overnight, abandoned the city and left. At the end, Liu Yuan set fire to Huguan City, and the city couldn't hold it anyway. , It is better to burn it clean, and give a handful of scorched earth to the people of Jin and Shu, and let them fight.

After the battle of Yanghu, he rectified his troops and horses. Hearing that the Shu army had chased down to the city of Huguan, he couldn't help being a little anxious. This city of Huguan is very important, and it cannot fall into the hands of the Shu army, so Yanghu immediately sent his troops to Huguan city. , wanting to get ahead of the Shu army and take Huguan City.

However, Liu Yin didn't mean to fight with them. When the cavalry army chased them to the city of Huguan, Liu Yin called them back in time, and retreated ten miles to camp. It was given to the Jin army.

Of course, Yang Hu did his part in this point, but he led his army to Huguan City, and suddenly found that the whole Huguan City had been reduced to a sea of ​​flames, with thick smoke billowing and raging flames.

This was definitely not caused by an accidental fire in the city, but deliberately set on fire by the Huns. Obviously they had already abandoned the city. As for the life and death of the people in the city, Liu Yuan naturally couldn't care less.

The panic-stricken common people fled desperately from the city, and many of them were buried in a sea of ​​flames before they could escape in time.

Yang Hu ordered the Jin army to help evacuate the people and go into the city to put out the fire on the one hand.It's a pity that it was spring, and it was the time when the wind and sand were at its peak. The wind helped the fire, and the fire took advantage of the wind to burn Huguan City to a clean slate. After the fire extinguished, the Jin army entered the city. Scorched earth, no more tiles left.

After learning that Liu Yuan had fled back to Jinyang, Yang Hu decided to march to Jinyang immediately without giving Liu Yuan any chance to breathe.

The advancing route of the Jin army was also along the same lines as the Huns retreated. Starting from Huguan, passing through Xiangyuan and Niexian counties and crossing Yeli Mountain in the north, they could reach Qixian and Yangyi in Taiyuan County.

Yang Hu naturally didn't greet Liu Yin. Although Liu Yin's garrison was only a few miles away from the Jin army's camp, they just knew each other and never communicated with each other.

Yang Hu knew that in view of the court's attitude, it was impossible for him to cooperate with Liu Yin on the surface anyway. The relationship between him and Liu Yin could only rely on tacit understanding, just like the battle of Huguan.

But until the Jin army left, Liu Yin did not move.

Fu Zhuqi said: "Brother-in-law, Jin people have already left, why are we still here?"

Liu Yin smiled slightly and said, "It's none of our business if they go their way. Is there no other way to go to Jinyang?"

Fu Zhu said: "Any other way? It seems that the nearest way is Nie County, right?"

Liu Yin calmly said: "This time we will not go to Nie County, but to Hedong. We have more urgent things to do."

(End of this chapter)