Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 860: Bai Qi does nothing

Chapter 858: Bai Qi who does nothing

The three families of Cao, Liu and Song launched a fierce attack on the city for three days, causing a total of nearly 1,500 casualties to the Liang army.

Although the coalition forces suffered more casualties, the three-day fierce attack showed the coalition's majesty, and now it has completely overwhelmed the Liang army in terms of momentum.

It is naturally impossible for the coalition forces to continue such a high-intensity siege in the future. After all, the consumption of this kind of death attack without any technical content is too great, even if the coalition forces are strong, they still cannot bear it.

Three days later, the coalition forces changed their previous strategy of losing both sides and adopted a conservative and steady siege method. While consuming the supplies of the Liang army's defense, they also gradually weakened the Liang army's strength.

This method of attack does greatly reduce casualties, but the disadvantage is that it is more time-consuming and laborious. If the attack continues at this trend, it may take the coalition forces a year to completely capture Hulao Pass. This is without the support of Luoyang reinforcements. The premise.

At the same time, the 100,000-strong army led by Yuan Shao on the southeast road had also successfully arrived at Xuanyuan Pass.

After Yuan Shao arrived, after several days of exploration, he finally figured out the details of Xuanyuan Pass.

There are 20,000 defenders in Xuanyuan Pass. The defender is Yuwen Chengdu's father, Yu Wenji. Although the defense of the pass is considered tight, there is still a gap compared with Hulao Pass.

After understanding this, Yuan Shao immediately convened a meeting of princes and made a decision to go all out to break the barrier.

Meanwhile, Liu Xiu raised objections and pointed out that as long as Hulao Pass was breached, Xuanyuan Guangcheng and Yique Pass would be defeated without attack, so there was no need to attack by force on his own.

 Liu Xiu's opinion went straight to the core, but Yuan Shao couldn't listen at all because he needed fame and prestige.

When he was under Qin Hao's command, no matter how well Yuan Shao performed, the limelight was definitely still Qin Hao's. Now that he was finally away from Qin Hao, how could Yuan Shao continue to remain silent?



Therefore, Yuan Shao wants to attack Luoyang before Qin Hao. This is not only to make a name for himself and prove himself, but also to slap Qin Hao and the princes in the face, so that they understand that it is wrong not to choose him as the leader of the alliance.

I, Yuan Shao, can lead the partial army to Luoyang before the main force. If I serve as the leader of the alliance, I will definitely do better than Qin Hao, so you fools chose Qin Hao instead of me!

Yuan Shao didn't show it on the surface, but in his heart he was still very worried about Qin Hao stepping on him to become the leader of the alliance.

 Qin Hao knew this very well, so he let Yuan Shao lead the army alone, because Yuan Shao would try his best to break Xuanyuan Pass even after the tiger was out of the cage.

In this way, the battle at Xuanyuan Pass also started, and the coalition forces divided into three groups had already started fighting in two groups, leaving only Guangcheng Pass without any movement.

Guangcheng Pass is located in the south of Sizhou, at the junction of Yanzhou and Jingzhou. There is a road of several hundred miles from Yanzhou.

Sun Jian led the army from Suanzao. In addition to taking a detour, he also had to pass through Yingchuan and Runan counties in Yuzhou. It would be impossible to reach them without more than a month's march.

At this time, the Baiqi tribe outside Guangcheng Pass also received news of reinforcements.

“The 100,000 allied troops coming to support this time will arrive in half a month. The main general is Sun Jian, the governor of Wu County, and the deputy general is Qin Siye, the father of General Qin Wu. In addition, there are five princes accompanying him.”

Bai Qi put down the information scroll in his hand, then looked at the generals in the hall and said calmly: "The specific strength of our army is a secret, and it is not appropriate to expose it to the princes at the moment. Where is Zhou Yu?"

Zhou Yu, who joined Bai Qi's command as he wished, stood up immediately when he heard Bai Qi calling him, clasped his fists respectfully and said: "The general is here." "You are now ordered to lead an army of fifty thousand and withdraw to the Northern Army camp."

The Northern Army Camp is a camp in Nanyang specifically designed to guard against threats from Sizhou in the north.

Before Zhou Yu had time to respond, Qin Wu stood up at this moment and said with an unhappy face: "General Bai, our army of 60,000 elite troops has surrounded Guangcheng Pass for nearly two months, but has not launched a single attack. If he didn't even shoot an arrow and returned without success, wouldn't the food and grass consumed be wasted? "

Since Qin Hao led his army to join the alliance, Bai Qi led 60,000 elites to Guangcheng. However, they have been practicing during the past two months and have not conducted any military operations.

What is most difficult for Qin Wu to understand is that even if Han Qinhu, the guard general of Guangcheng Pass, took the initiative to lead his troops out of the pass to challenge, Bai Qi still refused to fight with him.

Sixty thousand elite Qin troops, this is not a small number. The number of soldiers and horses that the Lord brought to the alliance was only 60,000.

Bai Qi has such a huge combat force, and if he doesn't use it properly, he will just sit around and waste military supplies. This naturally caused dissatisfaction among some generals headed by Qin Wu.

In the past, Qin Wu would have dared not question Bai Qi, but now he was Bai Qi's lieutenant, and Bai Qi had done nothing for two whole months. Qin Wu couldn't hold it in any longer, so he said something pleasant. .

Seeing this, Zhou Yu said: "General Qin, if you don't withdraw now, the secret of our army's strength will be exposed to the princes, which will probably bring unnecessary trouble to the lord."

　　“This…is true.”

Qin Wu was immediately discouraged, and then he put his head in his hands and said with a frantic expression: "General Bai, if you really have any plans, it doesn't matter even if you can't tell everyone clearly, but do you have it or not?"

At this moment, two handsome young men, one black and one white, broke in. They officially hired Mo Ya and his younger brother Bai Feng, who were seconded from Qin Hao.

 “Meet the general.” The two of them saluted in unison.

Then Bai Feng stepped forward and whispered something in Bai Qi's ear, but a glimmer of excitement flashed in Bai Qi's plain eyes.

“Everyone, you will know your merits and demerits in half a month.”

Bai Qi still didn't say it clearly, but there was a profound meaning behind this sentence, which made everyone present feel refreshed.

Bai Qi is a famous general in the world, and like his lord, he has not lost a battle yet. Such inaction is not his style at all.

Including Qin Wu and many generals, they actually thought that Bai Qi had a secret plan, but they couldn't tell it yet before the time came. Now that they heard that Bai Qi finally spoke, they can let go of their worries.

 After enduring it for more than two months, I was finally ready to do something big. Qin Wu thought excitedly.

With fifty thousand troops withdrawn at once, it was natural that such a big movement could not be concealed from the Liang army.

This move also shocked Han Qinhu. He thought Bai Qi was finally going to attack the city, but later he realized that it was the Qin army that had withdrawn.

 (End of this chapter)