Chapter 919 Battle at Yique Pass


    Chapter 917: Battle at Yique Pass


    After the Hulao Rain Battle, the Kanto Alliance was divided into three parts.


    The leader of the Eastern Road, Qin Hao attacked Hulao Pass, the leader of the Southeast, Yuan Shao attacked Xuanyuan Pass, Sun Jian attacked Guangcheng Pass, and the three counties surrounded Luoyang.


    Among the three armies, the first army to achieve success was Sun Jian''s army in the south.


    Shortly after Sun Jian led his troops to Guangcheng Pass, the pass was easily captured by Bai Qi and captured 10,000 Liang troops, while the 100,000 troops on the south road only paid the price of 10,000 casualties;


    After Sun Jian broke through Guangcheng Pass, Yuan Shao was unwilling to fall behind and launched a large army to forcibly attack the key points. More than 40,000 casualties were injured and killed and barely broken through Xuanyuan Pass and captured 5,000 Liang troops.


    At this point, plus the 43,000 prisoners of the Eastern Route Army, the coalition forces have captured a total of 58,000 Liang troops.


    In addition, after the two armies of the southeast and south meet, they face the situation of one army and two generals, so of course they have to choose a new chief general.


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


    What everyone expected was that Sun Jian deliberately did not fight or snatch, so that the position of the main general of the South Road easily fell into Yuan Shao''s hands.


    After the Liang army met, the troops still had nearly 160,000. Yuan Shao was so powerful that he was eager to make contributions, so he turned his attention to the last southern gate of Sizhou, Yique Pass.


    Yique Pass originally had only 25,000 defenders, and the defending general Yang Su could only barely compete with this amount of force. However, after the reinforcements from Luoyang and Hulao arrived, the battle situation of Yique Pass, which had 45,000 troops, became another.


    Because when Yuan Shao broke through Xuanyuan Pass, he killed Yu Wen Chengdu, the father of the Liang army general Yu Wen Chengdu. After Yu Wen Chengdu arrived in Yique, he challenged on the grounds of "improving morale", but in fact he wanted to avenge his father.


    After Yang Su thought deeply, he also felt that he had to improve his morale, so he made an appointment with the coalition forces and led 10,000 troops to fight ten miles outside the pass.


    When the coalition forces saw that the Liang army had been hiding, they dared to take the initiative to make an appointment this time, they naturally agreed happily.


    Before the war started, both sides naturally inevitably fought against generals, and Yang Su naturally sent the strongest Yuwen Chengdu. With the attack with hatred, Yuwen Chengdu''s combat power was even more normal, and it was very easy to kill three generals of the coalition army in a row.


    Faced with the aggressive Yuwen Chengdu, the coalition forces successively sent five generals including Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Qin Wu, Wei Wentong, and Gai Yan to join forces, but they could only compete with him and failed to defeat him. Yuwen Chengdu''s record was once again awesome.


    Yuan Shao saw that Yuwen Chengdu was so brave. Because he had a grudge against him for killing his father, Yuan Shao was extremely afraid of Yuwen Chengdu and wanted to immediately get rid of future troubles.


    So, just as the battle was in a difficult situation, Yuan Shao sent several generals to attack again.


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


    Another small melee is here to pay.


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


    With the strongest generals being restrained by Yuwen Chengdu, even Sun Jian and Sun Ce and his son went to fight in person, but they could only barely compete with the generals of the Liang army.


    Seeing that the situation of the war became worse and worse, Yuan Shao had to take the initiative to start a decisive battle, but naturally the momentum was not as good as that of the Liang army, and this was something Yang Su wanted to see.


    After the decisive battle began, Yuan Shao did not listen to Bai Qi''s opinion, so he was easily defeated by Yang Su after being ambushed. If Bai Qi and Qin Procuratorate had not led the army to aid, Yuan Shao might even be in danger of being wiped out.


    Yuan Shao was defeated because he did not listen to Bai Qi''s opinions, so he learned a lesson afterwards and followed Bai Qi''s dissuasion and stopped fighting easily.


    After Yang Su''s big victory, he naturally wanted to expand the results of the battle. It can be seen that Yuan Shao was not fighting, so he had no choice but to send someone to spread rumors, saying that Bai Qi did not want Yuan Shao to make contributions, so he advised him not to fight.


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


    Yuan Shao is in a different position now, and he is ineffective. For him, that is the biggest mistake.


    Yuan Shao insisted on fighting with Yang Su, but after losing two more battles, he completely gained a memory.


    Because of Yuan Shao''s arrogance and stupidity, the coalition forces suffered nearly 20,000 casualties. The morale of the Liang army increased greatly due to the continuous victory, which allowed Yang Su to eliminate the weakness of the Liang army and was no longer as weak as before.


    In addition, Yang Su was in good command of the city, and now Yique Pass is almost a seamless egg. If you want to attack Yique Pass, you can only attack, but the Liang army''s troops are enough to defend to the death.


    Yuan Shao has used all his means. No matter how hard he attacked, Yique Pass was still as stable as Mount Tai. He finally remembered Bai Qi again helplessly.


    But even Bai Qi had no good plans for the time being when facing Yique Pass, which had no flaws.


    Although Bai Qi did not have a plan to break the city, he still made several plans. After Yuan Shao adopted it, it also caused great trouble to the Liang army.


    In the subsequent siege, the coalition forces suffered another 20,000 casualties, but only caused 5,000 casualties to the defenders.


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


    What followed was naturally the news that the Eastern Route Army had broken through Hulao Pass.


    Hulao and Dagu Pass are the eastern gates of Luoyang, but Dagu Pass has not been rebuilt. Once the Hulao Pass is broken, the coalition forces can already drive straight into the city of Luoyang.


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


    Before the fire at Dagu Pass was ignited, Li Shimin ordered Yang Su to retreat, and Yang Su also burned Yique Pass quite decisively.


    When the fire was together, Yuan Shao wanted to chase after it, but he could not cross the fire wall at all. After the fire was extinguished, Yang Su was no longer in Luoyang.


    Because of Yang Su''s voluntary retreat, although Yuan Shao successfully passed Yique Pass, he suffered 40,000 troops, while Yang Su''s army was less than 10,000.


    The battle between Yuan Shao and Yang Su almost ended with Yuan Shao''s complete defeat.


    Before going to Luoyang, Bai Qi left behind a 10,000 army to station in Guangcheng, and Xuanyuan Pass was in Yuan Shu''s hands, and before the coalition forces were disbanded, Bai Qi was not good at sending troops to seize it.


    In the battle of Yique Pass, the coalition forces suffered 40,000 casualties. Because Bai Qi left behind a 10,000 army, the southern army that arrived in Luoyang was only more than 100,000.


    The 340,000 army led by Qin Hao from the east road suffered a total of 110,000 casualties, while the southeast and south roads also had 100,000 casualties.


    Before we knew it, the Kanto Alliance Army, which had nearly 55 troops, had lost 210,000 troops, and its total strength was reduced to 330,000.


    (This chapter ends)