The vanguard battalion this time was still the Yueqi battalion led by Deng Ai. However, the total number of troops in the Yueqi battalion at this moment had reached 5,000. Both in terms of size and momentum, they were completely different.

The entire Pingbei Army also has a completely new look. The Pingbei Army has been in a state of training for more than half a year. In other words, the Pingbei Army's swords have not drank blood for half a year. In this expedition, the Pingbei Army has high morale.

, eager for a battle, embarked on the journey.

This is also Cao Liang's first expedition since the expansion of the Pingbei Army. This will also be a battle to test the effect of the expansion of the Pingbei Army. What does one plus one equal? ​​This battle of Jiuyuan will tell the world something

Answer.

Jinyang is more than a hundred miles away from Jiuyuan. For the Yueqi battalion, it is only a short journey away. However, due to the need to achieve a coordinated pace with the infantry behind, they have to suppress the speed of advancement.

But despite this, the Yueqi battalion still had an encounter with the Huns cavalry in the early morning of the next day at the Qingyang River, thirty miles away from Jiuyuan City.

This Huns cavalry is not the real main force of the Huns, but a patrol team. They are responsible for guarding the periphery of Jiuyuan. This cavalry from the central Huns also just returned from the bloody Jiuyuan City.

They originally wanted to come out for some air, but they did not expect that they would encounter the main cavalry of the Wei army in this misty morning.

Obviously, the Huns' cavalry was not mentally prepared for this, because the news revealed in advance was that the Wei cavalry had been disarmed and returned to the fields, and the horses even acted as plows and plowed the fields.

In such a short period of time, it is impossible for the Wei army to appear on the outskirts of Jiuyuan.

But when the Xiongnu general who led the army saw the flag of the Wei army, his eyes suddenly turned straight, as if he had seen a ghost. Oh my God, isn't this the cavalry of the Wei army? Why are they here?

This encounter was fought without any suspense. The Vietnamese cavalry quickly defeated the Huns cavalry in a ruthless manner.

The Xiongnu cavalry, on the other hand, just fled. The Battle of Dongguan half a year ago was like a nightmare for them. The Wei cavalry's final attack killed them and completely routed them.

Therefore, the memories of that battle were not good at all for the Huns. Now, they had completely lost the courage to fight the Wei cavalry. As soon as the two sides entered into a confrontation, the Huns began to flee north.

Encountering such a cowardly Hun cavalry was beyond Deng Ai's expectation. Originally, Deng Ai had planned to cross the cavalry camp and reach the Jiuyuan City, but he did not expect to encounter them.

Although the Huns cavalry took the initiative and retreated in embarrassment, losing a lot of men and horses, it was equivalent to providing a signal to the Huns in Jiuyuan that the Wei army was coming to kill them!

Originally, the three Xiongnu groups on the left, center and right were quelling the chaos after the chaos in Jiuyuan City, but the battle at Qingyang River showed that the Wei army was not far from Jiuyuan City and would soon reach Jiuyuan City.

When Liu Meng, Liu Bao, Liu Jiao and others received the news, their faces suddenly sank. They all secretly felt that something bad had happened. It seemed that they had all fallen into Wei Jun's trick. Wei Jun could reach Jiuyuan in such a short period of time.

Below the city, it means that the Wei army has been ready to attack for a long time. The so-called news about the Wei army's farming is completely false news that confuses people. They were all fooled.

They even felt a little regretful. If they had known that the Wei army was really going to attack Jiuyuan, then the operation aimed at Liu Teng would probably have been postponed, or even never happened.

Of course, the cause of the civil strife this time was not what they wanted to do, but because Liu Teng's aggressive momentum forced them to surrender. When they had no choice, they rose up to fight and killed Liu Teng.

Obviously, the Wei army was waiting for this opportunity. Now that Liu Teng had just died and the Huns in the north had just surrendered, Jiuyuan City still had not recovered from the civil strife, so it had to rush to fight.

They had differences on whether to go out of the city to fight. Liu Meng believed that the Huns' strength lay in their cavalry, which was good for field battles. Defending the city was not the Huns' strong point. However, Liu Bao believed that the previous cavalry battles had

The Huns rarely won. If they were defeated in the battle outside the city, the defense force of Jiuyuan City would definitely be greatly weakened. Liu Bao believed that holding on to the city was the most important thing.

Liu Jiao did not side with Liu Meng this time. After all, the thousand-man cavalry team that had just returned from a disastrous defeat was from the Huns in the middle of them. In addition, the nightmare of the Battle of Dongguan had not gone away. Liu Jiao was afraid of the Wei army in his heart, so

Even if he and Liu Meng were on the same front, he still couldn't stand with Liu Meng at the critical moment.

Two to one, Liu Meng had no choice but to give up his opportunity to attack. After all, the Wei army was invading and the situation was urgent. Only by uniting could we have a chance of survival. If the annexation continued, we would really become alone.

So the city gates of Jiuyuan City were closed tightly, the suspension bridge was hung high, and the Huns shrank all the troops outside the city into the city, preparing to hold on to the city and fight the Wei army to the end.

After the Battle of Qingyang River, Deng Ai had missed the best opportunity to sneak attack Jiuyuan City, so he slowed down his march and waited for the main force of infantry to arrive before attacking Jiuyuan together.

After all, the cavalry is extremely fast and has a strong impact, but its weakness is also obvious, that is, there is no good way to face the city wall. No matter how fast the horse is, it is impossible to fly to the top of the city.

Cao Liang led the army and the marching speed was not slow. Soon they arrived at the Qingyang River and met up with the Yueqi battalion who had arrived earlier and fought a battle. Then they continued to move forward and approached the city.

The Wei army has been busy expanding its army and training for the past six months, and the Huns have not rested either. They have reinforced the walls of Jiuyuan City in circles. Now the walls of Jiuyuan City have been increased by several feet, and are even taller than those in Jinyang.

It is even taller when it rises, standing tall and majestic.

In fact, for Cao Liang, the most difficult thing to do is not only the height of the city wall of Jiuyuan City, but also the tens of thousands of defenders in the city. You must know that even after the Pingbei Army and the Bingzhou Army merged, there were only 25,000 people.

, and the strength of the Huns was at least twice that of the Wei army.

The Huns used superior force to guard the city, which can be said to be thicker than thicker. It was not easy for the Wei army to break through Jiuyuan City.
Chapter completed!