Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2399: Liangzhou Epidemic, the Great Disaster at the End of the Han Dynasty

After the war in the south ended, Bai Qi and Wu Qi began to prepare an army.

As soon as Li Xiang received the news that the war in the south was over, he immediately ordered the southern troops to the north to support the northern battlefield.

However, when this army had just entered the Central Plains and was preparing to enter Yongzhou from the Wugu Pass direction, they suddenly received news that they no longer needed to go to the battlefield in Liangzhou.

At this time, one would even try to avoid it, let alone enter.

It takes time for news from the South to reach the North, and it also takes time for news from the North to reach the South.

When the Southern War achieved a crucial victory, Wu Qi entered Yangzhou and forced Huan Wen to surrender and take Yuzhang, the Northern War also underwent a huge change at that time, which further triggered the great changes in the northern battlefield today.

Maodun was indeed not comparable to Mahamu. Once he took action, Meng Ao and Ma Yuan had to take part in the game, and at the cost of losing Dunhuang, they gave support to Ju Yi at Yumen Pass.

However, after this battle, the Golden Fire Cavalry and the Yuan Mongolian Scouts and Red Soldiers were both defeated. The Golden Fire Cavalry was unable to fight again and had to withdraw from Dunhuang reluctantly.

However, it was not easy for Dou Gu to withdraw from Dunhuang.

If you want to go to their lair again, this method can be used once, but after trying it once, you want to do it again. Do you think Temujin is so incompetent?
If these defeated soldiers and generals try to travel to the grassland again, Temujin will definitely eat them up until not even a scrap is left.

Light cavalry rushed into the grassland. Did you really think it was just talk? Just talking is enough. Whatever you do will succeed?

And if you want to cross Liangzhou, that would be courting death!

Fortunately, Dou Gu had already made a plan. Since these two roads were blocked, he could only go to the plateau.

Although this path also involves a high risk of death, it is better than the previous two paths where there is a 100% chance of survival.

However, this also meant that Ju Yi was the only lone soldier left in the entire western part of Liangzhou. Fortunately, Ju Yi finally received support from Dunhuang City.

After that, even though the Yuan Mongols attacked Yumen Pass with a force more than ten times theirs, Ju Yi still struggled to hold on. Finally, after more than 40 days, when he was about to run out of options, Huo Qubing of Xizhou led 5,000 cavalrymen across the vast Gobi and desert and entered Yumen Pass.

The Yumen Pass, which was almost captured by the Mongols, was still in the hands of the Jin army.

Seeing that they were about to take Yumen Pass, Huo Qubing arrived at the last moment, and Maodun was furious.

However, although Maodun was furious, he was not worried, including Yelu Chucai, who was his military advisor, who was as steady as a rock.

If they could break through Yumen Pass, then everything would be accomplished. Maodun's troops could then charge into Xizhou and cooperate with Kublai Khan and Murong Ke to attack Su Lie from both sides and completely defeat Su Lie.

Now, although it is not the best result, it is not bad enough to force Su Dingfang of Xizhou to send reinforcements to Yumen Pass.

Su Dingfang of Xizhou was already seriously short of troops, and Kublai Khan and Murong Ke already had an absolute advantage. At this time, if Su Dingfang allocated another 5,000 troops, and 5,000 cavalry at that, his situation would only become worse.

In fact, let alone 5,000 cavalry, even if Su Dingfang only sent 1,000 soldiers, or even 1,000 infantry, not 1,000 cavalry, Su Dingfang would be in great trouble at this time. However, Ju Yi's request for help from Yumen Pass was sent long ago, before Dunhuang was captured. Of course, Ju Yi could not ask for help from Dunhuang at that time. After all, Dunhuang was in a worse situation than them, and the only direction for help was Xizhou.

And facing the request for help from Yumen Pass, Su Dingfang could not ignore it.

If Yumen Pass was lost, the most directly affected would be their Xizhou troops and horses, and it would even directly affect the entire war situation.

Therefore, no matter how difficult the situation is for him at this moment, he absolutely cannot just ignore it.

If they wanted to do something about it, they could only send cavalry, not infantry. At the speed of infantry, after crossing the vast desert and Gobi, I'm afraid that by then the daylily would be cold.

Moreover, it is not just about sending out cavalry. Even if there are fewer troops, it will not be enough. If there are fewer troops, they will not be able to play any role.

One can imagine the difficulty Su Dingfang was in at that time.

Su Dingfang even sent Huo Qubing, who was best at commanding cavalry, just to ensure that the support troops could reach Yumen Pass as quickly as possible.

Fortunately, Su Dingfang sent Huo Qubing. Even Huo Qubing barely arrived at the last minute. If it had been someone else, even if it had been one or two hours later, I'm afraid the owner of Yumen Pass would have changed.

However, for Su Dingfang, the military force was already limited, and the withdrawal of 5,000 cavalry had a direct impact on the war situation in Xizhou.

The troops of Kublai Khan, Murong Ke and Murong Chui launched a fierce attack at the same time. Although Su Dingfang tried his best to stop Murong Ke, and Wang Shouren also reluctantly took on Kublai Khan on the right wing, something unexpected happened on the left wing battlefield.

Murong Chui's deputy general Wulianghetai defeated and killed the Jin army general Li Daliang with a small force, directly cutting off Guo Chongtao's retreat on the left wing battlefield.

After a bloody battle, the 20,000 soldiers on the left wing battlefield were eventually wiped out, half of them died in battle, and half were captured by the Yuan Mongols. The general Guo Chongtao on the left wing battlefield also fell into the hands of Murong Chui. The generals on the left wing battlefield, Shi Hongzhao, Cheng Pei, and Yuchi Bao, died in battle. Even Su Dingfang's son Su Baolin died on the battlefield.

Only Ran Min, facing the siege of many powerful Yuan generals, broke through the desperate situation, injured the enemy general Yang Yan, and then escaped with serious injuries.

After the news of Xizhou's defeat reached Liangzhou, the military generals were worried, and the civil officials were even more worried.

In this way, some voices that were originally suppressed by Wei Qing and Meng Tian emerged again.

However, there are some things that are the bottom line of Wei Qing and Meng Tian. They would not agree to them before, and they still would not agree to them now.

However, because such a big change has occurred in the war situation in Xizhou, Li Mi will not compromise so easily at this time.

Even if Wei Qing and Meng Tian did not support him, it did not mean that he could not do it privately.

As a result, a plague also swept across the grassland and Liangzhou.

This plague became the largest plague since the end of the Han Dynasty. Counting five hundred years ago and five hundred years later, it was the largest plague in the past thousand years. It can be said to be the greatest catastrophe since the end of the Han Dynasty.