Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2489: Zhao Zilong sent troops to Julu, Yuan Zuozong responded tit for tat

Although it is only one state away, it is not something that can be reached just by saying it.

Under normal circumstances, the normal marching speed is only about thirty to forty miles a day.

As for the marching speeds of the Mongolian cavalry or Xiahou Yuan recorded in history, that was clearly the speed of the cavalry's formation, and it was the speed of the cavalry's desperate march.

However, the Yongzhou Corps in Yongzhou was not a cavalry corps. Although it had cavalry, most of it was still infantry.

"Hebei's fighting power is weak. We can't rely on just Lian Po!"

"Let Li Mu lead the Sizhou cavalry to go ahead. Yuan Tan has made me uncomfortable, so how can I make him comfortable?" Li Xiang said without hesitation.

In terms of things, time is far from being so urgent.

The main infantry troops were not marching fast, but the speed at which Yuan Tan, with his family, could carry supplies would be even slower, much slower than their troops.

However, if we delay for one more day, the situation in Jizhou will become more chaotic. After all, Jizhou has already begun to plunder the people's surplus food.

At this time, the only thing we can do is to mobilize troops as soon as possible and advance straight ahead with cavalry.

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Jizhou.

Perhaps after receiving the reprimand from Li Xiang's imperial edict, Lian Po had no choice but to send out his troops first.

Lian Po was really not in a hurry to send troops.

This battle is almost a sure win for the Jin army. No matter what actions the Jizhou side takes, the final result will be difficult to reverse. The only difference is the difficulty of them winning this battle.

It was clearly a game that he was bound to win, so why did Lian Po take the risk in advance? If he really lost, no one would help him take the responsibility.

However, the imperial decree had been issued, and there was nothing he could do even if he wanted to remain calm.

Lian Po personally led the main force of the infantry all the way south to Zhao State, while Zhao Yun led the cavalry troops south into Julu. They did not seek to kill the enemy but only to harass the counties of Julu.

Anyway, when His Majesty asked them to send troops at this time, he did not really expect them to take over the entire Jizhou with just the Hebei Legion, but just wanted them to stop Yuan Tan from destroying Jizhou.

Moreover, even though Lian Po didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that with such an immature Hebei Legion, it could not pose a real threat to Jizhou even if it faced the current Jizhou.

In addition to mobilizing the Hebei Legion, Lian Po also asked Han Shizhong for help at the same time, requesting Han Shizhong to harass Weijun and Qingping State in southern Jizhou along the Yellow River.

At the same time, he wrote to Xue Rengui to explain the situation. Lian Po was under the control of Li Mu, and Han Shizhong was under the control of Xue Rengui. If he wanted to ask for Han Shizhong's help, he had to tell Xue Rengui.

The three armies were mobilized, and those generals who actively advocated the war were extremely excited at this time, and Zhao Yun was one of them. If you don't return home in glory, it's like walking in glory at night. However, Zhao Yun once returned to Hebei, which was a real return home in glory.

In the past two or three decades, Zhao Yun has been famous all over the world. On the battlefield of the Central Plains, his battle with Yuan Shen, the top general in Hebei, pushed his reputation to a peak.

Now, after he returned to Hebei, Zhaojiazhuang has undergone tremendous changes in a short period of time. And Zhao Yun's hometown can be said to have benefited from the success of one person.

Zhao Yun today has upgraded his weapons to new ones. The personal guards around him have all been replaced by his relatives and friends from Changshan.

Or maybe this is the normal configuration of a general's personal guard. In fact, many generals' personal guards are not only from the same hometown, but also have the same surname. Only these people can fully gain the trust of the generals. After all, they are the last line of defense for a general.

Zhao Yun's fellow townsmen and even brothers with the same surname were very enthusiastic about this expedition.

These young men had already regarded Zhao Yun, who was born in the same hometown and was already famous all over the world, as their role model. Most of the young men were eager to achieve great achievements like Zhao Yun and thus become a world-famous figure.

Although the 3,000 cavalry led by Zhao Yun were not many in number, they were the only elite troops in the Hebei Legion. These 3,000 cavalry all came from Sizhou or Bingzhou.

After all, Julu, which Zhao Yun was in charge of, was close to Changshan. After Changshan fell into the hands of the Jin army, it became an important defense line of Jizhou, with a large number of troops from Hebei stationed here.

Although Jizhou has decided to abandon this place, the troops have not withdrawn so quickly before they have moved everything they need to move.

Zhao Yun's mission was not to compete with the main force in Hebei, so he simply avoided the cities along the line and harassed the teams transporting supplies in Jizhou one by one.

With the preparations already made in the floating house, every step Zhao Yun took was predictable.

However, this soon attracted the attention of Yuan Zuozong, the defender of Julu.

Yuan Zuozong, the identity implanted in him was that of a native talent of the Yuan family, which had been three generations of officials for four generations. A powerful family like theirs would naturally not neglect the promotion of their own talents.

Moreover, under the current situation in Jizhou, there is a particular lack of good generals. It is even more necessary to promote a general like Yuan Zuozong who is good at commanding troops.

However, although Yuan Zuozong was good at commanding troops in battle, he was good at commanding cavalry, but at that time in Jizhou, the cavalry strength was not sufficient.

At the beginning of Yuan Shao's period, the cavalry was quite powerful. However, during the Battle of Central Plains, the most powerful cavalry in Hebei, the Guanning Cavalry, did not return, but was annihilated in the Jianghuai battlefield. This was a heavy blow to the Hebei cavalry, almost breaking their backbone.

Then, the three-year epidemic came. At that time, everyone was at the point where they could not survive, and each one was living a more miserable life than the other. At that time, the various forces could not even maintain the size of their armies, and one after another began to lay off soldiers in order to relieve their pressure. This even included the Jin army.

Their troops were all re-recruited during the five-year recovery period that followed.

You know, even when the civil strife in Jizhou was at its worst, the surrounding families did not take any action, which shows how far they had fallen at that time!
Didn’t they want to take action at that time?
I really don't have that ability!

In the final analysis, even if the surrounding families wanted to send troops, they would probably run out of food and grass before their troops arrived in Jizhou. By then, if the other party was in chaos, let alone attacking them, they would have to flee first.

It was precisely because of the three-year epidemic and the fact that Jizhou did not develop well in the following five years of development and recovery that Jizhou’s military forces in all aspects suffered a huge blow, including the cavalry.