Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2263 Cunxiao travels west to Jianyang Road, Li Jing captures Yangdong in ten days.

After the summoning was completed, Wang Yu issued a transfer order, mobilizing Sun Mei and Jiang Song, along with Guan Yu, who was also at Zhongxing Pass.

In addition, Zhang Kui, who was in Hebei Province, was also added, making a total of four generals who went to serve under Su Dingfang in Jianyang Province.

Zhang Kui was originally from Dongyi, but before the war against Yan, Gao Lanying gave birth to a child in her hometown in Hebei. It was only recently that Zhang Kui took the opportunity of a break to return to his hometown in Hebei.

After all, his son had been born for several months, and he had to go back to see him.

At the same time, Wang Yu also issued a transfer order to Li Cunxiao, who was about to go to the Zhao Song battlefield, transferring Li Cunxiao to Su Dingfang's side as well.

After all, among the Zhao Song dynasty, only Xuanwu is worth seeing.

In this respect, it is actually inferior to the Great Yan.

Meanwhile, the Han Dynasty had already deployed a true general, the god of heaven, Yang Jian, to the battlefield between Zhao and Song.

Compared to the battlefield against the Song Dynasty, Su Dingfang's side actually needed Li Cunxiao more.

As for Zhongxing Pass, Li Yuanba's arrival and the deployment of two mid-level divine generals had little impact.

At the same time, among the three armies that were attacking the Song Dynasty, Li Jing's army was the fastest to move.

After all, his journey was relatively short.

In comparison, Xue Rengui's route was the shortest, after all, his troops were already below Liang Pass.

However, there really isn't much to fight here.

After all, given that the enemy had no shortage of troops, Xue Rengui could not possibly risk his life to force his way through such a fortified pass.

Once Chang Yuchun's troops achieve a breakthrough, Liang Pass will naturally fall without a fight.

All Xue Rengui had to do was delay the Liangguan troops here as long as possible.

Li Jing's direct confrontation was with Lian Po, a general of the Zhao Song dynasty who had participated in the campaign against Zhennan.

For this battle, Li Jing also borrowed Ma Yuan, a general from the Zhennan Army.

Ma Yuan, the general of Zhennan Army, was indeed betrayed by Lian Po, resulting in the annihilation of his entire army and his own capture by Jiang Chaoyu.

However, Wang Yingkan used the three counties of Yangdong, which were still under the control of the Zhennan Army, as an exchange with Jiang Chaoyu. Those generals from other clans could not be exchanged, but Ma Yuan, who was of the same clan, was also within the scope of this exchange.

After all, their first battle after leaving Yangguan was actually within the territory of Yangdong Road.

Currently, more than two-thirds of Yangdong Road is under Jiang Chaoyu's control, while the remaining nearly one-third is under Zhao Song's control.

The area controlled by the Song dynasty was located just south of Yangguan Pass. Therefore, having a general familiar with the situation in Yangdong Road was naturally helpful to them.

In particular, the Song Dynasty had only just conquered the Yangdong region, and it was far from having won the hearts and minds of the people.

Furthermore, the Han people, who had absorbed the remnants of the Zhennan tribe, had a natural advantage over the Song dynasty in terms of winning the hearts and minds of the people in Yangdong Dao.

The Manxiong Army and Feiyu Army under Li Jing's command were the troops that suffered the least losses in the battle against Yan, and they had also replenished their missing troops from the prisoners of war of Da Yan.

Therefore, their combat strength remained at its peak.

In fact, the Flying Feather Legion's combat power has not decreased but increased.

Warfare yields rewards, and for the Han Dynasty, the campaign against Yan brought not only gains in territory, population, and resources, but also significant gains in the elite troops that Xuanyuan Huang had accumulated over the years.

While the majority of the Yellow Turban Warriors and the Black Spear Dragon Cavalry had indeed perished in battle, their equipment couldn't have been lost along with them. Even if some was damaged, with some repairs, enough could be put back into service. At least two-thirds of it should be repairable.

After all, this is the biggest advantage of lamellar armor. Even if some parts are damaged, you can just replace the damaged parts of the armor plates, which does not mean that the entire suit of armor is completely unusable.

Elite units like the White Horse Cavalry indeed had very high requirements for individual qualities. In addition to the most basic physical fitness, they were trained in horsemanship, archery, and mounted combat skills, among other things.

However, for elite heavy cavalry, the required tactical skills are relatively less important; physical fitness is more crucial.

Guo Ziyi had 50,000 cavalrymen under his command. He selected 2,000 of the strongest soldiers and warhorses from them to equip the Black Spear Dragon Cavalry with their gear. That was certainly not impossible.

Therefore, after capturing this batch of equipment, the Flying Feather Legion's combat power can be said to have reached a new level.

The wealth that Xuanyuan Huang had painstakingly built up over the years had all gone to the Han Dynasty this time.

After leaving Yangguan and entering Yangdong Road, one enters a vast plain area again.

The terrain of Da Cang is very typical. The northern frontier is full of mountains, but in the south and the southeastern region that originally belonged to Da Yan, it is dominated by plains, which is the favorite battlefield of the Flying Feather Legion.

The reason why the capital of Da Cang was originally set up in Henan Province was not only because Henan Province had natural defenses on all sides and was rich in the four rivers.

This is also because it is close to Yangdong Road. Going south out of Yangguan, you can directly reach Yangdong Road, and the two roads are completely adjacent.

If problems arise in southern Xinjiang, the Imperial Guards of Henan Province can be deployed immediately.

Compared to the northern border, both the eastern and northern parts of the town have natural barriers, which would give them enough time to react if any problems arose.

The terrain of Yangdong Road is almost identical to that of the four roads of Dayan, both being predominantly plains. However, the neighboring Yangxi Road is mostly mountainous.

Therefore, the tactics and strategies Li Jing adopted in Yangdong Road were exactly the same as those he had used in the Great Yan Dynasty.

The Flying Feather Legion divided Lian Po's various defensive lines, cutting off any possibility of mutual assistance, while Li Jing himself led the Barbarian Bear Army to defeat them one by one with superior forces.

Although it's an old-fashioned tactic, any tactic is fine as long as it works, even if it's outdated.

Clearly, Lian Po was, on the whole, a general who excelled at defense.

However, Li Jing's tactics were designed to exploit the weakness of the Zhao Song cavalry, which originated from the Zhenxi Army, and which could never compete with the Han Dynasty, which possessed the Flying Feather Legion.

Although the Song dynasty had been developing its cavalry force under the leadership of Zhao Yong in recent years.

But how can we compare to the great man who was born in Zhendong after only a few years?

Therefore, this was due to insufficient hard power, coupled with the influence of the Zhennan Ma clan in this area. No matter how skilled Lian Po was at defending, he had no way to deal with it.

Lian Po set up the main defense line with eight cities, but Li Jing took them all down one by one in just half a month.

The three county towns combined lost 20,000 soldiers in just half a month.

Civil officials Zhang Yuanwei, Liu Mengyan, and Fang Fengchen, along with the defending generals Lou Chang, Zhao Hao, Ma Zan, and Li Dayong, all died in battle.

Zhao Kuangyin was also well aware that the Ma family had been cultivating power in Yangdong for many years, and their popular support was hard to shake in a short time. The civil officials they sent were all capable ministers, and they were very loyal to the Song Dynasty.

In the future, they will all be promoted to important positions in various regions.

The fact that so many civil and military officials died here together caused Zhao Song great distress.

(End of this chapter)