Call of the Heroes of Chaos in Another World

Chapter 2273 Bai Qi's army marches along the ancient Liang Road, achieving fame throughout the land in a single battle.
The death of Li Yuan dealt a significant blow to the morale of the Song army.

After all, the Song Dynasty's army was built on the foundation of the Zhenxi Army, and Li Yuan was a renowned general among the older generation of Zhenxi Army commanders, enjoying great prestige among them.

It was against this backdrop that Zhao Changfeng arrived in the Hexi Road.

Among the older generation of the four townsmen, Zhao Changfeng was actually the oldest.

Now in his fifties, he has instead shown a resilient and vigorous side.

On the very night of his arrival, despite his exhaustion, he led Zhao Song and his few remaining cavalrymen around Chang Yuchun's approaching army and launched a surprise attack on Huai County, which was under attack by Gao Huaide.

The Song Dynasty's cavalry was not strong. After all, their cavalry had only been developed for a few years and was scattered across various battlefields.

However, precisely because of this, no one expected that Zhao Changfeng, who was known for his maturity and prudence, would gather most of his cavalry on the Hexi battlefield on the very night of his arrival and launch an attack on Xue Wanjun.

Everyone knows that Zhao Changfeng is known for his maturity and prudence.

However, it seems that everyone has long forgotten that before encountering Sima Changfeng, the Great Wu Commander of the same name, they were always a typical example of aggressive and ruthless warfare.

That's why Xue Wanjun was caught off guard.

However, although Xue Wanjun was defeated, his losses were not great. Apart from some of the scattered soldiers, the actual number of soldiers who died in battle was only a few thousand.

Among the generals, only Xue Wanbei, who was at the top-tier level, and Wu Shang, who had just reached the top-tier level, died in battle.

After all, Zhao Changfeng's goal was not to defeat Xue Wanjun, but to rescue Gao Huaide, who was trapped in Huai County.

The battle lines drawn between Chang Yuchun's various armies were not long, so Zhao Changfeng could not possibly fight Xue Wanjun here for a long time.

If he delays for too long, Chang Yuchun's troops will likely arrive to provide reinforcements.

Therefore, after achieving his goal, Zhao Changfeng immediately led his troops away.

It was precisely because of this that although Xue Wanjun was ambushed by Zhao Changfeng's cavalry, the casualties were actually not significant.

However, Gao Huaide's troops successfully broke through the encirclement with the help of Zhao Changfeng.

However, this also meant that Huai County, where he had previously been stationed, had completely fallen into the hands of the Han army.

From then on, Chang Yuchun had established a solid base of operations in Hexi Road.

However, although Chang Yuchun had already defeated and killed 40,000 of the 200,000 troops in Hexi, 160,000 troops still remained entrenched there.

Zhao Changfeng believed that with these 160,000 troops at his disposal, he would not encounter any major problems, at least until Zhao Kuangyin resolved the issues in the south.

However, he didn't encounter any major problems, but Zhao Yong did.

This was something that no one in the entire Zhao Song dynasty would have thought of.

Throughout the entire Song Dynasty, there were concerns that Zhao Kuangyin might not be able to defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance, as well as how long Lian Po could hold off Li Jing, and even whether the Hexi Corridor could be defended!

However, they never considered that Liangguan, where Zhao Yong was stationed, would have problems.

That's Liang Pass! Although Zhao Yong only has 60,000 troops, the enemy has 150,000 elite soldiers. However, any general with a bit of talent would not have lost his 60,000 troops so quickly if given Liang Pass!

The Battle of Liang Pass brought the Zhao Song dynasty's situation plummeted from its peak!
At the same time, it also made Bai Qi, who was still a low-ranking general at the time, famous overnight.

Indeed, Bai Qi was the one who orchestrated the Han army's capture of Liang Pass.

Neither Xue Rengui, the commander of the front-line camp, nor Zhang Liang, the strategist, had ever considered that they could find a breakthrough from the direction of Liang Pass.

Although both are part of the Henan Road's three passes and one mountain defense line, Yangguan's defenses are much stronger than those of Weiguan to the north.

Even so, although the Wei Pass was once captured by the Zhenbei Army, it eventually fell into the hands of the Han Dynasty.

What was the situation with Wei Guan at that time?
At that time, the anti-Cang army had already entered Henan Province, and the land behind Weiguan was no longer under the control of Da Cang. It was a completely isolated pass.

They were finally captured after being attacked from both sides and having a numerical advantage of nearly ten times.

As for Liangguan, although it was also taken from Zhongcang by Zhao Kuangyin, if Zhao Kuangyin had not reaped benefits from Xicang and thus bribed insiders, how could they have taken it?

But this time, Liang Guan clearly doesn't meet either of those two conditions!

Neither Xue Rengui nor Zhang Liang considered breaking through Liang Pass; instead, they planned to capture the pass from both sides after Chang Yuchun took control of Hexi Road.

But while Xue Rengui and Zhang Liang were passively waiting, Bai Qi, who was still a low-ranking general, proposed an extremely risky plan.

That means taking the Lianggu Road, directly crossing the entire Yunling Mountains, circling around to the back of Liangguan, disguising themselves as Song soldiers to trick the gate into opening, and then launching a pincer attack from both sides.

After all, at this time, the Liangguan garrison commanders were focused on the front and naturally did not expect that a Han army would appear behind them.

Or, normally speaking, unless the Hexi Corridor was lost, it would be impossible for a Han army to appear behind them.

This is their chance to break through the barrier.

Bai Qi's plan can no longer be described as risky.

In Xue Rengui and Zhang Liang's view, the fact that this plan had a failure rate of over 90% was an understatement.

First of all, crossing the Yunling Mountains via the Lianggu Road was an impossible feat. It was as difficult as Wei Yan's plan to take the Ziwu Road or Deng Ai's plan to take the Yinping Road.

The only simple thing about Bai Qi compared to Wei Yan and Deng Ai is that if he really succeeds, he won't be attacking the cities behind them, but rather the passes embedded in the Yunling Mountains!

Moreover, Bai Qi's subsequent plan was not to launch a direct attack, but to rely on strategy to achieve victory.

But here's the problem.

Even if he succeeds in getting through, if any unexpected event occurs and the other party notices something is wrong and doesn't fall for his trick, then Bai Qi's army will be in a complete dead end!
The Lianggu Road, if placed a few hundred years ago, would have been barely able to accommodate a small army marching.

However, due to changes in the earth's veins, this ancient road was forcibly separated in the middle by a cliff, and naturally, the road was abandoned.

After all, this was practically a dead end!