Three Kingdoms: My Strategy Simulator

No matter how anxious a fan is to be the king, reality will tell him not to be anxious.

The Qiang people fled all the way to Tongguan, abandoning a lot of their baggage, not to mention the siege equipment they brought with them.

Even if you want to attack a city, you must build siege equipment.

But for the Qiang people, the most urgent thing at the moment is time. They also know that there are an unknown number of Han troops chasing them from behind.

The Qiang and Xianbei peoples fled westwards and were never completely out of the surveillance of the Han scouts.

The news that the Qiang army encountered an obstruction and was unable to advance at Tongguan was quickly spread.

At this moment, in order to wipe out the remaining Hu people, Liu Bei and Li Ji, after joining the Northern Expedition Army, were leading more than 400,000 Han troops into the Hangu Pass which had been abandoned by the Qiang and Xianbei.

The news of Tongguan's change of ownership came to Li Ji's attention.

Even Li Ji was quite surprised and delighted. Liu Bei and the other civil and military officials who followed the army were even more astonished.

This is simply like a divine soldier descending from the sky.

However, apart from being surprised, everyone in the big tent was filled with joy.

Tongguan, which was the front road, was blocked, and the Northern Expedition Army had already entered Hanguguan, which undoubtedly blocked the remaining Xianbei and Qiang people in this section of the road.

The Xianbei and Qiang people have no way to escape!
It's just like beating the dog behind the door or catching the turtle in the jar.

The next morning, we arrived at Hangu Pass.

The royal flag stood upright, Liu Bei swore an oath to boost morale, read out the order to kill the Hu people that he had written overnight, then drew his sword, pointed it to the west, and shouted passionately.

"The enemy is in the west, the Hu people are in the west..."

"The king's flag is in front of us. Are you willing to follow us and kill the bandits?"

These words undoubtedly boosted the morale of the Northern Expedition soldiers to the extreme.

At this point, there is no need for any strategies or calculations.

More than 100,000 Hu people were trapped on the road from Hangu Pass to Tong Pass, which was like a narrow road with towering mountains in the south and rapids in the north.

When two men meet on a narrow road, only the brave will win.

Afterwards, Liu Bei's royal flag moved forward, and more than 400,000 Han troops followed it westward out of Hangu Pass, approaching step by step towards Tongguan.

The movements of more than 400,000 Han troops could not be concealed from the Qiang and Xianbei people either.

At this moment, under Tongguan, not only the Qiang people, but the Xianbei people have also retreated here.

This made the Hu leaders, who were forced into a helpless situation due to the blockage of Tongguan, more helpless when they learned that the mighty Han army in the rear had already marched out of Hangu Pass and began to approach.

For a time, emotions such as panic, fear, and despair spread rapidly.

The approaching Han army was like a guillotine falling towards their necks little by little.

The distance between Hangu Pass and Tongguan is such that the Han army could reach the destination in two days at most based on their marching speed.

In other words, if the Xianbei and Qiang people could not break through Tongguan within two days, they would be blocked here by the Han army.

Faced with such a desperate situation, the Hu leaders could only choose to try their best to hide it from their subordinates, and almost frantically urge the creation of siege equipment and then attack Tongguan.

As long as Tongguan can be breached before the arrival of the Han army, the more than 100,000 Hu people trapped in Tongguan will be able to escape.

This is undoubtedly a race against time.

Although Wei Yan, who was guarding Tongguan at the moment, was not clear about the specific situation outside the pass, he could feel the madness and anxiety of the Hu people.

This was undoubtedly enough. The more urgent the Hu people were, the more Wei Yan knew that he had to defend Tongguan.

But the madness of the Hu people was beyond Wei Yan's imagination.

In order to capture Tongguan, the Hu people attacked the city almost day and night.

Six hours...

Twelve hours...

Eighteen hours...

Wei Yan also fought a bloody battle on the city wall for eighteen hours without sleep. Most of the 2,000 elite troops of Ba County who were originally brought to Tongguan were killed or wounded, and the defense resources in Tongguan were not sufficient.

Fortunately, Yan Yan in Chang'an was stabilized and thousands of troops were dispatched to support in time, otherwise Tongguan would have been in danger of being breached.

Just when Wei Yan had been fighting for eighteen hours and was on the verge of complete exhaustion, the Hu people who had been attacking the city retreated quickly like a tide, and waves of passionate Han drum beats came from afar.

"Hahahaha!"

At this moment, Wei Yan couldn't help but burst into laughter.

I’ve waited for it, I’ve finally waited for it!
The Prime Minister was indeed behind them, and the Han army was indeed behind them.

With the arrival of the main force of the Han army, the Xianbei and Qiang people naturally did not dare to turn their backs on the mighty Han army and were forced to fight.

At this moment, the Xianbei and Qiang people had been forced into a desperate situation in a sense, and were ready to fight to the death.

But under the command of Li Ji, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Sun Ce and other brave generals led their elite troops, like fangs in the bloody mouth of the Han people, biting towards the Hu army.

Almost at the moment the two sides came into contact, the Hu people suffered a visibly defeated defeat.

In Li Ji's opinion, there was no suspense in this battle from the very beginning.

If they were on the grassland, the Hu cavalry could use their mobility to try to kill an equal number of Han troops;
However, given the limited terrain and the ability to face the enemy head-on, even leaving aside those peerless generals, the Han army's formation would teach the Hu people what "one Han against five Hu" meant.

The battle, in which the two sides had a total force of nearly 600,000, lasted less than three hours before it was declared over.

The setting sun looked like blood, and the land twenty miles outside Tongguan was filled with countless flesh and blood, so that the entire ground was almost bright red, even more dazzling than the sunset glow.

Of the more than 100,000 Hu people, 30 to 40 percent were killed or wounded, and the rest... surrendered!

The loss of young and strong men among the Xianbei, Qiang and Southern Xiongnu tribes also represented the end of the three tribes.

Afterwards, it took nearly a day just to clean up the battlefield and prevent the spread of the plague.

This time, Li Ji was still prepared to send all the remaining Hu captives to serve as laborers.

The revival of the Han Empire requires a large amount of labor to build various basic buildings, and the labor gap in the next few decades will be visibly huge.

For example, the construction of Jianye City made it necessary to allow the Hu people to be buried there so that future generations would not forget the name of the powerful Han.

However, the Battle of Tongguan was the end for the Hu people, but for the Northern Expedition, it was still a short step to unify the world.

After a brief rest, Liu Bei discussed with Li Ji and immediately appointed Ma Chao as the commander and led 120,000 troops to march into Liang Province to wipe out the Qiang people and the Huns in one fell swoop.

Zhao Yun led an army of 120,000 to advance into Bingzhou, recapture Bingzhou and wipe out the remnants of the Xianbei.

Zhuge Liang was appointed Inspector of Sili and stayed in Luoyang. On the one hand, his purpose was to clear out the scattered Hu cavalry that might have escaped, and on the other hand, his purpose was naturally to govern the local area, settle the people, and oversee the transportation of food and fodder to Sili for disaster relief.

In addition, Li Ji was willing to persuade Liu Bei to return to Shouchun to take charge.

But Liu Bei was naturally unwilling to stay behind, and instead led an army of 200,000 men, and marched north with Li Ji, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, under the pretext that the Wuhuan Rebellion in Youzhou had not yet been quelled. (End of this chapter)