? The tunnel under the old Huguan was very long, which surprised Zhang Liao when he saw it. In order to have hidden needs, the entrance of this tunnel, which was buried three meters deep underground, was three miles away from the old Huguan, and the exit was two miles away from the Huguan. The entire tunnel was built very neatly and spaciously, and it could hide tens of thousands of troops inside without being known.

Even when Huguan was in danger and Li Zhi approached the wall by piled up soil and built walls, Zhao Yun did not reveal this tunnel that could transport troops to the enemy. Because the Huguan defenders were limited at that time, even if they touched the back of the Eastern Alliance from the tunnel and caught the opponent off guard, they could not reverse the entire battlefield situation. Once the tunnel was discovered by the coalition forces, it was very likely to become a convenient passage for the coalition forces to cross Huguan.

If Zhao Yun had not retreated back with his troops in time and built a new wall, Li Zhi's troops would have carved out a secret passage from the bottom of Huguan, forming a pattern of attacking the old Huguan inside and outside. The tunnel that Li Zhi led people to dig at that time passed through the middle of Huguan, while the tunnel that Zhao Xing asked to build was built around the foot of the mountain next to Huguan, so it could not be noticed.

The purpose of Zhao Xing's construction of this Tibetan tunnel was mainly to assist the defenders on the old Huguan to annihilate the invading enemies in one fell swoop. Now that the old Huguan has changed hands, it can secretly transport the troops from the direction of Jin to the east of Huguan, and a sudden attack on the 20,000 Yuan troops stationed in Huguan.

Late at night on December 25, Zhang Liao led 20,000 troops to walk into the tunnel. The tunnel was still west of Xinhuguan, so naturally Yuan Jun on the old Huguan would not be discovered by Yuan Jun. Although the tunnel was built three meters deep from the ground, because it was built at the foot of the mountain, there were vertical ground ventilation openings open in the bushes on the mountain every distance, which not only facilitates concealment, but also maintains the air flow in the tunnel.

The 20,000 soldiers of the Dragon Cavalry Army quickly passed through the tunnel, and no movement could be detected on the ground. It took them almost half an hour to pass through the tunnel. Since the exit of the tunnel was two miles away from the old Huguan, when Zhang Liao emerged from the tunnel, Yuan Jun on the old Huguan was still sleeping soundly without any notice.

In the past, when the old Huguan was in the hands of the Jin ** team, the west side was called Guannei; now when the old Huguan fell in Yuan Shao, the east side was naturally called Guannei. The soldiers guarding the pass and weapons and materials were transported from the stairs directly to the pass. Once the enemy's troops broke into the pass, the soldiers on the pass were cut off.

After the 20,000 troops passed through the tunnel and assembled, three fireworks suddenly rose to the west of the old Huguan, illuminating the originally dark night sky. Then, the 10,000 Dragon Cavalry soldiers left west of Huguan began to launch a feint attack. The awakened high-ranking officials hurriedly led the crowd to the junction to resist. When the two sides were fighting hard, Zhang Liao led his troops to the base camp on the east side of Huguan, killed all the Yuan army left here, and then ordered people to change into Yuan army's clothes and climbed the walls in the chaos.

The high-ranking officials who were attacked by inside and outside failed to resist for a long time and became the wronged soul under the sickle of Zhang Liao. The high-ranking officials became the fourth general to be killed by the Jin ** team after Chunyu Qiong, Han Heng and Cen Bi. This time, the troops besieged Jizhou showed a rare ferocity and adopted a mercy attitude towards enemy generals. This shows how firm Zhao Xing's attitude was to destroy Yuan Shao.

As soon as the high-ranking cavalry died, the Yuan army at Huguan was in chaos, and soon all the Dragon Cavalry was captured by the Dragon Cavalry. Preliminary statistics after the war were found that in addition to the 10,000 people who were responsible for the feint attack, the Dragon Cavalry Army found that the 20,000 troops behind Yuan Jun through the tunnel had a minor loss, which would not affect the next task of attacking Jizhou.

After the Dragon Cavalry captured the old Hu Pass, they immediately handed over the important task of guarding the pass and more than 10,000 Yuan army prisoners to the Crouching Tiger Army who rushed over from Xinhu Pass, and then quickly advanced eastward. In just three days, the army appeared on the Jizhou Plain.

Yuan Shao's 80,000 troops were consumed in just half a month; the four counties near Youzhou of the nine counties of Jizhou were completely lost, and now the Dragon Cavalry Army entered Zhao State again, pointing at Julu, Yuan Shao's territory was only left with Wei County and Qinghe State close to the Yellow River, and Julu County and Anping State in the hinterland of Jizhou were already in danger.

By this time, Yuan Shao's confidence had no place at all. The three armies of Jin State were not only as large as 90,000 in terms of the number of people, but also unambiguous in the speed of siege cities and land. If there is no strong support to rescue him, the entire Jizhou area would fall into Zhao Xing's hands in the first month.

Yuan Shao didn't bother to curse and complain, and excitedly wrote a letter to his uncle Yuan Wei and his ally Cao Cao, who clearly stated that he would be unable to bear it. If the court and Cao Cao were not saved, he would completely abandon Yecheng and lead the troops to flee into Henei County, allowing the court and Yanzhou to face Zhao Xing's nearly 100,000 troops directly.

Zhuge Liang, who had been paying close attention to the situation in the north, did not expect that Zhao Xing would dare to launch the Eastern Front Battle when the situation in Liang Kingdom was unstable, nor did he expect that the Jizhou army, which claimed to have 80,000 people, would be so vulnerable that it would hand over most of the land in Jizhou in less than a month.

Zhuge Liang then suggested that Liu Bei immediately start the plan to run farmers, soldiers, merchants and gold shops, and urgently dispatch troops to Yangzhou, Yuzhou and Jingzhou to the north. At the same time, Zhu Jun's army stationed in Chaoge area quickly went to Jizhou to reinforce Yuan Shao. In any case, the army of Jin State should block the north from Guangping to Julu, so as to avoid the Jin State's army drinking horses and posing a direct threat to the Central Plains.

The Xiongwu Army of Changshan Kingdom and Bohai County was successfully captured, and the Xiongju Army continued to move south and met under the Taocheng City of Julu County. They thought they could easily capture Taocheng, but the two armies suffered a loss under the big city that Zhang Liao had run for many years.

It turned out that the person who was ordered to defend Taocheng to the death was not someone else, but the famous general Zhang He. Yuan Shao assigned Zhang He 10,000 elite soldiers of the big halberd. Zhang He gathered the defeated Yuan army who fled from Changshan and Bohai to Julu. The total number of people was more than 20,000, but it was enough to defend Taocheng, which was like an iron barrel.

Zhang He had a very clear understanding of the Jin** team's siege weapon, especially the thunder that had blown away the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao. Therefore, when Zhang He took over the Tao City of Wu, he organized tens of thousands of people to turn the Tao City of Wu into a water city surrounded by moats.

No matter how powerful the sky-bombing thunder is, it must be piled under the city gate to play the role of blasting. Now with the moat blocking, Yuan Jun, who was guarding the city, kept firing crossbows and huge rocks at the top of the city. For a moment, Li Jinwu and Xu Shu had no choice but to kill Taocheng.

Because Zhang He played a role at a critical moment and delayed the speed of the Jin army's southward movement, he won a rare respite for Yuan Shao. The situation in Jizhou will undergo unpredictable changes in the next battlefield.
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