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Chapter 266 Bai Zheng retreats to Yucheng

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    The northeastern area of ??Weiyang Palace was once the residence of Prince Liu Zhi, and now it has become the bedroom of Liu Jin, the eldest grandson of the emperor.  As the emperor's eldest grandson, living in the prince's former palace, Liu Jin's importance in the heart of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is naturally self-evident.

    When the prince and others in Bowang Garden were discussing the matter of Gongsun Jingsheng, Liu Jin and Liu Xijun were also discussing the matter in the palace.

    Liu Jin is already fifteen years old. His immaturity has long since faded and he has become a brave young man.  And Liu Xijun is already seventeen years old this year, and she has already become a beautiful woman. In addition, in the past few years, she has been pampered and has the noble temperament of a princess, and she has become a rare beauty in the world.

    "Sister, I heard that my prince's father recruited the prime minister to Bowang Garden?" Liu Jin sat behind the desk and asked Liu Xijun, who was only five feet away.

    Liu Xijun has been accompanying Liu Jin in the past few years, and the relationship between the two of them is somewhat like that of Liu Yuan and Liu Che back then.  In private, Liu Jin had already directly called Liu Xijun his sister.

    "It's not about that Gongsun Jingsheng! This Gongsun Jingsheng really succeeds more than he fails." Liu Xijun also loved this younger brother of the same clan who might become the prince of the Han Dynasty in the future. Almost all the big and small affairs around Liu Jin were taken care of by this man.  Princess Jiangdu took care of it.

    "In my opinion, keeping Gongsun Jingsheng will be a disaster sooner or later, but after all, he is the son of the prime minister and the son of the eldest sister of the Wei family. My father, the prince, may not be able to stay out of the matter this time." Liu Jin did not care about Gongsun Jingsheng.  A little favor, and even disgust in my heart.

    "For some reason, I always feel that things will not be simple this time. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone with whom we can discuss now. Yinhua went to Hexi, and even Liu Kang and the others left." Liu Xijun frowned slightly and said,  For some reason, when she thought of the prince and Gongsun He running for Gongsun Jingsheng, she felt inexplicably panicked.

    "I really envy Yinhua. I can stay with the teacher. It would be great if the teacher is still in Chang'an!" Liu Jin heard his sister talking about those classmates from Taixue, and he couldn't help but think of Huo Guang again.

    It is worth mentioning that the chubby Liu Kang had some bad luck. His eldest brother, the Prince of Zichuan who was originally going to make Zhao Yinhua his concubine, died inexplicably a year ago.  In the end, his father chose Liu Kang for some reason, and finally wrote to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and made Liu Kang the crown prince of Zichuan. Now Liu Kang has returned to the Zichuan Kingdom and became his crown prince.

    "Teacher has not been having an easy time in Hexi recently. I heard that Lord Wu An's army was blocked in Dawan. The teacher has decided to visit Dawan in person. He is probably on the way to Dawan now." When Liu Xijun thought of Huo Guang, his face showed  With a look of reverence, he then told Liu Jin about Huo Guang's current situation.

    "Sister went to the Hou Mansion again?" Liu Jin looked at his sister and asked with interest.

    "If I don't go, how many people in Chang'an City do you think will know about the teacher's whereabouts?" Liu Xijun rolled her eyes at Liu Jin. She knew that as the emperor's eldest grandson, she was most concerned about Huo Guang's situation, but now in Chang'an City  Only Huo Tang could get some information, and the door of Anyang Hou Mansion was becoming increasingly difficult to enter, and only she, Liu Xijun, could barely see Huo Tang.

    "Haha, thank you for your hard work, my good sister! Tell me about the war in the Western Regions. Last time I heard Grandpa Huang mention that the teacher has formed an alliance with that Sulla?" Liu Jin smiled sheepishly, and then said  Face continued to ask curiously.  As soon as the matter of the Western Regions was mentioned, the previous unhappiness caused by Gongsun Jingsheng's matter disappeared.

    Liu Xijun began to tell Liu Ju about the news she had learned from Huo Tang, but every time Huo Tang only mentioned some fragments to her, and some of the contents were not detailed, but even these tip of the iceberg had already made Liu Jin's heart  He has long since flown to that vast world where various countries, civilizations and beliefs collide.

    Huo Guang led 10,000 of the most elite Hexi troops out of Yumen Pass, passed through Yancheng and the hometown of Wusun, and came to the forefront of Baizheng's headquarters, a city named Yucheng.

    Yucheng was originally an important town in the eastern part of the Dawan Kingdom, but it was captured by Bai Zheng a few months ago. Originally, Bai Zheng had already arrived at Guishan City, the capital of the Dawan Kingdom. However, this Guishan City was built extremely large and solid, and even had several outer and inner cities.  A layer of city walls.  It was only a matter of time before Bai Zheng besieged Guishan and captured it. However, not long ago, an Anxi armored cavalry unit suddenly appeared, and Bai Zheng had a battle with it outside Guishan City. The person fighting this armored cavalry at that time was Xu Tuomi's command.  However, the Wusun cavalry collapsed at the first touch and was no match for this armored cavalry.  In the end, Bai Zheng used 10,000 elite Hexi cavalry to break off the rear, and then retreated to Yucheng in panic with his army.

    In this hurried battle, the coalition forces commanded by Bai Zheng actually lost more than 6,000 people, including 2,000 elite Hexi troops.  Then Bai Zheng retreated to Yucheng, and then went out of the city to fight with the Anxi armored cavalry.He fought several times, but each time he failed, and now his tens of thousands of coalition troops can only be trapped and defended.

    When Huo Guang came to Yucheng, the coalition forces of Anxi and Dawan were besieging Yucheng, while Bai Zheng's Western Region coalition forces became the one holding on to the city.  The situation reversed so quickly that even Huo Guang, who saw everything in front of him, was unexpected!

    At the top of Yucheng City, Huo Guangning looked at a row of cavalry outside the city whose bodies were covered with iron armor.  These cavalry are Parthian armored cavalry. There are not many armored cavalry in this row. They only appear to be about three hundred people. However, Huo Guang knows that these three hundred armored cavalry actually represent three hundred Parthian nobles who own fiefdoms.  Behind them were thousands of light-armored horse archers, and behind them were ordinary Parthian infantry numbering tens of thousands.

    This is an army of about 12,000 people composed of more than 300 Parthian nobles, and on the other side of them is the Dawan army of more than 40,000 people.

    "This subordinate is incompetent, please punish me!" Bai Zheng knelt down in front of Huo Guang. This time he was the commander-in-chief of the attack on Dawan, but not only did he fail to capture Dawan, he was also pushed back to Yu Cheng's defense. Judging from the results  It seems that Bai Zheng's mission has failed.

    "Whether you are incompetent or not, I will make my own decision. Let's get up and tell you what the situation is." Huo Guang's face was very calm and he did not rebuke Bai Zheng. The person who knows the most about the Parthian armored cavalry now is Bai Zheng. Even if Huo Guang wants to punish Bai Zheng  In politics, you also need to understand the situation clearly first.

    Bai Zheng stood up with a frustrated look on his face. He is a proud man. Except for his defeat at the hands of Huo Guang in his life, he feels that no one in the world is his opponent. Although he is a little arrogant, Bai Zheng does have strength.  Being defeated by only a few hundred Parthian armored cavalry this time was a big blow to Bai Zheng.

    "Back to the Governor, these armored cavalry are huge. Once they charge in formation, neither our cavalry nor infantry can compete with them. Moreover, their armor is too strong, and our weapons cannot be effective at cutting them.  The damage." Bai Zheng lowered his head and told some of his findings from the battle with the Parthian armored cavalry these days.

    "Just these few hundred armored cavalry make your tens of thousands of troops helpless?" Huo Guang frowned slightly, still looking at the Parthian Army and Dawan Army outside the city.  He believed Bai Zheng's words, but it was impossible to defeat Bai Zheng's tens of thousands of troops with just hundreds of Anxi armored cavalry. If they were so powerful, those tens of thousands of Anxi armored cavalry would have really dominated the world long ago.

    "In frontal charges, they mainly rely on these armored cavalry. After one charge, they will turn back to distance themselves from our army, and then continue to prepare for the next round of charge. My subordinates also used the opportunity of their return to order the army to attack, thinking  You have to stick to them and don't give them time to prepare. However, the archers who guard the armored cavalry come in handy at this time. They can shoot bows and arrows from their horses when they turn back and retreat, and the bows and arrows they use are stronger than ours.  They were much bigger and thousands of arrows were fired intensively, making it difficult for our army to get close to them. Moreover, these horse archers could continuously shoot arrows when they returned. We called them "returning horse arrows". This is what we captured  I have a bow, please take a look at it." Bai Zheng continued to explain that it turned out that those armored cavalry were only used to attack the front line, and their fighting method was also so simple and direct. They used the heavy weight of the armored cavalry to forcefully attack the enemy's line.  After the impact of the armored cavalry weakened, they immediately retreated to distance themselves, preparing for the next round of charge. When they turned back, the horse archers came into use.  If the cavalry archers are still unable to suppress it, the tens of thousands of infantry archers behind them can also stop the enemy's attack with a shower of arrows.

    This is a set of tactics that the Parthian Empire has practiced and practiced countless times. It is precisely with this set of rigorous and impeccable tactics that they have become the overlord of Western Asia.

    Huo Guang took the Parthian strong bow from the soldiers. It was not much different in appearance from the bows of the Han Dynasty. However, after careful observation, Huo Guang found that the bows used by the Parthians were not made of a single piece of wood, but a single piece of wood.  The bow body is made up of layers of thin sheets bonded together.  Huo Guang opened his arms and pulled the Parthian Bow. He found that pulling this kind of bow did not require brute force like the strong bow of a big man. It was a very comfortable and smooth feeling.  Just by pulling the bowstring in the air, Huo Guang discovered that Xi'an's bow was indeed much more advanced than the big man's bow.

    "It's indeed a good bow, Li Ling" Huo Guang handed the resting bow to the guard beside him, and then called Li Ling's name.

    "My subordinate is here." Li Ling responded with clasped fists.

    "Go ahead and let me see the fighting style of these Parthian troops It's best to leave one armored cavalry and bring it back to us for study." Huo Guang pointed at the Parthian armored cavalry under the city and said.

    "No." Li Ling didn't say anything more, he just responded and turned around and walked down the tower.

    Soon the war drums sounded, and Yu Cheng¡¯s city gate craneAfter the bridge was lowered, Li Ling took the lead, followed by five thousand cavalry. After a dozen breaths, the five thousand cavalry formed a charge formation outside the city.
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