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Chapter 183 Zhao Yun and Ma Chao

On March 14, 22nd year of Jianping, the reinforcements led by Li Bin finally arrived near Zunyang City. At this time, the northern army retreated to Zunyang City and had been surrounded for more than half a month.

Since the Jinluo Kingdom, Liang Kingdom and the Twelve Grassland Alliance used Zunyang City to implement the plan of surrounding and aiding, in addition to launching a fierce attack on Zunyang City in the first three days, in the next ten days, either hang high-level battle-free cards or send a small number of troops to attack Zunyang City perfunctorily.

In addition, there is still enough food and grass in Zunyang City, which makes Zunyang City still firmly control the Zhennan Army.

Before Li Bin led the reinforcements to Zunyang City, the main force of the Zhennan Army in the territory of Yingzhou Prefecture had already joined forces with the reinforcements led by Li Bin halfway.

In this way, Li Bin had the first guard of Guizhou, the second guard of Guizhou, the first guard of the Eastern Barbarians, the second guard of the Eastern Barbarians, and the entire 190 Zhennan Army's palace barracks, plus 60,000 personal guard cavalry, heavy armored cavalry, glorious knights and guards, and the total reinforcements exceeded 600,000.

Among them, the 190 Zhennan Army's prefecture barracks included the 35 battalions under Yan Liang and Wen Chou, as well as the 120 battalions of the four commanders of the central army, Chen Jian, Shi Rui, Cui Bao and Meng Hu. The total of the four commanders of the four commanders was not brought over and stayed in the cities captured by the central army.

When the three-party coalition saw that Zunyang City had indeed attracted a reinforcement from the Zhennan Army, they were overjoyed. Then the three-party coalition decided to take advantage of the Zhennan Army's reinforcement army that had not yet established a foothold, and they tried to defeat the Zhennan Army's reinforcement army with only a few hundred thousand troops in one breath.

When Li Bin saw the endless Liang Kingdom cavalry and Hulu cavalry rushing towards him in the distance, he immediately asked the four outer guards' twelve heavy cavalry brigades to come forward to fight.

Then Li Bin personally led the four King Kongs, the sixty-four wolf generals, the thirty-six purple-light knights and 132 blue-light knights, the 804 heavy armored cavalry, more than 600 personal bodyguards and the 60,000 personal guards of the personal guards, and the 60,000 personal guards of the personal guards, also joined the battlefield.

In the end, 160,000 light cavalry from 190 battalions joined the battle between the cavalry.

The cavalry battle between the two armies lasted from the morning of March 14th to the evening of March 14th. Under the leadership of Li Bin, the cavalry troops of the Zhennan Army withstood the impact of several times the enemy cavalry and allowed the infantry of the Zhennan Army to build a large camp about fifty miles east of Zunyang City.

The three-way coalition forces found that they could not defeat the Zhennan Army's reinforcement army in one battle, so before dark, they chose to withdraw their troops.

That night, Li Bin, who had taken off his armor and changed into clean clothes in Li Bin's tent, asked Lu Xun, Long Qi, Yang Zaixing, and Huang Zhong in a deep voice: "What is the casualties of your four guards?"

Lu Xun, Long Qi, Yang Zaixing, and Huang Zhong were all wearing bloody armor at this time. In today's battle, the four of them personally led their heavy cavalry troops to fight with the cavalry of the 12 tribes of Liang Kingdom and the grassland alliance.

Lu Xun immediately replied: "Report to the lord, the three heavy cavalry brigades that the First Guard of Guizhou today killed more than 7,000 people, which almost equals the one heavy cavalry brigade."

"Lord, the three heavy cavalry brigades that fought in the Second Guard of Guizhou killed about 6,500 people today."

"Lord, the three heavy cavalry brigades that my first guard of the East Man fought, almost 6,000 people were killed."

"Lord, the three heavy cavalry brigades that my second guard of the East Man fought were late in the battlefield, but they only lost less than 3,000 people today."

Li Bin nodded, then asked Pei Yuanqing and Xiong Kuohai, Li Meng: "How much does your personal guards have lost today?"

Pei Yuanqing said in a deep voice: "Report to the lord, the 20,000 personal guards under my command are only more than 16,000 left."

Xiong Kuohai followed and said, "Lord, there are about 17,000 cavalry left under my command."

Li Meng sighed and said, "Brother, my 20,000 personal guards are only less than 15,000 left."

Li Bin then turned his head to Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Chen Jian, Shi Rui, Cui Bao, Meng Hu and asked: "How much loss will be for your light cavalry today."

Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Chen Jian, Shi Rui, Cui Bao and Meng Hu then reported the losses to Li Bin one by one, and the total losses were about 36,000 light cavalrymen.

If the losses of heavy cavalry and personal guards were added, the Zhennan Army would lose nearly 70,000 cavalry in today's battle.

In addition, the Honor Knights under Li Bin's command, two purple-light knights and fourteen blue-light knights were also killed in today's battle, the heavy armored cavalry also killed thirty-nine people, and Li Bin's personal bodyguards also killed 58 people on the battlefield.

Li Bin then said to the generals: "The cavalry of the twelve tribes of Liang Kingdom and the grassland are indeed quite good in combat, but today, I am very pleased that 300,000 cavalry of our southern army can fight several times the Liang Kingdom cavalry and Hulu cavalry without falling behind. Moreover, the losses of Liang Kingdom cavalry and Hulu cavalry should be far greater than the 70,000 people we lost."

Lu Xun nodded and said, "The Liang Kingdom cavalry and Hulu cavalry who participated in the battle today must be at least 1.5 million, and the casualties may reach 300,000. However, according to the information we have obtained, Liang Kingdom sent more than one million cavalry this time, and the 12 grassland tribes alliance gathered a total of more than two million Hulu cavalry. So if we want to lift the siege of Zunyang City, we have to fight a few more such victories outside Zunyang City!"

After pausing, Lu Xun continued, "Now the main force of the Southern Army is also coming to meet with us. The victory or defeat of the Battle of Zunyang City will directly affect the war between our Zhennan Army and the Jinluo Kingdom, Liang Kingdom and the Twelve Grassland Alliance."

As soon as Lu Xun finished speaking, Li Bin said, "Now the court is only preparing to gather troops in Huaizhou Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture and Kunzhou Prefecture. They will not send troops to Yingzhou Prefecture of Jinluo to support our Zhennan Army. Therefore, in the battle of Zunyang City, our Zhennan Army can only rely on ourselves. Everyone should be prepared for hard and bloody battles. After all, the enemy's troops are several times that of ours."

The generals in the tent nodded with serious expressions when they heard this.

Afterwards, Li Bin changed his voice, "But everyone rest assured that in addition to the 100,000 troops of the Southern Army were rushing over, the first guard of Xiangzhou, the third guard of the Eastern Barbarians, the first guard of Congzhou, the second guard of Congzhou, the first guard of Fuzhou, the second guard of Fuzhou, the second guard of Fuzhou, the first guard of Guan Ying, the first guard of Congzhou and the second guard of Guan Ying, the forty guard of Congzhou under Huang Gai, the forty guard of Congzhou, the thirty-five guard of Fuzhou under Chen Wu, the thirty-five guard of Guan Sheng, and the thirty-five guard of Guan Zhou, and the thirty-five guard of Guan Zhou, the thirty-five guard of the Eastern Barbarian Guardians under Guan Sheng, and the 105 guard of the Eastern Barbarian Guardians under Li Ba, Li Er, and Li Teng are all rushing to us, which means that millions of reinforcements will join us."

Although the six outer guards of Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture do not belong to the real Zhennan Army, the military power is controlled by the Xie family, Cui family, Luo family, Tang family, Zhou family and Cao family in the capital, these six outer guards of the Zhennan Grand Commander's Office are directly under the jurisdiction of the six outer guards of the Zhennan Grand Commander's Office, Li Bin also has the right to mobilize these six outer guards of the six outer guards.

This time, the Liang Kingdom and the Twelve Grassland Alliance dispatched millions of cavalry to assist the Jinluo Kingdom. Li Bin did not be polite to the six generals of the capital and directly ordered the six outer guards of Congzhou Prefecture, Fuzhou Prefecture and Jingzhou Prefecture to rush to Yingzhou Prefecture, Jinluo Kingdom to participate in the war.

When the generals in the commander's tent heard that there were still millions of reinforcements coming, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the difference between the enemy and our troops was too great outside Zunyang City.

"We've been fighting for a day today. If everyone has nothing to do, let's go back and rest!"

After the generals left the tent, Li Bin said to Lu Zhishen: "Monk, call Zhao Yun and Ma Chao over."

In the fierce battle today, Li Bin brought Li Jia, Li Yi, Li Bing and Li Ding, the four great kings, to rush forward. There were five or six hundred Liang cavalry and barbarian cavalry killed by Li Bin himself, including five or six hundred Mingjin warriors, secret warriors and Huajin warriors. Even with the help of the four great kings, Li Bin personally killed two Liangguo master warriors, one Di Qiang tribe master warrior, one Black Capricorn tribe master warrior and one Gao Heng tribe master warrior.

This made the eight hexagram positions of the Tai Chi Bagua diagram not only full of energy, but now six and a half hexagram positions have become brighter. Li Bin only needs to collect one and a half hexagram essence of the sun and moon, so that the Tai Chi Bagua diagram can summon two Chinese historical figures.

After summoning two powerful generals, Yuwen Chengdu and Gao Chong, because Li Bin has not been in person, he has no way to allow the Tai Chi Bagua Diagram to quickly absorb energy. Therefore, Li Bin has not summoned a new Chinese historical figure for more than two years.

The Liang Kingdom and the Twelve Grassland Alliance suddenly joined the war between the Zhennan Army and the Jinluo Kingdom, which gave Li Bin the opportunity to quickly refresh his energy.

Since the Tai Chi Bagua Chart will no longer absorb new energy before the eight hexagram positions are used up, Li Bin summoned two Chinese historical figures on the battlefield after all the eight hexagram positions in the Tai Chi Bagua Chart become brighter.

Zhao Yun, whose courtesy name is Zilong, was one of the Five Tiger Generals of Shu Han.

In the late Han Dynasty, warlords fought in a melee. Zhao Yun was elected by his county and led Yicong to join the White Horse General Gongsun Zan. During this period, he met Liu Bei, the royal relative of the Han Dynasty. But soon after, Zhao Yun left because of his brother's death. Zhao Yun left Gongsun Zan for about seven years and met Liu Bei in Yecheng, and since then he followed Liu Bei.

Zhao Yun followed Liu Bei for nearly 30 years and participated in the Battle of Bowangpo, the Battle of Changbanpo, the Battle of Jiangnan, and commanded the Battle of Entering Sichuan alone, the Battle of Hanshui, and the Battle of Jigu, all of which achieved very good results.

In addition to fighting everywhere, Zhao Yun also served as the prefect of Guiyang as a partial general, stayed in the camp of Sima and remained in the public security office, and was the general of the Yi army to supervise Jiangzhou.

Ma Chao, whose courtesy name is Mengqi, was descended from Ma Yuan, the general of Fubo of Han, and the son of Ma Teng. He became famous at a young age. Cao Cao had recruited Ma Chao to Beijing as an official many times, but he was rejected by Ma Chao. Later, Ma Teng entered Beijing and was named the Weiwei, so Ma Chao led Ma Teng's troops.

In the 16th year of Jian'an, Cao Cao was in charge of Guanzhong. Ma Chao joined forces with Guanzhong princes Han Sui and others to resist Cao Cao. He once posed a great threat to Cao Cao, but was defeated and retreated by Cao Cao using a divisive strategy. Then he gathered troops to capture the counties of Longshang again. After failing, he relied on Zhang Lu of Hanzhong.

When Liu Bei attacked Liu Zhang, Ma Chao surrendered to Liu Bei and surrounded Chengdu with Liu Bei's army. After the Battle of Hanzhong, he jointly wrote a letter to honor Liu Bei as King of Hanzhong.

After the establishment of Shu Han, Ma Chao became General of Cavalry and was one of the five tiger generals of Shu Han.

After Zhao Yun and Ma Chao were summoned by Li Bin, they followed Li Bin to continue fighting on the battlefield. Both of them showed extraordinary martial arts. The Liang Kingdom cavalry and Hulu cavalry who died under their guns today may have to have nearly a thousand people.

Before the generals came to be the leader, Li Bin confirmed through the faint red light emitted from the two of them that Zhao Yun and Ma Chao were actually both great masters and warriors.

For more than 600 years, the only great master warrior in the Great Yan Empire is the Martial Saint Han Xiu.

But the great master warriors around Li Bin seem to be doing wholesale, with as many as eight people, including Xue Li, Yang Zaixing, Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Fan Kuai, Long Qi, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao.

In addition, there are eight powerful generals with the strength of the great master warriors, including Yuwen Chengdu, Gao Chong, Pei Yuanqing, Xiong Kuohai and the four great Vajras.

In fact, after several years of hard work, Li Bin's martial arts has made great progress and his strength is comparable to that of a great master warrior.

"Lord!" After Zhao Yun and Ma Chao walked into the tent, they greeted Li Bin in unison.

"Zilong, Meng Qi, you should all know the situation facing our Zhennan Army now, right?"

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Brother Lu just now, he has roughly introduced the situation of the lord and Zhennan Army to both of us."

The Lu brothers Zhao Yun mentioned refer to Lu Zhishen.

Li Bin immediately smiled and said, "I trust you two very much in the martial arts and the ability to lead troops to fight. However, my Zhennan Army has just been reorganized and there is no suitable position for you yet. I am going to ask you to help me command the Knights of Honor first. I wonder if you are willing?"

Zhao Yun and Ma Chao had just heard Lu Zhishen introduce the Glory Knights. They knew that this was an elite force that Li Bin valued very much. The entire Glory Knights are all composed of Grandmaster Warriors and Warriors of the Power.

"Master, I do."

"Master, I'm willing, too."

Li Bin continued: "Although the Glorious Knights are all composed of the Purple Knights and Blue Knights of the Tuz Empire, the loyalty of these Purple Knights and Blue Knights to me is still trustworthy. You two will lead this Glorious Knights first, and after the war with the Jinluo Kingdom, Liang Kingdom and the Twelve Grassland Alliance ends, I will arrange a suitable position for you two."
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