Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 35 The Battle of Dagu Mountain, Prologue
Dagu Mountain is not a mountain, but a group of mountains in the south of Chengmou County. Just under this group of mountains, there is a hidden mountain road leading directly to the back of Hulao Pass.

The two sides of the mountain road are tall and full of trees, and the road below is winding and slender. Only the middle section is extraordinarily spacious. If you look at this place from a high altitude, it looks like the bottom of an iron pot.

And this wide land shaped like the bottom of a pot is the main place where Liu Yu set up an ambush.

Gao Shun received an order to come to this spacious place last night. Before dawn, he took the soldiers and continued onward. However, they could not take the trail down the mountain. In order to prevent their whereabouts from being discovered, they could only turn over Mountain trip.

Gao Shun's army consisted of 2000 people. He himself led 1000 people to the left side of the mountain path, and the other 1000 people were led by the new lieutenant Zhang Da to the right side.

The two teams must arrive at the designated location to ambush before dawn.

At the same time, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's two battalions of soldiers also set off before dawn.

The task of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei is to set up an ambush on both sides of the "pot bottom wide land",
The three troops were very cautious, and they all sneaked into the dense forest in the mountains at dawn. During this period, several groups of Cao Jun scouts who explored the road failed to find any clues.

The sun was rising gradually and it was almost noon. At this time, a group of soldiers came from the northern section of Dagu Mountain. From a distance, a large flag with the word Cao was waving in the wind.

Gao Shun, who was hiding on the top of the mountain, looked from afar. He found that there were nearly 2 people in the team. If nothing else, Cao Cao should have arrived, so he immediately sent messengers to send the news back to Hulao Pass.

At this time, Liu Yu, who had been staying in Hulaoguan for half the night, finally woke up. After getting up, he exercised his muscles and bones first, and then ate dry food with boiling water.

Not long after, the school lieutenant Wang Han came over with a scout.

"Reporting to my lord, General Gao Shun sent someone to send news that a large number of troops have been found in the northernmost section of Dagu Mountain. The banners look like Cao Cao's troops!"

"Oh! Cao Cao came earlier than expected!" Liu Yu secretly sighed, thanks to the ambush arranged in advance last night, otherwise Cao Cao would have been caught off guard.

"Come on, tell Liu Bei that they will wait for me in the Chinese army tent!" Liu Yu paused and added, "Shout Sun Jian too!"

Sun Jian was sure that he had no intention of acting, especially when he heard that Han Dang, Cheng Pu and the seven thousand soldiers had all become Liu Yu's subordinates, and his friendship directly dropped to a negative value.

However, Liu Yu adhered to the principle of never abandoning or giving up on all generals with the attributes of the five elements, and decided to take him by his side to slowly "influence".

When they came to the big tent of the Chinese army, they saw Liu Bei and Tian Feng chatting about something, while Zhang Liao stared at Sun Jian coldly.

When several people saw Liu Yu arrived, they all went up to pay respects to pay homage.

"You don't need to be too polite. There is a military report from the front saying that Cao Cao's vanguard has entered the northern section of Dagu Mountain. We should also act. Everyone knows that I, Liu Yu, never fight unprepared battles. As long as I attack, I must triumph !"

"So...the things I asked Xuande to prepare last night are all ready?"

After hearing this, Liu Bei took out two pockets from behind his back in a daze. Everyone curiously thought that there was some kind of magic weapon to defeat the enemy.

But when I opened it, I found that one of the bags contained a slaughtered chicken, some vegetables and meat, and the other bag contained kitchen utensils such as kitchen knives, bowls and chopsticks, and bamboo sticks.

He received a summons from Liu Yu before the break last night. He thought that he would be entrusted with a heavy responsibility like Guan and Zhang, but he didn't expect that Liu Yu's task was to ask him to get up in the middle of the night to kill chickens.

"My lord, is this going to give us a little trouble before the battle?" Liu Bei scratched his head in confusion, wondering if it would be a bit of a joke to bring these things to the battlefield.

"Of course not, this is what I am going to treat guests to! But whether the guests can be invited or not depends entirely on your hard work!"

Seeing Liu Yu's relaxed and joking face, Sun Jian, who was listening in, showed contempt on his face. He felt that talking about cooking and entertaining guests in the Chinese military tent where the military aircraft was deployed was really not what a commander should do. .

Such a child's play, today's battle will be defeated!Sun Jian secretly cursed in his heart.

But how did he know that the ambushes deployed on Dagu Mountain had already been in place long ago, and those people waiting for orders in the tent were all backup troops or partial divisions.

After putting away the ingredients, Liu Yu began to assign tasks to several people one by one. Tian Feng was loyal and stable, and his military strategy was all extraordinary, so he was assigned to guard the rear again.

"After Tian Feng received the order, Liu Yu reminded again, "In addition, Jia Xu went to Gong County and estimated that he would not be able to return until noon. Yuan Hao, don't forget to send someone to meet him! "

"Subordinates understand!" Tian Feng received the order and turned around to leave the big tent.

Next came Zhang Liao, who had to "confront" Han Dang in front of Hulao Pass until noon, and then attack Chengmou County from the front of Hulao Pass. Directly hit the enemy's rear from left to right.

"Xuande is going to gather three thousand elites and prepare to block the enemy head-on with me!" Liu Yu started to walk out of the tent after giving the last order.

When he approached Sun Jian, he seemed to have noticed that there was an idler here, so he ordered: "Sun Wentai is known as the Jiangdong tiger, you can't be idle in this battle!"

Hearing this, Sun Jian felt joy in his heart. Last night when he heard that all the soldiers under his command had switched to Liu Yu's command, he felt that it was meaningless to stay here any longer. Now when he heard that he could also lead troops out, he suddenly felt that the opportunity to escape had come. .

"Despite King Zhongshan's order, Sun Jian promises to go forward, but I don't know where I will lead my troops to fight?"

"Oh, your task is not that complicated, you just need to bring those two bags of ingredients and follow me within three meters! Remember this is a military order, and you must deal with military law if you damage the ingredients and stay three meters away from me!"

After Liu Yu finished speaking, he didn't stop and walked out of the tent. Sun Jian's face was livid but he didn't dare to attack. There was no joke in the army, he was really afraid that Liu Yu would find an excuse to kill himself.

After all, Sun Jian is just a bare-bones commander now, and even he himself feels that he has little value to Liu Yu, so how dare he show his dissatisfaction.

"Within three meters!"

A loud voice came from outside the tent, and Sun Jian was so frightened that he quickly picked up the two bags of ingredients, but how long is the distance of three meters?You should know that there is no meter in the unit of length in Chinese time.

Sun Jian was stumped at this moment, if he was more than three meters away, he would be punished by military law.

"Brother Xuande, within three meters... how big is the range?"

Liu Bei smiled and motioned for him to come over.

Sun Jian was overjoyed and thought that he had finally met someone he could make friends with.

But I heard Liu Bei say in a teasing tone: "I don't know how big it is within three meters, but what is certain is that you are now...out of the circle, if you leave soon, I will enforce the military law."

"..."

Three thousand soldiers were quickly assembled, and after a quick march, they arrived at the southernmost tip of Dagu Mountain.

The mountain roads are not easy to navigate, and two or three people can walk side by side in the narrowest place, so the troops can only form a long snake formation and continue moving forward.

But Liu Yu knew that there was an ambush by his own troops ahead, and the number of people was relatively small, so the marching speed of the three thousand soldiers was not affected too much by the narrow mountain road.

After about an hour or so, the mountain path gradually widened, and not far away was the pot-shaped wide land.

(End of this chapter)