Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 614: Yuan Shu Breaks Out
This time, the strategy led by Zhu Wei, with Chen Deng as the key figure, was implemented very smoothly.

The timing of Chen Deng pretending to be Lv Bu's envoy to Zhu Wei's army happened to allow Zhu Wei to have more detailed discussions and news exchanges with Chen Deng.

So Zhu Wei knew clearly that Yuan Shu would ask Lu Bu to bring a small number of guards into Shouchun City the next morning to discuss breaking out of the siege. At that time, Yuan Shu would kill Lu Bu in the city.

Then Yuan Shuhui, with the help of Chen Deng, controlled the generals left by Lv Bu outside the city, and then Chen Deng took control of Lv Bu's soldiers and horses as cannon fodder, and together with Yuan Shu's army, they broke through and marched towards Xuzhou.

With this clear time information, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao naturally prepared to ambush, and when Yuan Shu's breakout army entered the trap, they could capture and kill Yuan Shu in one fell swoop.

As for the place to ambush the trap, Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei had already found a suitable place during the tripartite talks before, and that was in Quyang County, northeast of Shouchun City.

This Quyang County is located in the west of the North China Plain, at the eastern foot of the Taihang Mountains. It is a semi-mountainous county with a high terrain in the northwest and low in the southeast.

In the county, you can find many suitable terrains for ambush, such as the V-shaped valleys originally formed by river valleys and many cliffs and cliffs, so they can completely become the deadly places to intercept and kill Yuan Shu's army.

So while Yuan Shu was trapping and killing Lv Bu and annexing Lv Bu's army, Zhu Wei and Cao Cao also quietly sent troops to ambush in Quyang County, and each assigned an ambush location. Now it can be said that all the prerequisites are ready, just waiting Yuan Shu and Lu Bu fell for it.

On the morning of May 198, 27 AD, Yuan Shu successfully tricked Lu Bu into Shouchun City.

Everything was as planned, this morning Lv Bu took Gao Shun and three hundred soldiers from the trapped camp unpreparedly, and entered Shouchun City under the introduction of Chen Deng, preparing to discuss with Yuan Shu the specific plan of a joint breakout.

As a result, Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and three hundred soldiers from the trapped camp were tricked into an alley in Yuan Shu's Palace in Shouchun City. After Chen Deng left on the pretext, the doors on both sides of the alley were firmly blocked.

Immediately after that, ambushes suddenly rose up on the side walls of the two or three-story buildings, and all of a sudden, crossbow arrows and feather arrows fell like rain, and oil tanks filled with kerosene were also thrown into the alley. , and soon the flames burned in the alleyway that was only three or four steps wide.

Lu Bu, Gao Shun, and the three hundred soldiers of the trapped camp were completely unprepared. Even if they were wearing leather armor and helmets inlaid with iron plates, and had large and small shields in their hands, they could not resist the rockets igniting the kerosene. Burning flames.

No matter how strong Lu Bu's force is, no matter how capable the soldiers in the trapped camp under Gao Shun's command, they will have no power to resist in the face of such a deadly situation.

However, in less than half an hour, Lu Bu and Gao Shun were almost shot like hedgehogs. The other soldiers trapped in the camp were either shot to death, burned to death, or choked to death. So far, Lu Bu, the number one hero of the Three Kingdoms, has withdrawn from the stage of history. Gao Shun and the three hundred soldiers from the camp became his funeral.

In this way, after Lv Bu's death, Chen Deng took Yuan Shu's hero, Ji Ling, out of Shouchun City and returned to Lv Bu's army pretending to be a soldier trapped in the camp. Then Chen Deng summoned Chen Gong, Cheng Lian, and Hao Meng in the name of Lv Bu. The four of them entered the account, and before they had any reaction, they were all easily captured.

Chen Deng announced the death of Lu Bu and Gao Shun on the spot, and made Chen Gong, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing surrender. In the end, except for Chen Gong's disobedience and intention to shout a warning, but was hacked to death by Ji Ling, Cheng Lian , Hao Meng and Cao Xing all took advantage of the situation and surrendered.

In fact, I want to say here that Gao Shun is not actually included in Lu Bu's so-called eight strong generals, because the status of Gao Shun and Chen Gong is actually higher than Zhang Liao, Cao Xing and other eight strong generals in Lu Bu's army.

Therefore, Gao Shun and Chen Gong are Lv Bu's absolute confidantes. Even if Gao Shun's temperament made Lv Bu dislike him, and he meant to be marginalized by Lv Bu later and relieved of his military power, at first Gao Shun's position in Lv Bu's army was only It is inferior to Lu Bu's, and has independent military power to lead the army, so Gao Shun can lead the camp of the strongest army in Lu Bu's army.

As for Chen Gong, he led Lu Bu step by step from the downcast to the current position of the current master of Xuzhou. Although Lu Bu was too proud and arrogant to listen to Chen Gong's opinion after owning Xuzhou, Chen Gong's status is still the same. placed there.

This is also the reason why Gao Shun and Chen Gong refused to surrender after Lu Bu's death in the original history, because they were the real high-level Lu Bu confidantes.

As for the other eight generals, even someone like Zhang Liao was just a cavalry captain under Lv Bu's account, that is, a general of the cavalry department. Without Lv Bu's general order, he would not have the right to lead the army independently.

Of course, Chen Deng was very clear about the situation in Lu Bu's army, so he first let Gao Shun die in Shouchun City with Lu Bu, and then asked Ji Ling to kill Chen Gong, who had more influence on Lu Bu's army.

Then the remaining three, Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing, were just ordinary generals in Lu Bu's army, without direct military power, so naturally they were no threat.

So regardless of whether the three of them are completely sincere in their hearts, they can only succumb under the threat of their lives.

Although it was a pity for Gao Shun and Chen Gong to die, it was indeed difficult for them to betray Lu Bu and turn to others. For the implementation of the whole strategy, Zhu Wei would not stop Chen Deng from attacking them.

All of this was actually a plan designed with the help of Jia Xu, Lu Su, Zhou Yu and others when Chen Deng was at Zhu Wei's side, in order to give Chen Deng a greater chance to control Lu Bu's army.

Now with the assistance of Ji Ling, and the cooperation of Cheng Lian, Hao Meng, and Cao Xing, Chen Deng has successfully controlled Lu Bu's troops.

Of course, Chen Deng did not directly convey the news of the deaths of Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Chen Gong and others. If this news got out, Lu Bu's army would collapse immediately, so Chen Deng borrowed the name of Lu Bu to communicate A military order was issued, and then Lu Bu's army was mobilized to prepare to break through.

At the beginning, as planned, Chen Deng pretended to send a signal to Zhu Wei and Cao Cao that Lv Bu should act as an internal response, seeming to focus the attention of Zhu Wei and Cao Cao's army in other directions.

As a result, Chen Deng led Lu Bu's army and easily broke through the camps set up by Zhu Wei and Cao Cao on the outskirts of Lu Bu's army.

Then Yuan Shu, who had already seen this scene at the east gate of Shouchun City, was also excited and led nearly [-] elite troops to break out of the encirclement.

However, in Yuan Shu's breakout army, they brought a lot of money and treasures hoarded in large carts and carts. In addition, Yuan Shu's harem beauties, generals, generals, and civil servants' families and relatives, at least nearly ten thousand people followed the breakout.

This inevitably made the scale of Yuan Shu's breakthrough very large, and the speed of this breakthrough naturally couldn't be accelerated at all...

(End of this chapter)