Rejuvenation of the Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 264 Taking advantage of the victory to attack
Zhang Fei is warlike by nature. Once he leads troops, he has inexhaustible strength all over his body, as if possessed by the god of war!
When I came to Shangdang this time, I only fought a fierce battle, and did not fight against the eldest son's rebel army. I heard that Zhao Yun fought back and forth among the rebellious army, sent arrows to send books, and Zhang Liao led the army into the city, so I regretted it.

At this time, he finally received the general order, put on his horse immediately, and ordered all the soldiers to hurry up and rush to Tunliu.

Zhang Liao was also young and energetic, he took the command for the first time, and he was full of energy. The two had their eldest son, it was dusk, the sky was dark, and they were ready to set up camp.

However, Zhang Fei left [-] infantry behind, and ordered [-] cavalry to continue marching, and then buried pots for cooking after walking another [-] miles.

Zhang Liao asked suspiciously: "Yide, the road in this mountain is rugged, and it takes about two hours for thirty miles. Isn't it the middle of the night?"

Zhang Fei chuckled and said, "Wen Yuan, before leaving, Junhou said that there would not be too many thieves in Tunliu. Let's run thousands of miles and make food in the middle of the night. We can kill them in Tunliu tomorrow morning." Below the city, the bandits are caught off guard, so why not keep them at your fingertips?"

Zhang Liao frowned and said, "Isn't it too risky to take the enemy lightly?"

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "If you are other princes, you must be careful to deal with them, but I, Lao Zhang, don't pay attention to the mere bandit army. I don't think they have any plans. If Wen Yuan is afraid, you lead the infantry and then come to garrison Just stay and meet up."

Although Zhang Liao was more stable than Zhang Fei, he was still young after all. When excited by Zhang Fei's words, he immediately said: "Yide is going, I will follow, mere black bandit, there is really no need to look forward and backward."

Zhang Fei patted Zhang Liao's shoulder and laughed loudly, "Hahaha, it's such a joy to fight like this, as expected of my Zhang family!"

In addition to the more than 300 township warriors he summoned in Yanmen, the rest of Zhang Liao's troops were elite soldiers recruited from Fan Yang. Liu He named him Xiaoyao Army.

In the past two years, Zhang Liao has personally trained and promoted Ouyang Fu and other new generals. All of them are skilled in martial arts, brave and good at fighting, and they also intend to compete with Zhang Fei's Yan Yunqi.

Seeing that Zhang Fei wanted to continue to march, Zhang Liao also ordered Ouyang Fu to order his subordinates not to dismount and continue to set off. Zhang Fei ordered Qin Liang to lead the infantry to follow, and took Yan Yunqi straight to Tunliu.

At this time, the Mid-Autumn Festival had just passed, and the bright moon had already hung on Dongshan Mountain after dark.

Zhang Fei urged his horse to walk in the front. The canyon was open and the distant mountains were vast. The boredom of the past few days was swept away, and he galloped on the official road to his heart's content.

At the time of the second watch, the men and horses rested in a mountain depression, and when the sky became light, Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao had already arrived in the territory of Tunliu.

The two immediately stood on a small hill, and saw that the top of the city was pitch black, and there was no one patrolling the bandit army, and further north of Tunliu, there were rolling mountains, and this basin of Shangdang was the end of it.

Zhang Fei said with a sneer, "This gang of idiots retreated from the eldest son, and the guards were so lax. Sure enough, Bai Rao knew that Shangdang would not be able to keep him. He probably retreated to the Taihang Mountains."

Zhang Liao nodded and said: "The bandit army has neither sentries nor patrols, probably only the remnants stay here. When we see him open the city later, you and I will go into the city one by one, and we can easily get a settlement."

Zhang Fei laughed loudly and said, "This time it's the second brother's turn to come a little later!"

Then he ordered the scouts to observe the movement in the city on the mountain, and the rest of the soldiers got off their horses to rest, but they were not allowed to remove their saddles and armor, and they mounted their horses and rushed to kill immediately after the city was opened.

Zhang Liao looked back at the hillside. There was a road in front of this gentle slope, which was just right for the cavalry to sprint. When they got off the gentle slope, the horses could reach the extreme speed and charge into the city in one breath.

It wasn't until sunrise on Dongshan that the gates of Tunliu opened slowly, and the scouts rushed to report. Zhang Fei looked from behind the hillside, and saw the bandit soldiers leaving the city stretching and yawning, lazier than the officers and soldiers in the peaceful and prosperous age.

Zhang Fei complained: "If I had known that these thieves were so loose, I wouldn't have had to travel all night."

Zhang Liao urged: "The gate of the city has been opened, there is no time to delay, let's march in!"

Zhang Fei immediately ordered the whole army to get on their horses, raised Zhang Ba Snake Spear, and shouted: "Wen Yuan, you take the east gate, I'll take the south gate, let's see who gets to the government office first, let's go!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already shaken the silk reins, urged his horse to the top of the slope, and led Yan Yunqi to rush down the slope. Seeing this, Zhang Liao hurriedly led the Xiaoyao Army out from the slope on the right.

The men and horses rushed down the slope, and the sound of horseshoes soon alarmed the bandits. The bandits pulling carts out of the city spotted the officers and soldiers first, and immediately gave a loud warning, abandoning their carts and running into the city.

The thieves yelled and panicked, and wanted to close the city gate, but Zhang Fei had already rushed to the bottom of the city, the snake spear shaking, only heard a muffled sound, and knocked open the slowly closed city gate, and the flying horse flew away. Enter.

Yanyun cavalry entered the city and killed anyone he saw. Iron cavalry roared past on the street, and Zhang Fei's snake spear was like an angry dragon, killing the Montenegrin soldiers on their backs.

Although the thieves in the city were alarmed, they had no time to organize resistance after being terrified, and some were even asleep. Zhang Fei had already led his troops to the government office.

On the other side, Zhang Liao also rushed into the city from the east gate. The remaining Black Mountain Army in the city was flanked by two forces. I don't know how many officers and soldiers entered the city.

The bandit army escaped from the north gate and retreated northward along the official road to Lu County.

Zhang Fei caught a bandit leader in the government office, and before interrogation, Zhang Liao also arrived and interrogated the bandit general, only to find out that Bai Rao sent troops to patrol the north to guard against Xiangyuan's soldiers, thinking that the eldest son had Yu Po from Hukou. People and horses are restrained, and they will not attack Tunliu, which is why the defense here is so lax.

Zhang Fei laughed loudly when he heard the words: "In this way, Bai Rao must have been underprepared in Lu County, and we just took advantage of the victory to advance."

Zhang Liao frowned and said, "You just won Tunliu, do you want to march?"

Zhang Feiyan said: "If Bai Rao intercepts General Guan in the front, he will definitely divide his troops to attack Lu County. This is called east to attack west. The second elder brother once said that he likes to use this tactic the most to contain the enemy's strength. Another blow will kill him." .”

Zhang Liao asked: "Then Tunliu..."

Zhang Fei waved his hands and said with a smile: "The bandit army has already scattered and fled, Qin Liang and the others will rush to the city to garrison later."

The two of them were talking, and they came to the city to watch, and saw that the Black Mountain Army was retreating northward, and the bandits on the official road ran wildly, fearing that the officers and soldiers would catch up.

Zhang Feiyan said: "How about driving these bandits all the way to Lu County, and then we will enter the city?"

Zhang Liao said in surprise: "Yide, you are marching like this, it is not in accordance with the art of war!"

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "I told you earlier that when fighting bandits, you don't need to pay attention to military tactics. As long as you scare them, everyone will be frightened. If you see our army, you will only be frightened."

Zhang Liao pursed his lips, and was also infected by Zhang Fei's arrogance, and said loudly: "Then we will go all out to Lu County and take over Bai Rao's old nest."

Zhang Fei was very satisfied, and patted Zhang Liao on the shoulder: "Wen Yuan, don't say that brother is taking advantage of you, I will let you do the work for a while."

Zhang Liao was overjoyed, and immediately called Ouyang Fu, and sent an order: "I order you to lead five hundred troops to chase and kill the bandit army, but you can't kill them all, just drive them away, without any mistakes!"

"As ordered!"

Ouyang Fu led the order to go down to the city, and soon led a team to chase out the north gate, covering and killing the bandit army along the official road.

(End of this chapter)