Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Cao Xiu saw tiger and leopard knights being shot down by random arrows from time to time, so he had to order to stop the pursuit and retreat.According to the past, under such circumstances, the longbow chariot should turn around and chase the tiger and leopard cavalry, but the disparity in the strength of the two sides is too great, and the general commanding these dozens of longbow chariots may be caught in the opponent's ambush during the pursuit. did not do so.

After Cao Xiu led the tiger and leopard riders back to Liang Jun's simple ferry, he immediately lit a raging fire. Liang Jun's future and the supplies transferred to the ship, except for some food and grass, were all burned along with the simple dock.

Cao Xiu's deputy general said to Cao Xiu: "General, our mission has been completed, do we want to return to Yecheng immediately? We don't have much food and grass with us."

Cao Xiu let out a cold snort through his nose and said, "What do you mean you have completed the mission? According to the report from the scouts, they use the fleet as a mobile camp. Every time they stop at a place, they send out chariots to harass our army everywhere. Supplies are coming soon. When the time is exhausted, we will return here. In this way, we will wait here, and we will kill one when it comes. As for the food and grass, this is not captured. We wiped out the Liang army who came back here, and we must be able to capture it Some forage, so that's not a problem."

Among the hundreds of boats floating in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, one of Dian Qing's lieutenants also asked, "General, what should we do next?"

Dian Qing replied: "The most urgent task now is to regroup the troops we have scattered. So when the Wei army retreats, we have to go back again."

"But Wei Jun is standing there, won't he retreat?"

Hearing this, Dian Qing frowned hesitantly, this was exactly what he was most worried about.If Wei Jun stays where he is and doesn't leave, it's not just a problem of not being able to go back. Those teams that have already spread out to harass Wei Jun will be ambushed by Wei Jun when they return to the team, and they will be defeated one by one.Even if he could escape the Wei army's ambush, he would face the dilemma of losing contact with his headquarters and become a rogue trapped in the hinterland of the enemy's territory.

"Why hasn't Zhang San, who inquired about Wei Jun's whereabouts, come back yet?" Dian Qing didn't answer the deputy's question, but murmured anxiously to himself.

At this time, there was a crisp sound of horseshoes on the shore.A soldier of the Liang army had already rode back. It was Zhang San, the scout sent by Dianqing to monitor the movements of the Wei army.

Zhang San cupped his hands on the bank and said, "General, Wei Qi didn't leave. But they didn't stay where they were, but retreated to a place five miles away and wandered, not knowing what to do."

Dian Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly complained that he really didn't like what he said.He was silent for a while and asked, "Do we still have any pigeons?"

"Tell the general, there is the last one." Another soldier of Dianqing replied.

"Send a message to Luoyang Feige to report the situation of today's battle truthfully."

"promise"

"In addition, send out cavalry to get in touch with the scattered troops as much as possible to prevent them from returning to the previous assembly point."

Dian Wei's soldiers showed a embarrassed expression, and said, "General, our cavalry and chariot were not transferred to the chariot just now. All the sailors on board are sailors. There are no rangers to send now!"

Dian Qing said in a deep voice: "Shoot the arrow and summon them!"

The soldier was startled and said again: "In this case, it is very likely that Wei Qi will be lured here."

"A dead horse can only be used as a living horse doctor, and it is resigned to fate. If the arrow is fired, if Wei Qi arrives first, we can only retreat downstream along the river!"

Immediately, screaming arrows shot up into the air every once in a while, with long red smoke trails on the tails of the arrows.Seeing this scene from a distance, Cao Xiu twitched the muscles on his face, and shouted: "Send three hundred cavalry to see what's going on there." The three hundred Wei army tiger and leopard cavalry immediately rode out and raised towards the arrow. flying everywhere...

Dian Qing squatted at the bow of the boat, watching the situation on the shore without blinking.In the distance, the crisp sound of horseshoes came, and Dian Qing knew that there were not many horses coming.Finally, figures of forty or fifty war cavalry emerged from behind the reeds on the bank, and Dian Qing heaved a sigh of relief.They are Liang Jun's Qingqi Feiyu.

Dian Qing was about to let the boat lean up to talk to them, when there was another muffled sound like thunder in summer, this team of war cavalry consisted of at least two to three hundred cavalry.Liang Jun Qingqi on the shore had already exclaimed: "It's the Wei Jun Tiger and Leopard Riding here, drive the boat over quickly."

Dian Qing also yelled anxiously: "It's too late, retreat quickly, remember to divide into several teams, go find the teams we scattered earlier, warn them, and don't go back to the original assembly point!"

The general of Qingqi Feiyu said in a tearful voice, "I tell you general, we have galloped for hundreds of miles, and now these mounts are exhausted, and it is impossible for them to outrun the opponent's tiger and leopard cavalry. Now, we have to fight to the death with the Wei army."

When Dian Qing heard this, he was also very anxious. If these Qingqi were killed in battle again, it would not be as simple as losing forty or fifty cavalry.The key is that no one has reported to the troops that have been released.His cheeks bulged, he gritted his teeth a few times and said, "Okay, I will fight off these tiger and leopard cavalry together with you!" Then he roared loudly: "A certain military order, the fleet is coming On the shore, all sailors and soldiers landed quickly, ready to face the battle."

Dian Qing's fleet was already very close to the river bank, after he gave the order, the ships quickly approached the bank.More than [-] Viking sailors and soldiers waded to the shore one after another.When the three hundred tiger and leopard cavalry were still thirty battles away from those Qingqi Feiyu, they formed two human walls in front of Qingqi Feiyu.

The two human walls are not densely packed, and the gap between people is deliberately opened.Dian Qing was also standing among them, and said loudly, "Qingqi withdrew to the outside and waited for an opportunity to attack the enemy's flank." Those Qingqi flying feathers then ran away to one side.

The generals of the Wei army were overjoyed when they found a row of pawns suddenly appearing in front of them. It seemed that the opponents had their heads and military exploits at their fingertips.He roared: "The cavalry disperse! Prevent the enemy from shooting! After rushing into the enemy's formation, kill them all!" The tiger and leopard cavalry who followed him immediately dispersed.

Liang Jun's sailors and soldiers all had nervous expressions on their faces, after all, the opponent was an iron cavalry rolling in.Even if there is a scratch, it will be neither dead nor injured.

"Throw!" Dian Qing yelled violently, and then released an arrow casually.The throwing axes and javelins in the hands of the sailor soldiers were all thrown out.Within a distance of [-] battles, the hit rate of these throwing axes and javelins is probably more than [-]%.The horses neighed and screamed in pain. Sixty or seventy tiger and leopard riders were hit by throwing axes or javelins and fell off their horses.

Chapter 677

On the bank of the Yellow River, the tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei army, who had suffered heavy losses, were shocked by the sudden blow, but under the inertia of their mounts, they continued to rush towards the Liang army.The distance of twenty or thirty battles made it too late for Liang Jun to make a second round of projections.

Dian Qing shouted: "Dodge!", and the Liang Jun sailors subconsciously dodged the tiger and leopard cavalry.A sailor soldier just turned his body sideways, and a tiger and leopard rider passed by him, and his nose could even smell the foul smell of the opponent's war horse.Although the other sailor soldier dodged a tiger and leopard rider facing him to slash with his saber, he was hit by another rider and flew five or six battles away before landing on the ground.There are also sailor soldiers who escaped the impact of the horses, but were cut off by the riders on the horses.

As a general, Dian Qing was given special attention, two tiger and leopard lances stabbed at him, he moved left and right and another donkey rolled.First escaped the attack of the lance, and then the impact of the horse.When he got up, another tiger and leopard rider was passing by in front of him, but the rider on the war horse didn't pay attention to him.Dian Qing's saber pierced the tiger and leopard rider's back at an extremely fast speed. The horse continued to gallop, and without Dian Qing closing the knife, the rider's body fell off the blade, and the blood flowed from the sword like a spring. The wound oozes out.

When the nearly three hundred tigers and leopards passed through the crowd of Liang Jun sailors and soldiers, both sides suffered losses.But Liang Jun still lost many more sailor soldiers than Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.The ground where the two sides fought was full of dead bodies of soldiers from both sides.

The tiger and leopard rode to a slow stop nearly thirty battles away, and then began to turn around again, wanting to charge Liang Jun again.At this time, dozens of arrows were shot at them, and those Qingqi flying feathers that had been scattered before appeared on their flanks again.However, although most of these arrows hit the target, they did not cause too many casualties to the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.Some of the arrows were bounced to the ground by the armor, and although some shot through the armor, the arrows got stuck within half an inch of the armor.

The general of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry shouted: "Don't pay attention to them, let's kill these Liang Army infantry first." The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry who had already turned their horses started to speed up again, ready to rush towards Dian Qing and him Sailor Soldier.At this time, there was an extraordinary sound of arrows piercing through the sky. With these whirring sounds, twenty or thirty thick and super-long arrows pierced through the armor of the tiger and leopard cavalry. Two tiger and leopard riders fell off their horses almost at the same time.The leading tiger and leopard cavalry officer was also hit by an arrow. Unlike the other [-] or so people, this arrow pierced his chest from the front, and it was shot by Dian Qing himself.

The tiger and leopard cavalry have suffered more casualties than the hundred cavalry so far, and they have lost their generals.Looking at the arrow again, he knew it was his nightmare—the longbow chariot had arrived.Their morale suddenly collapsed, and they all rode their horses and fled to one side.The longbow chariot was about to chase out, but was stopped by Dian Qing: "Don't chase after the poor, it's important that we do business."

Immediately, he gathered generals and schools at all levels, and hastily arranged military orders, mainly to let Qingqi and chariots search within a range of more than a hundred miles for those returning Liang army squads, tell them the current situation, and change them after returning to the division. meeting place.

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There are nearly a hundred Viking ships moored in a bend of the Yellow River covered with reeds.Dian Qing and others have been hiding here for several days. In order to facilitate concealment, Dian Qing ordered all the larger ships of the captured Wei army to sink to the bottom of the Yellow River.

In the past few days, the rangers he sent kept feeding back the military situation outside.Cao Xiu's soldiers and horses still stayed where they were, and even another Wei army soldier and horse came from the north bank of the Yellow River to support them.The rest of the ranger chariots only found two teams and brought them here to join Dianqing.The rest of the soldiers and horses must have been either destroyed by the Wei army, or fled far away after discovering something was wrong, becoming a lone army wandering on the Huanghuai Plain.

A few rhythmic sounds of waterfowls suddenly came from the other side of the river, and Dian Qing knew it was the connection code of his own scouts.Sure enough, after the response from this side, two or three people floated on the sheepskin raft and swam towards this side.

As soon as the soldier climbed onto Dianqing's boat, he said, "General Qi, we found Wei Jun's spy scout, and he should have found this place too. We can't stay here any longer, we need to leave immediately."

Dian Qing sighed and said: "I have pity on those thousand sons of a certain one, I hope they don't become lonely ghosts in the wilderness." After finishing speaking, he closed his eyes for a few breaths, and finally said as if he made up his mind: "Withdraw the troops!"

Immediately, more than a hundred boats half-laden with soldiers and horses slowly sailed into the main channel of the Yellow River, drummed up their sails, and headed upstream.After one day and one night, at dawn, Dian Qing's fleet returned to the place where they first fought Cao Xiu.Dian Qing didn't know if Cao Xiu had retired at this time, but he didn't care either.Because the waterway of the Yellow River here is more than a hundred battles wide, it is impossible for Cao Xiu to block his fleet.

When Dian Qing was looking around at the bow of the ship, the sound of horses whistling and neighing suddenly came from both sides of the bank, and then Wei Jun's flags were raised from both sides of the bank, Dian Qing could already see tigers and leopards galloping along the bank, following their fleet.

Dian Qing snorted coldly: "Order, the fleet should sail as close to the middle of the river as possible!" The commanding soldier then loudly conveyed his order, and at the same time, arrows gradually shot at the fleet from both sides of the bank.However, when they approached the ship, they were at the end of their strength, and they all fell limply into the water, posing no threat to Liang Jun.

Just when Dianqing thought that he would pass through this section of river safely, he suddenly heard a muffled bang in front of him.Someone in front shouted loudly: "It's not good, the enemy has set up a lock in the river!"

Dian Qing was shocked when he heard this. He never expected that Wei Jun would be able to set up a lock on the Yellow River with a wide riverbed in just a few days.He was looking to the left and right banks of the Yellow River, and found that the tiger and leopard cavalry and a large number of other Wei army infantry had lined up on both sides of the bank, and they were waiting solemnly.Just wait for Liang Jun to go ashore, and kill them all.

Dian Qing gritted his molars hard and said, "Send the order to anchor the boat in the middle of the river!"

The two sides stalemate for a while up and down the river bank.Then there was a muffled bang, and a column of water rising from the surface of the Yellow River was as high as it was high.At the same time, Dian Qing saw more than a dozen small black spots flying towards the river.He suddenly understood in his heart that it was the ballista of the Wei army. In order to encircle them, the Wei army actually pulled the ballista all the way to the edge of the Yellow River.

If this continues, even if Dianqing does not go ashore, he will eventually be sunk by the Wei army ballista.Cold sweat trickled down Dianqing's forehead, this was the most dangerous moment in his life.If there is no miracle, he will definitely die here.

Chapter 678

Just when Dian Qing thought he was going to die, the sound of galloping horses came from a distance, and the Wei army on the bank suddenly panicked, leaving the bank one after another and rushing to the rear.

On the wasteland, hundreds of heavy cavalry lined up, pressing on Cao Xiu's Wei army.At both ends of this cavalry line, there are still two groups of war cavalry advancing with skirmishers. They are light cavalry flying feathers of Liang Jun.

Cao Xiu's face was wrinkled into a walnut, and he cursed: "Damn it, it came so fast!" The lieutenant beside him asked with a look of horror: "General, what should we do? Should we withdraw?" Or fight?"

Cao Xiu said angrily: "Of course we have to fight! We fled before the battle, how will we explain to the superiors when we return to Yecheng? What's more, we still have more than a thousand infantry, and the headquarters can leave them all here, which is even more difficult. The Holy Majesty has explained." After that, his face darkened and he shouted loudly: "The whole army obeys the order, the tiger and leopard riders are ready to fight the enemy, and the infantry retreats to the north first."

After Cao Xiu finished speaking, he rode out on his horse and galloped to meet Liang Jun.Nearly two thousand tiger and leopard riders also rushed out following him.At this time, they were still a hundred battles away from Liang Jun's heavy cavalry. In this distance, they also gradually increased the distance between the war cavalry, lined up, and walked opposite Liang Jun's heavy cavalry.

When there were still thirty or forty battles away, the Qingqi Feiyu on both sides drew their bows and released arrows, and the arrows flew towards the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.However, these arrows did not cause much damage to the tiger and leopard cavalry who had been scattered in a row and were protected by heavy armor.After the Qingqi Feiyu released this round of arrows, they abandoned the tiger and leopard cavalry, and directly swept the tiger and leopard cavalry from both wings, chasing the fleeing Wei army infantry.

The tiger and leopard cavalry collided with Liang Jun's heavy cavalry, and their lances stabbed each other away.With bursts of metal clattering and the sound of horses neighing and people shouting, soldiers from both sides were stabbed off their horses in large numbers.However, the number of tiger and leopard riding losses is far greater than that of the latter.The tiger and leopard cavalry's lance was shorter than Liang Jun's, and the horse was also a head shorter. Often, his own spear had not pierced the opponent's body before being pierced by the opponent's lance.Some Tiger and Leopard Cavaliers stabbed the tip of the spear a little bit, and then they would slide across the opponent's thick iron armor in a sea of ​​sparks and stab through the air.Cao Xiu, who had crossed the Liang Jun cavalry line, looked left and right, and saw that few of his tiger and leopard cavalry were left intact, and quickly shouted: "Withdraw! Withdraw!"

Cao Xiu's infantry were also having a hard time. They were shot randomly by Qingqi Feiyu, and the soldiers lay down on the ground wailing in pain.A quarter of an hour later, their retreat turned into a rout...

Dian Qing waited for a long while, then the sound of horses neighing and weapons clashing could be heard from the bank.Dian Qing was overjoyed, he expected that this was the arrival of his reinforcements.

Sure enough, half an hour later, Liang Jun's heavy cavalry appeared on the river bank, and a gray-bearded veteran appeared among the cavalry.Dian Qing recognized him at a glance, it was Huang Zhong who was as good at shooting as him.Dian Qing's fleet leaned up immediately, and Dian Qing came to Huang Zhong, cupped his fists and said gratefully to Huang Zhong: "If General Huang hadn't come to rescue him, Dian and these hundreds of soldiers would have lost their lives in the Yellow River." Among them. I invite the old general to accept the ceremony." After he finished speaking, he wanted to bow down to Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong hurriedly supported Dianqing, stopped him, and said: "General Dianqing, there is no need to do this. This is Huang's order from the emperor, and this is Huang's duty." The two exchanged pleasantries for a few more times Let's get down to business.Only then did Dianqing understand that after Feng Yu received the letter from Feige, he immediately sent Huang Zhong to lead all the chariots in the headquarters, starting from Chenggao, and rushed here along the Yellow River for two days and one night, defeating Cao Xiu and others in the first battle The Wei army gathered here rescued Dian Qing.

Dianqing asked again: "After the sage told us to rescue us, what should we do next? Do we still want to implement the original plan to plunder the Wei army here?"

Huang Zhong waved his hand and said, "The Holy Majesty didn't say it clearly, but the Holy Majesty only asked someone to go out with a chariot, and did not bring any luggage. The food and grass along the way were carried by the soldiers, so we have to continue to stay here. impossible."

Dianqing nodded: "So, what the Holy One means is that we should return to Chenggao."

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Outside the east gate of Yecheng, a super large new camp rose up.This is one of the dozens of large camps built by Wei State to gather soldiers from all over the world.On the field of the lieutenant colonel in the camp, the shouts of the soldiers practicing broke through the sky.Most of these soldiers wore crude uniforms, and they were all auxiliary soldiers recruited by the Wei army from various places.In addition to these auxiliary soldiers, there are also a small number of Wei soldiers in elite uniforms. Most of them are regular soldiers of the Wei state transferred from Beiping and Liaodong.

Suddenly, a shrill voice came from the gate of the barracks: "The emperor has arrived! All the soldiers greet you!" Thousands of soldiers who were still practicing on the school grounds knelt down and began to shout long live.Surrounded by the Habayashi Army in black clothes and armor, a royal chariot walked towards the school grounds.A scribe in first-grade court uniform also turned out from a certain military tent, knelt down in front of the imperial chariot, and shouted long live.

Cao Pi strolled down the imperial chariot, and said to the dark crowd: "All the generals and soldiers are flat." Then he said politely to the first-rank official: "Please hurry up, too, the grand master. It is really hard for you to come to train the soldiers yourself. gone."

This person is the Grand Master Sima Yi.After Sima Yi and all the soldiers kowtowed to thank him again, they got up and wanted to welcome Cao Pi into their big tent of the Chinese army.Cao Pi waved his hand and said, "No need, the soldiers continue to practice, and I'm here to see how the army is doing."

When they were talking, someone had already moved chairs, stools and tables, and served tea.The soldiers of the Wei army resumed their drill amidst bursts of passwords.At this time, Cao Pi just asked, "Grand Master, how is the assembly of our soldiers and horses? I heard that the Liang army went deep into the Wei territory to plunder. I don't know if it will affect the progress of our troops."

Sima Yi replied: "Your Majesty, there was indeed a Liang army that went deep into the hinterland of our Wei Dynasty earlier, scratching around, which greatly affected the assembly of our army. But this trouble has been solved by the minister, and the minister tried every means to find this enemy. After the army’s temporary lair, Cao Xiu and other generals were dispatched to defeat them in one fell swoop. After that, they never interfered with our army’s deployment of troops.”

Sima Yi never mentioned here that it was Deng Ai's credit for finding Liang Jun's stronghold.This is not because he wants to compete with Deng Ai for credit, but with his current status in the court of Wei State, he doesn't need to compete with anyone for credit.The real reason is that Sima Yi didn't want Cao Pi to pay too much attention to Deng Ai. He wanted Deng Ai to be used by himself, not for Wei Shi Cao Pi.

Cao Pi nodded and said, "That's great, how many troops have we assembled now? When will we have the strength to fight Liang Jun?"

Chapter 679

When Sima Yi saw that Cao Pi asked about the soldiers and horses, he pondered for a while and said, "Your Majesty, at least 30 troops should have been assembled by today. However, being disturbed by Liang Jun, many people and horses were delayed from arriving on time, so until today There are only 22 soldiers of our side gathered around Yecheng, and they are now intensively practicing day and night. But please rest assured, even if the Liang army comes to attack now, our 22 soldiers can fight against [-] to [-] Liang troops. Based on my calculations, [-] to [-] soldiers and horses are the maximum force that Feng Yu can use in a decisive battle with our army."

Cao Pi read suspiciously: "[-] to [-] troops? Has the grand master forgotten Lu Bu? The cavalry he brought down from the northern grasslands must have been [-] to [-]!"

No, Sima Yi laughed and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry about Lu Bu. He can bring [-] to [-] prairie cavalry south, but Feng Yu may not be happy to see this."

Cao Pi's expression changed slightly and he asked, "What does the grand master mean by this? Could it be that Lu Bu disobeyed Liang Guo's orders?"

Sima Yi smiled proudly: "No, no, it's precisely because Lu Bu obeyed Feng Yu's words. Feng Yu didn't want him to lead Hu Qi south."

Cao Pi was even more puzzled, and asked: "Why is Feng Yu unwilling to lead Hu Qi southwards led by Lu Bu, and how does the Grand Master know?"

Sima Yi stood up and bowed to Cao Pi: "Return to Your Majesty, this matter was originally intended to be reported to His Majesty at the court meeting. Now that His Majesty is in the army, I will report this matter to Your Majesty in advance. In fact, Lv Bu's Beifu army had already swept through Beiping five days ago. Your Majesty knows that our army has no elite troops stationed in Beiping, so facing Lv Bu's nearly ten thousand cavalry, we have no defense and counterattack. That Lu Bu's Hu Qi drove into Beiping City. But the strange thing is that in this summer season, Lu Bu, who has the entire northern grassland as a supply support, did not continue to go south. You know, if he goes south, on the Qianli Hebei Plain, His nearly [-] cavalry will be able to kill us near Yecheng in a few days, as if entering no one's land."

When Sima Yi said this, he paused and looked at Cao Pi's reaction before continuing: "But the strange thing is that Lu Bu did not continue to let the horse go south, but turned around and killed in the direction of Liaodong. Therefore, I concluded that Lu Bu would not send his troops again. It’s gone south, and it’s still Feng Yu’s idea.”

Cao Pi responded, "Perhaps Lu Bu was afraid that our army's Liaodong garrison would cut off his retreat, so he wanted to clear Liaodong before going south?"

Sima Yi laughed and said: "Your Majesty forgot, our Liaodong troops have already been transferred back, and it is impossible to pose any threat to Lu Bu's rear. It is impossible for Lu Bu not to know about this situation, and even if our Liaodong army has not been transferred back, it is impossible It won't affect Lv Bu's grassland cavalry supplies in the slightest. So this must be Feng Yu's order, Feng Yu must be afraid that after Lv Bu's Hu cavalry enters the Central Plains, they will take advantage of the momentum and threaten his country!"

When Cao Pi heard this, he nodded suddenly and said, "That's very good. In this way, our Wei army's chances of winning have increased by a few percent!"

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Under Xiangping City, Liaodong County.Lu Bu looked at Xiangping City, where the flames were tumbling and the gates were opened, and he pointed the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand to the sky, "Kill! The looted property and population will be distributed according to military merit."

Under the guidance of nearly a thousand warriors from the Beifu army, thousands of Hu cavalry from various tribes in the grassland swarmed into Xiangping City like an unstoppable torrent.They galloped through the streets and alleys of the city, killing men and old people, abducting women and children, burning houses, and robbing wealth.Although this Xiangping City is named under the rule of the State of Wei, in fact the vast majority of the people living in the city are Goguryeo, Wuhuan and Xianbei.

Surrounded by a dozen of his own soldiers, Lu Bu rode his horse to a high platform in the city. Looking around, he seemed to be familiar with Hu Qi's burning, killing and looting.In fact, this is the law of war on the grassland.For the loser, property, women and even children become the spoils of the winner.This is also the motivation for war among the various tribes in the grassland and the glue for the interests of the tribal alliance.If Lu Bu and the Beifu army did not follow this rule, it would be impossible for them to control the ten thousand li territory on the grassland.

At this time, Li Su, another general in the Beifu army, followed behind Lu Bu.He seemed to be still worried about Lu Bu giving up on going south, and muttered: "Commander, it's no fun for us to fight in a small town in a remote Liaodong border county. We have already kicked open the northern gate of Wei State, why not continue to go south? If you break through Ye City, your military achievements and glory will be much greater than that of attacking here."

Lu Bu smiled lightly, "I would like to, but the Holy Majesty is not willing. What's more, the Holy Majesty's words are not unreasonable."

Li Su was shocked and said: "Why is the Holy Majesty unwilling to go south with Hu Qi under the command of the Beifu Army and the Chief Envoy? Could it be that the Holy Majesty is right..."

Lu Bu knew what Li Su wanted to say, and his face darkened, "Don't talk nonsense, the Holy Majesty's trust in this commander has never changed. He just doesn't want the cities in the Central Plains to become like this. Those cities will eventually become the territory of Daliang. The population will also become the people of Daliang. How can they be plundered by Hu Qi." Lu Bu said while pointing at the surrounding Hu Qi who were looting with his horsewhip.Then Lu Bu went on to say: "If we use our own set of military regulations and disciplines to restrain these Hu cavalry, you think that our Beifu Army, which has less than 200 people, can command more than [-] Hu cavalry, and [-] million Hu cavalry. Is there a population?"

Only then did Li Su suddenly realize: "So that's the reason. Li Su is blunt, thank you for your advice."

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Yuzhou Guandu.Two huge Liang army troops that could not face each other gathered here.After more than a month of rest and consolidation of troops and horses and rear consolidation.The main forces of the two Liang armies, one west and one east, launched a new offensive at the same time.After Feng Yu left more than [-] soldiers and horses to guard Luoyang, he led a group of nearly [-] troops east out of Chenggao, and walked eastward along the banks of the Yellow River and the canal.

After Xuchang's Zhao Yun sent Tai Shici and Liao Hua's two divisions eastward to sweep Xuzhou, he himself led an army of [-] to continue northward.Finally, he joined forces with Feng Yu's main force at Guandu.After joining forces, the main force of the Liang army totaled more than [-] people.

It was rare for Feng Yu to hold a banquet in the military tent to entertain the generals. The generals shouted long live in public, and drank Feng Yu's toast in one gulp.Feng Yu put down the wine baron and asked the generals, "Do you guys know where this is?"

Everyone was slightly taken aback, not knowing what Feng Yu meant, and they all replied: "This is Guandu on the bank of the Yuzhou Canal." Only Zhao Yun said: "This is the place where Cao Cao defeated Yuan Shao. After this battle, it will be Cao Xing and Yuan died."

Feng Yu said: "That's right. We will also start from here to fight a decisive battle that will determine the fate of our girders and the world!"

Chapter 680 The eve of the decisive battle

Xiuwu eight years, summer.Nine pontoon bridges appeared in one day and one night at Baima Ferry on the Yellow River, which is more than forty miles away from Guandu.The Liang army, which is known as one hundred thousand, but actually fifty thousand soldiers and horses, was divided into nine groups and crossed the Yellow River mightily.In the upper and lower reaches of the river, patrolling ships of Liang Jun size can be seen everywhere.

Originally, Feng Yu planned to wait for Wei Jun to cross the river to fight the second Guandu battle between Baima Guandu.But Cao Pi obviously learned the lesson of Yuan Shao's failure back then, and didn't want to stretch the battle line too long.Instead, hundreds of company camps were set up fifty miles north of the North Bank of the Yellow River at Baimadu, waiting for Liang Jun to wait for work.

After the two sides confronted each other nearly a hundred miles across the Yellow River, Feng Yu didn't want to wait any longer, so he ordered the whole army to cross the river.Sima Yi, the chief general of Wei Jun, obviously wanted to fight Feng Yu as soon as possible, so he didn't even attack Liang Jun crossing the river, allowing tens of thousands of Liang Jun soldiers to cross the Yellow River calmly.

Feng Yu and most of his generals were the last to cross the Yellow River.As soon as Feng Yu set foot on the north bank of the Yellow River, the scouts in front of the army came to report: "My lord, there is a mound twenty miles ahead, and the Wei army set up a military camp on the mound. The soldiers stationed in the camp The strength of the troops cannot be determined."

At this time, more than 5 Liang troops had lined up 26 huge cavalry phalanxes on the north bank of the Yellow River, each with between two and 3000 troops.Zhao Yun suggested to Feng Yu: "Your Majesty, from what I have seen, it is better for us to set up a new camp after a few miles, and then wait for an opportunity to attack the Wei army. This place is closer to the Yellow River, even if we can protect these pontoon bridges." , It is also convenient to transfer the grain and grass transported from the waterway."

Feng Yu didn't answer Zhao Yun's words immediately, but unfolded the map on the spot and checked it carefully.In fact, he has already activated his own system panel and started to observe.Now Feng Yu's system battlefield panel can already observe the scene within a radius of thirty miles.

After a while, Feng Yu answered Zhao Yun's words: "No, we will not camp on the shore. We need to take this mound. Then we will set up a new camp on the north side of the mound, with the mound behind. It is very close, suitable for us to launch an attack at any time. Although it is far away from the Yellow River, we are not fighting a protracted war. The sooner we can decide the victory with the Wei army, the better. Secondly, within a radius of more than ten miles, there seems to be such a The mound. If the Wei army loses it, they will also lose the commanding heights to look out and scout our army. Of course, they also have hot air balloons, but their hot air balloons can be easily destroyed by our army's archers."

After Feng Yu finished speaking, Zhao Yun immediately clasped his fists and said, "I would like to obey the imperial edict, and I will go to deploy the action." After Zhao Yun left, Jia Xu who was near Feng Yu twisted his beard and murmured: "Your Majesty, there is something I don't know what to do. It's not right to say it."

Feng Yu said with a hearty smile: "There is something that Situ can't say directly, but it doesn't matter."

Jia Xu immediately replied: "Your Majesty, I always thought it was inappropriate to fight quickly. Now the Wei army has gathered 10 troops, which is several times stronger than ours, and relying on the fortified city to take a defensive position, it has a great advantage in these two aspects. But Now the territory of the Wei army is not as big as ours. His Youyan and Yanzhou were actually only one state in the Han Dynasty. Such a large territory simply cannot support hundreds of thousands of troops for a long time. Therefore, our army only needs to stabilize the rear and fight every step of the way to defend Substitute attack, the Wei army will be defeated without fighting after a long time. Why waste troops to fight head-on with the opponent?"