Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Chapter 231 Bodao

Just when Liang Jun's iron cavalry defeated the Rahal War Elephant Group and stormed his personal guard phalanx.The Zhu Luo soldiers who besieged the Liang Army's phalanx in the east also suffered a large number of casualties in the fierce fighting.

They have long been under the impact of the opponent's giant ape heavy armor, and they are out of formation and fighting on their own.A Zhu Luo spearman quietly approached a giant ape soldier from behind, with the spear in both hands, he used all his strength to stab the opponent's lower back fiercely, his height could only reach this place at most.

The spear blade pierced through the opponent's thick battle armor, sank three inches into the opponent's back waist, and was caught by the iron armor and could not move forward an inch.The giant ape soldier had just beheaded Zhu Luojun with his long knife, and now he let out a long cry because of the pain, and swung the long knife in his hand in the opposite direction, and the spear soldier's head was all cut off.

Because the giant ape soldiers rushed into the crowd of Zhu Luo soldiers, the pressure on the four sides of Liang Jun's hollow phalanx was much less.All the Zhu Luo soldiers who approached fell under the swords, guns and arrows.In the end, these Zhu Luo soldiers only besieged but did not attack, and no longer charged into the square formation, but besieged the giant ape soldiers.

Gao Shun, who was standing beside Feng Yu, said, "Your Majesty, let's fight back."

"No, wait any longer. Now we only need the longbowmen to provide support to the giant ape warriors as much as possible."

At this time, the giant ape with a lower back injury hit the ground with a long knife because of excessive bleeding, and squatted down.More than a dozen Zhu Luo soldiers surrounded them with their weapons straightened.Just as a Zhuluo spearman was about to stab with a spear, a heavy arrow from a long bow pierced through his head from the temple.

Immediately afterwards, the rest of the Zhu Luo soldiers who surrounded them suddenly ran backward one after another, and ran faster and faster.They found that their reserve army had been defeated, and Rahal had also fled towards Bodao City.There were already a large number of casualties, and their morale was low. How could they have the heart to continue fighting.

Feng Yu, who was in Liang Jun's army, ordered at this time: "Pass on my military order, the whole army will attack, and attack Fanjun hard!" Following his military order, the pawns forming the hollow phalanx were divided into small groups with teams as units. The formation charged in all directions.

The infantry of the Liang army who quickly counterattacked did not even need small formations, and dispersed into groups of skirmishers, chasing the opponent with all their strength.Because Zhu Luo's army was already on the verge of fleeing, they fled in groups towards Bodao City.

These Zhu Luo infantry broke and ran not far before they were intercepted and killed by Liang Jun's iron cavalry who came back on their horses.All of a sudden, the sound of howling and screaming resounded across the wilderness, and countless Chula soldiers, including the Caraborans, were killed in the wilderness under the galloping and chasing horses...

Rahal, Dikal retreated into Bodao City with the remnants of the defeated generals.The two camps outside the city were easily captured by Liang Jun's pursuers because they were empty of troops.

At this time, it was the moment when the sun was setting.Bodao City was full of Zhu Luo's defeated soldiers, and there were many wounded soldiers among them.The painful wailing of the wounded filled the city.Even Liang Jun outside the city could hear it.

As night fell, Liang Jun also gathered his soldiers and horses, some of them stationed in the two camps outside Bodao City, and some of them slept in temporary camps outside the city.In the daytime battle, according to the general statistics of the Liang army, more than 1000 Zhu Luo soldiers were killed, nearly [-] people were captured, and more than [-] war elephants were captured.

Those prisoners were escorted to a prisoner-of-war camp on the north bank of the Shu River for centralized custody.Most of the captured war elephants were wounded by caltrops. The veterinarians were pulling out the caltrops one by one. After cleaning and bandaging the wounds, they were sent to the rear together with the captured elephant drivers.

In the early morning of the next day, Liang Jun launched a general attack on Bodao City.Surprisingly, there was almost no defense in Bodao City, Liang Jun easily entered the city and quickly controlled the whole city.

Only 2000 Carabola soldiers and more than [-] wounded soldiers remained in the city.Rahal, Dikal, and the rest of the Chula soldiers had disappeared without a trace.

Liang Jun quickly found out the situation from these prisoners. Late last night, Lahar and Dikal led the remaining Zhu Luo army along the grain transportation corridor in the south of the city and escaped into the Nanzhong mountains.They are going to retreat to Yongchang County in Nanzhong.

In the lobby of the Bodao City Government Office, Feng Yu smiled slightly after learning about these situations.He said to the generals in the hall: "Although the Zhu Luo army's invasion of Bashu ended in a disastrous defeat, this Rahal is indeed a talented general. He can judge the situation and make decisions when he decides. If it were an ordinary person, he should have died in the military a long time ago. Yangcheng is down."

"Your Majesty, should we send a large army to pursue them now, and take advantage of the momentum to recover the entire Nanzhong?" Dian Wei asked eagerly from the side.

Feng Yu pondered for a while and said, "Chasing, of course we have to chase, but we don't need to use a large army. Just send hundreds of scouts to follow and chase. In the deep mountains of Nanzhong, there will still be our people sniping them. I'm afraid they will flee to Yongchang County At that time, the undead will peel off the skin."

Then Feng Yu explained: "We have just recovered the entire Bashu Basin. We still need to consolidate and digest the rear area, the army needs to be reorganized and reorganized, and some cities and transportation infrastructure need to be repaired and constructed. All these will take time, so We can't send troops to Yongchang immediately... the most important task now is to have a hot meal for everyone."

Feng Yu's last words made all the generals in the hall laugh, and the soldiers had already brought meals to the generals.For this expedition, Feng Yu did not bring the cook, and the soldiers will eat only military rations for the past two days.After capturing Bodao City, more than a dozen Zhuluo cooks were captured.These meals are made by them.

Dian Wei couldn't wait to pick up the wooden spoon, scooped something like fried rice and put it into his mouth.Then he stared wide-eyed, spit it out again with a puff, and shouted: "What a strange smell!"

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Among the [-] mountains in Nanzhong, under the cover of vegetation, there is a simple mountain road that is almost unrecognizable.A group of men and horses meander along this mountain road.They were Lahar, Dikal, and three thousand Chula soldiers who had escaped from Bodao City.

Just as this group of dejected troops passed through a valley, they only heard the sound of screaming arrows in the dense forest.Rahal's heart trembled suddenly.Immediately afterwards, dense arrows rushed towards them.In an instant, dozens of Zhu Luo soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.

Dikal shouted loudly: "There are enemy troops in ambush, hurry up and fight!" Zhuro's infantry hurriedly formed an army formation on the open ground at the bottom of the valley, and layers of shield walls surrounded Rahal in the middle.But those arrows also stopped firing soon.

"There are not many people on the other side, at most a hundred people. Send several teams into the forest to find them!" Rahal ordered coldly.

Three hundred Zhu Luo infantry went to the forest.After a while, there were screams of fighting and screaming in the forest, and even the sound of dogs barking.After a while, the forest calmed down.But only a dozen Zhuluo soldiers came out from the forest, they were covered in blood, they were extremely depressed and terrified.

Dikal asked what happened to the rest of them, and they just murmured: "Dead, all died in battle."

Rahal said to Dikal with a gray face: "Don't worry about this, let's continue to hurry."

Chapter 232 Golden Sand Road

Yongchang County, ten miles north of Buwei County.

"Brother, we are finally about to reach Buwei. But our first large army is over!" Dikar said to Rahal beside him in frustration.

They walked all the way from the mountains in Nanzhong, and they were constantly attacked by Liang Jun's mountain scouts and Nanman along the way. When they arrived here, there were only a thousand soldiers left.

Rahal looked at the surviving Chola soldiers in the front, back, left, and right.Responding to Dikal:

"No, we're not done yet. There is a saying in the Han Dynasty that if you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood. Although we have almost wiped out all the troops in the northern expedition, we still have a legion in the south. There is also an east The war elephant regiment. Although blocked, it is said that there was not much damage.

More importantly, we still have tens of thousands of civilians, and we can train recruits from among them.I am asking Shang Wang to move a large number of people to Yongchang.As long as we can take root in Yongchang, we can slowly recover. "

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At the north gate of Buwei City, a Zhu Luofan with an eagle face will be stationed here.He is the general of Choro's second largest army - Galava Vias.Behind him is a guard of honor lined up by five thousand elites.

Maybe it was because of waiting for a long time, Galava's shiny horse circled restlessly in place, snorting from time to time.Galava had to rein in it.At this time, the guard beside him shouted: "General, they are here."

Galava looked over and saw a group of people walking in the distance.There were only a thousand or so of them, and all of them looked downcast and listless.Galava clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and rode up to meet him.The opponent turned out to be Rahal who had retreated from Nanzhong.

"Brother Rahal, I haven't seen you for a long time. You are much thinner. I have been waiting for you here for a long time. Why do you only bring such a small number of people back? The road is not safe." Galava said to Rahal with a smile , with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.

In fact, Galawa already knew about Rahal's successive defeats during the Northern Expedition.But he didn't expect that Rahal had only so few troops left.

Rahal was full of doubts, and Dikal had already asked the question on his behalf: "General Galava, didn't the king appoint you as the governor of Hongshawadi State? What are you doing here?"

Garava laughed and said: "Of course I can't leave my post without authorization and come to you for no reason. Of course I came here under the order of the king. His Majesty Karikala saw that you have repeatedly fought in the north... and saw that you have quite a lot. How difficult it is. So I understand the hard work of the two of you, and I ask you to return to the mainland with the largest army to rest. I will do it for you here."

When Rahal heard it, his blood surged up, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth twitched again.Dikal didn't have such good self-cultivation, so he was about to scold in a fit of anger: "I'll let you do whatever is good..." But Rahal stopped him immediately: "Shut up, Dikal. How can we disobey the king's will?"

Then Rahal saluted Galava: "Since it is the king's order, I will gather all the soldiers and horses of this army and return to the mainland from Hongshadiwa."

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When Rahal left Yongchang County, Feng Yu was still staying in Bodao City, and he had changed the name of Bodao to Yibin.

During this period of time, on the basis of the old city of Bodao, he used the city building card rewarded by the system earlier to build a new system city.And using a series of building cards rewarded by the missions of the Battle of Central Shu, the buildings of Zhuyang City were almost copied in Yibin.

Feng Yu used up all the shelter cards again, and moved 15 people to the plains on the south bank of the Shu River centered on Yibin.These include all the regular military brigades of the original Shu Kingdom.The military establishments of the various ministries of the original Shu Kingdom have naturally been transformed into systematic troops.

Then, Feng Yu began to use a large number of plank roads and building cards to build roads.The original Micang Shu Road and Jinniu Shu Road have been widened and reinforced, and a large number of tunnels and bridges have made the originally curved mountain roads flatter and straighter, and the road distance has been greatly reduced.

From Chengdu to the other side of the Shujiang River in Yibin, a straight road of [-] li was built.The baggage carriage can travel directly from Chengdu to the pier on the other side of Yibin in two days.In addition, there are two roads from Yibin to Jiangzhou, and from Chengdu to Jiangzhou, forming an inverted triangle on the Central Shu Plain.

Finally, Feng Yu came to the mouth of the Jinsha River outside Yibin City, where he used the elevation dam construction card to build a dam as high as ten poles, which greatly improved the navigation conditions of the Jinsha River.

Even the warships of the Ganning Navy with ten ballistas can sail smoothly into the upper reaches of the Jinsha River in autumn and winter with favorable winds.In the season of headwinds, the boats can be powered by elephants to go up the water.

In the hilly area in the southern suburbs of Yibin City, an elephant garden covering an area of ​​nearly [-] mu was built, where thousands of elephants are domesticated.This elephant garden is a systematic building.The mahout trainers in it are obviously more skilled than those of Chola's mahouts and Nanman's elephant slaves.

The simple road opened by Zhu Luojun across Nanzhong basically followed the mountains along the Jinsha River.Now Feng Yu has used those captured Zhu Luo soldiers, civilian husbands, and Carapora people to transform and widen part of the road along the river.

On the basis of this road, Feng Yu used plank road building cards to build many plank roads, and transformed the road into a passage that runs completely along the river.The passage is wide enough for elephants to pass through.

After finishing these things in Yibin City, Feng Yu returned to Chengdu under the escort of his personal guards.Chengdu has been tentatively designated as Liang Guoxin's capital, and Feng Yu's queen and concubine and several children have been taken to Chengdu.

Because Liu Zhang has no heirs, and there are letters written by Liu Zhang, plus Feng Yu's contribution to resisting the enemy and defeating the enemy.Therefore, the Han court acquiesced in the fact that Shu territory was merged into Liang State.

As soon as Feng Yu returned to Chengdu, two people begged to see him one after another.One is Ma Chao, a guest general from the Western Qin Dynasty, and the other is Cheng Lian, sent by Lu Bu from Xuzhou.

After the two of them entered Shu, they spent most of their time stationed in the rear city according to Feng Yu's arrangement.Except for a certain time when Ma Chao led the cavalry of the headquarters to intercept Zhu Luo's retreat, they did not directly participate in the battle with Zhu Luofan's army.

Ma Chao came to see Feng Yu to say goodbye, of course. Now that Bashu has been pacified, most of Nanzhong, except Yongchang County in the southwest corner, is also controlled by Feng Yu.It would be meaningless for Ma Chao to stay any longer. After Feng Yu encouraged Ma Chao, he gave him a generous gift and asked him to pass it on to Ma Teng.

When Cheng Lian came to see Feng Yu, Feng Yu thought Cheng Lian was just saying goodbye to him.Unexpectedly, as soon as Cheng Lian saw Feng Yu's face, he fell to his knees with a thump, and shouted: "Please save my master's life, King Liang!"

This surprised Feng Yu, and he immediately responded: "General Cheng, why are you doing this?"

Only then did Cheng Lian tell the whole story.It turned out that it was when Feng Yu and Zhu Luojun fought against Bodao City.Civil strife broke out in Xuzhou.

Liu Bei in Huainan suddenly launched an attack, colluded with those "old friends" in Xuzhou internally and externally, launched a mutiny, and attacked Pengcheng.Lu Bu was forced to flee westward with his family and thousands of soldiers.The news was only delivered to Cheng Lian.

Chapter 233 Xuzhou Rebellion

After hearing Cheng Lian's words, Feng Yu couldn't believe it.He immediately summoned the officials in charge of communication channels in Liang Guo and asked about the situation.

It turned out that after Liu Bei's mutiny, Lu Bu ran out of Pengcheng with his family and under the protection of his own soldiers.He tried to run to Nanyang first, and sent messengers to deliver letters to the court and Liang Guo on the way.

After Zhuyang received the letter, he immediately sent the letter to the newly established pigeon house in Langzhong with carrier pigeons.There were two letters sent, one was for Liang Wang Feng Yu.Another letter was addressed to Cheng Lian, an expatriate general, asking Cheng Lian to come and meet Lu Bu immediately.The letter to Feng Yu was being sent to Bodao on a fast horse, but Feng Yu had already rushed to Chengdu by then.

After listening to the official's words, Feng Yu asked, "Then you should leave a copy of the letterhead?"

"My Majesty, unless it is an encrypted letterhead, a copy of the letter sent from the dovecote will be copied. I have brought this copy, please have your Majesty have a look." After the official finished speaking, he presented Lu Bu's letter to Feng Yu. a copy of.

Feng Yu carefully copied the letter, and it was exactly as Cheng Lian said.However, he was still a little puzzled.This letter still did not answer several questions in his mind.

Feng Yu asked Cheng Lian: "According to Gu's understanding, Fengxian's governance in Xuzhou is not bad, at least he has not lost the hearts of the people. Moreover, he has a good control over the Xuzhou army. Even if Liu Bei is proficient in buying people's hearts, there is Xuzhou's local gentry officials and wealthy families support it, but it is not so easy to get it."

Cheng Lian replied, "I would like to report to the King of Liang. Maybe the lord did not mention it in your letter. But he said in his letter to me that Liu Bei dared to put all his eggs in one basket because he might be guaranteed and instigated by external forces."

Feng Yu's face changed and he said: "But you are talking about Cao Cao?"

"Exactly! My lord has made this point clear, and Cao Cao even sent troops to support Liu Bei's rebel army."

Feng Yu was still puzzled and said: "Even so, how dare they risk such disgrace? Then Cao Cao was sworn by the White Horse League, so blatantly interfering in the internal affairs of other princes has actually violated the oath. Then Liu Bei even made an oath Benevolence and righteousness stand proudly in the world, so his image as a man of benevolence and righteousness for so many years will not be lost."

"This... the last general is not clear either." Of course Cheng Lian couldn't answer this question.

At this time, a guard came to report that Jia Xu wanted to meet Feng Yu.Cheng Lian wanted to leave first, Feng Yu waved his hand and said, "You don't have to leave first, Jia Xu must have come here for Fengxian."

Sure enough, the first thing Jia Xu said when he saw Feng Yu was: "Your Majesty, something serious happened in Xuzhou."

Feng Yu nodded and said: "Gu knows about this, and Lu Bu has already informed Gu in a letter. It's just that Gu didn't think that Cao Cao and Liu Bei would dare to risk the displeasure of the world like this."

Jia Xu said, "Oh? Your majesty already knows about it. It's just that the news on my side came from the court. It's what Liu Bei said."

Only then did Feng Yu get serious: "What did Liu Bei say? What reason did he use to rebel against Lu Bu, Marquis of Pengcheng, the governor of Xuzhou personally appointed by the imperial court?"

"Liu Bei's statement to the imperial court said that Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, was poisoned by Lu Bu! Recently he discovered the evidence, so he raised troops against Lu."

Cheng Lian on the side said anxiously: "This is really nonsense! The last general was there when Tao Shijun passed away, and he saw Tao Shijun hand over the seal to my lord in front of everyone before the sick bed."

Feng Yu laughed, and asked Jia Xu, "Wen He, do you believe what Liu Bei said?"

Jia Xu shook his head and said: "Of course I don't believe it. But Liu Bei just needs to find an excuse for himself. It doesn't matter whether others believe it or not. Anyway, others can't prove it. But because Liu Bei has controlled Xuzhou, he can naturally create something out of nothing." Make a list of witnesses to prove it. No one else can verify it."

After finishing speaking, Jia Xu was silent for a while, and then asked: "My lord, how should we deal with this matter now?"

Feng Yu also pondered for a moment, looked at Cheng Lian and said: "Xuzhou is not a feudal country, it is still a place directly under the imperial court in name, and Liu Bei found such a reason. Moreover, Cao Cao was also involved in this matter. Without these, perhaps Gu It can also help Feng Xian take back Xuzhou. But now, Liang Guo will directly send troops to intervene in this matter, not to mention the fact that the division is unknown, and there is suspicion of risking the world's disgrace."

Cheng Lian knelt down on the ground again, and said anxiously: "Cheng Lian dare not expect Liang Wang to help my lord take back Xuzhou. I only hope that Liang Wang can rescue my lord. My lord and his family are going from Xuzhou to Nanyang and going through Cao Cao The border with Liu Bei must be extremely dangerous, and life is in danger!"

Feng Yu hurriedly helped Cheng Lian up and said: "General Cheng doesn't have to be like this. I owe Fengxian a favor back then, so I can't help him. It's impossible to help him take back Xuzhou, but it's impossible to save his and his family's life. It can be done."

"Thank you King Liang!"

"I'm going to fly pigeons to pass on the letter to Zhuyang, so that Hua Xiong who is stationed in Zhuyang will lead the elite soldiers to meet Fengxian." Feng Yu said this, and then thought of something, and told the left and right: "Bring the pen and ink. A handwritten letter."

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In the late autumn and early winter of the fifth year of Jian'an, on the north bank of the Huai River.A group of about two thousand cavalry without any flags, escorting seven or eight chariots, is marching in the wilderness.The first person riding the big bay red horse and holding a big halberd is Lu Bu.

Lu Bu looked around and found that the wilderness, which was originally thousands of miles away, had become somewhat popular.From time to time, you can find a few small villages where more than a dozen thatched huts gather near the water.Around the village, some fields were reclaimed.When the peasants saw Lu Bu's soldiers and horses, they all fled in panic.

This is the junction of the areas controlled by Wei State Cao Cao and Liu Bei.According to the strategy of centralized population management by the princes of all parties, there should not be much population in this kind of border area, but many refugees specially choose this kind of junction area of ​​the three to form a village in order to avoid paying grain taxes.When they saw Lu Bu, they thought they were officers and soldiers, so they naturally wanted to run away.

Lu Bu saw these scenes, then looked at the soldiers behind him, left and right, and at the Chituma under his crotch who was about to age.The indignation has turned into a sense of loss, and I am deeply moved:

"Nowadays, the world is near peace. But the [-]-step cavalry that a certain person brought out from Chang'an back then is still [-]-step cavalry. He still has to take his wives, concubines, and family members home and abroad. Is there no place for me, Lu Bu, in this world? ?”

Just as Lu Bu was secretly feeling sad, Wei Xu beside him asked, "My lord, what is your next plan? Are we going to the court, Liu Biao or Feng Yu?"

Wei Xu's question made Lu Bu fall into his thoughts. When he ran out from Xuzhou, he just decided to go to Nanyang first.I have no plans for the next step after arriving in Nanyang.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion among the soldiers.The dust was flying in the northwest, and a large group of soldiers and horses were galloping.A little closer, the soldiers and generals all exclaimed.Because there is a big word "Cao" on the opponent's flag.

Chapter 234

Seeing Cao's army approaching in the distance, Li Su who was beside Lu Bu shouted: "Form up!".[-] infantry immediately formed a square formation around Qicheng chariot.The other five hundred cavalry were distributed on the two wings of the phalanx.

As soon as they finished this, Cao Jun approached them and inserted them to the east, blocking their way to the east.This Cao army has about 3000 people, not much more powerful than Lu Bu's army.

But all of them are elite cavalry, and these iron cavalry equipment is similar to Feng Yu's early tiger and leopard cavalry.The horse's chest is covered with thick leather armor with copper foam nails, and the horse's face also wears a whole piece of bronze visor.The riders on horseback are all fine iron armor and hard leather headgear.

So now, it is impossible for Lu Bu to get rid of them completely.Holding a halberd, Lu Bu rode his horse forward to meet him, and hung the Fang Tian painted halberd in his hand in the air. The cloak on his back fluttered under the cold north wind.

Cao Junzhong rode out a one-eyed man, it was Xiahou Dun, the general of Wei State.There were two other people beside him, but they were Song Xian and Hou Cheng, Lu Bu's traitors.

Xiahou Dun pointed at Lv Bu with the tip of his spear and shouted, "Lv Bu, get off your horse and surrender quickly. Maybe the King of Wei can spare your life!"

Lu Bu carried the halberd on his shoulder, and said with a sneer, "Xiahoudun, what are you? You are the Marquis of Pengcheng who was proclaimed by the Holy Majesty, and you are qualified to speak with him? Ask your master Cao Cao to come out and speak!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Bu glanced coldly at Song Xian and Hou Cheng, but didn't say a word.The two of them were stared at, and they just avoided Lu Bu's eyes.