The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

"The most romantic of the Three Kingdoms (

A camp of more than 20,000 soldiers could not be built in one day, and only the preliminary work such as logging nearby and borrowing soil would take a certain amount of time to complete. Therefore, the next day, Lv Bu's camp was indeed not built yet.

Shortly after noon on this day, in the Sun Jian's camp in the north of the city, if it was as Sun Jian said the day before, only the sound of drum horns sounded, the gate of the fort was wide open, and a strong army of infantrymen embroidered on one side "School of Education". Under the leadership of the military flag with the words "Wei Sun", they filed out from the camp, bypassing the intersection of the north and west of the city, and stopped at the place where Lv Bu built the camp three miles west of the city.

Lu Bu received the report, and came out in person to see the lineup of this strong army, but saw that this force was about one or two thousand people, all infantry, and had already formed a battle formation and formed a phalanx. In the formation, there were drums to adjust the formation, and orders from the military officers came out. These thousands of strong infantrymen, only from the surface, the formation they put up is similar, and the armament of the soldiers in the front row is also quite sophisticated.

But he said, didn't Sun Jian make Song Qian and Sun Fu fight with "weakness"?

And why does this strong army, who is facing the challenge of the battalion, only look at the military appearance, and it seems that it is not bad?

the reason is simple.

First, the so-called "weak" does not mean that it has to be "old and weak". This "weak" is relative to "elite", "weak", not only the weak can be called "weak", courageous Small, combat skills are not good enough, and so on, these can also be called "weak", so from the appearance alone, "weak" may also look good.

Just imagine, since Sun Jian wanted to feign defeat and was arrogant of Lu Bu, then if Song Qian and Sun Fu sent out to challenge the troops, it really seemed like "weak" on the surface, all of them were old and young. If it is small, it will be too obvious to "fake", and Lu Bu will not be fooled.

Second, it is also because it is too obvious that it is not possible to "fake". Therefore, although the troops who are fighting are not considered elites in the strong army, Song Qian and Sun Fu still selected some good ordnance and distributed them to them. , Because yes, the ordnance of the soldiers in the front row is very good.

When I heard Sun Jian say yesterday that he would send troops to attack Lu Bu's troops, Lu Bu was actually dubious. Bing is not tired of cheating. He once agreed with Zhang Liao's judgment, thinking that this might be Sun Jian's words deliberately deceiving him in order to disturb his heart. Who knows that Sun Jian is actually a "trustworthy gentleman", and he actually sent troops to attack today. Lv Bu Deng was a little confused about what Sun Jian's intentions were. However, although he could not grasp Sun Jian's intentions, it did not prevent him from being a "gentleman who must practice what he says", so he immediately ordered Zhang Liao to lead the way, as he said to Zhang Liao yesterday, "but take some precautions". Its headquarters went to meet the battle, and at the same time, Cao Xing was ordered to lead its headquarters to support Zhang Liao's side and back, and to guard against the strong camp in the north of the city and the city's further attack.

After the military order was conveyed, Lü Bu took dozens of personal soldiers and knights to a high ground, galloped up on horseback, and waited condescendingly to watch this small-scale contact battle between the enemy and the enemy.

The backbone of Lü Bu's army followed him to the south and the north, and fought for many years. They first fought against the Hu people outside the fortress in Bingzhou, and later participated in the war between Dong Zhuo and the generals in Guandong. Later, they went to Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. The two of them fought in Hebei first, and now in Yuzhou. They have experienced hundreds of battles. This kind of situation of building a camp while the enemy took the opportunity to attack is already common to them, and they have encountered too many. times.

Therefore, Zhang Liao and Cao Xing lined up in front, seeing that the battle was about to start, but the soldiers who built the camp in the back continued to build the fort as usual, or dig trenches, or erect fences, or in the enclosed area. Inside the fort, each set up tents in the area that had been drawn yesterday and assigned to their respective lodgings. Of course, those who were tired of work would also stop and start, looking at the battlefield not too far to the east. few eyes.

On the one hand, the sword is drawn and the fire is in full swing. This strange scene appears in this field outside the city, which is two or three miles long from east to west and four or five miles long from north to south. feel.

If Xun Zhen is here, he can't tell, maybe he will sigh: "This is the scene of a chaotic world with constant war!"

Before Zhang Liao led his troops to Sun Fu's formation, under the protection of Cao Xing's troops, it didn't take too long, and the formation was completed. After Cao Xing's troops retreated to the side of his formation, they also began to form the formation. The sun passed the mid-heaven and gradually moved westward. When the hottest time of the day was reached, it was only in spring, and the heat was no different. However, the soldiers of Sun Fuzhen sat under the sun for a long time, basking in the sun for a long time, and then again. Nervous, many people are sweating on their heads.

Before Sun Fu jumped to the horse formation, he looked back at the formation and said to himself, "Father told me to feign defeat, and my father's military orders should be followed, but even if I were to lose, I would still have to take the heads of a few officers under the thief Lu's tent, so as to make sure that I was defeated. He is the second son of Sun Jian's co-brother Sun Qiang, Sun Qiang died early, and he and his brother Sun Ben were both brought up by Sun Jian. He was not very old this year, similar to Sun Ce, when he was young and energetic, so even if he had to lose this battle, he still wanted to gain some military exploits.

Lu Bu, who was stationed on the high ground, saw that Zhang Liao's troops had already formed an array, and Cao Xing's troops were about to form an array. He was anxious to find out what the purpose of Sun Jian's attack was, so he jumped the command and ordered the knights around him to go to Zhang Liao. One of the men sent orders to Zhang Liao to attack.

Not long after, his order should have arrived. In Zhang Liao's formation, a low drum sounded, and the military flag was waving. Following the drumbeat and the waving military flag, two triangular offensive formations composed of 100 men each broke away from the main force. Array, to kill the opposite Sun Fu array. Light cavalry of dozens of cavalry also left the formation, guarding the two flanks of the two attacking formations as a joint battle.

Sun Fu retreated into the formation and issued orders one after another.

The first order ordered the soldiers who were sitting on the ground to maintain their physical strength to stand up; the second order strictly prohibited the soldiers in the front row from moving without orders; the third order ordered the archers in the formation to prepare for shooting arrows.

As expected of being brought up by Sun Jian, it can be said that he is a general tiger. Although Sun Fu is young, these orders are quite satisfactory.

The warriors who came out of Zhang Liao's formation, with a total of nearly 400 cavalry, came within the range of Sun Fu's formation in a short time. Sun Fu gave an order, and the arrows rained down. The nearly 400 cavalry of the Liao Department were all elites in the Zhang Liao Department. The rain of arrows would cause panic among the recruits, but it had no effect on them. They maintained their formation, defended with shields, resisted the rain of arrows, and continued to advance steadily.

The shield cannot block all the arrows. Occasionally, infantry and light cavalry hit arrows. Those with minor injuries will break the shaft and continue to move forward with the formation. Those with serious injuries will stay in place for a while. Soon there will be Lord Zhang Liao. The soldiers in the formation rushed to the rescue.

Just like the soldiers in Sun Fu's formation who sat on the ground before to maintain their physical strength, the nearly 400 Liao cavalry that attacked Sun Fu's formation did not gallop at the beginning. Both the infantry and the cavalry were faster than the cavalry. Slow, is a normal pace.

When they were only three or two hundred paces away from Sun Fu's formation, in Zhang Liao's formation, the muffled drum sound became intense, and the rhythm of the drum beat became faster. This was the drum sound that ordered the charge to advance.

Nearly 400 cavalry of the Liao tribe moved on hearing the order, dozens of light cavalry on the left and right flanks, the horses split to the left and right, passed over the infantry, and brushed past the front of Sun Fu's formation, all firing arrows while passing by. . A total of more than a hundred light cavalry, that is, a total of more than a hundred arrows shot at one time, which is not too much, but after all, it is an arrow, and the soldiers in Sun Fu's formation are not the elites who dare to fight, and it immediately caused the front row of his formation. commotion. The two hundred foot soldiers who formed the two battle formations seized the opportunity, shouted in unison, raised their shields in front of their heads, held their spears in their hands, and ran forward.

Although there are only two hundred people, the momentum is like a rainbow.

These two triangular formations, like two wedges, almost in no particular order, collided with the front row of Sun Fu formation.

As mentioned above, Sun Fuzhen's soldiers are not brave soldiers, but the two hundred Liao soldiers are the first-class brave soldiers under Zhang Liao's tent. While weak and cowardly, they are like wolves and tigers. Two thousand greeted two hundred, but Sun Fuzhen's front-row formation was instantly disrupted. Sun Fu repeatedly ordered that the military commanders and generals who were in charge of the war would carry out military law, and those who dared to retreat would be executed on the spot, but it was of little use. It took less than half an hour for the 200 infantrymen of the Liao Department to rush to Sun Fu's front line.

Seeing this, Lu Bu on the high ground was overjoyed, and ordered: "Wenyuan's entire army is ordered to overwhelm! We must wipe out this strong army! This strong army carries the banner of 'Xiaowei Sun', and its leader General, must be one of Sun Jian's servants, and those who can be captured alive will be rewarded ten!"

Ten gold is ten jin of gold. In the peaceful and prosperous times, according to the official price, it can be exchanged for 100,000 yuan. In fact, at that time, if it was exchanged in private, a jin of gold was more than 10,000 yuan. Now, the troubled times have been long, and the exchangeable money is naturally more. The 100,000 yuan is already the wealth of a "middle family". Of course, the status of Sun Jian's servants cannot be compared with Sun Jian's direct sons, or even Cheng Pu and Han Dang, the generals in Sun Jian's army. In comparison, this reward is not small.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

Lü Bu's military orders and promises of rewards arrived, and the soldiers in Zhang Liao's formation, in response to Zhang Liao's orders, dispatched the whole formation and pressed them up.

Sun Fuzhen's front formation has been shaken, and the main force of the enemy's formation is about to charge. For a time, Sun Fuzhen's whole formation is in a panic. Sun Fu knew that his wish to capture a few officers under Lv Bu's tent could not be realized, so he had no choice but to turn from the front to the back, and from the back to the front, ordering the entire formation to withdraw towards the north of the city. The soldiers of Zhang Liao's department swarmed to chase, but a strong army was in time at the junction of the north and west of the city, and received Sun Fu's retreating troops. This force was led by Song Qian. Song Qian was a fierce general under Sun Jian's tent, and the soldiers and horses he led were not weak. They blocked the pursuit of the Liao soldiers, and retreated while fighting.

Although Sun Fubu was lucky to escape, but along the way, they abandoned many spears, knives and other weapons, as well as the corpses of no less than two hundred soldiers who died in battle, as well as soldiers who were seriously injured and fell to the ground. After Sun Fu and Song Qian's troops retreated into the camp, the Liao soldiers who were chasing dispersed, looted weapons, and competed for the heads of the dead soldiers. The seriously wounded soldiers were also replaced by them. Killed with a knife, cut off his head, and even some were too lazy to make up a knife, and directly slashed the wounded soldier's neck ~www.readwn.com~ and cut off his head abruptly.

The soldiers on the top of the city were all angry when they saw these situations.

Zhang Liao rode to the high ground, met Lv Bu, and said, "Lai Minggong is so powerful, the last general is a defeated soldier! It's a pity that he didn't get his general and failed to fulfill the orders of Minggong!"

Lü Bu retracted his gaze looking at the situation of the soldiers of the Liao army scrambled and captured, and said to Zhang Liao with a smile: "It's nothing but a son of Sun Wentai, and it doesn't matter much. Let's wait for the siege of the city in the future and hold Sun Wentai, It's only to avenge Wei Yue!"

Cao Xing also galloped to the highland, and he arrived a little earlier than Zhang Liao.

He witnessed Zhang Liao's easy victory with his own eyes. He was in high spirits at the moment. After listening to Lu Bu's words, he said to Lu Bu impatiently: "Ming Gong! , and informed Duke Ming in advance that he was going to attack our army camp today, which seems to be a lot. We will fight today and see the strength of his troops, but that's it! Duke Ming, start the siege tomorrow! The last commander, please be the vanguard I wish to ascend first for Duke Ming, and to capture Sun Wentai for Duke Ming!"

Lu Bu shook his head and said, "No."

Cao Xing was stunned and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Don't attack the city tomorrow."

Cao Xing was confused and didn't understand what Lü Bu meant, so he said bluntly: "Duke Ming, our army has won a big victory today, and our morale is very high. We should take advantage of the victory and attack tomorrow, but why did Duke Ming say that we can't attack the city tomorrow?"

"Yesterday, Sun Wentai told me in advance that he was going to attack my fort today, but today's battle, his part was defeated too quickly! Sun Wentai is known for his fierceness and skill in fighting, and our army and his army have also had a close relationship in Runan. It's been a few times, and its soldiers are truly brave. I see, today's battle is full of doubts, maybe this is Sun Wentai's 'trick to lure me'!"