Chapter Seventy-One: The Calm Before the Storm
Luohu City is the gateway city of Suchuan Zhou, located on the plain, the terrain is flat, there are few mountains and rocks and rivers, if you fight here, I am afraid that it is rarely able to use the strategy and strategy, you can only use the formation as the top, the army of the land country has a long-distance attack for half a month to camp ten miles away from Luohu City, ready to rest, and directly take Luohu City and go straight to Suchuanzhou.
After setting up camp, Lu Guo sent dozens of spies to explore the way, not long after the spies set off, they saw that the direction of Luohu City was like a white sun, the flames were soaring, and after taking a closer look, it turned out that there were many troops stationed outside Luohu City, and the number of people should be about the same as their own, and the spies did not dare to go any further, so they hurriedly ran back.
Ran back to the barracks and hurriedly reported to Cao Mengde: "Report to the lord of the country, the other party has already taken precautions, and a large number of troops are stationed outside Luohu City, and the number should be not too much different from ours." ”
Cao Mengde waved his hand, let him go down, and said to Sima Yi: "It looks like the other party has been on guard for a long time." ”
Sima Yi said: "This is as it should be, if the other party is defenseless, it will be even more terrifying." ”
Cao Mengde stroked his beard and said, "Then let's cultivate for a day, and the day after tomorrow we will directly attack the army?"
Sima Yi lowered his head and pondered, considering the other party's possible movements, and after half a sound, he found a spy and said: "You go to investigate again, you don't need to go to Luohu City, go to the left and right, and go to Chenxi City and Minglan City to see if there are also troops stationed there." "The spies have gone out.
Cao Mengde said with a smile: "It seems that the military advisor thinks that the other party wants to crush us directly." ”
Sima Yi replied: "With the current military strength of the two countries, there is a great chance of directly crushing us. As soon as the words fell, I heard a report from the guards outside the camp tent: "Report to the lord of the country, a beggar from outside the camp said that he was a friend of Sima Junshi." ”
Cao Mengde and Sima Yi looked at each other and smiled at the guards and said, "Let him in." ”
After waiting for half a ring, the camp curtain opened, and a ragged person walked in from the outside, although he was wearing torn, but it was difficult to hide his elegant temperament, this person was Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Liang saw the two of them bow and said, "I've seen Lord Cao, senior brother, don't come unharmed." ”
Cao Mengde saluted back, and Sima Yi stepped forward to help him up and said, "Senior brother, why are you dressed up like this?"
Zhuge Liang shook his head and smiled and said: "Don't hide it from Senior Brother, I brought 200,000 people, just near the 'Jingfeng City' that you just marched by, this time Liu Xuande sent an army of three million to take you down directly." ”
Cao Mengde and Sima Yi heard it, good guys, they are generous, they have only 800,000 troops with the strength of the whole country, and Liu Xuande has directly brought in 3 million, which is completely incomparable.
Zhuge Liang continued: "Luohu City is a frontal blockade by General Yide with an army of 800,000, and there are two generals on the left and right, Ma Chao and Zhao Yun, who lead an army of 1.4 million to outflank, even if you break through successfully, there are still General Yun Chang leading an army of 600,000 waiting for you in Suchuanzhou." ”
Cao Mengde smiled and said, "This Liu Xuande is going to put me to death." ”
Sima Yi sighed and said, "With such a formation, it is difficult for the lord of the country to retreat with his whole body." ”
Zhuge Liang said: "That's what I'm here for, I have a set of formations here, when the army starts fighting, senior brother, you can arrange the formation according to the drawings I gave you, and then you can protect the Lord of Cao and retreat." After speaking, he took out a drawing from his sleeve and handed it to Sima Yi.
Sima Yi opened the drawing and looked at it for a while and asked: "This is the 'Seven Bucket Breaking Array', it can indeed block the enemy, but as long as the formation is exhausted, it will be useless." ”
Zhuge Liang smiled: "Senior brother, you have missed one detail. Saying that, Zhuge Liang pointed to a little drawing, Sima Yi took a closer look at it again, and exclaimed: "Is this the 'Tiangang Hidden Body Formation'?"
Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "That's true, this is the hidden formation that the master taught me." ”
Sima Yi was already completely immersed in the formation at this time, and he couldn't hear anything, Zhuge Liang looked at Cao Mengde and said: "Lord Cao, after the formation is formed, you must not get out of the formation, otherwise no one will be able to protect you." ”
Cao Mengde nodded when he heard this: "I know, for the sake of the overall situation, don't worry, I will hold back." ”
Zhuge Liang nodded and said, "Okay, I can't come out for too long, I have to hurry back." After speaking, he clasped his hands into fists and said to Cao Mengde: "Lord Cao, I hope you can survive this catastrophe." ”
Cao Mengde smiled bitterly: "Thank you Zhuge for your help. ”
Zhuge Liang left, Sima Yi kept looking at the formation diagram again, and didn't know anything about what was happening, until a stick of incense came back and said, "Senior brother, this formation is really amazing." ”
Cao Mengde patted him on the shoulder and said, "Prime Minister Zhuge has left. ”
Sima Yi patted his head and said: "I watched it too much, I didn't find out when he left, alas." After saying that, the two of them continued to discuss countermeasures until late at night.
The next day, the sky was bright, and all the soldiers had basically returned to normal after a night of repair, although it was not in its heyday, but it could also fight.
Cao Mengde sent two generals, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun, to lead an army of 100,000 to rush to Luohucheng, preparing to make a tentative attack first.
The two Xiahou generals came to the side of the small river in front of Luohu City, this river is the only source of water for the people of Luohu City, and there is only a small bridge on the river, which can be used by three or five pedestrians.
Xiahou Yuan was just about to order everyone to go over, when he saw the yellow sand on the other side of the river, tens of thousands of iron horsemen rushing over, and the men and horses on both sides were stalemate across the river.
Xiahoudun roared: "Come and get the name together." After speaking, he saw the soldiers on the opposite side flash out of a road, and a black-faced man came out of it with a snake spear in his hand.
The black-faced man stood in front of the small bridge and laughed: "Well, there is your grandfather Yide waiting here today, so hurry up and come to die." ”
Xiahoudun sneered and said: "Are you the Dragon Kingdom Yide, hehe, it's really better to be famous than to meet, that is, a puppet." ”
As soon as Yide heard Xiahoudun's words, he shouted angrily: "If you want to fight, you will come, and if you don't fight, you will get out." Anyway, it won't take a few days to serve you a pot. ”
When Xiahoudun heard this, he urged the horse to step forward, and when he was close to Yide, the long knife in his hand slashed straight down, only to see that Yide didn't care, and the Zhangba snake spear in his hand was slightly raised, which stopped Xiahoudun's long knife. Seeing that the blow was missed, Xiahoudun withdrew his knife and turned around, taking advantage of the gap between the horses, he turned around and slashed straight towards Yide's neck.
Yi De is not a general, the Zhangba snake spear turned in one direction, stood on his chest, and blocked another blow, and the two people were completely separated, Yi De laughed and said: "There are two times, come again!"
Xiahoudun urged the horse again, the two of them went opposite each other, only to see that Yide was no longer defensive, Zhangba snake spear was raised high above his head, and he slashed at Xiahoudun with a thousand catties, Xiahoudun reacted very quickly, urging the crotch war horse to the side, the snake spear split the air, Xiahoudun took advantage of the situation to make a knife, but Yide was mixed, only to see his hands stubbornly set the snake spear in the air, and swept towards Xiahoudun.
Xiahoudun is also experienced in a hundred battles, that was also shocked by this style of play, fortunately the reaction is very fast, on the horse a back, only to see the snake spear rubbing the tip of his nose past, just about to get up, I saw the opposite Yide, the spear holding the technique changed again, the right hand in the back, pull the spear handle to the waist, the left hand held the spear body, down a desperate press, the snake spear that had passed instantly hit the horse's neck, directly knocked the horse down, Xiahoudun also rolled out.
Yide put away his spear and said to Xiahoudun below: "Good boy, I actually dodged it, yes, I cut it with a spear, the horse is fine, take it away." ”
Xiahoudun's face was red, on the battlefield, when had he been humiliated like this, he stood up and waved his knife forward, rushing towards Yide, Yide was happy, he was already belligerent, and it was too late to have a hard hand to be happy, so he jumped off the horse and carried the Zhangba snake spear to meet him, only to see that the two of them were fighting with knives and spears, and they fought for six or seven rounds in one face, basically there were back and forth, and there was no distinction between high and low.
The bigger Xiahou Tang became, the more frightened he became, although the martial arts of this black-faced man were not high, but with brute force, he wielded the Zhangba snake spear in his hand without any flaws, and several times when he was about to succeed, suddenly the snake spear appeared from an extremely special position and blocked the attack, the good guy had never seen such a fight.
After more than 30 rounds of battle between the two sides, Xiahoudun kicked at Yide, but was blocked by Yide's snake spear, Xiahoudun took advantage of the situation to withdraw from the battle circle, returned to his own troops, and rode back on his horse.
Yide on the bridge saw the other party's action and shouted: "Don't you fight?"
Xiahou Yuan was just about to speak, but Xiahou Yuan stopped him, and he said: "Brother Yide, if you want to fight, let's go back to the battlefield and see the difference, just today." ”
Yide was displeased, and said angrily: "If you want to fight, you will be very happy, this has only been fighting for a while, no." After speaking, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Xiahoudun and said, "You come down, let's fight again, until the winner is decided." ”
Xiahoudun said disdainfully: "Hmph, I'll just play with you, I'm not satisfied, when I get to the battlefield, I won't keep my hand, you wait for death." With that, he rode back.
Yide shouted angrily: "When did you let me, obviously I played with you, you came back for me, come back, come back and let me kill you." After shouting three times, he directly broke the bridge......