Chapter IV
Yuan Yao said that the Jingzhou army that was going to attack Liu Biao was not used to play Liu Biao's old man, Yuan Yao had long coveted Liu Biao's Jingzhou, no matter who it was, he couldn't help it, Yuan Yao had not made a move against Liu Biao before because he was afraid of a war of attrition, but now, Yuan Yao has already planned it, if Liu Biao's subordinates are strictly guarded, it is fine, if Liu Biao is a little lax, then his Yuan Yao's Huainan army is bound to swallow Jingzhou like a shark that smells blood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yuan Yao didn't have to think of an excuse to send troops, these good pig teammates of Liu Biao had already sent the excuse to Yuan Yao.
Relying on a few letters from Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang, it was enough for Liu Biao to eat a pot.
Yuan Yao had an excuse, soldiers and horses to prepare, and immediately took enough food, grass and ordnance and set off.
Hundreds of thousands of troops rushed towards Jingzhou in three ways, compared to Liu Biao, who was high-spirited on the high platform before, was really depressed.
As soon as he heard that Yuan Yao'er was going to attack him, Liu Biao's first thought was to retract all his soldiers and horses back to the other side of the Yangtze River to lose all the Wancheng Xinye generation to Yuan Yao. What's more, the Xinye Wancheng generation has a lot of ordnance materials.
This can also be used as a place to contain Yuan Yao, Liu Biao is not stupid, and at this time, he began to ask for help like his pig teammates.
First of all, the first to ask for help is naturally Cao Cao Cao Mengde, Cao Cao is the initiator, if there is no Cao Cao, he Liu Biao would not be what he is today, Cao Cao is very happy to agree to send troops to rescue, but there is a world of difference between the promise above the mouth and the actual action.
Cao Cao did send troops, but the direction of the troops did not look like they were going to Yuan Yao of the Huainan Army, but instead ran towards Zhang Lu in Hanzhong.
This second one is Yuan Shang Yuan Tan, these two brothers themselves are about to fight, how can they come to help you Liu Biao, but our General Liu Bei Liu Xuande is very enthusiastic, and he actually sent 20,000 troops out, but Liu Biao, who has 20,000 troops, does not dare to use it, because this Liu Bei Liu Daer actually wants to borrow Jiangling, this Liu Bei is a person with a criminal record, don't ask God when the time comes, it is easy to send God.
Liu Biao, who has no choice, can only rely on himself to fight against Yuan Yao, without reinforcements, Kuai Yue has no choice but to have Jingzhou's soldiers and horses as the last line of defense, Kuai Yue is still very capable, Wancheng was lent to Zhang Xiu by Liu Biao before, and then Zhang Xiu was almost sold to Yuan Yao, if it weren't for Zhuge Liang's strategy, the big man's companion would have fallen into the enemy's hands.
Kuai Yue directly stationed 30,000 troops in Wancheng, and in addition to consolidating the city defense day and night, Kuai Yue also sent thousands of war horses that were rare in Jingzhou to Wancheng.
Kuai Yue's strategy is to never fight in the field with Yuan Yao'er's soldiers and horses, he also knows that if this world is more elite than the elite, no one can compare to Yuan Yao'er, Yuan Yao'er's previous Huainan Army was a scum, but the current Huainan Army sees that everyone in the world is scum.
Therefore, Kuai Yue must be strictly guarded, although it is not like Liu Biao who is cowering on the other side of the Yangtze River, but it is also that Wancheng is about to become an iron wall.
In addition, the remaining war horses are even more interesting, Kuai Yue also saw that although Yuan Yao Xiao'er has a strong strength and many soldiers and horses, Yuan Yao Xiao'er has a very important weakness, that is, Yuan Yao Xiao'er's territory is too big, so big that the many soldiers and horses under his command are difficult to ensure the safety of all his territory, so now Kuai Yue is hiding the cavalry troops in Wancheng, so that once Yuan Yao gives up Wancheng to attack Jingzhou, his cavalry troops can go out of the city to make a commotion Yuan Yao's rear, to relieve the pressure on Jingzhou, which is far away on the other side of the Yangtze River.
It's a pity that Kuaiyue's method is good, but once you encounter a pig teammate, it can only become a drag in a good way.
Our Liu Pan and General Liu immediately objected, Liu Pan and General Liu Biao were Liu Biao's fake son, and finally got a chance to take Wancheng as his foundation, but now the ass is not hot, and he was taught by Liu Biao's command to Kuai Yue, do you say this Liu Pan can be satisfied? This dissatisfaction naturally led to trouble.
"Defend Wancheng? The best defense is to attack, if we defend Wancheng, our army's materials and soldiers and horses can be as much as his Yuan Yao'er? In the end, don't Yuan Yao'er didn't retreat, we were played to death by our own people! Liu Pan and General Liu immediately objected.
"Huh!" Kuai Yue is really a little embarrassed, you, General Liu Pan, General Liu, can you not be so direct when you raise objections, it's good to be tactful, but fortunately, Kuai Yue is old and very smooth, he knows that blindly colliding with Liu Pan is a lose-lose situation, not to mention that he Kuai Yue and Liu Pan have never had a conflict of interest before.
"Young Master Liu Pan, my Jingzhou soldiers and horses are best at the navy, and our army is not Yuan Yaojun's opponent at all for land warfare, so we can only wait for help!" Kuai Yue said to Liu Pan explained.
"How is our army no longer Yuan Yaojun's opponent!" Liu Pan was obviously unwilling to give Kuai Yue face, because the order sent by Liu Biao was to make Liu Pan completely obey Kuai Yue's order, and he Liu Pan was not happy in his heart.
"Mr. Kuai Yue, you have to know that our army in Wancheng has the main force of 30,000 auxiliary soldiers and horses, and there are also 30,000 and nearly 60,000 troops, not to mention these war horses that Mr. Kuai Yue brought you, Yuan Yao'er 100,000 troops attacked my Jingzhou, and he also divided his troops into three ways, and there were only 30,000 or 20,000 when he arrived in my Wancheng, how could he not beat it!?"
Kuai Yue also thought about it when he heard this Liu Pan's words, if they did what Liu Pan thought, they would really be similar to Yuan Yao'er.
"Mr. Kuai Yue, our army can fight a field battle with Yuan Yao'er, this is the home field of our army, if we win, then we will naturally be happy, even if we lose, with Wancheng as an obstacle, Yuan Yao's thirty or twenty thousand soldiers and horses will not be able to attack the city at all!" Liu Pan continued to say to Kuai Yue.
Kuai Yue is a civil servant, it's okay if you want him to give advice, but it's really not as much as Liu Pan thinks if you want him to go to actual combat.
"Okay!" Kuai Yue also nodded, if he wants to cooperate with Liu Pan, he can't tear his face with Liu Pan, plus Liu Pan said that Kuai Yue is indeed excited, if he can take the initiative to meet the enemy and defeat the enemy, this is a great achievement, although Jingzhou Cai Jia is more and more indistinguishable, but Cai Mao, who holds the military power, is indeed higher than the Kuai family, if they win in this Wancheng offensive and defensive battle, even Cai Mao has to have three points.
"Haha, Mr. Kuai Yue, who knows me, please rest assured, this station, I, Liu Pan, will inevitably let Yuan Yao Xiaoer go and not return!" Liu Pan's self-confidence is not without confidence, if you say who is the biggest famous general in Jingzhou? In addition to Huang Zhong and Wei Yan, it may be him Liu Pan.
"Since General Liu Pan has said so, then I, Kuai Yue, will not be this wicked person! However, General Liu Pan, Wancheng is not suitable for the general to attack Yuan Yao's Huainan army! Liu Pan wanted to take the Huainan army by surprise, and I believe that the Huainan army must not think that the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou can take the initiative to attack, so that the natural enemy will not be prepared, but Wancheng's generation is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the same high terrain is not easy to fight.
"What do you mean?" It's not that Liu Pan can't hear opinions, it's just that he doesn't accept Kuai Yue's guidance.
"The general can go further north for eighty miles, there is a place called Bowangpo, just in the number of times, our army can fight to the death with Yuan Yaoxiao'er!" Kuai Yue said what he thought.
"Good!" Liu Pan also shouted a good word, he looked at the direction of Bowangpo on the map, they were in a towering area and the enemy was in a low-lying place, which was beneficial to them and fully disadvantageous to the enemy's defense.
Saying that, Liu Pan immediately issued an order to personally lead 30,000 troops out of Wancheng, and left Kuai Yue to guard Wancheng, but our Mr. Kuai Yue was unwilling to stay in the city, and Liu Pan didn't care to let Kuai Yue follow, and found another general to stay in Wancheng.
"Bowangpo?" The movement of Liu Pan's army naturally couldn't hide Yuan Yao's scout troops, Yuan Yao was happy at first, because this Liu Pan actually put Wancheng, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, not to defend, but now he ran out and prepared to fight with them in the field, Huainan Army, isn't this the rhythm of death? But then Yuan Yao became bitter, because what he heard was these three words, Bo Wangpo.
In the fifth year of Jian'an, the battle of Guandu broke out, and Liu Bei, who was originally separated from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, took this opportunity to reunite, and attached himself to local leaders Liu Pi and Gong Du in Runan.
attempted to launch a surprise attack on Cao Cao's back; However, the following year, Cao Cao, who had won a great victory at Guandu and Cangting, decided to turn back and eradicate the threat from behind, and Liu Bei was forced to flee to Jingzhou to join Liu Biao after losing the Battle of Qishan; Liu Bei, who was appreciated by Liu Biao, was entrusted with the important task of guarding the north of Jingzhou and stationed in Xinye.
In the seventh year of Jian'an, Liu Biao tried to take advantage of Cao Cao's attack on Yuan Shang in the north to attack Xudu, but he sent Liu Bei to lead the army to attack and send troops to Bowang to meet Cao Cao's Xiahoudun and start the battle.
Zhuge Liang agreed to go out after Liu Bei's three visits to the thatched house, when Cao Cao had pacified Hebei and decided to march south, he sent Xiahoudun as the main general, Yu Ban, Li Dian and other deputy generals, leading 100,000 troops to Xinye. At that time, although Zhuge Liang had a strategy to retreat from the enemy, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei despised Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang had no choice but to use Liu Bei's sword to subdue the two, so that they each led a thousand soldiers and horses, and ambushed them in Yushan and Anlin, waiting for Xiahoudun to lead the army through, and then attacked them with ambush soldiers and fire.
In addition, Zhao Yun was sent to lead the old and weak remnants of the army, serve as the vanguard to fight with Xiahoudun, and retreat in defeat, luring Xiahoudun into the narrow roads of the mountains and forests; He also sent Guan Ping, Zhou Cang, Liu Feng and others to infiltrate the rear of Cao's army, burn materials, and create panic in Cao's army. After the battle, everything happened as Zhuge Liang had arranged. When Xiahoudun and Yu Ban led the army to pursue, Li Dian, who was in the rear, urgently informed Xiahoudun in front that he needed to prevent the enemy's fire attack, but it was too late, Cao's army was constrained by the narrow roads and was in a place where trees were mixed, the fire was out of control, and the casualties were very heavy, and Xiahoudun and other generals were defeated and fled back to Xudu. Zhuge Liang's first battle after coming out of the mountain was successful, and after that, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others also respected Zhuge Liang more and more.
"Burn Bowangpo?" Although the Huainan army and civil soldiers on the side did not hear what Yuan Yao was muttering clearly, there were a few words that they could hear clearly, that is, the burning of Bowangpo.
"Lord, how much fire does it take to burn the entire Bowangpo!" Jia Xu Jia Wenhe was the first to speak, in his opinion, this should be the lord's strategy, but Jia Xu Jia Wenhe obviously didn't have a positive attitude towards Yuan Yao's strategy.
"Huh?" Yuan Yao looked at Jia Xu suspiciously, hoping that Jia Xu could give him an answer.
"Lord! Now it's the flood season, not to say whether it will rain in this weather, just say that the branches of this Bowangpo are luxuriant, and it is difficult to burn! "In this era, the ignition is just some fierce fire oil, and it is impossible for these things to ignite a piece of Bowangpo, so it is not reliable to say that the fire is not reliable at all.
"Ahhh Yuan Yao was also dogmatic, and he subconsciously took out the Battle of Bowangpo.
He didn't want to think that the original Bowangpo was beaten by Zhuge Liang, and now Zhuge Liang is still fighting whack-a-moles in Yizhou.
"Lord, although this Bowangpo can't be attacked with fire, but now it's not good for us, lord, look here!" Tian Feng and Fu Zhu were arranged by Yuan Yao to sit in Huainan, and their main target was Hebei, so it was better to stay in Huainan and rest at this time, after all, a long-term army march was very hurtful.
The place Xu Shu pointed out was Bowangpo, which was located on a high place.
"Our army must quickly occupy this place to be able to pose the greatest threat to the Jingzhou army, but if the Jingzhou army is one step ahead of us, then our army, our army..."
"This, this, this!" Jia Xu and Xu Shu glanced at each other, and they both saw the thorniness of this problem.
This battle has not yet started, and now the Jingzhou army has an advantage, and there is only one way to win this battle.
"Lord, our army has to lure the Jingzhou army over!" Xu Shu said to Yuan Yao over there.
"Want to lure the enemy deeper?" Yuan Yao hesitated.
Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe did not speak, but asked people to ask the person who was spying on the military intelligence: "Are you sure that the banner of the vanguard army is Liu?" ”
"Exactly!" The scout on the side said to Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe: "My lord, I'm in trouble now!" Jia Xu Jia Wenhe took a step forward and said to Yuan Yao: "My lord, this General Liu Pan and Liu is not a person to deal with!" "Jia Xu can guess that the leader is Liu Pan, and the reason is because this surname Liu is in Jingzhou, in addition to Liu Biao, it is this general Liu Pan, as for Liu Qi and Liu Dagongzi, there is no need to think about it.
Jiangdong's first fierce general is Sun Jian, then this Jingzhou's first fierce general is Liu Pan, of course, Liu Pan, the first fierce general, is a little watery, but when Jingzhou and Jiangdong are enemies, the only person who can bring harm to Jiangdong is Jingzhou veteran Huang Zu, who is defeated and retreated under Jiangdong's attack, but this Liu Pan can make Jiangdong Army helpless.
"Liu Pan, Liu Pan!?" Yuan Yao frowned, thinking about such a person: "This person is Liu Biao's fake son?" Yuan Yao asked Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe over there.
"Exactly!" Jia Xu nodded, when they used to play for Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Jia Xu didn't study the generals of Jingzhou.
"Then he has guarded Changsha before?" Yuan Yao suddenly asked an unrelated question, if Jia Xu hadn't studied this Liu Pan, he really wouldn't have thought of this matter.
"That's true!" In the third year of the first peace, Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, served as the pastor of Jingzhou. Huang Zhong was appointed by Liu Biao as a Zhonglang general, and his nephew Liu Pan garrisoned Changsha Youxian County.
"Someone, go and find out immediately if there is a general surnamed Huang in this Liu Biao's army!" Yuan Yao even gave a very confusing order.
"General Huang?" First-class strategists like Xu Shu and Jia Xu couldn't figure out what Yuan Yao was doing.
"Yes!" Soon, the scouts under his command went out again, and when they came back this time, they really brought a message to Yuan Yao, there is really a yellow-lettered banner in the camp of the Jingzhou army!
"Yellow shot? Huang Zu? Jia Xu Jia Wenhe is exquisite, this is impossible, it is impossible for these two to succumb to Liu Pan, not to mention that these two people are still in the world and it is not clear.
"Probe again, grab two tongues for me, and ask if this General Huang is General Huang Zhong Huang!" Yuan Yao issued another order, which made Jia Xu and Xu Shu even more unbelievable.
Yuan Yaojun's scouts and horses, after paying a few casualties, captured the enemy's two scouts from Liu Biao's camp.
Soon, the soldiers and horses of this scout team were escorted to Yuan Yao by Yuan Yao's scout army.
The scout who was captured this time really gave the answer, and this general surnamed Huang is really Huang Zhong.
"Haha, God help me, God help me!" Yuan Yao suddenly laughed and said to everyone.
"What do you mean, my lord?" Xu Shu is a first-class strategist, he can even make Cao Cao a character who does not compromise his means, Jia Xu is a famous poisoner in the world, and there is no one who is not frightened by him.
But these two wizards were confused by Yuan Yao.
"Someone sent someone to inform Lord Yang for me, and asked him to send someone to Changsha to find a person named Huang Xu for me!" Yuan Yao said to his subordinate Chen Dao.
"The last general commands!" Chen Zhi immediately nodded and left Yuan Yao's tent, and a few white pigeons flew up from outside Yuan Yao's tent, this is the tool for Yuan Yaojun's communication with each other, compared to the land on the land, the pigeon flies much faster in the sky.
Yang Hong, who was far away in Huainan, immediately got the news, and he also asked the Huainan Army spies in Changsha to immediately look for Huang Xu.
"My lord, what the hell are you?" Xu Shu still couldn't help but ask Yuan Yao.
"Haha!" Yuan Yao looked at the appearance of the two big talents under his hands, and it felt really good, but Yuan Yao also knew that if he held it back, these two big talents might not know how to retaliate against him in the future.
Only then did he say to Xu Shu and Jia Xu, "Two gentlemen, there is one person in this Jingzhou army who can be used by our army!" ”
"What does the lord mean by that Huang Zhong?" Jia Xu raised his eyebrows, he didn't listen to Yuan Yao's interrogation of the Jingzhou army scout, judging from Yuan Yao's interrogation, this Huang Zhong is the breakthrough point that Yuan Yao wants, and Jia Xu also knows that this Huang Zhong is Liu Pan's absolute cronies.
"It's Huang Zhong! Huang Hansheng! Yuan Yao nodded and said.
"The lord is Liu Pan's right and left hand, will he easily betray Liu Pan?" It's as if someone came to instigate Chen to betray Yuan Yao, this is obviously impossible, this Liu Pan has the grace of knowing Huang Zhong, if there is no Liu Pan, this Huang Zhong is probably still in Changsha Hand City Gate.
"Haha!" Yuan Yao laughed: "If it's an ordinary method, it won't work!" But there is one thing you really don't know, that is, unfilial piety is great! ”
"No queen?" In this way, this Huang Xu is Huang Zhong's son.
"Huang Zhong only has one son, Huang Xu!" Yuan Yao confirmed their guess.
"The lord wants to kidnap Huang Zhong's son Huang Xu and force him to comply?" Xu Shu frowned and said, he Xu Shu doesn't like such a conspiracy, Jia Xu Jia Wenhe nodded in admiration Is this a conspiracy.
"How ugly the kidnapping is, I just want to invite this Huang Gongzi as a guest!" Yuan Yao said to Xu Shu and Jia Xu over there, Yuan Yao is not completely confident in his heart, if the record is good, this Huang Xu Huang Dagongzi should be a sick man, Yuan Yao brought him from Changsha and may even save his life, as for why Yuan Yao knew that Huang Xu was not dead The reason is that this old Huang Zhong is too famous, and even a first-class strategist like Jia Xu and Xu Shu is a person who has no last resort Liu Pan knows nothing about this old general Huang Zhong, this is not good, If even such a fierce general can pass by, then what kind of person can be considered a hero.
The one who can defeat Guan Yu is his cheap father-in-law, but this old Huang Zhong is able to fight against Guan Yu with his aging body, if it weren't for Guan Yu's deception, he would not be able to take Huang Zhong at all, and in the end, Huang Zhong also used archery to almost kill Guan Yu.
Since it was to find Huang Xu, Huang Gongzi Yuan Yao was naturally not in a hurry, the army stopped on the land heading to Bowangpo, which made Liu Pan's people more and more arrogant, Kuai Yue also slowly delegated power to Liu Pan, in Kuai Yue's opinion, this shows that Liu Pan's strategy was successful, and Yuan Yaojun was blocked out of Jingzhou by them.
"Yuan Yao'er is just like this, he doesn't even dare to enter Bowangpo, and he still wants to attack Wancheng and invade my Jingzhou! If he Yuan Yaoxiaoer doesn't come, it's okay, as long as he dares to come, I will dare to let him go under this Bowangpo, and let Yuan Yaoxiaoer go and never return! Liu Pan is very arrogant and ambitious.
"Huh!" Kuai Yue also smiled, but what he laughed at was not in line with Liu Pan's arrogant words, but in his Kuai Yue's opinion, he was not even sure to take Yuan Yao Xiao'er to win a battle in Bowangpo, and when the time passed, he would naturally retreat, and if he held the enemy army on land, he Kuai Yue would make a meritorious service.
"General, sir, don't you think it's too quiet? The last general wants to take people out to explore the enemy camp! "It's a veteran who doesn't think so, this person is the old general Huang Zhong Huang that Yuan Yaochao thought about.
"Isn't Old General Huang meritorious?" Kuai Yue is a little dissatisfied, he can't wait to be quiet, Yuan Yao Xiao'er doesn't play Bowangpo for a day, then he will be invincible in one day, he Kuai Yue doesn't seek merit but no fault, plus Kuai Yue moved here to be a little disdainful of a white-bodied military general like Huang Zhong, what kind of fun are you a bad old man doing.
"The last general will not dare! It's just the last general...."Huang Zhong lowered his head, he still has heirs in his family, and he needs to be healed by medicine stones, if he offends the real power in the army, even Liu Pan's people will suffer, and he Huang Zhong can't stand the toss.
"Okay, okay, Hansheng, don't say a word, this Yuan Yao Xiao'er is also a person who understands the art of war, he naturally knows that Bowangpo is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he will not attack easily! The more he delays, the better it will be for our army! "Liu Pan can become the first fierce general in Jingzhou is also a certain level, launching a field battle here, the Jingzhou army is high below zero, and it is even more able to kill and injure a large number of enemies, Yuan Yao will definitely not rush up so stupidly.
Liu Pan gave Kuai Yue face and reprimanded Huang Zhong, the same Liu Pan also noticed something, watching Kuai Yue leave, Liu Pan also gave Huang Zhong an order, "Han Sheng, you are right, it is too quiet, pass on my military order, you take our army scout camp to find out what is going on!" ”
"The last general commands!" Huang Zhong's years of experience as a general helped him avoid danger again and again, but this time it brought him not only danger but also distress.
For several days, Yuan Yao's army did not attack, and even retreated to some places, and on the seventh day, he finally brought news from Changsha, and Huang Xu was already on the way to Jingzhou.
Eight hundred miles rushed to deliver a letter, and there was also a person sent by Yang Hong.
"Then how is Huang Xugongzi doing now?" Yuan Yao asked the person sent by Yang Hong.
"Back to the lord, Huang Xugongzi is not in a good state!" Can this state be good? Huang Xu was originally a sick man, but this time he was directly dragged out of Changsha by Yuan Yao's spies, and if he was in good health, there would be ghosts.
Yuan Yao frowned, if this Huang Xu hung up on the road before he came to Bowangwai, he would have completely offended Huang Zhong to death, and even if Yuan Yao was unwilling, he would have to cut Huang Zhong, after all, there was a revenge for killing his son.
"However, the accompanying Lu Shi has already prescribed medicine for Huang Xugongzi, and he has suppressed the condition, according to Lord Hua Tuo's diagnosis, this Huang Xu can still be treated."
"Good, good, good!" Yuan Yao finally released the money, "What medicinal materials do you need over there, just supply, I just need a living Huang Xu to appear in my camp!" ”
"Yes!" The spy left with the news.
After a few more days, Yuan Yaochao's longing Huang Xu Huang Gongzi finally came to the outside of Bowang's camp, and this news was naturally discovered by our Huang Zhong Huang Da's subordinates.
"What! My son is in Yuan Yaojun's camp? General Huang Zhong and Huang were dumbfounded, he didn't expect his son to appear in Yuan Yao's camp. ”
At first, he was shocked, and then Huang Zhong shouted: "Yuan Yao, Xiao'er, I'm going to kill you!" "Huang Xu is Huang Zhong's lifeblood, but now he has been substituted by Yuan Yao into the camp, can Huang Zhong not be in a hurry?