Chapter Forty-Eight: A Victory or Defeat

The morale of the Yuan's vanguard army, which led the alliance to a great victory, was high, and the first line of the Yanshi division had been blocked by Sun Jian's troops, and the roads in the entire east were blocked, and Luoyang could not receive any news, and they knew that reinforcements were on the way.

Bao Xin and Wang Kuang have already made a detour to Taishan County to regroup. Yuzhou Kong Ling, Yanzhou Liu Dai also set off to Guanzhong in the name of Qin Wang Army, Beihai Taishou Kong Rong and Liu Biao, who had just been appointed by Ma Yue to Jingzhou, were unmoved, but no one could stop the formation of the coalition army, Jizhou Assassin Han Fu refused to send troops on the grounds that the Black Mountain thieves were troubled, but he had promised that if the Youzhou army went south to aid Ma Yue, he would try to organize.

Liu Yu, a well-known clan in China, was a behemoth that could not be ignored, and everyone was worried about Ma Yue's possible foreign aid from outside except Liangzhou.

Cut the West Garden, Changshui, eliminate the wind army to support Huangfu Song into the court, push the boat along the river to support the Han army's northern expedition to Xianbei, and defend the hussar mansion...... Everything is just to drive out the warriors led by Ma Yue and let the scholars control the court again.

With the murmuring of the Yi River, the second bloody battle broke out in the thirty-mile valley on the east bank after Xuanyuan Pass in the name of 'begging for horses'.

Yichuan Valley, the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky, flags were waved everywhere, and horses neighed, as the No. 1 general of Yuan Shu to gain a firm foothold in Nanyang, Yu Shi was not in vain.

The fearless Nanyang cavalry braved the rain of arrows and crashed into the Hu cavalry formation, the sharp blades tore a gap, and the foot archers who followed closely behind bit the tail of Guan Yu's rear army.

The rear army of thousands of people fell into a bitter battle.

Guan Yu beat his horse in the banner, kept calling and stabilizing the formation, was a little flustered in the roar, and constantly commanded the soldiers to flee north, but in a few breaths, there were nearly 100 casualties.

Even if the sword is raised and the sword is shouted, 'The one who retreats will be killed!' Such a roar still could not stop the retreat of the Command army like a torrent.

The panic of the enemy commander, the fluttering banners of those things made Yu She's heart sprout a stronger momentum, he roared, galloped, and his strong and powerful arms waved long knives to harvest and chase after every enemy soldier in front of him.

"What a hero of the world, a grass cole!"

Yu She, who was in a hurry, did not realize that the battlefield was moving towards the Yichuan Valley.

"Fuck, run!" Guan Yu roared loudly in his heart, his robe Ze was being frantically strangled by the enemy, the Hu cavalry had successfully pinned down the Yuan cavalry, but his own foot soldiers were bitten by the enemy and it was difficult to escape, and the fierce generals led by him were even more unstoppable and rushed left and right.

Every breath he took while sitting on his horse was an alternation of life and death for his footmen.

Guan Yu raised his left hand and gently hooked it. The cavalry behind him tapped, which were more than 20 horsemen selected by Guan Yu when he set out on the expedition, all of them were the most fierce among the thousands of people in the rear army.

The face sank like water, Guan Yu raised the ring knife in his hand in the face of the fierce general of the enemy's front, and drove the horse against the crowd, and the flag officer had already followed most of the troops towards the Yichuan Valley, and he wanted to kill a way out for the soldiers.

No matter what the outcome is, he, Guan Yunchang, can't watch the soldiers die......

The ears were filled with the cry of Pao Ze's crying father and mother, if at the beginning it was the soldiers who followed his deployment and pretended to escape, now it is really a head rat running away, but running out of a mile, Pao Ze has been wantonly slashed and killed nearly two percent, if this matter has not turned around, it will already be a big defeat.

Not to mention, where did Li Dao run away with that group of Hu horses.

The road in front of him was wide, and Guan Yu led more than 20 horsemen out of the fleeing crowd, and raised his ring knife in the belly of the horse and rushed straight towards the vanguard of the Yuan army.

Yu Shi swung his knife and slashed behind a Central Plains soldier, walked a few steps forward and looked around the horse, Yuan Jun's infantry was still desperately chasing the enemy, but there was no situation where he imagined that he was thrown a hundred steps away, but there were fewer and fewer enemy troops around, and he felt that something was wrong.

At this moment, Yu Shi suddenly saw a tall red-armored military general rushing towards him with his sword raised and his horse in the flow of enemy soldiers a hundred paces away, followed by a few dozen cavalrymen, and his momentum was a little resolute.

"Nanyang Yu She." Yu Shi shouted with a long knife, and saw that the silver seal and green ribbon hanging from the waist of the person who came were very conspicuous, and the two thousand stone officials in the court were not nameless, and rushed over with a galloping horse, "Come and get the name known!" ”

Guan Yu raised his sword and rode his horse without speaking, he clenched his teeth with all his strength, and there was only one place in his eyes.

Yu She's neck!

It's approaching, Yu Shejiang doesn't plan to say his name and doesn't care, what he cares about is the silver seal and blue ribbon around his waist, as for the name, hum!

But if you look for Yuan Gongzi with your head and receive the reward, you will naturally know!

"Drive!"

Thinking of the reward, Yu She's heart was hot, and he rushed out with the reins, and the long knife was about to sweep the enemy general away from his horse.

In an instant, when the two horses were staggered, Guan Yu kicked the horse's belly, and the speed was a few points faster, but the ring knife in his hand was swung out, but when he was about to touch Yu She's long knife, he suddenly retracted it, and the knife came out horizontally again.

Yu She's long knife fell short.

When the horse was wrong, Guan Yu's ring knife was firmly placed in front of Yu She's neck, and the forward rush of the horse was difficult to stop, and Yu Shi watched the sharp blade stretch out his neck and hit it.

"Poof!"

He could only hear the sound of the wind, and a big head flew up with a skull on its head, and the horse took a few steps with the corpse on its head, and the long knife struck the ground diagonally, and the headless corpse fell to the ground.

Guan Yu silently put the knife into the sheath, took a few steps to hold the handle of the long knife that was slanted into the ground, and picked up Yu She's dead head and galloped around several times, and the surrounding Yuan soldiers were stunned, and the morale of the party was like a rainbow, and the vanguard general was slaughtered by this red-armored red-faced man like a chicken...... For a while, the soldiers all stood on the spot with their weapons in their hands, and some people stepped forward and took two steps, but because there was no one beside them, they retreated again.

"A certain is a tiger general, Guan Yu Guan Yunchang!" With angry eyes, Guan Yu picked up Yu She's head and shouted, "Don't you wait for the thief to descend quickly?" Those who dare to raise soldiers are like this fang! ”

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In the Yichuan Valley, Ma Yue frowned and couldn't hold back the tension in his heart, and his palms holding the handle of the knife were full of sweat and a little slippery.

Seeing the smoke and dust rolling at the mouth of the valley, after waiting for a long time but not seeing the rear army enter the valley, his heart has always been hanging like a boulder, and it is not easy.

"General, the rear army is urgent!"

The sentry in front of him came galloping on horseback, and Ma Yue hurriedly met him and asked, "What's the matter, what happened to the rear army?" ”

"General Guan...... General Guan was on the verge of beheading, the enemy was invincible, and he had already led hundreds of people to counterattack for three miles, cutting more than 200 ranks, and there were many soldiers, and his subordinates came back to ask the general how to deal with the soldiers. ”

"What?" Ma Yue was stunned, looking at Fan Chou and the others beside him, Ma Yue stretched out his hand and asked, "General Guan defeated the thief?" ”

The sentry rider didn't know why Ma Yue asked so much, nodded and replied with admiration on his face: "Yes, when the thief army was pursuing, General Guan rode his horse to counterattack, and cut down the brave thief general off the horse with a face, and later the brothers found out that the thief was going to be cut down and they all rushed back, so general, we won, we don't have to retreat, big victory!" ”

At this moment, the galloping horse came again, and he arched his hand and said: "General, the main force of the Yuan army is moving to the east, it may be Xuanyuan Pass or Yanshi City." ”

"Ugh." Ma Yue sighed, a big victory, but Ma Yue couldn't be happy, "How many pawns are there?" ”

"General Hui, there are two or three hundred."

"That's it, that's it, go down." Ma Yue waved his hand weakly and said, "Let Yun Chang handle it himself, let him move south and camp in the high ground to the sun." ”

Ma Yue ordered the whole army to move, dredge the grain road, and hide the movement of the army in the valley.

Guan Yu has read books for so many years, but after all, he still lacks the tempering of the war...... The unauthorized attack affected Ma Yue's thinking about the entire battle situation. Although the vanguard commander was beheaded, the main force of the rear army could not take the bait, forcing at least 4,000 troops to move south to gather with Sun Jian's troops, and the 7,000 men and horses who held the fortified city made Ma Yue's heart chill when he thought about it.

What is he going to fight?

Just these 5,000 people around you?

If Guan Yu led the vanguard army into the valley, Yuan Shu rushed to join the battlefield during the battle, and several fierce generals led the troops to rush and kill under the encirclement, Guan Yu Xu Huang and Gan Ning Huaxiong came out together, and regardless of the division of Yi against the tired army, these generals alone could kill his army back and forth. At that time, the number of soldiers will not be two or three hundred, at least two or three thousand defeated troops!

Two or three hundred soldiers...... In exchange for 7,000 men and horses under the leadership of the Jiangdong Tigers, who had known about the military for a long time.

Yuan Shu is at best a wild boar with a rapid offensive in Ma Yue's eyes, with enough combat effectiveness but not knowing how to change, and the generals under his command are just beating and rushing, and more than 1,000 soldiers and horses were abolished by Guan Yu alone. Ma Yue was at least seventy percent sure that he would beat the 6,000-strong army into a thousand-man team.

He would rather face Yuan Shu's 6,000 soldiers and horses than Sun Jian's 3,000 Jiangdong Army.

But now, there is no chance.

What could he do? Guan Yu is not Yan Xing, do you want to be the face of these generals to fall to Guan Yu?

He couldn't.

At present, he can only re-plan the way of attack, and the enemy army relies on the fortified city, so he has to turn his back to the hill and defend it tightly, and plan again.

The scouts sprinkled under the city of Yanshi to find out the enemy's surrounding defenses, while Ma Yue led most of his troops to the east for ten miles, and joined Guan Yu to build a walled city, and a steady stream of supplies was transported from Luoyang through Henan Yin, if there was no miracle, it would be a bitter battle.

"Generals, captains, military marquis, General Guan tried his best to defeat the vanguard of Yuan's army before, and cut hundreds of ranks, but he did not respect the order, and he should have been punished." Ma Yue stood in the tent, kneeling around him with a tent full of generals and captains, Guan Yu sat silently on the right, Ma Yue arched his hand and said: "Now the main force of the Yuan army and Sun Jian converge is unstoppable, and the generals of all the armies are not close at the time of the plan, so the order is not clear, and the responsibility for this battle lies with me and not with General Guan." But at present, the enemy's division is close to ten miles away, and how our army can defeat the enemy, I still hope that the generals will share our worries. ”

"General, Guan went to war without authorization and sabotaged the general's plan, the blame is not on the general, Guan is willing to accept the punishment." Guan Yu got up, at this time he also understood that Ma Yue had to look farther than him for the whole battle situation, and understood that there must be a small sacrifice to win a big victory, but his cheeks were already crimson, and he couldn't tell if he was ashamed, so he got up and lowered his head and said: "The subordinates think that the current camp is guarded, and the high ground is strictly guarded, and the enemy army will be difficult to overcome, and it will be difficult to leave if it is not defeated, so it can be preemptive." ”

"What General Guan said is good, but the thief army is waiting, and it may not be able to attack." Xu Huang replied: "General, Tanma has found out the enemy's situation, the enemy army is mostly stationed in Yanshi, there are not many Hou Wu thieves, and they are not subordinate to each other, and the subordinates are willing to lead a group to deceive Hou Wu, and the thief army will be rescued if they enter the dock for a day, and the general can ambush the reinforcements from outside." ”

Ma Yue's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he squinted his eyes and said, "In this way, the scouts will have to work harder." ”