Episode 169: Entering the Bishui Pass

Guo Jia's investment is the beginning of good news, Xi Zhong and Xun You have accepted the recruitment of the Taiping Army, only Xun Yu is still a hard bone, and he refuses to belong to the Taiping Army at all, but now that the war is imminent, Xiao Lan can't take care of him, and he will be transferred to Yanzhou, Xun You will be transferred to Jingzhou, Xiao Lan Jing took Guo Jia, Dian Wei, and 100,000 troops, to Bishui Pass, and Xu Chu and Zhou Cang.

The 130,000 army was encamped under the Bishui Pass, although it was not as powerful as the original 18th Route Princes' coalition army, but the 130,000 troops were the elite of the Taiping Army, each well-trained, and the army was upright, but it was more than one step better than the princes' army that was their master.

However, after all, Bishui Pass is the world's Xiongguan, extraordinary, although the strength of the pass is less than 10,000, but there are fierce people like Liu Guanzhang, it is not an easy thing to take down, otherwise, the alliance of the princes of the Eighteenth Route will not be blocked by Huaxiong and Li Su here for more than a month, and they will not be allowed to advance an inch.

At dusk, Xiao Lan summoned the generals in the big tent, Guo Jia was on the side, and asked in an inquiring voice: "Feng Xiao is the military advisor of the army, I don't know what tricks can help me capture Bishui Pass?" ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "If you want to capture Bishui Pass, it seems difficult, but in fact, it is not difficult, but I don't know if the generals are willing to listen to my dispatch." ”

Xiao Lan said with a smile: "Fengxiao rest assured, the Taiping Army is strict in governing the army, as long as you plan well, the general under the account of the commander will be at your disposal." ”

"That's right, Master Strategist, if you have any orders, you can just give them your orders." Everyone admired Xiao Lan very much, and even Guo Jia, who valued Xiao Lan, was also very respectful, and immediately responded.

"Thanks to the love of the lord and the generals, Jia is polite, time is pressing, Jia will make a long story short, I hope you can work together to defeat the defenders of Guanshang, and break the pass as soon as possible." Guo Jia was a little polite, and then said in a deep voice: "Although Bishui Pass is the world's Xiongguan. But at present, there are only three brothers, Tao Qian and Liu Guanzhang, less than 10,000 defenders, and our Taiping army has an army of 130,000, and it is not difficult to forcibly break it. It's just that the casualties are too great to outweigh the losses, so I decided to transfer 90,000 troops, one for every 30,000. One virtual and one real, take turns to attack the city, night and night, the defenders in the city, but 10,000, as long as they don't give them time to breathe, I believe it won't take a few days, and the water pass can be easily broken. ”

"It's a tired plan, and it's really worthy of a ghost plot Guo Jia!" Xiao Lan was shocked in his heart, but his face was silent. Immediately ordered: "The first part, Zhou Cang listens to the order, give you 30,000 horses, after nightfall tonight, you will start to attack the city, you must know how to grasp the truth and the truth, if you meet Liu Guanzhang and the three people, you can't be invincible, just keep harassing." Don't be afraid to waste your bow and arrows against these three people, and try not to engage them in hand-to-hand combat. ”

The other two are respectively composed of Xu Chu and Dian Wei. Commander, there is no half-day round of replacement, time is not enough, you can rest assured, when the time comes, you must not relax. Do you understand? ”

Guo Jia said with a smile: "Dashuai is really a person who is proficient in Tao strategy, so, in three days at most, Bishui Pass will go down!" ”

"It's Bongxiao's clever strategy!" Xiao Lan laughed and said: "In this way, the guards on Bishui Pass not only have to distinguish whether our army's attack is virtual or real, but also don't even have a moment to rest, in less than three days, they will be sleepy and tired, how can they stop my 130,000 army?" ”

When the generals heard this, they thought that a few days later, the defenders of Guanshang were all wearing panda eyes, and they were weak like a soft-footed shrimp, so they couldn't help but show a smug smile for it, and praised it again and again: "The strategy of the military division is really clever, I admire it!" ”

Guo Jia said modestly: "If there are no generals to lead the troops to attack the city, no matter how clever Jia's strategy is, it will not be effective at all." ”

"Soldiers and soldiers, each performing their duties, all have merit, why pass the buck to each other!" Xiao Lan said with a smile: "Okay, go down quickly and get ready to go, this commander and the military advisor will lead an army of 40,000 people, dispatch in the center, and meet you at any time, remember, these days, I don't ask you to break the city, just drag this group of defenders to the death for me, and don't let them rest." ”

"No." The generals clasped their fists and responded in unison!

After nightfall, Zhou Cang took the lead in leading the troops to launch a tentative attack: the sound of war drums that shook the mountains and rivers, followed by the sound of shouting and killing, the sound of cannon horns, the 30,000 army shouted in unison, the momentum was amazing, the sound shook the sky, the entire Bishui Pass, all followed the ground and shook the mountains, the chickens, ducks, geese and dogs in the pass, but also the chickens and dogs jumped, noisy, Tao Qian, Liu Guanzhang and the three brothers and even the guards who had just fallen asleep, were all awakened at once.

"It's not good, the Taiping thieves are attacking the city, hurry up and defend the city, defend the city!" Tao Qian hurriedly gave a loud order, and Liu Guanzhang and the three of them got the military order, and hurriedly rushed up to the city tower with the guards who got up in a hurry to resist the Taiping army.

A whole army of 30,000 people attacked Bishui Pass in an all-round way, these people, while shouting, while carrying ladders and building cars, Tao Qian, Liu Bei and others couldn't help but be secretly surprised when they saw this, what happened to this Taiping army? The army has not rested much since then, and is in such a hurry to attack the city overnight?

However, there is no way, since they are attacking the city, they have to hurry up to defend the city, but as long as Liu Guanzhang and the three of them are, the attack on which section of the city wall will be weak, and no one will fight hand-to-hand with these three fierce men who can fight against Lu Bufang, even Zhou Cang, who is self-sustaining and brave.

The first wave of tentative attacks ended quickly, and the enemy did not even rush to the city wall, which made Tao Qian and Liu Guanzhang very happy, it turned out that the Taiping army was not invincible, even if it was well-trained to defeat the original Yellow Turban Army? Sooner or later, it will definitely be defeated by the imperial army.

Victory will always boost morale, and when the water is closed, everyone from top to bottom is in a state of excitement.

Unfortunately, this joy of victory did not last long, and after less than half an hour, the war drums under the city sounded again, and then, Zhou Cang's army attacked again.

Tao Qian and Liu Guanzhang were shocked, and hurriedly organized people to resist, but the city wall of Bishui Pass is not small, Tao Qian is old, and even if the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang are scattered, it is impossible to take care of all directions, but on the contrary, the ruthlessness of the Taiping army's thieves, where there is no Liu Guanzhang, the offensive on which side is like a bamboo, more and more violent, the three brothers ran east and west, for a while, but they were tired of coping.

In this way, the attack lasted for more than an hour, and the Taiping army slowly retreated, this time, the Taiping army's offensive was much more fierce than the first time, and the leading warriors had already ascended to the top of the city.

"Grandma's, it's finally over, you can go back and get some sleep." Zhang Fei scolded and turned around and was about to walk down the city tower, but at this moment, the horn was blown outside the city again, the war drums were beating, and then the shouts and horn cannons were passed one after another, obviously, the Taiping army was attacking the city again.

"The thief army is here again, defend the city, defend the city!" The two previous offensives were more and more fierce each time, and Tao Qian, Liu Bei and others hurriedly ordered, ready to fight with the spirit of 120,000 points, and come to strictly defend it.

However, to the surprise of this time, the Taiping army's offensive seemed to be huge, but in fact it was only a bluff, and the 30,000-strong army rushed to the bottom of the city, without even driving the ladder, and slowly retreated like a low tide, leaving the defenders of the city dumbfounded.

"What's going on, Maha?" Zhang Fei couldn't help but scold.

Liu Bei glanced at the other party's orderly retreat, his eyes flashed, as if he understood something, this Taiping thief is really cunning, doing this is nothing more than wanting to rely on the strength of the crowd, planning to attack the city in turn with wheel warfare, the middle is uncertain, and his side has no time to breathe!

However, even if you see through the other party's strategy, what can you do, even if the other party is just a feint, your own side must not take strict precautions, after all, a feint attack may turn into a real attack anytime and anywhere!

I have to say that the person who came up with this plan is really too vicious!

"Ahh Zhongjun, Guo Jia, who was watching the battle from afar with Xiao Lan, suddenly sneezed heavily, and muttered unhappily in his heart: "Could it be that who is saying bad things about Jia behind his back?" (To be continued.) )