Chapter 15: The Pursuit of the North
Lu Bu asked with a solemn face: "Have you seen clearly, have you fought for fifty rounds?" ”
This Li Su guard replied cautiously: "Well, maybe it's more than that, General Li Su is brave and extraordinary, first resisting the enemy's army with his own strength, and then fighting with that thief general for fifty or sixty alone, uh, no!" It is estimated that there are seventy or eighty rounds, and it is too dark for me to see clearly, so I just thought it was fifty rounds. ”
Suddenly, he stopped talking, for he saw the most terrible thing in the world, a face that would terrify all enemies, a symbol of killing and death.
Lu Bu's face was cold and dead, and his eyes as he stared at the guards showed a breathtaking light. Before the guard could react, he felt a tingling sensation on the top of his head, and suddenly his blood surged, and he became more and more painful.
It turned out that Lu Bu slapped his palm on the top of the man's head with an action that mortals could not detect, and used his strength to break the blood vessels and veins in his skull. The man was not dead for a while, he rolled on the ground in pain but couldn't scream, struggled for a while, bleeding from his seven orifices, and after a spasm, he slowly stopped moving.
"How dare you lie to me!"
Lu Bu spat at the man's corpse and looked at the last man.
There was only one person left, he was about thirty or forty years old, and his beard showed a sense of vicissitudes, and he just knelt on the ground and waited, his eyes neither responding nor evading.
"Let me ask you, how did Li Su die?"
The old soldier slowly recalled: "General Li saw that the enemy's siege was very strong, and many people came with crossbows, so he had to retreat and regroup with nearly 100 cavalry, preparing to gather infantry and kill back. However, a young general who was originally by Dong Bai's side pursued and killed us. ”
Gao Shun asked in surprise, "Why, he is only chasing and killing alone?"
He has been leading troops all year round, has rich combat experience, and is very good at commanding infantry cavalry, and suddenly discovered strange places.
The old pawn seemed to remember something terrible: "That's right, he killed many people in an instant alone. Fifty of us went up together, and we couldn't hurt him at all! It's horrible! ”
Lu Bu listened quietly for a while, and now suddenly interrupted: "Say so, and then you will run away!" ”
He explained: "It's not to escape, it's pointless, it's impossible to fight ......."
Before he could finish his sentence, his head turned back more than one hundred and eighty degrees, and he died instantly.
Lu Bu finished the man with a twist, "Sure enough, it's him!" Gao Shun, Zhang Liao listened to the order. ”
"The subordinates are here."
"Today, at the end of the day, five thousand and state cavalry set off, this time the opponent is not only Dong Zhuo Yu, but also the Qianghu people. But with me, 10,000 Hu people are no match for me. ”
"No!"
After Gao Shun and Zhang Liao received the order, they discussed.
Gao Shun analyzed: "Now that the people who have seen Dong Zhuo's remnants are dead, I think that the content of what the guard said is watery, and it is seven points true, and it is estimated that there are only a thousand Qianghu." ”
He judged from his own experience that there could not be so many enemies, otherwise there would be no need to ambush.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Liao said: "I think it's very strange, Qianghu is famous for his bow horses, how can it be equipped with a large number of crossbow machines?"
Gao Shun said: "This is really strange, it may be provided by the Dong family?" However, through the convoy Hu that was caught earlier, it was learned that they did avoid General Huangfu first to the north and then to the east, and then went to the northern district from the direction of Qixu to join Qianghu. ”
Zhang Liao took the words: "Considering the relationship between the Dong family and Qianghu, then they should move to the northwest in the near future, which is also in line with common sense, if they want to defect to Niu Fu, they don't need to go north without making a joke, just go to the east." ”
Gao Shun said: "However, they may also be diverted from Qiaoling to the east, but now that Niu Fu is dead, they will inevitably be found and wiped out to the east." So to chase north, it should be no problem. ”
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On the other hand, a few days ago, Tong Yuan arranged a small number of cavalry as suspicious soldiers to the north to disguise the appearance of the brigade fleeing north. If all goes well, it is estimated that after ten days, the recourse will be reversed to catch up with the convoy. If the enemy is found to be pursuing, it will completely penetrate into the territory of Qianghu and Southern Xiongnu rule, and it is estimated that the pursuing troops will not dare to go deeper.
The march through the mountains sounded like a difficult one, but the convoy was moving along a river in the valley. At the beginning of summer, the rain was not frequent, and there was no danger of flash floods. There used to be a vehicular road along the river, but it is now abandoned.
Of course, the burden on the convoy was greatly lightened, and a lot of valuable goods were rewarded to the soldiers, so that the atmosphere of the whole army was high, as if it were a victorious army. More importantly, the direction in which the convoy is moving now is not far away from the Central Plains as originally planned, which makes ordinary soldiers no longer resist. The effect of money is short-lived, and a stable military spirit must be based on a reliable direction and goal.
At present, the carriage mainly carries dried meat, grain and grass, cloth and various ordnance, and every soldier carries a weapon with him, but there are also a large number of arrows, armor of various materials, long and short weapons, as well as some rafts, sheepskin rafts, digging tools and centipedes hanging ladders.
This centipede hanging on the mountain ladder is a magical object, which can go over mountains and mountains, and can also attack and steal cities. Legend has it that it was evolved from the siege equipment of the Red Mei Army at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when the Red Mei Army invaded Chang'an, it encountered the stubborn resistance of the powerful landlords in Guanzhong, and Chang'an was dilapidated, and it did not make the production better, and later stared at the imperial tomb, and stole and excavated.
This is also the reason why the Jieling Division, which has a slight relationship with the Red Mei Army, is planning the Sili and the state tombs, instead of fighting in the Chang'an and Sanfu areas.
According to the soldiers in the convoy who knew about this place, the place where the convoy passed yesterday was the former frontier defense point, which is now deserted, and there is a mountain peak more than 10 miles north, called Daling. Once here, you'll enter a populated area.
A scout said, "Report, Tong Shaojun, there are still five miles ahead of me that are about to walk out of the mountains and into the hilly area. The scouts found no sign of anyone else's activity. ”
"Okay, is there a place for everyone to trim up?" Tong Yuan knew that intelligence was very important now, and he needed to send someone nearby to inquire about the news so that he could make the next arrangement.
"Yes, ten miles ahead is a large elm forest."
"Okay, pass the order, the convoy arrives at the elm forest to rest on the spot, in addition to sending scouts, the rest of the team commanders and above will come here to prepare some next responses."
"Whoa."
The convoy is about to return to the Zuo Fengyi area, where not only the pursuers who may come, but also the scholars, Haoqiang, peasants, slaves and maids here, etc., if they are not coerced by Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, they must have their own strength.
If you want to be different from the fate of Li Dao, Guo Yan and others, you must start from now on, so that the poor family and Haoqiang can support him, and even some scholars can take the initiative to take refuge.