Chapter 171: Lu Bu escaped
The words are divided into two ends.
After Guan Yu and Zhao Yun divided their troops.
Zhao Yun led the cavalry along the edge of the Luoyang Basin at the northern foot of Songshan Mountain, galloped eastward, and went straight to the Wushi.
He didn't know how Sun Jian's attack on Yuyuan Pass was progressing, and he also knew that if Lu Bu only left a small number of troops to block Xiongguan and lead the main force back to kill back, his 4,500 men would definitely not be able to defeat Lu Bu's main force.
So while hurrying, Zhao Yun also pondered some details at the operational level, and asked Zhu Jun for instructions and suggestions on horseback: "Zhu Gong, although you were removed from Henan Yin by Dong Thief, with the identity of the captain of the city gate, is it possible to deceive the city gates of Yanshi and Wushi counties, so that the two counties along the way will be obedient to the righteousness?" ”
Zhu Jun didn't think much about it: "I don't know if the officials of these two counties have been notified by Dong Zhuo that I have been removed from Henan Yin." But it shouldn't be difficult to rely on my long-term town Jingshi Yu Wei and the generals to spread the deceased officials. Zilong, what are you going to ......?"
Zhao Yun immediately had a showdown: "Yuyuan Pass is just a checkpoint, not a city, and it is in a dangerous place in Songshan, so there must not be much grain in stock." Lu Bu, Hu Zhen and Sun Wentai held each other, mainly relying on the grain stocks in the county town of the Guishi clan to supply the front-line defenders.
Judging from the map, the Wushi is located not far from the mouth of the Songgu Valley, less than 20 miles away from the Yuyuan Pass, and less than 10 miles away from the valley mouth. If our army can steal the city and succeed, wouldn't it be a place to get grain from Hu Zhen and Lu Bu? They only rely on the grain stored in front of the pass and the food they carry with them, and they will run out of food for ten days at most. ”
Zhu Jun is also a person who knows soldiers, so simple Zhao Yun only said halfway through and he agreed. The two of them hit the two county towns along the way first.
After Zhao Yun's troops hurried for more than an hour, they arrived at Yanshi County first, and there were really no Xiliang soldiers stationed in the city, only a few hundred troops from Henan Yin, all of whom were Zhu Jun's old subordinates.
After entering the city, Zhu Jun also left 500 personal soldiers in his headquarters, and asked Zhao Yun to also divide 500 cavalry infantry to garrison. In order to prevent Hu Zhen and Lu Bu from being defeated and retreating to this time in the future, they quickly broke through the city and took away the pitiful grain left in the granary in the city. If you don't stay behind to defend the city, maybe the local officials will turn back when they see Lu Bu coming.
Zhao Yun knew that the division of troops would weaken his strength, but he also knew that it was necessary, so he gritted his teeth and left five hundred people, so that the troops he carried with him were further reduced to only four thousand people.
"If the Wu clan leaves another thousand infantry to defend the city for a while, we can only rely on seizing Lu Bu's granary to support Sun Wentai, and we can't go on the frontal battlefield, there are too few soldiers." Zhao Yun calculated the account in his heart.
After letting the soldiers eat and drink a little bit and rest for half an hour, Zhao Yun hit the road again and rushed straight to the Wu clan thirty miles away.
The Wu clan is worthy of being the front-line granary of Lu Bu and Hu Zhen, responsible for supplying grain to Yuyuan Pass, and there are actually two thousand Xiliang soldiers under Hu Zhen to defend the city.
But Zhu Jun was also very decisive, and he knew that there were also local troops and officials in Henan Yin who were loyal to him in the city.
So he used the information he had to let Zhao Yun leave the 1,000 cavalry infantry, dismount to build flying ladders, cut down trees and hit doors, and fire arrows at the city to suppress them. On the other side, Zhao Yun was asked to lead the main cavalry force around the north gate without a banner.
After arriving at the north gate, Zhu Jun quickly went to call the city gate guarded by his old subordinates, and said, "More than 100,000 rebels of the Kwantung princes have entered the customs, and they can still be loyal ministers of the Han family anyway."
The old subordinate was really deceived, and the line of fire opened the city gate and took refuge. Two thousand Xiliang soldiers were guarding the city at the west gate, and the north gate was opened, and Zhao Yun and three thousand iron cavalry rushed into the city and started a street battle with two thousand Xiliang soldiers.
The people left behind by Hu Zhen to guard the granary were all infantry, only a relatively weak part of the second-line troops in the Xiliang Army. And in the panic, Zhao Yun was killed by Zhao Yun charging along the long street, and the number of people was smaller than Zhao Yun, of course, he quickly collapsed.
Zhao Yun was the first to rush to the official warehouse in Wushi County, and ordered to open it to see that there were still tens of thousands of stone in store - it was estimated that they were all rations for the people looted and plundered by Lu Bu from Sili and Eight Townships, in order to ensure the supply of military food for the final stage before the withdrawal of his army.
When some of the Xiliang soldiers were seized from the granary, the county government and other places, they also fiercely tried to set fire, but the arsonists were not pardoned and were all beheaded and executed by Zhao Yun, and the others who did not set fire were allowed to surrender and disarm and be detained.
Because of the timely firefighting, the burned grain was only about a few thousand stones, that is, a few pieces, and the main part was saved.
After stabilizing the situation in the city, Zhao Yun originally wanted to further strengthen the city defenses and investigate the military situation, and did not plan to immediately go out of the city to attack Lu Bu in the south - for Zhao Yun, the best choice is, of course, to spread the bad news that "your granary has been seized" first, and wait for Hu Zhen and Lu Bu's army to waver before making plans.
After all, Lu Bu will not starve to death immediately if the Wu clan is taken, nor will his combat effectiveness decline immediately, and the food carried by Yu Yuanguan and the troops can be eaten for at least ten days, so he has to prevent Lu Bu's dog from jumping off the wall in a hurry.
But in less than half an hour, the scout flew to report and asked Zhao Yun to go to the south gate to climb the tower and take a lookout.
Zhao Yun rode his horse through the city from the county government and granary in the north of the city, rushed to the south gate and hurriedly climbed the building, and the scout had already pointed to the southeast and said: "Captain, look, ten miles southeast of the city, there is a large army fighting!" ”
Zhao Yun was shocked: "How can you fight here?" Could it be that Sun Jian has already broken through the Yuyuan Pass? Hu Zhen and Lu Bu are really brave, they are still camped in the valley after being broken, they are obviously going to give up Henan Yin, why is this still happening? ”
Zhu Jun also felt strange, but he admired Sun Jian, and after a few glances, he said to Zhao Yun: "Good opportunity, prepare to sneak attack the back of the enemy army immediately." Moreover, it has been a quarter of an hour since the city was broken, and the enemy soldiers who have fled may go to report the news, and once the enemy knows that the granary has been seized, the bad news will spread, and the morale will be greatly discharged. ”
Zhao Yun thought for a while: "Don't make a mistake, I will take 3,000 cavalry, set up more banners, bluff to cover up for a while, as long as you scare the enemy and let Sun Wentai attack, our troops are still too small." Moreover, it is also necessary to guard against the transfer of the enemy army to recapture the Wu clan - Zhu Gong, I will leave a thousand horsemen and foot soldiers, together with your own personal soldiers, can I hold the enemy's counterattack? ”
Zhu Jun calmly bowed his hand: "Although the Wu clan is not a strong city, there are 2,000 people blocking the gate and defending it, and the enemy army is not prepared, so it will not be able to attack it in a day or two." However, you also have to worry about not being able to return to the city after being entangled by Lu Bu. After you leave the city, I plan to block the three gates, leaving only the north gate. ”
"Then it's agreed, Xu Huang, follow me to kill!"
Zhao Yun opened the south gate, took 3,000 cavalry out of the battle, and went straight behind Hu Zhen (he didn't know that it was Hu Zhen there)
At the same time, Zhao Yun just asked people to look for banners such as "Zhang" and "Cao" in the city of the Gui clan, with the original intention of shouting "Zhu Taifu has allied with the Kwantung armies, and there are Chen Liutai guarding Zhang Miao and Dongjun guarding Cao Cao's army" to scare the enemy.
It's a pity that there are too few officers surnamed Cao in the city, and this surname is too minority, so I have to give up. In the end, only some "Zhang" banners were found, which were used to falsely call Zhang Miao.
Anyway, three thousand cavalry galloped up, smoke and dust billowed out, and whoever could see how many men and horses there were, it would be no problem to blempty several times.
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Hu Zhen is leading the main force of Wan Yu Xiliang to slaughter the front of Sun Jian's army in chaos at the mouth of the Yuyuan Valley.
The crane wing array blocked the snake formation at the mouth of the canyon valley, which was simply too cool. The thickness of the Crane Wing Formation's formation is insufficient and it is easy to be broken through, so there is no need to worry about it in this terrain. However, the output efficiency of the crane wing array can be brought into full play, and the snake heads of the long snake formation on the opposite side can be smashed again and again.
Sun Jian's sergeants were also relatively brave, and they tried to kill out of the valley again and again, but they were shot by the crossbow array of the Xiliang people, so that people turned into hedgehogs on their backs. Even if they rushed to one place, they were slashed and killed tragically because the number of people in front of them was too small.
The valley mouth of the entire Songshan Road has been filled with corpses and blood, and the blood flows through the valley, flowing down the slope of the valley and flowing into the farmland in the southern suburbs of Gushi County.
Hu Zhen was proud, and a rout of soldiers came to report behind him: "Captain, Gushi County has been attacked by Zhu Jun to contact the Kwantung princes!" Our army's granary has been taken away! ”
Hu Zhen rode on the horse, and suddenly shook his body, so that he was so hung and dizzy: "Bastard! That's impossible! Even if...... Who made you shout so loudly! Those who shake the hearts of the army are killed! ”
Hu Zhen drew his saber and slashed the defeated defender of the city on the spot. With a good conscience, he said that he was right, and even if there was such exaggerated bad news, he couldn't shout it out loud.
If it's in a military tent, the soldiers next to it can't hear it, so that's it. There is a field battle going on here, and there are so many people next to it, as soon as it spreads, the morale of the army will be over.
"Hurry up and divide your forces to recapture the Clan! Recapture the rations! The former army's crossbow array blocked Sun Jian, don't let him rush out! ”
Hu Zhen was still ordering, and the troops were also chaotically mobilized, and the smoke was already billowing behind him, and thousands of iron horsemen were galloping over.
The front of the vanguard is very open, with the words "Guan", "Zhao", "Zhu", "Zhang" and other banners. In fact, the tail of the horse is still dragging branches to scrape the ground, so as to scrape more dust to strengthen the army.
"Hanzhong Taishou Guan Yu is here!"
"City Gate Captain Zhu Jun is here!"
"Yidu is too guarded by Zhao Yun here!"
"Chen Liutai guards Zhang Miao here!"
"Zhu Jun has led the Kwantung princes into the customs!"
In the smoke and dust banners, thousands of people shouted in unison, which instantly frightened Hu Zhen. His troops were still in the chaotic process of changing from the front team to the rear team and the rear team to the front team, and they were backstabbed and charged by thousands of elite horsemen, and they were instantly routed.
"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! Evacuate! Evacuate! Hu Zhen stabbed indiscriminately, and was even a little confused, not knowing who he was fighting with.
"Hu Zhen is dead! Changshan Zhao Zilong is here! Zhao Yun rushed out of the dust, and a little cold came first, straight to Hu Zhen's throat.
"Poof-" Hu Zhen was directly stabbed the carotid artery, and then stabbed the cervical vertebrae, a human head was actually stabbed off by a spear, leaving only one side of the muscles and skin adhesion hanging on the shoulder, and the death was extremely miserable.
Zhao Yun assassinated Hu Zhen, and after piercing the three-layer crane wing array, he rushed from behind to the enemy's second row of crossbow formations and the first row of long shield formations, and then let the cavalry sweep across the two wings and slash the crossbowmen and shield men from behind.
In particular, the long shields of these shield soldiers are all inserted on the ground, guarding against the arrows fired by Sun Jianjun in the direction of the valley mouth on the south side. Before he could pull it out and insert it in his back, he was slashed by the iron cavalry behind him.
"Captain Hu has been killed! Run! It's Zhao Yun! Zhao Yun is here! Run! ”
Hu Zhen's troops were so frightened that the whole army was stunned, and they thought that the news that tens of thousands of cavalry had really backstabbed and charged and that the granaries had been seized also spread rapidly, and their morale collapsed in an instant.
"Hu Zhen was killed? The Devil was attacked? Zhu Jun's dog thief actually colluded with the Kanto rebel thief to enter the customs? ”
Lu Bu, who had already fought with the Sun family's father and son, Cheng Pu, and the ants and miscellaneous soldiers next to him, had killed more than 200 people, and was already covered in blood at the moment, of course, it was all the blood of the enemy, and he had to hate and prepare to retreat when he heard the bad news.
In the battle just now, Fan Chou was injured early, and was escorted by his own soldiers to retreat to the mountains on both sides, abandoned his horse and fled around the road, but escaped with his life in advance.
On the other side, the father and son of the Sun family and Cheng Pu fought Lu Bu three times so far, although because there were many people to protect him, and no general was killed by Lu Bu, but Cheng Pu was already exhausted, and the last trance was injured by Lu Bu Tong on the shoulder, and the halberd horizontal branch also cut Cheng Pu's arm, almost abolishing Cheng Pu's arm.
It's just that Lu Bu recruited to fight with all his strength for more than 200 times, although he injured two generals and killed nearly 100 soldiers, his strength was close to exhaustion, so even if there were only the Sun family's father and son left on the opposite side, he couldn't take it very well.
"Thief! Fight again next time! Lu Bu seemed to be vigorously swaying a halberd, forcing back the inexperienced Sun Ce, and then turned the red rabbit horse, and rushed along the low woods on the hillside on both sides, and actually went around the hillside to bury.
After galloping along the mountain for nearly 100 steps, the red rabbit horse had no horsepower and had to jump back to the valley, but at this time it was far away from the Sun family father and son. What stood in the way was nothing more than the miscellaneous soldiers of the two armies. Lu Bu did not distinguish between the enemy and me, the long halberd waved wildly, every swing would kill people, swing a bloody road, rush out of the valley to seize the road and escape.
As for the soldiers he and Fan Chou sent to ambush, it doesn't matter how much they can escape from the mountain, and Lu Bu has no time to take care of it.
"Where is Lu Bu going! Changshan Zhao Zilong is here! "Zhao Yun has been guarding the valley mouth back and forth to rush and kill, after all, there are thousands of crossbowmen and shield soldiers in the valley, even if you stand and let you cut it, you can cut it for a long time, so he intercepted Lu Bu at once.
"Death to those who stand in my way!" When Lu Bu grabbed the road and fled for his life, the potential explosion was also very terrifying, and the first halberd almost swung at Zhao Yun with the momentum of wind and thunder.
"Bell-" The ground sounded, the blades intersected and roared, and the humming aftersound was endless, echoing in the Songshan Valley, the left and the right room, all of which were frightened by the birds of the mountains and forests.
"Lu Bu has such great power!" Zhao Yun only felt that the blood in his chest was rebellious, and the barrel of the gun was slightly bent. However, Lu Bu's painting halberd seems to have long been deformed.
Zhao Yun was also worried that he was not Lu Bu's opponent, but after a few moves, he found that he could actually catch it, and it seemed that the first halberd was just a desperate gamble to survive and jump over the wall.
"Lu Buxiu go!" After finding out the situation of Lu Bu's exhaustion of stamina, Zhao Yun hurriedly took advantage of your weakness to chase and assassinate. Lu Bu blocked more than 20 times on the left and right, and finally escaped from Zhao Yun by frantically clamping the horse's belly and taking advantage of the speed advantage of the red rabbit horse.
"Zhao Yun! I remember you! Today, you take advantage of the danger of others, and next time I wait for my physical strength, I will definitely kill you under the horse within a hundred moves! In order to save face, Lu Bu did not forget to say a cruel word while fleeing for his life.
"Phew! That fiery red horse is so fast! If I had such a fast horse, I would have taken the opportunity to kill Lu Bu here today! Zhao Yun hated and hated to stop it, so he had to vent his anger with the belly of the Xiliang Army, which had not yet been completely defeated.