Chapter 6: Three Thousand Cavalry

Zhang Guang put forward such a gamble, Liu Bei was not in a hurry to leave Chen Liucheng, Liu Bei and Guan Yu helped Zhang Guang move a cart of grain to the big courtyard, turned around and Guan Yu carried Zhang Fei back to his camp.

As for Guan Yu and the 100 cavalry soldiers, Zhang Guang proposed that after the three brothers joined forces to fight Lu Bu, Guan Yu would wait for him outside the city gate with the 100 cavalry soldiers.

"Big brother, what is the origin of Zhang Guang? Why was he so sure that Lu Bu would lead his troops to attack Chen Liucheng? How did you know that our three brothers would join forces to fight against Lu Bu? ”

"As I said, Zhang Guang is not an ordinary person, try not to offend him in the future, I hope that his plan can fall through this time, so that our three brothers have Zhang Guang as a military advisor, and we don't have to run around like headless flies in the future."

"Big brother, what if we lose? Isn't that to give him a hundred elite cavalry soldiers for nothing? Moreover, if he really wins, a hundred elite cavalry, in a month, he will bring three thousand elite cavalry, such a capable man, if he becomes someone else's adviser in the future, he will definitely become a fierce rival of the eldest brother in the future, or, at that time, if he wins, I will kill him? ”

"Don't, I, Liu Bei, am a benevolent and righteous gentleman, and I must not kill him because I can't get it!"

Liu Guanzhang and the three of them, waiting in the camp, that is, for several days, the battle reports from the front came every day, all about the Changsha Taishou Sun Jian led the army to fight bloodily in front of the Tiger Prison Pass to resist the attack on the Xiliang army.

"General Liu, it's not good!"

"What's wrong? Panic a hammer, come on, what's going on? ”

Zhang Fei has been holding back in the camp for many days, holding back the fire in his belly, and now, all vented on the scouts who came to report.

"That, Dong Zhuo's subordinate Hu Zhen led the army to attack Sun Jian's department, Sun Jian lost the Tiger Prison Pass and Baima Village, and suffered heavy casualties, Dong Zhuo personally led most of the Xiliang army to attack Chen Liu, and Lu Bu was calling for battle under the city."

"Lu Bu, a slave with three surnames, look how I cut him off the horse!"

Zhang Fei thought that the second brother Guan Yu had killed Huaxiong in one round before, and made a great contribution to the eldest brother, and when he heard Lu Bu calling for a battle under the city, he had drilled the eight-zhang snake spear, and the cavalry rushed out of the camp.

"Guan Yu, hurry, intercept the third brother, don't let him fight, Lu Bu is fierce, the third brother must not fight, once the third brother really goes out of the city to fight Lu Bu, we have to press the formation in a set, so, hurry, don't let the third brother out of the city, as long as we don't join forces to fight Lu Bu, you don't have to lead a hundred cavalry to help Zhang Guang, in another half a month, Zhang Guang will naturally lose."

"Yes!" Guan Yu hurriedly rode after him, and Liu Bei followed.

Zhang Fei's speed is also extremely fast, when the flying horse rushed to the gate of Chenliu City, Yuan Shao and others on the city wall were powerless because of Lu Bu's call, Fang Yue, a famous general under Wang Kuang of Hanoi, and Mu Shun, a general of Zhang Yang's department who was too guarded by Shangdang, had been beheaded by Lu Bu, and no one dared to go out of the city to meet Lu Bu.

"Quick, it's General Zhang Yide, General Liu's subordinates, quickly open the city gate and let General Zhang go out of the city to fight Lu Bu." Yuan Shao saw Zhang Fei from a distance, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers under him to open the city gate.

When Guan Yu ran to the city gate, the city gate was slowly closing, Guan Yu shouted to Yuan Shao and the others on the city wall: "Hey, do you know where my third brother Zhang Fei went?" ”

The people on the city wall were worried that Liu Guan and Zhang would hold a grudge, and no one was willing to reply, only Cao Cao, who was lying on the wall watching Guan Yu and Lu Bu fight, heard the voice, and quickly turned around and shouted to Guan Yu and Liu Bei, who were rushing towards the city gate.

"Brother Xuande, your third brother Zhang Fei was released by Yuan Shaomeng to fight against Lu Bu!"

"you, what kind of alliance leader, I'll pick you Yuan Shao first, and then go outside the city to save the third brother!" Guan Yu said that he was going to go to the city wall to kill Yuan Shao, but was stopped by Liu Bei.

"Second brother, third brother is definitely not Lu Bu's opponent, quick, follow me out of the city and join forces to fight Lu Bu!"

Sanying fought against Lu Bu, and the battle was dark, and finally Lu Bu fled without a fight.

"Second brother, third brother, Zhang Guangshi is a god, how can he calculate that we will definitely have to go out of the city to join forces with Lu Bu?"

Are the three brothers of Liu Guan and Zhang stationed outside the city, and they also ignored the fact that the Eighteenth Route Allied Army took advantage of the victory to pursue and fight the Xiliang Army stationed outside the city, and at this time, Zhang Fei also sobered up, knowing that because of his recklessness, the eldest brother Liu Bei had to let the second brother Guan Yu take a hundred cavalry soldiers to help Zhang Guang, and he was regretting it.

"Second brother, you quickly select a hundred elite cavalry soldiers and wait for Zhang Guang outside this city gate, third brother, lead the rest of the soldiers with me to help the allies attack Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army."

Guan Yu led a hundred cavalry elite soldiers, waited outside the city until it was almost dark, Dong Zhuo's soldiers were defeated and fled to Luoyang, Zhang Guangcai came to the outside of the city to meet Guan Yu, on his back was the pinnacle of Yan Liang's father's work - double section robbery, and beside him was a thin horse that looked much better, and the thin horse carried two big bags on his back.

"Zhang Guang, where are you taking us?" Guan Yu waited for most of the day, he was already impatient, and he was still very hungry.

"Don't worry, eat first, everyone, General Liu has handed you over to me, in the future, you will have to fight side by side with me, follow me, there is nothing else, just eat well, come, these two big bags are filled with bread and wheat, cakes, you eat them separately, wheat, feed them to the war horses!"

The hundred cavalry elite soldiers, who had been hungry for most of the day, rushed up as soon as they heard that they had eaten, took the bread and began to gobble it up, and no one paid attention to what Zhang Guang said.

"Set off with me, since you are full, cheer up, don't lose your General Guan's face, drive!"

After treating people and eating enough, Zhang Guang gave an order, took the lead in setting off, looking at the direction, it should be the direction of Tiger Prison Pass, Guan Yu also didn't want himself and the hundred cavalry elite soldiers to be despised by Zhang Guang, and led the hundred cavalry elite soldiers to follow closely, and he did not lag much behind.

Zhang Guang and Guan Yu led their troops to set off less than an hour, and Cao Cao and Cao Ren also led thousands of cavalry out of the city, in the same direction as Zhang Guang and others.

In front of the Tiger Prison Pass, it was already slightly dark, and Sun Jian's Jiangdong Army camp, Sun Jian, Sun Ce, Huang Gai and others were scolding.

"Yuan Shao, what kind of alliance leader is this? Ignoring the bloody battle of our army before, now Dong Zhuo's subordinate Lu Bu was defeated by the three brothers of Liu Xuandu, the Xiliang army was defeated, retreated to Luoyang, and fled west to Chang'an overnight. ”

Sun Jian's son Sun Ce, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, was dressed in the camp tent, and Huang Gai and other generals were also there You and I scolded Yuan Shao, who was far away in Chen Liucheng, for being incomplete.

"Alas, if I knew this, it would be better to choose Liu Xuande as the leader of the alliance, although he doesn't have many elite soldiers, but with their three brothers taking the lead, we would have already attacked Luoyang!" Sun Jian also regretted it.

"Father, when the princes of the Eighteen Towns first started the alliance, Yuan Shao said that whoever is the first to enter Luoyang will get the position of Xiangguo and all the food and other things in Luoyang City, and Yuan Shao will reward ten thousand gold, should we hurry up and lead the army into the city?" Sun Ce suggested.

"This matter, don't rush for the time being, first send someone to Luoyang City to find out."

"Report, General Sun, there is a general outside the camp who claims to be Guan Yu asking to see you!" There was a report of the guards entering the tent.

"Guan Yu? Liu Xuande's second brother? General Guan is a real famous general, hurry, hurry, please! Everyone, come with me to greet you! ”

Sun Jian and the others came out of the tent, and Guan Yu happened to come to the tent, followed by a young man with strong body and clear eyebrows.

"General Guan, there is warm wine to kill Huaxiong in the front, and there are three heroes to fight Lu Bu in the back, admire, Sun admires it very much, please, follow me into the account, good wine waits!" Sun Jian didn't ask Guan Yu what he was going to do when he came to him, he first entered the account and drank wine.

"General Sun, the military situation is urgent, let's discuss it directly outside the account!" Zhang Guang said on the side.

"Who is this?"

"This is General Zhang Guang, my eldest brother's military advisor and cavalry general!" Guan Yu introduced!

"Cavalry? Don't you have only a thousand soldiers in total? Where did the cavalry come from? Sun Jian was puzzled.

"General Sun, look!" Zhang Guang pointed to the hillside more than ten miles away and said.

Sun Jian raised his eyes and looked in the direction of Zhang Guang's point, under the faint sky, there were many fires lit up on the hillside, and the sky was full of dust after the horse galloped, and there were people everywhere, but the distance was far away, and the sky was still bright, so I couldn't see it clearly.

"What is this?"

"General Sun, this is the 10,000 cavalry that Liu Biao, the assassin of Jingzhou, lent to my family General Liu, General Liu had long expected that after Dong Zhuo returned to Luoyang, he would definitely flee west to Chang'an overnight, and specially ordered me and General Guan to come to reinforce General Sun." Zhang Guang is talking about the righteousness of Ling Ran.

"Liu Xuande is the real hero of the world, if Yuan Shao could be one-tenth of Liu Xuande, Dong Zhuo would have died without a place to be buried, but, General Zhang, now my Jiangdong Army has suffered heavy casualties, and there are less than 3,000 cavalry left, plus your 10,000 cavalry, you can't beat Dong Zhuo!"

"General Sun, you see that we arrange it like this, is it okay? You will take your 3,000 cavalry and General Guan away, we will lead the cavalry to pursue Dong Thief, you lead the rest of your Jiangdong army, enter the Luoyang Palace, and see if the Son of Heaven and the Jade Seal are still in the palace, how about it? As for Yuan Shao's side, if General Sun is blamed for stealing the palace without permission afterwards, we will only help General Sun explain! ”

Sun Jian first heard that Zhang Guang wanted his 3,000 cavalry, and he was a little unhappy, but when he heard it, Zhang Guang took the initiative to give himself the opportunity to enter Luoyang City first, and couldn't help but be overjoyed!

"Okay, since General Zhang and General Guan are so aware of the righteousness and are willing to go after and kill Dong Thief, my three thousand cavalry are two, Huang Gai, quickly gather all the cavalry to obey the order!"

The Jiangdong Army was also strictly disciplined, and it didn't take long for Zhang Guang and Guan Yu to run back to the hillside with 3,000 Jiangdong Army cavalry and join their 100 elite cavalry.

"Quick, put out the fire, put away the clothes on the stick, take off the branches on the horse's tail, and follow me to pursue the Dong thief!"

More than 3,000 cavalry chased in the direction of Chang'an.

"Zhang Guang, we obviously only have 100 elite cavalry, why do you want to set up a maze and make Sun Jian mistakenly think that we have 10,000 cavalry?"

"General Guan, if I say that we only have 100 elite cavalry, do you think Sun Jian will hand over his 3,000 cavalry to me?"

"However, now that we only have 3,000 cavalry, how can we pursue Dong Thief?"

"Who said that you really wanted to hunt down Dong Zhuo? General Guan listened to the order and chased all the way to Dong Zhuo's Xiliang army, remember not to fight head-on with the Xiliang army, as long as you bluff and scare Dong Zhuo and the others! ”

"If that's the case, how can we explain to Sun Jian and the others after we go back?"

"I have my own way!"

Not long after Zhang Guang and Guan Yu left, Cao Cao took 4,000 cavalry and also came to the front of the Tiger Prison Pass, leaving him with only Sun Jian's empty camp, according to the scout's report, Sun Jian had already led the army into Luoyang City.

"Alas, I was still a step late, and ordered all the soldiers to camp on the spot and wait for Yuan Shao and others to come!"

"Big brother, didn't you say that you brought us to take over Sun Jian's 3,000 cavalry? Why don't you chase into Luoyang City, but wait for Yuan Shao here? Cao Ren, who had been following Cao Cao, asked.

"One step late, the opportunity has been lost, and Luoyang cannot be entered, otherwise, if Dong Zhuo does not take away the heirloom jade seal and other things, there will be no way to explain to the other princes, let Sun Jian explain alone!"

After Yuan Shao and the princes of Zhongzhen arrived in Luoyang City, because it was rumored that Sun Jian had obtained the imperial jade seal of Emperor Han Xian after entering Luoyang City, Yuan Shao and Sun Jian almost fought in the dilapidated palace hall.

In the end, Sun Jian put his sword against Yuan Shao's neck, and only then did Yuan Shao make it clear: The jade seal of the country was taken away by Dong thieves, and Sun Jian did not get the jade seal!

Sun Jian led the Jiangdong Army and was the first to leave Luoyang and prepare to return to Jiangdong.

Sun Jian had just left, Guan Yu was covered in blood and broke into the main hall, followed by Liu Bei and Zhang Fei.

Guan Yu's Green Dragon Glaive Knife plunged straight into the ground and stabbed into the ground for several inches.

"Haha, I heard that General Guan led his troops to pursue Dong Thief, this is a big victory and a triumphant return?" Yuan Shao saw Guan Yu and laughed when he saw Guan Yu like a lost dog.

"I didn't win!" Guan Yu said: "I was defeated, and I was defeated very badly!"

"I led my troops to chase and kill Dong Thief in the starry night, but I was ambushed by Lu Bu in Xingyang, and more than half of the infantry cavalry were killed and wounded, if it wasn't for my war horse running fast, I would have died in Xingyang!"

"General Guan pursued and killed Dong Thief alone, although he was defeated, he was still glorious!" Yuan Shao said.

"Really?"

Guan Yu pulled out the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife on the ground and smashed the already dilapidated hall all over the place, roaring again and again.

"Puff erections, don't conspire with each other!"

"Guan Yu, what do you mean by that?" Yuan Shuyin said with a smile.

Liu Bei was about to step forward to speak for Guan Yu, Cao Cao waved his hand and pressed Liu Bei's shoulder, stepped forward, and spoke for Guan Yu.

"Yuan Shao, Yuan Alliance Master, since I waited for the alliance, there have been at least three chances to kill Dong Thief, but you gave up alive."

"This time, General Guan went deep alone and chased and killed Dong Thief, if you Yuan Shao led the allied forces to follow up later, after Lu Bu ambushed once, he would definitely not be ambushed again, and our allies could hunt down Dong Thief before he fled into Chang'an, but, forget it, I don't bother to talk to you more, just like General Guan said, don't conspire with each other, Xuande, General Guan, General Zhang, let's go!"

Cao Cao, Liu Guanzhang and others left together, and the alliance of the princes of the eighteen towns dispersed.

According to Zhang Guang's words, Liu Guan and Zhang were exaggerating their losses in the main hall and scolding Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, Zhang Guang returned to Chenliu with more than 3,000 cavalry.

The princes of the eighteen towns all led their troops to Luoyang City, Chen Liucheng was empty of a single soldier, and Zhang Guang led the cavalry into his own house, which did not cause any riots.