"What? Liu Bei actually took the initiative to bring the Youzhou army over? ”

In the Yali of Duchang County, Zhang Rao, who had just had lunch and was picking the shredded beef between his teeth with a branch, couldn't help but be quite surprised when he heard the military situation reported by his subordinates.

He is an old man in the Yellow Turban Army.

Don't look at the fact that he only became completely big last year and became a small canal marshal with a population of tens of thousands, but his "years of being a thief" is not short at all.

After dealing with the imperial court for more than four years, he has never seen the imperial generals who came to encircle and suppress him so actively. Even if it was Huangfu Song back then, he wouldn't be so killed. Did Liu Bei take the wrong medicine? Unjustly and without hatred, he actually took the initiative to attack?

If you want to talk about this Zhang Rao's qualifications, it is definitely well-informed.

As early as the first year of Zhongping, he was the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao/Qi Fangqu Shuai Bu has been/Jinan Marshal Zhang Bo/East Chaoyang Branch Marshal under his command!

It's just that Qu Shuai and the sub-marshal were captured and killed by Huangfu Song and his other Sima Fu Xie in the Battle of Cangting in the first year of Zhongping. After killing Bu Qushuai, Huangfu Song hurried to pick up Lu Zhi's class to kill the great sage and good teacher, and he didn't bother to greet Zhang Rao, a small fish and shrimp, so that he could escape with his life.

Don't look at this Zhang Rao, who is not well-known in romance, but in the official history, he has been fighting back and forth with Liu Bei for three years! From the beginning of 189 to the end of 191.

When Liu Bei was a secret servant, he was defeated by Zhang Rao's subordinates, and his wife was also killed by him. When Liu Bei was a lieutenant of the Tang Dynasty, he was still conquered by Zhang Rao, and he was seriously injured and almost died.

In history, Liu Bei finally relied on his eldest brother Gongsun Zan to lead the main force south to crusade against the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, and Liu Bei was the vanguard, so that he avenged the serious injury and murder of his wife, and beat Zhang Rao all the way back to Beihai. But even so, Zhang Rao, who was greatly injured, still turned over his hand and beat Beihai Xiangkong Rong all over the ground looking for teeth.

None of this is known to Zhang Rao and Liu Bei today, but fate is to arrange for them to fight again and make a decision.

It's just that this time Zhang Rao can't bully hundreds of people with tens of thousands of people. He only had more than 10,000 soldiers, and Liu Bei's first batch of troops to land also had 8,000 people.

Duchang County was looted by Zhang Rao just last month, when the Yellow Turban Army smashed all the city gates, and the city walls also collapsed in several places. It's just that the Yellow Turban Army never liked to organize conscription to attack the city, and if they had the people's strength, they would use it to plant fields at best.

Therefore, Duchang County was controlled by Zhang Rao's hands for more than 20 days, but it was not repaired at all, when Guan Yu led the army to kill the door, the gap in the city wall was still there, and the city gate could only be temporarily nailed with some messy wooden boards, and the defense was very doubtful.

To defend this kind of broken city, it is better to directly defend the camp that has been running for a month (the camp was set up outside the city when Zhang Rao attacked Duchang County at the beginning)

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"Heh, Zhang Rao is dead, and he actually chose to stick to the old village outside Duchang City? With no trenches or antlers, how much defense can there be in such a camp?

It is better to deploy defenses along the Weishui River and strive to attack our army halfway. Now it's good, the six thousand elite Yan soldiers have completed crossing the river, and Zhang Rao is afraid that he will only wait for the bid to be sold. ”

On the plain east of Duchang City, Guan Yu crossed the river with 6,000 troops and lined up in formation, and saw that Zhang Rao still gathered more than 10,000 people and horses in the camp tent and did not move, and he did not dare to come out at all, so he knew that Zhang Rao was gone.

Guan Yu didn't know that he was here to help his eldest brother end the fate of history and make a complete separation from the past.

After stroking his beard proudly for a while, Guan Yu waved the Qinglong knife and directly commanded the troops to attack the camp.

Two thousand crossbowmen took the lead, three thousand Danyang soldiers lined up to prepare, and one thousand cavalry stood by on both wings.

The Yellow Turban Army has few crossbowmen, but some bows and arrows, so it is obvious that the long-range firepower of the Han army is at a loss. Even if there was a sparse barracket fence as a cover, it was still obvious that the Han army could not be shot.

After seeing the copycat version of "Fury of the North Sea" for a quarter of an hour, Zhang Rao's archers suffered heavy losses, killing and wounding hundreds.

The rest of the soldiers abandoned the fence and shrank back, ready to bring the enemy closer, and then rush back to fight and wring up when the time was right.

So what is the right time?

For example, Zhang Rao felt that "the Han army flocked up to seize the camp gate and was blocked in the narrow opening" was the best time.

At this time, the Han army could not re-expand the formation, and it could not give full play to the advantage of the bow and crossbow, so it could only fight hand-to-hand with the Yellow Turban Army into a refueling tactic.

Everything really developed as Zhang Rao expected.

Seeing that the archers of the Yellow Turban Army collapsed and retreated, giving up the defensive wall, Guan Yu Qinglong waved his sword, and the crossbowmen shot the last three waves of arrows that were suppressed by the projectile, and then the three thousand Danyang soldiers rushed forward with a roar and rushed straight to the gate of the village.

"This is the moment! Let the Yellow Turban wrestlers all rush forward! Take back the walled gate! Zhang Rao also had no choice, he knew that it was impossible to escape today, Guan Yu had cavalry, he didn't, it would be a collapse to be caught up on the way to retreat, it was better to rely on the camp to fight.

He also instilled this truth with his grassroots officers before the war, and repeatedly emphasized the truth that "if you escape and be surrounded and suppressed by the Han cavalry, you will definitely die", so now the morale is still available, and the Yellow Turban wrestlers do not want to sit still, and they jump over the wall in a hurry.

However, as the Yellow Turban wrestlers under his command fought with the Danyang soldiers at the gate of the village, Zhang Rao soon found that the situation was not right.

He hadn't fought with the Danyang soldiers before, and the new assassin Shi Tao Qian in Xuzhou next door had just taken office, and the Qingzhou Yellow Turban had never fought with Tao Qian's Danyang soldiers.

"Why are these sword and shield soldiers so strong? My Yellow Turban Lux is also a ring-headed sword and wooden shield, and his armor is best suited for hand-to-hand combat, and his physique is strong, how can he be so in front of the Han general surnamed Guan...... So ......"

Zhang Rao looked at it and gasped, and he couldn't bear to say the words "vulnerable".

The Yellow Turban Lux is already the elite of the Yellow Turban Army's infantry, and the equipment of other ordinary infantry is not so good.

Even the ring-headed knife made of wrought iron cannot be used, only a wood knife and sickle; The shield may not be matched, at most a few long planks are randomly nailed together horizontally and vertically.

However, the Yellow Turban wrestlers with ring-headed knives and standard round shields were still like rolling soup and snow in front of the Danyang soldiers, and they did not block the Danyang soldiers at all, but the gap that was broken away at the gate of the village was getting bigger and bigger, and more and more Danyang soldiers were pouring into the camp.

Guan Yu's three hundred axe shield soldiers and five hundred hammer shield soldiers were the first to kill, jumping and slashing with shields, smashing with the combined inertia of gravity and weapon gravity, and the explosive power of the melee in a short period of time was simply terrifying.

The Yellow Turban wrestlers' single-layered wooden planks with horizontal spokes and a simple painted round shield had no defense against this kind of blow. Even if it is covered with leather, it is useless, not to mention that the yellow scarf is so poor that the shield cannot be covered with skin at all.

If you are hit by a sharp axe, you will be directly crushed,

Being hit by a hammer with a pure iron hammer may not be shattered, but many Yellow Turban wrestlers have directly broken their shield-holding arms.

The restraint attribute of the class of "blunt weapon smashing armor and breaking shield" burst out in an instant.

The bloody fight at the gate of the village lasted less than ten minutes, and the Yellow Turban Lux finally collapsed completely.

The most elite descendants of Zhang Rao's troops have collapsed, and the rest is a matter of time.

Seeing this, Zhang Rao sat on the ground, dizzy and dark, knowing that the capital he had saved in the past six months had been lost.

"Quick, let Liang Ming and Geng Ning go up for the time being! Tell them the time to put on a stick of incense, and the yellow turban Lux will be there for them when they clean up again! ”

Zhang Rao ordered again and again to dispatch a few younger brothers who had only been accepted in the last two months to send them to death, and he took the opportunity to collect the Yellow Turban wrestlers who had retreated.

also deserved his two new little brothers, and they actually believed in the boss's order, thinking that as long as Guan Yu had a stick of incense, someone would really come to replace them. Therefore, as a new force with abundant physical strength, they are willing to go to the top.

But the fact is that not long after Liang Ming Geng Ning withstood it, Zhang Rao hastily gathered hundreds of Yellow Turban Warriors, and quietly abandoned the army and fled.

He knew that only by leaving early and scattering would he not be caught up by Guan Yu's thousand cavalry, and Guan Yu would not be able to catch up.

This instinct to escape does not need to be taught, just like the British convoy in later generations would scatter their own fleet every time they heard that the Tirpitz had disappeared from the military port, and they would survive as much as they could. Tirpitz couldn't kill the entire fleet no matter how strong he was.

Liang Ming and Geng Ning's two little brothers stood up for a while, seeing that the brothers under them were about to collapse, and when they looked back, they found that Zhang Rao's Qu Shuai banner was still standing there, but the soldiers under it obviously did not look like elite Yellow Turban wrestlers.

"Zhang Rao ran away?"

"He sold us?"

Everyone was instantly stunned, and within a few minutes, the remaining seven or eight thousand still alive Yellow Turban Army all dispersed in a hurry and fled for their lives.

Guan Yu desperately captured the captives, but only captured less than 5,000 people, and the rest successfully escaped.

ran so simply, Guan Yu was the first time he had seen him.

"Didn't kill Zhang Rao? It's so hateful, this guy didn't buy it in the capital. After Guan Yu finished cleaning up the battlefield, he was sullen, even if it was an absolutely clean victory, he was still angry in his heart.

Tai Shi Ci on the side changed his method and said kind words to comfort: "Du Lieutenant, today is a big victory over the enemy, you should be happy, the prince ordered to break Zhang Rao within two days, turn back and fight Guan Hai again." The Governor only took one day to make a contribution, one day earlier than the request of the prince!

I don't think Zhang Rao is afraid, even if he runs away, it is nothing more than to go to Wusu or Changfeng, and since then he has been absorbed by them, only two or three thousand remnants, at least he can no longer fight our army with Guan Hai. ”

Under such repeated persuasion, Guan Yu's anger value was finally temporarily suppressed: "Okay, the eldest brother is just trying to deal with the stronger Guan Hai, for fear of being attacked on both sides, Zhang Rao ran away and ran away, this breath came out of Guan Hai!" Guan Hai is fleeing for his life this time, but he can't let him break through Weishui, I want him to be annihilated, or at least surrender! ”

With the elite soldiers of Youzhou who fought with Hu Ren and Zhang Chunxue, the Yellow Turban Army, which is not several times larger than the scale, would be too embarrassing if it took a lot of effort and fought back and forth!

Guan Yu's army spent a few hours returning to the lower secret, and then continued to strengthen the defensive line and fully prepare for battle.

Because the defeat of Zhang Rao was very fast, the follow-up preparation time was very sufficient, and in the afternoon two full days later, Guan Yu waited for Guan Hai, who had been scourging Donglai.

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Guan Hai came very quickly, because four days ago he got Zhang Rao's messenger to explore the horse, telling him that the Han army had seven or eight thousand people, landed in Weishui, attacked Xiami County, and cut off Guan Hai's back road back to Beihai.

Moreover, Zhang Rao's messenger also revealed a piece of news: the Han army's sea ships returned after unloading their troops.

Although Guan Hai is a Yellow Turban Army, he is also a local hero, and he is from the Beihai Guan family, so he still knows a few words, has read a little books, and knows a little history.

The return of the Han fleet means that there may not be enough ships to transport all the soldiers at one time, and there may be reinforcements in the future.

Combined with Liu Bei's "Liaodong Taishou" banner, the fool also knew that it was the soldiers and horses who crossed the sea from Liaodong to insert a pole. Everyone will calculate the distance, and the next wave of reinforcements may be in seven or eight days.

Therefore, Guan Hai rushed back almost non-stop, wanting to join forces with Zhang Rao as soon as possible and break through with the front and back.

Before going on the road, he also called his distant relatives to take care of it, but Guan Cheng didn't want to run, and he didn't want to risk taking the lead - people had a small boat that could at least escape back to Salmon Island and continue to be a pirate.

Guan Hai had no choice but to rely on himself.

In the end, he felt that it was better to give up some of the old and weak women and children, and take the young and strong first.

It's a big deal that the family members don't want it, and the Han army will never slaughter those people.

If only the young and strong soldiers could escape.

Rao is like this, relying on the two legs of the infantry alone, it took four or five days to rush from Donglai County to Xiami, and he also ran enough.

Except for the officers on horseback, everyone arrived in Weishui panting and weak.

As a result, when I arrived at the place, Zhang Rao's response did not exist at all!

Guan Hai almost wanted to scold the brew, this Zhang Rao really doesn't have a little righteousness!

He wanted to rest his troops and horses to fight with Liu Bei again, but if he calculated the days, he would be in a day or two at most, and the second batch of Han army reinforcements would arrive again!

Zhang Rao is not here, he has no hope of fighting seven or eight thousand Han troops alone, if he faces fifteen thousand, then what else to fight? Surrender directly!

"What should I do?" Guan Hai held his broadsword tightly, rode his horse in front of the formation to inspect the Han army's defense line along Weishui, and his expression became more solemn than ever.

The soldiers have traveled hundreds of miles in four days, and their physical strength has long been exhausted, and they will definitely not be able to fight this afternoon.

The more he thought about it, the more disappointed he became, the big knife that had killed Wang Chong, the commander of Beihai, and Han Yong, the commander of Donglai, last month, were all wet in anger.

"That's it, now only dozens of horses such as me have the physical strength to fight, and the rest of the foot soldiers are already tired, so it is better to try to challenge the Han army to fight generals. Although there is some child's play, if you can make three chapters of the law, and squeeze the well water of the commander of the Han army without violating the river water, if you want to come to the commander of the Han army, you don't want to die more......

If the Han army didn't dare, at least it would have hit their morale and give our army a night of repair. Thinking about their new morale, it is not good to immediately be embarrassed to fight at night. ”

Thinking of this, Guan Hai rode out of his horse alone, across the Weishui towards the opposite bank, and shouted with all his might: "Liu Bei! You and I have no grievances in the past and no enemies in the near future, you are the Taishou of Liaodong and actually violated the border of Qingzhou! But today I do not want to be your enemy, and I do not care! How dare you send someone to fight me!

If I win, you will withdraw from the siege, and I will return to Mount Tai, and from then on the well water will not interfere with the river water! If you have to fight me to the death, I'm afraid that most of your thousands of children will not return to their homeland! You are the Taishou of Liaodong, even if Qingzhou flattens your court, it will not be sealed to you! Han Jun Erlang, you also think clearly, don't die for Liu Bei, who is reckless and militaristic! ”

Guan Hai shouted at the top of his throat for a long time, and said everything he could think of that would hit the Han army's will to fight, anyway, it was a dead horse as a live horse doctor.

Think of it as a blow to the morale of the Han army!

However, what he didn't expect was that the Han army would dare to fight.

"Good! I will fight you! A low voice came from afar, it turned out that Guan Yu asked a small soldier to shake the oar, carrying a person, a horse and a knife, [ ] crossed the Weishui to fight Guan Hai alone.

"Actually succeeded?" Guan Hai was overjoyed.

He didn't know Guan Yu, nor did he know Guan Yu's prestige, plus Guan Hai was very confident in his martial arts. Especially Wang Chong, the commander of Beihai, and Han Yong, the commander of Donglai, who died under his knife two months ago, made him very angry, and it is not surprising that he was happy.

Anyway, the troops are tired from the road, as long as he beheads Guan Yu, even if Liu Bei plays tricks at that time, he will also hit the morale of the Han army, and this wave is not a loss.

"Good time!" Guan Hai rode his horse, and without waiting for Guan Yu to stand firm on the shore and ride on horseback, he met him at full speed.

Guan Yu didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly jumped on the horse's back as fast as he could, hurriedly dragged the Qinglong Knife, and hurriedly attacked it.

"The knife was dragged on the ground before it was steady, and you dared to rush at me?" Guan Hai looked more and more proud.

It's like seeing a sprinter who starts in a hurry before his shoelaces are even tied, how can this be a good result? You're not bad if you don't trip!

"Drink!" Guan Hai stabbed proudly, poured all his strength, and prepared to slash head-on.

However, just when he had already predicted Guan Yu's trajectory, he had also set up a posture of struggling to split, and was ready to wait for the two horses to be one to five feet apart before splitting with all his might.

Guan Yu actually shot ahead of time when the two horses were still two feet apart!

The two horses hedge at full speed, and the relative speed is not more than 200 miles per hour? The distance of rushing through five feet is only a short time difference of 0.03 seconds, and with the speed of human nerve signal transmission, there is no time to readjust the reaction.

"How could he pick up such a heavy knife with one hand?" This was the last thought that flashed through Guan Hai's mind, but unfortunately, this thought was not transmitted to his arm for his arm to respond.

Guan Yu dragged the knife meter, and with the inertia of the impact of the war horse, he pulled it out with one hand, and it was a half-moon slash, and the attack distance was more than five feet away from the two-handed knife!

"Poof-" A stream of blood arrows shot out from between Guan Hai's chest and abdomen, and Guan Hai's body continued to rush forward with the war horse for more than ten steps before it fell.

"Those who descend will not be killed!" Guan Yu returned to Guan Hai's body and wiped the knife on Guan Hai's cloak.

Guan Yu knew that Brother Bo Yaxian was picking up the eldest brother the day before yesterday, so he packed up Guan Hai early, and when the second batch of reinforcements arrived, he immediately went to attack the thief leader Wusu and rescue Taishan County.

Guan Yu didn't know what the dying sick man named Zhuge Jue had to save, but since the eldest brother listened to the military advisor, let's carry it out.