A large-scale army is no better than a small number of soldiers and horses, and there are many things to consider, such as the route of the march, the location of the camp, the water source, and so on. Of course, there are simple ways to do it, and framing A used to be a way.

The tooth soldiers had their own staff office, and so did the military department, and this time they joined forces and made a marching plan overnight, arranging for the troops to march towards Lintong. When the army was marching out, Chen Cheng asked Zhao Yundao in private: "Why are you staying to defend the city again this time?" In the past, you always asked to lead troops into battle. ”

Zhao Yun said: "This time, that time. ”

After saying that, he didn't say anything more. Chen Cheng was a little moved in his heart, stepped forward and hammered him on the chest, and said with a smile: "Then wait for my good news, and when Dong Zhuo is defeated, we can all have a good rest for a few days." ”

By the time Chen Cheng arrived at Lintong, half of the army had already arrived here. Seeing him rushing over, Yang Qiu immediately rode over and reported: "Lord, we have captured a few enemy rangers, and through torture, we learned that Dong Zhuojun's vanguard did not come, but retreated to Xiaqi!" ”

"Went back?"

Chen Cheng asked, "Could it be that Dong Zhuo doesn't want to fight us anymore?" ”

The terrain in Guanzhong is open and there are many cities, if you don't want to fight a decisive battle, the cities can only be gnawed slowly.

"I heard that Dong Zhuo's army does not have much grain and grass, so he divided his troops and copied all over the place, and he is still constantly recruiting young and strong."

Chen Cheng scolded secretly, now at this time, the people are still forcibly recruited, I really plan to do it this year! Before, Lu Bu had the idea of deciding the outcome of a battle, so he pulled the army out along Weishui, and then lost a clean battle in the decisive battle. Now Dong Zhuo is doing the opposite, and he didn't gather the soldiers and horses together, is this planning to confront each other for a long time?

Fa Zheng, who was following him, suddenly spoke: "I'm afraid this is Dong Zhuo's plan!" ”

"Huh?" Chen Cheng turned his head and asked, "What do you mean by filial piety?" ”

Fa Zhengdao: "When the lord was in Liangzhou, he cherished the people, and everyone in Guanzhong knew it, and it was impossible for Dong Zhuo not to know." The art of war is cloudy: love the people, but annoying. He is doing this now, I am afraid that he wants to force the lord to go and attack Xiaqi. When our army is under the fortified city, he will lead his troops to pounce from the rear! ”

Would Dong Zhuo think like this? Chen Cheng thought for a while and said, "Dong Zhuo will only disperse the forces in his hands if he does this, what if we bypass Xiaqi?" ”

"If our army bypasses Xiatai, it will be deep in the enemy's encirclement. If you can't defeat the enemy army in a short time, you will be in danger of being attacked from the belly. ”

Yang Qiu had a different opinion and retorted loudly: "There are many cavalry in our army, and if the situation is not right, you can calmly retreat." Guanzhong is not a place like Chencang, how can we be surrounded? ”

Fa Zhengdao: "Of course, we can rely on the cavalry to come and go like the wind, but in this way, I am afraid that half of the pass will be turned into scorched earth!" What the lord wants is an intact Guanzhong, not a Guanzhong that has been burned and looted. ”

"Are you saying that Dong Zhuo took half of the people in Guanzhong as hostages and forced us to go to the place he prepared for a decisive battle? This strategy is good, but it may not be useful. We can ignore the rest of the world and concentrate our forces to eat his men and horses one by one! ”

Fa Zheng shook his head and said; "Since Dong Zhuo has scattered all the soldiers and horses, if we concentrate the soldiers and horses, won't he take the opportunity to capture the rest of Sanfu? Maybe they will go all the way to Chencang to cut off the connection between Xiliang and Guanzhong. Dong Zhuojiu has a lot of old stories in Liangzhou, and he may be able to fan some people to launch a rebellion. ”

Han Sui on the side heard this, and he hated it in his heart, but he put on a worried look on his face. But everyone present looked at him together, and the meaning was self-evident.

Chen Cheng smiled: "Ideas are always good, but they must be implemented." Since Dong Zhuo dares to divide the troops, won't we divide the troops? ”

It is the norm for hundreds of thousands of troops to be separated, but it is only a few cases when they are gathered together. Before, Lu Bu and Dong Zhuo fought in the eastern part of Guanzhong, and both sides were divided into multiple roads, and they fought each other in the dark. It's actually nothing surprising that Dong Zhuo is doing this now, it's just that he doesn't care about the lives and deaths of the people in Guanzhong, but Chen Cheng has to think about some post-war things.

"We are now divided into three routes, General Yang Qiu is on the left and captures Zuo Fengyi; General Cheng Yi is on the right flank, and I am leading the Chinese army," Chen Cheng said: "The enemy's combat effectiveness is not as good as ours, no matter what plan he has, let's just push it over!" ”

He put Lü Bu under house arrest in Chang'an City, and then handed over Lü Bu's headquarters to Zhang Liao, Gao Shun and others to lead, but they were separated and assigned to Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi. In this way, he is not afraid that Lu Bu will have any thoughts that he shouldn't have.

After the soldiers and horses on the left and right left, Fa Zheng saw that there were no others on the side in the big tent, and said: "Since Dong Zhuo has divided his troops, why doesn't the lord send a group of soldiers and horses to make a detour to capture Linjin City?" If the connection between the state and Guanzhong is severed, the enemy army will naturally be in chaos! ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Don't be so troublesome, I have divided two lines of soldiers and horses, and now the main force of the Chinese army is only 50,000 people." If Dong Zhuo still has a little ambition, he will definitely not let go of this opportunity. Let's go straight to Xia Tai and wait for a decisive battle with him. As long as Dong Zhuo's main force is broken, everything else is easy to say. ”

Fa Zheng suddenly realized, "People say that the lord uses soldiers, and they are unpredictable, but when I see it today, it is really so!" ”

There was a look of admiration on his face, and then he asked: "I heard that Dong Zhuo has a large number of soldiers and horses, if he transfers all the main forces, then can we fight?" ”

Chen Cheng said: "Dong Zhuo's main force is just his old department and some Hun cavalry, and most of the other soldiers and horses are temporarily requisitioned in Bingzhou and Guanzhong, not only are the equipment not sophisticated enough, but also the upper and lower can not be concentric, how can we block the hard work of our army?" This is a must to break Dong Zhuo! ”

After a day of repairs in Lintong, Chen Cheng and his soldiers and other troops continued to march east along Weishui, until they reached the vicinity of Xiaqicheng. Xiatai is one of the earliest three counties in China, as early as the time of Qin Wugong, it has appeared. Here, like the rest of Guanzhong, the terrain is flat and the land is fertile, which is suitable for cavalry.

Chen Cheng made Ma Teng and his son lead the Anding County soldiers to expel Dong Zhuojun's rangers, and then set up the camp twenty miles west of Xiaqi. Subsequently, while ordering his soldiers to fortify the camp, he sent a large number of cavalry to attack the enemy's food convoys and plunder convoys.

When the Xiliang army arrived near Xiatai City, Hu Zhen, the general of Dong Zhuojun, who was guarding Xiaqi, had already sent a probe horse, and the enemy quickly passed the news to Huayin. Dong Zhuo was overjoyed after receiving the news from Hu Zhen, and said to Li Ru: "Then Chen Cheng really hit the trick and divided half of the soldiers and horses, and now there are only half of the people left in his hands!" ”

Li Ru reminded; "Don't be careless, Chen Cheng first subdued Duan Xuan, and then broke Lu Bu, his ability to use soldiers, the strength of his soldiers and horses, don't ask! Although our army now has the advantage of strength, it may not be able to win easily. ”

Dong Zhuo laughed and said, "Lu Bu, Piffle! Where is the reason to put together an army of 100,000? I don't even understand the reason for dividing the army into the front army, the rear army, the left army, the middle army, and the right army, what kind of general is it? He should have been defeated! ”

Li Ruxin said: It makes sense for Lu Bu to put the army together, those soldiers who are forcibly recruited are not strictly guarded, and it is easy to escape. But such a problem is also in the army under the command of the lord!

He said to Dong Zhuo again: "My lord, what if Chen Cheng sees that our army is strong and leads his troops to withdraw to Chang'an?" Chang'an City is strong and thick, and it will not be able to be defeated in a while! ”

Dong Zhuo had a smile on his face, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to Li Ru, and said with a smile: "Wen You, look, what is this?" ”

Li Ru took it and looked at it, and said in surprise: "Han Wenyue actually set up such a plan? ”

Dong Zhuo laughed and said in high spirits: "When we take Guanzhong and then march to Xiliang, then we will have three territories!" He Jin is no longer good now, this world, after all, is still ours! ”

Li Ru pinched the letter, but there was an ominous feeling in his heart, "Although Han Sui is known as the Yellow River Jiuqu, he has been repeatedly frustrated at the hands of Chen Wenzheng and Yan Bodao, and his plan is ........."

Shaking his head, Li Ru said worriedly: "I'm afraid it's useless!" ”

Dong Zhuo said disapprenously: "Why don't I know what Wen You said? But as long as Han Sui launches in Chang'an City, no matter whether it succeeds or not, the Xiliang army will inevitably be in turmoil, and if we take advantage of the situation to launch an attack, we will definitely be able to win a complete victory! Han Sui is used to killing his boss, from Bian Zhang to the kingdom, how many have they died? One more Chen Cheng, it's not surprising! ”

Li Ru still couldn't let go, but when he saw Dong Zhuo full of ambition, he could only suppress his worries in his heart.

Outside the city, Chen Cheng led a hundred guards and soldiers to wander slowly on the plain. After two days of construction, the camp had taken shape, and there was no need for him to sit in the camp, so he took the cavalry out to observe the nearby terrain. Although the plug-in allows him to see the situation around him for forty miles, he still has to personally inspect the terrain to be completely assured.

There are no mountains and hills in the Guanzhong Plain, but there are quite a few woods and rivers, which are not conducive to the movement of cavalry. Knowing in advance which places will pass and which will slow you down can help somewhat.

Because of the ravages of Lu Bujun and Dong Zhuojun, many of the surrounding villages have been dilapidated. In many villages, there are still traces of fire, and some of the corpses along the road have begun to decompose, but no one has stopped them. The seedlings in the fields have been cut down by the passing army and fed to the horses, and the originally neat fields are covered with the marks of horses' hooves.

This is the hinterland of Guanzhong, which is already in this dilapidated state, so further east, the situation will only get worse. Chen Cheng stared at the dozens of corpses in a ravine for a while, sighed softly, and read: "The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles, this is the situation that is being said." ”

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