Chapter 44: The Battle for Unification (2)

Time back to the time before Wang Fan's team was completely wiped out, and the time was about to end, and the time was about to come, the camp of Liu Beijun on the north bank of the Yangtze River was still brightly lit, the figure was shaking, and there was no sign of retreat, at least two hundred Dong Zhuojun reconnaissance boats were shuttling on the river, closely monitoring Liu Beijun's movements, but from the evening monitoring to the present, Liu Beijun still did not find any movements.

The moon has climbed overhead, four black shadows quietly touched the riverside, and shook the torches desperately at Dong Zhuojun's reconnaissance ship on the river, their abnormal behavior was quickly discovered by Dong Zhuojun's reconnaissance boat, and the five reconnaissance ships quickly opened their sails and sailed towards the four black shadows like arrows from the string, when they were about to reach the riverbank, the four reconnaissance boats stopped, and the bow was aimed at the four black shadows, and the other reconnaissance boat approached the river bank under the cover of his companions, and one of the people on the boat shouted to the four black shadows: "Who are you?" Why signal to us? ”

"Brothers, we are our own people, and we are all soldiers under General Li Yan." One of the black shadows shouted: "Our clipper was blown into Chaohu Lake because of a strong wind on the way to reinforce the main force, and our clipper was also destroyed. ”

Before the words fell, the Dong Zhuojun reconnaissance ship had already docked quickly, and after checking that the waist plate was correct, the small boat immediately sailed to the south shore after carrying the four soldiers. In a moment, more than ten reconnaissance boats in the river leaned to the north bank, and dozens of Dong Zhuojun soldiers jumped on the river bank and quickly rushed to Liu Beijun's camp, and in a moment, the dozens of Dong Zhuojun soldiers rushed back to the river bank, shouting frantically while running, "The enemy has withdrawn, the enemy has withdrawn, and the camp is empty!" Another soldier held a papier-mΓ’chΓ© dummy in his hand, swaying and shouting: "The people in the camp are papier-mΓ’chΓ© dummies, blown by the river wind, so it looks like a real person is moving!" ”

Half an hour later, the camp of Dong Zhuo's army on the south bank of the Yangtze River suddenly commotioned, all the soldiers were pulled out of the warm quilt by the leading general, wearing armor to receive weapons, and lined up in the camp, and Dong Zhuo's naval warships had been dispatched during this period, tens of thousands of large and small warships poured out from the dock and the harbor, so dense that they almost blocked the river, all put down the boarding board on the riverside, let the army board, the lights on the ship and the torches in the hands of the soldiers, reflected the night sky like day.

In the main account of Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Legion, the four soldiers of Wang Fan's squad were pointing out the road for Liu Beijun's evacuation to Lu Su and others on the sand table, the path was very hidden, Dong Zhuojun's sand table was not there, it all relied on the four soldiers to draw on the sand table, after listening to the four soldiers, Lu Su patted his forehead and sighed, if it wasn't for the mistake of Wang Fan's team who inadvertently discovered Liu Beijun's movements, then Liu Beijun would have swaggered and fled under Dong Zhuojun's nose.

"Since this road is not on the sand table of our army, it must be very narrow, and it is impossible for Liu Beijun to completely take this road to evacuate the battlefield." Pang Tong analyzed: "If Pang Tong's analysis is good, Liu Beijun's main force must be to evacuate on the main road, which can not only quickly withdraw the army, but also distract our army's attention. ”

"Metropolitan Governor, please give the last general 5,000 men and horses to rob the enemy's baggage, and the Metropolitan Governor will lead the whole army to take the road to pursue and kill Liu Bei, and he will win a great victory." Wei Yan immediately asked Lu Su for battle, and Lu Su was about to agree, but Sima Yi waved his hand and said, "The Metropolitan Governor, please wait a while, and let the villain ask a few more words." ”

"Where did you scuttle the windwrecked ship? And there again met the enemy's open-path sappers? Also, where the rest of you are ambushing? Sima Yi asked the four soldiers of Wang Fan's team: "Please indicate the location on the sand table." When the four soldiers of Wang Fan's squad pointed out a few locations, Sima Yi asked Ming the hydrological situation of the site where Wang Fan's squad scuttled the ship, and immediately hugged his fist to Lu Su and said: "Governor, Sima Yi has a plan to break the enemy's army." Sima Yi also figured it out, now that Liu Beijun and Cao Cao's army are gone, they can no longer compete with the all-out attack on Dong Zhuojun, instead of risking Zhuge Liang to be found by the cunning and vicious father-in-law who finds himself a thief and self-respecting, it is better to use all his skills to make contributions in the next unification war, lay a good foundation for his future political future, and wait for the father-in-law who is over sixty years old to die, and then make up his mind from his son.

"Zhong Da's plan is out?" Lu Su hurriedly asked, and at the same time, Lu Su was also a little strange in his heart, usually Sima Yi can't beat a fart with three nails, when he joins the army, he almost occupies the pit and doesn't, how can he take the initiative to contribute today?

"The fastest journey from Misukou to Hefei is ten days." Sima Yi's eyes sparkled, and he said calmly: "Even if Liu Beijun still has food and logistics baggage teams to deal with, it will take five to six days to supply food to Liu Beijun's main force, this point, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang know better than anyone else, so they did everything possible to protect the baggage vehicles and quietly evacuated the battlefield, and our army went to chase separately, at most we could only kill the enemy's rear troops, and there was still the danger of ambush." Therefore, our army should give up the pursuit by land, take the water route and go straight to Chaohu Lake, land at the site where Wang Fan's team scuttled the clipper, intercept the enemy's baggage team, and if the baggage team is attacked, Liu Beijun will definitely do his best to save it, and our army can take the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with it. If the enemy does not save the baggage team, and our army pursues and kills Liu Beijun, who has no military rations, will there be no reason to be invincible? ”

As soon as Sima Yi's plan came out, everyone was shocked, as if they didn't know each other, looking at Sima Yi, who usually only uses turtle tactics to defend to the death, and secretly said in their hearts: "It turns out that this little ghost who is greedy for life and afraid of death will also attack?" Only Pang Tong was unconvinced and said: "Even if our navy can land at the site where Wang Fan's team scuttled the clipper, but now that the time comes, is it too late to intercept it now?" ”

"Just in time." Sima Yi said calmly: "Don't forget, Wang Fan's team is still ambushed on both sides of the path, and they will find ways to delay the enemy's speed. ”

"What are you kidding?" Pang Tong laughed, "There are less than seventy people left in Wang Fan's team, even if the path is narrow, you can use fire attack or rocks to block the road, delay for a while, but with less than seventy people, do they dare to intercept tens of thousands of enemy troops?" That's a moth to a fire, killing itself. ”

"They dare." Sima Yi looked solemn and said word by word: "Because Wang Fan is a veteran of Xiliang who has been in the army for more than ten years, although the military discipline of the old army of Xiliang is the most corrupt in our army, but their loyalty to my father-in-law is the most loyal in our army, I bet that they dare to use their lives to buy a little time for the main force of our army." ”

"Zhongda, do you dare to make a military order? Guarantee that our army will be able to stop the enemy's baggage team in time? Lu Su asked suddenly, Sima Yi didn't say a word, and immediately took a pen and paper to write down the military order, Lu Su only glanced at it, and then ordered: "The whole army is attacking, the target, Chaohu!" ”

With Lu Su's order, more than 10,000 Dong Zhuojun warships set sail, loaded with more than 120,000 Dong Zhuojun soldiers murderously rushed to the mouth of Chaohu Lake, with the help of the strong night wind, the dense Dong Zhuojun fleet quickly rushed into Chaohu Lake, sure enough, Liu Beijun's water village in Chaohu Lake was empty, and the large and small warships were scuttled by Liu Beijun, so as not to be used by Dong Zhuojun. At Pang Tong's suggestion, Lu Su ordered a small number of troops to burn Liu Beijun's water village to create the illusion that Dong Zhuo's army was chasing and killing from behind, and the brigade continued to move forward under the guidance of four Wang Fan's squad soldiers to find the place where Wang Fan's squad landed.

In the blink of an eye, Dong Zhuojun's main fleet finally arrived at the ship-digging site of Wang Fan's team, and on the south side of the land, the earth-shattering shouts and firelight showed that Wang Fan's team was indeed sacrificing their lives to delay Liu Beijun's actions, Lu Su was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered, "The whole army landed, intercepted and killed the enemy, and rescued those heroes of our army." At this time, the lookout on the top of the ship shouted, "Report to the governor, there is an enemy approaching five miles to the north, and the number is about five thousand." ”

"Destroy them and give me a sacrificial flag." Lu Su roared viciously, transferring the evil qi that Lu Lingqi had put on his head in the past few days to Liu Beijun's Guan Ping team, who had turned his head to reinforce the baggage team.

"Kill!" Dong Zhuojun's large and small warships lined up and docked in turn, countless Dong Zhuojun jumped off the boat, attacking the unlucky Guan Ping troops from the side, Wei Yan took the lead, and rushed to the Guan Ping team first, and Dong Zhuojun's Guan Ping team was caught off guard and was rushed by Dong Zhuojun. At this time, the two Dong Zhuojun fleets have been docked in the middle and rear of the Guanping team, the two Dong Zhuojun killed the warship, assisted the Wei Yan troops to clamp the Guanping troops between the two breads, and cut off from the middle, Liu Beijun, who has performed well in recent years, although he is brave in the field, and has such a melee weapon as Zhuge Lian's crossbow, he was helplessly surrounded by Dong Zhuo's army with superior forces, after the crossbow was used up, this Liu Beijun was quickly slaughtered by Dong Zhuojun, Guan Ping saw that the situation was not good, and fled early with more than a dozen personal soldiers over the mountains and mountains, and it was difficult for Dong Zhuojun to find his traces in the dark, Guan Ping and others escaped with their lives.

After quickly defeating Guan Ping's troops, most of Dong Zhuo's army, whose morale was greatly boosted, had already landed, Lu Su and Pang Tong personally led the army to the south, while Sima Yi led a small number of troops and fleets to continue to stay on the lake, not that Sima Yi was really greedy for life and fear of death on the battlefield, but that Sima Yi had other plans. Let's not talk about Sima Yi's arrangement on the ship, just say that Lu Su led Dong Zhuojun's brigade to the south for a few miles, and the front collided with an army head-on, and the head of the Yan forehead was ringed in the eyes, holding a Zhangba spear - the Zhangba snake spear had been snatched by Zhang Liao, it was Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide,

In the firelight, Zhang Fei stood in front of the road and shouted: "Yanren Zhang Yide is here, who dares to fight me to the death." The sound was like thunder, shaking the eardrums of Lu Su and Pang Tong and others, and behind Zhang Fei, the torches like stars were all over the mountains, and there was no end in sight, and I don't know how many Liu Beijun were hiding behind Zhang Fei's team. It turned out that Liu Beijun also discovered the battle between Dong Zhuojun and Guan Ping in front, but Liu Beijun didn't know how many Dong Zhuojun ambushes in front, and Liu Bei's Chinese army and Tai Shici's palace troops had not yet arrived at the path to reinforce, Zhang Fei was afraid that something would happen to the precious military rations, so he asked Mi Zhu and Mi Fang's troops to guard the grain truck, and asked the soldiers in the headquarters to each take a few torches to create momentum, pretending that Liu Bei's army had arrived in an attempt to scare away Dong Zhuojun in front. It's a pity that Zhang Fei met the ...... this time

"Zhang Fei can win alone, and all the generals can rush up together and take the heads of others." Lu Su didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately ordered, Lu Su didn't have to be afraid of whether there was an ambush behind Zhang Fei's troops, and the intelligence obtained by Wang Fan's team in exchange for the lives of the whole team clearly showed that Liu Beijun only had a grain and grass baggage team to take this road, and Liu Beijun's main force took a relatively distant road. What's more, Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Army is almost out of the nest this time, and there is a naval army cooperating on the side, even if there is really an ambush in front, it can't help Dong Zhuojun.

"No need to use generals." Pang Tong was even more scoundrel than Lu Su, and beckoned to the back: "In the crossbow hand, shoot Zhang Fei into a hedgehog." Crowds of Dong Zhuojun's crossbowmen swarmed up, and the overwhelming rain of arrows immediately pounced on Zhang Fei, who wanted to play the longboard slope here, Zhang Fei had no choice but to pull out the feather arrows and run backwards, scolding while fleeing, "Lu Su Xiaoer, Pang Tong ugly ghost, despicable and shameless, cowardly as a mouse...... ouch!" Behind him, Dong Zhuojun and everyone laughed, and the army chased after him and continued to pounce on Liu Bei's army food team.

Zhang Fei fled for his life, and fled to the side of the military food team protected by Mi Zhu Mi Fang, where Mi Zhu Mi Fang had already extinguished the fire on the grain truck, and Zhang Fei shouted from afar, "Quickly retreat, quickly retreat, Dong Thief's brigade is coming." Mi Zhu and Mi Fang were so frightened that they hurriedly commanded the army to push the grain cart and fled backwards, but in the panic and the narrow road, Liu Beijun's grain cart was crowded together, and they couldn't advance or retreat. And Dong Zhuojun's brigade had already caught up with him later, and Zhang Fei had no choice but to turn back and fight to the death to block Dong Zhuojun.

In the melee, Wei Yan, Gan Ning and Sun Ce pounced on Zhang Fei together, Zhang Fei was not as good as Lu Bu with the ability of one enemy and three enemies, and was killed and retreated, and the soldiers of Liu Beijun next to him suffered heavy casualties under the strong impact of Dong Zhuojun, and the more brave Dong Zhuojun soldiers had already entered Liu Bei's army food team, setting fire everywhere to kill the enemy, Liu Beijun's precious military food at this moment, even if he could save all the rest, he would have to lose more than half.

Zhang Fei was fighting hard, and a general came to kill next to him, a white horse and a silver gun, like Zhao Yun, and the general shouted from afar: "The three generals don't panic, Chen is here." It turned out that the main force led by Liu Bei finally arrived, and Gan Ning, who participated in the siege of Zhang Fei, saw it and shouted, "Ugly Chen to Xiao'er, can you recognize the gorgeous Uncle Gan?" "Patting the horse to meet Chen Dao, Zhang Fei's pressure suddenly decreased, although Wei Yan and Sun Ce were still in danger when they fought alone, they could still support it.

At this time, Liu Beijun's palace troops have also arrived, Tai Shici rushed up to take over Sun Ce for Zhang Fei, this time this inaccessible road is even more lively, the total number of more than 250,000 two armies crowded on this narrow road, the length of the team stretches for more than forty miles, the contact between the two sides can directly fight more than 1,000 people, whenever someone on both sides falls, there are companions to make up for it immediately, until he falls and then made up by other companions, the archers on both sides are desperately shooting in front of them, no need to worry about the head, If you shoot it, you're sure to hit the enemy, who is already crowded.

The battle has reached this point, any conspiracy and trickery have been declared useless, Dong Zhuojun and Liu Beijun have formed a refueling tactic, the troops in front of them fall, and the ones behind will immediately follow, the two sides are competing for perseverance and strength, whoever can't consume it first will lose. On the path, the area where the two armies came into contact was already full of corpses, and every time the soldiers of the two warring sides stepped on it, they would surely step on countless corpses, the corpses of the enemy and the corpses of their comrades, and the blood would gather into a stream and fill the ditch, so that the air was filled with the smell of disgusting blood. After three years of painstaking training and war tempering, coupled with the unique horse chopping knife and repeating crossbow, Liu Beijun's individual combat effectiveness is actually much better than Dong Zhuojun's, especially Liu Beijun's opponent is Dong Zhuo's Jiangnan Corps, which has the least cavalry in Dong Zhuo's army, and the losses of the two sides are equal, and there is not much difference.

"Boom! Bang! Just when Dong Zhuojun and Liu Beijun were in a stalemate, and no one could help anyone, explosions suddenly sounded from several places in the rear of Liu Beijun's team, the flames were churning, iron nails and pieces of iron were flying wildly, and Liu Beijun, who was crowded together, was killed and injured heavily, and inexplicably - where did these powder kegs come from? Lu Su was overjoyed, just now Sima Yi had estimated that Dong Zhuojun and Liu Beijun would form a stalemate, so he proposed to Lu Su that Sima Yi lead Dong Zhuojun's fleet to look for fighters along the coast, and when he found that Liu Beijun's team was crowded together, Sima Yi asked the sailors to move down the stairs The catapult on the ship threw powder kegs at Liu Beijun, killing and injuring Liu Beijun's soldiers in large numbers, and it really worked wonders.

Dong Zhuojun's catapult can throw 180 pounds of stones more than 600 steps away, Sima Yi let the catapult only throw a 30-pound gunpowder barrel each time, the range is doubled, so that Dong Zhuojun's water army can be thrown in a safe place, plus the path is narrow, Liu Beijun is crowded, every barrel of gunpowder barrel smashed down, can kill more than ten people, the shock wave generated by the explosion with the iron nails and pieces contained in the powder keg flying, it is Liu Beijun's nightmare, in the blink of an eye, Liu Beijun was attacked by the gunpowder barrel The area is completely chaotic, The soldiers fell in pieces, and Liu Beijun, who was in turmoil, ran to escape and trampled on each other, and there were countless dead and wounded.

"Brothers, rush!" Seeing that Sima Yi's surprise attack received miraculous results, completely shook Liu Beijun's military heart, Lu Su took the opportunity to command the army to attack, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers saw that victory was in sight, and they were even more brave in the charge, killing Liu Beijun to the point of defeat and retreat, and Dong Zhuojun in a group of three or four soldiers worked together to pull out the foot bow, standing on the ground and shooting arrows on the oblique, although the penetration is not as good as the foot bow fired on the ground, but it is still very easy to shoot through the body of Liu Beijun's soldiers, and there are well-equipped Dong Zhuojun soldiers at close range to fight bravely, In the middle distance, Dong Zhuojun's archers kept firing, and now the foot bow for long-distance attacks has been added, and there is Sima Yi's catapult in the distance, and there is a constant threat from Sima Yi's catapult in the distance.

"Withdraw troops, withdraw troops!" Liu Bei, who was hiding at the back of the team, finally gave the order to withdraw the army, although the military food was precious, but now the soldiers were more valuable to Liu Bei, who was sparsely populated under his rule, and Dong Zhuo's army was about to attack in an all-out way, Liu Bei no longer had some capital, but he didn't even have the ability to resist. And Liu Beijun, who was panicked, had long hoped that Liu Bei would give this order, and run away under the leadership of Liu Bei, but Dong Zhuojun was willing to let go, although Zhang Fei, Tai Shici and Chen Zhi were three generals who sacrificed their lives, Liu Beijun was still killed and wounded in the retreat, and was killed by Dong Zhuojun All over the field, and most of the Liu Beijun generals including Zhang Fei, Tai Shici and Chen Zhi were injured, and they had to escape for their lives.

Overnight, Dong Zhuo's army destroyed more than 42,000 enemies and prisoners, and Dong Zhuo's own casualties were less than 20,000. Moreover, Liu Beijun's last batch of military rations were robbed, and on this alone, on the way to Liu Beijun's defeat and escape, even if Dong Zhuojun did not chase and kill, the casualties had to continue to expand.

Dong Zhuojun's Jiangnan Army won a big victory, Dong Zhuojun was not happy for everyone, at least one ugly and fat old man was not very happy, and roared like thunder when he was alone, "Lone knows that this kid used to work hard, and he never showed real skills, if he wants to raise a thief for self-respect, Lone must kill him!" Even his future son was killed! ”