Chapter 45: Turning to the War and Merging States
Under Qin Hua's orders, the Liangzhou army began to retreat in an orderly manner.
At this time, it can reflect the training level of an army, although it is a withdrawal, the Qin Hua army can still retreat in an orderly manner.
Seeing that Qin Hua's army had retreated, and that he had only 10,000 troops out of the city, Lu Bu did not continue the pursuit, and also retreated back to Tongguan.
The next day, Qin Huajun came to Tongguan again.
In order to avoid suspicion, coupled with the initiative of Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, Qin Hua did not send them to serve as the main general of the attack on Tongguan.
Han Sui's attack this time was already a feint, and Han Sui had seen the previous battle between Qin Hua and Lu Bu, and he didn't think about trying Lu Bu's strength, so he directly launched an attack.
The Tongguan wall was high and strong, and the Qin Hua army had no intention of attacking, so the battle only lasted less than an hour before it ended, and the Qin Hua army did not even climb the city wall, and the two sides just exchanged a few rounds of arrow rain before it ended, without much damage.
Then a few days followed, all of which were feints by Han Sui's troops.
It wasn't until the seventh day that Qin Hua once again summoned the generals to the big tent.
"I think that the news of our army's unfavorable attack on Tongguan has reached the ears of the coalition forces, and we can start the next step of the strategy."
"Obey the Lord's command."
These generals already knew Qin Hua's plans, so they calmly listened to Qin Hua's arrangements.
They also know that attacking and conquering cities and conquering cities will naturally have great military achievements, and keeping Tongguan will only have no merit.
Dong Zhuojun is still facing the attack of the coalition army of the princes, and it is impossible to send troops to Liangzhou, so the army left behind can only be used as an example for the coalition army.
And the state leads Taiyuan, Shangdang, Xihe, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Shangjun and other nine counties.
Some of the county guards also participated in the battle against Dong Zhuo, such as Zhang Yang, the county guard of Shangdang, who led his troops to participate in the alliance of princes.
Therefore, when Qin Hua attacked and annexed states, he also needed to consider which counties could be fought and which counties could not be touched.
In the end, Qin Hua decided to still take Zhang Liao as the commander and take charge of the annexation of the state, Han Sui still assisted Zhang Liao as a deputy general, and at the same time Qin Hua also sent Jia Xu out.
There is the scheming Jia Xu here, and Zhang Liao has a discussion when he encounters something.
This time, Zhang Liao brought a total of 35,000 troops with him, leaving 15,000 garrisons outside Tongguan to put pressure on Tongguan and prevent Dong Zhuo from rescuing and annexing the state.
However, now that the alliance of the princes is in full swing, Dong Zhuo will not give up Sanfu to send troops and annex the state.
As for Qin Hua, he decided to stay and continue to fight with Lu Bu.
The battle a few days ago was the first time he had been defeated in an official battle since the time crossing, which made him very unhappy, and at the same time, he also had the idea of competing with Lu Bu in his heart.
Qin Hua had always been thinking about how to survive the melee of the princes, and even seize the world of this great man, but after fighting with Lu Bu, he had some other thoughts in his heart.
Maybe this is the so-called martial soul, the soul of a martial man, Lu Bu has now become the enemy that Qin Hua wants to defeat the most.
And it wasn't that he used the army to defeat Lu Bu, but that he wanted to defeat Lu Bu with his own hands in a one-on-one situation.
In the previous battle, Qin Hua and Lu Bu had weak hands for a full day after the battle, but he heard that Lu Bu was still alive and well on the Tongguan city wall the next day.
From this, Qin Hua felt the gap between himself and Lu Bu.
Therefore, it was supposed to be led by Qin Hua to conquer and annex the state, but now it has become Zhang Liao's command.
After Zhang Liao led his troops away, the Qin Hua army no longer continued to attack Tongguan, but began to cut down trees to strengthen the camp.
This made Lu Bu a little incomprehensible.
The spies had already told him that Qin Hua's army had 50,000 troops, and the reinforcements he brought with him were only more than 13,000 people, so why didn't the other party attack?
Moreover, in the previous several siege battles, the opponent obviously did not use all his strength.
Lu Bu was not at all interested in what Qin Hua wanted to do, he just wanted to defeat this Liangzhou army as soon as possible, and then quickly return to the Tiger Prison Pass.
Now that the heroes of the world are gathered in the Tiger Prison, how can they not have him Lu Bu involved.
But he didn't expect Qin Hua to make a strange request, that is, he wanted to go head-to-head with Lu Bu later, if within three hundred rounds, Lu Bu could defeat Qin Hua, and the Liangzhou army would have a truce for two months.
And he only said what the consequences of Lu Bu being able to defeat him, and did not mention what requirements he had if he couldn't defeat him.
After thinking about it, Lu Bu felt that there was no loss to him in this condition, so he agreed.
It is impossible to defeat this Liangzhou army with the strength of Tongguan, and if they can be given a two-month truce, he will also have time to return to Hujiaoguan.
At this time, a partial general under Lu Bu also put forward his own opinion, he thought that the Liangzhou army did not really want to crusade against Dong Zhuo, and Qin Hua set this condition to find an excuse for himself.
So the battle in Tongguan became a little weird.
Although both sides confronted each other with 10,000 soldiers, there was no battle between the two sides, and only the middle two people really fought, that is, Qin Hua and Lu Bu.
With the help of the effect of the stirrup, Qin Hua was barely able to maintain the balance of power in front of Lu Bu.
But after three hundred rounds of fighting, Qin Hua would still be a little exhausted.
Just to hone himself, Qin Hua would still show up on time the next day.
With the blessing of stirrups and other equipment, he actually fought with Lu Bu for six days without winning or losing.
Until the seventh day of the battle.
At this time, Qin Hua's physical strength and energy were no longer as good as the first day because of the previous battle, but Lu Bu didn't seem to have any major problems.
At this time, Qin Hua realized how huge the gap between himself and Lu Bu was.
But even so, he still wanted to complete the battle on the seventh day, because only in this way could he close the gap between him and Lu Bu.
However, when the battle was about fifty rounds, Qin Hua found a problem, that is, there were actually a bunch of stirrups hanging under Lu Bu's saddle.
It turned out that in the previous battle, Lu Bu was also thinking about how to defeat Qin Hua, and he naturally noticed the pair of stirrups at Qin Hua's feet.
Every time he competed, Qin Hua's appearance was different from the opponents he had met before, and his feet seemed to be straining.
So he had a pair of stirrups made, and after using them, he found that this thing was indeed good, which greatly improved his combat ability on the horse.
Lu Bu also found out that Qin Hua had discovered his changes, so he no longer retained his strength and began to attack Qin Hua.
After a fight, Qin Hua immediately fell behind.
Originally, the battle between the two was offensive and defensive against each other, but since Lu Bu no longer retained his strength, Qin Hua was now completely in a state of passive beating.
Dong Zhuojun didn't know why, but when he saw his general's might, they all cheered loudly.
As for Qin Huajun's side, they all quieted down, they didn't know why Qin Hua, who was still able to attack and defend with Lu Bu a few days ago, seemed to be completely suppressed in today's battle.