Chapter 18: The waves are frustrated

The cold wind was howling on a winter night, the sky was full of stars and moons, and in the dark Xiaopingjin military camp, Lu Bu and several of his henchmen were all draped, standing in the twilight looking at the north bank of the Yellow River, which was also silent.

In other words, yesterday Jia Wenhe proposed a plan to Lu Bu to use 5,000 cavalry to break through the 30,000 or 40,000 people on the other side...... Although he later figured out every step of Jia Xu's strategy, he still felt a little unbelievable, because if he followed this plan, Wang Kuang and Yuan Shao would all need to dispatch troops according to his Jia Wenhe's 'instructions'.

But on what basis?

Why should these people arrange the deployment as Jia Xu said? Is Jia Xu an immortal? This is too doubtful about the success rate of this scheme.

However, Jean, Lu Bu still accepted Jia Xu's suggestion for three reasons.

One is that Lu Bu himself is not willing to be lonely, he is a border county martial arts bun, compared to those famous families, the starting point is too low, the weak crown family moved to Taiyuan, and later went to Jizhou, and then to Luoyang, he has always been a marginal person who has been discriminated against, and has always been eager to be part of the core of power, in other words, he wants to climb up too much!

In the process of climbing up, military merit is his biggest reliance, and Cai Yong, Gongsun Xun, Liu Yan, Dong Zhuo and other nobles are the foreign things he relies on the most...... If you win the battle, you will not only have military merits, but also be favored by Dong Xiangguo! You may even get appreciation, including your teacher, Cai Yong! Because just before, because Wang Kuang engaged in spy politics in Hanoi, wantonly slandered the big clans and big families in the county, was imprisoned and tortured at every turn, and then let the family members ransom them with goods and population, just like kidnapping tickets, Cai Bojiao wrote a special article to accuse Wang Kuang of this purpose, and called the other party a traitor in the article!

All in all, Lu Bu really wants to fight this battle!

Secondly, Lu Bu believes in Jia Xu's ability...... Even if he has doubts about Jia Xu, he will never question Gongsun Xun's vision, and the wise man admired by Gongsun Xun must have his uniqueness.

As for the last reason, it was Lu Bu's confidence in his personal martial arts and the elite subordinates under him...... Crossing the river this time, even if Jia Xu's plan went wrong, it really couldn't be defeated, but in such a dark night, the Yellow River was frozen everywhere, and there was no need to worry about not being able to escape.

And back in front of him, what made Lu Bu quite excited was that the first step of Jia Xu's strategy had actually succeeded...... As Jia Wenhe said, Wang Kuang, the famous Hanoi Taishou on the opposite side, saw that the suspicious soldiers were heading upstream to Mengjin, and he didn't dare to cross the river to attack Xiaopingjin, but immediately divided his troops upstream to do a conservative defense.

In the afternoon, everyone saw that on the north bank of the Yellow River, a full seven or eight thousand men and horses were dispatched, chasing the suspicious soldiers led by Jia Xu upstream, and the banner of Wang Kuang, the Taishou of Hanoi, undoubtedly appeared in the Chinese army. In other words, at this time, at the Xiaopingjin ferry crossing in Hanoi on the other side of the river, there may only be two or three thousand troops left behind.

"Prince, you're ready to do it." Huang Yuan flashed out of the night with a white horse leading a divine horse. "The horse is bound to hooves, the man is ranked, and the man has two torches, but he is not allowed to light it...... Please order! ”

"Cross the river!" Lu Bu put away all his thoughts, but he did not hesitate to take his Lu BMW, and was the first to step on the ice in the north.

The five thousand cavalry came from the Northern Army, or from the West Garden, or from Liangzhou, or from Guanzhong, and there were warriors recruited from Bingzhou...... If only some common characteristics are that these soldiers generally have sufficient combat experience, and they already have excellent riding skills before joining the army.

The addition of two by two, combined with the equipment of the central arsenal of the Han Empire, is enough for them to stand tall in front of those Kwantung coalition forces and claim to be elite-not how outstanding they are, but that although those Kwantung coalition forces have organization, equipment, and courage, they really lack too much war experience.

In the night, at the Xiaopingjin Hanoi ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River, Fang Yue, the guard general left by Wang Kuang, had already slept early...... As a local wealthy person in Hanoi, it is too normal for Fang Yue to lead the children of the family to choose to follow the local Taishou.

In fact, it was not only Fang Yue, but Hao Meng, who was also born in Hanoi, was also under Wang Kuang at this time, but he went upstream with the other party to prepare to defend Mengjin.

And the choice of Hao Meng and Fang Yue is actually the practice of the vast majority of people in this troubled world.

Don't they know that the former lord Sun Xun, who once ruled Hanoi, has a higher rank and a higher level, and is also better for his subordinates? Don't they know that Wang Kuang's reckless use of force has made Hanoi resentful? In a word, don't they know that Gongsun Xun is ten times and a hundred times stronger than Wang Kuang?

But there is no way, the family is here, and they have become the leading generals in the county when Wang Kuang is too punctual...... It's not that they chose Wang Kuang out of their minds, but they didn't take the risk to change it.

In the same way, at this time, Zhang He, as the military Sima directly under Wei County, was also sent to Yuan Shao's army as a support by Zhou Mu Han Fu, and was in the downstream Yuan Shao's army; At this time, Dian Wei also took the children of the township to join the army in the army of a certain Sima under Chen Liutaishou and Zhang Miao; At this time, Cheng Yu also exchanged letters with Liu Dai, the assassin of Yanzhou, and accepted the other party's strategic advice; At this time, Yu Ban was serving as a military Sima under the command of fellow villager Bao Xin; Even Xun Yu, who is a masterpiece in the world, even if he saw that his hometown was about to encounter war, he chose to accept the protection of his fellow villager Han Fu; There is even Jia Xu, and even the vast majority of Luoyang officials, everyone is actually the same thing...... They don't want to be a tiger or make a contribution, it's just that the troubled times came suddenly, and everyone followed their instincts and chose the most conservative, or the most responsible approach!

After all, they dragged their families with them, they had up and down, their friends, relatives, fields, goods, all the familiar things were there, why should they abandon all this and trek through mountains and rivers to find some master?

And besides, there are still fewer people in the world who have changed from heroes to traitors?

If Dong Zhuo had died a year and a half ago, he would have been the number one loyal minister of the Han Dynasty! He is the only remaining conscience of the people of Liangzhou!

But now?!

In fact, at this time, for the people of the world, what is lacking is not the arrogant and reckless superior, but the superior who can be tolerant and relentless...... However, even Gongsun Xun, in Taiyuan, isn't he tolerant of the people and mean to the world?

Moreover, there is one more thing to emphasize here, it is precisely because the vast majority of people are hindered by all kinds of difficulties and have to go with the flow, those who go against the trend, for their own reason, or even just for the purpose, or simply selfishness, they will let go and move forward are even more admirable, and even heartbreaking!

Conservative and withdrawn are things to be taken for granted, but the trendsetters of those times are even better!

Back in front of me, opposite Xiaopingjin, the military camp and ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River suddenly caught fire!

After all, Fang Yue is a famous general in Hanoi, after all, he gathered people to protect Jiawei County as early as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, so his military quality is still there. He hurriedly got up, and while hurriedly putting on his clothes, he repeatedly ordered the whole army to be cleaned up, to move closer to him, to let his cronies and attendants go out to inquire about the military situation, to find out the incoming enemy, and to let the subordinates who arrived first to lead the troops along the building layout of the camp and the ferry to fortify layer by layer, and collect the soldiers and horses.

After the draping was completed, Fang Yue personally carried his iron gun out of the door, and then mounted his mount, leading a group of cronies and children to meet the enemy along the front of the camp and the ferry street.

In all fairness, if ordinary thieves had come to harass him, this move would have turned the corner for safety, and in the future, there may be a note in the history books praising this famous Hanoi general for his reputation.

However, when he got out and walked out on the street, Fang Yue had already calmed down...... Everywhere in the ferry and the barracks, the sound of killing has already shook the sky, and the fire reflects the river, but what is even more terrifying is that the enemy troops with torches around them are coming and going like the wind but are not chaotic, and even the cavalry is obviously cavalry, but there is not much sound of horses' hooves!

Fang Yue quickly realized that the number of this enemy army, the combat strength of this enemy army, was not at all something that only two or three thousand soldiers could resist by himself, but it was his duty to defend the territory, but Fang Yue had no intention of being timid and running away!

"Pass the order, let the whole army move closer to me, and those who can't reach it will defend on the spot, and take preservation as the supremacy! The prince of Taishou is in Mengjin, more than 20 miles upstream, and he will come to help at any time! The general Yuan Gong has 30,000 Jizhou soldiers, which is more than 30 miles downstream, and he can come to help at any time...... At that time, our army will win! Fang Yue was half cheering up the soldiers around him, and half convincing himself.

In fact, his words are still very reasonable, when Ding Yuan burned Mengjin, Luoyang City could see it clearly, and at this time, Sanjin was side by side, not far away, Wang Kuang in the upstream and Yuan Shao in the downstream had no reason not to see the situation here, and there was no reason not to come to help!

But......

"Are you General Wei's former official Fang Yue?" The firelight illuminated half of the street, and Lu Bu and Fang Yue met each other in a narrow way, and then raised their spears and pointed at each other from afar. "I heard that you call yourself a famous general in Hanoi?"

"Yue never boasted." Fang Yue raised the iron spear horizontally, and answered from afar on the horse. "And a county of famous generals, why worry about it? But the name of the tiger in the world is like thunder! ”

"If you know my name, why don't you descend?" Lu Bu held a spear, and Lu Ma, who was standing, laughed loudly. "If you can descend, because you are so polite, and you have the incense of General Wei, I can protect your future."

"Although Yue is only a county general, he also knows the responsibility of being ordered to defend the land." Fang Yue replied. "Forgiveness, I can't accept Lu Jun's great kindness!"

When Lu Bu heard this, he was not angry, but he appreciated it more and more, but he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and said: "With such a bearing, it is really the posture of a famous general of a county and a country, and it should die in my hands!" Fang Yue! I am better than you in my army, I am better in my men, I am better in my weapons, and I am stronger in battle than you...... Whether?! ”

"Not bad!"

"But you are extraordinary, polite and courteous, but I, Lu Bu, can't disrespect you as a person!" LΓΌ Feng first raised his spear and crossed the side of the horse. "How, dare to go it alone? If you win, I will ignore the war and the whole army will retreat!" If I win, I will kill you here, in the name of Chengjun and loyalty! ”

Fang Yue also faced each other, awe-inspiring and fearless, but he said left and right: "I die today, not for Wang Taishou, but for Hanoi......"

Before he could say anything, he knew that the other party was the tiger general of the world, and he still took the lead in charging.

Lu Bu became more and more overjoyed, but he just raised the spear and reined in the horse.

The officers, soldiers and horses behind the two generals lost their color, and they never expected that the two armies would take advantage of the fire of this ferry to stage a heads-up thing on the street...... It is like seven or eight hundred years ago, when the country was competing for power, the generals of the two sides led the train in front of the battle, and the winner was a showdown.

But the reason for this is not ridiculous.

For Lu Bu, half of the night battle is full of wildness; Half of it is to see that the other party is not losing the courtesy, and there is a heart to salute each other; For Fang Yue, it is even simpler, the battle situation is unfavorable, the soldiers and horses are weak, and now they meet in a narrow way, but he is unwilling to surrender and lose his temperament, it is better to fight to the death, and if he wins by luck and does not say, he is defeated, and he can also let his soldiers and horses no longer have to resist......

In a moment, the two generals have been fighting on the street, but Fang Yue is more angry than one, but Lu Bu is more and more courageous, and when the fifth is combined, Lu Bu struggles to split, Fang Yue raises his gun to block, and the blades of the two sides are a pair in the air, the latter only feels that his arms are numb, so he falls back, and the iron gun in his hand is also slipping.

Lu Bu did not hesitate, poked out a spear with his backhand, and hit the throat of the other party, poor Fang Yue, a famous general of a county, had never failed in his life, but because of the troubled times, he had no complaints, and died at the Xiaopingjin Ferry.

He was Chinese New Year's Eve at the age of thirty-four.

Fang Yue was dead, and the defenders of Xiaopingjin in Hanoi, who had been in a desperate situation due to the night attack, collapsed, and Lu Bu easily broke through here, but he also remembered Jia Xu's strategy and orders. Therefore, his people did not pursue the defeated soldiers, let alone loot and loot on the spot, but abandoned the large battalion of those defeated soldiers and Wang Kuang, hurriedly recalled the various departments, and then still died down, and marched to the direction of Wushejin downstream, that is, the Yuan Shao camp where there were 30,000 Jizhou troops and Hanoi soldiers.

Fang Yue and the ferry port on the north bank of Xiaopingjin are just appetizers for this long winter night.

Five thousand iron horsemen, the horse's hooves wrapped in sackcloth, not in a hurry, under the leadership of Lu Bu, along the Yellow River all the way to the east, quietly eastward, and walked for about half an hour, about twenty miles away, Lu Bu saw with his own eyes, a few miles in front of him as if there was a fire dragon rushing to each other!

Listening to the sound of their horses' hooves and looking at the firelight formation, it is estimated that there are four or five thousand people, and all of them are cavalry!

There is no doubt that the second key inference in Jia Xu's strategy has come true again - when the fire broke out upstream, Yuan Shao naturally sent reinforcements, but he actually sent enough main forces, but it was just a partial division that could be completely destroyed head-on!

Lu Bu, who was already feverish, became more and more overjoyed, he turned around and called Huang Yuan and Huang Qianjiu, and Huang Yuan nodded immediately, and immediately led two hundred people from his headquarters to untie the sackcloth on the horse's hooves, light torches, and swagger forward to meet ...... It's really not Lu Bu and Huang Yuan's strategy, these two don't have this level of meticulous work, this is Jia Xu's previous order.

Huang Yuan's two hundred men galloped forward, which naturally attracted the attention of the reinforcements on the opposite side, and the two armies were cavalry, walking in the opposite direction, and they collided head-on almost instantly.

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Huang Yuan shouted to himself: "Is there reinforcements from the general of the chariot cavalry ahead?" The Xiaopingjin ferry port was attacked, and I came to ask for reinforcements on the order of Fang Yue Fang Sima...... Please come to the rescue quickly! ”

The fire dragon in front of him was almost instantaneous, and then hundreds of horsemen rushed over, holding torches to surround Huang Yuan and the others, but Huang Qianjiu only looked anxious, and there was no intention of panic...... You must know that Huang Yuan's two hundred people did not bring flags, let alone any signs, plus they did fight at the ferry port on the north bank of Xiaopingjin, and the blood, smoke, and even wounds on their bodies were real things.

Sure enough, these people observed for a while and did not have any doubts, and soon a military order came, saying that General Yan had summoned the person who asked for help to interrogate.

Rao is Huang Qianjiu had already prepared, and he was also shocked when he heard this: "But that famous general of the plains Yan Liang who followed the general of the Che Cavalry in Luozhong? ”

"General Yan's name is also your name?" The herald was furious.

"Not intentionally offended." Huang Qianjiu knew that he was speechless, and hurriedly explained. "I have been to Luozhong before, and I have long heard that Wu Ju once recruited warriors for Yuan Gong to Hebei, two of them, one surnamed Yan, one surnamed Wen, one out of the plain, one out of Zhending, all have the courage of ten thousand people! In this way, the general of the chariot and cavalry rose up, and promoted two generals in one fell swoop, but I don't know that the front is the one General Yan? ”

"I see!" The herald officer couldn't help but turn his anger into joy. "You also know the name of my general? How's that, don't worry about your camp breaking down this time, right? ”

Huang Yuan looked back at the ferry port on the north bank of Xiaopingjin, which was still burning, but couldn't help but smile bitterly: "General Yan has to go to see our Fang Sima to say safe, right?" ”

"That's the same, come with me!" Hearing this, this man did not delay any longer, and immediately led Huang Yuan backwards, but did not notice that the cavalry that followed Huang Yuan extinguished their torches at the signal of their respective officers.

Two hundred people extinguishing their torches are naturally not noticeable in an army of several thousand people, but they are all concentrated in one place, and when they are still at the head of the whole army, they can be discovered by people who are actually not far behind them.

On the other side, Huang Yuan followed the herald alone and went backwards, and he couldn't walk more than a hundred steps before he came to a dense cavalry place. And sure enough, under an umbrella banner, surrounded by several people dressed as officers, Huang Qianjiu saw at a glance a fully armored and extremely majestic general.

More than a dozen steps away, Huang Yuan knelt down in front of this person with a thud, and then called the general, and kowtowed and begged for troops to come to the rescue.

"Didn't Wang Taishou send a message in the afternoon saying that half of Xiaopingjin's soldiers and horses came to Wushejin, and half went to Mengjin?" Yan Liang was slightly impatient. "In this case, how is Xiaopingjin attacked, where did the soldiers and horses come from?"

"General Hui, this matter belongs to the next Qu chief, I really don't know." According to Jia Xu's previous explanation, Huang Yuan was like a middle-level officer who was unaware but suddenly attacked.

"And what do you know?" Yan Liang became more and more impatient.

"Don't hide it from General Yan, I only know that when I came, about four or five thousand Xiliang soldiers and horses crossed the river to attack, but the ice was crisp and slippery, and we were found halfway, which made us rely on two or three thousand defenders to reluctantly gather to defend the village, but now that the fire is spreading, I don't know how long it can last over there...... Please also ask General Yan to come to the rescue quickly! After that, Huang Yuan kowtowed to Yan Liang.

However, when the person pestled the ground with his head, he had already noticed some movement from the ground in the cold wind howling in the winter night.

More than ten steps away, Yan Liang was still sighing to himself, and for some reason, he was a little hesitant.

But at this moment, even Yan Liang noticed some huge movements that were getting closer and closer, and it was becoming more and more difficult to hide.

And suddenly, there were screams and screams ahead, and some people shouted fiercely, shouting 'enemy attack'!

The incident happened suddenly, and Yuan Jun was shaken across the board, even Yan Liang was stunned on the spot!

It was too late to say that it was too fast, just when Yan Liang woke up a little, looked at Huang Yuan angrily, and pulled out his saber, due to the fighting of the two hundred horsemen left in front, the sound of killing had actually come here! What is interesting is that when these two hundred cavalry came to him, they did not save their own Qu Chang, nor did they fight for many officers in front, but stopped here, and even took the initiative to split the road.

Huang Yuan'er listened to the dull sound of horses' hooves from far and near, and woke up in his heart, and then he didn't think much about it, just rolled on the ground, pointed at Yan Liang again, and shouted loudly:

"That person is Yan Liang!"

As soon as the words fell, a general rode a handsome white horse, like a flying general reborn, and the tiger rushed to the face, and dozens of elite cavalry were already handsome and rushed to Yan Liang along Huang Yuan's fingers!

Between the lightning and fire, Yan Liang hurriedly turned to raise his knife, but was agitated by the cold wind brought by the cavalry on the opposite side, and he couldn't open his eyes for a while, and Lu Bu stabbed with a spear from a distance, but it hit the other party's throat!

Poor this 'Hebei general', as soon as he came out of the mountain, he had not yet made meritorious contributions, and he was not even called a famous general of a county, so he died at the hands of the tiger generals of the world, at the age of 28, leaving a thousand years of laughter!

β€”β€”β€”β€”I'm the dividing line of the so-called famous generalsβ€”β€”β€”β€”

"At the end of Zhongping, the Kwantung coalition army rose up and met to attack Dong, and Dong Zhuo took LΓΌ Bu as the cavalry governor of the north road to deal with Hanoi. The cloth division is famous, known as the prestige, its people to Xiaopingjin, lift five thousand horses, across the river and attack, Hanoi guard general Fang Yue, known as a good general, first defeated in the army, Fu and cloth alone in the road, five and die, when people regret it. And the cloth turned to fight in Wushejin, Tifang Yue helmet battle, Shaobu general Yan Liang, known as brave, self-invited war, Shao Daxi, warm wine and gift, to strengthen the itinerary. and out of the teacher, Lu Ma who died as soon as he joined him, and the cup in Shao's hand was still warm, so he was shocked. People laughed at it. β€”β€”"Heroes of the Late Han Dynasty". Wang Cang

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