Chapter 84: Lu Bu withdraws
Liu Zhang was busy reorganizing the troops, but Lu Bu was not idle, since the failure of the night attack, Lu Bu would come to challenge every morning and evening, like the tide, and never missed the appointment. The Allies suffered heavy losses, how dare they go to war? Lu Bu couldn't fight, and after showing off his might, he had no choice but to retreat.
More than half a month has passed, and in the past few days, the princes have quite opinions on Liu Zhang, the reason is naturally because he concluded that Lu Bu would definitely withdraw from the army, but for more than half a month, he only saw him showing off his power every day, where did he look like he had withdrawn from the army? As time passed, the words of the princes became more and more sharp, and every time Liu Zhang was blamed, he was not angry, but insisted on his own opinion. Because he estimated that the time for Lu Bu to finally withdraw his troops had not yet arrived, and Liu Dai, the leader of the alliance, attached great importance to Liu Zhang, his nephew, every time he helped him distinguish it, the princes had no way to continue to be embarrassed.
In the past half a month, Liu Zhang also got an unexpected joy, that is, among the people he asked Liu Dai to search for, Cheng Yu, Yu Ban, and Li Dian came happily.
Cheng Yu didn't need Liu Zhang's persuasion, when he learned that Xun Yu, Xun Yu and Guo Jia, who had been friends for a long time, had joined Liu Zhang, he agreed to follow without saying a word.
Liu Zhang laughed secretly: "Haha, I'm sorry, Meng De, your five great strategists were almost wiped out by me, well, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard!" Come on, sooner or later, grab Jia Xu in your hands, haha, if it's really like this, it's fun, I just don't know how you play Mengde! ”
Yu Ban and Li Dian were also easy, Liu Zhang directly told them that he was only a weak army of five thousand when he came out of Shu, and then asked the two to go to the barracks to have a look, and when they came back, the two immediately asked for storage! Liu Zhang couldn't ask for it, how could he refuse? Yu Ban, that is one of Cao Cao's five good generals, handsome! It's a pity that I was unlucky, when I rescued Xiangyang, I encountered a torrential rain in the upper reaches of the Han River, the Han River flooded, the army was swallowed up by the flood, and I became Guan Yu's prisoner. If it weren't for God helping Guan Erye, how could he, one of the five tiger generals, be the opponent of one of the five good generals? Li Dian is not famous, mainly because he died young, he was only thirty-six years old when he died, in fact, Li Dian is knowledgeable, he understands righteousness, never competes with others, and is known as the elder in the army.
Cheng Yu naturally stayed by his side to staff the military aircraft, and Yu Ban and Li Dianxin were not prestigious, so it was not appropriate to appoint a high position for the time being, and after careful consideration, Liu Zhang sent General Ban to the supplementary battalion to assist Hou Cheng in training the supplementary battalion; Li Dian was assigned to the guard camp and temporarily served as the commander.
It has been 18 days since Liu Zhang publicly asserted that Lu Bu would retire from the army. On this day, the sun is rising, and the allied army is already out of the sheath and the arrow is wound in the village, don't look at the storm and the tense atmosphere, in fact, everyone is very calm, they all know that this is just a routine! Because at this time of every day, Lu Bu would come to the outside of the village to make a few scolds, and then collect his troops and return to the camp. This has become a common practice, and the time is accurate, more accurate than the Allied meal!
But on this day, the Allied soldiers waited left and right, and it was almost noon, and Lu Bu had not yet come.
After Liu Dai learned that Lu Bu had "missed the appointment", he felt that something was wrong, and immediately invited everyone to come to discuss.
Liu Zhang already knew about this before he came, and after discussing it with the strategists, they all thought that Lu Bu should have withdrawn. When Liu Zhang told his guess, the princes did not believe it, but criticized him verbally and in writing, because in the eyes of most people, Liu Zhang's guess was not credible at all, and he said almost twenty days ago that he was going to withdraw the army, and he was going to withdraw the army, but what was the result?
However, as if God was also going to help Liu Zhang, slapping the princes in the face, when everyone's dissatisfaction was about to be radicalized to abuse, a pro-soldier came to report, and Lu Bujun pulled out the camp and left!
Suddenly, the handsome tent fell into extreme silence, and the needles could be heard, those who opposed Liu Zhang lost face, and they were ashamed in their hearts, and narrow-minded people like Yuan Shao hated Liu Zhang even more, if it wasn't for him, how could he be so embarrassed? I have to say that some people never find the reason for problems in themselves!
When he learned that Lu Bujun was an all-colored cavalryman, Yuan Shao seemed to grasp the straw! He immediately said that this was a trap, and that there were still 50,000 or 60,000 infantry under Lu Bu's command, but it was all cavalry who retreated, and it was obvious that this was a fraudulent retreat...... Before he could finish his sentence, he realized that he was wrong, blindfolded by anger, unable to see even something as simple as he could see.
Obviously, if Lu Bu retreated, he would not use cavalry as bait. The Allied cavalry was far weaker than him, and if he pursued it with cavalry, wouldn't it be fatal? And it is impossible for the infantry to catch up with the cavalry on the plains! In this case, what is the use of his retreat? Last night, Lu Bu must have withdrawn the infantry first, in order to buy time for the infantry, he did not order the cavalry to follow and leave, but stayed to contain and confuse the allies, when the infantry was safe, he led the cavalry to swagger away, he didn't even forget to retreat to disgust the allies!
It is unlikely that the Allies will be cannon fodder and fight evil battles, but if it is a beating of water dogs, it is a different matter. However, in order to prevent this water dog from biting back, the allies did not dare to force people too much, and decided to start the army tomorrow to "attack" Bishui Pass and "recover" Luoyang! In the face of such an honor, no one can be calm, and the originally tired princes immediately turned into fierce tigers, scrambling and clamoring to be pioneers, do their best for the Han, and die!
In the end, Liu Zhang proposed that Sun Jian was originally the vanguard of the Central Lane Alliance, and it was not appropriate to appoint someone else at this time. Liu Zhang's proposal was responded to by Tao Qian, Kong Rong and others, and Liu Dai then made a decision and ordered Sun Jian to be the vanguard, set off tomorrow and enter Luoyang!
Sun Jian was overjoyed to be ordered, he knew what he would get as the first person to enter Luoyang, reputation, honor, if he could save the Han Emperor, it would be even easier to add an official to a knighthood! Sun Jian looked at Liu Zhang, who was in the year of the weak crown, and the more he looked at it, the more he loved it, but it was a pity that his daughter was only five years old, otherwise he really wanted to marry his daughter to Liu Zhang!
After Liu Zhang returned to the Yizhou military camp, he immediately summoned the generals and ordered them to pack up and march west tomorrow.
Liu Zhang was not the only one who made this decision, everyone gave the same order after returning to their own territory. As a result, Sun Jian's good mood did not last long. Because the next day, as soon as his troops drove out of Dazhai, the princes' more than 100,000 battalions followed his ass to Bishui Pass. If it weren't for Gongsun Zhan's restraint, I'm afraid he hadn't reached Bishui Pass yet, and Gongsun Zhan's cavalry would have already entered Luoyang!
After Sun Jian scolded "shameless", he ordered the whole army to gallop and be sure to throw off his allies. Sun Jian has been in battle for a long time, all of his troops are energetic for a hundred battles, well-trained, and his physical strength is superior to that of the princes' soldiers, he ordered to speed up the march, and immediately threw the princes' soldiers and horses far away, only Liu Zhang, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zhan's soldiers and horses always maintained a certain distance, and followed behind unhurriedly.
After running continuously for more than an hour, Sun Jian's department reached the empty Bishui Pass. Although there was not a single enemy soldier in front of and behind the pass, and under the pass, it was more than three hours before the first soldier of Sun Jian's department entered the pass!
It turned out that when the enemy retreated, in order to prevent the pursuit of the allied forces, a large amount of firewood was piled up in various places on the pass, and after the soldiers and horses left, they set fire to it in all directions, and the whole Bishui Pass became a boundless sea of fire, and the smoke rose for two or three miles, and it was clearly visible more than ten miles away......
Sun Jian and his thousands of soldiers and horses were forced by the fire to move an inch dozens of feet away from the city, and the scorching flames made the soldiers who were already sweating like rain after a long gallop as if they had just been salvaged from the small river. Sun Jian wanted to move forward, but if the fire was not extinguished, even if he put on his wings and flew over, he would have to be cooked! Fire? It's impossible, people can't get within 30 zhang at all, and water can't be delivered, how to put out the fire? In desperation, Sun Jian had to order a retreat of the army, far away from the scorching flames, the whole army rested on the spot, waited for the heat to be small, and then put out the fire and entered the customs!
As early as when he saw the flames rushing to the sky, Liu Zhang understood that Dong Zhuo had ordered the pass to be burned as in history, and at this moment, in addition to causing chaos and blockage, it was likely that nothing could be done, so he ordered the whole army to slow down and slowly march towards Bishui Pass under the incomprehensible eyes of everyone!