Chapter 183: Soldiers Don't Get Tired of Deceit

The Luoyu Pass lasted for an hour, and Gao Shun's First Brigade easily conquered the Luoyu Pass at the cost of 143 killed, 36 seriously wounded, and 250 lightly wounded, killing more than 2,400 people, including Cheng Shuo, the deputy general of the enemy, and capturing more than 2,000 enemies.

Gao Shun ordered people to treat the wounded, and one ordered people to escort the enemy back to a large barracks in the pass to guard, and at the same time sent people back to Fu Luo Road to inform Li Yan behind that the pass had been captured, so that Li Yan could speed up the arrival to prevent the enemy's counterattack.

However, it is said that Ding Qiang led more than 200 remnants of soldiers to cross Weishui overnight, went straight to Wugong County, and appeared outside Wugong City in embarrassment in the early morning of the next day.

Li Le couldn't help but be furious when he learned that Luoyu Pass had fallen, but he had promised Dong Zhuo that with the strength of Luoyu Pass, even if Liu Zhang attacked with all his might, he could hold on for three months, but in fact, it only took one night to lose Luoyu Pass!

Looking at Ding Qiang with an embarrassed face, Li Le had the heart to kill him, but this Ding Qiang is also a fierce general, he has always been loyal to him, and he is really a little reluctant to kill him, so the unlucky Li Laohei became a victim, under Ding Qiang's "evidence", Li Laohei became a traitor to the Xiliang Army, accepted Liu Zhang's benefits, opened the city gate in the middle of the night, and guided the Yizhou Army into the city......

The reason for this arrangement is that the fall of Luoyu Pass is a matter of great importance, and without a suitable reason, Dong Zhuo will not easily let go of a cadre and so on. Unfortunately, Ding Qiang said that the Yizhou army had a mysterious crossbow arrow, but it was fired continuously, making it difficult for the defenders to resist, and then Li Le didn't believe the news of losing the town, in his opinion, the crossbow is simply nonsense, it must have been made up by Ding Qiang in order to exonerate himself, if this kind of unbelievable thing is reported, Dong Zhuo is annoyed, then he has to take off a layer of skin? Ding Qiang saw that Li Le didn't believe it, and he didn't dare to refute it anymore, but he always had to find a passable reason to prevaricate, just like that, Li Laohei was innocently "moped", and he was not allowed to be beheaded by Li Le as mentioned above, so as to correct the "military law".

Li Le flew to report to Dong Zhuo on the one hand, and gathered troops and horses on the other hand, preparing to counterattack the Luoyu Pass, as long as he can regain the pass, he can redeem the credit! He is very aware of the difficulties and dangers of the Fu Luo Road, in his opinion, the Fu Luo Road is difficult to pass, the number of Yizhou troops must be small, and the enemy's foothold is not stable, and he has no chance to recover the pass.

After dawn, Gao Shun did not wait for Li Yan to arrive, and immediately sent Xu Qin to lead 3,000 men to advance to the south bank of Weishui, and after capturing the ferry, he fortified on the south bank to prevent the troops in Wugong City from counterattacking the pass. This trick quickly received results, busy for most of the day, Li Le gathered 13,000 troops to kill the Luoyu Pass, just arrived at the north bank of Weishui, but heard that the Yizhou army had been fortified on the south bank, Li Dong judged that the attack on crossing the river was no longer successful, so he built a position on the north bank to prevent the Yizhou army from crossing the river, and at the same time reported the latest situation to Dong Zhuo. Li Le didn't know, at this time there were only 3,000 soldiers on the south bank of Weishui, if he led the army to force the crossing, it was very likely to defeat this army of soldiers and horses, although the first brigade was one of the most elite troops in Yizhou, but after all, the number was only 3,000, and Fu Luodao came all the way, the soldiers' physical strength and energy were not as good as before, he let go, it was indeed possible to defeat Xu Qin's department, and then take advantage of the situation to counterattack Luoyu Pass, Li Yan still needed time to arrive, there were only less than 2,000 people in the pass, and it was not impossible to recover the lost territory.

After Gao Shun learned that Li Le led the army to fortify on the north bank, he judged that Li Le did not know the truth of his own side and did not dare to act in vain, so he made a plan and ordered Xu Qin to quietly withdraw 2,000 people to the south at night, and after dawn, he joined Gao Shun and sent 1,000 people from the city to pretend to be reinforcements to the south bank position. For three days in a row, leaving secretly at night, and swaggering through the market during the day, Li Le judged that the Yizhou reinforcements had arrived, and he did not dare to act rashly, and desperately appealed to Chang'an for help.

The envoy sent by Li Le to Chang'an for help met Zhang Ji's army on the way, and told him about the situation, Zhang Ji knew that after the Luoyu Pass was breached, the Weishui defense line could be said to be the last natural defense line to intercept Liu Zhang's army, and there was no room for error. Two days later, Zhang Jijun, who was sleepy and lacking horses, arrived on the north bank of Weishui, and since then, Dong Zhuojun has deployed 28,000 soldiers and horses on the Weishui defense line in the Wugong area.

Zhang Jinai is the general of the Xiliang army, and his qualifications are not inferior to Li Le's master, Li Wei, although he has been idle in recent years, Yu Wei is especially there, so as soon as he arrived on the north bank of Weishui, he took over all the Xiliang troops near Wugong. Immediately, he summoned Li Le, Ding Qiang and his nephews Zhang Xiu and the love general Hu Che'er to discuss the military situation.

At the meeting, after listening to Li Le's report, Zhang Ji asked a slightly obese man who was about thirty or forty years old. Don't look at this person's appearance, he is famous in history. Okay, let's reveal his identity directly, this person is Jia Xu, one of Cao Cao's important strategists in the early stage (as for Jia Xu's person, there is no waste of pen and ink here to describe his body, otherwise there is a suspicion of making up words, if there is anything unclear, please Baidu)! Jia Xu had already expected that Liu Zhangjun's real attack was Luo Yukou, but he was cautious all his life and pursued the principle of protecting himself, so he saw that Zhang Ji did not ask, so he did not take the initiative to contribute, after all, the offer is also risky, once the proposed strategy is adopted, and the enemy does not act in accordance with the proposed strategy, resulting in the defeat of the battle, the responsibility for the failure of the battle is deducted on the head of the person who offered the plan, even if the battle is won because of the proposed strategy, the donor is likely to summon the disgust and disgust of his colleagues, and the rafters rot quickly! And if the proposed strategy is not adopted, resulting in the defeat of the battle, the strategist will also be at risk, and Yuan Shao's important strategist Tian Feng is an example!

Historically, after Jia Xu took refuge in Cao Cao, he was silent, cherishing words like gold, if Cao Cao didn't ask, he would definitely not get up. Now that Liu Zhang's family is dominant, in Jia Xu's view, Liu Zhang, who has the name of the Han clan, is most likely to win the world, in other words, Dong Zhuo, the public enemy of the world, will undoubtedly be defeated, so why should he have a mortal enmity with Liu Zhang, so he did not remind Zhang Ji in advance.

Jia Xu didn't want to speak, but he was named by Zhang Ji to ask for a plan, but he couldn't escape it, and as a strategist, the lord didn't ask, he could pretend not to know, but once the lord asked about the plan, then he had to know everything, this is the duty of a strategist, so he told Zhang Ji what he thought in his heart. In his opinion, among the Qinling Mountains, the Fu Luo Road is the most difficult, and it is difficult for Liu Zhang's main force to pass quickly, and at present, Liu Zhang's army is only a small number of vanguard troops on the south bank, and the troops are empty.

Li Le retorted that there were reinforcements arriving on the opposite side every day in the past two days, at least four or five thousand people a day, and at present Liu Zhang's army had at least 20,000 soldiers and horses on the south bank, and with less than 30,000 on his side, it would be difficult to defeat the enemy army, and once the attack failed, his own side suffered heavy losses, and it would greatly weaken the river defense.

Of course, Ding Qiang and Li Le are on the same side, not to mention that he doesn't want Zhang Ji to recover Luoyu Pass in one fell swoop, why? He defended the city with 5,000 elite soldiers, and was conquered by the enemy overnight, which is simply a great shame, if the Luoyu Pass was easily recovered by Zhang Ji later, does it seem that he is too incompetent? Some people are like this, when they fall into the pit, they will hate those who watch the excitement in the pit, and wish that everyone else would fall too. So Ding Qiang preached on the side how the enemy army had many generals and was eager to attack, and Zhang Xiu's troops were sleepy and lacking, so it was not appropriate to attack in a hurry......

Jia Xu made up his mind to protect himself, and he didn't say much when he came up with his idea, and let Zhang Ji choose, but Zhang Ji, who was bent on fighting, was persuaded by Li Le and others and chose to act safely, he thought that it was impossible to judge the reality of Liu Zhang's army on the other side for the time being, and the people he brought really needed to rest, so he ordered the attack to be suspended, and he would make plans after reconnoitring Liu Zhang's army. However, his nephew Zhang Xiu agreed with Jia Xu's opinion and took the initiative to ask Zhang Ji for war, but he was reprimanded by Zhang Ji and gave up. And Jia Xu saw that Zhang Ji didn't even know the gist of the art of war, and became more and more sure that the defeat of the Xiliang army was inevitable, so he was even more passive and slacking off.

Gao Shun saw the arrival of the opponent's reinforcements, and he couldn't help but be a little worried, although he had full confidence in the soldiers of the first brigade, but the disparity in strength was irreversible, and he had the determination to fight to the death, but he had no certainty of repelling the enemy. Fortunately, for a whole day, Zhang Ji did not attack, which made Gao Shun breathe a long sigh of relief.

The day after Zhang Ji led his troops to the north bank of the Wei River, Li Yan's 13,000 men finally arrived at the Luoyu Pass. Gao Shun finally waited for the arrival of the first division, and the heart hanging in the air finally fell back, and Zhang Ji also lost the perfect opportunity to recover the Luoyu Pass, and the two armies had no chance of defeating the other side, and the two sides faced each other across the Weishui from then on.

Speaking of Dong Zhuo, when he learned the news of the fall of Luoyu Pass, Dong Zhuo angrily dropped his favorite white porcelain cup produced in Yizhou, and when he ordered his cronies to go to the Wu Army, Ding Qiang and Li Le, who had lost the town, were executed, but fortunately they were persuaded by Li Ru, who came from Wen Xun.