Volume 1 The Yellow Turban Rebellion Chapter 86 Night Battle (7)
Guan Yu led more than 100 cavalrymen to shoot in turn with cavalry bows of the official army system, because the horses were fast and the bow and arrow range was long, and the people in Taiping Dao could only be beaten. So after suffering nearly twenty casualties, Zhang Liang chose to retreat. With an order, Taiping Dao immediately turned around and withdrew with his feet scattered, regardless of whether the pursuers were chasing or not.
Zhang Liang was helpless but with a hint of luck, with the current organizational discipline of Taiping Dao, he didn't have to go to great lengths to play the retreat, it was simply his true colors.
Seeing that the Taiping Dao people retreated from the Yueshui Stream in a chaotic manner, someone said to Guan Yu: "General, the Taiping Dao thieves are in great turmoil, and since they have retreated, our army should take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill." ”
Guan Yu snorted coldly and said, "The lord has an order, only arrows are allowed to harass along the way, and you must not lead the army to attack." The armies pursued them to the water stream, and if the thieves were in array, they continued to harass, and if they were defeated and retreated into the mountains, they were not allowed to pursue. ”
The man was about to say something, but Guan Yu Danfeng's eyes narrowed, and before he could speak, the man felt a chill in the back of his head, and hurriedly got off the horse to apologize.
When Taipingdao completely withdrew into the mountains, Guan Yufang ordered to leave four squads of troops, where they took turns to monitor, and once there was a disturbance, they quickly rode back to the city to report the news, and then led the remaining eighty cavalry to the east of the city.
Seeing that Guan Yu had not chased in, Zhang Liang finally breathed a sigh of relief. Because he only placed more than twenty people here, who were responsible for casting the rolling wood stones. It's just that with the scale and density of the rolling wood and stone, it is difficult to cause too much damage to Guan Yu's pursuers.
Why is it so arranged? Isn't there still more than 300 elites outside the city? Could it be that Zhang Liang was clever and had already calculated that Guan Yu's pursuers would not chase into the mountain stream, so he didn't arrange so many people? The answer is no, just because Zhang Liang doesn't have so many people.
In fact, tonight's assassination of Liu Bian has exhausted the last trace of Taiping Dao's strength in Yangzhai County, and even Jia Ren, who has been lurking in Yangzhai County for many years, has been exposed, and his investment is not small. However, the assassination of Liu Bian, before Taiping Dao was officially raised, was not a question that could be put on the surface after all. Therefore, it is impossible for Taiping Dao to solve the problem by mobilizing a large army to besiege the city, and if so, Zhang Liang's plan to force Guo Bin to oppose him will inevitably be aborted.
Therefore, Zhang Liang mobilized all the elite forces of Taiping Dao in Yingchuan County, transferred the big and small leaders of Yingchuan County and people with outstanding martial arts to Yangzhai County one after another, and then used Jia Ren's transfer of property outside the city as a cover, and little by little changed the people who had ambushed Liu Bian into the city. In this way, Fang smoothly avoided Guo Bin's ears and eyes.
The reason why the whereabouts of the 300 troops stationed in the mountains were deliberately exposed a few days ago was just a suspicious tactic. The so-called "don't think about victory, think about defeat first", if the assassination fails and the army withdraws, once Guo Bin chases after him, then how to get out of the more than 300 elites of Taiping Road smoothly has become a big problem. Therefore, the three hundred "army" "appeared" a little, so that Guo Bin's people found their traces, and then entered the city in batches. It was to make Guo Bin mistakenly think that the more than 300 Taiping Dao that had besieged Liu Bian had lurked in the mountains south of Yangzhai City, so that he did not dare to enter the mountains to pursue.
And in order to get out smoothly, Zhang Liang naturally couldn't just hope for the plan of the suspicious soldiers, his way to get out was to take the waterway.
Ten days ago, Zhang Liang secretly rented more than a dozen fishing boats with the help of Jia Ren's power in Yangzhai County, and gathered all of them on the Yingshui River in the southeast of Yangzhai City. It was a reed swing, and the reeds were higher than the horse's head, and no one could see them when they stood in it. Surrounded by mountains, it is difficult to spot fishing boats hiding on the shore. Just because there are often fishing boats coming to fish in this place, Jia Ren actually rented all the fishing boats in Yangzhai County, first, to prevent the fishing boats from approaching and gain insight into the plan of Taiping Road, and secondly, to prevent the pursuers in Yangzhai County from pursuing them by boat. It's a good plan, a good hand.
The best thing is that from the crossing of the water stream to the place where the hidden boat is, there is an unknown path, which is both hidden and fast, which was discovered by the old Jia family as the head snake of the land that has been running Yang Zhai for several generations, and is not known to outsiders.
In this way, after the Taiping Dao people entered the mountain, if Guan Yu's pursuers were in hot pursuit, the ambush soldiers who crossed the water stream pushed down the boulders on the mountain, on the one hand, to block the road, and on the other hand, to use it as a suspicious strategy, so that the pursuers became more and more determined that there was indeed an ambush in the mountain, and did not dare to enter the mountain to pursue.
Sure enough, Guan Yu only left twenty cavalry to watch, and then led the army to leave. Seeing this, Zhang Liang led the team to the location of the hidden boat on the other side of the mountain.
The mountains were densely covered with trees, and there was no light in sight, and he was afraid that the pursuers would see him, so after marching into the mountains for about a quarter of an hour, Zhang Liangfang dared to order someone to light a torch and move forward. Because of the lack of injuries and the difficulty of the mountain road, the mountain road of more than ten miles took more than two hours to arrive. At this time, the horizon has begun to shine slightly, and the sun that has not yet come out has dyed the clouds in the sky red.
The exhausted Taiping Dao people came out of the forest and finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now that I got rid of the pursuers and went out of the mountains and forests, I finally had a chance to rest. Some of the people in a group of people sat down to rest, eating the cold and dry food they carried with them by the way, and some were about to board the ship, when a chirp was like a morning chicken, which was already exhausted after a busy night.
Immediately, the sound of arrows breaking through the air came, and at that time, a large number of Taiping Dao who were lying on the ground before they had time to react were covered in blood and could no longer get up.
However, the nightmare is not over, only to hear the "whoosh" of arrows, from the surrounding mountains not far away, wave after wave of long arrows from the surrounding mountains flying down.
Can you imagine the scene of a rain of arrows in the movie "Heroes"? More than 300 sharp arrows fired at a non-stop and rapid rate, enough to cover an area for a long time, and after the rain of arrows, not a single living creature remained.
The rain of arrows lasted for a meal before it gradually stopped, and Zhang Liang, with the intuition of a master, fell into the river in an instant before the rain of arrows came, hiding under the fishing boat, and escaped. Otherwise, no matter how profound the horizontal kung fu is, it will be impossible to escape death under such a dense and powerful rain of arrows.
Turning his head out of the water, he only heard the miserable howls and screams on the shore, and the sound became one, and none of the more than 300 elites of the Taiping Dao he brought with him could stand anymore.