Chapter 4 Section 39 Variables

In order to speed up the march, Yuan Yi had long forgotten about the drive of the people, and now when he saw Liu Bei, he suddenly remembered this and hurriedly ordered: "Hurry, hurry, drive the people to the front of the battle." ”

The strategist hurriedly stepped forward to remind: "Lord, Liu Bei has few soldiers, and our army may not fight him, but if he disperses his forces to drive the people away at this time, he will be in chaos." It is better for our army to move forward in formation, slowly approaching Liu Bei, relying on the large number of people, and catching him off guard. ”

Yuan Yi settled down and watched Liu Bei's formation from a distance, and sure enough, there were few soldiers. The cavalry divisions led by Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had only more than 2,000 people in each division because the cavalry consumed a lot of grain and grass and it was not easy to provide for them, which was far less than the infantry. The number of the Guards Regiment is 6,000, excluding the number of infantry divisions and guard battalions, and the right division of the Guards Cavalry is also more than 2,000 people. In total, Liu Bei faced the enemy head-on with more than 10,000 people. And his regular army has 30,000, plus the young and strong people who are wrapped in it, the total number is more than 50,000.

Yuan Yi let out a long laugh, and his heart was settled: "The formation is formed, and the whole army is slowly advancing." ”

Seeing Yuan Yu forming a formation from afar, Liu Bei turned his head and ordered: "Light the colored smoke, blow the military trumpet, sound the war drums, and call the ambushed men and horses to fight." ”

The red colored smoke was billowing up, and without waiting for Yuan Yi to ponder, Liu Bei lined up Zhang Fei's shoulders and said: "Who dares to cross the knife immediately, only I Zhang Fei Yide, Yide, you rush to the first formation, kill into the heart of the opponent's formation, and then turn the horse back to the army." You have few people, I have my own ideas for today's battle, don't be greedy for merit. ”

Open the gates and release the tiger.

Zhang Fei heard that he was rushing to the first formation, and forgot everything excitedly, and before Liu Bei finished his order, Zhang Fei roared angrily, roared, brandished the Zhangba snake spear, and went out of the formation, and behind him, the soldiers of the First Cavalry Division of the Second Army also rushed towards the enemy as if they had eaten stimulants, happily and fearlessly.

"Release the arrows, release the arrows", Yuan Yu ordered hoarsely, and the scattered arrows were released from the bowstring by the panicked soldiers, and they fell weakly in the open space not far away.

"Aim at the target, aim, release the arrow", the senior general of the army tried his best to stabilize morale.

Heavy cavalry in heavy armor and even the horses with metal barbs blocked the second wave of arrows, and the horses' hooves struck the ground like rumbling thunder; The red flag fluttered like a raging fire; The armor was bright, like a bolt of lightning; The long spears lined up, the cold light shining on the tips of the spears, like a metal forest, rushed towards Yuan Yi and slammed into the military formation.

The horses passed over and overturned, and the soldiers of Yuan Yi scattered in a panic to dodge. The heavy cavalry was like a sharp little scraper, scraping out the blank space in the long number (Han) of the wide one (Han) and the long number (Han), and this blank was smeared by a thick pool of blood.

"Formation, formation, don't disperse", Yuan Yu angrily scolded: "Liu Xuande, if you don't even say hello, will you rush over and kill people?" ”

Rows of bayonets pierced Yuan Yi's front line, and the cavalry that rushed into the formation drove the horses on a rampage, brandishing spears to kill the dodging soldiers, the spears were broken, and the hand axes were changed, and the hand axes were blunt, and the sabers were changed.

A moment of fighting and collision left corpses and pools of blood everywhere. The military horn sounded, Zhang Fei roared angrily, and turned his horse back to the army.

"Zhao Zilong (Zhao Yun), you lead the guards cavalry to charge the second formation and kill their dense formation." Liu Bei ordered loudly.

"Nuo", Zhao Zilong waved his spear and led the guards cavalry to rush out and kill Yuan Yu's army.

The Guards Cavalry Division belonged to the lightly armored cavalry, and its movement speed was much faster than that of the heavy cavalry, and before Zhang Fei could return to the formation, Zhao Yun had already approached the Yuan Remnant Army formation and launched a rush. Arrows rained down on the heads of Yuan's soldiers, and the wounded soldiers let out a burst of screams and wails. From time to time, the dense formations became loose due to the wounds and falls of the soldiers. The rain of arrows, as if it was a strong thinner, quickly diluted Yuan Yi's dense formation.

Zhang Fei panted and ran back to Liu Bei's formation, shouting dissatisfiedly: "Big brother, I'm killing happily, why did you call me back." ”

Liu Bei replied viciously: "You got carried away as soon as you went into battle. The enemy formation is getting denser and denser, and if you continue to fight, you may be able to defeat the enemy, but what about my soldiers? I have been training these soldiers for many years, and there is still a long way to go, and our battle is far from over, and I cannot afford to waste my precious military strength in a meaningless melee. War is to obtain the maximum benefit with the smallest casualties, when you understand this truth, you are the handsome not the general. ”

Guan Yu narrowed his eyes and realized a little, and Liu Bei immediately ordered: "Yun Chang, you take the heavy cavalry of the First Legion to take over Zilong to kill this battle." ”

The heavy cavalry roared out again, and when the heavy cavalry approached Yuan's army, Liu Bei sounded the military horn to withdraw Zhao Yun's light cavalry. The nightmarish rain of arrows had just ended, and before Yuan Yu's soldiers could recover their formation, Guan Yu's all-metal heavy cavalry rushed into the sparse military formation, rampage through the formation like a huge dinosaur.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded, in the direction of Liangfu Mountain, the fighting light cavalry led by Tai Shi Ci roared, Tai Shi Ci was in a green armor and green robe, and immediately carried three pots of arrows on his back, the bow was like a thunderbolt, and the horse was like a swimming dragon, flying into Yuan's relict array.

"Le Tao (Dian Wei), the whole army advances, and after receiving the enemy, go straight to the enemy's Chinese army, don't kill the general, don't come back."

Dian Wei answered the order loudly, brandishing his halberd and taking the lead towards Yuan's army.

In the direction of Guanshi Mountain, Guan Hai led the heavy cavalry to arrive in time, and then, the battle situation fell into a one-sided massacre, and the soldiers of Yuan Yi completely lost their sense of resistance.

"The last blow", Liu Bei brandished his saber and took the lead in killing Yuan, Zhang Feirusi responded, carrying a spear and following behind Liu Bei. Zhao Yun came to his senses, and immediately shouted, leading the soldiers to charge.

In chaos, Yuan's army completely collapsed, and everyone rushed to flee for their lives, ignoring the truth that two legs can't outrun four legs, and the subsequent cavalry pursuit only verified this truth.

"Killing chickens with a knife, this is killing chickens with a knife", Xu Shu said with emotion: "These seven kills rushed into battle, which was originally a killing move to deal with an army of 100,000, but it came to deal with the little person Yuan Yi. ”

Tian Chou nodded and agreed: "According to this round, although our army is less than 20,000, the enemy army is 100,000, and the will to fight will be completely shattered. ”

Guan Yu, who came back from the fight, heard these words, his eyes lit up and he was thoughtful.

"Where is Bao Xinjun now?" Liu Bei's face was covered with blood, and he returned to the Chinese army to ask the two military advisors.

"Finally, the news is that Bao Xinjun has crossed Juping and is rushing towards Liangfu Mountain." Tian Chou replied.

"Ordered the rear to urgently transport cement and building materials for the construction of the city, and here, to build a new city in the place of our army's victory, and the new city is called: Xintai. This city was used to settle the women and children who had been driven by Yuan's relics, and asked Bao Xin to send a general to guard the city to prevent anyone from entering Taishan County from this place in the future. ”

"Winter is coming, whether our army will return to the army after victory." Xu Shu then inquired about his next move.

Liu Bei groaned for a while and replied: "No, Zitai, the cleaning of the battlefield here, you and Bao Xin will consult, and our army will take a little rest and immediately cross the Lu State and enter the Chu State in the south." Yuan Zhi (Xu Shu), you inform Tao Qian that our army has defeated Yuan Yu, and the reinforcements are about to enter the Chu State and engage Yuan Shu. ”

"Lianyungang?" , Tian Chou asked briefly.

"Yes", Liu Bei replied: "Our army is stationed in Lianyungang this winter, and the rear is ordered to speed up the construction of the port, and all strategic materials are transported to Lianyungang. In the spring of next year, after our army withdraws, Lianyungang will be delivered to civilian use, and the goods in Qingzhou will be able to go south. Tell Qingzhou businessmen that this winter, be ready to expand production next year. ”

Tian Chou pondered and said: "Yuan Highway (Yuan Shu) is rarely known for his chivalrous spirit, and he is a lackey of the flying eagle with the princes, he is a famous chivalrous man of my Han Dynasty, ranking as a rear general, and his name is above Yuan Shao, and his generals are gathered, with 150,000 soldiers, and the lord uses this strength to meet Yuan Shu...... Do you need to add some more troops? ”

Liu Bei smiled indifferently: "Yuan Highway, the dry bones in the mound are just grass, I regard them as grass mustard." The person who can fight in the hands of the highway is only Sun Jian, and Sun Jian will have a thousand reasons to avoid fighting me in the face of Dong Zhuo. Sun Jian is not here, if Yuan Shu dares to fight, I will take his head and return. Take a dry bone head, these troops are enough. ”

Liu Bei crossed the border (Taishan County belongs to Yanzhou) to meet Yuan Yi, showing his uncooperative attitude with Yuan Shao, and after successfully killing Yuan Yu, Liu Bei waved his army into Chu to meet Yuan Shu. Yuan's 50,000-strong army was wiped out like snow in one day, and the news quickly spread throughout the country and reached Luoyang under Tian Chou's deliberate dissemination.

When the princes received this news, they were happy and sad, happy that Liu Bei led the army away, and Qingzhou was empty; The sad thing is that the rabbit died and the fox was sad, Liu Xuande obviously didn't welcome them to eat, and even made such a big reaction and faced each other with a butcher's knife. Immediately, the reaction of the princes was only fear - when the news came, Yuan Shao hurriedly led his army to retreat to Jizhou.

As for why Yuan Shao retreated to Jizhou, after a little inquiry, the truth was revealed: Lu Su Lu Zijing, the commander of Hengjiang, succeeded Le Jin and became the commander of the Third Army, and thus, he also became one of the Five Tigers (Five Army Commanders) in Qingzhou. Le Jin led Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan, and Chen to Chen Shuzhi into western Liao, and became the new supreme military governor of Izumo, the governor of Izumo.

In this way, the whereabouts of Gao Shun, the brave general who "attacks every attack, everyone who destroys", is revealed. Thinking that Lei Cai, who is known as the number one force in the world, is quietly lurking in Qingzhou, ready to choose people to devour, it is no wonder that Yuan Shao hurriedly led troops to avoid. After hearing the news, the princes looked at each other, compared their distance from Qingzhou, and moved troops to avoid them - they were originally closer to Qingzhou, but now they are farther away from Qingzhou. Liu Bei, that madman, dared to cross the border to attack Yuan Yi, who knows if his subordinates would cross the border to attack others.

For a time, the speed of the princes of the Central Plains advancing towards Qingzhou was greatly reduced, and even regressed.

After Gao Shun received the battle report, he did not hesitate to order: "Don't stop, the whole army continues to move towards Jinan County." ”

Gao Ran was puzzled and asked, "Since the enemy army is afraid to move forward, why does our army continue to advance?" Winter is coming, and if the war continues, won't we have to spend the winter in the barracks? ”

Gao Shun replied proudly: "The lord has just fought a battle in Mount Tai, and no one in Mount Tai County will dare to enter." However, people's greed cannot be contained, and if they don't teach the princes a hard lesson, they will inevitably look for a way to enter Qingzhou. In this way, in the northwest of Qingzhou, Jinan County still owes a battle, so let's make up for him. ”

With Gao Shun's order, the black-clothed, black-armored black horse, and the hideous face of the thunder horse surged like a tide, and the rolling iron stream rolled up thick smoke and dust on the dry land at the end of autumn, and the war dust that went straight to the sky could be seen dozens of miles away - the world-shaking thunder horse entered Jinan.

After Lei Cai entered Jinan, he groaned slightly, and saw that the princes were frightened, so he immediately waved his army north, crossed Luowo and entered Pingyuan County, and the army pointed directly at Yuan Shao.

"Gongzu, I've caused a big disaster" Xuzhou Chu State, as soon as Liu Bei and Tao Qian met, Liu Bei said miserably: "The princes will be in alliance, originally intended to be Dong Zhuo, but now I am the unanimous enemy of the princes." Yuan Benchu's son-in-law actually took me under the knife, forgetting my credit for fighting for him on the front line, which is really inexplicable. ”

Tao Qian happily replied: "It's the same, Yuan Highway is under the banner of entering Qingzhou, but I don't know if it is not to enter my Xuzhou, now Qingxu is one, and we just want to fight against foreign enemies together." ”

Liu Bei respectfully asked, "Gong Zugong, is this situation solvable?" ”

Tao Qian replied confidently: "Can it be solved? ”

"How can I solve it?"

"What Yuan Benchu relied on was just the alliance of princes, and he became the leader of the alliance. Others can elect the leader of the alliance, can't we elect the leader of the alliance? If we also elect a leader, will we not be able to contend with him in terms of momentum? Yuan Benchu. The power of the Alliance Leader can no longer be applied to us. ”

"Is there a candidate in Gongzugong's heart?"

"The former right lieutenant general, Qian Tang Marquis (county marquis, the highest rank of the marquis), captain of the city gate, Henan Yin (Sili area, the county is called "Yin") Zhu Jun avoided Dong Zhuo's edge, and now he is stationed in Yingchuan County. Zhu Jun once served with Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song, and Dong Zhuo as the four lieutenant generals of the Yellow Turban in Pingding, and his reputation was more than twice as high as Yuan Benchu. ”

Well, Tao Qian is worthy of being a scheming careerist. Zhu Jun was recommended by Tao Qian's father-in-law, and Xu Jue, the former Hui Ji Taishou, was recommended as filial piety and went to the official career. Tao Qian's move is both public and selfish. However, at this moment, Liu Bei needs to avoid becoming a public enemy of the world, and he can't oppose it.

"With Gongwei (Zhu Jun's cousin) coming forward, this matter is very good. Gong Zugong is doing this, what do you need, just mention it, I Liu Bei fully supports. ”

The news that Liu Bei sent troops to break Yuan's army was transmitted to Luoyang with Liu Bei's tribute envoy Zhao Yu, Dong Zhuo was overjoyed, and the Kwantung coalition army finally began to kill each other, and the mad tiger Liu Bei defeated his most capable Lu Bu, as long as Qingzhou no longer sent troops, Luoyang would be stable. At this time, the feints of Cao Cao, Sun Jian, and Zhang Yang in the three directions of the southeast and north were no longer to be feared.

In order to appease Liu Bei, Dong Zhuo crowned Liu Bei as the general of Zhendong (the highest military commander established in the early Han Dynasty who also led the armies of the three states of Qing, Xu, and Henan, and was only an empty title at this time), and the marquis of Guanghuan Township (slightly higher than the rank of the Marquis of Ting, lower than the rank of the Marquis of the county). and readily agreed to the request of the tribute envoy Zhao Yu to include the royal classics.

After appeasing Liu Bei, Dong Zhuo began to woo Sun Jian, and sent an envoy Li Dao to ask for peace, promising to marry his daughter to Sun Ce, and let Sun Jian make a list of relatives and children who served as assassins and county guards, and Dong Zhuo appointed them.

Sun Jian faced Li Dao and replied with a sneer: "Dong Zhuo, there is no way against the sky, I will not punish his three clans, and his head will be suspended to the whole country, and he will not be blinded." Dong Thief wants to make peace with me, hum, you go back and tell him that Hu Ziyan can match the dog girl. ”

Li Dao hugged his head and ran away, Sun Jian immediately waved his army out of Taigu City, changed his feint attack into a hard attack, marched to a place 90 miles away from Luoshui, and forced Luoyang.

"It's bad, it's bad" Liu Bei got the news of Sun Jian's troops, and secretly complained: "Sun Jian sent troops to Luoyang, entered Pishan, and fought in front of the mausoleum of Dong Zhuo's emperors of previous dynasties, it should be in June next year, and now, obviously, history has accelerated its pace." If Dong Zhuo perishes too quickly, and the old forces are not completely broken, there must be great resistance to the establishment of a new world. Alas, in order to maintain the balance between the two sides, there is only one way to weaken the anti-Dong coalition forces. ”

"The whole army should speed up and contact Yuan Shu as soon as possible", this was an unplanned battle, Liu Bei originally planned to force Yuan Shu to withdraw from the army, so the war was over, and now, due to Sun Jian's attack, the whole war is more and more out of Liu Bei's grasp.

"History is becoming more and more difficult to grasp", Liu Bei muttered in a low voice, at this time, the situation of the war was out of control.

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