Chapter 106: The Southern Barbarian General
Three days after Guan Yu's big break, Ye Zhao's main army converged with Zhou Cang, but Guan Yu had already led his soldiers and horses to Jianning.
"Lord, although Yongqi is dead now, but Jianning still has the surnames of Yong, Gao, and Zhu, although Yongqi's death will shake the heart of Jianning's army, but it will not cause chaos, and the last general thinks that we should send troops to Jianning as soon as possible to echo General Guan!" Huang Quan hugged Ye Zhao with a fist.
"I mean the same thing!" Ye Zhao nodded, Yong Yu was beheaded by Guan Yu, Meng escaped and surrendered 8,000 prisoners, and his own losses were minimal, it can be said that he won a big victory, Guan Yu took advantage of the situation to attack Jianning, but this time the Nanban Rebellion, it was the four county families who colluded with the Nanban to raise troops, Yong Yu was just the leader who was pushed out, although his death will have a certain impact, but it will never make Jianning completely lose the ability to resist, it is inevitable that Guan Yu will go too far with the army, he must catch up as soon as possible, while Guan Yu is alone.
"Gan Ning!" Ye Zhao looked at Gan Ning Dao.
"The last general!" Gan Ning stepped forward and bowed.
"There should be someone in the academy who has taught how to sort out and surrender troops." Ye Zhao looked at Gan Ning Dao.
"Naturally, re-selecting the commanders and commanders from the surrendered troops, disrupting and reorganizing, can turn the surrendered army into our army in a short time, if this battle can be Jianning, it will be better." Gan Ning hugged his fists.
Most of these troops are people from Jianning County, if this battle can take Jianning, they can quickly gather the hearts of the army, although they cannot be compared with the Shu army, but they can also become a force that can be used.
"You will stay with Zhou Cang to restrain the surrender army, and at the same time be responsible for escorting grain and grass, I will personally lead the main force to support General Guan, there must be no mistake!" Ye Zhao nodded with satisfaction, the students who came out of the academy were basically impeccable in theory.
"Whoa!" Gan Ning bowed down to receive the order, although he was also a little unwilling, hoping to be able to go into battle with the army to kill the enemy, but this time the people who went out on the expedition were all veterans around Ye Zhao, and they couldn't earn anything, so it was better to stay and rectify the army, maybe if the enemy army robbed the grain, he could also make a meritorious achievement.
After a short rest, Ye Zhao led the army on the road again, this time handing over the grain and grass to Gan Ning for escort, plus the mark left by Guan Yu before, the army marched a lot faster.
Guan Yu did run into trouble.
After Meng Shu fled back to Jianning, he immediately contacted the three major families of Jianning, and at the same time, the owner of the Ba Na Cave and the owner of the Yinye Cave also led the army to come, the soldiers and horses of the two caves, plus the soldiers who fled back gathered together, gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses in the area of Tanyu Mountain and Wei County, the strength did not decrease but increased, Guan Yu led 4,000 soldiers and horses to kill, encountered Meng Shu's ambush, lost a lot of people, saw that the thief was huge, Guan Yu could only retreat and set up camp, and the soldiers sent someone to inform Ye Zhao, please Ye Zhao arrived as soon as possible.
Ye Zhao marched all the way and joined Guan Yu two days later.
Wei County, the camp of the South Central Alliance, Meng Shu is discussing with the new Jianning Taishou Gao Chang, the Ba Na Cave Lord Duo Silai and the Yinye Cave Lord in the tent, hearing the arrival of Ye Zhao's army, Meng Shu smiled at the three of them: "As far as I know, the Shu Lord Ye Zhao actually led only 20,000 troops this time, and now our army has as many as 40,000, it is time to take the initiative to attack and defeat it, and then it can be smashed into / Capital!" ”
Gao Chang frowned when he heard this: "Meng Shu, you have been in this southern Xinjiang for a long time, I don't know that Ye Zhao is powerful, he is not only the lord of Shuzhong, he was an official in the imperial court in his early years, and if he has a great reputation in the Central Plains, he is a famous general of the Han Dynasty. ”
"That's in the Central Plains, this southern Xinjiang, the terrain is complicated, he Ye Zhao just arrived, in terms of the Han people's art of war, this location, people, all lie in us, why be afraid, he has troops who are good at fighting in the mountains and forests?" Meng Shu said disdainfully.
"I've never heard of it." Gao Chang shook his head and said: "But he has fierce generals under his command, and Guan Yu is only one of them, and there are many fierce generals in addition, and their reputation is not under Guan Yu." ”
"Then Guan Yu is really as powerful as you say?" Duo Silai frowned and looked at Meng Shu.
Hearing this, Meng Shu nodded with a wry smile and said, "If I hadn't been lucky enough to escape this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to see you again." ”
Everyone couldn't help but be silent when they heard this, and the cave master of Yinye Cave frowned and said: "There is a warrior named Yuequat under my command, who can tear tigers and leopards alive, his strength is infinite, and his martial arts are also exquisite, so he may not be invincible!" ”
Meng Shu thought about it, he had also seen bilberry, his height was close to zhang, his strength was powerful, his voice was like thunder, and his arms also had the strength of ten thousand jun, but he always felt that it seemed to be a little worse than Guan Yu.
Duo Silai on the side also said: "My first warrior in the Ba Na Cave is not as brave as Yuecheng, but it is not too bad, the two of them join forces, even if Guan Yu is powerful, he may not be able to win the two of them, tomorrow it is better for me to go to challenge together, if you can kill Guan Yu, you can also frustrate the spirit of the Shu army!" ”
"Good!" Meng Shu nodded and turned his head to look at Gao Chang.
"I'll go with the generals." Gao Chang nodded, now that the 40,000 army is gathered here, the consumption of grain and grass is not low, Jianning is not as rich as Shuzhong, the sooner this battle is over, the better it will be for them.
The next morning, Duo Silai and the master of Yinye Cave recruited Yue Orange and Niche to join Meng Shu, leaving 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard the camp, and each led 30,000 troops to fight in front of Ye Zhao's army.
Ye Zhao's side also got the news, and quickly reorganized the soldiers and horses out of the camp, and 15,000 soldiers and horses assembled outside the camp to confront the South Central Alliance Army.
"Lord, this time the thief army is not weak, there are 30,000!" Huang Quan and Ye Zhao stood on the lookout platform, watching the enemy formation from a distance, and smiled at Ye Zhao.
"An army of 30,000 is twice the size of our army, how can we balance without the slightest worry?" Ye Zhao turned his head, looked at Huang Quan and asked with a smile.
"Although the thief army is numerous, but the lord and look, the three groups of people and horses are clearly distinguished, once the war starts, a little unfavorable, they will be chaotic and trample on each other, but a rabble, although our army is small, but they are all elite, the order is unified, the order is forbidden, the lord is also a famous general in the world, such a rabble, if the city is refused and defended can still fight, out of the city to fight, but it is self-defeating!" Huang Quan smiled at Ye Zhao.
"Gongheng has also learned to be so slippery." Ye Zhao and Huang Quan came down from the watchtower, joined the generals, and said to Huang Quan: "But even so, once the war starts, there will be losses, our army this time, there are only 20,000 soldiers and horses, 3,000 left in Zhuti, Yun Chang was ambushed a few days ago, and there are soldiers and horses left to watch and take prisoners, and now there are only 15,000 people left. ”
"What the lord said is very true, but it's a pity that the thieves are intimidated by General Yun Chang, and they don't dare to fight with our army, otherwise, with the courage of the generals, they will be able to frustrate the enemy's spirit, plus the previous Jianning soldiers and horses have been broken by General Yun Chang, and when the time comes, they will be able to defeat the thieves in one go!" Huang Quan said with some regret.
There are a lot of fierce generals under Ye Zhao, Guan Yu, Dian Wei, and Zhao Yun don't need to say more, and Zhang Liao, Hua Xiong, Guan Hai, and Ji Ling are also few enemies, and the strength of Zhang Ren, Guan Ping, and Gan Ning in the younger generation is not small, so many fierce generals, but because the enemy was scared out of his courage, he ......
"Listen to the Han people on the other side, I am the first warrior of the Ba Na Cave, and I am here to take Guan Yu's head on the order of my cave master, which one is Guan Yu, and I will not come out to die!" The two were talking, but they heard a roar from the front of the formation.
Ye Zhao: "......"
Huang Quan: "......"
"What did Gong Heng just say?" Ye Zhao turned his head and looked at Huang Quan.
Huang Quan was speechless, this slap in the face came too quickly.
"Check it out!" Ye Zhao took Huang Quan to the front of the battle, but saw a man with a height of eight feet and a round waist riding a strange beast, carrying a big knife in his hand to show off his might in front of the two armies, and his attitude was very arrogant.
"This strange beast ......" Huang Quan looked at the man sitting down on the strange beast, frowning slightly, as if he had seen it in the picture scroll of the academy.
"Dan Rhino!" Ye Zhao glanced at Dian Wei helplessly and said: "When Ben Hou entered Shu, the Qingqiang leader A Qinggu led the Qingqiang soldiers to Ruo County to help in the war, and the Qingqiang leader's mount was this beast, A Qinggu was killed by Dian Wei, and his mount was also slaughtered by Dian Wei and shared with the soldiers of the three armies, and the leather armor on Dian Wei's body was made of this Dan rhino leather, which was extremely tough and not under the iron armor!" ”
As soon as he said this, Ye Zhao had some complaints about Dian Wei, what a good mount, even if it can't be equipped in batches, but a fierce general like Dian Wei is equipped and put on heavy armor, it is a humanoid tank on the battlefield, but it was eaten by Dian Wei like this.
Dian Wei was quite uncomfortable by Ye Zhao's view, seeing that the shrine was showing off his martial arts, Guan Yu was already ready to fight, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Guan Yu and said: "Yun Chang Shaoxi, this thief's mount lord wants it, I'll bring it!" ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for Guan Yu to react, carried a pair of iron halberds, stepped on the stirrups and ran towards the niche.
"You are Guan Yu?" The shrine didn't recognize Guan Yu, and saw that Dian Wei was sturdy and murderous, and pointed the big knife in his hand at Dian Weidao.
Dian Wei didn't look at the shrine, a pair of copper bell-like eyes stared at the red rhinoceros where the shrine sat down, licked his lips and scolded: "Good beast, you are all blamed for causing me to be blamed by the lord, and you won't go back with me today!" ”
As he spoke, he rode his horse upward.
Seeing that Dian Wei ignored him, but talked to a beast, he couldn't help but be furious, patted Dan Xi's head, urged Dan Xi, and slashed Dian Wei with a knife.
"Get out of here!" Dian Wei single-handed halberd, and the shrine against a move, was pushed back, one arm was a little numb, but saw that the niche was also looking at Dian Wei with a look of shock, but he used both hands to exert force, it was only on par with Dian Wei's one-arm strength, and he didn't dare to underestimate it, and urged the mount to step forward again.
Dian Wei shook his arm that was a little numb, facing this opponent for the first time, seeing the opponent's knife coming, a double halberd, a move Qinglong claws to seal the big knife, and then the two halberds pushed flat, directly to the ten fingers of the niche.