Chapter 22: Reconciliation
A war with little difference in numbers, but almost one-sided, not only caused Li Dao to lose more than 20,000 horses, but more importantly, Yixian County was lost, Li Dao had nowhere to fortify, Ji Ling's soldiers and horses went to support Guan Yu, but Li Dao could not stop it, because Ye Zhao sent Zhao Yun and Guan Hai at the same time to lead the army to cruise on the side, monitoring Li Dao's every move of the army, so that Li Dao did not dare to move lightly.
Chang'an has fallen, although there are still a few cities, but with the strength of the Shu army's siege equipment, it is difficult to garrison large cities such as Chang'an, and now, Chang'an has fallen into the hands of Ye Zhao, and now Li Dao has tens of thousands of troops, but there is no place to stand.
Now Li Dao can only go to Guo Yan and join forces with Guo Yan to fight Ye Zhao, between the two, whether the Son of Heaven was still in Chang'an in the past or later turned against each other, Li Dao has always had the advantage, but this time, this difference between the main and secondary priorities, I am afraid it will have to be changed.
Li Dao was unwilling in his heart, but the situation was stronger than people, and the combat effectiveness of the Shu army was far beyond his estimate, even if he didn't have those siege equipment, he had to face Ye Zhao, Li Dao was also weak in his heart, and he had to use Guo Yan's strength to be able to resist Ye Zhao.
Wugong County.
When Guo Yan learned that Li Dao was defeated in the first battle, lost Yixian, and lost his troops, he was also surprised.
Although the two of them were a little dirty before, and the trouble was unpleasant later, but Guo Yan still knows a little bit about Li Dao's ability, not a top general, but definitely not mediocre, when Dong Zhuo was alive, although Hua Xiong was the first fierce general in Xiliang, but in terms of status, he was ranked behind Zhang Ji.
This is also the reason why Li Dao has always occupied the dominant position in this pass, and his ability to command troops to fight is absolutely second to none among the generals in Guanzhong.
led an army of 50,000 troops to garrison Yi County, even if Ye Zhao was powerful, in Guo Yan's view, it was a bit unscientific for Li Dao, who fought in the first battle, to abandon the city and flee.
"What the hell is going on?" The next day, after Li Wei fled to Wugong and ordered people to set up camp, he found Guo Yan, and when he was in danger of survival, he couldn't care about fighting for power and profit, Guo Wei looked at Li Wei's embarrassed appearance, and he was still a little incredulous.
"The Shu army is too strong!" Li Wei took the water handed by Guo Yan, drank it in one go, and said with a breath: "Catapults, wells, siege ladders, crossbow arrows, and soldiers' armor are defenseless!" Three or five soldiers can besiege and kill the generals of our army, and there will be no casualties! ”
In these years, those who can serve as generals in the army, no matter how pus, their skills will not be too bad, even if Li Xian does not learn and has no skills, but his martial arts are absolutely excellent, and more than a dozen strong men are not close to him.
"Is it really that powerful?" Guo Yan exclaimed.
"Well, that armor seems to be the rattan armor of the Southern Barbarians, in the past, when Dong Xiang was alive, someone sent a few pairs, not afraid of knives and guns, but afraid of fire, but the rattan armor in Ye Zhao's army is wrapped in leather, and it is difficult to attack with fire." Li Wei nodded, sat down a little depressed and said: "Although there are not many rattan armor soldiers, but if it really fights, it will be a trouble, and that catapult, not only can shoot two hundred steps, but also extremely accurate, what is even more terrifying is that as soon as the stone bullet lands, it will be shattered, although it does not damage the city wall, but the broken stones are more powerful than the arrow clusters, there are almost no living people in a radius of one or two zhang, I will fight with Ye Zhao again, we can't resist the city and defend it, just those siege equipment, it is enough to collapse morale." ”
"But if you fight head-on......" Guo Yan hesitated a little, now with Duan Xuan's soldiers and horses, the zero and zero are finally counted, and it is only about 150,000, Li Wei also sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Chang'an, and the rest of these horses and horses are against Ye Zhao, whether they can win, Guo Yan is a little uncertain in his heart.
"If we don't fight head-on, our army has no chance of winning at all!" Li Dao gritted his teeth and said: "Although the equipment of the Shu army is powerful, it is only a part, most of it is still ordinary equipment, we have a lot of people, and we may not have no chance of winning if we attack separately." ”
Guo Yan nodded silently, looked at Li Dao and said, "I heard the news, Chang'an is lost?" ”
When Li Wei heard this, his face suddenly became more difficult to look at, and he nodded gloomily: "It should be that the Shu army attacked from the Meridian Valley, and there are not many people, but there are only three thousand people, if it weren't for the Wei family's action, they wouldn't have made a profit, I have ordered Li Ying and Li Li's army to go to counterattack, hoping to capture it." ”
"How could the Wei family make a move?" Guo Yan was stunned and said, in the past few years, the Wei family has been very peaceful, if it weren't for this move, Guo Yan would almost forget the existence of the Wei family.
"I can see it." Li Wei scolded hatefully and said: "There are more eyes in the hearts of these scholars, Ye Zhao entered Shu back then, and he has been dormant for ten years, and the Wei family is not far behind, this time there is no reason to send troops at all, it is clear that Ye Zhao has accumulated enough strength and wants to annex this place in one go, and the cub of the Wei family is not happy!" ”
Guo Yan was silent when he heard this, before this, Ye Zhao had a good relationship with them, not only sent food every year, but even made plans to help them stabilize Guanzhong, who would have thought that this would turn their faces, and this time as soon as they sent troops, it was the momentum of thunder, Longyou Five Counties, Yixian, Chang'an, how long has it been, they have lost their cities and lands one after another.
"At this point, you and I must unite." Li Dao looked at Guo Yan and said.
"Aren't we joining forces now?" Guo Yan looked at Li Dao, a little inexplicable.
"You should know that's not what I'm talking about!" Li Wei looked at Guo Yan seriously and said: "Just like when you and I counterattacked Chang'an, you and I sincerely cooperate to have a chance of winning, how about writing off those grievances and grievances in the past?" ”
Speaking of which, Li Wei is actually angry in his heart, the two of them broke up, in the final analysis, it wasn't Guo Yan's unseen woman who chewed her tongue indiscriminately and was jealous, so that the whole Guanzhong collapsed later, and the warlords divided the situation, if it wasn't for the two of them to break up, why would this be so?
"You really didn't want to hurt me in the first place?" Guo Yan looked at Li Dao and said, in addition to the reason of women, Li Dao killed Fan Chou and Li Meng in a row, which also cast a shadow on Guo Yan's heart, so he was worried that Li Dao would kill himself together and occupy the land of Guanzhong alone.
"Nonsense, if I really had bad intentions at that time, and I had the opportunity to harm you, how could I be stupid enough to do my hands and feet in the middle of the meal, and I ate those things differently?" Li Dao glared and said angrily.
"Well, I'll believe you again!" Guo Yan nodded fiercely, so far, apart from this, there seems to be no other way out, under the oppression of Ye Zhao, the two who have been fighting for nearly three years can be regarded as getting back together.
Early the next morning, Li Dao and Guo Yan gathered all the generals, and invited Duan Xuan to discuss the plan to deal with Ye Zhao, one thing is certain, you must not fight with Ye Zhao to defend the city, the siege weapons of the Shu army are really terrifying, and the defense of the city is tantamount to self-inflicted.
"What's going on? Didn't you say you'd do it when you came here? Why did he get back together with Guo Yan!? After the discussion was completed, Li Wei and Guo Yan asked the generals to prepare, and after Hu Feng left the big tent, seeing that there was no one around, he pulled Duan Xuan into a corner, and shouted in a low voice according to Duan Xuan's anger.
"The general doesn't have to worry, he has a chance!" Duan Xuan said in a low voice: "Now it's just under pressure, the two sides have to join forces, as long as you and I try to provoke, we will definitely be able to turn the two of them against each other, but you and I will help Li Dao kill Guo Yan, and then get rid of Li Dao!" ”
"When!?" Hu Feng felt that he was going crazy, and now he was thinking about how to kill Li Dao, but in front of Li Dao, he had to pretend to be a casual and loyal minister, worried that Li Dao would see something.
He really didn't want to live this kind of day for a moment, and he couldn't wait to rush in with a knife now and kill Li Dao and Guo Yan together.
"If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan!" Duan Xuan patted Hu Feng's shoulder and smiled, "I won't wait too long!" ”
"It better be!" Hu Feng snorted coldly and threw away his sleeves.
Looking at Hu Feng's back, Duan Xuan shook his head disdainfully, with this patience, do you really want to be the master of Guanzhong?