Chapter 425: Diving in Troubled Waters
In fact, Zhao Yun is extremely reluctant to show this kind of fast tongue in front of the battle, but this time there is really no way, he must buy time for Liu Feng, and saying this can also provoke Xu Chu in front of him, he knows that he probably can't tell the winner with Xu Chu within a few moves, so only when Xu Chu is angered, can Xu Chu and himself fight for a long time in front of the battle, in this way, Liu Feng will also have a calm time to act in Luoyang City, he and Zhou Yu have formulated a series of strategies, and this, It's just the beginning.
After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he turned the horse back to where he was before, this is obviously not that he is afraid of Xu Chu, but he can't venture into the other side of the moat to fight Xu Chu, but to lure Xu Chu step by step to a position that is getting farther and farther away from the city gate, so that even if Liu Feng is exposed to Luoyang City, it will not be Xu Chu who will return to the city as soon as he turns around, what he wants to ensure is to do his best to create even one more breath of time for Liu Feng.
Zhao Yun's detail did not let Xu Chu take it to heart, he just sneered when he saw this situation, what he thought in his heart was naturally to let Zhao Yun and the others get as far away from the city gate as possible, the city head had already been arranged by Xu Chu's lieutenant general with a lot of archers, so it was understandable for Zhao Yun to put the army outside the moat.
Xu Chu also raised the long knife in his hand high at this time, and waved it forward, and the soldiers who went out of the city followed Xu Chu almost at the same time, and after crossing the moat, they confronted the army led by Zhou Yu and Zhao Yun, and the atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly had a lot of differences compared to before, Xu Chu and Zhao Yun stood opposite each other, obviously a big battle was inevitable.
This until the end of the Han Dynasty is still in vogue in the tradition of the generals heads-up, is from the Spring and Autumn Period of the 'Zhishi' evolved, the Han Dynasty all kinds of bows and crossbows are not very strong, so if you start to fight directly, not only do not have much rules, can not reflect the value of the generals, but also will cause very large casualties, is not a good strategy for both sides, so the tradition of heads-up before the battle continued, at least until the end of the Han Dynasty, it was still very popular.
The two generals go head-to-head, winning or directly cutting off the opponent's generals is a way to improve their morale, once their generals win, then most of the people behind them will rush up to cover up the past, the victory of this war will naturally follow, coupled with the concept of poor Mo chasing unique to this era, a battle, unless there is any deep hatred, otherwise it is difficult to cause too many casualties under normal circumstances, such a way of fighting is also the default of this era, Otherwise, how many young and middle-aged people in the Central Plains are not enough to be devastated by this cruel war.
In Xu Chu's mind, the other party only has Zhao Yun this time, a decent general, as long as he seizes this opportunity to defeat Zhao Yun, then Zhou Yu and Zhao Yun will definitely retreat without a fight, not only that, but his reputation in the Central Plains will rise a notch, at this time, Xu Chu's body has reached the age when it has begun to decline, and he has been obsessed with fighting, so he naturally wants to defeat some famous generals while he can still hold the big knife in his hand, Zhao Yun is naturally one of them.
After the two people with their own thoughts lined up in formation, they naturally stopped talking, and each rode their horses to a clearing in front of the two armies, under the illumination of the sun, Xu Chu, who was very large, was like a god of war, and the horse that covered the sky and the sun stood in front of Zhao Yun, in comparison, Zhao Yun's figure was much thinner, at first glance, the soldiers in Liu Feng's army couldn't help but sweat for Zhao Yun, they knew that if it was standing in front of Xu Chu instead of themselves, I'm afraid that before the confrontation, I was already frightened by Xu Chu's momentum and couldn't use my strength.
But Zhao Yun's face was still that joyless and sad, and he couldn't see any pressure, until the blade in the hand of Xu Chu, who took the lead, had already arrived in front of Zhao Yun.
Speaking of which, when Xu Chu hurriedly dispatched all the reliable generals on his side to the south gate to meet the enemy, the city gates in several other directions were naturally very weakly guarded, and many wealthy merchants in the city heard that Liu Feng's army had broken Nanyang and had arrived under Luoyang City, and they all moved from the north gate of Luoyang City to other nearby important towns, in this case, the soldiers defending the city were naturally not surprised, because of the terrain around Luoyang, Liu Feng's army could not set up an ambush at the north gate, and any sergeant with a scale of more than 100 people appeared. All of them will be discovered by the defenders.
And among the people who shuttled back and forth, from time to time there were people with sturdy figures, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, and mixed into the city, but at this time, the defenders who remained on the city wall all focused their attention on the battle outside the south gate, where was there leisure to see the people who were shuttling back and forth under the city.
Just when Xu Chu went to the south gate, what he didn't know was that Liu Feng had already arrived in the city, and nearly thirty Fei Yu guards had gathered at his side.
The location where they are at this time is outside the palace wall where Liu Xie is detained, from the outside, although the palace wall is towering, but there are no soldiers outside the wall to guard, obviously, many years of comfort have not allowed Liu Xie to get a very high standard of protection, and Xu Chu's guards are just guarding next door to Liu Xie's room at this time, in his opinion, looking at Liu Xie is such a timid guy, this is enough, as for what Xu Chu said to him before, once he is defeated by Zhou Yu, the soldiers led by Zhao Yun will take Liu Xie to retreat to Yecheng, In his opinion, it is even more impossible, with Xu Chu's bravery, as long as Zhou Yu and Zhao Yun are delayed for two days, Yecheng's reinforcements will naturally arrive. Even if Luoyang City is broken, it will be more than enough for him to transfer Liu Xie from the north gate. In fact, what he was looking forward to the most was to witness the battle between Xu Chu and Zhao Yun, who was known as a brave general.
What he didn't know was that just when he fantasized about Xu Chu cutting Zhao Yun off his horse, in this very empty palace, a person he never imagined had already sneaked in.
Liu Feng, who came from later generations, naturally knew the importance of strategy, and before he infiltrated, he assigned the task to the thirty Fei Yu guards who followed him, and the thirty people just entered the palace from the towering palace wall and scattered to inquire about the news, and after a while, they learned where Liu Xie was at this time from the mouth of a frightened little attendant.