Chapter 103: Attack and Defense of Tongguan (5)
Yuan Shao wants to withdraw from the army, and Liu Xie can already confirm this. Then the question in front of Liu Xie arises, whether to just do it and watch Yuan Shao return to Hebei, or to go out of Tongguan to teach Yuan Shao a lesson, which makes Liu Xie a little difficult to choose.
From the bottom of his heart, of course Liu Xie doesn't like to let Yuan Shao go back easily, and he wants to run away when he goes to his own house and smashes it, how can there be such a cheap thing! But it doesn't seem to be easy to leave a little memorial for Yuan Shao.
More than 300,000 Yuan troops were divided into three divisions, each of which had more than 100,000 people, and each department was presided over by generals and ministers.
"Why should the Holy Lord make trouble for this, since he wants to teach Yuan Shao a lesson, isn't there a ready-made object there?" Pang Tong said with a smile after listening to Liu Xie's distress.
"Shiyuan, is there such an object?"
"Huh...... The saint seems to have forgotten that Yuan Shao's 300,000 horses are not easy to move, but the 50,000 horses are not moving. Tongguan's men and horses, plus Zhao Yun and Pang De's department, doesn't the saint have the confidence to eat the 50,000 horses of the frustrated master? Pang Tong explained to Liu Xie with a smile.
"yes, how did I forget that frustration. Yes, yes, thanks to Shiyuan's reminder. Hearing that Yuan Zhi sent someone back to say that the 50,000 people under Fu Zhi were all cavalry, if he could destroy this road of men and horses, it would even make Yuan Shao feel distressed than killing Yuan Shao's 100,000 horses. Well, that's it, Shiyuan, how do you think we should do it? ”
"Uh...... If the name is not right, it is not good......"
"Hi ~ what are you still talking about now? Come, take it. Liu Xie said and took off the sword, in order to ensure that Hao Zhao could order Gan Ning and Pang De, Liu Xie specially handed over his saber Seven-Star Sword to Hao Zhao, and before Hao Zhao was sent back to Chang'an to recuperate, he returned the Seven-Star Sword to Liu Xie.
"From now on, you are the mastermind by my side, below me, but anyone who disrespects the order, can be killed with this sword." Liu Xie said solemnly to Pang Tong.
In the late Han Dynasty, the era when the monarch chose his ministers and the ministers also chose the king, the more capable people were, the more proud, such as Zhuge Liang, the important reason for serving Liu Bei is not that Liu Bei is the uncle of the Han Emperor, but that Zhuge Liang can be trusted and reused by Liu Bei. Otherwise, Liu Bei was not the only emperor of the Han Dynasty at that time, Liu Biao recruited Zhuge Liang several times, why didn't Zhuge Liang go.
The death of a confidant is fully reflected in people like Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang. Liu Xie believed in Pang Tong's wisdom, and through this period of getting along, Pang Tong also found that Liu Xie's treatment of people was indeed as Sima Yi said, only focusing on his talents, not his appearance.
Pang Tong knew that he would eventually become a leader, otherwise why bother to study. Now that Liu Xie has provided him with a stage where he can play to his heart's content, Pang Tong naturally reached out and seized this opportunity.
"Thank you for your trust." Pang Tong bowed down and took Liu Xie's saber and asked Liu Xie to return to the main seat and sit down, but Pang Tong did not return to his seat, but stood on the lower left of Liu Xie.
Wen Dong Wu Xi, it can also be said that Wen Zuo Wu Right, seeing Pang Tong take the initiative to stand on his lower left, Liu Xie couldn't help but be secretly happy. Sleeping dragon and phoenix chicks, the two of them have to settle the world. The dragon is still lying in Jingzhou for the time being, and it is estimated that it will not move its nest to himself for the time being, but since the phoenix hatch intends to nest here, then he must leave the phoenix first.
At this time, there were still more than 50,000 people in Tongguan, and the 10,000 people who needed to stay behind to guard the pass were 40,000 that could be dispatched by Pang Tong, plus Zhao Yun and Pang Debu, who were dealing with Fu Zhi at this time, had already exceeded the 50,000 people in Fu Zhi's hands in terms of numbers.
Liu Xie is not short of horses, the pacification of Xiliang and the plundering of the Western Regions have made the number of war horses owned by the imperial court exceed more than 200,000, and these war horses have not been ordered to do local surgery because they are worried that they will not be tamed, they are all fierce horses, and the knights who can tame these fierce horses naturally do not need to worry about their riding skills.
It takes time to transfer war horses from Guanzhong, and it also takes time to contact Xu Shu and arrange elaborate tasks. Similarly, it will take time for Yuan Shao to withdraw his troops, and Yuan Shao's attack is still continuing, but Liu Xie, who has already seen Yuan Shao's true intentions, will naturally not be fooled, in addition to sending infantry to deal with the attack of Yuan's army, the cavalry has been ordered by Liu Xie to rest, recuperate and wait for the big battle.
Yuan Jun finally retreated, and when he left at night, Liu Xie pretended not to know, and waited until after dawn to swarm out of Tongguan in pursuit of men. Yan Liangwen, who was originally in charge of the break, had already prepared for a vicious battle, but he didn't come to the left or right, and when he relaxed and planned to catch up with the headquarters, the people of the court were killed.
Hardly the slightest stop, the cavalry led by Ma Chao and Dian Wei rushed into the Yuan army's military formation, and instantly cut the more than 10,000 people left behind by the Yuan army into several pieces. In the chaos of the army, Yan Liang and Wen Chou were separated, but the two did not panic, relying on the martial arts on their bodies, Yan Liang and Wen Chou gathered their subordinates who were scattered while rushing to kill.
But soon the two were targeted by Ma Chao and Dian Wei respectively. Long before leaving, Liu Xie assigned tasks to the two, Ma Chao dealt with Yan Liang, Dian Wei dealt with Wen Chou, although Yan Liang and Wen Chou were brave, but Ma Chao and Dian Wei's martial arts happened to be superior to him.
If Yan Liangwen and Chou were together, Ma Chao and Dian Wei would not necessarily be able to defeat the pair of sworn brothers, because these two were good at a set of combined attack techniques, otherwise they would not have been able to withstand the halberd in Lu Bu's hand at the beginning. In a double battle, Ma Chao and Dian Wei may not be the opponents of Yan Liangwen and Chou, but if they are heads-up, the chances of winning will be greatly increased.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou were in two places at this time, and after being found by Ma Chao and Dian Wei respectively, the previous arrogance was immediately suppressed. And the two generals were inseparable, and the ordinary soldiers of the Yuan army could not block the impact of the imperial court.
Seeing that the people around him were fighting less and less, Yan Liangwen had to start thinking about retreating. According to Ma Chao and Dian Wei's tempers, they naturally don't want to let Yan Liangwen Chou, but the problem is that Yan Liangwen Chou is not an ordinary soldier after all, and if he really fights hard, the result is likely to be a defeat for both sides. Seeing that victory is in sight, it would be a pity to be injured at this time.
Yan Liang and Wen Chou escaped smoothly, while Ma Chao and Dian Wei did not continue the pursuit, but only ordered to gather men and horses and clean up the battlefield, and I went to report the results to Liu Xie.
"Don't report to me, I have handed over the battle to Shiyuan today, you can report to him if you have anything, I am a spectator today." Liu Xie waved his hand to stop Ma Chao and Dian Weidao.
"Okay, it's hard to work for General Ma and General Dian. The two generals will now lead the men and horses of the headquarters to rest, and then the task of pursuing Yan Liangwen's ugly department will be entrusted to General Taishi. Remember, harassment is primary. ”
"The last will be ordered." Tai Shi Ci clenched his fists and said.
Ma Chao and Dian Wei will later lead their troops to join forces with Zhao Yun and Pang De to attack the lone army of Fu Zhi, while Tai Shi Ci is responsible for harassing Yan Liangwen Chou, the rear team of the Yuan army, so as not to make Yuan Shaojun realize that the imperial court intends to attack Fu Zhi.
"Shi Yuan, where did you decide to deal with the frustrated people?" Liu Xie asked curiously. After handing over the sword to Pang Tong before, Liu Xie completely turned into a shopkeeper and ignored the ambush. Pang Tong saw that Liu Xie did what he said, and his heart was naturally moved, and this operation can also be said to be Pang Tong's "vote for fame" to enter the Liu Group, whether it can be smooth or not is completely related to his future in the Liu Group, so Pang Tong is also very attentive and shows his real skills.
Hearing Liu Xie's inquiry, Pang Tong smiled, stretched out his hand and pointed to the map on the table, and asked Liu Xie with a smile: "What does the Holy Lord think of the ambush here?" ”
"Here? …… It's a good place to be. Liu Xie looked at Lu Hunshan, whom Pang Tong was referring to, and nodded.
After being ordered to take over the tasks of Zhang He and Gao Ran, and set out to deal with Zhao Yun and Pang De, Zhao Yun and Pang De's lives were not as easy as in the past. Fortunately, there was one more Xu Shu by the side of the two at this time to give advice, otherwise it would be impossible to say that Zhao Yun and Pang De would have been defeated at this time.
The name of the person and the shadow of the tree, can be called the two sages of Hebei together with Tian Feng, and that ability must be there. After his arrival, he did not rush to find Zhao Yun and Pang De to fight, but demarcated the area where Zhao Yun and Pang De haunted through the location where Zhang He and Gao Lan had repeatedly confronted Zhao Yun and Pang De on the map, so as to find the hiding place of Zhao Yun and Pang De. It is not easy for 20,000 cavalry to hide, and there will always be clues, and it is through this method of gradually narrowing down the search scope that Zhao Yun and Pang De suffer a loss. Fortunately, Xu Shu did not give it in vain, and immediately chose to withdraw his troops after discovering the problem, which retained the main force.
Come and don't be rude! Using Zhao Yun and Pang De, the two fierce generals, Xu Shu and Fu Zhu fought equally, and Fu Shu was too late to greet Yuan Shao because he wanted to deal with Xu Shu with all his might, and I don't know if Yuan Shao intended to do this or someone deliberately made it bad, Fu Zhu only received the news that Yuan Shao was ready to withdraw his troops, but he was not informed when to withdraw his troops. According to Fu Zhu's plan, he wanted to deal with Xu Shu first, and then go to join Yuan Shao's army and retreat together, so that even if the imperial court had the intention to pursue, it would give up because of lack of strength.
What the frustrated professor didn't expect was that the lord Yuan Shao withdrew before he could solve Xu Shu. It was indeed right to throw away the opponent and rush to join Yuan Shao, but to give up like this, he was a little unwilling. Moreover, Xu Shu is immortal, and it is not easy for Yuan Jun to go steadily. 20,000 cavalry is not a small number, and if it is divided into small groups to harass Yuan's army along the way, it will be annoying and cause mistakes in chaos.
"Strategist, the spies came to report, saying that they had discovered the whereabouts of the enemy army?" Han Rong reported to the frustration when he entered the account.
"Where?" Hearing this, Fu Yan hurriedly asked.
"Lu Hun Mountain."
"Lu Hunshan......" Frustration hurriedly lowered his head to look at the map, found Lu Hunshan's location, and couldn't help frowning. Seeing this, Han Rong on the side hurriedly asked, "Strategist, could this be a trick to lure the enemy?" ”
“…… Can the spies clearly explain the specific location of Zhao Yun and Pang De's department? He asked again.
"Having said that, the soldiers and horses of these two men were placed in a valley, and in order to avoid startling the snakes, the spies did not enter the valley to investigate, but the spies can determine that there is only one entrance to that valley."
"Hmm...... General Han, General Jiang, the current situation is like this, the lord has already withdrawn his troops, if I wait for this time to withdraw my troops to join the lord, then there is nothing, at most we will be tired of dealing with the attack of the imperial cavalry in the next period of time. But if we go to join the Lord Gong after we have solved Zhao Yun and Pang Debu, then we will be very stable on the way back to Hebei, I don't know what choice the two generals will make? ”
"We are willing to obey the dispatch of the military advisor." Han Rong and Jiang Yiqu glanced at each other when they heard this, and said in unison.
"Okay, since the two generals are willing to listen to me, then I'm not welcome. Ordered to go down, the army buried the pot to make food, and after eating and drinking enough, they went to Luhun Mountain to exterminate Zhao Yun and Pang Debu. ”
"The last general commands."
Watching Han Rong and Jiang Yiqu go down to prepare, Fu Zhi glanced at the map again, and his mind couldn't help but drift away, thinking of his friend Tian Feng who was far away in Yuyang. This time to send troops, Tian Feng expressed his opposition from the beginning, even if Yuan Shao kicked out the six strategists and rushed to Yuyang, Tian Feng was not idle, every three or five days, a letter of advice was sent to Yuan Shao, expressing his opposition to Yuan Shao's dispatch of troops at this time.
Yuan Shao was so angry with Tian Feng's old stubborn donkey that he had no rut, if it weren't for Tian Feng's past merits to himself, maybe Tian Feng's head would have moved. However, this also made Yuan Shao develop a bad habit, but whenever Tian Feng's letter was written, Yuan Shao would let people burn it if he didn't read it.
This time the army returned to Hebei, and he was very worried that Tian Feng would lose his donkey temper again, so that the lord Yuan Shao would not be able to come to the stage, and at that time, he really didn't know if he could keep this old stubborn donkey who "refused to change his ways" in front of the angry lord. This time, he decided to send troops to exterminate Zhao Yun and Pang De, and he was also frustrated that he was planning for the future, as long as he made a great contribution, he could at least let the lord think more about it when he interceded in the future.
An hour later......
"Strategist, everything is ready." Han Rong reported to Frustration.
Fu Zhi nodded, straightened the saber hanging from his waist, and said to Han Rong in a deep voice, "Okay, then give the order to go." ”
Without Yan Liang and Wen Chou, the two generals, Fu Zhi knew very well that he would slightly lose to his opponent Xu Shu in terms of the quality of the generals, and if he wanted to make up for this disadvantage, he could only make up for it with quantity. Fortunately, Yuan Shao gave himself 50,000 cavalry, which was more than double the number of his opponents, which was why Fu Zhi wanted to solve Xu Shu first and then go to join the lord.
50,000 cavalry went straight to Luhun Mountain, but he didn't know that at the same time as he led the army to leave the camp, a team of scouts also hurried to Lu Hun Mountain. These scouts were the elite of the imperial army, and the war horses they rode were not lost to those leading generals. And in the hands of these scouts, there is also a sharp weapon to spy on the enemy.
Clairvoyance is a simple thing to make, two angled lenses and a cylinder are considered complete. Although Liu Xie can't make glass, he can replace it with transparent crystal. As for the lens angle, it can only be tried little by little by the processing personnel.
Handmade clairvoyance is naturally expensive, and for the sake of technical secrecy, in the army of the imperial court, clairvoyance is not popular, except for the scout battalions of each army will be allocated two, and only the chief generals of an army like Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao are eligible to have one.
But this clairvoyance is really useful, with this thing, scouts can detect the enemy more quickly and clearly, and they are safer. If it is far away, it will not be easy for the enemy to find it, and the security factor will naturally be greater.
The scouts under Fu Zhi discovered Zhao Yun and Pang Debu who appeared in Lu Hunshan, but he didn't know that his whereabouts had also been discovered by the scouts of the Han army. It is impossible for an army of 50,000 to be dispatched silently, especially the cavalry.
Just when he was about to hit Zhao Yun and Pang De by surprise, Liu Xie had already received the news. By the time Fu ordered the troops to slow down their march, Liu Xie's side had already begun to prepare.
Zhao Yun and Pang De appeared in Luhun Mountain, which was a move made after converging with Liu Xie's army. The frustrated scouts only found Zhao Yun and Pang De's department, but they didn't find Ma Chao and Dian Wei's department hidden in the deeper part of Luhun Mountain. After discovering Zhao Yun and Pang De's department, the scouts were in a hurry to go back to ask for merit and reward, but they didn't expect that in the depths on both sides of the valley where Zhao Yun and Pang De were hiding, there were two people and horses of Ma Chao and Dian Wei lurking respectively. And the number of people is only a lot more than Zhao Yun and Pang Debu.
Knowing that the frustrated troops were coming, the commander-in-chief of the battle, Pang Tong, immediately ordered Ma Chao and Dian Wei to lead the troops to the two sides respectively, and once the frustrated soldiers and horses were entangled with Zhao Yun and Pang De's troops, Ma Chao and Dian Wei would lead the troops to kill.
Fu Zhu was very cautious, and as early as twenty miles away from the valley where Zhao Yun and Pang De were hiding, he ordered the scouts to investigate again, but the Han army scouts, who had the sharp weapon of clairvoyance, reported the news to Pang Tong and Xu Shu early. According to the prior agreement, Xu Shu would take Zhao Yun and Pang De to drag down Fu Zhu's men, while Pang Tong was responsible for raiding Fu Zhu.
Knowing that Fu Zhu had sent scouts, Xu Shu reminded Zhao Yun and Pang Dezheng that they were about to appear, and pretended not to know, and showed up in the camp to inspect the barracks.
The scouts of the Yuan army did not see the flaw and repaid the frustration, which led to the defeat after the frustration. Knowing that the scouts had discovered that the three giants Xu Shu, Zhao Yun, and Pang De had appeared at the same time, he immediately made a decision and ordered Han Rong and Jiang Yiqu to lead a raid.
The sudden arrival of the Yuan army suddenly plunged the unguarded Han army into chaos, but fortunately, Xu Shu, Zhao Yun, and Pang De came forward in time to stabilize the morale of the army, relying on the terrain to regroup.
Seeing that his side had taken the initiative at this time and blocked the Han army in the valley, he did not dare to relax, and on the one hand ordered a strong attack, he reminded Han Rong and Jiang Yiqu that it was necessary to block the Han army in the valley, and never give the Han army a chance to rush out of the valley.