Chapter 38: Victory and Defeat

Since Li Dao and Guo Yan want to work hard, Liu Xie is no longer hiding. Anyway, Lu Bu's Bingzhou army has also arrived, and Han Sui and Ma Teng are too busy to take care of themselves, even if they want to mix, they can't catch up, and there are only two people here, the Han army and the Xiliang army.

At this time, Liu Xie was invincible, and when he went to the battlefield, he was going to die, but when he appeared in front of the Han army on the chariot, the morale of the Han army was immediately boosted! On the other hand, the morale of the Xiliang Army, which had been boosted, was stagnant, and the soldiers of the Xiliang Army, who had been blindfolded by gold, silver, pearls and jade, were also slightly sober.

Don't look at Liu Xie's young age, but his identity is the son of the Han Dynasty, although Xiliang Army is mostly rude people, but the concept of the supremacy of monarchy is still engraved in the bones of these rough men who don't know a single word. Usually I can't see the Son of Heaven, these rough men are not afraid of heaven and earth, but when they really see the real person, they say that they are not ambiguous at all, which is a lie.

"The one who captures the Son of Heaven alive will be rewarded with ten thousand gold, and ten beauties." Seeing that the soldiers under his command seemed to be a little shaken, Li Wei hurriedly shouted a reward. As the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and when they heard Li Wei's promise, many people in the Xiliang army were tempted. And when he learned of Li Dao's reward for himself, Liu Xie couldn't help but smile and said: "I didn't expect that I was quite valuable, and I gave the order to go down and capture Li Dao and Guo Yan, and reward him with a penny...... They're only worth the price. ”

Words are not speculative for more than half a sentence!

The Han army and the Xiliang army launched a fierce battle, it was still the main attack of the Xiliang army, the main defense of the Han army, Zhao Yun, Pang De, Xu Huang led five thousand cavalry by Liu Xie arranged in the camp, not allowed to fight, at this time the general who presided over the overall situation was Hao Zhao. Seeing that Hao Zhao was calm and calm, he commanded well, and in the face of the Xiliang army's rounds of charges at any cost, Hao Zhao was calm and calm, and the Han army was as immobile as a mountain under the command of Hao Zhao, and even if the Xiliang army's offensive was like a tide, it still could not let the Han army have even a trace of panic.

A successful general is never learned, but trained in actual combat. Seeing Hao Zhao's performance at this time, Liu Xie couldn't help but feel very pleased, and felt that his decision to ask Hao Zhao from Lu Bu was really wise.

I think that at the beginning, Hao Zhao was not valued in Lu Bu's army, at most, he was valued by Gao Shun. In Lu Bu's eyes, Hao Zhao is far less important than Song Xian and Hou Cheng, which is why Liu Xie can ask for success. If Liu Xie asked Lu Bu for Zhang Liao or Gao Shun, I'm afraid Lu Bu wouldn't agree so happily. However, Liu Xie believed that if Lu Bu was allowed to see Hao Zhao's performance at this time, maybe he would secretly regret it. This is a general who can be alone, and he was easily let go by himself, and it was impossible not to regret it.

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The charge regardless of the casualties was still effective, and the Xiliang army was approaching the Han army little by little, but under the command of Hao Zhao, the Han army's position was not panicked at all, as if it was attracting the Xiliang army into the trap little by little. It's just that at this time, Li Dao and Guo Yan have already killed red eyes, and Liu Xie, who is standing on the chariot, has an unparalleled temptation for them, making the Xiliang army seem to have lost their minds at the same time, and they just charge forward vigorously, without considering the companions who have fallen one after another beside them.

"Holy Lord, if you can't hold on, let's go down and rest for a while." Wang Yue, who was standing beside Liu Xie, persuaded Liu Xie in a low voice. On the entire battlefield, the closest person to Liu Xie was Wang Yue, so Wang Yue could see many situations that others could not see. Not long after the battle started, Wang Yue found that although Liu Xie was smiling, his hands were tightly grasping the car bar, and it could be seen from the white knuckles that Liu Xie was very hard, and his slightly trembling body told Wang Yue that Liu Xie was not as calm as he showed at this time.

No matter what Liu Xie's identity is, after all, he is only a twelve-year-old boy, even if the current owner of this body is from the next generation, when will the future generations have the opportunity to witness the kind of battlefield where flesh and blood are blurred and limbs are flying. In later generations, the death of a person is a big deal, and the death of a family is even more shocking, which is like now, in ancient times when cold weapons were the mainstay, everyone fought with their lives, and the blood of the knife was shocking.

Liu Xie couldn't stand it for a long time, but he knew that he had to watch it, and he had to adapt as soon as possible. In troubled times, my current identity is destined to make it impossible for me not to experience the baptism of war in this life. Since you can't hide from it, you can only face it bravely and adapt to this kind of flesh and blood blur as soon as possible, which will only benefit you and not harm you.

Realizing Wang Yue's concern, Liu Xie wanted to smile at Wang Yue, but he couldn't laugh after working hard for a long time, so he could only give up.

"Master Wang, this kind of thing is something I have to get used to sooner or later, there is no difference between morning and evening, not to mention that now that everyone is watching, how can I retreat without permission." Liu Xie explained to Wang Yue, and before the words fell, he saw a group of people appear on the right side of the Xiliang Army, and Liu Xie hurriedly raised the telescope in his hand to take a look. The production of the telescope is not complicated, but the transparent crystal is a little difficult to find, but Liu Xie is the Son of Heaven, and it is not a big problem to find a few crystals that are not gold or jade.

Seeing the Lu character banner held high in the suddenly killed men and horses through the telescope, Liu Xie knew that this was Lu Bu's Bingzhou army, and hurriedly ordered someone to inform Zhao Yun and others, who were already waiting impatiently in the camp, to prepare for a counterattack, and after receiving Liu Xie's notice, Zhao Yun and others immediately asked people to start laying wooden planks in the east of the camp and rushed out of the camp with 5,000 cavalry.

"Quick, get the drums to be brought to me." Liu Xie commanded loudly.

The Bingzhou army led by Lu Bu was like a red-hot sharp knife, straight to the waist of the Xiliang army, Li Dao Guo Yan also reacted immediately after discovering that the Bingzhou army was killed, but in the face of the Bingzhou army equipped with the three treasures of the horse, the Xiliang army, which can usually fight a draw, was defeated this time, and was defeated by the Bingzhou army almost in a face.

Li Dao Guo Yan was shocked, and before they could react, the vanguard led by Lu Bu had already rushed into the Xiliang Army, and at the same time that Lu Bu's men and horses rushed into the Xiliang Army, the Bingzhou Army led by Zhang Liao also launched a charge against the Xiliang Army.

"Childish, the general trend has gone, let's go." Guo Yan shouted to Li Wei urgently. At this point in the war, Guo Yan has already understood that he is powerless to return to the sky.

"Let's go? Where to? Lintao has been lost, where else can we go? Li Wei smiled miserably and asked Guo Yandao.

"No matter where you go, save your life first, stay in the green mountains, and don't worry about running out of firewood. You ......"

Without waiting for Guo Yan to finish speaking, Li Wei didn't want to listen anymore, and interrupted Guo Yan's words: "There are so many, why deceive yourself, I would rather die in battle at this time than be a rogue, you can leave if you want." Speaking of this, Li Wei took a deep breath and looked at Liu Xie, who was cheering for the Han army in front of the Han army at this time.

"Childish, don't you want to ......" Guo Yan was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly wanted to reach out and grab Li Dao. But he didn't expect that Li Dao seemed to have expected that Guo Yan would pull him, and his movements flashed quickly, and then he raised the gun in his hand and shouted: "If the husband dies, he will die, sons and daughters, take out the pride of our northwest men and kill the faint king with me!" After speaking, without waiting for Guo Yan to speak, he immediately urged the horse and rushed towards the Han army's military formation.

Guo Yan looked at Li Wei's distant back, only briefly silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and chased after him with hundreds of personal soldiers.

"Again, you're not running away?" Li Wei couldn't help but smile when he saw Guo Yan chasing after him.

"Li Dao and Guo Yan have always advanced and retreated together, since you are going to find death, I will naturally accompany you to the end, at least you and I will not be lonely on the Huangquan Road." Guo Yan replied angrily.

Li Dao and Guo Yan's rise at this time was not enough to change the overall situation, they didn't even rush in front of Liu Xie, they were nailed to death by Hao Zhao with a rhubarb crossbow on the way to charge. With the death of Li Dao Guo Yan, the original little will to fight of the Xiliang army also collapsed in an instant, and the soldiers of the Xiliang army began to surrender, and more of them fled from the battlefield with horses.

The Xiliang army was solved, and the embarrassing situation of the imperial court was alleviated, although Han Sui and Ma Teng of Liangzhou were still there at this time, as long as the imperial court was stable, it would not be a problem to clean them up after three or five years. Ma Teng has Ma Chao, but there are several people on Liu Xie's side who can deal with Ma Chao, and Liangzhou is barren, just like dealing with Li Dao Guo Yan's Western Liang Army, the longer it drags on, the more beneficial it will be to the imperial court.

"Fengxian, you are indeed a man born for war." Liu Xie said to Lu Bu with a smile. The war had come to an end at this time, and a general like Lu Bu naturally did not have to be responsible for trivial matters such as cleaning the battlefield. However, Lu Bu was obviously a little uncomfortable with Liu Xie's words to call him, and he was stunned before he said: "Bu has seen the saint." ”

"No courtesy, no courtesy, this battle is won, Feng Xian has made great contributions, but don't be proud, although the Xiliang army was defeated, but the Kwantung heroes are still there, and compared to the Xiliang army, those heroes are more difficult to deal with, and there are still many places where the imperial court needs to rely on Fengxian in the future." Liu Xie said with a smile.

Everyone loves to listen to good words, and Lu Bu is no exception, and there was a smile on his face, and he asked Liu Xiedao: "Holy Lord, now that Li Dao Guo Yan has been destroyed, should we take advantage of the victory to pursue and clear the remnants of the Xiliang Army?" ”

"Since Feng Xian took the initiative to ask for help, then I naturally will not object. However, Feng Xian should remember that Lintao has now been ordered by the imperial court to take down, and if you want to pursue, only Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu's uncle and nephew can move. These two people are not of the same mind as Li Dao Guo Yan, if Feng Xian can say that these two people will be surrendered, then the men and horses led by the two of them will be included in the state army. ”

LΓΌ Bu always hoped to continue to expand the army under his control, but the imperial court's financial resources were limited, and even if LΓΌ Bu had the heart to expand, he had no money to recruit troops. He had also moved to learn Dong Zhuo before, but after being persuaded by Diao Chan, Lu Bu also realized that he couldn't learn Dong Zhuo. Now that he heard Liu Xie say that he could hand over the Xiliang Army led by Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu to his disposal, the original intention of exterminating the remnants of the Xiliang Army suddenly faded, and he began to think about how to bring this Xiliang Army under his control.

"Holy Lord, without further ado, Bu will leave."

"Don't be busy yet, I still have something to do." Liu Xie stopped Lu Budao: "After Feng first solves Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, don't stay in Longxi, and immediately lead the army to Fengyi County to cooperate with Yang Biao and Lord Yang to guard against the Huns." Remember, it's about cooperating, not listening. ”

"Holy Lord, could it be that the Huns are not honest?"

"Huh...... Fengxian, the imperial court's current family foundation is not thick enough to afford your squandering. This time, we have already lost a lot of money in dealing with Li Dao and Guo Yan, and we will not be able to use troops against foreign countries in a short period of time. If you endure for a while, you will still have to be defensive in dealing with those aliens for now. However, I also promise you that sooner or later I will give you the opportunity to seal the Wolf Juxu. Liu Xie said to Lu Bu with a smile.

Lu Bu, who was said to have broken his mind, was not angry, and scratched his head with a smile, "Since the Holy Lord is merciful, Nabu will let those Huns be arrogant for a while." ”

"Well, you go and do something, when Longxi is pacified, everything returns to normal, and the reward for the Bingzhou army will be delivered, you tell the soldiers not to be in a hurry."

"Don't worry, the saint will leave." Lu Bu agreed, hugged his fists and bowed, and then left to assemble the team.

After Lu Bu left, Zhao Yun and others also came over and asked Liu Xie about his next arrangement. Liu Xie smiled and said to everyone: "Although Li Dao Guo Yan is dead, but the Xiliang Army has not been wiped out, the task you are waiting for is to clear the fleeing Xiliang Army, if you can collect it, if you can't collect it, you will kill it, and strive to leave a clean Longxi County for the future Longxi County Guard." In addition, Hao Zhao. ”

"The end will be."

"After cleaning up the battlefield, assemble the team, and you will follow me to Lintao."

"The last will obey." Hao Zhao replied happily.

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Tongguan

The ancient means of communication were backward, and at this time, the news that Li Dao Guo Yan's Xiliang army had been defeated by the imperial court had not yet reached Chang'an, let alone Tongguan. Jia Xu, who was ordered to come here to preside over the overall situation, did not show up at first, not only did Jia Xu hide in the shadows, but it was Dian Wei, who was dispatched by Liu Coordination to Jia Xu, and at this time he also hid in Tongguan with five hundred personal guards. At this time, it was the kind of series that was ostensibly responsible for the defense of Tongguan.

Jia Xu is not a person who is easy to trust others, Liu Xie asked him to guard Tongguan, in case someone in Kanto took the opportunity to come to Guanzhong to find trouble, and in order to be just in case, he privately expanded the scope of defense, not only guarding against Kanto, but also checking Guanzhong by the way. As a result, I don't know if I don't check this, and I was shocked when I checked it, there was really someone in Chang'an City who had a problem.

It was precisely because of the discovery of the problem that Jia Xu changed his original plan and quietly infiltrated Tongguan with Dian Wei, while Chang'an entrusted it to Cai Yong. Don't underestimate Cai Yong, if you can mix in the court for decades, then there is no good stubble. It's just that Cai Yong thinks he is a gentleman and disdains to use the tricks of those villains, but that doesn't mean he won't. After receiving Jia Xu's reminder, Cai Yong immediately ordered two letters to be sent, one to Zhu Jun, who guarded Wuguan, and the other to Huangfu Song, who served as the county guard of Xinping County. Both of them have military power in their hands, and Zhu Jun can't move there, Cai Yong just reminded Zhu Jun to be careful to guard against Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and the letter to Huangfu Song is that he hopes that Huang Fu Song can send troops to help.

Chang'an City is now empty, in order to deal with Li Dao Guo Yan, Liu Xie took away almost all the soldiers who could fight when he left, but he did not move a single bit against the private soldiers in various families. If things are as Jia Xu said, once these families are united, it will not be difficult to control Chang'an. Fortunately, Liu Xie secretly left Chang'an with the army, otherwise the matter of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes would probably happen. What is staying in Chang'an Weiyang Palace now is just a stand-in that Liu Xie asked people to find. With Cai Yong helping to cover up, others will not find out in a short period of time that the real Son of Heaven is now in Longxi.

Chang'an has Cai Yong in charge, and Jia Xu doesn't need to worry. But Tongguan's series made Jia Xu feel that something was wrong. This guy seems to be a little too close to Dong Cheng, the Shou of Hedong County. At the beginning, the imperial court decided to appoint the county guards of Hedong and Pingyang, in order to relieve the pressure on Tongguan. However, according to the newly received information, the men and horses of Hedong County are gathering with unknown intentions. Although the county guard Dong Cheng claimed to lead his troops to Chang'an Qinwang, the imperial court had already issued a clear order to let the two counties of Hedong and Pingyang stay still and beware of Guandong.

The kind of Ji is the main general guarding Tongguan, and at this time, he has an eye to eye with Dong Chengmei, who has an unknown attitude, which can't help but make people think more. Tongguan is the gateway to Chang'an, and once Dong Cheng's men and horses are allowed to enter the customs, Chang'an at this time can even be said to have no power to fight back. In addition to a few close people such as Jia Xu and Dian Wei, most people still think that the Son of Heaven in Chang'an at this time is genuine. Dong Cheng and the likes of the series should be part of most of them.

If this is inferred, then it can be made clear who is the person who wants to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes. But what Jia Xu doesn't understand is that even if Dong Cheng controls the Son of Heaven in his hands, where can he take the Son of Heaven to? Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang to ruins, and Luoyang was obviously not suitable as a capital. And staying in Hedong, that doesn't seem realistic.

Whether it was Dong Cheng's mind or someone secretly contacted Dong Cheng to do this rebellious thing together, Jia Xu wanted to find out. But before that, Jia Xu needs to control Tongguan first.

It is not difficult to control Tongguan, with Dian Wei's martial arts, it is not a problem to defeat the guards of the seed series, and Jia Xu has the seal and holy decree granted by the Son of Heaven in his hands. However, for the sake of safety, Jia Xu chose to make trouble in secret, and asked Zhu Dao, who was introduced by Shi A, to kidnap the seed series with someone. Zhu Dao was originally a ranger in Chang'an, and he may not have much effect in front of the two armies, but he is very handy in doing things like this.

The Tongguan group of dragons was leaderless, and at this time Jia Xu appeared. In front of the generals, he took out the holy decree and seal ribbon given by the imperial court, and naturally took over the 3,000 men and horses in Tongguan, plus the 500 guards brought by Dian Wei, Jia Xu easily controlled Tongguan. After taking control of Tongguan, the first thing Jia Xu did was to let Zhu Dao strike again, and according to the explanation of the seed series, he took down the generals in the army who had been bought by him one by one and sent them to be with the seed series.