Chapter 21: The Beginning of the Battle of Guandu
In the old camp of the Wolf Qiang, with Ma Chao's intrusion, it was completely chaotic, the arrow that shot the King of the Wolf Qiang, separated by the Huns, silently, even if someone saw it, the arrow was also shot from the camp of the Huns, as for the Huns saw it, so what?
After Ma Chao released an arrow, he brandished a spear and ran back and forth in the crowd, although most of the old camps were dwellings such as felt bags, but the terrain was still the terrain of street fighting, the Huns were too scattered before, and the advantage of troops was difficult to play, and the Qiang people who threw stones at them could appear around at any time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Of course, in this case, the lethality of the Qiang people is not very large, but it is a good delay in the action of the Huns, Ma Chao took the opportunity to take the men and horses away, put a round of arrows towards the crowded place, and then rushed in to kill the Huns.
Many Huns wanted to turn around and kill back, but more Huns were thinking about escaping at the moment, the situation was out of control, and the chaotic Qiang people blocked the way, many Huns frantically killed the Qiang people in front of them, wanting to rush out of a way, and there were also angry Qiang people who were killed to resist.
After wandering around, Ma Chao found the Wolf Qiang's troops, pulled up a Wolf Qiang general, and shouted knowingly: "Where is your king?" ”
"I don't know!" The wolf general looked at these reinforcements blankly, turned his head and looked around, just a mess, where could he still find the shadow of the wolf and qiang king.
"Take your people, kill me!" Ma Chao breathed a sigh of relief, at this time, he chose to take the lead in most of the reasons, or he was a little weak in his heart, and the answer of the wolf general made Ma Chao slightly relieved, at least these wolf Qiang didn't know what was going on.
The wolf generals instinctively agreed, in this chaos, they need a leader, to lead them to resist, Ma Chao appeared as a savior at this time, subconsciously regarded as hope, many generals began to shout and beckoned their soldiers and horses to come and gather, and rushed with Ma Chao, while constantly calling for those who lost their command and fought separately, just for a while, the army behind Ma Chao had more than 3,000 people, some were wolf warriors, and some were wolf and qiang people who grabbed their horses and came to fight together.
The Huns have lost a lot, and they have begun to turn around and break through at this moment, Ma Chao naturally will not let go of this opportunity, and led the men and horses all the way to chase and kill more than ten miles outside the old camp, and the Huns who killed them fled in embarrassment, so they stopped the pursuit and returned to the old camp of the Wolf Qiang people with the men and horses.
The body of the wolf and Qiang king was found in the pile of dead bodies, it is no longer the same, vaguely, and can only be identified from the armor, countless wolf and qiang people gathered together, silently looking at the corpse of their leader, sadness, hatred, but more, it is confused, lost the wolf and qiang king, and angered the Huns, next, how should they survive?
It was only at this time that they were stunned to realize that the Huns were not so easy to mess with, but by now, it was too late.
In the crowd, a man suddenly roared madly, rushed into a room, and dragged out a woman, a Hun woman, or a slave, who was violently dragged out by the man, and then stoned to death.
Many people reacted that in this old camp, there were many Hun slaves here, and their anger seemed to be vented, and one by one the slaves were constantly pulled out of their own homes, and then beaten to death.
Ma Chao looked at all this indifferently, born in Xiliang, this kind of thing, he is not uncommon, these people need to vent, many things of the Han people are not applicable here, and the only way for them to vent is to kill.
"Our people found that a large group of Huns were coming, and the lord was worried that something would happen, so he sent me here, but I didn't expect that it was still a step late." Thinking of what Jia Xu explained before, Ma Chao repeated Jia Xu's words with a wry smile, but in the eyes of others, it naturally meant something else, and he was grateful to Lu Bu at the same time.
"Don't blame the general, speaking of which, I still blame those Hun dogs for being too treacherous and vicious." Several wolf generals said with dark faces.
In fact, what is the cause of the incident, Ma Chao is very clear, and he naturally can't say it now, the lord wants to subdue the Hetao, Wolf Qiang and Xian Ling must be included in the banner first, Jia Xu's methods are a little poisonous, but they are effective, from the expressions of these Qiang people who are grateful to Dade, Ma Chao has no doubt that as long as he reveals some willingness in this regard, these dragons have no leader or have lost their future direction, and they will be eager to lean on themselves.
Jia Xu didn't show up, he was not suitable to appear at this time, after all, he was here to rescue, he was really fighting, and he brought a scribe by his side, so it would become very deliberate, in terms of people's hearts, Jia Xu minimized the possibility of exposing the means, but Ma Chao stayed.
In Lü Bu's plan, Wolf Qiang is not only the population, but also the Wolf Qiang, Linrong and Xian03 are also strategically retained, although in terms of population, the population of the entire Hetao area is only two or three county seats, but Lü Bu cannot bring everyone together.
This is also the reason why Lu Bu went out this time, bringing Ma Chao and Pang De, the two generals of the army, the three forces are horns of each other, can be attacked and defended, coupled with the unique terrain of Yueshi Lake, the three forces will be organically united, each other, with wolf smoke communication, no matter which one the Huns want to fight, the other two parties can find out in time and make timely judgments, or assist in defense or attack, and the initiative of the battlefield will be unconsciously transferred to Lu Bu.
Now, only Xian Lingqiang remains.
On horseback, Jia Xu thought about the next plan, Wolf Qiang and Yueshi surrendered successively, and the remaining Xian Lingqiang was sandwiched in the center of the Xiongnu, Lu Bu, Qin and Hu tripartite forces, and had interests with Lu Bu, and then there was no need to deal with Wolf Qiang as much as the first zero, it would not be long before Xian Lingqiang himself was afraid that he would be loyal to Lu Bu, Jia Xubu's momentum was half completed so far, and the rest was the fermentation of time, and the living space of the Huns continued to be Yasuo, and at the same time contacted Qin Hu to deal with the Huns together.
In Jia Xu's plan, this is just an early arrangement, and then to destroy the Xiongnu and collect Qin Hu, even if everything goes well, this battle will be over, it will be a matter of the second half of the year, and then it will be to deal with the Xianbei people.
According to the news that the eldest lady came back from the Western Regions, Jia Xu had a feeling that something big would happen in Xianbei recently, and the spies had begun to go deep into the grassland to find out the information, hoping not to affect the plan to pacify the Hetao this time, time is very important to Lu Bu, one step is slow, the final result is slow step, with the population under Lu Bu's rule, even if it develops steadily and wants to restore the prosperity of Guanzhong, it will take more than twenty years.
Twenty years is too long, so long that many people can't even live to that time, and the situation in the Central Plains definitely doesn't have these twenty years to wait, the situation in the world is changing, and the battle named the Battle of Guandu by the lord will decide the winner, in Jia Xu's view, it won't be too long, Cao Cao has no food and grass to support this battle to drag on indefinitely, so time is quite urgent in Jia Xu's opinion.
No matter who loses or who wins, Lu Bu must take the land of the annexed states, and then order Wei Yan to go out of Zhenheluo, only in this way can he block all the checkpoints with a small number of troops, Yuan Shao or Cao Cao, there are thousands of troops and horses, and these passes are enough for Lu Bu to protect himself and develop people's livelihood.
When Jia Xu returned to Linrong, it was already noon the next day, and the atmosphere in Lu Bu's temporary mansion was a little solemn, except for Lu Bu, everyone else had a stormy expression.
"My lord, but what happened?" Jia Xu looked at Lu Bu who was teasing the eaglet suspiciously.
"Two things, one happy event, the other thing, for us, it's really not a happy event, but it's not a bad thing, it's basically none of our business, which one does Wen He want to listen to first?" The faces of his subordinates were heavy, but Lu Bu was indifferent, in the two lives before and after, he had experienced too many things, and the wind and waves were no longer enough to describe his experience, and now, even if the sky fell apart, Lu Bu would not frown.
"The lord should talk about the happy events first, Xu just went on a trip to the wolf, so let's suppress the shock first." Jia Xu smiled slightly, sat down on Lu Bu's left hand, and probably had some guesses about what Lu Bu was going to say.
"The envoy of Xian Zero came in two hours, and he was willing to announce his attachment to our army, and at the same time invited us to send some strong generals to assist in garrisoning, after all, it is an ally, I plan to take Ling Ming as the main general, Guan Hai as the assistant, and bring five hundred soldiers to support."
Jia Xu smiled knowingly, naturally it would not be as simple as assistance, which was equivalent to first recognizing Lu Bu's leadership position and being willing to accept Lu Bu's command.
"Tu Ge, Yue's Clan, Wolf Qiang, now with the addition of Xian Zero, congratulations to the lord, our army has become a general trend, and we can make the next plan." Jia Xu smiled knowingly, and said to Lu Bu, the next step is very simple, is to continue the living space of the Huns in Yasuo, and force them to Meiji little by little, which also requires Qin Hu's cooperation, but the problem should not be big, compared to the short-sightedness of the Wolf Qiang, Xian Lingqiang, Tu Ge and the Yue people, the leader of Qin Hu is quite discerning, and he has been subduing some small tribes around him during this time.
Nodding, Lu Bu said: "Next, let's talk about another news, Yuan Cao has started a war." ”
This battle, since last year, has been clear, the two sides have made it clear that the carriage and horses are just waiting for the final decisive battle, until now, in fact, whenever the war starts, Lu Bu and Jia Xu will not be surprised, but now when they hear the news, the two of them still have a sense of haste in their hearts.
It's not that it shouldn't be fought, it's just that Lu Bu's side has no chance to meddle in this big battle.
"It's a pity, such a big battle, I can't spare my hands now!" Shaking his head, Lu Bu smiled.
Jia Xu was silent for a moment and then said, "Why should the lord worry? Intervening too early will make the situation muddy, and even if our army does not fight the Hetao, there will not be enough food and grass to send troops. ”
"Reasonable." Nodding, Lu Bu said with a smile, Cao Cao can at least take out the grain and grass of the 50,000 army, Lu Bu has tightened his belt in all aspects, and he only squeezed out the grain and grass of a thousand people, it is not an exaggeration to say that Yuan Shao can recruit a group of soldiers and horses enough to encircle and suppress him with a yawn now.
The battle of Guandu, at least in the early stage, is of little significance to Lu Bu, Lu Bu's goal now is very clear, population, grain and grass, and participating in the battle of Guandu, at least in the short term, there is no way to provide himself with these things, so no matter when the battle of Guandu starts, Lu Bu is not ready to get involved, and naturally there is no disappointment, the most important thing at the moment is to take the land of the Hetao as soon as possible and wait for the result. (To be continued.) )