Chapter 381: Cao Cao plays the princes
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The Xiqiang soldiers were finally able to deeply understand the battlefield they had created, how tragic the degree of free collision in the high places had reached, the iron car rushed rapidly, and after the spearmen killed the tiger, it was difficult to stop, and countless spearmen who stepped forward to resist the iron car were mercilessly hit by the iron car and splashed flesh and bones.
However, this is not the end, only to hear the two mountains like a landslide and the ground cracks, sending out bursts of thunder.
"Boom ......"
Yueji was shocked and looked up. In the air, the thunder mountain stones were like rain, and hundreds of round pebbles rolled in the air. On the top of the hill, hundreds of horses are planted with thunderbolt carts lined up side by side.
"Boom!"
The stone smashed into the Qiang soldiers, and the ground shook violently.
The Qiang soldiers ran up and ran through the fire, dodging the rapidly growing and rapid rocks in the air, and the ranks were in chaos and trampling on each other.
The rear soldiers were in a hurry and wanted to rush back to the camp. Lü Meng led a group of horses to kill and block the way.
Huang Zhong and Zhang Xiu each led an army and rushed down from the two mountains. Marshal Yueji, who supervised the battle in the former army, saw that he was surrounded by a three-way army behind him, and drove his troops to flee to the mountain pass. As soon as I climbed to the top, I saw a general holding a Fang Tian painting halberd, chasing the wind and red rabbit under his crotch, waiting majestically in front of him.
Front and back, left and right, surrounded on all sides, there is no way to escape. Marshal Yueji held a hammer in his hand, hung a treasure carving bow at his waist, and fought bravely on a prancing horse.
At the intersection of horses, Yue Ji hit with a hammer, Lu Bu dodged to avoid it, drew a halberd, and the sharp branch cut Yue Ji's throat at a strange angle.
Lu Bu's army harvested the heads of the enemy on all sides, chased for thirty miles in a row, and beheaded countless enemies. Back to the camp that was abandoned last night, the camp is still there. A group of prisoners were released into the camp, and only Huang Zhong was sent to continue the pursuit of the enemy.
After dark, Huang Zhong released Yadan, the prime minister of the Xiqiang State, into the account.
Seeing that Lu Bu's face was expressionless, joyless and sad, Yadan knelt on the ground and shouted to surrender.
"Not really. Pull it out and cut it. Among the Qiang people, the centurion and above generals will be beheaded! ”
Lü Bu does not intend to adopt a gentle policy towards the surrounding forces, the Xiqiang State is originally a country established by a Qiang people in the territory of Xiliang, and Lü Bu will integrate the Qiang people under the rule of the Xiqiang State, but he will not leave the high-level to continue to wait for the opportunity to make trouble, he wants to turn Xiqiang into a county of the Han Dynasty.
Lü Bu seized the highland controlled by Xiqiang, stepped up the grain and collected the grain and grass that had been 'robbed' by the Qiang people after being abandoned before, and Lü Bu discarded it in situ for the first time in order to reduce the time of round-trip transportation. In the process of discarding, countless losses are indispensable.
Lu Bu was making the final overall planning, capturing Caohan in one go, and then pacifying Ma Chao, there would be no strong enemies in the field of "several" characters in the Yellow River, and the rear was temporarily stable.
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"Please ask the prime minister to teach Youzhou!" Xun You said. Xun You's face was a little helpless, before the expedition, Guo Jia had already planned the route, and sent the army of Youzhou to defeat the Yuan Shang brothers to the south to attack Wancheng, so that the army of Lu Bu who was pacifying in Xiliang was intimidated, and forced Lu Bu to pull the team from the western front to the eastern front to return for reinforcements, so that Lu Bu's plan to pacify the rear failed, and the western expedition ended without a problem; At the same time, it is also a means to paralyze Youzhou, and the Yuan Shang brothers only thought that Cao Cao wanted to protect Lu Bu to destroy Xuchang's revenge, otherwise why would the strategists instigate Cao Cao to do a big case in Wancheng and make a lot of noise? Of course, he wanted to take advantage of Yuan Shang's negligence to suddenly return to Mayouzhou from Wancheng, thousands of miles away, and settle it in one fell swoop.
What a plan to kill two birds with one stone. It's just that Cao Cao saw Lu Bu in the process of execution
(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) did not lead the army back, moved his mind, and wanted to take advantage of the emptiness of Chang'an to break through the Wuguan. And Zhang Liao, who was in charge of the eastern defense line, although he had a prominent reputation, Cao Cao did not feel that he was a difficult bone to gnaw.
Originally, this strategy was drawn by Guo Jia, but when Guo Jia and Xun Yu were stationed in Xuchang, they asked Lu Bu to destroy the entire Xuchang into ruins, and their reputation plummeted. Xun Yu is okay, at least there is a huge family organization behind him to deal with, poor Guo Jia. Born in a cold family, alone, no one for him to maneuver in the family, gradually marginalized by the world, until now, it is not easy for him to see Cao Cao, unless Cao Cao summons him. In desperation, Guo Jia had no choice but to borrow Xun You's hand to offer advice.
Lu Bu razed Xuchang to ruins, and Cao Cao dreamed of revenge, so he stationed troops in Wancheng and delayed pacifying Youzhou according to the original plan.
Cao Cao hesitated, and he didn't decide to pay attention. Xun You decided to fool Cao Cao and said: "Prime Minister, it is rumored that Lu Bu's carriage dragged the thunderbolt, invincible, Jincheng guarded 300,000 Qiang Hu reinforcements, so that the thunderbolt car smashed the whole line collapsed, this weapon is huge, under the carriage planting, the mobility is extremely strong, compared to the battle of Qin and Chu, it is not much to make." As long as we conquer Youzhou and have an endless stream of war horses, we may not be able to build a thunderbolt array. ”
Xun You said that Cao Cao was forced to move, thinking about the scene of hundreds of carriages pulling the mighty thunderbolt car, even if it is the Tiger Prison Pass, Tongguan This kind of dangerous pass in the world cannot resist the bombing of the thunderbolt car. However, thinking of the earth-shattering scene, Cao Cao couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, would Lu Bu be kind enough to give him the thunderbolt molding drawings? Cao Cao felt that if it was him, he would definitely give the obsolete products to the enemy generously when he had the means to crack it.
Cao Cao's crossing of others with his own heart is not unreasonable. The thunderbolt car drawings that Lu Bu gave him were indeed defective, they were the ones designed by Liu Ye based on ancient books, and the thunderbolt cars that Huang Yueying and Ma Jun worked together to improve, how could Lu Bu be so generous that he could not crack them and give them to his opponent.
The thunderbolt in Cao Cao's hand was only one hundred and seventy or eighty paces, and after a group of craftsmen improved it, the longest range was less than three hundred steps, which was more than a hundred steps different from the range of the thunderbolt in Lu Bu's hand.
And what restricts the large-scale development of thunderbolts is, of course, ammunition. Lu Bu bought fire oil from all over the world, but he couldn't supply the thunderbolt for large-scale combat, and the stone was even more difficult to obtain, so it needed to be polished and attacked into a ball.
In China, the most indispensable thing since ancient times is copycats. Cao Cao not only improved the thunderbolt, but also imitated Lü Bu's heavy cavalry and the Kidnapper Chained Horse, not only that, but Cao Cao was also inspired by Lü Bu's hot air balloon, and was secretly studying hot air balloons, intending to send soldiers into the sky on a large scale, as if to enter the era of air combat.
Cao Cao sighed, his heart was as disgusting as eating thousands of flies, it was obviously possible to break through the Wuguan, for the sake of a long-term plan, he had to hold back the thought of revenge in his heart and go north to Youzhou again. The rear must be completely pacified first, so that Cao Cao can rest assured that he will fight with Lu Bu alone, and only by pacifying Youzhou can Cao Cao not fall into a complete disadvantage in terms of cavalry. Lü Bu's northern land and Longshan are both horse-producing places, and there are also mergers that do not completely belong to Lü Bu, Lü Bu pacified Xiliang, Chang'an produced horses everywhere, Cao Cao didn't dare to imagine how he could resist Lü Bu's cavalry without Youzhou.
Cao Cao raised troops out of Wancheng with great fanfare and marched west to Wuguan. The army marched to Luoshui, suddenly changed its route, and quickly arrived in Luoyang, from Hanoi to Jizhou, and the troops went straight to Youzhou. The two Yuan Shang brothers never dreamed that after Cao Cao withdrew his troops from Youzhou, he made a huge circle in the Central Plains, again
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The Yuan Shang brothers hurriedly set up the formation, how could they resist it? The battle situation was unfavorable, and the two were ready to flee outside the fortress and defect to Wuhuan.
Cao Cao's army attacked Wuguan with great momentum, paralyzing everyone in the world, Liu Bei, who was nesting in Jingnan, was watching the decisive battle between the two bigwigs in the north.
At the same time, as the general of Zhengdong who sat on the eastern front, Zhang Liao did not see through Cao Cao's plan to Youzhou, which was thousands of miles away, and quickly transferred Chang'an to support the Jincheng front, and transferred the oil to Wuguan and Tongguan. No one dares to take a chance to take chances, with Chang'an facing the situation of Ma Chao and Zhang Lu's two armies attacking, Cao Cao intervened, it is completely possible. Didn't Lu Bu just ignore any interests, and bite Cao Cao to the death of the people and money?
Cao Cao put the princes of the world together, and the people of the world still don't know it. The news that he wanted to attack Wuguan spread to Tianshui, and Ma Chao, who was attacking Jieting, was like a shot of chicken blood, his expression was excited, and the rhythm of attacking Jieting was more intense, he was worried that Cao Cao would take Chang'an first, and he wouldn't even be able to share a cup of scraps.
Outside the wall of the street pavilion, the shouting was loud, the dense horse super cavalry was like ants constantly coming forward and one after another, braving the stones like rain, bows and arrows flying locusts to counterattack the soldiers guarding the pass, outside the wall of several miles long, there were more than a dozen cavalry everywhere in a group holding the ladder to charge forward, and the ladder was built on the wall. Under the leadership of Ma Chao, the soldiers were not afraid of death, turned over and dismounted, and climbed the ladder.
On the ladder, there are constantly enemy soldiers who are either picked by guns, or poured fire oil, or stoned, or shot by arrows, or pushed to the ...... Descend from the ladder and fall into a sea of fire made of fire oil. The originally burning sea of fire was darkened and almost extinguished. The Xiliang soldiers let out a dull and painful howl, however, they could not stop their pace of attacking the city, and continued to fight against death.
A pot of fire oil with flames in the dim sky, drawing a beautiful parabola, Ma Chao quickly rode his horse to the side, the fire pot exploded on the ground, the fire oil slammed to the ground, turning the surroundings into a sea of fire, countless soldiers splashing fire oil, rolling on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.
Another group of rockets flew in, and Ma Chao waved his spear, leaving a shadow of guns in the air. Immediately, the rocket that was close to him went out and fell to the ground with white smoke. Ma Chaojun was in a mess.
"Liang Xing, why don't you advance and retreat? Could it be cowardice? This general's law is like a mountain, but his neck is like iron, and his sword and axe are unfavorable! Ma Chao pointed at Liang Xingbu, who was standing in the distance, and scolded loudly.
"Whoa!" Liang Xing hurriedly answered, quickly dispatched his troops, and joined the ranks of the siege dead.
Ma Chao rode his horse, personally closed the artillery fire, and ran back and forth in the Xiliang army, encouraging morale: "Sons, attack the city with your life." Be sure to seize Chang'an before Prime Minister Cao Cheng breaks through the Wuguan! ”
Ma Chao's words revealed the meaning of his own side and Cao Cao's front and back attacks, morale was greatly boosted, and the Xiliang soldiers were like a tide, desperately swept towards the gate.
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