Chapter 506: Iron Will

So after listening to Feng Ji's words, Yuan Shao was very hesitant and didn't dare to make up his mind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Yuan Shao said worriedly, "There is a way to open the bow and not turn back, in case of war with Han Fu, and the final attack on Yecheng fails, Han Fu is bound to lead the army to counterattack, and when the time comes, I am afraid that even Bohai County will not be able to hold it, so that our army will not even have a place to stay." ”

Xu You said indifferently: "Don't worry, the lord has a plan, and he will be able to help the lord take Jizhou." ”

"Oh?" Yuan Shao asked anxiously, "Will Ziyuan plan be released?" ”

"Han Fu is a person who does nothing. There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers, Zhang He, Xin Ping and other civil and military help, but there is nothing they can do. The lord can write a letter, secret with Youzhou Zhang Bao, induce Zhang Bao to lure the people of Youyan to hit the river, and Fu will be panicked, and then the lord will send a person who can speak well to Yecheng to explain the benefits to Han Fu, and it is expected that he can be forced to give up Jizhou. ”

Yuan Shao frowned and said, "Will Zhang Bao be fooled?" ”

"The Yellow Turban Zhang Bao is ambitious, if the lord goes to write a letter, pretending to welcome him as the lord of Ji and Secluded, he will definitely lead the army south. But~" Xu You said this, and said in a deep voice, "After all, the lord is forced to come to Jizhou, and then my army is afraid that we will have to face the anger of the Yellow Turban Army alone!" ”

Yuan Shao's eyes flashed with a sharp edge, and he said ruthlessly: "The land of Jizhou, a certain is bound to be won." ”

Xu You's words finally prompted Yuan Shao to make up his mind, and on the one hand, he sent someone to send a secret letter to Jixian, and on the other hand, he stepped up military preparations to seize Jizhou.

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When Yuan Shao plotted to seize Jizhou, the contradiction between Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha, and Xu Miao, the assassin of Jingzhou, also quickly intensified, and finally reached the point where the swords and soldiers met.

In June of the fifth year of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, Yuan Shu led the army to leave Luoyang and return to Yangzhou, on the way he asked Xu Miao, the assassin of Jingzhou, to supply military rations, but Xu Miao refused, Yuan Shu then held a grudge, and after returning to Shouchun, he ordered Lujiang Taishou Liu Xun to lead 20,000 troops out of Tun to seek Yang, threatening Jiangxia by land, and ordered the general Lei Bo to lead 8,000 sailors to Chaisang to threaten Jiangxia from the waterway.

However, Liu Xun and Lei Bo's two armies are just suspicious soldiers, and Yuan Shu's real killer is Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha.

When Liu Xun and Lei Bo successfully attracted a large number of Xu Miao's troops to the Jiangxia fortification, Sun Jian, the Taishou of Changsha, led 8,000 elite soldiers to bypass Zhuyang and Caiyang, which were heavily fortified by Xu Miao, and drove to the east through Suixian and then south over the green forest mountain into Nanjun, and ran for more than 400 miles in five days, and suddenly appeared under the city of Xiangyang!

When Xu Miao woke up one night and suddenly found that the outside of the city was already covered with dense troops, he couldn't help but be surprised, and while urgently ordering Cai Mao to strengthen the defense, he sent people to Jiangxia by water, and urgently ordered Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu to lead the army back to help. After receiving Xu Miao's urgent order, Huang Zu did not dare to slack off, and urgently ordered the commander Li Tong to lead 3,000 elite soldiers as the vanguard, and he ordered 20,000 soldiers on land and water to kill back to Xiangyang to save Xu Miao.

However, before Huang Zu's army arrived in Xiangyang, Sun Jian was ambushed in Liqiu.

After a fierce battle, the 20,000 troops under Huang Zu were all wiped out, and Li Tong, the commander of the capital, was also killed by Sun Jian's general Huang Gai with an arrow, and Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu was only spared. Shortly thereafter, Han Xuan, the Taishou of Wuling, took the commander Huang Zhong as the vanguard and raised 8,000 elite soldiers to relieve the siege of Xiangyang, but was also defeated by Sun Jian.

Xiangyang was besieged for several months, and several reinforcements were defeated by Sun Jian, and the food in the city was in short supply.

Xu Miao was forced to accept the suggestion of the strategist Kuai Yue, and ordered Cai Mao and Zhang Yun to rectify the naval army, break through the waterway and flee to Hanshou to temporarily avoid Sun Jian's soldiers, and at the same time sent people to sneak to Shouchun to buy Yuan Shu's henchman Jin Shang with a lot of money.

Jin Shangsui made a greedy statement to Yuan Shu, saying that Sun Jian was proud of his high merits, and often showed his disrespect for Yuan Shu in front of Huang Gai, Cheng Pu and other subordinates, and had a heart of self-reliance for a long time.

Xu Miaojun took the opportunity to spread rumors, and Sun Jianjun's army was shaken and the offensive was frustrated.

Xu Miao's generals Jin Xuan and Han Song finally blocked the onslaught of the Jiangdong Tigers in Dangyang, at this time, Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu was defeated repeatedly, and raised 8,000 new troops to make a comeback, taking the opportunity to recapture Xiangyang and successfully cut off the retreat of Sun Jian's army, Sun Jian's army immediately fell into a desperate situation with no reinforcements outside and no grain and grass inside.

After a hard battle, Sun Jian finally broke through the siege and returned to Nanyang, but when he first set out on the expedition, there were only 800 remnants of the army left!

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In August of the fifth year of the first peace of Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, when the Central Plains region was full of wolf smoke and the princes of all walks of life began to fight each other, Zhang Bao had already led 10,000 foot soldiers, 3,000 iron cavalry and 20,000 Western Regions Hu cavalry to attack Chang'an.

"Newspaper~~"

Zhang Baozheng's clothes were not solved, and suddenly a fast horse galloped in front of him, "Hangu Pass Emergency~~"

"Hangu Pass?" Yu She's face changed, and he said in a condensed voice, "Could it be that the Xiliang Army has already returned to Chang'an?" ”

Zhang Bao caught up with the galloping fast horse and said sharply: "Speak quickly." ”

The messenger turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground and said urgently: "Mr. Gongze urgently report, Guo Yan's Xiliang army sent a letter to Guguan and is heading for Chang'an. Mr. Gongren is designing a block. ”

"Huh?"

Zhang Bao was taken aback at the same time when he heard this, and said in shock: "The Kwantung Coalition Army didn't take the opportunity to chase and kill the Xiliang Rebellion? ”

The messenger said, "Exactly." ”

Yu Shi hurriedly said: "Where is Mr. Gongze defending?" ”

The messenger said: "Chang'an Ancient Road." ”

Zhang Bao's eyes swept away with a cold flame, and he said in a low voice: "Gong Ze only has a thousand heavily armored iron cavalry and two thousand Karasuma cavalry in his hands, although the Chang'an Ancient Road has natural dangers to defend and Dian Wei and Xu Chu are invincible, but the Liangzhou chaotic army has at least 100,000 people, and the difference in strength between the two armies is too great, and I am afraid that it will not be able to hold ~~." ”

"Alas~ It's a pity that Chang'an has just arrived~" Yu Shi stomped his feet and said: "If Mr. Gongze can't keep the ancient road of Chang'an and let tens of thousands of Liangzhou rebels enter Guanzhong, the last general thinks that our army should abandon Chang'an and retreat to the north." ”

"It seems that giving up Chang'an and Guanzhong is inevitable, but it's a pity that this is a good time, alas~~" Zhang Bao said this, his eyes suddenly became extremely clear, and he said in a deep voice, "However, General Ben will never hand over an intact Chang'an to Guo Yan, Li Xun and other Liangzhou rebels." ”

Yu Shi was puzzled: "What does the lord mean?" ”

Zhang Bao's eyes were cold, and he said ruthlessly: "I will supplement Youzhou with the people who were migrating to Jizhou, but now that I have given up Chang'an, then I will leave them with an empty city." ”

Zhang Bao said this, and said sharply, "Yu Shi listens to the order!" ”

"The last general!"

"You can lead five thousand Western Regions Hu cavalry to reinforce the public rule, and you must stick to the Chang'an Ancient Road for two months."

"This~"

Yu Shi was embarrassed: "Lord, there are at least 100,000 troops in Xiliang~"

"This is a military order!" Zhang Bao broke off and interrupted Yu She's words, a sharp gaze flashed in his eyes, and he said sharply, "No matter what method you use, even if you fight all the eight thousand light horsemen under your command, you must hold the Chang'an Ancient Road for at least two months!" It's a death order! Otherwise, I'll see you on the head. ”

Yu Shi immediately puffed up his chest and said loudly: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

"Cheng Yuanzhi, Liao Hua, He Man, and Wang Yuan listen to orders!"

Cheng Yuanzhi's four generals took a step forward at the same time and said sharply: "The last general!" ”

Zhang Baoqing's eyes swept over the faces of the generals one by one, and said calmly: "No matter what method you use, I will move a large number of people into Beidi County as much as possible within two months, and those who resist will be killed~"

"No!"

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Two hundred miles west of Hangu Pass.

Fan Choujun, who was marching west along the ancient road of Chang'an, suddenly found that the road had become a moat, and in the steep valley, he had set up a strong camp and cut the straight official road into two sections. Although the scale of the camp is not very large, and there are only three or four thousand people stationed at most, it is like a roadblock stuck on the only way to enter the customs in the west.

In the sound of the horn, a group of men and horses rushed out of the camp, set up a formation on the official road, Fan Chou looked from afar, only to see that the morale of this army was high, the iron armor was slanderous, and the array was scattered, which could be described as an elite division.

"Order, front army assault!" Fan Chou pulled out his sword, swung it forward, and ordered, "Stab it for General Ben!" ”

"Yes."

Sima of the front army next to him suddenly took the order and left, and in less than a moment, the two thousand cavalry of the front army set up an assault formation on the official road that was not wide, and the former army Sima gave an order, and the two thousand Xiliang iron cavalry rode forward at the same time, and launched an overwhelming assault on the Yellow Turban Army that was waiting in front of them.

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Seeing the two thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushing to kill like a mountain and a sea, the corners of Guo Tu's mouth couldn't help but bloom with a trace of cold killing intent, the ironclad cavalry used as infantry, maybe it couldn't stop the frontal assault of the heavy armored iron cavalry, but it was more than enough to block the assault of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in front! What's more, the terrain here is dangerous and the mountain roads are narrow, which is very unfavorable for the cavalry assault.

"Reject the horse pistol ~~ Vertical formation!"

"Drink~~"

Guo Tu gave an order, and the three armies responded. The 600 soldiers at the front were divided into four teams and two to erect 300 wooden repulsive rifles with a length of six or seven zhang and the thickness of a bowl, and pointed diagonally at the front air at a half-inclined angle, and the white and miserable tips of the spears were woven into a terrifying forest of death in an instant.

"Archer~~ Ready!"

"Ha~~"

Guo Tu snorted lightly, and the three armies responded violently again, and two thousand archers with cold expressions had begun to line up behind the rejecting horse gun array, and suddenly, a longbow had been pulled like a full moon, and a sharp and hideous wolf's tooth arrow had been on the string, just waiting for Guo Tu to give an order, and he would ruthlessly begin to harvest the lives of the Xiliang cavalry.

"Boom~~"

The hoofs thundered, and the earth shook.

Although the narrow official road was not conducive to the cavalry assault, the Xiliang cavalry still showed the momentum of the cavalry assault vividly. It is still the invincible Liangzhou strong force that gallops vertically and horizontally, or the well-trained and fierce and wild Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but unfortunately, the main general of this army is no longer Xu Rong or Dong Zhuo.

Guo Tu looked up to the sky, there was a heavy haze in his eyes like a storm and rain, the next moment, Guo Tu's raised right arm waved down fiercely, and a long howl from the soldiers resounded through the valley in an instant: "Release the arrow~~"

The corners of the mouths of the two thousand archers suddenly bloomed with a cold smile, and in the continuous sound of the bowstring crashing, a tent of arrows swept through the lonely valley like a dense shower, and fell towards the rushing Xiliang iron cavalry, infantry archers have always been the nightmare of light cavalry, and this time will certainly be no exception.

The reason why the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is called the Iron Cavalry is not because they are really like the Yellow Turban Heavy Armored Iron Cavalry, they are all ironclad monsters wearing heavy armor, in fact, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry has always been a light cavalry, they are called the Iron Cavalry because of the iron will, the invincible assault, and the prohibitive horse chopping knife in their hands.

But this time, the invincible assault of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry hit the rock that was difficult to shake.

A will of steel is enough to change the outcome of a war in most cases, but when two equally strong-willed armies meet, the will to fight becomes a dispensable factor.

The dense rain of arrows like locusts finally fell on the head of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the neighing of the war horses and the miserable howls of the soldiers resounded in the sky in an instant, and the Xiliang cavalry that was running fast fell down one by one.

The two poor thin iron armors on the chest and back of the Liangzhou cavalry can block the bone and stone arrow clusters that block the grassland cavalry, but they can't stop the penetration of the elite archers under Zhang Bao's elite iron arrow clusters, and if they hit the front, even the iron helmets on the heads of the Liangzhou soldiers will be easily shot through.

Zhang Bao's elite army policy of smashing pots and selling iron and improving army equipment at all costs has been richly rewarded here, and the huge gap in equipment between the two armies has finally become the most tragic defeat since the birth of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry! The two thousand Xiliang Iron Horsemen rushed forward like martyrs, fearlessly rushing into the enemy formation, until they all fell in a pool of blood!

Only a few dozen horsemen broke through the cold-blooded baptism of the archers of the Yellow Turban Army and assaulted in front of the formation, and they rode into the dense forest of horse-rejecting spears with great tragedy, allowing the sharp wooden spears to pierce their chests, completing the last sacred mission of a soldier.

"Sigh Rhythm ~~"

A wounded Xiliang war horse struggled to stand up from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain, looked up to the sky and let out a loud neigh, and then raised its hooves and galloped, what made people desperate was that its eyes had already been shot blind, so it hit the cliff wall like a sharpening, a loud bang, and then a crisp sound of bones shattering, and there was a dead silence on the Chang'an Ancient Road.

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The rear of the Liangzhou army.

Fan Chou's eyes widened, staring straight at the valley full of corpses, and he couldn't believe his eyes for a long time, is this true? Two thousand elite iron cavalry were wiped out in this way, and the invincible Xiliang iron cavalry was actually defeated by an infantry, and it was a complete defeat without suspense, this result is simply crazy!

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Yellow Turbans.

The Liangzhou army was defeated, but Guo Tu had no smug look on his face, and turned back to Guo Lin, a personal soldier behind him, and said: "As the chief general of the three armies, you must always judge the situation and fight according to the situation, and you must not rely on force to rampage, let alone dream of winning every war with the same tactical battle!" Otherwise, it will inevitably repeat the mistakes of today's Liangzhou Iron Cavalry. ”

The pro-soldier Guo Lin said: "The last general understands, thank you for your teaching." ”

Guo Tu said in a deep voice: "Water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, for the generals must not copy the hard set of military books and tactics, there is no art of war in this world, and there is no army that is always victorious and undefeated, only the victory is not arrogant, defeat is not discouraged, the advance is as fast as the wind, and the retreat is not chaotic, it can be called an elite division." ”

"Hmm."

Guo Lin nodded heavily, his eyes showing a clear expression.

Guo Lin is a member of the Guotu ethnic group, and his life is big and round, but he is thick and thin, and his personality is calm. Guo Tu intends to train Guo Lin so that he can serve Zhang Bao in the future, so he not only requires Guo Lin to be familiar with military books and proficient in strategy, but also infects and changes Guo Lin by himself~

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In the Liangzhou Army.

"Damn!"

When Fan Chou finally realized that the iron cavalry of the former army had been wiped out, the furious anger suddenly ignited in his chest, Fan Chou clenched his fists vigorously, and his eyes almost wanted to erupt fire!! ”

"Yes!"

The herald responded and took the order.