Chapter 042: Knowing Today Earlier
The task of going to Jicheng to confuse Yu Fuluo, Lu Bu handed it over to Xu Rong. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Lü Bu selected 1,000 elite cavalry from the Bingzhou army as Xu Rong's direct troops, and Xu Rong was responsible for commanding them in the future. This is also Lu Bu's affirmation and reward for Xu Rong's down-to-earth work since he joined.
In these years, being able to lead a thousand cavalry is already at the level of a cavalry captain.
In order to successfully complete the task assigned by Lu Bu, Xu Rong deliberately asked Lu Zhi and Chen Gong for advice before leaving, and carefully checked the preparations of the troops to ensure that there would be no mistakes and omissions.
Lu Bu personally sent Xu Rong to lead the army away, and his attention was overflowing.
Jishan Pavilion was about 150 miles away from Jicheng, and in order to ensure the concealment of the march, Xu Rong chose to march quickly in the evening and dawn, march slowly at night, and hide in the forest to rest during the day.
Two days later, Xu Rong led his army to Jicheng. This is already a hilly area, and it is very close to the Nakajo Mountains. The Southern Huns were not interested in mountainous and hilly terrain, so it was less disturbed, and although the area around Jicheng was a little sparsely populated, it was a good temporary place to stay.
Xu Rong sent people to find the three elders in the township, Youzhi, Sifu, and You, and told them that he had come to Jicheng not to disturb the people, but the regular troops sent by the imperial court to deal with the Southern Huns. The three elders have also seen the world, and understand that Xu Rong is reminding them to restrain the people in the township and not to leak the news of the arrival of the imperial court soldiers and horses to the Southern Huns. At the same time, Xu Rong is also hinting that Jicheng and rural areas need to provide some grain and grass for the imperial court's soldiers and horses.
After resting for a while in Jicheng and letting the soldiers and war horses eat and drink, Xu Rong led his troops to swagger along the muddy water in the direction of Jiangyi.
When approaching the vicinity of Jiangyi City fifty miles, Xu Rong spotted the scattered rangers of the Southern Huns. He immediately sent a detachment of cavalry to besiege him. The rangers of the Southern Huns naturally could not stand in place and wait to be killed, so they did not hesitate to choose to retreat in the direction of Jiangyi. Xu Rong controlled the speed and rhythm of the pursuit very well, preventing him from using too much force and plunging headlong into the ambush circle of the Southern Huns.
Yu Fuluo in Jiangyi City had just received news about Yang Feng, and when he learned that Yang Feng had sent 10,000 people to Wenxi, he had the urge to scold his mother. Yang Feng is not authentic, he has obviously won the big city of Anyi, and now he wants to occupy Wenxi, which is clearly to grab territory with the Southern Huns!
Just when Yu Fuluo was angry, his subordinates came to report again, saying that a large group of Han cavalry had been found in the east of Jiangyi City.
Juvro suddenly became nervous.
Now there are only Lu Bu and Niu Fu who have large-scale cavalry in Hedong, and the Southern Huns are naturally counted. Niu Fudu fled to Yucheng, and it was obviously impossible to send cavalry to operate hundreds of miles away. Then, the rest can only be Lu Bu's troops.
Yu Fuluo immediately ordered one of his commanders to lead 2,000 men and horses to intercept the Han cavalry that appeared near Jiangyi. At the same time, he also sent people to the area of Jishan Pavilion to inquire about the main movement of Lu Bu's army.
The Southern Huns who went out of the city to meet the battle encountered the troops led by Xu Rong ten miles east of Jiangyi City, Xu Rong did not charge, but turned his horse's head and slowly retreated to the east, obviously not wanting to engage the Southern Huns.
After the Southern Huns chased twenty miles, they stopped. The commander who led the team was not a fool, he was worried that there was an ambush of the Han army in front of him, so he did not dare to chase it any further, but led the team back to Jiangyi City.
When Xu Rong saw the return of the Southern Huns, he led his troops to harass Jiangyi. However, this time he quietly sent 400 men to the north of Jiangyi, so that they would be like himself, only responsible for making trouble, and if they encountered the Southern Huns coming out to pursue, then turn their horses and retreat in the direction of Jicheng in the east.
The next day, Tanma, who had gone to Jishan Pavilion to inquire about the news, returned and reported to Yu Fuluo that there were no troops there for a long time, and Lu Bu was nowhere to be found. Juvro suddenly felt like a black cloud was pressing down on the city. At this time, another subordinate reported that the cavalry of the Han army was found outside the city in two directions at the same time.
Huvro's mood can no longer be described as nervous. If he was surrounded by the Han army who was good at attacking the city, wouldn't he be caught in the urn?
In a panic, Yu Fuluo sent people to Linfen, which is across the river, overnight, and asked all the Southern Huns near Linfen to withdraw to Jiangyi in the east of Fenshui and gather with his men and horses.
The next day, the Southern Huns near Linfen crossed the river to Jiangyi, and the spies sent by Lü Bu immediately transmitted this military information back to Jiting, and Lü Bu let Cao Xing and Xue Lan lead the light cavalry to rush to Linfen, and the soldiers occupied the city of Linfen without blood.
After gathering the men, Huvro felt a little safer, but an even greater crisis soon came.
Lü Bu, who occupied Linfen, sent all his cavalry up the west bank of Fenshui and entered Pingyang and Xiangling, beating the Southern Huns there into grandsons.
The total number of Bingzhou cavalry under Lu Bu exceeded 5,000, and once it was dispatched collectively, it was definitely a terrifying force.
When some of the Southern Huns fled along the Baibo Valley to Jiangyi, Yuvro found himself seemingly with no way out.
The passage north into Bingzhou was blocked by an unidentified Han army, and Lü Bu's army blocked the way to the west, and Yang Feng, Li Le, and Niu Fu to the south......
To the east? The cavalry of the Han army that came from the east recently, no one knows how many people there are, in case they are stopped in the middle of the road, and Lu Bu catches up from behind, then the game will be completely over.
Besides, the vast Zhongtiao Mountain lies in the east, and once you get in, you don't know where the exit is, which is equivalent to getting into a dead end. When the time comes, all it takes is an infantry army to guard the entrance, and his people can be trapped alive in the mountains.
Yu Fuluo didn't want to die, he also wanted to take his people back to the prairie to compete with his brother for the throne of the Southern Xiongnu Shan Yu, so he sent someone to meet Lu Bu and wanted to ask Lu Bu to let him go.
Lu Bu didn't see the person sent by Yu Fuluo, so he asked Chen Gong to come forward to receive him and brought back a sentence to Yu Fuluo: I knew today, why bother in the beginning!
These eight words show Lu Bu's attitude and determination to avenge the Han people.
Hedong is the Hedong of the Han Dynasty, as the attached Southern Huns are not grateful, but follow the Baibo army together to cause trouble in Hedong, since they have known that those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away, why do they have to die by themselves?
After receiving Lü Bu's reply, Yu Fuluo suddenly had the courage and determination to die and survive, and he led 3,000 strong tribal warriors to leave Jiangyi City that night, and then crossed the muddy water to the south, and retreated to Xie County with Wen Xi's side, preparing to go to Guo Da.
Yu Fuluo was not sure of a decisive battle with Lu Bu's troops, but he was confident that Wen Xi, Yang Feng and Li Le in Anyi City were not his opponents, and since Lu Bu refused to let go of the Southern Huns, he could only cut off the tail of the gecko, leave the old and weak women and children in the clan behind, and flee west with the sturdy men.