Chapter 2 Encirclement and Annihilation
Wu Yi didn't know what the hell Li Sheng had to fight again, but Li Sheng himself knew very well: what he planned was a big war, a big war that would solve all the last "strong soldiers" in Yizhou, and a big war that would make him have no worries when he attacked. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe target he locked in this battle was not only Luocheng, not only Wu Yi's army, but also a plan against Mianzhu. As Liu Bi's analysis of Li Sheng said, at this time when he was about to seize such a victory as CD, Li Sheng would never let any enemy exist in his rear. This is his strategy, and it is one of the two reasons why he planned this big battle. As for another reason, it is the latest information that his subordinate Bai Yi got from Xuchang: Cao Cao is reorganizing his troops and horses, and there is a possibility of another expedition.
"Cao Cao's expedition?" When Pang Tong heard the news at first glance, he couldn't help but stand up, his always smiling face was extremely solemn, thinking that he also attached great importance to this news. After all, Cao Cao is the number one prince in the world.
"Where is his goal? Is it an easterly strike? Fa Zheng also asked with great concern.
There are fewer and fewer forces in the world. In addition to forces like Ma Chao, the north is completely Cao Cao's territory. At present, there are only two or three who can be Cao Cao's enemies: Sun Quan, Liu Bei, and himself. In terms of Cao Cao's own importance, it seems that attacking the east is the most likely to attack Sun Quan and Liu Bei, but it is not ruled out that Cao Cao will carry out a surprise attack and choose the weakest himself to attack. Although this is not very likely, it is more or less existential. Therefore, Li Shengcai became anxious again and wanted to annex Liu Zhang as soon as possible.
"Now...... I think Wu Yi should have come out of the barracks, right? Just ten miles away on the west side of Wu Yi's military camp, Li Sheng, with his advisers, led 20,000 soldiers to lurk in this piece of forest on the side of the road, looking at the flames in the eastern sky and said. The position he was in was the only way to Mianzhu, and Li Sheng's idea was to intercept Wu Yi's fugitive army from this position, and then surround them here, using them as bait to attract reinforcements from Mianzhu and Li Yan, and try to annihilate Li Yan here.
"Yes." Pang Tong nodded on the side.
"Could that be our people too?" Li Sheng asked with a wink. Although it was time for the battle to begin soon, Li Sheng did not seem to be in a hurry. He felt that everything he could prepare had been prepared, and with his own preparations and the strength of his generals, he should be able to carry out the following battles, and it seemed that there was nothing to worry about. Therefore, Li Sheng seemed a little leisurely, and he was in the mood to make some small moves with Pang Tong and Fa Zheng.
"Yes, indeed." Fa Zheng, who was in charge of this matter, nodded heavily and said affirmatively.
"Are those people all right?" Pang Tong was a little worried about this.
"No problem, although they serve us, they are really natives of Yizhou, and they were indeed soldiers of Wu Yijun, so there is no problem in terms of verbal identity. As for what is said, isn't this happening? Fa Zheng smiled and said, "What he really wants to hide is just the fact that he was captured." In general, it's much easier to forget than to lie. ”
"That's true." Li Sheng seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "Then let him go." Tell him that if he can bring Li Yanjun here, I will reward him heavily when the matter is done. ”
"Yes!" Fa Zheng nodded and agreed, nodded and hurriedly went.
Seeing that Fa was running to the back of the woods to do what he was responsible for, Li Sheng smiled, glanced in the direction he was leaving, and then turned his head to look at the situation in front of him. At this moment, there were bursts of human voices in the distance to the east, and Li Sheng estimated that this was Wu Yi's defeated army—they were dragging their messy steps towards him.
"Get the soldiers ready. The big drama is about to begin. I'm really curious to see what this drama looks like. Haha......" Li Sheng smiled, and his smile was a little sinister. made Pang Tong next to him shudder involuntarily when he heard it.
"Poor Wu Yi." Pang Tong forgot to glance at the east, praying for Wu Yi in his heart.
Of course, Wu Yi can't feel such a prayer. Right now, he's on the run.
Fleeing, naturally it is impossible to have a complete formation. No matter how Wu Yi managed to put his remnants in order at the beginning of the escape, when it came time to start running with their legs spread, it was unlikely that everyone would follow the original point of view when they knew that there was an enemy behind them that they could not resist.
"Why do you have to be ahead of me, I have to be behind?" The idea of being left behind means that there will be an attack, that there will be death, that everyone is terrified. So, they ran, thinking about overtaking the people in front, and the people in front naturally did not want to fall like this, so they also accelerated their speed, and the competition between them began, and in such a panicked competition, the formation was naturally impossible to maintain. Naturally, they gradually became a messy mess like hemp rope.
"Damn, how could this be!" Wu Yi was angry at the beginning, and wanted to stop the team several times to reorganize it, but he was stopped by his friend Liu Bi and his own soldiers.
"You can't stop them. Because all their minds were on how to escape. If you stop, you'll only have them to run into you. And what are the consequences of the collision, I think you should know. Liu Bi persuaded Wu Yi not to worry about how to rectify the team, in his opinion, it was just an act of sending him to death: "Instead of thinking about how to think about rectification in this way, it is better to run to Mianzhu and save his life." To be honest, I'm afraid we'll have enemies ahead of us. Li Sheng's appetite has always been great. ”
"Huh?" Hearing this, Wu Yi took a sharp breath: "Then are we going to take a detour?" Hearing that there might be an ambush ahead, Wu Yi instinctively thought of the idea of taking a detour.
"A detour? Where can you go around? Don't forget that Li Shengjun has cavalry. Liu Yi glanced at Wu Yi and said with a sigh.
"Then we have to rush forward?" Wu Yi thought about it and felt that in the end, there seemed to be only this way - to rush forward and break through as soon as possible before the enemy could react, although this was a solution between life and death, but it was also the only way for him to escape at the moment. Now that the army is following him, there is no way he can escape now.
"Yes!" Liu Xuan said no more.
The fire behind him was still not extinguished, but the enemy's pursuers had already killed. It was the elite people who were clamoring all over the mountains to wipe out these people. This can be seen in their high momentum, loud voices, and the bright weapons they wield in their hands. They knew they couldn't resist it, so they fled, and it was fast. The speed at which they erupted in the midst of danger allowed them to quickly leave their enemies behind. But no one was happy about it, they still ran wildly. For they all knew that as soon as they stopped, the enemy's pursuers would catch up, and as soon as they slackened, they would follow them like hounds with a keen sense of smell. As bad as it feels to be prey, they still have no choice. They hadn't heard of the conversation between the current commander and the former commander, so they didn't know that there was a very high possibility of an ambush ahead. At this moment, they only have one thing in mind, that is, to run, to run for their lives, and run directly to Mianzhu City, which is ninety miles away—then they will be safe.
So, they rushed forward in a messy formation, and all kinds of cries and shouts mixed with one or two scolding voices sounded at the same time, making it difficult to associate this team with the so-called army. There are no more statistics on how many of them are lucky enough to do, and many things can't be done in this panicked moment. They only knew that they were lucky, and they also knew that many brothers who were more unfortunate than themselves were killed in the fire. This is the second fire they have encountered this month, and the people who set it are all the enemy on the opposite side, the shameful invader Li Sheng.
Yes, Li Sheng is absolutely shameful. Had it not been for the shameful invasion of him and his army, and the renegade of the covenant, his own men would not have left CD to fight him in this barren land. And that's just the lightest of all his shames. And what is even more shameful about him is that he almost never fights against you head-on, always giving you a hard blow on your most vulnerable weakness when you think you have the chance of victory, so that your hope will be shattered and shattered. He is a very good runner, and in the middle of this running, he always makes it difficult for himself to keep up with him. He will harass you, block you, and when you think he is really running, he will give you another time, and it will become the current time when you run and chase him.
These are very strange starters, and in terms of the heads of these little soldiers, which are not enough to see, such a technique can be described as unpredictable. Except for the duel under the city, every time the Yizhou army felt that they were so confused and so inexplicable, they couldn't figure out why they were defeated. It seemed that there was a silk thread pulling him in that dark void, dragging himself into the trap that Li Sheng had already arranged, allowing him to calmly launch an attack, so that he would be defeated like this - it was really unimaginable. They couldn't imagine it, and naturally they didn't know that the place they were running to at the moment was actually a part of the trap that Li Sheng had already arranged.
The ambush quickly began after Wu Yi and his men entered the ambush circle. Different from the previously known ambushes, Li Shengjun's current ambush is to include all enemies, including the vanguard troops, as targets and strike at them. He was fighting with the idea of encircling and destroying all the enemies, not just an ambush to crush them.
In order to achieve this goal, Li Sheng strengthened his attack on the front part of the enemy's army, placing 6,000 of his 8,000 archers there, and dug up the leveled road to fill it with a network of ravines. The ravine was shallow, and Li Sheng stuffed it with oil-soaked thatch and hastily filled it up, pretending that there was nothing. Just waiting for Wu Yi's troops to arrive, they fired rockets to seal this part of the road with fire, so as to intercept the advance of Wu Yi's army.
The offensive began first of all at the Chinese Army. For a while, arrows rained down, and many soldiers who were still running and had never thought that they would be attacked fell to the ground under the sudden rain of arrows. Their death caused panic among those who came before and after. Except for Liu Bi, who had already thought of this, and Wu Yi, who got the news from Liu Bi, he didn't think that the enemy would ambush them. They panicked. Their morale was not high, but they had no idea of resisting at the moment, but scattered and wanted to flee for their lives.
Li Shengjun did not make any moves against their confusion, neither intensifying nor reducing the intensity of the blow because of this. They just calmly carried out their work step by step according to the orders given by their lord at the beginning. Soon fifteen or sixteen huge fireballs rose from the woods and crashed to the ground, scattering burning thatch and wood chips in between, but forming one bonfire after another on the ground. This was not a means of killing or injuring the enemy, except for one or two unlucky guys who were burned to death by the fireball, many more people were unharmed. But no one dared to underestimate the role of this fireball, because with the lighting of this bonfire, the figures of the Yizhou soldiers walking on the road became clear, and they became excellent targets for Li Shengjun's archers.
The volley was scattered at this point, because at the same time as the fireball fell, Li Shengjun's infantry also rushed out of the woods and began to use their weapons to demand the lives of those enemies. The melee has begun, and the salvo is naturally useless, and the scattering that is aimed at the heart and then emitted becomes the most suitable attack method on the battlefield. Of course, even scattering is likely to cause accidental damage to your own side on the battlefield where they are intertwined, but there is no way to do it. In order to win as soon as possible, Li Sheng had no choice but to make such a choice.
Angry roars, terrible howls, and crisp sounds of gold and iron quickly sounded on the battlefield. Wu Yijun, who was originally a long dragon, was divided into several pieces at this moment, and was intercepted and killed by Li Shengjun on the avenue. The battle has begun, and the duel between life and death is going on under this dark curtain, by the firelight. For Wu Yijun, who did not have any will to fight, Li Shengjun was like a sharp blade, easily tearing Wu Yijun's formation apart as if he had cut through a thin piece of paper.
"It's so strong!" Wu Yi turned around and looked at his army with a little fear, and couldn't help but spit out such a sentence.
"They're very strong, but we're too weak at the moment, that's why that's what happened. In order not to make us one of them, I think we should go. A cold word sounded in Wu Yi's ears, causing him to nod slightly.
"That's right." Wu Yi knew that he turned around and smiled at Liu Bi, as if to thank Liu Bi for reminding him, and then accelerated the speed of the mount under him. His soldiers quickly retreated from his side to the back, and were overtaken by him one by one. Because he was originally at the front of the team, because he had already been reminded by Liu Bi that he had launched earlier, he quickly rushed to the front and left everyone except his own soldiers behind. Obviously, if nothing had happened, he could have escaped from the siege like this.
But......
How could it not have happened? Wu Yi and Liu Bi, two generals with good skills, plus Lei Tong and Wu Lan, are people that Li Sheng has long taken a fancy to. Wouldn't it be too disappointing to let them run away? Li Sheng was reluctant to do this. Seeing Wu Yi and Liu Bi trying to escape, he gently raised his left hand, waved it down heavily, and gave the order to attack and block the enemy's front army.
Rockets, another round of rockets coming all over the world. They shot in front of Wu Yi and the others in the direction of their escape, igniting the line of fire on the ground, and for a time a huge fire was ignited in the sky. The scorching fire, the layers of heat waves and bursts of dazzling light made Wu Yi and Liu Bi stop their horses together.
"Li Sheng actually pressed such an arrangement even in front of him? Is he determined to wipe us out here? Wu Yi and Liu Xuan glanced at each other, and each saw shock and horror from the other. They never thought that Li Sheng actually planned to fight this battle so desperately, and he didn't just want to defeat himself, but with the idea of annihilating himself.
"What should I do?" Wu Yi didn't ask this, he just glanced at Liu Bi and used his gaze to express his doubts.
"Let's go!" Liu Yi swept the void in the other direction with his eyes and suggested to Wu Yi.
If this road doesn't work, then go somewhere else, in short, don't meet Li Shengjun. At this moment, even a general like Liu Bi, who has always been calm, can't help but be a little frightened, he has no idea of fighting Li Sheng at all, he only thinks about his life at this moment.
"Is that really the direction?" The corners of Li Sheng's mouth curled slightly, and a mocking smile appeared on his face: "Since you want to kill yourself, then I have nothing else to say." Hehe, where are you going, you have to accept the great gift I have laid for you. He turned around as he said and instructed Pang Tong: "Shiyuan, you are in charge of this side." I'm going to settle those people's affairs. If Hansheng comes, you can ask him to bring the team to me. ”
"Okay." Pang Tong smiled and nodded. At this moment in the battle, everything was going well, and seeing that it had reached the point where it seemed that it could be ended, both Li Sheng and Pang Tong seemed to be relaxed. They all felt, "The big thing is decided!" ”
Yes, the big thing has already been decided. Not to mention that in the direction where Wu Yi and Liu Bi fled, in order to deal with Wu Yi and their hundreds of people, Li Sheng had 5,000 people waiting there. Let's just say that here, on this mile-long battlefield, with the escape of the main general, the defeat of the army, and the low morale, there is no possibility of turning the tables with more than 10,000 people here. Even a miracle will not change the outcome. Therefore, at this moment, Pang Tong is no longer concerned about whether he can achieve victory, but in the end, how many enemies he can kill and injure, how many enemies he can capture, and how many enemies he can let escape-this is a question of the so-called results of the war.
"When the matter here is settled, the next thing to do is the battle against Li Yan's side. Although Fa Zheng said it so surely, he didn't know if Li Yan would agree to send troops to rescue him at this last and most critical juncture. Hopefully, while our side is going well, Li Yan's side is also going well. Pang Tong thought so, looking at the battlefield with a slightly distracted gaze, and a thought of gain and loss rolled in his mind, making his thoughts fluctuate. At this time, behind Wu Yi's remnants, the smoke and dust were billowing and the people were boiling and neighing, but it was Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun who came over with their own men and horses after the round. They had finally arrived at the final stage of the battle.
The addition of the two armies of Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun was undoubtedly the final blow to the panicked Yizhou army, just like sweeping the court and plowing holes, eliminating the resistance of the Yizhou army one by one, except for a very small number of lucky people who were able to escape, the vast majority of people either died in battle or surrendered, and among them, there were many more people who surrendered than those who died in battle. By the time Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong and Pang Tong finally rounded, this siege and annihilation battle aimed at Wu Yi's army of the Yizhou Army had basically ended, except for the stupid ones who ran to the trap with Wu Yi and them at the beginning, and the lucky ones who ran away from the battlefield in all directions later, almost all of them were caught. This may be considered a major victory. After all, the goal of encircling and annihilating the enemy army has basically been achieved.
Because Li Sheng had an explanation, Huang Zhong quickly set off with the whole formation after handing over the reinforcements and prisoners he brought to Pang Tong to be responsible. Li Sheng gave Huang Zhong the task of setting a trap on the road to the valley where Wu Yi and the others had fled, and as soon as Li Yan's reinforcements arrived, he quickly launched an ambush to surround Li Yan's army.
"Use 8,000 archers to encircle and annihilate the 12,000 Yizhou army, or is it between these mountain roads that have nothing arranged? Not...... My lord really thinks of me. Huang Zhong said this with a little dissatisfaction, but in fact, he did not complain about Li Sheng at all. In fact, right now he's feeling excited. It is indeed a difficult task to ambush most of the enemy with a small number of troops, especially when the enemy is not the weakest like the Yizhou army in front, and this task is even more challenging. And this challenge is what Huang Zhong is willing to see.
The battlefield Li Shengsheng chose was still ninety miles away. This distance made it impossible for Mianzhu's reinforcements to come quickly, thus giving Li Sheng time to set up a new battlefield. Taking advantage of this time, Huang Zhong calmly commanded his soldiers to arrange ambush points, and then lurked and quietly waited for Li Yan and their arrival.
Time passed little by little while waiting, and occasionally other units of Li Shengjun's army, which had completed their respective tasks, joined the ambush circle, enhancing the military strength of the ambush troops.
In the southwest direction, the shouting and killing still kept remembering. Huang Zhong was stunned, listening to the real voice, and couldn't help but admire Li Sheng's superb acting skills - everything was no different from the sound of fighting on the real battlefield. If Huang Zhong hadn't known that it was only Li Sheng acting there, I was afraid that he would have led the team to rush into the past to support his lord.
The sky gradually brightened, and the suspicion in Huang Zhong's heart slowly rose and then expanded: Ninety miles is not very close, nor is it very far, but if Li Yan had arrived overnight, he should have arrived here an hour ago. Seeing that the road in the mountain pass was still quiet, Huang Zhong couldn't help but be a little worried: "Did the soldiers sent to mess things up and not convince Li Yan?" Thinking that there would be such a possibility, he couldn't help frowning, and was about to go to Li Sheng and Pang Tong to ask them, but he forced himself down and didn't say anything. After all, he didn't receive the news that Li Sheng asked them to withdraw their troops, so he couldn't leave casually while waiting.
"It's so exciting." Huang Zhong muttered quietly, but his eyes were still looking at this and that mountain pass. He knew that if the enemy really brought in troops, then the mountain pass was definitely the place they had to pass. As long as you look at it, then you will definitely be able to get the news of the enemy army as soon as possible. Such first-hand information is very important to any general, let alone Huang Zhong, who is preparing for battle.
I waited like this until noon, when almost everyone was a little tired of waiting, and the noise of people and horses finally drifted faintly in the wind outside the mountain pass. After a while, Huang Zhong watched the Yizhou military horses of the brigade appear at the mountain pass, and walked towards the valley in a very neat marching procession. They thought that they were afraid of being attacked by someone, and they dutifully sent them to the slopes on both sides of the valley, that is, the place where their people were ambushed, obviously trying to find out the situation here first.
Huang Zhong did not send anyone to interfere with the search of these people, nor did he send anyone to inform his soldiers to let them lie more hidden. He didn't do that, because it seemed to him to be completely redundant. He believed in his men, in his arrangement. He thinks that in terms of what he has done, it is enough to deal with the reconnaissance of these spies of the Yizhou Army who do not have much professional quality.
Sure enough, Li Yan's spies did not find Huang Zhong's hidden ambush in the mountains and forests. Therefore, they reported the news that "everything is fine" to Li Yan, so that Li Yan was finally able to enter the valley with some peace of mind and speed up the pace of the march.
Watching his prey fall into the trap he had set one by one, Huang Zhong had a satisfied smile on his face. As the last of Li Yanjun's soldiers entered the valley, he raised his right hand.
"Whew! …… Trumpet! An arrow slammed into the sky, and then exploded with a crisp pop.
That's the signal to attack. The soldiers of Li Shengjun, who had been lying in ambush on both sides, flashed out of their respective hiding places one after another and set up their own military flags. For a while, the mountains were full of Li Shengjun's soldiers and military flags, which made people involuntarily tremble when they saw it-"Such a huge momentum, could it be that Li Shengjun hid 100,000 soldiers here." Frightened by all this, most of the Yizhou soldiers thought so. Although panicked, they did not appear to be in a rupture, but they were not directly attacked. They gathered and set their eyes on Li Yan, wanting to see how their master would deal with this matter.
The performance of this Yizhou sergeant made Huang Zhong, who carried out this ambush plan, nod secretly: "It seems to be much better than Wu Yi and Liu Bi." Although it is not as good as our army, it can indeed be regarded as an elite to maintain such a level. Looking at their appearance, it seems that they are all looking at Li Yan's horse, thinking that Li Yan does have some ability, so that these people will be so obedient. Well, the talents that the lord wants to subdue all have good abilities. Thinking of this, Huang Zhong couldn't help but admire Li Sheng's gaze a little.
Huang Zhong is one of Li Sheng's masters, and he has been with Li Sheng for so long, so he has some understanding of the personality of his apprentice master. Therefore, he easily guessed what Li Sheng's ultimate goal in this battle was: "This is not only a battle to capture the city and annihilate the enemy, but also a battle to subdue the enemy generals." If it were possible, the lord would be eager to take all these Yizhou generals into his possession. Huang Zhong thinks so.
Because he knew that his lord had such thoughts, Huang Zhong naturally wanted to help Li Sheng with this matter: he didn't know how others were, for Huang Zhong, who was in charge of dealing with Li Yan in the here and now, what he was thinking at the moment was that Li Yan was forced to surrender and let him submit to his lord.
"It's a bit difficult, but it's not entirely hopeless." Huang Zhong is an old man, and when he sees a lot of people, he will look at it somewhat. Judging from his physiognomy observation of Li Yan, he knew that Li Yan was about an arrogant and rational person - because of arrogance, he was not easily convinced, because of rationality, he was still quite able to see the situation clearly, and he took advantage of the situation, so if he wanted to subdue him, he could only defeat him completely and let him see the current situation clearly.
Huang Zhong understood this, so after making such a huge momentum, he did not immediately give the order to attack, but galloped out of the mountains and forests, galloped out of the mountains and forests, galloped to a place about forty zhang away from Li Yanjun and stopped: "Zhengfang, you are a person who understands, do you know the current situation?" Huang Zhong said and asked loudly as he compared the archers he had arranged.
"The situation is so clear, why can't I see it?" Li Yan immediately responded loudly to Huang Zhong with a gun.
"So...... Can you drop it? Huang Zhong asked loudly.
"Haven't I failed yet? How can it be dropped? Li Yan rejected Huang Zhong on this basis.
Such a refusal made Huang Zhong a little surprised: "What? ”
"As long as I catch you, what can these people under your command do to me?" Li Sheng had such an idea. As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed forward and rushed straight towards Huang Zhong. He is still very confident in his martial arts.
"Good time!" Huang Zhong shouted, and greeted him without showing weakness, and fought with Li Yan, killing the general.