Episode 152: Two-Way Pursuit
Taking the other seven counties without bloodshed was undoubtedly the best result for the groom, and this credit was to a certain extent the credit of Sugu.
After sending someone to secretly bury Su Gu and reward his family, Ma Fu sent Zhao Yun to lead an army to meet the armies of Xiping and Jincheng, while he and Guo Jia surveyed the terrain along Baoshui to prepare for the next deployment of troops.
When the spies informed Yang Fu that Li Dao and Guo Yan had led an army of 30,000 to part ways with Lu Bu and would arrive in Xiping in less than half a day, Yang Fu immediately asked Xiping's army to rush to Hanzhong in three ways. Among them, the infantry went first, escorting grain and grass materials all the way in the middle, while the cavalry was led by Yan Yan and Shi Sun Rui to push back.
When Li Dao and Guo Yan rushed to the front of Anyi City with a large army, they found that the gate of Anyi City was open.
Jia Xu said: "Come one step too late, it seems that they have already retreated first!" ”
Li Wei turned over and dismounted: "According to the general's understanding of Namafu, he will never take the initiative to give up An Yi and retreat, there must be fraud in this, immediately order the whole army to be on guard, don't fall for Namafu's tricks!" ”
Li Dao also said: "The horseman has been guarding Xiping for a long time, and looking at the universe, where is there a place for him, there must be something strange about this matter!" ”
Jia Xu shook his head helplessly, pointed to the people coming and going in Anyi City, and said: "The enemy army is pressing the city, and the people are in a hurry. If the two generals don't believe it, they will send troops to arrest one of them here now, and the first trial will know! ”
Seeing Jia Xu's solemn expression, Li Wei hurriedly went to do it.
After a while, a soldier escorted an old man up to them.
Li Dao said: "Old man." Don't be afraid. What about your Matthew? ”
The old man sighed abruptly: "He has already lost the city and fled!" ”
"Can you tell us which direction he fled to?"
"Ma Teng in the west has long been his mortal enemy, Dong Xiang in the east has long hated him, and Liu Zhang in the south has been inseparable from him, so except for entering Qianghu in the north, he may have no way to escape!" After the old man finished speaking, he shook his head very helplessly. It seems to be full of infinite melancholy.
"How long has he been running away from Anyi?" Guo Yan asked loudly, he always felt that the person in front of him was a little strange, but he couldn't say why.
"You fled a day ago, you're late!"
When Li Dao heard this, he immediately said: "Listen to my order, after leaving 3,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, the others will chase after me and others!" ”
Just when Li Dao and Guo Yan left 3,000 soldiers and horses behind, and wanted to lead the army to pursue, Jia Xu suddenly said: "Wait! ”
The old man, who was already very happy in his heart, was suddenly stunned at this time. After seeing Jia Xu walking towards him angrily, he hurriedly lowered his head.
"Catch him!" Jia Xu shouted angrily. The two soldiers standing beside him wanted to release him, but after hearing Jia Xu say this, they hurriedly detained him.
Jia Xu said: "Old man, why do you want to lie to us? Did Yang Fu let you do this? ”
The old man trembled and said, "When did I lie to you? Everything I said is true, and I ask the two generals to check it out! ”
"Mingcha? Are you getting impatient? Jia Xu stared at him, as if he was going to eat the person in front of him raw.
The old man saw through it, but he didn't want to betray the groom. simply bit his tongue and committed suicide.
After Jia Xu saw this scene, he took a big jump directly. He didn't expect that the old man in front of him would be so loyal to the groom and the others!
"Someone! Get them all here! ”
Seeing that he had been deceived, Li Dao was like thunder.
When the hundreds of Anyi people who were busy in the city were caught in front of Li Dao and Guo Yan's army, Li Dao pointed the spear in his hand at the unarmed Anyi people and said, "Where is the horseman?" Say it! Otherwise, none of you will want to live! ”
When a child who looked like he was six or seven years old saw his grandfather lying on the ground, he walked up to Li Dao with Li Dao's fierce gaze, hugged Li Dao's thigh, and then opened his mouth to bite.
Li Dao was shocked. With a force on his leg, he threw the child aside.
The child who slammed on the ground neither cried nor made a fuss, but looked at Li Dao with a gaze full of endless hatred and said, "Return my grandfather!" Return my grandpa! ”
Li Wei looked down and found that his thigh was bleeding, and said angrily: "Who gave you the guts?" ”
Go ahead. He strode up to the child, grabbed it, and exclaimed, "Say it!" Where the hell is the groom? ”
The child struggled desperately in the air, but Li Dao's big palms were already holding his neck, and no matter how hard he struggled, it was difficult to escape from his clutches.
Jia Xu saw anger and hatred in the eyes of the people of Anyi who were kneeling on the ground, and he hurriedly walked to Li Wei's ear and whispered a few words in his ear.
"You don't say it, do you? Good! Very good! Pass on my military order, slaughter the city, and leave no one behind! Li Dao was completely enraged, he didn't have the leisure to waste time with such a group of ordinary people.
"I ...... I know! A little fat man aged eleven or twelve quickly stood up after hearing Li Wei's intimidation.
Li Dao was really overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Say it quickly!" ”
The little fat man was just about to speak, when an adult squatting next to him suddenly stood up and grabbed his mouth and said, "Don't talk nonsense!" ”
"Presumptuous!" Li Dao didn't say a word, he stepped forward directly, and directly stabbed the adult in the abdomen, and then pulled the spear, and the blood that burst out sprayed directly on the little fat man's face.
After wiping the blood from his face with his hand, the little fat man cried loudly.
Li Dao pulled it out of the kneeling crowd and said, "Don't cry, say it quickly!" Otherwise, General Ben will slaughter them all one by one! ”
"Han ...... Hanzhong ...... I heard my father say that Taishou has gone to Hanzhong......" The little fat man stammered as he sat on the ground, and the scene of the person around him being killed was still echoing in his mind over and over again.
"General Ben doesn't like lying kids!" Li Dao had already pointed his spear at the little fat man at this time, and the people of Anyi who were kneeling on the ground all gritted their teeth when they saw this scene.
The little fat man said in a trance: "I...... I really didn't lie to you! ”
Guo Yan held his chin and thought about it for a while, and then said to Li Wei: "Maybe what he said is true!" You extinguish the fire first! ”
Jia Xu suddenly realized at this time: "It's not good! Once Mafu captures Hanzhong, we won't want to hurt half of his fingers again! ”
"What do you mean by that?" Li Dao was still in the fog at this time. He thought that if it were him, he would never give up his existing territory until he had to. It is absolutely unbelievable that the horseman took the initiative to abandon the city without even fighting.
"Let me ask the general, what do you want to compare with Hanzhong and Xiping and even Jincheng?"
Jia Xu said. Li Dao panicked and said, "Hurry up and chase it!" We must not let that horseman take Hanzhong! Otherwise, I'm afraid we will all have to go to see Dong Xiang with our heads raised! ”
Seeing this, Jia Xu hurriedly walked in front of Guo Yan and said: "Now the people are panicking, since the horseman has abandoned the city, please let the general let go of the people of Anyi, right?" Otherwise, we'll lose all our hearts and minds in this area! ”
Guo Yan said: "Nowadays, people's hearts are all towards the horseman. What's the use of asking for these people? It's nothing more than a regeneration incident! ”
"So what's the use of an empty city? Presumably, Dong Xiang doesn't want Jincheng and Xiping to become empty cities, and I hope the general will think twice! ”
After thinking about it again, Guo Yan said: "For the sake of Mr.'s face, this matter will be stopped for the time being, but if they make trouble, none of the people in Xiping County will want to live!" ”
After Jia Xu heard him say this, the tight strings loosened slightly. Jia Xu has always been opposed to the slaughter of the city. But Li Dao and Guo Yan seem to like the slaughter of the city. This time, the people of Anyi helped the horseman in this way, which was destined if Li Dao and Guo Yan were in charge of Xiping or Zejincheng. They certainly don't have any good fruit to eat.
However, this phenomenon also has to cause Jia Xu to think, what kind of magic does the groom have that is so popular in this area?
"Sir, time is running out! Hurry up! ”
After Guo Yandu had already walked a long distance with the army, he suddenly turned around and found that Jia Xu had been left far behind. He had to turn back and urge Jia Xu.
Jia Xu realized that he had lost his mind at this time, and hurriedly said, "Hurry up and march!" Don't let that groom take Hanzhong this time! ”
Seeing that Guo Yan and Jia Xu caught up, Li Wei immediately let the army advance at full speed.
On the way to Chencang. However, seeing that flags were planted on both sides of the road, Li Dao and Guo Yan would order the army to move slowly at every dangerous place, so as not to fall into an ambush by the horseman.
In this way, Li Dao and Guo Yan led the army to march in a hurry. After a few hundred miles of slow driving, the army was unusually tired.
In stark contrast to the situation of Li Qi and Guo Yan, when Lu Bu's army besieged Jincheng, he found that there was not a single defender in the city. Without saying a word, he arrested a few people and found out the route of Yin Feng's escape with his soldiers and horses, and then directly led the army to chase him!
Along the way, Yin Feng's troops and horses dwindled rapidly, and he even doubted whether he could escape from the pursuit of Lu Bu's army.
By the time Yin Bong fled with his few hundred remaining horsemen to Wucheng Mountain, not far from Nan'an County, night had fallen. A soldier suddenly said to Yin Feng: "General, it's not a way for us to escape like this!" Judging from the situation on both sides of the road from which we fled, two armies must have passed through here one after the other. If the guess is correct, then Li Dao and Guo Yan must have led the army along the road to the east to pursue them! ”
"So what do you say you should do?" Yin Feng thought to himself that he was not Lu Bu's opponent at all, so along the way, he didn't take the initiative to fight Lu Bu at all, and he also understood that if this continued, before he arrived in Hanzhong, I was afraid that there would be no army left under his command, and all of them would be wiped out by Lu Bu...... (To be continued......)