Come to think of it, in fact, you can't blame Gongsun Du for turning his face with Gongsun Zhan.

After all, the attraction of power to people is incomprehensible.

When a person is not in power, his mind may still maintain a normal state of mind, but after enjoying the benefits and pleasures brought by power, then this person seems to be poisoned and addicted, and it is unlikely that he can let go of power.

Let's take the officialdom of later generations as an example, like Gongsun Du, the "King of Liaodong", in fact, it is equivalent to a provincial-level official in later generations. A person who can be a provincial-level member is equivalent to a feudal minister and a king. Just ask, climb to the provincial level, and then let him resign for no reason, give up his power, or, demote himself to be a local petty official. Would they like to? I'm afraid that if it weren't for force majeure, they would definitely not give up the power in their hands and swear to keep their official positions to the death, right?

Gongsun Du, no matter what he says, he is a prince, in Liaodong, he responds to every call, and holds the power of life and death for millions of people in Liaodong. Now, he just wants to keep his power and develop his own power, so he has never thought about surrendering, surrendering or something, and he has no such thoughts at all. He didn't want to listen to Gongsun Chan talk about this.

How to say, he also has more than 100,000 or 200,000 military horses, which is insignificant compared to the New Han Army, but with his own strength, he can also cut the land and become the king. What's more, no matter how big it is, you can withdraw from Liaodong and lead your military horses into the territory of Goguryeo, or you can rely on your own strength. Self-reliance in Goguryeo. Self-reliance, independent of one side, calling for wind and rain. Isn't it happy? Submit to the New Han Dynasty? Obey orders? Die for Liu Yi again? Gongsun Du really didn't think about it.

Now, he is almost certain that the Wuhuan people have gathered an army of millions, and their purpose will definitely not be him, it must be the New Han Army. He even, could have foreseen. The Wuhuan army and the New Han army will have a bloody battle. As long as they fight together, then. He had an opportunity. At the very least, the two sides will definitely lose both, and in the end, either side will win. It is impossible to threaten him. Maybe. What else can he get out of it?

Control Gongsun Zan up, and then control all the people and horses brought by Gongsun Zhan. It's like grabbing a chip. At that time, if the New Han army was defeated by the Wuhuan army, it would be better a long time ago, and he could have forced down Gongsun Zhan, because the defeated New Han army could no longer threaten him. Then, it is also possible that Gongsun Chan will see the defeat of the New Han army. Submit to Him. And if it was the New Han army that defeated the Wuhuan army. Then, when the time comes, the entire northern part of the Han Dynasty will be outside the gates. Even if his Gongsun Du has the final say, the Wuhuan people who were defeated by the New Han Army can only tremble under his feet, surrender to his Gongsun Du, and recover the Wuhuan people, then his power will increase greatly, and his territory will expand from this corner of Liaodong to the entire northern prairie, replacing the current Wuhuan King Badun and becoming the overlord of the north. Of course, if the New Han army defeated the Wuhuan army and immediately attacked him, then Gongsun Chan could be used as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the New Han army and force the New Han army to retreat to the Guannai.

Anyway, no matter what, Gongsun Du doesn't plan to take refuge in anyone, in his heart, there are too many back roads, too many plans. Therefore, Gongsun Du resolutely detained Gongsun Zhan.

As long as the people who came into the city with Gongsun Chan are put into custody, and the more than 3,000 military horses outside the city who escorted Gongsun Chan to Liaoyang are put into custody, then he will be safe for the time being. If you don't let the New Han Army know the situation of Gongsun Zan who came to your Liaoyang City, then the New Han Army will not immediately attack him, and drag it to the Wuhuan army to kill Youzhou, and at that time, the New Han Army can only take a defensive position and can no longer threaten him.

After giving orders to the people below, Gongsun Du prepared to go to the official office and plan his future actions with the generals below him. Especially when the Wuhuan army has not officially launched an attack on Youzhou, how to beware of the Wuhuan people. At this time, the Wuhuan people must not be allowed to kill Liaodong by the way.

However, he ordered people to go down to take in the people brought by Gongsun Zhan, and soon someone came to report to him in a panic, saying that some people from Gongsun Chan broke out of Gongsun Zan's mansion and went out of the city.

Gongsun Du was shocked when he heard the report, but he quickly calmed down again, and then gave an order to let the army lead the army to chase after him immediately, and capture all the three thousand Gongsun Zhan's military horses outside the city, and if he dared to resist, he could attack them.

Gongsun Du didn't believe that there were still people who could escape the pursuit of his own army.

And Tian Kai, Guan Jing and the hundreds of people in Gongsun Mansion were soon surrounded by Gongsun Du's people, forced to put down their weapons, and were imprisoned.

Gongsun Du's order had not yet reached the outside of the city so quickly, and Shi A and the brothers went all the way unhindered, and Pegasus returned to the military village of 3,000 military horses outside the city.

This military village is the military village of Gongsun Dujun, and it is just to let it out for the time being and place the 3,000 cavalry of Gongsun Zhan.

And Shi A rushed to this military village from the city, and he saw that something was wrong, because, around this military village, it was faintly surrounded by Gongsun Du's military horses.

Therefore, as soon as Shi A led a group of brothers and sisters into the army, he immediately ordered all the soldiers to assemble immediately, all of them got on their horses, and prepared to deal with the changes.

Most of these 3,000 white horse servants are elite soldiers who have followed Gongsun Zan for many years, and they are extremely strong in terms of combat power and military discipline.

In fact, they are basically veterans who have been trained by Zhao Yun and have followed Zhao Yun for many years.

Shi A's identity, they all know that except for Gongsun Zhan, Shi A can issue any orders to them, and absolutely obey Shi A's transfer.

Sure enough, when this white horse Yi had just assembled, outside the military wall, there were countless cavalry troops of Gongsun Du who rumbled in, some from other places outside the city, and some from inside the city. Of course, there is also the Gongsun Army, who has long been eyeing around this military village.

Shi Ah rarely commanded the army alone, but he had never eaten pork and never seen a pig run? What's more, he was during this time. often stayed with Zhao Yun, and also learned some essentials of commanding cavalry from Zhao Yun, especially some key elements of cavalry warfare.

Cavalry. There must be a certain amount of space, as well as in the plains, so that it can really exert its 100% combat effectiveness.

Therefore, as soon as he saw Gongsun Du's military horses running outside the military village, he immediately knew that there must have been a change in the city, and Gongsun Chan might have had an accident. And inside the military wall. The space is limited, and once it is surrounded by Gongsun Du's military horses, then it is impossible for his three thousand elite cavalry to play the role of cavalry. When the time comes, it can only be regarded as an infantry army defending this military fortress.

But this military village is just some wooden walls, which are broken by the enemy as soon as they break through. So. According to this military village, it is definitely a dead end.

Without the slightest hesitation, Shi A gave an order, and immediately led the three thousand cavalry to rush out of the military village. Then he looked at a gap and rushed over.

Gongsun Du's military horses have not been able to really surround the general village for a while, so let Shi A, who had already prepared. Anran led the 3,000 cavalry to rush out.

In order to completely capture Gongsun Zan and his party, Gongsun Du sent 30,000 or 40,000 cavalry. In addition, the 20,000 or 30,000 infantry troops outside the city earlier wanted to surround the military village first, and then force the New Han army in the military village to put down their weapons and surrender.

But he didn't expect Shi A to break into the city first, and let the cavalry in the army village be prepared, and his men and horses could not form a siege, so Shi A led the army to rush out.

Because of the change, Gongsun Du didn't care about the official office, but rushed to the city tower to observe the situation outside the city. He saw the cavalry of the New Han Army in the military fortress outside the city tower, and suddenly highlighted the encirclement of his military horses, and his face suddenly changed greatly, and he ordered a little angry to let his military horses pursue immediately, and he must not let this cavalry of the New Han Army escape back to Shanhaiguan.

However, he misunderstood again, because Shi Ah had never thought of escaping at all.

He led the 3,000 cavalry and led the more than 30,000 cavalry of Gongsun Du to make a big circle outside the city, and actually returned to the gate of Liaoyang.

Well, the cavalry of 30,000 or 40,000 was overwhelming and extraordinary, but they could never catch up with the small number of cavalry of the New Han Army in front. On the whole, almost all of them are Ma Bai's three thousand white horse righteous followers, like a snow-white wave at the head of a wave, but they are always at the head of the wave and will never be covered by the huge waves.

As for Gongsun Du's 30,000 or so infantry troops, they may have known that it was impossible to catch up with the cavalry of the New Han Army with their footsteps, and they had slowly gathered together and did not participate in the pursuit.

"Gongsun Du! What do you mean? Shi Ah walked around the city, shouting at the head of the city as luck shouted.

"What about General Gongsun Zhan? Quickly release General Gongsun Zhan! Also, order your horses to stop chasing, or we're welcome!" ”

Shi A's shouting, as if penetrating, penetrated from the rumbling sound of earth-shattering horses' hooves and reached the city.

You are welcome? With your 3,000 cavalry, can you still be polite to yourself? Do you still want to attack the city? Joke!

Gongsun Du didn't think so at all, and sneered and responded: "Gongsun Chan is a guest in my mansion, what are you doing here?" How can you be polite to me? Ha ha! ”

Shi A glanced at the city, saw Gongsun Du who was sneering, and understood in his heart, confirming that Gongsun Chan was indeed in an accident. At the moment, he was angry in his heart, and shouted: "We came to visit you on behalf of the New Han Army, and we have already done the first salute and then the soldiers, even if the negotiation fails, there is no need to do so." General Gongsun, who cannot detain us, now, on behalf of the New Han Army, formally make solemn representations to you, if General Gongsun Chan is not released in half an hour, then we can only launch an attack on your army. ”

"Huh? What the? Gongsun Du made a side-ear gesture at the head of the city, and shouted with disdain: "With your little cavalry, you want to attack us?" Haha, ridiculous! Let me tell you plainly, and if you know each other, stop at once, lay down your arms and surrender, or else you will flee and see if you can escape the pursuit of our cavalry! ”

"Good! In that case, then we have nothing more to say, and I hope you can afford the consequences! ”

Shi Ah roared angrily, slapped his horse, and led the army to roar away.

can be selected as a white horse servant, not only the soldiers are fierce, but even the war horses are one of the best horses in a hundred, which is not comparable to ordinary war horses.

Shi A led the army to rush away, and suddenly pulled away a little from the pursuit of the cavalry behind him.

Liaoyang City is surrounded by almost all plains. Occasionally, there will be a low hilly area, but it will not affect the gallop of the horses. So. Just give Shi Ah and the others a relatively open room for maneuver.

Circling the plains around Liaoyang City, he led the pursuers behind him to turn around again.

Shi A remembered the essentials of cavalry that Zhao Yun told him. deliberately ran to the direction of the north wind.

"Brothers, it seems that we have to give a little color to the pursuers behind us, so that they can know how powerful our New Han Army cavalry is. The whole army obeyed the order, lined up, and bows and arrows waited! ”

The Gongsun Du cavalry in the back. It had been pulled into a long serpentine shape, and the cavalry chasing Shi A and the others was only four or five hundred steps away from Shi A and the others.

Well. In fact, they were chasing behind, and they were also quite breathless, looking at this white horse cavalry in front of them, their tens of thousands of cavalry. Just rush through. The cavalry could be completely crushed at this point, but what made them angry was that no matter how much they drove the horses, they were always about a mile apart, and they just couldn't catch up with the attack.

Now, they saw that the cavalry in front of them had actually stopped, and they were lined up. I couldn't help but feel happy in my heart, and suddenly slapped the horse. Shouting and slapping the horse and rushing over.

Gongsun Zhan's White Horse Yicong is not the pure heavy cavalry of the New Han Army, but retains Gongsun Zhan's original combat method of White Horse Yicong. This kind of cavalry archery is not the main combat method of the White Horse Yicong, but because they often fight with foreign races outside the Guan, almost every soldier of the White Horse Yicong has more or less learned a little bit of riding and archery skills of the rangers, and there is no problem with releasing arrows on horseback, of course, their strength should be to charge and pursue. However, the sophisticated advantage of the bows and arrows of the New Han Army, especially after the horses were equipped with horse shoes, the riding and archery level of these white horses was suddenly raised to a higher level.

When the pursuers rushed into a distance of two or three hundred paces. Shi A gave an order, and more than 3,000 arrows were shot out with a buzz.

After shooting an arrow, Shi Ah didn't care about its damage at all, and gave another order, reined in his war horse, and led the army to gallop away.

The Gongsun Du cavalry, who wanted to rush up to deal with these New Han Army cavalry, was attacked by more than 3,000 bows and arrows, even if they had faintly seen or thought that the New Han Army cavalry would release arrows, but there was no way to dodge, and the bows and arrows that were as fast as rain set off a rain of blood.

Countless Gongsun Du's cavalry, people turned on their backs, and a small piece was poured.

Of course, this small piece of cavalry fell to the ground, compared to the cavalry of tens of thousands of horses, it was inconspicuous at all, and the terrain was too open, and some people fell to the ground in front of them, but they scattered to both sides in an instant, and then continued to pursue.

Well, just like that, Shi A led three thousand cavalry around Liaoyang City, occasionally turning around and firing arrows, each round of bows and arrows, the killing may not be much, and each round may only kill and injure three or two hundred people, or even dozens of people. However, after such an hour, he was able to kill and wound thousands of Gongsun Du's cavalry.

Of course, this does not seem to be very remarkable, and for tens of thousands of cavalry, it is only a small matter of thousands of dead and wounded.

However, it made Gongsun Du, who was watching from the top of the city tower, angry.

With only 3,000 cavalry, how dare he tease his army like this? How dare you be so presumptuous?

In a fit of rage, he ordered his cavalry not to be stupid enough to let the New Han Army lead the way, and they couldn't catch up for a while, so they didn't know how to divide their troops to surround them?

Well, in fact, Gongsun Du was afraid that he was really stunned by the 3,000 cavalry of the New Han Army outside the city. That, the war horse also has an upper limit of endurance, and it has been galloping outside the city for nearly an hour, and the consumption of the war horse body on both sides is very large. If the chase continues, it will be difficult for both sides to run anymore, and at this time, Gongsun Du should send another cavalry army that is recuperated, and it will definitely be able to catch up with the Xinhan army that is surrounding the city easily. Well, Gongsun Du was in the city, and there was still a cavalry army that did not move, but he was so angry that he didn't think of this problem for a while.

Now, he didn't want to see the 3,000 cavalry of the New Han Army circling around the city, so he showed off his might to him, and let the 30,000 cavalry outside the city spread out and surround him. Don't be passive, blindly follow others and eat dust.

In addition, the cavalry commander of Gongsun Du outside the city is indeed a bit of a problem, like Shi A, circling around Liaoyang City, they divided half of the men and horses to turn around and surround them, didn't they block the cavalry of the New Han Army? Of course, it may also be a problem in the middle of it, because they don't know Shi A's plans, what if they run away directly? That's why I had to keep chasing behind.

And as soon as they spread out and surrounded them, it was a bad thing.

Whether it is Shi Ah or this 3,000 white horse righteous servants, they are not afraid of fighting head-on with their own cavalry. Even, there were twice as many enemy cavalry, and they did not have the slightest fear.

Of course, tens of thousands of cavalry are together, and they will naturally not be stupid enough to attack and kill others head-on.

The 30,000 or 40,000 Gongsun Du cavalry army was slowly consumed by thousands, and now, at most, it is more than 30,000 points. As soon as they dispersed, they formed several cavalry lines and surrounded Shi A, so that Shi A could no longer circle around Liaoyang City.

But when they are divided into several groups, that is, there may be thousands of people along the way.

Thousands?

Shi Ah didn't think too much about it at all, and led the army to turn around and rode all the way to the edge that surrounded him.

The cavalry of the New Han Army charged at high speed, and during the charge, they first shot a round of arrows, and then took advantage of the enemy's charging formation to crash directly into their cavalry charging formation with a bang.

At this time, the strength of the white horse was fully revealed, coupled with their weapons, which were the sophisticated weapons of the New Han Army, for a while, the cavalry who killed Gongsun Du turned on their backs and screamed again and again. (To be continued......)