Chapter 115: Breaking through the siege

Maybe Cao Cao and Wu Yi will show their dazzling highlights in the future, but at this point in time in the second year of Zhongping, Cao Cao and Wu Yi are just two insignificant existences. After selecting the auspicious time, Zhang Wen, the new general of the cavalry of the pen and the court, led the emperor Liu Hong's holy decree to beg the thief, and led tens of thousands of horses and horses of the cavalry and infantry army of Luoyang's follow-up support to the Guannei to join the army before Huangfu Song, and after the transfer www.biquge.info of military power was completed, Zhang Wen moved the army to Meiyang County, Anding, and camped and stationed.

The movements of the imperial army were soon passed on to Beigong Boyu by Tanma, and after learning that the previous commander of the army, Huangfu Song, was recalled to Luoyang to ask for guilt, Beigong Boyu was very proud. And when his adviser Han Sui learned that Zhang Wen was coming with reinforcements, he immediately told Beigong Boyu that he would give him a heavy blow while Zhang Wen's foothold was not stable.

Beigong Boyu respected Han Sui very much, so he adopted Han Sui's suggestion and led the main army of Xiqiang to launch a fierce attack on Zhang Wen's department. Zhang Wen was anxious to prove his ability, so he raised troops to engage Beigong Boyu. However, the hundreds of thousands of Jizhou troops who originally belonged to Huangfu Song still had a trace of hostility in their hearts towards the new chief general sent by the imperial court to replace Huang Fu Song. The various military orders conveyed by Zhang Wen were always delayed, so that when the two armies were fighting, the mobilization of the Han army's large array was always slow and half a beat, and Beigong Boyu seized the opportunity to defeat the crossbowman army formation in the formation, although it was later blocked by Dong Zhuoxi's Liang cavalry, Beigong Boyu still made the Han army's crossbowmen army pay heavy casualties.

Zhang Wen, who was defeated in the first battle, beheaded all the dozen or so middle- and lower-level officers who violated his military orders, and asked the army to retreat thirty miles and set up a large camp in a dangerous place to avoid the Xiliang rebels who were in full swing.

For the retreat of the imperial army, Beigong Boyu killed chickens and sheep in the camp to celebrate, but Han Sui proposed in the banquet that Beigong Boyu took advantage of the victory to pursue the strategy. Beigong Boyu has been winning consecutive battles for most of the year, and his fear of the Han Dynasty has long since dissipated.

Beigong Boyu's carelessness gave Zhang Wen's imperial court counterinsurgency a valuable opportunity to recuperate, and after a little thought, Zhang Wen decided that he could not let the opponent take the initiative on the battlefield, and he ordered Dong Zhuo to join forces with Bao Hong and others, who were too shou of the right Fufeng, to attack from the flank and rear of Xiqiang Hucai, while he himself re-commanded the main army to attract Beigong Boyu's attention from the frontal battlefield.

The two sides fought a big battle outside Meiyang County, and Dong Zhuo and others fought from the rear when the two sides were in a regiment, and cooperated with Zhang Wen's main army to flank Beigong Boyu back and forth. The Xiliang rebels were defeated in this battle, and had to abandon a lot of looted money, grain, grass and countless Han slaves, and retreated all the way to Yuzhong to regain their foothold.

Zhang Wen sent Zhou Shen, the general of Dangkou, to lead tens of thousands of cavalry and infantry horses to chase after Beigong Boyu. At this time, Sun Jian, a counselor who was joining Zhou Shen's army, suggested to Zhou Shen: "There is a shortage of food in the city where the rebels are strong, and all the expenses will be brought in from outside. I am willing to lead 10,000 men to cut off the enemy's grain transportation routes, and the army of the generals will follow behind, and the rebels will inevitably dare not respond to the battle because of fatigue and hunger, and retreat to the hinterland of the Qiang people. At that time, we will work together to pursue them, so that we will definitely be able to take the opportunity to pacify Liangzhou. ”

Although Sun Jian's suggestion was very good, Zhou Shen, who was stubborn and self-serving, did not follow Sun Jian's suggestion, but led the army to surround Yuzhong City. However, Beigong Boyu assigned Bian Zhang and others to garrison Kuiyuan Gorge before the siege of the official army, and after Zhou Shen besieged the city, he took the opportunity to cut off the grain transportation road of the official army. Zhou Shen panicked that the army might be easily strangled after the food ran out, so he abandoned his baggage and led the army to evacuate. Beigong Boyu in the city took advantage of the situation to kill, using the speed advantage of the cavalry to chase Zhou Shen all the way, and when Zhou Shen withdrew to the camp, the tens of thousands of troops who had gone out before were now only more than 10,000 left.

Zhang Wen was extremely puzzled as to why Zhou Shen would be defeated, and when he learned from Sun Jian about the beginning and end of the battle, he immediately became furious, and while sending people to beat Zhou Shen with dozens of military sticks, he told that the news of Zhou Shen's defeat was transmitted back to the case of Liu Honglong in Luoyang. The imperial court soon sent an envoy to capture Zhou Shen and bring him back to Beijing, and Zhang Wen sent Dong Zhuo to lead tens of thousands of people to defeat the Qiang Xianling tribe who supported Beigong Boyu after removing Zhou Shen, the general of the defeated army.

Although Dong Zhuo was pleased with the misery of his old enemy Zhou Shen, he did not expect that he would lead his army halfway down the road by the Qiang people to connect with the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other Saiwaihu people, and surround Dong Zhuo's army north of Wangyuan. Dong Zhuo did not carry enough grain and grass and soon ran out of food in the army, and he was about to repeat the mistake of Zhou Shen's defeat.

At this time, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law Li Ru, who had just received a year, offered Dong Zhuo a plan. Li Ru asked people to build a weir at the place where the army planned to cross the river, pretending that the army wanted to fish to satisfy their hunger because of lack of food. Dong Zhuo, who was born in the land of Longxi, enjoyed great prestige among the Qiang people because of his majesty and heroism, and saw that the former majestic Han generals fell into the embarrassment of building embankments to fish, and the Qiang people who surrounded Dong Zhuo all laughed loudly.

But what Li Ru wanted was that the Qiang people despised him, and after the embankment was built, the army quietly retreated under the cover of the embankment. When the Qiang people realized that something was wrong and hurriedly pursued, Li Ru had already sent people to break the embankment, and for a time the river was so deep and extremely turbulent that the Qiang people could not cross the river to chase after them, which allowed Dong Zhuo to escape by luck and take the opportunity to attack Fufeng County, which was empty in defense, and led the army to be stationed here.

"This time I was able to escape from the encirclement of those bastards, all thanks to Wen You's help, come, everyone toast Wen You together!" Dong Zhuo, who was on the main seat, raised a glass with a red face at the moment, thinking that he would eventually die in the encirclement of Qianghu, but he accidentally discovered that Li Ru, who deceived his daughter's heart, was not just a useless scholar who was powerless. Just a little trick on Naqiang Huluo, he actually led everyone to escape from the encirclement together.

"Wen You, our brothers are all rough people, and they have offended many times in the past, so I would like to toast you here today to apologize to my cousins!" In this battle, Li Ru really showed his ability, and it also made Li Su, Guo Yan and others, who also looked down on him before, admire Li Ru's resourcefulness from the bottom of their hearts.

After three rounds of drinking, Dong Zhuo wiped the wine stains dripping from his beard, and saw that Li Ru on the side didn't seem to be in high spirits, so he asked a little strangely: "Why is Wenyou sullen?" ”

Li Ru hurriedly bowed his hand to Dong Zhuo Shili and said, "Ru was thinking about something just now, but he didn't think about it, but he disturbed the lord's interest. ”

Dong Zhuo waved his hand indifferently: "This banquet was originally set up for you, how can I blame you for this." But what were you thinking about just now, are you thinking about how to break the strategy of the Qianghu rebels? ”

Li Ru hesitated slightly, then came to Dong Zhuo's side under Dong Zhuo's gaze, dipped his fingers in some wine and wrote a word on the desk in front of Dong Zhuo.

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