Chapter 202 Zhang Jincong fought a decisive battle in Xianyang, and Zhi Zhuge went to the next city

The above book mentioned that Liu Bei captured Zhang Xiu alive according to Zhuge Liang's strategy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but in order to completely convince Zhang Xiu and make it possible for his own use, he let him go again. Then Zhuge Liang came up with a second strategy, wanting to make surprise soldiers raid Chang'an.

Where's the strange soldier? Readers who know the Romance of the Three Kingdoms should know that during Zhuge Liang's battle journey out of Qishan, Wei Yan, the general of Shu, once proposed the famous "Meridian Valley Surprise Attack" plan. At that time, Zhuge Liang was old, quite proud, and even more complacent, so he did not adopt this strategy. The coffee felt very bad. Therefore, when Zhuge Liang did not join this group, he was already here, and this strange army sank from Jia Xu's mouth.

This strange army is the division headquarters led by Zang Ba Zang Xuangao, the cavalry general who guarded Xiegu Pass.

After Zhuge Liang offered his plan, Liu Bei sent Song Xian to lead the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to rush to Xiegu Pass with tiger talismans and handwritten oracles. As for how Song Xian and Zang Ba attacked Chang'an, how Zhang Ji resisted, and many other matters, I won't talk about it for the time being.

Just said that Zhang Xiu, the spearman, came out of Liu Bei's camp single-handedly, and this nest in his heart was mentioned! Originally, the battlefield was skilled, where was Song Xian's opponent? Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by others, not only was he captured, but none of the 3,000 soldiers under his command were spared, the only thing to be thankful for is that not all of them were killed, some of them were still captured by others, and they still had a life.

Then Liu Bei actually let himself go in the end! Is it really that he is too handsome? Definitely not! He just wanted to occupy my uncle's land of Yongzhou without blood! He even asked me to persuade my uncle to surrender! What a dream! Just rely on the generals under you, Cheng Lian, Song Xian, and Xu Huang, which one is my opponent? Dare to fight me fairly on the battlefield? Okay, I'll go back to the city, raise the army, and wait for you to live and die!"

Sure enough, Zhuge Liang said it. This guy didn't expect that he would be lost to Liu Bei again, and he was confident that he would be able to defeat Liu Bei and his generals.

Xu Shao and Xu Zi saw this guy leading the army pouring out of the city in the city, and he knew that it was going to be bad. In a hurry, he, a weak scholar, actually dragged a fast horse, galloped to Zhang Xiu's side, and stopped Zhang Xiujin and admonished: "General, don't do it!" ”

"Why?" Zhang Xiu stopped the war horse and asked.

"With so many troops dragged into battle, how many lives will be lost? Even if our army wins, Shao asked the general, does our army still have the strength to resist Ma Teng in the north and Cao Cao in the east? Xu Shao was really anxious at this time, his eyes were wide, and his eyes were even more red.

Zhang Xiu wanted to win at this time, and the desire for victory in his heart had overwhelmed reason. casually said to Xu Shao: "What the military advisor said, isn't it to destroy my ambition and increase the prestige of others?" If the military advisor is worried, he will only bring half of the soldiers and horses to fight the enemy; Leave half of the soldiers and horses in the city to protect the military division! After finishing speaking, he ordered the deputy generals Liu Jun and Zhang Xian to lead 50,000 soldiers and horses into the city with Xu Shao. He himself led 50,000 soldiers and horses to Liu Bei's camp with generals Duan Xuan, Cui Yong, Hu Zhen, Hu Che'er, Hu Chi'er, etc., and set up a formation; He also made Hu Che'er go out to fight against the enemy and scold the enemy.

Zhuge Liang had just left Liu Bei's big tent of the Chinese army, returned to his tent, sat in front of the desk, picked up the war book and looked through it. A soldier came to report outside the tent: "Report to the military division, the enemy general Zhang Xiu led tens of thousands of troops to fight outside the camp." The governor of the capital asked the military advisers to enter the account to discuss the strategy against the enemy. ”

"Okay, I'll be there!" Zhuge Liang responded. I really didn't expect Zhang Xiu's city to be really not deep, and he came so soon. Wait for you to suffer! Zhuge Liang had already guessed that Zhang Xiu would lead troops to attack, but he didn't expect it to be so fast! Anyway, Xu Shao has to stop it. But he didn't expect that Zhang Xiu directly left half of his troops in the city to protect Xu Shao. It is because this half of the soldiers saved Zhang Xiu, who was surrounded by the Shu army; It was also the 50,000 soldiers led by Xu Shao who retained a trace of combat power for Zhang Ji in the end.

When he came to the big tent of the Chinese army, before Liu Bei could speak, Zhuge Liang asked: "The general must be in a hurry to lead troops to the enemy, right?" ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei couldn't help but nodded: "Yes!" Why don't you immediately send someone to invite the military advisor to come over and discuss, how to deal with the enemy? Zhang Xiu led the Xianyang defenders to the fullest, and it seemed that he was going to fight to the death with our army! ”

"Zhang Xiu was captured a few days ago, and the general and a certain let him go back. He must be ashamed of this, how can he not exhaust the reason for sending out a large army to avenge his former revenge? Zhuge Liang explained, "However, the general is not in a hurry. There is a plan that can break the enemy. ”

"What's the plan? Please also talk about it in person. Liu Bei and the generals all pricked up their ears and listened carefully.

"Zhang Xiu is brave and fierce, and he can't be underestimated. The general, together with General Xu Huang and General Zhou Cang, led the infantry teams of the two divisions to meet the enemy face to face; General Hu Cai, General Wu Yi, and General Zhang Hong led three cavalry teams from our army's Beizhai Gate and Nanzhai Gate respectively to attack the enemy from both flanks and rear. Zhuge Liang's plan can be said to make full use of the advantages of the various units of the Shu army. Each division of the Shu army was equipped with a team of cavalry, including four cavalry battalions and one cavalry archer battalion; Cavalry shooting and covering up is the strength of the cavalry team. Each division headquarters is equipped with four infantry teams, of which sword and shield men and spearmen are mixed in battalion units.

Zhang Xiu and Xu Shao's ignorance of the equipment and configuration of the Shu army was also a key factor in the failure of this battle.

Liu Bei heard Zhuge Liang's plan and called it a clever plan. Then he led the army out, and left Chenglian to lead the infantry team of the division headquarters to guard in the large camp, obeying Zhuge Liang's temporary assignment.

Zhang Xiu was overjoyed when she saw Liu Bei leading the army out. After all, in the Shu military camp, he thought that no one was his opponent, so he was very arrogant, rode his horse and shook his gun, pointed at Liu Bei and shouted: "Liu Xuande, do you dare to fight?" ”

Xu Huang slapped his horse out and ran to Zhang Xiu: "Jin Cong, don't delay the battle between you and me!" It's better to fight today! After finishing speaking, he ran to Zhang Xiu's approach, and the big axe was cut.

Seeing this, Zhang Xiu was not in a hurry, and greeted him with a gun, so he was with Xu Huang.

Liu Bei was afraid that Xu Huang would lose, so he rode out of the horse, waved his halberd, and led the army to press. Zhang Xiu in the battle group saw that he had just fought with Xu Huang, and the other party was pressed by a large army, so he hurriedly made a false move and withdrew from the circle, and also waved his spear to signal his army to meet the enemy.

As a result, another scene of more than 100,000 troops was presented.

However, in such a confrontational situation, the strict discipline and tacit teamwork of the Shu army showed obvious advantages, and the seven-person sword and spear soldiers formed a seven-person sword blade small formation and a nine-person phalanx, or even a hundred-person phalanx, which divided Zhang Xiu's army piece by piece. The proportion of casualties is very obvious, the Shu army suffered one casualty, and there are often five or seven Zhang Xiujun accompanying the burial.

Zhang Xiu was even more miserable, surrounded by Liu Bei, Zhou Cang, and Xu Huang, and beat him with the rim, and almost fell off the horse. At this time, this guy didn't dare to go crazy anymore. Did he think he was Lu Bu? Single-handedly counting generals, how can they have that kind of strength? If it weren't for the brothers Hu Che'er and Hu Chi'er, Zhang Xiu would have been captured alive by Liu Bei and the others again at this time.

On Xianyang City, Xu Shao saw that the Shu army was so fierce and knew that such a large number of troops were equal, if the troops in the city were not reinforced, some Zhang Xiu would really be left here by Liu Bei this time. He hurriedly ordered Liu Jun and Zhang Xian to raise 40,000 troops to go out of the city to rescue.

Zhang Xian and Liu Jun had just left the city with their army, when they saw a group of cavalry charging from the north and slamming into the right flank of Zhang Xiujun; At the same time, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared from the south and inserted into Zhang Xiu's left flank. The two hurriedly divided their troops into two routes and went to the rescue.

However, by the time their rescue forces arrived, these two cavalry had already disrupted Zhang Xiujun's formation. Even Zhang Xiu and others, who were fighting in front, found that the rear army was in chaos and retreated in a panic.

Fortunately, Zhang Xian and Liu Jun led troops to come, Zhang Xiu, Cui Yong, Hu Zhen, Hu Chi'er, and Hu Che'er took some personal guards, fought and retreated, and when they met together, they knew that the enemy cavalry had raided their two wings.

Finally, the more than 60,000 troops, under the command of Zhang Xiu, quickly controlled the morale of the soldiers, stabilized the mood of the soldiers, and retreated in the direction of Xianyang City.

However, the tragic incident made Zhang Xiu have to change his plan to retreat to Xianyang. When he withdrew halfway with his army, Xu Shao and Cui Tai appeared in front of him with 3,000 remnants of the defeated army. It turned out that after Zhang Xian and Liu Jun led the army out of the city, before the city gate could be closed, a sentry cavalry rushed into the city from the east side of the city gate. It was Wu Yi's department that wanted to attack Zhang Xiu's rear army, but how could he know that the heaven-sent opportunity, the gate of Xianyang City was wide open, and there was no reason not to enter?

Why not just him? It turned out that after Liu Bei led the army to the expedition, Zhuge Liang and Cheng Lian boarded the lookout of the camp. Zhuge Liang saw from a distance that there were many soldiers on the tower of Xianyang City, and secretly said in his heart: How many soldiers are there in Xianyang City? Could it be that the intelligence is fake? Looking at the size of Zhang Xiu's army, although it is black, it is carefully estimated that it is only fifty or sixty thousand. It seems that Zhang Xiu did not bring all the soldiers out of Xianyang, and there are at least forty or fifty thousand in the city.

Watching from the watchtower for a while, Zhuge Liang was also impressed by the combat discipline and cooperative combat ability of the Shu army. However, as the master of a battle, he was not too immersed in this kind of convincing, and soon realized that Xu Shao of Xianyang would definitely send troops to the rescue. Immediately, he ordered Cheng Lian to leave a team and rush to Xianyang City with three infantry teams, wait for the enemy's reinforcements to come out, and take the opportunity to break into the city and occupy Xianyang.

However, when Cheng Lian arrived in Xianyang, it was the time when Xu Shao and Cui Tai besieged Wu Yi's cavalry. Because the street station in the city seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. Wu Yi's cavalry suffered a lot of losses, if it weren't for Cheng Lian leading the army to arrive, Xu Shao and Cui Tai might really have killed Wu Yi, a rookie in Shu, here.

However, the arrival of Cheng Lian's army also became a catalyst for the defeat of Xu Shao and Cui Tai. Both of them were wise men, and when they saw that the enemy was unstoppable, they led all the remnants of the army out of the city and rushed towards the banks of the Weishui River.

happened to run into Zhang Xiu, and he was also defeated. Xu Shao looked at the team of more than 60,000 people left, and there was still some settlement in his heart. If there are really not a few soldiers left, then what is the dream of fighting for hegemony?

However, fortunately, although all the generals under Zhang Xiu's command were injured, none of them were killed, and Zhang Xiu felt quite remorseful for his recklessness for a while, and frequently confessed to Xu Shao. Xu Shaoyan said: "How can the people under him accept the Lord's apology? Young master, don't kill the old decay! ”

Zhang Xiu heard that Xu Shao called himself "young master", and she was even more relieved. So he became closer to Xu Shao. At Xu Shao's suggestion, they led the army across Weishui and retreated in the direction of Chang'an.

It's just a sad fate that still lingers on Zhang Xiu, a poor child. In fact, history has chosen a person to appear because of his appearance. Whether it is a dragon set or a pig's foot, in short, his role arrangement is a historical requirement. If you want to know the fate of Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, please continue to watch.