Chapter 80: Lu Bu is ambushed
After a few days of rest, the Xiliang army launched an attack on Luoyang City again, although it was huge and fierce as always, but it only launched an attack on the east gate, and Cao Cao and Lu Bu defended a gate to protect Luoyang.
In the following days, the Xiliang army attacked Luoyang every two or three days, but each time it only left more than a thousand corpses under Luoyang City, and there was no progress.
Half a month later, on this day, the Xiliang Army launched another offensive, but the momentum was much smaller, as if it was just for show.
This made Cao Cao and the others feel strange, but they didn't think much about it, just that the Xiliang Army was a little powerless.
But the next day, the Xiliang army came again, and still only sent thousands of soldiers to wave their flags and shout for a while, and retreated after casually rushing to the city.
Cao Cao was a little skeptical.
On the third day, the Xiliang army was gone.
Cao Cao felt that something was strange, so he sent a scout horse to investigate the situation of the Xiliang army.
The information brought back by Tanma surprised Cao Cao, there were no more soldiers and horses in the Xiliang army camp, and there was a camp and a lot of grain and grass there.
Cao Cao hurriedly went to Lu Bu to discuss the matter.
"Wenhou, the Xiliang army has retreated, I think I must have heard the news that the Fengyi soldiers have invaded Xiliang, I feel that something is wrong in the past two days, the intensity of the Xiliang army's siege is far lower than before." Cao Cao said.
"Then why did the enemy army come to attack the city in the past two days and cost hundreds of soldiers in vain?" Lu Bu was a little puzzled.
"It should be that they are afraid of our army's pursuit and deliberately send troops to pretend to besiege the city to confuse you and me, but secretly the army is secretly retreating."
"Could it be that the enemy army deliberately lured me out of the city?" Lu Bu hesitated.
"Absolutely not, if the enemy army wants to lure me out of the city, why wait for more than half a month before acting? Counting the time, the news of the advance of the Fengyi army should also be transmitted back to the Xiliang army in the near future, nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses invaded the Xiliang land where there are not many defenders, and the main general is Liu Meng, who has defeated the Xiliang army several times, and the Xiliang army does not pay attention to it, and they dare to fight to the death with us in Luoyang It is the capital of the Xiliang land to have such confidence, and how can there be a reason not to withdraw the army if there is a crisis in Xiliang. ”
Li Ru didn't expect that waiting for more than half a month would make Cao Cao misunderstood, in fact, he waited for more time to transport the grain and grass to the ambush place first, you must know that this time the Luoyang Xiliang army brought the materials used by the 100,000 army for several months, who would have thought that in a short period of time, the army would be reduced so much, so the remaining materials are very huge, of course, it can't be cheap Cao Cao and Lu Bu, he only left a few materials to be thrown in the camp to make a show.
However, the reason why Cao Cao won the plan was also Liu Meng's role in assisting, if it were on weekdays, Cao Cao would not have been so easy to win, but it happened to be Liu Meng's strategy to mislead Cao Cao to believe it.
Lu Bu also felt justified when he heard Cao Cao's analysis, after all, the Western Liang army had suffered a lot of losses during this period of time, and the siege was real, but it was only a little abnormal in the past two days.
"Well, you and I will lead the army in pursuit, and they will definitely not be able to return to Xiliang." Lu Budao.
So the two immediately went to order their troops and horses to chase after the Xiliang army.
Defending the city does not need cavalry to participate in the battle, so there are no casualties on the horses, and Lu Bu belongs to all cavalry, and the marching speed is very fast, he not only intends to destroy the Xiliang army, but also intends to take advantage of the situation to attack Liu Meng, who has few soldiers and horses, to capture Ren Xiu'er, he also thought that Liu Meng was really leading the soldiers and horses to pretend to attack Xiliang.
Anyway, he didn't have any friendship with Liu Meng, and he didn't have any psychological burden at all, and he used to help him in the court to let Liu Meng leave Luoyang early, but he didn't think that Liu Meng had just left, but the Xiliang Army came, which made Lu Bu very depressed.
Cao Cao led most of the foot soldiers, and the speed of travel was much worse than that of Lu Bu, and he wanted to persuade Lu Bu to join the army with him, but he was stopped back by Lu Bu's noble soldiers, so Cao Cao only thought that Lu Bu was eager to pursue the Xiliang army, and also ordered a rapid march to shorten the distance between the two armies as much as possible.
Guo Yan, Li Ru and others were leading their soldiers to ambush in a valley at this time, and they were even afraid that Cao Cao and the others would go the wrong way and deliberately leave some not very obvious traces.
"Wen You, do you say that Cao Cao and Lu Bu will be in a plot?" Guo said.
"I don't know about this, this plan is also a last resort, the probability of success is not very high, and I am not sure." Li Ru shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Alas, if the enemy does not take advantage of it, it will take us years before we can avenge the Lord." Guo Yan sighed.
Li Ru nodded silently when he heard this.
Xiliang has already injured his muscles and bones after these few moves, and he can't use swords and soldiers again without a few years of recuperation.
Just after Li Ru and Guo Yan were silent for a long time, dust suddenly rose in the distance, and the ground trembled slightly, which can only occur when a large number of cavalry galloped.
The people in Xiliang were not surprised, except for Lu Bu, they couldn't think of anyone nearby who had such a number of cavalry troops.
"Haha, it must be that God sees that we are sincerely avenging the Lord, and this time I will definitely let that Lu Bu have no return." Guo Yan laughed.
Li Ru also nodded with a chuckle, and said silently in his heart: "Uncle Yue, my son-in-law will definitely slash Lu Bu today to comfort you in the spirit of heaven." ”
Lu Bu didn't know that the crisis was about to befall him, and he still led the state army to march quickly, just when Lu Bu led the army to most of the valley.
"Boom" Countless large stones were pushed down from both sides of the valley by the Xiliang soldiers, killing hundreds of Bingzhou cavalry in an instant.
Although these boulders did not directly cause a large number of casualties to the Bingzhou army, the horses were frightened, and I don't know how many Bingzhou soldiers were frightened by the horses and fell under the horses, and for a time it was a real person who turned on his horse, except for a third of the Bingzhou soldiers who did not enter the valley, the rest of the soldiers were all in chaos, trampling on each other and countless people died.
The Xiliang soldiers who were lying in ambush behind the huge rocks in the valley also showed their figures, and rushed towards the Bingzhou army.
Lu Bu's red rabbit horse was also frightened, but fortunately, it was a good horse and quickly calmed down, and Lu Bu's riding skills were also extraordinary, so he was saved from the danger of falling off the horse.
"Calm down, don't mess around." Lu Bu shouted.
But the scene was already very chaotic, although Lu Bu's voice was like a bell, but it could not be heard far above the battlefield where the people were wailing and the horses were neighing.
The Xiliang soldiers soon rushed to the front of the soldiers of Bingzhou, and the benefits of the cavalry depended on the horses, how could the soldiers of the state be able to fight back when the horses were frightened? It started with a massacre.
The road ahead was blocked, and Lu Bu saw that he was unable to do anything, so he took a few soldiers who pacified the horses and went to the place where they came.
Fortunately, it was Lu Bu who led the front army forward, and the middle army and the rear army were handed over to Gao Shun and Zhang Liao respectively.
PS: I have a cold and my head is groggy, so everyone should pay more attention to their bodies.