Chapter Seventy-Five: Reunion After a Long Absence
In history, Cao Ying and Liu Bei fought in Hanzhong, and when Cao Ying went south, he was from Chencang's old road, and when he returned from defeat, he was from the praise slope road. Ming Xiu plank road secretly crosses Chencang, in which the "plank road" also refers to the slope road, the slope is rugged and difficult, difficult and inexplicable, Lu Bu can not go south from this road, because as long as the exit of the slope to Hanzhong, even if only thousands of troops are set up to intercept it, he can cut off his way forward, so that he can return in vain, but Guo Jia dares to take this road into Guanzhong!
After Zhang Liao took Hanzhong, Guo Jia asked about the situation of the Bao Slope Road and the Meridian Road, the Bao Slope Road was destroyed when the Chu and Han Dynasty competed, but it began to be rebuilt during the Han Wu Emperor, Zhang Lu cut Hanzhong to destroy the plank road at the southern end of the Bao Slope Road, but it was not time for Guo Jia to take Hanzhong, as for the Meridian Road through the Qinling Mountains can go straight to Chang'an, the same difficulties and dangers, Zhang Liao sat in Hanzhong, Guo Jia specially told him to be familiar with these two roads leading to Guanzhong.
Guo Jia led the army to enter the Guanzhong, cut off Lu Bu's back road, the shortcut is the Bao Slope Road, because the exit at the north end of the Bao Slope Road is in the east of Chen Cang, if Guo Jia takes the Meridian Road, then it will definitely be Chang'an, but he cannot risk the world's disapproval to destroy the Han Dynasty.
Let Zhang Liao drag Lu Bu for more than half a month, just to buy time for Guo Jia, from Zitong County to Hanzhong in the north, if it is to support Zhang Liao, the three trips are enough, but Guo Jia wants to lead the army from Hanzhong through the difficult and dangerous slope road, and the marching speed will naturally be very slow.
Defeated Chen Cang by surprise, Guo Jia's original intention was to destroy Lu Bu's rear support men and horses first, but he didn't expect that Chen Cang had no heavy troops at all, but he had Lu Bu's military grain and grass, and after taking these grains and grass, Guo Jia led the army to attack Lu Bu in front and back, intending to attack Lu Bu with Zhang Liao!
Lu Bu fought for more than half a month, but only advanced less than a hundred miles, if you march in a hurry, you can catch up within a day, but Guo Jia is not in a hurry, leading the army to move forward slowly, he beat Chen Cang with great fanfare, someone will definitely flee to report to Lu Bu and Chang'an, after Lu Bu got the news, he must have retreated in a hurry, and he wanted to flee for his life before the retreat was sealed.
The actual situation was as Guo Jia expected, Lu Bu hastily withdrew his troops!
"General! Lu Bu retreated, and he retreated very quickly, and he didn't even seem to have arranged for someone to break off! β
Zhang Liao, who confronted Lu Bu, was soon informed by Yan Yan, and Zhang Liao fell into deep thought.
Yan Pu has always been cautious, and said, "There won't be any tricks, right? Lu Bu is also a general with a good reputation, how could he be so flustered when he withdrew his troops? Aren't you afraid that we will pursue? Or is he pretending to withdraw from the army to lure our army to chase after him? β
In other circumstances, Zhang Liao would have the same idea as Yan Pu, but at this moment, he slammed his fist on the table with a solemn expression, and said in a deep voice: "Calculate it, the lord's army must have gone out of the praise slope, I'm afraid that Lu Bu is not pretending to withdraw the army, but really withdrawing the army, and besides, there must be something wrong with his rear, so he is now running for his life!" Pass the order! The whole army is in pursuit, General Yan, military advisor, you two lead the two wings of the army, and chase and kill Lu Bu with me with three lines of soldiers and horses! β
Zhang Liao is the commander, since the military order has been issued, Yan Yan and Yan Pu will no longer think nonsense, just do it, Yan Yan was not convinced by Zhang Liao at first, but after confronting Lu Bu for half a month, he was completely convinced by Zhang Liao, and also sighed that there were many talents under the main account.
Soon, Zhang Liao's army was dispatched, led by the commander Zhang Liao, the partial general Yan Yan, and the military advisor Yan Pu, each leading the army in three ways and chasing north!
After stepping into the old road, Guo Jia ordered the whole army to be vigilant and ready to face the battle at any time.
"Lord, why did you take Chen Cang but not guard Chen Cang? Chencang is a strategic place leading from Yizhou to Guanzhong. Meng Da followed Guo Jia's side, and he couldn't figure out why Guo Jia spit out the fat in his mouth, not to mention that Chen Cang's strategic location was important, it was an ordinary city, and it was hard to imagine that Guo Jia didn't take it to heart like this, and he would lose it.
Guo Jia did not answer Meng Da, but said to Fa Zheng: "Xiaozhi, you come to answer Zidu's question." β
Fa Zheng's face was a little embarrassed, because the style he liked to show was already familiar to Guo Jia, and whenever he had the opportunity to be in the limelight, Guo Jia would ask him by name.
"Chencang is indeed a strategic place, but the situation in Guanzhong is unclear, the main duke's garrison Chencang will attract strong enemies, the garrison is small, it can't be defended, there are many garrisons, Yizhou is hard to transport grain to Chencang, and the people are hurting money, not to mention that the lord can't expand his territory now, otherwise it is equivalent to acquiescing to what Wang Yun's text said is right. Destroying Lu Bu is for the world's heroes, not to occupy the city, and to return to Yizhou to keep to himself, it is for the people of the world to see. β
The reason why Guo Jia left after beating Chen Cang is exactly the same as Fa Zheng's analysis, except that Fa is the theory, and Guo Jia thinks of things that are more specific.
Regardless of whether Wang Yun subdued the Liangzhou army under the command of Li Dao Guo Yan and other generals, if he took the city in Guanzhong, it would definitely make the Chang'an court uneasy, Chen Cang to Chang'an, he could go back in a few days, whether it was Wang Yun, or Li Dao Guo Yan in history caused trouble in Chang'an, if Guo Jia really occupied Chen Cang, he would not be at peace with Chang'an, and the other party would definitely send troops to exterminate him, since Guo Jia did not have the strength to take Guanzhong, Chen Cang was a hot potato for him.
After half a day of marching, the red said that the west was slanting, and the front probed the Malay newspaper and found that a large army was rushing from the south, Guo Jia immediately ordered the whole army to stop and prepare to meet the enemy.
"Gan Ning, you lead 10,000 people to kill the enemy from the left flank, Wu Yi, Meng Da, Gao Shun, you three lead 3,000 people to kill the enemy from the right flank, and I personally lead the remaining soldiers and horses to wait for the enemy in the middle road."
After the military order was issued, the generals left separately, Guo Jia rode on a horse, lined up in formation, and in front of the Chinese army was two thousand strong crossbowmen in the camp, the strong crossbow was heavier than ordinary bows and arrows, but the range was long, the power was great, it could penetrate the excellent iron armor, and tear people's bones.
In front of the smoke and dust, the sound of horses' hooves shook the sky, Guo Jia looked up and smiled dumbly.
This Lu Bu really ran for his life, so embarrassed that he only cared about leading the cavalry to escape, and he didn't even care about the foot soldiers left behind him.
Such a general, such a person, Lu Bu, send him a hundred, at most a hundred centurions, lead a hundred soldiers to charge, Lu Bu deserves it, but if he is given more soldiers to command, hehe.
Red Rabbit said that he traveled thousands of miles, Lu Bu took the lead, and he didn't care about the flood behind him, but after seeing the army waiting on the road in the north, Lu Bu's heart was as cold as ice, and he quickly stopped his horse and looked at it, the orderly soldiers holding horn crossbows were facing the south, even if Lu Bu was brave, he didn't dare to rush forward again, but there were eight thousand cavalry behind him, so let them rush into battle, which was good.
But Lu Bu fell into despair again, because the other party unhurriedly took out the horse rejection gun from behind and put it in front of the formation!
At this moment, I am in a desperate situation!
The cavalry behind him, who were not as fast as Chitu, gradually caught up with Lu Bu, but they were also chaotic, unled, and unorganized.
Lu Bu couldn't look ahead and backward, so he waved his hand, raised Fang Tian's halberd and said, "Rush over!" β
He is a general, he is Wen Hou, and no one under his command does not listen to his words, so the cavalry swarmed up in confusion, intending to rush through Guo Jia's army, but Lu Bu himself did not move in place.
Guo Jia smiled faintly at the cavalry who came up to send them to death, although the effective killing range of the horn crossbow was only 50 to 100 meters, there were several rows of rejecting horse guns, and they were all sent to death.
When they came into range, the crossbowmen began to shoot, and the soldiers in the trapping camp were well-trained, and they really couldn't be untargeted.
Countless war horses neighed, fell in front of the formation, and countless cavalry fell from above, which not only made it difficult for the cavalry behind, but also made them frightened.
Gan Ning, Gao Shun, Wu Yi, Meng Da, and the four led the Jinfan Army to outflank from both wings, and the army led by Guo Jia was blocked in front, and the fan-shaped encirclement gradually took shape from the embryonic form.
There were constantly cavalry planted in front of the rejecting horse guns, and the horses that were stabbed by the tips of the erected spears also ran and jumped, and the cavalry charging behind were blocked from the way, and they were in disarray, and nearly half of the 8,000 cavalry were quickly shot and killed, and the rest were already in a mess.
The foot soldiers who fled with two legs behind the cavalry gradually caught up with Lu Bu, but as soon as they came to Lu Bu's side, they were attacked from both flanks by Gan Ning and other generals.
At the same time, Zhang Liao, who had been chasing all the way, also led the army to arrive, overlooking from the sky, Lu Bu's army was Guo Jia in the north, Zhang Liao in the south, flanked back and forth, and was divided into two armies in the north and south plus four armies on both sides to outflank it.
Even though Yan Pu only led the army to command, and did not go up to kill, Yan Yan, Gan Ning, Gao Shun, Meng Da, Wu Yi, these generals all took the lead and led the army to implement tactics, and they led their soldiers to attack LΓΌ Bu's army from the side with a purposeful surname, dividing LΓΌ Bu's army into several sections, and then breaking them one by one.
Kill easily, kill up, kill Lu Bu's army without the power to fight back!
LΓΌ Bu's army had already suffered a psychological breakdown, they fled for their lives first, and then they were attacked, and the enemy's offensive was swift and organized, looking like it was invincible, separating their companions from each other, forming a local advantage and killing them as much as they wanted.
Blood splattered, screams abounded, and the shouts of killing continued, but it was always inferior to Guo Jia and Zhang Liao's front and rear armies beating drums and noisy!
The drum is a signal of war, a courage for the soldiers, and a clarion call for the enemy!
I want them to do it all at once!
With rivers of blood flowing and stumps and broken arms, Lu Bu was completely dumbfounded, when had he ever seen such a monstrous and tactically clear enemy army?!
He has been famous for a long time, but is there a famous battle that he can really handle? He has killed countless enemies, and the opponents he met were all clowns!
Lu Bu held Fang Tian's halberd and rode the red rabbit, even in the melee, he was definitely an eye-catching person, so Guo Jia could look out and find Lu Bu, and see that Lu Bu would raise Fang Tian's halberd from time to time to harvest the surnames of the enemy soldiers around him, he was indeed unstoppable, but Guo Jia still said to himself lightly: "Lu Bu, war, not one person's bravery can be decided." β
Red is going west, dusk is approaching, and the sky has a faint fiery glow, but it is never as dazzling as the scarlet of blood on the battlefield.
When there were no more enemies around him, Lu Bu no longer knew how many people he had killed, but when he gasped and raised his head, his eyes were gloomy and his face was pale.
Ten steps away from him, Gan Ning, Zhang Liao, Wu Yi, Gao Shun, Yan Yan, Yan Pu, and Meng Da led an army to surround him, and in the direction that Lu Bu was facing, the neatly lined up crossbowmen were facing him with horned crossbows, and after the crossbowmen, Guo Jia looked at him indifferently on horseback.
"Fengxian, you and I are also meeting again after a long absence."
(To be continued)