[In the previous chapter, Jia Xu's evaluation of Zhang Ren should be "brave and strategic", which is hereby changed.] ]

In July of the twelfth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (199), Zhou Yu used a trick to lure and annihilate the defenders of Pengcheng outside the city, and Cao Bao was killed in battle.

In August, the Xuzhou scholars led by Sun Qian surrendered the city, and in the same month, the lower Pi Kingdom, Donghai County, and Yaoyu County all surrendered, and Sun Quan sat in the five counties of Xuzhou. In September, Sun Quan led the Grand Sima and Jue into the Duke of Wu, and at the same time moved to Shouchun to show his determination to fight against Ma Yue.

Shouchun, the mansion of Duke Wu.

Sun Quan is convening a meeting of the officials and generals under his command.

Xu Shu said: "My lord, I will report that the horse butcher and Jia Poison have gone to Mobei together, and it seems that the horse butcher should send the Mobei Iron Horse to the south of the Central Plains this month!" In addition, the 100,000 Sichuan troops stationed in Nanyang were stationed at the southern foot of Songshan under the leadership of Xu Huang, a general under the command of Ma Butcher, and Fa Zheng, a strategist, and could enter Yingchuan or Kouluo Runan at any time. ”

Sun Quan said: "If you are lonely and new to Xuzhou, the horse butcher will naturally not give up." ”

Xu Shu said: "In addition, the 80,000 elites led by Gao Shun, the number one general under the command of the horse butcher, have already left the east of the river and are pressing towards Xingyang and Xuchang!" These 80,000 people are the real elite, of which 30,000 Xiliang iron cavalry are even more experienced in a hundred battles, and the remaining 50,000 infantry are also elite divisions trained by Gao Shun himself. ”

Sun Quan changed slightly: "Mobei Iron Cavalry is more than 100,000, Xichuan has 100,000 troops, and there are 80,000 elites led by Gao Shun, won't the horse butcher mobilize nearly 300,000 troops this time?" Among them, there are nearly 150,000 cavalry! is worthy of being a horse butcher, and his command is really a large number of generals! ”

Sun Quan's voice fell, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Lu Fan, Bu Qi, Yu Chuan and other cultural managers changed color, just because Sun Quan was in charge of Xuzhou, Wu Jun's excitement had already disappeared. The reality is cruel, although Sun Quan's territory has been greatly expanded, and his power has been rapidly expanded, he still seems to be alone compared to the horse butcher.

"I'm afraid it's not just these armies!" Xu Shu said again, "If it is not bad as expected, the horse butcher will definitely take the opportunity of going south to the Central Plains to destroy Yuan Shang, Yuan Xi, Gao Gan and others, and then more than 100,000 old Yuan troops in Hebei will probably also belong to the horse butcher, and when the horse butcher really enters the Central Plains, there may be 500,000 people under his command!" ”

"Half a million?" Zhang Zhao's face turned pale and asked Sun Quandao, "Lord, how many soldiers and horses does our army have right now?" ”

Sun Quan's expression was solemn, and he asked Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, how many troops are there in our army at the moment?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "In addition to the remaining troops required by the counties under the rule of the lord, all the troops that our army can mobilize have all been assembled in the line from Shouchun to Pengcheng, including 30,000 infantry, 8,000 cavalry, and 20,000 naval troops, all of which are elite who can fight well, in addition to more than 30,000 Xuzhou troops, Yu has selected 10,000 elites from them to form the Xuzhou battalion. ”

Sun Quan said: "In other words, our army is less than 70,000 people? ”

"There are less than 70,000 people!?" Zhang Zhao lost his voice and said, "The difference in strength is too great!" ”

Bu Qi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said: "There are many horse butchers and generals, and the army consumes a lot of money and food, and it may be difficult to last. ”

Zhou Yu said: "Zishan (Buqi table words) idea is good, but it is not very realistic, Yuan Shaojiu according to Hebei, business for a long time, a lot of money and grain military horses, this time the horse butcher dispatched more than 100,000 Mobei iron horses, is to sweep the four states of Hebei with lightning speed, if Yu is not bad, Yuan Shao's years of accumulation are probably all owned by the butcher!" ”

"Although our army has all the money and food of the counties of Xuzhou, it is still far from Hebei, so if we blindly stick to it and compete for money and food consumption, the first thing that cannot be supported is our army and not the Liang army."

"yes." Zhang Zhao said in a trembling voice, "What's more, the Guan, Liang, and Hetao under the rule of the horse butcher have been recuperating for many years, how can they have no savings?" This time, the horse butcher is obviously prepared and determined! ”

"I'm afraid of him!" Zhang Zhao's voice fell, and the general Zhou Tai came out and shouted, "Although there are many generals under the command of the horse butcher, except for the thousands of sail thieves in Ganning, most of them are northern landlubbers, our army only needs to send a navy to block the waterway of the Yellow River, what can the horse butcher do even if he has a million cavalry?" ”

Zhou Yu said: "General Zhou Tai doesn't know, the Yellow River is not as good as the Yangtze River and Huaishui, it will enter the dry period every winter, and the water level of the Yellow River will be greatly reduced during the dry period, and the naval ships will not be able to pass at all, and some sections of the river may even be cut off, and the cavalry of the horse butcher does not need to erect a pontoon bridge to cross the river." ”

"Ah, that's right." Zhou Tai scratched his head and said, "That's really a bit troublesome." ”

Lu Xun said: "It is September now, it is the time when the autumn is high and cool, fat and strong, the terrain of the Central Plains is a flat river, which is conducive to the galloping of the cavalry, and the horse butcher is calm and calm, without worries, but our army's ally Yuan Tan has an ambiguous attitude, and may fall to the horse butcher at any time. ”

Sun Quan's face gradually became heavy, and he asked Zhou Yu: "Gongjin, so you don't have to fight this battle with the horse butcher?" ”

Zhou Yu shook his head and said, "No, this battle has to be fought, and it must be fought!" ”

Sun Quan clenched his fists and said: "What the Metropolitan Governor said is exactly what he wants. ”

Zhou Yu turned to Lu Xun and smiled slightly, and said: "The time, location, and people mentioned by Bo Yan are indeed the three major factors that determine the outcome of the war, but as the so-called time shifts, the time, place, and people are not immutable, but will continue to change according to the strength of the warring parties. ”

Lu Xun's expression moved when he heard this, and he fell into deep thought, but Lu Meng, Xu Shu and others were stunned.

Sun Quan said happily: "So Gong Jin already has a way to deal with it? ”

Zhou Yu said loudly: "Yu's countermeasure is very simple, that is, first divide the troops to resist the enemy, resist step by step, consume a large amount of grain and grass of the Liang army in the early stage of the war, do your best to slack off the spirit of the Liang army, and then concentrate your troops to defend in Shouchun!" At this time, the supply line of the Liang army will be lengthened, which is conducive to our army's entrenchment. ”

"As long as we survive until the turn of spring and summer next year, the land of Jianghuai will enter the annual rainy season, and at that time, the land of Jianghuai will become muddy and difficult to walk, and the cavalry advantage of the Liang army will be gone!"

"Taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the Liang army is contained in Xuzhou by our army, Cao Ying will definitely send troops to attack Xichuan, so that the horse butcher's backyard is on fire, and he must seek a quick victory to save Xichuan as soon as possible.

"Click!"

Sun Quan drew his sword and slashed off the corner of the table, and said sharply: "The will has been decided, in Shouchun and the horse butcher will fight to the death, and then there are those who say to avoid its edge and retreat to Jiangdong, they should be the same as this case!" ”

……

Mobei, Danhan Mountain.

As early as June, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao had already received Ma Yue's military order to begin to convene thousands of households under his command, and by the end of August, after nearly three months of assembly and preparation, 3,000 units and 100 households with a total of 120,000 Mobei Iron Cavalry had all gathered in the old camp of Danhan Mountain, and the dense felt bags stretched for hundreds of miles.

Ma Yue slowly walked forward under the support of Jia Xu, Dian Wei and dozens of iron horses, outside the big tent, Pei Yuanshao and Zhou Cang had already led thousands of households to greet them for a long time, and a young man stood proudly in the forefront surrounded by two guards.

When Ma Yue and his entourage appeared in everyone's field of vision, the young man hurriedly led two guards to march forward, and when he was still ten steps away from Ma Yue, the young man knelt on one knee and sang aloud: "The child knocks on his father." ”

This young man is naturally the eldest son Ma Zheng who has been staying outside the Saiwai to exercise.

"See Prime Minister."

Behind the boy, two guards also fell to one knee.

"Hmm." Ma Yue nodded, raised his hand and gestured, "Get up." ”

"Thank you, father."

Ma Zheng bowed again, then got up and stood respectfully on one side, Zhao Yun and Xu Shao also got up and waited behind Ma Zheng, and when Ma Zheng finished the ceremony, Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang and thousands of households from all departments stepped forward to salute.

It's night.

The torches in the big tent of the Chinese army were bright and crowded.

Pei Yuanshao said to Ma Yue: "Boqi, in accordance with your military order, a total of 120,000 troops from the three 10,000 households and 300,000 households in Mobei have assembled in the old camp of Danhan Mountain!" ”

"Hmm." Ma Yue nodded and asked, "After the cavalry leaves the old camp, there won't be barbarians who will take advantage of the situation to disturb them, right?" ”

"Bertie rest assured." Pei Yuanshao said, "The barbarians of the desert have been wiped out and escaped, and now no force can pose a threat, even if the three thousands of households are pouring into the nest, leaving only the old and weak women stationed, the old camp can be safe and sound!" In fact, the brothers have been looking forward to this day for a long time. ”

"Big leader, we guard this desert grassland every day, every day in addition to hunting (robbing people), that is, women, this day is about to fade out of the birds." Pei Yuanshao's voice fell, and Zhou Cang and the thousands and hundreds of households in the gathering tent muttered one after another, "If we are not allowed to go south to the Central Plains, we would rather not be these thousand (hundred) households." ”

With the expansion of Ma Yue's power and the improvement of his status, Ma Yue's prestige has become more and more heavy, and now ordinary people don't even dare to breathe when they see Ma Yue, and only Zhou Cang and the only remaining more than 300 old rogues dare to call Ma Yue "big leader", as for the person who calls the word Boqi, there is only Pei Yuanshao left.

Ma Yue cut a half-cooked cow's hoof, chewed it happily, and could only nod his head for a while, and had no time to answer.

Zhou Cang waved his hand and said loudly: "Come on, bring Europa Dance." ”

Outside the tent, a rapid drum beat sounded, and in the midst of the exciting drumbeat, a group of blond, blue-eyed, tall Europa women twisted their waists and swung their hips, and the money was put into the account.

When these dancers twisted their waists and swung their hips, the animal skins on their waists were raised, and the spring light under the crotch was completely leaked, and a group of old rogues in the big tent, including Ma Yue, Pei Yuanshao, and Zhou Cang, applauded and screamed, and time seemed to have gone back more than ten years at once, and this group of outlaws returned to the glorious years of licking blood at the tip of the knife during the day and raising fire at night.

A dancer inadvertently twisted in front of Zhou Cang, and shook his plump and seductive fat buttocks vigorously with his back to Zhou Cang.

"Come here, damn, hehe!" Zhou Cangyin laughed twice, grabbed the European and Roman dancer and put it on his lap, forced the dancer to pout her fat buttocks back, stretched out two fingers and wiped it between the dancer's crotch, and then sucked it into her mouth, and then shouted to the rogues around her, "It tastes good, ...... it."

"Hahaha......"

The thousands and hundreds of households in the tent burst into laughter.

……

The next time.

The horns sounded in unison under Danhan Mountain, and a team of Mobei iron cavalry surged out from the old camp, and set up a neat and orderly cavalry formation on the vast grassland, Ma Yue, Ma Zheng and his son rode their horses slowly in front of the cavalry formation under the support of Dian Wei, Zhao Yun, Jia Xu, Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, and Guan Qi.

120,000 iron cavalry with each thousand households as a phalanx, a total of 300 phalanxes (300,000 households have different sizes, some as many as thousands of horses, some only more than 100 horses) in the prairie in turn, stretching for more than 20 miles, Ma Yue almost took two hours to complete the review of the 300 cavalry phalanx.

The first cavalry phalanx to be inspected by Ma Yue was the Qingzhou battalion of the fierce general Guan Hai.

Although Guan Hai was killed, the three hundred Qingzhou thieves who had followed Ma Yue Liukou Central Plains with Guan Hai were all killed in the battle of Yinfeng Canyon, but his Qingzhou battalion was retained by Ma Yue, and the three hundred cavalry was also expanded to three thousand cavalry, which was a formidable elite iron cavalry!

The cavalry of the Qingzhou battalion is each equipped with two excellent Shandan war horses and four Mongolian bantam horses, riding Shandan war horses during battles and Mongolian bantam horses when marching.

In the sound of the horse's hooves, the horse Yue slowly rode past the Qingzhou camp.

"The big boss is mighty!"

One of the horsemen in front of the straddle horse standing in front of the formation raised the horse chopping knife in his hand, looked up to the sky and roared, behind the horseman, the whole three thousand Qingzhou cavalry responded violently, and the fierce sound was stirring and tumbling between the heaven and the earth, and it was exhausted for a long time. A strange burning heat suddenly ignited from Ma Yue's eyes, and even the blood in his body began to boil.

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

Under the guidance of the cavalry, the three thousand Qingzhou iron cavalry shouted the trumpet, while rhythmically slapping their breastplate with the back of the saber, making a neat and loud impact sound, which is the unique etiquette of the Mobei iron cavalry soldiers, in order to express the soldiers' respect and support for the commander.

"You're Yuan Song!" In the endless hustle and bustle, Ma Yue rode his horse to the cavalry general and said in a deep voice: "In the first battle of Yinfeng Canyon, you stayed in the old camp because you were wounded, so you are the only survivor among the three hundred Qingzhou soldiers!" I remember that you were only eighteen years old at the time, but you had already participated in thirty-seven fierce battles, and had already suffered nineteen injuries, two of which were seriously injured, one in Tiger Prison and one in Changshe, am I right? ”

The cavalry general shouted: "The big leader is good to remember his surname, and the last general is Yuan Song!" ”

Ma Yue also shouted: "Under the command of this big leader, Guan Hai has always been the forward general, and the Qingzhou battalion has always been the elite of the elite!" No matter how many people change, no matter how things change in the world, the military soul of the 800 Liukou is always immortal! I hope you don't fall into the prestige of the commander of Guan Hai, let alone the prestige of the Qingzhou battalion! ”

Yuan Song once again raised his saber and shouted, "Fight to the death!" ”

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

In the tsunami-like shouts of the three thousand Qingzhou iron horse landslides, Ma Yue urged the horse forward.

Immediately after Ma Yue appeared in front of Ma Yue was the Qiang cavalry battalion composed of all Qiang soldiers.

The predecessor of this Qiang army was the elite of 8,000 Qiang soldiers borrowed by Ma Yue from the 36 Qiang in the north, and after the rest of the battle, the big waves washed the sand, and the 8,000 Qiang soldiers were left with only more than 3,000 people, and they evolved from an infantry to a cavalry that can fight well.

After Fang Yue swept away Mobei, Ma Yue divided the three departments and ten thousand households, and remembered that Guan Qi (Guan Hai's widow) was young and lost, so he gave these three thousand Qiang horses to Guan Qi and became Guan Qi's personal guard. This time, the three ten thousand households in Mobei were dispatched, and the pro-guard team under control naturally had to go out with the army.

"The Heavenly General is mighty!"

In front of the Qiang cavalry formation, the tower-like Qiang will hold up the iron thistle bone to greet the horse.

"The Heavenly General is mighty!"

"The Heavenly General is mighty!"

"The Heavenly General is mighty!"

The three thousand Qiang cavalry responded violently.

The Qiang people have always regarded the Han Fubo general Ma Yuan as the general of Shenweitian, and since Ma Yue is a descendant of Ma Yuan, he is naturally regarded by the Qiang people as the general of Shenweitian.

"Vultures! The brother of Wudang (the owner of the Thirty-six Qiang Xianling Village, the mother of the Moon Nu'er, and the lover of Ma Yue). Ma Yue looked at the Qiang generals with burning eyes, and asked sharply, "Are the warriors of the Thirty-six Qiang ready?" ”

Wushu viciously waved the iron thistle bone in his hand and shouted, "Listen to the commander of the Heavenly General at any time!" ”

……

Yecheng, the General's Mansion.

Tian Yu walked into the hall with a solemn expression and said to Yuan Shang: "General, the big thing is not good!" ”

Yuan Shang raised his head and asked, "General Tian Yu, what's wrong?" Could it be that the Yuan Tan rebels and the Eastern Wu army crossed the Yellow River? ”

"It's not." Tian Yu said, "It's the horse butcher who sent troops!" ”

"Horse slaughter...... Uh, Prime Minister Ma? Yuan Shang was not surprised and said, "This is a good thing, General Tian Yu doesn't have to worry, the Liang army sent troops at the invitation of Gu." ”

"I'm afraid it's not that simple!" Tian Yu said in a deep voice, "In return, the old camp of Danhan Mountain has gathered more than 100,000 Mobei iron horses, and it seems that the three 10,000 households in Mobei are pouring out and going south!" Please think about it, if you just want to help the general repel the Yuan Tan rebels and the Eastern Wu army, is it necessary for the horse butcher to use hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry in Mobei? ”

"Could it be ......" Yuan Shang's face changed, and he said in a deep voice, "The prime minister has ulterior motives?" ”

"General!" Tian Yu clasped his hands into fists and shouted excitedly, "The horse butcher has mobilized more than 100,000 iron horsemen to go south, he is not at ease, he is going to make a false way!"

"False Dao Felling?" Yuan Shang said in a panic, "No...... No way? ”

It happened that the strategist entered the trial, and Yuan Shang was furious and said: "The trial, it's all your bad idea!" ”

The judge was scolded by Yuan Shang and was confused, and asked in confusion: "Why is the lord angry?" ”

"You." Yuan Shangsu pointed at Tian Yu with his hand, and said with fire, "The country asked you to talk to him." ”

Tian Yu said: "Military division, carefully report to Zhou Cang, Pei Yuanshao, and Guan Qi three ten thousand households, a total of more than 100,000 Mobei cavalry have all gathered in the old camp of Danhan Mountain, and it seems that they are going to knock south!" ”

"Huh?" The judge's face turned pale in an instant, and he said in a trembling voice, "Is there such a thing?" This was unexpected! Originally, he just wanted to borrow the knife of the horse butcher to destroy Yuan Tan, the rebellious Wu army who defeated Zhou Yu, but he didn't expect to attract more than 100,000 iron horsemen from Mobei, how should this be? ”

"Lone still wants to ask you!" Yuan Shang said sharply, "If you can't find a way to save the situation, I'll kill you alive!" ”

The judge said miserably: "The Mobei Iron Cavalry is strong, if the troops are divided and refuse to defend, they are afraid that they will be broken by each of them, and so far, they can only let General Tian Yu and General Zhang Yan lead the troops and horses of the headquarters to defend Youzhou, so as to delay the speed of the Mobei Iron Cavalry to the south as much as possible, and then gather heavy troops in Yecheng at the fastest speed, in order to protect themselves." ”

Yuan Shang hurriedly said to Tian Yu: "In this way, the general can return to Youzhou quickly." ”

"The last general commands."

Tian Yu bowed his hand, turned around and walked away.

(To be continued)