Last time, it was said that Liu Bei was in a dilemma on whether to enter Xuzhou to resist Yuan Shu's army for Tao Gongzu, but in the end, he did not make his own claim, but invited a mysterious strategist to make up his own mind.

If Lu Bu saw that strategist here, he was afraid that he would be surprised. Because at present, the scribe who is regarded as a military advisor by Liu Bei is Li Ru and Li Wenyou, the number one think tank of the Western Liang Army, under the command of Dong Zhuo, Xiangguo, who commanded hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops back then!!

How did Li Ru and Liu Bei get together and become master and slave? That's going to be a long story. When Dong Zhuo died, Li Ru obeyed Dong Zhuo's orders, led the army to break into the Luoyang Palace and plundered the Son of Heaven Liu Xie and the Manchu Dynasty hundred officials, but was suspected by Li Xu and Guo Yan, Li Ru was sad and indignant after getting the news of Dong Zhuo's death, and suffered from Li Zhuo and Guo Yan's cold words, and in a fit of anger, he simply abandoned the Xiliang army and went to Hebei.

In Hebei, Li Ru first met Yuan Shao under a pseudonym. But how did Yuan Shao always attach importance to the family, and a scribe like Li Ru, who was only talented and learned but did not have the backing of the family, how could Yuan Shao, who was born in the fourth generation and the third duke, reuse him? Li Ru waited for two months in Yecheng, Hebei, but finally waited for Yuan Shao's appointment letter appointing him to take up the post of county magistrate of Julu County.

Li Ru smiled when he received the letter of appointment sent by Yuan Shao at that time, and smiled back and forth. Then in the afternoon, Li Ru hung the letter of appointment in the house, and left Hebei with a little tangle and clothes.

Li Ru's second goal was to assassinate Gongsun Zan in Youzhou, and Gongsun Zan got Lu Bu's help to defeat Liu Yu without bloodshed, and completely mastered Youzhou. In the past few years, there has been a lack of Liu Yu who has adopted Huairou methods, and Gongsun Zhan's iron-blooded blows to the various alien bandits on the border of Youzhou have become more and more fierce.

When Li Ru came, Gongsun Zan was busy leading troops to clear a rebellion of a tribe in Wuheng, and he hung Li Ru there for more than a month. Li Ru waited patiently with his surname until Gongsun Chan returned to his teacher, but at the meeting with Gongsun Chan, Li Ru was greatly disappointed. The reason is that Gongsun Chan does not have much to compete for hegemony in the world, and what he desires most in his life is to expel all the grassland aliens that are becoming more and more rampant on the border, so as to ensure the peace of the people of Youzhou.

Li Ru said goodbye again, not for anything else, because Li Ru felt that Gongsun Chan couldn't give him a stage to display his talents. Li Ru came all the way from Youzhou to Qingzhou, but finally met the person he liked the most in Beihai County - Liu Bei!

Liu Bei was working under Kong Rong's account at that time, but Liu Bei's act of buying people's hearts happened to be accepted by Li Ru, who was passing by Beihai. Let's ask, why does a person who lives under the fence of others go to great lengths to buy people's hearts?

Li Ru talked with Liu Bei Ye with the mentality of trying it out, and everyone should be able to guess that Liu Bei was nothing more than talking about his 'Han clan relatives' brand and the ** to revitalize the Han family, and Liu Bei's hatred for Lu Bu and the state army faintly revealed in Liu Bei's words was exactly what Li Ru's appetite was. What Liu Bei said that night In addition to Li Ru, even Guan Yu and Zhang He didn't know very well, only that when Li Ru and Liu Bei came out, Li Ru had already called Liu Bei the lord, and Liu Bei actually called a stranger who had only met once as a military advisor!!

Back to the topic, when Li Ru listened to Liu Bei's question, he first closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then suddenly opened his eyes and said, "This Xuzhou must go!" ”

"Oh? Why is that? Liu Bei asked in surprise.

"The lord has always taken the revival of the Han dynasty as his own responsibility, but now that Lu Bu's Bingzhou army has occupied Sizhou, Bingzhou, Jingzhou Nanyang, and Yanzhou Puyang, if he is ready not to take advantage of Cao Ying and Lu Bu to entangle in Yanzhou to seize Xuzhou, and after Lu Bu defeats Cao Ying and occupies Yanzhou, Xuzhou will either fall into the hands of Yuan Shu or become Lu Bu's next target. I'm afraid that the lord will be trapped in this Beihai county at most in this life, and there is no way out!

On the contrary, if the lord is willing to pour the troops of the whole county of Beihai into Xuzhou to resist Yuan Shu, with the 100,000 people in Xuzhou and tens of thousands of elite soldiers in our army, it will only be easy to defeat Yuan Shu! Later, if Lü Bu and Cao Ying have not yet decided the winner, our army can take advantage of the situation to counterattack Huainan, seize the foundation of Yuan Shu, and resist Lü Bu in this way. If so, the general trend of the world has not yet been determined, otherwise in less than ten years, the world will be like Lu Bu's hands!! Li Ru said very seriously.

"Really?" Liu Bei's face changed.

"It's true!" Li Ru's eyes looked at Liu Bei's eyes without fear.

Liu Bei clenched his hands into fists, closed his eyes and thought for a moment, and finally squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Rectify the whole army and go out of Xuzhou!" ”

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And the state of Huguan.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The deafening sound of drums suddenly spread throughout the pass, and tens of thousands of soldiers picked up their weapons and walked towards the tower of Huguan City.

"Yuan Jun is coming, prepare to defend against the enemy!!" Tai Shi Ci held a silver spear and shouted loudly.

'Hasn't this Yuan Shao been trapped with General Hansheng's troubles, why did he suddenly dare to attack Huguan so unscrupulously? Isn't he afraid that our Huguan defenders and General Hansheng and their troops will be attacked inside and outside? Tai Shi Ci watched Yuan Shao's army march towards the city step by step, and wondered why Yuan Shao's Jizhou army suddenly ignored Huang Zhong's cavalry troops and risked the danger of internal and external attacks to attack Huguan.

"Soldiers! The first person to set foot on the Huguan Pass in this siege will have a reward of 100 taels! There are those who kill the head of the pot guard, and the bounty is 500 taels and 10 beauties! Wang'er and the others fought bravely to be the first and worked hard to kill the enemy! Offensive!!! With a wave of the sword in Yuan Shao's hand, the dazed army each carried the ladder and pushed the toad cart, shouting and rushing towards the Huguan city wall.

"Crossbowmen prepare! Shoot the !! With Tai Shici's military order, tens of thousands of arrows shrouded the top of Yuan Jun's head.

"Whew! Shout! Shout! Shout! Tai Shi Ci is a rare archer in the world, I saw Tai Shi Ci draw out four wolf teeth and white feather arrows, and shoot them at the same time after a little aiming, and immediately there were four Yuan military captains or covering their throats or covering their faces, all of them fell to the ground softly, and were finally trampled into flesh by the sea of people who did not stop at all.

"Puff puff!" Dozens of toad carts with cooked cowhides on their tops slowly approached the Huguan city wall under the impetus of hundreds of sergeants, and those deadly arrows rained down on these 'monsters' with several cooked cowhides on top of them, and they had no ability to threaten the sergeants below the carts at all.

"Smash the oil on fire!!" Tai Shi Ci saw it clearly, and immediately ordered the sergeant to sprinkle fire oil with the intention of burning these toad carts.

"Throw the torch!!" Seeing that the fire oil was smashed down by a can, Tai Shici shouted coldly.

"Whew!!" Hundreds of lit torches were dropped outside the gate, and as soon as those torches touched the fire oil scattered on the ground, the land outside the gate immediately ignited a sea of fire!

"Ahh Help me!! ”

"It's on fire!! Help me put out the fire!! ”

Most of the hundreds of sergeants of the Yuan army who hid under the toad cart were splashed with fire oil, and as soon as they encountered a little spark, they immediately ignited a raging fire, no matter how they rolled on the ground and fought with their hands, the fire became bigger and bigger, and the sergeants who were burned and ran wildly also brought the fire burning on their bodies to those soldiers who were not burned behind them, and the offensive of the Yuan army was reduced for a while.

"Stab those who are on fire! The Great Army Dirt Cover Law continues to advance!! Gao Lan, the general of the Yuan army, stabbed to death a burning man who rushed towards him with a single shot, and gave a cruel military order without frowning.

"Don't! Save, woe!! ”

"Huh!!"

"Rao, poof!"

Sometimes the life of an ordinary sergeant is just an item discarded at will for the generals on the battlefield, and he will use you as much as possible when you are useful, and once you become a burden or useless, you are likely to be discarded and destroyed.

"Damn! Prepare for the stone!! "Seeing that the defense line built by consuming a lot of fire oil was broken by Yuan's army with human lives and soil, Tai Shici had no choice but to use a sharp weapon in the battle to defend the city--Stone!

"Cast!!" Looking at the ladders being put up on the city wall of Huguan, Tai Shi Ci shouted angrily, "Boom~~" Huge stones, along the ladder or directly along the slightly inclined city wall, whistling, rolling, and finally falling into the crowd, and in the dense crowd of people wantonly turning, crushing the Yuan army sergeants into meat puree, and crushing a lot of ladders that had just been built on the city wall.

"No retreat! Keep it up for me!! Gao Ran was unmoved, waved the spear in his hand, and commanded the sergeant of the Yuan army carrying the ladder behind him to continue to attack the Huguan city wall.

"Whoa!!"

"Huh? Drink!! Gao Ran picked up a sergeant next to him with a shot, blocking the direction from which the scream came from.

"Puff puff!!"

"How many arrows in one bow?"

Gao Ran looked at the four sharp arrows inserted into the flesh of the Yuan army sergeant who snatched the dead one, and his heart was cold. If you dodge it just now, or carelessly want to use a spear to pick off the incoming arrows, I'm afraid that a few arrows will accurately pierce your body!!

"What do you see me doing? Hurry up and rush for me! Gao Ran picked up a wooden shield from the ground to cover himself, and roared angrily at several Yuan Jun sergeants who were looking at him with a gloomy face!

"The archers take ten steps back and shoot at the enemy, and the crossbowmen take twenty steps back to support the crisis sergeant at the head of the city! The sword, shield, and pikemen and I will fight against the Yuan army who has climbed to the top of the city! Kill!!! Tai Shici lifted his Canglan gun and commanded the sergeant without any panic.

"There is Tai Shici, the general of the Bingzhou Army at the head of the city, should we mix in with the sergeants and kill this person?" Jiang Qi, the general under Yuan Shao, asked Gao Ran beside him.

Gao Ran sneered and said, "Brother Jiang Qi still doesn't know? The lord asked us to lead the army to attack the city and let Koi Yi lead the Xiandeng army to ambush in Dazhai, not to capture this pot pass, but to lure those cavalry to save this pot pass first, so as to ambush them with the first army, so that after they suffered heavy losses, they would capture Huguan and even the state without any worries.

So we only need to use the soldiers to make a show now, otherwise even if we capture Huguan, there are tens of thousands of cavalry cruising in Jizhou, which will always be a big problem for the lord, and the grain and grass for hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line cannot be transported to the territory of Bingzhou normally. After the war, I am afraid that the lord will not reward the soldiers who perform well as he promised, but on the contrary, he may be scolded. ”

Gao Ran is a rare wise general under Yuan Shao, and he has the largest role in the siege from Yuan Shao, so he guessed the calculation in Yuan Shao's heart. And the reason why Yuan Shao didn't know what to say about this plan was that he was afraid that the soldiers who knew his intentions would not take the initiative to send them to death, and in the end, it was likely that Xu Yu in Huang Zhong's army would see through his plan.

As for how many people will die in this operation, Yuan Shao, who is surnamed Liang Boqing, doesn't have the time to pay more attention. As long as he can successfully eradicate Huang Zhong's tens of thousands of cavalry that have been dragging behind him, even if he pays tens of thousands of costs, Yuan Shao will easily say 'It's worth it'!

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"General Huang, this is likely to be Yuan Shao's annihilation plan! You see, almost all of the Yuan army was mobilized in this battle, but I didn't see the crossbow army that was in the limelight. Don't forget, when it comes to siege warfare, what other class can compare to the Repeater Army other than the Heavy Armor Sergeant? Back then, the pre-Qin Dynasty swept through the six countries of the Kwantung region with their crossbow army, and now that Yuan Shao has formed a huge crossbowman equipped with a large yellow crossbow with a range of more than two hundred steps, there is no reason why he will not use it when attacking Huguan! Unless they're waiting for our tens of thousands of cavalry to show up. Xu Yu grabbed Huang Zhong's arm and persuaded him bitterly.

Huang Zhong shouted with some anxiety: "Sir! Maybe you have a point! But you see, the hundreds of thousands of infantry troops of the Yuan army stormed Huguan, but there were only tens of thousands of defenders of Taishi Ziyi on Huguan, seeing that the sea of people of the Yuan army was about to drown Huguan, how could I, as a general sent by the Lord to assist Ziyi to defend Huguan, sit back and watch Huguan fall again?

In this way, Sir ordered more than 1,000 people to wait here, and I led the army to disturb the flank of Yuan's army a little, and immediately led the army back to join Mr. ”

Seeing that Huang Zhong's words were all about this, Xu You could only let go of his hand helplessly, but he still instructed uneasily: "Since the general insists on going, he must be very careful, don't be greedy and break into the enemy's army, otherwise once the war horse loses its momentum, there is no need for those crossbowmen to make a move, just with those miscellaneous soldiers, tens of thousands of cavalry can be swallowed up by hundreds of thousands of Yuan troops in just half an hour!" ”

"I know, Huang will come when he goes."

Huang Zhong took off the cloak behind him, picked up his sword and mounted his horse to lead the army to kill in the direction of Huguan.

"My lord! There is a large force of cavalry in the south!! ”

A Yuan scout dismounted and reported to Yuan Shaoyu, who was sitting in the tent of the Chinese army.

"Hahahaha, it's finally here! Summoned Koji Yoshi, and ordered him to lead his army to meet the enemy!! Yuan Shao put down the wine cup in his hand, stroked his beard and smiled.

"Obey!" The scout clenched his fists in agreement, turned and ran to Koji.

"The Lord has an order! Facing the Enemy!! Koji Yi looked at the Bingzhou cavalry galloping in the distance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Hooray! Phew! Hooray!! "Tens of thousands of Xiandeng troops marched in neat steps, lined up in the military formation taught by Koji himself, and slowly advanced to the south.

Looking at the big rhubarb repeater held in the hand of the sergeant of the Xiandeng Army next to him, Ko Yi was full of confidence in his heart. The effective range of the rhubarb repeater is 200 paces away, and counting the impact distance of the cavalry, the first army holding the rhubarb repeater can be fired at a distance of 300 paces from the enemy. And this crossbow with three arrows and a big rhubarb crossbow is concentrated and fired, and the power is not comparable to the powerful crossbows that were put together by various princes that he used in the Tiger Prison Pass back then.

"The enemy army has entered three hundred and fifty steps, and the Xuanwu array is ready!! Put!!! With a wave of the Qi Yi Ling Flag, nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Xuanwu Array neatly pulled the trigger in their hands.

"Buzz !!" A series of three crossbow arrows quickly shot towards Huang Zhong's Bingzhou Iron Cavalry.

"Spread out!! Avoid those crossbowmen and shoot at Yuan's army!! Huang Zhong had no intention of resisting the salvo of those crossbowmen and rushing into the Yuan army's army formation, as early as when he was still more than 500 steps away from the Xiandeng army, he had already begun to order the wolf cavalry under his command to take a team of 1,000 and disperse to use the method of rushing to couch and disturb.

But tens of thousands of crossbow arrows covered the sky, so that more than a thousand wolf riders who had no time to disperse were shot into hedgehogs.

"Damn! Hurry up and disperse! Rush to the left and shoot at the Yuan soldiers who were attacking Huguan!! Huang Zhong's broadsword swept away a few crossbow arrows that had been shot at his side, and his heart palpitated. This is still more than 300 steps away, if you are close to 1200 steps, I am afraid that my little man and horse will not be enough to kill those beasts wearing red armor.

(To be continued)