Chapter 590: The Huns (Students have started school, haha)
Huang Yueying led a large army into the Central Plains, and Zhang Liao of Wancheng hurriedly went north, joined forces with Cao Cao, and camped on the bank of Weishui.
Originally, the Sichuan army was in a hurry to pursue and did not have time to set up camp, but Cao Cao came up with a good way to pile up soil and water at night, and a high wall was formed the next day.
Cao's army added up to more than 60,000 people, barely holding Weishui, but in front of the Sichuan army, it was impossible to hold out for long, Cao Cao left Zhang Liao to preside over the military, and hurriedly returned to Xuchang.
The Cao army has been defeated one after another, and many think tanks and generals have lost their minds, but Guo Jia knows that if he loses his mind at this time, the Cao army will really be finished.
Guo Jia's suggestion to Cao Cao was to let Zhang Liao lead 60,000 troops to resist Huang Yueying first, and now that he had formed an alliance with Jiangdong, then Shouchun Xu Huang's 40,000 troops could be transferred back.
and then use the county guards of the cities in the Central Plains to recruit and transfer, even if these people have no combat power, at least they can still defend the city.
The most important point is to immediately negotiate peace with the northern Wuhuan, Yuan brothers, and Gongsun clans, and mobilize the northern armies such as Yu Ban, Mao Jue, Tian Yu, and Xian Yufu to immediately go south.
Now that it is related to the survival of Cao Jun, there is nothing else to care about.
Although Guo Jia expected that in the case that the Cao army could not resist the advance of the Sichuan army, as long as the Yuan brothers, Gongsun Du and others were not pig brains, they should form an alliance.
However, in order to prevent the Yuan brothers and Gongsun Du from being really pigs, Guo Jia had no choice but to suggest that Cao Cao contact the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai.
Originally, both Guo Jia and Cao Cao looked down on collusion with foreign races, but this time the Xianbei people were formed in order to contain the Wuhuan people, and there was no collusion with foreign races. After barely feeling reasonable. Letter to the Xianbei leader Kebineng. Su Li, Chu Gui Ni, Bu Du Gen and others.
The four big leaders of Xianbei were about to concentrate on dealing with Zhe Lanying, and Zhe Lanying dared to lead a mere 30,000 people to seize the Hetao, and they simply didn't take the Xianbei people in their eyes, how could the Xianbei people suffer this loss.
In Guo Jia's view, there is still great hope for the Xianbei people to form an alliance with Cao Jun.
As a result, the entire army of Cao's army moved south. 300,000 troops can be stationed in the Central Plains, plus if Sun Quan captures Jingzhou, Jingzhou is also a threat to the Sichuan army.
The most important thing is that the hearts of the people in the Central Plains are all on Cao Cao's side, except for Nanyang, which is close to Jingzhou, there are some people in the Yuzhou area who have heard a lot of rumors about the Sichuan army, like the Heluo area, the Yanzhou area, even the people at the bottom do not hate Cao Cao.
Xuchang is an old nest, and there are extremely many families. Because it is the seat of the imperial court, almost all the world's clans have branches here. It is also a concentration of more than a dozen descendant clans of the big clans, all of which follow Cao Cao unconditionally.
The Sichuan army's attack on the Central Plains was tantamount to attacking an iron plate.
It will never be as simple as attacking Guanzhong, a pure army confrontation.
Guo Jia's specific strategy was to first drag the Sichuan army by Zhang Liao, wait for the army conscripted by the Central Plains and Xu Huang's army to reach Xuchang, and then let Zhang Liao retreat into Xuchang to hold on, waiting for the northern army to move south.
Cao's army took Xuchang as the front line, and Jingzhou controlled by Sun Quan was in a pincer shape, flanking the Sichuan army.
Guo Jia didn't believe it, the Central Plains, which Cao Jun had been running for more than ten years, was so easy to be captured by the Sichuan army.
However, a bad news came, Zhang Liao held on to the Weishui coast for less than five days, and was broken by the army led by Huang Yueying.
It was half a month shorter than Guo Jia's expectation.
Later, Guo Jia learned that the reason why Zhang Liao was broken so quickly was that the Huns rebelled.
Originally, Cao Zhang stayed in Bingzhou to practice, the Huns were afraid of Cao Zhang, and did not dare to make a mistake, this time in order to support the defeat of Cao's army, Cao Zhang led his iron cavalry to leave Bingzhou.
In addition, the Huns thought that Cao Cao, who was defeated in Guanzhong, was like Yuan Shao back then, and he was bound to collapse, and he no longer had any scruples, and the army of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King immediately attacked Cao's army Pingyang.
In this case, the Xiongnu in Cao's army got the news from before the Xiongnu rebellion, rebelled against Zhang Liao in Weishui, captured Lingju and fled to the southern Xiongnu lair.
Wu Jun, who opposed the Liu Zhang Alliance, originally wanted to hold on to Hangu Pass and earn a little reputation for himself, but seeing that the Huns had fled, Zhang Liao's army was loosened, and the 60,000 people against the army led by Huang Yueying were simply looking for death, so he also fled.
In addition to the low morale, the Cao army was afraid of the Sichuan army, even if Zhang Liao was the head of Cao Cao's five good generals, there was no way, Huang Yueying, who seized the opportunity, broke through in one fell swoop, and the Sichuan army killed Weishui and went straight to Xuchang.
One son was wrong, all the games were lost, Zhang Liao was defeated and retreated in advance, and when Huang Yueying led the army to Xuchang, Xu Huang and other reinforcements would definitely not be able to reach Xuchang, and Xuchang was in danger.
The news that the Sichuan army was about to be killed came, and Xuchang was in chaos.
Liu Zhang led 6,000 cavalry out of Hangu Pass, these 6,000 people are the elite of the elite, even if the other party has tens of thousands, Liu Zhang can calmly retreat, not to mention that Huang Yueying's army is in front, Cao's army is defeated, and there are no tens of thousands of enemy cavalry in the middle.
Liu Zhang had already passed down a secret order for the Sichuan army to look for folk miracles to see if there was anyone who could cure his illness, but Liu Zhang also knew that this hope was too slim, and he was prepared for the worst.
Along the way, I saw homeless people and dilapidated dwellings, thin croppers, and Fu Shou drew these people one by one, and now Fu Shou has painted more than 20 pictures.
"Shu Hou, this palace feels that this picture of broken mountains and rivers is always a shortcoming, although more than 20 pictures are all in the war era, but this palace always feels that these scenes are missing something."
Fu Shou first came to Chuanying, and he has always called himself the main palace, but then he unconsciously became me, and now he has returned to the main palace again, and he still acts unconsciously.
It seems that he doesn't call himself like this, Fu Shou feels that he doesn't have the courage to talk to Liu Zhang at all, and after claiming himself like this, the sense of distance deliberately created deliberately increases Fu Shou's courage to speak, so that his tone can be more normal.
The broken picture of mountains and rivers is a huge project, which requires many pictures to be connected, and for Fu Shou, this is the most meaningful and last work in his life.
Therefore, Fu Shou attaches great importance to the broken map of mountains and rivers.
"Maybe when you put all the pictures together, it should be better." Liu Zhang replied.
Liu Zhang knew that Fu Shou felt that although this picture was indeed a painting of the troubled times, it lacked a shocking power. It's also a collection of poor materials. Ordinary people paint thatched huts and shabrows, and their clothes are ragged. Van Gogh painted people eating potatoes, and the shock was different.
Fu Shou's picture is the same, the scenes drawn are all troubled scenes, but they lack a side of the clever expression, of course, if there is really a shocking scene of the troubled times, then there is no need to express it sideways.
"It's still a hundred miles away from Cao's Weishui camp, and there seems to have been a war in the village there. Let's take a look. ”
Liu Zhang didn't know that Zhang Liao's camp had been breached, but it didn't matter if he knew it or not, anyway, he was strolling around to Weishui and collecting materials for Fushou all the way.
The village is located five miles away, because it is flat land, you can see from a distance that the village has indeed just had a war, many houses have been burned, and the people are eating the consequences of the war, even if the Sichuan army has many policies against the war-torn people. It is also impossible to erase the wounds caused by the war, not to mention that the Central Plains War is still going on.
"My lord. The front spotted troops, enemy cavalry. "A soldier came to report.
"What?" Liu Zhang was taken aback, there were really enemy horsemen here: "How many people?" Do you know which part of Cao Jun it is? ”
"About 3,000 people, the Huns ride, but they don't seem to have noticed us."
Soon, an army emerged from the corner of the mountain and appeared in Liu Zhang's field of vision, Liu Zhang immediately ordered the soldiers to be on ambush and guard, and the Huns rode straight to the ruined village in front.
The Huns rode to fight with Cao Cao, and the food was provided by the Cao army, and when Zhang Liao was opposed, the Huns originally planned to rob some grain, but Zhang Liao defended the grain tightly, even if his own people were on guard, the Huns did not grab the grain.
Without food, they couldn't go back to their hometown, so the Huns had to do their old job and rob the Han people.
But fortunately, the Sichuan army and the Cao army fought a big battle, and the escaped Huns rode all the way without enemies, and there were no local armies, and the Huns had robbed several villages, not only robbed enough food for the march, but also took the bags back to the old nest, and plundered many girls.
After grabbing the addiction, the Huns have decided to rush all the way back to their hometown.
The villagers who had just suffered the war saw the Huns killing, and fled in terror, but escaping like this is also a dead end, some people carried bags of rice bran, some people held their children, and fled in panic, and some people were reluctant to go home at all, so they watched the Huns kill in fear in the village.
The Huns shouted, wielding their bright scimitars and slashing at the village.
"Enemy cavalry, aliens, lonely, plundering people, it seems that there is no reason not to destroy this Hun army." Liu Zhang glanced coldly at the Hun rider in front of him, and he didn't even have a reason to find himself not to destroy them, he was really looking for death.
"Kill."
Six thousand rivers rode to kill the Huns, the Huns obviously did not expect that they would be ambushed at this moment, and rushed to fight, originally thought that a miscellaneous army came out of here, these three thousand Huns are the elite of the Southern Huns, and it should not be difficult to deal with.
But as soon as the battle began, the Huns were startled, this cavalry that attacked them was too strong, and it was not something they could resist at all, let alone resist, it was difficult to escape.
"Whoosh."
"Whoosh."
The Huns rode and shot, and the Sichuan cavalry avoided it with superb horsemanship, and at the same time threw out a rain of arrows, which was much more accurate than the Hun cavalry, shooting a large number of Huns in one fell swoop, followed by a one-sided massacre.
More than 3,000 Huns were soon left with dozens of horsemen under the siege of the Sichuan army, and a Hun leader galloped out under dozens of guards, Liu Zhang knew at a glance that he was the leader of the Hun cavalry, and the leader was carrying a woman on horseback.
"It's amazing."
"Yes."
The leader's horse is good, seeing that the cavalry of the Sichuan army is difficult to catch up, so powerful horses out, just rushed to the leader of the Hun cavalry ten steps away, the leader's own soldiers to catch up, and at the same time saw that the leader opened his bow and arrows, and wanted to shoot a powerful arrow to death.
"Bang."
With the help of horsepower, a sledgehammer was thrown out as a throwing gun, and it was smashed directly on the head of a pro-soldier, and the head of the pro-soldier seemed to be cut into the bone in an instant, hanging softly on the neck, and the sledgehammer did not stop, knocking a pro-soldier behind, and directly smashed the leader of the Huns off the horse, spitting blood.
Before the Huns could react, they had already rushed over on a single horse, and smashed it with a hammer, not a person, but a hammer on the horse of a Hun soldier, and everyone including those villagers in the village, only to see that person and his horse flew out.
The audience was shocked, the Huns no longer had the will to resist, and they were about to flee, the Sichuan cavalry had caught up, and a round of arrow rain would leave the remaining dozens of Huns off their horses.
The 3,000 Huns were wiped out.
Those villagers who thought they were going to suffer a great disaster looked at the Sichuan army in surprise, and the women hugged their children and cried. The woman who was caught by the leader of the Huns quietly looked at the army in front of her on the horse, and her eyes slowly turned to Liu Zhang, the leader of this army.
Liu Zhang walked in front of the leader of the Huns, and the Huns were seriously injured by a powerful sledgehammer, and if they hadn't been blocked by two personal soldiers, they would have died long ago.
The leader of the Huns had seen the power of this army, and regretted that he should not have come to this village, and had already known that he had robbed enough things to go home, and the leader now wanted to strangle to death the man who had been trying to rob him back to his hometown.
But seeing these cavalry costumes that attacked him, the Hun leader breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be Cao Cao's old opponent Sichuan Army, but he was against Cao Cao, that is, a friend of the Sichuan Army.
"It turned out to be Uncle Liu's Sichuan army, it was really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, this general, although we Huns fought a lot with Cao Cao, but this time I really realized my mistake, Uncle Liu Huang is the orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty, we have reversed Cao Cao, you let me go back, we Huns will help your army defeat Cao thief and make a contribution to the prosperity of the Han Dynasty."
"You want to help me attack Cao Cao?" Liu Zhang asked softly.
"Yes, yes, yes." The leader of the Huns hurriedly agreed, but when he heard Liu Zhang's words, there was something wrong, why did he say "help me"? If it is a general of the Sichuan army, it should be "our army" or "my lord". Don't......
The leader of the Huns followed Cao Cao and Liu Zhang's decisive battle, the two armies were far apart, Liu Zhang had never sat in the Chinese army, he couldn't see it, but he had a general impression, at this time, he observed Liu Zhang, and then contacted the previous impression, and was surprised.
"You, you, you, are you Uncle Liu Huang of Shu?" The leader of the Huns was shocked and inexplicable, no wonder his army lost so completely, the Sichuan army was innumerable, and the army around Liu Zhang, the lord of the Sichuan army, was even more elite among the elites, and the number was more than himself, so it was strange that he was undefeated.
The leader of the Huns hurriedly kowtowed: "The villain is fortunate to see Shu Hou, it is really a blessing for three lives, please let Shu Hou go back, my Huns will be the head of Shu Hou in the future." ”
"Are you sure that you Southern Huns can listen to me at any time?" Liu Zhang asked lightly.
"Huh?" The leader of the Huns was stunned for a moment, the Huns rebelled completely to take advantage of the fire to fight Cao Cao's robbery, the purpose was to rebuild the glory of the Huns, of course, Liu Zhang would not be dispatched as he pleased, at most an offensive and defensive alliance. (To be continued......)