"Hit the mark! Zhonglu Bu's trick to destroy the thief! ”

After listening to the report brought back by the detailed work sent to Yanzhou to listen to the news, Liu Bei felt that the world was spinning, and there was only this thought left in his mind - the plan! Because Liu Beijun made a clear and clear investigation, the Cao Lu war in Yanzhou did not reopen at all, and the Cao army, which was plagued by food shortage, has been cowering in the Juancheng area, and has not invested a single soldier to attack Lu Bu, and Lu Bu's army did not take the initiative to attack Cao Bu, but only organized defense in the Shanyang area, repaired the city and plundered the people, not only did it not look like it was preparing to attack to the north, but also had the intention of adjusting the strategy to defend the north and attack the south.

After figuring out these situations, Liu Bei, who has always liked to pit people quietly, suddenly understood that he was finally quietly pitted by others once, and was pushed to the front line of Xuzhou by Lu Bujun in turn.

It is useless to understand this, the wood is already in the boat, there is no regret medicine to sell in the world, and Liu Bei, whose perseverance and fighting spirit are equally amazing, did not give up on himself, but quickly calculated the aftermath countermeasures, and quickly formulated two countermeasures, one is to send envoys to contact Kong Rong and Tian Kai, asking them to come forward to mediate the contradiction between the army and Tao Qian, and strive to resolve the conflict by peaceful means. The second is to reorganize the soldiers and horses and actively prepare for war, repair the city wall, strengthen the city defense, and prepare to use Xiaopeijian City to confront the Xuzhou army for a long time to gain time.

Liu Bei is very clear about the overall strength gap between his army and the Xuzhou army, but Liu Bei knows better that there are still a few points that are very beneficial to him, one is that the most dangerous enemy Tao Ying happens to be not in Xuzhou, and it is difficult for the leaderless Xuzhou army to organize a strong counterattack in a short time; The second is that Lu Bu has never given up on Xuzhou, as long as he resists the Xuzhou army for a period of time, Lu Bu's army will definitely go south again to join the battlefield; Third, the Xuzhou army will never dare to turn against the Gongsun Chan forces now, and as long as they drag the Gongsun Chan forces into the water again, the Xuzhou army will inevitably have to throw themselves into the trap. So Liu Bei resolutely made up his mind, that is, to delay, the longer the time drags on, the more favorable the situation will be for him!

Liu Bei's abacus was too wishful, although his opponent, Deputy Director Tao, was lacking in strategy, but Deputy Director Tao's big lackey Lu Su was a strategic master, and he opposed Tao Ying and Liu Bei's decisive battle, and immediately pointed out to Tao Ying that since Tao Ying was determined to fight Liu Bei, he could only fight quickly, and settle the battle before the other princes' forces intervened, so as not to give the situation a chance to change! And Tao Ying also gladly accepted this suggestion, and did not even return to Xuzhou City, and directly led the Western Expedition army to Xiaopei, and even in order to gain time, Tao Ying simply threw the infantry and the baggage grain team to Lu Su's command, and only led the Junzi army to attack Xiaopei at night, and killed Liu Bei by surprise.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, starting from Chen State, the Junzi Army, who was good at running, only took more than two days to return to Peiguo City, rested in Peiguo City for a night, fed the war horses with fine horse material, and the Junzi Army immediately set off to the north, and went straight to Xiaopei by way of Zhuqiu, and it only took more than a day to approach Xiaopei within 30 miles. encountered a Liu Beijun patrol here, Tao Ying decisively ordered an attack, Liu Beijun's patrol was caught off guard and was captured alive, Tao Ying did not kill them, but roughly asked about the situation in Xiaopei City, and then cut off all these Liu Beijun scouts from their ears and noses, and let them go back to Xiaopei to report the news, and used this to provoke Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

The unlucky Liu Beijun scout rushed back to Xiaopei to report the news, and Liu Bei, who was still dredging the moat, was taken aback and shouted in disbelief, "Tao Ying Gongzi is here?" How can it be? Didn't he go deep into the hinterland of Yuzhou to fight the Yellow Turban Thief, how could he come back so soon? ”

"Brother, there's nothing to fear!" Guan Yu next to him said loudly: "Although Tao Ying is marching very fast, but he is running thousands of miles to attack this, at this moment must be sleepy and lacking horses, the end of the strong crossbow, it is difficult to penetrate Lu Min, my brother sent troops to meet the battle at this time, and he can wait for work and break the enemy army!" ”

Liu Bei turned his eyes, and asked the scout again to understand that Tao Ying's team only had less than a thousand horsemen, and saw that there was indeed a advantage to take advantage of, so he made up his mind and said: "What the second brother said is very true, I should personally lead the army to meet the battle with the two virtuous brothers, negotiate with Tao Yinggongzi first, explain the reason, if you can persuade Tao Yinggongzi to withdraw from the army, of course, it is the best, if not, then you have to talk with a knife and a gun." Guan Yu and Zhang Fei praised the good together, and at the moment Liu Bei left Jian Yong and Sun Qian to guard the city, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led an army of 4,000 to the south, and took the initiative to go out of the city to meet the Junzi army.

At the same time, in the ranks of the Junzi Army, after finding an open terrain, Tao Ying immediately ordered the soldiers of the Junzi Army to dismount and rest, feed the war horses with fine materials, and at the same time check the weapons to prepare for battle, Chen Zhiquan, who had newly joined the Xuzhou army next to him, said: "Childe, our army has traveled hundreds of miles for a long time, and the soldiers and horses are very tired, which is not conducive to war. ”

"Nope." Tao Ying shook his head categorically, and while holding the bean cake to feed the war horse, he explained: "Liu Bei, annihilate the male ear!" If our army moves to the county first to rest, and when the war is fought again, Liu Bei will definitely refuse to go out of the city to fight, and will only defend the city, and our infantry brigade has not yet arrived, and the siege weapons are all in the rear team, and the siege force is not enough, so he can only take Xiao Peijian City helplessly. Therefore, the only decisive battle of our army today makes Liu Bei feel that our army is tired from afar and has an opportunity to take advantage of, so that he will take the opportunity to go out of the city to fight, otherwise, if he wants to lure Liu Bei out of the strong city, it will only be difficult to climb to the sky. ”

"Childe is right, my favorite is field warfare!" Xu Chu next to him couldn't wait to shout: "I have long heard of the names of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and I have long wanted to compete with them. ”

"Okay, but if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei come out, I can say that I have to divide one for everything." Chen Zhi replied with a smile.

"Wait!" Without waiting for Xu Chu to laugh and agree, Tao Ying hurriedly said: "Zhongkang, Shuzhi, there is still a little time now, I must explain one thing to you, you can't be the first to fight in this battle, Liu Bei knows very well that there is a lack of fierce generals under my command, you two I am going to use as a secret weapon, so that you can kill Liu Bei by surprise, so after the battle will start for a while, you can only stay by my side, listen to my orders, and wait for me to order you to attack, and you will come out again to kill a good one, there must be no mistake." ”

Xu Chu and Chen Zhi looked at each other, although they were a little unhappy, but they could only honestly agree, and at that moment Tao Ying quickly summoned the generals of the Junzi Army to arrange combat tactics, and at the same time, Tao Ying had already arranged for the messenger to go to Liuxian to contact Zang Ba, so that Zang Ba could send troops to cooperate with the army to fight, and attack at the right time and position, giving Liu Beijun a surprise. And when all this was arranged, the soldiers and war horses also recovered a certain amount of strength, and the scouts in front finally rushed back to the front of the battle, and reported that Liu Bei's army was less than five miles away, Tao Ying first ordered the Junzi army to confirm once again whether the weapons and equipment were ready, and then ordered to discharge the battle queue and prepare to meet Liu Beijun.

After another moment, four thousand Liu Beijun rushed to the front, and the two armies each shot their bows and arrows at their feet, Tao Ying immediately jumped out of the battle, pointed at Liu Beijun with a horse whip and scolded, "Liu Bei destroys the thief, come out and answer!" My father treated you like a mountain, and lent you land to the city and garrison the army, and provided you with money and food to feed the army, why did you take revenge? Collusion with Lu Bu to invade my Xuzhou land and kill my Xuzhou soldiers? ”

Liu Bei led Guan Yu Zhang Fei out of the formation, surrendered his hand to Tao Ying on the war horse, and said with a wry smile: "Tao Ying Gongzi, please check clearly, Liu Bei is indeed wrong in this matter, but Bei is not wrong, Bei and Wen Hou formed an alliance, the original intention was to join forces to resist Cao Thief, to protect the safety of the five counties of Xuzhou, never thought that Wen Hou and Tao Fujun suddenly had a bad relationship, and then the sword soldiers met, Liu Bei was constrained by the covenant, had to send troops to help, and took the opportunity to persuade Wen Hou to withdraw the army, now that Wen Hou has retreated, why don't the prince calm down and listen to the preparation and put his heart in his heart, don't use the sword soldiers, hurt the harmony of the two families? ”

"Fuck your stinking fart!" Tao Ying scolded with no grace, "You treat Lao Tzu as a three-year-old child? Don't think I don't know, that day's battle in Liuxian, even if you killed the most Xuzhou soldiers, General Sun Kang, the general of Xuzhou, died in your hands! ”

"Sun Kang'er was killed by me, and it has nothing to do with my eldest brother!" Zhang Fei also dared to do it, and stood up and shouted: "Master Tao, I have always remembered the favor of you for giving me good wine, but helping Lu Bu beat you is really my eldest brother has an alliance with Lu Bu, and I have to send troops!" If you are willing to listen to my eldest brother's words and reconcile, then everything is easy to say, and you can kowtow to make amends, but if you don't listen to my eldest brother and are unwilling to reconcile with my eldest brother, then you will come to me and I will accompany you to the end! ”

"Ring-eyed thief, Hugh has to apologize for others with clever words here!" Tao Ying jumped like thunder, and scolded without words: "Don't think I don't know, General Sun Kang died under Guan Yu's thief sword!" Guan Yuxiao'er, if you have the courage to kill my general, don't you have the courage to admit it? If you're still a man, stand up for me and fight me for 300 rounds!" ”

Liu Bei's three brothers and the generals of the Junzi Army looked at each other, all wondering if Tao Ying had misremembered or misheard, that day in the county battle, Guan Yu stayed in Xiaopei to defend the city, and did not participate in the battle at all, how could Tao Ying insist that Guan Yu killed Sun Kang? - Of course, if Liu Bei's three brothers and the generals of the Junzi Army knew that Guan Yu, who had been shot by dark arrows countless times in his life, also had a nickname called Human Flesh Arrow Target, then it would certainly not be strange why Tao Ying would mistakenly remember Sun Kang's murderer.

Sure enough, Guan Yu, who heard Tao Ying insulting himself like this, and who had a good impression of Tao Ying who was far from being like Zhang Fei, was suddenly furious, and immediately slapped his horse out, pointed at Tao Ying with the eighty-two-pound Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and shouted proudly: "Tao Ying Xiaoer, since you have inserted the label and sold your head, then I will fulfill you!" Come, I accept your challenge! ”

"Guan Yu Pifu, Hugh is rampant!" Killing chickens with a knife, without waiting for Tao to answer, there was already a hand-held Qinglong Yanyue knife in the ranks of the gentlemen's army, waving a big knife and shouting: "Guan Yu Guan Yun is often here, Guan Yu is a horseman, dare to fight me to the death?" ”

"Guan Yu Guan Yunchang?!" The real Li Kui finally ran into the fake Li Ghost, and Guan Erye was also taken aback, and pointed at Guan Yu with the Qinglong Yanyue Knife, and shouted: "You have the same name and word as me?" ”

"Whew!" Guan Yu spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm in disdain, and shouted: "Piff, who has the same name and word as you?" A certain surname Guan Mingyu, the universe of Yu! The word cloud is often the same as that of Changshan County, Jizhou! ”

"Dare to be a husband, dare to deceive in my name, and suffer death!" Guan Yu was completely enraged, slapped the horse and fell with a knife, and killed Guan Yu with murderous spirit, and shouted angrily from afar: "Piff, eat me with a knife!" ”

"Guan Yu Pifu, suffer death!" Guan Yu, the head of the Junzi Army, was not afraid, and he also patted the horse to meet him--and then there was no suspense, when Guan Yu was lured closer, Guan Yu immediately threw the green dragon glaive made of wood at Guan Yu, turned the horse's head and ran away, and shouted very righteously and solemnly, "Guan Yu, spare your life this time!" ”

"Rats, leave off!" Of course, Guan Erye, who was thunderous, easily dodged the wooden Qinglong Yanyue knife thrown by Feng Yu, and chased after him with red eyes, but it was a pity that Guan Erye was not riding a red rabbit horse now, and the horse speed could not keep up with Guan Yu Guan Yunchang, who was lightly armed, so Guan Yu easily fled back to the gentleman's army. At the same time, the gentleman's light cavalry, which had always been ambushed behind the heavy cavalry, also began to move............ "Zi said: For politics and morality, such as Beichen, live in its place, and the stars are together!" Neatly shouting the words of the saint, the dignified gentleman's army galloped out on light horses, pulled their bows and released arrows together, and nearly two hundred feather arrows shot straight at Guan Yu. Poor Guan Erye was so frightened that he hurriedly waved the Qinglong Knife to block the arrows, but he could not block the east and the west, and he was forced to be helpless in the end, so he had to be like Sun Ce, Dian Wei and Cao Hong and a few other unlucky people who met the gentleman's army, threw the Qinglong Yanyue knife, turned over and hid under the horse's belly, which avoided the doom of being killed by random arrows on the spot.

"Second brother-!" In the roar of thunder, Zhang Fei rushed over to save people like crazy, and Uncle Liu Huang over there was also frightened, and hurriedly drove the army forward and tried his best to rescue Guan Yu. In this way, the cavalry of the Junzi Army rushed out one after another also had arrows to shoot, and the second wave of feather arrows was almost all aimed at Zhang Fei, forcing Zhang Fei to hide in the belly of the horse, and by the way, he shot and injured the most dangerous Liu Beijun general, and also shot Liu Bei's sergeant soldiers, killing and wounding hundreds of Liu Beijun soldiers in one breath, and then the Junzi Army immediately turned around and continued to show the insoluble Mangu tactics of the plain terrain, while opening up the distance with Liu Beijun, while desperately killing the enemy with arrows.

"Tao Ying Xiaoer! You shameless villain! If Zhang Fei still had a little good impression of Tao Ying before, this would mean that no matter how much good impression he had, he crawled out from under the belly of the horse that had been shot dead with a full body of broken arrows, pulled a pro-soldier war horse with his hand, pushed the pro-soldier off the horse, jumped on the war horse and chased after the spear, and roared like thunder in his mouth, "Tao Ying Xiaoer, die!" ”

"Third brother, don't chase! Don't chase! Liu Bei, who had already roughly understood the hooligan tactics of the Gentlemen's Army, was in a hurry, and hurriedly yelled to stop Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei would already be full of anger, and he could still listen to half a sentence there? Liu Bei was afraid that Zhang Fei would lose, so he had to quickly order the whole army to follow, and at the same time personally led people to rescue Guan Yu, but saw that Guan Yu was hit by at least 20 arrows, fortunately Guan Yu wore pure steel scale armor, protecting the vital points of his henchmen, most of the arrows could not penetrate the armor were embedded in the armor, only the arrows that hit the face and limbs were shot into the flesh, and Guan Yu was seriously injured.

Seeing that the biggest turnover capital Guan Erye was injured like this, Uncle Liu Huang was completely mad no matter how deep the city was in the city, and he was anxious to send Guan Yu back to Xiaopei for rescue, and personally led the troops to chase the Junzi Army, but what made Liu Bei and Zhang Fei thunderous was that the villains of the Junzi Army did not give them a chance to fight in close combat at all, and they just turned around and released arrows while escaping, although the hit rate of the arrows was far less than that of the arrows in foot combat, but they couldn't stand up to this group of hypocrites with many arrows, nearly a thousand cavalry were all archers, and one person shot an arrow was also nearly a thousand arrows, Meng was able to blind many targets, so Liu Beijun's casualties were still very large.

What made Liu Bei and Zhang Fei even more helpless was that Uncle Liu's team was mixed with horses and horses, the cavalry could not release arrows in galloping, and the infantry could release arrows while running but could not keep up with the speed of the gentleman's army. Seeing this scene, Liu Bei was full of anger in his chest, but he was even more secretly frightened, "No wonder Tao Ying Xiao'er can use 800 cavalry to break through tens of thousands of rebels and annihilate Sun Ce's main force, such cavalry tactics are simply invincible in the world on flat ground!" When encountering such cavalry, it is better for our army to close the city and defend it! ”

Thinking about this, Liu Bei hurriedly slapped his horse and caught up with Zhang Fei with all his might, grabbed Zhang Fei's sleeve, and shouted: "Third brother, we can't chase it, we can't catch up with Tao Ying Xiao'er, we will only let the soldiers die in vain!" Remove! Withdraw now! ”

"No! If I don't poke Tao Ying'er into seventeen or eighteen transparent holes, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart! Zhang Fei shook off Liu Bei and yelled to catch up again.

"Third brother, eldest brother please!" Liu Bei hurriedly grabbed Zhang Fei again, and shouted with red eyes: "Tao Ying'er's speed is too fast, we can't catch up with him, and if we chase him any longer, we will only die in vain!" Must be withdrawn! It must be withdrawn immediately! Your second brother is seriously injured and can't defend against the enemy, if Zang Ba takes the opportunity to attack Xiaopei, what will the second brother do? ”

Considering Guan Yu's safety, Zhang Fei, who was also hit by more than a dozen arrows, finally hated Le Ma, and scolded Deputy Director Tao's ancestor for the eighteenth generation to gather the team and lead the army to retreat. However, like all the unlucky opponents of the Junzi Army, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei soon found out in a hurry that the Junzi Army turned around and chased after them, followed their own team and continued to release arrows, desperately shooting Liu Beijun's cavalry who were difficult to turn back and release arrows on the horse, Zhang Fei turned around again to meet the battle, but the Junzi Army turned around and ran like a leper dog with his tail between his legs, and kept turning back and releasing arrows on the horse, shooting and killing the pursuing Liu Beijun soldiers.

Finally personally learned the gentleman's army's leprosy dog tactics, Liu Bei finally understood why the gentleman's army was invincible in the east and west and suffered very few casualties, and he regretted that he took advantage of the danger of people to go out of the city to fight, in the flat and open field battlefield, this group of hypocrites want to flee, want to fight, and no matter how strong their generals are, no matter how strong the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers is, no matter how good the soldiers' equipment is, it is useless to catch up with them and fight them. Forced into desperation, Liu Bei could only pull Zhang Fei's yelling order, ordering the whole army not to pursue anymore, and retreat to Xiaopei at any cost, as much as he can go back alive!

"In this life, I don't want to fight in the field with this group of hypocrites again!" Liu Bei hated and hated to think like this--this is also the same idea of all the enemies of the Gentleman's Army.

Liu Beijun began to flee north at any cost, and the Junzi Army could also take the opportunity to practice Junzi's arrows, and the hypocrites carefully kept a distance from the enemy, while constantly pulling their bows and releasing arrows, and honed their riding and archery skills in actual combat. As a result, Liu Beijun's team was also unlucky, and was shot to death by the hypocrites like ducks, and fell into the snow with continuous screams, and then was cut into meat sauce by the heavy cavalry of the Junzi Army, stabbed into a honeycomb, and the road to Xiaopei was also covered with the bloody corpses of Liu Bei's soldiers.

After paying the price of many soldiers, Liu Beijun was finally only ten miles away from Xiaopei, but at this time, a Xuzhou army suddenly came to the oblique stab, and the first general was none other than Zang Ba, the Xuzhou general who had suffered Liu Beijun's big loss a few days ago, laughed and yelled at Liu Bei, "Big-eared thief, ring-eyed thief, you also have today?" Soldiers, give me a good name, and avenge Brother Sun Kang! Kill! ”

"Kill!" The soldiers of Zang Bajun, who were all from Langya, roared one by one, opened their bloodshot eyes, and killed Liu Beijun excitedly and frantically, Liu Beijun, who had already been shot by the gentleman's arrow, was suddenly in chaos, including Zhang Fei was unintentional in the war, protecting Liu Bei just desperately running away, Zang Bajun took the opportunity to cover up and kill, and beheaded countless people.

At the same time, Tao Ying finally adjusted the tactics of the Junzi Army, and ordered Tao Ji, Nian Bin and Gao Chong to lead the light cavalry to shoot the scattered Liu Beijun soldiers, and then turned to Xu Chu and Chen Zhi, who had been rubbing their hands for a long time, and said with a smile: "Zhong Kang, Shu Zhi, it's time for you to show your skills next, I will act with the light cavalry, and you will charge with the heavy cavalry." Remember, try to give me as much as possible to destroy the enemy in the field and take the stress off my next siege battles. ”

"No!" Xu Chu and Chen Zhi hugged their fists together and agreed, and then one raised a knife and the other held a gun, and they couldn't wait to kill Liu Beijun's team that was already in chaos, roaring like thunder, "Liu Bei is leaving, take your life!" ”

(To be continued)