Chapter 223: Jia Xu's Analysis
The army was stationed in Anyi, 30,000 soldiers and horses drank the water of the horses, the night gradually fell, the candlelight of the military tent was swaying, and in the dim handsome tent, Lu Bu could not sleep. After a while, he slowly got up and took out a new piece of brown paper from the middle of the mezzanine of the low couch, on which were densely filled with people's names. Some of them have a striking red tick under their names, and the names of the people who are ticked indicate that this person has been killed, among which the names of Hou Cheng and Jiang Qin are impressively among them.
Lu Bu knows that whether Wei Yue can live or not depends on the will of heaven, from Xiliang to Chang'an, such a long distance, I don't know if Wei Yue can survive, even if he survives, the three divine doctors may not be in Chang'an, so the chance of Wei Yue being alive is very small, the reason why Lu Bu did this is just to comfort his soul, and besides, he is not willing to give up Wei Yue.
Five years ago, 100,000 troops marched south, but now only half of them are left, and 50,000 soldiers are buried in other places. Lu Bu shook his head, and a tear crossed his eyes, dripping onto the roster in his hand, and then spreading, soaking.
After a long time, Lu Bu carefully put the kraft paper into his arms, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and instantly turned back into the peerless warrior who galloped on the battlefield, got up and put on a splendid mink fur, and turned around and walked into the night.
The night was hazy, Lu Bu stood on a hill and looked at An Yi under the cover of night, but his thoughts flew to Yunwu, there is no doubt that the purpose of attacking An Yi was to close Han Sui's westward escape, and together with Ma Teng, Han Sui's soldiers and horses were annihilated under Yunwu City.
Today's situation is actually a strategic mistake by Han Sui, he has an army of 100,000, and he can gather together, or break through, or defend to the death. He has half a chance of success, but Han Sui divided his troops into four ways to meet the four soldiers and horses in order to defeat Ma Teng, although it is a good strategy, but he has already committed a taboo. So much so that today we can't take care of each other.
And his two-way army can break through Qiang and Yunwu with the smallest force, so that Han Sui can not support Yunwu, Yunwu is in a lonely situation, if he Lu Bu can't catch this once-in-a-lifetime fighter, he will regret it.
"Lord!"
A call came from behind, which instantly interrupted Lu Bu's thoughts, and Lu Bu turned around to see Huang Zhong galloping on horseback.
"Hansheng is here, what's the matter?" Lu Bu asked with a smile.
Huang Zhongle Ma Ti Lock. stepped forward and clasped his fists: "Lord Qiqi, the army has been reorganized, and it is ready to go"
"Wait a little longer," Lu Bu stared at the dark night in the south.
"Lord, the soldiers are very fast, you can take advantage of Han Sui's unpreparedness to attack it, and you will definitely be able to capture Poqiang City in one fell swoop"
Lu Bu shook his head: "The news of Dou Kou's defeat has reached Poqiang, how can the enemy guards not know?" We must be cautious, and it is not too late for the military advisor and Wen Wei to discuss and come up with a plan! ”
As soon as the words fell. A scout cavalry came from the south, and Lu Bu was waiting for news from him. He immediately urged his horse to meet him, and the scout cavalry rushed to the front, and saw Lu Bu and Huang Zhong coming up, and saluted on his horse: "Lord Qiqi, the last wave of the enemy's rout has all entered the Broken Qiang enemy camp."
Lu Bu pondered for a moment, then turned back to Huang Zhong and said, "Explore the way along the way in the multi-faction scouts. The army quickly moved south, maintaining a medium-speed march! ”
"The last general commands!"
Huang Zhong turned his horse's head and ran towards the army, and in the darkness of the night, a group of soldiers set out, and the army of 30,000 marched along the river valley north of Anyi. The mighty march towards the thirty-mile Broken Qiang.
Poqiang County is located in the north bank of Huangshui, a long and narrow basin, surrounded by mountains, the terrain is complex, there is a rare open area in the north of the basin, covering an area of thousands of acres, called Luodu Valley Plain, is the grain field concentration of Anyi and Poqiang.
Due to the impact of the war, more than half of the paddy fields have been barren, after the summer harvest, there is no more wheat, only a few acres of paddy fields in the northwest corner are planted with rice, the rice has already set ears, the wind blows the rice waves, and in another month, it can be ripe and harvested.
But at this time, the field was full of slaughter, and Chen Qi, the general of the Broken Qiang, led 5,000 county soldiers and Dou Kou's 10,000 defeated troops to temporarily stationed in the south of Luodu Valley, camping close to Huangshui, waiting for the arrival of the Bingzhou army.
Chen Qi sat on a big rock, chewing an ear of rice in his mouth, and next to him was his parrot knife, weighing about fifty catties, and a red horse that was all red.
Chen Qi has experienced a hundred battles, rich combat experience, followed Han Sui to the south and north to fight for more than ten years, he knows that the field battle is beneficial to the few soldiers, although the other side has 30,000 troops, three times his own, but at night, as long as the full use of the army's morale, morale, terrain and other factors, it is not known who will die.
But Chen Qi also knew that he was taking a risk, because he didn't know about the Bingzhou Army, he only learned from the mouth of the defeated army that the main general was Lu Bu, the unparalleled general who dared to attack tens of thousands of troops on a single horse, as for whether the combat effectiveness of the Bingzhou Army was strong? Have you ever trained for night battles? He didn't know anything about this, so Chen Qi also felt very entangled in his heart, did he really want to take this risk? However, Chen Qi also didn't want a night battle, which bought time for Han Sui's troops to retreat from Wuwei, if there was a night battle, he could only defend or even die in battle, so that Han Sui had more time to return to Yunwu.
"General Chen"
A spy rushed in, Xu Huang stood up, and asked nervously, "What's the situation?" ”
"General Qiyu, seven or eight miles away, found the Bingzhou army, about 30,000 people, did not continue to go south, but rested on the spot"
Chen Qi frowned, it seemed that the enemy army was also very cautious and refused to fight easily.
In a valley in the northern part of the Lodu Valley, 30,000 soldiers fell on both sides of the road, sleeping soundly, each soldier was wrapped in thick felt, with weapons around him, unloaded, ready to fight at any time.
Hundreds of patrols were deployed around the valley, and dozens of scouts patrolled the Lodu Valley and the Northern Valley to ensure that there were no surprise attacks by enemy forces.
Lu Bu was alone in the valley patrolling, he woke up from his sleep during the fifth watch, he was really worried about Wei Yue's life, so he had no choice but to put on his armor early and stroll through the valley, letting the morning humidity clear the chaos in his mind.
At this time, a soldier Pegasus came to report: "Lord, Mr. Jia, please come over!" ”
Lu Bu was stunned for a moment, and was immediately overjoyed, since Jia Xu asked himself to go over, he must have thought of some plan, and after walking dozens of steps, he saw Jia Xu and Li Ru discussing something around the map.
Lu Bu hurriedly greeted him: "Military advisor, Wen is worried"
When the two saw Lu Bu coming, they immediately stopped arguing and stepped forward to salute Lu Bu together, Lu Bu's personal guards carefully brought three cups of steaming mare's milk wine, Jia Xu took the porcelain bowl, took a sip of mare's milk wine and said with a smile: "Han Sui is estimated to have returned to Yuzhong"
"How does the advisor know?"
"Han Sui this person, careful and bold, but will also give up the righteousness because of petty profits, to say that it is not good to say that it is a mouse's eyes, I have studied his character before, he will not watch the failure, if he is unable to turn back, then leaving is also a kind of avoidance, now the western front is blocked by the lord, Han Sui's plan to flee to Xiqiang is shattered, there are Ma Teng and Huang Yan on the northern front, he and Ma Teng have a grudge against his wife, Ma Teng will definitely not easily spare Han Sui, there are 20,000 troops of General Wei Yan in the south to isolate the river, So only Cheng Yin and Cheng Yinggong in the east remained. ”
"Sir, do you mean that the Chengying Guild is on the verge of defection?" Lu Bu asked eagerly, Han Sui did not die, it was always a piece of his heart.
"It can't be said that the battle is about to defect, lord, think about it, how are Cheng Yin and Cheng Yinggong the opponents of Han Sui's old fox? And Cheng Yinggong is quite loyal, he used to be Han Sui's general, how could he sit back and watch his old lord being killed by the coalition army? ”
Lu Bu nodded, Jia Xu saw human nature very thoroughly, he thought about it and asked, "Military Master, is there any way to make Han Sui unable to escape?" ”
"This requires the lord to weigh the pros and cons, what is the purpose of the lord? Will it be to annihilate Han Sui or to clear the danger to the north? And how sure are we that we will annihilate Han Sui, how much price are we prepared to pay, and is it worth paying such a big price? ”
Li Ru also nodded and said: "I think Wen He is polite, Wen Hou's purpose in planning this battle is nothing more than to remove the danger in the north, so as to lay the foundation for the army to capture Xichuan, now Han Sui's 100,000 soldiers and horses have lost two-thirds, and they have become lost dogs, rabbits are anxious and bite people, besides, Han Sui is still a cunning fox, if he is forced to hurry, I am afraid it will not be good for our army!" ”
Lu Bu was silent, Jia Xu and Li Ru deserved to be top strategists, everything was to the point, he sighed and said, "If he flees east, where will he go?" ”
Jia Xu smiled: "Two places, either go north to the Xiongnu, or go south to Chang'an to wade through troubled waters, no matter which two places, he is no longer a threat to the lord, what we have to do now is to fight with General Wei Yan and completely drive Han Sui's soldiers and horses out of Jincheng County."
The words have been said very clearly, Lu Bu also understands, he knows what he should do, he bowed to Jia Xu and Li Rushi: "I remember the golden and jade words of the military advisor and Wen Wei, you rest for a while, and when the sky is brighter, we will set off to break the Qiang!" ”
After Lu Bu finished speaking, he walked away from the military tent and inspected the situation of the soldiers, the soldiers were very heavy, the weather was still slightly cool at this time, but it was not too cold, it was the season conducive to sleeping, Dou Kou was defeated yesterday, on the one hand, the reason was that Han Pheasant and others did not obey Dou Kou's military orders, on the other hand, the reason was that Dou Kou had the habit of taking a nap, and when he woke up, Lu Bu's army had already invaded his village.
Lu Bu walked under a tree, saw an old soldier sleeping ugly, felt kicked to the side, he couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, bent down to wrap the old soldier tightly in felt, but the old soldier woke up suddenly, saw Lu Bu in front of him, frightened him, "Ah! The earth screamed and sat up.
Lu Bu stretched out his hand and pressed down, signaling him to continue sleeping and not disturb others, but at this time, many soldiers around were woken up by the frightened screams of the old soldiers, sat up, rubbed their sleepy eyes, and saw their lord standing in front of him, and suddenly rose to the ground in panic one by one, and hurriedly saluted.
At this time, Huang Zhong hurriedly stepped forward and reported in a low voice: "Lord Qiqi, I have received the news of the scout, and the army has begun to reorganize the army" (to be continued......