Chapter 447: Chang'an and Chaos (Part II)
Guo Yan asked Jia Xu if Li Wei was feinting to attack himself this time, in order to hide people's eyes, Jia Xu smiled and said nothing, and motioned for Guo Yan to retreat.
After there were only two people left in the tent, Jia Xu said slowly: "It's not a secret, this time I suddenly sent troops to attack you, not really to break with you, but just to make a plan, so that some people in Chang'an City can see a kind of 'Li Guo' anti-purpose illusion." ”
Guo Yan heard Jia Xu's words, took a long breath, and then complained to Jia Xu: "Such a major matter, even if you are childish and deliberately cover people's eyes and ears, you have to say hello to me in advance, in case my soldiers resist to the death, wouldn't it become a fake show?" ”
Jia Xu explained: "It is precisely because I am childish that I am worried that the situation will not be under control, so I have not been sent to explain to you." ”
Jia Xu carefully analyzed the harsh situation that Guanzhong would face for Guo Yan, and reminded Guo Yan that "if you cooperate, you will benefit, and if you divide it, you will die." At this time of life and death, everyone should put aside their personal grievances and unite with the outside world. After Guo Yan listened to Jia Xu's words, he also realized that it was not the time to fight with Li Dao, he should first solve Chang'an Lu Bu, and then control the little emperor in his hands, so as to ensure the safety of Guanzhong, and only when Guanzhong is safe, can everyone continue to mix.
Jia Xu's eloquence is naturally excellent, and he came forward to persuade Guo Yan, and some of the suspicions between Li Wei and Guo Yan due to the competition for official positions were bridged, and the two sides secretly joined forces again and targeted Lu Bu and the die-hard ministers in Chang'an City.
The reason why it is called secretly joining forces is because Li Dao and Guo Yan will continue to pretend to be enemies on their faces to confuse Lu Bu and some people in Chang'an City.
Not long after Jia Xu left Guo Yan's camp, Guo Yan received the news that the reinforcements sent by Zhang Ji were ambushed by Lu Bu and returned to Lantian, so he no longer resented Li Dao, who sent troops to attack him, but regarded Lu Bu in Chang'an City as a thorn in his side.
So, which tendon did Lu Bu make a mistake and want to attack Zhang Ji? To know. If you think about the problem from the perspective of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, Guo Yan's strength is weaker than Li Dao, but Guo Yan and Zhang Ji can confront Li Dao if they join forces, as long as these three parties do not come to besiege Chang'an, the more fierce they fight outside the city, the more beneficial it is for Lu Bu in the city. Lü Bu sent troops to repel Zhang Ji's reinforcements of Guo Yan's troops, which was actually equivalent to helping Li Dao invisibly.
It turned out that Lu Bu sent troops from Chang'an to attack Zhang Ji, but it was Li Dao's people who secretly made it out. Li Wei has Jia Xu, a super military division, who is behind the scenes. Therefore, in terms of layout, he is far superior to Lu Bu, Guo Bi and Zhang Ji and other forces, in order to force Guo Bi back to his own camp, but also to promote Lu Bu's arrogance, Li Dao did not long after feint to attack Guo Bi, he quietly sent people into Chang'an to contact Lu Bu, and told Lu Bu that he was willing to support Lu Bu to take over the position of Da Sima, on the condition that when Li Dao attacked Guo Bi, Lu Bu would help deal with Zhang Ji, and not let Zhang Ji and Guo Bi get together.
Lu Bu's fierce generals are like clouds. However, there is a great lack of smart military advisors, in another time and space, Lu Bu has a Chen Gong to help with advice, but in this time and space, the only people who can plan for Lu Bu are the third-rate miscellaneous fish Xu Yan and Wang Kai. Therefore, after receiving the expensive gifts sent by Li Dao and listening to some flattering and flattering words, Lu Bu really agreed to Li Dao's request, and then sent troops to beat Zhang Ji bitterly.
Although Zhang Ji's strength is weaker than Li Dao and Guo Yan. However, he raised a very brave and good nephew, Zhang Xiu, who immediately led his army into battle after learning that the troops sent by his uncle to reinforce Guo Yan had been ambushed by Lü Bu. deliberately exposed the traces of the march, and still pretended to go to Fengzhen to reinforce Guo Yan. After Lu Bu received the news that Zhang Ji sent troops again, he felt very shameless, Zhang Ji's behavior obviously did not take him seriously, so he sent Hou Cheng and Hao Meng out of the city again to block Zhang Ji's troops.
If Lu Bu personally went out of the city to face Zhang Xiu, he might be able to win, but unfortunately Hou Cheng and Hao Meng, who went out of the city to block him, were not Lu Bu, they met Zhang Xiu, who was eager for revenge, and then was defeated by Zhang Xiu's horse spear, and fled back to Chang'an in a panic.
Zhang Xiu defeated Hou Cheng and Hao Meng, and finally took a bad breath for his uncle, but he did not continue to reinforce Fengzhen to the west, but withdrew to Lantian and did not get involved in the internal struggle between Li Dao and Guo Yan at all.
After Hou Cheng and Hao Meng returned to Chang'an, they were scolded by Lu Bu, and just as Lu Bu was thinking about how to get back to the field, Li Dao sent someone to see Lu Bu and invited Lu Bu to send troops from Chang'an, and the two sides worked together to besiege Guo Yan, who was trapped in Fengzhen.
Lu Bu seemed a little hesitant about Li Dao's invitation to fight this time, because he knew that Guo Yan was different from Zhang Ji and was not so easy to deal with, and his subordinates had just lost to Zhang Xiu, even if they were in battle, they should clean up Zhang Ji, not Guo Yan. Li Dao seemed to expect Lu Bu to hesitate, so the person sent to lobby Lu Bu told Lu Bu that Li Dao just needed Lu Bu to put on a posture of going to war, and did not need to really fight with Guo Bi's troops, as long as Lu Bu sent troops out of the city, Li Dao would provide Lu Bu with 2,000 high-quality Liangzhou war horses.
Lu Bu has always been greedy, and was tempted by the interests of the two thousand war horses opened by Li Dao, and he did not suspect that Li Dao and Guo Yan were actually faking a fight, so he was bewitched by Li Dao again, and sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to set off from Chang'an, and after preparing to go out of the city for forty miles, he stopped and stopped moving. However, to Lu Bu's surprise, not long after the troops he sent left, Zhang Ji, who was stationed in Lantian, actually moved again, as if he wanted to reinforce Guo Yan again. Lü Bu suddenly felt that the opportunity to take revenge on Zhang Ji had come, so he immediately gave orders to Song Xian and Wei Xu, who were fighting in the city, to turn around and meet Zhang Ji's reinforcements who came to reinforce Fengzhen.
Song Xian and Wei Xu did not dare to disobey Lü Bu's order, so they hurried from thirty miles away from the southwest corner of Chang'an to the southeast corner of Chang'an. Guo Yan of Fengzhen set out from Fengzhen and blocked Song Xian and Wei Xu on the bank of the river, and Zhang Jijun, who was across the river, obviously did not come to help Song Xian and Wei Xu.
Song Xian and Wei Xu were trapped near Weishui, and hurriedly asked for help from Lu Bu in Chang'an City, at this time Lu Bu's troops could barely use more than 10,000 troops, and it stands to reason that they should not rashly divide their troops to rescue again, but Lu Bu is a stubborn person, and he has never wanted to take advantage of the character of refusing to suffer, so he immediately sent Xiao General Zhang Liao to lead 5,000 soldiers and horses to rescue Song Xian and Wei Xu.
Soon after Zhang Liao led his army to leave Chang'an, Huangfu Jianshou, the commander of the forbidden army, suddenly attacked Lu Bu and asked Lu Bu to immediately escort the Son of Heaven back to Luoyang, but Lu Bu naturally refused to give in. Huangfu Jianshou then took out the will of the Son of Heaven and crowned Lu Bu as the general left behind in Chang'an, apparently wanting to get rid of Lu Bu and go it alone, and the forbidden army escorted the Son of Heaven out of Chang'an. Lu Bu was unwilling to personally escort the Son of Heaven to Luoyang, nor did he want to watch the Son of Heaven being held hostage to Luoyang by others, so he fought with Huangfu Jianshou in the city.
At this time, Lu Bu was only 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city, and the forbidden army left by Huangfu Song to his son was 8,000.
Xun You, who was lurking in Chang'an City, naturally wished that Huangfu Jianshou and Lu Bu would fight as fiercely as possible, so he influenced Sima Fang through Zhong Xuan, and then passed through Sima Fang's mouth, and kept giving advice to Huangfu Jianshou.
Just when the two sides of Lu Bu and Huangfu Jianshou in the city were inextricably fighting, Li Dao, who had been holding back, finally broke out, and he personally commanded an army of 30,000 to launch a fierce attack on the west wall of Chang'an, and the weak defense of Chang'an City was quickly breached, and Li Dao's army then drove straight into the city from the west of Chang'an City.
The two sides who were still fighting in the city were shocked to hear that Li Wei's army had entered the city, so they hurriedly stopped fighting and rushed to the direction of Weiyang Palace together. In order to block the pursuit of Li Dao's troops, Lu Bu gritted his teeth and left Gao Shun to lead the trap camp to intercept Li Dao, Gao Shun was ordered to be in danger, and he was not afraid, he used the cover of the streets and alleys to give full play to the advantages of street battles that were not conducive to the development of large forces, and commanded 800 fallen soldiers to stop Li Dao's troops in the west of Chang'an City.
The ministers and civilians in Chang'an fled one after another when Lü Bu and Huangfu Jianshou fought, and most of them chose the path of fleeing east to Luoyang. After Huangfu Jianshou and Lu Bu escorted the emperor out of the east of Chang'an City, they saw that the road was full of panicked ministers and families and people in the city.
Li Wei, who rushed into the city, was very angry when he learned that Lü Bu had fled east with the Son of Heaven, so he ordered the Flying Bear Army to withdraw from the west gate, and then pursued east around Chang'an City. Gao Shun, who was in charge of interception in the city, was finally outnumbered and captured by Li Wei's subordinates after being killed and wounded by more than 600 of his subordinates.
When the city of Chang'an was in chaos, Zhang Liao, who went out of the city to rescue Song Xian and Wei Xu, encountered Guo Yan's resistance, Zhang Liao was ruthless, charged forward with a long knife, and beheaded Guo Yan's three generals, led the army to break through Guo Yan's defense line, and rescued Song Xian and Wei Xu who were besieged.
After Zhang Liao and Song Xian's troops converged, they hurriedly retreated to Chang'an City, only to learn that Chang'an had been occupied by Li Dao halfway through, and Lü Bu escorted the Son of Heaven to the east. Zhang Liao hurriedly led his troops to change the direction of the march and went straight to Lishan. Song Xian and Wei Xu, who had already been frightened, naturally did not dare to go separately, and followed Zhang Liao directly and went to Lishan together.
Guo Bijun and Zhang Jijun on both sides of the river chased Lü Bu's troops in the direction of Chang'an, and received the news sent by Li Dao on the way, and learned that the emperor was actually held hostage by Lü Bu and went east, so he hurriedly changed the direction of the march and pursued eastward. (To be continued......)
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