Chapter 377: Scuffle (5)
At the same time, when Xu Ji was showing his might in Chang'an, there was also war outside Chang'an.
In the middle of the night when Wang Yun was worried about Lü Bu's whereabouts in Chang'an City and captured Hua Xiong, Lü Bu's troops suddenly appeared in Chiyang and launched a surprise attack.
Lu Bu and several of his own generals rampaged through Chiyang City, and the Chiyang defenders who killed them cried and cried for their mothers. Immediately, Song Xian, the general under Lu Bu, met a general dressed as Xiliang and fought with him, fighting for more than 30 rounds, and Song Xian's companion Hou Cheng killed him from behind, and fought against this person. In the end, Song Xian slashed this person in the shoulder, the person was injured and painful, and fled in a hurry after yelling.
Song Xian and Hou Cheng didn't chase after them, but they just captured countless prisoners of this person.
Subsequently, Lü Bu occupied Chiyang. When I asked the captured prisoners, I learned that the person who was killed was Liang Xing, the general under Han Sui. As for other things, I didn't know anything, but I knew that they had come to Chang'an on Wang Yun's order to deal with a big man. And they are nothing more than vanguards.
Lu Bu, who didn't know what to do, affirmed Jia Xu's statement more and more, and the generals under him also hated all their teeth, how did they know that this so-called big man was not referring to him Lu Bu but Jia Xu?
Hatred filled his chest, so he naturally forgot to ask why Han Sui and Wang Yunneng joined forces. If Jia Xu was here, he would definitely be surprised why the person who fought with Lu Bu was not Li Lihuai and Guo Yan, but Han Sui. Lu Bu will take care of these things, and they are all the same in his opinion anyway. Just ordered his subordinates to actively prepare for war.
At dawn, at the same time as Xu Ji launched the Battle of Chang'an. The Battle of Chiyang has also begun.
Han Sui's army arrived.
Lu Bu personally went out of the city to meet the enemy, and when Han Sui saw Lu Bu, he scolded him and Jia Xu for colluding together. Lu Bu didn't expect that Han Sui meant that he was helping Jia Xu to seize the right to Chang'an. thought that Han Sui already knew about Jia Xu's help to him. Taken aback, he strenuously denied it. only said one sentence: "A certain family wants to run rampant alone." and Jia Xu He did it" and tried his best to invite the battle.
Han Sui knew that Lu Bu was unparalleled in the world, so he naturally sent his generals to fight Lu Bu in groups.
Lu Bu shook his spirit and fought against Liang Xing, Cheng Yin, Zhang Heng, and Yang Qiu.
Lu Bu's generals knew Lu Bu's habits well, and of course they would not help. Who is Lu Bu? At that time, he was a strong opponent of Sanying, and he fought Guan and Zhang for more than 20 rounds without falling behind, and Chen Zhi's courage could only be exchanged for a lose-lose situation, and it was also a serious injury for a minor injury.
Although Han Sui's four generals have always been known for their bravery in Xiliang, where will they be warm opponents?
Only two or three rounds, Lu Bu shouted. Fang Tian's halberd flashed red. Strangely, he pierced the wrists of four people in one move. The four of them were so frightened that they turned their horses and left.
Lu Bu waved the halberd in his hand, and the army behind him came to cover up.
Han Sui saw that Lu Bu was menacing and couldn't gain a foothold, so he hurriedly led the army and turned around and fled.
Lu Bu struck at the tail in the back and opened a killing spree.
If it weren't for Cheng Lian, who was calm by nature, to call Lu Bu and make Lu Buyang, who had killed hot hands, the purpose of his trip be, he was afraid that Han Sui would be killed by Lu Bu in this battle. Han Sui, who had set up camp with his back to Jingshui, had no choice but to ask for reinforcements from the surrounding cities of Chiyang.
These cities have refused to help. The reason was that around their city, Lu Bu's army scouts were also found. And he has received a strict order from Wang Yun that he can only strictly guard the city and never go out of the city. so as not to fall for Lu Bu's plan. Of course, they didn't know that these scouts were not sent by Lu Bu, but Jia Xu's suspicious tactics.
Han Sui, who didn't know the truth, was so angry that he jumped to his feet and scolded, but he was helpless. Although he suspected that this was Lu Bu's strategy to stabilize the army, Lu Bu's next move was indeed confusing. Seeing Lu Bu coming out of the city, it seemed that he was going to give up Chang'an. But where will Lu Bu, who gave up Chang'an, go? After all, Chiyang City is small. And there is not much food and grass, so it is impossible to hold on for a long time. Although Lu Bu was reckless, he would never do such a thing without common sense in the art of war.
The only explanation is that Lu Bu has other plans. Thinking that Lu Bu had Jia Xu behind him to give him advice, Han Sui immediately shuddered, and he didn't dare to take it lightly. repeatedly thought about how Lu Bu and Jia Xu plotted to seize Chang'an.
But of course, I can't think of a reason. Watching his four generals moan day and night because of the injury on his wrist, he couldn't sleep. It adds a lot of troubles. However, the thing that made Han Sui feel a little relieved was that his sworn brother Ma Teng sent his subordinate general Pang De to help.
Pang De's brave Han Sui naturally knew that he was almost on par with Ma Teng's son Ma Chao, who swept Xiliang.
But it didn't take long for Lu Bu's army to kill again.
Han Sui, who had been killed by Lu Bu, hung up the battle exemption card and closed the door. Although Pang De is a military general, he is also quite intelligent, knowing that Han Sui's move has a great impact on the morale of the army, although he knows that he is definitely not Lu Bu's opponent, but he still asks for orders to fight.
Han Sui had no choice but to lead the army to battle.
Lu Bu actually came here for another purpose, according to Jia Xu's order, Lu Bu had already ordered his subordinates to lead the army to the north. He came here just to show an opportunity to stabilize the army, and he personally broke the back so that Han Sui did not dare to catch up.
Seeing Lu Bu show off his might on the Red Rabbit Horse, Pang De asked for battle. At the beginning, Lu Bu had not yet taken Pang De's unknown name in his eyes, and after the fight, he was stunned to find the strength of this great man's martial arts.
Indeed, there is still a little gap between Pang De's martial arts and Chen Zhi and others, but this gap is definitely not too big, and this Pang De is the best defender of all the opponents Lu Bu has met, except for Chen Zhi. It was also very difficult for Lü Bu's martial arts to break through Pid's long sword in a short period of time.
However, there is still a difference between this Pound's martial arts and Chen Zhi's, Chen Zhi is more aggressive than this Pound when he counterattacks, and there is an indestructible taste. This kind of battle is naturally very enjoyable for Lu Bu, who used to fight with others, often killing the enemy in three or five rounds, and Lu Bu is like a wild grass with a strong wrist calligrapher on a poor quality straw paper. After barely writing three or five words, the paper was scratched, and it was uninteresting.
The most pleasant thing about playing against Pound or Chen Zhi is that these two people are very resilient and can let themselves go. Feel free to show your whimsical offensive imagination. Anyway, there is always the strength to deal with their own moves. The battle with Zhang Fei. Then the completion is another touching taste of life and death. But Chen Zhi is different, and when he fights with this person, he must go all out as soon as he makes a move. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you will be in a different position, and it can be said that Chen Zhi and Lu Bu themselves are the same type of opponents. So the time for the two to fight was short, but it was definitely the most tragic.
However, Lu Bu's most hated enemy was Guan Yu, this person missed a blow and flew thousands of miles, which was really a headache, and there was always a feeling that people couldn't make it stronger. But it was definitely a big threat, and Lu Bu was even thinking about what it would be like if this Guan Yu sat on his own red rabbit horse.
Now in this land of right and wrong, he can still meet a difficult opponent like Pang De, so Lu Bu enjoys the battle in front of him. The Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand turned into flames, as if he was holding a torch to the sky, waving it so that Pound's front and back were fiery red.
Lu Bu is having a good time. But Pound was killed bitterly. Lu Bu's power can only be truly understood when he fights him.
Although he had long known that he was losing more and winning less, he didn't expect that it would be such a passive situation. Fortunately, this Pound is full of toughness, and he protects himself in front of and behind him as if he is an iron pass.
The two fought for more than 20 rounds in front of the two armies, and they did not win or lose, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that Pound had fallen behind.
Lu Bu still remembered his mission in his heart. didn't want Pound to die in his hands, so he pulled the war horse, jumped out of the circle, laughed and led the army away. Pound was sweating profusely, for fear that Lu Bu would go and return. took advantage of the speed advantage of the red rabbit horse to kill himself again and again, so he held the long knife in his hand and stared at Lu Bu's figure and gradually moved away, and saw Lu Bu's back gradually moving away.
Pang De's battle actually reassured Han Sui's army, and the morale of Han Sui's army immediately improved a lot. Sweep away the depravity of the defeated land.
Pang De suggested that Han Sui prevent Lu Bu's army from attacking this night. Han Sui thought so. Therefore, we should step up our precautions. At this time, Liu Xie had just convened a court meeting and promulgated a reward for Xu Ji and others.
And at this time. The cities around Chang'an have not yet received news of the great changes in Chang'an. I didn't know that Xu Ji had ordered Wang Ling and Wang Chen to go out of the city to Tongguan and Qingnikou to persuade the defenders to surrender.
Han Sui waited quietly next to Jingshui for a night, but found that Lu Bu was silent. The next morning it was even quieter.
Han Sui became more and more uneasy. He sent Jin Hou to Lu Bu's camp to spy on him, and found that Lu Bu's camp was very quiet. There is no one guarding the gate of the camp. Han Sui was afraid that it was Lu Budi's strategy to lure the enemy into the depths, and he became more and more suspicious, so he did not move.
Until the next day, Lu Bu's camp tent was still like this, and Han Sui couldn't help it, so he sent someone to venture into Lu Bu's camp to snoop, but found that it was already empty. Only then did he know that he had fallen for Lu Bu's plan to get rid of the golden cicada, and it was not until much later that Han Sui knew that Lu Bu had already led the army north and ran to the north to garrison troops.
At the same time, Han Sui received an order from Chang'an: Wang Yun was the head, and he had pleaded guilty and been ambushed. And the emperor has also returned to Chang'an and is working on the military in the Chang'an region. This series of news made Han Sui at a loss, this march was an agreement with Wang Yun, and now that Wang Yun is dead, what is his identity?
What happened next would immediately make Han Sui understand where he was going.
Cities in the Chang'an region made it clear that Han Sui was absolutely not welcome. After all, Han Sui was invited by Wang Yun, and the guards of various cities knew more or less about this matter.
Now that Wang Yun is dead, Han Sui's identity immediately becomes embarrassing. In this case, how can anyone be willing to accept Han Sui? For a while, Han Sui seemed to have only one way to retreat. But at this time, the situation in the Chang'an region quietly changed.
First of all, within Chang'an City, the major forces surrounded the competition for Liu Xie. Begin a new reorganization of forces.
Xu Ji, a foreign prince, has five thousand phantom elites in his hands, plus he has already subdued the defenders of Chang'an Dongcheng, and has become the strongest in Chang'an City. Guo Huai, Wang Chen, and Wang Ling found many cronies in Xu Ji's other armies in Chang'an City. Although it is not a descendant army, it is absolutely under the orders of Guo Huai and the two Wang brothers. On the other hand, Wang Zifu, who was dissatisfied with Xu Ji, and others. Joined the Eighth Captain of the West Garden. Moreover, with the Yueqi Captain Wang Xin and the Changshui Captain as the core, a strong force across the military and political circles of Chang'an has been formed, and the barriers to Xu Ji are clear.
And they do. The most proud, of course, is Liu Xie, who uses two checks and balances. has achieved the goal of gradually being able to dominate alone.
Xu Ji has been holding back at this time, because he knows that the time has not come. Now Xu Ji is only waiting for his own Yu Ban army and Li Yan's army to enter the customs. But before that. Shen Ling and Xianyang reported defeats.
On the third morning of Xu Ji's arrival in Chang'an, Shen Ling's battle report arrived. Xu Ji hurriedly called the person who transmitted the information in.
The person who came was a sturdy man in his thirties, and when he looked at his body, he knew that he was a powerful person, but at this time, his expression was sluggish, and Xu Ji couldn't help but feel a sinking in his heart when he saw this, knowing that something bad was happening.
Xu Ji ordered him to sit down and take a sip of tea before asking, "Who are you?" The man licked his chapped lips. said respectfully to Xu Ji: "The villain's name is Jia Lou, and he is Mr. Jia Xu's personal guard. When Mr. Jia Xu marched into Hanzhong, he placed the villain next to General Zhang Liao and acted as a scout. ”
Xu Ji nodded, and secretly praised Jia Xu for being careful. actually planted people around Zhang Liao early to monitor Zhang Liao.
Na Jia Lou drank another bowl of tea before he said: "This time, Mr. Jia Xu sent troops to Tongguan, for fear that there would be any accidents in the Shenling area, so he asked me to go to Chang'an first to report to the lord in case of emergency." The command of the lord is his command. Xu Ji said in a deep voice: "So what happened in the Shenling area?"
Jia Lou smiled bitterly: "Originally, Shenling had been calm, but just today, Zhang Lu's army and Liu Beijun in Hanzhong suddenly came out of the Meridian Valley, and they attacked Shenling without sparing."
Xu Ji's heart sank, and he lost his voice: "How is this possible." Could it be that Zhang Lu and Liu Bei have the ability to see through Wenhe's suspicious tactics? And if Zhang Lu and Liu Bei did this, he would not be afraid that Zhang Liao's kid would divide his troops to the south. Surprise attack on Luo Valley?" Jia Lou smiled bitterly: "In fact, when Mr. Jia Xu left, he had already used a suspicious strategy, constantly harassing the enemies of Yicheng, Xiegu Pass, Luo Pass and Ziwu Pass, and at that time, the armies of Hanzhong and Liu Bei had obviously been confused and strictly guarded the city, who knows what is going on today?" ”
Xu Ji's heart became colder and colder. It was not because Shen Ling's situation was critical, but because he suddenly discovered that there were other people behind Liu Bei and Zhang Lu who were giving advice to the two. And this person can actually see through Jia Xu's strategy. It's not easy. After pondering for a long time, Xu Ji couldn't think of what kind of divine guidance Liu Bei and Zhang Lu's subordinates would have. Jia Lou sighed and said, "When I came out, Shen Ling Ying Jing started a tug-of-war. General Zhang Liao blocked the mouth of the Meridian Valley. Blocking back Liu Bei and Zhang Lujun's three rounds of impact in a row, fortunately, our army occupies a favorable position, and Mr. Jia Xu has prepared a large number of defensive tools in advance. Therefore, although the enemy's army is more than twice as large as ours, General Zhang Liao can cope with it for the time being. ”
Xu Ji was naturally very relieved of General Zhang Liao's talents. But the question is what to do now, and now all the troops that can be used in their hands are used. Where is the ability to rescue Shen Ling? Of course, he can't send troops and horses from Chang'an to rescue Shen Ling, now the situation in Chang'an is unstable, and Shen Ling's battle report can't be hidden, if he rashly divides his troops to Shen Ling, then not to mention whether it is possible to save Shen Ling's critical situation, just to deal with the things that are very likely to happen at this time to deal with themselves, it will become very difficult.
Of course, he can also go to Liu Xie to ask for a holy decree, in the name of the Son of Heaven to order Zhang Lu and Liu Bei to withdraw their troops, but Liu Xie will not agree but between the two, although Liu Xie is very dissatisfied with Liu Bei and Liu Yan, but Liu Xie is not a willful person. Liu Xie should be able to see that using Liu Bei and Zhang Lu can also achieve the goal of containing himself. If he really goes to ask for the holy decree, if he doesn't get it right, there will be something like Liu Xie taking this opportunity to hold himself hostage and bargain with himself.
Therefore, these two paths must not be taken.
It's a pity that Jia Xu and Zhang Xiu's army don't know when they will come back, otherwise they wouldn't be so passive. Xu Wei's army was in Feng Yi at this time, and the guards there were also Wang Yundi's confidants, and I believe that now that the news of Wang Yun's death has been learned, Xu Wei's task is of course to monitor the movements of Feng Yi's defenders. Naturally, you can't get out of it.
Now that he is a big sikong, he can naturally mobilize the army in Chang'an in name, and he sent Xu Wei to Feng Yi in order to persuade the defenders here to surrender in the future and become his own army. As long as there was no order from his own, no one from the other forces in Chang'an City would dare to run there to get involved with Feng Yi.
Although Xu Ji could not command some troops, he could stop their movements. But if Xu Wei withdraws out at this time, what will Feng Yi do here? Don't send someone to monitor, Xu Ji is not at ease, if he sends someone to monitor, then he can only send other forces in Chang'an City to do this, so wouldn't it be cheaper for others?
Xu Ji turned his mind, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said to Jia Lou: "In this way, you will go to Xianyang." Ordered Hu Che'er's army to cross the river and rescue Zhang Liao, and now the Chang'an area has stabilized. After Wang Yun's death, no one would threaten Xianyang, and the Xiliang army had already been dragged by Lu Bu. In a short period of time, he will definitely not go to Xianyang, and the 10,000 elite soldiers in Hu Che's hands are useless to stay in Xianyang, so it is better to support Zhang Liao. Who knew that Jia Lou smiled bitterly and said: "Lord, now Xianyang is only afraid that it is also at war, and when I came, I was afraid of an accident, so I crossed the Weishui and went around to Chang'an." After crossing the river, I found that an army of Xiliang appeared around Xianyang, and the banner should be the army of Guo Yan of Li Dao......"
"What!" Xu Ji drank uncontrollably and stood up.
Li Dao Guo Yan came forward here? Whose troops were the troops fighting with Lu Bu? Han Sui or Ma Teng? Could it be that Li Dao and Guo Yan really joined forces with Han Sui and Ma Tengbing and went south together? !
According to Xu Ji's thoughts. Han Sui and Ma Teng are friends of Yang Biao after all, even if Wang Yun threatens Yang Biao's matter, Han Sui and Ma Teng will not rush to send troops, at most they will make a truce with Li Dao Guo Yan, who has already voted for Wang Yun. It can make Li Dao Guo Yan's army go south safely, participate in the battle of Chang'an, and assist Wang Yun in capturing Jia Xu.
For a long time, Xu Ji thought that this was already the limit of what Han Sui and Ma Teng could do. Don't think that Wang Yun can control Ma Teng if he catches Yang Biao. After all, with Ma Teng's jealous and hateful character, he would never succumb to Wang Yun's threat.
Therefore, neither Xu Ji nor Jia Xu thought that Han Sui and Ma Teng would participate in the war.
Moreover, according to the local intelligence obtained by Jia Xu before the Battle of Chang'an, there was indeed a vanguard army of the Xiliang people stationed in Chiyang, and that army should be the army of Li Qi and Guo Yan. In the past two days, the battle report of Chiyang has also come, and Lu Bu has been fighting with others there and encountering Xiliang of the brigade. Although he didn't know whose army it was, Xu Ji unanimously agreed that it was Li Dao Guo Yan.
Who knew that now Li Dao and Guo Yan actually appeared near Xianyang City. This was completely unexpected.
Therefore, Xu Ji guessed that the person who fought with Lu Bu was Han Sui, and the two armies were two-pronged, obviously through unified mobilization. The only possibility is that Li Wei, Guo Yan and Han Sui and Ma Teng have joined forces.
Now that the battle in Shenling is tight, and Xianyang is besieged again, it seems that the people who know this news are not only themselves, but there must be many forces in Chang'an City who oppose them have already gotten the news.
A political storm in the court is only afraid of coming in the blink of an eye.
Xu Ji was thinking about it, but a guard led a small yellow door and informed Xu Ji that the emperor wanted Xu Ji to rush to the inner palace immediately and had an urgent matter. When Xu Ji asked, he learned that in addition to himself, there were many ministers who were also called.
Xu Ji's heart sank: he didn't expect that what he was worried about would come so quickly.
Ask the little yellow door to go back first, Xu Ji asked Jia Lou to wait for him to come back and find another way.
was about to go out, but he saw Guo Huaixing rushing over, and said to Xu Jixing: "Lord, there is good news!" (To be continued......)