Chapter 90 The Crisis in Western Liaoning
A few days later, Ao Lie and others were discussing in the big tent of the Chinese army, and a sergeant ran in to report: "Major General Yu, there are more than ten horsemen outside the door, claiming to be the messenger of Sun Zhan, the Taishou Gonggong of Liaoxi." ”
When Yan Rou heard this, she said suspiciously: "Liaoxi is east of Yuyang, and now that Zhang Ju supports Yuyang, the road is cut off, how could Gongsun Zhan's messenger come here?" ”
Ao Lie nodded slightly, if you want to say that Gongsun Zhan's command, who has the ability to kill all the way from Liaoxi, I am afraid that there are only Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei. But at present, Zhang Ju's rebel army has divided into a group to besiege Liaoxi, and Gongsun Zhan is still too busy to take care of himself, and he will definitely not send these three brothers out. Frowning, Ao Lie asked the sergeant who reported the news, "What does the person who came look like?" ”
The sergeant replied, "The leader is dark-faced, with a leopard's head and eyes, and he is very vicious. ”
Ao Lie stood up abruptly and said in surprise: "Could it be Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide?" Why did he come alone? What about Liu Xuande and Guan Yunchang? ”
In the face of Ao Lie's series of questions, everyone present was also full of doubts, and no one could say the answer.
"Forget it, go out and take a look." After Ao Lie finished speaking, he took the lead in getting up and walking outside the camp gate. After Liu Yu pulled out the poison, although he was out of danger of life, his body was very weak, and he still needed to recuperate for a period of time to fully recover. So in recent days, everything in the Han army camp has been decided by Ao Lie. Not only because he is Liu Yu's son, but more importantly, Ao Lie's status can convince others.
Seeing Ao Lie get up and walk out, the rest of the people naturally didn't dare to slack off, and stood up one after another and followed Ao Lie and walked out together.
Outside the camp gate, Ao Lie saw more than a dozen knights standing in place, led by a dark and burly man, who was looking around impatiently, Ao Lie took a closer look, not Zhang Fei, who was it?
"Yide, why are you here?" Ao Lie said happily to Zhang Fei. Ao Lie liked this fierce Zhang Fei very much in his previous life, although it is undeniable that there are indeed flaws in Zhang Fei's character, but no one is perfect, and only flawed people are real and vivid.
Seeing Ao Lie walking out of the camp gate, Zhang Fei turned over and fell off the horse, opened his bloody mouth and said angrily: "Hey, Mo Han, this matter is a long story, let me ask you first, do you have Xifeng Lie in your hand now?" Bring me an altar. No, two altars, I'm about to suffocate these days. ”
Ao Lie stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Feipu's big palm, and said with a smile: "Yes! You can drink as many jars as you want! Go, go into the tent and speak. ”
When the group came to the big tent, Ao Lie asked the sergeant to bring up two jars of West Wind Spirits and gave Zhang Fei a drink. Needless to say, Ao Lie also guessed that Zhang Fei must have no time to drink to satisfy his hunger all the way, now that he has come to his own place, he will not be busy talking about other things first, even if he wants to ask, I am afraid that Zhang Fei will not say it first, so let Zhang Fei drink enough first.
Ao Lie guessed right, Zhang Fei didn't say a word, picked up a jar of Zephyr spirits and poured it violently, as if he was not drinking high spirits at all, but boiled water. The wine in the jar flowed backwards, most of it went into Zhang Fei's big mouth, and a small part overflowed, wetting Zhang Fei's beard and collar.
In an instant, Zhang Fei drank one jar of wine, then reached out and grabbed the second jar of spirits, patted off the mud seal, and continued to drink. It wasn't until he drank up the second jar of spirits that Zhang Fei put down the jar in his hand, patted his belly and burped loudly, shouting: "Happy!" It's a pleasure! ”
Ao Lie looked at Zhang Fei with a smile and said, "Yide, I've drunk the wine too, you should tell me why you came alone, right?" The military situation in western Liaoning cannot be delayed. ”
After Ao Lie's reminder, Zhang Fei remembered the purpose of his visit this time, and hurriedly told the situation in Liaoxi.
Liaoxi is a big county in Youzhou, and it is also next to Yuyang, so after Zhang Ju claimed to be the Son of Heaven, he set his sights on Liaoxi. Zhang Ju sent his general Wei Yu to lead 60,000 rebels, taking advantage of the night to encircle the county of Liaoxi like an iron bucket, that night in fact, Gongsun Zhan had already felt that things were not good, and wanted to take advantage of the rebels' unstable foothold to sneak attack the enemy, but was stopped by Liu Bei, Liu Bei advocated waiting until dawn to see the situation clearly before deciding to stop. However, after dawn, Gongsun Chan was a little dumbfounded, Wei You had already completed the siege of Feiru, and completely trapped Gongsun Chan and others in the city.
You must know that most of Gongsun Zhan's commands are cavalry, and in recent years, he has even made an elite cavalry, known as the White Horse Righteous Servant, these knights are the elite of one in a hundred, and the riding and archery kung fu can be called superior. Moreover, Gongsun Chan also spent a lot of effort to equip all the six thousand white horses under his command with white war horses, which looked majestic.
Who knew that Wei You, a little-known person, actually saw through the life gate of Gongsun Chan at a glance, and when besieging the city, it was almost close to the city wall, and the former barracks of the rebels were less than fifty steps away from the fat city wall. In this way, Gongsun Zhan's proud white horse and cavalry have no room to play a role, and they can't even sprint far enough, so how can they chisel through?
Gongsun Chan only stationed 20,000 troops in Feiru City, in addition to 6,000 white horse retinues, there were 10,000 cavalry, and only 4,000 infantry. Relying on these 4,000 infantry troops to defend the city is obviously unrealistic. Gongsun Chan had no choice but to let all the cavalry except for Bai Ma Yicong get off their horses and walk on the city wall to act as infantry.
As a result, the two battles were defeated, and a small half of the cavalry under Gongsun Chan's command were killed, which made Gongsun Chan very distressed. You must know that the cost of a cavalry is more than five times higher than that of infantry. At this time, Liu Bei came up with an idea, that is, to ask for help, and after discussing with Gongsun Zhan, the two decided to send Zhang Fei out to Liaodong, which is the closest to Liaoxi, for help.
That night, Zhang Fei took 500 cavalry under the command of Gongsun Zhan, and after a full meal, he took advantage of the cover of night to kill out of the city, but was besieged by Wei You, that is, Zhang Fei bravely crowned the three armies, relying on his own courage to barely fight out of the siege, and the 500 elite cavalry brought out of the city lost more than half of this battle.
Zhang Fei took the remaining more than 200 cavalry to Liaodong by way, just walked not far away, and encountered a team of men and horses blocking the road, Zhang Fei was furious and did not answer, and the leader of the general with a double halberd fought, the two fought for fifty rounds, and failed to distinguish the winner. This is the general with the double halberd who opened his mouth to persuade Zhang Fei to surrender, asking Zhang Fei to abandon the secret and surrender to the light, and stop helping Zhang Ju to make trouble. Zhang Fei felt that something was a little strange at this time, and after asking, he realized that this general was none other than Gan Ning Gan Xingba, the governor of the naval army under Ao Lie.
At the beginning, when he was in Nanyang and north to quell the rebellion, Gan Ning took more than 800 elites of the Qilin battalion and 2,000 sailors by water, and after more than ten days, he arrived in Liaodong. Gan Ning originally wanted to find Gongsun Du, the Taishou of Liaodong, to jointly send troops and go straight to the Yuyang battlefield, but after Gongsun Du saw Gan Ning, he talked about him left and right, delaying time and refusing to send troops.
Gan Ning saw Gongsun Du's selfishness, and he didn't pin his hopes on him, so he took his subordinates 3,000 sailors to abandon the ship and landed, exchanged the boat for the equivalent war horses and grain to Gongsun Du, and then went straight to Yuyang to kill, who expected to meet Zhang Fei halfway, and the two fought inexplicably.
Zhang Fei learned from Gan Ning that Gongsun Du was unwilling to send troops, and he was worried about the safety of Liu Bei and Guan Yu, so he was about to turn back to Feiru at that time, but was dissuaded by Gan Ning, Gan Ning asked Zhang Fei to come to the Jijun camp for help, and he himself took his subordinates with 3,000 sailors to harass Wei You on the periphery of Feiru, so that Wei You could not attack Feiru with all his strength.
In this way, Zhang Fei walked all the way to the camp with more than 200 cavalry, encountered several rebels along the way, and after several battles, there were now only a dozen people left of more than 200 cavalry to follow Zhang Fei to the camp. The rest had already been killed in the halfway battle.
This is the whole process of Zhang Fei coming alone, of course, a person as reckless as Zhang Fei will definitely not describe the matter in such detail, just a general explanation, and the details are all inferred by Ao Lie according to Zhang Fei's narrative.
After listening to Zhang Fei's narration, Ao Lie immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, and now there are two problems waiting for Ao Lie to solve. First, Gongsun Chan was surrounded in Feiru, and the day was precarious, so he must send troops to rescue him as soon as possible. Liaoxi is the throat of eastern Youzhou, and getting Liaoxi is equivalent to curbing the throat of eastern Youzhou, and Ao Lie never wants to see Liaoxi fall into the hands of Zhang Ju; Second, Liaodong is too selfish to guard Gongsun Du, which is a potential danger, and now he is barely neutral, and no one is willing to help, maybe once Liaoxi is lost, he will turn to Zhang Ju's side, and at present, Gongsun Du must be appeased.
Gently knocking on the table, Ao Lie frowned and thought for a while, then looked around at the people in the big tent, including Zhang Fei, and said, "The current situation is a little bad, but it is not so bad that it cannot be saved. What should we do? This is Ao Lie's consistent style, every time he encounters something important, even if he already has a case in his heart, he must ask for the opinion of his subordinate Wu.
Zhang Fei, who was anxious, immediately said in a rough voice: "What else is there to discuss, just lead the troops to fight over." ”
Ao Lie smiled and waved his hand, signaling Zhang Fei to be calm for a while, and then turned his gaze to Jia Xu and Xu Shu, talking about strategy, no one in the big tent was the opponent of the two of them.
Seeing Ao Lie's gaze looking at him, Jia Xu shrank his neck, and wanted to ignore Ao Lie, but after all, he still couldn't pull his face, so he stretched out his hands that had been hidden in his sleeves, bowed to Ao Lie and said: "Lord, Liaoxi is the throat artery, so fat is unavoidable; As for Liaodong, I don't think there will be any changes for the time being, but for the sake of safety, we should send a person who can speak well to Liaodong to give benefits to that Gongsun Duxiao, so that he can nest in Liaodong in peace and not have any troubled thoughts. ”
Ao Lie nodded in agreement, the poison Jia Xu was really shrewd and wise, and he saw through the problem at a glance, and it was exactly the same as the situation analyzed in his heart.
Xu Shu stood up and said: "Lord, since I joined the command, I haven't made an inch, and my heart is uneasy. What Mr. Shicai Wenhe said is exactly what Shu thinks in his heart. Shu was willing to rush to Liaodong, and while appeasing Gongsun Du, he tried to persuade him to send troops to rescue Liaoxi. ”
Ao Lie pondered for a long time, and said with some hesitation: "Yuan Zhi is the right-hand man of XX, how can XX let you take it lightly." ”
When Xu Shu heard this, he immediately picked up his robe and knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "Lord! The eldest husband was born in the world, and he should do extraordinary things at an extraordinary time, please allow the lord to rush to Liaodong! ”
Ao Lie sighed, looked around, and found that there was indeed no more suitable candidate than Xu Shu. Jia Xu was originally a good candidate, he was good at perceiving people's hearts, and he could better convince Gongsun Du, but now that the war is imminent, there must be a strategist by his side to fill in the gaps.
Ruthless, Ao Lie said to Xu Shu: "Okay, this matter will be handed over to Yuan Zhi." Where is the chief? ”
Hearing Ao Lie call his name, Wei Yan quickly stepped forward and took two steps, and replied loudly: "The last general!" ”
"With you, lead five hundred elite horsemen to escort Yuan Zhi to Liaodong. If anything happens during the period, you can decide for yourself after discussing it with Yuan Zhi! ”
Wei Yan's face showed a happy color, don't look at this mission is just to lobby, but Wei Yan, who has a military vision, knows that the result of this lobbying will directly affect the direction of the war. Ao Lie handed over such an important matter to himself, and gave himself the power to make his own decisions, which shows that Ao Lie trusts himself very much. Bowing to Ao Lie, Wei Yan said loudly: "No! ”
PS: Because there may be something to do during the day, Da Kun stayed up late to write two chapters, and he won't upload it during the day, so sleepy~~