Chapter 123, the Great Retreat

Su De took the initiative to send someone to Liu Yu to ask for peace, saying that he was willing to surrender, but some people did not agree, and he had to persuade those generals before he could make a decision, hoping that Liu Yu's army would not rush to attack. That night, someone opened the city gate and threw himself into Liu Yu's military camp. It turned out that the superintendent of Liaodong came with 500 subordinates to Liu Yu. Liu Yu was overjoyed and left the post superintendent under his command. The governor told Liu Yu that Su De's army in Liaodong County was less than 10,000 now, and if he launched an attack, Su De would definitely not be able to resist it, and he should not let him delay, so he should launch an attack quickly.

Liu Yu listened to the words of the superintendent, ordered the soldiers to rest, and launched an attack in the early morning of the second day, who knew that when the sky was slightly bright, someone came to report, saying that Su De took the army to Liaoxi, and now there are only people in the city, and there is no army. Liu Yu was overjoyed, and immediately stationed in Liaodong with a large army, and at the same time collected heavy taxes from the people in the city to replenish their armaments, and many of the people escaped.

After Liu Yu won Liaodong County, Wei You said: "Lord, now that we have two cities in a row, there is no movement on Yuan Shao's side, it is better to hold the troops first, and then try to take other cities after they are sure to start a war, so that Zu Zhao will definitely not have a chance to defend himself." Moreover, I heard that Chen Youzhi, the county guard of Liaoxi, also has an unnamed army under his account, so he should not attack rashly now. ”

Liu Yu heard Wei You say this, and also remembered Tian Feng's previous suggestion, and immediately convened the main general to discuss the matter of marching, who expected that except for Wei You, all the strategists and generals thought that they should go all out and not leave Zu Zhao's army a chance to breathe, if Zu Zhao knew that they had attacked the rear, maybe they would choose to retreat, and it would be bad at that time.

Wei You objected with all his might, saying that it was impossible to advance rashly now, although Zu Zhao's army was fighting against Yuan Shao, but there were still a large number of troops in Liaoxi County, and he must have smelled the crisis in the rear a long time ago, and it was impossible for them not to defend themselves, and Su De was a Confucian general that Zu Zhao valued the most, and he was now directly abandoning the city and leaving, which made no sense at all.

One of the strategists objected: "I think you are overestimating the enemy. Since Su De is so highly valued, he naturally has his own strategy, and at this time, anyone will choose to leave, how can an army of less than 10,000 compete with our army of 50,000. Since he fled to Liaoxi, then we will avoid its edge, do not attack Liaoxi, and directly attack the military important Zhuo County, so that when the time comes, we will conquer Zhuo County, and if they return to the army, we can also have the capital to resist. If they attack Liaodong County, we can send troops from Zhuo County to support, if they attack Zhuo County, I can also support from Liaodong County, plus when Yuan Shaojun is chasing and killing behind, then Zu Zhao's army will inevitably be trapped in Liaoxi County, and at that time, Zu Zhao will be wiped out in one fell swoop. ”

Liu Yu also felt that this plan was feasible, and did not adopt Wei You's suggestion, and immediately asked people to reorganize the army and horses and send troops to Zhuo County. Wei Yu saw that Liu Yu did not listen to persuasion, he was very depressed, and he drank alone and drank wildly, and later cried bitterly after getting drunk, saying that Liu Yu would definitely be defeated this time, even if he barely captured Zhuo County, it would be a big injury in strength.

Someone had already reported Wei You's words to Liu Yu, and after learning the news, Liu Yu was furious, saying that Wei You was messing with the army's heart and intending to curse him for failure, so Wei You was sent to prison and asked him to reflect on himself. Wei You was distressed in his heart, shouting that if Liu Yu sent troops, he would definitely fail, but no one paid attention to him, and when he was sad, Wei You chose to commit suicide in prison, leaving a thousand-word letter of advice, so that Liu Yu could stick to it, win the trust of the people, consolidate internal affairs, and not attack again.

When Liu Yu heard the news of Wei You's suicide, he was sad and ordered someone to bury him, but Liu Yu did not see his advice, saying that he would definitely prove to Wei You that the attack was correct. After resting for a few days, Liu Yu led his army to attack Zhuo County.

Let's say that after Xuanwu County Taishou Gongsun Wang or got the information from Zu Zhao, he immediately dispatched 30,000 troops and horses to rescue Zhuo County. At this moment, Feng Luoxue and Cai Wenji are also in Xuansu County, originally Zu Zhao was going to marry Gongsun Xiaoban, but he suddenly encountered Yuan Shao's attack, so the wedding was not held, but Gongsun Xiaoban was sure that he was already Zu Zhao's wife, and Feng Luoxue and Cai Wenji, who had been following Zu Zhao for a long time, were also determined to be Zu Zhao's wife. However, the three of them have a very good relationship, and they get along very happily with each other, regardless of their size.

King Gongsun was originally going to personally lead the troops to attack, but his daughter Gongsun Xiaobannian thought that he was too old and couldn't bear to let him go to war, so he took the initiative to ask Ying and was willing to be the general and lead the army to Zhuo County. King Gongsun may know that his daughter is skilled, but this battle with troops is not ordinary, and it pays attention to the art of war and strategy.

At this moment, Cai Wenji laughed out and said that she was willing to help Xiao Ban go out together, and as for the strategic matters, she also knew a little bit about them, and she might be able to help. King Gongsun may have known for a long time that Cai Wenji is a rare female genius in the world, and her intelligence is not lost to other strategists, and now seeing that she is willing to go out with the army, King Gongsun may naturally agree, so he formed an army led by a woman with Gongsun Xiaoban as a general, Feng Luoxue as a deputy general, and Cai Wenji as a military advisor.

Originally, Gongsun Xiaoban was going to enter the city of Zhuojun directly, but when Cai Wenji learned that Chen Youzhi of Liaoxi also brought troops to help, he suggested that Gongsun Xiaoban camp secretly outside the city, and wait for Liu Yu's army to arrive in Zhuojun to attack the city, and then suddenly send troops, when the troops in the city will come out, Liu Yu's army will suffer from the enemy, since it will escape, at this time, for example, it will meet Chen Youzhi's army, and when the time comes, Liu Yu will definitely have no way to escape.

Gongsun Xiaoban was overjoyed when he heard this, followed Cai Wenji's suggestion, and quietly sent a letter to the Zhuojun guard, saying that their army was camped outside the city, and when Liu Yu's army attacked, they would attack from behind, and when the army in the city was killed at the same time, Liu Yu's army would definitely be defeated. When the defender knew that reinforcements had arrived, he was overjoyed and immediately prepared his army to meet the enemy.

After marching for a few days, Liu Yu's army really arrived at Zhuo County, and they set up camp fifteen miles outside the city of Zhuo County, and after sending soldiers to explore everywhere, they did not find other troops. It turned out that Gongsun Xiaoban's army was stationed in the mountains, all the horses were covered, and there was no sound at all, and the flags were all hidden, and the camp tents were also covered with leaves, so Liu Yu's spies naturally failed to find out a little news.

After receiving this news, Liu Yu was overjoyed, and without further ado, he immediately ordered the army to launch an attack the next day. After breakfast the next day, Liu Yu led the army to the city of Zhuo County, and asked Xian Yuyin to take the army to fight under the city gate.

When the guard Li Xin learned that Liu Yu's army had arrived, he immediately rushed out with his army. Xian Yu Yinyin saw that the guards in the city were killed, and said loudly: "You can surrender quickly, lest you die under my spear." ”

Li Xin asked, "Who are you who dare to speak so wildly?" ”

Xian Yuyin said with a smile: "I am the general under Liu Zhoumu Xian Yuyin is also, you don't surrender quickly, otherwise you will blame me for being ruthless." ”

Before he finished speaking, Li Xin's side had already killed with a spear, and roared loudly: "Let's see if you are powerful with a spear or if my spear can take people's lives." Everyone saw that this person was Deng Ran, who was known as the first warrior of Zhuo County.

Xian Yuyin was furious, and came to fight with a spear, and the two clashed, and the battle was won or lost in fifty rounds. That Deng Ran is skilled in marksmanship, and he advances and retreats. Xian Yuyin took another twenty rounds, secretly surprised in his heart, this guy's marksmanship is above himself, and he has some courage, and if he fights again, he must not get cheap, so he shook a shot, turned the horse's head and left. How could Deng Ran let him go like this, who dared to come with a vigorous spirit, and he was about to catch up when he saw it, but he was unprepared to shoot an arrow at Yu Yin. Deng Ran hurriedly dodged, and suddenly saw Xian Yuyin shoot three arrows in a row, Deng Ran dodged one arrow, blocked one arrow, but the other arrow couldn't dodge, hit the right arm, and immediately blood flowed.

He didn't dare to fight, so he pulled his horse back. When Xian Yuyin saw it, he immediately turned his horse's head and chased after him, brandishing a gun to take Deng Ran directly. chased all the way to the city, Li Xin led the army out and rescued Deng Ran back to the city. At this moment, Liu Yu took advantage of the situation and ordered the siege of the city. Li Xin returned to the city with the army and held out. Liu Yu's army set up a ladder and attacked the city one after another, arrows rained down on the city, and stones and logs also rolled in, and Liu Yu's army could not attack for half a day.

Just as he was about to give the order to retreat, he suddenly heard a shout of killing behind him, but saw a petite white-clothed and white-robed general rushing to kill with a large army, with a person beside him, not wearing armor, dancing with silk streamers, like a fairy.

Liu Yu knew that this woman was Feng Luoxue, a martial arts master under Zu Zhao, who was capable and capable of a general, and could easily kill a general. Liu Yu was shocked when he saw this, and immediately asked the generals to protect him and escape. Seeing that the main general was the first to flee, the soldiers threw away their armor and fled. When Li Xin saw that the reinforcements had arrived, he had already opened the city gate and rushed out with the army, and pursued and killed with Gongsun Xiaoban's army.

It won't be long before Gongsun Xiaoban and Feng Luoxue are about to catch up. The two of them passed through the chaos of the army, as if they had entered no man's land. Liu Yu was shocked and hurriedly sent someone back to stop him. The general Xian Yufu came with more than 100 horsemen and rushed back to kill. Gongsun Xiaoban threw out the flying knife in his hand, killing more than a dozen cavalrymen in an instant, and then the first-class star hammer struck, knocking over two more people. Feng Luoxue directly took Xian Yu Fu, only two rounds, and a sword stabbed Xian Yu Yu Fu under the horse.

Feng Luoxue and Gongsun Xiaoban chased and killed all the way, and Liu Yu escaped all the way under the protection of the soldiers around him. After walking less than fifty miles, suddenly an army came out in front, Zhao Ye on the left, Chen Youzhi on the right, and the two of them immediately blocked the way with horizontal swords.

Chen Youzhi said: "Bo'an, you are vainly trying to sneak attack the rear of our army, and now you have fallen into the plot of our army, there is no way to escape, and if you don't get off your horse and surrender quickly, you can avoid death." ”

Seeing Chen Youzhi surrounding the road with a large army, Liu Yu was shocked and almost fell off his horse, but fortunately he was supported by his son Liu He, so he was fine. Seeing that Feng Luoxue and Gongsun Xiaoban also chased after him, Xian Yuyin shouted, "The lord will go first, wait for me to break off", and took Chen Youzhi directly with a gun, and at the same time ordered the general Wei Dun and others to intercept Feng Luoxue and others to fight.

Xian Yuyin fought Chen Youzhi, deputy general Liao Bo stopped Zhao Ye, his son Liu He protected Liu Yu to fight a bloody road, and the soldiers also fought to the death, Liu Yu escaped from the chaos and went west. It is said that Xian Yuyin and Chen Youzhi were defeated after less than 20 rounds, and he occupied and retreated, and kept obstructing Chen Youzhi from pursuing Liu Yu, and was finally caught up by Chen Youzhi on a hillside and captured.

Wei Dun alone attacked Feng Luoxue and Gongsun Xiaoban, and after less than 20 rounds of fighting, he was also shot down from his horse, and his subordinates 200 soldiers fought to the death, and finally all of them were captured. Liu Yu led an army of 50,000 to attack Youzhou, but was finally defeated, and escaped with only more than 500 remnants of the defeated army.

The clinker just came out of Youzhou, but encountered a wave of troops, it was Gongsun Chan who had a grudge before, it turned out that Gongsun Chan heard that Zu Zhao and Yuan Shao were confronting, and also brought the army to intercept Youzhou, at this moment Liu Yu was defeated, knowing that Zu Zhao still had the rear army to defend, he did not dare to march, and he arrested Liu Yu and persuaded Liu Yu to organize an army to attack Zu Zhao.

Liu Yu had just suffered a defeat, and he was very ashamed of Gongsun Zhan's behavior, and scolded Gongsun Chan after being captured. This angered Gongsun Zhan and ordered him to be killed, and his son Liu He desperately escaped, and went straight to Chen Youzhi's camp to tell the story of his father's killing, and he burst into tears, which was so touching. After hearing the news, the generals Xian Yuyin, Wei Dun and others also cried bitterly, and learned that Gongsun Chan actually fabricated charges against Liu Yu, and they were even more angry, and told Chen Youzhi and others that if they could let them go, they would lead troops to recapture Liu Yu's body, then they were willing to give up Xichuan, and would rather let Zu Zhao get Xichuan than let Gongsun Zhan's violent man get it.

Chen Youzhi thought about it again and again, and felt his righteousness towards Liu Yu, and agreed to release Xian Yuyin and Weidun, and gave them 800 elite armored cavalry to snatch Liu Yu's body. Liu He, Wei Dun, Xian Yuyin and others thanked them bitterly, and went to negotiate with Gongsun Zan with the army.

Let's say that Liu He and others took the army to Gongsun Zhan's department, and met an army on the road, which was Gongsun Ji, the son of Gongsun Zhan, who was ordered to take Liu Yu's body to Kyoto to ask for a reward. Liu He was about to rush out when he saw the situation, and Wei Dun said: "Gongsun Zhan's subordinates have been fighting all year round, and now the sergeants are all heroic and abnormal, although we have Zu Zhao's elite cavalry, but we only have more than 800 people, and they have more than 2,000 people, if they charge head-on, they will definitely suffer, it is better to be like this." After speaking, Liu He and Xian Yu said so and so on the side of the silver ear.

The two praised its feasibility, so Liu He rushed to Gongsun Ji's army with two hundred soldiers, informing him of his identity and purpose, hoping that Gongsun Xu would return Liu Yu's body. Who knew that Gongsun Xu was as arrogant and warlike as his father Gongsun Zhan, and now he saw Liu Yu's son Liu He coming, and he was overjoyed, if he could catch Liu He, he could cut the grass and eradicate the roots, so that Liu Yu's family would be completely rooted, and there would be no worries, and the court would have more rewards, so he led the army to take Liu He directly.

The two armies intersected, the battle was not a samurai turn, and Liu He was defeated. Seeing that Liu He was defeated, Gongsun continued to kill him with his army and chased him until he reached a gourd valley. A strategist advised: "The terrain ahead is dangerous, there is a fear of ambush, and there are many dead grass and trees on all sides, if the enemy attacks with fire, we are in danger." ”

Gongsun continued to laugh and said: "Liu He Xiao'er, the remnants of the army are defeated, how can there be any ambush, just rush to kill and catch it, everyone will be rewarded." ”

The strategist said: "Young General, don't underestimate the enemy." Liu Yu has always advocated benevolence and peace, and his army is not good at fighting, but General Gongsun can win more with less many times. However, I look at the two hundred cavalry that Liu He has brought now, and they have indeed attacked and defended to a certain extent, and in the siege of our thousand people, they are still not panicked, and the two hundred people have escaped smoothly, so they have to defend against it. ”

Gongsun Xu smiled coldly and said, "If you are afraid, stay here and look at the corpse of Liu Yu's old guy, and take me to capture Liu Helai, but you will not have your credit at that time." After saying that, when he divided 500 troops to the strategist and asked him to guard Liu Yu, he took 1,500 troops to chase and kill Liu He.

Let's say that Gongsun Xu waved his army to kill, Liu He only ran away in embarrassment, fled to a canyon, and was blocked by a mess of rocks in front of him, and turned back with the army to confront Gongsun Xu. Seeing this, Gongsun continued to smile and said: "Liu He Xiao'er, it is destined that you are going to die today, do you decide it yourself or let me do it myself?" ”

Liu He sneered: "I don't know who is dead." You are so arrogant, you deserve to die. Before he finished speaking, he heard a drum on both sides of the canyon, and the ambush soldiers on both sides came out, and then the grass and trees covered it, and he didn't know how much. Gongsun continued to see, his heart was shocked, knowing that he was really ambushed, and he was going back with the army, who knew that he didn't take a few steps, and he saw a wave of troops in front, with Xian Yuyin on the right, and Weidun on the left, and the cavalry behind the two of them, there were several big flags, and the book "Youzhou Jingcai".

When Gongsun Xu saw this banner, he was even more frightened and asked, "Behind you, but the elite armored cavalry under the command of Zu Zhao?" ”

Wei Dun said coldly: "Even if you still have some knowledge, the Youzhou elite cavalry against your Gongsun family's string control soldiers is more than enough, and you can die at the hands of this army today, which can be regarded as a kind of comfort to you." “

Gongsun continued to shake his head and said: "You sneak attack Zu Zhao's rear to defeat, how can they let you come out with their elite cavalry, you don't scare me." I'm afraid that this is just a trick on the remnants of your army. ”

"If you think so, then just try." Saying that, he pointed to Gongsun and continued: "Today next year is your death day." Your father and son committed the following crimes, and killed Lord Liu Yu, and you should be punished for this. After speaking, the spear in his hand pointed, and the arrows on both sides rained down, and the soldiers of Gongsun Xu fell down one after another, and the corpses in the canyon were suddenly piled up like a mountain.

Gongsun Xu led the guards to charge several times, but they were all shot back by random arrows, and in a short time, all the 1,500 soldiers around him were shot, and Gongsun Xu was also wounded by arrows in many places, and fell to the ground dying. Liu He rushed up, stabbed him to death with a shot, cut off his head and hung it in front of the horse.

Out of the valley, the deputy general Xian Yutong had already snatched back Liu Yu's body, and the strategist who stayed behind was also captured alive. Liu He threw Gongsun Xu's head to the strategist and said, "Take it back to your lord and tell him that Xichuan already belongs to the land of Zuzhao, and if he dares to try to march into Xichuan, there is only one way to die." ”

The counsellor took his life and staggered away. After Liu He recaptured his father's body, he returned to Chen Youzhi and others, saying that they were willing to sacrifice Xichuan and would not oppose Zu Zhao again. Chen Youzhi sent grain, grass and food to him, and sent an army to escort Liu He and others back to Xichuan, so that they could bury Liu Yu heavily, and at the same time sent an envoy to take over Xichuan.

In this regard, Xichuan smoothly belonged to Zu Zhao.