Chapter 33: Zhuge Liang!
"Uncle Zhi?" Zhao Yun saw the billowing smoke coming towards him, and looked at Chen Zhi in surprise, this was something that the two of them did not expect, it was just a vanguard cavalry of five thousand, and someone actually had such a strategy!
"Uncle Zhi, why don't we take advantage of the fact that we haven't gained a foothold and rush down!" Zhao Yun saw that the smoke was getting closer and closer, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger, if he didn't find a way to solve the difficulty, the ambush soldiers in the valley would definitely be discovered.
"Zilong, don't be impulsive, the cavalry of the Cao army is on the plain, if our army raids down, how can it benefit?" Although Chen Zhi was also very nervous in his heart, he still maintained his composure, and it was not Chen Zhi's style to send him to death in vain.
"But? Ahem! The smoke soon arrived at the ambush place where Zhao Yun and the others were ambushed, and Zhao Yun was choked by the smoke, and tears continued to flow down.
"Big brother, look!" Xiahou Ba pointed to a tree on the slope, the branches kept shaking, and it was obvious that someone was lying in ambush there, using the branches as a shield.
"Hahaha, the bully brother is really powerful, I'll organize the soldiers immediately and attack it!"
"Wait, eldest brother, younger brother has a plan, so that Sergeant Gu cannot escape, and it can also attract Liu Bei's army!" Xiahou Ba smiled slightly, and suddenly came up with a clever plan.
Liu Bei has always been known for his benevolence and righteousness, which is Liu Bei's foundation and Liu Bei's important means of attracting people's hearts, compared with Cao Cao's Yin Yin of Ning I bear the world and Sun Quan, this is Liu Bei's personal charm, and it is also Liu Bei's limitation. As a monarch, you must be ruthless and desperate, although the king of benevolence and righteousness can win the hearts of the people, but sometimes it is also a murderous knife, knowing the danger, you have to come to the rescue of the soldiers in the valley!
Liu Bei was stationed in Xinye, and the troops were not much, if the soldiers in ambush in the valley were killed. Liu Bei's military strength will definitely be greatly reduced. For this reason. Liu Bei will also come to the rescue. Since he knew that Liu Bei was coming to the rescue, it was a good way to snipe around the point to send reinforcements.
Xiahou Ba told Xiahou Chong and the others about his analysis.
"Big brother, this place is the continuation of Funiu Mountain and Yinshan Mountain Range, if you want to climb Bowang Slope, you must climb from the valley pass, or the mountain road at the end of the valley. The valley mouth and the valley tail are both connected to the plain, which is conducive to the deployment of our cavalry, as long as our army holds the valley mouth and the valley tail. The army in the valley became the turtle in the urn. Wait for the arrival of the army of Uncle and Brother Ang, and our army will win! Xiahou Ba pointed his spear and pointed it high into the sky, like a victor predicting his victory.
"What Brother Ba said is reasonable, Brother Ba, I will leave 2,000 cavalry for you, and my second brother and I will lead 3,000 cavalry to bypass Bowangpo and snipe Liu Beijun behind Bowangpo." Xiahou Chong listened to Xiahou Ba's suggestion and felt that it was very reasonable, so he was going to lead 3,000 cavalry around Bowangpo.
"Take care, brother! Please keep it in mind, brother. We are going to trap the army in the valley, and as for the army that asks for help. Brother has to let it go. ”
"Don't worry, brother, you know!"
"Brother, three thousand cavalry can be stationed near the small river in the west, so as to ensure the water source of our army, and my brother only needs to lay a small number of rangers near the valley to besiege the army in the valley."
"Well, for my brother, I must remember my brother's words!" Xiahou nodded, and as soon as he reined in his horse, he led three thousand cavalry to the east, preparing to detour from the east gate to the rear of Bowangpo.
"Uncle Zhi?" Zhao Yun waved his hand to drive away the thick smoke around him, now that the soldiers in the valley have all been exposed, there are only two ways left for Zhao Yun and Chen to arrive, one is to rush out and fight a decisive battle with the cavalry of the Cao army, and the other is to retreat from the valley.
"Zilong, we can't retreat!" Chen Zhi narrowed his eyes, revealing a resolute look. Bowangpo is the only place in the north of Xinye that can be called a defensive place, after Bowangpo is the north gate of Xinye, a horse Pingchuan, there is no longer any place to defend, if Xinye is besieged, Liu Bei will only have the fight of trapped beasts.
"Uncle Zhi?"
"If Bowangpo is lost, where will our army be placed? Where will the lord be placed? Zilong, you lead a team of personal soldiers to break out from the back of the valley, tell the lord about the situation here, and ask the lord to make a decision as soon as possible. Chen Zhi drew his sword and handed it to Zhao Yun.
"Zilong, to the grace of the lord, although he has followed the lord for a short time, but the heart of loyalty has not changed, please Zilong to inform the lord that as long as he is here, he will drag Cao Jun, please make a decision as soon as possible, Xinye can not be guarded for a long time!" After Chen finished speaking, he knelt down to the south and made a courtesy.
"Uncle Zhi rest assured, Yun will definitely report the feelings of this place to the lord, uncle rest assured, the lord will not abandon any loyal person." Zhao Yun took the sword, patted Chen Zhi's right shoulder, and left with his personal guard.
"Big brother, the front is the rear of Bowangpo." The cavalry of the Cao army were all horses from the north and west Liang, and they were extremely fast, and they were fighters on the plains. Bowangpo stretched only a few miles, and Cao's cavalry soon circled the valley.
"Okay, second brother, you take a hundred cavalry to stay at the end of the valley, and I will lead the army to camp in Baihe." Xiahou Chong commanded Xiahou Nan to lead the rangers, and he led the army to the White River.
"General, Cao Jun!" As soon as Zhao Yun came out of the valley, the guards pointed not far away, and the cavalry of the Cao army was galloping towards him.
"What?" Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, Cao Jun arrived so soon? This speed is amazing! As the only remaining white horse Congyi, Zhao Yun was amazed by the speed of Cao Jun's cavalry, at this speed, I am afraid that even the white horse Congyi back then was not an opponent.
"General?"
"Brothers, rush out with me, target Xinye, don't care about anything else!" Zhao Yun grabbed the horse's belly with a spear, and rushed out first.
"Big brother, Liu Beijun!" Xiahou Nan also discovered Zhao Yun, and someone went out of the valley to ask for help.
"It turned out that I was going to move the rescuers." Xiahou Chong smiled, these people have to let one or two go.
"Second brother, the commander of Liu Beijun led by you has been handed over to you, and his head will be beheaded to boost the prestige of our army."
"Big brother is optimistic!" Xiahou Nan picked up his long knife and rushed over with more than 100 cavalry.
"Thieves look at knives!" Xiahou Nan saw that Zhao Yun looked white and pure, like a civil servant, so he relaxed his vigilance.
"Humph! I don't know what to do. "Zhao Yun put away the spear, charged his strength, and a hundred birds and a phoenix!
Zhao Yun threw his spear and pierced the chests of the two cavalrymen like a giant dragon. The spear brushed Xiahou Nan's face. A long trail of blood was drawn.
"Huh?!" The cold sweat behind Xiahou Nan swished down his back.
Zhao Yun took advantage of this gap. He drew his long sword and killed it, but the guards who followed Zhao Yun were all killed by Cao's cavalry.
"Second brother, are you okay?" Xiahou Chong saw the thrilling scene just now from a distance, and hurriedly led people over.
"It's okay, big brother, I didn't expect that in addition to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, there were such fierce generals in Liu Bei's army." Xiahou Nan wiped the blood on his face and smiled at Xiahou Chong.
After Zhao Yun broke out of the encirclement. Riding a white horse, he soon returned to Xinye City and reported the military situation to Liu Bei. Liu Bei sat on the main seat, frowning, Chen Zhi and half of the white-eared elite soldiers and three thousand veterans were trapped in Bowangpo, Liu Bei's family background is not strong, although there are 30,000 people in his hands, but the elite is six or seven thousand people, and half of the elite are trapped.
Zhuge Liang's face on the side was also cloudy, and he and Pang Tong's first expedition. Even if you don't get the full jackpot, you still fall into such a situation. Pang Tong was also very anxious on the side. I didn't expect that it was just the vanguard of the 5,000 cavalry of the Cao army, and there were still capable people among them. Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong thought too highly of themselves, thinking that there was no one in the Central Plains.
"Big brother, we have to hurry up and come up with a way to save it, Cao Jun's commander this time is very good at using soldiers!" After listening to Zhao Yun's report, Guan Yu was stunned in his heart, what an ingenious siege method. The military camp is set up by the river, which can ensure that the water source is sufficient, and at the same time, it is possible to set up a formation on the plain by the river, send a small number of guerrillas to reconnoiter at the mouth of the valley, and as long as there is a sign of a large army dispatching, the cavalry can be immediately reorganized for a surprise attack.
Backed by the river and can be defended, it is impossible for Liu Beijun of Bowangpo to launch a surprise attack in a short time, and the direction of defense is only the direction facing Xinye, if Xiahoudun's vanguard army arrives, it will definitely strengthen the defense, and it will not be Xinye's troops that can break through at that time.
"Hmm." Liu Bei nodded, after listening to Zhao Yun's report, Liu Bei was also anxious, but Liu Bei is an old expert, the two armies are facing each other, whether the other party has weaknesses, this is very easy to analyze, unfortunately, Xiahou Ba's arrangement is basically a perfect deployment!
"Kong Ming, what is your best plan?" Liu Bei couldn't think of a way, so he had to turn to Zhuge Liang for help.
"Lord, please wait for a while, and wait for more detailed information to come back before Liang can make a judgment." In order to monitor Bowangpo's movements, Zhuge Liang also sent a lot of spies, Zhao Yun came back, but Zhuge Liang's spies have not yet returned, and the final information of those spies is the basis for Zhuge Liang's plan.
"This?"
"Hmph, military advisor, was the spy you sent discovered by Cao Jun?" Zhang Fei was dissatisfied with Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, the two literati, although they had good internal affairs ability and accumulated some money for Liu Bei, but Liu Bei gave them too much power.
Liu Bei awarded Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong the official position of military general, this official position is very fatal, the military division shows that the responsibilities of Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong are military divisions, but the word general also means that the two can lead the army alone, especially Zhuge Liang in order to practice what gossip array, actually transferred 500 elite soldiers from Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's command and assigned them to his command, which made Zhang Fei and Guan Yu feel very unhappy!
"General Zhang, I have the order of the lord in hand, this campaign is decided by the division of the army, if General Zhang has no actual basis, don't speculate, otherwise Liang will cure the general for a crime of disrespect!" Zhuge Liang pulled out Liu Bei's arrow and suppressed Zhang Fei.
"You."
"The three generals are angry, angry!" Jian Yong hurriedly stood up and was a good person.
"Third brother!" Liu Bei glared at Zhang Fei in displeasure, Zhang Fei twisted his head and stood back in place dissatisfied.
"See the lord, the military advisor!" After an hour, Zhuge Liang's spies also returned to Xinye City.
"Get up and talk back!"
"No!"
"Has Xiahoudun's vanguard army arrived at Bowangpo?"
"Returning to the military division, Xiahoudun's 30,000 troops have arrived at Bowangpo and are stationed near Bowangpo, as if they want to besiege our army in Bowangpo."
"Are they all stationed?"
After noon, Xiahoudun's vanguard army had already arrived at Bowangpo, and the army was stationed on the spot. When it got dark, the subordinates observed for a while before returning, and the army was all stationed. The spy replied respectfully to Zhuge Liang.
"Okay, I got it. Stand down! "I listened to the spies' reply. Zhuge Liang smiled slightly. Xiahoudun, Xiahoudun, it seems that you are nothing more than that.
"Strategist?" When Liu Bei saw Zhuge Liang's expression, he seemed to be confident again.
"My lord, although General Chen was trapped in Bowangpo, it was a defeat for our army, but it was also an opportunity for our army, Xiahoudun did not move forward, but was stationed in Bowangpo." Zhuge Liang planted a command flag. Inserted into the sand table where the Bowang slope is located.
"Oh? What does the military advisor mean? ”
"Lord, let Tong solve your doubts." After Pang Tong listened to the spies' report, he also smiled, fortunately, Xiahoudun was stationed in Bowangpo, otherwise everything would be over.
Bowangpo is the only barrier to the north of Xinye, without Bowangpo, the enemy can drive straight into and besiege Xinye. But now Chen Zhi is trapped in Bowangpo, and the effect of Bowangpo cannot be exerted, and the barrier in the north of Xinye is naturally gone.
Xiahoudun was stationed at Bowangpo to attract Liu Beijun to the rescue. This is a strategy to encircle the point and send reinforcements, but this strategy can only be regarded as a medium strategy. If Pang Tong conspires. Pang Tong will definitely contain Chen Dao of Bowangpo with a small number of soldiers, and move the main force south to surround Xinye.
Xinye is the target of Cao Jun this time, and Xiahoudun made meritorious contributions to his sons and nephews, but he lacked foresight, so he was stationed in Bowangpo. In this way, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong have room to plan.
"Lord, although General Chen Zhi is trapped in Bowangpo, but Xiahoudun is selfish and lacks far-sightedness, our army can still turn defeat into victory, if Cao's army's middle army and rear army arrive, there are capable people in the army to conspire, and our army will not protect it!" Pang Tong told Liu Bei his analysis, and when Liu Bei heard it, he also let out a long cry in his heart, fortunately it was Xiahou who was the vanguard, otherwise he would have to explain the whole army here, because Liu Bei's goal was not to retreat south, but to go north.
"Lord, please allocate 5,000 soldiers to Liang, 300 bamboo rafts, within half a month, Liang will definitely rescue General Chen and go north with the lord." Zhuge Liang arched his hand and asked Liu Bei for his life.
"Kong Ming, what trick are you going to use?" Pang Tong was stunned for a moment, and he didn't expect that he and Zhuge Liang's trick would be used in advance.
"Shi Yuan, this time it was beyond the expectations of the two of us, and there are many capable people in the Cao army's reinforcements, if they see a little flaw, we may lose everything, it is better to be cautious." Zhuge Liang never fights uncertain battles, especially when reality is inconsistent with expectations, Zhuge Liang will become extra cautious.
"Strategist, what do you want?" Liu Bei looked at Zhuge Liang suspiciously, what kind of medicine were Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong selling in the gourd!
"My lord, do you remember the White River Dam we built?"
"White River Levee?"
It turned out that when Zhuge Liang was in charge of Xinye, he borrowed 10,000 soldiers from Liu Bei to build the embankment of the Baihe River, and the main purpose was of course to divert water to irrigate the farmland in Xinye. It's just that the construction of the embankment this time aroused the dissatisfaction of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and sent so many soldiers to build the embankment, and the training time of the soldiers was not reduced, which made many soldiers exhausted.
Zhang Fei and Guan Yu had advised Liu Bei many times, saying that Zhuge Liang would not lead troops and asked Liu Bei to punish him heavily, but Liu Bei overrode public opinion and still let Zhuge Liang build the embankment of the White River.
"Big brother, it's the embankment that the military advisor asked 10,000 soldiers to build, hmph, the embankment that our army worked so hard to build has now become Cao's army." Zhang Fei was dissatisfied and squeezed Zhuge Liang again, spending so much manpower and financial resources, and in the end, he didn't want to withdraw from Xinye and give Cao Jun a good embankment.
"Hahahaha! General Zhang, although Kong Ming is not a stingy person, he will not be potious to the enemy, Cao Jun wants to use my Baihe embankment, but I am afraid that they will have to pay the price. ”
"Lord, Liang is ready, the White River Dam is the key to our army's defeat, as for the secret, please allow Liang to hide his secrets, if you can't let the lord go north, Liang is willing to die to apologize." Zhuge Liang bowed to Liu Bei and expressed his determination.
"The military advisor is invited to get up quickly, since Bei handed over the long sword to the military advisor, this military order will be issued by the military advisor, and Bei is just an executor." Liu Bei hurriedly helped Zhuge Liang up, it seems that Wolong and Feng Chick have already planned.
"Thank you, lord!"
"The generals will obey!" Zhuge Liang raised Liu Bei's sword high.
"No!" Although Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were not convinced, military orders were always military orders and they had to be obeyed.
"General Zhao!"
"In!"
"You quickly rush back to Bowangpo with your personal guards and tell General Chen that dams should be built at the mouth and end of the valley at Bowangpo, and the dams should be strengthened so that ten meters of water cannot flow out of the valley."
"No!"
"General Liao!"
"In!"
"You return to Bowangpo with General Zhao, as long as the excrement of my sergeants is filled with wooden barrels and placed between the mountain roads of Bowangpo."
"Huh?" Liao Hua was stunned for a moment, what kind of military order is Zhuge Liang? Collecting stool?
"Has General Liao ever heard clearly?" Zhuge Liang asked again.
"No!"
"General Guan!"
"In!"
"You and General Zhang quickly gather the army in Xinye City and wait for the military order of this army division!"
"No!"
"My lord?"
"Strategist?"
"Please return to the mansion, pack your bags overnight, and inform the ladies in the mansion that we are already family, and at the latest, we will leave Xinye at noon tomorrow." Zhuge Liang arched his hand and explained to Liu Bei.
"What?"
I'm going to leave Xinye tomorrow, Liu Bei was stunned, so fast?
"Please go back to the house and prepare!"
"Okay!" Seeing Zhuge Liang's eyes, Liu Bei nodded. Since it was handed over to Zhuge Liang, you have to believe in his plan, not to mention that Pang Tong didn't say anything on the side, and it seems that he also supports Zhuge Liang's approach.
Xinye, who has worked hard to run the small town for the New Year, tomorrow is the last farewell? Thinking of this, Liu Bei shook his head helplessly. (To be continued......)
PS: Last minute, come on!!