Zhao Yun led the cavalry to accompany Li Guo's rebels around Chang'an City to "hide and seek", which was obviously a scoundrel tactic, which was proposed by Guo Jia.

This trick seems to be a bit child's play, but in fact it is insidious, not only can it preserve its own strength to the greatest extent, but also drag down the rebels besieging the city, which is similar to the "Peng Yue Scratching Chu" in the early Han Dynasty, and coincides with the famous "guerrilla warfare" in later generations.

Guerrilla warfare is about destroying the enemy in the middle of the movement, avoiding the enemy who is stronger than oneself from afar, so that he cannot find his own traces, and when the enemy wants to retreat, he suddenly rushes over and grabs the enemy's chrysanthemum, and then does not wait for the enemy to counterattack, quickly turns around and runs. Such repeated tossing and turning was enough to exhaust even the most powerful enemies, and finally the door was wide open and defeated.

To play this "rogue" tactic, you need three conditions.

The first is that you have to run faster than the enemy, otherwise you will be sent to death, not guerrilla; The second is that the generals who command the troops must have enough patience and keen insight, otherwise they are easy to fall into the trap carefully arranged by the enemy, or delay the opportunity to attack; The third is the need for a place to hide and stay, not to wander around like duckweed, without trimming and logistical replenishment.

The Youzhou cavalry came and went like the wind, and their mobility was much higher than that of the rebels, so it met the first article; Zhao Yun and Zhang He are both rare talents in commanding troops, plus a perverted Guo Jia, so they meet the second article; Xu Rong, who led the infantry to follow up, had already quietly stationed in a small city near Chang'an, which was enough to provide shelter and support for the cavalry, so he met the third point.

Although Li Wei had not yet figured out Zhao Yun's whereabouts, he realized that Zhao Yun's tactics of only disturbing and not fighting would pose a huge threat to the coalition forces, so he immediately came up with a way to concentrate all the cavalry of all parties and engage in a large-scale cavalry battle with Zhao Yun.

Li Dao was born in Fuping County, Beidi County, Liangzhou, and is a descendant of the famous Han general Li Guang, who is extremely familiar with the terrain around Guanzhong, especially Chang'an City, which is within a hundred miles of his chest. In order to completely eliminate Zhao Yun's trouble-stirring cavalry, Li Wei and Jia Xu repeatedly deliberated, and finally came up with a plan to encircle and annihilate.

As mentioned above, Wang Yun sent the famous general Huangfu Song to lead a group of soldiers and horses to Yiwu to attack Dong Zhuo's lair, and after he broke through Yiwu and killed the Dong clan, he was unable to remove the huge amount of people and ointment that Dong Zhuo had looted over the years, so he had to personally lead the army to garrison, waiting for the Chang'an direction to send a large army to meet and escort.

However, without waiting for Chang'an to send troops to Hewu, more than 200 miles away, to carry wealth, grain and grass, Li Dao and Guo Yan led their troops back to Guanzhong from Luoyang. As a result, Huangfu Song's troops became lonely, and it was difficult to return home.

In order to lure Zhao Yun's troops to attack, Li Wei deliberately spread the news to the soldiers besieging the city, saying that he was going to send 20,000 soldiers and horses back to Hewu to drive Huangfu Song away, and then move the gold and silver treasures and a large amount of grain and grass in Hewu to Chang'an, specifically rewarding the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the siege.

Li Wei's hand was very clever, not only stabilizing the morale of the army disturbed by Zhao Yun, but also boosting morale, and at the same time spreading the news.

After a few days, half of the troops besieging the north and west of Chang'an City were withdrawn, and they formed a separate army, led by Captain Fan Chou, and passed over the Wei Bridge five miles northwest of Chang'an City, as if to attack Huangfu Song, who was stationed at Yiwu.

After Fan Chou led 20,000 soldiers and horses to pass Weishui and Weishui, he marched slowly along the north bank of Weishui, and when he came to the area of Xiliuju, he was suddenly blocked by the cavalry led by Zhao Yun.

Fan Chou looked at the cavalry rushing in the distance, and sneered and said to himself: "Finally, you can't help but come and intercept it?" Today, let you Youzhou thieves see the power of my Liangzhou strong soldiers! ”

"Stop the march, shrink in a square circle, pikemen and halberders step forward, shieldmen cover, archers prepare!"

With Fan Chou's order, all the soldiers immediately stopped their march and began to line up on the spot, not afraid of the cavalry that was about to rush over.

Zhao Yun, who was in the Chinese army, saw that the rebels who were suddenly attacked were so calm and calm, as if they were waiting for their own side to come, and suddenly felt a warning in his heart.

"All obey the order, turn due west, and evacuate this place immediately!"

Zhao Yun gave an order, and the army no longer approached Fan Chou's army, but turned its head and quickly retreated in the direction where Yiwu was located.

Less than a moment after Zhao Yun led his army away, he saw that Li Wei commanded 15,000 Xiliang cavalry, and suddenly outflanked Xiliuju from the direction of Pingling in the north, just blocking the way to the north.

To the south of Xiliuju is the Wei River, to the north is Li Wei's cavalry outflanked in an arc, and to the east is Fan Chou's infantry lined up in situ, if Zhao Yun led the troops to fight with Fan Chou's troops just now, then the result would be that Li Wei and Fan Chou's nearly 40,000 troops were attacked inside and outside, and they could not get out at all.

If you were another general, you would definitely choose to lead the troops to retreat to the north in a hurry, but Zhao Yun unexpectedly chose to retreat to the west, just avoiding Li Dao who came from the north, such an impromptu decision is even more amazing.

Li Wei looked at Zhao Yun, who had already gone away, and frowned tightly.

Fan Chou came to his side at this time and said in a deep voice: "My lord, this Zhao Yun is really difficult to deal with, we are so cautious, he even noticed something strange and retreated!" ”

Li Wei said: "Although this ambush failed to severely damage his cavalry, it successfully forced him to forty miles west of Chang'an, which can be regarded as a great achievement." We will now lead the army back to Chang'an, you and Captain Guo and Captain Zhang will immediately lead the army to attack the city with all their might, and I will lead the cavalry to cruise and set up an ambush on the shore of Weishui to intercept Zhao Yun from returning again, I don't believe that this time he can fly through Weishui and Weishui with wings! ”

Within 50 miles around Chang'an City, there are eight rivers of Wei, Jing, Feng, Waterlogging, Wei, Zhu, Chan and Ba flowing from the vicinity, so it is called the eight rivers around Chang'an. Li Dao and Jia Xu carefully planned, this time they made full use of the terrain to lure Zhao Yun's cavalry to the north bank of Weishui, although they failed to achieve tactical killing, but eliminated the strategic threat, so it was still a good plan.

However, when Fan Chou and Li Wei led their army back to the vicinity of Chang'an City, they heard something that shocked them!

On the second day after Li Dao and Fan Chou led more than 35,000 soldiers and horses to leave Chang'an, an unidentified army of more than 10,000 people raided the 10,000 troops stationed outside the north gate at night.

What is the rhythm of this Nima? Everyone tried their best to drive the annoying Zhao Yun to forty miles away, why did the back foot suffer a night attack? How many troops are there near Chang'an City!

Li Dao came to visit the barracks outside the north gate with a dark face, and found that his soldiers had suffered serious casualties, and all kinds of losses were even heavier, just like being robbed by a large group of bandits. Li Wei really wondered what kind of troops were so bold and reckless that they could snatch things from the Xiliang soldiers, who started by looting.

"It seems that we underestimated the strength of the enemy forces outside the city. Now there is not only Zhao Yun's cavalry, but also an infantry with more than 10,000 people sneakily hiding nearby! They must be dug out immediately, otherwise when this infantry forces cooperate with Zhao Yun's troops, we will be in big trouble! Li Wei said worriedly.

Jia Xu frowned and said: "If Duan Xuan, who is stationed in Duling, gets the news, he will also come to stir up the situation at this time, but I am afraid that the situation will be more critical." ”

"Mr. Wenhe, we have reached the point of death now, what should we do?" Guo Yan asked.

Jia Xu thought for a moment and said: "It's not impossible, you can secretly contact the old department in the city, persuade them to open a certain city gate at night, and the army took advantage of Lu Bu and Wang Yun's unpreparedness to enter the city overnight, surround the palace, and execute Wang Yun and others in the name of the Qing monarch's side to control the court situation!" ”

Guo Yan said: "Sir's plan is very good, I will arrange for someone to handle it!" ”

In Changling City, forty miles north of Chang'an City, Xu Rongzheng was discussing the military situation with Li Yan, Tian Chou and others.

Li Yan said: "In the battle last night, our army took advantage of the departure of Li Dao and Fan Chou, and killed the rebels outside the north gate by surprise, not only inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, but also capturing a lot, which can be said to have won a good start!" ”

Xu Rong nodded and said, "I also didn't expect the soldiers of the Shenxi Army to be so good at night battles and running attacks, it seems that Zitai usually trains them." ”

Tian Chou said with a smile: "The credit does not belong to me alone, if you say that you usually train soldiers, Deng Hai and Chen Gui are the hardest, but when it comes to the person with the greatest merit for Shen Xijun, it is not a few of us, but a son." ”

"Oh, why did Zitai say that? As far as I know, Liu Gongzi has been in Nanyang for less than a month, and what has he done to get such a high evaluation from you. Xu Rong couldn't help but ask curiously.

Tian Chou replied: "The Shenxi Army was founded by Gongzi, and the purpose of the army, various training systems, and reward and punishment measures were also formulated and improved under the guidance of Gongzi. It can be said that without Childe, there would be no Shen Xi Army. ”

"I really can't imagine that the son is only a weak crown, and he has such a talent!" Xu Rong couldn't help but sigh.

"General Xu, although we have won the first battle now, it is almost impossible to fight this kind of tailwind battle in the future, what should we do next?" Chen Gui, who was born in Tubaozi, turned out to be an extraordinary talker, and went straight to the center.

Liu He once said to a group of farmers who had lost their land a year ago: As long as they are willing to put in the effort and sweat, anyone has the possibility of changing their fate, and looking at Chen Gui's changes today, it is the best example.

Xu Rong pondered for a moment and said, "It is not appropriate for us to go out again for the time being, so as not to be discovered by Li Dao and Guo Yan, just wait here for the news of General Zhao." If he can successfully bring Huangfu Song's team back from Hewu, not only will our troops increase again, but we will also be fully supplied with grain and grass, and then we will have the capital to confront Li Dao and Guo Yan for a long time. ”

"It coincides with General Xu's thoughts." Li Yan agreed with Xu Rong's opinion.

"We can take advantage of this free time to train the soldiers to cooperate in combat on horsefoot." Tian Chou suggested.