"Kill—"

The earth-shattering cry reappeared under the river. In the last seven or eight days, such shouts have been heard at least once a day. The master of this wave of sound is more than 300,000 soldiers under Yuan Shao.

At the beginning of the Liangzhou rebellion, Ao Lie quietly left the river with 10,000 blood soldiers and 10,000 tiger soldiers to support Luoyang, Yuan Shao did not get the information in time, until the news came from Tanma, and Ao Lie's banner appeared on the city wall of Luoyang, Yuan Shao suddenly came to his senses, and figured out that Ao Lie had already left the river, and those who stayed in the river were just some of the men and horses under Ao Lie's command.

Yuan Shao, who was full of regret, hurriedly dispatched troops and began to attack the river day and night. Staying in the river to preside over the battle, it was Zhuge Liang, he used extremely ingenious means, bluffing, confusing Yuan Shao, covering up the fact that Ao Lie went to support Luoyang, but this kind of cover can not last long after all, when Yuan Shao found out, Zhuge Liang did not show the slightest panic, issued a series of orders in an orderly manner, insisted on standing in the city, relying on the city defense of Hejian City, and Yuan Shao's troops fought a war of attrition. Zhuge Liang's purpose is very clear, waiting for reinforcements, or waiting for Ao Lie's return.

Between an attack and a defense, seven or eight days passed in a blink of an eye, and Yuan Shao had to launch at least two strong attacks every day, but without exception, Zhuge Liang relied on the powerful terrain and strong city walls to block the outside of Hejian City, and for several days, he failed to take advantage of it.

Looking at the soldiers of the Yuan army under the city as usual, Zhuge Liang issued an order to defend the city as usual, and ordered the defenders on each section of the city wall to prepare for battle. After these days of consumption, the crossbows of the red-clothed ballista have been used up, and the follow-up crossbows have not yet been sent, and even the bows and crossbows in the soldiers' quivers have bottomed out, in order to reduce consumption. Zhuge Liang had already ordered the defense to be shortened for three days in a row, and now he could only effectively defend the place within a five-zhang radius under Hejian City.

Yuan Jun also seemed to have figured out the embarrassing state of the Youzhou army, under the leadership of several generals, the three siege troops drove straight in, and came to the place five zhang away from the city of Hejian without any scruples, and then raised the round shield and other protective weapons, and rushed towards the city wall of Hejian at an accelerated speed.

Lu Bu walked quickly to Zhuge Liang's side and said in a low voice: "Military Master, it's not a way to go on like this, the second brother hasn't come back yet." Our army's crossbow arrows have run out again, Yuan's army is three times larger than ours, and there is a steady stream of follow-up troops, should we take the initiative to seek fighters and hit Yuan Shao by surprise? ”

Zhuge Liang smiled and shook the feather fan in his hand. The free left hand gently patted the back of Lu Bu's hand, and said with a smile: "Wen Hou is not in a hurry. Wait for reinforcements to arrive. Our army can join forces inside and outside, and kill Yuan Shao by surprise, but before that, our army still needs to hold on to reduce the consumption of battle damage. ”

"But where do the reinforcements come from?" Lu Bu asked in surprise. It is true that there are still quite a few soldiers in the five northern states. But the problem is that the five northern states have just been pacified, and a large amount of money and grain have been put into the construction of Xinzhou, resulting in the treasury of Youzhou is not enough money and grain, and this expedition Ao Lie brought 100,000 troops. The treasury of Youzhou is about to be emptied, if you are sending troops over, where can you find grain and grass?

Zhuge Liang smiled mysteriously, but did not directly answer Lu Bu's question, the feather fan in his hand pointed to the southeast, and said with a smile: "As a general, all the combat factors must be calculated, Wen Hou rest assured, within three days, reinforcements will come from the southeast." ”

"Southeast?" The doubts in Lu Bu's heart did not resolve, but became stronger. The southeast is Sun Ce's territory, even if Sun Ce knew from the beginning that Yuan Shao colluded with Li Dao and Guo Yan and instigated them to rebel, he sent reinforcements at that time, and he couldn't come in time from the point of view of time, not to mention that Sun Ce didn't know about the rebellion of Li and Guo, and sent reinforcements thousands of miles away, and put them into the battlefield in time, is this possible? Besides, Sun Ce had just used the strategy of feigning his death to take down the two counties of Jingzhou, and it was too late to rectify the interior, so how could he send reinforcements to support the war in Hejian?

With a sense of confusion, Lu Bu returned to the city defense, and commanded his soldiers to prepare for a desperate fight with Yuan's army. Don't think about the problem if you can't think through it, since Zhuge Liang has made a guarantee, Lu Bu believes that there will be no problem, after all, Zhuge Liang has never guessed wrong.

Under the city, the 50,000 sergeants of the vanguard of the Yuan army have set up a cloud ladder on the river city, hundreds of cloud ladders are erected on the city wall one by one, and a large number of Yuan soldiers are struggling to climb up the ladder, densely packed as if countless ants have smelled the smell of candy, quite a bit of the taste of forgetting life and death.

"The spearman stepped forward and stabbed Yuan Jun's ladder over!" Lu Bu drank loudly and began to officially enter the combat state. The pikemen, who had been lining up on the city walls, stepped forward quickly, raised their spears a foot long, and stabbed with all their might at the cloud ladder that had emerged from the top of the city.

With the efforts of the pikemen, dozens of ladders on the city wall were stabbed over, hanging upside down and falling backwards, and Yuan Jun, who was climbing on these ladders, let out a cry of horror and fell down with the ladders. Some Yuan soldiers at the bottom of the ladder could still rely on the advantage of being close to the ground, let go of their hands in danger, jumped off the ladder, and escaped this catastrophe, but those Yuan troops who were in the middle and top of the ladder had no possibility of jumping off the ladder, so they had to hold on to the ladder with both hands, trying to use luck to avoid being stoned to death. When the inclination angle of the ladder reached the maximum, Yuan Jun, who was holding the ladder, was affected by the acceleration of the ladder, and could no longer grasp the ladder, and was thrown down one after another.

The pikemen on the city wall didn't have time to see their results, so they turned around and retreated a few steps at the same time under Lu Bu's command, and then raised their spears again and stabbed them hard at the top of the ladder. With their movements, dozens of ladders were knocked over, put on the top of the city wall, and were knocked away from the city wall by the spearmen, after the ladders lost their support, as just now, with inertia and acceleration, as well as the desperate shouts of Yuan Jun, they fell from a high altitude, and hundreds of people on the ladders were thrown to death on the land under Hejian City.

Such a situation in recent days. It has been repeated in Yuan Shao's eyes many times, and Yuan Shao has no good way to deal with this, in the Han Dynasty, the only way to siege the city was to use a ladder to erect it on the city wall, and then fill it with human lives. As a result, in the siege battle every day, Yuan Shao's subordinates would suffer some damage, as many as three or five thousand people. There are as few as one or two thousand people, but the battle losses of the Youzhou army are almost zero.

Seeing the Youzhou army stabbing over the cloud ladder again, Yuan Shao finally became furious. For seven or eight days in a row, he failed to conquer Hejian until Ao Lie returned. That's even harder to fight. The revenge of his beloved son Yuan Xi could not be avenged for a long time, which made Yuan Shao a little anxious. Present. Yuan Shao shouted angrily: "Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang, I will give you another 10,000 horses, rush up for me!" ”

Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang agreed in unison, lit up 10,000 foot soldiers, and were just about to be put into the battlefield, on the ground in the southeast direction. Suddenly there was a slight tremor, although Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang were not famous generals, they were also battle-hardened, and they immediately judged that a group of cavalry was galloping towards the southeast. And there are quite a few of them!

Yuan Shao also sensed the movement in the southeast, so Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang temporarily stopped reinforcements and arranged a protective formation on his side to protect his own safety. Yuan Shao's subordinates have 300,000 troops, yes, but Yuan Shao can't bring 300,000 troops out of the camp at one time, he has to leave enough people to take care of the grain and grass, so every time he attacks the city, Yuan Shao only brings 100,000 people to participate in the battle, and now the 50,000 people of the vanguard force have been sent to the battlefield, if Erlu is sent out again, then Yuan Shao will only have 40,000 people around him to guard, if there is a large number of Youzhou troops from the southeast, Yuan Shao will be tantamount to exposing himself to them, for his own safety considerations, Yuan Shao therefore stopped sending additional siege troops, and instead let Erlu form a guard on his side.

Soon, the tremor of the great earthquake in the southeast became more and more intense, and the sound of horses' hooves like thunder was clearly audible. On the city wall, Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly beckoned to Lu Bu, and said happily: "Wenhou, reinforcements have arrived." Wen Hou Ke quickly led the elite of the Long Xiang army to prepare for the charge, and responded to Sun Ce's troops at any time. ”

Lu Bu wanted to ask Zhuge Liang how he could conclude that it would be Sun Ce's troops, not Yuan Jun's bait or anyone else, but when the words came to his lips, he was swallowed back by Lu Bu. As a generation of famous generals, Lu Bu naturally knows the fleeting truth of the Dao fighter, this kind of joint charge launched from two directions, often in the first time to exert the maximum lethality, if because of his own verbosity, miss the best fighter, it will be more than worth the loss.

So, Lu Bu didn't have any extra nonsense, handed over the command of defending the city to the veteran Huang Zhong, turned around and walked down the city wall, gathered the 20,000 elites of the Longxiang army under his subordinates, and lined up the battle formation in the city.

A large flag, emerging from the horizon in the southeast, was embroidered with the words "Han Capture General Zhou". This is Zhou Yu's battle flag! Zhou Yu bent slightly, and rushed towards the battlefield with a whip. On Zhou Yu's side, on the left were Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, on the right were Xu Sheng and Chen Wu, and behind Zhou Yu, dozens of generals followed, each raising swords and guns, with more than 10,000 cavalry, and launched a charge towards the place where Yuan Shao was. Not far behind the cavalry, you can still see a crowded infantry army, and according to rough estimates, there are at least 20,000 people!

The news that Zhou Yu could appear on the battlefield in time was not that Zhuge Liang could predict the prophet, but that Zhuge Liang judged it according to the situation in Jiangdong. At the beginning, Sun Ce cheated to death, and the news came out in Jiangdong that his successor Sun Quan was young and could not convince the public, and the Mesozoic generals led by Zhou Yu fled with Zhou Yu in a negative mood, and it was rumored that he would go to Youzhou to defect to Ao Lie. In this seemingly logical piece of news, Zhuge Liang peeked through the flaws, Sun Ce treated Zhou Yu like his own brother, even if Zhou Yu was really excluded, he would definitely not deviate from the young Sun Quan, so Zhuge Liang deduced that Zhou Yu and others did not actually deviate from Sun Quan, but came to support Hejian under the guise of betraying Sun Quan! Later, the news that Sun Ce was cheating on death came out, which made Zhuge Liang more sure of his views, so he said to Lu Bu that reinforcements would arrive within three days, and this support army was Zhou Yu!

At the moment when Zhou Yu's banner appeared on the horizon, the city gate of Hejian was suddenly opened under Zhuge Liang's order, Lu Bu held Fang Tian's halberd, sat down and the red rabbit horse was as red as fire, and one person and one horse rushed out of the city of Hejian in all directions, behind Lu Bu, 20,000 heads with blood-red feathers, and the elite of Longxiang with a heavy Rahu dragon horn spear in his hand, under the leadership of Lu Bu, patted the horse and killed, just right and Zhou Yu's department faintly formed a echoing trend.

Seeing Lu Bu kill, the corners of Zhou Yu's mouth brought a smile, and he said in a low voice: "Thousands of miles to find a bosom friend, Wen Hou's time to attack is extremely accurate, and the champion Hou is really full of talents!" This must be Zhuge Wolong's strategy! ”

Perhaps it was destined by God that Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu, a pair of natural rivals and friends, began their first cooperation in their lives. (To be continued......)