19 Long Journey
From Hanoi County to Hadong County, it is necessary to cross Wangwu Mountain through Yiguan, the whole journey is nearly 200 miles, all of which are rugged mountain paths, cliffs, dense forests, and it is difficult for mules and horses to pass, let alone war horses with higher value.
There are only 2,000 light horsemen under Lu Bu's command, and if there is any loss because of this, it will be a big loss. Therefore, after weighing it, he simply left Zhang Liao and 2,000 light horsemen in Hanoi, and even his own red rabbit horse.
All the soldiers brought their own dry food for ten days, plus Han Hao prepared a batch of donkeys a few days in advance, which could carry some grain and grass baggage, so the needs along the way were sufficient. When you arrive in Hedong County, as long as you get in touch with Li Dao and the Niu Auxiliary Department, the grain and grass you need will be found.
The soldiers were fast, and early the next morning, Lu Bu personally led the army to set off, Gao Shun was the vanguard, and led the army into Wangwu Mountain in advance, and also shouldered the burden of opening the road and building bridges halfway.
Walking only a few dozen miles, Lu Bu personally experienced that the mountain road is difficult, one side is a cliff, the river is rolling, the valley is deep, and on the other side is a strange rock, the mountain peaks are towering, and there are falling rocks rolling down from time to time.
In less than 200 miles of mountain road, the army walked for more than four days, during which it was difficult to find even decent campsites, which can be said to have endured a lot of hardship.
When they walked out of the mountain road, not only the soldiers were relieved, but Lu Bu was also greatly relieved.
In such a section of the mountain road, there were more than 100 soldiers who were damaged, most of whom fell off the cliff with no bones.
Crossing Wangwu Mountain, Lu Bu did not lead a large army to aid Wenxi County, but cautiously led the army to the north along the foothills of the mountain, preparing to bypass from Yicheng, copy the back road of the white wave thieves, preemptively collect the two cities of Kejiangyi and Linfen, and cut off the passage for the white wave thieves besieging Wenxi County to escape back to the Baibo Valley.
This long-distance attack is similar to the reproduction of Lu Bu's defeat of the Black Mountain Thieves, and it is also taking advantage of the fact that the White Wave Thieves did not know in time that the Black Mountain Thieves had been defeated to catch them off guard.
Lu Bu was very sure that with Han Hao blocking the Yiguan, even if the white wave thieves learned of the defeat of the Black Mountain thieves, and wanted to pass on to the white wave thieves camp in Hedong County, they could only make a detour to merge the state, or make a detour to Luoyang, so that it would definitely come later than Lu Bu's army.
The time difference in the middle was enough for Lu Bu to take it by surprise, make full use of the captured prisoners of the White Wave Thieves, deceive open the gates of the two cities of Jiangyi and Linfen, and wait for the White Wave Thieves to defeat themselves without a fight after learning that the back road was cut off.
Yicheng is just a small city, the white wave thieves only left less than a hundred soldiers here, and they are all old, weak, sick and disabled, as soon as they saw Gao Shun leading the army, they immediately scattered birds and beasts, and they didn't even spread the news, and they were taken by Gao Shun.
Yicheng, which originally had only more than 1,000 people, suddenly poured into 8,000 soldiers at this moment, and it was suddenly overcrowded, and even on both sides of the streets and alleys, there were Bingzhou soldiers sleeping on the ground, they were all wrapped in a dirty sandwich linen, and the blades were placed by their sides, one by one.
Lu Bu, accompanied by Gao Shun and Cao Xing and others, made rounds around, and seeing this situation, he realized that there were too many things to do.
Previously, his main energy was all on other major matters, ignoring many low-level details, but now after a long journey, he finally shared the joys and sorrows with his soldiers and experienced the hardships of the soldiers.
Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the field marching equipment can be said to be extremely simple, with grain and grass and baggage, at least after camping, in what unit, the soldiers and tents can shelter from the wind, rain, frost and dew, and like this long-distance attack, it reflects the shortage of individual equipment of the soldiers, except for a sandwich linen, that is, cloth bags and leather armor weapons containing dry food, there is nothing else.
However, Lu Bu can only keep these problems in mind one by one at the moment, and he is unable to implement them. After all, he can be said to be under the fence now, he has no territory of his own, and if he wants to change, he is powerless.
"Quartermaster, I need a competent quartermaster!"
As he walked, Lu Bu shouted in his heart.
Today's military logistics matters of the Bingzhou Army are actually handled by the master Bo Jia Xu, and Jia Xu is a high-end talent in Lu Bu's mind, and he is a figure who belongs to the chief of staff, of course, he can't throw all these trivial matters of military logistics to him for a long time.
And Lu Bu thought further, the quartermaster he needed was not only in charge of grain, grass, and heavy military supplies, but also to be able to turn some of his advanced ideas into practical products, and manufacture them and equip them to the army.
In this way, it is necessary to gather a large number of blacksmiths, carpenters, and other craftsmen who can invent, create, and make some tools and products that are ahead of their time.
This requirement is extremely high for a quartermaster.
Until he returned to the county government that served as the big tent of the Chinese army, Lu Bu was still at a loss, during which he had wondered whether to choose one of the three of Wei Xu, Song Xian and Hou Cheng to temporarily assume the duties of quartermaster, but in a blink of an eye, he still gave up this idea.
The main reason is that these three have betrayed "Lu Bu" at the juncture, and he has always been a little uneasy about loyalty, and the importance of the quartermaster, in his mind, is not lower than that of a commander general.
In desperation, he could only put the matter aside for the time being, and wait for the white wave thief to be pacified, and then make a good calculation.
The army rested for a day, and in order to avoid long nights and dreams, they began to carry out the deception of the city.
The first target was Jiangyi, less than 100 people, led by Gao Shun, most of them were subdued Baibo thieves, and the rest were Gao Shun's personal guard elites, pretending to have gone through hardships, fled back from Hanoi County, and after blending into the city, he looked for an opportunity to open the city gate.
This team set off first, and two hours later, Lu Bu led the army to descend in the night, down the muddy water, and went straight to Jiangyi.
It was early winter, and the night was already cold, and the stars and moon shone brightly, which made it even colder. All the soldiers, wrapped in a layer of linen, hurried silently on the heels of their predecessors. As a commander, Lu Bu was also the same as his soldiers, carrying Fang Tian's halberd, carrying a long knife, surrounded by Hao Meng, Wei Xu and others, he threw off his two long legs and strode forward.
Fortunately, the terrain here is flat, and it is not dangerous to go in the wrong direction, and a group of people who are black and oppressive are like a silent dragon, swimming along the muddy water.
After more than two hours, after several breaks in the middle, under the glow of the stars and moon, the outline of Jiangyi City appeared in everyone's field of vision, which immediately lifted everyone's spirits.
Everyone's thoughts are almost the same, after attacking the city, they can finally eat a good meal of meat, drink hot soup, find a warm place, and sleep beautifully.
There were still a few miles away from the city, and Lu Bu ordered the army to rest on the spot, commanded by Cao Xing, and he led 3,000 soldiers to the state, and quietly approached the south city gate.
According to the agreement with Gao Shun, he would seize the city gate at three o'clock in the morning and use the light as the sign.
Lu Bu led the crowd to sneak to a distance of three miles from the city, and the more leaky sounds in the city were clearly audible, and with a little identification, he knew that it was still ugly at the moment, and it was three minutes away from Yin, and there was still more than half an hour.
"Rest in place and stay vigilant!"
Lu Bu ordered in a low voice, and several messengers walked quickly behind him, repeating Lu Bu's military orders in a low voice as they went.
This is the time when people are most sleepy, and if you hurry up, you can take a good nap to relieve the fatigue of traveling overnight. The only fly in the ointment is that the stars and moon are cold, the cold wind is blowing, and in order to hide, you can't make a fire to keep warm.
All the soldiers were ordered, one lay down next to the other, snuggled up to each other to keep warm, just a moment's work, and in the murmuring of the water, there were more snoring sounds one after another.
Lu Bu didn't feel sleepy, he lay on his back on the sackcloth alone, looking up at the bright starry sky in a daze, thinking about his own thoughts.
Since the crossing, he has been busy, and there are few leisure moments like this, he can leisurely look up at the starry sky, and miss his cute girlfriend Xiaochan in the future. After experiencing such a miraculous thing as crossing over, he faintly had a kind of realization that the scene of the White Gate Tower he saw in his dream in the later life was probably not just a dream, but a memory that had not been erased in a hundred lifetimes.
Maybe it was the parting of life and death on the White Gate Tower, which was too unforgettable, so although it had gone through more than 2,000 years and a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, he still never completely forgot it. And now, he finally has such an opportunity to return to the starting point of all this, to make up for his shortcomings, to change his fate.
"I must change! I can definitely change! ”
Lu Bu looked at the Milky Way hanging in the middle of the sky, and the meteors that crossed the sky among the stars, clenched his right hand into a fist, and shouted firmly to himself in his heart, cheering. I don't know how long it took, Hao Meng came to Lu Bu's side and whispered excitedly: "Duwei, there is movement at the south gate!" ”