Chapter 756 - Besiege and kill Guan Yu
As Xu Shu expected, when Liu Bei's army pressed the border, and the main force of the Fifth Army Corps had not yet arrived, there were indeed many Jingzhou soldiers who had drums in their hearts. They were originally soldiers of the Western Shu Kingdom, and this time they rebelled after listening to Wei Yan's words.
Of course, in fact, they also just knew that they were rebelling, and they had changed from the Jingzhou soldiers of the Western Shu to the Jingzhou soldiers of the Celestial Empire.
has not fully adapted to this transformation, and then Liu Bei, the emperor of the Han Yuan Dynasty, appeared, and it was still the appearance of a large army. For a while, the people in the army were panicked, and they didn't think that with their own 300,000 people, they could stop Liu Bei's 800,000 army.
It was the Xishu soldiers, and there were still feelings in their hearts, and under the pressure of the situation, finally many generals began to support in their hearts, and when the Nanjun City was not closed, they went out of the city on the grounds of leading the army to inspect, and re-surrendered to Liu Bei.
It seems that there are not a few people who do this, more than two-thirds, which is equivalent to 300,000 troops going to 200,000, and only 100,000 people remain.
The remaining 100,000 are basically loyal to Wei Yan, of course, they will choose this way, more for the sake of the face of the Celestial Empire, many of them think that the future world will definitely be the Celestial Empire, so it will be the wisest choice to go to the past now.
Another 200,000 troops, Liu Bei has a million troops in his hands, although there are new soldiers among them, and there are also soldiers who return to obedience, and the combat power is not very strong, but after all, the number of people is there, and with one million against one hundred thousand, he is still full of confidence.
Under an order, Liu Bei took action, with Hu Che'er as the general, and brought the vanguard of 300,000 to Nanjun.
Hu Che'er was originally a famous general in the Western Shu Kingdom, and if he had to be named the General of the Five Tigers, then he would also be among them, second only to Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhang Ren, and Wei Yan.
Hu Che'er naturally knows the names of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, and he has also seen the kung fu of these two, and he knows that he is not his opponent, and he is also convinced. It's just that Zhang Ren and Wei Yan are also in front of him, which naturally makes people unhappy.
This time, Hu Che'er just took advantage of this opportunity to meet Wei Yan for a while, and let the world know which of the two is stronger.
It can be said that Hu Che'er came to Nanjun with enough confidence, and in his opinion, as soon as the 300,000 army arrived, Wei Yanjun should flee from the wind. But I never thought that as soon as I entered Nanjun, I was almost surrounded, and after the banner of the Fifth Army of the Dynasty was raised, and Xu Huang, who was dressed in an orange cloak, led the army to rush out, and the Xishu army was defeated.
To say that over the years, the Fifth Army can be regarded as a relatively special legion. Because they are rarely seen in ordinary wars, most of the time they are tasked with protecting the Celestial Empire. It's like being in Huguan, and the five legions are guarding for many years.
In this way, the Fifth Army Corps is not famous abroad, and everyone knows that this army fights very calmly. But only the soldiers of the Fifth Legion knew how hard they trained in peacetime, especially how high the Legion Commander Xu Huang demanded of them.
As an old man who followed Zhang Chao earlier, both Xu Huang and Xu Shu won the trust of the First Emperor of Heaven, but why did they rarely participate in wars in peacetime? The first is because there are many legions in the Celestial Empire, and the problem can be solved without the help of the five legions, and the second point is that the five legions have become a base for training recruits.
It's like the First Legion known as the Guards, most of their soldiers are trained by the Five Legions, and the strength of the First Legion is well known, so you can see how powerful the Five Legions are.
This time, with mental calculation or unintentional, Xu Shu had already set a trap, Hu Che'er jumped in with a large army, where would he be better, the siege of Nanjun was only five days, enough to destroy the 70,000 army of Xishu, capture 60,000 people, Hu Che'er fled with the defeated army.
Liu Bei failed in the first battle, which made him very angry, especially after getting the news that Zhang Chao was stepping up his attack on the Western Regions and his second brother Guan Yu was in danger, he decided to personally march and came to Nanjun with an army of more than 800,000 people. After analyzing the situation, Xu Shu led his troops to retreat and put the main force on Nanjun in a defensive posture. With his current strength, it is still difficult to defeat Liu Bei by taking the initiative, so it is better to defend first and look for opportunities.
If you want to play the city defense battle, it is the specialty of the five legions, in Huguan for so many years, it is known as an impenetrable fortress, which shows its strength.
It can be said that there are five legions guarding Nanjun, and Liu Bei doesn't even think about what advantage he wants to take there, the army is facing off here, which gives Zhang Chao enough time to annihilate Guan Yu in Xicheng.
Among them, there is also a small episode, that is, after the main force of the Fifth Army passed through Xiangcheng in Yuzhou and entered Ye County in Jingzhou, Sun Ce, the small overlord of Jiangdong, led the army to attack Xuchang City under the advice of Zhou Yu, the left army division.
The reason why the main force of the Fifth Army Corps was released out of Xiangcheng was that Dongwu fought this idea. It's just that in Xuchang City, there is also the deputy army commander Ji Ling to guard, and the 100,000 troops left behind have become a natural danger, so that the Eastern Wu army will return disappointed.
Zhang Chao, who was outside the West City, received the news that Xuchang City was attacked and Nanjun was attacked one after another.
Zhang Chao is not worried about all this, he believes that even if Xu Shu dares to lead the main force into Jingzhou, Xuchang's defense should not have problems. It's just that after a long time, it is inevitable that the situation will change, and he needs to hurry up and take Xicheng.
At this time, Zhang Chao got another good news, that is, Zhang Liao, the commander of the Seventh Legion, was not killed, but he also captured Zhang Ren, the general of Shu, and drove away the 200,000 cavalry of the Wuqiang State in the Western Regions, and at the same time took Mianzhu City, an important pass in the direction of Chengdu City, and the Seventh Army Corps has begun to march in the direction of Chengdu.
Zhang Liao did not die, but also captured Mianzhu, which made Zhang Chao very happy, and even became merciful to Guan Yu in Xicheng. He called Lu Bu, the commander of the vanguard army, and personally ordered: "If you want him to capture Guan Yu alive, don't kill him unless he has to." ”
Guan Yu's name, there was an important record in the Three Kingdoms, in the face of such a fierce general, Zhang Chao thought that in addition to Lu Bu's ability to capture alive, it was not safe to send other people up.
Lu Bu, who got the order, was naturally complacent, he knew that this was the emperor's attention to himself, and it was also an opportunity for his own performance, which he must cherish.
After getting out of the buckle of a super-large account, Lu Bu took the main force of the vanguard army and went straight to Xicheng. At this time, in the city, the Xishu army had been wiped out by tenths, and there were less than 30,000 horses left to guard the two streets outside the city lord's mansion.
Guan Yu, who has less than 30,000 horses, knows that the final decisive battle is coming, and at this moment he is ready to dedicate himself to Xishu, but he really wants to kill one or two important generals of the Celestial Empire before he dies in battle, so it is worth dying.
The entire 200,000 elite vanguard army launched an attack on the Xicheng City Lord's Mansion early in the morning. Only three and a half hours later, he broke through two streets in a row and came to the front of the city lord's mansion, and at this moment, his body was nine feet long, and his hair was two feet long; The face is like a heavy jujube, and the lips are like grease; Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, dignified appearance, majestic Guan Yu has already held the green dragon glaive knife in his hand and rode on the healthy horse, standing on the street in front of the city lord's mansion.
Guan Yu's side, including his son Guan Xing, is only more than 200 sergeants, which is also the last remaining strength in his hands.
Here, there is one thing that has to be said, that is, in the face of the siege of the four legions of the Celestial Empire, the 380,000 Xishu army still showed great bravery, they held on here for more than a month, and the number of war dead reached more than 200,000, and only 130,000 were captured, most of them were captured because of injuries, which was rare in the past process of the Celestial Empire against the enemy.
From this point of view, it is enough to show that Guan Yu led the troops well. And now, there are only 200 people left, but none of these people really have the intention of escaping, looking like that, it is clear that they want to fight to the death with the Celestial Empire.
Guan Yu was standing on the main street, and the commander of a pioneer regiment was eager to make meritorious service, and after a shout, he jumped out of the team with a deputy regiment commander and a battalion commander and rushed straight towards Guan Yu.
From the moment they charged, the three generals formed a zigzag and began to attack at the same time on the front, left and right.
The so-called two fists are hard to beat four hands, and in the face of three attacks, unless you have three heads and six arms, otherwise, I am afraid it will be difficult to get any benefits.
But it was in the face of such a formation, Guan Yu was indeed Danfeng's eyes narrowed slightly, as if he didn't care, and waited until the opponent's war horse was less than two feet away from him, then he opened his eyes suddenly, and then raised his right arm with a slash, and a knife as fast as lightning came out of the air, and when he slashed into the air, he brought up a stream of blood.
Just one sword, killed a head of the Celestial Empire, and then Guan Yu shouted loudly, and then the horse neighed, and then suddenly stood up, taking advantage of this horse leap, Guan Yu on the horse immediately waved the big knife to the left, and the deputy army commander was head on the ground, blood gushing.
After killing the two officers of the Celestial Empire with two swords, the four hooves of the war horse fell to the ground again, and then Guan Yu stroked his beard and squinted at the only remaining battalion commander.
When Guan Yu took out the knife just now, the battalion commander also made a move, and a halberd swept forward, but the war horse suddenly neighed, making him hit the air. But it was that empty opportunity, and the regiment commander and deputy regiment commander above him died one after another, and this scene made him now in a cold sweat.
Everyone said that Guan Yu had the ability to be an enemy of 10,000 people, and these vanguard troops didn't believe it before, but now they know that this person's strength is far from being something they can match.