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On the wilderness of the south gate of Wancheng, the two armies faced each other, and a fierce battle was in full swing. "Top" point "small" said,

Sharp arrows fell like rain, the chariots of the two armies collided, people turned on their backs, and screams were repeated, but they were completely drowned out by the earth-shattering shouts of killing and the sound of galloping horses. There is no mercy on the battlefield.

When the chariot array was about to be destroyed, but seeing the flag bearers on the Jingzhou military marshal's platform waving the order flag, thousands of iron horsemen roared out, trying to use the cover of the chariot to attack the Chinese army of the Western Jin Dynasty.

"What does Pang Shiyuan want?" Seeing that five or six thousand Jingzhou iron cavalry was coming, Zhuge Liang frowned slightly, and muttered to himself.

Sima Yi, who was standing beside him, smiled slightly: "It's just a trick." Trying to storm the camp of our Chinese army with thousands of cavalry is tantamount to shaking a tree with a mayfly and hitting a stone with an egg, and seeking its own death. How could Pang Tong not know such a simple thing? If so, why send 6,000 cavalry to die? Therefore, he did this for only one purpose, which was to deceive our army to attack. ”

Zhuge Liang bowed his head and said: "It makes sense. In this case, the two of us were right in our previous judgment. Next, Pang Shiyuan was going to withdraw his troops by deception, so as to lure our army to chase and kill, so he fell into the trap he had dug in advance. ”

Sima Yi nodded happily, and said with disdain on his face: "The old skills are repeated, picking up people's teeth and wisdom, and Pang Shiyuan's skills are poor!" After sneering, Sima Yi continued: "Ten years ago, during the Sili War, Yuan Shao exhausted the strength of tens of thousands of troops and hollowed out several miles of wasteland, trying to kill our Xiliang army in one fell swoop. The result was that the cleverness was mistaken by the cleverness, and although tens of thousands of soldiers of our army were killed, nearly 200,000 allied troops were killed. Today's huge mirror lake is Yuan Shao's masterpiece during his lifetime. 300,000 soldiers in one fell swoop, it can really be described as a heinous crime. It is no wonder that Yuan Shao died of depression, but he worked hard all his life to marry Cao Operation.

His Majesty deliberately camped on the shore of Jinghu Lake on the way to the expedition. I would like to take this opportunity to warn us that the lessons of the past are still in front of us and we must not repeat the mistakes of the past. I don't think about it, Pang Tong actually repeated his old tricks this time, trying to deal with my Xiliang Iron Cavalry with a trap. Such a trick is really ridiculous and generous! ”

Zhuge Liang nodded slightly, and immediately ordered the giant shield soldiers to step forward, with the spears behind, and the archers shot freely. However, I don't know what he thinks, knowing that Jingzhou Tieqi is cheating. However, he still ordered Zhang Fei to lead the iron cavalry of the Vermilion Bird Battalion to rush out of battle and kill this cavalry that was used as bait by Pang Tong.

In the sound of horses' hooves, Zhang Fei led the 50,000 Vermilion Bird Battalion to rush out of the military formation, and clashed with the Jingzhou Iron Cavalry who rushed over on horseback. At this moment, the Jingzhou army then retreated, and the rear army became the front army and quickly withdrew from the battlefield. Retreat to Xiping Pass, twenty miles away.

"I wonder what the general means by this?" Seeing that the Jingzhou army retreated before being defeated, Sima Yi stretched out his hand and pointed to Zhang Fei, who was leading the army in pursuit, and the cavalry of the Vermilion Bird Battalion under his tent, and asked the reason in a puzzled whisper. Although he didn't say it, the implication was to question Kong Ming's order. questioned him why he wanted to let Zhang Fei's Suzaku Battalion go to his death.

Zhuge Liang shook his head lightly: "Zhong Da is not in a hurry, I will never regard the lives of the soldiers under my command as child's play, let alone let them die." Tell the truth. During last night's deliberations, I made it clear to Zhang Fei that he should lead the army to feign a pursuit. Along the way, pay attention to the evacuation route of the Jingzhou army, and then follow the pursuit. After the Jingzhou army withdrew from the battlefield. Our troops then followed, using thunderbolts to ask for directions, and then pursued them in a big way. In this way, it can not only make Pang Shiyuan's plan to lure the enemy fail, but also take advantage of the victory to pursue, so that the Jingzhou army's deception and defeat will become a fiasco. Therefore, as long as the pit is destroyed in this battle, our army will win! ”

Just as Zhuge Liang was speaking, Zhang Fei had already led 50,000 Vermilion Bird Battalion Iron Cavalry and 40,000 Infantry Army of the Front Army to chase and kill murderously. After chasing for several miles, he saw that Zhang Fei commanded nearly 100,000 troops to disperse, bypassing the empty space of the rear army deliberately left by the Jingzhou army, and the two wings detoured, and continued to pursue by victory.

Immediately, the long-range strike weapon of the Chinese army's camp, the thunderbolt car, quickly moved forward, and more than 100 thunderbolt vehicles threw stones at the same time, and the big stones smashed into the empty wilderness. With a loud "boom" sound, the hollowed-out ground collapsed and the dust was flying, but a pit about 1,500 meters long and 1,000 meters wide was gradually revealed.

"All the soldiers obeyed my orders, and the whole army attacked and killed ———!" The moment the pit appeared, Zhuge Liang drew his sword without hesitation, pointed his sword forward, and brazenly ordered to attack.

"Kill, kill, kill!" In the deafening shouts of killing, the wolf cavalry battalion and the iron cavalry of the Longxiang battalion galloped brazenly, and the 30,000 soldiers of the rear army followed closely behind, killing the Jingzhou army that pretended to withdraw the army. At this moment, the Western Jin Dynasty army was like a rainbow, 120,000 iron horsemen galloped, and 50,000 infantry troops ran wildly, tightly biting the defeated Jingzhou army to chase and kill the past.

"Hoo ———!" Seeing that more than 100,000 troops were chasing up, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Yang Fu all sighed in unison and rode their horses to the pit. At this moment, there are still 20,000 horses following them, but the battle in front of them no longer requires them to go to the front line to direct the battle, and the battalion owners will be fully capable of dealing with the next battle. Therefore, the strength of charging into battle does not need the three of them to do it themselves, just sit in the rear, otherwise it will be a cause for chaos for the army, and the effort will be thankless. It was Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Yang Fu who were all self-aware and consciously stayed in the rear and left a reserve to deal with unexpected emergencies.

Looking down at the huge depression in front of him, Sima Yi said with palpitations: "Such a large pit requires at least tens of thousands of people to dig day and night, and it is not easy to avoid the detection of our army scouts!" In order to break my Xiliang Iron Cavalry, Pang Tong really took great pains! ”

Yang Fu said with deep sympathy: "If it weren't for the long history of the enemy, the conspiracy of the Jingzhou army would have been broken early, and I am afraid that more than 100,000 soldiers of our army would have died here." Pang Tong's move is sinister and vicious! ”

After listening to the words of the two of them, Zhuge Liang shook his head slightly, and sighed in a low voice: "I am the iron cavalry of the Western Jin Dynasty who has won the world bravely, and has been fighting in the east and west for more than ten years, and the south and the north have been fighting in the east and the west, and the south and the north have been galloping and invincible. Relocation of places. If we face such a powerful war horse, I'm afraid we will be like Pang Shiyuan. Find a way to break the Xiliang Xiao ride. After all, my Jin army has always been known for its iron cavalry. The archers and horses are all proficient, and the strong bow and hard crossbow are far above the Jingzhou army, and they are majestic in the world. It is no exaggeration to say that as long as our Xiliang Iron Cavalry is not destroyed, the Southern Han Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty will be exterminated within ten years. Therefore, the situation in front of him is also Pang Shiyuan's helpless move, and in the head-on decisive battle, the only way to break the pit is to break the war horse, and there is no other good way. ”

Sima Yi and Yang Fu nodded in agreement. Sima Yi said: "Since the Battle of Jizhou, Your Majesty will no longer use troops. In addition to the conquest of Yizhou, more than half of our army's soldiers and horses are resting, building ordnance, fighting hard and waiting for opportunities. This time, we set up a clever plan to lure the snake out of the hole, drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and then strike preemptively, and then annihilate all the enemy troops that entered the division in one fell swoop.

Before that. I have always believed that the reason why our army was invincible and invincible in a hundred battles relied on the careful planning of hundreds of generals and civil servants and strategists in the army. It wasn't until I personally experienced the Battle of Yingchuan and the decisive battle of Wancheng in front of me that I suddenly woke up to the fact that His Majesty had already begun to lay out when he conquered the princes of various towns. Plan ahead and cast a big net, and the rope that weaves this net is 400,000 iron horsemen. It is intended to wipe out all the princes of all towns! ”

Yang Fu continued: "That's true. After the battle of Jizhou, His Majesty scattered all the battalions of war horses. General Dian Wei's Tiger Camp was stationed in Chang'an Sanfu. Xu Chu's Qinglong Battalion and Zhao Yun's Wushuang Iron Cavalry were stationed in Sili, and Zhang Yan and Xu Huang led Feiyan Light Cavalry to the Black Mountain. Kebineng's Youzhou army was stationed in Youzhou, Zhang Liao's Wuwei battalion was stationed in Hefei, General Zhou Yu's Shuofeng battalion was stationed in Yuzhou, the Eagle Guard was stationed in Yizhou, and Jin Yiwei and Feixiong were stationed in Jinggi.

In this battle, His Majesty secretly ordered the 150,000 iron cavalry troops of the Longxiang Battalion, the Wolf Cavalry Battalion and the Vermilion Bird Battalion to personally lead the army to attack Guandu, and then ordered General Xu Rong to command the Youzhou Battalion, Feiyan Light Cavalry and Wushu Battalion to go south to Jizhou, while General Zhou Yu led the Wuwei Battalion, Shuofeng Battalion, Feixiong Battalion and the Trap Camp to Yanzhou in the north, and advanced from the north to the north to attack the Northern Wei Dynasty. At the same time, Li Xian, the king of Shu, personally led the Eagle Guard Iron Cavalry and Lü Meng's tent to go down the river and attack Jiangdong; Gan Ning led the Jinfan Battalion and the Yangzhou Naval Division to attack Jiangdong Water Village head-on, and hunted Jiangdong in the open and in the dark. It can really be said that the three armies are exhausted, and the four roads are carried out at the same time, and the first battle can be decided! ”

Zhuge Liang nodded happily and laughed loudly: "Now that Cao Ren's army has been destroyed, after we annihilate the main force of the Jingzhou army, Your Majesty will win the throne and reign in the world is just around the corner!" Hahaha"

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been the thirteenth year of Jian'an, that is, 208 AD.

The army of the Western Jin Dynasty fought at the same time in the south and north battlefields with one enemy and two enemies, and fought for many years, and the war lasted for five years.

Until the beginning of the thirteenth year of Jian'an, Li Li's southern expeditionary army with Zhuge Liang as the commander, Ju Yi as the deputy marshal, Sima Yi as the military division, Yang Fu as the main secretary of the army, led the wolf cavalry army, Longxiang battalion, tiger camp, Zhuque battalion, Xiandeng battalion, Wuwei battalion and other 300,000 troops to conquer Jingzhou in the south, after five years of fierce battles, finally broke through Xiangyang City, waved his army to capture the counties of Jingzhou. After the fall of the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty, Emperor Liu Biao of the Han Dynasty fled Jingzhou with his family in a hurry, crossed the Yangtze River in the south, and attempted to take refuge in Jiangdong.

On the way to escape, Liu Biao became depressed and fell ill and died of illness on a warship bound for Jiangdong. After Liu Biao's death, Cai Mao and the Kuai brothers conspired to defect, kidnapped Liu Cong, the young lord of the Southern Han Dynasty, led his troops back to Jiangxia, surrendered to the Western Jin army, and openly declared that they wanted to sacrifice the Empress Cai to the Jin Emperor Li Li. Unexpectedly, Emperor Li Li of the Jin Dynasty rejected the gifts of Cai Mao and others, and instead gave the Cai family to Guan Yu, who had repeatedly made meritorious contributions in the battle of the Southern Expedition, and gave a pair of sisters around the Cai family to Fan Yong, a sworn brother who had been stationed in Yongzhou for more than ten years. The brothers Liu Qi and Liu Cong were sent to Chang'an to be accompanied by their "imperial uncles" Liu Zhang and Liu Bei.

The following month after the fall of Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Gan Ning led the Jinfan Battalion and the Yangzhou Naval Division to break through the water village of Wu County and enter Jiangdong. At the same time, Li Xian, the king of Shu, led the Jiangzhou naval army under the account of Xiongyingwei and Lü Meng, traveled for 3,000 miles, lasted four years, pacified Jiaozhou, and then led the army to attack the four counties of Jiangdong, and joined forces with Gan Ning to conquer Jiangdong. So, immediately after Liu Qi and Liu Cong, Sun Shao, the young lord of Jiangdong, was also sent to Chang'an to "raise his days" with his uncle Sun Quan.

After the destruction of Jingzhou and Jiangdong one after another, the Wei State, which had been fighting hard for five years, was attacked on all sides and could not support it alone. However, Cao Cao did not have the consciousness to retreat in the face of difficulties, and devoted himself to fighting with the Western Jin Dynasty army, fighting to the death without surrendering, and held out for two years.

In 210 AD, that is, in May of the fifteenth year of Jian'an, Yanzhou and Qingzhou under the rule of the Northern Wei Dynasty fell one after another, and half of the counties in Jizhou had also fallen into the hands of Emperor Li Li of the Jin Dynasty. In desperation, Emperor Cao Cao of Wei made a desperate bet and fought a decisive battle in the northern suburbs of the imperial capital with 200,000 soldiers and horses led by Emperor Li Li of the Jin Dynasty. In the end, the Wei army was defeated, Cao Hong, Cao Zhen, Cao Pi, Cao Zhang and other Cao relatives and nobles died on the battlefield, more than half of the Wei generals were killed, and only the Wei Emperor Cao Cao was seriously wounded and captured.

In the spring of 212 AD, Emperor Li Li of the Jin Dynasty personally conquered Liaodong, quelled the rebellion of the Gongsun family of Liaodong, and led a large army to invade the Liaodong Peninsula and pacify Fuyu, Goguryeo and other Liaodong vassal states. At this point, the four seas surrendered, the world was unified, and Li Li, the emperor of the Western Jin Dynasty, was in charge of Shenzhou and ruled the world.

In 220 AD, that is, in the eighth year of the Yellow Dragon of the Western Jin Dynasty, Emperor Li Li hosted a banquet in Weiyang Palace for Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Liu Zhang, Liu Cong, Sun Quan, Sun Shao and other former princes.

At the banquet, Li Li, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Liu Zhang sat around the table, and there were no words to each other, but there was no hatred for each other, at least Cao Cao did not show hatred for Li Li. Half an hour later, Cao Cao and Liu Bei were so drunk that they were already drunk. After getting drunk, Cao Cao and Liu Bei no longer had any scruples, opened their mouths, counted the gains and losses of Li Li in the past eight years after he pacified the world, and then turned over the old accounts of eight years ago, commented on Li Li, and even pointed at Li Li's nose and scolded when he was emotional. Liu Zhang didn't dare to say much, he didn't say a word during the banquet, and Gu Zi buried himself in drinking.

However, Li Li, who had passed the age of not being confused, was not angry at all, while listening to Cao Cao and Liu Bei unscrupulously counting himself, he poured wine for the two of them, and interjected from time to time to add the old things that they had gradually forgotten, lest they ponder and meditate for a long time but were stunned and couldn't say clearly.

After the banquet, Sun Quan, who was in his prime of life, left a sentence before leaving: "Only the victor is qualified to judge the merits and demerits, and the history books are written by the victors." The two uncles (Cao Cao and Liu Bei) were offended, and asked Your Majesty to forgive me! After speaking, Sun Quan and Sun Shao's uncle and nephew slowly walked out of Weiyang Palace with the drunken Cao Cao and Liu Bei, and then returned to the "mansion" under the escort of the guards.

Seeing them leave, Li Li was stunned, and said to himself: "Unexpectedly, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Quan became friends, and they also formed a deep relationship between uncle and nephew. Twenty eventful years, forty years, I, Li Li, won the world, but in the end I became a loner. The world is impermanent! ”

At the end of the banquet, the people dispersed, and the sun set in the west. Li Li stood in front of the Weiyang Palace, looking up at the sunset with his hands in his hands, and a long-lost ballad appeared in his mind:

"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes.

Success or failure turns empty).

The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times.

On the white-haired fisherman river, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze.

A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet.

How many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking. ”

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