Chapter 385 Lu Feng flew first and rode to Dong
Lu Zhi said that Zhao Xing was meticulous in his calculations. It's really not an exaggeration to be able to get a head start on everything. For example, his side had just begun to order the troops to retreat, and Guan Yu and Lu Bu, who had been waiting for a long time on the Qiangmashui side, also began to calculate Dong Zhuolai in full swing. This time, whether Dong Zhuo can return to Qi County alive is really a question.
As explained above, Dong Zhuo, who secretly hooked up with Lu Bu, specially sent a special envoy Li Su to lurk in Lu Bu's camp, as the liaison person to plot against Lu Bu, and has been paying attention to the movements of the Flying Tiger Army.
Under Li Su's careful observation, he found that many middle-level generals in the Flying Tiger Army were missing. And every night, he can always hear the sound of arresting people outside the tent, and even the tragic cries for help from the ground killers. It seems that the internal purge mentioned by Lu Bu is being carried out in an orderly manner, which further strengthens Li Su's determination to believe that Lu Bu will defect to Dong Zhuo.
Ever since the imperial envoys set out from Luoyang, Tong Yuan, who was a strong martial artist, had secretly followed Shi A's whereabouts, and from time to time he would leave some markers for the Shadow Soldiers to discover. Now it seems that Tong Yuan, the master, is really doing his best, and I don't know what wish Zhao Xing made to him, so that this elder, who has never asked about the world, can work so hard for Bingzhou.
Shi A entered Lu Zhi's camp on the front foot, and Zhao Xing learned this extremely important news on the back foot. So Zhao Xing immediately sent an order to Guan Yu and Lu Bu to launch the largest attack on Dong Zhuo when Lu Zhi, Huangfu Song and Cao Sun's combined forces returned to the west of the Yellow River!
Since Dong Zhuo kidnapped the prince and also had the intention of plotting against him, Zhao Xing, the first person to rebel, naturally would not be polite to Dong Zhuo. On the road to supreme authority, all competitors are enemies and must be cut out without mercy. What's more, Zhao Xing's attack on Dong Zhuo, whether in terms of the actual situation or personal feelings, was not at all worried.
After Lu Bu received the secret report, he immediately came to Li Su, saying that now that the Flying Tiger Army was all under his control, he could defect to General Zhenxi, and asked Li Su to hand over a letter of allegiance written by himself to Dong Zhuo, which was also densely pressed with the fingerprints of the generals of the Flying Tiger Army, which could be regarded as taking the initiative to hand over the handle to Dong Zhuo.
Li Su was overjoyed after hearing this, and immediately went to Dong Zhuo's camp to report. Li Ru, who had always been suspicious, carefully inquired about Li Su about the recent situation of Lu Bu and the Flying Tiger Army, and learned that Lu Bu had already purged his generals, so he believed that Lu Bu really came to defect to Dong Zhuo. So Dong Zhuo ordered Li Su to return to Lu Bu's camp again and rendezvous at the agreed time and place.
During Li Su's trip to Dong Zhuo's camp, the Flying Tiger Army seized the time to carry out a general mobilization of the whole army. All officers at and above the company commander level participated in the operational analysis meeting, and all levels made careful arrangements for how to conceal the intention of the attack and how to deal with the operational objectives after receiving the order for the general attack.
Li Su, who had been kept in the dark, happily returned to the Flying Tiger Army and told Lu Bu Dong Zhuo's secret order. Lu Bu agreed on the surface, but secretly immediately sent the relevant information to Guan Yu. The two of them continued to cooperate intimately, preparing to send Guan Ping and Lu Qiling a more luxurious wedding gift.
According to the agreement between the two sides, Lü Bu led the Flying Tiger Army to change banners on December 24, and the whole army broke away from the Zhenbei Army and began to march towards the designated area.
Li Ru, who has always been scheming, was still worried about Lu Bu's fraudulent surrender, so he secretly made many settings to prevent Lu Bu from making a surprise attack in the end. For example, the area that Lü Bu was required to go to was in the rear of Dong Zhuo's army's retreat to the west, and the Flying Tiger Army was required to keep a distance from Dong Zhuo's main force of more than 50,000 at all times. According to Li Ru's plan, placing Lu Bu between himself and Lu Zhi's army can form an absolute deterrent, and he is not afraid of what Lu Bu's 10,000 Flying Tiger Army can turn up.
In fact, Guan Ping, Hu Feiya and others tried their best to arrange for Lu Bu to surrender by fraud, so that Lu Bu could be embellished behind Dong Zhuo's army, and finally form a powerful situation of flanking the front and back in the battlefield situation. In the past, as long as the Blue Wolf Army and the Flying Tiger Army made a slight move, Dong Zhuojun would move closer to Lu Zhi like a frightened rabbit, and it would be difficult to form a favorable situation of encirclement before and after.
According to Guan Ping's diagram, the most favorable moment for the Flying Tiger Army to launch an attack was when Dong Zhuo was ambushed by Guan Yu on the way to move in the direction of Gaonu after receiving Lu Zhi's withdrawal order. And the key to whether this battle can be won completely lies in an information point, that is, Dong Zhuo and Li Ru do not know that the number of the Blue Wolf Army is now a full 30,000, not only 10,000 as they expected.
With Guan Yu leading 30,000 elite cavalry plus 10,000 Flying Tiger Army after the break, Dong Zhuo's Xiliang cavalry of nearly 60,000 people could basically be defeated, and the key to action was suddenness and speed.
Lu Bu's play is performed to this extent, even if it is still suspected, but at least it dispels the possibility that Dong Zhuo is worried about being ambushed on the way back to the west. If the Flying Tiger Army and the Blue Wolf Army are still 20,000 people, Dong Zhuo still has to worry about the safety on the westward journey, maybe he will wait to join Lu Zhi's army and leave, now that there is Lu Bu to vote, what else does Dong Zhuo have to fear?
In order to strengthen Dong Zhuo's plan to return to Qi County as soon as possible, Zhao Xing also informed Ma Teng in advance that he had done some tricks. As a relatively weak force guarding Xiliang, Dong Zhuo has always suppressed Ma Teng in terms of strength, and Zhao Xing secretly conspired with Ma Teng to calculate Dong Zhuo, which is a matter of hitting it off.
Zhao Xing asked Ma to vacate his troops and drive the remnants of the rebellious Qiang people in the Jincheng area to the east, until Dong Zhuo's sphere of influence, that is, the area of Longxi County and Hanyang County. Zhao Xing believed that once Dong Zhuo learned that his rear foundation was unstable, he would definitely be in a hurry.
Sure enough, just two days before Li Su returned to report that Lu Bu could start the incident, Dong Zhuo received an urgent report from his hometown, saying that traces of the rebel Qiang had been found in Longxi and Hanyang, and asked Dong Zhuo to send troops back to stabilize the situation as soon as possible.
After Dong Zhuo received the secret report, he was so anxious that he was restless, and he had already moved the idea of taking the lead in withdrawing the army, but he was dissuaded by the generals. Everyone said that they might as well wait for the movement of the Flying Tiger Army, and maybe they could get a vote before leaving.
It is said that opportunism kills people, and it is really true. If it weren't for Dong Zhuo's covetousness of Lu Bu's 10,000 well-equipped Flying Tiger Army, and if it weren't for the fact that Dong Zhuo's generals were afraid of being ambushed by Guan and Lu, the Xiliang Army might have been able to leave for Qi County a few days earlier, which would have avoided an unwarranted disaster.
Of course, this is all a conclusion of a bystander, for a person in the game, who can see it so clearly and thoroughly? Even Zhao Xing, after many years, once frankly admitted that he did not expect that Lu Bu would also use tricks to easily and smoothly win the second high-slave war.
So, what kind of scene and ending is the second high-slave war planned by Guan Ping, Hu Feiya and other small characters, and Guan Yu and Lu Bu go all out?