Today's climate is quite dry, the mountains outside the city are full of wild flowers, forest birds flying, and the brilliant sunlight is sprinkled on the earth, reflecting a quiet and peaceful place.

There were originally large fields and villages in Dongcheng, but later the people were relocated to Jiangxia, so the outside of the city gradually became barren.

The original fields have been turned into wasteland, the villages have become ruins, overgrown with weeds, shaded by trees, and the wilderness has become green and full of life, except for the roads that are often repaired by the defenders of the sun.

On the road in the northeast of Xunyang County leading to Huainan Songziwan County and other cities, a big tree on the side of the road covers the sky, dense rattan is hanging down, lush basil grows, swaying with the wind, and thorns extend from both sides of the left and right roads.

At this time, a ring-headed knife cut off the mighty rattan, and swept away the thorns on both sides with a halberd, and the basil weeds were also cleaned up, clearing the originally messy country road out of a rammed earth road.

Sun Quan rode on horseback, watched the soldiers in front of him clear the road, and said to the master next to him: "Gu now believes that Liu Bei will only be on guard against Gu and will not attack for at least a few years. ”

Bu Qi smiled and said: "Does Wu Hou think that Zhao Yun is looking for Yang, and he has not cleared the road to Huangmei Pavilion in the south, Guanting in the east, and Shilian in the north?" ”

"Hmm."

Sun Quan nodded.

If the road is not cleared, it will be difficult for the brigade to pass, which proves that Zhao Yun's task in Xunyang is to defend.

Bu Qi said: "This is not necessarily, after all, it is not difficult to clean up the road, not to mention that they have Jiangxia sailors, even if they attack Jiangdong, they should not take the Huainan route, but take Jiujiang from the other side of the river, and then go down the river." ”

"That's right."

Sun Quan thought about it, Buqi was right.

Zhao Yunjun can only fight the Huainan route, but there are already heavy troops in Jiangdong, not to mention that it is estimated that Cao Jun will be encountered before he reaches the Huaixu Mouth, so Liu Bei's group will definitely not take Huainan to fight Jiangdong, but will take Jiujiang.

Therefore, this does not seem to prove that Liu Bei's group has a defensive policy towards Jiangdong, and it is very likely that they still want to annex Jiangdong, but they are forced to send troops to the western front first due to Cao Cao's pressure.

Now Sun Quan on the Eastern Front has brazenly sent troops, Sun Jiao, Xu Sheng and Yu Tuo are fighting extremely smoothly in Jingnan, and Lü Meng's army has raided Xiakou, and he will also surround Xunyang.

The three roads are carried out simultaneously, if Jingnan goes well, Sun Jiao will control Yiling and other places, hold Liu Bei's reinforcements, and then support Xiakou, so that as long as his side can quickly capture Xunyang, there will only be Xiakou in the entire Jingzhou except for Nanyang.

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At that time, he can go to Nanyang in the north to cooperate with Cao's army to annihilate Shen Chen's department, and in the south, he can first besiege Xiakou and seize the entire territory of Jingzhou except Nanyang, and then sit on the mountain in Zhangling and other places in Nanjun to watch the tiger fight, and watch Cao Jun and Shen Chen's dog eat dog.

I have to say that at least strategically, Sun Quan's move is correct, it is difficult for Jiangdong forces to develop in Huainan and Huaibei, and even if Huainan is obtained, Cao Cao's infantry cannot be defeated in Henan. Only by seizing Jingzhou and standing on three feet can there be further possibilities.

So in a sense, Sun Quan and Liu Bei have no old feuds, and they are allies on the surface, but the territorial problems between them have already caused the result of life and death on both sides, which is the so-called geopolitics in later generations.

Sun Quan's army moved along the road, in addition to the 20,000 horses around him, there were 30,000 in the rear, and then Huangmei Pavilion in the south was close to the direction of Peng Lize, that is, there were still 30,000 people in Taibai Lake in the later generations.

A total of 80,000, rushing to find the sun.

The greenery on both sides of the road is towering, and the endless plain is lush and green, overgrown with wild grass and basil, as deep as the human waist, and Zhou Yu ambushed Huang Zu in this place.

Sun Quan naturally knew that this side was overgrown with weeds because it had been uninhabited for many years, and he could set up an ambush, so he had already sent people to go deep into it.

After making sure that no one was ambushed, the army commander drove straight in, and he had already seen the sun-seeking city from a distance.

I saw that at the end of the road stands a towering and tall city, Xunyang north leans on the remaining veins of Dabie Mountain, west is the vast plain official road, straight to Qichun, east is Peng Lize, northeast can go to Huainan, although the south is also Peng Lize, to the Yangtze River is Chaisang.

Therefore, this place can be said to be extended in all directions, it is Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Huainan three places to rush, when Liu Bei was interested in the very important special geographical location here, only with Guiyang County for a small half of the Lujiang River.

Otherwise, with Shen Chen's Zhuge Liang's character, they would not have done this kind of loss-making business.

At this moment, Sun Quan's army came in a mighty way, in order to first seize the important strategic place of Xunyang, and then use this as a base point to seize Jiangxia and Zhangling in the northwest, and go along the Yangtze River in the west, so that Nanjun can be obtained, and Jingzhou can be in the hands of Sun Quan except Nanyang.

After seeing the city in the distance, Sun Quan thought for a moment in his heart, and said to Zhou Tai beside him: "Youping, you let Demou Gong and Wen Jue lead 10,000 horses to the left and right to go deep into the basil, and you and Gu lead 10,000 people to Xunyang City." ”

In addition to being a general in the army, Zhou Tai is also a guard of Sun Quan like Dian Wei Xu Chu, and he has saved Sun Quan many times in history. There are no wild grass basils on the periphery of Xunyang, and even if you want to ambush, it may not be easy, not to mention that the opposite side will probably not go out of the city. ”

"Huh."

Sun Quan said with a smile: "You don't understand this, the lonely army of 80,000 besieged Xunyang, but Xunyang is as strong as Hefei, and I heard that there is a lot of grain and grass in the city, so it is not easy to break through in a short time." Only by luring the enemy out of the city for a decisive battle, suddenly fighting in the middle of the fight, and snatching the city gate, can it be possible to take it as soon as possible. ”

Of course, Zhou Tai didn't understand what fishing was, but he understood that this tactic was called luring the enemy, so he nodded and said, "Only, I'll do it." ”

As he spoke, he turned his horse's head and turned back to convey the order.

After he left, Bu Qi said: "It is said that Zhao Yun has always had a calm personality, and he does not like to charge into battle like Zhang Liao, and Wu Hou's plan to lure the enemy is not easy to achieve." ”

Hearing him mention Zhang Liao, Sun Quan's face was slightly gloomy.

The battle of Hefei was a pain in his heart.

In order to lure Sun Quan to attack Jingzhou, Cao Cao had also considered the worst plan to give up a large area of Huainan to Sun Quan, so that Sun Quan could win Liu Bei's trust.

As a result, in the Battle of Hefei, Sun Quan himself was bleeding, which made him a laughing stock in Cao Cao and Liu Bei, which was obviously a bit unexpected.

But fortunately, Sun Quan is a character who can forbear, and that humiliating defeat should be regarded as a spit on his own, and in the face of Bu Qi's question, he said lightly: "That's right, Lone wants to lure the enemy." ”

"Forehead ......"

Bu Qi wondered: "But Zhao Yun ......"

Sun Quan said: "When Zijing told me that even if Hefei failed fiasco, there was no need to panic. First, the strength of our army has not been damaged, and second, it is easier for Liu Bei to despise us. After that time, didn't Liu Bei transfer all the soldiers and horses in Jiangling to Yizhou? Even Jiangling is empty, which shows Liu Beijun's contempt for Lonely. ”

Bu Qi stroked his beard and said, "What does Wu Hou mean...... When Zhao Yun saw that Wu Hou came to attack Xunyang, he would despise Wu Hou and lead his troops to battle, at this time, Wu Hou took the opportunity to order Zhou Tai and others to entangle Zhao Yun, and then let the rear ambush troops kill in one fell swoop? ”

"Exactly."

Sun Quan nodded.

This is what he thinks is more feasible.

Ever since Xiaoyaojin, Sun Quan already knew that Liu Bei had despised him.

The news from Sun Shangxiang's side, as well as some of the names and actions of Liu Bei in the past few years, all prove this.

So Sun Quan thought that since Liu Bei's group despised him so much, why didn't he simply take advantage of Liu Bei's contempt to raid Jingzhou to achieve his own goals?

The battle of Xunyang was his strategy to capture Jingzhou.

Jingnan was lost, Xiakou was besieged, Nanjun was also in danger, Zhao Yun could not be indifferent, at this time Sun Quan was alone in danger, if Zhao Yun wanted to save Jingzhou, it was very likely that Zhang Wenyuan would come out to fight with him.

When the time comes, Sun Quan's plan will be hit.

Anyway, in the eyes of Liu Bei's group, Sun Quan has always liked to charge into battle alone, and it is prudent to bring 10,000 people this time, and it probably won't make Zhao Yun suspicious.

I have to say that Sun Quan's strategy is a very clever method, using the enemy's understanding and contempt for him to make a layout.

And he thinks that Zhao Yun will inevitably be fooled.

The reason is that the rear of Jingzhou is extremely empty, at this time, Sun Quan's army is pressing Jingzhou is in danger, if Zhao Yun does nothing but defend Xunyang, he may be able to hold on for a few more days.

But Xunyang has become a lonely city, and other places have fallen, so when the entire Jingzhou is occupied by Sun Quan, not only Zhao Yun will become a lonely army, but it will also cause Shen Chen to suffer from the enemy on his back, no matter from which angle he considers, Zhao Yun has to think of a way.

Therefore, in order to make a quick decision, Sun Quan also let it go, using himself as bait to lure Zhao Yun out of the city.

At this moment, on the east city gate, Zhao Yun was also looking at the east, remembering the order that Shen Chen had given him before, so he gave a signal to the left and right to go out of the city to fight.

After noon, Sun Quan's army finally arrived outside the city.

There are only 10,000 people.

The left and right rear trees are forested, and the basil and wild grasses are endless, perfectly hiding the unknown number of people and horses.

After the Jiangdong army arrived outside the city, 10,000 people lined up and slowly moved forward.

Sun Quan himself was also in the team, and he saw that there were many hilly slopes outside the eastern city, one of which was about a mile away from Xunyang City, and he wanted to climb the mountain to have a look.

At this time, the east gate of Xunyang City opened, Zhao Yun rode on horseback, and galloped out first, followed by the soldiers behind him.

It's just that compared to the tens of thousands of horses lined up by Sun Quan, the number of people on Zhao Yun's side is much less, and there are only 3,000 people on the sparse Lala, lined up in a phalanx, lined up outside the city.

Knowing that Zhao Yun really went out of the city, Sun Quan was overjoyed and said: "Give Zhou Tai an order, quickly line up, and be sure to entangle Zhao Yun outside the city." ”

As he spoke, he searched left and right, pointed to the small hill not far away, and said, "Go up the hill with Lone." ”

His guards escorted him up a nearby hill.

The 10,000 people of the front army were scattered at the beginning, and they originally planned to line up again under the city, but at this moment, when Zhao Yun came out, Zhou Tai immediately called out to the middle-level officers, asking them to settle down and start arranging.

This battle was different from the last battle of Hefei, where Cao Cao sent Zhang Liao to attack in order to boost morale and hold the city.

Zhao Yun must attack, if he doesn't attack, then Xunyang will become a lonely city, and he can't help the rest of Jingzhou, so he can only choose to go out of the city to try.

The difference is that last time Sun Quan was not prepared, thinking about 100,000 against 7,000, the advantage was in me, the front, middle and rear armies were still in the rear, and he only took a few thousand people to run outside Hefei City, and was defeated by Zhang Liao's 800 people.

And this time Sun Quan deliberately fished, that is, he took advantage of Zhao Yun's psychology that he needed to go out of the city to fight, deliberately lured him out, and then let Zhou Tai's 10,000 people entangle Zhao Yun's troops at any cost, and wait until the 10,000 troops in ambush in the rear, as well as the Chinese army and the rear army, arrive and completely occupy Xunyang.

It's just that because there was no battle of Changbanpo, what he didn't know was that this Zhao Yun was even more heavyweight, a grade higher than Zhang Liao's armed forces.

Zhao Yun is fifty years old this year.

Later, when Luo Guanzhong wrote "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he said that Zhao Yun was seventy-six years old, according to his writing, Zhao Yun was not only older than Liu Bei, but also two years older than Cao Cao.

So it is speculated that he was a teenager in the army, born in 169 AD, eight years younger than Liu Bei, about forty years old when he was in Changbanpo, and just fifty this year. Although he is getting older, he still maintains his peak combat power, with a white horse and a silver spear and a dignified cloak.

It is the middle of summer, after the rain stopped a few days ago, the weather warmed up again, the sun shone on the earth, the slight summer breeze blew, bringing a little coolness, there are large areas of fertile soil outside Xunyang City, and there are plains and hills in the east city.

After Zhao Yun left the city, Zhou Tai, who was two miles away in the distance, had already ordered the armies to start arraying, which formed a natural contrast with the scattered formation of the battle of Hefei and the battle of Zhang Liao.

The subjective factor for Zhang Liao's successful surprise attack was that Sun Quan himself died, but the objective factors were the same as the White Wolf Mountain Formation, the enemy's formation was not adjusted in time, resulting in Zhang Liao rushing in and disrupting the enemy's formation.

But at this time, Sun Quan's formation was opened, and the number of people was far more than the last battle of Hefei, so even if Zhao Yun had 3,000 people, more than 2,000 more than Zhang Liao, the difficulty was much more difficult than the last time Zhang Liao.

However, even so, Zhao Yun was not afraid, looking around, there were not many cavalry in Xiling City, only a hundred people, scouting horses for the scouts of various school departments, and going back and forth to Huainan and other places all the year round to spy on intelligence, this time all brought out and lined up in front of the battle.

When they came out, the Zhou Taijun in the distance was actually still in the column, and under normal circumstances, if Zhao Yun's troops went out of the city, they would have basically lined up in formation if they ran a mile with foot soldiers.

However, Zhao Yun was keenly aware of this, and brazenly issued a military order: "The soldiers rushed over with me." ”

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The cavalry lined up in a goose-shaped formation, and almost after Zhao Yun gave the order, they instigated the iron hooves.

The foot soldiers behind him also began to shout, and ran behind the cavalry.

Zhao Yun took the lead.

Due to the excessive speed of the cavalry, he quickly became disconnected from the infantry.

However, the effect was also good, just as Zhang Liao led the tiger and leopard cavalry to raid the formation that had not yet been fully assembled.

The 10,000 people of Zhou Tai over there were still relatively bloated, and the orders were passed from Zhou Tai to officers at all levels, and then from officers at all levels to the soldiers at the bottom, and they were assembled in three phalanxes, and the speed was obviously not as fast as Zhao Yun's direct surprise attack out of the city.

However, in just over two minutes, a hundred cavalry had already rushed to the front of Zhou Tai's Chinese army, and under the leadership of Zhao Yun, it was like a tiger breaking into the wolves, tearing a hole in the Chinese army.

Zhou Tai himself was in the rear of the Chinese army, and in front was his lieutenant Liang Yu.

Liang Yu's reaction was already relatively fast, and when he saw Zhao Yun's cavalry rushing forward, in order to prevent him from breaking through the middle formation that had not yet been organized, he shouted and led his own guards to step forward to stop him.

However, I saw that the jade white horse in the front was close to the front and back, the fish jumped up, and it seemed to cross a long rainbow in the air, and Zhao Yun had already rushed into the formation in an instant, and then Liang Yu and his personal guards surrounded him, and all kinds of knives, guns, sticks, axes, and hooks attacked him.

There is a way to deal with these experienced soldiers, shoot people first and shoot horses, and it is also a truth in a chaotic battle, if a person can't poke it, then kill his horse first.

As long as he fell off the horse, even if it was Xiang Yu, there was no place to exert all the strength in his body.

"Get out!"

Zhao Yun was furious, glaring at each other with disgust, and his voice roared like thunder, as if in front of these soldiers was not an old man of fifty, but a terrifying lion, which was so frightened that the surrounding soldiers took a few steps back.

This momentum was so terrifying that Zhou Tai and the others, who were standing in the center of the team and waiting for Zhao Yun to throw themselves into the net, did not react, and the soldiers around them all dispersed.

Zhou Tai's Tong Kong, who was at the back of the middle formation, instantly contracted, his eyes widened, and he looked at this scene in disbelief.

If it weren't happening now, he would have thought that all the soldiers in Liang Yu were undercover, and the family in the Spring and Autumn Period would not dare to write like this.

But it's a fact.

With just a loud shout, Zhao Yun frightened away the ordinary soldiers who were originally going to besiege him.

Everyone was stunned, and in the next second, Zhao Yun had already killed.

Poof!

The spear was as fast as lightning, and it was like a silver dragon cutting through the sky between heaven and earth, instantly piercing Liang Yu's throat, and the blood splashed out in an instant, and when he pulled it out again, the person had already fallen off the horse and died without knowing whether he was alive or dead.

"Liang Yu!"

Zhou Tai was shocked, he underestimated the power of this veteran, originally thought that so many people were besieging him, and he could kill him in an instant, but he didn't expect that under the roar of others, the surrounding soldiers did not dare to attack at all.

However, Zhou Tai didn't have time to feel sorry for his lieutenant, because after Zhao Yun assassinated Liang Yu, his hand was as cold as lightning, and he quickly stabbed at the surrounding soldiers.

The soldiers couldn't react at all, and in the blink of an eye, they were dead, clearing a huge gap.

Rear cavalry scouts arrived.

Liang Yu's guards were almost quickly slaughtered.

The next moment, Zhao Yun shouted, and brazenly led the cavalry to rush towards the middle formation that had not yet been organized.

Under normal circumstances, the light cavalry would have been killed when they rushed into the infantry formation.

But there is a prerequisite here, that is, the infantry phalanx that has been lined up, with shields and spears in front and bows and crossbows in the back, and as many cavalry as they come.

But over there, Zhao Yun didn't give Zhou Tai much time after leaving the city, so he directly charged.

Horses can run at a speed of six to eight meters per second, and the distance of eight hundred meters in the Han Dynasty only takes more than two minutes, while humans wearing armor and holding weapons can only run two or three meters per second.

Therefore, if Zhao Yun and the other infantry were to kill, it would take at least seven or eight minutes to kill, which was enough for well-trained soldiers to line up.

However, Zhao Yun only led a hundred cavalry to charge first, which Zhou Tai did not expect, and the result was that the soldiers on his side had not completely lined up, and the cavalry crashed in.

Suddenly, people turned on their backs.

The horses in front of him fell one after another, and even Zhao Yun was almost unstable, but fortunately, his mount, the Night Jade Lion, was a BMW, and he jumped a few times in the crowd to stabilize his body.

When Zhao Yun glanced around again, he was already surrounded by 4,000 people in the middle of the Jiangdong Army.

However, Zhao Yun was not afraid at all, the spear in his hand bloomed like plum blossoms, swirling in the air, and quickly killed several Jiangdong soldiers who wanted to bully him.

The surrounding Jiangdong Army was in chaos, especially at the front of the Chinese army, a hundred dead soldiers of Zhao Yunbu lost a lot of people due to the suicide rush in an instant, but it also caused the middle phalanx formation of the entire Zhou Taibu to scatter.

The cavalry followed behind Zhao Yun, trying to chisel the middle formation, but there were too many people around them, and many people were almost coerced and crowded on them.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will see that the left and right flanks of Zhou Taibu have almost lined up in formation, and the three thousand foot soldiers in the direction of Xunyang City are rapidly approaching, only the middle formation of Zhao Yunbu's raid in the middle is chaotic, and there are Jiangdong soldiers fleeing, fighting, shouting, and wailing everywhere.

People crowd people, and chaos continues.

Zhao Yun's 100 cavalry only had to deal with the surrounding Jiangdong soldiers every time, and some of the rest of the soldiers ran out, some rushed in, and some were at a loss, resulting in a mess in this part of the Jiangdong army.

"Hmph, I don't know if I'm alive or dead."

Sun Quan, who was standing on the hillside and looking down from a distance, looked at this scene and snorted coldly.

Although Zhao Yun exchanged the price of a hundred cavalry for the chaos of 4,000 people in his middle formation, the troops on both wings had already been assembled and outflanked, and at the same time, as long as the troops on both wings entangled Zhao Yun's footmen, the troops in ambush in the rear would soon kill and completely leave these people behind.

When the time comes, they can not only keep Zhao Yunbu here, but also Xunyang City in the rear, as long as Xunyang is taken down, then Xiling County, Zhangling County, and Jiangxia County will be flat and take Shen Chen's backyard!

"Kill!"

Sun Quan gave the order, signaling the left and right sides to outflank the past, and once the encirclement was closed, the ambush men and horses in the rear would be able to move.