Chapter Ninety-Six: The Qiang Tribe
In five days, Zhang Liao had quietly bypassed Yanmen Pass with his men and entered the territory of the Qiang people, which were all deserts and grasslands, with no obvious architectural signs, and great difficulties in surveying and mapping maps and terrain. As the vanguard troops, Zhang Liao and Xu Shu were very helpless, they always felt that the place where the Qiang people lived was vast and sparsely populated, and now after they really arrived, they found that it was more desolate than they imagined!
"Mr. Xu, why doesn't the lord let us attack behind the Qiang army in Yanmen Pass?" Zhang Liao didn't understand a little, since they came out to exterminate the Qiang people, their large troops were now gathered in Yanmen Pass, as long as they were eliminated, they would be greatly injured, and they would not be able to go south to attack the Han for decades.
"Hehe, Wen Yuan, do you think it's better to solve the problem once and for all? It's better to solve it layer by layer! Xu Shu asked with a smile
"Of course, it's a solution once and for all, okay, Mr. Xu, do you mean that the lord wants to learn from the champion?" Zhang Liao said excitedly
"Yes, otherwise do you think that with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, you can fight a decisive battle with the Qiang people who ride horses all year round on the grassland? That is the way to die, and what the lord wants is to smash the Yellow Dragon like the champion Hou Huo Quai, destroy the Qiang royal court or subdue their leader, only in this way can victory be achieved at the lowest cost. If we fight hard with them, it is estimated that we will not have enough people for them to fight! "No matter how murderous Xu Shu is, he can only tell the truth at this time, of course, this is what Cheng Feng discussed before he left.
"Since that's the case, then we can't act so slowly, the tribe of the Qiang tribe and the royal court are far away from the Han, we have to look for it quickly, but I'm afraid that the lord won't be able to keep up with us, it's really not easy to draw a map here!" Zhang Liao said with a wry smile, there is no road on the grassland, and the direction cannot be identified at all, for the Han army, they are not familiar with the terrain, they can't find the river, and they can't find the Qiang tribe at all.
"Well, fortunately, the lord gave me a compass!" Xu Shu said and took out a very small item, but its pointer kept pointing to the south, which allowed the Han army to discern the direction, "The lord has an order, let us advance three hundred miles to the north, and then wait for him to arrive in action, everyone must act quickly in the past few days, and do not leave traces!" Xu Shu said quickly, as a vanguard army, they didn't bring much grain and grass, and each person only had ten days' rations, so Xu Shu didn't dare to move forward!
"The whole army set out, no one should be left behind, no noise!" Zhang Liao ordered to take the 7,000 White Tiger Army to the depths of the grassland. Just when Zhang Liao's army was hurrying, the first confrontation between Ding Yuan and Beigong Boyu officially began!
"Kill!" Lu Bu took the lead, wielding the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand, no one was invincible everywhere he went, no one was his enemy, Lu Bu had just recruited a few young men recently, they were all very good at riding and shooting, and they were all brave and abnormal, and now they followed Lu Bu to rush and kill, that was called a happy one,
"Haha, the sons and daughters of Bingzhou, rush up with me and chop up these Qiang people and feed them to the dogs!" Lu Bu laughed, Fang Tian's halberd drew a perfect curve, and smashed heavily on the body of the Qiang soldier on the opposite side, Lu Bu was handsome, tall, and wore a special armor, he was really powerful and handsome, and people knew that he was a fierce general at a glance.
"Humph! Who is going to slaughter this Han general for me! Beigong Boyu opened his mouth and said, he has no confidence in repelling Lu Bu, there is no one who uses Fang Tian's halberd to deal with, and it is not ordinary people who can play with this kind of weapon, and then looking at Lu Bu's perfect operation, the Qiang clan is even more frightened, and Beigong Boyu is even more frightened.
"General, I'll go get his head!" Song Yang, the general under the command of Beigong Boyu, shouted, as a local tyrant in Xiliang, Song Yang is also a hero, practicing martial arts since childhood, and since he fought with Beigong Boyu, he has often been born and died!
"Good! Be careful, this Lu Bu is different from ordinary people! Beigong Boyu advised,
"Don't worry! Behold me slaying him for you! As soon as the words fell, Song Yang rushed out with a big knife.
"I am Song Yang, the vanguard under the command of the general, and the Han general is named?" Song Yang shouted, his voice resounded in the sky, which really startled Ding Yuan, only to feel that his ears were buzzing, Ding Yuan felt that he was not an opponent, so he looked at Lu Bu.
"Hmph, I'm not interested in knowing your name, it's just a ghost of mine!" Lu Bu said lightly, which made Song Yang furious, and rushed towards Lu Bu with a knife, "Look at the knife!" ”
Lu Bu didn't move, and when Song Yang's big knife was about to arrive in front of him, he suddenly dodged, and then stretched out his long arm and knocked the Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand forward, Song Yang couldn't bear it, and he lost his balance when he shook back, Lu Bu grabbed Song Yang with a quick hand and threw him under the horse, "Tie me up!" Lu Bu smiled faintly, and at the same time, his eyes squinted at the Qiang cavalry of Beigong Boyu.
Originally, Beigong Boyu was quite confident in Song Yang, but in the end, he didn't even have a face, so he let Lu Busheng capture him, and the cheers of the Qiang tribe stopped abruptly, "Waste!" Beigong Boyu snorted coldly in his heart, and at the same time he was even more jealous of Lu Bu, he didn't expect that the Han Dynasty was full of talents, there was a Zhao Yun, and now there is another Lu Bu, is it a wrong choice for him to deal with the Han Dynasty this time? Beigong Boyu's heart is now a little shaken!
"Who else?" Lu Bu shouted, which was higher than Song Yang's voice just now, making many people in the Qiang tribe turn pale, and even some began to tremble!
"You, you, you, and you, the four of you together!" Beigong Boyu saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly discharged his four generals, intending to crush Lu Bu with the number of people.
"Haha, it's good to come!" Lu Bu saw the four people who rushed up, and he didn't talk much nonsense, he turned the halberd in his hand, played a few beautiful tricks, and rushed over to the opposite side, and the soldiers under Ding Yuan's command saw that Lu Bu was so brave, and they all cheered loudly for Lu Bu. In the gaze of everyone, the two parties finally made contact, and saw that Lu Bu's big opening and closing move directly slapped the oncoming person and the horse away, which made the faces of the three people behind change and hurriedly shot.
The three of them used knives, guns, and axes, and the unlucky ghost who was beaten to death by the horse used a hammer, but unfortunately he fell before he could exert his strength. These three people are just a combination of speed, strength, and skill, and the three of them are still very good-looking with each other, the big axe is directly coming to the face, and the big knife is also chopped down according to Lu Bu's shoulder, the one who uses the gun is even more ruthless, and he actually went to Lu Bu's war horse, and the three of them were very tacit in an instant, which made Lu Bu fall into a crisis!
"Humph!" Lu Bu snorted coldly, the light flashed in his eyes, the halberd in his hand was shocked, and he slapped the giant axe and big knife to the side, and by the way, he used the small branch of the war halberd to hang the spear and took the spear astray, but fortunately, Lu Bu has great strength and good kung fu, and it may not be so easy to change people! Lu Bu flashed between the three of them, and with the impact of the war horse, he waved the war halberd casually, and heard a "poof", and then Beigong Boyu saw three heads flying out.
"No!" Beigong Boyu let out a sad cry, all of his four King Kongs were killed by Lu Bu, and what was even more unacceptable was that Lu Bu had nothing to do.
"Good! The general is mighty! Diametrically opposed to the Qiang people is the troops on the side of the Han army, seeing Lu Bu's application performance, everyone cheers from the heart, which can be heard from a long distance.
"Attack with all your troops!" Ding Yuan saw that the Qiang tribe had been frightened, and took this opportunity to quickly order, all the iron cavalry of the state rushed forward like chicken blood, under the leadership of Lu Bu, the Qiang tribe that was killed retreated step by step, Beigong Boyu was good at cavalry raids, roaring, whistling away battles, this positional type of fighting completely limited his mobility, and was killed by Lu Bu and their charge.
"Evacuate quickly, retreat twenty miles first!" Beigong Boyu shouted, and at the same time he was very angry in his heart, so that the Han people are not trustworthy at all, and what do they say is good? How can it be true, at this time, Beigong Boyu felt that his IQ was pressed to the ground and rubbed, and a sense of humiliation arose, and at the same time, he hated the Han people even more, and no longer obeyed the agreement with the family.
"Haha! Joyfully! Lu Bu laughed, he gained a lot in this battle, so that his prestige was further fixed in Bingzhou, and at the same time, he also gained a lot of horses, and the only thing that was a little unhappy was that the grain that the Qiang people had stolen had already been transported away.
"Fengxian, gather the soldiers, let's see how the battle is going first?" Ding Yuan said with a smile, now the more he looks at Lu Bu, the more pleasing he is, he didn't expect that his righteous son would have the courage of ten thousand people, and now Ding Yuan has begun to have other thoughts in his heart, and he is no longer satisfied with a small history of merging states!
"Yes, Father-in-law!" Lu Bu hurriedly saluted, he still had great respect for Ding Yuan, and at the same time, Lu Bu asked his six generals to collect the soldiers, and he and Ding Yuan went to make the next plan.
"Report to the general!" Just as Ding Yuan and Lu Bu were smirking at the captured war horses, the herald came.
"What's the matter?" Ding Yuan asked casually, he had just won the victory, could it be that Beigong Boyu didn't give up and killed him again?
"Lord Qi Qi Assassin Shi, General Lu, we don't have much food for our soldiers, at most it will be enough for three days!"
"What? Why is there no more, doesn't it mean that the grain transport team will arrive soon? Ding Yuan didn't speak, Lu Bu was in a hurry, he was about to give the Qiang tribe a plate, and there was no food and grass at this time, which really made people angry.
"Isn't the follow-up grain and grass ready? Why hasn't it arrived yet? Could it be that something went wrong on the road? Ding Yuan also asked anxiously,
"No, it's the families from all over the country that prevent us from collecting grain and grass, and even the grain in the city can't be transported!"
"A bunch of bastards, Lao Tzu is desperately killing the enemy in front, and they actually stabbed me in the back, it's really unreasonable!" Ding Yuan said angrily, he has a strong temperament, and when he encounters this kind of thing, he is even more angry and wants to grit his steel teeth!
"Father-in-law, I don't think it's that simple!" Lu Bu hurriedly persuaded, and then waved his hand to let this person go down,
"Huh? How so? ”
"I think the arrival of the Qiang tribe this time is very strange, you see that according to their previous habits, they all grabbed things and left, and they will definitely not delay, and now Beigong Boyu dares to stay here, which is very unfavorable to their cavalry operations! So I guess they should be in collusion with the family, this time our attack has always had the upper hand, and the family can only use their hands and feet on grain and grass in order to defeat us! Lu Bu said heavily
"Hmph, these moths, if they don't do anything, they will cause chaos, I really want to slaughter them!" Ding Yuan said angrily, but now he can only lose his temper, his lifeline is pinched by them, and he has to listen to their command! "I'm really unwilling!" Ding Yuan sighed, he had already gained the upper hand, and the most important thing was to finally gather the cavalry of the Qiang tribe in one place, this was the best chance to destroy them!
"Father-in-law doesn't have to worry, we will directly lead the troops back to Taiyuan now, let's just say that there is no food and grass, and we have to go to Taiyuan to ask for food in a big way, see how he responds?" Lu Bu said lightly
"So what about here?" Ding Yuan asked with a frown
"There's no way, even if the soldiers are left, they will starve to death, it's better to take the opportunity to move the people away and move to our Jinyang, so that not only can we save their lives, but also improve our strength!" Lu Bu thought for a moment and said.
"Okay, just do as you say, everyone hurry up, and bring all this horse meat, eat meat first these days, we have to save food!" DING Yuandao,
"It's the general!" Lu Bu took people to hurry to defend, and the others were busy, moving the people of Yanmen to Jinyang City!
"Quick! Fast forward! In addition to Zhang Liao's vanguard, Cheng Feng led an army of 30,000, plus thousands of carts of grain and grass, Cheng Feng's entry into the city was very slow, so now taking advantage of the good road section, Cheng Feng urged
"Lord, are we not afraid of being exposed when we advance with such fanfare?" Wu Tiangang leaned over and said,
"Hmph, I just want to be exposed, so that General Zhang and they can be safer, do you think this time it's just the Qiang tribe? I don't think the Huns will be honest, now it's the autumn harvest time, they are all short of food! Cheng Feng sneered, as long as he attracts all his attention, it will be convenient for Zhang Liao to act, and there may be a chance to solve the Xiongnu and Qiang together!
"Don't talk nonsense, go and urge the army to advance, we will take the road left by Zhang Liao, General Zhang They are waiting for us about three hundred miles north of Yanmen Pass, we must get a hundred miles north of Yanmen Pass today, otherwise it will affect the battle situation, let everyone run, and march a hundred miles first!" Cheng Feng shouted, he still knew about these soldiers. I've been looking for an opportunity to train them well, and now the opportunity has come.
In addition to the armor of the Chengfeng army, everyone still carries fifty catties of food, plus the grain and grass pulled by the carriage, which is enough for the army for three months, they have physical training on weekdays, and now there is a good opportunity, everyone puts the spear on the car, only worthy of the big knife, under the order of Chengfeng, batch by batch began to run, which made the speed of the Chengfeng army suddenly accelerated!
"Shhh This scene made all the people who came to listen to the news gasp, this is also too terrifying, the other people's soldiers are listless bastards, even if there are tens of thousands of elite soldiers, they will not be so strong, let alone race directly with the war horse!
"Isn't he afraid of being attacked by the Qiang people halfway?" Someone spoke
"I think he wants someone to come to him, he is not familiar with the territory of the Qiang people, and he can't find the Qiang people for a decisive battle, the smartest way is to let the Qiang people come to find him, so Chengfeng will use grain and grass to attract the attention of the Qiang people, in order to dispel their vigilance, he is even more eager to march to stimulate them, this Chengfeng is really too smart!" A person next to him sighed, making the people nearby look suddenly enlightened, and admired Chengfeng even more. If Cheng Feng knew about this, he would definitely say, brother, you think too much, I just want to train and train soldiers!
"What? Cheng Feng moved his troops? Or is it moving quickly towards our hinterland with a large amount of grain and grass? After Beigong Boyu got the news, he was a little shocked, he really didn't expect this Chengfeng to be so bold, the most important thing is that he looks down on himself too much, isn't this obviously to give himself a horse, is Chengfeng trying to lure himself into the bait! I can't help but think about it too much, the last time I led my troops to attack Changshan, I suffered a big loss, and he has always been very jealous of Chengfeng's troops, so his attitude towards Chengfeng is more cautious!
"Marshal, the Han army on the other side has withdrawn, it is said that there is no military rations, or are you taking the people nearby with you, should we pursue?" Just when Beigong Boyu thought about why Cheng Feng was in a hurry to march, the spies came to report the news.
"Oh! In this way, there is no need to pursue, what we want is grain and grass, if the retreat of the Han army is true, it means that those families have made a move, we can take the opportunity to loot, remember that the army is scattered to attack, go to the pass to grab food, if there is any family in the nearby counties, say hello first, we will rob others through them, and then clean them up when we come back, and then we can take a large amount of grain to fight with Chengfeng, and also, you go to inform King Zuoxian, tell him that we have reached an agreement with the family, You can be capricious in the place of Dahan! Beigong Boyu's mind turned, and he hurriedly spoke, now he thinks that Chengfeng's rapid march is because Lu Bu wants to withdraw his army, for fear that he will deal with him!
"Yes, General!" All of you answer,
Li Wenhou listened to the order. I order you to lead the army to follow Chengfeng along the way, you don't have to fight him, you just need to grasp his movements, and when my army arrives, we will attack him! Beigong Boyu instructed his cronies and generals, for fear that Li Wenhou would rush in, he deliberately instructed him a few more times.
"Don't worry, general, I will definitely focus on the overall situation, and this time I will monitor the movements of the Chengfeng army!" Li Wenhou said, although his brothers all died in the hands of the Chengfeng army, but on the battlefield, either you die or I die, this is normal, so he doesn't care too much, but if he has the opportunity to kill Chengfeng, he will definitely not be soft!
"Okay, let's act quickly, remember that in order to quickly collect grain and grass, this time there will be no survival!" Beigong Boyu suddenly said murderously, which shocked everyone, it seems that this general is angry with the family, but thinking of the delicate and gentle Han woman, everyone is hot