After heavy rain, it was a sunny day for several days.

The 160,000 troops of the main force of Wei were in Luyang, the 40,000 troops of Wu and Yue were in the west, 60,000 soldiers and horses of Gyeonggi and 10,000 of Tiefeng Yijie were located in the middle, and 50,000 soldiers and horses of Sui and Qing were in the east.

160,000 people, horses, chariots and all kinds of utensils, in this plain mixed with hills, stretched more than 20 miles left and right.

The banners stretched endlessly, obscuring the sky and the sun, even if there were miles in between, the marches between the armies, the splashed dust, and the sky were as clearly visible as a sandstorm.

The 70,000 Gyeonggi soldiers and horses located in the middle are the main force this time, the banner of Wei and the banner of Zhao are flying in the wind, accompanying the advancing road, sitting on the chariot pulled by four horses, Zhao Guangshi, who is over 70 years old, is wearing armor all over his body, sitting on a chair and wiping the sweat from his forehead from time to time, and the scouts around him are running back and forth.

On both sides of the chariot, the generals of the capital brought out of Luyang, and a group of soldiers who were able to fight in Huizhou, one of them was very suitable for charging into battle, holding a big axe, bravely crowning the three armies, and the first-class master in his hands was only fifty enemies.

"Meng Tuo, the soldiers and horses of the Yan State are very capable of fighting, the generals are not only good at commanding, but also good at charging into battle.

A few steps away from the right side of the chariot, there was a burly figure on horseback, wearing black iron armor, a pair of fierce beast heads on each shoulder, this man was wearing a cloak, his forehead was wrapped in a red belt, his chin was wrapped around his cheeks, his face was mighty, and he sat on a brown and yellow horse, and hung a long-handled axe upside down.

Hearing Zhao Guangshi's words, he nodded silently, but there was excitement in his eyes.

At this time, another scout handed over the information, and after receiving it from the personal guards, it was transferred to the hands of Zhao Guangshi, the main general, with a white brow frowning slightly, "Twenty thousand people? ”

Right now, the scouts in front of them are already fighting fiercely, racing against time to convey their own messages.

Scouts from both sides could be seen spying on each other in the fields, woods, and hills, and then a conflict broke out, with the occasional horseman quickly passing through and chasing down a Wei scout.

Rushed out of the mountains and forests, the arrows shot in the sky, the scouts of the nearby Wei State were in small teams, reinforcements came, most of the costumes on both sides were short clothes and leather armor, but the bows were skillful, and the pursuing Yan State scouts saw that there were many people on the other side, and after shooting a few arrows, they turned around and left.

There are also those who can't get out, they also shoot arrows, attract nearby comrades, the two sides chase each other in the field to start riding and shooting, the northern good horses, and the state army scouts have also been trained by Lu Bu, for riding and archery, it is much stronger than the Central Plains scouts.

In the two days that Wei advanced northward, only 45 scouts were killed and 72 were wounded, which made it more difficult for Zhao Guangshi, who went north, to understand the surrounding intelligence.

"20,000?"

Zhao Guangshi narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the content written on the note, and pointed his finger on the armrest of the chair, "More than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom are going south, and there is also damage in the middle, but it will not take out 20,000 people to resist my 160,000 soldiers and horses, interesting, generals, what can you see?" ”

On the left is the general of the Gyeonggi family in Luyang, and the commander is naturally 60,000 soldiers and horses in Gyeonggi, and they still dare not slack off against the emperor's uncle Zhao Guangshi.

A general named Yu Zangbing arched his hand and said: "Back to the Metropolitan Governor, only 20,000 soldiers and horses are left here, naturally it is not used to resist the 160,000 army, and it is estimated that the suspicious array will delay the speed of our army's march." ”

"Well, that's what I thought, too." Zhao Guangshi nodded, looking at the few Huizhou generals he had cultivated on the right, "Meng Dao, what do you think?" ”

Among the generals on the right, the general named Meng Tuo thought for a moment: "Although the last general agrees with the general's statement, since it is a suspicious soldier, the other party will definitely not dare to fight, so don't pay attention to it, just push it straight over." ”

Zhao Guangshi laughed, but there was still a look of disappointment in his eyes, and he continued with a smile: "Yes, since you are suspicious, just push it over, but you want to know why he is suspicious, is he going to fight, or retreat?" If you hit, where to hit? The 90,000 Qi Liang in the northwest will still detour our main force, attack the rear, and cut off the grain route of our army? ”

"Why not withdraw?" Meng Dao pursed his lips and asked.

"More than 100,000 soldiers and horses have been killed, and they have shouted to withdraw until now, if you are the Xia King of Yan Kingdom, will you be willing?" is over seventy years old, Zhao Guangshi can't see anything thoroughly, "Don't care about the gains and losses of a city, that is, he is rushing to destroy my Great Wei, if he only takes a few counties and a few counties, he can attack the city in Sanzhou on the south bank of the Hunhe River!" ”

The old man stood up with his sword in hand.

"Therefore, the suspicious formation, in fact, is to attack the side army, pass my general order, send a message to the main generals of Qi and Liang, and ask them to capture Guangfu within five days with 90,000 soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses of the two kingdoms of Yue Wu on the left flank, and the soldiers and horses of Qing Erzhou on the right flank, and move closer to the middle road!"

"What do you mean by that?" In the Gyeonggi generals on the left side of the chariot, another general asked.

The old man looked at an eagle flying across the sky in the distance and laughed.

"Attacking the enemy will save the place, Guangfu City is the main way to return to the north, if it is lost, his suspicious soldier is meaningless, and its purpose is nothing more than to attack my partial army and cut off my arm! Moving on, let's go and see what the Yan army in front of us looks like! ”

The sky was shining, and the fields were endless, and the two wings that accompanied the advance in the middle were still moving slowly before receiving the order.

In the face of the Wei army that came over, the Bingzhou army standing in front was commanded by Zhang Liao and turned into three forces, one to the rear, and the other two to the east and west.

The two armies clashed, each showing their abilities, and Zhao Guangshi, a veteran general who presided over the Wei army, was unmoved, and still maintained the speed of slow advance, approaching Guangfu City, which was four hundred miles away, with a sweeping attitude.

However, in the vast wilderness, the scouts on both sides are still fighting each other, perhaps knowing that the Yan scouts are stronger, the Wei army sent light cavalry to assist, and Zhang Liao here also let Lu Bu disperse the wolf cavalry to assist the Yan scouts in chasing and killing the opponent's cavalry, and for a while, in the fields, fields, mountains and forests, small-scale cavalry battles broke out from time to time.

The Wei army lost more and won less, and the subsequent advance began to reduce the appearance of scouts and light cavalry.

On the night of the third day of the advance, in the southeast, among the mountains and forests connecting the hills and plains, a group of soldiers, then war horses, were led through the woods and shrubs, and then more soldiers continued to pour in to the south.

The monkey sleeping in the treetops, looking in amazement at the torrent passing through below, tried to keep walking to the edge of the forest, and in the eyes of the distant plains, the makeshift camps, the simple fences, the soldiers everywhere holding weapons, or sleeping with swords.

In the camp's burning campfires, patrolling soldiers watched for movement in the night, and archers on watchtowers occasionally looked at the mountains and forests with monkey chirping.

"Damn, this army of soldiers and horses from Sui and Qing Erzhou has deviated from the direction."

"I may have received an order to move towards the middle of the road."

"Taishi, they are closer to the main force of the Wei State, can they still fight?"

"Ask Xiahou Yuan, it's that guy's idea!"

In the darkness, there was a stumbling movement, and someone hunched over through the woods, to the other end, and then received a reply: "Why don't you fight?" ”

Soon, lurking figures followed the sound of footsteps towards the edge of the forest in front of them, and then, slowly, the foot soldiers walked out, and the archers followed, picking at the arrows wrapped in oilcloth.

The figures leading the horses in the forest got on their horses one after another under the signal of the generals with lion helmets and white horses and silver armor raising their guns.

Out of the relatively gentle slope of the forest, slowly moving figures like a quiet lake slowly spreading, close to the simple camp, one by one the war horses were uncovered, swaying their heads and spewing out of the rough air, stepping out of the edge of the forest with their horses' hooves.

The archer broke the fire and blew, and the faint flame fell on the tarpaulin that wrapped the arrow.

……

In the distance, on the not-so-tall watchtower, the archers looked around, and in the afterglow, they vaguely noticed that the darkness lit up a little yellow fire.

The moment he turned his head, the fire was even stronger, and the dense fire points unfolded under his eyes, and then ...... Flying into the sky one by one, countless fire points streaked across the sky, and at the same time, the black pressure below also reflected a hunched figure walking around.

He hurriedly pulled his bow and flew to the sky above the camp with the sound of arrows, and at the same time as the explosion exploded, the rain of burning arrows poured down all over the sky, and in the camp of Qingerzhou, the soldiers who were lying on their backs and resting on their sides had no time to react, and many people were directly nailed to death by the rain of arrows that fell, or fell on the tent and ignited a fire.

The stealthy figures accompanied Dong Zhuo and Xiahou Yuan with a shout, like a tidal wave, and rushed towards the gate on the east side of the camp.

At the moment when the fence was knocked down, the waiting Le Jin led the Xiliang army and Zhang He led the Qingzhou soldiers wearing iron masks to swarm in like a flood bursting the embankment, rushing to the front in addition to the more than 1,000 soldiers holding Mo swords, as well as 500 Xiliang soldiers with crossbows.

The crossbow bolts are strong, a crossbow is more than a dozen shots, many Wei soldiers were directly shot to the ground in the run, and the hastily formed formation was also shot over a large area, until the foot shield came, and the shield wall was erected to stabilize the position, but the east side of the gate was opened by the Qingzhou soldiers, and the Xiqiang cavalry who had been waiting for a long time roared in, and did not engage with the array, only rode horses to chase and kill the Wei soldiers who fled in the camp, or shoot arrows and ignite.

The camp of 40,000 soldiers and horses stretched for five miles, and in an instant, the flames were everywhere, screaming, and there was a picture of chaos and chaos.

Rising and flying sparks swept through the fighting figures, the firelight illuminated the fat figure on horseback, Dong Zhuo's beard was angry, holding a sawtooth knife in his hand, laughing hideously, and Xiahou Yuan next to him with his eyebrows hanging high and his eyes gloomy.

"Haha! Joyfully! Keep killing—"

Different from Dong Zhuo's fanaticism, he calmly observed everything in the camp, and for a moment, he raised his hand and summoned the herald.

……

Almost at the same time, a series of footsteps and horses' hooves rushed out from the larger camp to the west, rushing towards the military camp of the soldiers and horses of Suiqing Erzhou.

The Great Camp of the State of Wei.

Zhao Guangshi didn't sleep, he sat in the tent and waited for something, and after half an hour, a general named Meng Dao handed over his weapon at the tent, lifted the curtain and strode in.

"How?"

"Sure enough, it was exactly what the governor expected, but unfortunately it was a step too late, and the Yan army only rushed halfway and suddenly retreated."

Zhao Guangshi nodded and calmed down.

"Very cautious...... must have sensed the trap laid by the old man. How many casualties? ”

"More than 1,000 people, according to the soldiers over there, the Yan army's crossbow arrows are particularly powerful, and they can be fired one after another...... Most of those 1,000 died under the crossbows. ”

"The soldiers are strong and the weapons are sharp, no wonder they are ambitious!" The old man pondered for a moment, "Be wary of that Yan army, there may be a second time." ”

"Yes!"

Meng Tuo surrendered his promise, then turned around and went out of the tent, and asked the cavalry to send the order to the Suiqing Erzhou army.

Far to the east, the two armies that had withdrawn were hiding in the darkness of the forest, and the scouts sent came back after the investigation and reported the situation of the camp they had just attacked, which made Xiahou Yuan, Dong Zhuo, and Ma Chao feel pity.

"The other party's main general has no less experience in the army than us, and I am afraid that the second attack on the camp will not work, and the other party has already taken precautions."

Xiahou Yuan rubbed a piece of grass in his hand, "The Qingzhou soldiers stay, and the Taishi Dong leads the Xiliang army to converge with the king's side, do you have a way to confuse the main general of the Wei army, thinking that the main force has returned to the side of the Bingzhou army in the middle road?" ”

"......" Dong Zhuo bit the grass roots, was silent for a moment, and then spit out, "Just like when I entered Luoyang?" No matter how bad it is, use the method of increasing the stove! ”

The so-called increase in the stove is actually the reverse application of the strategy of increasing the number of troops and reducing the stove, so that the Wei army thought that the earthen stove increased, and they mistakenly thought that the attack on the Yan army in Suiqing Erzhou was in vain, and it merged with Su Chen's middle road, which was the main force of the Yan army.

"It's so decided, Taishi asked you to command the Xiliang soldiers and leave two days of dry food."

In the dark, Dong Zhuo and Xiahou Yuan slapped each other's palms, and the soldiers and horses of the two sides immediately separated, and the Xiliang army quickly traveled north, and in the second half of the night twenty miles away, they found the scouts of the Bingzhou army, but they were not in a hurry to return to the camp, but looked for branches and thatch to weave straw men on the spot, and at dawn the next day, let the soldiers take one by one, and block the field of vision with their bodies, and from a distance, the army formation of 20,000 people seemed to have become tens of thousands of people.

In the afternoon, the Wei army received the news of the retreat of the Yan army, and in the abandoned camp, the scouts checked everything inside and brought the information back to the Wei army.

Zhao Guangshi looked at the note in his hand silently, "The army that came back should be the one that attacked the soldiers and horses of Suiqing Erzhou last night, seeing that the scale is about the same, and the earthen stove in the camp has also increased a lot, it seems that the Yan army has joined other soldiers and horses, plus the army stationed in Guangfu, the main force should be here." ”

"That's not enough for 100,000!" Yu Zangbing urged the horse to the side and said.

"It's not enough, but the generals forgot? The soldiers of the Yan army are also people, they have been fighting for so long, where there are no casualties, the corpses are collected by them, either buried or stored in Guangfu City, and they will definitely not let our scouts see and find out how many soldiers they have left. ”

Zhao Guangshi gently stroked his long beard, and he was still a little confident in his judgment.

"Pass the order down, line up on the spot, don't force that Yan Kingdom Xia King, now, let's wait for Qi Liang to attack the city, see if he is in a hurry to withdraw, if he withdraws...... Hehe...... Cover up the whole army! ”

……

When the news came that the Wei army had stopped advancing, Su Chen, who was sitting on the ancestral coffin, was discussing with Dong Zhuo and other generals, and when he heard the news, his thick eyebrows furrowed, and after a while, he still let out a deep sigh: "This Wei veteran is a little difficult. ”

"Let the scout return to Guangfu and see how it goes!"

He instructed Wu Zixun.

……

Guangfu City.

On the western field, the white horse was inseparable from a group of light horsemen from the northwest, shooting arrows at each other, and then galloping around in their respective arrays.

It was two large armies standing in the wilderness to the west, and a large number of instruments were being assembled.

Guan Yu stood under the city tower, stroked his long hair, closed his phoenix eyes, listened to the rapid sound of horses' hooves outside, and hissed and shouted. I couldn't help but think of the scene in Mai Cheng, and my cheeks bulged slightly.

Unexpectedly, the scene of that year reappeared in front of Guan. If the city is broken, there will be death......"

"Second brother, it's not interesting to talk about it, but this time I'm with you!" Zhang Fei walked back and forth excitedly behind the wall battlement with a snake spear, punched the wall battlement, and said loudly: "There are Zilong and Zhang Yi outside!" ”

"This time, Kura said that he would also defend the city wall!"

Zhou Cang stood behind Guan Yu with the green dragon glaive on his shoulder, and he also laughed.

Soon, the armies of Qi and Liang began to attack the city, and several stone-throwing carts followed the battalions of the army to advance over.

(End of chapter)