Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1259

North Army camp.

In the account.

Zhang Xiu was dressed in battle armor, standing like a tiger, his eyes were condensed with light, and he leaned forward, all his attention was focused on the distribution map of the battlefield situation in front of him.

"The shepherd army's strength should be insufficient, but why do they still force us to retreat?"

This is something he can't figure out.

"Mu Jun's formation ability is too strong!"

The green-robed scribe next to him responded to his words in a low voice, pointing to the red dot on the map of the battlefield situation, and said: "There is indeed a gap in combat power, but the more important thing is the change of formation. The Mu army's change of formation is too fast. , it’s so fast that we don’t respond enough, and our Northern Army’s military array is not responding enough!”

The battlefield pays attention to agile response.

The fight between the army formations will change at any time, and it takes time to change the formation. Whoever can complete the fastest transformation in the shortest time will win the upper hand.

Obviously, the ability of the Northern Army to change formations was firmly suppressed by the Mu Army. They had no chance at all and could only be at a disadvantage all the time.

"The most powerful army in the world, what you say is true!"

The green-robed scribe sighed.

Back then, Xiliang had absolutely strong soldiers, but they were still defeated by the Mu army on the battlefield. The fighting power of the Mu army was accumulated through countless victories.

The title of the strongest army in the world is absolutely right.

"If we continue to retreat, we will lose all our advantages and even have to retreat to Shaodangqiang, which is not good for us. In addition, Shaodangqiang will provide us with food and grass, but once we are defeated, Shaodangqiang may not be willing to continue to give us food. We supply grain and grass, we go straight ahead, if there is any problem in the supply of grain and grass, we will definitely lose!" Zhang Xiu said, cupping his hands.

"There is no response from Jishi Mountain?"

The green-robed scribe frowned.

"There's no news from the tower, and neither does Midang!" Zhang Xiu shook his head.

"There's something wrong with that!"

The scribe in green robe felt more and more uneasy.

Driving straight in is the only way to break the check and balance, but it is also a huge risk. If there are problems before and after this time, it will cause the only army of the Northern Army to fall into a tight siege.

"Report!"

Outside the tent, a voice sounded.

"Enter!"

Walking in was a soldier in black.

This is not a general of the Northern Army.

It was a spy, a Xiliang spy, the spy that Li Wenyou deployed in Xiliang back then, it was like forming a net in Xiliang.

"Sir, this is the latest news from Xiliang!"

The spy handed the small bamboo tube in his hand to the green-robed scribe.

This green-robed scholar is Li Ru.

Li Ru took the small bamboo tube, opened it and glanced at it, his eyes were a little gloomy, and even his face collapsed: "Useless Jia Xu!"

"what happened?"

Zhang Xiu frowned.

"We are surrounded!"

"What?" Zhang Xiu's pupils changed color upon hearing this.

"The Mu army recruited Ma Chao, and Ma Chao led the elite Longxi army to break away from the Longxi army and join the Mu army formation. Now they are about to march westward, and the troops are divided into two groups. One way turns away from Didao and goes directly south. Facing Jincheng, they should be planning to block us in Jincheng!"

Li Ru handed over the information in his hand to Zhang Xiu.

"Ma Meng Qi!"

Zhang Xiu gritted his teeth.

"The situation is about to change!"

Li Ru sighed: "The Mu Clan's layout is really dangerous. He got himself into the game, but attacked from the outside, and put his hope on Ma Chao. How could he persuade Ma Chao to betray Ma Teng?"

This point, he has never been able to figure out.

He was confident that the Longxi Army would not stand in the formation of the Mu Army because he knew Ma Teng well. He knew that Ma Teng would surrender to Cao Cao, and he would not surrender to Mu Jing.

But the most undesirable thing to happen is still going to happen.

One person can change everything.

Not to mention Jishi Mountain, it's on the Qiang battlefield.

The entire northwest war situation is now hopeless.

Ma Chao made a counterattack, allowing Mu Jun to secure victory in the Northwest. In this round, he lost, and Jia Xu also lost, but Mu Shi won a big victory.

"Once Jincheng is blocked, what should I do with tens of thousands of sons?" Zhang Xiu was a little lost.

The last main force of the Northern Army is here.

Once the road to the north is blocked, even if the herdsmen don't fight him, there will be no good results. It is impossible to rely on the Qiang people. The Qiang people can afford a war, but they can't afford to keep soldiers and horses .

And when Tadu would turn his back on him, he didn't know.

At that time, the Northern Army will only be eaten away a little bit.

"Is there still a chance?"

Zhang Xiu suddenly ignited hope: "Whether it's Tadu or Midang, as long as they can become Qiang kings, integrate the main force of the Qiang people and join us, there is still a chance to destroy the Mu army!"

"I see no hope!"

Li Ru shook his head: "If Tadu and Midang can succeed, there should be news at this time. I suspect that they may also fail!"

"No way!"

"Starting from Shenlang and Qiang, the Mu family's layout in the Qiang people is no less shallow than that of our Xiliang people for decades, or even deeper!" Li Ru looked at Zhang Xiu and said: "Now you have only two choices, either Take a gamble and pin your hopes on Midang and Tadu, as long as any one of them takes the position of King Qiang, we will have a chance to compete with the Mujun, but if they fail, we will definitely die!"

"What about the second choice?" Zhang Xiu asked.

"Break out immediately, don't think about it, don't take any chances, go north, cross Liangzhou, and return to Beidi County. Stop the situation!"

Li Ru said.

"If you leave in such a disheveled manner, will Uncle Liu think highly of me as a martial artist?" Zhang Xiu was a little reconciled. He was willing to join Liu Bei. Why is he willing to abandon the Jincheng base camp, go south with all his strength, and fight a battle with the Mu army, just to hand over a nomination certificate, so that Uncle Liu Huang can value it.

"Boluan, when you do something big, you have to be calm. If you don't think about yourself, you have to think about the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of men in the Northland under your command. Once our entire army is wiped out here, the Northland Army will surely become history!"

Li Ru said softly: "At the moment when Ma Chao turned his back on the water, there was no hope for this battle. Even if he could win or even eat Shaodang, we would not be able to gain a foothold. The key point is that Mu Jun Even if we are defeated, we can still continue to increase our troops, but we can't, our soldiers and horses can't kill them at all, and once we mobilize troops, I'm afraid they will be driven in by the commander of the Mu army, and they will be killed. Xiliang is important, but Guanzhong is the most important thing!"

He already had the result of this battle in his heart, so he didn't want Zhang Xiu to fold here.

Establish a foothold in Youzhou formation.

He needs the support of a Xiliang general like Zhang Xiu to stabilize his position. Otherwise, relying solely on his planning ability, he will not be able to order his subordinates or keep his power. Once he loses Liu Bei's trust, he will die.

Zhang Xiu gritted his teeth, although he was unwilling, but he listened to Li Ru's words.

Mu Jun has never been a good stubble.

Whether he can win the fight is unknown.

Even if he wins this battle, and the situation in Xiliang is like this, it will be difficult for him to make contributions as planned, and even run away in despair in the end.

"Listen to you!"

Zhang Xiu took a deep breath and asked, "But now, how should we escape? If the north is charged with death, we will not be able to break through at all. Ma Chao is as fierce as a tiger. He may not be able to win me, but he will definitely stop me. !"

"Murder with a knife!"

Li Ru was already prepared.

He had more than one plan in his mind, since he entered Xiliang and said to surrender Zhang Xiu, he already had many plans. Zhang Xiu led the northern army to go south, and he was also prepared.

"That knife?"

Zhang Xiu frowned.

"The handle next to you!"

"Burning Dangqiang?" Zhang Xiu suddenly understood, but he was a little worried: "But they may not send troops!"

Li Ru tidied up his robes: "I will personally go to the Shaodang Qiang tribe. The tower is now in Jishi Mountain, and the main force is also in Jishi Mountain, but the Shaodang tribe is mostly Qiang people. They are all soldiers. Let them send troops. It is not easy to help us, but it is easy for them to send troops to resist foreign enemies!"

"What do you mean, treat the territory of Shaodang Ministry as a battlefield!"

Zhang Xiu's sense of touch is very keen, and he can quickly understand Li Ru's strategic deployment.

"That's right!"

Li Ru nodded: "Prepare to withdraw troops to Shaodang Qiang, lure the main force of the Mu army in, and then go north to face Ma Chao, but in terms of time, you have to delay until the main force of Ma Chao and the main force of the Mu army are killed in Shaodang Qiang, it is time for us to escape, as for where to escape, we have to think about it!"

A topographical map between Xiliang and the Qiang tribe was spread out.

"Going north is a grand strategy. Only when you go north and cross Liangzhou can you return to Beidi County. If there is no foothold in Beidi County, the combat effectiveness of the Beidi Army will be weakened, so you must take it back to Beidi County. If you want to go to Beidi Army , the best way is to go to Jincheng, but since Jincheng is defended, we can't get through!" Li Ru looked at the topographic map with deep eyes, and said in a low voice: "Other roads are not easy to go!"

"Then we can only go to Longxi!"

Zhang Xiu thought for a while and said.

"If you go to Longxi, you will inevitably face the Longxi army!"

"The Longxi Army in the past was terrible, but when Ma Chao pulled away the main force of Longxi, the current Longxi Army, it's not that I underestimate them, they can't stop the elite from the North!"

Zhang Xiu said with a sneer.

"Maybe you don't need to fight!"

Li Ru pondered for a while, then said: "In this way, as soon as the opportunity comes, you immediately walk along Longxi, after passing through Longxi, enter Hanyang, walk through Jieting, and go north from Jieting to Beidi. , rushed to Ji County, and persuaded Ma Teng and Jia Xu to open a way for you, so that you can go north to Beidi County smoothly. Take your troops back to the Northland!"

Although the plan has been finalized, how to implement it is still a big problem. It is still unknown how many main forces of the entire Northland Army can return to the Northland smoothly.

"Time is running out, I will rush to the burning department right away, take care of yourself!"

Li Ru took his personal guards and went to the burning department.

"This battle is going to be dangerous!"

Zhang Xiu's heart was a little chubby.

But since this is the case, there is no other way to go, let him surrender to Mujing, he can't do it, how Zhang Ji died, he can always think in his heart, one day, he will enter the hinterland of Yizhou, Only by killing Mu's upper and lower members with blood flowing into rivers can it be regarded as revenge.

"Come here, call the captains and generals of each department, and come to the middle camp to listen to the order within two hours!"

"promise!"

Once the strategy is settled, the tactics can be easily arranged. After all, Zhang Xiu is also a veteran in the battlefield. It is not difficult to arrange tactics based on the general strategy.

But the tactics have not yet been deployed, and the front line has already been fought.

"what?"

Less than a quarter of an hour after the decree went down, a military order came from the front line, and Zhang Xiu's eyes became a little cold: "The left and right wings of the Mu army have surrendered to the central camp. The main force of the central army has come out, and they are attacking our main camp?"

This surprised him a bit.

Mu Jun's troops were insufficient. Although he blocked his sneak attack, the counterattack had always been weak, but he didn't expect Mu Jun to fight with all his strength at this juncture.

"General, Hu Che'er, the former battalion lieutenant, is no longer able to stop him, so I ask you to quickly send reinforcements!"

The orderly soldier was covered in blood and bowed his head to ask for soldiers.

"Order Hu Che'er's department to retreat five miles to hide from the sharp edge!" Zhang Xiu gritted his teeth and quickly responded.

"promise!"

The messenger immediately went to deliver the order.

"It's better to come early than to come by coincidence. I just took this opportunity to withdraw!" Zhang Xiu paced back and forth for a while, and immediately prepared to pass on the second military order: "Send my military order. The battalion will withdraw its troops, and all the ministries will follow the trajectory of the middle battalion and prepare to withdraw their troops. Within two days, they will withdraw from the Baima Qiang land, retreat into the Shaodang Qiang, and gather at the Haiyu tribe stationed in the Shaodang tribe 120 miles away. !"

"Also, order Hu Che'er to cut off all the queens!"

The military order was conveyed quickly.

The Northern Army is fully mobilized...

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evening.

A great battle has just ended, and the Mu army has achieved unprecedented results. It not only achieved the previous goal, but also directly ate the Northland army's garrison.

This made Zhang Liao a little puzzled.

Zhang Liao strode across the battlefield, with withered lives everywhere, dripping with blood, under the setting sun, it looked so touching.

"Report to the general. The scouts discovered that the Northern Army on the left and right flanks have also withdrawn!"

"The last twenty miles they retreated!"

"Now I'm thinking about burning Dangqiang territory and withdrawing, and I haven't made any stay or camp!"

The news from the scouts traveled quickly.

"Withdrew voluntarily?"

Zhang Xiu narrowed his eyes: "It seems that their news is very well-informed, do you know they are surrounded?"

Zhang Xiu can control Ma Chao's movements.

The news from Jing Wusi was originally the fastest.

Every move of Ma Chao's westward march will be reported to Zhang Liao. On the battlefield in the northwest, he is the main general. All military orders are under his control, including Jing Wusi.

"General, do you want to pursue it?"

Lei Hu's blood boiled with enthusiasm, this battle was fought smoothly, and the grievances of the past few days were all brought out, and at this moment he was about to take advantage of the victory and pursue.

"No!"

Zhang Liao shook his head: "All ministries clean up the battlefield and set up camp again!"

"promise!"

Although Lei Hu and other generals were a little disappointed, they had been in the Mu army for so long and knew the reason why the military orders were like mountains, so they dared not question Zhang Liao when the military orders were issued directly.

Even if there is doubt, it will be a matter of later.

At this time, military orders must be followed.

In the evening, at night, the night in the northwest quickly widened, and the sky full of stars and the light of the bright moon poured down, as if it was day.

Shepherd's camp.

Zhang Liao was looking at the temporarily built sand table, which was a bit rough, but enough to generalize the terrain.

Thunder Tiger Samoke also stood aside.

"If you want to ask anything, just ask!" Zhang Liao glanced at Lei Hu, thought for a while, and said.

"General, we obviously want to drive them into Shaodangqiang, why don't we take advantage of the victory and pursue them?" Lei Hu held back for a while, and finally wanted to ask.

"To wait for!"

Zhang Liao replied.

"Wait for what?"

"Wait for news from Jishishan!" Zhang Liao looked at the sand table and said, "This is a game of chess, and a partial battlefield cannot represent the final victory. Now that the Northern Army has entered the game, they want to escape, but it is not so easy to escape. We have enough Time, so there is no need to be impatient, and the news of Jishishan is the most important thing, if something goes wrong in Jishishan, we have to adjust our strategy, if Jishishan wins a big victory, we can open and close!"

(End of this chapter)