I am Li Shimin of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 219 Take the lead
Li Shimin nodded. He also thought so. With the [-] soldiers in Luoyang City, it is too whimsical to seek the enemy's bad luck. If the army is defeated and destroyed, the enemy turns around and continues to attack Luoyang. Can you hold on?Isn't that self-defeating?

To understand this, Li Shimin ordered decisively: "Now the enemy is strong and we are weak, it is not appropriate to entangle the enemy head-on, but we cannot let him retreat so easily. He ordered Zhao Yun to lead his army to continuously harass the main force of Cao's army and slow down the enemy's speed. 'Send off' Cao Jun for us, and buy time for Guan Yu to capture Chenliu County."

"No! The last general (subordinate) takes orders." Then everyone retreated.

That day, Cao Cao did not attack again, but the Thunderbolt chariot continued to shell Luoyang, as if he had to knock down all the stones and vent his inner anger before giving up.

Cao Cao was naturally prepared. In case Li Shimin pursued him, he didn't mind concentrating his forces to destroy the enemy's chasing troops, and then turned around to attack Luoyang again. He took Luoyang in one fell swoop and captured Li Shimin.

But he knew that with Li Shimin's wisdom and shrewdness, he would never make such a low-level mistake and let himself take advantage of it.Therefore, arranging Cao Ren's death is just a matter of caution.

In the early morning of the next day, the main force of Cao's army quietly moved towards Chenliu. Xiahouyuan's [-] vanguard army went first, galloping towards Chenliu in the starry night, and had already set off.

The purpose was to prevent Chen Liu from being captured by Guan Yu and put Cao Jun in a passive situation. The main force of the Chinese army was led by Cao Cao himself, accompanied by generals such as Xiahou Dun and Xu Chu.

Before Cao Cao left, he looked at Luoyang, which was close at hand, and his eyes were full of unwillingness. This time, he was almost able to take Luoyang and eliminate Li Shimin. , It's really a pity.

Of course, Li Shimin's losses in this battle were also not small, and he also lost 7 to [-] horses. The Sili area was severely damaged. This battle can only be regarded as a win or lose.

"Li Shimin, this time we have a tie, next time we will have a showdown, we will wait and see." Cao Cao said fiercely, and the leader withdrew to Chenliu without looking back.

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Cheng Lian led a small group of troops to monitor Cao Jun's movements from a distance, and did not make any attacks.Cao Cao left very simply, leaving nothing in the camp.

Cheng Lian had been "gifting" Cao Jun out of Hulao Pass before he stopped. However, when he arrived at Hulao Pass, he found that Hulao Pass had been completely destroyed, with ruins everywhere and many city walls collapsed. The original Xiongguan turned into a dilapidated "dangerous pass", and Cheng Lian knew that this was caused by Cao Cao's deliberate "venting of anger".

Even if the news of the whole journey was passed to Li Shimin in Luoyang, Li Shimin was not surprised when he knew it. Cao Cao had suffered too much in Hulao Pass, and it was not surprising that he had such evil deeds. It happened that Li Shimin also wanted to take this opportunity to rebuild Hulao Pass completely eliminates the original hidden dangers, allowing it to restore its majestic appearance once again.

Soon the [-] troops from Tongguan also arrived in Luoyang, and Li Shimin transferred them to Hulao Pass, and recruited tens of thousands of civilians from Luoyang to repair Hulao Pass.

Under Xu Shu's recommendation, a master builder named Gongshuao later undertook the heavy task of building Hulaoguan. Xu Shu said that this was an old friend of his teacher, Mr. Shui Jing, who was said to be a descendant of the famous Luban.

Later, Hulao Pass was redesigned and repaired by Gongshu Ao, and the next time it restored the appearance of Tianxia Xiongguan.

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Zhao Yun's 1-strong army has been lurking in Zhongmou County and Guandu area, and has also wiped out several convoys of Cao's army transporting grain and grass. This is another reason why Cao Cao had to retreat.

Cao Jun went deep into Sili and was far away from the base camp. The supply route was too long and there were loopholes everywhere. If he hadn't grabbed some food and grass in the Sili area, he might have fallen into a crisis of food shortage.

After Zhao Yun received Li Shimin's letter from Feige, he lay in ambush on the official road passing through Chenliu, released all the scouts in his hands, looked for clues of the enemy, and prepared to ambush Cao Jun's vanguard.

Zhao Yun speculated that in order to prevent Chen Liu from being lost, Cao Cao would definitely send the vanguard to rescue Chen Liu. Naturally, there would not be too many troops, and most of them would be light cavalry.

The more than 1 Shence Army and Shenwu's elite cavalry under his command are all battle-tested and powerful. Even if they can't wipe out the enemy's vanguard, they can definitely slow down the enemy's advance speed.

It didn't take long for the scouts to find the vanguard of Cao's army fifty miles west of Zhongmou County. The Xiahou banner led by Cao Jun. From a distance, it seemed that there were at least [-] troops, including about [-] light cavalry and [-] infantry. pawn.

The scout army quickly passed on the situation to Zhao Yun. Seeing the disparity between the enemy and us, he had only [-] cavalry, but the enemy was three times as many as himself. .

Zhao Yun didn't intend to give up. No matter what, he wanted to kill the enemy's spirit and slow down the enemy's marching speed. Even if the enemy was a fierce tiger, his hungry wolf would still bite off a piece of meat.

It's just that the terrain in this area is flat, and there are no dangerous places to set up an ambush. It may not be easy to ambush.

Zhao Yun glanced at the gradually setting sky, and suddenly thought to himself, since you can't set up an ambush in a dangerous place, why can't you make a night attack?Taking advantage of the cover of night and when the enemy's foothold is not stable, he will attack decisively and surprise the enemy.

In the dark night, the enemy can't tell how many troops he has, and he will definitely not attack rashly, so that he can retreat completely.

Zhao Yun quickly took out the marching map, looked at the map for a while, and finally let him find an excellent location.

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At this time, Xia Houyuan's army had already passed Guancheng and was marching towards Zhongmou. After passing Zhongmu County, it was a hundred miles east to Chenliu.

Zhao Yun was thinking, if he were Xia Houyuan, in order to avoid being exposed, he would definitely avoid the crowded Zhongmou County and Kaifeng County, pass through the middle, and kill Chen Liu.

According to the enemy's marching speed, they will definitely set up camp thirty or forty miles southeast of Zhongmou County tonight, rest for one night, and then rush directly to Chenliu the next day.

And this will be his only opportunity for a sneak attack. Immediately, Zhao Yun dispatched his army to the south from the area of ​​Zhongmou County, and rushed to set up an ambush fifty or sixty miles south of Zhongmou County. There is actually an enemy army hidden in the south.

When the night is dark and the enemy is building a camp, when he relaxes his vigilance, it is his chance to make a surprise attack.

(End of this chapter)