Ji Han Liu Zhang

Since the time of Huan Ling, there has been disharmony between the upper and lower parts of the court, and the yin and yang of the four seasons have been out of balance. From the prefectures and counties to the small counties and villages, everything is in a chaotic and noisy situation. As a result, people are unstable and unable to do things.

Under such circumstances, the Chencang Road, which is the main road between Guanzhong and Shu, is naturally unattended and unsupervised. With the ravages of time, wind and rain, the ground collapsed and the mountains cracked, the original flat and Chencang Road is one of the rare dangerous places. The road is overgrown with weeds, the terrain is undulating, and there are ravines everywhere.

Although Wu Yi, the prefect of Wudu, had slightly repaired Chencang Road in order to move north to Guanzhong in the future, so that Chencang Road would not be blocked for pedestrians and transportation of food and supplies.

However, if we want to restore Chencang Road to its former width and flatness, it will take a lot of time and a lot of money and food. However, due to the current busy military affairs, Wu Yi, the governor of Wudu, does not have that kind of free time. Just make some repairs to Chencang Road and make sure it is usable.

present.

Wu Yi, the prefect of Wudu and Pingdi Zhonglang, acted as the vanguard commander, leading two generals, Xu Meng and Xi Su, and more than 10,000 troops under his command. They were marching on Chencang Road. Although Chencang Road was older than Ziwu, Baoxie, and The three narrow roads in the mountains of Tangluo are relatively spacious, but not too wide. Therefore, more than 10,000 people were divided into three teams: front, middle and rear. Each team was stretched and spread out, as unhurried as a long dragon. Heading towards Guanzhong slowly.

Not surprisingly, Xu Meng, who was in the front army, complained for no reason: "This road is also called a road now. Those who know it know that it is Chencang Road, but those who don't know think it is just a field ridge, just a little wider. …When Guanzhong is captured in the future, I will report it to Duke Ming and let him repair Chencang Road…”

Xu Meng's younger brother and the captain in his tribe, Xu Kan, has always had a smile on his face since he set foot on Chencang Road. Hearing Xu Meng's words, he said happily: "Brother, You are really thinking far ahead. Now that Guanzhong has not yet been captured, you are thinking about repairing Chencang Road... But if you want to repair Chencang Road, it would be best to let the surrendered captain Li Xiu do it. However, the new Yangping Pass built by Li Xiu on Zoumaling last time caused us a lot of suffering. "

"This is how you behave! You have to have a long-term view, look far away, and don't just focus on the present." Xu Meng began to preach. He shook his head and said: "As Ming Gong often said, those who don't plan for the overall situation can't plan for a domain. Those who plan for eternity cannot plan for a moment. Conquering Guanzhong is only a temporary task, but repairing the Chencang Road to make the communication between Guanzhong and Shu smooth is a plan for eternity. "

Then Xu Meng commented on Li Xiu, the repair supervisor recommended by Xu Kan: "Li Xiu is a talented person in civil engineering. It is indeed a good choice to let him repair Chencang Road. I will recommend him to Duke Ming when the time comes."

"It's just Akan, you kid. Ever since you stepped onto Chencang Road, I haven't seen the smile on your face drop. It almost froze with laughter. You ate bee poop!" Xu Meng glanced at Xu Meng. Kan continued his rant.

Xu Kan laughed loudly after hearing this, and said happily: "Brother, Guanzhong is only in front of us. Soon we will be able to set foot on our homeland and return to our hometown. Can I be unhappy?"

Then Xu Kan stretched out his finger and pointed at the marching troops and said: "Brother, look, every face of the clan members is not wearing a happy face, and which face is not filled with smiles... Only you, brother, show your face from time to time. He looks depressed, as if he is owed millions of dollars, but I don’t know why.”

"Hey." Xu Meng sighed heavily after hearing this: "I have something to worry about, so it's hard for me to show my face."

Xu Kan asked in confusion: "Brother, we will be able to return to our homeland soon. This is a very happy thing. How can you still be worried?"

"It has been three or five years since we entered Shu. In the past three to five years, the land in Guanzhong was first troubled by Dong Zhuo, and then poisoned by Li Jue and Guo Si. I believe that few people who stayed in the countryside in the past could survive... After the great disaster "My old friend has withered away. Every time I think about it, I feel a little timid as a brother. I don't dare to set foot in the land of Guanzhong and go to the countryside to look for my old friend. I'm afraid I won't be able to see my old friend, but I can only see... eh..." Xu Meng His words were mixed with desolation. He was afraid that when he returned to his hometown, he would not be able to see his old friends, but would only see tombs facing each other in silence.

Xu Kan lowered his eyes, put away the smile on his face, and became silent. For a moment, as Xu Meng and Xu Kan fell silent, the atmosphere became a little depressed.

But soon, Xu Meng put away his timidity and the fear in his heart. He stretched out his big hand like a cattail fan, slapped Xu Kan on the shoulder with great force, and said with great enthusiasm: "Akan, this time You and I, as the vanguard and the vanguard of the front army, should hunt down one or two Liangzhou bandit leaders to commemorate our old friends who died in Guanzhong, and at the same time to commemorate our past of fleeing into Shu like a lost dog. "

The pride in Xu Meng's words was mixed with some resentment at the bottom. He hated the Liangzhou bandits, and the Liangzhou bandits looted Guanzhong. The people of his clan were so frightened that they had to abandon their homeland and their ancestral tombs. , like a bereaved dog, went south to Shu in search of a glimmer of hope. The panic and fear at that time are still lingering in his heart to this day, and this time, it is their turn to bring panic to the Liangzhou thieves. and frightened.

At this time, Xu Meng and Xu Kan suddenly stopped in their tracks, and the soldiers in the front army also stopped in their tracks. When they came here, they saw an open area in front of them. The narrow ridges on both sides were no longer in the distance. Suddenly, a wide river came into their sight. This was a river they were all too familiar with - the Weishui River.

The Wei River originates from the Niaoshu Mountain in Longzhong. It flows vigorously from the gorges in the mountains and slowly flows through Xianyang and Chang'an. The silt it carries is alluvial into the fertile Guanzhong Plain. It can be called the mother river for the children of Guanzhong. '.

Xu Meng and his subordinates had been in chaos and had been away from Guanzhong for a long time. They had not seen the Wei River for a long time. Now that they saw the Wei River for the first time, everyone stood there stupidly, quietly looking at the Wei River that raised them up. Or for those who have a surging heart and agitation in their hearts, there will be a burst of crystals in their eyes, which is the gathering of tears.

When the wanderer returns home, the crowd is confused and confused.

However, at the moment, Xu Meng and his subordinates were not allowed to have free time to express their inner emotions. However, they saw several scouts on galloping horses in the distance and detected their movements. They were galloping non-stop at the moment. They went up with the intention of bringing news of their arrival back to the camp.

Xu Meng had sharp eyes, a pair of eyes like a falcon. Although they were far apart, he could clearly see the attire of several scouts. These scouts were not dressed like the usual Han knights. They did not wear two-tier armor or Douchun, only wearing a piece of leather armor, his clothes were in the style of a left pleat, and his hair was disheveled, he looked like a barbarian, or in other words, he was a barbarian.

"Qiang and Hu." Xu Meng said two words fiercely. He had received news that in order to compete with them, Li Jue and Guo Bang, these crazy Liangzhou thieves, offered huge profits to lure many Qiang and Hu to come to help. The heavy profit here refers to the common people in Guanzhong.

Now seeing the Qiang and Hu scouts, Xu Meng knew that the news he had received was the real news. The Liangzhou thieves actually allowed the Qiang and Hu to harass and rob the common people in Guan. They were simply unworthy of a human being. For Li Jue and He scorned and ridiculed Guo Si for his bottomless behavior.

"These Liangzhou thieves have been living together in Liangzhou for a long time, and they are no different from the Qiang and Hu. They are no longer Han people, but pure barbarians... No matter whether it is their behavior or their speech, they are no different from barbarians."

After a sneer, Xu Meng straightened his expression. He first summoned a scout and asked the scout to pass the news of his arrival to the border of Guanzhong to Wu Yi, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army. Then he immediately commanded his soldiers to form an array. Even if the enemy had already detected their arrival, it was unlikely that light cavalry would arrive soon. He had to be prepared now. Under Xu Meng's command, his well-trained soldiers began to move. The team of more than 3,000 people was divided into three regiments, left, center and right. The teams on the left and right wings were relatively weak, but at the same time they were also flexible. The team in the middle is thicker, like an iron bucket.

In Crane Wing Formation, Xu Meng set up a formation that could be used both offensively and defensively. As a general, he was located in the middle of the formation, surrounded by heavy troops. His left and right wings spread like cranes, and they opened and closed freely. It can be used to attack both sides of the enemy, and it can also be used to attack the enemy that breaks into the middle of the formation.

Although the Crane Wing Formation is relatively good, it also tests the general's tactical command ability. After all, this is a flexible formation. If the general's ability is slightly lacking, it will be difficult to command the soldiers and give full play to the Crane Wing Formation. The effectiveness of the array.

After Xu Meng finished setting up the formation, the situation was just as Xu Meng had guessed. A cloud of smoke and dust swept from the distance, and the earth trembled, as if thousands of troops and horses were coming to kill.

Xu Meng had no doubt that he was there. He knew that the enemy scouts in front had detected them and turned back. At the moment, it seemed that Li Jue and Guo Si wanted to take advantage of their newly arrived and unsteady foothold to get a good start from them. So they sent light cavalry to attack.

The enemy cavalry was like a wind and lingering cloud. It didn't take long to reach the front of Xu Meng's formation, and stopped at a speeding pace more than a thousand steps away. A figure who looked like the enemy's cavalry commander was surrounded by several capable knights. , left the group of enemy cavalry, came to a place a hundred steps away and two hundred steps away from Xu Meng's formation, and observed the formation laid out by Xu Meng.

The enemy cavalry leader was so bold that he left the team and came forward. Firstly, it was humiliating Xu Meng's side and suppressing the morale of Xu Meng's troops. Secondly, it was to advance forward as the leader, which had the effect of motivating his subordinates.

However, in the face of the oppression and humiliation of the enemy cavalry commander, Xu Meng's expression remained unchanged, and the formation of his soldiers was still stable without any wavering, which made the enemy cavalry commander's beautiful thoughts come to nothing.

'More than a thousand horses. '

'They are Qianghu, not Liangzhou thieves. '

'This Qiang Hu Qushuai is a little bold, and he seems to be looking down upon us. '

While the enemy cavalry commander was observing their formation, Xu Meng also took a look at the number and morale of the invading enemy, as well as the character of the invading cavalry commander, and came up with several conclusions.

Just as Xu Meng deduced from his observation, after receiving the news of their arrival, Li Jue and Guo Bang sent the Shaodang Qiang who came to help to observe the situation, and asked Shaodang Qiang's Qu Commander Shao Ertou to be careful.

Li Jue and Guo Bang asked the brave and warlike Qiang and Hu to be cautious, which naturally aroused the rebellious mentality of Shao Ertou, who was the Qiang Qu commander. Shao Ertou claimed that he had no rivals and few capable people throughout Liangzhou. Among the Han troops that caught his eye, there were few Han troops that could stand up to him.

Therefore, as soon as Shao Ertou, the commander of Shaodang Qiang Qu, arrived at Xu Meng's place, he rushed out of the team and only surrounded by a few personal guards, he observed Xu Meng's formation up close. He planned to find the formation where Xu Meng had set up. There was an omission in the formation, so they broke through the formation with light cavalry, killed Xu Meng in a big way, and went back to claim credit from Li Jue and Guo Si.

However, after Shao'otou carefully observed for half an hour, he couldn't help but let out a cold hiss. It seemed that there was no omission in the Han army's formation in front of him, which would give him a chance to break the formation, get the head of the Han army's general, and go back to claim credit.

Shao'otou waved his hand slightly, and returned to the rear group with several guards gathered around him. It seemed that Shao'otou had the idea of ​​​​retreating, but in fact it was not the case.

After returning to the cavalry group, Shao Ertou half-squinted his eyes and issued an order. His subordinate Xiaoqushuai Shaoji immediately led hundreds of knights out of the group, whipped his horse and galloped with lightning speed. It rushed toward Xu Meng's formation, like a tiger descending from the mountain, with terrifying potential energy.

Although there were only a few hundred light cavalry rushing towards Xu Meng's formation, in the eyes of the soldiers in the first row of the Crane Wing Formation, they saw boundless men and horses roaring towards them, and all they could see were Qiang and Hu cavalry. , and as the distance gets closer, the cruelty and ferocity on Qiang Hu's face becomes even more clearly visible.

The Qiang and Hu knights shouted loudly like wild beasts hunting for prey, clamped the belly of the horse, and urged the sympathetic horses under them to run wildly, as if they planned to rush into the Han army's crane wing formation and break through the formation that disrupted the Han army. .

Five hundred steps...

Three hundred steps...

One hundred steps...

As the distance with the Han army continued to close, Xiaoqushuai Shaoji showed his doubts. In the past, they used their cavalry to overwhelm the enemy, and most of the time they could achieve good results, or make the enemy unable to do so. Dare to confront the enemy, break up and flee, or cause the enemy's formation to waver, split up front and back, and expose gaps.

They often take advantage of the enemy's collapse and wavering, and use their light cavalry to kill them all the way, winning the greatest results at the least cost.

But today is different, or the Han army on the opposite side is different. During their massive cavalry charge, the Han army's formation did not move at all, and did not make a sound. It seemed as if they did not exist. .

"Damn it, why aren't the Han troops on the opposite side panicking?" Roast Chicken, who led the cavalry to a hundred steps away from the Han troops, cursed secretly, and at the same time there was a trace of worry on his face. (End of chapter)