Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 93 1
Gongsun Xu's personal soldiers are best at guerrilla warfare in small groups.Since the Xiliang army lost 5000 people for the first time, Dong Zhuo has also become more careful.

The rest of the Xiliang army who were scattered outside to inquire about the news were more vigilant and did not casually harm the local people.However, Gongsun Xu changed his combat method after adopting collective sneak attack for the first time.

The 3000 people were divided into six, and 500 people stayed at the Mangshan camp.The rest of the troops went out in batches to attack small units of the Xiliang Army. When encountering a cavalry team with more than 1000 people, they often used the method of encircling them.If one blow fails, you will flee thousands of miles away.

The success rate of this combat method is not very high, but the key is to make Dong Zhuo and Xiliang army confused.Even though Dong Zhuo ordered the Xiliang army to chase and intercept Gongsun Xu, Gongsun Xu could always escape, especially when he led the Xiliang army into deep mountains and dense forests several times, causing great losses to the Xiliang army.

You know, Gongsun Xu has deliberately strengthened the jungle combat capabilities and skills of his soldiers. In the forest, unless you set fire to the entire forest, otherwise, you always have to go in to know what's going on inside.

This is a pain for the Xiliang soldiers who are good at riding and fighting. Where have they received such military training, jungle warfare is definitely their weakness.Especially when encountering traps or lured beasts, the Xiliang army suffered a lot.

After ten days, the Xiliang army suffered nearly 8000 casualties, lost [-] horses, and countless cattle and sheep.Although Dong Zhuo was furious, there was nothing he could do about Gongsun Xu. Dong Zhuo was even more worried that the Xiliang Army had already feared Gongsun Xu. If Gongsun Xu's behavior could not be stopped, the morale of the Xiliang Army would be affected.

Originally, Dong Zhuo's military strength can be said to be the best in the world. Wen has a strategist like Li Ru, and Wu has the world's number one general like Lu Bu. In addition, Dong Zhuo also has the unstoppable Xiliang iron cavalry. .

The hateful thing is that Dong Zhuo met an opponent like Gongsun Xu, Li Ru's ingenuity was difficult to use against Gongsun Xu, and Lu Bu also met his own opponent.The invincible Xiliang elite was also led by the nose by Gongsun Xu and his Youzhou elite, and was completely beaten.

If Dong Zhuo is not angry, it is absolutely false.You must know that Dong Zhuo and Li Rumou have spent a lot of time and energy on Gongsun Xu. In other words, in their plan, Gongsun Xu is the main line and the protagonist, while Yuan Shao and the others are in a difficult situation. secondary status.

Dong Zhuo can be described as both happy and hated towards Gongsun Xu.But at the same time, he has to admire Gongsun Xu's methods, which are always unexpected. Even Li Ru, who has always been known for his resourcefulness, feels inferior.However, fortunately, Dong Zhuo had a plan before, so it was not messed up.

In the depths of Mang Mountain, Gongsun Xu was discussing the next military move with his generals.Although they have achieved great victories and achieved brilliant results these days, losses cannot be ignored.

There are less than 1000 of the 3000 elite fighters, and more than [-] wounded and unable to fight.The rest of them have already turned into dust and buried in the ground forever.This is already a heavy loss for a team of only [-] people.Gongsun Xu intends to end his sneak attack plan at this point, and if he continues to fight, more soldiers will only die.

The reason why Gongsun Xu had this plan was that he couldn't see through the conspiracy between Dong Zhuo and Li Ru, so he came up with this trick to delay their plan.Based on the itinerary now, Jia Xu should arrive at the allied camp soon. With him around, Gongsun Xu believed that he would not be tricked by Dong Zhuo.

Everyone in the camp was packing up, and all the trophies were divided into several batches and hidden in different places.Especially the war horse, this is the biggest victory for the Youzhou Army.If those in the allied army knew that the Youzhou army had obtained more than 1 war horses and countless cattle and sheep out of thin air, they would all be jealous.

In the Central Plains, war horses are definitely a scarce strategic resource. As for livestock such as cattle and sheep, for the people of the Han family with farming culture, they are definitely the best labor.Whether it is plowing the land to transport goods or pulling people in vehicles, cattle and sheep are definitely the first choice.

The people in the Central Plains would not just slaughter a cow or sheep. Such a good livestock must be raised well, and it can help produce a lot of food.

However, Gongsun Xu didn't plan to use these cattle and sheep to produce food. If the army food was insufficient, these cattle and sheep would definitely be slaughtered, or the cattle and sheep would be rewarded as materials to meritorious soldiers.

The battles during this period have made Sun Ce mature a lot. Gongsun Xu has promised him that as long as Sun Ce can successfully pass the next assessment, he can reward him with [-] war horses, which makes Sun Ce very excited.

Sun Jian's order can finally be successfully completed. More importantly, as long as he has a horse, Sun Ce can go back and form his own cavalry guard. As long as he has five hundred elite cavalry, Sun Ce firmly believes that he can conquer Jiangdong invincible.

As long as there are war horses, and then borrow dozens of cavalry masters from Gongsun Xu to teach riding skills, Sun Ce's cavalry dream will soon come true.

Gongsun Xu's side has already been packed, and a large number of supplies and livestock are ready to be transported away. Together with the people who have been harmed by the Xiliang army, as long as they are willing to stay, Gongsun Xu will take them in and prepare them to immigrate to Bingzhou.As for those women who had lost their relatives, Gongsun Xu asked them to betrothed to meritorious soldiers in the army after obtaining their consent.

People in this era are not so particular. Most of the soldiers in the army are bachelors and cannot afford a wife.Naturally, he would not dislike whether these women were virgins or had some disgraceful past. Of course, Gongsun Xu also emphasized that those who have meritorious service must treat these women well, otherwise they will be dealt with by military law.

Gongsun Xu has too many burdens here, and if he goes on the road rashly, he will definitely be attacked by the Xiliang army.Therefore, Gongsun Xu sent a letter to his father a long time ago, hoping that he would send troops to respond.Fortunately, there has been no news from Marquis Ci that a large number of Xiliang troops have appeared.Otherwise, if the Xiliang army dispatched more than [-] troops, Yuan Shao would not be able to eat, let alone Cao Cao who was serving the country and the people.

After several hours on the road, none of the people met the Xiliang Army, and even the assassin did not find the Xiliang Army's spies.This confuses Gongsun Xu.It stands to reason that there are still a few thousand Xiliang cavalry scattered around here, and it is impossible for them to let Gongsun Xu leave so easily.

Gongsun Xu felt more and more strange as he walked. Could it be that something happened to Dong Zhuo's base camp, or the Xiliang army was really scared out of their wits?

Gongsun Xu didn't think he had such a reputation. When had the Xiliang army been scared out of his wits?However, the less the Xiliang army appeared, the more weird Gongsun Xu felt.Unless Dong Zhuo had already set a trap on Gongsun Xu's way back and wanted to wipe out Gongsun Xu's team in one fell swoop.

Or, Dong Zhuo would set up an ambush on the road, trying to annihilate Gongsun Zan who came to meet him in one fell swoop.

But this is clearly unrealistic.Not to mention Gongsun Zan, even if Dong Zhuo wanted to annihilate the two 3000 men of Gongsun Xu, he would have to mobilize at least [-] elite cavalry. However, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan would definitely have news of such a large-scale dispatch of cavalry.It is even more impossible to rely on the remaining Xiliang soldiers in this area. These people are not elite and cannot stop Gongsun Xu's pace.

Now there are still eighty miles away from Gongsun Zan's camp, according to the agreed time, half an hour later they will surely meet the troops sent by Gongsun Zan.Gongsun Xu led five hundred soldiers to follow behind the main force for a mile to prevent any pursuers from attacking.

As long as half an hour passes, Gongsun Xu will be safe.But Gongsun Xu knew that Dong Zhuo must have some conspiracy, what will happen in this half hour?

Just when Gongsun Xu was puzzled, finally, a few assassins came from behind.

Gongsun Xu immediately became serious. What should come is finally coming.

"Report,,,,,,"

The leading Assassin Marquis immediately called Gongsun Xu from a distance and said, "Report to the general, the lowly ranks have found out some news, but we don't know whether it is true or not, so please make a decision."

"Huh?" Gongsun Xu frowned suspiciously. What Chi Hou said was a bit abnormal. Even if there was news, he should just say it.

"General, I have found out from my humble position that the Hedong Wei family is getting married today, and the wedding team left Luoyang three hours ago, and I'm afraid they have already entered Hanoi..." After finishing speaking, the assassin stopped, as if he didn't want to say any more .

Many thoughts flashed through Gongsun Xu's mind, but the assassin under his command obviously didn't finish his sentence: "Continue talking, who is going to marry into the Wei family?"

"No, it's Cai Yan, the daughter of Cai Yong, the imperial prince." After finishing speaking, the assassin lowered his head and said nothing.

Gongsun Xu remained silent, the name sounded so familiar and warm.Once, Gongsun Xu thought that he would only love Zhen Dao in his life, but he didn't want to, in that boyhood, during the time he stayed in Luoyang, Cai Yan also quietly walked into his heart.

Although I avoided it again and again, Cai Yan's figure was always lingering in my mind.

It's not that Gongsun Xu hasn't confessed to Zhen Dao, and Zhen Dao also expressed that he doesn't mind.But due to a concept in his past and present lives, Gongsun Xu felt that he should not be sorry for Zhen Dao, even though he really liked Cai Yan.

I thought that time would dilute everything, I thought it was just a momentary throbbing.But he didn't want to face this problem after years of avoiding it.

Cai Yan in history was married to Hedong Wei's family. This, Gongsun Xu still has a little impression.It seems that she became a widow in the end, and later she was exiled in a different race because of the Huns' invasion of the country, and began her miserable life.

Thinking of this, Gongsun Xu became even more anxious, what should he do now.Why does this kind of thing happen at this time.Shouldn't Cai Yan be betrothed to Gongsun Xu himself?This is one of the conditions Dong Zhuo asked him to retreat last time.

(End of this chapter)