The Three Kingdoms: The Cold Gate World

Chapter 362

The Taiping Army rushed past the Jiangdong Army, and the Jiangdong generals watched them rush past with hostility, chasing Liu Bei.

Lu Meng glanced at Jiangling City, which had closed its gates, and then suggested to Zhou Yu: "Governor, Guo Jia's troops have not entered Jiangling before, why not take Jiangling at this time? Kill him by surprise?"

The Jiangdong generals couldn't see Zhou Yu's expression. Zhou Yu's expression of hatred for iron and steel flashed across his face. He turned around, looked at Lu Meng who was full of fighting spirit, and sighed softly: "Zi Ming, when will you really learn how to fight?" What about planning later?"

With a sigh of regret, Zhou Yu ordered the withdrawal of troops.

Jiangling can be fought, and the chances of winning are great.

But what if you beat it down?

Can Liu Bei's [-] troops stop Guo Jia?It's a miracle that it can be stopped, but if it can't be stopped, Guo Jia looks back, isn't there a Jiangling city that is a dead end?And gave Guo Jia a reason to fight Jiangdong.

What's more, Wulin still has [-] soldiers in Jiangdong, and those [-] soldiers don't know the situation in Jiangling. Now that Zhou Yu is attacking Jiangling, isn't that equivalent to giving those [-] soldiers to Guo Jia for nothing?
After all, Jiang Dong and Guo Jia are allies, and Lu Fanding Feng Han Dang led the army to meet Guo Jia, and most likely he would not be fully on guard.

Zhou Yu led the army to retreat slowly with a solemn face. He expected that Guo Jia would expect Jiangling to be attacked, so that Guo Jia could justifiably attack the exhausted Jiangdong after the war!

As a result of Sun Liu's resistance to Cao Cao, Cao Cao lost, and the Sun Liu alliance also lost. The only winner is Guo Jia!

After noon, Guo Jia led the army to chase forward without any haste. Behind him was the silver-feathered flying cavalry, and behind him was the army of infantry.

The generals and Guo Jia rode side by side, Gan Ning challenged Guo Jia and said: "My lord, why don't you let the last general lead the silver feather flying horse to attack, and we will definitely win a big victory."

Guo Jia shook his head and disagreed.

"Xingba, I told you that there is Zhuge Kongming beside Liu Bei. This person should not be underestimated. He knows that I am chasing after him, so he cannot be unprepared. I can gain something, but I don't want you to put yourself in danger. With Liu Bei's current strength, it is impossible to wipe out the entire army of Yinling Flying Cavalry. A three-year-old child can understand this truth.”

After hearing this, Gan Ning gave up the idea of ​​leading the army to pursue the enemy first.

Guo Jia will not be aimless. Since Guo Jia has said so, there must be a reason for his fear of Zhuge Kongming.

It's just that Gan Ning was a little bit dissatisfied in his heart.

Cao Cao went south and led tiger and leopard riders to chase and kill Liu Bei in the starry night. He could kill Liu Bei and fled.

However, what Guo Jia thought was different from Gan Ning.

When Liu Bei was pursued by Cao Cao, his soldiers and horses were mixed among the common people, the progress was slow, and the formation could not be opened. Naturally, he was only beaten. Now it is different. Liu Bei is not dragged down by the common people, and he must be on guard against Guo Jia’s cavalry. Attacking, he suffered a loss under Cao Cao's hands first, and it's time to learn to be smarter.

Guo Jia had [-] soldiers by his side, and he was guarding the right way. Liu Bei's [-] soldiers were powerless to fight back.

After all, there is Zhuge Liang beside Liu Bei.

It was not surprising that the other generals heard that Gan Ning's proposal was rejected by Guo Jia.

They are a little confused now, if Guo Jia wanted to kill Liu Bei, there were too many opportunities before, but Guo Jia just let Liu Bei go, and delayed outside Jiangling for a while, letting Liu Bei run a little farther before chasing him, it seemed like it was just a bluff.

That's right, Guo Jia was just bluffing, making a gesture of killing Liu Bei.

However, is there any ultimate move?

"Where's Shiyuan? Where did Pang Shiyuan go? Tell him to come here."

Guo Jia looked left and right, but he didn't see Pang Tong on the left and right. After shouting a few words, Pang Tong rode his horse from the silver-feathered flying horse to catch up with Guo Jia.

"Why did my lord summon the next officer?"

Pang Tong asked Guo Jia suspiciously.

Guo Jia laughed and said, "Where have you been hiding? Are you shy or something? Are you afraid of seeing Zhuge Liang?"

Pang Tongtong smiled wryly, and thought to himself: Didn't my lord tell me to stay behind obediently when the two armies were fighting?

This can be regarded as Guo Jia's helpless move. Pang Tong likes to run to the front line, but he doesn't wear armor. Guo Jia is really afraid that he will lose his life in a chaotic battle, so he gave him an order, as long as the wind direction on the battlefield is not right , and quickly ran behind to hide.

Since the Allied Army of Sun and Liu arrived at the foot of Jiangling City, Pang Tong consciously shrank back to watch the situation change.

"Shiyuan, do you think Zhuge Liang will fall into the trap I set?"

Guo Jia asked Pang Tong excitedly.

After Pang Tong frowned and thought for a while, he shook his head and said, "I don't know what the trap the lord is talking about. In terms of the overall situation, Zhuge Liang can't turn things around. Even if he knows that the lord forced Liu Bei to go the way he was plotted by the lord, he can't help it." You have to go. If the lord is referring to Huarong Road, then the official thinks that the lord should be prepared to be seen through. Zhuge Liang is good at calculating. When he came, he didn't expect the lord to appear in Jingzhou. Now that he knows it, he will definitely go ahead. Step cautiously."

Guo Jia was not discouraged after hearing this, and joked: "Wouldn't Zhongkang be disappointed?"

In front, Liu Bei led his infantry and hurriedly retreated to Jiangxia. When he came, he took the shortcut Huarong Road. When he retreated, he also took the shortcut, Huarong Road.

The crossing was still full of Cao Bing's corpses, and the mountains and forests on both sides were dense. Liu Bei took the lead and led the army into Huarong Road, regardless of whether he stepped on Cao Bing's corpses or not, he went straight away.

Zhuge Liang was thinking about this series of changes along the way.

Guo Jia appeared in Jingzhou as if from heaven!
Obviously he could kill Liu Bei but let him go, but he still has to make a gesture of killing Liu Bei!
It's so abnormal!

Suddenly looking up, Zhuge Liang found that soldiers and horses walked into Huarong Road, and the miserable death of Cao soldiers around him gave him a chill in his heart.

If so, everything is in Guo Jia's calculations.

So, will he set up an ambush on Huarong Road?
"stop!"

Zhuge Liang shouted loudly.

Liu Bei doesn't have to listen to other people's words, but Zhuge Liang, who makes him feel like a fish in water, is what he has to listen to.

Liu Bei immediately ordered the troops to stop, came to Zhuge Liang and asked, "Military Master, why did you call to stop?"

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Chen Dao, and the fourth general looked at him puzzled.

Zhuge Liang showed a dignified expression on his face, and said to Liu Bei in a low voice: "Master, order the soldiers and horses to slowly withdraw from Huarong Road, and return to Jiangxia by a long way. This road is dangerous, and murderous intentions are hidden!"

When Liu Bei heard this, he was startled, but doubts suddenly arose.

"Military Master, when we came here, we were waiting this way. Why can't we go back?"

Zhuge Liang didn't have time to explain, so he urged: "My lord, let's give an order. If you delay at this time, the danger will be greater."

Liu Bei didn't ask any more questions, and ordered the soldiers and horses to turn around and retreat from Huarong Road, and retreat back to Jiangling by a long way.

In fact, taking Huarong Road is a good choice, because Huarong Road is narrow, Liu Bei escapes in front, and only needs a small number of soldiers and horses in the back to delay Guo Jia's army for a long time and buy him more time to escape back to Jiangxia.

But Zhuge Liang said that this road is full of murderous threats, Liu Bei would rather believe in Zhuge Liang than his own judgment.

Xu Chu and Deng Zhi, who were hiding in the forests on both sides of Huarong Road, watched Liu Bei's troops enter Huarong Road, but now they retreated. Xu Chu immediately became furious, and Deng Zhi was also very unwilling.

Guo Jia's military order to them was very simple. When the Sun Liu coalition army came from the east, let them pass, and if they returned from the northwest, they would kill them halfway!
"General, what should we do now?"

Deng Zhi looked at Liu Bei's army that was about to withdraw from Huarong Road, and hurriedly asked Xu Chu.

Obviously Xu Chu is higher than Deng Zhi in terms of official position, fame, military experience, etc., so Xu Chu is naturally the one to make the decision on how to act.

Xu Chu, who was so angry that his teeth were itchy, drew his sword and shouted, "The whole army obeys the order, kill!"

Just when Liu Bei's soldiers and horses entering Huarong Road were about to withdraw, there were loud shouts of killing from the mountains on both sides of the road, countless archers appeared on the mountain forest, and the rain of arrows covered the sky and attacked Liu Bei's soldiers and horses!

"My lord, there is indeed an ambush here!"

Chen Dao said a nonsense!
Because of Zhuge Liang's previous warning, there were many personal guards around Liu Bei, who escorted Liu Bei out with shields, and other generals waved their weapons to resist the rain of arrows and retreated. Only a few corpses of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses were left at Huarong Crossing.

Seeing that he had been in ambush for most of the day, Xu Chu immediately ordered Wudang's flying army to intercept and kill Liu Bei's army passing by the crossing.

I saw Liu Bei's army passing by outside Huarong Road, marching forward in a hurry. Countless enemy troops appeared on the side hillside, walking on the ground in the mountains and forests, and some brave and fearless soldiers even jumped down from the hillside and threw Liu Bei's army soldiers down. , and then started fighting.

Due to the time delay between Huarong Road's advance and retreat, Liu Beijun was pulled closer by Guo Jia behind him, and even Guo Jia saw Xu Chu running down the mountain with a machete to kill the enemy like a wind and a cloud.

"Zhongkang! Withdraw your troops and return."

Guo Jia led his troops to catch up with Liu Bei's army, but he didn't order to rush to kill him, instead he asked Xu Chu to withdraw his troops and come back.

Xu Chu didn't feel any sense of achievement in killing the soldiers, so he obeyed the order to have the Wudang flying army and archers withdraw and stand by Guo Jia's side.

Now that he has been caught up, Liu Bei must not run forward regardless of his back, otherwise the opponent's cavalry will rush to kill him, and even if he escapes, the poor soldier will be killed and injured.

Zhuge Liang suddenly remembered that Guo Jia had a deep taboo against Zhao Yun, so he asked Zhao Yun and Chen Dao to lead the white-eared soldiers to buy time for Liu Bei to flee back to Jiangxia.

The situation in front of him was critical, but Zhao Yun accepted the order without changing his face, turned his horse's head, swept his silver gun, and stared at the Taiping Army not far away without fear.

Guo Jia looked around and saw that Liu Guanzhang and Zhuge Liang led most of the troops to escape, leaving behind Zhao Yun, another general and thousands of troops, and smiled dispiritedly.

Liu Bei, originally, after the Battle of Chibi, you were lucky. Unfortunately, when you met me, you still couldn't escape the fate of repeated battles and defeats.

(End of this chapter)