Lu's relatives

Chapter 420 Misunderstood by the exhausted army plan, the plain battle is in danger
The news that Zhen Jiang told Qin Xu was like a timely gift to Lu Bu.Because of Song Xian's death, Zheng worried that the suppressed evil fire had nowhere to go, so he learned the hiding place of Liu Bei's army.This is undoubtedly excellent news.Leaving behind an army that was enough to confuse everyone, three thousand Lu Bu troops marched eastward at night and headed straight for Yanchi Mountain.

Yanchi Mountain is located fifty miles east of the plain. It was originally a remnant of the Taihang Mountains adjacent to Bohai County, Jizhou. Covered by lush forests, the mountain became more and more steep. When Lu Bu's army rushed all the way here, it was already midnight. Under the moonlight, apart from the occasional snorting of war horses, the occasional neighing of night owls made this place very quiet.

It stands to reason that although Lv Bu's surprise attack did not disturb anyone in Pingyuan City, after all, there were [-] cavalry galloping in the starry night. For no reason, they galloped for more than [-] miles, and they had already arrived at the foot of the mountain, but they still did not attract Liu Bei's army. Attention is.If Liu Bei's vigilance is so low, let alone the halo of pig's feet, even if he is made emperor, he will be easily obliterated.

"My lord, something is not quite right here!" Qin Xu pulled his horse over to Lu Bu, and said to Lu Bu, who was about to order to enter the mountain with a murderous look on his face: "Miss Zhen Er only said that this place is the closest to the plain. It is a place where soldiers can hide, but it is not certain that Liu Bei is there at the moment. Moreover, Liu Bei is vigilant in nature. Even if our army hid his tracks before, he would never have come here now, but the other party has no reaction at all. , the matter is abnormal, it must be a demon, the lord must be cautious."

"That's right, my lord. Moreover, the mountain here is unpredictable, and there is no one who is familiar with the place to lead the way. Our army is all cavalry. If we attack easily, I am afraid that it will not be the way to win. It is better to camp on the spot and wait until tomorrow morning. What are your plans?" said Gao Shun, the leader of the trapped faction, who had always been taciturn and followed Lü Bu's orders to the letter, but now he rarely remonstrated with Lv Bu.

"Don't enter the forest and march at night, how can someone not understand these truths? But it is aimed at ordinary people, not the disadvantage of someone's army!" Lu Bu was silent for a while, with a look of pride on his face, A sternness flashed across his eyes, and he said: "Let's talk about Liu Bei's son, who tricked me into plotting to kill my general. Now it's so easy to have some clues, how can he not enter the door, and be laughed at by the world, Zhong Ming, Lao Gao, you don't have to persuade me!" Now, even if this place is a dragon's pond and a tiger's lair, I'm going to break into it, gentlemen, and I will go with me to avenge General Song Xian!"

"My lord..." The situation in front of him made Qin Xu feel that something was wrong.It's a dense forest, and it's scorching hot weather. If Liu Bei just used an empty city strategy, it would be fine. If he deliberately set up a suspicious formation and used some fire to attack, I'm afraid that even the elite Lu Bu soldiers around him, no matter how good at fighting, would suffer heavy losses.With such worries, Qin Xu wanted to persuade him again, but Gao Shun winked at him, as if he had something to say.Qin Xu had always admired Gao Shun, a cautious general, so he had no choice but to resist the urge to persuade Lu Bu again, and took a step back to Gao Shun's side.

"Zhongming, let Feng go first!" Looking at the terrain here, Gao Shun was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said to Qin Xu who looked anxious.

"But..." Qin Xu couldn't believe that with Gao Shun's eyes, he couldn't see that this place was not only easy to defend but difficult to attack, but also an excellent place to attack with fire. It only needed more than a hundred people to shoot rockets. With the help of the weather, the 3000 people in my family are simply not enough to watch.

"It's okay!" Before Qin Xu finished speaking, Gao Shun had understood Qin Xu's worry, and said: "Although this place is steep, our army is also cavalry, and we can't use our usual combat power in the dense forest. But a certain camp , but the elite who can fight on horseback and dismount, even if the opponent uses fire attack, our army will be prepared to deal with it, and it will have no effect. Don't worry! If you still have concerns, you might as well take the lead The soldiers of the battalion are standing here as backup, so I went to explore the road first."

"What did General Gao say! Although Xu does not have the courage of a general, he is not a person who is greedy for life and fears death. Let's go together! Let's go together!" Qin Xu was right after thinking about it.Although it is said that it is impossible to enter the forest, what is scruple is that once the opponent's ambush comes out, it will have a great impact on the soldiers' fighting spirit. Now these three thousand soldiers are all elites of Lu Bu's army, and they are already prepared at this moment. The convenience of raiding in this dense forest has lost its effectiveness.While restricting one's own soldiers, the opponent does not grow on trees, so it will also have an impact. In this way, although there is still danger, one must always beware of the opponent's rockets, but this level is much lower than what one expected a lot.That being the case, why should I be hypocritical?Besides, for Liu Bei, one of the three pig feet that he has been dreaming about for a long time, Qin Xu has only heard of his name but never seen him so far. Now he has such a good opportunity to meet him alive, how can he miss it?
"Advance!" Lu Bu didn't notice the conversation between Qin Xu and Gao Shun. At this moment, Lu Bu's knuckles holding Fang Tian's painted halberd had turned white. Excited, seeing that the three thousand soldiers were ready, Lu Bu waved Fang Tian's halberd in his hand and issued a military order.

It is not a good job for cavalry to drill into the woods.Gao Shun also emphasized this point when he persuaded Lu Bu before.The dense woods and vegetation under the forest severely restricted the advantages of the cavalry, and it was impossible to exert effective combat power at all.Moreover, the forest here is tall, covering the sky and blocking out the sun, so it may be gloomy even in the daytime, which adds a lot of difficulty to the soldiers who can only march by the faint moonlight.And at this moment, you must not hold the torch, otherwise, before Liu Bei's army finds you, you will leak your whereabouts and become a living target.

"Sure enough, there used to be soldiers and horses stationed here! It looks like there are more than ten thousand people! It's just a lot!" Fortunately, the mountains here are just the remnants of the Taihang Mountains. But after all, it is not the kind of high mountain that stretches for dozens of miles at every turn. The army shuttled forward in the forest with one foot deep and one foot shallow. It took less than an hour to approach the edge of the valley.During this journey, not to mention the soldiers, even the horses were so tired that they snorted. The state of the handsome horses in Lu Bu's army at this moment seemed to be much more exhausted than after running wildly for an hour.But fortunately, under the leadership of Du Bo Sima Mao, the soldiers of the trapped camp who were exploring the way ahead had already glimpsed the situation in the valley through the moonlight.

However, after hearing Sima Mao's shout, Lu Bujun did not feel any joy at all.

once?What does it mean to have soldiers and horses once stationed?Qin Xu and the others walked a few steps quickly under the guard's opening, and arrived at the place where Sima Mao was.It wasn't until this time that the Lu Bu army, including Qin Xu and Lu Bu, realized that he and the others were actually on top of a cliff. Although their own army knew the location this time, they had just entered the forest. At this time, I took the wrong path in the forest, and turned the path that was facing the entrance of the valley, and came here after three turns and two detours.But just below the cliff, there are still some ruins.All the people present were veterans of the battlefield, so they could tell at a glance that there was indeed an army camping here, but now there are only a few wooden stakes left, which obviously shows that the original garrison here has left.

"This thief is lucky!" Lu Bu ruthlessly smashed Fang Tian's halberd in his hand on a big tree beside him that might not be able to be hugged by three people. Lu Bu's angry meaning.

"My lord, General Gao, General Qin, the soldiers stationed here may not have gone far!" Just when Lu Bu and others were annoyed, Sima Mao, who had always been an expert in dirty work, suddenly pointed at the man who was already under the dim light of the sky. The valley is located in an inconspicuous place leeward, and it is obviously a huge bonfire that has just been extinguished not long ago, and there is even some lingering smoke.It was not clear just now that the sky was dark, it was only the morning mist and strange rocks in the mountains and forests, but this time it was through the white belly of the eastern sky, it was obvious that the other party was walking in a hurry before it was extinguished. Burn out the traces left by the firewood.

"It won't be too long, and it will only take two or three hours to break the sky!" Old Xu, who is known as the iron triangle of the camp with Sima Mao and Kong Bin, seems to have studied this thing, and put his hands in front of his brows , After only a few glances, he gave the answer in the affirmative.

"Two or three hours? Isn't that..." Qu Yi, the commander of the first camp who had been following Qin Xu, frowned and said, "Isn't it because I was waiting on the way when I came here, but the other party has already started to withdraw one after another? Could it be that they got the news, knew that we were coming, and knew that they were invincible, so they retreated in a hurry? You can see that when they left, they didn't even have time to extinguish the bonfire in the camp, and let it burn out by themselves, you can know that the other party was in a hurry. "

"I can't rule out the possibility!" Qin Xu said casually.But his eyes were fixed on the situation at the bottom of the valley, and he always felt that this matter was strange from beginning to end.How can there be such a coincidence that this side has just arrived, but the other side has already left.Moreover, the calculation of the time of the two groups of people is extremely similar.You must know that even though the march in Yanchi Mountain is very hasty now, due to the daily habits of the army, they still took turns to scout horses along the way, and there was no trace of large-scale soldiers moving at all.Moreover, according to what Zhen Jiang said, the reason why this valley was chosen by Zhen Jian as a place to store supplies was because it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. There was only one exit in the entire valley, and the other three sides were all cliffs. Unless you have the ability to fly, you can't run out at all.

"The tens of thousands of troops passed by our army without knowing it! Could it be that they are all gods?" Lu Lingqi originally thought that there would be a fierce battle this time, but unexpectedly, in the end, she didn't even see the opponent's shadow. He couldn't help but said sullenly.

"No! Ling'er, what did you just say?" Lu Lingqi's words seemed to remind Qin Xu of something, but he couldn't grasp the main point in a trance, Qin Xu hurriedly asked.

"What are you talking about? I said tens of thousands of troops passed by us without us noticing. Could it be that they are all gods?" Although Lu Lingqi didn't understand why Qin Xu asked this, she repeated what she just said. Once, after speaking, he looked at Qin Xu, wondering what amazing words Qin Xu would say again.

"Zhongming, what do you mean by that? Have you discovered something?" After a night of galloping and wandering to the top of the cliff, he found that the other party had disappeared without a trace. A lot of Lu Bu was scattered, and he asked Qin Xu with frowned eyebrows.

"My lord! It seems that Xu has committed a crime of light words this time!" Qin Xu did not immediately answer Lu Bu's words, but leaned over to the edge of the cliff, hugged a tree and glanced down, with a wry smile on his face. Worse, said.

"Could it be that Zhen Jiang lied?" Lu Bu asked Qin Xu with a look of hesitation and anger flashing across his face.

"What Miss Zhen said is indeed true! It's a pity that although we marched cautiously, I didn't expect that we could not hide the people in the city." Qin Xu sighed and said: "The other party may have already I found out my intention to go out of the city, but I sent the news back first, which made the original soldiers here go so cleanly. And..."

"And what?" Lu Bu frowned more and more, Qin Xu's conjecture sounded very possible, at least the traces of the bonfire discovered by Sima Mao just now can explain the problem.But Qin Xu obviously hadn't finished speaking, and his face became more and more ugly, which made Lu Bu's heart tighten and he asked.

"Besides, there probably weren't more than ten thousand people who lived here!" Qin Xu expressed his worries with a wry smile.

"What? There aren't that many people here? How is it possible? General Qin, it's obvious... Huh?" Hearing Qin Xu's question, Qu Yi, who was following Qin Xu, had a look of disbelief at first, and then looked down. One glance, but in the next moment, even Qu Yi saw some clues, and let out a strange exclamation, saying: "How is it possible, although the camping tents left here are said to be so messy only in the most conspicuous place. , and the bonfire in the middle of the camp was also extinguished too strangely. If there are more than [-] people stationed here, even if they leave in a hurry, how could such a light source be allowed to stay? what?"

"General Qu is right. There are more than ten thousand people, not dozens or hundreds of people. If the number of people commits such a mistake, it may be blamed on Liu Bei's carelessness. Although it is unbelievable, it is still possible. Accept it, but if it is said that more than ten thousand people withdrew, but left only this eye-catching bonfire, it is enough to show...not good!" Halfway through Qin Xu's words, his already heavy face became more and more serious. He became more cautious, and hurriedly said: "My lord, quickly return to the soldiers! Their goal is probably Pingyuan City!"

"What? Pingyuan! These thieves have eaten the guts of Xiongxin Leopard?" The reason Qu Yi has been by Qin Xu's side is to perform well in front of Lu Bu. The iron seal of the Qin family, but this does not affect Qu Yi's desire to show a few small faces in front of Lu Bu, the only one who can convince him. At this moment, after hearing what Qin Xu said, Lu Bu has not spoken yet, but Qu Yi is Before Lv Bu, he was filled with righteous indignation.

"Hmm! Pingyuan?" Lu Bu didn't show the rage that Qu Yi imagined, but instead seemed to be thinking about it, and frowned, "Zhongming! How did you know that the opponent's target must be Pingyuan?"

"It's a coincidence that Guan Yu appeared!" When Qin Xu just said those words, he expected that Lu Bu would definitely ask this question.It's not that Lu Bu doesn't believe what he said, but that this matter is a bit unbelievable. If he hadn't just seen the traces deliberately arranged by Yan Zhong, Qin Xu really didn't think about it.And after everything was connected, Qin Xu also had a new understanding of Liu Bei, or Kong Rong's ability to use tactics. Now when asked by Lu Bu, Qin Xu could only smile wryly and say: "My lord may not know something. Guan Yu was the one who captured Liu Bei and one of his two righteous brothers in Hulao and beheaded Hua Xiong. Although he was only an archer at that time and was underestimated by Yuan Shao, the lord also When you know the bravery of this person, if the people of the world talk about martial arts, this person can be ranked in the top ten. It is really amazing. And this Guan Yu is the enemy of ten thousand people, and he has always been brought by Liu Bei, so how could he appear? In a small team of scouts? Then there is only one explanation! That guy Liu Bei is using tricks! He just wants to use this method to stimulate us to take revenge at all costs. What's more, our army in Pingyuan City Every move, including Miss Zhen's entry into Pingyuan, Liu Bei is also aware of it. Presumably Liu Bei also knows, Zhen Jiang, the eldest son of Zhen, knows about it, and Zhen Jiang will also know about it, and vice versa. I'm afraid it's because of Zhen Qian's envoy. , Liu Bei has already started planning how to take back the plain and deal a big blow to our army."

"You mean, whether it's Song Xian's death, or knowing about Yanchi Mountain from the girl of Zhen's family, Liu Bei has already foreseen it? Does Liu Bei have such insight?" See Qin Xu Lu Bu asked in disbelief about strategizing as Liu Bei said.

"Then Liu Bei, now is not the one who just shut down when he was in Pingyuan. He has no advisers and only hates the one who is useless!" Qin Xu, who marveled at the powerful halo of Liu Bei's pig's feet, said with a wry smile: "Now Gongsun Zan doesn't know What kind of wind did he imprison himself in the fortress of Yijing, and it was in vain that Liu Bei and his people gained the background of Gongsun Zan's power, and Kong Rong and others assisted him, and he has become a prince that should not be underestimated. We still use It is not surprising to measure the traces of his actions with the old eyes of the past. Today's events are not surprising. Although there are two generals Zhang Liao and Cheng Lian in the plains, and there are more than ten thousand elites in the city, there are also generals like Dian Wei. , is enough to make Liu Bei suffer a small loss. But Pingyuan City is small and dilapidated after all, and it will not be good for a long time. It is better for us to return to help as soon as possible!"

"Hmm! It seems that I have indeed been tricked by Liu Bei's weary soldiers!" After hearing what Qin Xu said, Lu Bu shook his head. It was nothing but joy, and Lu Bu could only smile wryly when he looked at the exhausted soldiers around him.

(End of this chapter)