The son of Yuan Shao who traveled through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 240

Liu Bei was fighting with Gan Ning and Xu Shu outside the city of Zhu Ti, when he suddenly heard a spies report that Liu Zhang had surrendered to Yuan Bing, his mood suddenly became extremely gloomy.Just want to retreat.Yan Yan and Fazheng just came in.Liu Bei said his thoughts, and the two shook their heads: "My lord, don't do it. Our army is in a good situation now. As long as we take Zhu Ti, we may not be able to turn defeat into victory." In our army, Pang Yi, Yin Pu, Wu Yi, and Meng Da are all generals in the middle of Shu, and there are still many loyal old troops in Chengdu. As long as the lord sends his army to attack Zhuti, when the time comes, we will cross Mount Emei and go down to take it. Chengdu is like a broken bamboo. The soldiers and civilians in Chengdu must respond in groups. At that time, both inside and outside will attack and take Yizhou. It is as easy as picking something out of a bag. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Don’t be suspicious, my lord, and rush into the army. If Shuzhong is broken, Hanzhong will be shaken. Yuan Jun's forces will inevitably disintegrate, and the southwestern half of the Great Han Dynasty will be under the command of the emperor's uncle."

Liu Bei's timid heart was flickered by Fazheng, and it became solid as a rock, and he attacked the case: "Send the order to enter the army, and within five days, Zhu Ti must be taken down."

In fact, everyone knew that Zhu Ti County was totally vulnerable, and Chen Shi didn't even think about resisting, but the two guests outside were beaten badly and out of control.Liu Bei's enemy is not Zhu Ti's defenders, but Yuan Bing who is in the middle.

Yuan Jun and Liu Beijun are no longer two ways to carve up Yizhou, but have entered the stage of head-on confrontation.

In 210 AD, on July 15th, the 25th year of Jian'an, Liu Zhang, king of Shu, returned to the central government.On August 25, Yuan Jun basically completed the control of the seven counties of Yizhou.On August 20th, Liu Bei mobilized an army of [-] to attack Gan Ning's camp in four directions, hoping to crush Yuan Bing into powder with a thunderous momentum.

Gan Ning, Li Dian, Zhou Cang, and Xu Shu split up to meet the enemy.The enemy's strength is twice that of ours. Xu Shu designed and adopted the method of sticking to three routes and concentrating superior forces on one route to attack and penetrate one by one.

Xu Shu was sweating on the tip of his nose, pointed at the sand table and said, "Let the enemy come several times, I will only go all the way. There are [-] soldiers and horses left, and I will guard the stronghold with two generals, Li Dian and Zhou Cang; General Gan Ning, lead the rest Seventy thousand elite soldiers met Liu Jun from the main gate. Yuan Jun's cavalry was elite, and the quality of individual soldiers was ten times better than that of Jiangling soldiers and Shu soldiers. , and then, immediately turn to the four gates, the three of us will attack at the same time, flanking the front and rear. Defeating the enemy is inevitable!!"

Among Gan Ning's 20 cavalry, [-] were elite black dragon cavalry, and the rest, although not the lions of the Western Regions, were all veteran Hebei troops who had experienced many battles and were brave enough to die.Compared with the patchwork old and weak Jiangling soldiers, and the Shu soldiers with low morale and unable to return home, I don't know how strong they are.Gan Ning even looked down upon the [-] troops outside the gate of the village.

After all, there were 20 people, even the mob, the momentum was quite astonishing, coupled with the exaggeration of the shrill horns and the killing drums, it was enough to make people frightened.The dark human heads from all directions surged like four black turbid streams, converging towards the middle, and the powerful murderous aura from the east, west, south, and north gathered like four splints, almost crushing the entire camp.The chaotic sound of hooves, footsteps and shouts rose above Gan Ning's head, forming a condensed cloud.

Xu Shu and Li Dian Zhoucang's catapult machine and flying shuttle giant crossbow have already been prepared, and they can take lives when the enemy army approaches the trench and gives an order.

The Yuan soldiers who were purged behind Gan Ning seemed to be fixed by cement and plaster, motionless, turning a blind eye to the yellow fog that stretched for ten miles formed by the sand and dust raised by the enemy's galloping horses on the road, and the sound of the chariot's marching. It can only crush fragile dead branches, but it cannot affect the hearts of soldiers.Because they are used to death, and they have already understood a truth, the more afraid you are on the battlefield, the faster and more miserable your death will be.The eyes of the soldiers shot out a single-minded light, looking forward to the iron blood and welcoming death.

Like an angry dragon, the dust turned the corner before the galloping horses, and threw itself on Gan Ning's face.Three hundred feet away, a fast red horse, a heavy ancient sword, and a familiar face shot into his pupils.Here comes Guan Yu again, the most powerful general in Liu Bei's army.

"Kill—" Gan Ning, whose muscles had already been tensed, rushed out like a rabbit, letting out a roar that shook the sky and the earth.Seventy thousand cavalry, swordsmen and spearmen lined up in a rectangular formation of ten men, and crossed the three-layer trench passage full of bamboo sticks one foot deep.Immediately behind him, [-] infantry rushed out of the village, set up antlers to repel horses layer by layer, and scattered blue and poisonous barbed wire among the ten horse repelling posts.Not only is the enemy army unable to enter, but even our own people have no way out.

No retreat does not mean no way out, the way out is ahead.Gan Ning was heading towards that place.

"Guan Yu, die!" Gan Ning's face twisted, and he rushed towards Chituma ferociously.The two army brigades are like two billowing dark clouds dragging tons of rainwater in mid-air and swept by the strong wind. They are coming in menacingly. Once they collide, the result will inevitably be thunder and lightning.

"Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" Guan Yu and Gan Ning fought, the iron halberd and the Qinglong Yanyue knife touched each other, and each took two steps back.The cavalry behind them, like black bats with spread wings, galloped past and strangled together.

Guan Yu didn't expect that Gan Ning would take the initiative to go out to fight a decisive battle, and thought he would stick to it.Therefore, the generals of Liu Jun were taken aback, and those who rushed to the front fell off their horses one after another.The two played against each other ten times, exhausting all their strength, "Dangdang" head-to-head.The four arms were sore, numb, swollen and painful, Qi and blood surged up, and his face was flushed.When Gan Ning was on the side of Guan Yu's war horse, the iron halberd swept left and right, and four Liu Jun rolled off the horse.Guan Yu was not in the mood to kill the pawns, so he turned around and slashed Gan Ning's left arm.In this way, Liu Bing could save his life, but Gan Ning was unwilling to let the cooked duck fly away. Suddenly, the iron halberd was handed over to his left hand, sideways, and Guan Yu's broadsword flashed past. The iron halberd had already been chopped off, the soldier's head.And the Azure Dragon Saber was only a foot away from his head, and it almost took his life.Gan Ning didn't care at all, he had already calculated the scale, whether it is a war, people will always die, kill others, be happy, be killed, it is bad luck.This kind of life-defying style of play is my style, whatever I like.

Guan Yu knew Gan Ning's bravery, and he also knew that it was not a matter of forty or fifty moves to kill him. If the two wanted to decide the winner, they would need five or six hundred moves, I'm afraid it would not work.I thought to myself, there is no need to entangle with him, I have more soldiers than you, so kill your subordinates first, and see how you show off as a bare-handed commander.Abandoning Gan Ning, he went to kill Yuan Bing.

Naturally, Gan Ning would not tangle with him, he still had tasks to do.After a long time, Xu Shu and others couldn't hold on anymore.The Black Dragon Riders, having received the order in advance, followed Gan Ning all the time. They were piercing vanguards and could not move at will.Gan Ning saw that Guan Yu was gone, he was overjoyed, whistled, led the Black Dragon Knight, and thrust forward.The black dragon knight soldier unsheathed his long knife, and chopped off a row of heads.Some Liu Bing were defeated.Gan Ning didn't care about these, Shuai Bing continued to fight back.Liu Bing couldn't stop the charge of the elite cavalry, the formation was chaotic, and they fled one after another.

These Shu soldiers were not in the same mind as Liu Bei at all. They knew that their hometown was occupied by Yuan soldiers, and they missed their wives and children in their hearts. They were not in the mood to fight, and they would be defeated when they encountered stronger resistance.Commander Gan Ning fought from the beginning to the end. The army led by Guan Yu, like a flock of crows scattered to their nests, scattered in groups of three or five.Guan Yu yelled at the top of his throat, but no one listened.Many Shu soldiers entered Mount Emei along the mountain road, and returned to Chengdu and other places to look for their families.

When Gan Ning turned around and came back with his cavalry, Guan Yu had less than two to 3000 men left behind.Facing the powerful cavalry roaring like raging waves, it was obviously impossible to resist.Guan Yu gritted his teeth angrily: "Withdraw, hurry up, go to the west to meet up." Gan Ning chased for a while, seeing Guan Yu had gone far, led the cavalry, and charged towards the back village like a whirlwind.

Xu Shu in Houzhai could hardly stand it any longer, and Wu Yi, a rare hero in Shu, was the main attacker on this side.

Xu Shu did not have the bravery of Gan Ning, Li Dian and others, but his command was orderly, but the soldiers under him were afraid when they saw Liu Bing attacking in a crowd, and they were not active in fighting.Li Dian and Zhou Cang could hold weapons and boost morale, but Xu Shu was weak as a scholar and couldn't do it.Relying entirely on the hair stone machine and the shuttle crossbow to suppress the enemy army outside the triple trench.But Wu Yi commanded the army, rushed forward desperately, and at the cost of losing five or six thousand people, he finally approached the gate of the village. Xu Shu commanded the soldiers to shoot arrows and forced Liu Bing back three times in a row.Wu Yi charged in person, with a big knife in his hand, slashed down the arrows, knocked down the gate of the village, and rushed into the village. Xu Shu panicked. I thought, it's over, either to capture him alive, or to see the King of Hades.

At this critical moment, Gan Ning's army finally arrived.Wu Yi's troops were in the stage of charging excitedly. How could they have thought that the backyard was on fire, and they were scattered all at once. They didn't care about attacking Zhaishan, and turned to face Gan Ning——

Unable to resist, Wu Yi withdrew his troops and retreated to the base camp.His loss was not large, and when he saw the defeat of the army, he immediately called for gold and took the soldiers back.Xu Shu's defenders took advantage of the situation and came out.

Guan Yu fled to the west and told Meng Da about the situation. They heard that Gan Ning attacked Houzhai and abandoned Li Dian to rescue Wu Yi. Li Dian led the army to the east to support Zhou Cang.

In this way, the two sides strangled for a day and a night, each withdrew their troops, but there was no winner.Liu Bei screamed angrily in the camp.He kept yelling for people to go back to Jiangling to find the military adviser Zhuge Liang.Fazheng felt ashamed, so he stood aside and said nothing.Meng Da said: "My lord, don't worry. Although there is no winner today, Yuan's army has already lost more than half of its strength. Tomorrow, if we attack the village with the whole army, we will surely win."

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Alright." As he was speaking, his soldiers suddenly reported, "My lord, Yuan Bing from Chengdu has already set out and is coming towards Zhu Ti."

Liu Bei asked anxiously, "Who is in charge of the army?" The soldiers said: "Yuan Jun's general Zhao Zilong. Yu Jin and Zhang Xiu are the deputy generals." Liu Bei said to Fa Zheng: "The Yuan Brigade has arrived, how should our army deal with it?"

Just as he was talking, another person came to report: "My lord, generals Zangba and Zhang Yan of the Yuan army have [-] soldiers. They left Deyang and only took Bajun."

Liu Bei's cold sweat suddenly flowed down. Obviously, although he made a windfall, compared with the rich man, his waist was still thin and his troops were insufficient.It is not satisfactory to deal with Berkshire and Zhu Ti at the same time.

Liu Bei was so anxious that he paced back and forth in the commander's tent, and suddenly said: "Let's go back to Jiangling, in case Berkshire is lost, we will all die without a place to bury."

Fazheng said, "Pang Yi is stationed in Bajun. This man has experienced many battles. He is a famous general in Shu and has [-] soldiers in the city. It is not so easy to break through. When Liu Bei heard it, Fazheng was clearly unwilling to withdraw his troops, and he couldn't be too persistent. Otherwise, , was underestimated.

After Zhao Yun received the order, he was not in a hurry to rescue Zhu Ti.Xu Shu's urgent military situation was sent to him one by one. He just glanced at it briefly, then threw it aside without opening his mouth.The troops still marched unhurriedly.Yu Jin didn't say anything, Zhang Xiu couldn't stand it, and came to the commander's tent at night, and said, "Captain Zhao, the military situation is urgent, should we speed up the march?" Zhao Yun said lightly: "It's not the time yet." Zhang Xiu rubbed his hands anxiously: "The governor, Xu Shu and the others can't hold it anymore. It will take three or four days at most. The whole army will definitely be wiped out. Don't you worry?"

Zhao Yun pulled Zhang Xiu to the sand table, and said with a smile, "I have written back to Yuan Zhi, telling him to stick to it for seven days." Zhang Xiu sighed, "At this rate, I won't be able to reach Zhu Ti in ten days."

Zhao Yun shook his head and said, "We're not going to Zhuti—" Zhang Xiu's expression changed drastically; "You are—" Zhao Yun walked to the door, raised the curtain, looked around to see if there was no one around, returned to the sand table, and quietly He said to Zhang Xiu: "We beat Jiangyang." Zhang Xiu said with a wry smile: "What's the use? Don't you be afraid of being pinched." Zhao Yundao: "Jiangyang is located between Chengdu, Zhuti, and Berkshire. If we succeed If you occupy this place, you can support Chengdu. Even if Liu Bei invades Zhuti, he will not be able to make another attack, and the land will be useless. And our army will divide Liu Bei and Pang Yi of Berkshire into two. , Pang Yi will surrender under pressure, and Liu Bei will definitely run away according to his gangster style."

Zhang Xiu understood: "So you want Liu Bei to relax his vigilance, and then take a detour to Jiangyang!"

Seven days later, Zhao Yun's [-] troops made a sudden turn at the fork in Zhu Tiguan Road, and the soldiers crossed the Tuojiang River north overnight, marching at the northern foot of Mount Emei between Pang Yi's army and Liu Bei's vanguard army, without any obstacles along the way.Like a sharp sword passing through the blank space between the two, it went straight to the city of Jiangyang, threatening Berkshire and Zhu Ti at the same time.

And the Tibetan Ba's army had already come to Berkshire first and launched an offensive against Pang Yi.

Liu Bei's spies found that Zhao Yun's army had detoured and hurried back to report. Fazheng understood Zhao Yun's combat intention after seeing it.A three-step strategic adjustment was made. The first was to send troops from Jiangling to join the army, Ma Su, to set up a camp on the road from Jiangyang to Zhuti, blocking Zhao Yun's way.In the second, Liu Feng sent [-] soldiers to reinforce Jiangyang, and in the third, he attacked Xu Shu.

(End of this chapter)