Chapter 171 Lu Bu flees for his life
The words are divided into two ends.
Guan Yu and Zhao Yun divided the troops.
Zhao Yun led the cavalry and galloped eastward along the edge of the Luoyang Basin on the northern foot of Mount Song, heading straight for the Suo family.
He didn't know how Sun Jian's attack on the siege pass, and he knew that if Lu Bu only left a small amount of troops to block the pass and led the main force to return, his 4,500 people would definitely not be able to defeat Lu Bu's main force.
So while rushing, Zhao Yun also thought about some operational details and asked Zhu Jun on the back of the horse, suggesting: "Mr. Zhu, although you were removed from Henan Yin by the thief Dong, with the status of the city gate captain, is it possible to deceive the gates of Yanshi and the Qian family counties and let the two counties along the way submit to the great righteousness?"
Zhu Jun didn't think much about it: "I don't know if these two counties were notified by Dong Zhuo. I have been removed from Henan Yin. But with my long-term power in the capital, it should not be difficult for the former officials to spread the posts. Zilong, you are planning..."
Zhao Yun immediately showed up: "Zhuyuan Pass is just a checkpoint, not a city, and it is in a dangerous place in Songshan, so there must be not much food reserve. Lu Bu, Hu Zhen and Sun Wentai were in a stalemate, and it must be mainly relying on the grain reserves of the Qian County to replenish the front line defenders.
From the map, the Hu family is located not far outside the mouth of Songshan Valley, less than twenty miles from the gate of Huayuan Pass, and less than ten miles from the entrance of Huayuan. If our army could steal the city, wouldn’t it have obtained the place where Hu Zhen and Lu Bu were to store grain? They only rely on the grain stored before the gate and carry food with them, and they would have to cut off food for up to ten days. What else would they use to defend Huayuan Pass?"
Zhu Jun is also a soldier. Zhao Yun agreed in half of the simple truth. The two of them first fought two county towns along the way.
After more than an hour, Zhao Yun's troops arrived in Yanshi County. As expected, there were no Xiliang troops stationed in the city. There were only a few hundred local troops from Yin, Henan, all of Zhu Jun's old subordinates. Zhu Jun took Yanshi County by showing up and shouting.
After entering the city, Zhu Jun also left behind 500 personal soldiers from his headquarters, and asked Zhao Yun to divide 500 horse-riding infantry to garrison. In order to prevent Hu Zhen and Lu Bu from retreating to this point in the future, quickly break through the city's granary and take away the pitiful grain left in the city. If he did not leave his direct troops to defend the city, perhaps local officials would rebel again when they saw Lu Bu coming.
Zhao Yun knew that division of troops would weaken his strength, but he also knew that it was necessary. He gritted his teeth and left five hundred people, so that his troops with him further dropped to only four thousand left.
"If the Hun family leaves another thousand infantry to defend the city in a while, we can only rely on seizing Lu Bu's granary to support Sun Wentai. We can't go to the front battlefield, there are too few soldiers." Zhao Yun made up his mind.
After giving the soldiers a little food and drink, he rested for half an hour, Zhao Yun set off on the road again and rushed straight to the Suo family thirty miles away.
The Liu family is worthy of being the front granary of Lu Bu and Hu Zhen. They are responsible for supplying grain to Zhuyuan Pass. There are actually one or two thousand Xiliang soldiers under Hu Zhen defending the city.
But Zhu Jun also made a very quick decision. He knew that there were also local troops and officials in Henan Yin who were loyal to him in the city.
So he used the information he had to let Zhao Yun leave behind the thousand cavalry infantry, get off the horse and build flying ladders, cut trees and hit the door, and shoot arrows on the top of the city to suppress it. On the other hand, Zhao Yun led the main cavalry force around the north gate without the banner.
After arriving at the North Gate, Zhu Jun quickly called the city gate guarded by his old subordinates, and said, "More than 100,000 rebels of the princes of Guandong have entered the pass, and at this moment, they can still be loyal ministers of the Han Dynasty."
The old subordinate was indeed deceived and opened the city gate on the front line and surrendered. Two thousand Xiliang soldiers were guarding the city at the west gate. The north gate was opened here. Zhao Yun rushed into the city and started a street battle with the two thousand Xiliang soldiers.
Hu Zhen left the infantry guarding the granary, but only a relatively weak second-line troops in the Xiliang army. In a hurry and panic, Zhao Yun charged along the long street and killed him. The number of people was smaller than that of Zhao Yun, so of course he quickly collapsed.
Zhao Yun was the first to rush to the official warehouse of the Qiang County County and ordered to open it and saw that there were still tens of thousands of stones of grain stored in it. It was estimated that it was all the food rations that Lu Bu plundered from all over the country, in order to ensure the supply of military food for the final stage before his army evacuated.
Some of the Xiliang soldiers were taken away in the granary, county governments and other places, and fiercely tried to set fire, but the people who set fire were not pardoned and were beheaded and executed by Zhao Yun. The others who did not set fire allowed them to surrender and surrender.
Because the fire was put out in time, the burned food was only a few thousand stones, which was only a few, and the main part was saved.
After stabilizing the situation in the city, Zhao Yun originally wanted to further strengthen the city defense and inquire about military information, but did not intend to go out of the city and attack Lu Bu immediately - for Zhao Yun, the best choice is of course to spread the negative news of "your granary was taken away" first, and wait until Hu Zhen and Lu Bu's army are shaken before making plans.
After all, Lu Bu will not starve to death immediately after being taken down, nor will he lose his combat effectiveness immediately. The food he carries with Zhuyuan Pass and the troops can eat at least ten days, so he has to be careful of Lu Bu's rush to jump over the wall.
But less than half a quarter of an hour, the scout came to report and asked Zhao Yun to go to the south gate to climb the tower to look out.
Zhao Yun rode his horse through the county government office in the north of the city, and passed through the city with a granary. He rushed to the south gate and hurried up the tower. The scout pointed to the distance in the southeast and said, "Look at the lieutenant, there are a large army fighting ten miles southeast of the city!"
Zhao Yun was shocked: "How could it be that fighting here? Could it be that Sun Jian had already broken through the Pass? Hu Zhen and Lu Bu were really brave. After being broken, they were still camping in the valley. They were obviously going to give up Henan Yin, why is this still happening?"
Zhu Yan also found it strange, but he admired Sun Jian. After a few glances, he said to Zhao Yun: "Good opportunity, prepare to attack the enemy's back immediately. Moreover, the city has been broken for a quarter of an hour. The enemy's fleeing soldiers may go to report the news. Once the enemy knows that the granary has been taken away, the bad news will spread and the morale will be greatly discharged."
Zhao Yun thought for a while: "Don't make a rash move. I will bring three thousand cavalry, set up more flags, and bluff to cover and kill for a while. As long as I scare the enemy and let Sun Wentai attack the main attack, we have too few troops. Moreover, we must also beware of the enemy's transfer and retake of the Xiang family - Zhu Gong. I will leave a thousand horse-riding infantry, together with your own personal soldiers, can we defend the enemy's counterattack?"
Zhu Yan bowed calmly and seriously: "Although the Liu family is not a strong city, there are two thousand people blocking the gate and guarding it. The enemy is not prepared and cannot be captured within one or two days. However, you must also worry that you will not be able to return to the city after being entangled by Lu Bu. After you leave the city, I plan to block the three gates and leave only the north gate."
"Then I made such a promise, Xu Huang, follow me to fight!"
Zhao Yun opened the south gate, took three thousand cavalry out of the battle, and rushed straight behind Hu Zhen (he didn't know where Hu Zhen was)
At the same time, Zhao Yun just asked someone to look for the banner of "Zhang" and "Cao" in the Qian family city. His original intention was to shout "Zhu Taipu has joined forces with the various armies of Guandong, and there is Chenliu's prefect Zhang Miao and Dongjun's prefect Cao Cao's army arrived" to scare the enemy.
Unfortunately, there were too few officers in the city with the surname Cao and the surname was too niche, so I had to give up. In the end, I only found some big banners with the word "Zhang" to deceive Zhang Miao.
Anyway, the three thousand cavalry are rushing and smoke is rolling. It is okay for anyone to see how many people there are, bluffing several times.
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Hu Zhen was leading the main force of the Wanyu Xiliang army, crazily slaughtering the front of Sun Jian's army in chaos at the mouth of the Luyuan Valley.
It is so cool to block the long snake formation at the entrance of the canyon valley. The formation thickness of the crane wing formation is insufficient and easy to be broken through, so there is no need to worry about this terrain. The output efficiency of the crane wing formation can be fully utilized, smashing the snake heads of the long snake formation opposite again and again.
Sun Jian's soldiers were also brave. They tried to kill the valley again and again, but were shot by the crossbow formation of Xiliang people and turned into hedgehogs. Even if they rushed to one place, they were killed and killed because there were too few people in front of them.
The entire valley entrance of Songshan Road was filled with corpses and blood, and the blood flowed into the valley, flowing down from the slope of the valley entrance to the farmland in the southern suburbs of Qianshi County.
Hu Zhen was proud, and behind him there were defeated soldiers and soldiers coming to report the letter: "Capital Captain, the Huo County was sneak attacked by Zhu Jun contacting the princes of Guandong! Our army's granary was taken away!"
Hu Zhen rode on the horse and suddenly shook his body, not so angry that he was so angry: "Bastard! This is impossible! Even if... who made you shout so loudly! Those who shake the morale of the army will kill!"
Hu Zhen drew his sword and killed the defeated general who reported the news on the spot. He said his handling was right, and even if there was such an exaggerated bad news, he could not shout it out loud.
If it was in the military tent and the soldiers next to him could not hear it, it would be fine. There were field battles here, and there were so many people next to him, and the morale of the army would be over as soon as it spreads.
"Hurry up and divide the troops to regain the Huo family! Regain the military rations! The front military crossbow formation blocks Sun Jian, don't let him rush out!"
Hu Zhen was still giving orders and the troops were also mobilized in chaos. Behind him, there were already smoke and smoke rolling, and the dust covered the sun, and thousands of cavalry galloped towards him.
The front of the vanguard was very wide, with big banners such as "guan", "Zhao", "Zhu", "Zhang". In fact, the ponytail was dragged on the ponytail and scraped the ground, so that more dust could be used to strengthen the army's power.
"The prefect of Hanzhong, Guan Yu, is here!"
"City Gate Captain Zhu Jun is here!"
"Zhao Yun, the prefect of Yidu, is here!"
"The prefect of Chenliu, Zhang Miao, is here!"
"Zhu Jun has led the princes of Guandong into the pass!"
Among the smoke and dust flags, thousands of people shouted in unison, which scared Hu Zhen very much. His troops were still in the process of changing the front team into the back team, and the back team into the front team, and were suddenly defeated by thousands of elite cavalry.
"Don't be messed up! Don't be messed up! Retreat quickly!" Hu Zhen waved his gun and stabbed him randomly, even a little confused, not knowing who he was fighting with.
"Hu Zhen is dead! Zhao Zilong of Changshan is here!" Zhao Yun rushed out of the battle dust, a little cold light arrived first, and took Hu Zhen's throat.
"Puchi--" Hu Zhen was directly stabbed in the carotid artery and the cervical vertebrae. A human head was stabbed by a spear, leaving only one side of the muscles and skin hanging on the shoulders, and the death was extremely miserable.
Zhao Yun assassinated Hu Zhen, and his momentum of rushing through the three layers of crane wings, rushed from behind to the enemy's second row of crossbow formations and the first row of long shield formations. Then he asked the cavalry to sweep across the wings and chopped the crossbowman shield hands from behind.
Especially the long shields of these shield soldiers were inserted on the ground, guarding against the direction of the valley entrance on the south side to block the arrows shot by Sun Jianjun. Before they could pull them up and penetrate them, they were killed by the iron cavalry behind them.
"Person Hu was killed! Run! It's Zhao Yun! Zhao Yun is here! Run!"
Hu Zhen's troops were so scared that the whole army was confused. He thought that tens of thousands of cavalry were sprinting forward, and the news of the granary being seized spread rapidly. In an instant, the morale collapsed and the birds and beasts scattered.
"Hu Zhen was killed? The Hu family was attacked? Zhu Jungou thief actually colluded with the rebels of Guandong to persuade the thief to enter the pass?"
Lu Bu, who had fought with the Sun family father and son, Cheng Pu, and the ants and soldiers beside him, had been fighting for more than two hundred rounds of blood, was covered in blood at this moment, and of course they were all the enemy's blood. He had to resent the bad news.
During the battle just now, Fan Chou was injured early and was escorted back to the mountains on both sides by his personal soldiers. He abandoned his horse and fled around the road, but instead fled early.
On the other hand, the Sun family and son fought with Cheng Pu for three battles. Although there was no general killed by Lu Bu because of the guards, Cheng Pu was already exhausted. The last one was in a daze and was injured by Lu Bu. The horizontal branch of the painting halberd also injured Cheng Pu's arm, almost destroying one of Cheng Pu's arms.
However, Lu Bu fought with all his strength for more than 200 times. Although he injured two generals and killed nearly a hundred soldiers, his strength was almost exhausted. Therefore, even if only the Sun family father and son were left on the other side, he would not be able to take it down.
"Thief! Let's fight again next time!" Lu Bu seemed to be powerful and powerful, and forced Sun Ce to retreat, who was inexperienced, and then turned the Red Rabbit Horse, rushed along the low woods on both sides, and actually took a detour along the hillside.
After nearly a hundred steps along the mountain, the Red Rabbit Horse was unable to survive and had to leap back to the right path of the valley, but at this time it was already far away from the Sun family's father and son. The road blocked the road was nothing more than the fish and fleeing between the two armies. Lu Bu did not distinguish between the enemy and us. He swung his long spear and killed people every time he swung, and opened a bloody road, rushed out of the valley entrance and fled.
As for the soldiers he and Fan Chou sent to ambush, it would be enough to count as many as they could cross the mountains and escape, and Lu Bu had no time to care about it.
"Where is Lu Bu going? Zhao Zilong in Changshan is here!" Zhao Yun kept guarding the valley entrance and rushing back and forth. After all, there were thousands of crossbowmen and shield soldiers at the entrance of the valley. Even if you were standing, you could cut for a long time, so he intercepted Lu Bu in an instant.
"Those who block me will die!" When Lu Bu was escaping the road and fleeing, his potential burst out very terrifyingly. He almost swung his halberd at Zhao Yun with the momentum of wind and thunder.
"Clang" sounded, and the huge force of weapons and blades intersected, making a roar, and the buzzing sound echoed in the valley of Songshan Mountain. There were birds flying in the forest on the left and right.
"Lu Bu actually has such great power!" Zhao Yun felt that the blood in his chest was reversing, and the gun rod was slightly bent. However, Lu Bu's painting halberd seemed to have deformed a long time ago.
Zhao Yun was still worried that he was not Lu Bu's opponent, but after a few moves, he found that he could catch it. It seemed that the first halberd was just a desperate bet of survival.
"Lu Bu, don't go!" After finding out the situation of Lu Bu's exhaustion of endurance, Zhao Yun quickly chased and assassinated him while you were weak. Lu Bu blocked his left and right for more than twenty rounds, and finally relied on the crazy clamping of the horse's belly and used the speed advantage of the Red Rabbit Horse to escape from Zhao Yun.
"Zhao Yun! I remember you! Today you take advantage of others' danger. Next time I'm full of energy, I will definitely kill you in a hundred moves!" In order to save face, Lu Bu did not forget to say a harsh word while running for his life.
Chapter completed!