Guan Yu and Wang Ping took down Guanglang City very quickly.

But even so, the day when Wen Chou set up an ambush and battles in the field was four to five days in total.

Some people may wonder: even considering the transmission of Guan Yu blocking and suppressing military information, no one of the fish that escaped the net for Zhang Liao was left when intercepting Chunyu Qiong.

But considering that Zhang Liao's troops would pick up Chunyu Qiong's grain transport team in Duanshi County, as long as the grain transport team did not arrive on time, Zhang Liao would know something was wrong.

With a full plan, two days after the accident, Zhang Liao should be sure that his food team was robbed and his back road was threatened. In this case, shouldn't Zhang Liao fight back like a mad dog with a stomp on his tail, and return to the army to attack Guan Yu, trying to seize the way and escape?

Including the time when Zhang Liao marched back to Guanglang Valley from Duan's climax, why did not fight to the death with Wang Ping's rear troops on the fifth day when Guan Yu took over Guanglang City?

If you only look at local battlefields, it is really weird and not easy to understand.

But if you look beyond the perspective and see the entire Sili and Bingzhou, you will know where Zhang Liao's expectations and efforts to break through were placed when he encountered a sudden change.

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As we all know, more than 60,000 people from Zhang Liao were surrounded by Taihang Mountains, between Duanshi County and Wuze County in the Qinshui River.

Guan Yu's main force, including the defenders of Zhuge Liang, Zhang Ren and others, blocked the way Zhang Liao flowed down the Qin River and out of the Taihang Mountains.

After Wang Ping's Wudang Flying Army broke through Guanglang City, what was blocked was that Zhang Liao was inserted across the Kongcangling from Guanglang Valley on land and jumped out of the side of Taihang Mountain. This was also the only mountain crossing road near Qinshui, which did not follow the river.

After understanding this, it is not difficult to find that after Zhang Liao was stolen, there was only one way out, which was to continue to go deeper into the enemy's back and be close to the upstream source along the Qinshui River Valley.

However, before Wang Ping's Wudang Flying Army crossed the Taihang Mountains for two or three hundred miles and took a detour to attack Guanglang City, Zhang Liao's retreat to the source of Qinshui was intercepted by a Han army who came to rescue Guan Yu.

Ten days ago, when Zhang Liao had just crossed Guanglang Valley to attack Duanshi County, the defenders of Duanshi County sent messengers to Linfen in the rear to get in a hurry. Just two days later, Xu Huang from Linfen took hasty preparations, and then left Wu Yi to defend the city and led his troops to rescue him.

Xu Huang went from the tributary of the east bank of the Fen River to follow the grain route they transported to Guan Yu for more than half a year, first to the source of the watershed, and then crossed the watershed of Wangwu Mountain from the west slope.

After passing the ridge and valley entrance, we then go down from the east slope of Wangwu Mountain to the source of the west bank tributary of Qinshui, and arrive downstream to the confluence point of the tributary of Qinshui and the main stream of Qinshui, about twenty miles north of Duanshi County.

Then, before the outbreak of the Guanglang City Raid Battle, there was a four-story double-team structure in Taihang Mountains in Xu Huang, Zhang Liao, Guan Yu and Yuan Shao.

When all these actions were deployed, it was about six days ago, which was two days earlier than Wang Ping launched the Guanglang City surprise attack.

Perhaps some people will be surprised: Since Zhang Liao has two retreat routes, one is back to Shangdang by land, and the other is going to Qinyuan by water, why did he sit and see his way to the source of the water route and be easily blocked by Xu Huang? When Zhang Liao first captured the Duan clan, could he continue to expand the occupied area north and west?

Of course, Zhang Liao's troops were not that large at the beginning, and the 60,000 people were the result of Wen Chou gradually moving his troops forward. At the beginning, Zhang Liao was afraid of ambushing and only brought 30,000 people into the valley. This had to be divided into the main and secondary, first, south and then north, and blocking Guan Yu was the first priority.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao deliberately asked Xu Huang to block himself, and there were two other considerations:

At that time, Zhang Liao's contact with his old nest Shangdang from Guanglang Valley on land was very stable. No one could have thought that Wang Ping would suddenly appear, not take the ordinary path, and take the path that ordinary people could not take, and steal Guanglang City.

Moreover, Zhang Liao could not count on the upstream direction of Qinshui to transport food to himself. The road was getting deeper and deeper into the enemy's territory. It would be threatened everywhere, so it would be impossible to dispose of soldiers everywhere.

On the other hand, Zhang Liao hopes to let Xu Huang see the hope of "forcing Zhang Liao to the state of double-teaming with Guan Yu", so that Xu Huang can feel at ease and steadily consume it.

Before Zhang Liao attacked Duan (he thought he was an unexpected attack and did take it. Although Zhuge Liang had thought of this possibility long ago and deliberately let him jump to the trap and succeed), Zhang Liao had actually contacted his direct superior Lu Bu in advance.

The purpose of seducing Xu Huang out of Linfen City to save Guan Yu was to give Lu Bu, who had been pretending not to work hard and pretending to be unwilling to work wholeheartedly for Yuan Shao, to have a chance to severely hurt Xu Huang in a field battle.

This pie filling seems to be four-layered Jiamo, but in fact there is a fifth layer. The top layer should be Lu Bu. After Xu Huang is far away from Linfen City and deep into Wangwu Mountain, Lu Bu will rush down directly from the Taiyuan Basin to the north along the Fen River, and wrap Xu Huang outside the city and block it in Wangwu Mountain.

Xu Huang thought it was a pancake crust, but in fact it was just a layer of filling.

After understanding this, it would not be surprising that "When Zhang Liao learned that Guan Yu had conquered Guanglang City, why didn't he break through again in that direction at all costs?"

Zhang Liao judged the situation and felt that the difficulty of opening up Guanglang Valley was greater than opening up the Qinyuan-Zhishui Road of Wangwu Mountain. Since this was the case, Zhang Liao did not divide his troops to fight Wang Ping during those two critical days, but instead fought northwards to Xu Huang.

Even if you cannot penetrate Xu Huang, you must at least pretend to break through desperately, stick to Xu Huang, let Lu Bu interweave and move in place, and prevent Xu Huang from retreating from Wangwu Mountain.

After all, Zhang Liao didn't know how fast Yuan Shao's troops reacted behind Guanglang City, and whether they would come to save him with all their strength. But Lu Bu would definitely save him with all his strength, because he was Lu Bu's direct lineage.

On the other hand, long before Zhang Liao sent troops, Ju Su suggested to Yuan Shao to make such a deployment through Xinpi's mouth, which was actually considered that Zhang Liao was not a direct subordinate and had doubts about his efforts at the critical moment, so he had to cooperate with Lu Bu to fight.

Ju Su knew that when Yuan Shao's direct troops encountered danger, Lu Bu might not necessarily come to rescue him with all his might, but when Zhang Liao encountered danger, he could force Lu Bu to do his best. Let Zhang Liao perform relatively risky tasks, and the risk aftermath could naturally be borne by Lu Bu.

On July 25, when the news of the fall of Guanglang City reached Zhang Liao's army, the main force of Zhang Liao moved north and fought with Xu Huang for two days.

In two days, he did not spend it on Wang Ping, but on Xu Huang. Some officers in the army who did not know the truth were naturally worried and suspected that Zhang Liao made a mistake in making a decision. Therefore, when the bad news came, it was inevitable that the morale of the army would be slightly shaken.

Of course, Zhang Liao knew how to control the situation. He chose to explain to the vast number of officers who really didn't know the truth, and for those who maliciously led the rhythm, it was naturally punished by military law.

Under the carrot and stick, Zhang Liao announced with a boost of morale: "Don't panic! The choice of this general is the best choice. The terrain of Guanglang Valley is narrow and the army cannot be launched. Since we have fallen into the trap of Wang Ping, how could he not beware of our return to help when he attacked Guanglang City?

Moreover, the day before yesterday, I did try to return to the rescue, but the dangerous pass at the entrance of Guanglang Valley on Kongcangling was already defended by Wang Ping. Even if I attacked with all my strength, I could not pass Kongcangling in just a few days, and even Wang Ping was restrained from it.

Since we only have two days, of course we have to spend it on the blade. In the past two days, we fought with Xu Huang in the north and stuck to Xu Huang. The turn of time is coming soon! General Lu will block Xu Huang in Wangwu Mountain! Xu Huang will also be cut off from food and will be forced to guard without any danger!"

Zhang Liao boosted morale like this, and only 30,000 of his army were so motivated. There is no doubt that these 30,000 were all soldiers of Shangdang, locals from Bingzhou, and Lu Bu's direct troops.

The 30,000 Yuan Shao's direct troops and Jizhou soldiers who stayed behind Wen Chou's death were very confident in the explanation of Zhang Liao and did not believe in Lu Bu's moral integrity in rescuing friendly troops. Even the officers who had previously punished Zhang Liao with military law to shake the morale of the army and questioned his decisions were all from Jizhou without exception.

The problem of many factions within Yuan Shao's camp was undoubtedly revealed. When it was a critical moment when he handed over his life to the other party and hoped that the other party would fight for his life to save him, Yuan Shao's Central Army and Lu Bu's Jinsui Army did not believe each other at all.

Frightened by military law, the remaining Wen Chou's direct military officers did not dare to question it explicitly, and they all guessed it in their hearts:

"Hmph, you said that you can't break through the past two days by spending the fierce attack on Kongcangling Guanglang Valley Pass. Why do we believe it? It's just that you are not willing to take a gamble! After all, you don't want us to withdraw from our hometown."

"All this was not Lu Bu's conspiracy at the beginning, right? At least Lu Bu had thought of this possibility long ago! For example, if the road to retreat to the southeast was broken, we would force us to retreat westward to the Qinshui River, retreat to the Xishui River and Fen River.

By then, Lu Bu took over Linfen, from Taiyuan to Linfen, the entire Fen River coast belonged to Lu Bu. The land of Hedong County north of Wangwu Mountain was then included in Bingzhou.

If we were not lucky, Lu Bu just saved us but couldn't take Linfen. We had to follow him to retreat to the Fen River and retreat to Taiyuan. Could it be that Lu Bu wanted to annex the 30,000 Jizhou soldiers of his lord and be reorganized into his command, right?"

"We are all from Jizhou. If we are really ensnared by Lu Bu, he will not be promoted or made a fortune. At least it is definitely not as good as his own Bingzhou branch! At that time, it will be a chore to lick blood from the knife. His people will be given priority to making meritorious and promotion!"

The officers with these ideas dare not say it in public, but it is hard to say that two or three of them gather together in private. And even in public, they can still make their way to their goals.

Zhang Liao tried hard to maintain the morale of the troops, let them continue to fight and consume Xu Huang, and firmly believed that Lu Bu would come to save him.

Unfortunately, Zhang Liao himself didn't know: Lu Bu thought it was the fifth layer of this set of donkey meat, and the top layer of cake, Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and Guan Yu, the three layers of meat filling are Xu Huang, Zhang Liao and Guan Yu.

But in fact, when Lu Bu played the fifth floor, there were other cakes outside.

On July 26, when Lu Bu's troops arrived in the Linfen area along the Fen River, they suddenly found that the troops guarding Linfen were completely incompatible with the information saying "Xu Huang's main force was all out, and the remaining troops in Linfen were not worth worrying."

Lu Bu looked at the mighty Han army standing in the Jiafen River Camp, and felt very aggrieved:

"Who said Xu Huang only left Wu Yi's in Linfen? Why is there a banner of General Zhang Fei of the chariot? Not to mention bluffing, this general has a good look. Would I not recognize the ring-eyed thief?"
Chapter completed!