The scene was so big that it was not enough to divide the two ends into two, so it had to divide the three ends into four.

After reading the perspectives of Guan Yu, Zhang, Liao and Xu Huang, as Lu Bu, who thought he was on the fifth and outermost level, this most important force on the battlefield in the northwest of Shanxi, of course, it is necessary to look at the whole battle schedule.

As early as when Zhang Liao deliberately seduced Xu Huang to save Guan Yu, Lu Bu had already prepared all the troops and made all the attacks in Taiyuan City. He also sent a large number of cavalry scouts to investigate the enemy situation at all times, and seized the opportunity to take action.

At that time, Lu Bu not only asked people to search for the movements of the Han army in the Fen River Basin, but also crossed the Yellow River to the west and penetrated into Shangjun in the Hetao region. On both sides of the Fen River, the Han army could not escape Lu Bu's eyes any mobilization and could receive information in two days at the latest.

As the best-in-class person in the world today, Lu Bu is good at finding a new adoptive father buyer, he is certainly not ordinary agile to preserve his strength and avoid danger.

It is okay to work hard for Yuan Shao, but it is necessary to ensure profitability. It is best to fight more and more soldiers in your territory, and your brothers can be promoted and made a fortune with him.

However, starting from July 20th, after such a careful search, Lu Bu did not find any abnormalities for several days. On July 23rd, Lu Bu finally divided his troops and marched south.

This day was also the day when Wang Ping had already crossed the Taihang Mountains in circles and captured Guanglang City on the Eastern Front, but Lu Bu didn't know that he just knew that Xu Huang had already worked with Zhang Liao in the Shuishu Valley at Wangwu Mountain Pass.

The reason why Lu Bu divided his troops into two groups was to add another layer of insurance.

Although he had not noticed any other abnormal movements in Guan Yu's troops behind Hedong at that time, nor did he find the reserve team, Lu Bu knew that Liu Bei must have war potential in Guanzhong, and when he was really critical, he would definitely be able to produce at least tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, the division of troops is to restrain the tens of thousands of enemies that have not appeared yet but must appear.

Lu Bu sent a total of 60,000 troops, nearly 50,000 troops as the main force of the middle route, with both infantry and cavalry. On July 24, he set off from Jiexiu County, Taiyuan County and marched along the Fen River.

Jiexiu County has not changed much in ancient and modern times. It is now called Jiexiu County, but it has been simplified. This is a county that Taiyuan County is the south side of the Fen River coast, and it is still 200 miles away from the county seat Jinyang (Taiyuan).

Another 10,000 cavalrymen came from Lishi County, located on the west side of the Luliang Mountains one day in advance, on the 23rd day, Lishi County, which was located on the west side of the Yellow River, and crossed the Yellow River to the Shangjun area of ​​Hetao area controlled by Liu Bei.

The value of this partial division is of course to deliberately cause trouble and make the momentum bigger, so as to strive for more than 10,000 cavalry to make the situation of 30,000 to 50,000 cavalry, and then attract Liu Bei's attention.

Even if Liu Bei has a strategic reserve team, he will give priority to the Hetao Shangjun area to serve as a firefighting team, so that the resistance that Lu Bu’s real main force will be less.

After all, the Loess Plateau is north of Chang'an, and Hetao is related to the safety of Chang'an and the entire Guanzhong. Liu Bei could not ignore the dangers facing his capital and still threw all his main forces to Hedong to save Guan Yu.

Although this partial division only attacked one day earlier than the main force, considering that the cavalry of the main force cannot advance at full speed, it is necessary to maintain horsepower to prevent it from being disconnected from the infantry.

So in terms of the time difference when they arrived at the battlefield, Lu Bu, a side-level division who entered Hetao, could definitely be alerted by Liu Bei three or four days before the main force exerted his strength, fully holding back the hatred value.

Today, the proportion of cavalry in Lu Bu's army is unprecedentedly high. The 60,000 troops actually have 30,000 cavalry, accounting for half of it. This is not enough to count some of the Bingzhou cavalry have been taken away by Zhang Liao.

And Lu Bu had so many war horses, he had to pay homage to the victorious fruit of his winter snowy nights to the end of the previous year to the beginning of last year, which was about twenty months ago.

That time, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao lured the enemy and the other to attack the nest, destroying Shengle (Datong) the Xianbei royal court outside the Great Wall Pass. The prisoners killed a large number of Xianbei people and seized huge numbers. The ruins of the Xianbei Tuoba royal court were of course enough to expand his army of 20,000 elite cavalry.

Unfortunately, the talents of Lu Bu's direct generals are gradually fading, which leads to his pure cavalry division that attracts firepower and hatred. This operation really lacks the commander of the top famous generals.

The only top talent under Lu Bu is now Zhang Liao, who is still surrounded by Taihang Mountains.

Gao Shun was poached by Li Su many years ago. Generals of the Taishan bandit faction such as Zang Ba had no connection with Lu Bu in this life, and had long been completely destroyed by Cao Cao.

Wei Yue, who was only slightly worse than Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, also took the opportunity to attack Guan Yu when he was defeated and broke through last year.

Most of the worse than Wei Yue are not worth mentioning, such as Hao Meng, Hou Cheng, and Song Xian, who have gradually withered and died in previous battles.

Some of them died in the "Xin-Guandu Battle" between Yuan Shao and Cao Cao a few years ago. Now that is really frustrating, Yuan and Cao have joined forces, these generals are equivalent to dying in the civil war between different factions in their camp. There is no good merit or pension afterwards.

There are still a few who died at Guan Yu's hands. After death, Ai Rong was higher than those who died in the civil war, but it was not important.

Lu Bu was full of plans, leaving only Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Cao Xing and other available generals.

Wei Xu had some qualifications, but his strength was really not good. Cao Xing's personal martial arts were OK, but he did not have a general who led more than 10,000 troops. In the end, Lu Bu could only choose Cheng Lian, who was as famous as the dead Wei Yue, as the head general of this pure cavalry division.

Cheng Lian was not mentioned at all in the Romance of the Romance of Wei Yue (not mentioned in the Romance of Wei Yue), but he was indeed a confidant general of the cavalry unit around Lu Bu. He was also trained in the battle to kill the Black Mountain bandit leader Zhang Yan, and was promoted to the lieutenant. Later, after Yuan Shao supported Liu He, the military general was promoted to the level of General Cheng Lian.

Lu Bu asked Cheng Lian to lead a partial division, and he led the main force himself. He brought Cao Xing by his side, led the archer and cavalry scouts, and suddenly grasped the enemy situation. Wei Xu could only help Lu Bu cut off the rear, supervise the rear grain road part-time, and also manage the grain transport fleet on the Fen River and all ships dispatched.

After sending troops, because the troops were immediately divided into two groups, one to the south and the other to the west, it was impossible for Lu Bu to grasp the movements of Cheng Lian along the way.

He authorized Cheng Lian to adapt to everything by himself without asking for instructions. Anyway, the general principle is to burn, kill, loot and cause trouble. If Liu Bei sent his troops to chase him, he was indeed huge, then he could retreat at any time and run wherever he wanted, without embarrassing.

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Lu Bu didn't know how much consequences he would have for Cheng Lian's stocking.

Cheng Lian, who crossed the Yellow River and entered Hetao, brought 12,000 light cavalry equipped with leather armor and bows to the north of Shangjun (now Yulin and Mizhi in northern Shaanxi. Because Hetao was vast and sparsely populated during the Qin and Han Dynasties, the coverage area of ​​a county was very wide, which was equivalent to several prefecture-level cities now)

Fushi County was the county seat of Shangjun throughout the Western Han Dynasty and early Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, because the Southern Xiongnu were attached, the imperial court divided five divisions of the Xiongnu and governed five Hetao counties, and the administrative division became blurred.

When Liu Bei asked Ma Chao and Zhang Fei to recover Hetao, Zhang Fei led his troops to recover Shangjun. However, after the recovery, because the location of Fushi County was difficult to communicate with the imperial center, the county was changed to Gaonu County (Yan'an)

This is because the Wuding River, the main river connecting Fushi and other counties, is located north of Hukou Waterfall. Therefore, ships in the middle reaches of the Yellow River such as the Wei River and Fen River in Guanzhong cannot cross the Yellow River Hukou Waterfall and Wuding River to communicate with the Wuding River.

In the past, the surrounding areas of Fushi in Shangjun were also more closely related to Taiyuan County Lishi on the other side of the river, and could be connected with other tributary basins along the Yellow River upstream of Hukou Waterfall.

However, Taiyuan County is an enemy-occupied area for Liu Bei's camp, so Fushi County has become an isolated enclave that can only communicate with the enemy-occupied area, and it is temporarily unable to focus on construction.

Whether it is an enclave is not only a matter of whether it is bordered on the map, but also a matter of whether the waterway can be transported. A Yellow River waterfall is enough to divide above the waterfall and below the waterfall into two worlds.

In contrast, the Yan River (through today's Yan'an) flows through Gaonu County, which flows through the Yellow River at the Hukou Waterfall, and the Wei and Fen ships can travel to each other with the basin.

After Cheng Lian arrived at Fushi with more than 10,000 cavalrymen, he began to burn, kill and loot as planned. The initial progress was even smoother than he expected.

Because the people around Wuding River have a closer economic life with Lishi and other places on the other side of the Yellow River, even the salt and other locally unproduced materials must be sold by Lishi commercial ships in Lishi.

On the contrary, the Gaonu area in the same county as them administratively, all economic and trade transactions with Fushi were only relied on horse and camel teams in previous years, and the cost was high. In the past two years, there were only more Western Region caravans. They could take a long way to travel by land and then flow into the river, but they were definitely not as good as saving costs with merchants and people in Lishi.

Moreover, many of the locals are affiliated with the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Qiang people. In fact, they are not too obsessed with any Han court, and anyone can recognize their master.

The people of Kushishi regarded Taiyuan people as their own people at the beginning and did not want to resist Cheng Lian, but Cheng Lian's blind killing still aroused revenge in these tough places.

After the two sides had killed each other for a while, a representative who led the way went to confess to Cheng Lian, hoping that he would restrain his subordinates. If he came to attack the city, Fushi and the surrounding counties could surrender him, but if they were killed and plundered, their inner tribes would fight to the end. Although they had few regular troops, the barbarians could mobilize the whole nation, and adult men would be soldiers of the whole nation!

(These barbarians think that if Liu Bei sent someone to fight back, they would surrender and pretend that they were forced. Anyway, the barbarians do not need loyalty and righteousness)

Cheng Lian was a little confused by the progress, but in general he was still very happy. After all, Lu Bu just asked him to kill and set the torch to make a big deal. He was a pure cavalry and had no intention of siege.

As a result, he actually forced several counties to surrender.

Of course, except for the county seats in Hetao, other unifications have no city walls. At least they have not been specially built in the past few hundred years after Emperor Wu of Han. Some of them are left behind by the border guards during the severe harm of the Huns. Therefore, even without infantry and siege equipment, it is not difficult to siege the city, and it is just a siege.

Cheng Lian was a little inflated for a moment, and he laughed in his heart about the fact that the Five Barbarians did not know their loyalty and righteousness. Seeing his strong army, he directly said he would go to the hinterland of Shangjun along the Wuding River, and ran to grab land and divide his troops to occupy the county.

I thought that even if I was a little arrogant, as long as Liu Bei really sent a large army to chase him, he could run away easily.

After all, Liu Bei had to take back the counties that had surrendered to Lu Bu. Liu Bei also wanted to kill some of the two-faced Southern Xiongnu and Xianbei Qiang Rongdi. Those who took the lead in surrender must be afraid that Liu Bei's punishment would resist by force.

Cheng Lian really couldn't see the possibility that he would be killed instantly because of his arrogance.

Isn’t it just that the troops are divided and the plunder are greedy when plundering money and food? What’s wrong?

I have 12,000 cavalrymen, you can fight me in seconds? If you can fight, I will immediately spit out the places like Yangzhou County, Hengshan Mizhi that I swallowed, and ran away.
Chapter completed!