Chapter 197: Capturing Li Bie, Defeating Li Jue
Zhang Liao seized Guo Si's camp, left Song Xian and Hou Cheng to stay. He turned around with 10,000 troops and horses, preparing to meet with Lu Bu outside Li Jue's camp.
Although Zhang Liao rushed forward quickly, it was already noon after he arrived at the place where Lu Bu was lined up. When Lu Bu saw his arrival, he asked curiously: "Wen Yuan, what's the situation with Guo Si?"
"Report to Marquis Wen!" Hearing Lu Bu's question, Zhang Liao quickly replied: "The last general has already taken Guo Si's camp. Except for Guo Si's more than ten confidants who escaped, most of the remaining 20,000 troops surrendered."
After hearing what Zhang Liao said, Lu Bu was stunned at first, then smiled on his face: "Wen Yuan is indeed extraordinary. He killed Guo Si with one move. Then let's help me get rid of Li Jue."
Zhang Liao quickly replied, "The last general will obey the order!"
Lv Bu stared at the village set up on the hillside and frowned and said, "Li Jue is very cunning. No matter how I scold him, he will not fight. The defense of the village is strict. When our army attacked the mountain, we immediately fell from both arrows and stones, and countless soldiers were injured and injured..."
After hearing Lu Bu briefly talk about the situation here, Zhang Liao pondered for a moment and said to Lu Bu: "Wen Hou, I believe that there are experts in Li Jue's army to guide him, otherwise he and Guo Si would not use tired soldiers to make you run away yesterday."
"That's right," Lu Bu nodded in Zhang Liao's statement and said, "The military Sima said the same thing in the military camp last night. Wen Yuan, since you have defeated Guo Si's army, can you destroy Li Yijun again?"
"Mr. Wen, if you want to defeat Li Jue, I think you must be the general." Zhang Liao said to Lu Bu: "We might as well pretend to be attacked in the rear and turn around and move eastward. Choose a dangerous place to ambush the troops. When Li Jue leads his troops to chase him out, the front army turns around to fight, and the ambush cuts off his retreat. In this way, Li Jue can be captured."
"This plan is very wonderful!" After hearing Zhang Liao's plan, Lu Bu couldn't help but cheer. Then he discussed with Zhang Liao where to place the ambush.
After a stick of incense, Lu Bu ordered the rear army to be changed to the front army, and the front army to the rear army, and immediately turned around and walked eastward. Li Jue, who was standing on the watchtower, saw Lu Bu's troops turning around and leaving, and prepared to mobilize troops to harass him from the rear, but was stopped by Jia Xu: "General, please wait, Jia thinks something is wrong with Lu Bu's situation today."
"What's wrong?!" Li Jue waited for a long time, and finally saw Lu Bu's army turn eastward. He thought that Guo Si's troops had to turn around to face the enemy. He also said to Jia Xu cleverly: "Wenhe, you must have seen the troops that just arrived below, right? I guess that was the troops that Lu Bu used to guard against Guo Si. He had probably waited for most of the day and saw that Guo Si had never left the camp to meet the enemy. I guess that Guo Si must have launched an offensive behind Lu Bu at this moment, forcing Lu Bu to temporarily withdraw his siege."
Jia Xu waited for Li Jue to finish his words and said to him: "Although Jia saw that although Lu Bu's troops retreated, they retreated without being in chaos, and there might be ambush. It is better not to attack easily."
Unexpectedly, Li Jue said dissatisfiedly: "Don't worry, military commander Jia, I just let the soldiers follow and chase. Once I see Lu Bu's army turn around, I will immediately retreat to the camp. What can he do to me?"
Although seeing Li Jue being so stubborn, Jia Xu, as a military advisor, still has to say what he should say. He bowed to Li Jue and said, "The general is the chief general of the entire army, so how can he take risks easily? In the opinion of Jia, it is better to condemn a side general and lead thousands of soldiers to follow him. The general leads a large army to follow him. Even if the front army is ambushed, the rear army can rescue him."
Li Jue felt that Jia Xu's deployment made some sense, so he called his nephew Li Bei and said to him: "I will give you five thousand soldiers and horses to pursue Lu Bu."
Yesterday, Li Bie saw Lu Bu's soldiers running around and thought that the tasks he had accepted could torture Lu Bu torture, so he took the order without hesitation and immediately went to order troops to attack. After the shadow of Lu Bu's soldiers was completely gone on the hillside, Li Bie led five thousand cavalry out of the village and followed Lu Bu's march route and chased after him.
The cavalry had walked more than ten miles and had just passed a dangerous enemy. Suddenly, Li Bie saw a large army lined up in front of him. When he looked closer, he found that Lu Bu was holding a Fangtian painting halberd and riding a red rabbit horse. He stood in front of the entire square formation and said to Li Bie: "I originally wanted to capture Li Jue, but the old man didn't come, but a small one came."
Li Don't hear Lu Bu say this, but he didn't know that he had been trapped. He immediately turned his horse's head and shouted to the cavalry following behind: "We have been trapped, retreat quickly, retreat quickly!" Lu Bu waved the Fang Tian Hua Ji in his hand forward, and the soldiers lined up behind him shouted and rushed up.
Li Bee ran far away, suddenly a cannon sound came from a dangerous place ahead, and then a man rushed out. The leader was a handsome young general holding a spear. Seeing Li Bee coming, the other party yelled: "Zhang Liao and Zhang Wenyuan are here, the thief general won't get off the horse and surrender!"
In Li Bo's mind, Zhang Liao was an unknown person, so he didn't take him seriously at all. He also planned to use his subordinates to quickly break out of the encirclement set up by Zhang Liao and rush back to the mountain village to meet with Li Jue.
When Zhang Liao saw Li Bian's cavalry rushing towards him, he pointed the spear in his hand and shouted sternly: "Shoot the arrow!" With the shouting, thousands of archers behind Zhang Liao shot arrows at the same time. The sharp arrows fell into Li Bian's cavalry's queue like locusts, and screamed in an instant.
When Li Bie rushed to Zhang Liao, he was the only one left. The rest of the cavalry were either shot to death by arrows or blocked by sharp arrows shot by Zhang Liao's subordinates. If Li Bie knew Zhang Liao's power, he would have turned around and ran away long ago, so how dare he come forward to fight him?
Facing Li Bie who was rushing over, Zhang Liao turned his back slightly, dodged the spear that the other party stabbed, reached out and grabbed the other party's belt, lifted him up, threw him on the ground, and then shouted: "Tie!" Several soldiers immediately came over and tied up Li Bie who had landed on the ground.
Seeing Li Bei being captured, thousands of cavalry rushed forward and wanted to snatch his chief general back from Zhang Liao's hands. The troops on both sides fought into a group.
When Li Bie rushed to Zhang Liao, he was the only one left. The rest of the cavalry were either shot to death by arrows or blocked by sharp arrows shot by Zhang Liao's subordinates. If Li Bie knew Zhang Liao's power, he would have turned around and ran away long ago, so how dare he come forward to fight him?
Facing Li Bie who was rushing over, Zhang Liao turned his back slightly, dodged the spear that the other party stabbed, reached out and grabbed the other party's belt, lifted him up, threw him on the ground, and then shouted: "Tie!" Several soldiers immediately came over and tied up Li Bie who had landed on the ground.
Chapter completed!