Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 131

Cao Cao actually didn't know that Guan Yu and Shen Chen knew each other.

Because he only knew that when Cao Ren went to Huangmenting to perform a mission that day, he happened to meet Liu Guanzhang and was chased by them.

This situation is as if a killer was chasing his prey, and a passer-by happened to see it, and when he saw the injustice, he roared and drew his sword to help save everyone.

The relationship between the two is at most a strange lifesaver relationship.

More importantly, Shen Chen's family moved to Jingzhou after that, while Liu Bei was working as a shepherd in Xuzhou. According to Cao Cao's knowledge, the two met only once, and there was no intersection after that.

So he didn't know at all that before that, Shen Chen had interacted with Liu Guanzhang in Tao Qian's mansion, and had a certain connection and friendship.

Now the time has passed, six years have passed, and Cao Cao almost forgot that Liu Bei had saved Shen Chen.

Therefore, he only considered whether Guan Yu would take this opportunity to escape, but he did not consider whether Guan Yu would take this opportunity to let Shen Chen go, and then wait for Shen Chen to go back and move reinforcements to repel him.

But at this time, Guan Yu really won't leave, because Liu Bei's two wives are still in Xudu, and with Guan Yu's character, he will definitely take them away together.

It’s just that Cao Cao only treats women with a simple greedy body, and judges others by himself, thinking that Guan Yu would not care about the life and death of Gan Mi and his wife, just like most people in this troubled world, they only regard women as property, and don’t think about it. He is because of loyalty.

Here, Shen Chen went all the way south. Later generations of Xiangcheng people should know that Ziyun Mountain stretches for more than ten kilometers. Although the highest point is only more than 400 meters above sea level, it is surrounded by mountains and dense forests.

Only after passing through this mountainous area, the road to the later Ye County and today's Kunyang is extremely flat, a plain.

At this moment, the soldiers at Huangmen Pavilion on the road threw up their iron feet and began to sprint in small steps.

The ancients were short of oil and water, and it was difficult to train like modern soldiers.Only the soldiers in Huangmenting have always had sufficient supply of meat, eggs and milk. They are supported by agriculture, commerce, and manufacturing in the whole pavilion, and their physical endurance is very good.

In just half an hour, they had walked seven or eight kilometers, and when they were about to leave the mountainous area of ​​Ziyun Mountain, the sound of galloping horseshoes came from a distance.

"Array!"

Shen Chen shouted loudly.

The messengers around immediately blew their bone whistles, different whistles represented different orders, and lower-level officers such as military officers at all levels and captains immediately blew their whistles to pass on the orders.

In an instant, the team began to form in a well-trained manner. The sword and shieldmen in the front row crouched on the ground, erecting their shields, and the spearmen put their spears on their shoulders.

Although the cavalry is powerful, including the Wuhuan Tuqi, Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, it must be explained that these cavalry are light cavalry and cannot be used to face the infantry formation. Raid.

Because once the cavalry charges against the infantry formation, even if you dodge the four or five meter long spear array in the front row, rush through the first row, and reach the second or third row, you will no longer be able to run up.

When the horse's impact force is exhausted and the cavalry is surrounded, the cavalry will only be hacked to death.Therefore, the role of the cavalry at that time was indeed to use mobility to complete tasks such as surprise attacks, alerts, patrols, and scouts, rather than entering the enemy's line as everyone imagined.

Now Shen Chen's army has already seen Cao Jun's cavalry attack again from a long distance away, and he has re-arranged, and he has not yet left the mountainous area of ​​Ziyun Mountain. Just do what you want.

Shen Chen was riding on horseback. Just now, he took advantage of the time when the large army was attracting the main force of the enemy, and secretly sent a few scouts to Kunyang to report the news, and asked Lou Fa to send a thousand soldiers to lead the baggage cart to meet him.

After leaving this mountainous area, they have to walk more than ten kilometers to return to Kunyang. This plain terrain is equivalent to a dead zone for them.

The infantry was surrounded by cavalry on all sides on the grassland. Once they had no arrows, they would end up with Li Ling.

So he can only choose to divide his troops.

But if the enemy also divides the troops, Shen Chen will indeed find it very difficult, so he asks the scouts to ask Lou Fa for reinforcements, and when he returns to Kunyang, he will bring some more trucks to meet Gan Ning.

Fortunately, he retreated one day earlier, which meant that they were still one day away from Cao Jun's infantry. Maybe when they arrived in Xiangcheng, Cao Jun's infantry did not arrive in Linying.They are now in Ziyun Mountain. It is estimated that Cao Jun's infantry has not yet arrived in Xiangcheng, so there is enough time difference.

"The enemy is within a mile!"

"The enemy has advanced three hundred steps!"

"The enemy advanced two hundred steps!"

"The enemy advanced 150 steps!"

"Archer ready!"

Shen Chen personally stood on the edge of the team, beside Shen Tao, Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen and others, commanding the battle.

Seeing that the other party was getting closer, the person in the front rode a blood-red BMW that was bigger than the horse next to him. He was wearing a fluttering green robe, and the Qinglong Yanyue in his hand was shining brightly under the sun. .

"Wait!"

Seeing the opponent coming, Shen Chen immediately stopped the soldiers who were about to shoot arrows.

When dealing with Cao Cao at the foot of Ziyun Mountain before, Shen Chen commanded from a small hill in the rear, so far away that neither Cao Cao nor Guan Yu saw him.

But now that he was approaching, Guan Yu finally saw where the enemy general was at this moment, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his eyes were full of murderous intent.

He especially likes to light up lights at night to watch Spring and Autumn, so he is a little short-sighted, not particularly serious, but if he is too far away, like now 150 steps away, nearly 200 meters away, he will not recognize Shen Chen at all.

In Guan Yu's eyes, he only vaguely saw a few vague figures riding on horseback, probably the generals of Shen Chen's army. At this time, he did not choose the soldiers to advance, but waited and watched from a distance.

In fact, the reason why he chose to divide his troops was because he thought that Shen Chen was still commanding the battle in the large army at the rear, and this was only the troops sent by the division to ask for help, so he thought about dividing part of Cao Cao's troops. That's all.

After a while, he planned to pretend to charge a wave, and when the arrows from Shen Chen's army over there consumed part of the cavalry, he used the enemy's swift bow and arrows as an excuse to withdraw his troops back, which was to send these reinforcements to Kunyang.

But when he didn't expect it, among the few knights over there, a young general in black suddenly rushed out on his horse, and shouted loudly: "Who is coming? I will not kill the nameless ghost with Chen Chen's sword!"

Is that Shen Chen?

Guan Yu was taken aback, and quickly squinted his eyes to look carefully, and finally saw a bit of familiarity.

It is also the flow of time, and the years fly by.In just six years, Shen Chenzao had already changed his appearance.It turned out to be just a five-foot-six-inch kid. After six years, not only his appearance has changed from immature to green, but his height has also grown by nearly two feet.

Many people think that ancient people were short in stature. In fact, according to "Three Kingdoms", most of the celebrities at that time, except Cao Cao and Liu Bei, were eight feet tall, that is, more than 1.8 meters four.

For example, Cheng Yu has reached eight feet and three inches, which is a tall man of 1.9 meters in conversion, which belongs to the standard fierce general strategist.

The average height of 8-year-old boys in later generations in my country is about 125-130 centimeters. When Shen Chen was in Xuzhou, he was five feet six inches, about 128 centimeters, which was within this range.

Now it has reached 1.7 meters two, which is seven feet four inches.This is actually much different from the average height of 15-year-old boys in my country, which is 165-169cm, and it does not mean that Shen Chen has exceeded his development too much.

But even so, he was completely different from the eight-year-old, he was a completely different person, and Guan Yu was a little nearsighted, so it was normal that he didn't see it.

But at this time, the two armies were facing each other, and Guan Yu didn't dare to recognize each other. He instinctively wanted to cover his face.

The main reason was that he felt ashamed to see Shen Chen.

Over the years, Liu Bei has been in Xiaopei, and because he is still relatively close, he often writes to Shen Chen. Although we haven't seen each other for six years, Liu Guanzhang and him have long been in contact. connect together.

Now times have changed, the life and death of the eldest brother is unknown, the whereabouts of the third brother is unknown, Zilong and Ziyi don't know where they are now, but he is in the enemy's camp, which makes Guan Yu feel ashamed.

What he didn't expect was that Shen Chen shouted: "That red-faced and bearded man over there, are you the enemy general? Do you dare to come out and fight me?"

Ok?
Guan Yu frowned.

Red face and beard?
My appearance hasn't changed much, Ah Chen probably recognized me.

Then why not recognize each other?
Looking left and right, Guan Yu immediately understood that Shen Chen didn't want to expose their relationship, so he shouted: "Where is the idiot, how dare you run rampant in front of me? It's He Dong Guan Yu, how does your head compare to Yan Liang?"

"What? You are Guan Yu who beheaded Yan Liang in Baima last month?"

Shen Chen pretended to be shocked, then reined in his horse and ran away, as if he had abandoned his team, and wanted to drill into a small hill behind him.

"Ha ha ha ha."

Guan Yu laughed and said, "It's nothing more than a coward. When I heard my name, I was so frightened that I left my soldiers and horses and fled. All the soldiers listened to the order and watched them. I will hunt down the leader of the bandit, and later I will sacrifice his head to Sikong. !"

"only!"

The soldiers responded with a bang.

Even Cao Cao didn't know that Guan Yu had a connection with Shen Chen, and they didn't even know.

Even in the later generations with advanced information, you don't know who your friends have, let alone in the ancient times when information is underdeveloped?

So after the two contributed a clumsy performance comparable to the Golden Raspberry Award, all the soldiers believed it.

He thought that Shen Chen heard about Guan Yu's killing of Yan Liang in the midst of the Wanjun last month, and fled in fright, but he didn't know that it was Shen Chen's plan to ask Guan Yu to meet behind the hills and hills.

But the ordinary cavalry didn't know, but the left and right lieutenants were secretly sent by Cao Cao to monitor Guan Yu. Hearing that Guan Yu was going to chase alone, he quickly said, "General, I will go as well."

"Whoever goes together to command the soldiers, just follow a few guard cavalry."

Guan Yu pinched the red rabbit horse's belly, and the BMW chased in the direction Shen Chen left like red lightning, saying something at the same time.

The left and right lieutenants thought about it, so they left the left lieutenant behind, and the right lieutenant shouted and brought a few people to follow.

But if an ordinary horse is a bicycle, then the Chitu is a Ferrari.

They just started it here, and Chitu flew more than ten feet away as soon as he started to accelerate, and after a few more gallops and leaps, he chased into the forest in an instant and disappeared without a trace.

The lieutenant led people to follow, but they couldn't even eat ashes, because by the time they entered the forest, Shen Chen and Guan Yu had long since disappeared.

"Achen!"

Guan Yu's red rabbit was so fast that Shen Chen almost ran into the forest on his front foot, and he chased after him.

Shen Chen led him around the mountains for a while, making sure that the Cao Jun who followed Guan Yu did not come after him, and found a place with dense vegetation, then he turned his horse's head around and said, "I haven't seen you for many years, Uncle Yunchang , stay safe."

"Ugh."

Guan Yu stopped the red rabbit horse, came to him and sighed, bowed his head and said, "Ah Chen, I really don't have the face to see you now."

Everyone originally fought against Cao together, but he turned to the enemy. How can we not make him feel guilty?

Shen Chen said with a smile: "Uncle Yun doesn't need to blame himself, in order to protect the two wives, he bowed himself to a thief, and everyone knows that his righteousness is not good to Yuntian, so how can I blame Uncle Yun for this? "

"only."

Guan Yu said embarrassingly: "My reputation is fine, but I still don't know the whereabouts of my eldest brother."

Shen Chen said: "I do know. Before I learned that the emperor's uncle was attacked by the Cao bandits in Xiaopei, I immediately guessed that he might have gone to Yuan Shaona, so I sent someone to the north, and it turned out that the emperor's uncle was indeed in Hebei."

"Brother is actually in Hebei?"

A happy expression appeared on Guan Yu's face. During this period of time, he had been wanting to know about Liu Bei, but every time he asked Cao Cao for help, Cao Cao said that he had sent people out to look for it, and it would take some time.

Moreover, he also told Guan Yu that he was still dealing with Yuan Shao, and there were not enough manpower, so it was difficult to find Yunyun for the time being, which made Guan Yu very worried.

Now that he finally got the news about Liu Bei, he was naturally extremely excited.

Shen Chen immediately said, "Uncle Yun, do you know why Cao Cao didn't take you to Yanjin to deal with Wen Chou after the white horse beheaded Yan Liang?"

"Why?"

Guan Yu was puzzled.

Shen Chen said: "Because the emperor's uncle is in Yanjin, Cao Cao originally wanted to kill the emperor's uncle and Wen Chou together. Fortunately, the emperor's uncle didn't make the same mistake as Wen Chou at that time. .”

"what?"

Guan Yu's eyes flickered with anger: "Cao Cao knew the whereabouts of my elder brother long ago, but he didn't tell me? And he wanted to assassinate elder brother."

In the Battle of the White Horse, Cao Cao always took Guan Yu with him, so he killed Yan Liang in seconds.But when it came to the Battle of Yanjin, why did Cao Cao only bring Xu Huang and not Guan Yu?It was not because he was afraid that Guan Yu would learn about Liu Bei.

Shen Chen nodded and said: "That's right, but please ask Uncle Yun to think about the two wives and not to anger Cao Cao. I have already written a letter and sent someone to the north, asking the emperor to come down to you in the name of Liu Biao in the south. South, when Yuan Shao's army goes south, Uncle Ke will leave Cao Cao with his two wives and come to Runan to join the Emperor Uncle."

"Is that so?"

Guan Yu thought for a while and asked, "Achen, are you sure that brother will come to Runan?"

Shen Chen said: "Uncle Huang is the one who most wants to defeat Cao Cao, and Yuan Shao definitely wants to join forces with Liu Biao to attack him, so as long as Uncle Huang is willing to send Liu Biao as an envoy, presumably he will agree."

"it is good."

Guan Yu nodded and said: "Then I'll go back first, and when the eldest brother arrives in Runan, you will immediately send someone to tell me that I will follow."

As he said that, he planned to leave, because he wanted to lead the troops back to Cao Cao directly.

Shen Chen said, "No."

"Why?"

Guan Yu was puzzled.

Shen Chen said: "If my uncle leads the troops back directly, Cao Cao will definitely become suspicious. Cao Cao probably doesn't know about our relationship now, and thinks that the Huangmen Pavilion was just a coincidence, but if Uncle Yun goes back when he sees me, he will You can definitely guess that there is an old relationship between us, so this must not be the case.”

"Humph."

Guan Yu snorted coldly and said, "If you guess it, you guess it. I'm afraid he won't succeed. You can kill or scrape, it's up to him."

Shen Chen smiled and said: "I know that Uncle Yun is not afraid of death, but what about the two wives?"

"This"

Guan Yu thought the same thing, if he angered Cao Cao and blamed him for letting Shen Chen go, it doesn't matter if he was killed, but the two wives.

Shen Chen said: "So we can't expose it yet, we should wait for an opportunity."

"When was that?"

Guan Yu was surprised and said: "Could it be that when I go back later, I will say that I have not chased you? But what reason do I give up hunting you?"

Shen Chen smiled and said: "Uncle Yun doesn't need to worry about this. I have already sent scouts back to Kunyang to fetch the baggage chariot. Then we will rely on the chariot and fight while retreating. Uncle Yun only needs to command the cavalry to fight normally. That's it, we will be able to repel Cao's army."

"Ok."

Guan Yu thought, originally they only had [-] cavalry, and it was enough to deal with [-] infantry. Cao Cao just asked him to stall for time, waiting for the infantry to catch up.

Now Shen Chen's reinforcements will arrive soon, as long as he doesn't fight, he will send Cao Jun to die.

When Shen Chen's army defeated those cavalrymen of Cao Jun, it would be reasonable for him to order a retreat at that time. Cao Cao couldn't blame him.

Thinking of this, Guan Yu approved of Shen Chen's plan.

The two of them were waiting in the forest at the moment, talking about it while delaying time.

Almost half an hour later, Guan Yu went back.

Arriving at his own cavalry formation, the right lieutenant and several knights got lost in the forest, but they have not come back now, the left lieutenant came up to him and said, "General, how are you?"

Guan Yu sighed and said, "Oh, don't mention it, that little thief was cunning. He got into the forest, but he disappeared. I looked around and almost got lost."

The mountains and forests are already dense, and it is noon, the sun is hanging above the head, and there is no way to judge the direction through the sun, so it is very normal to get lost in the jungle.

Deputy General Zuo said: "General, don't worry, the forest is dense, it's normal if you don't catch up. But right now, the leader of the bandit just happens to be gone, how about I wait to attack?"

Guan Yu shook his head and said: "No, before we besieged 5000 of them with 500 people, Sikong was repelled, but now we go up with [-] people, it is even more difficult to please, Sikong just let us delay time, don't be greedy to attack and delay things."

This is the most correct tactic, and Cao Cao will recognize this tactic even if he gets to Cao Cao.

The lieutenant general didn't say anything at the moment.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and in the afternoon, dust and sand suddenly billowed in the distance, and a train of horse-drawn carriages drove towards this side, and they had already appeared several miles away.

　The combat effectiveness of the cavalry in the book is very objective and true, and a large number of historical books have been referred to, so don't question it.Xiliang iron cavalry is so strong, Dong Zhuo will not be violently beaten by Zhang Jiao. The real situation is that the cavalry is really only mobile now, without double stirrups and high bridge saddles. Only a fierce general like Xiang Yu and Guan Yu can kill on horseback without stirrups and saddles.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)