Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 167 Chang'an Chaos ([-])
Fan Chou was also a strong general in Xiliang, and seeing Cao Xing beheading three of his own generals, he went into battle himself. As a result, Fan Chou and Cao Xing fought for hundreds of rounds, and it was hard to tell the winner.In the end, it was getting late, and the two sides had to withdraw their troops and fight again tomorrow.

This day's fighting also gave the Xiliang army a new understanding of Lu Bu.Originally, Fan Chou looked down on Lu Bu, but he never thought that just a general under Lu Bu's hand would be able to fight with himself. It seems that there are no men without a reputation!

And although Li Jue and Guo Si had known Lv Bu's bravery for a long time, although they didn't see Lv Bu make a move today, only one of Lv Bu's subordinates was able to fight Fan Cong inextricably. Not as good as Fan Chou's.

But at this time, Li Jue and Guo Si are still full of confidence, because although they lost for a while today, they have [-] troops under them, so Li and Guo are still very confident in capturing Chencang, and the loser is Fan Chou. People just read jokes.

Fan Chou was tricked by Li Jue and Guo Si on the first day, and he also knew that Lu Bu was incapable of fighting, so when several people discussed attacking Chencang, Fan Chou became smarter.Originally, Li and Guo were going to let Fan Chou go to attack the city, but Fan Chou refused to agree, and insisted that each of them attack the city for one day and take turns.

Li and Guo were helpless, so they let Fan Chou go to heaven for the first time.You must know that the first day of the siege was the most exhausting of troops. At this time, the defenders fought hard and had sufficient equipment, so the losses on the first day of the siege must have been huge. As a general, Fan Chou naturally knew this truth. So Fan Chou proposed to draw lots to determine the order of siege.

As a result, the lottery was drawn, and Zhang Ji attacked the city on the first day, Guo Si on the second day, Li Jue on the third day, and Fan Chou on the fourth day.Speaking of which, it was Zhang Ji who was at a disadvantage.But at the same time, Zhang Ji is also the party with the least number of people.Although there are more than [-] troops in one place with four soldiers, it does not mean that the rescue of four soldiers is the same.Among them, Li Jue has the most troops, followed by Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji has the least troops.But Fan Chou led the most cavalry. After all, Fan Chou was a general who was good at using cavalry.

However, the Chencang Fortress is easy to defend and difficult to attack after all. After a few days, the Liangzhou Army suffered heavy losses.Although they attacked the city several times, they were all killed by Gao Shun's leading camp.

Speaking of being trapped in the camp, it is really a nightmare for the Liangzhou Army now.The Liangzhou army never imagined that there would be such troops in the world, all of them went into battle shirtless, and their combat effectiveness was amazing. Although there were only 800 people in the camp, they could often make tens of thousands of troops helpless.Every time the Liangzhou army attacked the city, as long as the trapped camp appeared, the Liangzhou army would definitely return with hatred.

On the eighth day, it was Fan Chou's turn to attack again, and the two sides had reached a fever pitch.In the past few days, the small Chencang Fortress has caused the Xiliang Army to lose more than 1 horses, and Gao Shun's trapped camp has also suffered losses, which made Gao Shun very distressed.But Lu Bu is still Lu Bu after all, and the title of God of War is not for nothing. Lu Bu stepped forward at the critical moment, which can always boost the morale of the soldiers in Chencang Fortress.

On the other side, Cao Cao also sent troops. Cao Cao's spies found out that Lu Bu was fighting lively with the Liangzhou army. Now that he sends troops, Lu Bu must not have the time to come to support, so Cao Cao decided to send troops to Chang'an.

In Cao Cao's view, the defense of Chang'an City at this time was empty, and it was not enough for a battle at all, but after all, it was the place where the emperor was, so Cao Cao ordered Xiahou Dun to be the vanguard, and Li Dian was Xiahou Dun's deputy general to go to Chang'an first, and he led the army to follow. rear.

But when Xiahou Dun left Hangu Pass and came to Manluochuan, what he saw was the earthen wall built by Zhang Liao.Xiahou Dun was also familiar with the art of war and was proficient in battle formations. Looking at the surrounding terrain, he knew that it was basically impossible for his men to capture Zhang Liao's camp.So Xiahou Dun decided to stand still and wait for Cao Cao's army to arrive before discussing.

Cao Cao and Xiahou Dun basically walked back and forth, so soon Cao Cao also arrived in front of Zhang Liao's camp.This time Cao Cao also brought Le Jin and Guo Jia.Cao Ren stayed at Hulao Pass, while Cao Hong defended Luoyang.So neither of them came.

But now Cao Cao's lineup is far stronger than Zhang Liao's. Zhang Liao's men are only two generals, Hao Menghoucheng, plus 5000 troops, but this time Cao Cao brought three generals, Xia Houdun, Li Dian, and Le Jin, as well as the counselor Guo Jia. .The soldiers are also several times more than Zhang Liao's.So Zhang Liao wisely chose to stick to it and not fight no matter what.

After Guo Jia saw the earthen wall built by Zhang Liao, he sighed endlessly. Guo Jia thought to himself, if this is not a simple earthen wall, but a majestic pass, then it will be very difficult to conquer even if he has 10 troops.But fortunately, this place is not yet a grand pass, but an earthen wall, so it is much less difficult to conquer it.

At this time, Zhang Liao's reputation was not yet obvious, so Cao Jun didn't know much about him, and there was very little information about Zhang Liao. Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles.Now Cao Cao doesn't know Zhang Liao well, so Cao Cao didn't choose to take the risk of attacking.

As for the other half, Zhang Liao is also confident that he can withstand Cao Cao's army. After all, according to intelligence, Cao Cao's men are all newly recruited soldiers, so their combat effectiveness is far behind that of Bingzhou's elite soldiers. Zhang Liao believes that with the advantage of terrain, Zhang Liao was strong enough to withstand Cao's soldiers ten times his own.Therefore, Zhang Liao did not ask Lv Bu for help. One was his confidence in himself, and the other was that Zhang Liao also knew that the current Lv Bu might not be able to mobilize many troops at all.

At this time, Liu Bei's army also left Ziwu Valley.It stands to reason that Liu Bei should have walked from Ziwu Valley faster than Li Jue and Guo Si.But Liu Bei got the news of Dong Zhuo's death later than Li and Guo.After all, the messenger first passed through the land of Yongliang and entered Hanzhong from Yangping Pass.So basically when Li and Guo were ready to send troops, Liu Bei also sent troops.Moreover, the road in Ziwu Valley is really difficult to walk. Although Liu Beijun has already packed lightly, it still delays a lot of time.Even the rations that came with it were almost not enough to eat.

"Sir, what should we do next?" Liu Bei asked.

Jia Xu cast a gloomy glance in the direction of Chang'an, and said, "My lord, I'd better send someone to inquire about the news about Chang'an first. If my predictions are correct, at this moment, Chang'an should be an empty city!"

Although Liu Bei didn't know where Jia Xu's self-confidence came from, Liu Bei still ordered people to inquire about the situation in Chang'an.

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"Report to my lord, the general has already found out the situation in Chang'an!" The school returned to report to Liu Bei.To Liu Bei's surprise, Niu Fu was defeated. Now there are only more than 1000 troops stationed in Chang'an. Lu Bu led the army to Chencang to stop Li and Guo's Liangzhou soldiers, while Zhang Liao took the rest to deal with Cao Cao's army.

Hearing this, Liu Bei was taken aback for a moment, then bowed to Jia Xu, and said, "Sir, you are truly a god!"

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