Lu Bu, God of War of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 543 Fighting Xiaoguan Again
"Did Yuan Shao's army set up camp outside the city?" Lu Bu waved his hand to tell Xu Chu not to worry, then turned and asked the people beside him.Lu Bu left the Commander's Flag in Shangdang, and it was inappropriate to show up at this time, so he asked the generals around him.

"Yuan Shao's army came from afar and was eager to fight. Only a few soldiers were in charge of building camps outside the city. Most of the rest of the soldiers and horses had already arrived below the city. They obviously wanted to fight our army." Cheng Yu said after a little recollection.

"Hehe, it looks like we can't disappoint Yuan Shao. It's only noon now, so we don't need to worry. We order the three armies to rest and cook, and the whole army will go out of the city to meet the enemy in the afternoon." Lu Bu looked at the sky and it was only in the morning. Then he said with a wicked smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Prime Minister, can we just let Wen Chou scold him outside the city?" Xu Chu obviously didn't understand what Lu Bu meant, and said a little puzzled.At the same time, the generals also looked at Lu Bu in confusion. They naturally did not dare to question Lu Bu's order, but these people could not understand the meaning of it. Only Guo Jia and Cheng Yu seemed to see Lu Bu. Intention, nodded secretly.

"Hehe, don't you all understand the meaning of the Prime Minister? Yuan Shao's army has come from afar, eager to fight, and their spirit is in full swing. We just let them stand outside the city for a while, rub their spirit, and wait for their spirit and fighting spirit. The trumpet is almost ready, so we can go out of the city and completely wipe out the enemy in one fell swoop, wouldn't it be more handy." Seeing that the generals were puzzled, Cheng Yu stood up with a smile and explained to the generals.

"I'm afraid Yuan Shao won't just wait outside the city." At this moment, only Zhao Yun said.Although Lu Bu had taken the initiative at this time, Zhao Yun was unwilling to see Lu Bu being so arrogant and taking everything into his own hands.

"Hahaha, what Yuan Shao wants to do is his business. We don't care about him. We only need to set aside a part of our troops to defend the city, and the rest of the people will go to eat with Owen. We will teach Yuan Shao a lesson when we are full. It's not too late." Regarding Zhao Yun's words, Lu Bu just laughed and didn't pay attention to it, instead he took the lead and walked outside, obviously already confident in defeating Yuan Shao.

"My lord, it seems that these guys have been scared out of their wits and dare not come out. Should we start attacking the city?" Wen Chou yelled and cursed outside Xiaoguan for a long time but no one responded. Yuan Shao said beside him.

Yuan Shao dispatched Wen Chou to call for battle, originally intending to test Xiaoguan's reality. If Lu Bu's army had already left Xiaoguan and headed for Jizhou, Yuan Shao would of course launch an attack immediately, break through Xiaoguan in one fell swoop, and head to Jizhou.If Lv Bu's army was stationed at Xiaoguan, then Yuan Shao would have to think about how to deal with Lv Bu's army, at least attacking Xiaoguan would not work.Because first of all, they do not have an advantage in military strength, and because Xiaoguan is extremely steep, taking the initiative to attack the city has no intention of finding a dead end.

"Well, what do you think of Jushou?" Xiao Guan didn't have any generals to fight, which made Yuan Shao unable to figure out Xiao Guan's truth and reality, and couldn't make a decision in his heart, so he could only turn around and look at Jushou, and asked.

"My lord, you might as well send troops to attack Xiaoguan. No matter how calm the guards at Xiaoguan can be, the confrontation between the two armies will reveal the truth." Seeing Yuan Shao looking at him, Ju Shou deeply felt that his responsibility was heavy, Naturally, he didn't dare to make bold reasoning, so he could only suggest Yuan Shao to continue to explore.

"Subordinates are willing to lead troops to attack the city and take Xiaoguan for the lord." Hearing Jushou's suggestion to attack the city, Wen Chou clasped his fists and said.Wen Chou was very upset when he called out outside Xiao Guan just now, but no one paid any attention. Seeing the opportunity to confront Lu Bu's army at this time, he naturally refused to let go of this opportunity.

"As expected of a general under a certain family, a certain family will give you five thousand elite soldiers to conquer Xiaoguan for me." Seeing Ju Shou nodding slightly beside him, Yuan Shao also knew that the morale was available.So he sent five thousand soldiers and horses to Wen Chou to attack the city.

"Prime Minister Xiaoguan is dangerous. I'm afraid it will be difficult for ordinary soldiers to take it. My lord might as well make preparations early." Although the current battle is just a trial, Xiaoguan is a dangerous pass. Even if there are not many soldiers defending, it is not easy to take it. Yes, Jushou's words naturally meant to ask Yuan Shao to send troops and horses to prepare siege equipment.

"Well, this time our army came in a hurry but didn't bring any siege equipment, so Mr. Lao used local materials to build siege equipment for our army." Building siege equipment is a delicate job, and it is not suitable for ordinary people. Yuan Shao could only entrust this task to Jushou.

"Brothers, Lu Bu's soldiers and horses have set foot on the land of Jizhou. They want to harm your family members. If they want to save your family members, they must break through the checkpoints ahead. Today we will live and die together, and we will fight a bloody road home together. Follow I'm going." Wen Chou came to an infantry phalanx, looked at these soldiers and the swords in their hands and the rough ladders on their shoulders, and roared loudly, arousing the morale of the soldiers and horses.

"Kill, in order to go home, kill all the enemies." After Wen Chou's speech, Wen Chou's soldiers roared, and then all the soldiers began to roar and kill, and then rushed towards Xiao Guan.

"Your Excellency, Yuan Shao's army has begun to attack the city." Cheng Yu hastily reported to Lu Bu just as Wen Chou started attacking the city with his troops.

"Oh, it seems that Yuan Shao is not as stupid as imagined, do you want to take the initiative to attack?" Lu Bu smiled slightly. From Lu Bu's point of view, Yuan Shao is just a dish on his own plate, and sooner or later he will be defeated by himself. At present, the question now is just what method Yuan Shao wants to choose to perish. Dare to attack shows that Yuan Shao is still an opponent worthy of attention.

"Um, Prime Minister, Yuan Shao only sent five thousand troops to attack the city, and his subordinates feel that he is testing Xiao Guan's reality." Seeing that Lu Bu misunderstood his meaning, Cheng Yu was a little bit embarrassed, but immediately changed his words.

"Well, let's leave some room for Yuan Shao's fantasy. The order to maintain the number of soldiers on the tower is to give Yuan Shao the illusion that Xiao Guan will be captured by him as long as he works harder. Knowing that Yuan Shao was testing Xiaoguan's reality, Lv Bu suddenly had a new idea. He wanted to give Yuan Shao a hope, a hope that Yuan Shao felt could be realized with a little more effort, and then use this hope to slow down the situation. Go slowly to destroy Yuan Shao's will, and when he knows that Yuan Shao is about to lose his patience, he will give Yuan Shao a fatal blow, making Yuan Shao lose the courage to fight against him forever.

"Kill me, kill me, Xiao Guan is about to break the city, kill me." Watching groups of soldiers carrying ladders up the city wall and jumping into the parapet wall, Wen Chou felt like Xiao Guan was going to kill him every time. The illusion of being broken by myself, but unfortunately, at the most important moment, a strange soldier will appear on the Xiaoguan tower inexplicably to join the battle, and then force his soldiers and horses down from the city wall, which makes Wen Chou very angry.

"Grandma, you can lose the city wall that you are about to get. If you don't get it down this time, I will kill you all." Looking at the soldiers who escaped from the city wall, Wen Chou was tearing up. Roaring like angrily, accusing these soldiers of why they were killed and retreated under such good circumstances.

"General, it's not that we don't work hard, it's just that there are suddenly many enemies, and we really have no way to resist." Facing Wen Chou's accusation, a corporal leader said helplessly.This man was covered in blood, obviously he had gone through such a fierce battle, and some wounds on his body were still bleeding.

"Talk." Hearing the corporal leader's excuse, Wen Chou immediately became furious, cut off the corporal leader's head with a single knife, and then said to the soldiers: "Soldiers don't need excuses, victory needs to be forged with blood, Failure also pays the price of blood, this time I will lead you to the tower, and I will let you see how I will conquer the pass." Wen Chou was only commanding outside the city, and did not go forward to fight in person, but now a few Every time the siege ended in failure, the morale of the soldiers under him had been exhausted to the maximum, and if this continued, failure would be doomed. For the current plan, only the main general himself can inspire the blood of the soldiers.

"Kill!" Wen Chou yelled angrily, took a ladder from his side and put it on his head, and was the first to rush out.

"Kill it." A group of soldiers followed closely behind Wen Chou, protecting Wen Chou's surroundings, and also picked up the ladders on the ground one after another, and rushed towards Xiaoguan's city wall.

Countless soldiers roared angrily behind them, grabbed the ladder and charged towards Xiaoguan's city wall again.

On the city wall, a head poked its head out from the side of the female wall, glanced at Wen Chou and a group of soldiers who were rushing outside the city wall, and showed a sneer.Then he turned around and retracted his head into the female wall, and said to the surrounding soldiers: "Hurry up and move these corpses away, the enemy is about to come up again, tell the troops below to be ready to respond at any time." This man is exactly A general in Lu Bu's army.

It turned out that in order to deal with Yuan Shao's army's siege, there were several groups of soldiers defending the city in Lu Bu's army. They supported each other and guarded Xiaoguan's city wall together.When Yuan Shaojun set up a ladder to attack the city, what they faced was only a group of defenders on the city wall, and when they attacked the city wall, the Lu Bu army on the city wall would recruit another group of reinforcements, and the two armies Let's wipe out these Yuan Shaojun soldiers who attacked the city wall together.And after these reinforcements repelled Yuan Shaojun's attack, they would stay on the city wall and become city defenders. Facing Yuan Shaojun's next attack, it was a new soldier who was responsible for supporting them.

It was also because of this that Yuan Shaojun had the illusion that it was easier to attack the city wall than to gain a firm foothold on it.And this is the arrangement Cheng Yu made according to Lu Bu's request.

"Huh, this Wen Chou is really getting more and more promising. It is obvious that there are not enough guards in Xiaoguan. He has been unable to take down Xiaoguan after such a long time. Come on, I am sending five thousand soldiers to fight for me. Take Xiaoguan." Yuan Shao, who was standing in the middle army, watched the battle on Xiaoguan City, and was confused by Lu Bujun's actions, so he sent troops and horses to support Wen Chou again, hoping that Wen Chou would take Xiaoguan as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)