Lu Dynasty

Chapter 680 Defeating Yuan Shang

When Yuan Shang knew that my troops were approaching Jizhou, he immediately abandoned Yuan Tan and came back to help. His general Ma Yan said to him: "Since Lu Feng is approaching the city, there must be an ambush on the main road. My lord can enter the army by the small road and go out from the west mountain to the Fushuikou to rob. Lu Feng's camp will surely save the siege!" What Ma Yan said was very reasonable, and the judge was not with Yuan Shang, so Yuan Shang listened to Ma Yan's words and marched from the small road.In fact, no matter whether Yuan Shang marched from the main road or from the small road, he would definitely be defeated.How can Lu Bu's field combat ability be measured by big roads and small roads?What's more, it wasn't just Lu Bu who came this time, so I divided the troops and let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei guard the city, and I brought Lu Bu to attack Yuan Shang's army.

Yuan Shang went out of Fushui Jiekou, went east to Yangping, stationed at Yangping Pavilion, and went to the village seventeen miles away from Jizhou, leaning against Fushui on one side.He ordered the sergeant to pile up firewood and hay and burn it at night as a sign; he also sent the chief bookkeeper Li Fu to pretend to be a general of our army until the time agreed with the judge under the city.Li Fu and Shenpei were old acquaintances, and Shenpei recognized his voice, so he was put into the city.Li Fu was complacent when he sneaked into the city, but he didn't know that I ordered him to relax his guard and let him enter the city.Otherwise, he doesn't know the order of our army, how can he get away with it?When Li Fu saw Shenpei, he told him: "Yuan Shang has sent troops to Yangping Pavilion, waiting to meet him. If soldiers from the city come out, use fire as a signal!" Shenpei immediately ordered people to pile up firewood for correspondence.Li Fu had worked hard all night and was about to go down to rest when he suddenly remembered something and turned his head and said to the judge: "There is a lack of food and grass in the city. Zhengnan can let the old, weak, sick and disabled leave the city to surrender. Lu Feng will not be suspicious when he sees this, and our soldiers will follow behind. Sudden attack will definitely catch Lu Fengjun by surprise!" The examiner was worried about how to respond to Yuan Tan, but after listening to Li Fu's opinion, he thought it was very good, so he acted according to it!

The next day, the gate of the city was suddenly opened, and a group of old and weak people waved a white flag, which read: "Jizhou people surrender." The small school of our army immediately told me the news. Food and grass are running low, so there must be no food in the city, let the people come out and surrender first, and then follow the people with soldiers, trying to attack me by surprise! Guan Yu and Zhang Fei listened to the order: You two lead ten thousand people each, and lie in ambush on both sides, waiting for me Order, fight out together!" After giving the order, I took Lu Bu to the city, and sure enough, I saw many old and weak people helping each other out.The common people were all gone, and more than ten thousand Yuan soldiers came out. I shook my head and ordered the generals to unfurl their flags. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei rushed out on both sides, and Lu Bu rushed into Yuan's brigade first.Yuan Jun had no choice but to retreat to the city.I waved my army forward, but unfortunately Yuan Jun had enough bows and arrows, so I had to retreat.

Withdrawing troops from outside the city, I ordered Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to lead troops to Yuan Shang Dazhai without hesitation. At the same time, I also led Lu Bu and others to Yuan Shang Dazhai.Our army gathered, Yuan Shang actually dared to go out to fight in person, the two armies scuffled, Yuan Shang lost to our army and returned in a big defeat, he could only lead the defeated soldiers back to the Xishan Xiazhai.Yuan Shang, who had retreated to Xishan, immediately ordered Ma Yan and Zhang Kai to march. Unfortunately, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang had already followed my order to recruit the second general.The second generals were not that kind of diehards, they understood Yuan Shang's situation very well, and it was Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang who persuaded him to surrender, so they surrendered happily!I immediately named Zhang Kai and Ma Yan Marquis of Guannei, and asked them to work with Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang to cut off Yuan Shang's grain road.Yuan Shangqing knew that Xishan could not be defended, so he retreated at night to guard his mouth.Since I can cut off Yuan Shang's food path, why can't I cut off Yuan Shang's way of retreat?Just as Yuan Shang was setting up a stronghold indiscriminately, our army's ambushes suddenly rushed out, and Yuan's army was defeated and retreated another fifty miles.Yuan Shang was exhausted, so he had to send people to our army to surrender.I didn't want to accept the surrender, but Guo Jia agreed before me.After Yuan Shang's envoy left, Guo Jia immediately arranged for Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Lu Bu to rob the stronghold at night. Yuan Shang was defeated again, and fled to Zhongshan, abandoning his seal ribbon, Jieyue, armor, and luggage.

After defeating Yuan Shang, our army sent troops to Jizhou, but if the city held by Shenpei was attacked by force, many lives would still be needed to fill it!I couldn't take Yecheng, I was very anxious, Guo Jia saw that I was anxious and hesitated to speak!Guo Jia's expression was abnormal, how could I not see it, but I thought he came to the north and was not used to the climate, Yingchuan is closer to the south after all.I care about Guo Jia very much. No matter what, he is my most trusted mastermind.The first thing I did when I got him back then was to treat his illness, and now I don’t want him to die because of unacceptable conditions, so I looked at Guo Jia and asked: "Feng Xiao, your complexion is not good, do you feel a little uncomfortable? Have you had a military doctor look at it?"

"Jia Wuyang!" Guo Jia is neither Jia Xu nor Xu You, he doesn't have such a vicious heart, he thought of the strategy of flooding the city of Ye, but he didn't want to use it because it was too vicious.In Guo Jia's mind, Yecheng is my city, and the people of Jizhou are my people.But in the current situation, if this strategy is not used, Yecheng will be difficult to break, so Guo Jia is very hesitant.Seeing that I was so worried about myself, Guo Jia gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, I have a plan to defeat Yecheng, but there are some..."

I was very happy to hear that Guo Jia had a plan, but seeing him hesitate to speak, I knew it was not a good plan.However, most of the land in Jizhou is now in my hands. Yecheng is the heart of Jizhou, how can it be in the hands of others?I smiled and said: "Since Feng Xiao has a plan, let's talk about it and study it first! No matter whether it is dirty or not, I will bear it with you. Even if you want to bear the blame, I will do it!"

"My lord, how can you bear the curse!" Guo Jia said in shock, "Even if you want to bear the curse, it's me who made the idea, how can you let the lord bear the infamy!"

I laughed and said: "Fengxiao is wrong! Don't you hear that Duke Zhou was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was humble before usurping? Duke Zhou is so wise that he was afraid of rumors, and Wang Mang was a usurper. He was also humble and obedient. Great men from ancient times to the present, Which one is not famous all over the world, but also slandering all over the world? But only the victor will be praised by people! Now that we are blocking the city of Ye, if we can’t take it down, we will be laughed at by people all over the world. Hurting the people, we can only make up for it after the fact! For the great cause, someone must sacrifice, today they are, tomorrow may be you and me!"

"Jia understands!" Guo Jia cupped his hands and said, "Master, I have a plan to destroy Ye City!"

Looking at the confident Guo Jia, I smiled and said, "There are plans for filial piety, I am all ears, please tell me carefully!" Guo Jia was very moved when he saw that I was crazy with him. Great cause, whatever you do is right.Guo Jia felt less guilty about the poisonous scheme he wanted to use. After all, although he had used poisonous schemes before, he did not harm the people!
(End of this chapter)