Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 228 Huge Bait

"What?" Han Hao was shocked when he heard the words. Looking at the panic-stricken soldiers in front of him, Han Hao said angrily, "When did the Sichuan army cross the river? Why didn't anyone come to report?"

"They came here in a detour from the upper reaches. Our brothers were all asleep and didn't notice!" Then it reached my ear.

"Quick, get my weapon and armor!" Han Hao said anxiously, preparing for the battle with the help of several personal soldiers.At this moment, someone pierced the big tent and broke in. Han Hao hurriedly picked up the spear in his hand and went to meet the enemy, but saw that the person in front of him was only of medium height, and a silver spear flashed across the sky like lightning, and then sank into his chest.

With a "poof!", Zhang Ren drew out his silver gun.Seeing Han Hao's body falling down like a straw, Zhang Ren let out a cold snort and continued to command the battle.In the battle, Lu Xun and Zhang Ren cooperated tacitly. The former made plans to use exhausted troops, and at the same time led the army to go downstream to intercept Cao's rout.Under Zhang Ren's command, the [-] Sichuan Army completely smashed Han Hao's Weishui Dazhai, and at the same time ordered people to use Han Hao's head to recruit Fufeng, Hanxing, and Chencang cities.In this way, the area west of the Jing River and north of the Wei River, except for the [-] defenders who have not yet captured the martial arts, the rest is all owned by the Han army.

The news soon spread to Xia Houyuan who was in the street pavilion. Xia Houyuan and Cheng Yu were both in a cold sweat when they first heard the news.Especially the latter, never expected that Han Hao would make such a big fuss if he stayed in Weishui.

"General Xiahou, Longxi is no longer the top priority right now. The only plan for now is to return to the army to defend the land east of the Jing River, and to preserve Guanzhong is the best policy!" After calming down, Cheng Yu immediately suggested to Xiahouyuan.Xia Houyuan naturally knew that Cheng Yu's words were true, but the responsibility of losing Longxi and Weibei was too great.Although this was caused by Cao Cao's misjudgment, but as the guard in Guanzhong, it's okay to lose Longxi, and now he loses Weibei.

"Is that the way to forget it?" Xia Houyuan said bitterly, Cheng Yu pondered for a while, and finally said with a cold look in his eyes: "Of course we can't just let it go like this. Although most of the Weibei area is currently occupied by the Sichuan army, the number of the Sichuan army is limited. Once the general returns to the army, he can only stick to the city. If this is the case, our army has a lot to do."

"Mr. Zhongde, our army's food and grass are only enough to last for more than a month, and we can't provide enough food and grass for the army to attack the city!" Lu Kuang frowned when he heard this.

"Of course I don't want to attack the city, I just want to fortify the walls and clear the country, leaving Zhao Botao with an empty Weibei!" Cheng Yu said bitterly.Brother Lu Kuang was still ignorant, but Xia Houyuan couldn't help shivering when he heard Cheng Yu's words.

As Cheng Yu said, although the Sichuan army has already defeated Weibei, the main thing they can control is the cities of Xianyang.Under such circumstances, I can forcefully relocate as many people as possible from Wei Guang and other prefectures in Anding to the east of the Jing River, and leave Zhao Feng a desolate and uninhabited Longxi.This move is indeed very unique, even if Zhao Feng occupies this place, there will not be enough people to support his army for a while, so if he doesn't have a few years to recuperate, he will never want to lead his troops eastward.It's just that this trick is also very poisonous. Apart from the displacement of the common people, there are naturally countless casualties.

Right now, Longxi is blocked by Jieting, and it is beyond reach.And Wei Guang, Anding, and a part of Tianshui have not yet been controlled by Zhao Feng.There are no less than 50 people in these three counties. Xia Houyuan gave an order, and the [-] Cao troops immediately retreated, and then cooperated with the county soldiers from some cities in the three counties that had not yet fallen, and forcibly sent all the people, including some local wealthy households, to Feng Yi, Fufeng, Xinping and Beidi counties moved there.Although Lu Xun from Xianyang and Zhang Ren from Chencang wanted to stop them, they were also powerless due to insufficient troops, so they could only hold on to the city while sending someone to notify Zhao Feng to take charge.It's just that it took three or four days to come and go.And Zhao Feng was about to go east after joining Zhao Yun, but he was surprised when he heard the news.

"Xia Houyuan is really ruthless!" Zhao Feng said angrily.In history, Cao Cao once played this trick in Jingbei, moving hundreds of thousands of people to Yuzhou and Yanzhou. As a result, Liu Bei failed to take advantage of the aftermath of the Battle of Chibi to take Jingzhou northward in one fell swoop.Now that Xia Houyuan has played this trick, he can only compete with him as much as possible to prevent him from moving the people.It's just that in this way, hundreds of thousands of people in Guanzhong have suffered.In the melee, the sword had no eyes, and these people naturally suffered countless casualties.Presumably, after all these troubles, the prosperous Guanzhong will also become poor.

"Command the generals to go east immediately to stop Xia Houyuan and Cheng Yu!" Zhao Feng gave the order without hesitation, and now he can only make amends, and it would be good to recover a little more damage.It's just that Zhao Feng must have no way to continue marching into Guanzhong.

At this time, Guanzhong is already covered with feathers. In comparison, the situation in the Central Plains is relatively clear.After Guan Yu's 4 troops took Xiangcheng, they rushed to Xuchang without stopping.

"Father, this Xiangcheng is the gate of Xuchang. Why is Cao Jun's defense so lax? I'm afraid Xuchang is cheating this time!" It was Guan Ping, the general of the bandits who asked the question.They broke through Xiangcheng yesterday, but the defenders actually only had more than 2000 old, weak, sick and disabled, and none of the generals, it was a child's play.

"The reason is very simple, that is, Cao Cao deliberately gave up Xiangcheng to us!" Guan Yu stroked his beard and smiled.Only high-level insiders like them know about the decision of this battle, and Guan Ping still knew nothing about it before.But now, obviously, there is no need to hide it anymore.

"Father means that Cao Cao lured us to Xuchang on purpose?" Guan Ping was not an idiot either, he immediately understood what his father meant when he heard his father's words.The question is, since this is the case, should I honestly go to Xuchang to die?
"That's right, so I decided to use my strategy as a bait to go to Xuchang, attracting Cao Cao's ambush troops, and then Wen Yuan came to attack and wiped out Cao's army in one fell swoop! Ping'er, are you afraid? " Guan Yu said in a deep voice.The first sentence is full of rhetoric from a heroic general, but the last sentence is the ardent hope of a loving father for his son.

"Father is not afraid, so the child is not afraid either!" Guan Ping was not a timid person, and he said with pride when he heard his father ask this question.After a pause, Guan Ping also said with emotion: "In this way, the decisive battle between General Zhao and Xia Houyuan and the land of Yongliang can only be regarded as the prelude to this big battle?"

"It may not be a prelude, but the real battle has just begun!" Guan Yu said in a deep voice.At this moment, the scouts came to report that Cao Jun's brigade was found in front of them, the number of which was nearly [-], including no less than [-] cavalry.

"Understood, pass the order down, form an formation and prepare to meet the enemy!" Guan Yu ordered nonchalantly.Immediately, 6 people began to operate, with shield soldiers on the outermost layer, and then inside from outside to inside were pikemen, crossbowmen, and ordinary soldiers.The entire army quickly assembled into a huge gossip formation. Although there is a passage in the middle for walking, once the enemy army comes in, you will never let you run easily.

Guan Yu himself did not stay in the center of the formation to command with all his strength, but led his five hundred school swordsmen to patrol around, ready to check for omissions and fill vacancies at any time.A high platform was built on a chariot in the center, and Xu Shu was surrounded by several soldiers, ready to check the military situation at any time after the battle started, so as to adapt accordingly.

"Here we come!" Dong Xi, the general in charge of this area on the east side of the eight trigrams formation, suddenly whispered.Needless to say, more and more people have already felt the trembling of the earth, and Cao Jun has gradually pressed up.

At the same time, Guan Yu stood in front of the formation one by one.The morning sun shone brightly on his green parrot robe and golden armor. With the Qinglong Yanyue Saber and the red rabbit horse under his crotch, this second master Guan was really like a god, showing his domineering arrogance.

Cao Cao also gradually saw the formation formed by the Jingzhou army on the opposite side. He never expected that the Jingzhou army would come up with such a defensive formation to deal with him instead of arranging crossbowmen to compete with him. Cao Cao was also a little surprised.If Guan Yu followed common sense and used crossbowmen to snipe himself in the first row, then he would have enough confidence to immediately smash the enemy's formation with tiger and leopard cavalry.Now that he has arranged it in a circular formation like this, he feels like he is dragging the bastard with a mouse, and he has no way to start.But Cao Cao understood after thinking about it again. Guan Yu was trying to hold him back. It seemed that as long as he and him were in a deadly battle, Zhang Liao from the south would take advantage of it.Do you want to invite Cao Ren to encircle Guan Yu together?Cao Cao also hesitated.This [-] army is really a huge bait, but it also contains a huge hook.If you can't swallow Guan Yu's words in one gulp, you will be passive.

"King Wei, let's deal with Guan Yu first!" Seeing Cao Cao's hesitation, Jia Xu remonstrated softly.Cao Cao nodded heavily, then waved his hand to signal the army to advance.The [-] tiger and leopard cavalry led by Cao Chun and Cao Xiu went up first, followed by the infantry of Li Dian and Le Jin, rushing like ants into the corridors of the eight trigrams formation, and fought to the death with the Jingzhou army.

"King Wei, why don't you put all the tiger and leopard riders into battle?" Cao Hong looked at the remaining [-] tiger and leopard riders behind him, and asked in surprise. "We need to guard against Zhang Liao. Inform the soldiers guarding the Beacon Tower. Once Zhang Liao's whereabouts are found, immediately light a fire and notify Zixiao to come and join us!" Cao Cao said in a deep voice.While they were talking, Cao Xiu and Cao Chun had already led their troops into the eight trigrams formation, and started a hand-to-hand battle with the Jingzhou army.The tiger and leopard cavalry smashed down on the hard iron shield shell of the Eight Diagrams Formation with an extremely powerful impact.What followed was a deadly battle with all kinds of weapons mixed together.

In order to be able to delay Cao Cao and let Zhang Liao arrive in time, Guan Yu also spent a lot of money this time.Including the Shanyue Army when he was in Yuzhou, and the Wudang Flying Army in Jingnan, these two most elite infantry were almost half drawn by him.Looking at the two armies that were gradually strangling together, Cao Cao and Xu Shu, who was commanding on the high platform, frowned, ready to deal with any emergencies at all times.

"Keep in formation, kill me!" Chen Wu roared. Behind him, there were soldiers waiting in full force at any time, ready to catch the shields and spears in the hands of the fallen comrades, and then continue to form the formation.Once the gossip formation was quickly crushed by Cao Jun's cavalry, only one of the infantry, who were originally outnumbered, would die.Knowing this well, Chen Wu took the lead and led his men up to block the wall that had just been breached, while surrounding and strangling the dozens of tiger and leopard cavalry who broke into the formation.

"Whoosh!" Suddenly an arrow struck, and the target was the defenseless Chen Wu's back.

(End of this chapter)