Chapter 7 Wind and Thunder Stirring Section 28 At the beginning of September, Lu Bu led the Changshui Battalion and the Hu Cavalry Battalion to take the lead in crossing the Jiangshui River.

Because the army was delayed in Xinhe for a day, Lü Bu was worried that the Jingzhou army had reached Panhe, so he did not enter the Yellow Flood area, but set up camp at Guting, which was thirty miles away from Panhe.

Scouts came in succession. The Jingzhou army was not found in the direction of the Pan River. Lu Bu was very strange, and hurriedly ordered the scouts to expand the search area to a hundred miles, especially in the direction of the Great River, and to investigate it closely.

Once the Jingzhou army found that the road to Ganling was cut off, it was very likely to give up the plan to join the main force, and instead went directly south to Pingyuan City, retreating across the Yellow River into Qingzhou.

If the Northern Xinjiang Army delayed the time to encircle the main rebel army in order to encircle and annihilate the 10,000 people, and let the main rebel army successfully break through the resistance and smoothly withdraw to the Central Plains, it would be an unforgivable crime.

After Yan Liang received Lü Bu's urgent report, he immediately ordered Zhang Zhen, Qin Yi, who had already crossed the river, to join Lou Lu and Lu Huanyang's Karasuma Iron Cavalry, turn to the southwest and quickly take Dongwu Castle, threatening the main force of the retreating rebels from the flank.

Ordered Zhang He, Zhang Liao, and Gao Ran to speed up the crossing of the river and quickly rush to the old pavilion. Ordered Lü Bu to lead the iron cavalry to search slowly in the direction of the Great River, and once the Jingzhou army was discovered, he would immediately attack.

At the beginning of September, Zhao Yun led his army to gallop more than 300 miles along the Great River and rushed to the Luting line in Boping County, the intended place of blocking.

The great river in this area is located at the junction of Ganling Kingdom and Dongjun, sixty miles away from Ganling City. The scouts reported that no main rebel force was found in the direction of Ganling City.

This news made Zhao Yun very happy, and the Northern Xinjiang Army finally got ahead of the rebels. He ordered the army to rest for half a day at once, and then launched an attack on the city of Ganling.

"From the beginning of our siege of Tian Kai, it has only been five days now." Jiang Wu handed the water bladder to Zhao Yun and wiped a handful of water stains on his beard.

"I estimate that Cao Cao has just received the news of Dongguang's defeat, and the main force of the rebel army is probably crossing the Jiangshui River in the south, at least two hundred miles away from Ganling City. We still have plenty of time. Zhao Yun smiled,

"If we can completely annihilate the rebels this time, the world will be pacified in two or three years."

"It's not that easy." Jiang Wu shook his head and smiled,

"What, you're tired of fighting?"

"Of course it's better not to fight." Zhao Yun looked up at him,

"Do you want to fight for the rest of your life?" Jiang Wu didn't answer. He looked up at a group of iron horsemen hurrying from a distance, and slowly stood up,

"Hu Zi (Wei Jun), Xiao Lazy (Li Su) and Youxian Wang (Liu Ming) are here." When Wen Ping and Huang Zhong withdrew to Panhe, they received a letter from Cao Cao.

Cao Cao ordered them to retreat, and allowed them to act at the right time, so as to ensure their strength and safely withdraw to the Central Plains.

This letter was originally written to Tian Kai, the commander of the East Route Army, but Tian Kai's whereabouts are now unknown, and there are only 10,000 of the 45,000 people left in the East Route Army, and they are in the midst of the encirclement and interception of the Northern Xinjiang Army, and it is more difficult to break through than to ascend to the sky.

Just when the two were at a loss, Xiahoudun and Li Dian caught up. The content of this letter was understood by Xiahoudun at a glance, Cao Cao wanted to sacrifice the army of the Eastern Route to cover the retreat of the main army to the Central Plains.

But now the facts have exceeded Cao Cao's expectations, and the army of the Eastern Route has been defeated and cannot cope with the retreat of the main army.

"I don't know if Lord Xiahou has a way to break through?" Wen Ping asked.

"Since the Prime Minister has allowed us to decide the retreat route at our discretion, and there is no need to return to Ganling Kingdom to join the main force, then we will go directly south and cross the river from the direction of Pingyuan City." Xiahoudun said without hesitation,

"Zang Ba ran fast, and he probably got out of danger. Now it's up to us to see if we run fast or not. ”

"Straight south?" Huang Zhong hesitated for a moment and said cautiously,

"If nothing else, Plains City has been taken by the Northern Frontier Army, and it is too difficult for us to break through from Plains City."

"That's the only way to do it at the moment." Xiahoudun said,

"We have no food and grass, we can't hold out for a few days, and we can only get replenishment by going south to Pingyuan City by surprise, and then crossing the river to Gaotang. After the Northern Frontier Army discovers us, it will definitely pursue us, so as to buy more time for the retreat of the main army. He looked at Wen Ping and Huang Zhong and said,

"I believe that the two adults will not want Lord Liu Biao and the Jingzhou army to die under the iron hooves of Northern Xinjiang, right?" At the beginning of September, the Jiangshui River.

When he learned that the rebels had suddenly turned westward, he immediately had a premonition that the rebels were going to run, so he hurriedly sent someone to report to the general Li Hong, and wrote to Yan Liang, asking him to allocate more troops to the battlefield to pursue the main force of the rebels, and at the same time wrote to Zhang Yan, asking him to pay close attention to Yuan Shao's movements and prevent him from receiving the rebels' retreat.

Lu Yi urgently summoned Wang Dang and Xu Huang, and ordered the two to lead their own armies, enter Wei County as quickly as possible at all costs, take Qingyuan and Guantao, and cut off the retreat of the rebels.

He ordered Wen Chou to lead his army across the Qing River, closely follow the rebels, and try to delay the retreat of the rebels.

"I wonder if Zilong has already rushed to the front line of Luting?" Koji Yi's fingers kept tapping on the map, and said anxiously,

"If he still attacks Ganling City first according to the original plan, then we will not be able to encircle the rebels in time, and the rebels may cross the river from the direction of Qingyuan and Guantao, so they will retreat across the Yellow River." He thought about it again and again, and said categorically: "Quick, send someone to rush to the area of Ganling City to find General Zhao Yun, ask him to give up attacking Ganling City, immediately take Fagan and Guancheng, and cut off the way for the rebels to retreat south." Sima Yan Zhi looked at him in surprise and did not speak.

Koji Yi turned his head and glared at him, and said loudly, "Are you deaf?" Yan Zhi timidly lowered his head and muttered in a low voice,

"My lord, General Zhao Yun is now under the command of General Yan Liang." Koji Yijian's eyebrows were upside down, and he slapped his palm on the desk,

"Exceeding authority means choosing to exceed authority. As long as I can encircle and annihilate the rebels, I'd rather not have this left general and give me the order to go. Yan Zhi stood beside him and didn't move, his eyes quietly looking at Tian Chou.

Koji Yi was furious and slapped him,

"You kid is lawless now." Tian Chou's eyes were quick, and he hugged Ko Yi's arm,

"Brother Yuntian, what are you doing here? Don't worry, let me figure it out. The battle is won, but you are guilty and demoted, what is this called? The general has to make you angry. ”

"There's no time." Koji yelled angrily.

"The general is still in Gonggaocheng, two hundred miles away, and when I want to give an order, the rebels have already run to the edge of the Yellow River."

"Okay, good ......" Tian Chou let go of Koji Yi's arm and waved his hand to Yan Zhi and said,

"You immediately write an order according to Lord Koji's wishes, stamp my seal as well, and send more people to the area of Ganling City to find General Zhao Yun. I immediately wrote to the general and asked him to give an order for General Liyi to command the Battle of Ganling, and that all the troops in Jizhou, including General Yan Liang, should be controlled by General Liyi. Yan Zhi hurriedly agreed.

He was worried that Koji would beat him and ran faster than a rabbit. Koji gratefully patted Tian Chou on the shoulder, wanting to say something but didn't say anything.

Tian Chou is the right servant of Shang Shutai, who was ordered to go to the Jizhou battlefield to coordinate the relationship between the imperial court, the Jizhou prefectures and the army, and was responsible for supervising the army.

In the future, the court and the generals will blame it, and the responsibility will be mainly Tianchou's. Koji Yi knew that he had offended too many people, and with this overstepping command, there would definitely be many people who would impeach him and take the opportunity to fall into the ground.

Now that he can share the responsibility of the crime, even if he is convicted, it is just a matter of offering a petition and confiscating a few months.

"Brother Yuntian, there are more than 50,000 rebels, and the two adults Wang Dang and Xu Huang may not be able to stop it." Tian Chou pointed to the pavilion pottery on the map and said worriedly,

"In my opinion, it is better for you to let them gradually block the attack, first, to delay the retreat of the rebels, so that General Yan Liang's army has enough time to rush over from the east, and secondly, to let Yuan Shao see that the rebels have hope of breaking through, forcing him to lead the army to come to the aid and take the opportunity to eat him together."

"In this case, Yuan Shao will come to the rescue?" Koji sneered,

"Zitai, do you think too highly of Yuan Shao? Now he wishes that we would kill Cao Cao's rebels, so that he can dominate the Central Plains and confront us across the river. Tian Chou smiled slightly,

"From Yuan Shao's point of view, of course he hopes that we will kill Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Liu Bei and Tian Kai, so that he can easily take Jingzhou and the Central Plains. But the question is, are we willing to stand with Yuan Shaoding? ”

"We don't want to see Yuan Shao's strength expand dramatically, so we need to maintain the current situation where the forces of the various states and counties are fighting each other. In other words, if Yuan Shao escapes, we will put Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others back, and let them turn against Yuan Shao and fight each other. As long as the strength of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao cannot develop, we can defeat them in the short term. Even if they were united, they would not be able to fight us for a variety of reasons. This can be seen from the current Jizhou battlefield. ”

"Yuan Shao won't be able to see our intentions?" Koji will be skeptical.

It is precisely because Yuan Shao is clear that it is difficult for him to make a choice. If you were Yuan Shao, what would you do now? ”

"I ......" Koji blurted out that I was leaving, but suddenly found that this matter really couldn't be left at once.

Yuan Shao fled, Hebei put Cao Cao and others back, even if the two sides did not turn their faces, but this grudge was settled, and Yuan Shao's original intention was completely exposed.

It is no longer possible for Yuan Shao to capture the Central Plains in isolation, or to continue to maintain the current three-legged situation.

"It's hard, isn't it?" Tian Chou said with a smile,

"If Yuan Shao escapes by himself, let us release Cao Cao and the others, his prestige will not only be lost, lose face, but also make enemies with other states and counties, causing everyone to rebel and leave, which is the last thing Yuan Shao wants to see and cannot accept. In comparison, it is better for him to lose a little bit and rescue Cao Cao and others, so that when the strength of Cao Cao and others is greatly damaged, he not only wins the praise of the people of the world, but also justifiably forces Cao Cao and others to give up their hijacking of the imperial system, and then control and threaten the forces in the Central Plains through the imperial system, and quickly increase their strength in a short period of time. If Yuan Shao can dominate the Central Plains before we cross the Yellow River in the south, then the situation of confrontation between these two powers across the river will still appear. Therefore, Yuan Shao will not only stay in Jizhou, but will also go to rescue Cao Cao and Liu Biao and others. Koji Yi suddenly realized,

"Zitai, you kid has too many ghost eyes." Then he excitedly pointed to the map and said: "We let Yan Liang and Lu Bu's army pursue from the east and north, let Zhao Yun's army block the rebels' retreat in the south of Ganling Kingdom, and let Wang Dang and Xu Huang fight and retreat in the west, causing us to encircle the rebels but unable to encircle them because of insufficient troops, so as to induce the rebels to continue to retreat in the direction of Guantao and Wei County in Wei County, forcing Yuan Shao to respond in the direction of Guantao, and then ......" Koji Yi smashed his fist between Guantao and Wei Cheng on the map.

"We are here to annihilate the rebels and kill all the rebels such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao." Tian Chou listened with a smile on his face at first, and then his expression changed greatly when he heard it, and he was dumbfounded.

"Brother Yuntian......"

"I know what you want to say......" Koji Yi's face suddenly turned cold,

"Now, even if Yan Liang completely annihilates the 45,000 rebels in the Dongguang area, but excluding the losses of the rebels' continuous attacks in the past few months, they still have at least about 110,000 troops, while we only have 140,000 troops, so we can't surround the rebels, let alone completely annihilate the rebels, at most, we will only severely damage the rebels. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's rebellions were able to flee back to the Central Plains in the end, which does not seem to be what we want to see. Koji Yi looked at Tian Chou coldly,

"Is this what the Great General meant?" Tian Chou didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically, "What does Brother Yuntian mean?" ”

"If we annihilate the rebels such as Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at all costs, it will be Yuan Shu who can occupy the Central Plains in the end, but Yuan Shu is weaker than Yuan Shao, and it is difficult for him to gain a firm foothold in a short period of time. In this way, we will be able to cross the river and head south next year and begin to pacify the war of the world. Ko Yi spread out his right hand and put it on the map of Ganling Kingdom,

"We are all worried that Yuan Shao will run away, and after Yuan Shao runs away, there will be too much resistance to our great cause of ZTE, so your proposal is very correct. We can't rush to encircle and annihilate Cao Cao and Liu Biao and others in Ganling State, we must use Cao Cao and Liu Biao's rebels to keep Yuan Shao in Jizhou and lure his army to the Guantao area to annihilate them. Koji Yi glanced up at Tian Chou,

"My plan is to surround Cao Cao's rebels with 40,000 troops first." Then he put his left hand on Wei Jun on the map, and two strong murderous auras appeared in his eyes,

Then concentrate about 100,000 troops to encircle and annihilate Yuan Shao in Wei County, eat Yuan Shao in one bite, and never suffer in the future. After eating Yuan Shao, we will concentrate all our forces to encircle and annihilate Cao Cao's rebels. Lu Yi clenched his fist with his right hand and struck the Ganling Kingdom on the map,

"Then the rebels will be wiped out." Tian Chou's heart beat violently, and Koji Yi's plan was too tempting.

If Koyi's strategy succeeds and the rebels are annihilated, then the world will be pacified within a year or two, and the period of the Han Dynasty's revival will be greatly advanced.

Koji Yi clasped his hands, looked at the map with his eyes, and imagined the battlefield of fierce fighting in his mind, and his blood boiled for a while.

The two were silent for a long time, and neither of them spoke.

"What does the general mean?"

"The general's thoughts coincide with yours." Tian Chou gasped lightly,

The general believes that in the current situation, it is no longer a problem to severely damage Cao Cao's rebels, and the key is how to severely damage Yuan Shao. Severely attacking Yuan Shao is our ultimate goal. ”

"At that time, neither the general nor we expected Cao Cao to retreat so quickly and resolutely, and his retreat direction was also a big surprise to us. As if he expected that our iron cavalry had already made a detour back to the direction of Ganling City to cut off his retreat, he chose to retreat west without hesitation. At present, we do not have the troops to insert the line between Qingyuan and Guantao first, so if Cao Cao runs fast enough, he is very likely to escape from our encirclement, successfully meet Yuan Shao, and safely withdraw to the Central Plains. ”

"The army was not arranged to insert into the line of Qingyuan and Guantao first, probably because the general wanted to drag Yuan Shao, right?" Koji asked with a smile.

Tian Chou nodded,

"The tide of the war is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to judge exactly what the rebels will do next. However, judging from the current situation, it is still correct that the general did not arrange for the army to be inserted into the line of Qingyuan and Guantao in advance. ”

"With the speed of Wang Dang and Xu Huang, it is completely possible to reach the front line of Qingyuan and Guantao to block it before the rebels." Koji said,

"It is imperative that the armies of Yan Liang and Lü Bu advance eastward at full speed, and that Zhao Yun's armies quickly seize Fagan and Yuancheng, and strive to encircle Cao Cao's rebels in the vicinity of Qingyuan and Guantao within three to four days. If we can't close the siege for a long time, Cao Cao and the others may break through our resistance, and Yuan Shao may also kill Guantao and join Cao Cao. Tian Chou shook his head and laughed,

"Brother Yuntian, are you forcing me to disobey military orders?"

"Do you dare to do it?" Koji sneered.

"Fight." Tian Chou said categorically,

"You and I will join forces and immediately inform the general of the strategy for destroying the enemy. In addition, he urgently wrote to Lord Zhang Yan and asked him to send troops to support Wang Dang and Xu Huang. Cao Cao, Liu Biao and others were red-eyed, and they may not be able to stop it. ”

"Reinforcements." Koji Yi happily patted Tian Chou,

"Ask the general for reinforcements. Jinyang still has Yan Rou's 20,000 southern troops, and now they can be requisitioned and transferred to the Jizhou battlefield. If they can get to Handan within fifteen days, we will win this battle. In the early hours of the morning, Li Hong, who had just taken a nap on the desk, was woken up by Fu Gan.

"General, the rebels have retreated westward."

"To the west?" Li Hong was taken aback,

"What about Koji? Where is his army? ”

"Wang Dang and Xu Huang have already led the army to the front line of Qingyuan and Guantao to block it." Fu Gan handed a volume of documents to Li Hong,

"Koji-sama and Tada-sama have formulated a new strategy for destroying the enemy according to the changes in the battle situation." Jump to