Chapter 1025: Submit to His Highness to know
With a long sword in hand, Lu Bu successively overturned dozens of Qingzhou soldiers who were blocking his way.
The soldiers of the Qingzhou Army at the pass surrounded Lu Bu, but no one dared to come forward to fight with him, but when Lu Bu rushed to kill, they would scatter like birds and beasts.
The two hundred Qin troops who had killed the pass followed closely behind Lu Bu and rushed towards the city wall.
Seeing from a distance that Sun Guan was commanding a group of Qingzhou troops to step forward to stop them, Lu Bu did not kill Sun Guan with a sword, but just glared at him fiercely, and ran towards the steps of the city wall.
The Qin army who climbed the city wall picked up the big shield dropped by the Qingzhou army from the ground in the fighting, holding the big shield in one hand and the long sword in the other, pushing and squeezing the Qingzhou army that surrounded them.
While pushing, the soldiers of the Qin army would also wave their long swords and slash at the Qingzhou army in front of them.
The Qingzhou Army, which was defeated, took a while to completely come back to its senses.
But when they came back to their senses and planned to fight back, there were already countless corpses of Qingzhou soldiers lying on the city wall, and Lu Bu and the others had already rushed down the stairs.
The Qingzhou army in the pass learned that the Qin army had boarded the pass, and they rushed towards the gate of the pass, trying to wipe out Lu Bu and others in the pass.
After all, the Qingzhou army was outnumbered, and when it came up, it was like a tide, blocking Lu Bu and the two hundred Qin army warriors led by him.
Seeing that the gate was not far ahead, entangled by the Qingzhou army, Lu Bu suddenly felt anxious in his heart, burst into a shout, picked up his long sword, and split the head of a Qingzhou army in front of him into two from the middle, and his shoulder resisted the chest of the Qingzhou army, knocking the body of the Qingzhou army backwards and flying out.
The powerful force smashed the oncoming Qingzhou army into pieces.
Before those Qingzhou troops could speak in unison, Lu Bu shouted: "Kill!" He threw himself at the gate.
The two hundred Qin army warriors who followed behind Lu Bu, although they were all like wild wolves rushing into the flock, waved the long sword in their hands, and harvested the lives of the Qingzhou army.
But the flock they faced was not just a flock of sheep that knew how to flee, but a flock of wild sheep that knew how to fight back with their horns.
No matter how weak the sheep are, with the advantage of numbers, the wolves will inevitably suffer casualties.
One by one, the Qin army warriors fell under the pounce of the Qingzhou army, and the Qin army that followed behind Lu Bu was almost all in tattered armor and covered in blood.
"They're going to open the gates!" Seeing that Lu Bu led two hundred Qin troops and went straight to the gate, Sun Guan, who ran down from the city wall, stood halfway up the stairs and shouted at the Qingzhou army near the gate.
Sun Guan's shout reminded the Qingzhou army besieging Lu Bu and others.
Everyone knew what they would face once the gates were opened and the Qin army poured in.
Thinking that the Qin army entered the customs, most of them were likely to be slaughtered by the Qin army like pigs and dogs, and a wave of pride suddenly surged in the chests of the officers and soldiers of the Qingzhou army, and the attack on Lu Bu and others was much more fierce than before.
Although the Qingzhou army said that there was pride in their hearts, it was Lu Bu who led the two hundred Qin troops after all, and the Qin army was very close to the gate.
After rushing to the gate, Lu Bu connected several swords and slashed the Qingzhou army that stepped forward to block him to the ground, and then pounced on the Qingzhou army that rushed up from behind.
"Open the door!" While brandishing his long sword to fight with the Qingzhou army, Lu Bu shouted orders to the group of surviving Qin army warriors.
A group of Qin warriors, holding large shields, put on a defensive posture, while a small number of people, when they rushed behind the gate, dismantled the stakes of the bolted door.
The city gate slowly opened, and the number of Qingzhou troops was too large, and they were about to push Lu Bu and the Qin army led by him out of the city gate.
At this time, there was a sound of "dong dong" war drums outside the gate.
As the war drums sounded, bursts of shouts and killings came from outside the gate.
At the head of the city, a Qingzhou soldier stared at each other, raised his hand and pointed to the outside of the pass, and his voice was trembling and shouting: "The Qin army is here!" ”
Following the direction of the Qingzhou soldiers' fingers, the other Qingzhou troops on the pass all saw that the Qin army was swarming towards Xuanyuan Pass.
Hearing the Qingzhou army guarding the pass shouting that the Qin army was coming, Sun Guan hurriedly ran up to the pass and looked out of the city.
The Qin army had obviously been prepared for a long time. As soon as the gate of the pass was opened, the Qin army outside the pass immediately launched a charge towards Xuanyuan Pass.
The cavalry of the Qin army that rushed to the front was already very close to the pass, and Sun Guan hurriedly shouted to the Qingzhou army on the pass: "Quick! Shoot arrows! Shoot the Qin army! ”
It wasn't until Sun Guan gave the order that the Qingzhou army at the pass came back to their senses, put their arrows on the bowstring, and released a puff of feathered arrows towards the charging Qin army.
The charge of the Qin army had already made the Qingzhou army panic, and many of them had no way to pull the bowstring due to the shaking of their hands when they put the arrows on the bowstring.
A soldier of the Qingzhou Army, with trembling hands, put the arrow on the bowstring, but because his hand trembled too tightly, the arrow went up, but he couldn't hold it steadily, and fell to the ground again.
The panic of the Qingzhou army made the arrows they fired greatly discounted in power.
The cavalry of the Qin army held a shield, blocked the shield in front of them, and braved the arrows shot by the Qingzhou army, although there were occasional people who were hit by arrows, but more people successfully poured into the city gate.
The cavalry poured in from the open city gate, brandishing the Pu knife, slashing the Qingzhou army near the gate, and Lu Bu and the others, who were originally pressed and beaten, suddenly felt the pressure on their bodies immediately reduced!
Originally, the Qingzhou army, which was still pressing Lu Bu and others to fight, saw that it was possible to close the gate again, but was hit by the heavy cavalry of the Qin army, and immediately retreated a lot.
The Qingzhou army above the pass was still firing arrows outside, and the cavalry of the Qin army had already rushed into the pass.
The charging infantry did not have to consider whether the war horse would be hit by arrows like the cavalry, and the casualties caused by the Qingzhou army to the Qin infantry were very limited.
The Qin army, which was like a tide, swarmed into the pass.
In the face of Cao's fierce offensive, the Qingzhou army retreated step by step, and it was extremely difficult to form an effective counterattack.
Above the pass, Sun Guan saw that the Qingzhou army was gone, and knew that even if he held it, it would be impossible to have any effect, so he hurriedly shouted to the officer behind him: "Pass the order, the whole army will withdraw into the valley!" ”
Sun Guan ordered the Qingzhou army to withdraw into the valley, and the Qingzhou army in the pass immediately fought from the counterattack.
Although the Qin army's attack was fierce, the Qingzhou army was not defeated, and it was difficult for the Qin army to expand the results during the pursuit.
"Poor Kou Mo Chase!" After chasing the Qingzhou army for two or three miles, Zhang Liao, who had killed several Qingzhou army generals in a row, raised his arm and shouted to the soldiers of the Qin army.
Hearing Zhang Liao's shout, several cavalrymen immediately scattered and ran out, and while galloping on their horses, they also shouted loudly to the soldiers of the Qin army: "The general has an order, and the poor Kou Mo chases!" ”
The officers and soldiers of the Qin army who had received the order stopped one after another, and watched the Qingzhou army retreat into the distance under the leadership of Sun Guan.
"How not to chase?" Just when the Qin army stopped one after another, Lu Bu, who was covered in blood, had already taken the Fang Tian painting halberd from the Qin army that had entered the pass, and with the painting halberd in his hand, he strode to Zhang Liao's war horse, looked up at Zhang Liao on horseback, and asked loudly.
He clenched his fist and arched his hand at Lu Bu, who was standing aside, and then raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the retreat of the Qingzhou army, Zhang Liao said to Lu Bu: "Wenhou, the terrain ahead is complicated, if it is pursued, my army is afraid that it will fall into the path of the Qingzhou army!" ”
Looking forward in the direction of Zhang Liao's finger, Lu Bu saw a rolling mountain forest.
This kind of terrain is indeed suitable for the army to hide, once entering the mountains and forests to fight, the gap between the Qin army and the Qingzhou army is not as obvious as the flat land.
Pursuing the Qingzhou Army is really an unwise choice.
Seeing that the terrain ahead was complicated, Lu Bu turned his head to look at Zhang Liao, and said with some annoyance in his heart: "Although our army has broken through the Xuanyuan Pass, once the enemy army holds the mountains and forests, our army wants to advance to Xudu, I am afraid it will be quite difficult!" ”
"Wen Hou!" While he was talking to Zhang Liao, Lu Bu heard someone calling him behind him, and quickly turned his face, and what he saw was Tai Shici, who had just chased and killed the Qingzhou army from the other side.
"Our army has broken through Xuanyuan Pass, and the entire battle situation has changed, Wen Hou wants to send people back to Luoyang to present to His Highness?" When the horse arrived in front of Lu Bu, Tai Shi Ci pulled the reins, and when he stopped the war horse, he hugged his fist at Lu Bu and asked.
After breaking through Xuanyuan Pass, Lu Bu hoped that Liu Wei would know, and he immediately remembered that he should immediately send someone back to Luoyang to tell Liu Wei the news that Xuanyuan Pass had been broken.
"Someone!" Turning his head and shouting behind him, when a personal soldier ran behind him, Lu Bu said to him: "You return to Luoyang immediately, and report the news of our army's breakthrough of Xuanyuan Pass to His Highness!" ”
The soldiers responded, turned around and ran quickly, and after a while, a fast horse came out of the pass in Xuanyuan Pass and galloped all the way in the direction of Luoyang.
Luoyang is very close to Xuanyuan Pass, and the soldiers who were ordered to present the good news to Liu Wei have already entered Luoyang City when the sky is just dawning.
Liu Wei rested at Guan Qing's residence for one night, and after a whole night of ups and downs, when he woke up in the morning, Liu Wei still felt a little sleepy, and his fatigue had not completely faded.
As soon as they sat up on the bed, the two maids entered the house with washing water and clean clothes, and before they had time to serve Liu Wei to change their clothes, another maid entered the house, folded her hands in front of her, and said to Liu Wei in an extremely soft tone: "Your Royal Highness, only then did the guards come to report that it was Lu Wenhou who led the army to break through the Xuanyuan Pass, and had already repelled the Cao army guarding the pass into the mountains and forests!" ”
"What?" Unexpectedly, before Wei Yan's army arrived, Liu Wei, who had already captured Xuanyuan Pass by Lu Bu and others, suddenly raised his head and subconsciously asked the maid.