Chapter 664 Nanben
He Jin made a wrong decision.
After learning that the Han army in the Shangdang area actually won the battle, He Jin decided to lead the army out of Tianjingguan and enter Shangdang. His reason was simple. If the battle was won but he was not there, whose credit would it be?
So, He Jin waved his fan and ordered the army in front not to set up defenses at Tianjing Pass and directly enter Shangdang.
Although the staff around He Jin felt that this was too risky, those who had the courage to speak out, or who could think about He Jin were all left in Kyoto by He Jin. Therefore, no one could stop him, and this order was passed. Sent out.
When this order was passed to the Kwantung Army's front camp, the former army's chief general, Changshui Colonel Wu Fu, had just arrived at Tianjing Pass.
At this time, Wu Fu was wearing a basin-collared armor, standing on the wall and looking at Taihangxing in front of him.
As He Jin's chief general, Wu Fu's strategies for dispatching troops this time were almost all made by Wu Fu.
Unlike Wang Qian and others who opposed He Jin, he supported He Jin to take the initiative.
Wu Fu knew very well that with the size of Kyoto and its vast population, it was almost impossible to hope to hold on to Kyoto and defeat the Taishan Army.
If there were no grain supplies from outside the city, no matter how much grain there was in Taicang, it would not be enough.
Therefore, Wu Fu supports active defense.
In Wufu, a three-layer defense line was planned.
The core of them is Luoyang, and the second line of defense is Mengjin's Three Cities of Heyang. The outermost one is Tianjingguan.
This tunnel located in Danshui River Valley and Baishui River Valley is a dangerous pass for transportation between Bingzhou and Heluo.
At this time, looking at the vast Taihang ahead, and looking at the mountain slopes that were like sheep's intestines, Wu Fu couldn't imagine what kind of enemy could pass through here while he was guarding this pass.
While Wu Fu was still observing the terrain here, people in the pass were already shouting.
As the front camp of the army, Wu Fu directly commanded more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Naturally, such a large number of troops and baggage could not be squeezed into the small Tianjing Pass, so Wu Fu ordered most of the soldiers and horses to camp on the plain behind the pass.
At this time, these camp heads were walking together on the plains of Hanoi, and the whole scene was boiling and orderly.
Unlike the Kwantung soldiers in the rear, most of Wu Fu's front battalion were veterans who had retired from the Weihan battlefield. They could be said to be the standard elite battalion leaders of the Han army.
And what kind of soldiers there are depends on what kind of army will lead them.
This Wu Fu is not an ordinary person. He is a hero from Runan. He has few important points, is resolute in nature, brave and righteous, and has extraordinary strength. After that, his reputation gradually grew, and he was appointed as a subordinate of Cao by He Jin, and gradually relied on his own ability to become the first general of the shogunate.
It is precisely because of this heroic nature that others heard the Taishan army was fighting between two groups, but Wu Fu was not afraid.
Looking at the officials below who were carrying grain and fodder, Wu Fu nodded, and then gave a few instructions to the assistant officials around him.
Just now he looked at the pass and found several important places that needed to be garrisoned. One of them was the only mountain spring nearby. To guard this place, the Taishan Army would need to spend a lot of manpower to transport water from the rear.
Wu Fu's acting style was very capable, and his subordinates did not dare to neglect at all. They immediately drafted his orders into orders and issued them accordingly.
At this time, a Yuqi came from behind the pass. After inspecting the Lai Fu Festival, he was led to Wu Fu by the guards.
Looking at the sweating Yuqi, Wu Fu had an unknown premonition in his heart.
Sure enough, after he read the military order, Wu Fu hesitated for a moment, and then stuffed the order into his arms.
He asked Na Yuqi politely:
"When the general issued this order, did anyone dissuade him?"
Yuqi is a guard of the shogunate, and he is also of high rank. He is always by He Jin's side, so he knows many things better than Wu Fu, the general of the shogunate.
And everyone knows that whoever is close to the center of power has power, so Wu Fu is very polite to a low-level military attache even though he is also a captain of Changshui with two thousand stones.
And Yu Qi was also very respectful to Wu Fu, bending down and replied:
"The captain, the general, was hesitant in his thoughts, and he was very successful in reining in the troops and building the party."
Wu Fu understood. He had been in He Jin's shogunate for many years and knew his lord very well.
He Jin is the kind of stubborn person who doesn't do what others ask him to do. It’s okay if others don’t suggest it, but if they do suggest it, it will definitely be the opposite.
So Wu Fu also understood that the best choice now was to follow the path first, otherwise the result would be even worse.
After hesitating for a while, Wu Fu finally made up his mind.
He left a thousand men here to help the friendly troops behind him enter the pass. He did not withdraw the camps that had been set up, leaving them with the friendly troops.
He then selected a force of 3,000 elite cavalry and planned to pass through the Yangchang Slope Road first. After he occupied the valley entrance in front of the Saka Road, the remaining troops could march safely.
Just like that, half an hour later, the three thousand cavalry were ready. Wu Fu was wearing a large crimson cloak and carrying a thick, long and huge horse pole. After a few words with those who stayed behind, he took the cavalry with him. The army set off.
But as soon as Wu Fu left, the guards at Tianjing Pass did not dare to relax, and they guarded the city gate tightly and fiercely.
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In the real world, the speed of information transmission often directly affects the direction of the war.
When He Jin won a great victory over Lu Bu, he didn't know what kind of situation Lu Bu was in at this time.
On the bank of frozen water, there is a wilderness of settlement.
Lu Bu stood upright with his halberd raised, looking at the army on the other side with a gloomy expression.
How come there are so many Taishan bandits? Did it come so quickly?
The day before yesterday, a small elite group of Taishan Army infiltrated into his front camp and not only captured his cousin, but also set fire to a large area of the camp.
At that time, Lu Bu had a hunch that the main force of Taishan Army should be coming.
But at that time, he thought that with Lu County in the north, the more than 10,000 troops led by Liu Chong were enough to resist the attack of the Taishan Army. But who knew that Liu Chong was also useless, and the defense of Lu County was broken in just a few days. .
But Lu Bu didn't panic too much. The enemy troops came as soon as they came. He was a cavalryman, so where couldn't he leave? This Tunliu is not his garrison area. He just comes here to eat, so he doesn't care about the life and death here.
He and the other generals discussed it, abandoning Tunliu and continuing south to the eldest son.
The eldest son, as the county commander of Shangdang, still has a wave of troops. When the time comes, he will annex this camp, then replenish supplies and continue southward.
There are dangerous places along the way such as Yangtou Mountain, Changping, and Gaodu. As long as you stay one step behind, you can cover the retreat of the old brothers. As long as you retreat to Tianjing Pass, where there is General He Jin's 50,000 army, it will be enough.
But just when Lu Bu and others had prepared most of their belongings and baggage, news came from Zhang Liao in front that the Taishan Army had appeared. Lu Bu hurriedly asked Song Xian and others to abandon the remaining baggage, and immediately led the team to move to the eldest son in the south. Then he took more than a thousand Bingzhou cavalry and four thousand Shangdang camp troops to freeze water.
Originally, he wanted to snipe the Taishan bandits, but when he got here, Zhang Liao shook his head first, and then the guards around him turned pale. It was not until he reached a nearby high point and took a look, that he took a breath of air.
There is a mountain to the north of Tunliu called Sanwei Mountain. It is said to be the place where Hou Yi shot the sun, but we don't know if this is true. Anyway, Lu Bu saw a moving forest there.
If you look carefully, you will see that there is no forest there. It is obviously a forest of armed forces. It was hard to see clearly further away, because the smoke and dust rising there was simply higher than that of Sanwei Mountain.
Lu Bu turned around and asked Zhang Liao:
"How many people have come from Mount Tai?"
Before Lu Bu arrived, Zhang Liao had just led a group of cavalry to the vicinity to spy on the Taishan Army. However, before Zhang Liao could get close, he was surrounded and intercepted by a large group of enemy cavalry.
After a devastating attack, Zhang Liao lost half of his knights and managed to escape using his familiarity with geography.
So Zhang Liao didn't know how many enemy troops came.
Seeing that there was no answer, Lu Bu asked another question:
"How is the enemy's morale? Can the military formation be rigorous?"
This time Zhang Liao gave him a definite answer:
"Most of the enemy troops are veterans who are good at fighting. I led the knights to charge several times. The enemy infantry did not panic at all and kept marching. The enemy cavalry was also too powerful. Most of the knights can compete with my old brother Bingzhou. Long and short.”
Lu Bu frowned, he and Zhang Liao said frankly:
"Although we want to evacuate Tunliu, we can't do it without a fight. Otherwise, the enemy's cavalry will follow us and chase us, and all our belongings will be lost."
Zhang Liao pondered for a while and seriously suggested:
"Since we can't take it with us, we won't take it with us. Let's take the Bingbei Knights and go south directly to join He Jin. With the soldiers here, it won't be too late to accumulate property by then."
Lu Bu was silent for a while, and carefully considered Zhang Liao's opinion, but after thinking for a while, he still felt that it was inappropriate. He said:
"We eat by the knife's edge, and our martial name is our life. If we run away when we see the smoke and dust of the Taishan Army, we will be sneered even when we get to He Jin. Wenyuan, can you bear this shame?"
Zhang Liao originally had a proud temperament, but when Lu Bu provoked him like this, he simply said:
"Captain, what do you say?"
At this moment, Lu Bu showed his true qualities as a great general. He squinted his eyes, looked at the smoke and dust in the north, and coldly snorted:
"Would Wen Yuan be willing to follow me and charge into the enemy formation again? I would like to see who this Taishan Army has!"
Zhang Liao clasped his fists, resolute and heroic:
"Here!"
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Opposite Lu Bu, Taishan's army rolled in like an overwhelming mountain.
At the junction of Sanwei Mountain and the Great Plains, a group of yellow "ant colonies" are appearing at the junction of the sky. The sunlight is divided and dim here, and these "ant colonies" seem to have come down from the sky, and the light is everywhere they go. All twisting the darkness.
If you take a closer look, you can see that these "ant colonies" are tens of thousands of people riding on bicycles. They are like waves, rolling from one hill to another.
The sky full of smoke and dust and the flags covering the sky swallowed up the light here, as if a giant beast was swallowing up the sunlight, spreading endless fear and cruelty.
Along with the darkness comes thunder.
This thunder is like countless war horses galloping.
The knights on these war horses are different from the giant beasts beside them. The sun shines on the bright armor of these knights, like another sun, emitting light and heralding destruction.
If there are dark clouds and thunder, there will be heavy rain.
This rainstorm is full of people's voices, and countless horsemen are running back and forth shouting along the way. They are the nerves of this giant beast, spreading the will of the brain to the limbs.
This is not an army, this is a natural disaster!
And this is Zhang Chong's Central Guard Army, the absolute main force of the Taishan Army.
At the core of this natural disaster was the chariot in the middle. Zhang Chong stood on the huge platform, silently looking ahead.
Even though this was not the first time he had commanded such a huge elite force, Zhang Chong still couldn't restrain his inner excitement every time he saw such a scene.
Like all men, Zhang Chong also has his own war romance plot. Iron and blood bring endless destruction, which is imprinted in the genes of men.
It's just that although Zhang Chong will be obsessed with the power in front of him, he is still clear enough to understand that war is only a means to achieve the goal, not the goal itself.
Therefore, Zhang Chong was very strange at this moment. He was intoxicated by the grandeur and intensity in front of him, but also detached like a wise man, as if his soul and perspective were above the crowd, looking at everything detachedly.
Zhang Chong's state was keenly captured by Xun You beside him. He discovered more and more that with the continuous victory of the war, his own King Zhang was more divine than human. His calmness, self-power and aloofness often made him think that The king in front of him is really Huang Tian's will in the world.
Sometimes, Xun You even worried that one day the king would be like Huang Tian, aloof and shining brightly for thousands of miles, but he would no longer care about the people and things around him.
But then Xun You thought of something, and his heart felt warm.
That was when he saw the king's heartfelt joy after seeing Captain Zhao regain his confidence. At that moment, the king's feelings were undoubtedly sincere.
After joining the Taishan Army for so long, Xun You's mood changes were very complicated.
From being forced and helpless at the beginning, to gradually agreeing with the Taishan Army's salvation proposition, and finally falling under the charm of Zhang Chong's personality, Xun You could no longer tell which one was the real reason.
But one thing is clear, he hopes that he and Zhang Chong will not only be like-minded comrades who want to realize the world of Huang Tian, but also be friends and brothers.
Although he knew that as the king's power became more and more powerful, this sincere relationship would inevitably become more and more difficult to maintain, but this was Xun You's hope.
How boring would it be if we could only be indifferent and detached on the road to realizing our ideals!
Xun You had complicated thoughts, so Zhang Chong on the chariot platform gave an order:
"Instruct Xu Huang's troops to continue moving south. Don't focus on Tunliu. We must take advantage of the cavalry and move to the Changzi and Changping areas. It is wide enough for the brothers of the Flying Tiger Army to race."
On both sides of this huge chariot are rows of armored generals. They are not only responsible for guarding the chariot, but also serving as the king's messengers.
So as soon as Zhang Chong finished speaking, the nearest general bent down and took the golden arrow given by the king, and then went straight to the queue where Flying Tiger General Xu Huang was.
The huge army continued to advance, and soon a group of about 2,000 cavalry broke away from the large army and galloped towards the south.
At this time, troops from Xie Bi's department came on horseback and brought the latest news to Zhang Chong:
"Lü Bu looked at me in the smoke. He lowered his flag and ran south. He abandoned his chariot tents and armor to rely on the road. He has collapsed without fighting!"