Just when Guan Yu led the vanguard troops to annihilate the Jing Army's vanguard troops, the Chu and Wei armies united and headed for Xinye. When he learned that Guan Yu had completely wiped out the vanguard of Jing's army and beheaded the enemy generals, Liu Bei laughed as expected. The others laughed too.
Liu Bei said: "My second and third brothers are equal to ten thousand enemies in terms of strength. If we use the method of provoking the generals before the battle, they will surely explode with extraordinary strength. Hahaha!"
Xi Zhicai led the soldiers and horses to join the Chu army, and handed over the military power to Liu Bei for unified control. At this moment, he said: "Emperor Chu, the enemy's vanguard has been destroyed, but the strength is still there, so we must guard against it. I heard that the enemy general Gan Ning is wise and brave, and Pang Tong comes to make plans, so we need to deal with it carefully."
Liu Bei nodded undeniably, and then looked at Chen Gong: "What does Gong Tai think?"
Chen Gong twisted his beard and said: "I observed the terrain of these four places the day before yesterday and saw that there is a slope in front of it called Bowang Slope. The road inside the slope is narrow and the forest is tall and the grass is dense. There is a mountain named Yushan on the left of Bowang Slope, and a forest named Yushan on the right. In Anlin, we can ambush the troops and horses. Order Yun Chang to lead 5,000 troops and horses to Yushan to ambush, and let go of the enemy's front and center troops. Their baggage must be at the back. When fire breaks out in the south, they can burn their food and grass."
"Instruct Young Master Liu Feng to lead five thousand soldiers and horses to ambush in the valley behind Anlin. Prepare fire starters and wait on both sides of Bowang Slope. When the Jing army's soldiers and horses come in, they can set fire. In this way, the Jing army's one hundred thousand soldiers can be defeated. Ma Ye!"
Liu Bei knew the topography of Bowang Slope and had this idea for a long time. After hearing what Chen Gong said, he nodded with a smile and said: "Gongtai's plan is very good." Then he looked at Xi Zhicai, "What do you think of this plan?" ?”
Xi Zhi realized that Liu Bei meant to belittle him, but he said indifferently: "It's wonderful."
Then he added: "Emperor Chu! Gan Ning and Pang Tong are not ordinary people. It may not be easy to lure them into Bowang Slope. It is difficult to lure them into an ambush just by deceiving defeat. I'm afraid..."
Xi Zhicai's meaning is very clear. He must have a powerful person to lure the enemy.
This person is naturally only Liu Bei.
Chen Gong shouted with a cold face: "Xi Zhicai, you are so brave! How dare you use my emperor as a inducement!"
Xi Zhicai lowered his head and said nothing.
Liu Bei said: "Zhang Xiu can go into battle to kill the enemy in person, why shouldn't I? When Jing's army comes to kill him, I will personally act as a decoy and burn one hundred thousand troops of Jing's army."
Chen Gong exclaimed: "Your Majesty, don't..."
"The Emperor of Chu is wise and brave!" Xi Zhicai bowed his head and said in respect.
Chen Gong glared at Xi Zhicai, who looked at his nose and his nose at his heart.
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Jingwei frontier.
Zhang Xiu pursued Cao Cao for nearly a hundred miles, but failed to catch up in the end. However, it also caused heavy losses to the Wei army, and countless people surrendered along the way. The pursuit reached a place called Lushan. The Wei army relied on the dangers of the mountain to defend and gathered the remaining 30,000 to 40,000 troops, totaling 50,000 people.
Zhang Xiu led his army to completely surround Lushan. He could break it in one battle only when the Wei army ran out of food and grass.
With such a good situation, once Cao Cao dies, the Wei Kingdom will be destroyed. At that time, the entire north will be owned by Zhang Xiu. At that time, Chu and Wu can slowly plan for it, and the world can be unified.
Therefore, in this battle, Zhang Xiu must kill Cao Cao and destroy Wei.
As long as Cao Cao does not die, Wei will not be destroyed.
Then there was good fortune and misfortune. Just when Zhang Xiu was besieging Wei in the mountains, a shocking bad news came. Liu Bei lit a fire at Bowangpo and burned nearly 40,000 Nanyang Jing troops to death. Gan Ning led the remaining troops to retreat to Wancheng for defense. Zhao Yun has led his troops to Wuguan and is attacking. Zhang Fei led his troops to Hanzhong. Yang Ren, the defender of Hanzhong, was defeated by Zhang Fei and was beheaded. Jia Mu led the remaining troops to resist desperately, and the situation was also precarious.
"Hold!"
Seeing such information, Zhang Xiu cursed rarely and threw the secret letter on the table angrily.
Since the founding of Dajing, when has there been such a defeat?
Burn Bowang Slope, burn Bowang Slope.
In the end, Liu Bei's fire was set ablaze, turning Zhang Xiu's kao red, and cooling Cao Cao, who was on the verge of death.
"Are Gan Ning and Pang Tong two people who have nothing to do?"
In the Chinese army's tent, Zhang Xiu was so angry that he yelled: "Advancing greedily for merit! Greedy for merit again! Is Liu Bei's head worth my 40,000 troops? Are they carrying pig brains on their shoulders? Bowang Slope Road The forest is so small and dense, shouldn’t they be prepared for enemy fire?”
There was silence in the big tent.
They have never seen Zhang Xiufa so angry.
Everyone knows that it is a pity that such a great opportunity has to slip away from your hands.
After finishing the scolding and losing some of his anger, Zhang Xiu said reluctantly: "Order the army to retreat!"
"Here!"
All the generals shouted in unison.
After returning to Nanyang, Zhang Xiu first ordered Gao Shun to guard Duyang City to guard against Cao Cao's counterattack. He personally led the army and took Fazheng with him, heading towards Wancheng to kill him.
When Liu Bei learned that Zhang Xiu was back, he ordered his army to retreat and return to Xinye.
At the same time, a battle report was sent from Chang'an.
After Ye Jing was defeated, Cao Pi, Xun Yu and Cao Hong led thousands of people to flee to the Central Plains. One hundred thousand Wei troops in Youzhou were intercepted by Le Bat and Zhang Xian using Yan Xiang's plan and failed to go south. Zhang Liao has already led his troops to guard the north bank of the Yellow River. Hanzhong was in danger, so Lu Xun was ordered to rush eastward to invade Jingzhou and adopt a plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao.
In this way, the only remaining battle in this battle is with Liu Bei.
However, Zhang Xiu did not want to go to war with Liu Bei. The army had just experienced a great battle and was in urgent need of recuperation. Jizhou had just obtained it but had not yet digested it, and Zhang He in Youzhou was still in a confrontation. It must be resolved quickly, otherwise it would leave him in big trouble.
With Lu Xun in the east, he could hold the front in Nanyang and fight in response to Lu Xun, forcing Liu Bei to retreat.
Because Zhang Xiu was in Nanyang, it was difficult for Liu Bei's plan to succeed.
Moreover, there was a threat to the Jingzhou base camp, and he had no choice but not to return his troops.
But Liu Bei was unwilling.
After five days of confrontation between the two armies, Liu Bei organized his army to launch a general attack. He divided the army into three groups from three directions to separate the Jing army's defense line. The Chinese army went straight to Zhangxiu.
The battle lasted for one day, but Liu Bei did not achieve the expected results.
Finally, he had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops.
With the retreat of Liu Chu's army, Cao Wei retreated. The three-month battle ended with Cao Wei's complete defeat. Jizhou and Youzhou were captured by Zhang Jing, and Xuzhou was also captured by Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's sneak attack. Liu Chu wasted his military strength but could not achieve anything. Cao Wei suffered heavy losses and was severely weakened.
Zhang Xiu achieved the set strategic goal and returned to the army in triumph.
Discuss merit and reward time.
Gan Ning had merit for breaking the Lingshi, but he was guilty of greed for merit. In the end, the merits and demerits were balanced. However, Zhang Xiu believed that the crime of greed for merit was greater than the merit, so he was fined one year's salary as punishment. The rest of the meritorious people were rewarded one after another.
After discussing the merits and receiving rewards, Zhang Xiu went to Jizhou without stopping.
Although Zhang He and Gao Lan showed signs of surrender in Youzhou, they surrendered without actually handing over their military power. Zhang Xiu had to go to recruit these two men in person.
