Refined by the fierce fire for another hundred days, it will transform into evil spirits, and the sharp blade will cut through the Vajra. -------Anonymous "Jiang Chengzi"
It is said that at Hulao Pass, Lu Bu even beheaded the five generals of the Dong Alliance and forced the white horse general Gongsun Zan back with one move, finally angering the three top heroes. Zhang Yide fell to the ground like a dark cloud, Guan Yun was born like a blue dragon, Liu Xuande soared into the sky like a gray bird, three whirlwinds of various colors surrounded the golden whirlwind, and the central battlefield was like a dense crater. It was an unparalleled battle, and a three-hero battle against Lu Bu was staged. An eternal song.
Lu Bu defeated three generals, and Guan and Zhang were both enemies of ten thousand people. Their physical strength was gradually exhausted, so he forced Liu Xuande away with a halberd. The red rabbit horse escaped from the battle ring like a whirlwind from the frightened Xuande and headed towards the tiger. The prison gate flew away. Yuan Shao was overjoyed when he saw this and ordered his army to attack. Fearing that they would be taken advantage of, more than 100,000 alliance troops rushed towards Hulao Pass, squeezing the three heroes behind them. Cao Cao took the lead, passed by Sanying, reined in his horse, raised his hands and saluted: "Xuande, you are a hero in this world, but unexpectedly, your two sworn brothers are also peerless warriors. I admire you so much in today's battle, and I can't wait to fight with you." You get together day and night. If Han Fu can't make good use of it, don't forget the invitation that I, Cao Mengde, gave me today." After saying that, he gave Guan Yu a flirtatious look, which frightened Guan Yu so much that he quickly closed his red phoenix eyes.
Xu Rong took Lu Bu's defeated army into the city at the pass, raised a suspension bridge, and calmly repelled a wave of siege by the alliance army. Lu Bu climbed up to the tower, and Xu Rong greeted him with a smile: "General Fengxian's bravery is truly unparalleled in the world. Today, we killed several generals in succession. We should record the general's first achievement in Hulao."
Lu Bu had a proud character. Hearing this, he was overjoyed and said: "General Xu is a mature and prudent man who defends the city well. He killed Wei Zi in the first battle, which was his first achievement. I, Lu Fengxian, relied entirely on General Xu's orders to guard Hulao for the emperor in return." The grace of my adoptive father’s trust.”
Xu Rong said hurriedly: "General Fengxian's words are serious. We are all the confidants of the Grand Master, and we should be in the same boat through thick and thin. Now the general is guarding Hulao with me. The general will be the main attacker, and I will be the main defender. We can defeat more with less and protect Hulao." Guan Wuyu.”
From then on, although the alliance against Dong was unable to capture Hulao in consecutive battles and was defeated by Lu Bu, its troops were several times larger than Dong Zhuo's army, and it also played a role in containing Lu Bu and Xu Rong's 30,000 strong troops. Objectively, it caused Luoyang is empty; at the same time, the decisive battle between the eastern suburbs of Chang'an and the southern suburbs of Chang'an has begun.
Let’s talk about the battle in the eastern suburbs of Chang’an first. Since Ma Tengjun obtained Zhong Yao's forged letter from scholar Sun Rui, he decided to order 20,000 Xiliang cavalry and 30,000 Qiang soldiers, a total of 50,000 troops, to go to Anding to suppress Han Sui's rebels. Ma Teng has his beloved son Ma Chao, who is a beautiful man. He is only thirteen years old, but he is already good at shooting and bowing. He learned a good swordsmanship from a famous teacher since he was a child, which is called "shu technique". He created a set of palm techniques called "Xiliang Palm". The "Powder Lake Jade Dragon Horse" under the seat is known as "A Dragon for Thousands of Miles", and uses a "Tiger Head Zhan Golden Spear", also known as the "Five Hook God Flying Bright Silver Spear". His famous stunt is the Ma family's "Thirty-six Roads of Death" Gun", he has the courage that no man can match.
Ma Teng and Ma Chao led 50,000 troops across the Gobi Desert and across Jincheng County, taking Huangfu Song's place to confront Han Sui. Ma Teng and Han Sui had a superior-subordinate relationship, and they had deep feelings. The two sides had been in confrontation for a long time, and each had restrained its troops without any fierce fighting. Ma Teng sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that the young emperor of the Han Dynasty wanted to forgive him and treat him kindly.
Han Sui originally did not want to be an enemy of Ma Teng, but after seeing the letter, he hesitated and gradually became interested. It happened that Beigong Boyu and Li Wenhou, the leaders of the Qiang and Hu rebels, saw that Han Sui was standing still and suspected that Han Sui had colluded with the Han army. They demoted Han Sui to deputy general and appointed Bian Zhang as the leader of the rebels, with Song Yang as his assistant; In anger, he rebelled and killed Beigong Boyu, Li Wenhou, Bian Zhang and others. Song Yang asked to surrender on the battlefield. Han Sui succeeded in one fell swoop, got an army of 100,000, shook hands with Ma Teng, made peace, and returned to the Han Dynasty. When Chang'an learned the news, the Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty immediately issued a conciliatory edict, appointing Han Sui as the prefect of Anding, Ma Teng as the prefect of Wuwei, and Huangfu Song as the prefect of Tianshui. Han Sui and Ma Teng each led their troops to exterminate the rebels in the Qiang area, and the West The Liang rebels finally settled down, relieving Chang'an of his worries about going west, and at the same time completely cutting off Dong Zhuo's way back to the west.
Appointing Huangfu Song as the prefect of Tianshui was naturally just Chen Long's strategy. The governors of various places in Xiliang were all appointed by the Young Emperor of the Han Dynasty. This was a premeditated coup in itself. Dong Zhuo's new Emperor Xian of Han was left aside. In the future, Chen Long would naturally find a way to firmly hold Xiliang in his hands.
Besides, Huangfu Song led 50,000 imperial troops and rushed to the battlefield in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an. Huangfu Song's 50,000 men, who had been with him for a long time in his expeditions to the north and south, were not weaklings. They had all kinds of troops and were very elite. Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's troops had been sieging the city for many days and were already very exhausted. In addition, Xun You planned to harass the camp and burn down the siege vehicles, which made them quite exhausted. At this time, a report came that Huangfu Song's troops had arrived in the northern suburbs of Chang'an and immediately stopped. Attack the city, dig trenches and set traps in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, prepare to defend the eastern suburbs, and wait for reinforcements from Li Jue and Guo Si. Li Jue and Guo Si received information about Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's request for help and immediately reported it to the Grand Master. Jia Xu volunteered and escorted Li Jue and Guo Si's 30,000 troops across Tongguan towards the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, where they fought with Huangfu Song's imperial troops. , Fan Chou and Zhang Ji's Xiliang soldiers formed a tripartite force, each taking a defensive position. The defenders of Huang Gai and Xun You finally took a breather and transferred heavy troops to Nancheng to resist Gao Shun's troops attacking Nancheng. Gan Ning in Nancheng could finally breathe a sigh of relief, and the situation in Chang'an was quickly reversed.
Huangfu Song's troops contained the main forces of Li Jue, Guo Si, Fan Chou, and Zhang Ji. Gao Shun knew that the prospect of attacking the city was not good, so he continued to attack day and night for many days, hoping to capture Chang'an before the situation became clear. This violent attack made Gan Ning vomit blood from exhaustion, and the defenders had suffered all their casualties. If it weren't for the high trenches of Chang'an City, the fact that Lu Zhi and others abandoned the defense of the North City and led troops to assist, and the lack of siege equipment by Gao Shun's troops, the Nancheng might really have fallen. This time, Huang Gai and Xun You also brought fresh troops to defend Nancheng. Gan Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief and fell asleep on the ground of the detention center below the city.
Gao Shun attacked the city with all his strength, but he didn't know that a heavy army had gradually gathered in the forest at the exit of Ziwu Valley behind him. Zhao Yun's first legion of the Qinglong Army who assisted Hanzhong, after the battle in Hanzhong, traveled day and night, and finally arrived in the northern suburbs of Chang'an. This long journey exhausted almost every ounce of physical strength of the soldiers. Zhou Buyi, who was accompanying the army, He and Guo Jia had no choice but to order the soldiers to rest for three days to regain enough energy to fight again, while waiting for the rear troops led by Xu Shu to join up. Zhou Buyi ordered the investigators to put on makeup to investigate the movements of Gao Shunjun, and Gao Shunjun must not be allowed to know the hiding place of Zhao Yun's First Army.
During the three days when the First Army was resting, Gao Shun's army was unable to attack Chang'an for a long time, and gradually found that the strength of the south city head was increasing. Gao Shunfei was a brave man and felt that the situation had changed and Chang'an would be unable to be captured for a while, so he ordered his troops to shrink their defense. On the same day, he received a letter from Li Jue, asking Gao Shun to give up the siege and bring his troops to the east city as soon as possible to attack Huangfu Song's flank. In this way, the superior troops were concentrated to defeat Huangfu Song in one fell swoop.
Gao Shun made a decisive decision and immediately mobilized his troops to demolish the camp, give up the siege, and quickly move eastward. This movement was not detected by Xun You, Huang Gai, Gan Ning and others in the city, but was quickly learned by the investigators of the First Army and reported to Zhao Yun and the military advisors. Xu Shu's rear team had just arrived. When they heard the news, they immediately said: "General Zilong, I'm afraid we can't rest any longer. If we let Xiliang's troops and horses gather together, we will lose the chance of a surprise attack."
Zhao Yun nodded and said: "My lord means a surprise attack, at least to severely damage Gao Shun's trapped camp first."
Zhou Busuo said: "Now that Gao Shun is gone, we can send people into Nancheng, contact General Gongfu and others, and mobilize the troops in the city to attack at any time."
Guo Jia also said: "I would like to ask General Zilong to lead 10,000 cavalry to attack the flanks of the camp immediately, mainly to disrupt the surprise attack. When the enemy is in chaos, we will lead the infantry and then find the weak points to attack. It will probably take half a day." With the time difference, we can attack Gao Shun's troops one after another. At the same time, Huang Gai and others in the city are ordered to cooperate with the dispatch of troops to attack Gao Shun's troops from the other side, and we can achieve a complete victory."
As the saying goes, three cobblers are as good as Zhuge Liang, let alone three of the smartest heads in the world. At that moment, all the generals had no objections. Zhao Yun ordered the investigators to quickly contact the Nancheng garrison, and asked Huang Gai and Gan Ning to wait and dispatch troops from the city at their discretion. He still ordered the special forces to protect the three military divisions and lead the infantry. He himself took 10,000 cavalry and rushed quickly. After leaving the jungle, they rushed out of the Ziwu Valley's Baopingkou and headed straight to the southern suburbs of Chang'an along the official road.
Gao Shun had been in battle for a long time, and he was cautious and meticulous in using his troops. He also fortified layers of defenses on the way back, and never lost an inch in the rush. This is one of the reasons why Gao Shun became one of the best soldiers in the world. Gao Shun stood high on the horse and was always paying attention to whether there were soldiers and horses from behind in the direction of Chang'an City. The trapped camp had already made preparations to prevent the pursuers.
While guarding and moving, suddenly the sound of hoofbeats sounded loudly in the valley on the south side. Gao Shun saw the dust rising in the distance on the southern flank of the army. He couldn't help but be surprised and confused. He didn't know whose army was on the south side, or whether it was the enemy. friend. The focus of his defense was to pursue the troops in the city, so the archers for long-range attacks and the spearmen to prevent cavalry were placed on the north side and in the rear. The cavalry defense on the south side was relatively weak.
Seeing that the dust head was getting closer and closer, Gao Shun saw that the sound of hoofbeats was very ferocious, and he called out to stop the advance of the troops. The archers and spearmen on the north side immediately rushed from the gap between the soldiers to the south side to defend, and at the same time ordered the troops at the rear and tail. The archers quickly surrounded them along the south side, forming a V-shaped battle formation to defend against the southern cavalry.
Gao Shun's actions in the camp were not unpleasant, but he was also facing the peerless general Zhao Yun. The cavalry assault mainly focuses on drilling through, quickly beheading the enemy's head, causing chaos in the infantry, and creating opportunities for other troops. They cannot fight the infantry to the death and fall into a tight siege. Zhao Yun is well versed in cavalry tactics and knows that the sound of hoofbeats will definitely wake up the enemy generals or lay traps in advance. When the cavalry team was about to approach Gao Shun's V-shaped defense circle, Zhao Yun's leading white horse turned slightly and avoided the enemy. Gao Shun's archers and spearmen fought head-on. Ten thousand cavalry avoided the first round of arrows from Gao Shun's troops like a torrent, and plunged into Gao Shun's weakly defended front army.
Gao Shun's front army was full of swordsmen and Hua Xiong's cavalry. They were rushing forward to help Li Jue, Guo Si and others as soon as possible. The defense was weak, and Zhao Yun's cavalry were equipped with new sabers, stirrups, and spurs. , like a sharp blade, penetrated deeply into Gao Shun's front army. Zhao Zilong is even more sharp-edged. White dragons and horses are everywhere. Hundreds of birds are flying up and down towards the Phoenix Spear. A thick white dragon is spinning around the steel spear. There are almost no generals under his command. It can be said that if you touch it, you will die. If you touch it, you will die. Soldiers , the horse's corpse was thrown into the sky like cotton wool, then fell heavily to the dust, and was trampled into flesh by the following Green Dragon Cavalry.
Gao Shun watched from a distance as a young general in white robes led a group of cavalry to quickly cut through the front army, which was like destroying dry matter. In shock, he ordered his men to blow the horns unique to the trapped camp and ordered all the front troops to evacuate into the surrounding woods to take shelter. The sharpness of cavalry. The archers and spearmen of the rear army rushed forward quickly, chasing Zhao Yun's cavalry behind and striking with arrows like rain. But on the one hand, the front army and Zhao Yun's cavalry were mixed together and did not dare to fire arrows at will. On the other hand, the rear army pursued hastily and suffered a lot in speed. Seeing that Zhao Yun's cavalry left a lot of corpses of the front army and quickly Disappeared over the horizon.
Gao Shun knew something was wrong. This group of cavalry came out of nowhere, and he didn't know how the enemy would arrange it later. For the current plan, he could only rely on the terrain and defend on the spot. Just as the order was laid, an earth-shattering roar suddenly came from behind. Liu Xian's 10,000 archer troops had already entered the shooting range, and a hail of arrows was coming. Poor Gao Shun's rear troops were all archers and spearmen. There were no weapons to use as shields for defense, so they had to endure rounds of arrow rain, leaving the bodies of their companions behind, and fled into the woods around them to escape. The entire rear team fell into chaos.
Gao Shun was like a headless fly, rushing around to put out fires. He didn't have the demeanor of a famous general, and he didn't know how many enemy troops were ambushing him around. He hurriedly ordered his men to blow the horns and mobilized the sword and shield soldiers from the front army to defend against the arrow rain and resist the enemy's strong bows and crossbows. The sword and shield soldiers had just recovered from the chaos and rushed towards the opponent's archers with their shields. Finally, The opponent's arrow rain suddenly stopped, and Liu Xian led the archers to retreat quickly. Suddenly, the sound of hooves that had just pierced the front army's retreat resounded through the sky again, charging straight towards the sword and shield soldiers from behind. It was Zhao Yun who led the army back, and the sword and shield soldiers had no time to turn around. Gao Shun He hurriedly ordered the sword and shield soldiers not to turn around, but to just charge forward and continue to pursue the archers. They avoided Zhao Yun's cavalry assault behind him and allowed the spearmen and archers on both sides to come out to meet the enemy.
Although Gao Shun's command was correct, but the order was quick, all the units under his command had already been unable to move properly and fell into a mess. They were smashed into pieces by Zhao Yun's cavalry. Suddenly, the golden drums sounded again on the south side, and this time it was Liu. Yong and Liu Min led the main force of 20,000 infantrymen and swarmed in, filling the woods on the south side. Gao Shun's army who had just hid in the woods on the south side was immediately in bad luck. Their heads and bodies were chopped off and thrown away like melons and vegetables. Out of the jungle.
When Gao Shun saw this, he couldn't help but feel despair. He knew that he would be defeated today. He summoned up his last fighting spirit and ordered all the soldiers to enter the jungle on the north side, defend according to the mountain, and then stand firm before fighting to the death. Suddenly, war drums were beating again in the jungle on the north side. It was Huang Gai and Gan Ning who were in the city leading troops who appeared on the north side of Gao Shun's army.
Gao Shun saw the enemy's war drums in front, back and left. The brothers around him fell to the ground one by one. Arrows were flying like locusts. The battlefield was like hell. He threw down the steel knife in his hand and screamed: "It's time to fall into the camp." !" He pulled out the waist knife and swung it towards his neck.
If you want to know what happens next, listen to the explanation next time.
