Having said that, after all, they are Lao Liu's closest relatives and the continuation of his ideals, so he must be worried.
The reason why he acted calmer than last time was because Lao Liu saw his son's strength during the battle between Jing and Xiang.
There are still Wei Yan and Ma Chao in Hanzhong, and Cao Cao was defeated twice. There should not be many troops to send in a short period of time. Even if there are troops, it is impossible to attack them all in the three counties.
However, he still summoned his subordinates Wenwu immediately to discuss the situation in the three counties.
Nearly a month had passed by the time he received the letter. It was already March, and he didn't know what the situation was in the three counties.
Judging from the two letters, Liu Feng should have noticed Shen Dan and Meng Da's betrayal and took action first.
The worst-case scenario is that Liu Feng is defeated before Adou arrives, the three counties fall into the hands of the enemy, and Adou can only retreat to Hanzhong.
But since Shangyong City was able to be occupied, and Feng'er was brave, it was unlikely that it would be lost so quickly.
For a regional war, a month is not a long time for city attack and defense.
I think the war situation won't change much, maybe it's still anxious.
Comrade Liu didn't know that the war in the three counties was no longer so anxious. Only Xu Huang, who was in the three counties, was very anxious...
The road between Shangyong and Fangling is mostly a dangerous terrain with two mountains sandwiching a valley.
After thinking about it, Xu Huang gave up on this passage which was relatively easy to walk and could barely be called a main road, and ordered Cao's soldiers to climb over the mountain and take the path on the mountain instead.
There is nothing that can be done about it. Two mountains sandwich a valley. This has always been the easiest terrain for ambush.
When he left when he first came, he was sure that he would not encounter the enemy. But now the enemy was on the side, and Xu Huang, who had just used the terrain to stage an ambush, how dared to put himself in danger.
Xu Huang didn't know that there was a large army attacking in front of him, but Liu Chan led his pursuers across the river from behind.
Of course it's not that he didn't know how to send scouts to investigate, but the scouts sent out all became the prey of the small Shu army in the special environment of this mountainous area, and there was no way they could complete the mission alive...
If more people are sent out, the Shu army will join forces and besiege them. Xu Huang's army seems to be being chipped away piece by piece by the Shu army.
If the small Shu army in the mountains is not dealt with, he will become deaf and blind, which is a taboo on the march.
Xu Huang, who had been thinking hard for many days, finally thought of a perfect place to solve the problem once and for all based on the terrain he surveyed when he came...
"Old Li, Cao's army has abandoned the main road now, and the ambush plan we discussed earlier will no longer be used."
Li Er and others in the mountains were sitting around in an open space, using broken branches to write and draw on the ground.
Chai Rong talked about what he saw during the investigation with some annoyance.
Of course Li Er is not old, he is even younger than Chai Rong. The reason why he is called so is out of cordial respect.
As the saying goes, even the prince has no arrogance. The newly promoted Red Star Zuo Lieutenant Li Er never shows off during non-combat times, and does not let others call him Lieutenant Li. He still treats each other as brothers.
However, he had no nickname, so he gradually became known as Lao Li.
Li Er frowned and nodded: "Yes, for now, we can only continue to 'hunt'."
"But now Cao's soldiers are very cautious, and brothers have less and less time to succeed. We people only kill some Cao's soldiers sporadically every day. Doesn't it seem to be of no benefit to the overall situation?" Chai Rong was a little anxious.
He came to seek refuge with the prince. Although he was convinced by the prince at first, he thought that since he had brought up such a large bandit gang in Jiangdong from scratch, he would definitely become the prince's right-hand man after joining.
But it was only after he joined the Red Star Army that he realized that there are people outside the world and there are mountains outside the mountains.
The generals of the Red Star Army are all talented and well-spoken...
Chai Rong, who has been a bandit leader for a long time, is now able to treat his fellow bandits and even his former subordinates equally despite the influence of a special atmosphere and his gratitude and loyalty to Prince Liu Chan.
But I still urgently hope that I can perform better.
Ding Feng had the same mentality. When he heard this, he said: "That's not necessarily the case. As long as we continue to put pressure on Cao Jun, Xu Huang will not dare to send more scouts. This will violate the taboo of marching and threaten the surrounding enemy situation." Nothing.
"We may send someone to inform Fangling and let Guan Anguo lead his troops to attack Xu Huang together! Although most of Anguo's men are young and strong, Cao's army has suffered a new defeat at this time, and the morale of the army is definitely unstable. Seeing that our soldiers are outnumbered, Maybe we can defeat it!"
Li Er nodded: "What Ding Chengyuan said is reasonable. I will send someone to inform the prince and Anguo that we will continue to 'hunt', otherwise they will not be able to detect the surrounding intelligence."
After a few people agreed, they immediately split up.
However, during the subsequent march, Cao Jun did not send any more scouts for reconnaissance, and kept heading eastward, as if he had completely given up on himself.
This made the scattered Han troops confused for a moment, but they still followed them all the way.
If Xu Huang plunges straight into Fangling like this, he will definitely encounter the Guanxing Ministry head-on. When the two sides start a war, a sneak attack from behind by his own people will have the same effect.
But something unexpected happened when Cao Jun was halfway through the march.
Cao's army, which originally preferred to climb over the mountain rather than take the main road, suddenly entered the valley from a gentle slope and returned eastward for less than two miles. Suddenly, without warning, the troops were divided.
Xu Huang's general and five hundred men headed north and turned into an inconspicuous path, while the rest continued eastward.
This sudden move caught Li Er and others off guard. The disadvantage of being scattered is that they cannot communicate in time when encountering emergencies.
Without mobile phones or walkie-talkies, real-time communication is impossible. But the opportunity to fight is fleeting. If they get together to discuss before making a decision like before, they will not be able to catch up with Xu Huang.
No matter how adapted to the mountains, people are not mountain leopards. At this time, facing Cao's army who was marching along the road again, the Han army no longer had much advantage in speed.
After discovering this situation, Li Er and others could only reuse the tribal mountain people's leaf whistles, whistling, imitating bird calls and other methods to carry out simple communication by word of mouth along the way.
After learning from the mountain people here, Li Er, Chai Rong and Ding Feng learned that this remote road can lead to the northeast.
And to the northeast... is Wudang Mountain. The terrain of Wudang Mountain is gentle on all sides but protruding in the center, with numerous peaks. The military road passing through this area is blocked and dangerous and cannot be passed by grain trucks at all.
When large armies pass through here, not only are their marches slow, but they are also unable to reach food trucks, and people will starve to death before they can get out.
However, Xu Huang only led 500 people to quickly turn around with light equipment. Could it be that he wanted to take the risk and go here?
Although it was risky to enter Wudang Mountain, as Xu Huang and others could not carry a large amount of food and grass, it would be a miracle if half of them made it out alive.
But if we march like this, we can bypass Fangling in the east. Once we successfully get out of Wudang Mountain, we can enter the territory of Nanyang, which is the territory controlled by Cao Jun...
Perhaps Xu Huang guessed that Fangling was lost and felt that the situation was critical, so he ordered a large army to act as bait to hold off the pursuers, while he took a small risk detour with a small number of his own soldiers.
This is the only possibility.
When the three of them thought about this, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts. There were six thousand people left, and they were all treated as abandoned by Xu Huang. They were easily ruined because they could escape and ascend to heaven. so many people.
But here comes the question, to pursue or not to pursue?
The safest approach is naturally to allow them to turn to the northeast. Their mission is not to completely annihilate the enemy, but to continuously harass, delay the enemy's movements, and create opportunities for subsequent operations.
Moreover, Xu Huang may not be able to succeed if he ventures to Wudang Mountain. If he is not familiar with the terrain, he may get lost in Wudang Mountain and eventually starve to death in the mountain.
However, Chai Rong, who was looking forward to performing a major meritorious service and living up to the prince's previous instructions to him, did not want to just let go of the enemy general.
There are only about 500 people, and there are three times the number of enemies on our side. If we enter the valley at night and join forces on the northern trail to pursue them, we will definitely win the battle and kill them with meritorious deeds!
Bursts of bird chirping spread along the teams scattered in the mountains, which was the signal to attack.
Needless to say who to attack, it must not be the more than 6,000 Cao troops on the road.
Even though Li Er felt that it was a little unsafe, he still had to cooperate. After receiving a signal from one party, the other teams had to gather their strength. This was a previously established rule.
Without this, it would be impossible to disperse and merge so smoothly.
People are not machines. They always have their own goals, ideas, and ambitions.
This was the case with Xia Houshang and Xu Huang who had previously pursued Liu Chan, and the same was true with Chai Rong and Ding Feng at this time...
(End of chapter)
