Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turbans finally revolt

Chapter 511 The Characteristics of Yan Liang's New Learning

Guo Jia thought for a while and replied, "Does my lord want a quick way or a slow way?"

"Oh? What's the difference between the two?"

"A fast attack requires a strong attack, which takes a short time, but the casualties of soldiers are bound to be greater in a strong attack. Otherwise, it can be done slowly."

"Picture it slowly, how to draw the law?" Liu Qing asked.

Guo Jia continued: "My lord, since Sun Jian entered Changsha, Liu Biao has been fighting with him constantly. Sun Jian seems to have separated Changsha, but in fact he can affect the area, but Linxiang, Luo County and other counties, coupled with Liu Biao's constant consumption, even once Killed Sun Jian, although the little overlord inherited his ambition, but the strength of the Sun family is already very few."

Liu Qing thought about it, maybe he could set an example for Liu Biao by taking pictures slowly, and he could use this time to continue discussing with him.

"The lord's army is overwhelming, but the Sun family is weak; the lord's army is full of fine food, and the Sun family is exhausted after a long battle; Comparing with the family, it is actually the bright moon compared with the fireflies, how can there be an invincible gift?"

Ah, yes, yes, you are a professional in analyzing victory and defeat.

Liu Qing turned to look at Xu Shu and asked, "Does Yuan Zhi have anything to add?"

Xu Shu said: "What Feng Xiao said is true, but if the lord is not eager to seize the city for a while, you can start from other places."

"Why?"

"Siege the city with the main force to contain the Sun family, and then divide some troops to recover county by county. This is not a strategy of besieging the city lightly, but a strategy of besieging the city comprehensively."

Liu Qing's eyes lit up. As Xu Shu said, the strategy of encircling the city in an all-round way is not the idea of ​​"encircling the city from the countryside". The entire county of Changsha will be actually occupied, leaving only Linxiang as the prefecture. In this way, the Sun family's economic foundation will be It can be said that it is completely broken.

However, with this method, Liu Qing may not have so much time. Now that it is May, there is already more than half a year left in this year.

"Yuan Zhi's method can also be implemented. Right now, let's see if there is any garrison in Liling."

After the rest time was over, the army moved forward again, but Liu Qing and his party stayed where they were, waiting for news from Ji Ling.

When the riders returned, it was already dark, and the imperial guards had already started camping.

"Report Your Majesty, General Ji Ling has entered Liling, and there is no Sun Jun in the city."

"Understood, go down and rest." Liu Qing lightly said, turned around and told Dian Wei, "Send someone to Liling overnight, and inform Ji Ling to stay there overnight to rest. Starting tomorrow, continue westward, occupy southern Hunan, and then go north from southern Hunan , to meet in Linxiang."

Dian Wei ordered to do it.

As night fell, Liu Qing's counties had already camped and rested, but in the nearby mountain road, "night cats" came out quietly. They walked along the mountain road quickly, and seemed to be very good at night travel.

A voice said softly: "Beyond Baiguan, there is the Xiangshui Plain. If the army enters the plain, our army will lose the opportunity to attack. Tonight is the only chance. Soldiers, success or failure is here!"

No one answered, and in the night, there were only figures nodding their heads uncontrollably.

On the other side of the mountain is where Liu Qing's vanguard army is stationed.

Before and after the valley, Yan Liang set up a lot of bright and dark sentries to prevent the enemy from taking advantage of the mountains and attacking at night. At the same time, following the advice of Xu Shu, who joined the army, he arranged night-duty soldiers to patrol the slopes on both sides of the valley. , which is equivalent to being alert on all sides.

Seeing such protection, Yan Liang and Wen Chou had to submit. This level of vigilance far surpassed that of Yuan Jun. No wonder Bohai King was able to win the battle, because even when they were most vulnerable, they would not expose their shortcomings.

If you deal with it normally, you usually don't take precautions against the land on the side of the mountain, because attacking over the mountain will lose most of the time and energy, so what?
If there is an enemy attack, no matter where it comes from, it will be on guard.

Yan Liang and Wen Chou headed back to their tents to sleep. Everything in the temporary camp was as usual until midnight when Yan Liang was suddenly awakened by a strange sound.

"It's water! It's water!"

"Fire out!"

Afterwards, noisy voices came in a mess, Yan Liang sat up abruptly, lifted the blanket, which was covered with good armor, and rushed out with the weapon in hand.

I saw a foot in the northwest, the flames shot up into the sky, and the smoke column connected to the sky and the earth against the background of the flames.

"What's the situation? How could there be a fire?" Yan Liangwen asked.

"Yan Liang, what happened!" Wen Chou also rushed over.

"Several camps on the northwest side are on fire. It seems that it is not a coincidence, but someone set the fire!" A military Sima judged.

Yan Liang nodded, "If it's an accident, they should be in one place. Moreover, looking at the direction of the valley, the northwest is the upwind direction. Someone must have set the fire."

"Yan Liang, do you want to warn the whole army?" Wen Chou reminded.

Yan Liang thought for a while, and hesitated. His army was sealed off with [-] troops first, and the camp stretched for several miles. The fire was discovered in time, and it would not spread. Perhaps it was just some thieves who made such a small move. The whole army affects the rest of the soldiers, and the damaged ones are still the soldiers.

While Yan Liang was thinking, suddenly, a voice came.

"General, general! Defeat the enemy from the south!"

Now, Yan Liang didn't need to be entangled anymore, and immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to assemble to meet the enemy!"

While talking, a soldier brought Yan Liang Wenchou's war horse, Yan Liang glanced at him, slightly surprised.

The two drove to the south on horseback.

Yan Liang said: "The soldiers in this battalion have such a tacit understanding that they have already led the horse for us."

Wen Chou also felt the same way. After joining the Bohai King Army, many details in the army made him think a lot. Many seemingly inconspicuous places may add up to the improvement of combat effectiveness.

"I also think that it's not unreasonable for the Bohai King's Army to win every battle. Yan Liang, I didn't feel wronged at all when I lost earlier."

Yan Liang smiled, and replied: "Skills are not as good as others, so there is no injustice!"

The two were defeated head-on by the King of Bohai, so there is no reason to be unconvinced.

When they came to the south, they could already hear the sound of fighting in the distance. Obviously, the guard post had spotted them, and the soldiers stationed nearby had already started to fight back on their own.

In the dark night, a little bit of fire could be seen faintly coming down from the mountainside, and below, a soldier and horse had already rushed into the camp, but it was blocked by the garrison here.

There is an order in the Bohai King's army that all those who are stationed temporarily must sleep with their arms on their heads and wearing armor, so as not to attack the camp.

Therefore, when Han Dang's soldiers and horses attacked and killed the sentry post, the secret post immediately issued a warning. At the same time, soldiers in full armor came out of the camp.

Han Dang even once thought that he had fallen for it!

The King of Bohai predicted that he would come!

The King of Bohai is really hard to deal with!
However, after fighting for a while, he realized that there was no general in charge of the army, and the soldiers in front of them were only actively defending. Han Dang decided to attack again, burning those who could be burned, and killing those who could be killed.

As Cheng Pu said, try to cause trouble and losses to the Bohai King Army as much as possible, so as to weaken its army.

However, the idea is very good, but the reality is very embarrassing. Not long after entering the camp with the momentum of the tiger descending the mountain, Han Dangjun's soldiers were frustrated. Not only could they no longer advance, but they were even resisted by more and more soldiers. Push back.

Then with the faint light, Han Dang found out that it was tricky. The root cause of the matter was that the Bohai King's army was well-armored, which could greatly resist the damage of hacking and stabbing.

Han Dang knew something was wrong, he couldn't take advantage of this battle.

Just when Han Dang was about to retreat, a shout suddenly came from afar.

"He Fangxiao is young, how dare he attack Grandpa's camp at night!"

When Han Dang looked over, he saw a horse galloping towards the front amidst the flames.

Although he can't recognize who it is, but he is energetic, he knows that he has some abilities. Han Dang really wants to meet this general for a while, but when he thinks of——

Without an enemy general, he may not be able to fight into the camp. If the enemy army arrives, wouldn't he be defeated without a doubt?
Han Dang withdrew his fighting spirit and no longer delay.

"Woooo!" A strange voice was very ear-catching, able to surpass the noisy shouts and reach the ears of everyone.

This is Han Dangjun's retreat order.

"The whole army retreats!" Han Dang ordered at the same time.

Han Dang's army was also ordered to prohibit, and the team that was still advancing suddenly turned around and left quickly, as if disappearing in the shade.

Yan Liang was about to pursue, but Wen Chou stopped him: "Yan Liang, don't chase!"

"Why stop me?"

"The mountains are rugged, and it's hard for me to chase outsiders!"

"What Wen Chou said is true!" Yan Liang reined in his horse and stopped, but changed the subject, and what he said was even more shocking, "I have ordered the whole army to assemble and move forward. There is a lookout post, send a team to take it under the cover of night! Our army is marching into Baiguan today, and the enemy is attacking now, so the pass must be defenseless."

Wen Chou looked at Yan Liang and said in surprise, "Brother Yan, when did you become familiar with these principles?"

Yan Liang replied: "I gave wine to the military division, and it was the military division who taught me that it's called 'soldiers are expensive and fast'!"

"You don't take me!" Wen Chou pointed at Yan Liang with his horsewhip, and was about to scold, but thought that this was not the time to joke, so he echoed: "If that's the case, I'll listen to you once!"

"Okay! Tonight, I will let you and my brother wash the pass with blood, and make the first contribution in Changsha!"

Therefore, Yan Liang sent people to chase after Han Dang, and on the other hand, the cavalry directly moved forward, and the infantry ran forward. Originally, Yan Liang chose to camp here because of the Baiguan, so it was separated by a mountain and a valley. .

Han Dang's way of retreat was to turn back from the original mountain road, but it would take nearly double the time. When retreating on the mountain, Han Dang suddenly discovered that the valley below was actually a long fire dragon.

That was the army of the King of Bohai, and they were marching in a hurry overnight. Could it be that--

Han Dang had already thought of it, but at this moment, his position was extremely embarrassing, let's kill him, if he can't kill him, keep going back, if he can't make it in time.

When Han Dang thought that Baiguan was still sleeping soundly at this time, he was very anxious. He didn't expect to act tonight, which was self-defeating.

The only thing that can be done is to walk faster so that Baiguan can hold on until he arrives.

Baiguan, a low pass in the middle of the road between two mountains, this pass can only be used as a vehicle and horse, and people can't stop it, because people can climb mountains, and they can easily go around from the mountainside to the back of the pass.

This time, Yan Liang led an army of [-] to directly press on. Even if one person moved a stone, it would be possible to move Baiguan to the ground.

In less than an hour, Yan Liang's cavalry department had arrived at the pass. At the same time, the soldiers on guard at the pass also spotted the army. Immediately, the alarm sounded at Baiguan. close.

At this time, Zhu Zhi saw that the mountains on both sides of Baiguan had already sparked a little spark. It was Yan Liang who ordered the cavalry to give up their horses and planned to climb into the back of the pass.

"How could this be? Could it be that Han Yigong..." Zhu Zhi had a bad premonition.

Could it be that Han has fallen into the enemy's trick and is gone?
It was still the Bohai King Army who deliberately stationed outside the customs to take advantage of the night to attack.

No matter what, the most urgent task is to defend the Baiguan. Without saying a word, Zhu Zhi immediately ordered the soldiers to go up the mountain and intercept the climbers.

Soon, the two sides began to encounter each other on the mountainside, and Sun Jun, who had just been forcibly woken up and was still sleepy, met the most elite cavalry under King Bohai's command, and almost killed him one-sidedly.

Relying on high-defense armor and newly equipped steel knives, the land cavalry was still invincible, and Sun Jun was quickly defeated. Two thousand cavalry each had more than a thousand cavalry, occupying a favorable position. They only waited for the infantry to arrive, and then came A fierce tiger descended the mountain and pounced on the pass, in order to achieve a pincer attack from inside and outside.

Zhu Zhi didn't expect that the mere Baiguan would cause such a difficult problem. If the soldiers on the mountainside didn't deal with it, the defense of Baiguan would be useless.

"It's terrible, what happened to Yiyi?" Zhu Zhi slapped the city wall and murmured.

At this moment, the idea of ​​retreating had sprouted in his heart.

However, if this Baiguan is not guarded, then, the army of Bohai King will follow the Xiangshui Plain, and the cavalry will go straight to Linxiang City without any hindrance.

As for using field soldiers and horses to intercept King Bohai's cavalry, Zhu Zhi and Han Dang had already experienced the pain in Yuzhang. If it wasn't for Sun Ce, neither of them would have been able to return.

Finally, King Bohai's infantry arrived. Judging from the sporadic fire outside the city, the number may exceed ten thousand.

Including the cavalry who arrived earlier, this army alone has as many as [-].

And he and Han Dang are the two leaders, but there are only 4000 people.

"What should be done, what should be done? What should be done!" Zhu Zhi was very anxious.

Yan Liangwenchou looked at the light on Baiguan from a distance, the light was not very bright, and he couldn't see who was on it, only the height of Baiguan could be seen.

"Attack?" Wen Chou asked.

"Attack!" Yan Liang replied.

The voice was not loud, but it was heard by the messenger, so the battle roars and roars of the soldiers began to resound.

The front army of the infantry carried the ladders and went straight to the Aoguan. The soldiers on both sides also began to climb, and the cavalry who had been on standby on the mountainside, at this time, rushed towards the starry fire in the pass like a hungry tiger. .

Looking at such a brave soldier, Yan Liang couldn't help but tremble a little.

"Wen Chou, this is the first battle between you and me as the King of Bohai. Unexpectedly, the number of soldiers and horses commanded by us has surpassed that of the Yuan family when it was the most."

"Indeed, now I understand why so many powerful generals have gathered under King Bohai! Who wouldn't follow such a lord!" Wen Chou replied.

Yan Liang smiled wryly, and said again: "God's will trick people, you and I are from Jizhou, and we should have followed King Bohai the first time, but in the end we ran in the opposite direction!"

Looking at such a majestic siege scene, Wen Chou couldn't help but sigh.

"Alas... God's will tricks people."

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