Three Kingdoms King of the North

Lu Bu did not refuse the proposal of the army Sima, but ordered the army to retreat ten miles and choose a place near the water to set up camp.

That night, when Lu Bu was in the tent discussing with the army Sima how to break the tactics of Li and Guo, he walked into a small school from the outside and reported: "Report to Marquis Wen, the capital's grain and grass have arrived. The grain guard is here." Off the account, waiting for the payment order."

After hearing this, Lu Bu said without raising his head, "Let him in!"

After a while, a handsome young general strode into the tent.He came to a place five or six steps away from Lu Bu and stopped, cupped his fists and bowed to salute: "See Marquis Wen! The last general is Zhang Liao, the captain of cavalry. He was ordered by Wang Situ to send [-] hu of grain and grass to Marquis Wen."

Lu Bu, who was absent-minded at first, couldn't help raising his head after hearing the other party's self-reported name, looked at the other party in surprise and said, "You are Zhang Liao and Zhang Yuan?"

"That's right, it's the last general!"

Hearing that it was Zhang Liao who came, Lu Bu stood up straight and greeted him with a smile, "It turns out that he came from a long way away, so God helped me."

Zhang Liao didn't know why Lu Bu said this, he just looked at the other party with puzzled eyes, waiting for him to clarify his doubts.The army commander next to him saw Zhang Liao's thoughts, and explained to him with a smile: "General Zhang doesn't know something. Although our army is large in number, we lack good generals. When our army attacked Li and Guo today, they used The strategy of exhausting troops made Marquis Wen care about one thing and lose another, making it impossible for the head and the tail to look at each other."

Zhang Liao was not a brave and foolhardy person like Lu Bu. Hearing what Jun Sima said, he immediately guessed what he was thinking.Quickly asked: "Could it be that the Sima of the army intends to let Zhang and Wen Hou each lead an army and defeat Li and Guo separately?"

"That's right, that's right." Seeing that Zhang Liao had guessed his intentions, Jun Sima smiled all of a sudden, "This is what I think. Before I said it, General Zhang guessed it."

When Lu Bu saw a capable helper coming, he immediately laughed out loud, "With the help from afar, it's really easy to break Li and Guo."

Zhang Liao was not as optimistic about the situation as Lu Bu. He frowned and asked, "Isn't it Li Guo and Zhang Fan's fourth general? Now there are only Li and Guo, so where did Zhang Fan's second general go?"

Zhang Liao's words woke up Lu Bu and Jun Sima. They stared at the map on the wall for a while, and then said in unison: "Could it be that you took a small road to the capital?"

This conclusion immediately scared Lu Bu into a cold sweat, and he immediately wanted to leave the camp and return to the capital, but was stopped by the army commander: "You can't do it, Marquis Wen, we just guessed that the bandit army led by the two generals Zhang and Fan might have gone to the capital. However, before the news was confirmed, we hurried back to the division, fearing that Li and Guo would chase after them, and our army would suffer heavy losses."

Jun Sima's words made Lu Bu calm down.He walked back and forth a few times in the tent with his hands behind his back, then stopped and asked the military commander, "Then tell me, what should we do?"

"Send people back to the capital overnight to strengthen the defense so as not to be caught off guard by Zhang and Fan's thieves." Army Sima said to Lu Bu: "And we will divide our troops here to meet Li Guo. Two people, so that they dare not fight easily. As long as their food is exhausted, they will surely collapse."

After Lu Bu and the army Sima finished speaking, they asked again, "I don't know who should be sent back to Beijing to deliver the letter?"

Zhang Liao quickly interjected: "Qi report to Marquis Wen, the last general has two soldiers, Marquis Cheng Lian and Wei Xu, who are capable, let them bring a troop of cavalry back to Beijing to report the news, and the capital will surely be prepared before the bandits arrive. "

"It's so good!" Lu Bu heard Zhang Liao say that Cheng Lian and Wei Xu were good, so he quickly ordered the army commander Ma Xiu to write a letter, reporting the situation here to Wang Yun in detail.As soon as the letter was finished, he handed it to Zhang Liao, and said to him, "Yuan, you immediately arrange manpower to send this letter to the capital and present it to Wang Situ. There must be no mistakes. Otherwise, military law will be followed."

"The last general takes orders!" Zhang Liao agreed loudly, took the letter, turned and walked out of the big tent.

Zhang Liao returned to his tent, where there were four of his subordinates: Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng.Seeing Zhang Liao enter the tent, the four of them stood up quickly, bowed and saluted: "My subordinates see Captain Qi!"

After Zhang Liao sat down in the middle, he glanced over his four subordinates and said, "I just learned from General Fengxian that only Li and Guo are fighting with him now, and Zhang and Fan are the only ones fighting." There will be no trace of it."

Hearing what Zhang Liao said, the four subordinates looked at each other with surprised expressions on their faces.Finally, Cheng Lian asked on behalf of everyone: "Captain Qi, I don't know where the other two thieves are going?"

"According to Jun Sima's judgment, it should be a sneak attack on the capital." Zhang Liao took out a letter addressed to Wang Yun from his pocket, and said to the four, "This is a letter from General Fengxian to Wang Situ. I need two people to go to the capital to deliver the letter."

Before Zhang Liao said who was going to send the letter, the four of them stepped forward at the same time, clasped their fists and said to Zhang Liao: "Captain Qi, my subordinates are willing to go to the capital to deliver the letter."

Seeing that his subordinates were scrambling to take the post of messenger, Zhang Liao had a smile on his face.He said to the four people: "You don't have to argue. Cheng Lian and Wei Xu led a hundred cavalry, took this letter, and went to the capital overnight. Song Xian and Hou Cheng, you two stay and accompany me to challenge tomorrow Guo Si."

Song Xian and Hou Cheng were a little disappointed when they heard that Zhang Liao was going to send Cheng Lian and Wei Xu to deliver the letter, but when they heard that they were going to participate in the attack on Guo Si, they suddenly became happy again.

Before Cheng Lian and Wei Xu left, Zhang Liao told them again: "After you two send the letter to Wang Situ, you don't have to go back here, just stay in the capital to help defend the city."

Chapter 196 Zhang Liao defeated Guo Si in the first battle

Early the next morning, Lu Bu ordered Zhang Liao to take Song Xian and Hou Cheng with 1 troops to Guo Si's camp to call for a battle.Another [-] troops were allocated to the army Sima to stay in Dazhai, while he led the remaining [-] troops to Li Jue's camp.

Li Jue was drinking with Jia Xu in the camp when he heard a report from his close aide that Lü Bu was leading an army outside the camp to call for battle.After he heard this, he waved his hand to his cronies and said casually: "I know, wait for Lu Bu to retreat, and then report to me."

This waited for more than an hour, and Lu Bu never retreated.Jia Xu suddenly realized that something was wrong, and quickly said to Li Jue: "General, Jia feels that something is wrong!"

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Li Jue said disapprovingly, "The military commander is worrying too much. It must be that Guo Si didn't know that Lu Bu had arrived outside the camp, otherwise he would have sent troops to harass him."

Jia Xu put down the wine bottle in his hand, and said to Li Jue with a serious expression: "General, the more Jia thinks about it, the more something is wrong. Let's go to the watchtower to see what's going on."

Hearing what Jia Xu said, Li Jue could only reluctantly say: "Since Master Jia said so, let's go out and have a look."

The two climbed up to the watchtower, Jia Xu looked outside for a while, and soon saw something wrong.He frowned and said to Li Jue: "General, there is indeed something wrong with Lu Bu today. Just look at it, his troops are no more than [-] at best, so where did the rest go?"

Li Jue said in an uncertain tone: "Could it be that the rest of the troops are staying behind in the camp?"

"The general is joking." Jia Xu said with a sneer, "Lu Bu knows that our army will not take the initiative to attack, so he must have already made preparations to attack the stronghold. How could he leave [-]% of the troops in the stronghold?"

Jia Xu's words made Li Jue think seriously, and he asked in puzzlement, "Then according to the military adviser, what is the purpose of Lu Bu's formation of troops like this?"

Jia Xu shook his head to Li Jue's question, and said with a wry smile, "Jia doesn't know."

While Jia Xu and Li Jue were having a headache from Lu Bu's abnormal behavior, Guo Si also felt a headache when he saw Zhang Liao fighting outside the village.He summoned a group of subordinates to the tent, and began to study countermeasures: "Let's talk about it, how should we deal with Zhang Yuan who is fighting outside the village?"

"General!" Hearing what Guo Bang said, a general immediately came out and said, "Although Zhang Liao is a captain of cavalry, he has never led troops to fight. Don't see him showing off his power outside the stronghold at this moment. As long as the general sends the last general If you go to battle, you will be able to decapitate his head and present it to the general."

Guo Si was overjoyed when he heard what Pian Jiang said, and quickly told him, "If that's the case, then you lead five thousand troops to meet the enemy, and you must behead Zhang Liao."

The confident general, when he heard that Guo Si was going to give him 5000 troops, he waved his hand and said, "General, the last general will go out. We don't need 5000 troops. We only need [-] swordsmen from the headquarters."

Zhang Liao, who was shouting outside the village, was almost hoarse, and no one from the village came out.He was about to return to the formation and let Song Xian and Hou Chenglai replace him.Unexpectedly, turning the horse's head and walking not far away, he suddenly heard the sound of opening the gate of the village, turned his head and saw a group of men and horses rushed out of the village and lined up outside the village.

Seeing that there were enemy generals going to battle, Zhang Liao had a smile on his face.He was about to ride his horse forward, but he heard the sound of horseshoes coming from behind. He turned his head and saw that it was Song Xian and Hou Cheng who came up.

Song Xian said hastily: "Captain Qi, let this man be dealt with by villains."

As soon as Song Xian's words fell, Hou Cheng immediately continued: "No, we should leave it to us."

Seeing that his two subordinates were about to argue over who was fighting for, Zhang Liao quickly stopped them: "Okay, don't argue, will this battle be fought by Song Xian?"

"Decree!" Song Xian complied triumphantly, and charged towards Guo Bang's general with a spear and a horse.

The general saw an enemy general rushing towards him, and was about to ask the opponent's name.Unexpectedly, the other party didn't say a word, and directly stabbed with the spear, but the general hurriedly raised the knife in his hand to fight.Pianjiang always thought that his martial arts were superior, and he didn't pay attention to Song Xian at all. Who knew that when the two sides' swords collided, the big knife in his hand was almost knocked out of his hands.He quickly cheered up and stood with Song Xian with all his strength.

Although Song Xian is only Zhang Liao's subordinate, his martial arts are far superior to this general.After fighting for seven or eight rounds, he spotted a weakness in the opponent and stabbed him in the throat with a single shot.After Pianjiang fell off his horse, he got off his horse and drew his sword, cut off his head, and got back on his horse again, completely ignoring the five hundred soldiers who were lining up outside the stronghold.Instead, he rode his horse directly in front of Zhang Liao and handed over the order to him.

When Guo Si heard that his general was killed by an unknown person under Zhang Liao, he became furious and was about to go out to compete with Zhang Liao himself, but was stopped by a school lieutenant: "General, put out your thunderous anger, wait The subordinates went out to take Zhang Liao's head and avenge General Pian."

Less than a moment after the lieutenant set off on his horse, his own soldiers reported to Guo Si: "General Qi, the lieutenant fought an enemy general with a sword in his hand. If the battle didn't go well, he was cut off by the opponent."

Guo Bang had just lost a general, and Guo Si was already heartbroken. Now that he heard that another school lieutenant had fallen into the hands of Zhang Liao's subordinates, he became even more annoyed.

Zhang Liao outside the stronghold saw the gate of Guo Bang's camp opened and the sound of horns came from inside, so he knew that the other party was going out of the stronghold to meet the enemy.Not long after, Guo Si was seen leaving Dazhai with a group of generals and lieutenants, followed by tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

After the army had finished lining up outside the stronghold, Guo Si pointed at Zhang Liao and others not far away with the weapon in his hand, looked around and asked: "Who can take the mobile phones of these three people, seal them as marquises, and reward them with ten thousand gold. "As soon as he finished speaking, three lieutenant generals rushed out and rushed towards Zhang Liao and others.

Song Xian and Hou Cheng were going to meet the enemy, but they were stopped by Zhang Liao: "Wait a minute, you two are fighting for me, I will go and meet the three of them."

Although Song Xian knew that Zhang Liao was superb in martial arts, he had never been on a battlefield after all. It was a bit too presumptuous for one person to fight against three people at this moment, so he carefully reminded: "Captain Qi, two fists are no match for four hands, you alone can fight against three people. The three of them may not be able to do it, so let's do it together, the three of us!"

Zhang Liao waved his hands, and then urged his horse to meet him.Three generals of Guo Si's army, one with a spear, one with a pair of swords, and one with a big axe, stepped forward and surrounded Zhang Liao.