Chapter 452
The shepherd held a whip in his hand and watched countless cavalry crossing the Zuli River in a daze. The thief held a striking five-color flag, but the wind and rain were blowing, and the white one that was stained with the northwest had turned yellow and red into pink.
A white horse general came directly with a few followers, and his horse was covered with mud spots. He looked down at the shepherd in a strange tone mixed with Wuling, Youzhou and Bingzhou.
"Where is the stream that can drink horses?"
The Zuli River is also a typical Kushui River in the northwest. It is difficult for people and animals to drink water. If you want to drink water, you have to cross a few valleys and get rid of its tributaries.
The shepherd looked at the bow and knife hanging on the saddle of the Bingzhou soldiers and cavalry, swallowed, while carefully protecting the thin flock behind him, pointing in the right direction.
The villain in a remote place didn't even know who Longyou was fighting with. He only looked like the Huns, but it was better to cooperate with each other. As long as they didn't find the caves in the deep mountains and humiliate their wife and daughter.
The white horse general nodded, stared at the shepherd's four-legged property, then looked back at the hungry subordinates, touched them in their chest, but found nothing, and asked the guards only, and then a small gold nugget was thrown down and landed at the shepherd's feet.
"I have bought all your sheep!"
The shepherd could only watch the cavalry whistle and drive the flock away. It was not until the dust raised by their horses' hooves left that he dared to lie on the ground carefully, pick up the gold nuggets, put them in his mouth and bit them, but there was no expression of happiness.
Gold is of high value, but where can I go to this deserted mountain and remote ridge? That group of sheep is the reliance of their family for spending autumn and winter. How can we survive in the future?
But at least he didn't take his life directly, which was better than the Huns' cavalry or even the Liang family cavalry of Longyou.
He only raised his head and looked at the gloomy clouds with concern, turned into a ravine that was hard to find by outsiders, and walked quickly towards his home.
This Longyou is about to change the world!
The white horse rider was Geng Yan. This marching route was carefully selected by him: from north of Xiaoguan, along the Yellow River, bypassing the north-south Longshan Mountains, and then along the valley washed out by Zuli River, heading south smoothly. This was once a passage for the Xiongnu invading Longxi and Tianshui in the past, but there were no foreign enemies for more than a hundred years. There were very few residents in this area, and even the county towns and towns were few. Longyou could not arrange people to defend.
What's more, considering the limited supply that can be obtained along the way, Geng Yan only brought more than a thousand cavalry, and the large army stayed outside Xiaoguan to hold Niu Han.
"During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, he traveled to Yong and sacred the five categories. He then crossed Long, climbed Kongtong, and returned to Zulihe. This is his end."
From then on, looking south, the soldiers and cavalry of Bingzhou stormed and stormed like wind and rain. Since Longyou had no troops to guard the river, he could no longer stop General Xiao Geng.
It was early July. Although it was a saltwater river, there were more or less aquatic plants around it, which were enough to satisfy the hunger of horses. People held fried noodles and occasionally "buy" some sheep and flocked to eat meat from the locals, approaching Tianshui County.
Although the ultimate goal is to Longyou's food and the troops are in transit, Geng Yan plans to visit one place before going there.
Geng Yan smiled and said, "General Li's hometown Chengji County is also the old nest of Wei's family. How can we not pass by?"
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A few days later, when Wei Xiang was shocked when he learned that there were a cavalry of Wei army around his hometown Chengji and burned and plundered the Lilu.
Although he had moved the "capital" of the Western Han Dynasty to Ji County on the south bank of the Wei River for safety reasons, and the two sons of the puppets Liu Ying, Liu Xin and even Wei Xiang were there, Cheng Ji still had the ancestral tombs, old houses and manors of his family. This sudden bad news made Wei Xiang feel as if he had been punched in his stomach and leaned against the scene.
"Could it be that Xiao Guan was lost?" This was Wei Xiang's first reaction. He immediately sent someone to question Niu Han, but he received a reply that "Guan Pass is perfect and has no mistakes."
The source of the Wei cavalry can basically be determined: we will go around Longshan and detour.
Although Chengji County is still there, all the surrounding towns have been occupied. Wei Xiang is quite anxious. However, he sent two groups of soldiers in front and behind Lueyang City to besiege Wan Xiu to resist the general attack of the Fifth Lun in Longban, and there were not many soldiers around him.
"The cavalry is still south of Xiaoguan, so it is better to use cavalry to fight against cavalry."
The generals and schoolmen in Cheng Ji proposed this, but the four thousand cavalry were already the last batch of mobile troops in Longyou. They all depended on them to stare at the low passes near Xiaoguan to prevent the Wei army from crossing. Once sent, there would be no more soldiers and soldiers to use them, so Wei Xiang was quite hesitant.
"General, the enemy has already entered the sect and has begun to smash the ancestral spirit throne. What's the use of a hunting dog guarding outside the portal?"
After all, Wei Xiang was reluctant to leave his bottles and jars at home, and ordered the cavalry to rush to Chengji for assistance, and the Wei cavalry must be annihilated!
However, the cavalry of the Longyou Liang family had just been transferred away and had no man to watch the difficult paths of various army, something big happened immediately!
"General, the grain team was attacked near Lueyang, it was the Wei army! There may be two or three thousand people."
Wei Xiang was shocked. What was the solidity of the mountains and rivers they agreed on by Longyou? Why did it suddenly leak into a sieve? Wan Xiu was the first one, Geng Yan was the second one, who is this person?
Of course, Wu Han and Wu Ziyi came. The generals of the Wei army seemed to be able to attack over the tower.
There were only three or four thousand soldiers left in Lueyang, and half of them were sent to supervise the grain and were defeated. Wei Xiang was shocked, but for a moment he didn't know who should be transferred to save him, and he was quite desperate.
I wanted to win a few battles and drag the war to winter so that I could have enough capital to negotiate with the fifth relationship, but unexpectedly, the battle was getting worse and worse. Although it had not completely collapsed, Wei Xiang was exhausted both physically and mentally.
It turns out that it is so difficult to be an independent prince, and it is so difficult to control one side.
Somewhere in his heart, Wei Xiang even thought to surrender, but the final dignity prompted him to grit his teeth: "Let the cavalry come back!"
He figured it out, Xiaoguan and Longban still stopped the main force of the Wei army. What was missing was just a small group of troops. He could not lose sight of one thing. Anyway, the cavalry had followed the Wei cavalry to circle the west for a few days, but still failed to annihilate it. It would be better to pull it back first and solve the enemy near Lueyang!
Wu Han was simply. He led 2,000 people to cut down the woods and climbed over from Fanxukou. As soon as the Longyou cavalry was transferred west to support Cheng Ji, Wu Han could successfully march south to the surrounding area of Lueyang. He knew that it was impossible for him to capture the city with his serious fallen troops, so he chose to harass the main road near the town called "Jiequanting" and abbreviated as Jieting.
Although there were not many people from Wu and Han, they were very brave. They robbed the grain teams around Lueyang twice and robbed several Lilu. They also knew that they were in the enemy territory. When their subordinates noticed that the enemy was cycling more and more frequently, they began to think of retreating.
Whether it is Lueyang or Jieting, the city is not easy to defend and it is difficult to attack. After finally coming in, it is not worth evacuating. Wu Han only turned his attention to the bare mountain on the south side of Jieting.
"What kind of mountain is this?" Wu Han asked someone to ask the prisoners.
"Nanshan."
The appearance of this Jieting is just like a "folding fan" used in Emperor Wu's palace. Two rivers flow into the valley to form a small impact fan plain. Jieting City is located at the western end of the impact fan, and the entire folding fan handle is in the south mountain.
The terrain of this Nanshan is very distinctive, also known as Baimuyuan, and is a wide platform on the top, with an actual area much larger than Baimuyuan. In addition to a gentle slope on the south, there are very steep cliffs on the north, east and west.
Looking at the steep Nanshan Mountain, Wu Han laughed out loud.
"As long as you go up the mountain and set up camp at Baimuyuan, the Longyou cavalry will do nothing to me."
As far as Wu Han knows, Jing Dan relied on the terrain of Tongyuan to block the attack of the green forest. This place was the only obstacle that could be exploited within a radius of 100 miles. He was also proficient in cavalry and knew that in the wide area, facing the charge of the good son of Longyou, with only two thousand infantrymen, it was very likely a nightmare of great defeat.
So we have to look for dangerous places.
But the only problem was that Wu Han's subordinates also informed him after going around.
"General, there is no water source on the South Mountain!"
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The tired Liang family of Longyou rode to Cheng Ji to catch Xiao Geng. Because of his maneuverability and flexibility, he ran back and forth between Cheng Ji and Luei.
With their assistance, Wei Xiang was a little braver, so he led a total of 6,000 infantry and cavalry to advance to Jieting Nanshan, with only so many troops available. He had to solve the problem of this wild boar that broke into the barriers! Whether it could be dragged until the Shu army arrived, dragged the war into winter, and finally forced the fifth reunion to retreat by General Dong, it depends on this battle!
When they found that this Wei army had set up camp on the mountain and maintained the looted food, the Long generals were overjoyed and suggested: "They went deep into the ground and left the plains to go up the mountain in order to hold on to the fifth reunion to break through Long Pass."
"But the enemy general is stupid. Even if he can eat food for several days, there is a dry land above Jieting's south mountain, and it is difficult to grow plants and trees, and there is no source of water! It is useless to dig a well."
"The Wei army relies on the rivers under the mountains to drink water. As long as the drainage path is cut off and the southern slope is surrounded, the Wei army will even drink all the urine in less than a few days, and they will collapse!"
Wei Xiang nodded and asked the soldiers to rest for a while, he began to make trouble for the Wei soldiers beside the water. After all, they did not counterattack and ran back to the mountain obediently, allowing the Long soldiers to occupy the shallow and small river.
However, Wu Han on the mountain smiled!
Juejidao? This is indeed useful to those who are determined to guard the mountain, but it is useless to Wu Han!
Wei Xiang thought that his Wu Hanshe climbed the mountain just to rely on favorable terrain to stand firm and wait for help?
But Wu Han’s dictionary has never had the word “defense”. Like Geng Bozhao, his face is full of attack and invasion!
Wu Han sent a little water to the last one to send up the mountain to two thousand soldiers. Each man had only a few mouthfuls. In this hot day, he could only stop his thirst.
"Everyone!"
"Do you want to drink water?"
Wu Han pulled out his sword and pointed at the foot of the mountain that he thought he had lost the Wei army. He was proudly splashing the Long soldiers on the edge of the water, pointing to the Wei Xiang banner that he led out of Lueyang.
"Let's go, follow me, Lao Wu, go down and cut open the throats of those generations, drink with the blood of the enemy!"
Those who can cross mountains and ridges with Wu Han are naturally brave men. The sun is hot now, and the little water just now is not enough to drink. Sooner or later, the throat will smoke. The soldiers are also anxious, gritting their teeth, putting on light armor, and starting to quickly line up on the gentle slope of the Nanshan Mountain.
This is the effect Wu Han wants.
"No matter whether the enemy's cavalry or stance comes, as long as I dare to make a siege and break the water, I will rush down the mountain and defeat it in one fell swoop. As long as I defeat the main enemy force, whether it is Jieting, Lueyang, or even Wei Xiang's head, isn't it the thing in my palm?"
He will be killed and survive, and then live in the dead. In ancient times, Han Xin fought against the enemy. Now, it is his turn to fight Wu Ziyi, who is as thin as a slim as a fight...
"A battle of the water!"
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Chapter completed!