Gwangju was destroyed, and Hao Shao's life and death were unknown. All these information were put on Xu Shu's case in Shouchun.
These days, Xu Shu's life has been difficult. It was Xu Shu's plan to lead the troops, and the 50,000 troops returned home in defeat.
Only less than 30,000 people came back, and there were continuous casualties along the way, as well as Guangzhou City. Of the 50,000 elite Yangzhou troops, there were only 20,000 left.
Thirty thousand people were killed or injured, and even Jushou committed suicide. Such a mess was in front of Xu Shu.
After all, the crime must be borne by someone. Xu Shu is an inner figure, so naturally he couldn't escape. If it wasn't for the emergency, Xu Shu is now ready to tie himself in the Shouchun Prison and wait for the return of the lord Liu Mang.
But not now, Cao Cao's army is coming, he, Xu Shu, must stand up until the lord returns.
Cao Cao actually divided his troops! According to the news from Yangzhou's scouting horses, Cao Cao has always crushed the Yangzhou army with a destructive momentum. After all, Cao Cao's army is too large. Before and after Cao Cao commanded nearly 300,000 troops, numbering 800,000, and invaded Yangzhou. The main force in Yangzhou is only 50,000 soldiers and horses, and with the armed police on guard, it is only about 150,000.
"Master Neixiang, this is probably our chance!" someone beside him said.
With 300,000 troops gathered together, the Yangzhou Army did not dare to send troops to fight.
Once you hit it, can you hit ten by yourself
"Opportunity?!" Xu Shu shook his head. This Cao Cao has fought all his life. Would he divide his troops so stupidly and let you defeat them one by one
"Could it be bait?" Lu Su asked. Use the division of troops as bait to induce the Yangzhou army to take the initiative to attack and wipe them out in the wild.
"Where is the Red Clothes Camp?" Xu Shu suddenly asked. ,
"Since the city of Gwangju was broken, the Red Clothes Camp has disappeared!"
"Disappeared?" Xu Shu was taken aback for a moment.
He immediately walked to the map over there. On the map was the route taken by Cao Cao's troops. "Here, here, here!" The more Xu Shu looked at this, the tighter his heart became.
"Not good!" Xu Shu slapped the desk suddenly, and Lu Su and others over there also stood up, feeling a kind of panic in their hearts.
They all said in unison, "This Cao Cao is going to surprise the industrial zone!"
Yangzhou Industrial Zone was originally on the edge of Shouchun. But first, the industrial zone uses a lot of water, and second, it pollutes the water too much.
Now there is no filtering device, and there are most fertile fields near Shouchun. There are also the most people, and it is located upstream. If the water here is polluted, then Liu Mang is going to drink the northwest wind, so the industrial zone has been relocated in the direction of Chengde.
Chengde is also on the edge of Yingshui. However, there are few fertile fields near him. After all, it is only a county town, not a government office like Shouchun.
Cao Cao divided his troops and let the good Shouchun not come to attack, so he must have gone towards Chengde.
"Red Clothes Camp!" Xu Shu finally remembered that the Red Clothes Camp is no different than others. Those things are consumables. If there are no shells and gunpowder, it will be a pile of iron bumps.
"Cao Cao wants to get the industrial zone!" Once the industrial zone falls into Cao Cao's hands, the fun will be great.
"Inner Minister, we should immediately send troops to become a virtue!" Someone from the side suggested.
"It's too late!" Xu Shu shook his head. Chengde is not on the side of Shouchun. If Xu Shu has cavalry in his hands now, he can still fight. But the cavalry unit of the Yangzhou Army, the most elite Bingzhou wolf cavalry was sent to Yizhou by Liu Wei, and they are on their way back. .
Another white horse went from Yi to Liaodong, and the remaining Xiliang iron cavalry was seriously injured in Yuzhou.
"I have to try before it's too late!" Lu Su is different from Xu Shu, if he admits defeat now, it's really too late.
"My lord is already on the way. As long as we hold on for a while, we will definitely be able to wait for the arrival of the lord's reinforcements!" Lu Su said to everyone.
"Okay!" Xu Shu was also aroused by Lu Su to fight, anyway, the big deal is that Chengde will be thrown to you. As long as there is Shouchun, it is not irreparable.
Immediately, Xu Shu asked Zhang Liao to gather the remaining Xiliang iron cavalry. Their task was to harass Cao Cao's army, so that Cao Cao's soldiers and horses could not reach Dade City so smoothly.
"Other soldiers and horses can still withstand it. How can this red battalion stand up!" Some generals raised doubts.
The Red Clothes Battalion has really set a precedent. The Xiliang cavalry suffered heavy losses, half of which were brought by the Red Clothes Battalion.
"There should be a batch of artillery in Chengde!"
"But there are no gunners in the city!"
"Call it from Shouchun!"
"No!" Xu Shu refused without even thinking about it. With the Red Second Battalion stationed in Shouchun City, Xu Shu was sure to keep Shouchun.
Could it be that there is really no way to deal with the Red Clothes Camp!
"Master Neixiang, we don't have the Red Clothes Battalion, but we have artillery?!" Lu Su said suddenly.
"En?" Xu Shu didn't understand what Lu Su meant. Lu Su smiled and said two words. Gan Ning!
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Xia Houyuan was very irritable, and Cao Cao asked him to command the second battalion of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry of the Divine March and go south to cooperate with Wei Yan to attack Chengde.
Although it is very shameless to Wei Yan's character, Xia Houyuan still obeyed the order. The Divine Marching Army is a long-distance raiding army. Unavailable soldiers and horses.
But now Xia Houyuan is getting irritable, because the Xiliang iron cavalry of the Yangzhou Army will harass you from time to time, which makes you very annoying.
If you chase them, they will run away, if you don't chase them, they will fall behind you.
"Don't care about them, go to Chengde with all your strength!" Xia Houyuan was about to get rid of this Xiliang cavalry.
"General, the Red Clothes Battalion can't run fast!" Cannons are already difficult to transport, but Wei Yan didn't bring the 3,000 cannons with him during the surprise attack on Chengde. Thousands of horses are also needed.
This speed can't be faster. Xia Houyuan still counted on using him to attack the city, how could he give up on the Red Clothes Camp
After thinking about it, Xia Houyuan gritted his teeth and said, "Let the tiger and leopard riders cover the Red Clothes Battalion to advance, and the rest of the troops will follow me!"
Xia Houyuan was going to march to Chengde with the Shenxing Army first.
Zhang Liao also learned that Xia Houyuan had divided his troops.
If it is a one-on-one battle, Zhang Liao has a hundred ways to teach Xia Houyuan to be a man, but now Zhang Liao is being dragged by the nose by Xia Houyuan.
There is no way to become virtuous, which is the biggest spine.
Xia Houyuan left with the marching army, and Zhang Liao could only give up the tiger and leopard cavalry and the red battalion and chase the marching army away.
The two fought constantly along the way, which made Xia Houyuan very annoyed. But when Xia Houyuan caught a pawn all the way, Xia Houyuan smiled.
Because these infantry came out of Chengde, and they knew from their mouths that there was a batch of artillery in Chengde, which could equip two battalions.
Just get these cannons. Well, there are still enemies in Yangzhou.
Another thing is that there are not many defenders in Chengde, only less than 3,000. Now Xia Houyuan was even happier.
"Haha, it's just God helping me!" Xia Houyuan laughed suddenly. Xia Houyuan ran to Chengde for a long distance regardless of casualties, and finally arrived in Chengde on the second day.
Immediately prepare to attack the city. If it wasn't for the help of the Xiliang iron cavalry behind him, Chengde might have been breached within a day, and Zhang Liao's soldiers and horses also suffered heavy losses.
"General, we can't continue fighting like this!" Zhang Liao's lieutenant general persuaded Zhang Liao.
There are two battalions of iron cavalry in Xiliang, that is, nearly ten thousand iron cavalry.
But up to now, there are only two thousand-man teams that have been formed. If it was the small-scale harassment before, that's all.
But now that Xia Houyuan was determined to win Chengde, Zhang Liao had no choice but to play head-to-head.
"If you don't fight like this, how else can you fight? Come and teach me!" Zhang Liao was also full of anger.
When had Zhang Liao been so aggrieved? He was not unfamiliar with Xia Houyuan, they were old rivals.
But today Zhang Liao was beaten by the nose by Xia Houyuan.
"General, if this goes on like this, I, Xiliang Cavalry, Xiliang Cavalry, will be finished!"
"Even if the Xiliang iron cavalry is finished, we still have to fight. There must be no loss of success!" Before Zhang Liao set off to fight, Xu Shu told Zhang Liao about the success. Yangzhou can lose any city. But there are two places that cannot be lost, one is Shouchun, and the other is Chengde.
"Two thousand people, we only have two thousand people, general. We don't even have reinforcements, how to fight, how to fight!!" The deputy general begged Zhang Liao, and the only ones that could be dispatched from Yangzhou were the two thousand Xiliang cavalry. .
Zhang Liao also responded word by word, "You have to remember, if our Xiliang iron cavalry survived today, then more Yangzhou troops will die. Chengde is lost, you and I are sinners in Yangzhou. There are hundreds of cannons, half of my craftsmen in Yangzhou are in this city, without them, we would have no armor on our bodies, no swords in our hands, we would have to fight the enemy with bare hands, if the cannons fell into the hands of the Cao bandits In the hands of Shouchun City, your relatives, your family members, will no longer have any protection! We can die, but we have to die standing up. Get Chengde!"
Everyone was silent. It is not terrible to lose Chengde. What is terrible is those cannons. If those things fall into Cao Cao's hands, then the cannonballs may fall on the heads of their family members in Shouchunzhong.
"General, we will fight them!"
"Fight it!" The soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry were also filled with righteous indignation. To be a general is to defend the family and the country, and if they die, they are also martyrs.
"General, I'm not afraid of death. General, let's leave some seedlings for Xiliang cavalry!" The deputy general also sighed bitterly.
"Hey!" Zhang Liao also understood the meaning of the lieutenant general, why would he want the entire army of Xiliang iron cavalry to be annihilated.
"Everyone, in this battle, you will live on your knees, your family will be destroyed, and you will die standing up, and I will die alone. How you choose is up to you!"
"Kill, kill, kill!"
Looking at the high-spirited Xiliang iron cavalry, Zhang Liao couldn't help but nodded, his military spirit was available.
"Okay, then let's kill ourselves!"
To the extent that Xia Houyuan couldn't believe it, Zhang Liao charged against Xia Houyuan's March of Ten Thousand Gods with two thousand people.
Xia Houyuan was also angry. Zhang Liao really didn't take Xia Houyuan seriously. "Zhang Liao, since you want to die so much, I'll let you go! Pass the order, goose formation!"
Xia Houyuan also gave up all defenses.
The two heavy armored soldiers fought together again.
There are two thousand iron cavalry in Xiliang, but they are full of fighting spirit, and the more than ten thousand soldiers and horses in the Shen March are also angry from embarrassment.
The new and old hatreds of the two sides are intertwined together, and there is no one left behind.
The two armies crossed.
The three 1,000-man teams of the Divine Marching Army are gone, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is not much better. The 2,000-man army now has less than 800 left.
Zhang Liao himself is also colorful.
"Zhang De, how long have you and I been on business!" Zhang Liao suddenly asked the lieutenant next to him.
"It's been three years!" Zhang De said after thinking for a while. His Xiliang cavalry followed Jia Xu to Yangzhou from Zhang Xiu's hands.
"Three years!" Zhang Liao's eyes flickered, "You go!"
"What?" Zhang De was taken aback.
"You're right, I have to leave some seeds for the Xiliang cavalry!" Zhang Liao smiled at Zhang De. "All the only sons in the family who have not yet married come out!" Two hundred cavalry were scattered one after another
"Pass on my military order, you go back to Shouchun with General Zhang De!"
This made all the outstanding generals suddenly.
"What about you, General?"
"Me? I've already married a wife and had children. If there are successors, let's stay on this land!" Zhang Liao said very indifferently.
"No, General, we're not leaving!"
"This is a military order!" Zhang Liao's indifferent demeanor was once again revealed. Zhang Liao has always been strict in governing the army. Then he said to Zhang De, "Zhang De. Although this battle is defeated, it is an honor to lose! Zhang Liao may die, but the Xiliang iron cavalry cannot be destroyed! I will teach you the Xiliang iron cavalry. Don't let I'm disappointed."
"General!"
"Okay, don't act like a child, how decent is it to cry and cry, if you want to, give me two more incense sticks on this day every year, let's go!" Zhang Liao waved his hand.
"General, you must come back alive. The Xiliang cavalry can live without me, Zhang De, but you can't live without you, general!!" Zhang De was no longer hypocritical. Immediately, he left with more than a hundred people. Although the remaining ones may be the only sons, but their horses are damaged, or their bodies are seriously injured, and they cannot go far, then they should stay.
"Zhang Liao, surrender, His Royal Highness King Wei will definitely not treat you badly, what you can get from Liu Mang, you can also get from His Royal Highness Wei!" Xia Houyuan admired Zhang Liao. Can't help persuading him to surrender.
But Zhang Liao turned a deaf ear to it. Looking at the hundreds of defeated soldiers under his command, Zhang Liao smiled, "Everyone, see you in the Hall of Heroes!" Suddenly, his momentum changed, "Kill!"
More than five hundred people. Charged towards Xia Houyuan's army again.
"Stubborn! Except for Zhang Liao, the rest will not be left!"
The fighting continued, and the Xiliang cavalry around Zhang Liao became smaller and smaller one by one, fell down, and fell into a complete coma.
"General, let me go first!"
Gradually, there were only a dozen or so left by Zhang Liao's side.
"Zhang Liao. I'll give you another chance. Surrender. My lord has already captured Yuzhou, and Yangzhou is halfway through. Chengde lies ahead. Do you think you can defend the city with only your troops? Hundreds of cannons, and those craftsmen, you have no chance of winning!" Xia Houyuan also knew the value of those craftsmen.
"If Cao Cao is defeated, will you surrender?" Zhang Liao asked Xia Houyuan over there.
"No!" Xia Houyuan shook his head. He and Cao Cao are not only monarchs and ministers, but also brothers.
Zhang Liao laughed, "Me too!"
"Then I'll send you on the road, and find a good lord in the next life." Xia Houyuan also admired Zhang Liao, and planned to send Zhang Liao on the road himself.
"Thank you very much!" Zhang Liao said with a smile, both left and right were dead, maybe it was better to die at the hands of Xia Houyuan than to die at the hands of unknown pawns.
"Who dares to hurt my general!" Just as Xia Houyuan was about to step forward to kill Zhang Liao, there was a burst of roaring.
"General, here we come!" Zhang Liao looked far away, and saw a group of troops rushing into Xia Houyuan's army, because Xia Houyuan stayed behind, but this hundred-man army broke through.
Zhang Liao took a closer look, isn't this the Zhang De who just left! He couldn't help getting angry, "Who told you to come back, didn't you tell you to get out!"
"General, you are the main general, and the Xiliang iron cavalry with you is the Xiliang iron cavalry!" Zhang De said very awkwardly, but he did speak with a smile. The Xiliang iron cavalry has been brilliant and failed. In Xiu's hands, the Han cavalry were overwhelmed by Hu Che'er's Qiang people. These Xiliang iron cavalry were simply handymen.
Even Zhang De himself felt that a lifetime of ignorance was over.
But he never expected that after Jia Xu went to Yangzhou and was commanded by Zhang Liao, the bloody spirit that really belonged to the Xiliang cavalry came back. They are Xiliang cavalry, not nanny to clean the battlefield.
What's wrong with the Qiang people who are born good at riding and shooting? We Han people have brains and blood.
"What should I say about you!" Zhang Liao smiled wryly, and he couldn't blame Zhang De too much, after all, Zhang De and the others rushed back desperately.
"Since you're here, let's die together!"
"Who said we are here to die!" Zhang De sneered.
"Boom, boom, boom!" The ground began to shake.
"Aww!" A killing intent came from the north, and the solemn, cold, and tense atmosphere gathered together. .
"There are enemies!" The sharp-eyed man exclaimed. From beyond the horizon, a heavy armored cavalry slowly appeared.
"Bingzhou wolf rider!" Xia Houyuan spat out these words with difficulty.
"Kill, kill, kill!" (~^~)