Chapter 272 A big drama is about to begin

Li Jue and Guo Si were originally generals under Niu Fu, Dong Zhuo's son-in-law.

In order to prevent a surprise attack from the rear by the Yangzhou army and thus lead to defeat, Dong Zhuo ordered the two men to follow the orders of the rear general Xu Rong.

Li Jue and Guo Si had worked together for a long time but did not get along. If their immediate superior had not been General Xu Rong, they would definitely not have been able to go on a mission together.

However, Xu Rong was the only general under Dong Zhuo who had a government office and was not a general of the same surname, which showed how highly he was valued.

No matter how many complaints the two have, they have to endure it. Xu Rong is much more capable than Niu Fu, so there must be a reason for letting the two of them carry out the mission at the same time.

The thousand cavalry were divided into two parts. Li Jue led 500 cavalry in the south, and Guo Si led 500 cavalry in the north. The two parts did not interfere with each other and advanced at the same pace.

Ten miles out of the city, Li Jue and Guo Si stopped their horses almost at the same time. The Xiliang knights behind them were all elite and slowed down almost at the same time.

On the opposite side, the two thousand cavalry led by Zhang Fei were not so orderly. When they stopped, the first row was in a mess like a jagged line.

Seeing this, Li Jue and Guo Si did not dare to underestimate it at all.

Zhang Fei has already made a name for himself on this battlefield.

"The general of Yanleopard"!
Because Zhang Fei always shouted "Here is Zhang Fei from Yan" during battles, and because he had a round head and leopard eyes, he got this nickname.

"Bah!"

Zhang Fei shouted: "Do you dare to fight me for three hundred rounds?"

Li Jue looked at Guo Si, who could not stand the provocation and immediately spurred his horse and rushed forward with two swords in hand.

"Well done!"

Zhang Fei signaled his soldiers to form a battle array, and then charged forward alone, trying his best to deal with Guo Si.

Guo Si was good at using a short blade, and Zhang Fei seemed to recall the days when he was chased and beaten by Lu Bu.

The two men and their horses were ten steps apart. Zhang Fei had already swung his snake spear, and Guo Si was so frightened that he blocked it with his two swords.

There was a loud "clang" sound.

The two men passed each other, seemingly evenly matched, but in fact Zhang Fei was testing Guo Si's strength.

"That's all."

Zhang Fei thought that all the Xiliang generals were as brave as Lu Bu, but it seems that he overestimated them.

Guo Si relied on his strength and was second only to Hua Xiong in terms of military strength in the Xiliang Army, but the person he met was Zhang Fei!
"Eat my spear!"

Zhang Fei attacked again, and his snake spear left three afterimages in the air.

Guo Si narrowly blocked the attack.

Unexpectedly, when Zhang Fei passed by, he used the iron bridge and then the back spear to stab Guo Si in the back.

"Buzz!"

A cold arrow shot at him, and Zhang Fei cursed inwardly "despicable" and forcibly retracted his snake spear to block the arrow shot by Li Jue.

"Rat!"

"You only dare to stab someone in the back, do you dare to step forward and fight?"

Zhang Fei raised his snake spear and pointed it at Li Jue, shouting, "To kill you, I only need one more stab!"

Li Jue didn't reply, but rode forward. If he really wanted to kill Zhang Fei with that arrow, it wouldn't have been blocked so easily.

"Look at the knife!"

Li Jue held a ten-foot-long sword in his hand, which was considered a medium-length weapon compared to the Zhangba Snake Spear.

Zhang Fei didn't care and rode forward to meet him.

Relying on the length of his snake spear, Zhang Fei took the lead in attacking, beating Li Jue so hard that he could not raise his head.

However, this time it's one on two!

Guo Si arrived and approached.

By the time Zhang Fei realized it, it was too late.

"Cho, cho, cho!"

Guo Si wielded the two swords so fiercely that Zhang Fei had no choice but to defend himself.

At this time, Li Jue also arrived and kept shooting from another direction.

After five rounds, Zhang Fei realized that he couldn't go on like this.

"Roar!"

With a roar, Zhang Fei seized the opportunity and collided with Guo Si, and then they both retreated.

"Look at the spear!"

Zhang Fei fell towards Li Jue and stabbed with the spear in his hand like raindrops.

Li Jue resisted in a panic.

By the time Guo Si recovered and wanted to encircle him again, Zhang Fei had already jumped out of the encirclement.

"Captain, you are mighty!"

"Captain, you are mighty!"

The Yangzhou cavalry cheered loudly.

Zhang Fei's morale soared, he turned around and rushed forward to meet the two men and fight again.

When the Zhangba Snake Spear encircled the two men together, Li Jue and Guo Si realized that something was wrong.

Afterwards, Guo Si took the opportunity to escape, leaving Li Jue alone to face Zhang Fei.

"Look at the arrow!"

Li Jue was not stupid enough to stay. After blocking the attack, he fled with Guo Si, not forgetting to draw his bow and arrow to scare Zhang Fei.

"Whoaaah!"

Zhang Fei blocked the arrow and was so angry that he just shouted.

Upon seeing this, the deputy cavalry commander of the Yangzhou Army immediately ordered: "All troops, charge!"

Suddenly, the two thousand riders began to speed up.

The main commander of the Xiliang cavalry was defeated for a while, and then he was not as fast as the enemy in his start-up. Knowing that he was bound to be defeated, without any orders, the front army became the rear army and retreated in an orderly manner.

During the pursuit, the Yangzhou army was repeatedly forced back by the archery of the Xiliang cavalry and was unable to catch up with the enemy.

Only when the Xiliang cavalry safely escaped back to Luoyang did Zhang Fei rein in his horse in anger.

At this moment, the Yangzhou cavalry felt for the first time what elite cavalry was.

They were just a show of strength, they looked neat in formation, but became a mess once they were on the battlefield.

Moreover, their inability to ride and shoot was also a fatal flaw, otherwise the Xiliang cavalry would not have been able to retreat so comfortably.

"You Xiliang rat!"

"Come out and fight Grandpa for another three hundred rounds!"...

No matter how Zhang Fei shouted and cursed outside the city, the city gates were closed and no one came out to fight.

It was not until Zhang Fei left in boredom that Xu Rong and his group appeared on the city wall.

"The general of Yanbao?"

Xu Rong looked back at the embarrassed Li Jue and Guo Si and said, "From now on, I'm afraid I'll have to call myself a bear and tiger general!"

Among the entire Western Liang army, only Lu Bu could defeat the combined forces of Li Jue and Guo Si alone. This claim is quite appropriate.

"General, what should we do next?"

Now Li Jue has been promoted to General of the Central Army, but he still respects Xu Rong very much. This man has reached his current position step by step with his military achievements, so he has to submit to him.

Xu Rong looked at the south with deep eyes, always feeling that this time it was not that simple.

"Send more scouts and scouts." Xu Rong said in a deep voice: "I want to know the enemy's deployment!"

"Yes!" Li Jue and Guo Si responded in unison.

...

Meng Jinguan.

When Sun Ce learned that the Yangzhou army was fighting with the fleeing Xiliang army, he was eager to find Zhou Tai, the commander-in-chief of the Huaihe River Navy, to ask for a fight.

"A thousand men are enough for me!"

"No!" Zhou Tai flatly refused. "The military advisor ordered me to guard the Mengjin Pass and Xiaomengjin Pass ferry. I must not let anyone escape from here!" Sun Ce said, "The commander-in-chief is brave. Even if the Huaihe Navy loses a thousand men, it is enough to guard the ferry!"

Zhou Tai said seriously, "Military orders are military orders. How can we treat them as a joke?"

During these days of getting along, Sun Ce knew that Zhou Tai was a man who liked to argue, so he explained: "The Xiliang army is not good at water battles."

"Even if we seize Mengjin Pass, it will be useless. The dry season is about to end, the Yellow River is flooded, and the upper reaches are dangerous. Even you, the commander-in-chief, would find it difficult to swim across, let alone the Xiliang army?"

Zhou Tai remained silent.

Sun Ce increased his anger and said, "It's different in the west. Although there are 40,000 troops chasing and intercepting us, who is Xu Rong?"

"That is a man that even a military expert like you cannot capture, let alone the two military advisors."

"If Xu Rong is allowed to escape back to Guanzhong, wouldn't that give Dong Zhuo even more power and allow him to make a comeback in two or three years?"

Zhou Tai hesitated.

Sun Ce took a deep breath and used his trump card, saying, "It is a waste for the commander-in-chief to have 10,000 elite soldiers guarding the Mengjin Pass where Xu Rong will not attack!"

"If we let Xu Rong escape, then what's the point of this battle?"

Zhou Tai was persuaded, but still asked with doubt: "Will the situation change if you go?"

"Soldiers who, deception also!"

Sun Ce smiled confidently and said, "I don't need a lot of surprise troops. As long as they are unexpected enough, I can at least make Xu Rong flustered and make him make mistakes!"

After a long while, Zhou Tai said, "Okay, you convinced me."

"I will write a letter to the military advisor and explain everything. Once the military advisor replies and agrees, you can go to the battle."

This time it was Sun Ce's turn to get anxious: "Commander-in-chief! The military situation is changing rapidly. How can we miss such a great opportunity because of a small matter?"

Zhou Tai's attitude was very firm: "This matter is not negotiable!"

"Either obey orders or don't go to war!"

Sun Ce said helplessly: "Okay, I will follow the governor's arrangement."

Zhou Tai nodded, revealing a rare smile, and said, "Bofu, you are so young but have such insight. I am not as good as you. Your future is limitless."

"But you are too impetuous. If you can't change this, I'm afraid you won't go far."

"Thank you for your appreciation, Commander." Sun Ce said with a wry smile, "If it weren't for the grudge between me and Dong Zhuo for killing my father, I wouldn't be so upset."

Zhou Tai nodded and said, "I can understand your feelings."

"But you must remember one thing!"

"My lord does not like generals who act on their own initiative. No matter how good you are, you will not be valued!"

Then, Zhou Tai approached Sun Ce and whispered, "Also, don't learn from Guan Yu!"

This is a reminder to Sun Ce not only to keep the word loyalty in mind but also to keep it in his heart.

These days, not only Sun Ce was observing Zhou Tai, but Zhou Tai was also observing Sun Ce.

Sun Ce was rising to prominence and it was obvious at first glance that he was unwilling to be ordinary. Zhou Tai also reminded Sun Ce not to follow Sun Jian's old path.

Jinmao is not a good-tempered person, and no one can predict what will happen at that time.

Sun Ce looked solemn, bowed deeply to Zhou Tai and said, "Thank you for your reminder, Commander!"

Zhou Tai nodded and said, "Go down and prepare. Hurry up and it will only take two or three days for the reply."

Sun Ce thanked him again and walked out of the tent. He couldn't help but recall something.

What was the lord's expression when he first met his younger brother Sun Quan?
Be on guard? Dislike? Dislike?
In short, there is no good intention.

Think about it again, Sun Quan was mature and independent-minded at a young age. If Sun Jian had not died, or if Sun Ce had started his own business, these would have been very good qualities.

But as a subject, one must hide one's ambition.

Sun Ce felt that not only Sun Quan should pay attention to this, but he should also pay attention to it in the future.

After all, the Jiangdong region was in Jinmao's hands. Although Sun Ce did not know about the plan to blitz Yizhou, in his opinion, the time for Yizhou to be included in the territory would not be too far away.

In this case, if Sun Ce wanted to start a business, he could only go to Jiangbei, but he was unfamiliar with the place. How could he defeat Cao Cao, Yuan Shao and others?
Not realistic!
...

Located in the northeastern section of the Qinling Mountains, this place is less than a hundred miles away from Hangu Pass, and is where Lu Bu was ambushed last time.

This time, Lu Bu's vanguard troops safely crossed the mountains and forests without being attacked.

Li Su stayed at the end of the team and waited until all the troops had crossed before he and his troops cooked on the spot.

In order to save his reputation, Lu Bu assigned two thousand men to Li Su, among whom were Li Su's confidants, and asked Li Su to lead the men to cover their retreat.

In Lu Bu's opinion, such a dangerous task as covering the rear should definitely not be left to his own family members, and Li Su was a very good choice.

Li Su was looking forward to this. Jia Fang told him that Dong Zhuo would be attacked in this forest, and then he only needed to pretend to save Dong Zhuo from danger.

"Today should be the agreed date."

Li Su looked at the mountains and forests from time to time, expecting and hoping.

Then, after waiting for a day and a night, nothing happened.

Just when Li Su thought he was being cheated, shouts and screams suddenly arose. Like a meerkat, he tried his best to look in the direction where the sound came from.

"not good!"

"Grandmaster Dong is in trouble, come back to help!"

Li Su shouted hypocritically, and then very slowly organized this group of rabble.

By the time they arrived at the scene, the Yangzhou army had long disappeared and many corpses were left at the scene.

wrong!

Li Su took a closer look and found that those were not the bodies of the Yangzhou army, but rather the bodies of the Xiliang army!
hiss~
Li Su took a deep breath. There were neither arrows nor any corpses of Yangzhou soldiers at the scene.

How did the Xiliang army die?

He couldn't have been scared to death, right?

"Vanguard Cavalry Commander Li Su pays respect to the Grand Master!"

Li Su came to Dong Zhuo's carriage to pay his respects, however, the person who came out of the carriage was the emperor Liu Xie!
Suddenly, Li Su's CPU burned out. What the hell was going on?
"Li Qing has done a great job in protecting the emperor!"

Liu Xie still had tears on his face, but he pretended to be calm and said, "I appoint you as the Tiger Guards Lieutenant General to guard me!"

Happiness came too suddenly. Li Su was so stunned that he bowed and thanked, "Thank you, Grand Master. Oh, no! Thank you, Your Majesty!"

A trace of disappointment flashed across Liu Xie's eyes, and he pulled himself together and said, "General Hu Ben, why don't you clear the way quickly?"

Li Su finally came to his senses: "As ordered!"

Then, seeing the new deputy general standing there in a daze, Li Su became furious and kicked him down.

"What are you still standing there for?"

"Hurry up and clear the way for His Majesty!"

The new deputy general woke up as if from a dream, and came to Li Su in a bounding manner, speaking incoherently and excitedly: "Captain! General! You are the general! Then I am the lieutenant general!"

"I'm a general too!"

The new deputy general never dreamed that the arrangement, which he thought would have a bleak future, would actually be the beginning of his meteoric rise.

Li Su also felt like he was in a dream.

Only at this moment did he recall Jia Fang's confident expression at that time.

Although the process is a bit bizarre, the effect is real and not ambiguous at all.

"So scary!"

At this moment, Li Su thought of the rumors about Jia Xu in the army. He didn't believe it before, but now he has to believe it. Moreover, Jia Xu is much more terrifying than the rumors say.

If my youngest son is so capable, then I must be capable of doing anything, right?

Just as Li Su was stepping on the cotton, he felt like he was in a dream.

Liu Xie was very excited and talked to the only remaining "guard" beside him: "My uncle sent you to protect me?"

"no?"

"The military advisor sent you?"

"It turned out to be the military advisor Xun Yu."

(End of this chapter)