Chapter 39 Li Siye vs. Lu Bu, who is the most powerful general in the world? !
"Marquis Wen, Zhang Liao's face has changed. He must be hiding something!"

Zhang Liao realized belatedly that he had fallen into a trap and his face suddenly changed slightly.

Lü Bu did not grasp this detail, but the two traitors Song Xian and Hou Cheng observed it. Song Xian immediately spoke out and exposed the matter.

Lu Bu immediately looked over and saw that Zhang Liao's face changed slightly. After being exposed, he immediately concealed it and returned to normal.

But Zhang Liao is not a veteran actor in the troupe, so the transition is not so natural and the concealment is not very good.

Lu Bu was immediately shocked and angry:
"Zhang Liao, it's you! I've always treated you as a brother, but you treat me like this?! A brother's wife should not be bullied!!!"

"Marquis Wen, this is a misunderstanding!"

Zhang Liao immediately explained.

However, Lu Bu was so angry that he didn't care about his explanation. He shouted angrily, "Hand over my Diao Chan! Hand her over intact!!!"

"This……"

Zhang Liao sighed inwardly.

If his guess was correct, the beautiful female corpse in red should be Diao Chan. But how could he hand it over?

If Lu Bu knew that his concubine was dead, he would probably go crazy!
This was a conspiracy of the Xiliang Army. They killed Diao Chan and put the blame on their five schools of the Northern Army. Coincidentally, Lu Bu happened to track them down.

This series of events was too coincidental. It was obviously a chain of schemes, a trap aimed at the Five Schools of the Northern Army and the Bingzhou Army, trying to make them fight each other!

What to say?!

Zhang Liao felt bitter in his mouth and couldn't say it out loud!
"Marquis Wen, looking at Zhang Liao like this, maybe the matter has already been settled, and there is no way I can explain it to you!"

"After all, Wenhou's concubine Diao Chan is so beautiful, so stunningly beautiful that any normal man would be unable to resist her!"

Song Xian and Hou Cheng immediately fanned the flames and added fuel to the fire, making Lu Bu, who was already angry, even more furious!
Seeing Zhang Liao unable to express his pain, Song Xian and Hou Cheng looked at each other and were secretly delighted.

They naturally knew that this was a conspiracy of the Western Liang Army, and even guessed that Diao Chan was dead, but Zhang Liao was completely at a loss in this matter and had no way to explain it.

In this way, they could just instigate Lu Bu to attack Zhang Liao and destroy Wang Yun's idea of ​​forming an alliance between the Bingzhou Army and the five schools of the Northern Army.

"Zhang Liao, the hatred of having my wife stolen from me is irreconcilable! I will kill you!!!"

Lu Bu could no longer bear it. Looking at Zhang Liao's hesitation and inability to express his grievances, he tacitly agreed to the matter. He squeezed the horse's belly and the Red Hare shot out with an arrow.

"Kill with me!!!"

Lu Bu led the way, followed closely by the Bingzhou Wolf Riders, and charged directly towards Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao was naturally defeated and retreated, gathering his troops and returning to the camp.

Fortunately, Zhang Liao had prepared defensive fortifications in advance. The Bingzhou army was mostly composed of cavalry and was not good at attacking cities and strongholds. Lu Bu was helpless and could only shout and curse outside the gate of the stronghold.

Zhang Liao also sent a messenger to inform the front-line troops at full speed to prevent Lu Bu from going crazy and attacking from behind, which would prevent Qin Qiong and other soldiers from being attacked from both sides.

"Marquis Wen, why don't we go around to the back and attack Qin Qiong's front-line troops?!"

"Since Zhang Liao treated Wen Hou like this, we don't need to be polite! Aren't Qin Qiong and his men fighting against the Xiliang Army? Let's attack them from both sides and let them know that our Bingzhou Army is not easy to bully!"

Song Xian and Hou Cheng thought exactly this, and they kept fanning the flames and inciting Lu Bu to attack.

However, Lu Bu didn't care about the battle between the five schools of the Northern Army and the Western Liang Army on the front line. In his eyes, there was only Zhang Liao and Diao Chan.

"Zhang Liao, hand over Diao Chan!!!"

Lu Bu roared, "Hand over Diao Chan, and I will let you go!!!"

"..."

No matter how Song Xian and Hou Cheng tried to persuade Lu Bu, it was to no avail. The Bingzhou army had been confronting Zhang Liao outside the gate of the infantry camp and surrounded him.

But the Bingzhou army was mostly composed of cavalry, and they could not attack at all. Lu Bu had been trying to force Zhang Liao out and send out his scouts.

"Marquis Wen, how about we take a detour to attack Qin Qiong's frontline troops, force Zhang Liao to send troops to rescue them, and then surround and attack the reinforcements?"

This time, Song Xian finally persuaded Lu Bu and made him feel tempted.

But at this moment, a scout came to report: "General, we found an infantry unit not far away, about 3,000 in number, led by Li Siye, the fifth infantry commander of the Northern Army, and they are marching quickly towards the camp!"

"Then there's no need to go far away!"

Lu Bu looked at the infantry battalion angrily and shouted at Zhang Liao:
"Zhang Liao, your infantry commander Li Siye is leading 3,000 infantrymen outside. I will lead the army to slaughter them now. If you have the guts, then keep hiding in your shell!
"Brothers of the Bingzhou Army, let's go!!!"

Lu Bu directly led the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry to leave the infantry camp and charge towards the location of Li Siye's three thousand infantry.

Beimang Mountain belongs to the Luoyang Basin. Although there are small hills in this area, the slope is not high and most of it is flat. It is a flat environment, which is exactly the battlefield where cavalry is best at.

The "Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry" commanded by Lu Bu was one of the most elite troops in the world, and was no less powerful than the "Flying Bear Army" of the Western Liang Army. In his eyes, they were just 3,000 infantrymen, and he could destroy them in the blink of an eye!
For this reason, Lu Bu led the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry to charge at Li Siye, but he ordered Gao Shun to lead the Xianzhen Camp, and Hao Meng and other generals led the Bingzhou army to ambush halfway, intending to surround and attack the reinforcements and capture and kill Zhang Liao!

The hatred of seizing his wife is irreconcilable!
Zhang Liao is the enemy that Lu Bu wants to target the most!
……

Seeing Lü Bu leading the Bingzhou Army away, the camp got a chance to catch its breath, but Zhang Liao did not relax his vigilance. Instead, he felt a little solemn:
"Those 3,000 infantrymen should be the Modao troops that Your Majesty secretly supported and trained. Li Siye went to take over, but he didn't expect to encounter this kind of thing. With the elite forces of Lu Bu and Bingzhou Wolf Riders, the infantrymen are no match at all!
"The Xiliang Army used this trick of stealing the day and making the Bingzhou Army and the five schools of the Northern Army attack each other, making us fight each other, so that the Xiliang Army can benefit! I was careless!"

Zhang Liao was secretly resentful!

But he also knew that he needed to send troops to rescue Li Siye and his men, so he once again rode at full speed to send a message to the front-line troops.

He immediately assembled his troops and was about to go out to rescue Li Siye, but the Jinyiwei had already received the intelligence and arrived first.

"What happened? Why did Lu Bu lead his troops to surround the camp?!"

Xuanwu, disguised as the city gate captain 'Wu Qiong', appeared.

In this siege on Niu Fu and other generals of the Xiliang Army, almost all the Jinyiwei were mobilized.

Qin Qiong commanded the front line, Zhang Liao was in the rear, and the Jinyiwei infiltrated them. Some participated in the front-line battles and assassinated enemy generals. Some also ensured logistics and food supply in the rear, and also delivered messages and gathered intelligence.

In ancient times when information transmission was inconvenient, first-hand intelligence was crucial. It can be said that the Jinyiwei played a crucial role in this battle.

After Zhang Liao saw Xuanwu, he told him everything that had happened.

Xuanwu frowned and said:

"It doesn't make sense. The Xiliang Army killed Diao Chan, so why did the Bingzhou Army trace her to the five schools of the Northern Army? Is there something missing in the middle?
"How did the Bingzhou Army find out that Diao Chan was kidnapped and killed? And how did they track her down? A unit of the Xiliang Army attacked the infantry battalion, leaving Diao Chan's body behind and then left. The Bingzhou Army immediately attacked again. Was it a seamless transition?

"But such a seamless connection is too coincidental. It's so coincidental that it's obviously a conspiracy!"

Zhang Liao knew there must be some trick going on, but he just couldn't figure it out. After all, he lacked key intelligence information, and solving cases was not his forte.

At this time, the Jinyiwei arrived one after another, including Qinglong and Zhuque. After Zhuque met with everyone, he said in a deep voice:

"Qin Qiong is leading the five schools of the Northern Army and the Black Armor Army to block the main force of the Western Liang Army. I hope we can get rid of Lu Bu as soon as possible, at any cost! Otherwise, there will be a risk of fire in the backyard and being attacked from all sides!

"Bai Hu is leading nearly 10,000 troops from the south of Xiliang to rush to our aid. Now that things have come to this, we have decided to encircle and kill the Bingzhou army. General Lu Bu is fickle, and since he is stubborn and unyielding, we must root him out!

"I hope you don't mind, Zhang Liao!"

This time, Zhang Liao, who was also from Bingzhou, just sighed in his heart, and finally did not plead for the Bingzhou army and generals such as Lu Bu!

Xuanwu told Zhuque about the Xiliang army's chain of plans. Zhuque was indeed the "female Zhuge". After a moment's deep thought, she immediately said:
"The Xiliang Army's chain of plans lacks a key link. Apparently, some generals in the Bingzhou Army have been bribed, which is why the key link can be seamlessly connected!
"When you were confronting Lu Bu just now, were there any generals fanning the flames and stirring up trouble? Do you want the world to be in chaos?"

"Here is!!!"

Zhuque's words awakened Zhang Liao, who woke up immediately and said in a deep voice:

"Just now, Song Xian and Hou Cheng have been trying to sow discord and fan the flames, and even proposed to take a detour to attack Qin Qiong and other front-line troops, in order to surround and attack the reinforcements. However, Gao Shun and other generals are trying to persuade Lu Bu to calm down, suspecting that there is a trick!
"The situation was urgent at the time, and I was also confused by the situation, so I didn't notice this detail. I thought they were concerned about Lu Bu and shared the same hatred for the enemy. But now I think they might have something to hide!"

...

"There must be something wrong when things are out of the ordinary. There must be something seriously wrong with Song Xian and Hou Cheng!"

Zhuque nodded and said, "In that case, Zhang Liao, you lead your troops to rescue Li Siye immediately. We will be there soon. Be careful that they may set up an ambush along the way and attack the reinforcements!"

...

"I see!"

Zhang Liao nodded, and then asked, "What else do you want?"

...

"We need to make some minor preparations. You go ahead first," Suzaku said.

Zhang Liao had no doubts and led his troops, who were ready to go, out of the camp to rescue Li Siye.

Infantry had no chance of winning against cavalry, especially cavalry like the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, in the plains, which made Zhang Liao anxious.

...

"Take us to see Diao Chan's body!"

Zhuque said while looking at the soldiers of the infantry battalion.

The Jinyiwei acted on behalf of the emperor, executed first and reported later, and this was a special permission from the emperor. In addition, given Zhang Liao's performance just now, the soldiers of the infantry battalion naturally did not dare to say anything more and immediately took Zhuque and others to the morgue.

When the group entered the morgue, the stench of corpses did not change the expressions of Zhuque and others at all. Looking at the bodies of the soldiers in the morgue and the coroner who was examining them, they saw the corpse of the woman in red at a glance.

"You guys go out first, don't come in without our order!"

"This……"

The coroner and other staff in the morgue hesitated, but Zhuque took out his badge and said, "Jinyiwei is investigating the case. Anyone who resists will be killed without mercy!!!"

"Qiang Qiang Qiang——"

The Jinyiwei drew their swords directly, and they were full of murderous intent. The coroner and other staff members immediately retreated in a timid manner. Even the soldiers of the infantry battalion, facing the murderous Jinyiwei, knew what to do and temporarily avoided the sharp edge.

"Guard outside the camp and don't let anyone get close!"

"promise!!!"

After the Jinyiwei surrounded the morgue, Zhuque looked at Xuanwu and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Please don't question my expertise!"

As soon as Xuanwu saw Zhuque's performance, he knew that she wanted to disguise herself as Diao Chan.

As he spoke, Xuanwu had already stepped forward and looked at Diao Chan's body. Recalling Diao Chan's heroic performance in sacrificing her life for the country, he said with awe:

"I'm sorry, it's all for the country! For His Majesty!"

He immediately began to observe Diao Chan, took out bottles and jars and began to disguise himself. Without Diao Chan's words and deeds, the disguise lost a kind of "authenticity", but speed was of the essence, so he could only improvise!
Considering that Diao Chan was a woman and her heroic performance in sacrificing her life for the country, Xuanwu did not measure the size of the corpse, but only compared it through visual inspection, which was also a respect for Diao Chan.

In this way, Xuanwu began his disguise.

Qinglong looked indifferent, like a thousand years of ice, but at this time he frowned and asked: "Is this necessary?"

...

"Of course!"

Zhuque looked at Xuanwu's disguise with relish: "In fact, it is not wise to kill Lu Bu at this time, but if Xuanwu can disguise himself as Diao Chan, then he can instigate Lu Bu and target the Xiliang army.

"Now that Yuan Shao and other traitors have forged an imperial edict to purge the emperor, we must preserve our strength to face greater challenges. We, the Jinyiwei, have some control over the capital, but we know very little about the rest of the country.

"Qiao Mao is almost blinded by the specific example of issuing a manifesto to purge the emperor's side. This is quite disadvantageous to us, so we need to preserve more manpower to meet these challenges!"

...

Qinglong nodded slightly.

"Da da da--"

At this time, Bai Hu, disguised as "Wang Fang", had led his troops to attack. He ordered his troops to be on full alert outside the infantry battalion.

After hearing the news, he rushed to the morgue. The Jinyiwei guarding the gate obviously didn't know that he was Baihu, and stopped him. He was allowed to enter only after receiving the message from Zhuque.

As soon as he entered, Baihu's eyes widened. In his sight, Xuanwu had turned into Diao Chan, except that the bear's mouth was filled with fat, which was difficult to simulate and could only be filled with objects.

Filling from A to D little by little!

"Damn it, this is really unbearable!"

Baihu is also a veteran in Yihongyuan, but he also feels embarrassed. He subconsciously looks at Xuanwu's lower body and says helplessly:

"Some tight-fitting female clothing will expose your male body. Either change into a skirt or just get castrated."

White Tiger shook his head, looked at Suzaku and Azure Dragon and said:
"I asked Xu Rong to stay and assist Qin Qiong. Niu Fu and other generals have obviously noticed that something has changed in our rear, so they have stepped up their offensive. Qin Qiong can't hold out for long, so we need to deal with him as soon as possible!"

"This is the Xiliang Army's evil plan!"

Zhuque briefly explained the cause and effect.

Bai Hu immediately started cursing: "Who in the Xiliang army is making the plan? Why does he seem more resourceful than Li Ru?!"

"It's not clear who it is, but according to intelligence analysis, it is very likely that it was Yuan Shao's strategist Xu You, and Yuan Shu's strategist Yang Hong is also secretly assisting. The power of the Yuan family is huge, and this is just the tip of the iceberg!"

Suzaku's smile faded as he thought back to Yuan's power.

Only after fighting with the Yuan family did they realize how huge and terrifying the power of the Runan Yuan family was, with three officials in four generations and students and former officials spread all over the world!
Your Majesty has already imprisoned the entire family of Grand Tutor Yuan Wei and has gradually demonstrated the military power of the imperial authority. Even so, there are still so many resistance forces, and there is an oppressive feeling in the capital as if a storm is about to come.

It can be imagined that if Your Majesty is unprepared and faces Yuan's reckless dethronement, the only outcome will be death!

"All right!"

During the conversation between Suzaku and Baihu, Xuanwu's voice echoed, and everyone looked over and were immediately amazed!

Baihu cursed, but looking at Xuanwu who was disguised as Diao Chan, and her stunning beauty, he swallowed, felt a little dry in the mouth, and his body reacted.

Say something bad but act honestly!
But Baihu was smart. He immediately lowered his gaze and looked at a certain outline. All his thirsty desires disappeared, as if a bucket of cold water was poured over his head: "Bad review!!! Your disguise this time is too bad!!!"

Suzaku was also helpless: "It still doesn't work?!"

"Men and women have completely different structures!" Qinglong looked indifferent and speechless for a moment.

"Do you know what the highest level of bone shrinking is?"

Xuanwu completely turned into Diao Chan, with hairstyle, appearance, figure, size, etc. Of course, the clothes were slightly different. Out of respect for Diao Chan, Xuanwu did not take off her clothes, and she lay there intact.

After this incident, Diao Chan could obviously be given a grand burial, the highest level of grand burial possible.

As everyone was in doubt, Xuanwu asked himself and answered: "Shrink! Yang! Into! The belly!——"

While the sound was still floating, everyone suddenly discovered that the outline was shrinking little by little, and finally disappeared, completely flattened out, as if it were a plain, flat as a river!
Qinglong: "..."

Suzaku: "..."

White Tiger: "..."

……

Ten miles away from the Northern Army's Fifth Infantry Battalion, Li Siye was leading three thousand Modao troops on the march.

This is a heavy infantry. Every soldier is over two meters tall, tall and strong, with amazing strength. Every one of them is a strongman.

They were equipped with a seven-foot (2.14-meter) long, three-foot (0.92-meter) blade, four-foot (1.22-meter) handle, and weighed fifteen pounds. (One foot in the Tang Dynasty is equivalent to 30.7 centimeters in modern times)

Although the Mo Dao is in its scabbard, this Mo Dao team is still sharp and aggressive!

They looked cold and murderous. There was not a single sound of human voice in the team of 3,000 people. As they advanced, there was only the sound of uniform footsteps and the clashing of armors!

There is solemnity in the dead silence!

The neatly-organized infantry phalanxes advanced steadily, raising clouds of dust that scared away the birds and beasts on Mount Beimang. It seemed as if the murderous aura was contagious, and within a radius of five miles, there was complete silence!

It seemed that even the beasts in nature were so frightened that they dared not challenge its edge and retreated one after another, leaving a buffer zone!
"Trample! Trample! Trample!—"

In front of the Modao team, Li Siye took the lead, like a leader, leading the Modao team towards the front battlefield.

Since His Majesty issued an edict and ordered him to take over the Modao team through the tiger talisman, Li Siye only wasted a quarter of an hour from rushing to the destination, to receiving the team, to setting off.

During this quarter of an hour, Li Siye conducted a test on the Modao team - swinging the sword!

Don't underestimate knife swinging!

The Mo Dao is seven feet (2.14 meters) long, the blade is three feet (0.92 meters) long, the handle is four feet (1.22 meters) long, and it weighs fifteen pounds. Ordinary people simply cannot draw the sword and swing it!

When Jing Ke assassinated Qin Shi Huang, the King of Qin was chased and ran around a pillar because he could not pull out his nearly one-meter-long sword.

Even the long sword is like this, let alone the Mo Dao? !
However, the test results made Li Siye very satisfied - when he gave an order, three thousand strong men of the Modao team drew their swords in unison and immediately chopped down in mid-air.

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz—"

At that moment, it seemed that even the air was split apart, making a buzzing sound that broke through the air!
Once, twice, three times, the Modao team hacked and chopped steadily forward, and there was not the slightest disorder in the entire infantry phalanx.

The use of the Mo Dao is very simple, just like a machete, just raise it and chop. To describe the Mo Dao team in one sentence, "When the Mo Dao is out, the men and horses are divided."

But if you want to draw the sword, swing it, or attack continuously, you need a tall and strong man to do it!
And this team of 3,000 Modao soldiers did it all!
At that moment, Li Siye knew that this was an elite force!
After the test, Li Siye immediately led the Modao team to the front line of the battlefield!
He wants to show his sword!

He wanted to let the Xiliang Army see that defeating cavalry with infantry was not a myth!
He wants to make the Modao Team famous in this battle!
He will separate any rebels who disobey the king's orders and defy the holy decree!

"Trample! Trample! Trample!—"

As Li Siye led the Modao Team forward, scouts would occasionally send urgent messages, relaying combat intelligence from Qin Qiong's troops on the front line and the situation around the battlefield.

When two armies are fighting, first-hand intelligence is crucial information!
But at this moment, news came that Lu Bu led the Bingzhou army to besiege the infantry battalion, which made Li Siye look grim. He led his troops to change route and charge towards the infantry battalion, determined to rescue Zhang Liao!
"Rumble--"

Before they had gone far, they felt the vibration of a rolling earth dragon.

Li Siye knew that this was the shock of thousands of cavalrymen galloping!

Sure enough, not far away, there was smoke and dust rolling. As it gradually approached, Lu Bu, who was riding the Red Hare and leading the way, suddenly came into view!
There were only three thousand cavalrymen behind Lu Bu!

Three thousand cavalrymen can give off the sound of ten thousand horses galloping, which means that this is a heavy cavalry. Sure enough, when we get closer, we can see that this is a fully armed "armored cavalry".

Li Siye knew that this was the "Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry" which was as famous as Li Jue's "Flying Bear Army"!
even!

Under the command of Lu Bu, the world's most powerful general, the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry are superior to the Flying Bear Army led by Li Jue in terms of both overall strength and combat record!

Dong Zhuo fought against Ding Yuan in Bajing. It was with the help of Lu Bu and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry that Ding Yuan was able to defeat the larger force with a smaller one and repel Dong Zhuo's 100,000 Western Liang troops!

That battle made Lu Bu the most powerful general in the world!
It was also that battle that made the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry famous throughout the world!
This made Dong Zhuo sigh, "If I want to conquer the world, I must get Lu Bu and the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry!"

Any army would be terrified when faced with this elite heavy cavalry with an impressive battle record and led by the world's most powerful general!
Especially in the plains, encountering this terrifying heavy cavalry unit would make people flee in fear!
Be afraid before fighting!
However! ! !
Li Siye's body began to tremble. It was not a tremor of fear! It was a tremor of excitement! A kind of madness! ! An urge to drink blood! ! !
Facing the world's most powerful general, Lu Bu, who was leading the heavy cavalry of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, and attacking on the flat plain, Li Siye actually dismounted from his horse, holding a Mo Dao, and faced the enemy directly with infantry against cavalry!

"Those who disobey the king's orders and defy the will of the Holy Spirit will be killed without mercy!!!"

"Kill without mercy!!!"

There was no cover! No obstacles! No sword and shield formations or chevaux de frise defenses!

Li Siye led 3,000 Modao troops and advanced step by step towards the attacking Lu Bu and Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry!
Amid the roar of killing that could be heard for ten miles, Lu Bu, commanding the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, had arrived!
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(End of this chapter)