【Chapter 660】 Blood and fire flying over the clouds (5)
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"Report———!"
Just as Li Li was about to go into battle in person, a personal soldier rushed forward and respectfully reported the latest battle situation on the Gukou Plank Road.
"Report to the lord, the Cao army, who had just retreated, broke through the front line of defense stationed by General Zhang Liao, and was fighting with the second line of defense stationed by two generals Xu Chu!"
"Huh?" Li Li changed his expression and said in surprise: "Cao army broke through our army's first line of defense so quickly to fight Xu Chu and others, which means they are close to the valley entrance!"
The personal soldiers nodded and responded: "That's right. This time, Cao's army had somehow completely abandoned the valley and attacked, with several generals charging forward and leading the way. After that, the enemy's morale was high and the attack was rapid. In less than a cup of tea, the enemy defeated General Zhang Liao's troops and then met with the second echelon led by General Xu Chu."
While the personal soldiers were talking, Guo Jia looked up at the moonlight and used this to judge the time. Then he turned his head to look towards Hangu Pass, but he didn't hear any movement. Suddenly, his expression became solemn, and he narrowed his eyes and looked coldly at the noise and fighting sounds in the plank road at the entrance of the valley, and his brows were slightly frowned and thoughtful.
After the personal soldiers reported, Guo Jia stared at the direction of the valley entrance and said without looking sideways: "I'll ask you, are there few 3,000 cavalry led by Zhang Liao and Hu Cheer? Have the two generals been injured? What are the casualties of the enemy?"
"Reported to the military advisor, General Zhang Liao was safe and sound. General Hu Cheer was injured and defeated by Cao Hong and a young general. Then Cao Hong slashed General Hu's back with a knife. Fortunately, the wound was not deep and did not hurt his muscles. After a little bandage, General Hu was unwilling to withdraw from the valley. He retreated with General Zhang Liao to defend the second line of defense, and was still fighting with Cao's army."
"???After the previous fight, there are only more than 600 cavalry left under General Zhang Liao's headquarters, and more than half of the soldiers are wounded. They can't resist the fierce offensive of Cao's army and have to retreat to the valley entrance to continue to block Cao's army. At the same time, the Cao army in the valley suffered a lot of casualties, and there were more than 13,000 enemy soldiers under the arrows and rocks, most of which were wounded. Now they have been abandoned by Cao's army in the valley. The enemy soldiers fighting head-on with General Zhang Liao had about four or five thousand casualties, and the remaining more than 20,000 enemy troops have now poured into the plank road and charged towards the valley entrance without fear of death."
Guo Jia was shocked when he heard this, and the solemn expression on his face became stronger and stronger: "In other words, the soldiers who attacked the plank road of Cao's army were equal to the combat effectiveness of our Jinqiu cavalry. The casualties were only twice as high as our army. In this way, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers under Cao Cao was amazing and should not be underestimated!"
"This???" The personal soldiers were stunned when they heard the sound, and hesitantly wanted to speak. When they saw Guo Jia's face was unhappy, they immediately explained: "The military advisor Rong Ben is not that the enemy's combat power is strong. Instead, the plank road at the entrance of the valley was too narrow, and tens of thousands of soldiers gathered from both armies, which prompted the cavalry to be unable to operate at all. Not only could they use the cavalry to kill the enemy, but they were burdened by the cavalry, and they were restricted and their reaction speed was slow. However, most of the Cao army was infantry and moved quickly. There were many people and many powers, so they could fight head-on with our army without falling behind. If they were in the wilderness, the three thousand gold guards were enough to destroy more than three times the enemy's army, and their own casualties would not be too great."
After saying that, the personal soldiers showed an indignation on their faces, probably because he was also a member of the Jinqiu Guard. The casualties of the Jinqiu guards were so great that they were so angry that they wanted to go into battle by themselves to see how powerful Cao's army was. However, the reason he mentioned was indeed objective reasons, and he reported it in a realistic manner. It was not a subjective assumption.
"Wait!" Just as the personal soldiers stood up and left, Li Li called out and called him; "You just said that the Cao army had less than 20,000 casualties. Now all the Cao army rushed to the valley entrance to fight were more than 20,000, and a total of 40,000 soldiers and horses. According to the scouts' previous investigation, Cao army had more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, so where were there 20,000 soldiers and horses? Why no one came to report?"
"Ah!" The personal soldiers were shocked when they heard this and knelt down in fear and fear, "Don't be angry, the 20,000 Cao troops had already gone to the valley entrance north of Feiyundu at the second hour, and headed straight for the eight thousand defenders of General Tengxiao."
"At the second update? That is to say, when Cao Hong led his army to rush to the north, the 20,000 Cao troops had already gone to the northern valley entrance, and at this time they should have had close contact with Teng Xiao's soldiers." Li Li did not blame the personal soldiers, because he sent dozens of personal soldiers to the valley entrance and the tops of the mountains on both sides, and the Cao army's division of troops to attack the northern valley entrance was also expected.
He waved his hand to signal the personal soldiers to retreat. Li Li frowned slightly and turned his head to look into the direction of Hangu Pass. Like Guo Jia, he did not see the iron cavalry in hope, and there was still no movement.
"Don't worry, lord. I just saw the sky. General Li Zhi left Feiyundu for just half an hour. I guess he had arrived at Hangu Pass at this moment. At most half an hour, Shuofeng Camp could arrive first. The Feixiong Heavy Armored Cavalry under General Huan Fei's tent arrived. Therefore, the most urgent task is that we must guard the entrance of the valley for half an hour, just wait for reinforcements to arrive and attack from all sides, and then we can wipe out the Cao army in one fell swoop!" Seeing Li Li's expression strange, Guo Jia comforted him softly.
Li Li shook his head slightly: "I am too anxious tonight, and I am a little eager for quick success. If I delay taking action for half an hour, I will definitely be foolproof. The more anxious I am, the more likely I will make mistakes, and it is an unforgivable mistake. This is the case for the battle tonight."
"???I arranged the powerful Jinqiu guards to intercept the cavalry at the entrance of the valley, but arranged the infantry with limited combat effectiveness outside the entrance of the valley and on the cliffs on both sides. This arrangement seemed reasonable, but in fact it was put before the horse, invisibly exposing the weakness of our army's insufficient military strength. The cavalry entered the plank road at the entrance of the valley to avoid the strength and make their own destruction, which was equivalent to telling Cao Cao straightforward that our army was not as good as him, so he had to send cavalry to block the entrance of the valley. And the mountains on both sides were full of mountains.
The infantry on the cliff lacked experience in fighting. At first, the war started, threw arrows, stones and tincture oil into the valley. In less than half an hour, the arrows were exhausted, and the stones were thrown away, and the tincture oil was left in vain. So Cao Cao saw through the virtual and solidarity of our army at a glance, and concentrated all his troops to attack the valley entrance. However, the infantry on the cliff of our army was helpless and occupied the favorable terrain in vain, but he watched the Cao army attack the plank road in the valley entrance with unstoppable force, helpless."
While speaking, Li Li sighed softly in annoyance: "Ah! It's time to come, regret is useless. For the sake of this, there is only one way to fight to the death. Tonight I want to personally test how powerful the combat power of the soldiers under Cao Cao is. See if it's Cao A-man's life or whether I, Li Li, is the fast sword!"
"My lord still has to join the war in person?" Guo Jia advised stubbornly: "This is what I said, the future and destiny of a million people with a lord's body must not be in danger?"
Li Li raised his hand and signaled Guo Jia not to say anything again: "I appreciate the kindness of filial piety, but I have decided to go to meet Cao Mengde in person. In fact, as early as when I went to Xuzhou, I wanted to fight with Cao Cao. Unfortunately, Xuzhou is not our territory after all, and there is no soldiers or generals. If we rashly go up, we would die. Even so, Cao Cao still sent the Xiahou brothers to follow along the way until the bloody battle of the Bu Mansion overnight, and we had already formed a great hatred with Cao Cao. The same power was the same.
The green mountains remain unchanged, and the green water flows forever. The Bu Mansion on the Yangtze River was replaced by Feiyundu Mountain Stream. Cao Mengde became the target of my pursuit of Li Li. Now I am a knife and Cao Cao is just a fishing meat. If he wants to escape from my nose, it depends on how capable he is. Can he fall into the torrent like Li Li and not die, and die in danger!”
Guo Jia was silent when he heard this, and he wanted to persuade Li Li not to go into battle himself, but he also knew that once Li Li decided on it, it would be useless to say anyone to persuade him. However, some things he should say must be said, otherwise he would not be Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao.
"There is indeed a deep hatred between the lord and Cao Cao, and it has become a trend of inadequacy. Only by completely exterminating Cao Cao can this hatred be resolved. Before this, Cao Cao planned to plot against the lord, but he was unable to harm others, but instead took the lives of the Xiahou brothers and more than 300 dead soldiers in the family. Tonight, Cao Cao wanted to lurk here again, waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack Hangu Pass. By chance, we met him and surrounded and annihilated his 60,000 army. Just now, General Hu Cheer killed his eldest son Cao Ang. In this way, the hatred between the two sides became deeper and deeper, and it could not be resolved no matter what. Only by killing the Cao Cao family can we eliminate the deep hatred between each other.
Therefore, I have a plan to destroy Cao Cao, but I wonder if my lord can adopt it?"
"Oh? You might as well speak frankly, and you are not guilty of your mistakes!" Li Li nodded in surprise and said.
"Since that's the case, I'll speak out." Guo Jia nodded happily, then looked up at the stone cliffs on both sides of the valley entrance, his eyes filled with murderous intent.
"My lord, look at the cliff about fifty steps outside the valley entrance. This is the narrowest part of the entire valley entrance plank road, which is only two meters wide, and there are cliffs on both sides. If you throw a stone from the top of the mountain to block the plank road, you can block the Cao army in the mountain stream, thereby reducing casualties from our army, and even trapping the Cao army in the valley. However, in order to ensure that this plan is successful, you have to abandon the lives of thousands of Jinqiu soldiers and let them block the plank road and entangle the Cao army and cannot pass through. Also, General Teng Xiao at the entrance of the valley at the northern end of the mountain stream and his eight thousand soldiers are afraid they will be buried here.
After our army blocked the valley entrance, the troops divided into two groups to rush to the valley entrance in the north and intercepted them before the Cao army broke through the defense. The valley entrance in the north was not as wide as here, and it was relatively open and convenient for cavalry to fight. With the lord's 5,000 iron cavalry in his hand, it was enough to block the Cao army in the mountain stream and dare not show its head. After a few moments, the reinforcements of Hangu Pass arrived. At that time, the siege of all directions and destroying the Cao army was easy to turn against each other. I had not seen the terrain of the valley entrance in the south and could not think of this strategy. However, when I came to the valley entrance in person, I realized that our army would not have to fight hard at all, and would trap Cao army in the mountain stream and could not come out.
I wonder what the lord wants to do?”
After hearing this, Li Li's expression changed slightly and he pondered: "There are no stones available on the cliff, how can he block the plank road?"
"What's the difficulty? General Ma Chao has eight thousand infantrymen. Each of them carried a stone and went up the mountain from the east hillside. He could climb to the top of the mountain in just two cups of tea, and then blocked the plank road."
Li Li frowned when she heard the sound and shook her head gently: "Actually, I had this idea when I climbed to the top of the mountain before. But when I thought of Teng Xiao, Tie Xiao, Guo Meng and the eight thousand Hedong brothers who were staying at the entrance of the northern valley, I resolutely decided to give up this idea. I would rather lead my brothers to fight bloody than give up the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers in vain. Tonight, our army has a total of more than 20,000 people. Even if more than half of them died in battle, they would only be more than 10,000. But if I abandoned the lives of these soldiers in vain, I, Li Li, could not do it and would not do it."
"??? There is no need to persuade me to fight again. Fight. These five thousand war cavalry are handed over to Meng Qi for command. He is injured and should not fight hard. Xu Ding speed to transfer three thousand infantrymen. Xu Huang protected his left and right to fight with me. This time, I personally led three thousand infantrymen into the plank road to fight Cao Mengde, and see what skills he has to rush out of the valley from me, Li Li!"
After saying that, Li Li kicked his feet lightly, and the King of Golden Beasts moved instantly, galloping out like an arrow from the string. The golden light flashed dozens of steps away. Behind him, Xu Huang ran, and Xu Ding led the three thousand infantry troops to run and follow, heading straight to the Gukou Plank Road.
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The Feiyundu Bridge plot made Hu Ben a little confused. He originally planned to have a maximum of five or six chapters and wanted to finish a paragraph as soon as possible, but the scene that was presented to you guys after sorting out the ideas was like this now. Family affection and career, eagerness and mistakes, were all entangled together by chance, because these are living people, not simple story characters.
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