Chapter 74: The real and false

Yan Yan and Yan Pu led their troops out of both wings, intending to intercept Lu Bu's cavalry from the side. Since it was an interception, they were not fighting to the death. However, the spearmen led by the two could not stop the cavalry's charge speed like lightning. It was impossible to do anything, so the people on both wings retreated to the army with little success and retreated with Zhang Liao's central army...

The troops who resisted the enemy's sword and shield soldiers also retreated. In a hurry, the horse-repelling was not arranged neatly, revealing countless gaps to the cavalry of Lu Bu. The crossbowmen did not cause effective damage to the cavalry after letting go of a rain of arrows. Five thousand cavalry charged forward, and after the two wings of the Taiping Army and the shooting of the crossbowmen, the damage was less than 500, which could not stop the opponent's horse from trampling on the galloping aura. [bsp;   The retreat was carried out in an orderly manner. Zhang Liao seemed to ignore the cavalry that rushed over, but after retreating for a mile, he ordered the soldiers holding spears to prepare for the enemy to face the enemy.

With his body and flesh alone, he might not be able to stop the cavalry from rushing to death, but Zhang Liao still looked at the cavalry team that was rolling up the smoke and dust.

Turning a blind eye to the bodies of the sword and shield soldiers who died under the horse's hooves in his army, Lu Bu was full of energy and smiled at the corner of his mouth. He led the entire army to advance, just when the cavalry team ahead stormed the Taiping Army's formation, he would lead the entire army to charge and sweep away.

The sword and shield soldiers who were lying on the ground screaming were victims. Behind them was the slow arrival of Lu Bu's army. In front, the vanguard cavalry was moving forward and about to step into the camp that Zhang Liao's army had no time to put away when they retreated.

The complacent Lu Bu was ready to raise Fang Tian's painting halberd at any time to order the entire army to rush, but his pupils shrank slightly and his expression was dumbfounded.

The vanguard of the cavalry in front suddenly fell down, and the white cloth rolled up in the military camp tent fell into the trench. The horses neighed and the dust flew. The situation turned sharply.

War horses kept falling down in front of them, and cavalry fell off their horses, as if countless traps were in front of them.

"Ming Jin to withdraw the troops"

Lu Bu Junlang's face was full of ferocious expressions, and he unwilling to order the troops to withdraw.

Even if he was brave but not resourceful, he knew that the enemy had dug a trench secretly, and was waiting for his cavalry to rush to die. In this case, if he did not order a retreat, he would not have brave but not resourceful but stupid as a pig or a dog.

Five thousand cavalry charged forward, and more than three thousand people came back. Lu Bu bit his gums and rode the red rabbit forward. After crossing the barriers of the camp, he looked carefully. Sure enough, the camp tent in front of Zhang Liao's army was empty, there were no living sheets inside, only countless crisscrossing deep trenches and trenches.

Looking at the Zhang Liao army that had retreated a mile, you can vaguely see the general Zhang Liao in front of the formation. Lu Bu's fist squeaked and said angrily: "What's the ability to make the traitor and fool?"

Regarding the camp left by Zhang Liao camp, Lu Bu didn't look at it or look at it. He just stared at the trenches and hated him. He didn't know that the layout of the camp is also a way to understand the opponent. In history, Zhuge Liang withdrew his troops. After Sima Yi saw Zhuge Liang's camp layout, he gave Zhuge Liang an evaluation: The world's genius

This is an aspect of the difference between military strategists.

Zhang Liao went north to meet the enemy, and his military supplies were all in the rear, so he could retreat calmly. In today's battle, two thousand soldiers were lost. However, Lu Bu's robbery last night had lost more than eight thousand soldiers. Although Zhang Liao defended, he defended for the sake of attack. He could win a great victory, not for the sake of defense.

It was confirmed that Lu Bu did not lead his army to charge. After all, even if Lu Bu did not fill the trenches, the troops would take a lot of time to pass the trenches. Therefore, Zhang Liao continued to order the retreat, and then retreated for another five miles before setting up camp.

Lu Bu, who had lost a lot of troops, only received the results of the army advancing Sanli. He was unwilling to accept that he planned to compete with Zhang Liao again tomorrow.

Three days later, Lu Bu did not dare to raise his troops to attack because he had suffered a loss before, for fear that Zhang Liao would use his old tricks again. Every day, the troops would harass Zhang Liao, but they were all intimidated by Zhang Liao's crossbowmen and could not move forward.

Zhang Liao was not proud of his prestige in the confrontation with Lu Bu. Although Lu Bu is famous all over the world, he no longer has any admiration for Lu Bu. He just treats him as an ordinary opponent. At first, he heard that Lu Bu's reputation had long disappeared. For an opponent who could not even look up to him, even if Zhang Liao defeated him, he would not have much sense of accomplishment.

Still studying military books in the commander's tent, Zhang Liao would occasionally look at the map behind him, and simulate it based on the knowledge he had learned, and often immersed in it unconsciously.

As footsteps came, Zhang Liao was extremely vigilant. He looked up and saw Yan Yan and Yan Pu coming together. Yan Pu was straight to the point and said, "General, Lu Bu was defeated in a row and could not advance in an instant. If this continues, he may be determined to retreat and withdraw directly to Chang'an."

Yan Yan also agreed with this and said, "General, otherwise I will lead my army to fight head-on battle with Lu Bu tomorrow, and make a fool of himself, so that he will not retreat."

Zhang Liao thought about it and was afraid that Lu Bu would withdraw his troops, so he could not lure the enemy too obviously, otherwise he would make mistakes and backfire. Lu Bu became suspicious and instead withdrew his troops resolutely.

He stood up and held the military book and knocked it in his hand. Zhang Liao thought for a while and rejected Yan Yan's proposal.

"Since Lu Bu went south, our army had never taken the initiative. If General Yan took the initiative to fight Lu Bu and pretended to be defeated tomorrow, it would make Lu Bu suspicious, because we were afraid of his cavalry, so how could he take the initiative to die? Will Lu Bu think so thoroughly? We don't know, but we can't risk breaking the lord's plan. In this way, starting tomorrow, if Lu Bu sends infantry to harass him, the infantry can be ordered to fight, and the crossbowmen will not go out to fight."

When the two thought about it, they turned their heads and looked at each other, and smiled long.

The next day, Lu Bu sent infantry again to conduct a tentative attack. The two armies fought in front of Zhangliao camp, and the battle was inextricable.

Lu Bu, who was riding a horse in front of the army, felt suspicious in his heart: Why did the enemy army no crossbowmen shoot arrows today?

Did the arrows run out?

He lowered his head and thought carefully about the beginning of the battle. Every time he confronted, Zhang Liao's crossbowman would shoot first to intimidate his army. Then, if he confronted, the crossbowman would shoot arrows at once. Over the past few days, the number of arrows consumed was indeed amazing. One thousand crossbowman let out ten times and only ten thousand arrows. Thinking about this, it is not impossible to exhaust the arrows. When the two armies cleaned the battlefield, it would be valuable even if Zhang Liao could recover one or two percent of the arrows shot out intact before using them.

Regardless of whether Zhang Liao was really exhausted or not, Lu Bu could not miss the opportunity, so he ordered the army of infantry in the rear to come forward to support him. He dared not use the cavalry, for fear that Zhang Liao would dig a trench and wait for him.

When the Lu Bu infantry army was put into the battlefield to support the front, Zhang Liao's army seemed to have been prepared and retreated. The entire army retreated again in an orderly manner, and this retreat was more thorough than the last time, retreating fifteen miles.

Instead of ordering a pursuit, Lu Bu personally rode the Red Rabbit to the camp tent left by Zhang Liao's army, and used the Fangtian Painting Gaul to open the camp tent. He saw that it was empty inside, but there was no trap. His expression changed slightly. After observing several camp tents angrily, Lu Bu roared to the sky...

This time, Zhang Liao did not set up a trap, but he led his army to retreat normally. Lu Bu missed the best opportunity to use cavalry to rush and pursue.

But Lu Bu did not make at least the price of eight thousand soldiers as he had done a few days ago before entering several miles. This time, he only used less than a thousand people to earn the results of marching ten miles, although Zhang Liao lost less than a thousand people.

He first entered the trap and then was cheated. Lu Bu was angry and hated and led his army to launch a fierce attack on Zhang Liao's army. However, Zhang Liao still insisted on it. After the daily confrontation, he took the initiative to retreat ten miles, and every time he left some tents in front of the army. Lu Bu checked the tents differently. Sometimes there were trenches, sometimes there were no trenches, sometimes there were no vain and real. Therefore, there were only one way, and he could not take a detour. This made him always want to use cavalry to pursue Zhang Liao's army, but he was afraid of falling into the other party's plan.

It has been more than half a month since the first day of confrontation between Lu Bu and Zhang Liao. In the past half month, Lu Bu advanced and Zhang Liao retreated. In addition to the initial battle, Lu Bu suffered heavy losses in his troops, he was insignificant confrontation afterwards. Lu Bu's 40,000 army left Chang'an, and now he has less than 30,000 troops under his command. Zhang Liao's 40,000 troops were not only easy to meet the enemy, but also less than 5,000 troops were also damaged. In addition, military supplies were consumed seriously, including camp tents, bows and arrows, and the refusal of horses that were too late to take back.

Seeing that more than half a month had passed, and he had only gone south from the northern end of the old road for less than a hundred miles. No matter how arrogant Lu Bu was, he was inevitably exhausted and was depressed. He had already thought of withdrawing his troops, but he had both been named Lu Bu and had just been named General Fenwu. If he went back in shame, what was his reputation?

People in the world don’t know that there is Zhang Liao, but everyone knows that Lu Bu. Lu Bu is defeated by Zhang Liao, and what he achieved was Zhang Liao’s reputation.

But facts are better than words. Even Lu Bu did not get any advantage in front of Zhang Liao, and even made him suspicious. He was even more wary. The other party's empty camp made him extremely afraid.

Lu Bu, who was helpless in the camp, couldn't think of a good plan to defeat the enemy. He couldn't help but think about the scene of fighting with foreign tribes on the grassland. That was the two armies fighting. Who could hold on to the battle? Who could block the way in front of the cavalry he led?

Fighting with Zhang Liao, this bastard, not only does the hero useless, but also gets angry and suffers a lot of cowards.

"Retreat the troops and return to Chang'an, Wang Yun loves whatever Wang Yun loves." Lu Bu finally made up his mind to withdraw his troops. This battle cannot be fought. He just didn't fight, and there were only a few roads south to Yizhou. Except for the old road, all other roads were rugged and difficult to walk. If the old road was not accessible, the other roads would be even worse.

Just when Lu Bu ordered the withdrawal of troops, someone ran into his tent in panic, and said in a panic voice with a crying voice: "General, Chen Cang lost our military food and grass and broke it."

Lu Bu was shocked, pinched the man's neck and lifted him up, and asked sternly: "What? Chen Cang lost? Which one? Is it that bastard Li Jue?"

The visitor was strangled and couldn't breathe. After Lu Bu let go, he fell to the ground and said intermittently: "I don't know, yes, yes, the people coming from the east of Chen Cang seemed to be the leader of the Guo family."

Guo?

Lu Bu was both in a state of terror. Chen Cang had less than 2,000 defenders. Even if the other party had only 5,000 people to take it, Chen Cang had the food and supplies he brought when he left Chang'an to support his army for two months. It would be okay if Chen Cang lost it, and it would be okay if the food and grass were lost.

The key is that Chen Cang is behind his army and is his retreat.

At this time, along Lu Bu's footsteps, he went south from Chen Cang with more than 30,000 troops. The commander riding on the horse was Guo Jia.
Chapter completed!