The Collection of The End

——A.D. 180——

Liangzhou, Fufeng County Right Camp.

A total of 50,000 Dong Zhuo's bows, infantry, cavalry, and stragglers were stationed here.

And Lu Bu was riding his horse to inspect the "trap camp" he had formed.

A few days ago, the bandit general Zhou Shen led 30,000 Hanoi knights to come to the rescue, forcing the rebels who had been invading the county from time to time to retreat a few miles, and initially stabilized the chaos among the people in Fufeng County due to the troops approaching the city.

However, Zhou Shen and his subordinates were extremely contemptuous of Dong Zhuo's troops, calling them "militiamen" and ordered him to hand over command of the troops and obey orders under the account.

Dong Zhuo ignored him, but Li Ru was "afraid of military power" and led five thousand "subordinates" to "obey orders." As expected, those five thousand people were directly controlled by Zhou Shen and dispersed. After joining the reserve and baggage team of the Hanoi Knights, Li Ru was "submissive" and then "left sadly".

Even Lu Bu could spot the unusual behavior, but Zhou Shen had no doubts because he didn't understand him. When he was about to follow Dong Zhuo's example and continue to force Dong Zhuo's troops, he was approached by the Fufeng County Sheriff.

Those five thousand people were actually the original defenders of Fufeng County. The county governor lent them to Dong Zhuo because he had confidence in his reputation. As a result, Li Ru "saw the arrival of the imperial army and went to return them" but was detained and was furious. .

How the county guard and Zhou Shen quarreled was unknown to outsiders. However, the rogue general returned the captured troops in despair, and then set up a left camp far away from Dong Zhuo's headquarters, killing all the people in Fufeng County. Everyone knows that he suffered a big loss.

"According to the military system of the Han Dynasty, the only people who can unconditionally command the world's troops are the [General] and the [Emperor]. Other reorganization actions at the same level must be negotiated by the chiefs of both sides. Strictly speaking, Zhou Shen's move is equivalent to launching an army to rebel. As long as the county guard "According to his words," Li Ru explained afterwards: "Some people stayed in Luoyang for too long and regarded the 'special cases' produced under the influence of the imperial power and the 'Sword Master' as 'common sense,' instead of running headlong into the south wall." He won’t wake up.”

So that’s some kind of weird “strategy”, right?

Even after listening to this brother-in-law tell the whole story, Lu Bu still didn't quite understand, but at least he understood one thing: if you want to be an enemy of such "strategists", you must rush directly in front of them and beat them up, and try to analyze their strategies. It's all asking for trouble.

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"The ambition to trap the enemy! There will be death but no life!"

The unified battle cry of the trapped camp made Lu Bu wake up from his sigh of his own wisdom - indeed, compared to any strategies, these warriors under his command were trustworthy.

The trapped camp is composed of specially selected, tall and strong young people. They are wearing heavy armor that ordinary swords and bows cannot do anything about. They are armed with thick shields that can withstand the thrusts of light cavalry and straight-back single swords that have been improved to be more conducive to chopping. This whole set is at least It is equipped with "excellent" level equipment, which costs thousands of dollars at least.

Although they have not tried it yet, Lu Bu has no doubt that they can defeat twice the number of cavalry. If they are undisciplined and poorly equipped foreign light cavalry, it is probably no problem to fight one against four.

The only problem is that the trapped camp is unable to mount horses due to heavy equipment, and is counted as "heavy infantry" in terms of arms. What Lu Bu likes and is good at most is fighting on horseback. In addition, the horse "Red Cloud" is very fast. It is really a fight. If they get up, Lu Bu may be the first to attack, behead the opponent's general, and disperse the soldiers. Only then did he fall into the camp and be responsible for finishing the battle and cleaning the battlefield. This kind of thing can be done by a heavy camp.

Since this army was built by Lu Bu himself, no one except Dong Zhuo could say to him, "You'd better give it to someone else to lead." However, surprisingly, Lu Bu finally handed over its command to Gao Shun, and then began to train Zhang Liao, who usually didn't attach much importance to him, which amazed Dong Zhuojun.

Lu Bu couldn't explain this. He just had a flash of inspiration when he was forming the trap camp.

He felt that Gao Shun was suitable to be their leader, and Zhang Liao would become a fierce general when he grew up.

At the same time, what "flashed out" was also the method of how to "trap" this heavy infantry. They are being trained on this method at this time. How effective it is can only be understood on the battlefield.

"Lord Fengxian." When Gao Shun saw Lu Bu's appearance, he ordered the trapped camp to train on its own and rode up to meet him.

"Well, you did a good job. After a little more training, you can go into battle and kill the enemy." Both sides are military generals. There is no need to pretend to ask "how is the training", morale, training level, etc., that kind of thing can be understood at a glance. Can understand: "How do Guan Hai and Zhang Ke get along?"

"My lord, the two of them are still dissatisfied with each other. They always want to outdo each other during training, but they are very restrained." Gao Shun replied.

Guan Hai, who was a ranger, and Zhang Ke, who is a veteran, don't like each other. It's natural that one thinks the other is too loose, and the other thinks the other is too dull. The one said you can think more before taking action, and the other said you are. over thinking.

As far as Lu Bu was concerned, Zhang Ke's "why do you think so much, just chop it off" style was quite to his liking, but Guan Hai had been with Lu Bu for a long time and was used to him riding his horse and charging out whenever he disagreed. He had to learn from Gao Shun, and eventually formed a steady and thoughtful style.

Looking at Guan Hai and Zhang Ke who were leading the training from a distance, Lu Bu vaguely felt that he saw Gao Shun and himself back then, and shook his head in amusement: "They just lacked a fierce battle."

"But," Gao Shun saw that Lu Bu was in a good mood, so he asked: "Although the 'trapped camp' armor is strong and the sword is strong, and the tactics of 'breaking out of the formation, trapping the formation, and breaking the formation' are sharper than ordinary infantry, the speed cannot be improved. , what if the rebel cavalry bypasses us and ignores us?"

"Don't worry about this problem," Lu Bu waved his hand: "Because I can't think of it, I left it to Li Ru to think about it."

"..."

"Report——" Lu Bu was about to continue his inspection when he suddenly saw a messenger galloping towards him. He dismounted at the gate of the camp and rushed to Lu Bu to show his general order: "Your Majesty, there is a small group of rebels intruding on the left. At Fufeng Camp, General Dang Kou is leading his army to pursue us. My lord orders you to lead the trapped camp to rescue immediately."

"Ha...rescue, so that guy's defeat is certain." Lu Bu laughed.

The messenger did not dare to answer the question and continued: "My lord ordered General Lu to set off immediately and go up Dushui River to station near Duyang and wait. If General Zhou's defeated army has not arrived by noon tomorrow, he can break camp again and set off for Qishan for rescue."

"Look, it was clearly arranged." Lu Bu took the military order and turned to Gao Shun: "Do you understand how Zhou Shen was defeated?"

"There are some guesses, but in terms of details..." Gao Shun thought about the intrusion, pursuit, and the terrain between Fufeng, Duyang, and Qishan: "Maybe General Zhou rushed in and ambush in Qishan?"

"To put it simply, if he is rescued by us in Duyang, he is a fool. If we still have to go to Qishan to rescue him, he can be called a waste." Lu Bu turned the horse's head and went to the tent in the camp: "Give me the order. Raise camp and set up camp!"

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South of Du Yang and north of Qishan Mountain, above an unnamed valley, half of the trapped camp was lying down and lying in wait.

"Lord Fengxian, the weather is really good today, suitable for killing people." Zhang Ke was looking into the valley with his big sword in his arms. When he saw Lu Bu, he saluted quickly.

"No need, how is the situation in the valley?" Lu Bu waved his hand and looked at the sky. It was gloomy and humid. It was completely impossible to use fire attacks. The rebels must have been more unscrupulous in their pursuit.

"It's not good. Those Hanoi knights have been completely defeated and are being chased one after another." Zhang Ke gave up his observation position: "It's just that the only ones pursuing them are cavalry. Probably the rebel infantry has been intercepted by General Gao. .”

"Humph, this waste." Lu Bu only glanced at the valley, then turned his head in disgust.

There were about thousands of disorganized cavalry in the valley. They were holding a banner with the word "Zhou" in their arms. While resisting almost the same number of foreign light cavalry around them, they retreated in a chaotic manner towards the entrance of the valley on Lu Bu's side. Or flee.

According to the intelligence that Lu Bu received one after another after setting off, Zhou Shen lost face in Fufeng and planned to exterminate the invading rebel troops to make a sigh of relief. However, he finally did not go too far. He handed over the remaining troops to the deputy general, and he only took one soldier with him. Thousands of people went to hunt down the intruding cavalry, which numbered less than a thousand.

Since he had indeed made some gains at the beginning, and there was no movement from the rebel camp facing Fufeng in the distance, he pursued with confidence and boldness. In the end, he was ambushed near the dangerous Qishan Mountain and lost most of his men. When he wanted to retreat, , only to find that the rebel camp had moved slightly, directly cutting off his retreat, and he had to turn to retreat towards Du Yang.

As a result, at this time, the rebel garrison in the nearby county heard the wind and rushed over to bite the defeated troops like jackals smelling carrion. If it weren't for the Three Rivers Knights' characteristic of "protecting the leader of the unit to the death", The entire army had probably been wiped out long ago. Although this behavior coincided with Dong Zhuo's words of "throwing the young masters into dangerous places", it was really ugly.

The rebels also knew that Fufeng had sent "heavy infantry" for support, so when Gao Shun and Guan Hai led half of the trapped camp to rescue them, the other side also used infantry to delay them, and the cavalry continued to pursue the fleeing Three Rivers Knights.

This is also where Lu Bu is dissatisfied with Zhou Shen. When friendly troops come to rescue him, if you don't regroup and fight again, at least you can't continue to escape. If the rescuer is an ordinary infantryman and there is no second support army here, After the defeated Sanhe cavalry was hacked and scattered by the foreign light cavalry, wouldn't the rescue force that could not escape die in vain?

"Lord Fengxian, can we take action now?" Zhang Ke gestured towards the entrance of the valley with the sword in his hand.

In just a moment, the fleeing cavalry had reached the exit of the valley. However, due to the sudden narrowing of the road, the width of the teams on both sides shrank at the same time, and the casualties also increased rapidly.

At this time, the cavalry on both sides had lost their speed and could only be called infantry on horseback, gathering together to kill indiscriminately. This dense formation was exactly what the "trapped camp" liked and was good at dealing with.

"Ha..." Lu Bu rode his horse back a few steps, then suddenly charged forward, and the man and his horse, wrapped in dazzling red and black thunder, volleyed towards the center of the rebel cavalry formation: "[I am Lu Fengxian! Who dares to fight with me!" ]"

"Don't let the general take all the credit!" Zhang Ke also shouted loudly: "The whole army attacks!"

Countless heavy infantry with heavy black armor, strong shields and sharp swords jumped down from the cliffs whose height no longer posed a threat to them: "[The ambition to trap the enemy! Either death or life!]"