The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

However, Lü Bu ordered the military officials to send Zhang Liao quickly, and ordered him to take advantage of the suspension bridge at the west gate of Yanxian County to put down the west gate of the city before closing.

Zhang Liao received the military order, but hesitant in his heart, Gu Yuzuo said: "Sun Wentai is a good soldier, and he is in Yanxian city now, he will definitely not open the city gate easily and send such a big flaw to our army. ."

The left and right young generals asked, "What does the general mean?"

"I doubt that this suspension bridge and this city gate were deliberately lowered and opened by Sun Wentai?"

The young generals left and right said, "The general suspects that this is Sun Wentai's trick to lure me?"

"I do have this suspicion."

The left and right young generals said: "But General, I just sent other troops to rescue Gao Shun and Gao Ya. Sun Wentai's troops in Yanxian City must not be able to sit and watch and remain indifferent, so Sun Wentai must have sent troops out of the city and rushed to Intercept! And if he wants to send troops out of the city and rush to intercept, he will naturally have to open the city gate and lower the drawbridge, General, this is also reasonable."

"Having said that, there are only three or two hundred cavalry out of the city. Since the cavalry out of the city is fast, and the number is small, even if the suspension bridges and city gates are lowered, opened, pulled up and closed, Shouldn't be so slow!"

Zhang Liao's words are right. The suspension bridge and the city gate outside the west gate of Yanxian County were indeed pulled up and closed very slowly. The three hundred cavalrymen who left the city had already crossed the moat, but the suspension bridge had not been pulled up, and the city gate had not yet been pulled up. Closed, no matter how you look at it, there is something wrong with it.

The young generals left and right said: "What the general said is very true. Then, why don't the general quickly send people back to the camp and report the general's suspicion to Duke Lu?"

The military officer Zhang Liao sent to report the suspicion had just set off, and another officer came from the camp, still from Lu Bu. The military official galloped to the front of Zhang Liao's tent and said loudly, "Duke Ming asked me to ask the general why he didn't send troops to attack the city while the west gate was open?"

Zhang Liao said: "It's not that they didn't obey the orders of Duke Ming, but Liao felt that he was cheating, and sent people to the camp to report to Duke Ming face to face."

As mentioned above, Zhang Liao was under the tent of Lv Bu. Unlike other generals, he was not a member of Lü Bu, but, like Lü Bu, was a minister of Ding Yuan. The two were originally colleagues. It was because after Dong Zhuo's death, the army generals in Bingzhou and Liangzhou were headless, and Lu Bu had the highest official position and prestige, so he led his headquarters to surrender, but he returned to surrender, but he still kept it. A relatively independent status and state. It is because of his

He was relatively "aloof". Although the military officer who was sent by Lu Bu to give orders was dissatisfied that he dared to "disobey" Lu Bu's orders, it was not easy to push him, so he could only answer: "Okay!"

The hundreds of light cavalry of the strong troops who left the city were the troops led by Zu Mao, catching up with the other troops sent by Zhang Liao to rescue Gao Shun and Gao Ya.

Zhang Liao looked at it, because this light cavalry did not have a general flag, he still did not know who the leader of the light cavalry was. He saw that the light cavalry was agile in battle, after catching up with his other troops, it suddenly split left and right, He formed a roughly geese-shaped formation, and under the leadership of his generals, he shot arrows like rain from behind his other troops, disrupting the advancing formation of the other troops.

The other troops had no choice but to change their formation. The infantry soldiers in the back row turned to face back and raised their shields to defend. At the same time, the other troops moved the cavalry in front of them to the rear, in an attempt to defeat the light cavalry of the strong troops in the city first.

However, this light cavalry did not fight with love. After noticing that the cavalry in front of the other Liao soldiers began to come to the back, they closed the geese-shaped formation towards the center, turning into a formation of long snakes, bypassing the other soldiers of the Liao soldiers. Back up, gallop to the right flank, continue to shoot arrows to harass, - why gallop to the right flank? This is because the cavalry of the Liao soldiers coming from the front came from the left.

The cavalry of the other divisions of the Liao army rushed to the rear of the formation, circled the formation, turned to the right, and pursued the light cavalry of the strong division to the right.

This light cavalry advanced and retreated like the wind. When it saw the cavalry of the other divisions of the Liao army attacked, and saw the infantry of the other divisions of the Liao army in the remaining formation, if it was in a double-team situation, it would leave the battlefield and move towards the far right, that is, to the far right. To the west, go to the west city wall of Yanxian County.

On the west city wall, at this time, there were already archers and crossbowmen standing guard.

The cavalry of the other divisions of the Liao army pursued a little, and the arrows flew like locusts on the west city wall. Blocked by the arrow, the pursuit had to stop.

The pursuit stopped, but the light cavalry refused to give up. Zu Mao led it and headed back to the east, holding the tail of the cavalry of the other troops of the Liao soldiers who had retreated, and returned to the approximate position where it was before, and then shot the Liao soldiers with arrows. In other groups, the harassment continued.

Zhang Liao watched for a while, and had a panoramic view of the fighting between the enemy and our two other troops and small troops. He sighed in his heart and thought: "Sun Wentai, Jiang Zuoren, his department has many Jiang Zuo children, and many foot soldiers. He is not good at cavalry battles, but now, there are also such cavalry generals, such knights? It is the way that I and Liang Qingqi have won the battle!"

Strictly speaking, this kind of cavalry tactics is not unique to the light cavalry in Bingzhou and Liangzhou. . Knights of the North, year-round cavalry warfare, better than this type of warfare

Surprisingly, just as Zhang Liao thought, most of Sun Jian's subordinates were Jiang Zuo infantrymen, but now he has been fighting for many years, especially in the recent months, when he has been constantly at war with Lu Bu's subordinates, the speed of learning is actually not enough. Slowly, I also mastered this tactical method of cavalry warfare.

Of course, not all the cavalry under Sun Jian's subordinates are proficient in this method of warfare, but the cavalry under his subordinates are relatively few compared to Lu Bu and others, and there are thousands of them today, and a few hundred of them have not only learned but also proficient in it. A knight with similar tactics, then again, it's really not that difficult.

While watching, several cavalry galloped from the direction of the camp to Zhang Liao's flag.

Zhang Liao looked at it, and saw that the cavalry that came were all the cavalry of Lu Bu's cronies, and the leader was none other than Cao Xing.

"General Zhang."

"Captain Cao."

"Ming Gong's military order, why don't you obey?"

"It's not the last commander who won't follow~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is actually Sun Wentai's good fighter, the last commander is suspicious, this drawbridge, the city gate, or his trick to lure me. Cao Xiaowei, have you forgotten? Not long ago, when our army first attacked Yan County, didn't Sun Wentai use Sun Fu's feint to lure our army once? We must prevent him from repeating his old tricks!...Look, how long has it been since then? , The drawbridge and the city gate have not been pulled up or closed! This is clearly coaxing me to attack the city!"

Cao Xing Ran said: "This is Sun Wentai's trick to lure me, how could Duke Ming not know? However, the reason why Yan County has not been overcome by our army so far is not because of other reasons, it is because Sun Wentai is like a Shrink your head tortoise, close the city and don't fight me! That's why our army has not been able to unplug the city! Now he has taken the initiative to put down the drawbridge and open the city gate, even if he is luring me to attack, for our army But wouldn't it be impossible to ask for it?...General, Duke Ming's general order: The general has never heard of it? The brave one who meets on a narrow road wins! I hope the general will not worry too much, and the troops will attack quickly! Yancheng will be conquered and Sun Jian will be won, the general's first credit! The prefect of Yingchuan is to raise the general!"

But it was Lü Bu who mistakenly thought that Zhang Liao was unwilling to fight and was waiting for his promise, so he promised Zhang Liao as the "prefect of Yingchuan".

Zhang Liao heard this and knew that it would be impossible if the city were not attacked.

——Although he was in a relatively independent position in Lu Bu’s army, this “relative independence” was not “complete independence” after all. He was still Lu Bu’s subordinate, and Lu Bu was still his “main general”. He could not listen to the words of the military officers and generals, but he could not refuse to obey Lu Bu's repeated and repeated military orders.

So, Zhang Liao gave the order: "Seize the city!"