Lu Meng led his troops out of Hefei, probably on the twelfth lunar month of the second year of Zhangwu.
It was snowy and freezing in the middle of winter, and the Wu people had no horses, so they had to wear winter clothes and walk in the thigh-deep snow, so they walked very slowly. In addition, after entering Xuzhou, people's livelihood was extremely poor along the way, and the Eastern people also
He often went to Muling Pass to guard, but no one came to help Lu Meng's men with food and grass, so Lu Meng had to rest halfway and contact various cities in Xuzhou with Cao Cao's handwritten letters. This wasted a lot of time. By the time the Wu people arrived at Langya Jiqiu, they had already arrived.
It’s the end of February.
Lu Meng found out about the situation at this time and learned that Linzi had been heavily surrounded by a hundred thousand troops from the Western Dynasty. Donglai County had fallen, and only Muling Pass was still holding on. He couldn't help being shocked. He said to his deputy Zhu Ran: "Short of this."
In just three months, unexpectedly, the situation has deteriorated to this point. If we fail to win this battle, I am afraid that the people of the world will be determined." For this reason, he decided to disobey Sun Quan's instructions before leaving, and led his troops to attack the Western Army, first defeating Yuan Tan, and then relieving the siege of Linzi City.
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It's just that the Western Army has many cavalry and heavy armor. If they fight in the field, they may not be able to win. Lü Meng thought for a long time and planned to win outwitly.
He heard that Yuan Tan, in addition to the confrontation at Mulingguan, also sent envoys to various counties in Xuzhou to recruit surrender, and he immediately thought of pretending to surrender. He mobilized his Xuzhou soldiers and combined them into one battalion, led by Pan Zhang.
Then they put on the Eastern clothes and the Eastern Army flags that they had collected from various cities in Xuzhou, and then sent envoys to Yuan Tan's troops from the alley. They pretended to be the troops of Xue Feng, the governor of the East China Sea, and stationed near Jiqiu. There were about 100 troops under his command.
More than three thousand people were now willing to surrender to the imperial court.
Although Yuan Tan didn't know the news about Lu Meng's reinforcements, he was also quite unfamiliar with this surrender. He asked the envoy carefully about the geography and customs of Xuzhou as a test. However, the envoy was originally from Xuzhou and had participated in the Xiapi Campaign with Zhou Yu in his early years.
He knew the geography of Xuzhou well, but when he asked questions, he was always answered fluently, which made Yuan Tan put aside his doubts. Yuan Tan was then overjoyed, and immediately came up with a plan to send these surrender troops to Muling Pass to find a way
The two parties agreed to raise three white flags on the city as a signal. Once the gates were opened, the Han army would take advantage of the situation and attack the gate, and Mu Ling would be within easy reach.
After Lu Meng received the reply, he immediately laughed and said: "I originally expected General Pan to attack on the battlefield, but Yuan Tan didn't think it was enough and actually wanted to trap himself in a desperate situation." So he contacted Yuan Xi in Muling Pass. In February Geng
On the day of his birth, Yuan Xi lit up three white flags on Guancheng and then opened the city gate. Yuan Tan was overjoyed when he saw this and immediately led his troops to attack the city.
Unexpectedly, as they were leading the crowd into the city, drums suddenly sounded loudly on the city wall, and arrows rained down from both sides of the Guan ultimatum. The Western Army soldiers were caught off guard. In the midst of the panic, countless Eastern Army sergeants poured out of the houses, holding long swords and bows.
The swords clashed with the Western Army. The Western Army's formation was scattered and they could only retreat hurriedly outside Guancheng. However, Lu Meng also led 5,000 elites and walked around the north side of Guancheng via a small path. He joined forces with Yuan Xili in the city and defeated the thousands of Han who entered the city.
The legions surrounded him and captured all of them, including Yuan Tan, the governor of Puyang of the Western Army.
Yuan Xi and Yuan Tan, as flesh and blood brothers, finally met again after many years. Although one was a prisoner, the other was also in a difficult situation. Both of them were lamenting for a while. Yuan Tan asked Yuan Xi: "Now Cao Cao is in a state of poverty.
Why should Xian Yong be buried with the Eastern Dynasty? I have discussed it with Your Majesty. As long as Xian Yong surrenders, he will be safe. Isn't it a good thing for you and me to reunite as brothers?"
Then he advised Lu Meng: "You are from Wu. You should know that the Sun family has been friendly with the imperial court for many years and has no enmity. Why should you be stubborn? You are very talented. I can speak to your majesty on your behalf and reward your merits. In the future, the three princes will be
Who is unknown?"
Lu Meng was speechless for a moment, but Yuan Xi was furious when he heard this. He drew his knife and cursed: "Liu Bei killed your own father, and also Xianfu (Yuan Shang), and had a blood feud with your family, but you spoke for him. You are really heartless and heartless."
You are a righteous man! I think you are my brother, so I spared your life just now. If you say that again, I will cut out your tongue!"
Yuan Tan smiled bitterly and said: "When you are here, you want my family to be prosperous. If you cause my family to be exterminated, how can you go to see your Majesty?" After hearing this, Yuan Xi stopped talking and said
Yuan Tan detained the city and planned with Lu Meng how to go to Linzi to relieve the siege. Lu Meng thought that since the Western Army had many cavalry, it would be unfavorable to fight on the plains, and there were many mountains in the southeast of Linzi. It was better to travel along the mountains, build forts along the mountains, and camp step by step to force
Liu Bei led his troops up the mountain to fight, delaying the siege. Waiting for Sun Quan to lead his troops into Yuzhou, maybe he could make the Western Army withdraw.
Yuan Xi agreed with Lu Meng's idea and left two thousand soldiers and horses to guard Yuan Tan and Muling Pass. He led the remaining troops to merge with Lu Meng, and the two armies totaled 30,000 and marched towards Linzi. It was mid-spring, the breeze was blowing, and the tenderness was tender.
The branches were green, and the scent of warblers and flowers was everywhere along the way. However, as he got closer to Linzi, Lu Meng noticed something was wrong. The smoke from people's cooking stoves along the road became less and less. When he was about twenty-five miles away from Linzi, the surrounding area was already desolate.
, there is no one at all, it’s really weird.
When the scouts from the front came back to report, Lu Meng figured out the whole story: It turned out that the reason why the Western Army relocated the people was to imitate the tactics used to quell Gengcang in the sixth year of Yanxing, build a dam on the lower reaches of the Zi River, and conduct another flood.
Linzi!
This suddenly made Lu Meng realize, and then he felt very embarrassed. Once the Han army started a water attack, the area around Linzi would be reduced to a swamp, and except for the boat division, no one else could enter or exit at all. In this case, the Han army could calmly shrink its defense line.
As long as the troops are stationed around the embankment, it will be enough to besiege the city. The original plan to contain the Western Army step by step may be scrapped because of this.
Forced to have no choice, Lu Meng and Yuan Xi decided to launch a strong attack before the Western Army completed the dam construction. The location of the attack was chosen on Yaowang Mountain southwest of Linzi. The terrain here is complex. If the attack is unfavorable, the Wu Army can also retreat to the mountains and ride on horseback.
It was difficult for the Westerners to catch up. But Lu Meng thought with some self-mockery: If he had not had the idea of a big victory from the beginning, the final result would be just a harassment that is better than nothing.
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Around that night, the moon occasionally showed up through the sparse gaps in the clouds, adding a gloomy and miserable light to the earth, as if it was not shining on the human world. At midnight, the Wu people moved forward in a winding column on the mountain road,
No other orders were passed down. Although they had rested once before, people mostly walked on two feet, and they couldn't help but feel a little tired at this time, even the sharpest scouts.
The scouts who left the brigade couldn't cheer up in the hazy white. In order to prevent themselves from falling asleep, they could only keep pinching the backs of their hands. At this time, they finally walked out of the foothills and saw a mass of orange-red in front of them.
The light and shadow. Only then did I realize that the army was already less than three miles away from the Western Army.
Lu Meng immediately cheered up and led 2,000 Danyang elite soldiers with Pan Zhang to lurk in a hillock about half a mile in front of the camp. After the follow-up troops gathered a little, they suddenly launched a fierce attack into the west camp and soon penetrated it.
The sentry guards formed a temporary defense line and rushed straight into the Western Army's tents. Then they roared and set fire among the staff in an attempt to disrupt the morale of the Western Army.
The person guarding this place happened to be the general Guan Yu. He happened to have no sleep at all that night, so he lit up the lamp in front of the table and read "Hanshu". At this time, he heard that there was a chaos outside the camp, and saw the fire roaring through the curtain, so he immediately mentioned
Yanyue Dao came out of the camp to take a look. At this time, many soldiers around him were at a loss, and they couldn't tell how many people came to the camp. When they saw someone running to the north, they ran to the north like avalanches of snow, and they rushed by like a tide.
Guan Yu was in charge of the tent. Seeing this, Guan Yu did not practice military law. Instead, he grabbed some soldiers and asked: "How many people are coming to the camp?" Everyone was in a panic and couldn't tell. They only said that there were many people. Guan Yu said:
"They are just little thieves who want to take advantage of the darkness to bluff people. What should I be afraid of? You follow me and wait until I kill them. If I am defeated, it will not be too late to retreat."
After that, Guan Yu named a few of his confidants, formed a small circle and walked forward. The soldiers passing by saw that the general was in the firelight, but he was as calm as walking on the ground. They couldn't help but feel admiration, and encouraged each other:
"The general is the best warrior in the world. With him in charge, thieves are just asking for trouble!" So he straightened his mind and called on his colleagues around him to form a formation and follow him.
In the dark night with wildly dancing firelights, the Westerners could not actually see the direction of the battlefield clearly, but instinctively judged the brutality of the fighting based on the speed of travel in front. However, the Western soldiers at the rear were surprised to find that following the general
For two moments, their footsteps did not stop at all, as if there had never been an enemy in front of them, but they clearly heard the sound of gold and iron clashing and cruel wailing in front of them. It turned out that the Wu people who came to guard the camp actually
There is no way to stop Guan Yu.
The Wu army did not expect to encounter such a strong counterattack after the camp was cut off. The generals were short of breath and at a loss. Lü Meng quickly shouted to the surroundings, so that the soldiers could only retreat while firing arrows, trying to retreat into the mountains as planned. But between the camps.
It was narrow and the soldiers were physically and mentally exhausted. Many Wu people could no longer fight after firing their bows several times.
Wu Jun tried to escape to the mountains again. It was easier to go down the mountain than to go up. The soldiers could not outrun the Westerners who had just had a good sleep. As soon as the two sides came into contact, they were instantly defeated. If Guan Yu had not only had more than 3,000 soldiers around him, I am afraid that he would have been defeated.
Most of the Wu army had to be surrendered here. But even so, Pan Zhang and more than 2,000 Wu troops died in the battle, and more than 4,000 Wu troops were captured by the Han army. Upon seeing this, Lu Meng had to lead the remaining troops to retreat to Muling Pass.<
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As a result, halfway through the journey, Yuan Xi received news again that the soldiers who stayed in Guancheng had been persuaded by Yuan Tan and had agreed to surrender to the Western Army, and asked Yuan Xi to join him anyway. Yuan Xi was filled with anger when he heard this, and he immediately
They killed the messenger who came to say surrender. But it was of no use. Since Guancheng fell into the hands of the Western Army, they had no choice but to lead the Wu army along the Haiqu Road and quickly left the Qingzhou battlefield before Guan Yu's army launched a pursuit.
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