In the summer of the eleventh year of Jian'an, Cao Cao appointed himself as King of Wei with the emperor, Sun Quan of the Eastern Wu as King of Wu, and even Liu Bei as King of Shu. Lu Bu was proclaimed himself as King of Hanzhong. In the early autumn of the same year, all the war preparations for Lu Bu against Shu had been completed. He personally led his troops and began the battle to attack Shu.

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Lu Bu led more than 200 horses out of Jiange to gallop south. He wanted to take a look at the Xidaying of the Shu army built south of Jiange Pass. According to previous scouts, the elite Shu army that had been stationed in this camp for more than 10,000 people all year round, including Liu Bei's most elite Baier soldiers.

Lu Bu rode his horse to the camp and observed carefully. It was indeed a solid camp. In addition to a tightly constructed defense line outside the camp, even if there were many defensive facilities built inside the camp. Even if the army attacked the camp, the Shu army could still rely on these internal defense facilities to resist tenaciously. Moreover, these were the results of Lu Bu's rough observation, and the subtleties could not be seen from the outside. Therefore, Lu Bu judged that if this camp attacked vigorously, it would suffer heavy losses and might not be able to attack.

The Shu army sentry in the camp had already reported the news to the guard Huang Zhong. When Huang Zhong heard this, he was so angry that he blew his beard up and cursed: "The Hanzhong army looks down on people too much. He dares to come to explore the camp as if no one else. Take my sword and bow, and I want to see who is so bold!"

Just as Lu Bu was about to order to return to Jiange, a storm of soldiers ran out of the camp. The general was an old man with white beard and white head. Lu Bu thought that this person was either Huang Zhong or Yan Yan. When Lu Bu was guessing who he was, he shouted, "Come and stop leaving, and take my Huang Hansheng's knife."

When Lu Bu heard this, it was indeed Huang Zhong. He was about to take the horse and leave, and he saw that there were not many soldiers led by Huang Zhong, and only a few hundred personal soldiers, so he turned his horse's head and met him. He raised Fang Tian's painting halberd and pointed at Huang Zhong from a distance and said, "You are Huang Zhong and Huang Hansheng?"

Huang Zhong was surprised when he saw Lu Bu in front of him. The man in front of him rode a maroon-red horse with a square halberd. Could it be Lu Bu himself? He replied: "It's me, who are you? I will not kill the nameless man under the knife."

"I am the King of Hanzhong Lu Bu." Lu Bu shouted with great enthusiasm, and then he pushed his halberd forward and fought with Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was surprised and happy when he heard that it was Lu Bu himself. What was surprised was that Lu Bu was too brave and dared to come to explore the camp if he brought hundreds of people. What was happy was that if he killed the other party in one fell swoop today, it would be a battle that would not only be a super great contribution, but also a battle that was famous in history. Thinking of this, Huang Zhong waved his long sword and met him.

The two sides fought with swords and halberds. After less than five rounds, Huang Zhong felt unable to resist and panted. He took a chance, pulled the sword and drove the horse away. Lu Bu sneered, knowing that Huang Zhong would definitely use the horse-return arrow to plot against him. He blew a bell and whistle in his mouth, and the crooked horse behind him immediately followed.

Huang Zhong's personal soldiers saw several cavalry chasing him and shouted, "General, be careful!" Huang Zhong thought that Lu Bu was chasing him, and he was secretly proud of him. He took the bow and arrow and turned around and was about to shoot. However, after turning back, he found that Lu Bu did not follow him. He followed several cavalrymen, and also opened his bow and arrow and aimed at him.

Huang Zhong had no time to think about it, so he shot an arrow at one of them. He hit the helmet of the knight's horse. The arrow penetrated the helmet and wiped his scalp. The knight's horse cavalry suddenly burst into blood.

At the same time, the bowstrings in the hands of the other cavalrymen were released. Accurate arrows were shot at Huang Zhong, and Huang Zhong could not hide, but was shot into the armor by two arrows. Huang Zhong let out a painful hum and was shaking on the horse's back. A cavalry horse's cavalry took the opportunity to put it on his neck and took it off the horse.

When Huang Zhong's personal soldiers saw this scene, they were shocked and rushed forward to rescue Huang Zhong. However, the crutch horse that was holding Huang Zhong had already sped towards Lu Bu. Huang Zhong was mopped to the ground, and he started to kick his legs around and tried to stand up, but the arrow wound on his body made him bleed too much and he lost his strength after a while.

Lu Bu and two hundred crutches also met. First, a flying arrow greeted Huang Zhong's personal soldiers who were coming towards him, and immediately shot fifty or sixty people. When Huang Zhong's personal soldiers saw that the situation was irreversible, Huang Zhong could not save him, so he turned his horse's head and fled to the camp.

Seeing this, Lu Bu secretly said, "It's a pity. If I had known about this accident, I would bring more soldiers out. After capturing Huang Zhong, I could take the opponent's headless attack on his camp." But now he only has two hundred cavalry around him. Even if the opponent loses the commander, he will never be able to take down the camp with ten thousand people. Helplessly, Lu Bu could only bring the soldiers and the captured Huang Zhong back to Jiange. After returning to Jiange, Lu Bu asked the doctor of the sword to clean and sew the wounds for Huang Zhong, and then assigned soldiers to take him to the city.

At night, Lu Bu closed his eyes and pondered at the countermeasures against the Shu army. The two camps set up by Zhuge Liang could not be defeated, so he could only bypass the circle and attack the hinterland of the Shu plain, capture the core city of the Shu army, and then cut off the supplies to these two camps.

But he knew that Zhuge Liang was not an ordinary person, and would inevitably set up countermeasures against his roundabout attacks, and might even set up a trap. In the end, Lu Bu decided to use a small group of cavalry to tentatively harass the attack to find out the opponent's intentions first.

It was another day when the sun was rising. More than 500 cavalry horses ran out of Jiange, bypassed the Dongdaying of the Shu army, and rushed towards Fucheng behind it. Almost at the same time, dozens of medium-sized Viking long ships sailed downstream along the Jialing River. The ship was full of cavalry and war horses loaded with three hundred cavalry horses. After the ship arrived at the plains in the southern part of Chongguo County, it put down its troops. Three hundred cavalry horses rushed towards the hinterland of Shu.

These crutches did not have logistics supplies, and only provided compressed military rations and horse feed for ten days. These compressed military rations are high-calorie foods made of fried noodles, butter, honey, dried fruit, and jerky. The horse feed is a compressed mixture of pea flour and alfalfa.

For a moment, the entire Shuzhong plain sounded drums and smoke were everywhere. The gates of the cities and counties were closed, all the food in the countryside was collected, and all the people were transferred to the city and the fort. Moreover, the gags also discovered a special situation, that is, the area north of Chengdu, no one planted crops outside the city walls.

Lu Bu's kidnapping horses were even so arrogant that they were at Chengdu City. Zhang Fei, who was stationed in Chengdu, had been unable to stand his temper and asked his elder brother Liu Bei for battle every day. Liu Bei couldn't beat him in one sentence: "Everyone is in charge of the arrangements of Zhuge Military Advisor." He went to Zhuge Liang again, and Zhuge Liang also said: "Don't fight, those who violate the order are killed."
Chapter completed!