Chapter 265: Dealing with the Southern Xiongnu (Five)

On the two hundred miles from Tongtian Mountain to Baibo Valley, every time I pass by a valley or a forest, Hu Chuquan and Li Jue will definitely be greeted by the Flying Yan Army. Hu Chuquan and Li Jue could not bear it anymore and ignored anything. They let the cavalry dismount and sneak into the forest to chase. The legs staggered over the mountains and rivers, but they couldn't even catch a hair in the Feiyan Army. Many of the cavalry who went to chase were shot to death again.

In this way, Zhang Yan was ordered by Lu Bu and sent 10,000 archers to disperse the continuous mountains from Tongtian Mountain to Baibo Valley, waiting for an opportunity to harass Huchuquan and Li Jue's men. The Feiyan Army relied on them to cross mountains and ridges as if they were walking on flat ground, and was familiar with the local terrain, and played Huchuquan and Li Jue's troops around. When these Hun cavalry reached the periphery of Baibo Valley, more than 14,000 people were shot to death, and more than 7,000 people were shot and could not be put into battle immediately. Huchuquan could take out less than 50,000 people to deal with Lu Bu's Central Army, and they were all tired troops.

Baibo Valley is the old river channel of the Fen River. A long time ago, the Fen River flowed westward into the Yellow River. When it flowed through Linfen, it passed through Baibo Valley. At some point, the Fen River suddenly changed its route and continued to the southward into the Yellow River. It no longer flowed through Baibo Valley, and the Baibo Valley became deserted.

The Fen River in the past was very wide. As the old river channel of the Fen River, the Baibo Valley was also very wide, taking a gourd shape, with both ends narrow and wide in the middle. The distance between the two ends was about 30 miles. The widest place in the middle was also more than three miles. After tens of thousands of years of erosion of the Fen River, the Baibo Valley was surrounded by cliffs with thousands of feet of walls. It was difficult to climb up and climb down. Only two ends could enter, and these two ends were extremely narrow. After a little construction, it became a dangerous pass that one person could do without thousands of people to open. Moreover, the grass and trees at both ends were lush, covering the sky and the sun. It was difficult for ordinary people to discover this secret place.

At that time, Guo Tai, Han Xian, Yang Feng, Hu Cai, Li Le and others followed Zhang Jiao after the failed rebellion in Jizhou, and were chased by the government troops everywhere and fled here accidentally. The discoverer, Baibo Valley, was really a treasure land for hiding and development. He repaired the two ends of the valley and established a pass, and then recruited the Yellow Turban Remnants and refugees everywhere. After saving for more than four years, he recruited more than 200,000 people. The momentum was greatly boosted. He did not dare to directly take the banner of the Yellow Turban, so he used Baibo Valley as the name of Baibo Army and was called the Baibo thief by the world.

Guo Tai, Han Xian, Yang Feng, Hu Cai, Li Le and others gradually discovered that they had recruited too many refugees, and the food they had cultivated in the valley was not enough to eat. So they selected 100,000 more powerful men from more than 200,000 people, and braved them to plunder the rich Hedong County. They walked over like locusts, harming all the big and small towns between Baibo Valley and Anyi City. Unfortunately, the 100,000 Baibo troops arrived in Anyi City.

When he met Zhu Ye, a famous Han general, who had already led the Hedong Prefect, and led more than 3,000 county soldiers. With the help of the Wei family, Pei family and other soldiers of Hedong family, he not only defended Anyi City, but also took the opportunity to kill and eliminate more than 10,000 Baibo troops. Seeing that Anyi City was really difficult to chew, Guo Tai also heard that Lu Bu had escorted a lot of gold, silver and jewelry to Yecheng, so he instigated Yu Fulu, who was gathered in Pingyang City not far from Baibo Valley, to do a big deal with him.

At that time, Yu Fuluo, his father was killed by his fellow tribes. He proclaimed himself the Shanyu, but was not recognized by most of the Southern Xiongnu nobles. He was forced to lead 40,000 tribes to escape. He ran to Luoyang pitifully and begged Emperor Ling of Han to make the decision for him. Emperor Ling of Han was worried about his heirs and was fighting with the general He Jin and was too lazy to care about Yu Fuluo. Yu Fuluo had to hold on to Pingyang City. Because Pingyang City was in the middle of Meiji and Luoyang, he imagined that there would be any changes there, so he went there to take advantage and gathered in Pingyang, but there was no pasture in Pingyang area. The 40,000 people below him were hungry, so he had to regain the main career of the Huns and rob the Han people.

After Guo Tai and Yu Fuluo's coalition, they used the road to Zhang Yan, who was also the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party, crossed Taihang and rushed straight to Hanoi. They brought more than 10,000 people in Hanoi County, gathered together 10,000 Baibo Army and 10,000 Hun cavalry, and ambushed a section of the river, waiting for Lu Bu's army to go down the water. Guo Tai and Yu Fuluo thought that their 110,000 troops would definitely be able to easily defeat Lu Bu's men, but they did not expect that Lu Bu first ambushed the front of Baibo's army with crossbow soldiers, then killed the generals and seized the flag, defeated their morale, and then attacked each other, completely defeating Guo Tai and Yu Fuluo's coalition. Guo Tai's command was completely killed and injured, leaving only Guo Tai fled back to Baibo Valley to recuperate with two arrow wounds.

More than two months have passed, and Guo Tai's arrow wound has not yet recovered, and the news of Bai Bo's army being defeated by Lu Bu's army has spread. There are very few refugees coming to Bai Bo Valley to defect to the past two months, so there are only 110,000 old, weak and remnants in Bai Bo Valley. In addition to the more than 30,000 old, weak and remnants of Huns entrusted to him by Yu Fuluo, less than 20,000 of them can be really put into battle.

But Mr. Guo was not afraid. He knew very well the danger of the passes at both ends of the valley. Not to mention putting seven or eight thousand people, even putting seven or eight hundred people was not afraid of the attack of Lu Bu's tens of thousands of people. He was hiding in the depths of Baibo Valley to absorb the Forget-Word Pill.

This time, Lu Bu came out to fight against the Hun cavalry and went into battle lightly, without carrying a thunderbolt chariot.

When we arrived at one end of Baibo Valley, we had to cross a large forest that covered the sky and the sun. Lu Bu first sent a scout camp to search the dense forest about two or three miles long. He did not find an ambush, and then all his troops were dispatched to continue to advance into Baibo Valley.

After passing the dense forest, I saw an extremely dangerous pass. The originally vast Fen River channel suddenly narrowed, as if a gap was split between the cliffs on both sides. The widest part of the gap was only more than two meters. The bottom of the river was built with many huge pieces of bluestone. Above the bluestone steps more than two meters high were wooden doors more than three feet thick and ten meters high. The wooden door was conveniently made of arched city towers made of bluestone. The city tower was connected to the cliffs on both sides. There were white wave soldiers guarding themselves above the cliffs and above the city tower.

After a moment of looking, Lu Bu understood why the Baibo army could survive for so long and not be eliminated by the official army. It was all due to the terrain of the Baibo Valley. The critical point of this pass lies in its narrowness and height. If the official army attacked, it must climb up from the bottom of the river along the bluestone steps, and then climb over the city wall with a cliff as the foundation stone. Moreover, the bottom of the pass was so narrow that only four or five hundred people could be put down to attack at a time. The Baibo army on the city tower and cliff wall had seven or eight thousand people. In this way, unless they were thunderbolts, they would not be able to be taken down according to ordinary siege methods such as ladder rushing.

Lu Bu whispered to Guo Jia: "Can you notify the detailed workers in the valley to take the opportunity to open the city gate?"

Guo Jia shook his head: "These works were all joined later. They were not trusted by Guo Tai. They were placed deep in the Baibo Valley and they were not allowed to approach the entrance of the valley."

Lu Bu asked in surprise: "How did their intelligence come out?"

"Grand Guo wants to raise 150,000 people. The farming in Guanggu is far from satisfying, so he sent people out of the valley to plunder food. The detailed work I installed was to use the gap in plundering food to find the linker and pass on the information." Guo Jia also looked at the pass in Baibo Valley with regret: "They mentioned the dangers of this pass in the intelligence, but I didn't agree at the time. Now it seems that he really underestimated this mastery pass."

Lu Bu pointed to the top of Baibogu: "Can we rush down from above?"

Guo Jia still shook his head: "There are steep cliffs above the river valley, with walls thousands of feet high, which is difficult to climb up and down."

At this point, Lu Bu didn't have any anxiety on his face. Instead, he smiled faintly: "Since it's so easy to defend and difficult to attack, let's attack slowly!"

Lu Bu immediately ordered the cutting down of trees on the side of the river valley to cause simple catapults, and kept throwing stones into the pass. Apart from the loud sound of the stones hitting the cliff walls and wooden doors, these dozens of catapults did not have any impact on the Baibo Valley Pass.

Lu Bu ordered people to make nearly a hundred big drums, and hundreds of drummers kept beating them.

Lu Bu then ordered another ten thousand auxiliary soldiers to shout in unison, "Kill!", "Catch it!", and "It's about to capture it!" and so on.

After making these arrangements, Lu Bu, with 30,000 combat soldiers and 30,000 auxiliary soldiers, disappeared into the dense forest on the side of the river valley.

A few hours later, Hu Chuquan and Li Jue appeared on the side of the river valley with exhausted 50,000 Hun cavalry. They heard the rumbling sound of rocks, drums, and shouts of shocking sounds at Baibo Pass from afar. They looked at each other and smiled: "The Central Army is attacking Baibo Pass, let them continue to attack. Anyway, the Baibo Pass is very dangerous. Let's take a break now!"

The arrogant Feixiong Army under Li Jue's command, which was harassing the Feiyan Army along the way from Tongtian Mountain to Baibo Valley, has dropped from 2,000 people to more than 600 people. It is a problem that the difficulty of ensuring their own safety is difficult to ensure his own safety, so he began to be much more polite to Hu Chuquan and had a smile on his face.

The 10,000 auxiliary soldiers of the Central Army had been shouting for several hours, and they were a little tired, and their shouts became weaker and weaker. The soldiers who controlled the catapult cart and beat the drums were all soft and too lazy to exert their strength, and the drums and catapults were much weaker.

Hu Chuquan and Li Jue looked at each other again and smiled: "It seems that the Central Army is not strong enough to attack the city and is exhausted. Now it's time for us to go on stage, so let them relax completely!"

Hu Chuquan waved a scepter that symbolized the power of the Zuoxian King of the Huns and shouted loudly: "Reviving the Huns, success or failure is here! Crash!"

The 50,000 Hun cavalry were full of anger along the way and couldn't vent. This time, they finally found a target to vent. They rushed towards the dense forest like a group of hungry wolves. As long as they passed through this dense forest, they could wipe out the exhausted Central Army, which was not conducive to attacking Baibo Pass, in one fell swoop.
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