Chapter 46 Tiger Guards

【Eight hundred soldiers, follow me to achieve merit!

Zhang Liao chose a set of tactics that Guan Yu, who was also his fellow villager, was extremely skilled in:

The fierce general stepped into the battle formation and directly killed the enemy chieftain! 】

"Wen Yuan is courageous!" Guan Yu praised.

Many generals can analyze the situation to the point, but being able to act decisively and execute unwaveringly after the analysis is a trait that many boastful generals lack.

Just like when Guan Yu killed Yan Liang, the opportunity was fleeting. Even if he hesitated for a moment, the direction of the war might have completely changed.

Others were also moved. Are there really only eight hundred people?

Then they thought of Guan Yu's charge into the battle formation and killed Yan Liang, which made them even more moved: Is he really a fierce general without peer?

【Zhang Liao has already recruited brave men, so what about Sun Quan?

It is true that Sun Quan was not prepared, but of course it was not as exaggerated as the rumor that Sun Quan personally went to Hefei City to watch the excitement.

First of all, Zhang Liao chose a good time. "At dawn, Liao was wearing armor and holding a halberd, and was the first to attack the city." At dawn, it was three to five in the morning, which should be when the sky was just getting light.

The biography of Pan Zhang also records that "Zhang Liao arrived suddenly, and the generals were not prepared." So first of all, the timing was calculated. 】

"The Bai Ma rescue was also Wen Yuan and I who rushed into the enemy's formation together!" Guan Yu said with a nostalgic look:

"At that time, Cao Gong sent two of us as the vanguard, Xu Huang as the backup, and Wen Yuan also bravely rushed into the enemy's formation, invincible!"

"But it was my second brother who killed Yan Liang!" Zhang Fei said sourly:

"And the Bai Ma rescue was also Yan Liang who led the Hebei elite soldiers to set up the battle formation, and my second brother rushed into the battle and beheaded him."

"He Zhang Liao's Hefei was a sneak attack! And how can the Jiangdong private soldiers compare to the Hebei elite soldiers?"

Guan Yu laughed and patted Zhang Fei's arm: "It's not as good as the Dangyang Bridge battle, where Yide's name spread all over the world!"

[But the later records are purely about the huge gap in the quality of the soldiers on both sides!

Zhang Liao and Li Dian led the troops to attack the front army, and Chen Wu, the tiger minister of Jiang, was killed on the spot. The front army of Sun Wu was in chaos and the soldiers were defeated.

Faced with such a good opportunity, Zhang Liao followed the defeated soldiers to the central army. It was not until Sun Quan climbed a small hill that he found that Zhang Liao had only so many people and began to encircle him.

But the difference in the quality of the soldiers was too great. No one could stop Zhang Liao from breaking through. Even after breaking through, he heard that there were still soldiers trapped inside, so he killed them and rescued them back to Hefei City.

Zhang Liao's biography records that this battle was fought from dawn to noon. A group of people came and went freely in the Wu army. The soldiers and generals in Hefei City were all convinced, and the Wu army camp was heartbroken! 】

"What a courage!" Guan Yu praised loudly, and then slapped his thigh: "What a pity!"

"It's a pity that only Chen Wu was killed in the battle!"

The generals looked at him sideways: General Guan, don't compare yourself to it. It's outrageous that 800 people can kill a tiger minister of Jiang Biao!

Attacking an enemy a hundred times stronger than him and still being successful is like an ant trying to shake a tree or a mantis trying to stop a car. It's quite a dream.

"It must be that Zhang Liao's voice is not loud enough, and the chaos he caused is not enough!" Zhang Fei was so picky:

"If he could have Zhang Liao's voice and lead the front army to charge the central army, it is still unknown whether Sun Quan would be trampled to death by the mob."

Everyone thought about it and shook their heads. It would be too aggrieved if the lord of Jiangdong died like this.

But we still have to be soberly aware that this is impossible.

Huang Zhong said: "Sun Quan usually has a group of tiger guards to protect him. They are also Jiangdong guards who have fought many battles. With their protection, Zhang Liao can hardly plot against Sun Quan."

Jiang Wan reminded: "But General Huang, this light curtain has been talking about Xiaoyaojin."

[Since then, although the Wu army still surrounded Hefei, they have lost their fighting spirit from top to bottom. After a dozen days of pretending to be surrounded, Sun Quan retreated hastily.

As for the subsequent pursuit battle at Xiaoyaojin, the biography of Zhang Liao only modestly wrote that "Liao led the army to pursue and almost regained power." This aspect can be seen from the biography of Jiangdong.

After besieging Hefei for dozens of days, an epidemic broke out in the Wu army camp, and morale became even lower. In order to avoid being attacked by Zhang Liao again and causing the camp to explode, Sun Quan made a decision that he thought was very correct:

The army retreated first, and Sun Quan brought more than a thousand tiger guards and a group of Jiangbiao old ministers to cover the rear. 】

"This decision is indeed correct." The generals discussed:

"If the front, middle and rear armies retreat slowly, the full force of Hefei City may cause the Wu soldiers to roar in the camp, and the rear army will roll back and the entire army will be scattered."

Then everyone couldn't help but sigh again: Jiangdong's soldiers are too bad!

Facing a strong enemy, they can't defend themselves, the army is demoralized and can't be revived, and they retreated hastily after only more than ten days of siege. Is this really a war?

【Zhang Liao's pursuit arrived in an instant, and he led his army to shatter Sun Quan's self-confidence on the spot:

Sun Quan could still comfort himself that he was caught off guard by Zhang Liao during the surprise attack under Hefei City, but what was the result of the same attack by thousands of soldiers and horses this time?

When Gan Ning, Jiang Qin, and Lu Meng met Zhang Liao, Ling Tong was still seriously injured in order to protect Sun Quan, and all three hundred guards died in the battle.

The guards of Jiangdong, who were proud of their bravery and fearlessness, could win a glimmer of hope for Sun Quan.

At the critical moment, the bridge of Xiaoyaojin broke and trapped Sun Quan, but it was only with the help of his personal follower Gu Li who desperately whipped his horse that Sun Quan's mount carried him over.

Finally, when they returned to Sun Quan's big ship, the master and his ministers cried bitterly.

The eight hundred and ten thousand men broke the morale of the Wu army, and the Xiaoyaojin fight broke the confidence of the Sun Wu high-level officials.

Since then, Sun Quan came to Hefei at least four more times, but all returned fruitlessly, and he never saw Shouchun City behind Hefei again until his death. 】

Ah, this... all the generals were speechless.

Zhang Fei laughed and said, "Isn't this Zhang Liao just relying on the weakness of the Jiangdong soldiers?"

"If we lead an army of 100,000 people and Zhang Wenyuan dares to chase him out during the retreat, I, Lao Zhang, will take his surname!"

Huang Zhong couldn't help but blush. Just now, he said that Sun Quan had tiger guards. In a blink of an eye, it was proved that the level of Jiangdong's top soldiers was mediocre.

"General Huang, don't worry about it!" Guan Yu said attentively: "Wen Yuan's bravery is rare in the world."

"Jiang Biao's tiger ministers have not fought hard and only used Shanyue nobles to attack. Naturally, they cannot be Wenyuan's personal guards."

Huang Zhong folded his hands and said nothing, thinking that he could not let his Jingzhou soldiers be like the Jiangdong soldiers.

Can the conquest of Shanyue be considered a battle? When encountering these... light curtains in the north, what do you mean by that sentence? A place to raise gu!

If you only conquer Shanyue and are proud of your achievements, then you will definitely lose in a battle with these people like Sun Quan!

Remember this commandment!

[There is still a scenic spot in Xiaoyaojin called Zangzhoupu. The "Minutes of Du Shi Fang Yu" records that "Zhang Liao imprisoned Sun Quan and dug this place to hide the warships."

This shows that the bridge in Xiaoyaojin was actually demolished by Zhang Liao, and this group of troops had already been hidden here before Sun Quan arrived.

This is a famous general who accurately grasped the battle situation even though he was in a difficult situation, and finally grasped the glimmer of possibility and made eternal achievements. It was not simply Sun Quan's bad luck.

It can be said that Jiangdong lost completely in this battle regardless of bravery or strategy.

"Wei Lue" records that "it was so powerful that Jiangdong was so powerful that the child refused to stop crying and his parents were afraid of him."]

It's hard to say how much influence the Siege of White Horse and Guan Yu's charge had on thirty-one-year-old Zhang Liao.