Chapter 477

Outside the Grand Camp

The scouts were not joking.

Liu Bei truly intended to lead Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and thirty thousand troops to take the initiative and launch an attack on Gu Yi to find an opportunity to break through.

After all,

Liu Bei thought about it over and over.

If both sides were engaged in normal warfare,

no matter what, he could not possibly defeat Gu Yi, who occupied various advantages.

To survive,

the only method was to take advantage of the chaos when the two armies were engaged in battle and find the right opportunity to escape the battlefield!

For this,

Liu Bei did not hesitate to order the soldiers under his command to blow the horn of total attack.

To attract the attention of Gu Yi's grand army.

Sure enough,

the generals under Gu Yi's command, one after another, led their respective troops to leave the grand camp and engage in battle with the Liu Bei army.

In an instant,

blades met,

blood sprayed in all directions.

The pitch-black shadows on the ground moved rapidly.

Shouts, cries of panic, whistles, and wails were intertwined, playing a cold and cruel symphony.

Because Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had always been protecting Liu Bei's side,

it caused the Liu Bei army, which was engaged in battle with the Gu Yi army on the front lines, to collapse much faster than imagined!

Looking at the Gu Yi army,

under Gao Shun's leadership,

the Trapping Battalion pressed forward courageously,

ruthlessly destroying the formations the Liu Bei army had originally set up.

Under Gan Ning's leadership,

the butcher knives in the hands of the Brocade Sail Thieves fell again and again.

The soldiers of the Liu Bei army who had lost their morale were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, with nowhere to escape.

The gap in strength between the two sides was truly too large.

Although Gu Yi did not bring any cavalry on his southern expedition,

the soldiers under Liu Bei's command already had poor combat power; what could they use to fight Gu Yi's army to the death at this moment?

Very soon,

the defeat of the Liu Bei army gradually manifested.

Soldiers were scattering, fleeing, and the remaining morale was about to be exhausted.

However,

in order to completely annihilate the Liu Bei army,

the generals under Gu Yi's command were also separated to different positions on the battlefield at this moment.

The long-awaited opportunity for Liu Bei to escape appeared!

Under the protection of Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and hundreds of elite personal guards, Liu Bei held his dual swords and galloped toward the south.

In order not to be recognized by the soldiers of Gu Yi's army,

Liu Bei even changed out of all his original armor and clothes.

Except for his weapons, everything else had been thrown away.

In the blink of an eye,

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei had escaped more than ten li from the main battlefield.

Looking at the Gu Yi army gradually disappearing behind them,

Liu Bei silently let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

It looked like his escape plan had succeeded?

Next, he only needed to flee to Jiaozhou,

and find an opportunity to replace Shi Xie,

and raise the banner of rebellion again!

Regarding this bumpkin Shi Xie, Liu Bei believed that wanting to replace him would not be a big problem.

After all,

if Shi Xie were truly capable, why would he need to run to this corner of Jiaozhou to mix?

Do not look at the Lingnan region of later generations as being very developed.

But in the late Han period, the development level here was truly very low.

Of the vast land of Jiaozhou, what could be utilized by Shi Xie was not even one-third.

However,

if one had no intention of contending for hegemony, this was indeed a good place to be a local emperor.

Shi Xie's days could be described as very comfortable.

Constantly thinking in his mind about how to replace Shi Xie, Liu Bei suddenly bumped into Zhang Fei, who was walking in front of him.

Seeing this, Liu Bei's brows slightly furrowed:

"Yide, why stop suddenly instead of hurrying on the road?"

Zhang Fei did not directly answer Liu Bei's words.

He only kept pointing not far ahead.

Suddenly,

appearing in the woods ahead were no less than three thousand people!

And the person in the lead was precisely Gu Yi.

Beside Gu Yi stood fierce generals like Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci, and Xu Sheng.

"Xuande, the time you took to escape here seems a bit late compared to what I expected."

Gu Yi still had that spotless, spring-breeze-like smile on his face.

But the moment he saw Gu Yi,

Liu Bei smiled miserably.

He understood.

His escape plan of feigning an attack in the east while attacking in the west had been completely seen through by Gu Yi.

To the extent that,

in order to prevent him from escaping,

Gu Yi had actually come out personally,

leading these thousands of people, leaving the main force in advance, and rushing to this inevitable path to set an ambush.

Did Liu Bei still have hope of escaping?

The answer was no.

Facing the ambush of thousands of elite soldiers, Liu Bei only had two or three hundred combat-capable soldiers left by his side.

Although Liu Bei possessed the two generals Guan and Zhang,

Gu Yi's side also possessed fierce generals like Huang Zhong, Taishi Ci, and Xu Sheng.

Furthermore,

great generals like Gan Ning, Gao Shun, Pang De, Zhang He, and Zhang Ren would likely also rush to this place from the rear with the pursuit troops very soon.

Liu Bei's fate, up to this point, had already been quietly determined.

"Xuande, you are also a figure; this Prime Minister will not humiliate you."

"Moreover, you are different from that scoundrel Sun Bofu."

"Your stance from beginning to end has been standing on the opposite side of this Prime Minister."