The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

But he said that Sun Jian shot Cao Xing with an arrow, and Cao Xing turned over and fell off the horse.

Cao Xing's personal guards were all suffocating and fleeing on horseback. No one thought that Sun Jian would dare to chase after him, and his archery skills were so superb that one arrow would hit Cao Xing. After Cao Xing lost his horse, most of his personal soldiers were still fleeing forward. After escaping for a distance, they realized that a few people turned back and wanted to save Cao Xing.

And Sun Jian had already arrived.

Cao Xing was shot in the thigh by Sun Jian. He had just climbed up from the ground, holding the waist injured by falling from the horse with one hand, and pressing the wound on the thigh with the other, he took the arrow and limped forward. Moved away, his thigh was injured, and he couldn't run fast. In fact, even if he ran fast, he obviously couldn't outrun Sun Jian's mount. Sun Jian changed his bow to a spear, looked at Cao Xing's heart, and stabbed it away. Although Cao Xing was wearing armor, Sun Jian's horse was fast, relying on the speed of the horse, the spear tip was long and sharp, which was used to penetrate the armor. gushing. Cao Xing cried out in pain, spit out a mouthful of hard work, turned around and looked at Sun Jian, shouting, "You...!"

What Cao Xing wanted to say was "You hurt people with secret arrows", and he wanted to say "You hurt people behind your back", but he didn't say anything. He only felt that the energy in his body gradually disappeared, his eyes gradually darkened, and he fell to the ground. A dead end.

Cao Xing's personal soldiers, who came back to rescue Cao Xing, had just returned, and saw that Cao Xing was dead, while Sun Jian vigorously straddled his horse, drew back his spear, and was majestic. , these few personal soldiers did not dare to go forward to **** Cao Xing's body back, let alone go forward to fight, so they stopped their horses and turned their heads and left.

The personal guards led by Sun Jian chased him from behind.

Sun Jian took aim at Cao Xing, and ordered: "Cao Xing has already killed me, Zhang Liao is in front! You hurry up to catch up, those who win Zhang Liao will be rewarded 100!" He encouraged his morale and said, "To capture Lu Ying, At this moment, please encourage me!"

The relatives passed down Sun Jian's orders.

Sun Jian's subordinates' armored cavalry suits have armor for both people and horses, so it's acceptable for a short-term sprint, but it is not as light and fast as the light cavalry. Those light cavalry have already surpassed the armored and saddled equipment at this time, rushing ahead.

However, following Sun Jian's order, the light cavalry came first, the armored and cavalry equipment was slightly behind, and then the infantry. The 2,000 or so soldiers of Sun Jian's infantry and cavalry moved from east to west. Chase thousands of Zhang Liao soldiers who have fled.

This whole piece of the pursuit and annihilation battle has now been fought, and the battlefield has shifted from a position close to the west of Yanxian City to a position close to Lü Bu's camp. More than two miles to the east is the moat of Yan County, and less than two miles to the west is the Lü Bu camp.

There is a road from Lu Bu's camp to the west of Yanxian, but the road is not wide. When the city of Yanxian was besieged several times before, Lu Bu's soldiers who left the camp could march along the road or retreat along the road, but at this juncture of escape, it was naturally impossible. They were still marching in order, and saw that the road was now full of soldiers from Zhang Liao's army, and the fields on both sides of the road were also full of soldiers from Zhang Liao's army at this moment.

After many days of spring rain, even the camp gate was washed down, not to mention the roads and fields. The road is barely good. After all, it is compacted. It is a little muddy, but you can still walk normally. The fields on both sides are already soft. After the rain, it becomes more and more loose. , and it was very slippery. The soldiers of Zhang Liao’s army who fled to the fields would slip to the ground from time to time, and they were covered in mud. The weapons that he carried, such as knives and spears, fell to the ground, and he was desperate to escape, but he did not care to pick them up.

Sun Jian's light cavalry can hit an enemy with almost a single arrow without aiming. The armored cavalry has a high vision, and they don't want to waste energy and time on ordinary pawns. They only find officers among the enemy to kill. The foot soldiers at the back, lest the cavalry would take their heads away, followed closely behind, and some of them ran fast, even before the armor and cavalry, and drove the enemy to slash and slash.

Looking from afar, it is like a flock of sheep in the wild, being chased by wolves.

Both sides of the enemy and us are the subjects of the Han Dynasty, so the color of the uniforms is the same, both are red. From the watchtower of Lv Bu's camp, some can't tell the enemy from the enemy. To enable soldiers to distinguish between the enemy and us, there are some differences that were added by each side later. Furthermore, one side is fleeing and the other is chasing. It is really not necessary to distinguish between the enemy and us carefully. Under Lü Bu's tent, some were the children of Bingzhou and Liangzhou, some were the troops assigned to him by Yuan Shu, and some were the local people whom he forcibly summoned in Runan. The soldiers of Sun Jian's army are all elite soldiers. They are basically Jiangdong children brought out by Sun Jian from Jiangzuo. There are many Jingzhou people, and some Yangzhou people from Danyang. The accent is Jing and Yang. In short, they are all Jiangdong languages. . They were all in red uniforms, and they were all shouting and shouting, but those who fled in front were all panicked and fearful, and those who were chasing were all excited and high-spirited.

Of course, Lu Bu couldn't hear the shouts on the battlefield, but he watched the scene when Sun Jian shot Cao Xing to death, and when Cao Xing died, his troops were defeated like a mountain. Must be clear.

Suddenly, Lu Bu was stunned and speechless, and he didn't react for a while.

Under this circumstance, if he leads the troops out of the camp again, he will not go to fight Sun Jian, but find his own way. The thousands of rout soldiers in front who had completely lost their organization and restraint blocked the way. First of all, he couldn't get through. Secondly, even if he managed to pass, the formation would have been disrupted by the rout troops. Ruhong's Sun Jian's elite soldiers fought?

Spare him a hundred battles in the battlefield of Lu Bu, and at this time, he was helpless.

Involuntarily, Lu Bu recalled the scene when Chang'an City was captured by Li Jue and others that day.

Thinking of him, Lu Bu, since the army has fought so far, there have been few defeats, but he lost once in Chang'an. However, that defeat was because the old soldiers in the city responded to the outside of the city, and it was because of Nai that he was defeated and lost Chang'an. At the root of it, Lu Bu always believed that the defeat was "not a crime of war". This time, it was his second major defeat. Just like the first defeat in Chang'an, Lu Bu's mind was full of the idea of ​​"non-war crimes". In this battle, he was originally the attacking party, and he planned to win by "magic plan", but how did he fight it? Inexplicably, why did it fail? Thinking about the present, Lu Bu was unable to speak for a long time.

There were those who responded quickly to the left and right, and hurriedly spoke, saying: "Ming Gong, Zhang Wenyuan's army has been defeated and has already collapsed. At this time, they must not be allowed to enter the camp! They must immediately withdraw their troops from the camp to help them, hurry up. Keep the gates of the camp closed so that the main camp will not be disturbed by it! If this group of defeated soldiers storms into the camp, the main camp will also be lost!"

Lu Bu stabilized his mind and said, "Your words are good!"

Immediately, a military order was issued, ordering the troops preparing to leave the camp to withdraw, and the camp door that was being opened was closed immediately.

At this critical moment, Lu Bu somehow remembered Gao Shun and Gao Ya. In his busy schedule, he took time to raise his head and looked towards the north of Yan County. On the battlefield in the north of Yanxian City and in the south of Sun Jian's north camp, people were still slaughtering at the moment. Cao Xing had already died in the war, what happened to Gao Shun and Gao Ya? What if they both died in battle? There is a saying: Thousands of troops are easy to get, but one general is hard to find. Cao Xing, Gao Shun, Gao Ya, etc., as fellow villagers, are all Lv Bu always rely on. That battle, for Lu Bu, was really too great a loss, almost hurting his vitality.

But right now, for a while, Gao Shun and Elegance are no longer considered.

Because of Cao Xing's death, Lü Bu had to put aside the idea of ​​leaving the camp and switch to guarding the camp. However, it did not go according to his wishes. Although he had given up fighting and planned to simply guard the camp, the next situation changed. It turned sharply, and it developed sharply to the unfavorable side of Lu Bu.

However, Sun Jian's troops took advantage of the victory to drive north, like chopping melons and vegetables. They chased the defeated troops of Zhang Liao's troops with ghosts and wolves.

At the same time, Cheng Pu and other generals in Yan County saw Sun Jian's great victory, and they were all overjoyed. They gathered all the troops in the city and went out of the city gate. First, they divided their troops to help Zu Mao and annihilate Zhang Liao's thousand men. Then the main force went west, and came from behind to support.

Just when Lü Bu's eyes occasionally turned to the northern battlefield of Yanxian County, mainly focusing on Sun Jian's army, a Yuanmen official suddenly rushed to the front of the watchtower, raised his head and looked up, shouting, "Ming Gong!"

Lu Bu looked down and asked, "What?"

"General Zhang has arrived in front of the camp! He is calling for the door. Is the camp door open?"

It turned out that Zhang Liao escaped back outside the camp by relying on his speed.

Lü Bu Wangzhi saw that Sun Jian's troops were still a few miles away from the camp, and of course he couldn't leave Zhang Liao alone outside the camp, so he ordered: "Quickly open the camp door and bring Wenyuan in."

When the official received the order, he went to the gate and opened the camp gate.

Lü Bu looked at the Yuanmen, and saw Zhang Liao, riding a horse, entering the camp in a state of embarrassment, with only a dozen or so cavalry personal soldiers following him. When Zhang Liao entered the camp, disregarding the ban on horseback riding in the camp, he galloped to the bottom of the watchtower, jumped down, took three steps together, and ran upstairs, although he was in armor and bowed down, he said: : "The last general is incompetent, he is actually defeated, please punish Ming Gong!"

"Wenyuan, your siege battle, I see it in my eyes, this is not the fault of the emperor, you should get up."

Zhang Liao got up and asked, "Ming Gong, what should we do now? Then Sun Wentai will immediately march outside the camp, and he will definitely take advantage of the victory to attack the camp..." When he saw the exit from the west gate of Yan County, he was heading towards Sun Jian's troops for support. The troops led by Cheng Pu and other generals said, "The troops in Yanxian city are all out, and I am defeated, I am afraid that the camp will be difficult to defend!"

Lü Bu said, "What's so hard to defend? My camp is strong, and even if Sun Wentai came to attack, could he still be able to break my camp?"

Zhang Liao thinks about it, and the same is true. Although he was defeated, there are still many soldiers and horses in the battalion, which should be used to defend the battalion.

So, Lü Bu ordered Zhang Liao and other generals to go to each section of the camp to command and prepare to guard the camp.

After receiving orders from Zhang Liao and others, they went down to the watchtower, and each went to the defense area assigned to them by Lu Bu, but most of them had not arrived yet.

At the end of the day, Sun Jian had already led his troops to drive away the fallen soldiers of Zhang Liao's troops to the front of the camp.

The camp door was closed, and the soldiers had no way forward. Either they fled to either side of the camp, or they were shot dead in front of the camp by Sun Jian's cavalry and infantry archers. In a short while, in front of Yuanmen and the entire camp gate east of Lvbu's camp, blood flowed into rivers, and there were corpses everywhere.

Hearing the screams and pleadings of the comrades, watching the comrades die outside, but couldn't save them, and couldn't let them in, the impact was extremely powerful, there were ten guards in the battalion, eight. All of them looked miserable, and their morale became more and more fearful.

Sun Jian did not attack the camp immediately. After killing the defeated soldiers of Zhang Liao's troops who were trapped in front of the camp gate, he divided the cavalry into two groups, and ordered them to face the two sides of the camp's gate, and run around them. , show off their power; at the same time, order the infantry to line up in front of the camp.

When Lu Bu saw it, he wondered in his heart, and said, "Why didn't Sun Wentai attack my camp immediately while we were victorious, but he was outside the camp?" A thought came to his mind, and he thought, "Could it be that Sun Wentai knew that my camp was difficult, so he simply You didn't intend to attack my camp, but wanted to set up a formation outside my camp, show your might, frighten the soldiers in my camp, and then retreat back to the city?"

This idea can't help but seem naive.

Soon, Lu Bu knew what Sun Jian was going to do.

I saw that after the infantry of Sun Jian's troops outside the battalion had formed their formation, they faced the inside of the battalion, raised their arms, stomped their feet, and shouted in unison, "The congratulations are in the morning, and the capture of Lu Bu today is a complete success! My family's general ordered: Those who donate to the camp will be rewarded with a thousand bounty! If you donate to Lu Bu, the official will give you two thousand stones!"

As soon as the shouting came out, Zhang Liao, who was heading towards the defense area designated by Lu Bu, suddenly changed his face, and secretly shouted, "Oh, not good!" Instead of rushing to the defense area, he rushed back to the watchtower, and saw you upstairs. When he arrived at Lu Bu, he hurriedly said, "Duke Ming, I'm afraid the camp can't be held anymore!"

"Wenyuan, didn't I tell you to guard the camp gate? Why are you back? Why do you say the camp can't be defended anymore?"

Zhang Liao said: "Ming Gong, these days, there have been constant rumors in the army that the letter of praise has been lost, the generals and the families of the soldiers have all fallen into the hands of Sun Wentai, and the military's heart is already unstable. , the army's heart is more turbulent. It was originally as Duke Ming said, relying on my strong camp, if Sun Wentai came to attack it, he might be able to defend it, but he didn't care that before Sun Wentai attacked the camp, he once again lied and praised it for its capture.... Duke Ming At this moment of panic, rumors are the most likely to deceive the army, and the generals and soldiers in the army must have no fighting spirit!

"Wenyuan, what do you mean?"

Zhang Liao said: "The last commander's humble opinion, the current plan is to abandon the camp and withdraw quickly!"

Lu Bu was furious, and said, "I have fought in the north and south, and I have never retreated without a fight! Wen Yuan, you don't have to say it, hurry up and guard the camp!"

Looking downstairs, someone shouted, "Ming Gong!"

Lu Bu looked down and asked, "What's wrong?"

"General Gao is back!"

"Which General Gao?" In his voice, Lu Bu saw a general standing beside the person who answered him, covered in blood, looking at it, it was Gao Shun, Lu Bu was surprised and happy, and said, "Zixiang? Oh, come up, come up!"

However, it turned out that Gao Shun was really a martial artist. He was Han Dang in the front, Song Qian and Sun Fu in the back. Under the circumstance that he was attacked from both sides by the two front and rear enemies, he still relied on the bravery of the soldiers who were trapped in the camp to kill him. On a **** road, although the troops brought to attack Sun Jian's northern camp were nearly wiped out, he still managed to return to the camp.

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When he went up to the watchtower, he didn't have time to tell the story of the **** battle, and the first sentence he said was, "Ming Gong, hurry up and evacuate!"

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"Ah? Zixiang, you said the same? Why did you leave the camp and leave?"

Gao Shun said: "Today's war is a big defeat, and Sun Wentai has used this rumor to stir our army's heart. The army's heart has been chaotic, and we can't fight! And please look at Duke Ming, the city of Yan County has come out to help Sun Wentai. Sun Wentai led this army. Ma, attack me from the east; Sun Fu, Song Qian, and Han Dang from the north of the city will lead their troops to attack me from the north. My battalion will be attacked on both sides! The army is in chaos, and if it is attacked from both sides, how can I defend it?

"Duke Ming, and the surrounding rivers around Yan County, if you don't take advantage of the arrival of the soldiers in the city of Yan County, Sun Fu and other troops, and before we join forces to attack our camp, we will withdraw as soon as possible, and wait until the fortress is lost, then I'm afraid it will be Even if you want to withdraw, there is no way out!"

After hearing this, Lu Bu was speechless.

How could he not know that Zhang Liao and Gao Shun were right? At first, he refused to follow Zhang Liao's advice, which was emotionally unacceptable, but now, when he heard Gao Shun's words again, his emotions softened somewhat, but after all, he was still unwilling to come from a hero.

Zhang Liao said at this time: "Ming Gong, Liao has a plan to win in defeat."

"What's the plan?"

Zhang Liao spoke out his strategy like this, and Lü Bu was overjoyed, so he agreed to abandon the camp and withdraw his troops.