Chapter 51: Pursuit and Massacre
He didn't want to have anything to do with these people in the Yellow Turban Army for a long time, and if the talks broke down, it would be a big deal to directly pull the banner and leave the Yellow Turban Army by himself.
With his current strength, even if he takes his men and horses to find a mountain and establish himself as a king, it is not impossible.
Anyway, the Yellow Turban Army doesn't have much to do, and sooner or later it will be destroyed, so he should plan for his back road first.
Because Liu Zheng had just defeated Zhu Jun and made a great contribution, Zhao Hong was not easy to force too hard, and it was not a matter of time and a half for Liu Zheng to hand over Huang Zhong, so after Liu Zheng proposed this method at this time, Zhao Hong also chose to agree.
If Zhang Zhongjing, who Liu Zheng said, can really save Zhang Mancheng and bring Zhang Mancheng to life, then the outcome of Huang Zhong's disposal will be decided by Zhang Mancheng himself.
After Zhao Hong agreed, Liu Zheng did not stay long after completing the completion, so he waved his army again and marched east to Runan City.
It's not that Liu Zheng doesn't want to rest, but Zhang Mancheng's injury can't be delayed, and if he wants to save him at night, I'm afraid it will be difficult.
And Liu Zheng was also worried that there would be some changes in Runan City, and Zhang Zhongjing would be bad if he left Runan City, so he had to rush over as soon as possible.
It took most of the day's work for Liu Zheng to rush from Wancheng to Runan City with his six thousand soldiers and horses.
When they arrived in Runan City, it had been taken back to the control of the imperial court by the official army, but there were not too many soldiers and horses stationed.
Only a few hundred men were left here as temporary soldiers.
Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses did not even launch a fierce attack on this place, and then fought back to Runan City.
This is mainly because Zhu Jun's soldiers and horses left Runan City, thinking that after destroying the Yellow Turban Army in Nanyang City, they would be able to recover the entire Runan County and Nanyang County in one fell swoop.
And Huangfu Song led his soldiers and horses north to fight against Zhang Jiao's men and horses, and naturally did not leave too many men and horses to be stationed in Runan City.
Therefore, Liu Zheng was able to easily conquer Runan City, and as soon as he conquered the city, he hurried to the place where he was separated from Zhang Zhongjing last time, and wanted to find Zhang Zhongjing's traces here again.
But when Liu Zheng came to the slum with his guards, he didn't see any trace of Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Duyu here.
didn't see Zhang Zhongjing and the others, Liu Zheng first chuckled in his heart, was a little nervous, and hurriedly asked the old man who lived nearby about the situation of Zhang Zhongjing and the others.
This question asked what happened.
It turned out that just before Liu Zheng and them arrived, a group of ruffians captured Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Duyu.
Those people knew that Liu Zheng had brought people over to attack Runan City, and there were only hundreds of people, so naturally they would not stick to Runan City, so as soon as Liu Zheng and his front foot arrived in Runan City, some officers and soldiers fled from Runan City in a panic.
These escapees captured Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Duyu.
After hearing the old man's answer, Liu Zheng's expression changed greatly, and he hurriedly asked where the gang had fled from and where they had fled, and without saying a word, he took the only hundreds of cavalry around him and pursued them out.
Fortunately, this time he came to Runan City and took all the more than 600 cavalry under his command with him. This one finally came in handy.
Liu Zheng followed the official road, leading to the direction of Jizhou Julu City, and quickly pursued the past.
If he didn't guess wrong, those who captured Zhang Zhongjing must have followed Huangfu Song Zhonglang to pursue Zhang Jiao's position.
These remnants must have wanted to take refuge in Huangfu Song. Therefore, Liu Zheng only needed to chase all the way along the location of Huangfu Song's army, and he could easily find those who had fled.
He had been running with his army for more than an hour, and he immediately found more than 100 remnants on both sides of the official road, resting.
Liu Zheng, who rushed over, glanced at the more than 100 officers and soldiers who were resting.
At a glance, I found a few ordinary people among them.
Among these people, two of them are unusually familiar with Liu Zheng, Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Duyu.
Zhang Zhongjing's face was calm, and he couldn't see joy, anger and sorrow, but Zhang Duyu obviously had tears on his face, as if he had just experienced something sad.
As soon as he saw Zhang Duyu like this, he was shy and pitiful, Liu Zheng was immediately furious and immediately ordered to charge.
More than six hundred cavalry rushed forward in an instant.
The remnants of the more than 100 officers and soldiers had actually been aware of the presence of cavalry in the vicinity when Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses rushed over.
But the main reason why they didn't flee was because even if they knew that there were cavalry nearby, they didn't think that the cavalry belonged to the Yellow Turbans.
After all, the Yellow Turban Army did not have any cavalry in the first place, even those so-called high-ranking Yellow Turban Army leaders such as the Divine Envoy and Daqu Shuai had less than a hundred horses under their command, how could it be possible to form a cavalry?
Therefore, when they heard the sound of horses' hooves nearby, they only thought that the officers and soldiers had sent people and horses nearby, and they had a glimmer of hope that they could leave with these cavalrymen, but when they really saw the cavalry, they found that these cavalrymen were actually Yellow Turban thieves.
And when they tried to flee at this time, it was already too late, and the two legs of a man could not outrun the four legs of a horse.
The golden thief on a war horse, with a spear in his hand, can easily penetrate the chest of an officer or soldier, and even kill them before they have time to struggle.
A battle of more than 600 cavalry against more than 100 remnants of the official army broke out on this official road, but it was a one-sided situation.
These cavalrymen under Liu Zheng's command finally tasted what slaughter was, and what it meant for others to run away when they saw him.
The terrible nightmare of being chased by Cao Cao's cavalry is gone.
Finally, it was time for them to raise their eyebrows, so they charged extra hard, slaughtering the remnants of these officers and soldiers, and it was also extremely ferocious.
The whole battle ended in less than ten minutes.
There was nothing left on the ground but corpses and blood.
Liu Zheng got off his horse, put away his weapon, and walked quickly to Zhang Zhongjing and Zhang Duyu.
"Mr. Zhongjing, are you okay with Miss Twilight?"
Liu Zheng's face was a little anxious, and he came to Zhang Duyu's side and asked Zhang Duyu, more concerned.
"Stinky boy, you're finally here, if you come a little later, you may never see us again."
When Zhang Duyu saw Liu Zheng, he didn't know whether he was excited or excited, and a trace of tears appeared again.
may be crying with joy, but Liu Zheng seems that Zhang Duyu at this time makes him more pitiful.
"What the hell is going on? Why were you taken away by these officers? ”
Liu Zheng didn't know what was going on, so he immediately asked out of curiosity.