Chapter 39: Temptation

"Split into a squad of 1,000 people?"

Zhou Cang heard Liu Zheng's words, but didn't understand what Liu Zheng meant by these words.

"Well, send a team to Caiyang City to call the city gate, just say that you are the remnants of the defeated Yellow Turban Army, and you will take refuge in the past, but remember, you must not fight with the officials and troops in the city, once the officers and troops in the city leave the city, you will immediately retreat and retreat to the direction of Caiyang leading to Wancheng."

Liu Zheng wanted to divide his troops by himself, and then force Qin Jie to do the same as him, separate his troops and horses, and pursue the remnants of Liu Zheng's side.

As long as Qin Jie is in the middle of the plan, it will be much easier for Liu Zheng to kill Qin Jie's people.

Soon Liu Zheng's 40,000 army had been arranged by Liu Zheng, and the 30,000 Yellow Turban Army led by Sun Zhong did not approach Cai Yang at all, so he arranged it on Cai Yang's road to Wancheng.

Liu Zheng's own 7,000 men were divided into seven teams by him, and each of them drew a person with good strength from it to serve as the captain, and Zhou Cang led one of the teams to go to Caiyang to attract Qin Jie's attention.

And Liu Zheng, Xu Huang and others, with the remaining six squads, set up an ambush not far outside Caiyang County.

Waiting for Qin Jie to take the bait.

Zhou Cang took a thousand people, pretending to be very embarrassed, and came to Caiyang City, they needed to pretend that they didn't know that Caiyang City had been beaten down by the official army, and came to join the Yellow Turban Army in Caiyang City.

In this way, after getting close to Caiyang City, he pretended to find that Caiyang City had been reoccupied by the official army, and fled in a hurry.

"Open the door, open the gates! We are the subordinates of Zhao Hong, the commander of Daqu, who was separated in Jiangxia, and came to you to rest for a while! ”

Zhou Cang pulled his throat and began to scream.

The gate on this side of the castle tower is closed, although it can be seen that it has just experienced a war, but now it looks like this. No one will pay attention to this thing, after all, in war times, battles can happen at any time.

Zhou Cang and the others called the door, which quickly attracted Qin Jie's attention.

"My lord, a group of yellow turban thieves suddenly appeared at the city gate, calling the door, saying that they are the remnants of Zhang Mancheng's army and want to enter the city to rest."

Qin Jie, who had just taken down Caiyang County at this time, suddenly heard such news, and the corners of his mouth showed a hint of playful cold war.

"Heh, these yellow turban thieves are stupid."

"Stupid thieves naturally can't make any big waves, Lord County Guard, I'm going to destroy all this wave of stupid thieves."

Cai Mao stood beside Qin Jie, immediately expressed himself, and wanted to volunteer to go to the thief.

Dealing with a thousand yellow turban thieves, Qin Jie naturally didn't take it to heart, and after Cai Mao offered to destroy these thieves, Qin Jie did not refuse.

"Well, then you go, come back as soon as possible, we will have to kill Wancheng with the whole army in a while, don't delay."

After Qin Jie finished speaking, Cai Mao hurriedly nodded yes and walked out.

Immediately afterwards, Cai Mao took a thousand people and planned to leave the city from the city, but as soon as the city gate was opened, Zhou Cang and others outside the city immediately recognized these officials, soldiers and horses, and began to flee in a panic.

seems to be panicked, but in fact he pretended to come out to deceive these officials and soldiers.

Zhou Cang led people to flee from Caiyang County.

Running along the road to Wancheng, a few yellow turban thieves who were behind were also killed by Cai Mao.

Cai Mao saw that this group of Yellow Turban soldiers actually saw through his disguise, and was still wondering how he had exposed his identity, but he didn't have time to think about anything at all, in order to kill this thousand Yellow Turban thieves, make meritorious contributions, and behave in front of Qin Jie, Cai Mao didn't think much about it and led people to chase after him.

The two sides fled and chased, and soon walked out of the visible range of Caiyang City and chased and fled to the official road of Wancheng.

Although Cai Mao is a veteran with several years of experience in commanding troops, his intelligence is not outstanding, and he has never looked at the miscellaneous army of the Yellow Turban Thieves with his eyes, and he only brought a thousand people to go deep into the enemy camp and pursue a range of more than 20 miles.

When Liu Zheng and Xu Huang took the remaining 6,000 people and ambushed them in this valley, they had already seen Zhou Cang with the people and fled in embarrassment.

Not far behind Zhou Cang, Cai Mao led more than a thousand officers and troops in desperate pursuit.

After coming to the agreed place, Zhou Cang breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he was quite embarrassed along the way, he still managed to bring Cai Mao and these officers and soldiers to Liu Zheng's ambush site.

"Okay, don't run, it's time to switch roles."

Zhou Cangyi stretched out his hand and signaled to the Yellow Turban Army beside him that he could stop.

Cai Mao behind him hurriedly pursued, and at this time, when he saw Zhou Cang stop, he showed surprise, feeling that he could finally kill these yellow turban thieves and make contributions.

But after thinking about it, Cai Mao's face suddenly sank again, and he finally realized at this time why these Yellow Turban Army dared to stop here.

"Stop moving! Stop moving forward! ”

Cai Mao vaguely felt that something was wrong, but at this time, while waving his arm and signaling everyone to stop advancing, Liu Zhengjun, who was hiding nearby, ran out frantically.

"Kill!"

Liu Zheng asked Xu Huang to take 3,000 people and kill them from both sides.

did not let all the men and horses be sent out in one go.

The 3,000 people from the headquarters, plus the 1,000 people led by Zhou Cang, a total of 4,000 people, and Cai Mao's 1,000 officers and soldiers, in this valley, suddenly fought.

Liu Zheng didn't go over in person, after all, this Cai Mao didn't let him take action in person.

A mere 1,000 officers and soldiers, for Liu Zheng, is not a big fish at all, it is just an appetizer for him to deal with Qin Jie.

The whole battle lasted for less than half an hour, and there were no surprises at all.

A thousand officers and soldiers, not cavalry, but the village warriors recruited by Qin Jie, are actually not much stronger than these Yellow Turban troops under Liu Zheng.

In addition, Xu Huang and Zhou Cang led four thousand Yellow Turban troops to kill Cai Mao.

Cai Mao himself is not a famous general, his ability is not big enough, and he was quickly defeated, and a thousand officers and soldiers are almost dead.

Cai Mao thought about breaking through and escaping.

He let most of the officers and soldiers cover him, so that he could find an opportunity to break through Xu Huang's encirclement, and immediately leave from here quickly.

And Xu Huang also pretended not to find Cai Mao escaping, which was instructed by Liu Zheng to deliberately let Cai Mao leave the battlefield.

All of this is in Liu Zheng's eyes.

After the battle subsided, Liu Zheng asked Xu Huang.

"How is Xu Huang's situation, did you find out about the arrival of the enemy army, we deliberately let him go back."

Xu Huang shook his head.

"It shouldn't be, that person was killed by our strange soldiers, and he was already frightened, and it was already a fluke to be able to escape from here, so I shouldn't be able to see that we deliberately let him go back."

"That's good, let Zhou Cang continue to chase and kill with people, but don't catch up, just hang behind them all the time."

"Yes, yes."