Chapter Eighty-Eight: Gathering Reinforcements
He Yi was still confused, and he didn't know what was going on, but he could probably infer from Dong Zhuojun's embarrassed appearance that Dong Zhuo had suffered a fiasco when he was chasing Liu Zheng.
That's why I put this down to myself.
He Yi was unhappy, but he couldn't say it on the surface, after all, Dong Zhuo's status was higher than him, but Dong Zhuo was one of the Zhonglang generals, and he was just a Yellow Turban who had just surrendered to the official army.
After He Yi was scolded by Dong Zhuo, he didn't want to continue to talk nonsense with Dong Zhuo here, so he recommended himself and took the initiative to stand up.
"My lord, since Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses are fighting with your lord's army, they will definitely suffer heavy losses, if I pursue them now, I will definitely be able to defeat the anti-thief's soldiers and horses in one fell swoop!"
He Yi didn't care whether Dong Zhuo agreed or not, so he took the initiative to take his men and horses out of the city directly from Shangcai County and pursued in the direction of Runan.
In He Yi's opinion, he is just a Yellow Turban army, and he is not subordinate to Dong Zhuo, even if Dong Zhuo is unhappy with him, he can't do anything with him, and at the moment, Dong Zhuo and Liu Zheng's men and horses are fighting, and Dong Zhuo's side has suffered heavy losses.
In the same way, the soldiers and horses under Dong Zhuo's command were very strong, and after a fierce battle between the three thousand Xiliang Iron Cavalry and Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses, Liu Zheng also suffered a lot.
Not to mention the heavy losses, the losses are also very serious. If he led people to chase at this time, it would be like picking up a leak.
As long as he can defeat Liu Zheng, whether it is from the perspective of personal vendetta or from the perspective of his status as a court soldier at this time, Liu Zheng can bring great rewards to his future.
That's why he ignored Dong Zhuo, directly led people to forcibly go to Runan, and decided to deal with Liu Zheng.
Dong Zhuo can actually stop He Yi here and tell He Yi that the soldiers and horses under Liu Zheng's command have not lost too much.
But Dong Zhuo himself looked down on He Yi, and He Yi was disrespectful to him this time. Naturally, he didn't bother to pay attention to He Yi, so He Yi took his remaining 20,000 horses and began to rush to the direction of Runan City.
After He Yi left, Li Ru was a little unbearable, and asked Dong Zhuo.
"Father-in-law, do we want to send someone to stop He Yi and tell this guy that Liu Zheng's strength is strong and strong, and he will only have 20,000 people to pass, but I am afraid that he may not be able to defeat Liu Zheng, but will be burdened by Liu Zheng!"
Li Ru's words made Dong Zhuo's face coldly show a trace of resentment.
"Hmph, tell him what to do? This guy was originally a Yellow Turban Army, and it was not sincere to take refuge in us, and Huangfu Song sent him over to send him to death. ”
"Since he is looking for his own death to deal with Liu Zheng, why should we stop it, besides, the 20,000 people under the command of this guy, if they really fight with Liu Zheng's men and horses, even if they are all slaughtered by Liu Zheng, Liu Zheng's men and horses will lose a little bit, which is also a boost for us!"
Dong Zhuo didn't want to see He Yi, so naturally he had no opinion on letting He Yi go to death, anyway, he didn't intend to rely on He Yi from the beginning.
But Li Ru originally wanted to say something, but when he heard Dong Zhuo say this, he also knew that Dong Zhuo's mind was not easy to change, so he sighed and didn't continue.
After all, Li Ru thought farther than Dong Zhuo, at this time they were newly defeated, and the soldiers and horses under their command suffered heavy losses, not to mention that the morale had greatly decreased, and now only five or six thousand people and horses could escape back to Shangcai County.
And Liu Zheng's side is strong and strong, if He Yi's soldiers and horses are lost again, then Dong Zhuo's teammates who can rely on will be completely gone, and it will be difficult to rely on his own strength to exterminate Liu Zheng, the Yellow Turban thief in Runan.
Although He Yi and them are not of the same mind, He Yi still has 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and these 20,000 soldiers and horses can bring Dong Zhuo and them some morale and military assistance.
Since Dong Zhuo didn't want it, Li Ru naturally couldn't say anything.
Back on Liu Zheng's side, they had just finished an ambush battle with Dong Zhuo, allowing them to win a complete victory again, and their own side only lost 2,000 soldiers and horses and killed 5,000 or 6,000 Dong Zhuo's army.
He originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but when he thought that He Yi's guy still had 20,000 horses near Shangcai County, if he rushed over with more than 10,000 people, he might not be able to take Dong Zhuo, so he gave up his plan to pursue Dong Zhuo.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Liu Zheng decided to take his men and horses to retreat to Runan City first.
After recuperating in Runan, he will deal with Dong Zhuo's attack next.
But just when he decided to retreat with his people, he met Sun Xia leading Zhang Mancheng's 30,000 reinforcements over.
To his surprise, he originally thought that Zhang Mancheng would send Sun Xia to lead 30,000 reinforcements over, but what he didn't expect was that Zhang Ning, the holy daughter of the Yellow Turban Army, and Chu Yan and other envoys sent by Zhang Jiao, the general of the Heavenly Prince, also came over with Sun Xia's soldiers and horses.
In fact, Zhang Ning, Qu Chuyan and others made a special trip from Nanyang to follow Sun Xia to watch the battle.
I had heard that Liu Zheng fought very fiercely, defeated the strong with the weak, and defeated Qin Jie and Zhu Junzhonglang with only a few thousand soldiers and horses, which was enough to impress Zhang Ning, Chu Yan and others.
Now I heard Liu Zheng say that the new Zhonglang general Dong Zhuo led his troops to attack, so he naturally wanted to come over to see what means Liu Zheng had to defeat the powerful soldiers and horses of the official army.
But when they arrived from Nanyang with their people and the agreed place with Liu Zheng, they found that the battle here was over.
When they came to the place where Liu Zheng and Dong Zhuojun fought, they saw that the ground was in a mess, with countless dead bodies lying sideways, and rivers of blood flowed on the ground, most of which were the corpses of officials and soldiers.
This made Zhang Ning, Chu Yan and others even more surprised, and originally wanted to take a good look at Liu Zheng's method of dispatching troops, but the result was still a step late.
However, they also admired Liu Zheng from the bottom of their hearts for defeating the official army again.
Especially after knowing that Liu Zheng actually stayed single-handedly before, broke off with 700 cavalry, covered his main force to escape, and killed Dong Zhuo with 700 people and 2,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry, he even threw himself to the ground with Liu Zheng's admiration.
Not to mention having such a terrible strategic means, Liu Zheng is still such a righteous person, and he will actually go into battle to kill the enemy in person in order to cover the escape of his subordinates, and fight against the enemy's elite cavalry.
Every time Zhang Ning saw Liu Zheng's figure, he always had an incomprehensible mind about Liu Zheng, and he became more and more curious about Liu Zheng.
Just when Liu Zheng and Zhang Ning decided to retreat temporarily and lead people to retreat to Runan to recuperate first, Xu Huang hurriedly rode his horse from the periphery to Liu Zheng.
"Qu Shuai, the big thing is not good, my people have detected from the direction of Shangcai that there is an enemy army and horses, which are rapidly approaching our army at the speed of a rapid march."
The scouts sent out by Xu Huang soon received the news that He Yi led his subordinates to kill him. It was immediately reported to Liu Zheng.