Chapter 25: A Blessing in Disguise

At this time, Xu Huang was actually not idle, he was fighting with Sun Jianjun's Cheng Pu.

Sun Jianjun is not the only one Sun Jian, he also has several powerful generals under him, and Cheng Pu is one of them.

At this time, Cheng Pu and Xu Huang were fighting fiercely, but after Liu Zheng's shout, Xu Huang immediately gave up the fight with Cheng Pu, split Cheng Pu's attack with the big axe in his hand, turned around and rushed to Sun Jian's side.

"I'm coming!"

Xu Huang rushed over and roared, which made Sun Jian's expression change immediately, he already had some difficulty dealing with Liu Zheng and Pei Yuanshao at this time, if there was a Xu Huang at this time, Sun Jian, the Jiangdong Tiger, was not sure that he could defeat Xu Huang and the three of them.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, Sun Jian wanted to retreat.

Slow down first, anyway, there are other generals on his side, who can come over to support, and he is not afraid that Liu Zheng and others will run.

Taking advantage of Sun Jian's vigilance and wanting to retreat, Liu Zheng found an opportunity.

Seeing Sun Jian turn around, Liu Zheng threw the spear in his hand that was split into two by Sun Jian, and the short spear with an iron spear head rushed towards Sun Jian's back.

Although such a thing as releasing cold arrows is ashamed of military generals, isn't Liu Zheng injured only when Cao Cao released cold arrows?

Therefore, after experiencing the battle with Cao Cao, Liu Zheng didn't feel ashamed of this kind of thing at all.

Besides, between life and death, in order to win, let alone let go of cold arrows, even if it is assassination and poisoning, Liu Zheng will be willing to do it.

The short spear flew away, just in the blind corner of Sun Jian's vision, Sun Jian turned around, and didn't see Liu Zheng's short spear coming at all.

In addition, Liu Zheng was quite close to Sun Jian's position, so he didn't need any crosshairs at all, and stabbed the broken spear into Sun Jian's back with a blow.

With a snort, the short spear broke through Sun Jian's soft armor and pierced into Sun Jian's burly body.

That Sun Jian just snorted coldly, endured the severe pain in his back, and slapped his horse away.

"Lord!"

Cheng Pu, who saw Sun Jian's injury not far away, was shocked and hurried over to deal with it.

Sun Jian was injured by Liu Zheng, and he was no longer able to continue the battle, and began to retreat, Liu Zheng immediately shouted loudly when he saw this.

"The commander of the officer and army was injured and retreated, and the time has come for the brothers to fight back, rush!"

Although it was only Sun Jian who was injured, and the slightest sign of defeat of the official army had not yet been revealed at this time, Liu Zheng still seized the opportunity and immediately began to cheer loudly on the side of the Yellow Turban Army.

Only in this way can the morale of the Yellow Turban Army be boosted, and the rout of the Yellow Turban Army can be curbed, so that those Yellow Turban Army, who have lost hope and have no will to fight at all, will have some desire to survive.

At the same time, Liu Zheng shouted like this, but also to let those officers and soldiers around him understand that their commanders were injured, which lowered the morale of their officers and soldiers, and made them have no intention of fighting.

Liu Zheng's shouts were still very effective, and those Yellow Turban soldiers who had lost their fighting spirit gradually found hope for survival at this time, as long as they defeated these officers and soldiers, they would be able to survive.

One by one, they did not flee, and began to gather on Liu Zheng's side and joined the ranks of the opposing officers.

On the side of the official army, because of Sun Jian and several other commanders, they began to gradually withdraw from the core battlefield in order to protect Sun Jian, and those soldiers who rushed to the front were stopped by Liu Zheng's men and horses, and many were killed.

In addition, the cavalry team that the official army relied on the most was killed and intercepted by the cavalry under Liu Zheng, and it was no longer able to form an effective impact on the battlefield.

The officers and troops also began to gradually become weak, unable to rely on elite men and horses to play an absolute advantage.

After all, there are only seven or eight thousand officers and soldiers themselves, and they have experienced a battle with Liu Pi. Although the loss of seven or eight thousand people was not much, at this time there were only four or five thousand people left.

And the soldiers and horses led by Liu Zheng plus the Liu Pijun left over from before, there are still more than 10,000 people.

Twice as many as the officers and soldiers were enough for them to begin to retreat.

When the Yellow Turban Army began to have an advantage because of the reversal of the situation, the combat effectiveness that could burst out was more terrifying. Soon began a fierce counter-killing, coupled with the joint advance of Liu Zheng, Xu Huang, and Pei Yuanshao, which greatly boosted the morale of the Yellow Turban Army.

After a short time, these officers and troops were directly defeated, and four or five thousand soldiers began to flee and withdraw in large numbers.

Seeing this, Liu Zheng did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but directly led people to raid and run out of the road that rushed out at this time.

"Don't chase anymore, follow me to break through!"

Liu Zheng saw that the official army was far away from them, so he took all the horses and horses, as well as the only remaining cavalry, and began to flee quickly from the east city gate.

He didn't think that his men could defeat the officers and soldiers in front of him. The reason why we were able to win was just luck.

If you chase the past, when Sun Jian reacts, it will be another hard battle, plus there is still Huangfu Song at the north city gate, a large number of officers and soldiers are waiting, once they are entangled by Huangfu Song's men and horses, Liu Zheng will not be able to escape even if he wants to.

With the opening of the cavalry, Liu Zheng and the others fled all the way to the east, running for half a day, and only after realizing that there were no pursuers behind them, they stopped to rest.

When Liu Zheng really ran out with his soldiers and horses, and was sure that he had escaped from a large number of officers and soldiers, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's successful, haha, we've managed to get out of Runan City!"

It was only at this time that Liu Zheng and the others had the strength to count the men and horses under their command and see how many people he had lost in this battle.

But after this inventory, he found that the escape from Runan City this time, the number of people under his command increased instead of decreasing.

Obviously, when he left the city at the beginning, he only had four or five thousand people under his command, but now that he counted the number of people, he actually found that there would be more than seven thousand people at this time.

After Liu Pi broke through the siege and fled, he commanded more than 20,000 and nearly 30,000 horses.

ran away a large part, and some were slaughtered by the official army, but when Liu Zheng brought people out, there were still a lot on the battlefield.

Because these people saw Liu Zheng confronting the official army, they all gathered around Liu Zheng, and at the same time, when Liu Zheng fled, they also had no idea for a while, and the desire to survive made them all run away with Liu Zheng, and now they naturally became Liu Zheng's men.

Speaking of which, this is a blessing in disguise, although more than 100 cavalry under his command lost more than 30 people, and only more than 70 were left at this time, but he killed a lot of cavalry under Sun Jian's command, and more than 300 war horses under Sun Jian's command, half of which were taken away by the Yellow Turban Army, although the number of cavalry under his command was reduced at this time, but the number of war horses increased.