Not to mention that Zhang Liao was full of pride and pride, Mi Fang and Chen Zhi's faces were even more joyful. They only had more than 2,000 soldiers and horses, and they repelled the 20,000 soldiers and horses in Jiangdong like this, what a great feat.

It is conceivable that their future is bright after rì. Can it be bright, the most important thing for the Shenwu Imperial Court is military merit, without military merit, it is really difficult to get on the throne. Even Huang Xu, the son of the great general Huang Zhong, has such a noble identity to start from the bottom, and now he has only achieved the position of Taishou in Hanzhong. If there were no greater military exploits, Huang Xu might have been eliminated. This is not a joke, Huang Zhong is a general, and the generals may take care of Huang Xu, but if Huang Xu has always been plain, then the generals will have limited opportunities to take care of it. Besides, Liu Yu's eyes are bright, who is talented, he will not know?

As long as this victory is transmitted back to Luoyang, it is inevitable that the official will be promoted.

Zhang Liao knew that the biggest factor in this victory was that Jiangdong's side had miscalculated his strength, otherwise, how could Tai Shici adopt a cautious strategy, and in the end Zhang Liao continued to calculate success. Now, Zhang Liao still can't be discovered by Tai Shi Ci, in terms of military strength, Tai Shi Ci's troops still have a lot of soldiers and horses, once they are discovered, they are counterattacked at the most important moment, then Zhang Liao has to find a place to cry.

The Jiangdong Army is retreating through the sea of fire, and in response to this situation, if you want to expand the results of the battle, launching a long-range attack with archers is the best choice.

Zhang Liao immediately asked Chen Zhi and Mi Fang to lead the archers to launch a shè attack on the Jiangdong army, and this time Zhang Liao asked the archers to use the yang shè, which can expand the archers' attack range a lot, but the attack power will be weakened a lot. But there is no problem with this, the Jiangdong Army has fallen into a panic, and a slight blow can have a very big effect.

The fire was still burning, and Tai Shici also discovered that Liu Jun led by Zhang Liao had appeared, and at the same time saw Liu Jun's archers firing a large number of feather arrows at them. Tai Shici's heart sank to the bottom, Zhang Liao used the safest option to deal with him, and it was expected that the casualties of the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army would become even greater.

Sure enough, as Zhang Liao thought, the long-range attack of the archers made the Jiangdong soldiers very panicked, and some unlucky Jiangdong soldiers were hit by shè and fell into the fire, becoming fuel for the fire.

Tai Shi Ci misestimated Zhang Liao's strength, and several consecutive defeats had completely lost Tai Shi Ci. Today's Jiangdong troops, under the leadership of Tai Shici, can only frantically rush towards the place where they landed before.

Soon, there were no Jiangdong Army soldiers in front of Zhang Liao's subordinates, and even if there were, they became victims of the fire.

"General, shall we catch up again!?" Chen Zhi was encouraged by the previous victory and wanted to work hard in one go.

Zhang Liao smiled indifferently at Chen Zhi and said, "You kid want to annihilate Tai Shici in one fell swoop?" That's a lot of ambition. ”

Chen Zhi touched his head a little embarrassed.

Mi Fang no longer felt that Zhang Liao was bold before at this moment, but had the same idea as Chen Zhi, and said on the side: "General Zhang, the Jiangdong Army is fleeing in embarrassment, which is the best opportunity for our army. The enemy army is frightened, and as long as our army presses it again and achieves an amazing achievement in one fell swoop, it will not be a problem. ”

Zhang Liao looked at Mi Fang, and then looked at Chen Dao, and already knew what they meant, but Zhang Liao objected: "If we pursue the past, our army will only have one way to destroy the whole army." Now the best choice is to return to Lujiang City and wait for help. ”

"General, why is that?" Mi Fang and Chen Zhi were puzzled.

Zhang Liao turned to the still burning fire, and the troops left behind by Zhang Liao who were responsible for igniting the fire had returned to the array.

Zhang Liao nodded at them, then looked at the fire with an unchanged face and said, "Jiangdong has a defeat today, one of which is that we can't know our specific troops. The second is that we don't know that we are very familiar with the terrain in the Lujiang River. The third is that the Jiangdong Army thinks very highly of itself. Our army was able to have today's victory, and there was an element of luck. The general headed by the Jiangdong Army is Tai Shici, who has fought with this general, and is a wise and brave general. The last time this general was in Xiakou, he suffered heavy losses due to Zhuge Junshi's strategy, and he couldn't keep him. Now with this bit of soldiers and horses, Ben Jiang really has no confidence that he can keep Tai Shici. Besides, if the Jiangdong Army finds out that we have such a small number of troops, we will definitely fight back desperately to take revenge. It's not a good deal, and it's not stupid. ”

Well, what Zhang Liao said was very reasonable and very good, but the last sentence faintly scolded Chen Zhi and Mi Fang. Zhang Liao is not stupid, but Chen Zhi and Mi Fang, who proposed to continue the pursuit, are stupid. Chen Zhi was embarrassed, but he did learn something, which would be useful for his future path.

Mi Fang's face flushed, he is also an old fritter for many years, making such a joke, how can he lead the troops in the future.

Liu Jun's soldiers all heard it, and they all forced a smile.

Mi Fang glared at the soldiers in annoyance, and the soldiers hurriedly put on their faces, not daring to be spotted.

"Let's go back to Lujiang. It is estimated that it will not be long before Tai Shici and they will see it. After Zhang Liao finished speaking, he turned around and returned to Lujiang.

This time, all the soldiers of Liu Jun did not say a word, and followed Zhang Liao's footsteps on the road back to Lujiang.

On the other hand, after the Jiangdong Army successfully broke through the blockade of the fire, they returned to the place where they had landed before as fast as possible.

Tai Shi Ci left a part of the soldiers here to guard the ships. When these soldiers who stayed behind saw their troops returning in disbelief.

After arriving here, the Jiangdong soldiers were disgraced one by one, and many soldiers rushed directly to the river and began to drink the river water. Surrounded by the fire just now, the soldiers are now thirsty one by one, and they don't care whether the river water is clean or not, whether it is cold or not, they drink directly.

Tai Shici and Sun Quan and other generals were also very thirsty, but they were not in the mood to drink any water now.

The 20,000-strong army was defeated like this, and the generals in Jiangdong were all very depressed.

Tai Shici is reflecting on his failure this time, hoping to see where he has failed? This is his merit, avoiding no more such failures after rì.

At this time, when Tai Shici calmed down extremely calmly, he found that until now, he had not determined how many soldiers and horses Zhang Liao had.

Tai Shi Ci faintly had a bad idea, could it be that Zhang Liao only had such a few soldiers and horses?

Combined with Zhang Liao's many sneak attacks, and the appearance of a large number of people on Zhang Liao's side in the end, Tai Shici did not find that Zhang Liao's men and horses had a lot of appearances. After so many attacks, Zhang Liao tried his best to hide his true strength, and when he broke through the fire on his side, if Zhang Liao had more troops, he could pounce on him after the archers attacked.

"Scout! Go and find out Zhang Liao's traces, whether Liu Jun is chasing this side! The others set up a defensive position! In order to prove his conjecture, Tai Shici began to arrange.

All the Jiangdong soldiers who were drinking water remembered that there were Liu Jun's pursuers behind them just now, and now they are all lying on the riverside like cattle drinking water, isn't that just waiting to be killed by others?

One by one, the Jiangdong soldiers quickly picked up their weapons and looked very nervously at the place they had just passed.

Scouts have the hardest fate, and this is the time when they need to risk their lives to find out the news. Although eating the bowl of rice of scouts is such a danger, but now that they have just been defeated, Liu Jun has a high probability of being killed, and they are very likely to die when they pass at this time.

The military order is like a mountain, they don't want to go, they have to go, this is their responsibility as scouts.

The scouts rode out on their horses, and the rest of the Jiangdong soldiers were nervously preparing one by one, fearing that Zhang Liao would suddenly appear as before.

He was also worried about Tai Shici, but what he was worried about was not that Zhang Liao would appear, but that Zhang Liao would disappear without a trace, or that he would return to Lujiang.

Then Tai Shi Ci knows the ultimate truth.

After a while, the sound of horses' hooves came back. When the Jiangdong soldiers heard this, they tightened their hands in their weapons. Zhang Liao's name is now the name of a person that Jiangdong soldiers dare not mention. If anyone says it, it may cause them to fight.

But the last figure to appear was their own people. The scouts sent out returned, and they brought back a piece of news that made the Jiangdong soldiers relax and Tai Shici worried.

Zhang Liao did not continue the pursuit, and Liu Jun seemed to have returned to Lujiang. In order to verify this situation, one or two scouts are now rushing to Lujiang City to inquire about the news.

The sweat on Tai Shi Ci's head has been flowing, and this situation shows that he Tai Shi Ci has been marching and fighting for so many years, and he will actually make a fatal mistake today.

Sun Quan and Lu Meng's faces were not very good-looking, and they seemed to have guessed the same idea as Tai Shici.

In the end, the two scouts who risked their lives to inquire about the news of Lujiang City returned safely and brought back Zhang Liao with soldiers and horses to Tai Shici, and the gate of Lujiang City was closed at this time, and there were countless torches and flags on the city wall.

After receiving such news, the Jiangdong soldiers relaxed one by one, and some of them even sat directly on the ground, and their pressure today was too great. Now that Liu Jun is no longer attacking, they can take a good rest. Having said that, from the time they landed to the present, they have not rested for a moment, and they have not eaten a single bite of food.

"Damn! I'm also in the middle of the plan! Zhang Liao is too cunning. Tai Shi Ci slapped his thigh fiercely, not to mention how much hatred he felt in his heart.

Sun Quan and Lu Meng's faces turned blue, and they could see that Tai Shici had verified his inner guess.

"General Ziyi, can't we be tricked by Zhang Liao?" Sun Quan asked a little tremblingly.

Tai Shi Ci closed his eyes and said with great remorse: "Yes! I have been fighting for many years, but I didn't expect that I had made a huge mistake. I didn't find out how many soldiers and horses Zhang Liao had, so I was so cautious, and I fulfilled Zhang Liao's reputation in vain. ”

Sun Quan and Lü Meng both had an epiphany, and before they came, Sun Ce told them that Zhang Liao's troops would not be very large, and they could take Lujiang City by giving them 20,000 troops. It's a pity that they were dazzled by Zhang Liao's constant sneak attacks, and they actually forgot this fact.

The other generals are all dead, and they have enough money this time.

Lu Meng said unconvinced: "General Ziyi, we can't let Zhang Liao be so arrogant, since he doesn't have many troops, he will take his soldiers and horses over tonight and attack the city overnight!" After catching Zhang Liao, he broke his body into pieces. ”

Except for Tai Shici and Sun Quan, the other generals all had the same idea.

Sun Quan scolded: "Ziming, what nonsense are you talking about. The soldiers have not rested for a moment until now, and they have not even eaten a mouthful of food. With such a tired appearance to attack the city overnight, do you want to use the lives of the soldiers to pile up Lujiang City? ”

Lu Meng was speechless for a while, and he knew the meaning of Sun Quan's words. Today's Jiangdong soldiers are demoralized, and they will not be able to take Lujiang City by relying on such troops to attack Lujiang. The solidity of Lujiang City was confirmed by Sun Ce's capture for two years.

Lu Meng was scolded by Sun Quan and didn't speak, Sun Quan said to Tai Shici: "General Ziyi, the whole army repairs all night, and Ming Rì does his best to take Lujiang City, do you have a chance of winning?" ”

"Difficult!" Tai Shici said: "Zhang Liao's move is to take the initiative to attack, break the morale of our army, and buy time for his reinforcements. Now it seems that Liu Jun's reinforcements are estimated to be on the way. ”

"Didn't Cao Cāo's side also send some troops over to support?" Sun Quan said.

Tai Shi Ci said directly: "Cao Cāo is not our own person, and the troops sent over cannot be of the same mind as us. ”

Well, Tai Shi Ci nullified Sun Quan's proposal.

"What should I do then?" Sun Quan said with a bitter face.

Tai Shi Ci looked at the Jiangdong soldiers around him, and finally said firmly: "The lord's order is to take Lujiang City, and now that there is such an accident, I will immediately send the news back to Chaisang, so that the lord can decide." ”

Sun Quan smiled bitterly: "If the eldest brother knew such a thing, he would definitely be angry with us." Hey, you have fulfilled Zhang Liao's prestige. ”

"If the lord has any punishment, it will naturally be borne by the general alone, so don't worry." Tai Shi Ci was ashamed, he didn't want to be like this, Zhang Liaocheng's prestige was still used by him as a stepping stone, and no one was happy.

After this battle, Zhang Liao's prestige spread throughout Jiangdong.

The Jiangdong soldiers and civilians were terrified when they heard Zhang Liao's name.

When some children cried at night, the people of Jiangdong scolded: "Don't cry, otherwise Zhang Liao will come to kill you." ”

The child hid under the covers on the spot, not daring to cry.

At this point, Zhang Liao's name can stop Jiangdong children crying at night.

Zhang Liao became a general star in the Shenwu Imperial Court, and since then his official fortune has been prosperous.

That's for another time.