Chapter 41: The Second Temptation
Killed three thousand yellow turban thieves again, which made Cai Mao feel a little surprised.
However, it is not enough to make Cai Mao feel worried, the three thousand officers and soldiers here are enough in number, and it is not a problem to deal with six or seven thousand yellow turban thieves.
At that moment, Cai Mao began to divide his troops and deal with these Yellow Turban troops before and after.
After a series of baptisms of war, the strength of these Yellow Turban Army under Liu Zheng is no longer the beginning, and the handful of Yellow Turban Army led by him when he was in Quyang.
Morale has gone from being extremely low at that time to now fully believing in Liu Zheng's command and command, and like the officers and soldiers, they have a preliminary spirit of not fearing death.
rushed up, relying on the advantage of a large number of people, and the fierce fight with Cai Mao's officers and soldiers was abnormal, and in just ten minutes of fighting, Cai Mao's 3,000 men were slaughtered and more than 1,000 were slaughtered.
Although the Yellow Turban Army under his command also had some damage and nearly a thousand people died, Liu Zheng still did not regret it.
Those who cannot survive the war, even if they are placed elsewhere, will not be able to survive either, after all, this is a troubled time, not a peaceful era.
Just when Liu Zheng thought that this attack could also defeat Cai Mao, a sharp arrow flew from a distance.
With a poof, shoot the outermost Yellow Turban Army.
The Yellow Turban Army was shot by this huge force, and the whole person flew up directly, falling backwards several meters away.
happened to fall not far in front of Liu Zheng.
After Liu Zheng saw an arrow on the man's body, his face suddenly sank and he understood something.
Without saying a word, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat.
"Withdraw, don't fight!"
Liu Zheng shouted, and at that moment he retreated with the people around him.
Seeing this arrow, Liu Zheng immediately understood that the other party's reinforcements were coming.
He didn't expect Cai Mao and these people from the beginning to be all of Qin Jie's men, after all, he clearly knew that Qin Jie's men had nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses.
And these nearly 10,000 people, in addition to the 1,000 people who were attracted by Liu Zheng at the beginning, there are about 9,000 people by Qin Jie's side.
With the clumsy lure tactics of Zhou Cang and Xu Huang, it was difficult for the other party to know that Liu Zheng and others deliberately set up an ambush here to wait for the other party to enter the trap.
Therefore, sending Cai Mao is only the first step, and the reinforcements of the second step are the real effect.
The same is true of what Liu Zheng has always been wary of.
At this time, I knew that the other party's reinforcements were really coming, so why would I continue to stay here.
There were no cavalry on either side, and again it was mountainous.
The men and horses of the Yellow Turban Army rushed fast when they fought, and they were not slow when they fled.
After Liu Zheng's order, they began to retreat one after another.
Those officers and soldiers wanted to intercept it, but the number was already small, and they couldn't stop the Yellow Turban Army of six or seven thousand people.
After only a small number of Yellow Turban Thieves were left behind, a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers managed to escape from the battlefield.
Swarmed and scattered.
Cai Mao didn't understand it, obviously the other party had the upper hand, but the other party said to retreat.
When he heard the shouts of killing coming from behind him again, he realized that his reinforcements had arrived.
When I saw it, it was Huang Zhong's 3,000 friendly troops.
For a while, Cai Mao's mood was quite complicated, neither happy nor embarrassed.
Although he led his troops out to exterminate these Yellow Turban thieves this time, he did not fall for the trick again and had already taken precautions in advance, but the other party really set up a second wave of ambushes here.
If Huang Zhong hadn't brought people over to support, it wouldn't have been good, and Cai Mao would have continued to lose this time.
However, after experiencing this battle, Cai Mao finally realized that this Yellow Turban Army was fundamentally different from those Yellow Turban Army he had encountered before.
The Yellow Turban Army they dealt with before, including Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army, were all vulnerable local chickens and dogs.
A slight charge will break up, but at the moment, this wave of Yellow Turban thieves can fight them on the battlefield for a long time, and they are orderly and can advance and retreat freely.
It's not like a yellow turban thief at all.
"Hansheng, why are you here?"
As soon as the battle stopped, Cai Mao immediately found Huang Zhong and asked why Huang Zhong came.
Although Cai Mao's heart has only just arrived, Huang Zhong is Qin Jie's backhand, but now he is embarrassed to admit that he was almost defeated by the Yellow Turban Thief again.
"Lord County Guard asked me to come over to support you, are you okay, what about those Yellow Turban Army, I saw it just now, why did they suddenly come over, and they were all gone."
Huang Zhong didn't care about Cai Mao's situation, he just cared about these Yellow Turban Army.
Cai Mao heard that Huang Zhong didn't seem to care about his results, and he was also angry when he mentioned the Yellow Turban Army, so he immediately explained to Huang Zhong.
"Don't mention it, as soon as you came, those yellow turban thieves seemed to have heard something going on, and immediately scattered the birds and beasts, and they all ran away in the blink of an eye."
There was nothing left on the ground except the foul smell of blood and thousands of corpses.
"Ran away?"
Huang Zhong heard Cai Mao's words and fell into deep thought.
"We can't let these Yellow Turban Thieves escape, we must catch up with them and destroy them, otherwise leaving these Yellow Turban Thieves will always be a scourge."
After knowing that these Yellow Turban Thieves were not ordinary Yellow Turban Thieves, Cai Mao planned to continue the pursuit, firstly because if he did not eliminate this Yellow Turban Thief, he would never be able to return to Qinjie to make a difference, and secondly, because of personal grievances, he was defeated by these Yellow Turban Thieves again and again.
He Cai Mao can't afford to lose this person, if he doesn't kill these Yellow Turban Army, he is in Jingzhou, he is faceless.
So when Huang Zhong was silent, he immediately instigated a sentence.
If he was alone at the beginning, with the remaining 2,000 soldiers and horses, Cai Mao would naturally not dare to continue the pursuit, he was worried that he would be ambushed by the other party again and suffer heavy losses, and then he would really have no way to go back to the mission.
But now it's different, with more Huang Zhong and the 3,000 people behind Huang Zhong, it gave Cai Mao a lot of information.
The two of them add up to 5,000 soldiers and horses, and if 5,000 soldiers and horses can't eliminate this group of Yellow Turban thieves, then he is too useless.
Cai Mao simply chose to continue the pursuit, and Cai Mao spoke, and Huang Zhong naturally had no reason to refuse.
nodded and agreed to Cai Mao's request.
Together, the two sides began to pursue these Yellow Turbans.
And Liu Zheng, who had just escaped from danger, noticed that the officers and soldiers behind him were pursuing, and his face was slightly gloomy.
"Zhou Cang!"
"Qu Shuai, what's wrong?"
"As expected, these guys did chase after them. Immediately mobilize our men, guide these people, and lure them to the location where Sun Zhong's army of 30,000 is located! ”