Chapter 493: Risk
Since his debut with Liu Bei, Zhang Fei has fought a lot of battles, and he has no good records, but he has accumulated a lot of experience. Feeling the ground shaking, the sound of horses' hooves became more and more urgent, he knew that the opponent was back and was likely to take his life, so without saying a word, he rolled to the side.
At this time, there is no difference between a hero jumping up and looking for death, facing a knight who rushes to kill with a horse, even if he is brave, he will be pierced through the body by a spear.
With a "bang", Zhang Fei's head hit the tree on the side of the road, and the Venus in front of him burst straight ahead, almost fainting on the spot. Elk Fang pierced the air with a spear, secretly regretting it, and was about to turn the horse to make up for a spear, when Yu Guang saw several feather arrows flying, turning around was equivalent to looking for death, gritting his teeth, kicking the war horse fiercely, and rushing towards Liu Bei.
"Whoosh!" Two loud roars, two feathered arrows flew past Elfang's ears, and one arrow shot at Elfang's breastplate. Elfang was furious, jumped on his horse and raised his spear, and killed Liu Bei. Liu Bei was shocked, threw the bow, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and slashed it out.
The swords and spears intersected, "dang-" The metal resonated, the spear deviated from the direction, slid past Liu Bei's ribs, rubbed against the armor of the iron armor, and scraped out a spark. Although he couldn't penetrate it, the impact force still made Liu Bei unbearable, and he screamed in pain, turned over and fell off the horse. Elfang rode his horse and danced his spear, picked two people in a row, and broke through. More than 30 scouts galloped on horseback, followed closely behind, spears and bayonets, and several people were cut down, and they ran out of more than 100 steps, reined in their mounts, turned their heads, and accelerated to kill again. The remaining dozen or so people had already reloaded their arrows, and shot at Liu Bei and the others who were scattered in the formation, and screamed several times one after another, and some people fell off their horses with arrows.
These people are either the elite of the Elk family, or the knights of the six counties brought by Qin Mu from Guanzhong, all of whom have superb riding skills and excellent martial arts, otherwise they would not be able to serve as Sun Ce's personal guards and become scouts. They are well equipped, well-trained, and often cooperate together, the charge of the charge, the cover of the cover, with tacit understanding, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were put down in two rounds, and the more than 30 knights brought out were also beaten by them and suffered heavy losses.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Bei didn't care about the severe pain in his waist and ribs, rolled on the spot, picked up a shield, protected his front, rushed to Zhang Fei's side, grabbed his collar, dragged him to the side of the canal, and once again escaped the impact of Elfang and others. Elfang secretly screamed that it was a pity, and had the intention to dismount and kill these two people and cut off Liu Bei's head, but when he saw more people pouring out outside the city gate, he didn't dare to fight, so he commanded his subordinates to shoot empty crossbow arrows and fly away.
Liu Bei squatted in the ditch, huddled into a ball, and heard the shield being shot by arrows, and he couldn't even raise his head. It wasn't until he heard Guan Yu's shout that he knew that he had picked up another life, threw the shield aside, and helped Zhang Fei to stand up.
"Xuande, are you injured?" Guan Yu was taken aback when he saw two arrows stuck in Liu Bei's thighs, and hurriedly called the healer.
Liu Bei waved his hand. "Out of the way, flesh wounds." As soon as his hand moved, he pulled the muscles in his waist again, and the pain made him break out in a cold sweat. He gritted his teeth and lifted Zhang Fei up. Someone stretched out his hand and pulled Zhang Fei up, and then pulled Liu Bei up. Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were covered in mud and water, and they were embarrassed, but what made him even more embarrassed was that the corpses on the ground were all his subordinates, and there was no enemy.
Of the more than 30 guards, less than 10 survived, and all of them were injured. They gathered around and looked at Liu Bei guiltily. It's not that they don't do their best, but the difference in strength is too big, and they were crushed by the other party without even having a chance to fight back.
Liu Bei gritted his teeth and beat his chest. "Sun Ce deceived me too much!" Before the words fell, tears welled up in his eyes.
Guan Yu's face was ugly. If it weren't for the fact that he fell for Sun Ce's tricks and the Zahu cavalry was completely lost, how could he have made the mere thirty or fifty cavalry so arrogant. Yanzhou has a large population, and it is not difficult to replenish foot soldiers, but it is not so easy for knights. The war horses were almost all controlled by the powerful family, and those people looked down on Liu Bei at all, and Bao Xin, the only one who was willing to support him, died in battle.
"Xuande, let's go to Junyi, and compete with Sun Ce again, and wash away the shame of the past."
Liu Bei tugged on Guan Yu's arm. "Yun Chang, forget it, at the moment, our strength is insufficient, and we are not Sun Ce's opponent. Bear with it for a while, wait for me to gain a firm foothold in Dongjun, and then settle accounts with Sun Ce. ”
Guan Yu clenched his fists, his teeth chattering.
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Sun Ce was faintly uneasy.
Cao Ren was too stubborn, and the crossbowmen lost more than half of them, and he refused to retreat. The longer the crossbowmen shoot before the battle, the more arrows they consume, and they shoot not arrows, but money. With 3,000 crossbowmen, a salvo is 3,000 arrows, and tens of thousands of arrows can be shot in one meal, which is a severe test for logistics supply. At this time, if there were no arrows, King Chen's three thousand strong crossbowmen would become spectators.
It seems that it is no longer realistic to completely destroy the arrow array on the opposite side, so the soldiers can only brave the rain of arrows to break through. It's just that in this way, the loss can be more than thirty percent. This is not only hundreds of lives, but also money, and everyone in the guard camp is piled up with money.
The palm of the hand is meat, and the back of the hand is also meat, and it hurts to cut it on either side.
Cao Ren, you wait, I will copy your house when I turn around, and I will not be surnamed Sun if I leave you a piece of tile.
Sun Ce gritted his teeth and was about to order Guo Jun to attack, when a knight rushed from a distance and delivered a military report to Guo Jia. Guo Jia glanced at it, took the military newspaper, and slammed onto the command platform.
"General, Liu Bei is in Cangyuan City."
Sun Ce turned around and found the location of Cangyuan City on the map, and blurted out a foul word. King Chen saw it in his eyes and didn't say a word. Cangyuan City is in the territory of Fengqiu, and Zhu Jun was confined to prejudices and resources, so he failed to discover this hidden danger. If it weren't for Sun Ce's insistence, this suspicion would have been let go, and it would probably become a turning point in the battle in the end.
"General, although Liu Bei's position is eastward, the most likely targets are Cao Bao and Xu Wei, but he may also target us."
Sun Ce turned his head to look at Guo Jia, his eyes shrunk. He understood what Guo Jia meant. Guo Jia has always had little interest in respecting the imperial court, and he is more concerned about taking Jingzhou, and then expanding to Yangzhou and Yizhou. It is estimated that he is now planning to speak again and make him give up supporting Zhu Jun. Compared with the relatively old-school Zhang Hong, he has no bottom line at all, and he is very realistic.
Guo Jia blinked, didn't speak, and smiled.
Sun Ce knew what he wanted to say, and he also knew that Sun Ce knew what he wanted to say.
Sun Ce rubbed his fingers and weighed the current situation repeatedly. It will take at least two days to find out Liu Bei's location, adjust the deployment of troops, and take preventive measures. It's hard to say what will happen two days later. If he stops attacking now, there are plenty of reasons, and Zhu Jun has nothing to say. If you can't save it from poison and bitter chieftains, there is a high probability that the Montenegrin army will turn its face and deny people, before Zhu Jun took control of Hanoi, King Xixing Qin was basically an empty word, and it was likely to end up without a problem.
The Son of Heaven is still in Chang'an, controlled by Wang Yun and Cao Cao. Yuan Shao is in Hebei, he is in the southeast, the three sides are facing each other, each has its own advantages, he has nothing to be afraid of, as long as he plans properly and gives him a few years to accumulate, he still has a chance to kill Yuan Shao.
But in this way, the fighting will drag on longer, the casualties will be greater, and tens of millions of civilians will die. Even if he established the Sun dynasty, it would still be a mess full of holes, not much better than the Western Jin Dynasty of the Sima clan.
What's more, after waiting for so long, the previous efforts were all in vain.
This is unbearable! The corners of Sun Ce's mouth twitched, and his eyes were full of murder. "Bongjia, is there a ...... A quick fix? ”
Guo Jia smiled even brighter. "Yes, it's just very risky."