Xu Kang stayed in Chen for nearly a month, except for Zhang Miao's attitude in the first few days, which was quite enthusiastic, the days after that can only be described as perfunctory and cold.

And Xu Kang can understand this, after all, this is a parasitic fence!

He didn't take refuge in Zhang Miao, he was not someone else's subordinate, but he ate other people's food and lived in other people's, and he had to expect other people's attitudes to be very good, which was obviously impossible.

He had no doubt that if he hadn't taken the initiative to give up the great work in his hand before, and also brought Zhang Miao 20,000 Yellow Turban Army prisoners, the other party's attitude would not be as simple as perfunctory.

This is the reality, but it is the same in all dynasties and generations.

In all fairness, Xu Kang is not the kind of person who is willing to look at people's faces, but the horseshoe has not been nailed, the tiger squat cannon has not been cast, the purchased saltpeter sulfur has not been processed into gunpowder, and the Yellow Turban Army outside the city is still eyeing it, how can he go?

Therefore, he could only choose to ignore Zhang Miao's attitude, and even pretended to be sick and refused several invitations from the other party, in order not to give the other party a chance to issue an eviction order!

In this way, Xu Kang was hard-headed and cheeky, and he stayed in Chen for a month, and finally consumed all the 30,000 catties of iron he asked for from Zhang Miao, and effectively transformed it into his own combat effectiveness!

More than 3,000 pairs of horseshoes have now all been nailed to the hooves of war horses, and more than 400 tiger squat cannons have also been allocated to soldiers in a ratio of one to three, turning the original more than 1,000 infantry into artillery!

Now Xu Kang's subordinates have more than 4,000 people, and in order to facilitate management, he divided these more than 4,000 people into three regiments, two cavalry regiments and one artillery regiment.

The two cavalry regiments were standard regiments, each regiment consisted of more than 1,500 cavalry, and as Xu Kang's henchmen, Zhao Hong and Zhang Cheng naturally became the commanders of the two cavalry regiments.

The artillery regiment was personally commanded by Xu Kanglai, not because he was afraid of death, but because he felt that it was more in line with his "celebrity" setting for himself than fighting on the front line or commanding in the rear.

Everything is ready, and it's time to sprinkle and disconnect.

Although he knew that Zhang Miao had been looking forward to leaving for a long time, Xu Kang couldn't leave without saying a word, which seemed too rude.

Therefore, he could only come to the door in person to say goodbye to the other party - even if he knew that it was just a passing scene.

And Zhang Miao was naturally very happy to learn that Xu Kang was going to take someone away, but he still put on a reluctant look, and repeatedly kept Xu Kang.

For Zhang Miao's hypocritical behavior, Xu Kang was naturally very disdainful in his heart, and at this time he really wanted to promise the other party's "retention" to see what kind of expression this guy would have at that time.

Of course, he just thought about this idea, and it was impossible for him to really do it, not only because he didn't like to look at people's faces, but most importantly, he had to rush to rub the credit of Huangfu Song.

"Compared with eating big dogs, it's more important to go to Changshe County to lie down and win, after all, that is my territory, as for Zhang Miao, there will be a chance to clean him up in the future!"

Thinking of this, he said a few kind words to Zhang Miao, and then left Chen Liu with his subordinates that night.

The reason why I chose to stay at night is not only because the night is cool, but also because of an important reason, which is to avoid the encirclement of the Yellow Turban Army.

Now Peng Tuo seems to be on a par with Chen Liu, with 100,000 Yellow Turban troops stationed under Chen Liu's city, the outermost military tent of the Yellow Turban Army, and even less than two hundred meters away from Chen Liu's city gate.

In such a situation, if Xu Kang goes out of the city during the day, he must have a wave with Peng Tuo, which is obviously not a good choice.

In contrast, it is different to go at night, even if he is discovered by the other party, it is impossible for Peng Tuo to lead someone to smear and pursue him.

"If he dares, Lao Tzu will dare to give him a wave of ruthlessness!"

Thinking of this, Xu Kang immediately gave orders to Zhao Hong and Zhang Cheng.

"Zhao Hong, Zhang Cheng, after we get out of the city, we will go east, if the Yellow Turban Army pursues us, you will lead them to the Huai River with the cavalry regiment, it is best to lead them across the river to pursue, and then I will explode their chrysanthemums from behind, so that they can understand what chrysanthemums are full of wounds!"

"Hahahaha!"

After following Xu Kang for so long, Zhao Hong and Zhang Cheng certainly knew what the "chrysanthemum" in his mouth meant, so the two of them immediately laughed, and at the same time hugged him hard!

"The last general obeys!"

After saying that, the two took the lead in setting off with the cavalry regiment.

The movement of 3,000 cavalry setting off together was not small, and it immediately alarmed the Yellow Turban Army surrounding the city.

Peng Tuo besieged Chen Liu's for a month, and the purpose was to prevent the soldiers and horses inside from reinforcing Changshe or returning to Luoyang, so he set up heavy troops in the west of Chen Liu, and also set up a lot of rejecting horses.

But he didn't expect the other party to break through to the east, so he was stunned at first, and then laughed.

"Hahahaha, there is the Huai River in the east to block it, the Han army is killing itself when it flees to the east, and the order is to go down, everyone will follow me ......"

He was just about to come down and let everyone follow him in pursuit, but in an instant he seemed to think of something again, and his brow suddenly furrowed.

"No, there is the Huai River in the east to block the Han army, it is impossible not to know, and there are no boats to cross the river this night, why should they go east? Could it be some kind of trickery? ”

Thinking of this, Peng Tuo's expression suddenly became suspicious.

But no matter what he thought, he couldn't think of any tricks the other party could use, so in the end he could only slap his thigh hard, and then snorted coldly.

"Hmph, the Han army must be cornered, so they plan to use cavalry to lure us away, and then take advantage of sending people to Luoyang for help, that's right, it must be like this!"

With that, he waved his hand again and gave the order.

"Everyone obeyed the order, leaving 50,000 people to continue to guard the west side of Chenliu, not letting a single person or horse go out, and the others followed me to pursue the Han army, and they must all be drowned in the Huai River today!"

"Yes, Qu Shuai!"

Hearing Peng Tuo's order, the small leaders of the Yellow Turban Army immediately agreed, and then followed him.

……

On Zhao Hong and Zhang Cheng's side, when they found that the Yellow Turban Army was really chasing after Xu Kang as Xu Kang said, the two of them had a tacit understanding of joining forces together, and then led the Yellow Turban Army to the Huai River.

The war horses ran much faster than the infantry, in order to keep up with the Yellow Turban Army, and in order to make the other party believe that they were indeed "at the end of the road", Zhao Hong and Zhang Cheng also led the cavalry regiment to pretend to break through several times, and then continued to "flee" towards the bank of the Huai River.

In this way, the two groups of people ran one after the other for most of the night, and finally arrived at the bank of the Huai River at dawn.

After tossing for most of the night, Zhao Hong and his cavalry were better, after all, there were war horses to walk, but the Yellow Turban Army, who ran on two legs, was so tired that they couldn't do it.

Now they are hungry and sleepy, and they just want to quickly drive the group of cavalry in front of them down the Huai River, and then go back to eat and sleep.

Peng Tuo could also understand the thoughts of his subordinates, so looking at the "desperate" Han cavalry, he immediately raised his hand.

"Formation, don't let the Han army miss a single person, archers come forward, shoot me!"

As soon as he went to zero, the Yellow Turban Army immediately began to form a formation, and hundreds of archers also walked out of the formation and began to bend their bows and arrows, preparing to shoot at Zhao Hong and others on the side of the Huai River.

But before they could shoot the arrows, a thunderous roar rang out behind them.

"Boom Boom ......"

And with the sound of this roar, the Yellow Turban Army in the rear fell like cut wheat.

And only a small number of these fallen Yellow Turban soldiers died on the spot, and most of them did not die, and began to let out desperate screams.

"Ahhh......hhh Eye...... My eyes ......"

"Legs...... My legs ......"

"Help me...... Help me......"

The screams of the Yellow Turban Army in the back converged into one, which instantly made the Yellow Turban Army in front panic, and even the archers who were preparing to shoot before couldn't help but stop what they were doing and began to look back.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Hong and Zhang Cheng were immediately overjoyed and immediately roared.

"Brothers, Lord Xu has come to meet us with an artillery regiment, and the Yellow Turban traitors will be killed today, kill!"

"Kill!"