Chapter 15: The eldest brother comes to help

Zhang Xuan guessed Chen Hongfan's thoughts.

Chen Hongfan had no intention of fighting Zhang Xuan at all.

However, after the defeat of Huangzhuang, Zhang Xuan forced Chen Hongfan to a dead end.

Originally, Chen Hongfan wanted to use this to make meritorious service to atone for his crimes, but he never expected that Zhang Xuan, a junior who had never heard his name, would beat him and run away in embarrassment. Originally, Li Zicheng was powerful, and Song Yihe, the governor of Huguang, also understood this, and he didn't want Chen Hongfan to make any contributions, as long as he guaranteed that Li Zicheng could not be allowed to go south to attack Hanyang Mansion.

Chen Hongfan didn't want to attack Xiaogan either.

It's just that after eating a defeat in Zhang Xuan's hands, he has to think about other things. Otherwise, as soon as the war is over, the crime will be added to the crime, and instead of wearing the crime and making meritorious contributions, all the relationships that ran before will be folded into it.

Therefore, he had to move back to a city in Zhang Xuan's hands.

But how easy is that?

The only thing he can use now is his 300 personal guards, and as for the more than 1,000 defeated soldiers in his hands, they can't be used at all, and sending them to the battlefield is not only useless, but will affect the army. However, after thinking about it for a long time, he came up with a solution.

That's what it looks like now, bullying Zhang Xuan's hands is not enough cavalry.

To be honest, although Chen Hongfan has not won any battles, he has also seen a lot of rogues, all of them are generally more than the official army and horses, and they can achieve one person and two horses, and many officers and soldiers can do three steps and seven steps. And Zhang Xuan's department is particularly strange, not as good as the official army.

He didn't go out of it to find anything strange. He grasped Zhang Xuan's shortcomings and stuck to it.

His purpose was very simple, dragging Zhang Xuan.

Chen Hongfan has not yet received the news of Fu Zonglong's large-scale march at the moment, however, he feels that Zhang Xuan feels that he can't hold on to such a dense formation all the way, if there is a flaw on the road, he will give Zhang Xuan a heavy blow, if there is no flaw, the credit for recovering Xiaogan City is enough for Chen Hongfan to atone for his sins.

Therefore, Chen Hongfan is advancing and retreating freely, but Zhang Xuan is struggling.

The two sides were not far away, and they were moving slowly, and Chen Hongfan also circled Zhang Xuan's department a few times from time to time.

The rangers between the two sides were still fighting each other, and Luo Dai fought hard with a few old brothers transferred from the Chinese army to fight in front and drive Chen Hongfan's rangers away.

"Brother Zhang, if there is really no way." Cao Zongyu said: "Wait a while, you can let Luo Dai escort you away, with Luo Dai's immediate kung fu, you will definitely be able to send you back safely." ”

"I never." Zhang Xuan said: "I will bring you brothers out together, can you throw your brothers here, I will go back by myself, I can't do it." ”

"Actually, there is a sentence that I wanted to say about you a long time ago." Cao Zongyu said: "You have the ability, is it used to fight and kill, and there are so many fools in the world who can handle the knife, why do you have to go into battle in person." Do you think your head is the same price as the Chen Hongfan opposite? ”

Zhang Xuan also regretted it for a while, Zhang Xuan had decided to make a career in the righteous army, but he never expected that he would die in this little-known small place, not in a stone, not in Tongguan, not in Xiangyang, but here in death.

He did not die at the hands of Fu Zonglong, not at the hands of Sun Chuanting, nor at the hands of the Qing army, but at the hands of a general whose name he had barely heard of.

For a while, only he knew how much he was unwilling.

At this moment, he knew what it meant to be in danger.

"If there is a next time, I will be cautious." Zhang Xuan said: "However, today I will live and die with Brother Cao." ”

Although Zhang Xuan said this, there was a thought in his heart that quietly took root, "If I drag on like this, I really can't walk, this day's journey will be delayed like this, I have to walk for several days, and the army will definitely not wait for me." I will be dead at that time, but if I give up the brigade and let Luo Dai escort me away, I will be able to find the brigade today, and by that time, I will be safe. ”

"Perhaps, I can go back first, and then find someone to come to the rescue."

Although he thinks so, Zhang Xuan understands very well that everyone can still maintain the formation now because he is there, the main will be, and if he runs away, the rest of the people will collapse at any time.

Just when Zhang Xuan was fighting between heaven and man, Cao Zongyu suddenly fell on the ground and said, "Okay, I'm saved." ”

Zhang Xuan instantly felt a slight vibration on the ground. The one who feels faster than Zhang Xuan is Chen Hongfan. Chen Hongfan was like a frightened rabbit, and immediately took the lead to the south with his own soldiers.

A puff of smoke and dust was lifted in the distance, and the dust splashed high, and the vibration of the ground became more and more obvious. It was Cao Ying's team. When there was a banner with the word "Luo" first, Zhang Xuan understood very well that the banner of leading the troops alone was not Luo Rucai, but Luo Yulong.

Sure enough, in the rolling yellow sand, dozens of horses stopped in front of Zhang Xuan's team, but saw Luo Yulong and Luo Yujiao dismount together.

Zhang Xuan hurriedly greeted him and said, "I've seen the eldest brother." ”

Luo Yulong said: "If it weren't for Yujiao begging me, I wouldn't have come here, why do you seem to be trapped by hundreds of cavalry?" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled bitterly and said, "Big brother smiled. ”

"Luo Dai." Luo Yulong shouted.

"I've seen the Major General." Luo Dai said.

"What did you do?" Luo Yulong kicked Luo Dai violently, and Luo Dai was almost knocked to the ground.

Luo Dai said with a bit of resentment: "Young General, it's not that I, Luo Dai, can't do it, but the quality of this cavalry is too poor, where is the cavalry, they are all foot soldiers of the four teams, and they don't know how to fight horses at all, at most they can only ride horses." I, Luo Dai, am alone, and I can't do anything. ”

Luo Yulong seemed to understand a little bit after thinking about it.

This is Cao Ying's policy.

Cao Ying's most important thing is the horse team, it can be said that all recruits will be passed by the horse team first, and all the soldiers who are good at riding and shooting will be transferred into the horse team, and they can't flow out at all.

"Brother, why don't you pick some people for Zhang Xuan from your subordinates." Luo Yujiao obviously understood the inside story and said.

"Don't even think about it." Luo Yulong said in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it. Luo Yulong is a powerful general, what he looks forward to every day is to increase the combat power of his department, and he has never thought of reducing his combat power, let alone giving away elite soldiers, which is absolutely impossible. However, in the face of his sister, he decided to embellish his words and said, "You go to your father about this." Your brother doesn't have many soldiers in his hands. That Chen Hongfan dared to bully my brother-in-law, so I used him to vent my anger at my brother-in-law. As soon as he finished speaking, he led the horse team to the south to chase Chen Hongfan.

Luo Yulong used this clumsy excuse to prevaricate Luo Yujiao.

However, in the end, he still did not catch Chen Hongfan. Chen Hongfan's ability to fight may be commonplace, but his ability to escape is quite good. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately ran to Xiaogan City and mobilized the people to defend the city, but his foundation in the city was unstable, and Luo Yulong could also go down with a drum if he wanted to. It's just that in this situation, Luo Yulong can't waste time here after all, so he can only shoot a few arrows outside the city and go back.

When Zhang Xuan returned to Yunmeng, he found that the team had not entered the city at all, and had gone around the city outside the city and headed directly to the north, while Niu Jinxing, Luo Dain, and Song Xiance were all busy and anxious. Zhang Xuan had just come back and had done nothing, he had been recruited by Luo Dain to watch Zhang Xuan go north.

However, Zhang Xuan found that there was too much grain and grass, and there were about 40,000 stones of grain. Among them, Zhang Xuan got 5,000 stone grain from Xiaogan County, 5,000 stone grain Zhang Xuan used hundreds of carriages to transport it, and these 40,000 stone grain is simply a grain mountain, I am afraid it will take thousands of carriages to transport it.

Not to mention whether there are so many carriages, it is not easy to manage so many carriages alone, and the officers and soldiers are chasing after them, and they have to pull so much grain, doesn't it slow down the speed of the march? Zhang Xuan couldn't understand, such a simple matter, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were such sophisticated people, would they not understand?

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