It is said that Zhang Jiao felt depressed and uneasy when he had dinner that day, Zhang Jiao thought it was caused by the strong wind outside and ignored it, and after drinking a few more glasses of liquor at dinner, he went to bed early while he was drunk.

Zhang Jiao usually likes to drink spirits before going to bed, and the spirits are easy to make people sleep deeply, so Zhang Jiao rarely dreams every night.

Just after midnight tonight, Zhang Jiao suddenly had a dream, dreaming that countless meteorites had fallen from the sky, and the wildfires were rampant where they were smashed, and the lives were miserable. And the more than 100,000 Yellow Turban Army led by Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang and others were right in the center of the fire.

One by one, the meteorites that braved the fire of death killed a large number of Yellow Turban Army, and in a panic, Zhang Jiao took his younger brother Zhang Liang and began to flee in all directions, just when the two were about to escape from the range of the meteorite attack, a meteorite more than half a person high smashed on Zhang Liang's body, Zhang Liang's lower body was smashed into the soil at once, and the exposed half of the upper body was shrouded in fire.

Zhang Jiao saw his brother's tragic death in a dream, he was in great pain, knelt in front of the fire and cried, and when he was crying, he saw Zhang Liang, whose flesh and blood had been burned by the fire, suddenly opened his eyes, and stared at him as if he was about to pop out of his sockets.

Seeing this, Zhang Jiao was so frightened that he reflexively fell behind him.

At this time, half of Zhang Liang's already scorched face suddenly showed a resentful smile.

"Brother~ Why didn't you come to save your brother?"

Zhang Liang screamed miserably, stretched out his arm that had been burned and only had some muscles and flesh, grabbed Zhang Jiao's leg, and then pulled it desperately.

Zhang Jiao was frightened by the appearance of his younger brother Zhang Liang, and violently kicked the skeleton that grabbed his foot, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get rid of Zhang Liang's skeleton.

After a while, Zhang Jiao was dragged in front of him by Zhang Liang, and when he saw Zhang Liang's bloody face at this time biting his neck with his big mouth open, Zhang Jiao woke up with a loud scream.

"Is the general alright?"

The guards who ran into the big tent after hearing Zhang Jiao's exclamation couldn't help but ask after seeing Zhang Jiao's sweaty face and a frightened look.

After Zhang Jiao saw a few personal guards, his heart was a little calm, and after taking a few deep breaths, he was about to say that he was okay but had a nightmare, when suddenly there was a scream of ghosts crying wolves outside the big tent, which was exactly the same as Zhang Liang's screams in the dream.

"What sound?" Zhang Jiaoteng jumped to the corner of the bed, pointed outside the tent and screamed in horror.

Several guards were also startled by Zhang Jiao's sudden attack, and one of them listened to the sound outside the tent, and looked at Zhang Jiao with a strange expression and replied, "General, don't panic, it's the wind outside!" ”

After speaking, the man also explained, "General, the gale has not died down tonight, and the sound just now is the sound of the gale blowing through the camp!" ”

Zhang Jiao listened carefully to the words, and then exhaled a breath of turbidity, and sat down on the bed with a slump of his ass.

"Let's get out, it's just a nightmare!" Zhang Jiao waved his hand and said weakly.

Several guards looked at each other when they heard this, their eyes were full of incomprehension, but when they saw that Zhang Jiao was fine, they didn't dare to ask more, and answered

Respectfully withdrew.

Zhang Jiao, who lay down again, remembered the nightmare just now and couldn't sleep for a long time, and finally had no choice but to ask someone to bring up a jar of spirits, and with the strength of the wine, he fell asleep in a daze.

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It is said that after Zhang Liang and Bocai escaped from the camp, they fled in a hurry like headless flies.

At this time, behind Zhang Liang, Cao Cao and Yan Zhong led nearly 20,000 imperial army in hot pursuit, the two wings of the army, Zhang Miao and his party followed, and Zhang Liang and others could only flee in the direction of Yang Zhai in desperation.

There is a branch of Rushui between Changshe and Yangzhai, also known as the "North Ru River".

The Ru River is three or four zhang deep, about hundreds of zhang wide, the river flows slowly, it is the time of the New Year, it is the time when the weather is cold and the ground is frozen, the Ru River has long been frozen with several feet of ice, and the people on both sides of the river usually communicate with each other through the ice.

Zhang Liang and Bo Cai led the army to flee for a long time, and finally fled to the Ru River.

At this time, it was three o'clock in the morning, and a slight white light gradually appeared in the east, and Zhang Liang, Bo Cai and others, who were running in the front, could clearly see the ice under their feet, and hurriedly restrained themselves and sat down on their horses.

"Where is this place?" Zhang Liang asked, pointing to the front with visibility less than two meters.

As soon as Zhang Liang's voice fell, an unkempt and unkempt Yellow Turban Army behind him who looked like he was about forty years old ran in front of Zhang Liang, pointed to the ice under his feet and said, "General Huiyu, this place is called Ru River, the villain came when he was young, and after crossing the Ru River, he can reach Wancheng in less than a hundred miles."

As soon as he heard that this place was less than 100 miles away from Wancheng, Zhang Liang was overjoyed and hurriedly said to Bocai, "I heard that Wancheng has been occupied by General Zhao Hong at this time, as long as we cross the Ru River in front of us, as long as there is General Zhao's support, we can escape from Ascension!" ”

Bo Cai was also overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly shouted to the other soldier, "Since you know this way, quickly take a few people to cross the river first, and after crossing the river, go and call General Zhao from Wancheng to come to support us!" ”

The old Yellow Turban hurriedly responded when he heard this, and then ran towards the ice with a few Yellow Turban soldiers who were also disheveled.

Seeing this, Zhang Liang and the others looked behind them, only to see that hundreds of meters behind them, patches of fireflies rushed towards their side. The two of them knew that this was the light of the torches of the pursuers behind, so they did not dare to slack off, hurriedly shouted behind them, and then ran towards the other side of the river.

It is said that at this time, the armies of Zhang Miao and Cao Cao have converged, and at this time, the three armies of Cao Cao, Zhang Miao, and Yan Zhong are quickly rushing towards Zhang Liang and others.

Because Wancheng was about to be reached, everyone had hope in their hearts, so they all ran to the other side with their lives.

Because there are many children skating and sliding on the ice, and the recent strong winds, there is very little snow on the ice at this time.

Walking on the crystal clear ice, you can fall if you are not careful. At this time, everyone can be said to be running towards the opposite riverbank.

When everyone ran to a third of the way, the army of Cao Cao and others behind them also rushed to the side of the Ru River.

"General Cao, shall we chase or not?" Zhang Miao and Yan Zhong on the side came to Cao Cao and looked at the darkness in the distance and asked.

Cao Cao, who was straddled on the horse, heard the question of the two and snorted cruelly.

"Hmph~ If you get on the ice, the thief will definitely die, and you don't have to chase after it!"

Zhang Miao and Yan Zhong were puzzled when they heard this, but they didn't dare to ask more, after all, in the entire imperial army, the two were just a small deputy general.

In order not to leak the news of this operation, the only people who really had the specific information of this operation were Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Cao Cao, and the rest of them were just doing things according to the instructions of the three people.

"Order, order all the soldiers to line up along the coast and shout, but anyone who sees the Yellow Turban deserters who have turned back will be killed!"

Seeing Cao Cao's order, Zhang Miao and the others hurriedly responded and then began to order.

It is said that when Zhang Liang and others fled to the middle of the Ru River, they saw that there were killing shouts behind them, thinking that Cao Cao and others were also on the ice, so they were so frightened that they couldn't care if their feet were slipping or not, and they stumbled towards the opposite bank.

While everyone was running away, they suddenly heard an exclamation in front of them, followed by the sound of a heavy object entering the water.

Before Zhang Liang and Bo Cai could react to what was going on, there was a sound of falling water in front of them, and then to their left, right, and back, and the sound of falling water in all directions was endless.

"What's going on?" Zhang Liang yelled at the darkness around him.

In addition to the screams of the soldiers, there was also a sound of "quack~quack~" from far and near, and the sound of the ice breaking.

"Not good! The ice is cracking! Bo Cai exclaimed as he looked at the cracks on the ice beneath his feet that were gradually thickening.

When the people around him heard this, they immediately panicked, shouted and began to retreat behind them, but before they took a few steps back, they saw a "rattle" sound like a life-urging charm behind them.

At this time, the yellow turban deserters on the ice were completely confused, and under the repeated stimulation from panic to hope, and from seeing hope to despair, many people's nerves had already begun to collapse.

At this time, no one listened to Zhang Liang and the others' orders, and they all fled in all directions like crazy.

Although Zhang Liang and the others didn't understand why the usually solid ice surface suddenly burst out at this time, the situation was urgent at this time, and the two didn't have time to think about it.

Looking back at the shore and then looking at the direction of Wancheng, Zhang Liang gritted his teeth and shouted to the few dozens of people around him, "Don't look back, you want to follow me across the river for your life!" ”

When everyone heard this, they followed Zhang Liang cautiously and ran to the opposite side.

After hearing the screams on the ice, Cao Cao ordered everyone to stop shouting and extinguish the torches.

As soon as the torches were extinguished, the entire riverbank fell into a dead darkness again. Many of the Yellow Turban deserters who had just been saved from falling into the water ran to the shore when they saw that Cao Cao and the others had no movement, but before everyone could set foot on the shore, they heard the sound of countless arrows breaking through the air over their heads.

After another miserable scream, the Yellow Turban deserters who were exempted from Cao Cao's arrows had to turn around and run to the opposite side.

At this time, there were countless large and small ice holes on the ice, and I don't know how many poor Yellow Turban soldiers were drowned in them

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Just when Zhang Liang and the others narrowly escaped the fate of falling into the water and were about to reach the opposite shore. A flash of fire suddenly appeared in the darkness, and under the firelight, a general dressed in steel armor and wearing a silver helmet rode slowly towards everyone on a brown war horse.

Before Zhang Liang and the others could see the faces of the generals, they saw the man pointing a steel gun at the two of them, and shouted, "Sun has been waiting here for more than a long time on the orders of the old general!" Don't you two hurry up and get off the horse and come down! ”

Zhang Liang and the others were immediately frightened when they heard this, and by the light of the fire on the other side, the two finally saw the man's face clearly.

I saw that the person under the firelight was none other than Sun Jian and Sun Wentai, who had not shown up when Huangfu Song ordered the generals before!

(End of chapter)