Volume 1 The First Entry into the Three Kingdoms Chapter 75 Heavy losses
Guan Yu and Yao Lie led their troops into the valley to rescue Wu Dan and others, but because their team was too eye-catching, they had already been targeted by Zhang Jiao.
"Second brother! You lead the troops to encircle and suppress the remnants of the imperial army in the valley and clean up the battlefield and surrender."
"Order!" Zhang Bao clenched his fists and shouted.
"Third brother! You lead the army to attack, and you must destroy those two teams today no matter what! Zhang Jiao pointed to Guan Yu and Yao Lie, who had already retreated to the mouth of the valley, gritted their teeth and said.
"Yes!" Zhang Liang responded, and then organized an army of about 40,000 people to kill Guan Yu and the others.
At this time, Zhang He and Ji Mo had already led the army to escape from the valley, and as soon as they got out of the valley, they couldn't take care of Guan Yu and the others who were broken behind, and ran in the direction of Zhongqiu City with their lives.
Guan Yu and Yao Lie fought for a while, and when they saw Zhang Liang leading a large army rushing towards them on the hill, they couldn't help but cry bitterly.
"Brother Yun, you lead the troops to withdraw first!" Yao Lie shouted at Guan Yu in front of him while fighting with the Yellow Turban Army beside him.
"I'm leaving, what will happen to those soldiers behind me?"
"You go first, I'll figure out a way for those soldiers!"
At this time, Yao Lie's seventeen poisonous scorpion squads fought separately, dividing the Yellow Turban Army into more than a dozen parts, making it impossible to meet them. In this way, the pressure of the encircled imperial army is not so great, and they can still compete with the enemy for a while.
The soldiers under Guan Yu were not as powerful as the poisonous scorpions, they were all ordinary soldiers, who were fighting with the Yellow Turban army at this time, and the casualties were very heavy.
"As the commander-in-chief, there is no reason to flee before the war is over!" After Guan Yu slashed a Yellow Turban Army with a knife, he turned around and shouted at Yao Lie.
When Yao Lie heard this, he sighed in his heart: "This is another tendon!" ”
In fact, Guan Yu is not a tendon, the reason why he is reluctant to go, one is that, as he said, the battle is not over, but as the commander-in-chief, he left his soldiers and fled, which is really unjust, and he will never be able to do this kind of thing. The second is that he is extremely confident in his own skills, and he believes that even if his own army is completely destroyed in the end, he will be able to break out of the siege and escape.
Yao Lie saw that there were more and more enemies, and remembered Liu Yi's explanation before leaving, "If you fight, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will run." Thinking of this, Yao Lie didn't dare to fight, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers in charge of resisting the flag to convey the order of "gathering" to the scattered scorpion squad.
After receiving the order, the soldier hurriedly found a high place beside Yao Lie and waved the main scorpion flag in his hand.
"Gather! Assemble! Assemble! Several team leaders who were the first to see the order rushed in the direction of the main flag while shouting to inform the members of the other teams around them.
After a while, the seventeen scorpion squads that had been scattered out gathered around Yao Lie, at this time Yao Lie couldn't care about how many people he had lost, and after seeing that the flags were still seventeen, he was immediately relieved.
At this time, most of Guan Yu's subordinates also gathered around Guan Yu.
Yao Lie saw that the people were almost back, so he shouted to Guan Yu, "Yun Chang! Withdraw! Leave the surrounding imperial army alone! ”
When Guan Yu heard this, he looked at the soldiers of his headquarters around him, and then at the remnants of the imperial army that had been surrounded by Zhang Bao, and shouted to the soldiers around him, "Withdraw!" ”
"The thief will flee!"
Seeing that Guan Yu and Yao Lie were about to run, Zhang Liang shouted and led the army to chase after him, and in the process of chasing, Guan Yu's soldiers were killed and injured a lot.
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It is said that Zhang Fei was ordered to lead 7,000 soldiers out of the city to meet Wu Dan, Guan Yu and others, and as soon as he left the city, Zhang Fei ordered everyone to march as fast as possible.
Less than four miles away from the valley where everyone was fighting, Zhang Fei happened to meet Zhang He and Ji Mo, who were running away in embarrassment.
Zhang He and Ji Mo saw Zhang Fei coming to answer, and tears of joy were about to fall.
"General Zhang, you're here!" The two shouted at Zhang Fei with a crying voice.
Zhang Fei was just about to speak when he saw Wu Dan and Zhang Qiang, who were being carried on a horse behind them, covered in blood and unconscious.
Seeing the appearance of the two, Zhang Fei was shocked and secretly screamed that it was not good. After a careful search in the team, and seeing that there were no Guan Yu and Yao Lie, he hurriedly pulled Zhang Qiang and asked, "What about General Yao and General Guan!" ”
Zhang He was already scared into a mess at this time, and was pulled by Zhang Fei at this time, and almost fell off the horse.
"General Zhang! Let's retreat to the city! Zhang Jiao's army is about to chase after him! ”
"Lao Tzu asked you what about General Yao and General Guan" Zhang Fei was furious and began to roar.
Seeing Zhang Fei's fierce appearance, Zhang He didn't hide it, and informed Zhang Fei of what happened after Yao Lie and Guan Yu broke off.
Zhang Fei was furious after hearing this, and he wanted to immediately stab Zhang and Ji to death.
"Leave a hundred people to send the two generals Wu and Zhang back to the city, and the two of you will take the rest of the soldiers with me to rescue the two generals Guan and Yao!"
When Zhang He and Ji Mo heard that Zhang Fei was going back to drink Guan Yu and Yao Lie, their heads shook like rattles.
"General, if we go now, we're going to die!" Zhang and Ji cried and prayed.
Zhang Fei was furious when he heard this, "If you dare to be verbose, Lao Tzu will send you two to see the king of Hades now!" ”
Zhang and Ji looked at Zhang Fei, who had red eyes and looked like a man-eating beast, and knew that what he said was not a joke, although they were not happy in their hearts, but because of their obscenity, they still began to organize the remaining remnants of the defeated soldiers to prepare to go back to rescue Guan and Yao.
"You two lead the way!"
Zhang Fei knew that everyone was unwilling to go with him, and he was afraid that he would let these people run away if he was not careful, so he asked the two of them to lead the way in front.
At the end of the season, the two did not dare to slack off, and led the troops to march quickly in the direction of the valley.
At this time, Guan Yu and Yao Lie had already led their troops out of the valley and were running in the direction of Zhongqiu City.
In order to preserve their strength and increase the chance of escape, Yao Lie's seventeen scorpion squads scattered and ran in different directions according to Yao Lie's instructions since they rushed out of the valley.
Because of the small number of troops, it is much more mobile than a large army, and it is also easy to hide. Whether it is the strategy of "scattering" and "gathering" in the battle before, or the current division of troops and escape, it is their daily training subject, so everyone is very skilled in execution at this time.