Chapter 177: Losing Both Sides (2)

The big and small tents instantly ignited a fire, a gust of wind blew in the night wind, and the fire fought with the wind, burning billowing smoke, and the fire was shining into the sky, but it was all empty. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hit the mark! Fall back! Cao Hong was shocked and shouted loudly.

"Cao Hongpifu, where to go?" A gloomy voice floated feebly over the camp.

Cao Hong followed the sound and looked over, but saw a horse coming slowly, and on it sat a man in white clothes and white armor, with a sinister and playful expression.

"You are?" Cao Hong pointed at the man and shouted in surprise.

"I am the Lu Meng you thought was dead! Hahaha! The man in white scoffed.

"Hell! There are ghosts! The soldiers of the Cao army were shocked, chaotic, and screamed one after another.

"You're the ghosts?" Lu Meng said angrily.

"Are you really Lu Meng?!" Cao Hong was also so frightened that his face turned pale.

"Exactly in this general! If it is fake, it will be replaced. Hahaha. Lu Meng said coldly.

"Lu Meng's dog thief, so insidious, dare to tease General Yuben! Come on! Cao Hong was furious, scolded loudly, and raised his knife to pounce on Lu Meng.

"It's just to tease you, what can you do? Who called you so stupid! Ahem, ahem! Lu Meng looked up to the sky and laughed, and the sharp pain in his waist made him cough violently.

"Shoot the arrows!" Ling Tong behind Lu Meng shouted.

Hearing only a bangzi, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, dense as raindrops, Cao Jun was caught off guard, and was shot down in an instant, with corpses all over the field, and a river of blood.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! In the dark, the sound of killing was everywhere, and Lu Fan, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Ling Tong, Ding Feng, Lu Dai and others led the Jiangdong army wearing linen and filial piety, and there were countless of them, and they swarmed and surrounded Cao Hong and others who had been hit by an arrow.

"Soldiers, the time has come for life and death. Follow General Ben to fight his way out of the siege. Kill! Although Cao Hong was hit by an arrow, he was still majestic, and he shouted.

"I am willing to serve the general! Kill! Lu Qian, Ren Jun, Yang Yong and other Cao army soldiers were not afraid of death and bravely rushed to kill.

The Jiangdong army poured out, more and more, like a tide, surging like a tide, vowing to annihilate all the invading Cao army.

Although Cao's army was less numerically than gradually stabilized from the panic, its advantage in land warfare gradually came into play, and it stubbornly withstood the ferocious offensive of the Jiangdong army.

But the Jiangdong Army was twice as large as the Cao Army, and no matter how hard the Cao Army tried, it could not break through.

The battle was fierce, and both sides were fighting with all their might, until the sky was dark, the sun and moon were dark, and the blood flowed like a river.

After fighting for more than an hour, both armies suffered heavy casualties, more than half of them were damaged, and their vitality was greatly damaged and exhausted.

When the fierce battle was in full swing, Yungu Dao was in flames, and in the shouts of the earth shaking the mountains, two long fire dragons rushed towards the Jiangdong Army camp.

"General Cao is panicking! Yu Ban is also coming! ”

"Jiangdong rats are going to be rampant, Zhang Liao is coming!"

The two generals each danced swords and guns, majestic, and Pegasus entered the battle group.

Behind them, Lu Zhao, Sun Guan, Yin Li, and Sun Kang led Cao Jun to join the battle group in a steady stream, and I don't know how many soldiers and horses there were in the dark.

Seeing that it was Zhang Liao and Yu Ban who personally killed him, the Jiangdong army, who had suffered Zhang Liao's big losses many times, was very frightened and feared like a tiger.

In this new force, everyone fought bravely, one by one, the tiger entered the flock, and the Jiangdong army was defeated and retreated.

Yu Ban took the opportunity to ask Sun Guan and Sun Kang to bring 1,000 crossbowmen and 200 throwing ground soldiers, and launched a fierce fire attack on the enemy ships on the river with rockets and oil canisters.

Caught off guard, the four Mengchong fighting ships and more than 20 small and medium-sized warships of the Jiangdong Navy ignited a raging fire, the smoke of gunpowder filled the dark sky, and the flames reflected the surface of the Chaohu Canal.

In the thick smoke billowing behind the skyrocketing fire, more than 3,000 sailors and soldiers on the ship rushed to shout, and after a while, the weapons, food, and other materials on the ship were wiped out together and buried in the vast surging river.

Seeing this, Cao Hong took the opportunity to join forces with Yu Ban, fought his way out of the encirclement, ran onto Changgu Road, and embarked on the way back to fattening.

Because "Zhang Liao" personally broke off, the Jiangdong Army did not dare to catch up.

In fact, this "Zhang Liao" was pretended by Wu Dun, just to scare the Jiangdong army.

In this battle, Cao Hongjun suffered 12,000 casualties, and Ren Jun, Yang Yong and others died on the battlefield.

The Jiangdong Army also suffered heavy losses, fifteen thousand, and countless tents were burned.

Along the way, Cao Hong, who had lost his troops and lost his generals, hung his head and was dejected, his face was pale, and he lowered his head and did not say a word.

Halfway to a mountain pass, a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and someone immediately shouted: "General Yu, I am Liu Tong's subordinate Atiao, and I have something urgent to report to you." ”

"Stop moving forward and rest on the spot." Yu Ban waved his hand to stop Cao Jun to rest.

He quickly summoned Cao Hong, Lu Zhao, Wu Dun, Sun Guan, Yin Li, Sun Kang, Lu Qian and other generals to discuss.

Xiang Tiao briefly briefed everyone on the battle situation in Hefei. It turned out that he was ordered by Zhang Liao and Liu Tong, pretending to be a soldier of the Jiangdong Army, and led the Jiangdong Army to Changgu Road, and then he flew to report to Yu Ban in advance, asking Yu Ban to intercept Sun Quan halfway.

After hearing this plan, everyone was extremely excited, gearing up, and the haze of failure was swept away. In particular, Cao Hong and Lu Qian held their breath and vowed to take the opportunity to teach Sun Quan a profound lesson.

After discussion, Yu Ban immediately decided to divide the remaining 18,000 men and horses into two, Cao Hong, Lu Zhao, Wu Dun, and Lu Qian led 9,000 men and horses to ambush on the left side of the mountain pass for the left wing, and Yu Ban, Sun Guan, Yin Li, and Sun Kang led 9,000 men and horses to ambush on the left side of the mountain pass for the right wing.

A quarter of an hour later, Sun Quan really led 30,000 remnants of the defeated generals and returned south from the direction of Hefei, with He Qi and Zhou Tai opening the road in front, Chen Wu and Dong Xi behind the palace, and Sun Quan and the rest of the generals in the Chinese army.

"Shoot the arrows!" When Sun Quan's army was halfway through, under the order of the ban, ten thousand arrows were fired, rockets and arrows attacked Sun Quan's army like a storm, and the Jiangdong army was caught off guard and was knocked down.

Sun Quanjun was completely stunned, and in a panic, there was another burst of chaos, trampling on each other.

"Hurry through the mountain pass!" Sun Quan was already discouraged and did not dare to fight, so he hurriedly commanded to escape.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! "Capture Sun Quan alive!" Earth-shattering shouts sounded on both sides of the mountain pass, ambushes arose, countless Cao troops were killed, and the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army who had no intention of fighting were frightened and fled in all directions.

Yu Ban and Cao Hong covered up for a while, and the Jiangdong army was defeated, throwing away their armor and running all the way south.

Sun Quan, who was continuously frightened, did not dare to stay after returning to the camp, and pulled out the camp overnight and boarded the boat to return to Jiangdong.

The river wind blows strongly, the sails are raised, and the fleet flows down the dark green river.

Accompanied by the sound of the roaring river, the whimpering voices of mourning the fallen soldiers came one after another, and came from the ships to form a melancholy and sad song, lingering in the sky above the fleet and lingering in the hearts of the officers and men of the Jiangdong Army.

On the flagship, Sun Quan, who was in a calm mood, closed his eyes and recuperated, and the sound of the warship pear opening and surging rivers was endless.

Listening to Lu Fan's report, his face became more and more ugly, his mood was extremely low, and finally he let out a sigh.

According to preliminary statistics, the Jiangdong Army suffered more than 52,000 casualties, missing people, and defected to the enemy in this battle, all of which were the elite of the army; lost more than 5,000 military horses and a batch of grain and grass; Countless weapons and equipment such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, flags, and armor were lost; Four Mengchong fighting ships and more than 20 warships were burned.

The Jiangdong Army can be said to have lost nearly half of its weight and suffered an unprecedented defeat.

On the Cao side, there were more than 35,000 casualties and more than 2,000 military horses. It is also a loss of nearly half, which can be described as a pyrrhic victory.

Hefei, which had endured the baptism of brutal war, finally dissipated the smoke of gunpowder.

The military and civilians of the whole city rejoiced when they heard the news, and the city was brightly lit up, celebrating all night, singing and dancing, and the sound of applause, laughter, cheers, and firecrackers resounded in the sky.

In the lights of thousands of homes, under a small oil lamp in the south of the city, Liu Tong hid in his room, worked overtime to write the military newspaper carefully, and asked Xiang Tiao to be sent to Dangyang overnight.

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