Chapter 470: The Fish That Slipped Through the Net
Sun Shangxiang traveled all the way, with more than 1,000 people brought by Lin Li and 2,000 people and horses allocated by Guan Yu, a total of more than 3,000 people.
The army arrived in Xinji County, and the panicked Xinji County was even more frightened and did not dare to fight, and just arrived in the city, Xinji County had a strong leader to kill the county and the county order, and went out of the city to dedicate the city, so that Sun Shangxiang, who originally wanted to show his skills, was bored and disappointed.
After receiving the news that Zhao Yun and Guan Yu had broken through Zhaoling and Xiangcheng respectively and were marching towards Xuchang, Sun Shangxiang understood that he was being treated as a superfluous person to come here for "sightseeing" even if he didn't know how to fight.
A female soldier came to report: "Master, the spies have just discovered that a team of hundreds of men and horses thirty miles outside the city is coming to Xinji, dressed as Cao soldiers!" ”
Sun Shangxiang's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stood up and said, "But look carefully?" ”
The female soldier said: "Master, the maid has asked carefully, and it is sure that it is Cao Jun, and it should be the remnants of Cao Jun's defeated retreat!" ”
Sun Shangxiang sneered: "Sure enough, the sky net is magnificent, negligent but not leaky, God should let me Sun Shangxiang make this contribution to give a gift to my husband, only blame these people for their bad luck and crashed into Mrs. Ben's hands!" ”
"Tell all the men and horses to prepare to kill the enemy!"
The cold wind was bitter, blowing the cloak on his body whirring, but no matter how cold the wind was, it was not as cold as the chill in Wen Ping's heart. In the fields abandoned by the war, the withered yellow artemisia grass keeps swaying, like a panicked heart, and it is difficult to stop.
Wen Ping couldn't have imagined that he could get to this now, he was originally loyal to Liu Biao and swore to live and die with Jingzhou, but he didn't expect Liu Biao to be vulnerable, and Jingzhou fell into the hands of Liu Yong so soon. Counting, Liu Yong is also very good to these Jingzhou veterans, and he is very important, but he didn't expect to be grabbed by Cai Mao later, and he was coerced to rebel and defect to Cao Cao, although Cao Cao values him, but he is not as important as Liu Yong to him.
Now, the veterans who are still in Jingzhou, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, and Huo Jun have all become pillar-like figures, although Wang Wei died in battle, but he was also admired by countless people, and his wife and children were also taken care of by Liu Yong, although Su Fei was not an important person, but he was also guarding a city, and he was regarded as a feudal official, and even more, a group of little-known bandits and bandits such as Gan Ning, Zang Ba, Chen Sheng, Zhang Hu and a group of generals such as Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Lu Dai, Chen Wu, Zhang He and others were all reused, Even Shamoko, a barbarian, was out of the limelight, and he was indeed fleeing in panic like a lost dog.
Wen Ping's heart is bitter, comparable to Coptis chinensis.
But who can blame this, only to blame himself for being weak for a while, and to come to such a point. The Cai family is over, and the Wen family is even more injured, if they die, they will probably be wiped out.
In fact, in the history of the previous life, Wen Ping also surrendered to Cao Cao with Liu Cong, and was very reused, sitting in Jiangxia, and once and now he alone Sun Quan's 50,000 army, and he was famous for a while, but now he met Liu Yong, the famous Chibi War did not happen, and his circumstances also changed, Liu Cong did not die, but spent the rest of his life in Jingnan under Liu Yong's "care".
Everything has changed.
First defend Dingling, facing his former partner Zhao Yun, Wenpin failed to defend it, and then defend Zhaoling, it is still Zhao Yun who attacks the city, and Wenpin is defeated again. Losing two battles in a row made Wen Ping's confidence completely lost, and he was dizzy all the way to Xuchang under the escort of hundreds of remnants, but his heart had no purpose and was wandering around.
"General, the front is Xinji County, you can go to the city for a night and go on the road tomorrow morning!" There are pro-soldier suggestions.
Sun Shangxiang occupied Xinji, but did not pull out the "Cao" banner at the head of the city, she wanted to deceive some people who fled from the clan without knowing the truth to throw themselves into the net, and Wen Ping also saw that there was a "Cao" banner at the head of the city to take refuge.
"Xinji?"
Wen Ping muttered the name and glanced at the city not far away, it looked no different from before, but he always felt that something was wrong, but he just couldn't grasp that little clue in his head.
After a while, it was less than three miles away, and even the word "Cao" on the banner at the head of the city could be seen clearly, but Wen Ping's heart suddenly jumped suddenly.
"No, there's a problem! It's too ...... in this city Quiet! ”
"That's right! It's just so quiet! ”
Wen Ping suddenly reacted, the nearby cities and cities should be panicked for the coming war, standing outside the city can hear the noisy shouts, but this city is not, although it is not as silent as a dead city, but it is very ordinary, just like in peacetime, this is simply impossible.
"Retreat! Hurry back and get around the city! Wen Ping suddenly ordered, so that the surrounding sergeants were a little unable to react.
Hundreds of people retreated, ready to go around the city, but a sergeant exclaimed: "Not good, there is an enemy!" ”
Wen Ping hurriedly looked in that direction, and a flock of birds suddenly woke up in a forest not far away, and then a group of people rushed to kill.
"It's not good, let's go!"
Wen Ping knew at a glance that there were no less than a thousand people coming, and his momentum was not weak, and his demoralization of these remnants was not an opponent at all. However, when he saw the gate of Xinji City open, a group of men and horses rushed out of the city again, and a sturdy general in front of him galloped across a brown horse.
"Fish that slip through the net, where to escape!"
A coquettish reprimand, it turned out to be a female general, this is an extremely rare thing, I have never heard of a female general in Jingzhou, this Liu Yong is really a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, thinking about it is extremely scary.
The two teams were flanked, and each had a team of hundreds of cavalry, and Wen Ping's command was full of foot soldiers, who could only passively meet the battle.
Lin Li in the rear led the team to rush over, sprinting directly to the Wen Ping army, like a sharp blade, immediately cut hundreds of people in half, a rush to kill, killed forty or fifty Cao soldiers, and suddenly lay down a lot of corpses on the ground, blood stained red, quickly frozen with the soil in the cold wind, bright and dazzling.
"Who's coming?" Wen Ping watched it for a long time, but he didn't know any of the people who led the team on the other side, but he could see the word "Lin" on the flag in the rear and the word "Sun" on the flag of the female general in front.
"You...... Are you Sun Shangxiang, the sister of Sun Quan, Liu Yong's new wife? ”
"Oh? Do you recognize concubines? Sun Shangxiang was also a little surprised, seeing that no one in the Cao army should know who he was.
"Madam, he's a traitor!" Suddenly, Lin Li shouted. Lin Li has been following Liu Yong for some time, and he knows a lot about these veterans in Jingzhou.