Chapter 501: The First Sneak Attack
Dong Zhuo's army and the people rested on the side of the road at will, and the people were indeed very tired, but these well-trained soldiers were no better.
In the middle of the night, Ye Chen's army quietly went ashore.
Five thousand men assembled on the shore and quickly disappeared into the night.
Although Ye Chen had about 10,000 men and horses, he asked half of them to meet them on the boat, after all, they were now infantry, and the fleet was not enough to transport enough horses, so except for the horses of several generals brought together, the others were infantry.
"My lord, the main road is ten miles away from us, and when we went, it was exactly the tail of the large group, where there were only more than a thousand soldiers at the rear, but there were many small groups of soldiers along the road, and each team of soldiers was about five hundred people."
The soldiers who came back from reconnaissance on the road introduced the situation to Ye Chen, Dong Zhuo marched with millions of people, his soldiers and horses were scattered, and there were definitely not too many people and horses in one place.
More than ten miles away, they arrived soon, and Ye Chen and his army had already approached Dong Zhuojun and the people.
"Lord, our position happens to be Dong Zhuo's rear army, do you want to kill it?" Guan Yu whispered to Ye Chen.
Ye Chen also secretly went to the front to reconnoitre, and he saw the soldiers and the people resting on the side of the road at will, and the scene was very chaotic.
Ye Chen frowned when he looked at it, because this was crowded together, it was easy to accidentally injure the people.
Originally, it was nothing to injure the people by mistake, it was too normal to kill some people in battle, but now Ye Chen wants fame, reputation is very important to him, although he is now a general, a marquis, and a taishou, his businessman background cannot be changed.
"No matter, if some people die, some people will die, at least I can save some of them, if I don't save them, most of them will die on the road." Ye Chen planned to push these dead people onto Dong Zhuo, but on the other hand, these people did die because of Dong Zhuo, and if he hadn't driven these people out of Luoyang, they wouldn't have died.
Ye Chen came back quietly.
"Dong Zhuojun is mixed with the people, we must pay attention when we kill them, try not to kill and injure the people, but if there is really no way, sacrificing a certain number of people is also to save more people." Ye Chen called a few generals to do ideological work on them first, so as not to cause chaos when the war started.
"Leave a hundred people, coordinate the people to escape, let them run along the way we came, and the rest are ready to kill me."
In the moonlight, Ye Chen quietly approached with his people.
"Kill." After approaching within 100 meters, Ye Chen roared, like a thunderbolt in the dark night, making the enemy not react at once.
Thousands of people rushed out, and the Xiliang army was still lying on the ground.
Many Xiliang soldiers have already been in a different place before they understand what is going on.
"Enemy attack."
It wasn't until Ye Chen and the others rushed to kill for a while that someone in the Xiliang Army reacted.
"We're here to save you, don't mess around, go this way, don't crowd."
When Ye Chen and the others killed, the people were frightened and chaotic, so Ye Chen immediately ordered the soldiers to retreat, otherwise they would all be crushed by this group of chaotic people.
After Ye Chen shouted, some of the people reacted and ran from the side road.
"Kill, quick, get rid of some soldiers this time."
Seeing that the people were no longer jumping aimlessly, Ye Chen commanded the soldiers to continue to attack the Xiliang army behind.
There weren't many Xiliang troops in the back, and they walked for another day, it was the time to be tired, at this time, Ye Chen suddenly led his troops to kill, and the unprepared Xiliang army was first attacked by Ye Chen and them, and then they were attacked by the chaotic people for a while, and now they are all scattered and unorganized.
At this time, Ye Chen led the troops to kill, it was very easy, and he suddenly killed the unprepared and tired Xiliang army.
"Big brother, you take a few hundred people to maintain order and let the people run quickly." Ye Chen rushed to kill for a while, slashing more than a dozen people, and then retreated to the side to observe the situation.
"Okay." Tai Shi Ci saw that there was really no need for so many troops to kill the enemy at the scene, so he took people to maintain order.
"Zilong, you take a few hundred people to the front to block the Xiliang army that comes to support."
"Yes, second brother." Zhao Yun led people away.
The Xiliang Army in front, Ye Chen took a look, there are not many at present, there are only a few hundred people scattered in the team, and it is not so fast to support, with Zhao Yun blocking it, I believe it can give them enough time.
After Ye Chen finished arranging, he immediately killed again.
The enemy had 2,000 men, and these 2,000 were not yet under the command of a general, and they were relatively scattered, completely unable to resist, and were quickly resolved.
Just when Ye Chen had eliminated the Xiliang soldiers and horses, a scout came quickly to report: "Report, lord, more than 10,000 cavalry have been found in the rear, they have already discovered us, and there are still more than ten miles away." ”
These scouts were put down a few hours before Ye Chen and their actions, and fortunately, the scouts were arranged in advance.
"What? How can there be a large army in their rear? Ye Chen was taken aback when he heard this.
"Quick, retreat, retreat immediately." Ye Chen didn't have time to think about anything else, so he immediately ordered a retreat.
The movement of the escort battalion was very fast, and after Ye Chen gave the order, he immediately began to retreat.
"Let the people go along this road, and we will leave quickly, and run to the shore, where we will receive the men."
Ye Chen understood that after these people caught up with the Xiliang Army, the most they could do was to recapture them, and it was useless to kill them, so they left them behind.
Ye Chen led the people to run forward quickly, thinking as he ran, who was the army behind?
"Let the ship come over, and we will immediately line up, the first three rows will be defended, and the back will immediately change to bows and arrows." As soon as he ran to the river, Ye Chen ordered a defense.
At the same time, the ship came over, but Ye Chen didn't plan to board the ship now, because it was too late, when the time came, half of the ship would be boarded, and the enemy would kill him, so the part that he didn't board would definitely not be able to escape.
Now that they were in formation, the terrain on this side of the river was relatively narrow, the enemy's cavalry could not charge on a large scale, and the soldiers on the ship were ready, and if the enemy attacked, it would definitely not be of much benefit.
When Ye Chen and the others formed a formation not long after, a group of cavalry dared to come, and after approaching the river, they did not choose to attack immediately, but stopped.
They couldn't attack fast if they wanted to, the terrain around the river was not very flat, and the surrounding terrain was not suitable for large-scale cavalry operations.
"General Ye, I've heard it for a long time, but I didn't expect to see each other before I left Luoyang." A general led by him slowly came out and shouted to Ye Chen on his horse.
"I'm Ye Chen, who are you?"
"In Xia Xu Rong, he is just an unknown general in the Xiliang Army."
"Haha, General Xu is polite, in the Xiliang Army, except for Jia Xu and Jia Wenhe, the only one I admire the most is General Xu."
Ye Chen is absolutely sincere, Xu Rong has no other merits in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms except for defeating Cao Cao, and his death is low-key, but in history, Xu Rong's military exploits are definitely second to none in the Xiliang Army.
Xu Rong is one of Dong Zhuo's four great generals, he has no ability and no military exploits, how can he achieve such a status.