Chapter 90: Resurgence
Hengzhou, with the momentum of eliminating Yu Chenglie, Sun He led Huaiwu and his generals to quickly recover Shanwu County and Dai County, while Sima Huaizhong was already frightened by Sun Rong and fled north. However, with the expansion of the territory, the problem of insufficient troops caused by Sun Rong's army in Luoyang was gradually revealed, which could have swept the entire Hengzhou in one fell swoop, but at this moment it had to stop the offensive and stopped. Sima Huaizhong's courage is a little smaller, but after all, he has led the troops for many years, and he immediately noticed that the opponent's stamina is insufficient, and the enemy retreats and I advance, since Sun He wants to take a conservative line, then how can he Sima Huaizhong let him get his wish, naturally he is constantly harassed. In addition, Sun Rong's massacre of the city in Fanjin made the Huaiwu army and the people lose their hearts, and the local people turned to the rebels one after another, and Sima Huaizhong's power grew instantly, and even he himself was surprised.
At this moment, in the Pingcheng City of the Daijun Governor's Office, Sun Hezheng was so anxious by the civil uprisings one after another, he kept scolding: "Sima Huaizhong, this coward, he doesn't dare to fight against us, and he provokes some ignorant people to make trouble, it's really a scoundrel!" ”
The first fearless man on the side had an inquiring expression: "What should we do with the people who beat the soldiers who were arrested yesterday?" ”
"Kill!" Sun He replied crisply, with no room for turn, "Catch one and kill the other!" I'd like to see how many are not afraid of death! ”
"Yes!" Xian Wudaunt was also very tired, "I hope that the general will come back with the army as soon as possible, and lead us to quell the rebels, so that we don't have to nest in the city every day to suffer such birds!" ”
Sun He: "The general also has his difficulties in Luoyang, listening to the envoy sent by the military division, the general for the imperial court to eliminate the traitorous party, welcome Your Majesty, not only is not grateful, but disgruntled, everywhere against the general. Once the general relinquishes control of Luoyang, it is very likely that he will be poisoned by him. So unthankful, I didn't even see it when I first came to Huaiwu, and I thought he was a good person! ”
Xian Wuxing shook his head and sighed: "Pity me and so on, I still fight desperately for him, and I don't know what ...... I want."
Sun He was upset by him: "Go and do something!" As long as the general says to fight, I will fight later, why do you want to do so much! ”
Fearless turned around and went out first, Sun He sat down weakly, looking at the roof, his mind was empty, there were endless troubles recently, and he needed to take a good rest. But before he could enjoy a moment of peace, he first turned back fearlessly, and shouted all the way to make him even more uneasy: "Sima Huaizhong has appeared!" Thirty miles north of the city! Tens of thousands of horses! ”
Sun He jumped up: "Okay! I'm afraid he won't come! Tell the whole army to prepare to defend the city! ”
However, Sima Huaizhong once again made Sun He lose hope, and for several days, his men and horses were clubbed on the outskirts of Pingcheng not far away, neither attacking nor retreating, which made Sun He angry.
"Be fearless first, gather your troops and horses, and follow me out of the city!" Sun He finally couldn't help but erupt.
Xian fearless but not without scruples: "Sima Huaizhong is so big outside the city, doesn't General He think it's strange?" In order to distinguish Sun Rong's General Sun, the Huaiwu people called Sun He as General He.
"When the general captured Huaiwu and eliminated the traitor Sun Xiu, I was still the bait to attract Sun Xiu's attention, how could I not know the mystery!" Sun He said with relief, "Don't worry! I've sent scouts to check around, but there are no other troops near Pingcheng, and we won't repeat Sun Xiu's mistakes! And just in case, I'll leave three centaurs in the city, and it'll be fine! ”
After the discussion was completed, Sun He and Xian Wudang immediately sent troops to attack Sima Huaizhong, and the Huaiwu army had been fed up with Sima Huaizhong's various harassments in recent days, and had already held back their strength, and went straight to his home camp with murderous spirit.
Walking to a forest, but seeing the lush forests and complex terrain around him, Sun He suddenly stopped, vigilantly observed the surrounding movements, and after a while, shouted: "Set fire to the forest!" ”
In the blink of an eye, a sky-high fire ignited, and the wall of fire, several feet high, soared all the way forward with the help of the strong wind, frantically devouring every grass and tree along the way. A moment later, a group of rebels rushed out in groups from behind the dirt slope in the distance, and fled in the direction of Sima Huaizhong's camp. The corners of Sun He's mouth raised a contemptuous smile: "I know that you are not so honest!" With a wave of his hand, "the whole army then covered up!" ”
Sun He slashed these rebels who wanted to ambush him all the way, not to mention how happy he was, as if it was not a sword that was swung out, but the depression that had accumulated in his heart for a long time, and the wailing of those rebel soldiers had become a gentle and pleasant country song in his ears.
Chasing to the nearby camp of Sima Huaizhong, those ambushes who fled in the desert had almost been slaughtered, Sun He was about to step into the enemy camp with one blow, and suddenly, rows of arrows rained down on his army like locusts crossing the border. Sun He hurriedly retreated to avoid his edge, thanks to his timely reaction, if he was half a beat slower, he was afraid that he would have already been on the battlefield at this moment. When he retreated, Sun He found that in the opponent's camp, seven or eight huge arrow towers had been erected at some point, and the enemy troops on the upper floor condescended to shoot arrows at their own side, and the range was several times farther than that of shooting on the ground.
"Sima old thief! Almost fell in your way again! Those ambushes are actually bait, and the arrow tower is your real killer move! Sun He gritted his teeth and said hatefully.
The position of several arrow towers on the other side was extremely particular, although the number was not much, but it was enough to cover the entire battlefield, Sun He tried to charge several times from different angles, but was forced to retreat by the powerful attack. At this time, the sun had set westward, and it was inevitable that Sima Huaizhong would rob the camp after nightfall, and Sun He had to withdraw the army to the city.
Back in the city, the more Sun He thought about it, the more unconvinced he became, this old thief clearly looked down on himself, and boasted of his strength to the people and even his own soldiers. Since he has an arrow tower, I will bombard his arrow tower with a catapult!
Early the next morning, Sun He couldn't wait to embark on the journey again with more than a dozen catapults. However, although he desperately hoped to set foot in the enemy camp as soon as possible, the time he followed Sun Rong to conquer the north and south was not short, and the more anxious he was, the easier it was to make mistakes, and he still kept this truth in mind. In order to prevent the other party from repeating his old tricks, Sun He's march was still extremely steady, and he did not let go of any corner that might be sneak attacked.
The army pushed to the limit of the range of the arrow towers in the enemy camp and stopped, and the catapults appeared gorgeously, only to see that after a boulder crit, the arrow towers that were still showing their might yesterday collapsed one after another. Getting rid of these obstructive things, Sun He finally waited for the long-awaited showdown between the two armies. "Kill!" Sun He drew his sword out of its sheath, pointed to the sky and shouted, until he ran out of breath, his heart was agitated, and his face became hideous.
The drums and horns sounded, and the cavalry on both wings took the lead in attacking, raising smoke and dust in the sky, and the Chinese infantry immediately approached in unison.
Sun He's side is like a rainbow, and the rebel side is not far behind, and everyone is excited and high-spirited, and they are on par with Sun He. But seeing the cavalry clashing back and forth on the battlefield, the infantry fighting in formations, rivers of blood, and corpses all over the field, no one could annihilate the other side. The two sides fought until dusk again, and Sun He still chose to return to the division city as he did yesterday, while Sima Huaizhong did not pursue, and cleaned up the battlefield by himself, as if preparing for the next tough battle in advance.
Sun He retreated into the city, and he was so agitated that he almost ran wild, and his two sorties failed to kill the flies at the door of the house, and his strong unwillingness made him clench his fists so hard that he didn't even notice that his nails had pierced his palms. Unexpectedly, this timid old thief Sima is quite good at fighting seriously.
"Dreadnought! Immediately notify Sun Xia and let him quietly bring seventy percent of the troops of Shanwujun to come, if I don't kill the old thief this time, I won't be surnamed Sun! "Sun He, this is determined to fight Sima Huaizhong to the death.
"Order!" Like Sun He, Xian Wudaunt also had a fire in his belly, waiting for this general to transfer troops in order to sweep away the rebels in one fell swoop.
In order to hide people's eyes, Sun Xia's army marched day and night all the way, and walked for seven days before arriving in Pingcheng. When the army entered the city, Sun He cordially took Sun Xia's hands and smiled: "I can be regarded as looking forward to you!" This time, I attacked Sima Lao Thief from the front, you secretly went around his back, and hit him off guard, let's attack back and forth, see if he Sima Lao Thief dares to be so arrogant! ”
Sun Xia also smiled: "He is called playing with fire and self-immolation!" is still so frivolous when he is old, and he deserves today's catastrophe! ”
Just as the two of them were talking and laughing about victory, a bloodied man stumbled in. When Sun Xia saw the visitor, he instantly changed color: "Sun Yu! What are you doing here? What's going on with this? ”
That Sun Yu said with a crying voice: "General, you just led the troops to leave for two days, and Shanwu City was attacked by the rebels, and the city was broken!" General Sun Huan was killed! ”