81 Night into the Chosha

Several people returned to the hidden camp thirty miles away, and at this time all the soldiers in the camp were resting, and their physical strength was almost exhausted after days of hurrying, leaving only the men and horses of the patrol battalion walking back and forth, guarding the camp. Li Zhen knew that it was impossible not to throw them into the battlefield now, so he ordered a day of rest, and continued to march at night, and was ready to fight the yellow scarf by surprise tonight, so he had to recover his strength and wait for the opportunity, and night was the best choice for the march. This is still thanks to the Liaoxi army, which strengthened the training of night marching projects, these days, every day and night of life training to make these recruits adapt, otherwise few generals dare to march with the army at night to fight.

After a day's rest, the soldiers' physical strength gradually recovered, Li Zhen ordered to eat on the spot, of course, all the food was dry food, in the distance from the Yellow Turban, lighting a fire to cook is a lifeless behavior, easy to attract the attention of the Yellow Turban.

When night fell, all the people lay on the ground and closed their eyes to recuperate, and the new soldiers, formerly the Yellow Turbans, were selected from the prisoner camps, and these people were not used to the atmosphere before the war, and rolled back and forth in the ground. In the past, when I was the Yellow Turban Army, it was all like hanging children, and the marching and fighting were also constricted, and it was like now that the whole army was silent, there was no sound at all, and some only heard the sound of breathing. And the veterans of Liaoxi are all people who are accustomed to seeing blood and fighting many battles, and they are used to this kind of marching days, lying on the ground and saying that they will sleep, and they sleep very fragrantly and sweetly. The recruits looked at these veterans with envy, and when the time came to go to the battlefield, were these people really not nervous at all?

When it was almost time, Li Zhen asked all the soldiers to wake up, ordered to check the weapons and equipment and war horses, and half an hour later Li Zhen led the whole army to Changshe. None of the three armies spoke on the road, and even the horses' hooves were wrapped in straw. The horse's mouth was put on the bridle to prevent the sound of the horse from waking up the Yellow Turban Army during the march, only ten miles away from the Changshe, Li Zhen stopped, 3,000 cavalry got on the war horse, 1,000 halberders, and more than 10,000 infantry all followed closely at the back of the team.

When Li Zhen ordered the charge, 3,000 cavalry took the lead in attacking the Yellow Turban barracks, Zhang Fei and Dian Wei each led more than 1,000 people to set fire everywhere. Zhang Jaw led the Euphorbia to kill and wound the Yellow Turban Army that emerged from the Great Tent, and more than 10,000 infantry then mended their swords, and then quickly approached the city gate.

There was a fire in the rear camp of the Yellow Turban Army, a chaos, crying spread all over the camp, Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun in the city heard it and hurried to the city gate, seeing the fire in the rear camp of Bocai, Zhu Jun laughed and said: "It may be that the reinforcements brought by Cao Cao have arrived, and they have just come to speak out for the old man, and they are really happy, and we will send someone to answer them immediately." ”

"Let's go to the walls and have a look." Huang Fusong pulled Zhu Jun, who was about to go out of the city, now that the night is dark and windy, who knows the situation outside, let's take a look first.

The two of them stood at the head of the wall and looked down, only to see that the fire in front of them was bright, and the rear camp of Bocai was now on fire everywhere, a group of cavalry and infantry were fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and thousands of people were running from under the city. Zhu Jun saw that the banner of the army outside was the word "Li", not Cao Cao's reinforcements, and asked puzzledly: "Yizhen, is there anyone surnamed Li in our reinforcements?" How I don't know. "I don't know, maybe it's someone from somewhere else, anyway, let's send troops to meet it." Huangfu Song didn't understand either, and it didn't seem that there was a general surnamed Li nearby.

"Don't worry, just wait! Send someone to shout and ask whose troops it is? Zhu Jun grabbed Huangfu Song at this time and sent someone to shout down.

At this time, Bocai also organized 30,000 people to support the rear battalion, Li Zhen knew that the rear battalion of the Yellow Turban Army also had 30,000 people, and now if it was surrounded here, I was afraid that all the men and horses he brought would have to be explained here, so he ordered the cavalry to cover the infantry and retreat from Changshe City.

In order to avoid the Yellow Turban Front, Li Zhen rushed out of the Yellow Turban camp and came to the city of Changshe, and when he saw that the soldiers and horses in the city had not yet entered the city, he asked the soldiers closest to him, "What's the matter?" "General, the people above have to answer the general in person before they can open the city gate." This Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are really cautious, Li Zhen thought about it, raised his head and shouted: "The above are General Huangfu and General Zhu, General Fenwei and Liaoxi Taishou Li Zhen, who were ordered by Lord Liu, the assassin of Youzhou, to come to reinforcements. ”

Huangfu Song recognized Li Zhen when he heard the voice, and said with a smile: "It turned out to be Lord Li, quickly open the city to answer." Zhu Jun listened to it as if Huangfu Song knew the general, and asked softly, "Who is this person?" "He is Li Zhen, who was specially summoned back then, defeated the Wuheng people in Liaoxi, and is also the son-in-law of your friend Cai Yong." Huangfu Song explained that he had seen Li Zhen at Cai Yong's family banquet back then, while Zhu Jun was away at the time, and when he returned to Luoyang, he had only heard of it, and he had no chance to see Li Zhen. muttered, "It turned out to be him!" ”

Li Zhen let the infantry enter the city first, and the cavalry and platoon behind closely monitored the movements of the Yellow Turban Army. When Bocai arrived at the city, he saw that the cavalry in front of him was in formation, and the archers in the city were all ready, and he wanted to take the opportunity to attack the city, so he ordered to withdraw his troops back to the camp and rescue the rear camp, this time the rear camp was burned by Li Zhen Nearly half of the grain and grass of the Yellow Turban, and more than 10,000 casualties were killed, most of which were burned by stepping wounds, which required a period of recuperation to restore morale.

After arranging the soldiers in the city, Li Zhen took Zhang Fei and Dian Wei to the Zhongying tent to meet Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun, Zhang Jaw and Zhou Cang stayed in the barracks to deal with affairs and arrange people to take care of the injured soldiers.

Li Zhen entered the big tent of the Chinese army, saw Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun, and a group of soldiers were discussing countermeasures to break the enemy, the atmosphere was a little dull, the soldiers and horses brought by Li Zhen were besieged to Li Zhen, or some of the bucket was of little effect, and Li Zhen brought more than 10,000 people and horses into the city, which increased the consumption of grain and grass in the city, and now there were not many grains and grass, and now they had to add 10,000 mouths, which made Huang Fusong and Zhu Jun very depressed, and they didn't know why Li Zhen brought people and horses into the city.

"The last general meets with the two generals." Li Zhen saluted. Although they are both generals, Li Zhen and them belong to miscellaneous generals, and Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun are the real Central Army, with higher official ranks than Li Zhen.

Although the two of them were depressed, they were now in the city with good intentions to support them, and they couldn't cry and shouted, "General Li doesn't need to be polite. The two thanked Li Zhenlai for his support, and then praised Li Zhenyifan, who is young and promising, and said that the pillars of the country have good words without money, and then said: "General Li came to the city, but he thought of a good plan to break the enemy." ”

Li Zhen only then understood, good words don't need money to say in order to strategize, didn't Huangfu Song not think of fire to break the enemy, by the way, at this time there is still a lack of strong winds, then I am not a great merit to give him now, in my heart, I think it is still not good, Huangfu Song is short of wind, and now I also need the wind.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun frowned when they saw Li Zhenshen, and they didn't dare to disturb his train of thought, so that all the generals quieted down. After Li Zhen woke up, he saw that the people in the camp were looking at him, and said with a wry smile: "The two generals don't have a good plan, how can Zhengang have a good way when he arrives?" The generals in the tent were disappointed and a little happy and tangled when they heard this, if Li Zhen really had a good way to break the enemy when he arrived, then their group of people who had been fighting for many years would not be even comparable to one person. Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun glanced at each other in disappointment, and then introduced the generals in the camp to him one by one, Li Zhen saw them one by one, and the last person in the account attracted attention, this person is now Zhu Jun's general, this person is extraordinary, tall, standing next to Zhu Jun, a head taller than Zhu Jun, tilting his head and looking at Li Zhen with a smile, this person is Sun Jian.