Chapter 229: Hunt and Kill
When Sun Jian was killed by an arrow, Cheng Pu realized that something was wrong, and took advantage of the chaos in the city to snatch Sun Jian's body back, and then endured the grief in his heart and began to retreat at full speed with eight hundred war horses.
Huang Zu at the head of the city was stunned when he shot Sun Jian to death, he didn't expect that Sun Jian, who had made the magical light curtain and had the spirit soldier and spirit armor, was shot to death by him like this, this unexpected joy came too suddenly. But when he saw Cheng Pu snatching Sun Jian's body, he suddenly woke up, the spirit soldier and the spirit armor, and the Changge that can emit a magical light curtain, if these two things can be snatched up......
Huang Zu, whose eyes were shining, immediately roared loudly, urging the soldiers to pick up their weapons and follow him in the whole team. It's just that tonight's events are too bizarre, and most of these soldiers are still in a trance, and it is difficult to cheer up for a while.
Huang Zu, who couldn't wait, stomped his feet helplessly, and ordered to his subordinates Su Fei and others: "Quick, go and transfer the war cavalry, the enemy army has been running for a long time, and fighting hard for days, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, at this time the enemy leader Sun Jian is dead, it is the best time for us to cut off the enemy army, we must not let go, go quickly." ”
"No!" Su Fei immediately turned around and went to transfer the cavalry.
"General Huang, if it's so late today, and there is no moonlight, is it ...... to transfer the cavalry out of the city" Kuai Yue heard that Huang Zu was going to lead the cavalry out of the city to chase and kill, and immediately stepped forward to stop it.
"Under normal circumstances, the cavalry should not be mobilized at night, but as I said just now, the enemy army has been running for a long time and fighting hard for days, and it is already the end of the crossbow, and at this time the enemy leader Sun Jian is dead, so when will you not chase and kill at this time?" Huang Zu said noncommittally.
"But ......," Kuai Yue still wanted to say something to stop him.
Kuai Liang on the side gently tugged Kuai Liang, and said in a low voice: "Spirit soldier spirit armor, and that magical Changge." ”
Oh, Kuai Yue instantly understood, his eyes flashed, and he also moved his mind to snatch it, but was secretly stopped by Kuai Liang.
"Quick, speed up, wipe out all the enemy troops in front, and this general will have a heavy reward!" When he saw the flickering torches in front of him, Huang Zu excitedly urged the war horse behind him to speed up again.
Stampeding, although it was in the dark night, but under Huang Zu's several urgings, the war horses of this cavalry were also running in the air with four hooves.
Crunch, squeak! The cold arrow has been shooting straight at Huang Zu.
"Ah, it's not good to have an ambush." Huang Zu heard the sound of firing his bow and arrows, and hurriedly dodged sideways, but luckily dodged the fatal point, and the arrow landed on his shoulder.
When Huang Zu secretly shouted luck, ropes separated by more than ten meters rose in the ranks of the Jingzhou army, and the running war horse was tripped by the rope, and suddenly the horse stumbled on the ground with a scream, and the unsuspecting war horses behind hit it one after another, and suddenly screamed again and again.
"Withdraw!" Cheng Pu glanced at Huang Zu, who was only hit by an arrow in the shoulder, with some annoyance, and then gave the order to retreat.
"Quick, search around immediately." Huang Zu hid in the protective circle of his own soldiers with some fear, and loudly commanded the soldiers behind him.
"Report, General Qiyu, the enemy soldiers have withdrawn." Searching the surrounding soldiers, they quickly ran back.
This enemy general is really bold and careful, and even dared to set up an ambush in this situation, Huang Zu looked at the cavalry that fell to the ground, and the arrows on his shoulder, he didn't dare to chase it down, and he was unwilling to lead the army back to Xiangyang City.
"A few of you hurry up to send a letter to Han Dang and the others, telling them that the two sons are not dead, and that we have fallen for Yuan Shu's trick, so that they can immediately change direction and travel east to join us." Although the news that the Sun Ce brothers are not dead has not been confirmed, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, Cheng Pu can only say this, "Remember not to let the news spread, so that the five thousand soldiers in Wancheng get the news in advance." ”
"No!" Several soldiers dragged their tired bodies and ran in the direction of Deng County.
"I know you're all tired, but the Lord has just died, and the enemy will inevitably continue to hunt us down after dawn. So, if you don't want to die, cheer up and try not to leave a trace. immediately turned around, set off towards Cai Yang, and then after meeting with the two sons, he came to Liu Biao'er to take revenge. Cheng Pu's eyes flickered and encouraged the soldiers.
"Rendezvous with the two sons?" The soldiers shouted one by one in confusion.
"Yes, we fell for Yuan Shu's tricks, the two sons are not dead at all, this is not a place to speak, set off immediately." Cheng Pu saw that the soldiers finally cheered up, and immediately commanded the soldiers to start changing directions, "Be careful, try not to leave traces." ”
Sun Jian was dead, Liu Biao naturally did not want to let go of his subordinates, as soon as dawn, he ordered Kuai Yue to lead the army to hunt down the remnants of Sun Jian, and sent a large number of scouts to find Cai Mao, so that after he collected the rout, he also followed to hunt down the remnants of Sun Jian.
After Huang Gai and the others got the news of Sun Jian's death, although they were heartbroken, they still followed Cheng Pu's explanation, first beat the drum and gathered the generals to recruit Sima and others, the captain of Wancheng, to the big tent, and then ordered the soldiers who had already been ambushed to divide these people into pieces, and then led the team to Caiyang to join Cheng Pu.
Kuai Yue was still annoyed that he couldn't chase and kill the enemy in the first place, but when he heard that Huang Zu was injured and returned, while feeling deeply fortunate, his mind also became active again.
And Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, after receiving Liu Biao's order, chased after Huang Gai and others while gathering the remnants of the soldiers.
Although Huang Gai and the others have been on the battlefield for a long time and can fight habitually, they are already exhausted due to the long distance travel and hard fighting for several days, and the death of Sun Jian has completely reduced their morale, so they dare not go all out in the face of Cai Mao and Kuai Yue's pursuit, and can only use the terrain to occasionally set up ambushes, or harass the enemy at night, which makes Cai Mao and Kuai Yue tired of coping.
But along the way, their army has been drastically reduced, and when they joined Cheng Pu, the number had dropped from the initial seven or eight thousand to more than a thousand.
When the "lord ......" saw Sun Jian's corpse, Huang Gai and the others couldn't help crying.
"Now is not the time to grieve, the pursuers are coming soon, we must move immediately, get rid of the pursuers first!" Cheng Pu endured sorrow and persuaded everyone.
"Quick, there's an enemy army ahead, and we must not let them escape again this time." Cai Mao urged the soldiers loudly, but in his heart he was as worried about Sun Jian's spiritual armor as Huang Zu and Kuai Yue.
"Hmph, these ghostly things are really too powerful, today I vowed to kill Cai Mao, you should withdraw first." Han Dang knew that he would not be able to escape today's catastrophe, so he pretended to arrange his armor freely and prepared to fight Cai Mao to the death.