Chapter 238: Gathering in the Tiger Prison

Sun Jian fled back. When the pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info left with an army of 10,000 people, with the aftermath of a great victory, majestic and high-spirited, and when he came back, there were not even 4,000 soldiers, all of them were gray and dirty!

Bao Xin, who had just finished cleaning the battlefield and was busy carrying the equipment for defending the city, was shocked when he saw Sun Jian's appearance. However, Sun Jian also told Bao Xin a very bad news, and Hua Xiong was chasing after him.

Bao Xin hurriedly ordered the soldiers to prepare for defense, and opened the gate of Taigu Pass, Sun Jian's defeated army went straight through Taigu Pass, and went to the outside of Taigu Pass to rest and rectify!

Bao Xin, on the other hand, sent a large army to first set up a defensive formation in front of Taigu Pass, which was the first line of defense. After that, Taigu Pass became the second line of defense.

Just when Bao Xin had just made arrangements, Hua Xiong arrived! And at this time, Sun Jian's generals, Huang Gai and Zu Mao, also came.

Originally, the two of them came to propose to set up an ambush outside Taigu Pass. It's a pity that Huaxiong came too fast!

Leading the army in front to form the first line of defense was Bao Xin's younger brother Bao Tao. Although Bao Tao is young, he has read a lot of books. Therefore, Bao Tao learned from books that only by taking the lead and being close to soldiers can he gain great prestige in the army. But Bao Xin couldn't help but get too close, and Bao Xin deliberately found a stepping stone in order to let the soldiers know about their existence.

Hua Xiong, who rushed over, saw at a glance this person who was two heads taller than others and pointed fingers at the soldiers. Therefore, Hua Xiong took off the bow and arrow on the saddle, drew out an arrow and shot it at the young Bao Tao!

After two breaths, Bao Xin, who was now on the wall of Taigu Pass, stared at his younger brother to die.

Bao Xin was crazy, but Hua Xiong was very sober. Without any slowdown, the 1,000 Dong Army Iron Cavalry rushed towards Bao Xinjun, who was a little confused due to the killing of the Lord!

The same narrow roads, the same ferocious cavalry, the same brutal slaughter!

Bao Xin's army's first line of defense soon collapsed, and it was only then that Bao Xin finally forced his spirits to brace. When Bao Xin was about to give the order to release the arrows, he suddenly found that it was his own soldiers who were attacking the level in front.

The bows and arrows, rolling logs, and stones prepared by Bao Xinjun were useless. Due to the close closure of the gate, and there was no way to enter and no way to retreat, Bao Xinjun could only run along the road to the wall of Taigu Pass.

Due to the impact of his own people, the entire Taigu Pass had fallen into a panic, and Huang Gai and Zu Mao's orders were not heard. Simply, Huang Gai and Zu Mao set up Bao Xin, who was already at a loss, and ran down Taigu Pass through the temporary wooden ladder on the other side of Taigu Pass.

Sun Jian looked at it and smiled. Come on, let's run together.

So, Sun Jian and Bao Xin led a team of less than 5,000 people to run along the long canyon outside Taigu Pass!

And Bao Xinjun, who was still struggling and chaotic on Taigu Pass, became the substitute ghost of Sun Jian and Bao Xin.

This battle was supposed to be a brutal offensive and defensive battle, but under various coincidences, it became a one-sided massacre. First of all, the defeat of Sun Jianjun was a great shock to Bao Xinjun. It has only been a day since the 10,000 army went out, and more than 3,000 people have returned, what have they experienced? Moreover, Bao Tao's careless death crushed Bao Xinjun's last will to resist. The Lord General was shot in the head before the war began, so let's have some fun.

When Sun Jian and Bao Xin fled, the camp of Yuan Shu and others at the foot of Yuyuan Mountain was also attacked.

On the same day, when Sun Jian was defeated and left, Hua Xiong himself chased out with an army of 5,000. The rest of the men and horses took advantage of the night to sneak out of the Yuyuan Pass at night and attack the camp of Yuan Shu and others.

Who would have expected that Dong Jun would sneak out of the customs to attack, so when Yuan Shu and the others were asleep, Dong Jun touched the camp of the coalition army. Murder and arson do not look unfamiliar in the slightest.

Yuan Shu, Kong Ling, and Kong Rong hurriedly gathered a group of soldiers and ran east in a panic. ran out for more than fifty miles, and Yuan Shu and the three stopped to gather the remnants of the army.

In the end, the army of more than 40,000 people gathered nearly half of the men, and it was only by the afternoon of the next day that the coalition soldiers who had returned to the camp were gradually gone. And just when Yuan Shu, Kong Ling and Kong Rong were discussing what to do next, a soldier came to report that Sun Jian and Bao Xin were back!

Yuan Shu and the others thought that Sun Jian and the others had taken Taigu Pass and came back to support them. But after Yuan Shu and the three of them came out, they found that Sun Jian and Bao Xin were worse than themselves!

Nearly 20,000 troops, less than 10,000 returned! The five leading brothers almost hugged each other and cried.

What to do, there are less than 40,000 people left in the army of more than 60,000 now, where do we go?

So far, we have almost nothing to gain, or let's withdraw and go back to the vicinity of Zhongmu to find our alliance leader.

After the five of them discussed, they each reorganized their armies and prepared to retreat. When Sun Jian ordered the retreat, Huang Gai stood up and asked the general to leave me 500 men to wait for the return of Yigong. The general will go first, and when Han Dang comes back, we will go after the general together.

Sun Jian is gone, Yuan Shao is gone, they are all gone. Only Huang Gai and five hundred soldiers were left lurking in place, waiting for Han Dang's return.

On the third day of the withdrawal of the army, nearly 10,000 troops had gradually gathered around Huang Gai, but Han Dang still did not return.

Just as Huang Gai was about to give up, a soldier suddenly came to report that a rout of more than 3,000 people had returned. Huang Gai thought it was the army of Yuan Shu and others, so he didn't mention any interest, "Find a place to settle down." ”

Half an hour later, a man supported by soldiers walked into the yellow-covered tent. "Public, what about the general?"

When Huang Gai heard this voice, he stood up excitedly and took a big step forward, "Yigong, I'm back!" It's good to be back! ”

Just when Yuan Shu and Sun Jian led the army to the city of Xingyang, Huang Gai and Han Dang, who was immortal, also came to Zhongmu with more than 12,000 people.

When Cao De received a report from the soldiers that Yuan Shu and others were also back, Cao De looked at Yuan Shao who was sitting on the side in surprise, and smiled, Hehe, you are all back. Let's go, let's go out and have a look.

Yuan Shu and the others were much worse than Yuan Shao and the others who came back a few days ago, the faces of the soldiers were covered with all kinds of dust, and there were almost no injuries on the bodies of the soldiers.

When the first army returned, less than 50,000 troops of more than 70,000 returned; Now when the Second Route Army returns, the army of more than 60,000 has returned and nearly 40,000 have returned. In the past few days, Cao De's Third Route Army has lost nearly 10,000 people in its storming of Tiger Pass.

However, Cao De and others, who were still in the third way, suffered the least losses. And if you calculate carefully, Cao De's loss is the smallest, and Cao De's 20,000 army is only a thousand people when it is full. And the worst loss was Tao Qian, not only the 20,000 army was gone, but his own life was also lost. The second is Sun Jian. There were only more than 3,000 people left in the 10,000-strong army, and a general Han Dang was also lost.

Sun Jian didn't expect Huang Gai to wait for Han Dang's return. However, Sun Jian didn't know that Huang Gai not only waited for Han Dang, but also brought back a rout of more than 12,000 people.

In fact, Yuan Shao and others were in too much of a hurry. If they waited for two more days, they would have gathered more than 10,000 remnants of Tao Qian's army.

After Tao Qian's suicide, although Tao Qian's 20,000 army lost some, captured some and ran a lot, there were still nearly 10,000 people who became tadpoles looking for their mother. After Yuan Shao and the others withdrew, Tao Qian's remnants were absorbed by Niu Fu. For a while, the strength of Dong Jun in Qinghe City did not suffer much loss, but was replenished! (To be continued.) )