Chapter 15: The Heroic Wind of Nagasaka (Part II)

Zhao Yun's plan was clearly going well. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 When Zhou Rui's cavalry broke straight into the last hundred people defending Xu Chu's side, the final result was completely determined. Xu Chu was entangled by Zhao Yun and couldn't get out at all, while Zhou Rui led seven hundred cavalry like a tide to completely defeat the one hundred cavalry who were still loyal to their duties and seize their target, which belonged to the trophies of Cao Cao's army. The thing was successful, and after Zhou Rui kindly took out the two little girls in the carriage who had already been frightened and pale and put them on his horse, Zhao Yunjun obviously had only one thing to do and run away.

First, Zhou Rui, who had captured the target, galloped away with his seven hundred men like the wind, and then Zhao Yun himself easily broke away from Xu Chu's battle. Although I have to admit that Xu Chu is the number one general in Cao Cao's army, his martial arts are still slightly worse than Zhao Yun anyway. Therefore, he couldn't keep Zhao Yun, especially after Zhao Yun used that amazing spear skill like a meteor, he had no way to stop Zhao Yun. He could only weakly hang down the tiger head knife in his hand, and sat back and watched Zhao Yun and his men leave suddenly, and also took away the wounded soldiers and victims who belonged to them.

Looking at the dead and wounded in one place, listening to the wail in his ears, Xu Chu stuck the tiger head knife in his hand on the ground heavily, and his face was full of iron blue. At this moment, he already knew that he was reluctantly Zhao Yun's strategy - he had long been optimistic that he was the only military general on his side, so he came up with a way to contain himself by himself, but let his subordinates complete the interception and kill in the future. This is a regular tactic, and it is not a trick, but it is such a formality that makes me suffer a big loss. The prisoners that Cao Chun had given to him two hours ago were now less than 300 left, and the 1,000 elite men he allocated to himself were now only a mere 500. One out of ten captives was saved, and more than half of the elite were lost, such a tragic result really made Xu Chu a little embarrassed. However, he was still ready to go north, for he felt that he had to give a complete account to his lord about the matter.

"There is a new German enemy." Xu Chu thought. This is vital information and must be reported immediately. So, Xu Chu straightened out the ruined situation in his hands, straightened out his remaining soldiers, and escorted those people who didn't even have the strength to escape to continue north. This time, he walked a little faster than before, as if someone was chasing after him, and he was in a hurry, and he even forgot about the situation that happened here and handed it over to Cao Chun, who was still fighting in front.

Everyone retreated, and the hillock, which had been a battlefield, was once again a place of silence. Except for the corpses all over the ground and a piece of weapon that had fallen to the ground with its master, it was back to normal. Unlike Zhao Yun's side, the rule on the tiger and leopard riding side is that death is death, and no one will cry for you and deal with the aftermath for you. This is also the rule of most armies in the whole world, like Zhao Yun, who thinks everything clearly, there are only two armies in this world, one is Li Shengjun, to which Zhao Yun belongs, and the other is Liu Bei's army. But even Liu Bei's people are by no means as good as Li Sheng's side in this kind of thing.

Zhao Yun, who broke away from the battle line, quickly led his men and horses to catch up with Zhou Rui, Ma Liang and others who were in advance, and met Liu Bei's two young daughters. For these two daughters who have long been scared and are still young, Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui are also at a loss because of their trouble. They cried and cried, but they cried less when no one paid attention, and when someone spoke, they cried so violently that the tears gushed out like an endless spring.

"Headaches." Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui both patted their foreheads helplessly, and they turned their heads to look at Ma Liang, who seemed to be still calm.

"Aren't there a lot of children in your family? I guess you must be very experienced with this, right? Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui invariably lured Ma Liang Chunchun.

"This ...... This ...... "Ma Liang stood up, although he has two or three wives and concubines in the family, and four or five children, but he is not responsible for coaxing children, and said that persuading the little girl not to cry about things, he is not much more familiar with Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui. But he didn't dare to deny it directly, because the momentum of the two fierce generals like Mount Tai had firmly locked him, which made him miserable for a while. Although he didn't make any other moves, he still didn't dare to move.

"How...... Don't you agree to this? Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui took a step forward in unison, and the momentum on their bodies became even stronger, they were brutally oppressing Ma Liang.

"Don't dare...... Don't dare to ......," Ma Liang hurriedly shook his hand and denied. He couldn't stand the oppression of Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui anymore, and agreed to the matter in one breath: "Alas...... Let me try it. To be honest, he didn't have much confidence in it.

This is good. Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui both took a few steps back and smiled with satisfaction. Although the white teeth that were exposed in the mouth were not very real in this dark and messy environment, the relaxation of the two of them and the chuckle that was not much concealed still made Ma Liang hear their happiness at once. This would have been a good thing, after all, they were also their own people. But for Ma Liang, this good thing is based on his own troubles, but he is not very happy. It's just that under the strength of the other party, Ma Liang didn't dare to say anything, and in the end, he could only helplessly go in the direction of the crying in the dark, and carry out the damn "daddy" act with his heart.

Watching Ma Liang's departure, Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui ignored it. Right now, they are stationed on a tidal flat on the waterside of Nanzhang, not far from the battlefield just now. Although it was unlikely that Cao Cao's army, which had already been defeated by himself, would have raised troops to take revenge on him so quickly, this was not a safe place. Therefore, neither of them planned to stay here for any longer, they just waited for the "daddy" Ma Liang over there to persuade the two young ladies, and then quickly pulled out their troops and left, and continued to carry out their lord's orders to the south.

Although Liu Bei's two daughters were rescued, the "selfishness" in Zhao Yun's heart was not eliminated because of this. After all, a daughter is just a daughter after all, and in the face of this patriarchal world, even Zhao Yun is inevitably tainted with some clichéd ideas: rescuing Liu Bei's daughter can only be regarded as fulfilling part of his wish, and only by rescuing Liu Bei's only son, Liu Chan, can it be considered more perfect. For the sake of this perfection, Zhao Yun planned to go further south into Nagasaka to fight with the tiger and leopard.

"That's the best cavalry in the world. Not only in terms of troops, but also in morale, we don't have any advantage. I hope General Zhao still has to think about it. Hearing Zhao Yun say his thoughts on the next step, Zhou Rui couldn't help but be a little surprised. He had already seen the elite combat power of the Tiger and Leopard Rider just now, although it was not to the point of making him fearful, but it was still very strong. Zhou Rui didn't believe that with the forces that his side did not have much advantage, there would be no good fruit to eat to deal with the tiger and leopard cavalry. Rescuing Liu Bei's wife is certainly a good thing, but such a good thing can only be done without suffering too much loss on his side. If Guangguang wasted all his rare elites in order to rescue Liu Bei's wife, Zhou Rui always felt that it was not very cost-effective. Because he remembered that the lord Li Sheng had said to himself: "All the soldiers here should be trained as officers of the cavalry in the future." "Yes, these are all painstaking efforts, and they cannot be easily consumed. Thinking of this, Zhou Rui frowned slightly and said his opinion.

"I've thought about that, too. But I don't know if Zhong Min has thought about it, who the lord will stay in the end. What he wants is the elite, a force that can definitely be regarded as the first cavalry in the world. Although I have trained them very hard in Wudang over the years, and my training for them is also in place, I dare not be sure that they are the people the lord wants. Because they have not been on the battlefield, have not experienced the baptism of iron and blood, and have not sharpened their sharpness at all. They only have the elite of the elite, not the elite itself, which is not in line with the needs of the lord. The real elite cavalry is only baptized from the battlefield. Although I admit that there is selfishness in my order, this is not the key to my order, the real key is that we must fight the tiger and leopard cavalry head-on, and cultivate our own elite through fighting them. For this matter, I have a belly plan in my heart, how to fight, how to attack, how to retreat, I have already thought about it. Zhong Min doesn't have to worry about this, you've been friends with me for many years, don't you know who I am? It's not my style to abolish the public for personal reasons. Regarding Zhou Rui's opinion, Zhao Yun gave such an explanation.

Although this did not immediately make Zhou Rui feel at ease, it also made him retract the doubts in his heart a little, and decided to cooperate with Zhao Yun again. After all, Zhou Rui still remembered what the lord Li Sheng told him before coming here: "Everything must obey General Zhao Yun's orders." ”

After figuring out this section and getting Zhao Yun's explanation, Zhou Rui stopped talking and retreated to the side. For a while, the two were speechless, just waiting for Ma Liang, who had got the two girls over there, to come over, and they were about to set off together.

The night breeze brings a little silence that belongs to the night, and there is a lot of coolness that belongs to the water. If it weren't for the fact that this big thing in hand needed to be completed overnight, otherwise such a scene would be a place to sleep peacefully. Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui, who were far away, naturally didn't know what Ma Liang and the two little girls were talking about. But with their excellent hearing, they could hear the weakening of the weeping sound from the blowing of the night wind, and it seemed that Ma Liang's persuasion still had a certain effect, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed at the moment.

The two of them continued to wait for Ma Liang to get things done, but they didn't want to wait for Ma Liang to come over, but they waited for another group of people - the sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the night breeze of this practice, but it was so clear to Zhou Rui and Zhao Yun, and there was no trace of ambiguity.

"Who is it?" Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui glanced at each other, and at the same time turned over and stood on guard. This vigilance only attracted the knights around the two of them, and did not bring more people into it. Because Zhao Yun did not give an order, he wanted the whole army to be. He could already hear that the sound of the horses' hooves was not very loud, and it was clear that there were not too many people coming.

Just waiting for the appearance of Zhao Yun and the others after a while, they saw the people rushing forward. I saw that they were all dusty, obviously after a big battle, the armor on their bodies was obviously damaged, and countless bits and pieces of blood stains were mixed on it, which made people feel a little daunting. is the first one of the generals, with a handsome face and a white robe and white armor, holding a bright silver gun, but he is somewhat similar to Zhao Yun's dress.

"Is it General Chen Shuzhi? Your father-in-law's young lady has been rescued by us, not far ahead, please come over and talk about it. Seeing the dress of the comer, Zhao Yun guessed the identity of the comer with a slight thought. In the past, when he was in Wudang, he also heard that Liu Beijun had such a guy named Chen Zhi who was dressed very similarly to himself, and his strength was also very good.

"I am Chen Zhi under General Zuo's account, I don't know who Your Excellency is ......?" When Chen Zhi heard the person in front of him say this, he was first happy in his heart, and then asked with some doubts. It's no wonder that he is cautious, after all, as far as Liu Beijun's current situation is concerned, it seems that there is no place in the entire Jingzhou.

"Zhao Yun under the tent of Changsha Taishou, on the order of my lord Li Taishou, came to help Lord Xuande. It's just because the road happened to save the two young ladies of Xuande Gong, so they dragged here. We wanted to go south to find Xuande Gong, but we didn't want to meet Your Excellency here, which is just right. I'll hand over the two young ladies to you. Zhao Yun said with a smile. For Chen Dao, he knew that he was Liu Bei's confidant, and his words would always be accompanied by twelve points of kindness.

"It turned out to be Mrs. Li guarding the seat." Chen nodded clearly. Regarding the relationship between Li Sheng and Liu Bei, he is more or less clear. He didn't say any more nonsense at the moment, but after meeting Zhao Yun, he asked Zhao Yun to take him to meet the two young ladies of his father-in-law.

At this moment, Ma Liang had already calmed down the hearts of the two young ladies. Although the two little girls were a little frightened when they saw such a large group of people suddenly coming over, they involuntarily shrank their bodies and wanted to hide behind Ma Liang, but they didn't cry anymore, just shrunk and looked at the things in front of them.

The frightened gaze on the child's face swept over everyone's faces, and when they saw someone they didn't know, they bowed their heads in fear and hid back, and then quietly popped their heads out to look at them. Stretching and shrinking, they finally moved their gaze to Chen Zhi's face.

"Are you Uncle Chen?" A subtle, slightly surprised voice came from their mouths, and it was clear that they had recognized this subordinate of their own father.

"Chen has seen two young ladies." Chen Zhi didn't show much excitement about the surprise of the two children, he just calmly saluted the two children, and then stood aside speechlessly again. At this moment, he seemed very calm, very calm, and very cold. Just because the two children are daughters, not as the heirs of their own father-in-law, his face is not very happy. He turned his head away, no longer paying attention to the two little ones who were almost excited to cry again, and planned to directly discuss with Zhao Yun and them about his next actions.

Because he heard that Zhao Yun was ordered by Li Taishou to help his lord, Chen Zhi had a plan in his heart to take advantage of. He knew that his master mother and little lord were still in the chaos caused by Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry raid. Although it is not known whether they were found by Cao Cao's army, it is an indisputable fact that they are in that dangerous place. If you want to find someone in such a dangerous place, it must be very difficult to do it with your own strength, but if you add the two thousand cavalry in Zhao Yun's hands, then the situation will definitely be different. It was Chen Zhi who wanted to pull Zhao Yun and them into his plan as much as possible, so as to borrow their power to achieve his goal. As for what kind of loss Zhao Yun would suffer in his invitation because of this, he didn't care.

In Chen Zhi's opinion, although Zhao Yun and the others are close to their side, they are not their own people anyway. In the current situation where even oneself needs to make certain sacrifices, this is not the interest of one's own people, let alone protection. "It is a matter of course to sacrifice for the great cause of the Lord." That's what Chen Zhi thinks.

"I don't know what Zilong plans to do right now." Chen couldn't do anything to appease the little girl, so he quickly walked away with Zhao Yun immediately, and then cautiously asked Zhao Yun such a question. Although he was just asking questions, he already had a lot of questions in his mind about how to answer Zhao Yun. He thought about how he would obey him if Zhao Yun couldn't go south, although he didn't think that his tongue could be as outstanding as the legendary lobbyist, but since he had thought about it, he had some bottom in his heart, and he became more and more calm. At this moment, he has tidied up his appearance, and has slightly regained some of his former demeanor. Walking on the tidal flats of the dark night with Zhao Yun, facing the cool night breeze, it was as indistinguishable from Zhao Yun from a distance.

"Plans? The order given to me by my lord was to go south to rescue Xuande Gong. If you can help Xuande Gong to capture Jiangling, and my lord is in Jiangbei and Jiangnan, and fight against Cao Cao together. But at the moment, this is very unrealistic. Judging from the current situation, it is obviously the most suitable to go to Jiangxia, not only in terms of the current situation, but also in terms of future development. Originally, according to the order of my lord, my side wanted to ensure that the men and horses of the Duke of Xuande arrived in Jiangxia, but I didn't want a new order to come just now, but I didn't have to go to Jiangxia, but to cross the river directly to Changsha across Jiangling to the south. I don't know what happened in Changsha to make it so urgent, but the lord's order is like this, and I have no other way. I can only help you get to Dangyang, once Dangyang is over, we are afraid that we will break up. In the face of Chen Zhi's inquiry, Zhao Yun calmly said what he "thought" in his heart. He did intend to do this, but the reason why he decided to do so was not because of Li Sheng's orders as he himself said.

In the same way that Chen Zhi first took Liu Bei's survival and Liu Bei's interests as the first consideration, Zhao Yun's side naturally also took Li Sheng's interests as the first consideration. In Zhao Yun's own opinion, Cao Cao's step-by-step pursuit to help Liu Bei Tuo has already completed the task, and rescuing Liu Bei's wife in the army is even more for his own personal affection. Zhao Yun thought that he could only do this step to help Liu Bei, and if it was more at the expense of his lord's interests, he would never do it. What is public and what is private, the police line in Zhao Yun's heart has not been broken.

"Oh? When you get to the sun, you want to break up? Is Zilong going to be Yang? Chen Zhi raised his eyebrows and asked, he seemed a little excited, and his heart was also happy.

"Yes!" Zhao Yun nodded heavily, his tone very affirmative.

"I don't know if that's okay...... As you know, the lord's blood and bones are just a little bit. Chen Zhi was embarrassed, and put forward his request with some embarrassment.

"Hehe, that's what I thought." Zhao Yun smiled heartily. He took Chen Zhi's hand and told him in a serious tone: "Yun has known Xuande Gong since he was young, and he has also received a lot of benefits from Xuande Gong. Although he was not able to become a subordinate of Xuande Gong for some other reason, he was still very grateful to Xuande Gong in his heart. At this moment, Xuande Gong has caused this great difficulty, so Yu Gong should respond to the order of my lord, and in private order to repay Xuande Gong's kindness to Yun, Yun will help Xuande Gong as much as possible. This is the duty of the cloud, and it is also the selfishness of the cloud. Since Xuande Gong's bones and blood were trapped in the battle, Yun Zidang and the general worked together to rescue him, regardless of whether the enemy was huge or not. ”

Zhao Yun frankly told what he was thinking, and directly agreed to Chen Dao's request. Although according to what he said, it seemed that he had such a plan from the beginning, Chen Zhi was still excited about it. He even felt that he was a little bit of a villain: "Why do you have to think about it so much? For warriors like us, a promise is a promise, and not a promise is not a promise. As long as you ask for it, why bother...... Alas! Uncle Chen, you are inferior. Chen Zhi hated himself a little, and his face couldn't help but show a trace of remorse. It's just that this repentance came and went quickly, and his repentance was almost a flash. For him, this is not the best time to think about this. After all, the situation is urgent, and how to rescue his little son is the first priority today.

At that moment, Chen Zhi discussed things with Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui, and finally made a decision: to combine the 500 cavalry collected by Chen Zhi with the 1,500 cavalry of Zhao Yun's headquarters, and take Zhao Yun, Chen Dao, and Zhou Rui as the main generals to go to the Changsaka battlefield to fight with Cao Chunjun, waiting for an opportunity to find Liu Bei's young son and wife who were trapped on the Changsaka battlefield. As for Liu Bei's two daughters, who had been rescued from his side, they were handed over to Ma Liang to be in charge, leading the remaining five hundred guards to cross the water of Nanzhang and wait for the opportunity to turn around Liu Bei in Dangyang. If everything goes well, everyone should be able to meet at Liu Beijun's main camp in Dangyang, if not, Ma Liang led the people and horses directly to Shuijingzhuang - that was the last retreat Li Sheng found for Zhao Yun and them. In Li Sheng's view, since Cao Cao aims at the world, he will inevitably be courteous to the famous and hermit who is famous in the world. It was unlikely that he would offend Mr. Shui Jing, a Confucian who was very prestigious among the scholars of Jingzhou, and this was what Li Sheng was able to exploit. He had already agreed with his teacher.

After a short rest, everyone got on their horses again and tidied up the formation before the fatigue on their bodies had fully recovered. Zhao Yun and the three of them exchanged respects with Ma Liang, who was obviously a little haggard, and hurriedly led their team away. Regarding the enemy's strength and strength, Zhao Yun was unexpected, and completely told his subordinates. However, what was even more surprising was that the soldiers who listened to Zhao Yun's description of such a critical situation were not frightened by what Zhao Yun said, but instead burst out with a stronger momentum, shouting loudly to fight the tiger and leopard to the death.

"The military heart is available." Chen Zhi sighed at this. Although he knew better than those imposing soldiers that going to Nagasaka was a life of nine deaths, perhaps inspired by the impulse of those newborn calves who were not afraid of tigers, and he rode at the forefront of the team with Zhao Yun and Zhou Rui, but he was also full of unprecedented confidence.

In this way, he took the pair to the rear of Cao Chunjun's army, and used bows and arrows to make the world-famous tiger and leopard cavalry suffer a lot, although the credit for this was basically caused by the light cavalry trained by Zhao Yun, but Chen Zhi, who was directly involved in it, and his five hundred subordinates couldn't help but feel a little honored. While they were shocked by the strength of the cavalry that Zhao Yun had trained, they were glad that they were standing in the same position as Zhao Yun at the moment.

"A cavalry that can compete with the tiger and leopard cavalry!" It's mouth-watering to think about. Just as rare treasures have a great attraction to those who are greedy for money, an army composed of strong soldiers is definitely the favorite of a strong general like Chen Zhi. Although he still fought against Cao Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry with Zhao Yun as an ally, Chen Zhi's small calculation in his heart had already hit Zhao Yun's head - he was thinking about how to find out how to train this cavalry from Zhao Yun's mouth after this rescue.

"Forge a front, cavalry assault!" Without looking at the change in the color of Chen Zhi's face beside him, Zhao Yun ordered loudly. He had already seen the opportunity and saw the dispersal of the enemy forces. Although he recognized the other party's quick response, after suffering from a rain of arrows covering the attack, he resolutely gave up the dense formation and prepared to use the scattered array to deal with himself, intending to do a close battle with himself, but in his opinion, such a dispersion was in his own arms, and he shouted excitedly at the moment, and further tightened his formation while the opponent changed the formation.

The Scatter Array can create a large momentum and effectively dodge the attacks of the bow and arrow, but it is a formation that lacks the ability to attack. Although such a formation can protect itself very well, it is very easy for the enemy, especially for the enemy who has already prepared such a dense assault formation.

The sharp arrow formation with the collection of Zhao Yun, Chen Dao, and Zhou Rui as arrows was like encountering a sharp knife of tissue paper, and Cao Chun's formation was easily broken through with a light tear. Although in the process of breaking through, it did not have any blow to Cao Chun's tiger and leopard cavalry, and at most he cut down dozens of guys who were unlucky enough to collide head-on, but for Zhao Yun and his subordinates, this easy breakthrough was undoubtedly a great encouragement for them.

"The same is true for tiger and leopard riding." A slightly arrogant realization arose in the hearts of the soldiers. Under the leadership of Zhao Yun, they crossed an arc on the battlefield and turned their heads to face the strength of this tiger and leopard rider again, all they had in their hearts was the urge to try, but there was no fear that was originally hidden in their hearts.

At this moment, the sky is already slightly brighter. The vision that gradually became somewhat clearer made the situation of the enemy and the enemy more obvious in everyone's eyes. The 2,000 cavalry led by Zhao Yun and others and the more than 3,000 tiger and leopard cavalry commanded by Cao Chun stood solemnly in the north and south. Zhao Yun is in the south, and Cao Chun is in the north. The respective soldiers held their breath, and a great battle was about to break out.