Chapter 178: Liu Pan's Determination

Yunmengze, also known as Yunmeng Daze. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info across the four counties of the region, east and west long hundreds of kilometers, in which the biogas lakes are all over, and at the same time stand protruding mountains and towering trees, which are full of all kinds of rare animals and plants, according to the history of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Chu King of Chu when hunting here, once saw the legendary unicorn, after the King of Chu sent 100,000 troops to hunt, but after entering the vast Daze, Daze was suddenly shrouded in thick fog, so that the 100,000 army was trapped in Daze, and finally only 30,000 people walked out of Daze, since then, There are legends about Daze that there is a fairy cave, and there are legends that there is a ...... in the land of ghosts.

In order to get rid of the chasing soldiers behind, Lu Su also didn't care about the legend that Yunmeng Daze could not be taken lightly, and he also led the army to flee into Daze, and sure enough, the pursuing Liu Pan's soldiers and horses, after seeing them enter Daze, they did not dare to catch up rashly, plus Zhu Huan led the troops to block the attack, which allowed Lu Su to lead the remnants of the army to get a respite.

It is also because of the blocking of the pursuers, Zhu Huan was entangled by the pursuers on the edge of Daze to Liu Pan's account under Yang Ling, the two sides fought a big battle, Zhu Huan, who had been fighting for a long time, saw that the left and right sergeants were coming more and more, and at this moment, whether it was the war horse sitting down, or the strength on the body was also disappearing little by little, in the face of such an embarrassing situation, and then looking at Liu Pan's army that surrounded him, Zhu Huan still gritted his teeth and waved the long knife in his hand.

"When." When slashing closely, Zhu Huan raised his knife to block the enemy soldier who seemed to be wielding the knife, but he didn't prevent a shot from behind, and the blade that entered the flesh suddenly penetrated the two armors on his body, and he was in a cold sweat in pain, but his spirit couldn't help but be uplifted, and he slashed down with a backhand, and the soldier who stabbed him was in ecstasy, but Zhu Huan, who might as well be shot, still had such combat effectiveness that the head on the neck was directly cut out.

"Kill him!" Zhu Huan fell with a knife, because his strength was exhausted, the center of gravity was unstable, and the whole person almost flew off the horse's back, besieging the Jingzhou soldiers and horses, seeing Zhu Huan's crumbling body, he suddenly shouted and rushed up.

Zhu Huan, who is wearing two armors, sits on a tall horse, and is a general at a glance, which is undoubtedly a good hunting object for the enemy soldiers who are eager for meritorious service, if it is in Zhu Huan's first battle, these soldiers may still have scruples, but this will be Zhu Huan's weakness, anyone can see it.

"It's all for Lao Tzu to dodge, this can be taken by Lao Tzu." Just when nearly 100 sergeants surrounded Zhu Huan, Yang Ling, the general in the rear of the enemy army, rushed in with a gun on a flying horse, and it was obvious that this guy also saw that the brave Zhu Huan had exhausted his strength and was ready to pick up a leak.

Yang Ling was once the number one fierce general under Han Xuan, the Taishou of Changsha, known as the champion of the three armies, and was praised as the first brave general in Changsha by people with good deeds, but in fact, his force was at best a second-rate general, if it was in peacetime, it didn't take thirty rendezvous, Zhu Huan could cut off his dog head with one sword.

But after the breakthrough battle, Zhu Huan hadn't closed his eyes for two nights, he had only eaten dry food for several meals in a row, and he hadn't eaten a full meal, plus he was tired from fighting, at this moment, in the face of Yang Ling's stabbing blade, he found that he could no longer swing his knife to block this shot, and with a wry smile, he couldn't help but close his eyes and say to himself: "My life is over." ”

"Hugh Mu dodged quickly, and Dong attacked too." Just when Zhu Huan thought he was going to die, a group of men and horses suddenly appeared in the southeast corner, and the person at the head was not the burly and sturdy Dong Xian, I saw Dong Xian, who drove the horse galloping, holding a crossbow arrow, and aimed at Yang Ling, who stabbed Zhu Huan, was an arrow, so that Yang Ling had to withdraw the spear in order to survive, and picked up Dong Xian's crossbow arrows, so that Zhu Huan could take a breath.

"Kill!" With a wave of the trident in Dong Xi's hand, the war horse swept in front of Yang Ling, and Yang Ling's hand was caught off guard, and he was directly nailed to death on the horse's back by the steel trident in Dong Xi's hand.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The 1,000 men and horses brought by Dong Raid roared and followed, and suddenly the Jingzhou soldiers and horses who originally had the upper hand rushed into chaos, and Yang Ling was killed by Dong Raid again, and the Jingzhou soldiers and horses who were affected by this attack broke up one after another for a while.

"Clean up the battlefield immediately and retreat." Dong Xian grabbed Yang Ling's war horse, shouted, and then said to Zhu Huan: "Hugh Mu, change the war horse, withdraw immediately, and the governor is waiting for us in front." ”

After a quarter of an hour of cleaning the battlefield, the sergeants brought by Dong Xi hurriedly left the battlefield after seizing about one stone of grain and fifteen war horses from the battlefield.

Not long after Dong Xi led the army to leave, Liu Pan on the periphery of Yunmengze sent another army of soldiers and horses to chase after him, but after they found that the people had left, they did not dare to pursue deeply, but carried Yang Ling's body back.

Liu Pan's camp outside Yunmengze.

"General, what shall we do now?" After Sun Ben, who was stationed in Luo County, worked together to defeat Lu Su's troops, the 30,000 horses led by Liu Pan chased them all the way to the edge of Yunmengze and stationed down, while Sun Ben had already returned to Luo County.

Facing Han Xuan's inquiry, Liu Pan hesitated, glanced at the master Bo Xizhen and said, "Wenxiang, what is your opinion?" ”

"Although we got Sun Ce's intelligence this time and learned of Han Lie's conspiracy, it was only a small victory, but it did not shake Han Lie's foundation at all, according to the information that Sun Ce conveyed to us, Han Lie is only afraid that he is mobilizing the main force to besiege Zhang Yun and arrange the deployment of annexing Nanjun, so I think that it is imperative that we immediately return to Huarong to investigate the further situation, and wait for Liu Envoy Jun to give us instructions and send reinforcements." Xi Zhen thought about it, and slowly expressed his opinion, Liu Pan and others, who were on the front line at the moment, did not know that Zhang Yun had died in battle, Liu Biao had killed himself, and the land of Jingbei had been returned to Han Lie.

"What Lord Xi said is reasonable, now we must return to Huarong first, although we have not suffered much damage in this battle, but Luoxian is Sun Ce's force after all, this time he reported the news to us, but he just wanted to borrow our hands to get rid of Lu Su's army, but there is no good intention, our army stays here, it is definitely not a safe plan." The pioneer general Wen Ping immediately echoed Xi Zhen's opinion.

"Zhong has no opinion." Huang Zhong saw Liu Pan's gaze, so he replied in a deep voice. Liu Pan and Huang Zhong although nominally superior, but in fact the two have a teacher-student friendship, Liu Pan is not as fond of reading as Liu Biao, he has been determined to be a military general since he was a child, so he likes martial arts, nine years ago when he first arrived in Jingzhou, he met Huang Zhong on the streets of Changsha who was seeking medical treatment for his son, Huang Zhong was performing on the streets of Changsha at that time, when Huang Zhong performed a hundred steps through Yang skills, Liu Pan regarded as a shocking man, and the two became close friends.

Huang Zhong taught Liu Pan martial arts and archery, and Liu Pan funded him with money, and granted him a military position, allowing him to visit famous doctors in Changsha to treat his son, but Huang Zhong's son died too seriously at that time, and finally failed to save him.

And Liu Pan also trusts Huang Zhong, and he is an arm, and he will discuss everything with him.

"Order all the departments to retreat to Huarong immediately." Liu Pan nodded, and then raised his voice to give a military order.

When he returned to the army, he saw Huo Jun in the prisoner car at the gate of the camp, and said with a complicated expression: "Zhong Miao, Lu Su has been defeated by us, General Liu has just issued a military order to return to Huarong, Han Lie's plan has been seen through by us, your decision this time is really disappointing to me." ”

The news that Huo Jun came to surrender was originally foolproof, but because of the messenger sent by Sun Ce, he informed Liu Pan about what happened in Nanjun, and informed Liu Pan that Gan Ning of Jiangling was Han Lie's men, and the fall of Jiangling City was the result of the response of the soldiers and horses in the city.

As soon as the news reached Liu Pan's ears, Liu Pan didn't believe it at first, and then Wen Ping recalled Huo Jun who defected from Jiangling, and found that Wen Ping, who had a lot of suspicions, immediately interrogated several sergeants brought by Huo Jun from Jiangling, and finally two sergeants couldn't stand the interrogation and found out the truth, which led to Huo Jun falling into the prison car, and Lu Su defeated Luo County, Liu Pan and Luo County defender Sun Ben joined forces for a series of things.

"Brother Zhongye, I'm not afraid to tell you, at this time, Xiangyang is only afraid that it has fallen, just watch, the main army of the general, at most ten days, will appear on the north bank of the general, and there are only two ways waiting for you, either die or surrender to the general." Huo Jun licked his dry lips and looked at Wen Ping calmly, without the slightest fear or timidity.

"Impossible, the defenders of Xiangyang are more than 50,000, and the city is strong, let alone half a month, even if it is given to Han Lie for half a year, he can't swallow it." Wen Ping's first reaction was that Huo Jun was telling a joke.

"At this time, I'm not afraid to tell you, do you think the fall of Gangneung was really the contribution of my two brothers? Let me tell you the truth, it was Wang Cang and Yi who persuaded our brother to return to the general in Kaicheng, and before that, Jiangxia County has also been taken over by the general, although Jiangxia Taishou Huangzu said that he died at the hands of Gan Ning, but General Su Fei also participated, and now General Su Fei has taken over the military power of Jiangxia, plus now the fall of Jiangling, Nanjun can be said to still be in the hands of the general. ”

Huo Jun smiled faintly, looked at Wen Ping and said slowly: "The general's main force is going north, the purpose is Xiangyang, if he is not completely sure, he will definitely not give up Luoxian, which is easy to attack, and go to Xiangyang, so I am not afraid to tell you, Jingzhou is finished, Liu Yuanjun is also finished, today's victory will only attract the thunder and anger of the general, I advise you to make less killing, lest the general want to keep you in the future, there is no good excuse." ”

"Good, good, good." Wen Ping sneered and turned his head away, but at this moment he couldn't help but believe Huo Jun's words, this was his intuition as a general, and at the same time, the situation of the defenders in Luo County could also confirm this fact.

This time, when the troops besieged and killed the soldiers and horses of Lusu together, Wen Ping only saw 10,000 horses led by Sun Ce's cousin Sun Ben, and Sun Ce and even Zhou Yu did not show up, which is worth scrutinizing, it can be said that if there is no conspiracy in this, Wen Ping will not believe it, but he can't guess it for a while.

Before Liu Pan's army retreated, Dong Xi escorted the wounded Zhu Huan and joined Lu Su in Daze. When bandaging Zhu Huan's wounds, Lu Su said with a rather bitter face: "Now we only have more than 3,600 people, due to the urgency of breaking through, the food has been eaten, and then we have to go out to have a chance to survive." ”

"This vast Daze, where should we go?" Dong Xi asked a little frustratedly.

"Walking north along the waterway, the direction we came from is the north, and I have observed that all the waterways in Yunmengze flow to the end of the river, as long as we walk along the waterway, we will definitely be able to go out, and the animals and fish and shrimp on both sides of the waterway are abundant, and they can also provide us with some food, so that we will not starve to death on the road." The reason why Lu Su chose to retreat to Yunmengze was because he had already taken this into account, so he was not too discouraged.

"I agree with the Governor." Zhu Huan replied with difficulty.

"Then do it, now in the past thirteen days, we have always agreed with the lord before, a war report every ten days, and now in the past three days, I believe that the secret agents under the lord have also known the news of our defeat, as long as we go out, we will definitely meet the people who come to meet us." Lu Su encouraged the generals, and then asked the sergeants to kill a few wounded horses, and cooked soup so that the sergeants could eat a hot broth to restore their strength.

Just when Lu Su led the remnants of the army to retreat to the north in Yunmengze, Han Lie did receive the news and responded, and he himself led the troops of Jiangling to rush to Chibi non-stop, and at the same time ordered Dian Wei on the front line of Chibi to send a large number of search teams to the area along the Yangtze River to find out the news of Lu Su and others.

Taking advantage of Han Lie's army to the north, Zhou Yu used a trick to kill people with a knife, allowing Liu Pan to defeat the unsuspecting Lu Su, and at the same time solving the worries of Luo County, at the same time, Zhou Yu and Sun Ce divided their troops and launched an offensive against Wuling County and Lingling County respectively.

The strategic deployment proposed by Zhou Yu to Sun Ce was to take advantage of the opportunity of Han Lie's army in Jingbei to seize the four counties of Jingnan, so as to gain a foothold in Jingnan, and then seize Nanjun, and then develop to Xichuan and achieve a kingship.

Wuling guarded Jin Xuan too much, and when Sun Ce led the army to kill, he led the army to surrender to Sun Ce, Lingling guarded Liu Du too much, relying on strong soldiers and strong horses, refusing to defend the city and not surrendering, thus dragging Zhou Yu in the city for a month, as for Zhou Yu to miss the opportunity, in the end he could only watch his strategic layout fail.

Han Lie's soldiers and horses from all walks of life only took three days to reach the front line of Jingling, Chibi became the rear front, Zhou Tailing's 20,000 naval troops, plus Jiang Qin's 15,000 naval troops, respectively cruising to Youjiangkou, Huarong, and Luoxian, and Han Lie's Red Flame Army had already incorporated Cai Mao's 26,000 people, with a total strength of more than 40,000 people, and pounced on Huarong.

At this moment, the soldiers and horses led by Liu Pan were also stranded in Huarong City to rest because they were confirming the situation in the north, and it was not until Han Lie's army arrived at Huarong City that Liu Pan realized that Jingzhou was finished.

Although he still has 30,000 horses in his hands, Huarong is not like an important town like Xiangyang, Jiangling, Huarong, located on the edge of the Yangtze River, is just a small city, the city wall is not more than three zhang high, and there are signs of collapse everywhere, it can be said that this is a typical city that is easy to attack and difficult to defend.

Faced with the situation of the army pressing, Liu Pan was not cowardly, but convened: "Xiangyang fell, my uncle also died, it can be said that this battle is the last battle of my Jingzhou, I don't want the history of later generations to record the fall of my Jingzhou, but there is not even a person who resists the festival, so I decided to rather die than fight vigorously, I don't know if you are willing to fight with me?" ”

"Please obey the general's orders." A cadre of generals under Liu Pan's tent got up one after another to answer. (To be continued.) )