Chapter 173 Nine Dead and Alive, Entering the Sea for the Rest of Their Lives, and Conquering Xinjiang in March

It is said that Gongsun Kang left Liu Yi and fled with Gongsun Zhi, Wang Lie and others.

To the north is a narrow cliff road, but it is the only path. A Sima led hundreds of soldiers to explore the road in front, and as soon as he entered the narrow road, he was shot and killed dozens of people by a rain of arrows.

Gongsun Kang and others arrived and saw dozens of corpses with feather arrows stuck in them, like hedgehogs, and they were all frightened.

If the pursuers behind him approached, Gongsun Kang would definitely turn back.

Receiving Wang Lie's prompt, Gongsun Kang was in a hurry, and hurriedly beckoned Gongsun Zhi to command the sword and shield soldiers, erected the shield with the shield, and reached the human wall shield body, blocking the front.

More than 1,000 sword and shield soldiers had their own leather shields and wooden shields, and they set up each other, blocking the front, and erecting a bunker more than one person high. Gongsun Kang led his troops around from behind and retreated straight towards the road east of Donglai City.

Seeing Gongsun Kang set up a bunker and passed one after another, Cao Xing mounted his horse, commanded the archers to tie up their bows and arrows, drew their waist knives, and went around the cliff.

It needs to be added here that the archers in Liu Bei's army are equipped with waist knives. This is what Liu Bei taught when he followed his master Liu Du to learn the arts: the archer is a long-range attack class, and cannot be defended closely. Therefore, with a short knife to defend oneself, you can fight to the fullest.

By the time Cao Xing's troops rushed down, Gongsun Kang had already crossed the narrow road and fled to the east of Donglai City.

Gongsun Zhi didn't believe that the city was broken, so he came to the city and shouted: "I am Gongsun Zhi, open the door quickly on the city!" ”

But when he saw the banner of the word "Liu" raised in the city, a general poked his head out and said with a smile: "You put down your weapons and tie your horses, and I will naturally open the city." ”

This is not someone else, it is Zang Ba's general Zongbao.

Zhicheng had been obtained by Zongbao, and Gongsun Kang led the tribe north to flee and went straight to the seaside ferry.

Fifty miles northeast of Donglai City, known as Dongshan Pass, is a soil slope, about three or four zhang high. The dirt slope is covered with half-man-tall artemisia grass, and thousands of elite soldiers lurk in the artemisia grass at the top of the slope.

Gongsun Kang fled in a hurry all the way, until he came to the bottom of the Dongshan Pass, and asked Gongsun Zhi: "Shuyi, where is this place?" How far is it from the ferry? ”

"Brother, this place is called Dongshan Pass, and it is still more than 100 miles away from the seaside ferry!" Gongsun Zhi replied.

Gongsun Kang let out a long breath and said, "Finally got rid of the enemy's pursuers!" Take a break, get some more bang and head straight to the ferry! ”

After speaking, he was just about to dismount, when suddenly he heard a noisy voice behind him.

He hurriedly looked back, and saw a sentry and horse rushing from behind, and one of the first generals rode with a spear and shouted loudly to chase after him.

The big flag behind the general had the obvious word "Liu" floating on it - Liu Bei's pursuers.

Wang Lie's eyes were sharp, and he saw the name on the banner behind him: "That's the soldiers and horses of Cao Xing, a general under Liu Bei!" ”

Seeing the pursuers coming, Gongsun stopped and said, "Brother, wait for me to stop him for a while!" ”

Gongsun Kang fled in a hurry.

As soon as I climbed the East Mountain Pass, a rain of arrows poured down from the sky.

There are not many soldiers who ran in front of them who fell to the ground, and Gongsun Kang was also shot with an arrow in his left arm, and his left leg before sitting down on the war horse was also hit by an arrow. He suddenly did not sit still and fell.

The ambush on the col was the 5,000 elite soldiers of Sun Kang, Sun Guan, and Wu Dun.

After the rain of arrows, they rushed down the hillside with their swords and went straight to Gongsun Kang.

Gongsun Kang, who fell to the ground, struggled to get up, but was kicked to the ground by the soldiers who rushed over.

Seeing that the soldier's knife was about to be cut off, he closed his eyes in despair.

"Hugh wants to hurt my son-in-law!" Suddenly, there was a shout in the distance! The soldier's eyes widened, blood gushed from his mouth, and he was hit by an arrow in his chest and slowly fell to the side.

Gongsun Kang got up, only to find that it was Liu Yi, who was resisting Zang Ba, who led his troops to kill back, broke up Cao Xing's pursuers, and came to the rescue.

"Childe, get on the horse!" Liu Yi stretched out his hand and dragged Gongsun Kang on the empty horse on the side, and then stopped saying to Gongsun who followed, "Shuyi, quickly escort Gongzi away!" After speaking, he led his troops to rush out of a bloody road and escorted Gongsun Kang towards the coast.

Gongsun Kang bandaged his left arm with a cloth, held a sword in his right hand, and fought and retreated.

Seeing that the ferry was about to go ahead, dozens of large ships were on the sea.

"Quick, there is a warship ahead, we can go back to Liaodong!" Gongsun Kang agitated his soldiers.

When the soldiers saw the big ship, they also saw hope, and they ran desperately one by one.

Suddenly, a cannon rang out, ......and a sentry rushed out of the woods in front of them, blocking their way.

"My mother! Don't let people live! "Gongsun Kang felt like he was about to collapse!

After one interception after another, there is no way to escape!

Looking back, Sun Kang, Wu Dun, Sun Guan, Cao Xing and others had already chased after them, shouting and killing was getting closer and closer, and there were nearly 10,000 people in front of them. There are wolves in front of this so-called wolf, and there are tigers in the back! It's a dilemma.

Fight, his subordinates have become frightened birds! They have no will to fight, how can they fight with others?

Retreat, the front is intercepted, the back is blocked.

Retreat to the west?!

No, there is also a piece of black pressure in that direction, if you guess correctly, it should be the Northern Navy under the command of Wu Anguo!

At this time, Gongsun Kang seemed to have calmed down, and he began to sober up when he analyzed things!

He asked Gongsun Zhi to lead troops to meet the interceptor, and he also recognized that it was Gongsun Cai's old department Zong Qing who intercepted him.

This made him clearly analyze that the east was the safest way to retreat.

"Quick, retreat east!" He shouted loudly and led his troops to retreat eastward.

This time, his analysis was very correct, Zong Qing, Chang Xuan, and Yin Li led troops to capture the ferry, and just turned around and saw them fleeing, so they led troops to intercept them, but they missed the opportunity to intercept and kill in the east.

Seeing them go east, Chang Xuan asked Yin Li to lead his troops to guard the ferry, and then chased after them with Zong Qing.

More and more pursuers converged, but more and more of Gongsun Kang's soldiers fled halfway and disappeared into the woods on the side, and some surrendered directly after falling behind.

Zang Ba led his troops to kill, and met Chang Xuan and Zong Qing 1, Sun Kang and Wu Dun 1, Cao Xing 1 and Wu Anguo 1, and chased after him closely.

Gongsun Kang, Gongsun Zhi, Liu Yi and Wang Lie came to the seashore just as the tide receded and the rocks were exposed.

Gongsun Kang sighed with emotion: "There is the sea ahead, but there is no boat to cross!" The chasing soldiers are coming, what can I do? ”

Liu Yi looked back and counted the remaining troops, but there were only more than a thousand people!

"Childe, there are only a thousand soldiers and horses left! Hurry up and find a way to cross the sea! Liu Yi said hurriedly.

Wang Lie looked at the sea and suddenly cried out, "We are saved!" Look at ......," he said, pointing to the sea.

Sure enough, a huge ship appeared on the sea level not far away, slowly moving towards here.

Gongsun Kang looked back at the black and vast chasing army in the distance, and eagerly ordered: "Quickly find a place to board the ship, the enemy army has appeared!" ”

Gongsun Zhi was familiar with this area, so he led them to the east.

The giant ship on the sea really belongs to the Gongsun family.

It turned out that when Chang Feng and Yin Li attacked the ferry, more than 100 sailors escaped and boarded the huge ship and sailed straight into the sea. Fortunately, the horses of Chang Xuan and Yin Li's troops were all landlubbers who did not know how to use water, so they could only watch them flee.

These people fled into the sea and encountered a low tide, so they retreated far away.

It took some effort for them to hold the giant ship back. The sailors on the ship saw Gongsun Kang and the others, so they drove the boat to help.

Zang Ba saw a large ship docked from afar, and knew that the enemy army was about to retreat, so he hurriedly urged the generals to chase after him.

However, it was still a step too late.

They rushed to the seashore and could only watch Gongsun Kang sail away.

Gongsun Kangzhan was on the front deck of the giant ship and shouted loudly: "Zang Ba, remember!" I will be back! ”

Looking at the giant ship that was hundreds of yards away, Cao Xing asked the soldiers to set up a giant crossbow, put Changqiang on it, and actually shot it at the giant ship.

However, at this time, it was low tide, the sea breeze was blowing eastward, and the giant ship sailed and drifted with the wind, far faster than the rain of arrows from the string. The chagnqiang flew out of the sea and fell into the sea.

Gongsun Kang went away, and Zang Ba collected his army and retreated to Donglai City.

The first battle of Langyu County and Donglai County lasted more than three months, with more than 30 large and small battles, and Liu Bei's side invested more than 56,000 soldiers and horses. More than 10,000 people were killed and countless others were wounded.

Gongsun Du invested nearly 70,000 soldiers and horses, more than 20,000 were killed in the battle, more than 10,000 people abandoned their armor on the battlefield and returned to the field, more than 30,000 were captured by Liu Beifang, and only 1,000 fled back to Liaodong.

When the prince of Liaodong heard the news, he was very angry and punished his eldest son, Gongsun Kang, for facing the wall for a year and depriving him of the position of son.

Zang Ba stayed in Muping under Zongqing, led his troops back to Qingzhou, and reported the results to Guan Yu.

Guan Yu then included Zang Ba and other credits in the merit book, and sent someone to Xuzhou to report to Liu Bei. After reading the merit book, Liu Bei was overjoyed, and then added Guan Yu as General Weilie and Qingzhou Thorn History; Zang Ba was crowned as the incisor general, Wu Dun, Yin Li, Sun Guan, Cao Xing, Han Sun, and Meng Fan were all partial generals, and Zong Qing, Zong Yuan, and Wu Anguo were all generals.

crowned Sun Kang as a partial general and Lang Yu Taishou; Divide Donglai and Muping counties into Donglai County, and add Changfeng as a partial general and Donglai Taishou to make it guard the Jiaodong Peninsula.

Their side fought the battle, but Cao Cao's attack on Chang'an was still scorching.

When the news reached Cao Cao's ears, it was undoubtedly a big blow!

Cao Cao's strategist Guo Jia and Zhang Ji's strategist Jia Xu made repeated moves, but each had their own victories and defeats. Fortunately, Cheng Yu, a strategist under Cao Cao, borrowed a sword trick and forced Xiliang Han to attack Chang'an under the pretense of the Son of Heaven's holy decree.

Zhang Ji sent his nephew Zhang Xiu and his adviser Jia Xu to resist. Zhang Xiu followed Jia Xu's words and defeated Han Sui in a row; At the same time, Guo Jia Design defeated Zhang Ji in a row, and successfully won Chang'an.

Jia Xu was afraid that the retreat would be blocked, so he told Zhang Xiu to withdraw his troops.

Zhang Xiu knew that Jia Xu was good at strategy and proficient in the art of war, so he obeyed his words, so he led his troops and horses back, and happened to meet Xiahoudun who drove his troops to chase after his uncle Zhang Ji.

Obeying Jia Xu's advice again, he sent his general Hu Che'er to lead the cavalry to charge and kill Xiahou Dun's department, messing up Xiahou Dun's formation, and then took the opportunity to lead troops to rush and kill, defeated Xiahou Dun, and saved his uncle Zhang Ji.

Chang'an had been lost, and Zhang Xiu suggested following Jia Xu's advice and occupying Luyang City to raise soldiers and horses.

Zhang Ji followed his words and then stationed troops in Luyang.

Guo Jia and Xiahou Dun led troops and horses to attack Luyang. Jia Xu made Zhang Xiu lead troops and horses outside the city, and formed a horn trend with Zhang Ji in the city, so that Guo Jia did not dare to attack easily, and the two armies became anxious.

Cao Cao's army gained Chang'an, expanding Cao Cao's territory to a great overlord comparable to Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. Cao Cao, who includes Yanzhou, Luoyang, and Chang'an, the hinterland of Guanzhong, can finally be said to be proud!

It's just that how will he retreat Han Sui's soldiers and horses, and how will he deal with the princes? But another big thing happened, and he took advantage of it! Where the storytelling will go, so stay tuned for the next chapter.