Chapter 21: Three Defeated Soldiers Save the Battalion
Hu Zhen withdrew his troops, Chen Lin and Sun Jian did not dare to pursue, Chen Lin knew that the reason why Hu Zhen retreated was nothing more than that he was unwilling to fight to the death with Chen Lin and Sun Jian, if it was said that the troops, Hu Zhen was not less than the two of them, but he still had a slight upper hand, so Chen Lin or Sun Jian were all eager for Hu Zhen to withdraw his troops at this time. Huang Yan put away his bow and turned around to stand behind Chen Lin, Chen Lin saw that Sun Jian was squatting on the ground at this time, obviously tired enough, Huang Gai and the others were gathering soldiers and horses everywhere. Chen Lin also ordered Huang Zhong, Yang Ren and others to immediately count the casualties and battle results, and then walked towards Sun Jian.
When Sun Jian saw Chen Lin coming, he shouted from afar: "Bozhi, don't thank you for your great kindness, if it weren't for Bozhi, I'm afraid that there is not much left of my Changsha army, and it will be difficult to get out of danger, haha." The reason why Sun Jian is so charming is his cheerful and bold temperament, at this time, the Changsha army was defeated, and Sun Jian could also talk and laugh freely, which made Chen Lin admire for a while. Chen Lin: "Brother Wentai said this, you and I are allies, why do you need to be like this, but I don't know how Meng De is?" After Chen Lin finished speaking, he heard a report: "Report, Lord Cao encountered most of the enemy troops in the south, and Lord Cao fled in vain, and his whereabouts are still unknown." Chen Lin and Sun Jian's faces turned pale and they exclaimed: "What? ”
Cao *'s whereabouts are unknown, this, Chen Lin and Sun Jian looked at each other, and they were worried about Cao *'s safety, although Chen Lin still thought that Cao * might become a generation of heroes in the future, but now that the three of them are in the same Dong Alliance, they can't help but be a little worried. So Chen Lin said to Sun Jian: "Wentai, you and I quickly gather the soldiers and horses, slowly retreat, and send soldiers and horses everywhere to find Meng De." "Sun Jian should be. So Chen Lin hurriedly returned to the place where his army was, and Yang Ren rushed to report: "My lord, our army suffered more than 2,000 casualties in this battle, and there were many seriously wounded, and now our army can fight here There are less than 2,500 people. Chen Lin had expected that this hard-fought battle would frustrate the Hanzhong army, but he didn't expect such a large casualty to be inflicted. Chen Lin raised his head and said to Yang Ren and other generals: "Gather the soldiers and horses, bring the wounded, don't leave a single person behind, and withdraw the troops." ”
Chen Lin gathered his soldiers and horses, stepped on the war horse, and saw that Sun Jian had also gathered in the distance, and there were only less than 6,000 people, remembering that Sun Jian had a full 30,000 army when he came, Chen Lin felt sad for a while. Sun Jian galloped over, saw Chen Lin's soldiers and horses, and when he saw it, he exclaimed: "Bozhi, why are there so few soldiers and horses left, what about Captain Gao Du, and Zhong Zhi?" Sun Jian only found out at this time that Chen Lin's army was missing Gao Shun and Chen Ze, so Chen Lin told Chen Ze about the cavalry he encountered in the north and asked Gao Shun to go to the rescue, Sun Jian gritted his teeth and said: "Bozhi, Zhong Zhi is surrounded by the enemy, but Bozhi wants to rescue a certain person, a certain person, this grace will not be forgotten for life." ”
Chen Lin smiled, and began to worry about Chen Zelai, and after thinking about it, with Gao Shun here, I believe that nothing will be difficult to get them. So he turned his face to Sun Jian and said: "Before, the scouts kept coming to report that there were enemy troops heading east, and I discussed with Wen He, thinking that the enemy army was very likely to rush towards the allies, and the allies were rarely prepared, if there was a surprise attack by one or two thousand enemy troops, I was afraid that the allies would suffer." At this time, Lou Gui stepped forward and said: "This battle is because Gui failed to see through Hu Wencai's scheme, and Gui is guilty." Saying that, kneeling down in front of Sun Jian, Sun Jian attached great importance to Lou Gui, and said that this time if Sun Jian hadn't rushed into the city recklessly, he was afraid that it would not be so tragic, so he hurriedly supported Lou Gui and said loudly: "Uncle Zi is ashamed of a certain person, this is a reckless mistake, what is Uncle Zi's crime." ”
It took a long time for the master and servant to calm down, and Chen Lin didn't intervene at all, but at this time, he saw the two of them stop and said: "Brother Wentai, now that you and I have less than 10,000 troops, it is better to withdraw to the camp first and wait for Meng De's news before making plans." So the two men led their men and horses and began to retreat in the direction of the main camp. After walking for five miles, he suddenly found a defeated army in front of him, Chen Lin and Sun Jian stepped forward to see that it was Cao *, the three of them saw each other, and when they saw each other, they couldn't help but hold their heads in pain. It turned out that after Cao * got Cao Hong's war horse, he ran out of Xu Rong's encirclement and slowly collected the defeated soldiers behind him, and actually collected about 2,000 defeated soldiers in more than an hour, especially after seeing Cao Hong retreat safely, Cao * didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly ran away, afraid that Xu Rong would catch up. Fortunately, Xu Rong did not pursue, and I don't know why, after Cao * withdrew his troops, he also heard about the affairs of Zhongmu City, and expected that Sun Jian would retreat to the camp if he escaped, so he slowly moved closer to this side, not wanting to really meet Chen Lin and the others.
Chen Lin and Sun Jian heard that Xu Rong, another of Dong Zhuo's generals, had come out of the customs, and he also brought tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the three of them discussed it, and they concluded that this time Hu Zhen was afraid that he had already thought about beating the allies. Sun Jian said angrily: "Shaft, if it weren't for those people wasting so much time in sour jujubes, how could Hu Wencai have had time to design like this, alas, missed the opportunity, hundreds of thousands of horses have not made any achievements for nearly two months, and what are you talking about killing the enemy to serve the country and eradicating the national thieves, alas." The loyal Sun Jian was blunt, Cao * Xiaoyan just squinted and did not speak, Chen Lin listened to Sun Jian's scolding, and said: "The three of us are only 10,000 troops in total, at this time the allied camp is only afraid of the enemy army who are busy dealing with the sneak attack, if the three of us can suddenly appear behind the enemy, they will be able to help, although those people are afraid of death, but after all, they are allies, the main force of the three of us has died, and we need to rely on them in the future battle against Dong." ”
didn't say it, Sun Jiancao* knew that the allied camp must be returned, otherwise there would really be a big mess, but I am afraid that the alliance against Dong will be dispersed. So the three of them took a short rest, and then set up troops to return to the army, Chen Lin has been worried about Gao Shun and Chen Ze, I hope the two of them will not have accidents. In fact, now Chen Ze and Gao Shun have already escaped, as soon as Gao Shun's 3,000 trapped camp arrived, the cavalry that surrounded Chen Ze could not eat well twice and then withdrew his troops with a bang, Chen Ze wanted to chase but only more than 1,000 cavalry did not dare to chase, and the camp was a foot soldier, so he had to follow Chen Lin's instructions with Gao Shun, slowly retreated eastward, and returned to the Allied camp.
It is said that Lu Bu and Zhang Liao attacked the Allied camp and killed them well, and they were about to lead their troops back to Luoyang. Suddenly, seeing Li Meng and others, nearly 20,000 foot soldiers rushed over, it turned out that Li Meng and Wang Fangzhen were greedy for merit as Hu Zhen expected, and gave up Chen Lin and went straight to the allied camp, and met more than 10,000 people from Zhongmu on the way. Zhang Liao saw that Zhang Liao, the 10,000 soldiers and horses of Zhongmu City, knew that this was sent by Hu Zhen to pick up the cavalry in order to prevent accidents. At that time, Hu Zhen also said that if the cavalry was fine, they would return to the army together, and if the cavalry had an accident, the cavalry would be rescued. Zhang Liao didn't understand the appearance of Li Meng and the others, so he asked, "General Li, I don't know why you appear here?" ”
When Li Meng saw that Lu Bu and Zhang Liao were about to go back, he knew that he was still late. He said unwillingly: "Wen Hou, Sun Wentai and others are surrounded by Hu Dudu in Zhongmu, you see that our army now has a total of nearly 40,000 troops here, and there is a world unparalleled like Wen Hou, if you kill him again, the allies will not think of our army to go and return, so it is not better." Although it was Zhang Liao who asked, Li Meng, Dong Zhuo's old department, didn't seem to pay much attention to Zhang Liao, and only replied to Lu Bu, who was the leader. Lu Bu is most proud of his martial arts, and at this time, seeing Li Meng praising him as unparalleled in the world, he didn't know how happy he was, and his heart moved. Zhang Liao hurriedly said: "Wenhou, now that we have completed the task assigned by the governor, a lot of grain and grass for the rebel army have been burned. "Especially when Li Meng appeared here at this time, Zhang Liao didn't know what would happen to Chen Lin and the others, but it was definitely not what Hu Zhen expected in advance, so he hurriedly persuaded Lu Bu.
But Lu Bu is a person who can't tolerate other people's doubts, and after hearing Zhang Liao say this, he wanted to enter the allied camp again, so Lu Bu shouted: "A certain is the boss of this time, don't say much." He immediately ordered the cavalry to turn back, and the foot soldiers followed, bringing together a total of 40,000 people, which made Lu Bu excited.
Chen Lin, Sun Jian, Cao* and the three of them led the troops to walk back slowly, I don't know if they were really tired or deliberate, anyway, the three of them all marched slowly together, without the slightest appearance of first aid. I don't know what others think of Chen Lin, but Chen Lin is full of resentment in his heart at this time, this time he went to war, he didn't do anything, he sacrificed about 3,000 Hanzhong soldiers, Chen Lin couldn't help but feel a little resentful of the allied Yuan Shao and others. I thought it would be best to let Dong Jun make more trouble at this time, anyway, the allied army has more than 100,000 troops, if more than 100,000 people can't withstand it, then they deserve it. Chen Lin looked at the movements of Sun Jian and Cao* in the distance, and his heart was also clear, he sighed helplessly, and continued to move forward silently.
Suddenly, the scout came to report that the Allied camp had really suffered a sneak attack by the Dong army, and first the cavalry secretly attacked and burned most of the Allied army's food stockpile. Then another 20,000 foot soldiers joined the attack sequence, and now the Allied camp is closing the camp to resist the war, and the Dong army is constantly attacking. Chen Lin hurriedly found Sun Jian and Cao *, and as soon as he said this, Cao * hurriedly asked the scout: "Who is the leader of Dong Thief?" As soon as he said that, Wenhou Lu Fengxian and Chen Lin were all shocked, and they rode with iron. Chen Lin: "It's a pity Lord Ding Jianyang." Sun Jian couldn't get used to this kind of treacherous behavior the most, and knew that it was Lu Bu who came, so he couldn't help but fight, and said: "Let someone go to meet this villain who sells for glory." ”
Cao * Chen Lin also knew that there was absolutely no escape from this battle, but the three of them were surprised, and they were surrounded by tens of thousands of enemy troops and did not dare to leave the camp. The first time he was attacked by Lu Bu's cavalry, he was defenseless, not to mention it, but now that the Dong army's foot soldiers have come up, the allies are still blocked in the camp, which really shouldn't be.
The three of them couldn't think about it too much, merged the soldiers and horses together, and rushed forward. Chen Lin and the others came out from behind, which really scared Lu Bu, Zhang Liao was even more anxious, knowing that his previous worries had become a reality, and hurriedly ordered Li Meng to lead half of the foot soldiers to turn around and block Chen Lin and the others. When Chen Lin saw it, it turned out to be the two Li Meng Wang Fang who wanted to entangle him, it turned out that they were here.
"Hanzhong Taishou, Lanting waiting for Chen Bozhi is here."
"Changsha Taishou, Wucheng Hou Sun Wentai is here."
"Captain Cao Mengde of the Eighth Colonel of the West Park is here."
Three bursts of cheers rang out together, showing the true character of the hero.