Chapter 14: Zhang Wen's defeat

The absolute elite of the 4,000 Han Dynasty drove out of Yunjie County under the leadership of Chen Lin and went to Yuzhong City to exchange Zhang Wen. According to the information Zhang Wen said, it was the anti-thieves who gathered first, and then Zhang Wen decided to gather troops to fight. Chen Lin thought that if Zhang Wen arrived in Yuzhong, the thieves would take advantage of Zhang Wen's troops and horses to take the lead in attacking Zhang Wen's front, Zhang Wen would definitely not be able to resist. Therefore, although Chen Lin led the infantry soldiers, he ordered to move forward at full speed, hoping to catch up before Zhang Wen failed

Yuzhong was not far from the south of Jincheng County, and Chen Lin advanced at the fastest marching speed, and just as he was about to arrive, the scout reported that there was a rout ahead, and the Han army was routed. When Chen Lin heard this, the anxiety in his heart finally became a reality, and the anti-thieves took the lead in attacking Zhang Wen's vanguard, but he didn't know how Zhang Wen was now. The anti-thieves are mixed with Qiang and Han, if it is just Qiang making trouble, presumably Zhang Wen will not suffer from this disaster, but now that there are famous Han people like Bian Zhang and Han Sui in the anti-thief array, who are proficient in the art of war, how could they let go of such a good opportunity, Zhang Wen underestimated the anti-thieves.

Although there is a big defeat ahead, but Chen Lin still has to move forward, Zhang Wen doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, he must save Zhang Wen, now all the generals who can fight in the Han are clearing the yellow scarf, if Zhang Wen has an accident, Xiliang will definitely be out of control. When the time comes, the Xiliang anti-thieves will stabilize their foothold, and it will be even more difficult for the Han to be exterminated. Now there is a thief named Song Jian in Baohan who has openly taken the name of the country and divided the hundred officials, if it goes on like this, the entire Liangzhou will split the country and become the emperor. Zhang Chun, who left angrily because of his disagreement with Zhang Wen the previous time, also raised troops against the Han Dynasty after returning to Youzhou, and also openly claimed that the emperor was divided into 100 officials, and the Han Dynasty was unable to clear and suppress, so he wanted to mobilize the Southern Xiongnu to send 30,000 troops to enter Youzhou for defense. The imperial court's move was a mistake, allowing the Hu people to go deep into the Han land, and letting the Hu people see the chaos of the Han Dynasty now, and the Hu people inevitably had a second mind, and the Southern Xiongnu may no longer have the respectful submission to the Han in the past.

Chen Lin hurriedly ordered to gather the rout troops and asked about the situation at that time. It turned out that it was really as Chen Lin expected, Zhang Wen ordered the four cities to gather people under the middle city of Yuzhong, and he took the lead in leading an army of 8,000 to Yuzhong. Before the other three cities arrived, the thieves launched an attack on Zhang Wen's 8,000 soldiers and horses. Eight thousand men and horses resisted more than 40,000 thieves, and Zhang Wen was defeated in less than an hour, which was only an hour away. Chen Lin gathered the defeated soldiers and said that they didn't know where Zhang Wen was, and when the army was defeated, everyone just ran around, and no one cared about anyone.

Chen Lin had no choice but to bite the bullet and move forward slowly, cautiously, the scout faction was more than three or four times as large as usual. Half an hour later, the scout reported that there were hundreds of Han troops surrounded on the hill in front, and the banner must be the general of the Han army, but I don't know if it is Zhang Wen. When Chen Lin heard this, he didn't care if he was Zhang Wen or not, as long as he was a Han soldier and horse, he would be saved, and hurriedly asked the scouts how many thieves were besieging. The number spoken by the scout frightened Chen Lin into a cold sweat, and it was enough to have ten thousand. Should we withdraw, or should we continue the rescue? Chen Lin hesitated in his heart, looking embarrassed. At this time, Huang Yan behind Chen Lin secretly leaned up and whispered, "Young Master, this battle has been lost, but the reputation of the Great Young Master is superior." Huang Yan's words were vague. Chen Lin heard it clearly, yes, the Han army had been defeated in this battle, but if Chen Lin retreated without a fight at this time, if he was investigated in the future, Chen Lin's reputation would plummet. On the contrary, if you know that you are defeated, you still bravely come forward to rescue, even if you run away alone in the end, everyone in the world will admire you.

Chen Lin figured it out here, glanced back at Huang Yan gratefully, and then sighed in his heart and looked at the four thousand Han sergeants, when he returned from this battle, he didn't know how many people would be left, and he would even die here. With a wave of his big hand, four thousand foot soldiers rushed to the small mountain like moths to the fire, and the 10,000 army surrounded the mountain, Chen Lin chose a little attack, but the enemy in front was only three or two thousand. It may be that the anti-thieves have just won a big victory, and they are a little paralyzed, but they didn't expect that the Han army and reinforcements dared to come, in short, the enemy Bai Chenlin, who was besieging the mountain, was caught off guard after himself, and he opened a gap in an instant.

Sure enough, it was Zhang Wen on the mountain, and Chen Lin was not allowed to see him in the war, so he just shouted loudly: "Lord Sikong, quickly break through with the general." Over there, Zhang Wen was already waiting for death, and suddenly saw a team of people rushing in, and the instinct of survival made this group of people burst out with infinite fighting spirit, and suddenly they were all heroic and extraordinary. When Zhang Wen saw that it was Chen Lin, he was moved in his heart, and said loudly to boost morale: "Soldiers, reinforcements have arrived, Chen Sima saved me and waited, kill." A Confucian scholar actually raised a knife in front of him, and the rest of the soldiers were greatly encouraged, and instantly rushed to Chen Lin and merged into one place. Chen Lin couldn't think too much, and hurriedly ordered to turn around, attacking back and forth, and nearly 10,000 thieves behind him also hurriedly caught up. There were many cavalry among the anti-thieves, but unfortunately they were raided by Chen Lin, which seemed a little chaotic, and it was difficult to assemble into a charge for a while, but it was just a chaotic scattered charge.

Chen Lin looked at it, no, the anti-thief behind him pursued tightly, and when the anti-thief came to his senses, Chen Lin and the others didn't want to run. Chen Lin gritted his teeth, stopped and said to Zhang Wen: "Lord Sikong, the pursuit of the anti-thieves is too urgent, and after the headquarters of the last general is broken, Lord Sikong retreats first. When Zhang Wen heard this, he hurriedly said: "No, stay at this time, there is death or life, this battle is the fault of the old man, but the armies of the other two cities are nowhere to be seen, only Chen Sima is loyal to the country, Chen Sima cannot stay." Chen Lin knew that the armies of the other two cities were only afraid that they would either be blocked on the way here, or they heard that Zhang Wen had been defeated and retreated in a hurry, and of course they would not rush forward. Seeing Zhang Wen like this, Chen Lin shouted loudly: "The matter of Xiliang still needs to be presided over by Lord Sikong, how can it be so, the last general will be deeply favored by the emperor, and he should die after bowing to the end." Chen Lin said that the three armies were moved, and Chen Lin turned to the army and shouted: "After a certain break, the army covers Lord Sikong." After speaking, regardless of Zhang Wen's reaction, he turned his horse and turned around, rushing to command the nearest soldiers and horses.

Zhang Wen saw Chen Lin's back, his old eyes moved, and the cronies next to him said: "My lord, don't let Chen Sima down, hurry up." Zhang Wen turned around and glanced at Chen Lin again, and saw more and more anti-thieves surrounding Chen Lin's army, shedding two tears, and turned around to fight his horse and evacuate.

Where did Chen Lin know about Zhang Wen, Chen Lin only felt that there were more and more anti-thieves in front of him, there were only two thousand left in the four-thousand-strong army at this time, and there were seven or eight thousand anti-thieves who gathered forward. Huang Yan hurriedly shouted to Chen Lin: "Grand Young Master, Lord Sikong has been away for a long time, why don't you withdraw first, seeing that the enemy army is about to surround us, if you don't retreat, you won't be able to leave." The sergeant next to him shouted, "Does the general want to abandon me?" Chen Lin couldn't bear it, and ordered to attack, many of the anti-thieves had already bypassed to both sides, and they were about to surround themselves, and there were fewer enemies in the front, so Chen Lin shouted: "Zhou Cang, front, rush to the front, break through from the front." ”

Zhou Cang hurriedly dismounted and opened the way with a broadsword, Chen Lin and the rest of the army actually counterattacked the enemy, and the enemy army was once again blinded by Chen Lin's boldness, and retreated again and again. In the distance, a scribe under the banner of the enemy army said to the Qiang-looking general beside him: "General Beigong, this person is always unexpected, and it is interesting." The Qiang general also smiled and said: "General Han, you Han people just have some tricks, otherwise General X and General Li would not have invited General Han and General Bian to come together, and they would not have conspired with each other." The General Han lowered his head and sneered, these two were Han Sui and Beigong Boyu.

At this time, Chen Lin had already led his troops to counterattack the enemy, and the Han army around him was getting fewer and fewer, Chen Lin hurriedly ordered to snatch the horses of the rebels, and there were forty or fifty horses for a while, Chen Lin knew that if he didn't leave at this time, he would really not be able to go. When Chen Lin was escorted by Huang Yan and Zhou Cang to disperse the enemy army in front of him, and seeing that there were only dozens of sergeants left around him, Huang Yan shouted again: "Young Master, let's go." Chen Lin was not ambiguous, he rushed forward on horseback, followed only by dozens of cavalry, but Chen Lin and the others did not dare to run back, and only ran all the way to the area occupied by the anti-thieves. There were fewer and fewer horse troops chasing behind him, but Chen Lin couldn't be happy, just because Chen Lin was getting deeper and deeper into the enemy area.

In a dense forest, Chen Lin and the remaining dozens of cavalry were resting loudly, Chen Lin didn't know how long he had been running this way, how far he had run, he only knew that he was desperately fighting horses. After a short rest, Chen Lin hurriedly checked and counted, all the time was busy, there were forty cavalry left, there was no food and grass, Chen Lin looked at the group of sergeants who were looking at him, and his heart was sad, four thousand people came out, I am afraid that there are really only these left. But at this time, Chen Lin knew that he couldn't be discouraged, even if there was only one person left, he always had to live, Chen Lin was the leader of everyone, so naturally he couldn't be decadent, otherwise how would everyone survive.

Chen Lin knew that at this time, he was already deep into the enemy area, and the Qiang people were everywhere here, and the top priority was to find food first, otherwise there was no need to say anything else, and everyone had not eaten for a day. Huang Yan said at this time: "Master Da, now that I am in a chaotic place, hungry and cold, why don't we find a village or Qiang tribe first, ask for some things, and then ask where this place is, and then make plans." ”

So a group of dozens of people looked around, where there were villages and tribes, and after a while, they found a place, a hundred and ten families of the Qiang tribe, at this time the smoke was curling. Everyone seemed to smell the fragrance and was very happy, but Chen Lin drank everyone: "At this time, Jincheng is in turmoil, and here is the Qiang tribe, if you go like this, won't you look for death." Then everyone remembered that it was time for war.

A sergeant muttered in a low voice: "It's not a pity to slaughter all these Qianghu according to what so-and-so said" but Chen Lin heard it clearly, Chen Lin looked at the sergeant with a hideous face, and the sergeant was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down to ask for mercy, but Chen Lin grinned: "You are right, just kill these barbarians." "I don't know why every time Chen Lin meets Qiang Hu, he is very murderous, and this time is no exception. Chen Lin thought to himself that the Qiang people of hundreds of households were at most 100 strong men, if it was a sneak attack, Chen Lin was fully confident that he would defeat the enemy, but Chen Lin didn't want one person to escape and expose the whereabouts of Chen Lin and the others. So Chen Lin hurriedly conspired with everyone to see how to wipe out this Qiang tribe.