Chapter 31: The Remnants
Now Chen Lin no longer looks like a general, let alone a state pastor who guards one side, but like an unknown soldier, killing the enemy and defending himself. Swing the weapon in your hand hard, kill every enemy that appears in front of you, and no one stands in your way. This is no longer a war, this is a life-grabbing, a life-stealing, a life-stealing one's own life from the enemy's hands. Only Duan Yu and Zhou Cang were left around Chen Lin, and there were more than 140 people, among which there were more than 20 Henan troops under Liu Bei. Running wildly all the way, Chen Lin and the others' war horses had already been stabbed to death by the enemy in the battle, and at this time, more than 140 people were all walking on foot, except for the only weapon on hand that could protect themselves, no one had the strength to bring a superfluous thing.
"Townspeople, Huang Yan, are they going?" Chen Lin stopped and took a big breath and asked. Duan Yu was also a brake, stopped, held on to a tree, and said to Chen Lin breathlessly: "Yes, my lord, Commander Huang and the gentlemen went straight to the east, and before leaving, Mr. Jia also specially instructed him, saying not to go back to Lantian or Huayin, to go from the foot of Huashan Mountain and go straight to Tongguan." The sky was already bright, and at the last moment before Chen Lin fled, a group of 10,000 foot soldiers had already come far away, and Chen Lin knew that this was Li Wei's army of foot soldiers.
As soon as Chen Lin heard Duan Yu's words, he rolled his eyes, Chen Lin and Liu Bei's combined army was defeated, I was afraid that Li Dao would not let go of the opportunity at this time, and he would definitely take the opportunity to go straight to Tongguan, and it was unlikely that Tongguan would be defeated, but to the west of Tongguan, Li Dao could not stay, so Jia Xu was also based on this judgment, and asked Chen Lin to rush directly to Tongguan, so that it would be at least safe. Chen Lin looked back at the hundreds of people lying around, these people fought all night last night, and this morning they were chased and killed for more than an hour, at least more than 30 miles, and the speed was about to catch up with the cavalry. At this time, everyone was cold and hungry, but fortunately, all of them were intact, and it was impossible for the injured to run here.
Li Dao will definitely not give up easily, in this more than an hour, Chen Lin has already encountered three small cavalry, all of which are the scale of ten or twenty people, it seems that Li Dao is frantically chasing Chen Lin and Liu Bei's rout. Until he returns to Tongguan, no one can say that he is safe, and some of Chen Lin's soldiers and horses themselves are recruited by Liu Zhao, all of whom are from Lantian, and many people have begun to desert within more than an hour. As long as people with a little wisdom can see that it is absolutely impossible for Chen Lin to make a comeback now, at least in Chang'an, some people are unwilling to leave their hometown to follow Chen Lin, so they become deserters. Chen Lin is helpless, at this time, he will not use military law to restrict others, just escape, it is good to survive,
Fortunately, the remaining 100 people are estimated to be the most loyal, and they dare not take the big road, so they can only pick the trail to walk, and they have passed everything along the way, and they have all been swept away, hungry. Fortunately, there are not many people, and they can barely let these people starve to death by relying on mulberries in the mountains, at least they still have the strength to continue walking. At ten o'clock in the afternoon, it was forty or fifty miles away from the battlefield from which they had fled, and at this time the remnants of the army chose a small road to walk, and for a time they did not find any enemy. It is not less than 100 miles away from Tongguan, and if you walk, even if you rush again, it will take two days. And Li Dao Tie can reach it by galloping in a day, which means that the road to Tongguan may be full of enemy troops now. But apart from going to Tongguan, Chen Lin has no other way, first of all, Chen Lin does not appear in Tongguan, Huang Yan and others will definitely be in trouble, and if they don't go to Tongguan, they can only go back from the meridian trail. And the meridian road must pass through Lantian, and Lantian may have prepared Li Dao to take it at this time, but it is not a headlong rush into the arms of the enemy. Therefore, Chen Lin could only bypass all the counties and return to Tongguan from remote places, and there was nothing else.
"Lord, let's go quickly, Huayin City is in the north, maybe it's the enemy's camp now." Duan Yu was familiar with this area and couldn't help but say. After Li Dao defeated Chen Lin and Liu Bei, he would definitely send a large army to hold Huayin, and would not let the Kwantung soldiers and horses come over to disturb the situation in Chang'an. Chen Lin nodded, and rose in response, this time the loss was big, in vain in the Guanzhong got 5,000 soldiers and horses, and was defeated overnight, now Chen Lin is completely hopeless about Chang'an, at least Chen Lin is not optimistic. The strength of the Xiliang soldiers and horses is beyond Chen Lin's imagination, Chen Lin has seen the Xiliang soldiers, and has also fought with the Xiliang rebels, the last time he was in Liangzhou, he was defeated, and this time he was also defeated, except for Dong Dong's strategy to win a few battles, Chen Lin had to pay attention to the people in the northwest.
"Let's go, go to Tongguan." As soon as the big knife greeted, Chen Lin stood up, and the army behind him hurriedly stood up at this time, now no one wants to be left behind, there is no place in front of the village and no store in the back, and there is a group of Xiliang soldiers who want their own lives chasing and killing everywhere, it is better to follow the brigade to be safer. Few people are like Guan Yu, who dare to say that they are going to find their brother.
Suddenly, there was a shout ahead, the sound of killing, the clashing of weapons, and the heart-rending screams of the terrible people, all kinds of sounds mixed together and broke the silence of the countryside. In the panic of fleeing, Chen Lin forgot about An Zhi, so at this moment, until he heard this voice, everyone knew that there was a situation ahead. frightened a lot of people, and now they have all become frightened birds, not to mention such a bloody and murderous atmosphere, even a small bird that flies up can scare people.
"Be on guard." Chen Lin shouted, and hurriedly ran forward, on the top of a small mountain pass, he could see more clearly, and Zhou Cang and Duan Yu hurriedly followed. Chen Lin climbed up the mountain col and was startled, only to see that there were two groups of people fighting passionately on a small piece of grass less than two hundred steps away from him. Flying spears, cold and unguarded with one or two arrows, a group of about sixty or seventy Xiliang soldiers and horses, most of them are foot soldiers, surrounded by more than 30 people, it seems that there are also Chen Lin soldiers and horses and Liu Bei, because the uniforms of the two armies are not the same. The thirty people were obviously exhausted, and at this time, they defended more and attacked less, and they were guarding back to back, and they couldn't see it.
Chen Lin retreated, slid down the mountain pass, Duan Yu: "Lord, what are you doing, this place is not suitable for a long time, let's leave quickly." Chen Lin was furious: "If those thirty people are not saved, they will definitely die, we still have a hundred people here, plus those thirty people, obviously more than the enemy army, save, must be saved, all of them are poor people, they all follow us to protect their families and defend the country, as long as there is a trace of vitality, they can't give up, let alone abandon their comrades." ”
At this time, more than 100 soldiers underground could already hear Chen Lin's voice, and many of them were passionate, they had been soldiers for many years, and if they waited like this, it was worth dying. Duan Yu was ashamed, Zhou Cang bumped Duan Yu's arm and smiled: "You don't understand a certain young master, a certain young master is not someone else, this is a certain young master." "To say it is to say nothing.
Chen Lin: "Are you willing to abandon your colleagues, are you willing to be accused of being cowards?" ”
"I don't want to."
"Would you like to fight with so-and-so for a while?"
"Swear to follow the lord to the death."
"Okay, Zhou Cang will take thirty to attack from the left, townspeople, you take thirty to the right, and the others will go straight up with a certain center, don't go alone, so as not to expose our whereabouts and kill." , There is nothing to say, wait for that side and die, Chen Lin raised the big knife and took the lead in rushing forward, Zhou Cang and Duan Yu also ran away left and right, there was no technology, no strategy, only courage and courage to see death as home. Chen Lin who suddenly killed out made the enemy stunned, and then found out that this was the enemy, and hurriedly divided his troops to meet him, and the thirty people who were besieged were already willing to die, at this time, they suddenly heard the sound of killing on the periphery, and saw that the enemy army besieging them was a little loose, everyone was overjoyed, shouted that there was help, and the ashes were revived, and the weapons were banged outward, and they were about to converge with Chen Lin.
A small colonel on horseback of the enemy army saw Chen Lin rushing over with a knife in front of him, he was furious, pulled the reins, hit the horse and raised his gun, and rushed towards Chen Lin, the shining silver spear was as sharp as a needle, and it was stabbed obliquely in front of the horse's head, and went straight to Chen Lin, and the cavalry was about to stab Chen Lin to death with a shot. Chen Lin was not afraid at all, and even accelerated the speed of running and rushed towards the war horse, in the eyes of outsiders, this was undoubtedly a death, the rider sneered at Ma Shan, and looked directly at Chen Lin with a cruel eye. Chen Lin also laughed, laughing more cruelly and colder, and suddenly accelerated again, seeing that the war horse was about to hit Chen Lin, he saw Chen Lin flash to the left, so fast that he couldn't see his figure, and the steel knife was raised above his head. With a bang, I saw the cavalry general Bei Chen Lin's big knife slapped in the abdomen, shook a few times, and fell off the horse with a clang, where did the soldiers who rushed up behind let go of such a few times, a few spears and spears stabbed at each other, the cavalry was stabbed into a hornet's nest, and a panicked war horse was hurriedly pulled.
When Chen Lin saw it, he hurriedly rushed over, jumped on his horse, and there were four cavalrymen on the opposite side, he couldn't let them run, he couldn't let one go, Chen Lin shouted. Seeing that Chen Lin was so brave, the army took down a cavalry general as soon as he saw it, and the momentum of the waw wow was like a rainbow. The four cavalrymen were just about to rush towards Chen Lin, but they heard the sound of killing on the left and right sides at this time, and it was Zhou Cang and Duan Yu who were killing on both sides. Not only the cavalry, but all the enemy troops were in disarray, their morale was like a rocker, one side was high, the other side was low, and sixty enemy troops experienced a reversal of victory and defeat in an instant, and unfortunately it was not them who won in the end.
Besieged on three sides, the middle blossomed, the enemy died one by one, and the thirty people who were rescued turned out to be the lord to rescue, even more excited, Chen Lin also wanted to ask some information, but this group of people also escaped all the way, and they were caught up when they were here, where is there any information. Chen Lin looked back and saw that the army was hurriedly rummaging through the corpses of the enemy to see if there was anything useful, and now nothing could compare to what could be eaten. Three of the five war horses died, needless to say, this is the best food, but Chen Lin didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to divide the horses alive, and they didn't have time to roast them, so they left immediately, if they couldn't help but eat raw by themselves, they wanted to eat cooked, and when it was safe, there was no chance now, at least there was no chance to stay during the day.
Starting from the new road, Chen Lin looked back, a remnant of the army, the future is dangerous.