Chapter 31: The Pursuit
No one knows how many soldiers and horses Dong Zhuo left behind after the break, no one knows how many soldiers and horses Dong Zhuo left in the area of Mianchi, Mianchi is only a day's journey from Luoyang, on the third day after Gao Shun left, Chen Lin said that he hoped that the allies could continue to march, and Dong Zhuo was still alive and well. But the result was just as Jia Xu expected, Yuan Shao and the others didn't care about Dong Zhuo at all, or were afraid of Dong Zhuo, all in all, no one in the allied forces expressed their willingness to march. Chen Lin did not have the uprightness of Sun Jian and others, but he was inevitably disappointed, and when he returned to the barracks, Chen Lin decided to pursue it himself. Unexpectedly, he received the unanimous support of Jia Xu and all the generals, and Chen Lin, who was in a slightly better mood, immediately ordered that the Hanzhong army continue to pursue the Dong army. So Chen Lin's army drove out of Luoyang under the gaze of everyone and went to the west to kill, Chen Ze's wolf rode as a scout, and found that there was no Dong army east of Mianchi, and Dong Zhuo only began to fortify in Mianchi. Mianchi is a county seat of Hongnong County, located under the Kunshan Mountain, Hongnong Lingjiu County, even Hangu Pass is the area under the jurisdiction of Hongnong, in the north of Wuguan, there is also a county seat of Hongnong County in the south of Hangu Pass, called Lushi County.
At this time, the master of the city was an old Xiliang department called Zhao Cen, at this time Xu Rong and Hu Zhen had just left the city, and the two were the last to leave Luoyang in Bishui Pass. Zhao Cen said that he had followed Dong Zhuo for more than ten years, not to mention his great military achievements, but he was also conscientious, this time when Dong Zhuo was leaving, he personally ordered Zhao Cen to guard the pond, leaving 10,000 troops to Zhao Cen. Zhao Cen finally has the feeling that a middle daughter-in-law has become a mother-in-law, and finally becomes a general and can lead an army alone. Zhao Cen is a man in his forties, this time Dong Zhuo is rare to keep his son, which has the intention of making Zhao Cen the emperor of the soil, and Zhao Cen is in his glory for a while. But when Zhao Cen had not yet fainted, he knew that there were more than 100,000 troops gathered in Luoyang, which was a day's journey away, so Zhao Cen sent scouts to pay attention to Luoyang's movements for several days. Zhao Cenxin has just settled down, is it really as Xiangguo said, the Kwantung Coalition Army will not attack again.
On the fourth day, as soon as Zhao Cen got up, the scout rushed in, stumbling and bumping, Zhao Cen couldn't help but be angry, and scolded as soon as he opened his mouth: "Okay, you minion, see if Ben won't break your dog's legs." The scout panicked and hurriedly shouted: "Luoyang has sent troops." Zhao Cen rolled up his sleeves and was about to hit the scout, and said: "What about Luoyang's troops, he Luoyang ......" suddenly sighed, exclaiming: "Luoyang has sent troops, when, how much?" The scout finally rescued himself, and hurriedly said: "Today, when the sky is bright, Luoyang has sent out a large army, about 6,000, which is coming to Mianchi, under the banner of Hanzhong, and other princes have not sent troops. ”
Zhao Cen muttered: "Hanzhong, Chen Bozhi, Hanzhong, six thousand, six thousand, come here, hurry up and report to Xiangguo." As soon as Zhao Cen finished shouting, he heard a voice: "Slow" walked out of the room with an extraordinary young man, it was really Zhao Cen's son Zhao Xiu, who was writing the words. Zhao Cen saw that it was his son who called it off, and couldn't help asking: "Ziwen, why don't you let your father return to Xiangguo?" This Zhao Xiu smiled together, revealing two small dimples, very charming, and said: "Father, this Xiangguo handed over the pond to his father, which is the most father's reuse, if there are only thousands of soldiers and horses, his father will be scared to ask Xiangguo for help, I am afraid that Xiangguo will feel that his father is incompetent." My father has followed Xiangguo for more than ten years, and others such as Hu Wencai and Xu Maozhi have already been commanders, but ten days ago, my father was only a partial general, and my father was willing? ”
I have to say that Zhao Xiuzheng hit Zhao Cen's sore spot, Zhao Cen was not reconciled in his heart as Zhao Xiu said, but when he thought of the hundreds of thousands of troops in Luoyang, he was a little scared. Zhao Xiu's name and words were given by Zhao Cen himself, "Xiu" and "Ziwen" are Zhao Cen hopes that his son can learn more, don't be just an old martial artist like himself, Zhao Xiu also lives up to Zhao Cen's hard work, he can be literate and martial at a young age, and Zhao Cen likes it. At this time, Zhao Xiu knew what Zhao Cen was worried about, so he said: "Father, the scouts have all returned, saying that it is just the first army of Hanzhong, and the other princes have no soldiers and horses, could it be that my father thinks that my 10,000 army can't beat its five or six thousand men and horses?" Father, this is a great contribution to the father, how can the father abandon it. ”
Zhao Cen: "Does my son have a plan to break this army?" Zhao Cen couldn't help but be moved by Zhao Xiu's words, so he asked the plan, Zhao Xiu smiled and said: "Father, the Kwantung coalition army thought that entering Luoyang was the credit of the sky, and naturally felt arrogant. After listening to this, Zhao Cen saw that what Zhao Xiu said was reasonable, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and laughed: "Haha, my son is good, my son is good." There was no father who was unhappy when he saw that his child was promising, so Zhao Cen hurriedly ordered, and the sergeant in the city arranged it, just waiting for Chen Lin to arrive.
Chen Lin also found out that the Mianchi was guarded by Zhao Cen, and there should be tens of thousands of troops here, Chen Lin had never heard of Zhao Cen's name, so he didn't take Zhao Cen to heart, and only waited until he arrived in the Mianchi to know what this person's skills were. Chen Lin's army came to Mianchi safe and sound, Chen Lin said with a smile: "Zhao Cen has no plan, our army turned out, Zhao Cen had many soldiers, but he didn't know that the ambush soldiers killed me, and the air force defended the city, and missed the opportunity." So Chen Lin immediately asked Yang Ren and others to go to call the battle, Yang Ren was ecstatic, he didn't expect his turn to show up, and hurriedly slapped his horse and shouted at the city: "The city is very good, Dong thief is rebellious, and has now been driven away by our allies, and he will be beheaded in the near future, and you will surrender obediently, so as not to let our army attack the city and destroy the lives of people." ”
Chen Lin turned around and said to Jia Xu with a smile: "I didn't expect Ji Wei to say such a thing." Jia Xu Hehele, Zhao Cen and Zhao Xiu had already arranged everything on the pond, and at this time, seeing Yang Ren calling for battle, Zhao Xiu said: "Father, this matter is just right, and send a general to return by fraud and lure him into the city." Zhao Cen found that everything was developing according to Zhao Xiu's expectations, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered a junior colonel: "You go to meet the battle, fight with it, and then return with defeat, and don't care about the rest." This junior colonel is also a very high-spirited person, but he received a task of fraud, and went downstairs with a bang, thinking that even if he failed, he would have to make Yang Ren suffer a little. The little school had heard of Huang Zhong and Huang Yan, but he had not heard of anyone else, so he didn't take Yang Ren to heart.
The little colonel galloped out, without saying a word, he rushed at Yang Ren with a gun, Yang Ren looked at it, laughed, and couldn't think of a person who didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and shouted: "Hanzhong Yang Ren Yang Jiwei, take your head." Raising the gun also to rush to the past, looking at the momentum of the general, flashed lightly, dodged the tip of the spear of the colonel, and swinged the tail of the gun, just to stop the colonel, the throat of the colonel on the horse just hit the tail of the gun that Yang Ren came over, and he was thrown off the horse with a bang, and he wanted to get up after a few needle, how could Yang Ren who turned his head give him time, and he called and hit the horse and rushed over, aiming at the person on the ground and stabbing it.
Zhao Cen in the city was taken aback, he was defeated in just one round, although this little colonel was not the best in his army, but he was not bad, Yang stabbed him to death in one round, making Zhao Cen cold hair. Zhao Xiu shouted: "Father, the enemy is coming, act according to the plan." It turned out that Chen Lin couldn't help shouting "yes" when he saw that Yang had defeated the general in any round, and saw that a thousand soldiers who went out of the city with the colonel were crowded at the city gate, Chen Lin immediately ordered Huang Zhong and others to rush into the city. And Chen Lin himself took the lead, leading Zhou Cang and the others to rush out, and Jia Xu hurriedly shouted.
At this time, at the city gate of the east gate of Michi, more than 1,000 Dong troops were in chaos, but it turned out that Zhao Cen ruthlessly ordered people to put many fences in the gate, and the thousand people couldn't rush in eagerly. Chen Ze rode the wolf and ran decisively along the city wall from south to north, the defenders on the wall wanted to shoot arrows, the cavalry horses were fast, and the wolf riders suffered few casualties. The wolf rode rumbling from south to north, just turning over the more than 1,000 people who Dong Jun had hit on their backs, and the wolf rode north to run a short distance to stop, but as soon as the wolf rode over, Zhou Tai and the other foot soldiers had already rushed into the city gate, Zhou Tai was the first general to rush in, and Chen Lin happened to be behind Zhou Tai, and also rushed in.
Zhou Tai led the headquarters to rush into the city gate first, Zhou Tai entered the gate and continued to rush forward, generally after entering the city gate, there were steps directly on the city wall, but when Zhou Tai turned around to rush to the city wall, he found that the stairs were all blocked, and all the stairs were fences. Zhou Tai secretly said that it was not good, turned around and looked, it was not good, the urn city, after the city gate, dozens of zhang inside and outside the inner city direction, it was still a city wall, although it was just a simple wooden city wall, but it formed a very good urn city. Zhou Tai shouted: "Urn City, there is fraud, retreat quickly." ”
After Zhou Tai finished shouting, it was already late, and he saw a dense crowd of archers suddenly rushing out of his surroundings, and what made Zhou Tai even more frightened was that Chen Lin was not far from him, and he had already entered the city. Zhou Tai hurriedly gave up his subordinates and rushed over to Chen Lin. Chen Lin had already heard Zhou Tai's shouting at this time, and was surprised, Zhou Tai found a trap inside, but Huang Zhong and the others outside were still desperately trying to rush inside. Chen Lin hurriedly ordered the guards to shout and retreat, which startled Huang Zhong and the others.
Zhao Cen's father laughed loudly on the city wall, and with an order, countless arrows were as dense as rain, speeding down. Zhou Tai quickly rushed behind Chen Lin and shouted, "Protect the lord and retreat." In an instant, the surrounding sergeants gathered together, surrounded Chen Lin, Zhou Cang Huang Yan left and right, and Zhou Tai was behind him, facing the arrows of Wengcheng. Poof, but Zhou Tai desperately waved the steel knife, there were still two arrows in the shoulder blade of Zhou Tai, "Ah" screamed, causing Chen Lin to look back, but saw Zhou Tai shaking two arrows on his body, his liver and gallbladder were split, and he shouted: "Youping." Zhou Tai was miserable, but he didn't hit the critical point, at this time, while wielding a steel knife, while retreating, the Hanzhong sergeant couldn't stop falling and died under the arrow.
On the city wall, Zhao Xiu saw Chen Lin slowly exiting the city gate, and secretly said that it was a pity, if there were two more days to prepare and make a steel gate, the city gate would be blocked, and none of the people who entered the city would want to run, but unfortunately now he could only watch Chen Lin exchange the lives of his subordinates for his escape. Of course, Chen Lin exchanged the lives of his subordinates, and the surrounding Hanzhong sergeants surrounded Chen Lin, shot one to death, and immediately made up for it, in short, they would not let Chen Lin face the enemy directly.
In this battle, Chen Lin was defeated, with more than 1,400 dead and wounded, and Zhou Tai was unconscious.