Chapter 3: One Defeat and One Victory (Never Change, Root)

Chen Lin laughed and commanded the military horse to turn back, Zhou Cang killed Gong Du in one round, which made the anti-thieves tremble, and the anti-thieves who followed Gong Du out of the city were even more frightened and fled back to the city in a panic, not even caring about Gong Du's corpse. Huang Shao was also surprised on the city wall, but he laughed at Chen Lin, swaggering as if no one was going to return to the army, on the other hand, everyone in the army was afraid, Huang Shao had a plan, pretending to have nothing to do and laughing and shouting to Chen Lin's back: "Chen Bozhi, Huang attacked Ruyingzhai tonight." Chen Lin heard Huang Shao shouting like this on the way to turn the horse, and he was puzzled, even if Huang Shao wanted to rob the camp, he shouldn't have informed Chen Lin in advance, why was this.

Chen Lin led people to set up camp three miles away from Runan City, didn't Huang Shao shout to rob the camp, Chen Lin seemed to deliberately set up the camp closer, as if to say: Come and rob the camp. In fact, Zhang Ba and others led 1,100 cavalry troops less than three miles behind Chen Lin's camp, and also set up camp, as long as Huang Shao really dared to attack Chen Lin's camp at night, Chen Lin only needed to hold on for a moment, and more than 1,000 cavalry troops would kill Huang Shao without returning.

After Chen Lin returned to the army, he hurriedly sent people to bypass Runan City and went to Shangcai to inform Taishou Zhao Qian of the fall of Runan City by the rebels. In Chen Lin's big tent, Huang Yan took advantage of the fact that everyone else was not there, and said to Chen Lin: "Big young master, there's a letter from Savage Ridge, Chen Guo wants to lead the army down the mountain and follow the big young master, I don't want to be a bandit anymore, how do you think you deal with it, big young master?" Chen Lin said regretfully: "Over the years, I have wronged Chen Guo, and Grandpa also said that Chen Guo is loyal, just for the young master Ben to stay in the Savage Ridge for a few years, suffering and being insulted, at this time, the yellow turban thieves rose, and the imperial court ordered the county to recruit the army and the county privately, and there was just the opportunity for the young master to collect Chen Guo's hundreds of people, or not, Huang Yanru sent someone to let Chen Guo burn down the cottage and led the team to rush to converge. ”

Huang Yan was just about to turn around and leave, when suddenly Chen Lin remembered that Chen Guo seemed to have said that there were Yellow Turban thieves who wanted to annex the Savage Ridge bandits, and a plan rose in his heart, and he stretched out his hand and shouted to Huang Yan: "Slow down, Huang Yan will wait." Huang Yan stopped and turned around: "What else does the eldest young master command?" Chen Lin grinned and said, "I have a plan to take Runan City, and this plan should be on Chen Guo." After speaking, he looked at Huang Yan with a smile on his face. Huang Yan thought for a moment and said happily: "Does the eldest young master want Chen Guo to pretend to surrender to the gold thief as an internal response?" Chen Lin nodded with a smile. Huang Yan was also overjoyed, and teased: "In this way, this Chen Guo has made another great contribution." The two laughed.

That night, Chen Lin secretly told the three armies that they should not take off their armor when sleeping, and they would not leave their weapons, just waiting for Huang Shao to rob the camp. In the middle of the night, a sergeant suddenly came to report, and just shouted outside the big tent, Chen Lin jumped up with a spirit, thinking that Huang Shao had come to rob the camp. It's just that the sergeant only said that the sentry man at night found a slight fire rising in Runan City, and he didn't know what it was, so he came to report it. At this time, Huang Yan also rushed over, and Chen Lin hurriedly went out with Huang Yan and stepped forward to check.

I saw that there was really a little fire in Runan City, and suddenly a small fire turned into a big fire, Chen Lin and the others didn't have time to be surprised, and the entire sky over Runan City was dyed blood-red by the fire in the city, like a white sun. Chen Lin looked at Huang Yan puzzled, Huang Yan was also puzzled for a while, and at this time, Cai Yang and others in the rear hurriedly sent cavalry to check and ask Chen Lin. Chen Lin had no choice but to send the cavalry back, asking Cai Yang and the others to stand still and be on guard.

Half an hour later, the south gate of Runan City was opened, and Huang Yan was so frightened that he hurriedly ordered the whole army to line up, and it was the panicked people who didn't want to rush out. Chen Lin was full of surprise, he didn't know which one Huang Shao was making, so he ordered someone to come forward and summon a few people who were out of the city to question. The people's answer surprised Chen Lin, it turned out that the people said that since the Yellow Turban Thieves attacked Runan City at night, Runan City was in mourning, and some mansions were all looted, and the streets were full of old men's heads. Tonight, suddenly the yellow turban thieves set fire to the old man's mansion, and then ran to the north gate in pairs, the people were worried and frightened, and dared to sneak out to see, and found that there was no yellow turban thief again, so many people rushed out to the south gate, to stay away from Runan City.

Chen Lin looked at Huang Yan with a puzzled expression, and suddenly screamed: "This Huang Shao deceived me, deliberately deceived us and others to come to the night attack during the day, so that we didn't dare to move lightly, but Huang Shao took advantage of the night to retreat from the north gate, hateful, he fell into the thief's trick." Huang Yan ordered the whole army to pursue, and sent someone to inform Cai Zilan and others to pursue with all their might, and they were fooled. Chen Lin's face was full of remorse, and he hurriedly ordered a quick chase.

Chen Lin got on his horse and waved his sword, and the five hundred foot soldiers rushed in from the south gate of Runan City with all their might, wanting to go out of the city from the north gate and chase Huang Shao against the thieves. Originally, Chen Lin wanted to leave soldiers and horses to defend Runan City, but when he entered the city, he saw that there was no thief in the city, so he ordered the whole army to pursue, and only Cai Yang and others behind him left soldiers and horses to garrison.

Less than four miles north of Runan City is the river, and there is only a bridge here in the entire Runan territory, Chen Lin firmly believes that the thieves at this time must not have all crossed the river. Sure enough, after chasing for a while, he had vaguely heard a voice coming from ahead, Chen Lin turned around and looked at why the cavalry team hadn't caught up yet. When the cavalry got the news, Chen Lin had already begun to pursue, and Chen Lin was desperately chasing, so the cavalry had not been able to catch up for a while. Chen Lin couldn't control a lot, and when he saw that the cavalry had not arrived, he only ordered 500 foot soldiers: "The anti-thieves are at the bridgehead, get rid of the thieves for the country, and make meritorious contributions at this time, and the whole army will rush to kill." ”

Chen Lin saw that there were no less than 500 people gathered by the river who had not crossed the river, and the yellow turban thief also saw Chen Lin chasing after him, and the passers-by, who were originally quite orderly, began to panic, shouting and screaming endlessly. Chen Lin smiled when he saw it, and waved the long iron knife with a ring handle to cut it, just as Chen Lin was about to annihilate this tail army, he suddenly remembered a loud shout behind him: "The official army has a plan, kill all the dog officers." "More than a thousand Yellow Turban thieves suddenly broke out from behind Chen Lin's army, and the first one was Huang Shao.

Huang Shao laughed: "Uncle Chen is a child, and I have a clever plan." It turned out that Huang Shao had a series of schemes, and Zhou Cang killed Gong Du in one round in 100 days, which had made Huang Shao have the intention of retreating. Because Huang Shaoqi attacked Runan City to capture Yuzhou Zhishu unknowingly, and then attacked Shangcai in the north and south, and then defeated Runan Taishou, so that the Yellow Turban in Runan County could be accomplished. I didn't want Runan City to be captured, but I suffered heavy casualties, and now there are less than 2,000 people left who can fight, and it happened to be discovered by Chen Lin. Presumably, at this time, Runan Taishou already knew that this matter was on guard, and Huang Shao could no longer play the role of a surprise soldier to attack Shang Cai, and it was himself who could not be pinched. So he wanted to give up Runan City and go north to attack Cai first, and saw that Chen Lin's soldiers and horses were neat, if he was entangled by Chen Lin, it would definitely take effort. So Huang Shao deliberately shouted that he wanted to rob the camp, and he stole it in the middle of the night, and suddenly came up with a plan, if Chen Lin found out early, he came to chase after him, and returned to the army to ambush and kill Chen Lin by surprise.

Chen Lin saw it, and thought that Huang Shao was not trying to escape at all, but designed to ambush him, and the five hundred sergeants used all their strength to chase for several miles, and when they heard the shouting behind them, they knew that they were surrounded, and they suddenly looked a little panicked. Huang Yan Zhou Cang was desperately restrained, and Chen Lin shouted: "The former army has become the rear army, we have fallen into a desperate situation, it is better to fight a bloody way to wait for life." "But there are a thousand anti-thieves waiting to work in front of him, and the five or six hundred anti-thieves behind him who pretend to cross the river are also lining up at this time, and they are about to press up, and it is so easy for Chen Lin to escape.

The two groups of men and horses collided fiercely together, fighting desperately, Chen Lin, the five hundred people took Chenjiazhuang * to practice for some time in the nursing home, the formation was neat, but he was ambushed and a little panicked, and it was a long-distance attack, although the Yellow Turban Army was not well trained, but there were a large number of people, and the two groups of people were in full swing for a while. Zhou Cang and Huang Yan didn't dare to stay away from Chen Lin, and they protected Chen Lin to the death, but if they dared to get close to Chen Lin, they were all cut into two sections.

Chen Lin saw that his own military divisions had fallen one after another, and his heart was sad, and he heard the shouts of five or six hundred anti-thieves behind him, and he had already lined up and began to rush over. Chen Lin was desperate, and just when Huang Shao thought that he would win this battle, the direction of Runan City vigorously remembered the sound of horses' hooves, and it got closer and closer. When Chen Lin heard this, he was overjoyed, and knew that the cavalry had caught up, so he hurriedly shouted: "The cavalry has arrived, and the anti-thieves have been tricked, kill it." The rest of the sergeants also heard it, and the desperate people in their hearts thought about it, how could the eldest young master be so easy to fall for the scheme, it turned out that the trick was a thief, and the momentum was suddenly high.

Huang Shao was also shocked in his heart, how could there be a large group of cavalry here, didn't the army of the imperial court just leave Luoyang. No matter what Huang Shao thought, there was a large group of cavalry coming ahead. Huang Shao is Peng Tuo's think tank, and he has a lot of judgment, at this time, Huang Shao gritted his teeth, clapped his hands hatefully, and commanded the Yellow Turban Army loudly. I saw that most of Huang Shao broke away from Chen Lin's infantry and went to the river, and when Chen Lin's cavalry came, Huang Shao had already led more than 1,000 Yellow Turban troops to retreat to the bridge. Huang Shao ordered six or seven hundred people to block the bridge, and he led a few hundred people to cross the bridge and go north regardless of the behind.

There are only about a hundred thieves entangled with Chen Lin's foot soldiers, and they have no fighting spirit. Chen Lin shouted loudly to Zhang Ba, who was riding a horse and taking the lead: "Zhang Yuanhua, bypass the foot pawn and kill the bridgehead." Zhang Ba got the order, and with a big knife point, the brigade of horses made a sharp turn to bypass the foot soldiers, and rushed straight towards the hundreds of yellow turban thieves at the bridge. The Yellow Turban Thieves didn't have too many archers, and in an instant the cavalry plunged into the anti-thief formation, slashing and slashing with a single swing of the knife.

Zhang Ba scattered the Yellow Turban Army blocked at the bridgehead, and also pursued Huang Shao who escaped, Chen Lin immediately sent someone to recall him, Huang Shao didn't know where to run this time, it was better to kill or capture the Yellow Turban Army that fled in front of him.

An hour later, Zhang Ba, Chen Ze and others returned to the team, gathered the soldiers and horses, Chen Lin's 500 foot soldiers suffered heavy casualties in this battle, only 200 people were left to fight, and the Ma army was wounded very little, killing more than 400 Yellow Turban thieves and capturing more than 300 alive. If it weren't for Huang Shao throwing down the troops and running away, but stubbornly resisting, I don't know how much Chen Lin would have to lose. Chen Lin turned around and saw that the two Chen Ze brothers had gone to the battlefield for the first time, their faces were flushed with excitement, and they saw many disabilities. This time against Huang Shao, if it weren't for Huang Shao not knowing that Chen Lin had cavalry, he was afraid that it would be Chen Lin who would suffer a big loss. There are also capable people in the yellow scarves, Chen Lin gathered people and horses, escorted three hundred prisoners, and returned to Runan City.