Chapter 19: Tough Battle
On the march, Han Dang and Chen Lin came together, and at this time Han Dang said to Chen Lin: "Lord Chen, if it weren't for the urgent report sent by the lord in Zhongmu today, Liu Xuande would have been beheaded." "Liu Bei only has about 500 people, and Han Dang has 5,000 people, even if Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are ten times braver. Chen Lin smiled and didn't speak, Chen Lin and Jia Xu agreed that Liu Bei couldn't die, because now Chen Lin has also begun to slowly see the situation of the Han Dynasty, and it will definitely be a big melee in the future. Chen Lin was far away in Hanzhong and couldn't take care of the affairs of the Central Plains, so Chen Lin felt that a hero like Liu Bei should let him go back, and the more chaotic the Central Plains would be, the better, so as not to have a monopoly scene, and at the same time, he could also sell a love to Liu Bei. So Chen Lin used Sun Jian's danger as an excuse to move Han Dang and let Liu Bei go. Chen Lin noticed that when Liu Bei left, he couldn't see any expression, but Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were obviously grateful to Chen Lin.
Then Chen Lin remembered the battle with Sun Jian Cao* this time, and there were some things encountered in the middle, and some Chen Lin and Jia Xu still haven't figured it out, such as why Chen Ze encountered most of the cavalry in the north, such as where the thousands of enemy troops who came from Zhongmu before went, and why Li Meng and Wang Fang didn't catch up with him, but Chen Lin was very sure of one thing, that is, Dong Zhuo gave Hu Zhen more troops, as for what Hu Zhen's overall conspiracy is now, Chen Lin doesn't understand, However, it is preliminarily estimated that Hu Zhen's target should be Sun Jian. It just so happened that after Han Dang appeared here, Sun Jian's plea for help was immediately heard, and Chen Lin was even more convinced that at least Sun Jian was indeed in big trouble for now.
The army is still Handang's army first, and the Hanzhong army is behind, and the team of 10,000 people is stretched for a mile or two. At this time, Han Dang and Chen Lin Jia Xu rode horses and walked between the two armies, and suddenly rushed back a fast horse in front of them, which caused Chen Lin and several people to raise their eyes and look up, something must have happened again, and several people were uneasy in their hearts, hoping that it would not be irreparably damaged. The Changsha scout who came back reported loudly to Han Dang: "General, Zhongmu City is in flames, the lord has escaped from the fire city, the small one met the military division in front, the military division with 3,000 men and horses is setting up an ambush, the military division ordered the general to ignore this, quickly go to the city to fight with the lord, help the lord to retreat, if the enemy comes to chase, it will be welcomed into the ambush." When Han Dang heard that Sun Jian was out of danger, he was in a calm mood. Chen Lin stepped forward and asked, "What did the military advisor of the Ru family say he wanted this official to do?" Han Dang also looked at the scout, and the scout replied, "Lord Taishou, a certain military advisor has never said it. ”
As soon as Chen Lin heard that Lou Gui did not have himself in his plan, I am afraid that when the scout saw Lou Gui, he did not say that Han Dang came with him, or that Lou Gui did not dare to arrange for Chen Lin. So Chen Lin said to Han Dang: "General Han, although Wentai temporarily escaped from danger under the city, he failed to get out of the encirclement of Hu Wencai's army. Han Dang waved his army over and rushed straight towards Zhongmu City.
Chen Lin's army rested in place, Chen Lin said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, I didn't expect this Hu Wencai to set up such a plan, Wentai was almost trapped in the city by fire, but there are still 30,000 troops of Hu Wencai under Zhongmu City, plus the 5,000 army that disappeared before, according to General Han, it is not only 5,000, but 10,000. After the 10,000 army killed Sun Jian's 3,000 army, he went to Chen Lin in Zhongmu and saw that this road disappeared, can you not worry Chen Lin.
Jia Xu: "The second general in the north met a large force of cavalry, and here there is a large army that does not know where to go tonight, my lord, Xu always feels that the route of our army and Sun Taishou and Lord Cao's three armies is very accurately grasped by the enemy, and the enemy always passes between the marches of our three armies, and the direction is the Allied camp. At this time, the allied camp thought that we were waiting for the three armies in front, and they must have been unprepared in the rear, if the Dong army had 10,000 or 20,000 people to sneak attack, maybe the allied camp was really killed by the Dong army. Jia Xu could only infer that Dong Zhuo was going to attack Yuan Shao and the others in the Allied camp, otherwise Dong Jun's actions would be too difficult to understand.
Chen Lin: "This can't be, at this time, there are 30,000 troops of Hu Wencai under Zhongmu City, plus the defenders of Chenggao and Xingyang, even if the Dong army increases its troops in the eastern part of the country, it will not be able to draw troops to attack the allied camp, if this is the case, then the Dong thief has at least 80,000 troops in the eastern part of the country, which is almost all the troops of the Dong thief east of Luoyang." ”
At this time, it was getting late, and it was about to fall into the night, but Chen Lin did not dare to let the army rest, because there was a big battle waiting for them in front of them, if they did not take the initiative to plan, the enemy army would also rush back to kill, this was an inevitable battle. Therefore, after Chen Lin and Jia Xu made a preliminary estimate of Hu Zhen's plan, they sent a lot of waiters to the Allied camp to rebere, and then immediately waved their troops forward. Lou Gui brought back 3,000 people to withdraw from the battlefield and set up an ambush, just to leave Sun Jian behind, at least to be on guard when Sun Jian retreated, but Lou Gui took these 3,000 people away from Hu Zhen now, with Hu Zhen's knowledge, how could he not guess. Therefore, Chen Lin felt that this could only be a hard-to-hard battle, otherwise there was no way to repel Hu Zhen in exchange for Sun Jian's safe retreat.
The scene was really the same as Chen Lin thought, when Han Dang led his troops back to rescue Sun Jian, he reluctantly rescued Sun Jian and others from Hu Zhen's attack, but Sun Jian only had seven or eight thousand men left at this time, and began to slowly retreat according to Lou Gui's plan, and the morale of the army plummeted. On the contrary, Hu Zhen's army was like a rainbow, biting Sun Jian to the death, and chased it until Lou Gui's so-called ambush site, when Lou Gui's 3,000 army suddenly rushed out, Sun Jian's army was still beaten back again and again by Hu Zhen, but fortunately, Sun Jian was brave and good at fighting, taking the lead, and the Changsha army finally did not flee in all directions. At this time, Sun Jian's total army was only 10,000, and Hu Zhen still had at least 20,000 troops, and Chen Lin heard the sound of battle and killing all over the mountains and fields within a radius of several miles. Chen Lin looked back at the Hanzhong army of exactly 5,000 people, nodded to Jia Xu, and immediately ordered loudly: "Hanzhong is a big military battle, so that Yang Jiwei and Zhou Youping's troops will attack from the left side, Huang Hansheng and Zhang Yuanhua's troops will attack from the right side, and the guards will follow a certain left and right. ”
At this time, the role of drums and flags was quite large, because this is the backbone of a large army, and the sound of drums and the fluttering of flags are the guarantee of morale. The sound of the three-way drum was deafening, countless Hanzhong flags were erected, Chen, Huangzhou, Zhang Yang and other flags were raised one after another, carried by three or five thick men, and a small team of elite guards fought under the banner to ensure that the flag did not fall. Sun Jian's army and Hu Zhen were fighting happily, Sun Jian was already in danger, and at this time he heard the sound of drums and trumpets, because Han Dang was there, and knew that it was Chen Lin's army. Sun Jian couldn't help shouting with joy: "Reinforcements arrived, Hanzhong Taishou led an army of more than 10,000 to come to help, and at this time, all the soldiers and a certain person were killed." "Morale rose for a while, and Huang Zhong and others rushed into the enemy formation as if they were in a no-man's land, which aroused the idea of the Changsha army, and even Lou Gui stabbed the enemy with a gun.
Sun Jian even recovered the momentum of the tiger, an ancient ingot knife flew up and down, there was no one to join the general, Chen Lin saw it in the distance, and couldn't help praising Jia Xu: "Wentai is worthy of the name of the tiger." Jia Xu smiled and said: "Lord, for the general Xu Yong, for the handsome must be wise, if you say martial arts, the lord and look at the generals such as Huang and Zhou, which is not a hundred enemies, the lord only needs to use these generals reasonably, why do you need the lord to take action personally." Now Jia Xu, who is more than ten years older, attaches more and more importance to Chen Lin's persuasion, Chen Lin heard Jia Xu say this, Chen Lin glanced at this military advisor who was also a teacher, a friend and a father, smiled, and looked at Huang Zhong and others who were happy in the field. Huang Zhong has now become the most dazzling person outside the camp, just because of Huang Zhong's obvious appearance, he is only more than forty years old, and he has a wisp of white beard, which is still fresh in people's memories. But Huang Zhong on the battlefield was so brave, not only against generals like Shangguan Yu, but also in the military battle, Huang Zhong was always more calm than other generals, leading his troops to advance left and right, very heroic.
In Chen Lin's personal guard, Zhou Cang took a step forward, pointed in the direction of Huang Zhong, and said sincerely: "Huang Hansheng is comparable to Cai Sima's goods. "What Zhou Cang praised was nothing more than that these generals fought on horseback, fighting on foot, Zhou Cang had not served anyone except Huanglong, but in the war, as generals, there were a few who did not ride horses.
Chen Lin looked at the soldiers and horses on both sides in a scuffle, turned around and said, "Zhou Cang, protect Mr. Wenhe, Huang Yan, and shoot the leading leader of the enemy army, no matter how big or small." I saw Huang Yan take a few steps forward, untie the big bow, and shoot at the officers such as the enemy commander Wu Changtun, and there are always some cold arrows in the melee that I don't know who will die.
No matter how bravely Huang Zhong, Sun Jian and others killed the enemy, at most there were only 100 people, and the battle of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses was still going on. Hu Zhen was in the rear army at this time, watching quietly, 20,000 against 15,000, if it was about soldiers, Hu Zhen won, but Sun Jian and Chen Lin had too many fierce generals on their side, and the bravery of these generals had a great relationship with the morale of the soldiers. Hu Zhen helplessly glanced at Sun Jian, who was far away from him, and the Hanzhong Taishou who was leisurely far away on the edge of the battlefield, and said hatefully: "Li Wangyuan is bad for something." Hu Zhen was infinitely angry in his heart, Li Meng and the two did not contain Chen Lin, and at this time, they did not see the two of them appear behind Chen Lin, presumably these two people were greedy for merit and ran to the allied camp. Hu Zhen was very angry, among Dong Jun, only a few people paid attention to this Sun Jian, and everyone else thought that Yuan Shao was a big trouble. Hu Zhen knew that Sun Jian was far more difficult than Yuan Shao, so he set up this plan in the hope of defeating Sun Jian in one fell swoop.
Hu Zhen withdrew his troops, and unwillingly glanced back at Sun Jian and Chen Lin again.