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A day's time passed quickly, and the time was about to approach the first watch, and the more than 8,000 Jijing coalition troops who were ready to abandon the city and break through the siege were also assembled in the east, west and south three gates of Yecheng according to the order, among which the palace team led by Liu Huangshu was ready to go out of the city from the most dangerous east gate, the front army led by Yang Ling and Guo Ziru was ready to go out of the city from the second dangerous south gate, and the main force of the Chinese army led by Liu Pan, Xin Ping and Huang Zhong and others 'protected' Emperor Han Xian and his wife and the three dukes of Yuan from the safest west gate out of the city, and withdrew to Bowang in strict order.

In order to speed up the escape and reduce the burden of the march, the Jingji coalition army abandoned almost all the weapons and military tents and other non-essential baggage, and the last grain and grass were also processed into dry food for the march such as wheat cakes and rice balls, and distributed to each soldier. In addition, in the carry-on packages of many Jingzhou soldiers, there were also a lot of loot that they concealed and swallowed and did not hand over, which could turn these soldiers into a small rich man after returning to Xiangyang - of course, provided that they could return to Xiangyang alive.

When preparing to leave, several leading brothers of the Jingji coalition army gathered in front of the car of Emperor Han Xian and his wife, and said goodbye to each other, the mood was complicated, and Uncle Liu Huang, who was destined to be sent to death after the palace, was even more tearful, kneeling in front of Emperor Han Xian's car and crying bitterly, even saying that Weichen was incompetent, disloyal and unjust, could not save the people of the Han Dynasty in dire straits, could not revive the Han Dynasty, and could not even make the Son of Heaven have a place to settle down, and was forced to let the Emperor Han Xian and his wife be displaced, and swore that as long as he still had a breath of air, We must fight to the end against Tao Ying, who deceived the king, and defend the dignity of the Son of Heaven to the death, so that the Han Dynasty will not fall into the hands of Tao Ying's thieves, and rejuvenate the 400-year-old foundation of the Han Dynasty.

Crying bitterly and swearing poisonously, the heartbroken Uncle Liu Huang almost cried to the ground, his sincerity was cut to the extreme, and he was moved to the Han Dynasty Xu Shu, Huang Zhong and Zhuge Liang and others were in tears, Liu Pan, Xin Ping and Pang Tong were also sour, only Emperor Han Xian, who was forced by Boss Cao to recognize Uncle Liu's relative, was expressionless, and scolded in his heart, "Thief, if you hadn't robbed me to Xuchang back then, why would I be where I am today?" ”

By the way, because Xu Shu is the person who came out of the prisoners of the Cao army by Uncle Liu, and does not belong to the Jingzhou Army or the Jizhou Army, Xu Shu will also retreat with Uncle Liu's palace team this time. At the same time, before this, Zhuge Liang had seized the opportunity and said alone in front of Pang Tong, who retreated with Liu Pan's Chinese army: "Shiyuan, please take care, although you are in the Chinese army, but the Chinese army does not mean safety, Tao Yuanjun is a smart person, and he must be able to guess that the important people of our army must be in the Chinese army, so the pursuit of the Chinese army will inevitably spare no effort. ”

"Of course I can take care of that." Pang Tong nodded, lowered his voice and said: "Kong Ming, you have to be careful, you have inconvenient legs and feet, and you have a lot of festivals with pottery thieves, you better prepare a way to get out." ”

Zhuge Liang nodded silently, and handed a package to Pang Tong, when Pang Tong asked what it was, Zhuge Liang replied in a low voice: "It's the people's clothes, the Jizhou military uniform is too conspicuous, and the Jingzhou army is the key target of the Xuzhou army, so I have prepared a set of people's clothes for you, you can change it when necessary, I expect that Tao Envoy Jun will not condone the soldiers to kill innocents indiscriminately in order to win the hearts of the people of Jingzhou." ”

Pang Tong was silent for a long time, then took the package and carried it on his back, then arched his hand to Zhuge Liang, turned around and left without saying a word, leaving Zhuge Liang to sigh slightly in place, and said secretly: "Shiyuan, don't blame me, if I don't use this plan, the lord will be finished, his team has been killed by the pottery thief to only two soldiers, just go back, for Liu Biao, the lord will lose its use value, and there will be no chance to restart, so, for the sake of the lord, I can only be sorry for you once." ”

After saying goodbye to each other, several leading brothers each returned to their original positions to organize the team, when the bangzi of the early shift sounded in the evening, a doomed casualty retreat was also opened, the suspension bridge of the east and west and south gates of Ye County almost hit the ground at the same time, revealing the Yexian city gate that had already been opened, and the Jingji coalition army assembled inside the city gate also rushed out at the fastest speed, rushed out of the city gate through the Yongdao, rushed across the suspension bridge to the open place to assemble in formation, and at the same time nervously watched the surrounding environment, for fear that the enemy Xuzhou army would suddenly kill.

At this time, it is also the most dangerous moment for Uncle Liu's team, because Uncle Liu knows very well that in fact, Deputy Director Tao has long known the time for the self-army to break through and retreat, and what he is most afraid of is that Deputy Director Tao will arrange the Xuzhou army near the city gate, and launch a surprise attack when the self-army leaves the city. But Zhuge Liang smiled and told Uncle Liu Huang, "Don't worry, my lord, Tao Yuanjun's favorite thing in his life is to be opportunistic, and he hates time-consuming and labor-intensive frontal attacks the most, so Tao Yuanjun will definitely not arrange ambushes around the city." Otherwise, once our team is beaten back to Yexian City, it will take countless hours and troops to storm the city. ”

It's really not a good habit to like opportunism, at least Deputy Director Tao's mind this time was once again expected by Zhuge Liang, during the Jijing coalition army out of the city, there was really no Xuzhou army from the twilight to intercept, but there were some Xuzhou scouts who fled back to the camp in panic to report the news, that panicked appearance, as if they were completely caught off guard by this matter, so that Liu Pan, Xin Ping and Pang Tong and others were a little relieved, and also let Uncle Liu Huang and Zhuge Liang scold in their hearts, "It's really worthy of being a pottery thief lackey, and it really can act!" ”

The team was assembled, and the great escape began, the first batch of the front army led by Yang Ling and Guo Ziru rushed to the southwest official road, followed by the main force of the Chinese army led by Liu Pan and Xin Ping, and finally the team led by Uncle Liu Huang, before leaving, Uncle Liu Huang once told the two thousand five hundred Jing soldiers who were temporarily assigned to his command, saying that he did his best to bring all the soldiers of the rear army back to safety, and understood that they were cannon fodder Jing Ji soldiers Although they did not believe it very much, they were helpless, can only choose to reluctantly obey Uncle Liu's command.

Traveled nearly twenty miles to the southwest, and finally saw the torch light of the chasing soldiers in the northeast, densely half of the sky was reflected red, and the preliminary estimate was only ten miles away from the palace team of the Jingji coalition army, and it must have seized Yecheng, Uncle Liu Huang quickly listened to Zhuge Liang's suggestion, and sent a fast horse to the front to report the news, and the two Jijing teams in front of him did not dare to slack off when they heard the news, and quickly ordered the team to speed up, and ran south at all costs, so they almost turned the three princes of Dayuan and Emperor Han Xian and his wife off the carriage, Frightened, Queen Fu screamed, but the Jing Ji team ignored it.

"Tao Aiqing, you must catch up with us." This is also the greatest wish of Emperor Han Xian and his wife now, and they prayed together in their hearts: "The ancestors of the Han Dynasty bless and bless Tao Aiqing's army to catch up with us and save us." ”

This time, Liu Bang's old hooligan and the two-way plug Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty seemed to have finally heard the prayers of their descendants Emperor Han Xian, the third watch had just arrived, when the front army led by Yang Ling and Guo Ziru traveled south for thirty-five or six miles, in front of the dark road, suddenly a few torches were lit, and the torches were extremely eye-catching under the dark night sky, and then, more and more torches were lit, as if the stars were covering the wilderness, and the open area at the end of the narrow road was quickly reflected in red, and in the firelight, countless Xuzhou military flags fluttered in the wind, Hunting sounds.

"Hit the mark! There are ambushes! Yang Ling and Guo Ziru exclaimed at the same time.

"Big-eared thief, get out!" Two Xuzhou generals rushed out of the Xuzhou army at the same time, one with a big axe, and shouted: "Xu Huang Xu Gongming is here, Liu Bei is a big-eared thief, why don't you get off your horse and surrender?" The hatred of Runan is said to be snowing today! ”

"Big-eared thief, do you still recognize me Xu Chu and Xu Zhongkang?" Another general held a ghost-headed broadsword and roared even louder, "Today, I want to cut off the head of you, a thief, for the lord!" ”

"Xu Chu? Xu Huang? Yang Ling and Guo Ziru almost didn't cry, and they were very sad about their good luck - they actually ran into two fierce generals who could be counted on their fingers in the whole world at the same time! At the same time, Yang Ling and Guo Ziru were very depressed, "Why did you name Uncle Liu Huang to go out of the battle?" Uncle Liu Huang is in the rear army? ”

"Soldiers, kill!" Xu Chu and Xu Huang yelled at the same time, "Lord, cut off the head of the big-eared thief Liu Bei, and reward a thousand gold!" cut off Zhuge Liang's head, and also reward a thousand gold! ”

"Kill——!" In the shouting, the Xuzhou infantry cavalry team with more than 10,000 people raised their swords and guns, and the tide generally poured into the Jingji coalition army at the end of the narrow road, and quickly overwhelmed the Yang Ling and Guo Ziru teams with only more than 2,000 people, and the Jingji coalition army was forced to fight, and a night melee was also launched in the wilderness under the starry sky.

At the same time, the main force of the Chinese army of the Jingji coalition army, hearing the sudden killing sound like thunder in front, Liu Pan and Xin Ping, who were leading the troops south, suddenly changed their faces, and immediately understood that the front team had been ambushed, and just wanted to order the Chinese army to speed up the south to reinforce the front army, when the mountains and forests on both sides of the road suddenly sounded drums, and the fire was blazing. Help! ”

"There is an ambush? How can it be?! Pang Tong, who personally arranged and arranged this retreat plan, was shocked, and then his face changed, and he suddenly roared angrily: "There is internal annihilation!" There must be internal annihilation! Leaked our retreat plan to the Pottery Thieves! Otherwise, the pottery thief wouldn't even know that the Son of Heaven was in our Chinese army! ”

"Ancestors bless! It turns out that Tao Aiqing has been prepared! ”

Still hearing this thunderous sound, Emperor Han Xian and Empress Fu in the carriage breathed a sigh of relief together, and they were so excited that they hugged each other tightly, and burst into tears together, crying bitterly. And also heard this shout of killing, the big Yuan Sangong who was paralyzed in the carriage just sighed softly, his mood was extremely complicated, and he didn't know whether he should be glad to be rescued by his son-in-law, or grieve that his tiger fell into Pingyang, and in the end, he had to rely on his son-in-law's snort?

also heard the shouting and killing in front, and saw the skyrocketing light in front, Uncle Liu Huang, who led the army to the end, did not hesitate, immediately reined in the war horse, pointed due west with a horse whip, and shouted: "Order the whole army to retreat to the Hengshan Mountain Range due west, where the terrain is complicated, and it is not easy for the enemy to catch up with us!" (Note: It is not Nanyue Hengshan, it is the Hengshan of the same name from the birthplace of Tanshui.) ）

"What?!" The grassroots generals of Jingzhou and Jizhou on the left and right were all in one place, and then some people exclaimed: "Uncle Huang, retreat in the direction of Hengshan?" ”

"I promised you that I would get you out of danger safely!" Uncle Liu Huang said loudly and righteously: "Now there is an enemy ambush in front and an enemy chasing after us, if we retreat to the southwest again, we will only be wiped out, and we will all die without a place to bury!" If you want to survive, you can only retreat with me to the mountains and forests to the west, save our useful body first, and then find a way to rescue the former army and the Chinese army! ”

"But, what about the front army and the Chinese army?" A Jizhou general asked timidly.

"They have their own way out." Uncle Liu Huang replied expressionlessly: "When you set off, how did Xin Fushu tell you, if you are separated, you will meet at Bowang!" ”

"Soldiers, let's go west." Zhuge Liang also shouted, "Going south is just sending death, going west is a tactical transfer, on the two armies, the tactical transfer is not to be afraid of death, but to win!" For the sake of all our troops, and for yourselves, take orders to go west. ”

"Immediately retreat to the west, and those who violate the order will be beheaded!" Uncle Liu Huang yelled again, "There is no time, the enemy is about to catch up with us!" Immediately retreat to the west, this is the order of the commander-in-chief of the rear army! ”

The Jingji generals hesitated, and many people's greed for life and fear of death still prevailed, and at the moment, several grassroots generals took the lead and sang a promise, and began to lead the team to retreat to the west of the mountains and forests, and Liu Huangshu and Zhuge Liang also patted their horses to follow, driving more Jingji teams to the west to follow. And most of the Jingji generals hesitated, the rear could already hear the shouts and footsteps of the Xuzhou pursuers, greedy for life and afraid of death, these Jingji generals finally led the team to keep up with Uncle Liu, only two or three hundred people refused to abandon their companions like Uncle Liu, and chose to continue to go south to report to Xin Ping and Liu Pan's team.

These Jingji righteous soldiers also had no chance to see Xin Ping and Liu Pan complain, because when they arrived at the battlefield of the Chinese army, the Chinese army of the Hebei-Jing coalition army had already been rushed to pieces by the Xuzhou army, which had an absolute advantage in quantity and quality, and even if they joined the battlefield, it would be a drop in the bucket, and at the same time, the Xuzhou army that chased from the rear had also rushed to the battlefield of the Chinese army after dividing a team to pursue Liu Huangshu, who was retreating westward, and caught these Jingji righteous soldiers in front and back.

This is an ambush annihilation war without any suspense, the elite Xuzhou army not only has the absolute quantity and quality of the upper hand, but also takes advantage of the opportunity of the sudden attack and the terrain, the battle is completely one-sided from the beginning, the elite and brave Xuzhou soldiers are like tigers down the mountain, scrambling to pounce on the poor Jingji lamb, the momentum is surging like a tide, only a charge will break the front army and the middle army of the Jingji coalition army, and then the knife and gun and axe split, two or three people around an enemy to cut the strength is more than enough, Although many of the poor Jingji soldiers showed courage and fighting spirit to fight to the end, but in the panic they could only fight on their own, and were soon cut down and stabbed by Xuzhou soldiers who were several times or even dozens of times their own, and they were chopped into meat sauce when they fell to the ground.

In the melee of the front army, Yang Ling, the general of Jingzhou, was hacked to death by Xu Huang with an axe, and Guo Ziru, the general of Jizhou, was captured alive after Xu Chu smashed his weapon, and then the first thing Xu Chu did was to ask about the whereabouts of Uncle Liu, Guo Ziru confessed that Uncle Liu Huang was in the team behind the palace, which made Xu Chu is furious, and slapped him all over the face, and roared: "Fart!" We have already inquired clearly, the big-eared thief is in this former army, and he dares to lie to us? Don't tell the truth anymore and watch your head! ”

"General Zhongkang, the big-eared thief is really in the back!" Guo Ziru covered the corners of his bleeding mouth and told the truth, but naturally he received another slap from Xu Chu, and an even more angry roar, "Say, where is the big-eared thief!" ”

"He's really in the rear army, ......! General Xu, your Xuzhou army treats prisoners preferentially! ”

In the melee of the Chinese army, seeing that the defeat was decided, Huang Zhong was loyal to Liu Pan's side, and proposed to protect Liu Pan to break through, but unfortunately Major General Liu Pan was reluctant to seize dozens of cars of rare treasures, not only rejected Huang Zhong's suggestion to abandon the car to break through, but also asked Huang Zhong to protect himself and break through with the treasure car, Huang Zhong was forced to be helpless, and had to lead the team to protect Liu Pan and the treasure car to break through together, as a result, Huang Zhong and Liu Pan's breakthrough speed is not only destined to be fast, It has also become the most conspicuous target on the battlefield of the entire Chinese army.

"Where is the old horseman? Tai Shi Ci is here to meet you! ”

A Xuzhou team rushed head-on in the chaotic army, and the general Tai Shi Ci shouted his spear and took Huang Zhong directly, Huang Zhong was forced to raise his sword to meet him, and while fighting Tai Shi Ci upside down, he took the time to yell, "Young general, go away, this enemy is powerful!" ”

General Liu Pan still did not give up the jewelry car and left, but also leaned on a jewelry car, commanding the team to meet the surging Tai Shi Ci team, but not only was immediately entangled by the Tai Shi Ci team, but also attracted more and more Xuzhou team to beat, but also when he found that he was completely in the siege, General Liu Pan then remembered that life is far more important than treasures, and quickly grabbed a few handfuls of jewelry and stuffed them into his arms, Liu Pan then issued an order to abandon the car and break through, "Rush!" Rush out! Treasures are gone! Rush out, rush ....... ”

The order to break through has not been shouted, several spears have been stabbed at the same time, Liu Pan hurriedly raised the gun to parry, another Xuzhou soldier jumped on the jewelry car, roared with both hands and slashed down, impartially in Liu Pan's right shoulder, Liu Pan screamed and fell off the horse, and a few Xuzhou soldiers' spears stabbed him, and nailed him to the ground. When poor General Liu Pan was dying, he also reached out to touch the jewels in his arms and said, "Don't ......, don't kill me, ......, give you ......." ”

Liu Pan died, Liu Pan's guards naturally collapsed, the guards either knelt down and surrendered or were killed, and some people pointed to the treasure car and shouted that it was full of treasures, and took the initiative to confess in exchange for the Xuzhou soldiers to spare themselves from death. Huang Zhong, who was fighting hotly with Tai Shi Ci, sighed secretly, turned around and left, and fought his way out of the encirclement, Tai Shi Ci had no time to pursue, but quickly commanded the team to protect the treasure car, beware of the chaos army from snatching, and even more so to prevent his team from missing the fighter in order to compete for the treasure.

Liu Pan died, Xin Ping was also captured, after the team was scattered, Xin Ping was very loyal and did not break through with the guards to save his life, but rushed to the carriage of the Great Yuan Sangong and Emperor Han Xian with the guards, trying to break through with the carriage of the Great Yuan Sangong and Emperor Han Xian, but the battlefield was too chaotic, the huge and heavy carriage was very difficult, and the carriage would be blocked by corpses and fallen wounded soldiers at any time, almost an inch was difficult to move, and finally even the carriage of the Great Yuan Sangong was also overturned by the chaotic soldiers, when Xin Ping led people to rescue the Great Yuan Sangong, can only cry at the third prince of Da Yuan: "Old lord, the matter has come to this, the minister has nothing to do, it is not that the minister is greedy for life and afraid of death, for your safety, the minister asks for instructions, whether to surrender to the Xuzhou army?" ”

Da Yuan Sangong's expression was sluggish, and he blinked his eyelids twice in the middle of the night, Xin Ping howled and cried, helped Da Yuan Sangong to sit with his back against the carriage, and then knelt down on his knees to Da Yuan Sangong, solemnly kowtowed three heads, and then got up and ordered: "Put down your weapons and surrender to the surrounding Xuzhou army." ”

As the Xuzhou soldiers cheered and rushed to hold Xin Ping and other Jizhou soldiers, Emperor Han Xian and Empress Fu in the carriage also hugged and cried into tears, and the third prince of Dayuan continued to be expressionless, just in the corners of his eyes, two muddy old tears slowly oozed out............

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When the sky was twilight, the large-scale battles on the ambush battlefield were all over, only in the mountains and forests there were some sporadic individual battles, relying on accurate intelligence support, the well-prepared Xuzhou army won a complete victory in the ambush war, completely annihilated the front and middle armies of the Jingji coalition army, captured and beheaded almost all the important civil and military officials of Jingji, and finally rescued the wife of Emperor Xian of Han and the three dukes of Yuan who were almost taken hostage to Jingzhou, which was regarded as a great victory.

However, what made Xu Huang, Xu Chu, Tai Shici and Wei Yan all the Xuzhou soldiers depressed and puzzled was that the number one target Liu Huangshu and the number two target Zhuge Liang explained by Deputy Director Tao were never nowhere to be found, even if they searched the battlefield, they could not find these two enemies whose heads were worth a thousand gold, and at the same time the prisoners captured by the Xuzhou army also insisted that Liu Huangshu and Zhuge Liang were in the ranks of the palace, not in the front army and the middle army. Finding that things were not good, and hearing that the main force of the rear army of the Jingji coalition army had fled to the direction of Hengshan due west overnight, Xu Huang, Xu Chu and others did not dare to slack off, so they had to quickly send fast horses and return to the camp in Xuzhou to report the news to Deputy Director Tao. As a result, Deputy Director Tao suddenly understood everything............

"Hit the mark! I was used! ”

Under the rage, Deputy Director Tao, who has always been gentle and elegant, finally revealed his ugly true colors, jumped up in anger and pulled out the Yitian Sword, roared with a sword to cut his book case in two, and then roared hysterically: "I've been tricked again!" The internal annihilation of the archery book is the big-eared thief and the Zhuge villager! They knew very well that Yexian's team was not the opponent of our army, so they simply let Yecheng's soldiers and horses lose faster, and took the opportunity to deceive a large number of Jizhou soldiers and horses, so that Liu Biao'er did not dare to abandon him, so he could only continue to support him and continue to give him a chance to make a comeback! ”

"Fuck you big-eared thief! You're so good at fishing in troubled waters! This time, even I have become your helper in fishing in troubled waters, and I have killed Liu Pan and Xin Ping for you, and it will be much easier for you to take over the remnants of the defeated army! ”

yelling, Deputy Director Tao swung his sword and slashed indiscriminately, chopping his bookcase to pieces and refusing to relieve his anger, Jia Lao Poison and Shi Yi in the big tent were also pale, and secretly said in their hearts: "No wonder the lord is so vigilant about the big-eared thief and Zhuge Villager, this pair of thieves is really deceitful!" This time, I actually lied to me! ”

"Report ......." A guard entered the tent and wanted to report loudly, but when he saw Deputy Director Tao murderously holding the Yitian Sword standing next to the smashed bookcase, the guard also quickly lowered his voice, knelt down on one knee and said cautiously: "My lord, the general surnamed Cao was ordered to escort the grain and grass to the front of the army for use, and the grain and grass have been sent to the front of the camp. ”

"Tell him to be escorted directly to the warehouse officer." Deputy Director Tao, who was in an extremely bad mood, shouted with a blue face.

"No." The guard agreed, but refused to leave immediately, and said cautiously: "Lord, there is one more thing, Mr. Zhongming is also here, and he also said that there are 100,000 urgent matters, and he must visit the lord immediately." (To be continued.) )