Chapter Ninety-Five: Fleeing Home
"Kill......"
Five hundred fort soldiers who were chasing on foot poured out from the first line of the sky, and the shape of the enemy and the enemy was reversed in an instant.
"Soldiers, retreat." Sun Fudu let out a loud shout, turned his horse's head and fled in the direction of Yecheng.
More than a dozen enemy generals who were besieging Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu immediately retreated, and their horses followed closely behind Sun Fudu.
"It's not that easy to run." Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu shouted.
They each intercepted one enemy general, and after a few rounds of fighting, the two enemy generals were cut off their horses.
The fort soldiers who poured out one after another bent their bows and arrows, and there was a rain of arrows at the fleeing enemy troops, and two or three enemy generals were hit by arrows and rolled off their horses, but the remaining enemy generals ran away.
Seeing that the enemy general had already run away, Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu turned their horses around and returned to Wubao with a group of fort soldiers.
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Three thousand enemy troops were annihilated, and the enemy generals also fled, in this war, Thundercloud Fort was undoubtedly the victorious side, but whether it was the fort soldiers or the old and weak women and children, there was no joy on everyone's faces, and there was even some sadness.
After all, the war cost Thundercloud Castle a third of its life, and most of the people who survived were wounded, and the supplies for the Dock Fort were also depleted.
At this time, dozens of torches were hung on the fort wall, illuminating the wide fort wall, and the lightly wounded fort soldiers supported each other to walk down the fort wall, while the seriously injured fort soldiers could only lie on the women's wall and groan.
Because a small number of uninjured fort soldiers followed Thunderstorm and Zhao Wu to pursue the enemy generals, the old and weak women and children were also busy taking care of the lightly injured fort soldiers below, and these seriously injured fort soldiers could only lie on the fort wall in a daze.
Looking at the painful look of the seriously wounded on the fortress wall when they moaned, Hua An's heart felt inexplicably worried, in fact, this qiē was caused by his sudden appearance.
The people of Thundercloud Castle have lived in seclusion here for more than ten years, and they have been living a very peaceful life, if it hadn't been for the sudden intrusion into their lives, maybe they would have survived peacefully.
Hua An frowned and closed his eyes, but soon he was alert, because Shi Hu knew that the three thousand army was destroyed, and he would definitely send a large army to retaliate again.
This is not the time to be sad, and you should immediately lead the remaining people in the fort out of Thundercloud Castle.
"Uncle Lei, we have destroyed 3,000 enemy troops, they will definitely come back to retaliate, we must leave here immediately." Hua An looked at the thundercloud and said loudly.
Hearing this, Lei Yun pointed to a seriously injured fort soldier leaning against the female wall, frowned, and said, "Where can you go if you leave here, these wounded soldiers are extremely inconvenient to move, do you want to give up on them?" ”
Hearing Lei Yun say this, Hua An also felt tricky, he originally planned to bring all the people of Lei Yun Castle to Jiangnan, but at this time, everyone was injured, and the long journey would definitely aggravate the injuries and even lose their lives.
Moreover, Thundercloud Fort is located in the hinterland of Zhao State, too far away from Jiangnan, it is difficult for such a large team to hide its whereabouts, and it is easy to be discovered by patrolling soldiers, so it will be intercepted and killed.
"But you can't wait to die here!" Hua An frowned and muttered.
"It's better to disperse to the surrounding mountains and forests, hide first, and then think of other ways." Zhao Youde, who had been silent, interjected.
Hearing this, Lei Yun nodded, and said softly: "It seems that this is the only way, let the people in the fort prepare immediately, and we will leave overnight." ”
"Don't worry, I'll leave it all to me." Zhao Youde said and walked down the fortress wall.
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Half an hour later, the big and small leaders in the fort gathered in the main hall, Lei Yun and Zhao Youde briefly discussed for a while, and then began to give orders.
"Hua'an, Thunderstorm, and Zhao Wu, the three of you will go to Jiangnan with the little county lord and the one hundred most elite warriors in the castle." Thundercloud said loudly.
"Yes." The three of them spoke in unison.
Lei Yun nodded, looked at the small leader in front of him, and ordered: "You twenty commanders, each leading a hundred people, scattered and hidden in the nearby mountains and forests, there must be no mistake. ”
"Yes, Castle Master." Twenty small leaders replied loudly.
"Alright, it's not too early, you guys go now." After speaking, Thundercloud waved his hand to everyone.
The twenty small leaders immediately retreated with their fists clenched, and each went to arrange for his team to leave.
"Dad, you and Uncle Zhao will take the remaining three hundred warriors to Jiangnan with us!" Thunderstorms shouted loudly.
"Yes! Let's go together! Hua An and Zhao Wu also followed suit.
Lei Yun smiled indifferently, shook his head and said: "No, if we all leave, then what about the remaining wounded soldiers, women and children, they are temporarily hiding in the mountains and forests, who will take care of them in the future." ”
"Yes! Go with confidence! We'll take care of ourselves. Zhao Youde also objected.
Seeing that the two of them made up their minds not to go to Jiangnan together, Hua'an had no choice but to lead Lei Storm and Zhao Wu to leave the main hall and prepare items for the long journey.
At this time, twenty teams in the dock fort were crowded together, and the scene was extremely chaotic.
Each of these troops consisted of fifty lightly wounded fort soldiers, twenty seriously wounded fort soldiers, plus thirty women and children, and because the seriously wounded were unable to move, each team had a dozen wagons.
In fact, it is an ordinary flatbed car, and the front of the car is just a war horse, and these war horses are left by the enemy.
When the enemy cavalry dismounted and fought on foot, they were burned by Hua'an, but the horses under their crotches were left in the distance, thus escaping the catastrophe.
However, the horse-drawn cart that charges into battle is indeed a bit overkill, and the war horse is also not used to it, and the effect of pulling the cart is not as good as that of a short donkey.
But it's better than nothing, in addition to the seriously wounded, there are also some necessities for life, such as food, clothes, iron pots, etc.
The teams, led by the small leader, left in turn, because the road was too narrow, so the team left very slowly.
An hour later, the two thousand wounded soldiers, women and children finally all passed through the sky, and Hua'an also began to leave slowly with Thunderstorm, Zhao Wu, Han Xueyu, and a hundred elite fort soldiers.
In the entire Thundercloud Fort, only Thunder Cloud, Zhao Youde and the three hundred fort soldiers remained.
Seeing that everyone had left safely, Lei Yun and Zhao Youde glanced at each other and immediately burst out laughing.
They had followed General Zu Ti and fought with Shi Hu dozens of times, so they knew Shi Hu's personality very well, and with Shi Hu's brutal personality, they would definitely not give up when they learned of the crushing defeat of their subordinates.
They had already discussed that in order to cover the safe arrival of Hua'an and the others in Jiangnan, they would lead three hundred warriors to gallop in the opposite direction, deliberately revealing their whereabouts, so as to attract enemy troops who came to retaliate.
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Outside the east gate of Yecheng, Sun Fudu, the general of Long Xiang, and the general Le Ma behind him stopped under the city gate, at this time, it was already late, and the city gate had already been closed.
"Open the door, open the door, open the door quickly." Nearly a dozen generals shouted loudly.
A small soldier standing on the tower of the city gate rubbed his eyes, leaned out half of his body and looked down, and saw that the city was dark, and the figures of about ten horses and horses were swaying back and forth, and he hurriedly reported the situation to the little colonel who was resting in the city gate tower.
Because there is something at home for the captain of Naojuku, the little colonel of the city gate is staying for others, he is tired during the day, and he is naturally very tired at night, at this time he is sleeping soundly, and when he sees someone shouting to open the door, he can't help but be angry.
He stumbled out of the city gate tower with sleepiness, pointed to the nearly ten horsemen below, and scolded: "Shut up, shut up Lao Tzu, what time is it, I want to enter the city and wait for tomorrow morning, a group of thieves." ”
After saying that, he turned around and stumbled back.
"Whoosh......"
The bowstring sounded, and a sharp arrow struck the colonel's helmet, and the huge impact lifted the colonel's helmet and nailed it to the pillar of the city gatehouse.
This arrow was shot by Sun Fudu, he had just lost more than 3,000 soldiers and horses, and his mood was naturally very bad.
The little colonel was startled, and suddenly lost all his sleepiness, he reflexively touched his head and shouted: "The enemy army is attacking the city, preparing for war, preparing for war." ”
When the archers on the tower of the city gate heard the sound, they immediately bent their bows and arrows at Sun Fudu and the others under the city, waiting for the order to shoot at any time.
Seeing a large number of archers aiming at him, Sun Fudu and the generals were also nervous, if these archers really shot, it would be difficult for them to dodge.
"Presumptuous, General Sun is here, open the city gate quickly." One of the generals said angrily.
"You have eaten the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard, and you dare to shoot Lao Tzu." Another general was furious.
The little colonel was already sober at this time, and when he saw that there were only a dozen people riding horses, he was arrogant and abnormal, and he had a premonition in his heart, his attitude changed, and he asked loudly: "The city is too dark, I can't see clearly, I don't know which General Sun is." ”
"Long Xiang's general Sun Fu is here, open the city gate quickly." Sun Fu shouted loudly.
Xiao Xiao heard the sound of his heart, this rough voice is indeed very similar to Sun Fudu's voice, but he remembered that Sun Fudu left with an army of three thousand in the afternoon, and when he came back at this time, why were there only a dozen people, would there be fraud.
"General Sun left with an army of 3,000, why didn't he see the army return to the city, it was a deception." Xiao Xiao directly said the doubts in his heart.
Sun Fudu was furious when he heard this, and Xiao Xiao's words were completely just, sprinkling salt on his wounds, making his heart painful.
"Okay, you still put the torches in the city down, and see if Lao Tzu is Sun Fudu." Sun Fudu had no choice but to make this decision.
"Huhuhu......"
Suddenly, more than a dozen torches were thrown down from the city gate.
The torches landed to illuminate the surrounding space, Sun Fudu's majestic face, the angry expressions of nearly ten officers were clearly visible in the firelight, and more than a dozen armors were shining under the firelight.
"Open the gates, open the gates."
The little colonel gave a loud order in a trembling voice, and after speaking, he strode towards the city.