Chapter 97, Beyond Victory

Both of them controlled the movement of their weapons with their hands, so that the weapons did not entangle each other, but the whip head and the popular hammer head collided together from time to time, making bursts of noise, making the soldiers' hearts tremble.

The two fought on horseback for about fifty or sixty rounds, and no one showed a flaw, Li Ran launched a flying stone attack many times, but was blocked by Gongsun Xiaoban with a lancet, its momentum was accurate, it was surprising, even Li Ran was a little apprehensive, the opponent in front of him really reacted too quickly, and the moment she shot, she also shot.

Zu Zhao watched it from a distance, and it was also thrilling, this was only a scene he saw on TV, he really saw it, and the excitement was completely incomparable to that on TV, the most important thing is that the surprise in his heart can't be experienced at all when watching TV.

He was a little worried about Gongsun Xiaoban, and said to the ban: "Miss Gongsun is a woman after all, and she is not as good as a man in terms of physical strength, so if she continues like this, I am afraid that she will suffer." “

Yu Ban said: "General rest assured, although the young lady's strength is not great, but she has not done her best yet, and when she finds an opportunity, then Li Ran will lose." Now Li Ran is already a little panicked, if my guess is correct, within fifty rounds, Miss Gongsun will definitely win. ”

"If that's the case, that's good." Zu Zhao gave the order at the same time to prepare to attack the city.

Sure enough, after forty returns, Gongsun Xiao made a half-false move, deceiving Li Ran's defense, and at the same time, the hidden weapon in her hand flew out, Li Ran saw it, and sent out five stones, but only one flying knife was blocked, he leaned and dodged one or two, but one still stabbed him in the thigh. As soon as there was a pain in his leg, he was immediately distracted, and the nine-section whip in his hand was also out of order, and he almost hit himself. Gongsun Xiaoban saw it, threw out the meteor hammer, and hit Li Ran in the chest with a hammer, only to see Li Ran spurt out a mouthful of blood and fall off the horse's back.

When Li Ran's soldiers saw this, they were horrified, and they all came to rescue Li Ran, but Gongsun Xiaoban's flying knife shot out, knocking the four or five soldiers who rushed to the front to the ground. Li Ran's lieutenant brandished this spear and went straight to Gongsun Xiaoban.

Gongsun Xiaoban was not panicked, as soon as his arm was raised, the dark crossbow in his sleeve sent out a dark arrow, which shot back a lieutenant, and the meteor hammer also shot out, repelling another lieutenant. At this moment, she threw the meteor hammer out and hit Li Ran in front of the door. When Li Ran saw it, he was horrified, he couldn't dodge, and raised his hand to block it. But this hit Gongsun Xiaoban's plan, she shook the soft belt, and the meteor hammer wrapped around Li Ran's hand, and at the same time, the hammer head rolled around the soft belt a few times, tightly wrapping Li Ran's hand.

Seeing this, Gongsun Xiaoban turned his horse's head and dragged Li Ran straight towards his army. When Zu Zhao saw it, he ordered the whole army to attack and took the lead in rushing over. When Li Ran's two lieutenants saw that he was captured, they naturally did not give up, and ordered troops to be sent and chased after him.

Zu Zhao and Yu Ban each fought one person and stopped them, and the soldiers on both sides also fought together. The rest of Zhang Yuan and Zhang Pre-soldiers saw that Zu Zhao's side had launched an attack, and at the same time commanded the army to start attacking the city. The Yellow Turban Army saw Zu Zhao's army attacking in a big way, fought for a while, and retreated to the city under the leadership of Vice General Li Ran. Zu Zhao chased after him, but the suspension bridge had been lifted and there was no way out. Hurriedly reined in the horse, so that it did not fall into the moat.

The soldiers rushed forward, put four or five heavy planks on the river, and pushed the breaker out of the moat. The defenders on the tower were all surprised to see such a strange siege vehicle, and they shot arrows and spears at the siege soldiers below, but they were all blocked by the top cover, and they could not hurt them in the slightest.

When the city breaker arrived at the city gate, the Yellow Turban soldiers pushed the boulder down again, but the stone smashed on the car, which had no effect at all, and the soldiers under the car still pushed the car and began to hit the door, only the first time it collided, the city gate was knocked into a gap.

At the same time as the assassination was taken, numerous ladders were erected over the moat, and something higher than the city wall was slowly pushed over, but on it there were forty or fifty soldiers, with shield soldiers in front and archers in the back. As the cart approached, a ladder was immediately lowered on the siege wagon, and the soldiers on it rushed towards the city.

The Yellow Turban defenders shot the first men, but a steady stream of soldiers climbed up from the cart and rushed into the city, disrupting the defenses and creating dense siege ladders on the walls. The Yellow Turbans resisted for a while, the city gate was broken, and a large group of men and horses rushed into the city.

When the Yellow Turban soldiers saw this, they no longer had the heart to resist, and they retreated one after another and fled back to the city, and at this time, the defenders of the two gates in the northwest also retreated. The news that the general Li Ran was captured by the enemy spread throughout the army, and all the soldiers had no intention of fighting, although the Zu Zhao army only had more than 30,000 people, and they had nearly 60,000 soldiers in the city, but they had no fighting spirit.

After weighing it again, Li Ran's two lieutenants decided to abandon the city and flee. They heard that the south gate was not attacked. Immediately led the army to flee to the south gate. Zu Zhao's army entered the city, surrounded it on three sides, and surrendered nearly 10,000 soldiers in the city. Zhang Yuan, Zhang Pre. Zhao Meng and others entered the city with a large army, and led the army to chase towards the north gate.

As soon as he got out of the city gate, he saw a person in front of him who was waiting to dance, fighting with a yellow turban general with a sword, but that person was Feng Luoxue. Zhang Yuan rushed forward first and took the general. The man rushed up Zhang Yuan, didn't dare to face it, shook off Feng Luoxue, and fled quickly. Zhang Yuan quickly whipped up and said to Feng Luoxue: "Miss Feng, there are still many things in the city, you go back to help the general, these thieves, I will definitely exterminate them." Feng Luoxue nodded and rode into the city.

Let's say that more than 10,000 members of the Yellow Turban Army fled looking at the mountain road to the south, they threw away their armor one after another, and they didn't even want weapons, and fled frantically. While he was running, he suddenly heard a cannon shot, and an army suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking the way. is the first general, it is Chen Youzhi.

"The thief will be gone, and I will wait for a long time." Chen Youzhi raised his gun and said. The Yellow Turban General saw Chen Youzhi and fought with guns, and the soldiers also fought each other. After about fifty rounds of fighting, Chen Youzhi stabbed out with a shot and stabbed the general under his horse.

When the rest of the generals and soldiers saw it, no one dared to step forward, and they fled backwards one after another, but they didn't flee far, but they saw Zhang Yuan and Zhang Pre coming with the army to chase and kill. When the Yellow Turban sergeants saw this, they fled in all directions, but they saw that the mountains were full of Zu Zhao's army, and they didn't know how many men and horses were in ambush.

"General, there is a small road in the southwest direction, which is feasible for people, but not for horses, and we may be able to escape from it if we go that way." A small soldier said to the Yellow Turban general. The general knew that there was no way in front of and behind the road, so he could only listen to the words of the soldiers and flee to the southwest.

Who knew that he couldn't escape a mile and killed an army in front of him, it was Zhao Meng. "The thief will be Xiaoer, where to go, don't die quickly." Zhao Meng said loudly.

The deputy general of the Yellow Turban knew that the person who came was Zhao Meng, and he also knew that he was also a member of the Yellow Turban Army before, and said: "You and I are the same Yellow Turban Rebels, why do you have to force each other, how about letting me live?" ”

Zhao Mengdao: "The one who knows the times is Junjie, I am no longer the Yellow Turban Rebel Army of the year, and now I am a general of General Zu, I am ordered to arrest you, as for whether to kill or not in the end, I can't be the master." But if you choose to surrender now, I won't kill you. ”

The Yellow Turban general was silent for a while, threw his weapon on the ground, and chose to surrender. Zhao Meng ordered the Yellow Turban generals to help, and then returned to the city with the army. At about five o'clock in the afternoon, all the generals returned to the city, but Chen Youzhi was missing, Zu Zhao was horrified, could it be that something had happened, but among the Yellow Turban generals, none of them could kill him.

After asking, it turned out that Yuan Yang, the most powerful general beside Li Ran, saw that there was no way out, so he chose to flee into the mountains on foot. This person is Li Ran's most powerful assistant by his side, and he is also the most violent person, after entering the city, he led soldiers to plunder and kill the people many times. Chen Youzhi saw him fleeing on the mountain road, so he also abandoned his mount and chased after him on foot.

When Zu Zhao heard this, he was not at ease, so he asked Zhang Yuan and Zhao Meng to enter the mountain with an infantry to meet Chen Youzhi. The second general received the order and immediately led the infantry out of the south gate and entered the mountain according to the instructions of the soldiers.

Let's say that Chen Youzhi stabbed a general to death, but when he looked up, he saw the Yellow Turban general Yuan Yang Qi running up to the forest with a group of people, and some soldiers chased after him, and he was immediately stabbed and rolled down. Chen Youzhi shouted loudly and chased after him with a gun. When I went up to the forest, I found that the ascent was extremely steep, and it was difficult for the mount to walk at all, and there were many abandoned mounts in front of me who were leisurely gnawing on the weeds. There was a sound of chaos in the mountains and forests, and Yuan Yang fled to the depths of the secret forest with dozens of people.

When Chen Youzhi saw it, he immediately made a decision, decisively abandoned the war horse, and chased after him alone with a spear. As soon as he passed around a bush, he heard a roar around him, and four or five Yellow Turban soldiers rushed out with spears. Chen Youzhi was startled and took a step back, but his feet slipped and fell backwards. It happened that he was leaning against a tree, so he didn't roll down the mountain. He fired a horizontal shot, and the thorn stabbed out diagonally, only to hear a scream, and a yellow turban soldier was stabbed to death.

The other four saw it, and stabbed at Chen Youzhi at the same time. As soon as he rolled over, the tree bounced up, and the Yellow Turban soldiers saw the tree bounce and hurriedly dodged to both sides, and at this moment, Chen Youzhi rushed to the mountain, stabbed one person to death, and kicked one person over. There were still two Yellow Turban soldiers left, and when they saw such a situation, they dared to resist again, so they directly discarded their spears and fled on both sides.

Chen Youzhi doesn't chase them either, his target is Yuanyang. Abandoning the two pawns, he quickly chased after him with a gun, chasing for about 500 meters, weak and panting and soaking wet, but he still did not give up, and even fought to catch up. After chasing for another two hundred meters, all of a sudden, two feather arrows flew out of the shadows of the trees, Chen Youzhi couldn't dodge, and was hit by an arrow in his left shoulder, one of which was blocked by his gun.

At this moment, four more Yellow Turban soldiers rushed out in front, and when they saw Chen Youzhi injured, they glanced at each other and killed him at the same time. Chen Youzhi swept away the gun with one shot, and the branches of the surrounding trees fell one after another, and the four yellow turban soldiers all stood in one shot, and blood spurted from their necks. The four soldiers threw away their weapons and covered their necks with their hands, but they still couldn't stop the blood from flowing out, and finally all fell to the ground, convulsions and died of breath.

Chen Youzhi sighed, continued the pursuit, and came to the exit of a mountain pass, and saw a group of people not far in front, among which Yuan Yang was in front, and there were still twenty or thirty soldiers around him.

"Yuanyang thief, Hugh wants to flee and leave your head." Chen Youzhi shouted and chased after him.

Yuan Yang listened, turned back angrily, and saw that Chen Youzhi was only chasing alone, and there were no soldiers following behind, he smiled coldly, and said faintly: "Dare to chase alone, is it really so vulnerable when Yuan Yang is so vulnerable?" After saying that, he ordered the soldiers to shoot back.

The soldiers knew that Chen Youzhi was brave, and said in horror: "General, this person is extremely brave, let's run away quickly." ”

"You're afraid of being alone, what's the use of living?" Yuan Yang said, slashing the soldier who spoke, and said to the others: "All turn around, are you still afraid that so many people can't beat him alone?" If anyone dares to retreat, I will kill him first. ”

When the soldiers heard this, they couldn't help but tremble, and they rushed towards Chen Youzhi in fear. Chen Youzhi was not afraid at all, shouted loudly, and rushed towards them quickly with a gun.

"Let's go up together and kill him." Yuan Yang ordered. When the soldiers heard this, they shouted and killed. Chen Youzhi jumped forward in one step, and a shot was directly stabbed into the throat of the soldier who rushed to the front, and when the gun was drawn, he saw the soldier's throat blood gushing out like a flying spring, and then fell to the ground.

"If you don't want to die, disperse quickly, I just want Yuanyang's head." Chen Youzhi said loudly.

The Yellow Turban soldiers looked at Chen Youzhi, then at their comrades who died on the ground, and then at Yuan Yang, and then at each other, and then looked at each other, and with a loud noise, they fled in all directions. "You guys, come back." Yuan Yang shouted, but no one returned.

Chen Youzhi sneered: "You have no way out, no soldiers to call, and you still want to die and struggle?" ”

Yuan Yang said coldly: "You don't want to be complacent too early, we fought for more than a hundred rounds before, and you couldn't help me, and now your left arm is injured, and I just took your life." ”

Chen Youzhi said: "A small injury can't stop me from taking your life." As he spoke, he grabbed the gun and rushed towards Yuanyang.

Yuan Yang showed a look of horror in his eyes and hurriedly dodged, but Chen Youzhi's gun was inserted into a tree. When Yuan Yang saw it, he was overjoyed in his heart, and when he didn't attack at this moment, he screamed and slashed with a knife. Chen Youzhi saw it, turned his hand, pulled out the gun, and stabbed Yuan Yang suddenly, that Yuan Yang did not cut off a knife, he had already been stabbed in the chest by Chen Youzhi with a shot, snorted, the knife fell to the ground, spurted blood from his mouth, and fell to the ground and died.

Chen Youzhi picked up the knife, cut it down, carried Yuan Yang's head, and slowly descended the mountain. As soon as he reached the mountainside, he heard a chaotic noise in front of him, as if more than a thousand infantry were rushing towards him. Chen Youzhi didn't know who was coming, so he hid behind a tree and secretly checked, it turned out that Zhang Yuan and Zhao Meng came with soldiers, so they turned around.

When the soldiers saw Chen Youzhi carrying a bloody human head, they couldn't help but scream in fright, Zhang Yuan and Zhao Meng heard the shouting and came around to take a look, it turned out that Chen Youzhi was carrying Yuanyang's head and suddenly appeared to scare the soldiers.

"General Chen, you're fine, right?" Zhang Yuan asked, staring at the arrow wound on Chen Youzhi's left arm.

Chen Youzhi said with a smile: "A little injury, it's not a big deal." Have all the thieves been exterminated? ”

Zhao Meng replied: "Except for a small number of soldiers who fled, all the Yellow Turban generals were arrested and executed, and we came to look for you on the orders of General Zu." ”

"I saw that the thief wanted to leave, so I chased after him. However, General Lao Zu was worried about it, and he took you for a ride. Chen Youzhi said.

Zhang Yuan said with a smile: "Seeing that you have nothing to do, everyone will feel comfortable in their hearts." Let's go back quickly, General Zu is still waiting for us in the city. ”

Chen Youzhi nodded and followed Zhang Yuan and Zhao Meng back to the city. When Zu Zhao saw Chen Youzhi return safely, he was also startled by the head in his hand, he had never seen such a bloody scene. Chen Youzhi threw his head on the ground and said: "General, I have heard of this person for a long time, he followed the Yellow Turban Uprising during the Zhang Jiao Rebellion, this person is fierce and cunning, he has escaped many times of encirclement and suppression, and today I finally caught him." ”

Zu Zhao praised: "Such a wicked person, death is necessary, and you have to thank you." You can come back safely, that's the most important thing. ”

The crowd talked about it, and people pressed all the yellow turban generals who were caught, a total of 25 people, three of whom committed serious crimes, they had participated in the crime of killing ordinary people and raping women, and were pushed out of the city and beheaded on the spot. Although profit is a capital crime, Zu Zhao did not kill him, but ordered someone to escort him to the capital to report his merits and ask for rewards, and at the same time repair books and watch the merits of the generals, let him increase his officials, and even ask him to leave the imperial court, so that Chen Youzhi can be the Taishou of Liaoxi.

Chen Youzhi took Deng Zhong and Liao Bo to defend in western Liaoning, and after collecting some of the Yellow Turban soldiers, there were 60,000 troops, leaving 30,000 to guard the counties in western Liaoning, and the remaining 30,000 were brought back to Liaodong by Zu Zhao.

Zu Zhao's army rested for two days in Yangle, the capital of Liaoxi County, and slowly withdrew to Liaodong. Gongsun Xiaoban and Yu Ban naturally followed Zu Zhao back to Liaodong, along the way, Feng Luoxue and Cai Wenji took turns to wait for Zu Zhao, and Gongsun Xiaoban was in frequent contact with Zu Zhao, and his goodwill increased. She knew that there were two people, Feng Luoxue and Cai Wenji, but she didn't mind at all, and decided in her heart that after returning to Xuansu County, she would definitely show her father that she was not Zuzhao and would not marry.

It is said that in addition to Liaoxi County, the army entered the boundary of Liaodong, the weather was extremely hot, and when it was time to rest, the soldiers took off their clothes and bathed in the river. Gongsun Xiaoban was also hot, her whole body was sweaty, she quietly left the barracks, came out of a quiet place, saw that there was no one around, slowly undressed herself, and walked into a river pool to take a bath. At the moment, the sun is shining, and it is very cool to soak in the water.

Zu Zhao was resting in the barracks, but he was missing Gongsun Xiaoban, and he felt a little uneasy, so he went to find it alone. I looked for a while and didn't see anyone, and when I was about to turn around, I saw a woman's clothes on the grass by the river.

Zu Zhao's heart was feverish, and he knew that she was taking a bath here, and he couldn't help but have evil thoughts slightly, and quietly approached the river.