Chapter 242: One Word Escape
Dong Zhuo and Hua Xiong, who had left the camp, stopped their war horses after galloping for a while, and began to collect the defeated soldiers on the side! There are a total of about 8,000 people in the main camp, and now there are less than 1,000 under Huaxiong's personal order, and they are all old people brought by Xiliang. In order to allow Guo Yan to capture Zhang Jiao, Dong Zhuo brought 5,000 men and horses from Xiliang and let Guo Yan take away 3,000, which made Dong Zhuo sad that it was not those Han troops but his own descendants of the Xiliang Army, and he lost more than 1,000 in this way, thinking about Dong Zhuo's flesh.
"Dashuai - do we take a detour to the north gate to find General Guo Yan, as long as our soldiers and horses are together, even if Zhang Jiao chases after us again, we can resist - it seems that we need to ask the court for help!" Hua Xiong handed the water bladder hanging on the side of the war horse to Dong Zhuo, watching the sky gradually brighten up, he was very unwilling to be calculated like this. Dong Zhuo on the side was shocked, he took a sip of water and realized that this victory made him fight like this, and he would definitely be questioned after returning to Beijing, it was better to take advantage of the Yellow Turban Thief's foothold to not gain a stable foothold, and he also had the strength to fight with Guo Yan, he expected that the army at the north gate would be fine.
It's just that he thought wrong, the Han army can be said to have been wiped out in one night, leaving only some remnants of the defeated generals still lingering. Guo Yan's side was even more defeated, they saw the fire at the south gate and thought that Huaxiong attacked the south gate according to the agreement, Guo Yan also asked the horses to be on guard carefully, and after about an hour, a team of men and horses escaped from the north gate, and pulled a few carriages.
Guo Yan, who heard the scout's report, became more and more convinced that this wave was Zhang Jiao's deserters, and the carriage must be filled with Zhang Jiao's family. When about two-thirds of the way through this team, Guo Yan drew his sword and shouted: "All the soldiers obey the order--give Ben Shuai to arrest the thief Zhang Jiao, kill-"
The Yellow Turban Army who escorted the carriage just now looked at the torches that suddenly appeared in the dark, as if they were not afraid of them at all, the Yellow Turban Army stood on the left and right of the carriage with knives and guns and did not move, but two of them removed the black cloth on these carriages, and suddenly revealed the true face of the carriage, but Guo Yan's troops did look confused, even if the Yellow Turban Army did not run, what were they doing hiding behind the carriage?
Just when they were still wondering, the Yellow Turban Army finally showed their fangs and shot out a lot of divine water from the carriage, which belonged to a strong acid with strong corrosiveness, and Guo Yan's centaurs just felt that there were water droplets falling on their faces, and they immediately felt a burning feeling. In an instant, the soldiers who rushed to the front fell to the ground and began to roll, and before Guo Yan could figure out the situation, the Yellow Turban Army had already taken the lead in rushing over, and they cooperated with some people to spray divine water and some people used knives to slash the Han army lying on the ground, which made Guo Yan have signs of rout for a while.
"Grandma's—for General Ben to rush up and kill them all!" Guo Yan waved the broadsword and could see the signs of defeat and retreat of his soldiers and horses by the light of the fire, and hurriedly shouted to kill him, the battlefield is not only a competition of strength, but also a competition of morale, once the morale falls, then this battle will be defeated.
"Brothers-the dog officer army has been ambushed, killed-" As soon as Guo Yan's words fell, many torches suddenly lit up around him, and he couldn't see how many people there were on the other side in the dark night. In fact, this is another team of people and horses that Zhang Jiao ran out of the tunnel, their number is only less than a thousand, but in the dark night, the torches are lit with stars, and it looks like the mountains are full of people - Guo Yan, who has already disrupted the mind of the unknown divine water, don't secretly say when he sees such a scene: "It's not good-careless, the enemy has an ambush, and the whole army retreats-"
Under an order, the army led by Guo Yan hurriedly retreated towards the south of the city, but the Yellow Turban Army bit them tightly along the way, Guo Yan in order to prevent the annihilation of the whole army, he could only divide a thousand men and horses from a few soldiers and horses, and he could only flee towards the Han army camp in a hurry.
When he arrived outside the camp and saw that the banner of the Han army in the camp had been replaced by the banner of General Tiangong, Guo Yan's head "buzzed" when he saw this, and it was short-circuited at this time, how could the heavily guarded Han army camp become like this overnight? Where did Dong Zhuo and Hua Xiong go?
"General Guo - let's look south along the road, maybe we can find the trace of the big handsome!" A partial general saw Guo Yan stunned and motionless, so close to the Yellow Turban Thief, seeing that the sky was about to clear, if he didn't escape at this time, he wouldn't be able to escape after the sky was bright, but this partial general said it more tactfully.
"All right—all the troops are leaving! Be careful with General Ben-" As soon as Guo Yan heard that he was in his arms, he hurriedly gathered a few men and horses to quietly bypass the Han army camp and head south.
Zhang Jiao arranged for men and horses to extinguish the fire in the Han army camp, collect grain, grass and ordnance, and it happened that Zhang Bo had just arrived at the camp with the army, and the two of them combined to reach 10,000 horses, Zhang Jiao sat in Dong Zhuo's Chinese army tent and said: "Uncle Zhang-you immediately lead the army of 5,000 men and horses to pursue the fleeing Han army, and strive to completely annihilate the remaining Han army——"
After a night's fatigue, Zhang Jiao's body bones were a little unbearable, and he was not a real immortal, he just had a good pair of qi cultivation kung fu, but he couldn't stand the fear of today, and after he sent Uncle Zhang out, he felt a little sleepy, so he fell on the table and began to doze.
"Zhang Jiao—are you guilty?" Zhang Jiao, who was sleeping in a daze, opened his eyes and saw a group of gold-armored soldiers standing in front of him, led by a sword in his hand, right around his neck.
"Who are you? Dare to break into the general's camp without permission, don't you want to live? Zhang Jiao remembered that he had been staying in the camp when he was asleep, and he had never gone out, how did this wave of people come in? He looked around and found that this place was born above the clouds, and he was wearing a dragon robe, and he reached out and touched the crown on his head, dressed as an emperor. He slowly stood up and avoided the sword slightly, only to realize that he was above the court, but why was he caught by the gold-armored soldiers?
"General Ben is the Heavenly Court God General, guarding the safety of this Lingxiao Treasure Palace, how can you, a small emperor in the world, be the master of this Heavenly Court? Someone - put me out and throw it down - this person has a destiny, spare his life for the time being! After the Golden Armor God finished speaking, he didn't wait for Zhang Jiao to speak, and kicked him down the clouds with a wave of his hand, which woke Zhang Jiao up from his dream at once, he reached out and touched his head covered with cold sweat, the dream just now was too real, so scary-
When Dong Zhuo and Hua Xiong just decided to go back to look for Guo Yan, they found that a group of defeated soldiers under the banner of the Han army had come, and when they looked closely, it turned out to be Guo Yan's men. The three of them gathered together to talk about the battle situation last night, thinking that the thieves were very strong and they could not win, so it was better to withdraw to Xiliang as soon as possible, rectify the army and horses and fight again. Dong Zhuo is unwilling in his heart, there is no way, a good victory is like this, he can be regarded as an unprecedented and unprecedented.
"Report - marshal, there are enemy troops chasing, there are about 5,000 men and horses-" A military intelligence interrupted the thoughts of the three people, and now that the chasing soldiers are coming, there is no strength to fight at all, and the three of them quickly turned over and gathered the men and horses to flee.