After deciding to crusade against Liu Xuan, Sun Ce immediately led his troops to the expedition, and in less than half a day, he rushed to Jurong County, which was only seventy or eighty miles away from Liu Xuan's base camp Qu'a.

The proximity of the two armies can be described as imminent. The past business travelers knew that the war was about to break out, and they couldn't help but look hurried, and they just wanted to escape as soon as possible; The people in the city closed the door tightly and did not dare to step out of the city.

While the soldiers were encamped, Sun Ce led Huang Gai, Han Dang, Jiang Qin, Zhou Tai and other thirteen horsemen to gallop and go straight to the southeast, but did not say what he was going to do. The generals were puzzled, but they didn't dare to slack off, and galloped with Sun Ce, for fear of falling behind.

Passing through the jungle path, a high mountain came into view. This mountain is held in the throat of Jurong to Qu'a, and it is the only key point between Danyang and Qu'a - Maoshan Mountain. Legend has it that 250 years ago, that is, in the early years of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the three brothers of the Mao family in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province came here to collect medicine and alchemy, help the world and save the people, and were respected as one of the Taoist ancestors by later generations. However, Sun Ce did not come here to ask for immortals, but wanted to climb to the best commanding heights outside the city of Qu'a and overlook Liu Xuan's formation.

At this moment, Liu Xuan, who was in Qu'a, learned the news that Sun Ce's army had advanced to Jurong, and there were even tabloids that Sun Ce had traveled lightly and had personally gone outside the city to investigate.

Liu Miao did not know whether the letter was written or not, and immediately summoned the generals and staff officers of all walks of life in the tent of the Chinese army to discuss countermeasures. And there is an acquaintance among them, who is none other than Tai Shici.

It is said that since the next battle of Dabie Mountain, Tai Shici heard that Sun Ce was quite active and took Lujiang County for Yuan Shu, but he was unwilling to fall into the grass again and made no achievements. So he resolutely gave up the position of the leader of Shanyue, rode down the mountain alone, and rode a horse for 800 miles to Liu Xuan, who was in Qu'a. Liu Miao and Tai Shici are both fellow villagers of Donglai, and it is not a problem to take him in, but because of the famous man Xu Shao, he was not entrusted with a heavy task, but just let him be a Lang official who rode a horse to explore the road, and for more than a year, he still did not get anything.

Now, Sun Ce's arrival just gave Tai Shi Ci the opportunity to make a contribution, and the next stop of White Horse Peak was undecided, and Tai Shi Ci secretly vowed to take advantage of this opportunity to defeat Sun Ce in one fell swoop and make a name for himself.

Hearing Liu Miao ask three times, "Who dares to be the vanguard", Tai Shici immediately stepped forward from the end of the team and said: "The contemptible Donglai Tai Shici is willing to be the vanguard and reconnoiter the reality of the enemy." ”

Seeing that someone took the initiative to ask for help, Liu Miao was overjoyed, and said to Tai Shici with concern: "Ziyi is sure?" ”

Tai Shi Ci hugged his fists and said: "When the contemptible people fell into the grass in Lujiang County, they fought with Sun Bofu, although this person's martial arts are excellent, but his strength is insufficient, and he is not a man like Lu Fengxian, and his wisdom is also more cunning, not to be afraid." As long as you allocate me a thousand soldiers and horses, I will definitely be able to find out the truth of Sun Bofu. ”

Seeing that Tai Shici was so sure, Liu Miao breathed a long sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Okay, I really didn't misunderstand you." It's just that now that Sun Ce's army is pressing the border, he rashly sent troops for fear that he would fall into his plan to lure the enemy into encircling and annihilating him. You are strong in martial arts, and you will explore the truth first. ”

Unexpectedly, as long as he had 1,000 people, he was also rejected, Tai Shici couldn't help but be stunned. Now that he is over the age and has not yet been given the opportunity to officially lead troops to fight for the first time in his life, how can he not be full of emotion? However, Liu Miao's tone was irrefutable, Tai Shi Ci calmed down, got up and hugged his fists at Liu Miao, and said: "I will not dishonor the trust of the king!" ”

At the top of Maoshan Mountain, Sun Ce overlooked the northeast, only to see Qu'a City like an impregnable fortress standing on the field, and the place where the north river of the city flows is the East China Sea.

Back then, his father Sun Jian recruited troops to the north to crusade against the Yellow Turbans, which was the starting point; And when a generation of stars falls and the soul returns to his hometown, it is also a buried bone. At present, my mother and younger siblings are trapped in Wu County, and my father has a spirit in the sky and will definitely be full of concern.

It's useless to think too much, and now only by using the few troops at hand to resist Liu Xuan can we buy time for Zhu Zhi to crusade against Wu County. Sun Ce suppressed his thoughts about his father and turned around to leave, but saw Huang Gai suddenly pointing to the mountain and forest path below him and shouting: "There are enemy troops!" ”

Sun Ce looked fixedly, and saw that the figure on the path below the mountain was quite familiar, he smiled evilly, and said to everyone: "I'm afraid it's my old acquaintance, let's go down the mountain and meet him!" ”

At the foot of Maoshan Mountain, Tai Shici rode alone, and the royal horse was like the wind. In this life, he has been riding a horse for twenty years, always alone, from riding alone in the North Sea to save Kong Rong in the past, to now single-handedly exploring Sun Ce, Tai Shici really can't understand why others can always raise their arms and echo like a cloud, but no one responds to him, leaving a lonely anger and no way to serve the country.

Three or five zhang away, is the traffic point under Maoshan - Shenting Ridge, there is a small wooden pavilion on the ridge, the road is divided into north and south here. Legend has it that ten years ago, Sun Jian gathered all the troops in Jiangdong, crossed the river to the north, and crusaded against the Yellow Turban.

Tai Shi Ci hit the mountain on horse, looked around at the fork in the road, and suddenly saw a small group of people and horses coming down the mountain, about a dozen people, but there were thousands of horses rolling Pinggang, led by no one else, it was Sun Ce, who was wearing a red cloak and swaggering.

Seeing that the person who came was really Tai Shi Ci, Sun Ce secretly admired Zhou Yu's awesomeness: Tai Shi Ci just defected to Liu Xian Yueyu, Zhou Yu already knew about it, and wrote it on the letterhead he sent to himself before leaving, telling him to go out and bring enough guards to beware of Tai Shi Ci coming to challenge alone. However, where will Sun Ce be careful, when he met Tai Shici today, he didn't do anything, he struck a silver gun, and laughed: "Who should I be, it turned out to be a fugitive under the White Horse Peak!" ”

Seeing Sun Ce's provocation, Tai Shici was not angry, nor was he like the military general next to him, he scolded for a long time but did not make a move, the corners of his mouth grinned, and shouted: "I was looking for you, but you fell into the tiger's mouth." Come on! As he spoke, Tai Shi Ci shouted, and rode his horse straight to Sun Ce in the middle like an arrow from the string.

Seeing this, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai immediately stepped forward to fight with Tai Shici. Tai Shi Ci was not in a hurry, danced with a red gun, and fought with the two of them, but he did not fall behind.

After twenty battles, the two of them were already out of breath, and they gradually became overwhelmed. Seeing this, Huang Gai immediately shouted "I'm here to help", and then danced a big knife to join the battle array, and the three of them surrounded Tai Shici together. Jiang Qin slashed with a double-strand short knife, Zhou Tai slashed with a long-handled copper hammer, Tai Shici was still unhurried, and the red tassel spear danced like a flying flower in the sky, and there were countless swords and swords for a while.

Seeing that he still couldn't win, Han Dang, who had long been unable to hold back, bent his bow and arrows from his horse, intending to find an opportunity to shoot Tai Shici to death, but Sun Ce raised his hand to stop him: "General Han, keep people under the arrow!" ”

"But if you let him go back and let him report to Liu Xuan, I'm afraid it will be disadvantageous!" Han Dang still held on to his bow and refused to let go.

"This person's martial arts are comparable to Lu Fengxian, and his wisdom and courage are not inferior to me, I can't do this person, even if the land of Jiangdong belongs to me, and I have a warrior and guard the Quartet?" After that, Sun Ce rushed forward with a gun and a horse, "Tai Shici, let me meet you!" ”

Afraid of injuring Sun Ce by mistake, Huang Gai, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai immediately dodged away, only to see Sun Ce stabbing with his gun, and the two exchanged guns, bursting out with a dazzling spark.

Since the last time he fought under the White Horse Peak, Sun Ce has been holding his breath, wanting him to capture the other party with his own hands when he meets again in the future, plus he was familiar with Tai Shici's marksmanship routine in the previous battle, and at this moment, he is becoming more and more courageous, and he will not leave the slightest flaw to Tai Shici. Seeing that Sun Ce was coming fiercely, Tai Shici fought and retreated, and retreated and fought, and the two fought all the way from the ridge to the forest, and from the forest to the plain.

"I see that you came here alone and didn't bring a battalion of soldiers, I'm afraid that you won't be reused under Liu Xuan's account!"

"Let you be captured, only I am enough, why do you need thousands of troops!" Tai Shi Ci resisted Sun Ce's blow and replied loudly.

"That's different! Even if your martial arts are world-famous, you are just an enemy, only by commanding thousands of troops and horses, making meritorious contributions on the battlefield, and breaking tens of millions of enemies, can you leave a name in history! With your martial arts and talents, you can become a first-class general with me! Wouldn't it be a pity to be a scout under the account of others! Sun Ce said, danced the silver spear like the wind, and then stabbed Tai Shici.

Xu was stabbed in the center by Sun Ce's words, and Tai Shici waved his gun to block it, but he didn't parry this ordinary shot. Seeing that the tip of Sun Ce's spear was about to come towards his throat, he hurriedly turned around and flashed. Unexpectedly, Sun Ce's gun did not come directly to the vital point, but stopped in the air, and then split Tai Shi Ci with the next shot.

If it was to be himself, Fang Cai would have already seized the opportunity to kill himself with one shot, Tai Shi Ci is good at marksmanship, so he naturally knows. But the more I knew, the doubts in my heart not only did not dissolve, but became bigger and bigger like dark clouds floating in the sky.

There was a shout of killing on the horizon, but it was Liu Xuan's subordinates. Han Dang really expected it to be good, Liu Miao learned that Sun Bofu was fighting with Tai Shi Ci outside the city, how could he let go of such a good opportunity to capture the thief and capture the king first. Seeing this, Sun Ce had no intention of fighting, turned around and got rid of Tai Shici with a shot, and quickly went down the mountain along the path with a dozen generals.

Tai Shi Ci did not chase after him, but lingered in place for a while, then turned his horse's head and galloped in the direction where the reinforcements came.

Returning to the Jurong camp, Sun Ce ordered to hold on, and the team of 3,000 people immediately set up an iron-clad camp and held between the two mountains. In Russia, Cheng Pu rushed to 5,000 soldiers, and the pursuers sent by Liu Miao had to return in a huff.

After this incident, Liu Miao even decided that Sun Ce would immediately attack Qu'a, immediately gathered all the troops, and stationed them in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of Sun Ce's camp, forming a corner with each other, looking for an opportunity for a decisive battle. This was in response to Zhang Zhao's plan to Sun Ce: let Sun Ce contain Liu Ce from the north with relatively weak troops, so that Liu Miao thought that he could concentrate superior forces to annihilate Sun Ce, so that Liu Miao would not abandon Qu'a Nan and run to Wu County and hold Mrs. Wu hostage.

At the same time, Zhu Zhi led 10,000 men to quickly attack from Liyang to the narrow valley in the southeast, and traveled more than 200 miles to Wucheng. Wu Cheng's meager defenders did not expect that Zhu Zhi would lead the army so quickly, and they scattered in a hurry before they could resist. Zhu Zhi did not dare to slack off, and after a short rest, he immediately led his troops eastward to prepare for a decisive battle with Xu Gong.

It was the night of the twentieth day of the month.

On the top of Sun Ce's independent arrow tower, he looked at the fire from Liu Xuan's camp, and his expression was quite grim. The Ming Dynasty was the day of the decisive battle he set, and the enemy was outnumbered, and a total of 8,000 people were trapped in the lonely camp by himself and Cheng Pu, and Liu Miao had nearly 20,000 people. 8,000 against 20,000, Sun Ce was at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops, Cheng Pu and Han Dang and others all advised Sun Ce that it would not be too late to wait for Zhu Zhi to capture Wu County and return to the army before attacking Liu Xuan, but Sun Ce firmly believed that the Ming Dynasty was the best decisive period.

With the bright moon and the sky in the sky, Sun Ce took out Zhou Yu's third brocade bag from his arms, opened the brocade cloth, and saw three big characters written on it: Qu Ajian.

These simple three words are the basis for his decision to fight tomorrow with Liu Xuanbu, Sun Ce knows that this is a big gamble, betting on the righteousness of his brother with Zhou Yu for many years, and the bet is his net worth and future.

The sound of beating sounded, startling Sun Ce's thoughts, he collected the tips, walked down the arrow tower in the cold moonlight, and happened to meet Xiao Qiao in military uniform, Sun Ce smiled and quipped: "Yo, my sister-in-law is here, but she is in trouble again?" ”

The big battle is imminent, Sun Ce has no nervousness, and he is still in the mood to joke, Xiao Qiao glanced at him, but his tone was not as fierce as usual: "Sun Bofu, you are so brave and ruthless, I don't care." But now, your life is not only your own, but my sister's. Tomorrow depends on how you wander, you have to come back in peace, and come back to my sister......"

Da Qiao didn't want Sun Ce to have worries, so he didn't tell anything, but Sun Ce knew that she couldn't sleep for the past few days and nights, tossing and turning, and had been hanging for herself. Thinking of Da Qiao, Sun Ce's heartstrings trembled, Mingli's gaze softened suddenly, and he rarely replied to Xiao Qiao seriously: "I will come with your sister for a long time, but tomorrow I will entrust her to you to take care of her, and I will ask my sister-in-law to bother." ”

Hearing Sun Ce speak so politely and politely, Xiao Qiao's mouth opened round, and Liang Xiang responded: "Ah, it's easy to say......"

Sun Ce turned his head to look at the moonlight, saw the bright moon sinking in the west, and said to Xiao Qiao: "What about Ying'er?" It's not too early, and it's time for you to go. ”

A carriage slowly drove from the shadows in the distance, and when he saw Sun Ce, Zhou Tai, who was driving, hurriedly got up and saluted, Sun Ce waved his hand, signaling that he didn't have to be formal: "I'll take care of it outside, send them out well, and make sure they are safe." ”

Zhou Tai bowed to the leader's order and drove towards the camp gate. Da Qiao hesitated again and again, but still opened the car window, looked at Sun Ce with teary eyes, and choked up: "Sun Lang ......"

Sun Ce understood Da Qiao's thoughts, and she was reluctant to say goodbye to him, precisely because she was too worried about tomorrow's battle. Looking at the uneasiness surging in the eyes of the person on the tip of his heart, Sun Ce couldn't care about his scruples anymore, and stepped forward to clasp Da Qiao's little hand: "Ying'er, the husband and wife haven't done enough in this life, you wait for me, I will definitely live to pick you up......"

The carriage was galloping, and the hand covering the hand was no match for the late wind, but in a moment, the two passed by. But Da Qiao's little head was still poking out, looking at the figure that was fading away, and tears flew in a straight line.

The next morning, the sky was bright, and above the field, the wind was bleak. Xu was the time of the attack agreed by Sun Ce, and outside the camp, Liu Miao led 20,000 people to line up outside Sun Ce's camp early in the morning, forming a situation of encirclement on all sides of Sun Ce's troops.

In the tent, Sun Ce smiled as usual, only to see him wearing a red cloak, wearing gluttonous gold armor, and a silver spear in his hand, driving the horse in front of the formation. The soldiers are all standing side by side, looking ahead, without fear.

Sun Ce rode his horse and shouted at the soldiers with torch-like eyes: "You are all the best in our army, and you are also battle-hardened soldiers!" But today's battle is different from the past, and here it is just me, and you 8,000 men, and nothing else. Out of the camp gate, there were enemies on all sides, and the enemy was three times as large as ours. In other words, I, and each of you, cannot win unless we take out three enemies. In this battle, there is no right time and place, no roundabout, only as many enemies as possible! Even if you die, you have to take three of them! Whoever kills one less will vomit blood to kill one more for you! Only by fighting a bloody way and inflicting heavy losses on the enemy army can we have a way to survive! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! In the camp, 8,000 soldiers shouted three times, and the sound was stopped. With the increasingly dense sound of war drums, Sun Ce ordered his subordinates to open the camp gate on all sides, hold the silver spear tightly, and rush out on horseback first. Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, Han Dang, Lü Meng, Jiang Qin, and Zhou Tai were not to be left behind, and led 8,000 soldiers to kill Liu Xuan's Chinese army.

Although he had heard of Sun Ce's prestige countless times, as soon as he saw Sun Ce who appeared within a hundred steps like a divine soldier descending from the sky, Liu Miao still subconsciously shrank back and sighed: "He really deserves to be Sun Jian's son!" ”

Tai Shi Ci on the side heard the sound, and couldn't help but be angry, he stepped forward with a gun, and asked Liu Miao to ask: "Wait for me to arrest him!" With that, he flew on his horse and ran straight towards Sun Ce in the midst of ten thousand troops.

Sun Ce only heard the sound of the horse's hooves, and knew that the person who came was Tai Shici, and he picked out the enemy soldiers in front of him and immediately reined in his horse and speared to block. The two of them came and went, dancing like the wind, so that the soldiers around them could not get close.

Cheng Pu, Han Dang and others fought bloodily with big swords, although both of them were no longer young, they were not far behind in the face of those young and strong soldiers. Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai cooperated perfectly, one turned up and down on his horse and stabbed several people like a whirlwind, while the other accompanied him on foot, swinging a pair of hammers to repel all the incoming enemies. The most interesting is Lu Meng, Xu got inspiration from Sun Ce's death before, I saw him smear other people's blood all over his face, while prostrate while looking around, once there was an enemy soldier around him who threw his friendly soldiers to the ground, he immediately stepped forward coldly and aimed at the back of the enemy's neck is a knife.

"Fourth...... Ah no, the fifth! With that, Lu Meng pretended to be dead again and fell to the ground, and then slowly opened his eyes and waited for the next opportunity.

Here Sun Ce and Tai Shi Ci fought more than 100 times, still no winner, Sun Ce deliberately sold a flaw, pretended to be defeated, and Tai Shi Ci immediately rode his horse to catch up. Looking at Tai Shi Ci, who was in hot pursuit, Sun Ce couldn't help but secretly complain: Tai Shi Ci was the third person he met, but he couldn't kill him for a long time, wouldn't it shake the army's heart if it dragged on like this? Taking advantage of the moment when the horse rested, Sun Ce eased the fatigue of his arms, and seeing that Tai Shi Ci was chasing after him, he frowned and thought about it, suddenly stopped the horse's head, and then turned around with a swallow word, and stabbed the gun in his hand straight behind him.

This trick is a stunt that Sun Ce has practiced hard for many years, and if he does not use it, he will take people's lives if he uses it. At the last moment, he pulled the reins, and the horse suddenly raised its front hooves, and he fell from the horse and rolled out a few feet away. Seeing this, Sun Ce had no intention of fighting, and immediately got rid of the unconscious Tai Shici, and rode his horse into the army again.

Da Qiao Xiao Qiao and Cai'er did not go far, at this time on the northern slope looking at Sun Ce and others who were fighting with the enemy, from the beginning of the worry and fear, to silence, and then to I don't know who was the first to can't help it, sobbing, the three girls whimpered, looking at the people fighting with their lives in the distance, their hearts were not good.

On the horizon, the remnant sun rose, red as blood. Sun Ce's 8,000 soldiers had already been killed, and many of them had their arms cut off and their intestines cut, but they still stared wide and plunged their weapons into the enemy's chest. On the battlefield, the blood mist was filled, but after an hour's effort, the flat field was already full of corpses, and Sun Ce's troops had already suffered more than half of the casualties.

Liu Xuan, who was sitting on the chariot and commanding, had never seen such a formation, and he was so frightened that he couldn't give a single order.

But Cheng Pu has led the troops for decades, and he knows very well in his heart that these 8,000 people are already at the end of the crossbow, if they don't withdraw the troops, they will run out of ammunition and food, and they will be surrounded and annihilated by Liu Xuan's troops, he doesn't care about wiping the blood on his face, breaks through the encirclement and comes to Sun Ce's side, and says loudly: "Young General, withdraw the army quickly!" Now that the troops are withdrawn, there is still a glimmer of life! ”

Sun Ce was covered with blood, covered in mud and sweat, his ears were buzzing, he couldn't really hear Cheng Pu's words, what he thought in his heart was the three words on the brocade book, "Qu Ajian." ”

If you retreat now, you really don't have half a way to live. But seeing that the war was becoming more and more anxious, and countless brothers were falling on his side, all Sun Ce could do was to grit his teeth and kill the enemy with all his might.

Suddenly, a white feather arrow came through the clouds and shot impartially at Liu Xuan's helmet in the car. Liu Miao was shocked, and everyone around him panicked, shouting loudly: "Help!" ”

Sun Ce looked far away, and saw that at the end of his sight, where the clouds opened, Zhou Yu, who was dressed in a plain white cloak and silver armor, held a big bow and took the lead, and behind him, thousands of reinforcements were rushing towards the rear of Liu Xuan's troops.

Seeing Zhou Yu, Sun Ce finally breathed a sigh of relief and relieved a little bit of strength. It seems that he didn't mistake his meaning, the three seals of "Qu Ajian" just hide the words "see you on the twenty-first day", this is the date when Zhou Yu landed from the mouth of the Yangtze River in the north and attacked Qu A.

If Sun Ce does not launch an attack on this day, Liu Miao will definitely return to the army to attack Zhou Yu, and at that time, Qu'a Chenggao, Zhou Yu, these thousands of people will fight against the water, even if he leads the army to help, it is still unknown who will kill the deer.

At the same time, a distant and loud horn sound also came from the southeast, and I saw that under Maoshan Mountain, the big banner with the character "Zhu" was the first to bear it, heading towards this side. It turned out that Zhu Zhi had already captured Wu County, and immediately sent the first 1,000 cavalry to rush here, thinking that Mrs. Wu, Sun Quan, and Shang Xiang should also be safe and sound.

In an instant, the situation of the battle reversed, and Liu Miao no longer had a reason to stay here, he shouted hoarsely: "Withdraw the army!" Withdrawal! Kequ'a had been occupied, and the soldiers no longer knew where to retreat, and a strategist next to him immediately said: "Go to Yuzhang, go to Yuzhang Taishou Huaxin!" ”

Liu Miao didn't think about it, and with the arrow shot by Zhou Yu on his helmet, he immediately fled to the southwest with the remaining thousands of soldiers.

On the hillside, Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao and Cai'er witnessed this sudden turn together, and they were all dumbfounded, but in the end, Cai'er couldn't help but open her mouth first: "Is that Jiangzuo Zhoulang?" It's like a god......"

When Xiao Qiao heard this, he didn't bother to wipe his sweaty little hands, and covered Cai'er's eyes: "Don't look at him!" ”