Chapter 402: Crossing the River
When the city was on fire, the east and west gates suddenly closed. No matter how the soldiers in the city rushed, the city gate had no intention of being opened. Strange to say, there was a fire in the city, but even the city gate, which was only a few feet away from the fire, could not even feel the slightest scorching temperature.
The sergeants who stormed Shinno Castle were all cavalry, and many of them had already died in the fire, most of them trampled to death by the military horses of their companions. The rest were to die under the smoke and fire, and the general who led the troops into the city was none other than Cao Cao's ancestral brother, Cao Ren, a famous general in the late Han Dynasty.
Cao Ren rode on his horse, condescending to see that it was impossible to rush out of the city gate. At that moment, he carefully observed the terrain in the city, and saw that the fire in the southwest direction was the weakest, and the city wall here looked the thinnest, as if he could kick the front wall with a casual kick. After Cao Ren saw this, he immediately turned his horse's head and instructed his sergeants to move under the city wall in the southwest.
Looking at the thousands of Cao soldiers in a hurry, he smiled at the point of not returning and used the method of stealth to stand in the corner, and said to himself: "Attacking with fire when you are outnumbered, there is nothing special about this art of war." Is that the end of it? I'm a little disappointed old man......"
Before the sentence of return was finished, Cao Ren's army had already reached the city wall in the southwest. Just as he was about to break through the walls, the crumbling walls suddenly collapsed on their own. There were more than 100 Cao troops who could not dodge and were crushed to death under the city wall, and then, a white-robed general with a silver spear in his hand rushed in with hundreds of soldiers along the gap in the collapsed city wall.
The general who rushed in was amazed by his marksmanship, and the first soldier rushed into the Cao army, and as his silver spear danced, Cao Jun kept killing under the tip of this person's gun. While the white-robed general was killing the enemy, the sergeants on both sides of him kept throwing the canisters of lamp oil that had been ignited towards the position of Cao Junduo. After the jar was broken, the lamp oil inside suddenly turned into a large sea of fire, enveloping the surrounding Cao Jun inside.
In a matter of moments, dozens of fire pots were thrown in, and the Cao army did not dare to move forward any longer, and began to break and flee backwards. The general who led the troops and his more than 100 personal soldiers were left to General Bai Pao who rushed in, Cao Ren's ability was not as good as that of General Bai Pao, and when he saw that he was about to die at the hands of this person, a strange wind suddenly blew behind Cao Ren. A figure took advantage of the wind to reach his side. The figure reached out violently and grabbed Cao Ren, and at this time, the direction of the wind suddenly changed, and the wind and fire blew towards the white-robed general.
When the white-robed general led his soldiers to temporarily retreat to avoid the fire, Cao Ren's war horse under his crotch suddenly screamed, and then lightning carried Cao Ren and the figure together through the gap in the collapsed city wall. Pity the thousands of soldiers who followed Cao Ren into the city, except for their own commander, almost all died tragically in the fire in the city.
When he saw the white-robed young general coming in from outside the weakest city wall, he nodded involuntarily and said: "This is a little interesting, Zhuge Liang's little doll is still a little ruthless, this is to kill them all, burn so many people, and are you not afraid of breaking Yangshou?" ”
Almost at the same time as this sentence was spoken, a new change occurred on the battlefield. Cao Ren, who was almost certain to die, was rescued by a figure, and the old guy's brows furrowed. After glancing at Wu Mian, who was still watching the excitement and ignoring him, he still said to him: "This is a magic ......"
"If you don't have any Fang Shi, who cares about your Fang Shu? Left and right are just looking for a restaurant owner......" Wu Mian also saw that the rescue of Cao Ren's figure was a magic technique, but this kind of magic is not very skillful, ordinary wind control technique. Xiao Rensan is much more skilled than this person.
"I'm done watching this scene, let's go see the next scene." As he spoke, Wu Mian had already walked towards the position of the white-robed general. The general saw that Cao Ren was rescued until he was unintentionally chased. He no longer paid attention to the Cao soldiers who were trapped by the fire and couldn't get out. At that moment, this man also left Xinye Castle with his sergeants and ran down the other road.
No matter how the general galloped, Wu Mian always kept a distance of more than ten zhang from him and followed him closely. The white-haired man was followed by a grinning man who could not return and had nothing to ask for, and when Xinye City was on fire, Xiao Ren San had already gone underground. The most taboo thing about this ginseng doll is that it is roasted over a large fire.
After the white-robed general rode out of the official road for twenty miles, he suddenly entered a fork in the road and continued along the mountain road. After running out for more than ten miles, I saw a big river in the distance through the mountain road, and countless people were marching along the river to the ferry not far away.
More than 100 large and small boats have docked here at the ferry, and the people who filled a boatload drove towards the other side of the river. As these boats shuttled back and forth on the river, a large number of people had already crossed the river to the other side.
At the ferry where the people crossed the river, dozens of military tents had been set up. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each took thousands of men and horses to suppress their positions, looking at their posture, they should be waiting for the arrival of Cao Cao's army, rushing out to fight for a while, to buy time for the people.
The white-robed general rode his horse to the riverside and saw the lord Liu Bei and the Wolong gentleman Zhuge Liang in the military tent. At the moment, he told the story of burning Cao Ren, the general of the Cao army, in Xinye City, and when Cao Ren was rescued by a strange figure in the end, Zhuge Liang frowned slightly. However, this Mr. Kong Ming's cultivation is extremely good, and he waited until the white-robed general finished speaking before he spoke: "Hard work General Zilong, this is Cao Ren's life. But then take Cao Ren's figure, does the general see his appearance clearly? In addition to saving Cao Ren, what else did this person do? For example, casting spells to kill and injure our soldiers? ”
The general, named Zilong, shook his head and said, "That figure appeared out of thin air, and his appearance was vague and unrecognizable. Saving Cao Ren was also a matter of an instant, and now that I think about it, there was no superfluous action, and I didn't kill or injure our soldiers, but just blindly helped Cao Ren escape. ”
Zhuge Kongming gently fanned the feather fan twice, smiled slightly, and said to the white-robed general: "General Zhao, please go to the back account to rest, and wait for Mrs. Mi to bring the little master later, and I will wait to cross the river together......"
Originally, the white-robed general was about to walk out of the military tent, but after hearing Zhuge Liang's words, he hurried back. Zhao Zilong frowned and said to Liu Bei, who was sitting in the center of the big tent and said nothing: "Lord, why haven't the lady and the little lord arrived yet?" Zilong has already rushed back, why hasn't the little master come back yet? ”
As soon as Liu Chan was born, a horse came back to tell him that Cao Cao personally led an army of hundreds of thousands of people to a position less than a hundred miles away from Xinye, and was splitting into several ways to rush towards Xinye. Among them, Cao Ren was the vanguard, leading thousands of cavalry to kill here. At present, under the auspices of Zhuge Liang, under Liu Bei, all the soldiers and civilians abandoned Xinye City and crossed the river to Jiangdong for the time being.
Because he was worried that the men and horses would be recalculated by Cao Jun when they were evacuated, Liu Bei offered a plan. The lord Liu Bei and the young lord Liu Chan were separated and evacuated to Jiangdong, and once Liu Bei had any accidents, at least the flesh and blood of the lord were in the world, and everyone obeyed the young lord Liu Chan Kuang to help the Han family. Liu Bei didn't know why he actually listened to this plan, and let his concubine Mrs. Mi take his only son Liu Chan from another way. But counting the few of them who should have arrived a long time ago, why haven't they arrived for so long?
Hearing this, Zhao Zilong's brows furrowed. He didn't do this when he burned Cao Ren's army in Xinye City, and at that moment, the white-robed general asked Liu Bei for orders to greet his wife and young master.
Liu Bei had just sent a military horse to meet him, and he didn't want his general to go. Helplessly, he couldn't stand Zhao Zilong's bitter pleading, so he could only promise him to take the people of his headquarters to meet his wife and children.
Watching Zhao Zilong gather all the people and horses and set off towards Xinye again, Wu Mian, who was hidden, said to the returnee beside him: "Did you and Zuo Ci miscalculate, only one day can be regarded as a lifetime emperor?" ”
He smiled and said: "Then Liu Chan's little life will not be robbed by a few families, look at Liu Chan's life, see if he can digest the emperor's life in this life." ”