Chapter 384: The Situation Suddenly Changed with the Secret Envoy
Dian Wei slaughtered all sides in the Shu military camp. It's like a god descending into the world, and there is no enemy for a while. After catching the two generals of the Shu army in one go, Dian Wei was still not satisfied, and continued to lead hundreds of his special combat personnel to search everywhere in the panicked Shu army camp, but it was difficult to see a big fish worthy of his own shot.
Outside the camp gate, a thousand heavy armor and iron weapons were lined up, lying between Pang De and Yan Yan, like a city wall made of copper cast iron, which was difficult for anyone to cross. Pang De had no intention of rescuing Yan Yan, otherwise he would not have opened his eyes to watch the three thousand merging state troops pretending to be Ma Chao's subordinates, following behind him and setting up camp. He had already fallen asleep, but after hearing the sound of an explosion in the distance, he hurriedly walked out of the big tent, and happened to see that in the light of the fire, a thousand black-armored iron cavalry formed a vigilant formation was gradually shrinking the encirclement, and the other two thousand light cavalry had already begun to capture the scattered Shu army.
Pound didn't say a word, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to start getting busy. So there was a very strange scene in the pound camp, from the generals to the soldiers, as if they were convulsed, they were slashing their own armor with all their might, and they were still losing weapons to each other, and some of them were smeared with horse blood that had just been released on their bodies and horses. After all this was completed, Pang De led 7,000 Western Liang cavalry, who had lost their armor and lost their armor, ragged and decadent looks, and began to retreat in the direction of Lishi.
Before this, Yan Yan, who was forcibly taken out of the camp by Meng Da and Wu Lan, was hurriedly retreating in the direction of Lishi with the gathered Shu army, but met Xu Shu who was in ambush on the way.
In the dark night, Yan Yan didn't know the number of ambush soldiers, and heard the sound of horses' hooves approaching in the distance, only thinking that there was an interception in front and a chasing soldier in the back, so he had to leave Meng Da to lead two thousand people to fight against Xu Shu, while he and Wu Lan continued to retreat with the remaining three or four thousand defeated soldiers. In fact, it was not Xiong Zhen's army that roared behind the horses' hooves, but Pang De's 7,000 soldiers and horses.
Meng Da stepped forward to fight against Xu Shu, but was covered by a big net thrown by Xiong Zhenjun, and before he had time to show his fists and feet, he became another big fish trapped in the net. After capturing Meng Da, Xiong Zhen's sergeant shouted loudly: "Put down your arms and go home for the New Year;
When the time came, the long-planned attack finally came to an end. The soldiers in the Shu army camp who had no time to retreat or did not retreat in one direction with Yan Yan were all captured by the besieging Xiong Zhen army, and after a rough count, the number was more than 3,000; more than 2,000 Shu troops were ambushed and captured by Xu Shu on the way, and the total number of Shu troops taken away by Yan Yan was only more than 3,000 people, which can be described as heavy losses.
Fortunately, the attack was launched relatively suddenly, and the Xiong Zhen army did not use crossbow arrows and thunder on a large scale, so the casualties of the Shu army were not much, and the total number of casualties was more than 1,000. As for the side of the Xiong Zhen army that launched the attack, because of the rapid action and careful deployment, the casualties were almost negligible. This is also due to the fact that during the Great War, Dian Wei captured the two generals left behind by the Shu army, and the Shu army lost its command.
The grief-stricken Yan Yan led more than 3,000 routed troops, and was frightened by the Pang De Department who was following not far behind him, and when he ran to the direction of the east gate of Shicheng, he hurriedly asked the sect members stationed at this gate for help. The sect member heard that there were a large number of enemy troops trailing behind Yan Yan, so he hurriedly ordered his troops to gather and prepare to intercept them, but he saw Pang De with a panicked face leading the army.
Yan Yan, who had settled his mind, looked at Pang Dejun, who had lost his armor and abandoned his armor and looked like a deserter, and the anger in his heart did not come out. The chasing soldier who frightened him all night turned out to be a friendly army, and this oolong was really a bit big. But Yan Yan couldn't blame Pang De, looking at the situation of the Xiliang Ma Teng Army, they were also violently attacked, and many people and horses were damaged, all of them were hard-working people!
Pound stepped forward to report to the sect members, saying that when he heard that the friendly camp was in chaos, he was preparing to rescue, but his camp was also besieged by a large number of enemy troops. The major general Ma Chao was not afraid of danger, and led 3,000 cavalry to fight fiercely with Zhang Liao, the dragoon who came to attack the camp, covering the rest of his men and horses to escape from Ascension, and now the life and death of the young master are unknown. Speaking of this, Pound's eyes were already red, and he was crying with grief.
Seeing that the 20,000 friendly troops covering the right flank were now only in their early 10,000s, the sect member was worried that the Xiong Zhen army and the dragoon army were united and were approaching in the direction of Lishi, so he hurriedly ordered someone to send this information to Lu Zhi. When the soldiers who delivered the letter entered Lu Zhi's tent, they happened to see Lu Zhi holding a yellow holy decree in his hand, and he was tightly twisting his eyebrows and concentrating, so he didn't dare to speak loudly, and stood aside resignedly.
After a while, Lu Zhi said to a messenger dressed as a swordsman beside him: "There is an envoy from Lao Shi'a who has come to deliver the decree, and Zhi has been ordered to retreat. After speaking, Lu Zhi turned to look at the soldiers who came in and asked, "The sect member sent you to my camp, what do you have to report?"
So the personal soldiers who reported the news told Lu Zhi about the words of the sect member. After hearing this, Lu Zhi smiled bitterly, and said to himself: "What a Zhao Guochang, he is calculating, and he does not leak. As soon as my envoy arrived, he dared to pull out his teeth and took the opportunity to attack the Shu army and the Ma Teng army......"
It turned out that the envoy in Lu Zhi's camp was Wang Yue's eldest apprentice Shi A. As for the emperor's decree brought by Shi A, it was naturally Liu Zhi's will that he couldn't withstand Zhao Xing's intimidation and the pleading of his third brother Liu Rong, and asked Lu Zhi to withdraw from the army.
Liu Ban also wrote a private letter to Lu Zhi, explaining the reason for the withdrawal very clearly: if the coalition army and the annexed states fought to the end, and as a result, Zhao Xing was forced to rebel and lost most of the main force of the central army, in the future, if other forces followed the example of the annexed states and supported the four princes and the fifth prince as emperors, the imperial court would be powerless to deter and the world would be in danger.
As for the whereabouts of the fourth prince and the fifth prince, it was Zhao Xing who deliberately revealed it to Liu Bian, and it could be regarded as a big and small yin against Dong Zhuo and the Sima family.
Since there were good reasons for retreating both openly and secretly, Lu Zhi had no choice but to get off the donkey and order the remaining three troops besieging Lishi Simen to move closer to his side, and at the same time sent fast horses to send an urgent report to the Caosun coalition army and Huangfu Song army that were attacking Gaowolf and Lin County.
The Cao-Sun coalition army, which received Lu Zhi's urgent report, immediately withdrew from Gaowolf and moved towards Lin County, while Lu Zhi also led the already somewhat incomplete army to march towards the east bank of the Yellow River.
According to the order in which the news was received, the first to withdraw was naturally the three coalition forces that had already reached the east bank of the Yellow River, and as for Dong Zhuojun, who was still wandering on the west bank of the Yellow River, Lu Zhi deliberately played a trick and ordered the soldiers who reported the news to leave two days late. Dong Zhuojun was originally the farthest away from Lu Zhi's department, and under normal circumstances, he was the latest to receive an urgent report, but now he was deliberately delayed by Lu Zhi for two days, and when he received the military order sent by Lu Zhi, something might happen!
If you want to blame Zhao Xing, you can blame Zhao Xing, so he revealed to the emperor that Dong Zhuo had robbed the four princes in private, and the emperor turned around and told Lu Zhi. Lu Zhi thought that Dong Zhuo was also a guy with bad intentions, so he simply played against him, maybe he would see Zhao Xing and Dong Zhuo fighting ghosts, which just consumed the strength of both sides.
As for Yan Yan, who is still in the dark, Lu Zhi is also bored in his heart, and is even a little happy to see that there are only more than 3,000 left of the 10,000 Shu army. Who let him know that the Sima family actually kidnapped the youngest fifth prince!