In the first year of Han Jianxing, the fourth day of March in the first year of Wei Taihe, Pishi County, Hedong County, Hejin City, Shanxi Province.

Today was a cloudy day with no sun, the sky was white, and the warm spring breeze with the scent of wildflowers slowly drifted across the plains.

Banners were waved outside the county town of Pishi, and a team of Han soldiers lined up in formation, standing in the green grassland, overlooking the city.

The city was not high, less than two feet, the walls were old and mottled, and the walls above were crawling with creepers, and in some places stained with black blood, and even the walls were cracked.

There are still some weapons and equipment scattered under the city wall, and every time the siege is evacuated, Pang De can only take away the corpses of the soldiers killed in the battle, and the weapons and equipment and flags of the Han army can only be thrown in place and cannot be recovered.

On the bank of the Fenshui River in Gengxiang Township, south of the Pi clan, there was also a Cao camp, and Zhu Ling did not put all his troops in the Pi city, but set up a camp outside the city, and they were horns against each other.

It is not wise to trap a lonely city, the enemy will surround the city, and the army will be discouraged in the long run, and the food and grass will run out one day, so the best way is to camp outside.

In ancient wars, this was often the case, and even when there were many troops, there was not only one camp, but multiple camps placed outside the city to mediate.

In fact, Xu Huang did the same, he originally planned to use the three cities of Puban, Jiecheng and Jiucheng as horns, but Deng Ai suddenly used strange soldiers and burned down Jiucheng, causing him to be trapped in Pusaka City and become a lone army.

Therefore, the current situation is very unfavorable for Xu Huang.

However, at the beginning, the situation on Zhu Ling's side was slightly better, although there were more enemies than on his side, but he relied on the camp and the city to stubbornly hold Pang De's offensive, and the county seat of Pishi could be said to be immovable.

But today it's different.

After noon, Pang De began to storm Cao Ying's camp in Geng Township, with a chaotic sound of the house collapsing and the wall collapsing, Cao Junzhai shouted like a wolf at the gate of the village, "The camp is broken!" ”。

In an instant, the heavens and the earth seemed to be silent, and in a moment he could hear the sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

After a period of chaos in the Cao camp, the Han army stormed the Cao army camp, swords and guns intersected, and all kinds of cries, screams, wails and the sound of blade handing over continued.

A large number of Han troops began to pour into the Cao camp, at first the Cao army was still coming in groups to intercept, and after being cut down and smashed to death one after another, several small leaders dropped dozens of corpses, and then they knew that it was powerful, so they turned around and ran to the depths of the camp.

The generals in Cao's camp shouted and wanted to regroup their ranks, but the momentum of the Han army was even more violent, and a large number of Cao soldiers who rushed into the camp were slashed and killed by the general's surprise, and suddenly formed a collapse trend.

Zhu Ling, who was far away on the city wall, looked at the chaotic Fenshui bank outside the city, and was anxious, but he didn't dare to move when he saw the Han army lined up outside the city.

At the front of the Han army, there are a lot of cloud buildings, rushing cars, catapults, and the gate of Cao Ying's village outside the city just now was smashed by catapults. These days, he has been reluctant to hold on to the city by himself, and it is obviously difficult to rescue the army outside the city.

The battle lasted until dark, and when night was about to fall, some of the Cao soldiers who were scattered thought about running back to Pi's city, the sun was setting, the sky and the earth were gray, and Zhu Ling saw the cavalry behind them before night.

He had no choice but to order that the city gate should not be opened, and watched hundreds of Cao soldiers outside the city scatter and flee like ducks, and then the Han soldiers continued to chase and kill and exterminate the Cao army outside the city.

By this time, Zhu Ling had already lost an arm, and the number of Cao troops in the city was only about 5,000, and the morale of the army began to slacken.

The Han army attacked the city day and night with catapults and cloud towers, which had caused their morale to fall to the bottom.

Zhu Ling knew that it would definitely be a dead end if he held on any longer, because the Pi clan was too small, and the enemy had a lot of siege equipment, and if he stormed the city, the Pi clan would be crumbling, especially the other party's catapult was very powerful, and even the gate outside the city was smashed.

If it continues, when Pound breaks through the city, I am afraid that the whole army will be destroyed. So on the night of the eighth day of the third month, Zhu Ling decided to make a desperate bet and chose to lead the soldiers from the east gate to withdraw to Linfen.

Because Linfen is the only way from Hedong to Bingzhou, if you want to keep the state, you must ensure that Linfen is not lost, so Zhu Ling's choice is correct.

When night fell, a crescent moon in the night sky was hidden behind dark clouds, and the cool moonlight came through the edge of the clouds, illuminating a small piece of blue-white sky, and even the edge of the dark cloud was stained with a touch of white frost.

But the earth was dark, except for the light of the fire on the gates, and everywhere there were dark and dim shadows.

Zhu Ling stood on the west city gate tower, and finally glanced at the direction of the Han army camp in the distance, there were dozens of scarecrows on the city tower at this time, wearing the color of the Wei army's uniform, even if there was a fire on the city tower, it would still look like a soldier standing guard if it was too far away.

The only thing that is strange is that they are motionless.

"Let's go!"

Zhu Ling waved his hand, and hundreds of soldiers behind him quietly descended the city tower to assemble in the eastern city.

Soon the east gate quietly opened, and a group of Cao soldiers slowly walked out, they pushed the carriage and horses, and carried the baggage and supplies all the way to the east by the moonlight.

But it didn't take long for the Han army camp outside the West City Gate to immediately wake up from the deathly silence, with the mooing of the ping-pong war drums and the long sound of the whining horn, a group of soldiers emerged from behind the battlements of the rammed earth wall, the bow was wound out of the sheath, and everywhere there was the sound of the iron armor leaves hula and clatter, the anxious and angry urging, and the neat shouts.

The Han army surrounded Pi's, so it was naturally impossible not to set up sentry posts on the periphery. Although Cao's movements were extremely hidden, they were still noticed by the Han scouts, who quickly rode back on their horses, and whistled far away to report to the Han troops in the camp, telling them that Cao's army was preparing to escape.

Pang De ran out of his main general's camp while getting dressed, he put on his armor and asked the deputy generals Jiang Yuan and Ren Shendao: "What's the matter?" Why is there suddenly the sound of war drums and trumpets gathered by the whole army? Did Cao Jun call it? ”

Ren Shen brought Pang De's war horse and broadsword, and Jiang Yuan had just returned from the front camp and reported to him: "General, the scouts found that Cao's army was preparing to flee at night from the east gate of the Pi clan, and the last general issued a war drum warning. ”

"Well done."

Pang De turned over on the horse's back, raised the big knife in his hand and said, "Let Liu He and Deng Tong stay in the camp, and the rest of the people will follow me, don't run away Zhu Ling!" ”

"Yui!"

Jiang Yuanren responded and chased after him.

Thousands of Han troops were lightly armed, quickly bypassing the city of Pi and pursuing them all the way to the east.

However, Cao's army was well prepared, and they knew that it would take at least two quarters of an hour from the time they were discovered by the Han army to the time when the enemy came out of the camp to pursue them, so after leaving the city, they trotted all the way east in the direction of Jiting.

Jiting is Jishan County, Shanxi Province in the later generations, there is a small hilly mountain range extending from north to south between Pishi and Jiting, which is the junction of Hubei Expressway and Beijing-Kunming Expressway in later generations.

The Han army chased all the way, because it was a light trip, it was much faster than the Cao army to carry a lot of supplies, and by the beginning of the rooster's song, it was already far away to see the continuous fire ahead.

Cao Jun seems to have thought that he had thrown off the Han army, so he lit a torch to light the way forward, but now it has become a guiding light for the Han army's attack.

Pound was overjoyed when he saw this, and shouted: "Kill it!" ”

He thought that the soldiers did not need to line up, and rushed directly to kill, making a noise.

Since Cao Jun was a large group of men and horses fleeing with baggage, and they were lined up from end to end, once they were raided by the rear, they would be in an extremely disadvantageous situation.

Therefore, Pound felt that as long as the soldiers charged, the opposing rear army would collapse, so that Zhu Ling could be defeated without much effort.

But Ren Shen is also from a famous family, his ancestor is the protector of Ren Shang in the Western Regions, and he has some knowledge, and said to Pang De: "General, Zhu Ling is said to be quite brave and good at fighting, since he chose to abandon the city and flee, it is unlikely that he will be defenseless, and the last general will think that he must have ambush soldiers." ”

"Oh?"

Pang De is a person who listens to persuasion, and when he heard Ren Shen's words, he calmed down, looked forward and said: "The Cao army in front is running all the way, but it doesn't look like an ambush. ”

Ren Shen pointed to the dark mountains and forests in front of him and said, "General, please look, the moon is bright today, if I were Zhu Ling, I would definitely not dare to light a torch." He lit the torch to lead us over, and the woodland was just right for an ambush. ”

"Reasonable."

Pound felt that made sense, so he asked, "So what do you think we should do?" ”

Ren Shen thought for a while and said: "The last general thinks that the general can take a team of men and horses to the east for a mile, and then send a group of soldiers and horses to kill and run over first, and when the enemy ambushes all the troops, he can raid their rear." Even if there is no ambush, the front and rear are flanked, and the Cao army will be defeated! ”

"Good!"

Pang De was overjoyed, and after a while, he said: "I am the main general, how can I leave the brigade lightly?" Where's the Involved? ”

"The end will be."

"Let you take three thousand men and go around."

"Yui!"

Ren Shen was overjoyed, this was an opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

At that time, the staff immediately ordered a detour.

Pang De gave an order, and the Han soldiers let out a wolf-like howl and killed the Cao army in the distance.

The distance between the two sides was originally a few miles, but soon Cao Jun noticed the movement in the rear, and for a time there was a riot, and all kinds of sounds echoed in the night.

Zhu Ling was crouching on the right side of the road at the moment, and more than 800 people next to him were quietly hiding in the forest, because there was no order, they didn't dare to move, and they all hid among the shadows of the grass and trees, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Han army.

He knew he couldn't run far.

Pi's Cao army was small in number and had little grain and grass, and if they continued to be surrounded by the Han army, although there were wells in the city to avoid water shortages, they would fall into an embarrassing situation of running out of food after three months.

Therefore, Zhu Ling knew that if he wanted to evacuate back to the rear safely, he had to repel the pursuing Han army in order to save the situation.

Lin Nei was silent, and countless figures of hula could already be seen in the distance, and a deputy general beside Zhu Ling said in a low voice: "General, the enemy is coming soon, are you preparing for a surprise attack?" ”

Zhu Ling glanced at him and said, "Just wait for the order." ”

"Yui."

The adjutant did not speak.

After a while, the Han army swarmed and shouted, rushing towards the Cao army in front.

The sound of footsteps and shouts of killing shook the wilderness, and the Cao army in the forest held their breath as they watched as a large number of Han troops ran in front of them, the nearest of which was not even ten zhang away from Cao's army.

Many Cao soldiers couldn't help but clench the ring head knife in their hands, they didn't want to rush over, but they were afraid that if they were discovered by the Han army, they would immediately burst out and kill.

However, Zhu Ling never gave the order to attack, and remained silent until the Han army and the Cao army in front of him had already begun to fight.

Just when the ambushed Cao army was at a loss, more than a dozen cavalry with the second team of Han troops had already rushed over, their number was at least two thousand or more, and the leader seemed to be the general, shouting and ordering the soldiers to rush forward and kill.

Zhu Ling's eyes flashed with a trace of killing intent, and he jumped out of the woods suddenly, and the cavalry in front hit Zhu Ling headlong, he pulled the reins and raised the steel knife, and the cold light flashed, and the people around heard a thunderclap in mid-air, and the cavalry's war horse neighed in half a sound and fell to the ground, and the horse's face had collapsed into a deep pit.

The cavalryman's skills were also agile, and when the horse fell, he could still stand firmly, so Zhu Ling picked up the big knife and went to block the hammer that fell on his head, and his head and face were immediately like ripe berries.

"Kill!"

It was only at this time that the forest erupted with a terrifying shouting of killing.

"There's an ambush!"

"Retreat!"

"Stand out first!"

The ambush of the Cao army caught the Han army off guard, and this group of Han troops was suddenly dispersed by the waist.

There were many people in the dark night, and I didn't know how many soldiers the Cao army had ambushed, which caused the Han army in the middle to panic, and they couldn't take care of the beginning and the end, and they were in chaos for a while.

Pang De was actually in the rear army at this time, his number was much larger than Cao's, and the soldiers did not have a formation when they pursued, so they commanded in the rear.

At this moment, seeing that there was something wrong with the Chinese army, there was an ambush as Ren Shen expected, so he immediately shouted: "Formation, formation!" ”

The Han soldiers behind him quickly approached him.

The battlefield is now a mess, the rear of the Cao army is engaged in battle with the front army of the Han army, the Chinese army of the Han army is attacked by the ambush of the Cao army, there are shouts of killing and fighting everywhere, and the wilderness is full of staggered figures under the cover of night.

Soon Pang De organized an offensive, but the Chinese army had already been dispersed, and Zhu Ling began to outflank his front army with his own rear army, so that the situation of the Han army took a sharp turn for the worse and was very dangerous.

Seeing this, Pang De roared and rode his horse into the battlefield, Zhu Ling had already found a war horse at this time, and saw a general in the rear leading thousands of Han soldiers to rush over, until it was already at the critical moment, so he also roared and led the soldiers to rush up.

The two sides quickly fought together, Pang De slashed and killed several Cao soldiers with his knife in his hand, the moon was as cool as water, and his white horse was extremely conspicuous in the moonlight, which made the surrounding Cao troops rush up, and even from time to time there were hidden arrows shooting at him.

"Ahh

In the chaos, Pound was shot in the left arm, he simply bit the shaft of the arrow with his mouth and pulled it out, and then continued to fight.

Seeing that the main general was so brave, the surrounding Han troops greatly increased their morale and slashed and killed one after another.

Zhu Ling saw that the already good situation had changed with Pang De joining the battlefield, and he was immediately furious, and with a shout, hundreds of Cao soldiers around him followed him and launched a charge against Pang De.

Pound also had some personal guards around him, but the collapse of the front army and the middle army led to the lack of strength in his rear army, and most of the soldiers were fighting with the enemy, resulting in only more than a hundred personal guards around him to protect him, and the number fell to the upper hand.

But Pang De was not afraid, and first slashed and killed a Cao army who was about to attack him, and then reined in the roar of his horse and rushed forward to kill as well.

Zhu Ling and he met quickly, and in the first round of the fight, Zhu Ling knew that he had met an opponent.

Although the enemy general was wounded in his left arm and was bleeding profusely, he was extremely brave, and his sword skills were strong and fierce, and the force was likely to be above him.

Zhu Ling didn't dare to slack off, the steel knife in his hand swung left and right, constantly colliding with Pang De's big knife, fighting for more than ten rounds, and was in the middle of a fierce battle, when suddenly a shocking shout of killing sounded behind him.

The Han soldiers who were on the detour suddenly appeared behind the forest and raided the right flank of the Cao army again, and the Cao army was instantly defeated for a while, and even the unguarded grain and grass in the rear were also set on fire by Ren Shen with hundreds of people.

Originally, Zhu Ling was concentrating on the decisive battle with Pang De, and when the grain and grass behind him were on fire, he suddenly heard someone crying wolf howling "fire", and his whole person was excited, and when he looked back, he was shocked.

I saw that the Cao army behind me had been crushed by the Han army, and the baggage cart was burning with raging flames, and the entire Cao army collapsed irretrievably.

"Huh!"

At this time, Pang De's big knife attacked again, and Zhu Ling hurriedly resisted, but he didn't prevent the enemy from sinking the knife vigorously, and actually knocked the steel knife in his hand out.

In an instant, Zhu Ling only felt a cold flash in front of him, a pain in his neck, and he lost consciousness.

"Dahan Wansheng!"

Pang De killed Zhu Ling with a knife, looked around, and saw that the victory was decided, and shouted angrily.

"Dahan Wansheng!"

The surrounding Han soldiers also shouted.

The soldiers of the Cao army surrendered, those who fled, those who were killed were killed, and for a time the entire wilderness was filled with the sound of the victory of the Han Dynasty!

It's a chapter today, groggy, can't write a word, the weather is too hot, maybe it's heat stroke