"Kill, kill!"

In the rain, the Han army and the Wei army engaged in a fierce confrontation.

From the beginning of the afternoon to the beginning of the evening, both sides were in a bitter battle.

The rain poured down and covered the land.

And it's not just them, a steady stream of Cao army and Han army reinforcements are still on the way to come.

Previously, Cao Wei had nearly 20,000 people scattered in the north and south of the Yellow River to find Huchu Spring, and Cao Wei immediately sent people to summon them, and they all arrived one after another.

But the Han army was not vegetarian, Zhuge Liang's army was already more than Sima Yi, he not only asked Gan Ning to gallop with cavalry, but also sent the Yellow Gate soldiers to come over on foot and arrive at the battlefield.

By night, the most elite soldiers of the 3,000 Han army had arrived.

The original commander of the Yellow Gate, Shen Tao, has become the general of Anbei, with a high position, and no longer serves as the commander of the Yellow Gate, and is now served by the general of the Chong Army, Zhou Tai.

When Zhou Tai arrived, he saw only a chaotic battlefield, where 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers of the enemy and us were fighting together in the wilderness, rain, sweat, and blood were intertwined, and the sound of screams, shouts, shouts, wails, and the sound of the handover of blades was endless.

Without any hesitation, he immediately joined the battle, the pouring rain was still falling, the sky was getting darker, the visibility became lower and lower in the night, and soon the soldiers were scattered, slowly looking for their own people to fight together.

In the middle of the night, the sudden rainstorm was much less, and the dark clouds slowly drifted away, revealing a bright silver-white moonlight, illuminating the earth, and the situation on the battlefield gradually became clearer.

I saw that the originally chaotic battlefield was full of enemy soldiers who had been cut into countless small groups, and there were not a few people killed in a chaotic manner, but the speed of the group was quite fast. Many people didn't find the team in the first place, so they simply pretended to be dead on the spot or hid in a corner.

In the grass, in the woods, and by the streams, people can be seen everywhere. The group with the most people is naturally Xiahou Shang and Zhou Tai's Huangmen pawn, Zhou Tai led people to shout all the way, and when they met the Han army, they were absorbed into it, and they asked where the governor was, and they killed Cao Jun when they met it.

Although the visibility was high, the chaotic scene did not change much. Cao Jun was shouting: "Kill Shen Chen, kill Shen Chen." "Come and save me, fuck me." "There's a team of Han soldiers over there, brothers, come with me to kill them!"

The Han army was also shouting: "Our reinforcements have arrived, kill." "Capture Cao Ei alive, capture Cao Ei alive!" "It's time to make a contribution, catch Cao Rong, and pay homage to the marquis." "Protect the Metropolitan Governor first, don't mess up, form a formation."

All kinds of voices came and went on the battlefield, and Shen Chen's position was relatively far northwest, outside a forest by the side of that small stream, the inner and outer three floors were protected by more than a hundred and a dozen guards.

Xiahou Shang had already launched several rounds of offensives just now, but Gan Ning suddenly rushed from the flanks and scattered his team, causing the offensive to ease and the crisis on Shen Chen's side to be lifted.

He swept the battlefield by the moonlight, and faintly, hundreds of black shadows could still be seen on a small hillside in the distance.

It had to be at least two miles away from his location.

Shen Chen estimated that it was not Cao Ei, and it was probably the person sent by Cao Ei to supervise the battlefield.

This time it's more dangerous.

As the commander of one side, except for the last battle of Lei Shou Mountain, Shen Chen rarely went to the battlefield in person, and he was always commanding in the rear.

But now it's a rare opportunity.

Originally, he only thought about taking Luoyang, and after receiving Pang De, he either went north to destroy Wuqiu Jian first, and then went south to cooperate with Zhuge Liang to attack Sima Yi.

Either go south to attack Sima Yi's rear first, and then go north to attack Hanoi County.

I didn't expect Cao Rong to be here.

Capture the thief and capture the king first, and the opportunity to dominate the country in a war is in front of you and should not be missed. So he immediately sent troops and searched for Cao Ei's traces along the south bank of the Yellow River.

As a result, I found it, and I almost put myself in danger because the reinforcements arrived one step late.

However, the ending was good, a heavy rain and darker weather helped, so that the Cao army could not quickly defeat them and survived until the reinforcements arrived.

After the visibility was a little higher, Zhou Tai took the Yellow Gate Pawn to rampage through the chaotic battlefield, asking all the way, and finally found the direction where Shen Chen was.

As more and more reinforcements from both sides arrived, the number of soldiers fighting on the battlefield became more and more, and the scope of the battlefield became larger and larger.

There are also villages and fields nearby, many people hide at home, listening to the shouts and killings outside and all kinds of sounds shivering, sometimes encountering the rout soldiers who flee in a panic and avoid smashing the door outside, which makes the people around the pavilion frightened and frightened.

Zhou Tai ordered the soldiers of C, D, E, and Ji to rush to the aid of other soldiers, and he personally took a thousand people from A-word Qu and B-word Qu to Shen Chen's side, although the three thousand elite soldiers of the Yellow Gate are a quota, but too many people are not a good thing, especially when it is extremely chaotic like now, sometimes a team of dozens of people can play a miraculous role.

A thousand people rushed at full speed, and the distance of four or five hundred paces was instantaneous. As the battlefield got closer and closer, the two thousand peripheral stragglers that Xiahou Shang had just brought together gathered, but in the face of the two neat Han pawns, they didn't dare to come up to intercept them, but just fizzed a few arrows symbolically in the distance and watched them leave.

The main reason is that the yellow men are equipped with hand crossbows, and the Cao army who blocked the road almost didn't even have the qualifications to come up and touch porcelain, and they were shot into a hornet's nest dozens of steps away, everyone knew that this team of people was not easy to mess with, so when the battlefield became so scattered, the number of people was small and they didn't dare to come over.

Soon he approached the battlefield, not far away Xiahou Shang's soldiers and horses also gathered around him, the reinforcements here entered the camp, and the Cao army that attacked Shen Chen's direction on that side slowly retreated in an orderly manner, and the battlefield that was originally screaming and roaring and intertwining weapons became surprisingly quiet in a blink of an eye, only the sound of fighting in the distance continued.

"Governor, it's too late for the end."

After Zhou Taiyu's identity was revealed, he was brought to Shen Chen by the outer Metropolitan Governor's personal guards.

Shen Chen said in a deep voice: "It's just the right time, you can kill me with me." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the direction of a small hill in the distance.

Zhou Tai looked over and saw the figures on the small hillside in the distance, so he asked, "Governor, is there over there?" ”

"It's Cao Rong."

Shen Chen said: "If you can capture him alive, the entire Cao Wei will inevitably collapse, and the world will be peaceful." ”

When Zhou Tai heard this, his breathing became short, and he arched his hand and said: "The last general will go to the soup and fire and capture Cao Rong alive!" ”

"Kill! Capture Cao Rong! ”

"Capture Cao Rong!"

"The whole team!"

Seeing that the Han army not far away suddenly erupted into an earth-shattering roar, Xiahou Shang immediately shouted and wanted to intercept it.

For a while, the sound of shouting and fighting, the sound of ping-pong weapons fighting, the muffled humming and hissing of people when knives and guns entered the flesh, and all kinds of sounds instantly filled the battlefield, and the battlefield that had just calmed down became extremely lively.

"Go to the two people on the right! Above! ”

"Don't let the Han army rush over, blow the horn and gather people."

"Kill, kill, kill."

Xiahou Shang kept roaring.

With the melodious sound of the horn, the nearby Cao army, which was either fighting or resting, suddenly gathered.

The Han army did not dare to show weakness, and soon Gan Ning personally led the team to support.

The battlefield, which was originally 20,000 or 30,000 people scattered, quickly became concentrated, but everyone no longer lined up like a head-on battle, but staggered and engaged in fierce confrontation in the dense terrain.

The battle lasted for nearly two hours, and it was not until the sky was gray and the sun rose that the situation on the battlefield became more and more scattered as before.

Shen Chen wiped a handful of sweat, reined in his horse and looked around.

The Cao and Han armies were scattered again, and the chaotic battlefield was littered with corpses and scattered weapons and equipment, blood flowed into streams, fields, and ditches with the previous rain, and the figures of enemy and enemy could be seen everywhere in the gray fog.

Xiahou didn't know where he went, Gan Ning didn't know where he went, and Shen Chen only had one or two hundred personal guards and three or four hundred people from Zhoutai, adding up to about five or six hundred.

It's not that he has suffered heavy casualties here, but mainly because the people were scattered badly in the chaotic battle last night, and it would be good to be able to gather so many people now.

At this moment, Shen Chen led the soldiers to move forward, and the eastern morning sun had already revealed half of his body, but the sky was still very dark, and the dark clouds overhead had not dissipated, obviously there would be a rainstorm during the day today.

The figure on the hillside in the distance turned his horse and turned away, and the Han army shouted and launched a charge in pursuit.

The two sides soon arrived at Huting again, one after the other.

This time, the Cao army no longer had the strength to defend in the pavilion, and the Han army easily occupied the pavilion and marched towards the dock.

When I arrived at the pier, I saw a big ship slowly sailing away, and the wreckage of sunken ships was everywhere near the pier.

Cao Rong stood at the bow of the boat, watching the pursuers of the Han army to the shore from a distance, the distance between the two sides was about 100 zhang, and he could even see a black horse standing on the shore, and the people on the horse were staring at him coldly, which made him very uncomfortable.

"That's Shen Chen."

Cao Rong said.

Next to him is Cao Wei's general Hu Zun, who led people to garrison Hu Pavilion.

Hearing Cao Rong's question, Hu Zun replied: "Your Majesty, the minister has not seen Shen Chen, but it is said that his mount, the jade horse, is all black, only the horse's mane is white, and the horse is like this, I think it is him." ”

"Sima Yi is really incompetent!"

Cao Rong gritted his teeth and said, "I asked him to rush to help immediately, but the reinforcements not only arrived late, but also failed to eliminate Shen Chen. If I can kill Shen Chen here, why can't I repel the enemy? ”

Hu Zun said: "After all, the general of the chariot cavalry has fewer soldiers and horses than Zhuge Liang, and he is holding on to the 200,000 Han army, and the burden on his body is not light." ”

Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition, the actual number of soldiers and horses was 150,000, but it was claimed to be 400,000, and Cao Wei estimated it to be 200,000.

Cao Rong said: "Even so, it is not a reason for him to delay the fighter. ”

Hu Zun smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, Shen Chen is now in the hinterland of Henan, and there are our soldiers and horses everywhere. And we are not defeated, but we are still in the midst of a fierce battle, Your Majesty can send people to Yecheng in the north, and you can send people to increase the troops of the general Che Cai, and Shen Chen will definitely be annihilated here. ”

They actually have tens of thousands of people in Yecheng, the family family has contributed nearly 100,000 new troops, Cao Rong only let Wuqiu Jian bring 50,000 people, and the remaining 50,000 people continue to train, although they are all rabble, and the combat effectiveness is not high, but after all, it is 50,000 people.

Shen Chen's side added up to just over 10,000, and if Cao Rong immediately transferred troops, he might be able to stop Shen Chen. After all, Shen Chen was a foot soldier, and in Cao Wei's hinterland, it was not so easy to evacuate in a short time.

"Hmm."

Cao Rong pursed his lips and nodded slightly.

The boat slowly left the shore and sailed on the rolling waves.

They wanted to go to the ferry on the other side of the river, and when they reached the other bank, Cao Rong planned to immediately send someone to Taihang in the north to transfer the defenders there.

He planned to keep Shen Chen in Henan at all costs, it was no longer important whether Luoyang was there, and Shen Chen's life was even more important.

Without Shen Chen, the pressure on Cao Wei's western front will be greatly attenuated, as long as Sima Yi and Xiahou Yuan can resist the southern front, then with Cao Wei's heritage and population, they will eventually recover slowly, and then recapture Guanzhong step by step.

At three o'clock in the morning, about six o'clock in the morning, there was a faint mist on the Yellow River, which was not wide, about a mile or so, and soon they approached the opposite bank.

On the other side of the Huting Ferry is the Wude Ferry, which is located in the southeast of Wude County and is the junction of Qinshui and the Yellow River.

I saw that the ferry port was slowly revealed in the fog, and rows of docks with boats were parked at the side of the ferry, and many boats were tied there, and all kinds of pergolas for resting, warehouses for storing goods, and market houses were lined up on the ferry, which seemed to be quite prosperous.

However, what is strange is that there is no figure at this time.

If it's wartime, this is not surprising.

The problem is that Henan Yin is a hinterland, and if it weren't for Shen Chen's surprise attack, the war is unlikely to affect here, and Huting is an example.

So it stands to reason that there should be people here, and this point boatman ferry should be lively.

Cao Rong frowned.

It was so quiet that it didn't seem like there was any sound.

"Why is it so quiet here?"

Cao Rong asked.

Hu Zun said: "When the minister took over Huting before, many boatmen fled, maybe they told the other side of the ferry about the war, everyone fled." ”

"Hmm"

Cao Rong is noncommittal, it may be because of this, but it always makes people feel uneasy.

The boat was getting closer and closer to the shore, and when it was about thirty zhang from the shore, Cao Rong suddenly said: "Let the boatman stop the boat, do not dock, go down the river, and cross the river again at the Yanjin ferry!" ”

"Yes!"

Hu Zun immediately shouted: "Don't dock, go to Yanjin Ferry!" ”

The voice was loud and informed the boatman.

At this moment, countless figures appeared in the originally quiet ferry.

Someone jumped on the roof, raised the bow and crossbow in his hand, and roared: "It's late, release the arrow!" ”

After that, he let go of the arrow in his hand, and a sharp arrow suddenly cut through the void and shot in the direction of Cao Ei.

Almost at the same time, countless arrows rained down on the sky and covered the entire ship.

Cao Ei's eyes widened angrily, and at the last moment, he pulled Hu Zun next to him to block the arrow, and he heard Hu Zun snorting continuously, and he was shot into a hedgehog, and he himself only felt a pain in his chest, and then he was dragged into the cabin by the guards risking death.

(End of chapter)