Chapter Twenty-Three: The Resurgence of the Swords
In the blink of an eye, it was May, and it had been a month since the last great victory of the Yellow Turban Army. After a month's rest, the Han army regained its combat strength! On the battlefield in Jizhou, Lu Zhi was worried.
"Report to your lord, there are people outside the door who call themselves Liu Bei and Liu Xuande who come to ask to see you!" Lu Zhi was worried about the defeat of the army, and when he suddenly heard such news, he was overjoyed, and his cheap student Liu Bei still had some ability!
"Call in!" Lu Zhi hurriedly said
"See my lord, Liu Bei led two thousand soldiers and horses to help!" Liu Bei saluted as soon as they met
"Okay, okay, Xuande is here, I'm relieved!" Lu Zhi said with a smile, "Order Liu Bei to be the vanguard officer, I will give you another 3,000 people, and you will lead these 5,000 people to camp outside the city and form a corner with me!" ”
"Yes, sir!"
"The military situation is urgent, I won't keep you more! After the yellow scarf is broken, I will give you credit! Go ahead! Lu Zhi said
"Yes!" Liu Bei saluted and retired, watching Liu Bei go out, Lu Zhi was overjoyed, with Liu Bei's help, it would not be difficult to break the yellow scarf, he had a plan, and what he lacked was to be able to be a strong general!
Just when Liu Bei took refuge in Lu Zhi, Zhu Jun led Sun Jian to also fight Bo Cai! The two armies fought, and Zhu Jun happened to trap Bocai three hundred miles south of Runan City, surrounded by groups, intending to trap Bocai.
"General, Sun Jian is willing to lead his troops to sneak attack the grain road of the Bocai Department!"
"Okay, since Wentai is so brave, I will give you 3,000 soldiers and horses, and you can lead your subordinates and four generals to go!" Zhu Jun said with a smile
"Thank you, sir!" Sun Jian was overjoyed
That night, Sun Jian led his subordinates Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, and Zu Mao to quietly set off by moonlight. He sent dozens of scouts to inquire about the news with Runan and the Bocai Department, waiting for the arrival of the grain transport team.
"Bo Shuai! The army has less than three days of food and grass, whether to attack or retreat, please decide! Peng Tuo said to Bo Cai, after the last time the two of them worked together to defeat Zhu Jun, now their confidence has increased greatly, and everyone wants to go up and fight him! Especially this time against Zhu Jun again. Even more from the heart of the Han army!
"Zhu Jun still dares to fight? I couldn't wait, let him take advantage of a month, it seems that it is time to give him another blow! Bocai laughed
"Bo Shuai, I am willing to lead 5,000 troops to raid Zhu Jun's front, and Bo Shuai will lead the troops to cover up and kill him again, and kill him again, so that the people of the Han Dynasty can see, we are in accordance with the will of heaven!" A general said
"Good! Go and order troops now, you all go! 5,000 soldiers each, took turns to charge and kill Zhu Jun's left flank, and dealt him a heavy blow. If you can find where Zhu Jun's grain and grass are, take everything you can with you. If you can't do it, burn it on the spot! Bocai ordered
"Yes!" The congregation will answer
"Kill!" A shout burst out, Zhu Jun really didn't expect that Bo would suddenly attack, fortunately, he was ready to raid at any time and cooperate with Sun Jian to fight! I was a little surprised, but I wasn't panicked! Hurry up and send troops to fight! Bocai originally wanted to attack suddenly, take advantage of it, and plan to get rid of Zhu Jun's grain and grass, but now it's okay, both sides are prepared! It's really the tip of the needle against Maimang, and the two sides have been fighting for a while! From night to morning, Bocai's troops were wave after wave, always attacking in one direction, Zhu Junfa at the beginning, after a few battles, found that he had been attacking the left flank, and couldn't help laughing, "Bocai is really a genius, this way of playing is really an old lady going to the thatched house, looking for death!" "Hurry up and transfer troops, make a pocket formation, and further eat some of Bocai's men!
By noon the next day, the soldiers were also tired, and the two sides unanimously ceased fighting! Bocai took advantage of the sneak attack, and he had the upper hand at first, but when Zhu Jun set up a good formation, both sides had damage, and it was a tie!
"Bo Shuai, our side has lost more than 20,000 soldiers and horses! It's just," Peng Tuo glanced at Bo before he stopped talking.
"Say, just what?" Bo Cai was a little displeased, this raid on Zhu Jun turned out to be prepared, it seems that the days of peace are gone forever!
"It's just that Zhu Jun sent people to make a surprise attack, not only did we not find Zhu Jun's grain and grass, but our grain and grass were burned half by him, and now it is only enough for the army for two days!" Peng Tuo smiled bitterly
"What? Outrageous! It seems that we have to hurry up, if we can't repel Zhu Jun, we have to quickly break through and retreat to Runan! Bocai said angrily
"By the way, Bo Shuai, I didn't even touch Sun Jian in this battle!" Peng Tuo said suddenly
"Maybe it's the grain and grass." Bocai said disapprovingly
"No, Sun Jian is extremely brave, and he must take the lead in every battle. This time, we only attacked in one direction, and in the end, he Zhu Jun also saw that he didn't send Sun Jian out, which is a bit intriguing! Peng Tuo frowned
"I didn't run into it, maybe I wasn't here," one of the generals laughed
As soon as these words came out, Bocai Peng Tuoqi was not good! The two glanced at each other, and sighed in their hearts at the same time, it's over, the grain road is in danger!
At this moment, hundreds of cars were slowly walking on the main road, and the cars were pulling grain. "Hurry up, hurry up, Boshuai is still waiting for food for our brothers!" The leader shouted
"Commander, do you think we can win this time?" Someone asked with a grin
"Win steadily! As far as the group of soldiers of the Han Dynasty is vulnerable, it is not worth mentioning at all! The leader said proudly,
"Kill!" The man wanted to ask something more, but was suddenly startled by the shouting of killing! What's the situation, doesn't it mean that the Han's soldiers are vulnerable and not worth mentioning? How does this look like a wolf and a tiger! It turned out that Sun Jian came with someone to kill, Sun Jian is known as the "Jiangdong Tiger", he looks like a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and this time he brought carefully selected soldiers, which is really a tiger and wolf army! After waiting for a day and a night, looking forward to the stars and the moon, they finally waited for this grain transport team.
"Chong, the meritorious service is at this time, all the brothers will kill with me!" Sun Jian shouted
The grain transporters belong to the transport team, and their combat effectiveness is a scum, and now they are a scumbag of the fifth battle! Even many people have never seen this battle, but now it's good, they were directly stunned in place, losing their lives in vain, and it didn't take long for Sun Jian to end the battle.
"Lord, this is too unpleasant, why don't we kill Runan directly!" Huang Gai said with a smile
"No! Military orders can't be done, let's go back to see Master Zhu first! Sun Jian said
"Lord!" Cheng Pu said suddenly,
"Huh? Do you have anything else to say? Sun Jian asked curiously, because in this group of people, if it is about bravery, it is not among the best, but when it comes to marching and arranging, it is Cheng Pu who ranks first, so Sun Jian still has some expectations in his heart!
"My lord! If the grain and grass of the Bocai army are robbed, the army will definitely be in turmoil, and it will definitely be defeated at that time, and the lord can ambush here in advance. Maybe there will be gains, and the rebels are weak, so the lord can choose the city as soon as possible to prepare for the restoration of the will of the military saint! Cheng Pu said
"There is a point in that! In this way, Demou escorted half of the grain and grass to Xiapi and handed it over to Ce'er in the starry night. Zu Mao Huanggai, lead the troops to ambush here, if there is still a grain transport team, continue to attack, if the Bocai Department is defeated here, capture and kill on the spot! The others will bring the surplus grain and grass to the camp with me! Sun Jian said
"Yes, my lord!" A few people answered, and then quickly divided the troops!
"Report! General Sun Jian returned victorious, Bocai grain and grass have been intercepted, and now General Sun is escorting grain and grass back to the camp! The herald excitedly said, because it had been a long time since there had been such a victory!
"Okay, it's worthy of the Jiangdong Tiger!" Zhu Jun said happily
"Big brother, Lord Liu asked us to be the vanguard, don't we have to kill a few of his generals first?" In the Liu Bei military camp in Jizhou, Zhang Fei thought about it and said to Liu Bei
"Yes, eldest brother, the third brother is right, I just came, and the morale is high, why not take the opportunity to fight!" Guan Yu also hurriedly said, after all, both of them are military generals, and when they get to the battlefield, they just watch and don't fight, not to mention how uncomfortable it is!
"Hehe, okay, since the two brothers think so, then let's find a chance to kill him!" Liu Bei smiled, his heart full of joy and excitement.
"Report, General, there is an abnormal movement in the enemy army!" Just when the number of people was combined, the herald came to report
"Let's go, go out and see!" Liu Bei said with a smile, it's really sleepy, and there will be a pillow when you come. I'm going to do something, so I'm going to give it away!
"Listen, the people on the other side are Deng Mao, the vanguard officer under General Tiangong and General Cheng Zhiyuan. Which of you came out to die! Then he heard a man in half-drawn armor shouting from the other side.
Looking at this posture, it made Zhang Sanye angry, "What a thing, just like this bear, he can also lead troops to fight, big brother, I'll kill him!" ”
"To the eldest brother, kill his arrogance, looking at it like this, it is to insert a label and sell the head!" Guan Yu couldn't stand it, so he saw that Deng Mao was wearing a half-pulled armor, carrying a big knife, sitting crookedly on the horse, showing off his might.
"Be careful of deception, this Yellow Turban Army has been on the battlefield for a long time, will it be a trick to lure troops by suddenly sending such a thing?" Liu Bei said worriedly
"Just this broken soldier, what can you do if there is fraud?" Zhang Fei said babblingly
"Third brother, don't worry, the eldest brother is reasonable, but there is fraud, and Cheng Zhiyuan is in ambush. I heard that Zhang Jiao was sick and should not go to war, I am afraid that Cheng Zhiyuan came out in order to invite merit, even if there is an ambush, there will not be too many soldiers. Big brother, just call the third brother to fight, and then lead Cheng Zhiyuan out, I will kill him, and then the eldest brother will lead the troops to press up, and strive to break the balance of Jizhou in a battle! Guan Yu stroked his beard and said
"Okay, what the second brother said is reasonable! Big brother, don't hesitate, hurry up! Zhang Fei urged
"Let's go. Fight! Liu Bei thought about it, gritted his teeth and said,
"Kill!" Zhang Fei roared, rode a horse to kill, Deng Mao saw that someone was fighting, and immediately adjusted his posture, only calm and resolute were left on his face, after all, this is the battlefield, everyone is here to play with their lives!
"Set up the formation, trap him for me, haha, dare to come out!" Deng Mao laughed, and with a shout, the Yellow Turban Legion on both sides surrounded Zhang Fei, and the advantage of his horse was eliminated at once, although the cavalry did great damage, but if it didn't rush up, it would be better than the infantry. Zhang Fei rushed too fast, he didn't expect Deng Mao to suddenly come with such a hand, he didn't fight him at all, he only used small soldiers to besiege him, and for a while Zhang Fei was so anxious that he shouted, there were people on the left and right, and he couldn't rush at all!
"Oh, how can the third brother attack long with a short attack?" Guan Yu said urgently
"Second brother, hurry up and answer!" Liu Bei was also a little anxious, after all, Zhang Fei was on the battlefield for the first time, and he was really afraid that he would fold in it!
Eat a trench and grow wise, Guan Yu will not rush into the pile of people like Zhang Fei, and I saw Guan Erye taking a bunch of people around in a circle to save Zhang Fei. Along the way, there were people on their backs, and the Yellow Turban Army gave way one after another, killing and wounding. Guan Yu was approaching Zhang Fei quickly. Zhang Laosan was even more excited when he saw that someone was rescuing, and he shouted violently, picked up the Zhangba snake spear, and cleared the field at once!
"Hmph, it's finally out, follow me! Kill these two generals! Cheng Zhiyuan snorted coldly, appeared with more Yellow Turban Army, and quickly joined forces with Deng Mao to form a larger encirclement! The two of them were besieged. Guan Yu didn't dare to be blocked by the infantry like Zhang Fei, so he had to keep going around in circles to keep the war horse charging at speed!
"Third brother! Capture the thief and capture the king first! Guan Yu shouted as he rushed to kill
"Hey!" Zhang Fei was furious, and with Guan Yu's containment, he finally came out of the encirclement, and the war horse was finally able to move. "Thief, take your life!" Zhang Fei went straight to Deng Mao, and when Guan Yu saw it, he quickly whipped Cheng Zhiyuan!
"Good!" Liu Bei, who was watching the battle, couldn't help but cheer, and at the same time, a hanging heart was also put down. "Prepare to fight, if we win, we will take advantage of the situation to chase and kill, if we lose, we will respond to the two generals of Guan Zhang!"
"Yes, General!"
"Good come, general, you and I will kill a Han general by ourselves! I'll leave the ring-eyed thief to me! Deng Mao said disdainfully
"Okay, you and I will take care of General Tiangong's worries one by one!" Cheng Zhiyuan also smiled, and after the two finished speaking, they killed the Han army! Although the two are not famous generals, they can be regarded as masters compared to ordinary soldiers, and there is basically no three-in-one enemy, and the two of them despise the Han army more and more!
"Dang!" Finally the four of them matched, when Cheng Zhiyuan's knife against Guan Yu's knife, he knew what regret was, he only felt that his arms were numb, the knife in his hand didn't know how far it had been knocked away, and his throat was directly filled with a mouthful of blood, and before he could swallow it, he felt a cold neck, and saw a horse pulling a headless corpse rushing forward, Cheng Zhiyuan was still a little puzzled, how could this body look so familiar, and then he was no longer conscious. On the other side, Zhang Fei finally found his opponent, and with a snake spear, he pierced Deng Mao's big knife through the middle, and then stabbed him through the heart! With one arm, Deng Mao was picked up hard! Deng Mao's eyes widened until he died, and he didn't believe that he was invincible to this black-faced boy's move! Deng Mao was bleeding from his mouth, but he couldn't speak anymore, he only felt a pain in his heart, and then fell into endless darkness!
"Great, drumming, marching!" Liu Bei was overjoyed and said, "Rush with me!" Liu Guanzhang and the three of them took advantage of the Yellow Turban Army to lose their command, and led the troops to rush to kill, the sky was dark, the sun and the moon were dark, and finally even Lu Zhi led the troops to fight, and under the first battle, they actually wiped out most of the Yellow Turban Army in Jizhou, and directly retreated Zhang Jiao to Julu and Guangzong!
At the same time, different degrees of counterattacks have also broken out in various places, and the powerful people in various places have recruited troops to form an army, and the entire Han Dynasty is full of wars and dead people, and the most stable places are only Luoyang and Changshan. Even Xiliang, Han Sui and Dong Zhuo are also confronting each other, just waiting to see the changes in the forces of all parties. At this time, there was a sudden outbreak of plague on the grassland, and a large number of people and horses were infected and died, making it impossible for the Qiang people to go south. In addition, the Yellow Turban Army in various places is at a disadvantage, and the two people with heavy troops in their hands slowly started to think! In the end, Han Sui obeyed the edict of the imperial court, led the troops to the border pass to guard the town, and resisted the Qiang people, anyway, he didn't have to lose a single soldier, and he could still ask for money and food from the imperial court, why not! As for Dong Zhuo, as soon as he saw Han Sui withdrawing his troops, he hurriedly took the Xiliang elite to the Central Plains to attack the Yellow Turban Army, wanting to take this opportunity to develop his forces and see if he could gain a foothold in the Central Plains and be a talker.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, Jizhou, the Yellow Turban Army of Dongjun has been repulsed, and a total of 300,000 Yellow Turban Army have been annihilated in the two places!" Zhang Rang hurriedly congratulated Emperor Ling, this was the happiest time he had in the past six months!
"Hmm. I didn't expect this huge crowd of thieves to be so vulnerable! Emperor Ling smiled slightly and said very calmly
"Your Majesty is blessed with heaven, and the holy power is shocking! Everywhere the imperial army went, the thieves fled in despair! Zhang Rang patted the dragon's fart with all his praise, only coaxing the Spirit Emperor to laugh
"Okay, whatever happens to Guan Zhen, it's all the soldiers from all over the world!" Emperor Ling really couldn't listen to it in the end! "Spread my will, send someone to Lu Zhi and Zhu Jun to offer condolences and reward the sergeants!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" "I just don't know what happened to General He Jin?" Zhang Rang asked suddenly
"Well, He Aiqing guards the pass of the capital, I'm afraid there won't be too many opportunities to fight with the thief army, I'm afraid there will be nothing to gain this time!" Emperor Ling said with a smile, in fact, while they were talking, He Jin took Cao Cao's opinion, sent Cao Cao and Yuan Shao to each lead a road of military horses, detoured to the back of Zhang Mancheng's army, and suddenly launched an attack, taking advantage of the night, to set fire to the grain storage land of the Nanyang Yellow Turban Army! He also ordered all the county guards in Nanyang to work together, hold on to the major cities, and dragged Zhang Mancheng's troops down, and when the news reached Luoyang, the palace maids said that they saw His Majesty Emperor Ling put on a costume late at night, secretly sang a night of play, drank a night of wine, and finally got drunk on the dragon chair in the palace!
At this time in Changshan City, Cheng Feng was leading Zhao Yun and a few people to taste the wine he brewed.
"Come on, come on, how about a taste?" Cheng Feng looked at Zhao Yun and the others with a look of hope,
"Big brother, are you sure you can drink this?" Zhao Yun looked at the wine in front of him and asked uncertainly, because this wine was completely different from what he had seen before, not only did it not have the mellow aroma of wine, but the color was also weird, and it looked a bit like that. Horse pee!
"That's right, lord, are you sure it's not poisonous?" Zhang Liao also quipped
"Forget it, I'll be the first to eat crabs!" Guo Jia picked up the wine glass and said in a tone of rushing to the execution ground, which made everyone laugh, and Guo Jia drank it all after speaking.
"How? What do you think? Isn't it delicious? Zhao Yun asked with a smile
"Whew!" Guo Jia took a long breath, "The taste is mellow, fragrant, after drinking, the whole body is warm, and even the spirit is much better!" After thinking about it, Guo Jia said slowly
"What? Am I so amazing? Zhao Yun smiled, and then also picked up a glass, one sip was dry, sure enough, the wine flowed slowly, and a rich aroma of wine came everywhere, the whole body was hot, and the brain was a lot clearer, and he couldn't help but praise "It's really good wine!" ”
"Lord, what kind of wine is this?" After a few drinks, Guo Jia couldn't hold back anymore and asked
"Rice wine!" Cheng Feng said with a smile
"What? Rice wine? Several people looked at each other, this rice is a rare thing, especially now that there is a lot of chaos everywhere, if anyone has rice, it is really a rich man, and his own lord actually used it to make wine, it is really a tyrannical thing!
"My lord! This? Guo Jia was embarrassed to speak
"Hehe, I know what you guys have in mind? It was the last time it rained, and there was a warehouse leaking rainwater. The rice inside was soaked and fermented by rainwater. I can't eat it anyway, so I'll use it to make sake! This wine is not bad, isn't it? Cheng Feng explained
Hearing Cheng Feng say this, a few people breathed a sigh of relief, and they were really afraid that he would take the grain to make wine, after all, there were too many things in his head, who knows when and where suddenly a notice popped up! But then again. This wine is really good. Since it's good, it's not too hot today, and I heard the news of the victory of the Han army, and this hot pot is on the shelf again.
"I'll tell you, I'll treat you to barbecue in a few days!" Cheng Feng finally said drunkly. I can finally drink a little taste of the wine of the afterlife, but this foodie is starting to worry about barbecue again!
"What is a barbecue? Did you know? Han Yong asked Zhang Liao with a big tongue
"How do I know! It should be delicious anyway, so just wait! Zhang Liao rolled his eyes and said
The conversation between the two made everyone laugh, and the laughter spread out, causing the yellow turban scouts outside the city to be stunned, could it be that their side was defeated again? I was so scared that I ran back to find out the news!