Chapter Ninety-Six: Defeating the Strong with the Weak
In Anfeng County, the soldiers of the Cao Army put aside the knives and guns in their hands, and rested in front of the house and behind the house.
This way from Xuchang to Anfeng County, today in the valley and outside the city was ambushed by the Liu family one after another, resulting in a high degree of mental tension, at this moment, they showed fatigue.
As the days went by, they finally ate a bite of hot rice, and the soldiers devoured it one by one.
After a storm of wind and clouds, the well-fed soldiers leaned back to the front and back of the house, feeling very relaxed.
Outside the city, where the night was shrouded, and he couldn't see his five fingers, Liu Bei slowly approached Anfeng City with a group of crossbowmen.
At the foot of the city, a sergeant lifted the lid of the tung oil altar and poured it down the military formation.
Then the two flints were constantly struck, and in a short time, a tongue of fire was sprang up, and the crossbowmen put their bows and arrows on the fire, ignited the velvet on the arrows, and shot them into the city.
In fact, the crossbowman's rocket normally can't shoot at the city pass, but during the period of Yuan Shu's entrenchment, Anfeng has already been broken after several wars, and the city wall has been destroyed in many places, and the lowest place is less than three zhang high, so it can't stop the rocket at all.
Such a rocket, not only Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Mi Zhu each led a team of people to release arrows at the four gates.
After the rockets flew into the city, many of them landed on the dilapidated houses, and the roofs of these houses had been buried with saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur by Liu Beijun in advance, and after encountering the rockets, they spread rapidly.
"General, someone shot a rocket outside the city, and those houses should have been bought and buried with something that started the fire, and now all four doors are on fire!"
After all, Anfeng County is the county magistrate, and in its glory days, there were more than 100,000 people living here, and of course Liu Bei, a city of this size, could not be burned down with a few rockets.
Therefore, when the sergeant ran to Xiahoudun to report it, the fire had just started.
However, the houses of this era were built next to each other, and if you ignore them, they will spread sooner or later.
Xiahoudun looked around, and finally came to his senses, it turned out that Liu Bei's act of pretending to delay time during the day was actually to trick himself into Anfeng City.
Evil intentions.
It's a pity, there are brains, but not many.
This fire alone could burn down an entire city.
Xiahoudun immediately called the soldiers to evacuate, and in order to prevent crowding when fleeing, he divided the troops into two parts, and he and Cao Chun each brought one person.
"General, what about the grain, grass and baggage?" It's not that Cai Yang is brainless, it's really grain and grass as the lifeblood of an army, if it is lost, it is good to be able to find a large army to converge, if it can't be found, it is likely to be entangled by the other party and starve to death on the battlefield.
"I can't care about so much, just rush out of the city and find Sikong Rendezvous!" Xiahoudun immediately gave the order.
Then the evacuation began.
The first half was fine, but a pungent smell could be smelled from afar, and when they ran to the outer city, it was already a sea of fire, and they ran wildly through the streets between the houses on both sides.
A strange scene appeared, a gust of wind blew, and a group of people fell directly.
"Not good! Toxic mist! Xiahoudun knew that something was wrong at the moment, it must be Liu Bei who mixed poison into the ignition, no wonder Fang Cai's smell was so pungent.
He took the lead and covered his mouth and nose, and galloped out of the horse.
The soldiers behind him followed suit, but many people still fell on the way to escape.
Even the most elite Haw Par riders did not escape the catastrophe.
When they rushed to the gate of the city, the number of people was reduced by nearly half, and what made Xiahoudun's heart ache was the tiger and leopard ride, which was broken by one-third.
Damn big-eared thief, it turns out that his real purpose is not to burn the city, but to force us to stun everyone with poisonous fog when we go out of the city, and those who fall in the city can only be buried in the fire.
Looking back at the charred but indifferent sergeant and the war horse smashing around in the sea of fire, Xiahoudun felt a sense of humiliation.
As the noble of the Cao Clan's legion, the existence of the pioneer Daxu was forced to such a field by the desperate Liu Bei today.
Shame, shame!
"Shoot the arrows! Hurry up and release the arrows! β
Whoosh~
Before Xiahoudun could finish cursing Liu Bei in his heart, a rain of arrows shot straight ahead, and the sergeant who rushed to the front fell down, and even his own mount was shot over.
"Shieldmen, array!"
Xiahoudun, who hurriedly got up, grabbed his spear and burst into tears, now it is no longer a question of whether he is ashamed or not, but whether he can rush out alive.
Although they were all elites, they were first attacked by fire and poison when they were already tired, and now they are facing the Liu family blocking the only exit, and the morale of the army is inevitably swaying.
Winning more with less, defeating the strong with the weak, has always been a typical example worthy of being left a book and famous since ancient times, and as a general in command of the army, he does not want to have such a day.
The same goes for Xiahoudun.
It's just that I didn't expect that when such a day came, I became a negative teaching material.
"Brothers, there is no way back behind you, the fish is dead, the net is broken, kill with me!"
The grief and indignation have reached the extreme, and Xiahoudun has already ignored what is the preservation of vitality, what is the famous teacher and general, and living is the wisest choice.
He picked up a shield in his left hand to block the front, and his right hand clenched the spear, shouting the name of 'Xiahou Yuanrang' while rushing out desperately.
At this moment, the will to survive in a desperate situation and the general's fearlessness of death made their blood boil, and one after another screams came from the depths of their hearts, quickly keeping up with Xiahoudun's footsteps.
A dense rain of arrows crashed into the shield with a muffled thud, and the crossbowmen behind them fought back.
Finally, they fought their way out and pasted the crossbowmen, but what greeted them was the cavalry led by Zhang Fei who rushed to kill.
"Haw Par Rides !!"
In the roar of Xiahoudun, the tiger and leopard rode out on horseback, and was not afraid of Zhang Fei who was ambushed, and divided the troops tacitly, partly killing the crossbowmen, and partly entangled with the cavalry led by Zhang Fei, at the cost of his life to Xiahoudun with the foot soldiers to buy time.
Seeing these fish in the net fleeing, Zhang Fei shouted angrily, waved his Zhangba snake spear and stabbed it out in a daze.
The fierce strength easily penetrated the body of a tiger and leopard rider, and the person who was hit was salivating with blood, but he clutched the spear and did not let go, and the two cavalrymen on the left and right took advantage of the situation to stab the spear at Zhang Fei.
With an astonishing amount of strength, Zhang Fei picked up the entire cavalryman, threw it to the side, and smashed another cavalryman before he barely withdrew his spear to block.
The gap opened by the fierce tiger and leopard rider will be filled immediately.
Rao is a fierce general like Zhang Fei, and he can't break through the encirclement of the tiger and leopard for a while.
Ten thousand enemies are still like this, not to mention the cavalry of their peers, they obviously came to ambush, but they were scattered by the tiger and leopard cavalry rushing out of the sea of fire, and there was no way to form an effective attack.
It wasn't until their own foot soldiers completely walked away that they quickly disengaged and quickly left Anfeng County with the high mobility of their war horses.
Zhang Fei looked around, there were not many crossbowmen standing, and the cavalry had broken more than a hundred horses.
Damn, Zhang Feihuan's eyes widened, and his anger was furious.
After a rough inventory, only more than 100 tigers and leopards were killed, which sounds like a one-for-one ratio, but they came to ambush, they only moved after the other party encountered fire attacks, poisonous attacks and arrow rains, and they only fought five or five times, which is really unacceptable.
If it weren't for the fire in the city, which frightened their mounts, Zhang Fei really didn't doubt that the other side could eat all the people he brought.
Zhang Fei spat unwillingly, no matter what, he finally completed the task, but he thought that if they met on the battlefield again, he would really break out in a cold sweat for the brothers.
When Zhang Fei led people to find Liu Bei, Guan Yu was holding Cai Yang's head in his hand and threw it over, "Let Cao Chun run, the cavalry he brought is not simple, not only is the martial arts strong, but also fights to the death and does not retreat, I rushed to Cao Chun twice and was blocked by them." β
"No, I almost fell in their way." Zhang Fei thought so.
The two were discussing that the tiger and leopard cavalry seemed to be stronger than Dong Zhuo's flying bear army that they had seen under the tiger prison at the beginning, and they were overwhelmed by Lu Bu's Bingzhou cavalry, but Liu Bei was in a state of despair, and the whole person looked straight to the east, and his eyes were a little hollow.
"Big brother, what's wrong?"
Guan Yu's words brought Liu Bei back to his senses and sighed deeply, "I really didn't expect that this person in Pengcheng could let us defeat the most elite vanguard of the Cao army with a weak army. β
After sighing with emotion, Liu Bei only felt depressed in his heart, as if he was choked for a breath, forcing him to shout: "It's really a genius in the sky, a genius in the sky!" βγ
Regarding Lin Mo's deeds, I heard Cao Cao talk about it in Xuchang, and I was very impressed at that time, but I didn't see it with my own eyes, it was just a kind of admiration.
But now, under his wisdom, he was able to repel Xiahoudun's troops head-on, and this sense of impact of being in it and directly benefiting from it set off a storm in his heart, and it was difficult to calm down.
With the assistance of such a demonic young man, what is so strange about Lu Bu stepping on two states and taking three counties lightly?
Therefore, Zhang Liaoneng only sent a bunch of military supplies and left with confidence, with this one person, it was enough to block 100,000 troops.
But
But
Why did such a wizard become Lu Bu's son-in-law!
The Yellow Turban Rebellion broke the moth thief and only got a county order, and he didn't complain; LΓΌ Bu attacked his Xuzhou and displaced himself, but he did not complain; Cao Cao was obviously a national thief, but he commanded himself with the title of the pillar of the imperial court, and he did not complain.
But today, I feel unwilling for no reason.
Such a genius, if he were to assist me, why would he be in such a mess today.
"Big brother."
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stood beside Liu Bei, but they didn't know how to comfort him.
They all understood that Liu Bei's cry was a sense of powerlessness for the future.
After all, Lin Mo is Lu Bu's son-in-law, and today's offer is likely to be the only time to help, and An Neng has no regrets.
After a long time, Liu Bei waved his hand and said in a muffled voice: "According to Yunwen's instructions, retreat to Ankou County, forty miles away, and station. β
Yunwen?
The two brothers glanced at each other, and from the change in Liu Bei's title, they both heard that it was unattainable.
Yes, such a person, who does not desire to get.
For a long time in the past, they were more willing to believe that Lin Mo was just a myth, and today, their victory, their crushing victory, all confirmed a fact.
Lin Mo was not mythologized, he stood in the crowd, shining, heating, so dazzling.
I haven't seen it, but it seems to be reunited after a long absence.
It's a pity that his light, his heat, and his story all belong only to Lu Bu, not to our three brothers.
(End of chapter)