Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 466 The Champion of the Imperial Court, Hou Ye

At the beginning of the afternoon and the beginning of the day, Cao Wei withdrew to Puban City like a tide.

Xu Huang spat out bloody saliva from his mouth, his old face looked south, showing a trace of uneasiness.

The Han army divided into ten groups and launched a surprise attack on the Cao Wei defense line along the way. Originally, he also divided his troops to defend.

But unexpectedly, from the direction of Dong Ting in the north, a Han army suddenly appeared and attacked his soldiers and horses defending the frontal Han army in the north, causing the troops to be defeated.

Afterwards, the Han army successfully broke through the wall and entered. Xu Huang was shocked when he heard the news, and quickly ordered the entire army to retreat.

However, it was too late, and at least three Cao troops were raided and suffered heavy losses.

Xu Huang had no choice but to concentrate his troops in Puban County, planning to seek help from Zhu Ling in the north and Cao Zhen in the south, while holding on to the Puban line of defense and waiting for reinforcements.

He looked to the west with sad eyes, and Xu Shang beside him was panting, wiped the sweat from the bloody battle on his forehead, and said with a sad face: "General, how did that Han army come here? Could it be General Zhu from the north."

"Pang De took people to the north to station in Xiayang before. I guessed that he must have wanted to cross the river to attack the Pi family, but Zhu Ling must have made preparations, and it is impossible for him to cross the river easily."

Xu Huang said in a deep voice, "This Han army probably came from the mountains in the north."

"In the mountains?"

Xu Shang was surprised and said: "That mountain is so high, can they come over?"

Xu Huang shook his head: "No matter how they came here, the river bank defense line can't be defended now, but I didn't intend to stick to the river bank, I just defended in the city."

Xu Shang said: "But the Han army is coming fiercely. What if they raid the city behind us? There are all our food and grass."

"Ha ha."

Xu Huang sneered and said, "Then let them go. Do they have cavalry? For more than a hundred miles, the infantry travel such a long distance. I only need to send cavalry guards to kill them."

It is true that the Han army outnumbered them. The problem is that Shen Chen sent all the cavalry to Nanyang, but now there are only [-] cavalry.

These [-] cavalry are now led by Zhao Yun to fight Cao Zhen in Huayin and Tongguan.

The distance from Puban to Jiucheng is actually the distance from Yongji City, Shanxi Province to Linyi County, Shanxi Province in later generations, about 50 kilometers, more than 100 Hanli.

This distance does not seem to be far, but the problem is that Shen Chen is a pawn who crosses the river. If he wants to raid Yucheng, he has to walk, more than 50 kilometers a day. At least in this era, Shen Chen's Yellow Gate The forced march of Zu and Xiahouyuan can do it.

Even if Sima Yi ran for thousands of miles, he would only travel at a speed of forty kilometers per day.

And a forced march like this will be very exhausting, even if they don't know how much combat power they have when they get there.Xu Huang only needs to send cavalry to follow the harassment, or wait for work, and the army sent by Shen Chen to attack the granary will definitely be wiped out.

Hearing Xu Huang's words, Xu Shang understood why Xu Huang was not worried about the Han army crossing the river at all, so he smiled and said, "The general is wise."

"It's not wise to say otherwise."

Xu Huang said with a serious face: "Now our main force is in Puban. While their army is still gathering and has not surrounded the city, you immediately lead the cavalry out of the city to Jiucheng, and set up more sentries along the way. If they attack separately, we will Will be here to support."

As the old saying goes, surround it ten times.

Although Xu Huang only has about 5 people, Shen Chen's side only has [-] people, far less than ten times his.

If Cao Jun defends the city, 1 people can resist the opponent's attack.

It is also impossible for the enemy to surround the city.

So Xu Huang decided to divide his troops and let Xu Shang lead the cavalry to defend Yucheng. He was resisting the Han army in the front.

If the Han army chooses to divide its forces to attack Jiucheng, the strength of the Han army will be severely dispersed, and he will be able to concentrate his forces. It is possible to attack the enemy's vital forces.

Therefore, Xu Huang was not afraid of losses in the rear, unless the Han army had figured out the location of their granary before he sent troops back, and then sent people there in advance today, and they had to be cavalry.

But how is this possible.

The Han army had no cavalry, and the second did not know the location of the granary. Even if a Han army came around from the mountains in the north, it would not be possible to arrive so quickly.

So Xu Huang didn't worry about it.

I only hope that General Zhenxi can successfully repel Zhao Yun, and then immediately cross the river to help him.

Xu Huang looked to the south with deep eyes, and calmed himself a little in his heart.

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At three quarters of the day, the flames of Yucheng were getting bigger and bigger.

The Han army fell into a bitter battle.

Deng Ai tried his best to kill a Hun cavalry, but was immediately flanked by both left and right sides.

A scimitar slashed at his back, and the other stabbed at his neck.

At the critical moment, Deng Ai bent over abruptly on the horse's back, the knife stabbed in the neck, and the knife behind him slashed on the saddle.

The horses under him suffered from pain, raised their hooves and ran again in the chaotic army, rushing out of the army formation all at once.

Deng Ai became alone, surrounded by densely packed Hun soldiers, which made his heart tense to the extreme in an instant, and he wanted to rein in his horse and turn around before returning to his formation.

But in an instant, several blades swung at him, and it would be impossible to retreat further. He could only bite the bullet and charge forward, slashing left and right, and continued to break through.

The Huns chose to divide their troops to outflank the left and right, resulting in about three to 400 people in the front, which could not form a thick formation. As a result, he rushed out of the formation after only running less than a hundred steps.

Looking back, there were Huns with disheveled hair all around, rushing towards him screaming.

A general himself is forced to leave the battle, what is this called?

Deng Ai was annoyed that he didn't control the horse immediately and let the frightened horse run around in the formation, but the enemy was powerful, and he didn't have the force value like Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun, so he could only grit his teeth and avoid it to the side.

However, it never occurred to him that his luck seemed to be unlucky today. The war horse under his crotch was already frightened. Suddenly, his foot made a mistake, and the horse stumbled, throwing him off the ground.

It’s over.

Although Deng Ai immediately controlled his body to sit and roll to avoid injury.

But he suddenly fell into despair in his heart, secretly thinking that something was wrong.

If the horse under his crotch is still there, he can immediately turn around and run to the outside, and wait to find a suitable opportunity before rushing in to join the team.

But now that there are no war horses, and the Huns around come to kill them, they can't run on two legs and can't run on four legs, so they must be finished.

The thought almost flashed across my mind.

The man hurriedly got up from the ground, touched the knife again, and Deng Ai's mood fell even further to the bottom.

When he fell down just now, the knife accidentally dropped, and now it is one foot away from him.

The point is that the nearest enemy is less than three feet away from him, and Deng Ai can even see him slashing at his face ferociously with a machete.

If you take a knife, you will be cut.

If you don't take the knife, there will be endless slashing and killing.

Must die!

Deng Ai even wanted to close his eyes for a moment and just accept this fate.

But he still rushed towards the knife without hesitation. Almost as soon as he picked up the knife and turned his head back, the scimitar of the Huns had already slashed down.

At this time, it was too late to raise the knife to defend.

Deng Ai's pupils dilated and his eyes widened, staring fixedly at the imminent knife, unable to react.

Just at the moment when he thought he was going to die, there was a sudden sound of piercing through the air.

"call out!"

"puff!"

The Huns behind him were still in the posture of slashing down with their knives, but their bodies did not continue to slash down, but fell sideways.

The scimitar in his hand changed direction in an instant, and it almost fell down against Deng Ai's body. The hair on Deng Ai's back was so frightened that even the soles of his feet were covered with sweat.

He raised his head and saw about eighty steps away, a cavalryman continued to bend his bow and set his arrow, aiming in his direction, and shot again.

The arrow drew a gorgeous arc in the air, and shot down another Hun behind Deng Ai.

Deng Ai recognized who the knight was at a glance.

"Boyo!"

He couldn't help shouting.

Behind Jiang Wei, more than a thousand cavalry emerged like a tide, and then galloped into the battlefield.

Deng Ai lifted his spirits, howled and raised the steel knife in his hand to continue fighting.

After Jiang Wei helped Deng Ai out of danger, he immediately galloped over to Deng Ai's side and helped him repel the surrounding Hun soldiers.

"Brother!"

After Jiang Wei killed several Huns around him, he got off his horse and saw Deng Ai covered in blood. He panicked and said, "Are you injured?"

Deng Ai was indeed injured. He was scratched in the chaos before, and he also had some scratches when he fell off his horse just now, but he still waved his hands and said, "It's nothing serious, why are you here?"

Jiang Wei said: "You left without authorization, the elder brother was going to die of anger, and said that he wanted to deal with your military law. I should persuade him and let him attack the rear of Cao's army first, and I will rescue you."

"Hahahahahaha."

Deng Ai looked up to the sky and laughed, pointing to the burning city of Yucheng not far away, he said: "Do military law? Tomorrow, senior brother will confess me. This place is full of Cao Jun's food and grass. Once the fire burns out, the east of the river will be leveled!"

Jiang Wei turned his head to look, because there was no one to extinguish the fire, the flames had slowly grown bigger, billowing thick smoke was rising, as if the setting sun was setting and the fire was burning clouds.

In fact, he was able to come here so quickly, thanks to the thick smoke guiding the way, otherwise he might not have arrived in time.

Seeing this situation, Jiang Wei said with emotion: "Congratulations, senior brother, you have made amazing achievements."

"You have your share!"

Deng Ai patted Jiang Wei on the shoulder and said, "Go, kill them!"

"Kill them!"

Jiang Wei also shouted loudly, brought a war horse from the side, and put Deng Ai on the mount.

The cavalry of the Han army has raided behind the Huns like a tide.

The Huns couldn't hold on any longer, broke up and fled.

Deng Ai collected his broken soldiers and joined Jiang Wei's more than 1000 cavalry, and then continued to set fire to the east of Yucheng, increasing the intensity of the fire.

Soon the entire city was on fire, and the soaring black clouds could be seen for several kilometers around.

Xu Shang is on his way to Jiucheng at this moment.

It took a day for the infantry to arrive, but Xu Shang led [-] cavalry, galloping on horseshoes, and after an hour, they were already close to the outside of Jiucheng.

"what is that?"

Xu Shang looked up and saw black smoke billowing in the distance. He was startled and ordered the soldiers to speed up.

After waiting for more than a quarter of an hour and running for more than ten kilometers, Xu Shang's scalp was already numb.

On the horizon in the distance, the flames were raging, and the entire city of Jiucheng was already in flames. There were corpses everywhere outside the city, almost all of them were from the Wei army and the Huns.

"go!"

Seeing this scene, Xu Shang knew that something serious had happened, and hurried back to Puban County, he must tell Xu Huang about it as soon as possible.

At the end of the day, it is about six to seven o'clock in the evening.

The sky was not yet completely dark, and the sun was setting in the west. On the vast land to the west of Puban County, countless densely packed troops rushed like tides.

After repelling Cao's army, Shen Chen did not pursue immediately, but gathered all the ships and ordered all the ministries to start transporting the luggage, chariots and horses to the shore, and at the same time demolish the wall of the village to build a new camp.

While the soldiers in the rear were busy, Shen Chen led an army of about [-] to the outside of Puban County slowly. Now Cao Jun retreated into the county for defense, and he had to set up camp outside the city.

If it is not dealt with, all the soldiers will go to build camps. If Cao Jun goes out of the city and launches a sudden attack, the soldiers cannot gather in a short period of time, and they may fall into an extremely embarrassing situation.

Therefore, experienced generals will often concentrate a part of their troops first when setting up camp, so as not to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Shen Chen was riding on a horse, and Ma Dai looked into the distance and asked, "Commander, Cao Jun retreated into the city, and it took us a day to reach the outside of Puban City, which was much slower than expected. .”

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "Cao Jun has many cavalry, and the scouts just came to report, and their cavalry has gone to the rear. Obviously the granary is also located at the rear, and it may not be easy to cut off their food road."

"Their food and grass always have to go into the city. Wouldn't it be better if we block the road outside their city?"

Ma Dai said.

Shen Chen shook his head: "It's not that easy, Xu Huang won't be so stupid that the city doesn't even have food and grass for more than half a year, at least it will take more than half a year to besiege the city, we can't guard their food road every day, let alone Cao Zhen in the south will not rush to help. "

"This is troublesome."

Ma Dai also felt a little headache.

During the Battle of Guandu, Yuan Shao's army of more than 4 surrounded Cao Jun's [-] to [-] people, but he still did not cut off his food road, because Cao Jun had cavalry to escort the grain and grass.

Shen Chen's situation is the same now, he lacks cavalry, Xu Huang relies on cavalry guards, the food road will be safe.

So Pusaka will be tough.

However, Shen Chen had already prepared for a tough battle before, so he didn't worry too much. Anyway, the soldiers came to block them, and the two sides would just have to fight wits and courage.

During the conversation, Wu Dang, Wu Tao, Huo Yang, Shan Yi and others hurried over, Wu Dang stepped forward to report: "Great Governor."

"Where are Deng Ai and Jiang Wei?"

Shen Chen saw that the two most valued disciples were missing from the six disciples who went around and made a surprise attack.

Wu Dang said angrily: "Governor, Deng Ai said he was going to investigate the enemy's situation, but he got the news that the enemy's granary was in Jiucheng, so he rushed forward before he could confirm the future. Jiang Wei went to look for him."

"Is that so?"

Shen Chen frowned slightly, this was disobedience on the battlefield, it could be a big or small thing.

The key lies in whether Deng Ai has established extraordinary achievements.

If he can really burn Cao Jun's food and grass, it will be a great achievement.

Just like Huo Qubing.

In the Battle of Dingxiang North, he was ordered to cover Wei Qing's main force to attack. As a result, he was the main force, chasing Qingqi for hundreds of miles and beheading thousands of Huns.

Some people are born with their own instincts for war, and there is no need to obey the arrangements above. Playing by ear is the best way.

But if Deng Ai failed, it would naturally be disobedience and disobedience, which was a big deal, and if serious considerations were made, he might even be executed.

Shen Chen didn't want to kill Deng Ai, so he eased his brows and said: "The general's military orders abroad are not acceptable. Although Shi Zai is indeed a little reckless, if he succeeds, we can defeat Xu Huang. He can indeed take this risk." Go take a risk and send an order to let the scouts form a cavalry to meet them."

"Report!"

At this moment, a galloping horse galloped back.

The scouts reported to Shen Chenhui: "General Yingyang raided Jiucheng and burned millions of stones, grain and grass in Cao's army. Because the horses are not strong enough, they are now recuperating by the Laishui River. Send me back to report to the governor!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

When Shen Chen heard the news, he looked around and said happily: "Shi Zaizhen is the champion of the imperial court, Hou Ye. He sent me an order to surround Puban. I want Xu Huang to either surrender or the entire army to be wiped out!"

　As usual, go out on a date.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)