Xuande

Chapter 544

The army led by Sun Jian had the strongest combat effectiveness, and it also persisted to the end. It fought fiercely with Cheng Pu for seven or eight days without losing the wind.

Of course, he didn't have the upper hand either.

The two sides played evenly, which made Cheng Pu feel a little bit hard, and made Sun Jian feel very unhappy.

The main reason is that Sun Jian doesn't think Cheng Pu is a general who can stand on an equal footing with him at all. Cheng Pu is just a general under his command. How can he have the same ability as him?

He cannot accept it.

So Sun Jian led his personal guards to attack Cheng Pu's central army many times, repeatedly attacked, and even took the lead in rushing. He achieved some results and suffered some losses.

But I have to say that the fighting power of the father and son Sun Jian and Sun Ce is still very strong.

The day before Yuan Shu's return order was delivered, Sun Jian entangled Cheng Pu, and the underlord Sun Ce led another force to attack Cheng Pu's right wing. right wing.

The army that Prime Minister Liang Guoguo hastily formed is still not tough enough. Although there is a basic sense of combat established by Cheng Pu, it is still not as good as the elite of Sun Ce's troops.

If it hadn't been for Cheng Pu to dispatch a reserve team to support, Sun Ce could completely tear apart Cheng Pu's right wing.

Even so, Sun Jian also judged that Cheng Puli was incompetent and could not continue to support him. He planned to launch a general attack the next day, and asked Sun Jing to open the city gate to join him in attacking both inside and outside to completely defeat Cheng Pu.

As a result, the next morning, just as Sun Jian was about to send troops to fight, he received Yuan Shu's return order.

Yuan Shu told them that Pingyu County was in crisis, and Yuan Shu was beaten to the door by Liu Bei. Now is not the time to resist the advance of the troops, but now is the time to withdraw the troops and return to aid.

Give me an immediate withdrawal of troops back to the rescue!

Seeing Yuan Shu's return order, Sun Jian was devastated.

He fought well in the front, and he was about to defeat Cheng Pu to avenge himself, but Yuan Shu told him that his hometown had been stolen, and he should hurry back to help, otherwise everyone would be ruined.

To be honest, at this stage, Sun Jian was appointed as the temporary Prime Minister of Chen Guo. He has already controlled the important powers of Chen Guo, and has accumulated a large amount of food and money through various compulsory and non-compulsory means. The confidence to fight for more than a month.

The main reason is that Sun Jian came to find all the wealthy and powerful households in Chen Guo who were unwilling to cooperate with Yuan Shu. Keep fighting.

But it's not even a month yet, it's only been half a month, Yuan Shu can't do it anymore?
Is Liu Bei too strong, or Yuan Shu too weak?

Sun Jian couldn't tell the difference.

But he knew that if he didn't come back to help, he would be surrounded to death here. Once Yuan Shu collapsed, he would be alone and would be surrounded and attacked by Liu Bei, and he would definitely die.

Even if he wanted to survive, he had to leave here. Even if he didn't save Yuan Shu, he couldn't continue to fight here.

In desperation, in the next day's battle, Sun Jian personally led his troops to confront Cheng Pu, entangled his elite, and sent Sun Ce to lead another cavalry to attack the encirclement of Yangxia City, and successfully broke through a hole. Responding to Sun Jing who was fighting from within the city.

Together, Sun Jing and Sun Ce defeated the Chenliu army that Cheng Pu had arranged to encircle Yangxia City, and then attacked Cheng Pu's left wing with the momentum of victory.

The situation on the battlefield gradually tilted. Although Cheng Pu went all out and led the elite to fight back against Sun Jian, he still couldn't restore the defeat of Chenliujun soldiers and Liang Guobing soldiers.

After all, the power of money is still limited. Chen Liujunbing and Liang Guobing successfully realized that getting money is not the most important thing, but life-saving flowers are the most important.

So they no longer ignored Cheng Pu's military orders and the temptation of generous rewards, and fled in defeat. They all flocked to the pontoon bridge beside the waves, scrambling to escape, trying to escape to the north bank of the river to survive, but ended up pushing each other, Under trampling, many people fell into the water and drowned, and many others were trampled to death, causing great losses.

Cheng Pu was very sad, he knew that he was defeated, but the Liangzhou elite deserved to be the Liangzhou elite, even if Chenliujun soldiers and Liang Guobing retreated, the Liangzhou elite remained immovable, insisted on forming an formation, and withstood Sun Jian and Sun Ce once Another shock.

Sun Jian wanted to completely defeat Cheng Pu here, and then retreat safely, but unexpectedly found that Cheng Pu's headquarters could not be defeated, could not be broken through, even if Sun Jing cut off the rear, the formation remained stable.

Even this army is still slowly approaching the bank of the waves in the state of formation, fighting and retreating, gradually getting rid of the state of being surrounded, seems to want to imitate Xiang Yu's last stand?
Sun Jian gritted his teeth, wishing that meteorites would fall from the sky and kill all Cheng Pu's troops, but he was not a great magister, so he didn't have that ability, so he gathered all the main forces and prepared to launch the last dash.

At this most critical moment, a navy suddenly appeared on the waves.

There were more than 20 ships, all of which were archers, who shot arrows towards the south bank, shooting some of Sun Jian's soldiers, as well as many Chenliujun soldiers and Liang Guobing who fled, causing confusion.

At the same time, the sound of beating drums and long horns suddenly sounded on the north bank of Langshui, followed by the shouts of a large number of soldiers. Many soldiers appeared on the north bank of Langshui, holding battle flags and waving continuously.

Reinforcements are coming?

Cheng Pu turned his head to look at the north bank of Langshui in surprise. All he could see were flags, the sound of drums and horns.

Could it be that they really came from Luoyang for reinforcements?
Liu Bei knew that he was not Sun Jian's opponent, so he sent someone to help?

Cheng Pu was very surprised, but also very excited.

He realized that there was an opportunity to turn the situation around.

"Reinforcements are coming! Brothers! Counterattack! Counterattack!!"

Cheng Pu drew his sword and shouted, Liangzhou elites who still maintained their combat effectiveness responded loudly, turned back and moved forward, and launched a counterattack against Sun Jian's troops as if they were dead.

However, Sun Jian's troops were overwhelmed by the large number of soldiers and flags on the north bank of Langshui, and turned pale with fright, thinking that Liu Bei's reinforcements had arrived and could not continue fighting, but they were pushed back by Cheng Pu's troops, showing signs of defeat.

Sun Jian himself was also shocked.

Could it be that……

Did Liu Bei stay behind and send reinforcements?
It's over!This battle cannot be won!If you don't leave, the whole army will stay here and be eaten by Liu Bei!
withdraw!
In the blink of an eye, Sun Jian didn't have time to think too much, and he didn't have time to observe too carefully. He didn't want to win a complete victory, but he just wanted to buy enough time to retreat. Seeing that he couldn't leave if he didn't leave, Sun Jian immediately ordered gold to withdraw his troops. Order the entire army to retreat.

Cheng Pu didn't think about retreating, but continued to move forward, launching an attack, trying to get all the power.

Now that Liu Bei's reinforcements came, he was fearless, and he planned to bite Sun Jian's troops to the death and fight him to the death, but after a short battle, the sound of Ming Jin withdrawing troops sounded behind him.

What do you mean?
Just accept it when you see it?

Didn't the reinforcements come?
Cheng Pu was in a daze for a moment, forgetting that he was the commander in chief, who gave the order to withdraw troops?

Sun Jian didn't think about this issue, he only had one goal now, and that was - transfer in immediately!
This inexplicable World War I ended with the joint retreat of both sides.

Only when Cheng Pu collected his troops and returned to the north bank of Langshui did he know what was going on.

There was no reinforcements at all, no reinforcements from Luoyang, and Liu Bei did not leave behind. All of today's events were a trick set up by Chen Gong, the subordinate of Zhang Miao, the governor of Chenliu County.

Chen Gong happened to escort a batch of new military rations to the camp on the north bank this morning. While resting, he saw that Cheng Pu's army lost to Sun Jian's sharpness, and felt bad. He was worried that Cheng Pu would be defeated by Sun Jian. There is also a risk of collapse.

Immediately, he found a grain-carrying ship as a warship, and the escorting soldiers as archers, and let them go down the river to shoot arrows towards the opposite bank, in order to intimidate Sun Jian's men.

Then, he organized a large number of civilians who brought food and fodder, distributed a large number of banners, and asked people to beat all the drums and horns in the camp, and waved the flags desperately as an offensive, trying to This frightened Sun Jian's army.

If it was a normal season, Sun Jian might not be frightened. He would definitely observe carefully to see what the situation was like before discussing it.

But today it really happened that Sun Jian wanted to retreat and didn't want to take any risks. Seeing the situation, he didn't have time to think about it, so he retreated quickly.

This trick of deceiving the sky and crossing the sea was actually completed under Sun Jian's nose.

when?life?
And Cheng Pu, who seemed to have the upper hand, was of course powerless to pursue, so although he was very grateful to Chen Gong for his help, he was also worried, thinking that Chen Gong should not have ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.

"I know Sun Jian. He is very brave and smart. Once he finds out that we have not pursued him, he will definitely feel that he has been cheated, and he will definitely make a comeback. Then, how should we fight?"

Chen Gong was also a little hesitant, but just at this time the sentinel came to report that Sun Jian's troops had not returned to Yangxia County after the retreat, and the county was empty at this time.

Knowing this, Cheng Pu and Chen Gong were stunned.

Yangxia City, Sun Jian is gone?
Chen Gong seemed to realize something, and quickly suggested that Cheng Pu send someone to check the movements of Sun Jian's troops. After this investigation, he found out that the entire army of Sun Jian's troops had retreated, and even the barracks had not returned.

Really intimidated?
"Sun Jian has always been shrewd, how could he be intimidated by this?"

Cheng Pu was puzzled.

Chen Gong thought for a moment.

"Unless, the reason for his retreat is not because of us, but because of other people."

"Others? Could it be..."

"The general won?"

Chen Gong looked at Cheng Pu, and said slowly: "I have always heard that the great general is victorious in all battles, and he is the number one general of the Han Dynasty. If this is true, then the great general is well-deserved."

Cheng Pu thought for a while, then just sighed.

"Naturally, Junhou is invincible in all battles. I never doubt it, but I haven't learned much about Junhou. Obviously in the army, Junhou has no secrets from us, but I am the most stupid If it wasn't for the help of the public this time, I'm afraid I will lose the battle."

"Not necessarily."

Chen Gong shook his head and said: "When Chenliu's soldiers and Liang Guo's soldiers were defeated, I saw that Demou was still in a bloody battle and was not defeated. Therefore, Sun Jian's headquarters could not win completely. If there is no Demou to fight back desperately, I am afraid that this plan will not work. It's easy to use and won't scare Sun Jian back."

Cheng Pu pursed his lips and sighed again.

"Sun Jian is my former master. He is good at using troops. He has the nickname of a tiger in the army. He is brave and tyrannical in battle. I don't feel angry when I lose to him this time, it's just a pity."

"You didn't lose."

Chen Gong shook his head and smiled: "Demou, it was Sun Jian who retreated, and it was Sun Jian who abandoned the city. The battlefield changes rapidly, and it is common to lose first and then win. Is there anything wrong with that?"

Cheng Pu looked at Chen Gong with some surprise.

"I didn't lose?"

"The outcome of a war depends on the result, not the process. Demou successfully repelled Sun Jian, regained Yangxia County, the army moved forward smoothly, and achieved the original goal. Why is it not called victory?"

Chen Gong cupped his hands and said, "I would like to congratulate Demou for his victory."

Cheng Pu blinked, looked at the battlefield, and slowly shook his head.

"I will tell Junhou all the truth. Whether I win or lose is not up to me. You have to judge. As Junhou's subordinate, how can I commit a crime knowingly?"

Chen Gong looked at Cheng Pu in surprise, and sighed.

"In the past, I always heard that the general was strict in running the army. Today, it is true. With such a strict military management, it is no wonder that he can win every battle. Yuan Thief is an enemy of the general. It is a big mistake."

Yuan Shu and Liu Bei were enemies, of course it was a big mistake, of course he didn't think so, and neither did Sun Jian.

As the only army in the four-way reinforcements that had withdrawn relatively completely, Sun Jian led the army all the way south to Nandun County, where they replenished supplies, rested for a day, and then continued on their way.

While on the road, he kept sending people to spy on the military situation, and when he was about to arrive near Pingyu County, he got accurate information.

Liu Bei besieged the city on all sides and violently attacked Pingyu County. The county was on the verge of collapse, and there were no other reinforcements around.

Could it be that Zhang Xun and the others didn't come back?
how come?Is it possible that the four-way reinforcements are the only ones who came back this way?What about the other three ways?All defeated?
Sun Jian was stunned.

(End of this chapter)