Eastern Jin Dynasty: My powerful father

Chapter 435: Battle in Hedong (Twenty-three)

Three days had passed since the defeat in the battle outside Wenxi City.

Since the Liang army did not take any further action, the situation seemed to be in a stalemate again, and the gloom in the hearts of the Yu army soldiers also subsided a lot.

At least I am no longer like a frightened bird, getting scared at the slightest noise.

However, they are unaware of the dangers lurking in the darkness.

It was already the late night. Ten thousand Xiongnu archers were divided into ten groups and, under the cover of darkness, quietly approached the camps of the Yu army.

Since the Liang army had already obtained the defense map of the Yu army, they knew where the secret sentries were and where the weak areas for scout patrols were. Therefore, the defense of the Yu army seemed to be useless.

Of course, the surrendered generals who secretly surrendered to Huan Xi also contributed to this. Huan Xi informed some of the surrendered generals who he thought he could trust of the plan for tonight.

They helped to send the scouts away and clear a marching route for the Liang army.

The people's morale is low and the team is hard to lead. Everyone has to plan for themselves and want to make contributions to Huan Xi so that they can have a place in the Huan family's camp in the future.

Liu Yanloutou, the Right Wise King of the Xiongnu, was the commander-in-chief of the camp raid tonight. What they wanted to do was not to kill the enemy, but with the cooperation of the surrendered generals, they broke into the camp of the Yu army, set fire to it, and created noise to scare Fu Jian into fleeing at night.

Fu Jian was full of wishful thinking and was unwilling to retreat, but Huan Xi was already impatient to end the confrontation on the northern front, and then go south to work with Xie Ai to expel Murong Jun and then plan a northern expedition to Jinyang.

Huan Xi had previously rejected the plan to ambush Fu Jian because he knew that Fu Jian would not leave on his own initiative. Now he sent the Xiongnu archers to raid the camp. If they succeeded, Fu Jian would surely return north in a hurry.

Therefore, Huan Xi sent Huan Qian to lead 8,000 guards and volunteers to ambush on the road that Fu Jian had to take.

Huan Qian's mission was not to kill the enemy either. As the saying goes, to catch a thief, one must first catch the leader. Huan Qian needed to wait for an opportunity to capture Fu Jian alive in the chaos.

This sounds like an extremely difficult task, but with the cooperation of an insider, it is actually not that difficult, provided that the Xiongnu archers can successfully cause a riot, causing the frightened Yu army soldiers to flee out of the camp at night and flee in all directions.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The repeated alarm sounds woke up Fu Jian from his deep sleep. He got up in panic to check and saw that the ten-mile camp had turned into a sea of ​​fire in an instant.

The soldiers ran around the camp in panic like headless flies.

Fu Jian stood there in a daze, watching the fire burn away his last hope.

He knew that even if the Liang army raided the camp, it would not be possible for it to burn so quickly.

There must have been spies in the army. Not only did they open the camp gate for the Liang army, but they also prepared flammable materials in advance and set the fire together.

Flames shot up into the sky, and Fu Jian's ears were filled with panicked shouts and screams. The soldiers in the camp had already been routed, and they were like a group of headless flies, running around in the flames, just trying to escape the camp.

Fu Jian felt deeply exhausted, and he didn't know who around him he could trust.

"Heavenly King! Let's go! The Liang army is coming to attack us!"

Gou Chang persuaded, he was very anxious at the moment.

Fu Jian smiled bitterly and said:
"Escape? Where can you escape to? Jinyang? South of the desert? Or North of the desert?"

Gou Chang knew that Fu Jian was already disheartened at this time, so he could only say:

"As long as the green mountains remain, there will be no shortage of firewood. If Gou Jian could not endure the humiliation of being a slave to Fu Chai, how could he have destroyed the State of Wu later?

"The King of Heaven now occupies most of Hedong and controls the Dai Kingdom. How can he give up after encountering a little setback?"

Gou Chang's words awakened Fu Jian, and he regained his spirits. His current situation is much better than Gou Jian's. As long as he doesn't give up, there is still hope.

At this time, Lu Polou and his son Lu Guang also brought their own soldiers to escort Fu Jian to escape.

Along the way, generals led their troops to join up from time to time. Soon, more than ten thousand infantry and cavalry had gathered around Fu Jian.

But these people obviously had no will to fight and only wanted to escape back to Jinyang. Now seeing that their baggage was destroyed, Fu Jian no longer wanted to stay in Wenxi County.

He was unknowingly led to the ambush circle by the surrendered generals. These surrendered generals did not know that each other was working for the Liang State, so they did not dare to act rashly along the way. Now that he had entered the ambush circle of the Liang army, there was nothing to be afraid of.

"Fu Jian is here!"

Shouts rang out one after another, and chaos broke out suddenly. The comrades who had previously been fleeing together were now fighting each other without mercy.

Huan Qian had been waiting for a long time. Seeing that the Yu army was already engaged in a chaotic battle, he immediately rushed over with 8,000 guards.

"Who is Fu Jian!"

Huan Qian shouted loudly, his voice like thunder.

"The one riding the white horse is Fu Jian!"

"The one wearing the red robe is Fu Jian!"

Among the chaotic army, there was a man riding a white horse and wearing a red robe. He shouted loudly:

"Fu Jian is here!"

This person was Fu Jian, who was deserted by his friends and relatives.

After Fu Jian shouted, he did not run away, but ordered the soldiers who were protecting him to stop. He looked across the crowd, fixed his eyes on Gou Chang, and asked:
"Why did you betray me too?"

Gou Chang was Fu Jian's cousin and should have been the most trustworthy relative general. He had previously persuaded him not to give up, but now he led him into the encirclement of the Liang army.

The whole thing seems really ironic.

Gou Chang did not dare to look Fu Jian in the eye. He lowered his head in shame and said:
"Heavenly King, now that things have come to this, I must make great contributions to Lord Liang in order to save the Gou family."

Gou Chang is not the father or son of the Lu family. When the time comes, he can still remember that his ancestors were Han people.

If the State of Yu was destroyed, Gou Chang, as a relative and general of Fu Jian, would have suffered a foreseeable fate if he had no merit.

Fu Jian let out a long sigh. It was just as expected. When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter. Everyone was considering their escape route.

"Gou Chang, you and I are relatives. Rather than letting others enjoy this wealth, I would rather give you this head."

After Fu Jian finished speaking, he drew his sword and pretended to commit suicide.

The confidant quickly grabbed the knife to stop him:

"Heavenly King, no, please allow us to escort you out of the encirclement."

However, Fu Jian had made up his mind. He said to his confidants:

"For the sake of our relationship as master and servant, please do not let me be captured by Liang Ren and suffer humiliation from Huan Xi."

Although Huan Xi had said that he would not harm Fu Jian's life, Fu Jian felt that being imprisoned by Huan Xi and then brought out to be seen by foreign guests was more painful than letting him die.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally returned the knife.

Fu Jian took the sword, placed it across his neck, and laughed:
"How can the emperor die at the hands of a humble minister?"

After saying this, blood splattered on the spot, dyeing the white horse under him red and making his red robe even more colorful.

Fu Jian fell off his horse, and he could not breathe in as much as he exhaled. In a daze, he heard the cries of people around him.

"My country still has loyal ministers."

As he thought about this, his consciousness gradually became blurred, and Fu Jian closed his eyes completely with a smile on his face.

(End of this chapter)