I, Liu Bian, Sanxing Han Dynasty

Chapter 499 Battle Situation
After the magic of talisman water was broken by Wanling County, Zhang Ying did not immediately stop the believers from communicating with other people after returning with them. Therefore, Zuo Rong had to give up attacking Wanling County, which had the highest city wall in Danyang County.

Then they retreated to Yi County, which was close to the rebellious Shanyue.

Zuo Rong was extremely disappointed. He really wanted to get Wanling County. The high and deep city walls and the money and food inside were all what he needed.

Unfortunately, it failed to be captured.

In order to prevent the Han army that had already landed from outflank his retreat, Zuo Rong only wanted to leave as soon as possible.

But unfortunately, he was caught up halfway.

"May Gods and Buddhas protect us!" Zuo Rong shouted.

Although the cavalrymen who came were fully armored, Zuo Rong was not made of dough.

Today, he has 30,000 people gathered around him, nearly 30% of whom are young and strong, and some even regard him as a living god.

Under Zuo Rong's command, a group of ignorant believers who had never seen a cavalry charge hurriedly confronted the Han cavalry under the pressure of the soldiers sent by Zuo Rong.

Seeing this, Lu Bu, who came with his cavalry, became even more angry.

Ever since he came ashore and saw the tragic scene, Lu Bu has been very angry.

After learning about the bandits' movements, he asked Huang Zhong for orders and set out yesterday, sparing no effort, bringing with him the elite troops from the Xiyuan Army and the Sanhe Knights, a total of 2,500 cavalrymen. After traveling more than 200 miles, some of the less qualified cavalrymen fell behind halfway, and 20 to 30 people were lost before the battle even started.

Although they were exhausted, they lived up to their expectations and finally intercepted the rebels on their retreat.

Lu Bu took a deep breath. Now that he had been met by him, there was no way he could leave!
The rebels reacted quickly, but in the eyes of the battle-hardened Lu Bu, they were all flaws.

Soldiers drove the civilians to attack? Lu Bu had many ways to defeat the bandits. The simplest and most direct one was to lead the army to charge into the battle formation, killing the civilians to frighten them, and then make them rush back in fear.

But now, he doesn't want to do that.

He just wanted to kill Zuo Rong, the culprit.

He immediately led his troops to avoid the formation hastily formed by Zuo Rong. At the same time, most of the elite cavalrymen from the Xiyuan Army still had physical strength after a march of more than 200 miles, and there were also some outstanding knights among the Sanhe Knights.

They followed Lu Bu and took out his horse bows and shot at the rebels who were armed with swords.

While the rebel army was avoiding the rain of arrows and not obeying orders, Lu Bu and his cavalry had already bypassed them and charged straight at Zuo Rong and the old and weak in the rear.

Zuo Rong was shocked when he saw this.

He had never fought in a war before and had no idea that this cavalryman who suddenly appeared could run so fast.

He stopped shouting for "May Gods and Buddhas bless you" and hurriedly took off his robe. He stopped riding his horse and got on a nearby donkey cart, throwing away all the looted supplies on the donkey cart.

It turned out that Zuo Rong's reaction was quite quick.

Not all of Zuo Rong's followers were his fanatical followers. In other words, only a few of them could be fooled by him and become lost.

When most people saw the cavalry rushing towards them from afar and heard the sound of horse hooves, the first thing they thought of was to escape with their families.

When Lu Bu saw that the rebels were no match for him, and thought of the scene he saw on the south bank of the river, he felt even more angry.

He shouted, "Surrender and you will be spared! Kneel and you will be spared!"

The tired cavalrymen behind him also shouted and followed Lu Bu.

Lu Bu focused on those who were holding weapons. Even though some of them had already put them down and surrendered, they would still be shot once he discovered them.

This move naturally frightened people, and some were frightened into running away again, which made the situation, which could have been settled smoothly, even more chaotic. Lu Bu led the cavalry to charge left and right, and then turned back to attack the soldiers in the army whose formation was in disarray due to the defeat in the rear. After the anger in their hearts was swept away, the battlefield finally calmed down.

Later, Lu Bu learned from the captives that Zuo Rong had run away at the very beginning.

"You bastard!" Lu Bu smashed his palm with his fist and cursed fiercely.

At this moment, he also realized that he had just lost his temper. Otherwise, he might have had a chance to kill Zuo Rong.

But at the moment, he didn't know where Zuo Rong had escaped to, so he could only take the exhausted soldiers to guard the prisoners and rest in batches...

Lu Bu was not replaced and rested until he had counted that he had captured more than 20,000 male, female, old and weak prisoners.

It was not until five days later that Huang Zhong led a large army to meet Lu Bu.

The main reason why the speed was so slow was due to the drag of the soldiers from the prefectures and counties.

"Because I led the army here suddenly, the thief Zuo Rong was not prepared, so most of the supplies he looted were left behind."

"But at least four to five thousand people took the opportunity to escape. I don't know whether they went up the mountain or somewhere else."

"I only regret that Zuo Rong left!" As he said this, Lu Bu sighed again.

After Huang Zhong arranged Zhou Yu and others to distinguish and identify the surrendered bandits, he comforted Lu Bu and said, "Fengxian has captured more than 30,000 people of Zuo Rong, which is already a great achievement."

He pointed to his warriors who were setting up camp and said confidently: "No matter where Zuo Rong fled to before, he always wanted to go to Yi County, which he had captured. This time, he can no longer escape!"

Then he said to Lu Bu, "Yesterday I finally received the imperial edict to divide the troops to suppress the rebellion in Guangling. I don't know how Zhongming and Ziyi are doing."

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"I don't know what the situation is like in Danyang."

"General Huang has given us nearly half of his troops. I don't know if he has enough troops."

"..."

Duan Wei listened to Taishi Ci's nagging and finally couldn't help it: "Ziyi, you have been talking about this all the time. Han Sheng and Fengxian were both brave generals at the time. Now they are both here, with elite soldiers and brave generals, and there is no worry about discord between generals and commanders. What are you worried about?"

"If we have to worry, we should also worry about whether the officials of Guangling County will treat us badly now that the imperial edict has not been issued."

As they were talking, a scout came to report that Xuzhou Governor Dong Zhao was leading the troops ahead and wanted to check Duan Wei and his men's seals and credentials for leading the troops here.

When Taishi Ci heard this, he thought to himself that this was not good.

He said to Duan Wei, "When Captain Zhang and I came to Xuzhou last year, Governor Dong had not yet taken office in Xuzhou... I think he was still in Jizhou at that time, responsible for clearing out the Black Mountain bandits."

"I just hope that there are people I know among his subordinates."

Having said that, Taishi Ci decided to go meet Dong Zhao in person. He came here to quell the rebellion, so he had nothing to feel guilty about.

After meeting Dong Zhao, Taishi Ci breathed a sigh of relief.

Some of the team members left behind when Wang Yun, the Prime Minister of Donghai, temporarily served as the Governor of Xuzhou were still there, and the new Governor Dong Zhao was also a sensible man. After confirming his identity, he decided to fight the enemy together with them.

The only regret was that when Guangling Prefect Li Shao led his army to fight against the bandits, he was defeated and died on the spot, which made Taishi Ci couldn't help but sigh.

He knew Li Shao and had fought alongside him last year to wipe out the powerful tyrants who were causing chaos.

(End of this chapter)