A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 464: After the night patrol of Yuan Rong, the barbarian invaders found that the defense line was in danger

The moon is bright tonight and there is no cloud in the sky. You can see everything around you by the moonlight.

Zhao Tong led more than a thousand soldiers on the road.

Just now I inspected a camp. The soldiers inside were very drunk. There were only one-third of the soldiers on duty. They were also very careless because they were dissatisfied with their colleagues drinking and eating meat and blowing the cold wind.

Only when Zhao Tong led his troops fifty steps to the camp did the soldiers react and beat the gong.

Zhao Tong rebuked the camp guard very seriously and ordered him to remain vigilant as usual. If he was allowed to patrol again, he would be punished in public for neglecting the army.

Since most of the soldiers were drunk and incapable of guarding, Zhao Tong had to leave 500 men behind to compensate for his security force.

He has inspected several military camps tonight, and the scene is the same as the one just now. Therefore, of the 3,000 people who left the camp behind him, only more than a thousand are left.

"Who is the guard of the next camp?"

Zhao Tong asked casually.

"General Qi, this is Captain Zhang Zun." Marching Sima drove his horse forward to report.

"Zhang Zun? Haha, he turns out to be the son of Marquis Zhongyong?" Zhao Tong became interested.

Zhang Zun is the grandson of Zhang Fei, and his father is Zhang Bao. However, he died of illness soon after returning from Liangzhou, only three years apart from Zhang Fei's death.

Zhang Fei had two sons. The eldest son Zhang Bao inherited his father's bravery. The second son Zhang Shao was good at reading and is now a minister.

"When Duke Zhongyong was alive, he often got into trouble because of drinking. Emperor Zhaolie refused to listen to many warnings. My late father also told my two brothers that although Duke Zhongyong likes to get drunk, his martial arts skills are even better when he is drunk.

Let's go see how much martial arts Zhang Zunde has compared to his ancestors. "

Seeing Zhao Tong speeding up his horse, the army behind him also speeded up.

"Who?" shouted angrily, and then an arrow flew straight into Zhao Tong's horse two or three steps ahead.

Zhao Tong smiled: "Now that the whole army is drinking and having fun, Zhang Zun is still on guard. He is not like his ancestors. If Duke Zhongyong is alive, he will definitely scold him, haha."

Zhao Tong asked his personal soldier Sima to come forward with his own talisman.

Not long after, Zhang Zun led dozens of people to open the village gate and greet Zhao Tong:
"Colonel Zhang Zun, I respectfully welcome General Dianjun Zhonglang for inspection."

Zhao Tong dismounted, pulled him up, and said happily: "You are able to stick to your own way, and you are worthy of us, the empress of Yuan Rong, and your majesty's grace."

Zhang Zun said humbly: "The last general will do his duty."

"It's your duty. When you enter the camp, I will see if you are a flower inside and outside."

"General, please!" Zhang Zun opened the village gate and followed Zhao Tong.

About half an hour later, Zhao Tong and Zhang Zun reappeared at the village gate.

"It's very good. The camp is set up very solidly. If Lord Zhongyong could have been as cautious as you, he wouldn't have been defeated at Tongguan and died of wounds and regrets."

Zhao Tong was very satisfied with Zhang Zun, and his words of encouragement were beyond words.

"I will be ashamed in the end."

"Okay." Zhao Tong jumped on the horse again: "There are still three camps that need to be inspected by this general. Guard this place well to live up to the country's favor and live up to the name of the loyal and brave public."

"I will obey my orders."

Zhang Zun looked at Zhao Tong walking further and further away, and ordered the gate of the village to be closed tightly, and the vigilance remained unchanged.

Zhao Tong was walking on the road and was already more than ten miles away from Zhang Zun's camp.

"General, there is fire in the distance!" Zhao Tong looked up and saw Zhang Zunying.

"Order, return the same way!" Zhao Tong pulled the war horse and the horse turned around.

"The general has orders, return the same way." The cavalrymen galloped on both sides of the marching column.

Under the command of their respective officers, the officers and soldiers of the Han army turned back and headed towards Zhang Zun's camp.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Tong saw from a distance a dense crowd of barbarians pouring into Zhang Zun's camp, and there were sounds of fighting inside.

"Everyone, charge with me!"

Zhao Tong didn't have time to think too much and rushed directly into the enemy's formation from behind.

The soldiers of the Korean and Goguryeo coalition forces outside the camp were dispersed by the Han army. Zhao Tong was able to enter the camp and found Zhang Zun who was relying on a stable for defense. Not far away, horse feed and other items ignited a raging fire. It was obviously Zhang Zun. Zun and others set the fire themselves.

More than ten thousand enemy troops were surrounding hundreds of people, rushing up like a tide. Some wanted to put out the open fire, but Zhang Zun and his men stopped them.

Zhang Zun caught the light of the fire and saw the banner of the Han army in the distance, and shouted excitedly: "Reinforcements are coming, brothers, kill the enemy!"

"Kill the enemy!!!"

Zhang Zun's morale was at its peak for a time. Hundreds of people pushed back thousands of Yi troops, causing them to retreat continuously.

Zhao Tong soon joined Zhang Zun.

"Take your men and take back the camp with me. We must keep the barbarians out of the camp and not let them escape."

Zhao Tong chopped down a Yi soldier and gave the order to Zhang Zun.

"Yes, General!"

"Zhao Wu, you immediately take my talisman, lead five cavalry, and go to Da Sima's camp. The barbarians come out of the mountain and come to encircle and suppress them as soon as possible."

Zhao Tong gave instructions to a knight.

"Yes!" Zhao Wu took Zhao Tong's Zhonglang general Fu Jie, killed him through the enemy formation, and ran toward Sima Yi's main camp.

As the cavalry left, Zhao Tong and Zhang Zun worked together to push the Yi soldiers out of the camp, closed the gate of the camp again, and regained the camp.

The Yi soldiers surrounded it with three layers inside and three layers outside, without any gaps. Not far outside Zhang Zun’s camp, the King of Korea roared at Sun Wang:
"Didn't you say that you can take this camp easily? Why are there reinforcements? Are you trying to trick us, asking whether you are Sima Yi's trickster?"

With sweat pouring from his head, Sun Wang explained crazily:

"It's all a misunderstanding. The reinforcements must have happened to pass by here. They are only a thousand people. We have 100,000 people. We will take turns to attack the city. We can take it by tomorrow night at the most. No more reinforcements will arrive."

The King of Goguryeo snorted coldly: "I hope what you said is true, otherwise, hum."

Then a dozen personal guards were asked to watch Sun Wang closely to prevent him from escaping. If things failed, Sun Wang would definitely not survive.

The two kings left Sun Wang behind, came to the military formation, and said loudly to the surrounding Yi soldiers:

"Warriors, the Han people are attacking our capital now. Our parents and sisters are there. If we want to save them, we can break through the camp in front of us and we can go home."

"go home!!!"

The Yi Bing's eyes suddenly turned red and he looked at Zhang Zunying as if he was the enemy who killed his father.

Zhang Zun said to Zhao Tong with some worry: "It must be strange that the morale of the Yi soldiers is suddenly so high. If we don't stop attacking, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold on for long.

Will there be reinforcements? "

Zhao Tong said firmly: "It will definitely come. This is the best opportunity to annihilate the barbarians. Sima Yi will not let go of this opportunity."

Let's talk about the five Zhao people sent by Zhao Tong and ran towards Sima Yi's main camp at high speed.

Suddenly a rope was pulled up on the flat road, and Zhao Wu and others fell off their horses immediately. At this time, dense arrows suddenly shot out from the mountain forest on the roadside, and several soldiers were killed immediately.

Zhao Wu took the remaining three people and hid behind a stone.

"Enter the forest!" Knowing that there were many people on the other side, Zhao Wu wanted to fish in troubled waters and penetrated through the gaps. It was not appropriate to fight for a long time at this time.

next day
Yi soldiers are still attacking Zhang Zun's camp in a steady stream, and the number of soldiers in the camp is also decreasing.

Zhang Zun originally had a thousand men under his command, but he was suddenly attacked. Even though he was alerted in advance, spies opened the camp gate and suffered heavy losses. When Zhao Tong defeated the barbarian soldiers, only three or four hundred men were left.

However, out of the thousands of people under Zhao Tong's command, after successive battles, only more than 700 were left.

Therefore, there were less than a thousand Han troops defending the camp, and it had been two hours since the Yi soldiers first attacked the city.

During these two hours, when the Yi soldiers did not stop, the Han army was very tired and suffered more and more casualties. Now there are only 700 people left.

Sima Yi is in charge. Sima Yi is wearing casual clothes, lying on his side on the couch and reading a book.

"Da Sima, I have an order to report."

Sima Yi didn't even raise his eyes: "Pass!"

Zhao Wuyi was covered in blood and wounds everywhere. His left hand was drooped and his left ear was missing. He was only briefly bandaged. As soon as he entered the camp, he knelt down on one knee:
"Zhao Wu, the commander of the personal troops under General Zhonglang of the villain Dian Army, came to ask Da Sima for help on the orders of General Zhonglang. In the fourth battalion in the southwest, he was attacked by a large group of barbarian soldiers, suspected of being the main army of barbarian bandits.

It was found that the enemy's offensive was too urgent, so he asked Da Sima to mobilize reinforcements as soon as possible to prevent the barbarian invaders from breaking through the defense line. "

"You said you are Zhao Tong's personal soldier, but do you have a token?"

"A gentleman has placed the talisman here as a token."

Zhao Wu quickly took out a cloth-wrapped talisman from his arms and opened it. It was very clean.

Sima Yi looked up and motioned to bring it up.

Guo Huai took the talisman from Zhao Wu, looked at it, and then handed it to Sima Yi respectfully with both hands: "There is no problem with the talisman. It belongs to General Zhao Zhonglang."

Sima Yi took it, looked at it over and over, and said without raising his eyes: "Bury it, don't let anyone see it."

In Zhao Wu's disbelieving eyes, Guo Huai quickly drew his knife and touched his neck, then saluted and prepared to dispose of the body.

"Wait a minute." Sima Yi stopped Guo Huai and handed Zhao Tong Fu Jie to him: "Tomorrow night, take your trusted associates to the Southwest Fourth Battalion to see if there are any survivors, and then return this to General Zhao Zhonglang."

"As ordered."

Guo Huai took the talisman, put it into his arms casually, dragged Zhao Wu's dead body, and disappeared into the military tent, leaving only a pool of blood.

But soon someone came in to deal with the traces, and even the pool of blood was gone.

May

As the sun set over the west mountain, the sky gradually turned dark. Zhang Zun's camp was still fighting, but the battlefield had moved from the camp wall to near the stables. He relied on the stable rails to resist with difficulty.

At this time, there were only dozens of Han soldiers left.

Zhang Zun looked at Zhao Tong helplessly: "General, will there be reinforcements?"

Zhao Tong knelt on one knee, supported his body with the already curled sword, and kept panting: "I'm afraid it won't happen."

Zhang Zun suddenly collapsed to the ground: "It seems that I, Zhang Zun, have just come here. How embarrassing."

Zhao Tong gritted his teeth and stood up: "If a man dies in battle, there is nothing to be ashamed of. The biggest regret of Duke Zhongyong was that he did not die in battle. We are so lucky to have died in battle today."

Then he looked at Tiandao: "I just didn't expect Sima Yi to be so scheming and as vicious as a poisonous snake. I'm afraid your majesty is in danger."

Two quarters of an hour later, there was no sound from Zhang Zunying's camp. There was only the sound of barbarian soldiers passing through the camp and the sound of sweeping away the available things.

An hour later, a group of 100 cavalrymen came here and kept attacking the Han soldiers who were still alive.

One person walked up to Zhao Tong, who was staring at the sky, put a talisman into his arms, and wanted to close his eyes for him, but he couldn't.

The visitor sighed: "Loyalty and bravery, but it's a pity that each one is his own master, so ashamed!" Then he made a stabbing blow.

Half an hour later, the place fell into complete silence, with only the faint sound of beasts chewing.

(End of this chapter)