Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 246 240. Everyone flees when disaster strikes

"Retreat, retreat to the southwest, directly across Yongchang County, and reunite with Meng Huo!"

Yong Kai gnashed his teeth and fled desperately to the southwest with a group of remnants of his army. He abandoned thousands of soldiers on the plain and let them be captured by the Han army.

A few days ago, Yong Kai received bad news from Zhu Bao. First, there were several letters asking for help. The words in the letters were urgent. Zhu Bao made it clear that his troops were stretched to the limit and the Han army was pressing forward step by step. But before Yong Kai finished writing his reply, he received the latest letter from Zhu Bao.

In the letter, Zhu Bao told about the Han army's attack on Fu County. At the same time, he reiterated that he was no longer able to resist the Han army head-on, so he had to retreat first, and he had to retreat to Yong Kai, hoping to join forces with Yong Kai to fight against the Han army.

Yong Kai was somewhat speechless. He seemed to be in a difficult situation, so how could he care about Zhu Bao? As a result, Gao Ding's reply arrived the next day. Gao Ding clearly stated that he was fighting hard with the Han army. The Han army was very powerful. Only 10,000 of them could beat more than 20,000 of his own. He had no way to support Yong Kai, so he told Yong Kai to fend for himself.

Forced into a desperate situation, Yong Kai decided to set up a false formation, use the Yizhou county city as a bait, delay the Han army for a while, and then buy himself time to move south to meet up with Meng Huo.

Yong Kai came up with the Empty City Plan in a hurry. He ordered some soldiers to stay in the county city and open the city gates when the Han army arrived. The people were not allowed to go out on the streets, otherwise they would be killed. A general who knew a little about military tactics would definitely be suspicious and would not dare to rush into the city directly. Even if he was discovered, he would have left long ago.

You know what, there was actually someone who was frightened, but it wasn’t Kou Feng.

"Reporting to the general, the gates of Yizhou County are wide open and the city is completely silent."

The scouts who went ahead had already found out the situation of Yizhou County City. They even scouted close to the city gate within an arrow's reach, but the other side didn't react at all. This made the old scouts a little nervous. They felt that it was too weird, so they came back to report to Kou Feng.

Kou Feng brought Guan Suo to the gate of Yizhou County and lined up in front of it. They saw that the gate of Yizhou County was wide open, and there was no one inside. The city walls were also empty, without even a flag.

"General Kou, I heard that the Prime Minister once ambushed Zhou Yu with a white flag in Jingzhou. Now it seems that the enemy general has ambushed troops in the city?"

Although Guan Suo did not participate in the Jingzhou melee that year, he had heard of many things. For example, he often heard his father talk about Zhuge Liang's clever strategy to capture Nanjun and Jiangling. Now he couldn't help but worry whether the other party was also lying in ambush in the city, waiting for them to take the bait.

"In an empty city like this, we cannot delay no matter if there are ambushes. I will lead a group of troops to charge in. If there are indeed ambushes, I will trouble Weizhi to respond outside."

Unfortunately, Kou Feng was not a person who liked to think too much. In his opinion, if there were ambushes, he could just rush in and fight them. What was there to worry about?

Out of a compensatory mentality, Kou Feng would not assign such a dangerous task to Guan Suo, and chose to do it himself.

"Brothers, follow me and kill!"

After the division of labor was explained, Kou Feng took the lead and led two thousand elite troops to attack the city gate of Yizhou County. As expected, he did not encounter any resistance.

Kou Feng led his men directly into the city. The actual situation in the city was exactly the same as it looked from the outside. There was no one on the street. Finally, Kou Feng caught a few soldiers hiding in the corners and asked them about it. Only then did he know all of Yong Kai's plots. Kou Feng did not say anything, and he even gave up the Yizhou County City. He led his men directly out of the city, and chased Guan Suo, who was confused, in the southwest direction.

Yong Kai had only run less than a hundred miles when he was caught by the Han army in a forced march. Although the Han army was a little tired from the journey, Yong Kai's troops were not elite troops. With Kou Feng leading the way, it was no surprise that Yong Kai's troops were scattered by Kou Feng and had no ability to resist at all.

So the scene at the beginning happened. Yong Kai simply gave up these burdens, escaped with a few hundred remaining troops, and prepared to cross Yongchang County to find Meng Huo.

At this point, it was not too surprising that Yizhou County announced its return to the Han Dynasty. Zhu Bao, who had been fleeing to Yizhou County in the east, had already received the news early and did not foolishly walk into the trap. Instead, he immediately changed direction and headed west, preparing to bypass Yizhou County from the southwest corner and go straight to Yongchang County.

As for Gao Ding of Yuexi County, his situation was different from that of his two brothers in distress.

First of all, Gao Ding himself was the leader of the Yuexi Yi. He had a group of Yi soldiers loyal to him under his command, as well as commanders of various tribes. This made him countless times stronger than Yong Kai and Zhu Bao, and this was also the reason why Gao Ding dared to openly launch an uprising.

Although the elite Han army led by Zhang Bao had a hard time fighting Gao Ding, Gao Ding's number was almost three times that of Zhang Bao, and numbers were the simplest and most brutal advantage of all, so Zhang Bao really couldn't defeat Gao Ding for a while.

A few days later, news came that the other two counties had been pacified, which made Zhang Bao anxious and scratching his head. Everyone else was singing all the way, but he was still fighting with Gao Ding, which made him seem a little incompetent. Zhang Bao made up his mind to increase the intensity of the attack and strive to defeat Gao Ding as soon as possible, so as not to fall behind others.

Of course, Zhang Bao knew that the other two counties had been pacified, and Gao Ding naturally knew it too. This time Gao Ding was in a dilemma. Originally, the three of them supported each other and could rescue each other, but the Han army attacked on three fronts, and the other two counties collapsed at the first touch. Only his side held on, and the other two were lost.

Although Gao Ding was a barbarian general, he was not a reckless man. He could see some basic situations clearly. Now that Yizhou and Zangke counties had been conquered by the Han army, he only needed to go west from Yizhou county to trap himself in Yuexi county and be besieged to death by the Han army.

"Damn Han people, so cunning..."

Yong Kai and Zhu Bao hated Gao Ding, but did Gao Ding hate them too? We agreed to resist together, but you two just ran away, leaving a mess for yourself. How could you resist the main force of the Han army?

"No, we can't continue to resist in Yuexi County..."

Gao Ding also turned his attention to Yongchang County in the south, but unlike Yong Kai and Zhu Bao who retreated in a panic, Gao Ding had plenty of soldiers under his command, so he didn't need to collude with Meng Huo. Instead, he could plunder or even occupy Yongchang County, and then regroup his troops.

"Yes, I must regroup my troops. The situation is really too unfavorable for me."

Gao Ding also began to think about making a move, and what he needed to do was to get rid of Zhang Bao.

(End of this chapter)