The Horse of the Three Kingdoms Treads the World

() When Lu Bu led the people back to the original battlefield, the battle here was indeed over.

They were already inferior to the Xiliang army in terms of strength, and they were ambushed, which made Sun Jian's army only passively beaten.And the withdrawal of the main general Sun Jian made the army even more demoralized, and it was only due to the situation that they had to grit their teeth and work hard.However, under the full attack of the Xiliang Army's two groups of troops, their resistance did not last long after all, and after more than an hour, all the Sun Jian's troops who had pursued by about [-] were wiped out.

This time, the Xiliang army did not leave anyone alive.Because the furious Hua Xiong issued the military order of shoot to kill, these enemies who caused him to lose Yangcheng had to pay for everything with their lives, not to mention that he felt indignant because he could not kill Sun Jian.When Hua Xiong finished killing all Sun Jian's soldiers and horses and wanted to advance again, Lu Bu rushed back with more than a hundred horsemen.

Seeing Lu Bu, Hua Xiong was embarrassed, but he still stepped forward and cupped his fists and said, "This time, I really want to thank General Lu for saving my life in time, otherwise... I don't know why the general appeared here, Aren't you ordered to guard the Hulao Pass?"

Lu Bu returned a salute with a smile: "General Hua, you are being polite. I was entrusted to come here. It's a pity that I was a step too late after all, and I couldn't save more robes!"

"Entrusted by someone? But who actually expected my defeat, could it be..." Hua Xiong's mind suddenly flashed a person's name, as well as the letter advising him to be careful in everything.

"It's Ma Zhongling." Lu Bu didn't hide anything, and told the truth directly.Naturally, he couldn't hide Ma Yue's favor, not to mention he admired Ma Yue's foresight.

"It really is him! I'm ashamed to say that Ma Zhongling also wrote me a letter before, telling me not to underestimate the enemy, but I didn't want to lose Yangcheng. I'm really ashamed of my concern for Zhongling." I said something ashamed.Afterwards, he thought about the matter in front of him and asked: "Just now I saw General Lu chasing after the enemy general Sun Jian, did you succeed in killing him?"

"No, I was lured away by his subordinates. I only killed one of his generals named Zu Mao, and let him escape."

"What? Then I will go with the general again. I must kill Sun Jian and take back Yangcheng!" After hearing this, Hua Xiong became a little anxious, and he wanted to turn around, but was grabbed by Lu Bu. He stopped: "General Hua, please listen to me!"

"Huh?" Hua Xiong was taken aback, but he stopped and looked at Lu Bu.The latter pointed to the tired Xiliang sergeants around him and said: "You and I are both exhausted, and most of them have been injured. If we go to fight the enemy at this time, we may not only fail to win, but will give up in vain. These brothers are dying.

"Since Yangcheng was taken by them, it must be full of troops now. If we want to take it back, we must use enough troops. We are not enough. Brother Hua, please listen to me, for the time being Retreat and take back the city after you are ready, it is not too late to kill the enemy and take revenge!"

Hearing what Lu Bu said, and looking at the wounded and exhausted soldiers around him, Hua Xiong was finally discouraged: "Brother Lu said that I was too anxious, let's go back to Hulao Pass, and make plans after Xu Tu's plan." Now there are only more than 1000 people under his command. Although they had the upper hand in the previous battle, they killed 800 enemies and lost [-], but they also suffered [-] casualties.Seeing these soldiers who had followed him for a long time die at the hands of the enemy, even Hua Xiong felt quite heavy.

Seeing that Hua Xiong accepted his advice, Lu Bu showed a smile: "General Hua can make such a choice, so he can live up to Ma Zhongling's painstaking efforts. He asked me to come here. The most important thing is to save your life!"

"Really?" Although Hua Xiong didn't say anything, he was very grateful in his heart. This Ma Yue didn't know him too well, but he helped him many times. This time he even saved his life. I really don't know how to repay him. up.

With emotion, Hua Xiong retreated with Lv Bu.In this battle, although the Xiliang army lost a city and injured many troops, it also severely damaged Sun Jian's army.Even the casualties of the siege plus the annihilation of the entire army after chasing out of the city, half of Sun Jian's army died in this battle, and they lost their combat effectiveness for a while.It can be said that this time, even if the Kwantung Allied Forces won, it would be a miserable victory.

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Sun Jian returned to Yangcheng under the escort of a dozen personal soldiers, when he saw Sun Ce running out from the city gate with his troops.Seeing him come back, Sun Ce suddenly stopped his horse: "Father, you are back! I was worried that your pursuit of the enemy would change, so I wanted to bring people to meet him... Why are there only so few people coming back with you? Uncle Han and Where's Uncle Zu?" After saying a few words, he suddenly realized that there were only a dozen or so dejected soldiers following Sun Jian, while there were [-] men following his father before.

Sun Jian sighed: "Because of my father's carelessness, I fell into an ambush by the people of Xiliang. Those people...you, Uncle Han and Uncle Zu, don't know if you are alive or dead..." At this point, a tear flashed in Sun Jian's eyes Come on, thinking of those brothers who fought to the death to let him escape, he naturally couldn't calm down.

After hearing this, Sun Ce was also silent for a while. He wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.

At this moment, a haughty voice sounded from inside the city: "Brother Wentai, you really didn't disappoint us this time, you broke Yangcheng so easily. When the lord arrives, I will ask for credit for you!"

Hearing this, Sun Jian felt annoyed in his heart, looked up, and saw Yuan Shu walking over in a big way, squinting his eyes, as if happily looking at himself and his wounded brothers: "Huh? General Sun, what's wrong with you, why do you look so embarrassed, and so do your subordinates? Shouldn't you be happy that you have taken down Yangcheng?" His tone was full of ridicule and sarcasm, as if he was very concerned about Sun Jianjun's casualties. gloat.

"You..." Sun Jian's complexion changed drastically, and he put his hand on the handle of the knife, but when his eyes fell behind Yuan Shu and saw those people who did not belong to him, he let go of his hand again.He finally understood that when he was chasing the enemy desperately, but was ambushed, these guys who were just watching and doing nothing before led troops into the city and reaped the fruits of victory.

Now, Sun Jian's army suffered heavy casualties, even if he wanted to defend Yangcheng, it was impossible. Naturally, he had to let these people march into the city and ridicule him.This realization made Sun Jian very angry and a little more helpless. He just gave Yuan Shu a cold snort, and brought his son and subordinates to pass him by without paying any attention to him.

Yuan Shu also sneered at his reaction.At this point, Sun Jian was no longer a threat, so he naturally didn't have to put his mind on this person.No matter how powerful a general without soldiers is, he is like a tiger without claws, and will only become the prey of others in the end.However, since Sun Jian had just helped the coalition forces take down Yangcheng, and it was the time when everyone was looking at him, Yuan Shu naturally didn't want to really attack him, so he had to wait for the opportunity.

Soon, Yuan Shao and other people from all walks of life also entered Yangcheng one after another.The chief generals of the allied forces gathered again in the city to make an overall arrangement for how the allied forces should act next, and at the same time recounted Sun Jian's contributions.

No one can deny Sun Jian's contribution to taking down Yangcheng so quickly in this battle.As for the result of his loss of soldiers and generals, everyone also expressed a certain degree of concern.However, these cares were only verbal, and no one proposed any actual compensation for Sun Jian, and some even proposed that Sun Jian distribute the seized food, grass and supplies in the city to other armies.

Regarding this, Sun Jian was really angry and anxious. In order to take down the city, he suffered so many casualties, but in the end, these people were suspicious of him. They even didn't believe him when he mentioned that the food, grass and supplies were burned when the city was broken.In the end, the resentful Sun Jian walked away, ignoring these warlords who clearly wanted to exterminate the country, but actually had their own agendas.

Although everyone was dissatisfied with this, there was still a powerful enemy facing him at this time, so they didn't dare to do anything to Sun Jian.So soon, they began to discuss how to further expand the results of the battle.With the experience of fighting the Huaxiong Army this time, these people no longer dare to underestimate the combat power of the Xiliang Army. A Yangcheng has already caused them a lot of suffering, and the next Hulao Pass is an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack pass. It is even more difficult to seize.

So when Yuan Shao asked everyone who would dare to lead troops to seize Hulao Pass, everyone was silent.

"Why, don't you all want to take advantage of this great opportunity to wipe out the people of Xiliang?" Yuan Shao asked displeasedly when he saw that everyone was silent, his eyebrows furrowed.

"Hulao Pass is no better than Yangcheng. If we don't have a proper attack method, it would be useless for us to go there!" Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling, said immediately, "I don't know if the leader has any clever plan to break through the pass?"

"This..." Yuan Shao was at a loss for words for a moment, and naturally he had no idea at this time.

"In my opinion, now we only need to assume the posture of attacking the tiger prison and approaching Luoyang. This may allow the Xiliang army to move first. As long as they move, our chance may come. "Cao Cao said suddenly at this time: "As for actually sending troops to attack Hulao, you can take your time."

"Brother Meng De is right. Although we had a small victory, we also lost a lot. We should be on the safe side. Moreover, after this victory, the loyal people in the world will definitely respond to us and join us in attacking Dong Zhuo. The next few days may be more beneficial to us!" Yanzhou Inspector Liu Dai also echoed.

After that, other people also said that it is better to wait and see. In fact, everyone was afraid of the combat power of the Xiliang Army and worried that their troops, like Sun Jian's and Bao Xin's troops, would suffer too many casualties, so they dared not send troops. .Yuan Shao couldn't object to this, and forced the other groups of people to attack, because he himself had selfish intentions, so he had no choice but to agree to everyone's conservative approach.

For this reason, the Kwantung Allied Forces' campaign against Dong Zhuo stopped after they captured Yangcheng, and at this time, there was another disturbance in Luoyang City because Hua Xiong lost Yangcheng...