The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 170 Chapter 170
Zhang Yan had been assigning scouts to secretly monitor Sun Ce's every move. When he learned that Zu Lang and Jiao had all surrendered to Sun Ce, he was very happy.

In Moling City, ever since Zhang Yan beheaded Zhang Ying and Chen Heng with his own hands, the whole army was shaken.

Zhang Yan had been training for ten days in a row. The soldiers of Liu Yao's army were miserable, but they unknowingly increased their physical strength.

On the 11th day, Zhang Yan ordered all the soldiers to unload the [-]-pound loads they were carrying, and then run another marathon.

As a result, this marathon was beyond everyone's expectations. The soldiers lightened their load and ran like a gust of wind, and their speed was obviously raised to a higher level.

It wasn't until this moment that these soldiers understood the real purpose of this training session, and that such training session had a remarkable effect.

In the next three days, Zhang Yan did not conduct any more training sessions, but let the soldiers rest well and recharge their batteries.

On the other hand, Zhang Yan suggested that Liu Yao take the initiative to attack. This time, he was going to do his best to drive Sun Ce away.

Liu Yao immediately asked Xue Li to allocate food, grass and military pay, and took out all the siege equipment in the arsenal, and actively prepared for the battle.

Three days later, Zhang Yan and Liu Yao personally led the army to attack Sun Ce.This is also the first time Liu Yao has taken the initiative to attack. Liu Yao, who is in a happy mood, seems to have seen the dawn of victory.

This time the troops were dispatched mainly by Liu Yao's army, supplemented by Zhang Yan's army. There were no generals under Liu Yao's tent, so Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin under Zhang Yan's tent could only be temporarily commanders, each commanding [-] soldiers and horses. to Danyang City.

Zhang Yan led Tai Shici, Zhang Hong and the elite of his subordinates to follow Liu Yao's army.

Just in case, Zhang Yan suggested that Liu Yao should keep Xue Li and guard Moling City with [-] soldiers.

When the army came, Sun Ce's scouts immediately informed Sun Ce of the incident.

Sun Ce hurriedly gathered all the generals to discuss, and Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Chen Wu, Dong Xi and others proposed to take the initiative to attack Liu Yao and Zhang Yan's coalition forces.

However, Zhou Yu believed that Liu Yao and Zhang Yan's coalition forces were in full swing at this time, and it was not appropriate to take the initiative to attack, but suggested to defend and then attack.

One side is the main battle and the other is the main defense. Sun Ce couldn't make up his mind, so he said to his best friend Lu Fan, "Zi Heng, what's your opinion?"

Lu Fan said: "You can try to attack first, and set up an ambush in the middle of the road in advance. If you can't win, it's not too late to defend the city!"

After Sun Ce heard this, he immediately ordered: "Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Chen Wu, and Dong Xi, you six will fight with me, and the rest will stick to the city and make no mistakes. Hand it over to Zhou Yu."

After the order was issued, Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Chen Wu, and Dong Xi clasped their fists together and said, "Here!"

And Zhou Yu, Lu Fan, Sun Jing, Sun He, Zhu Zhi and others also responded together: "Here!"

After the discussion, Sun Ce took Cheng Pu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Sun Ben, Chen Wu, Dong Xi, and two thousand elites out of Danyang City.

Sun Ce led the soldiers to the outside of the city, and sent people to the camp where Zu Lang and Jiao Ji were, and asked Zu Lang and Jiao Ji to lead all the soldiers and horses to follow him to ambush Liu Yao and Zhang Ji. Yan's allied forces.

When Zu Lang and Jiao Ji were summoned, they were overjoyed, because the time they had been waiting for had finally arrived. At this time, it was time to annihilate Sun Ce with the coalition forces of Zhang Yan and Liu Yao.

So Zu Lang and Jiao Ji immediately led all the soldiers and horses, followed Sun Ce and others to ambush.

Sun Ce led his soldiers and horses and set up an ambush ten miles away from Danyang City. This road is the only way from Moling City to Danyang City.

On the left side of the road is a wide and swiftly flowing river. There is a large reed marsh beside the river, which can hide tens of thousands of soldiers.On the right side of the road is a ridge about Zhang high, and there are rows of dense trees on the ridge. Although all the fallen leaves have fallen at this time, as long as the soldiers lie there quietly, they can hide tens of thousands of soldiers.

When Sun Ce arrived here, he let Cheng Pu, Sun Ben, Chen Wu, and Zu Lang lie in ambush in the reed marsh, while he himself, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Dong Xi, and Jiao Ji lay in ambush in the dense forest on the ridge, condescending. .

At noon, Sun Ce and others were still lying in ambush here, but the person they were waiting for did not arrive.About half an hour later, Sun Ce's scouts came back and informed Liu Yao and Zhang Yan's army had arrived, less than five miles away.

So, Sun Ce and others started gearing up, but they didn't notice at all that countless pairs of vicious eyes were staring at his back.

After about a stick of incense, Zhou Tai led Liu Yao's army into the ambush circle first. Sun Ce was calm and did not order the attack immediately, but waited until Zhou Tai had almost passed before ordering the attack.

"Fire arrows!"

Following Sun Ce's roar, the soldiers who had already ambushed on both sides of the road jumped up one after another, pulled the bowstring in their hands, and shot the arrows in their hands.

However, a strange thing happened. There should have been a spectacular scene of thousands of arrows being fired, but there were only a thousand arrows shot out. Not only that, Sun Ce's army even let out screams, nearly It's deafening so close.

Sun Ce was taken aback, and hurriedly looked back, but saw that Jiao had run behind him at some point and was directing the bandit soldiers to shoot arrows at them. Not only that, the bandit soldiers also waved their weapons and began to kill Sun Ce Army generals.

Coincidentally, there was also a riot in the reed marshes opposite. In just a moment, half of Sun Ce's army had been killed, and the rest were fighting in haste.

The rebellion of Zu Lang and Jiao Ji was neither too early nor too late, but at this time, Sun Ce suddenly felt cheated.

The thieves who had surrendered suddenly rebelled, and Sun Ce's army suffered heavy losses. At the same time, Liu Yao's army in the middle of the road also began to attack both sides of the road. Sun Ce and others were surrounded by hundreds of guards, desperately Some of them are fighting with bandit soldiers.

Strange to say, the combat ability of the bandit soldiers at this moment has improved by leaps and bounds, and they are completely different from when Sun Ce surrendered them before.

"Guard Lord, go first!" Huang Gai shouted to Han Dang and Dong Xi while beating the bandit soldiers with double whips.

Han Dang and Dong Xi did not hesitate, they guarded Sun Ce, led the soldiers, and rushed out to kill.

Holding the spear, Sun Ce vented all his anger. When he saw Jiao Ji commanding the soldiers to surround the place, he was so angry that he immediately raised the spear and threw it at Jiao Ji.

Jiao already saw the spear shooting towards him, and hurriedly dodged to the side, but the spear's force remained undiminished, and it shot a bandit soldier.

At this time, Sun Ce drew out the ancient ingot knife and slashed violently, just to kill a path of blood.

However, perseveringly, the enemy killed more and more, and there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him.

At this critical moment, Zhou Yu, Sun He, and Zhu Zhi drove their troops to kill Jiao Ji, and they came out directly from behind Jiao Ji. Thousands of soldiers and horses rushed on the rampage. After leaving Sun Ce, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Dong Xi and others, they fled to Danyang City in a hurry.

On the opposite side, Cheng Pu, Sun Ben, and Chen Wu struggled to break out of the siege, and came to the river together, threw themselves into the river, and were washed away by the rushing water.

Zhou Yu rescued Sun Ce, leaving Sun He to lead the pursuers to resist Jiao Ji, and the rest followed Sun Ce back to Danyang City.

Sun Ce asked: "Gong Jin, you came in time, otherwise, I would have died here. By the way, you are not defending the city, how did you come here?"

Zhou Yu said: "I've always been worried that Zu Lang and Jiao Ji didn't really want to take refuge with me, so I led soldiers and horses to follow behind the lord just in case. Today Zu Lang and Jiao Ji really rebelled!"

"Gong Jin, I regret that I should not have listened to your words. I am so embarrassed today!" Sun Ce said remorsefully.

Zhou Yu said: "Things are over, now we go back to Danyang City as soon as possible, relying on the city, maybe we can hold on!"

The crowd rushed to Danyang City non-stop, Sun He defended the bandits for a while, and then retreated on his own, Zu Lang, Jiao Ji, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others joined forces and came to pursue Sun Ce.

When Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and others came to Danyang City, they asked people to call for the door, but suddenly a rain of arrows shot down from the city wall, and Zhang Yan appeared on the tower with his helmet on and armored, facing Sun Ce and Zhou Yu outside the city. The others shouted: "Danyang City has already been captured by me, you who are sensible, surrender quickly, and I will save you from death."

"There are pursuers behind and barriers ahead, what should our army do?" Sun Ce said to himself, his teeth itching with hatred.

Zhou Yu said: "Go to Shicheng. There are still more than a thousand soldiers of our army in Shicheng. If the army goes there, there is still a place to stand."

So Sun Ce, Zhou Yu and others led the remnant army and hurried to Shicheng.

Zhang Yan, Liu Yao, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin, Zu Lang, Jiao Ji and others all chased after them, hiding and killing them all the way, and Sun Ce's army suffered heavy losses.

Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Han Dang, Huang Gai, Dong Xi, Sun He, Zhu Zhi and others rushed all the way. On the way, they met Sun Jing and Lu Fan. The two armies merged into one and continued to flee towards Shicheng.

But Zhang Yan, Liu Yao, Zu Lang, Jiao Ji and others were in a hurry to pursue them. In desperation, Sun Ce had to ask Sun He to lead 1000 men to defend against the pursuers.

Sun He and Sun Ce were cousins, and Sun Ce was a few years older. When Sun Jian was alive, he followed Sun Jian and was often a pioneer of Sun Jian. He was brave and good at fighting.After Sun Jian's death, Sun He joined Yuan Shu with Sun Ce. Yuan Shu was afraid of Sun Ce, so he promoted Sun He as a general. He wanted Sun He to command Sun Jian's old army, but Sun He refused.

When Sun Ce led his army to the south, Sun He was still in Ji Ling's army in Yuzhou. After hearing about this, he bribed the people around Ji Ling, feigned death and fled. After many twists and turns, he came to Sun Ce's side.Sun Ce was also very happy when he learned of Sun He's arrival, and immediately asked Sun He to lead a team of personal soldiers, which shows his great love for him.

Sun He got Sun Ce's order, so he stayed and let Sun Ce and others go first. He was responsible for leading the army to resist the pursuers.

After Sun Ce left, Sun He lined up his troops and ambushed the pursuers on both sides of the road. However, after all, he was outnumbered and surrounded by the pursuers.

(End of this chapter)