The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 344 Chapter 343 An Empty City

As dusk fell and the sun set, Dian Wei and Xu Chu fought for 30 rounds under the city of Handan, changing horses more than [-] times during the period. The two still could not decide the winner, but were both exhausted.

At this time, the sound of gold ringing sounded from the tower of Handan City. Dian Wei looked at Xu Chu panting, put away the two iron halberds, and clasped his fists at Xu Chu, saying, "You and I have fought so hard today, and there is still no difference." There is a winner, but they are all overworked, why don't we go back to rest for the time being, and we will fight to the death here tomorrow, how about it?"

Xu Chu was a straightforward person, and immediately agreed, saying: "It's a deal, I'll wait for you here on time tomorrow, if you don't come, you'll be a coward!"

Dian Wei sneered and said, "Don't be complacent, tomorrow we will have a contest and cut off your head."

Xu Chu said: "It's not ashamed to speak out, it's still uncertain who will cut off whose!"

The force of the two people is evenly matched, and neither can do anything to the other. At this moment, they are just showing off their tongues.

Dian Wei glared at Xu Chu fiercely, turned his horse's head, and was about to retreat back to Handan City. Just after taking two steps forward, Dian Wei stopped again, turned his head and said to Xu Chu, "If we don't have our own masters If so, we will become very good friends..."

Xu Chu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled knowingly.

As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other. In today's battle, Xu Chu fought heartily. He has never felt such a carefree feeling.

A master is lonely, and having Dian Wei as an opponent may not be a bad thing, Xu Chu is in the same mood as Dian Wei at this time, heroes cherish heroes!
Xu Chu looked at Dian Wei's back, and asked, "You left like this, aren't you afraid that I will shoot you with an arrow behind your back?"

Dian Wei said: "If you wanted to make a cold shot, you would have done so long ago, why wait until now?"

In fact, when Xu Chu and Dian Wei fought until noon, taking advantage of the rest time, Lu Meng suggested to Xu Chu to shoot Dian Wei with a cold arrow.

However, Xu Chu did not agree, and even reprimanded Lu Meng, thinking that doing so would lose the basic trust.

If people have no faith, they will not stand, and if the country has no faith, it will decline!

The ancients regarded the word faith as more important than life. Although Xu Chu didn't read much, he valued faith very much and would never do anything that would break his promise.

Today, he singled out Dianwei, it was a one-on-one competition, no one else could participate, even if he died in Dianwei's hands, it could only show that his skills were inferior to others, even though he died without regret.

But if Xu Chu shot Dian Wei to death with a cold arrow, even if he won, it would be an invincible victory, and he would be cast aside by the others.

Xu Chu couldn't do such a thing, and he didn't even bother to do it!

After this battle, Xu Chu seemed to have found a confidant, like Boya meeting Ziqi, this feeling is not understood by ordinary people.

For Xu Chu, it is enough to have a confidant in life.

But what troubled Xu Chu was that this Dian Wei was in the enemy camp. Although he felt that Dian Wei was like his confidant, he couldn't show it.

Seeing Dian Wei go away, Xu Chu also turned his horse's head, walked straight back to the camp, and ordered: "Retreat five li, and come back tomorrow to fight Dian Wei to the death."

Lv Meng said: "General, if you don't kill Dian Wei today, you're afraid of endless troubles. Besides, the regent's army will arrive tomorrow, so it's impossible to fight Dian Wei like this again. The general is the vanguard, but he hasn't accomplished an inch. Why not just let the general go and shoot Dian Wei, all the responsibility for all these crimes will be borne by the future, and the general will never be implicated!"

After finishing speaking, Lu Meng took out his bow and arrow, and was about to gallop out, but was stopped by Xu Chu: "It's not a good man to stab someone in the dark, even if he can really kill Dian Wei, it's not a good fight. This time I am the vanguard, and whether you make a contribution or not, it has nothing to do with you!"

Lu Meng hastily retorted: "General, the general knows that you put faith first, but Dian Wei is very skilled in martial arts and is extremely difficult to deal with. If you can't shoot him today, you may have endless troubles in the future. Besides, this is a battlefield, not an arena. , as long as you can defeat your opponent, no matter what means he uses, no matter how insidious the trick is, in order to win, you must use all means. War is intriguing, and there is no distinction between right and wrong, but there is only one thing that will never change The truth, that is, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit!"

Xu Chu frowned, speechless to Lu Meng's rebuttal.Although he can't say enough about Lu Meng, he is a vanguard after all, and he is the great general of Huben. No matter from any point of view, his status is far higher than that of Lu Meng.

As the so-called high-ranking officials crush people to death, Xu Chu didn't want to see the confidant he had just found die like this, so he said angrily: "Enough! Are you a pioneer or am I a pioneer? What I say is what I say, no matter how much I dare to say In one sentence, there will be no mercy! Withdraw the troops!"

Lu Meng watched Dian Wei's figure go farther and farther. After riding his horse across the suspension bridge, the suspension bridge rose up, covering Dian Wei's entire figure.

"Alas!" Lu Meng sighed unwillingly, and said helplessly, "The general has an order to retreat five li!"

After speaking, Lu Meng turned his horse's head and left sadly under the setting sun.

Xu Chu looked at Lu Meng's back, and thought to himself: "This man is young and cruel, but it's a pity that he is too eager for quick success and quick gains. With a little training, in time, he will definitely become a general in charge... It seems that the regent is right. He is very important, otherwise, I would not let him join the army..."

The Han soldiers retreated five li and rested in a forest, and the battle between Xu Chu and Dian Wei during the day also became the topic of conversation for many soldiers. While resting and enjoying dinner, there were many discussions.

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After a day of fierce fighting, Dian Wei dragged his exhausted body back to the city of Handan. As soon as he left the cave, he met Cao Hong head-on. The streets in the city were also in a mess, and the whole city was quiet.

It was not until Cao Hong told Dianwei that he was going to withdraw his troops that Dianwei knew what had happened in the city. The people in the entire Handan city disappeared without a trace in one day, leaving only Cao Hong and 300 people at the south gate. At this time, Cao Hong and others were also ready to retreat.

So Cao Hong asked Dian Wei to change a horse, and quickly left Handan City with Dian Wei and the [-] soldiers. The soldiers on the wall were all scarecrows in Cao Jun's clothes secretly replaced by Cao Hong. , to confuse the enemy.

After Dian Wei left Handan City, he was not very happy. He was afraid that he would break his promise to Xu Chu, but he had to obey the lord's order. It was really a dilemma between loyalty and righteousness.

All Cao's troops withdrew from Handan City. Cao Hong, Dian Wei and others all rode horses and walked very quickly. They walked northwest for about 30 miles before catching up with Cao Cao's army.

Cao Cao's army was all scattered on the periphery of the team. The people in Handan City formed a long team, and under the protection of Cao Jun's generals, they moved slowly to the northwest.

Cao Hong rushed all the way with Dian Wei and others, and after driving for more than 20 li, he overtook Cao Cao. They joined forces and stepped up their march.

However, because bringing the people along seriously hindered the advance of the army, Xu You suggested that Cao Cao choose an elite army to go first. After Cao Cao arrived in Jinyang, the situation in the city might be stabilized.

Therefore, Cao Cao followed Xu You's suggestion, led Xu You, Cao Hong, Dian Wei and others to leave first, and selected [-] cavalry to rush to Jinyang for rescue, and let Xun Yu, Xun Chen and others be responsible for leading the people March to Jinyang, and spread the news that Zhang Yan is going to massacre the city along the way, and let the people go to Bingzhou with them.

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The next day when it was just dawn, Xu Chu got up early in the morning. After enjoying a simple breakfast, he rushed towards the city of Handan with his people, preparing to fight Dianwei again.

However, when Xu Chu came to Handan City, no matter how much he shouted, there was no movement in Handan City.

At this time, a scout came galloping on a fast horse, and immediately reported to Xu Chu the news that Zhang Yan's army was about to arrive.

So Xu Chu took people to meet Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan led Zhang Liao, Gan Ning and other cavalry to the foot of Handan City first, and joined Xu Chu as one. Seeing that there were many soldiers in Handan City, but there was no movement, he asked Xu Chu about the situation here.

Xu Chu truthfully reported what he had done in Handan City, Zhang Yan didn't say anything, and let Xu Chu continue to fight here, and he took Zhang Liao, Gan Ning and others to inspect Handan City to see if there was anything beneficial place of attack.

Zhang Yan, Zhang Liao, Gan Ning and others rode their horses and galloped wildly. When they came to the north gate of Handan City, they saw the suspension bridge of the north gate on the moat, and the gate of the north gate was also opened. Except for some military flags stuck on the city wall, there was not a single soldier to be seen at all.

A group of people came outside the north gate, Zhang Yan reined in the horses, stood there and looked into the open north gate, but seeing the streets in the city in a mess, with messy things scattered all over the place, he became suspicious.

"Regent, Handan City seems to be an empty city..." Zhang Liao whispered to Zhang Yan after seeing it.

Of course Zhang Yan could see that this city looked like an empty city, but he was worried that this was a trick played by Cao Cao, so he deliberately set up an empty city trick to trick him, and then jumped in, ambushed, and wiped out.

That's roughly what Zhang Yan thinks, but what's going on, we still have to find out.

So Zhang Yan sent a soldier to ride his horse into the city to find out.

The soldier rode a fast horse into the city without hesitation. After galloping through the city of Handan for a while, he came back to the gate of the city and shouted at Zhang Yan: "Qi the Regent, it is indeed an empty city. Didn't even see a single person inside!"

Zhang Yan felt that the soldier's investigation was not careful enough, so he said: "Go deeper and investigate, don't jump to conclusions!"

"Here!"

About a quarter of an hour later, the soldier appeared at the gate of the city again, and said to Zhang Yan: "Regent, this is indeed an empty city! No one knows where they have gone!"

(End of this chapter)