The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1197
Lu Kang reluctantly took up the fight, but he was already unable to do what he wanted. When the spear was released, Lu Kang had already closed his eyes and waited to die. He didn't expect that a general would kill Fang Heng on the way, which surprised and delighted Lu Kang.

As soon as Fang Heng died, the Han army was in chaos and fled in all directions. After Zhou Chu chased him for a while, he pulled his horse back and bowed to Lu Kang, "The last general's rescue came late, and Da Sima was frightened."

Lu Kang thought Zhou Chu looked familiar, but he didn't recognize him. He heard him calling himself Zhou Chu, so he asked, "Poyang Governor Zhou Dory, who are you?"

Zhou Chu said: "It is my late father."

Lu Kang suddenly said: "After Guo Xianliang, if you didn't save me today, my life would be over. What position do you currently occupy and who do you work under?"

Zhou Chudao: "The last general is now Jianwu Xiaowei, serving under General Pingxi Zhang Xian."

Zhou Chu was just a small captain, Lu Kang naturally didn't know him, he snorted slightly, and said, "Zhang Xian is just extremely confused, such a loyal and brave man should be subservient to the post of captain, his pearl is covered in dust. Zhou Chu, this governor will now promote you to General Yangwu, to lead an army, and together with this governor, we will break through the siege to the east."

Zhou Chu cupped his hands and said: "Thank you, Da Sima, the general is willing to work like a dog and a horse, and go through fire and water, and he will do whatever he wants."

Now that the two armies are united, Lu Kang ordered Lu Jing to be in the front, and after Zhou Chu was cut off, he went all the way to the east.

Along the way, the pursuers of the Han army continued, and Zhou Chu fought hard and fought bravely, so that the pursuers ran away with their heads in their hands, so that the Wu army had no worries.

Lu Kang looked at it, couldn't help but secretly marveled, and sighed: "A good general in the world, such a talent, why has he been buried until now?"

Lu Yan's arm was injured, so he couldn't use a weapon, so he accompanied Lu Kang. Hearing this, he laughed and said, "Father has been in the border area for a long time, so naturally he doesn't know about Wuzhong. Zhou Chu is very famous in Wuzhong. He was young. At that time, he was fierce and chivalrous, with extraordinary force, and he liked to ride horses and hunt in the fields. He indulged in wanton desires and caused disasters to the village. At that time, there was a white-fronted tiger with eye-catching eyes and a big black dragon in the water in Yixing Nanshan. The villagers used them with them. Zhou Chu is also known as the "Three Evils of Yixing", and Zhou Chu is the worst. Some elders persuaded Zhou Chu to kill tigers and Jiaos, Zhou Chu followed him, shot and killed the white-fronted tiger in Nanshan, and then went to the middle of the river After killing the big black jiao, they fought with it in the water for three days and three nights. The people thought that Zhou Chu and the big jiao had perished together, and they all celebrated by throwing their crowns. Feeling remorseful, I went to our Lu family on purpose. At that time, my fifth younger brother Lu Yun was at home, and he told me affectionately: "I want to modify myself, but the years are wasted, and I can't achieve anything." Yun said: "The ancients value the morning and the evening. If you die, Mr. Kuang will have a good future. And if people suffer from failure to establish their ambitions, why worry about their reputation not showing evil!' Zhou Chu then changed his past and became an official."

Lu Kang wondered: "There is such a strange thing. He really is a strong man. It is a great fortune for the country to get Zhou Chu." So Lu Kang came up with the idea of ​​reusing Zhou Chu, but at the time of fleeing, Lu Kang Kang also had no choice but to suppress this thought in his heart.

After arriving in Chen County, Lu Kang successively gathered together with Xue Ying, Governor of the Left, General Wu Yan of Zhennan, General Zhang Xian of Pingxi, and others. The others were also extremely lucky, but after a few days of fighting, they were all covered in blood and scars, and there were not many men left. Except Wu Yan who led more than ten thousand people, the others There are only a few thousand remnants of defeated generals, all of them with broken armor, exhausted, and almost powerless to fight again.

From Zhang Xian's mouth, Lu Kang could not help sighing when he learned that Weiyuan General Sun Xin and Zhenxi General Zhu Wan had been killed by the rebel army one after another.

The defeat this time was not insignificant. Wu Guo sent 15 troops successively, and Sun Xiu suffered the first defeat at Yuyuan Pass. Except for Wu Yan who retreated with 1 troops, 5 troops lost [-].Of Lu Kang's [-] troops, less than [-] can be checked now, and seven out of ten stops have been lost. Such a heavy loss has set a record since the founding of the Wu Kingdom.

Lu Kang fell into deep self-blame. If he hadn't insisted on the Northern Expedition, it would have been impossible for Wu to lose more than [-] horses. The battle of Luoyang, which took less than a month before and after, had suffered so much. Defeated, Lu Kang felt that he was really ashamed to meet Jiang Dong's elders.

Xue Ying persuaded: "Victory and defeat are common matters in military affairs. Why should Da Sima blame himself? Even though the losses are heavy, we have the defense line of the Yangtze River, which is indestructible. Even if the Shu people come after them, they will not be able to cross them. Why should Da Sima worry about it. The top priority is that we have to return to Yiyang as soon as possible, the Central Plains is not a place to stay for a long time."

Lu Kang sighed: "I, Lu Kang, have never suffered such a disastrous defeat in my life. It is really a shame and a great shame. Now that I return to my homeland, how can I face the Holy One and the elders of Jiangdong? If I really died in the battle under the city of Luoyang like Sun Xin and Zhu Wan , and a lot less worrying things.”

Xue Ying said in surprise: "Why did Da Sima say that? The current crisis of the country is absolutely inseparable from Da Sima."

Lu Kang smiled wryly, and said, "What's the fate of returning? But I don't know what happened to King Yingchuan, King Huainan and King Taishan among the rebellious army?"

When the troops were first withdrawn, Lu Kang, Chen Qian, Shi Bao, and Ma Long were still together, but under the impact of the Han cavalry, they were soon scattered, and naturally lost For the news, Lu Kang was still thinking about the safety of Chen Qian and others, so he asked.

Xue Ying shook her head and said: "Among the rebellious army, we are all self-sufficient. When we were in Goushi County, the last general had contact with King Yingchuan's subordinates and heard about King Yingchuan. It's just that they were dispersed by the Shu army later, and the last general desperately broke through, and never heard from them again. As for Huainan King and Taishan King, they didn't know their whereabouts from the beginning to the end. unknown."

Zhang Xian said: "I have never seen other people from other walks of life, but when I was in Jing County, I did meet Ma Long, the king of Mount Tai. At that time, we fought back the attack of the Shu people together. Said he was going back to Qingzhou, and we parted ways."

Although there is news about Chen Qian, Ma Long and others, that is all in the past tense. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. It is very common for people who were alive just now to be decapitated in the blink of an eye. Now, Lu Kang couldn't determine the life and death of Chen Qian and others at all, and he couldn't help but sighed.

Xue Ying persuaded: "Auspicious people have their own destiny, life and death depend on fate, Da Sima doesn't need to worry about it, this is not a place to stay, we should go south as soon as possible."

Lu Kang was silent for a while, and ordered to go south to Yiyang.

(End of this chapter)