Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 301 Chasing All The Way

"Prime Minister! When Cao Ang fled to Jiangxia, he didn't take any of the people with him." Xu Chu clasped his fists and saluted.

After Li Song heard this, he suddenly had a feeling that the world was spinning. In this way, he would definitely not be able to catch up with them. Once they got to Jiangxia, established a firm foothold, and joined forces with Sun Quan in Jiangdong, it would be much more difficult for him to go south this time. Easy mode has been upgraded to Hard mode.

Xu Chu didn't have the time to pay attention to Li Song's inner world, and continued: "It's just that I don't know why and suddenly brought a lot of people, about 20 or [-]. I guess they will not travel more than thirty or forty miles a day."

Li Song was overjoyed when he heard this, it means that he still has a chance to catch up with them, which is really great, as for why so many people suddenly appeared in Cao Ang's army, who cares about him!As long as it can delay the advance of Cao Ang's army, it's fine, and he doesn't care about his own business.

"Zhongda! How far is Jiangxia from here?" Li Song turned around and asked Sima Yi.

"Report to the Prime Minister! Jiang Xia is more than 300 miles away from here! If you send a strong cavalry force, you may be able to catch up with them in a day and a night."

"Okay! This time I will personally lead the troops to hunt them down. I will definitely watch Cao Ang and Zhuge Liang die in front of my eyes. Go back quickly and prepare [-] cavalry to hunt them down with me."

"Promise!" Zhang Liao, Zhang He, and Xu Chu clasped their fists in salute, and took orders to leave.

Li Song personally led [-] cavalry to chase and kill Cao Ang. At this time, Cao Ang also felt that the sudden appearance of the people was really a burden, so he followed Zhuge Liang's suggestion, abandoned these people, and accelerated the march, planning to arrive at Jiangling within two days. .

The abandoned people were at a loss and didn't know where they should flee. Today's homeland is full of smoke and fire, and there is no peace in the past. Those who leave their hometown by themselves and others can go where they can go. Losing Cao Angjun, they have no choice but to take one step at a time. .

Dust was flying behind the people, and a large number of cavalry rushed up and drove these poor people to one place. Seeing the cavalry in armor and riding tall horses in front of them, the people panicked!In the past, Cao Ang spread Li Song's cruelty everywhere in Xinye City, and even described Li Song as a heinous murderer.

A fast horse came galloping, stopped in front of Li Song, clasped its fists and saluted immediately, and said, "Report to the Prime Minister! A large number of refugees were found ahead, they should be the people of Xinye City, and our army has already gathered them together."

"Oh! What about Cao Ang and the others?" Li Song asked. Since he found the people, he naturally found Cao Ang's army, but the people who came to report only mentioned the people, but did not say anything about Cao Ang's army. It is estimated that most of them abandoned them and ran away. up.

The reporter's words confirmed his conjecture, "Return to the prime minister! No trace of Cao Ang's army was found, but according to the people, Cao's army abandoned them and left two days ago."

"Oh! Do you know where Cao Angjun went?" Li Song asked hastily, this is a matter of great importance.

"I went to Jiangling," said the man.

Li Song waved him back, the man bowed his fists, turned his horse's head and left.

Sima Yi, who was with the army, said to Li Song: "Prime Minister! Jiangling is an important place for Jingxiang, with a lot of money and food. If Cao Ang gets Jiangling, with Zhuge Liang as his assistant, it will be difficult to take them down."

"Of course I understand this matter, but these people were displaced because of the war, and they must be settled first, otherwise I will feel uneasy." Li Song said, this is a great opportunity to buy people's hearts.

"I admire the prime minister's benevolence and righteousness! Why don't you leave this matter to the minister!" Sima Yi said.

"Okay! I will leave it to Zhong Da to appease the people, and I will lead the cavalry to hunt down Cao Ang and the others." After Li Song said, he rode his horse and led the cavalry towards Jiangling.

Cao Ang and others went forward together.While walking, suddenly a gust of wind blew in front of the horse, the dust soared into the sky, covering the red sun, and the horse sat down in shock, neighing non-stop, restless.

Cao Ang was shocked!Hurriedly comforting the horse, he asked, "Why did the wind blow up suddenly, causing the dust to soar into the sky and cover the red sun in the sky? What's the sign?"

Jian Yong was quite aware of yin and yang, and he used sleeve divination. Jian Yong was one of the people in Liu Bei's old department who escaped from the clothes belt case. After the divination, Jian Yong was shocked and said: "My lord, this is a bad omen! It will be fulfilled tonight. My lord, our army is mostly infantry, so my lord should first lead the cavalry to gallop to Jiangling."

Cao Ang shook his head and said, "No! How can I abandon the soldiers and run for my life alone?"

Jian Yong said: "If my lord doesn't listen, disaster will not be far away. How could two retreating infantry outrun four-legged cavalry."

Cao Ang ignored Jian Yong and asked his left and right: "What's ahead?"

Left and right replied: "My lord, Dangyang County is ahead, and there is a mountain named Jingshan in the county."

"Our army is stationed on this mountain, and I will definitely not abandon the soldiers." After Cao Ang finished speaking, he led the army to Jingshan Mountain. These soldiers and horses were the foundation of his Cao Ang. Without these soldiers, how could he compete with Li Song.

At four o'clock, I suddenly heard shouts coming from the northwest.Cao Ang woke up from his sleep, put on armor, hung a sword on his waist, and held a silver gun. He hurriedly mounted his horse and led more than [-] elite soldiers from his headquarters to meet the enemy.Li Song's cavalry arrived, and Cao Ang and others fought to the death.

At the critical moment, fortunately, I met Cao Zhang leading the army to protect Cao Ang and fight a bloody road, saving Cao Ang and looking east.

Cao Zhang defended Cao Ang, fighting and retreating all the way.It wasn't until after dawn that Cao Ang and the others stopped their horses when they heard the shouts gradually fade away.

Looking at his entourage and others, but there are only a hundred riders, he couldn't help but feel sad, if he had listened to Jian Yong, how could he have fallen into this situation.

"Brother! Now is not the time to be sad. I, Cao Zhang, would like to stay here to be the queen for you. Get on your horse and run to Jiangling." Cao Zhang said with a salute.

"That's it, third brother! Third brother, no matter what, he will come back alive." Cao Ang said, holding Cao Zhang's hand.

"Brother don't worry! I still want to follow my elder brother to make contributions, kill Li Song, and avenge my father and the Cao and Xiahou clans! Take care, elder brother!" Cao Zhang clasped his fists and turned to mount his horse.

Lead more than [-] riders to the front of Changban Bridge.Seeing that there were many trees in the east of the bridge, Cao Zhang immediately had a plan.

Cao Zhang shouted: "All the people got off their horses, cut off branches with me, tied them to the horse's tail, galloped back and forth in the woods, kicked up dust, and clothed them as suspicious soldiers."

After all, he got off his horse and led 20 people to cut off branches, tie them to the tails of the horses, and let them gallop back and forth on horseback, and the dust immediately flew up.

However, Cao Zhang himself stood on the bridge with his sword horizontally, and looked west. After a while, he saw a large number of cavalry charging towards him, but it was Wei Yan who led the troops.

After Wei Yan was captured, he was escorted back to Xuchang, and Li Song sent Liu Bowen and Sima Yi to persuade him and Wenpin to surrender.

Wei Yan, who was the vanguard officer for chasing Cao Ang this time, came to the Changban Bridge, and saw the man in front of him, his eyes wide open, with a long knife in his hand, and a yellow beard on his face. Fei Yang was worried that there would be an ambush, so he reined in his horse and waited for reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)