The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 527
Zhang Fei led 3000 people, and he really took Shi Liang with him, winding along some mountain trails that almost no one had ever walked.

This kind of road is generally called "rat road" by mountain people, and no one usually walks it.To make matters worse, some places don't even have any passable roads.

What's more, it has entered summer now, and the sun in the sky is already very strong.They wandered around in the mountains like this, not only feeling stuffy and hot, but also exhausting their physical strength.Everyone was sweating profusely, and their bodies exuded a strong sour smell of sweat.

Such a bad situation really made Zhang Fei feel dumbfounded.He even suspected that when he came out, he would have foolishly believed the words of this bastard herbal picker named Tang San!
However, that Tang San is indeed an experienced herb picker, he is quite capable.Whenever there was no way, he commanded the soldiers in front to take out the thick-backed mountain machetes that had been prepared in advance.

The thickness of the back of this kind of machete can reach the width of a finger. If it is used for chopping, it is very powerful, and it is not easy for the blade to break when looking at trees. It is indeed a sharp tool for chopping wood.

But this kind of knife is not suitable for fighting, because it is easy to cut, but difficult to wield.Bring it to the battlefield, if you can't cut the enemy for the first time, then you will find yourself dead.Therefore, these knives were prepared in advance at Tang San's request, there was no such mountain machete in the barracks.

Under Tang San's guidance, those soldiers kept cutting down trees one after another, and when they got tired, they changed people.In fact, no matter how fast the soldiers cut, it is relative. In fact, the speed of the army's advancement is relatively slow.

Later, what made Zhang Fei even more dumbfounded was that his army really wanted to take out the ropes to climb a very steep cliff.

He had indeed heard Huang Quan say that he wanted to climb the cliff before, but he just thought he was joking.But when he saw this cliff, he couldn't help feeling a little dizzy, and his face actually turned a little pale.

But Zhang Fei, as the coach, cannot back down in this place.Otherwise, Shi Liang, who was standing behind him, would definitely waste his exhausted physical strength and mock him.

In the end, after Zhang Fei's troops lost 45 people here, Zhang Fei felt that the loss was too great, so he asked the remaining nearly 2000 troops to return the same way, and he himself took [-] troops to go there.

By the time Zhang Fei got around Zhu Ranjun's rear, two days had passed.

All of them are already in a mess.Most of their uniforms were scratched except where the nail leaves protected them.

Zhang Fei saw that the big guy's physical strength was really exhausted, and he needed to recuperate a little to recover some physical strength.Otherwise, such an army would be hacked and killed if it was pulled out for a surprise attack.

Therefore, Zhang Fei's army rested until the first half of the night, and then took advantage of the darkness to touch the back of Zhu Ran's barracks.

However, although Zhang Fei personally led the army to come this time, he did not take the lead in the dark, but just watched from a distance with a few guards.

This was mainly because, although he brought Shi Liang here, he was always afraid that Shi Liang would suddenly go crazy and send a signal to the enemy, which would be really troublesome.So, this time, let this rebellious Shi Liang come over to suffer a little bit, and then see the situation.

It seems that although what Zhang Fei said earlier sounds nice, he actually intends to fix Shi Liang.

Soon, news came to Zhang Fei from ahead, saying that there was no one in Zhu Ranjun's cottage.According to their investigation, it seems that the enemy's front foot has just left, and their back foot has entered. It is estimated that the time they left may not exceed an hour.Judging from the traces left behind, the direction of their retreat should be northwest.

After Zhang Fei heard the report, he couldn't help but patted his head without even thinking about it, and shouted loudly: "Damn it, we've been climbing mountains and mountains for two consecutive days, and it's all in vain in the end!"

In fact, Shi Liang couldn't see Zhang Fei's expression clearly. The night in the mountains was too dark, and Zhang Fei's face was too dark, so he couldn't see clearly at all.

However, Shi Liang could fully imagine that Zhang Fei must be looking desperate now.Therefore, Shi Liang suddenly felt a pleasure of revenge, wanted to laugh but was too embarrassed to laugh in front of Zhang Fei.

However, Zhang Fei suddenly let out another ah, and shouted: "It's not useless, at least let us know the news of the enemy's retreat in advance."

Zhang Fei's reaction was indeed quick, and he immediately thought of another point.Zhu Ran's army was retreating from the northwest, and it was definitely going to go to the Yangtze River, where there must be a fleet waiting for them.Otherwise, they should be heading north now, retreating along the retreat route of Lu Meng's army.It seems that Deng Ai didn't intend to send troops to stop the Jiangdong Army at all.

However, Zhang Fei doesn't want to scold Deng Ai now, the people he wants to scold most are actually Fan Jiang and Zhou Cheng.These two men fought quite well with the Jiangdong navy a few times ago, but now they let the enemy's fleet rush to the vicinity of Jingmen Mountain again!
After Zhang Fei cursed the two of them, he immediately sent an order to send a signal to Huang Quan on the opposite side to come to meet them.But Zhang Fei didn't wait for Huang Quan's troops to come over, so he ordered all the troops to withdraw from Zhu Ran's camp.

But why does Zhang Fei want to go?Hasn't he already occupied Zhu Ranjun's camp and opened up the passage to Jingmen Mountain?

Shi Liang felt that the order passed down by Zhang Fei was somewhat incomprehensible.Although he was curious and concerned about Zhu Ran's safety, he really wanted to ask Zhang Fei, but he didn't ask after all.

But soon, Shi Liang understood Zhang Fei's intention.He is going to lead the army to pursue Zhu Ranjun.

And Zhang Fei made such a decision is indeed well-founded.

For one thing, the retreat time of Zhu Ranjun was only an hour, which is very short, not to mention it is dark now, the mountain road is very difficult to walk, and it is impossible to retreat too far;

Second, Zhang Fei had already guessed that they were going to retreat from the Yangtze River.Zhang Fei came here by boat from Jiangzhou, and the situation couldn't be clearer. Shipment is a very time-consuming thing;
Three, Zhang Fei still has Tang San on hand.This person has been tested and is indeed very familiar with the situation in Jingmen Mountain.If you let him lead the way to pursue, the speed of marching at night will only be faster than Zhu Ranjun.

So, Zhang Fei immediately asked that Tang San, who didn't expect this guy to know a shortcut to the Yangtze River.

Zhang Fei couldn't help shouting "God help me too", and immediately sent a message to the whole army to attack.

Shi Liang was always concerned about Zhu Ran's safety, so he silently followed Zhang Fei on the road.

(End of this chapter)