Great Han Empire

Chapter 871 The Heroes of Troubled Times Compete in the Central Plains
"Catch up, catch up, catch Yuan Shao."

The Karasuma people couldn't understand what Zhao Yun was shouting. After chasing for a hundred steps, they saw Zhao Yun leading a team of men and horses chasing after him, and stopped immediately.At this moment, there are more and more fugitives on the road, chasing too far will lead to loopholes in the defense, and it is possible for more fugitives to take the opportunity to break out of the encirclement.In addition, there were only dozens of enemies who escaped from the encirclement. Even if they were all killed, each of them would not be able to get a head. In comparison, besieging the enemies on the road was more cost-effective.Let these dozens of heads be given to those crazy Han people.Karasuma turned around and went back.

Seeing that Zhao Yun and his men were getting closer and closer, Yuan Shao's personal guards immediately split into two. One part ran wildly to protect Yuan Shao, while the other turned around and flew to meet Yuan Shao.

The enemy cavalry has a clear goal and prevents Zhao Yun from being killed.Kill the officer in charge of the pursuers, and Yuan Shao will be safe. More than 20 enemy soldiers shot towards Zhao Yun like a sharp long arrow.

Zhao Yun roared angrily, swung his spear, and killed two people in a row.Before he could raise his spear again, three enemy soldiers stabbed with three spears at the same time.Zhao Yun had nowhere to hide, the spear in his right hand volleyed open the spear on the left, and he drew the knife with his left hand to block the point of the spear piercing his chest with unimaginable speed.The swords and spears collided.With the help of the galloping horse, the spear was so powerful that Zhao Yun's body was knocked upside down.The spear stabbed from the right did not have time to pierce into Zhao Yun's body, and plunged into the back of the horse with a "thud".

The war horse suffered from pain, and suddenly jumped into the air, knocking down the enemy who rushed from the front, both man and horse.Zhao Yun was in the air, and his spear shot across like lightning, and immediately picked off the enemy soldiers who rushed from the left. "Kill..." Zhao Yun roared again, his body like a swallow, slanted down towards the enemy's horse, and at the same time he threw the saber with his left hand, piercing through the chest of the enemy on the right.

Just when he was about to fall onto the horse's back, four enemy soldiers roared towards him.One of the enemy soldiers leaped into the air, using his body as a weapon, and knocked Zhao Yun into the air again.Zhao Yun lost his balance and fell to the ground.The enemy soldier fell beside him, and before Zhao Yun could get up, he rushed forward screaming like a beast, and hugged Zhao Yun by the waist.

When Zhao Yun's personal guards saw the general fall from the horse, they were shocked and turned pale. They surrounded the horse one after another, and all their knives and arrows were used to rescue him.

Zhao Yun hit the enemy soldier in the face with one punch, and the enemy soldier was bloody, but the enemy soldier gave up his life to fight and hugged Zhao Yun tightly.

Three spears stabbed again.In desperation, Zhao Yun used both hands and feet to move as long as he could.In just a short moment, two spears rushed towards him and pierced into the body of the enemy soldier at the same time.Another spear came straight to Zhao Yun's waist.Zhao Yun screamed and punched out with his left hand.The bloody spear tip was tilted at this moment, and it was inserted into the shoulder blade of the enemy pawn within a millimeter.The enemy soldiers howled mournfully, and hugged Zhao Yun even tighter with all their strength.

Zhao Yun's spear was pressed under his body, and his body was hugged by the enemy soldiers. He could only watch more spears stab him, but fortunately, none of them pierced him.Dozens of Zhao Yun's personal guards rushed up at the fastest speed and killed all the enemies at the fastest speed.

The enemy soldier who was already exhausted was very strong. Even though he was dead, he still hugged Zhao Yun tightly. In the end, he could only cut off his arms to rescue Zhao Yun.

Zhao Yun, who was pulled out of the abyss of death, stood up unsteadily, his face was pale, and his heart still had lingering fear.

"My lord, the enemy has fled far away." A bodyguard pointed at the enemy cavalry in the distance and shouted loudly, "Shall we pursue it or not?"

"Chase." Zhao Yunfei jumped on the horse and shouted angrily, "Yuan Shao must be in front."

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuments

Zhao Yun and his personal guards turned their heads to look at the battlefield.The banners were fluttering there, the cavalry were flying like flying, and the killing sound became smaller and smaller.

"My lord, the general ordered the army to be reorganized. We are going to Pingyang Pavilion." The leader of the personal guard looked at Zhao Yun timidly and reminded him in a low voice.
Looking at the backs of the smaller and smaller enemy cavalry ahead, Zhao Yun gritted his teeth angrily, "I want to see how many days you can live."

"Let's go, let's go back to the battlefield, regroup the army, and head to Pingyang Pavilion."

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The fugitives on the rushing road gathered together, waiting for the arrangement of fate.

Yan Wuwei's army and Baishan Karasuma people surrounded them.Karasuma wanted to attack several times, but they were stopped by Yan Wuwei and Lou Lu.Without the order of the general, it is definitely a capital offense to launch an attack without authorization. If you don't want to die in the Central Plains, you can bear it for a while.

Li Hong rushed to Yan Wuwei's report, "Is it Yuan Shao? You trapped Yuan Shao?"

The fugitives can still be gathered together in this chaotic situation, and they can still shout to surrender, so we can be sure that these fugitives have considerable status and appeal.Li Hong took it for granted that this person was Yuan Shao.

Yan Wuwei shook his head, "I don't know, I'll send someone to call them out immediately."

Not long after, Ji Ling was tied up and brought in front of Li Hong.He Yi didn't dare to come, Ji Ling thought that she was going to die anyway, so she decided to come and see her in person.When Li Hong saw that it wasn't Yuan Shao, he felt a little disappointed.After Ji Ling revealed his identity, Li Hong immediately ordered to untie him. After a few words of pleasantries, Li Hong said to him, "Your family members are all safe and sound in Jizhou."

Li Hong stretched out his hand to pull him up and asked, "Is Yuan Shao with you?"

"I haven't seen Yuan Shao since the start of the war." Seeing that Li Hong hadn't said how to deal with the soldiers, Ji Ling was terrified, and after hesitating for a long time, he asked, "General, most of these soldiers are from me. Jianghuai brought it out, I don’t know..."

Li Hong sneered, "After Brother Gong died, you can stay in Jiujiang. Why did you obey Yuan Shao's order and go north to the Central Plains? You openly betrayed the imperial court and helped the evildoers..."

Ji Ling felt a chill in his heart, turned over and fell to his knees, begging desperately.

"You can take a look at the battlefield..." Li Hong pointed to the distance and said sharply, "I will rush to Pingyang Pavilion to encircle and wipe out the rebels soon. I don't have time to take the prisoners, and I don't have extra manpower to guard the prisoners."

On the battlefield in the distance, the killing of the cavalry army was coming to an end, and there was a strong smell of blood in the smoke and dust.All the cavalry are withdrawing from the battlefield one after another, regrouping amidst the sound of horns, and preparing to go to Pingyang Pavilion.

Li Hong glared at Ji Ling, waved his hand and said, "Go to Jizhou first, and wait for the court's punishment."

"General, Brother Gao is dead. We are torn apart and are in dire straits. The purpose of going north to the Central Plains is to survive." Seeing Li Hong turning around to leave, Ji Ling hurriedly stopped him, "General, Brother Road is only left Please, for the sake of brother Lu, show mercy and give us a way to survive."

Li Hong suppressed his anger, and the muscles on his face twitched violently, "Now you know that you want me to give you a way to survive. What did you do back then? After you arrived in the Central Plains, why didn't you just lead your troops to surrender? Give me a reason." , I will forgive you.”

Ji Ling was speechless, deeply regretted.Thinking that these soldiers who had followed him for many years were about to die, and seeing that he was powerless to save them, he felt extremely sad for a moment, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"I give you two choices, either you watch them all die here, or you take them to Pingyang Pavilion in a hurry." Li Hong saw the tears in Ji Ling's eyes, his heart softened, and his tone of voice suddenly became kind a lot of.

Ji Ling was ecstatic, as if catching a life-saving straw, he nodded repeatedly, "As long as the general trusts me, I will immediately take them to Pingyang Pavilion."

"I didn't fight to Pingyang Pavilion, but fled to Pingyang Pavilion." Li Hong looked up at the sky, his face showing anxiety, "Before dark, I must break through the rebels' battle formation and start a siege. If we If I fail to tear apart the rebel battle formation, they will surely use the night to break through, so our losses will increase, and the number of rebels who escaped will also increase. Can you help me tear the rebel battle formation and lose all my achievements ?"

Ji Ling understood, and he cupped his hands and said, "Before dusk, I will definitely help the general tear apart the coalition's battle formation."

Li Hong patted him on the shoulder with a stern expression, "After tearing apart the battle formation, immediately withdraw from the battlefield from the flanks of the battlefield, and don't be accidentally injured by the cavalry."

Ji Ling looked at Li Hong gratefully, and bowed to leave.

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Twenty miles northeast of Yancheng, Xiaoyan Pavilion.

In the afternoon, Liu Biao, Feng Ji, Xu Yu and others led about 10,000 rear troops, 1000+ peasants and more than [-] carts of food and supplies. They set off from Yancheng, Taocheng, and Wating to Pingyang Pavilion.

When they got near the Xiaoyan Pavilion, the scouts reported back quickly, and found the Northern Xinjiang cavalry ahead.

"How many people? How many people?" Liu Biao was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Did you see clearly?"

"Overwhelming, there are at least 1 people, and there are many bearded beards." The scout looked terrified, and kept gesticulating with his hands. "We are only more than 20 miles away."

"Quickly, tell the two adults in front, Xu Wei and Huang Zhong, to get out of the car formation immediately and block them for me." Liu Biao waved his hand without thinking and said, "Order all the ministries to retreat immediately and withdraw to Yancheng."

"Retreat?" Feng Ji stared at Liu Biao with wide eyes, "Brother Jing Sheng, we must rush to Pingyang Pavilion tonight. The [-] troops in front carry very limited food, grass, and weapons. They are waiting to join us. How can you give the order without authorization?" The whole army retreats?"

"The iron cavalry from Northern Xinjiang has already been killed." Liu Biao pointed to the peasants on the road and the trucks full of food, grass and military equipment, and said anxiously, "Look for yourself, how is this a war? The iron cavalry came roaring, and these people coaxed But if it is scattered, the food and supplies will be dangerous. Without food and supplies, how many days can the [-] troops in front last? If we keep the food and supplies, even if the [-] troops in the front withdraw, we can still stick to the front line of Yancheng and Wating, and then resume Gather the army and continue the attack."

I'm at a loss for words about Fengji.Liu Biao was right. The coalition army did not have much food, grass and supplies. If they were successfully attacked by these iron cavalry and set fire to it, the battle would undoubtedly be lost. But he was worried about Yuan Shao's safety, so he hesitated for a moment, and persuaded: "Jing Brother Sheng, the [-] troops ahead are attacking Pingyang. In such a critical situation, it is impossible for Li Hong to send all the limited number of cavalry to attack us in Yancheng area. This must be just a small group of cavalry, the purpose is to scare us , to prevent us from supporting Pingyang Pavilion overnight. In my opinion, it is better for the various ministries to temporarily set up a battle formation at Xiaoyan Pavilion and fight with this group of cavalry. They see that our morale is like a rainbow, and they are determined to fight, and they will definitely withdraw."

Liu Biao shook his hand, "Scouts will not lie about the military situation. Li Hong doesn't need to think about it, he also knows that our rear army will escort food and supplies to Pingyang Pavilion. He will most likely take a risk and send all the cavalry to attack us." Liu Biao waved at the messengers standing beside him, "Urgently call the ministries, protect the civilians and the luggage, retreat quickly, retreat quickly..."

Feng Ji had no choice but to send someone to Pingyang Pavilion to report to Yuan Shao, asking him to command the army to attack Pingyang Pavilion overnight.As long as the army captures Pingyang Pavilion, the northern Xinjiang cavalry who attacked Yancheng will have to withdraw.

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The ground was shaking violently, and the huge roar was like a hurricane passing over the earth, shaking the heavens and the earth.

Lei Zi led an army of [-] to kill them with the momentum of a river breaking its embankment.

Standing side by side behind the chariot formation, Xu Yan and Huang Zhong looked at the smoke that covered the sky and the army of iron cavalry surging in like a tide, their expressions changed drastically.The [-] soldiers at the back of the car formation were pale and terrified.

"Blow the horn, blow the horn..." Lei Zi raised his saber high and roared like thunder, "Kill it, kill it..."

In the sound of the horn, a row of iron knight soldiers rushed up against the car array without the slightest hesitation.

Xu Yu's Runan Army collapsed first, turned around and ran away.The rebels' chariot formation was originally arranged very sparsely due to haste, but this was enough to slow down the high-speed cavalry. At this time, as long as the soldiers in the chariot formation charged bravely, they could kill and injure a large number of opponents. It's like giving up the passage.

Seeing the collapse of the battle formation, Huang Zhong pulled Xu Yan away without saying a word, "Withdraw, withdraw..."

"Haha..." Lei Zi couldn't help laughing when he saw the iron cavalry army unimpededly killing the car formation.Before launching the attack, he had already told all the departments of the army that as long as he defeated the enemy, he could grab a lot of money.The morale of these Xianbei people was greatly boosted by this, and their fierce attacking momentum made the enemy flee.

Liu Biao never imagined that the 10,000 troops on Xiaoyan Pavilion would flee without firing an arrow, and he didn't care about the food supply at this moment, so he ran away with the army. The [-]+ civilian husbands scattered when they saw the cavalry sweeping behind them, fleeing as far as they could.

The Xianbei people who rushed to the front saw more than 1000 carts of food, grass and supplies, their eyes lit up immediately, and they stopped killing the enemy. They rushed forward and grabbed it.

Lei Zi was dumbfounded. Such a good opportunity to kill the enemy was lost in vain by these greedy Xianbei people.

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Pingyang Pavilion.

Kuai Yue looked up at the sky, his face full of worry.The sun in the sky is getting redder and redder, and the white clouds are gradually covered with gorgeous red brocade.

Dusk is approaching, why hasn't Yuan Shao's army arrived yet?Twenty miles away, do you have to walk all afternoon?After the army arrived at Pingyang Pavilion, they fought fiercely with the Northern Army.The northern Xinjiang cavalry blocked the Pingyang Pavilion and frequently threatened the battle formation. The news on the battlefield could not be sent out, and the news from Yuan Shao could not be received.

At present, the vanguard army has no strength advantage on the battlefield of Pingyang Pavilion, and cannot break through the defense line of the northern border army. Only after joining up with Yuan Shao's central army, can they gather superior forces to inflict heavy damage on the northern border army.

Suddenly, a huge cloud of smoke and dust spewed out from the western sky, quickly engulfing the setting sun and sunset.

Kuai Yue changed color in shock.

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(End of this chapter)