Survival Three Kingdoms

Chapter 123

The ten-day battle was finally over.Duan Yan was a little annoyed, if Jia Xu hadn't been there, he wouldn't have been able to resist sending troops.Jia Xu gave him only one sentence: "Listen to your majesty, and don't trust anyone except the emperor."

So Duan Yan endured it all the time, waiting for Liu Xie to speak, and he confined Jia Xu in his camp as a life-saving straw.Duan Yan and Jia Xu are both from Wuwei, and they know Jia Xu very well. They have a little relationship: Jia Xu once returned home with others, met a powerful man on the way, and all the people accompanying him were killed. Jia Xu claimed that he was Duan Yan. Chiung's nephew survived.The Duan family did not pursue the matter after they knew about it, thinking that Jia Xu was quick-witted.

Upon receiving Li Jue's letter, Duan Yan sneered: I don't know the character of Li Jue and Guo Si?Dong Cheng and Yang Ding were not good guys either, he made up his mind not to go into this muddy water, and ordered the barracks to be strictly guarded and not to go out to fight.

Zhang Ji received a report from the rear army, Li Jue and Guo Si led the troops again, and hurriedly sent someone to report to Dong Cheng and Duan Wei, asking them to send troops together as two wings, attacking from three directions together, they can defeat Li Jue.

Zhang Ji and Zhang Xiu lined up and waited for both wings to advance. Zhang Ji was disheartened in the face of the iron-clad facts: Dong Cheng refused to send troops to consume Zhang Ji.Duan Yan remained neutral and only accepted the emperor's edict.

Li Jue and Guo Si each led [-] cavalry into the formation. Zhang Ji's formation was originally a grass platform, and there were no trenches or repelling horses to deal with the cavalry, and the pikemen could not stop them at all.

Zhang Ji sighed, Hongnong can't go back, and Guanzhong can't go, even if we go to Luoyang, we will be reduced to a laughing stock. "Xiu'er, let's retreat."

"Uncle, where are we going?"

"Jingzhou. Let's go south to Jingzhou." Guanzhong and Guandong couldn't gain a foothold, and the road in the middle of Shu was blocked, and they couldn't go to Saibei to eat sand, so only Jingzhou was left.

Zhang Xiu desperately protected Zhang Ji and Zou to retreat, Zhang Ji had only 2 of the [-] men left.Li Jue and Guo Si did not chase after them, and continued to charge towards the Chinese army.After Zhang Xiu escaped, he found out that Cai Yan was missing, and he was very annoyed and hated.

Dong Cheng had no choice but to protect Liu Xie and continue to flee to the east. Hundreds of officials and soldiers died, countless women's family members, all kinds of artifacts, books and ceremonial guards of the royal family were discarded.The meat shields and money temporarily blocked the Xiliang cavalry.

Zhou Cang was still waiting anxiously at this time, counting the days, the emperor should have left Hongnong a long time ago, why there is still no movement after half a month.The scouts sent back came back to report that Yang Ding confronted Duan Yan in Huayin, Zhou Cang, Chen Dao, and Xu Huang were all stunned, Dong Cheng, Yang Ding, why don't you go to heaven, what time is this? fix these.Xu Huang is still a little bit lucky, fortunately he left Yang Feng, otherwise he would have become a pig.

"We can't wait any longer, let's go back. It's useless for us to go back alone." Zhou Cang said.

"I feel ashamed to go back to see the big guy." Chen Dao was a little shy.

"Listen to the general's orders!" Xu Huang was very pleased and reluctant.

"Zhou Fu must be approaching the Yellow River to meet him. Zhou Gui and Zhou Chong, you lead people to meet Zhou Fu first. We will meet again at the Yellow River."

Zhou Gui and Zhou Chong knew that they had a great responsibility, so they immediately led the order to set off.

Zhou Cang divided his soldiers and horses into three groups, and together with Chen Dao and Xu Huang each led [-] infantry and [-] cavalry to sneak back in secret.Zhou Cang originally wanted to launch a night attack, but the facts made him give up this idea: many soldiers could not see clearly at night, which is called night blindness in later generations, mainly caused by malnutrition, unless a torch is lit to make it brightly lit .Zhou Cang didn't dare to take risks, he set the attack time at dawn.

Li Jue and others were still immersed in joy after winning the big victory: Zhang Jiyuan escaped, Dong Cheng and Yang Feng escaped, and Duan Yan closed the door to protect himself. Willing to fight?There are still [-] troops behind, and they can continue to chase after the army arrives.

So the soldiers drank and walked and shook one by one, and some of the more sober ones were busy dividing up the spoils and scrambling for the seized supplies, while some grabbed the female relatives to have fun.The whole camp was filled with the noise of drinking, the scramble for uneven distribution of spoils, and the shouts of soldiers gambling.

Zhou Cang let the soldiers with good eyes lead those who couldn't see clearly, and took advantage of the night to lurk around the periphery of Li Jue's camp until the noise of Li Jue's camp faded away in the middle of the night. camp.

When it was almost dawn, Zhou Cang ordered to beat the gong as a signal, and the three groups of soldiers and horses rushed to Li Jue's camp together. The three hundred cavalry who rushed in front lit torches outside the camp and threw them inward to point out the direction for the infantry. Li Jue's camp was full of flames.

At this time, the soldiers in the battalion were still sleeping soundly, and they had no defense at all. This is also why Li Jue thought that he had won a big victory. The ditches and antlers outside the battalion were very simple, and they could not withstand the attack of Zhou Cang, Chen Dao, and Xu Huang's three-route army. The impact, especially when Xu Huang drove straight in with a big axe, was like entering no one's land.The soldiers who woke up suddenly saw that the camp was on fire everywhere, shouting for killing and the sound of gongs shaking the sky. I don't know how many people and horses have come.

Li Jue and Guo Si were woken up by their confidantes in their sleep. Seeing that the camp was in disarray and they could no longer gather their troops, they hurriedly rode on their horses and fled in embarrassment.Zhou Cang and others beheaded more than a thousand people and recovered countless supplies and hundreds of horses.Seeing that the sky was getting brighter, Zhou Cang's soldiers did not dare to continue chasing, so they ordered to withdraw their troops.

"Gongming, you divide up some of the seized materials and take five hundred cavalry to go first." The things you got can't be easily given to others, let alone a white-eyed wolf.

Xu Huang's wounded heart finally got some comfort, and he led his men to pack up their things and leave.

"Chen Dao, these captured servants and female relatives, let them be willing to disperse separately."

Zhou Cang and Cai Yan went their separate ways, and Cai Yan was looted by the Huns during his wanderings, and he went away for 18 years.

Zhou Cang couldn't see Zhang Ji's uncle and nephew, so he secretly asked the rescued officials, and only then did he know that Zhang Jiyuan had left his hometown. Zhou Cang thought that Cai Yan was taken away by Zhang Xiu, and silently blessed them both.Duan Yao strictly prohibited entering and leaving the camp, and never showed up again. Zhou Cang watched Duan Yao's camp from afar and sighed: This time, he missed Jia Xu again.

Zhou Cang retreated his troops and came back to meet the emperor Liu Xie, and at the same time handed in the looted property, utensils, classics and officials.

I heard that after defeating Li Jue, Liu Xie finally had a sense of security, but Dong Cheng and Yang Feng were dissatisfied with Zhou Cang. Its name is filial piety to the emperor, and then it was sent to the front.

To sum up the reason for this defeat, it was because Zhang Ji fled before the battle, which once again verified Dong Cheng's suspicion of Zhang Ji.The reason for turning defeat into victory is that Dong Cheng's skillful dispatching of Zhou Cang's surprise attack achieved miraculous results.

Liu Xie praised Dong Cheng greatly.

(End of this chapter)