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Chapter 71 Killing the Prefect

"Han Sui's army is ready to retreat! General Zhao, General Zhang, has accelerated his advance and is attacking Han Sui with Huangfu Song."

Liu Bei led the main back team to walk slowly, nearly ten miles away from the battlefield, and heard the sound of killing in front of him shaking the sky, and the dust rolling in. Scouts who were exploring the situation of the front army were also constantly returning to report.

"The whole army accelerates and runs! Don't worry about your physical strength, chase the dead and chase the north, fight here!"

Liu Bei also ignored the poor riding skills of the rear team, and was moving slowly than the front army, so he immediately accelerated his orders.

He was able to raise 30,000 horses under his command, but the 20,000 main force of the army was not cavalry, and the horses were of poor quality. He could only ride horses and could not sprint, so he was considered a "horse-riding infantry".

If it is a normal hard battle, these troops will not ride horses to the battlefield directly, because it is easy to cause chaos, and if the horse retreats, it is easy to be captured by the enemy. But since it is a pursuit battle where the enemy has retreated, it doesn't matter.

At most, 20,000 people approached the battlefield and distributed some troops to guard the war horses, while others formed a formation to charge.

It took nearly a quarter of an hour for the whole army to reach the battlefield. The strategists around Liu Bei, such as Li Sulusu and Zhuge Jin, also rode their horses to follow the Central Army flag formation.

Even Li Su, who had seen a war, saw such a grand scene for the first time - along both sides of the Weishui River Valley Plain, there were cavalry assaults and strangled in chaos. The two armies on the entire battlefield added together, and it was estimated that they were nearly 200,000 people!

There were blood and flesh flying everywhere, broken limbs and arms, fighting with support of the intestines, and the miserable medicine was endless.

"Who dares to say that Han Sui is weak? When fighting with Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, the sum of Ju Chun's troops was more than Han Sui, but it was inevitably divided by our army on several battlefields and defeated them in batches. More than 100,000 people have never gathered together. It was my preconceived idea. I read the historical books to understate it. Han Sui was defeated by Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo, so I didn't care."

Li Su thought to herself and made a review of the darkness under the lamp.

This is also a strong enemy in the world.

Lu Su and Zhuge Jin couldn't help but tremble slightly. There was no way, they were there, Lu Su Eighteen, Zhuge Jin Eighteen, and they had never seen the world in military affairs. Even if this battle was just observation, they could absorb valuable life experience and be more awe of the fierce battles and dangers.

It is rare not to have to serve as the main attack force, and you can still observe such a big scene throughout the whole process.

Even those who fought like Liu Bei for five years would feel that they were quite rewarding.

After a while, Liu Bei personally judged the situation: "Are the enemy in the camp east of Chen Cang City surrounded by Zilong and Yu Fuluo? We quickly charge and encircle the entire army and eat up this part of the enemy! There is Qinling Mountains in the south, and the way around the city to the west has been blocked by Huangfu Song's troops out of the city, and there is Weishui in the north. We just wiped out the enemy!"

It turns out that today's Chencang City is built on the south bank of the Wei River. The west direction of Chencang City is the Wei River Valley flowing out of Longshan Mountains, and to the south is the Sanguan Road leading to Hanzhong. The Qinling Mountains are on both sides of the Sanguan Road.

It is precisely because this is at the corner between Longshan and Qinling Mountains that when the rebels from the west wanted to surround Chencang City, the part of the troops surrounding the east of the city were the deepest behind the enemy.

As long as the troops in Chencang City dare to come out to intercept and cut off the gentle slope of the Qinling hillside between Chencang City and the east side of the Sanguan Valley entrance, the troops trapping the east of the city will be cut off from the retreat.

If Han Sui's military strength was far superior to Huangfu Song in the past, Han Sui would certainly not be afraid of such cut-offs, because even if friendly troops were surrounded by Huangfu Song for a while, Han Sui was sure to attack Huangfu Song again in the field again and force Huangfu Song to retreat.

But now, Han Sui's main force was in a state of retreating secretly because he discovered that Liu Bei's reinforcements the day before yesterday. Chen Cang City East left these besieged troops who were cut off from behind, which were originally bluffing and buying time for the main force to retreat.

Therefore, when Huangfu Song cut off their retreat, Han Sui would no longer come to rescue him from the south bank, and at most he would only contact the north bank of the Wei River - Chen Cang's city was on the south bank, so the south bank was easy to block, and the north bank was wide and unable to block.

Seeing that there were more than 20,000 rebels who broke the rear of the southeast bank of the city, they were surrounded in such a way. Their only way out was to rely on a small number of ferries in the army, and even the wood they dismantled during the demolition of the camp to swim across the Wei River to escape, or even swim directly across the Wei River, which is three or four hundred meters wide!

Seeing this good opportunity, how could Liu Bei not allow Zhao Yun and Yu Fuluo to attack quickly? The rear army also followed at full speed and drove all the enemy troops down the Wei River and drowned!

There were more than 50,000 Han troops on the battlefield in Weinan, and the number of rebels was only half of the Han troops. There were also morale punishments for being surrounded and abandoned by friendly forces. How could this withstand it?

"The rear army formed a formation with its back water! A semicircular formation along the river bank, to buy time for the ferry and brothers who swim. You can't be confused! No one can escape if it is chaos!" In the Han Sui army formation, a general wielding a sword to restrain his subordinates and wanted to cross the Wei River in an organized and orderly manner, but the casualties of his subordinates increased with the times.

"Who is that? The military flags are tying Li. Is there a general named Li under Han Sui's tent?"

After Liu Bei supervised the battle for a while, he noticed that the rebels were still trying to stabilize and asked.

It’s also my fault that he came in a hurry and the enemy situation has not been clearly remembered.

However, when Lu Su immediately took out the military proposal the day before yesterday, Zhao Yun reported the enemy camp and set up a defense briefing, checked it, and reported: "There are three rebel generals in the east of the city. According to General Zhao's inquiry, the only one with the surname Li is Li Gan and Li Xiangru. This person was originally the prefect of Longxi County appointed by the court. The autumn of the previous year, Han Sui killed Beigong Boyu and approached Longxi. Li Gan did not resist and directly followed the thief."

Liu Bei shook his head with a grudge: "Li Xiangru, Li Xiangru, as the prefect of the court, he took the initiative to follow the thief without fighting, so he could not be forgiven. Continue to attack. Those who captured Li Shen would be rewarded with twenty gold. Please kill His Majesty and show them to the public!"

Liu Bei received the emperor's privilege of false rituals and axes. Any official who was lower than the prefect could be punished if the battle was not good. The prefect could not be killed directly at the first level, but since Li Shen had rebelled from the thief, it would be fine if he killed him.

Just kill a former prefect of the court, Sacrifice the Yue to establish his authority.

As the military orders penetrated the front, the troops attacked more and more fiercely.

But under pressure, the enemy army fled wildly. For a time, thousands of people were swimming on boats, wood, and even swimming in the Wei River at the same time.

Liu Bei saw that he had no problem of annihilation of the enemy, but he ran away a lot of people across the river, so he was a little anxious. In this battle, he also hoped to show his face in front of Huangfu Song and temporarily establish a good relationship with Dong Zhuo.

Why not pick up too many military achievements that can be picked up for free? The head level is sent to Luoyang, and it is also a blessing in the center.

"Our army has only Yide on the north bank? Do the other troops have time to cross to the north bank to block it?" Liu Bei couldn't help asking.

Lu Su was familiar with logistics and equipment dispatch, and quickly replied: "Most of the military ships were in Wuzhangyuan Camp. I didn't expect to cross the river when I went to fight today."

Liu Bei nodded, and it seemed that he could only rely on Zhang Fei on the other side of the river to be more powerful, killing the enemy soldiers who had just arrived ashore at the beach.

Although Zhang Fei only brought five thousand Youzhou Han cavalry, as long as he was waiting for the heavy cavalry to rush to kill the enemy troops that had just climbed ashore and had not yet formed a formation, he would kill as much as he could.

Liu Bei's order was conveyed in waves through banners and soon reached Zhang Fei on the other side of the river, on both sides of the Wei River, three or four hundred meters wide. You can still see the flag clearly by waving the flag.

"Brother has an order. No one who has been allowed to cross the South Bank to ashore. I will fight for it all!" Zhang Fei became more excited, and he was energetic and rushed along the river bank with his snake spear. After a while, he killed Han Sui's army, who had originally guarded the shore, and then began to hunt down those who had just come by ferries and swimming.

Especially those Han Sui soldiers who swim or swim with camp wood, because the Wei River flows impacted, they did not go up the shore directly on the opposite bank when crossing the river, but would be washed downstream. The slower they swam, the longer they stayed in the river, the more they were washed downstream.

Liu Bei's army was downstream and Han Sui's army was upstream. The soldiers of Han Sui's army who were swimming slowly were simply throwing themselves into the trap. As soon as they got ashore, they found that Zhang Fei's cavalry were waiting in front of them. They knelt on the ground and surrendered, causing heavy losses.

However, Han Sui was not stupid either. After being captured by Zhang Fei in this situation, Han Sui's army finally responded.

Tens of thousands of people were divided from the side of the main camp of Han Sui Army in the west, rolling in and heading straight for Zhang Fei, trying to occupy more depths of the north bank to connect with friendly troops on the south bank to cross the river.

Han Sui obviously also realized that the main battlefield of the South Bank was already the home court of Huangfu Song and Liu Bei, and no matter how many people invested, they could not beat it. However, Liu Bei was not mentally prepared to fight the decisive battle on the North Bank.

There are only five thousand cavalrymen on this side. As long as Zhang Fei retreats, the remaining troops on the south bank will be rescued and can cross the river and escape. It is nothing more than being chased by Zhao Yun in the final stage and being chased down the river, but it is better than being wiped out by the partial army.

"Don't leave Zhang Fei, Jincheng Yan is here!" A general of the Han Sui army, with more than 10,000 cavalry and more rear infantry, came to Zhang Fei with all his strength.

"Good come!" Zhang Fei had never been to Guanxi, nor had he heard of Yan Xing's name.

In recent years, he thought he had learned enough to follow Liu Bei to fight against Yanzhao. Even the Hu Chiefs, who were known as powerful generals under Zhang Ju, had never seen him fight against him alone, so Zhang Fei naturally met with confidence.

When cavalry and cavalry, both armies hedge at full speed, and fight to the same place with a "boom".

"Dang~Dang~" The guns and spears intersected, Zhang Fei and Yan Xing were both shocked and their arms were slightly numb.

Only then did he pay attention to the opponent carefully. Yan Xing was also an eight-foot-tall man with a wild beard, like a short steel needle, cast a helmet and black armor, and his whole body was solemn and dead. Even his face and arms could be seen, and his old wounds were obviously also a body of war.

"The unknown generals in the Liangzhou army also have such martial arts. Come again!" Zhang Fei was aroused by fierceness and turned around and fought back.

After the initial impact, the two armies suffered too much casualties, and they changed to horizontal formations instead of direct collisions against wheat-mang, so that they could break away from contact at any time.

After all, no one is trying to seek death when fighting. When the cavalry generals are about to fight in front of the formation, they often constrain the troops in this way.

This does not count as the two armies stop and only watch the generals fight one-on-one, but it can actually have the equivalent effect of making a one-on-one fight first and winning. It is only easy to appear when the heads of both armies are very confident in their martial arts.

During the brief battle between the plundering formation, Zhang Fei and Yan Xing had hedged six or seven times, and had a full twenty rounds. After rushing over, they also killed more than ten cavalrymen in the enemy's rear team. Zhang Fei seemed to have a little advantage, but he could not defeat Yan Xing.

Zhang Fei was a little anxious. When he hedged Yan Xing for the eighth time, he felt that he had completely figured out Yan Xing's power, speed, accuracy, and decided to take a little risk.

"Drink!" Zhang Fei clamped the snake spear under his armpit with one armpit in order to achieve a longer attack distance and explosive power. He controlled the reins with his other hand, ready to poke the opponent at any time and hide in the stirrup.

Unexpectedly, Yan Xing was also a wise man, so he changed his hands to try to get as far as possible to attack distance, and stab the other person to death before being stabbed to death by the enemy.

This is a life-and-death situation with advancement and retreat. It is not like the cavalry of the East fighting alone, but the cavalry of the West facing the West duel.

"Die!" Zhang Fei's snake spear came out, and after taking action, he could barely adjust the direction of the stabbing, and even Yan Xing's dodge angle was calculated.

"Unless he abandoned his gun and vaulted and lost, he would be dead!" Zhang Fei smiled grimly in his heart.

However, what Zhang Fei unexpected was that Yan Xing did not retreat but instead advanced. His weapons were slightly shorter than Zhang Fei's Snake Spear, but the gap was not big. Moreover, Yan Xing's ape arm had a slightly shorter hand length than Liu Bei, which barely made up for this disadvantage.

"He wants to repay my life with me!" Zhang Fei and Yan Xing had to instinctively give in to the side slightly at the last moment.

"Puchi~Puchi~"

"Uh--"

Zhang Fei was shocked to find that a long but not deep hole was cut by a gun blade under his ribs. He was immediately covered in blood, and several black iron scales were broken away from his black armor. Yan Xing's spear also fell off his hand after slashing at him.

Zhang Fei's snake spear was nailed to Yan Xing's shoulder. Both of them were originally stabbing their weapons to the other party's heart, but they retreated a little to protect themselves and lost their accuracy.

Zhang Fei just stabbed the opponent in the shoulder. Yan Xing was knocked down by force, but it was not fatal. The cavalry beside him dismounted and rescued, blocking Zhang Fei's cavalry's charge, and carried Yan Xing back with all his hands and feet.

Zhang Fei felt a sudden pain and dizzy. His snake spear was also pierced on Yan Xing's shoulder and was taken away by the enemy. He had to pick out the short weapon he had to use, a copper mace hammer, and he tried hard to protect himself, and retreated to recover.

Although Yan Xingjun had more cavalry, the chief general was taken down by Zhang Fei and his morale was frustrated and he dared not pursue him.

The battle for the north bank was in a stalemate, and the news of Zhang Fei's injury soon reached the main battlefield of the south bank. Liu Bei was very anxious and did not care about asking for more results. He hurriedly restricted Zhang Fei's army from preserving his strength and did not have to fight for the north bank.

But at the same time, after giving up the "anvil" on the north bank, Liu Bei further increased the intensity of the general attack on Zhao Yun and others who played the "hammer" on the south bank, trying to reduce the time for the enemy's remaining troops to form formations and cross the river.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Yun finally completely killed the remaining enemy formation on the south bank and directly killed the river bank. He cut off Li Shen's banner from the riot army and killed the flag formation. In the end, nearly 10,000 enemy troops who had no time to cross the river had also been captured and had to surrender.

During the whole process, there were thousands of enemy troops blocked and drowned, and behind the scenes, there were also thousands of people who were pushing the Wei River. This section of the Wei River coast was temporarily dyed red.

About seven or eight thousand enemy soldiers, with the support of Yan Xing's troops, fled to the north shore and retreated with the Han Sui army.

"How is Yide's injury?" Liu Bei had no time to care about the prisoners and the profits of war, so he quickly sent a ship that had just been seized from the surrendered enemy, and asked someone to immediately take Zhang Fei from the north bank back.

He was relieved to confirm that Zhang Fei was only injured in the flesh and ribs and did not hurt his internal organs.

"Brother, I'm fine. I'll just keep it for a month. I didn't expect that Yan Xing was so fierce and could not block the enemy's crossing the river. I also stabbed Yan Xing's shoulder with a snake spear. It seemed that I had to rebuild it." Zhang Fei didn't even fall into a coma. After bandaging it, he lay on a stretcher to rest, and was very clear-headed.

Liu Bei comforted repeatedly: "It's good that you're fine. When your injury heals, you'll find another famous craftsman to find a top-notch iron for your brother."

After condolences to Zhang Fei, Liu Bei was filled with anger. His psychological quality has always been relatively good, but if anyone hurts his brother, he will go crazy, so he immediately ordered Zhao Yun to take Li Shen up.

Li Shen walked forward while holding his legs and begged for mercy: "God of your life, General Zhenxi! I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender. I am originally a court official, and I am also a prefect! Han Sui is powerful and the court does not rescue our Liangzhou counties, so I have to follow the thief."

Liu Bei angrily carried Li Shen's armor collar: "Don't be clever and arrogant! You think I don't know that you took the initiative to surrender before Han Sui attacked! How can you surrender without a single arrow? Those who are generals should have backbone!

What's more, I heard that you were a thief just to keep your wealth. After you became a thief, you took the initiative to help Han Sui surrender to other places and recruit soldiers from the court to follow the thief. Such a bad deed will be unforgivable!"

After saying that, Liu Bei threw Li Shen heavily on the ground, and the two personal soldiers immediately pressed and held each other down again.

Liu Bei waved his hand: "Come here! Please give me a good friend!"

Zhao Yun quickly brought the Huang Yue who had been offering to the army.

The fake junction and yue are just such yellow axes. According to the records of the Three Kingdoms, when Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang were in a stalemate in the Wei River, in order to suppress the generals' desire to fight, he submitted a false appeal to fight. As a result, Cao Rui sent Xin Pi to announce the decree that he would not allow him to fight. The original text in the Three Kingdoms said, "Xin Pi resolutely fought against Huang Yue, stood at the camp gate, and those who said that the war would be killed."

The yellow axe itself is made of copper, that is, bronze is added with some gold-smelted alloy. The hardness is slightly higher than that of bronze, and the outside is covered with a layer of gold, so it looks golden, but in fact the gold is too soft, and the hardness required to kill people is provided by the copper inside.

"Your Majesty personally gave the title of General Zhenxi, and I will use the axe to kill you, the prefect of Longxi who is a thief, today! Zilong, you will be executed and behead you!"

"No!" After Zhao Yun Yingnuo, he chopped Li Shen's head with an axe in public. A blood fountain shot on the wrapped gold, an indescribable weirdness.
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