Chapter 3193: The Iron Clothes on the Battlegrounds of Hundred Battles
While Wei Yan was still heading for his small goal, Yan Yan in Sichuan and Sichuan had already followed his goal.
"here we go again?!"
Zhu Ran's troops have now been disbanded.
Now he realized that the small troops he had defeated before were actually part of this big net. These dense small troops were distributed around Yufu, like a big net, and he was the prey that rushed into the net with the Ba people.
He could not count how many attacks he had encountered, but he knew that there were fewer and fewer guards around him.
Zhu Ran tried to break through the obstacles of these small troops and arrived along the river to find the Jiangdong troops, but these small troops were obviously moving faster than them. Before Zhu Ran and the others found a new direction and the Jiangdong troops, they found that they were once again targeted...
After more times, Zhu Ran was not even angry, leaving only an instinctive battle and deep fatigue, "Win the fight!"
In any case, he could not die here, nor could he become a prisoner of the Sichuan and Shu army.
Zhu Ran even had a feeling that he felt that these Sichuan and Shu soldiers were trying to capture him alive, so sometimes they deliberately kept their hands...
Living is definitely more valuable than dead.
Zhu Ran understood this.
"bite!"
Zhu Ran's guard held the round shield and blocked the spears that several Sichuan and Sichuan pursuers were stabbing.
Now the Sichuan and Shu soldiers are gradually using spears and are unwilling to fight with the Jiangdong soldiers at close range. Even if the Jiangdong soldiers try to get close to these pursuers, they will either be forced back by arrows or be pushed back by these spears.
The spears of these Sichuan and Shu soldiers are made of bamboo, and some do not even have iron tips. They just simply process a spear.
Zhu Ran also tried to make some such bamboo spears with his guards, but he found that it was not cost-effective. It was not that the production was inconvenient, but that they were running for their lives and did not have more time to spend on making spears. Moreover, the traces left by making spears would also reveal their whereabouts...
The key question is, how did these Sichuan and Shu soldiers find them among these mountains?
Everyone has dogs...
wrong!
There is really a dog!
Zhu Ran suddenly recalled that during the escape, he did hear some barking of dogs. However, because he did not see the dog appear, he did not take the sound of the dog barking to heart.
"You have to kill the dog!" He defeated the Sichuan and Shu troops who came to attack again. Zhu Ran gritted his teeth and said, "We have been targeted by dogs these two days!"
Zhu Ran’s guess was correct.
What leaked his traces was his own scent.
China probably domesticated dogs in the Neolithic Age.
Influenced by natural conditions, the earliest and most important domestic animals raised by families in the Neolithic Age were pigs, dogs, chickens, and pigs, dogs and buffaloes in the south. During the Shang Dynasty, merchants not only ate dog meat and used them as hunting dogs, but also used dogs for burial and sacrifices, accompanying the dead, and sacrificing ancestors.
Dogs were used in wars at least during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.
No matter how Zhu Ran and others run away, as long as they are targeted by the hunting dog, they naturally cannot get rid of it easily.
Zhu Ran circled around the mountains, while Yan Yan followed slowly.
Yan Yan is old after all, and if he really follows him, he will be unbearable. Yan Yan himself is not as physically strong as young people, but his experience is much higher than that of Zhu Ran. He is around Yu Fu and has the advantage of local combat. No matter how Zhu Ran jumps, it is actually under Yan Yan's control.
In fact, Zhu Ran had no chance to break through the net, but Zhu Ran was not cruel to the casualties, or did not really want to sacrifice his life, so he was blocked back at a critical intersection and continued to circulate in the mountains.
After the Jiangdong people were separated from the local Ba people, they became headless flies. They could fight with their blood and courage at first, but as time went by, after the dry food they carried was gradually eaten, physical strength decline inevitably appeared.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Yan Yan finally prepared to take action and began to arrest Zhu Ran and others.
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『Kill!』
Nearly a hundred people appeared on the other side of the mountain road.
These people blocked the mountain road tightly, with long spears, large shields, strong bows and hard crossbows set up on the shield. After two steps, they shouted together, then paused, and then continued to push forward two more steps under the command. They paused again, and paused again, just like an airtight iron wall, as if waiting for Zhu Ran and other Jiangdong soldiers to collide on it.
"It's the Sichuan Army!"
"Nah, Niang, Xipin! It's them again!"
Before Zhu Ran could solve the problem of hunting dogs, the Sichuan and Shu army had already surrounded him.
This is the third time that the Sichuan and Shu army has been hunted down tonight.
Zhu Ran and others were somewhat exhausted. Before they could figure out where to run, they encountered the current situation. They had no combat power and no way to escape.
A few Jiangdong soldiers howled, as if they were venting their depression, and as if they were incompetent fury before giving up on themselves, they rushed to the shield wall and chopped down fiercely.
"clang!"
Jiangdong Bing's knife was lifted away.
"puff!"
The spear tip had pierced into Jiangdongbing's throat.
Simply, neatly.
It's like killing a chicken.
『Cover the general to break through!』
The remaining Jiangdong monkeys recovered from their awakening and stopped rushing toward the iron walls and began to turn around and run back.
Those who are still following Zhu Ran are naturally the Zhu family's troops and the core combat power of Jiangdong. Even in such a harsh situation, they can still maintain sufficient loyalty.
"Go away quickly!"
At this moment, most of the Jiangdong soldiers who were covering Zhu Ran knew their upcoming fate, but they still did not retreat at all. They tried hard to intercept the Sichuan and Shu army step by step in the mountain road and issued the last roar in their lives.
Zhu Ran looked back and found that more than a thousand people he brought out were probably less than two hundred now...
"Master! Let's go!"
The Zhu family troops who stayed behind did not hesitate and shouted that they wanted to keep Zhu Ran away from danger. Some of them didn't even take weapons. They just raised two shields and turned around and ran into the Sichuan and Shu army that was pressing step by step.
When turning the mountain road, Zhu Ran finally looked back and saw that on the mountain road, the Sichuan and Shu army had already submerged and swallowed the dozen Zhu troops who had left behind like a tide.
Can the Jiangdong soldiers cross the mountains?
Some mountains can be climbed, but some mountains can't be climbed.
On the battlefield that Yan Yan chose, there were not many roads that Jiangdong soldiers could take. When they learned that Jiangdong soldiers had completely entered a dead end, Yan Yan stood up and asked the guards to put on armor for him.
『General Yan, how can you use a ox knife to kill a chicken?』 Wu Ban stood aside, rubbed his hands, and said somewhat embarrassedly, 『Or... just let it go...』
Yan Yan was silent first, asked the soldiers to escort the silk ribbons on the armor, then held a long knife in one hand and a zipper in the other, then smiled at Wu Ban and said, "Person Wu, this is Zhuge's personal instructing Yu... to receive it privately, and it is a violation of military orders! Shouldn't Captain Wu want to kill someone's life?"
Wu Ban's face froze and his hands swayed, "What did you say? Of course not, absolutely not!"
Yan Yan nodded and smiled. Under the light of the torch, his silver hair fluttered in the wind. "I also knew it was Captain Wu who was joking... But if he lost his battle, he naturally needed to turn the tide and save someone from danger... I thanked me first..."
Ban Wu hurriedly bowed, "General Yan is very serious, he is very serious! General Yan must be able to take action!"
Yan Yan smiled and said nothing. He held the bag on his head with his back hand and then left with a high voice.
Wu Ban looked at it blankly, his expression on his face suddenly twisted and he was annoyed. Finally, he sighed a long time and turned into loneliness.
He actually had the opportunity to fight Zhu Ran at that time. If he had dug more traps, cut down more trees, or...
It’s a pity that Wu Ban was so crazy at that time that he didn’t consider that there was actually a gap between Jiangdong Bing and Zhu Ran’s Zhu family.
Now I can only watch Yan Yan finally accomplish this great success.
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The sun rises.
Some people may still see the new sun, while others can only stay in the darkness of last night.
Yan Yan's infantry rushed into the ground with a heavy tip of the shield, and a shield wall was formed in the blink of an eye.
In the distance of the valley, smoke and dust gradually rose, and various chaotic sounds came vaguely.
After a whole night, Zhu Ran and others ran around, from the left to the right, from the front to the back of the mountain, it seemed that they had been running for a long time, but in fact they were just circling around three or four peaks.
『Getting a gun!』
『Swish…』
The spearmen lifted the spears in their hands and pointed them diagonally forward.
The shield is like a wall and the gun is like a forest, forming a line of airtight defense.
Such defense lines are spread all over the intersections in this area. No matter where Zhu Ran goes, he will hit him head-on and be oppressed so that he has nowhere to live.
Yan Yan was in the middle to dispatch, and there were flags waving on some mountain tops, indicating the direction of the Jiangdong soldiers.
People in the world say that Liangbing people are majestic and strong, and Sichuan and Sichuan people are short and thin, so they choose soldiers to use Liangbing people. In fact, the quality of soldiers cannot be just a matter of size. Because there are many mountains and forests in the south, people with big sizes are indeed not as convenient as short people in many places, but in terms of physical fitness, those with big sizes may not be able to beat smaller ones.
It depends on the overall situation. Just like most of the people around Zhu Ran who survived now are Zhu's veterans and core elements, while those ordinary Jiangdong soldiers were eliminated in constant fighting and escape.
Looking at these Jiangdong remnants, the Sichuan and Shu troops under Yan Yan were obviously very happy.
I had heard of what wars happened in the north of Longxi and Sichuan before, and then how many soldiers received bounties, how many military fields were obtained, and then what rewards were received. Most of the soldiers in the east of Zhongchuan could only drool, but now it was their turn...
This is a new day, with sunny weather.
It is also a day when they will win.
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Zhu Ran stared at the Sichuan-Shu array that appeared in front of him, his eyes full of anger.
Before he left the army, he thought a lot and even thought of death in battle. But what he didn't expect was that he was actually played with by Yan Yan as if he was a prey targeted by a hunter.
Zhu Ran did not have the experience of fighting in the mountains and forests, but that was against Shanyue.
Although Jiangdong and Sichuan and Shu both belong to hilly landforms, with many forests, mountains and plains, basins intersected, mountains, rivers and water veins fluctuate, and the landforms are relatively complex and changeable, most of the hilly mountains in the Jiangdong and Jiangnan areas can be said to be extensions of the Dabie Mountains, and many are relatively gentle, while Sichuan and Shu landforms are formed by crustal movement and glacier river erosion, with deep valleys and straight walls.
Moreover, the climate is completely different. Jiangnan belongs to subtropical air pressure and often has monsoons, while Sichuan and Shu have a relatively closed climate environment with high humidity, resulting in a lot of fog, especially in the mountains, where heavy fog is often found...
The most important point is that most of the rivers in Jiangdong are from west to east, while there are many rivers in Sichuan and Shu, which are north and south. After Zhu Ran lost his guide on the cloudy day without the sun, he tried to escape from Yan Yan's encirclement with the river as the guide, but naturally he went more and more wrong.
Now there is only one mountain road in front of him, with steep stone walls on both sides.
Zhu Ran took a deep breath and 'Winning out!'
The trapped beasts fight.
"You can only survive if you fight out!"
The Jiangdong soldiers howled and rushed forward.
Zhu Ran held the sword and fought at the front of the front line.
He slashed dozens of times and finally cut the Sichuan-Shu shield formation blocked at the intersection, but he was not much delighted, but felt that everything was trembling from his hands to his calves.
He is going to lose strength.
From last night to this morning, I only ate a small piece of cake in the middle.
I am tired, sleepy, hungry and thirsty, and I wish I could fall down.
"Get out!"
Zhu Ran yelled, motivating the guards around him, and also motivating himself, taking steps forward again and waving the sword again.
The sword slashed at a Sichuan and Shu soldier. The Sichuan and Shu soldier screamed strangely, thinking that he would be killed by Zhu Ran's sword. He closed his eyes and opened his eyes, but found that Zhu Ran's sword was just stuck in the gap in the armor and could not be cut in!
Zhu Ran and the Sichuan soldiers looked at each other, and were both stunned.
"ah!"
Both sides yelled almost at the same time.
Zhu Ran drew his sword and slashed again.
The Sichuan and Shu soldiers also quickly raised their shields and stabbed Zhu Ran with a knife.
The Zhu Ran guards on the side hurried forward to make up for the seat, blocked the swords of the Sichuan soldiers and protected Zhu Ran.
Zhu Ran finally killed the Sichuan and Shu soldiers with the assistance of the guards.
His hands were stiff and he could hardly hold the sword.
The sword made of stainless steel is now covered with gaps of all sizes.
His vision became a little dimmed.
In a hurry, Zhu Ran looked up and saw a dark cloud floating by, blocking the sunshine.
He suddenly became in a daze.
He has always been a very confident person, but now he is trapped in self-doubt and denial.
All his achievements in Jiangdong, all his experience, and his martial arts seem to be nothing in Sichuan and Shu.
"Come and fight!"
Zhu Ran yelled, red eyes, trying to suppress the negative emotions that surged from his heart by using the yell...
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Yan Yan stood halfway up the mountain, under the cover of the shrubs, and looked at the scene of the battle below the valley, and felt a lot of emotion.
After he came back, he also talked with Xu Shushen once. He truly felt the difference between the political strategy of the General of the Cavalry and other princes. It was also confirmed at that time that only Fei Qian could bring new changes to the Han Dynasty.
Yan Yan understood that Fei Qian did not need to kill, or rather, he did not just kill.
Killing can bring fear, but it cannot bring rule.
Xu Shu implemented Fei Qian's concept, and Zhuge Liang was also following this method.
If it was just to win or kill, Yan Yan could have shot Zhu Ran to death with a command, or burned him to death with a fire or blasted him to death with a grenade at a certain location...
But Zhuge Liang hopes that Zhu Ran can survive.
Living is more valuable.
Because Zhu Ran's surname is Zhu, Zhu Zhi's Zhu.
It was also after understanding the profound meaning of Zhuge Liang's advice that Yan Yan understood the biggest difference between himself before, and Liu Yan, Liu Zhang and others in Sichuan and Sichuan, and Fei Qian and Xu Shu and others.
Before, Liu Yan and Liu Zhang were staring at the only place under their feet, just like Sichuan and Shu. Xu Shu, Zhuge Liang, and Fei Qian, the general of the Cavalry behind them, saw the whole world.
When facing these Jiangdong soldiers, they are still looking at the future and the world.
『Are you ready?』
Yan Yan asked as Zhu Ran and others were getting closer and closer at the foot of the mountain.
『Report to the general, you are all ready!』
Yan Yan nodded, "Prepare to do it!"
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The copper whistle sounded in the valley.
The Sichuan and Shu soldiers who were fighting with the Jiangdong Army evacuated one after another after hearing the whistle.
As one goes up and the other goes down, the Jiangdong soldiers couldn't help but chase and chop these Sichuan soldiers.
Zhu Ran felt something was wrong and wanted to stop it.
But his voice was already exhausted and hoarse, and he couldn't shout loudly. Just as Zhu Ran was leaning on the sword, waving his arms, trying to calm his subordinates down, he suddenly felt that the sky seemed to be dark...
Zhu Ran looked up in shock and found that at some point, many Sichuan and Sichuan soldiers shook open fishing nets and splashed on the mountainside and on the top of the mountain!
"spread!"
Zhu Ran shouted, but it was too late.
Zhu Ran raised his sword and tried to dial the fishing nets, but the fishing nets were soft. No matter it was a sword, a spear, or something else, it could not completely cut the fishing nets or remove them...
Under the fishing net, Zhu Ran and other Jiangdong soldiers were trapped in the net and struggled in a hurry in the mountain road.
At the same time, a short copper whistle sounded in the mountains. From the direction where the soldiers of Sichuan and Sichuan were withdrawing, and in the other direction, people started running forward with ropes!
"No!"
Zhu Ran could accept death, but he was unwilling to accept the consequences of being captured.
In despair, Zhu Ran turned the blade and was about to cut it towards his throat, but an arrow flew over and hit Zhu Ran's sword's entrance with a "clang" sound!
Zhu Ran was caught off guard and could not hold the knife. The sword fell. Then he was hit by a Sichuan soldier who was almost grinning at the back of his head and threw himself to the ground. The one with his head and face was tied up with a rope!
At the moment of falling down, Zhu Ran saw the veteran who raised a bow and shot an arrow on the mountainside...
Chapter completed!