Even though Dong Zhao fled to Hanoi along the Great Hebei Line, he was still a little dazed along the way. He was unbelievable and unwilling to accept the current result.
Is Zhongtiaoshan Camp over like this?
The most important thing is that Dong Zhao is finished like this?
Until this moment, Dong Zhao still felt that it seemed that he was in a nightmare. The lines of defense he carefully arranged, traps, landfill gunpowder, and soldiers he arranged were defeated and crushed by the cavalry front and interspersed?
The three-color flags that were flying in the darkness and the fire were still rolling around in Dong Zhao's mind, as if they were whipping Dong Zhao's face.
In fact, Dong Zhao also knew that he had no hope of winning in the Zhongtiaoshan camp, and he was also seeking victory in defeat and living in death. Although about half of the soldiers left by Cao Cao were the Central Leader Army and the Central Guard Army, they were still very weak.
But, but...
Under Dong Zhao's careful maintenance arrangements, wouldn't Sima Yi and Hao Zhao be repelled?
At that time, Dong Zhao was full of success and did not care about the sacrifices of Lu Chang and others. He felt that only he could plan his own strategy was the most important. Didn’t Sima Yi, who could defeat Cao Hong before, escape in front of him with his tail between his legs?
When a person is about to die, he will have a rebirth.
This phenomenon will also occur in the army, or larger organizations.
But Dong Zhao didn't realize this.
As a result, when Dong Zhao felt that he could have completed Cao Cao's entrustment, withstand the attack of the Cavalry Army, and at least delayed for a period of time, the arrival of the Cavalry General Fei Qian defeated the Zhongtiaoshan Camp with a speed of thunder and fierce wind!
It was like a beautiful dream, and it was like finally waking up with pain!
If he had never won before and had not experienced so many good things, then Dong Zhao would not have suffered so much.
This time, he lost even worse than Cao Hong!
At that time, Cao Hong could still say that the siege of the Cavalry Army was sharp and the artillery was beyond human control, but what could Dong Zhao say?
He said that he had met an extraordinary cavalry soldier, and then the cavalry soldier ate human flesh and drank human blood, and then his soldiers were scared to pee?
After digging so many traps and laying out so much gunpowder, what's the result?
It only burned a small part and fryed a little bit, and the rest became decorations and waste!
Dong Zhao wanted to cry without tears.
The Zhongtiaoshan Camp was defeated day and night. For both sides of the war at that time, no one expected it before the battle!
In fact, everything has been signs...
The more than 10,000 soldiers left by Cao Cao were actually the main force of the Central Leadership Army.
The most elite part was the two or three thousand people led by Cao Hong himself. As a result, Cao Hong and the two or three thousand people were lost to Suoyang Pass!
Unfortunately, Dong Zhao thought he could continue to support it at the time.
Later, Dong Zhao ruled the Zhongtiaoshan camp and repelled Sima Yi. When he returned, the hearts of the Cao army soldiers had already been broken very tightly. After the war, they did not receive effective relief. There was no reward or incentive. It seemed that it was necessary to win. Sima Yi was criticized even if he ran away, and the supplies and other things could not keep up...
So when Fei Qian brought the army, these Cao's soldiers who had been extremely tightened, exhausted, insufficient supply, and could not even eat, were naturally defeated by the elites under Fei Qian's command!
This is the case when you are in the mountains without seeing the peaks.
When the soldiers of the Cavalry broke through Hengshanyan and defeated the defense of the inner circle of Zhongtiao Mountain in Cao's army, Dong Zhao really wanted to die. He really wanted to rush up with his long sword and fight with these Cavalry soldiers to the death!
However, the guard beside Dong Zhao hugged Dong Zhao's thighs and refused to let Dong Zhao step forward.
Of course, this is what Dong Zhao thinks in his memory...
As Dong Zhao's guard, the Zhongtiaoshan camp has nothing to do with them, but Dong Zhao's life and death are related to their life and death.
If Dong Zhao rushed forward, he could really win, they might as well rush forward, but at that time, he knew that the situation was irreversible. The Cavalry Army defeated their inner circle with a side army, and the large army of the Cavalry in front also broke the middle circle. What else can I do to fight to the death?
Even if Dong Zhao rushed forward, he would just give the head to the cavalry.
So these Dong Zhao guards immediately pulled Dong Zhao and fled, regardless of the banner, the central army, or the camp.
After all, Dong Zhao escaped by himself, so he could escape before the other Cao army soldiers could not react. Otherwise, if he was blocked on the road by other Cao army soldiers, he might not be able to escape!
On the way to escape, Dong Zhao recovered a little bit of consciousness and asked the guards to avoid the ferry south of Zhongtiao Mountain. Instead, he turned to the east and took a detour to Heluo.
After all, the Tongguan camp is no longer protected. It is very likely that it will send itself to the troops of the Tongguan army of the Cavalry. Moreover, once the Cavalry Army takes control of the Zhongtiao Mountain Camp, it will inevitably pursue the south along the mountain road, and it is very likely that it will chase the ferry...
Therefore, before the Cavalry Army arrives, you have to turn around and avoid the Cavalry Army, so that you can return to Shandong.
Moreover, in Dong Zhao's heart, he felt that even Cao Cao guarded the sacred Han Dynasty this time, it might not have any effect. After all, Heluo was decadent. Although it was named the Eight Passes of Luoyang, there was actually nothing to rely on. If the cavalry army advanced eastward, even if Luoyang had Eighteen Passes, it might not be able to stop it!
Cao Jun, it's over!
Shandong, it's over!
Dong Zhao was sad and sad, but Dong Zhao's guards were not in the mood to be sad.
To be honest, as Dong Zhao's personal guards, they have little contact with the gains and losses of Zhongtiaoshan Camp. As long as they send Dong Zhao back to Shandong safely, they will complete all their responsibilities!
Except for a few Dong Zhao's relatives, most of the Dong Zhao's guards were recruited by Dong Zhao.
As a guard, as Dong Zhao's tentacles, they extend, accept and pass orders, but the most critical thing is to save the life of the chief general!
In a crisis, the main general can escape from heaven. Even if Dong Zhao is punished or even punished for the defeat of Zhongtiaoshan camp, he will not be held accountable for such a thing. On the contrary, there will be many other generals to choose, and then they can join the new team...
As long as Dong Zhao’s life is saved now, as for what Dong Zhao will do in the future, it has nothing to do with them!
Everything about them is Dong Zhao's life and death.
If Dong Zhao is alive, they can live. If Dong Zhao dies in battle and they are not dead, even if they live to Shandong, they will probably not have a good ending...
Dozens of people guarded Dong Zhao and fled eastward.
Dong Zhao's choice of escape direction was undoubtedly correct, because he avoided the collapse of the Cao army's soldiers and troops. Even if hundreds of people were crowded on the road in chaos, they could instantly block the originally smooth road, not to mention that there might be thousands of people defeated and fled...
But at the same time, Dong Zhao, who was stimulated by severe emotions, was not able to fully wake up, otherwise he would realize that he was actually wrong in choosing this!
Although you can avoid crowding when going east, you also choose to be rugged!
Due to geographical reasons, the south line of Zhongtiao Mountain has fixed soil plates and gullies, which is easier to walk. However, if you go horizontally, you must cross these soil plates and gullies...
At the beginning, Dong Zhao and the guards did not notice anything wrong. After all, most people, including Dong Zhao, were filled with panic, so those who climbed up and down were silent and no one spoke until a scream broke the silence!
A guard who was slightly behind pointed to the rear with a look of scattering expression!
Dong Zhao and others looked back and found smoke and dust rising in the distance, coming towards their direction!
At first, the guards under Dong Zhao thought that these pursuers were just scouts of the cavalry. After all, the smoke and dust were not very large. They wanted to use their own bravery to stop the pursuit of the cavalry for some time, but something that panicked Dong Zhao and others happened again!
Although these Cao army soldiers who could be selected as guards cannot be compared with those carefully selected fierce generals, they are at least at the upper level. In addition, there are many gullies on the south line of Zhongtiao Mountain, the guards who go to block will not stand stupidly in the open space and shout stupid words like this tree and the way. They must have chosen some hidden or even insidious corners to guard, thinking that they can kill some pursuers and delay a little time, but who would have thought that the guards who stayed to block would be like muddy bulls entering the sea, and disappeared silently in a blink of an eye!
If Dong Zhao hadn't confirmed that these guards would not have rebelled at this point, he might have thought that these guards would have surrendered to the cavalry directly!
Dong Zhao felt the approaching of death, finally woke up a little, "Walk into the mountains!"
There is less vegetation on the river bank, and the traces are obvious when walking. When you walk, you can rely on the shrubs and trees in the mountains to cover them. Only after the night comes will you be able to escape.
Unfortunately, Dong Zhao woke up too late.
Xu Chu finally set his sights on Dong Zhao, so how could he let it go easily?
The fact that it was impossible to catch Cao Hong before made Xu Chu sigh whenever he remembered him. Now that he knew Dong Zhao’s location, he chased him to the nearest place. How could he let Dong Zhao escape like this?
The whistling sound gradually sounded, and even under the obstruction of the miscellaneous trees and shrubs, it reached Dong Zhao's ears.
"No! Run away separately!" Dong Zhao's confidant guard said anxiously, "Master! Give me the crown of the head! I'll lead the pursuit!"
Dong Zhao subconsciously untied his head crown.
The trusted guard took it and put it on his head randomly, "Take care, Lord! Take the Lord! Come and go up the mountain! You guys, follow me south!"
Dong Zhao stretched out his hand as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he was left with a sigh.
That was his tribe and his confidant.
The gecko can indeed break its tail, but after it is broken, it still fails to satisfy the hunter...
Xu Chu chased Dong Zhao and others to the point where they separated.
"All the way south, all the way north!"
The traces on the ground of the experienced scout base were quickly concluded.
Go south?
Go north?
Xu Chu frowned.
Normally, if you want to escape, going south is the right direction.
After all, Cao Cao and other large troops were all south of the river. As long as they crossed the river and fled to the Heluo area to the south, Xu Chu basically sighed at the river.
But……
Although in later games, Xu Chu's image was big and thick, or even a fool, he was not stupid. The reason why he was strong and tough was because he served as a guard for a long time. Whether in history or in the present, whether by Cao Cao or Fei Qian, a strong guard would definitely be more competent than a guard who was so thin that he was about to fall down after the wind blows.
Xu Chu made a decision.
Chase north!
"Toward north?" The scout was a little uncomprehensible, "The south is where most of the Cao army... Could these people going north be deserters, right?"
"Desergeant?" Xu Chu shook his head, "After chasing him, you can find that some deserters were running away halfway?"
The scout shook his head.
Although Dong Zhao was only a few dozen people, it was obviously much more orderly than the defeated army in Zhongtiaoshan Camp, which was also one of the reasons why Xu Chu was chasing him. So no one fled halfway, and now there were suddenly deserters, which was obviously unreasonable.
In addition, Dong Zhao did not choose to run directly from Zhongtiaoshan South Road to the ferry, but now why would he run directly to the ferry?
Seeing that Xu Chu had determined the direction, the other Hussars did not say much, and soon followed the traces on the ground and chased the mountains, that is, northward.
Whether Xu Chu has really thought carefully or is purely confused, it is not a good thing for Dong Zhao anyway.
When Dong Zhao was heading north and trying to escape to Zhongtiao Mountain to hide, he suddenly realized a more fatal problem...
He is not physically strong enough.
Escaped from Zhongtiao Mountain, I never ate anything along the way. I was all the dry food carried by the guards, so I could barely share a little bit of it. Even the birds and beasts in the forests basically didn't catch a few.
After all, it's winter now, and most of the animals are hidden.
Without replenishment, and having no way to rest well. In addition to walking with high intensity every day, Dong Zhao was able to persist until now, which was entirely due to the fact that he had fallen into great confusion before, which made him completely ignore the fatigue of his body. Now, after leaving that nightmare, he found that reality is even more terrifying...
This is how people realize something, and once they realize it, what will become more serious.
For example, if you hold your phone for a long time, you may not realize that your arms are sore, and your little finger is pressed out of deep marks, but once you find that your fingers are shaking, it will be overwhelming and numb!
The same is true for Dong Zhao. He didn't realize that he could still climb with the guards when his physical strength was not enough, but when he started to feel tired and breathless, there was almost no place on his body without soreness or pain!
Even his breathing began to get rapid, his face was pale, his hands and feet were as soft as cotton, and he temporarily lost consciousness.
Seeing Dong Zhao like this, the guards also came forward to carry Dong Zhao away, but the guards' physical strength was not good. They were very tired even if they walked by themselves, let alone dragging Dong Zhao away?
He dragged it again, and couldn't walk for hundreds of steps, and then everyone couldn't walk anymore.
The pursuers of Xu Chu and others were still looking for their traces, slowly pulling out a line of scattered soldiers from up and down, and touching them up the mountain.
『It's over...』
These two words popped up in Dong Zhao’s hearts here.
『Find a place... quickly... quickly find a place..." Dong Zhao gasped, "Hide, hide... No, don't go forward, go back a little, go back a little... Hurry up, find a place...
They really can't walk anymore and can only hide.
Not long after, Xu Chu and others caught up.
No traces of Dong Zhao and others were found everywhere.
『General! The traces in front are gone!』 The scout reported, 『A little further, it disappears!』
"Disappeared?" Xu Chu didn't believe it, and he chased him to this point. How could he let Dong Zhao run away?
『Look again! Spread out! Look around!
Xu Chu ordered.
The soldiers began to scatter, searching on the hillside in groups of three or three.
Perhaps it can be said that Dong Zhao was against his fate, or perhaps it can be said that Dong Zhao had too many mistakes on his escape route. After Xu Chu ordered the soldiers to scatter and search, two or three cavalry soldiers discovered some abnormalities and began to touch the hiding place of Dong Zhao and others.
If it is a karst landform in Shanyue, the caves are connected and connected, you can't say it's time to find them. Even Dong Zhao and others and the Hussars they are looking for may be lost directly in the cave!
But here is yellow land, with gullies and many, but there are few caves.
Dong Zhao has never been like this, looking forward to the arrival of the night.
When he was young, the darkness was equivalent to stopping learning and having to enter the stage of rest.
There are no electric lamps in the big man, and oil lamps can be lighted for a long time.
In the day, his favorite thing is the morning, because it means a new day and a new beginning.
Before, he often told others, especially those young and young children of the Jinshi clan, that if one cannot see the dawn of the Yin hour and the sun rises at dawn, and just blindly expecting the arrival of the night, it means that such a person is not diligent enough and does not deserve his dreams...
But now, he just wants the night to come!
The prayer prays.
Unfortunately, neither the five gods nor other gods responded to him. Instead, two or three Hussar soldiers gradually came over!
The guard was stuck in the shadow of the gully and made a dying strife and raided a Hussar who had no time to defend himself, but another Hussar soldier issued a warning and blew a bronze whistle!
The shrill and sharp copper whistle echoed among the mountains and forests!
Dong Zhao shouted anxiously, wanting to ask the guards to snatch the bronze whistle or kill the Hussar soldier as soon as possible, but it's too late.
There were shouts from all directions responding, guiding, and then gathering!
Dong Zhao swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his hands and feet trembled, and even the long sword in his hand seemed to tremble.
This time it was not because of fatigue, but because he had to make another choice...
Should we rather die than surrender, or should we not stand under a dangerous wall?
Should I die heroically, or should I save some seeds of reading?
Dong Zhao's mind was very confused.
When he "persuaded" others to sacrifice and volunteer, he could have many words and reasons, but when he faced life and death, he felt that no reason was easy to use, and no words were easy to speak...
Dong Zhao and the others were discovered and the fight began, but Dong Zhao had not yet figured out what to do. It was not until Dong Zhao saw Xu Chu rushing up that Dong Zhao suddenly thought of something!
Xu Chu seems to be from Shandong!
This seems to be something you can use!
Dong Zhao hurriedly shouted at Xu Chu, raised his hand and greeted him, "Wait...you and I...ah!"
After Xu Chu left the scene, he almost forced himself to break out of a bloody path, rushed directly to Dong Zhao, and slashed with a knife.
After killing Dong Zhao with one knife, Xu Chu asked the soldiers around him, "What did he hear him just now?"
"I don't know... he raised his sword to resist?"
"oh……"
No one noticed that Xu Chu showed a little sarcastic smile when he shook the blood from the sword.