Chapter 277 Blood Debt and Blood Payment Happy New Year
Chapter 277 Blood debt must be paid with blood (Happy New Year)
The battle between Cao and Liu took place at Pingting, more than ten miles east of Ju in the south.
Nanjiuju is located south of Wancheng and north of Jiyang. Since ancient times, it has been one of the main transportation routes connecting Nanyang and Nanjun, so wars often occur.
To the south and to the west is the Feishui River. In the Feishui River, thousands of small boats are densely packed all over the river.
As the Baihe of Nanyang in later generations, this river can be regarded as a large river. It is more than 100 meters in the narrowest part and 600 to 700 meters in the wide part, or even more than 1,000 meters. In history, it was when Cao Cao went south to attack Jingzhou. Cao Canal.
As it could be used for water transport, it could naturally also be used for transporting troops. Shen Chen had defeated the Jiangdong Navy in the Battle of Baqiu five days ago and solved his worries. He immediately went north with his army and took boats along the Mian River to enter the Feishui River.
In the roaring southeast wind, the ship sailed against the wind and the current, and passed Jiyang in a mighty way. When it saw Nanjiuju in the distance, it stopped at the village pier and docked.
By this time, Nanjiuju had long been deserted.
Cao Cao moved the population, and a large number of people either fled into the mountains and forests, or were forcibly relocated by Cao Cao, so that the area around Wancheng became a deserted land, with villages uninhabited and wheat fields unkempt, becoming desolate. .
Shen Chen, Su Fei and others led their troops to disembark. After resting for a while, about 30,000 people, including Huang Zhong's troops, formed a military formation and began to move slowly towards the east toward Pingting.
After all, if you forcibly promote your students to a position that is inconsistent with their abilities, it will not only harm them, but also harm many people. Just like Zhao Kuo, who clearly could not save the situation, King Zhao still asked him to command the Battle of Changping Same.
I saw a large number of Cao Cao's troops and Liu Bei's troops fighting together in the distance. The battlefield stretched for more than ten miles, and there were even sporadic battles on the edge of the west.
Shi Chang replied.
Deng Zhao, Shen Zhen, Shen Tao and others rushed to Shen Chen.
Everyone responded with a roar.
The teacher took them to the battlefield to teach them personally. As for their future fortune, it depends on their personal ability and understanding. If they don't have the ability, Shen Chen will not let them go to a place even if they have the title of disciple of Shen Chen. Very high location.
"only!"
"Dong dong dong dong."
Under the protection of Zhang Nanqu Gan and other generals as well as more than a hundred personal guards, Shen Chen rode quickly towards the battlefield.
Shen Chen quickly got off his horse and returned the greeting: "Father, uncle, brother Cong, we are at war now, so I won't reminisce with you anymore."
The organizational structure of the Huangmen soldiers was mostly related to the two clans of Deng and Shen, but Shen Chen stipulated that in the army, people must be called by their positions and not by relatives, so even Shen Chen's father, Shen Zhen, had to salute Shen Chen.
When one of Cao's military commanders saw a group of cavalry suddenly appearing, wearing uniforms that were completely different from their own, he immediately knew something was wrong and quickly wanted to escape.
Although the enemy was four times as many as he was, Shen Chen was extremely brave and kept slashing with the tiger knife in his hand, with hot blood splattering on his face without even blinking.
"only."
Shen Chen asked again: "Where is Qu Gan?"
"That should be my uncle."
Shen Chen took off his helmet.
Among them, more than ten people, including Huo Yang, Wu Dang, Wu Tao and Shan Yi, were good at martial arts and very strong. They were well-read in poetry and books and were good at both literature and martial arts. So Shen Chen asked them to follow him as personal guards and planned to send them to the general. Direction training.
Zhang Nan came over.
Shen Chen asked again.
"I don't know, they were on the west side of our formation at first."
These soldiers of Cao's army were obviously broken up by the main force of Liu Bei's army. They suddenly appeared. Just by looking at the opponent's military uniform, they knew that they were not their own, so they immediately shouted twice, howling like wolves, and rushed towards them.
Zhang Nan roared and led fifty cavalry to the battlefield. He was not going to fight, but to report to Gan Ning to prevent Jiangxia Navy from coming over. Due to the tense and exciting battlefield situation, there would be no distinction between ourselves and the enemy. An offensive situation occurs.
But Shen Chen helped them kill Cao Jun. At the same time, he wore a suit of armor and took a hundred personal guards with him. He was at least a military commander, so he called him a general, just like how later generations would call him a handsome guy or a beautiful woman when they met.
Among these villages, fields, forests and other terrains, Cao Jun in various black uniforms and Liu Bei Jun in orange uniforms were fighting together. The situation on both sides was extremely serious.
Still the same sentence.
Shen Chen raised his head.
"General Huang, Governor Su, I will go ahead and find a place on the battlefield to observe the situation between the enemy and ourselves. You can lead the army to follow."
Shen Chen nodded and said, "Where is Zhang Nan?"
Everyone was very excited.
"Walk!"
So now they are all staying at a position about one mile diagonally behind the main force of Liu Bei's army, waiting for orders to arrive.
"only!"
A little further to the northwest, fighting was also taking place. Ganning's tribe and Zhang Xiu's cavalry joined forces to attack Li Tong's tribe.
However, due to Cao Cao's forcible relocation of people, the villages were abandoned. Although the Su wheat that could be harvested in May next year was still growing tenaciously, there were countless weeds in the fields, competing with the wheat for nutrients, so that the wheat grains were so thin that they were almost useless. fruit.
Wu Dang pointed in one direction and said: "There are thousands of soldiers and horses on the edge of the battlefield that have not moved yet. Maybe they are our Huangmen soldiers."
The battlefield was now extremely chaotic. Soldiers from both armies were intertwined and intertwined. Fifty or sixty war horses roared past the edge of the battlefield. Almost no one dared to provoke such a small-scale battle.
Before coming, he had sent someone to communicate with his father Shen Zhen and his uncle Deng Zhao, and he also knew their formation positions.
But the flag was flying, and the color seemed to be that of the Huangmen soldiers.
"Go back to your headquarters immediately and tell General Su Fei and Old Huang that after they go to the battlefield, send people to contact Generals Zhang Xiu and Gan Ning first, and then help them from the flanks and annihilate those troops first."
As a rural pavilion, Pingting is surrounded by villages, fields, forests and some low hills.
Later, when Shen Chen was crowned, he returned to the countryside of Huangmenting to teach, and many disciples came to join him. Therefore, Wu Dang, Huoyang, Wu Tao, Shan Yi and others often trained with the Huangmen soldiers, and they became familiar with him and became one of their own.
A commander replied: "Lord Cao Cao went to attack General Wen's troops. We fought fiercely with another part of the main force of Cao Cao's army. The battlefield was too chaotic, and we don't know the specific situation."
Shen Chen said to many students on the left and right: "Your Mr. Zhuge asked the Huangmen soldiers to wait on one side because our Huangmen soldiers are heavy-armored infantry. Each battle will not last more than a quarter of an hour before they collapse on the ground from exhaustion." .So he needs to order them to attack at the most critical moment, but the temporary command may be wrong. I will go there in person, and you will follow me."
Wu Tao, who had better eyesight, squinted his eyes and watched from a distance, saying, "Master, that is indeed our team. Their military flag seems to have the word Deng written on it."
Huangmen soldiers are heavily armored infantry. In ancient times, wearing heavy armor on their bodies would exhaust their physical strength within ten minutes of fighting.
"The end will be here."
"withdraw!"
Shen Chen tapped his chin in response, then turned his horse's head and found a hillside not far away to ride on, standing on a high place to look at the battlefield situation.
"who?"
"General, give the order."
In an instant, three thousand soldiers surrounded him.
Seeing that the idea was in hand, these defeated soldiers hurriedly fled in all directions, and they dispersed like birds and beasts in an instant.
Among these personal guards, in addition to Zhang Nanqu Gan and a group of old subordinates who had followed him for a long time, there were also more than ten young people, the oldest was twenty-four or five years old, and the youngest seemed to have just reached the age of maturity.
Qu Gan took a few guards and left with the order.
In the era without stirrups and high-bridge saddles, the cavalry often relied on mobility to chase the enemy, and then dismounted and used it as infantry. Except for Gongsun Zan's stupid mistake, the light cavalry almost never directly attacked the prepared infantry formation.
Huang Zhong and Su Fei responded immediately.
Seeing this situation, Shen Chen knew that he had to fight, because they had small woods on their left and village fields on their right. The horses had to walk on the road, and they would easily get stuck if they ran into fields with softer soil.
Shen Chen nodded and said, "You can go on your own."
"The general is back!"
"Chen'er, oh no, general!"
Shen Chen said: "Lead fifty cavalrymen, go over there, find General Gan Ninggan, and ask him to prepare. Our main army from behind will come over immediately to help. Be careful to accidentally injure your companions."
When Shen Chen learned that the fight had begun, he immediately said to Huang Zhong, Su Fei and others.
After the Battle of Baqiu, Shen Chen returned to Xiangyang again. Xiangyang was being surrounded by Guan Yu's army. When those disciples learned that Shen Chen was back, they called their friends and immediately came to join him.
And this Huangmen soldier is the powerful army he led single-handedly!
"Command, put on your armor!"
That's not his troop either.
They were Shen Chen's direct disciples Huo Yang, Wu Dang, Wu Tao, Shan Yi and others. Except for the sixteen-year-old Zhou Buyi who did not come because he was too young, they were the earliest batch when the class started in Longzhong Township. Most of the disciples are here.
"The end will be here."
"I."
However, this kind of strangulation consumes a lot of energy. The battlefield gradually changed from being tight at the beginning to becoming looser now. A large number of peripheral soldiers were isolated from the formation and ran to the outer fields to continue fighting.
"Thank you, General."
Under his leadership, the students around him, such as Shan Yi and Wu Dang, were also extremely fierce. All kinds of roars, echoes, weapons blocking, miserable howls and groans could be heard incessantly. In less than ten minutes, there were three or four students. Ten Cao soldiers were killed by them like chopping melons and vegetables.
"Do you know where the Huangmen soldiers are?"
But a moment later, they encountered a tough situation. Not far away, more than 200 scattered soldiers of Cao's army rushed out of a small forest and blocked the road.
More than a dozen soldiers from Liu Bei's army were scattered by Cao Jun and fled into the wilderness, followed by more than 20 pursuers. When Shen Chen saw this scene, he roared and hundreds of horses charged towards the group of Cao Jun soldiers.
He is actually a few years older than Huang Zhong, and even his son is over forty. He cannot withstand such trouble, so he and Liu Qi are currently recuperating in Jingling.
After all of Cao's troops were killed, Liu Bei's dozen men knelt down and thanked them. Shen Chen asked condescendingly, "What's the situation on the battlefield now?"
"Master, look over there."
Unfortunately, although Gan Ning and Zhang Xiu had more people than Li Tong, they did not belong to each other and had little friendship. They each fought in their own way and did not cooperate very well. As a result, under the defense of Li Tong's circular square formation, they were delayed. A breakthrough point can be found.
"Um."
"Blood debt must be paid with blood!"
No matter how good the Jiangxia Navy is.
Someone shouted and asked.
"These people are so awesome."
"Run quickly."
Naturally, Shen Chen could not agree to their requests when he was a minor, but now that these people have grown up, there is no longer any hindrance in their desire to serve the country.
After galloping for another seven or eight minutes, after passing a small forest, we saw troops resting scatteredly in the wilderness not far away.
At this time, many Huangmen soldiers in the rear had heard the movement and swarmed towards them.
Shi Chang said gratefully that he actually didn't know Shen Chen.
Deng Zhao calmed down his excitement and said seriously: "We have been ready for a long time."
At this time, Shen Chen was galloping, hundreds of war horses splashing a lot of dust, and within a short time, he could already see the battlefield to the east from a distance.
Security was set up on the perimeter, and when someone suddenly broke in, hundreds of soldiers rushed over.
"withdraw!"
That moment.
A long-lost sense of integration came to my mind.
Among them, Shan Yi was the most brave. He participated in the Battle of Zigui, killed enemies with his own hands, and was taught by Zhang Fei. His martial arts skills were the best among many of his sects. He rode past more than 20 Cao Jun soldiers, and at least five of them died under him. On hand.
As for Xie Hui, Zhang Li, Hu Miao, Li Qiu and more than 20 people, their martial arts skills were average. When they met experienced soldiers on the battlefield, it was probably just a matter of two swords. Therefore, they could not be allowed to be soldiers, so they were arranged to do so in the army. The lower-level clerical work will develop in the direction of staff, assistant, clerical, etc.
The team soon approached Pingting. When they were about eight miles away from Pingting, the scouts had already come back to report, telling them that Liu Bei's army and Cao Cao's army were fighting together.
Because they have grown up.
Then Qu Junhou, who was leading the team, was a clan brother of Shen Chen. Seeing Shen Chen, he was so surprised that he quickly turned around and shouted: "Captain, the general is back!"
But the explosive power of human legs was far inferior to that of horses. They caught up in an instant, and more than twenty people were hacked into pieces with random knives.
"only."
Huang Zu was not around at this time. During the Battle of Baqiu, Huang Zu was so excited that he vomited blood and was not in good health.
Therefore, Zhuge Liang believed that the task of this army was to rest first and wait until the critical moment to suddenly launch a surprise attack to catch the enemy by surprise.
It's just that now that the war has begun, even the most brilliant generals cannot make every soldier act according to their own wishes. Therefore, he does not know the current location of the Huangmen soldiers.
On a plain about three or four miles away in the northeast, the main force of Liu Bei's army was fighting fiercely with the main force of Cao's army. Looking from a high place, Liu Bei's army seemed to have the upper hand. Through several changes of formation, it separated Cao's army. , and thus continue to strangle.
Several fast horses galloped over.
Shen Chen looked over and saw that due to terrain problems, there were many fields, villages and forests blocking his view. Those soldiers were about four miles away from Shen Chen's side. The main force of Liu Bei's army was arrayed on the sides and rear. They were too far away to see. clear.
At that moment, Shen Chenle turned his horse's head, descended the hillside, and galloped toward the southeast.
On the other hand, most of the more than 60 guards in Shen Chen, except for two who were attacked and killed, were safe. They cooperated closely, and when there were fewer people and more people, they continued to fight back and killed many Cao Jun soldiers. .
At that moment, he also shouted and ordered the soldiers to dismount and fight on foot.
When Huo Shao returned to Zigui, Shen Chen only brought Wu Dang and Shan Yi with him. They were adults and crowned at that time, so they could practice with him. The other disciples, some of whom were fifteen or sixteen years old, and some of whom were eighteen or nineteen years old, naturally could not take him with him. come out.
Now five years have passed, and these disciples followed Shen Chen's instructions, studying and practicing calligraphy in the countryside every day, exercising, learning fencing and bow and arrow. After having certain martial arts skills, they wanted to follow their master and make achievements.
If it was in the era of stirrups and high bridge saddles, infantry would definitely not dare to charge cavalry. However, the combat effectiveness of cavalry in this era was far inferior to that of later ones. In addition, their number was four times that of Shen Chen's side. Let alone charging cavalry, even if they were charging Even with the prepared gun and shield array, I dared to do so.
"Ah Chen, oh no, the general is back!"
Shen Chen did not pursue him. The top priority now was to return to Huangmenting's main formation.
Without Huang Zu, Su Fei, as the governor of Jiangxia, became the third-ranking figure in the Jiangxia Navy besides Shen Chen and Huang Zu. Huang Zhong's department belonged to Liu Pan and was not under the jurisdiction of the Jiangxia Navy, so Shen Chen let the two of them go their separate ways. Lead your own troops and horses to follow behind you.
The group of soldiers that Shen Chen rescued just now were scattered by Cao Jun from the edge formation. Therefore, Cao Jun and Liu Bei Jun were now in the stage of extensive attrition and duel.
Shen Chen got on his horse, raised the tiger dart knife in his hand and roared: "My fellow villagers and companions, the fire at Huangmenting in Xuzhou has never dissipated in my heart. The enemy is right in front of me. In today's battle, Cao Cao will have to pay for his blood." Pay!"
"Meet the general!"
"Blood debt must be paid with blood!"
"Blood debt must be paid with blood!"
The high-pitched shouts soared into the sky, and all the Huangmen soldiers were as powerful as a rainbow!
The clanking sound of armors clashing was endless.