Yuan Shu was shocked: "How is it possible? How did they come so quickly?"
"I don't know, they seemed to appear suddenly, and General Lei Bo is leading his troops to resist."
"General, if we are chasing troops from Hefei, there must be a spy report. In my opinion, Zhou Ping must have ambushed and waited first, and then suddenly appeared, making us think that he was chasing from behind." Lord Bo Yanxiang said.
Zhang Xun said in disbelief: "We have already sent out scouts to investigate, how can he ambush us?"
Yan Xiang said anxiously: "No matter how he ambush, general, we must first stabilize and avoid chaos. He ambush here, and there must not be many men and horses. We can order General Chen Lan to lead 3,000 troops to assist General Lei in the future."
It can repel pursuing enemies."
At this time, Lei Bo and Chen Lan were still with Yuan Shu and were not sent to Yanshan.
"Quickly, let Chen Lan lead three thousand soldiers to help."
The pursuit came unexpectedly, Yuan Shu didn't expect it, so how could he not panic?
"promise."
The herald agreed and went to deliver the order to Chen Lan.
"Quick, let's go."
Yuan Shu quickly ordered the soldiers to move faster.
"General, don't be anxious. Although Zhou Wen'an is good at planning, Liu Bei won because of his courage like Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. There are no brave generals among the thieves now. Generals Lei Bo and Chen Lan will surely repel them."
, If the thieves are defeated, they will not dare to pursue them again, but the general can proceed slowly."
Lord Bo Yanxiang saw that Yuan Shu was frightened and anxious, so he offered words of comfort.
Yuan Shu thought the same thing, the only people the generals in the army feared were Zhang Fei and Guan Yu.
Now that both of them are not here, the generals in the army will not be afraid. It will be easy to defeat the thieves in Hefei and drive them back.
"Haha, I'm not in a hurry, I just want to go faster so that the rear army can attack the thieves without any worries. How can the mere thieves make me anxious!"
The anxious look on Yuan Shu's face softened slightly and he smiled softly.
Zhang Xun also forced out a smile and loudly ordered the accompanying guards not to rush.
"Report..."
After walking less than three miles, another fast horse came from behind. When he arrived in front of Yuan Shu, he hurriedly reported: "General, General Lei Bo has been killed in the battle. The bandits are very powerful."
"Ah! How many thieves are there?" Yuan Shu asked anxiously.
"Maybe tens of thousands of people."
"Quick, hurry up, hurry up!"
Yuan Shu couldn't care less about his face and shouted repeatedly, urging his troops to march quickly.
Yan Xiang did not dare to say anything. As far as he knew, General Lei Bo was not weak in force, but he was killed by the enemy so quickly. It seemed that the general was very powerful!
This can get messy if you get anxious.
Yuan Shu was lucky, he could be considered a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, and had many experiences of escaping for his life. Although he was panicking this time, he knew that his life would not be in danger.
His wives and concubines were different. They were already frightened when they heard that the thieves were coming. Yuan Shu had stabilized himself before and was not so anxious, which made them feel at ease.
Now Yuan Shu himself was anxious, and they were even more frightened. They cried and cried one after another, fearing that Yuan Shu would leave them alone.
After escaping for another four or five miles, the shouts of death from behind became farther and farther away and could no longer be heard.
Yuan Shu didn't know what was going on with the rear army, so he was looking forward to the troops and horses behind him coming to report. Sure enough, soon another horse came galloping towards him.
Yuan Shu hoped to hear the news of repelling the thieves, but what he heard was still news that frightened him even more.
"Report to the general, General Chen Lan was injured and retreated. Our troops suffered many casualties and were difficult to resist..."
"Are the thieves coming after you?"
Yuan Shu heard that even Chen Lan was injured and retreated, so these thieves would definitely be difficult to repel.
"The thieves are not chasing us."
"Why didn't they pursue him?"
Before Yuan Shu had time to ask, Zhang Xun asked urgently.
"They fought to seize the baggage, and much of the baggage was taken away by them."
"It turns out they are here to rob us of money. As long as they don't come after us, they can take the baggage as they wish."
Yuan Shu then felt relieved and felt lucky that he had transported a lot of money and luggage. Otherwise, the thieves would have nothing to seize and they would definitely continue to pursue him.
Although the thieves did not pursue him, Yuan Shu did not dare to stop and ordered his troops to speed up again.
After Taishi Ci waited for Yuan Shu's troops to pass by, he led his troops to fight out from behind.
Zhou Ping asked Xu Chu to lead the knights from the Hushi camp to kill the enemy, leaving only Zhang Wu and his guards beside him.
Anyway, he was just watching from a distance, not approaching, so there was no danger.
Yuan Shu asked Lei Bo to command the rear of the three thousand troops and the guard and baggage. When he saw Tai Shici leading the attack, he hurriedly led his troops to fight.
Regarding these thieves who were only wearing common people's clothes, Lei Bo didn't take them seriously at all.
He led his troops to fight, and when he saw Tai Shici, the leader of the thieves, he rode his horse to kill him.
Taishi Ci waved his halberd to welcome him, and he only fought with Lei Bo for a dozen rounds before he stabbed Lei Bo to death and fell off his horse.
Lei Bo's soldiers and horses originally blocked the offensive. As soon as he died, those soldiers and horses were immediately killed and retreated step by step.
Fortunately, Chen Lan arrived with his troops at this time and pushed back.
Chen Lan heard that Lei Bo died at the hands of Tai Shi Ci and knew that the enemy general was powerful, so she did not dare to fight him and stayed away from him. Unexpectedly, she met Xu Chu again.
As a result, within ten rounds of fighting Xu Chu, he was cut on the shoulder and had to run away.
As soon as Chen Lan left, his soldiers and horses and the soldiers and horses previously commanded by Lei Bo fled with him, and were chased by Tai Shici for a while.
Taishi Ci did not chase them far, but just drove them away, and then grabbed several hundred carts and luggage.
The baggage contained a lot of gold and copper coins, as well as many pieces of cloth, letters and other items.
"Sir, what do you think we should do with these things?"
Taishi Ci walked to a cart that was loaded with gold. He picked up a piece of gold and asked Zhou Ping.
Zhou Ping smiled lightly and said, "These things belong to my sworn brother. You can decide what to do with them. You don't need to ask me."
"This time it all depends on Mr. Liu's plan. If he hadn't said that he wanted to pursue his rear army, how could he have obtained these supplies? And this time I came with Mr. Liu to help General Liu Xuande, and General Liu should be the main one. Therefore, how can these things be done?
I’ll leave it to you, sir, to decide how to deal with it.”
Taishi Ci said and bowed his hands to Zhou Ping.
How to divide these things is a question.
The people who contributed this time were Taishi Ci's people, and Taishi Ci was not Liu Bei's person yet, he was just here to help.
It would definitely not be appropriate to hand over all these things to Liu Bei. They should all be given to Tai Shi Ci, but it would not be obvious that Liu Bei was the main force in the attack on Yuan Shu.
Zhou Ping thought for a while and said: "Since Brother Ziyi has asked me to make the decision, I will make a suggestion to Brother Ziyi."
"Sir, please speak."
"The gold and the letters will be given to General Liu, and the copper coins, cloth and other items will go to Zi's adopted brother. Lu Zijing will also share some with him. What does Zi's adopted brother think?"
Taishi Ci laughed and said: "Hahaha... That's exactly what I meant, just as the teacher said."
Needless to say, the slips were of little use to Tai Shici and his followers. As for gold, gold at this time was mainly used as a reward and was rarely used as currency.
Only copper coins and cloth were truly practical things, and it was these things that Taishi Ci wanted.
In this way, the gold and the letters were given to Liu Bei, which not only showed Taishi Ci's respect for Liu Bei, but also allowed his subordinates to have no complaints.
Sure enough, after Taishi Ci told his followers, everyone was beaming with joy. Only a few people secretly looked at the gold, as if they wanted to get a piece of it.
