The cavalry returning from the victory was the cavalry led by Zhang Liao - he followed Yi Xiaotian's instructions extremely strictly:
No matter what, even if the troops are insufficient, we must attack the opponent's unstable foothold...
The younger the team, the less able they are to cope with such emergencies.
So as expected, Zhang Liao only gathered a team of less than a thousand people, but at this moment when the Soochow soldiers were most slack, he killed the opponent in a large circle and walked away.
The soldiers in Hefei City shouted Zhang Wenyuan's name. They watched Zhang Liao and his army move freely among the Soochow Army from a distance. Their hearts were filled with passion. The pressure accumulated over the past few days seemed to be completely released at this moment.
But this is not over yet——
Zhang Liao quickly returned to the city and ordered his soldiers to rush towards the north of the city to find out whether the Soochow vanguard team in the north of the city was ambushed by Wenpin as planned -
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Just when Zhang Liao led thousands of cavalry to break into the Dongwu army formation on the south bank of Shishui River.
On the slope ten miles north of Hefei City...
Zhu Huan's cavalry troops were running through the woodland outside Hefei City, very fast and non-stop.
This person has always been meticulous and rigorous, otherwise he would not have assumed an extremely important military position in another time and space, the early and mid-term period of Soochow.
Although his subordinates were all improvised soldiers and horses, when Zhang Zhao was really good to him, the cavalry following Zhu Huan was basically the most elite among the 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Soochow battle -
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Therefore, the cautious Zhu Huan, even if he was walking through the forest, still ordered the rangers to stay away from the army at all times, try to expand the army's warning range and beware of all possible ambush——
Look, this is the most basic thing a veteran should do.
However…
After all the calculations, he may have never thought that in this deep forest, there would not only be an ambush, but also a full 20,000 elite soldiers from Hefei City waiting for their arrival.
Wenpin...Zhu Huan, these two generals are definitely carved from the same mold...not only have similar personalities, but also have very similar ways of leading troops in battle, with a touch of stability and ruthlessness, and a hint of agility in the ruthlessness.
It happened that these two people met in such a complicated forest - one side was obviously well prepared and had an advantage in strength, so there was a high probability that the outcome of this battle was already doomed.
Wenpin was calm and raised his hands high. Even when the other party was about to recognize the figures of their ambush soldiers with the naked eye, he was still waiting for the best opportunity——
Zhu Huan leaned down and felt something was wrong in the forest from a distance... It was obviously a very wide forest. The cavalry passed by, but not even a single bird or animal was disturbed... After realizing that he was most likely to be ambushed, and
When the naked eye had already seen the reflection of the light of the knife in the dark place in the forest in the distance, he had already missed the best opportunity to give the order——
The person who gave the order on his behalf was Wenpin, who had been lying in wait for a long time, covered in mud and with a ferocious face.
His hand fell heavily, like a guillotine, cutting off the last straw for Zhu Huan's army:
"Fire!! Arrow!!"
"Retreat!! Retreat quickly!"
The two dial orders sounded at the same time, but how could a human being be as fast as an arrow leaving the string?
Such a thick old tree, under the rain of locust-like arrows, several inches of thick bark were stripped away.
Such dense forest leaves, under the rain of arrows pouring down like a rainstorm, have turned into scattered dust——
And those Jiangdong disciples who can only watch the rain of arrows flying towards them without any time to react, let alone——
Zhu Huan shouted and ordered the cavalry to return the same way with shields. He tried his best to cut down the arrows flying around him, and quickly asked the messengers to quickly tell the army that they were ambushed in the north of Hefei City. However, he didn't want to. He just said that.
, the messenger who left in a hurry was also hit by an arrow and fell to the ground.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhinging! Come on!"
However, how could Zhu Huan simply escape the ambush that Zhang Liao and Wenpin had planned for so long?
Uphill and downhill...even in the depressions they had walked through before...Cao's army came from all directions, overwhelming and killing them.
Under such circumstances, no matter how brave and cautious Zhu Huan was, there was nothing he could do to save himself.
The Cao army with high morale continued to squeeze the last living space of Zhu Huan's army... Of course, Zhu Huan was indeed very capable... In the end, with Zhu Huan's unremitting efforts, he actually fought for the army with one person's strength.
A bloody road.
With scars and blood all over his body, Zhu Huan finally led the remaining less than a thousand men and fled in despair to the south bank of Shishui——
But...it's obvious that the main force of Soochow, which had just experienced a great war, was not feeling well either.
I really don’t know what Zhu Huan was thinking when he returned to the camp and saw the devastated army.
However, for Cao Jun, looking at the people of Soochow fleeing in embarrassment, this was simply the best thing to relieve his anger. Wenpin took the lead in singing praises of victory...For a time, the city and outside were filled with the joy of victory.
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The saying that the thunder is loud and the raindrops are light is probably what people in Soochow are talking about today.
Amidst a burst of tension, in the temporarily built camp, all the generals of Soochow...except Pan Zhang who stayed behind...were all crestfallen and dejected at this moment.
Zhang Zhao was covering his head with the bandage wrapped around his head as if he had an extra head. When he heard the news that Zhu Huanjun had returned from defeat, he almost lost his temper on the spot.
"Cough cough cough..."
Zhu Huan was sitting on his knees in the center of the temporary camp, with his head hanging down and saying nothing, while Zhang Zhao was coughing violently... even his face turned red from holding it in -
Zhu Huan's defeat was something he really didn't expect.
"How... how is it possible... how is it possible that they know everything about our actions? Could it be..."
Zhang Zhao's right hand hit the table hard, but the violent vibrations from his hand caused an unknown amount of blood to seep out from the top of his head... Sometimes, when someone backs up, Zhang Zhao is unlucky.
Today, Zhao was clearly not in danger at all...but for no reason, he was hit by the broken roof and was badly injured.
He was "gloriously injured", but his confidence in speaking was still so strong, but his brain circuit was still as clear as day.
"We have a traitor among us!"
"ah?"
When everyone heard Zhang Zhao's words, some were shocked and some were confused, but in short... today's fiasco was a complete blow to the arrogant attitude of the Soochow people.
I don’t know if this debate has a final result... But it is obvious that until the early morning of the next day, Soochow soldiers and horses never relaxed their vigilance, and they were always vigilant... vigilant to the people who had already called out.
Cao Jun, who was so asleep, had no intention of attacking them.
Obviously...if Zhang Zhao knew that the opponent he had to be wary of even if he didn't close his eyes all night was recharging his energy in his sleep, I really don't know if he would be able to stick to his lofty words that already seemed like a dream.
