At midnight, Sun Jian participated in the impromptu military meeting, and then hurried back to his stationed place. However, a group of Xu Yang heroes under him, most of whom were not qualified enough to participate in the military meeting, hurriedly gathered around and asked what happened.
"Just as General Huangfu had guessed before, General Gongsun Zhonglang on the other side of Mishui had a plan for a long time." Sun Jian was straightforward and told everything directly. "And he actually planned to use fire just like General Huangfu planned.
Attack... As soon as Gong Yi (characterized by Jiang Qin) left, a commander named Chu Yan was sent to the other side to ventilate the air. It is said that at this time, the white-horse general had already led thousands of horses around the Jishui River. Tomorrow
In the early morning we should be able to go around to the southern section of the enemy camp and set fire to it!"
"Then what should we do? Didn't we say before that we would be the vanguard to set fires?" The person who asked the question was called Zu Mao, whose courtesy name was Darong. He was from Wujun County, Sun Jian, and he was considered a confidant.
So he spoke without any scruples. “Isn’t the credit that I have gained in this way gone?”
As soon as this statement came out, several people actually nodded in agreement.
However, there was a handsome man beside Sun Jian. He frowned slightly when he heard this, and he did not hesitate to retort in public: "Originally, it was a risky move for a thousand people to risk their lives and leave the city. Since Gongsun Zhonglang will have ten thousand horses to take on this important task, how can we defeat the enemy?"
Isn’t the chance of winning better, so why worry about it? Wouldn’t it be better if a few fewer people died? Why not rest first and go out with the army to defeat the enemy early tomorrow morning!”
As soon as this man spoke, the people around him began to chat with each other, at least it was difficult to refute... It turned out that this man named Zhu Zhijunli was different from the other people who followed Sun Jian, such as Zu Mao and Jiang Qin, who were purely the children of local powerful men.
, it can be regarded as serving Sun Jian with force; another example is Wu Jing, Sun Jian is his wife's brother, Sun Jing is his biological brother, Sun Bi is his eldest nephew, Xu Zhen is his brother-in-law... These people have no decisive power in front of Sun Wentai. At most, they are just
If they keep complaining, they will definitely shut up when Sun Jian waves his hand and says so.
But Zhu Zhi is really different. This Zhu Junli is a serious upbringing of filial piety and integrity, and he has already been engaged in state affairs before... The reason why he followed Sun Wentai this time was because he was sent by Yangzhou Prefecture!
In other words, among the more than a thousand Xu Yang children, he is a partner, not a wage earner. He is qualified to put forward his own private opinions regardless of Sun Jian.
Of course, Zhu Zhi's rebuttal this time is destined to be meaningless.
"No need to say more." Sun Jian said proudly, holding the ancient ingot sword in his waist. "General You Zhonglang had already made a decision during the previous military meeting... Our unit is still the vanguard, and we have to leave the city overnight, so we must grab it.
Set the fire before the Five-Fun Zhonglang arrives! You all take care of yourself, and follow me to sneak out the troops from the south gate in an hour and a half. We must be in place before dawn!"
Zhu Zhi immediately stopped, but Zu Mao and others were not overjoyed... Because this was too hasty, the soldiers did not even have time to have a good rest, and it was still a night battle. It is even conceivable that in the rush, they even started a fire.
I'm afraid I don't have everything ready!
However, since Sun Jian said it, as mentioned before, except Zhu Zhi, everyone else can only obey orders.
Seeing others disperse to prepare, Sun Jian held his sword and looked at Zhu Zhi seriously, who looked hesitant: "Jun Li, you are different from those bastards, you have a bright future, and this battle is indeed dangerous, so why not
Stay in the city..."
"What did Sima say?" Zhu Zhi immediately laughed in embarrassment. "Since the army has made a decision, how can I be greedy for life and afraid of death? It's just..."
"Just how?"
"I just ask Sima not to hide it from me. This battle is obviously dispensable, why do we have to take the risk?" Zhu Zhi asked in a low voice. "Are the two generals in the city trying to compete with the general from Lishui? "
"Maybe!" Sun Jian was honest. "But it doesn't matter to me. I also want to give it a try and see if I can achieve this special honor... After all, if it can really light a fire, the white horse general should Isn’t it stealing someone else’s credit?”
Zhu Zhi was stunned for a moment, and after a long time he asked: "So, Sima took the initiative after the two generals proposed this battle?"
"Of course." Sun Jian was still magnanimous. "It was proposed by General You Zhonglang (Zhu Jun), and I took the initiative to take it."
"Why?" Zhu Zhi couldn't help but feel a little angry. "Not to mention how dangerous this battle is, the key is that it is unnecessary..."
"Jun Li!" Sun Jian held the knife and looked at the other party and said softly. "The most important thing for a man in this world is not to betray others! You Zhonglang will be defeated and retreat here. If he has no more achievements in defeating the enemy, he will be punished in the future. I How can I feel at ease?"
Zhu Zhi was speechless for a moment... How could he not know that Sun Jian's current position as Sima of Thousand Stones was due to Zhu Jun's recommendation.
"Besides, aren't we all killing thieves for the country?" Sun Jian continued to laugh. "You can't say that we missed the opportunity by grabbing the white horse general and setting it on fire, right?"
Zhu Zhi wanted to speak but stopped.
"Also," Sun Jian suddenly sighed again with a smile. "Actually, I am not willing to accept it... We are all about the same age. They have already 'lived up to the world', and I can't even live up to myself... What a good man." When I was born in this world, and the world was in turmoil, why couldn't I, Sun Jian of Wujun, make great achievements and live up to the world?"
Zhu Zhi was silent. He really wanted to ask, although your actions did not fail Zhu Jun and your own ambitions, did you fail the thousand soldiers of Xu Yang's disciples? But after thinking about it again and again, in the end, he could only He said goodbye and went back to put on his clothes and get ready.
When Sun Jian saw this, he didn't say anything. He just put on his armor and sat in front of the camp, closing his eyes and meditating.
An hour and a half later, I calculated the time and found that the summer sunrise was earlier. At this time, it was only an hour before dawn. The generals had already packed up and led their troops to report. Sun Wentai opened his eyes and Without saying a word, he led more than a thousand of Xu Yang's disciples to the south of the city. There, naturally, there were some pack horses, torches, firewood and other things ready... Just as everyone guessed, there was no shortage of anything, but There wasn't much... However, now that he was here, Sun Jian had no intention of complaining. He bowed proudly to Zhu Jun who was seeing him off, then accepted these things and carefully left the city at night.
In other words, the closer to dawn, the darker the night. Sun Wentai led more than a thousand soldiers and horses to the south carefully. Along the way, he neither dared to make loud noises, nor mount his horses, nor dare to light torches to light up the road. However, the enemy The battalion of hundreds of thousands of people is right beside him... Indeed, as he said before, this battle is extremely dangerous!
It can even be said that from the moment they left the city, this army, which was moving forward carefully with the guidance of the stars in the dark night, had put life and death aside.
As for Gongsun Xun?
Are the two the same thing?
Ten thousand cavalry have their own combat power, and ten thousand people set fire together with sufficient fire starters. The fire is bound to succeed, and they can advance and retreat freely... But what about Sun Jian's place? Can the fire be guaranteed to burn all at once? Can it hold up if it is discovered?
The most critical thing is that the army in the city cannot effectively dispatch an attack and response until dawn! In other words, Sun Jian and his party must ensure that there is a fire at dawn... It is best to stay hidden and set fire just before dawn;
Or just hold on to a hundred thousand yellow scarf thieves and keep the fire going until dawn!
The former is heaven difficulty, the latter is hell difficulty, but Sun Jian still came out!
And without hesitation!
However, I have to say that Sun Jian was very lucky this time. They had traveled four or five miles and were still not exposed when there were only three camps from the target location, which was the southernmost end of the Yellow Turbans camp. But.
That's all. In the dark night, Sun Jian's newly recruited soldiers from Yangzhou accidentally plunged into the Yellow Turban Army's camp.
The yellow turban thief was shocked and then woke up!
What's interesting is that the leader of this unit is none other than Sun Jian, the most independent Zhu Zhi in this unit.
"Brother-in-law!" Wu Jing, who had been following Sun Jian, asked in panic. "What should we do?"
Sun Wentai was neither impatient nor impatient. Instead, he glanced at his brother-in-law strangely: "What else can happen in such a situation?"
"Brother-in-law, what I mean is that we can leave quickly while the thieves are in a panic!" Wu Jing gritted his teeth and said. "Ci does not control soldiers, and Zhu Zhi has always been arrogant in the camp, so he is not on the same page as us.
Why don't we just let him stay here to attract attention, and let's take the opportunity to speed up and move forward, wouldn't it..."
Halfway through the words, Wu Jing shut up because Sun Jian had already taken the torch off the horse next to him and lit it with his own hands!
Under the slow firelight, the hero of Wu County held a torch in one hand and pulled out his ancient sword with the other. He said sternly to the subordinates around him: "Gentlemen, those who fell in the bandit camp are those who have traveled thousands of miles with us."
Disciples of Xu Yang... I don’t ask you whether you should give up. Those who are willing to follow me, light a torch and march forward! Those who are unwilling to follow me, just take advantage of the dusk and flee eastward!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a fire snake ignited one after another, and even Wu Jing silently raised a torch.
Seeing such a situation, Sun Wentai did not encourage any morale. He just got on a rogue horse and rushed straight to the enemy camp. When he came to the front of the camp, he shouted loudly to the panicked enemy camp:
"Sun Jian of Wu County is here!"
After saying this, he threw the torch out with all his strength, then slapped his horse with the back of his sword, and really jumped into the enemy camp without any further ado.
Inspired by their own Sima, more than a thousand Han soldiers turned around and rushed towards the enemy camp with torches, setting fire to them and killing the enemies at the same time. The Yellow Turban Army was attacked at night and panicked. At this time, they thought it was a large-scale attack by the Han Army.
!In the panic, Zhu Zhi’s pressure naturally dropped sharply.
In fact, in the dark night, when Zhu Zhi heard Sun Jian announcing his name from a distance, he already smiled, and then, regardless of everything, he drew his sword and headed for the meeting there.
"How is this going?"
Half an hour later, more than ten miles away, after turning a small slope, Cao Mengde reined in his horse beside Gongsun Xun in astonishment, and looked at the weak firelight on the southeast side for a moment and lost his mind.
"It must be those two from the Changshe who sent troops overnight after getting the message." Gongsun Xun looked at him from a distance, but he was neither happy nor angry, and his tone was even a little indifferent.
"Then what should we do?" Cao Cao asked blankly.
Not only Cao Cao, but all the generals of the Han army who had just sneaked across from the upper reaches of the Mishui River gathered around Gongsun Xun.
"This situation has alerted the thieves, right?" Gongsun Yue frowned. "But the fire was so small that it didn't seem to burn."
"It's hard to say." Lou Gui said nervously. "In my opinion, although the fire did not start, and the thieves were certainly alerted by the movement, after this commotion, the yellow scarf thieves also paid attention.
If we put all our strength there, it may be more suitable for our army to sneak in at this time..."
"Why are you still sneaking around?" Gongsun Xun was more straightforward. "All the soldiers took off their weapons, harnessed their horses, galloped away, picked them up from there and set them on fire... This battle also started from there!"
The whole army immediately seemed to have a backbone, and no longer cared about competing for credit. Each general returned to his own department to deliver orders. The tens of thousands of cavalry who had just crossed the river were momentarily freed from their restraints, and walked in the thick darkness before dawn.
He galloped towards the fire.
Fu Xie and Jiang Qin originally wanted to add something... They probably guessed that the person fighting this time was none other than Sun Jian, or that Sun Jian was indispensable... but there was no need to talk nonsense at this time.
By the way, Gongsun Xun led the crowd to speed up, and while galloping towards the fire, he couldn't help but change his color from time to time... It turned out that, looking from a distance, there was not much movement in the fire, and it was obviously not burned into a formation, but it still looked like it was burning.
The fire burning the city is generally unstoppable, spreading all the way from south to north!
Obviously, the front of fire is the front of battle. This is like a small group of arsonists with strong fighting power. Although they failed to set fire, they continued to destroy the bandit camp all the way and moved forward in an indomitable manner!
Gongsun Xun thought that Jiang Qin, who had followed Fu Xie to see him, had actually realized who was fighting there, and he couldn't help but feel emotional for Sun Wentai, whom he had never met before... It can only be said that this person is indeed a tiger from the east of the Yangtze River!
However, when he turned to the Yellow Turban Army camp, the Jiangdong Tiger was almost in despair:
First of all, he had too few people, and the hastily prepared fire starters were indeed insufficient. After fighting hard for half an hour, the fire was not ignited;
Secondly, there are no reinforcements... This is not to blame Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, because it is impossible for the army in and behind the city to organize an attack until daybreak. And if only a small force is sent out to support, when all the Yellow Turban thieves are already awakened
and meaningless;
Once again, the Yellow Turban thieves did handle it well. That wave was not afraid of the danger. While constantly adding reinforcements to intercept Sun Jian, they also sent orders to all battalions to prepare for war carefully. At the same time, they also had people keep demolishing the camps to prevent the fire from spreading. This is why they forced
Sun Jian fought hard all the way to break the camp;
In the end, Sun Wentai was hit by an arrow early in the forehead!
Thanks to the red scarf on his forehead, the arrow did not hurt his vitals, and he tore it off on the spot. However, there were too many enemies around him, and they were coming one after another. In addition, Sun Jian repeatedly
Rushing in front, he had no time to deal with the wound, so the blood behind his red robe was constantly bleeding! And after half an hour of fighting, the blood had already covered his eyes and even his entire face. In the dark night
He lost his complete vision and continued to lose blood, so his whole body began to shake.
After wiping away the sticky blood from his eyes, Sun Jian saw another wave of yellow scarf thieves coming from outside the camp to support him through the slits in his eyes, but he suddenly felt a little tired!
"Da Rong! Jun Li!" Sun Jian squinted his eyes, swung out his knife, and directly chopped to death a small leader of the Yellow Turban Army who did not know whether to live or die. He was so shocked that several thieves retreated and fled, so he took the opportunity to shout loudly. "Come to my side.
!”
Zu Mao and Zhu Zhi were already exhausted, but after hearing this, they fought hard and moved closer to Sun Jian.
"Youtai (named by Sun Jing) and I are here to cut off your queen!" In the darkness and firelight, Sun Jian couldn't see where the person was. He could only squint his eyes to avoid the blood on his forehead while shouting with all his strength. "
My eldest brother died early, you must help me take Sun Ben out, and as for my brother-in-law, save him if you can... Both of you are talented in civil and military affairs, so don't risk your life here for me!"
"I won't leave!" Sun Bi was the first to shout out. It turned out that he had always been by Sun Jian's side. "Where can my nephew leave and leave my uncle as a heir?"
"What did Sima say?" Zhu Zhi answered in response after cutting off a yellow turban soldier with his sword. "You didn't fail me before, how can I fail you now? If you receive someone's kindness of living, you will repay it with your life in this life."
"Although I, Zhu Zhi, am just a common man in Wu County, don't I understand this truth?"
"Well said!" Zu Mao couldn't help shouting in the distance, and his voice was even farther away. "Although I don't understand so many things about Zhu Zhi, but Sima, you are the boss, you are the king; I am the subordinate, you are the king.
Minister... only ministers have always died for the king, how can there be a principle of the king dying for his ministers? According to me, there are too many thieves, and if you die today, you will die together, that's all!"
Sun Jian laughed loudly, but couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh: "It's a pity that Jiang Gongyi is missing. Otherwise, with his arrogance, he will definitely be in the same category. I don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing?"
Everyone laughed when they heard this, as if they were ready to die, but at the same time they were full of pride, so they fought harder and harder. However, in less than half a quarter of an hour of fighting, this group of Xu Yang heroes who were determined to die increasingly thought that they would all die.
When his life was here, suddenly, the ground suddenly trembled, and then the battle pressure in front of him suddenly disappeared... It was as if a group of thieves had been killed and retreated, but no new soldiers were added.
The night was still dark, so of course others didn't know why, but Sun Jian had followed Zang Min out of the fortress to fight, so he was convinced.
The Jiangdong tiger slumped on the ground with the knife in his hand, eyes closed, and then laughed again: "It seems that there is no need to die today...Liaoxi White Horse, it really lives up to the world!"
Before they finished speaking, Zhu Zhi and others didn't know why, but they saw countless torches not far away lighting up for a while, just like when Sun Jian raised fire to fight. However, this wave of torches was more numerous and moved faster...
...If Sun Jian could be called a fire snake that time before, then he is a fire dragon this time!
The fire dragon roared, crossing the camp here and heading towards the Yellow Turban Army camp further north!
Immediately, everyone could see clearly through the already dim sky. They saw the knights in this fire dragon each carrying a bundle of firewood and holding a torch. When they came to the front of the Yellow Turban Army camp, they lit the torch again.
Insert it into a bundle of firewood and throw the whole thing into the enemy camp... With such a number of fire starters and so many fire starters, the fire immediately started with the wind and spread into one area!
And almost at the same moment, the morning sun suddenly jumped out... The war drums in the city could be heard in the distance!
In the dim light of the morning, Sun Jian gasped and raised his head. Through the slits of his eyes covered with sticky blood, he felt that the fire in front of him was like a sea, and the flames were like waves. The waves were turbulent and unstoppable, running straight towards the Yellow Turban Army camp.
Rolling away to the north! After the fire wave, you can vaguely see countless cavalry holding spears in the red firelight. It is really unstoppable!
"Who is Sun Wentai?" Just when Sun Jian was having complicated thoughts, a loud voice suddenly sounded in his ears. "Who is Sun Wentai of Wu County?"
Suddenly, hundreds of elite warriors riding white horses rushed into the dilapidated camp occupied by Wujun warriors, and gradually asked in unison: "Who is Wujun Sun Wentai?"
Sun Jian knew that Gongsun Xun had arrived, so regardless of his injuries and exhaustion, and regardless of the fact that his eyes could only be opened half a crack at the moment, Sun Jian stood up forcefully, and answered boldly in a certain direction that he didn't know whether it was right or wrong: "
I am Sun Jian of Wu County!"
The surroundings became relatively quiet for a moment, and Gongsun Xun followed the sound of his horse coming. Under the early morning sunshine, he saw the opponent as if he was being fished out of blood. He couldn't even open his eyes, but his posture was majestic. He felt more and more admiration in his heart, so he simply stood there.
He immediately pulled out his sword and pointed it at this man from a distance: "Gentlemen, please see, this man is the number one hero in Jiangdong. Since you have followed me here, you don't have to know Huangfu Yizhen and Zhu Gongwei, but you can't help but know him."
Sun Wentai...sends the order, all army commanders and above and I will first come and see this person, and then go to supervise the army to fight!"
When Sun Jian heard this, all his thoughts were thrown behind his mind. He just closed his eyes and raised his head, holding the knife and laughing.
——————I am the indomitable dividing line——————
"Sun Jian, courtesy name Wentai, was a native of Fuchun, Wu County, after Sun Wu... At the end of the Guanghe period, the Yellow Turbans arose, and once all thirty-six parties were in power, the whole world responded, burning prefectures and counties and killing officials. The Han Dynasty sent Huangfu Song, the general from the left, to
The right middle man, Zhu Jun, sent troops to attack him. Junbiao asked Jian to serve as Sima of the army, and all the young men and women from the countryside who followed him in Xiapi were willing to follow him. Jian also recruited many elite soldiers from merchants and travelers from Huai and Si, together with thousands of people, to join forces with Jun.
Fight hard and move forward." - "New Book of Yan". Volume 63. Biography 13
ps: The word "go forward" originally came from "Three Kingdoms". One is used to describe Tan Shihuai, and the other is used to describe Sun Jian. Just as the long drive into history belongs to Xu Huang, "go forward" is also Sun Jian's exclusive vocabulary.
