Sun Ce fought hard against the assassin, but gradually felt his body become heavy and dizzy.
He knew that the toxin of the crossbow arrow was beginning to take effect, so he gritted his teeth and endured it.
The enemies in Sun Ce's field of vision gradually appeared as ghosts.
Originally, each sword strike was bound to kill an enemy, but now, several sword strikes in a row failed.
The black-clothed masked men in close combat use a sword-like but curved weapon called the Wu Gou. When Sun Ce's poison takes effect, their melee attacks can also chop at Sun Ce's body, causing more serious injuries.
Injury.
Sun Ce leaned against a pine tree and laughed and said: "If I had known this, I would not have run away. I wish I had died in the hands of rats!"
The masked men in black showed no emotion, approaching quietly in twos and threes.
"Don't hurt my lord!"
Suddenly, shouts rang out from the mouth of the valley, and a group of remnant soldiers came to kill, led by a general with gray hair and a strong build. He wielded a long knife with one hand and killed the black-clothed and masked assassins one after another.
This general was none other than Huang Gai. He still had a broken arrow shaft on his shoulder, but he turned a blind eye and kept fighting.
The remaining soldiers around Huang Gai mustered up their courage and rushed up the ridge to fight with the masked men in black.
Sun Ce suddenly became energetic and shouted: "Heaven will not destroy me!" He pulled out the two crossbow arrows on his chest, grabbed a masked man in black with one hand, broke the opponent's neck with a click, and brandished it as a long weapon.
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Although his body was heavy and his vision was blocked, Sun Ce relied on his divine power to swing the body and attack in a wide range, but it was difficult for the man in black to get close.
Seeing that Huang Gai and Sun Ce were about to meet up, suddenly a young man dressed as a Confucian scholar, about seventeen or eighteen years old, jumped down from a big tree, his long sword flashing with cold light, and stood between Huang Gai and Sun Ce.
Huang Gai was shocked and angry, and shouted: "You are Lu Xun!"
Previously, Lu Xun accompanied Lu Ji to Sun Ce's military camp, and Huang Gai recognized him.
Lu Xun stabbed down one of Huang Gai's soldiers with one sword. There was no expression on his face and he said calmly: "It's me."
"You actually want to be a thief who betrays your master and surrenders to the enemy!" Huang Gai pointed at Lu Xun's nose and cursed.
Lu Xun shook his head and said, "That's wrong. Sun Ce borrowed the troops of the traitor Yuan Shu to annex Jiangdong by force and expelled the Han official Liu Yao. This was originally a rebellion of the imperial court. He is just your lord. Who among the Jiangdong nobles would recognize him as their lord?"
? Not to mention that Sun Ce used force to kill dissidents, and also forced the Lu family to be his internal collaborator and betray the imperial court. I am about to borrow Sun Ce's head and present it to the King of Yan to restore the Lu family's reputation."
After saying these words, Huang Gai was speechless.
Sun Ce shouted: "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, no need to say more! The only way to survive today is to fight to the death. If I can escape, I will definitely raze the Lu family when I come back!"
As he spoke, Sun Ce put down the corpse in his hands, picked up a long sword with Wu hook in each hand, and killed Lu Xun.
Lu Xun raised his sword to meet him and chided repeatedly, carving out two blood marks on Sun Ce's body. However, Sun Ce's attacks were all in vain.
Sun Ce was at the end of his strength. In addition to being in a violent negative state and reducing all his attributes by 20%, he was also hit by ten layers of crossbow poison. His movement was 30% slower and his vision was blurred.
Fortunately, he is still the template of the lord, otherwise the negative impact of crossbow poison would be even more severe.
Lu Xun was not good at fighting on horseback, but his swordsmanship was really good; he was originally the fourth governor of Soochow, he was good at commanding troops in battle, and he was not just a scholar of literary quality.
There is no problem in waiting for work and bullying the half-wasted Sun Ce.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Huang Gai stepped forward bravely and shouted: "My lord, get on your horse and leave quickly! I will cut off the rear!"
Regardless of the obstruction of the masked man in black, Huang Gai slashed at Lu Xun with his long sword, and the battle broke out.
Huang Gai's personal soldiers protected Sun Ce from escaping.
The man in black wanted to pursue him, but Lu Xun stopped him and said, "I can't catch you, but getting Huang Gai's head is enough to prove the innocence of our Jiangdong nobles." He immediately ordered the masked men in black to come forward and kill Huang Gai.
Huang Gaili died in the battle, with blood flowing all over the ground. When he died, his body was still standing upright.
Seeing that there were only about twenty men in black left around him, Lu Xun shook his head slightly and said to himself: "If there were one or two hundred more dead men lying at the mouth of the valley, Sun Ce would not be able to escape."
A masked man in black took off his mask, revealing a slightly older face, and said: "Young master has brought out all the dead soldiers of the Lu family during this trip, and also borrowed a group of people from the Gu family. I really don't have any
Too much power."
Lu Xun nodded and said: "Sun Ce's suppression of our Jiangdong nobles has been quite effective. If we give him a few more years, the Jiangdong nobles may no longer have the strength to resist and will become his lackeys."
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Sun Ce escaped from Kuangshan with the support of dozens of remaining soldiers.
Considering that Wu County was the foundation of Jiangdong's Lu family and other aristocratic families, Sun Ce did not dare to go there anymore, so he turned south and headed for Luling.
In Luling, there are still 3,000 elite troops led by Han Dang and Zhou Tai. They were originally a feint attack force to defend Zhang He and Jia Xu, but now they have become Sun Ce's last life-saving straw.
At this time, Bai Xiaowen was commanding the army and launching an offensive in the six counties south of the Yangtze River.
As for Sun Ce, after Bai Xiaowen used the geographical map of mountains and rivers to find out his location and movements, he asked Cecilia, Li Shuyi and Han Xu to pursue him with the winged cavalry.
Sun Ce also knew the danger and did not relax his vigilance. After surviving the residual power of the crossbow poison, he traveled day and night and finally reached Luling first.
In Luling City, Sun Ce met Han Dang and Zhou Tai. The two generals were shocked when they heard the news of the defeat at Sanjiangkou.
After diligently asking about Sun Ce's physical condition, Han Dang and Zhou Tai asked Sun Ce about his next plan.
Sun Ce misses Zhou Yu very much, but now he is the only one who can make his own decision.
"Now Luling cannot be defended. Yuan Xi's army is sweeping across the south of the Yangtze River and will soon reach Luling County. By then, Luling will be attacked from both sides and will be dead sooner or later."
Sun Ce's thinking was quite clear. He looked at the map and said: "Now that all the princes in the world have been wiped out by Yuan Xi, only Jiaozhou Shixie is left. We can only take three thousand soldiers and rush to Jiaozhou to join Shixie.
Xie; borrow troops and horses, and then plan to counterattack."
Zhou Tai said: "If Shixie doesn't lend troops, what should we do?"
Sun Ce hummed: "I regard mediocre people like Shi Xie as local chickens and dogs. If you don't borrow troops, I will kill him during the banquet and seize him to pay for the state as a foundation."
Sun Ce's mention of banquets was not without purpose. In the troubled times of the Three Kingdoms, each prince would at least hold a banquet to receive the troubled princes who defected to their own territory. This was a basic etiquette.
The idea is beautiful, but the reality is bleak.
Sun Ce and his troops came to Jiaozhou alone, but there was no banquet as expected, and Shi Xie wouldn't even let him in.
Sun Ce called the door at the bottom of the city, and Shi Xie ordered someone to reply on the top of the city: "The situation in the world has become clear. My lord has sent envoys to visit King Yan to discuss surrender matters. The general is a wanted criminal by the imperial court. Please forgive me for not being able to receive him."