Liu Hao reined in his horse and saw two warships of about 2,000 stone speeding towards him on the vast sparkling water. Someone on the bow of the first warship was waving to him.
At this time, the envoy of King Qi said urgently: "General, those are enemy troops. Let's leave quickly!"
"Do not worry!"
Liu Hao stopped King Qi's envoy, looked at it for a while and said, "They don't seem to be hostile!"
Not long after, the warship gradually docked, only twenty or thirty steps away from them. A general on the bow clasped his fists and said with a smile: "General Liu, I am Cao Guang, deputy commander of the navy under General Li, and I have news to inform the general!"
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"What's the matter, Your Excellency?" Liu Hao asked warily.
Cao Guang pointed to the east and said loudly: "Just ten miles ahead, an ambush of more than a thousand people attacked Li Shigu and his men. Li Shigu was shot to death by random arrows and his head was cut off."
Liu Hao was shocked and asked sharply: "How is it possible?"
"If General Liu doesn't believe it, you can ask these two envoys. They know it very well!"
The expressions of the two envoys changed drastically, they turned their horses and fled. Liu Hao's men were caught off guard and did not stop them. They were about to give chase when Liu Hao shouted: "Let me come!"
He took off his bow and arrow, opened the bow and nocked an arrow, and shot an arrow, hitting the hind leg of the leader's horse. The horse neighed, fell to the ground, and threw the leader more than ten feet away.
Liu Hao's men rushed forward, Liu Hao's face was uncertain, and he asked: "How does General Cao know?"
Cao Guang smiled slightly and said: "That army is still ambushing ten miles away! General Liu went forward and fell into their siege."
"Excuse me, what happened?" Liu Hao asked again.
"General, just ask the envoy."
At this time, Liu Hao's men escorted the envoy back. Liu Hao stepped forward and slapped him several times. He gritted his teeth and asked, "Tell me! What happened?"
The messenger lowered his head and said nothing. Liu Hao snorted, "If you don't want to say it, then don't blame me for being cruel."
He turned around and ordered: "Skin him and cramp him, cut him into small pieces and feed them to the fish!"
The envoy was obviously frightened. He suddenly asked: "If I tell you, can the general spare my life?"
"If you tell me, I can spare your life!"
"Okay! I believe in the general's promise, I'll do it all!"
The envoy then detailed the story of Wu Xiaoqian's ambush of Li Shigu, the killing of Pan Yu, and the arrest of Li Na. Finally, he said: "The general received a letter from Li Na. It was written by Wu Xiaoqian pretending to be Li Na. He is in the south.
There is indeed an ambush, not only to kill the general, but also to annex the general's army."
Liu Hao's expression changed drastically. He knew that he had fallen into the trap of diverting the tiger away from the mountain. How is his army doing now?
Liu Hao turned to look at Cao Guang again. There was still a glimmer of hope in his heart. The Jin army obviously knew Wu Xiaoqian's plot. Since they knew it, would Wu Xiaoqian's plot still succeed?
Cao Guang smiled slightly and said: "General Liu, please get on the boat! It's just for safety. If General Liu wants to leave, he can leave at any time."
Liu Hao kicked the messenger away, "I won't kill you, get out!"
The envoy knelt down, kowtowed twice, and limped eastward. He knew that he had lost his hand and would die if he returned. It was better to escape back to his hometown in Qingzhou.
Liu Hao cupped his fists towards Cao Guang and said, "Then you will bother General Cao!"
Let's move the time forward a little bit. On the night when Liu Hao led his army to leave, an army of more than 10,000 people was quietly approaching the military camp on the south bank of Yunshui.
There were figures who seemed to be eating, others were shouting and laughing, and the sound of drums could be heard faintly intermittently in the camp.
Wu Xiaoqian led 10,000 troops and arrived fifty steps away from the military camp. There was a circle of large vehicles outside the military camp, and it was difficult to see clearly what was going on inside.
Wu Xiaoqian stared at the military camp. He vaguely saw someone walking around in the camp. A general asked in a low voice: "General, are you using a trick to gain access, or are you going to attack directly?"
The trick is to directly take over the army. This is of course the best result, but what if the other party only recognizes Liu Hao's orders and refuses to hand over power? Maybe you will be trapped in it.
Wu Xiaoqian gritted his teeth and said: "Blow the horn and fight in!"
"Woo"
The trumpet sounded suddenly, and ten thousand soldiers shouted and charged into the camp.
There were indeed more than a hundred people walking around in the camp. When ten thousand troops came from the south and east, they immediately ran to the north, jumped into the Yun River, and swam to the other side.
Ten thousand troops rushed into the camp like a tide. A group of soldiers rushed into a large tent with torches lit inside. They saw five or six soldiers in leather armor eating around the table, motionless. Several
The soldier couldn't help but raise his spear and stab the opponent, but the opponent was unexpectedly light and was lifted lightly in the air.
"It's a straw man!"
The soldier exclaimed, and the other soldiers whose heads were chopped off were also straw men.
"It's a straw man!" Many people in the big tents exclaimed.
Wu Xiaoqian also stabbed the enemy general hiding in the corner and found that he was a straw man.
"be cheated!"
An idea flashed through Wu Xiaoqian's mind.
"Retreat quickly!" Wu Xiaoqian shouted urgently.
At this moment, the tents on all sides of the camp were set alight, and the fire spread extremely quickly.
The soldiers were terrified and fled in all directions. One general shouted: "Flee to the north! Run to the north!"
The soldiers of the Qi army pushed each other, trampled on each other, and fled to the north for their lives.
Outside the camp, the galloping cavalry kept throwing torches at the tent, and fires were also lit in the trenches outside.
I saw the burning men running out of the camp one after another, screaming wildly, running for more than ten steps, falling to the ground, and curled up in a ball.
The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and the entire camp was engulfed in flames. Apart from jumping into the Yun River to the north to escape, there was little possibility of escaping from any other direction.
At this time, there were thousands of soldiers soaking in the Yun River to the north. None of them dared to move. The reason was that on the north bank, there were thousands of cavalry holding bows and arrows staring at them. If they didn't move, the enemy would not fire arrows.
, if you try to escape secretly, you will definitely be shot by random arrows.
The fire only burned for less than half an hour. After the tent was burned out, the fire slowly extinguished. Although the fire was very strong for a while, it was not very lethal. The main reason was that the fire burned in the air, not on the ground.
When burning, as long as soldiers lie on the ground and don't move, they can often escape disaster, but lying on the ground can easily be trampled by their companions. In fact, more soldiers were trampled to death than were burned to death.
Groups of soldiers who were covered in black smoke walked out of the camp in despair, as if they were walking out of hell. The soldiers were exhausted and collapsed on the grass without fire, unable to move anymore.
Then the Qi soldiers in the river also climbed ashore under the supervision of the cavalry, raised their hands and walked outside the camp.
This fire killed nearly a thousand soldiers in the sea of fire, but nearly 2,000 soldiers died from stampede, smoke, drowning in the river and other reasons. Coach Wu Xiaoqian and his fan Zhenmeng were buried in the
In the sea of fire, Jin soldiers found Wu Xiaoqian who was burned beyond recognition under the charred corpse of a war horse.
Wu Xiaoqian's horse tripped over the ropes of the tent, and the burning tent turned over and covered the man and horse, burning both man and horse alive underneath.
At this time, General Zhao Ying rushed forward and reported to Li Bing: "General Qi, the count has been completed and 7,100 prisoners of war have been captured."
Li Bing nodded, "You lead five thousand cavalry to guard these prisoners of war!"
"Follow the order!"
Li Bing immediately led five thousand cavalry to the north of Yunshui.
Ten miles northwest of the camp, there is a forest covering hundreds of acres, mostly pine trees, where Liu Hao's 10,000 troops are hiding.
Lieutenant General Fei Lin received an express message from Li Bing in the afternoon, telling them that Wu Xiaoqian would attack them at night and suggested that they evacuate the camp and let the Jin army deal with the attackers.
Fei Lin knew very well the strength of the Jin army, and there was no need to waste any effort to annihilate them. He chose to trust Li Bing, led the army out of the camp, crossed Yunshui, and ordered his soldiers to temporarily hide in the pine forest.
At night, Fei Lin and the soldiers saw the blazing fire in the night sky, which frightened them. They didn't know how many people would be killed in this battle.
But Fei Lin was worried not about the fire, but because he found that countless cavalry had surrounded them. After all, they were still the Qi army. After taking care of Wu Xiaoqian, would the Jin army let them go?
At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "General, the enemy's soldier Cao Gongsun Liangsi wants to see you!"