The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Vol 4 Chapter 92: Soldiers approaching Xihua (middle)

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Preparing for battle is cumbersome and cumbersome, simple and simple. The tedious thing is that all the materials need to be checked carefully. The simple thing is that Xun Zhen has already prepared, so he only needs to check it once.

The next day, Xun Zhen's subordinates were all ready, but Chen Bao's music was the first to be completed. Xun Zhen fulfilled his promise, that is, Chen Bao's music was the front part. In the afternoon, when Xun Cheng returned, he had already bought a lot of land, and he had given the construction of the manor to trusted clansmen. He had also transferred the 300 soldiers who had become guests of Xunzhen's family and who were attached to him. Arranged properly.

Xun Zhen was very drunk last night. She got up this morning and came to the camp. After checking the preparations of each camp, she gathered the generals and arranged meals. It was a farewell to Le Jin, Wenpin, Shishi, Gao Su, Feng Gong and others. .

Gao Su and Feng Gong were transferred to the army, and this time they will no longer follow him to run for Runan. Gao Su and Xun Zhen didn't know each other. After getting to know each other, Xun Zhen won Gao Su's confidence with his bravery, open-mindedness and heart-to-heart campaign, and forged a deep relationship in the battle with the Yingchuan Yellow Turbans. -Otherwise, Gao Su wouldn't have been humiliated by Zhang Zhi's attempts to humiliate Xun Zhen. Because it is in the army, tomorrow is the day of expedition, so there is no wine at the banquet, and everyone uses water instead of wine, or talk about the interesting stories of the past, or the achievements in the battle against the Yingchuan Yellow Turbans, or look forward to the upcoming Runan During the war, the atmosphere at the banquet was very lively, and Gao Su, who was engaged in it, regretted that he had agreed to Xun Zhen's order to turn him into a military soldier, but it was too late to regret it. Good work.

Yuejin, Wenpin, and Fashion also wished Xunzhen another great achievement, and told Yuan Zhongqing, Zuo Bohou, Dian Wei and others to protect Xunzhen, and promised Xunzhen that they would be able to take charge of the county for Xunzhen. The soldiers and the county soldiers were firmly in control. Xun Zhen said to Le Jin privately: "Besides the military officer, there is one more thing that you need to pay more attention to." Le Jin asked, "What's the matter?" Xun Zhen said, "Iron officer in Yangcheng. I wanted to go on an expedition. Before I made arrangements for Tieguan, I didn't have time. After I leave, you have to contact Tieguan Ling Shen Rong more and take control of Tieguan as well." Le Jin promised.

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The next day, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun gathered their troops, and tens of thousands of horses lined up outside the camp.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun ascended the stage to review the three armies.

The people of Yangzhai heard that they were going to go to Runan, and many people came to watch them go. Under the gaze of the county residents, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun reviewed the troops and led them out of the city respectively. Wang Yun sent it.

Zhu Jun set out first and headed south with more than 10,000 people from the headquarters, with Sun Jian among them.

Xun Zhen was in Huangfu Song's department, watching Zhu Jun's department set off. Dozens of hundreds of department and Qu army flags were fluttering in the long marching team. The front of the line was Sun Jian's battle flag, but it was like Xunzhen being killed by Huangfu Song. Just like being a forward, Sun Jian, who was the most valiant under Zhu Jun's subordinates, was also appointed as a forward by Zhu Jun.

Watching Sun Jian's flag go away, he thought to himself: "Wentai is brave and good at fighting, and he will be able to make more contributions here. Maybe when Runan is over, he will probably be promoted to another level?" Imagine Sun Jian in Qianjun. Before the ten thousand horses, riding a horse in a valiant manner under his banner, he felt a desire to become stronger, and thought: "Wentai is the vanguard of Zhu Jun's department, I am the vanguard of General Huangfu's department, both of us are vanguards, When we finally meet under Xihua City and see Wentai again, compared to each other's military exploits, I can't fall behind him!"

After Zhu Jun's division was opened, Huangfu Song gave the order to open the headquarter.

Xun Zhen was the vanguard and was at the head of the whole army. When the order was given, he would go first, and Chen Bao would start the first, and then the songs were started one after another. Dian Wei, Zuo Bohou, Yuan Zhongqing and other personal guards were around Xunzhen, and the warriors raised their flags and marched in the ministry. Leaving the border of Yangzhai County and heading towards Linying along the Yingshui River.

Yangzhai is about 100 li away from Linying, passing through Yingyang and Yingyin on the way, Xunzhenbu traveled all the way, 50 li a day, arrived at Linying in two days, and went further to the junction of Yingchuan and Runan. The main force led by Huangfu Song was thirty miles behind him. He ordered the camps to stop and sent someone to tell Huangfu Song that they had reached the Yingchuan realm. Soon, Huangfu Song's general order came: "Cross the border tomorrow morning and attack Zhaoling."

Xun Zhen received the order, rested for a night in Linying, and then went on again. After traveling twenty li, he left the border of Yingchuan and entered the territory of Runan at noon.

The county closest to Linying in Runan is not Zhaoling, but Yinqiang. Yinqiang is only 20 miles away from Linying. Because it is too close to Yingchuan, there is no Yellow Turban garrison here.

From Yinqiang to the southeast, twenty or thirty kilometers away is Zhaoling.

Zhaoling is one of the outer strongholds of the Xihua Yellow Turban Army, with more than 3,000 Yellow Turbans stationed here. Xihua is in the northeast of Zhaoling, with Xihua as the center of the circle. The four counties of Yinqiang, Zhaoling, Zhengqiang, and Ruyang are just connected to form a semi-arc, and Xihua is guarded on it.

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After Xunzhen entered Runan, he kept going all the way. When he arrived outside Yinqiang County, it was already evening. He stopped his military horses and pretended to be camping. When night came, he issued an urgent order, and more than a thousand people drove for more than thirty miles. Arrived outside Zhaoling City.

Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun started from Yangzhai and attacked Runan in two directions. Tens of thousands of horses were powerful. The Yellow Turbans in Runan had already received information, and they closely monitored the movements of the two groups of troops. Xun Zhen led his troops into Runan territory and then outside Yinqiang County. His traces were all controlled by the Yellow Turbans in Zhaoling and Xihua.

The last piece of information Zhaoling Yellow Turban got was that Xun Zhen was stationed outside Yinqiang County. At that time, the generals of the garrison in the city were still arguing and analyzing: they were arguing whether Xun Zhen would go directly to attack Xihua, or would come to attack Zhaoling, but he didn’t expect that Xun Zhen’s camp was just a false shot, but he actually ran for more than 30 years while taking advantage of the night. Inside, God unwittingly arrived outside Zhaoling City.

It was not until the next morning that the Yellow Turban garrison in Zhaoling City was surprised to find that there was an extra army outside the county. The defender in the city was named Huang Shao, and he was a warrior. He slept in the county monastery last night, and in the early morning he heard that someone came to report that Xun Zhen led his troops there.

Xun Zhen first defended Yangzhai in Yingchuan, and then fought in the south of Wuyang City. His prestige spread to Runan long ago. Huang Shao did not dare to underestimate the enemy. In the early morning sun, he looked at the west of the city for a long time, and suddenly laughed.

The yellow turban generals on the side were inexplicable, I don't know why he laughed, but someone said: "Xun Zhen is a brave general of Han thieves, he pretended to be camping in Yinqiang yesterday, but he actually led his troops to travel 30 miles at night, to outside my city, and will attack My city, and Huangfu Song leading the main force to follow, will arrive soon, my city is in danger, why is the general laughing?"

Huang Shao pointed to Xunzhen's barracks in the distance, smiled and said, "I heard that Xunzhen defended Yangzhai so that the hundred thousand people of Bocai could not break the city, and then took Xiangcheng and Jiaxian counties, and forced Bocai and He Man. The southern part of Yingchuan County was shrunk, and he was unable to advance an inch. He fought from Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun in the south of Wuyang City, and he was the first to capture the Bocai formation, and he won a big break.

The generals of the Yellow Turbans on the left and right were all stunned and puzzled. One person asked, "How does the general see that he is not worthy of his name?"

Huang Shao pointed at Xunzhen's barracks, and said, "Look at this: I call the mausoleum four sides, the east, south, and north are all flat, but the west is adjacent to the Rushui, and there are hills, Xunzhen does not choose the east, south, or north. Camping, but camping to the west. The art of war is clear: Damp and hilly areas are not suitable for camping, why doesn’t he know that?” After speaking, he took a closer look at Xunzhen’s camp, and smiled again, “Not only did he choose the wrong campsite, but also Look again, last night, his troops traveled more than thirty miles from Yinqiang to the outside of my city. I am afraid they are already exhausted, but he ignored the fatigue of his soldiers and ordered them to move rocks and cut wood and build a fortress. Look, that is his general. flag,……."

The yellow turban generals followed Huang Shao's fingers and saw a crooked military flag.

Huang Shao said with a smile: "Even his generals' flag was tilted up, one could see that his soldiers were exhausted, and the other could be that he was not strict in governing the army. He came in a hurry, and despite the exhaustion of the soldiers, he forced to build a camp, and he was not strict in governing the army. And I chose the wrong place to camp, so I say that he got his name. It seems that the defeat of Bo Cai and He Man was not because Xun Zhen was too strong, but because they were too weak." Runan, Yingchuan, Nanyang The Yellow Turbans in the counties such as , Dongjun and other counties, except for the threat of thousands of powerful crossbows by Chen Wang and Liu Chong, no one rebelled in the Chen country. The remaining counties, Runan, Nanyang, and Dongjun were all victorious, only Ying. Chuan Bocai and He Man were defeated one after another, and finally collapsed. For outsiders who have not personally experienced the Battle of Yingchuan, they will inevitably think that this is not because the Han army is too strong, but because Bo Cai and He Man are too stupid.

Huang Shao is a strong general of the Runan Yellow Turbans. He defeated Pingyu, fought fiercely at Zhaoling, and defeated Zhao Qian. He has made great contributions in all the wars. Dispatched to Zhaoling to guard the front line of Runan. After watching Xun Zhen's army, he made a decisive decision and said to the left and right generals: "Xun Zhen's army only has more than a thousand people, and he is attacking from a long distance. , if our army leaves the city at this time, we will definitely win a great victory!”

The generals on the left and right hesitated, and said, "Although Xunzhen's subordinates only have more than a thousand men, but Huangfu Song is the main force behind, Huangfu Song has brought tens of thousands of people, and I am afraid that it is no match for our city."

Huang Shao said: "Huangfu Song will not come to my Zhaoling, but will go directly to surround Xihua."

The generals asked, "Why?"

Huang Shao replied: "I have more than 80,000 elite soldiers inside and outside Xihua City. If Huangfu Song came to my Zhaoling, wouldn't he be afraid of being attacked by my Xihua elite soldiers? There must be only Xun Zhen's team!"

There were still people who hesitated and said, "Even if Huangfu Song would go directly to surround Xihua, the military order Peng Shuai gave me was: 'Keep the Zhaoling', and I didn't tell me to take the initiative to attack."

Huang Shao said sullenly: "If a man is a hero, how can he be a dog of the household? Besides, I'm going out of the city to fight Xunzhen, so I can help Peng Shuai to keep Xihua well! Huangfu Song is a famous general in the world, inside and outside Xihua City. Although I have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, I am afraid that I will fall into a hard battle. How can we wait and watch? Now that Xun Zhen has just arrived, his troops are exhausted, while our troops are recharged, and he only has more than a thousand soldiers and horses, and the soldiers and horses in our city are More than 3,000, this is exactly what we do with ease, and we use the crowd to attack the few. When it is time for us to strike first, only after defeating this thief can we go to help Xihua. How can I go out of the city to save Xihua?"

The generals were persuaded by him and said, "Please order the general!"

Huang Shao immediately ordered 2,000 troops, leaving the lieutenant to lead a thousand men to defend the city, and personally lead the two thousand men out of the city.

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Xun Zhen's Ministry was stationed five miles outside Zhaoling City.

Huang Shao and others watched the military appearance of Xun Zhen's army on the city, and Xun Zhen also took the generals to watch the garrison in the city.

When the soldiers were approaching the city, Xun Zhen still had the time to talk about other things, he asked with a smile, and said, "Do you know that there was a famous person in Zhaoling County?"

Xu Zhong, Liu Deng, Dian Wei and others were all warriors, and they did not know who Xun Zhen was talking about, but Xun You, Xi Zhicai, Xin A, Xuan Kang and others knew.

Xuankang got ahead of the others and replied, "Did Xun Jun mean Xu Shuzhong?"

Xun Zhen said: "Of course." Xu Shuzhong, whose name is Shen, studied under the master of classics Jia Kui. This person's greatest achievement is not in scriptures, but also in written exegesis. After more than 20 years, he has compiled a book "Shuowen Jiezi", which is comparable to "Erya" written in the Warring States period. Double wall.

Dian Wei asked, "Xu Shen? Are they the same clan of Xu Shao and Xu Jing?"

Xun Zhen shook her head and said, "Xu Shen is from Zhaoling, Xu Shao and Xu Jing are from Pingyu, and they have the same surname, not the same clan."

As he was talking, he saw that the gate of Zhaoling City opened, and a group of men and horses came out. Everyone was not surprised. Liu Deng Daxi said: "If it is as expected by the play, the thieves have come out of the city!" Xin Ai stepped up to ask for orders, and said, "I will bring the cavalry to attack it!"

But it turned out that Huang Shao saw that Xun Zhen's troops were exhausted, their flags were slanted, and they chose the west of the city to build a camp, and Xun Zhen "forced" his troops to build a camp, but all of them came from Xi Zhicai's "lure of the enemy". count.

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Back to the day before yesterday.

At the border between Yingchuan and Runan, after receiving the military order from Huangfu Song to Xunzhen's department to attack Zhaoling, Xi Zhicai said to Xunzhen: "There are more than 3,000 thieves in the city of Zhaoling, and the thief's general Huang Shao is called "Huang Shao". Brave, our troops only have more than a thousand troops, if we want to attack the city, we are afraid that it will be difficult to break through the city, and if we want to win, we will have to use extraordinary tactics.”

Xun Zhen agreed and asked, "The plan will be released?"

Xi Zhicai said confidently: "My unit can go to Yinqiang first, and pretend to build a camp outside Yinqiang City to rest. When night comes, and rush to Zhaoling City at night, the thieves in the city will definitely be unprepared."

Xuankang interjected and asked: "But you want to launch a night attack while they are not prepared?"

Xi Zhicai smiled and said, "There are only a thousand people in my team, and we are galloping at midnight. How can we launch a night attack?"

Xuankang asked, "Why do you travel at night if you don't attack at night?"

"My plan is not to attack at night, but to lure the enemy."

Xuankang asked, "How to lure the enemy?"

"The thieves in the city are unprepared, and they will be shocked when they see our army lined up outside the city the next day. At this time, our troops can pretend to be tired. The thieves will be shocked at first, and then find that our troops are tired, and they will definitely turn to Great joy."

Xuankang realized Xi Zhicai's plan, clapped his hands, and said, "In this case, the thieves will definitely come out of the city to attack me!"

Xi Zhicai smiled and said: "Exactly. When the thieves come out of the city to attack me, I can deceive the defeat first, lure them to chase, and then set up an ambush. After the thieves who have left the city are eliminated, I can attack the county. Ling is easy to take."

Xun Zhen was overjoyed, and immediately agreed with Xi Zhicai's plan, which was why he was able to gallop for more than thirty miles last night. Galloping out of the city, he selected 600 elites and let them rest on the spot. After dawn, he ordered the remaining 600 people to cut wood and stone, pretend to be exhausted, build a fortress, and place the general flag slanted. All these measures led to the withdrawal of the Yellow Turban defenders.

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At this time, Xin Ai asked for an order to attack.

Xun Zhen smiled and said: "The plan of the aspirant is to lose first and then win. Your troops are the elite of our troops. If you are sent to meet the enemy, the thieves will be scared back to the city. How can you wipe them out? How can we take the opportunity to take the city?" He called Chen Bao and ordered, "Let's lead you to meet the enemy, you don't have to fight to the death, you can flee backwards after a moment's strategy." People greeted the 2,000 Yellow Turbans who came out of the city.

Huang Shao saw that there was a commotion in Xun Zhen's department, and then one or two hundred people hurriedly dropped the wood and stones in their hands, hurriedly assembled, and led by an officer to attack, while the rest of the men and horses also threw away their hands. Mu Shi, under the urging of the war drum, moved closer to Xun Zhen's flag.

He rejoiced, "Xun Zhending didn't expect me to lead the troops out of the city, so he was completely unprepared! Wait a minute, his men and horses are in a panic. Follow me to kill them, first kill the one or two hundred people who come up, and then scatter them. Go straight to his main force!"

The Yellow Turbans on the left and right respond to orders. Most of them were foot soldiers, very few cavalry, and they were not far or near five miles away. After a quarter of an hour, they met Chen Baoqu who came up to fight.

Chen Bao complied with Xun Zhen's orders, and only with a false cover, he led his troops to retreat. It is true that his subordinates did not rest much in this song. In fact, even if he wanted to stop Huang Shao's troops, he would not be able to stop them. Because of this, Huang Shao became more and more firm in his judgment. After chasing Chen Bao's defeated soldiers, they rushed towards Xun Zhen's flag.

From a distance, I saw a man in armor and a knife under the general's banner, who fled westward surrounded by a group of personal guards. Huang Shao pointed and shouted, "This person must be Xun Zhen! Whoever catches him will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan!"

Stimulated by this reward, his generals and soldiers fought bravely for the first place, staring at Xun Zhen's flag and chasing after him. Because their attention was all on Xun Zhen, they only saw Xun Zhen's main force in front of them fleeing everywhere, but no one noticed that the fleeing Han army was scattered but not disorderly, especially the cavalry of about 100 people on each side of the north and south. , after escaping for a few miles, it circled to their left and right back.

Seeing that he was about to catch up with Xun Zhen, most of the men around Xun Zhen fled, leaving only less than a hundred guards.

Xun Zhen brought the hundred people to a stop and turned to face them.

Seeing Xun Zhen's actions, the generals of the Yellow Turban Army were overjoyed and overwhelmed with reckless joy.

Huang Shao rushed to the front, only a hundred paces away from Xun Zhen, riding a horse and dancing a spear, taking Xun Zhen directly.

A person turned out behind Xun Zhen, holding a pair of iron halberds, and approached him on foot.

Huang Shao believed that his horse was fast and had thick armor, so he didn't care about an "infantry" who came up on foot. When he thought about it, he was already strong, and with the help of the speed of the horse, this spear would definitely be able to stab this "infantry" who didn't know whether to live or die. This trick is the best he can use. In the previous battles with the soldiers of Runan County, he often did this. The spear stabbed out, but failed to stab the "infantry" on the opposite side. I saw the "infantry" hand over the iron halberd in his left hand to his right, spread his left arm, put the spear he stabbed under his arm, and dragged it with his hand. Hold the handle of the spear and shout. Huang Shao only felt a huge force coming from the handle of the spear, his body was dragged forward, his legs involuntarily left the saddle, and he fell to the ground as if he were flying through the fog. This "stepper" shouted again, followed by a loud noise, followed by the sound of horses neighing, and then a chill on his chest, excruciating pain.

He finally shook his head from the dizziness of falling off the horse, opened his eyes and saw that his mount had fallen to one side, and an iron halberd had been hit in his chest. The "infantry" took the remaining iron halberd to meet the yellow turban soldiers who came up from behind him. His consciousness gradually blurred, and the last thought was: "Who is this person?"

It was Dian Wei who killed him~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The Yellow Turban soldiers who followed Huang Shao were all infantry except four or five cavalry. In addition to the personal soldiers, the 100 people behind Xun Zhen were half of Xu Zhongqu’s Keng Zhang shi, and half of Liu Deng’s entrenched soldiers. Under Xu Zhong’s command, Kick Zhang shi raised a crossbow and shot arrows. Trapped warriors cover up.

Under the protection of more than ten tiger soldiers, Xun You, Xi Zhicai and others turned out from the hills not far away, making the war drums turn rapidly.

The two hundred knights led by Xin Ai gathered together, shouted, and attacked the left and right rear of the Yellow Turbans.

Jiang Qin, Chen Bao, Xun Cheng and others led the men and horses of this song, and instead of running away from scattered, they turned back to launch an offensive.

Xun Zhen drew a sword in his hand, urged his mount, and brought Yuan Zhongqing, Zuo Bohou and other personal guards to meet Dian Wei, who was fighting in front of him, and charged forward.

In front, there were Xun Zhen, Dian Wei, etc., under Xu Zhong's command, and the entrapment warriors under Liu Deng's command. After that, there were two hundred knights led by Xin A. Jiang Qin, Chen Bao, Xun Cheng and others attacked fiercely. Shao has been beheaded by Dian Wei. The Yellow Turbans had scattered their formation in the previous run and chase, and now they were surrounded by enemies on all sides, how could they be able to resist? Disrupted. m

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