The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms - Vol 10 Chapter 301

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Wen Ping went to Yuanmen, and then sent military officials out to inquire about the reality of this army from the south.

He had suspected that this army might be a reinforcement sent by Yuan Shu to support Lu Yang, and Yang Hong and Ji Ling, who had escaped from the city before, encountered this reinforcement, so they were transferred back. However, not long after the military official left, he came back with a galloping horse and arrived at the gate, but he was very happy. He raised his face and shouted, “Captain! It’s not the aid of thieves.

This “Tai Shi Xiaowei”, needless to say, must be Tai Shi Ci. ——The surname “Tai Shi” is really rare. Not only was there only one Taishi Ci in Xun Zhen’s army with this surname, but it was released to various vassals in the sea, and the only famous person under the account was Taishi Ci.

After the pre-employment doubts go away, after the resurrection is doubtful.

Weird, didn’t Taishi Ci just take down Ye County? Ye County is in the southeast. Taishi Ciruo led his troops to Luyang. They should have come from the east, but why did they come from the south of Luyang? And he didn’t even hear Xun Zhen’s letter, saying that Taishi Ci was sent to help Lu Yang!

So while he put away his guard, he ordered the soldiers on the camp wall to return to their tents. Wen Ping, with doubts, also got down from the camp wall, opened the gate, and called the military officer to come forward and asked, “Why are the soldiers of Colonel Taishi? horse?”

The military official replied happily: “Qi’s Colonel, not only is the army and horse of the Taishi Colonel, but also in his department, the subordinates have also seen many prisoners of the bandit army!”

“Captive? Where did the prisoner come from?” Wen Pin immediately thought of a possibility, and said in surprise, “But Yang Hong and Ji Ling’s soldiers and horses who escaped from the city were intercepted by Colonel Taishi?”

The officer replied, “Yes! Captain. The subordinate asked a little. Those prisoners are the soldiers of Yang Hong and Ji Ling!”

When I asked the officer again, why did Taishi Ci come from the south to intercept Yang Hong and Ji Ling, the officer went back and forth eagerly to report to Wenpin, but he didn’t ask about it in detail. I don’t know.

Wen Ping asked this officer to lead the way, led more than ten cavalry, and went south to meet Taishi Ci.

After walking for about three or four miles, the loess on the road was flying, and an army came at the head. Looking from a distance, this force was about 2,000 cavalry, which was the size of a main “department” in Xun Zhen’s army.

——As mentioned above, the current troop formation, from low to high, is Wu, Shi, Team, Tun, Qu, and Department. Generally speaking, the number of soldiers in each “department” is around a thousand or so, but there are some that are less than a thousand or more than a thousand. The number of soldiers in each “department” in Xunzhen’s army now is about 1,000 in ordinary “departments”, and most of the main “departments” are 2,000. Of course, these are referring to the “department” mainly based on infantry, and the number of soldiers in the cavalry “department” will be smaller. For example, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the cavalry of the two of them, each had only 800 cavalry, but compared to the ordinary cavalry department, 800 cavalry was actually a lot.

Among the marching troops, colorful flags were clothed, and one of them was the tallest, with the words: Captain Wumeng Captain Taishi.

Wen Bing restrained his horse, went down to the roadside, and called the military officer to report.

Not long after, the troop on the opposite side stopped advancing, surrounded by several cavalry, galloped out of the team, and came towards Wenpin.

Several cavalry surrounded the cavalry, about thirty years old, burly stature, beautiful beard and beard, wearing black armor with red inlays, a long sword hanging from his waist, a bow bag and two quivers hanging from the saddle, but he was not Taishi Ci!

When we meet, we both dismount.

Wenpin is already considered tall among ordinary people, but he is still half a head shorter than Taishi Ci. Taishi Ci is seven feet seven inches long, which is about 1.8 points in the unit of length of later generations. This height is true at present. It was already rare. Among the generals under Xun Zhen’s account, only Zhao Yun and Xu Chu were taller than him. Zhao Yun was eight feet long, and Xu Chu was more than eight feet long.

After the ceremony was over, Wen Pinchao glanced around Taishi Ci’s army, pointed to the hundreds of prisoners in the team, and asked, “I heard that, Yang Hong and Ji Ling’s evacuated troops were intercepted by the captain of the school. ?”

Taishi Ci Fuxu said, “Although I was chasing after me with my cavalry, I shot Ji Ling, but unfortunately I couldn’t capture both of them, so he broke through and escaped!”

“I’ve heard for a long time that the captain is good at shooting, and his reputation is well-deserved! But, didn’t the captain just conquer Ye County? Why did he lead his troops to show up here?”

Taishi Ci smiled and replied: ”

After I captured Yexian, the chariots and cavalry ordered me to temporarily rest in Yexiu. Later, I heard that the chariots and cavalry dispatched General Yang’s department to help the colonel to attack Luyang. Luyang was besieged by the colonel and Yu Duwei for so long. , the city will definitely be captured, but I think about it, Yuan Shu may send troops to help, and Yang Hong and Ji Ling may break through the encirclement and flee south. Riding the command is a journey of starry nights. Yesterday afternoon, we made a detour to Luyangnan, and it happened that this morning I ran into Yang Hong and Ji Ling’s department. ”

Wen Pin said: “So it is!” asked, “How much did the captain gain?”

“More than a hundred beheaded, four or five hundred captured, and the thieves who were led by Yang Hong and Ji Ling to escape, there are still nearly a thousand thieves, but they have not achieved full success!”

Listening to Taishi Ci’s regrettable tone, Wenpin was speechless for a while.

Although it was a great achievement to conquer Lu Yang, Yang Hong and Ji Ling’s escape was a mistake in civil employment. As a result, this mistake led to Taishi Ci’s merit. But Wenpin couldn’t be dissatisfied. It can only be said that Taishi Ci had foresight and was able to seize the opportunity.

We welcomed Taishi Ci to the camp, and there was nothing to do that day.

The next morning, Yang Feng and Xu Huang went to Luyang.

In the afternoon, Xun Zhen, who had already received Wenpin and Yu Jinjiebao, received a reply order, ordering Wenpin and others to rest in Luyang. He was about to lead the main force from Kunyang, come to join them, and then attack Bo. Wang and other counties; and in Wenpin and Yu Jin’s report on the good news, Xun Zhen knew about Yu Jin’s injury, and in this military order, he asked about Yu Jin’s injury with concern, and one of the two medical officers in the general. Fan A was sent along with the military order to give Yu Jin treatment.

These need not be mentioned more.

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However, they thought they had evacuated successfully, but they didn’t expect Wenpin to stop them, but after dawn, when the soldiers relaxed their vigilance, they were suddenly led out by Taishi Ci, and they fought fiercely for almost two hours. to be killed. After the war, he went to a safe place and checked the part. From the two thousand soldiers who left the city, there were only less than a thousand soldiers left, and more than half of them were damaged!

Ji Ling’s left arm was struck by Taishi Ci’s arrow at close range. Although his armor was strong and his bones and bones were not injured, Taishi Ci was powerful and used a strong bow. The better specially made arrows also penetrated deep into the flesh, causing him severe pain.

Sitting on the ground dejectedly, Ji Ling rubbed the area around the bandaged arrow wound to activate blood, and asked, “Changshi, what should I do next?”

Yang Hong was also disheartened. He pondered and said, “There is nowhere to go now, you and I have to go to Bowang quickly.”

So after a short rest, the two of them led the remnants of less than 1,000 soldiers to continue their journey south to Bowang County.

After traveling for about two days, Bowang County is in sight.

First met the patrolling soldiers outside the city, and seeing that Yang Hong and Ji Ling had retreated from Luyang, the officers of the patrolling soldiers hurriedly led them to Bowang County, while sending people back to the city to report.

Yang Hong asked the officer and said, “How many troops are there in the lower city of the county, can General Zuo send reinforcements?”

The military official replied to Yang Hong and said, “A few days ago, we received reinforcements from General Le’s army with 2,000 cavalry, and now there are about 3,000 guards in the city.”

When Yang Hong and Ji Ling went out of the city, Le Jiu and General Bowang were already waiting to greet them.

Looking at the group of defeated soldiers behind Yang Hong and Ji Ling, Le Jiu’s expression was a bit strange, like guilt, but also like happiness.

Entering the hall in the city, I invited Yang Hong to sit down at the main seat, and Le waited to take their seats according to their rank.

Le Ji asked diligently, “Changshi, General Ji, do you have any food on the way? Would you like to ask the cook to prepare the meal?”

Yang Hong said: “There is no need to prepare meals, we both ate some dry food on the way. But although General Ji and I tried our best to defend, we were outnumbered. Lu Yang was lost, and we heard about it on the road to Benbowang. The two counties of Ye have also fallen, and the three counties of Duyang, Wuyin, and Biyang are also being besieged by the generals of Wei, and they are all in jeopardy…” Asking Lejie, he said, “Is this news true?”

Le nodded and said, “That’s true. The two counties of Ji and Ye fell long before Luyang fell, and the three counties of Duyang are indeed being besieged by Sun Ce’s troops.” Looking at Ji Ling, he hesitated for a while,

He added, “To be honest with Chang Shi and the general, I was originally ordered by General Zuo to help Luyang, but before I reached Luyang, I heard that the two counties of Ji and Ye had fallen, and I brought only two reinforcements. The cavalry was only 2,000 paces. Because I was worried that if I went north again, if I encountered an ambush set up by the chariots and cavalry, I was afraid that it would not be an enemy, so I did not dare to go further alone, so I returned to Bowang. I went to General Zuo to ask for reinforcements, originally thinking, after General Zuo sends me some reinforcements, I will rush to help Lu Yang, but Chang Shi and the general are already here!”

Le’s call can only be said to be half-truths.

He obeyed Yuan Shu’s order, and it was true that he rushed to help Lu Yang, but what he said about Wen Ji and Ye Shi’s fall, and he turned back halfway, is not the truth.

In fact, he had just passed Bowang County, and only walked a dozen miles to build a camp for one night. The next day he hesitated again and again, then led the troops back and returned Bowang after he returned to Bowang. On the third day, only got news of the fall of Jixian and Yexian.

On this occasion, it is not the time to investigate the truth of what Le has said. Yang Hong is a person who knows the general situation and the overall situation. He knows that if he pursues it now, he will not say that Le is one of the generals under Yuan Shu’s account, and his status is not low. It will have a very negative impact on the next guard Bowang, and it will be detrimental to the guard Bowang.

Therefore, Yang Hong did not ask too many questions in this regard, he just said it was true, and said to him: “General, General Ji and I have been surrounded by Luyang for many days, and the news has been cut off from the outside world. On the way to Wang, I learned about the recent war situation. Apart from these, what is the situation in other places? Wanxian County is now in a position of confidence? Where are the main forces of Generals and Generals? ”

“It’s been four or five days since I left Wanxian, and I don’t know much about the people’s hearts in Wanxian. The main forces of the two armies, Cheqi and Sun Ce, one is in Kunyang, and the other has just entered the east of Duyang. Liu Biao uses his subordinate Liu Hu and others as generals, with Kuaiyue as the flank, once out of Xiangyang and headed north, once out of Zhangling and headed west, they have already invaded our territory, and the military report two days ago reported that they were attacking Chaoyang County.”

Yang Hong asked, “How many soldiers does Liu Hu and Kuaiyue have?”

“About seven or eight thousand in total.”

Yang Hong lowered his head, thought for a long time, and said, “Chaoyang is an important town in the south of our county. Our army has been in operation for a long time. , then it is expected to be able to defend it, and there is no need to worry about it for the time being. At present, the key is still in the north of the county! The county has launched a general attack; Luyang, Ji, and Ye three counties are now lost, and the gate of Ziyingchuan into the hinterland of Nanyang has been opened. As for the chariots, he should lead the main force to enter our territory from Kunyang, or first Help the general to attack Duyang and other counties, or the chairman will drive to Bowang!”

“General Bridge”, Qiao Rui is also. Qiao Rui was the second general to Zhang Xun under Yuan Shu.

The Bowang Defender said in fear: “Will the chariots lead the main force to attack Bowang?…Ah, ah, the Bowang defenders are only 3,000 people. How can we defend them?”

Yang Hong asked, “Does General Zuo have any plans?”

Le said: “The news of Lu Yang’s fall was only known to me when I saw Generals Chang Shi and Ji, but General Zuo didn’t know it yet, and no new military orders have come yet.”

“It’s not too late, you should immediately report to General Zuo, and ask General Zuo to send more reinforcements to Bowang immediately!” Yang Hong noticed that Le Jiu and Ji Ling were quite flustered at this time, so he tried his best to stabilize his mind and took out With a calm demeanor, he said.

Shortly after the army report asking for help was sent away, a scout came to report that an enemy army of about several hundred people appeared in the northern boundary of Bowang.

Yang Hong and the others expected that this enemy army should be the vanguard of Xun Zhen’s clan, so they hurriedly dealt with the new situation and dispatched a second army to report to Yuan Shu.

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Bowang County is quite close to Wanxian County. Late that night, two urgent reports were delivered to Wanxian County one after another.

The next morning, Yuan Shu was shocked when he learned that, and hurriedly summoned Zhang Xun, Li Ye, and others to discuss it.

However, when everyone arrived, they heard Yuan Shu speak in a panicked tone and after finishing the two military reports, Zhang Xun and others all changed color, but Li Yemian was overjoyed, he suddenly raised his hand and slapped it on the case , said: “Ming Gong, the opportunity to defeat the enemy and win is here!”