The Three Kingdoms – Conquer the World - C356

Zhao Yun took the lead and opened up a path, the people who blocked the path were all assassinated by him, the thousand plus White Horse Camp Cavalry behind him followed closely, and swept through the crowd of Xuzhou Army, all the way to Liu Bei who was in front.

Liu Bei brought over a hundred guards and hastily left the crowd, running another one or two kilometers. Only then did he turn his head in shock, just in time to see his subordinates being massacred. He grinded his teeth and cursed a few times. Just as he was considering whether he should stop and gather his subordinates to resist, he saw Zhao Yun charge over with a murderous aura along with a huge group of people.

Liu Bei was fully aware of Zhao Yun’s strength, he immediately gave up on the idea of forming a resistance on the spot and continued to lead his trusted guards to flee towards the south. He could only hope that Gongsun Zan was already dead. In this way, Gongsun Xu would have a huge chance of retreating, and if Gongsun Zan was lucky and did not die, once Yuan Shao’s entire army perished, Gongsun Zanfuzi would definitely take revenge on the Xuzhou! He needed to hurry back to the Xuzhou City to discuss the next plan with everyone, and he had even made the worst preparations to give up on the Xuzhou.

Zhao Yun led the team and broke through the crowd in the Xuzhou Army. Raising his head, he saw that Liu Bei had already traveled two to three kilometers away, and he gave the order to quickly give chase without hesitation.

Both sides ran and chased each other. Soon, they had covered a distance of four to five miles. Zhao Yun and his underlings’ horses had all gone through a long journey, their strength gradually weakening, and their speed slowly decreased. However, Liu Bei and his guards were waiting patiently, the bodies of their men were not exhausted at all. With this increase in strength, the distance between the two sides continued to increase.

The more Zhao Yun chased, the more anxious he became. If he couldn’t catch up with Liu Bei, how would he explain this to the General Gongsun after returning? If Marquis Jin was lucky and had nothing to do, then that would be fine. But if Marquis Jin died, then he would let the culprit, Liu Bei, escape. Even if General Gongsun and Officer Guo did not blame him, he would not be able to forgive his own failure.

“Give blood to the warhorses!” After a brief moment of thought, Zhao Yun issued a stern order.

Many of the cavalrymen viewed their horses to be as important as their loved ones. But now that Zhao Yun gave such an order, some of them couldn’t help but burst into tears. It was just that although the White Horse Camp’s military merits were very generous, the military law was also very strict. Even though many people were incomparably saddened, they still followed the order to ruthlessly stab their warhorses a few times on the butt.

The screams of war horses rose and fell one after another. Dozens of war horses could no longer endure the pain. Suddenly, they dashed towards the woods at the side. Even if the riders tried their best, they would not be able to control their war horses. However, there were only a few such situations. Most of the war horses started to gallop forward under the pain, and a large amount of hot, mottled blood spilled from their backs.

The tens of guards who were at the back quickly realized that the pursuers were accelerating. They quickly shouted to the front, “My lord, the enemy cavalry is speeding up and is coming after us!”

Liu Bei turned around to take a look. In this short period of time, Zhao Yun’s group had already closed the distance to about two kilometers, and he couldn’t help but cry out in his heart. If Zhao Yun continued to chase after them at this speed, he would catch up to them in at most the time of an incense stick of time! With more than a hundred guards following them, how could they defend against the elite cavalry that was being led by Zhao Yun?

One of the Junior head guards shouted loudly: “The enemy troops are drawing closer and closer, please leave quickly Master, I will lead my men to cut off the rear!”

Liu Bei remembered that this person’s name was Zhu Yi, and he had always displayed his loyalty. If it was in the past, he would definitely say a few words of consolation, but at this moment, he was not in the mood for it. He casually picked out 50 to 60 people to follow behind Zhu Yi, and he brought the remaining 40 to 50 people to continue riding.

Zhu Yi raised his spear high up and shouted, “Brothers, the Lord has treated us quite well. Now that we are in danger, the only thing we can do is to repay him with our lives! “Let’s go and stop the pursuers!”

Without a doubt, the guard who followed beside Liu Bei in the face of such a landslide was undoubtedly loyal. Even though he knew that he would die a hundred times this time, he still unhesitatingly followed Zhu Yi and charged at the troops that were ten times more than himself.

Zhao Yun was leading the most elite soldiers of the White Horse Camp, their fighting strength was only inferior to the heavy cavalry which had almost been completely wiped out. Furthermore, they still had the absolute advantage in numbers, so the result of the clash was obvious — — Zhu Yi and his men were all dead, while Zhao Yun had lost more than a dozen men.

The deaths of Zhu Yi and the dozens of people only gave Liu Bei half an incense worth of time. When he ran a distance and turned his head around to look, he was shocked to find that Zhao Yun had actually closed the distance between two and three miles. He kept thinking about countermeasures and even thought about escaping into the forest on both sides of the road to escape. But he soon gave up on the idea. Zhao Yun and his group must have run a long way. Only by continuing to run along the public road, waiting for the pursuers to run out of stamina would they have a chance of survival. Other than that, Liu Bei still held a lot of hope for Yuan Shu. Even though he had suffered a crushing defeat when the Huainan Army was trying to stop him, Gongsun Zan was in a hurry to break out of the encirclement, so he would definitely not fight with the Huainan Army to the death. As a result, the casualties of Yuan Shu’s subordinates would definitely not be too heavy.

Liu Bei’s calculations were very good, but it was a pity that he did not know that the pursuers’ horses were running at full speed with all their might, so it was impossible for them to hold on even after running for a long distance.

After two to three hundred breaths, Zhao Yun and his group had already caught up to them and moved several hundred steps away.

Liu Bei’s usually calm expression had also become anxious and panicked. According to this speed, Zhao Yun would catch up within a hundred breaths of time at the most! He helplessly waved his hand and once again sent out forty people to block the pursuers. He only brought seven or eight people with him as he desperately ran forward.

These forty odd people had the same ending as Zhu Yi and the rest, and in the blink of an eye, they were drowned under the iron hooves of the pursuers. Their deaths merely gave Liu Bei the time of a few dozen breaths, and in such a short period of time, he had only ran two to three hundred steps forward.

At this time, a guard who had followed Liu Bei for many years suddenly spoke up, “Master, Zhao Zilong had some friendship with Master back then. “My lord, why don’t you stop and try to persuade us? Maybe he will spare us!”

Liu Bei was startled, and almost cursed him out loud. He was the main culprit behind Gongsun Zan’s death, and Zhao Yun was the number one general under his command. How could he let him go just because of some kind words? However, in the blink of an eye, he felt that what this person said made some sense. Zhao Yun was indeed a man who valued friendship and righteousness, but in this situation, it was impossible to rely on past friendships to persuade Zhao Yun! However, Zhao Yun also had a weakness, or perhaps it was a matter of guilt that was in his hands. If he used this matter to beg Zhao Yun, maybe the other party would let him go because of guilt! Since he could not escape, he might as well put it on the line and live, and gamble on whether Zhao Yun’s character was noble enough. Thinking of this, he clenched his teeth, pulled the reins, and turned to face Zhao Yun’s group.

The others also turned their horses around, but they were not as calm as Liu Bei on the surface, but almost all of them were trembling inside. If the pursuers did not give way and rushed over, their only outcome would be them being stomped on by countless iron hooves!

Seeing Liu Bei suddenly stop, Zhao Yun was extremely confused, he knew that was definitely not someone who could sit still and wait for death, why did he stop running at this critical juncture? But it was a good thing that Liu Bei did not escape, he quickly rushed over and stopped a dozen steps away, with his eyes looking at Liu Bei.

In the past, when he was in the Youzhou, Zhao Yun did not receive much attention from him. Instead, he was treated with utmost respect by Liu Bei, who came from afar, and was treated with utmost respect. Afterwards, when they fought against Yuan Shao together, they even formed a deep friendship with each other, and when he received Liu Bei’s letter, he immediately prepared to use this opportunity to escort Yuan Lu back to the Huainan.

If Gongsun Xu had not stepped in, he might have already become Liu Bei’s subordinate. Now that both sides were enemies, no matter how one looked at it, Zhao Yun would never let go of Liu Bei.

Liu Bei saw that Zhao Yun was staring at him, and forced himself to calm down, then cupped his fists and laughed: “Zi Long, how have you been? Since the departure of Youzhou from the past, this one has always thought of meeting Zi Long again! It’s a pity that the heavens were merciful. This was the situation when we met again! ”

Zhao Yun hesitated for a moment, but still cupped his fists and returned the greeting out of courtesy: “I am fine, thank you Duke Xuan De for worrying about me! I am also not willing to meet Master Xuan De in this kind of situation, but since we are both under our own masters, I might as well put my old friendship to one side! ”

Liu Bei laughed bitterly: “Actually, this one never thought of killing Bo Guixiong. I only wanted to use him to force the army of Youzhou to leave the Jizhou, I didn’t expect that.”

“Liu Bei!” The silver gun pointed at Liu Bei, “Cut the crap. I’ll ask you right now, are you willing to surrender?”