Huang Zhong led his men to meet the enemy in front of the formation, while Cai Hao was drinking and enjoying the dance in the tent.
When the army goes on an expedition, it is not allowed to bring women with it.
These dancers were all scavenged from the surrounding cities by Cai Mao.
There is no other way. It is really boring for Cai Mao to confront each other here all day long.
He was originally from a noble family, and it was really lonely to face these big men in the military camp all day long.
Plus with Huang Zhong here, he doesn't need to worry about Sun Ce calling for formation.
But just when he was looking at the dancing girl and thinking about whether he should communicate with her at night, the sound of killing came from the rear of the military camp, which suddenly woke him up.
"What is the sound? Why are there shouts of killing coming from behind the military camp?" Cai Hao shouted, and then motioned for the dancers to retreat.
At this moment, a messenger ran in: "General, it's bad, a troop of troops suddenly appeared from behind the camp to attack us!"
"Behind the camp?" Cai Hao was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat: "How come there are people there? Didn't I ask you to set up sentry posts on the mountain?"
The messenger was very frightened by Cai Mao, but he still had the courage to explain: "General, judging from their appearance, they should have come by water."
After hearing this, it was Cai Hao's turn to be stunned.
His camp was originally built between the mountains and the river, with the purpose of blocking this intersection.
However, he had been guarding against the land route on the mountain and the other side, but he never thought that someone would take the water route and go upstream.
"Damn it, they went upstream, didn't anyone notice them?" Cai Mao asked with an annoyed face. He felt that those Jiangdong Army rowing boats upstream should be seen by others.
When the messenger heard this, his face was filled with helplessness. How could he know this?
Zhang Yun on the side began to analyze at this time: "General, those Jiangdong troops must have swam over instead of taking boats, otherwise we would not be able to miss the boats on the river."
After hearing this, Cai Hao suddenly realized: "That's right, Zhang Yun, you should quickly lead your troops to the back of the camp and repel the Jiangdong Army who ambushed them!"
"Yes!" Zhang Yun agreed and prepared to take people there.
But Cai Mao stretched out his hand to stop the other party: "Wait a minute, you are not repelling them, you are killing them all! They have no logistical support, you can just kill them as much as you want. As for Sun Ce in front, Huang Zhong and I will do it naturally." Block it!"
After Zhang Yun listened to Cai Mao's instructions, he hurriedly led his people to meet the enemy.
Although the Jingzhou troops in the camp are all veterans, they still have a chance to resist in the face of a sudden attack, but there is still a big difference between those who are commanded and those who are not.
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In front of Cai Mao's military camp, Zhou Yu smiled after hearing the cry of killing.
"The time has come, the whole army attacks!"
Following Zhou Yu's order, Jiangdong's army attacked in full force and pressed forward.
Huang Zhong, who was fighting with Sun Ce, heard the shouts of killing in the camp and asked, "Sun Bofu, are you sending someone to attack?"
"General Huang, we are not afraid of deceit. I can't fight you here forever. This Yangzhou is the territory under my father's jurisdiction. It is my responsibility to drive you people out!"
Sun Ce didn't feel any guilt at all.
It was you, the Jingzhou Army, who occupied the place and refused to leave, so why did you have the nerve to question me?
Huang Zhong frowned when he saw Zhou Yu leading his troops. Under attack from these two sides, he had no chance of winning.
"Damn it, I have to go back and save General Cai!"
Huang Zhong muttered something in his heart, and then wanted to ride his horse back to the camp.
It's just a pity that Sun Ce, who was fighting against him, had no intention of letting him leave.
"General Huang, don't leave in a hurry, you and I will fight for another three hundred rounds!"
Huang Zhong was entangled by Sun Ce and couldn't escape, but he was already extremely anxious.
"Damn it!" Huang Zhong cursed, knocked Sun Ce away with his sword with all his strength, and then rode directly towards the military camp.
When Sun Ce saw this, he immediately wanted to catch up with Huang Zhong. He didn't want to let such a powerful warrior back to Jingzhou.
Just as Sun Ce was chasing after him, Huang Zhong directly picked up the carved bow and shot at Sun Ce.
At this time, Huang Zhong wanted to retreat, so he did not aim, but shot arrows at will.
But even so, all the arrows fired by Huang Zhong flew towards Sun Ce.
Seeing this, Sun Ce hurriedly swept his spear from side to side, knocking down the arrows.
Huang Zhong took the opportunity to distance himself from Sun Ce and ran towards the camp.
Zhou Yu, who was commanding behind the army, observed the situation on Huang Zhong and Sun Ce's side, and asked his two lieutenants to help.
"You two go help Bo Fu!"
The two lieutenants hesitated after hearing this. Before setting off for the expedition, Sun Ce told them to protect Zhou Yu.
Looking at the hesitant two people, Zhou Yu said seriously: "The military order is like a mountain. Do you want to disobey the military order? Nothing will happen to me. Go and help!"
"Remember, just hold Huang Zhong back and seize the formation for Bo Fu. Don't fight him to the end. You are no match for him."
When the two lieutenants heard this, they rushed towards Huang Zhong.
Although they are only lieutenants, those small soldiers all have a dream of being a general in their hearts, let alone two lieutenants?
They didn't quite agree with Zhou Yu's statement that they were not Huang Zhong's opponents.
I saw the two lieutenants rushing towards Huang Zhong: "Thieves, please leave!"
Huang Zhong looked at the two people rushing over, and his anger burst out. He killed each of them with a knife.
Seeing this, Zhou Yu couldn't help but sigh: "These two guys are really...in terms of martial arts, I'm afraid they are about the same as me."
Sun Ce also noticed these two lieutenants at this time, and it was he who stayed with Zhou Yu.
So he hurriedly glanced at Zhou Yu and confirmed that the other party was fine before continuing to pursue Huang Zhong.
Unfortunately, it was too late, Huang Zhong had already rushed back to the camp.
Under the attack from the front and back, the Jingzhou Army was in chaos. They did not expect that the Jiangdong Army would come out in full force this time, and they were caught off guard.
Huang Zhong found Cai Mao among the rebels and said: "General, our army is gone. Let's go!"
Cai Mao naturally knew that the defeat of this battle was certain, and he had no intention of staying.
When he saw Huang Zhong coming to save him, he immediately mounted his horse and rushed towards Zhang Yun.
Taking Zhang Yun and a group of remaining soldiers, Cai Mao began to retreat.
Once a battle like this begins to collapse, there is no possibility of counterattack.
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By the time Cai Mao and his party retreated to Jingzhou, only more than 20,000 Jingzhou troops and the surrendered soldiers brought by Zhang Xun were left.
(End of chapter)
