A quarter of an hour later, Qin Yi pulled out the spear from Wan Yan's back with difficulty, holding on to the spear and breathing heavily.
It wasn't that he finally defeated Wan Yan, but that Yuan Yao couldn't stand it any longer, so he sent Yuan Bao with fifty cavalry to go out through the back door of Lujiazhuang and launch a surprise attack on Wan Yan's men.
Wan Yan's men were frightened when they saw the group of cavalry coming.
These people were all strong men captured by Chen Yu from the refugees. The most effective ones were just a few surrendered bandits and bandits. It was their job to let them do some sneaky things in the dark, but fighting with regular cavalry? This is something they have never thought of!
Before the cavalry could rush forward, these people dispersed, threw away their weapons, and ran away. They only regretted that their parents had not given them two more legs.
How could Wan Yan have imagined that fifty fine knights were hidden in the small Lu family village?
The total number of cavalry under his lord Chen Yu was less than 200, but fifty armored cavalry actually appeared here?
It was definitely premeditated! It’s a design for myself!
The magistrate of Dongcheng County who suffered a thousand blows was defeated by both sides. I knew this kind of person was unreliable!
He was definitely the one who tipped off the news!
Wan Yan was filled with regret and did not dare to fight Qin Yi again. He immediately turned around and tried to escape.
It was a pity that the horse under his crotch was a rogue, and after forty or fifty rounds with Qin Yi, its power was exhausted. He was caught up by Qin Yi before he could run very far, and his life was shot with one shot.
Yuan Yao looked at his fifty elite cavalry who were well-trained and killed people like melons and vegetables, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of gratitude to his father Yuan Shu.
I am your biological child after all! The ones sent to me are indeed the best!
But this trace of gratitude soon disappeared.
If Yuan Shu could manage the place well, Huainan would not be in such chaos.
He should give these cavalry to me!
After all, Yuan Bao was Yuan Shu's personal cavalryman. He was still capable of commanding a small group of cavalry, and the battle was resolved in a matter of seconds.
None of the fifty-six people brought by Wan Yan escaped. More than ten people were beheaded and the others were all captured.
Qin Yi lay down in front of Yuan Yao and apologized: "The general is incompetent and failed to kill the general as promised. Please punish me, young master!"
Yuan Yao looked at Qin Yi who was sweating profusely and knew that he was trying his best, but his ability was really limited.
"It doesn't matter, didn't you kill this person in the end? At most, it was a futile effort, not a crime!"
"Get up!"
Qin Yi stood up with a flushed face. He didn't know whether it was due to shame or excessive exercise.
"Young Master, what should we do with these prisoners?"
"Since these people are here to cause trouble for Zijing, let Zijing handle it!"
Lu Su hurriedly thanked him and said, "Su happens to be moving, so it would be good to have more labor!"
"Thank you sir for the reward!"
In ancient times, it was normal to reward population, and it was also the most precious reward.
Yuan Yao knew that Lu Su in history was also recruited by Yuan Shu. However, because Lu Su resented the lax laws under Yuan Shu's rule, he not only refused the appointment of Dongcheng County Magistrate, but also immediately moved with his grandmother.
Now that something like this happened, Yuan Yao couldn't help but be afraid that Lu Su would think that Yuan Shu's administration was corrupt, and his impression score would also be lowered. Lu Suhui regretted and refused to commit himself to the Yuan family.
Yuan Yao actually didn't think much about it. Lu Su did have such an idea before.
But fortunately, Lu Su is not a stubborn person. With the endorsement of Liu Ye's letter, he has new expectations for Yuan Yao.
When he met Yuan Yao himself, and after talking with him, he learned that Yuan Yao planned to leave Yuan Shu and start his own business, and that the cavalry under his command were also well-organized and well-trained, and there was no sense of slack at all. He had a new evaluation of Yuan Yao. .
This son is quite ambitious, unlike his father!
Of course Yuan Yao would not have guessed that Yuan Shu sent the most elite cavalry around him to him, and it became an important factor influencing Lu Su.
Otherwise, Yuan Yao would have to kowtow to Yuan Shu a few times.
"Bring those armored men over there, I want to interrogate them!"
Yuan Yao had already had a bold idea at this time. Lu Su was so smart that he understood it immediately.
"Could it be that Young Master wants to lead an army to raid Haixi and capture Chen Yu directly?"
"Zijing is really talented!" Yuan Yao's idea was seen through and he laughed.
Although Lu Su is not a top strategist, he is at least over eighty in resourcefulness. He is also one of the four major governors of Soochow, so he will be much more relaxed in the future.
Two days later, Zheng Bao arrived at Lujiazhuang lightly packed with his 1,500 troops.
Although Yuan Yao understood that Chen Yu had only three to four thousand stragglers under his command, for the sake of safety, he still sent someone to ask Zheng Bao to bring over all his troops and the other fifty elite cavalry.
Lu Su has not been idle these two days. He mobilized his tribesmen to bake pancakes and fry rice, and made a lot of dry food for Zheng Bao's men.
The soldiers were very fast, so Yuan Yao, together with generals Zheng Bao and Qin Yi, led a hundred cavalry and a thousand infantry to the northeast the next day.
Lu Su temporarily led 500 infantry to respond from behind.
In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Yuan Yao sent someone to Shouchun before setting off, telling Yuan Shu that he was going to Haixi to marry Chen Yu.
As for whether you care about the life or death of your own son, you can do whatever you want!
Five days later, Yuan Yao and Zheng Bao finally arrived in Haixi.
Yuan Yao brought a thousand men, but only a hundred or so were wearing armor. However, this urgent march was precisely because of the light equipment, so he arrived at Haixi a day or two early.
Yuan Yao couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. After all, it was his first time to lead troops in a war. Although the scouts sent by Zheng Bao reported that Chen Yu's camp was defenseless, Yuan Yao still had no idea.
Yuan Yao vaguely remembered that three or four o'clock in the morning was the time when people were least prepared.
That is to say, the time of the raid was set at five o'clock.
At the fourth watch of the night, Zheng Bao and Qin Yi woke up everyone, started cooking pots and feeding the horses enough fodder.
In the past few days, everyone had only eaten dry food and water, and had not eaten a hot meal. On the eve of the war, they finally had a hot bite.
Yuan Yao didn't expect that his body could quickly adapt to a pure carbohydrate diet in the past few days after eating too much delicacies.
When Zheng Bao saw it, he was surprised and said: "Young Master's body is worth a thousand pieces of gold, and he can share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. He is really a strange person!"
The body's heat was quickly restored, and preparations for the battle were made. Then the horses held the coins and the men held grass, and headed straight for Chen Yu's camp.
When he saw Chen Yu's camp, Yuan Yao immediately gained confidence.
As for the scout yesterday, I must reward him heavily after today's battle!
The report was absolutely correct. Chen Yu's camp couldn't be said to be defenseless, it was almost as if it was undefended.
The gate of the camp was ajar, and from time to time people would come out to urinate in the grass outside the camp.
The layout of the camp was also very chaotic. The tents of the soldiers and the tents of the civilians were mixed in a mess, and the food and grass were piled up at a distance that could be burned by rockets fired from outside.
There were only a few teams of torches patrolling the camp inside and outside the camp, and the lights on the towers keeping watch were better than nothing.
Wait, the defense is so lax, there won't be an ambush, right?
Yuan Yao's mind instantly recalled the countless scenes in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" where he robbed the camp at night but was ambushed.
"Young Master, give the order!"
Qin Yi led the war horse and was eager to try.
He wanted to avenge his shame so much!
Qin Yi didn't believe that any general under Chen Yu could tie with him!
That Wan Yan is definitely no ordinary general!
Yuan Yao looked at Zheng Bao, he was the commander of today's raid.
"What do you think, General Zheng?"
Zheng Bao is bold by nature, but also cautious.
He personally came to investigate in the evening. The village was bustling with people. The sergeants all lived together with their families. It was as lively as a market.
When going in and out of the camp gate, the soldiers coming and going were not in lines or rows, and they were extremely loose.
From last night to now, the scouts have been watching and found nothing unusual.
"Chen Yu's camp is in chaos during the day, but it's normal for the defense to be so lax at night!"
"General, please order us to attack!"
"Okay! This battle depends entirely on you!"
Yuan Yao also put aside his worries and traveled more than five hundred miles. He couldn't come here in vain!
"The general will get the order!"
Zheng Bao learned to use the military speech that Qi Ji had taught him a few days ago, gave Yuan Yao a heavy hand, then turned around and gave orders.
"Take five hundred people and go around to the east to launch an attack. Set off more rockets, beat the drums and shout, and be sure to create some noise!"
"When the time comes, I will attack the camp from the west. General Qin, wait until I break open the camp gate and you can lead your elite cavalry in!"
"Don't fight along the way, just go straight to Chen Yu's main tent. I will clear the obstacles for you!"
After everyone received the order, they immediately executed it.
Yuan Yao secretly praised Zheng Bao in his heart. He was indeed right. This Zheng Boyu was indeed a wise person.
Not only does he know how to attack the east and west, but he also knows how to catch the thief first and catch the king first!
I just don’t know how much his force is worth?
Yuan Yao took Yuan Bao and a group of attendants to watch the battle on a small hill in the south.
Not long after, dozens of rockets were indeed fired from the east side of the camp, piercing the dark sky and hitting the tents in the camp over the fence.
Then the drums sounded, the shouts of killing were loud, and hundreds of infantrymen holding torches rushed forward.
The camp gate to the east was actually ajar. A dozen strong men rushed forward carrying bumping sticks and opened the camp gate effortlessly.
Seeing this, the others didn't bother to use scratching hooks and other objects to destroy the fence, and just rushed into the camp screaming for death.
Chen Yu was sleeping soundly in the main tent at this time, and only heard a burst of noise that disturbed his sweet dream.
He just dreamed that he led his army to counterattack Shouchun, beheaded Yuan Shu's dog, and sent him to the emperor thousands of miles away.
The emperor was about to confer him the title of Taiwei and lead Yangzhou as a herdsman, but he was woken up.
Chen Yu was very angry. He was about to be ranked as one of the three nobles like his father Chen Qiu, and his glory would eclipse the Chen family. Who would dare to ruin my good deeds?
"Who is making noise outside the tent?"
"Have all the people here slept to death? Where are the people?"
After a minute or two, the soldiers outside the tent walked in sleepily, not knowing what had happened.
Chen Yu opened the quilt, stepped on the ground with his bare feet and shouted angrily: "What kind of blind thing got up in the middle of the night and peed on other people's heads?"
"Or who stole someone else's wife in the camp again, and someone else found out?"
Chen Yu thought of many possibilities in an instant, but he did not think about someone hijacking the camp.
"Catch the troublemakers, give them thirty lashes, and hang them on the camp gate for public display!"
The soldier got the order and was about to go out, when he turned around and was knocked to the ground by someone.
"Chen Mu, why did you come in?"
"As a general who is commanding an army, he is in such a panic and his clothes and armor are disheveled, how unbecoming he is!"
The person who came in was Chen Mu, a member of the Chen Yu tribe and his first general.
Chen Mu was wearing the armor backwards at this time, but he didn't notice. Still trying to make the awkward armor look more comfortable.
"Oh no, my lord, Yuan's army has robbed the camp! They have already entered from the east!"
Only then did Chen Yu vaguely hear the shouts of "Kill!" and "Capture Chen Yu alive!" from the noise coming from outside the tent.
Suddenly his sleepiness disappeared.
"Yuan Jun? Where did Yuan Jun come from? Why are Yuan Shu's men here?"
"The last general didn't know, but a soldier reported that he saw someone coming to rob the camp, and they used the 'Yuan' flag."
"Do you know how many people robbed the camp?"
Seeing Chen Mu shake his head, Chen Yu was furious: "Then why are you here if you don't go to defend yourself against the enemy?"
Chen Mu just woke up from a dream, as if he had just understood what his responsibilities were.
When Chen Mu went out, Chen Yu walked around barefoot a few times.
"Quickly lead my horse and change my clothes!"
The soldiers were busy and busy.
"Who asked you to put on my helmet and armor? Do you want me to go into battle to fight Yuan Shu's army?"
"What a bunch of stupid pigs! Get me some normal clothes!"
