In Anfeng County, Cao Jun's soldiers put their swords and guns aside and rested in groups in front of and behind their houses.
The journey from Xuchang to Anfeng County was a turbulent one, and today they were ambushed by the Liu family in the valley and outside the city, causing them to be highly nervous. At this moment, they were all exhausted.
With the sun going down, we finally had a bite of hot rice, and the soldiers devoured it one by one.
After a while, the well-fed soldiers returned to the front and back of the house, feeling very relaxed.
The night was shrouded, and outside the city, Liu Bei and a group of crossbowmen slowly approached Anfeng City.
At the bottom of the city, a sergeant opened the lid of the tung oil jar and poured it along the military formation.
Then the two pieces of flint were constantly struck against each other, and soon a tongue of fire sprang up. The crossbowmen put their bows and arrows on the fire, ignited the tinder on the arrows, and shot them into the city one after another.
In fact, the arrows of the crossbowmen could not normally reach the city gate. However, during the period when Yuan Shu was in power, Anfeng had gone through several wars, and the eaves were broken. The city walls were destroyed in many places. The lowest part was less than three feet high, so it could not stop them at all. Live Rocket.
Such rockets were not only fired by Liu Bei, but Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Mi Zhu each led a team of people to release arrows at the four gates.
After the rockets flew into the city, many of them landed on dilapidated houses. The eaves and roofs of these houses had been filled with saltpeter, charcoal and sulfur by Liu Beijun in advance. After encountering the rockets, they spread rapidly.
"General, someone shot a rocket outside the city. Fire starters should have been buried in those houses. Now all four doors are on fire!"
After all, Anfeng County is the county seat. In its glory days, more than 100,000 people lived here. Of course, Liu Bei could not burn down a city of this size with just a few rockets.
Therefore, when the sergeant ran to Xiahou Dun to report, the fire had just started.
However, in this era, private houses were built next to each other, and if they were ignored, they would spread in sooner or later.
Xiahou Dun looked around and finally realized that Liu Bei's pretense of stalling for time during the day was actually to trick him into coming to Anfeng City.
The intentions are vicious.
It's a pity, I have brains, but not much.
This fire alone can burn down the entire city.
Xiahou Dun immediately summoned his soldiers to evacuate. In order to prevent crowding due to the large number of people when escaping, he divided his troops into two groups, and he and Cao Chun each took one person.
"General, what should I do with the food, grass and baggage?" It's not that Cai Yang is brainless, but food and grass are the lifeblood of an army. If they are lost, it will be good if they can find a large force to join together. If they can't find them, they will probably be entangled by the opponent and starve to death. On the battlefield.
"Don't worry about so much anymore, just rush out of the city and meet up with Sikong!" Xiahou Dun gave the order immediately.
Then the evacuation began.
The first half was okay, but there was a pungent smell that could be smelled from a distance. By the time they reached the outer city, it was already a sea of fire. They ran through the streets between the houses on both sides.
A strange scene appeared. A gust of wind blew and a group of people fell down.
"No! Poisonous fog!" Xiahou Dun immediately knew something was wrong. Liu Bei must have mixed poison into the fire starter. No wonder the smell just now was so pungent.
He took the lead, covered his mouth and nose, and galloped out.
The soldiers behind him followed suit, but many people still fell on the way to escape.
Even the most elite tiger and leopard cavalry could not escape the disaster.
When they rushed to the city gate, their number was reduced by nearly half. What made Xiahou Dun heartbroken was that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had lost one-third.
Damn the big-eared thief, it turns out that his real purpose was not to burn the city, but to force us to stun everyone with poisonous mist when we left the city. Those who fell in the city could only die in the flames.
Looking back at the indifferent sergeant who was burnt to charcoal and the horses bumping around in the sea of fire, Xiahou Dun felt a sense of humiliation.
As a distinguished member of the Cao family's army, the existence of the vanguard Dagu was actually forced into such a situation by Liu Bei, who was at the end of his rope.
What a shame, what a shame!
"Fire the arrow! Fire the arrow quickly!"
Whoosh whoosh~
Before Xiahou Dun could finish cursing Liu Bei in his heart, a hail of arrows hit him. The sergeant at the front fell to the ground, and even his own mount was shot over.
"Shield soldiers, form up!"
Xiahou Dun hurriedly stood up, grabbed his spear and shouted loudly. Now it was no longer a matter of humiliation, but whether he could rush out alive.
Although they were all elites, they were already exhausted and were attacked by fire and poison. Now they faced the Liu family blocking the only exit, so their military morale was inevitably shaken.
Defeating more with less, defeating the stronger with the weak, has always been a model worthy of being remembered and famous since ancient times. As a general in charge of the army, everyone hopes that such a day will come.
The same goes for Xiahou Dun.
I just didn't expect that when such a day comes, I will become a negative example.
"Brothers, there is no way out behind us. The fish is dead and the net is broken. Fight with me out!"
His grief and anger reached the extreme, and Xiahou Dun no longer cared about preserving his vitality or being a famous teacher or general. Survival was the wisest choice.
He picked up a shield with his left hand and held it in front of him. He held a spear tightly in his right hand and rushed out desperately while shouting the name "Xiahou Yuanrang".
At this moment, the will to survive in a desperate situation and the general's fearlessness of death made their blood boil. They screamed from the depths of their hearts and quickly followed Xiahou Dun's footsteps.
The dense rain of arrows hit the shield, making a muffled sound, and the crossbowmen behind him were also fighting back hard.
Finally, they fought their way out and joined the crossbowmen, but they were greeted by the cavalry led by Zhang Fei.
"Tiger and Leopard Riding!!!"
Amidst Xiahou Dun's roar, the tiger and leopard cavalry galloped out. Facing Zhang Fei who was ambushing outside, they were not afraid. They divided their troops with a tacit understanding. Some of them chased and killed the crossbowmen, and some of them entangled with the cavalry led by Zhang Fei at the cost of their lives. Buy time for Xiahou Dun to escape with his infantry.
Seeing the fishes in the net escaping, Zhang Fei screamed angrily and stabbed them out with his eight-foot-long snake spear.
The fierce force easily penetrated the body of a tiger and leopard rider. The victim was drooling with blood, but he held on to the spear and did not let go. The two cavalrymen on the left and right took advantage of the situation and stabbed their spears at Zhang Fei.
With his astonishing strength, Zhang Fei lifted up the cavalryman and threw him to the side. He knocked over another cavalryman before he reluctantly retracted his spear to block.
The gap opened by the fearless Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will be filled immediately.
Even a fierce general like Zhang Fei could not break through the siege of the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry for a while.
Even with ten thousand enemies like this, not to mention the cavalry who were accompanying them, they were clearly here to ambush, but they were smashed to pieces by the tiger and leopard cavalry rushing out of the sea of fire, and there was no way they could form an effective attack.
It wasn't until their own infantry had completely moved away that they quickly broke away from contact and quickly left Anfeng County with the high mobility of their war horses.
Zhang Fei looked around and saw that there were not many crossbowmen standing, and more than a hundred cavalry were lost.
Damn it, Zhang Feihuan's eyes widened and his hair was tingling with anger.
After a rough count, only more than a hundred tiger and leopard riders were killed. It sounds like a one-for-one ratio, but they came to ambush. They were after the opponent encountered fire attacks, poison attacks, and arrow rain. The hand he just moved turned out to be only a 50-50 shot, which is really unacceptable.
If the fire in the city hadn't startled their mounts, Zhang Fei really didn't doubt that the other side would have eaten all the people he brought.
Zhang Fei spat unwillingly. In any case, he had completed the task after all. He just thought that if we meet again on the battlefield, he would really feel cold for his brothers.
When Zhang Fei led his men to find Liu Bei, Guan Yu was holding Cai Yang's head and threw it over, "Let Cao Chun run away. The cavalry he brought are not simple. Not only are they highly skilled in martial arts, but they also fight to the death. We two Every time he rushed towards Cao Chun, he was blocked by them."
"No, I almost fell into their trap." Zhang Fei was convinced.
The two were discussing that the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry seemed to be stronger than Dong Zhuo's Flying Bear Army that they had seen at Hulao Pass. They overwhelmed Lu Bu's Bingzhou Cavalry, but Liu Bei was distracted and looked straight to the east with his eyes. There's something hollow about it, too.
"Brother, what's wrong?"
Guan Yu's words brought Liu Bei back to his senses, and he sighed deeply, "I never expected that this person in Pengcheng could enable us to defeat Cao Jun's most elite vanguard with a weak army, and strategize to win a thousand-mile victory." It’s nothing more than that.”
After sighing with emotion, Liu Bei felt depressed in his heart, as if he was holding back a breath, forcing him to shout out: "He is really a genius, a genius!".
Regarding Lin Mo's deeds, I heard Cao Cao talk about it in Xuchang. At that time, I admired him very much. After all, I had not seen it with my own eyes, it was just a kind of admiration.
But now, with his cleverness, he was able to defeat Xiahou Dun's troops head-on. The impact of being in it and directly benefiting from it made him feel a storm in his heart, and it was difficult to calm down.
With such an evil young man as his assistant, is it any wonder that Lu Bu conquered two states and easily conquered three counties?
Therefore, Zhang Liao could only send a bunch of military supplies and leave with peace of mind. With this one person, he can stop an army of 100,000 people.
But
But
Why did such a genius become Lu Bu's son-in-law!
The great thief in the Yellow Turban Rebellion only got a county magistrate, but he didn't complain; Lu Bu attacked his Xuzhou and made himself homeless, but he didn't complain; Cao Cao was obviously a national traitor but commanded him with the title of pillar of the imperial court, and he didn't complain either.
But today, I feel unwilling for no reason.
If such a genius had assisted me, why would he be in such a mess today?
"Brother."
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stood beside Liu Bei, but they didn't know how to comfort him.
They all understood that Liu Bei's cry was a sense of powerlessness about the future.
After all, Lin Mo is Lu Bu's son-in-law, and today's suggestion may very well be the only time he comes to help, so An Rong will not regret it.
After a long time, Liu Bei waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Follow Yunwen's instructions, retreat to Ankou County, which is forty miles away."
Yunwen?
The two brothers looked at each other, and from the change in Liu Bei's title, they both could hear the elusiveness.
Yes, who wouldn’t want such a person?
For a long time in the past, they were more willing to believe that Lin Mo was just a myth. Today, their gains and their level-crushing victory all confirmed a fact.
Lin Mo, who was not a myth, just stood in the crowd, glowing and hot, so dazzling.
Although we have never met before, it seems like we are seeing each other again after a long absence.
Unfortunately, his light, his heat and his stories only belong to Lu Bu and not to our three brothers.
(End of chapter)
