Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 257 Besieged on all sides, Cai Mao is destroyed

In the evening, the end of the day turns into the beginning of the day, the clouds are dark and the sun is dim, and the rain that has been raining for many days has stopped yesterday, but the sky is still gray. Today, a few long-lost sunsets are slanting, through the thick dark clouds, Reflected on the rain-soaked land.

Lanxi Guanyu Camp, which is five or six miles away from Yiyang, seemed to wake up suddenly from the dead silence.

With the sound of the ping-pong war drums and horns, groups of soldiers emerged from behind the crenels of the rammed-earth wall in several camps with horns.

With the stringed bow and knife out of its sheath, there were the clattering and crashing sounds of armored leaves, anxious and angry urging sounds, neat shouts, short and hasty orders and sharp police whistles everywhere.

The gate of the camp opened with a bang, and groups of soldiers rushed out.In the chaos, a large number of small boats docked on the Lanxi River in the north, and groups of soldiers disembarked from the boats. Both sides surrounded Cai Mao's army from the west and north at the same time.

Cai Hao's army obviously did not expect a large number of enemies to surround them suddenly. Seeing this scene, the soldiers were shaken one after another, looking nervously at the menacing enemy army, retreating step by step in fear, and at the same time very dazed Waiting around, anxiously waiting for the order from the superior.

"What's going on, why so many enemies suddenly came?"

"What should I do, I don't want to die yet."

"Calm down, all calm down!"

The soldiers talked a lot, and the officers hurriedly kept them calm and quiet.

At this moment, Cai Mao in the rear also panicked, and shouted: "How could this happen, where did this army come from?"

"It's Liu Bei, it's Liu Bei's army!"

Hu Zheng looked far away, and he vaguely saw the banners of "Liu", "Zhao", and "Taishi" scattered among the troops rushing by the Lanxi River.

"Liu Bei, how could he appear here? Where did he get the ship from?"

Cai Mao turned pale with shock.

Cai Du hurriedly said: "Uncle, don't think about these things now, think about whether to fight or retreat."

"Retreat? Yes, retreat!"

Cai Mao quickly said, "Hurry up, let's retreat to the east, there are boats by the river."

"I can't withdraw."

Hu Zheng persuaded: "Duke Ming, if we retreat directly, the soldiers may be defeated. Now line up, and only by repelling them can we retreat calmly."

"Yes, Uncle, what Duke Yuheng said is very reasonable."

Cai Du also said: "Right now, Guan Yu's army is nearby. Although Liu Bei's army is some distance away, they are coming soon. If we withdraw directly, we will be defeated. We must line up our army and fight back first."

Cai Mao thought about it, and ordered: "Command the soldiers to form an array to meet the enemy."

"The Taiwei has an order, line up to meet the enemy!"

"The Taiwei has an order, line up to meet the enemy!"

"The Taiwei has an order, line up to meet the enemy!"

On the two-mile-long Jingzhou Army defense line, the messengers galloped to spread the news, and the officers at all levels immediately urged the soldiers to re-stabilize the front and prepare to fight the enemy.

Rows of swords and shields lined up at the front of the line, spears were erected, and the archers behind were solemnly waiting for the command of the general to release arrows.

At this moment, Guan Yu's army had also formed an array outside the camp, and the spear and shield fighters formed a formation and slowly marched forward.

The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, and the two armies are less than a hundred steps away.

"The enemy advances a hundred steps!"

"The enemy has advanced eighty steps!"

"The enemy has advanced sixty steps!"

"Fire arrows!"

When the distance between the two sides reached the most suitable position for the bow and arrow, both sides almost gave an order.

The overwhelming rain of arrows took the lead, and the dense arrows seemed to cover the sky, and the whole sky seemed to be darkened.

Immediately afterwards there was a clanging sound, some arrows collided in the air, some fell into the crowd, and most of them fell on the ground and shot into the soil.

Then came the second wave of arrow rain, and the third wave of arrow rain.Except for the arrows that landed on the shields, many people were shot into the flesh by the arrows, and fell to the ground with a puff, but in this kind of battle, it seemed that they had become silent.

"Kill!"

"rush!"

"Surrender to avoid death!"

"Don't be stubborn!"

"The Jingzhou army will not fight the Jingzhou army."

"After surrendering, follow us to assist the eldest son!"

The same words sounded again, and after resisting three waves of arrow rain, the two sides finally fought together.

The sword-shield fighters in the front row collided with the gun-shield fighters, like two torrents squeezing each other. The battlefield was instantly turned upside down, and soldiers fell everywhere and died in the crowd.

Tens of thousands of people crowding together is a terrible thing in itself. At this time, people are no longer people, but one by one, they have become canned sardines, squeezed, trampled to death, hit, and even cold. Weapons are no longer the main tool for killing enemies.

And the north side of the battlefield soon reached this point. Liu Bei's 2-strong army rushed over in an instant. The dense crowd was surging, and the soldiers charged against the rain of arrows. The sound of shouting, echoing, weapon blocking, and howling and humming almost never stopped.

I don't know how long it took, but Cai Mao's army finally collapsed. As a gap in the northeast corner was opened, a steady stream of Liu Bei's army poured in, and then the soldiers in the rear began to retreat instinctively, retreating and retreating. Then it turned into a big rout crying for father and mother, and the entire army formation was broken up.

They are in chaos here, and they have implicated the large formation.Of course, the formation of troops is not as simple as everyone crowding together, but divided into several large and small phalanxes. Guan Yujun and Liu Beijun have already inserted into the phalanxes, but these small phalanxes have not been formed in a short period of time. It's broken.

But now as the first phalanx at the front collapsed, the soldiers instinctively rolled back and ran backwards, and the soldiers behind saw the soldiers in front fleeing backwards, and they also retreated instinctively, just like when a snow mountain collapses, Not a single snowflake is spared.

"Run."

"The front collapsed."

"Let's get out."

"Surrender, we surrender!"

"Don't retreat, quickly regroup."

"The one who retreats will be cut."

"Woooooo, help, don't leave me behind."

There was a mess of shouts all around, and everyone panicked in the chaos, like ants who had lost their direction, scurrying around on a hot pot.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will see that the entire Cai Mao army looks like a mountain collapsed. The various phalanxes that were originally arranged have disintegrated and turned into dense crowds, fleeing towards the east and south.

There were fleeing soldiers everywhere in the wilderness, and one of the phalanxes in the back row was the phalanx of the general Zhao Sheng. At this moment, Zhao Sheng was restraining the soldiers, ordering the soldiers not to mess up and continue to fight.

Zhao Sheng's lieutenant general is Wang Jie at the moment. Ever since Cai Mao suspected that he was secretly colluding with his brother-in-law Tian Mai, Wang Jie was very aggrieved. Hearing the cries of loyalty to the eldest son Liu Qi coming from all around, it was like a song of embarrassment. The morale of the army.

Most of the sources of the Jingzhou Army were not Jingzhou people, but more than half of them came from Nanyang Yellow Turban and Guanzhong Yuzhou refugees. Thanks to Liu Biao's shelter, they were able to survive by dividing the land.

Therefore, just like Liu Yan's Dongzhou soldiers, these soldiers are all loyal to Liu Biao, and because of their gratitude to Liu Biao, their loyalty is very high, so they can continue to serve Liu Cong.

But this time the battle is not foreign enemies, but Liu Qi, who is also the heir of Liu Biao.The loyalty of the Jingzhou Army to Liu Biao actually extended to Liu Qi as well.

So in this civil war, their morale was not very high.

Right now, Liu Beijun's slogan is to let them surrender and fight for Liu Qi, and assist Liu Qi to regain the Lord of Jingzhou, so many soldiers of the Jingzhou Army knelt down and surrendered immediately.

However, Zhao Sheng was Cai Mao's confidant, so he did not submit, but organized the soldiers to resist.

Wang Jie had long been dissatisfied with Cai Mao's suspicion of him, so he said to Zhao Sheng beside him: "General Zhao, now that the situation is over, it's better to make plans early."

Zhao Sheng drew his sword furiously and said, "Sure enough, you guys have secretly informed Tian Mai long ago, for your internal response, watch me kill you!"

"You dare!"

Wang Jie was also furious, and he drew his sword to confront him.

Zhao Sheng came first with a knife, but was avoided by Wang Jie, and the two quickly fought together, fighting each other several times, and finally several soldiers rushed up and chopped Zhao Sheng to pieces.

It turned out that these soldiers also had the idea of ​​surrendering, but Zhao Sheng kept ordering them to resist, so they were worried and uneasy.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng was fighting with Wang Jie, and several courageous soldiers came up to help and killed Zhao Sheng.

As soon as Zhao Sheng died, Wang Jie became the chief general of the army, and immediately ordered: "We joined the army to repay the late emperor's kindness, helping the second prince is helping, and helping the eldest prince is also helping. Now that the general situation is over, why not vote for the eldest prince and kill him?" Entering Xiangyang to replace the eldest prince?"

"Go to Xiangyang and reset the eldest prince!"

All of a sudden these soldiers shouted, raised their weapons and surrendered to Liu Beijun who was rushing towards him.

The soldiers who surrendered before were only scattered here and there, but there were hundreds of them. Wang Jie's phalanx consisted of more than 4000 soldiers, and it suddenly became the first large army to surrender.The result was that like dominoes, a large number of soldiers surrendered.

Half of Cai Mao's more than [-] troops surrendered directly to the enemy on the battlefield, and the remaining half scattered like birds and beasts, fleeing in a panic to the east and south.

And at this time, hundreds of large ships from their east rushed forward.

That's Jiang Xia Navy.

Cai Mao deployed soldiers and horses in Nan'an and Hongkou, thinking that there would be no danger, but Liu Bei's army arrived and directly defeated the defenders in Nan'an and Hongkou.

Liu Bei also sent Zhang Fei north to contain Zhang Yun who was at Jingling. The Jiangxia navy divided 3 troops, of which 2 were led by Huang Zu to harass Jingling, and the other 1 were led by Shen Chen to cooperate with Liu Pan. They attacked Hongkou together.

Han Xi in Hongkou had only 1 horses, and was defeated by Shen Chen and Liu Pan. After Han Xi was defeated, most of the soldiers surrendered, while Liu Pan stayed at Hongkou, and Shen Chen went south to Yiyang by boat.

At that time, Yiyang was not far from Dongting Lake. To the north and east of Yiyang was Dongting Lake, which was connected to Zishui, so ships could almost sail all the way to the outside of Yiyang City.

When they disembarked, Liu Bei and Guan Yu had already defeated Cai Mao's army, and there were fleeing Jingzhou soldiers everywhere in the wilderness. Seeing this, Shen Chen immediately said to the left and right Zhang Nan, Qu Gan and other generals: "Cai Mao has collapsed and made great achievements. Just today, follow me to kill!"

"only!"

The soldiers immediately charged towards the Jingzhou army in the distance.

There were horses on board, and the generals got on their horses one after another, and rushed towards that side, Shen Chen was no exception, galloping their horses.

Originally, Cai Maojun ran east because he thought that there were their ships in the east, so they could leave by boat.

Seeing Jiang Xia's navy approaching again at this moment, he was so frightened that he fled to the south in a hurry.

"Don't run away, Nanyang has already been acquired by us."

"Jingzhou is about to change, the eldest prince wants to regain his foundation!"

"Those who surrender will not die, follow us to the eldest prince!"

There was a constant cry.

Many people in the fleeing crowd heard these shouts and stopped to watch one by one.

To the east of Lanxi is Qingcao Lake, also known as Nanhuzhou, because there is a branch of the water flowing into it, which divides the lake into an island.

At that time, Cai Maojun's ship was parked at the shore of Nanhuzhou, and the place where Shen Chenjun disembarked was also here.

They just stopped Cai Mao's army of several thousand.

Hearing Shen Chenjun's shout, Cai Maojun's soldiers were all startled, and someone asked, "Has Nanyang really been occupied by them?"

"Our family members are all in Nanyang, I'm afraid we can't continue to fight with them."

"If you surrender to avoid death, it seems that there is only one way to surrender."

"Anyway, whether you follow the second prince or the eldest prince, it's all for the late emperor, so why not just surrender."

"Yeah, let's vote."

"We are willing to surrender, please don't kill us!"

For a while, Cai Mao's army lost their minds, and they all dropped their weapons and chose to surrender on their knees.

Wherever Shen Chenjun passed, a large area fell to his knees.

"Collect these pawns."

"Let them line up in an orderly manner."

"Don't panic, treat them like our own soldiers."

Order after order to arrange.

The Jiangxia navy began to accept these scattered soldiers in an orderly manner.

At this moment, Qu Gan said to Shen Chen: "General, there are still a large number of soldiers fleeing to the south."

"Follow me!"

Shen Chen said: "Send someone to watch over these soldiers, and the rest will follow me."

Said to lead thousands of soldiers to chase south.

This area is full of dense jungle and waist-high aquatic plants, and in the distance, we can only vaguely see many soldiers of Cai Mao fleeing.

And Liu Bei's army and Guan Yu's army in the west also joined together, gathered the soldiers who had surrendered on the battlefield at that time, and then sent troops to pursue them.

The south of Nanhuzhou is also full of swamps, and there are many lakes. It is connected to Dongting Lake, which is a vast water area. For example, in the area of ​​later generations, there are large and small lakes such as Baiping Lake, Gaowan Lake, Yaojia Lake and Donglanni Lake. , At this time, it is even more of a country, and even the horses can hardly run.

When Shen Chen's army passed by, he saw a large number of Jingzhou soldiers trapped in the quagmire, walking southwest with difficulty.Qu Gan watched from a distance, pointed in one direction and said: "Look, General, there is a fine horse over there, it must be someone important."

Shen Chen looked over, and saw a strong man riding a black BMW fleeing southward in the middle of the swamp in the distance. Although the swamp was difficult to navigate, the black BMW was still quite spiritual, leading the strong man to avoid the mud, Keep jumping.

"Good horse!"

Shen Chen was full of praise after seeing it, and said to the left and right: "Chasing after it."

"only!"

The soldiers chased into the lakes and swamps one after another.

Seeing the pursuers coming, those Jingzhou soldiers had no choice but to surrender.

Seeing the pursuers approaching from behind, the strong man hurriedly urged the BMW to gallop.

But the problem is that there are lakes and swamps around, and if you are not careful, you may fall into the swamp mud.

So how to get faster?

The brawny man slapped the horse's hip desperately, and the BMW suffered from pain, but accidentally stepped on the ground and stepped into the mud.

The war horse screamed for a while, but it was stuck in the mud, and its hoof could not be pulled out at all.

Seeing this, the strong man quickly got off his horse, abandoned his BMW and ran south.

As a result, he didn't run very far and was also trapped by mud.

Shen Chen's army chased after him from behind, Shen Chen first sent people to rescue the war horse, and then arrived in front of the strong man about a few feet away.

Seeing someone coming, the strong man hurriedly called for help, "Quick, save me quickly."

"Who are you?"

Shen Chen asked.

"I am General Xing Daorong of Lingling!"

Xing Daorong shouted loudly.

"Hahaha."

Shen Chen smiled and said, "Surrender or not?"

"Willing to surrender!"

Xing Daorong sank half of his body, tears were about to fall.

"You have a nice knife."

Shen Chen suddenly noticed the gallbladder knife in Xing Daorong's hand, and his eyes lit up.

Xing Daorong was also witty, he threw the knife over and said, "I would like to dedicate it to the general."

"Your war horse is also good."

Shen Chen picked up the knife, flicked the blade lightly, and couldn't help being amazed.

"I am also willing to dedicate it to the general."

Xing Daorong showed a smile uglier than crying: "General, save the villain."

"You gave it to me voluntarily, I didn't force you."

Shen Chen waved his hand and said to the soldiers beside him, "Pull him up."

"only!"

The soldiers went up and threw the rope.

Xing Daorong hurriedly grabbed the life-saving straw, but was dragged out by the soldiers.

Soon there will be a large area of ​​surrenderers around. There are many grasslands, swamps and lakes. Once people step into it, they may be trapped.

Therefore, Shen Chen also immediately ordered the soldiers to grope carefully, escort the prisoners, and quickly withdraw to the safe zone.

And the Yuluo horse took a lot of effort to pull him out. It was also lucky that there was dry land around. The soldiers spread planks on the swamp, and then approached and trapped the rope in the horse's belly. More than 30 It took people to pull it out.

When the sky gradually darkened, almost all Cai Mao's troops surrendered.And Cai Mao himself was captured by Liu Bei's general Tai Shici, and this battle directly wiped out half of the Jingzhou Army.

The remaining half were also uncomfortable. The reinforcements sent by Zhang Yun were surrounded by soldiers sent by Huang Zhong and Liu Bei that day, and finally chose to surrender.

The crisis in Yiyang was lifted, and the entire south of Jing, including Jiangling and Huarong in the south of Nanjun, was also occupied by Liu Bei.

On the second day, Zhang Yun hurriedly withdrew from Jingling to Yicheng.

Since then, the situation in Jingzhou has become clear instantly.

In addition to the more than 3 defenders in Xiangyang, there are only more than [-] troops under Zhang Yun's command, and Wenpin, who is relatively neutral.

Most of the rest surrendered to Liu Bei, and Liu Qi also arrived in Baqiu from Zhouling, preparing to officially go north to surround Xiangyang!
　Bad news, I don’t know if it’s Fuyang or something, I had a fever yesterday, I was dizzy, I woke up at 10 am this morning, and then I ate something, and fell asleep again, I slept until 5 pm, covered in cold sweat, After taking a pill of ibuprofen and getting better, I continued to edit the text. My physical condition is not very good. I am afraid of white lung, which is really uncomfortable.

　　
　
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