Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 494 Cao Rui blocked Shen Chen
In the early morning of the next day, the Han army ran wildly all night, and everyone was exhausted to death.

Where is Wushejin Ferry?

In the north of Gongyi City in later generations, it is [-] to [-] kilometers away from Luoyang, which is a very long distance.

The soldiers rushed from the afternoon and arrived almost at dawn the next day.

The waves of the Yellow River are rolling, and the embankment along the south bank is a piece of rammed earth. There is a wide official road on the bank, which is now covered with weeds.

There are wild hillsides further south, and the forests are relatively sparse, only some wild grasses, basil, swaying gently in the wind.

Compared with the upper reaches, soil erosion in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River is more serious. After all, after passing Sanmenxia City, it is Luoyang and the prosperous Henan and Hebei. The forests on both sides of the river have been almost completely cut down.

Therefore, the flooding of the Yellow River in the Han Dynasty occurred in the middle and lower reaches of the region. Today's embankments are left by Wang Jing, a water conservancy expert in the Eastern Han Dynasty, who governed the Yellow River and have held the Yellow River for 800 years.

Shen Chen reined in his horse and stopped on a small hill overlooking the direction of the ferry to the north. The Wushejin ferry was just a small ferry. There were some boats moored at the ferry, and there were pavilions and sheds. A few fishermen could be vaguely seen on the river. While resting.

Fishermen rely on the Yellow River for food, but they will not go to Yecheng with Cao Rui.Fishing on weekdays, when meeting guests who want to cross the river, they can earn some money for crossing the river. There are countless such fishermen along the Yellow River at various ferry crossings.

Although some figures could be seen, Shen Chen did not see any trace of Cao Rui. He turned his head and saw the exhausted soldiers of the Han army, so he ordered the soldiers to rest on the spot, and he and Deng Ai, Jiang Wei and several escorts down the hill and head for the ferry.

Soon when they came to the ferry, the fishermen on the shore saw a few people who looked like generals and officers approaching from a distance, and they were very nervous. These days there are countless soldiers and bandits, and everyone they meet is a gentleman, and they can't afford to provoke them, so they feel restless for a while. .

But no one dared to escape. If the other party had no malicious intentions, you would offend the other party if you ran away. The fishermen had to rely on the ferry to earn money, which annoyed the military master. Even if you can escape to the river, you must go to the shore.

So even though they were all scared, they all stood there and waited.

After a while, Shen Chen came to the front, got off the horse, patted the wind and dust on the cloak, stepped forward and said, "Is the store at the ferry here?"

A middle-aged man in his 40s with a hunched body came out of the shed, and said with a flattering smile, "Are you tired, generals?"

After Shen Chen glanced, a famous knight understood, and he took out a little piece of silver from his waist and handed it to him.

The Han army paid for the army, which included five baht coins rebuilt by the great Han in the south, gold and silver collected from Zhuti County and Yongjia County, and Shu brocade produced in Shu County. Baht money is even more precious.

However, the postal system was almost destroyed after the end of the Han Dynasty. Although the Southern Great Han Dynasty had rebuilt the postal system, the system network only included Yizhou, Jingzhou, and Yangzhou. Send express.

Therefore, soldiers in that era would hide their money in the corners of their clothes and sew it up. If they died in battle, they would either rummage through the nameplate when they won the battle and collect their corpses, and their fellow countrymen would bring them back to him in the future, or they would be killed if they lost the battle. Enemy searched.

Shen Chen took the broken silver, walked to the shed and sat down by the table, put the broken silver on the table, and said: "I'm a little tired, but I still have a military order, so it's inconvenient to eat and drink, I just want to ask Shopkeeper, have there been any soldiers from the brigade in the past two days?"

The middle-aged man glanced at the broken silver, nodded and said, "Someone came here."

"Where did you go?"

"Going to the east, they are all riding tall horses."

"What's to the east?"

"That place is famous, Chenggao County, Hulao Pass, the place where the eighteenth princes came here."

"It is indeed famous. Apart from our Wushejin ferry, are there other ferries over there?"

"Yes, Fantingdu and Hutingdu are in Juan County, Xingyang, about 100 miles away from us."

"Are those big ferry crossings? How many people can pass?"

"They are all small ferries. The big ferries on our Henan side are only Mengjindu, Pingjindu, Yanjindu, and Baimadu. In other places, dozens or even hundreds of people can pass. It is not a few thousand. Tens of thousands of people."

"How many are they?"

"I don't know, I'm afraid there are thousands of people, all wearing black armor. They are the black armored cavalry of the Great Wei."

"you recognize?"

Shen Chen was quite surprised. Cao Wei's black armored cavalry were all elites. Although these elites had killed many of them themselves, ordinary people at the bottom might not recognize them.

The middle-aged man smiled and said: "We do business at this ferry, and we receive many guests from south and north, so naturally we see more."

"Yes, thank you shopkeeper."

Shen Chen stood up, left the broken silver on the table, and went straight out of the shed.

He was actually tired, sleepy, thirsty, and hungry at this time, but he didn't eat and drink here because he couldn't.

Now the soldiers are all drinking water from the kettle and eating the dry food in the dry food bag behind the hillside. He drinks and eats meat here. What do more than 1 soldiers think?
Therefore, sharing weal and woe is one of the most important rules of generals. Don't treat them differently from soldiers, which is the basic quality of generals.

Soon after he returned to the army, looking at the soldiers who were already lying on their backs, Shen Chen didn't ask them to get up and continue chasing immediately, but discussed with Deng Ai and Jiang Wei.

He squatted on a small hill overlooking the east, and said to Deng Ai and Jiang Wei: "Cao Rui came to chase after Hu Chuquan. After all, we got the news a day late. Now he should have gone east and prepared to return to Yecheng. We They are infantry, they are cavalry, and they may not be able to catch up."

Deng Ai said: "Governor, Cao Rui may not be willing to let Hu Chuquan run away like this. In the end, I suspect that he may still be patrolling at various ferry crossings, or cross the Yellow River, and search around Hanoi County. Maybe there is still hope. .”

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "The nearest ferry to the east is Fanting Ferry, both of which are small ferries. Cao Rui has thousands of cavalry guards around him. If he wants to cross the river, he will probably take the Yanjin Ferry in the north of Yuanwu. If he doesn't cross the river, he should still go Patrolling by the Yellow River, we can indeed try to chase it."

"But now the soldiers have marched all night, and they are exhausted, so I'm afraid they won't be able to pursue them anymore."

Jiang Wei worried.

In such a tired and sleepy situation, if you forcefully chase, even if you catch up with the Han army, how much combat capability will you still have?I'm afraid Cao Jun will be defeated if he charges the Han army even a little bit, and the gain outweighs the gain for Cao Rui.

Shen Chen thought for a while and said: "Let the soldiers rest and sleep for four hours. After that, the soldiers will divide into two groups, follow me eastward all the way, and cross the river north all the way to Hanoi County."

"only!"

The two surrendered.

This is the best way, because I don't know the specific movements of Cao Rui, so I have to act on both sides to be safe.

At present, the Han army rested in the wild at Wushejin Ferry for a whole morning.

In the afternoon, Shen Chen led 6000 people to continue chasing eastward. The stamina of horses is indeed not as good as that of humans, but their explosive power is much stronger than that of humans. Everyone has iron feet.

And Deng Ai and Jiang Wei took 9000 people back west to Pingjin Ferry to find a boat to Hanoi County. After arriving in Hanoi County, Deng Ai and Jiang Wei divided their troops again, and Jiang Wei led 4000 people to Jiguan.

Deng Ai continued to search eastward.

Now Pound has killed outside Jiguan, and there are more than 1 people on his side. Jiang Wei can completely attack Cao Wei's defenders at Jiguan with him, and let Pound in first.

However, Shen Chen and Deng Ai's pursuit of Cao Rui was not smooth. Cao Rui sent people to search for Huchuquan.

From time to time, the two would encounter small groups of Cao Jun's troops, and Cao Jun would run away when he saw them. Although they caught a lot of Cao Jun's tongues, they didn't know where Cao Rui was, which wasted time in vain.

In this way, on June [-]th, at three o'clock in the morning, at the Yanjin Ferry in the north of Yuanwu County, Cao Rui wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked around at the surging Yellow River in the north, and licked his pale lips. Left and right said: "I haven't found any trace of Huchuquan anywhere, could it be that this guy has disappeared?"

The valet said: "Your Majesty, maybe this person found a small boat and crossed the big river without passing through the ferry. I'm afraid it's too late to chase him now."

Cao Rui took the water bottle handed by the guard, poured himself a sip and said viciously: "It is not a pity for this guy to die, I am afraid that he will spoil my good deeds. If Shen Chen can be wiped out in this battle, Great Wei will have no worries. If so Liao went to inform, this is a disaster."

"Report!"

At this moment, several cavalry galloped over and reported to Cao Rui: "Your Majesty, thousands of Han troops have appeared in the direction of Chenggao in the west."

"Where did the Han army come from?"

Cao Rui instinctively said something, but then he came to his senses and said, "It is estimated that Shen Chen sent from Yuban Road to pretend to attack Luoyang's army. Damn it, at this time, I mobilized Luoyang's army to search for Huchuquan."

Because Yuban Road is too far away, at first Cao Rui only heard that Shen Chen's main force went to Bingzhou from Qinshui, and that a partial division attacked Hanoi County from Jiguan Road.

At that time, it was also speculated that someone might come from Yuban Road, but after all, it was far away and there was no news yet.

In addition, the matter of Huchuquan made him dizzy, and for a while he forgot that Yu Bandao might come.Now he probably also knows that Luoyang should have fallen, and this Han army is likely to come after him.

"Your Majesty, let's go."

The scout said: "Those Han troops have been hunting eastward, and they are probably here to chase His Majesty."

Cao Rui shook his head: "What are you afraid of, we are all cavalry, how can they catch up, if you want to leave, you can leave at any time."

As he spoke, he narrowed his eyes and thought about it.

He judged that this Han army should be another army sent by Shen Chen to pretend to attack Luoyang, but he didn't expect that by chance, they broke through Luoyang, and he learned that he was searching for Huchu Spring on the bank of the Yellow River, so he came to chase him.

If he went directly, the Han army would pose a threat, because his troops were still searching for Huchuquan and had not gathered together.

And if the Han army crossed the Yellow River, took Jiguan directly, and let Pang De's army enter Hanoi County, it would be in big trouble.

The two feigned attacking armies were in full swing. They could enter Bingzhou from the Taihang Mountains in the north to attack Guanqiujian, and they could harass Sima Yi's rear in the south. It would be very bad for both Bingzhou and the southern war.

Thinking of this, Cao Rui immediately shouted: "These people must not let them cross the river. If they can't find me, and cross the river to the north to break through Jiguan, that would be a bad thing. Come on."

"His Majesty."

The left and right guards rushed over immediately.

Cao Rui immediately made a deployment and said: "Send someone to the south to deliver a message to Sima Yi, asking him to send someone over to encircle him, and then quickly gather the soldiers who are scattered all over the place looking for Huchuquan, and the rest will come with me."

"His Majesty."

Someone said: "Your Majesty's body must not be moved lightly."

"It's okay."

Cao Rui said coldly: "My grandfather has been a soldier all his life, what is there to be afraid of? Let's entangle the Han army first, and when the reinforcements arrive, we will immediately wipe out the invading enemies and retake Luoyang."

"only!"

Cao Jun's soldiers suddenly responded.

Following Cao Rui's call, more than 2000 Cao Wei elite knights reined in their horses and headed west.

Thousands of riders rolled Hiraoka, and the thunderous horseshoes shook the entire wilderness.

By the afternoon, they were approaching Chenggao County, and countless black shadows could already be seen on the horizon in the distance.

Cao Rui rode on his horse and watched from a distance, but did not order an immediate attack, but stopped and watched.

Shen Chen was also riding on horseback at this moment, and the Han army had heard the galloping horseshoes a long time ago. After the first dozen or so seconds of confusion, they quickly began to line up and wait for it.

Shen Chen saw hundreds of knights lined up in the distance. There was one on the hill, surrounded by several guards, because it was too far away to see clearly, but just looking at the red cloak of that man similar to Cao Cao, he instinctively It makes people think that person is Cao Rui.

"General, it's the cavalry of Cao Jun."

A general said.

Shen Chen frowned and said: "Cao Rui must be in the army, pass on my order, outflank him."

"only!"

The soldiers immediately acted in accordance with the military orders.

The Han army immediately began to change formations, about 6000 people divided into 4000 each, and the [-] people in the middle began to push forward in formation, and the left and right wings moved to the wilderness to outflank.

Seeing this situation, Cao Rui did not immediately order an attack, but continued to observe the situation and wait for the opportunity.

After a while, the Han army approached, and then he let the soldiers start to retreat. Now he can't hang the Han army, because the horses are galloping over, and they are already a little tired. At this time, the Han army can still walk if they want to.

So he can only choose to find a way to fight.

The cavalry slowly retreated to the east. This is the wilderness to the east of Hulao Pass, where the Eighteenth Route Allied Forces were once stationed. The space is spacious and suitable for cavalry to fight.

They let the horses retreat at a slow pace, near a tributary to the east of Sishui, the horses crossed the river on foot, and then formed a formation on the other side of the river.

Soon the two sides were getting closer, Cao Rui stared at him with deep eyes, and shouted: "Kill!"

"kill!"

The soldiers of Cao Jun let out a terrifying roar.

Then according to Cao Rui's deployment, hundreds of horses rushed directly to the main formation of the Han army, and more than 1000 horses attacked the left and right wings of the Han army.

Cao Rui didn't intend to go head-to-head with the Han army's main formation at all, but adopted guerrilla tactics to break through one wing of the Han army first.

(End of this chapter)