Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 496 Reinforcement arrives

In the first year of Han Jianxing, on June [-]th in the first year of Wei Taihe, Hu Ting.

Huting is located in the northeast of Xingyang, to the west of Yuanyang County in later generations, at the junction of the Yellow River and the gutter water in the Han Dynasty.

In the morning and early morning, Huting has become extremely lively, full of voices and crowds.

Because of the special geographical location, although there is no particularly large river crossing here, there is also a medium-sized ferry, so there are many people living there.

Cao Rui moved the people of Luoyang to leave, but he did not have the time and ability to move to the people of Henan County, resulting in many people living here.

The main body of Henan County in the Han Dynasty was divided into two parts, one part was Luoyang in the west, and the other part was Xingyang in the east, mainly in Zhengzhou City and surrounding areas in Henan Province in later generations.

There are more than ten counties in this area, and it has been one of the hinterlands of the Central Plains since ancient times. Since the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, Hanoi County and Henan Yin are the birthplaces of the Han people. The ancient capital of the Shang Dynasty Chaoge is on the north of the Yellow River, and the ancient capital of the Zhou Dynasty Luoyang is on the Yellow River. south.

Now the war is starting, but the people still have to live their lives. There are people moving from south to north, traders from all walks of life, heads of Guizhou, and heroes gather. There are even spies from the Han army, government agencies affiliated to Cao Wei, and so on.

If you stand on the hillside to the south of the Hu Pavilion and watch, you will see the fertile fields thousands of miles away from the city of Juan County in the east, the people working in the fields, and the villages scattered in various countryside.

Hu Ting's pavilion is located on the south bank of the turbulent Yellow River and the west bank of the slowly flowing sewer water. Since summer is the flood season of the Yellow River, the water flow is very high, so now even the sewer water is rising, flooding outside the pavilion, rolling torrential flow.

At this time, about four to five thousand Cao Wei soldiers in dark brown leather armor came slowly along the west bank. The people living here were afraid for a while, and all left the surrounding pavilions and headed towards the village in the south.

Ting Zhang Cao Wei in the pavilion quickly nodded and bowed his head to ask about the situation. The general Cao Wei who led the team ignored him, but shouted for the soldiers to quickly seize a favorable position and prepare to fight here.

In addition, Cao Wei's generals ordered soldiers to collect ships.

The main reason why Cao Rui ran to Huting was that he could cross the Yellow River to the north, and cross the sewer water to Juan County to the east, and then go back to Yanjin.

He first went south to Guoting in Xingyang, in order to lead the Han army to the south first, and then waited for the soldiers of Cao Wei who were looking for Huchuquan on the south bank of the Yellow River to gather. Retreating can cover the emperor from escaping.

In the chaos, the people left one after another, while Cao Wei soldiers seized various important places, and at the same time used the functions of the pavilions to start building fortifications using the pavilions and buildings as cover.

The Han Dynasty pavilion is not a simple pavilion, because it has many functions, such as anti-thief, anti-thief, imperial bandit and accommodation for the pavilion personnel. Dock property.

Therefore, it only needs to be simply modified, and it can immediately become a small dock fortification.

By noon, dark figures had already appeared on the southwest wilderness, and groups of black armored Cao Wei soldiers slowly emerged. Cao Rui, who was at the front, looked to the northeast and moved slowly on horseback.

His horse is also the best BMW, but it is also soaked in sweat at the moment. Under the continuous pursuit of the Han army, many horses of their cavalry have cracked soles, unable to walk, and even foaming at the mouth. As for the two thousand cavalry, most of them have now become infantry.

The stamina gap between horses and humans prevented the cavalry of the Cao army from opening up the gap with the Han army even though they were riding horses.The main reason is that before they met, Cao Rui had been looking for Huchuquan for several days, and the horsepower wasted a lot, which made Shen Chen take advantage of it.

Otherwise, if he wants to leave, there is no problem.

The Wei army was driving ahead, and the Han army was not far away. After all, the Cao and Wei cavalry had horses to rely on, unlike the Han army who could only use their feet. Therefore, in order to preserve his strength, Shen Chen did not dare to chase them all the time, so he could only walk and stop. Stop, being hung behind Cao Rui.

About half an hour later, Cao Rui had already arrived at Huting and joined the Wei army here, while the Han army was late, resting and watching from a distance.

Shen Chen patted the Yuluo horse, which was also sweating. The Yuluo horse had soles, and its hooves were not injured, and it hadn't been forced to march in the past few days, so its physical strength was still strong. At this moment, he went up a small hill , Looking at Cao Jun who occupied Hu Ting in the northeast and was waiting in full force.

"Governor, Cao Rui's reinforcements have arrived."

The personal guard looked at the distance and said.

Shen Chen turned his head and glanced at the resting soldiers behind him, and said softly: "It's okay, I know that Cao Rui is in front, and the morale of the soldiers is high, these people still can't stop us."

The Han army he led hadn't fought much in this period of time, except for a fight with Cao Rui, they just rushed there every day.

Since killing Cao Zhen in April, he has rested for more than two months.Now hearing that Cao Rui was in front, the soldiers of the Han army were screaming and wanting to kill Cao Rui and capture Cao Rui alive, so as to make a contribution that would be enough to make him a marquis and a general.

But Cao Rui, who can run faster than a rabbit, has been using horses to drag the strength of the Han army, which is really troublesome.

Fortunately, everyone is consuming each other, and the other party's horses have been exhausted.Along the way, they could always see Wei Jun's exhausted and paralyzed horse corpses by the side of the road, and now they finally blocked Cao Rui in Huting.

The guard said: "Sima Yi is in the south, will Cao Rui go to help Sima Yi?"

"Naturally."

Shen Chen smiled and said, "But do you think I didn't send someone to find the prime minister?"

"Will the prime minister send reinforcements?"

The surrounding guards were immediately refreshed. Although they had already broken through Luoyang and occupied the capital of the Cao Wei Empire, this was the hinterland of Cao Wei after all. Cao Jun was everywhere in the north and south. It must be a lie to say that they are not afraid of being made dumplings. Now that they know Zhuge Liang They are naturally very happy to send reinforcements.

"Ah."

Shen Chen nodded and said: "Cao Rui lured us to Hu Ting on purpose to ambush us here. But why don't I want to block him here?"

"But."

A personal guard looked to the north and looked at the turbulent yellow river in the distance, and said with embarrassment: "Even if we can win, what if Cao Rui escapes by boat?"

"He can't run."

Shen Chen shook his head: "Our task now is to continue spending time with him. We will stop as many people as he comes, gather around for help, delay time, and wait for our people to arrive."

"only."

The crowd complied.

Then Shen Chen ordered everyone to pass on the news that the reinforcements would come, and the soldiers of the Han army were equally excited.

In the afternoon, the Han army finally started the offensive.

After attacking for about half an hour, they retreated quickly.

Cao's army occupies a favorable location and guards very tenaciously. They can't take advantage of it, and it will soon be dark if they continue to fight, so they simply stay a little farther away and start cutting down trees to build camps.

The Han army didn't bring any luggage, and they were sleeping in the open these days, so it was impossible to sleep in the camp. They just cut down some trees with weapons to make a simple fence, and found a place with a slightly higher terrain.

When the sky darkened, everyone still lay down with their clothes on, sleeping on the ground, without a tent on their heads, with the stars and the moon as companions, surrounded by countless mosquitoes, enduring their bites.

After a night like this, the Han army attacked again in the early morning of the next day.

The Han army did not have a good rest last night, because Cao Rui took the strategy of exhausting the enemy and kept beating gongs and drums outside, making it very annoying.

This kind of weather is more suitable for fire attack, and it will be very dangerous in case of Cao Jun's night attack.

But fortunately, the campsites Shen Chen chose were strictly selected. The terrain was relatively high, and there was a river at the back, and the night watch sent out was always watching Cao Jun's movements. Even if Cao Rui wanted to launch a night attack, he probably had no chance.

The Han army, simmering with anger, quickly launched a fierce attack the next day. By noon, they broke through the slopes occupied by Cao Jun's periphery and began to threaten their core defense point, Huting Tingshe.

Seeing the momentum of the Han army was like a rainbow, they were about to rush to the outside of the pavilion, and even Cao Rui had already boarded the boat and was about to escape, when the sound of rolling horseshoes suddenly sounded from the south.

Shen Chen was on a small hill in the outskirts. Looking back, he saw countless black shadows surging on the horizon in the distance, groups of war horses neighing and shaking the world, dust billowing like wolf smoke, and a large group of cavalry came.

All the soldiers of the Han army changed their faces.

Appearing in this position at this point in time, the first to come to support must not be the Han army. Obviously, Sima Yi sent cavalry to support Cao Rui in order to eliminate hidden dangers.

The sound of tinkling and ringing gold sounded, and the soldiers of the Han army quickly began to gather and retreated to the simple camp on the hillside like a tide.

About two quarters of an hour later, Cao Jun's cavalry arrived on the battlefield.

But they did not come to attack immediately, but went to Hu Ting first. The general at the head was Xia Houshang, who went all the way to the rear of Hu Ting. His Majesty punishes."

"Why are you here now?"

Cao Rui frowned.

It is only a short two hundred Hanli, about eighty or ninety kilometers, from Sima Yi's southern defense line.

He was Shen Chen who met on June [-] the day before yesterday. He had sent someone to contact Sima Yi at that time, but he was supposed to arrive within two days at most, but it took three days, a day late, and Shen Chen almost broke Huting. , He escaped by boat in embarrassment.

Xia Houshang said: "Zhuge Liang also sent cavalry, the general was afraid that they would follow us to Huting, so he sent some people to lead them away, and today he got rid of them."

"Well, good job."

Cao Rui nodded and said: "The Han army is attacking fiercely, and Luoyang has already been occupied by them. If you still have the strength, destroy the Han army immediately, and then go west to take Luoyang back. Hold Luoyang first, and wait for the news of Shen Chen's fall in Bingzhou in the north." , maybe we still have a chance to counterattack."

"only!"

Xia Houshang got up and began to command the soldiers.

Sima Yi sent 8000 people over, but in order to distract the cavalry of the Han army, he divided his troops into two groups, with only 4000 people around him.

However, Hu Ting still has five or six thousand Wei troops, and together they have nearly ten thousand troops.

On the other hand, the Han army had only about [-] soldiers.

The troops are twice as strong as the opponent's. If they still can't take it down, then Xiahou can still kill himself on the spot.

The Wei army in the distance quickly began to gather, and the four thousand cavalry did not sit on the horses, because they were also galloping all the way, and did not dare to neglect, resulting in the lack of physical strength of the horses, making it difficult to participate in the battle.

So simply change the cavalry into infantry, the [-] Wei army was divided into three formations, and then divided into three directions, and began to launch a fierce attack on the Han army on the hillside.

For this sake, naturally there is no strategy, only tough battles.

This was the second tough battle for the Han army who came out to chase Cao Rui with Shen Chen. The first tough battle didn't take long before Cao Rui ran away.

Normally speaking, he has been rushing like this, no matter how high his morale is, it should be almost worn down, but he can't stand it because Emperor Cao Wei is close in front of him, and he deserves a lot of credit for catching him.The second is that everyone knows that reinforcements will arrive soon, so everyone is working very hard.

The Wei army quickly approached, and the Han army was condescending. If there were a large number of bows and crossbows, it would definitely cause huge damage to the Wei army.

On the contrary, Wei Jun shot randomly at the camp first, and then Wei Jun attacked and killed them. Around the simple fence, the two sides engaged in a battle of stabbing each other back and forth.

The fence is not high, only a little more than ten feet high, but the Han army built a ladder with earth and rocks underneath, which allowed the Han army to lean out half of their body and stab outside with a gun. Shield blocked.

The Wei army attacked for a while and couldn't attack for a long time, so Xia Houshang ordered to set fire to burn down the obstructing fence.

However, the Wei army had no fish paste and oil, so they could only collect dead grass leaves, and then threw them outside the fence of the Han army with the dead grass leaves.

The two sides spent more than two hours, and the fire finally started in the afternoon.

But Shen Chen was particular about choosing the location. There was a small stream behind the camp, so they all retreated into the small stream. Wei Jun also outflanked them, and the two sides continued to fight in the stream.

At this time, there will be no advantage in terms of location, and they can only engage in close combat.Relying on the large number of people, Wei Jun began to carry out a rapid offensive.

By the time it was getting dark, the Han army had lost more than 1000 men, and the soldiers were also very tired.

Although they also killed a large number of Wei troops, the casualties of the Cao army were far greater than those of the Han army, but even if three were exchanged for two, the Wei army still took advantage, so this battle was obviously not very cost-effective for the Han army.

At this moment, on the hillside in the distance, Cao Rui, who was watching the battle with his hands behind his back, was watching from a distance. Xia Houshang came on horseback and reported to Cao Rui: "Your Majesty, great news."

"Oh?"

Cao Rui wondered: "Thousands of Han troops in this area have been wiped out. What kind of happy event? Besides, they haven't been wiped out yet."

Xia Houshang said: "I saw a figure in the enemy army, does Your Majesty know who it is?"

"Who?"

"Shen Chen!"

"Shen Chen?"

Cao Rui was shocked and said, "Shen Chen is here?"

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Xia Houshang said: "More than ten years ago, I followed Taizu to conquer Jingzhou. I have seen this man several times. Even if he turns into ashes, I will recognize him!"

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha."

Cao Rui was stunned for a moment, and then he looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "I didn't expect, I didn't expect, Shen Chen is here. I want to humiliate and torture him if he is alive!"

"only!"

Xia Houshang took the order and left.

At this time, the Han army was in a bitter battle.

The stream and the fields behind were full of fighting soldiers.

Large pieces of corpses fell in disorder, and the blood dyed the trickling stream scarlet.

Shen Chen gripped the tiger gallbladder tightly, and frowned.

He has already killed no less than a dozen Cao troops. The key is why the reinforcements haven't arrived yet, since he has delayed it long enough.

Jiang Wei has been ordered to wait on the other side of the river for Cao Rui to throw himself into the trap.

Deng Ai should have also picked up Pound, and he is on his way here. According to the distance, he will arrive tomorrow at the latest.

They are not far away from Cao Jun's reinforcements, just one or two hundred miles away, and he has been sending people to the rear to contact the reinforcements, and he has also made various signs along the way to attract reinforcements.

But the most important thing is that Zhuge Liang's reinforcements still haven't arrived. Could it be that something unexpected happened?Will Hu Ting become the Eastern version of Waterloo?
Shen Chen's face was very ugly.

The surrounding guards tried their best to protect him, and not far away, a Wei army of about [-] gathered and rushed towards him.

Obviously the opponent's goal is obvious, intending to capture the thief directly and capture the king first.

Xia Houshang was riding on the horse, staring intently at Shen Chen who was also riding on a tall steed in the distance, a sternness flashed in his dark eyes.

Unknown number of people from the Cao family and Xiahou family died at the hands of Shen Chen. This time, it was time to avenge their relatives.

"Kill, capture Shen Chen alive!"

"kill!"

Cao Jun let out a terrifying roar.

At this moment, countless dark clouds slowly floated in the sky.

With a roar, the patter of raindrops began to fall.

The time at this time should be the end of the afternoon and the beginning of the day, which is around five o'clock.

At this time of summer, the sky should be still bright, but now it has become dim, and the visibility of the field of vision has become lower.

The Wei army rushed towards the Han army like a torrent.

Shen Chen was on a small high slope on the other side of the stream, surrounded by hundreds of Han army guards, and a steady stream of Wei troops were attacking him.

The Han army formed a formation. Although the Wei army seemed to be slammed by the stormy waves, the Han army stood still, and the two sides gradually became stalemate.

After a while, Xia Houshang's face suddenly changed drastically.

There was a shout of killing behind him.

Looking back, I saw countless dark figures rushing towards this direction in the gray sky.

The sky was still raining, and thunder was rolling continuously, covering up the momentum of the galloping cavalry of the Han army.

This caused the Han army to be very close to the battlefield when Cao Jun found out.

Almost without any hindrance or hesitation, the Han army went straight into the battlefield, and the leading general immediately slashed his sword and burst into a terrifying roar: "Bajun Gan Ning is here, kill Wei dog!"

"Kill Wei Dog!"

The cavalry of the Han army who came to help shouted constantly, rushed into the formation and hacked around.

For a while, the battlefield became even more chaotic.

(End of this chapter)