Chapter 847
Zhang He and Xiahou Dun had another twenty rounds of confrontation, and Zhang He had already shown a clear defeat. At this moment, the Right Virtue King and several generals arrived. Zhang He couldn't help but feel the pressure suddenly decreased. Zhang He and the Right Virtue King and others cooperated to surround Xiahou Dun and rotated like a wheel. During this period, the weapons in their hands attacked Xiahou Dun from time to time. Xiahou Dun was completely on the defensive, and the situation became increasingly unfavorable. Although Xiahou Dun was amazingly brave, his combat power was not much stronger than Zhang He. Now he confronted several generals such as Zhang He and the Right Virtue King and others at the same time, and the south was at a disadvantage.
The two sides fought for a while, and Xiahou Dun saw that it was impossible to continue like this, he had the idea of getting out. After several rounds of battle, Xiahou Dun took a look at the flaw that the Right Xian King had inadvertently exposed, and shouted loudly. The mace hit the head of the Right Xian King with the power of thunder. The Right Xian King was shocked. Seeing that the Right Xian King was about to be buried under Xiahou Dun's mace, at this critical moment, the Right Xian King suddenly felt a powerful force hitting his left arm, and then he flew out to one side. Almost at the same time, the terrifying mace hit the You Xian King's mount. Before his good horse could make a cry, it was smashed into two pieces by the Mace.
The Right Xian King fell heavily to the ground, came to his senses, and looked closely and saw that his war horse was already lying in a pool of blood, and his internal organs were flowing everywhere, which was terrible. At this moment, Xiahou Dun had already rushed out of Zhang He's encirclement and rushed straight to the camp. Many Xiongnu cavalry tried to stop Xiahou Dun, but his flesh and blood were flying under his mace, and no one could stop him from joining him.
At the same time, the Cao army camp was already in trouble, and many Cao army soldiers strongly demanded to go out to pick up Xiahou Dun, but Yu Jin and Lu Qian were worried that they would fall into Zhang He's ambush again and firmly disagreed.
Just when the two factions were stalemate, a sentry in charge of looking out suddenly shouted: "Look! General Xiahou is back!!" Everyone hurriedly looked out of the camp and saw Xiahou Dun running alone towards this side, with smoke and dust behind him, and iron hooves rolling.
"The crossbowman takes his place immediately!!" Yu Jin, who reacted first, roared.
Nearly five thousand crossbowmen immediately stepped forward to the fence, pulled the string and raised the arrow, ready to go.
A moment later, the Cao army soldiers saw Xiahou Dun, covered in blood, running to the outside of the village gate. "Open the village gate immediately!" Yu Jin ordered immediately. The soldiers of the Yuanmen who had been impatiently waiting immediately opened the village gate. Immediately, Xiahou Dun rushed in. Then, Yu Jin roared, "Shot the arrow!" The bowstring sounded, and arrows like locusts flew towards the waves of the Hun cavalry. Only the nearly a hundred war horses in front suddenly fell to the ground. The tide of cavalry spread out to both sides, running while firing arrows into the camp with cavalry bows.
Arrows on both sides flew at each other, and some of the Hun cavalry were shot one after another and fell into war horses. The soldiers of the Cao army often screamed and fell to the ground under the rain of arrows.
A moment later, Zhang He ordered a retreat because there was no cheap inn.
After Zhang He led the Hun cavalry to retreat, only dozens of war horses were left on the battlefield that were unwilling to leave their master's body.
Zhang He and his generals returned to the tent. Zhang He said with great regret: "I almost caught Xiahou Dun today!"
The Right Xianwang said: "This Xiahou Dun is truly worthy of being one of the best generals under Cao Cao's command. It's so amazing!" When he said this, the Right Xianwang couldn't help but feel scared. The other generals couldn't help but agree, and there was a hint of fear. Zhang He sighed with emotion and said: "In my Great Qin army, there are probably no more than three who can kill Xiahou Dun in a formation!"
All the generals nodded in agreement.
Zhang He suddenly smiled and said, "No matter what, our army has greatly defeated Cao's army's spirit today!"
"General, will you take advantage of the situation to attack Cao's camp?" The Right King asked for instructions.
Zhang He glanced at Xu Shu on the side and asked, "Mr. Xu, what do you think?"
Xu Shu frowned and shook his head and said, "Although our army won today, it did not lose much to Cao's army; although the morale of Cao's army was hit, it was not serious enough to affect the overall combat effectiveness of Cao's army!"
Zhang He couldn't help but feel what Xu Shu said was reasonable and asked, "Then what should we do next?"
Xu Shu said: "General Zhang has captured Jiangdu City last night!"
"What!" Zhang He couldn't help but show a look of joy. The other generals who followed Zhang He to fight also showed surprise. They were ambushing outside for almost a day before, so they didn't know the message from Jiangdu before.
Xu Shu smiled and said, "General Zhang captured Jiangdu City last night, and at the same time, he wiped out more than 10,000 defenders in Jiangdu. Liu Ye was captured and Xun Yu committed suicide!"
"That's great!" Zhang He suddenly shouted loudly, and paced back and forth in the tent excitedly, "Jiangdu was captured, and the primary goal of this battle has been completed. The line of Moling is completely under the threat of our army's military front, and Sun Jian's naval advantage has been lost at least three levels as a result!"
"Not bad! However, Cao Cao and Sun Jian cannot give up! They will definitely send a large army to fight back!" Xu Shu analyzed.
Zhang He frowned and nodded, speculating: "If they attack Jiangdu City with all the forces on the front line of Moling, Jiangdu will probably be very difficult!"
Xu Shu shook his head and said, "No! Sun Jian and Cao Cao will never attack Jiangdu City!"
Zhang He was stunned, "Why is this?"
Xu Shu explained: "Although Jiangdu is not as high as Chang'an and Luoyang as the city is wide, it is much stronger than ordinary county towns! Moreover, the Fourth Army is an elite force of our army! Even if Sun and Cao Lian's army attack with a large army of 300,000, it will be difficult to capture! Even if it is captured, it will pay an extremely heavy price, and it will be impossible to resist our army's subsequent counterattack! In other words, if Sun and Cao's coalition forces attack Jiangdu, it will definitely not be worth the loss!"
After pausing, Xu Shu analyzed: "From the current situation, the most likely target of the Sun and Cao coalition forces should be Chaohu Dazhai!"
Zhang He was stunned, "Chaohu Water and Land Village!"
"That's right! If the Chaohu Water and Land Dazhai can be captured, the situation around Chaohu will completely fall to Sun, Cao's coalition forces, and even Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, and Xuzhou will be threatened! Although the Water and Land Dazhai has been carefully constructed by our army, its defense ability is far less than that of Jiangdu City!" A hint of worry appeared on Xu Shu's face.
Hearing Xu Shu's analysis, Zhang He was shocked and said anxiously: "Then we have to retreat to Chaohu Village as soon as possible!"
Xu Shu shook his head and took out a short note from his arms. It was the Feige sent by Chen Chu this morning. Xu Shu handed Chen Chu's Feige sending letter to Zhang He with respectful face and said, "This is Your Majesty's order, General, please take a look."
Zhang He said 'oh', opened it quickly, then frowned slightly, carefully folding Chen Chu's orders. Zhang He glanced at the generals with curious expressions and said, "Your Majesty's order is to cooperate with General Yide to wipe out Xiahou Dun's team on the bank of Chaohu Lake!"
"Is General Yide coming too?" The Right Xian King couldn't help asking.
Zhang He nodded, "General Yide has led 40,000 elite troops to leave Jiangdu and come to this side! According to the course of the game, they should arrive around tomorrow!"
The Youxian King said excitedly: "The Fourth Legion is an elite army, and it will definitely be able to break the outer defense of Cao's army! As long as the outer defense is broken, my Huns' cavalry can sweep the Cao army camp!" The Youxian King looked gritting his teeth. It seemed that he wanted to avenge the revenge that he almost died under the mace not long ago!
Zhang He turned his head and said to Xu Shu: "I am only worried that Huang Gai's army will attack the Shuilu and Land Village while our army was fighting with Xiahou Dun!"
Xu Shu nodded and said, "This is for sure! However, the advantage of our army in joining forces with General Yide over Xiahou Dun is significantly higher than that of Huang Gai over the troops of General Ganning! Therefore, our army can completely defeat Xiahou Dun before Huang Gai! As long as we defeat Xiahou Dun, the initiative here in Chaohu will be completely in the hands of our army!"
Zhang He couldn't help but be cheerful. After thinking for a while, he asked Jia Xu: "It's better to send 10,000 Xiongnu cavalry back to the Great Water and Land Camp just in case!"
Xu Shu thought for a moment and nodded, "Yes!"
Chapter completed!