Chapter 263: Wronged and Aggrieved
In fact, Zhao Yun had a full hope of arriving at the Wuchao battlefield earlier, and he might even be the unlucky Zhang Jie arrived at the Wuchao battlefield earlier. However, due to some special reasons, Zhao Yun's team was delayed by the urgent rescue of Wuchao. He failed to arrive in Wuchao in time at the most critical moment to fight, and lost the best opportunity to turn the tide. These special reasons actually came from within Yuan Shaojun!
The cause of these special circumstances starts from the Qingzhou War that year. When the Tao, Yuan and Cao army surrounded Tian Kai, Kong Rangli, the former rebel general of Yuan Shao's army, Zhao Yun, who was not worthy of being used in Gongsun Zan's army, suddenly shone brightly, charges and attacks into battle, and has made great achievements in killing generals and seizing flags. He also rescued Tian Kai, who was in desperate situation twice in the Ten Thousand Horse Army. He was once shot and shot more than 20 Yuan army generals in a breakthrough, killing Yuan's army, which was frightened and frightened. Gao Lan, known as one of the four generals in Hebei, fled in front of Zhao Yun and did not dare to fight with Zhao Yun at all. It also made the three great Yuan Duke hate Zhao Yun to the core, but he regretted it and regretted that he had no eyes before and did not know the general, so he was frivolous.
Everyone knows what happened later, because the Grand Duke of Yuan threatened to cut Zhao Yun into pieces, and also knew that Zhao Yun and Uncle Liu had already had a deep evil roots and were also coveted by Zhao Zilong, Deputy Director Tao could only save the country in a straight line. While designing to alienate the intimate relationship between Zhao Yun and Uncle Liu, it aroused the Grand Duke of Yuan's love for talent and temporarily saved Zhao Yun's life. After successful, Grand Duke of Yuan won Zhao Yun's people, and Deputy Director Tao successfully won Zhao Yun's heart - at least Zhao Yun's gratitude.
The matter had just begun. After Zhao Yun, who was making a big splash in the Qingzhou war, not only did the Grand Duke Yuan San Gong fulfill his promise and gave Zhao Yun a certain reward, but Mr. Yuan Tan and Mr. Yuan Shang, who were fighting for the position of legitimate son, naturally set their sights on Zhao Yun, and wanted to recruit this rare general to listen to him. Mr. Yuan Tan, who was serving as the governor of Qingzhou at that time, got the moon first, and also took the lead in asking Zhao Yun to rely on him and support him ascend to the throne of Yuan's legitimate son, and promised that after the matter was completed, he would definitely use Zhao Yun more, such as fame, wealth, money and beauty, and whatever he wanted.
Of course, Mr. Yuan Tan did this to find the wrong person. If Zhao Yun would accept Mr. Yuan Tan's encirclement, he would not call him Zhao Zilong. Therefore, Zhao Yun not only rejected Mr. Yuan Tan's encirclement, but also repeatedly advised Mr. Yuan Tan's disciples who were rampant in Qingzhou, which made Mr. Yuan Tan very dissatisfied. He also stopped Yuan Tan's best friend Lu Kuang from robbing the women of the people as slaves, which made the Lu brothers furious, making Mr. Yuan Tan's backer even more angry. He became more disgusted with Zhao Yun and deliberately did not bring Zhao Yun to Langya to give Zhao Yun a chance to make meritorious contributions.
In this case, if Zhao Yun had not been politely rejected by Mr. Yuan Shang, Zhao Yun, who had almost no foundation in Yuan Shao's army, would have died in the Yuan army's party struggle, but even if he maintained such a neutral attitude, his integrity was definitely not in Tian Feng. Zhao Yun, who was under Ju Su, was still very unpopular in the Jizhou army. His subordinates complained that Zhao Yun was too strict in the control of his subordinates and could not be as casual and free as a friendly army. His colleagues were tired of Zhao Yun's old-fashioned temperament, did not know how to adapt, and did not say that he had too tired to deal with others. He was also outstanding in martial arts and overwhelmed by his colleagues, and was warned and isolated by his colleagues like the catfish effect. He was hated by his son Yuan Tan and was also kept away by his son Yuan Shang. There were almost no friends in the Jizhou army, but there were a lot of opponents.
I don’t know whether it was the misfortune of the Grand Duke Yuan or Zhao Yun’s misfortune. These conflicts accumulated in normal times happened to have a conflict on the night of July 2nd of the fourth year of Jian'an. In front of Ju Su, volunteered to lead the troops to Wuchao to prevent the situation, Zhao Yun immediately returned to his camp to assemble the team. As a result, the team had just been assembled and was about to order to set off to Wuchao, Lu Kuang, a close confidant of Mr. Yuan Tan, who was also stationed in the main camp of Yuan Shao’s army, suddenly came and brought a team of people to block Zhao Yun’s way. He asked, “Zhao Yun, why do you want to assemble the team late at night? Is there a lord’s order to send troops?"
Of course, Zhao Yun did not have the command arrows from the Grand Duke Yuan's three-president. It was indeed very confusing to suddenly assemble troops in the middle of the night, so Zhao Yun had no choice but to explain the reason for his assembly of the team in a low voice, indicating that a cavalry that was unknown to the true or false suddenly rushed to Wuchao at night. In order to prevent it, he and Ju Su decided to send troops to Wuchao to check the situation. Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Lu Kuang was not worried but happy, and deliberately shouted angrily: "Bold! Ju Su is not the supervisor of the army, what military power does he have to dispatch the army troops in the middle? You are the infantry captain directly under the lord. Without the lord's order, you are not allowed to send troops!"
"General Lu, the military situation is like fire. For the safety and danger of our army's granary, Yun must make a decision once. If the lord blames him, Yun will bear it alone, and it has nothing to do with the general."
Zhao Yun explained patiently again, but Lu Kuang was determined to take revenge on Zhao Yun's slave-taking revenge. He said that Zhao Yun would not be allowed to send troops, and ordered his team to stop Zhao Yun's team and asked Zhao Yun's soldiers to return to the tent to rest immediately. Otherwise, all military law would be carried out. The Jizhou men under Zhao Yun's command were dissatisfied with Zhao Yun's troops sending troops late at night, and the morale of the army was suddenly shaken. Zhao Yun had no choice but to send someone to ask Ju Su to explain. When Ju Su hurried to the scene, the personal soldiers sent by Ju Su to contact Wang Mobizhai also returned to the camp and reported that the mysterious cavalry was the team of the Yue cavalry officer, the official of Yuan Shao's army, the command of the Grand Duke of Yuan to Wuchao to protect the grain.
"Han Meng's team?" Ju Su and Zhao Yun's faces suddenly turned pale, because Ju Su and Zhao Yun saw with their own eyes when they went to the Central Army's tent before. Han Meng was in the banquet venue - he was also holding the little hand of a military dancer with a thick neck and holding the little hand of a military dancer and saying something vulgar!
It was basically confirmed that the cavalry was pretended to be the enemy, and Ju Su and Zhao Yun dared not neglect. At that time, Ju Su was in charge of the army and ordered Lu Kuang to give way, asking Zhao Yun to lead his army to Wuchao for rescue. He hurried back to the Zhongjun camp to report the police to the Grand Sangong of Yuan. Lu Kuang, who knew that he might have caused a big disaster, had never thought about making meritorious service. Instead, he hurried to the Yuan Tan Gong's camp to report the news and discuss countermeasures with Yuan Tan Gong.
Zhao Yun's trouble was not over yet. It was already extremely difficult to take five thousand infantry soldiers to chase the four-legged enemy. He had to pass through the four self-army defense zones without the orders of the Grand Yuan Sangong. The first defense zone was fine. Although Wang Mo, the captain of the Yuan army's Yueqin cavalry, had no friendship with Zhao Yun, he had no grudges. After hearing Zhao Yun's explanation, he immediately waved his hand and let it go, but the second village was not enough, because the person guarding the second village was not someone else, and it happened to be General Lu Kuang's younger brother - Yuan Jun's shooting sound Sima Lu Xiang!
I won't introduce the following situation in detail. The enemy was particularly jealous when they met. Because Zhao Yun did not send troops to command arrows, General Lu Xiang also took the opportunity to avenge his private revenge. Not only did he say that Zhao Yun's team was allowed to pass through his defense zone, but he also sent all his way to stop Zhao Yun's team. He threatened that he would never allow Zhao Yun's team to pass without seeing the order arrows of the Grand Three Duke. Zhao Yun was anxious, but he could do nothing. After delaying this twice, the clock's pointer ruthlessly pointed to the fourth half of the fourth day! - At the same time, Cao's army had already begun to set fire on fire.
"Look at it, General, it seems that the north is on fire!"
Amid the soldiers' screams, Zhao Yun quickly looked up to the north. As soon as the north was red, it seemed that the sky was ignited with fire. Zhao Yun was even more anxious and angry, so he pointed the silver spear in his hand at Lu Xiang. He shouted angrily: "All man! I ask you, will you give up the way? If you give up the way, the lord will blame you, and I will bear it alone! If you don't give up... Humph!"
Lu Xiang, who also found that the fire in the north, was also shocked. However, when things came to this point, Lu Xiang thought that since his personal revenge had become a big mistake, he would definitely not escape the blame in the future. It would be better to fight to the death and be loyal to his duties. So Lu Xiang immediately raised his head and shouted: "I will never give way if I don't see the lord's order arrows!"
"A man, die!" With a loud shout, Zhao Yun, who could not bear it, rushed straight towards Lu Xiang with his horse. When Lu Xiang was shocked, he quickly urged his gun to pat him. Zhao Yun, the first instant killer of the Three Kingdoms era, had already stabbed him with one shot, and was extremely accurate in Lu Xiang's throat. The silver spear passed by. Lu Xiang didn't even have the chance to shout and turned over and fell off the horse. Then Zhao Yun raised his gun and shouted at the soldiers under Lu Xiang's command: "Listen, Wuchao has changed, Lu Xiang refused to give way, I have stabbed him to death! You can quickly return to the order of the marquis of our village. The lord asked for a crime. I alone had nothing to do with you. If you dare to imitate Lu Xiang and stop him, Lu Xiang would be your fate!"
The unlucky ghost Lu Xiang's subordinates were very knowledgeable and tactful. Seeing that Zhao Yun, who was in a state of no one in the formation of thousands of troops, had already made a fuss, he did not dare to come up to die again. He honestly retreated and made a way out, allowing Zhao Yun to lead his army through the defense zone of his own army, and then quickly sent someone to report to the Grand Duke of Yuan San, naturally not mentioning it.
The troops under his command also made Zhao Yun suffer. If all the troops were cavalry, Zhao Yun would definitely have the opportunity to arrive at the battlefield to rescue in time. Unfortunately, the Sangong of Yuan was placed there and Zhao Yun’s identity as a surrender was also placed there. So no matter how Zhao Yun urged the army to move quickly, Zhao Yun’s team, which was all infantry, could not get faster. He also delayed a little time in the last two partial divisions’ defense zones. So when Zhao Yun finally arrived at Wuchao Camp after the dawn of dawn, it was too late, and it was still completely too late.
It was indeed completely late. The entire Wuchao camp had turned into a sea of fire. The Wuchao defenders had been driven out of the camp by Cao's army. Chunyu Qiong also fled in the front with a group of defeated generals. After colliding with Zhao Yun's team head-on, Chunyu Qiong, who was very close to Mr. Yuan Tan, yelled at Zhao Yun: "Zilong, why are you here now? If you were a while ago, how could Wuchao be burned?!"
Zhao Yun had no time to explain why he was late. After asking about the situation in Wuchao Camp, Zhao Yun quickly suggested: "General Zhong Jian, since Cao thief personally led the team to attack Wuchao, then he ran for more than 70 miles overnight and fought until now. At present, his team must be trapped and unable to fight again. You and I might as well join forces to attack Cao's army again. If we can capture Cao thief or kill the head, not only can the general be able to atone for his merits, but even if our army loses Wuchao, we can still win a great victory!"
Chunyu Qiong, who was worried about how to send the Grand Yuan San bus, was overjoyed when he heard this and quickly said, "Okay! But General Zilong, I fought hard all night yesterday and was already very tired. I wonder if the general can take charge..."
"Please General Zhong Jian plunder the formation for Yun!" Zhao Yun waved his gun without hesitation and took the initiative to provoke the charge mission. Chunyu Qiong was even more happy and quickly organized the defeated generals. With Zhao Yun's team returning to Wuchao, he went to fight with the definitely exhausted Cao army.
Cao's army was indeed exhausted, but the victory of Guandu's decisive battle was already in sight. Of course, Cao's boss was unwilling to fall to the last moment before the victory. So when he found out that Zhao Yun led his army to arrive, Cao immediately organized more than 3,000 teams that could be organized to go down the mountain to fight with Zhao Yun's team. At the same time, given that he had learned about Zhao Yun's martial arts before, Cao had given Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and Le Jin a death mission from the beginning, and ordered: "You three, please fight to the death and kill Zhao Yun, and don't worry about Zhao Yun's generals. These infantrymen came from Guandu and were not as easy as us."
The situation was once again reported by Mr. Cao. After walking for more than 40 miles at night, Zhao Yun's team, which was walking on two legs, was indeed exhausted. Although Zhao Yun himself was extremely brave, he was targeted by Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and Le Jin from the beginning. He was also entangled by three fierce generals covered in blood at the first time. The exhausted but highly morale Cao's army took the opportunity to fight with Mr. Cao's team under the leadership of Mr. Cao and started a bloody battle with Mr. Zhao. Mr. Cao, who was also covered in blood, kept shouting, "Life and Death, this battle! Kill! Kill a way out!"
"Kill!" The soldiers of the Cao army, who were determined to die, roared and fought fiercely. Although the soldiers in Zhao Yun's team had a certain advantage in physical strength, they were completely overwhelmed by the Cao army in terms of momentum. In addition, the Cao army used the remaining flying muskets to set fire to disturb the enemy. The Zhao army soldiers who had just heard of flying muskets were inevitably even more panicked and panicked. They were killed by the remaining Cao army soldiers who fought to the death and retreated step by step.
At this time, something that was enough to make Zhao Yun burst into his chest. Seeing that Zhao Yun's team was not in a good position and was still in a state of terror, General Chunyu Qiong not only did not step forward to assist in the battle, but also took the lead in leading the rear army to retreat south, which affected the morale of Zhao Yun's team. It led to the signs of defeat in Zhao Yun's team, and the signs were becoming more and more obvious.
Zhao Yun was not relaxed either. Zhao Yun was braver and had a life-threatening relationship with Dian Wei, whose martial arts were almost the same as his own, and Zhao Yun could not win for a while. Moreover, there were two powerful generals Zhang Liao and Le Jin next to him to help. They were all fighting with Zhao Yun as if they were desperate. They were always fighting each other. Even if Zhao Yun stabbed Le Jin, he stabbed Zhang Liao with one shot. Zhang and Le were both desperate and continued to fight with Zhao Yun.
Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and Le Jin had no choice. The physical strength of the Cao army had already reached the critical point. If they could not defeat Zhao Yun at full strength, then Zhao Yun would even be able to cut off Boss Cao's head and overturn the world in one fell swoop. So no matter how tired and injured he was, Dian Wei, Zhang Liao and Le Jin's weapons were still desperately greeting Zhao Yun. Even if he was shot, he would have to hit Zhao Yun.
With such a life-long fighting spirit, the Cao army, whose physical strength was almost exhausted, finally created a miracle. In just over a moment, the Cao army generals Shi Huan, Zhu Ling and Li Xu rushed to Zhao Yun, and beat Zhao Yun with all their hands and feet. As a result, Zhao Yun gradually could not resist the enemy. Seeing Chunyu Qiong taking the lead in escaping, the team he brought was also dispersed, he sighed, then stabbed Cao general Zhu Ling to death, took the opportunity to rush out of the encirclement, and fled to the southwest alone. As soon as Zhao Yun left, Dian Wei and Zhang Liao and other generals also fell off their war horses with cramps and lying on the ground exhausted and laughed. Le Jin, who was stabbed by Zhao Yun three times, simply burst into tears, glad that he had escaped from death.
"All the troops, hurry up and change into Yuan's military uniforms." Cao Boss Qiang, who was also about to be exhausted, issued an order to make a move, "Yuan Shao must have reinforcements coming, and we are no longer able to fight again, so we can only disguise ourselves as Chunyu Qiong's defeated soldiers and take a detour back to the camp."
The exhausted Cao army soldiers agreed and began to forcefully collect Yuan Jun's corpse and replace them. Boss Cao cursed at the southeast where the Gentleman Army retreated, "The Tao Ying traitor who was killed in heaven, you can protect our army for an hour, why should our army be so embarrassed?"
Not to mention how Cao's army disguised itself, after Zhao Yun broke out of the Cao army's siege, he soon caught up with some of his defeated soldiers and began to organize the defeated soldiers to prepare to fight again. However, Yuan's soldiers who had been defeated in succession were already detested. They either refused to return to the team and fought back again, or they cried and said, "General, let us go. We are just a group of infantrymen. They fought hard for dozens of miles without any strength. How could they beat Cao's elite cavalry?"
"Soldiers, I know you are tired, but Cao's team is even more tired than us! You have also seen it just now. Cao's thief is just a desperate attack at the end of his strength. If we turn back and fight, we will definitely win a great victory and capture Cao's thief in one fell swoop!"
Zhao Yun's analysis was very reasonable and realistic, but Yuan's soldiers said that they would not go back to fight. When Zhao Yun was furious to use military laws to punish the cowardly generals, everyone scattered and fled in all directions and refused to return to Zhao Yun's side. Zhao Yun was about to cry without tears, so he had to chase Chunyu Qiong who was fleeing in the front. However, although General Chunyu Qiong's ability to fight was ordinary, his ability to escape was quite impressive. When Zhao Yun caught up with him, Chunyu Qiong had already fled back to the Zhangjie village nearest Yuan Shao's army, and had already occupied the nest and took over the command of Zhang Jie's village where the main general was killed.
With a strong anger, Zhao Yun asked General Chunyu Qiong to send troops to cut off the Cao army's retreat. The shocked Chunyu Qiong had no intention of fighting again and said that he would not be willing to lead the troops to fight again. Zhao Yun had no choice but to ask Chunyu Qiong to borrow one or two thousand new forces to him and lead him to cut off the Cao army's return. But General Chunyu Qiong still refused, saying that Cao's army still had a new force lurking nearby and could not take risks in the camp - it was not an excuse. There was indeed such a new force.
Zhao Yun repeatedly begged, but Chunyu Qiong shook his head and refused. Zhao Yun, who was only an infantry captain, was under the level of the general of the army supervisor Chunyu Qiong, and had no right to force the troops under Chunyu Qiong. Therefore, Zhao Yun had no choice but to leave the camp angrily, guarding the road alone, waiting for the next wave of reinforcements from the Grand Yuan Sangong. He also vowed that if Cao's army dared to pass by this, even if he sacrificed his life, he would kill the head of the eldest son Cao to repay the Grand Yuan Sangong's forgiveness.
Of course, the poor Zhao Zilong failed to wait for the Cao army. Because he was afraid of being intercepted by Yuan Shao's army, the eldest son Cao, who had been on a remote mountain road, had already taken a detour back to the camp. After nearly an hour of anxiety, a large group of Yuan Shao's light cavalry finally ran to the south official road. Zhao Yun was overjoyed and quickly slapped his horse to meet him, but he saw that the command of the light cavalry was Wen Chou and Han Meng, not the great three Duke of Yuan whom Zhao Yun imagined, and led the troops to Wu Chao personally. But Zhao Yun didn't care about that much, but hurriedly introduced the general situation of Wu Chao to Wen Chou and Han Meng. Wen Chou, Han Meng and others did not dare to neglect them, so he quickly led the troops to Wu Chao to intercept him.
"General Wen, General Han, Yun is willing to go with the two generals." Zhao Yun quickly asked for an order.
"No need, go back to the camp and apologize to the lord." Wen Chou snorted coldly - by the way, reminded that Zhao Yun's first battle in his debut was to destroy the good thing that Wen Chou captured Gongsun Zan alive in the Battle of Jieqiao, so General Wen Chou naturally had no good expression to Zhao Yun. After that, Wen Chou raised his gun and waved his army roared and roared past Zhao Yun. Zhao Yun sighed helplessly, and had to go upstream alone, pass through Wen Chou's soldiers, and return to the main camp to apologize to the three Duke of Yuan.
Because there is no need to rush the road at this time, Zhao Yun, who was also exhausted and hungry and thirsty, simply rode his horse and rode slowly back to the camp alone. He was extremely lonely and depressed. His mind was full of scenes of past events. He remembered Gongsun Zan and Uncle Liu, and he couldn't help but think of the few two meetings with Deputy Director Tao. Once at the city of Xuzhou where Deputy Director Tao was dancing on the oil pan, and once at the city of Linzi alone, Deputy Director Tao went to Linzi alone to persuade him to surrender.
"What do you think so much? No matter how much you love the people, you are still destined to be with him?"
After a bitter smile, Zhao Yun shook his head, tried hard to keep those thoughts behind his head, and began to urge the horse to return to the camp to meet the Grand Prince Yuan Sangong apologize. However, when he just passed Wangmobiezhai and saw the flag of the main camp of Yuan Shao's army, a person rushed towards him and shouted Zhao Yun's name from afar. Zhao Yun looked closely and saw that the person was the person who came last night's personal follower.
"General Zilong, why are you back here alone?" Ju Su asked after meeting him. Then, without waiting for Zhao Yun to explain, Ju Su's personal companion quickly stuffed a letter bag into Zhao Yun's hand and whispered: "General Zilong, my master Ju Su first brought it to you by the villain. My master said, please be sure to act according to what he said in the letter, and do not make any mistakes! Life is at stake, please do not hesitate!"
"Life is at stake?"
Chapter completed!