Hearing this, Uncle Wu shook his head and said, "General Huang is thinking too much, isn't he?"

Another general beside him also said: "Previously, the general thought that Dong Xi would set up an ambush in the city. Now that he has escaped far out of the city, the general thought that he would set up an ambush halfway? Dong Xi can only have two or three thousand combatable troops and horses. I

I would like to ask the general, when the thieves are scurrying in a hurry, do you have any spare power to set up an ambush halfway? At best, it will be good if you can leave some troops and horses to defeat them."

"The enemy."

Others also agreed, and some even sneered: "I heard that General Tiangong gave General Huang a sword at the banquet that day. He said that he did not seek to kill the general and achieve meritorious service. He was so kind, and General Huang didn't know how to repay the enemy by killing the enemy. Can't we take it seriously?

Just seeking no faults but no merit, are you timid?"

Seeing that the generals were in high spirits and wanted to pursue Dong Xi, Huang Zhong remained silent. They tried to irritate each other with words and even sarcastically, but they refused to give orders.

At this critical moment, three or two cavalrymen suddenly rushed towards us from the right wing.

The person who came was the formation supervisor of the rear army. He rolled off his horse and shouted: "Report, general. Zhao Xu, the captain of the right wing, heard that Dong attacked and escaped at night. He refused to listen to the advice of the villain and other people to stop him, and insisted on going his own way. He has been secretly lured."

The army horses have turned to catch up!"

"What?"

Huang Zhong was shocked when he heard this: "Zhao Xu went to pursue him?"

This Zhao Xu was the county captain of Linhu County. He had evacuated Linhu with Huang Zhong before. His hatred for Sun Ce was far greater than anyone else's, and because he was a local and thought he was familiar with the terrain, he heard about Dong's attack.

He escaped, immediately attracted his troops and horses, and even ignored the obstruction of the Xuzhou formation supervisor, left the position without permission, and tried to take a shortcut to intercept.

His identity is not actually important, but Huang Zhong is worried that with this precedent, others will follow suit.

Sure enough, there was a noise, and the other generals stopped talking to Huang Zhong and turned their horses away, each leading their own troops to pursue the attack together.

Seeing this, Huang Zhong sighed secretly. If the battalions were dispersed and allowed to do their own thing without Dong attacking and setting up an ambush, they would inevitably be in chaos. In desperation, he had to issue a military order:

"Guo Lu, you bring five hundred men and horses into the city with Mr. Liu. The remaining armies will use a few as the vanguard. I will lead my own men as the rear formation to pursue Dong Xi together!"

After being ridiculed for such a long time, even Buddha glared angrily, and Huang Zhong naturally had a lot of anger in his heart. Don't you want to be the first to attack? Okay, then go ahead!

It is a taboo for military strategists to be at odds with their generals, or even to go against their superiors.

In fact, Wang Zheng did not forget that Huang Zhong was a newly attached general and lacked prestige. He actually took this into consideration when he sent Wang Xiong with him to the north of the Lujiang River. However, he did not expect that after the two divided their forces again, Huang Zhong wanted to gain confidence in defeating the enemy.

It was bigger, and most of the troops he led were veterans of the system soldiers. Without Wang Xiong by his side, the two parties actually had a dispute under Qian County.

...

The section of the city wall that the Xuzhou Army was originally responsible for besieging was in the south of the city. Now that Huang Zhong had issued the military order, they immediately turned around and everyone rushed to the front, shouting overwhelmingly: "Capture Dong Xi alive!"

The shouts shook the ground, almost breaking the night. They all lit up torches and swarmed in pursuit of Dong Xi's breakthrough.

Huang Zhong brought a thousand of his direct descendants to seize the rear formation and followed closely.

Facing the gloomy night, the Xuzhou Army stepped on the accumulated water on the ground, just as if they were walking in their own yard, and passed directly through the Yexian City Pool as if there was no one else around. The torches set by more than 4,000 people were as bright as the stars in the sky.

The excited face is like a hunter who sees countless flocks of prey,

Huang Zhong, who was holding the line, could only hear the urgings of "Hurry up, hurry up". All he saw when he opened his eyes were military flags chasing each other one after another.

Qian County is located between Longshu and Lu'an. It was named Qian County in ancient times. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Qian County was renamed Qian County, and later in the Western Jin Dynasty it was renamed Qian County. There is a famous mountain in the southeast outside the city, called "Huoshan".

According to the record of Dongtian, the Yellow Emperor granted the Five Mountains, Nanyue Hengshan was the farthest, and Huayue was the second one. Shun went on a hunting tour to Nanyue, which is called Huoshan. The Han Dynasty's military examinations of prophecies all regarded Huoshan as the southern mountain, so their gods were worshiped here.

The Xuzhou army was eager to pursue the enemy. After a journey of more than ten miles, they arrived in a blink of an eye and saw the mountain from a distance.

Huang Zhong was immediately startled and hurriedly asked: "Why is there a high mountain here?" A general must not know geography. He had already done some research before setting off. There are many mountains in Lujiang, but they are basically concentrated in the southwest, such as Longshu.

It was right next to the Tianzhu Mountains, and he clearly remembered that the west of Qian County was a plain.

There were guest soldiers on the left and right. I didn't know how to answer. I quickly went to the local guide to inquire and reported back: "General, this is Huoshan, but it is not in the west of the city, but in the southeast of the city."

"Huoshan?"

Huang Zhong frowned: "If the enemy hadn't broken out from the west of the city, how could we have chased them to the southeast?"

Everyone looked at each other, and someone said: "General, we are just chasing the people in front of us, and we are not familiar with the place. Maybe we were led astray by the thieves, and we didn't even notice when we were deflected."

This sounds excusable, but Huang Zhong immediately changed his expression. He unsheathed his sword directly, held it horizontally in his hand, and while hastily ordering the rear troops to form a formation, he shouted: "Blow the horn! Teach the brothers in front to retreat quickly.

Don’t chase after poor bandits!”

"General, why is this?"

Huang Zhong said solemnly: "Before coming to Qian County, I have carefully looked at the map. Most of the areas around Qian County are plains. There is only one place suitable for setting up an ambush! It is Huoshan Mountain!"

"General, although Huoshan Mountain is famous, it is not very high. General, judging from its undulating mountains, it is not very spacious either. Why does General think it is suitable for setting up an ambush?"

An uncle asked in confusion: "Even if Sun thief wants to set up an ambush here, I'm afraid he won't be able to ambush many people. And there are more than 6,000 people in our pursuit of Dong Xi and Zhao Xu's tribe. Even if we encounter some ambush, it won't be too serious."

Hurry up, okay?"

"otherwise."

Huang Zhong shook his head and said: "Although Huoshan Mountain is not very large, it touches the Tianzhu Mountains not far to the east, which is very suitable for the Tibetan army. More importantly..."

He looked around at everyone and said word by word: "The Tianzhu Mountains to the east of Qianxian County, and extending for more than a hundred miles is Tongxiang. Sun Ce's army had captured Juchao before, so how could he let go of the small town of Tongxiang not far away?

You must have fallen into the trap of a thief now, if..."

At this point, Huang Zhong felt regretful. If he had known that Dong Xi would take them to the east of Qianxian County, he would never have agreed to the pursuit request of Wu Dubo and others, so he immediately blew the whistle

horn.

The shrill horn blasts tore through the night, but the Xuzhou armies chasing Dong Xi's troops seemed to turn a deaf ear and continued to chase them forward in droves.

Huang Zhong knew that nothing could be done, so he decisively changed his order: "Gather the rear army. Pass on the order. No one in our Xuzhou Army Headquarters is allowed to move forward even half a step." He called the names of several generals: "Lead."

All of you at your headquarters have your bows strung and your swords unsheathed. When you hear the sound of my general’s drums, you rush forward to rescue the Xuzhou troops in front. Anyone who dares to patrol and refuse to advance will be killed!"

"Here!"

...

If he had only vaguely felt something was wrong before, by this time Huang Zhong could conclude that both Qianxian's quick fall and Dong Xi's escape without a fight were all to lure their soldiers and horses to go deeper.

So it is self-evident what exactly is waiting for the Xuzhou Army ahead!

When the situation came to this, in a hurry, Huang Zhong thought of only one way to deal with it.

That is to first confidently sever the connection between his headquarters and the heavenly army in front, temporarily and urgently create a no man's land, and then take advantage of the enemy's attack on the front to select the elite to attack the weak points of the ambush army, and then go

Rescue friendly troops out of danger.

In fact, only the heavenly army can use this method.

Because under normal circumstances, when the front army is in ambush and is under siege, it is bound to be in a panic and may not be able to withstand the enemy's offensive for long. And seeing this situation, the rear army cannot change the overall situation even if the formation is collapsed, so they choose more knowingly.

It is like a strong man losing his arm and trying to survive by removing his tail to preserve his strength.

But Huang Zhong knows that the Heavenly Army is different. Even if it is suddenly attacked, it may panic, but it will never be easily defeated. Moreover, what his subordinates said before is right, Sun Thief is an ambush, and the soldiers and horses used are also

It may not be many. As long as the force is not several times larger, it will be absolutely difficult to eliminate their vanguard in a short time.

Therefore, the same strategy of "cutting off the wrists of a strong man" was adopted, but Huang Zhong was prepared to choose to avoid the truth and avoid the truth in the future, and surrounded Wei to save Zhao!

This not only takes into account the ability of the heavenly army to fight well, but it is also the only way at the moment.

While doing his best to restrain his army's rear formation, Huang Zhong stood on his horse and looked far into the distance. The mountains in the distance were undulating and silent. He suddenly remembered one thing: Where is Zhao Xubu?

For most of the pursuit, Huang Zhong, who had extraordinary eyesight, could still see Zhao Xu's general flag, but from some unknown time, he seemed to have lost sight of it...

So when did it start...

After thinking for a while, Huang Zhong vaguely remembered that it seemed that when Huoshan rose on the horizon, Zhao Xubu disappeared from his eyes...

Huang Zhong remembered that the previous formation supervisor once said that Zhao Xuben was from Lujiang, and he thought he was familiar with the roads. The reason why he even attacked without authorization was to take a shortcut and intercept Dong Xi from the front...

So now that Huoshan is in front of us, no matter what shortcut Zhao Xu takes, it's time to show up, right?

unless...

This idea was rejected by Huang Zhong as soon as it came up. Although the troops led by Zhao Xu were from the Yangzhou Army, they were able to fight with him out of the siege of Sun Ce's army in Linhu that day, so they were considered to have a certain fighting capacity. Sun Thief was no longer

Even if they are brave, they will never be able to annihilate them all in a very short time, let alone make much noise.

As if to verify his idea, at this moment, the mountains and forests ahead suddenly erupted with the sound of killing.

Sure enough, Sun Cejun had an ambush in the mountains!

However, it was not the Xuzhou army that ran into it first, but the more than a thousand Yangzhou army led by Zhao Xu, whom Huang Zhong was looking for.

This was a situation that no one expected. The ambush army was originally waiting for the Xuzhou army and horses. Zhao Xubu was the first to set off and took a shortcut. It can be said that when he entered the ambush circle, even the Xuzhou army and horses at the front were far away.

He was some distance away, and by some strange combination of circumstances, he became a being on the road for the Xuzhou Army.

Dong Xi spent so much time and effort, naturally, not to wipe out a mere thousand men and horses, and they were still the remnants of the Yangzhou Army. But since Zhao Xubu had stepped in, it was impossible not to launch an early attack.

Following a loud shout, in the dark night and rainy night, deep in the mountains and forests, fire suddenly broke out, and the killing screams shook the sky.

"No! Escape quickly"

At this time, Zhao Xu also knew that something was wrong, so he turned his horse and left. However, not far after retreating, a big man rushed to block him. In the midst of wild laughter, his sword whirled:

"I am Yu Yao and Dong Yuan Dynasty. The thieves can't even think of escaping!"

As one of Jiang Biao's twelve tiger ministers in the future, the general who killed Huang Zu, how could Zhao Xu be his opponent? In just two or three rounds, blood rained all over the sky, and Zhao Xu had been beheaded.
To be continued...