191. Killing Han Meng and approaching Zhang Wu
191, Kill Han Meng, approach Zhang Wu
The army passed through a dense forest, which was the road Cai Yan had walked when he was running away. It was far away from the avenue and would no longer drive the sentry towers along the way. However, it took much more time to walk such a small road than to walk on the main road, especially the cavalry was not good at climbing mountains and forests, so Sun Yu's army walked very slowly.
After marching hard for most of the day, Sun Yu's army was still half a day away from Zhang Wu.
On the official road at the foot of the mountain, a fast horse was running towards Zhangwucheng. It seemed to be a messenger or a scout. Sun Yu silently calculated the time. The scout should have set out from the sentry tower he pulled out to inform Zhangwucheng.
It is obviously impossible to stop this scout. The alert scout would not let the enemy approach his two arrows. If he uses a "cavalry general" to chase him, as long as he appears on the official road, it may trigger the nearby sentry tower hundreds of meters away to light the beacon, which will be a big trouble. On the contrary, he will indulge the scout to leave, and the trouble may be caused.
After all, based on the deaths of the soldiers at the sentry tower, Yuan Shaojun could not tell how many people there were already, and the horse's hooves were also dragged by Sun Yu with branches. It would be great if the other party thought that he was just a small group of thieves.
Seeing the scout going to Zhang Wucheng, Sun Yu whispered to his subordinates: "Be careful to move forward, a battle may occur at any time. The scout circle will expand to five miles, and if there is any enemy situation, it will be rewarded immediately."
More than a dozen scouts immediately took the horse and left, spreading the scout circle, and Sun Yujun continued to move forward quietly.
The next morning, Sun Yujun had already sneaked to a place more than ten miles away from Zhangwu City. It was crowded here, and fields and villages began to appear everywhere. Some villages were quite large and hundreds of families. Since the autumn harvest had just passed, the crops in the fields had been harvested, and only a part of them were piled with golden rice poles.
It was impossible to sneak around, so Sun Yu simply asked the soldiers to pass through the village openly. Since the entire army was wearing Yuan Shaojun's clothes, it did not cause much riot when they passed through the village. The villagers had no knowledge and could tell whether this army was the real Yuan army. So most of the villagers hid at home and dared not come out. For fear that the army would steal their food, no one would go to inform Yuan Shaojun. They could not inform Yuan Shaojun, saying that one Yuan Shaojun had entered the village, right?
"General Sun! Three miles away from the front, there is a cavalry unit of Yuan Shao's army of two thousand people heading north and is about to meet our army." A scout said loudly: "I guess that the other party has received information from the sentry tower and is leading the army out to inspect. Our scout has met the scout and cannot avoid it even if he wants to."
"Hey, it's only ten miles away from the granary of Zhangwu City. It doesn't matter if you reveal your tracks now. Yuan Shao, who is far away in Longcui, can't come to rescue him." Sun Yu sneered: "We won't avoid it. Anyway, there are only two thousand people on the other side, and Yuan Shao's generals are all in Longcui. There must be no powerful generals here. Let's rush over and take this army's sacrifice knife first."
"No!" Sanqian Baima Yicong responded neatly.
"Miss Cai, I'll fight later. I have no eyes on the sword and weapons. You can't fight, so why not wait here." Sun Yu tilted his head and said seriously to Cai Yan next to him.
"No!" Cai Yan raised his head stubbornly and said, "I have escaped thousands of miles from Luoyang and have experienced countless wars along the way. Don't imagine me too fragile. I will ride a horse and follow you closely!"
"Okay!" Sun Yu praised loudly, and then added to his heart: Girl, you are such a man.
Following Sun Yu's order, the three thousand white horses rushed towards the south with beautiful arrow-shaped arrow formations. Not long after, several scouts in front returned: "General Sun, Yuan army is coming!"
Haha, he raised his gun in his hand, and saw the dust head in front of him, and a cavalry unit with two thousand people appeared in the middle of the avenue. He was the leader of a general, big and thick, and full of healthy women. She shouted to Sun Yu and others: "I am Han Meng, the grain escort officer of Zhangwu Granary. Who are you?"
He laughed loudly, "I am Li Nan, the grain burner in Zhangwu, and I will meet you!" As he said, he rode forward without stopping at all.
Han Meng was shocked, the grain burner? What's the origin? No... This is the enemy who was spending time with me. Han Meng was furious and scolded: "A merely a lowly man, how dare you be sloppy with me. Don't think that you can beat us if you have too many people. I have never been afraid of men!"
A red light flashed on Han Meng's body, and two big words jumped above her head: "Gun General". She slapped the horse and danced the gun, and brought two thousand cavalrymen to face Sun Yu.
"Tsk, it's a gun general again. Now I'll find a tall building. I can throw a brick down and knock down several gun generals if I throw a brick down." Sun Yu sneered in his heart. He slapped his horse and rushed to Han Meng. Seeing that his opponent was a man, Han Meng stabbed him indifferently.
At this time, Cai Yan suddenly appeared behind Sun Yu. Han Meng was shocked when he saw a woman behind Sun Yu: Is there a woman? No, the man in front is just a fool, and the woman behind is the real enemy.
Han Meng's attention suddenly turned from Sun Yu to Cai Yan.
Seizing this opportunity, he did not shine on his body, nor did he show his words on his head. He raised his hand and shot him gently, "Bor", hit Han fiercely, and Han fiercely knocked off the horse and died.
"Wow! What a fast gun!" Yuan Shaojun was shocked: "Why is this man so fast without using the skills of a general?"
The fools, the brother used the skills of generals, but he just didn't want to show his character and exposed his identity, so as not to let Yuan Shao receive news. Sun Yu sneered and shot into Yuan's army. The three thousand white horses behind him followed him. These three thousand white horses were the elite of Gongsun Jun, which was not comparable to Han Meng's two thousand grain escort soldiers. In addition, Han Meng's downfall made her subordinates collapse, and her morale was already broken. After being rushed by Sun Yu's army, she dispersed like birds and beasts.
"There are still ten miles to prevent these scattered soldiers from escaping back to Zhangwu to report the news, the whole army quickly whips! Raid to attack Zhangwu!" Sun Yu shouted: "The key to this battle is this raid. Only success is allowed, not failure."
"I will lead the way!" Cai Yan took the lead and rushed towards Zhangwu's granary. The three thousand white horses Yicong immediately rode the horse and followed Cai Yan without hesitation.
On the Longcui battlefield, most of the day ago, Yuan Shao also received a secret report from the messenger: a wave of unknown troops attacked a sentry tower, killing all the sentry in the tower, but heading towards the south Zhangwu Granary.
The military advisor Tian Feng walked out of the tent and said to Yuan Shao: "Lord, Zhang Wu is a place where I store grain, so I must be careful. I think I should send two generals, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, to lead the light cavalry to quickly rush to Zhangwu's granary."
Yuan Shao felt it was reasonable and was about to agree.
Military advisor Xu You walked out of the tent again, and she sneered: "What Military Advisor Tian said is bad! Although Zhangwu's granary is important, how can it be more important than Longcui's main battlefield? The opponent's elite soldiers and generals are all here. Sun Xunzhen and Xu Gongming are very difficult to deal with. If our army adjusts the two generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou, we are afraid that the enemy will come out to challenge the camp, and our army will only have Zhang He and will be unable to resist."
It turned out that Xu You was domineering and jealous of his colleagues, and he always couldn't see Tian Feng. At this time, Tian Feng offered his advice, and she insisted on turning around and talking to Tian Feng specifically.
Tian Feng hesitated slightly.
Xu You said again: "Attacking the sentry tower, the one who went to Zhangwu Granary was a wave of troops of unknown origin. It was unlikely that there were no generals, but just a group of men. Zhangwu Granary had our army's generals Chunyu Qiong, Qing Yuanjin, Han Juzi, Lu Weihuang, Zhao Rui and others. With them, why fear a group of lowly men?"
When Xu You said this, Tian Feng next to him suddenly had his eyes condensed and said anxiously: "In recent days, has someone seen Sun Xunzhen still in Gongsun Camp?"
Xu You snorted coldly: "Of course someone has seen it. I saw Sun Xunzhen staying on the top of the village wall two hours ago." In fact, he only saw Sun Yu's back as Yan Yun was pretending to be, and he was not sure that it was Sun Yu, but in order to oppose Tian Feng's words, he forced the fake to be real.
Tian Feng breathed a sigh, "That's good. I'm really worried that Sun Xunzhen will go to attack my Zhangwu granary. He has various skills and almost no flaws to find. If he led the surprise troops to attack Zhangwu, he would probably not be his opponents."
After hearing Tian Feng's words, Xu You suddenly burst into laughter.
Yuan Shao said unhappily: "Xu You, why are you laughing? You know that you are not dignified."
Xu You's face turned aright: "I'm laughing at Military Advisor Tian for being worried. Don't say that it's not Sun Xunzhen who went to Zhangwu, even if it's Sun Xunzhen, hehe, then he will hit his nemesis this time!"
"What's the solution?" Yuan Shao and Tian Feng were both famous together: "Sun Xun is really a nemesis?"
Xu You said seriously: "Lord, you don't know that Young Master Yuan Xi found a female general in a small town named Wu Ji in Jizhou a few days ago. The woman's name is Zhen Mi! After Young Master Yuan Xi saw with his own eyes, this woman's military skills could easily defeat Sun Xunzhen. Young Master Yuan Xi immediately took her to Long to the battlefield, and he should have just passed by Zhang Wu. With this female general named Zhen Mi in Zhang Wu, let alone just go to a group of ordinary men, even if Sun Xunzhen goes, he has to surrender!"
Yuan Shao was overjoyed and asked anxiously: "What is Zhen Mi's skill in military generals? Can he defeat Sun Xunzhen?"
Xu You spread his hands and said, "Young Master Yuan Xi didn't say anything, and his subordinates didn't know. In a few days, the young master will bring Zhen Mi to Longcui. Then the lord will know!"
It was already dark, and the sound of horse hooves kept roaring in Sun Yu's ears. Three thousand white horses were whipping from the fast horse, and in just a short time, they ran more than ten miles. Zhangwu's granary had appeared in sight.
Zhangwu Granary is actually a small county town, also known as Zhangwu County, which is under the jurisdiction of Bohai County and is approximately 80 miles northeast of Cang County, Hebei Province today.
The county town is not tall and mighty, the city walls are short, only one person tall, and the city gate is just two thin and large wooden boards.
This place was not a strategic location, and Yuan Shao never took it to heart. However, since the main yard where Yuan Shao fought with Gongsun Jun was the Longcui battlefield a few days north of Zhangwu, this inconspicuous small county town became the most important granary.
In order to prevent the granary, Yuan Shao's army sent five generals, Chunyu Qiong, Guan Yuanjin, Han Juzi, Lu Weihuang, Zhao Rui, and two grain escort officers, Han Meng and Jiang Qi, and led 10,000 soldiers to garrison Zhangwu.
Chapter completed!