Chapter 2013 Invading like fire
The sound of rapid footsteps came from outside the door. Dong Zhao lifted up the tent door and turned his head to look out. Under the swaying fire, a figure stumbled over. Judging from the armor on his body, it looked like a knight. Dong Zhao's heart tightened, his feet moved, and he was about to leave the tent, but then he controlled himself again.
The knight staggered and fell to the ground. The wooden sign in his hand fell out for a long time and rolled to Dong Zhao's feet. Two guards in front of the tent stepped forward, helped the knight up, and sent it to Dong Zhao. Another guard picked up the wooden sign and handed it to Dong Zhao. Dong Zhao took it in his hand, but did not look at him. He knew this knight, who was Dong Je's personal guard.
Could it be that something happened to Dong Je, right? Dong Zhao's heartbeats like a drum, and his face is a little ugly. The news of the attack on the Knight in Chen State and Yingchuan has always been shrouded in his heart like a shadow. Even if ordinary people are like this, the real elites are naturally better at this. If Dong Je is attacked at night, he will not be surprised at all.
"Mr. Chen Liu... Chen Liu was attacked and the camp caught fire, and everything was in chaos." The knight said with difficulty, and sweat slid down his forehead.
"Chen Liu?" Dong Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, and then became nervous again. "Where did the people come from?"
"have no idea."
Dong Zhao's face sank. Chen Liu was attacked, but he didn't know where the enemy came from. Is this Dong Jen's dereliction of duty or a chaos within the Chenliu family? It seems that Wang Ji's lobbying has played a role. Some people regret it. They want to break the siege of Chenliu, leave Zhang Miao brothers with a way out, and leave a way out for themselves.
This may even be a tacit agreement from the Chenliu family. Otherwise, how big can arouse by just some enemies of unknown origin?
In an instant, Lu Yi's name flashed through Dong Zhao's heart, but he immediately ruled out this idea. If Lu Yi sent troops from Jun Yi, it would be difficult for him to pass Dong Jie's defense line quietly, and with the troops in Jun Yi City, it would be difficult for him to truly shake the camp outside Chenliu City. Even if the Chenliu family is not a famous general, there is always no problem in defending their own camp.
Dong Zhao asked carefully, but the knights knew very little. Dong Jen found that Chenliu City was in full swing, so he sent him to report the news so that Dong Zhao could be prepared. The detailed situation had not been clear yet, and it was estimated that someone would come in a while.
Dong Zhao immediately beat the drum and gathered the generals to prepare for adaptation.
The generals fought hard for a day. They had just fallen asleep and were awakened by the sound of war drums. They were all nervous, thinking that it was the enemy attacking the camp. When they arrived at the central army, they were all dressed and haggard. Some people even hurried over with swords before they could even wear them. Looking at these dejected subordinates, Dong Zhao looked around and looked over their dark yellow and black faces. Once upon a time, these people were so energetic that they were not afraid of powerful enemies. In just a few days, they were beaten by the Yuzhou soldiers to their morale and lack confidence. Several faces even disappeared forever and would never appear in front of them again.
How could this be the case? Dong Zhao sighed secretly.
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Chenliu.
Lu Yi led two thousand elite troops to rush around the camp, and successively broke through five camps, successfully broke into a baggage camp, and set off a fire.
The Chenliu family had no intention of fighting. They were awakened in their sleep, and they didn't even know who the opponent was. They wanted to resist but were not the opponent. The hurriedly organized position was easily defeated by the opponent and had almost no power to fight back. After the futile efforts, they quickly lost the will to confront and just wanted to escape.
Thanks to Wang Ji's visit two days ago, the Chenliu family was suspicious of each other, and always felt that others might have changed their minds and secretly agreed to Wang Ji. These people who broke into the camp and burned and killed came suddenly, without any warning at all. They were so familiar with the terrain that it was more likely to be civil strife than foreign enemies. They were transformed, and they did not dare to ask for help from others easily, for fear of leading the wolf into the house, and the disaster would be even worse. They would rather gather the remaining part, huddle in a corner, and resist stubbornly.
Under this psychological influence, Lu Yi did not encounter much resistance. The combat power of these Chenliu family members was too bad. With the same force, the two thousand elite soldiers he brought could completely abuse them. There was no pressure at all, and both sides were not on the same level at all.
Assault, assault at the fastest speed and most accurate way, breaking the opponent's battle formation and defeating the enemy's will.
The two thousand elite soldiers destroyed camps and pulled camps according to the plan pre-planned by the land agreement. They did not go straight, but made choices, sometimes they walked straight, sometimes they ran rampant, and sometimes they would skip one or two camps. Under the cover of night and under the cover of chaotic defeated soldiers, they appeared in front of unprepared enemies.
If Puyang Yi looked down from a high altitude, he would find that the plan formulated before the Land Advisory was perfectly implemented. These two thousand elite soldiers were like a sharp scalpel, accurately slashing the nerves and muscles of the Chenliu family, causing them to lose their combat effectiveness, intensifying their suspicion of their companions, and causing their panic to spread like a plague.
In less than an hour, Lu Zheng turned the camp southeast of Chenliu City into a sea of fire.
Seeing several baggage battalions ignited one after another, thick smoke rolled and fires soared into the sky, the Chenliu family was completely stunned. Before the army moved, the food and grass were first, and the baggage battalion was burned, and they only had two or three days of food left in their hands. Even if they were sent to collect grain, they would not be able to collect enough food and grass in a short period of time. What's more, Man Chong led his troops to help, so they could no longer calmly collect food and grass from the people.
Almost in an instant, the morale of the Chenliu family collapsed and everyone rushed to retreat, especially those who had not been attacked. They seized the time to line up and minimize losses as much as possible. These divisions were the capital for them to settle down. Without divisions, they did not even have the qualification to speak.
The chaos spread from the southeast camp to the east and west camps, and became more and more intense. Countless soldiers were running wildly and roaring, as if there were giant beasts chasing behind them. But they didn't know who the enemy was, but they were just chased by invisible fear. Seeing that anyone seemed to be an enemy, they just wanted to escape from a distance.
Seeing the fire outside the city, Zhang Miao in the city beat the war drum in time. The west gate opened wide, and Zhang Chao led five thousand elite troops to kill, roaring and rushing towards the camp that hesitated and refused to give up.
Before launching the attack, Lu Yi ordered people to sneak into the city to inform Zhang Miao that once he saw something outside the city, he would send elite troops out of the city to attack the enemy outside the west gate. Originally, Zhang Miao was a little suspicious, and always felt that Lu Yi had only 3,000 people, and it would not be enough to rescue the siege. At most, it would be to scare the opponent. However, seeing the battle outside the city, he knew that Lu Yi was not talking empty words, and he really did it. So he asked his younger brother Zhang Chao to bring the best five thousand elite soldiers with him, rush out of the city gate, and to give these ungrateful Chenliu family a heavy blow.
Zhang Miao and Sun Ce have always maintained a good relationship, and have successively purchased five or six thousand sets of weapons and equipped the most loyal unit to their own troops. These units are the backbone of the Dongping Zhang family unit, some are the rangers who have followed their brothers for many years, and some are the people recruited on the spot, which are the most elite forces in his hands and have great combat power. They have accumulated a lot of resentment and have long wanted to teach these Chenliu families a lesson. When they left the city, they were like tigers coming out of the trunk, unstoppable. They quickly broke through the other party's camp and entered the camp.
At the same time, Zhang Miao ordered people to beat drums and shout at the top of the city. Nearly a hundred drums and thunder were heard, and thousands of people shouted in unison, with amazing momentum, just like thousands of troops fighting out of the city, further destroying the morale of the Chenliu family. Those who had already fled faster, and those who had not yet fled began to flee, and finally formed a torrent, flowing through both sides of Chenliu City, rushing to the northwest, and rushing to Langdang Canal and Sui River.
In the dark night, under the fire, these panic-willed defeated soldiers were urged to escape by the sound of war drums and shouts of killing. They could not tell the direction at all, nor did they know that what they were waiting for was not a life path, but a dead end. When they found that the empty and dark water surface in front of them was too late, they were squeezed into the water by their companions coming from behind.
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Dong Fang and his cavalry stood on the other side of Lugou, looking at the chaotic battlefield and the defeated soldiers running from south to north, his heart was dark.
He was outside the battlefield and naturally knew what was ahead of these defeated soldiers. His opponent launched an attack from the southeast direction, so he naturally wanted to drive these defeated soldiers to the northwest. The northwest of Chenliu City was where the Sui River diverted from the Langdang Canal, and there was no land to go. There was only one dead end to escape to the defeated soldiers.
Creating chaos, leaving the opponent with no time to think and throw himself to death is a very clever tactic.
Who was it? Dong Je was puzzled. He didn't know where the chaos began. He deployed hundreds of knights between Chenliu and Junyi. Whether Lu Yi was by land or by water, it was impossible for Lu Yi to escape his eyes. So far, he had not received any news that Lu Yi left the city. In his opinion, these attacks were more like the internal behavior of the Chenliu family. The brother was unable to win for a long time, which shook the confidence of the Chenliu family. In addition, Wang Ji's lobbying, these fence-bearers were finally fooled and began to kill each other.
Dong Je has been in Chenliu for many years and is very clear about the character of these people. He is full of contempt and has no intention of rescue. The battlefield is in chaos and he has no idea how to start. If he insists on attacking, he can only cross Lugou and fight the defenders who left the city from the west gate. But in that case, he will fight with the old master, and even if he wins, he will be an indelible shame in his life.
Dong Je quickly made a decision and led his troops to retreat to Baiyang Pond to meet with Dong Zhao.
Baiyang Pond was only more than twenty miles away from Chenliu. Dong Zhao vaguely saw the firelight in the direction of Chenliu and heard the sound of war drums and shouts. He made the same choice as Dong Jen, gave up reinforcements, took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield, and preserved his strength. Man Chong stopped him. He could not go west, and was afraid that Man Chong would intercept him, so he could only retreat to Gaoyang Pavilion on the south side.
After meeting with Dong Jian, the puzzled Dong Zhao couldn't wait to ask Dong Jian: Who is the enemy and which direction did it come from?
Chapter completed!