Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 434 The Battle of Mengjin
The next morning.

A group of soldiers and horses drove through the night, crossed the Beiman Mountains, came in a hurry, and appeared on the bank of the Yellow River.

"Mengjin is actually not suitable for stationing soldiers and horses. If we build a camp on the opposite bank, there is still a dangerous river. We don't have boats, so we really can't do anything to them. But after he crossed the river and went down, he dared to camp like this. This Shangdang army You’re really confident, you’ve been battling for ten miles, and you’re not afraid of our sneak attack!” Huang Zhong looked at the tent that was close at hand, and said coldly, “Then I’ll make him regret it!”

"Not urgent!"

Xi Zhicai shook his head: "It's not difficult to defeat Mengjin, the difficulty is how we can defeat the Shangdang army with the least casualties!"

"What's the best way?"

"Wait!"

Xi Zhicai closed his eyes, stretched out his hand, and said softly: "The direction of the wind is already turning, as long as you wait for half an hour, the wind on the river will blow Mengjin!"

Half an hour passed, and the wind on the Yellow River became more and more violent.

"it's time!"

Xi Zhicai said in a deep voice: "General Han Sheng, lead the main force to attack frontally, force them to fight in the camp, and then give me five hundred soldiers and horses. In addition, when charging, don't use bows and arrows to meet the enemy, keep far away. As soon as my order arrives, your forces will go west and fight along the river, with bows and arrows and long crossbows, and destroy their warships as much as possible!"

"What are you going to do?"

"This kind of weather is actually the best time to start a fire!" Xi Zhicai smiled lightly.

"good idea!"

Huang Zhong's eyes lit up: "Hu Cai!"

"exist!"

Captain Hu Cai stood up.

"You lead five hundred troops and obey the orders of the military division!"

"promise!"

Hu Cai led five hundred soldiers and stood behind Xi Zhicai.

"Bai Boerlang, charge with me!" Huang Zhong raised his sword and galloped his horse, heading straight for Mengjin's Shangdang barracks: "Kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

The soldiers of the Baibo army screamed one by one, and under the leadership of Huang Zhong, they charged forward.

The officers and men of Baibo cannot be said to be loyal to Mujing.

But they are absolutely surrendered to Huang Zhong, their commander in chief. That is surrender to the strong. Huang Zhong is never timid in battle. Under his leadership, everything goes.

So even when the Mu family collapsed, the Baibo army still persisted, it was because of Huang Zhong's personal charm and demeanor of a strong man.

"Enemy attack!"

"Close the gate quickly!"

"Beat the drum as a warning!"

"Send someone to inform the prefect!"

Looking at the enemy army that suddenly appeared several miles away from the watchtower above the gate, it suddenly became a little chaotic.

"Kill in!"

Soon Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses came to kill him, and Huang Zhong split open the door frame on the gate with a knife.

"Kill in!"

"Kill in!"

The bravery of the general made these Baibo soldiers charge forward one after another.

"Stop them!"

Zhang Yang appeared, he was dressed in armor, his face was livid: "Clan Mu is just dying, but he wants to break through from me, they are dreaming!"

It took them a whole month to build this camp, relying on the river bank, erecting two-person high wooden fences around it, and more than a dozen crossbow carts placed in front of the gate, so he was not afraid of anyone's attack.

"Archers, shoot arrows!"

"Crossbowman, roll out the crossbow bed!"

Although Zhang Yang is a civil servant, he used to follow Ding Yuan's subordinates and fought on the grassland for many years. He is no stranger to war. He faced the battle calmly, standing on the high gate, looking at the gate coldly: "Come on. Whoever committed the crime, report the name!"

"Nanyang Huang Zhong came here to take your life!"

Huang Zhong slashed bows and arrows and kept approaching.

"Huang Hansheng, I think you are talented, but you were only deceived by the shepherds before, and now you are allowed to abandon the darkness and turn to the light. If you are willing to surrender, I will plead with the allies and spare your life!" Zhang Yang shouted sharply.

"Hahaha!"

Huang Zhong laughed loudly. He swung the long knife and inserted it into the front shaft gate, causing the shaft gate to shake. Then he drew the bow and arrow from the horse's back, and the drawing of the bow and arrow was completed in an instant. The sharp arrow shot out: "This It's a certain company's answer to you!"

An arrow pierced through the air and went away like a streamer.

"not good!"

Zhang Yang didn't expect that this sharp arrow could reach him in more than 150 steps from bottom to top. He is not a general, so he panicked all of a sudden.

"Prefect be careful!"

A general stood in front of him and drew his sword, but it was too late, the sharp arrow had just arrived after his sword was drawn.

laugh!
The sharp arrow brushed past his sword edge, sparks sparked one after another, deviated from the direction, and pierced into the shoulder of this general.

"Bastard!"

Zhang Yang became angry from embarrassment, and he shouted coldly: "Shoot arrows for me and shoot them to death!"

"Whoa!!!!"

Another round of bows and arrows burst out from the camp, but blocked the charge of the Baibo army.

Southwest of the camp.

Xi Zhicai led five hundred soldiers and horses, looked ahead: "Break through the high fence, can you!"

"promise!"

There was a distance from the middle camp here, and there were not many troops deployed for defense. In addition, the main force of the Shangdang army was on the front gate, so the five hundred soldiers broke through the high fence.

Of course, even if they broke through the high fence, this little force would not be able to get out, but it was enough.

"Burn!" Xi Zhicai ordered.

One by one, the soldiers poured tung oil on it.

The fire was raging.

"It's on fire!"

Someone in the Shangdang barracks shouted.

"The wind is getting bigger and bigger, God help me!" Xi Zhicai laughed loudly: "Get out!"

They withdrew.

However, under the hurricane, the fire that was originally only in the first battalion at a deviating angle quickly spread to the entire battalion.

"what happened?"

"Why is our camp on fire!"

The wind helped the fire, and the fire spread quickly, covering the entire camp at once. Even if they camped by the river, they couldn't save the fire if they tried to put it out. Things got messed up.

"No, you despicable Huang Zhong actually set fire to my camp!"

Zhang Yang's originally stable mentality also became flustered at this time: "Retreat, get up quickly, all soldiers obey orders, immediately board the boat and return to the north of the river bank!"

"Boys, the first battalion stays here to block them, and the rest follow me to surround and kill to the west and fight along the river bank!" Huang Zhong quickly changed his layout.

The Shangdang army stationed many ships on the river bank, and they withdrew quickly.

However, Huang Zhong was prepared. Before, he risked losses and didn't use his bow and arrow reserves. At this time, all of them broke out and fought along the river bank. He broke through camps one after another, and then attacked the ships on the ferry with bows and arrows. .

Even if the Shangdang army boarded the boat, many of them were shot and fell into the Yellow River. The water in the river was almost dyed red. Naturally, there were many casualties.

This battle lasted for two full hours before it ended.

In the Shangdang army camp on Mengjin, the raging fire is still burning, and all the burning places are left with ruins. The camp built by the Shangdang army for a whole month has been reduced to nothingness.

"It's a pity, if there is an army to block their ships, they will definitely wipe out the enemy!"

Huang Zhong jumped off his horse and felt a little moved when he saw many ships leaving the range.

Although they won the battle, the Shangdang army had boats to cross the river, which still allowed them to find a way out, so their harvest was not ideal, and they did not eat up the entire Shangdang army.

"Don't be too greedy!"

Xi Zhicai said with a smile: "It's fine if you win the fight, the lord has already said, don't beat the snake to death!"

He looked up at the sky, and said: "It's past noon now, let the soldiers clean up the battlefield, and then rest for an hour, let's rush back to Luoyang as soon as possible, tomorrow is the day when the lord will perform the coronation ceremony, how can I wait for you?" field!"

"of course!"

Huang Zhong nodded.

……

News of the Battle of Mengjin spread quickly.

"What? The Shangdang army has been defeated!"

As the lord of the alliance, Yuan Shao led the main force to pass Luoshui, and in just one night, the troops could approach the city. When he suddenly heard the news of the Mengjin battle, he was startled: "Then did they break out?"

"no!"

Cao Cao shook his head and said, "They just raided Mengjin and defeated the Shangdang army, but the Shangdang army has gathered all the ships around Mengjin. Although they were defeated in the middle battalion, they still fled back to the north bank with their ships!"

"That's good!"

Yuan Shao heaved a sigh of relief: "I thought he was going east and west at Mu Jingsheng. One side shouted the crowning ceremony, and the other side broke through directly to the north. This caught me off guard!"

"The scouts are here to report that the main force of the Mu Clan is still in Luoyang!" Cao Cao said.

"So, he is determined to perform the crowning ceremony in Luoyang City!" Yuan Shu walked up from behind and said coldly: "He is only sixteen years old, so he is not qualified to perform the crowning ceremony, he is just a monkey It's just a crown!"

Men's [-] rows of crowns are the etiquette in the "Book of Rites".

Although in recent years, there have been many people who asked their families to perform crown ceremonies in order to advance their official careers, but they were basically kept secret and would not be so embarrassing.

Now Mujing is performing the crowning ceremony in front of everyone in the world.

It's nothing more than telling the world that Mu Jing is no longer a child with a yellow mouth, but a man who is qualified to inherit everything in the Mu family.

"This is why Mulongtu cannot be underestimated!"

Cao Cao narrowed his eyes and said quietly, "Among our encirclement, he is the only one who dares to be so bold!"

"Then I'll go down to Binglin City to have a look!" Yuan Shao sneered, "The day when he tied his hair and wore a crown was not the day when he became famous, but the day when he was buried in Luoyang!"

"They suddenly attacked Shangdang, I feel a little strange!"

Cao Cao thought for a while, then said suddenly.

"What's so strange?" Yuan Shu asked.

"No way!"

"It's nothing more than wanting to open up the road to the north. This shows that they are going to break through from the north. This is their only way to survive!" Yuan Shao said coldly: "The defense in the north is still too weak. The Shangdang army is so weak. If you don't fight, the Youzhou army is defeated, so I'm afraid they will send troops to help!"

"Otherwise let the Yanzhou army go north!"

"Yanzhou Army?"

Yuan Shao thought for a while, then nodded: "Alright!"

……

Pingyin City is not far from Mengjin.

"The Shangdang army defeated Mengjin?"

Jia Xu narrowed his eyes, and there was a glimmer of unknown meaning in his eyes: "Did the Mu's army break through the encirclement in advance?"

"not at all!"

Li Que said: "The Shangdang army retreated to the north bank, but consolidated the defense line!"

"That's weird!"

Jia Xu stood up: "I know that Mengjin is a gap, so I shouldn't attack the Shangdang army at this time. Isn't this telling the Shangdang army that they can't defend Mengjin? What do they mean..."

A cold light flashed across his eyes, he thought for a while, and said: "General Guo, General Li, you should push your troops up for fifty miles immediately, and you'd better find a way to cross the Yellow River and enter the south bank!"

"why?"

"Do not ask!"

"promise!"

Li Que and Guo Si nodded their heads.

(End of this chapter)