Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 438

The raging fire burned Luoyang, and tens of thousands of boats sailed on the Luoshui River.

The breakout campaign continues.

Mujing stood on the pier with rainbow-like eyes, watching the flames around him constantly urging, but there was no movement at all.

"How many soldiers from the Vanguard Battalion have returned?"

"Less than half!"

Chen Dao replied.

The Pioneer Battalion was in charge of burning Luoyang, and they would pay the price. Moreover, they burned Luoyang under the eyes of the Kwantung Allied Army and the Xiliang Army, and there were many casualties. Half of them have come back now, which is already good.

But Lei Hu, the captain of the Pioneer Battalion, has not returned yet.

"hold on!"

Mu Jing clenched his fists.

But he could hold his breath, Xi Zhicai was already a little impatient, and he persuaded in a low voice: "My lord, the fire has spread Luoyang, and those who haven't come back may not be able to come back. We can't wait any longer. It's going to be dawn soon, and once it's dawn, we can't hide the news that we went out from Luoshui River, and we will definitely be attacked by them!"

"I believe in Thunder Tiger!"

Mu Jing firmly said: "I have given up too many people, from now on, I will never give up one!"

Lei Hu is his life-and-death brother. It must be dangerous for the Pioneer Battalion to go to the fire prevention in person. This task really needs to be done by him, but he also firmly believes that Lei Hu can come back. The brother who came down from Mushroom Mountain at the beginning is probably not even five points. If one of them is not enough, keep as much as you can.

"It will be dawn in half an hour at most. When they react, we may be blocked in Luoyang City, or even burned to death by our own fire!"

Xi Zhicai said coldly.

"I said wait!" Mu Jing persisted.

"Mulongtu, you are not alone now, you are the master of all of us, do you still want to repeat the same mistakes?" Xi Zhicai also became excited.

The two stared at each other like cross-eyed eyes, refusing to give in to each other.

Tatata! ! !
Suddenly, the sound of horseshoes resounded from the flames.

"My lord, it's Lieutenant Lei!" Zhang Liao shouted as he climbed up and looked into the distance.

"Go and meet up!"

Mu Jing let out a loud shout.

"Yes!"

Dozens of cavalry jumped out, each carrying a bucket of water, and rescued more than ten people from the flames.

"Ha ha!"

Lei Hu's face was dark, but his smile was optimistic. When he saw Mu Jing, he laughed loudly: "I almost became a roast pig!"

"How can you be burned to death so easily!"

Mu Jing kicked him and said: "Get on the boat quickly, we have to go, there is no time to waste now!"

"How many people came back from my pioneer camp?"

When Lei Hu boarded the boat, he saw a few of his subordinates, he didn't care about the burn marks on his body, and hurriedly smelled them.

"Report to the captain, only more than 300 soldiers have returned!"

A military marquis said in grief and indignation.

"Lin Fang!"

"Here!" Lieutenant General Shi Linfang of the Pioneer Battalion stood up.

"Soldiers who have not returned, protect the roster. When we return to Luoyang one day, I will personally erect a monument for them in this city!"

"promise!"

Lin Fang nodded.

Thousands of boats quietly left Luoyang City along the Luoshui River and the river to the west, and left the sea of ​​flames.

……

……

The night is over, and the sky is bright.

On the sea level in the east, a round of morning sun was slowly rising, but the pouring sunlight did not bring light to Luoyang. At this moment, Luoyang city was still burning in the sea of ​​flames, with its own light, even the scorching sun , can't hide this ray of light.

Outside the upper east gate.

The Kwantung Allied Forces have withdrawn from Luoyang City one after another, but they also suffered huge casualties when they withdrew.

Even Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, and the others looked extremely embarrassed, and Zhang Miao, the prefect of Chenliu, was almost crushed by a beam and immediately caught fire. Fortunately, Cao Cao's department rescued Cao Ren, who saved his life and escaped from the sea of ​​flames.

When they were resting outside the upper east gate, looking at the raging fire in Luoyang City with their eyes, they felt a little bit of fear in their hearts.

However, Cao Cao had recovered by this time.

He didn't care about the smoky look on his face, and looked at the fire in Luoyang City with sharp eyes, and said gloomyly: "Mu Longtu is definitely not a person who set himself on fire. This fire must have For this reason, perhaps he used this fire to pick out the encirclement of Luoyang City!"

"You mean, Mulongtu has already broken out of Luoyang City?"

Yuan Shao panted, and frowned tightly: "Impossible, we have our troops in the north and south, if he breaks through, it is impossible for him to be completely silent!"

"South is unlikely!"

Yuan Shu said: "Jiangdong Army and Yuzhou Army are strictly on guard. They can't break out of the encirclement at all, except for the Beimang Mountains in the north. They don't care about life and death and go straight into that vast mountain!"

"probably not!"

Someone said: "Beimang is so deep and dangerous, with poor mountains and bad waters, a lot of miasma, and wild beasts emerging one after another. If you are a small group of elite soldiers, you can still enter, but if you have an army of more than [-], it is impossible to enter. And even if you enter, there must be a lot of movement from them." , how could there be no news at all.”

"Come on!"

Yuan Shao gave a low drink.

"exist!"

"Order Zhang Yang, the prefect of the Shangdang, and Liu Bei, the general of Youzhou, to send troops into Beimang immediately!"

"Yes!"

"Where is the scout captain!"

"exist!"

"Immediately send out all the scouts of our coalition forces to keep an eye on the direction of the north and south gates!" Yuan Shao said coldly: "Any trouble, please report immediately!"

"promise!"

Thousands of scouts dispersed.

"Everyone set up camp first, the wounded soldiers must be healed immediately, and take a good rest!" Yuan Shao relaxed after making some arrangements, and faced the princes gently.

"Yes!"

All the princes nodded, and began to station their ministries.

Although they attacked and entered the city yesterday, the supply of food and grass was still outside the city, so their food and grass were not burned. Otherwise, even if they escaped today, the coalition forces would probably disperse.

……

In the western suburbs, on the sunset pavilion.

Dong Zhuo was very embarrassed, he had fought for many years, except for the one time he suffered a big loss in the Yellow Turban Army, he had never been so embarrassed, he almost died in the endless sea of ​​flames.

"How many soldiers were injured?"

He gritted his teeth and asked.

"A loss of eight thousand!"

Li Ru replied calmly.

"What a picture of a herding dragon, his heart must be his father, and he is even more vicious!" Dong Zhuo said coldly: "It's too cheap to burn him. If he falls into my hands, he will kill him a thousand times!" Cut to death!"

"My lord, I'm afraid there is something wrong with this matter!"

Li Rudao: "Mulongtu is definitely not a person who just sits and waits to die. He will not set himself on fire. If he burns Luoyang, I'm afraid he has other plans!"

"Another plan?"

Dong Zhuo raised his head, his copper-bell-like pupils flickered coldly, and looked at Li Ru: "You mean, they have already broken out!"

"I have no idea!"

Although Li Ru still couldn't figure out Mu Jing's intentions, he never believed that Mu Jing was buried in the sea of ​​fire just like that. In his heart, that young man was more scheming than his father: "But I think If they break through, they will go to the north and south, and the Jiangdong military camp in the south will not move. I don’t think they have the ability to pass through, so they will go to the north. I have already sent an order to the north, and now we will see how the news from the north comes back!”

With heavy troops stationed on both sides of the east and west, it is impossible for them to break out of the siege. The most likely way is to break out of Luoyang City from the north to the south.

"Then keep an eye on it, and never let this beast leave, otherwise a certain family may have trouble sleeping and eating in the future!"

Dong Zhuo said desperately.

……

……

A fire in Luoyang city had been burning for a full day and night, but the fire still didn't stop. The thousand-year-old capital was once in ruins.

The soldiers and horses surrounding Luoyang were still on alert.

Heavy troops were stationed in the four directions of southeast, northwest and north.

July [-]th.

morning.

The southern suburbs of Luoyang.

Jiangdong tent.

Sun Jian was discussing with his adviser Cheng Pu.

"Demou is still vigilant. The fire in Luoyang has been burning for a day and two nights. It can bury everyone. If Demou hadn't stopped it the night before, I'm afraid our Jiangdong Army will suffer heavy casualties again!" Sun Jian was a little lucky.

The day before yesterday they did prepare to encircle Luoyang.

But Cheng Pu stopped him.

Jiangdong Army has suffered heavy casualties since its defeat. It has not recovered its strength yet, and there is no need to be a vanguard. All suggestions are for Sun Jian to take it easy and not to claim credit. It will not be too late to go in after Luoyang City is captured.

Sun Jian listened to Cheng Pu's suggestion and stood still. Unexpectedly, Luoyang was set on fire that night. Whether it was the Xiliang Army or the Kwantung Allied Army, there were many casualties, but the Jiangdong Army escaped.

"I didn't expect that Mu Longtu, a 16-year-old boy who just had his coronation ceremony, would be so ruthless that he would set Luoyang City on fire!" Cheng Pu sighed, "The Imperial Capital of the Han Dynasty was destroyed!"

"The father and son of the shepherds have sounded the death knell of the big man!"

Sun Jian was full of enthusiasm, and gradually cooled down, and his emotions were also very anxious.

"Report!"

At this time, outside the gate of the camp, a fast horse came galloping, holding a command flag, and went straight into the middle tent: "Master, Yimin Pass is lost, and our food and grass have been taken away!"

"what?"

Sun Jian raised his eyebrows and stared angrily, "When did it happen?"

"yesterday afternoon!"

"Where is Huang Gai? I asked him to lead three thousand troops to suppress Yimin Pass. Where is he?"

"Lieutenant Huang was seriously injured. The three thousand Jiangdong Army had already lost countless casualties, and less than a third of them escaped. The captain called me Xingye to report!"

"Where is the army that attacked me at Yimin Pass? The Xiliang Army?"

Yimin Pass, Luoyang South Pass, Sun Jian's army was defeated here at the beginning, and later Xiliang withdrew his troops. The Jiangdong Army took this pass without any effort to destroy it, and used this small pass as a logistics reserve. Jiangdong's grain and grass are all placed here to avoid defeat on the front line.

"No, their battle flag is shaped like a violent bear. It should be the pattern of the violent bear army, the flame battle flag, and the violent bear army. It must be the battle flag of the violent bear army!" the scout said in a deep voice.

"impossible!"

Sun Jian trembled when he heard this, and said darkly: "The Mu Clan's army has been besieged and killed in Luoyang City. Even if they don't die in the sea of ​​flames, they won't be able to attack me!"

"Yimin Pass, the pass is surrounded by mountains and water, and the water...damn it!"

Cheng Pu suddenly realized, he stood up, walked to the topographic map of Luoyang staring at the screen: "Luoshui, they left Luoyang City along Luoshui, we were all fooled!"

……

……

The Luoshui River runs directly through Henan and Hongnong on this day, flows from the northeast to the southwest, exits from Luoyang, passes through Yiyang County, passes through Lushi County, and flows to Xiong'er Mountain
Within the territory of Yiyang.

On the river, go boating, of course, the number of this boat is too much.

"My lord, the Violent Bear Army and the Yellow Turban Army are already able to disembark from Yimin Pass!"

Xi Zhicai reported.

"Where's Baibo Army?"

"On the river twenty miles ahead, keep going!"

"Let's get ready too!"

Mu Jing said: "According to the original plan, land from Yiyang County!"

The troops were divided into three groups to break through Guanzhong.

The Yellow Turban Army and the Violent Bear Army are the main force, swaggering through the market.

Jing Ping's army is a surprise soldier, who came out suddenly from hiding.

It was the Baibo army who was covering, and Huang Zhong was in charge of sending some Mu clan officials, Mu clan courtiers, family members of generals, and Mu Jing's wife and children to their destinations.

The soldiers are divided into three groups.

This is their breakout strategy.

And the purpose...

Go south to the west of Nanyang.

Then go straight from the west of Nanyang to Hanzhong.

His ultimate destination, Hanzhong.

(End of this chapter)