Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 138 Killing Man Chong in the East and Li Tong in the West (Tui Shu, Mi Han)
In the early autumn of July, the sun is shining brightly in the afternoon, and the autumn wind is coming slowly, bringing a little coolness to the hot summer and autumn social season.

Along the Tingshe post road in the east of Dingying City, there is a jungle stretching for several miles along the road. The trees have not yet turned yellow and withered, and the dense branches are hanging down, swaying in the breeze, making a rustling sound.

On the small slope east of the pavilion, several horses stand erect.After the galloping horse came over from a distance, they went down the small slope and stood by the road where the other side came and waited quietly.

Soon the group of people came close, and what caught Shen Chen's eyes was a middle-aged man with broad shoulders. He was travel-stained and smiling, like the most generous gentleman in the world, looking at him with a smile .

"Sir."

He said: "You have grown taller, and you have grown up!"

Seeing the man's still gentle words, Shen Chen couldn't hold back anymore, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, got off his horse and bowed on one knee: "Chen, I pay my respects to Lord Xuande."

This prayer is worth it.

Not only because he is Shen Chen's savior, but also because of his ideal of benevolence and love for the people, which is also the career that Shen Chen strives for all his life!

"We haven't seen each other for six years, Mr. Xiao is already an adult, don't act like a child anymore."

Liu Bei got off his horse and gently helped Shen Chen up. He grabbed Shen Chen's shoulders with both hands, and looked up and down carefully.

What he saw was no longer an eight-year-old child, but a mighty and robust young man.

The boy was fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a battle armor, showing his muscles, bronze arms, and a ring knife in his waist. His face was firm and his eyes were full of strength.

At this moment, Liu Bei thought of another child who had grown up with him.

Tian Yu.

It's just that Tian Yu was brought up by him alone, but he left him in the end.

However, Shen Chen only had a few contacts with him in Xuzhou back then, but now he still cares about him. Even though time flies, six years in a blink of an eye, the friendship seems to have never diminished.

But Liu Bei will not feel angry because Tian Yu left him after he raised Tian Yu.

Because he knew that Tian Yu had to support his elderly mother, just like he left his hometown to start a business after his mother died of illness.

Little Mister has also grown up.

Liu Bei lamented in his heart that he had been able to establish a foundation by himself, and even personally beheaded Cao Ren, the enemy who had killed his relatives. He was no longer the shivering child who hid in the sea of ​​fire back then.

"Duke Xuande's kindness, Chen will never forget."

Shen Chen said seriously: "If it wasn't for Gong, the thousands of clansmen in the Chenhuang Gate Pavilion would have been reduced to corpses like the hundreds of thousands of people who died in Xuzhou."

Liu Bei sighed and said: "At that time, I was a few generals and I couldn't resist Cao Cao's attack in Xuzhou. I felt sorry for the tens of thousands of people in Xuzhou. I wanted to send people to collect their corpses, but I didn't expect to be attacked by Yuan Shu and Lu Bu in turn. I had no choice but to go to the imperial court. I thought I could do something in front of Your Majesty, but Cao Cao pretended to be the emperor, but in fact he was in control of power, bullying the emperor, and arbitrarily ruling the government. I wanted to attack Cao Cao but was defeated by him many times. I wasted years, Nothing has been achieved, but now it is not as good as Mr. Xiao fought in Nanyang, beheading Cao Ren and Le Jin, showing his prestige."

Shen Chen encouraged: "It doesn't matter how many times a person is knocked down, what matters is whether he has the courage to get up again after being knocked down every time. Although you can't defeat Cao thief, you have been attacking Cao thief all the time. Your courage, this courage, is already commendable, so why should you be discouraged?"

"Mr. Little is right."

Liu Bei is also full of tenacity. He will not be lazy when encountering setbacks. He nodded seriously and said: "So this time I am going to contact the old department, recruit new troops, crusade against Cao Cao, and please the emperor!"

Shen Chen pointed to Dingying City in the west and said, "Since that's the case, let's start with the head of a man full of pets today."

"good!"

Liu Bei said happily, "It's exactly what I want."

Shen Chen cupped his hands and said: "Please surround the south and east gates, and then send another team to ambush in the west city. I will attack from the north gate. I expect that I will not be able to defeat you. It is very likely that I will defect to Li Tong from the west gate."

"it is good!"

Liu Bei said, "I'll make arrangements now."

The moment the two parted, Shen Chen turned back to the north. At this moment, his troops had already arrived outside Dingying City.

After returning to the camp, Shen Chen immediately issued an order to cut down trees outside the city, build a simple ladder, and then immediately began to attack the city of Dingying.

It was the same with Liu Bei. He didn't bring any large siege equipment and could only use simple ladders, but this did not prevent them from being confident in taking down the city, because there were too few defenders in Dingying City.

At this time, Man Chong in the city was on the south gate of Dingying. There were too many enemies coming from the south of the city, tens of thousands of people, almost filling up the entire official road, and putting him under great pressure.

His face was cloudy and uncertain, because the news that another enemy group suddenly appeared in the north of the city had just come in. He originally thought that although Liu Bei had tens of thousands of people, most of them were mobs recruited temporarily, very few elites, and they used the city to hold on , waiting for reinforcements.

But he didn't expect that another enemy came from the north. According to the scout's investigation, the banner was "Shen", obviously Shen Chen from Kunyang.

Kunyang is very close to Xiangcheng, only 40 kilometers away, but it is very far away from Dynamic.So when Xia Houyuan got the news, Man Chong didn't know about it yet.

Running for more than [-] miles in three days, and surprise Runan, who would have thought of this?

Now he has been surrounded by groups, except for the [-] elite soldiers he personally selected and recruited in the city, the rest of the former disciples of the Yuan family who surrendered before are quite turbulent inside and the morale of the army is very unstable.

Holding on to the city under such internal and external troubles is tantamount to a dead end.

So Man Chong had to find a way to escape.

The surrounding area of ​​Dingying is a plain, and the view from the top of the city is very good.

He waited and watched the south gate, and saw that Liu Bei had divided his troops early to surround the east gate, and at the same time, a large number of soldiers were cutting down the surrounding forests to build siege equipment.

Man Chong even vaguely saw some black spots going south, so he immediately said: "Liu Bei didn't even build a camp, I'm afraid he will attack the city soon, and I think there seems to be cavalry going south, so he must send people to detour , sent an ambush to the west city, this is one of the three sieges, if we break out from the west of the city, we may be ambushed."

Left and right said: "Fu Jun, what should we do now?"

"Let's break through."

He sighed.

If you wait, you will die, and once there is a rebellion in the city, you will die even faster.It's better to choose to leave immediately while Liu Beijun's siege offensive is not completed.

After all, he ordered the left and right, and immediately summoned [-] soldiers. The remaining soldiers who surrendered were not reliable and were in danger of rebellion, so he ordered them to guard the city. past.

It’s just that the more than 2000 soldiers who surrendered from Yuan’s old army in the city were not stupid. After receiving Man Chong’s order, they went to the top of the city to see that the three city gates in the southeast, north and south were surrounded by groups. But you, Man Chong, took 500 people to the west city gate. Isn't it obvious that you abandoned them and escaped alone?
Almost at the moment when Man Chong led five hundred confidants to the west city, a rebellion broke out at the south gate first, and someone opened the city gate. Liu Bei was still preparing to attack the city at this time. When he saw the city gate opened, there was no After hesitating, he immediately sent people to the city and learned that Man Chong was in Xicheng, so he immediately pursued him.

After the south city was destroyed, it didn't take long for the north city and the east city, but seeing the gate of the east city opened, Shen Chen immediately realized that there must be a rebellion in Manchong, and there was a high probability that he went to the west city to break through, so he personally led the scout cavalry , to kill toward the west gate.

In fact, Shen Chen's army didn't have many cavalry, only about a hundred of them. These horses were given to Zhang Xiu after he helped Zhang Xiu defeat Cao's army. After repeated battles, the cavalry as scouts suffered heavy casualties, and now there are less than 40 of them left.

It's just that there are not many cavalry on his side, and there are even fewer full favors. There are only seven or eight cavalry in total, and the rest are infantry.At this moment, the gate of the west city was wide open, and everyone quickly ran to the west, wanting to evacuate in the direction of Xiping.

But not long after he left the West City, the cavalry came galloping behind him.

Man Chong turned his head and saw that it was the enemy from the north of the city.

Unexpectedly, although Liu Bei was slow, Shen Chen reacted quickly, leading the cavalry to pursue him at the first time.

He is worthy of being able to fight Cao Gong several times without winning or losing.

His face was frozen like frost, his eyes seemed to burst into flames, and he shouted loudly: "Formation!"

"Combine!"

The shrill voices from left and right resounded through the sky.

The five hundred soldiers under Man Chong's command immediately began to line up nervously and orderly. Although there were not many people, they had a full range of troops. There were dozens of long halberds in the front row immediately in front of the formation, and dozens of bows and crossbows behind them Hands ready to go.

He looked around, his eyes were about to burst, and he shouted angrily: "If we don't fight to the death today, we will be wiped out. Survive to death, repel them, and we can return to Xiping!"

"Survive to death!"

Shouting left and right.

"Survive to death!"

The surrounding soldiers suddenly burst out with shocking roars, their morale was high.

Seeing this situation, Shen Chen in the distance immediately reined in the horse and shouted: "Stop the horse!"

"Shut up!"

Gan Ning and other knights immediately reined in their horses.

Shen Chen said: "Man Chong is not an incompetent person, and it is quite tricky to form an army in place. We will wait until Xuande's troops arrive."

The crowd stopped, about half a mile away, and looked at each other.

"Retreat one by one!"

Seeing him stop, Man Chong immediately raised the sword in his hand and shouted.

At this moment, it was a bit like Cao Cao's cavalry chasing Shen Chen when he withdrew from Xiangcheng to Kunyang.

Since the formation of infantry was extremely lethal to the cavalry, Cao Cao did not dare to take the initiative to attack. He just wanted to delay time and wait for the infantry from behind to come up.

The same is true now.

If Man Chong ran westward in a mess, Shen Chen would attack without hesitation.But this person was born at the bottom, not a child of a family, but in the end he was able to be the third Duke of Cao Wei, which shows that his talent is extraordinary.

The only problem is that at Ziyun Mountain, Shen Chen retreated one day earlier. Cao Cao's cavalry chased him overnight, and his infantry and supplies were a day behind. arrive.

But now the main force of Liu Bei's army is in the south of the city, only three or four miles away from the west of the city, and can arrive in an instant.

Although it is true that most of his troops are mobs, the only elite soldiers are the 3000 troops recruited by Zhao Yun in Yecheng and the [-] or [-] troops Yuan Shao gave him before he set off.

But the huge difference in numbers between the enemy and ourselves is no longer something that can be changed by the elite or not, let alone Liu Beishang related to Zhang Zhao Taishi Chen Dao and other fierce generals.

Soon, in this tense and exciting confrontation, Man Chong's team didn't go far at all, and the cavalry sent by Liu Bei had already stopped him on the post road less than ten miles away from Dingying City.

At the same time, Liu Bei's main infantry force was approaching.

At this time, Man Chong was surrounded by groups, he was still riding on the horse, his face was frosty, watching quietly.

In the beginning, if he had abandoned the five hundred steps and fled directly through the west city gate on horseback, he might have been able to leave, but it was too late now, and he was already surrounded.

But Manchong did not regret doing so, Tai Shigong said: People are inherently mortal, or die on Mount Tai, or die less than a feather.At least even if he died in battle today, it was for the court, for Duke Cao!
"Man Chong, surrender."

Wearing armor, Liu Bei rode his horse forward and said loudly, "Cao Cao is not worth your life."

Man Chong responded in a cold voice: "Liu Bei, Mr. Cao has treated you well, but you have repeatedly rebelled. An unfaithful person like you is worthy of persuading me to surrender?"

"Cao Cao treats me well?"

Liu Bei's eyes were red at that time, and he scolded angrily: "Yes, he treats me well. But do you know how he treats the emperor? Killing the uncle of the country, tyrannizing the noble concubine, and even the prince in his belly. I saw it with my own eyes. The emperor begged bitterly, asking Cao Cao not to blame the imperial concubine, but he still ordered the imperial concubine to be strangled. May I ask whether this big man is Cao Cao's big man, or His Majesty's big man? I am entrusting the emperor's name to punish this traitor. What is wrong? Is there any? On the contrary, you and other traitors who disregarded the emperor's life and helped the tyrant to abuse him, their hearts can be punished!"

"Humph."

Man Chong snorted coldly: "The uncle and noble concubine of the country conspired to cause chaos, and there will be more than one death."

Liu Bei pointed at him and said angrily: "Shut up, you shameless thief, this is the emperor's order to my uncle and me to secretly get rid of Cao Cao and other national thieves. Your majesty ordered you to open your eyes for him, and you are also worthy Scholar?"

"Mr. Xuande, there is no need to reason with this kind of young people who have no king and no father."

Shen Chen pulled out the ring sword at his waist, looked at Man Chong coldly and said, "Even a respected veteran of the three dynasties like Wen Xiangong tortured and bullied him. This thief has the same nature as Cao Cao, and he is completely inhumane." A cruel man. The Son of Heaven is still waiting for our rescue in Xudu, and the princes of the Manchu Dynasty are still waiting for us, so kill him."

"kill!"

Liu Bei raised the sword in his hand and pointed at Man Chong.

"kill!"

The army led by Guan Zhang Taishi and others surrounded the Man Chong army layer by layer.

The crossbow and arrows shot continuously, but there were too few Manchu people, and there were only dozens of crossbowmen, so the lethality was limited.

On the contrary, Shen Chenjun and Liu Beijun's front army pressed forward, with shields blocking the front, and the crossbowmen kept shooting. They had too many arrows, covering the sky and overwhelming the Manchu army, causing one third of them to be killed or injured in an instant.

The next moment, Shen Chen Gan Ning, Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Tai Shi Ci and others had already led the infantry into the Man Chong army formation, and his troops were directly disbanded.

Among the rebellious army, Man Chong's mount was shot with an arrow, and he flew around wildly, throwing him off his horse, and smashing him heavily into the field next to the post road.

He struggled to get up and raised his head, but saw a blade reflecting cold light swinging towards his neck under the afternoon sun.

"Pfft!"

Blood spattered, and under the tremendous force, the human head fell from the shoulders, and Man Chong's eyes were wide open until he died.

Shen Chen kicked his body down and wiped the blood on the knife with his clothes.

This later Cao Wei's cool official died like this.

Gan Ning said regretfully, "Achen, you are too quick."

"When dealing with the enemy, you should strike like lightning."

Shen Chen looked back, the battlefield was basically calmed down at this time, 5000 people fought 500 people, there was no suspense in the first place, once Man Chong died, the remaining people would naturally surrender.

The soldiers cleaned up the battlefield under the command of officers at all levels, while Shen Chen took Gan Ning to meet Liu Bei.

Liu Bei was on a small hillside. When the two came over, he had already directed the soldiers to escort the prisoners and pick up the weapons and equipment that fell on the ground.

Although Yuan Shao gave him a lot of supplies and troops, for Liu Bei, there was no way to bring a large amount of luggage when he went deep into the enemy's rear, so weapons and equipment were in short supply.Among the more than [-] people, there are even thousands of people whose weapons are very rough and inferior, so he can't waste every knife and halberd.

"Mr. Xuande."

Shen Chen came over and saluted Liu Bei, "Are the soldiers still physically strong?"

Liu Bei asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

Shen Chen said: "Man Chong stayed until now because he didn't know we were here. He thought that the soldiers recruited by the public were not elite soldiers. He could rely on the city to hold on and wait for Li Tong's reinforcements. Now that he is running away, he saw me. When the army arrived, they fled out of the city, but it was too late. This shows that Li Tong is probably on his way, so we should go to Xiping immediately and set up an ambush on the post road."

There were Jian Yong, Sun Qian, Mi Zhu, Mi Fang and others beside Liu Bei. Hearing his words, Mi Zhu said in surprise: "Since we are going to beat Li Tong, why don't we just wait in the city for work?"

"Zi Zhonggong!"

Seeing Mi Zhu in the crowd, Shen Chen cupped his hands respectfully and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, sir, you're all right."

"Everything is fine."

Looking at this young man, Mi Zhu felt quite admirable.

Back then, Huang Menting's field was still managed by him, but now the two of them are not what they used to be.

Mi Zhu is no longer a rich businessman in Xuzhou, but General Zuo who wandered around with Liu Bei and worked as a Zhonglang.

And Shen Chen is no longer the country child he was back then, but now he has become a general under Liu Biao's command, and even defeated Cao Cao in Nanyang, beheading Cao Ren and Le Jin, and his reputation spread far and wide.

"Just be well, sir."

Shen Chen explained: "The reason for setting up an ambush on the post road is because Li Tong is afraid of losing his favor, so he will march at full speed and will not send scouts to check the surrounding situation all the time. But after arriving at Dingying, he will become vigilant, Send out scouts to investigate in a large area, if you let him see the clues, know that the city is broken, Man Chong is dead, and it will be more difficult to defeat him."

Now that Man Chong is being besieged by Liu Bei, Li Tong must be very anxious, so he instinctively thinks that the enemy is in Dingying, and the surrounding area of ​​Xiping is very safe, so he marches at high speed, and will not stop until he is [-] to [-] miles away from Dingying, and send scouts to investigate .

This is the standard siege to fight for reinforcements. In later generations, I, the founding general Xu, liked this tactic the most. Every time he besieged a certain place, he immediately marched to find a dangerous place to set up an ambush near the enemy reinforcements stationed, and then waited for the enemy to hurry up. When I went to reinforce the besieged place, I was hit head-on not long after I left the house.

Therefore, it is very important to grasp the enemy's psychology when fighting such a thing.

Hearing Shen Chen's words, Mi Zhu thought carefully for a moment, and sighed: "No wonder my lord calls you Mr. Xiao. Such intelligence is indeed far superior to mine."

　A friend asked how Guan Yu came from the previous chapter. The friend went back and read the previous chapter. It said that Guan Yu heard that Liu Bei was recruiting soldiers in Runan, so he immediately bid farewell to Cao Cao and took his two sisters-in-law and wives to join Liu Bei.

　　In addition, the push book, Mi Han, is about Mi Fang's son.My book is in the middle and late period of the Three Kingdoms, and his book is in the late period, which is very good-looking.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)