Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 259 Those who say they will retreat will be killed! (Thanks to Mike_Stone's godfather for his ten monthly tickets~)

After leaving Xicheng, Li Yan headed towards Ziwu Valley as planned.

However, after running less than a few miles, the sound of hurried horse hooves suddenly came from behind!

Li Yan was not surprised. Instead, he looked delighted and hurried towards Ziwu Valley with his men.

When they reached the entrance of Ziwu Valley, Guo Si finally caught up with 5,000 cavalrymen and shouted:
"General Li Yan, wait a moment! I have been ordered to return the food and fodder to you!"

Li Yan looked back at the weapons in the enemy's hands that reflected the cold light, and immediately responded with a sneer:
"Do you think I, Li Yan, am a fool? You want to kill us? No way!"

After saying that, Li Yan quickly led his soldiers into Ziwu Valley.

Seeing this, Guo Si sped up without hesitation and chased into Ziwu Valley.

However, when they went deeper into the valley, they were shocked to find that Li Yan and his companions were missing!

Just as Guo Si and his men were puzzled, a cannon shot suddenly came from the top of the valley on both sides!
Countless Hanzhong soldiers appeared at the top of the valley. The leader wore a blue scarf on his head and held a strong bow in his hand. He shouted at Guo Si in the valley:
"How dare you, a bunch of scoundrels, steal my food and kill my soldiers?
"You will be buried here today!"

Jiang Qin, who was ordered to ambush here, immediately ordered the ambush troops in the valleys on both sides to shoot arrows and throw stones!
In an instant, countless arrows and boulders fell towards Guo Si's army in the valley like heavy rain and rolling meteors.

Guo Si in the valley was already frightened and his horse was in a panic. He hurriedly shouted to the cavalry behind him:
"Quickly evacuate the valley! Quickly evacuate the valley!!"

Jiang Qin had already drawn his bow and aimed his arrow at Guo Si, who had a fierce face and was very conspicuous.

There was a "whoosh" sound, and the arrow hit Guo Si in the face!
Guo Si screamed towards the sky, fell off his horse and died!

With the death of their commander, the remaining cavalry became even more panicked.

Countless people were shot to death by arrows, crushed to death by rolling stones, or trampled to death by each other!
In the end, only less than a thousand people managed to escape from the valley.

Li Yan stood beside Jiang Qin, looking at the fleeing enemy troops and smiled excitedly:
"Next, it will be up to General Han Dang and General Cheng Pu."

Jiang Qin's mouth curled up, and he was also happy because of his contribution:
"Our mission is not over yet.

“Next, we will spread rumors in Hanzhong that Li Jue and Guo Si led a large army to rob the people of their food and kill our soldiers.

“Let everyone in Hanzhong, the lord’s territory, and even the world know that it was the emperor who violated the contract first.

“In this way, not many people will accuse our army of betrayal.

"And our army can directly obtain two counties for free, and let the lord obtain the title of duke!
"I have to say, Chen Gongtai's plan is brilliant!"

After Li Yan and the other man chatted for a few words, he immediately led two thousand soldiers away.

the other side.

Li Jue, who was still waiting for good news from Guo Si in the city, suddenly saw hundreds of remaining soldiers fleeing back in a panic.

It was learned that Guo Si led his troops into Ziwu Valley and encountered an ambush and was shot dead by the enemy on the spot!

Li Jue was so angry that his whole body was shaking. He drew his sword and chopped the crescent-shaped foot in front of him into two pieces!
"There is an ambush in Ziwu Valley? It's possible that Li Yan didn't have time to evacuate West City, but was waiting for us to arrive!

"They deliberately let our army see the food and fodder, and lured us to chase them, so as to defeat us!"

Although Li Jue lacked foresight, he was not completely brainless.

Recalling that there was no food and no people in the first two cities, I'm afraid it wasn't the people who wanted to leave on their own initiative.

Instead, the enemy took away all the food and young and middle-aged civilians!
This is to deliberately provoke them and induce them to kill.

Eventually, they couldn't help but chase after Li Yan, leading to the current situation...

Now that he clearly knew the enemy's intentions, Li Jue no longer dared to continue taking over the remaining cities.

He immediately wrote another letter and ordered someone to send it to Chang'an as quickly as possible!

He quickly gathered the more than 800 soldiers who had escaped.

With less than 26,000 men left, Li Jue planned to defend the city to prevent the enemy from counterattacking. But what Li Jue didn't expect was that only an hour later, 20,000 enemy troops arrived at the gates of the city!

The leader was holding an iron-backed snake spear and looked to be in his forties. He was none other than Cheng Pu, a lieutenant general under Lu Bu!
Before Li Jue could speak, Cheng Pu led the army and shouted in unison:
"The emperor broke his promise and allowed his bandits to steal our food, kill our soldiers, and bully our people! We must take revenge!"

Cheng Pu and his men kept shouting but did not attack the city. They kept shouting like this for a long time.

When this group of people got tired, the next group would take over and shout, not giving Li Jue any chance to refute.

Li Jue's soldiers listened to the shouts of Cheng Pu and his men. They were already out of touch with the news and subconsciously believed what the enemy said.

And in fact, they did rob other people's food first, and then sent people to hunt them down.

As for bullying the people... they did that when they first entered the city.

But since there was no murder or arson, it’s not serious, right?
Amid the constant accusations from their enemies and their constant self-doubt.

The morale of Li Jue's army also dropped a lot without them noticing.

It was not until it got dark that Cheng Pu led the army to retreat five miles away to set up camp and cook.

Li Jue, who had been scolded on the city wall for a whole day, was already filled with anger.

Seeing that the enemy was building a camp, he must have been very tired after scolding them for a whole day.

He felt that if he went out to attack the enemy at this time, he would surely win a great victory!

Thinking of this, Li Jue immediately ordered Fan Chou, who had surrendered voluntarily when Lu Bu killed Dong Zhuo, to lead 10,000 soldiers to attack the enemy!
Fan Chou led the army quietly out of the east gate, and then divided the troops into two groups to attack Cheng Pu's army in the west!

Just when Fan Chou thought that the enemy must be in panic due to fatigue.

However, Cheng Pu had already ordered the soldiers to put down their work and take up their weapons.

The team was fully assembled before the enemy rushed over!
Under the leadership of Cheng Pu, they marched towards Fan Chou's army in unison!
Fan Chou's army never expected that the enemy would respond so quickly.

The soldiers, whose morale was already low, were frightened and retreated in an instant by the enemy force that was twice their size. They lost all their momentum!
Fan Chou didn't want to make a wasted trip, so he shouted angrily:

"Everyone, come at me! Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed!"

Under the pressure of Fan Chou, the soldiers were forced to meet the enemy.

In order to boost the morale of his army, Fan Chou saw the enemy general Cheng Pu and rushed towards him with a long-handled sledgehammer.

Seeing this, Cheng Pu also rushed forward with his Iron-Backed Snake Spear.

When the two horses were about to get close, Fan Chou quickly swung his sledgehammer and smashed it towards Cheng Pu!

The golden hammer head, which was approximately a rectangular block, smashed towards Cheng Pu's chest with great force!
Faced with such a powerful weapon, Cheng Pu did not dare to block it with his snake spear.

But the advantage of his snake spear is that it is nearly three meters long!

He suddenly leaned back and lay on the horse's back to avoid the sledgehammer. The snake spear in his hand stabbed towards Fan Chou's throat like a poisonous snake spitting out its tongue!
Fan Chou immediately turned his head away.

The two of them each dodged the enemy's first wave of attacks.

Then the two turned back and fought each other for nearly thirty rounds!

However, Fan Chou was able to hold on, but his soldiers could no longer hold on.

Faced with the continuous charge of 20,000 troops, Fan Chou's soldiers fought and retreated.

Fan Chou had been completely surrounded by Cheng Pu's soldiers without realizing it!

When he reacted and wanted to escape, Cheng Pu suddenly thrust his spear forward and instantly hit Fan Chou's back!

Although it failed to penetrate his body, it had penetrated his armor.

Cheng Pu swung his horse to the side with force, directly throwing Fan Chou off his horse!
(End of this chapter)