Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1140 Zhou Yu is overjoyed
"Humph, you two are really here. You dare to plot against my brother. Prepare to die."

Liu Zheng shouted angrily and raised his gun to kill the two Shen brothers.

The Shen brothers' martial arts naturally could not compare with his. If they fought alone, they would probably not last more than ten rounds. But now Liu Zheng was fighting one against two, and the two were brothers who had practiced martial arts together since childhood, so they naturally cooperated with each other tacitly. Therefore, the three of them fought for forty or fifty rounds. Although Liu Zheng had the upper hand, he could not defeat them for a while.

However, as the fire grew bigger and bigger, the soldiers he brought from Shangyong were unable to resist the sudden attack of thousands of weaker forces on the opposite side and were beaten back step by step. The two brothers were also anxious.

The two brothers rode their horses back and forth, not fighting with Liu Zheng all the time. They moved around and dodged while communicating in low voices.

"Brother, this is not a solution. Even if the reinforcements from the lord and Gongjin are fast, it will take an hour to arrive. By then, the soldiers under your command and I are afraid that more than 30% will be killed or wounded, and those who flee will add up to more than 30%. If this happens, we will definitely be punished by the lord, and we will inevitably be neglected by the lord in the future and will not be able to use him again."

Shen Dan was not in a hurry when he heard this.

"Don't worry, a few soldiers killed in battle are nothing. Now that you and I control the Shangyong area, it won't be difficult to recruit a few thousand new soldiers. As for Liu Zheng, I deliberately let him have the upper hand. After all, he is young and has a strong mentality. Once he relaxes his guard, my crossbow will take care of him."

Shen Yi smiled happily when he heard this.

As they were talking, the two of them went around several tents. Liu Zheng also came over from the other side, and the three of them fought again.

The three of them fought for dozens of rounds again. Shen Yi was the first to lose his hold and in a moment of carelessness, the weapon in his hand was knocked away by Liu Zheng.

"Oh no! That's terrible!"

Shen Yi thought to himself that something was wrong. When he was about to pick up his weapon, Liu Zheng stabbed him in the face with a gun. He was forced to dodge in a hurry and almost fell off his horse. It was a very thrilling experience.

"Humph, you thief, I'll take your life first."

Liu Zheng snorted coldly and thrust out with his spear repeatedly, each shot hitting Shen Yi's vital points.

Just as Shen Yi had no way to avoid being stabbed, he suddenly heard a "whoosh" sound, and Shen Yi was immediately overjoyed.

A short arrow flew through the air. In the darkness, even though Shen Yi knew the direction it came from and looked in the direction, he couldn't find the arrow for a moment.

"Great! It's such a covert attack. Let's see how you can resist it when you are completely unprepared."

Shen Yi was very pleased.

However, reality soon froze his smile on his face.

Liu Zheng seemed to have anticipated this. When the arrow was shot out, he swung his spear without even turning around to check. The tip of the spear hit the arrow squarely with a crisp sound.

"You...you..." Shen Dan, who was hiding behind a tent and shooting cold arrows, looked at this scene and was so surprised that he couldn't speak for a long time.

"Hehe, such a petty trick. You used it to plot against my third brother that day. I thought I was unprepared. Do you really think that I, a prince of the Han Dynasty, would be as impatient as an ordinary teenager?"

Liu Zheng sneered, but his hands did not stop. He stabbed out with a gun, hitting Shen Yi who was still in surprise.

"Puff..." Shen Yi spat out a mouthful of blood, his eyes widened, staring at Liu Zheng, his mouth opened as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it and fell to the ground dead.

"Second brother!" Shen Dan was furious and glared at Liu Zheng fiercely.

"You little brat, I'm going to cut you into pieces!"

Liu Zheng was full of disdain: "Just you? You don't know how to live or die, and you dare to resist the imperial power. You deserve this fate. This prince will do some good things to reunite you and your brothers."

At the same time, in Nanzheng City behind Liu Zheng, Zhuge Liang frowned as he looked at the military report from the front that had just been sent back.

"It's unreasonable. With Zhou Gongjin's wisdom, even if he didn't expect our army to launch a surprise attack tonight, he shouldn't have been so lax in his defense. How could our army push into the Shen camp so easily? It's really unreasonable."

Although the combat effectiveness of the Shen brothers was low, even with the troops assigned to him by Sun Ce, their combat effectiveness was far from comparable to the well-equipped and veteran elite troops, but according to Zhuge Liang's original prediction, this night attack was only to hit the morale of the Shangyong army and separate them from the Jiangdong army, so as to prepare for the next move. However, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu must have known this, but even so, they still placed the Shen brothers' military camp at the forefront. Zhuge Liang originally thought that they would be prepared, so he only let Liu Zheng go to make a tentative attack and return immediately if there was any problem.

But now it seems that before the reinforcements from Jiangdong arrive, the Han army is enough to inflict a great blow to the Shangyong army. It seems that Zhou Yu has not laid any backup plan in the Shen army camp at all. This is really beyond Zhuge Liang's expectations.

"What went wrong..."

Zhuge Liang paced back and forth on the city wall, holding the military report in his hand, sometimes looking at the fire in the distance, sometimes lowering his head to think.

After a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and the waving of his feather fan paused.

"Could it be that... Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are trying to kill two birds with one stone? We should prepare for this sooner rather than later."

And behind the Shen brothers' military camp, in a forest about three miles away, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, wearing armor, were watching the fighting in the army ahead. Instead of being anxious and angry, their faces were filled with joy.

"Gongjin, just as you expected, there are no generals left in Nanzheng City. Liu Zheng and Zhuge Liang are both at their wit's end."

Sun Ce was obviously a little excited, and his eyes were full of eagerness to try.

Zhou Yu smiled elegantly, "A few days ago, our scouts learned that Guan Ping was seriously wounded by an arrow and retreated to the rear to recuperate. I was not sure whether it was true or not. Tonight, Liu Zheng led his troops to attack at night. From this point of view, the credibility of this news should be more than 80%. Otherwise, Liu Zheng is not a risk-seeking person. If Guan Ping was only slightly injured and was still in the city, he would not have braved the arrows and stones to attack at night."

"In this case, should we send out troops?" Sun Ce asked impatiently.

Zhou Yu smiled slightly, "No hurry. Although it seems that Guan Ping is not in Nanzheng at the moment, it is more than 80% credible, but it still cannot be ruled out that it is Zhuge Liang's conspiracy. Just in case, it is better to wait a little longer. If Liu Zheng comes here just to test, he will definitely retreat after killing the two Shens and will not dare to fight. If Guan Ping leads the army behind and is ready to respond at any time, Liu Zheng comes here to attract our army to fight and then ambush our army, then he will definitely continue to fight, and even cross the camp in front of us to provoke us. At that time, the truth will naturally be distinguished."

Sun Ce looked at his smile and was stunned for a moment, but he quickly understood.

"Haha, it turns out Gongjin had already planned on the Shen brothers. I was worrying too much."

Zhou Yu looked at him and replied, "My Lord, isn't that what you are thinking? Since you want to seize Hanzhong, how can you let Shangyong, as the key point connecting Jingzhou to Hanzhong, be controlled by such a treacherous villain?"

Sun Ce looked into his eyes and said, "The one who understands me is Gongjin, hahahaha..."

In the camp, Liu Zheng used a spear to pick up the head of Shen Dan that he had just chopped off and shouted loudly.

"The two thieves of the Shen clan have been executed. Those who surrender will not be killed!"

The three thousand Han soldiers also shouted together.

"The two thieves of the Shen clan have been executed. Those who surrender will not be killed!"

"The two thieves of the Shen clan have been executed. Those who surrender will not be killed!"

After hearing the news, many of the enemy troops who were still fighting dropped their weapons, knelt down and surrendered, but there was another part that not only did not surrender, but fought even more fiercely, as if they were trying to escape from the battlefield.

Among those who wanted to surrender, most were from Shangyong. They were not very loyal to the Shen brothers. Most of them yearned for the rule of the Luoyang court. Now that they had the opportunity to surrender to the Han army in Luoyang, they were naturally happy to do so.

Those who were unwilling to surrender were the Jiangdong soldiers and horses that Sun Ce had originally assigned to the Shen brothers. These people were old soldiers of the Sun family. With Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's armies nearby, it was naturally impossible for them to surrender so easily.

There were also several thousand old soldiers of the Sun family. Now they were determined to withdraw from the battlefield. The three thousand soldiers and horses brought by Liu Zheng were difficult to stop them. After chasing them for a while and leaving only a few hundred of them, Liu Zheng immediately ordered a withdrawal and led the surrendered soldiers and prisoners to retreat back to the city.

However, just as he left the Shen army camp and walked back two or three miles, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves behind him, followed by a voice.

"Liu Zheng, you little brat, you killed my beloved general and you want to get away with it like this. Aren't you just deceiving me that there is no one in Jiangdong?"

(End of this chapter)