The Jagged Emperor of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 423
Zhu Yi put away his longbow, and a treacherous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, very proud of his victory.

Seeing that his opponent was killed by a back arrow, Zhou Tai's expression turned cold, and he gave Zhu Yi a cold look.But he didn't say anything dissatisfied. After all, this was on the battlefield, not a contest. It was impossible to reprimand Zhu Yi because his killing method was not bright enough.

Sun Huan also saw Zhu Yi's stabbing in the back, and couldn't help but snorted at him contemptuously, obviously he couldn't understand the style of Zhu Yi's deadly enemy.He immediately turned his horse's head and led his men, regardless of the ongoing battle, he pursued in the direction where Liao Hua was fleeing.

Zhou Tai and Zhu Huan's troops also completely defeated the rest of Liao Hua's army very quickly, leaving some troops to clean up the battlefield and also began to pursue Liao Hua.

After Sun Huan pursued him for twenty miles, the sky was already so dark that he couldn't see his fingers, and the temperature dropped a lot.The sky was dark, without even a single star, let alone a bright moon.It seems that some time later tonight, maybe it will snow again.

Then, Sun Huan's men suddenly discovered that a large number of torches appeared several miles ahead.

Since the distance is still relatively far away, it is impossible to see the specific situation of those torches clearly.However, there are countless numbers of them, and the constantly shaking flames show their sense of existence.

Sun Huan immediately ordered the army to stop quickly. Since those torches appeared in front, of course it was because there were already a large number of enemy troops waiting in formation there.In other words, the enemy general's men who fled just now have now been supported.

Sun Huan sighed softly, it seems that his pursuit failed in the end.After all, he has less than 1000 troops on hand now, so how could he head-on a large army as big as others? Isn't that just looking for death?

Then, Sun Huan immediately thought that he could wait for the troops of the two generals Zhou Tai and Zhu Huan to come over and join forces to continue attacking the enemy ahead.This is indeed a relatively safe method.

Therefore, Sun Huan sent an order to go down, and the whole army stood by and waited for the army to come to the round, and no one was allowed to attack privately before that.

After Sun Huan waited for a while, Zhu Yi's men arrived first.He couldn't help feeling a little strange when he saw that all the people who saw Sun Huan stood still.

Zhu Yi immediately stopped all his troops, rode his horse up to Sun Huan, and said with a sneer, "Lieutenant Sun, your men and horses are not physically strong! Why are you so tired that you can't move after running so little?" It's over!"

Sun Huan cast a disgusted look at Zhu Yi, whose face was blackened by the night.But the light in Zhu Yi's piercing and vicious eyes became brighter in the darkness.

Sun Huan snorted coldly, and said angrily: "If you have the guts, you can take your thousand people to attack the enemy!"

Zhu Yi looked in the direction indicated by Sun Huan's horsewhip, and saw about three or four miles in front of him, there were dots of torches shining, the number of which was unknown.Zhu Yi felt a chill in his heart. What appeared in front of him was definitely a large enemy army.

Zhu Yi had never been a brave and ruthless person, and he knew that if he really rushed over, he would be crushed to pieces by that group of enemy troops.But his eloquence is very good, especially in front of Sun Huan, his mortal enemy, of course it is impossible to avoid him.

He sneered and changed the subject: "It turns out that Captain Sun chased the enemy away!"

With disgust, Sun Huan spat arrogantly: "Since you dare not go forward to fight the enemy, shut up!"

Under the darkness of the night, it was impossible to see Zhu Yi's face clearly, but Sun Huan must have choked him into anger.He also snorted coldly, turned his horse's head and rushed towards his troops.

Two quarters of an hour later, Zhou Tai and Zhu Huan's army finally arrived.Sun Huan immediately went over and introduced the situation ahead to the two generals.

Then, Sun Huan asked: "Two generals, shall we continue to fight the enemy?"

After discussing with Zhu Huan, Zhou Tai and Zhu Huan felt that the enemy army was waiting in front of them, and they felt that they were waiting for work at leisure.After the battle just now, my army has marched another twenty or thirty miles in a row. Its physical strength has dropped a lot, and its combat effectiveness has also dropped. It is better not to clash with the enemy again.

What's more, now that Guan Yu has been awarded the title, and the results of the battle are brilliant, no matter how much credit he has made now, it is just embellishment.

Therefore, Zhou Tai and Zhu Huan didn't want to fight anymore, but they still had to take care of their own face, the reputation of being scared off by the enemy is not so good.Using the pretext of scouting the enemy's situation first, the two sent a small force to the torch formation.

Twenty-five minutes later, the small unit sent people back to report the enemy situation they had detected.

But after hearing the report, the generals were all dumbfounded, and those who weren't stupid were at least stunned.

According to the report, there was no sign of any enemy troops in that torch array.Those torches were all planted on the ground. In the dark night, it was impossible to tell the height of the torches from a distance!
At this time, everyone knew that he had been tricked by the Jingzhou army's suspicious soldiers, and was played around by the enemy.Those torches not only rescued the fleeing Liao Hua's troops, but also delayed the timing of the army's attack!
It turned out that Shi Guangyuan waited for Liao Hua for a while, but still did not see Liao Hua go back. He guessed that something might happen to Liao Hua's army.He had no choice but to lead his army to meet Liao Hua.

Unexpectedly, on the way, they encountered Liao Hua's defeated army.After Shi Guangyuan questioned Liao Hua and learned that Guan Yu might die, he immediately turned pale with shock.Then, dozens of surviving soldiers of Guan Yu's army returned, and the news of Guan Yu's death was finally confirmed.

While everyone was grieving in their hearts, they no longer had the intention to continue fighting with the enemy.

Seeing that the morale of the army is no longer available, Shi Guangyuan immediately withdrew the troops.Before the army set off, he ordered everyone to put most of the torches in place, and to use the plan of doubting the soldiers to cut off the rear.

Facts have proved that Shi Guangyuan's little trick has succeeded.The armies of Zhou Tai and Sun Huan were blocked here for more than half an hour.This period of time was enough for Shi Guangyuan's army to retreat safely.

Zhou Tai was furious, couldn't help spitting, and cursed: "Which bastard put a bird torch here, I'm so angry!" He was about to lead his army to rush through the torch array and continue to chase the enemy to vent their anger.

Zhu Huan was still relatively calm, and quickly called Zhou Tai to stop, saying: "General Zhou, please stay. Now that the opportunity for our army to pursue has been lost, it will be useless to pursue again."

Zhou Tai's heart also calmed down when he heard the words, and he glanced fiercely at the torch array in front of him, and shouted loudly: "The whole army retreats!"

The rear team of the army changed to the front team and quickly headed towards Jiangling City.

Before leaving, Sun Huan couldn't help looking back at the still flickering torch array, but his heart was full of admiration, even though he was the first one to fall into the trap.

(End of this chapter)