Chapter 324: Please return to the Eastern Capital

As Lu Meng finished speaking, rows of guns had fallen from the sky. The soldiers of Wu who were cursing were caught off guard and were shot to the ground, with heavy casualties.

In front of the two armies, Gan Ning held up his long sword again and shouted loudly: "Put the gun and prepare..."

The Wu army soldiers who were lucky enough not to be stabbed by a gun were hurriedly raised their shields. However, this time the ones that fell on Wu army's head were still a bunch of snowballs, not a gun. After repeated several times, Zhou Tai felt angry and said to Taishi Ci: "General, the last general requested to lead an elite army out of the camp to counterattack, kill all the hateful Jinfan thieves."

"General, no." Lu Meng persuaded urgently, "I'm just dark today, so don't attack rashly."

Taishici also said: "It's good, it's better to be careful. As long as the soldiers keep holding the oars and shields, the Jinfan thief's guns will not do anything to us. When the soldiers are tired, they will replace them. Let Gan Ning's Jinfan thief make trouble. Let them see when they can make trouble? Let's talk about everything after dawn."

At the order of Taishi Ci, the Wu army no longer paid attention to Liang's harassment.

Gan Ning's Jinfan thieves threw snowballs for several hours in front of Wu Jun Village, and secretly threw a gun in the middle, but did not cause any damage to the Wu army. Such harassment continued until the ugly moment, and the Liang army found that they could take advantage of the opportunity to withdraw their troops and return to the camp.

Seeing that the Liang army retreated, the Wu army returned to their own tents and rested without mentioning them.

The next day was the darkest time before dawn.

There was a stern battle in front of the Liang army's village. With the protection of the strong night, the 10,000 elite naval troops in Ganning had been quietly arranged.

Jia Xu looked cunning and said to Ma Yue: "Lord, it's time."

"Yes." Ma Yue pointed his head heavily, pulled out the Seven-Star Sword and led it forward, shouting sternly, "All army attack!"

Gan Ning turned over the horse, pulled the long sword in his hand forward, and said with a long stern voice: "Attack~~"

"Kill and kill ~~"

A total of ten thousand elite navy soldiers shouted like a tsunami collapse, following Gan Ning toward the Wu army camp on the mountain pass ahead.

Wu Jun Dazhai.

Taishi Ci, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by a shocking shout. He quickly turned over and sat up. Under the service of his personal soldiers, he came outside the tent in a neat manner. Zhou Tai and Lu Meng had also arrived at the news. A small school had already come to report quickly and said sternly: "Three generals, Liang army is coming to attack!"

Taishici looked up at the sky, and the east sky showed a trace of whiteness.

Want to launch a surprise attack in the darkness before dawn? It was simply delusional! A hint of coldness flashed through Taishi Ci's eyes and shouted: "Blow the trumpet! The whole army gathered quickly and prepared to fight!"

In front of Wu Junzhai.

Gan Ning led 10,000 navy troops to roll forward like a tide, and had already approached within two hundred steps of the Wu army's village. In a moment, they could rush into the Wu army's archers' range! However, at this time, the horns of the Wu army's large village were already ringing, and the Wu army soldiers who were not untied and did not take off their armor were rushing out of the tent, gathering towards the camp like a stream converging towards the river.

Judging from the reaction and action speed of the soldiers of the two armies, thousands of Wu archers could be in place without waiting for Gan Ning's naval army to rush into the range of the Wu army archers. Gan Ning's naval army obviously wanted to launch a sudden attack in the darkness before dawn, but it seemed that the plan did not seem to be successful, and the Wu army was not caught off guard.

"kill……"

Gan Ning held up his long sword and urged him to step forward.

Ten thousand naval troops behind him followed him like shadows, swearing to death, and rushed into the range of the Wu army archers without any hesitation.

At this moment, the Wu army soldiers in the big village suddenly turned over. Thousands of Wu army archers rolled to the ground in a mess before they could set up their shooting formations. The screams, curses and the impact of weapons instantly intertwined into one piece. In the thin morning light, the entire Wu army village was like a pot of boiling boiling water, churning.

"What's going on?" Taishi Ci just arrived, and happened to see this strange scene. He couldn't help but shouted, "What's wrong?"

"Sigh and clear."

As Taishici finished speaking, the mount under his crotch suddenly neighed sadly, and the horse stumbled to the ground. Taishici, who was unprepared on the horse's back, was suddenly lifted down heavily. Fortunately, Taishici was very skilled in martial arts and even more agile in the reaction. His majestic body turned forward incredibly and landed gently.

However, what happened next was enough to make people shocked. With a slap, Taishici felt his feet slip and fell violently to the ground.

This time, Taishi Ci had nowhere to leverage her power and could no longer gain a foothold. She fell directly into a blue nose and swollen face. In a flash, screams, heavy objects fell to the ground and curses kept ringing behind Taishi Ci.

After struggling to get up, Taishici looked around and saw that Zhou Tai, Lu Meng and the three of them were not much better. They almost all fell to the ground. Only then did Taishici realize that there was a layer of ice several inches thick on the ground under his feet, which exuded a shiny color in the morning light. No wonder the horse would fall as soon as it stepped on it!

"Where did this ice layer come from?" Taishi Ci shouted angrily, "Why don't you clean up the snow on the ground when camping?"

"The last general understands!" Lu Meng suddenly shouted, "This is the Liang army's trick, this is the Liang army's doing!"

"Hmm?" Taishi said terrified, "Liang Jun's trick?"

Lu Meng said: "Do you remember the harassment of the Jinfan thief of Ganning last night? Do you remember the snowballs thrown in the Jinfan thief into our army's village during those hours? Those snowballs were stepped on by the soldiers and turned into snow water. After the soldiers returned to the camp, the snow water on this beach was blown into hard and smooth ice cubes by the cold wind, so the current situation was here!"

"ah?"

"So that's how it is!"

Taishi Ci and Zhou Tai were shocked and looked up quickly. They saw that the surging Xiliang army was only twenty steps away from the Wu army's village. However, the Wu infantrymen in the village were still falling and climbing, climbing up and falling, and they could not form a complete formation. Some Shanyue soldiers were injured by the Eastern Wu soldiers and swords and guns, and they were actually very fierce and began to kill each other.

Only a small number of archers who did not fall shot sporadic arrows onto the heads of the Liang army, but they could not cause too much damage to the Liang army, so naturally there was no question of stopping the Liang army's charge.

"Ma Butcher Ma is really not ordinary cunning!" Lu Meng said to Taishi Ci urgently, "General, please quickly ask the soldiers to take off their battle robes and cover them on the ground to prevent slipping!"

"I'm afraid it's too late!" An inexplicable cold suddenly appeared in Taishi Ci's eyes, and he looked straight ahead and said to Lu Meng and Zhou Tai, "Zi Ming, Youping, look!"

Zhou Tai and Lu Meng turned around and looked forward to the village. They happened to see rows of guns rising from the Liang army formation, and then drew arcuate trajectories in the air, and fiercely landed towards the Wu army's village with a sharp scream. At this time, the Wu army soldiers in the village were still tilted and could not raise even a shield.

In almost the blink of an eye, the rows of guns shot hard into the Wu army formation. The blood splattered, and the crowded Wu army soldiers were pierced by the sharp guns, and the tragic howlings instantly soared into the sky.

Taishici and Zhou Tai closed their eyes at the same time, with an extremely painful expression on their faces.

Only Lu Mengwu opened his eyes wide and stared at the cruel battlefield like Shura Blood Prison ahead. His iron fists were already clenched tightly! The warrior was a clever way, and Lu Meng suddenly understood the true meaning of this sentence! The butcher Ma is worthy of being a veteran general who has experienced many battles, and Jia Dushi is even more wise and tricky. He is still a big gap compared to them.

After this battle, I must read military books and study strategies carefully! At this moment, Lu Meng's gaze was unprecedentedly firm.

"Retreat!" Taishici suddenly opened his eyes. His originally clear and bright eyes had turned red at this time, and he shouted angrily, "The whole army retreats and retreats to the back camp!"

"No, you can't retreat, General!" Lu Meng hurriedly persuaded, "When retreating, the soldiers may not be able to retreat, and it will easily turn into a defeat! If you don't order to defend the death, the soldiers may still fight to the death to block the Liang army from the camp. Now our army can only defend the death to the death, only defend the death to the death! "

"The front camp cannot be defended! If the soldiers are not withdrawn, they should be killed or injured!" Taishi Ci's eyes were red, and he did not listen to Lu Meng's advice at all. He roared, "Send the order, the entire army will withdraw back to the back camp!"

Seeing that Taishici did not listen to the dissuasion at all, Lu Meng couldn't help but exhort, and persuaded again: "Since you want to retreat, you must not retreat. The last general is willing to lead an elite army to leave behind the rear."

"Okay! This general left you two thousand elite soldiers to cut off the rear." Taishi Ci said this and hurriedly told Zhou Tai and the rest of the Wu generals. "The rest of the generals led their soldiers to retreat to the rear camp with me."

Qingniu Pass, Liangjun Dazhai.

Xu Chu, Ma Dai, Chen Dao, and Fa Zheng have gathered in Ma Chao's military tent.

Fa Zheng said: "The sound of killing at the mountain pass in the north is shocking. It seems that the lord's army has begun to attack!"

"As soon as the army moves, we should send troops to respond, but Sun Jian, who is south of the pass, will definitely not sit still and watch us break through the north. He will definitely send troops to attack the pass to restrain our troops." Ma Chao said this and shouted, "Dao Chen obeys the order!"

Chen Dao stepped forward and clasped his fists and replied, "The last one is here."

Ma Chao said: "Lead two thousand iron cavalry out of the camp and launch a counterattack on the Wu army's village without waiting for the Wu army to attack!"

This is Ma Chao's style. Ma Chao has always advocated offense. Even a defensive battle can be used as an offensive battle!

"The last general will receive the order!"

Chen Dao took the order and turned around and left quickly.

Ma Chao said to Xu Chu again: "Xu Chu obeys the order."

Xu Chu quickly stepped out of the line and replied: "The last one will be here."

Ma Chao said: "Lead two thousand iron cavalry to be ready to pick up Chen Zhi at any time."

"Get orders."

Xu Chu agreed and took the order.

Then Ma Chao turned his gaze to Fa Zheng and Ma Dai, and said in a deep voice: "Zhongyue, Xiaozhi, immediately launch an attack on Cao Jun camp as agreed upon!"

Ma Dai, Fa Zheng clasped his fists and said, "Receive the order."

Sun Jian’s camp, Zhou Yu’s military tent.

"Ahem..."

Zhou Yu, who had been unconscious on the bed, suddenly coughed violently. When a stream of fishy and smelly blood slid down the corner of his mouth, Zhou Yu's tightly closed star eyes finally slowly opened. Hua Tuo, who was cooking medicine himself, breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw this and said to the ecstatic soldier: "The Grand Governor has no worries about his life, so General Sun can enter the tent to visit him."

The personal soldiers were overjoyed and turned around and ran away.

After a while, there were rapid and messy footsteps outside the tent. When the curtain was lifted, Sun Jian, Xu Shu, Zhang Zhao, Gu Yong and others had already entered one after another. Sun Jian even grabbed Zhou Yu's bed in two steps and said excitedly: "Your Highness is safe, and this heart hanging in the air can finally land on the ground, haha."

Zhou Yu smiled reluctantly and replied weakly: "Thank you for your concern."

Sun Jian bowed to Hua Tuo again and said sincerely: "Thank you, the magic doctor, for your wonderful skills."

Hua Tuo replied anxiously, "How dare you be a general with such a great gift?"

"Lord." Zhou Yu struggled to turn his body sideways and asked weakly, "How many days have Yu been in a coma?"

Sun Jian said: "It's been more than half a month."

"It's been more than half a month?" Zhou Yu changed his face slightly, "Where is my son today?"

Sun Jian said: "It's still at Qingniu Pass, but the butcher Ma has personally raised the army to help, and has arrived outside the mountain now."

On the other hand, Xu Shu briefly explained the complex situation of the Qingniu Pass to Zhou Yu.

After listening to the meditation for a moment, Zhou Yu said to Sun Jian: "Lord, the Liang army's sharpness is not something our army can resist. Now that the horse butcher has personally brought the army to come, the three generals of Taishi Ci, Zhou Tai and Lu Meng can't help the enemy. Although the emperor is temporarily trapped on Qingniu Pass, he will be welcomed by the horse butcher back to Guanzhong sooner or later!"

"And since the butcher Ma dared to personally raise the army to come to Runan, the war in Xuchang must have been cleared. Ruoyu expected that Cao Cao would be about to be defeated. Now, the butcher Ma has already achieved the power of the emperor, and our army will be unable to recover with all its strength. Instead of consuming the troops and materials in this Qingniu Pass for nothing, it is better to take the initiative to stop the army and take advantage of the fact that the butcher Ma has been serving the emperor and the court is not stable, and mobilizes all the troops and resources to capture Huainan and Xuzhou, thinking that the Northern Expedition is fundamental."

Sun Jian and Xu Shu looked at each other, and their expressions suddenly became solemn.

Although Zhou Yu's words are suspected of improving others' ambitions and destroying his own prestige, they are undoubtedly rational!

The battle at Qingniu Pass allowed Sun Jian and Wu army to appreciate the Liang army's military front. The Western Liang Iron Cavalry is indeed a powerful military force. Whether it is equipment, training, or tactics, the Wu army has an overwhelming advantage. When the military advantage is not obvious, Sun Jian is really not sure to intercept the emperor.

"If Cao Cao is defeated, he will surrender to Liu Biao. If Liu Biao gets Cao Cao's help, he will try to make a plan again... it will be difficult!" Zhou Yu said this, gasping for a few breaths and then said, "So, if the lord cannot take advantage of the situation to capture Huainan, Xuzhou will be the fundamental one. When the butcher Ma ordered Yan in the name of the emperor, the gentry and people of the two states of Henan will gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains. If the lord wants to plan for Huainan, it will be difficult for Xuzhou to ascend to the sky. At that time, the lord will have to retreat to a corner of Jiangdong to protect himself."
To be continued...