Three Kingdoms: The Kingdom Cannot Be Partial

Chapter 29: Fighting for the Land with Head
Slanting water.

battlefield.

Ever since Feng Hu roared out "If the lord is humiliated, the minister shall die" and then fought hard and killed dozens of Cao's soldiers in front of him, the Cao army in front of the formation was terrified and retreated repeatedly. The morale of the Han army, which was almost collapsed, was greatly boosted.

The emperor is right behind him.

The Jinwu banner is right behind him.

Ordinary soldiers might not have thought much about this, but almost half of the officers were so excited that their eyes turned red in an instant.

Each of them was just like Feng Hu, Fu Qian, Liu Yin and other officers. They led the troops, shouting and roaring, and rushed forward with their own troops without regard for their lives.

As a result, the Han army, which had been suffering a series of defeats, strangely showed signs of advancing for a moment.

Zhao Guang stood in front of the Han camp with the Jinwu flag in his hand, his eyes fixed on the battlefield. He was stunned when he saw this scene, and then he couldn't help shaking with excitement.

In fact, he was also the first to go to the battlefield.

Therefore, he was not sure what role the Jinwu banner in his hand could play in the battle situation.

However, the facts before him told him that when an emperor who was willing to humble himself and pay a price to win the hearts of his soldiers led his Jinwu banner into battle, the improvement in morale was visible to the naked eye and immeasurable.

On the other side of the battlefield, Cao Zhen had apparently also noticed the strange changes in the Han army. His eyes quickly caught sight of the Jinwu banner standing in front of the Han camp gate, and a sense of disdain arose in his heart.

He did not think that the false emperor would personally go to the battlefield. He just thought that it was another of the false emperor's tricks. He just sent people with the Jinwu flag to boost morale.

But in any case, this move did delay the attack of the Wei soldiers, and almost the entire Wei line was retreating.

Without much hesitation, the great general of the Wei Dynasty pointed his sword at the Jinwu Banner and roared angrily:
"Whoever captures this flag will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins and be made a marquis!"

The personal guards quickly dispersed and passed on the order.

Under the reward, there must be a brave man.

The Wei army's front line advanced rapidly.

The Wei soldiers in the front row were pushed and squeezed by friendly forces and rushed forward involuntarily.

The Han and Wei armies soon engaged in battle again.

The Han army, which was not as strong as the Wei soldiers, was once again caught in a tough battle, but its already high morale was not as easy to dissipate as the battle line.

The officers of each unit commanded properly, and the elite soldiers and death-defying soldiers continuously provided cross-cover, blocking the retreating waves as they came.

The soldiers who had retreated to their positions immediately turned back to form a formation to cover the retreat of their comrades in front of them, and they repeated this process back and forth.

Soon, the Han army retreated to the front of the village in an organized manner. The soldiers who were the first to withdraw to the Han village began to build a solid defense line with the help of the fortifications built in advance, covering the successful retreat of the Han soldiers in front.

Cao's army temporarily stopped outside the Lujiao Trench.

Cao Zhen stopped his horse at a distance, then found a slightly higher earthen slope and looked towards the Han camp, and quickly found the weak point of the Han camp.

Orders were passed down one after another.

The personal soldiers reined in their horses and ran away.

Cao's army quickly dispersed and moved.

Just like defending a city, a small city is easy to defend, but a big city is difficult to defend; a small village is easy to defend, but a big village is difficult to defend.

The Han camp stretched for seven or eight miles, and the Han army had only more than 23,000 people, with nearly 5,000 to 6,000 soldiers fleeing and nearly 3,000 to 4,000 killed or surrendered to the enemy.

It is impossible to defend such a large camp with just these last 10,000 people.

Cao's army quickly rushed to the north side of the battlefield, opened a gap in the civilian village, and continued to pour in.

Afterwards, they marched from north to south towards the Jinwu banner.

Fortunately, the villagers in the village had been arranged to move away long ago, so no disturbance occurred.

But the Han village was obviously no longer defensible.

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The west bank of the sloping water.

A young general wearing silver armor and a silver helmet, carrying a bow and a sword, stood under the Jinwu banner.

Another young general, holding the Jinwu banner, looked at him with red eyes and said urgently, "Your Majesty, you must never take such risks again!"

Just now, after he stood in front of the camp with the banner in his hand, he was concentrating on watching the battlefield and did not notice when His Majesty quietly walked up behind him.

It was not until hundreds or thousands of people on the battlefield shouted in unison, "If the lord is humiliated, the minister shall die," and the emperor suddenly moved silently to his side for some unknown reason, that he came back to his senses from the heavy breathing of the audacious emperor, and then he was shocked.

"Compared with them, the risk I took is nothing?" Liu Chan said with a complicated expression.

Soon, the general flags of Zhao Yun, Fu Qian and others appeared on the downstream river bank, forming a battle formation to defend each other.

Feng Hu of the central army soon led his troops to the scene.

There were not many Cao troops following closely behind.

The river bridge, barely three meters wide and the river nearly two meters deep, was now the perfect defensive fortification. After reaching the bridgehead, the pursuing Cao soldiers saw the Han army on the other side already in formation, ready for battle. They finally gave up the chase and stopped at the bridgehead, awaiting orders.

The battle paused for a moment.

On the two or three hundred meter long wooden bridge, Feng Bolu, with a pale face, limped and staggered towards the Jinwu flag with the support of his personal guards.

Liu Chan abandoned his guards, slowly walked through the soldiers in front of him, walked to the bridge head, and finally supported the tiger general who had been covered in solidified black blood and turned into a bloody man.

However, for some reason, I forgot all the lines I had prepared long ago at this moment.

He could only support her silently.

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The east bank of Xieshui.

Cao Zhen arrived with his personal army.

The Han army on the other side was now on full alert.

Rushing over at this time would obviously be unwise.

He looked up at the Wuzhangyuan standing behind the Han army, as if expecting something.

"All troops, form a battle array! Prepare to cross the river!"

The order was quickly passed on.

The surrendered general named Lai Yi came to his side with the military advisor Du Xi.

Cao Zhen looked at Lai Yi unfriendly:
"Captain Lai, do you know what the false emperor is planning? Is he feigning defeat to trick me into crossing the river?"

Lai Yi immediately shook his head: "General, I surrender without knowing it!"

Cao Zhen looked skeptical: "Even a captain like you doesn't know?"

There are more than 20,000 Han troops on the opposite side, and the captain is the first rank below the commander-in-chief.

If Liu Chan had any plans, he would not tell the soldiers, but it was obviously unbelievable that not even a captain knew about it.

Lai Yi saw the suspicion in Cao Zhen's eyes and quickly explained:

"General, I truly do not know. The false emperor only said that the Prime Minister... the thief Ge has a plan to defeat the enemy, and that we only need to fight hard and we will surely win this battle.

"But no one knows what the specific plan is."

When Cao Zhen heard this, he glanced at Du Xi.

Then the coming righteousness said:
"General, in fact, most of us feel that... this is an excuse made by the false emperor.

"Ge Ze has always been steady and cautious, and definitely not someone who would feign defeat and take risks.

"We all secretly say that the false emperor probably wants to take advantage of the opportunity when the traitor Ge is dispatched to Longyou and no one is holding him hostage, so that he can go to the front lines to gain military merit and prestige, and then try to wrest the power of the false Han from the traitor Ge."

Cao Zhen remained noncommittal.

However, after a moment, Lai Yi's eyes lit up:
"By the way, General, a few days before the false emperor came to the military camp, the bandit leader Zhao Yun came back from outside the camp. He looked very bad and was in a rage. No one dared to approach him.

“At first we didn’t know the reason, but after a few days, the false emperor came to the military camp with great fanfare.

"We guessed that the bandit leader Zhao Yun had a dispute with the false emperor."

Cao Zhen was slightly surprised and looked at his military advisor Du Xi.

Du Xi pondered for a moment and responded:

"General, I think this is something the fake emperor is deliberately putting on for us to see, right?"

Cao Zhen thought for a moment, then smiled and shook his head:

"I don't think so."

Du Xi gave him a questioning look.

Cao Zhen turned his head to look at the Jinwu Banner on the other side of the water, and after thinking for a moment, he slowly said:

“I thought what the military advisor said before was correct.

“The false emperor came here with such fanfare, indeed he was imitating Dong Zhuo.

"Even though they are clearly no match for me, they still stubbornly resist and are fighting with us today. Perhaps it is just as the military advisor said, but they want to emulate Han Xin and draw the water to attack us halfway across the river.

"But, this might be the reason why Zhao Zilong argued with him."

Cao Zhen sneered as he spoke:
"Just because you read two military books and learned some ingenious strategies, you think you can decide the outcome of a battle. Isn't that ridiculous?
"If I were Zhao Zilong, I would be furious to hear that the false emperor was actually willing to gamble with the lives of his soldiers."

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