Three Kingdoms: The Kingdom Cannot Be Partial

Chapter 77 Get off your horse!

"what happened?!"

"what happened?!"

“How many Han people are there?
"Why are they here?!"

Outside the Wolf-Head Fang Tent, Liu Bao, the Left Wise King of the Xiongnu, kept asking questions, his face pale with horror, completely unable to control himself.

By this point, the entire camp was in complete chaos, with fireworks, horses galloping, and the sounds of people roaring and horses neighing.

And just over a hundred steps in front of him, the Han soldiers, covered in blood and flesh, were like bears, tigers and wolves with bared fangs and claws, moving between tents, hacking and killing, and setting fire.

I have no idea how many people there are, where they come from, or how to resist.

When the chaos was just beginning, some people shouted in the Xiongnu language, "The Han army is descending from the sky!" "Escape!" and other phrases to shake the morale of the army and create chaos.

Immediately afterwards, fires broke out in the tents and the war horses fled in all directions.

The camp was in chaos and the command system was paralyzed in an instant. He only had two hundred personal soldiers at his command. He sent dozens of them to organize his troops and more than a hundred to fight the enemy, but it was all useless.

The Han army was interspersed between the tents, and the camp was unable to accommodate horses. The light cavalry, which could not speed up, was completely vulnerable in front of the Han army.

Liu Bao was shocked to see that facing a small formation of just over ten Han soldiers, his more than one hundred personal soldiers were helpless when they rushed forward.

Several people were shot to death by powerful crossbows before the battle even started, and more than ten people fell to the ground immediately after the battle. Afterwards, the more than one hundred personal soldiers scattered, and at least half of them did not choose to return to his side.

The personal soldiers sent to the east to organize the troops finally led more than a hundred people to kill the enemy, but they could not hold on for a moment and fled in all directions.

"Wise King! The Han army is wearing damn heavy armor! Even if we just stand there and don't move, we can't break their defense!"

A porter with crossbow arrows hanging on his body rushed to Liu Bao crying and finally brought him some useful information.

Liu Bao couldn't accept it for a moment. He grabbed the doorman by the collar and pulled him off. "Heavy armor? How on earth did the Han army get here?! Didn't they go east?!"

The doorman was also innocent: "Wise King, if you don't know, how can I know?"

Liu Bao let go in anger.

Looking over a hundred steps away again, he saw the Han soldiers still moving between the tents, as if they were in an empty space.

"Where are the people guarding Mount Qi?! Where are the people guarding the west and south?! How did they let the Han army in?!"

Liu Bao was not that stupid. Although he knew that the Han army was in the east, he also sent a small number of scouts to investigate the other three directions.

Even on the day when more than a thousand Han cavalrymen fled eastward, he sent more than two hundred cavalrymen to the vicinity of Qishan Pass to conduct reconnaissance and investigation, and kept people patrolling at Qishan Pass.

It was to prevent more Han cavalry from setting out from Anding and crossing Mount Qi to the south.

A Gudu Marquis reined in his horse and came galloping over: "Wise King, the Han army seems to have only fifty or sixty men!"

"Fifty or sixty people?!" Liu Bao's face was filled with disbelief. This was simply unheard of. "Are you seeing things?!"

"How dare he attack the Xiongnu king's tent with only fifty or sixty men?"

Liu Bao felt insulted, and suddenly his hair and beard stood on end, and he was furious.

"Bring my horse here, and tell everyone who can to mount to do so immediately. Don't engage them for now. Surround them!"

Liu Bao still retained some rationality. The Han army was wearing heavy armor, so he would never do such a stupid thing as using his own weakness to attack the enemy's strength.

"Yes!" The Marquis of Gudu took the order and left, ready to bring the horse to the wise king.

Liu Bao gritted his teeth and looked west again. However, at this moment, the Han army squad of more than a dozen people in his sight suddenly rushed towards him, as if they had discovered him!

Liu Bao was startled for a moment, then ran away!

"Is that Liu Bao?!" Yang Su, the son of Yang Tiao, was also looking for the king's tent like Guan Xing.

The Hun camp tents were arranged in multiple circles. According to common sense, the king's tent should be at the center of the circle, but when they reached the center, they did not find the so-called wolf-head king's tent.

At this moment, Yang Su saw a man in gorgeous clothes, who was different from ordinary Huns, and was fleeing from afar. He suddenly felt happy.

Guan Xing, who was not far away, heard Yang Su's voice and immediately looked in the direction of the voice. He then looked in the direction of the man's gun and saw a man in bright and gorgeous clothes. He must be a big shot without a doubt!

"Why did the wise king abandon us all and flee alone?!" Guan Xing suddenly blurted out a sentence in standard Xiongnu language, which was exactly the same sentence that Wei Xing had repeated a thousand times that day.

His voice was loud and rough, but the man in bright clothes did not stop for a moment and walked as fast as a flash.

But at the same time, all the Huns from far and near looked eastward, and finally their eyes fixed on that bright man.

Seeing that the man was actually running away, he became even more panicked in an instant.

"It's him! The man in the white brocade robe is Liu Bao!" Guan Xing shouted loudly while running towards the man who looked like Liu Bao with heavy steps.

Dozens of Hu Ben and Qiang Yong surrounded Guan Xing after hearing his voice, and then all rushed towards the man in the white brocade robe.

Liu Bao did not dare to look back. He fled in panic towards his warhorse, hiding his body behind the tent and taking the opportunity to take off his brocade robe.

But then another loud roar was heard.

"The one wearing the wolf-head hat and tiger-skin boots is Liu Bao!"

Liu Bao was already sweating coldly, but there was no time to take off his boots. He could only throw away the wolf-head hat and continue running, letting the Han soldiers behind him chase him.

There was no way. Except for the last dozen or so personal soldiers who were still behind him, there was no one to stop him!
Fortunately, the hitching post is right in front of us!
"Wise King, mount your horse quickly!" The Marquis of Gudu came forward leading a warhorse.

Liu Bao quickly jumped on his horse.

More than a dozen personal soldiers also quickly found war horses and climbed on them, and finally followed Liu Bao to escape to the outskirts of the camp.

Guan Xing frowned upon seeing this, looked around, and saw many war horses lingering a few dozen steps away. He turned around and led his Hu Ben Qiang Yong to charge there.

Liu Bao and a dozen of his personal guards quickly rushed to the eastern part of the camp. With his warhorse, he was obviously not as panicked as before.

"A mere few dozen Han soldiers dared to attack us and cause such chaos among our two thousand strong army. This is a great disgrace!"

Liu Bao, sitting on horseback, looked towards the west, his face red as if it was about to bleed, and he was obviously really humiliated.

"Call everyone to gather!" He said as he shot a whistling arrow forward, and dozens of guards around him followed suit.

The whistling sound of arrows was loud.

"Good King! The Han army is coming!" Before anyone could gather, a loud shout came from behind Liu Bao.

Liu Bao was immediately shocked and turned to look east. He saw a large group of black cavalry rushing towards him five or six miles away!
Liu Bao was both shocked and angry!
How could you forget that there are Han cavalry in the east?!

"The Han people are really cunning!" He cursed angrily and rode his horse to the southwest, which was the direction of Niu Jin's camp.

Guan Xing and a dozen of his warriors rode their horses and chased to the southwest, leaving Yang Su and dozens of other soldiers to continue fighting the enemy and support Yang Tiao.

The Xiongnu Zuoxian King has run away. With Yang Tiao's ability, there is no doubt that he can take over this camp.

When they ran to a deserted place, Guan Xing and a dozen others threw away their collared armor, leaving only the chain mail underneath and continued to chase on horseback.

However, their combined physique and equipment were still quite heavy, and the quality of their war horses was obviously not as good as those ridden by Liu Bao and his men, so the distance between them was gradually widening.

However, after chasing for four or five miles, Liu Bao's cavalry suddenly slowed down, and Guan Xing immediately ordered everyone to be alert and careful!

Sure enough, when they came into the shooting range, Liu Bao's dozen or so riders began to shoot arrows to the left and right behind them with their superb riding skills.

Fortunately, everyone was prepared and no one was hit by the arrow.

"Liu Bao, the Cao family father and son have divided your Xiongnu into five tribes and held the Chanyu hostage in Luoyang, keeping you Xiongnu like pigs and dogs!

"Since you are of the noble lineage of the Luanti clan, bearing the surname of the Han dynasty and bearing the name of Liu Han, why don't you return to Han, but join the bandits instead?!"

Guan Xing roared as he dodged an arrow, then raised his crossbow and shot forward, knocking a Xiongnu cavalryman off his horse.

Then he leaned over the horse, took his hands off the reins, and strung the crossbow with his hands!

Liu Bao was immediately shocked when he saw this. He never expected that this Han general could use a crossbow on horseback!

Guan Xing held the Yuanrong crossbow in his hand, and seeing that Liu Bao had no reaction to his previous words of persuasion, he immediately changed his words:
"Liu Bao, Zhang He set fire to the pontoon bridge. Our plan of a surprise attack from Weinan has been discovered by our Han Emperor! The Wei invaders are doomed to fail in this battle!

"Your Xiongnu tribe has been defeated, ruining Cao's overall situation in Guanzhong!

"Thousands of our clansmen and horses belong to the Han Dynasty. Yet you escaped alone. Considering the Cao family's cruelty and lack of gratitude, how could you possibly survive?"

Liu Bao leaned over his horse to avoid the crossbow arrows that might attack from behind. He looked extremely panicked and kept looking back at the Han general who was shouting.

Guan Xing saw that the man had a look of hesitation on his face and added:

"Liu Bao, you still have a way to go!

"Why not follow the example of Huhanye Chanyu who returned to Han and abandon his evil ways to join the good? Send your people to follow me in attacking and killing the Wei invaders at Chencang, and then join the Han army defending Chencang in Weinan to besiege and kill Zhang He!

"If you succeed, with the mighty power of the Emperor of Han, wouldn't I treat you as a guest of honor, bestow upon you the golden seal and green ribbon, and the title of Chanyu?"

Guan Xing used threats and inducements frequently. Not only Liu Bao himself, but even the dozen or so guards around him looked at each other in bewilderment and all looked towards Liu Bao.

Liu Bao's expression was extremely complicated. He didn't know what to do for a moment. He just continued to ride his horse forward in hesitation.

However, just when he was in a daze, he saw a ruffian suddenly appear from nowhere in the wilderness in front of him, running towards him with a crossbow in his hand!

"Get off your horse!"

The man fired a crossbow, hitting Liu Bao's horse! The horse fell down in pain.

Liu Bao really rolled off his horse!

More than ten Xiongnu personal soldiers immediately unhorsed their horses and scattered, looking back at a loss as to what to do.

Wei Xing rushed forward with a knife!

Unable to find Guan Xing, he had no choice but to hide in the grass in the wilderness for a day and a night. When he saw the fire in the Xiongnu camp, he stayed between the Xiongnu camp and Niu Jin's camp.

He saw cavalry running towards him from five or six miles away and had already prepared for an ambush. However, the direction of the Huns was still a little off, so he had to run out from the bushes with a crossbow.

He thought that he would never be able to catch up, but unexpectedly, the Huns kept looking back for some reason, and even when he looked forward, he failed to detect his presence!

Liu Bao, who was thrown to the ground, groaned in pain and made eye contact with the rough man who pressed heavily on him and held a big knife across his neck. He was filled with shock and hatred.

How can the treatment be the same for those who voluntarily surrendered to the Han Dynasty and those who were forced to surrender?!

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On Wuzhangyuan.

Liu Chan and others' attention was all attracted by the posture of more than a thousand Han cavalry rushing westward.

Even if attention was not attracted, the pursuit of Guan Xing and Liu Bao, with only a few dozen riders, was too small a target to be seen by the naked eye in the wilderness twenty miles away from Wuzhangyuan.

"Why didn't the Huns come out to fight?" Guo Youzhi couldn't understand at all.

It was not just him who was confused, but also Liu Chan and the ministers under the pavilion were no different.

They didn't understand why Guan Xing would lead more than a thousand cavalrymen to charge directly into the Xiongnu camp.

I also don't understand why even when Guan Xing led more than a thousand cavalrymen to the Xiongnu camp, no larger number of Xiongnu cavalry came forward to meet them.

All in all, the Hun camp had become too quiet at this moment, with only wisps of smoke rising from the cooking stoves, making everyone unsure whether to be excited or uneasy, and all sorts of speculations arose.

Only Liu Chan felt a little relieved. After all, he knew about Wei Xing's blood letter and knew that Guan Xing seemed to have a plan to capture the king.

At this moment, Liu Chan finally remembered something.

On that day, Wei Xing was granted the imperial seal and the imperial mission, and Zhao Tong was appointed as the commander of the Guards to protect the Qiang. He led the 1,000 Tiger Guards who had previously captured Jieting to defend Yuezhi for Yang Tiao.

In addition, Wei Xing was asked to bring more than 60 pieces of captured armor to Zhao Tong to arm the Huben Army.

It seems that Zhao Tong didn't want them and asked Guan Xing to take them all to attack the Xiongnu camp?
How else can one explain the capture of the king? And how else can one capture the king?

"Your Majesty, the Wei invaders in the west are retreating!" Chen Zhi beside Liu Chan suddenly spoke.

Liu Chan immediately shifted his gaze from the Xiongnu camp to the south bank of the Wei River, and indeed found that a small group of Wei troops began to retreat.

This is inevitable.

Deng Zhi's troops in the north of Wei River had already retreated safely to the south bank of the Wei River. After a short rest, they took turns fighting the enemy with the soldiers who were defending the fortifications.

On the other hand, Zong Yu continued to lead two thousand soldiers to stay in Zhongzhou.

The wooden bridge was not damaged at all by the fireboats of the Wei army. Deng Zhi burned the camp and retreated. The Wei army chased to the floating bridge, but did not choose to cut down or burn it. It seemed that they were evaluating whether they should seize Zhongzhou along the bridge.

Zong Yu did not cut down or burn the pontoon bridge. After all, if the Wei army really dared to come to such a place where one man could block a thousand men, it would be a gift of military merit to the soldiers guarding the island.

The Wei army did not dare to come over.

Earlier, there were still four rafts on the Wei River that had not been burned down, with flames still burning on them that were not small but not too big. They were easily destroyed by soldiers who went upstream in small boats with hooks, sickles and long axes.

The big man's smoke boats were immediately retrieved. Since they were coated with wet mud to prevent fire, they did not smolder for long, and luckily none of them were burned through or sunk.

During previous tests on sloping water, a small boat coated with mud to prevent fire was able to sustain the smoldering fuel on board for more than an hour.

Because Deng Zhi returned in time, Zhao Guang and a thousand Tiger Guards were still waiting at the foot of the plateau, and it seemed that they were no longer needed to participate in the battle.

Liu Chan didn't wait long before Zhang He's troops, who were attacking from the west of the Weinan camp, were completely defeated.

However, the defenders led by Deng Zhi and Dong Yun seemed to have no intention of pursuing the enemy.

Liu Chan frowned.

Looking towards the east, I saw about seven or eight thousand Wei troops lined up along the sloping water, ready to cross the river.

The terrain there was slightly lower, and the Han army and fortifications blocked the view, so it was impossible to see what was happening in the battle between the Han army on the west bank of the slope and the Wei army further west.

On the east bank of the Xieshui River, Xiahou Bao, the younger brother of General Anxi Xiahou Mao, stood side by side with Linghu Yu.

The two men looked at the somewhat empty defenses on the west bank of the sloping water, then lowered their heads to look at the turbid sloping water in front of them, and really did not dare to cross the river.

"Could it be...could it be that the Shu invaders have built a dam upstream again, preparing to attack me halfway across the river?" Xiahou Bao couldn't help but feel terrified when he thought of Cao Zhen who was defeated by Liu Chan.

The same is true for Linghu Yu.

Zhang Yu, Lu Pan and their 10,000 Wei troops, who were fighting fiercely with Dong Yun and Deng Zhi, could not see whether the pontoon bridge was burned due to the thick smoke from the Wei River.

But Linghu Yu and Xiahou Bao, who were in the lower reaches of the Wei River, saw it clearly and knew clearly that there was a big problem in the most critical link of Zhang He burning the floating bridge!
Now the slanting water is turbid again!

Who dares to cross the river? !
The place where they were was the mouth of the Wei River where the slanting water flowed northward. It was still more than 30 miles away from the valley where the dam might be blocked again. There was no time for them to investigate whether it was true or not.

"What should we do? If the Right General loses the battle because of our delay, who can bear the blame?!" Linghu Yu directly put the blame on Xiahou Bao.

As long as Xiahou Bao makes the decision, he won't have to take responsibility even if he fails in the end.

Xiahou Bao pondered and hesitated, and finally looked towards the north bank of the Wei River.

Guanqiu Jian and Niu Jin's troops were now stationed on the banks of the Weibei River, as if they were waiting to launch an attack on the Central Continent as soon as they made any move.

"This must be a tactic to confuse the enemy! Cross!" Xiahou Bao made up his mind.

The first thousand or so troops soon waded into the muddy sloping water in hesitation and confusion.

But just when they reached the center of the sloping water, there was a sudden sound of drums on Wuzhangyuan!
The Wei army, which had already stepped into the sloping water, was momentarily startled and stopped in their tracks, not daring to move forward.

In a moment, the Han army that was guarding the west bank of the Xieshui River suddenly rushed down the river like wolves and tigers. The Wei army in the Xieshui River was stunned for a moment and then turned around and retreated in shock!

Linghu Yu and Xiahou Bao looked towards the north bank of the Wei River in a trance, and saw a huge white flag commanding them to retreat quickly!

"Hurry up!" Linghu Yu was already numb, and turned around and ran with his 3,000 Hedong soldiers who had not yet entered the water.

On Wuzhangyuan.

Under Jinwu's banner.

Liu Chan hesitated for a long time, but finally did not give up the opportunity to rally the troops' morale. He swung the drumstick under the astonished gaze of his ministers.

The rhythm of the Endeavor Drum had long been ingrained in his bones. He had practiced it with chopsticks thousands and tens of thousands of times in private, and now he felt no sluggishness or unfamiliarity when he swung it.

Hearing the drumbeats, the soldiers chasing in the east and west rushed forward quickly.

Zhao Guangye had already led a thousand Tiger Guards to charge westward, pursuing and defeating the enemy.

After beating the drum three times, Liu Chan ordered a young man named Long Xianglang to come forward to receive the hammer. He then turned around and sat back on the wooden chair, continuing to watch quietly.

The ministers under the pavilion were silent. Many of them secretly looked at the somewhat unfamiliar king, then looked at the soldiers who were chasing the enemy in the north at the foot of the plateau, and finally all of them looked solemn.

Liu Chan's breath quickly calmed down.

The Cao army on the north bank of the Wei River finally cut the ropes that bound the wooden bridge and began to retreat to the east and west.

Turning his head to look west, he saw that seven or eight miles away, thousands of Cao's troops who had been resting in the original place were forming a battle formation and heading east. There was no doubt that they were coming to support the defeated army.

Chen Zhi, who was sitting beside the wooden chair, seemed to sense the emperor's thoughts and said, "What a pity! If the Wei invaders arrived with their entire army and no one came to support them, they would probably have no choice but to abandon their weapons and flee."

When the people under the pavilion saw that someone was finally speaking, they all echoed him.

But even so, there were still many Wei soldiers who abandoned their armor and fled. The rear guard had been caught up by the Han soldiers and could not organize a very stubborn resistance.

Judging from the situation, it should not be a problem to win one or two thousand.

Liu Chan looked for a while, then turned his gaze to the Huns camp in the north again. Then his head went blank and his breathing stagnated!
A large group of cavalry is now running straight towards Chencang in the west!

However, what made Liu Chan suspicious was not this large group of cavalry, but another smaller group of light cavalry heading straight east to the east of the Xiongnu camp!

This situation is really unexpected.

Liu Chan was not sure for a moment and began to wonder whether Guan Xing and Yang Tiao had captured the king.
If the king was really captured and the Huns were forced to surrender and go to Chencang, it would be understandable.

Naturally, he rescued Zhao Yun and then led the troops from Chencang to attack Weinan, completely blocking Zhang He's defeated army on the south bank of the Wei River.

But what about to the east? Why eastward?

Prevent Guanqiu Jian from Weibei from returning to Yiwu?
However, half a quarter of an hour later, the cavalry had crossed the wilderness north of Meiwu and continued to rush eastward.

Guo Youzhi looked bewildered: "Your Majesty, the Central Military Inspector... is he going to Chang'an?!"

(End of this chapter)