Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 192 Ruo Rong, who dare not fight
On July 195, 28 AD, Zhu Wei once again sent troops to pursue Ruo Rong.

Pang Yan and Tai Shici each led [-] soldiers and horses, and sent troops from Yichun County to Luling County in two directions. The speed along the way did not even have time for Ze Rong's scouts to report back.

Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan led the [-] soldiers brought back by Ling Cao and the [-] young and strong peasants from Yuzhang City, plus four to five thousand young and strong peasants from Ai County and Yichun County, and followed slowly. Behind, there is also some bluffing.

Zhu Wei's side had been prepared for a long time, and the speed of using troops was extremely fast. Pang Yan and Tai Shici went straight to the two large camps set up by Ruo Rong in the east and west outside Luling City.

These two large camps stored part of Ruo Rong's grain, grass, and supplies, and also accommodated the [-] to [-] young people who were engulfed by Ruo Rong in Luling County. The meaning of Gongwei.

Of course, the young and strong family members in these two big camps were all placed in Luling County by Ruo Rong, and it was Ruo Rong who took control of these young and strong hostages.

Don't look at the combined number of young and strong people in these two camps, there are 6 to [-] people, but they have no fighting power at all. Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan have already ascertained the situation here before.

Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan asked Pang Yan and Tai Shici to lead troops to directly attack these two camps that looked like refugee camps, but they didn't care about the comparison of the numbers of the two sides at all, the opponent was not even as good as the mob.

As a result, Pang Yan and Tai Shici led troops and killed the two camps almost at the same time.

As for the young men in these two camps, although Ruo Rong issued them weapons, shields, and bows and arrows, these young men had no intention of fighting at all, and of course they didn't care about the defense of the camps.

Even if there are people assigned to serve as sentries, guard gates, etc., these people are just messing around and messing around.

So when Pang Yan and Tai Shici's troops suddenly arrived, the young and strong in the camp suddenly became chaotic, but they had no intention of resisting at all. Soon Pang Yan and Tai Shici's soldiers overturned the camp wall and rushed to kill go in.

The young and strong people here didn't resist too much, they almost fled in all directions.

Many people ran out directly from the gate of the camp and fled in the direction of Luling City, but many people simply abandoned their weapons and surrendered in front of the soldiers led by Pang Yan and Tai Shici, and still begged Pang Yan and Tai Shici to continue to go. Luling City rescued their families.

In this way, in less than an hour, both camps were captured, and then Pang Yan and Tai Shici retreated back with the young and strong captives and the supplies of the camps.

And during this period, Ruo Rong didn't respond at all in Luling City, or he started to feel a little uneasy, and he didn't even plan to use Luling City to defend the city to resist.

Ruo Rong immediately ordered the scouts to quickly find out the movement of Zhu Wei's army, he was afraid that Zhu Wei would have some conspiracy waiting for him.

However, Pang Yan and Tai Shici did not receive any counterattack from Ruo Rong, and smoothly transported the captured or rescued Luling Qingzhuang, plus the supplies from the two camps, to Luling City about [-] miles away. Start building a camp here, waiting for Zhu Wei's army to come.

After Ruo Rong found out about this situation, he sent people to closely monitor the camp, but then he was about to escape in Luling City.

In fact, Ruo Rong also knew that he had engulfed so many people, and the combat effectiveness of his army had not increased but declined, so he just tried to form an army of more than 1 main Buddhist soldiers alone, and kept an army with a certain combat effectiveness in his hands, while the others The Dharma Guardian Army was sent by him to control the people who were coerced.

Of course, Ruo Rong also stepped up to promote Buddhist beliefs among these people and brainwash them, but this kind of belief cannot be instilled in a day.

In fact, Ruo Rong's Buddhist beliefs have already collapsed. Even the more than 1 main Buddhist soldiers in his hands have doubts about the Buddhist beliefs preached by Ruo Rong.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of these Buddhist soldiers is already weakening.

The main reason why these Buddhist soldiers are strong in combat is that after being crazily brainwashed, they will fight desperately regardless of life and death, so that even if they have poor weapons and equipment, they can still defeat well-armed enemy troops.

But now, although these Buddhist soldiers were fooled by Ruo Rong again, they still had some distracting thoughts in their hearts, especially the fear of Zhu Wei's army from the bottom of their hearts.

Such a weak momentum, they naturally cannot show the determination and courage to go all out.

When facing other ordinary people, they may still have a certain amount of fighting power, but when facing Zhu Wei's army, how much actual fighting power they can display is unknown.

In fact, this is like the elite Yellow Turban fighters in the Yellow Turban Army. In the early days of the Yellow Turban Uprising, they became the main force of the Yellow Turban Army that was invincible and invincible. The wrestler lost the backbone in his heart, so he lost his usual fighting power.

So in the later stage, even the yellow turban fighters, like ordinary yellow turban thieves, became ordinary thieves who were hacked and killed by the officers and soldiers at will.

Ruo Rong knew this very well, so he didn't dare to fight Zhu Wei anymore. If he was defeated a few more times, he really couldn't continue to fool his men.

Therefore, after Ruo Rong found out the movement of Zhu Wei's army, Ruo Rong quickly started the transfer, preparing to retreat to Gan County and Fandu County.

In fact, Ruo Rong had sent troops to attack Gan County and Fandu County before.

It’s just that these areas, such as Gan County and Fandu County, which are located in the southernmost part of Yuzhang County, are all sparsely populated hilly landforms. Except for two dilapidated small county towns, there are no villages or the like around them. There are no local gentry, powerful families and powerful families.

It can be said that this is the backwaters of the poor villages, the poor mountains and rivers where troublemakers emerge, and more mountain dwellers, wild households, thieves, and robbers hiding in the mountains.

Ruo Rong didn't get any benefits from these two counties at all. When his army killed these counties, the magistrates in the counties directly abandoned their officials and fled.

So in the past, Ruo Rong didn't bother to send troops here to catch people in the mountains, but now he had to retreat here.

Now Ruo Rong hoped that he could take advantage of the barren mountains and wild terrain to stop Zhu Wei's pursuit, so that he would have a chance to catch his breath, and then he could only retreat to Jiaozhou.

From the current point of view, if we retreat from Luling County to Guiyang County in Jingzhou, we actually have to go through the mountainous area formed by the Luoxiao Mountains. Although there are official roads opened in the mountains, taking the official road also shows that Zhu It would be easy for Wei to hunt down Zuo Rong.

If Ruo Rong didn't follow the official path, then how could he go to Guiyang County with so many messy people under his command.

Therefore, after Ruo Rong sent the news back from the scouts, Ruo Rong felt that it would be better for him to go to Jiaozhou. Although Gan County and Fandu County are also in the hilly environment, these hills and mountains are not high, and the road is still walkable, at least Let Ruo Rong go to Jiaozhou with the 10,000+ people coerced.

At the same time, Ruo Rong can also take advantage of the hilly terrain here to create layers of defense against the Zhu Wei army that is chasing after him, so as to ensure that his main force can retreat safely...

(End of this chapter)