At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Zhang Liao nodded, and immediately ordered to rectify the cavalry, and soon [-] cavalry were rectified, led by Yu Jin himself, and pursued all the way forward.

Under the arrangement of Zhang Liao and Guo Jia, the rest of the army swept up the remaining counties on the spot, and began to attack the city and conquer Danyang County.

Yu Jin pursued quickly all the way, while Sun Quan and others also ran away desperately. Sun Jing didn't even have time to feel sorry for Sun Yu's death, so she ran with Sun Quan, running and running, and finally came to Wuhu before Wuhu fell. build.

Regarding what happened before, Huang Gai never expected that he was desperately resisting Xu Huang's attack, but in the blink of an eye, Wu Guo was gone!

What is this?What's the matter?

"It's really over. Both Dantu and Shicheng are over. The Wei army has landed in Jiangdong, and we have nowhere to go."

Lu Fan's face was full of dejection: "The governor of Zhou has already died in battle. The only way to survive now is to go up the river and go to Yuzhang County to find Mr. Sun Fu. With Jingzhou as his back, join forces with Jingzhou soldiers to resist. There is no other way to retreat to Jingzhou and seek Liu Biao's protection."

"what?"

Huang Gai turned pale with shock: "Did Gong Jin die in battle?"

"Yes."

Lu Fan was very sad: "In order to resist Zhang Wenyuan, the governor of Zhou has already died in battle. The governor of Zhou has died in battle. How can we continue to fight against the enemy? Now the fall of Jiangdong is a foregone conclusion, and we have no way out. With combat power, as a bargaining chip, he should be able to get Liu Biao's protection.

Guo Zifeng ordered the army to attack Jiangdong, and there should be no spare power to attack Jingzhou for the time being. We can still regroup in Yuzhang County, rest for a while, and then seek Liu Biao's cooperation, and work together with Liu Biao to counterattack Jiangdong, while Guo Zifeng's foothold in Jiangdong is not stable! "

In fact, Lu Fan himself did not believe this kind of nonsense.

Counterattack?

What counterattack?

Just these three to five thousand soldiers and horses want to counterattack Jiangdong?

Just want to defeat so many Wei Jun?

Everyone is a magic weapon, can't they?

If it were a divine weapon descended from heaven, they wouldn't lose so badly.

Sun Ben is in Yuzhang County, and Sun Fu is in Luling County. These two counties are still safe at the moment, but most of the troops in the two counties have been transferred to the defense line along the river. Less than three thousand, relying on these troops to defeat the Wei army?

Sun Ce's [-] men couldn't win, and Zhou Yu's [-] men couldn't defend against them. Now they are all dead, Jiang Dong is gone, and everyone's family members have become prisoners of others. Are you still fighting back?

It's just a fool's dream.

All the way to escape, Lu Fan had already determined that Guo Peng was invincible, but out of the idea of ​​keeping Sun Quan alive, he wanted to take Sun Quan and as many troops as possible out of the dead place and save Sun Quan's life.

It can be regarded as worthy of Sun's care for him.

The reason why we say counterattack is because we are afraid that Huang Gai will also follow Han Dang's old path, and if he does not follow them, he will lose a general like Huang Gai and a large number of precious soldiers in vain.

The private soldiers under the command of each general are the most elite part of the Wu army, and Lu Fan is very clear about it.

For this reason, Huang Gai must be persuaded to go with him.

Also in Sun Jian's former army, if Huang Gai committed a stubbornness and refused to leave, it would be an irreparable loss for Sun Quan.

After hearing what Lu Fan said, Huang Gai's face was dull.

"It's over? It's over? All our hard work for so many years is over?"

"No! Wu Gong is still here! The Sun family inheritance is still here! As long as Wu Gong is still here, there is hope for everything!"

Lu Fan pushed the pale-faced Sun Quan out for Huang Gai to see.

Seeing Sun Quan's pale face, Huang Gai blinked and nodded.

"Yes, Duke Wu is still there, and there is still hope... Then, why don't you counterattack now? Why go to Jingzhou and then counterattack?"

Huang Gai was suddenly furious: "Are you going to watch the country fall and do nothing, and go to other people's command to survive? What's the difference between going to Liu Jingsheng's Jingzhou to survive, and being defeated and captured by Guo Zifeng? Jingzhou has a grudge against me!"

Lu Fan hurriedly said: "It's different, my General Huang! Being defeated by Guo Zifeng is a real prisoner, and he will not be free from now on. Going to Jingzhou is regarded as a guest army after all! Let's take all the troops we can take away. How is it for Liu Jingsheng? Not a helping hand?

Guo Zifeng took Jiangdong first, and the next step must be Jingzhou. Liu Jingsheng will not understand the reason why his lips are dead and his teeth are cold. In this way, Liu Jingsheng will definitely treat Wu Gong as a guest and use our strength to help them guard Jingzhou together! "

"Then just watch Jiangdong fall in vain? This is the foundation that Bofu worked so hard to build!"

Huang Gai burst into tears on the spot: "Just watching like this, doing nothing but running away, how can I be worthy of Bofu, how can I be worthy of the former Lord!"

"The general has done his best! Wei Jun is too strong, Zhang Wenyuan is too treacherous, we are helpless!"

Lu Fan also cried, crying loudly: "The total population of Wu is less than 200 million. The combined population of the three counties of Lujiang, Jiujiang and Guangling is more than 100 million. How can we beat them? We have to retreat!"

What Lu Fan said was sad, helpless, Sun Jing, Sun Quan and Ling Cao were crying together.

Chapter 736 Five Guo Peng Encourages Learning

They are really losers, helpless losers.

Even if they retreated to Yuzhang County and backed Jingzhou, they might not be able to withstand the onslaught of the Wei army. The fall of Wujun and Danyang counties was a foregone conclusion, and Yuzhang County, which had a shallow ruling foundation, could not even think about resisting.

Unless Liu Biao sent the Jingzhou army to help them defend Luling, use Jingzhou's superiority in the water force to counter the Wei army, use Peng Lize as the center of operations, force the Wei army to fight against them, and use the superiority in the water warfare to resist the Wei army's attack.

In this way, it may be possible to hold on to Yuzhang County.

But that would require the help of Liu Biao, the cooperation of the Jingzhou sailors, and the two armies fighting together, so as to contain the Wei army's attack.

Otherwise, Wei Jun would never stop and insisted on destroying them.

At this point, Huang Gai was helpless after crying bitterly. Seeing Occupation turn towards an unstoppable disadvantage, what can he do by himself?

There is no need to defend Wuhu anymore, and it is impossible to defend it. If you continue to defend it, once Xu Huang crosses the river, it will cause disastrous consequences.

The battlefield along the river was in danger, but Huang Gai no longer planned to send troops to support him.

After sorting out the rest of the army, a group of people led more than 3000 horses and rushed out of the city. They took away all the official figures, food and previous things, leaving only the people in the city.

They planned to go to Wanling County in Danyang County first, then take the roads of Jing County, Lingyang County and Poyang County to enter Yuzhang County, and settle down in Yuzhang County first.

Then at the same time, Lu Fan asked to go to Jingzhou as an envoy to move Jingzhou reinforcements, and at least help to keep Yuzhang County together. That would be good for Liu Biao, and Liu Biao would not fail to understand.

So the plan was set.

Sun Quan and others fled all the way, and Lu Fan took three fast horses and a group of guards to go to Jiangxia County, Jingzhou first, and went to ask Huang Zu what was going on, and whether he would send troops.

Lu Fan conceived it like this, thinking of fighting another battle with the Jingzhou soldiers in Yuzhang County, stopping the Wei army's offensive, keeping Yuzhang County and even Luling County, and preserving a bit of vitality and recovery for the Wu Kingdom Lost hope.

The rest is left to fate.

But for Yu Jin and others, in order to eliminate Wu Guo to present a gift to Guo Peng, and to make Guo Peng happy by making meritorious service in the stall established by the new dynasty, they will do whatever it takes.

Are you kidding me?

A lifetime of glory and wealth lies in this gamble, do we still want us to hand over this great opportunity to others?

Yu Jin couldn't bear it, and neither could Zhang Liao and Guo Jia, so the three thousand cavalry led by Yu Jin chased them madly all the way.

Originally, Yu Jin was still a little apprehensive about whether they could catch up, thinking that they might not be able to catch up, and that they might really lose such a great opportunity, but soon, Yu Jin discovered something.

"Our war horses have horseshoes, right?"

During the break, Yu Jin asked Wei Yan who followed him to pursue him.

"Yes, General, our war horses all have horseshoes. After the horseshoes are nailed to the horseshoes, not only the loss of the horseshoes is greatly reduced, but the speed of the horses is also much faster."

Wei Yan nodded.

"Yes, this is it."

Yu Jin squatted down, raised one of the hooves of his war horse, and looked at the horseshoe underneath: "Wen Chang, of all the cavalry in the world, only our horses have horseshoes on them, right? ?”

"That's natural. Only we have horseshoes, so the loss of our war horses has been greatly reduced. This battle has been fought so far, and the horseshoes of my tiger guards' horses are not worn out. It seems that we can continue to fight. As usual, After a fierce battle, three out of ten horses will go."

Wei Yan couldn't help feeling a little emotional: "So, when Emperor Wu fought back against the Xiongnu, if the horses had horseshoes, how could they have fought against Mobei? Maybe they could have been chasing the Xiongnu all the way to the west and completely wiped out the Huns without causing trouble at home. The household registration is halved, and the war horse is greatly damaged."

"This is about Hanwu's Northern Expedition to the Huns. You know all about this? It seems that you have read a lot of books? Have you read "Tai Shi Gong Shu"?"

Yu Jin was a little strange.

"Yes, I have read a few books. Your Majesty told me that a general who does not study is a reckless man. You must read more to take on the heavy responsibility of leading an army in battle. So your Majesty asked me to read a lot of books, and sometimes he would personally guide me to read books." , clear my doubts for me."

"Your Majesty personally guides you to study? He also helps you to solve your doubts? Really?"

Yu Jin was surprised.

"it is true."

Wei Yan nodded.

Yu Jin looked at Wei Yan with some surprise, sized him up, and then smiled.

"Your Majesty is right. There is no harm in reading more books. People who don't read books cannot command thousands of troops. Well, let's not talk about this. In the past, we all know that horseshoes are seriously damaged, galloping too fast, and the speed at which they are damaged. It will also speed up, so I dare not use too much horsepower, and I have to rest for a while after running.

Although it is the same now, but we have horseshoes, so we don’t have to worry too much about damage to the horseshoes. Compared with Wu people who don’t have horseshoes, we have an advantage in this point. They are afraid, but we are not, right? "

Wei Yan frowned and nodded.

"The general is right. We don't have to worry about the wear and tear of the horse's hooves, but does it matter?"

"The relationship is over."

Yu Jin said: "We are not afraid of damage to the horse's hoof, we can run faster, they are afraid of damage to the horse's hoof, so they must run very slowly, we can run faster than them, as long as the horses are full, and they No, you must take more breaks than us."

"That means..."

Wei Yan suddenly reacted and said in shock: "We can catch up with them! We just need to eat and sleep, and they have to let the horses rest for a while, and our horses are better than theirs, with more numbers and faster speeds." It will be faster!"

"Yes! Although they are running ahead, we will definitely catch up!"

Yu Jin clenched his fists tightly.

"Why didn't I think of it before!"

Wei Yan looked excited: "It's still a new thing, we're used to the old way, now it's different, and with the saddle and stirrups, we save a lot of effort, we can maximize the horsepower, but they can't, we have to The legs are clamped between the horse's belly, and you have to rest after running for a while, otherwise the horse can bear it and the person can't bear it!"

"sure."

Yu Jin looked at Wei Yan admiringly: "Not bad, not bad, I didn't read the book in vain, so I thought of it so quickly, very good, you are right, it should be like this, in this way, we will definitely be able to catch up with them very quickly, They don't want to go to Jingzhou!"

Wei Yan nodded again and again, and then told the soldiers to eat dry food quickly, drink more water, eat a few pieces of dried meat, and then continue to pursue on the road.

As for the combat rations, Wei Yan was quite satisfied.

Being able to eat enough and eat a few bites of meat was unthinkable when he didn't join Guo Peng's army before.

Guo Peng has never slacked off in terms of military rations since the beginning of the establishment of the army.

When the armies of other warlords were still eating vegetable porridge and wild vegetables, Guo Peng had already given the soldiers a few dry meals in the farmland of Shanggu County.

When the armies of other warlords went to the mountains to pick fruits and go down the river to fish for fish, Guo Peng was able to guarantee that the soldiers would have a dry meal a day.

After arriving in Qingzhou, because of the proximity to the sea, Guo Peng took advantage of the seaside and used a large amount of seafood and a large number of ducks obtained from controlling locusts to supplement meat for the soldiers.

When the area occupied became larger and the scale of the farmland became larger and larger, the staple food of the soldiers of the Wei Army completely broke away from the category of thick vegetable porridge and became dry rice.

After the capture of Hebei, trade channels with nomads were opened up, and the number of livestock obtained greatly increased, so beef, mutton and horse meat became the meat that Wei soldiers could eat.

And when the Wei army was about to carry out large-scale war operations, Guo Peng would also make large quantities of dried meat in advance to equip the soldiers.

Especially for cavalry, when they need to run long distances, dried meat and pancakes are the best food. Basically, one man has two horses, one horse rides the man, and one horse carries food, water and other necessities.

When the three cavalry artifacts are equipped, you can easily stabilize your body without clamping the belly of the horse with your legs when riding on the horse, and even some daily needs can be completed on the horse.

Pretty much non-stop except for night rest and letting the horses rest.

With such an extreme pursuit speed, Yu Jin is very sure to catch up with Sun Quan.

Chapter 737 This is the end of Liu Huang Gongfu

So a chasing battle with a certain chance of winning began.

On one side is the fully equipped and well-equipped pursuit army, and on the other is the fleeing brigade in panic and panic all day long.

Although Sun Quan's fleeing brigade was larger in number, just as Yu Jin predicted, their speed could not increase.

Coming out of Wanling County, they replenished a lot of supplies, but there were still too many people, few horses, insufficient food, and low morale, so their actions were very slow.

Naturally, Sun Quan and others rode horses, but the number of horses was indeed small. Apart from the necessary military horses reserved for the cavalry, a lot of supplies had to be pushed forward by soldiers with carts.