The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

The entire battle lasted for less than half an hour, and there were no surprises at all.

The thousand officers were not cavalry, but the brave men recruited by Qin Jie. They were actually not much stronger than the Yellow Turbans under Liu Zheng.

In addition, Xu Huang and Zhou Cang led four thousand yellow scarf troops to attack Cai Mao.

Cai Mao himself was not considered a famous general, and his ability was not strong enough, so he was quickly defeated, and almost a thousand officers and soldiers died.

Only then did Cai Mao think about breaking out and running away.

He put most of the officers and soldiers to cover him, let him find a chance to break out from Xu Huang's encirclement, and immediately left here quickly.

And Xu Huang also pretended not to notice that Cai Mao had escaped. He was ordered by Liu Zheng to deliberately let Cai Mao leave the battlefield.

All of this was in Liu Zheng's eyes.

After the fighting subsided, Liu Zheng asked Xu Huang.

"How is Xu Huang's situation? Did you notice the enemy's arrival? We let him go back on purpose."

Xu Huang shook his head.

"Probably not. The man was terrified and panicked after being killed by our surprise soldiers. It was a fluke to be able to escape from here. It should not be obvious that we let him go back on purpose."

"That's good, let Zhou Cang continue to lead people to chase after them, but don't catch up, just hang behind them."

"Yes, as ordered."

Chapter 40 Chain Meter

Liu Zheng's goal is not Cai Mao.

Cai Mao and the thousand officers and soldiers under him were just bait used by Liu Zheng to attract Qin Jie in Caiyang City.

This time Liu Zheng deliberately let Cai Mao go back. Cai Mao, who has suffered a great loss, will definitely not admit his failure. He will definitely publicize in front of Qin Jie what kind of ambush he has suffered, and then instigate Qin Jie to send troops to crusade against these people again. Yellow Turban Thief.

Cai Mao's fanning the flames will definitely make Qin Jie quite interested in the yellow turban army outside the city, and then he will go to war and bring more soldiers out of the city to sweep them.

This time, Cai Mao only saw the four thousand soldiers Liu Zheng ambushed in the valley.

He didn't know that Liu Zheng had arranged 7000 people here.So the next time he comes over, he will only think that there are 4000 people here.

Unexpectedly, Liu Zheng actually arranged 7000 people here.

And these 7000 people are not Liu Zheng's final killer to deal with Qin Jie. His real idea is to wait for Qin Jie's second attack, lure them to the road to Wancheng, and enter the second ambush .

The 3 people Sun Zhong ambushed there.

That was the real battlefield, and it was also Liu Zheng's final move against Qin Jie.

Of course, before getting to that point, Qin Jie must first fall into the trap and continue to send troops over to pursue Liu Zheng, the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army.

And Zhou Cang took the remaining 2000 troops to pursue Cai Mao, just to annoy Qin Jie even more, and wanted to provoke Qin Jie and attract Qin Jie to pursue him.

Cai Mao ran away, and it only took a quarter of an hour to escape back to Caiyang City.

At this time, Qin Jie in Caiyang City had just organized his troops and was about to take people to Wancheng to join Zhu Jun's troops and besiege Wancheng together.

Seeing that Cai Mao fled back in a panic, the thousand troops he brought with him suffered heavy losses, and only dozens of people around him fled back, he immediately became furious and arrested Cai Mao to question him.

Cai Mao came to Qin Jie's side with a dejected face, sweeping away the high spirits before, Cai Mao at this time was only disappointed and unwilling.

Qin Jie asked Cai Mao about the cause and effect. In order to get rid of the crime, Cai Mao could only answer that he pursued the enemy too deeply and said it out of an ambush by mistake.

"Damn it, we just took down Caiyang City, and there is a small group of Yellow Turbans who are so arrogant and dare to play tricks on me. Cai Mao, can you see the number of that group of Yellow Turbans clearly?"

"Look clearly, there are about 5000 people, and they are not too good people. I think they look like some remnants from their outfits."

"Okay, I'm worried that I can't find the whereabouts of those yellow turban thieves. They still dare to chase after Caiyang City. I will give you a chance to make up for your mistakes. You can gather 3000 troops and wipe out this group of yellow turban thieves." gone."

Although Qin Jie was very angry with Cai Mao, if he punished Cai Mao at this time, Cai Mao would definitely not accept it, so he simply gave him a chance to make up for his mistakes.

Cai Mao was originally a well-known big family in Jingzhou, a prominent local family, even Qin Jie, knowing that Cai Mao had done it, didn't want to blame him for it.

When Cai Mao heard Qin Jie's words, his originally depressed mood immediately ignited a raging fire at this moment. The time for revenge came. He had this opportunity, so why didn't he want to cherish it, so he directly took orders from Qin Jie and go.

As soon as Cai Mao left, Qin Jie frowned, and immediately shouted at the guard outside the door.

"Hurry up and ask Han Sheng to come here!"

Not long after, Huang Zhong hurried to Qin Jie's big tent.

"My lord, you call me."

"Han Sheng, Cai Mao was caught in an ambush and lost a thousand soldiers and horses. I suspect that the small group of yellow scarf thieves outside the city had a purpose. Maybe this time it was an ambush. You go and lead [-] soldiers and horses to the rear of Cai Mao. Follow, don't startle the snake."

"If Cai Mao still falls for the trick this time, you can help Cai Mao as a helping hand. Only then can we annihilate those yellow scarf thieves in one fell swoop."

Cai Mao was relatively stupid. He might not have imagined that there were experts in the Yellow Turban Army, but Qin Jie was not stupid. He hadn't been overwhelmed by hatred, so at this time, he sent another reinforcement to assist Cai Mao.

Huang Zhong quickly agreed, and after Cai Mao led his people away, Huang Zhong also ordered three thousand soldiers and horses, and quickly rushed out of Caiyang City.

On Zhou Cang's side, the two thousand Yellow Turban Army chasing Cai Mao, after driving Cai Mao into Caiyang City, immediately retreated according to Liu Zheng's previous instructions.

Not long after, Cai Mao led his people and continued to rush out of Caiyang City, and quickly pursued Zhou Cang in the previous direction.

After Zhou Cang saw from a distance that Cai Mao led the team again, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He and Liu Zheng made a good estimate, Cai Mao chased him out at all costs.

Along the way, Zhou Cang once again used Liu Zheng's guerrilla tactics to hang Cai Mao and let Cai Mao chase after him, but this time, Liu Zheng changed places and did not continue to ambush Cai Mao in the same position as before.

Instead, the ambush location was advanced in advance. When Cai Mao led the people out of Caiyang City, Liu Zheng's people who were hiding nearby rushed out immediately.

First, Xu Huang charged out with the other 2000 troops.

"Kill!"

Xu Huang drew out his long axe, rode on the horse, roared, and led the two thousand yellow scarf soldiers around him to kill Cai Mao.

But this time, Cai Mao didn't have the panic of last time.

After all, he already knew the number of Yellow Turban thieves here, and he had already thought in advance that there might be an ambush, so he ordered the officers and soldiers around him to start confronting the enemy in an orderly manner.

Charged forward step by step, these officers and soldiers were well-equipped and their morale was high, and they began to attack the coalition formed by Xu Huang and Zhou Cang. At this time, the two sides fought together.

If there are no obstacles from other factors, even if there are Xu Huang and Zhou Cang.Two generals command these Yellow Turbans.It is impossible for the military quality of the Yellow Turban Army to defeat the 3000 men under Cai Mao's command.

After all, the overall quality of the official army is still slightly better than that of the Yellow Turban Army. Even if Liu Zheng has trained these Yellow Turban Army, there is no way to improve them to the point where they can compete with the official army in such a short period of time.

In addition, Liu Zheng's real elite cavalry is not here, he did not send out, so Cai Mao fought more and more fiercely, and it seemed that he was about to win and suppress these Yellow Turbans.

Liu Zheng watched Cai Mao lead the people to continue to go deeper, so he knew the time had come. He quickly waved his hand and let the other 3000 people who had been ambushing here for a long time circle around quickly to come behind Cai Mao.

"on!"

Commanding the last 3000 men, Liu Zheng gave an order, causing these men to start rushing towards Cai Mao's men.

The sound of shouting and killing immediately came from behind Cai Mao again, and Cai Mao, who was already a little proud, suddenly changed his face at this time.

"There are still ambushes?"

Chapter 41 The Second Seduction

Cai Mao was slightly surprised that three thousand yellow scarf thieves were killed again.

However, it was not enough to make Cai Mao feel worried. The three thousand officers and soldiers here were large enough to deal with six or seven thousand yellow scarves, and it was not a problem.

Immediately, Cai Mao began to divide his troops and deal with these Yellow Turbans back and forth.

After repeated battles, the Yellow Turbans under Liu Zheng's command were no longer as powerful as they were when he was in Quyang. The small group of Yellow Turbans he led.

Morale has been extremely low since then, and now he has completely believed in Liu Zheng's command and leadership, and like the officers and soldiers, he has a preliminary spirit of fearlessness.

Going forward, relying on the advantage of the large number of people, the fierce fighting with these officers and soldiers of Cai Mao was abnormal. In just 10 minutes of fighting, more than 3000 of Cai Mao's 1000 men were slaughtered.

Although the Yellow Turban Army under him was also slightly damaged and nearly a thousand people died, Liu Zheng still has no regrets. Only by constantly honing the soldiers and horses through the flames of war can they select the best part of them.

Those who cannot survive the flames of war, even if they are placed in other places, cannot survive. After all, this is a troubled world, not a peaceful era.

Just when Liu Zheng thought that this attack could also defeat Cai Mao, a sharp arrow flew over from a distance.

With a puff, he shot at one of the outermost Yellow Turban soldiers.

The Yellow Turban Army was shot by this huge force, and the whole person flew up, and fell back several meters away.

It happened to fall not far in front of Liu Zheng.

After Liu Zheng saw an arrow on the man's body, his expression darkened immediately, and he understood something.

Without further ado, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat.

"Withdraw, don't love to fight!"

Liu Zheng shouted, and immediately retreated with the people around him.

Seeing the arrow, Liu Zheng immediately understood that the opponent's reinforcements were coming.

From the very beginning, he didn't count on people like Cai Mao, they were all Qin Jie's troops. After all, he knew very well that Qin Jie had nearly ten thousand troops under his command.

And among the nearly 1000 people, apart from the [-] who were attracted and beheaded by Liu Zheng at the beginning, there were still about [-] by Qin Jie's side.

With Zhou Cang and Xu Huang's clumsy seduction strategy, the other party can't guarantee to know that Liu Zheng and others deliberately set up an ambush here to wait for the other party to fall into the trap.

So dispatching Cai Mao is only the first step, and the second step is the real role of reinforcements.

The same is true of what Liu Zheng has been wary of.

Knowing that the opponent's reinforcements are really coming, how can they continue to stay here.

Both sides have no cavalry, and it is mountainous.

The men and horses of the Yellow Turban Army rushed fast when they fought, and they were not slow when they fled.

After Liu Zheng's order, they began to retreat one after another.

Those officers and soldiers wanted to intercept them, but their numbers were small, and they couldn't stop the Yellow Turban Army with 7000 to [-] people.

After only a small number of Yellow Turban thieves were left behind, a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers successfully escaped from the battlefield.

Swarm and disperse.

Even Cai Mao didn't understand. Obviously the opponent had the upper hand, but the opponent said to retreat and retreat.

It wasn't until he heard the shouts of killing coming from behind him again that he realized that his reinforcements had arrived.

When I saw Huang Zhong's three thousand friendly troops.

Cai Mao's mood was quite complicated for a while, neither happy nor embarrassed.

Although this time he led troops out to exterminate these yellow turban thieves, he did not fall into the trap again and had already prepared in advance, but the other party really set up a second wave of ambushes here.

If Huang Zhong didn't bring people over to support him, maybe Cai Mao would continue to lose this time.

However, after going through this battle, Cai Mao finally realized that this Yellow Turban Army was completely different from the Yellow Turban Army he encountered before.

The Yellow Turban Army they had dealt with before, including Zhang Mancheng's Yellow Turban Army, were all vulnerable chickens and dogs.

A little charge will break up, but the current wave of Yellow Turbans can fight with them on the battlefield for a long time, and the scheduling is orderly, and they can advance and retreat freely.

It doesn't look like a Yellow Turban thief at all.

"Han Sheng, why are you here?"

After the fighting stopped for a while, Cai Hao immediately found Huang Zhong, and then asked why Huang Zhong came.

Although Cai Mao had just realized that Huang Zhong was Qin Jie's back-up, but now he was embarrassed to admit that he was almost defeated by the Yellow Turban Bandit again.

"The county guard asked me to come to support you. Are you okay? What about those yellow scarf soldiers? I saw them just now. Why did they all disappear when they came here suddenly?"

Huang Zhong didn't care about Cai Mao's situation, he just cared about the Yellow Turban Army.

Cai Mao heard that Huang Zhong didn't seem to care about his own results, and he was angry when he mentioned the Yellow Turban Army, so he immediately explained to Huang Zhong.

"Don't mention it, as soon as you came, those yellow scarf thieves seemed to have heard some trouble, and immediately scattered like birds and beasts, and ran away completely in the blink of an eye."

There was nothing left on the ground except the stench of blood and thousands of corpses.

"Ran?"

Huang Zhong fell into deep thought when he heard Cai Mao's words.

"We can't let these yellow turban thieves run away. We have to catch up and destroy them, otherwise leaving these yellow turban thieves will always be a scourge."

Knowing that these Yellow Turban soldiers were not ordinary Yellow Turban thieves, Cai Mao planned to continue chasing them. Firstly, it was because if the Yellow Turban thieves were not wiped out, he would never be able to return to Qin Jie. Defeated by these yellow turban thieves.