Chapter 74 There has never been a coward in the Su family
The spring rain is soft and slender, falling on the house and flowerbed softly and silently.
In the quiet courtyard of Su Mansion, a quarrel suddenly broke out. The door of the study room opened with a creak, and the one-armed man strode out, followed closely by Su Congfang who shouted at him: "Outside What can you do about the imperial cavalry?”
“Because there are cavalry, what can the tens of thousands of people over there eat?”
He turned around and screamed at his father who was chasing him. He had always had a bad temper. Even if he broke an arm, he could not change it. He pointed outside: "If tens of thousands of people are gone, Ding'an City will be gone as well, and the Su family will be gone." No more, Dad! How can you sit still!”
"Dad is not afraid that you are in danger, so what's the use of going out?!"
The quarrel between the father and son attracted family members to come over. Xiao Wei pushed away the support of her eldest daughter-in-law. Between the father and son, she looked at Su Lie: "Go, mother supports you to go. The Su family is small, but they are not weak people in the city. Your eldest brother is not afraid of death, your younger brother is not afraid of death, and you are not afraid of death either. My three sons are all good. At home, There are not many soldiers, so you can take them away, but the two thousand soldiers guarding the city must not be moved!"
Su Congfang came over to speak anxiously, but his old wife turned her head and glared: "Whether it is at home or outside the home, you can't move! It's a matter of life and death. If Chen'er's army is deprived of food for more than two days, who will fight with all their lives?"
"Xie Niang!"
"Su Er? Brother, I'll go with you!" A young man named Su Ting came with several people.
Su Lie was very happy to have his mother's support. He nodded to Su Ting and others and said, "Follow me!" Without even looking at his wife Hua Hongzhen, who came, he went straight out of the backyard and called the steward of the house. After calling all the soldiers, we barely managed to gather 120 people.
Sun Shuwu, the prefect, heard about this and came to dissuade him. Seeing that he could not persuade Su Lie, he had to leave the errand of transporting grain to him and transferred thirty police officers from the government office.
More than 30 large carts were filled with grain bags. Looking at the convoy slowly leaving the city gate, Su Lie understood that this was only enough to feed tens of thousands of people for two days. Come back and continue shipping.
The official roads and trails outside Ding'an City are no longer visible. The broken shafts of the carriages are placed on the roadside, and the burnt carriage frames still have a slight scorch smell. In the distance, there are still smelly and swollen carriages. The corpse of the merchant was hung at the edge of the forest near the official road.
After a hundred thousand troops entered the territory of Yunzhen, five thousand cavalry rolled over. At that time, there were many merchants who were handling goods and preparing to leave. They were driven away or killed one by one, and they robbed the property, especially those targeting them. Caravans with large cars, regardless of whether there is food in them, will directly kill people and set fire to them, and burn them all.
Under the threat of the blade, no one dared to take risks. The business travelers who used to come and go frequently basically stayed at the junction of Ding'an City, or diverted to other cities, and did not dare to come here again.
In just one or two days, there was a lot of noise outside Ding'an City, and no one dared to walk outside.
Most of the people who can move are one or two figures on horseback. These are the scouts of the Yanshan Iron Cavalry. Their range of activities is from Ji County, Qingshan and here. Once a convoy appears on the road, They conveyed the news to the main force who was lying down. If there were few people, they called other scouts and rushed over to start the massacre.
That afternoon, in the drizzle, they saw a convoy leaving the city and heading north. The convoy was so huge that they didn’t even know what was in it.
The grain transport convoy walked twenty miles north. Su Ting rode crookedly to the front of the convoy and brought bad news, "Brother Su, I saw a few scouts on horseback. They were sizing up the convoy. If you run away in a while, will the Yanshan Cavalry come to kill you?”
"Speed up."
Su Lie did not reply directly. If he had, the people in the convoy would probably have to run a lot. One hundred and twenty soldiers should be able to stop them for a while. He held the reins and fell to From behind, let Su Ting lead the convoy first, while he led the soldiers from the mansion behind.
Sure enough, a cavalry team of about 2,000 people galloped from several avenues to the east and stopped several hundred feet away. The leading cavalry commander glanced at Su Lie and raised his head. At the beginning, the cavalry team gathered together, and hundreds of them were separated on the field and rushed towards the convoy transporting grain.
The rumble of horse hooves shook the field, and the slowly moving convoy suddenly panicked. The police officers escorting the vehicles did not dare to come into contact with such a formation, and many people turned around and ran away.
Su Ting called them back with a sword, but no one stopped, even one of the head catchers ran away.
At the moment when the cavalry was approaching, there was a sudden sound of arrows shooting in the sky. The cavalry that was originally charging suddenly turned around and ran back to their own formation. Su Lie, who was standing behind the soldiers and preparing to fight, was stunned. Across the field of vision, the cavalry The leading general seemed to be listening to a scout, and then took the lead and ran northward.
Iron hoofs cracked the ground, and two thousand cavalry surged across the wilderness in a mighty manner. They quickly disappeared into the dusk in the dust and smoke.
"Brother Su, what's going on?"
Su Ting came running from the convoy in front. His face was covered with cold sweat. He was naturally scared when he faced the cavalry charge just now. The cavalry withdrew, and he was still shaking a little, "Why did these enemy cavalry suddenly run away?"
"Where can I know?"
Just as Su Lie finished speaking, several fast horses came running in front of the convoy. The knights above saw the convoy parked here and quickly approached. They stepped forward to ask who Su Lie was. Someone dismounted and raised their hands. Lie whispered about the war ahead.
Su Ting didn’t hear what he heard very clearly. He only heard “It turned into a rebel army...” “Many people’s lives and deaths are unknown...” “An army of 120,000 people mixed with ours and ran all over the mountains and plains. ..." Some words, his mind was buzzing with confusion, and then he saw Su Lie's face changing constantly.
"Brother Su..." he called. Su Lie took a deep breath and suddenly laughed, "My third brother can fight like this with 120,000 soldiers and horses. If he doesn't survive, no matter how incompetent my second brother is, I still have to pick up his bones!" "
The people running around did not run too far. After hearing his words, they came back one by one and continued to escort the convoy in silence.
On the way to the north, soldiers fleeing south can be seen everywhere, in groups or alone. But those who can escape to the south are mostly Ding'an troops. Occasionally they meet each other and ask: "Brothers?" A general’s subordinate?”
“I’m a disciple of the great wise master.”
“Come with us and gather twenty more people. I don’t have any food on my body!” , half a piece first..."
Further north, such scenes became more frequent. Groups of cavalry roared into the forest, and then fierce fighting broke out in the forest, with both sides running away everywhere. In each army, the commanding cavalry with horns did not dare to blow the assembly horns indiscriminately, which would not only attract their own soldiers and horses, but also attract nearby enemies.
Most of them will attract each other's comrades, go south together, or find out the location of the main force and go to join them.
At this time, the team around Su Chen had reached more than 7,000 soldiers, and they were still coming in a steady stream, ranging from a few dozen to dozens to hundreds.
After arriving at Yunqi County, he also saw Wu Huizhi and Tang Huaiyuan on the city tower. At this moment, they did not dare to treat Su Chen as the former third son of the Hou Mansion, and immediately asked people to open the city Open the door and come out to meet Su Chen.
Time was running out. Su Chen knew that He Jinchen had led a group of remnant soldiers to the north, so he did not continue to chat and immediately invited Marquis Yun Zhen to bring the soldiers and horses in the palace to pursue them together.
In the gray spring rain, after Su Chen entrusted the wounded soldiers in the team to Tang Huaiyuan, he joined forces with Marquis Yunqi. There were tens of thousands of soldiers. They quickly walked along the muddy road to the north and searched forward.
Through the wilderness behind Changchuan County, the next step is the rugged mountain road, and there are rolling hills in the distance. In this water vapor, the sound of the collision of horse hooves and weapons can be heard from the bottom of the hillside, and two groups of soldiers and horses They were fighting in front of the hillside. The smaller side had hundreds of cavalry and more than a hundred infantry. The other side was obviously Yan State soldiers and horses, with two to three thousand people. The armor and weapons on both sides were mostly different. They should have come from Other military formations did not form effective fighting formations.
Su Chen rushed forward, looking at the hillside below, and soon found Zhang Liao among hundreds of cavalry. His horses were scarred and exhausted, and he led the cavalry to help more than a hundred infantry avoid being surrounded by the opponent.
"Dian Wei!" Su Chen turned around and shouted.
In the crowd, a burly man squeezed through the people in front of him and stood suddenly next to Wu Huizhi. He looked ferocious and smelled of blood, especially with a human head hanging on his waist. This scene He almost fell off his horse in fright.
Su Chen pointed downward: "Take people down and kill them."
"Come a few people!"
Dian Wei just shouted like this, pulled out his two halberds and jumped down the hillside. The crowd behind him was roaring. There were only a few people. There were seven or eight hundred people who immediately rushed over and jumped down the hillside. They had all passed through the previous melee. If the soldiers can survive, they are basically considered elite soldiers.
Marquis Yun Jin watched the giant man named Dian Wei descending the hillside before he came back to his senses and hurriedly rode to Su Chen's side, "Is this one of your subordinates too?"
Seeing Su Chen nod, he remembered Dong Zhuo who was next to him when they met last year.
"My dear nephew... do you want me to be the best?"
As he spoke, the fighting at the foot of the hillside ended before it even started. The leader of the three thousand soldiers and horses was General Huben. When Li Gan saw the giant man leading his troops to jump off the slope, he issued an order for his troops to withdraw.
So when Dian Wei rushed down, he only had time to cut down the two of them, but the other party and his men had already escaped more than ten feet.
"Wenyuan, can we fight again?" Dian Wei put away his halberds, walked towards Zhang Liao over there, and took out the medicine and handed it to him.
Su Chen urged his horse down the hillside and raised his hands towards Zhang Liao. The latter returned the salute on horseback and then pointed to the direction in which Li Gan escaped, "I have pursued He Jinchen to this point, and I will meet him here. If they meet, this person should lead his troops to join the opponent!"
"While his footing is not stable, why not rush in and kill him?" Dian Wei knocked his halberds out. Mars.
“Then what are you waiting for?!”
"Let's go!"
The soldiers and horses gathered together again. Zhang Liao led the cavalry and rushed forward. Su Chen and Wu Huizhi followed closely behind with their infantry. In such a high-intensity battle, Su Chen also had several Shi Chen had never eaten anything. As the commander-in-chief of an army, he tried his best to show his strong side. This was what Cao Cao taught him.
At this moment, the outcome has been balanced, all he needs to do is take a few more steps than the opponent!
(End of this chapter)