If Fan Chou ran to the south out of fear and regret, then Gan Ning, who took the lead in breaking out of camp, screamed to the sky and went out. How can we not be as heroic and willful as the Pengpeng people?
Damn, I’ve had enough of those local dogs in Liangzhou. This time I want to live for myself and take care of my brothers.
At the military meeting that night, Gan Ning could say nothing, just listen to all parties fighting for their own interests, and finally came up with a ridiculous strategy for tomorrow's decisive battle.
Gan Ning knew very well that Lu Bu was right. If he really wanted to fight, he should fight that night. We would all cut off all options and put ourselves to death together, instead of hesitating like a mother-in-law.
So after the military meeting was over, Gan Ning had only one thought on his way back to the camp:
"I'll kill your grandma."
After Gan Ning returned to the camp, he called all the military officers above the general level to the big tent.
These people have almost reached the lowest level of the Gan Ning Army, and they are all present this time.
When these people arrived, the entire camp was silent, and the people and horses were silent. Only the stars and the crescent moon hung in the sky, illuminating the world with panic.
After these people entered the tent, they saw Gan Ning sitting in a daze above him. They did not dare to disturb him and all tacitly retreated outside the tent to wait.
These Banzhen warriors and Yizhou rangers who had been with Gan Ning for a long time knew very well that Gan Ning must have made some important decision at this time.
Yes, Gan Ning's decision tonight can be said to be the boldest decision he has ever made in his life.
That is, breaking camp overnight.
It can be said that there is no psychological burden to let the people in Liangzhou make this decision, but for a proud man like Gan Ning, this is as difficult as climbing to the sky.
He knew very well that once he broke camp, unpredictable consequences would likely occur. When the time comes, no matter how many reasons Gan Ning has, in fact, he will betray his friendly troops to survive.
How could the conceited Gan Ning do this?
But if he doesn't do this, Gan Ning is really unwilling to do so.
If the late emperor were here, he would fight to the end even if he risked his life. Even if it is not the late emperor or the young emperor, he will fight to the last soldier. But who is behind him? It's Hu Zhen, it's Dong Zhuo. Who do they think they want me, Gan Ning, to work for them?
When he looked up, he saw his brothers silently guarding outside the tent. His heart felt warm and he didn't hesitate any longer.
Gan Ning called everyone into the tent, sighed softly, and asked:
"Do you know what the situation is now?"
The brothers looked at each other in silence. In fact, they, the banzhen barbarians and the Kawachi rangers, really didn't understand the changes in the situation. In their view, it is just the same as in the past. The enemy may be stronger, but they can just fight.
But they were not stupid. From Gan Ning's appearance, they knew that there must be some crisis waiting for them. So a dark-skinned brute man came up and said in Chinese:
"Qu Kui, just tell us how to fight. As long as you give the order, we will go through fire and water."
Gan Ning nodded and no longer explained what happened in the tent tonight, but said:
"I have decided to take you out of camp tonight."
The generals present took a deep breath. Of course they understood what this meant, but no one said a word.
After a long while, someone asked:
"What will Colonel Shen do once we leave? Will our army be involved?"
Shen Xiaowei is also Shen Mi. His troops have always been on the same page as Gan Ning's army, advancing and retreating together, so some military officials asked.
Gan Ning replied:
"Old Shen is always smart. As soon as I leave here, he will definitely follow me. Don't worry about them."
Another ranger who thought more deeply asked this concern:
"If we leave the camp without an order, the court will definitely punish us for a serious crime. How should the captain respond then?"
Gan Ning shook his head, half contemptuous and half self-deprecating:
"I have clearly seen the layout of the imperial court. Now whoever has soldiers will take care of them. If I can really lead everyone to retreat safely, I might not be innocent? Besides, I am running for my life now, and I can't even care about it right now. , how can we care about the future? ”
Everyone was silent again.
This matter is really difficult for the men on the battlefield.
At the end, Gan Ning’s neck-cutting brother Lou asked the last question:
"When we retreat, we must pass through the jurisdiction of Li Jue and Guo Si. Our army does not have a letter from the Chinese Army, how can these two armies pass by?"
Gan Ning was actually worried about this, but things were never done until everything was ready. He could never wait until this time, so he could only take one step at a time.
So he glanced at Lou Fa and suddenly gave an order loudly:
"Everyone will obey the order..."
Gan Ning then arranged the retreat in an orderly manner.
In this way, all the generals saw Gan Ning's determination, and acted as ordered without any worries.
Soon, these troops were divided into various camps, without raising flags or blowing horns, and just quietly assembled towards the south.
Gan Ning walked in the lead and quietly headed south with his 1,600 men.
Their defense area was in the northeast of the battlefield. As they headed south, they naturally encountered friendly troops from Xiyuan such as Pang Yan and Yang Fu.
At that time, a military officer saw Gan Ning heading south and asked strangely:
"Captain Gan, the enemy is in the north, why are we heading south?"
Gan Ning simply replied:
"Our army has been fighting for a long time, and the commander-in-chief issued a letter to retreat to the south and reorganize the formation."
The military officials did not suspect anything and went directly back to the camp to report. Soon the other side returned and gave Gan Ning's army a pass.
Gan Ning hugged his fists toward the darkness in the distance, and then continued southward with his army.
At this time, Lou Fa beside him could no longer bear it:
"Is this order true?"
Gan Ning rolled his eyes at his sworn brother and sneered:
"Of course it's false. As for the military meeting that Pang Yan and I attended together, would he not know if I had a new military order? I knew that Pang Yan was going to run away."
Lou Fa clicked his tongue and said nothing.
Gan Ning then continued south, passed through Pang Yan's jurisdiction, turned to the southwest, and plunged into the Queshu Road.
Shortly after Gan Ning and others left, Shen Mi's troops, Yan Yan, and Zhang Ren also retreated southward, still going to Pang Yan's jurisdiction.
It's not surprising that Shen Mi and Yan Yan left, but it's unusual for Zhang Ren, a warrior who dared to fight, to leave as well. In fact, Zhang Ren understood a truth after experiencing a fight with Li Meng and other Liangzhou troops.
If you are really in trouble, those of us from Yizhou will be the ones who can help you. So he decided to advance and retreat together with Shen Mi and Yan Yan.
When they passed through Pangyan's jurisdiction, they were also stopped.
If the reasons given by Gan Ning were serious, then the reasons given by Shen Mi and others were almost perfunctory.
In the darkness, Pang Yan's guarding officer's face turned red from suppressing his emotions. Looking at the densely packed Yizhou Army in front, he said:
"You said you are all going to the south to collect firewood? To fetch water?"
Shen Mi and the others didn't even see him, so they asked a Chinese military official to give such an answer.
Feeling that he had been humiliated to his intelligence, the guard immediately prepared to blow the trumpet. At this moment, a man came from behind and said something to him. The officer suddenly understood and then shouted:
"Let go."
As a result, the three units of the Yizhou Army headed south majestically. As soon as the Yizhou army withdrew, Pang Yan in the camp sighed to the five men Yang Fu, Pang Juan, Zhang Gong, Zhou Lie, and Fu Xun in the tent:
"Okay, let's go. No matter what the final result is, the disaster was caused by the Yizhou Army, and we were just coerced."
The five generals in the field, except Fu Xun, who was blushing and having trouble hearing, felt that they had done something shameful and humiliated the family. But when several others reached a consensus, he could only follow the trend.
In this way, not long after the Yizhou army left, the Yongzhou soldiers of the fifth battalion also ran south. However, they did not walk along the Queshu Road with the Yizhou Army, but walked thousands of miles southeast.
Over there, Gan Ning not only successfully withdrew from the Dusuoyuan battlefield, but also took many of the Liangzhou Army's troops with him before leaving.
With the addition of hundreds of horses and mules, Gan Ning's 1,600 men all became cavalry and retreated quickly towards the Queshu Road.
Behind them, the Dusuo camp was in chaos, and some Liangzhou military generals who had realized that Gan Ning and the others had a problem had already led troops to pursue them.
But before they could catch Gan Ning and the others, they were killed by the three generals Shen Mi, Yan Yan and Zhang Ren who came from behind.
Gan Ning had just led his men to turn around and fight back. When he saw the three generals arriving, he was overjoyed.
So, the two sides took a round and counted the number of people, and finally found that the four battalions combined had only more than 7,000 soldiers.
It is really sad to think that on that day, their four battalions of Yizhou troops with a total of 12,000 elite soldiers came out of Queshu Road, but now only 7,000 of their disciples have returned.
It was precisely after this inventory that Zhang Ren, who was still hesitant at first, had no objection to withdrawing his troops to the south.
In this way, after the Yizhou Army System, which totaled less than 8,000 soldiers, thought about it, they followed the sparrow road and meandered southward.
At this point, the Kansai soldiers in Dusuo Camp collapsed. These more than 40,000 troops were divided into four major groups. One group consisted of Gan Ning and others from the Yizhou Army, who followed the path of sparrows and mice. One group is the generals of Yongzhou, traveling thousands of miles. One group is Lu Bu and his companions, who are joining the state army and heading east, intending to go to Shangdang.
The last group is Fan Chou and the others. They were the most chaotic, some took the sparrow road, some walked thousands of miles away, and some even thought Lu Bu was brave and wanted to follow them out.
In short, all the armies are rushing towards each other and fleeing for their lives.
But if you want to say that the neatest one inside, it was Gan Ning and the others who left first.
Before Gan Ning left, the arrangements were very appropriate. Even after the three generals joined together later, because he moved the camp first, the three generals were willing to listen to him.
Therefore, all the troops and battalions could closely follow the flag along the way, marching along the sparrow road without missing a single one.
After walking, the sky was almost white, and the more than 7,000 Yizhou troops were tired and hungry. The sparrow road was a hundred miles long, and it used to take three days to walk.
But in just one night, they had already traveled halfway, which showed how anxious and tired they were.
In the end, they had no choice but to rest where they were.
At this time, Gan Ning, Shen Mi, Yan Yan, and Zhang Ren were sitting around, sipping dry biscuits by the cool Fen River water.
The atmosphere at this meeting was not too heavy, after all, everyone led the brothers to fight out no matter what they said.
But there is still a hint of haze in the minds of the four of them. Finally, Yan Yan said it:
"Three of you, don't you think it's strange? In the original formation, this Queshu Road was Li Jue's jurisdiction, but we have walked almost half way and we haven't met this person yet. You think, this Li Jue is What are you doing?”
Shen Mi was the most generous among the four. After hearing Yan Yan's words, he said smoothly:
"What can we do? We're afraid they'll just watch us from the mountain walls on both sides?"
This was so scary that Yan Yan really believed it and hurriedly stood up and looked at the mountains on both sides.
But except for the rising sun that was about to burst out and the coldness that had not yet dissipated from the ridge, there seemed to be nothing. But Yan Yan looked again, and saw that the skewed vegetation on the ridge seemed to be Liangzhou soldiers, looking down at him.
Yan Yan's spirit has long been highly tense, and his whole person is under stress. Gan Ning saw that Yan Yan was not feeling well, so he pushed him.
However, Yan Yan drew out his knife and slashed at Gan Ning. The knife was so large that Zhang Ren, who thought he was brave, did not catch the knife's trajectory.
But Gan Ning made a sideways noise, rubbed his whole body into Yan Yan's arms, held Yan Yan's right arm under his arm, twisted around and pushed Yan Yan to the ground.
Yan Yan's eyes were red, there was dirt in his mouth, and he kept gasping for air. Gan Ning, who was holding him down, cursed:
"Old Yan, why are you so crazy?"
As he spoke, his single palm turned into a hammer and lightly hit Yan Yan's head.
Yan Yan came back to her senses after being struck by this blow. She was a little embarrassed when she saw this posture and said:
"Lao Gan, why don't you come down?"
Seeing that Yan Yan had regained his composure, Gan Ning let go of him, but he still stepped on the eight-figure step, ready to respond at any time.
Yan Yan felt embarrassed over there, so she sat on the ground again, picked up the pancake and ate it.
Seeing that Yan Yan was really okay, Gan Ning put his foot on Shen Mi's thigh and cursed:
"How long has it been since you started talking like that? Please restrain yourself. The next time Lao Yan draws his sword and cuts you, I'll see how you hide."
Shen Mi was a little embarrassed after being scolded. He smiled and handed a piece of meat pie in his arms to Yan Yan as an apology.
Only Zhang Ren realized the power of Gan Ning's attack and had a higher evaluation of Gan Ning's bravery.
Thinking this in his heart, Zhang Ren coughed and explained:
"This Bird and Rat Road is just one hole in a hundred miles, and it is only one road from north to south. So if Li Jue is still here, he only needs to drop a barrier to stop us, and there is no need to climb the mountain. And our army After walking for half a night, I still haven't seen any of Li Jue's soldiers, which means that this person is not on the Queshu Road. "
Gan Ning and the other three thought about it for a while, and this is the truth.
As for Li Jue, where would he be if he were not here? They don't want to waste their brains.
After that, the fourth general arranged the troops to take turns to keep vigil, and then each department took a rest in turn.
After not sleeping all night, and having done such a big thing, the four generals were very tired and fell into a deep sleep soon.
And I slept until three o'clock in the morning.
At this time, the military officer on duty rushed over and shook the four people awake.
Sleepily, Gan Ning and the others learned the bad news:
"You said a Taishan Army surprise cavalry appeared behind us?"
Seeing the military official nodding again, Gan and Ning were silent for a while. They looked at the officials behind them again, and saw that they were as weak as themselves, and felt miserable in their hearts.
Everyone knows how bad the state is after waking up after staying up late.
But the pursuers have already arrived, and no matter how bad the situation is, they still have to get up and fight.
So, after waking up all the troops, the four generals Gan and Ning walked to the back of the team to watch the sudden cavalry on the opposite side of the formation.
Strangely enough, the cavalry stopped less than two miles away from them. Their condition seemed to be very bad. Some of the knights in the front row had their armors torn and covered in blood.
Listening to Lou Fa's report from behind, this group of cavalry is very strange. They just stop here and don't come to fight. He had previously chosen a group of people to counterattack, but they just retreated far away and did not respond, as if they were just looking at themselves and had no intention of fighting.
Gan Ning thought for a while and said to Zhang Ren:
"Old Zhang, you will continue to lead the brothers forward as the leader in a while, and I will stay here as the rear. I want to see what tricks these Taishan troops are going to show off!"