Chapter 864 Crossing the Huai River
Seeing the Huainan soldiers rushing to run away, Ren Jun couldn't sit still.
Although his military experience is not worth mentioning, otherwise he would not have been defeated and captured with Mao Shao and other Zhongmu children.
But he is not a military idiot. Looking at the opponent's behavior at this moment, it is obvious that there is some big shot in the army. If he is just let go, Ren Jun will not be reconciled.
Moreover, he also had a feeling that this enemy army was marching northward in such a broad way, and it was impossible not to be discovered by Xu Huang's Flying Tiger Cavalry on the way.
Who is Xu Huang? Even if a slightly larger mosquito flew in front of him, he would catch it and boil it for a while. How could he not enjoy this military merit?
The greater possibility is that Xu Huang's cavalry troops are lurking around, waiting for the right opportunity to give these people a hard blow.
The more Ren Jun thought about it, the more he felt that this was very possible. Then should he also participate and go out to invite a fight to contain the opponent?
But the newly aroused ambition was immediately extinguished after seeing the children of Pei Kingdom around him.
Just judging from the strictness of the flags and formations on the opposite side, it is impossible for these Pei Guo volunteers under his command to fight against them.
Thinking of this, Ren Jun could only sigh and looked at the Huainan soldiers in the distance who had time to retreat to the south.
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Gray dust covered the sky. The Huainan army wasted no time and moved south quickly.
With neither chariots nor boats, the Huainan Army was like a tortoise that had taken off its turtle shell, leaking wind everywhere.
What is even more worrying is that after two high-intensity marches, the Huainan Army's physical fitness has obviously declined significantly.
In order to rescue Sun Quan as quickly as possible, they never rested from the moment they disembarked from the ship. They traveled all the way in a dusty way and had no time to eat at all.
Wu Jun did not have three meals a day like the Taishan Army, but still had two meals a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.
They had not had breakfast before on the boat because there was no fire to cook. After disembarking, they had been running all the way and had no time to eat the afternoon meal. Of course they were hungry and tired now.
As a result, stragglers began to appear one after another. They planned to break away from the team and go to nearby farmers to get something to eat.
But Wu Jing did not seem to notice the hidden worries of the army, and still ordered the team to move south quickly without stopping.
In fact, why didn’t Wu Jing understand? His growling stomach told him how dangerous the situation was.
But can he stop and let the team cook?
The longer they stay in the wilderness, the greater the risk of encountering the Taishan Army's cavalry.
Even if you have a full stomach by then, will you be able to fight head-on with the powerful Northern Army in the wild?
Wu Jing doesn't think he has the confidence, so he can only make a desperate move now.
bet!
Bet that his life would not be so bad, bet that he would be lucky enough to be able to slay a dragon, he didn't believe that Taishan's army could appear nearby.
In fact, there were many people like Wu Jing in Sun Jian's shogunate. In other words, it was the kind of person Sun Jian was that would attract the kind of people he attracted.
Sun Jian was a warrior who came from a humble family at the lowest level of the Han Empire. You can use various labels to define him, but underneath all these images is the word "light plagiarism".
This kind of frivolousness means not taking one's own life seriously, nor taking the lives of others seriously.
And as long as you have this kind of character background, it will inevitably breed a gambler's mentality.
Don't think about anything, just trust your own fate and take a gamble.
If you win the bet, you win everything; if you lose the bet, I will give you your life.
Originally, it was understandable for people like Sun Jian and Wu Jing to do what they did when they were poor. After all, compared with those who were born with everything, your only chance is not to be afraid of death.
But now, Sun Jian and others have established a small business. They are the masters of one party, and their every move affects the lives of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.
But these people are still the same as before, and they really responded to the sentence:
"A country is easy to change, but one's nature is hard to change."
But luckily, fate once again favored Wu Jing and the others, and when they retreated south, they encountered no enemy cavalry at all along the way.
After Wu Jing and the others reunited with Gao Rui's troops at the ferry, he became even more certain that the enemy cavalry did not come to pursue them at all.
It seemed that he, Wu Jing, was worried in vain.
Soon, Jianghuai soldiers walked at a relaxed pace and finally arrived at the shore of the fleet. At this moment, as long as they returned to the fleet, and then waited for the high tide in the evening, they could sail south back to Shouchun.
It was at this point that Wu Jingxuan finally felt relieved.
It is necessary to order the soldiers to return to the ship and order the people left behind to bring rice down for cooking.
But at this time, all the Jianghuai soldiers, including Wu Jing, felt the ground shaking, and then they heard the sound of intensive horse hooves coming from the east.
Wu Jing's face turned pale and he shouted:
"Army formations."
But after shouting these words, he picked up Sun Quan, who was still in a daze next to him, and stepped directly on the eddy water to the warship on the river.
At this moment, Wu Jing understood that the Huainan soldiers were doomed.
When Wu Jing was swimming in front, Sun Quan also turned to Dong Xi and shouted:
"Let's go!"
Dong Xi's face changed back and forth, from black to red, but in the end he took off his armor, bit into a Wu hook and jumped into the water.
Then, the Huainan soldiers and warriors who were close to the Uishui side all followed the same example and began to swim towards the center of the river.
When Wu Jing climbed into the small boat in the fleet, Sun Quan and Dong Xi also swam up, and then several of Wu Jing's tooth soldiers swam over.
But just a few people had already crowded the boat. There was no other way, so the others could only swim towards other boats.
When Sun Quan came up, he kept mumbling something, but Wu Jing no longer cared. He looked towards the shore, looking at the big mistake he had caused.
The sudden cavalry of the Taishan Army who came from the east covered the entire edge, and rushed into the Huainan soldiers on the shore like a tide.
The entire river beach was full of killings and wailing. At first, the fighting was still on the periphery.
But soon, the Taishan Army came in deeply, and the horses in their hands took away every head smoothly, and the entire battlefield was filled with a thick smell of blood.
The Jianghuai soldiers are not without warriors, especially about 6,000 of them are elite soldiers left by Sun Jian. They were built by Sun Jian with the resources of Sanwu. There are countless brave warriors.
But no matter how powerful the warriors are, they are useless in such a chaotic situation, not to mention that these people have empty stomachs, sore legs and feet, and are at the end of their lives.
In this way, the outcome is actually already determined.
Because no signal from the Chinese army was received for a long time, the original resistance of each ministry collapsed under the charge of the Taishan Army's cavalry.
Some elite soldiers retreated to the river beach in chaos, looking at the armor on the ground and seemed to understand something.
No one hesitated at all. Everyone took off their armor as quickly as possible and jumped into the vortex. These people are lucky, because although they are slower than people like Wu Jing, they are much faster than those fools who still have illusions about the battle situation.
So they also found their boat and got a ticket to survive.
As the chaos accelerated, more and more people realized that they could only escape by diving, but unfortunately when everyone thought so, the stampede was inevitable.
Because of the severe squeezing from behind, the defeated soldiers on the shore had no place to take off their armor, and were then squeezed into the eddying water.
Those who can wear iron armor are the elite of the Huainan soldiers, but at this moment, they are sinking into the eddy like a dead dog.
These Jianghuai warriors sank to the bottom of the water in despair, watching the last light of life on the lake disappear into the water forever.
The dead are dead, but the living are still in hell.
A few lucky warriors finally took off their armor in the water and surfaced.
Then the moment they emerged from the water, all the sounds were poured into their heads at the same time. Before they could catch their breath, they were pushed into the water by the robes who jumped into the water in a panic from behind.
But this time these people did not surface again.
At this moment, the vortex water was like boiling pot water, and the Jianghuai soldiers were like dumplings wrapped one by one, and then dropped into the water one by one.
But there were too many dumplings, and the water pressed down one layer after another. Only a few lucky ones were good at swimming and finally swam to the middle of the river.
But the real tragedy begins now.
These small boats were originally reserved for the fleet and were used to carry some sentinels deep into the river branches. There were not many of them.
Then people like Wu Jing took over a large part of it, leaving only five or six ships behind.
And how many people are rushing for five or six ships? No fewer than dozens of people.
History has proven countless times that as long as there is an absolute shortage of resources, ninety-nine portions of food must be distributed to one hundred people.
Don't worry, there won't be only one person who will starve to death in the end.
Everyone will frantically grab the food. In the end, only a few people will grab more food, and then most people will starve to death.
This is human nature.
The same is happening in Whirlwind at this moment.
How could those Huainan soldiers who finally swam from the gate of hell give up the chance of living to others? They would not think of a fair distribution. The only thing they could do at the moment was to kill Pao Ze next to them first.
In this way, the same miserable people who were originally on the run for their lives, because of their last desire to survive, regarded each other as their biggest enemies and wanted to kill each other.
The two sides struggled in the water, but no one survived. Of course, there are also smart people who try to climb onto those boats with people in the hope that these people can help them.
But what greeted them was only one knife, which not only cut off their fingers for scraping the boat, but also cut off these people's last way of survival.
The Taishan Army wouldn't let them live, the people on the boat wouldn't let them live, and this damned whirlpool still wouldn't let them live.
In this way, countless lives were swallowed up by this shallow eddy water, effortlessly.
But there are always truly ruthless people who swim to the end in such a Shura field.
When they lay weakly on the boat, at that moment, these people's faces showed a satisfied smile.
But the next moment, these people were nailed to the boat by arrows shot from the shore, which were shot by the knights of Taishan Army.
At this moment, Wu Jing on the boat finally did not dare to stay and shouted:
"Paddle the boat and paddle south!"
At this time, the remaining boats, with Wu Jing's boat as the core, rowed towards the south.
At this time, Xu Huang, who was on the shore, looked at the five or six small boats heading south, with an indifferent sneer on his lips.
So what if those canines escaped? Once these Huainan elite troops were wiped out, wouldn't it be easy for him, Xu Huang, to take Shouchun?
So, Xu Huang shouted loudly again:
"Order, those who abandon their weapons will not be killed!"
Yes, after the Huainan soldiers were completely abandoned, Xu Huang gave the order to accept prisoners.
In this way, as the call to disarm and not kill spread throughout the battlefield, more and more people knelt on the ground and offered everything to the Taishan Army.
Too many people died. In less than half an hour, this elite army trained by Sun Jian was completely destroyed.
In this battle, Xu Huang and more than a thousand flying tiger cavalry beheaded three thousand people in total. The corpses were piled high, and the water in the vortex turned red and stopped flowing.
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In the battle of Guoshui, one-sixth of Jiangdong's elite were wiped out in one fell swoop.
In the end, only Wu Jing, Sun Quan and more than a dozen warriors and staff escaped, and returned to Shouchun in a hurry.
Such news spread throughout Huainan, and Chen Lan, Meicheng, Lei Xu in the rear, and Sister Zheng Bao in Hefei were all frightened, and they were all frightened to death.
More than 10,000 Huainan soldiers set out, but Wu Jing was the only one left when they came back? Forget about the thousands of new soldiers, people like Chen Lan knew exactly what these people were.
But those six thousand elites were capable of sweeping across the Jiangdong heroes, but were they so quietly wiped out by the Taishan Army?
This time, all the forces in Huainan lost the courage to defend their territory, and even Chen Lan, Meicheng, and Lei Xu began to lead people back to the Dabie Mountains one after another.
Zheng Bao of Hefei was even more unbearable, so he abandoned Hefei, robbed the city's officials and warehouses, and fled to Chaohu.
At this time, what did Wu Jing do when he fled back to the city?
He sent people to Jiangdong overnight to report the situation in Huainan to Sun Jian, and then ordered the troops from Lujiang and Liyang to immediately support Shouchun with Quan Huainan's duties.
Finally, after returning to Shouchun, he immediately killed all the generals who had stayed in the city before, and sent all their heads to Shaopi, telling the households that the illegal invaders had been punished.
Those isolated households didn't know what was happening outside. Seeing the prefect making decisions for them, they all praised the prefect as a good official who made decisions for the people.
The moment Wu Jing, a good official, won the hearts of the people, he recruited these people with heavy sums of money and recruited them all into Shouchun City.
Because of Wu Jing's generous offer and the fact that he was going to Shouchun to serve as the governor's personal soldiers, these farmers joined the army enthusiastically. In a short time, Wu Jing had three thousand soldiers.
With these three thousand "soldiers", Wu Jing finally stabilized the situation in Shouchun. On the one hand, he was waiting for reinforcements from Jiangdong and Lujiang, and on the other hand, he reinforced the city defense and waited for the arrival of the Taishan Army from the other side.
At the same time, Xu Huang, who had annihilated the main force of the Huainan Army, decided to pursue the victory with the help of the captured fleet.
While he was doing some training and digestion of the prisoners in the vortex area, subsequent troops also continued to converge.
Finally, Xu Huang reorganized at Wukou, and organized a total of 5,000 Lao Taishan troops, 1,000 cavalry, 4,000 Runan volunteers, 3,000 Peiguo volunteers, and 1,000 surrendered soldiers, for a total of 14,000 troops. , with an army of 50,000, they crossed the Huai River.
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