Chapter 929: Under Juchao City

Just the day before the war in Lu'an began, Cao Cao led his army across the Huai River. One hundred thousand troops forced Huai Ling. Yuan Yin, the defender of Huai Ling, and Chen Ji fought tooth and nail to defend the city with 10,000 soldiers and 5,000 defenders. In just three days, Cao Cao's army captured Huailing, general Chen Ji died in battle, and Yuan Yin was captured. Only 2,000 soldiers of the 15,000-strong army escaped and entered Zhongli City.

At this time, the 20,000 reinforcements from Lei Bo's army urgently dispatched by Ji Ling had arrived in Zhongli, but they received news of the fall of Huailing. In desperation, Lei Bo had no choice but to lead 20,000 reinforcements into Zhongli City, while closing the city gates and laying out Defense, while asking Ji Ling for help.

At this time, Ji Ling had just left Shouchun. Although the war surrounded and annihilated tens of thousands of coalition forces, it did not achieve the expected results. In addition, no one expected that the coalition forces would send out 100,000 reinforcements so quickly. Ji Ling had to Return to Shouchun to meet the emperor and make some relevant arrangements.

However, he knew that Cao Cao's army and Sun Ce's army would not wait any longer and would soon send troops to Jiujiang, so he specially sent Lei Bo to lead 10,000 heavy infantry and 10,000 soldiers to Huailing to support Yuan Yao and Li Ling The two of them just didn't expect that Cao Cao's army would capture Huailing so quickly.

After receiving Lei Bo's report, Ji Ling immediately led the remaining 40,000 elites to leave Shouchun, preparing to support Lei Bo. Unexpectedly, as soon as the army arrived in Dangtu, they received an urgent report from the Yicheng County magistrate and the general. Cao Hong, the prefect of Qiao County, was leading an army of 50,000 to attack Yicheng. He asked Ji Ling to send troops to support as soon as possible.

If Ji Ling hadn't arrived at Yicheng, the city would have been captured by Cao Hong's army. In desperation, Ji Ling had to lead his troops to retreat to Dangtu. At the same time, he sent someone to order Lei Bo to defend Zhongli and urgently reported to Shouchun Yuan Shu. .

As Huangfu Chaobo and others expected, it is now the beginning of July, and no one wants to delay the war until next year, lest there be long nights and dreams.

After arriving in Shu County, Huangfu Chaobo ordered the army to rest for a while and then began to prepare to attack the city. However, Huangfu Chaobo, escorted by nearly a thousand people led by Dian Wei and Gao Shun, rode towards Juchao in the southeast. go.

The reason why he suddenly thought of Juchao was mainly because Mei Zhoulin once served as the commander of Juchao, so Huangfu Chaobo suddenly thought of Juchao and took a look. Another reason is that after Shuxian is captured, the main force of the army is expected to turn to Shouchun in the north, while the cities in the south now have only a few thousand defenders for defense. Huangfu Chaobo's idea is to hand it over to a certain general. After pacifying the cities, the army turned north and prepared to attack Shouchun.

Huangfu Chaobo's idea was correct. After Sun Ce's army received reinforcements, they did not return to attack Fuling. Instead, they directly led the army north to attack Junqiu. The 30,000 troops in Fuling, Quanjiao and Dongcheng were abandoned and ignored. Because of Liyang, Sun Ce did not have Yuan Shu's army to cut off his food route, so he made an all-out move northward.

After receiving the news that Sun Ce was heading north to approach Shouchun, Cao Cao's army was also anxious. He summoned Cao Hong's 50,000 troops and prepared for the two armies to jointly attack Zhongli. After Ji Ling got the information, he led his troops to attack several times, but was blocked by Cao Hong's 50,000 troops twenty miles west of Zhongli, and Caibu could no longer advance.

In order to allow Cao Hong to block Ji Ling's reinforcements, Cao Cao specially sent 10,000 Qingzhou troops to support Cao Hong. Cao Hong was also well prepared when he sent out troops this time. The 50,000 troops he led had 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 defenders. They were all the elites of Qiaojun's army, and together with the 10,000 Qingzhou troops, they were on par with Ji Ling's 30,000 elites.

More than a thousand cavalrymen rushed all the way and arrived at the foot of Juchao City in less than half a day. They stopped two miles away from the city. At this time, the head of Juchao City was already in chaos. The sudden enemy troops gave way. The defenders in the city were panicked. After hearing the warning from the city head, the Juchao County Magistrate and the County Lieutenant quickly hurried to the east city tower.

Yesterday they received a warning from Shu County, saying that the combined forces of the Anton Army and the Yuzhou Army were approaching Shu County. They did not expect that enemy troops would appear under the city today. Did something happen in Shu County?

Today, there are only five thousand guards and two thousand old soldiers in Juchao City.

Three thousand recruits, facing the large group of cavalry outside the city, the recruits at the top of the city were trembling with fear. Not to mention the three thousand new soldiers, even the two thousand old soldiers and county magistrates had never seen such a large group of cavalry. You must know that cavalry is very rare in the south.

Although it was not clear what happened in Shu County, the two chief officers quickly calmed down the soldiers at the top of the city, and the city wall finally returned to a battle-ready state.

Two miles away from the horse, Huangfu Chaobo carefully observed the situation at the top of the city. He couldn't help but curse himself secretly. He didn't know what the wind was about. Why did he suddenly think of running to Juchao? What's there to see? The city is still there now. If we haven't captured it yet, if we stand outside and take a look, we can only see the city wall. Besides, even if we capture Juchao, there is nothing to see after entering the city.

Of course, Huangfu Chaobo would not express his thoughts. He just shook his head and said to Pang Tong beside him: "See, Shiyuan, Lujiang only needs to capture Shu County, and the other cities should not cost much." "Stronger."

Pang Tong also nodded in agreement.

"Okay..." Huangfu Chaobo suddenly lost interest and was about to give the order to turn back to the camp.

At this moment, several cavalrymen suddenly came from a distance and reported: "General Qi, we intercepted a group of civilians a few miles south of the city. According to them, they are preparing to leave Juchao..."

Huangfu Chaobo felt very strange. Why did you mobilize so many troops for a group of refugees? When he was about to wave his hand to let the soldiers go, the soldier said again: "Although there are not many people in that group, they are all strong and muscular, and there are several warriors among them. The captain thought they were very suspicious, so he brought them all here. I was asked to report to the general first."

As he was talking, he saw a group of people coming from the southwest from a distance, and soon they came to Huangfu Chaobo.

Huangfu Chaobo looked at the group of people. As the soldiers said, although there were only more than a hundred people, they were all strong and muscular, and they were definitely not ordinary refugees. It can be seen that the leader is a young man in his twenties, with a tall and handsome appearance and a loyal face.

When he saw this young man for the first time, these two words suddenly popped up in Huangfu Chaobo's mind, and then another face method in his mind popped up one after another: Who is this young man? Could it be a celebrity from the Three Kingdoms?

After this thought came out, Huangfu Chaobo looked at the young man again and asked, "Who are you and where do you want to go?"