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Chapter 219 Han Zhan in distress

After Han Zhan and others left Hangu Pass with their cavalry, they quickly followed the official road to chase Emperor Xian of Han's carriage. When it was about to dawn, Han Zhan suddenly saw a city faintly appearing on the south side of the official road. He pointed to Huang Zhong beside him: "Hansheng, don't you know which city is ahead?"

Huang Zhong looked at the city in the distance for a while, and then replied, "Lord, have you forgotten that this is the Luoyang we saw before we rushed to Hangu Pass. When Dong Zhuo forced his capital to Chang'an, he set fire to Luoyang. Now that the palace is burned, the streets are deserted, and there are weeds everywhere. I guess there are no people in the city, so we should continue to rush."

Han Zhan knew very well that Li Jue and Guo Si's soldiers would soon be chased. There was no need to go to a deserted Luoyang at this time, so he urged the soldiers to continue their journey, preparing to arrive at the Yellow River Ferry at noon and cross the river to Jizhou.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the Yellow River Ferry, there was no ship here. A sense of ominousness suddenly surged in Han Zhan's heart. If there was no ship, when Li Jue and Guo Si's soldiers and horses caught up, all of his three thousand cavalry would have to be explained here. Thinking of this, he hurriedly called Huang Zhong and ordered: "Han Sheng, you take people to search for ships along the river. Be sure to find the ship before dark, otherwise when the troops of Li Guo and the other thieves arrived, we would be unable to escape." Huang Zhong left a thousand men and horses for Han Zhan, and he took two thousand cavalry down the river to search for ships.

Han Zhan rushed to the road all night and felt tired and exhausted, so he asked the cavalry to take a rest, and put the war horses and saddles on the hillside to eat grass. Hearing Han Zhan's arrangement, the Junhou quickly persuaded: "Lord, no, if the war horses are scattered on the hillside, if the bandits come, our army will not be able to pierce the armor and saddles in time, so please take it back and lead the life."

In response to the persuasion of the Junhou, Han Zhan waved his hand and said disapprovingly: "Our army has been traveling all night, and now it is full of people. If we don't hurry up and rest and feed the horses, how can our war horses run when the bandits catch up?"

Seeing that Han Zhan was stubborn, the military marquis was not willing to persuade him anymore, so he had to return to his song and instruct the soldiers to be more careful. Once the existing bandits approached, they would immediately prepare to face the enemy.

About two hours later, Huang Zhong sent someone to report that he would find a group of ships twenty miles downstream, which could cross the river with three thousand cavalrymen, and ask Han Zhan to rush over immediately with his troops.

Just as Han Zhan and the others were about to leave, smoke suddenly rose from afar. The experienced military marquis looked at it and shouted: "Lord, it's not a good thing. There are a large group of cavalry coming towards us."

Han Zhanxin said that Li Jue's soldiers came so fast. Although he was a little scared, he still pretended to be calm and asked: "How many soldiers are there?"

Junhou stood up on the stirrups and put his hands on the awning to look into the distance. After a while, he sat back on the saddle and said to Han Zhan: "Lord, there are at least tens of thousands of cavalry coming. We are few and are not their opponents. It's better to go downstream as soon as possible to meet with Captain Huang."

Fortunately, after two hours of rest, the war horses were full and the spirit of the people was almost recovered. With Han Zhan's order, thousands of cavalry immediately turned their horses and headed downstream along the river.

Unexpectedly, less than ten miles away, a large number of cavalry suddenly rushed out on the hill on the right side of the official road. Han Zhan was shocked and he said in his heart: "Where did these enemies emerge?" Seeing that the opponent had at least three or four thousand cavalry, Han Zhan did not dare to fight, so he quickly ordered his subordinates to speed up and try to get rid of the cavalry.

Unexpectedly, the other party came too fast and soon rushed to Han Zhan's queue and began to shoot the crossbow arrows in his hand. Rows of crossbow arrows flew over like locusts, causing the cavalry beside Han Zhan to fall from their horses, and then were dragged under the horse hooves of the cavalry behind.

Seeing the opponent's cavalry rushing into the queue, Han Zhan knew that he would only become a target for others, so he drew out his sword and fought with the rushing cavalry. After more than half a year of training, Han Zhan's martial arts has made great progress and he can meet seven or eight under Zhao Yun's hands.

After he killed five or six enemy cavalry in succession, Rob risked his life to kill him and shouted at him: "Lord, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time, hurry up and kill with me." Han Zhan knew very well that now was not a hero, so he followed Rob to fight out.

When the Junhou saw that Han Zhan was in danger, he also waved his weapons and wanted to kill him. But after rushing forward a few steps, he was intercepted by a man holding a big axe. After fighting, he was killed by the opponent with an axe. After beheading the Junhou, the big man turned his horse's head and chased Han Zhan, who was fleeing in a panic.

In the critical moment, suddenly a group of people appeared on the official road ahead. The leader was Huang Zhong, who was sent by Han Zhan to find the ship. Han Zhan couldn't help but feel ecstatic when he saw Huang Zhong in front of him, and quickly shouted loudly: "Han Sheng save me!"

Huang Zhongce stepped forward, waved his big sword, and intercepted the man who used the axe. The two fought to the same place. Han Zhan stared at the man who used the axe, silently counted his moves in his heart, and secretly guessed in his heart that he could walk several rounds under Huang Zhong's knife. Unexpectedly, the man's martial arts skill was skilled, and the two fought for about twenty rounds in an instant, but they did not decide the winner.

"It's really not easy for this man to draw with Huang Zhong." Han Zhan saw that the man and Huang Zhong were chess matches and would meet good talents, and they were hard to distinguish them. He couldn't help but love talents in his heart, wanting to recruit the other party under his command.

The man who used the axe to fight with Huang Zhong for a few more times, but finally couldn't hold on. After wielding the axe, he drove away the horse. Seeing that the other party had escaped, Huang Zhong quickly led the people to chase and kill them, preparing to rescue all the cavalry trapped on the official road.

Han Zhan thought that it would not be difficult for Huang Zhong to rescue the surrounded cavalry. So he did not join in the fun, but stayed there with Rob and seventy or eighty cavalrymen, waiting for Huang Zhong and others to return.

Unexpectedly, Huang Zhong did not wait, but suddenly a man came out from the river, with the word "Yang" on his banner. Seeing the soldiers and horses that seemed to fall from the sky, Han Zhan was really complaining and hurriedly took the soldiers downstream and prepared to run to the river to board the boat and cross the river. Although the soldiers and horses were mostly infantry, they followed Han Zhan to chase after them.

When Han Zhan tried his best to come to the river, he saw that there were many ships parked by the river. Huang Zhong stayed here hundreds of cavalry, fighting with more infantry soldiers. Because the cavalry lost its impact, he did not have any advantage in the infantry, but was gradually at a disadvantage.

Seeing this situation, Han Zhan finally understood what was going on with the army coming from the river. It turned out that they were taking a boat down the river and came here to cut off their retreat. He did not dare to fight, so he quickly called out, "Let's go!" and took Rob and others to escape in another direction.

Han Zhan was thinking in his heart that Jia Xu was not simple. He transformed a cavalry from somewhere and sent a group of troops down the river to cut off his retreat. If this person cannot be taken to his own use in the future, he must kill him.

Just as he was running away, a group of people suddenly rushed out of the front and stopped the road ahead. A general holding a spear shouted loudly: "Where are you running away from Han's son?"

Rob came to Han Zhan and asked, "Lord, there is a blockage in front and a pursuer behind. What should we do?"

"The brave one wins when they meet on a narrow road!" Looking at the enemy troops in front of him who blocked the way, Han Zhan suddenly said something in his mind. He knew that he could only burn his boats now, otherwise he would really die without a place to bury himself. Therefore, he waved the sword in his hand and shouted: "Kill here!"

The soldiers and horses lined up unexpectedly, Han Zhan would lead people to attack. In a hurry, before he could make a formation, Han Zhan's soldiers broke a gap. Seeing that Han Zhan and others rushed over, the general quickly ordered his men to shoot arrows. The dozen behind were shot and fell off the horse. Even Rob was hit by a few arrows on his back. After forcing his energy forward for a while, he fell from the horse with a thud.

Although Rob was Han Zhan's subordinate, Han Zhan always regarded him as his brother. At this moment, he saw him fall from the horse by arrow, and roared heart-wrenchingly. He turned his horse's head and wanted to go back to save him, but his left and right entourages desperately pulled his horse's reins and pulled him to continue running for his life.

Han Zhan turned his head and looked back. He saw the enemy generals leading the troops and horses to chase him. He looked around and found that there were only less than twenty people left by his side. He knew that if he continued to fight, he would be the only end of the destruction of the entire army. He quickly rode his horse, hoping to escape from this dangerous place as soon as possible.

When Huang Zhong had just rescued the surrounded cavalry from the riot army, someone came to report: "Report to the lieutenant, the big things were not good. The bandits took a boat down the river, killed the defenders at the ferry and seized the ship."

Huang Zhong was shocked after hearing this and asked quickly: "Where is the lord?"

The cavalry shook his head and said, "I only saw the lord and nearly a hundred cavalry heading south. I don't know where it is now."

Huang Zhong was determined to lead his troops south to look for Han Zhan, but when he saw the smoke and dust in the distance approaching, he knew that it was impossible for him to block the army of Li and Guo with one or two thousand soldiers. He could only take the cavalry to retreat eastward and prepare to find a suitable place to cross the river.

The reason why Han Zhan encountered such danger was entirely due to Jia Xu. Before leading the army to Hangu Pass, he saw that Han Zhan and others were kept in a close relationship, so he had a plan and ordered people to go around Tongguan and go behind Hangu Pass, trying to trap the soldiers and horses in the pass to death.

Unexpectedly, Han Zhan would have someone to take Emperor Xian of Han first, causing Jia Xu's plan to fail. But Jia Xu knew that Han Zhan had led his troops to leave Hangu Pass, so he hurriedly ordered people to inform Yang Feng who was around Luoyang, and asked him to intercept Han Zhan in two ways. The axe general who led the cavalry and killed Han Zhan in a deserted state was Xu Huang and Xu Gongming. Yang Feng took his troops and horses down on a boat, cut off Han Zhan's retreat, and robbed the ship that Huang Zhong found.

After Li Jue brought his troops and horses to meet Yang Feng, he asked directly: "Do you know where the Han family's children are now?"

The general who had intercepted Han Zhan but did not intercept him quickly replied: "Report to General, the Han family's children broke through the defense of our troops and led more than 20 cavalry to the south. The young man led his men to chase him for a while, but before he caught up, he came back to report to the general."

Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Li Jue immediately widened his eyes and pointed at the general and said, "I ordered you to block the way for the Han family's child. You actually asked him to escape. What's the use of leaving you? Someone came, drag him down and behead him."

When Yang Feng saw that Li Jue was about to kill his subordinates, he was about to plead. But a personal soldier under Li Jue had rushed over and directly swung his sword to kill the general.

Seeing that Li Jue said he would kill someone, Yang Feng's generals and schoolmen were shocked. After Li Jue's eyes swept across everyone, he said coldly: "I give you a day, be sure to catch the Han family's children, and you will be alive. If you can't hand over someone at that time, hum," he pointed to the corpse on the ground, "He is your fate."
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