Chapter 226 Getting out of trouble (2)
The plan set by Huang Zhong and the cavalry governor was discovered by the scheming Jia Xu, but the two of them still had no idea. They led the cavalry who had won a great victory and went south along the official road to find Han Zhan's whereabouts.
When he was heading south along the official road, the cavalry commander said to Huang Zhong: "Person Huang, are you and I divided into two groups, and each led a group of people to search for the lord?"
Huang Zhong denied the proposal of the cavalry governor without hesitation: "No! We don't have many soldiers at first. If we disperse them again, once we encounter a large thief, we will be defeated one by one. We will search along the official road, and I feel that we can definitely find the trace of the lord."
The cavalry governor dared not object to Huang Zhong's decision, so he quickly agreed and led the five hundred elite cavalry to open the road in front, and tried his best to find Han Zhan's whereabouts.
Besides, Xu Huang, who was chasing Han Zhan, followed the official road with two thousand soldiers and horses, and still did not see Han Zhan's traces outside the Arctic Pass. The guards inside the pass saw a soldier and horse coming from outside, and quickly sent someone to ask about the other party's origin. After learning that the other party was Li and Guo Si's subordinates, they immediately ordered to open the door and welcome Xu Huang and the others into the pass.
Xu Huang came to the guard general's mansion, and after the guest and host were separated, he explained his origin to the other party, and then asked: "I wonder if someone has passed by the barrier from now on in the near future?"
"No, absolutely no." As soon as Xu Huang finished speaking, the guard immediately shook his head like a rattle and said repeatedly: "In the past two days, except for the local people, no outsiders have passed through the pass."
Although the guard had already made it clear, Xu Huang still asked worriedly: "General, please recall it carefully. Is there really no one passing by the gate from now on?"
Hearing Xu Huang suspected that he was lying, the guard felt very uncomfortable, but because the other party was a subordinate of Li and Guo, he could only say patiently: "If you say that person, that person is from Jizhou. Then if he wants to escape, he will also flee to the north. How could he escape south to this insurmountable pass?"
"He was defeated that day and came to the south." Xu Huang was still uneasy without getting Han Zhan's whereabouts. He said, "There is only one road from the Yellow River to here. We didn't see anyone along the way. Did they fly away with wings?"
Seeing that Xu Huang still didn't believe him, the guard general analyzed to him, "You have said that after their defeat, there were only more than ten people left. It is entirely possible that they had escaped into the mountains halfway, so that you did not find anything along the way."
The explanation from the guard finally made Xu Huang feel suspicious. He quickly stood up and bowed to the other party and apologized: "General, Xu was offended just now, so please don't be blamed!"
"It's okay!" The guard waved his hand at Xu Huang and said to him: "The general and the soldiers will rest in Guanzhong for a night, and then return to search carefully the next day. Maybe you will find clues."
The next day, Xu Huang led his two thousand cavalry back along the official road and carefully searched both sides of the road to see if he could find clues about Han Zhan and his party.
At the same time, Han Zhan took his eighteen cavalry and after a lot of hardships, he finally left the mountain and walked along the official road to the north to the Yellow River. The Qin team led Han Zhan's decision to be confused in his heart, and finally couldn't help but express his doubts to Han Zhan: "Lord, we are walking on the official road so swayingly. What should we do if we encounter a bandit? We only have a dozen people, and we may not be their opponents."
Han Zhan also knew how dangerous it was to walk on the official road, but there was no way. If you want to get out of danger as soon as possible, you must make a quick decision and use the passive official road to rush to the Yellow River as soon as possible and find a way to cross the river.
While walking, a surprised expression suddenly appeared on Qin's face. He raised his hand and shouted loudly: "Stop, stop!" The cavalry following behind him had some problems, so they all tied the reins. Qin's team turned over and dismounted, lay on the ground and listened for a moment, and said to Han Zhan: "Lord, there are cavalry coming from both sides of the official road. We are now being attacked from both sides. What should we do next?"
When Han Zhan heard that there were soldiers and horses on both sides came, he was frightened and sweated. He quickly looked around and saw a small hill on the left side of the road, so he ordered: "Everyone hides behind the hill."
Everyone immediately rode their horses into the woods behind the hill. Han Zhan turned over and got off the horse, leaving two cavalry guarding the horses in the forest. He took the rest of the people to the top of the hill and lay on the ground and looked at the official road.
After about a stick of incense, a cavalry appeared on the official road to the south. A flag in the team was fluttering in the wind. Han Zhan recognized it for a long time before he recognized the word "Xu". The Qin team said to Han Zhan in a low voice: "Lord, this army has been chasing us two days ago. It seems that they have just returned from the Arc destiny. Fortunately, we have been wandering around the mountains and have not gone to Arc destiny, otherwise we would have been able to escape now."
"Quiet." Han Zhan felt a burst of pain when he saw the cavalry team on the official road that could not be seen at first sight. He was worried that the sound of Team Qin's speech would be heard by the people with sharp ears, so he quickly spoke to stop him: "Don't speak, so as not to be noticed by them."
Xu Huang brought his troops to the near the hill, raised his hand to stop the troops, and a cavalry Dun came over and said to him: "General, we have not seen any traces of people all the way. Isn't they here at all?"
Xu Huang didn't say anything, but looked at the hill where Han Zhan and the others were hiding. Although he didn't see Han Zhan at all, he didn't know what to do. He always felt that there was someone behind the hill, so he ordered the Du Bo: "Take a team of people and go behind the hill to check if there are any Han soldiers." Du Bo agreed and led more than 20 cavalrymen to rush towards the location where the hill was.
Seeing a cavalry rushing towards him, Han Zhan's heart was in his throat. Qin Guru, who was lying next to him, was even more anxious and asked repeatedly: "Lord, the bandits came over when they spoke. What should we do?"
It is impossible to meet the enemy. Han Zhan said silently in his heart: What can be done now is to take thirty-six strategies as the best strategy. He made up his mind and quickly said to everyone: "The bandits are in a large number of power, so we should move quickly."
The cavalry led by Du Bo came very quickly. Han Zhan and others had just come down from the hill, and before they could catch their breath, he rushed into the woods with the cavalry. Seeing Han Zhan and others who were about to get on the horse, his eyes lit up. He pointed at Han Zhan with the spear in his hand and said to his subordinates proudly: "If you catch the children of the Han family, the general will definitely receive a lot of rewards. Brothers, follow me!"
Seeing his whereabouts and being discovered by the cavalry, Han Zhan knew that blindly escaping would only make him die faster. He bit his teeth and suddenly came down to make him determined. He drew out his sword, pointed at the cavalry rushing over, and said loudly: "If you want to survive, kill them all!"
The Eighteen Cavalry knew very well that if the cavalry escaped, thousands of cavalry outside would rush in like a tide, and they would die without a place to bury themselves. Especially when they saw Han Zhan waving his sword, taking the lead in rushing up, and waving his weapons, chasing him on horseback.
Han Zhan, who was charging forward by horses, suddenly saw a spear coming towards him, quickly hurriedly hiding the side of his head and hiding it. With a backhand sword, he cut off the cavalry holding the spear and took off his horse.
With the same number of people, Xu Huang's cavalry did not have stirrups and horseshoes, so they suffered a loss in fighting. After the first hedge between the two sides, Xu Huang's cavalry fell down seven, and Han Zhan's only two fell off their horses.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Du Bo hurriedly ordered a cavalry to go back to report the news. His life was at stake. How could Han Zhan let the other party escape with a living? He quickly ordered the Qin team to lead two cavalry to chase him, and he would definitely put the man to death.
Seeing that his retreat had been cut off, Du Bo decided to fight Han Zhan to death. He shouted and rushed towards Han Zhan with a spear in his hand. Han Zhan had only a sword in his hand, and he was at a disadvantage against a long weapon like the spear. After only five or six rounds, he gradually fell into a disadvantage.
Seeing that Han Zhan was a little dissatisfied, Du Bo couldn't help but feel happy, and the spear in his hand was waving faster. Just as he stabbed Han Zhan, he suddenly saw the other party turn his body to the side, dodge his spear, and reach out to grab the spear, making it impossible for him to retract the spear.
Han Zhan grabbed the spear and put the sword in his hand on the spear and wiped it up. Du Bo screamed, and all his ten fingers were cut off by the sword. Han Zhan took the opportunity to snatch the spear, sent the sword in his hand forward, and stabbed directly into the other party's throat.
Just when Han Zhan and Du Bo were in duel, the remaining cavalry had already killed Xu Huang's subordinates. When they were about to come to help Han Zhan, they saw that he was stabbing Du Bo on the horse.
When Xu Huang saw Du's men bringing his men into the back of the hill, he couldn't help but feel suspicious. He called another team leader and told him: "Take a team of men and horses behind the hill to see why Du's men are not coming back yet."
Just as the team leader was about to leave, he suddenly noticed that the ground was trembling slightly. According to his experience, a cavalry was approaching here. He couldn't help but say to Xu Huang in shock: "General, it seems that a cavalry is coming to us."
When Xu Huang heard the team leader say this, he was a little dissatisfied: "It was from the north, probably the soldiers of General Li and Guo, so don't worry. You can quickly search after the hills to see why Uncle Du was no longer moving."
"General, it's not good." A sharp-eyed cavalry saw the cavalry coming from the north, with a big "yellow" written on the flag. He had fought with Huang Zhong's soldiers, so he naturally knew that the person who came was not his own, so he quickly shouted at Xu Huang: "It's the cavalry of the Han family." Hearing that the cavalry of the Han family came, Xu Huang didn't care about sending people behind the hills anymore, but ordered the cavalry to line up and prepare to face the enemy.
Huang Zhong saw a cavalry lined up in front from afar, and quickly ordered the troops to slow down, lined up forty people, ready to launch an attack on the other side. The cavalry of both sides quickly collided and then started a big melee.
Like Huang Zhong, Xu Huang rushed to the front of the entire team. He danced the Xuanhua axe in his hand and chopped off the Han family cavalry one by one. Huang Zhong was invincible in Xu Huang's formation. Wherever the big sword passed, Xu Huang's subordinates were also dismissed.
After fighting for a while, Xu Huang found something was wrong. Huang Zhong's subordinates could actually stand up and fight on the saddle. Moreover, when the weapons of the two sides intersected, the ones who were dismissed were mainly his subordinates. After a stick of incense, he lost at least six or seven hundred people.
A dude rushed to Xu Huang and shouted at him: "General, the Han army is so powerful, brothers can't resist, so we'd better retreat quickly!"
If Dub said this to him before the two sides confronted each other, he would have chopped the other side with an axe. But at this moment, he also realized that if he continued to fight, his troops would suffer heavy losses even if they were not completely destroyed. After weighing the interests, he decisively issued an order: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"
Although he issued an order to retreat, he did not take the lead in escaping, but personally led two hundred cavalrymen to cut off the rear and block Huang Zhong's troops to cover the retreat of his troops.
When Huang Zhong saw that Xu Huang's troops could not support him and was forced to retreat, Xu Huang was not the first to escape. On the contrary, he left behind a broken rear and covered his subordinates to retreat. He couldn't help but nodded slightly and added a little favor to Xu Huang.
While Xu Huang and Huang Zhong were fighting on the official road, Han Zhan, who was hiding behind the hill, also heard the movement. He felt that it was daytime now, and Li Guo's soldiers might not have fought because of misunderstandings. Maybe Huang Zhong's cavalry came to rescue him. Thinking of this, he was going to the top of the hill to see what was going on outside.
The Qin team was afraid that Han Zhan would be in danger, so he quickly dissuaded him and said, "Lord, you are a body of gold. The situation outside is unclear, so you can't take risks easily."
"Have you ever heard the fight on the official road outside?" Han Zhan heard the sound of killing outside gradually becoming sparse, and felt that the battle should have come to an end. He was more eager to know who was the final winner, so he said stubbornly: "It must be Captain Huang who came with his troops and was fighting with the thieves. We need to contact him immediately, otherwise it will not be so easy for us to find them when he leaves."
The Qin team led the Qin team to hear Han Zhan say this, and there was no way, so they could only accompany him to the top of the hill to watch the situation outside. Who knew that when they came to the top of the hill, they were really Huang Zhong's cavalry fighting outside. At this moment, the Qin team led the Qin team was excited. Without waiting for Han Zhan's order, they volunteered: "Lord, please let the young man go and contact Captain Huang."
Chapter completed!