Chapter Fourteen (Revised)
The starting point was broken last night and it was transmitted 5 times in a row, but the content was blank. I made it up this morning.
"Hurry~ Quick! Speed up and catch up with this group of food thieves!" Sun Ben shouted loudly while riding his horse, urging his soldiers to speed up the march.
"Damn! If I catch up with you, let me see how I repair you!" Sun Ben was very angry after being stolen by Liu Bei's army on a large scale. However, he never thought that Liu Bei's army, who had gained a disadvantage, did not restrain themselves at all, but instead became more severe, from the initial secret stolen to the open robbery. Sun Ben, who was already a little anxious, could no longer contain his anger. He ignored Zhu Zhi's dissuasion and insisted on leading the army out of the city to pursue him. After several dissuasions failed, he could only accept this fact sadly, but repeatedly reminded Sun Ben not to pursue too deeply, so as not to fall into the enemy's trap.
"General, look!" A commander from Jiangdong Army came to Sun Ben's side, holding a few rice ears in his hand and said, "These are all found on the road ahead!"
Sun Ben took the rice ears, held them in his hand and observed them carefully, then said hatefully: "There are traces of wheels running over the rice ears. It must have been robbed of the food thieves! If they want to transport the food, they will definitely not be able to leave very quickly!"
An urgent light shot out from Sun Ben's eyes, he shook off the rice ears in his hand, and shouted sternly: "March at full speed!"
“Move at full speed!”
“Move at full speed!”
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With the sound of orders, Sun Ben's orders quickly spread throughout the army from time to time. More than 3,000 soldiers of the Jiangdong Army were urging by the Sima of their respective subordinates, they had to grit their teeth and let go and move forward quickly.
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After walking 4 or 5 miles apart, Sun Ben couldn't help but feel more anxious - once it was completely at night, it would be even more difficult to trace the traces of Liu Bei's army.
"Easier! Speed up!"
"General, brothers are about to lose their strength. If you speed up, you may not be conducive to the battle below!" A commander of the Jiangdong Army advised in a harmonious voice.
"Hmph! If we don't speed up and let the enemy go, wouldn't we be in vain for the past few dozen miles? Don't say much, send an order - speed up the march!" Sun Ben said in a deep voice with an unquestionable tone.
"Yes, general!" The captain responded helplessly, about to send orders.
At this moment, a personal soldier with good eyesight beside Sun Ben suddenly exclaimed: "General, there seems to be a team of people in front of him!"
"What?" Sun Ben immediately became energetic when he heard this. He raised his eyes and looked forward. Through the heavy twilight mist, he could see a group of people slowly heading north about 6,700 steps ahead.
Damn, I finally caught up! Sun Ben lifted up the long sword hanging on the side of the horse, raised it high, and roared with all his strength: "Soldiers, the enemy is right in front of me, follow me to kill!"
After saying that, Sun Ben slammed his horse's belly and rushed forward with one horse. The commander of the Jiangdong Army's Qutun, the Sima of the Army, immediately ordered the soldiers under his command to follow Sun Ben and launch an attack on the enemy in front.
At this time, Liu Bei's army in front had also discovered the pursuers in the rear, and threw away the large trucks transporting food and grass in a very "panic" manner, and took out swords and guns to resist. But it seemed that it was too panic. Before the Jiangdong army arrived, a small number of soldiers were "scared" and turned around and fled north in a hurry. At first, the soldiers who fled affected other soldiers. As soon as there was a chain reaction, the entire team completely gave up on resistance and ran away with their lives.
"Hahaha... It's indeed a group of rats stealing food! Liu Bei, Liu Bei, you only have this skill to develop such useless abandoned soldiers. No wonder they were beaten by Cao Cao to run around!" Sun Ben rode his horse to the discarded grain truck, looked at Liu Bei's army who were scattered in front of him, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"General, since the food has been taken back, those rats will let them go for the time being. Let's go back to the city immediately!" The captain who had just arrived at Sun Ben and spoke out and advised.
"Let them go? If you don't give them some power, do you really think my Sun family is so weak to bully? If you don't kill them this time, I will not go back to the city if you don't kill them!" Sun Ben snorted coldly and said, "I'll order the entire army to catch up with you! There is no need to leave a prisoner, kill them all!"
Under Sun Ben's strict order, the soldiers of the Jiangdong Army who had just arrived at the food truck and were preparing to have a rest had to set off and continue to pursue.
"Okay! There are less than 200 steps left! Rats, your death date has arrived!" Sun Ben stared at the enemy troops getting closer and closer, and his eyes were filled with excitement.
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred! Liu Bei's army, who were constantly retreating suddenly became two. Some people were still retreating, but it seemed that they were no longer "fleeing", but retreating in an orderly manner; the other people stopped completely, and quickly turned to the ground with the call of someone, and set up a defensive formation on the spot.
"Tiger Gun Camp, everyone obeys the order! Stop retreating and line up to defend in place!"
"The first camp, the second camp! The gun platoon array is unfolded, come forward!"
"The third place, the fourth place! The spear is stuck in the ground, take the spear, and the ruler is six, and listen to my order!"
"The enemy reaches 100 steps! 'Gun Rain', the third garrison, the gun is thrown, the fourth garrison, the gun is thrown!"
Sun Ben looked at the change that was completely unexpected in front of him, but forgot to shout that his soldiers would stop moving forward. When he came to his senses, the two armies were less than 100 steps apart. With the last loud shout from the opposite side, Sun Ben vaguely saw a cloud that seemed to have crossed the dim sky and flew towards him!
Bow and arrow?
"Raising the shield!" Before he could think more, Sun Ben roared quickly.
Many Jiangdong soldiers had noticed the abnormality in the sky and were a little confused. When they heard Sun Ben's order, the soldiers holding the shield immediately stepped forward a few steps and raised the leather shield in their hands high.
"Swoosh!" The 500 guns were covered with shrill whistling sounds and quickly covered the slightly chaotic Sun Benjun.
"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"
The sharp iron spear tip pierced the leather shield with almost no effort under the powerful impulse. Then the remaining force pierced into the body of the soldier behind the shield without losing its power, immediately screaming.
Before Sun Ben could see clearly, the nightmarish call sounded again on the opposite side.
"Take the gun, ruler seven! Take the gun!"
In a moment, another 500 guns were thrown down like rain in the sky, whistling and stabbing.
Although it is not clear what the opponent shot, it is certain that this is definitely not a good thing, and even a leather shield cannot block it! Many Jiangdong soldiers in the front line have seen or heard the huge damage caused by the previous gun coverage. At first sight, another "gun rain" fell down, and they didn't care about obeying any orders and hurriedly dodged backwards. However, the second wave of "gun rain" was obviously far beyond the first wave. Although the soldiers tried their best to retreat and dodge, their speed was quite different from the speed of the gun. They were unable to run a few steps away, and the gun had already reached behind them. The Jiangdong soldiers who were completely exposed in the back of their hearts happened to be the target of the gun.
"Puff!" "Puff!" "Puff!"...
"Ah~!" Many soldiers were even unable to make a scream and were slapped into the chest and nailed to the ground.
"Who dares to retreat, and you will not forgive me!" Sun Ben waved his sword and killed several soldiers who were about to retreat, and shouted angrily: "Come out and kill!"
"Kill!" The soldiers of the Jiangdong Army, who had already had a tendency to collapse, had to rush toward the "mysterious" enemy troops ahead, under the severe rebuke of their respective commanders and army Sima.
"The third camp, the fourth camp! Raise the spear! The first camp, the second camp, get up!"
"Attack formation! The 'gun car' tactic, assault!"
"kill!"
"kill!"
In a blink of an eye, two military horses collided head-on.
Sun Ben was originally still in a glimmer of hope, thinking that the Liu Bei army on the opposite side was just a more powerful "projection" method, and it should not be difficult to deal with as long as it could be close to each other! But when it was really handed over, it was found that it was simply a nightmare - the other party used a spear, which was more than one meter long, far exceeding all the weapons used by the soldiers under his command. Moreover, the other party lined up into a dense "gun array", which did not give you any chance to get close. What's even more terrifying is that the continuous attack like a tide, wheel-like attack - after the first row of spears stabbed, the soldiers of this row immediately squatted down and lowered the spear in their hands. Then, the second row of spear soldiers immediately jumped over the body of the first row of soldiers, pushed the guns and continued to assault forward, and then the third row... and repeated, endlessly.
After nearly 30 miles of rushing along the way, the Jiangdong Army, which had been exhausted, had no power to fight back in the face of such a "crazy" attack. Every time the raid raids, more than a dozen or even dozens of people would fall under the gun. For a moment, they were attacked and retreated repeatedly.
"General, this won't work! We must avoid confronting the enemy head-on and get around them to have a chance to fight back!" A military Sima said to Sun Ben urgently.
"Okay! Just do what you said..." Sun Ben was helpless in the passive situation, but after hearing this suggestion, his eyes immediately lit up and he was about to send an order.
But at this time, from the rear and flanks of Sun Ben's army, there were suddenly sounds of horse hooves from far to near, and they approached extremely quickly.
At this point, Sun Ben completely realized that the cavalry that approached quickly must not come from the Jiangdong Army, because - not to mention the city of Lujiang, even the six counties in Jiangdong could not find a built-in cavalry.
Being trapped! Lujiang is in danger!
Chapter completed!