Chapter 37 Spread
"Don't you run? You'll be dead!" When Yuan Shao arrived outside Ye Zhao's camp, he looked at Ye Zhao's camp that blocked the road, and Yuan Shao sneered.
Escape is also death. Yingchuan and Nanyang are all the territories of the coalition forces. Ye Zhaoruo retreats, he will be exhausted from walking. His current choice may not be a wise move. However, with only 20,000 troops, without any advantage, it would be too naive to resist the Kanto coalition forces. He is not Yuan Shu!
At the gate, watching the alliance gradually gathering camp, there were no 100,000, but there were still 70,000 to 80,000.
Ye Zhao looked at the lined soldiers, but his heart was not on the battlefield itself. The reason why he hurriedly escaped that day was that he didn't even say anything in the scene was because he found that there were signs of plague spreading in the coalition. Logically speaking, after these days, with his previous reminder, Yuan Shao and others didn't notice it at all. Why are they still chasing him and running?
While thinking, he saw a general running out of the coalition forces and coming outside the gate and saying loudly: "The last general Jiang Qi has met the Marquis of Ningxiang. I heard that the Marquis of Ningxiang showed his power yesterday before the two armies. I was itchy and dared to invite the Marquis of Ningxiang to fight."
When Dian Wei heard this, he groaned and wanted to go to the camp to fight, but Ye Zhao grabbed him.
"These people may have been infected with plague. If you can, don't touch them, don't touch them." Ye Zhao frowned.
Yuan Shu was far away from Huzhu, and most of the soldiers in the army were not infected. Because Ye Zhao dared to fight with the other party at close range yesterday, but now Yuan Shao's main army has arrived, these may be pathogens, and Ye Zhao is unwilling to have close contact with these people.
Looking at the commander outside the gate, Ye Zhao said in a deep voice: "There is no hurry to do this. Please call Yuan Benchu first. I have something to ask him!"
When Jiang Qi heard this, he laughed and said, "Ye Zhao, call you a marquis. You really think that you are a person. Who is my master? How could you meet someone like you who is a lowly person at will?"
This is a very common way to anger the opponent. When two armies fight, as long as they can anger the opponent's chief general, they can take the lead to a large extent. Ye Zhao's Qi-raising Kung Fu naturally cannot be angered by this method. But he is not angry, but Dian Wei on the side is angry.
"Hmph!" Dian Wei snorted angrily when he heard this, and took off a small halberd from his waist and shook his hand and shook it out.
The small halberd weighs about five or six pounds and is the size of a palm. Ye Zhao asked the blacksmith to tailor Dian Wei, so that Dian Wei can have a long-range attack method. Even if it was designed to be convenient for throwing, it was impossible for ordinary people to shoot a hundred steps, but Dian Wei obviously could not be classified as ordinary people.
Jiang Qi didn't think so at first, but when he saw Ye Zhao not getting angry and wanted to say something else, he heard the buzzing sound in the air. The little halberd was already flying towards his head with a spinning spear. His face changed in fear and slid on the horse's back to the ground.
"Puff~"
The little halberd passed through the war horse's head with the neighing sound, splashing a bunch of blood. The horse's skull cracked open, and with a writhing sound, he fell to the ground.
Jiang Qi was frightened when he saw it and rolled and crawled back to his own formation. How could he dare to stand forward?
The princes of the coalition were also shocked by Dian Wei's move. Yuan Shao looked at Ye Zhao's camp with a gloomy face and looked at the surrounding terrain. Ye Zhao was very accurate in the terrain. The surrounding area was narrow, and the flat land was only about two hundred steps before the village. The rest of the places were crisscrossed, making it difficult to exert its military strength advantage. Many of their troops were still like centipedes in the surrounding valleys, chaotic and disorderly.
It’s not that Yuan Shao didn’t want to make up the formation, but that the terrain around Ye Zhao’s camp was not allowed. If he wanted to make up the formation, the bows and arrows in Ye Zhao’s army could be shot directly, as for the siege equipment, let alone, even if it was not far away, it would not be able to carry it over.
In desperation, Yuan Shao had no choice but to order people to rush forward, hoping to set aside the coalition soldiers to rectify the troops.
But for some reason, today's coalition soldiers seemed a little weak and powerless. Many soldiers fell to the ground halfway through without even being shot. Before they even approached Ye Zhao's camp, they were shot back by waves of arrows.
"What's going on?" Yuan Shao realized that something was wrong. The combat effectiveness of these soldiers in front of him was much weaker than before when he was at Hulao Pass?
At the gate, Ye Zhao also noticed that the coalition forces were extremely weak. He frowned and turned his head to look at Dian Wei and said, "Quickly, please withdraw, retreat into the second line of defense, set up the crossbow cannons, and send commands to the soldiers, don't worry about wasting cannon stones and crossbow arrows. As long as someone catches a cold, he will shoot and kill them. You must never let the enemy approach the wall of the village!"
"Lord, what happened?" Dian Wei looked at Ye Zhao in confusion. The coalition forces were vulnerable. This is a good thing!
"Assuming orders!" Ye Zhao said decisively.
"Here!" Seeing Ye Zhao's serious expression, Dian Wei stopped asking and hurriedly directed the soldiers to withdraw his troops. Ye Zhao set up three camps overnight between Xuanyuan Pass and Yangdi. The first camp was originally planned to be abandoned, but it was withdrawn very quickly at this time. Before Yuan Shao could react, he had already withdrawn from the camp.
Many soldiers in Yuan Shao's army were unconscious without warning. They should have been in a crowd of people, but Yuan Shao felt a strong sense of death from the army, so that Ye Zhao's anxious withdrawal made Yuan Shao and others unable to get any excitement. The scene in front of him made his hands and feet cold.
"What happened?" Yuan Shao frowned as he looked at the sluggish look of the three armies.
Liu Dai, Yang Yuan, Qiao Mao, Zhang Miao, and Bao Xin all looked at each other, not understanding why, Zhang Miao's eyebrows suddenly flickered and looked at Yuan Shao and said, "Do you remember what Ye Zhao said before Hulao Pass?"
"You mean..." Yuan Shao looked at Zhang Miao, and suddenly his face changed: "Plague?"
Zhang Miao nodded silently: "If it weren't for this, then Ye Zhao had always been cunning. He shouldn't have left so easily under Hulao Pass!"
Not only Yuan Shao, but everyone felt a chill when they heard this.
"All...leader..." Qiao Mao looked at Yuan Shao and said, "Are you still chasing me?"
Chase? What a fuck!
Yuan Shao shook his head and looked at the soldiers all over the mountains and fields. He remembered that Jiang Ji came to report last night that many people in the army were infected with wind and cold. Now it seems that this is not a wind and cold. Many soldiers are weak and powerless at this moment. Although most of them can't see any abnormality, the plague will spread. Now, Yuan Shao just wants to get farther away from these people, the better.
"Order the three armies to withdraw back to Luoyang!" Yuan Shao said in a deep voice. Now, he no longer cares about chasing Ye Zhao.
"Here!" After hearing this, the princes hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of their troops, but they took their personal guards far away from the army, fearing that they would be affected by the plague.
"Lord, they have also retreated!" Dian Wei ran back to look at Ye Zhao and said, "Can I leave when I wait?"
"Let's go?" Ye Zhao shook his head. There were already many dead bodies on that road, and he didn't want to go back.
"The coalition forces are finished this time, but this account needs to be settled!" Ye Zhao sneered: "Let's go, tell Wen Yuan that there is no need to continue setting up a fire array. Take the turmeric oil with you. While Yuan Shu is still hanging out here, let's go to Nanyang!"
"Here!"
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Outside Luoyang City, overnight, at least one adult in the coalition army was affected by the plague. Even though Cao Cao had made timely countermeasures and persuaded the princes to gather people who had been infected with the disease, there were always some close people around the princes who were also infected with the disease, and the princes were unwilling to isolate them, so that these people spread the disease.
There were only a group of defeated soldiers and defeated soldiers left by Cao Cao. Those who were infected with the disease were directly isolated by Cao Cao regardless of their closeness and distantness. However, the disease was difficult to end in the camp of princes.
"Meng De, you're trying to think of a solution!" Tao Qian, Zhang Chao and others found Cao Cao and said angrily.
"The method has been said, but the Lords don't listen. Now the epidemic is spreading. How do you ask me to find a way? The doctors around him heard about this and would rather die than come to treat him! There are people close to him, but the epidemic never recognizes people!" Cao Cao was also angry. When Ye Zhao said he was afraid that the epidemic would breed, no one would pay attention to it. Even Ye Zhao had to chase and kill others after he left. Now the plague is spreading. He took out Ye Zhao's booklet, and everyone agreed immediately, but secretly put the people close to him away. Now he can't control himself, but he came to ask for trouble for himself? What's his business?
"Zang Hong is a righteous man. How can we abandon him?" Zhang Chao said angrily.
"Then Brother Jing Ming can be with you. Brother Cao Wujing Ming's virtue cannot die with pleasure. This is the book of quelling the plague left by Ye Hou when he left. You can take care of it yourself!" Cao Cao put the book of Ye Zhao left to suppress the plague and said in Zhang Chao's hand: "Cao will not accompany you."
After saying that, he ignored everyone and called Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong, took the soldiers and did not leave Hulao, and rushed to Arc detention. At this moment, there were corpses everywhere outside Hulao Pass. Maybe they would also be infected with the plague.
"This..." Zhang Chao and others did not expect that Cao Cao would turn against each other and look at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.
"Go and send someone to report to the leader of the alliance." Tao Qian glanced at the booklet in Zhang Chao's hand and sighed: "At this point, let's do what Meng De said, otherwise... you and I will all die here!"
"But..." Zhang Chao felt a little embarrassed when he heard this. Zang Hong was a famous scholar and his best friend. He couldn't make up his mind to watch his best friend die.
"Just follow the words of Gongzu." Just when Zhang Chao was in a dilemma, Zang Hong saw that there was no time when he appeared beside everyone. His face was a little red, but his expression was extremely weak.
"Ziyuan, you..." Zhang Chao hurried forward and wanted to help Zang Hong, but Zang Hong avoided him and waved, "How can you harm you because of me alone? I regret not not listening to the words of the Hou of Ningxiang!"
Now that Ye Zhao's words have been fulfilled, everyone can't help feeling guilty at this moment. Zhang Chao said: "I have sent someone to inform the leader of the alliance to give up chasing the Marquis of Ningxiang. Ziyuan doesn't have to worry, he will instruct you..."
Chapter completed!