Three Kingdoms: The Yellow Turbans finally revolt

Chapter 221 Xu Rong attacked Bao Xin at night, and Liu Qing kept his word
Yuan Shao's army marched in, the command tent was set up, Suanzao was set up, and soldiers and horses from all walks of life were also preparing to enter Henan. Just when he was about to give an order to send his troops westward, he received a letter from Sun Jian.

The letter mentioned that outside Hulao Pass, there were heavy troops in Xingyang. Sun Jian asked the army to besiege the city.

Coincidentally, at about the same time, Yuan Shao received another letter from Bao Xinjun from the second echelon.

The letter stated that Bao Xin's army had already been to Xingyang in person, and there was no abnormality, and he had continued to march westward.

These two conflicting frontline letters immediately stunned Yuan Shao.

"Generals, what do you think!" Yuan Shao had no choice but to consult the leaders.

"Sun Wentai has rich combat experience, I think Sun Wentai's letter is more credible!" Nanyang prefect Yang continued.

Yang Xu was in Nanyang, and had heard a lot about Sun Jian's battle deeds. He was not afraid of arrows and stones, took the lead in ascending first, and made great contributions to recovering Wan County.

Among the [-]th Route Army, he was the only one who left Jingzhou with Sun Jian, and became an ally, and he had an extra bond.

But Yuan Shu said to Yuan Shao from the side: "Bao Xin is calm and scheming, I'm afraid he won't say something out of nothing, let alone say something out of nothing, this Xingyang, I'm afraid there are other strange things."

Feng Ji on the side also followed suit: "Leader, the battlefield is changeable. The positions of the two generals are different. It is not surprising that there are errors in the information. The most urgent task now is to advance troops!"

Yuan Shao's eyes lit up, and he said immediately: "No matter whether there is an army stationed in Xingyang or not, they cannot stop the pace of our allied army. I passed on our military order: order Wang Kuang and Zhang Miao to lead our troops and march into Xingyang! The lord of the alliance will personally command the army Come!"

As Yuan Shao said, he slapped his hand, full of vigor.

At this time, Bao Xin led the army to the Sishui, and the Sishui flowed from north to south, blocking Bao Xin like a ridge, but there was a bridge to cross here.

"Brother, the convenience ahead is Sishuiguan, wait for me to go to fight!" Bao Tao laughed excitedly.

Bao Xin didn't look very high, and even looked like a dilapidated small pass. You don't even need to enter through the closed gate. If there is no one to stop you, you can climb over it.

For Bao Tao's enthusiasm, he did not stop him, he came to fight, and he had a mouthful before the battle, which was also good for boosting morale.

Bao Tao rode his horse to the pass, estimated the distance of the bow and arrow, stopped far away, and opened his mouth to shout: "Dong Zhuo, hurry up and fight!"

There was no response at the gate, the Xiliang army guarding the gate silently looked at the person who was yelling at the gate, and murmured in his heart: Taiwei Dong is not here, he asked Taiwei Dong to fight, I am afraid he is not a fool.

"Dong Zhuo's traitor, did you see Grandpa and was too scared to fight? Since you are afraid, why don't you surrender quickly!" Bao Tao persuaded him to surrender again.

Two guards on the wall laughed and talked, and one of them said, "Do you want to report to General Hu?"

"Report a fart, just a fool, you forgot that the general said that you refuse to leave the customs, this is the death of the military commander, and those who go out to fight will not be rewarded if they win, and they will be held accountable for disobedience!" Another person said.

The man said again: "Then I don't care about him, it's just that he scolded the wise Dong Taiwei so badly, I really want to teach him a lesson, but unfortunately I can't shoot that far."

Bao Tao shouted a dozen or so words, and greeted Dong Zhuo's eight generations of ancestors, but unfortunately, there was no response from the city, so he had to go back to Bao Xin's side.

Bao Xin was a little surprised that his younger brother would still call it like this. This kind of name is more powerful than the kind of "come and fight with me for three hundred rounds".

"Looks like Dong Zhuo wants to stick to the gate. If it's not good to shout and scold, I have a way." Bao said.

Bao Tao's eyes lit up, "What is the solution?"

"Let's set up camp not far away, and if we show our flaws in their line of sight, we can lure them out of the pass and rob the camp, and our army will attack them suddenly, and we will be able to break through the pass in one battle!" Bao said.

"Good idea!" Bao Tao clapped his hands and applauded.

It took Bao Xin several days to build a simple camp. At the same time, he asked all the soldiers to sleep with their arms and armor on, and deliberately made the gatekeepers doze off. But even so, there was still no sign of the Guanzhong soldiers coming out.

The main reason is that Jia Xu's order was too bad, and there was no reward for winning the battle, and he had to be held accountable. So, who else would want to take the initiative to make meritorious deeds.

It's not that Jia Xu has exclusive power, he also understands that those who are good leaders and given appropriate power will definitely make the other party better.

But Dong Zhuo's group of Xiliang leaders don't look like they are very good at leading troops to fight!
It was actually a helpless move for Jia Xu to issue such an order.

But the Xiliang generals were surprisingly useful.

Anyway, keeping the pass without fighting is considered a credit.

That night, everything was as usual, Bao Xin was in the camp, bored, chatting with Bao Tao.

Suddenly, there were a few shouts from outside.

"Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack!"

The two people who had been listless were instantly alerted, and suddenly regained their spirits, and took up their weapons.

A soldier rushed into the tent and said, "General Bao, the enemy is attacking!"

"Understood!" Bao said, and went out of the tent.

When I got out of the tents, I saw fires everywhere, some tents were already on fire, and fire arrows shot in from outside from time to time, but there was no sign of the enemy.

"It came from there!" Bao Tao pointed, mounted his horse immediately, and said to some soldiers who had already mounted their horses: "You all, follow me to kill the enemy!"

Without waiting for Bao Xin to react, Bao Tao rushed to the west, because the fire arrows were shot from there.

According to the agreement, Bao Tao was responsible for holding back the soldiers and horses leaving the pass, while Bao Xin took the opportunity to win the pass.

Not far away, Bao Xin quickly reached the Sishui Pass, but he saw that the gate was still closed, and there were scattered campfires on the top of the wall.

After Bao Xin killed him, there were some rustling noises from above, and then dozens of arrows shot at him, and many soldiers who were caught off guard were hit.

Bao Xin gritted his teeth and ordered: "Back!"

Backing away from the attack range of the arrows, Bao Xin began to think quickly, the city gates were tightly closed, and there was no opening, so how would the archers who came to sneak attack go back?
At this time, a group of fast horses came again and rushed to report: "It's not good, General Bao! My camp has been robbed, and all the supplies in the camp have been burned!"

"What!" Bao Xin was shocked, "Rescue quickly!"

A bad intuition flashed across Bao Xinxin's head. The main force of the enemy army came to rob the camp?And it seems that he is waiting for him to find the time slot for opening the pass. Could it be that these are all in the enemy's calculations?

Bao Xin returned to the outside of the camp, but saw that the camp was engulfed in flames, it was obviously impossible to put out the fire, and the supplies in the army, including food and grass, were all burned.

The raging fire ignited, and the heat wave began to lick the soldiers who stood close, forcing them to retreat.

"kill!"

Suddenly there was a shout of killing from the north, followed by the non-stop clatter of horseshoes.

Bao Xin frowned, feeling bad!

The enemy army burned the camp and supplies, but did not leave!

Bao Xin immediately drew out his sword and shouted loudly: "Meet the enemy!"

As soon as the words fell, there was a clatter of various noises, the two armies were fighting close to each other, the muffled sound of cavalry colliding, and the golden sound of weapons colliding, immediately tore through the quiet night.

By the light of the fire, Bao Xin saw the men who led the troops to attack, wearing battle armor and red tasseled helmets on their heads, holding a big knife in one hand, and slashed down suddenly, even cutting off a soldier's head and arms, and then Raising the knife and slashing again, the blood wave flew, and it was killed in one's own formation.

The cavalry behind him also caught up like wolves and tigers, for fear of losing the wind.

"Dong Zhuo has such a strong general under his command!" Bao Xin exclaimed, commanding troops to fight.

However, the battle tonight was unfavorable after many battles, the camp and food and grass were lost, and the morale of the army was shaken. Many soldiers had already started to retreat, and their combat effectiveness was naturally not as good as before.

In fact, don't call him a soldier, knowing that he has been beaten, caught in a trick, and attacked again, Bao Xin's own morale is in turmoil.

Then, once the two sides fought, Bao Xin knew that he was still too optimistic. In fact, Bao Xin's army was defeated very simply.

The momentum of Xu Rong leading the army to charge and kill was far from being able to be stopped by Bao Xin's army. It is not an exaggeration to say that they would collapse at the first touch.

Bao Xin had no choice but to order to retreat, the two armies fought, it became a unilateral pursuit, and when they were fleeing, arrows shot from behind from time to time, shooting people off their horses.

"It is said that the Qiang people are good at archery, it is true!" Bao Xin cursed secretly, he could only urge the horses to flee eastward.

And he still thinks that this is the main force of Sishuiguan coming out.

Before he had gone far, Bao Xin met Bao Tao.

"Brother! I've been tricked, these archers disappeared after the fire was extinguished!" Bao Tao said.

The pitch-black night, and the fact that the ancients were somewhat night-blind, naturally no one could be found.

"Rewind!" Bao Xin didn't have time to explain more, and said bluntly.

"Stop the thief! Xu Rong is here!" A loud shout came.

Bao Xin was startled, he turned his head and glanced from the corner of the torch, although he couldn't see the man's face clearly, but his attire was exactly that of a fierce general who cut a soldier in two as soon as he came up.

"The enemy general is coming, retreat quickly!" Bao Xin said again, and rode away.

"Brother, go quickly, I'll stop him!" Bao Tao said to Bao Xin's back, tightened his grip on the spear in his hand, turned to meet the fierce general his brother was talking about, and shouted: "The thief actually robbed my camp, look at the gun! "

Xu Rong saw that the opponent did not flee but came up to meet him, so he was naturally not polite, with a finger of his long knife, several cavalry immediately charged towards Bao Tao.

Bao Tao brandished his long spear, stabbed one person to death first, and then knocked the other off the horse with the end of the spear. At this moment, a flash of cold light flashed by.

With a soft sound of "Keng", Xu Rong slashed down with his saber, not only cutting off the barrel of the gun, but also slashing Bao Tao behind him, a bloodstain spread from his forehead to his body, and the blood oozed out, and soon passed Bao Tao Tao's frightened eyes.

Bao Xin fled desperately all night, and he didn't know where he fled, but the direction of the morning glow made him heave a sigh of relief.

The direction is not wrong.

Bao Xin ordered some soldiers and horses, but there were only less than a thousand soldiers left. The two battalions had 4000 soldiers and horses, and less than a quarter of them remained in the first battle.

"Have you seen Vice Admiral Bao?" Bao Xin asked.

No, everyone said no, Bao Xin had a bad feeling.

"General, where are we going?"

Bao Xin thought for a while, now that he was deep in the enemy's territory, he had no choice but to evacuate temporarily.

"Go to Yuanyong and find General Sun!" Bao said.

……

Qinghe County is adjacent to Bohai County, Anping County, Julu County and Wei County. It is named Qinghe County after its territory, so it is called Qinghe County.

At the junction of Qinghe County and Julu County, Qinghe River is the boundary. There is a bridge called Jieqiao, and on the Julu side to the west of the Jieqiao is Guangzong.

According to Liu Qing's decree, Guo Jia led Zhang Liao's battalion, and Guo Dian led the soldiers of Julu County to meet Liu Qing at Jieqiao.

There are also Fu Xie, the prefect of Qinghe, who already has an edict from Luoyang, and Zhu Ling, who is brought by Liu Qing.

Several people marched to Ganling, the governing place, together.

Speaking of which, I haven't seen Guo Jia, Zhang Liao and others for three months.

"My lord, the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou attacked the Bohai Sea. You didn't go to pacify the Yellow Turbans, but you came to attack Qinghe. But why did you catch the Yuan family?" Guo Jia asked.

Because Liu Qing's development route is still based on stable development, and if Qinghe is forcibly taken, it may destroy this quiet development situation.

Guo Jia also knew about the connection between the Yellow Turban and the Yuan family, so before Liu Qing could tell what his intentions were, he already knew that Liu Qing's move was right to target the Yuan family.

Liu Qing pretended to say: "Oh! It's not that the king is nosy, it's just that Qingzhou Yellow Turban invaded Jizhou, Qinghe County was the first to bear the brunt, and Qinghe prefect Yao Gong led the troops to join the Kwantung Army, regardless of the safety of the people in the county. The virtue of good life, this king has compassion for the people, how can we make Jizhou, which is finally stable and stable, fall into turmoil again!"

Liu Qing was moved by what he said, and Guo Jia laughed from ear to ear. The lord is still so approachable, even though he is the king of Bohai now.

It was Fu Xie who said seriously: "Your Majesty's concern for the common people is really a blessing for the people of Jizhou!"

Did he believe it?Liu Qing thought.

"Nan Rong, this Qinghe County will be handed over to you in the future. This place intersects with Qingzhou and Yanzhou, so it may not be peaceful in the future." Liu Qing said pointedly.

After Fu Xie tasted it, it seemed that he only thought of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. Liu Qing's core strategy, he still didn't know.

"It's my duty!" Fu Xie laughed.

"Brother Nan Rong, congratulations on being the official Fufu Lord!" Guo Dian began to congratulate, and joked: "In the past, you were my Shangguan, but now we are equals! Haha!"

"Hello, Guo Junye!" Fu Xie raised his whip in a whipping gesture.

The atmosphere among colleagues was so harmonious, and Liu Qing was also very happy, talking and laughing all the way, and soon, Liu Qing led an army of [-] troops to Ganling County.

However, all the county soldiers were taken away by Yao Gong, and there were still some county soldiers, especially in such an important place.

Seeing the army approaching, the county soldiers directly sealed the city gate.

Fu Xie stepped forward, holding the imperial edict in his hand, and said in a loud voice: "I am Fu Xie, the new Qinghe prefect of the imperial court, please open the door quickly!"

Although Fu Xie is very famous, but this is something in the circle, a small county soldier, I have never heard of it.

"Master Qinghe's surname is Yao, not Fu!" The county soldier said, obviously, in front of a stranger who claimed to be the prefect of Qinghe, he still paid tribute to Yao.

Hearing this, Liu Qing led his horse forward, looked up at the county soldiers, and asked, "Then, is this Ganling County surnamed Yao or Liu?"

The county soldier's attention was attracted by Liu Qing, he sized him up and down, a little guilty, the other party's majestic appearance, and the incompatibility in his tone, how could he be able to bear it for a mere commoner.

The key point is that Liu Qing still seems to be the leader of this army.

When he came up, he asked if his surname was Liu, maybe he was a distinguished guest of King Ganling.

The county soldier is not stupid, he can't afford to offend such a person, so he respectfully said: "Your honorable guest, the prefect is not here, and the lowly position dare not make decisions without authorization. Please allow the lowly level to ask Cui Xiang for instructions. Please wait a moment, distinguished guest!"

After finishing speaking, the county soldiers bowed their hands and then withdrew.

"I can't tell, but this little soldier is clever." Liu Qing joked.

Fu Xie looked at Liu Qing, ignored Liu Qing's topic of soldiers, and raised the edict in Yang's hand, smiling helplessly.

Fu Xie said: "My lord, the imperial edict is not as good as my lord's words, and I'm afraid it's just like this!"

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