Three Kingdoms King of the North

Huang Zhong led the cavalry back along the road, and just approaching the battle area, he suddenly saw a cavalry rushing out from behind the hill and galloping towards his direction.Huang Zhong thought he was caught in an ambush, so he instinctively clenched the big knife in his hand, wanting to swing his army to kill him, but when he saw clearly that there was only one person in the opponent, he quickly ordered a corporal beside him: "Take someone over to see , who is here!" After taking the order, the corporal leader rushed towards the cavalry with his men.

It didn't take much time, the corporal leader brought the cavalry over, and he was still far away, and he shouted excitedly: "Reporting to the captain, it belongs to the brother next to the lord." Hearing the corporal leader said that it was Han Zhan Huang Zhong was overjoyed at the people around him, and hurriedly rode his horse to meet them.

The rider who came out from behind the hill was none other than Qin Dui led by Han Zhan's side.He followed the corps leader to Huang Zhong, did not get off his horse, but just clasped his fists on the horse's back and saluted: "Young one, see Captain Huang!"

"Excuse me, excuse me!" Huang Zhong waved his hand at him, and then asked anxiously, "Where is my lord now?"

Captain Qin pointed sideways at the hill in the distance, and said, "If you go back to the captain, the lord is behind the hill." Hearing that Han Zhan was behind the hill, Huang Zhong led a hundred cavalry to follow Team Qin to the hill. and go.

Going around the hill, Huang Zhong couldn't help being startled when he saw the corpses of dead soldiers and horses lying on the ground.Upon seeing this, Captain Qin quickly explained to him: "Don't worry, captain, this is a team of scouts sent by bandits, and our lord led us to kill them all."

"Han Sheng!" Han Zhan saw that Huang Zhong personally brought people to meet him, and hurried out of the woods with the remaining cavalry, and greeted him: "Don't come here, are you safe?"

"My lord!" Huang Zhong saw clearly that the person coming out of the woods was indeed Han Zhan, and tears welled up in his eyes. He came to Han Zhan's horse, got off the horse, knelt down on one knee and said, "Your servant, come rescue me!" Late, please forgive me, my lord!"

Seeing Huang Zhong kneeling in front of him pleading guilty, Han Zhan quickly got off his horse, leaned over to help him up, and persuaded him with kind words: "The soldiers and horses suffered such a disastrous defeat because I underestimated the enemy. What crime did Han Sheng deserve?" Yes. Get up quickly!"

Huang Zhong got up and saw that Han Zhan's clothes were covered with blood, he couldn't help asking in surprise: "My lord, why is there so much blood on your body, is someone injured?"

Han Zhan looked down and saw that there were indeed a lot of blood stains on the front of his clothes, which should have been accidentally splashed on his body when he killed Xu Huang's men.He smiled and said, "This is not the blood of the Marquis, it should be the blood of those bandits who were killed."

"My lord, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time." Huang Zhong was worried that Xu Huang would arrive soon with new troops, so he urged Han Zhan, "Let's leave this place as soon as possible."

After Han Zhan got on his horse, he asked Huang Zhong with some embarrassment: "Han Sheng, I don't know if you have any dry food on your body?"

"Dry rations?!" Huang Zhong was taken aback when he heard Han Zhan's question. Then he realized that Han Zhan and the others must have run out of rations. He quickly ordered the accompanying soldiers to take out dry rations and hand them over to the cavalry accompanying Han Zhan.

After joining up with the cavalry brigade waiting on the official road, Han Zhan's heart sank. He turned his head and asked Huang Zhong, "How many soldiers and horses do you have left?"

After Huang Zhong stopped chasing Xu Huang, he had already counted the number of troops. When he heard Han Zhan's question, he immediately replied, "My lord, there are still more than 400 cavalry."

"Out of the 400 cavalry, there are only more than [-] left. This loss is really heavy." Han Zhan said to himself, "After returning to Jizhou, we must form a new cavalry immediately."

Xu Huang, who was defeated by Huang Zhong, fled to the north for about [-] li, and met Yang Feng's soldiers head-on.Yang Feng had someone call Xu Huang to him, and asked, "Gong Ming, may we find the trace of the Han family's child?"

"My lord!" Xu Huang said in embarrassment: "The general chased him all the way until he reached the revolving gate, but he never saw the little boy of the Han family. On the way back, he was attacked by the cavalry of the Han family. If you don’t pay, you can only lead your troops to break out.”

The soldiers led by Li and Guo were five or six miles behind Yang Feng's soldiers and horses. Seeing that the front suddenly stopped, Li Jue sent Li Bie to find out what happened ahead.He saw Yang Feng and a general in blood armor talking in front of the team, so he went over and asked bluntly, "What happened?"

Although Li Bie asked very casually, Yang Feng respectfully sent Xu Huang to chase and kill Han Zhan, but he didn't find anyone for several days. Who knew that on the way back, he encountered the cavalry of the Han family, Xu Huang Akira is now returning with a loss of troops and a general defeat.

After Li Bie asked Xu Huang a few more questions, he ordered Yang Feng to stand by where he was, and ran back to report to Li Jue.When Li Jue heard that Yang Feng's subordinates had returned in a big defeat, he became furious and ordered the whole army to march in to intercept and kill Huang Zhong and others.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, someone reported to him: "General Qi, General Zhang Ji from Chang'an has sent a messenger!"

Li Jue suppressed his anger and ordered: "Bring the messenger here."

After a while, the entourage came to Li Jue with an extremely tired cavalryman.The messenger got off his horse, knelt down on one knee, took out the letter from his arms, and handed it to Li Jue with both hands.Li Jue winked at an attendant next to him, and that person immediately stepped forward to take the letter from the messenger, and handed it to Li Jue respectfully.

Li Jue opened the letter, and after only a few glances, he immediately turned pale with shock.Seeing Guo Si at the side, he hurriedly rode forward and asked with concern: "Zhiran, what happened?"

"A major event has happened in Chang'an." Li Jue stuffed the letter in his hand to Guo Bang, and hurriedly ordered: "The rear army will change to the front army, and the front army will change to the rear army. Return to Chang'an immediately!"

After Guo Si read the letter, he couldn't help frowning.But he was not as reckless as Li Jue. He thought of Yang Feng and his party who were still waiting ahead, so he quickly sent someone to inform them to return to Chang'an together.

Jia Xu didn't know what kind of letter the messenger brought, but after Li Jue read it, she wanted to teach immediately.He hurriedly came in front of Li Jue, and asked respectfully, "General Zhiran, I don't know what happened in Chang'an, why are you so anxious to be a teacher?"

"Mr. Jia, please read this letter." Guo Si came over, handed the letter in his hand to Jia Xu, and said to him: "After reading this letter, sir, you will naturally understand why you need a class teacher."

Jia Xu took the letter and looked at it, and saw it read: "A certain person led people to search for the corpse of the grand master. There were only some fragments of skin and bones, so the famous people carved it out of fragrant wood. When it was ready, a large sacrifice was held, and the coffin was dressed in the king's clothes. , choose an auspicious day, and move to Meiwu for burial. Before the burial, a heavy thunderstorm fell from the sky, and the water was several feet deep on the flat ground. The thunderbolt shook his coffin, and the body was lifted out of the coffin. When the weather is fine, choose a day for reburial, and it will be the same at night.”

After reading the letter, Jia Xu finally understood what was going on. It turned out that Zhang Ji, Fan Chou and others found Dong Zhuo's broken bones and buried them in Meiwu. Shake the coffin open again.Zhang and Fan chose another day to be buried again, and the situation remained the same.No wonder Li Jue was so flustered after reading the letter.

After figuring out what was going on, Jia Xu quickly grabbed Li Jue's rein and persuaded him, "General Zhiran, this is the end of the matter, even if you rush back, it won't help. Why don't we stay here and get rid of the Han family?" Son, it’s not too late to return to Chang’an.”

Ever since Li Jue learned that Dong Zhuo's body could not be buried, he was in a state of carnival. Hearing Jia Xu's persuasion, without saying a word, he pulled out his sword and slashed at Jia Xu.Fortunately, Jia Xu saw that the situation was not good, so he immediately let go of the horse's reins and threw his body back, otherwise he would definitely be hit by Li Jue.

Li Jue saw that the sword had missed, and when he retracted the sword and was about to strike again, Guo Si grabbed his arm.Guo Si also winked desperately at Jia Xu, signaling him to leave quickly.

Seeing that Li Jue could not be prevented from teaching at this time, Jia Xu turned his horse's head and left Li and Guo far away.He stood on the side of the road and looked south, feeling secretly in his heart: "Let the tiger go back to the mountain to leave future troubles. If the child of the Han family does not die today, he will surely become a trouble in the future."

When Huang Zhong escorted Han Zhan towards the Yellow River, he was deeply afraid of encountering Li Guo's soldiers and horses, so he sent a team of scouts to scout the way ahead, and even if there were situations, they could come up with countermeasures in time.

When the first scouts came to report that there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses blocking the road ahead, Huang Zhong couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.He turned his head to look at Han Zhan and asked, "My lord, there are tens of thousands of bandit soldiers in front, and there is a revolving door blocking behind, what should we do next?"

When Han Zhan learned that there were soldiers and horses blocking the way ahead, he couldn't help crying secretly, thinking to himself why my life is so hard, I just escaped from Xu Huang's hand, before I could laugh out loud, tens of thousands of soldiers appeared in front of me Horses, relying on Huang Zhong's more than 1000 cavalry, want to break through the opponent's interception and rush to the Yellow River, which is simply more difficult than climbing to the sky.

But he knew very well in his heart that if he panicked at this moment, it would lead to low morale and a lack of morale in the army. If he was fighting the enemy, he would definitely lose.Therefore, he pretended to be calm and said to Huang Zhong: "Although there are tens of thousands of rebel soldiers ahead, I judge that they have not entered for a long time, because they can't figure out our details, and they may retreat soon. Han Sheng, send someone to talk again."

Although Huang Zhong felt that Han Zhan's words were a bit absurd, since the lord had already spoken, his courtiers had to listen, so he sent another team of scouts to continue to investigate the situation ahead.

After the new scouts were dispatched, Han Zhan ordered the troops to stop and rest temporarily.His purpose of doing this is to restore the soldiers' physical strength, so that they will have the strength to compete with the enemy when they really fight.Although Han Zhan tried his best to keep calm, some soldiers nearby noticed something was wrong and began to whisper.

Huang Zhong heard the soldiers talking and was afraid that they would affect the morale of the army, so he was going to stop them.But he was stopped by Han Zhan: "Han Sheng, let them say it. If you stop it now, it will only be counterproductive."

Although Han Zhan pretended not to care on the surface, his heart was like fifteen buckets fetching water. He was deeply afraid that the second group of scouts sent by Huang Zhong would bring bad news when they returned.He prayed silently in his heart: "Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless you! If Benhou can return to Jizhou safely this time, I will definitely build a big temple for you and build a golden body again!"

He didn't pay attention when praying, and after he finished praying, he remembered that in this era, the popularity of Buddhism is not as wide as in later generations, especially Guanyin Bodhisattva, who should still be a man at this moment.If I want to reshape him into a golden body, should I make him a man or a woman.

While thinking wildly, I suddenly heard a rush of horseshoes from the north.Han Zhan followed the sound and saw five or six cavalry galloping along the official road. He recognized at a glance that this was really the second group of scouts sent by Huang Zhong.Seeing that the time to decide his own destiny was approaching, Han Zhan's heartbeat quickened unconsciously.

The cavalry leading the team rushed in front of Han Zhan and Huang Zhong, reined in their horses, and reported excitedly, "My lord, the soldiers and horses blocking the way have disappeared."

"What, the soldiers and horses blocking the way are missing?" Han Zhan couldn't help but widen his eyes in surprise when he heard what Tan Ma said, and asked, "Where did they go?"

Tanma then replied: "The little one chased for a while along the way, and saw from a distance about [-] to [-] troops heading west along the official road."

"Going west?" Huang Zhong repeated Tan Ma's words, and said strangely: "They withdrew suddenly, did they have some kind of conspiracy?"

Han Zhan thought to himself: Li Guo and his two men withdrew their troops, something must have happened to Chang'an, and they returned so impatiently.But what happened?I remember that after Li and Guo occupied Chang'an, Ma Teng and Han Sui used to raise troops to serve the king, but they had to withdraw their troops because of insufficient food and grass.Could it be that because Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops approached Chang'an, did Li and Guo have to withdraw their troops?

To be on the safe side, Han Zhan ordered Huang Zhong to send a team of scouts to find out the news ahead.But everyone knew in their hearts that the scouts sent this time were to confirm whether Li Guo's troops had really withdrawn.

When the newly dispatched scout came back and reported to Han Zhan in a positive tone, saying that the soldiers and horses blocking the way had disappeared, Han Zhan's heart hung in his throat, and it fell into his stomach again.He quickly ordered Huang Zhong: "Han Sheng, send someone to the town to pick up Rob, and we will find a place to cross the river immediately."

"My lord!" Huang Zhong waited for Han Zhan to finish speaking, and then asked him for instructions: "There is another woman in the inn, she is the bustard of Huanuange in Sheguo County. She saved Luo Bu's life. I don't know how to deal with her?"

Han Zhan knew that Huang Zhong was referring to the eighth aunt of Huanuange, so he said casually: "No matter what her identity is, she is Rob's savior, so let's take her across the Yellow River and return to Jizhou."

Chapter 228 Returning to Jizhou

The brigade came to the Yellow River again. This time they were lucky. They found several large boats left by Yang Feng by the river, which could carry more than 100 people across the river each time.

Han Zhan originally wanted Huang Zhong to take people across the river first, but Huang Zhong was worried about Han Zhan's safety and refused.Seeing Huang Zhong's insistence, Han Zhan didn't force it, so he ordered the cavalry governor to take some troops to cross the river to the other side first.He and Huang Zhong stayed here, waiting to go to the town to pick up Rob and Ba Gu's men.

Although the area they chose to cross the river had gentle water and the river was not too wide, but because there were not many soldiers who could sail boats, the speed of crossing the river was extremely slow, and it took at least an hour to go back and forth.

When Han Zhan saw this situation, he couldn't help feeling anxious, but there was nothing he could do.I can only pray secretly in my heart, Li Jue, Guo Si and others don't turn back, otherwise these thousands of people will have to jump into the Yellow River.