Chapter 43 Chapter 6 The Warlords of the Rising Storm Restart the War (2)

Sun Jian ordered his subordinates to split up and break out of the encirclement. He originally wanted to distract the enemy's attention so that he could escape suddenly.Unexpectedly, Hua Xiong's soldiers and horses did not pursue others, so they pursued Sun Jian closely.Wherever he went, they surrounded him.Moreover, it was the general Hua Xiong who led the team to pursue them. Sun Jian thought while running, only by defeating Hua Xiong can he stop the pursuit.He was a good archer, and he carried his bow and arrow with him, so he bent his bow and set his arrow while running, and shot at Hua Xiong.He shot two arrows in a row, but Hua Xiong dodged them.When shooting the third arrow, the bowstring was broken due to excessive force.He had no choice but to throw away his bow and arrow, and fled desperately on his horseback.

Only then did Zu Mao remind Sun Jian: "They are only chasing us all the way, obviously because they know the general's turban, quickly take off the turban, let me wear it, and then separate and run!" Sun Jian suddenly realized, he hurriedly changed his turban and Zu Mao's helmet, and ran in two directions. Sure enough, Hua Xiong's soldiers and horses only recognized the red turban, and Sun Jian was relieved, and ran back by taking a small path. Zu Mao wore Sun Jian's turban and fled from east to west, hiding from the enemy from east to west.Then ran into a large cemetery.Hua Xiong's soldiers and horses chased after them, and saw the graveyard was burning, and the red turban was faintly moving, so they surrounded it on all sides, with several layers.Hua Xiong wanted to capture Sun Jian alive and told the soldiers not to shoot arrows.

The soldiers slowly surrounded him, and two brave soldiers swung their fists at Sun Jian, wanting to make a mark.With an ouch, he withdrew his hand, and the back of his hand was covered in blood.It turned out that what they hit was not Sun Jian, but a stone pillar.Zu Mao didn't know where he went, only the red scarf was hanging on the stone pillar. Hua Xiong's soldiers could not hold Sun Jian, so they took the turban to report to Hua Xiong. Zu Mao ran back to the camp and saw Sun Jian, the two were very happy.Sun Jian regretted that he should not disperse his forces, and suffered a big loss.The next day, Sun Jian checked the army and found that the loss was not large, and there were still more than 10,000 people.Then the whole army set off again and occupied Yangrenju again.

Sun Jian didn't dare to take any more risks, so he looked at the terrain carefully again, arranged Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang one by one, and then took Zu Mao and put on a new scarf to fight Hua Xiong . Hua Xiong usually went in and out of the enemy's army, no one dared to stop him, he won another battle yesterday, and when he saw Sun Jian today, there were not many soldiers and horses, let alone him.When the two battled, Sun Jian was defeated and Hua Xiong pursued him relentlessly. He vowed to capture or behead Sun Jian by the day. Sun Jian retreated from Zhan Zhan, Zhan Zhan retreated, and soon led Hua Xiong to the place where his troops were in ambush.At the sound of an order, Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, and Han Dang rushed out one after another, surrounded Hua Xiong, and cut off their way.Hua Xiong brandished his broadsword and fought against Cheng Pu's three generals.Sun Jian drew a new bow again, and shot two arrows at Hua Xiong.When he was about to shoot the third arrow, he saw Hua Xiong fell off his horse.The soldiers rushed forward and cut off Hua Xiong's head.

When Hua Xiong died, the entire army panicked, and Sun Jian sent troops to encircle and suppress them, almost completely annihilating them. It wasn't until then that Xu Rong arrived, but the Pegasus reported that the former army had been wiped out. Xu Rong was startled and retreated immediately. After retreating, Xu Rong's soldiers and horses scrambled and became chaotic, trampling each other and killing each other, causing countless casualties.Sun Jian took advantage of the vigor of the army and rushed into Xu Rong's army. Xu Rong's soldiers were too late to fight back, and more than half of them died.

Sun Jian won two battles in a row, beating Hua Xiong once and Xu Rong twice. He was so honored that he immediately sent someone to reward Yuan Shu.At the same time, Yuan Shu was urged to transport the army rations quickly in order to attack Luoyang quickly.At this time, someone said to Yuan Shu: "Sun Jian will be a man of great merit if he conquers Luoyang. What can the general do to him? It's like a tiger coming instead of a wolf." Yuan Shu was silent for a long time when he heard this, and finally decided: "The military rations will be exempted." How could there be no military rations? Sun Jian went to see Yuan Shu in person for more than a hundred li that night.

Sun Jian was out of breath in front of Yuan Shu, gesticulating and said: "I, Sun Jian, have no grudges against Dong Zhuo. This time, I stand up and fight bravely, regardless of life and death. Why? One is to eradicate violence for the country, and the other is to avenge the general. Right now, just after winning a battle, you become paranoid and don’t distribute military rations. If things go on like this, what will happen? We are wholeheartedly working for the general, but the general listens to traitors. Please think about it, general, who is loyal to you? of?" Yuan Shu's face was flushed by the words, and he was speechless, so he had no choice but to say that the army rations would be issued immediately.

Sun Jian returned to Yangrenju, and as soon as the army rations arrived, he marched towards Luoyang. However, before Sun Jian sent troops, Dong Zhuo had already sent Li Jue to ask him for peace.Li Jue conveyed Dong Zhuo's intention to become relatives with Sun Jian.He also said that as long as Sun Jian said, the children of the Sun family can be any officials they want, and Dong Zhuo will guarantee them all and recommend them to the emperor for appointment. Such conditions can be said to be favorable enough.But Sun Jian didn't listen to this at all, and said: "Dong Zhuo subverted the royal family and slaughtered the people. His crimes are heinous. I, Sun Jian, have only one way to conquer. If I can't wipe out Dong Zhuo's clan and hang that criminal's head on the public display, I will not die." Rest your eyes. Why does Dong Zhuo have the face to ask for peace?"

Li Jue was speechless, but Sun Jian didn't make things difficult for him and let him go back. After Li Jue left, Sun Jian immediately marched towards Dagu.Once in Dagu, it is only ninety miles away from Luoyang. Of course Dong Zhuo was in a hurry, and immediately sent Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty to Chang'an, while he still stationed troops in Luoyang.He said to his entourage: "The Kwantung soldiers have been defeated by me repeatedly. They are not capable, but Sun Jian is a simple boy. You must not underestimate him." Dong Zhuo called Lu Bu to be the vanguard, and he brought Li Jue, Guo Si, etc. to meet Sun Jian himself.

Sun Jian ordered Cheng Pu and Han Dang to resist Lu Bu, and he and Huang Gai led a group of elite soldiers to attack Dong Zhuo.Dong Zhuo, Li Jue, and Guo Si went out to fight, and within a few rounds, they were defeated by Huang Gai.Sun Jian wore a big red scarf on his head, and galloped towards Dong Zhuo on a flying horse.Dong Zhuo felt guilty when he saw it, and blurted out the word "retire".At this moment, the whole army was shaken and their positions were in chaos.Seeing this, Lu Bu had no choice but to leave Cheng Pu and Han Dang on his side and whip the Chitu horse to protect Dong Zhuo.

Dong didn't want to go back to Luoyang, so he asked Lu Bu to retreat westward to Mianchi and stay there.Dong Zhuo heard that Sun Jian was coming to attack Mianchi, so he sent several major generals to guard the important pass and county seat, while he took Lu Bu to Chang'an. When Sun Jian learned that Dong Zhuo had gone to Chang'an, he led his troops into Luoyang City.He first sent someone to clean up the ancestral temple that hadn't been burned down, killed the cattle, sheep, and pigs, put them in the temple, and made a grand sacrifice to fulfill his duty as a minister. After that, Sun Jian arranged for soldiers to roughly tidy up the grave that Dong Zhuo had dug, and buried all the exposed bones.He also wanted to repair Luoyang City, but the city was full of dirt and broken bricks, so he couldn't do it.He had no choice but to order the soldiers to clear the streets first and repair the walls that were about to fall.When the soldiers were clearing the pile of rubble, they either dug out money or jade. For a while, the pile of rubble became a cornucopia.