Section 4: Rescue

Li Dian was thinking about Li Wei, but suddenly a tall and blood-stained soldier in Jiangdong who had just climbed up to the city, let out a clear roar, and the long sword in his hand slashed through the chests of several companions beside him, took it like a whirlwind, and kicked a Jiangdong soldier who had just exposed half of his body from the city wall down the city. Then he rushed towards Li Dian like crazy. Within a few steps, the long sword in his hand slashed and cut off several guards cleanly, rushed behind Dong Xi, and swung the long sword in his hand and chopped it down hard.

The guards beside Dong Xi came to their senses at this time, shouted "spy" and rushed forward, slashing at the soldier. Dong Xizheng was pressing against Li Dian. Hearing the sound of the wind behind him, he was too impatient to turn around, and he rushed forward with a slash of his feet and rushed forward for half a step. The soldier's long sword slashed from behind him, and the sword slashed his iron armor. Although it could not be cut all of them, it also caused Dong Xi to be severely hit. He squirted out a mouthful of blood, and a long crack was split on his shoulder, dripping blood. When Dong Xi's guards saw that the main general was injured, they were furious and slashed around the soldier. Instead, they surprised Li Dian and his several wounded guards, stunned on the spot, not knowing what to do.

"General, I am Li Wei." The soldier shouted while resisting the angry attacks and killings of several Jiangdong soldiers.

"It's Li Wei, everyone, come up and help." Li Dian suddenly heard Li Wei's voice and shouted quickly. When several guards heard this, they rose up and stepped forward to help. Li Wei was surrounded by several Dongxi guards, and the long sword in his hand was slashed several times, which suddenly broke. He was almost hit by a guard. He kicked the chest of the current person, took two steps back, protected Li Dian, and shouted loudly: "Young Master, forty thousand infantry and cavalry, have arrived outside the city. When I came back, I was blocked by someone, so I had to kill two patrol soldiers in Jiangdong and stumbled on the top of the city, which wasted a lot of time. You should be ready to attack at this time."

He said that, turning his head and looking outside the city, pointing happily outside the city and shouting, "Please look, General, the iron cavalry is here."

When both sides of the fight heard his words, they turned their heads and looked outside the city. They saw smoke and dust rolling twenty miles outside the city. The sound of killing was loud. Dong Xi was shocked and his momentum suddenly became weaker. Seeing Li Wei raised his eyebrows at him, Li Dian immediately understood in his heart, and pulled out of the battle circle. After several messengers roared a few times, the messengers immediately ran along the city wall.

"The army comes to aid...40,000 infantry and cavalry...the army comes to aid...40,000 infantry and cavalry..."

The defenders saw several commanders coming and thought the city was broken. When they heard them shouting, they immediately became energetic. They held the weapons in their hands again and rushed to the Jiangdong soldiers from the land of Shangcheng, shouting at the same time: "Reinforcements are coming... Reinforcements are coming..." The people who rescued the wounded were also very happy, and then shouted loudly, some of whom were still strong, and even picked up the weapons on the ground and rushed forward.

The soldiers of Jiangdong suddenly encountered crazy resistance. The offensive was blocked, and their minds were disturbed by the shouts, and they began to get anxious. Dong Xi hesitated on the city for a moment, gave up his plan to continue siege, and hurriedly got off the city with dozens of remaining guards. When he returned to his command position, Pang De and Yan Xing had each brought a thousand iron cavalry, and rushed to his camp like sheep.

"Go away! Go away!" Cheng Dang, with his personal guards, was extremely embarrassed and ran to Dong Xi and shouted.

"Where is Song Zijing (Song Ding)?" Dong Xi shouted while gathering the team. He looked at it for a long time but didn't see Song Ding's figure, and felt an ominous feeling in his heart.

"Die." Cheng looked like earth, his helmet was crooked and his armor was tilted. He turned around and pointed to the camp like a tiger: "He was picked by that man."

"It's outrageous." Dong Xi was furious and shouted to Cheng Dang: "Go and report to the lord quickly. I'll break the rear and avenge Song Zijing." Before he could finish his words, Cheng Dang had already run away on his own horse. The guards chased him closely, but their legs could not keep up with the war horse. In a short time, Cheng Dang's horse disappeared. Dong Xi had no choice but to arrange someone to inform Sun Quan, and he led his people to hurriedly organize the battle formation, trying to stop Pang De who had just reached the front.

Pang De and Yan Xingru defeated Cheng Dang with two sharp arrows, and one charge, Pang De defeated Song Ding in Song Ding's position. Pang De chased Song Ding. He followed Cheng Dang, who was fleeing, and chased him to the city of Hefei. He saw Dong Xi gathering soldiers from afar, and turned his horse's head and rushed towards Dong Xi. The war horses rushed towards Dong Xi with a huge impact. Dong Xi was shocked and stepped back to the spearman, hoping that the spears could block the running horses. Unfortunately, these spear soldiers were not prepared.

Before he could push the spear in his hand to the ground, he had to face it with his spear in his hands, so he would not be the opponent of the war horse. The horse's horse's horse and the long halberd were first stabbed, and then he was trampled by the war horses and suddenly broke through a big gap. The newly formed formation collapsed without any effect. The soldiers behind were frightened by the cavalry who knocked people to the ground and turned around and ran away. They were killed by the cavalry afterwards, and their bodies were scattered.

Dong Xi took two steps back and found that the situation was not good, so he had to bite the bullet and push it up again. Pang De slapped his right arm. Before his scream could sound, Cao Shan, behind, passed by and cut off his head with one sword. Then a knight behind stretched out his long halberd, lifting Dong Xi's head in the air at the tip of the halberd and lifted it high.

Dong Xi's sudden death caused the Jiangdong soldiers who were already scared by two thousand iron cavalry to be defeated like a mountain. The deserters shouted, abandoning everything they could abandon and running around as quickly as possible. There was no way to live. The dozens of Dong Xi's guards who had sacrificed their lives to kill were trampled into meat paste by the iron cavalry in a blink of an eye, turning into fertilizer in the dust, and they could no longer tell the human form.

"Accelerate! Go south! Go south!" Pang De looked at the Jiangdong soldiers who were running for the utmost care, shook his head with some regret, and immediately stood up, waved his long halberd and shouted loudly. The messengers beside him blew the horns. When the cavalry heard the sound of the horns, they abandoned their heads at their fingertips, turned their horses' heads, used Pang De as the tip, and walked around the city and headed west to south. Immediately afterwards, Yan Xing also followed with his people.

Li Dian watched the cavalry passing by like a tiger entering a flock of sheep below, breathed a sigh of relief, reached out and took off the helmet tilted over his head, and walked two steps on the city wall. He sighed.

"General, look, the young master is here." Li Wei leaned over to Li Dian and pointed to the more than 200 people behind the cavalry.

"Open the city and welcome the young master into the city." Li Dian smiled weakly.

Seeing that the Jiangdong Army did not bring siege equipment, Li Dian moved the sandbag from the north gate a few days ago, preparing to break through the north gate if he couldn't defend it. Now seeing Cao Chong coming, the door was opened smoothly. Soon, Cao Chong led the tiger soldiers to the city tower.

"Yuan Ji, lead the way to solve the urgent needs of the South Gate." Cao Chong pointed at Li Dian before he could speak to Li Wei first. Li Wei responded and rushed with Xu Yi and a hundred tiger soldiers. At this time, Cao Chong turned around and saluted Li Dian and said, "Thank you for your hard work, general, it's too late to rescue. Please forgive me."

Li Dian quickly returned the greeting: "Young Master, what's the matter? From Jingzhou to here, you're running all the way. This is the fastest speed."

Cao Chong smiled and said, "I like your guard Li Wei very much. Without the general's consent, I will give him the name Yuanji, so I hope the general will not be surprised." After hearing this, Li Dian shook his hands repeatedly. The two gave in and then walked towards the east gate where Jiang Ji was defending.

Jiang Ji was holding the city wall, looking at Pan Zhang who was hurriedly retreating below and laughing. Seeing Cao Chong strode towards Li Dian, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Cao Chong helped Jiang Ji up, raised his thumb and praised, "Jiang should not do a good job. He would destroy Sun Quan's 50,000 troops in one letter, and he would make a great contribution."

Jiang Ji smiled and said, "Young Master laughed. Sun Quan claims to be a 50,000 army. After these days of fierce fighting, I guess it is only more than 30,000. If it weren't for the insufficient materials in my city, he wouldn't be able to capture it. Thirty thousand people still attacked the four gates, and Sun Quan didn't know that the soldiers would be clear. If there was a cavalry coming to support, Jiang Ji would not have to do much, defeating him was expected." He thought for a while and asked again, "I heard that half an hour ago, an army in Sun Quan's camp hurried out of the camp and headed southeast. Could it be that the young master was still deploying suspicious soldiers there?"

"Where? Chen Fubo, the prefect of Dongcheng, arrived with three thousand county soldiers. This important task was just handed over to him." Cao Chong smiled and said, "The flag of the twin rabbits in the south of the city has been raised for a while. Since there is nothing wrong in the east of the city, we should first solve the urgent problem in the south of the city, and then come back and have a slow talk."

But the south of the city was in a miserable state.

Liu Fu lay in the arms of Liu Jing, covered in tears, with a calm expression on his face, but he had no breath. A big hole in his chest was still slowly flowing with sticky blood. The hundreds of soldiers who remained lowered their heads and stood beside them, without saying a word, with only a faint sob.

Li Dian and Jiang Ji were shocked, and they pushed away the crowd and rushed to Liu Fu, shouting loudly: "Encourt, Encourt!"

"Two sirs, my father swallowed his anger when he saw Sun Quan retreating. He didn't lose Hefei City. He left with confidence." Liu Jing wiped his tears with his sleeves dyed red by blood, adding another ferocity to his blood-stained face. He picked up Liu Fu's still warm body with both hands and bent over to Li Dian and others: "My father wants me to thank the two sirs for him, thank the young master who came to support, and saved Hefei City."

Cao Chong rushed forward and was silent. He quietly looked at Liu Fu in Liu Jing's arms, took a step back, lifted up his clothes, and knelt in a pool of blood with one leg. When Jiang Ji and Li Dian saw it, they also knelt down with one leg. The soldiers around him knelt down one by one, bowed to the ground, and some people began to cry loudly. Not long after, the news of the death of the governor in battle spread throughout the city. The soldiers immersed in the joy of victory were all struck by lightning, and they were completely delighted. Many people rushed over to look at Liu Fu, while the soldiers who could not leave their posts held tears and held the weapons in their hands.

How could the people know the news of the death of the governor, and soon squeezed Liu Fu around him and cried loudly. Cao Chong looked at the people and soldiers around him who were crying bitterly, his eyes turned red, and he stepped forward to Liu Jing and said, "The governor is so loved by the people, which really makes the boy admire him. He died in battle for the country, and even though he dies, he still wants to be mournful and follow the changes and take care of his health."

"Thank you, young master." Liu Jing nodded mutely, turned around and hugged Liu Fu and slowly walked down the city wall. Wherever he passed, the crowd automatically dispersed a passage. Then the people stood up and protected Liu Fu step by step in sadness and order.

"As an official, governor Liu will die without regrets." Cao Chong looked at the crowd away and exclaimed.

Li Dian and Jiang Ji remained silent and shed tears in secret.

Shortly after hearing the news of the fast horse sent by Dong Xi, Sun Quan saw the defeated soldiers like a tide. Knowing that the situation was hopeless, he had to quickly evacuate Hefei and flee south in a panic. Pang De and Yan Xing met Xu Sheng's prepared stubborn resistance at the Ximen. Although they finally defeated Xu Sheng, they lost the possibility of defeating Sun Quan in one fell swoop. They had to disguise themselves from a distance, and after meeting Chen Deng's three thousand troops, they disguised themselves as a series of numbers.

Ten thousand people drove Sun Quan out of Jiujiang County and entered the Lujiang County border. He met He Qi, who came to pick up the response. This time they defeated Chengdang Song Ding, Dong Xi and Xu Sheng three troops and killed more than 10,000 soldiers. More than 5,000 soldiers in Jiangdong were killed at the cost of 500 people. Pang De even killed Song Ding, Cao Shan killed Dong Xi, and made great contributions. Yan Xing’s troops also killed and fled to death, seriously injured Xu Sheng and Chen Wu.

Sun Quan, who failed and was unwilling to accept his reluctance, took a rest in Lujiang for three days, and finally waited for Zhang Zhao who had retreated south. He was full of depression and suppressed his anger and asked, "Hello, Mr. Zhang, are you safe all the way?"

Zhang Zhaozheng was inexplicably surprised. He received a report from a scout outside Dangtu City, saying that two thousand cavalry were found behind him, and a large number of Cao's troops were coming to aid in Ruyin direction. He did not think much and immediately issued an order to retreat. He wanted to come to Hefei to meet Sun Quan and go south together. Unexpectedly, when he arrived in Hefei day and night, he was in a mess outside Hefei City, and there was no trace of the Jiangdong Army. He was shocked and did not dare to stay. He went south quickly and did not dare to rest on the road. Finally, after entering Lujiang County, he saw Sun Quan's rear army. He felt strange. Why did the lord retreat besides the battle and retreated and did not notify himself. Besides, the 50,000 army would not be defeated. Even if he did not defeat Hefei, it should be no problem to retreat calmly. Why did he decline like that one by one, as if he was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of troops?

"Lord, Hefei has not been captured?" Zhang Zhao asked tentatively when Sun Quan looked very bad.

Sun Quan was full of evil fire and had no place to emit it. When Zhang Zhao asked this, his blood surged upwards: "Zhang Gong is in Dangtu. Forty thousand infantry and cavalry passed by your door. You didn't give me a word of information, how could I win?"

"40,000 infantry and cavalry? Over Dangtu?" Zhang Zhao was even more surprised: "Cao's reinforcements are still in Ruyin. At present, it may not be possible to reach Hefei. How can 40,000 infantry and cavalry come? I got the news that only two thousand cavalry went south along the Rushui River, bypassed Shaopi, and rushed straight to Hefei City, for fear that they would attack the lord and cut off our army's retreat. Then he immediately withdrew his troops to meet the lord. Why did the lord..."

"Two thousand cavalrymen? Where did Chen Deng's people come from?"

"Lord, Chen Deng has only 3,000 troops, all of them are soldiers from Dongcheng County." Lu Xun stepped forward and said softly.

Sun Quan stood up with a bang, stared at Zhang Zhao for a long time, then looked around at the generals, and suddenly understood something. His white face suddenly turned bloody, his temples thrust, his teeth clenched tightly, his fists were clenched, and he was stunned for a long time, and suddenly roared: "I'm so angry!" A mouthful of blood spurted out from his back, Miran sat down, and softly sank on the mat. The blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth soon dyed a large area of ​​straw mat under him.

A few days later, Cao Cao led a large army to Runan. He heard that Hefei City was fine, so he turned northeast to return to his hometown in Qiao County. He quickly recruited Cao Chong and others to Qiao Jin. Cao Chong led Chen Deng, Li Dian and others to head north together. Along the way, he met Cao Zhang and Xiahou Cheng, who came to pick him up. He walked together.

Chen Deng is very talkative and arrogant, but when he saw the three juniors of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, he still put away his arrogant heart. Cao Zhang was brave and steady, and he didn't talk much, but he was very real. Xiahou said that he was sharp-tongued, both civil and military, and had a flexible mind. He often had a sharp saying in his words. Chen Deng and he had similar tempers, and he talked happily. Cao Chong was known as a child prodigy, but he didn't speak much. He just smiled so gently, listened, and occasionally interjected a sentence and asked a question, but it could make Chen Deng hold it in for half a day, and he might not be able to answer it after thinking about it for a long time. And he occasionally told a humorous story, which made Chen Deng laugh for a long time.

Chen Deng liked these three young people very much and often stayed together to eat and drink along the way. When he passed Yingshui, he saw that the water in the river was clear and fat, so he asked people to go down the river to catch some fish, and was very excited to invite everyone to eat raw fish sashimi. Jiang Ji and Li Dian were not used to his temper and refused to say anything, but Cao Chong and others came excitedly.

"This is a good thing, delicious food in the world. Jiang Ziji and the others would lose a lot if they didn't eat this." Chen Deng said with a smile, picked up a piece of sashimi, dipped it in the sauce, raised his head and threw it into his mouth, chewing it carefully, and his white face was filled with happiness.

Xiahou said that when Cao Zhang saw that he had eaten with relish, he also tasted a piece curiously. Cao Zhang was not used to it. Xiahou said that he liked it very much. After tasting a few more pieces, he also said to Cao Chong: "Cang Shu, try it, it tastes really good."

Cao Chong barely tasted one, and he was not used to this kind of thing. In his previous life, this thing seemed to be the favorite of Japanese pirates, but from now on, it was probably passed down by the great man. During this period, he already knew that the Japanese pirates were still a group of savages. No wonder Xu Fu brought three thousand boys and girls to become kings and domineering. It is possible that they eat raw fish, so they probably haven't figured out such a tasteful way to eat it.

However, experience in his previous life also told him that this way of eating is unhygienic and there are likely to be parasites inside.

"There are insects?" Chen Deng was stunned for a moment, and his hands stopped. He looked at the fish fillets stuck to the chopsticks, and he was afraid to eat them.

"What's wrong?" Xiahou Cheng threw it into his mouth again and smiled vaguely.

"To be honest, I did get seriously ill three years ago. Thanks to Huayuanhua's magical technique, he used two liters of soup to spit out many strange insects, and then he saved his life." Chen Deng put down the bamboo chopsticks in his hand and said with a wry smile: "He also said that this disease will recur in three years. I endured it for more than half a year, but later I really couldn't bear to be so delicious. Thinking that Huayuanhua was still there anyway, so I would have no problem, so I opened the ban. Unexpectedly..."

He shook his head, thought for a while and said, "Anyway, I have eaten it, so it's too late to regret it. Life and death are fate, and wealth is in the sky. Before he gets sick, eat a few more bites." As he said that, he picked up the bamboo chopsticks and started eating in big mouthfuls.

When Cao Chong saw this, he couldn't help but smile and shook his head. Several people looked at each other and laughed to the sky.

At noon the next day, Cao Chong was resting at the inn. The Mi sisters were busy cooking the tea. After Cao Chong resting, they could take a sip to get on the road. Cao Chong looked at Mi Dashuang holding the tea leaves into the teapot. Suddenly, he thought of Chen Deng, and smiled at Li Wei who had just followed him, "I disturbed General Chen for a meal yesterday, and I'll give him a cup of tea today. Sun Jizuo's cut-headed tea tastes really good. Yuanji, go and invite General Chen." After that, he turned around and smiled at Mi Dashuang and said, "I must cook enough this time. Don't let my son get rid of my stomach anymore. Besides, there are still customers."

"Young Master, you all know that it's not our fault. You have driven the people who make the mistake to Daqin. You still mention this matter." Mi Dashuang pouted and said angrily, while quickly putting down the tea bag, going out to fill half a pot of water, and putting it on the stove on the carriage.

"Hahaha..." Cao Chong smiled, stretched his legs straightened, lay down comfortably, rested his head on Mi Xiaoshuang, and gently closed his eyes. Mi Xiaoshuang stretched out his fingers and rubbed slowly on his temples, while looking at the smile on the corner of Cao Chong's mouth. After a moment, he asked softly: "Young Master, do you think Mr. Yuanzhi understand what you mean?"

"Even if he is such a smart person, even if he can't understand everything, he will not do stupid things." Cao Chong smacked his lips and said comfortably.

"Then..." Mi Xiaoshuang was asking again, but saw Li Wei running from afar, panicked, her fingers couldn't help but stop, Cao Chong immediately felt it and opened his eyes.
Chapter completed!