Chapter 35: Capture alive

When Wei Yan saw that they did not rush towards the earth slope, they raised their shields together. He immediately knew that he had made a mistake in his judgment. The other party did not intend to do so at all, and did not take the obstruction of these hundreds of people seriously. The other party's purpose was very clear, which was to catch up with the lord in front of him. He made a quick decision, released the first wave of arrows, threw the bow, pulled out the long sword and rushed down the earth slope, and almost blocked the cavalry rushing over. As soon as he stood firm, he saw several horses hit him and several branches.

The spear rushed straight, scaring him so much that he quickly rolled over and hid behind the tree beside the road. However, the other guards were not so lucky. As soon as the sword was raised, they were stabbed upside down by the spear and landed among the rolling iron cavalry. Five hundred iron cavalry rushed past the terrified Wei Yan in a blink of an eye. They were trampled into a muddy grass and left behind the guards who had been trampled to death. There were also several cavalrymen who were caught in the arrow and were also seriously injured and unknown to the personnel.

"Sir, there are people behind you." A personal guard looked at the group of people appearing in the distance and shouted. Wei Yan, who was shocked by the iron cavalry passing by, came to his senses. While glading in the dark that he was not blocked by Zhang Liao last time, he raised his eyes to look at the group of people behind him, and couldn't help but say in confusion: "How many people were there just now?"

"It's only four or five hundred."

Wei Yan shrank his head. Four or five hundred people seemed to have such power. What do those thousand people look like? What do two thousand people look like? Alas, no matter him, he can't catch up with those cavalry anyway, and even if he chased him, he would not be able to withstand any effect. So he would stay here to block the people behind him. Finally, he did his best. Wang Wei had already died in Changban, so it would be good to bury him here. After all, it was still the mountains and waters of Jingzhou.

Cao Chong and his men did not leave very quickly. When they arrived in front of the mountain, Wei Yan had been waiting for the battle for a long time. Looking at Wei Yan, who was not many people on the ground slope and had a very well-organized formation, he smiled with satisfaction. Although this celebrity from the Three Kingdoms era had not fought many battles, he was really talented. This semicircular formation seemed to be quite decent.

I didn't catch you last time, but this time I saw where you ran. Cao Chong smiled proudly and asked Yan Xing to continue chasing him, and at the same time reminded Pang De not to enter the valley. He himself stopped, surrounded the hillside, and issued an order to capture as much as possible.

He really wanted to capture Wei Yan alive.

After a little preparation, Xu Yi led four tiger soldiers and five hundred cavalrymen who changed to infantry to charge to the top of the mountain. They held their shields high and lined up loose formations and walked slowly forward, while the remaining people approached the hillside and fired arrows to cover them together.

Although Wei Yan's subordinates trained a lot, they had never fought several major battles after all. Some people had just fired a few arrows and were shot to death by the arrow feathers that were shot at the volley. The screams of the injury caused a panic, and the arrows in their hands were slowed down. The power of the arrow formation, which was not very powerful, decreased by 30%. When Xu Yi saw that the opponent's arrows were thinner, he shouted and accelerated his pace. Five hundred people roared like thunder and approached quickly. A distance of 100 steps was reached in a blink of an eye. Xu Yi was the first to rush to the earth slope, swung the long sword in his hand, and chopped a soldier who was dazed with a bow and arrow to the ground. The four tiger soldiers each took a hundred and ten Western Liang soldiers and swung the battle knife and slashed hard. The panicked Jingzhou soldiers were no opponents, and they were immediately killed in a mess. The formation was in a blink of an eye. They fought each other and could not organize effective defense.

Wei Yan sighed, threw away the longbow in his hand, and directed the soldiers to shrink the defense line and block it all the way. However, his troops were surrounded by people, and he was panicked first. The people in front were not the opponents of the few tiger soldiers brought by Xu Yi. In a short while, the outermost troops were all killed and injured, and the remaining hundreds of people were surrounded by five hundred people who rushed up, and there was no reason to escape.

"Ah--" Wei Yan, who was completely indifferent, shouted and danced his long sword and rushed out, slashing three times at Xu Yi who was not waiting for the empty move. Xu Yi raised his left arm lightly and easily took over Wei Yan's attack. Then he flipped his long sword in his hand and slashed on Wei Yan's long sword with ruthlessness and accuracy. Wei Yan's hand was numb, unable to hold the handle of the knife, and then he fell on his lower abdomen again. Two tiger soldiers next to him rushed over, and both swords were used to cut down the two men who came forward to save his troops. One of them carried Wei Yan's foot and dragged it back quickly, and soon dragged Wei Yan to Cao Chong who had just arrived.

"Those who surrender will not die." Cao Chong first issued an order to persuade people to surrender, and then squatted down to look at Wei Yan in a mess and smiled: "Wen Chang, why bother like this?"

"If you want to kill, kill, there is no need to say much." Wei Yan glanced at Cao Chong, stopped struggling, spread his hands and lay on the ground, closing his eyes.

"If you want to kill you, why bother to pay for this?" Zhou Buyi smiled and said, "My son is a pity that Wen is full of talent, but he has become a scapegoat for Liu Bei, the hypocrite. Then he personally came to persuade Wen Chang, why should Wen Chang keep people from thousands of miles away?"

"I, Wei Yan, are just a fake Sima who is watching the city gate in Xiangyang City. What kind of talent can I have? Liu Yuzhou is kind, so why should I, Wei Yan, die for him?"

"Hahaha, Wen Chang doesn't have to belittle himself. Deng Sai's retreat. If General Hengye was not careful, my young master would have taken advantage of his plan. It is hard to say that Wen Chang would not succeed. Even General Zhang Wenyuan, the bandit, praised you for your ability to identify military weapons and run fast. If you are a general in the future, why should you be modest?" Zhou Buyi looked at Wei Yan's dejected look and smiled.

When he heard that Zhang Liao praised him, Wei Yan, who had always lost confidence in him, couldn't help but open his eyes, but when he saw that he was standing in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh and shook his head. The ambush person was almost surrounded by someone, and the attack did not block his charge. He would fight against the enemy in the face of the battle, but he cut him three times, but he couldn't stand one and one leg. Now that he was caught in such a mess, how could he have any face? General? What general?

"Xu Zhengli is the direct descendant of Lord Hu Chi. He has been fighting for several years and has seen countless big battles. It is rare for me to defeat him. It is not embarrassing that you are defeated by him. You have such a trick. You have experienced more experience in the future and your future is limitless." Cao Chong bent down to look at Wei Yan, pointed to those who were surrounded by Cao's army and looked at Wei Yan with hopeful eyes, and said seriously: "If you want to die for Liu Bei, it will not only be a pity for yourself, but also a pity for these people who follow you."

"I..." Wei Yan hesitated.

"You just said that Liu Bei was kind, but what was the result of those who followed Liu Bei? Where is Liu Bei? He didn't even care about his own family, so how could he care about the people? He did it without compromising and trapped the people in the war. It was for unwise, only his own reputation, and the lives of others, and it was for unkindness. Why was Wen Chang so confused?" Zhou Buyi lowered the smile on his face and said sarcastically: "If you want to be kind, my son is kind. In front of Wancheng, he can attack but not attack, and take but not take, only for the tens of thousands of soldiers and people in Wancheng, regardless of his own safety, how could Liu Bei invite fame? Wen Chang only knew that Liu Bei was kind, but he didn't see my son be kind?"

"Wancheng?" Wei Yan hasn't figured out what happened in Wancheng yet. He followed Zhang Fei to guard the city in Fancheng and Huo Jun. Later, he secretly found out that Liu Bei, who had been away a few days in advance, had only walked tens of miles a day. At that time, he persuaded Liu Bei to abandon the people and rushed to Jiangling to defend the city. However, he was scolded by Liu Bei for this. At that time, he thought that Liu Bei was just too kind and righteous and could not bear to leave the people. Later, he saw that he actually escaped. As Zhou Buyi said, he didn't even care about his family, let alone the people. This made him feel a little discouraged. He didn't expect that the hero he admired for many years was like this. He was helpless for a moment. Since he had already joined Liu Bei, Xiangyang could not go back, so he had to follow Liu Bei.

"Didn't you see General Wen Zhongye?" Cao Chong smiled and pulled Wei Yan up, who was confused and said, "Don't you believe me, but you still don't believe in Wen Zhongye?" Wei Yan thought for a while, and couldn't remember whether he had seen Wen Pin's battle flag in Changsan. At this time, a group shouted: "Sir, I saw General Wen's battle flag. Did Wancheng really surrender?"

"Of course, my young master can still lie to you." Zhou Buyi was puzzled by Cao Chonghua's thoughts on persuaded a young man to surrender, and said with great efforts to suppress the impatientness in his heart.

"Since Wen Zhongye has surrendered, I, Wei Yan, can only do this." Wei Yan saw Cao Chong looking at him with a smile, sighed, took off his helmet, and knelt in front of Cao Chong with one leg. Cao Chong was overjoyed and hurriedly helped him up. This was his first real substantial gain since the adventure in Wancheng. Although it had nothing to do with the aura of kings and domineering, he couldn't help but feel unhappy in his heart.

After gathering Wei Yan's men, Cao Chong rushed forward to catch up with Pang De and Yan Xing. They were looking at the slope in front of the valley, and a thousand cavalry were waiting for the ground in front of the valley. Seeing Cao Chong and Wei Yan strode side by side, Pang De saw Cao Chong first, and turned around and smiled at Wei Yan and said, "This general is very skilled and can escape under Pang's spear. It's rare to count."

Wei Yan's face turned red, but fortunately his face was already red and he couldn't tell anything for a moment. He bowed and said, "Shame."

Cao Chong smiled and introduced them to each other. When Wei Yan heard that the number one powerful general in Guanzhong who killed Guo Yuan in the Battle of Huguan, he was shocked and quickly saluted again. At this time, he felt that what Pang De said just now was not all bragging, and he was indeed hiding by luck. No wonder the five hundred cavalrymen ran like one person, but their momentum was as unstoppable as a thousand people. His arrows actually shot down only three or four people.

"Young Master, do we still want to go into the valley to see?" When Pang De and Wei Yan were making a fuss, Yan Xing looked at Cao Chong reluctantly. Cao Chong looked at the valley in the distance and silently asked the scouts who had come back. He sighed regretfully and said, "Jiang Xia's soldiers have already arrived in the valley to ambush. Besides, even if there are no ambush, we are afraid that we will meet the oncoming army when we chased. Two thousand people against ten thousand people, and the terrain here is not conducive to the development of the cavalry, so let's forget it."
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