Chapter 4 The Fun of Red Dust 2

This melee has become an exchange of life. The other side exchanged nearly 100 thieves for the lives of more than a dozen of our military officials.

Our expectation of waiting for rescue was dashed when the messenger died 30 steps away from us, and Liu Jaozhi, the commander of the series of orders, was entangled by more than a dozen soldiers.

At this critical moment, an unknown army suddenly attacked the periphery of the thief soldiers.

Probably Sun En did not expect that a Jin army would come out to attack him at this time. He was worried that our army would have reinforcements, so the thief soldiers retreated and left.

Liu Jao saw a rare opportunity to counterattack and quickly organized troops to counterattack. Sun En's soldiers retreated, threw down thousands of corpses and fled.

Our army did not dare to chase again and retreated to clean up the mess.

The most decadent of all people is the general Liu Zhenzhi. Liulaozhi is also a famous general of a generation and has countless chances of winning, but unexpectedly, he was defeated by Sun En, an inconspicuous thief today. However, the most demoralising thing is not a defeat, but a battle that is really cowardly and aggrieved. Just like a duel between two people, one side was disgraced by the opponent before they took action. He was beaten black and blue, and there was no place to complain.

I have suffered a lot of such dull losses in my youth, and today I am also one of the parties involved in this war, so I understand Liu Prison's depression very well.

The strange army that came to attack Sun En when the battle was in full force was neither laid by Liu Laozhi nor sent by Xie Yan, who was far away from Wu Xing, but came by mistake. It turned out that this army was led by He Wuji, who had been sent to Shanghai to rob grain and grass.

Although He Wuji succeeded in robbing grain, he was trapped in the west of Ludu by the enemy's large reinforcements. Just as they were exhausted from hiding in Tibet, the thief army suddenly retreated. Later, it was learned that the enemy of Wu County had cut off food, and the army was ready to flee south. The thief who captured He Wuji had no intention to deal with him again and fled to the south first.

He Wuji knew that the army would definitely come after him, so he waited for the army in the west of Ludu. Unexpectedly, we happened to encounter that our army was trapped in Sun En's ambush by mistake, so we resolutely led the army to help the army break through.

In this ambush, we damaged more than 1,000 soldiers. Fortunately, Wuji came to help, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. The defeat in Shanghai is a painful lesson for our army.

Despite repeated victories in the next few days, we can't fully control Sun En's thieves. When you think that their military strength is too strong and difficult to deal with, a slight attack on them will disperse like sand; when you think that they are a group of bandits who don't know anything about tactics and don't know strategy, they occasionally use a set of tactics that are completely in line with the art of war to wake you up from the intoxication of victory.

Although there was not much resistance after that, the encirclement planned by Wujun was not realized in Shanghai, because a large number of thieves suddenly dispersed into more than a dozen and broke through the defense line before Xie Yan completely blocked Zhejiang.

After clearing the whole territory of Shanghai and blaspense, we captured Jiaxing and Haiyan, and the army arrived in Zhejiang (Note 2).

After Xie and Liu set up defensive lines in the east and west sections of Zhejiang, they went south. I chased him all the way to Huiji.

Sun En couldn't resist the attack of our army and escaped from Huiji. Many people and animals werecaptive and drove them to flee to the east. In order to delay the pursuit of our army, Sun En ordered to throw the stolen money on the road of escape.

Although the military discipline of Beifu is strong, when they see the jewelry and coins scattered along the road, even the most determined soldiers want to bend over and pick up a few pieces and stuff them into their arms when people are not paying attention. At first, the soldiers who picked up things were still uneasy, and when even some generals couldn't help calling their own soldiers to pick them up for him, the military discipline was completely out of control.

Xie and Liu had no choice but to order the collection of the materials picked up by the soldiers as military pay. Although there is a lot of money and grain handed over to the military treasury, it only accounts for three or four tenths of what Sun En lost. Xie and Liu IIjun owed too much to the soldiers, and they couldn't really ask the soldiers to surrender, so they had to turn a blind eye. When reporting the victory to the court, only a quarter of the trophies were reported, and only thousands of prisoners of war were sent to Jiankang to report their achievements.

The court issued an order to reward the achievements of the pirates. Liu Laozhi was appointed as a former general and guarded Wu County; after Xie Yan cleared the southern part of Zhejiang, he guarded Huiji. Except for the two generals, the generals under the account have their own rewards. There is no need to elaborate.

Although Sun En escaped, an unproven joke remained.

When Sun En occupied Huiji and the surrounding counties responded positively and made trouble together, Sun Enzhi proudly said to the congregation, "The world is about to be peaceful, and I will go to Jiankang with you." Obviously, it is believed that breaking through Jiankang's claim to the throne is just around the corner.

When he heard that Xie and Liu's two armies followed to the north coast of Zhejiang, Sun En said to the thieves, "I secession Zhejiang, and it's a good practice." He wanted to learn from Goujian, the king of Yue, to divide the river with Wu and Chu, and become a prince.

But when he heard that Wang Shi had crossed the pursuit of Zhejiang, he sighed to his cronies, "I'm not ashamed to leave." It's important to run for your life!

After returning to Wu County with Liu Laozhi's army, I asked Liu Laozhi to resign.

Liu Jaozhi asked in surprise, "What do you mean that you are leaving now?"

I said, "The last general was originally the Sima of General Sun Wuyu. He had power to calm Sun's rebellion and listened to the order under General Liu's account. Now that Sun En has calmed, I should go back to General Sun to listen to the order.

"Don't you want to stay in our army?"

"Of course I want to stay with General Daojian for help. The general is the famous general in the world, and the general's division is the powerful division in the world. Liu Yu couldn't help working under the general's command. I replaced General Sun to work under your account to calm down the chaos. Now that I have transferred to General Sun to your account, I'm afraid General Sun will blame me for being righteous.

"Hey, why did Deyu say this? It is precisely that you are a talent that strongly recommends me in response to the imperial court. After pacing Sun En this time, he will also ask for a northern expedition to the Central Plains in the future. At that time, Deyu still needs to contribute more to the country. There is no end to worry, I have my own arrangements. I am equivalent to contributing to the country, and I don't have to mind which account to work under. It's just that if Deyu insists on leaving..."

"General is too worried. I'm very happy to be able to help you. I'm busy talking.

"That's good. Although it repelled the demon thieves this time, it was not wiped out. If Sun En himself fails to capture it, he will inevitably make a comeback. At that time, I was afraid that our army would be divided into many places. Although there are many generals under my account, there are not many brave and old people like you. If you can be in charge of an army and guard the key point, you will certainly be able to give full play to your strengths.

With my expected eyes, I saluted Liu Laozhi with a military salute.

When I came out of the lobby, I was very excited. The result of the conversation is exactly what I expected.

The so-called resignation is actually just an excuse for me, and its purpose is to test Liu Laozhi's attitude towards me. If he really doesn't want to keep me, he will definitely say something grand, and then I will think otherwise; if he wants to keep me, there must be a purpose to keep me.