C17 The Wise One Seizes the Water

A group of unkempt people came running from afar and came to the other side of the water wall.

"Open the door!" "Quickly open the door!" One of the men in the group screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Who is it?" A few people immediately responded to the order, and many archers appeared, their sharp arrows pointing towards the group of people outside the pass.

"Open the door!" I am Hu Zhen! " The person leading the group shouted in exasperation, "You don't even recognize me? "Quickly open the door!"

"It's really General Hu!" "Grand Marshal Hu, please wait for a moment. This subordinate will now request Master Li to open the door for you!"

"What else do you need?" We've been tricked by Sun Jian. If we don't open the door, Sun Jian will kill us all! Open the door! If you don't open the door now, I will behead you the first moment I enter! "

The soldier guarding the door was a bit hesitant. Logically, he must ask Li Su to open the door before he could, but Hu Zhen was notorious for his brutality. If they offended him, they really wouldn't be able to keep their lives! Right at this moment, the sound of battle came from the direction of Sun Jian's camp. From afar, a fire dragon was moving towards them.

"Open, open the door!" Put the suspension bridge in place! " The sergeant gritted his teeth. His life was still the most important. Between Li Su and Hu Zhen, he would rather offend Li Su than Hu Zhen.

With a screeching sound, the suspension bridge that symbolized the lifeline of the water gate slowly descended and the door slowly opened. When the suspension bridge completely descended, a low shout suddenly sounded from among the group of people, "Go!"

Hu Zhen, who had been communicating with the guard general, let out a short scream and fell from his horse. The surrounding soldiers completely ignored him, rushing into the closed door like a swarm of bees. The four leaders revealed their true faces under the illumination of the flames. They were Sun Jian's four generals!

"Dairong!" Righteous Lord! The two of you, lead half of the soldiers and guard the gate! "I will go up with Gongzi Sha!" With a loud shout, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai rode their horses up to the top of the city walls.

Not long after, the fire dragon that Captain Wu had seen earlier had also arrived at the pass. The leader was the fierce Sun Jian of Jiangdong, and under Sun Jian's lead, the soldiers of Jiangdong rushed into the gate that was guarded by Han Dang and Zu Mao.

The battle for the pass was coming to an end. Although there were still more than twenty thousand people left in the pass, only a thousand archers remained. How could they resist the two gods of death, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai? Just as they finished cleaning up, Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, together with Han Dang Zu Mao, directly joined Sun Jian's sweeping army and charged towards the camp of the Western Lion Army.

Only now did Li Su know that Sun Jian had led his men to the pass. He sat down on the ground and was barely able to escape under the protection of his personal guards. Li Su looked at the bright lights of the water, and then looked at the less than ten soldiers beside him. He wanted to cry, but no tears came out. Fifty thousand people, a whole fifty thousand soldiers, plus the risk of losing the water trial, Li Su didn't know how to face Dong Zhuo's anger.

Furthermore, within the Water Curtain, although the twenty thousand soldiers tried their best to resist, they could only helplessly watch as Sun Jian's army attacked without any preparation. Combined with Li Su's escape, the morale of the troops immediately fell. Cheng Pu had sharp eyes, and immediately shouted, "Don't kill those who surrender! Do not kill those who surrender! " All of a sudden, the soldiers dropped their weapons and kneeled on the ground. Sun Jian looked at the soldiers kneeling on the ground and laughed out loud.

Actually, all these arrangements were made by Chen Ren when he first arrived at the Water Pass. First of all, after getting news of the victory of the night assault, Chen decided that he had already tasted the sweetness of the night attack. As long as he had the opportunity, the night attack would come again. Thus, Chen Ren immediately set up this plan. First, he released news to inform the entire army to rest, and secretly assigned trusted soldiers to build this trap. There were bound to be spies from the marquis and Hua Xiong in the army. Even if the marquis didn't betray Sun Jian, Hua Xiong would still get the news later. Before this, Chen Ren had already sent someone to the village to spy on them. Whenever someone left to deliver a letter, Chen Ren would know. As expected, several groups of people left the camp to report the news. Chen Ren ordered several people to be stopped, with the exception of one person. One person was enough for the task of informing others, while the rest stayed behind. Chen Ren had other uses for him.

After everything was settled, Chen Ren and Sun Jian dragged the soldiers out of the camp. Sun Jian had been marching nonstop for the past few days, so the soldiers were not tired at all. However, after thinking about it, Chen Ren decided to lay another layer of fire oil on the campsite. Sun Jian and the other generals felt a chill run down their spines. They had to wait for Hua Xiong to fall into his trap. As for the figure that Hua Xiong was shot and killed before he entered the camp, it was only a few scarecrows. Although using a real person was more difficult, Chen Ren didn't want those ordinary soldiers to die innocently. However, this arrangement of Chen Ren's made the soldiers of Sun Jian Jun have a good impression of Chen Ren.

Originally, according to Chen Ren's plan, he had planned to use up the army to defend the Water Pass. Of course, Huaxu Xiong had wanted to leave his name, but he never thought that Hu Zhen, who was leading the archers outside the camp, would be captured. Seeing how Hu Zhen was kowtowing and begging for mercy, Chen Ren immediately thought of a plan to open the gate and this happened.

A day later, at the allied camp outside Chen Liu city, the various dukes were enthusiastically discussing military arrangements. Suddenly, he rode his horse into the camp and dismounted in front of the tent. The rider quickly ran to the dukes and knelt down, "Reporting! I must report this as an urgent matter! "

A few dukes smiled faintly at this moment, as if they'd guessed the contents of this military situation. Sun Jian had definitely lost, and might not even be able to keep his life. This was especially true for Yuan Shi who snickered coldly. A few days ago, he secretly gave the order to cut off Sun Jian's rations. Without food and fodder, even if Sun Jian was really a tiger, he would become a sick cat. How could he win the battle?

Yuan Shao, on the other hand, was one of the people who sincerely hoped that Sun Jian could win the battle.

The knight took out the military newspaper and read, "A few days ago, the enemy that was ambushed by the vanguard Sun Jian burned Huaxu and Zhao Cen to death. More than 30,000 enemies were killed, and the enemy general Hu Zhen was captured! Sun Jian's men, Hu Zhen, had faked the closing of the Water Pass, successfully taking it over. They had killed tens of thousands of the enemy, and five thousand of them had fallen, while the enemy general Li Su had escaped! Sun Jian has lost more than 100 people, and injured more than 600! "

"What!"

"Impossible!"

When they heard the military report from the Knights, all the dukes stood up and cried out in surprise. Some of them were surprised, while others were surprised. Yuan Shao and Cao Cao looked at each other with a face full of surprise and surprise. Yuan Shao shouted, "Sun Wentai is indeed worthy of being called a fierce tiger in the east of the river. I can't believe he made such a great contribution in his first battle!"

Cao Cao exclaimed: "This big man has such a good general, big man is very lucky!" "Good luck!"

However, there were a few people who were full of worry. Yuan Shi's face was so dark that it seemed as if water would drip out of it.

"Isn't the difference in casualties between both sides too great?" A sinister voice sounded out. It was Zhang Yang, the Party's head guard. His face was not much better than Yuan Shi's, "Could it be that Sun Jian is greedy for meritorious service and is lying about his military affairs?"

Everyone thought about it. That's right! He had killed thirty-seven thousand men, but only seven hundred of them were injured. Wasn't this obviously a lie?

That knight was one of Sun Jian's soldiers, he had received Chen Ren's instructions and was already prepared for an answer. He put down the military newspaper, took out a stack of brocades, and presented it to Yuan Shao, saying, "Our army's casualties and soldiers are recorded in the book, please examine them, Alliance Master! "In addition to the detailed report of our army's battle, the military's leader has recorded everything down in silk. We ask for your judgement, Chief!"

Yuan Shao hurriedly opened the brocade scroll and carefully looked through it. When he saw the interesting part, he couldn't help but clap and cry out. After reading it, he passed it to Cao Cao, who was at the next position.

"Everyone, get out of camp immediately! Come with me! We will personally celebrate for Sun Wentai! " Yuan Shao was quite pleased with himself as he shouted with a smile.

"Here!"

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"Hahahaha!" From Sun Jian's camp came a hearty laugh.

Sun Jian was very happy. First, he had won a great victory in the water trial. Not only had he broken through the water trial, but according to Chen Ren's plan, he had only reported a reduction of five thousand soldiers, and the extra five thousand soldiers had been taken in by him just like that. He'd then been thoroughly intimidated by Yuan Shao in front of the other dukes.

This wasn't the end. That night, Chen Ren secretly brought a few spies to find Sun Jian and had Sun Jian take these spies to each of their masters. In the past few days, Sun Jian had been busily trying to take advantage of those dukes, but it had made his hands sour.

However, when he returned to the military camp, he saw Chen Ren frowning and mumbling to himself. Sun Jian thought something had happened, so he walked closer to hear what Chen Ren was saying.

"Why are there no spies between Maarten and Gongsun Zan? I was hoping to get some good horses from them! How can Maarten and Gongsun Zan be so upright! "

Sun Jian immediately broke out in a cold sweat.