On July 28, 195 AD, Zhu Wei again sent troops to pursue Zhenrong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Pang Yan and Tai Shici each led 6,000 soldiers and horses, so they sent troops from Yichun County and went to the direction of Luling County in two ways.

And Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan led the 8,000 Shanyue soldiers brought back by Ling Cao and the 5,000 young and strong people of Yuzhangcheng, plus the four or five thousand young men from Ai County and Yichun County, and slowly followed behind, and there was also a bit of bluffing.

Zhu Wei's side had already prepared, and the speed of using troops was extremely fast, and Pang Yan and Tai Shici went straight to the two large camps set up by Zhenrong in the east and west outside Luling City.

These two large camps stored part of the grain, grass and materials of Zhenrong, and also placed the 50,000 or 60,000 young people who were brought by Zhenrong in Luling County, which can be regarded as a defense of Luling County, where Zhenrong's main camp is located.

Of course, the young and strong families in these two camps were all placed in Luling County by Zhenrong, and it was Zhenrong who controlled these young and strong hostages.

Don't look at the young and strong people in these two camps combined, there are fifty or sixty thousand people, but they have no combat effectiveness at all, Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan have already found out the situation here.

Zhu Wei and Wang Yuyan asked Pang Yan and Tai Shici to lead troops separately and directly attack these two camps like refugee camps, but they didn't care about the contrast between the numbers of the two sides, and the other side was not even as good as the rabble.

As a result, Pang Yan and Tai Shici led their troops and killed these two camps almost at the same time.

And the young men in these two camps, although they were all issued with swords, shields, and bows and arrows, these young men had no intention of fighting at all, and of course they would not care about the defense of the camp.

Even if someone is assigned to be a sentry guard, guard the gate or something, but these people are just gangsters.

So suddenly found that Pang Yan and Tai Shici's soldiers and horses were killed, and the young men in the camp suddenly became chaotic, but they had no intention of resisting at all, and soon Pang Yan and Tai Shici's soldiers and horses overturned the camp wall and rushed in.

The young men in this didn't resist much, and they almost scattered and fled.

Many people ran out directly from the gate of the camp and fled in the direction of Luling City, but many people simply abandoned their weapons and surrendered in front of the soldiers led by Pang Yan and Tai Shici, and begged Pang Yan and Tai Shici to continue to go to Luling City to rescue their families.

In this way, in less than an hour, the two camps were captured, and then Pang Yan and Tai Shici took the captured young men and transported the supplies of the camps and retreated.

And during this period, Zhen Rong did not react in Luling City, or he began to be a little panicked, and he didn't even plan to resist with the help of Luling City.

Zhen Rong immediately ordered the scouts to quickly find out the movements of Zhu Wei's army, because he was afraid that Zhu Wei had some conspiracy waiting for him.

And Pang Yan and Tai Shici did not receive any counterattack from Zhenrong, and smoothly transported the captured or rescued Luling Qingzhuang, plus the materials in the two large camps, to Luling City about twenty miles away, and began to build a camp here, waiting for Zhu Wei's army to come.

After Zhenrong found out about this situation, he sent people to closely monitor the camp, and then prepared to flee in Luling City.

In fact, Zhen Rong also knew that he had coerced so many people, and the combat effectiveness of his army did not rise but fell, so he just tried to form a separate army of more than 10,000 main Buddhist soldiers and maintain an army with a certain combat effectiveness in his hands, while the other Dharma Protector People's Army was sent by him to control those coerced people.

Of course, Zhenrong also stepped up the promotion of Buddhist beliefs among these people and brainwashed these people, but this belief cannot be instilled in a day.

In fact, the Buddhist belief in Zhenrong's flickering has collapsed somewhat, and even the more than 10,000 main Buddhist soldiers in his hands have doubts about the Buddhist faith that Zhenrong preaches.

Therefore, the combat effectiveness of these Buddhist soldiers is actually already weakening.

The reason why these Buddhist soldiers are strong in combat is mainly because after they have been brainwashed by madness, they will fight desperately regardless of life and death, so that even if they are poorly armed and equipped, they can defeat the well-armed enemy army.

But now, although these Buddhist soldiers were fooled by Zhu Rong again, they still had some distracting thoughts in their hearts, especially the fear of Zhu Wei's army from the bottom of their hearts.

With such a weak momentum, they naturally can't show the determination and courage to do their best.

When they face other ordinary people, they may still have a certain amount of combat effectiveness, but when they face Zhu Wei's army, they don't know how much actual combat effectiveness they can play.

In fact, this is like the elite Yellow Turban wrestlers in the Yellow Turban Army, in the early days of the Yellow Turban Uprising, they became the main force of the Yellow Turban Army to conquer and be invincible, but later with Zhang Jiao's illness and death, the Yellow Turban Army lost its backbone and lost its usual combat effectiveness.

So in the later stage, even if he was a Yellow Turban Warrior, he became an ordinary thief who was slashed and killed by the officials and soldiers at will, just like ordinary Yellow Turban thieves.

Zhen Rong knew this very well, so he didn't dare to fight against Zhu Wei, if he was defeated a few more times, then he really couldn't continue to fool his men.

Therefore, after Zhenrong investigated the movements of the army on Zhu Wei's side, Zhenrong quickly began to transfer, preparing to retreat to Ganxian and Yandu counties.

In fact, Zhenrong had already sent troops to attack Gan County and Yandu County before.

It's just that these Gan County, Yandu County and other areas located in the southernmost part of Yuzhang County are all sparsely populated hilly landforms, except for two dilapidated small county towns, there are no villages or anything like that around, and there are even no local scholars and powerful families.

It can be said that this is the place where the poor countryside and the poor mountains and bad waters come out of the people, and there are more mountain people, wild households, thieves and robbers hidden in the mountains.

Zhen Rong didn't get any benefits in these two counties at all, and when his army killed these counties, the county commander in the county directly abandoned the official and fled.

So in the past, Zhen Rong didn't bother to send troops to this side to arrest people in the mountains, but now he has to retreat here.

Now Zhenrong hopes to use the barren mountains and mountains here to stop Zhu Wei's pursuers, so that he can have a chance to take a breath, and then he can only retreat to Jiaozhou.

From now on, if you retreat from Luling County to Guiyang County in Jingzhou, you will actually have to cross the mountain area composed of the Luoxiao Mountains, although there are also official roads opened up in the mountains, but taking the official roads also shows that it is easy for Zhu Wei to chase and kill Zhenrong here.

If Zhenrong doesn't take the official road, then how can he go to Guiyang County over the mountains and mountains with so many chaotic coercion people.

Therefore, after the news came back from the scout, Zhenrong felt that it was better for him to go to Jiaozhou, although Ganxian County and Yandu County are also hilly environments, but these hills and mountains are not high, and the road can be walked, at least let Zhenrong go to Jiaozhou with more than 100,000 people.

At the same time, Zhen Rong can also take advantage of the hilly terrain here to create layers of defense against the pursuing Zhu Wei army, so as to ensure that his main force can retreat safely......