Vol 5 Chapter 6 (2/2)
I’d already guessed it.
It’s understandable that Zhang Xiu is still refusing to surrender.
“I’ll speak with Zhang Xiu personally when I return.” I exited the tent as I finished.
(Tl: Liu Pi is supposed to be Yuan Shao’s subordinate, and then later on Liu Bei. So is Gong Du. They never betrayed Yuan Shao. If anything, this proves that having too much knowledge of the Three Kingdoms would have made it even worse.)
Yuan Shao’s troops were numerous. I only had 40,000 troops while Yuan Shao had 100,000. And today, Yuan Shao has not deployed all of them. 2 forces were headed for us, and they totalled about 2-30,000.
Another probe again? Or does she want to fight me with the same numbers as I have?
“Imperial Chancellor, the enemy general has begun to charge at us.”
“One of them is Gao Lan! The other one was formerly Han Fu’s subordinate general!”
Zhang He huh? Those 2 aren’t to be trifled with,
“Yue Jin, Li Dian!”
“Your generals are here!”
“Go and meet those 2 on the battlefield.”
The 2 acknowledged the order and galloped off on their horses, and very quickly met with the other side in combat. Yue Jin and Li Dian were still able to fight the generals on the other side on even ground in the beginning but Yue Jin was quickly being overpowered by Gao Lan.
“Ha!!” Gao Lan gave a thunderous roar which could be heard by the entire army and slashed down viciously.
“!” Yue Jin did her best to block it but just the wind alone from the attack blew away her straw hat and revealed a very difficult expression on Yue Jin’s usually calm face. The spear which she used to block the broadsword slowly inched down toward her head,
“Ya!”
“Kuh…” Yue Jin’s precarious predicament was distracting Li Dian, who was also having a hard time.
This was bad.
“Tell those 2 to withdraw immediately and return to base. Yuan Rang, Cao Hong, you both are to lead a 5,000 force each and launch a surprise attack on the enemy on opposing sides.”
“Yes!” After they acknowledged the order, 2 groups of troops left the main body from left and right and began their attack. Yue Jin and Li Dian were able to use this distraction and escape unscathed.
*Sou* *Sou* *Sou*!
“Un?!”
“They’ve loosed arrows at us! Defensive maneuvers, now!” Yuan Rang who was ahead yelled out before I could react as a flurry of black arrows rained down on her troops. Just looking from afar, one could tell that the losses would be significant.
“I didn’t think that Yuan Shao still has so much arrows left…”
Hai! I knew I shouldn’t have attacked first.
“Imperial Chancellor, let me go.” Hu Chi seemed restless and asked me for orders, “My troops are quick and we can definitely break through.”
But…
“… Sound the drums, we are retreating.”
“Eh?” Hu Chi was baffled, “But, if we retreat just like that, our losses would have been…”
“If we keep on fighting, we will suffer even greater losses,” I waved my hands as I said so and the drummers began to sound the retreat signal, “And I didn’t plan on winning this battle to begin with.”
“Eh?” Hu Chi was still as baffled as before.
“Want to have a bet with me, Hu Chi?”
“What are we betting on?”
“When we return to our encampment, we will have a lot more supply caravans.”
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