Chapter 238: The self-torture strategy failed? Yuan Shu changed drastically!

Lushan.

Before Yuan Shu could even eat the roast chicken, he encountered another bad thing.

Cheng Pu did not take a detour, but went straight towards the remaining troops of Yuan Shu.

When Yuan Shu saw the person coming, his hand trembled and the water bag filled with honey water fell to the ground. He thought that Jin Mao had sent someone to catch up with him and was almost scared to death.

But when he saw that the flag the other side raised was the "Sun" flag, Yuan Shu breathed a sigh of relief.

Sun Jian’s troops, then it’s okay.

But Ji Ling didn't think so. He quickly organized people and stood in front.

"Who is coming?"

From a distance, Ji Ling shouted at the top of his voice: "Tell me your name!"

No one responded.

Ji Ling's heart tightened, knowing that the visitor had ill intentions.

Not to mention more than a thousand cavalrymen, even more than a thousand infantrymen would be a deadly threat to these frightened fleeing soldiers.

The hundreds of people who followed him and looked very imposing were mostly Yuan Shu's personal soldiers.

These people have never experienced a devastating defeat, so their spirits are still high.

But Ji Ling knew that these people could not withstand the charge of a thousand cavalrymen as long as the other side was determined to charge.

However, it seemed that fate favored Yuan Shu again.

The thousand riders on the opposite side stopped, and a carriage drove out.

Ji Ling ordered everyone to stand by and not shoot.

It was not until the carriage arrived that Ji Ling saw with a strange look on his face that Cheng Pu was lying on the cushion in an indecent posture.

"Cheng Pu pays respect to General Ji. I am injured and I am sorry that I cannot perform the full ceremony."

Ji Ling clasped his fists in return and asked, "Why does General Cheng look like this?"

"Hey, don't mention it." Cheng Pu said unhappily, "My lord, Sun Yuzhou, insisted on cooperating with the governor of Yangzhou. Now, your envoy, Lord Yan, came to persuade him, but Sun Yuzhou insisted on beheading the envoy."

"I was fined 100 times for just giving a few words of advice!"

Half of these words were the rhetoric that Jin Yang told Cheng Pu, and the other half were made up by Cheng Pu on the spot.

The natural beauty of the Golden Goat is so complicated that there is no need to explain its origin.

Ji Ling was half-believing and half-doubting, and asked, "Where is Military Advisor Yan now?"

"Why are you here?"

Cheng Pu continued to make up a story: "I was just so angry that I took my troops out to relax."

"As for Lord Yan, when I was leaving, he was detained by my master, Sun Yuzhou."

Ji Ling became even more suspicious after hearing this. Who the hell was so badly injured and still brought people out for a stroll?
The most outrageous thing is that the troops he brought were such elite, who wouldn't be confused?

Cheng Pu glanced at him and started to yell, "General Ji suspects me?"

"Well, I'll leave now."

Now that morale was low, Ji Ling dared not act on his own initiative to drive away Cheng Pu, who was suspected to be a friendly army, so he said, "General Cheng, wait a moment, let me report to the lord."

Cheng Pu said impatiently: "Go quickly and come back quickly!"

"I'm here to help out of good intentions..."

Cheng Pu deliberately didn't say the rest.

Jin Yang told Cheng Pu that there were two sets of rhetoric, two versions.

Xun You was certain that even if Cheng Pu was exposed, he would be able to escape unscathed because the person in charge was Yuan Shu, not Ji Ling.

Yuan Shu was very concerned about his reputation and needed Sun Jian's support very much. Even if Cheng Pu had only a few people to support him, Yuan Shu would not kill people easily.

However, Xun You did not expect that the opportunity for battle would appear so quickly, and Yuan Shu was so weak and could not withstand a single blow.

But there are benefits.

Such as now.

Ji Ling was afraid of the more than a thousand cavalrymen, so he did not dare to ask Cheng Pu too many questions, let alone take action.

Yuan Shu's army can't stand the current trouble.

Soon, Ji Ling returned and bowed to invite him, "General Cheng, the lord wants to see you."

Cheng Pu calmed himself down, let the carriage move forward on its own, and came to Yuan Shu.

"Cheng Pu pays respect to the general. I am injured, so please forgive me for not being able to perform the full ceremony."

Yuan Shu tore his eyes away from the roasted chicken with difficulty, glanced at Cheng Pu, then turned back and asked casually, "Why did Sun Jian send you here?"

Unexpectedly, Cheng Pu let out a howling cry, which scared Yuan Shu.

"General! You have to make the decision for me!"

"Sun Jian is not a human being!"

"I just defended Lord Yan twice, but he wanted to kill me!"

Cheng Pu kept wiping his tears. Before coming, he had smeared his fingers with ginger water. When he met Yuan Shu, he secretly wiped his eyes when no one was paying attention, and tears began to flow uncontrollably.

"I was so angry that I fled with my troops!"

"They are all good brothers who have sincerely followed me over the years..."

Then, Cheng Pu imitated Jin Yang's boasting style and talked a lot about how close his relationship with these people was and how he would go through fire and water for them.

In a word, these are my die-hard fans!
Yuan Shu was already extremely hungry, and after drinking the honey water he became even hungrier, so he couldn't tell the difference.

Until Cheng Pu cried and begged: "General, I have nowhere to go, please take me in!"

Yuan Shu finally understood what Cheng Pu meant, "You want to surrender to me?"

"Okay!"

"I will appoint you as General Annan right now!"

Jin Mao happened to be the general of Annan, and Yuan Shu would not forget to send him back in disgust even if he starved to death.

Yang Hong, who was listening at the side, was full of doubts, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Cheng Pu had not expected that things would go so smoothly. After thanking him profusely, he said, "General, I will go back and tell my brothers about this great news!"

Yuan Shu only paid attention to it for a short while. In the blink of an eye, his mind was all on the roasted chicken again. Seeing that the roasted chicken was about to be cooked, he waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."

Yang Hong, who was standing by, instinctively felt that something was wrong, but since Yuan Shu had already said so, as a subject, he couldn't say anything more.

He just pulled Ji Ling over and warned him, "General Ji, beware of fraud!"

Ji Ling nodded in agreement, but when he saw Yang Hong leading away Yuan Shu's personal soldiers, he couldn't help feeling annoyed.

Without these personal soldiers, how would he defend himself?
So Ji Ling just gave up.

the other side.

Cheng Pu returned to his headquarters with excitement, and immediately summoned the heads of each department to give orders.

"Everything will follow my orders!"

"Walk 500 steps away, and then speed up 500 steps. You are all the lord's elite troops, so you must obey orders!"

This time he called Sun Jian "Lord". Cheng Pu's "common man" just now was definitely full of hatred, which shows that a hundred sticks really hurt.

Cheng Pu also gave a thorough explanation on how to regroup and pursue the enemy after breaking up their formation.

The leaders understood and went down to make arrangements.

When the cavalry began to move, Yuan Shu's troops showed no reaction.

Five hundred steps!
The cavalry sped up, but Yuan Shu's troops still did not respond.

Three hundred steps!
Yuan Shu's troops finally responded and began to riot.

One hundred steps!

Yuan Shu's troops were boiling like boiling water.

Nearly ten thousand people fled in all directions, splitting into more than a dozen groups.

Cheng Pu, who was following behind the cavalry, was dumbfounded. He never expected this would be the outcome.

There was no tit-for-tat confrontation as imagined, nor was there any verbal abuse from Ji Ling, Yuan Shu and others, only people scattering like birds and beasts.

Cheng Pu couldn't understand.

It was not until he arrived at the place where Yuan Shu had just roasted the chickens and saw that only one of the five roasted chickens was left and was almost burnt that he began to react.

"Without food and supplies, even the commander can only eat what he hunts."

"These are a bunch of defeated soldiers!" Cheng Pu regretted his decision.

If he had not been injured and was sitting on horseback, he would definitely be able to see clearly and would not have needed to use any strategy. He could have just charged and been done with.

That’s Yuan Shu!
If we could capture Yuan Shu alive and present him to the governor of Yangzhou, what a great achievement that would be!

It was a missed opportunity!
God's will!
I can only say that everything is God’s will!
At this time, the Golden Sheep jumped down from the carriage, picked up the roasted chicken on the ground with a "shashasha" sound, tore off a piece of good meat and threw it into his mouth.

"General Cheng!"

The golden goat's eyes sparkled and he said, "This roast chicken is delicious!"

"Try it, too."

After saying that, he tore off a piece of meat and stuffed it into Cheng Pu's mouth, regardless of whether Cheng Pu agreed or not.

It was indeed delicious. Cheng Pu had the honor of tasting it once at a dinner hosted by Yuan Shu for Sun Jian.

This time is not inferior to the last time at all.

Cheng Pu regretted it again.

He recalled that he had let the big fish Yuan Shu escape!

He could only pray to God that his subordinates could work harder and catch some big fish, otherwise, he would be performing this show for the blind.

...

Time goes back to before Cheng Pu launched the charge.

After being reminded by Yang Hong, Ji Ling instructed his seventy or so confidants to keep a close eye on Cheng Pu's every move.

When Cheng Pu launched the charge, Ji Ling's troops were the first to flee, which was also the origin of the first riot.

Yuan Shu fled when the second group of people caused trouble, which led to the collapse of the entire army.

Before this, Yuan Shu enjoyed the delicious food by taking a bite of roast chicken and sip of honey.

It must be said that Yuan Shu came from a prominent family, and he seemed very organized and cultured when eating.

But this cannot in the least conceal the fact that Yuan Shu is a fool.

When Cheng Pu launched the charge, Yang Hong immediately rushed over with Yuan Shu's personal soldiers, wanting to take Yuan Shu away.

Yuan Shu was not sure whether he was starving or something else, but he was unwilling to leave and kept shouting, "Cheng Pu is not a treacherous person. He just recognized me as his master and would not act like this."

"Be patient, this must be Cheng Pu showing off his military might."

The situation was urgent, Yang Hong didn't care about anything else, and ordered over Yuan Shu: "Come here!"

"Help the lord mount his horse!"

The personal soldiers were also afraid, and regardless of anyone's orders, they forcibly tied Yuan Shu onto the horse.

"damn thing!"

"A bunch of bastards!"

Yuan Shu cursed and struggled.

But this body hollowed out by alcohol and sex was no match for the fierce and ferocious personal soldiers at that time.

It was not until Yuan Shu got on his horse that he could see clearly and gave up his last glimmer of hope.

Yuan Shu, whose face was pale with fear, still asked someone to bring a roast chicken for him to eat on the road before leaving.

The bodyguards didn't care about that and just picked up a few as they passed by. As for whether they could be preserved, that depended on fate.

Fortunately, Cheng Pu's troops only had more than a thousand people, and Yuan Shu's troops had less than four hundred people, which was the smallest but best-equipped part among the dozen or so.

Cheng Pu's troops' choice must have disappointed him greatly. They chose to pick on the weak and specifically pursued the defeated soldiers who had large numbers of people and poor equipment.

Just let Yuan Shu go.

After a whole night of fleeing, Yuan Shu and his companions had no idea where they had fled to, but fortunately there were no pursuers behind them.

Counting the day before yesterday, Yuan Shu and his men hadn't slept for two days and two nights.

No matter where they were, nearly four hundred people fell to the ground and fell asleep.

The next morning.

Yuan Shu was awakened by hunger.

Only then did he realize that the cook and other servants who had been with him when he left Luyang were now nowhere to be seen.

Look around again, the mountains and forests are covered with snow.

Yuan Shu was so sad that he could not even cry. He had unknowingly run into such a deadly situation.

Of the 60,000-strong army, there are now less than 400 people left.

wrong!

After Yuan Shu counted the number of people, he found that there were less than 300 people!
However, what happened next was so embarrassing that Yuan Shu wanted to die.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, none of them are good enough!

Forget eating roasted chicken and drinking honey water, even having a sip of hot water is a blessing from God, and having a full meal is a luxury.

As for clothing, Yuan Shu didn't have to worry. He just had to put on a mink coat and occasionally get his hands and feet frozen. That was it.

But the group of people under him were in trouble. The armor on their bodies became a burden, but if they took it off, they might freeze to death at night.

Walking was even more uncomfortable. Not to mention Yuan Shu, even the personal soldiers around him who had followed him all the way from Luoyang, which one of them was not a soldier of the young master?
Now that we have learned how to survive in the wild, it is already a blessing from our ancestors.

In this way, Yuan Shu endured hunger all the way and suffered hardships he had never experienced in his life.

The number of his subordinates gradually decreased from the original 300 people, and by the fifth day, there were less than a hundred people left.

Yuan Shu also went hungry for eight meals in three days. The only meal he ate was a piece of unknown meat. When Yang Hong handed it to him, he didn't say much.

But undoubtedly, it was the most delicious meat Yuan Shu had ever eaten in his life.

As long as he is alive, he will search for the smell of meat all his life.

Day .

Yuan Shu finally walked out of the forest.

At this time, his mink coat was also tattered, not much different from that of the other bodyguards.

There was a winding river in front of him, and Yuan Shu could tell where it was at a glance.

"Surabhai!"

They had unknowingly arrived near Hulao Pass!

In other words, during these six days, Yuan Shu and others had been wandering around the Songshan area.

It must be God's will that they were able to escape death, just like they were trying to survive in the wilderness!

Simply a miracle!
The sufferings he endured during these six days caused Yuan Shu to undergo a complete transformation.

Although he is still a little immature and still does things his own way, Yuan Shu now at least knows how to think from other people's perspectives and understand their difficulties.

Know how to inspire people!
At this moment, Yuan Shu said with the only heroic spirit in his life: "Everyone! Heaven wants me to live because I want me to do something earth-shattering!"

"The Guandong Allied Forces' base is ahead!"

"The leader of the coalition is my brother Yuan Shao!"

"As long as we hold on for another day or two, and we reach Hulao Pass, we will have food, clothes, beauties, gold, silver, and status!"

When these words were spoken, not only did the personal soldiers cheer, but even Yang Hong was stunned.

Yuan Shu actually called Yuan Shao "brother" for the first time. This was truly the first time in the history of the world!
Suddenly, Yang Hong felt that this trip to Songshan was worth it!

As long as Yuan Shu is willing to put aside his arrogance, who in the world can be his opponent?
Eighth day.

When Yuan Shu finally arrived at Hulao Pass as he wished, the entire Guandong coalition was shocked.

Yuan Shao personally went out of the camp to greet him. Before he arrived, a voice was heard: "Bohai Governor Yuan Shao, I pay my respects to the rear general!"

No matter how many failures Yuan Shu experienced, the Yuan family's foundation was still there, and Yuan Shao did not want to fall out with Yuan Shu.

But when Yuan Shao saw Yuan Shu's thinner body, he was still shocked.

What’s even more terrifying is yet to come.

Yuan Shu bowed his head, clasped his fists and saluted Yuan Shao!

"Yuan Shu pays respect to the leader!"

"A defeated general dares not talk about bravery!"

Yuan Shao thought he had heard it wrong. If he hadn't practiced Taoism, he would have said, "Demon, how dare you take over my body!"

This is totally unlike Yuan Shu, they are two completely different people!

(End of this chapter)