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But until Hu Zhen and her West Cold Army arrived at the front of the mountain, Sun Jian and his soldiers were completely unmoved. They only saw Sun Jian's camp being built consecutively for over ten miles, all of it built on the mountain. On the mountain, flags were flying about, swords and spears were flying about, soldiers were standing solemnly, cold Arrows s were pointing straight at the West Cold Army at the bottom of the mountain.

Hu Zhen understood, Sun Jian wanted to rely on the terrain to lure him over. He could not help but feel infuriated as he pointed at the soldiers of Jing Prefecture on the mountain and cursed. However, there wasn't the slightest movement from the mountain, as long as they went up, they would greet them with Arrows s. Hu Zhen was helpless, he could only return and command the three armies to attack the mountain.

Immediately after, the war drums rang loudly, and the West Cold Army under Hu Zhen's command roared and started to attack the mountain. There were not many people on the mountain slope. Although countless arrows and rocks had fallen from the mountain, and a lot of people from Hu Zhen's Ministry of Reporting were hit by the arrows and fell to the ground, the archery rain did not stop Hu Zhen from moving forward.

Hu Zhen ordered the soldiers of the West Cold Army to place their shields on top of their heads and continue advancing quickly. At the same time, he also ordered the cavalry soldiers to release arrows at the foot of the mountain in order to suppress the archer. After a short while, Hu Zhen had rushed to the place where Sun Jian and his men were gathered, and used the archery rain to build a ladder.

The West Cold Army's Assault Warrior gritted her teeth as she used her sharp blade to quickly climb up the ladder, but she did not expect that Sun Jian's army was already prepared, at this time, the Walls suddenly dropped countless of huge boulders, causing a series of soul-shaking loud sounds. Most of the soldiers who were climbing up the ladder were also smashed into pieces. Even though a small number of West Cold Army soldiers managed to avoid the interception and climbed onto the Walls, with the advantage of the opponent's forces, they were all quickly killed.

A warrior from West Cold Army climbed onto the Walls with her outstanding skills. On the Walls, the warrior waved her big blade and crazily slashed left and right, killing more than ten Jing Zhou Army soldiers in a short amount of time. However, facing the counterattack from countless Jingzhou Army soldiers, the warrior was quickly chopped into several pieces.

This was the advantage of building a stronghold on Mount Yi. It was as sturdy as a city wall. Even if the attacking army was much higher than the defending army, only a small number of soldiers were able to board the Walls at the same time. However, the city guards had absolute superiority in military strength, and the soldiers who attacked the Walls could only face the fate of being strangled.

The battle lasted from morning until the sun set. Hu Zhen attacked four times, but all of them failed as he threw away a few hundred lives for nothing. Even after paying the price of nearly three thousand casualties, Walls still did not budge an inch.

Hu Zhen had a temper of an ox. The harder it was, the more he wanted to attack. Especially at this time, when Hu Zhen was listening to his orders, he had Xu Rong following behind him. Hu Zhen believed that if he failed to take Sun Jian down, and he lost face for Xiliang General, he would definitely be ridiculed by Xu Rong in the future.

In the next few days, Hu Zhen fought nonstop, not caring about the life and death of the West Cold Army at all. However, Sun Jian decided to defend against them using only the Arrows and stone. He did not give Hu Zhen any chance to retaliate.

In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed. Sun Jian and Hu Zhen were deadlocked at the side of the Thou River and neither could do anything to the other. Although Hu Zhen attacked desperately, he did not take a step forward. Sun Jian hid on top of the mountain and stood on top of the Walls to watch the snow on the Thou River.

Although the snow had stopped falling, the snow on the ground was still very thick. The northern wind whistled as it blew past the Thou River, causing the snow on the ice to float up. It formed a cluster of snow in the air, spinning non-stop above the Thou River, causing the West Cold Army to be dazzled.

"Kill …" West Cold Army roared, and rushed forward again. Sun Jian could not remember how many times the West Cold Army had attacked him. He only frowned slightly, and looked past the attacking soldiers and saw Hu Zhen in the distance.

Connecting the attack with half a month's worth of attack and not obtaining any form of attack by, caused Hu Zhen to become more and more impatient, and he flew into a rage every now and then. Today, he was even more manic. He only left ten thousand soldiers to guard the battle formation and threw all his soldiers onto the battle wall with Sun Jian.

Sun Jian's mouth revealed a faint sneer, a person's bold plan suddenly formed in his mind. He immediately ordered the herald to find his subordinates and coldly ordered: "Cheng Pu, Huang Gai, the two of you lead ten thousand of your men to guard the Walls.

"Attack?" All the officers were shocked as they looked at Sun Jian in shock. In the past few days, Sun Jian had kept on ordering everyone to defend according to the stronghold, no one was allowed to go out to meet the enemy, and even ordered them to die, if anyone came out to meet the enemy, they would behead that person, but why would he suddenly come out to meet the enemy today?

"Hehe …" Look, Hu Zhen hasn't been able to attack for a long time, he has already lost his sense of direction. Today, he actually sent a large portion of his forces into the attack, leaving behind only ten thousand people to defend the array. This is our chance to defeat the enemy, follow me to the back of Hu Zhen's army and attack them, we will defeat the West Cold Army in one go. "

Sun Jian swept a glance across the generals and said confidently. Actually, he had discovered Hu Zhen's negligence from the first day that Hu Zhen had attacked him, but he did not know if it was intentional on Hu Zhen's part. After so many days had passed, he concluded that Hu Zhen had indeed been careless.

Just as Hu Zhen was about to attack, Sun Jian led his army and retreated out of the stronghold. With the cover of the hills, they reached the lower reaches of Thou River. They were prepared to cross the Thou River and attack Hu Zhen's army from the back.

But at this time, Hu Zhen was still in the dark, shouting and commanding the West Cold Army to attack the Jingzhou Army. He simply did not expect that Sun Jian's main force had already left the battlefield and was attacking from behind, and the Profound Sky Sect was getting closer and closer to him.

It was unknown if it was because Hu Zhen was too lucky, or was it because Sun Jian was too unlucky, but just as Sun Jian thought that he had a plan and was leading the team in a hurry, he never would have thought that he would encounter Xu Rong's army that had come to reinforce Hu Zhen.

In fact, Xu Rong had long known that Hu Zhen's attack was blocked, but since Hu Zhen was unwilling to admit defeat, he could not refuse to ask for help from Xu Rong. Furthermore, Xu Rong did not want to reinforce Hu Zhen, but because of Dong Zhuo's orders, he had no choice but to send troops to save Hu Zhen.

In this world, there was no coincidence that Xu Rong's reinforcements met with Sun Jian's sneak attack. The two armies faced each other, and before the main generals of both sides could react, Generals at the front led his soldiers to kill each other.

Many later generations of historical and military experts, when discussing the war at the Thou River, all said that Xu Rong had predicted that Sun Jian would take advantage of Hu Zhen's negligence and sneak attack him, hence they brought their troops to intercept him. As for the person in question, Xu Rong, he kept his silence. Whether it was intentional or not, caused the Thou River's battle to become a historical mystery.

On the other hand, the West Garden Army and the Northern Army soldiers under Xu Rong were all officials of the Darky Court. It could be said that they had been through the battle formation for a long time, and they immediately reacted to the situation and took advantage of the situation to chase after the Jingzhou Army, killing the unprepared Sun Jian army and forcing them to flee.

The Jingzhou army were all County soldier s, they did not have any plans to escape, so the pitiful Sun Jian army of tens of thousands of soldiers, when they were defeated, the ones following closely behind Sun Jian were no more than a dozen trusted soldiers. Amongst the troops, Sun Jian led a few dozen trusted riders and fled towards the south like headless flies.

Not long after, many of the soldiers under Sun Jian had surrendered to Xu Rong's army. He did not know if they hated Sun Jian or not, but before Xu Rong could even interrogate them, a soldier revealed Sun Jian's identity, "The one with the red scarf on his head is General Sun Jian."

When Xu Rong heard the report, he was overjoyed. He pointed the horsewhip in his hand and immediately ordered the cavalry soldiers under him: "The one with the red scarf on his head is Sun Jian, all warriors follow me and chase after Sun Jian, kill Sun Jian and win a hundred thousand gold coins. Those who capture Sun Jian will receive a promotion!"

The near ten thousand cavalrymen in Xu Rong's army immediately shouted to each other, and over a thousand cavalrymen split out from the battlefield and rushed towards Sun Jian. The one leading the group was the commander under Xu Rong, Li Gu. Hearing that Sun Jian had been captured, the blood in his body started to boil.

The current Sun Jian was not much better off than the soldiers under his command. He had even forgotten his responsibilities as the main general as he ran away on his own and threw the several tens of thousands of Jing Prefecture soldiers to Xu Rong's army.

Just as Sun Jian was running for his life, he suddenly heard the shouts from the troops behind him. He immediately took off the red cloth on his head and threw it to the trusted general Zu Mao who was beside him: "You lead three to five cavalry, hurry and lead the pursuers away."

Zu Mao, who was following closely behind Sun Jian, raised his hand to catch the red scarf that Sun Jian threw to him. He held the red scarf in his hand and hesitated for a moment. Sun Jian's kindness quickly flashed through his mind, he gritted his teeth and put it on, then turned and ran to the east.

Li Gu, who was chasing, saw the red scarfed man escaping towards the east, and thought that Sun Jian was going to escape towards the Ying Chuan. He could not help but be enraged, and waved his spear at the riders under him, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, follow me, if you do not catch the red turbaned man today, no one can live."

Before long, Li Gu and his underlings had surrounded Zu Mao and the other four riders. Seeing that Sun Jian was not able to escape, Li Gu could not help but burst out laughing, "Hahahaha …. They always said that Sun Jian was a fierce tiger in the east of the river, but never would they have thought that a fierce tiger would also fall into my hands! "

"Hahahaha …" "With just you traitorous thieves, you want to capture my general?" Zu Mao laughed out loud, the long knife in his hand pointed, and shouted sternly: "I am the General's great general Zu Mao, the traitor reported his name, and quickly send himself to his death!"

"Damn it!" As an ordinary general of the West Garden Army, Li Gu had never seen Sun Jian before. Only now did he realize that he had been tricked, and couldn't help but feel extremely furious. He was not in the mood to fight Zu Mao one on one. Pointing his spear, he bellowed: "Shoot that traitor to death!"

"Puff puff puff …"

These Western Gardens Soldiers, they do not have the spirit of warriors, they would not fight with you over some martial arts. They all raised their bows, and started shooting at Zu Mao and the rest. The pitiful Zu Mao, who was loyal enough to save his master, was shot like a hedgehog by the West Garden Army warriors.

"Hahahaha …" In front of my mighty West Cold Army, she is nothing more than a bunch of trash. Even the one known as the Jiang Dong Tiger, Sun Jian, is just mediocre. "These scholars and marquis are just Confucian scholars who only know how to talk about military matters. How can they be a match for my Xiliang General?!"

Holding the victory newspaper that Xu Rong and Hu Zhen had sent over, Dong Zhuo excitedly laughed out loud. Ever since Li Ru's defeat, the West Cold Army was shrouded in the shadow of failure. Dong Zhuo was even prepared to give up and return to the Chang'an.