Chapter 169 - Divine Fire Array
Bocai's side, although he knew that there were 50,000 reinforcements in the conquest army, he didn't know the arrival of Cao Cao and others, and he didn't know about figures like Guo Jia. Hundreds of thousands of troops, the four Jindan masters, Bo Cai proudly thought that this lineup to destroy the conquest army was just around the corner, just waiting for a few more days to kill the morale of the conquest army, then launched the biggest onslaught, bound to break through the conquest army's protective array, the conquest army was completely wiped out, in order to repay the conquest army for blocking the Yellow Turban Army for nearly a year.
On this day, the weather was very good, Bo Cai was talking and drinking with a few junior disciples in the Yellow Turban camp, and suddenly heard that his corporal said that the protective array of the conquest army had collapsed, Bo Cai was slightly stunned, and then laughed and said: "Hahaha! The officers and soldiers are really in chaos, and they have been destroying morale for nearly a year, and it seems that they finally can't hold on!"
Guan Hai said excitedly to Bo Cai: "Second brother, then let's enter the base camp of the official army now and destroy them all!"
"Don't worry, be careful, let's wait and see. Bocai calmed down and said.
Cheng Yuanzhi said: "Second brother, you are too careful, no matter what tricks they play, we have hundreds of thousands of troops, are you still afraid of them?"
"Yes, second brother, this is a rare opportunity, it's too late to be late!" Deng Mao also said.
Hearing what several younger brothers said, Bo Cai also felt that he was too cautious, so he laughed and said: "Hahaha! Okay, since several younger brothers have said so, then send an order to the whole army and attack the official camp!"
On the battlefield.
The protective array collapsed, and the expeditionary army was in chaos, like a frightened bird, Lu Zhi and the generals hurriedly suppressed it to prevent the army from chaotic formation. And at this moment, there was a sudden deafening shouting of killing from all directions, and it turned out that the Yellow Turban Army had begun to launch a fierce attack.
Seeing that he couldn't hold it, Lu Zhi hurriedly ordered the generals: "Order the army to break through, break through!"
On one side was the Yellow Turban Army, whose morale was greatly increased, and on the other hand, there was a conquest army whose morale had fallen to a low point.
On the hillside in the distance, Guo Jia and Cao Cao looked at the battlefield from afar.
"Fengxiao, what do you think?" Cao Cao asked Guo Jiadao.
Guo Jia smiled slightly and said: "As I heard, no matter how well-equipped the officers and soldiers are, they are not the opponents of the Yellow Turbans, not that the officers and soldiers are not good, and they can't win more with less, but these Yellow Turban soldiers are all not afraid of death and dare to give their lives to the end, this is the concrete embodiment of the way of faith, from this point of view, the great sage and good teacher are really a master who gathers people's hearts!"
"As the saying goes, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, and since ancient times, whoever controls the immortals in the world has the capital to dominate the world!" Cao Cao said.
"The Yellow Turban forces do not represent the immortals of the world, but the immortals outside the city, at present, the Yellow Turban forces seem to be in the limelight, but with the continuous intensification of the war, when it really touches the interests of those families, it is not far from defeat. Guo Jia said.
"Fengxiao, do you mean that the immortals will be safe after all?" Cao Cao asked.
Guo Jia shook his head and said: "Although there is nothing to do for the time being, it is not far from extinction, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is just a contradiction between the Xianhan Mansion and the immortals outside the city, and the real threat to the Xianhan is the lord of those states!" Their power is too great, they have the power of soldiers, and they are strong enough to resist the imperial court, but don't think that they are really beaten by the Yellow Turban forces one by one and have no power to fight back, and can only rely on the imperial court's conquest army, in fact, they are waiting for this opportunity, so that the Yellow Turban Army can consume the strength of the imperial court and continuously expand its forces in the name of resisting the Yellow Turbans. ”
Cao Cao sighed: "It's really a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, this is the calamity of the immortals, the calamity of the cultivators in the world!"
"But, this is also an opportunity for us, isn't it?" Guo Jia said with a smile at Cao Cao.
The two smiled at each other and continued to watch the dynamics of the battlefield.
Seeing that the expeditionary army wanted to break out, Bo Cai hurriedly ordered the army to tighten the encirclement, and then he and Guan Hai and others personally led the team to chase and kill.
Seeing Bocai coming, Liu Bei and the others also hurriedly took their swords to the sky to block Bocai and others, so as to avoid the soldiers from being attacked by Bocai and suffering losses.
So Guan Yu faced Bo Cai, Tai Shici faced Guan Hai, Zhang Fei faced Cheng Yuanzhi, Liu Bei faced Deng Mao, and the four generals fought fiercely in the air.
Just to lure the enemy, Liu Bei and others did not want to fight to the death, so they fought and left.
Seeing that Liu Bei and the others had no fighting spirit, Bo Cai was very happy, expecting that they were defeated like a mountain, and naturally they couldn't exert much strength, so Bo Cai showed his posture and beat Guan Yu so much that he could only keep parrying, and had no power to fight back.
Just when everyone was fighting, Lu Zhi hurriedly ordered the army to break through quickly, and with the help of Cao Cao's four brothers, Cao Clan and Xiahou Clan, they quickly opened a hole, and the conquest army fled along this opening, losing their armor along the way.
Seeing that the conquest army had almost retreated, Liu Bei and the others no longer entangled with Bo Cai and others, made a false move, and returned to the county town of Changshe, but Bo Cai and others couldn't catch up.
The Yellow Turban Army pursued closely, and the conquest army fled into the county seat of Changshe, and Bocai ordered the army to attack the county seat of Changshe, but the conquest army held the county town and could not be broken for a while.
After attacking for a while, he still couldn't break through, Bo Cai thought: Although he couldn't completely disappear the official army, he still gained control of the battlefield of Changshe, which was equivalent to a victory, and now the soldiers were also very tired, so it was better to withdraw and retire first, and then break through the county town of Changshe in one fell swoop after recuperating in the coming day.
The battlefield of Changshe was not far from the county seat of Changshe, so Bocai took the original base camp of the expeditionary army as his own and ordered the army to camp here.
The Changshe battlefield is an ancient battlefield, the location is dangerous, it is the belt connecting Sizhou and Yuzhou, Bocai occupies the Changshe battlefield, and then breaks through the county town of Changshe, it can completely open the eastern defense line of the Sizhou border, and from then on, the Yellow Turban army can attack Sizhou where the imperial capital of Xianhan is located unimpeded.
The Yellow Turban army was stationed in the original base camp of the expeditionary army, and Bo Cai was overjoyed, and ordered a large feast to reward the whole army, and at the same time ordered people to monitor the movements of the expeditionary army in the county town of Changshe, so as not to prevent them from coming and sneaking attack.
At night, the Yellow Turban soldiers were all asleep.
In the middle of the night, there was a sudden chaos in the Yellow Turban camp, Bo Cai went out of the camp in a daze to investigate, and some soldiers said that the fire broke out, Bo Cai was shocked, and hurriedly ordered someone to investigate the truth, but was told that all sides were surrounded by flames.
"Good thief, you dare to burn us with fire! Hmph, but how can my hundreds of thousands of troops be afraid of a fire attack?" Bo Cai was furious, and hurriedly ordered: "Order the whole army to organize all the monks of the water spell to put out the fire!"
The chaotic sound also alarmed Guan Hai, Deng Mao and Cheng Yuanzhi, and Cheng Yuanzhi asked Bo Cai: "Second brother, what happened, is it that the official army is coming to sneak attack?"
Bo Cai smiled disdainfully: "It's the enemy who wants to burn us with fire!"
When everyone heard this, they all laughed, and Guan Hai laughed and said: "Haha! No matter what kind of fire attack he has, my army can extinguish this fire with a mouthful of spit!"
All the generals were sent to stop the fire, and half an hour passed, but the fire continued unabated.
"What's going on, why is the fire getting bigger and bigger!" Deng Mao said as he looked at the raging flames burning in the camp not far away.
"No, this flame is strange, it was inexplicably ignited from the ground! Damn, there is a flame formation underground, and the officers and soldiers actually arranged the formation!" Bo Cai came to his senses and said.
"Impossible! The entire battalion formation has been arranged, such a big formation, I'm afraid only Yuanying can be arranged, could it be that the son is really the one who laid it out, isn't he afraid of Heavenly Dao punishment if he makes a move like this?" Deng Mao said in horror.
"Second brother, what should I do?" asked Cheng Yuanzhi.
"Break through, break through!" Bo Cai immediately decided.
So Bo Cai hurriedly ordered the army to launch an offensive in one place, and ordered the soldiers to use the true yuan and true qi to disperse the flames, although this would sacrifice many people, but in order to let the army break through, Bo Cai did not hesitate.
In this way, the people on the periphery used their bodies to protect the people in the inner circle, and everyone tried to open up a path out, but the clinker, the fierceness of the fire exceeded their expectations, and many soldiers in the Qi refining period could not hold out at all, and when the true qi was exhausted, they were already burned alive by the flames. The flames were raging, not only blocking the way of everyone, but also giving birth from under the feet of everyone, and if you were not careful, the flames under your feet ignited, and a person was devoured alive.
As a result, this time when he broke through, he lost tens of thousands of soldiers, and even so, he still failed to break through.
There are Jindan generals who can fly with a sword, fly into the sky, and try to break out from the air, but unexpectedly there is also a formation in the air, not only can not get out, but there is also a great high pressure and high temperature in the air, but this person has not been able to fall, he was roasted in mid-air.
Seeing that many soldiers were consumed by the flames, Bo Cai was anxious at the moment.
"Second brother, what should I do! If we continue like this, let alone hundreds of thousands of troops, we will be burned to death!" Cheng Yuanzhi said anxiously to Bo Cai.
Bocai said: "There is only one way to do it now, and that is to ask Master to save us!"
"But Master is far away in Jizhou, how can we ask Master for help?" Deng Mao asked.
"Do you remember the spirit talisman that Master gave us? I think it's time to use it!" Bo Cai said.
"That's right, that life-saving talisman, I forgot about it!" Guan Hai said happily.
"Then let's use it together, so that Master knows that we are threatened together, and he will definitely come over as soon as possible!" Cheng Yuanzhi said.
Everyone nodded, and then they released the spirit runes together, and they saw the four spirit runes turn into starlight and fly out of the camp, passing through the large array at a fast speed without blinking, and flying into the distance through all obstacles.
"Now, we just have to wait, so we must hold on and gather the army together to fend off the fire. Bocai said helplessly.
Watching the soldiers on the periphery constantly being devoured by the flames, Bo Cai was heartbroken, they were all comrades on the same road, and they couldn't bear to see their peers become new ghosts, how could they not be sad and angry.
The fire continued to burn for several hours, surrounding from all directions, the Yellow Turban Army hugged tightly together, and at the same time released the True Yuan to resist, until the True Yuan was exhausted, the peripheral ones were burned to death, and the inner circle became the periphery, so that the layers were reduced, and the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban Army were already withered and most of them were withered.
The Yellow Turban soldiers are also human beings, even if they are no longer afraid of death, they are also miserable at this time, and in this world of fire like a hell, everyone began to call for the great sage and good teacher.
"Please save us, O great sage and good teacher who is in distress and save the suffering!" a Yellow Turban soldier shouted heartbreakingly, enduring the devouring of the fire.
At this moment, a light suddenly came from a distance in the southeast, and a blow hit the Divine Fire Great Array, causing the Great Array to crack open.
"What's going on?" said Cao Cao, who was watching from the hillside in the distance, in surprise.
"Someone is thousands of miles away and pierces the large array I arranged with a palm force, this is Yuanying Zhenjun!" Guo Jia shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity, if you wait another hour or two, alas, it seems that you can't completely eliminate them." ”
"It's Master, it's Master! Good opportunity, the whole army obeys the order, follow me to fight out of the encirclement, fight out of the encirclement!" Bo Cai shouted.
It was a certain death, but suddenly there was a way to live, the Yellow Turban Army worked together and struggled to break out of the encirclement of the fire array along the opening in the southeast, and Tai Shici, who guarded the southeast as the eye of the formation, could not withstand the impact of everyone, and was broken through the defense line by everyone.
In order to avoid the pursuit of the conquest army, most of the people fled south, and some people continued to march south, arriving in Qingxu and other places.