Chapter 166: Mo Dao's swan song
The fourth offensive of the army is at hand.
This time, Zhang Dabiao found a behemoth in the military formation of the army. Because he was too far away, he could only see an outline, but just an outline made Zhang Dabiao have an ominous premonition in his heart.
When the thing slowly approached, revealing its huge figure, Zhang Dabiao shouted in horror: "Withdraw, quickly remove the wooden wall below." ”
What appeared in the formation of the Li army was a large trebuchet, and Zhang Dabiao knew that Han Ming liked to fiddle with these instruments the most, so he recognized them at a glance.
Although this kind of large trebuchet was not as powerful as Han Ming's mountain-breaking cannon, its power was also not to be underestimated, and the civil wall they had built temporarily alone could not support the trebuchet twice.
As soon as the soldiers stepped off the earthen wall, the sound of the trebuchet's launch sounded. Then, a man-high boulder smashed directly into the earthen wall, knocking down the earthen wall that the soldiers had worked so hard to build.
At this time, the soldiers of the army in the distance also began to charge.
When the vanguard of the army was fifty meters away from the earthen wall, the trebuchet started again. This time, a larger boulder directly knocked down half of the earthen wall.
The charging soldier followed the two large openings smashed by the trebuchet.
Inside the earthen wall, Zhang Dabiao and others had already prepared to block the Li army at the gap.
The initial charge of the Li army was contained by Zhang Dabiao and his people, but this was only the beginning.
Although the vanguard of the Li army was briefly contained by Zhang Dabiao and others, with Min Zheng's continuous increase in troops, the outside of the earth wall has been filled with Li Jun soldiers.
Some of the soldiers saw that they could not squeeze into the gap, so they climbed over the earthen wall with a high ladder.
As the number of soldiers who climbed over the earthen wall increased, Zhang Dabiao at the gap led the brothers who were constantly suffering casualties and retreated.
For some reason, Zhang Dabiao was particularly difficult to face this group of soldiers. The group of people was almost desperate, and they frantically slammed into him on the knife edge, and several times he didn't even have time to draw the knife, and was slashed in several places.
He took advantage of the gap to tie the wound tightly, ripped off a strip of cloth and tied his right hand to the Mo knife, and then began to resist as if he were slaughtering.
What Zhang Dabiao didn't know was that this group of vanguard troops was actually a beggar camp that had participated in the attack on Longguan.
Zhou Cheng sent the begging camp to Min Zheng, mainly because he wanted to rely on the fighting style of the begging camp and was not afraid of death to withstand the pressure when he encountered trouble.
This is also the reason why Min Zheng did not use the begging camp in the first place. It's just that this time there is really no way, in order to take this gap, he has already lost 2,000 people, and he can't bear more losses.
Min Zheng only gave Qin Ba one order, that is, to take the gap at any cost.
Under this death order, the soldiers of the begging camp had only one belief in their hearts, and that was to take the gap and make meritorious service for their crimes. That's why he is so desperate and doesn't hesitate to fight for his life.
Under the attack of the soldiers of the beggar camp, the soldiers of the defending fire battalion fell one after another, and slowly, only a few dozen people remained stubbornly resisting.
Of course, the soldiers of the Agni Battalion are all experienced in a hundred battles, and the soldiers of the Sin Army of the Beggars Battalion have also paid a lot of price.
Seeing the brothers around him dying one after another, Zhang Dabiao was filled with grief and anger, and the wounds on his body continued to deteriorate, and the blood was gushing into the ground, and he could feel that his life was constantly disappearing.
Maybe it's a return to the light, at this moment, Zhang Dabiao broke out.
He slashed down with a single sword, and the Mo knife mixed with the fierce battle aura instantly tore a large area of enemy soldiers in front of him. Then, with each swing of his sword, he took away a large area of enemies.
Seeing Zhang Dabiao powerful, at this time, Qin Ba also left.
He has been waiting in the rear, after all, the soldiers of the Agni Battalion are still quite strong, and the battle of Longguan made Qin Ba understand that his life is the most important thing, so he lost the courage to look at death as home.
However, seeing that Zhang Dabiao had caused so much damage to his soldiers, he could no longer sit idly by and directly raise his knife to kill.
The two fought directly together one by one, although Zhang Dabiao had high combat skills, but after a long battle, his strength was insufficient, and his state declined seriously, but he fell behind.
And not only Qin Ba, the surrounding group of criminal soldiers recognized Zhang Dabiao as the general of the Chu army at a glance, and everyone wanted to get Zhang Dabiao's head, so they surrounded him and Qin Ba in three layers inside and three layers outside.
It's just a pity that this group of soldiers didn't know the power of the battle qi, as soon as Zhang Dabiao and Qin Ba's battle qi broke out, the soldiers of the Li army who surrounded them suddenly suffered heavy casualties.
From the moment Qin Ba fought, he knew that he had encountered a strong opponent. But he had no choice but to entangle with Zhang Dabiao, hoping to drag down Zhang Dabiao's body through non-stop attacks.
Seeing that his physical strength was getting lower and lower, Zhang Dabiao was ruthless, blocked the knife that Qin Ba slashed in, stepped forward in two steps, and clung to Qin Ba tightly despite the opening of the blade on his left shoulder.
When Zhang Dabiao posted it, Qin Ba was afraid.
He crisscrossed the north and south, killed countless people in his life, and must be the first in every battle, thinking that he was brave, but he didn't want to be timid when he saw Zhang Dabiao rushing up desperately today.
People are always like this, they have not experienced life and death, and they are naturally fearless, but those who have died once have begun to have a fear of death.
Qin Ba wanted to survive.
He pushed Zhang Dabiao away, slashed out horizontally, and regardless of the effect, he turned around and retreated to the rear.
But the battlefield is cruel, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and from the moment Qin Ba was afraid, he was already dead.
Zhang Dabiao turned over and slashed Qin Ba, who had not taken two steps back, into two.
The surrounding sin soldiers were frightened by this hand and froze. And this happened to give the soldiers of the Flame Battalion a chance, and the battlefield almost showed a one-sided slaughter.
The fierce battle lasted for almost an hour, and when Zhang Dabiao slashed the heads of the soldiers in front of him with a knife, the attacking soldiers of the beggar camp were finally annihilated.
At this time, inside the entire earthen wall, only eighteen soldiers of the Fire Battalion were barely able to support their bodies.
Rao is like this, these eighteen people are also wounded, their hands and feet are trembling, and they are shaking.
But without exception, everyone's eyes were so cold and resolute, like eighteen mountains.
Min Zheng was on his horse, and he stared at the crumbling earthen wall, and there was no sound in it.
Min Zheng knew that now he was only one last blow away from breaking through the gap. When the time comes, he will be able to gallop on the plains of Shangjing, and the entire land of Gyeonggi will be unhindered.
Thinking of this, Min Zheng smiled and drove his horse forward, ready to understand all this. As for the beggar camp, it was a dispensable force in itself, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
"Report!"
As soon as Min Zheng took two steps, there was a fast horse newspaper behind him.
The herald seemed to be in a hurry, came to Min Zheng's side, slipped off his horse directly, and said anxiously: "Report, General Qiyu, the forbidden cavalry has lost." The commander had an order and ordered the general to return to the army as soon as possible and rush to the Henghe River. ”
"What?" Min Zheng thought he had heard it wrong, shook his head and said, "Impossible, how could something happen to the forbidden cavalry." ”
"General, the marshal has an order, a large army of the Chu army appeared on the western front, and the marshal ordered the general to return to the defense and rely on the Henghe sky to resist the enemy. The herald continued.
Hearing this, Min Zheng knew that the matter was very serious, usually the herald would only convey simple instructions, and he had never given orders so clearly as now.
He looked at the broken earthen wall, and felt a little unwilling. But after weighing the pros and cons, he gritted his teeth and sighed, and began to turn the horse's head.
"Driving...... Withdraw the troops and return to the defense of the Henghe. ”
With a low shout, Min Zheng retreated from the gap with Li Jun.
There were soldiers inside the civil wall who couldn't believe their eyes when they saw the army retreating. When it was confirmed again, they couldn't help but rejoice in their hearts and began to cheer.
However, within this earthen wall, there was a standing person who did not make a sound.
Zhang Dabiao stood in the center of the battlefield like a statue, and around him, there were soldiers of the beggar camp who had been shattered by Mo's knives.
He stood on the spot, his eyes looking in the direction outside the civil wall, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he was smiling, but his heart had already stopped beating.