Episode 209: Battle of the Storm

White Horse Righteous Cong, White Horse Righteous Cong, the most elite cavalry in Youzhou dispatched, Zhao Yun took the lead, 10,000 white horses converged into a white torrent, like an angry dragon out of the gate, after paying thousands of casualties, roaring through the rain of arrows in the sky, straight to the Taiping Army arrow array.

"Raise your shield!" Seeing Bai Ma Yicong breaking through the rain of arrows, Xu Sheng couldn't help but tighten his eyes, but at this moment, he heard Jiang Qin shout, and then, the 20,000 infantry troops in the rear pressed forward, the front 10,000 people, all holding huge shields, and the first 10,000 people behind were all holding spears. If you look closely, you can see that the spears of these spearmen are somewhat different, and the length is obviously much longer than that of ordinary spears.

With Jiang Qin's order, the shield soldier lined up the huge shield in his hand, resisted it with a short stick, and tilted his body to reinforce, 10,000 people, building a solid defense line, and the spearman behind passed the spear through the gap between the two shield soldiers, pointing straight ahead, and the end of the spear was deeply against the ground.

"Resist, hold on!" Listening to the sound of horses' hooves becoming more and more loud, like thunder roaring, shaking the mountains and rivers, Jiang Qin has always been brave, at this moment, he couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart, and before he could breathe out, he suddenly felt a huge force coming from the shield in front of him, which numbled his entire right arm.

Shouting, roaring, and bursting out with a powerful force beyond the limit, Jiang Qin's blood veins swelled, and the whole person seemed to have become a little bigger.

There is no strategy in the art of war, nor any conspiracy, this is the most direct, hard-to-go solid confrontation, the strongest collision of forces.

"Boom!" Bai Ma Yicong hit the Taiping army's defense line like a flood hitting a dike, accompanied by an earth-shattering bang, shaking the huge battlefield, the first confrontation between the two sides. It's officially opened.

The war horses neighed, the soldiers screamed, on the huge battlefield, for a time people turned on their horses, under the strong collision of the white horse, the Taiping army had thousands of shield soldiers were killed alive on the spot. At the same time, the White Horse Yicong also suffered even greater losses, and a large number of cavalry crashed into the sharp edge of the spearmen, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

In the rear, 30,000 archers took turns to attack, and at the moment of rapid formation, tens of thousands of feather arrows came out of the string, turning into a boundless rain of arrows, overwhelming the sky. Shrouded down.

"What? This...... How is this possible?! On the side of the Jizhou coalition army, many generals couldn't help but be shocked when they saw this, they never thought that the Taiping army would study such a battle formation, which was completely the nemesis of the cavalry, so that their cavalry suffered such huge losses between the charging formations.

"Rush. Come on! Zhao Yun rode alone like a dragon and rushed forward angrily. However, what was oncoming was an overwhelming rain of terrifying arrows, and thousands of white horses were able to rush to the front of less than a thousand, scattered into the Taiping army's array, and immediately fell into the siege.

In front of the military formation, the Taiping Army and the front army of the Jizhou Allied Army have been strangled together. The battlefield of hundreds of thousands of people, in the blood light, swept up the wind and clouds.

On the side, Tai Shi Ci led 30,000 cavalry and 100,000 troops behind. rushed straight into the left flank of the Jizhou coalition army, where the princes of Kong Rong, Yuan Yi and others were located, completely inferior to the unity of the army under Yuan Shao, although they were all elite, but there was no tacit understanding at all in cooperation, and in the face of the impact of the Taiping army, there was a rout immediately.

"Huh-" let out a long breath, seeing the battle between the armies, the victory and defeat were clear, Xi Zhi couldn't help but feel a light in his heart, until this time, he felt a little wet in his palms, and a little cold on his back, he was actually shocked into a cold sweat.

Beside him, Guo Jia nodded, took a sip of wine, and chuckled: "In this battle, the defeat of the Jizhou coalition army has been achieved, if the three generals Xu Chu, Chen Zhi, and Zhou Tai can burn the enemy's grain and grass, then the Jizhou coalition army will fall into a certain defeat, and there will be no problem for our army to take Jizhou." ”

"Kill!" The military order was clear, Xiao Lan raised the long black iron stick in his hand, and with an order, all the armies marched together, covering the world and swept out.

Defeated, defeated! Looking at the soldiers of the Taiping Army who were surging like a tide, Tian Feng and the others couldn't help but change their faces greatly, before the decisive battle, they had deduced the battle situation as much as possible, but they didn't expect that Lu Bu was defeated first, and the cavalry was defeated, and what followed was an unimaginable defeat.

By his side, Yuan Shao didn't know when he had fallen off his horse, he got up, looked ahead in despair, cried again, and laughed: "Hahaha, defeated, defeated, I didn't expect that after my Yuan Benchu was the fourth and third duke, I would be defeated in the hands of a clay-legged man?!" ”

"Lord!" Compared with Tian Feng and Yuan Shao, Fu Zhu was the first to recover from the blow, and hurriedly dismounted to support Yuan Shao, and kept persuading him: "The lord can't be like this, our army is just a small defeat now, don't lose courage because of this!" ”

"A small defeat?" Although he knew that he was comforting himself, Yuan Shao still couldn't help but pour out all the anger in his heart on him: "More than 300,000 troops are now ruined, let alone defeat the Taiping Army to recover Jizhou and help the world, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even hold the remaining territory, you actually say that this is a small defeat?!" ”

"Lord ......" bowed his head in frustration, silently bearing Yuan Shao's anger, wanting to say something more, but after all, he still didn't say anything.

"Today, the Taiping thieves have occupied Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou and Sizhou, and even Jizhou has been occupied and defeated. Waving his sleeves fiercely to shake off the frustrated support, Yuan Shao looked up to the sky and shouted, "Damn, why is God bullying me so much?!" ”

I thought that at the beginning, when he learned that Han Fu was defeated in the Tiger Prison, he accepted all of Han Fu's forces in Jizhou and became the real controller of Jizhou, thinking that he could defeat the Taiping thieves with the strength of Jizhou and achieve the hegemony of the emperor, but he didn't expect that the reality was so cruel and cruel that he was difficult to accept.

Crying and laughing, I saw him suddenly spurt out a mouthful of blood, and then, the whole person fell in a large shape, and fell to the ground fiercely, motionless.

"Lord, lord!" The people around hurriedly stepped forward to help, but now Yuan Shao had completely fainted at this time, no matter how he shouted, he didn't react at all.

"Alas, withdraw the troops, how much can be withdrawn!" Seeing that Tian Feng was still standing in place, he shook his head in frustration, couldn't help but sigh, and then hurriedly gave an order to the herald beside him.

"Woo-woo-woo-" The military formation of hundreds of thousands of troops, after all, is difficult to be conquered in a short period of time, although the front line was defeated, but fortunately, the rear army formation was well kept intact, so the order was executed smoothly, the horn of retreat continued to sound, and then, the rear army became the front army, and the Jizhou coalition army began to retreat.

It's just that this order to retreat, although the more than 100,000 troops in the rear have the opportunity to retreat, it also makes the coalition soldiers who are fighting in the Taiping Army on the front line suddenly chaotic.

Retreat represents defeat, the front-line coalition soldiers heard the order to retreat, which is equivalent to hearing the message of their own defeat, for a while, the courage was lost, in contrast, the Taiping soldiers seemed to hear the horn of victory, one by one morale greatly increased, as if out of thin air added three points of bravery, the killing of the Jizhou coalition army collapsed and fled.

"Kill!" Dian Wei was like a terrifying god and demon who crawled out of the depths of hell, the moment the battle qi broke out, the iron halberd in his hand was vertical and horizontal, rolling in an irresistible terrifying edge, whistling that even the air was pierced, and the Jizhou coalition army in front of him suddenly broke out with a terrible scream, and was pulled into the abyss of endless hell by him.

In the rear, like the surging tide of the Taiping army, a steady stream of pressure forward, as much as possible to kill the Jizhou coalition army, eliminate the enemy's living force, but also consume the last bit of vitality of the Han Dynasty, with their footsteps, stepping on a once glorious dynasty............ (To be continued......)