Chapter 627: A Great Victory
As Xu Shu's order flag shook, Liu Beijun's formation began to change drastically, and hundreds of soldiers raised their bows and arrows in three orders and continued to shoot Zhou Tai and the Jiangdong army that rushed over with five thousand.
Many officers and men of the Jiangdong Army were hit by arrows and fell to the ground
Zhou Tai, who was riding on a horse, kept picking up the feather arrows that were shooting, and then shouted: "Raise the shield!" ”
Jiang Dongjun reacted quickly, raising their shields one by one to block their heads and vital parts.
Zhou Tai continued to advance with his troops, seeing that he was about to make contact with Liu Beijun. Suddenly, Liu Beijun's formation stabbed out countless spears, and Zhou Tai, who was at the forefront, was taken care of by them, and more than a dozen spear heads stabbed in several directions.
Zhou Tai, who was riding on the war horse, was frightened, and suddenly pulled the horse rope in an attempt to stop the war horse from advancing, and Zhou Tai's war horse was pulled like this, and the whole war horse stood up. The spear heads of the attack were all stabbed into the horse's body. Zhou Tai's war horse neighed and fell to the ground in pain, and Zhou Tai fell to the ground as a result.
Zhou Tai was a little heartbroken, this war horse had been with him for a few years, and now he saw it fall to the ground in pain, thinking that this horse was no longer saved.
Zhou Tai didn't feel distressed for long, and several spears stabbed him on the ground. Zhou Tai hurriedly rolled backwards to dodge, but unfortunately his arm was still injured by the spear.
Zhou Tai, who is strong in martial arts, is like this, not to mention other soldiers, more soldiers are directly stabbed to death.
Sun Ce, who was trapped in the formation, also saw the scene of his soldiers being slaughtered by Liu Beijun, and secretly hated himself for being reckless, but now he had to concentrate on Zhang Fei's attack. Zhang Fei had turned into a humanoid monster and constantly attacked Sun Ce fiercely, and Sun Ce struggled to defend every time.
Zhou Yu looked at the changes in the formation on the opposite side, and immediately understood that the power of this formation could not be broken by five thousand people.
"Governor, what should I do?" Some generals hurriedly asked Zhou Yu, and they saw that Sun Ce had been pressed and beaten by Zhang Fei, and if he didn't rescue him, Sun Ce would be dead.
Zhou Yu decisively ordered: "The whole army is divided into two parts, one to support General Zhou Tai, and the other to follow the Pontus to kill the southwest of the enemy formation!" ”
The Jiangdong Army quickly divided into two parts and rushed towards the southeast and southwest of the formation.
Zhou Tai, who was fighting with Liu Beijun, was ruthless in his heart, snatched the shield of a Jiangdong Army soldier, held a knife in one hand, and held the shield in the other hand to protect his predecessor, rushed towards Liu Beijun's formation, and made contact with Liu Beijun in the blink of an eye.
The weapons in the hands of Liu Beijun's soldiers kept beckoning Zhou Tai to the past, leaving a lot of wounds on Zhou Tai's body, Zhou Tai didn't seem to feel pain, and relied on his huge strength to hit forward fiercely, Liu Beijun's soldiers couldn't resist it, and Zhou Tai knocked out a gap.
The soldiers of the Jiangdong Army behind Zhou Tai followed in the footsteps of their generals, kept advancing, and finally broke through Liu Beijun's formation and successfully entered the formation. It's just that there are not many soldiers and horses entering it, that is, a few hundred.
Even if it's a few hundred people, it's a huge breakthrough. Zhou Tai, who entered the formation, hurriedly followed Zhou Yu's previous instructions and attacked in the southwest direction, and people blocked and killed people along the way, leaving countless corpses.
"General Youping has already attacked, and the others have stepped up their offensive efforts to cover General Youping!" Zhou Yu said happily.
The Jiangdong Army suddenly issued a high fighting spirit.
Zhou Yu desperately attacked the southwest of the formation to attract Liu Beijun's troops for Zhou Tai and reduce Zhou Tai's pressure.
The Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation could only resist 10,000 troops, but Zhou Yu used 20,000 troops, and the whole formation began to panic a little, and Zhou Tai took advantage of this panic to successfully kill the place where Sun Ce and Zhang Fei were fighting. At this time, Sun Ce happened to be stabbed in the chest by Zhang Fei's snake spear, and fell off the horse directly. Zhang Fei took the opportunity to stab Sun Ce with a spear, preparing to kill Sun Ce.
"Thieves dare!" Zhou Tai saw that his lord was injured and fell to the ground, and rushed towards Zhang Fei in a frenzy, using his body and shield to slam Zhang Fei's mount.
Zhang Fei and his mount were hit by Zhou Tai like this, and they immediately lost their position. Zhang Fei only saw a guy covered in blood suddenly appear next to him, and he was startled with his courage.
Zhou Tai hit it successfully, and hurriedly pulled Sun Ce and ran.
Sun Ce covered his chest, and looked at Zhou Tai's whole body covered in blood, the physical pain and psychological guilt made him very uncomfortable, and said, "Youping, blame me for being too careless." ”
"Lord, don't say anything, let's withdraw first! The Governor has already made arrangements. Zhou Tai helped Sun Ce, and the rest of Sun Ce's personal soldiers and the hundreds of soldiers he brought hurriedly rushed towards the northeast of the formation.
"There's a guy out of nowhere, you're looking for death!" How could Zhang Fei let the meat in his mouth run away.
"Sun Ce Xiao'er, where are you going to escape!" Wei Yan, who had been watching the show for a long time, also launched, and rushed towards Sun Ce and Zhou Tai.
Zhou Tai threw the shield in his hand at Wei Yan, Wei Yan was so competitive that he blocked it with a big knife, who knew that the shield came with huge power, and Wei Yan's mouth was numb.
Seeing this, Wei Yan slowed down, judging from the strength of the other party, the enemy definitely has a strength no less than his own, plus he is at the end of the road, it is difficult to guarantee that they have to fight with themselves, and they still have a good life, so it is really not cost-effective to be pulled by them to cushion their backs.
Sun Ce complained in his heart, how good is this. If you don't get hurt, you can also join forces with Zhou Tai, and now you are a burden.
Zhou Tai said to the soldiers: "Now is the time for you to be loyal to the lord, stay in the palace." ”
The soldiers were all the elite of the Jiangdong Army, and they immediately used their lives to create time for Sun Ce and Zhou Tai to retreat according to Zhou Tai's orders. No matter how brave Zhang Fei and Wei Yan were, they couldn't help these Jiangdong Army soldiers who were not afraid of death, and the footsteps of the two of them were delayed. Sun Ce looked back at the soldiers who kept falling to the ground, his heart was bleeding, this was the elite he had cultivated over the years, and he died like this. But he could not stand still, or the deaths of these soldiers would be wasted.
Zhou Yu ordered the Jiangdong Army, which was attacking the southeast of the formation, to divide a part of it to the northeast corner and go to meet Sun Ce.
"My lord, now is the time for you to go out." Xu Shu saw everything in his eyes and said to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei quickly descended the city gate tower and led the three thousand reserve soldiers and horses that had been prepared long ago to kill out of the city gate.
"Soldiers, now it's time to let the thieves in Jiangdong know how powerful we are! Kill! Drive the Jiangdong thieves out of Jingzhou! Liu Bei pulled out his sword and rushed to the front.
With Liu Bei's encouragement, 3,000 soldiers and horses quickly slaughtered the Jiangdong army.
At this moment, Sun Ce, with the support of everyone, finally escaped from the Eight Gates Golden Lock Array. Before he could catch his breath, Liu Bei rushed over with his soldiers and horses.
"Liu Bei's dog thief deceives people too much!" Sun Ce was furious, but this anger caused his wound to be in severe pain.
"Lord, let's withdraw first, let Liu Bei be arrogant for a while, and then give him another ruthless blow when we heal from our injuries." Zhou Tai hurriedly said.
And Zhou Yu also rushed over, and seeing that Sun Ce was injured, Zhou Yu said: "Go back to Jiangxia first!" ”
With Zhou Yu's orders, the other generals all started to retreat directly with Sun Ce!
Seeing that Sun Ce began to retreat, Xu Shu immediately waved the blue order flag, and the soldiers and horses of the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation changed their formation again, turning into a cone-shaped formation, and under the leadership of Zhang Fei and Wei Yan, they rushed straight towards Sun Ce's army. and Liu Bei's 3,000 soldiers and horses formed a corner.
"Retreat!" Zhou Yu slowly retreated with his soldiers and horses, the other party has peerless generals, if the other party comes to capture the king first, this loss will be great.
Although the Jiangdong army was retreating, their strength was several times that of Liu Bei's soldiers and horses, and it was impossible for Liu Bei to kill Sun Ce now. It's just that now Liu Bei is taking advantage of the momentum just now to continue to slaughter the lone Jiangdong Army soldiers.
Liu Bei was excited, what a beautiful feeling, for so many years, most of him has been hunted down by other people, where has there been a battle like this with less to win more.
"It's different to have a military division, it seems that I, Liu Xuande, am going to be transferred!" Liu Bei kept repeating this thought in his mind.
Zhou Yu was a little angry by Liu Bei's pursuit, and he was about to turn his horse's head and fight Liu Bei to the death. At this time, the sound of gold sounded from the county gatehouse, and the entire Liu Beijun stopped pursuing.
Liu Bei looked back and found that it was Xu Shu who ordered Mingjin, and thought to himself that with such a good opportunity now, how could he withdraw from the army. But Liu Bei thought about it carefully, and the military advisor must have made sense to do this, so he ordered everyone to stop the pursuit. That is, Liu Bei stopped pursuing, and Zhou Yu and Sun Ce and other Jiangdong troops could retreat quickly.
Zhang Fei and Wei Yan were puzzled why Xu Shu and Liu Bei stopped the pursuit, and asked Liu Bei, "Big brother, why do you want to stop the pursuit?" ”
"The arrangement of the military advisor must be right!" Liu Bei immediately said.
Zhang Fei and Wei Yan thought that they would ask Xu Shu later. They didn't have to wait long, Xu Shu came over on horseback.
"Strategist, why did you want to mingjin for such a good opportunity just now? I just can't figure it out? Zhang Fei was impatient and complained to Xu Shu.
Xu Shu smiled and said, "Everything is in moderation. Our army has defeated Sun Ce's 20,000 army with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and has seriously injured Sun Ce and his favorite generals, killing countless people. ”
As soon as Xu Shu explained this, everyone agreed, so let's leave a way to live for others.
With both sides stopping the fighting, the final time is to clean up the battlefield and count the gains and losses.
In this battle, Liu Bei lost hundreds of people, and killed nearly 3,000 Jiangdong troops, capturing a large number of weapons, armor, banners and war horses. Liu Bei made a lot of money this time.
"Strategist, this time we have made a lot of money, and we can actually get such a harvest with such a small loss." Liu Bei looked at the list and said happily.
"Congratulations, congratulations. In today's battle, the lord will inevitably shock the entire Jingzhou, and in the future, all men, women and children in Jingzhou will know the name of the lord! Xu Shu put all the credit on Liu Bei, this is something that a smart subordinate would do.
Of course, Liu Bei knew Xu Shu's thoughts, took Xu Shu's hand, and said movingly: "If there is no military advisor, where would Liu Bei be today." Liu Bei swore today that he would never disappoint the military advisor in the future! ”
"The lord is very loving, Xu Shu answers the lord with his talent!" Xu Shu was also very moved.
Xu Shu thought to himself: After this battle, no one should not know his name, and I can be regarded as famous in the first battle. On the green history, I will inevitably leave my Xu Yuanzhi's name.
"Lord, we can't stay in Suixian now, it's time to transfer!" Xu Shu suggested.
"Why?" Liu Bei was puzzled.
Xu Shu said with a smile: "Zhou Yu and Sun Ce are both young people, and they must be haunted by the defeat just now, they were just panicked by our army just now and had to retreat." If they wait for them to recover from rectification, they will definitely attack Suixian again, so let's move to other places first and retain our strength. ”
"Everything is up to the military advisor, and Liu Bei has absolutely no problem. Immediately order the entire army to move! Liu Bei agreed immediately.
"My lord, there are some other arrangements down there! Give a big gift to the people in Jiangdong! We can ambush here and give them a surprise attack when the Jiangdong Army comes! Xu Shu pointed out a location for Liu Bei on the map.
Liu Bei nodded and agreed, as long as he could win the battle, he would accept any arrangement.
Xu Shu once again gave a new order to Liu Bei's generals, if Zhang Fei and the others didn't believe in Xu Shu very much before, now they have fully agreed with Xu Shu's status as a military division, and it is rare to be able to win more with less.
So Liu Beijun all evacuated Suixian, and set up an ambush in a valley on the road from Jiangxia to Suixian, waiting for the Jiangdong army to come.
Just as Xu Shu had predicted, Sun Ce immediately arranged for a force of about 5,000 men to attack Suixian again after arriving at the safe area. Sun Ce felt that Liu Bei was still in the excitement of victory, and this time he would definitely be able to kill Liu Bei by surprise. Zhou Yu also felt that Sun Ce's idea was very reasonable, and he agreed.
The Jiangdong army did not expect that Liu Bei's side had already arranged an ambush for them, and the troops who came to attack Suixian were ambushed by Liu Beijun in the valley, and the whole army was almost wiped out.
When the news reached Sun Ce's ears, Sun Ce was furious, and regardless of his injuries, he led all the soldiers and horses to Suixian again. Along the way, Sun Ce walked very carefully, and he was very worried that Liu Bei would be ambushed. Until Sun Ce arrived in Suixian, the road was very safe, Liu Beijun's figure was not encountered, and Suixian was empty.
Sun Ce now knows that he was tricked by Liu Bei, Liu Bei has already escaped, God knows where he ran away.
At this time, a scout came over and reported: "Lord, Liu Bei took advantage of our army's unpreparedness and captured Lu County!" ”
Sun Ce was dumbfounded, when did this Liu Bei run away. Sun Ce led the army to kill Lu County, but Lu County had been burned by Liu Bei, leaving a blank land. Liu Bei didn't know where to go.
"Liu Xuande!" Sun Ce looked up to the sky and roared!
Due to the long time of running, Sun Ce's wound was aggravated, and finally Sun Ce vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted.
Everyone in the Jiangdong Army panicked and hurriedly returned to Jiangxia with Sun Ce, who had fainted.