Chapter 156: The Battle in Zhuo County
Just when Ma Qiang began to contact the Quartet according to Duan Ying's strategy, Cheng Zhiyuan, who was in Jixian County, also got the news of Yu Yao's defeat.
"Bang dang!" Cheng Zhiyuan got up abruptly and grabbed the defeated soldiers who came to report the news.
"You mean, Yu Poison's 9,000 soldiers and horses are over like this?"
"Changping has replanted the Han flag, and it is said that there is a public trial meeting inside to try the captured brothers." The defeated soldier struggled to say, Cheng Zhiyuan was even more annoyed when he heard it, threw it aside, and then stepped forward and looked at the map.
"As soon as Changping is lost, our army's flank will be in danger, what news is there from Vice Marshal Deng?"
"The battle report that has just come back says that the army has expanded by 10,000 after connecting Guangyang County and Liangxiang County, and is still confronting the Han army in Zhuo County." One of the generals on the side said.
"Still standoff? There are indeed three rivers guarding the city in Zhuo County, but there should be less than 5,000 soldiers and horses, so why can't they be captured for a long time? Cheng Zhiyuan asked suspiciously.
"It's... The war report did not say. ”
"Immediately send someone to Zhuoxian to see the deputy marshal, now that there is a strong enemy on the flank of our army, we can't give him too much support, he must defeat the Han army of Zhuojun at any cost!" Cheng Zhiyuan looked at the map of Youzhou, and there was a large piece of red representing the Han army, and said worriedly, "It's going to change later..."
- Zhuo County
Zhuo County's Zhuo is not taken at will, there is really a lot of water here, there are three rivers outside the county, cross each other, forming a natural danger defense, the Yellow Turban Army from the north can only build a pontoon bridge, desperately cross the river.
On the south bank of the river, thousands of Han troops were in full array, constantly shooting the Yellow Turban Army crossing the river with bows and crossbows, but the disparity between the two sides was too great to completely block the Yellow Turban Army, so the Yellow Turban Army continued to rush across the river and enter the Han army's formation.
In the Han army array, there was a big banner with the character Liu erected, Liu Bei held a male and female sword, sat on a horse, and nervously looked at the Yellow Turban Army that began to form a military formation.
In front of the Han army, many corpses have been listed, and this blocking battle has been fought for almost an hour.
"Who dares to fight to the death with your Grandpa Zhang!" Zhang Fei rushed out of the military formation with dozens of cavalry, and first picked up a Yellow Turban Army with a spear, threw the body into the Yellow Turban Army's military formation, and knocked down a group of people at once.
"Third brother, be careful!" Liu Bei was commanding the sergeant to fight in the distance, and when he saw Zhang Feichong a little forward, he hurriedly shouted.
"Big brother, don't worry!" Zhang Fei shouted with a smile, and a cloud of dust suddenly appeared in the distance, this is the Yellow Turban Army's cavalry has made a detour to cross the river.
"Damn! Second brother, you guard, I'll stop them! Zhang Fei shouted, in the military formation, a red-faced and long-bearded man held a ring head knife in his hand, squinted and nodded, and then shouted loudly, "Behind us is the hometown father, if this battle is lost, who can live for us?" Fight me to the death! ”
After speaking, Guan Yu held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and began a counter-charge with three hundred sword shield soldiers.
On the city wall not far away, Han Zhuo held a sword in his hand, and under the city wall, Zou Jing was fully armed with three thousand soldiers, waiting for the order to attack.
For a long time, Liu Bei also took the soldiers of the Lu family to himself and the clansmen who supported him in his own clan to the front line, leaving only Shiren and others to lead the archers to continue to throw and cover in the rear, and the addition of hundreds of elite armor soldiers supported the battle line that was about to collapse, Liu Bei waved the sword in his hand, and every time he took away the life of a Yellow Turban Army, and soon, the blood stained it red.
Deng Mao on the other side of the river jumped straight to his feet, but he was helpless, the place where he crossed the river was so big, and there were so many archers on the other side, don't look at Liu Bei and Yan Gang who felt pressured, but the battle damage was three times faster than that of the Yellow Turban Army.
Finally, the Yellow Turban Army began to retreat, and Zhang Fei also returned with cavalry, but when he went, there were dozens of people, and when he came back, there were only seven or eight people left.
"Big brother, you can't fight in the field anymore, go back to the city and hold on!" I don't know when most of the shield in Guan Yu's hand was cut off, and the ring-head knife in the other hand only broke a few holes.
"If Xianhe is here, he can give the second brother a good knife." Liu Bei looked at the sword in his hand, it was still extremely sharp, and he couldn't help but feel grateful to Ma Qiang in Changping.
A good blade can indeed save a life.
After Liu Bei summoned the Xiangyong, as in history, Zhongshan businessmen Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang gave A-level financing, but Liu Bei did not create any magic weapons, but only created a large number of battle armor to equip the Xiang Yong recruited by himself, and thanks to these battle armor, he was able to reduce losses in battle.
Han Zhuo saw the Yellow Turban soldiers retreating on the city wall, and immediately opened the city gate and ordered the county soldiers to kill, and the Yellow Turban Army was immediately defeated.
At this time, Cheng Zhiyuan's letter arrived again, and he learned that Changping Ma Qiang had raised troops to defeat Yu Poison, so he became even more anxious.
He has not been able to get the situation in Jizhou, and he doesn't know what the battle situation of the great sages and good divisions is, and according to Zhang Jiao's previous estimate, soon the border army and Wuhuan cavalry in Youzhou will be mobilized by the counties to encircle and suppress themselves, if they can't break through Zhuojun as soon as possible, he and Cheng Zhiyuan will fall into the big net of the Youzhou army.
Thinking of this, Deng Mao summoned the generals and said, "Our army is several times the Han army, when it is overcome, today the officers and soldiers are tired, and they will be defenseless, and the battalions should cross the river overnight, storm the Han camp, and take turns to attack the city after defeating the enemy. ”
The morale of the Yellow Turbans in each battalion was immediately full, and Liu Bei, who was unguarded, was directly blown up by the red-eyed Yellow Turban Army, and was almost killed by the Yellow Turban Pursuit all the way into Zhuo County, under the light of torches and stars and moons, countless simple ladders were put on the city wall, and the Yellow Turban Army climbed up directly with the trunk of the tree and leaned on the city wall.
Thanks to Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's extreme bravery, and there were big clans in the city who summoned clan soldiers to help, they barely survived until dawn.
Deng Mao saw that the opportunity had been lost, so he asked the battalions to take turns to attack the northern city, leaving the partial army to threaten the east and west gates, and the south gate did not let go of a single soldier, waiting for the city to be broken or the defenders to flee south.
Liu Bei fought fiercely all night, couldn't hold on to the city wall and squinted for a while, and was asleep, Shiren came over with a person, Liu Bei was woken up, he held the sword and asked, "But there is a thief army coming to the city?" ”
"Big brother, this is a message sent by Mr. Red Star Yingma." Saying that, Shiren's face was a little weird, the city was surrounded like this, how did this person come in.
Ma Qiang looked at the man, and the man arched his hand and said, "I have seen Mr., I was ordered to pass on the message of the battalion owner, the battalion owner has broken the Changping thief army, and according to the order of Guo Thorn History, he is temporarily acting as the assassin of the historical position, and is now calling the soldiers and horses of the counties, please Mr. Take me to see Han Junshou, please Han Junshou must stick to the end, fast is ten days, slow is twenty days, there will be reinforcements to arrive." ”
Liu Bei first inquired about the inside story of the Red Star Camp, and when he saw that he was answering fluently, he believed that this person was not a Yellow Turban spy, so he was overjoyed to take him to find Han Zhuo.