Chapter 101: Life or Death

Returning to his residence not far from Taicheng, Wen Ziyou didn't go to rest, sitting in the pavilion in the courtyard, looking up at the bright moon, his eyes showing an excited crimson. The moon scar was by his side, and his eyes always fell on the side of his face, and he wanted to speak and stopped, as if he had something to say.

"Do you think I've been a little weird lately?" Wen Ziyou is very manly when he smiles, his eyebrows are shallow, his lips are tightly pursed, and there are a few slightly invisible wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, which contain the wind and frost of the world for a long time.

"Yes!"

Yueji couldn't help but say: "Lang Jun has the talent of the world, and he assists the lord to ascend the throne, so he should strive for governance, clear the source, revitalize the discipline, and revive the Liang country." However, since the establishment of the Golden Finch, the Lord has been rampant and expropriated, built a palace of the Golden Finch, and emptied the national funds, served hundreds of thousands, and exhausted the hearts of the people......

Wen Ziyou quietly sipped the tea and said with a smile: "What else?" ”

"Yes!"

Yueji simply said all the doubts in his heart, and said: "Mi Po touched the town of Tongguan, with his talent, as long as the city is not out, the Chu army will be difficult to overcome." Lang Jun repeatedly accused Mi Po in front of the Lord of being afraid of the enemy and avoiding the battle, supporting his own army, and finally forcing him to go out of the pass, and was defeated in an ambush! ”

"Anything else?" Wen Ziyou put down the teacup, his smile did not change, and he looked at the moon mark dotingly.

"Yes!"

Yueji's eyebrows frowned, and he said: "I have dealt with Fuqu Wugu, this person is greedy, cunning, despicable, has no shame, and will not have the slightest loyalty to anyone. At the beginning, the first emperor and Yao Jin were not thin on him, but he did not hesitate when he should betray, this time he entered Beijing without an edict, I doubt that he has reached some kind of unknown tacit understanding with the Chu army...... With such an obvious situation, Lang Jun would not fail to see it, but he deliberately misled the lord and let Lu Shuihu enter the city. If the two armies face each other, and he rebels in front of the battle again, our army will be defeated, and if it is defeated, the country will be destroyed. So, I really can't figure it out......"

Wen Ziyou gently held the hand of the moon mark, his soft gaze could almost melt the moonlight in the court, and said with a smile: "Close your eyes!" ”

Moon Scar obediently closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembled slightly, and Wen Ziyu's magnetic voice came from her ears: "You don't need to understand many things, you just need to believe in me, follow me, whether it is a cold knife and arrow, or a dirty mire, it will no longer hurt you in the slightest, just like that night ......"

Moon Scar trembled irregularly, and recalled that night like a nightmare, she and Wen Ziyou teamed up to poison and kill one hundred and three members of Zan Zhilu's family, old and young, women and children, and did not let anyone go. The two of them took sharp kitchen knives, starting from the main house, next to the courtyard, and cut the throats of those who were foaming at the mouth but still struggling, and the blood that flowed out seeped into the courtyard from the crack in the door, gathering into an endless trickle of blood, she threw the knife, confused, and lost her soul, it was Wen Ziyou who took her hand, stepped on the corpses all over the ground, and staggered from this hellish scene to today.

No matter what he does, whether he is good or bad, if he is determined in this life, then follow him, whether it is on the knife mountain or in the sea of fire,

Even if you die tomorrow, you have no regrets in this life!

At noon the next day, the Chu army launched an attack, Yao Zhanli in Bashui set up camp, the command was moderate, the infantry army held on, the two wings of the cavalry were disturbed, coming and going like the wind, each other was horns, and the Chinese army of 30,000 people took turns to attack, but the situation could not be opened.

When the two sides were stalemate, the Youdu army of Shanzong went up the Weishui with thirty dragon boats, there were no oars, and no one could be seen on the deck, but the speed was extremely fast, the Liang army along the coast had never seen this kind of boat, thinking that it was a sacred object, and did not dare to stop it, waiting for the boat to reach Weiqiao, 20,000 people suddenly landed from the Tibetan room, Yao Songjun was shocked, panicked, Shanzong said sharply: "My family is in the south of the Yangtze River, this is the north gate of Chang'an, go to the country for thousands of miles, eat and sleep, just for fame!" If you win this battle, I will ensure that you will be prosperous and prosperous in this life. If you don't win, your bones will be buried in a foreign land, and you can't get a piece of your homeland. Tell me, do you want money? Important place? Want a woman? ”

"Yes! Think! Think! ”

The sound of the mountain roaring and tsunami was like a huge wave, and the mountain sect pulled out his sharp knife with a cruel smile and said, "Kill all the Qiang dogs!" Grab what you want, with the knife in your hand! ”

The Youdu Army was born as a pirate, and the battle was not as particular as the coordination between the various arms and teams, all relying on the ferocious wildness and the courage of the outlaws, with only one face, they chiseled the panicked Yao Song Army into a sieve, and then fought separately, divided and surrounded, and then ate the enemy piece by piece, which is their forte.

Knowing that Yao Song was in danger, Yao Ji hurriedly ordered Fuqu Wugu to take Lu Shuihu to support, which was to test Fuqu Wugu's loyalty again, and at the same time secretly ordered his general Fan Jiang to lead 10,000 Xiliang horses behind, as long as Fuqu Wugu showed his rebellion, he would immediately surround and annihilate him - Yao Jin was defeated in Fuqu Wugu's rebellion, and he couldn't help but guard against it.

Fuqu Wugu did not delay at all, received the order to immediately send troops, rushed to the south bank of Weiqiao, but was attacked by Yao Song's defeated army, the cavalry could not deploy, had no choice but to retreat while fighting, covering the remnants of Yao Song to retreat into the city, closed the Pingshuo Gate (Chang'an North Gate), and temporarily stabilized the situation.

Yao Ji was completely relieved of Fuqu Wugu from this, and ordered him to guard the Pingshuo Gate and be sure to stop the Youdu Army. Then Wen Ziyou and Fan Jiang led 5,000 people to sit in Chang'an, ready to support the Quartet at any time. He brought 30,000 Xiliang horses and 10,000 Jing to ride out of Anmen in the south, and let Mi Po touch the 10,000 Xiliang horses to entangle Zhu Zhi and Yu Duowei, and he used the strong mobility of the cavalry to go around to the left flank of the Chu army and launch a surprise attack.

The Cuiyu army in charge of the left flank had already taken precautions, and the left side set up a chariot formation, set up a spear, and waited for the battle. Yao Ji stopped on the high ground, reined in the horse to observe, and saw that although the Cuiyu army was well arranged, there was no heavy armor behind the chariot, the distance between the crossbowmen and the foot soldiers was too close, and the battle line was long and curved, and the depth was not enough, as long as the first layer of defense was broken, a hole could be torn and Xu You's Chinese army could be attacked from the flank. At that time, the combat power of Xiliang Dama, with Yao Zhan's troops, formed a flanking attack, and victory was in sight.

The red command flag flipped up and down, and various combat orders were clearly issued, and Yao Ji's Zhendong general Mo Luhun and Zhenxi general Li Bi each led 3,000 light cavalry to charge away from the beginning and tail directions.

The battlefield is like a game of chess, these two people are actually bait released out, and they can explore the reality of the Cuiyu Army! Although Yao Ji received a lot of information about the Chu army, how could he easily change his perception of the Chu army's field combat ability for many years, and those so-called strong bows and crossbows, mountain swords and iron armor were probably just prevarications after the defeat of his subordinates. It is mainly people who decide the outcome of a war, and it is only the advantage of ordnance and armor that will be of no use in the face of coercion without excellent training.

To put it bluntly, Yao Ji didn't believe at all that in just one or two years, no matter how reborn the Chu army was, it would not be possible to have the ability to confront the mounted cavalry head-on in the plains!

Zuo Yan first showed the enemy to be weak, and threw it with an ordinary bow and crossbow, and the dense rain of arrows fell weakly thirty steps away from Xiliang Dama, and occasionally a few scattered arrows were shot, and they could not penetrate the defense of the leather armor worn by the light horse.

This first wave of archery not only revealed that the bow and crossbow of the Chu army were not as exaggerated as the legend, but also far from being an elite soldier in a hundred battles, and even the distance and range of the cavalry charging into battle were not accurate, so it can be imagined that the combat effectiveness was low.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, the defeat of Tongguan, the defeat of Mi Po in the light enemy's rash advance, the defeat of Pucheng, Yin Zhao's defection to the enemy, and the defeat of Qingni was lost to Yu Duowei - Yu Duowei is a Liang army, and it has nothing to do with the Chu army.

Yao Ji licked his lips excitedly, bloodthirsty longing churning in his heart, it was the impulse of the hungry wolf when he saw his prey, and it was also the reliance of the Qiang people in this troubled world. But he just resisted the instinct of the beast, because now, it is not the best time.

The war horse galloped like lightning, the wind in his ears isolated the sound of fighting in the distance, Mo Lu was no more than five feet tall, belonged to the deformed children in the Hu people, and could ride and shoot arrows on the back and belly of the horse, and was deeply loved by Yao Ji. At this time, he had broken into the effective range of the riding bow, and under the cover of the pong card, the number of people was reduced to no more than 100 people, and his heart was at peace, his feet were clamped between the horse's belly, his body hung on the side, he opened his bow and took the arrow, and with a whoosh, the arrow passed through the narrow gap between the chariot and the shield, pierced into the left eye of the spearman behind, and came out through the skull.

His arrows are the order to attack, and the three thousand horsemen behind him release arrows at the same time, visible to the naked eye, some people fall from time to time in the Chu army array, but there is shield protection, and the effect is not very significant. Mo Luhun opened his bow left and right, and his technique was extremely fast, shooting five people in a row, and then retracting his bow in the back, and pulling out his waist knife with the three thousand people in his department, waving it above his head, and letting out a sharp howl like a wolf.

Most of this is done to form a psychological pressure on the enemy, if the other party begins to fear, the battle line will definitely loosen, and then you can drive straight in, but the Chu army is unmoved, the spears are like a forest, and the frame is stable and dense, and when he saw the distance between the two armies of more than 20 steps, Mo Luhun shouted: "Turn!" ”

The three thousand cavalry turned right at the same time, and the skill of manipulation was miraculous, forming an outer arc with the Chu army's defense line and running to the east, while Li Bi in the other direction also failed to achieve the result, turned around and ran to the west. The two armies seemed to be moving in opposite directions, but they passed by, not only did the horses not slow down, the people did not put away their swords, but when they staggered, they shouted the goldfinch to boost their morale, and the Chu army was dizzy, and the arrows shot in the hurry could not keep up with the fast-moving war horses.

Mo Luhun and Li Bi were in one place, without waiting to take a breath, regrouped the formation, launched a charge again, and when they entered the firing range, they opened their bows, and when they were counterattacked, they slapped their horses and walked away, so repeatedly harassed, the second half of the Chu army's left flank defense line finally had someone who couldn't resist it, and broke down, abandoned the gun and retreated, and in a panic, the formation of the crossbowmen was disrupted, so that this hedgehog array with nowhere to put its mouth was exposed.

Mo Luhun seized the opportunity, led more than 100 elite soldiers, and rushed in on horseback. He was five short in stature, but infinitely powerful, holding a long lance, where he passed, swept more than a dozen people and flew up, and then fell to the ground, and all the bones of his body were broken and died.

"Your Majesty, look, General Mo has broken the formation!"

Yao Ji raised his head and laughed, "It is worthy of my Kunlun Mountain!" Beat the drums and cheer on the generals! ”

Mo Luhun people are small but big, every time they fight, they move forward bravely, never take half a step back, and are jokingly called Kunlun Mountain by Yao Ji, in order to praise its majesty, just like the Dinghai Divine Needle in Xiliang Damali.

The passionate and swift drum beat resounded through the Weihe Plain, Mo Luhun was like a god, and killed two hundred generals who came to block in a row, and the soldiers who died under the lance were as many as dozens of people, and the light cavalry under his command was inspired by Mo Luhun, as if they smelled blood, and they rushed to fight inside, Li Bi led his troops to shoot back and forth outside the formation, intending to cause greater turmoil.

Seeing that the gap had changed from more than 10 zhang wide to more than 10 zhang wide, and the left flank seemed to be at risk of collapsing, Yao Zhan's department, which was struggling to resist the Chu army head-on, was greatly encouraged, and two fierce generals led 500 brave soldiers to launch a counter-charge, which successfully contained the offensive posture of the Chu army and protruded the battle line to the east by more than 100 steps.

Xu You sat in the Chinese army, while transferring troops to strengthen the encirclement of Yao Zhan, and on the other hand, he issued a flag and urgently dispatched 10,000 troops to the left flank for reinforcements. However, the left side of the Cuiyu army also sent 2,000 troops to the gap at the same time, the front army and the rear army were mixed and entangled, and there was a collision in the movement, the soldiers did not see the generals, the generals did not know the soldiers, and the banners of each army were crooked and twisted, like a small whirlpool appeared in the corner of a calm lake, inconspicuous, but very abrupt.

"It's time!"

Yao Ji's patience only allowed him to wait until now, the Chu army was already in disarray, but this level of chaos was fleeting, and it might be possible to return to normal in a moment.

Therefore, he must seize the fighter and make a decisive dispatch to turn the local chaos of the Chu army into a riot on the entire left flank defense line, and then spread to the Chinese army, and finally turn into a big rout!

"Whole army! Kill! ”

Yao Ji has no spare strength, Chang'an has no danger to defend, there is a shortage of food inside, there are no reinforcements outside, and if it is delayed, he can only sit and wait for death, so today is the first battle and the decisive battle. He was fully armored, holding a cavalry spear, and led all the cavalry to rush to the left flank defense line of the Chu army.

Xiliang Dama is one of the most elite mounted cavalry in the world, not as much howling as the light cavalry under Mo Luhun, leaning forward when charging, his eyes are cold, his mouth is closed, although he does not say a word, but the silent posture creates a stronger momentum, like a huge chariot made of steel, sweeping the world in an instant.

Life and death, in one fell swoop!

As soon as Yao Ji's side moved, the Cuiyu army also changed, the chaotic team stepped on broken steps, listened to the orders of the commanders at all levels, and quickly organized into columns, and the defeated soldiers who were chased by Mo Luhun also returned to participate in the siege, stabbing knights on maple spears, cutting horse legs under swords and axes, and the coordination was extremely neat, like a butcher who has been used to killing pigs and cattle for a living. Mo Luhun was chasing hard, suddenly felt the pressure doubled, turned his head to look back, the opening that had just broken open was blocked by a dense giant shield, and he and the more than a thousand light horsemen beside him fell into a heavy encirclement.

"Hahaha, with you two-legged sheep, you also want to trap the cool Kunlun Mountain?"

Mo Luhun was not afraid at all, in the midst of the loud shouting, he slammed the horse's belly, rushed forward with a lance in both hands, and the tip of the spear that flickered in the cold light stabbed the round shield that Chu Bing was blocking in front of him, and it shattered in all directions, through his chest and then backwards, it actually penetrated the corpses of the three people one after another, and then waved the lance for half a circle, and the corpses crashed into the crowd, knocking down one or twenty people, revealing a large space around them, and no one dared to step forward for a while.

However, Mo Luhun knew that in the encirclement, the most important thing was not to stay in place, to use the mobility of the cavalry to rush left and right, lead the enemy's nose, once stopped and trapped by the group, it was not far from death. At present, he has two choices, one is to turn around and go back, break through the gap of Fang Cai and join Li Bi, but he will lose this rare opportunity to break the formation; The second is to continue to rush in, as long as it can chisel through the Chu military formation, it can not only save his life, but also make a great contribution.

At this time, I heard the sound of drums and horns in my ears, it was the order for the whole army of the Liang army to charge, Mo Luhun stepped on the horseback, and the people stood up, as if walking on the ground, and saw Xu You's general flag from a distance, and there were all swords and guns in the middle, separated by many layers of defense line, and the blood in his heart was surging, and he said sharply: "Sons!" Follow me to the north and take Xu You's head! ”

"Woohoo! Kill Xu You! ”

"Kill Xu You, take the head!"

As the saying goes, the tiger will lead the wolf soldiers, Mo Luhun is so brave that his subordinates are even more afraid of death, he led the crowd to advance suddenly, breaking several lines of defense in a row, and no one can be a person. Suddenly, a shirtless and beautiful man came forward, holding two knives, and said loudly: "I'll meet you!" ”

"Just you? looks so beautiful, you shouldn't take a knife, you should warm the bed! ”

Mo Luhun's face was full of ridicule, and he rode his horse to rush to the approaching people, not even using a lance, and leaned over to reach out to grab it. This is not only a light enemy, but also a complete humiliation, the person who came is Ming Jing, his face is flushed, obviously he is not lightly angry, he actually rose into the air, and the knife followed the sound, slashing from the head. Mo Luhun was startled, waved his lance to block, clanged, sparks flew, only to feel that his arms shook violently, his waist and hips twisted in a strange posture, and the horse under the seat suddenly stalled, stumbled a few times on his front legs, and fell to the ground.

Mo Luhun didn't have time to react, the blade had reached his neck, and he was busy rolling on the spot, relying on his short and flexible body, he abandoned the long lance, and pulled out the scimitar at his waist, like an ape stealing a peach, and flirting Mingjing's crotch from below.

Ming Jing roared angrily, the two knives were staggered, and as soon as he blocked the knife, two cavalrymen rushed behind him, and the spears stabbed at the back of the ribs and back respectively, he had to let go of Mo Luhun, pointed to the ground on tiptoe, and rose upside down, just passing through the gap between the gun shaft and the horse's head, and the double knives swept, and the human head burst up several feet high, and the blood flowed like a column.

Mo Luhun kicked away the corpse of the cavalry, turned over on his horse, deceived Mingjing who did not know equestrianism, could not catch up, raised his hooves and rushed away from the surrounding foot soldiers, led the five hundred horsemen who were still alive, and rushed towards the banner of the Cuiyu Army where Zuo Yan was located.

In the short period of time when he was blocked by Ming Jing and fell off the horse, more than half of the more than 1,000 people in his department were killed. It is the snake that cannot be headless, the light horse has lost its speed, and in the midst of the outnumbered enemy, it can only be slaughtered!

Fortunately, he was resolute enough to stop entangled with Ming Jing, and decisively turned around and headed west. As for killing Xu You, forget it, Chu Jun is not unmanned, just one Ming Jing almost took his life, although Mo Luhun is not afraid of death, he is not a fool.

Can't kill Xu You, can't kill Zuo Yan?

Don't believe in this evil!

Zuo Yan had no time to take care of Mo Luhun, and the battle in the rear was completely handed over to Ming Jing, and all his attention was on Xiliang Dama on the opposite side. This is the first time that the Cuiyu Army has faced the equipment charge of Xiliang Dama, the thousands of words in the Tiger Hall, the analysis and dissection of countless battle examples, the tactical arrangement of the Military Division, and the psychological comfort of the Supervision Division, even if you have made all preparations in advance, but you can really face the most powerful troops of this era, the trembling and panic from the depths of your soul will still occupy your brain uncontained, blur your vision, soften your legs, and then disintegrate all your fighting spirit and courage.

This is the main reason why both the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Western Liang have to spend astronomical sums of money to assemble a large number of cavalry, if it were not for the military training system and almost perfect brainwashing operation of the Cuiyu Army from a thousand years later, the army that dared to resist the armored charge head-on in the plain area would never exist.

The pitch-black armor, devouring the light of the sun, made the already heavy armor seem to add tens of millions of pounds of weight, every time the horse's hooves tossed, it would bring up a wide range of soil and turf, the ups and downs of the earth from far and near, like a boat sailing in the waves, there was a danger of being submerged at any time, the rumbling hooves covered everything, and the light wind in the ears was like an illusion in the fierce roar.

Li Bi's light cavalry gave up continuing to attack the Cuiyu army, spread out to the two flanks, gave way in the middle, and rested for a while, preparing to wait for the equipment to break through the defense line, and then follow the harvesting heads.

Woooooo

The vast and sad horn sounded, and the five thousand crossbowmen of the Cuiyu Army picked up the Wanjun crossbow, and the armor-piercing arrows roared out from behind the chariot, and the power was almost worlds different from the soft and short just now. Fortunately, the equipment charge should be divided into several waves, a hundred steps between the front and back, the formation is not so dense, although the power of the Wanjun crossbow is terrible, but the loading is too slow after shooting, as long as there is a few breaths, you can rush to the front of the enemy formation, and then the short handover, no matter how powerful the crossbow machine has become scrap metal.

However, after the crossbow arrows were fired, these crossbowmen immediately replaced with Yuan Xiang bows, heavy arrows, shovel arrows, and crescent moon arrows, and went on the field in turn, flying arrows like locusts, pouring rain, and the lethality was not inferior to that of Wanjun crossbows. After three rounds of arrow rain, the Xiliang horse's charging array obviously appeared in patches of gaps,

Yao Ji's eyes showed a fierce light, knowing that they had been fooled by the Chu army, they really had a strong crossbow and a strong bow, but they deliberately hid it, but the Chu people were too big, and they dared to line up in such a plain, and rely on the bow and crossbow to defeat the invincible Xiliang horse, it was ridiculous!

Near, near,

Fifty steps!

The flag-bearer waved the flag suddenly.

"Put!"

Behind each chariot was a three-bow crossbow, and the crossbowmen in charge of the three-bow crossbow were striking at the same time, and the huge and hard crossbow arrows pierced through the arrow holes of the large shield erected in front of the chariot, as if a large forest was flying parallel to the ground. Such a scene is both magical and spectacular, the faces of the cavalry of the Liang army showed a rare look of horror, and they didn't even have time to react, the arrows stabbed heavily into the armor on the chest, and they radiated from the back, as easy as crushing tofu with an iron knife, but this was not the end, the crossbow arrow passed through the second person again, the third person......

Just imagine, the three-bow bed crossbow with a range of up to 700 steps did not start firing at a distance of fifty paces, which not only honed the soldiers of the Emerald Feather Army into a will of steel, but also expanded the effective damage caused by several times or even ten times.

Zuo Yan's seemingly risky arrangement has achieved brilliant results!

Most of the casualties in the first wave of armor were killed, but there were still 3,000 armor that crashed into it quickly, the gunmen in the front row swallowed and spit, the dry and congested throat was hot and painful, and the sweat in the palms did not make the special gun barrel lubricate, still holding it so firmly and tightly, just waiting for the next moment,

Life or death!