Volume 1 The Eagle Flying at the End of the Han Dynasty Chapter 89 The Doom of the Master
A spear stabbed out from Nanying's back, sinking deep into the chest of a Celestial Master, and at the same time, several weapons reached out at the same time, blocking all attacks for Nanying.
In the midst of the killing sound, Nanying opened his mouth wide, looked at the large number of Han troops swarming behind him, and stayed on the spot for a while.
Nanying helped Zhang Lu, both of them had a sense of escape, only Dian Wei was able to kill, and still refused to retreat.
Although Zhang Lu was injured in many places, there were no fatal injuries, and he gasped heavily: "Lord, you, I, next time, you must not play with your life like this!" ”
Nanying smiled bitterly: "It's me who is too conceited!" Almost hurt you! ”
Zhang Lu shook his head again and again, but he couldn't speak, just panting.
"My lord! Lord! Are you okay? Cheng Yu, escorted by several soldiers, stumbled over, and saw Nanying covered in blood, and his face turned white with shock.
Nanying waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine!" But Zhongde, you came too soon, otherwise you would have to collect the corpses for us! ”
Cheng Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and then said angrily: "What's going on with the high-speed rail? How can you rely on the three of you to guard the city gate, in case the lord has three long and two short, and he, the commander of the bow and crossbow battalion, will die and die! ”
Nanying said with a bitter face: "Don't blame him, it's my order!" ”
Seeing that Cheng Yu's eyes were getting wider and wider, his heart was not good, and he hurriedly interrupted: "Zhongde, what's going on?" Did the civil strife in the Han army subside? ”
Cheng Yu really shifted his attention and said happily: "Exactly!" Although after internal strife, most of the 3,000 city defense troops were lost, there were still more than 1,000 living troops, all of them here! ”
At this time, the Heavenly Master army attacking the city gate had all been forced out of the door, and the corpses in the passage of the city gate were piled up waist-high, which looked extremely miserable.
A large number of Han troops formed a shield array and blocked the city gates. Fang Hu led a hundred crossbowmen to rely on the cover of the shield array to shoot any enemy soldiers who dared to rush into the passage mercilessly. The Eagle's Nest warriors in the city also shot a large rain of arrows, harvesting the lives of the Heavenly Master Army to their heart's content. The enemy forces outside the city gate finally showed a tendency to collapse under the double blow.
A middle-aged man in civilian attire, accompanied by two Han army generals, walked briskly towards Nanying and the others, all three of whom were covered with dust.
Cheng Yu smiled and said: "My lord, this person is the king of the county, and those two generals are the two military marquis of the Han army, Liu and Zhao." This time, first to quell the civil strife, and then to lead troops to help, these three people can be said to have made great contributions! ”
Wang Lei and the three of them bowed down together, a look of reverence that could not be concealed flashed on their faces, and Wang Lei said in a trembling voice: "A few people can defend the city gate with the strength of three people, they are really brave and invincible!" The king of the lower officials is tired, and he risked his life to ask the adults for their names! ”
Nan Ying smiled, stretched out his hand to pick them up, and said, "I am the owner of that jade plaque!" As for the name, it is inconvenient to tell me here! Let's talk about it later! ”
As he spoke, he sat on the ground and let the Eagle's Nest warrior undress his armor and wrap his wounds.
Wang Lei was shocked and looked at Cheng Yu.
Cheng Yu said lightly: "Not bad! This noble man is the lord below, and he also asked Lord Wang and the two generals to keep their mouths shut! ”
Wang Lei's faces turned pale, and he arched his hand and said, "The lower officials will receive the order!" ”
Fang Hu ran from afar and said: "Lord, although the subordinates have temporarily blocked the city gate, it is still not safe here, please move!" ”
Nanying turned the injured arm wrapped in layers and found that it was no longer a major problem, so he couldn't help but stand up and laughed: "Okay! Ladies and gentlemen, please follow me to the castle tower again! ”
Wang Lei exclaimed: "Adults can't, there are also many crises on the city tower, adults are injured, how can they be in danger again?" ”
Nanying laughed and said, "Danger? Good! Today, I invite you to witness the fall of the Heavenly Master! ”
Everyone lost their voices in unison: "What! ”
Only Zhang Lu's face flashed with a complicated and incomprehensible sadness.
Zhang Xiumu stood expressionlessly on the hillside, and none of the people in his entourage dared to stand behind him, they were keenly aware that Zhang Xiu at this moment was like a barely suppressed volcano, which could erupt endless flames at any time.
"Master!" A cry of grief came from afar.
The sacrificial wine who was sent to supervise the battle was covered with blood, stumbled over, knelt heavily in front of Zhang Xiu, and said miserably: "It's because the subordinates are not commanding effectively, and they didn't capture the city gate!" ”
Zhang Xiusen said: "Why can't you attack for a long time? ”
The sacrificial wine argued: "Seeing that it was about to be captured, suddenly more than a thousand life force divisions poured out of the city.......
Zhang Xiu interrupted: "How about the casualties of our army? ”
The sacrificial wine was stunned for a moment, and said: "Except for the more than 1,000 wounded, our army still has nearly 6,000 people!" ”
The terrifying sound of bone cracking came, and the Heavenly Master Dao generals all took a step back in shock.
The sacrificial wine shook all over, his eyes straightened, and a few lines of blood flowed from his mouth and nose, shook for a while, and fell obliquely.
Zhang Xiu slowly withdrew his palm, which was as white as jade, but his face was hideous, and he said fiercely: "There are so many people who have died, if you don't die, how can you be worthy of them?" ”
He turned around and shouted to the silent subordinates: "A group of useless waste, all come forward to this seat, you must capture Nanzheng before sunset!" ”
All the sacrificial wines and generals bowed awe-inspiringly, and one of the sacrificial wines had not yet straightened up, when he suddenly found that a small stone in front of him shook, followed by another shock, and then the shaking became faster and faster, and everyone also felt a faint vibration under their feet.
Zhang Xiu frowned and said, "What's going on?" ”
Everyone looked at each other, and one of them wondered, "Could it be that the ground is moving?" ”
A Heavenly Master Dao general, who had been a general of the Han army, suddenly lost his voice and said, "No! This is a large group of cavalry approaching! ”
One of the priests rolled his eyes and immediately exclaimed in disbelief.
They were at the rear of the hillside, and at some point they had raised a large cloud of dust, and in the yellow mist, the figures of countless cavalry loomed.
Zhang Xiu glanced at it, and it was the miserable faces of his subordinates, and his heart suddenly seemed to have fallen into a boundless ice prison.
Zhang Xiuqiang couldn't help but be frightened in his heart, and said angrily: "Why did a large force of cavalry suddenly appear in the rear of the army? The scouts are dead! ”
The general who spoke earlier said miserably: "Shijun's expectation is good! They must have been secretly swept away, otherwise how dare the enemy unscrupulously charge the battle with cavalry! ”
Zhang Xiu finally couldn't control it, and roared hysterically: "Quick! Order the siege troops to return to the defensive formation! ”
It's already too late. Before the Heavenly Master sergeants who had hastily withdrawn formed a formation, countless cavalry shrouded in pitch-black armor had already been killed with billowing smoke and dust.
Under the frightened and incredulous gaze of the Celestial Master Sergeant, they seemed to be performing a knightly show, first shooting two rounds of arrow rain easily in the distance, completely tearing apart the originally loose formation of the Celestial Master Army, and then putting the bow behind him with his left hand on the side of his body, and pulling out the long-handled saber at his waist with his right hand.
The Celestial Master soldiers had not yet woken up from the undreaming cavalry of the enemy army, and countless sharp blades reflected the afterglow of the setting sun, mercilessly slashing at their necks.
The rolling black clouds swept across the battlefield like a whirlwind, instantly chiseled through the entire Heavenly Master Army, and went straight to the foot of Nanzheng City, and then divided into two roads, left and right, like two black dragons going out to sea, encircling the entire battlefield, and crushing towards the center little by little.
In the cheers of the Eagle's Nest warriors at the head of Nanzheng City, these cavalrymen, who were also dressed in pitch-black armor, were not in a hurry to kill and poke, but unhurriedly drove back those Heavenly Master Army routs who were trying to escape from the battlefield, gradually shrinking the encirclement network, and finally trapped the remaining nearly 6,000 Heavenly Division troops in the center.
The 6,000 remnants of the defeated army were gradually squeezed into a circle, and they fought hard for a long time, and they were already sleepy and tired, and they were defeated by the overwhelming attack of this cavalry, which can be said to be the end of the strong crossbow. Even so, for Heavenly Master Dao believers with fanatical beliefs, these were still not enough to bring them to their knees. Many loyal soldiers had red eyes and clenched their weapons tightly, ready to make a final stand for their master.
Just as they were preparing to fight to the death, those mysterious cavalry suddenly stopped shrinking and encircling. This made the defeated army of the Heavenly Master a little overwhelmed, and thousands of people had different thoughts, and they all subconsciously closed their mouths
For a time, the whole battlefield was full of wind and hunting, and only the cheers of the soldiers defending the city were heard.
Suddenly, the cheers in the city came to an abrupt end.
Above the city, Zhang Lu took a deep breath and tried to straighten his body, and his loud shout immediately resounded on the battlefield.
"All the subordinates of the Heavenly Master Army heard clearly, I am the Great Sacrifice Wine Zhang Lu. Zhang Xiu committed rebellion and intended to rebel, and has now been sentenced to death! The rest of the people quickly knelt down and were bound, and they were spared death! ”
Thousands of days the division army blew up the nest at once.
"Oh my God! It's really a big festival sake! ”
"Shijun is dead? What can we do? ”
"If you have the guts, follow me to fight a bloody path!"
"You're crazy! Don't drag us down if you want to die! ”
"Not bad! I didn't listen to the great sacrificial wine, and those who descend will not die! ”
"What are you hesitating about! It's going to come down! ”
"Will the Great Sacrificial Wine deceive us, and if we do, what will they do if they want to kill us?"
"Silence!" Zhang Lu roared.
He said in a cold tone: "Think about your family, don't you want to be reunited with them as soon as possible?" Do you want to put them guilty of rebellion when you die? ”
A sacrificial wine came out of the crowd and saluted Zhang Luyao in the city and said: "Great sacrificial wine, my subordinates dare to ask, Shijun he, Shijun is really dead?" ”
Zhang Lu sneered in his heart, and said with a long smile: "What do you say? Do you need me to show his head to the public? ”
On the hillside, Zhang Xiu had already spurted out a mouthful of blood since Zhang Lu appeared and said the first sentence, and he finally understood that from the time he learned that the Han army had become solid, he had completely fallen into a trap of ten deaths.
At this time, all the sacrificial wine around Zhang Xiu, the general was dead, and he fled, and the only four remaining personal dead soldiers rushed up together to support him.
Zhang Xiu gasped for a while, gradually calmed down, and was about to refute him, when a gust of wind blew, blowing Zhang Lu's last sentence into his ears word for word.
"Wow!" Zhang Xiu couldn't help but spit out another mouthful of blood, and his face was as white as paper.
A dead soldier said eagerly: "Master, now that the defeat is decided, why don't we protect you to the death while they have not besieged this place!" ”
Zhang Xiu's face was hideous: "No! Even if I die, I will die with my good nephew! ”
"Xi Yuyu" a horse neighed.
A knight in armor rushed up the hillside.
When Zhang Xiu saw that man coming alone, his heart was full of murderous intent, and he shouted wildly: "Give it to me!" Kill this thief first! ”
The four dead men looked at each other and drew their weapons to attack together.
The knight did not say a word, but the spear in his hand stabbed the nearest man in half, and with the help of horsepower, he actually lifted the corpse high and threw it far away.
When the rest of the people saw this momentum, they all exclaimed in surprise, and they still killed them hard.
One of them leapt to his feet, his long knife slashing down at the knight's head.
Before the knight's spear could be withdrawn, he turned his spear rod and swept it heavily on the dead man's chest, and immediately spurted blood from his mouth, and flew out in mid-air.
The other man was so frightened that he rolled to the ground and slashed his long knife against the knight's horse's hooves.
The knight sneered, pulled the reins with one hand, and the horseman stood up, avoiding the knife that was close to the ground without danger.
Before the dead man could put away his sword and retreat, the horse's hooves had already stepped on him heavily, and he was trampled to broken tendons.
The last man finally lost his fighting spirit, abandoned his weapon, and said in horror: "Don't kill ......"
The spear flashed and pierced through his mouth, and the cry for mercy stopped abruptly.
Zhang Xiu watched the knight slowly ride his horse like a demon god approaching, cold sweat gushed out from his back, and he hissed: "You! Who are you? ”
The knight pulled open the shield, revealing a young face that was not angry and arrogant, and said without a trace of emotion: "I am Gao Shun, and I am here to send Shijun on the road!" ”
Zhang Xiu finally collapsed, and let out a roar that was not like a human voice, and he pounced on him like a madman.
"When the gong" sounded, I don't know who was the first to throw down the weapon, as if it was a plague infection, the sound of the blade falling to the ground became louder and louder, the louder and denser, after a few breaths, none of the thousands of defeated troops dared to resist stubbornly, and they all bowed their heads and surrendered.
Since Zhang Xiu's head was thrown into the stadium by Gao Shun, all resistance has no longer made any sense.
Night gradually fell, just like Zhang Lu's heavy heart, he witnessed a team of former subordinates being escorted away, and he didn't know whether to be happy or sad in his heart.
Suddenly, a palm gently slapped on his shoulder.
Nan Ying's voice came from behind him, and he said lightly: "Gongqi! Don't be sad, the way of the Heavenly Master has become a thing of the past, after tonight, you still have to lift your spirits and start again! ”
Zhang Lu said in a trembling voice: "You mean, you mean!" ”
Nanying smiled, "Remember what I said to you before?" The Heavenly Master's rebellion will surely disappear, and this name has become a taboo in the future. However, there are still a large number of ordinary people in the Hanzhong area who once believed in his teachings. Not to mention anything else, is there really no trace of hatred in the hearts of these thousands of soldiers? If there is no Protestant conversion, I am afraid that soon there will be conspirators ready to stir up trouble and instigate trouble! ”
His eyes showed a thoughtful look: "Your task is to break with the old and establish the new, formulate a set of teachings that cherish life and be kind to others, and guide the people of Hanzhong to abandon their desires, let go of hatred, and engage in farming, fishing and weaving with peace of mind!" ”
As he spoke, he suddenly saw the fleeting tears in Zhang Lu's eyes, and couldn't help but wonder: "Huh! Gongqi, what's wrong with you? ”
Zhang Lu took a deep breath and shook his head: "It's nothing!" Alas! Lord, why am I so conflicted in my heart, I seem to understand you more and more, but I can't see through you more and more! ”
Nanying smiled dumbly: "Each other! ”
The two of them suddenly laughed in unison.
Nanying suppressed his laughter, looked into the distance into the city, and said softly: "Go!" Let's go to Taishoufu! We still have a lot to plan before the 12,000 army returns tomorrow! Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night! ”