Chapter 499: The End of the World
"Who can take down the head of Xiang Kang's traitor, and this king will share the world equally with him!"
When Xiang Yu made this huge promise again, the narrow Surabaya Pavilion battlefield in the north and south had also turned into a pot of boiling blood, and the Western Chu army that charged and assaulted forcibly tore a huge gap in the two army formations in front of the Han army, and the right front team that attacked the rear of the Han army like madness, was only less than two hundred zhang away from where Xiang Kang's flag formation was, and no matter how the right front team of the Han army's rear line greeted violently with various weapons in a dense queue, it could not stop and shake the determination of the Western Chu army to attack the Han army's flag formation.
The right flank of the Han army also became a big mess, everywhere were the soldiers of the two armies who caught and killed each other, and everywhere there was a collision of gold and iron and the whistling of feather arrows, the blood flowed so much that even the earth changed color, the corpses and wounded soldiers were lying all over the wilderness and fields, and the deafening shouts of killing directly covered the sound of the general attack war drums in the banner formation of the Western Chu army, and the blood flowed like a river, and the corpses piled up like a mountain.
The two wings of the Western Chu army are no better, on the left flank, the first three thousand commandos to go out of the camp to assault have been surrounded by the sixth team of the Han army's front formation, even if it can still be supported for the time being, it is already full of crises and dangers, once there is any accident, it will definitely only be the end of the whole army. The division of Wang Fen of the Western Chu Army, which was further ahead, was attacked by two five teams in the front and middle of the Han army, and they also fought with less and more, relying on morale and fighting spirit.
The situation on the right flank of the Western Chu army was even more critical, the 3,000 troops that attacked from the right flank were also surrounded by the first team of the Han army's front formation, and the Eastern Secret Department on the right flank of the rear was also suppressed by the second and third teams of the Han army's front formation, and the pressure on the right wing of the center was even greater.
Under the superb command of Li Zuoche, the Han army has actually offset most of the Western Chu army's assault offensive after paying the price of the collapse of the 20,000-person phalanx, in addition to the frontal battlefield, there are more battles and fewer battles on both flanks, so that as long as the Western Chu army makes a mistake in one link, there is a danger of complete collapse.
This is not counting, although the Han army is at a disadvantage on the front, but because the two wings of the Western Chu army have been strongly contained, in fact, the Western Chu army is still maintaining the momentum of frontal attack, and only Liu Laosan and Zhou Lan are left, the two Western Chu armies, of which Liu Laosan's army has suffered nearly half of the casualties, and the physical strength has also dropped very seriously, and the scarred ones are already in a state of being at the end of the crossbow, as long as it takes a while, the Western Chu army led by Liu Laosan is in danger of being completely exhausted and exhausted.
Under such circumstances, the general attack and assault to destroy the Han army's flag array is of course the only hope for the Western Chu army to turn the tables, but it is a pity that even if the general offensive war drum sounds, the Eastern Secret Department of the Western Chu Army, which was jointly suppressed by the second and third teams of the Han army's front, still could not get rid of the entanglement and interception of the Han army, and continued to be suppressed by the Han army near the north of the Western Chu army's camp, freeing up his hands to help Xiang Yu, so it was only Xiang Yu and Ding Gu who really charged forward and entered the Han army's position from the gap.
But of course Xiang Yu will not mind this, under his personal leadership, the elite rear team of the Western Chu Army is like an arrow from the Xuan, charging up at a galloping speed, quickly devouring the scattered soldiers of the Han army remaining on the position, and smashing the rear of the Han army from the gap that was forcibly torn out, the slogan of killing the Han thieves came and went, and the indomitable momentum was eye-catching, and Xiang Yu, who was wounded and went into battle, rushed to the front again, waving a steel spear and shouting wildly, "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”
At this time, Li Zuoche also let the Han army's flag array play the flag again, and let the left front team of the Han army's rear charge forward and hit the flank of Zhou Lan's department of the Western Chu army, and then he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "What can be done, your subordinates have already done it, and then it depends on the performance of our soldiers." ”
"Guangwu-kun, isn't it?" Zhang Liang asked in surprise: "Our rear left rear team has not moved yet, and in addition, our third team of the middle formation is still fighting in a circle, and we can free up our hands to help other friendly troops, why don't you give them orders from these two armies?" ”
"The battlefield is narrow, if they are all mobilized, on the contrary, they may be crushed by the Western Chu thief army because of the loosening of the formation, which will bring us more threats of our own defeat." Li Zuoche replied: "Rather than this, it is better to let them stand still, lay nails on the battlefield to protect our positions and limit the activity space of the Western Chu thief army." At critical moments, we still have something they can count on. ”
Zhang Liang, who was not good at tactical battles than Xiang Kang, seemed to know whether he knew whether he knew whether he nodded or not, and Xiang Kang, who was greedy for life and afraid of death, was quiet, just ordered the two thousand heavy armored soldiers who originally belonged to the northern line of the Han Army to form a circle to protect the flag formation, and establish the last strong line of defense to protect himself and Li Zuoche and others in case of emergency, and at the same time, he personally picked up the spear for the first time after a lapse of several years, and was mentally prepared to personally swing the spear to kill the enemy in advance.
The Han army's flag array can only be commanded to this step, the Han army and the Western Chu army on both wings contain each other, and they can't draw their hands to reinforce other battlefields within a certain period of time, and the Western Chu army can only watch the Han army's left front team charge and entangle the Western Chu army Zhou Lan's department who helped Liu Laosan, and the Han army can only watch the captain of the Western Chu army drive straight in, and kill directly to the rear of the army from the gap, all of which can no longer make the next adjustment.
Finally, like the arrow off the string, the rear team of the Western Chu army still hit the right front position of the Han army's rear formation, relying on the huge inertia and unstoppable crazy momentum, forcibly rushed out of a gap in the Han army's position, and the Western Chu army's Liu Laosan's department, which made way to the right, strode forward, and also began to contact the circle of the right rear of the Han army protecting the flag array, and took the lead in firing the first shot with Xiang Kang's guard.
The scene is also tragic and bloody, which can no longer be described with pen and ink, the Han army soldiers who resolutely stand firm are stabbing with knives and spears, forcibly blocking the enemies of the Western Chu army who are constantly rushing from all directions, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army are one after another, constantly striding forward, and frantically greeting the Han soldiers who are fighting in line with all kinds of weapons, the soldiers of the two armies are crawling on the fields that Liu Laosan's fellow villagers have worked hard for, and there are two soldiers lying down screaming all the time, and there is blood splashing like rain all the time, The blood quickly stained the aqueducts in the fields red, and the mutilated corpses lay all over the ravines.
Liu Laosan's army, which was already at the end of the strong crossbow, could no longer threaten the safety of the Han army's flag array, and several times he sacrificed his life to attack was resolutely killed and retreated by the Han soldiers who protected the flag array, and each impact was hundreds of dead and wounded, Cao Shen, Zhou Bo and Xiahou Ying and other generals were all bloodstained all over their bodies, and their bodies were covered with scaly wounds, and Liu Laosan's body was also hung with two colors, and the impact on the Han army's flag array became weaker and weaker.
But even so, Liu Laosan was still urging the army to attack with red eyes, because Liu Laosan knew very well that once he could not destroy the Han army's flag array before the Han army's reinforcements arrived, then as long as Zhou Shu led the army to arrive, the Western Chu army was doomed to be a fiasco.
The greatest pressure is, of course, the phalanx of the right front team of the Han army, under the joint impact of Xiang Yu and Ding Gu's two Western Chu armies, the number of casualties of the only rear front team in the rear formation has risen one after another, and in less than a moment, there have been nearly two thousand Han soldiers lying on the battlefield forever, and a number of five hundred people phalanx were crushed, and Gongsun Tong, who commanded the Han army array, was also injured, so he could only grit his teeth and lead the rest of the Han army soldiers to fight to the death.
There is less and less time left for the Western Chu army, and Xiang Yu, who knows this, has not had time to completely defeat the right front team of the Han army's rear formation, and has just fought a bloody way in the Han army's formation, so he can't wait to be the first to swing his spear to Xiang Kang's handsome banner, and regardless of the Han soldiers who protect the banner array, they don't hesitate to accidentally injure their comrades in front of them to shoot arrows at Xiang Yu, but they can't stop Xiang Yu's charge. The feather arrows were full of steel armor that Xiang Yu snatched from the heavy armor soldiers of the Han army, and shot and injured the black horse under Xiang Yu's crotch, but Xiang Yu was still roaring forward, and the elite of the Western Chu army who went from the northeast of the river with him was also non-stop, and he did not hesitate to meet the dense arrow rain of the Han army.
The steel armor and steel spear captured from the hands of the heavy armor soldiers of the Han army also helped Xiang Yu a lot at this moment, in addition to helping him block most of the Han army feather arrows, it also blocked countless Han army spears that pierced his body, the steel spear waved under the urging of divine power, the Han soldiers lay down in pieces, and the black horse with dozens of arrows stepped forward, panting and carrying Xiang Yu forward with a heavy snort, forcibly rushing out of a bloody path on the dense circle formation of the Han army, and advancing towards Xiang Kang's banner little by little.
In the tumult of the battlefield like a storm, Xiang Kang's obscene and familiar figure finally appeared in Xiang Yu's field of vision after a few years, but before Xiang Yu could let out an excited cheer, the black horse under his crotch had already been cut off by a fallen Han soldier with a knife, and he fell miserably in a pool of blood, and Xiang Yu, who was wearing heavy armor, also fell to the ground suddenly, and fell on the battlefield for the first time in his life.
The cheers of the Han soldiers rose to the sky, and countless swords and spears were also slashed at Xiang Yu who fell to the ground at the same time in an instant, but what greeted these Han soldiers was the tough steel spear that Xiang Yu quickly swung out between the lightning and flint, and the leg bones of several Han soldiers were broken, and two Han soldiers were smashed into the air by the steel spear, and then in the exclamation of the Han soldiers, Xiang Yu suddenly jumped up like a spring, and walked to kill Xiang Kang's banner again, The soldiers of the Western Chu Army, who were screaming behind, also suddenly burst out in surprise.
The cheers of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army also stopped abruptly, because when Xiang Yu swung his spear and smashed several Han soldiers wearing ordinary leather armor, a row of Han soldiers wearing pitch-black steel armor suddenly appeared in front of Xiang Yu and the soldiers of the Western Chu Army, raising their steel spears and stabbing Xiang Yu head-on.
If it was replaced at another time, then I am afraid that even the Han army's ace of infantry heavy armor soldiers would not be able to stop Xiang Yu from advancing, but there was no way, Xiang Yu's abdominal wound that had been bleeding all the time had a huge impact on Xiang Yu at this moment, in the case that it could only be smashed open and stunned by brute force, Xiang Yu had just knocked down more than a dozen Han army heavy armor soldiers, and the wound that had been re-torn open was even more bloody, and the blood that had been oozing out of the steel armor before was flowing faster and faster, and it was flowing more and more, Xiang Yu, who had already suffered serious blood loss, gradually blurred his vision, and even the scum cousin Shuai Qi, who was already close at hand, couldn't see clearly, and completely turned into a dying beast struggling frantically on the battlefield, fighting with a spear by instinct.
At this time, the circular formation formed by Xiang Kang's direct guards had also been torn apart by nearly half of the Western Chu Army, and Xiang Yu himself was even less than fifty meters away from Xiang Kang, and there was only one last step left before destroying the Han army's flag array and killing Xiang Kang, the scum cousin.
This step was close at hand, and far away in the world, the heavy armored soldiers of the Han army who were fighting in line held their positions to the death, and killed and wounded the soldiers of the Western Chu army who were constantly rushing with extremely sharp and strong steel weapons, and it was difficult to advance an inch. What's worse is that because of the severe retinal ischemia caused by continuous blood loss, Xiang Yu can no longer see the surrounding situation clearly, and he can't hear the shouts of the soldiers of the Western Chu Army clearly in the huge noise on the battlefield, so he can only blindly wave the steel spear and smash it wildly, rushing and killing in the chaotic army like a headless fly, and killing the soldiers of the Western Chu Army who originally came up to help him and smashing countless wounds.
Seeing this scene on the high ground of the flag array, Xiang Kang, who didn't have much medical knowledge, in addition to being surprised that Xiang Yu seemed to be blind, also felt a little guilty about Xiang Yu for the first time in his heart, and said secretly: "Brother, don't blame me, if it weren't for the unification of the world as soon as possible and the end of this troubled world, if I show some sincerity, it is still possible for our brothers to be reconciled." ”
"It's coming! Here it comes! Our reinforcements are coming! ”
The sudden sound of huge cheers ended Xiang Kang's guilty muttering, and then, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves quickly came into Xiang Kang's ears, and countless Han cavalry held high the snow bright sabers, like a tide with billowing dust and smoke, and after the dust and smoke, of course, it was the banner of Uncle Zhou, the first person in the Han army's military circles, and the Han army infantry brigade with a number of 100,000.
"Reinforcements from the Han thieves have arrived!"
This situation was like a sudden eight-magnitude earthquake, which instantly stunned the officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army who were fighting to the death with the Han army, and countless officers and soldiers of the Western Chu Army suddenly turned pale as paper, their mood was desperate to the extreme, and their morale and fighting spirit suddenly fell to the bottom. The crowd of soldiers of the Han army was thunderous with joy, and the morale and fighting spirit were suddenly extremely high, "It's coming!" Our reinforcements are finally here! ”
The atmosphere of despair was also filled with every Western Chu army team in an instant, and many officers and soldiers of the Western Chu army, who were already close to the Han army's flag array, began to subconsciously retreat backwards, forced to prepare for escape in advance, only Xiang Yu, who was already blurry in front of him, was still waving his spear in despair, howling madly like a dying beast, "Traitor! Xiang Kang traitor! Death! Dead ——! ”
"King, reinforcements from the Han thieves have arrived! Let's get out of here! ”
"Please, my lord! Withdraw! ”
The desperate cries of the soldiers of the Western Chu army did not play any role, and Xiang Yu, who had lost his mind, not only was he blindly rushing around all the time, but also knocked over and stoned to death more than a dozen soldiers of the Western Chu army who tried to come up and pull him to retreat, and the mechanical ones were just waving spears and rushing around on the battlefield, and the shouting voice was also accompanied by crying, "Xiang Kang traitor!" Come out! Come out! Come out and die! ”
Xiang Kang's flag array was in a critical situation, and the Han cavalry led by Guan Ying was of course the first to rush to the rescue of the flag array, but before the Han cavalry rushed closer, Liu Laosan, who had only three percent of the soldiers left, had already turned his horse's head and fled south with his Peixian friends. And when the Han cavalry was about to approach the Han army's flag array, Li Zuoche also decisively ordered Xiang Kang's guards to beat the war drums and send out a signal for a full-scale general attack.
Immediately following Liu Laosan, even Feng Zhong was despised, Ji Bu's maternal uncle Ding Gu immediately turned his horse's head, threw down the army he was still fighting with the Han army Gongsun Tong's army and ran away, his guards hurriedly held the flag to keep up, and the soldiers of the Western Chu army who assisted Xiang Yu in the battle also collapsed in an instant, screaming and screaming and fleeing faster than the other, the Han cavalry swept down, killing the defeated soldiers of the Western Chu army under Ding Gu's army all over the field, and the dead and wounded were all over the field.
On the two flanks of the battlefield, the two Western Chu armies, which had long been at a disadvantage, also quickly collapsed one after another, and the soldiers and dead continued to fall, and they were doomed to the tragic fate of the two Han armies that were surrounded by them as soon as possible.
Liu Laosan and Wang Fen, the general of the Western Chu Army in the rear of Ding Gu, wanted to insist, but when he saw his companions in the north crying and shouting, they rushed to the south, bypassing the battlefield where he was and crawling south, the countless Western Chu soldiers under his command still couldn't resist the fear in their hearts, and they turned around and joined the crowd of people fleeing for their lives, and the two Han army teams he faced took the opportunity to strengthen the offensive, killing his army to collapse faster and flee more, and it was destined to be a matter of time before it was completely dispersed, and it would definitely not be very long.
Ji Bu, who left an allusion to the history of a thousand daughters and a promise, is still very righteous, even if the soldiers under his command are all Xiang Yu's troops under Xiang Zhuang who were handed over to him before the war, he still ordered the soldiers to organize a round formation on the spot, and continue to fight against the Han army with their lives, and at the same time urgently sent someone to contact Xiang Yu, asking Xiang Yu to immediately lead the army to retreat, and he took on the responsibility of the palace. But unfortunately, the guards he sent to contact Xiang Yu were like mud cows into the sea, never to return, and his army was quickly surrounded on all sides by the Han army, which had already begun a general offensive and counterattack.
Ji Bu couldn't contact Xiang Yu, of course, because his guards couldn't get close to Xiang Yu, who had completely lost his mind, and because of Xiang Yu's involvement, the Jiangdong soldiers under his personal command did not dare to abandon him and flee for their lives, so they could only quickly surround and protect him in the melee, while shouting and screaming in vain, begging him to regain his sanity and retreat immediately, while fighting with the constantly coming Han soldiers to sacrifice their lives and do the final dying struggle.
Things have come to this point, in fact, Xiang Yu and Xiang Kang, the unscrupulous brothers who have joined forces to plague the world, are still not far apart, less than 100 meters apart from each other, and Xiang Kang, who is intact all over his body, has also been silently watching the overlord cousin who is desperately fighting in the chaos of the crowd, looking at it, two lines of tears slowly flowed down Xiang Kang's not ugly cheeks, and he muttered in his mouth......
"Brother, it's not that I don't want to spare you, let you live, it's that I can't spare you, you are a tiger, if I leave you behind, it is equivalent to raising a tiger in my home, sooner or later it will kill me, and it is destined to make more innocent people die."
After muttering in his mouth, Xiang Kang wiped the tears from his face and roared loudly: "Order the whole army, Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, has done many evils, tyrannical and unreasonable, and his crimes are unforgivable!" Whoever obtains the head of Xiang Yu and seals the Marquis of Wanhu! Bounty of 10,000! ”