Chapter 4 (43) Night Battle

The soldiers who were resting on the spot and waiting on the left heard the shouts of several heralds, and in an instant, everyone froze their hands and feet as if they had been struck by lightning, and they were dumbfounded and curled up in a daze, and some of the soldiers were so frightened that they didn't even know that the bread bun in their hands fell to the ground and the water in the water bladder poured out.

Shang Cheng was also bluffed, his face was as pale as snowflakes falling in the cold sky of the wax moon, and he asked urgently: "How many enemies are there in Dazhai?" Where did the enemy come from? ”

"It's not Dazhai, it's not ......," the leading herald gasped and gasped, "...... It's not a big village, it's a ...... village," the soldier said, the quieter his voice became, and the last word came out, and the person swayed twice on horseback, and as soon as his hand loosened the reins, his two arms drooped softly. Several men who were standing close immediately rushed up to him and dismounted him. Only then did everyone see clearly that there were several feathered arrows stuck crookedly on the back of this soldier.

Sun Zhongshan held the soldier in his arms and shouted for the military doctor to come over, Shang Cheng had already designated a herald who could barely stand upright, and asked, "What the hell is going on?" ”

"General Shang, here, what the hell is going on,...... We don't know either. The soldier said, "The enemy is not riding horses, they are all on all sides, and it is the people sent by the camp who report the news, and if they try to turn back to save them, the road is cut off......

Shang Cheng listened to the soldier's words, and he couldn't reach the edge, and asked, "You speak slowly!" Make it clear one thing at a time! Are you Resima's soldiers? "Lei Ben's team is the leader of the army, less than ten miles behind him, and there was contact between the two sides half an hour ago, how can it be that there is no news at all in advance, and if something happens, something will happen?

At this time, the soldier stabilized his mind a little and said, "Yes, we are from the right army of Dingjin!" Just after the end of the day, Captain Lei Duwei noticed that there was a fighting on the back road, and then someone reported that the camp had been attacked, and then we were surrounded by the enemy in the dark. The people who came up were all big tent soldiers who didn't ride horses, and they didn't know how many enemies there were. Captain Lei sent us out to find Shang Sima. …… Of the fifty brothers who came out, we were the only ones. ”

Shang Cheng didn't ask again. Obviously, the Zhao army had fallen into the trap that the enemy had painstakingly arranged, and the 50,000 soldiers and 20,000 heavy soldiers bravely stretched for 20 miles from north to south...... His eyes were dark, and the sky was spinning in front of him, and he barely fell off his horse. Finally calmed down, and a deep remorse immediately surged into his heart, and it was his idea to break through one by one, it was his recklessness that sent tens of thousands of Zhao Jian'er to death!

Several generals on the left and right were also disturbed by the bad news at the moment, and they were all so anxious that they lowered their heads and desperately thought of a way. Sun Zhongshan handed over the wounded soldier to the military doctor, came over and said to Shang Cheng: "General, the military situation is urgent, we must quickly withdraw and rescue the army!" "Several officers too

Shang Cheng's clenched cheeks twitched a few times, and a pair of bloodshot eyes stared at the undulating meadow in the north, and said viciously: "No! Now you can fill in as much as you can when you go back! The battle can't be fought like this! He glanced back at the camp where the battle was raging, and said fiercely, "This place must be defeated!" It must also be held! This is the only way the army can go after dawn, and there must be no mistakes! Even if you fill it with people, you must open up this road! ”

Most of the officers here are veterans of the military, and as soon as you hear what he says, you immediately understand. Since the Turbulence has set such a big trap to induce the army to break through, then Moganzhai is afraid that it will be difficult to protect; Without the support of Mogan Dazhai, the army can only fight to the south, and this road is the key to the army's escape......

Under the light of the torches around him, the scar on Shang Cheng's cheek was like a black snake swimming in its twist. His face was blue, his expression was extremely solemn and solemn, and he said slowly: "I now order: the two brigades must conquer the camp in front of them before dawn today, lead to the road to the south, and build a defense on the spot. As soon as the road was opened, the 3,000 light cavalry of the A Brigade set out to establish a bridgehead between the Luhe River and the Heishui River by 26 August. The 345th Battalion of the C Brigade and the D Brigade, following the A Brigade, swept away the stubborn enemy along the way, and made sure that the road to the south was unblocked. The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the D Brigade and the Chinese Army Escort Battalion went back with me to rescue. ”

This series of orders was concise and clear, and the officers all looked solemn and solemn to lead the orders, and when they heard that Shang Cheng was going to lead the soldiers and horses to die again, everyone was shocked and stunned for a while. The two brigade commanders stepped forward at the same time and shouted, "Lord Sima, this can't be done!" You take people south to Luhe, and we'll go back to the rescue! ”

Shang Cheng looked at the two subordinates, and said indifferently with an expressionless face: "This is a military order. Let's do it. ”

…… At this time, the road from Moganzhai to the south for more than ten miles has become a Shura hell.

The Zhao army broke through overnight, and not long after the rear team left the camp, the army encountered several strong attacks by the assault troops. In the dark night, although the Zhao army was well-trained and had strict orders, the morale of the army was fluctuating after the new defeat, and then it was caught off guard by the Tuqi people, and it only resisted for a moment before the battalion was blown up. Tens of thousands of Zhao troops had no orders, the system was chaotic, the officers could not find the soldiers, the soldiers could not find the officials, some people were panicked and left the chaos, some people were holding their heads and running around, some people were wandering in place, some people were carrying knives and spears to grab mounts, and some people were shouting and sitting on the ground and howling. Groups of black-armored big tent soldiers are like ghosts out of the darkness, surrounded in all directions, the horns echo the order of traffic, the front is blocked and the middle is cut, and the Zhao army is cut into countless sections in an instant.

The big tent soldiers came and went quickly, and in less than half an hour, with a sound of a bull's horn, these fierce butchers suddenly disappeared into the darkness, leaving only the frightened Zhao soldiers looking at each other.

The camp wrapped in the middle of the team was also repeatedly assaulted by several groups of enemies, the director of the Zhibing Division was killed, the deputy marshal Liao Zhong was martyred, and the two brigades of Liyuan soldiers who were guarding the periphery fought to die half of the battle, so it was not easy to protect the integrity of the camp. Xiao Jian and Guo Biao are both people who have been in battle for a long time, and they can still stabilize their minds at the last moment, while ordering all armies and brigades to gather and reorganize their teams to count the number of people, and on the other hand, they urgently ordered the front army and the rear team to immediately move closer to themselves, frowning and wondering why the big tent soldiers suddenly retreated, and calculating how the army should move next. While thinking about it, I saw the fire in Moganzhai in the north, and heard the sound of horses' hooves rolling from the east, west and north. At this moment, no matter how reckless the people were, they also knew that the general trend of the Zhao army had gone, and they shouted in panic and hesitation, and they threw away their armor and fled one after another. Xiao Jian Guo Biao's personal soldiers saw that the defeat was no longer something that could be stopped by manpower, and they were wrapped up in the chaotic army with their respective main generals, and disappeared in a blink of an eye......

Amid the sound of drums and horns, countless enemy horsemen roared into the ranks of the scattered Zhao army, slashing and killing with impunity. Chen Pu was surrounded by a battalion of hussars and found his way to break through. But the sky is dim, the stars and the moon are dark, and they can't distinguish the east, west, north and south, and the vast fields are full of flares lit with torches chasing the defeated and defeated soldiers, and they don't dare to blindly fight, and they don't care about the direction, they only run towards the places where there are few people. Kill all the way, flee all the way and cut all the way, the soldiers around him are fighting less and less, but there are more and more enemies around, and in the end there is no way to escape, and he is surrounded by hundreds of enemy horsemen on a river beach by the river. On one side is the turbulent Heishui River, on the other side is the fierce Rush soldiers, although more than 200 Zhao troops are injured and know that they will die, they do not dare to slack off, carrying knives and guns to tie the war horses to form a small semicircle, quietly waiting for the last fight.

Chen Pu was in the middle of the team. She sat on her horse with a calm face, deaf to the shouts of the two arrows out of the field as the people gathered in their ranks, and took the corner of a handkerchief in her mouth, and wrapped her left handkerchief around her wounded right hand. Her scarf had long since been knocked off, and now she was tied with a piece of bouler with a green silk on her hair. There was a wound on her forehead that was more than two inches long, pulling from the hairline of her forehead to her sideburns, because she didn't have time to bandage it, the red blood flowed through half of her face, and she had wiped it with her own hands, and her face was covered with dry blood scabs. In addition to the wound on her forehead, her left arm was also wrapped in a blood-soaked raw cloth. She quickly wrapped the wound on her right hand, and with the cooperation of her teeth and dexterous fingers, she tied the handkerchief in a very delicate little dead knot, and then took a scimitar from Liao Pheasant's hand and danced it lightly. A slight smile tugged at the corner of her mouth. The wound was well wrapped and basically did not affect her movements.

Liao Pheasant opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something to her. But in the end she didn't say anything, just held the hilt tightly. The two female guards on the other side of Chen Pu also didn't say anything.

The Turquoises had already put their ranks in order, and with the dull sound of horns, more than five hundred of the enemy, with torches, slowly urged the horses, and slowly pressed up. There was a slight tremor of the bowstring, followed by the whizzing sound of feathered arrows tearing through the air. In the darkness, Zhao Jun continued to let out a muffled snort, and a few people fell down on the saddle or planted their horses, but more people turned a blind eye to the feathered arrows that came and went without a trace, and their red eyes just stared at the enemy in the light and shadow of the torches on the opposite side.

One hundred and fifty steps.

One hundred and twenty steps.

One hundred steps.

Chen Puhuo raised the scimitar in his hand and shouted: "Kill!" With the two hundred hussars roaring in unison: "Kill! She let go of the reins of the war horse, and with a slight knock of the spur, the war horse jumped out......

From a grassy slope on the south side, there was a louder roar: "Kill! One by one"

Accompanied by the sound of thunderous shouts of killing, countless torch waterfalls rushed down the grassy slope like a cascade, and the hundreds of soldiers who had exhausted themselves were already drowned in the shadows of swords and swords before they could understand what was going on.

Looking at the cavalry team of two or three thousand people in front of him, Chen Pu didn't know what was going on, he was worried with a scimitar, several war horses had already galloped over, and a lieutenant waved his hand and shouted: "Pass on our general's military order: all wounded infantry immediately retreat to the south." All the cavalry stayed, and followed the Shang general with a sentry as a formation. Who dares to neglect military affairs and not obey orders, and behead on the spot! After saying that, he rode over and asked the hussars to assemble and sort out at once, and after separating the wounded infantry, they immediately formed into the ranks and set off.

A hussar officer explained two sentences in the past, and the captain rolled off his horse in shock, ran over on his feet, and stood up and saluted Chen Pu a few steps away: "Lieutenant Qian Gouyu of the Huaihua Army of Yanshan Weizhong Army, Jin See the General!" ”