Chapter 270: Armageddon (2-in-1)
When Xia Sheng saw that the fifth leopard was shot by himself, he laughed wildly and waved his arms wildly, "Hurry up!" The whole army presses on! β
And the Dongfu Army fell apart in an instant because of the death of the Fifth Leopard, and the originally strict formation also collapsed in an instant, even if the adjutant general shouted loudly, it could not stop the soldiers from fleeing.
The adjutant general beheaded several soldiers who threw down their weapons and fled, and wanted to deter some soldiers, but what he didn't expect was that some soldiers saw the adjutant general blocking them, and actually stabbed the deputy general with a gun.
The adjutant general sighed, looking at the hideous-looking enemy army that had been killed, "The general trend has gone!" β
I had to flee in the opposite direction with a small number of guards.
The Fifth Leopard's guards desperately resisted the enemy, but they were still not enough, and they were chopped to pieces by the enemy's swords, and the body of the Fifth Leopard was also snatched by the crazy enemy army.
The Dongfu army was killed, wounded, captured, and fled, and there was not one of the 10,000 horses left.
The ambush soldiers led by Xia Sheng were only 5,000, and half of them were divided to resist Guan Yu's troops. A mere 2,500 men beat the 10,000 horses of the Fifth Leopard to the ground.
It was also the fifth leopard that was killed in battle, and the army of Guan Yu was resisted, and Xia Sheng became famous in one battle.
Xia Sheng licked his dry mouth and subconsciously touched the scar on his cheek, which had become a small habit that he couldn't change.
"Gather the soldiers and horses, let's go and meet Guan Yu, who has been famous for a long time!" Xia Sheng smiled cruelly, already taking Guan Yu as his ultimate prey.
Delicious!
There is no military general that can't be solved with one arrow, if it doesn't work, then two arrows!
Relying on the elite of the Dongyu army and Wei Yan's bravery, although the Dongyu army was small in number, it still successfully suppressed Xia Sheng's lieutenant general, although it was still too early to break through the enemy formation, and the two armies fell into a state of stalemate.
The fifth leopard died too quickly, the Dongfu army was defeated too early, and Guan Yu and Gongsun Qi were firmly restrained by the Bodhisattva army.
By the time Xia Sheng led his troops and horses to the rear battlefield, the two armies were fighting fiercely.
Xia Sheng's arrival injected a dose of heart-boosting agent into his side, and his morale increased greatly for a while.
Xia Sheng saw the extremely brave Wei Yan at a glance, and in the blink of an eye, Wei Yan hacked one of his own soldiers to death.
Xia Sheng looked at the brave Wei Yan, like a hyena that smelled the smell of fresh meat.
Xia has only two hobbies in his life, women also shoot enemy generals, especially those very brave enemy generals, watching them fall under their arrows one by one, but it is much more comfortable and enjoyable than shooting in a woman's body.
"Before I shoot Guan Yu, I'll make you an hors d'oeuvre!"
Xia Sheng muttered to himself and put the arrow on the giant bow.
Xia Sheng suddenly felt a tingling pain in his cheeks, making his spirit unable to concentrate all of a sudden.
Arrows like shooting stars...
The sound of the arrow breaking the wind suddenly made Wei Yan's heart angry, his cold hair stood on end, he didn't care about the demeanor of a general, and a lazy donkey rolled around, which was able to avoid the fatal blow of this arrow.
Liao Hua rushed over: "Captain Wei, you're okay!" β
Wei Yan got up from the ground with a disgraced face, holding a big knife, looking around vigilantly, and said, "The enemy army has a master of archery, Captain Liao should be careful..."
"What happened to the main forces of the enemy? What happened there in the Fifth Panther? Wei Yan felt that something was wrong, and then asked.
"Not sure what's going on?" Liao Hua shook his head and said, he didn't understand what was going on.
Wei Yan suddenly thought of a possibility and scolded: "The fifth leopard won't leave us and run away!" β
Liao Hua was silent, now the gap between the two armies is getting deeper and deeper, and they are already inseparable, and they are also clear about these Liao Hua, so Wei Yan's guess is true, otherwise how could an army of 10,000 be defeated so quickly?
"Captain Liao, let's withdraw! If you don't withdraw, it's too late! Wei Yan said.
"Good!"
Wei Yan and Liao Hua led the soldiers and horses to slowly retreat, and sent the soldiers to inform Guan Yu.
Xia Sheng looked at Wei Yan, who had already hidden in the army, and secretly said that it was a pity, and then as soon as the bowstring was loosened, he shot a Dongyu soldier to death.
"Bite the enemy, Hugh will make them flee!" Xia Sheng commanded.
After Guan Yu learned the news, he immediately said: "Zhou Cang, you go and send a message to General Gongsun, and the rest rush out with a certain person!" β
The battlefield is chaotic, Guan Yu and Gongsun Qi's two armies have long been cut into two, and a series of communication means such as flags and arrows cannot be used at all, so they can only send commanders to pass orders, ordinary commanders cannot survive on the battlefield, Guan Yu can only send Zhou Cang to go.
The cavalry led by Gongsun Qi has been killed several times, and the cavalry's high-speed mobility and attack power make Gongsun Qi unable to fight positional warfare like Guan Yu, and can only move to give the enemy heavy casualties.
Looking at Zhou Cang, who was covered in blood in front of him, Gongsun Qi said: "Captain Zhou, please also tell General Guan that the enemy army has bitten Wei Duwei's department, and a certain leader of the cavalry will cover Wei Duwei, and you let General Guan lead the rest of the troops to wait in a dangerous place!" β
"So-and-so, let's go!" Zhou Cang gasped and wiped the blood on his face, and the blood mixed with sweat kept flowing down.
Zhou Cang also suffered several knife wounds on his body, but they were all minor injuries and did not affect his movements.
Zhou Cang turned over his horse and went around from the flank of the army.
Gongsun Qi also waved his horsewhip and shouted to the soldiers: "Come with so-and-so!" β
......
Gongsun Qi led the cavalry to cut off Xia Sheng's waist, and Wei Yan took this opportunity to break away from Xia Sheng's pursuit with his troops.
Gongsun saw that Wei Yan had successfully got rid of the Kaixia Sheng Division, so he relied on the speed of the cavalry to break out of the enemy formation, and the Xia Sheng Division was in hot pursuit, but in the end, Xia Sheng saw that Guan Yu had already lined up the battle array, and there was nowhere to go, so he led the army to begin to withdraw, and there were few 10,000 horses left in the Dongfu Army, and Guan Yu's department was also hit hard, Xia Sheng's goal had been basically achieved, and he could retreat safely.
"Oh yes, what a wretch!"
Wei Yan looked at the retreating Xia Shengjun and scolded, very annoyed.
"Dada-da-da!"
There was a sound of horses' hooves, it was the sentinel sent by Gongsun Qi who had returned, and all the generals surrounded him, all wondering what had happened.
Hopefully it's not like Wei Yan thought, and if that's the case, it's too bad.
The knight turned over and dismounted, knelt on one knee, and bowed his hand: "General, the fifth general was shot, and 10,000 horses were routed with one blow, and there were countless casualties, and there was not one in ten." β
"Shoot? It must be the one who shot the arrow at me! Wei Yan suddenly thought of the arrow that made his hair stand on end, fortunately he dodged it in time, otherwise...
Wei Yan shuddered.
"What is this man's name?" Gongsun Qi asked.
"General Huiyu, according to the prisoners we have taken in, this person's name is Xia Sheng, he is skinny as wood, and his arms are like apes, and his appearance is ugly, he is a partial general under Yang Tianming, and he has the title of ghost ape in his army."
"Although this person is not well-known, he has some skills, but why is he not famous?" Gongsun Qi sighed lightly, in the battle just now, Gongsun Qi already has some understanding of Xia Sheng's ability, and he is a general.
"I heard the captive say that because Xia Sheng is ugly, he is not liked by Yang Zichuan, and Xia Sheng is lustful by nature and likes to abuse and kill, so he is not allowed to be seen by other generals."
After hearing this, Guan Yu slowly opened his eyes and said to Gongsun: "General Gongsun, now let's help the Dongfu army gather the remnants and return to Dongfu City!" β
"That's all there is to it!"
Gongsun nodded.
In this battle, Guan Yu's 3,000 people were killed, more than 300 were killed, and 600 were wounded. There were more than 2,800 cavalry members in Gongsun Qi, including 1,100 people from Bai Ma Yicong, more than 200 ordinary cavalry killed and more than 300 people wounded, and 6 people killed and more than 20 people wounded from Bai Ma Yicong.
More than 2,700 remnants of the Fifth Leopard Division were collected, and it is impossible to count the number of those killed, fled, and taken prisoner.
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Dongfu City.
Liu De looked at Yang Zichuan's army that was gradually retreating, and sighed in his heart: "Time is running out, if you don't defeat Yang Zichuan in seven days to support Jinyang Pass, and drag it back, it will be too late!" β
Xu Shu hurriedly went up to the city wall, his face was serious, and he came to Liu De and said, "Lord, there is news!" β
Liu De looked at Xu Shu with a stern face, and knew that something might have happened, so he asked, "What happened?" β
Xu Shu arched his hand, "General Gongsun sent a sentry to deliver the message, the fifth leopard was killed, and there were less than 3,000 people left in 10,000 soldiers and horses!" And our army also lost more than 500 people. β
"Damn!"
Liu De was furious, smashed his fist on the city wall, and said to Xu Shu: "Go!" Let's go find Guo Zidong! β
Liu De hurriedly came to the mansion, Guo Zidong and his generals were in the hall, Guo Zidong looked at Liu De who came in, his expression was a little lonely, it seemed that the death of the fifth leopard hit him a little hard, Guo Zidong still said strongly: "General Liu is here!" Are you going to send someone to find you? β
Liu De didn't want to talk nonsense, and asked directly: "Now that the fifth leopard has died in battle, I don't know what General Guo wants to do?" β
Guo Zidong hurriedly got up, bowed to Liu De and said, "Now that the situation is in crisis, please ask General Liu to help me!" β
"How can so-and-so help you?"
Liu De looked at the respectful Guo Zidong in front of him, if he didn't already know Guo Zidong as a person, I'm afraid he would really be deceived by him.
"The only way to do this now is to fight a decisive battle with Yang Zichuan, and we must not spend it like this! We can't afford to put it off. Guo Zidong said.
Guo Zidong was in a hurry, Liu Dexin said, it is true, once Jinyang Pass is broken, he can still run back to Dongyu to survive for a few days, but Guo Zidong's territory is the first to bear the brunt, and will soon be annexed by the Yang family.
Yang Zichuan didn't have much food and grass, and both sides basically couldn't hold on, and sure enough, the decisive battle was coming...
Liu De got up and said to Guo Zidong: "When Guan Yu returns to the city, he will send a battle post to Yang Zichuan!" β
With that, he turned and left the hall.
Guo Zidong looked at Liu De's departing figure, his fists clenched, and his bones rattled, but in the end, he quietly let go of his palm and didn't say a word.
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Liu's Mansion. Den.
"My lord! Lord! β
Zhang Feixing rushed over and opened his big mouth: "Lord! I heard that there is going to be a decisive battle with Yang Zichuan! β
Liu De looked at Zhang Fei with a happy face, picked up a cup of tea, and said, "That's right, when General Guan comes back, let's send a battle post to Yang Zichuan!" Fight it out to the death! β
"Haha! It's finally time for me to show off my skills! Let them see how powerful I am! Zhang Fei's loud voice was earth-shattering, and Liu De felt that the roof was about to be picked up by Zhang Fei.
"You reckless man, why don't you go down and prepare?"
Liu De laughed and scolded.
"Look!" Zhang Fei responded.
Che Yan came to Liu De's study with a cup of tea, and saw Zhang Fei happily walking over to his side, Che Yan sighed slightly, entered the study, put the hot tea in front of Liu De's case, and frowned: "Childe, you say, can we win?" β
Liu De paused in his hand, put down the teacup, looked up at Che Yan, and said with a smile: "What?" Do you think we can't win? β
Che Yan shook her head and said: "How can a little girl from the slave family know about the major affairs of the family and the country, but the atmosphere in the city is becoming more and more tense, and people are panicking, so I want to ask my son!" β
Liu De nodded: "Since Dongyu set out on the expedition, it has now been half a year, and he has not been defeated, fighting Liaoyuan, Pingliaocheng, LiΓ‘n ZhΓ n Lianjie, successively killed Yang Zichuan's generals Chu Ying, Yang Zhenghui, Yang Zhenghui brothers, and captured Liaocheng guard Yang Tianhao, which can be described as overwhelming, although Yang Zichuan seems to have an advantage, in fact, it is already the end of the strong crossbow, vulnerable to a single attack, tens of thousands of soldiers under his command, but it is just a group of local chickens and dogs, what is there to fear? Now that the cold winter is coming, as long as the Jinyang Pass is guarded for one more month, the Beiping army will definitely not be able to endure the cold of Yanzhou and will retreat. β
Che Yan squatted for a thousand blessings and praised: "The general is powerful, he is like a god, the people of Yanzhou can see it, and Yanzi also admires the general very much!" β
"Hahaha!"
Liu De smiled: "Okay, don't shoot the sycophants, Yanzi, you go down first!" I'm going to be alone for a while. β
"Yes!"
The swallow quietly retreated, closing the door tightly.
Liu De leaned on the chair and kept rubbing his temples with his hands, don't look at what Liu De said just now, in fact, Liu De knows that things have gone out of the original vision of himself and Xu Shu, and the chain reaction brought by the death of the fifth leopard is really amazing.
At this time, the battleable soldiers of the two armies of Dongfu are more than 20,000 people, and Yang Zichuan still has more than 60,000 people, and the three-fold gap is not so easy to make up.
When Yang Zichuan's army is defeated in the end, will there still be troops to support Jinyang Pass?
It's a big hello.
Guo Zidong insisted on going his own way, did not listen to the advice, sent the fifth leopard to support Jinyang Pass, and recalled the fifth leopard if the war was slightly unfavorable, maybe Guo Zidong did not expect that the fifth leopard would be defeated so badly! Even his net worth and life were finally put into it.
If you have 10,000 horses, you have room for tactfulness.
Nowadays, I really have to fight hard!