Chapter 237: Zhao Yun Escaped
"Kill!"
Zhao Yun took 2,000 cavalry and wanted to kill the 40,000 enemy army, but these 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry also had cavalry, and the number was about 6,000.
However, Zhao Yun did not engage him, but turned his horse's head and headed southwest, engaging the enemy infantry on the left flank.
And without any hesitation, after killing through the past, he went straight to the west on the official road.
"Chase! Don't let Zhao Yun go! ”
The six thousand enemy horsemen were stunned for a moment, and they couldn't understand why Zhao Yun gave up the main force and fled.
However, their mission was to kill Zhao Yun and his cavalry, so they followed.
"Hahaha! Zhao Yun is a wasted name, it turned out that he was also a timid person who was afraid of death, and he ran away, and the name of bullshit shocked Liangzhou. The commander of the army of more than 15,000 men in the south laughed and said:
"Xu Ding, today is your burial place."
If Xu Ding and the others were here, they would definitely recognize that the person who spoke was Yuan Shu Yuan Highway.
These soldiers and horses of his are all Nanyang Army.
And the more than 20,000 horses to the west were Yuan Shao's Bohai Navy.
The bandit-like army in the north is the Northern Taihang Mountain bandit army of Liu Bei, the Taishou of Daijun.
It turned out that Liu Bei found Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu that day in order to conspire to ambush Xu Ding.
In order to paralyze Xu Ding, they deliberately waited for the princes to leave, and then ordered their small troops to return under the banner.
Most of them are hidden.
Originally, Liu Bei's suggestion was to ambush between the Tiger Prison Pass and the Revolving Gate Pass, so that even if the ambush failed, he could use the two major levels to trap Xu Ding.
However, in the end, Yuan Shao denied it, he thought that it was too close to Luoyang, and he was afraid that Xu Ding would notice it, so he finally bypassed Xuanyuan Pass and left Luoyang from Yingchuan.
That's why I chose Xingyang Yushui River to attack Xu Ding on three sides.
"Qushui Liuzhen, what a word, Xu Ding is the wounded place of your Weiyuan Island." Yuan Shao confidently and arrogantly stroked the beard on his chin, and looked at Xu Ding's only a few thousand soldiers, as well as the 108,000 old and weak women and children, with a hint of happiness flashing on his face.
Mud legs are mud legs, and there is no high beam.
For the sake of these useless things, let yourself fall into a desperate situation, and promise that you are not worthy of the title.
"Zhao Zilong, if I can get this tiger general with me, why worry about it." Liu Bei glanced at Xu Ding's direction, and then turned his gaze to the west where Zhao Yunli was paying, his eyes were complicated, and he was thinking about something.
"My lord! I'm afraid that the army is not a bandit, your armor is distinct, and you are marching forward with a drum, and you can see that you have been trained. Although the other party didn't raise a flag and couldn't see his head, Xu Huang reminded him, his face full of worry.
If it was only their guards and the fifth lieutenant, then they still had the strength to fight, and they could not defeat these forty or fifty thousand enemy troops with the courage of their soldiers.
But with these 180,000 old and weak women and children, it is difficult to say.
Xu Ding urged the horse to the front, drew his sword and said: "Soldiers, behind us is the Yushui River, we have no way to retreat, the enemy in front of us wants to kill us, they not only want to kill us, but also want to kill the 90,000 people behind us, this is against the sky, can we allow it?" ”
"Can't! No! No! ”
The officers and men of the three armies roared back, and their hearts were full of grief.
"So what are we going to do!"
"Fight back! Counterattack! Counterattack! ”
"Good! Everyone is right, we are going to fight back, we are going to crush all the enemies in front of us and crush their plots. Xu Ding roared angrily, and then continued to encourage:
"What joy is life, what is the pain of death, there is death and no life today, kill them!"
"There is no life or death, kill them!"
"There is death and no life! Kill them! ”
"Humph! Desperate struggle, attack! Yuan Shao pointed his sword, and the army began to attack.
As soon as Yuan Shao's side moved, Yuan Shu and Liu Bei also commanded the army to attack.
"Two hundred steps...... Get ready! ”
"One hundred and fifty steps...... Draw the bow! ”
"One hundred and twenty steps...... Shoot the arrows! ”
The archers on Xu Ding's side shot arrows to strike at the three sides, but the number of archers was not large, and it was difficult to form an effective blow, and only killed 1,800 people of the Yuan-Liu coalition army.
Soon, Yuan Shao's army of three rushed to the front.
"Shoot!"
There are fewer bows, but there are a lot of crossbows on Xu Ding's side, a thousand, and each one shoots ten in a row.
That's tens of thousands.
The Yuan-Liu coalition army that rushed to the front was suddenly killed and wounded by the dense crossbow arrows, rushing over quickly and falling faster.
screamed again and again, and they were shot down in the place where the horses were blocked.
The ferocious assault was halted at once, and the soldiers, fearing the benefits of the crossbow arrows, retreated.
"Attack, continue to attack, no retreat, whoever kills Xu Dingguan will be promoted to the third level and will be rewarded with 100,000 ......" Yuan Shao said to his subordinate general Wen Chou:
"Wen Chou, you go to supervise the battle, those who dare to retreat will be killed!"
"It's the lord!" Wen Chou, a famous general in Jizhou, led the order to return to the road, and then stepped forward with his personal guards, hacked to death more than a dozen soldiers and generals who took the lead in retreating, and ordered the troops in front to continue the attack.
"Kill!"
Yuan Shu was in a similar situation to Liu Bei's side, after killing a group of retreaters, his morale improved again, and they all grabbed their weapons and rushed forward.
The former is dead, and the latter is also dead!
Done!
"Shoot!"
The crossbow arrows of "Xiu Xiu ......" kept firing, fast and fierce, how many rushed up, how many died.
The Yuan-Liu coalition army was so stunned that they had no temper, and the archers of our army who were killed and wounded stepped forward to suppress their crossbowmen. Yuan Shao's advisor Guo Tu suggested.
"Good!" Yuan Shao agreed without thinking about it, and immediately moved his own archers forward, Xu Ding's crossbowmen were too annoying.
Before he could really make a short handover, he lost 5,000 soldiers and was never able to break through that line of defense.
Soon, Yuan Shao's bow was moved to the forefront, shooting an arc into the sky behind the foot soldiers.
"Puff puff ......"
Although these arrows were not accurate, they also caused certain damage and obstacles to Xu Ding's crossbowmen.
"Shieldmen, cover ......"
Xu Ding's face sank, and he immediately asked some of Guan Yu's shield soldiers to retreat to cover the crossbowmen of the palace guards.
These soldiers are not only crossbowmen, but also palace guards.
Every loss is a huge loss.
Guan Yu hurriedly dispatched half of the shield soldiers down.
The crossbowmen were interfered by the enemy archers, and the crossbow arrows fired were significantly less, which was good news for the Yuan-Liu coalition army.
Soon killed under the low wooden wall in front of the commander of the Fifth Army, and suddenly the short hand was handed over, the white knife went in, and the red knife came out.
Guan Yu and Guan Hai led the school swordsmen of the Fifth Army Captain to start a hand-to-hand battle with the soldiers of the Yuan-Liu coalition army who came up.
The captains of the Fifth Army fought fiercely, as if there was an enemy that could not be killed, and the crowded army of Yuan Liu climbed up and rushed over the mountains of corpses and the sea of blood.
The situation suddenly became precarious, and then Xu Ding said to Xu Huang again: "Gongming, can you shoot it?" ”
Xu Huang estimated the distance and said, "Lord, you can only wipe it!" ”
"Good! Done! Xu Ding didn't hesitate too much.
Xu Huang immediately commanded a thousand guards to throw the javelin in his hand and throw it out.
This time, the target of their attack was not the rushing enemy, but the archers hiding behind the infantry of the Yuan-Liu coalition army.