Chapter 14: The Bloody Battle of Bishui Pass (2)
The neat long shield covered the countless archers, and when they rushed into the range, the allied archers relied on their numerical superiority to suppress the archers of Dong Zhuo's army at any cost, and a coalition archers were shot down, and more archers came to replenish, and the arrows fired by each other on both sides seemed to cover the sky, and every second there was a precious life or even more lost. Taking advantage of the fact that Dong Zhuojun's archers were suppressed, eighty siege vehicles were set up in groups of two, rushing from different directions to pass the gate of Bishui Pass.
At this time, there was a sudden cannon sound in the pass, Li Dao led a cavalry to kill, ignoring the coalition archers under the cover of the long shield, and committed suicide to the siege vehicle troops, Yuan Shao, who was in command of the coalition army, only then reacted, and hurriedly sent cavalry to rescue the siege vehicle, but it was too late, Li Daojun smashed the leather bag he carried on the siege vehicle, and the oil contained in it was splashed all over the siege vehicle, most of the siege vehicles were made of wood, and then a skyrocketing fire was ignited, and even the iron sheet wrapped on the head of the siege vehicle was also burned. Li Dao's army burned the siege vehicles, did not entangle with the coalition army, and returned to kill the pass, but less than half of the 2,000 Li Dao's troops who came out were able to return.
The siege vehicle was destroyed, Yuan Shao jumped like thunder, regardless of the fact that the third team of coalition forces had not retreated, and immediately ordered the fourth team of coalition forces to attack, the length of the city wall of Bishui Pass was only three miles, and it was already an exaggeration to place 100,000 soldiers to attack the city, and now it is up to 100,000, which is equivalent to more than 130 people attacking the city wall at a distance of every meter! It seems that Yuan Shao is really in a hurry. For Yuan Shao's fateful order, none of the princes objected, just like it was not their troops who died, not their people, maybe they were still thinking in their hearts, the remaining military food of the coalition army could last for two days at most, and more cannon fodder soldiers could be killed, and some food could be saved.
Looking down from the top of the Bishui Pass, the enemy army was overwhelming, densely packed with human heads, and the enemy had given up using siege weapons, but was slashing at the city wall with the knife in his hand, and stabbing the city wall with a gun, to cut out and stab a gap alive. The focus of the contention was to close the door, which was made of hardwood more than a foot thick and wrapped in several layers of iron sheets, and was also chopped to the point of a clang. Under Xu Rong's death order, the city gate chief commanded the soldiers to resist the gate, and at the same time completely sealed the gate with stones and sassals.
Seeing this scene, Li Dao and Guo Yan, the two fierce generals who killed people without blinking, also gasped, and Li Dao took the time to yell at Guo Yan: "Old Guo, are these guys crazy today?" I usually leave after two hits, but today I came up so much, and I still don't stop. β
Guo Yan hacked to death a coalition soldier who stepped on a corpse and climbed onto the wall, and also replied with a roar, ", Lao Li, look, there is another queue over there, it looks like they are going to exhaust us to death!" β
Li Wei was about to reply, when a spear grazed his lower abdomen and stabbed a coalition soldier with a knife at his feet. Li Dao looked back and saw that it was Xu Rong, and he had also gone into battle in person. Xu Rong said in a deep voice: "The more crazy the enemy, the more it proves that they are forced to be urgent, as long as we hold on for a while, it will be the time for them to die." β
Li Dao grinned, "It makes sense, but can we hold out until then?" β
Xu Rong was speechless, but Guo Yan shouted: "Lao Li, don't talk nonsense, if you can't hold on, even if you surrender, Lao Xu may still have a chance not to die, but what do our brothers usually do, we know what we do, can we still survive in their hands?" Li Wei smiled bitterly, he and Guo Yan usually followed Dong Zhuo and didn't know how many immoral things they did, and the people hated them to the core, once they failed, would they have a good life?
"Quick, pour oil! Throw torches! "Xu Rong commanded the soldiers to use fire to force back a group of coalition troops who used the corpse mountain to attack the city wall." Cheng has the grace of knowing Xu Rong, and Xu Rong will never surrender. Hold on a little longer, and maybe the prime minister will send reinforcements. β
Li Dao pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "The old thing regards the Xiliang Iron Cavalry as the root of his life, and it is strange that he will send reinforcements!" The old thing is afraid of death, even if it is a pie, it is also sending those garbage, a fart? When death was approaching, Boss Dong's henchmen also vented their past dissatisfaction. Xu Rong and Guo Yan were speechless, Dong Boss was usually there, and it was unlikely that he would send troops to save Bishui Pass.
At this moment, there was a great chaos behind the coalition army, and a cavalry arrogantly penetrated into the middle of the coalition army, and the strange thing was that wherever the army rushed, the coalition army fled in the desert, and did not even dare to stop it. When the army rushed to a place where they could see clearly, Xu Rong, Li Dao and others were pleasantly surprised to find that the army had a big banner erected with a huge 'Lu' character written on it! No wonder the coalition forces were so scared, it turned out that Lu Bu, the world's number one general, was here.
Suddenly, Dong Zhuojun's cheers shook the sky, and the hearts of the coalition troops were shaken, and many fast-thinking coalition soldiers had begun to flee, and the coalition team couldn't kill them, and after a while, even the team was on the run. Someone shouted while fleeing, "Run, the murderer Lu Bu is here!" β
Li Dao slapped himself hard, "Prime Minister, my old Li blames you, this is for you." β
Xu Rong was so excited that he went crazy, "Open the door and go out to meet Wen Hou!" β
The door was wide open, Xu Rong, Li Dao and Guo Yan took the lead, and all Dong Zhuojun who could still walk in the pass came out together. The coalition army no longer cared about attacking the city, but turned around and ran, but there were Xiliang iron cavalry brought by Lu Bu in front of the road, and there were red-eyed defenders of Bishui Pass in the back, and the coalition army was congested in a small place, so there was a chance to escape.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry is in full swing, and the steel knives are falling one after another, cutting melons and vegetables to harvest the lives of the coalition soldiers. The defenders of Bishui Pass have been pressed and beaten, and now that the host and guest are exchanged, the performance of the defenders of Bishui Pass, who are on fire at this moment, is no worse than that of Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The morale of the coalition forces was completely lost, and I don't know who took the lead in shouting, "Surrender!" I give up! Then countless coalition soldiers responded, throwing down their weapons and kneeling and shouting surrender.
Li Dao and Guo Yan didn't know Dong Zhuojun's new military regulations, and they were still slashing and killing indiscriminately there, and Xu Rong couldn't pull it. At this time, Lu Bu wanted to rebel against his father's repeated instructions when he was leaving, so he asked the sergeant to shout: "Surrender and don't kill." At the same time, Lu Bu went to pull Li Dao and Guo Yan by himself.
Not long after, most of the allied soldiers who were surrounded by LΓΌ Bu's army and the defenders of Bishui Pass chose to surrender, except for a small number who fled back to the camp. It is worth mentioning that some of the coalition forces that surrendered had surrendered to Dong Zhuojun for the second time, so they behaved most actively, not only laying down their arms, but also persuading their companions to lay down their arms, telling their companions that as long as they surrendered, Dong Zhuojun would not only not die, but also gave them dry food for the passage and put them home, and told their companions about their experience of being captured, repaying the great kindness of Boss Dong. In this way, Dong Zhuojun captured an astonishing number of prisoners - 80,000!
Yuan Shao's face was as pale as earth, and the faces of the other princes were not better than him, and the 500,000 troops took turns to attack Bishui Pass, not only did they return in vain, but also took more than 100,000 soldiers, and now Dong Zhuo's reinforcements and the defenders of Bishui Pass have met, and it is obviously more difficult to attack again. Yuan Shao watched Dong Zhuojun happily escort the prisoner back to the customs from a distance, not to mention how uncomfortable it was, Yuan Shao suddenly had a sweet throat, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the person fainted.
When Yuan Shao woke up again, it was already the middle of the night, and his cronies were guarding beside him, but there were no allies. Yuan Shao asked with difficulty, "How is the situation now?" β
The cronies frowned, and finally Tian Feng replied: "Back to the lord, it's very bad now." After the lord fell into a coma, all the princes collected their troops, and each closed his own gate and did not interact with others. β
Yuan Shao scolded angrily: "A group of bastards must be fighting their own idea of escaping, and now Xingyang is also occupied by Dong Zhuo's old thieves, see where they are fleeing?" β
Tian Feng smiled bitterly, "The worst thing is not that, Hanoi Taishou Wang Kuang, Dongjun Taishou Qiao Mao and Xuzhou Thorn Shi Taoqian and others all secretly sent envoys into Bishui Pass, and they went to discuss surrender. There are also envoys from Bao Xin and Yuan Yi who went out of the camp, but they were missed by the people we followed, and I don't know where they went. β
Yuan Shao was so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out again, and all the cronies hurriedly came up to shush and ask for warmth, fortunately Yuan Shao did not faint again this time, Yuan Shao finally relieved his breath, "I, Yuan Shao, swear not to surrender to Dong Thief, I ordered to go down, set the camp overnight, let's retreat, and settle accounts with Dong Thief in the future!" β
"Slow." The judge stopped: "My lord, our army has little food left, and it is difficult to retreat to his hometown. What's more, Xingyang has been occupied by Dong Zhuo's army, and it is difficult for our army to steal it. β
"What then? You can't just sit here and die, can you? Yuan Shao gasped and said.
"With a plan, you can take this Bishui Pass, and at that time you will get the military rations in the pass, and the princes will definitely return to the lord's account."
"Why didn't you say that the fight was so fierce during the day?" Yuan Shao asked suspiciously: "Now that Lu Bu has arrived at Bishui Pass, what other plans do you have?" β
The judge smiled, "This plan is used on Lu Bu, if Lu Bu doesn't come, there is really nothing to do......"
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At the fourth watch, the lights were turned off. After a day of hard fighting, the guards still did not dare to slack off, and took turns patrolling the pass, at this time a civilian-looking person walked to the pass with a white flag, and was immediately discovered by the soldiers at the gate, and the patrol leader shouted: "Stop, who is it?" Come back and let go of the arrows. β
The civil official shouted: "I am a subordinate of the Marquis of Qixiang, and I have come to see Marquis Wen on the order of the Marquis of Qixiang, this is a letter from the Marquis of Qixiang to the Marquis of Wen." β
The patrol captain muttered: "I fought so fiercely during the day, batch after batch, and at night I came to surrender batch after batch, and I didn't let people rest." Still, he ordered the soldier to put down a hanging basket and shouted, "Put the letters in the hanging basket." β
Along with the letter was a small pile of gold, the patrol leader remained silent, stuffed two ingots into his arms, and threw the rest to his subordinates, "You wait, I'll transfer Wen Hou." After a while, the door opened a small crack, and the judge was ushered in.
After several hard battles during the day, Xu Rong, Li Dao and Guo Yan were already exhausted and had already gone to rest, and only Lu Bu was presiding over the overall situation in Bishui Pass. When he arrived at the meeting hall of Bishui Pass, Lu Bu was knocking on Erlang's leg to enjoy the singing and dancing of the dancing girls, and there were several dishes in front of him.
Seeing the trial come in, Lu Bu waved his hand to drive the dancer away, and didn't let the judge sit, and yelled at the judge: "Yuan Shao doesn't come to surrender, and he said that he will give me some credit, what do you mean?" I am the righteous son of the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, the court's Wen Hou, what credit do you want him to give? β
The trial was not in a hurry, and arched his hand: "Wen Hou, if my lord gives Wen Hou the credit for destroying the alliance of the eighteenth road princes, does Wen Hou want it?" β
Lu Bu rubbed his furry chin and thought for a while, "You sit down, I'll listen to the details." β
"My lord Qi Xianghou mistakenly offended the prime minister and Wenhou Tianwei, colluded with the rebellious army to raise troops without permission, now my lord repents, and is willing to help Wenhou exterminate other princes, make meritorious atonements, please Wen Hou see it. These meager gifts, please Wen Hou smiled, after the matter is completed, my lord Yuan family four generations and three dukes, there will be heavy thanks," the judge Bi respectfully handed over a box.
Lu Bu opened it and saw that it was full of gold and jade jewelry. Lu Bu was overjoyed, "It's good to know that you are wrong, my father-in-law is magnanimous, if Yuan Shao really surrenders, my father-in-law will definitely forgive him." It's just that the other seventeen princes still have hundreds of thousands of people, how can Yuan Shao help me exterminate them all? β
"The lord will order the princes to withdraw tomorrow, after my Bohai Navy is broken, Wen Hou only needs to set up an ambush in the narrow place along the road to block the princes' front road, and my Bohai Navy will cover up and kill from behind, and will be able to wipe out all the rabble, at that time, wouldn't Wen Hou have made a great achievement?"
Lu Bu thought about it for a long time, "Why should I believe him Yuan Shao?" What guarantees does he use to assure you? β
The judge smiled, "Just a few words, Wen Hou naturally doesn't believe it." But Wen Hou thinks about it, why does Wen Hou need to believe it? Wen Hou, you are invincible in the world, Xiliang Iron Cavalry is unstoppable, even if you deceive Wen Hou, how can you hurt Wen Hou? β
Lu Bu was praised by the judge, and suddenly forgot how many catties and taels he had, and laughed proudly, "Forgive you for not having that ability, okay, that's all." Lu Bu said viciously: "If he Yuan Shao dares to lie to me, I will definitely chop him into meat sauce!" β
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"Slow!" Kang Peng rushed out and grabbed the old wolf's neck, "I'm the protagonist, why don't you let me play in this chapter?" You old wolf, I am as easy to bully as Li Xingya? Do you believe that I told Lu Bu to hack you to death? β
The old wolf was unhurried, "That's it for this chapter, it's not your share." If you don't like it, I'll write another book eunuch, so that you can still be the protagonist, there are many beautiful women, and one of them is still following you with all her heart, are you willing? β
Kang Peng's saliva was running down his chin, "What book?" β
"The Great Talk of Wei Zhongxian."
Kang Peng didn't say a word, turned his head and ran, shouting as he ran; "Brother Wolf, this chapter counts me as resting, and I'd better be Dong Zhuo."