Chapter 257: Bottoming Out
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Liu Xuan showed the four Han flags embroidered by Liu Boji, and in the school military field, the morale of the soldiers of the Zhutian Army was greatly boosted, and people raised their arms and shouted in unison.
Striking while the iron was hot, Liu Zhuo divided the whole army into three teams, one team was called Suzaku, which was led by Liu Zhuo himself. One team was named the White Tigers and was led by Liu Ji.
A team named Qinglong, before he could assign an order, Liu Xiu took the initiative to ask Ying, willing to lead the Qinglong team to kill the enemy.
Liu Xiu was injured, and his injuries had been getting worse, Liu Xiu didn't plan to let him fight at all, but as soon as he hesitated, Liu Xiu immediately knelt on one knee and said loudly: "The last general is willing to lead the team to fight, and please let the general succeed!" ”
If you ask for war in public like this, if you block it again, it will be too much to say, and it will also appear that you are too selfish. Liu Xiu sighed helplessly, and finally agreed to Liu Xiu to lead the Blue Dragon Team and fight together.
After the team was divided, the remnants of the 3,000-pillar Heavenly Army led by Liu Xuan swarmed out along the north city gate.
The first team in the center is the Vermilion Bird team led by Liu Ji, on the left side of the Vermilion Bird team is the Qinglong team commanded by Liu Xiu, and on the right side of the Vermilion Bird team is the White Tiger pair commanded by Liu Ji.
At the back of the whole army, in front of the North City Gate, a large banner was erected alone. White Tiger Flag!
Liu Xuan, Liu Xiu, and Liu Ji, the three Liu brothers, each led a team of soldiers and horses, and after leaving Thornyang City, they were like wild horses that had escaped from the reins, and went straight to the opposite Jingshi army and pounced.
Just about three miles outside the northern city, the Jingshi army, which was still busy camping, never dreamed that the remnants of the Zhutian Army did not defend Jianyang, but took the initiative to attack it.
The soldiers of the Jingshi Army, many of them were shirtless, and they still had camping tools in their hands, and they looked at the swarming Zhutian Army one by one, and they were stunned for a while, and they didn't react.
The commander who led the army was the first to come back to his senses and shouted sharply: "Array! The whole army is lined up and ready to meet the enemy! ”
Hearing the roar of the commander, the soldiers present woke up like a dream, and threw away the camping tools in their hands, some of them looked down for their weapons, and some of them panicked and put the armor they had just taken off on their bodies.
The scene of the 5,000 Beijing division army can be described as chaos.
Liu Xiu commanded the Qinglong team, and in addition to Xuying, Xufei, and Xuting, there were more than 500 people such as Deng Yu, Yan Guang, Cho Qi, Zhu You, Gai Yan, and Fu Jun.
None of them were on horseback, dragging their respective weapons, throwing off their legs and charging forward.
Boom!
Suddenly, I heard a dull drum beat from behind. People ran forward, while looking back, only to see the white tiger, I don't know when a big drum was put out, standing behind the drum, holding a huge drumstick, it was Liu Boji.
The little girl picked up the drumsticks with both hands, and every blow was with all her might.
Seeing this scene, the officers and soldiers of the Zhutian Army present were all excited, their blood was boiling, and with the sound of drums, people's eyes were quickly covered with bloodshots, and their eyes shot red light.
"Kill—"
The 5,000-strong Jingshi army had not yet formed a complete formation, and the Zhutian army had already killed them closely.
Liu Xiu held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, the shield was in front and the Chixiao sword was behind. Smack, smack, smack! The arrows fired from the opposite side, nailed to the shield in front of him, did not slow him down, but made his body faster.
When he arrived at the front of the camp of the Jingshi Army, Liu Xiu did not slow down at all, and ran straight into it.
Boom!
The collision between the shield and the shield broke out with a loud noise, and the powerful impact force made the soldiers of the Beijing division on the opposite side lean back and retreat backwards, without waiting for the other party to stabilize their figures, the sword in Liu Xiu's hand had already stabbed out.
Burst! The Chixiao Sword pierced through the opponent's chest, and the soldier screamed miserably and fell to the ground backwards. Without waiting for the soldiers behind him to fill in the position, Liu Xiu held the shield on his head, squeezed forward, and the sword in his hand kept stabbing forward.
Puff puff! Blood arrows splashed out from the crowd of Jingshi troops on the opposite side, sprinkled in the air, and also sprinkled on Liu Xiu's face and body.
This is just a corner of the battle, the entire battlefield, the soldiers on both sides have been in full contact, the soldiers in the front row squeeze each other with their shields, and the weapons in their hands stabbed forward desperately.
The soldiers in the front row fell one after another in a pool of blood, and then the flesh and blood were blurred by the trampling of the personnel on both sides.
While killing and injuring the enemy opposite him, Liu Xiu paid attention to the surrounding battle situation, and could see that the Jingshi army was in a hurry, the formation was chaotic, and it was incomplete, and now it had been forced to retreat again and again by its own side.
Realizing that the opportunity had come, Liu Xiu turned his head sideways and shouted, "Fu Jun—"
Hearing Liu Xiu's shout, Fu Jun didn't say a word, put away the arrow in his hand, pulled out a hollow arrow from the quiver, he twisted his bow and set the arrow, aimed it at the air, and shot an arrow fiercely. Arrows burst into the air, making a high-pitched, long whistle.
Boom - After the sound of the arrow, the ground trembles and the horse's hooves roar. The six hundred cavalry led by Ma Wu and Feng Yi came out from behind the infantry of the Blue Dragon Brigade. The infantry of the Blue Dragons retreated to both sides, dodging a passage, and the cavalry rushed along this human passage
Killed, Ma Wu, who took the lead, urged the horse to rush to the camp of the Jingshi army and stabbed out. Burst! The nine-eared and eight-ring knife pierced the chest of one of the soldiers, and the blade continued to castrate, and stabbed into the body of the soldier behind him.
Ma Wu shouted, held the knife in both hands, and threw it forward, and the two soldiers flew out together, crashing into the crowd of the Beijing division army, and overwhelming the soldiers in front of him.
The war horse trampled on the fallen soldiers, rampage forward, Ma Wu was on the horse, the nine-eared and eight-ring knife was waved, and the blood around it was like a spring, spurting into the air one after another.
Against Liu Xiu and other infantry, the Jingshi army was already difficult to parry, and now it was directly facing the cavalry, and the Jingshi army could no longer support it, and the dense crowd retreated like a tide.
Seeing that the Beijing division army had shown a rout, the morale of the Han army was even stronger, the cavalry rushed forward to disrupt the enemy formation, and the infantry then advanced and covered the killing, and the cooperation between the two sides can be described as tacit understanding.
The Jingshi army opposite the Blue Dragon Team could no longer support it. On the other side, the White Tigers led by Liu Ji are also overwhelmed.
Liu Ji and Deng Feng led more than 1,000 soldiers under their command, like two sharp knives, deep into the camp of the Beijing division army opposite, and killed the surrounding Beijing division army to cry father and mother, and fled in all directions.
Liu Xuan's calculation was correct. The Zhutian Army was defeated in Xiaochang'anju, and the defeat was very bad, 30,000 people became 3,000 people, but it was precisely like this that completely inspired the common hatred of the whole army.
Facing the enemy who killed his relatives, people's eyes were red, and they were eager to exchange their lives with the Jingshi army. On the battlefield, the soldiers of the Zhutian Army were all crazy, and they were completely desperate to kill.
If one person is desperate, ten people are invincible, and ten thousand people are desperate, the world is invincible.
Not to mention that the Jingshi army came from a long journey, the whole army was tired, and they didn't even set up a formation, so they rushed to meet the battle, even if the Jingshi army was in its heyday, in the face of the more than 3,000 Zhutian troops who risked their lives, they were also unable to parry.
The Blue Dragon Team and the White Tiger Team both advanced in both directions, killing the opposite Jingshi Army with countless casualties, and retreating in defeat, only the Vermilion Bird Team in the center had not yet shown an obvious advantage in the confrontation with the Jingshi Army.
It was not that the Jingshi army against them was tenacious and good at fighting, nor was it that their side was not strong enough, but that Liu Xuan did it intentionally.
The advantageous battle situation made Liu Zhuo change his original thinking, and now what he wants is no longer a simple victory, but a big victory that can completely annihilate the enemy army.
The Suzaku team led by him deliberately did not exert all their strength, allowing the Blue Dragon and White Tiger teams on both sides to crush the enemy army, so that the defeated Jingshi army could only concentrate to the center, and the Blue Dragon team and the White Tiger team became outflanked by the enemy's two flanks.
The situation of the three teams of Zhutianjun, Zhuque, Qinglong, and Baihu encircling the 5,000 Beijing division army has already taken shape on the battlefield.
Liu Xiu understood the intention of the eldest brother, and Liu Ji also understood Liu Xiu's meaning, the two teams of Zhutian Army did not pursue the enemy soldiers who fled sporadically, but cooperated with the Suzaku team and began to encircle the main force of the Beijing Division.
When the commander of the Jingshi Army realized that something was wrong, the Zhutian Army had quietly completed the encirclement of the Jingshi Army.
More than 3,000 pillars of the Heavenly Army, regiments surrounded 5,000 Beijing Divisions, with less to surround more, such a scene, whether in the history of domestic or foreign wars, is extremely rare.
The Jingshi army also wanted to break through to the outside, but they couldn't break through at all, no matter which direction they broke through, they were all met by the Zhutian army.
The fighting between the two sides began in the morning and continued into the evening. The casualties on the side of the Zhutian Army were not large, on the other hand, on the side of the Jingshi Army, three thousand people had already been lost, and less than two thousand people remained, and they were still in danger of being besieged.
The commander of the Jingshi Army finally realized that his side had lost this battle, and there was no way to fight any further, so he continued to fight, and the remaining less than 2,000 people had to be explained here.
He immediately sent a military attendant, holding a white flag high, out of the camp of the Jingshi army, wanting to negotiate surrender with the Zhutian army.
Seeing that the Jingshi army had the intention of surrendering, Liu Xiu, who was covered in blood, turned his head sideways and said, "Ziwei! ”
Fu Jun looked at Liu Xiu and saw a cold light flashing in his eyes, and he immediately understood. Fu Jun took out a carved arrow from the quiver behind his back, twisted his bow and set up an arrow, aimed it at the Jingshi army candidate, and shot it over.
Burst!
The soldiers of the Jingshi army didn't even react, and Fu Jun's arrow hit him in the neck, he shook his horse a few times, and fell headlong. This situation made the commander of the Beijing Division Army shocked, and also made the soldiers of the Beijing Division feel like mourning.
On the other hand, on the side of the Pillar Heavenly Army, people stared at the blood-red eyes, and hit the shield with their spears in unison, bursting out with a deafening roar, and at the same time, people shouted in unison: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”
Liu Xuan's eyes were even more cold, and he waved the sword in his hand forward, shouting loudly: "Kill all the reckless thieves, and leave no one behind!" ”
"Kill—"
The Zhutian Army launched the final all-out blow against the exhausted and desperate Jingshi Army. At this point in the battle, the two sides were no longer at war, and it was almost a one-sided massacre.
As the sun sets, the sky is red, the ground is also red, and the rainbows of heaven and earth are connected together, and they seem to merge into one.
In the first battle of Thornyang, the 5,000 vanguard Jingshi army that pursued the remnants of the Zhutian Army, in addition to the hundreds of people who fled before, the remaining nearly 5,000 people were all wiped out by the remnants of the Zhutian Army outside Jianyang City. This big victory is too important for the current Zhutian Capital, like a timely rain, which not only stabilized the morale of the army in time and revitalized its morale, but also attracted many people from Nanyang to join the army, even Liu Jia,
In the negotiation with the Green Forest Army, because of this victory of the Zhutian Army, he took a lot of initiative and had a lot of bargaining chips. It can be said that the victory in this battle was to pull the Pillar Heavenly Army, whose most of its body had fallen into the abyss, back to the cliff.