Chapter 84: Gao Shun is poisoned

Zhang Liang was stunned when he saw that Gao Sheng died under Tai Shi Ci's halberd in only one round, but before he could speak, two of his subordinates rushed out, but they were both Yellow Turban generals who were good friends with Gao Sheng, and they both came to fight Tai Shi Ci and wanted to avenge Gao Sheng.

It's a pity that they are not opponents, they were picked by Tai Shi Ci's gun, and the other wanted to escape when he came to his senses, but he was pierced through the heart by Tai Shi Ci with an arrow and shot to death on the spot.

Gao Sheng is already a capable general under Zhang Liang, and there is only one Zhou Cang who is more powerful than him, but Zhou Cang is following his second brother Zhang Bao to attack Gatao County.

That's it, you can't fight alone, let's attack with the whole army, think about it, Zhang Liang pulled out his sword and led forward, "The whole army is attacking!" Break the Han army, there are many rewards! ”

Gao Shun saw that the Yellow Turban Army finally couldn't bear it, and the whole army attacked, so he turned around and ordered, "Zhu Ling, your brigade leader is attacking the Yellow Turban elite, arrest Zhang Liang to see me, Cheng Lian, your brigade is the cover, what is your expression, I am willing to lose the bet!" ”

Zhu Ling happily received the order and stepped forward, and praised Tai Shici greatly. He already knew that he had a man named Tai Shici under him, who was good at martial arts, so he was arranged to be in charge of heads-up.

Cheng Lian could only deal with it weakly, and spread his brigade to the two wings, and the middle zone was given to Zhu Ling's third brigade.

Zhu Ling's three brigades spread out the formation according to the standard play style of trapping the camp. The company platoon commanders shouted slogans and led the soldiers to slowly move forward.

Although the main force of the Yellow Turban Army was twice that of Zhu Ling's Third Brigade, the officers and men of the Bingzhou Army did not take it seriously at all. They still have some Lao Tzu's mentality of being the best in the world, and they have won many battles and swelled.

The fighting spirit and morale of these Yellow Turban elites were not lost to the Bingzhou army in the slightest, and their longbowmen dared to shoot at the longbowmen of the Bingzhou army at a distance of 100 zhang. The shield soldiers in the front line of the Yellow Turbans were also well-trained, and they used their large shields to block the crossbow arrows fired at their side in time.

Therefore, at the beginning of the battle, the middle lane of the Yellow Turban Army did not collapse with one blow as Zhu Ling imagined. They only paid less than 2,000 casualties before engaging the Bingzhou army, and most of the nearly 2,000 casualties came after a wave of gun-throwing attacks by the Bingzhou army.

The Yellow Turban elites attacked quickly and without flinching, and without giving the Bingzhou army a second chance to throw their guns, they rushed together, and the two sides launched a fierce melee battle between shields and spears.

Under the premise of being brainwashed by religion, the elite of the Yellow Turban Army are not afraid of death. Although his personal quality and weapons and equipment are inferior to those of the Bingzhou Army, he dares to fight for his life and fight to the end, and he does not hesitate to do so.

However, because of strict military discipline, generous military merit rewards, a perfect pension system, and ideological education that has achieved initial results, the army is also moving forward bravely. "The will to be trapped, there is death but no life" is not just a shout.

Officers at all levels trapped in the camp often took the lead and charged ahead, and their words and deeds invisibly boosted the morale of the army, and the soldiers followed behind their commanders and struggled forward.

The rabble on both sides of the Yellow Turban Army, although there were as many as 30,000 or 40,000 people, were slaughtered by the Rong 1st Division and 1st Brigade.

They don't have such strong religious beliefs, poor food, poor equipment, and no training, and most of them are farmers who have just put down their farming tools and picked up their weapons, or even go to the battlefield with agricultural tools.

The strong bow and crossbow of the state army dispelled the only bit of luck they had left, and the fragile defense line collapsed at the first touch.

Gao Shun saw that Cheng Lian's wings were progressing smoothly, but Zhu Ling in the middle was at a stalemate with Zhang Liang.

Although he was gradually gaining the upper hand, Gao Shun was still too slow, and he couldn't help but move forward to Zhu Ling's Chinese army. Zhu Ling had already rushed to the front, and when he heard that Gao Shun had come to his own Chinese army, he hurriedly rushed back covered in blood.

"Teacher, why did you come up, it's too dangerous here, you better go back, don't worry, I promise to defeat them within an hour."

"Zhu Laosan, your efficiency is too low, how long has it been, and the two wings of 40,000 people are almost exhausted." Gao Shun was also a little excited, and Zhu Ling's nickname was shouted. Because he has always been a member of the Third Brigade, he is called Zhu Laosan by everyone.

"Can you use your brain? You let the shieldmen give their spears to the longbowmen, it's useless to get so close to the longbows, let the shieldmen stabilize the line, the longbowmen throw two rounds of spears, their big shields can't prevent the spears, put down their big shields, and the crossbowmen follow up in time to shoot straight ahead. ”

Just when Gao Shun and Zhu Ling were arranging new tactics, Zhang Liang saw Gao Shun and others gathered together from thousands of troops, although the Bingzhou army was the same new military uniform from top to bottom, but the shape of the armor, especially the helmet, was still different.

And when Gao Shun spoke, the people around him were listening, and many people still bent down slightly. Zhang Liang concluded that this person must be the head of the Bingzhou army.

He called the captain of the guard beside him, this person is called Pei Yuanshao, although his martial arts are not bad, but what he is best at is archery, I am afraid that he is the best in Zhang Liang's army, and his arm strength is strong, and he can pull away the three-stone strong bow.

Zhang Liang pointed to Gao Shun in the distance, "Yuan Shao, you aim at this person for me, be sure to hit him with one blow, and use the medicine arrow I gave you to hit him." ”

Pei Yuanshao received the order, carefully put on a pair of deerskin gloves, raised his longbow, and mounted the two feathered arrows taken out of the special deerskin pouch.

Then he steadily aimed at Gao Shun in the distance, and finally, taking a deep breath, he shot two special feather arrows with a series of arrows.

Gao Shun was still deploying new tactics, unaware of the approaching danger. After listening to Gao Shun's deployment, Zhu Ling was about to turn around and arrange the execution, but he found that someone in the Yellow Turban Army was shooting arrows with a bow, and the target turned out to be Gao Shun, and he was so frightened that his soul flew out of the sky.

I only had time to shout, "Commander, be careful!" "I'm going to fly and knock Gao Shun down. Gao Shun heard Zhu Ling's shouting, but before he could react, his personal guard reacted quickly and pounced directly on Gao Shun's body.

At this time, two medicine arrows had arrived, one of which hit the guard's vest, and the other grazed the guard's arm and shot Gao Shun's arm.

Immediately after the loyal guard was shot by an arrow, his face turned blue, his breath was short, and he was quickly killed.

As soon as Zhu Ling saw it, he knew that the arrow was poisonous, and Gao Shun must be rescued immediately. "Withdraw the army, immediately notify the brigade commander to withdraw the army, the seventh and eighth regiments will be covered after the break, and the ninth regiment will withdraw with me and withdraw to Xiaquyang."

The horn of withdrawal sounded in the state army, and the signal corps conveyed the order. Whether it was the soldiers of the Rong 1st Division who were chasing and killing the Yellow Turban Army on both flanks, or the soldiers of the trapped camp who were fighting hard in the middle of the road, they all killed the enemy in front of them one after another, and then took cover alternately and retreated back in an orderly manner.

The crossbowmen and longbowmen were the last, and those who dared to chase after them were fired in a flurry of arrows.

Zhang Liang only saw that he shot Gao Shun, but someone blocked a fatal arrow for him, so although he used a poisoned arrow prepared by himself, he couldn't confirm Gao Shun's life or death.

Seeing that although the Bingzhou army was not chaotic and covered each other in an orderly manner, they did not dare to chase after them, but they retreated back to Gaoyi.