Chapter 649: Death from Pride
"Marshal, Jia Juncheng is surrounded by thieves."
A light rider rushed to Zhangxutuo's horse and shouted a loud report.
As if in response to his words, bursts of roars came out from Daihai Temple, and the drums and trumpets were hurried.
Zhang Xutuo was stunned.
He didn't expect that the thief army would be able to fight reflexively at this time.
"It's a trick to lure the enemy, from Xingluocang to Tiger Prison Pass to Xingyang City, the rebels have been deceiving and luring the enemy." Zhang Xutuo frowned in a low voice and said, "This Li Mi is really willing to spend blood, and he actually deliberately defeated again and again, leading us to pursue Baili, just to ambush here." ”
He had to sigh in his heart and admire.
The hundred-mile pursuit made the officers and soldiers tired, not to mention the successive victories, which made them relax their vigilance.
"Lure the enemy into an ambush?"
The faces of several captains couldn't help but change, "The commander must have overestimated the thieves, I think they were defeated, but now they are caught up by Jia Juncheng and the thieves, and they have to fight the trapped beasts." Dashuai, let's kill the past and capture Li Mi alive! ”
In Henan, although the rebels rose and fell, but all along, with Zhang Xutuo and these lieutenants under his command, it has always been difficult for the rebels to gain a foothold in Henan, even if they are in Henan, they are either destroyed or flee to other places in the end.
For a long time, a fixed impression has been formed in the hearts of the officials and soldiers in Henan, that is, the thieves are all rabble, and they are all vulnerable, no matter how many people shout, they can't withstand their attacks.
Not to mention that Li Mi claims to be 400,000, he is shouting million, and the Henan officials and soldiers are not afraid.
With one enemy against ten, that is an overestimation of the thief army, and it is common for them to defeat one against a hundred.
Zhang Xutuo was not as light as his subordinates, but he did not flinch.
Jia Wu was originally his old brother, and now he is surrounded by thieves with his forward, he can't leave them behind, he must rescue them. Besides, he was also a little proud in his heart, and he didn't think that Li Mi's plan to lure the enemy and ambush him would defeat him.
"Let's be careful, after we go and rescue Lao Jia, we will retreat and reorganize the team."
A group of generals did not think so, and none of them took the thief army in their eyes, they shouted to kill the thief army, and then led their troops to rush forward.
Daikai Temple.
On a high tower in Daihai Temple, Li Mi laughed out loud when he heard Zhang Xutuo not retreating but advancing.
"This Sutuo is nothing more than that, it hasn't been seen that we are going to surround him, and dare to run to his death?"
Li Mi smiled and said to his subordinates, "Zhang Xutuo must have seen it, but he thinks that he can defeat us, this is his pride, and he will definitely die here." Pass the order, all the generals will besiege Zhang Xutuo for us, and we must not let him go! ”
With Zhang Xutuo's bravery, he will not retreat and counterattack, if the Wei army does not come up with some desperate posture, he may not really be able to keep him.
But Zhang Xutuo is a roadblock in front of him Li Mi, and he must take him down.
No matter how brave Zhang Xutuo was, or how fierce he was after being trapped, he had to kill him.
"If Zhang Xutuo wants to go, I'm afraid that we may not be able to trap him!" One humanity.
Now Zhang Xutuo is still attacking, but if he sees that the situation is not good and wants to run, who can stop him? Zhang Xutuo has been crisscrossing Henan all these years, and how many rebel armies have been defeated in his hands.
Zhou Wenju, who had suffered several defeats under Zhang Xutuo, still had palpitations when he thought about it, "Although our men and horses are numerous, but there is a lack of people who dare to fight, I have fought with Zhang Xutuo several times, although he does not have such an invincible heavy cavalry as an armored cavalry, but there are also many light cavalry, especially in the face of us who lack armor and less bows and crossbows, they are all directly able to defeat our military spirit with light cavalry galloping." ”
Another Li Gongyi also said, "Even if Zhang Xutuo doesn't use cavalry to charge into battle, but his foot soldiers are also very good, they have a lot of bows and crossbows, almost one bow per person, the two armies are fighting, they can kill and injure us a lot with bows from a distance, and we are short of bows and crossbows, they can even rush forward with only foot soldiers, and they can defeat us head-on." ”
Li Mi nodded.
"I know what you're saying. For today's battle, I have been planning for a long time and have made many preparations. Zhang Xutuo is no more than 10,000 people, just returned from Hedong, already tired, and was attracted by our trick of deceitful defeat and luring the enemy, running more than 100 miles, several battles, just the end of the so-called strong crossbow, failed to wear Lu Mianye. ”
No matter how fearful the generals were, Li Mi was confident.
The generals retreated, and each returned to his headquarters in accordance with the military order.
Uncle Wang came over.
"Teacher."
"Don't be in a hurry to make a move, let those people consume Zhang Xutuo first, his soldiers and horses are tired, but they haven't reached the limit yet. When he is tired, even if he is a lion tiger, the tired tiger is not enough to fight the wolf. ”
"Relying on Zhou Wenju, those people can't kill Zhang Xutuo, but they can consume them, consume their physical strength, consume their bows and arrows, and when his Zhang Xutuo's physical strength bows and arrows are almost exhausted, he will definitely want to withdraw. When the time comes, you will lead 8,000 elites to attack and kill you with one blow! ”
"Yes!" Uncle Wang should respond.
"Remember, if Zhang Xutuo breaks through, you don't care about anything, just keep an eye on Zhang Xutuo for me. As long as Zhang Xutuo is killed, these soldiers and horses under his command will inevitably be scattered, so there is no need to worry. ”
Zhang Xutuo is a fierce tiger and a banner.
As long as this banner falls, the officers and troops will be defeated.
Outside Daikai Temple.
Countless rebels surrounded one after another.
There are many of them, and under Li Mi's sentence that those who kill Zhang Xutuo will be rewarded with a thousand taels of gold, and under the heavy reward of the Duke of Fengguo, countless thieves and thieves have come around with red eyes, all wanting to kill Zhang Xutuo.
Jia Wuben's forward was even more trapped in the center, and it was difficult to highlight the siege by killing left and right.
Zhang Xutuo led his troops to rush over.
Li Gongyi's command will lead about 1,000 people to block the way.
They raised their shields and raised their spears.
Zhang Xutuo stretched his bow and arrows on the horse, galloping and shooting.
Every arrow takes away an army of thieves.
The dark horse he stepped on was even more majestic, and it didn't stop for a moment.
In the blink of an eye, he had already rushed to the front of the rebels with his men.
The rebels lacked bows and crossbows, and in the face of the rushing officers and soldiers, they did not cause any casualties.
Zhang Xutuo stepped off the horse and jumped high, like a tiger descending the mountain.
With the strength of a thousand catties, the war horse fell fiercely on the shield wall.
The rebels with wooden shields could not bear such a heavy load, and the rudimentary shields shattered, and the shield soldiers were directly crushed to the ground with broken bones.
But the war horse did not stop, and continued to pounce forward with the momentum.
Zhang Xutuo was on the horse, and even a horse lance pierced a pikeman and flew away.
Behind him were light cavalry riding one after another, and they slammed into the ranks of the thieves. The rebels' thin shield wall was as fragile as an eggshell, and before it could even stagnate, it was broken through by the officers and soldiers and killed into the battle.