Outside the city of Shangrao, Xinzhou, the battle between the Huainan official army and the rebel army's main formation has lasted for two whole days and one night, and countless intertwined corpses have spread the field, and the ubiquitous blood has soaked the ravine.

During this period, countless more flags fell and were taken away from each other, and countless more flags soaked in blood and turned into tatters were recaptured and erected; But no matter how many people were killed or wounded, the battlefield was fought from the north of the city to the south of the city, and from outside the city to the inside of the city; However, the Huainan military flag, which was holding high the red flame and going to sea, was still blocked from the ochre-yellow army.

In this incomparably chaotic battlefield, the left army made Meng Kai try to open his eyes that were red with blood and water with a broken knife, and desperately searched for the location of his own formation from the noise and shouts near the left; Because, before this, he had been scattered from the main formation, and his mount was dead, and he had suffered several arrow wounds on his body, but he had no time to pull it out and deal with it a little.

Immediately, he rushed at the officers and troops in front of him with an irresistible attack, and in the blink of an eye he smashed the enemy's infantry to pieces, and then rushed the cavalry that followed behind him to the point that they could not stand on their feet and retreated, and also made the enemy's attempt to intercept his small group of men and horses, and the plan to encircle him came to naught.

However, these officers and soldiers were like an endless existence, and he scattered wave after wave, and after a while, he still could not find any sign of the location of the rebels' main formation; The only thing that made him feel a little relieved was that the hordes of officers and soldiers were still fighting for days, which meant that they had never been able to take the Yellow King's own formation.

However, between his electric thoughts, he bumped into an arrogant officer and soldier in the smoke and dust; I saw that these officers and soldiers in full armor and uniforms stepped forward one by one, and shouted loudly: "There is a thief head here, capture the thief head alive!" Catch it alive! Hearing this cry, Meng Wei became more and more annoyed, and fought more and more bravely, like a raging lion, swinging his two knives and slashing indiscriminately, and roaring loudly at the same time.

A sturdy enemy general had just galloped in front of him, and suddenly heard him roar, and the horse was startled, and before he could parry, he was struck down by Meng Wei, and the mount that he had captured was turned around with all his might, and then rushed towards the officers and soldiers of his followers.

After another moment, Meng Wei's hands and thighs were stained with blood, and the horse's hooves were already stained with the blood of the dead and wounded. However, there were more and more officers and soldiers coming around, and they seemed to be more and more well-trained.

He struck to the east, and the enemies in the east retreated, but the lineup was not chaotic, making it impossible for him to break through, and the enemies from the west poured in like a tidal wave. When he returned to his horse and went to slay the enemy to the west, the enemy from the east came back. He suffered several minor wounds, and only about 200 men were left with his followers, most of whom were also wounded.

The grey smoke of dusk mixed with the yellow dust raised by the horses' hooves shrouded the rolling plateau. Meng Wei was a little relieved and calm, because he believed that there was a way to break through after it was dark, and the soldiers under his command also cheered up one after another, encouraging their companions while fighting.

During this extraordinarily long period of time, Meng Yan continued to fight so nervously that he couldn't hear anyone's shouts, only the sonorous sound of weapons touching weapons around him, the low and short cries of the wounded, and the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps running chaotically behind him.

"Meng Huzi, Brother Feishan Tiger."

At this moment, Meng Wei heard a familiar voice calling his nickname again, and he couldn't help but feel a surprise in his heart; And when he looked up at the thick twilight, he found that he had betrayed his old acquaintance who had defected to the enemy-Xiang Gaozi, the deputy leader of the former navy, immediately looked at him on the small mound more than ten zhang away in front and shouted loudly.

Suddenly, Meng Yan roared, his hair stood up straight, his eyes almost burst, and the not very tame war horse under his crotch also rushed forward at the same time under his hard control.

The officers and soldiers surrounding the front were suddenly shocked, and the men and horses dodged to both sides. When he reached the mound, Xiang Gaozi did not dare to confront him and had fled. He galloped up the mound and did not find Xiang Gaozi. The officers and soldiers in all directions surrounded the mound layer by layer like a tide.

However, the officers and soldiers were already a little timid about the brave death battle of Meng Wei and his men, and they did not dare to attack fiercely for a while.

As a result, this battlefield suddenly fell silent in the tense atmosphere shrouded in darkness.

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At the same time, in the blood-stained frontal battlefield where the sunset was setting, another scene was happening in front of Zhang Lan, the chief general of the Huainan Army with an expressionless face.

"You are greedy for life and fear of death to shake the front of the army, causing the siege and annihilation of the grass thieves to break the formation and escape. It should be ruled by military law. ”

Du Yuhou, who was in charge of supervising the formation of the Huainan Army, declared loudly.

"Please also ask for a fight, and let me serve before the ransom army."

Immediately, a gray-faced military general who was pressed into the mud and dust with his arms cut back, shouted for mercy and was dragged down mercilessly, and then came to an abrupt end in a terrible howl.

In the temporary execution site, he was accompanied by more than a dozen old and new people who had been cut down, and there were all kinds of hideous and twisted heads of all kinds, which were obviously the result of the execution of military law before the battle in these two short days.

"Forgiveness. . . Forgive.. Forgive the incompetence,"

At this time, another general walked tremblingly to Zhang Luan, whose face was like iron, and did not dare to raise his head and arched his hand.

"Although the continuous battle has destroyed the front team of the grass thieves, and defeated the left flank and scattered the right flank, the remaining middle army and rear of the grass thieves are leaning against the wall and fighting endlessly. The sons and daughters of the various armies tried their best, but they couldn't break it. ”

"Since you have done your best, it is generally okay now, Huang Shun's grass thief headquarters is already a battle for trapped beasts in a cage, and it will only be long before he dies after his wings are gone."

Zhang Lan's expression was a little relaxed, and he said to him widely.

"You can slow down the momentum a little, so that the soldiers can retire and rest for a while. I'll appoint someone to take over. ”

"Come, send an order to those surrendered troops to go into battle again, and then order the local regiments and township soldiers in the army to suppress the formation."

After the general retired, Zhang Lan ordered again.

"Du Bing, wouldn't this be too hasty?"

Another cronie next to him said with some hesitation. As the overseer, he has seen the miserable appearance of those who surrendered to the army in front of the battle, and were beaten by their angry old comrades.

"It doesn't matter, the usefulness of this generation is to use it to provoke the grass thief formation, not to be able to kill much, but to make Huang Shun's department not live in peace for a moment."

Zhang Lan is confident.

"Then use the Tutuan soldiers as a buffer, and then the men and horses of this formation will block the periphery, and prepare it to be flawed, how long can the grass thieves last?"

"Report, those troops who surrendered to the battle and broke the enemy, and they have already fled back."

Half after the order to go down and the fighting started again, I heard someone come to report.

"Order the troops of the various units that are in the formation to enforce military law on the spot. Drive them back. The men and horses who were waiting in this formation also leaned forward. ”

Zhang Lan continued to order without surprise.

Immediately, another general galloped over and shouted.

"Report, there are several troops who mutinied just before they arrived at the battle, and they are fighting with the Tutuan army to make a place. The grass thieves who fought against the city took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill. ”

"It's a good time. This generation of grass thieves has no loyalty at all, and it is common to repeat it. . . ”

Zhang Lan was not angry but happy.

"Now it's just before the battle to bait for me, and for me to transfer the yellow rebel soldiers and horses that are shrinking into a formation. Pass my order, push out the stopper, and make the standby crossbowmen start blocking the array. The horse step teams are ready to attack. ”

As the banner waved and spread, rows of stoppers with sharp blades emerged from the military formation, and surrounded by many armored spearmen and crossbowmen, Sen Senran slowly advanced and squeezed in the direction of the defeated earth group.

No matter how the defeated soldiers who were stopped shouted, cried, and pleaded, and did not continue to push forward for the moved, piercing, knocking down, and provoking their bodies away, leaving red marks of varying thicknesses.

Then the dense arrow feathers that followed also shot them to the ground indiscriminately, along with the grass thieves who were fighting closely behind. Immediately, from the gap deliberately left by the two wings of the large array of stopping cars, two fully clothed elite horses galloped out like arrows, and in a few breaths, they stopped and smashed into the grass thieves who attacked the array.

A large group of foot soldiers followed closely behind and confronted most of the grass thieves who were trying to meet and support them when they saw that the situation was not good, and completely cut them off and divided them.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Lan spit out a mouthful of depression that had been pent up for a long time. Don't look at his calm and natural face, as if everything is in the plan, but in fact, the tenacity and difficulty of these grass thieves are still beyond his initial expectations.

He originally planned to drive straight into the front of the formation, and first annihilate the Huangchao main formation, but under the desperate blocking and deferment of the grass thief front team at any cost; It was still a failure to let Huang Chao's middle formation complete the formation to meet it. Then he personally supervised the battle and hung the reward, and many parties took turns to besiege for a long time, but it was difficult to achieve his wish.

On the contrary, several generals he sent to the battle were successively defeated by Huang Chao, who was the pioneer in galloping on the battlefield, and even the veteran Mark Ji who was long in horse warfare was also seriously injured in the formation, and for a time he was allowed to rush left and right and be unstoppable.

Therefore, he could only take the measure of advancing in two parts, detaching a part of the men and horses to continue to surround and trap the Chinese army of Huangchao, and sending a part of his elite soldiers and 2,000 fresh troops sent by the center of the imperial court to cooperate with the ambushes on the periphery to defeat and annihilate the other grass thieves who were divided one by one.

Therefore, as his strategy came into play, although the grass thieves in these melee fought very bravely, one was ten, but due to the relative lack of men and horses, and the unfavorable terrain in the chaos, coupled with the lack of men and horses, the damage was very serious; It was soon divided into many parts by the array of officers and soldiers, each fighting for itself, unable to take care of each other.

And the encircled Huang Chao was able to grasp the initiative at first, and looked for opportunities to kill the officers and soldiers many times. However, because the number of grass thieves was at a disadvantage, he was unwilling to fight to the end with the officers and troops in a certain direction, and quickly turned back to attack those troops who were not firmly established.

Although this can kill and injure a large number of officers and soldiers, it also gives Zhang Lan many opportunities to continue to deploy troops and organize forces to counterattack. So later, as most of the officers and soldiers got used to this rhythm, the initiative he held in front of the battle was gradually lost;

As he rushed east and west to continuously rescue a group of people and horses surrounded by the officers and soldiers, the space that could be active in combat was gradually compressed by most of the officers and troops who were brought together, and he had to give up the remaining rescue goals and retreat to the city wall with his back to hold on.

Therefore, he could only give up his previous plan to complete the work in one fell swoop, and patiently slowly concocted the Huang Rebellion headquarters that had been encircled by tens of thousands; Although during this time, the men and horses he arranged on the periphery had been broken and annihilated, and several other grass thieves had come to rescue and converge; But as time goes by, the advantage and upper hand will only be more and more biased towards the Huainan Army.

In fact, in addition to the territory recovered by the Huainan Army in the north, whether it was Quzhou under the jurisdiction of the Xuanshu Observation Mission in the east or Jianzhou under the Fujian Observation Mission in the south, they were all under the control of the official army; And only the southwest of Qianzhou, Hongzhou, there are still some traces of grass thief activities, but it is not a climate.

At this time, there was a noise and shouts of fighting again in front of the battle, which was already brightly lit, and then someone hurriedly came to report

"Tell me to fight, there are many grass thieves and cavalry who have rushed away from under the west wall of the city, and there are yellow and rebellious flags and big swords. ."

"Okay, it's wonderful to escape, where are Su Kewang, Sun Dingbang, and Zhang Ziyi?"

Zhang Luan, who was wearing a pillow all over his body, couldn't help but straighten up on the rope bed and laughed a few times, and then called out by name

"The grass thief has entered the middle of the country, and you are deeply favored by the country, so you must work hard to kill the thief to repay the saint."

"If the giant thieves such as Huang and Shang can be caught, sacrificed to His Majesty, relieved the worries of the Nine Folds, and boosted the morale of the army and the people, the country should not hesitate to reward the marquis. If you dare to fight ineffectively, a thief will slip through the net, so that the public has its own expediency before the battle, and it will not be tolerated! ”

The three generals, Su Kewang, Sun Dingbang, and Zhang Ziyi, who were in charge of the battalion soldiers, almost rushed out of the ranks and replied in unison: "Be willing to be a military order!" Then he mounted his horse and galloped away with the rest of the marching troops.

At this time, the night had already covered the inside and outside of Shinshu Prefecture, but fierce battles were still going on in many places, and the shouts of killing shook the heavens and the earth.

Especially on the other side of the city, it was Liang Shimao, another Huainan general, who disguised himself as a grass thief who came to help with his subordinates as the precursor, and the officials and soldiers who took advantage of the gap to break the city to cut off their retreat were attacking and purging the remnants of the grass thieves entrenched in the city.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Lan couldn't help but sigh.

"This battle is over, the court and the prince deserve to sleep in peace."

At this time, Gao Yue on his side also recited a song "Sending the General into the Customs to Fight for Thieves"

"There are many people in the world, who is the true male.

If you want to destroy the yellow turban thief, you must rely on the black lance.

Pointing to the stars and worrying about the country, looking at the wind and knowing the wind.

Tomorrow on the clouds, the first merit of the king. ”

(End of chapter)