When the sky shone again, Meng Kai, who was able to break through in the darkness of the night, found that there were less than forty people left around him; And he also had a few new bloody wounds on his body.

However, there are more and more officers and soldiers encountered on the battlefield, and there are fewer and fewer rebel armies that can converge; Obviously, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for the rebels due to the disparity in numbers between the two sides. When he was entangled and surrounded by an officer again, he suddenly saw the lineup in the northwest corner behind the officer and army in chaos, and fled in all directions.

He immediately led his men and horses to the northwest corner, and then saw a group of men and horses killed, but it was his clan brother Meng Juehai who took the lead, a pair of big swords flashing white light in the smoke and flying dust of dusk, invincible.

Then, I saw that the officers and soldiers in the southeast corner were also killed and a gap was opened. There were about 300 or so cavalry, led by another volunteer general, Yuan Yuan, who saw him wielding an iron whip in his hand, and the officers and soldiers who were close to the bones and flesh one after another gave way to a bloody road.

Later, in the distance that Meng Wei saw, there were still many figures of Baotou who were faintly rushing to come.

。。。。。。

In front of Zhang Li, the grass thieves who left the trap under the city have shrunk by more than half, and the original ochre Daxu and yellow-headed handsome flags are gone, and the remaining grass thieves are especially comfortable with the word "Shang" under the banner of "Shang".

At this moment, Zhang Phosphorus became more and more unhurried, he knew a lot of truths about the trapped beasts, but he definitely would not be at the last moment of this imminent success, because he was too eager and gave the other party more opportunities.

At a glance, it can be seen that the camp led by Zhang Phosphorus is indeed well-trained and well-equipped. On the relatively open flat land below the city, these men and horses always advanced steadily in a semi-encircled situation, with the cavalry arranged on the two flanks, the infantry in the middle, and the iron-clad jumping team in front of the infantry, and the bows and crossbows at the end of the fire.

Seeing the flags fluttering, the battle agitation, the arrows flying in the sky, the guns, swords, and halberds flashing in the afterglow of the morning light, these orderly and patient officers and soldiers are fighting again and again, to wear down and weaken the remaining strength of this grass thief's own formation.

However, these grass thieves who fought all night were not to be outdone, most of them held bows and bows, with a few baggage carts, and dry moats as cover and positions, and slowly fought and retreated in batches, relying on the support of throwing stones and arrows on the city wall to form a formation, allowing the first hand of the official army to attack a few feet away from the wall, and then was pushed back by the elasticity.

But Zhang Phosphorus believed that as long as he arranged for the men and horses in the city to be killed on the city wall here, under the condescending belly and back attack, the remaining four or five thousand thieves who were not fully clothed and armored would not have any luck. But the frontal offensive and pressure still have to be maintained.

So after a moment's pause, the war drums and the sound of killing began with the left flank of the encirclement, and the cavalry and infantry of the Huainan camp rushed over the trenches from here.

However, when this dry moat fell to the foot, it was discovered that the problem was only two or three feet deep in some places, four or five feet deep in others, or even more than one person deep; The slope is shaky in some places, and steep in others. When the officers and troops crossed the halfway point, the people and horses were chaotic, crowded in front and back, and only those who did not come over generally maintained a strict lineup.

The thief army on the opposite side seemed to be waiting for this rare fighter, only to see one of them wearing a five-flowered horse with a grass thief general sword rushing out, the war drum of the grass thief suddenly sounded, and at the same time, a row of arrows was shot at the official army from the city to the city, and a loud shout! Four or five hundred well-armoured foot soldiers rushed into the moats with him. I saw the horses' hooves trampling, the swords flashing wildly, and the officers and soldiers who had already poured into the moats could not resist being killed in an instant.

Even Guo Rang, the commander of the Huainan Battalion, who led the rush into the moat, couldn't help but panic a little on the spot, especially when the grass thief general rushed in front of him and surrounded him and a few pro-soldiers and generals in the core and stormed him, a thought of "my life is over" flashed through his mind.

But then, the rain of arrows that splashed indiscriminately in the melees of the grass thieves and the officers and soldiers reversed the situation again; Compared with the well-protected and uniformly dressed and uniform, even if most of the officers and soldiers are alive after being hit by the arrow; The ragged grass thieves were much more miserable, pouring one after another in a pool of blood almost like cut down rice, and then trampled by the officers and soldiers who rushed forward.

In addition, the soldiers and horses made Guo Rang's soldiers on the left and right desperately resist, and the men and horses behind flocked across the road to rescue the front team, he still quickly stood a position on the edge of the trench and repelled the counterattack momentum of this wave of grass thieves. In the end, only a hundred people of the grass thief general were able to return to the battle.

"This is the fierce general of the grass thief, Shang Rang, who pretended to be the deputy chief."

Zhang Phosphorus said with great interest.

However, the ongoing melee was unprecedentedly fierce, and although these grass thieves were getting fewer and fewer, they finally had no shortage of counterattacks, especially the deputy commander Shang Rang used a small number of cavalry to move quickly, and cooperated with the infantry and archers to suddenly divide and coincide, sometimes rushing towards the infantry in the middle line, sometimes suddenly making a direct attack on the Chinese army, and even once he had already captured the vanguard battle flag of the official army, and was taken back by the official army in a blink of an eye.

However, in the melee, his "Shang" banner was once taken away by one of Zhang Yuan's generals. However, the grass thieves desperately tried their best to rob it, and both sides suffered heavy casualties around the banner and could not take it back. The grass thieves disappeared and the banner of the word "Shang" suddenly shook the hearts of the army, and the officers and soldiers thundered with joy and thought that they had won, shouting everywhere: "The grass thieves are defeated, the grass thieves are defeated"

However, Zhang Phosphorus frowned at this moment, and the negligence after the arrogant victory was also one of the faults he brought out of these marching soldiers.

Then I saw that at this critical moment, Shang Rang and more than a dozen grass thieves rushed over like lightning, and for a time the officers and soldiers were invincible and scattered left and right, and the banner of "Shang" returned to the hands of the peasant army. The rest of the grass thieves suffered heavy casualties, but when they saw the muddy banner of "Shang" again, they erupted into a majestic cheer and shouting of killing, which shocked the officers and soldiers in the battle.

In an instant, Shang Rang and more than a dozen of his brave generals had once again rushed in front of Guo Rang, the most prominent soldier and horse envoy in the official army; Guo Rang saw that he was coming fiercely and turned his horse away. I only heard a few yells behind me: "Kill your mother!" But it was the flag officer who was in charge of the same country when he was chopped to death by Shang Rang and fell off his horse, and stretched out his hand to grab his banner, and for a moment the officers and soldiers of the department were shaken, and they were actually cut down from the edge of the trench by the grass thieves who followed up, and they were driven down.

"Come on, fly the fireballs and thistles."

Seeing this scene, Zhang Li calmed down and ordered.

Then, paper balls wrapped in sulfur and arsenic on large arrows mounted on the crossbows, as well as round wooden balls nailed with countless spikes and smeared with grease and ignited, were pushed through the formation in an instant, and then smashed into the remnants of the grass thief battle array.

Under the ensuing flames and poisonous smoke, the grass thieves who fought in formation could no longer hold on, and they broke out one after another. At this time, there was a siren in the distance.

"Is there another grass thief coming to help, but it's too late."

Zhang Phosphorus didn't reply.

"Routinely order the men and horses on standby on the periphery to intercept and ambush them nearby."

After a while, the siren sounded again, but it was closer.

"Is it really useless, divide the troops from this formation and volley one step away."

At this time, Zhang Fu frowned and continued to order.

"The headquarters will make every effort to encircle and annihilate the enemy in front of you, so as not to let the leader of the grass thieves get away."

Then he thought for a moment and added

"Then order the men and horses of the various units on alert to the south and west to quickly move closer to the main formation, and prepare to support the operation of clearing the enemy in the city."

Then, after a while, the alarm was heard, and with it came the figures of those who had fallen back.

"Oh no, Zhang begged. It was the yellow thief who led the crowd to kill it. There are a lot of thieves all over the mountains. ”

Then a bloodied subordinate was paid in front of him.

"Yellow thief, where did the yellow thief come from, isn't Huang Wei already defeated and fled, aren't the remnants of this formation just in front of us."

Zhang Fu was suddenly a little stunned, and then turned into some kind of ugly and extremely shocked, and shouted.

"Where is the Chang Vanguard?"

"Isn't Chang Xianfeng already out of the array."

Someone immediately responded.

"It's broken...

Zhang Phosphorus's heart suddenly throbbed violently and the alarm sounded wildly.

"Quickly send an order to summon the whole army to assemble in this formation, and then retreat into the city of Shinshu to join the Liang Defense Department, we are afraid that we will have another big battle under this city...

(End of chapter)