Chapter 70: Breakout

In the camp of the Yellow Turban Chinese Army, there was a gloomy cloud and miserable fog, 10,000 soldiers, the whole army was wiped out in less than half an hour, and the main general Guo Tai was also captured on the spot. Zhang Liang's face was so gloomy that he was about to drip water, Mrs. Guo was his henchman, every time he was in danger, he was always the first to think of him, and he never let himself down, but now he fell into the hands of the enemy and didn't know life or death... Unexpectedly, the enemy on the other side is really too strong, this is the most terrible enemy in the history of the Yellow Turban Army.

Zhang Liang paced back and forth in the tent with his hands behind his back, his brows furrowed. A group of generals in the tent were too frightened to speak, and the camp fell into a dead silence.

Zhang Niujiao glanced at Zhengu, took a few steps forward, came to Zhang Liang's side and bowed and saluted: "Marshal, our army's current situation is very bad, there is the Zhanghe River in the north to block it, and the Turtle and Snake Ridge in the south is blocking the way. Either withdraw from the range of the enemy's trebuchet first, and then slowly figure it out. ”

"Can you fight the enemy to the death at this time?" After Zhang Liang muttered to himself, he shook his head slightly. As for continuing to stay here, it is purely looking for abuse, not in the scope of consideration, is there really only one way to retreat, even if it is to retreat, it is not so simple, with the current low morale may shake the morale of the army even more, and the slightest carelessness will turn into a big rout.

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At the head of Duchang City, I was dressed in a white robe, looking down at the chaotic Yellow Turban camp in front of me, with a slight smile in my eyes, more than 100,000 Yellow Turbans were led by our army, making them want to die, the initiative is completely in me, and then I am ready to harvest the fruits of victory.

Jia Xu, who was dressed in a green coat and a small hat, was like a bookkeeper, he patted the dust on his body, Shi Shiran came to my side, and coughed lightly: "Congratulations to the lord, my hoplites have extraordinary combat power, and the lord has added a strong army!" ”

Jia Xu can be alone in troubled times, there is indeed a set, every time the opening remarks are always one or two sentences of unobtrusive sycophants, which make people feel happy first, and this time is no exception.

I smiled and nodded, pointed at the position of the Yellow Turban Army and teased: "It's good news for us, but for Zhang Liang, it's a big trouble. ”

Jia Xu also smiled.

"Zhang Liang is in a dilemma now, and a lot of nerve-wracking things are still waiting for him!" Because the enemy won't be too happy at the moment, I'm in a good mood.

"If it were me Zhang Liang, the whole army would immediately retreat and retreat to Julu." Jia Xu thought for a moment and replied softly.

"Well, Zhang Liang is not a stupid person, he will not be wrong again and again." I agree with Jia Xu's point of view, if Zhang Liang really wants to fight a decisive battle with me, our army will wait for work at ease, and the battle will be decided, but it will save trouble.

"If he wants to withdraw, we will intercept him layer by layer, chasing all the way, like cutting sausages, eating him bite by bite." Jia Xu's tone was cold, revealing Sensen's murderous intentions.

"It's a good sausage, that's it!" Jia Xu and I laughed at the same time.

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Zhang Liang was very irritable, he was still pacing back and forth in the camp, he was a decisive person, he knew the truth of constantly reversing the chaos, the enemy was just beginning to emerge, he was already so powerful, he took the initiative to attack in fact, there was no chance of winning at all, it was better to retreat directly, and it was not too late to have the opportunity to make a comeback in the future. But as soon as the order to retreat was given, the bad news came: the rear road had been blocked by enemy troops.

I don't have a small appetite, and I want to eat me in one bite, which is ridiculous! Zhang Liang was extremely angry, although he decided to withdraw his troops, it did not mean that he was really afraid of our army, but he still had more than 100,000 sons in hand.

Immediately gave a death order to the commander of the tent, ordering him to lead 20,000 troops, regardless of losses, and must dig a gap!

Zuo Xiao is a personal disciple of the great sage and good teacher Zhang Jiao, and his ability is beyond doubt.

However, an hour passed, and none of the good news came back, and there was only one message, that is, a request for reinforcements.

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"Wen Ze, the enemy army has pressed another 5,000 people, and after this battle, we can almost give way to the road." Man Pet wiped a handful of sweat and said to the ban.

"Good! After the elimination of 5,000 people, Zhang Liang's determination to withdraw in a big stride will be strengthened. Yu Ban nodded, and said to his old partner: "Berning, you also go and prepare, why don't we give them a big surprise before we give way!" ”

Full Pet nodded and turned to leave.

The passage to hold the rear road of the Yellow Turban Army is not wide, it will not exceed 30 zhang, and if you want to attack, it is impossible to rush up, and only four or five thousand people can be dispatched at a time, so the defenders have the advantage of the territory.

Yu Ban is steady, proficient in arranging formations and defenses, and has the full assistance of young heroes like Manzhong, so the soldiers of the Tiger Army are still as immobile as a mountain and as solid as a rock in the face of repeated impacts.

The attack of the Yellow Turbans did not stop, and they also killed Red Eyes.

If it doesn't work once, come a second time, a third time... Regardless of casualties, they were repeatedly defeated and fought, like moths to a fire, so that Yu Bandu began to feel sorry, what a good soldier, it was wasted in vain.

Looking at the strict and calm formation of the enemy, and looking at the thousands of remnants of his own defeated soldiers, this is the gap! Colonel Zuo was both angry and helpless, the enemy army was only a few thousand people, and until now, people are still alive and kicking, and the battle damage is negligible; On the other hand, more than half of his 20,000 horses were damaged and disabled, and there were only five or six thousand capable fighters left.

When the battle came to this point, he didn't have the face to go back to the marshal, he gritted his teeth and ordered fiercely: "Come on, all those who can be angry will be pressed by Lao Tzu, and if this battle is not successful, it will become a benevolent!" ”

"The sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand!" When the time came for a desperate fight, the five or six thousand Yellow Turban Army was full of courage and shouted slogans to kill the forbidden department.

Woohoo! Hundreds of the Tigers' bows and crossbows roared at the same time, and arrows flew at the onrushing enemy.

The screams suddenly rose, and the people who rushed in front were shot by arrows and fell, and before they could struggle, they gradually disappeared at the feet of the people behind them.

One after another, but no one can stop.

"Sword and shield hand forward to cover, quick!" Colonel Zuo yelled, what he was most worried about was the bows and crossbows of the official army, the Yellow Turban Army lacked bows and crossbows, which was also a helpless thing, and he had to use human lives to consume the enemy's arrows every time he attacked.

Colonel Zuo's heart was dripping blood, and with a cup of tea, a third of the strong soldiers fell!

The enemy formation was less than ten zhang, and the arrows were already sparse, but a bad premonition rose in Colonel Zuo's heart.

"Javelin, throw!" Seeing that the enemy army was getting closer and closer, he gathered his dantian with a lot of enthusiasm and shouted violently.

Immediately, the soldiers of the Tiger Army suddenly drew their javelins, leaned back in unison, and the weapons in their hands suddenly soared out, stabbing fiercely at the rushing enemy.

The sound of puff and puff came out one after another, and the Yellow Turban soldiers were struck, and a large number of people fell down with a bang, most of them were fatal with one blow, and the lethality of the javelin was indeed far from being comparable to that of arrows.

"Mandarin duck array, take the platoon as a unit, line up!" With Yu Ban's order, the order flag began to wave, the whistle blew at the same time, the soldiers skillfully arranged into hundreds of small mandarin duck formations of more than a dozen people, and during the march, they randomly formed several large mandarin duck formations, they were interlocking, like a hurricane rolling towards the enemy, Yu Ban's hands are really like the arm pointing, pointing where to fight.

After several blows, the remaining remnants of the Yellow Turban Army were only three thousand, and at this moment they collided with the mandarin duck formation, first they were pumped by the long old bamboo pole for a while, and they were staggered, and their bodies hurt and their legs cramped and they were about to stand unsteadily, and the next moment, several small mandarin duck formations alternately shuttled and covered, and soon wrapped them in the formation, and then the swords were added, and these people were like insects that fell into a spider's web, and they no longer had the slightest power to resist, and they were slaughtered.

The Mandarin Duck Array created by Qi Jiguang really lives up to its name.

Three or five small mandarin duck formations cooperated with each other, easily eating dozens of people in one bite, and then surrounding another group of enemies, and so on, the killing effect was amazing...

Massacre, a one-sided slaughter of his own side, Colonel Zuo was desperate, he looked back at the camp tent of the marshal, and muttered: "Colonel Zuo is useless, he has failed the marshal." Then, he withdrew the broadsword in his hand, flipped the blade violently, and when it reached his neck, the large hand pulled hard... As the blood mist erupted, his body fell to the ground with a thud.

With the fall of Colonel Zuo, the suicidal assault came to an end.

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A few families are happy and a few are sad.

In the big tent of the Yellow Turban Chinese Army, when he heard the bad news of Colonel Zuo's suicide, Zhang Liang rubbed his eyebrows and was silent, and after a long time, he sighed and said: "Colonel Zuo, Colonel Zuo, why is this so painful?" How do you ask me to explain to my eldest brother! ”

The atmosphere in the big tent was depressing, and the generals had sad faces one by one, only Zhang Niujiao and Zheng Gu were talking in a whisper.

Zhang Liang's eyes swept over everyone's faces, and when it fell on the head of the Gu Gu who was whispering to Zhang Niujiao, his face was a little complicated, and then his gaze became gentle, and he began to reflect on himself in his heart: his previous perception of him was indeed biased, and although this kid was repeatedly defeated in the face of such a strong enemy, he was still able to retain his strength and retreat with his whole body, which is already commendable.

Seeing that everyone in the tent was vying to be a turtle with a shrunken head, Chu Yan was young and vigorous, he was very dissatisfied with the performance of the generals, and suddenly stood up and shouted to fight: "Marshal, the last general is willing to lead the Yellow Turban wrestlers to attack, undefeated the enemy, come and see you!" ”

"No!" Zhang Niujiao and Zheng Gu objected in unison.

Zhang Liang also had this intention, and he didn't send out the elite Yellow Turban Warriors, I was afraid that it would be difficult to defeat Yu Ban, so he was about to nod his head and agree, but when he saw that the two of them were opposed, he stopped and tried to listen to the opinions of the two first.

His gaze fell on Zhang Niujiao's face, Zhang Niujiao hurriedly clasped his fists and bowed and saluted: "Dashuai, the Yellow Turban Lux is the pillar of our army, and it must not be moved lightly unless it is absolutely necessary..."

Nodding, Zhang Liang looked at Zheng Gu again.

It was a matter of the safety of the Yellow Turban Army, and he didn't care about General Rengong's prejudice against him, he pondered for a moment, and then said: "Marshal, Gu Shicai inspected the baggage camp and saw hundreds of ox carts, so he thought of a plan..."

"White Rabbit's strategy is wonderful!" Zhang Liang's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he screamed suddenly.

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Moo moo! The leather whip was accompanied by a loud shout, and there was a burst of rapid cow roars in the Yellow Turban Army, and then, the smoke and dust were billowing, the fire was chaotic, and in a moment the camp gate was opened, and in the countless waves of driving and shouting, hundreds of crazy cattle suddenly rushed out, their horns were tied with bright blades, and the oilcloth wrapped around the ox's tail had ignited the tongue of fire, and the sharp pain of burning the buttocks made the cattle beastly hairy, staring at the blood-red bull's eyes, like monsters swept towards our army.

It's not easy to deal with a person who has a bull tantrum when he encounters it, let alone more than 200 mad cows going crazy together!

Wherever the cattle passed, they trampled everything and broke down any obstacle that stood in their way, so that all the Yellow Turban soldiers dared to follow behind, because the soldiers who had been driven on one side had already been trampled into pulp.

The momentum caused by the fire bull's wild run is enough to break most people, but they are facing Yu Ban, one of the "Five Good Generals".

Interesting, even Tian Dan's fire bull array was used!

Yu Ban smiled coldly, and immediately ordered: "The knife cart battalion is dispatched, leave a passage, and the fire ox will fight after it is released!" ”

Ha ha! It's really crooked. Man Zhong received the order from Boss Yu and smiled: I originally wanted to send out a knife car formation to finish beautifully, and send a small surprise to the enemy, but I didn't want them to make a fire bull rush battle; Well, since you have sent a few hundred beef cattle to reward our army, then I will not accept them all.

The flags were unfurled, the drums and whistles were alternated, and the Tiger Army suddenly cracked a passage. Soon, there was a cold atmosphere in the passage, as if the afternoon temperature had plummeted by 10 degrees; Then, a squeaky sound sounded, like a monster tearing at its prey, disturbing people's minds and making people feel an inexplicable panic!

When the drums and whistles gradually stopped, the passage that the Tigers had cracked apart was piercing with cold and murderous aura. The mysterious knife cart finally reveals its original hideous face. The iron-gray metal body is inlaid with rows of sharp blades, which are bloodthirsty and dazzling, like an enlarged version of the iron hedgehog; On the carriage closed on all sides, several fierce soldiers looked cold, two feet long iron spears in their hands, and they would attack fiercely at the first order.

One after another, the knife carts followed the rhythm of the war drums, and they quickly arranged and combined, one on the left and one on the right, and the two columns faced each other in the north and south, wide in front and narrow in the back, and soon formed a trumpet-shaped passage.

At this moment, the fire bull array had already roared, and the beasts that rushed to the front bowed their heads, mooed and hissed, and instead of taking the passage specially left for them by our army, they aimed the horns of the bulls bound with sharp knives at the knife carts lined up at the entrance, and then began to accelerate, their hooves flew like flying, and their huge bodies slammed into them like tanks...

Ten steps, nine steps, eight steps... Getting closer and closer, the blood-red bull's eyes made people's hearts tremble.

The four or five Tiger soldiers pushing and dragging the knife cart were tense, their hands grasping the handles, and their eyes staring at the wild bull galloping towards them without blinking.

Rumble! The knife cart trembled, and the body came into close contact with the mad cow, and several strong cart soldiers felt a shock in their bodies, and a bone-chilling pain came from their arms and shoulder blades; At the same time, there was a pop, a pop, a sharp blade instantly drilled into the heads of the fire bulls, piercing their necks, and then there was a violent sound of clattering bones shattering, and the moo wails stopped, and in an instant, the blood of the ox spurted wildly, and the huge knife cart was sprayed into a shocking blood-colored red!

After several mad bulls who provoked the knife cart formation fell to the ground with a bang, the hundreds of fire bulls who followed behind saw the terrible nature of those knife carts, and no longer dared to challenge them with their bodies, they obediently squeezed into the entrance of the flared knife cart passage, endured the burning pain and continued to run all the way.

Stab! The whistle blew again.

Thousands of spears stabbed out in unison, forming a forest of iron-blooded spears and poking at the galloping herd.

The targets are so big that you don't even have to aim, so none of the guns miss. In an instant, there was a scream of sorrow, and blood splattered everywhere...

After a while, Man Pet saw that hundreds of fire oxen had almost poured into the passage composed of four hundred knife carts, and it was time to close the net. He yelled: "The knife cart battalion obeys the order, hit!" ”

Hundreds of knife carts on both sides of the passage suddenly started and collided with the herd; The flared knife carriage channel then closed quickly, like a large pair of scissors beginning to bite and close.

Snort! The sharp blades tore through the belly of the cows, and the blood gushed like a fountain, and they struggled first, then fell, and even hung directly on the knife cart, leaving their intestines and internal organs on the ground.

Several fierce oxen turned around and tried to ram the knife cart, and dozens of spears were immediately stabbed from the knife cart, knocking them to the ground... In less than half an hour, a huge fire bull array died down and became the most sought-after ration of the Tiger Army.

Yu Ban and Man Pet laughed, and waited for people to load hundreds of dead trophies onto the knife cart, Yu Ban waved his hand and ordered: "The rear team becomes the front team, withdraw!" ”

The Yellow Turban soldiers who followed behind the Fire Bull Formation were supposed to take advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, but now when they saw such a formation, they were almost stupid, and they were all stunned, watching the enemy retreat calmly, and no one dared to move half a step to chase after them.

Zhang Liang, who was watching the battle from a distance, changed his face several times, and then smiled bitterly at Xiang Zhenggu: "Your caution is right, the enemy is ten times stronger than I imagined!" ”

Seeing that General Rengong finally recognized himself, and admitted his mistake in disguise, his heart was full of mixed feelings for a while, his voice was a little choked, Huo Ran bowed his head and said: "Marshal, although the enemy army is strong, the available soldiers will not exceed 30,000, and my more than 100,000 troops will retreat in a concentrated manner, even if I can't retreat with my whole body, I should be able to withdraw tens of thousands of elites." ”

Zhang Liang is finally a heroic figure who can afford to put it down, he nodded, and couldn't help but value it a little more.

At this time, Zhang Niujiao, Chu Yan and others also gathered, and everyone's faces were not very good-looking.

"Hahaha! Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, and in the future, we will train more elite soldiers and strong generals, and then wash away today's humiliation. Zhang Liang suddenly laughed and boosted morale, and when everyone's faces eased slightly, he waved his hand: "The generals obey the order, throw away all the baggage and sundries, and only leave the weapons and dry food that they carry with them, and we will withdraw to the giant deer lightly!" ”