Chapter 438: Burning Hoofs (2)
Under the city of Changping, the speed of the rout of 20,000 people is staggering.
Zhang Nan, who had returned to the city, rushed up the city wall with a big sword, and the soldiers around him were also on guard, making a defensive posture, staring at the battlefield in front of him.
The fist smashed the wall, his teeth were clenched, he had seen the cavalry rushing before, the person led by him, he had seen it, and when he encountered the courage of the flying general Lu Bu, he had long lost the mind to hedge, and it was a dead word in the face. However, in the rout situation outside the city, Zhang Nan's eyes were bloodshot, and he frantically smashed the wall two more punches to vent his mood at this time, stationed for half a month, and it was gone in half an hour, and it suddenly didn't seem to be real.
But the rout is not the worst.
If he can drag on for ten days and half a month, even if he is defeated, no one will be held accountable, and now in half an hour, 20,000 troops are beaten and scattered in all directions, if the lord is held accountable...... All he could do was panic and a chill to his bones.
The horse's hooves galloped, expanding the results in the chaotic crowd, the sound of fighting and wailing pierced the city wall, Zhang Nan's vision shook slightly, the knife in his hand fell on the floor tiles with a clatter, stumbled out a few steps, stretched out his hand to hold the wall battlement, looked at the city wall with a blank look, and opened and closed his lips slightly: "....... is over, I am completely finished." ”
Behind him, the adjutant general and his confidants hurriedly came over to support him, and someone hurriedly picked up the weapons on the ground and said in his mouth: "General...... There is also a road, we are guarding the city wall, and we are fiercely stuck here, if Gongsun Zhi's people bypass here, we will go out of the city and kill the back! ”
Empty eyes looked at the wolf rider sweeping the field, the words of the guard beside him, and then his eyes smashed, and nodded: "Yes, there is still a way to go......"
He waved his hand violently, "Let all the soldiers not open the city gate without authorization, and put strict guard on the city wall, let all the archers come up, no matter what, you can't lose Changping." ”
The order was passed down layer by layer, and the cavalry was ordered to gallop through the streets, the gates on all sides, and the voice shouted hysterically, informing the commander of the general's order.
"War must not be carried out on the streets!"
“.…… The defense of the city is urgent, and the people must go up to the city wall to help defend the city, and those who do not obey will be punished as collaborators. ”
"From the time the city gate soldiers receive the order, they must not leave the guard at will—"
Downstairs in Xicheng, a soldier named Yan Jiu sat with a group of comrades under the wall and chatted, and when he heard the order, he spit out the grass roots in his mouth, staring at the shouting cavalry away, and then retracted, looking at the fifteen soldiers beside him, with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth.
"I heard that the fight outside is like, that Zhang Nan is afraid that he is panicking, the eldest prince really has the style of the lord, since he has come back, should we, the veterans under the command of General Baima, give the eldest prince a meeting gift?"
No one answered, just someone grabbed a nearby stone and sharpened the edge.
The battle outside Changping City is still continuing, in the late spring sunshine, the terrible shouts, the war horses shook the earth, almost showing a one-sided fight, occasionally some soldiers wanted to fight back under the organization of the general, and then they were hit more violently, the white wolf cavalry fighting in small teams had regrouped at this time, the attack became more violent, and the Yuan soldiers who hastily organized resistance were directly dispersed and chased in a half-moon posture in the next second.
Originally, the 20,000 people stationed in the field were drawn from various counties, although the combat effectiveness was weak, but not to such an extent, but the white wolf rode a false move, dodging the cover of the first round of arrow rain, exposing the heavy armored iron cavalry behind him, the opponent's charge was to smash the middle formation, and the two thousand elites belonging to Zhao Yun in the rear directly came from the back up, taking over the heavy cavalry that had slowed down the momentum in front, and launched a second chisel attack again, and the other two directions bypassed three thousand white wolf cavalry from the left and right wings to launch an attack, In response to the 5,000 Yuan soldiers who rushed out to meet the battle, they charged at a high speed and turned into dozens of squads into the opponent's array, and the tactics of flowering in the center spread to the surroundings.
For these Yuan soldiers drawn from various counties, although they have a strategy to deal with cavalry on weekdays, the army in front of them is a little different. On the battlefield where 20,000 people were defeated, the soldiers ran around without command, and there were human figures everywhere in their field of vision, crowded, pushed, and then knocked away by the rushing war horses, or slashed by spears and blades, and the heads, internal organs, and severed limbs set off shocking images.
The sprinting cavalry slaughtered into the camp on the field, Zhang Nan, who was standing at the head of the city, looked over angrily and frightenedly, and at the end of the field of vision, the banner in the army fell down suddenly, and the fighting and shouting were still coming from afar.
"This first formation broke in my hand......"
In the face of Gongsun Zhi's preemptive and sudden attack, it was too late to think about it, and at the same moment, a cavalry team of 2,000 people quickly stretched through the chaotic battlefield, and the fleeing Yuan soldiers were intertwined and scurryed in the field.
The figure of the leader, dressed in gold-locked beast face armor, tied with a golden crown, looked majestic and majestic, and a Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand, so that the fleeing soldiers took a look at it, and they all felt terrifying, and then fled farther away like a wild dog meeting a tiger.
Occasionally, the red war horse stopped for a while, on the horseback, Lu Bu's eyes swept over a group of fleeing figures, and he had no intention of making a move, and then looked to the southeast, and the same young man with a halberd approached on horseback.
"Master, Yuan Shao's second formation of more than 20,000 people, the general is called Jiang Yiqu, I heard that there is some bravery, and if it is delayed for too long, Wen Chou, Han Meng and others will find out about our surprise attack and will come to help soon."
"Jiang Yiqu? Quite brave? Then be cautious. Lu Bu asked his soldiers to feed Chitu water, and he also unscrewed the sheepskin bag on the horseback and took a sip, pulled out the halberd and nodded solemnly: "Protect my two wings, rush directly into the Chinese army, kill him as quickly as possible, don't care about the opponent's reinforcements, and don't care about any soldiers, well, that's it." ”
Sima Yi opened his mouth slightly, and nodded subconsciously: "....... Good. ”
The trapped camp in the rear soon rushed over, and the horse team set off again, crossed the remaining water, and passed towards Guangyang, while the messenger team that had been chased by the cavalry before drove the carriage to the south, Xu You almost fell down in a panic, and got up quickly on the ambush car, while scolding the team to go faster, while asking the guards: "How long will it take to arrive in Guangyang, and the news of Gongsun Zhi's raid on Changping must be delivered——"
"It seems that General Jiang is stationed in Guangyang, and there have been a few groups of scouts just now." The guard hurried over and replied.
Only then did Xu You settle down and said again and again: "That's good...... Then it's good to ......", and in the past two days, less than ten miles away from Guangyang, on a hill far away, they stopped, and Jiang Yiqu's army in the field below had been spread out and lined up.
The sky was overcast, and on the opposite side of this army, a cavalry team slowly appeared in everyone's field of vision, gloomy formation, the number was only two thousand, and there were still 1,500 trapped camps in the rear that had not yet arrived. And these cavalrymen looked gloomily at Yuan Jun in the distance, and silently raised their iron spears.
Xu You looked at the team in a daze, and at that moment, there was an illusion that the other party wanted to swallow more than 20,000 people in one go......
The two teams confronted each other for a moment, the hundred flower robes moved, and the halberd was raised from the arm and pressed down—
"Kill!"
A simple word seems to contain the bones of countless people.
In the next second, the horse's hooves thundered on the ground.