Chapter 487: Ouroboros (I)
The hot wind blowing in the face of the person still carried the smell of blood.
Tired footsteps ran through the field, in the hot and dazzling sun, a cavalry team of dozens of people rushed over, led by the bald head, earrings of copper rings of the big man shouted, waved the big knife in his hand, slashed the back of the running in front of him in a pool of blood, the horse's hooves surged over the corpse, chasing the rest of the rout, there was no intention to stop.
Corpses can be seen everywhere in the surrounding barren grass, mounds, and rolling up smoke and dust, or people who are still fleeing or ownerless war horses, broken weapons, blood-stained and torn flags are planted crookedly on the ground, occasionally, small groups of routs pass by, rummage for some food on the corpses, hear the sound of horses' hooves spreading, turn around in panic and run, and then be caught up by the cavalry, starting a scene of slaughter.
Not far from the edge of a leaf, the tall war horse bowed its head to gnaw on the grass, Gongsun Zhi stroked its mane, and looked straight at this dilapidated field, last night's battlefield was suddenly chaotic, the rout swept like a tide, so that he was a little unexpected, more than 100,000 people, and the direction of the night is difficult to discern, did not avoid being swept into the wave, with the guard wolf rider around him to withdraw first, until dawn, the spread of the rout trajectory has been clear, along the Guandu from south to north towards Jizhou Yecheng past, now these dozens of miles away, there are corpses everywhere, The Youyan Infantry under his command, the White Wolf Cavalry, the Black Mountain Cavalry, and even Lu Bu's Bingzhou Iron Cavalry were all scattered at that time.
"So, last night was a sudden mutiny in Yuan Shao's army?" He glanced back at the more than 1,000 guards wolf riders who were still following, and frowned: "....... it must have happened to Yuan Shao, and the suppressed emotions in the soldiers' hearts directly erupted, causing such a situation." β
Gongsun Zhi analyzed the situation last night, and Li Ke next to him walked back and forth, patting the mace: "Leader, what should I do?" There are still many brothers who have not returned. β
"Then don't wait, go out to find them, and by the way, find out if Yuan Shao escaped!"
When the horse's hooves urged him to walk out, the wolf rider behind him re-mounted his horse, and then rushed out of the forest and galloped towards the north, and Gao Sheng, who was chasing the rout outside, also came back to the team with five hundred horsemen, totaling 1,800 horsemen.
After walking for a while, there was a faint sound of fighting in front of him, "Go over and have a look!" Gongsun Zhi snorted lightly, drew his knife in his hand, Gao Sheng, Li Ke nodded, and then rushed over there with the wolf horse, the vision gradually expanded, and came into view, more than a thousand Yuan soldiers were besieging hundreds of people to form a defensive team, and the sound of Jin Ming and horses' hooves was intertwined into one.
"It's Cao Ang!" Li Kelema turned around and shouted loudly.
"Then what are you still stunned about, kill it!"
Gao Sheng roared, carrying a big knife and leading the cavalry to rush ahead, Yuan Cai, who was besieging the array on the opposite side, turned around, the arrow flew into sight, magnified, and the moment the arrow fell from the corpse, the light cavalry wandered around and reacted, and the captain waved his knife to urge: "It's Gongsun Zhi's cavalry, retreat!" Evacuate! β
Eight hundred cavalry drew an arc together, arrows flew out of the bowstring and hugged them, scattered one or two hundred Cao soldiers carrying the spear forest slowly forward, among the thousand Yuan soldiers, the cavalry first opened the distance, and was chased by the wolf rider to kill the distance, and the hundreds of foot soldiers in front of them were then killed, leaving dozens of corpses, and ran to the distance in a panic.
The soldiers retreated, Cao Ang, who was covered in blood, put down his shield and sat down almost out of strength, Gao Sheng hurriedly rolled off his horse and slapped him in the face: "Get up quickly, if you want to die, continue to sit!" β
"I'm so fucking tired that I want to die....."
Cao Ang was helped up by the shouts coming over, the gap of the ring knife was still inserted into the ground, he got up with difficulty and looked at Gongsun Zhi who came over on horseback, and slowly raised his hand: "Dudu, have we won?" Yuan Shao's head can be gained. β
"I don't know yet...... Gongsun stopped his horse and waved his hand to bandage his wounds, handed over the water bag on his waist, his indifferent eyes were bloodshot, and he still showed fatigue after all, he shook his head: "The army is scattered, the soldiers and horses of the three parties are mixed together, if Yuan Shao does not die, he will definitely flee north back to Yecheng, and it should be too late to chase now." β
Cao Ang wiped the water stains on the side of his mouth and staggered a few steps, "General Zhao and Wen Hou shouldn't have to worry, they are all cavalry, and they can't catch up with the spread of the front, but Pan Feng, Zou Dan and Montenegro are riding one, at that time, I was fighting with them on the front line, and the rout swept over, and it was almost impossible to ....... if you want to open the distance in time."
He paused: "I don't know if my father is okay, there shouldn't be many soldiers and horses around." β
In the morning, the sun was scorching, the wind was whimpering, and there was a burst of bloody gas around, Gao Sheng patted him on the shoulder, and whispered with relief: "Don't worry, Prime Minister Cao Cheng has Tucheng behind him to rely on, and when he sees that the situation is wrong, he will definitely retreat into the city." β
"Uh-huh....." The frail figure looked worriedly in the direction of Tucheng behind him and nodded.
Gongsun Zhi closed his eyes, as if sweeping around, after a while, he opened his eyes, turned to the side where he was talking, led the shadow and turned on the horse, and said in a low voice: "Zixuan, you lead people to slow down in the rear, while gathering the team along the way, I will lead the cavalry to the front first." β
"Governor, be careful on the way!"
The figure of the wolf velvet armor nodded at him, turned the horse's head and roared, "Let's go!" The whip sounded, and then the dust rolled up under the iron hooves and ran out, when the horse team set off again to search for the north, in the north, the Youzhou general named Zou Dan took his subordinates and Dian Wei out of the forest on foot, embarrassed, tired, last night at the front line to fight, the Chinese army behind the Yuan array suddenly mutinied, the surging sea of people swept over, the front line that stretched the battle, almost all were involved, many people were pushed, crowded out of the team, followed the sea of people to walk and kill, stay until it was almost dawn, Only then did they realize that it was the direction of Jizhou, and then they found a wooded place to rest, and occasionally scattered routs also came here, and then a battle ensued.
ββ¦β¦ Lao Zou, how many of us are there? The giant man wiped the blood condensed on his face, sat down with his buttocks, and reached out to grab the grass leaves to wipe the blood on the halberd, "Lord, I don't know where it is now, if it's okay, I should find it quickly!" β
Zou Dan's armor had already been damaged, he poured a sip of water and dragged the tattered cloak over, "The lord keeps a distance from the place where the battle is fighting, the speed of the rout can't keep up, there shouldn't be a big problem, I'm almost resting now, I don't know how the fight is going outside, Yuan Shao may also be in chaos, don't kill him, and he will come back in the future!" β
"Let's go!"
Dian Wei stood up on his knees, stuck his halberd behind his back, and waved his hand at the Youyan pawn resting in the forest, "Let's go!" There's a Yuan Shao waiting to be killed outsideβ"
The shadowy figure in the forest helped each other up, walking lightly and heavily, the crowd slowly gathered over, there were more than 2,000 people, after a slight adjustment, towards the direction of Jizhou, on the way to see a lot of Yuan Bing's corpse, scraped the opponent's weapons and hung them on the body, but there was no dry food, presumably it had been taken away first.
Occasionally, I will encounter groups fleeing, or collecting heads, and the companions of the lost team, beckoning each other to come over and put them together, there are cavalry, and there are also foot soldiers, and then continue to advance forward, over a hillside, the soldiers exploring the road in front of them issued a warning signal, and then there was movement, Dian Wei and Zou Dan followed with the team, and there was already a fight, and Zou Dan ran out with a knife and shouted: "Ready!" β
Hundreds of shield soldiers lifted their shields, and the moment they were in front, arrows flew over and nailed to them, Dian Wei led the soldiers from the side to jump over the ravine, pinched their weapons and hid behind the rocks, and shouted: "Do you see how many people there are?" β
"I can't see clearly, about one or two hundredβ"
"Damn, there are a lot of us, kill them!"
Footsteps up, the huge figure directly over the rock, towards the opposite side of the mad rush, behind Zou Dan waved the knife, then led the people behind him to rush up, the opposite Yuan Bing was originally a frightened bird, after the loss of the group, want to return all the way back to Jizhou, here to do a rest, suddenly was discovered, nervous tension and the path-finding Youyan soldiers had a fight, after that, more enemies killed, someone fought a few times, turned around and fled, a moment later, left a few corpses, fled to a farther direction.
Someone came over and cut off the heads of those corpses, tied them around their waists, and was about to leave after scraping the corpses, when suddenly a voice shouted from the front, followed by the nearby soldiers, and the voice was loud: "It seems to be General Pan's weapon!" β
The giant man who was tearing the jerky raised his head violently, and Zou Dan next to him also stood up and glanced at him, and quickly came behind the soldiers, only to see a giant axe lying on the ground, Dian Wei was stunned, his teeth were clenched, and he looked at Zou Dan with a side face, "...... is Pan Wushuang's weapon......
"The weapons are here...... Nothing will happen, right? Someone among the soldiers whispered.
Zou Dan frowned, raised his head and looked around, hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "Tell the brothers to scatter around, look around, and see if that guy ..... killed in battle....."
The crowd scattered and walked away, searching for a while in this hundred-zhang range, Dian Wei clenched his fists and froze in place, staring at the weapon in a daze, then closed his eyes, his head buzzed, and after a while, there were footsteps coming over, and Zou Dan's voice was lowered: "I found General Pan..... he is under a stone." β
"...... take me there."
After being silent for a while, the giant man opened his eyes and spoke with some difficulty, although Pan Feng's family was not in tune, but in the end, they fought side by side, and the sea of corpses and blood came over. Heavy footsteps followed the generals in front of them to the bottom of the hillside dozens of zhang away, several big bluestones were close together, dozens of soldiers were surrounding there, seeing the two generals coming, make way of a way, and the rest of the generals in the farther direction also followed.
Under the two rocks against each other, the figure with a big waist and a round waist lay there, his hair was scattered and wet from the morning dew, Dian Wei closed his eyes and sighed heavily, and sat down on a stone opposite, "Your fucking ..... often say that you are blessed, why did you lie down halfway......"