Chapter 185: Turning the Tide (5)
"It is necessary to escort Gongzi Xi back, if you stay here, if there is an accident, the three of us brothers can't afford to be guilty." In the quiet forest, not long after Gao Huai's voice sounded, Gao Ran finally agreed with this statement, after all, the three of them are foreign generals, and Yuan Xi is the son of the lord, if there is a mistake, the future will be almost ruined.
Gao Ping rode over here, waved it with a long hammer, and whistled: "That brother will send 3,000 soldiers with me to escort Gongzi Xi south to Yecheng, maybe he can catch up with the lord's army halfway, and come back after handing over the errand." ”
Here, Gao Ran, who was the commander of this army, looked at Yuan Xi, who looked frightened, so he had to nod his head, and helped the other party onto the horse's back with his own hands, and made a monotonous syllable in his throat, as if signaling Gao Ping to be more careful on the way.
Gao Ping held the hammer and gave up his hand, and after nodding to the advice of another cousin, he turned around and drew 3,000 soldiers from the 10,000-strong army array to escort Yuan Shao's second son, who had escaped from the wolf cave, to the south.
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In the dusk of the sunset, the chirping of birds preparing to move south overhead.
On the ground, the arrows of the war horse fell sideways among the fallen leaves, occasionally twitching their hooves, and the scout from Jizhou got up and galloped wildly in the forest, flying behind him with a whoosh, and splashing sawdust on the body of the tree he ran past. The moment the footsteps turned around, a blade slashed from behind a tree.
Phew-
The explosion of Jin Ming's exchange of blows, for a scout, after the death of his comrades, he must run back to report the information without any delay, but the attacks they encountered continue to unfold, and it is difficult to survive when the war horse is also dead.
The war horse attacked, and the enemy's scouts rushed to kill him, and the head was slashed with a knife.
This Jizhou scout swung his knife to block, unable to withstand the strength of the war horse's rush, he blocked a knife in his hand, and the whole person stumbled backwards, leaning against a tree, in the front, someone pulled a bow and arrow, and the black shadow nailed into his abdomen in a blink of an eye, fixing him on the tree pole, and then, the rushing knight swung his knife and cut it down-
In the silent forest, the scout carried the head and tied it under the horse's neck, and after a while, he made a gesture to his companion on his horse, and continued to search along the predetermined route.
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The sky became darker and darker, and the birds in the forest rarely did not cry, as if the heavens and the earth were quiet at this moment.
"Brother, I think there's a problem......" In the lurking forest, Gao Huai brushed aside the hidden branches, withdrew his gaze from the distant road, and whispered to the figure beside him.
Gao Ran pressed down on the grass, got up and looked outside, the autumn breeze was soothing, blowing through the eerie quiet woods, the leaves rattled, fluttering into view, and the atmosphere became ominous.
Faintly, arrows rang out in the sky.
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Twenty miles away, Gao Ping carried a long hammer on the way to escort Yuan Xi away.
On the road to the south, it was not devastated by too much war, after the defeat of Gongsun Zhan's army at the boundary bridge, the other party fought and retreated, and the rear army on his side also swept all the way over, the rout sometimes attacked the village, fled in disguise, and it was inevitable that some civilians would be killed by mistake when sweeping, and on the road beside the road, one or two corpses that had been stinky and swollen were occasionally seen in the grass, and flies and insects were buzzing and flying.
The sky was about to darken, the soldiers and horses meandered, the forest in front of them frightened birds fluttered their wings and flew out black, the front army realized the sudden change in the atmosphere, stopped, the strange atmosphere was like ripples on the water surface to the rear of the team, the army was quite sensitive to such an atmosphere, especially in wartime.
"Send out scouts to see!" Gao Ping frowned and ordered, under the light of the red sunset, he watched several scouts rush over there, and turned his head to comfort the thin young man beside him: "Don't be afraid, the world is in chaos, there are bandits occupying the mountains and forests everywhere, but it's just a little small, and I will capture ...... Gongzi at the end."
Yuan Xi's eyes kept staring ahead, and then his hand trembled and raised to point over, Gao Ping didn't finish speaking, and when he turned his gaze along the other party's fingers, the galloping horses suddenly fell off their horses and let out a scream.
"Array—" The eyes suddenly widened, and the horses stepped forward and shouted, the horn sounded, and the winding team quickly gathered closer to the front team.
When the roar and the footsteps from the assembly of the team converged, the earth began to shake, Gao Ping's eyes swept around, and a large number of cavalry poured out of the forest in front of him, and began to accelerate and launch a charge towards this side, and in the east, under the dim skylight, two thousand cavalry spread like a tide.
"It's Gongsun Zhi's cavalry—"
"—Enemy attack !!" In the complex and high-pitched ordering, someone saw a large number of cavalry charging from different directions, and subconsciously shouted out.
Gao Ping looked at the team, it was not that it was impossible to form a formation to meet the enemy, but that the other party was coming too fast, he didn't receive the news of his own scout, he quickly turned to the figure beside him: "Young Master Xi, the enemy is coming too fast, and the last general can only escort you with his own soldiers to break through......"
Before the words were finished, at the end of the field of vision, countless churning and roaring iron hooves narrowed the distance, a spear with a handle lowered the posture, the vibration of the ground became violent, and the Jizhou soldiers shouted in front of them, "Array!" "Draw the bow!" There were also arrows shot into the sky, and the formation in the rear changed in a hurry, crowded together in chaos, some people raised their shields and wanted to step forward, and some people set up guns but were squeezed and there was no room to use them.
If the overall quality of the Jizhou soldiers is not mediocre, but Yuan Shao led Jizhou for only a year, even if he attacked the northern Gongsun Zan and raised tens of thousands of horses, but after all, many soldiers were drawn from various counties and counties, and most of the soldiers were pulled onto the battlefield after training.
Gao Ping pulled the reins and waved his hand constantly: "Take Gongzi Xi to bypass from the west, and I can't control the others——"
As he spoke, the horse's hooves approached, and the iron spear reached zero distance.
Boom Boom Boom –
The horse team that pounced on it like a straight tidal wave, crashed into the dense and chaotic array of foot soldiers the moment the words fell, one shield after another shattered, the spear passed through the sword light, and then chiseled into the human body and pushed the waves of people behind it, blood burst and spilled, and the body of the war horse and the human body squeezed out a terrifying color and sound at this moment.
In the rear, Gao Ping pulled Yuan Xi and stared wide-eyed: "Let's go!" He turned his horse's head and fled to the west with dozens of horsemen, and in a moment, among the cavalry coming from the south, dozens of horsemen also broke away from their own team and outflanked them.
After the thick steps sank the soil, and then turned up the mud, Dian Wei pulled his legs and ran wildly over there, pulling out the two iron halberds behind him, among which the iron halberd on his right hand flew out with a roar, and with a pop of it pierced into the chest of the Jizhou cavalry who wanted to escape, and splashed the sky with blood lines, and the roar sounded like thunder: "General Yuan, leave your head-"
The cavalry rammed in.
And in front of them is a villain who can kill a tiger with his bare hands, a huge body. Gao Ping shouted: "Take Gongzi Xi first, I'll fight him!" ”
Wielding the long hammer to kill the horse, the moment the weapon collided and smashed out sparks, the muscular arm below fished towards the horse's legs, and even the man and the horse knocked the other party to the ground, the war horse's four hooves struggled and flew, the rolling figure raised its head, and the halberd hung over the neck.
There was a soft thud and it fell to the ground.
Dian Wei grabbed his bloody head, glanced at Yuan Xi, who was stunned and forgot to escape, and waved his hand impatiently: "Get out, I didn't want to kill you." ”
Then, he looked at the dusk field, the tide continued to advance, the Jizhou foot soldiers who wanted to surrender were forced to run backwards, and the voices of Yan Rou and Zhao roared in the wind.
"Run backwards, turn around and go back, or you won't be allowed to surrender—"
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To the north, Gao Ran raised his head to look up at the leaves that obscured the sky, and the sound of arrows was faintly heard in the distance again, and this time he heard it clearly.
"Ahh
A bad thought flashed through his mind, he violently picked up his gun and mounted his horse, roared angrily, and galloped out of the woods, and in the surrounding woods, a large number of foot soldiers surged out, and galloped with the cavalry.