Chapter 795: Fighting for a Confidant
"Serve the lord loyally, don't dare to have a bad heart, this is our duty as a minister, Yu Rang, can you remember?"
Ten years ago, Yu Rang was just a weak-crowned young man, and he looked up blankly and asked his uncle: "What if the lord treats his ministers badly?" ”
Uncle stiffened his face: "Then you have to do your best, commit loyalty, not just talk, although we are poor, we also have the righteousness of poor people." ”
Uncle's words, he disagreed, good birds choose trees to perch, soldiers fight for confidants, as a scholar, there should be a certain right to choose.
The wind and sand have made his face rough, covered with a beard, and his hands have been thick calluses from the use of weapons for many years, and the former boy has grown into a warrior. Yu Rang is not very old, but he has already served Fan, Bank of China, and Zhi Sanjia like a marquee, Fan regards him as a passerby, and Bank of China regards him as an abandoned son, until three years ago, he finally met his own master in the first battle to destroy the enemy.
The gentleman of the Zhi family trusted him, gave him a beautiful woman in food and clothing, a famous horse and a mink fur, and more importantly, continuous promotions and heavy responsibilities, he also trusted that the Zhi family would not fail him and could entrust his wife with his life. This is the ideal of "the monarch and the minister are righteous": the monarch treats the minister like a dog and a horse, and the minister treats the king like a passerby. The king treats the minister like a brother, and the minister treats the king like a heart!
That's why he is standing here, willing to die for Zhiyao!
Yu Rang's position is the forward of the Zhi army, and the two armies are fighting, and the most pressure is obviously the front row. As far as the eye can see, what is behind the low barrier on the other side? Blade-wielding enemies? A rain of arrows like flying locusts? A terrible device for catapulting flying stones? If they are cowardly, the pre-war scenes of killing and suppression will frighten their legs and lose their fighting spirit.
But the three thousand dead soldiers around Yu Rang were all carefully selected, all of them were brave and daring veterans, who followed Zhiyao to fight in the north and south, fought many battles, and were not afraid of the scene in front of them.
"Boom!" In response to their fighting spirit, the sound of drums came from the rear, and if you look back at this time, you can still see the flag bearers of the Chinese army holding flags, shaking them back and forth from side to side.
Yu Rang was familiar with the flag and drum, listening to it in his ears, more cordial than his new wife's call, he didn't have to look back at the flag, through the sound of the drum, he had already understood Zhi Yao's order, and immediately drew his sword in his hand and pointed straight ahead.
"This is the lord beating the drum himself, the martial arts, the heart of the prince!" On the battlefield on the east bank of Danshui, standing among the sparse and yellow grass, Yu Rang let out a loud shout! The people next to him chanted together!
Every hundred people in the Zhijun army formed a battle sequence, and five hundred people formed an array. Under the leadership of Yu Rang, the first row began to move forward, followed by the second column, followed by the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth columns, with the chariots pressing behind. If the chariot is left in front, the horses will be frightened by the enemy's arrows and flying stones, causing them to disarray or in turn disrupt the team, which is not conducive to the overall battle, so it is advisable to leave them behind as a reserve.
The horses' long legs and pointed ears were born to escape danger, and Yu Rang couldn't force them to die like the horse master did when he and Zhao Wuxian first met each other.
Only human beings with tenacity in spirit dare to move forward to death!
"Don't rush to charge, take your weapons and move forward at a normal pace, accumulate strength, and when there are still two hundred steps left in front of the enemy, listen to my command and shout to charge!"
The Wei side had also started slowly, but it was slower than Yu Rang's department, and Yu Rang noticed that a Zhao army drove out of the barrier and lined up in front, as if they wanted to stop Wei's side, after all, they were more numerous, but they didn't pay attention to Yu Rang's department.
"Thou shalt pay for the contempt you have for me......" he counted the distance from the rampart, and silently recited in his heart three hundred steps, two hundred and fifty steps, two hundred steps...... This is the range of the flying stone.
In the Central Military Department, Zhiyao's drum beat was first gentle, the rhythm was slow, and the pause between the drums was long, but then, the pauses became shorter and shorter, the rhythm became faster, and the drums became excited!
"Charge!" Yu Rang shouted, and the three thousand dead men began to run forward.
More than a dozen flying stones roared out from different positions, and when the dead soldiers ran in several groups, most of them missed, and only a few of them hit the unlucky ones impartially, like a fierce beast sweeping through the autumn fields, throwing the dead soldiers and the people behind them to the ground, and their heads were bleeding immediately.
Fear, fear, and urine, but the dead soldiers were still advancing, and Yu Rang was even more running, while remembering the location where the stone bullet flew out, which was where the Zhao army's equipment was, and it was the main direction of their attack.
When they ran to within a hundred paces, a rain of arrows came, and the crossbowmen of the Zhao military officers behind the wall raised their crossbows and shot, and the arrows swept by like rain, and the ropes rattled. The soldiers in the back columns were fine, but the soldiers in the front columns suffered casualties, and the people who were running seemed to have been hit in the stomach by a huge punch, and fell to the ground violently, curled up, bleeding profusely.
Yu Rang didn't care about the rain of arrows, he asked the good shooter to unload his bow and arrows, and fired his bow to fight back in the run, still silently thinking about the distance in his heart, and when he reached fifty paces, the second wave of flying stones and more and more dense arrows flew again, and the next was the gap between the windings.
"Thirty steps!"
The distance was fleeting, and with a loud roar, the dead soldiers threw away their shields to parry enemy arrows, halberd swords in hand, and rushed towards the nearby barrier. Behind the barrier where the dense spears appeared, the iron spearheads shone with a cold light, like a pile of iron fences to block the impact of the dead.
"For the king!" The dead soldiers of the Zhi clan have already killed the red eyes, and the soldiers are fighting for their confidants, this is the unique loyalty of the pre-Qin men, and they plan to use their lives to trap the battle and pave the way for the army of the lord behind them!
They firmly believe that when they are in close combat, the enemy is afraid that they are not their opponents.
A sword cut off the two spears that stabbed at him, Yu Rang climbed the wall with countless robes, and was about to jump down with a shout to kill the Quartet, but the scene in front of him made his palms cold......
Beyond the spear and halberd in the front row, behind the half-zhang high barrier, there are Zhao soldiers lying or sitting, black and pressing, and they can't see the edge at a glance, like mushrooms suddenly growing on the grass. At least 30,000 Zhao troops are waiting for work here, and the queue is orderly, not at all like a hasty battle.
The high-pitched war drums sounded again, but this time it came from the rear of the fortress, but seeing the enemy's rear banner flying, one after another Zhao pawns who had been sitting still stood up and began to move their feet forward. On the east bank of Danshui, there is not only a low wall made of loess mountain stones, but also a solid wall made of tens of thousands of flesh and blood!
Through the smoke and dust in the distance, Yu Rang could also see that there was a steady stream of reinforcements, constantly heading towards the north and south sides of the fortress from the wolf smoke of the Hyun clan, and the Zhao clan, which was two feet high, was slowly advancing towards this side......
Fraud? Ambush? Yu Rang didn't have time to think about it, because seven or eight bright spears were stabbing at his chest, abdomen and throat!
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Zhao Wuxian's commander Daxu had already arrived half a mile behind the barrier, watching Mucha and other generals in front of him defend against the attack of the dead soldiers of the Zhijun. With him pressing the formation, the soldiers can feel at ease, stabilize their positions in the deceit, and it will not become a real rout.
Wang Sunsheng is also observing the battle situation: "The Shi Kun Department has been completely entangled by Tian Shishuai and the ambush soldiers, let alone getting out, I am afraid that it is not far from being completely annihilated, as long as it occupies the commanding heights of Hanshan, the initiative of the battle is in the hands of the generals, the Zhi army cannot break through the barriers in a short period of time, and it is impossible to realize the strategy of Zhi Yao, and when they are tired, it is time to divide the victory and defeat, I am willing to lead the army to attack, only 3,000 people are needed, I will definitely be able to capture the banner of Zhi Yao and return, and I hope that the army will allow it!" ”
Zhao Wuxian looked at Wang Sunsheng's eager gaze, this person's ambition was too big, and there was a trace of madness hidden under his seemingly calm personality, and he felt that he couldn't control it. So he smiled and was noncommittal: "Zhiyao is a proud person, and he is also a person who is not easy to admit defeat, as far as the frontal battle is concerned, although our army is waiting for work, but the number of people on both sides is almost the same, the hard battle is still behind, Wang Sun has the opportunity to fight." ”
Indeed, although there was a mental calculation or not, but the Zhao army was still under tremendous pressure, Zhao Wuxian stood on the car and looked far away, and could see that the impact of the dead soldiers of the Zhi clan was very fierce, and the Zhao army that was pressed by the black behind the barrier did not flinch, because they knew that if they turned their backs to the enemy, they could only receive greetings from arrows and flying stones, and they would definitely not be able to run away. At this point, it is better to fight to the death, waiting for the rear and the left and right wings to pounce and disperse their pressure.
While the Zhao army divided its troops to the north and south to block the two flanks of the enemy, it also regarded the place where the dead soldiers of the Zhi clan attacked as the main defensive place, and the guards in front of Yu Rang and others were the most numerous and dense, estimated that there were still five or six thousand people, but they could only curb the momentum of their attack, and the two sides launched a white-knuckle melee on the barrier, and the ballistas and small trebuchets had no room to play.
In the distance, the enemy's three armies were already slowly moving towards this side, and only after the threat of flying stones had subsided did they have the courage to advance. There are 8,000 people from Liang Yingfu and Fan Gaoyi in the northern section, and their opponents are the soldiers of Han Hu's own tribe, which is the foundation of all the Han clan. There were about more than 10,000 Wei people in the south, and they were met by the 10,000 Lu State conscription army commanded by Ran Qiu, and a part of the cavalry and Handan soldiers defended their flanks under the leadership of Zhao Yi......
Zhao Wuxian stared at the Wei Clan's banner and looked at it, he knew that with Wei Ju's character, it was impossible to be in danger. The enemy army can fight the most, or the group of dead soldiers of the Zhi clan in front of them, as well as the "soldiers" of the Wei cottage itself.
He raised his head and looked at the sky, the sun and the mountains were three poles, starting from Tian Ben's attack on the Shi Kui Department, and before he knew it, an hour had passed......
"It's time too...... Let him come. ”
"Yui!"
The guard Qi Wan took the order and left, not long after, under Wang Sunsheng's puzzled gaze, he walked towards this side with a person wearing a fine kudzu cloth robe, that person had clear eyebrows and a polite demeanor, should he be a scholar, or, a doctor in disguise?
Zhao Wuxian was very enthusiastic, and directly invited the man to pedal and stand next to Wang Sunsheng. Then he pointed to the battlefield where the battle was raging in the distance, pointed to the Wei army that was slowly pressing towards the barrier, and said with a smile: "Linghuzi, the Wei family wants to really fight with me today, so that the two military soldiers can fight in front of Zhao Han and the four gentlemen of Wei, as well as the king of Chu, before the grandson?" Or are you willing to follow the Old Testament and keep your word? ”
Wang Sunsheng was shocked when he heard this, and suddenly realized who it was, it was Ling Hubo who ordered the Wei fleet to evacuate two years ago, causing the destruction of Zhixiao's division! After silently taking the blame, this person claimed to the outside world that he had been expelled to the Qin State, but for some reason he ran here, is it possible......
But after seeing Linghu Bo salute, he stretched his sleeves and smiled: "The Wei family has been with the enemy for a long time, and what I am waiting for is the day when the military general comes to the west. ”
(To be continued.) )