Chapter 40: Defeat is like a mountain
When the arrows of the Wei army rushed into the sky so overwhelmingly that this black cloud almost covered the sky in the north, Chen Cheng, the commander of the Qi army, already understood that it was too late. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Damn it, the Wei army could still shoot so many arrows in a high-speed charge, did they use a bow or a crossbow? Chen Cheng couldn't figure it out for a while, but he knew very well that his army would definitely not be able to do it, compared to the Wei army, they didn't have good training, no sophisticated equipment, and no momentum like a rainbow, so what else to use to resist the Wei army now?
Chen Cheng's heart sank to the bottom again, and all he could do now was to raise the sword in his hand and shout for his soldiers to stop charging and form a defensive formation.
To hedge against the Wei army, just kidding, Chen Cheng didn't think that his 10,000 people could withstand the first wave of impact, so Chen Cheng, who had already regretted it greatly at this time, tore his throat and shouted to form a formation, while moving in the army, wanting to stabilize the army.
But how easy is it to move from one state to another? In the midst of the small commotion, the Qi army finally slowly stopped, but by this time, almost every Qi soldier had seen the rain of arrows.
Nervousness and panic suddenly spread throughout the army, some of them took out their bows and arrows to fight back, some raised their shields, and some turned their heads and tried to flee.
The small riot immediately turned into a big chaos, Chen Cheng's voice was almost hoarse, and he even drew his sword and slashed a few fleeing soldiers and a few panicked soldiers running around, which stabilized the team within the range of thousands of people around, as for the soldiers in the distance, Chen Cheng couldn't care enough.
In fact, this is the time of hundreds of breaths, and when Chen Cheng was still shouting in a hoarse voice that no one could hear what it was, the rain of arrows of the Wei army posed and fell.
The personal soldiers and servants who bluffed Chen Cheng immediately grabbed Chen Cheng and completely wrapped Chen Cheng underneath with several big shields, so that Chen Cheng did not run naked in the rain of arrows.
The rain of arrows smashed the wooden shield with a huge impact, so that the wooden shield seemed to crack, and after a few breaths, the rain of arrows stopped, and when Chen Cheng lifted the shield and jumped out, there was already a wail around him.
Many soldiers had wooden poles stuck in their bodies, and the battlefield was desolate.
However, Chen Cheng didn't dare to give up at all, and still shouted in a hoarse voice, "Formation!" ”
"The archers shoot back!"
And at this time, more people reacted, and their enemy was actually the Wei army! So more soldiers began to shout.
The chaos further expanded, but Chen Cheng was ruthless, desperately commanding his subordinates to form a formation to resist, he knew that he had to block this group of Wei troops here, although Chen Cheng had not yet figured out or had no time to think about why this group of Wei troops was killed from Puyang City, but Chen Cheng still clearly knew that if he allowed this group of Wei troops to rush behind the formation of the Qi army, then for today's decisive battle of Qi and Wei, what kind of consequences would it bring to the Qi army.
Therefore, Chen Cheng desperately wants to block this group of Wei troops here, even if his whole army is annihilated, as long as he persists until the Qi Wei army divides the victory and defeat, then he will be victorious.
Chen Cheng's desperate efforts finally got a part of the reward, in the Qi army, the sparse thousands of arrows flew towards the attacking enemy, you must know that less than half of the Qi army is equipped with bows and crossbows, in this case can send such arrows, the Qi army has been extraordinary.
And the defensive formation of the Qi army also took shape after dozens of breaths, with the shield hand in front, the spearman and the Changge hand in the back, nervously facing forward.
Unexpectedly, before the arrows of the Qi army fell, the second wave of arrows of the Wei army had already flown into the sky. This is the standard tactics of the Wei army's field warfare, charging and releasing arrows at the same time, and then fighting white-knuckle battles with strong combat power.
Seeing that the two waves of arrows rained before and after only a few dozen breaths, Chen Cheng secretly swallowed bitter water, with such combat power, the other party must be the elite of the Wei army, or the world-famous Wei Wushu. Why are you so unlucky?
By the way, why did this group of Wei troops come out of Puyang City? In the past few days, the Qi army has been staring at the Wei army brigade and Puyang City, even in the middle of the night, there are at least ten pairs of eyes that do not close, how did this Wei army enter the city? Only then did Chen Cheng have the opportunity to think about this problem.
But it was only a few breaths of quiet time, because soon, the rain of arrows of the Wei army smashed down again. Obviously, because the Wei army was advancing, the time for this rain of arrows to stay in the air was much shorter than that of the previous wave.
There was another wail, but there were fewer deserters.
Pushing away the shield and standing up straight and looking around, he saw that the Wei army was only a few dozen steps away, and the murderous aura seemed to be tangible, and after Chen Cheng took a breath of cool air, he had to raise his strength again and shouted, "Brother, resist it, the Wei army will never release arrows again!" As long as you resist it, you will be rewarded with 1,000 per person when you return to Linzi! ”
The number of one thousand is not too small even if it is placed in Linzi City, enough for many people present to marry wives, under this key call, the momentum of the Qi army is also briefly invigorated, but before the strong Wei Wushu, this is destined to be just a flashback.
As for Chen Cheng daring to shout like this, in addition to the reward of the Marquis of Qi, he also took into account a factor, not to mention how many people can go back after this battle, even if this will still be able to hold on to the battlefield, there are less than half of the people left, and the rest either escaped or died under the arrows of the Wei army. Therefore, Chen Cheng shouted out that he would return to Linzi to reward each person, and there was a key return to Linzi in front of him, of course, in this case, none of the surrounding Qi soldiers realized whether they could return to Linzi.
The relatively loose arrows of the Qi army also caused some trouble to the Wei army, but compared to the losses of the Qi army, the damage of thousands of Wei troops was nothing.
Soon, braving the loose arrows of the Qi army, the Wei army rushed to a few steps in front of the Qi army, and the invisible murderous aura was like a tangible, forcing the front army of the Qi army to take two steps back, and then, thousands of people crashed together.
The formation of the Qi army was immediately broken through several openings, and then the two sides were slightly stalemate, and then the Qi army collapsed on the whole line, and the Wei army cut into the Qi army like a bamboo.
In fact, if 10,000 Qi troops versus 5,000 Wei troops, there should not be such a big gap between the two sides, but the sudden appearance of the Wei army, as well as the wrong actions caused by the Qi army's mistaken belief that it was the Wei army, such as taking the initiative to attack, and then discovering that it was the temporary command ability of the Wei army's commander-in-chief, directly determined the fate of this army.
The Wei army was recklessly harvesting the lives of the Qi soldiers, wantonly destroying the fragile defense line that Chen Cheng had just organized, and at the same time, in the rear of the Wei army, which Chen Cheng could not see, he also divided a thousand people to go around the side of the Qi army, obviously the Wei army had other plans.
Finally, not long after the collapse of these thousands of Qi troops, the entire Qi army began to flee, and Qi Shushu began to flee for his life. And Chen Cheng shouted a few times and no one responded, and after seeing that Wei Bing was about to rush in front of him, he also wisely chose to save his life.
As soon as the main general turned around, the whole army fled faster. At this time, no one has the heart to resist anymore, and fools can tell which is more important, a thousand dollars or a life. Which is more important, merit or life, Chen Cheng can also distinguish clearly. So after not fleeing far, Chen Cheng rushed to the front of the team.
Running for your life is always faster than charging, and as soon as the team pulled away, the one who ran at the front was immediately relieved, as if he could escape with his life. But as soon as his steps slowed down, he saw that Wei Bing had run to his side, so he began to run again.
It's really a mountain of defeat, and the eastern powerhouses are like Qi, and there is actually this scene, but the Qi people didn't expect it anyway, this is just the beginning.
Gradually, Chen Cheng finally felt that something was wrong, the Wei army came out of Puyang City in the north, and the Qi army met from the south, so when he fled, he naturally turned around and went south, but at this time, Chen Cheng obviously found that there was actually a Wei army in the east, but he did not kill the Qi soldiers, but it was like driving sheep, forcing the Qi soldiers to keep the direction to the south.
As soon as he found out about this problem, Chen Cheng suddenly shuddered again, it is said that the Qi camp is in the southeast of Puyang City, and the Qi country is also in the east, so the escape is naturally to the east, but the Wei army forced the deserters to go south, so what is in the south? Chen Cheng clearly knew that fifteen miles to the south was the battlefield of the main forces of Qi and Wei, and even if he was fleeing at this time, he could clearly hear the shouts of killing coming from the south.
The Wei army wants to drive its deserters to the rear of the Qi army's camp, and let these remnants of the army break their own army's camp, then the Qi army's large army will not only greet thousands of Wei army's strange soldiers, but also thousands of their own defeated troops, and even the harm of the rout will only be greater, and the consequences for the 100,000 troops will be unimaginable. Even if the IQ was not very high, Chen Cheng suddenly figured out the purpose of Wei Jun.
But what's the use of figuring it out? The rout of the Qi army is already unstoppable, and in the midst of unorganized and undisciplined running, how can they control these routs to avoid their own army?
But Chen Cheng knew the consequences, if he really let his people go to overwhelm the camp, then when the prince returned to Linzi, he would definitely be wiped out, so Chen Cheng was still working hard and wanted to lead the large army to the west.
But the effect was extremely limited, except for the slaves brought out of his own home, no one listened to his general at all, and even attracted the attention of the Wei army, a few crossbow arrows shot from somewhere, and several slaves fell to the ground in response, so frightened that Chen Cheng threw away his helmet, and took the remaining dozen or so slaves to hide in the rout of the army, and then picked up his life.
And at this moment, suddenly someone in the rout of the Qi army shouted, "Let's all run to the south, the big army is there, and the prince can protect us!" ”
This standard Linzi accent made Chen Cheng angry all of a sudden, but then he shook his head, it's also this time, why do those soldiers care so much? However, this shout made Chen Cheng make up his mind, that is, he must not go back to see the prince again, otherwise the angry prince will divide himself into five horses.
Looking around, Chen Cheng ruthlessly took off his general's unique armor again, waved his hand and fled to the west with the remaining dozen or so domestic slaves.
Sure enough, the Wei army only defended the east where the Qi army might escape, and the west did not encounter too many Wei soldiers, and Chen Cheng and his party finally escaped from the rout of the brigade after losing a few more lives, and they were getting farther and farther away from the Wei army.
After a few hundred paces, Chen Cheng and his party, who thought they had reached a safe distance, stopped their steps, still looking back at the large army in fear, only to see that the routed army was like ants, driven by the neat Wei army behind.
In addition to the master and slave of the Chen family, there were also a few small soldiers who saw the opportunity quickly and escaped westward, but they did not turn back, but quickly disappeared behind the woods in the west.
"General, what shall we do now?" A house slave whispered with a crying voice, his courage almost bursting.
"Don't call me a general anymore, there won't be a certain general from now on." Chen Cheng gasped and said.
"Follow me back to Linzi quickly, if you go back late, the prince will destroy my family."
"Is the lord moving his family away?" A clever house slave quickly guessed his master's plan.
"Yes, the Qi army will be defeated this time, and the prince will not allow me." Chen Cheng replied in a deep voice.
"And where are we moving to?"
"Luoyang. Zhou Luoyi businessman Jia Jia is the world, and I heard that the Zhou family is heavy on business, and with the help of Wei Hou, a certain family is enough to be a rich man in Luoyang! Chen Cheng obviously knew something about it for a long time.
"Let's go!" Chen Cheng gave the order.
The group never looked back, but ran westward.
Unexpectedly, after walking a few hundred steps, he saw an army running from the north, so frightened that Chen Cheng hurriedly quickened his pace. However, this army obviously had no interest in these deserters, and did not chase them, so that the master and slave were lucky to escape again.
After running over, Chen Chengfang reacted, the army behind was wearing gray robes, not the black robes of the Wei army, so it was obvious that the army behind was the real Puyang soldiers.
So running and running, Chen Cheng suddenly patted his head, stopped his steps, and panicked that several house slaves immediately turned around and supported him, "Master, what's the matter?" ”
"I suddenly figured out when the Wei army from Puyang City entered the city. However, it has nothing to do with us, so let's go. Chen Cheng waved his hand, and his feet immediately increased his strength.
"Huh? The lord figured it out? But I don't understand it yet. Can you solve the doubts of the little people? Immediately, someone slapped me on the back.
"Do you still remember that when our army attacked Puyang City, there were 10,000 Wei soldiers who escorted 5,000 Puyang soldiers into Puyang City?"
"yes, so what?"
"Oh, it turns out that these five thousand Puyang soldiers actually entered the city in the gray robes of the Puyang soldiers, but they deceived everyone." The clever house slave shouted as if he had an epiphany.
This person actually comprehended his intentions several times, but attracted Chen Cheng to turn his head and look at it a few more times, but unfortunately on the way to escape, he didn't have time to talk in detail, but this young house slave who had not usually had much contact with him successfully left a deep impression on the head of the family, Chen Cheng.
The group kept at their feet, and after bypassing the road for a mile or two to the west, they turned to the north, and they were able to flee back to Linzi as fast as possible, otherwise they would have been greeted by disaster.
However, if you calculate the time, the remaining thousands of defeated soldiers should also flee to the edge of the battlefield where Qi and Wei are fighting. (Thank you Kyan-Lian for your continued support!) )