Chapter Ninety-Four: The Great Array

Once the morale of the army is exhausted and the rout occurs, it is a defeat like a mountain, and the more people, the easier it is to be chaotic, not to mention that the Ming army has a camp roar, most of the soldiers have already fallen into madness, and it is late at night, and countless evil ghosts have poured into the camp, and finally there is not one of the soldiers who fled to the camp of the Chinese army when they heard the sound of drums.

The front camp has been broken by evil ghosts, except for a few brave soldiers who escaped, most of them have been reduced to the blood food of evil ghosts, the situation of the rear camp and the Chinese army camp is slightly better, fortunately, most of the generals did not sleep tonight, so Hong Chengchou can still suppress the camp and gather the remnants.

The incense was not over yet, Hong Chengchou saw that there were gradually no soldiers coming from the two battalions in front and behind, but there were many ghosts in the front camp, and those evil ghosts had undoubtedly killed and eaten all the soldiers in the front battalion, and now they were rushing to the Chinese army camp.

"Pass on the official general's order, the army will break through in the direction of Xi'an!" Hong Chengchou turned over his horse and commanded the generals, then turned his head to Cao Bianjiao and said, "Cao Bianjiao, this officer, there are still a thousand cavalry here, all of which are under your command, and the task of breaking off for the army will be handed over to you, remember to blow up all the artillery, don't leave it to the Liukou!" ”

"The last general commands!" Cao Bianjiao held a spear and clenched his fists to receive the order, and then led a thousand cavalry to kill the evil ghosts to cut off the army.

Hong Chengchou has a way to govern the army with the remnants of the defeated generals and is not afraid of the encirclement of the Liukou, but constantly looking for the weak point of the Liukou encirclement, and broke through the three blockade lines of the Liukou overnight, only to be caught up by the more than 5,000 Liukou cavalry that followed, Hong Chengchou now has only more than 10,000 people in his hands and is surrounded by the Liukou, where is he willing to fight to the death with the cavalry behind him.

But the cemetery he carefully chose for the Liukou made him suffer, the plain area was suitable for cavalry combat, and Hong Chengchou tried his best to shake off the tail behind him.

The rogue cavalry also knew how powerful Hong Chengchou was, and did not fight head-on with the officers and soldiers, but hung behind not far away, and whenever the officers and troops were repairing, they came up to harass them, trying their best to delay the marching speed of the officers and troops, and waited for the rogue army behind to catch up and wipe out all the officers and troops.

After repelling the tentative harassment of the Liukou cavalry again, just when Hong Chengchou was worried and at a loss, a deafening sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the distance, and the elite cavalry of the brigade came out from behind the Liukou cavalry, which was the three thousand Guanning iron cavalry led by Cao Wenzhao.

I saw Cao Wenzhao rushing into the Liukou army first, waving the spear in his hand so that he couldn't see the shadow clearly, and the Liukou beside him screamed and fell off their horses.

"Ahh It's Cao Wenzhao! Some of the Liukou who recognized Cao Wenzhao shouted in fear.

"Brothers, it's Cao Wenzhao who is here, everyone run away!" The heart-rending shouts of the rogues came and went, and they scrambled to drive their horses away.

Cao Wenzhao led his troops to rush and kill for a while, and when he saw that he had already broken up the establishment of the rogue, he immediately collected his troops and stopped chasing them, and rode his horse to Hong Chengchou.

"Wen Zhao is fortunate that you came in time, otherwise this official will only be able to do his best for the emperor today!" Hong Chengchou couldn't help but sigh.

"My lord can't stay here for a long time, I am still followed by Gao Yingxiang's 30,000 heavy cavalry, the last general left the camp with the Guanning iron cavalry before, and soon met the main force of the Liukou, the Liukou has now poured out of the nest to our camp, I originally wanted to come back and inform the adults to be prepared, but I never thought that I would meet the adults here!" Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the remnants of the defeated army led by Hong Chengchou.

"It's all the official's fault, it's the official's treacherous tricks that caused my army to be ruined, and the official is guilty!" Hong Chengchou's eyes wept and cried bitterly.

"Your Excellency, you can't blame your lord, it's all the fault of the Weishui Dragon King and those demons!"

"Yes! The adults have done well enough, and the soldiers can come out alive all thanks to the decisive decisions of the adults, and the blame for this failure is not the adults, and the emperor will understand! The generals behind Hong Chengchou hurriedly persuaded.

"Your Excellency, the military situation is urgent now, and the brigade of rogues is behind us, please make a decision!" Cao Wenzhao asked anxiously.

Only then did Hong Chengchou raise his sleeves and wipe away his tears: "Everyone, now we can only go to Xi'an, and hold on to the city to wait for the opportunity!" The army is now with me! ”

"My lord, the last general still has something to tell your lord," Cao Wenzhao retreated from the generals, dismounted and walked to Hong Chengchou's side, and said softly: "That person came with the news that this radius of a hundred miles has been laid down by monks, and the last general has also checked it when he took the rogue cavalry in circles before, and as soon as he approached the border, the soldiers shook their spirits and couldn't help but fall off their horses. ”

"What? How is this possible! Where did the rogues get so many demons? Hong Chengchou was shocked, and hurriedly explained to Cao Wenzhao: "It was these demons who shot when the camp was breached before, and now they still have the strength to set up such a big array, how many great monks do it need!" How could a rogue suddenly have such power! ”

"Since that person has news, is there a solution?" Hong Chengchou asked expectantly.

The man followed Gao Yingxiang's side, and vaguely heard those monks talking, talking to Gao Yingxiang and others: those monks said: "The great monk of Buddhism, the leper monk, suddenly went to the capital a few days ago, and he came back today, but there was no news, so there will be loopholes in the big array originally controlled by Buddhism!" If the Ming army is numerous, I'm afraid that the big array can't stop it! "It's a pity that that person has only heard so much news, and he doesn't know which side of the Great Array the Buddha Gate is controlling!" Cao Wenzhao said in a low voice.

Hong Chengchou thought for a moment and said with great certainty: "It must be the west, there is Weishui Dragon King in the east to block it, there is no need to set up a formation at all, the north is Xi'an, the south is Tongguan, if our army is defeated, it will undoubtedly retreat in these two directions, and the big array controlled by Buddhism is undoubtedly in the west!" ”

Cao Wenzhao nodded in agreement when he heard this.

"Wen Zhao, General Xiao Cao led the cavalry to be the queen of our army, and he didn't know the news yet. Gao Yingxiang and the other rogues have a total of tens of thousands of cavalry, if they are dragged back, we will definitely not be able to get out when we are surrounded by millions of rogues, so there is also Lao Wenzhao, you lead the Guanning Iron Cavalry to attract the attention of the rogue cavalry first, and by the way, take back General Xiao Cao, let's gather in front of the western formation in three hours and break through the formation together! Hong Chengchou said in a deep voice.

"My lord, you don't have to wait for us to break through directly, let's meet in Xi'an! I'll pick up my nephew later, and then I'll take the rogue cavalry around in a circle, Gao Yingxiang's cavalry is all riding two horses, and I'm not sure I can get rid of them! Cao Wenzhao shook his head and suggested.

"That's okay, Wen Zhao, take care, let's meet in Xi'an!" Hong Chengchou thought about it, and it was true, so he no longer hesitated.

"Don't worry, my lord, although there are as many as one million, they are all infantry, and I can't keep Cao Wenzhao with tens of thousands of heavy armored cavalry!" Cao Wenzhao said that he clasped his fists and saluted Hong Chengchou, then turned over and rode away with the Guanning Iron Horse.