Chapter 802: Zhiyao's Death (II)

PS: There will be another chapter in a moment

To the north of Guangwolf City, the Han battalion is already brightly lit, and the combat ability of the Han soldiers is indeed the weakest in Zhao Wei and Han, the Han soldiers are timid, they like to shoot the enemy with longbows and crossbow arrows, but they are afraid of hand-to-hand combat, but this is the era of cold weapons after all, if you don't have the courage, even if the long-range shooting is skillful, it will be crushed by the enemy.

Now, they are facing this situation.

Han Hu in the camp had been awakened by the attack of the Zhi clan. Although Zhao Wuxian reminded him that he had prepared in advance, no one could have expected that the besieged Zhijun would be so decisive, and he would start to break through tonight, and he came directly to his side, is this a soft pinch of persimmon?

Han Hu was very aggrieved, he had done his best to preserve the strength of the family, and now the Zhi clan was still dragging himself into the water, and he had to block them, and he couldn't let Zhi Yao cross the camp in the slightest!

However, Han Pawn did not have his heart, and there was a period of confusion after they were attacked: the soldiers could not find their generals, and the generals could not find their own troops, so they could only fight on their own, relying on the fortifications in front of the camp to resist the enemy's attack.

Fortunately, Han's long-range weapons are fully equipped, and above the arrow tower, a dense rain of arrows rushes down, and the towers are staggered before and after, with each other being horns, and there is no dead end to hide within a hundred steps in front of the wall. The treads above the trench outside the camp had been emptied, and the deep ravines were like the cracks of the behemoth's mouth, waiting for the enemy to stumble and fall from the distance.

The offensive was blocked, and the continuous feather arrows directly turned the empty area in front of the northern camp into a dead place, and the soldiers were a little afraid to move forward with the sound of dense long arrows breaking through the air. Zhiyao is extremely anxious, if he can't break through the past and stay for a moment longer, there will be more danger.

Although he sent a feint attack force so that the enemy could not distinguish the direction of his real attack, with Zhao Wuxian's cunning and ubiquitous scouts, it would soon be discovered that his main force was here. When the time comes, Zhao Wei will come over on both sides, and with only the remaining more than 5,000 people, it is a question of whether they can withstand an hour, and then it will not be a breakthrough, but a death!

For the general, not the kindness of a woman! So far, not to mention the rain of trenches and arrows in front of you, even the sea of fire, you have to jump, fight hard and maybe there is still a way to live, and if you spend it here, you won't even have a chance at all.

"Rush over! Fill the ravines with human lives! ”

Zhi Yao immediately ordered to attack the strong, and used the body of the soldier to kill a bloody road, because it had only been besieged for three days, and the Han clan was not as efficient as the Zhao clan, so although tents and necessary arrow towers were built, and the ravines were dug up by the captured prisoners, there were many places where even the wooden walls had not had time to be repaired. After the front part of the Zhi clan rushed over against the rain of arrows, there was no hindrance, and finally entered the village, the Korean army did not dare to fight, and retreated step by step!

However, at this moment, the Zhiguo of the palace suddenly turned around, his eyes stared into the distance, although it was night, but because of the firelight of the camps everywhere, the surrounding reflection was almost no different from the day, his instinct made him feel that danger was coming, so he lay down on the ground, his ears were close to the ground and listened carefully, and then his face changed greatly, and he immediately let people send a message forward.

"Reports from the rear that there seems to be a troop of cavalry rushing towards us!"

Zhi Yao was shocked, the terrible thing about the Zhao cavalry, they had seen it in the previous battle, only 5,000 of the 15,000 Zhi soldiers retreated to the west of Danshui, and most of them were caused by the cavalry tearing them into two parts.

"Lord, what should I do?"

The soldiers around were anxious, the cavalry was fast, and they were approaching in a blink of an eye, and if they didn't prepare, they would die and have no place to be buried.

Zhiyao also turned around and looked at the rear worriedly, but still gritted his teeth, and ordered: "Let Yu Rang not fall in love with the war, continue to move forward, cross the Han camp, and you will be able to reach the mountain road and break out of the encirclement!" ”

……

To the south of Han's North Camp, the horses shook their bodies restlessly and snorted.

Yu Xi rode on his horse, and reached out to caress the soft mane on the horse's back, so that the old man, who was a little anxious in the night, the firelight, and the noise, quieted the old man.

It was not Yu Xi's first horse, not even the second or third horse, the mount that Yu Xi got when he was in the lower palace and Chengxiang had already died in an unknown battle, and this old man had been obtained in Lu six years ago. When Zhao Ying came to Lu for the second time to help Zhao Wuxian resist the Qi people, he brought a lot of good horses from the north, it is one of them, it is said that it came from the country of Dai to the north, where it is a vast grassland, the wind blows the grass and the cattle and sheep can be seen, the children of the Di tribe can ride sheep at the age of three, and when they grow up, they begin to shoot bows and arrows on the horse, and the lord said that they are natural cavalry.

But in the Central Plains, there is only one real cavalry!

"That's right, when this battle is over, I will let you live comfortably in the garden."

Touching the spacious horse's back, feeling that the war horse had calmed down, Yu Xi's tense face slowly showed a faint smile, he withdrew his palm, and began to check the weapons and armor on his body on the campfire, and more than a thousand people behind him did the same. Their movements were light and slow, meticulous and serious, and these insignificant details allowed the cavalry to escape the summons of the Grand Commander in battle, especially in the most dangerous night battles.

The killing of the Han clan's northern camp in front of them did not stop, and the Zhi clan's breakthrough troops were storming there, and Yu Xi was the first to rush to support.

"Let's go!"

When everything was ready, a long horn sounded, and the horses were wrapped in raw cowhides with their hooves, and the horses had cages on their beaks, moving like the wind and as fast as lightning. More than a dozen horsemen with torches in the front galloped wildly, except for the slight tapping sound of the four hooves stepping on the ground, in the dark night, people did not feel anything abnormal.

But when more than a thousand iron horsemen ran together, it was earth-shattering!

Don't need to listen, the soldiers of the Zhi's rear army who didn't have time to kill the Han camp could already see what was rushing towards them in the dark, they panicked, and after the battle of Danshui Changping, everyone knew the power of the cavalry charging into battle.

Although the Zhijun successfully broke through the side of the Han camp, they were no longer a broken through the formation, but a chaotic escape. The road ahead was blocked, and the more than 1,000 people in the rear army couldn't squeeze in at all, they could only lean their backs against their robes, their pupils gradually dilated, and they shouted desperately in despair!

"Ahh

The sound of the collision and the terrible screams sounded at the same time, and Zhiguo thought before being knocked away by a fierce horse, no wonder his other cousin Zhixiao was slumped when he returned after being attacked by cavalry in Wen County......

Human life is under the horse's hooves, as cheap as ants, and when the army steps on, it is like a withering and decaying, leaving only a piece of flesh and fragments of armor!

But there were still more than 3,000 Zhibing soldiers under the leadership of Zhiyao, squeezing away the Han camp and rushing forward, they pulled up in a long line in the night, looking crooked and twisted, like a little gecko whose tail was stepped on by a horse, desperately breaking off its own tail, and running forward in a hurry......

However, the shadowy mountains, the dark mountain road, are like a giant beast opening its mouth, waiting to devour them......

……

The mountain road leading to the Duanshi River valley is long and narrow, and the Shangdang area is full of hills and ravines, this kind of terrain is common, but the opening is just here, like a living gate in the gossip, full of temptation for the trapped.

However, this place was not completely unguarded, and at this moment, after noticing the battle of the Korean camp at the foot of the mountain, Musha gathered his soldiers and stood in front of the mountain pass.

He wore black armor and a heavy sword at his waist, his face was expressionless, and he looked majestic, like a giant god guarding this place, blocking the only entrance to the Duanshi River Valley from the northwest across the mountains.

Behind Musha, two thousand five hundred soldiers stood in order, spears like a forest, battle flags like clouds, divided into five formations, lined up in front and back in a fish-scale formation, the battle array was fifty columns horizontally, ten rows horizontally, the huge wooden shield and skinned chariot in front of the formation were like iron walls, and in the gaps, Zhangyu's spear stretched out, and it was terrifying. The soldiers stood silently, silently, one by one, with calm faces, silently staring into the dark distance.

They are not many in number, but they are all elites, and they are the soldiers of Zhao Wuxian's Fourth Division, one with the longest war history, which can be traced back to the time of the Song National Army, and many of them were veterans who were recruited when Xilu expanded their recruitment. This kind of situation, after four years of licking blood from the knife, everyone has long been commonplace, and many soldiers have closed their eyes slightly, recuperating their energy, they are waiting, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

"The enemy is coming......"

There were a lot of chaotic fires coming towards this side, the enemy that the soldiers had been waiting for for a long time.

They clenched their spears and raised their shields, and with Musha's loud shouting, the musician's deafening waist drum suddenly sounded, this drum beat broke through the suffocation of the night, broke through the barrier of all things, and after a while, the low and powerful drum resonated with everyone, and the blood in their hearts couldn't help but speed up the flow, and the war spirit hidden in the hearts of the veterans was completely stimulated!

Together, they took firm and powerful steps, and the five phalanxes moved forward neatly, one step, two steps, three steps...... Everyone's ears only had the sound of the rhythmic footsteps, and the soldiers shouted loudly with this rhythm, and the strong murderous aura shook the heavens and the earth.

In this way, they appeared unabashedly in front of the Zhijun who broke through the Han camp and thought they had escaped.

They raise their spears and make their enemies fear their arms!

They raised their crossbow machines and welcomed the arrival of the Zhishi gentleman with a dense array of crossbow arrows!

Welcome to the trap again, welcome to taste the despair! Welcome to the Dead!

……

The night will be bright.

After receiving the third arrow, Zhi Yao took a few steps back, he stepped on a corpse, stumbled to the ground, and sat on the pile of corpses, the sword in his hand slipped weakly from his palmβ€”he had already relied on it to kill several close Zhao pawns.

"Lord!" Yu Rang was also covered in blood, and he desperately pounced on Zhiyao, blocking another arrow for him, but fortunately it only hit the back and did not completely penetrate the armor.

The loyal man gritted his teeth, and his huge palm stroked the place where Zhiyao was hit by the arrow, and he couldn't help but tremble. Unlike the two arrows on the thighs and shoulders, the arrows hit the chest, and the direction was diagonally downward, but I was afraid that it had hurt the internal organs of the lungs, and the blood was constantly oozing out, and the armor was extremely viscous......

There are less than five hundred people left around who are struggling hard, and most of these people are the soldiers of the Zhi clan, the most loyal guards of Zhi Yao. They formed a human wall, trying to protect the commander behind them, but the gaps and gaps were getting bigger and bigger, and the dense arrows of the Zhao clan had already shot the front of the guards into a sieve.

Zhiyao smiled bitterly and shook her head, "I'm afraid it's ...... I'm at my end up. ”

There is already a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood around him, and when he turns his head, he can see the layers of corpses behind him, a few are Zhao pawns in black armor, and most of them are their own soldiers, their limbs are entangled, and they are still fighting until death.

Zhiyao understood that from beginning to end, this breakthrough was a conspiracy set up by Zhao Wuxian, and it was still an old trick of encircling three without one: after the Han camp, which seemed to be empty in defense, it was the first division of Zhao soldiers guarding the mountain pass, which seemed to be not much, but they were all elites, and they waited here for three days and three nights without showing their faces, just to wait for themselves to break through to this point......

It's like catching a rabbit in the mountains, first blocking the two holes of the cunning rabbit, and then filling them with water, forcing the rabbit to jump towards the only exit, and waiting for it is a cage and a few knives.

As for the Zhijun, the iron wall composed of military guards, the 30,000 troops of Zhao, Wei and Han who surrounded them, the cavalry who constantly swept the formation, and the dense arrows, these are what are waiting for them.

No matter how arrogant the goshawk is, there is a day when he falls vertically after being hit by an arrow, and the pride of the sky also has a moment when he falls in a pool of blood. Zhiyao no longer had the strength to fight anymore, and the blood flowing from the wound was slowly draining his strength and life, and he couldn't even stand up straight.

Looking at the Zhao banner in the distance, Zhiyao relied on Yu Rang, and began to speak with a trace of unwillingness, and said his words that were also kind.

"I am a little smart, and my appearance is unbeatable, and the clansmen say that I am like a rebirth of Zhiwuzi (Zhifu). But I don't have the kind temperament of Zhiwuzi, I am competitive, relying on versatility, I often bully the sons and grandsons of the Qing Dynasty in the Pan Palace, among the younger generations, Wei Ju, Han Hu and others are afraid of me, jealous of me, hate me, I also feel that the Pan Palace is boring, and left there early. But because of this, he missed meeting Zhao Wuxian and the opportunity to get acquainted with this lifelong enemy, so that he was inexplicably suppressed by him for several years without taking a photo. Whenever I talk about me, the Jin people will add a sentence in addition to praise: 'Ran Zhiyao is not as far away as the Zhao family'......"

"I was naturally unconvinced, when I first met him in Wenxian, I didn't think there was anything remarkable about this person, and I wanted to divide the high and low with him, not only for my own honor, but also for the battle between the clan and the Zhao family. It has been four years since I sent troops to destroy the enemy, and you have followed me to fight more than ten battles of all sizes, and the enemies west of Taihang have been defeated. β€œ

"But just like before, even if I work hard, I still can't compare to Zhao Wuxian when he moved his fingers lightly abroad, he swept Jizhou and Yantu, and his momentum has been achieved, and it is no longer something that half of Hedong can contend with."

Yu Rang was sad and sad, and said: "Lord, don't talk anymore, wait for the ministers to take care of the wounds for the lord, and there will be no big problem, the lord will be able to pedal the car at that time, be able to get on the horse, and take the ministers to break out of the encirclement and go home!" ”

Zhiyao bled too much and turned pale, he shook his head: "I can't get out, Zhao Jun trapped this place like an iron bucket, Zhao Wuxian must ask for my life here, but I don't hate him, he is an opponent, he defeated me, I lost my heart, I hate the most...... It's still Wei's father and son! I originally wanted to lead the second and third sons to fight a painful battle, kill General Zhao, and cut down the banner of Xuanniao, but Wei Ju's betrayal disrupted all my preparations, and I was defeated. I wanted to gamble again, break through the encirclement, and retreat to Xinjiang, but if I can't, I will retreat to Hexi to find another way out. I was trapped here, with several arrows in my body, and I was about to die, and I couldn't figure out why I ended up in this situation. Finally understood......"

He smiled brightly like a student solving a puzzle: "It turns out that it's all because of Zhao Wuxian, if there is no such person, the sons and grandsons of the Jin Kingdom are all local chickens and dogs, and they should be bullied by me." And the Zhi clan will also be extremely prosperous in my hands in the future, and the person who dominates the Jin Kingdom and tramples Zhao Weihan under his feet should be me! β€œ

Zhiyao said that at the end, his face was hideous, and he touched the wound, causing a violent cough, and dark blood clots spurted out of his mouth, which was a sign of serious injury to his lungs......

"No, it's all Wei's despicable, Zhao Wuxian is cunning, and it's not a war."

Yu Rang's words did not bring Zhi Yao any comfort, his eyes began to wander, his hand reached out to Yu Rang, and said his last words with a miserable smile: "I heard that Zhao Wuxian used ten catties of gold to solicit my head from thousands of households in Fengyi, so I will give you this benefit!" When I die, cut off my head and send it to Zhao Wuxian, for you, for the sake of the flaws, and for the few hundred soldiers who are left to find a way to live......"

Yu Rang, who had never been smiling, began to cry, his eyes were blood-red, and no one in the surrounding remnants did not cry.

But Zhiyao could only hear the humming sound, he couldn't see anything, and there was already blood around him.

He knew that his time of death had come, and he grinned again, showing a reluctant smile at the gradually glowing sky, and his white teeth were bloodshot.

"Because I know that in Yao's life, the most unseen thing is the twilight of the beauty, the strong man...... The last years! ”

(To be continued.) )