Chapter Seventy-Five: The Battle of Luoyang (6)
If you want to ask who Lu Bu wants to kill the most in the entire Luoyang court, the answer is definitely not Liu Wei, but Zhang Fei and Zhang Yide, who roared on the battlefield under Luoyang City at this time.
The reason is self-evident, that once glimpse of the great has become an eternal pain in Lu Bu's heart.
Seeing Zhang Fei riding a horse towards him, the fire of jealousy and hatred in Lu Bu's heart had already burned his senses, so he abandoned Liu Wei and patted his horse to Zhang Fei.
The two met in an instant, and at the same time waved their weapons. The Zhangba Snake Spear and Fang Tian's Painting Halberd collided together, and a loud sound erupted from the intersection of metals, shaking everyone around them into bursts of tinnitus. Zhang Fei rode his horse back three steps in a row, while Lu Bu only took one step back, but then he also widened his obviously sore shoulders.
Lu Bu frowned slightly. Although he had never fought against Zhang Fei before, he had also heard that the other party was a general who mainly relied on strength, but he didn't expect that his strength could be as good as his own.
If Guan Yu in the Battle of Jishui is on par with him in terms of speed, Zhang Fei is the only person who can compete with him in strength since his debut!
Even Zhang Fei, who took a few steps back, realized that Lu Bu's strength was not under him, his eyes showed excitement, his arms stretched out, and he shouted: "Come again!" ”
Zhang Fei's appearance made Lu Bu even more angry, and he urged the horse to stab at Zhang Fei again to draw a halberd. Zhang Fei swung his spear, and the two of them fought back and forth.
Both sides took a fierce route of opening and closing, and they fought for 30 rounds without a winner. The invisible aura brought by each fight made it impossible for anyone else on the battlefield to get close, so that everyone else consciously hid to the side, opening up a small place for the two of them to fight alone.
When it comes to martial arts, Zhang Fei can only compete with Lu Bu in terms of strength, and Lu Bu's martial arts are completely above him. If Lu Bu wanted to win with tricks or speed, Zhang Fei would definitely be defeated. But Lu Bu wanted to suppress him in Zhang Fei's best strength, and blindly competed with him, which made it difficult for the two sides to fight for so long.
And Zhang Fei has another habit of fighting with people, that is, he likes to shout loudly. This shouting like a slender man's horn has a certain sense of rhythm, which makes Lu Bu unconsciously enter Zhang Fei's offensive rhythm, and the result is that Zhang Fei becomes more and more courageous, and Lu Bu becomes more and more tired the more he fights. Lu Bu couldn't help but scold Zhang Fei for being despicable and shameless.
Lü Bu and Zhang Fei fought inextricably, and the Bingzhou army under his command also fell into a bitter battle. In fact, at this time, the victorious scales had fallen to the defenders of Luoyang. When Lü Bu gave up Liu Wei and started a war with Zhang Fei, he had already decided the defeat of the Bingzhou army, and what really made Lü Bu recognize the situation and retreat was the news that the trapped camp was defeated from the rear.
In Lu Bu's heart, this is almost impossible. His eyes widened in disbelief as soon as he heard the news, but in his heart he didn't even have the confidence to defeat the trapped camp in a frontal charge.
The failure of the trapped camp guarding the left flank finally restored Lu Bu's sanity. He saw Liu Wei's intention to cut off the long formation of the Bingzhou army, and then without any hesitation, he showed his decisiveness as the strongest tactician in this era, and after repelling Zhang Fei with all his might, he immediately retreated with the entire Bingzhou army.
The war has reached such a stalemate, and the withdrawal of the state army will inevitably pay a great price, but this is also stronger than the consequences of being divided and surrounded and annihilated on the spot.
Even with the retreat, the Bingzhou army still showed the quality of the strongest army in the world, and the whole army did not appear in major confusion, making full use of the mobility of the cavalry. It's like pulling your feet out of the mud, slow and muddy, but very resolute.
Even Cheng Lian, Lu Bu's general, brought some men and horses to stay behind to block the pursuit of Zhang Fei and the Shenwei army.
And the Pingcheng Army, which had cut off the long formation of the Bingzhou Army in the middle, had just experienced a hard battle with the trapped camp, and it can be said that its vitality was greatly damaged. It was already reluctant to be able to cut off the military formation, and in the face of the rushing Bingzhou army, they couldn't stop their footsteps at all, and as soon as Lu Bu led the troops to rush, they all dispersed.
And the second half of the state army has become a mess. After Lu Bu led the Bingzhou army to break through the reluctant resistance of the Pingcheng army, he found that Zhao Yun led the Xiyuan army to wait here for a long time.
At the same time that the Pingcheng Army cut off the long formation of the Bingzhou Army, Zhao Yun led the Xiyuan Army to the rear of the Bingzhou Army's military formation and launched an attack.
Guarding the rear of the Bingzhou army was the Xiongnu coalition army that had been standing still and watching the tiger fight. After Hu Chuquan accepted a heavy bribe from the imperial court, he ordered his subordinates and people from other tribes to stay still. said that if the imperial court was defeated, he would immediately help Lu Bu enter Luoyang; If Lu Bu is defeated, he will immediately help the imperial court to settle Lu Bu's wishful thinking.
Unexpectedly, the imperial court would suddenly make a move on him, so he had to send the first fierce general under his command in a hurry and led his own elite to meet him.
Hu Chuquan is not completely incompetent in the battle array, seeing that the other party is killing violently, he immediately sent his fierce generals and elite soldiers without reservation, the purpose is to resist the attack of the imperial court at the first time. There are many people on your side, and you can make time to organize the soldiers and horses of each tribe, and you will be able to keep them invincible when you rush up.
Yet a quarter of an hour later.
Hu Chuquan saw that his elite teacher was rushing like a wolf, and he was driven towards him.
"How, what's going on!" Hu Chuquan grabbed a deserter and asked.
"The other party, the other party has a demon law, the sky, the sky thunder." Recognizing that it was Hu Chuquan Shan Yu who had captured him, the deserter stammered in fright.
"That's the thunder of the imperial court!" Hu Chuquan is quite well-informed.
"The people in front of me started running backwards, and I had no choice but to follow." The deserter also knew how to shirk his responsibilities to escape Hu Chuquan's wrath.
But that's not what Hu Chuquan cares about.
"What about the tooth brakes?"
"He, he......" The deserter hesitated, and when he saw Hu Chuquan's eyes that were about to burst into flames, he hurriedly pointed back.
"There!"
Hu Chuquan looked in the direction he pointed, and an enemy general with a white horse and silver robe who led the charge in front of him actually rushed towards them with a gun and a corpse without braking.
"Ahh Shocked and furious, Hu Chuquan pushed the deserter away, drew his scimitar and slashed him to the ground.
He rolled over his horse and brandished his sword like a madman and shouted, "Death to those who retreat, death to those who retreat!" Hold it all on! ”
However, Hu Chuquan's modest efforts could not stop the vanguard army from retreating like a mountain of defeat. Even if you send an overseer to cut people in the back, you can't do it.
Originally, the Hun army had the mentality of picking up cheap, and there was no preparation for a tough battle at all. Coupled with the different orders between its various tribes and their own ghosts, the wave of forward rout struck, and soon the entire Xiongnu army was disintegrated by this wave, and finally even Hu Chuquan himself was swept into this wave and fled without a trace.
After dispersing the Xiongnu army, Zhao Yun immediately led the Xiyuan army to attack the tail formation of the Bingzhou army.
The Bingzhou army guarding the tail end is mainly infantry, and the speed of the Bingzhou wolf cavalry is still relatively weak. In addition, they did not expect that the Xiongnu army would be defeated so completely and quickly, and soon fell into chaos under the charge of the Xiyuan army, the soldiers were cut to the ground as if they were chopping melons and vegetables, and the general who led the troops, Song Xian Wei Xu, was also defeated in the confrontation with Zhao Yun. If it weren't for Lu Bu's timely retreat, I am afraid that these soldiers who stayed at the tail end would have been gnawed clean by Zhao Yun and others.
The encounter between the besieged Xiyuan Army and the broken through Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, the initial battle began with the battle between the two main generals, Zhao Yun and Lu Bu.
The leadership styles of the two men are actually very similar. One is willing to be the tip of the arrow and take the lead in the charge, and the other is the first to take the lead and kill the enemy. The two did not answer when they met, but began to fight in an extremely natural way.
Zhao Yun's spear was like a dragon coming out of a stream, piercing Lu Bu's throat. Lu Bu drew a halberd, Zhao Yun withdrew the spear, and when the second horse wiped his body, Zhao Yun stood up slightly on the horse, bent his waist back, and used a move Chang'e Wangyue to stab back!
Lu Bu heard the wind behind his ears, and hurriedly carried a sword with Su Qin back, and the halberd just sealed the tip of the spear.
The two sides staggered, and each turned his horse's head. Zhao Yun casually stabbed to death a Bingzhou cavalry who rushed over, Lu Bu took advantage of this moment to rush over and draw a halberd to slash, Zhao Yun hurriedly turned to one side, dodged the halberd, and stabbed Lu Bu with a gun in one hand.
The tip of the spear stabbed Lu Bu in the right shoulder, and Lu Bu could easily dodge it with a slight dodge. It's just that Zhao Yun suddenly twisted his wrist, and the tip of the spear suddenly pointed upward, stabbing at Lu Bu's cheek.
Lu Bu was too late to draw back the halberd at this time, so he had to turn sideways to the left sharply, as if he was about to fall off the horse, but his legs tightly clamped the horse's belly to maintain balance, and the tip of the spear stabbed past his face.
The red rabbit horse urged forward, and the two passed by again. Turning the head, the gun and the halberd stabbed each other at the same time. The speed of the two sides is comparable, Zhao Yun makes strange moves, and every time he stabs a sharp shot at an incredible angle, and Lu Bu is also a clever move, and the two of them have been fighting for a long time without winning or losing.
The generals of this era, if the characteristics of martial arts can be roughly divided into three types: one is a strength-type general, good at strength and endurance, representative figures such as Zhang Fei, shouting at every turn to fight with the opponent for 300 rounds, and using endurance to exhaust the opponent's physical strength to win; the other is the speed type, the representative character Guan Yu, the mantra is to take the head of the first level within three moves; Another move is the move type, which completely relies on the flexibility and kitkat of the move to win. Zhao Yun was originally a move-type general, but now he has gradually pushed his speed to the peak. And Lu Bu is the first person in this era to reach the extreme of strength, speed, and moves!
There is still a gap between Zhao Yun and Lu Bu in martial arts, at least in terms of strength, they have always avoided clashes with Lu Bu. And Lu Bu in order to highlight the encirclement of the already trapped beast fight, he had already pushed his martial arts to the extreme, and Zhao Yun fought with him in the first twenty rounds, and then gradually fell into disadvantage.
Zhao Yun was in a hurry, if he wanted Lu Bu to leave safely, how could he be worthy of the soldiers and civilians of Luoyang who sacrificed their lives in front.
Zhao Yun's eyes were red and his eyes were angry when he thought of this, and the thought of death surged in his heart. There is no longer any dodge for the moves that Lu Bu attacked, and at the same time, the stabbing moves will be killed with him!
Zhao Yun suddenly played with his life, which surprised Lu Bu. Zhao Yun had the consciousness of dying together, but it did not mean that Lu Bu had the belief to die, and hurriedly withdrew his move to distract Zhao Yun's attack.
In the past, when Lu Bu fought with people, he had not encountered people who wanted to die together, but such people could often use the advantage of their speed to kill the opponent before they could hurt him. But Zhao Yun's speed was on par with his own, and in this case, Lu Bu could only be busy dealing with Zhao Yun's desperate efforts, and gradually stumbled.
At the same time as the two of them were doing it, other generals of the Xiyuan Army also surrounded them, and the Xiyuan Army had never been in the habit of going head-to-head. These people couldn't hurt Lu Bu, so they attacked the red rabbit horse.
Lu Bu was furious, the red rabbit horse was like an eyeball to him, how could he allow half a point of damage. I had to spend some energy to protect the red rabbit horse while fighting with Zhao Yun. The strength was pulled down a few points, and it gradually gained the upper hand.
However, even so, it was still not easy for Zhao Yun to kill Lu Bu.
In the midst of the scuffle, a sturdy soldier of the West Garden Army crashed into Lu Bu, and Lu Bu pierced him with a halberd. The soldier was not dead for a moment, and his hands grabbed the iron rod of the halberd.
Lu Bu picked him up with all his might, twisting his hands together, trying to shatter him in the air. However, the other party obviously also had some strength, and pinched Lu Bu's painting halberd in the air.
Lu Bu was slightly stunned, and was stunned to find that the soldier's body was full of ignited skyrockets, as well as the resolute, hideous smile on the soldier's face.
"Lu Bu!"
Boom bang.
The fragments of the sky-high thunder spread out in all directions, and even Zhao Yun was affected, and his face was cut open, and it hurt hotly. The war horse under the crotch was also frightened and neighed in the air.
Lu Bu, who was at the center of the explosion, was almost knocked to the ground by the impact of the explosion, and the red rabbit horse also fell to the side. In normal times, this kind of trick of plotting would not hurt Lu Bu. But this time, the other party resolutely decided to die, and Lu Bu was still in the midst of a melee after fighting Wang Yue, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun in a row, and his vigilance was not as good as before, so he suffered a big loss.
But fortunately, the explosion lifted Lu Bu away, and his body was not pressed under the horse. For a while, the pain was unbearable, and I didn't know how heavy the injury was. His eyes were so smoky from the explosion of gunpowder that he couldn't see, but he still had a reaction, and Lu Bu, who fell to the ground, immediately rolled up.
Zhao Yun over there had already rushed over, and with a spear stab, Lu Bu turned over to the side, although he avoided the vital point, but his thigh was pierced by the spear.
Lu Bu let out a howl of pain, Zhao Yun pulled out his gun and stabbed again, Hao Meng, Cao Xing, Hou Cheng and other generals of the state army also surrounded him, desperately rescued Lu Bu and escorted him out of the encirclement.
After the main backbone Lu Bu fell, the entire Bingzhou army was immediately disheartened and defeated. Under the joint efforts of Zhao Yun's Xiyuan Army and the Pingcheng Army and Shenwei Army who came later, the Hezhou Army suffered countless casualties.
Then, like chasing ducks down the river, he chased the defeated Bingzhou army to break through his camp, and chased him until Gongxian County before Mingjin withdrew his troops.
From then on, the Battle of Luoyang finally ended with a complete victory for the imperial court.
(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter)