Chapter 222: True and False
Those fighting soldiers just now only cared about catching and fighting, no one noticed that dozens of people were knocked away by the internal air waves, and now they suddenly heard the shouts of the left colonel, and they all turned their heads to look, this look does not matter, the outermost fighting soldiers in the camp just saw the figure of the left colonel, and they were knocked away by the oncoming internal air wave group. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ ο½ο½fo
Although dozens of soldiers died immediately, including their own Yellow Turban Army, those Yellow Turban soldiers seemed to be red-eyed, and as if they were numb to murder, and when they saw their brothers being killed by their own people, instead of feeling shocked and surprised, they didn't even look at the corpses of those people, but only shouted excitedly: "General Zuo is here!" "General Zuo's clever plan! Kill all these thieves! β
When those Yellow Turban soldiers saw Colonel Zuo coming, they immediately cheered up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
However, this excitement of the soldiers did not last long.
Just when Colonel Zuo was about to arrive at the outer gate of the camp, he heard a cannon sound, and You Heng led the army to kill him from the side mountain: "Colonel Zuo, a traitor!" Look where you're going! β
Colonel Zuo was startled, quickly reined in the horse, turned to look at You Heng, and turned the long sharp knife half a circle with his backhand.
You Heng rode towards Colonel Zuo, but stopped less than a hundred meters away from Colonel Zuo and sneered: "Hmph! Traitor! Today you fell for my general's plan, see how you get away! β
Colonel Zuo's brows trembled slightly, and his face didn't look very good, but it was only for a moment, and then he replied coldly, and his tone was quite disdainful: "Hmph! No Tricks! How can I fall for you! Don't fool yourself! It's fooled, what can you do to me! β
You Heng said coldly: "Hmph! What do you think I can do with you? Naturally, I killed you, a traitor! After speaking, he stretched out his hand, and a blue inner air mass appeared in the palm of his hand.
"Haha!" Colonel Zuo laughed wildly, "Although my internal qi has not fully recovered, how can I be afraid of you, a rat!" Good! Good! It is you who come to die, and I will fulfill you! After speaking, he also stretched out his hand, palms to the side, five fingers apart, aimed at You Heng, and the color of internal qi appeared on his fingertips in an instant.
As early as when Colonel Zuo galloped towards the camp, Ling Yan was ready to rush and kill. At this time, before Colonel Zuo could send out his internal qi, Ling Yan shouted and led the army down the mountain.
Colonel Zuo's more than 100 "descendant troops" were always standing in place, and they did not rush to kill Colonel Zuo, so when Ling Yan brandished the Moon Slashing Knife and rushed down the foot of the mountain, those Yellow Turban soldiers were facing him.
An important advantage of the internal air wave is the long-range attack, in ancient times when weapons were very backward, whoever had this advantage could occupy a considerable initiative on the battlefield, and sometimes even decide the outcome of a war. Originally, the more than 100 Yellow Turban soldiers of Colonel Zuo who could exert their internal qi, if under normal circumstances, they did not need to rush to the front line at all, as long as they sent internal qi waves in the rear, maybe Colonel Zuo also thought so, so they all stayed outside the battlefield, but what they didn't expect was that Ling Yan suddenly killed from the mountains and forests, and the more than 100 soldiers directly came into close contact with the enemy.
Originally, these soldiers had spears in their hands, but it may be that they didn't expect that there would be an enemy army next to them, or maybe they believed in Colonel Zuo's strategy too much, so when Ling Yan rushed in front of them, these Yellow Turban soldiers didn't know whether they were stupid or stunned by the sudden accident, and they forgot to use the weapons in their hands to resist, but watched Ling Yan lead the army to kill in front of them in a daze.
Although the soldiers were stunned for only a few seconds, in close hand-to-hand combat, those seconds were enough to be fatal.
Ling Yan saw this opportunity, and rushed to the Yellow Turban Squad desperately, slashing left and right, killing for a while. The soldiers behind him also slashed and stabbed violently.
In less than a minute, more than half of the Yellow Turban soldiers were killed and wounded, and the rest of the Yellow Turban soldiers finally relented and hurriedly raised their spears to resist.
Colonel Zuo, who heard the soldier's wail, hurriedly turned his head to look over, which surprised him, and then his face turned to anger.
At this time, You Heng sent out an internal qi wave in his palm.
Colonel Zuo deserved to be a fierce general, although his gaze looked at Ling Yan on the side, but he also felt You Heng's movements, hurriedly turned his head, and quickly raised his hand, and the five internal qi waves on his fingers immediately came out of his hand.
Two internal air waves collided not far in front of Colonel Zuo. After a burst of bright light, You Heng's internal air waves were neutralized and dissipated by Colonel Zuo's three internal air waves, while Colonel Zuo's other two internal air waves, one hit the ground, and the other flew straight towards You Heng.
You Heng hurriedly bowed down and fell on the horse's back, and the internal air wave brushed You Heng's back and hit the foot of the mountain not far away.
Taking advantage of this moment, Colonel Zuo hurriedly turned the horse's head, abandoned You Heng, and turned towards Ling Yan instead, with an angry look on his face to the extreme: "Bold and arrogant!" How dare you kill my soldiers! β
The officers and men of the Yellow Turban Army, who were fighting in the camp, had just seen Colonel Zuo coming, and their morale was greatly boosted, but now they suddenly saw that Colonel Zuo's more than 100 elite soldiers were cut down by Ling Yan one by one, and saw that Colonel Zuo seemed to be fleeing, where was there any morale?
As the saying goes: "General power is the pillar of the army's heart, and morale is the foundation of the army's heart." β
It's just that in an instant, the "prestige" and "morale" of the Yellow Turban Army were lost at the same time, how can the army's morale not be chaotic? Those officers and men of the Yellow Turban Army, who had been fighting bravely in the camp, saw this scene and immediately became chaotic.
Yang Feng, Wen Ping and other generals took the opportunity to kill for a while. The main general who came to rob the village first, saw that Colonel Zuo had abandoned and fled, so he made a false move, wanting to take the opportunity to escape, but was attacked by Wen Ping and Zhang Yi left and right, and died in the chaos. And the last deputy general of the main general was also in a panic and was hacked to death by Yang Feng.
When the Yellow Turbans saw that their generals had been killed, they had no intention of fighting and fled backwards, and the rest felt that they could not escape, so they simply threw away their weapons and surrendered.
Perhaps it was the defeat in the past few days that made Wen Ping and the others accumulate a sense of depression in their hearts, so at this time they did something that was not authentic: no matter whether the Yellow Turban soldiers fled or surrendered, they killed one by one, and left nothing behind.
Naturally, a few of the Yellow Turbans who were killed were unjustly killed - since they had surrendered, they thought they could at least save their lives, but they still went to see the king of Hades.
The yellow turban general named Tang Zhou, seeing that something was wrong, hurriedly abandoned Lu Gong, turned around and fled. Lu Gong pursued desperately.
Here, by the time Colonel Zuo roared and rushed in front of Ling Yan, his "descendant troops" had already suffered seven or eight dead and wounded, and the remaining thirty or so soldiers turned around and ran.
"Colonel Left! You've finally fallen for me this time! I'm going to give you a taste of what it's like to lose a lot today! Ling Yan shouted, as if he was going to fight for his life, and rushed towards Colonel Zuo, and at the same time waved the Moon Slashing Knife, and a white light appeared on the body of the knife in an instant.
"You erect child! How dare you do that! Colonel Zuo was also furious, and with a swing of his long sharp knife, he stabbed at Ling Yan's heart.
Ling Yan didn't have the slightest intention of dodging, but swung a knife sideways with force, only to hear the sound of "dang", and actually pushed the long sharp knife stabbed by Colonel Zuo away.
Colonel Zuo's reaction was also very fast, and after the stab was blocked by Ling Yan, he took advantage of the situation to turn the long sharp knife around again and stabbed at Ling Yan again.
Ling Yan's martial arts are very poor, Colonel Zuo's first stab, he has sufficient preparations, so he can still block it, but this second stab, Ling Yan's reaction is not so fast, and the Moon Slashing Knife has not had time to accept it. In a hurry, Ling Yan relied on his instinctive reaction to turn his body away, trying to avoid this stab.
Colonel Zuo stabbed at Ling Yan's heart again, so Ling Yan swayed to the right, but he just dodged - only to dodge the fatal stab, the long sharp knife stabbed under Ling Yan's left armpit and slashed into Ling Yan's arm.
At this critical moment, Ling Yan didn't have to think too much, he didn't care if the tip of the knife was pierced behind him, so he had to retract his arm, wanting to tighten the blade of the long sharp knife, so that Colonel Zuo could no longer use this weapon, and then wait for the opportunity to slash at Colonel Zuo with the Moon Slashing Knife, or hit him with his fist.
It can only be said that Ling Yan is very lucky, if the battle situation really develops according to Ling Yan's thoughts, then the result is not easy to say-you must know that Colonel Zuo's nirvana is not a long sharp knife, but his powerful internal qi. If Ling Yan tightened the long sharp knife with his arm, not to mention whether the blade of the sharp knife would stab Ling Yan's arm, just to say that based on Colonel Zuo's reaction, once Ling Yan controlled the long sharp knife, he would definitely emit internal qi waves in an instant. And with such a close-range internal qi attack, even if Ling Yan had healing internal qi to each other, it was quite dangerous.
Naturally, if that happens, Colonel Zuo's actions will naturally be different.
But in reality, this is not the case, Colonel Zuo's behavior this time is a little abnormal, he didn't wait for Ling Yan's arm to tighten, he forcefully swept the long sharp knife sideways, Ling Yan's center of gravity was unstable, and he was swept off the horse by the knife shaft.
Not far away, You Heng saw Ling Yan fall off his horse, and hurriedly sent another internal air wave towards Colonel Zuo.
Although Colonel Zuo had his back to You Heng, he may have relied on his profound internal qi to recuperate, and he actually felt a sneak attack from behind, and sent out five internal qi waves when he returned his hand.
The next behavior of Colonel Zuo was a little abnormal.
It stands to reason that he knocked Ling Yan off his horse, and it was the best time to continue the attack, not to mention that Ling Yan had killed fifty or sixty "cronies" under him just now, so he should have tried his best to kill Ling Yan at this time to relieve the hatred in his heart.
But after Colonel Zuo sent an internal air wave back to his hand, he only glanced at Ling Yan, then waved his long sharp knife, and abandoned Ling Yan, and continued to flee forward, and a few of his yellow turban descendants who had not had time to escape watched the fight between Colonel Zuo and Ling Yan in a daze, until Colonel Zuo shouted at them: "Withdraw!" As if they had just woken up from a dream, they hurriedly fled with Colonel Zuo.
In fact, the time from Zuo Colonel facing Ling Yan head-on to Zuo Colonel abandoning Ling Yan and escaping was only one minute.
Therefore, after Colonel Zuo fled on horseback, Tang Zhou followed. Originally, he was also going to escape, but when he saw Ling Yan falling to the ground in front of him, he wanted to "take the sheep by the hand", so when he ran to Ling Yan's side, he shook his hand and stabbed him.
Ling Yan still fell to the ground, and when he saw that the enemy was stabbing his spear, in a panic, he actually stretched out his hand to block it.
"General Yan! Be careful! Lu Gong couldn't catch up, so he shouted in a hurry.
Fortunately, You Heng sent another internal air wave in time, and this internal air wave went straight towards Tang Zhou, hitting his right shoulder accurately.
Tang Zhou didn't have the ability of Zuo Xiao, and it was estimated that until his painful body tilted towards Ling Yan, he didn't know who hit him with what.
Ling Yan saw Tang Zhou leaning towards him, seeing the opportunity, he supported the ground with one hand, and with a force on both legs, he jumped up violently, and at the same time, the other hand holding the Moon Slashing Knife waved vigorously.
Ling Yan didn't know if this knife would kill Tang Zhou, he just swung the knife hard, as for what kind of damage he could inflict on the enemy general, he didn't have time to think about it at this time.
"Ahh
Tang Zhou was lying on the ground, howling desperately, his eyes wide open, looking at the blood gushing out of his only arm, his expression was inexplicably frightened.
Sometimes if people take a wrong step, it is too late to regret it - if Tang Zhou abandons Ling Yan and goes directly to flee for his life, then maybe he can escape back to Juye City. But who made him have to be greedy for merit, and he still wants to take advantage of it at this time?
Ling Yan didn't bother to pay attention to Tang Zhou's pain at all, but looked in the direction of Zuo Xiao's escape.
Colonel Zuo had already run away without a trace, and besides, it was late at night, and the direction in which Colonel Zuo fled was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything.
Ling Yan put his hands on his knees and breathed rapidlyβjust now, he had experienced another process of life and death.
Lu Gong was the first to come to Ling Yan and hurriedly said, "General Yan! You...... It doesn't matter to you, right? β
Ling Yan shook his head: "It's okay......"
Lu Gong swung his spear and was about to stab Tang Zhou: "The last general will kill the thief general!" β
Ling Yan hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop: "Wait! Don't kill him yet! β
Lu Gong hurriedly said: "General, this thief is useless to keep!" Fang Cai is even more critical to the general...... Why didn't the current general kill him? β
Ling Yan let out a sigh of relief and said, "Don't kill ...... yet Keeping him alive for the time being......"
Lu Gong was very anxious, but since Ling Yan had already spoken, he naturally couldn't force it anymore, so he glanced in the direction where Colonel Zuo had fled, and then said to Ling Yan urgently: "General Yan, the last general is willing to bring a group of soldiers and horses to cover up the defeated army!" β
The reason why Lu Gong was so anxious was because he felt deeply guiltyβit was he who didn't entangle Tang Zhou just now that Ling Yan almost died at the hands of Tang Zhou.
At this time, Wen Ping also killed all the Yellow Turban soldiers in the camp, rushed to Ling Yan in a hurry, and also asked for orders: "General Yan! The last general is willing to hunt down the defeated army with General Lu and break through Juye City! Wen Ping's face was covered with bright red blood, and coupled with the murderous tone when he spoke, it made people feel cold.
"Oops-" Ling Yan frowned, and hurriedly covered the wound on his left arm with his right hand--the nerves had been in a tense state just now, and at this time, they relaxed a little, and then they felt the pain of the wound.
Lu Gong hurriedly asked, "General Yan!" You're hurt? β
Ling Yan waved his hand weakly: "It's okay......" After speaking, he said to Wen Ping and Lu Gong, "Two generals, don't chase after you...... In this battle, we have already dealt a heavy blow to the enemy and won a great victory......"
Wen Ping hurriedly argued: "General Yan! Since the enemy has been severely damaged, it is even more necessary to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Juye City in one go! β
Ling Yan shook his head slowly: "Don't ......"
Wen Ping was a little anxious: "General Yan! There's never been a better time to siege the city! Taking advantage of the enemy's discouragement, they killed directly to the city, and the thief army had no fighting spirit, and in less than half an hour, they could capture Juye City! β
Ling Yan still shook his head and refused.
Wen Ping was really anxious: "Does General Yan not trust the last general!" If the general returns without success this time, he is willing to be dealt with by military law! β
Ling Yan looked at Wen Ping and smiled bitterly: "Where did General Wen go...... How could I not trust the general...... It's just that I feel that Colonel Zuo will set up ambushes along the way, and if the general goes deep alone, I am afraid that Colonel Zuo will calculate ......"
Wen Ping sighed heavily: "General Yan! Colonel Zuo only cares about running for his life, how could he think of setting up an ambush! β
Lu Gong also chimed in: "Besides...... Even if he had to set up an ambush, he wouldn't have time to ......"
Ling Yan shook his head and said slowly, "I'm not saying that Colonel Zuo will arrange an ambush when he escapes, I'm just worried...... He'd already set up an ambush ...... before."
Wen Ping frowned: "How is it possible?" Colonel Zuo decided that we would fall for his plan this time, how could he have thought that he would be defeated? And how can an ambush be set up? β
Ling Yan sighed, he didn't know how to explain to Wen Ping, in fact, even he wasn't sure that Zuo Xiao would think so thoroughly, but Ling Yan really didn't dare to underestimate Zuo Xiao, the experience of suffering several times before made Ling Yan very cautious at this time, he would not treat Zuo Xiao as an ordinary general, Zuo Xiao was a strange person, at least one of the best in strategy, several points higher than him, this, Ling Yan naturally would not admit it at the time of the hard-won victory, but he had already admitted it in his heart, so, He would never take any risks, even if the odds were slim.
You Heng walked over and relieved Ling Yan and said, "Forget it, since General Yan is unwilling to chase and kill, he naturally has his reasons, and the generals should not argue anymore." β
Ling Yan glanced at You Heng with gratitude on his face, and then looked at Wen Ping and the others: "Let's go and clean up the camp, this time our big victory will greatly boost the morale of our army." β
Wen Ping's face showed unwillingness, but Ling Yan's tone was very firm, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
Fortunately, Lu Gong gave up his idea and nodded, "Yes...... Then this thief will ......," he said, pointing at Tang Zhou, who had already fainted in pain.
"Take him back to the camp." Ling Yan glanced at Tang Zhou and waved his hand.
"This thief will ...... What is the role for our army? Lu Gong was very puzzled, "He's just a nameless junior." β
"Well, I know, take it back...... He's still somewhat useful. Ling Yan said.
Lu Gong nodded, and asked tentatively, "Then ...... Is it to treat him...... He had lost a lot of blood, and if he hadn't been treated in time......"
Ling Yan waved his hand again: "Don't worry about him, whether he can live or not depends on whether his life is big or not." β
"Yes." Lu Gong responded and walked away with Wen Ping. When Wen Ping was leaving, he sighed heavily, I don't know whether he felt regretful that Ling Yan did not agree to let him lead his troops to cover up Colonel Zuo, lost a good opportunity to break the city, or felt a little dissatisfied and regretful that Ling Yan was too cautious.
The other generals also followed Lu Gong and the others to clean up the battlefield, and several soldiers carried Tang Zhou away.
You Heng approached Ling Yan and looked at Ling Yan's wound carefully, his eyes full of concern: "Brother Xian, the wound on your arm ......"
Ling Yan smiled bitterly: "It doesn't matter, your eldest brother doesn't have to worry about me, it's just that the flesh has been scratched." β
A look of guilt appeared on Youheng's face: "Brother Xian, the blame for this matter lies entirely with me...... I didn't stop the thief ...... Colonel Zuo."
Ling Yan stood up, put his arm on You Heng's shoulder, and smiled indifferently: "Brother You, I can't blame you for this matter anyway...... It all went according to my plan. That Zuo Xiao is strong in martial arts, I think ...... Even if I fight with your big brother, I may not be able to take advantage of him. β
You Heng didn't have any objection to this, he nodded: "Hmm...... That's true...... If it weren't for the fact that you had a better plan this time, cut off the back road of the left school thief general, and killed his heavy soldiers, I am afraid that even if he falls for our plan, we may not be able to win a big victory. β
"Yes...... Ling Yan laughed miserably, "So, I feel that we are already a big victory now, and it is worth celebrating...... Hehe......"
You Heng also laughed a little, and then his face became a little strange: "Brother Xian, there is something unknown about the eldest brother......
Ling Yan interrupted: "Brother You, now is not the time to chat, I still have one more thing to ask Big Brother for help." β
You Heng hurriedly made a gesture of clenching his fists: "If you have any orders, just speak, saying that help is too heavy." β
Ling Yan smiled, then looked in the direction of Colonel Zuo's escape: "Brother You, please take a few scouts and go to investigate." β