Chapter 291: The Battle of Yungo (3)
The reason why Yan Xing is famous in the Xiliang Army is mainly because he almost killed Ma Chao back then.
That was when Han Sui and Ma Teng began to split, Yan Xing relied on his own strength and tried to stab Ma Chao to death with a spear, but he didn't expect that due to his excessive force, the spear was broken, Yan Xing immediately made a decision, and actually hit Ma Chao in the neck with a broken spear, this time Ma Chao was defenseless and was almost killed by him.
Since then, Yan Xing has been appreciated by Han Sui because of this exploit, and his official position has been continuously promoted, and later Yan Xing went to the right to attack and kill Ma Teng with his own right, and he contributed the most, and even in order to show his loyalty to Han Sui, he insulted Ma Chao's wife in front of everyone, and killed Ma Chao's two sons.
And Han Sui did not live up to Yan Xing's loyalty, and announced that he would marry his daughter to Yan Xing after capturing Youfufeng, Yan Xing was more loyal to Han Sui from then on, and cooperated with Han Sui to set up an ambush under Youfufeng City, defeated Ma Chao's army, and stabbed Ma Chao again with a sneak attack.
Later, after returning to Jincheng, Yan Xing married Han Sui's daughter Han Ying, who was respected by everyone as the first fierce general under Han Sui and Han Sui's son-in-law, and was even more powerful because he injured Ma Chao twice.
Therefore, it can be said that the qiē that Yan Xing has now is obtained by stepping on Ma Chao's back, and he was originally going to wait for the third duel opportunity to kill Ma Chao, but he didn't expect that although he had a duel again this time, he became less confident.
Although he defeated Ma Chao twice and almost killed him, he knew that he took advantage of Ma Chao's unpreparedness and sneak attack on both occasions, and if he talked about his real skills, he was still inferior to Ma Chao.
It was precisely because of this that he deliberately provoked Ma Chao, wanting to take the opportunity to find a flaw and launch a fatal blow again. This time, he didn't expect to be able to escape. But if Ma Chao can be killed when he is dying, although he dies today, he will definitely go down in history in the future.
Even. He may gain the favor of the Duke of Chu by killing Ma Chao, so that he can not die.
However, he felt that he had fully overestimated his opponent. But he still didn't expect that the other party's martial arts were so high, the spear in his hand was swung very fast, and he just saw the spear come to him with a flash of eyes.
Yan Xing's heart froze, and he hurriedly waved his spear to resist, but how did he know? Although Ma Chao under the fury is worse than the attack accuracy, his strength will definitely be much greater than usual.
Yan Xing's strength was originally inferior to Ma Chao. Now it was even more difficult to resist, just waiting for the opponent's weapon to smash over, Yan Xing's spear suddenly broke in two, and at the same time he felt a burst of hot pain coming from his tiger's mouth, and then a stream of warm liquid slowly flowed down the tiger's mouth.
Yan Xing couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly, because he knew that his tiger's mouth must have been cracked, and the warm liquid was naturally his own blood.
However, he didn't want to give up, because the sobriety of their first encounter was very similar to that of now, and he made a decisive move after the shaft of the spear was broken. This almost killed Ma Chao, and this time he naturally had to seize this opportunity.
Therefore, Yan Xingqiang endured the pain from the tiger's mouth, and swung the broken spear shaft to hit Ma Chao's neck again.
Ma Chao's eyes couldn't help but show a sneer. said coldly: "The last time I was attacked by you by surprise, will Ben repeat the same mistakes?" Yan Xingxiao'er, the grievances between us will be settled in the near future. ”
I saw Ma Chao decisively stretch out his left arm to block Yan Xing's broken spear, and at the same time hold the gun in his right hand, and quickly stabbed Yan Xing's throat, only to hear a loud shout, and the spear accurately pierced into Yan Xing's chest.
Yan Xing's eyes were full of disbelief, he didn't expect that this time Ma Chao would choose to use his arm to resist his broken spear. He believed that with his own strength, Ma Chao's arm would not be wasted under this blow. It would definitely be impossible to move for a few months, but the other party did not hesitate to do so. He would rather be seriously injured than stab him to death with a spear, such a crazy desperate method was really incomprehensible to him.
However, Yan Xing no longer had time to think about these things, because Ma Chao held the gun in one hand, lifted his body high, and then slammed it to the ground.
The screams in his words and deeds did not stop, and he saw the horse overriding and catching up, and the two front hooves of the horse that sat down stepped heavily on his wounded chest.
Yan Xing, who only heard it, screamed miserably, and then the blood in his chest gushed out.
Ma Chao sat down and the horse did not move, like a hill tightly holding the dying Yan Xing, but his hand did not stop, the tip of the gun was just picked up diagonally downward, Yan Xing rushed to his lower body and felt a pain, and then something as a unique symbol of a man was directly picked off.
Yan Xing even burst into tears in pain, gritted his teeth and said, "Giggle, kill, kill me......"
But Ma Chao obviously didn't want to kill him immediately, and said in a deep voice: "Yan Xing, you are full of evil in this life, killing my father, insulting my wife, and killing my son, if I, Ma Chao, let you die so easily, wouldn't it be too cheap for you?" I will cut off all your limbs and veins, and cast you into the wilderness, and let the wolves of the mountains, and the eagles of the heavens, peck at your flesh, and let you die in agony."
After Ma Chao finished speaking, he waved the gun in his hand again and again, and he heard Yan Xing's screams, all the tendons and tendons of his hands and feet were broken, and the big hole in his chest was gurgling outward, staining the horse's hooves red.
Although Yan Xing was not afraid of death, when he heard the words from Ma Chao's mouth, he couldn't help but tremble, because if he really died like that, he didn't know how much he would suffer, so he was frightened, and he suddenly raised his head and bit down hard at Ma Chao's hooves.
The horse was in pain, and kicked Yan Xing's head with a hoof, kicking Yan Xing to death.
Ma Chao looked at Yan Xing, who was already dead, and said coldly: "I didn't expect you to die like this, this is also cheap for you, I still have a lot of means to use it." ”
After finishing speaking, Ma Chao got off the horse, cut off Yan Xing's arm, and cut out his heart and liver, preparing to sacrifice his entire family after the war was over, especially his father, wife and children who died tragically.
At the same time that Ma Chao and Yan Xing were engaged in a life-and-death duel, Zhang Fei's infantry also encountered unprecedented pressure, and his army followed Yan Xing's army into the city, but as soon as the army entered halfway, he heard the city gate slam shut, and then saw that the enemy troops on the city wall were all armed with bows and crossbows, and shot his army wildly.
Although the crossbowmen on the head of the city are not as elite as Huang Zhong's Tuifeng battalion, they are also equipped with those incomplete crossbows eliminated by the Tuifeng battalion, although the performance of the crossbow is much worse than the new version of the crossbow, but the power is not bad at all, so just in a blink of an eye, I saw ten thousand crossbows fired together, and the soldiers under Zhang Fei's command suffered heavy casualties, just one round of crossbow arrows, more than a thousand people died.
"Defense." Zhang Fei couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, and immediately gave an order, and saw that the well-trained soldiers raised their shields one after another to block the opponent's bows and arrows.
But at this moment, I saw that many stones were suddenly thrown down from the city, and although the shields of the infantry under Zhang Fei's command could prevent bows and arrows, they could not prevent the huge force of the stones at all, and many soldiers were killed and injured by the big stones that fell from the sky, and the screams were endless.
Compared with the damage caused by the stones, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers was more dangerous, and in order to avoid the falling stones like meteors, their formations were suddenly chaotic.
And in such a situation, the crossbow on the head of the city screamed again and shot at it.
Zhang Fei couldn't help but be furious when he saw this, he knew that if he blindly stayed here, there would be only one way to die, so he waved the spear in his hand and shouted at the city: "Leave half of the people to attack the city gate, Zhang Da and Fan Qiang will lead 5,000 people to defend, and the rest of the people will rush to the city with me and kill those crossbowmen." ”
Although there are ordinary people not far from the front of his team, it is more conducive to saving his life if he rushes over, but Zhang Fei is unwilling to do that, on the one hand, it is easy to anger the cavalry under Yan Xing's command who have just surrendered, on the other hand, he also disdains it, in his opinion, fighting is a matter of the army, and it has nothing to do with the people at all, if he kills innocents indiscriminately because he wants to win, it is really no different from people like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao.
Therefore, Zhang Fei would rather lead his army to the city than slaughter the people.
This scene made the soldiers of the Xiaowei Army mixed in the middle of the people see it, of course they will not let the people be slaughtered by the enemy, so they have made arrangements early, and sent thousands of people to pretend to be ordinary people, crowded in the ranks, as long as Zhang Fei's army approaches, they will form a solid formation in the first time. Defend the enemy army to the death, and then the other armies form an encirclement and completely strangle the team.
However, seeing that Zhang Fei did not lead the army to rush over, they all had a trace of disappointment in their hearts, but they were more relieved.
Although Zhang Fei's army could not be strangled all, the people reduced unnecessary casualties.
However, Zhang Fei's rush to the head of the city this time was not smooth, because the road to the head of the city was not wide, and there were strong bows and crossbows to guard it, so the army rushed for a stick of incense, but it was still unable to rush forward, but the sergeants under Zhang Fei's command were very close to the city wall, and the stone thrower could no longer shoot stones, otherwise it would destroy the city wall and cause unnecessary trouble, which made the panic in Zhang Fei's army gradually calm down.
Fortunately, there is no threat of falling rocks, and now the army in front can form a simple defensive formation, and then rely on the shield in the hand, but it can barely support it, in this case, as long as the army slowly advances, you can come to the city, and slaughter those damned crossbowmen, as long as they are all dead, their own army can be safe for the time being.
After a long period of advancement, the army finally came to the approach of the crossbowmen, but suddenly saw the crossbowmen retreating, and an infantry team slowly met them.
"Could it be that this is the most elite Praetorian Guard under Liu Qi's command?" Seeing that the other party's soldiers were all indifferent and ruthless, their eyes were cold, and the sword light was better than snow, Zhang Fei couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and said in surprise. (To be continued)