Chapter 22: The Edge of the Flowing Water (I)

Once a plan of action is set, it is natural to set a time for action. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info According to the nature of the operation, Li Sheng set the time of the march at dawn. He asked Huang Zhong to cook rice on the fourth watch, and set off on the fifth watch for the first batch, and asked Zhao Yun to cook on the fifth watch, but there was a gap of half an hour between the departures, which was for the second batch, all of which were chosen before the moon set in the west and the sun rose in the east, when this person's spirit was the most relaxed.

Li Sheng originally thought that as long as he paid a little attention to the time and the order of the attacks, it would be easy to attack Leng Bao, Deng Xian, Liu Xuan and others. In his memory, it seems that Liu Bei and these miscellaneous generals in that time and space did not spend much time fighting, there is not much description of this battle in "Three Kingdoms", and Li Sheng does not remember the record in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" very clearly. He only knew that in this battle, it seemed that Liu Bei had easily killed Liu Bi's reinforcements. "Although I am not Liu Bei, the position I am in now, the soldiers and horses I bring, and the compilation of generals are similar to Liu Bei at that time. Liu Beijun can kill Leng Bao, Deng Xian, and Liu Bi so easily, so if you want to defeat them at this moment, it should be much easier. Because it seems that Liu Bei fought such a battle, Li Sheng naturally compared what he did with Liu Bei on Li Sheng, and thus came to such a conclusion that seemed to be used only to comfort himself.

Although this conclusion can only be used to comfort himself, it is a fact that Li Sheng slackened a little because of this, and then looked down on Liu Bi, Leng Bao, and Deng Xian. He thought that he could decide Liu Bi with one drum, so he didn't say anything to Huang Zhong. Of course, this also has something to do with his trust in him when he sees that Huang Zhong is a veteran. Yes, he was careless, and he didn't remember that he was fighting in Yizhou after all, a territory that still belonged to the enemy, and the enemy was far more effective than him in intelligence detection, even if he had white clothes in his hands. Just as Huang Zhong under his command received the order and began to sell pots and cook rice on the fourth watch, the spies of Liu Xuanjun, who knew that Huang Zhong had already intended to raid him, quickly rushed back, first told the information to Leng Bao, and then told the information to Deng Xian, so that both of them knew the news of the enemy's imminent attack and prepared in advance.

However, it is said that they were prepared in advance, but Leng Bao's personality is different from Deng Xian's, and the preparations made in advance are not the same: Deng Xian guarded the camp in a regular manner, and arranged the archers around the camp to make a turtle and hedgehog layout; And Leng Bao was quite bold to send his soldiers and horses in the narrow and hidden places around the camp, and made his entire camp into an ambush battlefield. He was an advocate of attacking, so unlike Deng Xian, who only wanted to keep the enemy out, he actually annihilated all the enemies who attacked in the camp. Although he also heard from the spies that Huang Zhong had 10,000 soldiers and horses to sneak attack his camp, which was about the same as the troops in his hands, he still opened his mouth wide and wanted to swallow the delicious food that was sent to him, but he didn't care at all, he would break his belly because of this.

At three o'clock, Li Shengjun arrived as promised. In Leng Bao's cold eyes, the thief army with the yellow banner first investigated the situation in the camp very decently, and then a small group of men and horses were very treacherously sent as bait to test the attack, and after finding that everything in their camp was as chaotic as they thought, they swarmed and shouted into their camp and stepped into the trap they set for them.

"Sure enough, Li Shengjun's quality is much better than that of these people under me. If I hadn't seen the opportunity early, I would have only transferred the soldiers from the rear battalion and left the soldiers from the front battalion behind. Let them be used as sacrifice bait for doubting the enemy, but I am afraid that my current arrangement will really be exposed in their first try. It's really good, it's okay. Leng Bao was rejoicing, his eyes became fierce, he saw that Huang Zhong's men and horses had already entered his own Chinese army village, and felt that the time had come, so he shouted loudly and said: "The enemy has entered my plan, and all the soldiers will fight with me to kill the thief." "He was a man who believed in attack as the first element, so he naturally led the team to the forefront of the enemy. Of course, as his assault began, the Yizhou troops who were ambushed around got up from their hiding places and shot rockets into their camp. Although this is a waste of his own camp, Leng Bao, who is bent on annihilating the enemy here, doesn't care. In his opinion, as long as the enemy is defeated, how much of this supply loss will be sent from the rear.

The shouting and killing sound that arose from all sides inevitably made Huang Zhong and his subordinates panic. From the beginning of the tentative attack to the end of the Chinese military tent, Huang Zhong's march was very smooth, and he didn't expect that everything in front of him was an illusion made by Leng Bao in order to make himself trapped. Therefore, he did not expect that he would encounter enemies here.

In the darkness, the fire bolts rained down like rain, igniting the tents in the camp and igniting the things that had been planted for a long time. The fire spread at a completely visible speed from the beginning of the spark, and it quickly soared into a piece, already burning Huang Zhongjun who had attacked the camp. The soldier, surrounded by fire, screamed and screamed desperately, waving his body desperately, running desperately, trying to extinguish the burning thing on his body, but it was a futile act, and it was of no use except for him to break up his ranks and bring that inexplicable fear to everyone here. The burnt soldier eventually fell, because he was covered in grease and could not extinguish the flames.

Huang Zhong's team was inevitably in chaos here, half in astonishment, half in fear. They looked around in amazement, and saw countless enemies appear beyond the dazzling heat, so that they had little hope of victory. Although they also knew that they only existed as a tentative attack force, and there were Zhao Yun's reinforcements behind them, in the face of such a fire, they didn't think that the reinforcements behind them could rush through the fire and rush to rescue them. Because they had been scattered, they were now stopped by the fire of the camp in a small piece of fire. They could only hear each other's howls and see each other's figures, but they could never join each other.

"That's a lot of carelessness." Huang Zhong cursed sharply. The fire had divided the army, and now he was surrounded only by a battalion of four thousand people directly under his jurisdiction, which made him very unhappy. As soon as he thought that all this was the result of the scattered attack he had given in the first place, his heart fluttered, and all kinds of feelings of remorse, pain, and anger came over him, and he was extremely uncomfortable.

However, now is not the time to settle down and experience his inner feelings, because Leng Bao and his soldiers and horses swarmed from three directions, squeezing Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses in the middle. There were traces of the enemy behind, on the left, and on the right, but there was no one in front of them, but it was a burning fire. Huang Zhong saw Leng Bao's sinister intentions clearly, and knew that he wanted to force his own people into the fire, and he wanted to put himself in a desperate situation.

"What to do? His own brigade is trapped in the fire and is waiting for his rescue, and now he is forced by the local three-way army to take care of himself, what should he do? Huang Zhong thought about it for a while, and finally made a decision, "All the troops will follow me to attack the enemy!" Don't care about the left and right, don't care about anything else, just concentrate on crushing the enemy behind us. Huang Zhong gritted his teeth and said, but his heart was dripping blood. He knew what he meant by this order, which represented the 6,000 soldiers he would completely abandon and still be trapped in the fire. "It's an absolute shame to give up your own soldiers." Huang Zhong knew this, but he was helpless, for the sake of the overall situation, for the success of the battle, he had to accept such a shame.

Originally, they were all moving forward and rallying tightly around Huang Zhong, but when the chaos broke out, although they also had some military spirits, they did not go down in the end. He was the most intact organization in Li Sheng's army on the entire battlefield, but even so, it was always not so easy for them to turn back to the past and the enemy professor behind them. After paying the price of some of the soldiers being overwhelmed by this order to return to battle, causing chaos, the last of the two thousand people in Huang Zhong's army finally adjusted their formation. Under the leadership of Huang Zhong, they turned around and killed the road, but they quickly collided with Leng Baojun.

At this moment, the morale of the Leng Bud Army is undoubtedly flourishing, although the morale of Huang Zhong's subordinates who returned to fight is not low, but after all, the overall situation is far below the Leng Bud Army, and this morale is naturally not as high as the Leng Bud Army. This gap in morale was soon manifested in the battle, in the face of the tiger-like Leng Bud Army, Huang Zhong's soldiers looked more numb, simply put, they were not as passionate as the Leng Bud Army. Although they were also desperate, the whole team was still repelled little by little by the Cold Bud Army, and slowly moved towards the fire, and gradually they felt a more scorching presence behind them.

The situation did not improve, but became more critical, and at this moment, Huang Zhong really felt the lack of his strength. "What should I do?" This is a question he should be thinking about now, but in the current critical situation, in the face of the enemy's pressing step, he has no time to think, and can only rely on the knife in his hand to kill the enemy, and give a heroic example to all the soldiers who look at him. He knew that in the current situation, the presence of an example was very important for his subordinates who were demoralized.

The sixty-pound broadsword swirled in Huang Zhong's hand like a whirling wheel, and from time to time, a black knife light flashed from it, and he saw a scarlet blood water rising into the sky, and a huge head falling into the dust. Huang Zhong's knife technique is not amazing, and there is no coherent move, except for the flying wheel at ordinary times, his scattered knives in the east and west are undoubtedly like thunderbolts falling from the sky, only one or two strikes that occasionally flash, but they are fatal. Because there are enemies in all directions, Huang Zhong's speed is really not fast in this kind of crowded situation, but even so, his knife always never misses and harvests one life after another. The so-called "where the blade goes, and there is no enemy" is the current Huang Zhong's edge.

Seeing that Huang Zhong was so brave, his soldiers were naturally very encouraged. Under the leadership of Huang Zhong, they also killed a little crazy, their eyes were red, but they didn't pay much attention to the pain of the wound on their body: their right arm was scratched? It's okay, Lao Tzu still has his left hand to wield a knife; My foot was cut off, and it was quite inconvenient to move? It's okay, in such a melee, there are traces of enemies everywhere, and even if you don't chase the enemy and cut it, the enemy will rush in front of you to see the cut. Of course, this is just a rule, as for the enemy rushing in front of you, whether to kill him or he to kill you depends on their ability and luck.

In short, everyone in the fight has become selfless as the battle deepens, and unconsciously developed a filtering ability. In their ears, only the blade penetrated into the flesh, and the clicking sound made by scratching deeply on the bones of the other party was beautiful. In their eyes, only the scene of blood splattered and limbs flying was moving. They fought with all their energy and strength as they wielded their swords, and from time to time they let out a low roar like that of a wounded beast. It's not very loud, but when you listen to it, you feel a kind of pore danger.

The battle continues, and there are not a few things about stumps. There's no way around it. In such a fight, if you are not skilled enough to send your blade into the opponent's vital point in the first place, killing him with a single blow, then you must find a way to break the opponent's limbs. Because everyone is fighting, whether it is the lightly injured or the seriously injured. In the midst of such eagerness, they were desperately trying with almost every weapon they could find, including their weapons, their fists, their feet, their teeth......

Leng Bud was deeply shocked by this scene. Although he was the initiator of all this, the intensity of the development of the entire battle situation far exceeded the imagination of the initiator. He knew who brought what kind of soldiers. He believes in attack, and the soldiers he brings out naturally also advocate attack and are prone to madness. He had thought that under ambush, his crazy team would be able to easily crush the enemy. But everything is evolving, it seems that this is not the case, and the old man surnamed Huang on the opposite side and his subordinates have also become crazy after a short period of disadvantage, which is really too unexpected for him. Under the constant fighting, the soldiers' fighting turned into a never-ending stalemate, which made him feel a little angry while excited. He hated the strength of others, and hated that he was in a bitter battle, although at the moment he was enjoying the pleasure of this blood that belonged to the fight.

After the battle, Leng Bud was still in the upper hand, although he had clearly felt the pressure brought by Huang Zhong's resistance, but his upper hand was beyond doubt. He has more soldiers than Huang Zhong's, his offensive posture is better than Huang Zhong's, his morale is about the same as Huang Zhong's morale, the madness of his soldiers is also about the same as the madness of Huang Zhong's soldiers, in the case that he has his own advantages, and Huang Zhong's team has no advantages of his own, he has the upper hand slowly, but it is very unswervingly increasing little by little. He could see that if there was no change, it would be certain that he would completely annihilate this force of Li Sheng's army in this battle.

"Seeing that veteran is so brave, and his soldiers are so desperate, I think they are also the generals and elites in Li Sheng's army. Li Shengjun brought a total of 40,000 horses with him on this expedition, and nearly 10,000 of them were trapped by me. If you can really wipe out this veteran and all the enemies here. Hehe, didn't I do a great job for the Lord? When the time comes, it is conceivable to be promoted and get rich. Leng Bud saw the current battle situation clearly, and couldn't help but feel such a reverie in his heart. He felt that the current situation seemed to have been determined, looking at that Huang Zhong was still working hard, still that invincible appearance, he really knew that he still had a little gap compared with Huang Zhong, so he did not directly oppose Huang Zhong, but led the team to avoid Huang Zhong's limelight, and ate Huang Zhong's strength little by little from places that Huang Zhong could not take into account, making him bleed and making him weak. Although this approach cannot kill Huang Zhong all at once, it seems that this is the most correct way to do it at the moment.

If nothing happens, the big picture is really so decided.

But things in the world are always so changeable. Everyone has a time when they are not careful, even Li Sheng and Pang Tong are no exception, not to mention the cold buds in this area? If Li Sheng let Huang Zhong fall into such a predicament because he despised Leng Bao, then Leng Bao was very naïve to think that Huang Zhong did not have any turnaround at this time, unless a miracle happened, and he also underestimated Li Sheng. He didn't expect that Li Sheng would leave a back hand when he arranged the battle situation at the beginning, and let Zhao Yun become Huang Zhong's backup. When he was full of expectations that Huang Zhong's team was finally annihilated by himself as time passed little by little, he was determined to move forward, and he had no idea that a cavalry team of 5,000 men had already lined up two miles behind him, and was preparing to launch an earth-shattering surprise attack on him. Of course, what he didn't expect was that the general who commanded this raiding cavalry was Zhao Yun, a general as brave as Huang Zhong.

The night sinks like water, and the dazzling place is just a corner of the fire, the monstrous fire, the soaring flames, without any words, but let Zhao Yun, who came in a hurry, see a real thing. Zhao Yun didn't know that Huang Zhong was in a bitter battle, he saw that there was a fire rising in the direction of Lengbao Camp, and thought that this was Huang Zhong's credit. He thought that Huang Zhong was going very well, so he was a little "leisurely". He first came to this distance, which was not far from the battlefield, but was just enough for his cavalry to charge, and stopped. After running around all night, he desperately needed to regain his strength before he had time to launch the most terrible surprise attack on the enemy.

Because Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses stopped relatively far, and Leng Bao had been focusing on the things in front of him, no one on the Yizhou army's side noticed Zhao Yun's arrival. This is Zhao Yun's luck and Leng Bao's misfortune - it is precisely because of Leng Bao's negligence that Zhao Yun's cavalry assault caused the brilliant results of Zhao Yun's cavalry assault, resulting in the situation of Deng Xian's death later. Of course, that's another story. At present, Zhao Yun didn't even know that the person he wanted to meet was already in a desperate situation, so how could he have imagined that there would be such a result in the end? At this moment, he was preparing to charge.

The iron hooves of the horses restlessly stepped on the ground, and they felt the tightening of the reins at their mouths, but they began to gather the strength of their whole body very cooperatively. "Kill ......!" With Zhao Yun's snort, the cavalry on the horse tightened the horse's belly while relaxing the reins in their hands, allowing the old man who had followed him for a long time to run quickly. They rode forward, their blades clenched tightly.

The horses' hooves scattered in all directions, and the distance of two miles was only a matter of time for the cavalry. Originally, Zhao Yun thought that the team facing him belonged to Huang Zhong, and he wanted to bypass the two wings of "Huang Zhong" like this, and directly impact the enemy who was facing "Huang Zhong", but when he got closer, when he was only half a mile away from the enemy, Zhao Yun found that things were not exactly what he imagined: the person with his back to himself was holding high the cold flag, which was the military flag that belonged to the cold bud of the Yizhou army, and it was the enemy's flag. Zhao Yun only understood at this moment that the matter was critical, the enemy army that should have been defeated by Huang Zhong actually had such a big hole here, which undoubtedly meant that Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses had fallen into an extremely dangerous situation. Not to mention anything else, it's a question of whether they still exist as an establishment at the moment.

Zhao Yun was in a hurry, and he didn't even have time to explain to his subordinates around him, so he increased his horse speed again and rushed straight towards the other party's back. Because he already knew that it was the enemy who was facing away from him, Zhao Yun naturally gave up the original idea of attacking from the left and right from the rear formation, but concentrated on the sprint in front of him, he wanted his enemy to directly feel the refreshment of the horse camp.

One hundred, ninety, seventy ......, he quickly approached the enemy. Sixty zhang, fifty zhang, forty zhang ......, the loud sound of the cavalry running gradually sounded in everyone's ears.

"What's the sound?" Leng Bao's heart clenched suddenly. He could naturally hear that it was the sound of the cavalry approaching, but he didn't want it to appear at this moment. There are many mountains and few horses in the river, and there are not many cavalry at all, which is no exception even on the CD side, let alone on their own side? The cavalry who appeared here must be the enemy, Leng Bud knew this very well, but he didn't have anything to do about it. It was impossible for him to order his subordinates to turn around and fight, after all, the consequences of doing so were with Huang Zhong in front, and he naturally knew what the consequences would be if his hasty infantry counterattacked a well-prepared shock cavalry. "Right now, maybe we have to let the people behind bear it first, and wait until I get rid of the old man in front of me first." Leng Bud thought helplessly, so he could only give an order based on this: "The whole army is assaulted!" "He was mad, almost desperate, but he was determined to crush the enemy.

His cold bud idea was undoubtedly good, but the actual results did not necessarily develop as he imagined. After all, the sound of the horse's hooves, which was gradually approaching, was heard in Leng Bao's ears and also in Huang Zhong's ears. Although he was in the back of the camp, and the fire was burning all around...... The noise made the sound of horses' hooves faint, but with the superhuman hearing of Huang Zhong, a marksman, he still quickly judged the arrival of his reinforcements. This is great news for Huang Zhong, who is already a little exhausted. Huang Zhong became excited, as if he had infinite strength in an instant, and the knife in his hand became sharp again, and while he was rapidly harvesting one enemy head after another, he also shouted loudly: "Brothers, hold on for a while." Our reinforcements have arrived, and it will definitely be our victory to hold on any longer. ”

"Oh!" The soldiers who received the news cheered. Although by this time, they were really tired, but their desire for victory, disobedience and hatred for the enemy made them have the same extraordinary courage as Huang Zhong. They rushed forward, and with the blades in their hands that had been cut in an unknown number of holes, they fiercely greeted the enemy. Victory is already in sight, and the enemy will undoubtedly become a reservoir dog, so how long will it take to beat the reservoir dogs at this moment?

So they were agitated to fight their enemies. Although their number is not too large, and at this time there are only about a thousand people, the combat power that has erupted for a while should not be underestimated. In addition to Huang Zhong's shout just now, not only did his soldiers know that reinforcements had arrived, but also let the enemy opposite them also understand the fact that there was an enemy in front of him, and there was an enemy behind him. Such a battle situation is very dangerous in the eyes of anyone with a clear head.

Li Shengjun attaches great importance to bows and arrows. This started very early when Li Sheng was still a county magistrate in Xiyang. Li Sheng developed cavalry and gave the cavalry the ability to shoot on horseback, which has a history of nearly ten years to this day. Under the dual training of Zhao Yun, a master of cavalry combat, and Huang Zhong, a master of bow and arrow shooting, although the cavalry and archery ability of Li Shengjun's cavalry could not be compared with the Hu cavalry outside the Saiwai, it was undoubtedly a terrible existence for the various princes of the Central Plains, especially for the southern forces that had always lacked cavalry.

Thirty zhang, Zhao Yun and his cavalry opened the horn bow in their hands. Ejection! Five thousand sharp arrows shot diagonally into the sky in the opening and closing of the rider, crossed a high parabola and fell neatly into the formation of the cold bud army, and for a moment there was a miserable howl. The tremendous piercing force of the arrows falling from the sky could not be resisted even by the average military academy with leather armor, let alone these soldiers who only wore a number of uniforms. The man who was shot fell to the ground. But that didn't end there. The bows and arrows in the hands of Zhao Yun's cavalry were still shooting, and he fired a second wave of arrows at a distance of twenty-five zhang from the enemy, and a third wave at a distance of twenty zhang from the enemy. The three waves of blows came almost continuously, and often before the first wave of arrow feathers fell, a second wave of arrow feathers was thrown high into the sky. Throw rapid-fire! This was a clever move by Li Sheng, so that Zhao Yun cooperated with Huang Zhong to come up with a method - to use the sacrifice of range and the lack of accuracy in exchange for a significant increase in the frequency of shooting. Although Zhao Yun had always thought that this was not of much use, the current situation of the battle made it impossible to think of a better way to deal with the enemy than this one. With just these three waves of attacks, there were less than two thousand soldiers and horses left of the three thousand soldiers and horses led by Leng Bao. When the enemy is dense, the damage caused by the arrow array is truly extraordinary.

"Oh my God! What is this attack? "Before he met the enemy, there were only more than a thousand people left under his command, and such a terrifying loss really made Leng Bao feel a little frightened. He knew about the Hu people's cavalry shooting. For riding the projectile, he can also imagine it. But this riding throws rapid-fire, but he can't imagine it. Although the opponent's range is not far, the frequency of this storm-like attack is really frightening. In the face of this team that could damage itself so badly in less than a moment, Leng Bao's courage disappeared without a trace in almost an instant. He watched as Zhao Yun's army began to hang their bows and pick up their guns, obviously preparing to use assault tactics to solve themselves. He made him uneasy, and he quickly made the decision to run! There's no way around it.

Escaping, of course, is Leng Bao's business alone, and by the way, at most he will be slightly on his personal guard. As for the soldiers under his command, he still counted on them to block Zhao Yun's cavalry for him, and it was impossible to take them with him. So, he was so silent, and quickly ran to the right side where there were still some soldiers, and as he fled, he thought, "This cavalry of Li Sheng's army is really powerful." I'm afraid I won't be able to eat them, and it seems that I have to let Deng Xian and them come to the rescue of me. Thinking so, Leng Bao whispered to his own soldiers and asked them to go to Deng Xian for help. Although it is very dangerous to pass through the enemy's camp, it is also helpless. After all, they are not Li Shengjun, after all, there is no horn cannon that can be used for night communications.

For the current situation, if he wants to besiege Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong with Deng Xian in the north, what Leng Bao is doing at the moment is to send two hundred of his five hundred guards out, hoping that there will be a few who can notify Deng Xian.

"Alas, if only I hadn't told Deng Xian today that the burning of the camp was a lure to the enemy." After sending out the guards, looking at their figures gradually moving away, Leng Bud couldn't help but feel a little remorseful, he felt that he seemed to be too greedy and careless.

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