Chapter 345: Helpless Escape
The 1,000 soldiers left by Chen Zhi were all his own soldiers, even his son was left behind, and if it weren't for the heavy responsibility of guarding Liu Bei, he would have even thought about leaving himself behind. △↗ Roof,
Although these thousand people knew that it was a certain death, they did not hesitate, and the look on their faces was not despair, but an unprecedentedly high fighting spirit, and the heroic spirit that regarded death as home.
Although they knew that these people were not their opponents, the Praetorian Guards and Xiao Guard soldiers under Liu Qi were also deeply admired when they saw the enemy's expression, because in their opinion, although the combat effectiveness of this team was weaker than that of the computer room, their spirit was not bad, so there was a look of sympathy on their faces.
But appreciating and appreciating, this does not mean that they will show mercy to the enemy's subordinates, because they know that the more such enemy troops, the more they can bring casualties to their own side, and their own softness to them means that they need to bear more casualties, so not only can they not be soft, but they must simply kill the opponent, and it is best to let them not have the slightest chance to counterattack.
At this time, they saw that in order to achieve the greatest defense, the enemy army dismounted, and then stabbed the horse's buttocks with a knife, causing the horse to run towards Liu Qi's army under severe pain, trying to destroy the camp of the two pro-military camps, create a riot, and delay the time as much as possible.
I saw that the war horses were in a row according to the order, and frantically rushed to Liu Qi's camp, trying to destroy Liu Qi's military formation, but the Xiao guards under Liu Qi's command were silent at all, they first waited for the horses to come within fifty steps, and immediately threw the spear in their hands, only to see the black pressure of the spear roaring and rushing over, nailing the hundreds of war horses in front.
For a while, I saw the mournful roar of the war horse. In an instant, the road was clogged. Although the horses behind were galloping, their speed still slowed down after being blocked by the corpses of the horses in front.
At this moment, only a sound of breaking the air was heard, and hundreds of enemy soldiers threw their spears and nailed dozens of war horses to death.
Although the war horse galloped in pain. But when the speed was about to decrease, they regained some consciousness, and they heard the screams of their kind in front of them, and they fell to the ground and died, and then they turned from the previous madness to fear, and they scattered in all directions.
Some of these horses fled to the sides, and some went straight to Liu Qi's army, but more of them turned behind them, and then rushed in the direction of their masters.
And at this moment, only the sound of knives and guns piercing into the flesh was heard. The soldiers of the Xiao Guard once again used the Mo knives in their hands to slash the horses that rushed up, and then they saw the two major pro-military camps sweeping over like a tide.
The thousand remaining soldiers of the White Ear Army were shocked when they saw this, they originally wanted to let the horses storm the opponent's military formation, in order to create chaos for the enemy army, and then take advantage of the chaos of the enemy army and lead the army to cover and kill from behind, although it is impossible to defeat the enemy army, but at least they can kill as many enemy troops as possible, and at the same time they can delay the evacuation of the main prince Liu Bei. But they didn't expect it. The enemy simply threw hundreds of spears and held the frightened horses back. He even turned around and rushed back into his own military formation, which actually brought a lot of confusion to his own side.
Because the White Ear Army didn't want Liu Qi's pro-barracks, he was good at throwing spears and firing crossbows.
At this moment, the soldiers of Liu Qi's personal battalion, who were good at capturing fighters, immediately followed behind the war horse and launched a charge.
The white-eared army cocooned itself, and the white horses released not only did not interfere with the enemy army's camp. On the contrary, it caused chaos on his side, and it is estimated that this is definitely not something that Chen Wei, the captain of Chen Dao's personal soldiers, can imagine.
In the following time, although these soldiers of the White Ear Army bravely fought to the death and fought desperately, they were unstable because of the formation. Soon they were killed by the enemy, and the two pillars of incense were not enough, and thousands of soldiers of the White Ear Army died of hatred, and none of them survived.
At this time, Chen Zhi didn't know about this dramatic scene, he was in the front hall of Weiyang Palace, persuading Liu Bei to evacuate.
In fact, the front hall was originally an important place for the Han Dynasty to hold a ceremony, but due to years of destruction, especially Dong Zhuo set fire to it more than ten years ago, the front hall is no longer what it looks like, and the current front hall is still formed after Liu Bei ordered people to take a simple rest after entering the main pass.
But even so, Liu Bei is reluctant to give up here, he knows that the place where he lives is the place where the famous emperors of Han Gaozu, Wen, Jing, Wuzhao, and Xuan once lived, and he was sincerely happy for this land, because in his opinion, this is a sign of God, a sign that he can achieve a hegemony like Han Gaozu, and a sign that he can enter the imperial court, called an emperor through the ages.
It was precisely because of this that when Chen Zhi persuaded him to evacuate Chang'an quickly, he felt that he was gone, and it was likely that he would never come back, and felt that this would be a sign that he would miss out on Wang Tu's hegemony from now on.
How can this be endured by a hero who has struggled among the heroes for more than 20 years?
Therefore, at this time, Liu Bei actually fell into a state of madness, looking at the huge and empty palace complex of the Han Dynasty, crying for a while, laughing wildly, and insisting on refusing to leave.
At this time, there was an earth-shattering shouting of killing outside the palace, and then I saw Chen Dao's personal soldier Chen Da stumbling over, and said loudly: "Lord, General Chen, the enemy army has broken through the palace gate, and the brothers are struggling to resist, but I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on for long, what should we do next, please let the Lord publicize." ”
Chen Zhi listened to Chen Da's report, and hurriedly raised his eyes to look at Liu Bei, hoping that Liu Bei could give the order to retreat, but Liu Bei still turned a deaf ear, and the whole person seemed to be stupid.
Chen Zhi was helpless, waved his hand, and saw several soldiers coming over, setting up Liu Bei, and evacuating the front hall, Wuzi also saw Liu Bei struggling and shouting: "Let me down, I don't want to leave ......"
Liu Bei evacuated Weiyang Palace under the coercion of Chen Zhi and evacuated Chang'an from the Zhicheng Gate in the east of the city, at this time Zhuge Liang had already led his 10,000 crossbowmen to wait for a long time.
Looking at the army of less than 20,000 in total, Mi Zhu, Zhong Xuan, Chen Zhi, plus he is only a civil and military four, Zhuge Liang couldn't help but smile bitterly, although he escaped from Chang'an City by luck, but because there is no Cao Cao's response, it is not known whether he can escape, what is even more sad is that the army retreated in panic, Zhuge Liang's wife and daughter, Zhong Xuan's eldest son Zhong Yu, Chen Zhi's wife and concubine were all lost, even if Liu Bei's family was close to Weiyang Palace, including his wife Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi, and the two daughters Liu Ying, Liu Ji and all fell into the hands of the enemy, fortunately, Zhao Rong, the protector of the army, led the army into the apse at a critical moment and snatched the prince Liu Chan out, otherwise, I am afraid that Liu Bei's only bone and blood will be lost in the chaos of the army.
Now that all the civil and military ministers and their families have fallen, although they know that Liu Qi has never slaughtered prisoners of war, their hearts are also sad. But now is not the time to be sad, they must get out of here quickly.
Originally, the most convenient way to go from Chang'an to Shangjun is to go directly to Shangjun's Qiyuan through guò Zuobeidi, which is only more than 100 miles apart, and the army is advancing at full speed, and it can be reached in a day and night, but now Beidi has been occupied by Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and it is undoubtedly difficult to get through guò from there, so you can only find a way to pass guò from Hongnong, but the distance from Huayin from Chang'an to Hongnong is farther, not to mention that it is also occupied by Ma Chao, although I got the news that Cao Cao led his troops to support, but after all, this is the defense area of the people, How easy is it for tens of thousands of tired troops who have no food and grass to force their way through the siege?
Although the future was uncertain, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to grit his teeth and go on the road, and at this time he couldn't help but regret it. He really shouldn't have stuck to Chang'an in the first place, but where would he have thought that his side would lose so quickly? With an army of 50,000 and enough grain and grass to support a year, if you want to hold Chang'an, which is strong and deep, it stands to reason that there will be no problem.
But the plan is not as good as the change, the nightmare of a qiē started with Zhang Fei, he finally found out Zhang Fei's secret, and captured him in the dungeon, I was still glad in my heart, but now I think about it carefully, if I am not self-righteous, I want to teach Liu Qi a lesson, but quietly get rid of Zhang Fei, and then continue to guard the city, maybe I can really hold Chang'an until the arrival of Cao Cao's army.
But can you blame yourself for this? Because as long as it is a normal person, after getting the information that the traitor is ready to surrender, who doesn't want to plan and deal a blow to the other party? In fact, until now, he has always thought that his plan is seamless, but he didn't expect that this person had already laid out a detailed work in Chang'an City, and they knew exactly the names of the generals and colonels under Zhang Fei's command, the layout of Chang'an City, etc., so they were able to avoid their ambush without danger after being trapped, and at this time, those detailed works took the opportunity to open the inner city gate, allowing Liu Qi to escape from life.
In fact, he had already considered these details very clearly, and even understood Jia Xu's decisive leadership of the army to attack the West City Gate, but what he never understood was what kind of channel Liu Qi used to pass the order to those meticulous hands? You know, the time of opening the city this time was deliberately delayed by half an hour, if the two sides agreed in advance, it is estimated that these exercises would have been discovered a long time ago, but the time they arrived was just right, which can only prove that they were temporarily in contact on the battlefield.
It was precisely because of this that he didn't understand what kind of communication channel Liu Qi used? Because at that time, he had already blocked all the streets in Chang'an City, and no one would be able to rush into the inner city from the outer city of Chang'an, unless they flew through the sky.
But would Zhuge Liang believe such nonsense as flying from the sky?
But the truth is precisely the point that Zhuge Liang is most unlikely to think of, because the order was delivered through the flying pigeon. But unfortunately, there was no such means of flying pigeons to pass on books at that time, and he couldn't even imagine that there would be such a perverted way of transmitting information.
"I hope that there will be no accidents for our army along the way, as long as we can escape to Bingzhou, even if God treats us well." Zhuge Liang sat in the carriage and thought with a wry smile.
But at this moment, a sergeant suddenly stepped forward to report: "Shang Shuling, the big thing is not good, there are chasing soldiers." (To be continued......)