Chapter 40: Defeat in the war

Zhang Shicheng saw that Hu Dahai was mighty and brave and invincible, and he couldn't help but love talent, so he rode his horse and rushed forward, shouting to Hu Dahai: "Hu Tongfu, you are a hero in the world, with your martial arts, if you are willing to surrender and sincerely serve this king, this king will pardon your capital crime, then Deng Yue's thief is about to be destroyed, why should you follow him with all your heart!" ”

As soon as Zhang Shicheng's voice fell, Hu Dahai slapped the horse's belly and rushed towards Zhang Shicheng, a group of Zhou soldiers did not know Hu Dahai's intentions, and they didn't know how to stop it for a while, and when Zhang Shicheng's personal soldier commander Song Xingzu found that Hu Dahai was full of murderous intent, he was immediately shocked and shouted: "Quickly protect King Cheng!! ”

After Song Xingzu finished drinking, he immediately took the bow and shot three arrows at Hu Dahai, Hu Dahai hurriedly danced the crescent halberd to resist, just when Song Xingzu wanted to pull the bow and shoot again, Hu Dahai was aware of the inaction, hurriedly pulled out the horse and rushed back, and the hand dance crescent halberd killed all the way, as if killing a bloody way to break through. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

On the other side, since Zhang Shicheng led most of the soldiers and horses to rescue Pan Yuanming, Yan Zaixing, as the general of the town guard, strictly ordered the sergeants to guard Dazhai and beware of the attack of the captive army at night.

Yan Zaixing knew that Li Bosheng had been defeated for a while, and now Pan Yuanming and Zhao Shixiong were besieged and killed, at this time the army was unstable, and tonight was the most vulnerable to a sneak attack.

An hour later, as Yan Zaixing expected, there was indeed a light cavalry of the Broken Army to the camp to kill, the leader of the general was only twenty years old, holding a tiger-winged Liuyun knife, majestic, like a god general in the sky, it was Deng Yu, the commander of the Broken Army.

Deng Yu rode a black horse and rushed away, after pulling out the antlers, he shouted and killed into the village, the Zhou army of Yuanmen could not stop it, and it dispersed as soon as it rushed, Deng Yu tiger winged Liuyun knife and slashed non-stop, killing pieces of blood rain, and the Zhou soldiers fled in fear.

Deng Yu galloped in the camp of the Zhou army, killing every time, and was about to rush to the Chinese army Dazhai to take Zhang Shicheng's head, but at this time, unexpectedly, Yan Zaixing had already ambushed a group of men and horses near the big tent of the Chinese army, and as soon as Deng Yue approached, he saw a thousand arrows in front of him.

Deng Yu was taken aback, and hurriedly danced the big sword to resist the tide of arrows, but the soldiers who charged with Deng Yu did not have Deng Yu's ability, and were shot down a lot by the Zhou army ambush for a while.

Deng Yu resisted the tide of arrows while searching for Zhang Shicheng's figure, but after looking around for a long time, he still didn't find it, Deng Yue expected that Zhang Shicheng was probably not in the village, so he had to break off the idea of capturing and killing Zhang Shicheng, and urgently led the troops and horses to retreat from the village.

Many officers of the Zhou army saw Deng Yue retreating, so they wanted to lead the troops to cover up and pursue, but at this time, Yan Zaixing stopped and shouted: "The enemy army is cunning, I am afraid that the means will be more than this when we attack tonight!! ”

Yan Zaixing's cheers fell, many meritorious officers of the Zhou army were indignant, Yan Zaixing saw everyone's faces, knew their thoughts, and immediately shouted angrily: "King Cheng has an order, now I am the general of the town guard, and anyone who does not listen to the order will be beheaded!! ”

The military order is like a mountain, Yan Zaixing's order fell, although the generals complained, but did not dare to attack, they took the order to go, Yan Zaixing then sent several teams of scouts to investigate around the camp.

However, he said that after Deng Yu killed the Zhou army village, he saw that there were no chasing soldiers in the rear, and remembered the scene when he was ambushed when he just rushed to the Chinese army's big tent, a pair of sharp eyes wrinkled slightly, and secretly thought: "It seems that the general who guarded the Zhou army camp is not an easy to match, and there is no plan to chase!" ”

Deng Yu had a plan, he expected that Zhang Shicheng would divide his troops to save Pan Yuanming's department, plus the Zhou army lost the first battle, and the army was in turmoil, when he personally led an elite army to attack the camp, it was very likely that he would take advantage of the chaos to kill Zhang Shicheng.

If Zhang Shicheng can be killed, the Zhou army will inevitably be in chaos, a blow can be broken, if Zhang Shicheng can not be killed, then lead the Zhou army to the ambush site, once the Zhou army pursuers are wiped out, Deng Yu can lead the troops back to attack the Zhou army Dazhai, seize or burn the Zhou army's grain and grass baggage.

Although this strategy was good, but under Yan Zaixing's cautious arrangement, it was stillborn, and after that, Deng Yu lured the Zhou army out of the camp several times without success, and in desperation, he had to withdraw his troops back to Xuyi City.

On the other side, although Zhang Qi and Hu Dahai successfully escaped, they were captured by Zhang Shicheng, Zhang Shicheng was overjoyed to win, and scattered the materials in the village to the soldiers under his command as a reward.

After Zhang Shicheng rested in the village for a day, he left 5,000 soldiers and horses for Pan Yuanming and Zhao Shixiong to guard the camp, and he led the rest of the men and horses back to his own army.

Zhang Shicheng returned to the village, Yan Zaixing led the people to greet him, knelt on one knee and bowed to the ground, with the past, Zhang Shicheng heard that the day before yesterday was really a broken army attack, first shocked, and then heard that Yan Zaixing retreated from the enemy, immediately laughed with joy, helped Yan Zaixing, and said loudly: "Fortunately, there is Guoping to keep Dazhai safe, otherwise our army is in danger!" ”

After Zhang Shicheng finished speaking, he immediately rewarded Yan Zaixing with a thousand taels of silver and a thousand horses of brocade, and Yan Zaixing was grateful and respected.

Seeing that the situation was very good, Zhang Shicheng's integrity doubled, and he was proud of his ambition, and ordered the three armies to recuperate for three days, and at the same time ordered Pan Yuanming and Zhao Shixiong to raise troops to attack Xuyi City three days later.

Three days later, Zhang Shicheng raised 16,000 troops and slaughtered Xuyi City with great momentum, and at the same time, Pan Yuanming also set up camp and set up a village, and the whole army of 5,000 people looked at Xuyi City to kill.

Li Ke saw that the Zhou army was strong, and persuaded Deng Yu to defend the city and not to fight rashly, and Deng Yu followed.

The two Zhou armies attacked day and night, for several days, killing Xuyi City shook and shaking, and the soldiers of the Broken Army were all panicked, the better the battle situation, the more Zhang Shicheng was determined, and wanted to step up the offensive, conquer Xuyi City as soon as possible, and kill Deng Yu and Hu Dahai to avenge the killing of his brother.

Two days later, in the battle tower of Xuyi City, Deng Yu was discussing with Li Ke, Hu Dahai, Zhang Qi and other civil and military forces on the strategy of breaking the enemy, only to see Deng Yu's face solemn, and asked in a deep voice: "Now that the camp outside the city has been lost, the momentum of the horns has been broken, and the enemy army is attacking from two directions, the situation is extremely dangerous, I don't know if you have a plan to deal with it?" ”

When Hu Dahai and Zhang Qi heard this, they immediately lowered their heads and thought hard, Li Ke's fingers tapped on the table, but his expression was pleasant, without any nervousness, Deng felt more and more, and immediately cast an inquiring look at Li Ke.

Li Ke comprehended, got up and bowed, and laughed loudly: "At the moment, our side is defeated, Zhang Shicheng is becoming more and more ambitious, and his pride is rising, I have a plan, so that Zhang Shicheng will die without a place to be buried!" ”

Deng Yu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately asked urgently: "Yunqi has a clever plan, come quickly!" ”

Li Ke took a look at his head, and said like this, Zhang Qi and Hu Dahai were surprised when they heard it, and Deng Yu even stroked his palms and laughed: "Yunqi's plan is wonderful, this time I will see how Zhang Shicheng escapes!" ”

Deng Yue smiled, then according to Li Ke's plan to make an order, the generals were ordered to go, to the time of the fourth watch, Deng Yue ordered the whole army to make food, full to replenish physical strength, on the eve of the early morning, Deng Yue secretly transferred Hu Dahai's department out of the city, and ordered to plant flags all over the city, bluffing.