As in most ambush battles, the ambush began when the ambushed side exposed its Chinese army to the nose of the ambushed side: as Li Sheng shot the signal arrow filled with gunpowder into the sky, countless archers stood up from the pit where they were hiding, and regardless of the numbness on their bodies, they pulled out their bows and shot feather arrows, bringing death to the Baocheng army who rushed to Nanzheng without considering that there would be people ambushing them in the snow. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Arrows rained down and soldiers covered with grass, and the Baocheng army, which had been so surprised for a while, was like a headless fly, buzzing and not knowing what to do—they were caught off guard, and they didn't know where the enemy was coming from or how many men and horses there were. They just instinctively react to the advantages and avoid the disadvantages, and run to places that are considered safe based on their own knowledge. It was a safe place that was east, west, south, and north, and they were running around so much that they couldn't tell where they were.

Suddenly, an explosion was launched from under their feet. It was Li Sheng who triggered dozens of mines buried under the gallop. The loud explosions, the violent impacts, the soaring firelight, and the iron filings as sharp as flying blades were all borne by the Baocheng soldiers standing above those burial sites without reservation. As Li Sheng said, this is a sumptuous feast, but such a feast is not pleasant to eat, but frightening. He didn't fill in the belly of the feast, but tore their belly and even their body, so that they could no longer feel hungry.

Like thunder, dust flies, and stumps fall in all directions. If Li Shengjun's archers rained down arrows and caused them to be headless, brainless, and overwhelmed, then the bloody hellish scene created by the explosion caused by a landmine imprinted a feeling called fear into their hearts. Suddenly, most of them could not bear the fear, and suddenly became panicked, and soon this panic turned into chaos, turning the trouble of a small group of people into a problem for the whole army.

"Steady, steady! Runner Slash! Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, and Yang Ang, who followed the team in the Chinese army, shouted heartbreakingly. They mobilized their own guards to kill the soldiers who were rushing the ranks, in an attempt to stabilize the formation. But in the end, it was a failure, not that they didn't work hard, but that there were too many people in the chaos, just like a pot of boiling rice porridge, no matter how you reduce the amount of rice porridge in the pot, it still keeps bubbling, and those heads and corpses that were used as models to order the whole army did not stop the expansion of this chaos, but added more things to this chaos.

"No, I can't stop it." Although it was still the cold season when it was snowing, Zhang Wei and the three of them still looked sweating profusely. Of course, this sweat is not a hot sweat, but a cold sweat from the heart. Looking at the soldiers running around, looking at the chaotic situation that could not be stopped no matter how much they killed, the words "defeat is decided" naturally came to their hearts and made them painful. They all knew that the only time to get out of this situation was to have a calm time. But would anyone who could come up with such a strategy as an ambush on the plains give themselves a respite? Zhang Wei: They would never believe that the other party would be so kind.

Sure enough, footsteps sounded from the wings, and in the hazy vision of the snowflakes, they saw the pikemen who seemed to emerge from the ground. No, maybe it wasn't so accurate to call them pikemen, because Zhang Wei and the others not only saw the spears in the hands of these people, but also saw the five sharp points that were slightly exposed behind them. It was a throwing gun, Zhang Wei and the others knew that there was this kind of weapon, and they understood that it was the unique equipment of the infantry of the Xiliang Ma Super Army.

"How so? Could it be that Ma Chao and Li Sheng have teamed up? A seemingly absurd and impoverished thought came out of their hearts, and it hovered firmly in their minds for a long time. As far as they know, it seems that no other princes in the whole world except Ma Chao are equipped with weapons like throwing guns in their infantry.

It's a scary thing. How much power the throwing gun can exert in battle, they, the Hanzhong generals who survive next to Ma Chao, know very well. They understood that in the battle between Ma Chao and Cao Cao in the middle of the previous year, Cao Cao's army, which had 300,000 troops, lost about 100,000 soldiers and horses in service, and nearly 30,000 of the 100,000 soldiers and horses were killed in the duel with Ma Chao's infantry. It can be seen that throughout the battle, the results obtained by the shooting and killing of Ma Chao's infantry army and the impact and injury of Ma Chao's cavalry are comparable. This may also show the terrifying attack power of the gun.

“…… The easiest thing to do to deal with the attack of the throwing gun is undoubtedly to spread out your formation. Because the power of the throwing gun is as dense as the rain of arrows, it can be said that the throwing gun is quite a bow and arrow that shortens the range but increases the penetrating power...... "After hearing about the powerful power of Ma Chaojun's throwing gun, Zhang Wei and the others also conducted a certain study on the combat method of this throwing gun and came to such a conclusion.

Generally speaking, this conclusion is undoubtedly correct, but at the moment Zhang Wei and his troops are unable to implement this correct conclusion. Because of the chaos, their teams have become tangled, and the distance between them can be said to be denser than the regular queue, which undoubtedly gives the other party a best target. Although they had already discovered all this, Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, and Yang Ang were shouting loudly and trying to disperse the team, but it was already too late.

I don't know how many throwing spears were sent out from the hands of the enemies on both sides, cutting through the air in a perfect arc and falling heavily into their ranks. Screams erupted, and blood splattered. A short spear that pierced several people in a row and pinned them firmly to the ground illustrated the power of this form of warfare. At least 2,000 people died on the spot, and there was no possibility of survival.

"Damn it!" Zhang Wei looked at the chaos in front of him, looked at the hard gallop road because of the power of the explosion, the pitch-black round pits in the new city, looked at the almost every corpse that was intertwined with several short spears to form a spear forest, and looked at the chilling appearance of the soldiers under his command, he sighed, and a feeling that the sky had fallen heavily pressed on his heart. He finally understood the enemy's purpose: "This damn Li Shengjun turned out to be a fake attack on Nanzheng to mobilize my army and annihilate me halfway." Bastard Yan Pu, why can't you, a military advisor, see through the enemy's thoughts? Returning help, returning help, urging so urgently, but it sent our brothers to death. ”

"What should I do?" Zhang Wei, who had no idea about himself, asked Yang Ren beside him.

"What else can we do at this point? Only to retreat. If we had done it any longer, we would have been caught up in this mess. Yang Ren glanced at the entire battlefield, shook his head and said gloomily.

"And what about the soldiers over here?" Yang Ang asked with some reluctance to point to the chaotic crowd.

"What else can I do? It can only leave them to their fate. Zhang Wei gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "We can't command them, so they can only rely on themselves." As for us, we have to get away with it for now. You must know that the enemy opposite us, the person who planned all this, has laid out a battle plan that is interlocking and so that people have no chance to react at all. If they don't go fast, God knows what tricks they will come up with. Although it was very frustrating to say this, people on both sides listened to it, and both Yang Ren and Yang Ang had to admit that it was a fact.

"Alas...... If the situation had been much better if he had followed the rear army. Yang Ang sighed and said, with some regret in his words.

"Regret what? Originally? Who would have thought that the enemy would actually ambush on this flat ground? Zhang Wei pouted in annoyance: "Where did they come from?" Why didn't our scouts find them? "It's a question he's been puzzled with.

"Who knows?" Yang Ren shook his head and quickly turned his horse away: "Hurry up, it's too late." ”

"Yes!" Zhang Wei and Yang Ang nodded in unison and quickly followed behind Yang Ren, and their personal guards also clinged to them. A group fled north, trying to make their way through the phalanx of pikemen.

"Alas...... It's a pity. Watching the three generals walking north under the swarm of a group of people, Li Sheng sighed with a little regret. Because of the division of labor, Li Sheng and the troops of the two battalions stayed in the south, while Huang Zhong was in charge of the north. According to the arrangement of the battle plan, the two battalions in the south and the two battalions in the north were both used as the force of "non-contact strike", and their task was to attack the enemy from a distance and prevent the enemy's large forces from escaping from these two directions, and as for the force of the "contact strike", Zhao Yun's cavalry troops would rush to the battlefield half an hour after the ambush began, and deal the final and most violent blow to the enemy. According to Li Sheng and Pang Tong, they expected that the enemy army would generally collapse at that time, and the most fruitful thing could be obtained by telling the mobile cavalry to attack and kill those who had collapsed.

But......

No one expected that the reinforcements from Baocheng to Nanzheng would collapse so quickly: there was already a small-scale chaos when they were suddenly hit by arrows, and when the explosion occurred, they actually turned the small-scale chaos into a big chaos, and after their own spearmen appeared and carried out a three-way spear attack on them, this great chaos turned into the collapse of the whole army, and the enemy generals fled alone under this collapse - this was really too surprising to Li Sheng. "Isn't the Hanzhong Army determined to fight and very good at fighting to the death? How can it be that right now, it is actually ......" Li Sheng is really difficult to understand this. He even wondered if the army that was ambushed by him at the moment was the team that had caused Zhao Yun to suffer a big loss in Baocheng.

It's understandable to explore this question, but it can't be answered in the end. Because with Li Shengjun's level, it is impossible to make the opponent he is facing wrong anyway. As for why the enemies he had encountered in Baocheng and the enemies he encountered now had completely different levels of performance, Li Sheng had to think that it was because the other party was too tired.

There is no doubt that this was an accident, but for Li Sheng, this accident is not bad. Although he felt some regret in his heart that the enemy's generals did not run to his side, so he could not have the act of capturing the generals, but this regret did not hide his joy at defeating the enemy. Because this happiness is not only a simple matter of defeating the enemy in front of him, but more importantly, the victory of this battle will allow him to obtain Hanzhong at the lowest cost, so that he can form an encirclement of Yizhou and a defensive posture against Yongliang, which is what Li Sheng is most happy about.

"Forget it, if they go north, they will go north. Anyway, Master is in charge there, and he won't let me down. Li Sheng pursed his lips and thought, "I don't know if this is Zhang Wei's luck or their misfortune?" Perhaps they thought they could escape north into the mountains and get rid of my entanglement. But they didn't expect me to send a master there to defend it. Hmph, hum, one of the five tiger generals of Shu Han in history, it is so easy for people to pass through their own defense line. With this in mind, Li Sheng simply stopped paying attention to the enemy's fleeing generals, and focused his attention on how to prevent a large number of enemies from passing through his side. For this ambush, he wanted to make it a battle of annihilation as much as possible, rather than a rout, so how to hold the enemy's defeated troops was what he had to think about. ”

"Let the archers intensify their blows on the enemy's flanks; Let the pikemen form a crane wing formation and draw the enemy into the middle. Li Sheng looked at the situation on the battlefield and quickly ordered. Because Zhang Wei and the others fled north, a large part of the defeated soldiers also flocked to the north. This made Li Sheng worry about whether his master's side would be able to withstand the impact of the enemy's defeated army, and decided to eat those enemies who had the intention to flee south here first. To this end, he adopted the tactic of strengthening the flanks and avoiding them in the center, trying to trap the enemy in the trap he had prepared and firmly encircle them.

There are no troops under the command of generals, troops without consciousness and no brains, they act entirely on the instinct of survival. When Li Sheng gave the order, the officers with high quality perfectly executed Li Sheng's order and adjusted the formation of their team. The rout of Baocheng was like a stream flowing to the lower places, following the "weakness" left by Li Sheng, and frantically advancing forward. As defeated soldiers, all they wanted was to flee, to quickly flee from the battlefield that they feared. Because no one reminded them, they didn't know the direction of their flight, which was actually an encirclement set up by an enemy.

They are ignorant, so little by little they fall into it. It wasn't until they found that the originally weak resistance in front of them was strengthening little by little, and that they were also attacked by the enemy behind them, that they were surprised to find that they had been tightly surrounded by the enemy and fell into a dilemma of having no way to go to the sky and no way to go down.

"What should I do?" Faced with such a dilemma, they had to think about such a question. For a moment, they fell silent, and they hesitated as they looked at the pikemen who were gradually closing in on all sides. Either surrender and survive, or die in battle, two different paths are in front of them, depending on how they choose.

They were thinking, but they didn't have a lot of time to think about the problem, because the speed of Li Shengjun's encirclement never slowed down, and their archers never stopped firing arrows in their hands. Maybe Li Sheng's actions pushed them too hard. With a cry of "fight", I don't know which of these people came from. Originally silent and cowardly, they suddenly burst out with extraordinary courage and combat effectiveness, they rushed forward desperately, and hit Lin Li's spear hard, regardless of the spear penetrating his body and moving forward so wildly, but he used his body to open the way for the people behind.

"They're crazy." Li Sheng said lightly, with an indelible sadness in his eyes.

"You're the one who drove them crazy." Seeing the emotion in Li Sheng's eyes, Pang Tong, who was following Li Sheng, spoke accusatory. He felt that Li Sheng's grief was unreasonable, both for his enemies and for his own people.

"I know." Li Sheng nodded, the sadness in his eyes was still there, but the words he said were still strong: "This must be done, I can't let them have too many people alive, unless they choose to surrender in complete fear." ”

"Why?" Pang Tong felt very strange that Li Sheng had made such a tough decision: "Why do you want to treat these people like this, my lord?" They are such strong warriors, and they deserve our respect, why do you have to control them to death, my lord? "If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more" I remember this sentence or the lord asked me to remember. Why does the lord want to disobey this sentence today? ”

"Because of their strength, their strength comes from the religion they profes. It can be said that they are fanatical followers of religion. For this kind of person, the less there is in this world, the better. Li Sheng said lightly, looking up at the snowy sky, leisurely distracted. No one knows what he's thinking right now.

"The lord hates fanatical religious believers?" Pang Tong asked curiously, in his memory, his own lord Li Sheng didn't seem to have said that he hated anything except that he hated Cao Cao and hated indifferent etiquette, so he felt strange about Li Sheng's statement.

"Hmm." Li Sheng nodded heavily: "I think they are poisonous insects that endanger stability!" For poisonous insects, the only way to get rid of them is to try to eliminate them. Li Sheng said viciously.

"Huh?" Pang Tong seemed to be a little frightened. Facing Li Sheng's gloomy face, he didn't persuade anything more. Because he had read it clearly, the kind of persistence that Li Sheng wanted to express. "Oh well! It also allows these soldiers to see blood and experience hard battles, so that they can grow up quickly. Although they have already tasted the bitter battle of the siege, the bitter battle in the field is another matter. Pang Tong casually found such a plausible reason for himself. In fact, both he and Li Sheng understand that things are not like that.

"Shiyuan, thank you for tolerating my willfulness." Li Sheng said to Pang Tong with some apologies.

"Hehe, don't say that. You're my lord! Working for the Lord's wishes is what a courtier should do. And I don't think it's a big deal that these people die when they die. After all, the foresight of the Yellow Turban Rebellion is still in sight, who can be sure that today's Wudou Rice Sect will not be the second Yellow Turban Sect? Pang Tong looked at the battlefield and said, "I now understand a little why Cao Cao hates evil and obscenity so much. ”

"Hehe......" Li Sheng smiled and didn't say anything, just took his eyes back and continued to look at the battlefield in front of him, watching the development of the battle situation step by step: At this moment, after experiencing the initial period of surprise, the slightly damaged team has stabilized, and the counterattack has begun. As Li Sheng had originally taught them in the training program, they spread out from the inside and out, forming small phalanxes, and through the close coordination of the soldiers in the front and rear rows, they constantly used their spears to assassinate the rushing enemies on the spot. It's clear that they're getting into the groove.

"Bayonet...... Collect the guns and ......" neat shouts one after another, and under this shout, the soldiers subconsciously made mechanical movements to quickly assassinate those who collided with them. With the passage of time, the soldiers have gone from calmness to numbness, and they just instinctively follow orders, coldly harvesting everything that does not belong to them like a killing machine.

With indifferent expressions and movements without any pause, for Li Sheng, their performance was undoubtedly perfect, but for those routs who fought with them, their performance was terrifying. These defeated soldiers did not see much effect of their attacks on the enemy, they only saw their comrades falling to the ground under the stabbing of the opponent's spears. This situation of seeing only their own death, but not the death of the enemy, seriously undermined their self-confidence, like pouring ice water on them on a hot day, cooling them from head to toe. The madness they had relied on quickly faded. They opened their eyes and were surprised to find that the comrades-in-arms lying on the ground around them, the crowd that was originally pressed into a black area, only a few hundred people could be counted at the moment. So, they panicked, and a sense of humility that was regarded as chickens and ducks arose in their hearts. They felt the horror of death and began to fear it. In order to escape this death, they cried one by one, threw away their weapons, and knelt on the ground, but did not dare to fight again.

"It's time to stop." Seeing that the battle situation had finally changed to the situation he expected, Li Sheng finally nodded with satisfaction and ordered with a smile. He was really satisfied with the performance of his soldiers, so he asked Pang Tong, "How much time did it take us?" ”

"Two quarters of an hour!" Pang Tong replied with a smile.

"That's not bad." Li Sheng nodded, his eyes turned to the north with the end of the battle here, and he looked at it below: "Master and Zilong's performance." He instructed Pang Tong: "Send someone to inform Zilong, so that he doesn't come to the gallop road anymore and goes directly to the north to fight with the master's team." Where will the next battlefield be. About seventy percent of the enemy went somewhere. Yes, Master will be tested a lot. ”

"yes. Especially when it comes to carrying out the encirclement plan according to your orders. Pang Tong agreed with Li Sheng's prediction, because he had just seen the initial madness of those defeated soldiers when they were surrounded and had no way back: "There are many people in the north, and this madness must be very strong." He said leisurely, but he was both a little curious and a little worried: "I don't know how General Huang plans to deal with this trouble in front of him?" ”

"Do we still have to worry about this?" Li Sheng shook his head slightly: "Master is a fine person, and he is much more proficient than us in the ranks. I think he has a way to solve our headaches on his own. Why should we think about it so much? Hurry up and tidy up the battlefield here, and then copy it behind the enemy. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to make it to a big battle. Li Sheng said with a smile, regardless of whether Pang Tong could think of a way to deal with many more enemies than himself at once and directly gave orders to the soldiers below. began to rush from south to north in the direction of the enemy's rout, intending to encircle the enemy's elite on the spot.

At the same time, when Li Sheng had a little guess and Pang Tong was still worried, Huang Zhong's team was constantly retreating. Because he knew that his team was outnumbered by the enemy, and that it would definitely not be worth the loss to meet the enemy face to face, he planned to use space for time, and achieve two results by constantly giving up his position and keeping a certain distance from the opponent: on the one hand, so that the opponent could see the hope of being able to escape without fighting with him, and on the other hand, he used bows, arrows, throwing guns and other weapons to kill and injure the opponent as much as possible at a distance where the opponent could not attack him. This was undoubtedly a good way to minimize his losses, although the speed of destroying the enemy was slow, but Huang Zhong himself didn't care, because he knew that someone would come to help him speed up.

“…… Remember, don't fight hard with the enemy, we will shoot an arrow and retreat ten feet back, retreat fast, as fast as you shoot arrows, don't let the enemy catch up with your ass! You know, we're going to trade the corpses of some enemies for the advance of others, and we're going to make them drain their strength without realizing it. Don't think that retreating is a shameful thing, as long as we do kill and wound the enemy, that's enough......" Huang Zhong shouted loudly and commanded his team to retreat like a wave, giving up the positions that originally belonged to him to the enemy one by one. In only three quarters of an hour's work, they had already retreated more than five miles, and they did not know where they would finally retreat if the enemy kept approaching like this.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from the west. I saw the snow-flying snow in the distance, where the heaven and earth meet, and the cavalry galloped on the shallow snow. When he approached, he saw that the red battle flag in the hand of the first rider was flying and fluttering in the north wind of hunting, and a big "Zhao" character on the flag flickered, but it made all the people who witnessed all this have different feelings because of the different camps they belonged to: the men and horses on Huang Zhong's side were happy because of this, because this was their reinforcement; And Zhang Wei and the others were terrified by this, because they knew how terrible this cavalry belonging to the enemy was—they had already suffered from this cavalry team before today.

"It's ...... big deal!" Looking at the approach of this cavalry, Zhang Wei and the others were so frightened that they couldn't care about anything, turned their horses' heads and wanted to flee to the east. At this moment, they didn't care that they were surrounded by their own people, they only thought about escaping, but they did not hesitate to wave the sword in their hands, and cut off the heads of their subordinates with their own blades, opening the way for their own advance. At this moment, those of them who were generals inevitably went crazy.

But no matter how crazy they were, their speed towards the east could not match the speed at which Zhao Yun was chasing. The galloping and imposing cavalry was like a thick blade, breaking through all those who dared to stop in front of them, whether they were intentional or not.

Things have come to this point, as long as you have a heart, most people can see that Zhao Yun's goal is not on these defeated soldiers, but on Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, Yang Ang and the other three. Although it was not clear why Zhao Yun was staring at the three of them, the news that they would be unlucky was quickly known to everyone.

Looking at the menacing appearance of Zhao Yun and his party, naturally no one dared to rush to their side. All of a sudden, all the Hanzhong troops who saw them scattered and fled, but they cleared the roads leading to Zhang Wei and them to Zhao Yun.

At this moment, Zhao Yun is fast and energetic, while Zhang Wei, who fled in a hurry, and the three of them, who were sleepy and tired, worried and longing. Although they escaped quickly, they still caught up with Zhao Yun. I saw Zhao Yun rushing into the gap between Yang Ren and Yang Ang on a single horse, and the spear in his hand made a violent call left and right, but it immediately knocked the frightened Er Yang off the horse. Although he didn't want their lives, he also threw them to pieces, and they were soon captured by the cavalry that surged behind Zhao Yun. And Zhang Wei, who was running at the front, saw that Zhao Yun was chasing so quickly, and saw that he couldn't escape, so he had to stop and wait for Zhao Yun to tie him up. Don't look at his usual words and speeches are very impulsive, very strong, and always look like he is not afraid of anything, but when this matter comes to an end, his performance is very different from his usual life, but a real embryo who is greedy for life and afraid of death. [bookid=3676858,bookname="The Legend of the Otherworld"]

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