Chapter 15: Li Sheng's Coercion

Zhao Yun has few soldiers and Zhang Wei has many soldiers. Although Zhao Yun's men and Zhang Wei's men are at a stalemate with the scuffle at the moment, this stalemate can only last for a while, but it will not last forever.www.biquge.info As the elite soldiers fell, and groups of red-eyed ghost soldiers swarmed up, the balance of victory was moving towards Zhang Wei little by little. If Zhao Yun didn't think of a way to do it, then failure seemed to be certain.

Zhao Yun naturally understood this, and he knew that there were only two ways to go in front of him: one was to be nailed here until the lord Li Sheng sent a large army to converge; The second is to seek to retreat, abandon the current enemy who has seen through the siege plan, and bring these tiger warriors back as much as possible.

If Zhao Yun was the only one here, Zhao Yun would definitely choose the first path without saying a word. But right now, he is not alone, but leading a group of soldiers under him. The difference between this has to be weighed by a few points. Although he was sure that if he did give the order to hold on, his soldiers would definitely fight to the last man, but he was really not willing to risk it. Because he clearly knew that his lord's army was still twenty miles away, and he couldn't rush over in a short time. And these soldiers under their own, even if they fight for their lives to the last man, they don't know if they can drag on for a while. The gap between the enemy's and our forces is too great, and at the moment, there are less than five hundred people who are still following Zhao Yun into the enemy formation, and the enemy is pressing up by tens of thousands. Although there were definitely not as many people fighting against him head-on as he imagined, he was on top of the war horse, looking forward, looking at the patches of black like a tide, even Zhao Yun couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart. He was not afraid, but he was worried, worried about the bitter battle formed by the lord facing the many defenders of Baocheng in the future.

The bitter battle represents a stalemate and a loss, which is very unfavorable to Li Shengjun, who was already on an expedition and could not get any supplies. As far as Zhao Yun himself is concerned, even if he asks his men to exchange ten enemies, he is unwilling. Because of Li Sheng's strategy of elite soldiers, every soldier under his command was a veteran who had been trained for many years and had invested a lot of money and effort, and was not directly recruited from the common people like the Hanzhong Army, but was simply a semi-peasant soldier.

"These people must be brought back, and they must not be allowed to lose." Although there were two paths to choose from in front of him, Zhao Yun had planned to take the second path from the beginning. The reason why he led his troops to counterattack and bravely led his troops to rush forward and engage the enemy was that in addition to the original idea of trying to make the archers who were ambushed by the enemy unable to exert their might through melee, he also did not kill the enemy in front of him, so that they could not affect his plan to retreat for the time being.

It was Zhao Yun who always controlled his soldiers, so that they could not go too far into the city gate, and while fighting forward with all his heart, he also spent a little bit of thought on the back, paying attention to the suspension bridge that was unknown until now and had not been pulled up. "That's our way out!" - Zhao Yun understands this very well.

When the sound of squeaky chains ringing sounded behind him, Zhao Yun knew that the situation had reached the most critical point: if Zhang Wei and the others on the city tower were allowed to twist the drawbridge, then he would inevitably have only one way to go in the face of this enemy who was surrounded more and more.

"People say that there are 10,000 enemies in the world, but if one person is allowed to fight 10,000 people, and those 10,000 people are the kind of fearless people who will not retreat, I am afraid that if I do not die in battle, I will die of exhaustion." Zhao Yun, who understood this very well, couldn't help but start looking for a solution that could prevent the suspension bridge from rising at this time.

"I need time!" Zhao Yun said to himself. He glanced back at the drawbridge behind him, his sharp gaze sweeping over the chains on the drawbridge, but he had a plan in mind. He looked at the people around him, and saw that Chen Xu, the deputy general sent by Li Sheng, was still following him with a little spirit, so he greeted him with a loud voice: "The matter is urgent." The enemy wants to encircle us here, and I must think about the way back for my sons. I'm going to put that drawbridge down. It's only a few breaths, but I need your help - if I turn around, the enemy won't give up the opportunity to strike me, so I need you to help me stabilize the battle. ”

"Please rest assured, but teach me that Chen Xu has a breath, and I won't let them rush past me." Chen Xu said this very resolutely, and he looked like he was going home.

"It's not to the point where you have to die." Zhao Yun pursed his lips, "I won't leave you behind." I'm going to bring you all back. The blame for this defeat lies with me, not with you. As he spoke, he didn't give Chen Xu a chance to refute, and quickly turned around and rushed towards the city gate.

"The enemy general has fled." I don't know when Yang Ang, who came to the rear of the battlefield, was very sharp-eyed, he suddenly saw Zhao Yun's retreat, and immediately shouted loudly.

"The enemy general has fled!" I don't know if this is true, anyway, when I heard my lord shouting like this, the ghost pawns in Hanzhong naturally responded loudly.

"It's fast." Zhao Yun was annoyed, and he was very resentful of Yang Ang's reaction in his heart. At this moment, he is already hanging a gun and a horse, and there is nothing else in his hand but an arrow and a bow. At that moment, because he hated Yang Ang's interference, he suddenly turned over and quickly pulled the iron tire bow in his hand, put the triangular arrow with a barb on it, looked at the location of Yang Ang, and gently loosened the tightened bowstring. I only heard the sound of "bang ......", and I saw an incomparably bright silver light breaking through the air. "Yang Ang Xiao'er, let you eat my Zhao Yun's arrow." Zhao Yun's shout sounded almost at the same time as the sharp arrow breaking through the air.

When Yang Ang heard this voice and found the silver light in the guards of the sergeants, he could already truly feel the sharpness of the silver light. "Not good!" Yang Ang couldn't react for a while, so he had to reluctantly tilt his body, and then he felt a huge force hit his left shoulder, and he flew backwards with the saddle, but finally fell heavily to the ground. Before he could feel the pain in his back, he felt a hot sensation spread in his left shoulder, and the ensuing sharp pain connected with the burning heat on his back, making him involuntarily **. Under such severe pain, even if he wanted to stand up and shake his arm to see that he was safe, he couldn't. Because he didn't feel the presence of his left arm at all. He knew that the arrow he had just fired had completely crippled his left arm.

"How can there be such a terrifying archery skill? You know, the distance between me and him is 300 paces. Yang Ang was surprised, for the first time, he felt that the distance between the Grim Reaper and himself was so close.

Yang Ang was powerless, so he could only let the guards behind him take him away from the battlefield first. It is also his luck to say that this is also his luck, because in the current battle situation, although he is a high-ranking general, he is not the one who directly commands the battle. From the very beginning, the entire battle was commanded by the sacrificial wines below the three generals. Therefore, his departure did not have much adverse impact on the battle situation, except for many soldiers who were shocked by seeing Zhao Yun's almost divine archery skills, most of them did not think that "the main general has been defeated by the enemy".

As soon as the arrow was fired, Yang Ang was seriously injured and retreated, although the result of not causing chaos on the opposite side made Zhao Yun a little unhappy, but as far as he was concerned, there was not much time to savor this unhappiness. After shooting the arrow, he quickly turned around and never looked back, as if he didn't want to pay any attention to the things about Yang Ang behind him, but completely focused his energy on the two iron cables hanging from the bridge deck five zhang away in front of him. For a while, in Zhao Yun's feelings, the surroundings became quiet, and all the noise and everything around him became trance. Zhao Yun narrowed his eyes, ignoring everything that was not very related to his goal, and at this moment, in his eyes, there were only two tight iron cables on the opposite side except for himself.

The ten-stone iron bow was once again pulled apart, and this time Zhao Yun carried two arrows on it, aiming at the swarthy iron cable. His breathing slowly slowed and he rose into the city, as if he was worried that his heaving body would affect the accuracy of his bow and arrows. He was nervous. He wouldn't have been so nervous, but at this moment, he couldn't help it. Because he clearly felt the pressure of the lives of those five hundred soldiers.

......Zhao Yun's eyes widened suddenly, and an invisible power burst out from his body, and in this short burst, the bowstring in his hand returned to its original point again, and the two feather arrows that were inspired by this turned into a flashing silver thread just like the one that shot at Yang Ang before.

Because of the shock of the arrow in front of him, when Zhao Yun shot the arrow again, everyone's eyes were focused on Zhao Yun. Time seemed to slow down in an instant, and everyone didn't react until Zhao Yun's arrow came into close contact with the iron rope and sent out fierce sparks and finally pierced through it to make it return to the earth. And after the bridge returned to the earth, they were still stunned for a while, and then they had the same or different reactions: while everyone was shocked by Zhao Yun's archery skills, the cheers of Li Shengjun's soldiers and the lamentations of Hanzhong soldiers sounded almost at the same time.

"How can there be such amazing archery?" If the arrow shot at Yang Ang was mostly shocking to some people, then now Zhao Yun broke the chains of the suspension bridge with one bow and two arrows, making Zhang Wei's plan useless, and brought this shock to everyone. Most of them widened their eyes, muttering in joy or dejectedness, "How so? How so! ”

"It's finally up to the task." Looking at the suspension bridge with broken iron cables, Zhao Yun's always calm face showed a smile of understanding. He hung up his bow and picked up his spear, re-grasped the blade in his hand, turned his horse, trotted a few steps, and came to the field where everyone was fighting. I saw the spear in his hand stabbed out again and again, and immediately several stunned Hanzhong ghost pawns covered their necks and wailed and fell to the ground, which made people face up to the other side of his bravery. For a while, the soldiers of Li Shengjun, who already had joy on their faces, became more courageous, and the blades in their hands slashed heavily, killing many ghost pawns who surrounded them, and expanding the encirclement that had been gradually suppressed and narrowed because of the defeat by a few points, so that those Hanzhong ghost pawns whose morale was faintly low because of Zhao Yun unnaturally hesitated. They were shocked, but they didn't dare to surround them too tightly for a while.

"It's this time." Zhao Yun, who had finally caused such a situation, raised the faint smile on his face again, he rode his horse and stood in front of everyone, the spear in his hand was horizontal, but it was a portal, and said loudly: "Brothers, the road behind you is now open, so you can go out of the city first." The enemy here is up to me to defend you now. His words were not loud, and his tone did not seem to be very majestic, he just said it plainly, but it was giving people a silent shock. What is the meaning of "Qi is like an abyss, and the momentum is like a high man"? This is the demeanor that Zhao Yun shows at the moment. How many generals are willing to cut off their subordinates with their own strength? For Zhao Yun's behavior, not only Zhao Yun's own subordinates were very moved by it, but even the ghost pawns who fought with them were also a little envious of it.

"The general doesn't need to be like this, we are willing to die with the general!" Before Zhao Yun's words fell, the soldiers under him shouted loudly in response to Zhao Yun's words. At this moment, they were so moved by Zhao Yun that they even had the intention of fighting to the death.

"Alas...... I finally know why Li Sheng dared to attack my Hanzhong with tens of thousands of people. Zhang Wei, who was standing on top of the city tower, looked down at the battle situation below and sighed.

"There are such generals, and there are such soldiers. To tell the truth, one of Li Shengjun's soldiers can at least five of us. Regarding Zhang Wei's thoughts, Yang Ren, who also watched all this, also knew this very well.

After a slight silence, the two glanced at each other. Zhang Wei shook his head gently: "Such loyal and brave generals, such loyal soldiers, if they are so strong that they are left, it is really unbearable." What's more, Li Sheng's army didn't know where it had already arrived. If you can't eat them in a hurry. Let them hold out until the arrival of Li Sheng's army, I am afraid that our Baocheng will fall. It's better to let them leave quickly. ”

"That's fine!" Yang Ren nodded. The combat effectiveness displayed by Zhao Yun's troops really made him feel terrifying, just as Zhang Wei said, even if they could only rely on the strength of the troops in their hands to finally kill them here, it was conceivable that the battle that was unfolding near the city gate would inevitably delay time. Therefore, out of consideration for the overall situation, he was unwilling to continue to entangle with Zhao Yun.

"Then it's decided." Yang Ang had already passed out of a coma, and the deputy general beside him was only Yang Yi, seeing that he also agreed with his opinion, Zhang Wei naturally laughed happily, and quickly ordered: "Let the encirclement and suppression in the city retreat as a whole team, and form a formation and advance slowly." Remember that archers must not be attacking them. ”

"Yes!" The herald's own soldiers quickly turned and left.

Looking at the departing figure of the guard, Zhang Wei asked Yang Ren on the side with a smile: "Do you think this is enough?" ”

"Maybe not enough!" Yang Ren shook his head: "This matter must be explained publicly." We must not allow our people to misunderstand, nor can we let our enemies misunderstand. It would be bad if the two armies fought again because of this misunderstanding. ”

"Oh?" Zhang Wei raised his eyebrows: "What do you want to do......?" ”

"Look at ......" Yang Ren said to Zhang Ren, and then fell on top of the battlements, leaned down and shouted from Zhao Yun below: "Listen to the enemy generals below, my general admires your bravery very much." But you have not come to the city to deceive the city. It's getting late today, and enough people have died, and my general has decided to let you go! Please retreat on your own. We're not going to go out of town to chase after us. ”

"So, thank you. When you meet on a different day, there will be good rewards! Hearing the shouts from above the city tower, after thinking about it, he guessed the other party's thoughts Zhao Yun, smiled a little bitterly, and shouted at the enemy general on the city tower without humility or arrogance. Although he didn't know which of the three generals Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, and Yang Ang was the person who shouted this sentence just now, the other party did understand that this was a bit of a shame for them, which made him feel a little bit affectionate towards them.

As the other party made a guarantee in front of everyone, the other party's military formation was indeed retreating, and Zhao Yun, who had a little belief in the other party's sincerity, slowly retreated while cautiously breaking his back. He looked at it three times and went backwards. After all, what was happening at the moment was so unexpected that he had to think more about himself and his men.

Because of his cautiousness, Zhao Yun's retreat seemed to be very slow. Zhang Wei and Yang Ren at the head of the city heard about this situation, although they also recognized Zhao Yun's caution in their hearts, but they were still very anxious when Li Sheng would be able to arrive.

"It's about being prepared." Finally saw Zhao Yun's men and horses appear on the suspension bridge in Baocheng, and Yang Ren suddenly spit out such a sentence.

"Are you worried about the sudden arrival of Li Sheng's army?" Zhang Wei asked. What Yang Ren was worried about in his heart was exactly what he was worried about. As Zhang Lu's younger brother, he naturally didn't want his brother's foundation to be damaged.

"Yes!" Yang Ren nodded affirmatively: "At the moment, the enemy's team has not all left the city. We can't let our guard down yet. I think let the spearmen line up at the gate hole, let them arrange the spears to resist horses, and then transfer the archers originally arranged on both sides of the gate to this tower. How is it? ”

"Good! That's it! Zhang Wei nodded, and immediately used his right as the commander in chief to give an order.

Yang Ren's suggestion was to prevent a terrible situation for Zhang Wei and the others from happening. In this retreat operation, whether it was Zhao Yun who slowly retreated out of Baocheng, or Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, Yang Ang and others who expected Zhao Yun to leave early, they all did this with a tight heart. They were all worried about each other, they were all scared, and they were all thinking about what they would do if something happened that worried them the most.

Of course, this kind of thinking is also fruitless in the end. Because, Li Sheng's army did not appear until Zhao Yun's team withdrew from Baocheng, which made Zhang Wei and the others have to rejoice, they were not stimulated much, and naturally they were not willing to do anything to violate their promises. For any religion, keeping one's word seems like something that is commanded to be kept.

I don't know what the generals of the Three Kingdoms who haven't watched the "gangster movie" think in their hearts, in short, just when Zhao Yun retreated and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, a billowing smoke and dust rose from the sky, and then slowly rushed towards this side. Li Sheng's army finally appeared, but he seemed to appear a little late. The battle had long since ended, and Li Sheng's army was "very disgraceful" in playing the role of such a policeman.

Li Sheng lined up two miles outside of Baocheng. Zhao Yun led his troops back and met Li Sheng in the military formation. Li Sheng saw Zhao Yun's embarrassed appearance, and turned over and dismounted in shock: "Is Zilong damaged?" Could it be that the attack on Baocheng is not smooth? As he spoke, he didn't wait for Zhao Yun to answer, just took Zhao Yun's hand and carefully studied the situation on Zhao Yun's body.

"The clouds are fine!" Zhao Yun shook his head heavily because of Li Sheng's sincerity in treating him, knelt on the ground all of a sudden, and bowed with tears: "Lord, Yun is incompetent, he failed to deceive Baocheng, so that he lost more than half of the soldiers and horses he led, and please punish him!" ”

"More than half of the soldiers and horses of the department have been lost?" Li Sheng's eyes widened in disbelief, and he asked Zhao Yun anxiously, "How many people have we lost?" ”

"Of the 1,000 soldiers that the lord allocated to me, only about 400 have returned to this place." Zhao Yun said with tears in his eyes.

"What?" Li Sheng looked surprised. He knew that Zhao Yun was a cautious person, and originally thought that if he was asked to take care of this kind of thing, even if it couldn't be done in the end, there wouldn't be much damage, but he didn't want the real situation to be otherwise. "How so?" Li Sheng looked at the dots on Zhao Yun's body, looked at Zhao Yun's tired appearance, and already understood a little bit of the intensity of the battle in his heart, and was even more curious that the enemy could cause such a situation, and immediately asked out loud: "Could it be that someone in Hanzhong has seen through our plan?" However, I haven't heard of such a capable person in Hanzhong? Zilong knows who the current defender of Baocheng is? ”

"The guards of Baocheng are Zhang Wei, Yang Ren, and Yang Ang." Zhao Yun opened his mouth to reply, and then explained the battle situation he had just experienced, but he concluded: "Generally speaking, there is nothing surprising about the arrangement of Zhang Wei and others. However, Ling Yun fell into such a situation, not because of the planning of Zhang Wei and others, but because of the will to fight of the soldiers of Hanzhong. Different from the defenders of Yangping Pass and Calanyang in the past, the defenders of Baocheng at this moment can no longer be described as brave alone, they are not afraid of death at all, even if they lose their combat effectiveness and fall to the ground, and lose the blade in their hands, they still use their bodies to fight to the end. Yun Guan Qi's technique of fighting against our soldiers is often a trick that ends in the same end. It makes ordinary people look at it, but they are always a little scared. ”

"I see." Li Sheng solemnly said, "This matter is not Zilong's fault, but Sheng's crime." Today, there are still 400 soldiers who can be saved, all of which are the work of Zilong. After the establishment of the village, I should inform the whole army of this matter and reward Zilong for his merits. He smiled and said loudly.

"How so? Yun is a person who has lost his army, how can he be rewarded like this? Zhao Yun waved his hand again and again, and was about to excuse himself, but was stopped by Li Sheng.

"Zilong, do you know why I'm so slow today? Twenty miles is not a long distance, I should have arrived half an hour ago, but ......" Li Sheng sighed, "The 1,000 fugitives of Yan Chushuai, Yan Chushuai, the Calcium Yang Sacrifice Wine, continuously attacked my army, delaying our army on the road for half an hour, as Zilong said, he is an outlaw who is not afraid of death." As he spoke, Li Sheng's words gradually became low: "Perhaps, I shouldn't have attacked Hanzhong first. Zhang Lu treats the people in Hanzhong not badly, and he is fascinated by religion, and the people are all serving him. I'm really asking for trouble with him now! ”

"My lord, how can you have such an idea!?" Hearing that Li Sheng's words seemed to have the meaning of giving up, Zhao Yun couldn't help but be shocked: "The lord's business has come to this point, either advancing or retreating." ”

"I know." Li Sheng nodded and smiled faintly: "So no matter what, I can only continue with a hard head." By the way, Zilong, you have fought with the enemies in Baocheng, how many men and horses do you think there are in Baocheng at the moment? Li Sheng asked Zhao Yun, at this moment he had already put his own thoughts on attacking Baocheng. He knew that he didn't know much about the situation in Hanzhong, so he had the heart to ask Zhao Yun.

"According to the clouds, the soldiers and horses of Baocheng are no longer under 50,000." Zhao Yun thought back for a moment and gave Li Sheng such a general answer.

"No more under 50,000?" Pang Tong on the side couldn't help but raise his voice when he heard this, "If that's the case, this Zhang Lu will almost explain all the soldiers and horses in his hands here." Maybe Nanzheng still has defenders, but its strength will definitely not be high. ”

"Hmm, so if we solve Baocheng, then Zhang Lu will have no capital to resist?" Li Sheng quickly grasped this.

"Exactly, but this Baocheng is not so easy to take. Although the city of Baocheng is not particularly profound, it is always the standard of ordinary cities, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in it, and the strength of the troops is still above us, I am afraid that it will be difficult for you to conquer it in a short time with our own strength. Pang Tong said with a frown.

"Let's relax, let us set up camp here first, and then gather the generals to discuss the battle." Li Sheng's mind turned, but he had a little plan in his heart, and he immediately comforted Pang Tongdao.

"That's fine." Pang Tong glanced at Li Sheng and nodded, but he didn't talk about it anymore, so he ordered someone to go down to arrange the camp.

Two hours later, the camp was completed, and Li Sheng saw that it was still early, so he invited Pang Tong, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and other generals and strategists to gather in the big tent of the Chinese army to discuss with him how to attack Baocheng.

This can be considered a military meeting. The beginning of the meeting was normal, but after Li Sheng introduced the situation of Baocheng as usual, he asked everyone: "How can you capture Baocheng?" ”

For a while, Zhao Yun pondered, Huang Zhong meditated, Fa Zheng squinted, and only Pang Tong was smiling and putting on a confident look. When Li Sheng saw him like this, he thought that he had a plan, so he asked, "Has Shi Yuan taught me?" ”

Pang Tong shook his head gently: "The lord has his own plan, why do you need us to teach?" To be honest, in the face of such a situation, in addition to luring the enemy into a field battle, there is only one way to forcibly attack the city. However, luring the enemy out of the city, the enemy seems to have been taught by the superior and will not do so, and if the city is forcibly attacked, the enemy's strength is far above ours, and the morale is not weaker than ours, but it is a hard bone. I'm helpless about this. ”

Hearing Pang Tong shirk his responsibilities like this and let himself relieve the pressure on everyone, Li Sheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, and ordered someone to take the map and compare it directly: "I want to directly attack Nanzheng, what do you think?" ”

"How can this be? To go around to capture Nanzheng is to put Baocheng behind him. At present, although it is speculated that Nan Zheng has few soldiers, it is not known what the actual situation is. If the lord attacks Nanzheng, he can't get down the city in a hurry, and the army of Baocheng turns around and attacks our army, then our army will be completely wiped out under the city of Nanzheng. The cautious Zhao Yun retorted first.

"Zilong thinks that if our army meets Zhang Lujun on the flat ground, what will be the final result?" Li Sheng did not answer Zhao Yun's question, but asked rhetorically.

"Although the other party is brave and not afraid of death, if it really confronts our army on the plain, Nayun is at least eighty percent sure that he will take them." Zhao Yun was slightly stunned, thought for a while, but replied very confidently.

"Since we are not afraid to engage the enemy on flat ground, why can't we use this method? The real purpose of attacking Nanzheng is to use the reason why Nanzheng was attacked to force Zhang Wei and others to abandon Baocheng and return to Nanzheng, giving us a chance to defeat them on the plain. Li Sheng said with a smile.

"It's a bit of a possibility." Fa Zheng nodded when he heard the approval here, but he mentioned another possibility: "Zhang Wei is Zhang Lu's own brother." If he has ambitions not to save Zhang Lu and defends Baocheng, then what will happen to our army? ”

"It's not going to happen." Li Sheng shook his head heavily.

"Why?" For this point, even Fa Zheng and Pang Tong are twelve points puzzled.

"Because Zhang Lu ruled with the religion of Wudou Mijiao. In the minds of all the members of the Wudoumi Sect, Zhang Lu is the living god. No matter how outstanding Zhang Wei is, it is impossible for him to take the position of Zhang Lu as a god. Unless Zhang Lu willingly taught him the position of master. Li Sheng said with a smile.

"I see." Li Sheng said that he was sure, although everyone was still a little skeptical, they still had to make a sudden appearance on the surface.

"In that case, we can arrange our troops." Fa Zheng nodded and smiled. He and Pang Tong looked at each other, and drew on the map in front of Li Sheng: "...... Here's how we can ...... Such! Who said that people like Fa Zheng and Pang Tong would have no strategy? In fact, they think the same thing as Li Sheng. [bookid=3676858,bookname="The Legend of the Otherworld"]