Chapter Twenty-Four: The Edge of the Flowing Water (II)

Due to Huang Zhong's efforts, the remnants of 2,500 people were very strong enough to block the 3,000 Qiang soldiers sent by Deng Xian. The battle between the two sides of the pen and the fun and the pavilion www.biquge.info started directly on the left side of the trench of Huang Zhong's position, and it was difficult to solve for a while.

Deng Xian led the men and horses to watch the fight of the people on the opposite side from a distance, with a treacherous smile on his face. He lifted the spear in his hand, swung it vigorously into the void, and then gave a second order: "Those Qiang soldiers have entered the formation of the thief army and attracted their attention. The day of the thief is just around the corner, and the whole army is rushing with me! Behead a level, and enjoy a horse of Shu brocade. If any of the enemy's generals are captured, I will raise the rank of the chief official to the third rank and reward thirty hectares of land. Deng Xian encouraged his subordinates and offered a reward that was enough to make their hearts move, trying to further stimulate their combat effectiveness. At this moment, the tactics he executed against Huang Zhong had been fully exposed: in view of the characteristics of archers that were conducive to long-range attacks and not conducive to close combat, he broke into the range of the enemy army with an elite force, melee with the enemy army, and then waved a large army and attacked the enemy's formation to frustrate the opponent's entire line and defeat the opponent.

To be honest, this is not a good way to deal with the enemy, especially if the enemy's forces are almost "strong" compared to their own. But this is not a good method, and it seems that it has never lost in the hands of Deng Xian. Because he was too risky and too unexpected. Relying on the strong combat power of the Qiang soldiers, the Qiang soldiers sent out are easy to form a melee situation with the other party, and in such a situation, it is indeed possible to defeat the other party in one breath - it can be said that all the hopes of Deng Xian's victory are pinned on the Qiang soldiers, if the Qiang soldiers' attack is blocked, then his swing is very likely to be caught off guard by the enemy's attack, thus causing his side to be completely passive. Such a hasty act is not something that an ordinary general can do, let alone the fact that others have come to the conclusion from the intelligence that he is a steady general who is good at defense. The enemy did not expect him to do this, and the enemy did not think that the Qiang soldiers would have such a strong combat power, which was the main reason why he repeatedly used this dangerous trick to defeat the enemy. With the success of one dangerous adventure after another, he seems to have regarded this as his killer weapon: according to his judgment of the battle situation, he can always send his Qiang army at a fairly suitable time to defeat his enemies with such a move. This is his self-confidence, and it is also the reason why he thinks he can fight against Huang Zhong's subordinates.

Of course, he didn't know that there was a cavalry lurking in the darkness watching him. This was undoubtedly his shortcoming, and when Zhao Yun took advantage of his lack to attack him, he had already followed his team and was about to rush to Huang Zhong's position. It can be said that his arrows have been sent out, and there is no turning back.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves sounded on the left flank of Deng Xian's army, and countless cavalry suddenly showed their tall and formidable heroic posture at the junction of the darkness of the sky and the bright light of the fire. They came on horseback, holding high the banner of the word "Zhao", and slammed straight into Deng Xian's department like a sharp knife. Because of the suddenness of their appearance, Deng Xianjun didn't have time to react at all, so he could only watch them rush into his formation with spears in hand, and shoot several people in a row.

It's just horrible. Deng Xianjun, who was originally imposing, immediately fell into collapse under the shadow of a cavalry assault that did not know whether it was thousands or tens of thousands. Although Deng Xian had a lot of men and horses, there were five or six thousand people, but there were a lot of cavalry rushing from the other side, at least about the same number as himself. What would happen when the same number of unsuspecting infantry collided with the same number of cavalry that had already launched a surprise attack on this flat field? It might be like a river beating against this boulder. Although he went forward and braved one after another, he finally turned into a flying bead in helplessness!

The cavalry's attack was so strong, and not long after Leng Bao just felt this, Deng Xian was also very miserable to get such a realization. What does it mean to be overwhelmed? What does it mean to be invincible? What does it mean to enter into a room with no thickness? What is a landslide and ground fissure? Maybe Zhao Yun's assault in front of him and the collapse of his own side can be well explained.

Speaking of which, Deng Xian is more or less a flesh-and-blood general. Although he is usually good at defense and has a somewhat inconspicuous appearance, in fact, he hides his own thoughts very deeply. It's not that he doesn't like to attack, he just wants to deliver a fatal blow to the enemy with a relatively certain certainty. When Zhao Yun's cavalry rushed to kill in his ranks, watching the soldiers around him fall one after another, Deng Xian's face suddenly turned red with anger. When he saw Zhao Yun's gorgeous marksmanship and the appearance of entering a no-man's land in the military formation, he thought that he was deliberately showing off his skills, and he was immediately unhappy. He rode his horse and carried a gun, ran straight towards Zhao Yun, and shouted loudly: "Come and be arrogant, look at the gun!" As he spoke, the big gun in his hand crossed a bright trajectory, and the bright tip of the gun beckoned to Zhao Yun's face.

This shot was fast and ruthless, Deng Xian looked at his spear tip as if it was about to touch the other party's face, and the other party still didn't make any moves, thinking that he could successfully kill this fang at one time. But I didn't want to be less than an inch away from the other party's face, and I was blocked by the tail of the other party's gun. Deng Xian also wanted to break through the opponent's blockade with force, but the other party used a little dexterity at this moment, and gently rotated the body of the gun, but he opened his spear.

"That's a lot of strength." Deng Xian couldn't help but smack his tongue. He knew that he had stabbed the spear with the strength of his horse and his own Billy, and that the force on it was far greater than the flat stab with all his strength. But such a powerful gun was actually thrown away by the other party's gentle twist of the tail of the gun on the spot, doesn't this mean that the opponent's strength is far more than three times his own? It's horrible, it's incredible. In Deng Xian's opinion, people with such a strong strength should use heavy weapons such as broadswords, halberds, lances, hammers, and axes, and there is absolutely no possibility of using spears. But the person he was facing in front of him had undoubtedly subverted his cognition.

"Who is this man?" With this puzzled question, Deng Xian crossed hands with him. He looked at the man's back strangely, looking at his sassy and heroic posture of the silver spear and silver armor white dragon horse displayed in the flickering firelight, and a name in his heart jumped into his heart. "Could it be him?" He turned around and quickly glanced at the big flag carried by the guards beside the man, and looked at the big "Zhao" character fluttering along the flag on the big flag, and he had no doubt in his heart: "Sure enough, it's him." ”

"Zhao Yun, Zhao Zilong. A strong man with a silver spear and a white horse, one of the most famous generals in the world, good at using cavalry. Its own force is similar to that of Guan and Zhang. He was famous for his 2,000 iron cavalry to shake Cao Cao's 5,000 tiger and leopard cavalry elite and repel them in the Battle of Changsakapo, and was a very dangerous member of Li Sheng's army. Deng Xian's heart flashed such a comment on Zhao Yun.

"I actually ran into Zhao Yun directly?" Thinking of Zhao Yun's prestige, Deng Xian couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed in his heart, he only felt that the spear in his hand was a little heavier than before, and the palm of his hand was quite slippery. He knew it was sweat from his hands. Of course he knew that he had no chance of winning against such a fierce general, but seeing the other party arbitrarily slaughtering his own soldiers in his own military formation, Deng Xian couldn't bear it. "Well, I am also the head of this group of brothers in my hands. How can they just be allowed to slaughter their own brothers? If I don't think of a way to stop this from happening, I'm afraid that I won't be able to hold my head up in front of this group of brothers in the future. Deng Xian thought so, but after passing by Zhao Yun by mistake, he quickly turned around, and resisted the tremor in his heart to fight against Zhao Yun, who also turned around.

"Your marksmanship is good, but it's a pity that your strength is not good." The two sides stood opposite each other ten zhang apart, and Deng Xian didn't have time to say anything to Zhao Yun, but Zhao Yun opened his mouth early and said this. This sentence was originally very ordinary, but at this moment, Zhao Yun's mouth was a little arrogant and a little indifferent, but to Deng Xian's ears, it was like an elder teaching himself, and he was so angry that his hair was open.

"Boy, Hugh is going to say such big things, if you have the ability, come and go to my neck." He said angrily, and without waiting for Zhao Yun to answer, he rode up again, and the gun ran straight to Zhao Yun.

"Hmph...... Act recklessly. Zhao Yun sneered, and waved his gun to fight with Deng Xian.

Both of them use spears, and their marksmanship is mainly smart, and they are guns and guns between each other, and from time to time there are clusters of guns shining and blooming between each other, and they are very good-looking. After fighting for a long time, after more than a dozen rounds, Deng Xian was not Zhao Yun's opponent after all, and Zhao Yun's evaluation of him was also very pertinent.

"Damn it!" Deng Xian roared angrily, and used several tricks in a row, but he put on a posture of wanting to die with Zhao Yun. In fact, he already knew that his ability had reached this point, and the reason why he was desperate at this moment was not that he really wanted to get into trouble with Zhao Yun, but that he wanted to use this to force Zhao Yun back and protect himself. Of course, his move was very successful, because Zhao Yun was a cautious person, and he had never fought with Deng Xian, and he didn't know how strong Deng Xian was. Of course, he didn't let Deng Xian go so easily, seeing that Deng Xian actually turned his horse and fled, the spear in his hand seemed to have grown several feet suddenly, and it was slammed on Deng Xian's back, making him spit out a mouthful of blood, and he could only walk miserably.

After defeating Deng Xian, Zhao Yun did not chase after his remnants, but turned around and attacked the back of those Qiang soldiers. In Zhao Yun's opinion, the combat effectiveness of the armies of Deng Xian, Leng Bao and others is actually not worth a penny, and those Qiang soldiers can make a draw with a mere 3,000 men and Huang Zhong's 2,500 soldiers, which is really a rare elite. At this time when Deng Xian was defeated and fled, instead of chasing and killing those scattered defeated soldiers, it was better to get rid of these Qiang soldiers. "Annihilation, you still have to fight strongly." With such thoughts, Zhao Yun was very pitiful and let Deng Xian live.

Deng Xian fled miserably, he fled quickly with his men and horses, but it was very immoral to leave his strongest Qiang soldiers aside. This is also a very normal thing, although the Qiang soldiers have strong combat effectiveness, but in the eyes of Deng Xian and their people, their "importance" is not as good as Deng Xian's own army mates, they are like an item, they still remember to carry it, once something happens, throw it away, no one will have any pity for this.

Deng Xian's escape left the Qiang soldiers alone. Under the attack of Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong before and after, they were unable to form an army and appeared to be in danger. However, they are really strong, even if the comrades around them are killed, and only they are the only ones left, they still fight, and it seems that they will not put down their blades until the moment when the flame of life is extinguished.

"What a tough bunch." Under the joint attack of Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, this group of Qiang soldiers had less than one and a half thousand people left, and they were still half scarred and bloody, but they were still desperate, which made Huang Zhong really admire, "It would be nice if I could collect them." He muttered to himself.

"Do these people know they've been abandoned right now?" After listening to Huang Zhong's words, Zhao Yun thought about it and suddenly asked such a topic. This is a very important thing. In Zhao Yun's opinion, if you want to try to subdue this group of Qiang people. This seems to be something that needs to be figured out on my side. Because it is related to one's own judgment of the loyalty of these Qiang soldiers.

"I don't know, right?" Huang Zhong thought for a while and said, "This group of people seems to be fighting and not wanting to die. I didn't care about the situation at all. ”

"So they fought with us when they thought they still had backup?" Zhao Yun asked.

"That's about it." Huang Zhong hesitated slightly, and quickly came to his senses: "You mean that they are so strong because of hope, if we puncture their hope, they will not be able to be strong, right?" ”

"Exactly." Zhao Yun nodded heavily: "This is not the Qiang soil, and those Qiang people are also guest troops." They can't just sacrifice their lives to sell their lives to Deng Xian, they must have some handle in Deng Xian's hands. If we break this point, then we might be able to take them into our possession. ”

"Well, that's good." Huang Zhong nodded, "Then ...... we now?" ”

"Naturally, I want to let them know loudly that my general and you have already escaped. You have to shout out loudly. Zhao Yun suggested with a smile.

"Good!" Huang Zhong agreed, and then gave an order, and let his subordinates shout loudly: "Deng Xian has fled, and his army has been defeated!" Deng Xian has fled, and his army has been defeated! ”

The neat shout shook the heavens and the earth, and it fell on Deng Xian's ears, making him involuntarily spit out a mouthful of blood, and also fell on the ears of those Qiang soldiers, so that their heroic soldiers, when they turned around, saw that the situation seemed to be like this, and they couldn't help but lose their morale. Their frenzied resistance seemed to have become much smaller in an instant.

"It seems to be working." Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun looked at each other and smiled, and immediately let his soldiers start shouting another slogan: "Surrender or die!" Surrender or die! ”

The shouts came like the madness of the furious sea. Such a voice seems to be nothing to others, after all, it is none of their business, but listening to the ears of these Qiang soldiers is like a heavy hammer hitting the heart, one by one, making them gradually lose the ability to resist. I don't know who was the first to drop the blade in his hand, in short, almost in an instant, all the Qiang people lost their weapons one by one as if they had lost the strength to hold their weapons, and then sat on the ground dejectedly. They were deflated and no longer as brave as they had been.

Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun looked at the depressed looks of these people, looked at their hollow and numb faces, and sighed deeply: once the momentum was loosened, it would be so low, thinking that these would not be able to be quickly sent to the battlefield. However, this is also a very normal thing, the reason why Huang Zhong wants to recruit them is not to let them immediately fight back against the original master, but to let them become a reserve to replenish their own troops, in the previous blow, Huang Zhong's army suffered a major setback, heavy losses in troops, and it needs a large number of people to replenish, and these people are undoubtedly the best supplementary strength in Huang Zhong's eyes.

After dividing five hundred and guarding the more than 1,000 people, Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun reunited again, this time they would directly face Leng Bao and Deng Xian, the two defeated generals, after the confluence.

"Hehe, eight thousand against five, this is another hard battle." said that it was a bitter battle, but Huang Zhong's expression was smiling, and he didn't seem to feel much bitterness at all. Because the other side is a confluence of two defeated soldiers, although his side is not comparable to the other party in terms of the number of soldiers, but in other aspects, he is much stronger than them, especially in the current morale.

And......

Soon after Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses converged again, they received news from Zhao Yun's deputy general, Xing Daorong, that the 5,000-foot army had arrived in the vicinity, and asked Zhao Yun whether he would let the soldiers and horses immediately enter the battle, or try to lead all the enemies on the opposite side to the position of the infantry army in order to complete an ambush.

"What do you see?" Zhao Yun politely handed over this matter to Huang Zhong for consideration. He knew that he was quite deficient in the battle of the large army, he was good at using cavalry, but he was much worse at using infantry, and as far as the current battle was concerned, it seemed that the infantry was the main force of the battle.

"I think it's better to defeat first, and then ambush." Huang Zhong thought about it for a while and said, he asked his own soldiers to get the map, and then lightly compared it on it: "Although the enemy army has a large number of troops, its military spirit has been broken, and it is completely infantry, so I can't stop Zilong's blow." I want you to let Zilong take the men and horses to attack them first and defeat them, and then I and Deputy General Xing Daorong will take the foot soldiers and ambush them here to make them suffer greater losses. As he spoke, Huang Zhong's hand drew a circle at a certain point on the mapβ€”where a small hill was located.

"Ambush here?" Zhao Yun looked at the position he was comparing to, and felt that this place seemed to be too close to Deng Xian's camp, once the enemy fled here piecemeal, the ambush launched by his side would easily startle the snake, so that these routs could quickly withdraw for the place they came from in an instant. At this moment, they are already a flock of frightened birds, and they will be terrified at the slightest disturbance. And the battlefield Huang Zhong chose was very close to the enemy's camp, so what if they fled quickly when your ambush was prominent? Because there was a problem, Zhao Yun didn't dare to say a word, but directly told Huang Zhong about the worries in his heart, asking him if there was a solution to this matter.

Regarding Zhao Yun's worries, Huang Zhong smiled faintly and asked him gently: "Zilong, have you forgotten that there is still a lord?" ”

"Ahh Zhao Yun suddenly realized, the yin in his heart immediately dissipated, and the whole person suddenly became excited: "Since this is the case, the plan can be sent quickly." With that, he separated from Huang Zhong again, and each of them carried out this plan without mentioning it.

The rest of the battle was a little simpler. When Zhao Yun drove his Zheng Zheng iron horse to the place where Deng Xian and Leng Bao fled for their lives, the two people and their soldiers who had already suffered a lot from this cavalry suddenly ran like ducks that had been torn open the cage door. It's not that they don't have the will to fight, it's just that this will to fight has to see if the object is not. If it was the infantry who were chasing them, they still had some confidence to fight with them, but now they were chasing the cavalry, all of whom were tall and big, which made people panic when they saw it, where is there any will to fight.

"Run, run as far as you can." All the people were so afraid of Zhao Yun's cavalry, with such a thought, they all ran desperately to be able to survive.

They ran away like this, and the direction they chose was the place where Deng Xian's camp was located. Maybe in their minds, Li Shengjun has already used all the forces in his hands to attack his side, and Deng Xianying's side is absolutely safe. It's a very taken thing for granted. However, the real result is very different. When they came to the side of a hill in a hurry, and saw that Deng Xian's camp had appeared in the dim and faint, but seemed to be relieved by this, earth-shaking shouts sounded from both sides of them, and the big "yellow" character general flag and the slightly smaller "Xing" character general flag fluttered in the wind at the same time, and countless soldiers appeared in the dim blur as if they appeared out of thin air. Looking at such a lively posture, anyone can imagine that they are the so-called ambushes.

encountered such a scene again in a panic, Deng Xian and Leng Bao did not have great abilities even if they had great abilities. In these two rounds, the ambush troops came out together, and the Yizhou army blew up the camp on the spot, and it was useless to distinguish the speed of the southeast and northwest runs, no matter how many loyal men left in the army called to reorganize them. In the face of the ambush soldiers killed on both wings and the cavalry chasing behind, not to mention those small soldiers, even Leng Bao and Deng Xian, the two generals, couldn't bear it, and they were also mixed in the chaos and fled in the direction of so-called safety. They thought they were doing this secretly, but they didn't want everything they did to be seen clearly by Huang Zhong who was standing on the top of the hill.

"Want to escape?" Huang Zhong sneered, he stretched out his hand and twitched behind him, and two white feathers drew out. He took his bow and arrows in his hand, and soon pulled the great work in his hand into the shape of a full moon. "Where are you going? Look at the arrows! As he snapped like this, two flying stars flew out of his hands and shot straight towards the backs of Leng Bao and Deng Xian.

"Mom! Leng Bud was not injured, but he saw the opportunity early, seeing that this flying arrow was coming ruthlessly, he screamed strangely and slashed lightly at the buttocks of the war horse under him with the sharp edge of the long sword in his hand, making his war horse neigh, and suddenly exerted his strength, but he sped up a few steps and narrowly avoided the arrow. And Deng Xian, who fled with him and was seriously injured, did not have such good luck, because Leng Bao escaped quickly, and he didn't have time to call him for a while, so that Deng Xian, who was in this confusion, did not perceive the danger at all, and naturally he would not have any idea of dodging, so he was naturally hit by the arrow shot by Huang Zhong. The sharp arrow, with great force, penetrated his chest from his back into his body, and then pierced into the spine of the war horse under him, nailing him and his own war horse tightly together on the horse's back.

Deng Xian died on the spot. He was already seriously injured, but he couldn't suffer even a little toss, not to mention that Huang Zhong's arrow shot accurately, and it went straight through his heart. He was a dead man, and he died very quickly. But the mount under him was not so comfortable, and the long arrow that entered from his back was now weak, although it entered the body, it did not penetrate deeply, but only shallow and shallow half of the arrow. This was just a painful slap to it. However, because the arrow feather Huang Zhong used was a triangular arrow with a blood groove, the wound of the war horse that was hit by such a blow on his back was bleeding nonstop. It jumped up a little frantically, and galloped to trample several small soldiers under the horse's hooves, and finally dissipated its strength under the incessant blood, and helplessly fell down with the body of Deng Xian, who had been carrying it on his back but couldn't shake it offβ€”for a while, but it was checkmate, and the horse was also dead.

Leng Bud finally escaped, it was like a battlefield like purgatory for him. He looked around, but saw that there were only less than a hundred guards around him, and as for those banners, soldiers, and so on, they were all lost in the chaos. Nearly 10,000 troops were wiped out overnight, and such a miserable situation couldn't help but make him sad. However, this is not the time for him to really feel sad and grieving, although he is safe for the time being, it is clear that he is not completely out of danger. "Before they enter the camp, God knows when they will come after them?" Thinking so, Leng Bud discerned the direction, and rode his horse with the "loyal" guards who were still following him towards the location of Deng Xian's camp.

The battlefield of the ambush was not far from Deng Xianzhai. Leng Bao's previous run without distinguishing things was a little off, but it wasn't very biased. When they arrived at their destination, they faintly heard the faint sound of fighting on the battlefield behind them.

"It's dangerous!" The safety in front of him was in front of him, and the enemy's pursuers did not arrive, but Leng Bud let out a long breath and was a little relieved. He approached the camp, stared at the closed gate, and was about to shout, but suddenly heard a drum in the village, and the gate in his sight was pushed open in the creaking sound, only to see a young general dressed in gold and silver inlaid fish scale armor out of the horse, the blade in his hand was quite strangely bent long soldier pointed at him from afar, laughed loudly and said: "Leng Bao, where are you going?" Don't you know that we have already taken this stockade? ”

"What?" Leng Bao was shocked, he looked at it with wide eyes, but saw that the battle flag floating behind the general was: "Jiaozhou Pastoral Commander Sili Lieutenant - Li" Such a huge banner.

"You're Li Sheng?" Leng Bao was surprised, he didn't seem to have imagined that Deng Xian's camp had been seized, and the person who seized this camp would actually be Li Sheng himself. He had seen Li Sheng once, but only one side. Li Sheng, who was dressed in Confucian clothes, and he who was wearing armor had very different temperaments, and it was no wonder that Leng Bao couldn't recognize him at once.

"Exactly!" Li Sheng nodded, and shouted in a deep voice, "Leng Bao, if you don't get off your horse at this time, why will you stay?" ”

"Dismounted? I think it's you. Leng Bud smiled coldly, and rushed up with a gun. Seeing that Li Sheng was just a lonely person, there were no other generals around him, and his impression of Li Sheng was still on Li Sheng in Confucian clothes, thinking that his martial arts were not very high, so he took it for granted that he used the trick of capturing the thief and capturing the king first. In his opinion, as long as Li Sheng is caught, this battle can be regarded as his victory.

"Really?" Facing Leng Bud, Li Sheng smiled mockingly, and the waning moon in his hand waved up, fighting with Leng Bud. His martial arts were originally above Leng Bao, and now he is recuperating for a long time, although Leng Bud has the courage to fight for a while, how can he be his opponent. The two fought badly, and the spear in Leng Bao's hand was slashed by Li Sheng with a cross-cut from the waning moon, and it swung away far away. Li Sheng rushed forward in a few steps, and pulled the belt around Leng Bao's waist heavily between the fights, but he lifted his one hundred and eighty pound body, fell to the ground, and let his soldiers rush to tie up this Deng Xian.

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