Chapter 43: The Battle of Gwangjong (Part II)
Lu Zhi led the officers and soldiers to chase after the Yellow Turban Army, his hunch was right, there was indeed no ambush on the road, and it may have been at the beginning, but after several attempts, the Han army did not chase it out and then withdrew, it is unknown. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info However, because the Yellow Turban soldiers did not expect the Han army to take the initiative to attack, they were quickly caught up by Lu Zhi, rushed and killed, and fled in rout, and the Yellow Turban Army fled all the way to the gate of Guangzong, and tore their throats to let the guards on the city tower quickly open the door.
The city guards saw that the Han army behind them was chasing fiercely, and they were afraid that as soon as they opened the city gate, they would also put the Han army into the city, so they panicked for a moment and did not know what to do, so they quickly sounded the alarm bell, and at the same time sent people to wake up Zhang Jiao and others, who were already asleep, to prevent the Han army from attacking the city.
As for the Yellow Turban Army under the city walls, they don't care so much.
The guards on the city wall hesitated, and the Han army came in a blink of an eye, and now they couldn't open the city gate at all, just now it was only possible to be attacked by the Han army, and now opening the door is no different from throwing in the enemy.
The Yellow Turban Army that was caught up under the city wall was blocked in front of the city gate, crying dad and shouting mother's knocking on the city gate, the first ring knife in the hand of the Han army waved mechanically, the blood bloomed, the shouting and killing sound and the screams were mixed together, the knife in hand fell is a shout, the Yellow Turban Army on the periphery is being slaughtered, and the Yellow Turban soldiers near the city gate are still beating the city gate one by one.
The shouts and the sound of banging on the door were together, rushing into the eardrums of the defenders of the city and knocking on their hearts, the officers and soldiers and the Yellow Turban Army were too close, and the Yellow Turban Army defending the city did not have the courage to let the archers release their arrows and shoot to death those robes that might be their fellow villagers under the city tower, let alone open the city gate to let them and the Han army in.
Therefore, they could only watch as the people who came to this city with them under the city tower were slaughtered by the Han army.
Soon after, the killing sound subsided, and when Zhang Jiao and the others rushed to the city tower, they happened to see Lu Zhi stabbing the gun into the chest of the last Yellow Turban soldier.
Zhang Jiao hurriedly shouted: "Release the arrow!" β
In fact, there is no need to wait for the horns to open the mouth, the archers on the city wall have already been unable to bear it, since Lu Zhi led the Han army to chase the Yellow Turban soldiers to the city, these archers on the city tower have drawn their bows to the Han army under the city, but they have exhausted all their strength and cannot aim at any Han army in the chaotic battlefield without shooting at the friendly troops under the city, so the bowstrings in their hands have been full, but they have never shot any arrows.
What is even more sad is that they have been pulling the bowstring for nearly a stick of incense, and some of them have been strangled by the bowstring for their right hand, and the blood has flowed down from the bowstring and dripping to the ground, and there is a piercing pain in the right hand, but the archer's eyes are motionless and staring at the friendly soldiers who have been killed one by one in the city, and the strength of the right hand is getting stronger and stronger, and the blood is flowing more and more.
"......
Arrows flew towards the Han army under the city wall, and some archers cut off a small piece of flesh from the bowstring the moment they let go of the bowstring because their fingers were too much into the bowstring.
Lu Zhi brushed aside a few bows and arrows that flew towards him, raised the steel spear in his hand and pointed at the city tower from afar.
"Zhang Jiao, don't do such childlike nonsense again, it's a sneak attack and a tired soldier, don't you have the belief that you must win? Tomorrow we will set up a position, and our two armies will have a good fight. β
After speaking, Lu Zhi didn't wait for the next round of arrows to be fired, and led the army back to the camp tent.
Zhang Jiao was stunned for a moment on the city tower when he heard this, and said to the people around him with remorse: "You shouldn't play a strange soldier with such an old commander who has fought all his life!" β
In the early morning of the next day, the two armies were safe, Zhang Jiao couldn't think of a countermeasure to attack Lu Zhi, and Lu Zhi did not attack the city, but the troops of the Yellow Turban Army were blocked in Guangzong City and could not move forward.
That morning, several war reports came into Zhang Jiao's bedroom, and Zhang Jiao got up to read it, his brows tightened, and his face was like gold paper.
It's messed up, the world is completely messed up.
Although the Yellow Turban Army led by the major canal marshals in Yangzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yanzhou and other places won victory at the beginning of the uprising, captured one piece of land and cities after another, and also won the support of all the people by burning the rich and opening granaries to relieve the people. Other wealthy families also stopped transporting grain to sell in the Yellow Turban's sphere of influence, and over time, the grain ran out, and the evil consequences of the rule of the lack of sufficiently high-quality generals began to be revealed.
Isn't there no food? The people have! Didn't we send it to them in the beginning? They also call us heroes, and now the heroes have nothing to eat, and they are not allowed to return all the food in their hands, anyway, there are a lot of people, and there are very few yellow turban soldiers, and it is enough for each person to give a little, and someone will not give it? Kill.
The looted things are always spent faster, some are wasted, some of the Qu Shuai who have never seen the rich life began to pursue extravagant enjoyment, with power in their hands and soldiers behind them, what do they want to make their despicable side of human nature vividly displayed, looting villages, ** women, indiscriminately killing civilians, one after another tragic incidents happened one after another.
No one is organizing? Yes.
The Yingchuan Yellow Turbans led by Bocai and Peng Tuo sent a message to the Yellow Turban soldiers in various places, blaming the Qu Shuai for forgetting the original intention of the uprising, and ordering them to quickly stop doing evil and ask the Tiangong General for their guilt, and Zhang Mancheng, Bu Ji and others responded together.
But Qu Shuai, who received the documents, may come back to his senses and stop doing things that are too hurtful, but what about the sergeants under him? Once the evil side is aroused, how can they be restored? If you don't have food, you can only take it from the people, and if you want to take it, you have to send troops into the village, and when you enter the village, you can no longer control those Yellow Turban Army, and Qu Shuai can't do the trick of separation, so many teams he can only control one place at a time, and the others can only be the same, burning, killing and looting are all evil.
Qu Shuai, who calmed down, finally knew that he had made a big mistake, and then he remembered Zhang Jiao again, and hurriedly repaired the book and sent it to Zhang Jiao.
But what can Zhang Jiao do? He himself was only blocked by Lu Zhi in Guangzong, and he couldn't move forward. After reading the letter, Zhang Jiao sat down on the bed all of a sudden, he could already imagine what the next world would look like, in order to create a perfect world, the real Yellow Turban Army was left with only himself, Zhang Mancheng, and Bo Cai, the three teams who were struggling to kill Si Li, and those wearing yellow turbans in the rest of the states were no longer the Yellow Turban Army, they were the demons in this world, dragging the already dilapidated world to hell, but the person who created these demons was himself, the ridiculous great sage and good teacher, Zhang Jiao.
"My sin is hard to forge!"
Zhang Jiao looked up to the sky and vomited a mouthful of blood, fainted and fell to the ground.
Zhang Jiao, who woke up surrounded by everyone, shouted like crazy, ordering Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to quickly order troops to attack Lu Zhi.
Because Zhang Jiao thought of the only way to save the world, he attacked Luoyang as quickly as possible, killed Emperor Ling and reorganized the rivers and mountains, at that time, the Yellow Turban generals had their own official positions, and the Yellow Turban soldiers under him were all turned into officers and soldiers, and the chaotic order was reset, and now the Yellow Turban soldiers who are like devils will no longer cause chaos.
Therefore, it was necessary to fight a decisive battle with Lu Zhi, and it was necessary to fight quickly, and it could not be delayed like this any longer, Zhang Jiao led the defenders of Guangzong and rushed to Lu Zhi's military camp.
As everyone knows, Lu Zhi is waiting for Zhang Jiao to go out of the city, the trap is up, the ambush is out, the cavalry is broken, the infantry is approaching, and the strange soldiers who have already surrounded the rear are attacking back and forth, but how can Zhang Jiao, who has just led the troops, be Lu Zhi's opponent.
Zhang Jiao hid in a secluded corner of the battle in embarrassment, looked at Lu Zhi and others who were wantonly rushing to kill in the battle, and looked at Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang, two younger brothers who were trapped in the battle and could not get out, gritted his teeth fiercely, cut his palm with the sword in his hand, and muttered a mantra in his mouth.
"Let's go! The whole army retreats! Zhang Jiao knew that the spell could not last long, so he immediately shouted, and then because of the excessive life element consumed by casting the spell, he spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell, and was rescued by the Yellow Turban Warrior.
Zhang Bao saw Zhang Jiaoma hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat, Zhang Liang was unwilling, Zhang Gong shot an arrow at Lu Zhi's chest, to say that Zhang Liang's current martial arts can almost enter the ranks of the world's first-class generals, his own foundation is good, plus he has studied the Taiping Essentials Technique, and his martial arts have advanced by leaps and bounds, and he has shot officers and soldiers a hundred steps away, and the arrows and arrows have passed through the throat.
Between the arrows shot by Zhang Liang with anger flew towards Lu Zhi, the arrows flew over the battlefield, penetrated the bodies of countless people, and still shot at Lu Zhi unabated, Lu Zhi was in Zhang Jiao's illusion at this time, and it was pitch black in front of him that he couldn't see how the battle situation was, and the arrows shot by Zhang Liang shot at Lu Zhi's chest, and Lu Zhi couldn't see it at all.
But the vigilance on the battlefield for many years made his heart skip a beat, and he subconsciously jumped to the right, and there was a sharp pain in his left shoulder, and he fainted, and the arrow actually continued to move forward after penetrating countless people and shooting at Lu Zhi, penetrating into the ground without a trace.
When Lu Zhi woke up, he was already in Guangzong City, and when Zhang Jiao's illusion disappeared, the Yellow Turban Army had already fled to a distance, and it was difficult to chase after him, so he had to send scouts to follow, and then the captain of the Beiyuan Army saw that Lu Zhi was unconscious, so he ordered to recover Guangzong City and find a doctor to bandage Lu Zhi's wounds.
"What kind of injury do I have?" Lu Zhi asked the doctor.
The doctor replied, "The arrow went through the shoulder." β
Lu Zhi sighed: "It's really old, such a small injury even has to pass out once." β
After that, he got up and asked the council hall and left, the doctor is also an old man, he understands his feelings, so he didn't stop him, and walked with Lu Zhi silently.
I heard the commotion in the council hall from a distance, and when Lu Zhi entered the council hall, the surroundings were suddenly quiet and silent.
"Master Lu, why are you here!"
The captain of the Northern Military Academy strode up to support Lu Zhi, and shouted at the doctor: "You quack, you don't take good care of Lu Shi, come here!" β
"Alas!" Lu Zhi waved his hand to stop the captain of the Northern Military Academy, "Don't get in the way, I'm already here anyway, tell me about the battle situation." β
"Yes." The captain of the Northern Military Academy arched his hand, "The scout came to report, saying that Zhang Jiao is now camped thirty miles north of Guangzong, and sent Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to the south. β
"Well," Lu Zhi nodded, "Zhang Jiao has no hope of winning, and he wants to attack Sili as soon as possible, so he asked Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang to support Yingchuan, and he himself stayed to contain us and others." β
Lu Zhi thought for a while and said, "It's okay, we can just spend it with them, and we will win the battle for a long time." β
The captain of the Northern Military Academy asked: "Master Lu, then do we need to send troops to support Yingchuan?" β
"It's hard to say, Zhang Jiao studies demon arts, and he must have the certainty of leaving him alone, and the division of troops ...... at this time" Lu Zhi thought for a while, "Let me think about it again." β
"Report~~~"
"Master Lu, there are five hundred people outside the city wearing Youzhou military uniforms, and the leader said that he was your protΓ©gΓ© and came to defect."
Lu Zhi was overjoyed when he heard it: "God bless the big man, please." β
Suddenly, three people came in from outside the conference hall, the leader had two ears and shoulders, his hands were over his knees, his face was like a crown of jade, his lips were greased, and the two behind him walked side by side, one of them had a face like a heavy jujube, Danfeng eyes, lying silkworm eyebrows, and the other person had a leopard's head and ringed eyes, and a swallow jaw and tiger whiskers, but it was not Liu Bei and the three who came from Qingzhou.
Liu Bei first saluted and said, "Meet Master Lu, student Liu Bei came to help the teacher break the thief." β
Then he saw the bandage on Lu Zhi's left shoulder and was shocked: "Why is the teacher injured!" β
Lu Zhi looked at Liu Bei's age, speculated that it should have been a student many years ago, and then deduced where he was according to the years, and suddenly remembered that it was when he resigned from Jiujiang Taishou to recuperate, and suddenly remembered this Liu Bei, who didn't like to talk but was quite capable of causing trouble, and he didn't go over the roof of his house with Gongsun Zhan.
But the current situation is tense and there is no time to recall the old feelings, Lu Zhi said to Liu Bei: "The injury is not in the way. Xuande, I refuse to be a thief here, and the thief brothers Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao have gone to Yingchuan today to confront Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun. You lead the people of the headquarters, and I will help you with another 1,000 officers and troops to go to Yingchuan to help. β
Xuande received the order and led the army to Yingchuan in the starry night.