Chapter Ninety-Three: The Fire Bull Appears
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the torches are bright. The mighty Yellow Turban Army, under the leadership of the two marshals Huang Long and Zuo Xiao, poured into the ghosts that were four or five miles long and twenty zhang wide.
Ghost sees sorrow, a canyon on the east side of Black Mountain, is a branch of Montenegro extends, after the ghost sees sorrow, there is a big road into the mountain, can go straight to the Black Mountain. This is also the reason why Huang Long dared to rebel against Zhang Jiao in front of Zhang Jiao's hundreds of thousands of troops.
The army meandered all the way, and from time to time small groups of hundreds of people and horses left the brigade, climbed from some mountain paths, climbed the canyon barrier as high as thirty or forty feet, and disappeared into nothingness.
"Brother, is this a very good place to bury the two thieves Zhang Xu and Chu Feiyan?" , Pointing to the cliffs on both sides, Huang Long's rampant laughter echoed in the mountain stream, echoing one after another, which couldn't help but make some timid people feel frightened.
Colonel Zuo also looked at it carefully, and saw that the avenue in the middle was sandwiched between the two walls, which was very dangerous. The mountain wall is dozens of feet high, but it is not without a path to climb, but it is difficult to walk.
Seeing such a terrain, and his own side had already laid an ambush, of course Colonel Zuo would not be stingy with his praise, what kind of clever calculations, strategizing, geniuses from the sky and the like were easy to come by, and Huang Long looked up to the sky and laughed wildly
"Wen Yuan, Gongming, the two of you immediately mobilize soldiers to carry boulders to block the mouth of the gorge, and at the same time order two hundred people to occupy the exits on both sides of the canyon!" , the exit to the west is not as wide as twenty zhang, and it is only about five or six zhang at most.
Hearing Tian Feng's words, Zhang Liao and Xu Huang were stunned. You blocked the valley mouth, how can we go in and kill the enemy?
As soon as they thought of this, the two glanced at each other, and saw Xu Huang nodding to Zhang Liao, that means, you are the master general, you say! Zhang Liao understood and was about to speak, but he didn't know that Tian Feng had already guessed something in his heart when he saw that the two did not respond.
"Hey! I didn't say that you should block them all, block most of them, and leave a valley mouth of one and a half feet! Our forces are limited, and the enemy army is too strong to be defeated! As he spoke, Tian Feng also pointed to the heads of the two generals, which means that you have to use your brain.
Only then did the two suddenly realize that they were busy taking their own orders. In the middle of the mountains, it is easy to find some stones. More than 1,000 people started together, that is, half an hour later, and most of the valley mouth was blocked.
"Boom! What the hell, who told you to block Taniguchi? When the rebel marshal, one of the leading troops, saw the scorching figure of Taniguchi, he immediately knew that it was not good, and hurriedly scolded him.
Looking at the rebels who were less than half a mile away from the valley mouth, Xu Huang, who was directing people to carry the big stones, immediately ordered: "Quick, the whole army is arrayed to block the valley mouth!" ”。
The more than 300 Yanmen iron horsemen who received the order immediately put down the big stone in their hands and quickly picked up the three-edged iron spear placed on the ground. Under Xu Huang's continuous urging, a column of five people firmly guarded the valley mouth with a length of about one zhang and five or six (about three and a half meters now).
"Prepare to throw a gun!" Seeing the rebels with yellow scarves on their heads and torches getting closer and closer, Xu Huang shouted. The Han army in the rear immediately made a sound of drawing guns, and in an instant, hundreds of throwing guns immediately came out of the pouches, and the tips of the guns pointed obliquely at the sky, exuding a terrifying cold glow under the illumination of the torches.
Thirty paces away, in a flash. The hideous faces of the rebels and the rudimentary weapons are already clearly visible.
"Two columns in a group, throw guns!!" With Xu Huang's order, the ten Han soldiers in the forefront immediately struggled to shoot the throwing guns in their hands into the sky, and regardless of whether they could shoot or not, they once again raised the three-edged iron spears and prepared to take over the melee battle.
"Charge!!" The continuous rain of guns fell all over the sky, and suddenly killed and wounded more than 100 rebels who were crowded into a group. But the casualties are not the deadliest, the deadliest is the blow to the morale of the army caused by the rain of gunfire.
Imagine being in such an environment. On both sides is a cliff as high as twenty or thirty zhang, the widest part is only ten zhang away, there are people in front and back, left and right, there is almost no room to dodge, the sharp throwing gun under the mask, and there are also the fallen corpses of comrades-in-arms, and the wailing of the brothers who have not died in battle after being shot, will you be afraid?
Maybe once or twice you can't be afraid, but what if it's like rain, endlessly? I believe that in the face of a great sense of powerlessness, most people will be scared and will despair. A large part of the rebels in front of them have this mentality, and most of them are rebel soldiers facing the exit of the canyon.
"Charge!! Behind is Zhang Jiao's pursuers, and we have no way out. If you don't want to die, rush forward for me, and those who dare to retreat will be killed! The little marshal shouted loudly, leading the five hundred battle supervisors to open the formation, and stubbornly guarded the rear of the front army, blocking the retreat of the front army.
At the urging of this man, the rebel soldiers at the front slammed into the Han army's guns.
"One, two; The commander of the first team shouted loudly, and with this shout, the other four soldiers would raise their guns in unison and stab the rebels in front of them to death, sometimes even stabbing several people with one shot like a gourd piercing a sugar gourd. Then, they drew their guns in unison, and then stabbed them again, and the cycle was repeated, and in not long time, more than 200 rebel soldiers fell at the mouth of the valley five or six feet, and the corpses were piled up, and they were more than five feet high.
In such a situation where they were almost sent to death, the timid rebel soldiers began to retreat, but more rebel soldiers behind them were forced to charge forward by the bright swords and guns of the warlords.
As soon as they retreated and advanced, the formation of the rebels was a little chaotic, and many emaciated rebel soldiers were squeezed to the ground by the surging crowd, and then they were trampled into pulp by countless big feet.
For a while, among the entire rebel army, there was a cry and howl, like a wild ghost crying at night, and it looked particularly terrible on this dark and windy night.
"Report, two marshals, Taniguchi is blocked by some people, and Zhou Shuai is directing the men and horses to charge", a scout came quickly and knelt at the feet of Huang Long and Colonel Zuo.
"Report, the two marshals, Zhang Xu and Chu Feiyan led the cavalry into the rear of our army, and the rear army could not reach it, and it has begun to disperse!" As another scout galloped in, the ground began to tremble, a tremor characteristic of a massive cavalry charge, both of whom were battle-hardened generals who could not understand anything.
When Huang Long and Zuo Colonel heard these two urgent reports, they immediately felt as if the sky had collapsed. I heard Huang Long mutter, "How can this be? How so? ”。
But Colonel Zuo didn't care about this, the two were very close, Colonel Zuo grabbed Huanglong's armor, his face was hideous, and he roared hysterically: "It's all you, it's all you who killed Lao Tzu in a desperate situation!" I'm going to kill you!! ”。
"Slowly, big handsome, let's quickly send someone to storm the valley mouth, go out first!" A confidant of Colonel Zuo hurriedly grabbed Colonel Zuo's left hand holding a sword and said in a loud voice.
When Huang Long, whose life was threatened, heard this, he immediately grabbed this life-saving straw and hurriedly said, "Brother, brother! He's right, let's quickly send someone to storm the valley, and then send someone to block the chasing soldiers in the rear, with the two of us with an army of 50,000, we still have the strength to fight! ”。
Now that the matter has come to this, what can Colonel Zuo do? I had to nod dejectedly, and shouted angrily: "In this case, I will lead people to charge in front, and you will lead people to break behind!" ”。
Huang Long asked all the eighteenth-generation women of the Zuo School's family in his heart, and he felt better in his heart. There is no way, the situation is stronger than people, in this case, if you can't work together, then there is only a dead end.
"Good! Just follow my brother! Huang Long gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and said with a smile.
At that moment, the two divided their soldiers and horses into two. Colonel Zuo led 20,000 men to reinforce the former army Gukou, and Huanglong led 20,000 people from his headquarters to line up on the spot to block the pursuing soldiers.
Among the Han army, Tian Feng was stationed under his own banner, flanked by more than 100 elite cavalry guards, his expression was quite leisurely, where was the sense of urgency that a big war was imminent.
"Give Zhang Liao an order, light the oxtail, and chase and kill the whole army!" , Looking at the meteor rocket shot from the top of the valley, Tian Feng said calmly.
"Woo woo woo" A low and melodious horn sounded on Tian Feng's side, which was the sound of the horn of the Yanmen Iron Cavalry Charge. However, at this moment, it represents Tian Feng's order.
Tian Feng's position was not far from the army led by Zhang Liao. The sound of the trumpet was like a plague, and it instantly spread throughout the valley.
"Ignition!!" , Zhang Liao gave an order, and six hundred ploughing cattle were instantly ignited with oxtails.
These fire oxen are all ordinary farming cattle, where can they withstand this severe pain, they immediately run forward like crazy, and the speed is not much better than the war horse of the Yanmen Iron Horse galloping at full strength.
As early as when the sound of the horn came, Xu Huang led people to retreat to the side, although the formation was a little chaotic, and many rebels took advantage of the situation to cross the valley and escape.
However, due to the limited terrain, most of the rebels could only step on the corpses of their companions under the valley mouth and slowly rush out to kill, which is why Xu Huang was able to block tens of thousands of rebels with only 300 people.
"Moo-moo", six hundred crazy fire oxen rushed over, the powerful impact, and the two simple knives tied to the horns of the ox became a sharp weapon to harvest the lives of the rebels.
"Ah!! Hell! I don't know who it was, but I suddenly saw the fire ox rushing towards me, and shouted frantically in my heart in fright. One spread ten, ten spread hundreds, this kind of remarks instantly swept through most of the front army, making the morale of the rebels, who were already panicked, plummet.
"Quick, all the troops are on board!" Seeing the crazy fire bull sweeping by, hitting hundreds of rebel soldiers who rushed out of the valley with broken bones and tendons, and when the formation was in chaos, Xu Huang immediately gave an order.
"Charge !!" , Zhang Liao gave an order, and the eight hundred Yanmen iron horsemen who had already formed a sharp array behind him all raised their spears to the sky in unison and pointed obliquely.
"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!! Kill the thief!! ”
The sound of horses' hooves like thunder suddenly rose at the mouth of the valley of the Ghost Sorrow Canyon. More than 1,000 Yanmen iron horsemen, under the leadership of the main general Zhang Liao and the deputy general Xu Huang, launched an indomitable iron-blooded charge. (To be continued)
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