Chapter Forty-Nine: The Decisive Battle of the Little Overlord (Part II)
When the Junzi army all rushed out of the north gate of Guangling, the battle on the battlefield of the west gate of Guangling had entered the white heat, seeing the West Gate drawbridge caught fire and was burned, and the second-rate army of Xuzhou who was cut off from the way back was suddenly panicked, many people who were greedy for life and afraid of death rushed to break away from the team in order to survive, and fled to the suspension bridge that had not been completely burned to cross the river, Sun Cejun, who was experienced in the battlefield, took the opportunity to rush and slash, wantonly slaughtering these cowards who took the initiative to break away from the protection of their companions, the casualties of the Xuzhou army increased sharply, and the pressure on Zhang Xuan and Xu Sheng, the two generals who led the team, also increased greatly.
Fortunately, although the 3,000 Xuzhou troops out of the city are mostly newly reorganized Zhenrong surrendered troops, there are also more than 600 people under Zhang Xuan's command who are Xuzhou veterans brought to Guangling by Zhang Xuan, and their combat effectiveness is barely guaranteed, and the cohesion is relatively strong, and the infantry of the 300 Junzi Army under Xu Sheng is also a little cohesive and combative, and the sudden appearance of the bamboo spear array is not something that Sun Cejun can break through immediately, so no matter how Sun Cejun rushes and kills, it is difficult to quickly disperse this group of trapped Xuzhou troops, and they can only attack and kill around this team, hand-to-hand combat.
In close combat, the Xuzhou army is certainly not the opponent of Sun Cejun, and the casualties are far greater than Sun Cejun's, basically three or four people or even more must die in order to consume a Sun Cejun soldier, so although Zhang Xuan and Xu Sheng's team cannot be dispersed in a short period of time, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu and others are not in a hurry, but patiently command the army to besiege, like peeling an onion, eating the Xuzhou army layer by layer. At the same time, it was at this time that Zhou Yu discovered a strange situation, that is, the trapped Xuzhou army still moved towards the West Gate little by little when they saw the destruction of the West Gate Suspension Bridge, and did not turn to the north or south.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Yu hurriedly reminded Sun Ce: "Bo Fu, have you noticed?" The trapped Xuzhou army is still opening the way with that strange bamboo spear array, retreating little by little in the direction of the West Gate Suspension Bridge, the suspension bridge has been burned down by us, is there any fraud in this? β
"I noticed it too." Sun Ce frowned, and nervously analyzed: "What is Tao Ying'er doing?" Could it be that he has a flying bridge in Ximen City to answer him, and he can receive the defeated army into the city at any time? Or is there something else going on? β
"No matter what the hell Tao Ying'er does, we can't let him get his wish!" Zhou Yu said categorically: "We should strengthen the blocking force, send the long shield and the archers to the front of Tao Ying Xiao'er's bamboo spear array, and suppress his bamboo spear array!" β
Able to disgust Deputy Director Tao's good idea, of course Sun Ce will not listen, the herald ran around, Sun Ce's army in the archers and long shieldmen quickly detoured to the east, in the Xuzhou army bamboo spear array in front of the formation to intercept, the long shield hand arrived at the bamboo spear, bow and arrow shot the bamboo spearman, but for the convenience of the charge, the number of long shields in Sun Ce's army team was obviously not enough, Sun Ce had to urgently transfer three hundred long shield men from the camp to reinforce, fortunately, the camp was not far from here, three hundred long shield men were quickly transferred, and they were quickly put into the battlefield to join the blockade of the bamboo spear array.
The long shield men and archers quickly entered the battlefield, but Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, who encountered the Macedonian phalanx for the first time, made a big mistake this time, that is, the long shield men and archers they sent to the front of the bamboo spear array once again formed a hammer anvil tactic for the bamboo spear array commanded by Xu Sheng, and this time it was Xu Sheng's bamboo spear array as the hammer, and the defending archers on the Guangling city wall were the anvils. Shot Sun Cejun's shield men and archers from behind, so Sun Cejun's shield men and archers not only failed to stop the bamboo spear formation from moving forward, but on the contrary, increased Sun Cejun's senseless casualties.
"Soldiers, you're going to the moat soon! Hard, rush! Rush to the edge of the moat, and we'll be alive! Xu Sheng yelled in the bamboo spear array to boost morale, Xu Sheng personally carefully selected the bamboo spearmen were also very competitive, shouting slogans against the rain of arrows just desperately forward, the first row of spearmen fell arrows, the second row of the immediately made up, and then the third row filled the gap left by the soldiers in the second row, the front and rear of the soldiers continued to advance, the Sun Cejun interception team was pressed back, Zhang Xuan led the Xuzhou regular army desperately to protect the two wings and rear of the bamboo spear array, not to give the enemy a chance to approach, little by little towards the moat.
There are also archers on the Guangling city wall, who are also desperately pulling their bows and releasing arrows, shooting the enemy's interception army, and helping the friendly troops outside the city to break through the blockade as soon as possible and get close to the relatively safe moat.
Under the full force of the killing, the enemy Sun Cejun finally couldn't stop the charge of the Xuzhou army, and fled to the left and right, and the bamboo spearmen under Xu Sheng's command were thunderous with joy, while trying their best to assassinate the soldiers of Sun Cejun who refused to escape, while desperately charging forward, and finally rushed to the drawbridge that had been burned after a pillar of incense, and the infantry led by Zhang Xuan also quickly stepped forward, converged with Xu Sheng's team, and gradually extended to both sides of the river. Sun Cejun continued to rush forward and kill, slashing and killing Xu Sheng and Zhang Xuan's teams who were fighting on their backs, and the battle was still so fierce that people couldn't breathe.
Seeing such a situation, Sun Ce did not jump like thunder or scold, but instead showed a sneer at the corner of his mouth, and said secretly: "Tao Ying Xiaoer, I want to see, what other tricks can you play?" If you ambush the soldiers, you are looking for death, release the flying bridge to meet the defeated soldiers and cross the river, and I will take the opportunity to kill into Guangling City! I don't believe it, you can still set another fire in the urn city and burn my siege team and your elite to death? β
"Boom! Rumble! β
Suddenly a strange voice sounded for Tao Ying to tell Sun Ce his true intentions, in the strange loud noise, five fireballs suddenly flew up on the city wall of Xuzhou, whistling and flying three or four hundred steps away, smashed into the battlefield under the night and scattered, turning several Sun Cejun soldiers into fire men, and also ignited five piles of sky-high fires, revealing the true location of Sun Cejun's team at once! At the same time, Sun Ce, who was dying, jumped up from the four-wheeled car and exclaimed, "What is that?" How can you fly that far? β
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At the same time that Sun Ce exclaimed, the more than 700 gentlemen's army led by Tao Ying also took advantage of the cover of night to outflank the rear of Sun Ce's army camp in a roundabout way, and quietly touched the fence of the rear camp, and the main force of Sun Ce's army had already been put into the Ximen battlefield, and there were less than 1,500 troops left in the battalion, and they were all second- and third-rate auxiliary armies. This also greatly facilitated the assault operations of the Junzi Army.
In such a situation, Tao Ying of course will not live up to the deep affection of the soldiers of Sun Cejun's garrison, first sniped the nearby sentry with a bow and arrow, and quickly filled the trench with a shovel brought with him, and filled the trench of about ten zhang, and the soldiers of the Junzi Army quickly tied a dozen hemp ropes on the fence, urged the war horse-drawn rope, and uprooted a section of the wooden fence, and finally Tao Yingcai pulled out his knife and waved, and more than 700 Junzi soldiers shot out torches together, shouting and killing into Sun Cejun's camp!
It was also at this time that Sun Cejun, the general of Sun Cejun, who stayed in the camp, woke up like a dream and hurriedly organized the army to come over to meet the battle, but when Hengjie led the army to collide with the Junzi Army, in addition to being extremely shocked to find that the team that attacked the camp was the real Junzi Army, he was even more surprised to find that the soldiers of the Junzi Army, who had been breaking the enemy with arrows a few days ago, were all replaced with spears this time. Hengjie didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly raised his gun and shouted, "Up!" Kill all these hypocrites! β
"Kill ......." The shouting of the Heng Rank team had just sounded, and it immediately stopped abruptly, because the top of the spear of the Gentleman Army actually spewed out flames more than a foot long, and the Heng soldiers who had never seen such a weapon screamed one by one, and the Heng Rank screamed in despair, "What is that?" A fire-breathing gun?! β
"Zi said: Zi said! Don't get tired of eating, don't get tired of fine! Choking on food, fish hungry and meat ruined, don't eat! Lustful, don't eat! If you don't eat, you don't eat! From time to time, don't eat! If you don't cut it right, you won't eat itββ! β
The flying musket that led the millennium was in hand, and the gentleman's army simply shouted the slogan of launching a charge this time, and the Chen Ning heavy cavalry team that took the lead directly rode their horses and charged, first burning the enemy's face door with flames, and then stabbing the enemy with a sharp spear head, countless Sun Cejun's unlucky ghosts were burned by the flames that sprayed high-heat iron filings, and they were suddenly blinded, and when they screamed and covered their eyes with their hands, the sharp spear head had been stabbed again, and they were pierced by the gun with their hands and face, and they were seriously injured if they did not die. Chen Ning, who specialized in following Tao Ying's ass to fight viciously, even rode his horse and spear straight to Hengjie, shouting loudly, "Dog thief!" Come on! "Before the gun arrived, the flames had already sprayed into the Heng Tier Door first.
"How do you fight this?" The strange flames rushed to his face, and Hengjie was completely dumbfounded, subconsciously raised the gun to set up the flames, but of course set up an air, the flames passed through the gun, in the middle of the Hengjie face door, the high heat iron sand entered the eyes, Hengjie suddenly screamed like a pig blind, eyebrows, beard and hair were on fire together, Chen Ning stabbed the gun again, and a shot stabbed Hengjie in the throat, Hengjie, who had retrieved Sun Jian's body and made great contributions to the old Sun family, also turned over and fell off the horse with a head full of fire and smoke, and was killed on the spot.
As soon as Hengjie died, the soldiers of Sun Cejun, who had been frightened by the flying muskets, suddenly scattered, and the Junzi Army took the opportunity to kill people everywhere and set fires, saw the tents and burned the tents, saw the cars and cars, and at the same time captured the soldiers of Sun Cejun and tortured the granary, and the ordinary soldiers of Sun Cejun were not as loyal to Sun Ce as Fu Ying, and the Junzi Army captured two prisoners, and the two captives rushed to express their willingness to surrender, acting as a leading party for the Junzi Army, and leading the Junzi Army all the way to the grain and grass hidden by Sun Ce in the right camp. The soldiers of Sun Cejun, who had already poured out of the main force, scattered and fled, and no one dared to come up to stop them.
Killing the right camp of Sun Cejun's army, Cheng Pu's eldest son Cheng Zhi, who guarded the grain and grass, led the army to block desperately, and liked to fight more and less of the gentleman's army's old skills, and concentrated more than a dozen flying muskets to burn Cheng Zhi, Cheng Zhi could not hide from the east and the west, and was soon burned in the eyes, and then was stabbed to death by the gentleman's army, and the soldiers he led also fled timidly, and the gentleman's army commander drove straight in, directly into the granary of Sun Cejun's army, wantonly set fire to the grain, Sun Cejun's granary also quickly ignited a sky-high fire, thick smoke soared to the sky, spectacular.
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At the same time, the main force of Sun Cejun, who had been lured to the side of the moat by Zhang Xuan and Xu Sheng, also began to taste the power of the Xiangyang cannon, only to see that the huge stone bullets weighing more than 150 catties continued to fall from the sky and smashed into Sun Cejun's ranks. Once it hits Sun Cejun's soldiers, it will turn whoever hits him into a burning man, and let the miserable screams of that unlucky guy chase after Pavarotti.
In fact, the firing speed of the Xiangyang cannon is not fast, it takes about five or six minutes to fire a cannon, and the number is only five, which is a drop in the bucket in front of the more than 4,000 Sun Cejun soldiers, and it does not play much role at all, and the biggest effect is actually a psychological threat, so that Sun Cejun's soldiers dare not fight with confidence. But this is enough, the first time I saw a trebuchet that could hit such a heavy stone so far, even a famous general like Lu Wenhuan after a thousand years was at a loss, and his soul was broken, not to mention these Sun Cejun soldiers who had never even seen an ordinary trebuchet, so although the frequency of the Xiangyang cannon was not enough, and the number was pitiful, Sun Cejun's up and down was still in chaos, screaming and running in all directions, Zhang Xuan and Xu Sheng and others would take the opportunity to organize the team, rescue the wounded soldiers, and wait for the battlefield turnaround in Tao Ying's order.
"Here we go again! Run! β
In the screams of the soldiers, another huge stone projectile fell more than 100 steps in front of Sun Ce's banner array, although only one Sun Cejun's unlucky ghost was killed, but it caused dozens of Sun Cejun soldiers to run around with their heads, and several Sun Cejun soldiers simply threw down their flags and weapons to flee for their lives. Seeing this scene, Sun Ce, who had already roughly figured out the number of Xiangyang cannons on the Guangling City Wall, was of course so angry that he stood up and shouted, "Pass the order, organize the team, and if there is any fuss and fuss, flee everywhere, immediately behead!" The enemy doesn't have many slinging weapons, so don't be afraid! As long as the offensive continues, victory will be ours! β
"Major General! Major General is not good! It seemed that he was deliberately against Sun Ce, and another group of Sun Ce's soldiers suddenly screamed for no reason, Sun Ce was even more furious, and was about to draw his sword to personally supervise the battle, but the next words of those soldiers made Sun Ce's courage crack, "Young General, look at our big battalion!" It's on fire! Our camp is on fire! β
"My camp is on fire?" When he turned back quickly with a pale face, Sun Ce suddenly saw that there were indeed fires in his big camp, especially the right camp where grain and grass were stored, it was even more blazing, and the smoke was billowing out!
"Hit the trick again!" This thought just flashed in his heart, Sun Ce, who was finally pulled back from the death line by the military doctor, shook his body, and collapsed softly again, when Zhou Yu and others quickly stepped forward to hold Sun Ce, there were fast horses in the camp rushing to report the news, kneeling in front of Sun Ce, and roaring in despair: "Young General!" We've been tricked! Tao Yingxiaoer took the opportunity of the main force of our army to leave the camp and personally led the real gentleman's army into the camp of our army! Burned our army grain depot! Our grain, grass and baggage are on fire! β
"What about Heng and Cheng Zhi? Why didn't they stop Tao Yingxiao'er?! Sun Ce struggled and yelled frantically, "Hengjie and Cheng Zhi, why can't they stop Tao Ying'er for even a moment?" I'm going to cut them with a thousand knives and put them to death!" β
"General Heng and General Cheng were both killed!" The herald cried, "Tao Yingxiao used a strange spear that breathes fire, and General Heng and General Cheng were caught off guard, and they were burned in the eyes by the flames of the strange spear, and they were killed together when they lost their sight!" As soon as they died, our remaining ranks in the camp were in disarray! It's all collapsed! β
"Tao - Ying - Small - Childrenββ!" Roaring out this sentence word by word, another mouthful of blood spurted out of the mouth of the poor Jiangdong little overlord Sun Ce, the arrow wound on his leg collapsed again, and the person fainted again.
"Bo Fu! Bo Fu! Zhou Yu shook Sun Ce's shouting voice with a crying sound, and in his beautiful eyes, he couldn't help but shed tears. Now in the situation of Sun Cejun, Zhou Yu is no matter how resourceful and resourceful he is, there is no way to do it, Shouchun Yuan Shu has fallen into a discordant plan, and has sent 30,000 troops to arrest Sun Ce, and is killing this side at night, Guangling is a city with high moats and deep moats, and it is urgent to get down, and now the military food must have been poisoned, there is no food, no help, no foothold, and even Sun Ce himself was seriously injured, what to do next, that is, Zhou Yu doesn't know what to do?
With the crazy arson of the Junzi army, the fire in Sun Ce's camp became more and more vigorous, and there were more and more fires, and the chain reaction that followed, of course, was that Sun Cejun's whole army was in a panic, and the army was in a panic, including the experienced Cheng Pu and Huang Gai, who were forced to let go of the Xuzhou army that had been trapped by the moat, and led the army back to Sun Ce's side, asking Sun Ce's next order. And Sun Ce had fainted and fell into a coma, Zhou Yu saw that the army's heart was in chaos and could no longer fight, and he could only use a dead horse as a live horse to heal, so Yue Yu ordered the whole army to retreat and withdraw to the camp to try his best to rescue the camp and grain and grass.
As soon as the withdrawal order was given, Sun Cejun, who was frustrated, suddenly panicked like a lost dog, hurried like a frightened bird, and fled to the camp with a crawl, trampling on each other, and there were many dead. After Zhang Ji repeatedly confirmed that Tao Ying had succeeded in sneaking up on the enemy camp in the city, he decisively opened the city gate, released the emergency flybridge vehicle that had been prepared, and built the bridge with the help of Xu Sheng and Zhang Xuan's team, and then Zhang Zhen left Lu Su to defend the city, personally led the elite of Xuzhou to attack, and joined forces with Xu Sheng and Zhang Xuan to hunt down Sun Ce's army.
Suddenly, the victory and defeat changed hands, from the pursuer to the unlucky person who was hunted down, the situation of Sun Jian's old department under Cheng Pu and Huang Gai was slightly better, and he could barely maintain defeat without chaos, but the majority of the Yuan Shujun soldiers were not good, one by one they rushed to hug their heads and run away, dragging the flag and running for their lives, and the sound of crying father and mother was endless. On the battlefield of cold weapons, the most terrible thing is definitely not the enemy's pursuers, but their own unorganized defeated soldiers, the biggest characteristic of these defeated soldiers under the horror is that there are many people there, not to mention scattering their own organized teams, but also trampling their companions to death more than the enemy, and even drawing swords with their companions for a way that can escape.
Rushed by as many as thousands of such defeated soldiers, the number of Sun Jian's old troops who were already only seven or eight hundred people could not be parried, and the team that had managed to maintain a neat order was quickly dispersed by the tide of defeated soldiers, not to mention, countless Sun veterans who had followed Sun Jian in a hundred battles were also trampled to death by this group of stupid defeated soldiers, and the screams and cries in the chaos converged into one, and the sound spread for ten miles. Even the pro-soldier team led by Sun Ce, if it weren't for Cheng Pu and Huang Gai's desperate protection, they would have almost been scattered by this group of defeated soldiers. Zhang Zhen and Xu Sheng and other generals took advantage of the momentum and drove for a long time, slashing and slashing wildly on the buttocks of Sun Ce's team, beheading countless people and capturing countless prisoners.
When Sun Ce's army finally fled back to the camp with great difficulty, the Junzi Army, which had never liked to fight tough battles, had already run out of muskets, and immediately withdrew from the rear camp from the complex camp where the terrain was not conducive to cavalry combat, leaving a blazing camp for Sun Cejun to save. Zhou Yu and Cheng Pu and others wanted to cry without tears, so they had to abandon the camp that had no rescue value, led the army around the camp, and fled in the direction of the Yangtze River.
During the pursuit, Tao Ying joined forces with Zhang Xu, and while continuing to chase and kill, Tao Ying shouted to Zhang Xu: "General Zhang, the enemy's morale has collapsed, please give an order immediately, let the soldiers of our army shout that Sun Ce Xiao'er is dead, and further shake the enemy's morale." β
"No!" Zhang Xu, who had already admired Tao Ying so much, agreed loudly, and took the initiative to say: "Son, please command the plundering array, and wait for the last general to lead the army to rush and kill!" At the end of this day, Sun Ce's child will be beheaded, and he will be dedicated to his son! β
"Okay, old general, please be careful." Tao Ying, who doesn't like to fight tough battles, agreed, and quickly explained: "Old general, our target in this battle is only Sun Ce Xiaoer and his Chinese army, Sun Ce Xiaoer is wounded, he will definitely not dare to flee for his life alone, and he must have his cronies and Chinese army around to protect him!" So we only need to chase and kill Sun Ce'er's Chinese army, and the rest of the other enemies will surrender if they can, and if they can't surrender, they will flee with them, no need to divide the troops to chase, and concentrate all the forces on Sun Ce Xiao'er alone! Annihilate his core power! β
"No!" Zhang Zhen agreed again, slapped his horse and led the army to gallop wildly, and roared like thunder in his mouth, "Sons, shout to the old man, Sun Ce'er is dead!" Sun Ce'er is dead! Surrender without killingββ! β
"Sun Ce'er is dead! Sun Ce'er is dead! Surrender or kill! Sun Ce Xiao'er is dead, surrender can not be killed! β
The Xuzhou soldiers under the command of Zhang Zhi shouted obediently, hearing such a shout, the already collapsed Sun Ce's army was even more panicked, especially the Shouchun soldiers who Sun Ce deceived from Yuan Shu were even more unintentionally in love with the war, or scattered and fled, or knelt down to surrender, and the Xuzhou army took advantage of the victory and drove long, chasing Sun Ce's Chinese army in the gradually bright morning, and our poor Sun Ce Xiaobawang was seriously injured, and now he is unconscious and unconscious, just want to follow Boss Cao to escape in disguise and ride alone, and he can't do anything... β¦β¦β¦
Note: In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, Deputy Director Tao's catapult was renamed Xiangyang Cannon.