Chapter 123: Beheading
The autumn rain was continuous, as thin as hair, and the vast majority of the soldiers who did not have a coat had been drenched, and the gusts of autumn wind blew, and the cold would shiver.
The sound of killing in Xiapi City shook the sky, tens of thousands of Cao troops swarmed in, torches lit up the damp sky, and the entire city was reflected red.
Xiahou Xuan's subordinates got Wei Xu and Hou Cheng inside to open the city gate to respond, and waved their troops into the city. Except for the one with a white cloth wrapped around the left arm agreed by both sides, the rest will be killed regardless of whether they are indiscriminate.
After taking the east gate, Xiahoudun himself led the main force to attack Lu Bu's mansion and ordered Cao Chun to guard the city gate in case of accidents. Ordered Le Jin to lead a part of the men and horses forward, open the remaining west, south, and north doors from the inside, and let his own men and horses in, and surround Lu Bu's tiger together.
Zhang Liao held the Yunyue knife in his hand, the black-maned horse under his crotch, and he didn't care about waiting for the soldiers behind him, so he galloped towards the north gate. More than 2,000 parts followed closely behind him, lest he be left behind by the main general, and the footsteps in the streets and alleys were loud, and the sound of people shouting and neighing horses was loud, and it was a mess. People huddled in their homes, looking for sheltered places to avoid death.
Zhang Liao led the army from west to east, galloping in an east-west alley, the intersection in the middle is the avenue leading to the north gate, turn a corner to the left, and then walk more than three miles, you can reach the north gate.
There are more than 2,000 people from Gao Shun stationed there, but Zhang Liao doesn't know if Zhang Kuo has arrived with Gao Shun's family at this moment?
If he saved Gao Shun but lost his family, I am afraid that he will not be able to explain; This made Zhang Liao worried, so he rushed to the north gate as soon as possible. If Zhang Kuo is besieged by Cao's army, he will lead his troops to support, and he must snatch Gao Shun's family out!
"Drive!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
When Zhang Liao was about to arrive at the crossroads, a group of people and horses were killed in the alley, under the banner of Cao Jun, about four or five hundred people. The soldiers are all holding bright torches, shining in the alley as bright as day, the first 20 cavalry generals, leading the way, all of them are the tigers and wolves under the command of Lejin. Ordered to come and open the north gate. Put the outside team into the city
"Thieves. Let go of me, let go of me, there is a kind of duel with my aunt and grandmother, what is it to bully a female streamer with more people? ”
A yellow-maned horse in the lead. A Cao shogun was holding a woman tied up in the saddle. Although the hands and feet cannot move. But the mouth still cursed angrily. looks like he can't eat your flesh raw.
"Uh...... Listening to the voice, isn't it Lingqi's little lady? ”
Regarding Lu Lingqi's voice, Zhang Liao can distinguish it without listening carefully, an ordinary woman. How many of them can have such a momentum of "women don't let their eyebrows go"? couldn't help but gasp, "Didn't you let her go home, why was she captured so quickly?" ”
Zhang Liao heard it right, the woman who was captured immediately was none other than Lu Bu's daughter Lu Lingqi.
After separating from Zhang Liao and Gao Shun, Lu Lingqi was not convinced, and decided to lead his troops out of the city quietly to rob the camp, so that these men would be impressed by him. So he struck his horse and went straight to the east gate.
Why did Lu Lingqi go to the East Gate instead of the other three gates? Because the soldiers at the west gate belonged to Zhang Liao, and the north gate belonged to Gao Shun, the two of them already knew about going out of the city and robbing the camp, so they naturally would not allocate it to him. The south gate was commanded by the military advisor Chen Gong, and Lu Lingqi was a little afraid of him from the heart, and he didn't dare to fool Chen Palace with the general talisman, so he could only go to the east gate to ask for some soldiers and horses from Wei Xu and Song Xian, and quietly go out of the city to do something earth-shattering.
Who knew that before he arrived at the door, he would face Cao Jun, who was killing a big wave, Lu Lingqi was suddenly dizzy, and thought that she had seen the wrong banner. I don't understand why this Cao Jun came in all of a sudden, could it be that he flew in with wings?
By the time Lu Lingqi came over in a daze, she was already surrounded by hundreds of Cao troops. The general is Xiahou Kui, the younger brother of Xiahou Dun, who served as a lieutenant under Le Jin. was assigned to lead the troops to attack the north gate, and the two troops outside Liyi and Li Dian came into the city, but they didn't expect to meet a beautiful girl halfway.
Xiahou Kui was overjoyed when he saw Lu Lingqisheng's beauty, and decided to capture her alive and sacrifice her to Cao Cao in order to obtain a reward. He commanded the soldiers to besiege and kill Lu Lingqi.
Lu Lingqi is a daughter in the end, although she is skilled in marksmanship, she lacks strength and experience in battle, and she may have a chance to win alone with Xiahou Kui, but in the face of five or six hundred Cao troops, she is unable to fight. The war horse had its legs cut off, fell off the horse, and was immediately tied up by Cao Jun.
Xiahou Kui was afraid that someone else would rob him of the credit, so he put Lu Lingqi on his horseback and continued to lead his troops to attack the north gate, never wanting to meet Zhang Liao in the alley!
"Since I met, the little lady's life should not be extinguished, so take her away!"
Zhang Liao muttered to himself, and the murderous intent in his eyes became thicker. Looking back, the soldiers behind him looked like they had been thrown about a mile or so, and they hadn't turned into the alley at the moment.
But Zhang Liao was not afraid, his right hand clenched the forty-three-pound Yunyue knife in his hand, with the reins in his left hand, his legs were clamped in the belly of the mount, and he shouted "Drive!" Facing the Cao army, he galloped over.
"Woo...... Who's coming? But we ......"
Xiahou Kui saw that the other party was only one person and one horseman, and he didn't know where the general was, and he thought it was a scout from his own side, and he came to report the military situation, so he reined in and asked......
It's just that the last few words haven't come out yet, the cold light flashes in front of me, and the intuitive neck is cold, and I don't feel it anymore. A head rolled to the ground, blood spurted out of the cavity like a fountain, splashing Lu Lingqi's body, and the body fell under the horse with a "grunt......
Zhang Liao's arms were relaxed, he grabbed the rope that bound Lu Lingqi, shouted "Come here", and slipped Lu Lingqi to his horse.
Hundreds of Cao Jun were stunned for a moment, what was going on? This guy rushed into battle alone without saying a word, his courage is really not small, and he really cut his own master with a knife, this, this is not logical?
"Kill, kill this enemy general!"
After being stunned for a moment, Cao Jun reacted, let out a shout, and slammed the knife and gun in his hand towards Zhang Liao.
"Brother Wenyuan? It turned out to be Brother Wenyuan, I thought I was dead. I didn't expect to meet you...... Hurry up and let me get off the horse, and let's kill the enemy together! ”
Lu Lingqi was desperate and lay in front of Zhang Liao's saddle, surprised and delighted.
Zhang Liao didn't talk to Lu Lingqi either, and shouted angrily: "Cao Jun, how far do you know Ma Yi Zhang Wen?" ”
The big knife in his hand was waved like a cloud of colorful auspicious clouds, not revealing a drop of water, and he cut melons and vegetables in an instant, cut off seven or eight generals from his horses, and trampled on his horses. Crushed more than a dozen Cao soldiers. Galloping in a team of five or six hundred people, it was like entering a no-man's land.
"Kill, there's Cao Bing ahead!"
At this time, the subordinates behind Zhang Liao came over. I saw that Cao Jun had few soldiers. One by one, their eyes were red. Carrying knives and spears, he pounced, and there was a fierce street fight. Cao's army was small, and the chief general died. Unable to resist, he left more than 300 corpses behind, fled backwards, and reported that the main general was happy. Zhang Liao did not chase and kill, stopped the pursuit of the soldiers, and led the troops to the north gate.
Lu Lingqi was placed on horseback horizontally, feeling that something was wrong, the Cao army came from the east and south, what did he Zhang Liao do with his troops to the north gate?
"Brother Wenyuan, it seems that there is no killing sound at the north gate, they are all at the east gate and the south gate, and there are also at the west gate, why are you coming to the north gate? Also, put me down quickly! ”
Zhang Liao had already made up his mind not to loosen Lu Lingqi's ties and forcibly take her away. For this girl who is half of her apprentice, Zhang Liao understands, she has a strong personality, she would rather die than give in, if she lets her go, she will definitely not follow her, she is bound to fight to the death in Xiapi City, and in the end she is likely to die.
"Xiapi is no longer guaranteed, and it is in vain to fight the trapped beasts, I will take you out of the city!" Zhang Liao said in a deep voice as he rode his horse north.
Lu Lingqi was surprised: "What? Wen...... Zhang Liao, are you going to escape? ”
"The building is about to fall, Cao's army is close to 100,000, and our army only has more than 10,000 soldiers who have no fighting spirit, and it is useless to struggle again, so we can only find a way to live!"
Lu Lingqi's tears burst out of her eyes, and she bit her lip and said, "Okay, everyone has the idea of being greedy, I don't blame you if you want to leave." You let me down, and I'll fight to the death with my father! ”
Zhang Liao refused: "No, if you stay, you will definitely die." Wen Hou didn't want to leave anymore, so he was determined to die and vowed to live and die with Xiapi. If he wants to go, who in the world can stop him? I must not let you go back to die, you can still leave a little blood for Wen Hou while you live, count me as repaying Wen Hou's kindness! ”
"Zhang Liao, I hate you, I don't want my father to die, I want to fight side by side with him, you let me go......"
Lu Lingqi pleaded with tears like a spring, but Zhang Liao didn't pay attention to her anymore, and came to the north gate in a blink of an eye.
When he came to the city gate, Zhang Liao was relieved, Zhang Kuo had already brought Gao Shun's wife Xu and a pair of children. and prepared two carriages, stuffed Gao Shun's family, as well as Du's mother and son into the carriage, ready to go out of the city. At the instigation of Gao He, more than 2,000 people under Gao Shun's command, including the 800 "trapped camps" of one of the most elite troops in the world, had also decided to follow Zhang and Gao to the north to surrender to Yuan.
Zhang Liao stuffed Lu Lingqi into the carriage, and then ordered loudly: "Soldiers, the building is about to fall, we have no way out, we can only do this!" ”
"Willing to obey General Zhang's dispatch!" Thousands of soldiers agreed at the same time, but Zhang Liao was the only one.
Zhang Liao nodded: "The soldiers who are trapped in the camp, as well as the tiger battalion under me, follow me forward, join forces with General Liyi, kill and retreat Cao's soldiers, and then we will go straight to Langya, Qingzhou, where someone will pick us up!" ”
Because the north gate is not only a group of men and horses of Liyi, in order to monitor and urge Liyi to contribute, Cao Cao specially sent Li Dian to lead 5,000 people to join the camp of Liyi and attack the north gate together; It's called helping, but it's actually a prison army. If you want to get rid of Cao's army, you must first kill this force.
After arranging the team to go out of the city first, Zhang Liao ordered again: "Gao He led his troops to guard the carriage, and after Zhang Kuo led his troops to break off, Zhang Kuang was responsible for contacting General Liyi." Open the city gates and put the drawbridge! ”
With Zhang Liao's order, the city gate "squeaked" and the suspension bridge was slowly lowered. Zhang Liao took the lead and rushed out of the city gate. The elite of the camp and the Tiger Battalion followed, and the rest of the soldiers shouted together and fought their way out of the city.
Li Dianzheng lined up his troops, exchanged fire with the defenders under the city, waited for his companions inside to open the door, and then covered in. Unexpectedly, the city gate suddenly opened, and an elite army came out, hurriedly commanded his subordinates to meet the enemy, and sent people to urge Koji Yi to lead his troops forward.
Suddenly, there was a shout from behind, and the Koji rebels slashed at Cao Jun from the back and side, plus Zhang Liaojun, who rushed out from inside, attacked from three sides, and Cao Jun was suddenly in chaos.
"Vertical son Koyi, dare to cheat, angry with me, swear to repay the prime minister, all annihilation, etc!"
Li Dian's subordinates couldn't resist, the army was in turmoil, more than 1,000 people were killed and wounded, and the rest, under the leadership of Li Dian, fled to the west camp to report the sudden situation to Cao Cao.
With a successful blow, Lu Yi was overjoyed, and he greeted Zhang Liao, and said arrogantly: "You are that Zhang Wenyuan?" For you, Yuan Maigongzi has spent a lot of effort! ”
"General Lao has answered, the grace of the son, swear to die in retribution!" Zhang Liao hugged his wrists and saluted neither humbly nor arrogantly.
Lu Yi nodded, now is not the time to speak, waved his hand and ordered: "I'm afraid that the Cao army will come to pursue in an instant, I will lead the way, after you lead the troops, the whole army will go straight to Langya country, no matter the day, there will be no stop!" ”
"The last general obeys orders!"
Zhang Liao agreed, leaving the trapping camp and Menghuying to accompany him, and the rest of the men and horses braved the drizzle and retreated towards Qingzhou in the north as fast as possible.
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