Chapter 359: Increasing Ranks

Dian Wei frowned, and while resisting the onslaught of Zhou Tai's trapped beast, he shouted in a deep voice: "How is your martial arts compared to Zhou Tai?" If it is better to retreat quickly to avoid being killed, it is better to let Yan Liang coward personally come out to die! ”

Jiang Qin was furious, raised his knife and slashed, and shouted in his mouth: "Pifu An dares to despise me!" To do it or not to do it? Try it and find out! "Let's take the lead in the onslaught.

The three of them fought in one place, and in a blink of an eye, twenty times had passed. Dian Wei killed his surname, and a pair of iron halberds in his hands flew up and down, blocking Jiang Qin on the left and Zhou Tai on the right. On the other hand, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, the martial arts of the two are between the two of them, even if they are at their peak, they have little chance of winning against Dian Wei, and at this moment, Zhou Tai is already weak because of excessive blood loss, and he can't even play his usual strength, how can he be Dian Wei's opponent?

After fighting to fifty times, Dian Wei rose up and separated the double halberds, and slashed towards the crumbling Zhou Tai when he saw the gap. Seeing this, Jiang Qin hurriedly parried with his sword, and after a vicious fight of fifty combinations, the sober-minded Jiang Qin also accepted the fact that the two of them were not Dian Wei's opponents, if it weren't for Dian Wei's tight entanglement, the two would have retreated.

Dian Wei saw Jiang Qin swinging his knife to parry Zhou Tai, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his brain, and he suddenly remembered the scene when Ma Su attacked Zhang Fei in the east and slashed Zhang Fei. At that moment, the momentum of the big iron halberd turned, and it used twenty points of force to smash at Jiang Qin. This pair of big iron halberds is eighty pounds, coupled with Dian Wei's innate divine power, the momentum can be imagined, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a thunderous momentum.

Jiang Qin was caught off guard, and scolded: "The exterminator" hurriedly put away the knife to save him, but before he finished speaking, he felt a strong force coming from his arms, only the chest of the shock was stuffy, the bones were numb, and a stream of heat surged, "Poof! A mouthful of blood spurted out, and the steel knife flew away.

Dian Wei struck a successful blow, and another halberd slashed, and the crescent blade slashed straight at Jiang Qin's neck. Jiang Qin, who was seriously injured, couldn't dodge, so he could only close his eyes and wait for death. Seeing that a young player who had just debuted was about to hit the ground, Dian Wei turned his right hand, changed the slash into a beat, and patted Jiang Qin's back on the back of the neck with his halberd, and the latter immediately fainted and fell under the horse.

All this happened too fast, Zhou Tai saw his fellow townsman and wanderer fall under the horse and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, he couldn't help but tremble, and then roared with a hideous face: "Dian Wei Pifu, I and you will not die!" As he spoke, he urged the war horse under his crotch to attack Dian Wei again.

Yan Liang, who was in the rear, also frowned when he saw this, and raised his knife and shouted: "Zhou Tai, step back first, and see that Ben will personally go out to avenge Jiang Qin!" "Then he hurriedly slapped the war horse and killed the place where the two were fighting.

Dian Wei encountered a strong enemy, his heart was high, the next halberd opened the steel knife that Zhou Tai had chopped, but the other halberd slapped on Zhou Tai's right rib, the latter snorted, and immediately fell into the dust, unconscious.

Dian Wei took the second general, and his forehead was also sweating profusely, and he turned around and shouted: "Tie it up first and bring it back, and find a military doctor to treat the two of them!" After that, he shook his spirits and hurriedly greeted Yan Liang.

The main general, Xu Huang, immediately sent ten hookers to fight without mentioning it, but said that Dian Wei and Yan Liang were soon fighting together, swords and halberds, and the fight was not fierce. In the blink of an eye, it was difficult to distinguish between the top and bottom, and no one could have the upper hand.

Originally, Yan Liangneng defeated Xu Huang in the history of twenty times, and his strength should not be underestimated, this person studied under the contemporary martial arts master Li Yan, with superb sword skills and superb riding skills, and he was by no means an ordinary person. Although Yan Liang's martial arts are excellent, he can even be included in the ranks of super-first-class generals, but he himself has a fatal flaw, that is, his strength is insufficient, of course, this is only relative.

In the romance, Yan Liang slashed Wei Xu with one combination, Song Xian with three combinations, and Xu Huang with twenty defeats, this kind of record throughout the Three Kingdoms, except for Lu Bu, only Ma Chao was defeated by the ban, and Zhang He was defeated by the twenty together. Although Zhao Yun picked a first-class military general Gao Ran, it was obviously a sneak attack and could not be counted.

Yan Liangneng defeated Xu Huang in the Twenty Battles, but was hacked to death by Guan Yu's sneak attack, which is logically abnormal. You must know that the duel between two super-first-class generals can only be judged by victory or defeat, and it is almost impossible to kill each other head-on in the battle between the two armies. No matter how fast Guan Yu's red rabbit horse is, Yan Liang won't even be able to block a knife!

The reason for this is because Yan Liang is a skill-type general, and he wins with sword skills, but strength is not his strong point. And Guan Yu happens to be Yan Liang's nemesis, he has the heaviest knife momentum, and he often has to charge up before making a move, and then explode together within a few knives. Those who are familiar with Romance know that those who fight with Guan Yu are either beheaded within a few knives, or they are undefeated and undefeated. The former was because of his lack of strength, and he couldn't block Guan Yu's first few knives. If you can block Guan Yu's first few knives, you can basically keep the undefeated game, such as Ji Ling, Xiahoudun, Pang De and others.

Dian Wei belongs to a peerless general with both strength and skill, although he has just experienced a fierce battle this time, Yan Liang, who has first-class combat skills and first-class strength, does not feel a lot of pressure. At the moment, both of them took the technical route, and the exquisite knife technique and exquisite halberd technique dazzled the officers and soldiers of the two armies and applauded loudly.

In the blink of an eye, more than 100 battles were fought, and it was still an equal game. Xu Huang saw that he had gained the upper hand in this battle, and he was afraid that Dian Wei, who had fought repeatedly, would make a mistake, so he hurriedly ordered Pan Feng and Chen to lead 2,000 cavalry to charge.

The shouts of killing shook the sky, the war drums rang out in unison, and the four thousand ironclad cavalry immediately launched an attack on the left and right flanks of Yuan's army. Yan Liang came out of the battle this time to test, only brought 10,000 soldiers and horses, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he hurriedly jumped out of the battle group, and shouted: "Today, let's leave your head first, and come to say that the two armies are fighting, and I will be captured by you!" "Then he turned his horse and left.

Dian Wei felt that he couldn't keep Yan Liang, and he didn't pursue it at the moment, so he laughed and said: "It's hard to say who was captured by whom, but I want to thank you for the battle exploits you sent!" The merit of capturing two generals alive is enough for me to be promoted to colonel, haha"

Yan Liang's face was extremely ugly, but he didn't dare to fight with Dian Wei anymore, otherwise once he was surrounded by cavalry, he would not be able to cut off ten heads. Back in front of the formation, the 10,000-strong army had already formed a defensive formation, first of all, there were pikemen, the dense spears were not much to use against the cavalry, and behind the spearmen were all heavy crossbowmen, all equipped with large yellow swords, there were two thousand.

This kind of rhubarb is the longest-range and most powerful long-range light weapon today, and the cost is very high, and the effective range can reach 200 steps, which is by no means comparable to the ordinary two-stone iron-tired bow. Xu Huang saw that Yan Liang was prepared, and he didn't want to leak his strength too much, so the four thousand cavalry followed Yan Liang's army to keep a certain distance and retreated after chasing ten miles.

After this battle, Yan Liang returned in vain, and also lost two young generals, but he also saw the ordnance and military appearance of Ma's super army. His team is the most elite unit under Yuan Shao, and in the past two years, most of the 100,000 people have experienced brutal battlefield battles. Ordnance is also the most sophisticated part of Yuan Shao's subordinates, but compared with Xu Huang's subordinates, the gap is still not small, at least not everyone under his command is equipped with fish scales, let alone black iron helmets, and the deadly is that the cavalry team is only three thousand, which is only equivalent to one-tenth of the cavalry in Xu Huang's army.

Not taking into account the terrifying large-scale weapon Xiangyang Cannon, Yan Liang knew that to repel Xu Huang and capture Xuzhou, the only 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands would definitely not be enough, and he could only take precautions at the moment while waiting for the two armies of Cao Ying and Yuan Tan to come to help in the battle.

When the news reached Wuchao, Ma Chao was stunned for a while, and then he was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin would take refuge in Yuan Shao, and they were captured by Dian Wei. However, after thinking about it carefully, it is relieved that the two joined the army during the period when Sun Ce borrowed troops to pacify Jiangdong, and then they were reused by Sun Ce and Sun Quan. And in this time and space, Sun Jian is not dead, the Sun family is still a high-level worker under Yuan Shao, and Jiangdong is nominally Yuan Shao's territory. As a proton, Sun Ce naturally has no chance to lead the troops to fight, so it is not surprising that the two of them took refuge in Yan Liang.

Needless to say, the talent and loyalty of the two are the pillars of the Jiangdong Sun clan in history, and the force is between second-rate generals and first-class generals, and Zhou Tai is Sun Quan's personal bodyguard, and he has saved Sun Quan's life many times. The most important two were born in Jiangdong, proficient in the water surname, accustomed to water warfare, Ma Chao will sooner or later form a trump card water army, if it can be said that the two will be greatly beneficial to the gradual water army.

said that after the two were captured, they still scolded endlessly, and turned a deaf ear to Xu Huang's move, but fortunately, the two did not have the heart to die, not only accepted the treatment of the army Langzhong, but also ate and drank as usual. Xu Huang also had a heart of love for talent, and ordered someone to report the matter to Ma Chao overnight.

Ma Chao smiled slightly, this kind of loyal and righteous person can not be said to be moved overnight, and immediately issued a warrant, ordering Xu Huang to send reliable people to escort the two to Yecheng for detention. At the same time, in recognition of Dian Wei's merits, the whole army announced that he would be rewarded with 200 catties of gold, 100 horses of brocade, and his rank was promoted to the highest rank of colonel.

In order to deal with the problem of insufficient military ranks, Ma Chao issued a warrant to the whole army, and added six military ranks after colonel, namely colonel, major general, lieutenant general, general, marshal and generalissimo. In the army, whether it is an ordinary soldier or a general, as long as the rank is promoted to at least general, he can be called a general, and if he is promoted to a marshal, he can be called a marshal. Not only that, people above the rank of major general can enjoy special high subsidies from the imperial court for life, and enjoy the privilege of not bowing to officials, not kneeling when entering the court, and going to the palace with a sword.

Of course, this kind of honor is by no means available to ordinary people, and there is an extremely strict evaluation system. If you want to improve your rank after you reach the colonel, you can't just kill the enemy in battle, unless you are particularly prominent, and even your personal performance affects the outcome of the entire battle. And those generals who lead troops to fight also need to build miraculous skills in order to be promoted to the rank of general.

As soon as this news was announced, the whole army was shaken, and everyone in the army, from the generals leading the troops to the ordinary soldiers, was gearing up and preparing to do a great job with high morale. After all, he enjoys a high allowance from the imperial court for life, does not worship officials, does not kneel when entering the court, and the privilege of going to the palace with a sword is not something that ordinary people can get, and Dong Zhuo, who is currently a chaotic Beijing master, and Ma Chao are no more than that. (To be continued.) )