Chapter 351: Broken
Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu jointly chose the Jingzhou raid team to attack at a very clever time, and it also happened to hit the psychological key point of the Xuzhou army, and killed Deputy Director Tao and the Xuzhou army by surprise.
Considering the vigilance habits of the army, Pang Tong and others unanimously gave up the plan of raiding at night, because although the night can cover the surprise attack of the Jingzhou army to ensure a sudden surname, but after nightfall, any army will be doubly vigilant, and the elite troops of Xuzhou, who did not even bring tents in order to march quickly, will be ready for battle at night, and will not give the Jingzhou army any chance to launch a surprise attack. Pang Tong and the others did not choose to launch a surprise attack in the afternoon when the Xuzhou army was most tired, because in the afternoon, although the Xuzhou army, which had a chance to rest, was at the most physically exhausted moment, it did not relax psychologically, and the chances of the Jingzhou army launching a surprise attack were also small.
Xu Shu once suggested that a surprise attack be launched in the evening after the sun set, but this was unanimously opposed by Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang, who are good at analyzing the enemy's psychological state, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang are very clear, with Deputy Director Tao's suspicion and caution, as long as the sky is slightly dark after the sun sets, Deputy Director Tao will definitely order the army to strengthen vigilance, not to give the Jingji coalition army any chance to sneak attack, and the chance of the Jingzhou army launching a surprise attack is also very small.
Therefore, Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang agreed that only when the sun was about to set could the surprise attack be launched, so that the chances of success of the Jingzhou army's surprise attack could be greatly increased, because the sun was still on the top of the West Mountain, and the sky was still very bright. At the same time, after gaining a period of rest, most of the Xuzhou soldiers who had marched more than 200 miles in two days and fought a battle would definitely fall asleep, and their response to sudden situations would definitely be much slower than usual, so that the surprise attack of the Jingzhou army would be more likely.
The situation was completely expected by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong and others, and the Jijing coalition army team on the south bank of the water was staggering and sleeping crookedly, which also played a lot of confusing role, and more importantly, Deputy Director Tao, who had always been suspicious and suspicious, was also completely misled by the so-called fraud plan arranged by Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong and others, and misjudged the time and way of doing the Jingzhou army. Deputy Director Tao's precious virginity, which has not been defeated since his debut, was also destroyed by the joint aggression of Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang and Xu Shu.
"Kill!" With the roar of thunder, more than a thousand Jingzhou raid teams rushed to the Xuzhou military camp more than four miles away at a flying speed, and the sky and the earth were cracking, Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong rode in front of the assault team, constantly rushing at me, scrambling to rush to the front, driving the Jingzhou raid team behind to move forward at full speed, without the slightest fear of the bows and arrows that might be shot at any time in the Xuzhou army team.
Because Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong knew very well that Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong had also carefully calculated the time of the raid for them, they wanted to take down the dirty head of Deputy Director Tao, there was only such a chance, and there was only about a cup of tea (ten minutes), once they could not achieve their goal before the Xuzhou army made a collective response, they would not only have no chance to cut off Deputy Director Tao's head, but would also be completely submerged by thousands of Xuzhou elite soldiers, and there would be no place to bury!
The north gate of Yecheng is about five miles away from the earth mountain where Deputy Director Tao's Shuai Qi is located, and it takes about half a tea time for the war horse to charge at full speed, even after deducting the obstacles and terrain that may be encountered on the way, a tea time can only be regarded as barely enough for Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei, so Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong have no time to think about the bows and arrows that the enemy may shoot, or the bayonet spears that the Xuzhou infantry suddenly raised. Gambled everything to fight for the only chance to capture the thief and capture the king first.
Luck stood on the opposite side of the Xuzhou army at this moment, when they heard the sound of war drums and horns suddenly sounded on the north gate of Yexian County, the first reaction of the Xuzhou soldiers who were awakened by the sound was in addition to grabbing the weapons around them, and the second reaction was to turn their heads to look at the south bank of the Yanshui, and many Xuzhou soldiers rushed to the Tanshui ferry almost reflexively to prevent the enemy from launching a surprise attack on the other side of the Tanshui River, completely unaware that the enemy was suddenly killed from the upper reaches of the Tanshui, and even after Deputy Director Tao was awakened, the first thing he jumped up was to look south, I thought it was the enemy on the other side of the river who came to raid my own army.
When the Xuzhou soldiers finally judged the real direction of the enemy's attack, it was already late, Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei, the two peerless fierce generals, had rushed to the edge of the Xuzhou army's camp, like two sharp knives inserted into the tofu, and easily killed into the Xuzhou camp.
"Whew! Call! There are a few spears stabbed head-on, Zhang Feizhang's eight snake spears swept hard, several spears flew into the air together, the Xuzhou soldiers who were shocked by the tiger's mouth screamed to avoid, and the shot that stabbed next to them was about to stab Zhang Fei's right ribs, but was swept away by the tail of Zhang Fei's snake spear at will, and the Xuzhou soldiers who stabbed out the spears suddenly bloomed all over their faces, and they turned and fell several steps away.
"Dead ——!" There was another thunderous roar, Huang Zhong's big knife suddenly swung out, and the head of an oncoming Xuzhou soldier flew into the sky with a broken spear, the blade was castrated, and it slashed at the face of a Xuzhou soldier, and in the scream, blood, teeth and bone chips also spurted out of the face of the Xuzhou soldier. Huang Zhong, who is over seventy years old, can still kill Xiahou Yuan, a famous general of the Cao army, and now Huang Zhong is only fifty-five years old, and his strength is naturally more difficult to estimate.
What is called the wave cracking, the current Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei are called the wave opening and cracking, the Xuzhou soldiers continue to pour in from all directions like the sea, Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei are going to the two speedboats driving at full speed in the rapids, constantly advancing forward in the sea water, advancing and advancing, the waves hit their bodies, turning into a fragmented foam, the limbs and weapon fragments of the undeceived are flying all over the sky, and the blood splashed high, many Xuzhou soldiers don't even know what is going on, and the human head has already flown into the sky. Or there is already a bloody hole in the chest.
In the blink of an eye, Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei, the two fierce generals, were already less than one hundred and twenty steps away from Deputy Director Tao's handsome banner, and they were unstoppable!
"Their target is the Lord!" Finally, the generals of Xuzhou reacted, and they were suddenly shocked that the three souls were frightened away, and quickly yelled and ordered the soldiers to step forward, desperately blocking Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei, and many grassroots generals in Xuzhou couldn't even raise their weapons, so they pounced on Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong, and bought time for Deputy Director Tao with their own lives - it's not worth it!
It's useless to react, Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei are less than 100 steps away from Deputy Director Tao, in front of the war horses charging at full speed, the Xuzhou soldiers don't have time to line up to raise their guns, and use the best collective tactics to stop Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei, the two peerless brave generals in the whole world, one after another Xuzhou soldiers were cut down and stabbed to death, and one after another Xuzhou soldiers were knocked down and knocked over by Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei's war horse weapons! In the blink of an eye, Huang Zhong and Zhang Fei were less than eighty steps away from Deputy Director Tao's position!
"Hoo ——!" Finally a feather arrow flew in, the person who shot this feather arrow was still Deputy Director Tao's personal captain Ma Zhong, the arrow broke through the air, and in the blink of an eye, it had already flown in front of Zhang Fei's door, and when Ma Zhong, who was standing next to Deputy Director Tao, smiled confidently, he glared at it all of a sudden-Zhang Fei tilted his head and easily avoided Ma Zhong's feather arrow, and opened his mouth to bite, biting the arrow shaft between the electric light and flint, and biting the thumb-thick arrow shaft to pieces!
"How is this ...... possible?" When Ma Zhong screamed in disbelief, Zhang Fei was already less than sixty steps away from Deputy Director Tao, and when Ma Zhong hurriedly pulled his bow again and released the arrows, Zhang Fei suddenly provoked the Xuzhou soldiers, used the body of the Xuzhou soldiers to block the feather arrows shot by Ma Zhong, and then threw the poor Xuzhou soldiers, and immediately smashed over the two Xuzhou soldiers who tried to rush up to stop them.
Ma Zhong's third arrow finally hit Zhang Fei, but Zhang Fei, who was far away in Guan Erye's ability to avoid arrows, lowered his head when the feather arrow was about to hit his forehead, and the arrow only hit Zhang Fei's helmet. Shocked by the strength of the enemy, Ma Zhong could only throw down his bow and arrows, and while raising his gun to meet Huang Zhong, he shouted loudly, "Lord, go quickly!" ”
Worried that he would take the lead in escaping and affecting the morale of the army, Deputy Director Tao hesitated a little and almost killed his dog, so when he was thinking about whether to give up the flag formation and flee, Zhang Fei had already rushed within thirty steps, and the roar of revenge for Guan Yu had also shocked Deputy Director Tao's eardrums. Seeing that Zhang Fei was rushing too hard, poor Deputy Director Tao gritted his teeth, and finally took the lead in fleeing for his life on the two armies for the first time, and rushed to the left flank of the Koji and Burmese troops for protection.
At this critical moment of life and death, a bad habit of Deputy Director Tao finally hurt himself, as we all know, Deputy Director Tao's favorite thing to ride is the Mongolian horse with strong endurance and not picky eater, this kind of horse has countless advantages and also has a major weakness - weak explosiveness! And the black horse that Zhang Fei rode was a good horse in the Western Regions selected from the Jizhou team, with the bloodline of the Harmony Sect, and the explosive power was extremely strong, so Zhang Fei struggled to catch the horse and charge, Deputy Director Tao not only failed to narrow the distance between him and Zhang Fei, but was also forced within twenty steps by Zhang Fei.
If it weren't for the guards sacrificing their lives to stop them, maybe Deputy Director Tao would have been buried under the spear as soon as he escaped from the mountain, but even if five or six guards rushed to intercept Zhang Fei one after another, they were still overturned by Zhang Fei's stabbing and smashing together, and continued to chase Deputy Director Tao, Deputy Director Tao was horrified, and hurriedly continued to shoot his horse and gallop, not even having time to discern the direction of escape, he just charged forward, Zhang Fei yelled and continued to chase, always following behind Deputy Director Tao not far away.
An incomparably rare battlefield scene appeared, under the last afterglow after the sunset, in the melee of thousands of troops, Deputy Director Tao, who was the commander of the first army, fled like a wounded rabbit, but Zhang Fei, who served as a hunting dog, was in hot pursuit, constantly chasing Deputy Director Tao, although the Xuzhou soldiers quickly charged towards the position of Deputy Director Tao and Zhang Fei, but said that they could not catch up. At the same time, the Jingji coalition army south of the Tanshui also seized this precious opportunity to launch a charge, and Wang Le and Liu Pan also mentioned that Yecheng's soldiers and horses came to reinforce from the upstream, which added to the chaos on the battlefield.
In the chaos, Deputy Director Tao kept looking back at Zhang Fei who was chasing after him like a hungry wolf and a tiger, hoping that his accomplice lackeys could stop Zhang Fei in time, but what made Deputy Director Tao desperate was that although the soldiers in Xuzhou kept rushing to Zhang Fei from both sides and the rear, they never saw a team that could rush in front of Zhang Fei and stop him? Between nervousness and doubt, it was not until he heard the frightened shouts of the Xuzhou soldiers that Deputy Director Tao finally came to his senses, and when he quickly turned his head to look ahead, he found that he was as timid as a mouse and was fleeing for his life, not only did not flee in the direction of the self-army brigade, but also fled to the open area southwest of the camp - in this way, Deputy Director Tao wanted to get timely rescue from the accomplice lackey, of course, it was a dream.
After secretly scolding himself for being confused, when Deputy Director Tao was about to adjust the direction of the war horse, Zhang Fei behind him also had an idea in the electric light, and pulled down the feather arrow inserted in the root of his helmet - before Ma Zhong shot the feather arrow nailed to the root of Zhang Fei's helmet, and threw it towards Deputy Director Tao's vest, the arrow whistled through the air like a strong crossbow shot, and flew to Deputy Director Tao's back in the blink of an eye!
Fortunately, Zhang Fei rarely used this despicable secret weapon to hurt people, the accuracy was insufficient, and the feather arrow did not hit Deputy Director Tao's vest, but only shot in the middle of the butt of Deputy Director Tao's horse. As a result, although Deputy Director Tao inadvertently widened the distance between him and Zhang Fei, he completely lost the control of the war horse, and was carried by the crazy war horse to gallop at full speed, rushing towards the water on the east side of the ferry!
"Oh my God! I'm not that unlucky, am I?! Seeing the surging water in front of him, Deputy Director Tao, who couldn't even crawl on the dog, yelled out in despair, but no matter how much he yelled, it was useless, the injured war horse not only couldn't control anything, Zhang Fei was also chasing after him, and there were also many soldiers from the Jijing coalition army on the other side of the water who rushed over, drawing bows and arrows to pick up this big bargain.
With a plop, the war horse finally rushed into the Tanshui River, and rushed to the depths of the river at once, leaving only one horse's head above the water, and the cold river water also flooded Deputy Director Tao's chest at once. At the same time, the Jijing coalition army on the other side of the water also fired arrows at Deputy Director Tao, and Zhang Fei behind him also rode alone, Deputy Director Tao was shocked and tried to hide in the water, but the arrows came like locusts, and in the blink of an eye, Deputy Director Tao's shoulder was hit with two arrows, and the blood stained the river red.
The feather arrows are still rushing like a storm, Zhang Fei has also rushed down the river to cut Deputy Director Tao, but the Xuzhou soldiers who came in a hurry are twenty or thirty steps away from here, and when they are about to die in Huangquan, Deputy Director Tao also gambled, and the surname Suo let go of the reins of the horse and fled into the water, preparing to escape from Zhang Fei's threat first and then find a way to go ashore. However, after leaving the saddle and entering the water, Deputy Director Tao, who didn't know how to water at all, immediately regretted it, the river was too deep and his feet couldn't touch the ground, Deputy Director Tao waved his limbs desperately but said that he couldn't float his body, he could only be rushed downstream by the waves of the river, and at the same time, the Jingzhou soldiers on the opposite bank also kept entering the water, swimming over to capture Deputy Director Tao alive.
After drinking a few sips of river water, Deputy Director Tao, who couldn't breathe, was swept into the heart of the river where the river was most urgent............
Retribution!
Got the news that Deputy Director Tao fell into the water and disappeared, the Xuzhou army, which had gradually stabilized its position, was suddenly in turmoil, and the generals of Xuzhou such as the dragons had no leader and Zhou Hui hurriedly led the army to rush downstream to search and rescue Deputy Director Tao, and the team was unintentionally in love, and the Jingji coalition army took the opportunity to rush and kill, defeating the elite team of Xuzhou in the case of weak combat effectiveness, and also cut down the handsome flag of Deputy Director Tao, broke the place where the Xuzhou Shuai Banner did not fall, and then continued to raise troops to chase and kill the Xuzhou army, and also divided the troops to the downstream to search for Deputy Director Tao.
Fortunately, at this time, Xu Chu, who received the news, had also raised troops to the upstream camp to help, and at the same time had rushed to the Xuzhou rear army ten miles north of the water, and also received the news that the former army was in distress - of course, before he could receive the news that Deputy Director Tao had fallen into the water and disappeared, Jia Lao, who commanded the rear army, immediately made a decision, and immediately ordered Xu Huang and Wei Yan to attack separately, let Xu Huang lead an army of 5,000 to attack Ye County to encircle Wei to rescue Zhao, let Wei Yan lead an army of 10,000 to reinforce the front army, and he led the army to stay in the rear army camp and prepare to respond, It also prevents the Jijing coalition army from sneaking up on the rear army.
With the addition of the Xuzhou rear army to the battlefield, the weak Jingji coalition army finally could not resist the counterattack of the Xuzhou army, and was defeated by Xu Chu and Wei Yan, and was forced to escape across the south bank of the water to avoid the edge. After the Xuzhou team led by Xu Huang began to attack Yecheng, the Jingji coalition army on the south bank of the Yanshui was afraid that the old nest would be lost, so they could only hurry back to Yecheng, and the strength of searching and killing Deputy Director Tao was greatly weakened.
Although the reinforcements finally turned defeat into victory after the arrival of reinforcements, the upper and lower levels of the Xuzhou army had no intention of celebrating the victory, so they could only quickly set up torches as dense as stars, and went to the lower reaches of the mountains to search for and rescue Deputy Director Tao. In addition to scolding Deputy Director Tao for cheating, and also playing tricks on the arrival time of the rear army, there is also regret for missing the precious opportunity to kill Deputy Director Tao on the spot, and finally of course praying to the sky together............
"Heaven forbid, pottery thief, you must be drowned in the river!" (To be continued.) )