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Chapter 578: Gathering

Sun Yao had less than two hundred soldiers left, most of the officers had been killed, and the remaining soldiers gathered in the courtyard where Sun Yao was lying, ready for the last resistance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Now in Changping, only this courtyard is still their position.

Sun Yao asked his soldiers to carry him out, sat down against a pillar on the high steps in the courtyard, and struggled to open his swollen eyes, and glanced at the mountains in the distance, which might be the last time he saw the world.

At the foot of the steps, more than 200 remnants were all wounded, holding a long knife in their hands, a spear that had broken half of it, and an iron shield that was scarred, and there was no fear, no confusion, no fanaticism in their eyes, and some were just empty.

They gathered around Sun Yao, indifferently watching the southern army coming in, surrounding this courtyard, the southern army poured into the courtyard, staring at this group of last enemies, in their eyes, there was no hostility, but some were only the admiration that only fellow soldiers could understand, even if they were enemies who did not share the sky, they were opponents who swore to stand together, but they were still worthy of respect.

A general of the Southern Army came out of the crowd, glanced at the bloody Sun Yao, and said loudly: "General Sun, you are at the end of your rope, surrender, you have proven your bravery and value as a soldier, and you don't have to make useless resistance." ”

Sun Yao slowly raised his head, looked at the general not far away, and said with difficulty, word by word: "Thank you, but I have my pride!" ”

The general pondered for a moment, "General Sun, presumably you know by now that you are just a bait, you are a chess piece, there is no need to be loyal to the master who abandoned you, surrender, no one will look down on you, on the contrary, you deserve our respect, General Sun, you are seriously injured, and if you don't treat it, I'm afraid even the gods won't be able to save you." ”

Sun Yao smiled, the scars on his face made his smile look terrifying, "Soldiers, it is our duty to obey orders, I will exchange my death for the successful escape of tens of thousands of troops, ask for mercy, there is no regret, come on, let's make the final battle, brothers, are you ready?" ”

I don't know where the strength came from, Sun Yao actually stood up strongly, leaned his back against the pillar, and raised the long knife in his hand with both hands.

The general of the Southern Army let out a long sigh and shook his fist at Sun Yao, "Admire!" He took a few steps back, raised his right hand high, and shouted, "Archer, prepare!" ”

On the steps, Sun Yao's subordinates raised the broken shield in their hands, trying their best to cover all the soldiers behind the shield, Sun Yao smiled and raised his head, looking at the dark sky, a little cold fell on his face, and it actually began to snow again, this winter, there is really a lot of snow.

The hand of the general of the Southern Army was about to fall heavily to send Sun Yao on his last journey, but outside Changping Town, there was a sudden violent shouting of killing, the shouting of killing became louder and louder, mixed with the tremor of the ground, the general's body shook, turned around, and looked outside incredulously.

"General, it's not good, the Luoyang army, a lot of Luoyang troops, and cavalry, thousands of cavalry!" A Confederate soldier ran in and reported loudly to the general.

"Where did the Luoyang Army come from, where did you come from?" The general was shocked, it was clear that Qiu Zhi's army had fled from Changlin, and a Luoyang army came from there, and there were thousands of cavalry.

But the tremor on the ground made the general understand that his subordinates were not lying, and the shouts of killing were clearly audible, since the opponent's light cavalry master had thousands of people, this battle could not be fought, "Retreat, retreat!" He ordered loudly, turned his head and glanced at Sun Xiao with a complicated expression, and finally shook his head and said, "Let's go!" ”

On the steps, Sun Yao's troops let out a deafening cheer, "The general did not abandon us, the reinforcements are coming, we are saved!" ”

Sun Yao sat down on the ground softly, and his eyes were full of incredulity, General Qiu's army would definitely not turn back for the remnants of his hundreds of people, where did this army come from?

A moment later, when he saw the banner of this army, he couldn't help but realize that it was them.

This army is part of the 20,000 troops that Qiu Zhi transferred to Gaizhou, and the leading general is an experienced veteran under Qiu Zhi, Nie Huo.

If you want to talk about why Nie Huo appeared here, you have to start with Nie Huo after he entered Gaizhou.

Nie Huo led 20,000 troops into Gaizhou, intended to raid the Lion Pass, from the other direction to open up a campaign against Yizhou, Gaizhou is mountainous, 20,000 troops are difficult to move forward, slowly, the army began to get rid of the murder, at this time, the cavalry is not as good as the infantry to save trouble, the horse is naturally not able to ride, leading the war horses, far behind the infantry, Nie Huo saw this scene, feeling helpless, the order of the Emperor of the Apocalypse stipulates the time limit for attack, Nie Huo had to select an elite, light forward, Strive to arrive at the attack site before the deadline of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, launch the attack on time, and lead most of the troops to arrive later, such a season, it is expected that the enemy army will not imagine that his army will drill out of the mountains to launch an attack, and it should not be a problem to take the Lion Pass. As long as the attack is launched on time, you can give an account to the top.

But what Nie Huo didn't expect was that at this time, the Dingzhou Marine Corps from Daoning Prefecture also entered Gaizhou, and Nie Huo's vanguard had not yet reached Lion Pass, so they suddenly met Zheng Zhiqiang's Marine Corps. The two armies did not expect to run into the enemy here, and in a hurry, the two armies collided head-on and were killed together in a daze.

The combat effectiveness and ordnance of the 10,000 Marine Divisions were not something that the vanguard of 5,000 Nie Huo could withstand, and after being defeated on the first day, they were chased and killed in the mountains for three days, only killing these thousands of vanguard troops in fear, until they joined Nie Huo's large army, and then they took a breath.

And found that a large number of imperial troops appeared in Zheng Zhiqiang at this time he had understood the enemy's intentions, without saying a word, turned around and left, the Marine Corps of the Navy Division fought fiercely, ran faster, and it only took a day to get rid of Nie Huo's pursuit.

Nie Huo, who found the Dingzhou Navy Marine Corps, realized the seriousness of the problem, not only that the Lion Pass could not be taken down, but it was difficult to be beaten down with the guarded Lion Pass, not to mention that they had added such a new force, and more seriously, the Dingzhou Navy Marine Corps should not appear here, their appearance meant that Dingzhou and King Ning had formed an alliance, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why this army that should be roaming the sea would have grown wings, flying over thousands of mountains and rivers, and appeared in Gaizhou.

Nie Huo, who had come to this important conclusion, immediately saw the conspiracy of rebirth behind the heavy curtain from this incident, and at this time, his goal had become to return to the division smoothly, and strive to rely on the general to report this major discovery to the emperor.

When he returned to the station, he found that the camp had been empty, at this time Qiu Zhi had fallen into a siege, Nie Huo did not hesitate to lead the army to help, when the spies heard that there was a fierce battle in Changping, Nie Huo judged that Qiu Zhi's army should be from Changping to break through, immediately the whole division starry night forward, rushed to the rescue, unexpectedly, Qiu Zhi golden cicada out of the shell, the sound of the east and the west, after the mobilization of Hu Lan's army, the whole army took advantage of the void and broke through from Changlin, And Nie Huo, who came at the same time, happened to save the remnants of Sun Yao who were on the verge of despair at the last moment.

Seeing Sun Yao's injury, Nie Huo couldn't help but be shocked, and exchanged for a military doctor to treat him. But at this time, they were still in great danger, once Hu Zequan couldn't catch up with Qiu Zhi, and found that there was still a piece of fat in Changping, he would definitely pounce back and eat them like wolves, so he could only bandage them simply, and Nie Huo ordered Sun Yao to be lifted and retreated immediately.

This time Qiu Zhi's adventure attacked, fell into the trap, but under the wits and courage of the generals on both sides, Qiu Zhi retreated with the whole body of the majority of the army at a small price, although it was defeated, although King Ning did not achieve the victory of annihilating Qiu Zhi, but successfully drove Qiu Zhi's army out of Qingzhou. Qiu Zhi, who had lost his troops, could no longer maintain the offensive against Qingzhou, and the apocalypse was also in crisis, Qiu Zhi weighed it several times, and finally decided to retreat to Qinzhou with the whole army.

King Ning's goal of recovering his strategic disadvantage was successfully achieved.

On the way back, Nie Huo's army converged with Qiu Zhi's army.

Qiu Zhi strode up to meet him, the object was not Nie Huo, but Sun Yao lying on the stretcher, at this time, Sun Yao had only his last breath left, although Nie Huo tried all the ways he could think of, but Sun Yao was injured in many places all over his body, and he was hopeless, just barely hanging on for a breath.

Seeing Qiu Zhi, Sun Yao's eyes burst with brilliance, "General, I live up to my orders, I live, and I came back to see you alive." ”

Qiu Zhi was in tears, kneeling on one knee in front of Sun Yao's stretcher, holding Sun Yao's cold hands with his hand, "Sun Yao, I hurt you, I lied to you!" But there is no way, for the sake of tens of thousands of troops, I can only do this, you, can you understand? Will you hate me? ”

Sun Yao smiled, "General, soldier, to, obey orders, for duty, the last general, the last general will die well." After saying this sentence with difficulty, Sun Yao tilted his head and returned to the west, Qiu Zhi hugged his favorite general tightly, and cried bitterly. Around Sun Yao, the two hundred remnants of the army who followed him back from Changping fell to their knees and cried loudly.

The raging fire ignited, and Sun Yao's body, which was covered with Qiu Zhijun's flag, slowly disappeared into the flames.

Qiu Zhi's whole army retreated to Qinzhou, and at this time, in Yizhou, Li Qing led the Changsheng battalion, the whirlwind battalion of the two major cavalry battalions have arrived in Yizhou City, and soon after, the cavalry group of the mountain wind also arrived, at this time, in Yizhou, has gathered more than 30,000 iron cavalry in Dingzhou, and gathered so many cavalry troops at one time, which is the first time in nearly a hundred years for the Central Plains battlefield, and in history, the battle that can gather more than such a scale of cavalry teams is also a handful. And behind them, Wang Qinian's infantry group also rushed to Yizhou in an endless stream.

Dingzhou elite, almost most of them gathered in Yizhou.