Chapter 421 Destroying the army and killing the general
The war was won and lost, but for many people, the war was far from over, and they had to go all out to find a way to survive.
Yuan Shao is like this at this moment.
He didn't know that the battle behind him had turned into a carnage, and he would be happy to know that he wouldn't care. He wished that Wang Yu would pull all his troops to kill the Huns, so that he could take the opportunity to escape.
The heavy snow that fell from the sky was really annoying, making it difficult to tell the direction clearly, and it also greatly reduced the speed of the horse. The snow had not stopped, and there was no ice on the ground, but there was no one around the battlefield, and the thick snow wrapped the horses' hooves, making it difficult for the horses to walk.
It's not all bad, as if you can escape a certain distance, the snow will cover up all traces and leave your pursuers at a loss.
However, the premise is to escape a certain distance.
Yuan Shao didn't run away at all, only a few hundred pieces ran out, and a group of people and horses came out of the oblique stab, roaring like thunder: "Where is Yuan Shao going!" ”
Yuan Shao turned his head in shock, and suddenly the two of them were frightened in the three souls, and the seven spirits were shocked, only to see that he was riding a white horse and a silver spear first, majestic and murderous, not Changshan Zhao Zilong, but which one?
The cavalry behind him were also dressed similarly, with white horses like dragons under their crotches and paper armor as bright as silver, which would almost confuse them with this icy land if they didn't look closely.
In a trance, Yuan Shao suddenly understood why Gongsun Zhan loved the white horse. He didn't want to be handsome and cool, just for the needs of combat.
The border army has always fought in the bitter cold land outside the Saiwai, and the scale of the grassland is far greater than that of the Central Plains. In the midst of the white ice and snow, the white horse is the best concealment color, and it is very conducive to shadowing, whether it is to launch a surprise attack. Or dodge the enemy's pursuit, it can achieve miraculous results.
Just like now, he had been watching the battle, but he hadn't noticed at all when Zhao Yun had left the battle group, and he had intercepted himself halfway so accurately.
The wind and snow were so heavy that he couldn't see how many people had come, but since the other party was riding white horses, it was not difficult to calculate the number of chasing soldiers. After the Battle of the Boundary Bridge. Bai Ma Yi, who was transferred to Wang Yu by Gongsun Zhan, was less than five hundred in total. From the light of hatred shot out of the eyes of the pursuers, it can be determined that what is being chased now is these more than 400 righteous followers.
The battle has been fought for a long time, but in the Qingzhou army, only this army hates itself.
"My lord?" The strategists were silent. At this time, resourcefulness is the most powerless, and it is ugly who shouts loudly, obviously, he is asking Yuan Shao if he will solve the chasing soldiers first.
"......" Yuan Shao was indecisive, and there were not many enemies. Not even a quarter of his own, but it was that Zhao Yun who led the leader!
For Yuan Shao, Zhao Yun. It's a disaster!
In this war, this person is everywhere.
At the beginning, he confronted himself with Yu Ban; It didn't take long for him to outflank him again. planted the lead to the destruction of Hu Qi; Then, in the battle against Huchuquan, he lured the enemy around his back; In the end, at the last moment, he led the army to avoid the impact of the main force of Hu Cai. Blocked the way out from the side.
By the way, there is also a solo provocation before the start of the war......
In this battle, he certainly did not take as much credit as the other generals, but his role was crucial.
Yuan Shao now believes it.
After the Battle of Jieqiao, Fu Zhu once commented on his opponent, believing that the key person in breaking the formation was not Wang Yu, but Zhao Yun. At that time, all the martial arts in Jizhou were disdainful, and Guo Tu and other Yingchuan factions even ridiculed Guo Tu, saying that the Xuanxu Array he presided over was false and unworthy of its name. It was on this pretext that Yuan Shao was dismissed from his post after the war.
But now, he believed.
This young military general does have an unparalleled talent in grasping the fighter plane and distinguishing between the virtual and the real, and his sense of smell on the battlefield is extremely keen!
Such a person can easily avoid even the flanking attack of 20,000 Hu cavalry, can his 2,000 cavalry take it down in an instant? Entangled, as soon as the reinforcements of the Qingzhou Army arrived, they couldn't leave if they wanted to.
"Let's go!" He shouted wildly: "Don't fall for the trick, they are chasing us with light soldiers, just trying to entangle us!" ”
Walk? Easier said than done.
The speed of both sides is not very fast, but the pursuit is a white horse righteous follower, and their specialty is mounted archery. While it is advantageous to attack their pursuers when fleeing, they are equally sharp when they are in pursuit.
"Sneer......" In the howling of the wind and snow, there were more dense bursts of breaking the air, as if it was a sleet, or the snow was mixed with hail, and it smashed towards Yuan Jun with his head and face.
Although the wind and snow were heavy, the distance of dozens of steps could not effectively reduce the damage of the riding bow, and the dozens of cavalrymen who were dragged behind suddenly turned on their backs, like a fleeing gecko with its tail cut off.
"Shoot back, shoot back!" Yuan Shao was in a hurry, and asked in a loud voice: "Zizhong, don't you even know how to ride and shoot the soldiers you train?" Doesn't it say that in mounted archery battles, those who run in front are more dominant? Now how do you just get beaten? ”
"Lord, they have armor on their bodies, and the white ones are paper armor!" Ugly face helpless.
How could he not have known that fighting with his pursuers would cost time? Isn't that no way? The opponent is a white horse righteous obedient, and if he doesn't fight with the enemy, he can only be beaten while running. The risk of white-knuckle combat is also very great, but the fate is still in your own hands, so if you are beaten while running, whether you can escape depends on God's favor.
Look at the weather, the ugly heart sighs, the most optimistic people will not think that God is on their side, right?
Yuan Shao was only angry and angry, so he asked this question, and he didn't need to explain it.
The backward Jizhou cavalry could not bear the situation that they could only be beaten and could not fight back, and some of the soldiers did not wait for the order, so they turned around and raised their bows one after another, trying to return the color. Yi Cong did not dodge or dodge the arrows that were shot at the body, but only shot at the horses with a shield or a horse lance, and then raised his bow again to accurately kill the most courageous enemy horsemen one by one.
As soon as the bravest of the warriors died, the rest of the men realized that doom was imminent, so they simply pulled the reins and ran out with their horses into the spurs. What they bet on was that the target of the chasing soldiers was Yuan Shao, and they would not be unrelenting to them.
Sure enough, Bai Ma Yicong had no intention of dividing his troops to chase and kill, but just chased closely behind Yuan Shao's brigade.
The experience of the forerunners was quickly absorbed and emulated by the latecomers. The Jizhou cavalry scrambled to run, and once they found themselves at the end of the line, they threw away their weapons cleanly and fled in other directions.
Yuan Shao's team is really the same as a gecko, as soon as he is attacked, he immediately decisively cuts off his tail to survive, but he does not have the gecko's regeneration collar, and the result is that the size of his team shrinks rapidly.
Since Zhao Yun began to pursue, the two armies have only run for two or three miles since they came into contact. As a result, the team was reduced by a quarter! Five hundred of them disappeared!
Among them, there were no more than fifty people who were really left behind because they were shot dead and wounded by Bai Ma Yicong, and the rest fled in other directions.
Yuan Shao was stunned for a moment.
He thought that he could at least escape to a certain city, and then take advantage of the lack of support from the other party, relying on the reinforcements in the city and the city to fight the pursuers. It's best to be able to annihilate the other party, and it's okay to run away if you can't annihilate it.
Who would have thought that the enemy's pursuit would be so sharp, and his own troops would be so sloppy, that they had run such a distance, and even the nearest county to the battlefield was still thirty miles away, and they were already embarrassed, how could they go on the road behind?
If only he could calm down. If you reflect on it, you will understand that a unit that abandons friendly forces fighting fiercely on the battlefield will become quite demoralized and morale.
It's easy to sing high in a safe place, extolling sacrifice and dedication. But soldiers are not stupid, because of the power of the celebrities, they will not refute to their faces, but they will not be foolish to be sent to death. Especially when the powerful are at the end of their rope, there are no more people. The wisest choice will also be made.
"What should I do?" Yuan Shao looked back left and right blankly, the scene of the former crown like clouds and celebrities like rain was no longer there, and only a few old guys responded to him.
"You can leave a partial division and entangle Zhao Yun, but ......" Guo Tu's words flickered, and his eyes didn't even dare to look ugly, so how could Zhao Yun be a good match? Leave a partial division at random, and maybe you will be defeated in three or two clicks. can let the ugly go to death, no matter how shameless he is, he can't say it.
I don't know if I heard Guo Tu's words, or if I came here with this intention, I generously agreed and asked for battle: "Lord, I am willing to fight to the death with that Zhao Yun and help the lord get out!" ”
"Good, good! The people are worthy of my fan! Yuan Shaoda was moved, and said emotionally: "Zizhong, you can go without worry, and you don't have to fight to the death, wait for me to go far, you get off the horse and surrender, if there is a day of reunion in the future, I will not be suspicious of this." ”
"Between the lord and the army, if there is a son and nephew, a certain will live up to the lord!"
"Or, if you don't want to surrender, you can fight and retreat, and find an opportunity to get out on your own. I will ...... five Yuanshao gritted his teeth: "No, eight hundred cavalry with you, remember, don't fight to the death, you should take the whole body as the top." ”
"The last general obeys!"
The 1,500 remnants of the army were once again divided in two, some of them under the leadership of Chou, and the other part continued to flee westward.
"General, it's been a long time, it's always been good." Zhao Yun didn't seem surprised by the ugly return interception, he put the bow back into the bow sac, and gently bowed his hand to the other party, greeting him loudly.
"General Zhao is not what it used to be, he is already a general in Qingzhou, his name is known all over the world, where can he talk about a good word for an ugly person?" Zhao Yun's words are a little ambiguous, but Chou has fought with the other party, but he also knows that the other party is such a serious person, so he doesn't think it's strange.
Although he has a large number of soldiers, his elite level and morale are far from being compared with the other party, and the results of the fight are really not optimistic. His purpose is to contain the other party and delay time, since the other party is willing to greet each other, it is better than fighting to the death.
"My lord is a benevolent and venerable man, he has the style of the ancients, and the general's martial arts are ten times better than the clouds, and now the general trend of Hebei has been decided, why not abandon the darkness and turn to the light as soon as possible?" The purpose of the pre-war reply was, of course, to persuade him to surrender.
Ugly shook his head and replied categorically: "There are only decapitated generals in Jizhou, and there are no cowards who bend their knees!" What's more, your lord may not win, my father-in-law went to Jizhou alone that day, and he has been in the Bohai District for several months, hasn't he gathered the force of Megatron Huaxia? Today, the lord still has a few counties, and there are many allies to help each other, and he may not be able to make a comeback one day! ”
Zhao Yun quietly looked at this courageous opponent, and suddenly couldn't bear to continue. However, thinking that the result would not change much if he said it or not, he still opened his mouth lightly: "General, don't you think it's strange?" Yun only brought more than 400 horsemen, and he dared to pursue the general's 2,000 horsemen, what were the odds of victory? ”
"Of course, no......" Ugly opened his mouth to answer, but when the words came to his mouth, he was stagnant. Extrapolating from the results, Zhao Yun is certainly victorious, but if it is a different place, the Qingzhou Army does not seem to need to let a general like Zhao Yun take risks when the overall situation has been decided.
How much impact can it have if another thousand cavalry is transferred?
"General, you turned around and sniped, presumably with the intention of dying, but Yun was not in a hurry to attack, what do you think is the reason?" Zhao Yun asked again.
Of course, the "......" ugly didn't know, but his instincts told him that danger was coming!
Zhao Yun didn't mean to sell Guanzi, under the ugly and restless gaze, he gently revealed the mystery: "In today's decisive battle, my lord was actually not sure in advance that the Montenegrin army would come to help in the battle, but he planned a strategy, but he did not mean to let the brothers fight alone to the end. In fact, in this battle, there are reinforcements all the way ......"
"Which way!" The ugly and majestic body shook on the horse, and he almost fell down, in fact, he had vaguely guessed the truth, but this truth was too cruel for him to believe.
Zhao Yun looked at his opponent with a little pity, and sighed softly: "Since just now, the horn in the army has been sounding constantly, and this horn is actually used by Bai Ma Yi to communicate with each other from a long distance when he was fighting outside the fortress, and it can convey a lot of information, such as the direction and approximate distance of a certain defeated army......
"Lord!" The ugly liver and gall are broken, and they look up to the sky and shout wildly.
Zhao Yun persuaded again: "General, the general trend is already like this, how can it be ......"
"Jizhou...... Only the decapitated general! Ugly raised his head suddenly, his eyes were red, and he roared wildly: "Today, someone is just dead, Zhao Yun, today is either you die or I live!" ”
The iron spear roared, and the ugly fought back with all his might, but the morale of the Jizhou cavalry behind him had dropped to the bottom, and there were only a few dozen horsemen who came forward with him, and the others didn't even have the heart to escape.
In front of him, the two generals of the world caught and killed each other, but the robes who fought back fell one after another under the rain of arrows like locusts. Behind him, there was a faint sound of trumpets and earth-shattering horses' hooves.
That's not what hundreds of deserters can cause, it's the roar of thousands of vengeful horsemen!
Who would have thought that Gongsun Chan actually went south, and just when everyone thought that he was still fighting outside the Saiwai, the divine soldiers descended from the sky!
Although he didn't have time to catch up with the tragic battle, his appearance completely ruined the hope of the Jizhou group - it was all over.
The figure of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry has not yet appeared, and the peak duel in the field has already divided the winner and loser, and the ugly defeat, when he fell off the horse, there were at least more than ten gunshot wounds on his body. When fighting against Zhao Yun, he only attacked and did not defend, and this could only be the result.
The remaining 700 or so cavalry dismounted and surrendered.