Chapter 508: Night Attack on Gongsun Zhan
Night fell, and the catapults, which had been roaring for a day, finally fell silent.
Outside the city of Zhuo County, a group of Luoyang troops with torches, lined up in a neat formation, under the guidance of the generals, drove into the city of Zhuo County, which had been bombarded by boulders for a day.
The torches in the hands of the soldiers were connected into pieces, and from the city gate, they almost reached the sky, and there was no end in sight.
The jumping flames dispelled the darkness around the officers and soldiers, and even the city wall near the city gate was illuminated.
The city wall, which had been bombarded by boulders all day, was smashed with potholes, and the mottled wall seemed to tell those who approached it about the cruelty and abuse of the Luoyang army during the day.
Riding a war horse, surrounded by Pang Tong and a group of generals, Liu Wei walked slowly along the street.
The streets were littered with huge rocks and pits smashed by stones, and many houses on both sides were destroyed by stones that flew into the city during the day. From time to time, the wails of women and children can be heard from the destroyed houses.
"Send an order to go down, treat the wounded people in the city, bury the dead, and don't cause a plague!" As he walked along the potholed streets, Liu Wei gave an order to one of his own soldiers who followed behind him.
The personal soldier answered, turned his horse, and conveyed the order to the Luoyang army behind.
"How is Lu Bu doing now?" When the soldiers left, Liu Wei turned his head to look at Pang Tong on the side and asked him, "Is there any news back?" ”
"Back to Your Highness!" Pang Tong rode a war horse, sat on the back of the horse with both hands and fists, and said to him: "When Gongsun Chan retreated north, Lu Wenhou had already led his troops and horses to pursue, and the news had not yet been sent back. ”
Nodding slightly, Liu Wei didn't speak again, but continued along the street slowly.
In a field more than ten miles away from the city of Zhuojun, Lu Bu rode a tall red rabbit horse, holding the reins in one hand, looking at the direction of the Jizhou army camping in the distance.
Behind Lu Bu, five or six hundred cavalrymen lined up in three columns, straightening their waists, and staring at the dark night in the distance like Lu Bu.
Behind the cavalry, more than 700 soldiers in the camp with a big shield in one hand and a big sword in the other were quietly waiting for Lu Bu to give the order to attack.
His right arm was slowly raised, pointing Fang Tian's halberd diagonally at the sky, Lu Bu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he shouted to the trapped camp behind him: "Kill!" ”
"Roar!" More than 700 soldiers who had been waiting for some impatience in the camp got the order for Lu Bu to attack, and they all shouted in unison, like a whirlwind, and swept towards the place where the Jizhou army was stationed.
Tens of thousands of Jizhou troops were already stationed in the wilderness, leaving only a small number of soldiers to patrol the night.
The Jizhou army, who was patrolling the night, was sitting in groups around the barracks, chatting with each other, when they suddenly heard a shout of killing in the dark, and hurriedly stood up.
The charging camp did not have torches, and the Jizhou army who followed the shouts of killing and looked into the darkness had panic on their faces, although they tried their best to see how many people were killed, but they couldn't even see a single figure at all.
"Enemy raids!" Finally, there were still a few Jizhou soldiers who were patrolling the night, and they shouted to their sleeping companions.
The shouting of killing was still far away, and the sleeping Jizhou army did not hear it, but the shout of the Jizhou army patrolling the night was like an exploding huge firecracker, which instantly exploded the place where the Jizhou army was camped.
The Jizhou army, which had not yet fully woken up from its sleep, heard the shout of "the enemy army robbing the camp", jumped up one by one, and before they could sober up, they had already grabbed their weapons and jumped around, and many of them even jumped out of the place where they were stationed and ran into a dark night.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up!" The Jizhou army was in chaos, and Gongsun Xu, who had just woken up, hurriedly took a few personal soldiers, and while running towards the place where the shouts came from, he shouted to the soldiers of the Jizhou army who were in a mess: "The enemy army robbed the camp at night, the number must not be much, don't panic!" ”
Tens of thousands of Jizhou troops have been in chaos, although Gongsun Xu wants to stabilize his position, where will it be so easy!
The shouts of killing became clearer and clearer, and the Jizhou army standing on the edge could clearly see the figures in the night that were swaying rapidly and rushing towards them.
"Archer!" Running to the edge of the garrison, looking at the dark shadows that were getting closer and closer, Gongsun continued to shout.
If it were on weekdays, his shout would definitely be able to prompt the Jizhou army to immediately form an effective defense, but now that the army has become a mess, his shout will soon be drowned out by the shouts of the busy Jizhou army soldiers, where will there be archers who will follow his orders to fire arrows at the trapped camp charging towards them?
"Kill!" With a roar, more than 700 soldiers trapped in the camp, holding a big shield in one hand, blocking the shield in front of them, and holding a big knife in the other hand, rushed into the chaotic Jizhou army.
The Jizhou army, which has long been chaotic, only knows that there are enemy troops robbing the camp, and at night, where will they notice how many enemies are coming!
When the camp came, almost all the Jizhou troops were carrying weapons and running wildly, and many of them had already run into the thick night and fled far away.
The Jizhou army, which was fast-legged, escaped under the cover of night. But the Jizhou army, which had slow legs and feet and poor eyes, was wiped out after the camp rushed into their station.
Rushing into the chaotic Jizhou army, the soldiers who were trapped in the camp brandished their big knives, and a sharp big knife slashed towards the Jizhou army blocking them without any mercy.
The Jizhou army, who couldn't see things clearly at night, didn't touch the blade after waking up, holding his head with both hands, and jumped in chaos by feeling.
Beside him, there were scurrying companions, and all that came from his ears was the howls of some of them being thrown to the ground and the panicked cries of others as they fled.
The miserable howls and shouts were endless, which made the Jizhou soldiers panic in their hearts.
He was running with his head in his hands when he was suddenly hit on the left shoulder. The force of hitting his left shoulder was not small, and as he staggered back a few steps from the blow, he clearly heard a terrible scream.
The screams came from the spot where he was hit, and it was supposed to be the person who hit him, who was stabbed through the body.
Hearing the screams, the Jizhou soldier knew that he couldn't run to the place just now, and after falling to the ground, he turned around and tried to escape from another direction.
Just as he turned around, his hands still tugging at the ground, trying to jump forward, his back suddenly sank, and one foot slammed on his spine.
The backbone was stepped on, and the Jizhou soldier snorted and fell to the ground.
But he didn't give up the desire to survive, his back was trampled on by one foot, and he struggled to get up, while his hands desperately pulled forward, howling, trying to break free from the foot that stepped on his back.
Stepping on his back was a trapped-up soldier armed with a broadsword. The soldier of the trapped camp stepped on the backbone of the Jizhou soldier with one foot, raised his hand holding the knife high, and then stabbed the knife downward.
The sharp steel knife pierced the back of the Jizhou soldier with a "poof", and the Jizhou soldier spasmed, convulsed a few times, stopped struggling and howling, and swallowed the last breath.
A knife pierced the body of the Jizhou soldiers, and the soldiers in the camp raised their feet and kicked on the corpse, kicking the corpse with their faces to the sky, and without even looking at the corpse, they carried a shield and a big knife and ran towards the other Jizhou soldiers.
Gongsun Xu, who had been trying to stabilize his position, was still shouting loudly while waving the long sword in his hand and fighting with the officers and soldiers who rushed to the front of the trapping camp, intending to stop the chaos of the Jizhou army and organize an effective defense.
But the chaos has become a reality, and even if Gongsun Xu tries his best, it is difficult to recover the situation.
Just as he was blocking the sword of a trapped soldier, the sound of horses' hooves was rushing to him.
Lu Bu, who was holding Fang Tian's halberd, rode his horse and rushed towards Gongsun Xu, because the foot strength of the red rabbit horse was more than a step better than that of ordinary war horses, when Lu Bu rushed close to the Jizhou army, the five hundred cavalry were still galloping in the distance, rushing towards the battlefield.
Before Gongsun Xu approached, Lu Bu didn't speak, holding the halberd with both hands, and suddenly slashed at the top of Gongsun Xu's head.
The halberd slashed towards Gongsun with the sound of the wind.
Unable to see who was wielding the halberd, Gongsun Xu hurriedly raised the long sword and put it above his head, intending to block the fall of the halberd.
When the halberd collided with the long sword, Gongsun Xu only felt a force as heavy as a mountain exert on the long sword in his hand.
Under the weight of Qianjun, Gongsun Xu's strength was almost negligible. He could only hear a howl, and the long sword that collided with the painting halberd was instantly broken in two, and Fang Tian's painting halberd slashed into the top of his head without any hindrance.
With a "poof" sound, the halberd split Gongsun Xu's head. His head was like a watermelon cut open by a knife, split in two pieces by a halberd.
Blood flew out, and half of the brain fell to the ground, and when the skull fell to the ground, the brain pulp and blood burst out in an instant.
The other half of the brain melon seeds are still connected to Gongsun Xu's neck, and the remaining half of the brain is not slipping from the braincase, but is beating slightly, indicating that Gongsun Xu's life has not ended immediately.
At the same time that Gongsun Xu was killed, Gongsun Chan rode a war horse, lay his body very low, and rushed out of the chaotic Jizhou army. He rode his horse and fled forward, looking back from time to time with a flustered expression.
The army was already in chaos, and behind Gongsun Zhan were only more than a dozen personal soldiers and Guan Jing, the chief historian he had always trusted the most.
"There's a path ahead!" While he was running away, Guan Jing suddenly pointed to a small road in front of him and shouted to Gongsun Zhan: "If we take the small road, it will be difficult for the chasing soldiers to unfold. The path is rugged, and it is not easy to find us! ”
"According to the words of long history!" Gongsun Zhan, who was already a mess in his heart and had no idea for a long time, heard Guan Jing shouting like this, he didn't even think about it, and shouted to the people who followed him: "Get on the path!" ”
The more than ten people who followed Gongsun Zhan, just like him, were already panicked, where could they have other ideas? Hearing Gongsun Chan's shout, they slammed their legs on the horse's belly a few times, and rode the horse behind Gongsun Chan and Guan Jing and rushed onto the dark path.