On the other hand, since learning that Liu Dai was attacking lightly, Bao Xin and Zhang Miao were in a hurry, even if Bao Xin took his army day and night, rushed to Shanyang County, and met Liu Dai's subordinates who broke through and were covered in blood on the way, and learned that Liu Dai was trapped in Jinxiang, he was even more hurried to help Liu Dai.

Who knew that before he could reach Jinxiang, he was ambushed by Zhang Yan's army. And although Zhang Miao's strength is nothing, he also sent troops, of course, Zhang Miao relied on the trapped camp under Xu Ji, who was pressing the formation behind him.

In fact, Zhang Yan did not dispatch his elite troops at all when he attacked Jinxiang, because his goal was never to capture Jinxiang and take Liu Dai's head.

However, Bao Xin and Zhang Miao were very unfortunate to meet Zhang Yan's main force, which had been led from the time of the army in Changshan, with more than 50,000 people.

Before the two of them understood what was going on, countless black-clothed thieves swarmed out of the dense forest, and more than 10,000 Montenegrin soldiers armed with longbows were divided into three rounds to shoot at Bao Xin and Zhang Miao's army. There was a "whining" sound in the air, and in this terrifying sound, Bao Xin's soldiers fell to the ground one after another.

"Ah——!h In order to protect Bao Xin, a general beside Bao Xin desperately rode his horse in front of Bao Xin, and a carved arrow penetrated the general's chest like lightning, turned over and fell off the horse. Seeing that Bao Xin's eyes were about to split, Zhang Miao beside him was already so frightened that his face was blue and his lips were white, and he couldn't speak.

The soldiers in front raised their shields one after another, and the soldiers were in an embarrassed formation to defend, and some soldiers looked around. Obviously, there is a retreat in my heart. Bao Xin originally led the troops back slightly, but he didn't expect that the archers on the opposite side did not know how to advance or retreat. He repeatedly pressed forward, always shooting Bao Xin's army not far away. It made Bao Xinjun's army confused.

Bao Xin saw that the situation was gradually getting out of control. With a wave of his hand, he slashed a cold arrow flying from the opposite side, and shouted: "Who dares to retreat?" Don't let go! He turned his head to look at his younger brother Bao Zhong and said, "You sweep the formation in the back, form a battle formation with shield soldiers, and shoot at the archers, and I will lead people to attack in front." In front of us, it is just Zhang Yan's trick to hinder the advance of our army, don't panic, we must rush to Jinxiang before sunset. ”

Although Bao Xin's words did not even believe him very much, they calmed the minds of his soldiers. Of course, there is a reason for this, what can be seen on the opposite side is indeed just a group of archers, so it seems that Zhang Yan obviously wants to contain the advance of Bao Xin's army with a long-distance attack. But Bao Xin was skeptical. Because there are more archers on the other side, this is really not very reasonable.

However, the situation at this time did not allow him to think about it carefully, only to hear Bao Zhong's promise, roared again and again, and ordered the soldiers in the front row to raise their shields to resist the bows and arrows that had been greatly reduced in front of him, and the soldiers behind him could take a chance to breathe, and quickly formed a horizontal Yuli array, which was divided into three pieces. Large in the middle, small at both ends, and left two passages. In the event of a surprise attack, this kind of Yuli array, which can be attacked and retreated, is really the best choice for a foothold.

And Zhang Miao was already a little panicked at this time, first of all, he had suffered a sudden change, and secondly, Xu Ji's subordinates had not seen him so far. So he grabbed Bao Xin and pleaded: "Gongshan is now besieged in Jinxiang, and Gongshan is the hope of Yanzhou." How can you take the risk yourself? ”

Bao Xin shook off Zhang Miao and looked at Zhang Miao. There was fire in his eyes and he said: "Meng Zhuo, Gongshan is begging for thieves for the righteousness of the world. You are now dissuading me from thinking twice, but you are actually evading responsibility! The eldest husband died on the battlefield for the country, and if he died, he would die, so why be afraid? When the princes met the alliance, you were afraid of Yuan Benchu, and you didn't dare to personally lead the troops to help, but you also secretly sent your subordinates to support Meng De, Meng De and I are deeply grateful, and you also know that Gongshan is my friend, so you can think about how Cao Mengde treated you at the beginning! ”

After speaking, he turned his head, a pair of small eyes shot out of affection, looked at a white-robed young general behind him who was eager to try, and said in a deep voice: "Shuye, among my sons, you are the only one who is both civil and military, and your future achievements are definitely above me, if I die in front of the battle today, my Taishan Army will be fully responsible for you, you might as well lead the army to Guangling, Xuzhou, and go to your Uncle Mengde." ”

This young man is Bao Xin's third son, named Bao Xun, who is young but has already been deeply relied on by Bao Xin, and this person is also very talented. Thanks to his father since he was a child, he went to various places with his father, and his martial arts are also good, and he learned poetry and books, and won Bao Xin's love. It makes people feel short of breath in vain. What's more, the thieves on the other side are simply small units that have come to harass our army, so why bother? If you let the child go out, the custody can be successful! ”

Bao Xin was stunned for a moment, and then he laughed and said: "It is worthy of my Bao Xin's son, who has been in battle for the first time, and he has such courage!" and you will remember my words. Then he turned around, looked at Zhang Miao and the generals behind him, and looked at the two people who looked like fierce generals: "Xu Yan, Wang Kai!" Do you two have the guts to come with me? ”

The two of them had already been infected by Bao Xin's words, and when they heard the sound, they led the troops out of the two passages of Bao Xin's Yuli array like double dragons grabbing pearls, and swarmed towards the archers on the opposite side. As long as they can attack at close range, these archers can be slaughtered at will, just like unarmed children.

Unexpectedly, when the archers on the opposite side saw Bao Xin leading an army of no less than 8,000 people rushing over, they did not panic at all, and the archers who were standing in the front row and were about to carry out the next round of shooting did not hurry to squat down, and the row of archers behind them immediately raised their bows and arrows at the same time as the archers who had squatted in the front row, and pulled the strings one by one like a full moon, and the fingers that were white because of the force were tightly attached to their cheeks, and their eyes were staring at the front like eagle eyes, silently counting the number of arrows agreed upon in their hearts.

Suddenly, as if someone had called out in the depths of their hearts, the archers in the front and back rows, one high and one low, released their right hands at the same time, and the tight bowstrings were completely released in an instant, and all the strong bows no longer held the eagle arrows tightly in their arms like a full moon of reunion, but became the first quarter moon that lost weight because of the parting of the eagle arrows. Coldly facing the enemy on the opposite side, he looked at the carved arrows that had left him and walked away sadly.

Suddenly. Bao Xin's men flipped on their horses, and the cavalry that rushed ahead did not roll down from their horses. It was the war horse that was directly taken to the ground by the arrow, and it fell to the ground, causing the ground to be dusty, and in the blink of an eye, it confused everyone's sight.

Bao Xin dodged left and right on his horse, knocked another long arrow with his lance, roared, and continued forward with the infantry behind. Bao confidently understood that such a situation was inevitable, as long as he could withstand the last wave, all the initiative would return to his hands, so he not only did not retreat, but rushed forward more resolutely.

At this point, the ground was full of dust. The human body is not clear at all, it is completely a shadowy appearance, and the archers can't aim at all in this situation, not to mention that Bao Xin is already close in front of him, and he can break down the neat formation of these archers in the blink of an eye, even if those archers have time to take arrows, they don't have time to aim and shoot. Their fate seemed to be foregone.

At this moment, the last row of Zhang Yanjun's three rows of archers put their longbows on their backs and drew their longswords from behind. Without a sound, it sped past the soldiers in the first two rows, like a huge black wave, approaching Bao Xin's army.

Bao Xin was taken aback, he didn't expect that these archers in front of him actually had good hand-to-hand combat ability. I didn't expect them to sacrifice their lives to attack.

Of course, Bao Xin didn't know that these troops in front of him were the soldiers brought by Zhang Yan from his hometown. He is a fierce hunter and often deals with robbers, so everyone is good. Not only is his bow and archery extremely accurate, but he has also learned extremely useful combat experience from countless dangerous battles with wild beasts since he was a child. In addition, he has been fighting in the north and south with Zhang Yan for many years, although it is not as terrifying as the professionally trained elite soldiers under Cao Cao and Xu Ji. But they have extremely strong combat effectiveness that can make other local armies ashamed, and more importantly, they are really all-rounders in the battlefield, so there is this way of fighting, and who would have thought that these archers could turn into infantry in an instant? This is also one of the reasons why the Montenegrin Army has survived and stood tall for many years.

Before Bao Xin could make any response, the Montenegrin army had already rammed into Bao Xin's army. When Bao Xin's army was able to withstand this unexpected enemy, the two rows of Montenegrin soldiers with bows and arrows behind the Montenegrin army also put away their bows and arrows, drew their long swords behind their backs, and the sound of killing shook the sky and the earth from behind them, as if the front waves were so anxious to rush onto the beach before they receded.

As soon as they came into contact, Bao Xin's army was killed and cried bitterly, and the Montenegrin army had now turned into a blood-red eye, endured hunger for a long time, waiting for the prey to enter the ambush circle, and then thundered out of the mountain, the thick sharp long sword in his hand was their sharp teeth, between the rise and fall, Bao Xin's soldiers were splashed with blood, severed limbs, and screamed.

The soldiers of the Montenegrin Army obviously gave full play to the physical characteristics of the weapons in their hands, one by one holding swords in both hands, brave and swift, clean and neat, without the slightest hesitation and soft-heartedness, and was accustomed to a momentary cooperation between the two, to solve the enemy in the shortest possible time, in order to kill the enemy with one blow, in the face of an enemy, a Montenegrin soldier slashed fiercely from above, and another Montenegrin soldier swung his sword horizontally on one side, straight to the enemy's waist. Under such circumstances, many of the soldiers of Bao Xin's army were directly disemboweled, or cut off by the waist. The two Montenegrin soldiers who cooperated immediately separated, and then united to continue to attack the next enemy, showing extremely high efficiency and amazing tacit understanding.

The Black Mountain Army was like a bloodthirsty wolf obeying the orders of the wolf king, and it seemed to be frantically and orderly biting Bao Xin's already unstable defense line.

Suddenly, this place became a hell on earth.

Before many of Bao Xin's soldiers could react, they were struck by the long sword, the flesh on their faces was rolled up, and their upper and lower lips that were split into four by the sword were opened beyond recognition, and the broken teeth and broken teeth in their mouths flew out with the blood droplets that spurted out wildly, like rootless bitter duckweed striking on the cold long sword of the Black Mountain Army, making a faint protest that no one cared about.

Many of the more agile soldiers were cut open their chests and stomachs by the Montenegrin army because they couldn't dodge, and the blood gushing out of them poured directly into the steaming intestines flowing from the abdominal cavity like a pouring rain, and the expressions of these soldiers who fell into despair and madness before dying were chilling, and even more so, they held the organs in their stomachs with both hands and added them into their wide open mouths. With its teeth, it bites like a bloodthirsty shark at its delicious prey, as if to forget its own pain and fear of death.

There are countless people who have broken arms and hands. They all rolled there, leaving a thrilling red on the heavy yellow sand. And the red has a tendency to trickle down, and as the number of dead and wounded increases, the red stream becomes more overflowing and unbridled, and the hooves of horses and the soles of the living people constantly trample on the bloody red of the rhythm that still flows but has lost its life.

The most unfortunate thing is that those who were directly cut in half, when the upper body fell to the ground, they wanted to scream but couldn't make it, because the blood gushing up from the throat had forever blocked their opportunity to make a sound, and after coughing up a mouthful of blood again and again, both hands used up the last bit of strength to grasp deeply into the loess. But their spirits flew into the air.

Fortunately, Bao Xin, Xu Yan and Wang Kai were there, in the short and tragic hand-to-hand encounter, the three of them did not know how many lives of the Montenegrin army were killed and injured on horseback, and the soldiers of Bao Xin's army were able to fight back, and the soldiers who followed behind maintained a complete shock formation, and the two pairs of soldiers were back to back, desperately using various weapons to counterattack the fierce and nimble Black Mountain Army on both sides. Although it still keeps falling, it will not be as embarrassed as it was just now, although it is at a disadvantage.

Because there is no binding of armor. Coupled with the already abundant physical strength, the elite troops of the Black Mountain Army in front of them simply played Bao Xinjun in the palm of their hands.

Bao Xun, who was sweeping the battle with his uncle in the back, was very anxious, knowing that the group of enemies in front of him was completely a group of soldiers who were not led, and the current killing of the enemy was completely out of a tacit understanding that he was used to cooperating on weekdays. If a general appears on the other side at this time, I am afraid that the army led by my father will be defeated immediately.

Liu Yi, the strategist behind Zhang Miao, couldn't help it at the moment and rode out. said to Bao Xun: "Little general, General Bao has resisted the opponent's bow and crossbow attack in front of me. For the sake of today, we should annihilate the small group of enemies in front of us in one fell swoop. In this way, Bao Xun groaned earlier, the situation in front of him was very wrong, it was obvious that the enemy on the opposite side was not the small group of thieves they had originally imagined to contain them, and now it was really appropriate for them to rush into the army?

At this moment, the sound of killing in the rear of his own army shook the sky, and when Bao Xun looked back, he saw yellow dust billowing behind him, and a big black flag fluttering in the wind.

There are four big characters written on it: Changshan Zhang Yan!

In an instant, the clever Bao Xun figured everything out, and the blood on his face faded and said, "It's not good, we have been tricked!" ”

Zhang Yan is high-spirited, and his right-hand man is poisonous. The fierce man's eyes flashed fiercely, and his hands were rubbing back and forth on the thick and thin blade of the long knife in his arms, which was as thick as an egg, obviously aroused by the bloody scene in front of him, and the murderous ferocity in the blood, the war horse under the crotch was even more agitated by the infection of the owner's emotions, and raised his head again and again in the gallop. The soldiers of the Black Mountain Army who followed Yu Poison to death behind him were naturally extremely familiar with what the general's movements at this time portended, and they couldn't help but shout excitedly, and they all moved forward bravely.

Everything in front of him was not Zhang Yan's expectation, Bao Xin came to the east, there were only three roads to go, and the troops were less than 40,000, so Zhang Yan, whose troops were more than four times that of Bao Xin, simply set up a heavy half-moon encirclement on the three roads, no matter which ambush Bao Xin crashed into, the soldiers in the other two ambushes would come from behind, forming a complete encirclement, so as to avoid the dispersion of troops caused by the battle line being too long.

However, Zhang Yan was afraid that Bao Xin would see through his intentions, so the three and a half moon-shaped ambush soldiers were all the elite of the Montenegrin army, and they were all good hands in the army who could open strong bows and borrow short soldiers, so that the thoughtful Bao Xin believed that what he encountered was only a small force in the Montenegrin army. Bao Xin really hit the plan, and instead of withdrawing his troops quickly, he chose to stand firm on the opposite side, waiting for an opportunity to break through the attacks of these archers.

The Montenegrin army was originally a thief soldier who moved extremely fast, and Bao Xin's hesitation and wrong decision gave Zhang Yan time to calmly arrange, and since Zhang Yan appeared at this moment, Bao Xin had become a turtle in Zhang Yan's urn.

However, Zhang Yan obviously didn't take Bao Xin to heart, because the troops to deal with Bao Xin in front of him were only seventy or eighty thousand, and the other troops were completely unknown to Zhang Yan in the ambush circle in the northwest of Jinxiang.

So where is Xu Ji? What is the goal of those elite soldiers under Xu Ji's command now?

At this time, Bao Xin was in a big mess, and the morale of the army, which had finally been cheered up, suddenly fell, the soldiers panicked, looking in all directions uncertainly, Zhang Miao, Liu Yi and others scolded again and again, the effect was not ideal, in fact, not to mention the soldiers, even Zhang Miao himself was already sweating profusely, and there was no human color on his face.

Zhang Miao's only hope in his heart at this time was the original "enemy", Xu Ji. (To be continued......)