Chapter Seventy-Five: Ten Days of Danger
Surrounded on three sides, the Yellow Turban soldiers, who had slightly fewer troops, were already panicked. As Gao Shun gradually tore apart the Yellow Turban queue, Xu Huang and Cao Cao kept forming an offensive from both flanks, and the Yellow Turban Army's position quickly became chaotic.
Coupled with Zhao Xuan's ability to give his main force a head-on attack, Gai Sheng seized the opportunity to quickly advance, and the Yellow Turban thieves had been divided into several pieces unconsciously, forming a situation of fighting on their own.
Although there were also several Yellow Turban generals who tried to reorganize their troops through local adjustments, but to no avail, their banners that had been disrupted, not to mention that the Yellow Turban soldiers could not distinguish them, and even Wang Xu, who was a bystander, was a little dizzy......
Gao Shun, who was fighting, saw that the Yellow Turban was successfully divided and attacked, but there was no joy on his face, but he firmly remembered Wang Xu's explanation, quickly found the Chinese army banner of the Yellow Turban, and led the iron cavalry behind him to rush over without fear.
On the other side, Xu Huang also showed an extraordinary sense of war, seeing that his task had been completed, he did not blindly continue to follow Wang Xu's instructions. On the contrary, he saw the right time, entered the enemy formation from a gap, rushed left and right, and did not fight with the enemy, but just ran to those flag-bearers, where the big axe passed, the yellow turban flags fell to the ground one after another!
Cao Cao in the north was also not slow, seeing that the Yellow Turban chaos had been completed, he reversed the retreat just now and led his troops into the chaos. And he is extremely clever in picking up weak and chaotic places to attack, avoiding strong places, and while coming and going freely in the Yellow Turban Formation, he also hits the most critical places every time, creating even greater chaos! Wang Xu also had to obey the smooth command ability, at least compared to this alone, there is still a big gap between him and Cao Cao!
Under such a multi-faceted blow, the entire command system of the Yellow Turban troops was rapidly paralyzed, the team was in chaos, and the soldiers were dizzy, not knowing how to fight!
As the shape became worse and worse, the Yellow Turban soldiers, who gradually lost their ability to resist, began to suffer a large number of casualties, and the panic in their hearts was infinitely magnified.
When several Yellow Turban soldiers on the western edge of the battlefield took the lead in escaping, this action immediately set off a chain reaction, kicking off the prelude to the Yellow Turban's collapse.
More and more Yellow Turban soldiers escaped the battlefield and fled westward in a frenzy. Although a few Yellow Turban generals reacted quickly, roaring and killing many fleeing soldiers, it was useless at this moment, but only increased the fear of the soldiers!
In just a moment of incense, the Yellow Turban Army's heart completely collapsed, and the entire team fled......
Seeing this scene, Wang Xu's spirit was shocked, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the horsewhip was whipped, and he rushed to the battlefield. Seeing this, the 100 knights with great axes who were on standby at the bottom of the slope immediately followed!
"Kill!"
"Rush! Brethren, the time has come to make meritorious deeds in slaying the enemy! ”
"Chase! Don't let the Yellow Turban Thief run away......"
As the battlefield got closer, the shouts of the Han army became more deafening, but Wang Xu didn't have the heart to take advantage of the generals' pursuit of victory, but hurriedly ran towards Zhao Xuan's location, as the troops guarding the grain and grass, they were the only ones who did not participate in the pursuit!
When Wang Xu saw Zhao Xuan, who was covered in blood, his clothes and armor were torn, and he was very wolf-like, he was leaning on the grain cart, looking at the earth in a daze!
"General Zhao, how are you?"
"Huh?"
Looking up and seeing that it was Wang Xu, Zhao Xuan's haggard face barely showed a smile, and he slowly shook his head and said, "I'm nothing!" It was only a minor injury. ”
"Huh! That's good, how's that? Is there a big loss of grain and grass? ”
As soon as these words came out, Zhao Xuan suddenly sighed deeply, glanced at the surrounding grain and grass, and his eyes gradually showed a slight confusion: "It's big, at least half of it has been lost!" ”
"Hiss......"
Hearing such a big loss, Wang Xu also gasped.
"How long will the remaining grain and grass be enough for the army?"
"Less than ten days!"
Even Wang Xu was silent now! Isn't that a joke? What is enough for less than ten days? Now the two armies are facing each other, and the difference in strength is not big, although the imperial court soldiers are more elite, but at most they can fight a few tentative battles in ten days!
"Hey! I can't imagine that I, Zhao Xuanrong, am half a horse, but today I fell into the hands of this thief, what a shame! It also caused the army to be trapped, if the army was defeated due to the lack of food and grass, what face did I have to see the fallen soldiers, and what face did I have to stand on this Han land! ”
After a sad lament, Zhao Xuan's eyes flashed with tears. Looking at the corpses everywhere with complicated eyes, he gritted his teeth violently, and pulled out the long sword at his waist: "I, Zhao Xuan, have the grace of His Majesty, so I will apologize for my sins with death." With that, the long sword turned and wiped it off his neck.
"No!"
Wang Xu's eyes were quick, and when the blade of the sword had not yet reached his body, he had already held Zhao Xuan's hand tightly, and persuaded urgently: "General Zhao, why is this, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, why bother?" Besides, it's not your fault that the grain and grass were robbed, no one expected that there would be a yellow turban ambush here! It is not easy for General Zhao to be able to respond to the situation and save this half of the grain and grass in time, what is the crime? ”
"General Huangfu entrusted me with the heavy responsibility of grain and grass, and now there is less than half of it left, dare to ask how the army can defeat the enemy army in ten days? At that time, there will be a shortage of food in the army, and the soldiers will be tired, so how can there be any reason to be invincible? How can such a crime be remedied by a common thing in a soldier's life......"
After speaking, Zhao Xuan shook his head with a sad face, suddenly opened his eyes away from Wang Xu, and swung his sword again to kill himself.
In a hurry, Wang Xu couldn't take care of a lot, and suddenly silently used his internal strength, and slammed his opening palm on Zhao Xuan's right shoulder!
Although Wang Xu had tried his best to control his strength, he was caught off guard by this heavy blow, and Zhao Xuan was immediately knocked to the ground, and the long sword in his hand also flew out.
"What are you doing?"
Facing Zhao Xuan's angry eyes, Wang Xu immediately explained: "General Zhao don't be angry, he has to do it as a last resort!" ”
After speaking, he didn't wait for Zhao Xuan to speak again, and immediately continued: "Even if the general thinks he is responsible, now is not the time to apologize!" The grain and grass were robbed, the army was in danger, General Zhao was trying to remedy it at this moment, how could he die like this and evade responsibility? ”
This remark made Zhao Xuan, who was in impulse, pause slightly, and then hesitated and asked, "How to remedy it?" ”
Seeing that the other party was willing to calm down and analyze the current situation, Wang Xu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, opened his mouth and continued: "General Zhao, the current situation has been formed, and even if you die, you can't change anything." On the contrary, only by living can we find a solution to the problem. ”
"In my opinion, the most important thing for a general to do now is to immediately lead his troops to the county capitals to recollect grain and grass, and the grain brought by the army in our army should last for three or four days, and there are ten days of grain and grass here, if it is used sparingly, it should be able to last for about eighteen days. Only during this period of time, can we really solve the plight of our army by gathering all the grain and grass and transporting it to the army! If the general is dead now, he is the real sinner! ”
After listening to Wang Xu's righteous accusations in a daze, Zhao Xuan was not angry, but immediately turned over and jumped up, slapped his head and said, "I'm really confused, I am so stupid!" I'm glad you're here, otherwise I would have missed something big today! ”
"You're right, I'll lead the troops to raise grain and grass, and first relieve the siege of the army and then ask General Huangfu for guilt!"
Seeing that the other party no longer had the intention of dying, Wang Xu finally breathed a long sigh of relief. With Huangfu Song's wisdom, it is impossible to blame Zhao Xuan too much in this matter, and he was next to him but did not prevent the tragedy from happening, so there was really trouble.
Moreover, Wang Xu's persuasion is also true, Zhao Xuan is now going back to raise food is the top priority, otherwise who will clean up this mess?
It's just that it is too difficult to gather enough grain and grass within seventeen or eighteen days and send it to the army......