Chapter 172: The Bloody Way Home (4)
Taking a deep breath, Ju Yi tried his best to calm his heart, commanding the battle, the most important thing is to be calm, and impetuousness is often the foreshadowing of defeat. Subsequently, Ju Yi issued a series of orders, and he divided his more than 10,000 sergeants into three teams, the first team was sword and shield men, and built a defensive line with shields fifty paces in front of the square circle of Ao Lie's headquarters; The second team was composed of crossbowmen, who stood behind the defensive line constructed by the sword and shield men, ready to scatter the troops of Ao Lie at any time; The third team is the cavalry team, which temporarily stays by Ju Yi's side, and when Ju Yi thinks that the fighters will appear, they will launch a charge and chisel through the formation of Ao Lie's department.
Seeing the hierarchical distribution of the enemy army, Ao Lie's heart sank suddenly. Fortunately, a large number of crossbowmen under Yuan Shao and others were on the mountains on both sides of the official road, and they didn't have time to go down the mountain to participate in the battle for a while, otherwise, with Juyi's arrangement, they and others would really only have to be killed.
beckoned to Xu Rong, and Ao Lie said seriously: "The current situation is critical, and General Xu is tired of presiding over the overall situation and resisting the enemy army." Xu Rong didn't expect that just a few days after joining Ao Lie's command, he was entrusted with such a heavy task by Ao Lie at such a critical moment. Employing people without doubting these four words, Xu Rong deeply realized it in Ao Lie's body. Xu Rong arched his hand towards Ao Lie and replied briefly: "Thank you for your trust." If so-and-so, the position is there. ”
Jumping onto a nearby big rock, Xu Rong began to dispatch troops.
"Order Ma Chao to find a way to expand the battlefield, and it is best to involve all the princes' coalition forces into the battle."
"Order Huang Zhong to lead the army to attack the front army of Juyi, and be sure to destroy the enemy's shield array."
"Tell Tai Shi Ci, wait until the shield array is broken, kill it at all costs, and try to inflict heavy damage on the enemy crossbowmen and break up their formation."
"Ordered Zhao Yun to lead a team of elites to find the weak points of the enemy army. Break through the encirclement and ask Wen Hou for help. ”
"Xu Chu and Dian Wei, lead a hundred elites to protect the lord, and once there is a gap in the enemy army, immediately protect the lord from the battlefield."
Xu Rong issued a series of orders in an orderly manner. The soldiers under Ao Lie's command, under the command of Xu Rong, began to operate rapidly. Zhao Yun broke away from the inner circle of the Fang Yuan Array and wandered around with dozens of elites of the Blood Killing Battalion, looking for flaws in the coalition forces. Taking advantage of the arrival of the coalition army, he fought bloody battles from a weak point in the encirclement, and pursued Lu Bu along the road in the northwest direction.
Ma Chao danced the tiger's head and the golden gun. Urging Sha Lifei to sit down and lead 5,000 Tiger Ben elites to rush and kill on the battlefield, it was like a tornado, which not only successfully contained the attack and harassment tactics of Zhang Yang's subordinates, but also swept away the other princes and coalition forces who rushed to the battlefield, forming a melee.
Huang Zhong danced the Remnant Yang Red Blood Knife like a flying dragon outside the sky, and the power of the Silver Dragon Moon Locking Knife was fully displayed, and he led a team of elites of the Blood Killing Battalion to attack the shield array laid by Ju Yi. After Ju Yi saw Xu Rong's arrangement. There was a feeling of annoyance in his heart, the formation he had just laid out was so easily cracked by Xu Rong. The crossbowmen who had arranged for Ju Yi didn't even have time to fire a salvo before they were withdrawn by Ju Yi. Ma Chao has already been fighting with Zhang Yang and other princes. If Ju Yi continues to give the order to release arrows, it is inevitable that he will hurt his allies. The charge of shooting friendly soldiers on the battlefield, he can't afford it.
Seeing that Huang Zhong's sword was like a dragon, he came straight to the shield array. Ju Yi stretched out his hand and pointed at Huang Zhong's department, and shouted angrily: "Crossbowman! Target Huang Zhong's department, release the arrow! "Between Ju Yi's shield array and Huang Zhong's department. There were no other princes' coalition mixed in, just enough for the crossbowmen to show their might. However, Ju Yi forgot that he had just ordered the crossbowmen to retreat, and now he suddenly asked the crossbowmen to step forward again and shoot at Huang Zhong's troops, and there was bound to be a process of adjustment in between, although this process was short, but it still slowed down the crossbowmen's movements. When the crossbowmen returned to the shield array, just after shooting a rain of arrows, Huang Zhong's troops had already killed in front of the shield array, making the crossbowmen fall into an embarrassing situation that they could not use their strength again.
All of this was within Xu Rong's calculations, and Xu Rong deliberately issued orders one by one, just to mobilize the crossbowmen commanded by Ju Yi. First of all, according to the position of the crossbowmen, let Ma Chao lead the army to disrupt the battle situation, resulting in a situation where Ju Yi did not dare to order archery, he estimated that Ju Yi would definitely withdraw the crossbowmen and let the cavalry team in the back row put into the battlefield, so then let Huang Zhong lead an army to highlight the battle formation and take the shield formation in front of Ju Yi, because Zhang Yang and other princes allied forces were bypassed from both sides, and there was only Ju Yi in the middle of the battlefield, so Xu Rong calculated that Ju Yi would retransfer the crossbowmen, and with this buffer, the battle damage of Huang Zhong's troops could be greatly reduced. Every order of Ju Yi was in Xu Rong's calculations.
After Huang Zhong waved his sword to block a round of arrow rain, he had already ridden his horse to the front of Yuan Jun's shield array, and the remnant sun red blood knife in his hand accompanied by Huang Zhong's roar, slashed from mid-air, and the sharp blade with Huang Zhong's huge strength easily broke through several round shields, and together with the Yuan army saber shield hand behind the shield, it was cut into two sections together. After breaking through the shield array, Huang Zhong instigated to sit down on his war horse and fight forward, and after breaking through the three shield arrays one after another, Huang Zhong had already come to the front of the crossbowmen of the Yuan army. Having lost the protection of the infantry and shield array, the crossbowmen who lacked melee combat skills were like a herd of sheep waiting to be slaughtered, looking at Huang Zhong's fierce tiger in horror.
Huang Zhong roared again, and swung his sword into the group of crossbowmen, which was not far behind the tiger entering the flock. When Huang Zhong was wreaking havoc in the Yuan army's crossbowman array, the elite of Huang Zhong's blood killing battalion had also rushed to the front of the Yuan army's shield array, and several blood killing battalion elites formed a small battle formation, echoing each other, along the gap broken by Huang Zhong, and rushed horizontally, expanding the gap in the shield array again. Every time the gap in the shield array expands, an elite of the Blood Killing Battalion will rush forward desperately to block the gap and prevent the gap in the shield array from being bridged.
After all, the gap is just a gap, and it can only accommodate a small number of blood killing elites to rush and kill in the gap. Most of the bloody elites who came with Huang Zhong could only adopt a hard-hitting style, holding the seven-foot-long horse-chopping knife in their hands flat, holding their hands together on the three-foot-long hilt, using the horse-killing knife as a spear, aiming at the middle of Yuan Jun's wooden shield, and stabbing it fiercely.
The wooden shield in Yuan Jun's hand, in a burst of shattering sounds, was pierced by the heavy horse chopping knife, and the narrow blade of the horse chopping knife stabbed into Yuan Jun's body holding the shield. Bright red blood spurted out along the deep wound, rendering the blade of the horse chopping knife a striking one.
Although Yuan Shao was reluctant to use a large amount of iron to make shields for the soldiers, he also knew that in battle, the quality of weapons and equipment would play a crucial role in the outcome of the war. Therefore, the shields in Yuan Jun's hands were all made of solid wood, although they were pierced by the sharp and heavy horse chopping knife, but they successfully stuck the horse chopping knife on the shield, so that the elites of the Blood Killing Battalion could not draw out the horse chopping knife in a short time to slash again.
Taking advantage of the opportunity when the slasher was stuck in the shield, the Yuan saber shieldmen discarded the wooden shield in their hands one after another, drew their war knives and slashed at the elite of the Blood Killing Battalion. Casualties, once again, appeared in the middle of the elite of the Bloody Killing Battalion, as usual, every Bloody Elite who was cut down only snorted at most, but none of them let out a howl of pain. Pain cannot wear down their will; Death can't cool their blood! Some of the elite of the blood killing battalion who were cut to the point, knowing that they were going to die, but they couldn't tolerate the worthlessness of their death, they let go of the hands holding the horse chopping knife, and pounced on the enemy in front of them, using the most powerful strength in their bodies, and threw the enemy in front of them to the ground.
These elites of the bloody killing battalion who died together with Yuan Jun won a short time for the living robes with their own sacrifices, so that more elites of the bloody killing battalion could smoothly pull the horse chopping knife out of the wooden shield. After drawing out the horse chopping knife, the living elites of the blood killing battalion let out a roar one after another, and slashed the horse chopping knife in their hands frantically towards the Yuan army sword and shield hands, bringing up more and more gorgeous blood mist.
Screams continued to resound in Yuan's array, and the sword and shield men who were standing in the front row were slashed to the ground in pieces, and the blood flowing from their lifeless bodies stained the ground near them red.
Seeing that the elite of the Blood Killing Battalion were all one as ten, and they were very brave, Ju Yi beckoned behind him, and said coldly at the same time: "Cavalry team, attack!" Thousands of cavalrymen, who had been waiting behind Ju Yi for a long time, raised their swords and guns, vigorously stepped on the belly of the horse that sat down on the war horse, and rushed towards Huang Zhong's headquarters with a shout.
If the enemy does not move, I will not move, and if the enemy wants to move, I will move first. Xu Rong has mastered the essence of the art of war. When he saw Ju Yi ordering the dispatch of cavalry in the midst of the chaos, he shouted to Tai Shici across half the battlefield: "General Ziyi, rush forward!" "Tai Shi Ci had already led a team of Tiger Ben elites to the center of the battlefield, and was fighting with Yuan's relics on the left side of Ju Yi's department. After hearing Xu Rong's shout, he looked up, and after seeing the movement of the cavalry behind Ju Yi, Tai Shi Cihu roared, led the tiger elite around him to fight hard to split the opponent in front of him, and then turned around and intercepted the cavalry sent by Ju Yi. The Tiger Ben elite led by Tai Shi Ci was originally tasked with intercepting the Yuan cavalry and annihilating the Yuan army's crossbowmen, so in the previous battle, Tai Shi Ci deliberately led his subordinates to fight while approaching the Ju Yi Department without a trace, and when he received Xu Rong's order, Tai Shi Ci's department happened to be behind the flank of the Yuan cavalry, and could easily launch a lateral attack on the Yuan cavalry. (To be continued......)