Chapter 92, the momentum of breaking the bamboo
Seeing that Liao Bo killed his four generals one after another, Cheng Yuanxiong was very angry in his heart, and asked sharply: "Who dares to fight?" As long as he is caught, he will immediately bow to the general and lead 20,000 troops. "But despite this, no one dared to fight. Liao Bo's bravery is in everyone's eyes, the four people in front of him are already the fiercest people in their army, and they have all died in battle, so isn't it equivalent to sending others to death in vain?
"Why, can't you find anyone coming out? Looks like you're going to have to die. Liao Bo smiled very provocatively.
When Cheng Yuanxiong heard this, he was even more furious, and scolded: "Your subordinates are defeated, why do you have the face to speak wildly, and see that I will take your life." Cheng Yuanxiong said, and came with a knife. Liao Bo was not afraid, and greeted him with a spear. I saw Cheng Yuanxiong slashing with a knife, Liao Bo dodged with a low body, and at the same time a shot was drawn, Cheng Yuanxiong blocked it with a knife, roared, flipped his wrist, and slashed at Liao Bo's arm. Liao Bo didn't have time to put away the gun, so he could only give up the gun and shrink his hand, and only after Cheng Yuanxiong slashed it with a knife did he catch the gun and drag it back, and the head of the gun directly grazed Cheng Yuanxiong's neck and returned.
Cheng Yuanxiong wiped his neck, a little blood on his hand, he was shocked and angry, and launched attacks one after another, Dafa became faster and faster, and the strength in his hand became more and more amazing, every time Liao Hua blocked his knife, his arm was numb, and he almost couldn't hold the gun steadily.
The two fought for another fifty rounds, and Liao Bo gradually fell slump, only defending, and did not fight back. Suddenly, I saw that Liao Bo stabbed with a shot, Cheng Yuanzhi slashed at him, Liao Bo flew up, the knife was looking at the horse's head, and with a bloody light flew out, the mount fell to the ground with a bang, blood flowed all over the ground, and died quietly.
Cheng Yuanxiong saw it, shouted loudly, and directly brandished a knife to slash at Liao Bo who was standing on the ground, Liao Bo was shocked, and a shot came out, straight to Cheng Yuanxiong's chest, but Cheng Yuanxiong easily dodged, raised his knife to Liao Bo, and shouted: "Suffer death." โ
Before he finished speaking, he heard Zhang Yu shouting "Cultivation is rampant", and he came with a gun. Seeing that Zhang Pre was fast and would soon come to the front, Cheng Yuanxiong abandoned Liao Bo and attacked Zhang Pre directly. He slashed out, Zhang Pre also shot out, although Cheng Yuanxiong's knife was short, but he suddenly adjusted the direction of the horse's pace, but he almost saw Zhang Pre's body, and Zhang Pre also picked Cheng Yuanzhi's headscarf with a shot, and picked off the yellow scarf on his head.
"Your general's head is already in my hands." Zhang pre-raised the gun, showed the yellow scarf to Cheng Yuanxiong's army, and said loudly.
When Cheng Yuanxiong's army saw it, they were all surprised, if this was half an inch, then Cheng Yuanxiong was really afraid that he had been stabbed to death by Zhang Yu. Listening to Zhang Yu's words, Cheng Yuanxiong jumped like thunder and scolded: "I had to take your head." As he spoke, he slashed at Zhang Pre again. Zhang Pre dodged sideways, who would have thought that Cheng Yuanxiong actually had a hand, his knife did not cut directly, but stabbed like a sword, directly stabbing Zhang Pre's stab to the ground.
He smiled and said to Zhang Yu's army, "I have cut off the head of your general. โ
When Zhang Yu's soldiers heard this, they were all surprised, and the soldiers behind were surprised when they heard Cheng Yuanxiong's words at this moment because they saw the battle between Zhang Yu and Cheng Yuanxiong, and they all looked at each other. There was a look of horror on his face. kept asking the soldiers in front of him, and from time to time Zhang Zhen really had an accident. When the soldiers in front of them told them that they were just picked off and the general was fine, they were not so alarmed.
I saw the two rushing to kill each other, and after nearly 100 rounds of fighting, Zhang Yu took out a shot and stabbed Cheng Yuanxiong's heart, but Cheng Yuanxiong didn't dodge, and directly grabbed Zhang Yuanxiong's gun with his hand. Zhang Yu was surprised, this Cheng Yuanxiong was really bold, if he couldn't catch it, then he would have fallen to the ground at this moment. But he still caught it.
At this moment, Cheng Yuanxiong held a knife and cut directly at Zhang Pre's gun, only to hear a click, Zhang Pre's gun was cut in two, and the head of the gun was held by Cheng Yuanxiong, and he could only hold the gun and Cheng Yuanxiong on horseback.
After a while, Zhang pre-drove the horse back a few steps, pulled out a long sword from his waist, and fought with Cheng Yuanxiong, the swords were connected, and the scene of the fight was much more thrilling than before.
The two fought for another fifty rounds, both of them were out of breath, and the strength in their hands was not as strong as before. Cheng Yuanxiong suddenly threw the big knife at Zhang Yu, and he turned his horse's head and fled back. Zhang Chengyuan Xiong ran out of weapons, and immediately drove his horse to chase after him, shouting: "The thief will leave." โ
Cheng Yuanxiong fled without looking back, and fled directly back into the military formation. Zhang pre-chased for a while, didn't dare to chase anymore, and rode back. And at the moment when he turned around, Cheng Yuanxiong suddenly used his magic spell, the sky was instantly covered with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and the ground was also full of strong winds, flying sand and stones, and rolled straight towards Zhang Yuan's army. When the mounts in Zhang's army heard the thunder and lightning and the wind blowing, they were already frightened, screaming and fleeing in all directions, there was no way to control it, and the plastic surgery was completely disrupted.
When Cheng Yuanxiong saw it, he immediately commanded the army to rush and kill, and when the army saw that Cheng Yuanxiong's Taoism was effective, they were all overjoyed, and they were all full of spirit, and they rushed to kill bravely. When Zhang Qianjun saw Cheng Yuanxiong's army coming, they fled one after another, but no one threw down a weapon. Cheng Yuanxiong continued to make waves and led the army to kill. Zhang's army had no intention of resisting at all and retreated one after another.
Cheng Yuanxiong commanded the army to chase for a while, beyond the scope of the spell, for fear of another ambush, he did not dare to chase, but at this time, Zhang Yuan led an army to kill from the left. Then there was another cannon fire on the right, and Xu Tu with an army also surrounded him. Zhang Yu in front of him stopped running away at the moment, and came back with the army to kill.
Cheng Yuanzhi saw it and sneered: "Your army is less than 10,000, but I have 50,000, the terrain here is vast, you can't form an encirclement of me, I see what you can do to me." โ
Zhang Yuan smiled: "We didn't plan to ambush you, you just have to play any demon tricks." โ
Cheng Yuanxiong looked at Zhang Yuan's army, all of them were fully armed, wearing hoods and armor, although the number of people was far less than his own, but they had an advantage in equipment, if they fought hard, I was afraid that no one would be able to take advantage. He laughed and began to activate the demon spell again, and the sky was full of dark clouds, and the ground was full of strong winds.
But just as he was about to command the army to rush and kill, he suddenly brought out some wooden barrels and earthen basins led by Zhang Yuan's army and Xu Tu's army, and then poured some extremely smelly filth on Cheng Yuanxiong's body. Cheng Yuanxiong was shocked, and when he wanted to launch the demon law again, he found that he had no mana at all, and he couldn't launch it at all.
Zhang Yuan said: "We have broken your demon law, you just suffer death." Saying that, he took the lead in raising a gun and killing the general, Xu Tu on the left, and Zhang Yu in front of him, all rushed up at the same time. Seeing that Zhang Yuan's army was like a rainbow and he had no Taoism, Cheng Yuanxiong was also timid in his heart, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to fight.
He wanted to escape in the chaos, but Zhang Yuan was entangled with him, although he was in the Wang Juncong, but Zhang Yuan was like entering a no-man's land, chasing Cheng Yuanxiong and not letting go. Cheng Yuanxiong was even more panicked when he saw this, and secretly marveled that Zhang Yuan was really a fierce general, and he was so comfortable in the midst of ten thousand armies. Seeing that Zhang Yuan was about to catch up, Cheng Yuanzhi suddenly pulled his bow with an arrow and shot three arrows at Zhang Yuan in a row, but none of them hit. He was even more horrified in his heart, and ran away while turning around and shooting arrows, until the ten arrows on his back were shot, and still no arrow hit Zhang Yuan.
Zhang Yuan shouted, jumped on his horse, and shot at Cheng Yuanxiong. Cheng Yuanxiong swung his knife to block, but he was still half a step slower, and Zhang Yuan's shot had already stabbed him in the chest. Cheng Yuanxiong spurted out a mouthful of blood, screamed, and fell to the ground, dying of anger, and still kept his eyes closed when he lost his breath.
"Your general is dead." Zhang Yuan cut off Cheng Yuanxiong's head, rode his horse and whipped up a height, and raised his head to the Yellow Turban army fighting below him and said loudly. When the Yellow Turban army saw that the general Cheng Yuanxiong had been killed, they suddenly lost their fighting spirit, and fled in all directions, but before they had time to escape, they threw away their weapons and chose to surrender.
Zhang Yuan said: "Your rebellion is a capital crime, even if you surrender, it is a capital crime." However, if you can make meritorious service for your crimes, you can not be held accountable for your past mistakes, but if you choose to flee or do not want to make meritorious contributions, then there will be no forgiveness for your death. โ
The Yellow Turban Army all knelt on the ground, saying that they were willing to wear their crimes and make meritorious contributions, and they were forced to do so in order to survive. Zhang Yuan told them that if they wanted to make meritorious service to atone for their crimes, then they should take up arms, remove the yellow turbans, join his army, and go to Liaoxi to resist other rebels together.
All the Yellow Turban soldiers bowed their heads and said, they would never dare to rebel, they would definitely swear allegiance to the death, desperately atone for their sins, and only hope to spare their lives now. Zhang Yuan agreed, let them take off the yellow scarf, coil their hair, and mix with Zhang Yuan's army, so that they could not form an independent team to prevent them from rebelling. At the same time, Zhang Yuan announced to his army that now that the Yellow Turban Rebels have been surrendered, they will be his brothers in the future, and they must be treated equally. The armies shouted in unison, and they would be regarded as brothers, and would not humiliate and ridicule them.
After the reprimand, Zhang Yuan led the army to continue to march to Liaoxi. He had originally had an army of 5,000 before him, but now he has incorporated more than 25,000 people from the Yellow Turban Army, and his strength has increased greatly, and the army is marching towards Liaoxi.
After another ten days of marching, he finally arrived at a county town in Liaoxi County, which was originally occupied by the rebel army, but when he heard that Zhang Yuan came with 30,000 troops, the thief army left in panic after plundering one side here. Zhang Yuan was furious when he saw the chaos in the city, and found out that the general of the thief army here was occupied by the leader of the Yellow Turban Army by Zhang Cheng, and he had now fled to Haiyang County to fight the thief army there.
Zhang Yuan originally wanted to go directly to Yangle and Zu Zhao to make peace, but after learning Zhang Cheng's whereabouts, he immediately changed his attention, and first went to kill that guy and then went to Yangle and Zu Zhao round. The army rested in the city for the night, and did not do any harm to the people. Two soldiers adapted from yellow turbans, due to hunger in the night, sneaked into the farmhouse to steal food, and ate the little wild vegetables and small noodles that the family had. When Zhang Yuan heard this, he was going to kill them, but under the plea of his master, he changed it to a big fifty military stick, and took out his own part of the military food to compensate the people.
The people didn't want it, saying that they were fighting for the people, how could they ask for military rations, the people could starve, but if the soldiers were hungry, who else could protect them. Zhang Yuan was moved in his heart, it was really not easy for the people to understand him like this, and he hated the rebellious ministers and thieves in his heart, and vowed to count all the guys who brought disaster to the country and the people, and returned the people of the world to a happy land. And the only one who can help him realize this wish is naturally Zu Zhao. In his opinion, Zu Zhao is indeed thinking about the people, unlike other powerful groups, such as Yuan Shao, who are all for their own interests, regardless of the lives of the people.
The next day, Zhang Yuan left the county with a large army and went directly to the ocean, it is bound to destroy all the thieves there, the soldiers can be absorbed, and the leaders must be killed, they revolt not for the people, but for their own enjoyment, if they are really for the people to think, they will not plunder the people when they retreat.
Zhang Yuan took the army day and night, it took two days, and finally arrived at the outskirts of Haiyang, and saw the Haiyang county town from afar, built on the mountain, with mountains on both sides, one facing the cliff, and only the east side was the way out, so there was only one city gate in the whole city, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but under certain circumstances, it could also be said that it was very easy to attack, because there was only one place to defend, and it was impossible for them to pile up manpower on it, and they had to go up in batches.
Zhang Yuan marched very fast, and the thief army in Haiyang did not expect him to arrive so soon, and in their expectations, it would not arrive until at least two days, and they would not be strict at this time. Zhang Yuan ordered the soldiers to spend the night on the outskirts of the city and not to light fires. The thief army did not have spies to come out, and they didn't know anything about Zhang Yuan's arrival.
In the middle of the night, there was a sudden loud noise, the sky collapsed, the earth shook, Zhang Yuanjun was shocked, I don't know what was going on, but they didn't dare to mess around, they still hid and rested in the place designated by Zhang Yuan, preparing to launch a surprise attack the next day, and the thief army was caught off guard.
It turned out that there was a huge collapse on the mountain, and the stones rolled down, smashing the west city wall, and the stones and sand directly overflowed the city wall, and buried several houses in the city, and some people were buried in it.
When the leader of the thief army heard this, he did not care, and he did not let people rescue the buried people. When the sky was slightly bright the next day, Zhang Yuanjun's spies had already probed back last night's movements and talked about the collapse of the mountain. When Xu Tu heard this, he couldn't help but applaud and said, "God really helps our army." Zhang Yuan was puzzled and hurriedly asked why.
Xu Tu said: "This Haiyang county originally had only one city gate to attack, but now the general has a second way to attack the city, and the thief army must not be defenseless at all, so it can really be easily attacked." Before Xu Tu finished speaking, Zhang Yuan immediately understood, and couldn't help but say, "God really helps me." In this way, we do not have to storm the city gates, the army is set up in ambush outside, send an elite army to attack from there, and the thief army does not know the number of our army, and will definitely escape from the city, and then it can be captured in one fell swoop. โ
Xu Tuzan said: "The general is a brave and resourceful person. In this way, the casualties of our army will be reduced to a minimum. The people will not be threatened by thieves. โ
Zhang Yuan immediately ordered the army to eat some dry food, and there was no life to cook, in order not to alarm the enemy army. Let's say that this dry food is the skill brought by Zu Zhao, so that the army brings a lot of convenience when it goes out, especially when it sneaks into the rear of the enemy, so as not to let the soldiers starve and fight, it is very practical. Moreover, when they retreated, the enemy wanted to pursue, and when they counted the number of their stoves to judge the number of their troops, they were often confused, and finally they were killed due to miscalculations, which has to be said to be a great benefit of dry food.
After eating the dry ingredients, Zhang Yuan asked Zhang Pre, Liao Bo, Deng Zhong, and selected a group of elite soldiers with a total of 2,000 people to attack the road into the city made of sand, stone and earth, and he led the army to set up an ambush outside the city. The three of them received the order and immediately launched an attack with their army. Sure enough, there was no one to guard the place, only two soldiers were there to check, and when they saw the sudden attack of the army, they were so frightened that they forgot to flee, and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy.
Zhang Pre, Liao Bo, and Deng Zhong each led their troops in various bluffs in the city, sounding like a crowd of 10,000 people entering the city. The thieves had already reported the situation to the thief generals Zhang Cheng and Zhang Shuang, and when the two of them heard that Zhang Yuan's army was actually killed from behind, they immediately panicked, and sighed that it was really like a divine soldier descending from the sky, how could it be so fast.
"How many people came in?" Zhang Cheng asked.
"The city was full of enemy flags, maybe ten thousand, maybe twenty thousand. The gates of the city are unattacked, general, why don't we abandon the city and leave? The soldier said.
Zhang Cheng and Zhang Shuang did not attack the city gate for a day, and it was expected that he knew that the city gate of Ludao was prepared, so he unexpectedly used the collapse of the mountain to attack from behind. So, the two discussed for a while, led the troops to abandon the city, and went to Yangle to join Li Ran, the leader of the uprising this time, when there were more than 100,000 troops, but they were not afraid of Zu Zhao's army.
After deliberating, the two quickly rushed out of the city with less than 3,000 soldiers, looking straight north. As soon as Lu Dao arrived, he was called out of a mountain pass, but he heard a cannon shot, and an army with the banner of Zhang Yuan suddenly appeared in all directions. Straight in front of him, a man slowly came out, his face was white and serious, holding a hook and sickle, riding a black and red horse, his aura was extraordinary, and he walked towards them majesticallyโ