Chapter 52: Embattled
Xiang Yuanzhen was shot by Hua Rong with an arrow and fell under the horse and was killed instantly! Seeing that the main general was dying, the officers and soldiers turned around and ran away one by one, even if there were people who dared to fight, they had to go with the flow by this ebb tide.
In all fairness, these officers and soldiers are all selected soldiers, and when it comes to the quality of individual combat, they may not be much worse than the people and horses of Liangshan, but the problem is that the people and horses of Liangshan know what they are fighting for - it has always been said in the martial arts hall that on the battlefield, they first earn their lives for themselves, and then fight for the oppressed and exploited poor and rich ordinary people in the world to come back! Marshal Ximenqing has also been practicing and working tirelessly for this goal - therefore, the people of Liangshan can fight without doubt, and die without confusion.
What about the officers and soldiers? Even though they are elite, they really can't find any reason to fight hard. Good iron does not twist nails, good men are not soldiers, if most people are not really forced to make a living, who will suffer the white eyes of the people of the world and go to the army of the court to eat food? The beating and insulting a few days ago is just that, even if they came to suppress the bandits and contribute to the country, the money that they finally rewarded for their lives was still taken away by Gao Yu and Niu Bangxi, even if they robbed the people a few times in the middle, most of the three melons and two dates they got back had to be filial piety to Shangguan.
Therefore, for these officers and soldiers, it is possible to consider a good fight, anyway, follow the bargain, as long as they don't be written off by Zuihou's cold arrows; But desperately? Thank you for not being sensitive. If you don't fall into death, who is it for? What's in it for you? Besides, if you are really caught in death, you can still surrender! Although Liang Shan is ruthless, he has never heard of any notoriety of killing and surrendering.
Therefore, as long as the main general dies, the officers and soldiers themselves will be defeated by pushing me to the ground, and several formations are without exception, as if they have a tacit understanding with Liangshan very early.
Thanks to the blessings of these rabble, after Hua Rong's arrow shot Xiang Yuanzhen, Mu Hong led his troops to break up, and snatched the left array of ears without much effort. The platform where the communication drum is placed is too high, the people of Liangshan are too lazy to climb, everyone is a habitual family of killing people and setting fires, so they carry a roll of reeds and grass reeds, wrap them on the pillars of the big wooden platform, and then pour a little fish oil, a fire is lit, and suddenly the red flame is half a day high, and the left ear of the Sancai Heaven and Earth Array is completely broken.
On the platform of the Chinese army of the Sancai Heaven and Earth Array, the generalissimo Gao Yu saw smoke coming out of the left ear and smoke in the right ear, and he was defeated back to Wang Wende, the envoy of the Jingzhao Hongnong Festival, and couldn't help but be angry, and ordered the left and right to push down the defeated general Wang Wende and behead him, thinking that the battle was ineffective.
Just when the executioner couldn't help but say that he was tying Wang Wende with a rope, the waiters who reported the news finally returned. These people watched the enemy on the front line, and they wanted to take the opportunity to collect a few small fortunes - as long as they started with copper coins, they would mention a little soldier in front of adults, how to kill thieves; Colonel so-and-so, how effective it is to break the enemy - who knows that when the price negotiation is entering Hong Kong, he encounters a defeat like a mountain.
Pity these waiters who follow behind the boots of high-ranking officials on weekdays, acting as a prestige and pampering, where do you know what it is like to be in a chaotic army? For a while, he was swept away by the defeated soldiers, and his body involuntarily drifted around, it was really like the wind blowing and the rain beating the wanderers, and there were a few overly wine-colored legs and stomachs that had just fallen to the ground as soon as they were weak, and immediately countless stinky feet stepped up, and several of them were trampled to death before and after, and they couldn't pick them up with a spade.
The rest of the Yu Hou escaped from danger, escaped from death, and finally returned to the Chinese army generals, and when they saw Gao Yu, they all cried tears, as if they had been wronged by 100,000 people. When Gao Yu asked, he knew that the battle situation was not going well, and the few knots on the left and right in front of him had all the jade shattered, and Wang Wende was able to pick up his life, which was already burning high incense.
Wen Huanzhang also admonished that the tiger and wolf were in front of the steps, but they beheaded their own generals first, only afraid that the army would be disadvantaged. Gao Yu then borrowed the slope to get off the donkey, and said with a bitter face: "I am also a tearful horse!" Who among you knows the bitterness of my heart? With a wave of his hand, Wang Wende really picked up his life.
Gao Yu asked about the battle situation of the former enemy, and Wang Wende painted a picture and told the story of how Qin Ming wrapped his intestines around his waist to find someone's life, only to hear Gao Yu's face was like earth, and the ice water was cold to the bone marrow, and he only said in his heart: "Damn, my grandma!" I knew that Liangshan Caokou was so crazy, and I wouldn't have come to this pool of troubled watersโhow can I do it now? It's better to go back to the account and pack up the gold and silver treasures, and I'll run away first! โ
was thinking about how to withdraw from this battle with dignity, and the veteran Wang Huan came back with a ride of absolute dust - Wang Huan had arranged the light signal for the night battle before, and it was delayed for so long a day, and when it was finally straightened out, the left and right arrays were all taken by Liang Shan, and the Sancai Heaven and Earth Array suddenly became a deaf array. Wang Huan was in danger, and hurriedly turned his horse and ran back, he knew that the biggest enemy was not the Liangshan thief, but the coach Gao Yu, the two arrays were broken and not tightened, and he could still try to save it, but if the floating disciple threw down the army and turned around and ran, then the army was disheartened and would be defeated!
Wang Huan caught up at the right time, if he came back one step later, Gao Yu would have already gone away. When Wang Huan rushed to the stage, the captain of the dynasty was pointing to the country and said: "This will be on the stage and also depressed, this lord wants to go to Liu Menglong Water Village and his party, sit on the boat to watch the battle, there must be a different flavor, and I don't know!" Thatโare the generals willing to accompany them to protect them? โ
Before others could say anything, Wang Huan had already strode forward: "Slow! Lord Lieutenant! As the saying goes, the handsome is the courage of the army, and now the adults are sitting in the Chinese army, and if the handsome flag does not move, the army's heart will not move; If the handsome flag is waved, the morale of the army will inevitably be dissipated - Lord Taiwei, you can't go! โ
Gao Yu said in his heart: "The army's heart is slack, what does it matter to me?" Isn't it the responsibility of your generals to win a battle? You are incompetent, but you still have to restrain Lao Tzu, what is this called? But he forgot that he was knighted as a lieutenant, and he was the biggest military commander in the world.
I was not happy, and my face sank: "General Wang, Lord Ben just wants to change places to command, and it is commonplace to adapt to changes on the battlefield, is there anything wrong?" When I got on the boat, and I could see more on the water, wouldn't it be ten times better than if I were stuffy here? Mr. Wen, what do you mean by that? โ
Wen Huanzhang beside him smiled: "The art of war is cloudy-first invincible, and then the enemy can be defeated - if the adult wants to move to the shore and take the ship, it is also the meaning of being invincible first, and it is also a good strategy for soldiers." โ
When Wang Huan heard this, he was so angry that he smoked inside, and scolded viciously in his heart: "You dog-legged man knows what a soldier's good strategy is?" Dare to cut a hole here, show your *mouth?! โ
Barely suppressing the anger, Wang Huan said with a straight face: "Lord Taiwei, although the eastern, southern, and western formations are all broken, the central formation of our army is properly arranged, and the strong armor and sharp soldiers are all here. At this time, the adults are like the tripod in the temple and the Buddha in the temple, they are all things that cannot be moved, if there is a slight movement, the athletes are centrifuged, and the army will collapse - this is the territory of Liangshan, if the adults lose the protection of the three armies, is it not dangerous? โ
Although Wang Huan was bitter and intimidating, Gao Yu was still unmoved, but said in his heart: "Lao Tzu doesn't care what you can't move, Liangshan is fierce, Lao Tzu can't stand under the dangerous wall, I have to go, but how can I find an excuse that this old man can't stop?" โ
When he was racking his brains, there was a commotion, and then a person with crooked armor came to the general's platform, this person was none other than Zhongshan Anping's Jiedu envoy.
When Wang Huan and Gao Yu saw Zhang Kai so embarrassed, their hearts were half cold, and they asked in unison, "Zhang Jiedu, how do you look like this?" How's the battle going at the North Front? โ
Zhang Kai raised his head with a wry smile: "My lord, tens of thousands of horses in Liangshan beat me, the villain really couldn't resist it, the northern gate was lost, and the villain had to retreat to the waterway pontoon bridge, relying on the terrain, after several hard battles, finally temporarily repelled the enemy - adult, the villain should die, please punish the adult." โ
The description of the battle is open here, using exaggerated artistic rhetorical devices. Hu Yanzhuo, who attacked the Northern Formation Gate, only attracted Han Tao, the general of Baisheng, and Peng Xi, the general of Tianmu, and the men and horses were on the same level as Zhang Kaiqi, where are there tens of thousands of people? It's just that Hu Yanzhuo's subordinates have many cavalry, light cavalry and iron cavalry are staggered and clashing, the momentum is like a landslide and a gorge, and he has suffered enough, Zuihou really can't resist it, so he wiped his head and ran.
There is a port in the middle of the north formation gate and the Sancai Heaven and Earth Array, which is connected by three pontoon bridges, and there are many defeated soldiers in the open space, and it is difficult to pass by the pontoon bridge for a while, and it is about to go to the water to make dumplings, fortunately at this time Liu Menglong Shuizhai warship came out to respond, the ship was full of archers, Hu Yanzhuo then collected the troops, only waited in the distance, but did not come close to the head of the self-touch. He firmly remembered Ximenqing's general order, just to defeat the enemy soldiers outside the northern gate, and did not ask for much results, but firmly nailed the enemy troops here, so that they could not get on the ship happily for a while, which was the greatest success.
Hu Yanzhuo could also see the fires at the three formations here, and knew that the left army and the right army had already succeeded, so he was already full of confidence in the victory of this battle.
Zhang Kai was not blind, he also saw the three billowing pillars of smoke, like three soul-chasing arrows pressing on his heart. Worried, Zhang Kai came to ask Gao Yu for his guilt, and at the same time asked the veteran Wang Huan to make it clear - these festivals make everyone obey Wang Huan, firstly, his qualifications are old, and secondly, the old general Wang has both civil and military qualifications, and he does have admirable capital.
Hearing that the North Gate was also broken by the Liangshan people, Wang Huan said to the dumbfounded Gao Yu: "Now, if you want to go to the north to get on the boat, there is also a great risk. My lord, at this time, the soldiers are in danger, it is the day when the man is desperately trying to survive, but it is also the time for the man to make contributions! If the adults sit firmly on this Diaoyutai with peace of mind, not moving like a mountain, with the heart of the army, the sons and daughters will take advantage of the time and place, and they will break Liangshan! โ
Gao Yu heard what Wang Huan said, and couldn't help but perk up. This is exactly what it is:
It is difficult to support the defeat of thousands of troops at this moment, but fortunately it is a general at that time. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.