Chapter 323: The Turtle in the Urn
Before Yuan Shao sent the third army, Zhang Liao and Gan Ning loudly commanded their respective subordinates to ascend the city, quickly seized a place on the city wall, and opened up more than a dozen breakthroughs in a row for the follow-up troops to enter the city one after another. The number of Yan troops in the city gradually reached nearly 1,000 from the initial dozens of people, and then increased to more than 10,000 people, and there were more people who were climbing to the city head, gradually forming a trend of resistance with the Yuan army.
Under the city, some of the soldiers left behind by Zhang Liao, after a long time of collision, finally crashed the gate of the inner city to the ground, when the smoke and dust dispersed, the door hole of the inner city was exposed, at this moment, in the door hole, has been full of Yuan army, they will be the Yan army to move forward!
Tai Shici threw down his bow and arrows, raised his tiger courage and tooth spear, and shouted to the Yan army behind him: "Abandon the bow!" Draw the knife! Kill it! "Tai Shi Ci was originally only responsible for leading the crossbowmen to attack the Yuan army on the city wall, but after witnessing the tragedy of the Qilin Army and Zhang Liao's sergeants, Tai Shi Ci was already furious, and rushed to his head with blood, ignoring that he was only leading the crossbowmen.
The 10,000 crossbowmen obeyed Tai Shici's order, threw away their longbows in unison, drew their swords from their waists with their backhands, and yelled again and again, completely treating themselves as school swordsmen.
But there are still people who are faster than Tai Shici. Huang Zhong, a veteran not far behind Tai Shi Ci, saw the city gate open, and immediately raised the Remnant Yang Red Blood Knife, together with Zhou Tai, rushed towards the city gate with the 20,000 cavalry behind him, and with the speed of the war horse, he left Tai Shi Ci's department behind him on the way to charge, like an indestructible weapon, and slammed into the city gate, as if it was a red blood knife in Huang Zhong's hand, sharp and bloodthirsty.
Flashes of blood. The heads of the two Yuan soldiers flew up, hit the cave wall at the top of the city gate, and then were bounced off and fell to the ground. It was Huang Zhong's Red Blood Knife that cut off their heads. With a shake of the blood beads on the blade, Huang Zhong let out a broken cry, and the Silver Dragon Moon Locking Knife Technique was fully used, and the blade was headed, and the sergeants of the Yuan Army were cut down in batches, and the screams were endless.
A few feet away from Huang Zhong's side, Zhou Tai danced a big arc knife in his hand. It's completely a posture of only attacking but not defending, and the moves are all killer moves, and he doesn't care about his own defense at all. Every time a knife is slashed, it will be accompanied by a tiger roar from Zhou Tai, every knife. They are all full of strength, which is diametrically opposed to Huang Zhong's elegant and spicy knife skills. But the lethality is not much inferior to Huang Zhong. In the blink of an eye, dozens of Yuan soldiers had already died under the big arc knife.
With the rush of Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai, the Yan army quickly opened up a world in the city gate, and the Yuan army that was killed was defeated and retreated. Yuan Jun was mostly from Jizhou and Qingzhou, both of which were notoriously wealthy and lived in affluence. Sergeant Yuan has lost the fighting spirit of forgetting his life and death; On the other hand, the Yan army was all born in the bitter cold land of the five northern states, and there were many warriors of different races mixed with it, and their fighting spirit was extremely tenacious. Fight like a wolf and a tiger, all of them are ten with one. Therefore, it is not surprising that Yuan Jun was no match for Yan Jun.
Speaking of which, in the thousands of years of Chinese history, there have been countless Northern Expeditions launched from south to north, but in the end, they were very rare. The reason for this is nothing more than the courage of the people in the north, everyone is a soldier, and the will to fight is stronger than that in the south, which is clearly presented in the current battle between the Yan army and the Yuan army.
When the Luan bell rang, Tai Shi Ci flew and shouted at the Yan army who were surrounded at the city gate: "Get out of the way!" Yan Jun, who couldn't squeeze into the city, turned around and saw that it was Tai Shici, and hurriedly avoided on both sides, making way for a road that was only allowed for one rider. Tai Shi Ci rode his horse along this road and rushed to the city, and at the same time said loudly to the Yan army on both sides: "A group of ten people, enter the city in batches!" ”
After Tai Shi Ci rushed into the city gate, the Yan army outside the city immediately adjusted the formation, and in accordance with Tai Shi Ci's order, ten people formed a group and entered the city gate in a clear layer, and the congestion disappeared immediately, allowing the Yan army to enter the city smoothly to participate in the battle.
When he came to the city gate, Tai Shici saw that Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai were showing their might, and he was naturally unwilling, so he rushed towards Huang Zhong's left side with a spear. Although Tai Shici has an impatient temperament and is a pioneer in a hurry, his observation of the battlefield situation is very clear. The direction of Tai Shi Ci's rush can just form an inverted triangle with Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai, with the main general Huang Zhong as the apex, effectively clamping down on Yuan Jun's counterattack. At this time, the benefits of Ao Lie's forcible letting his subordinates practice the thirteen chapters of the Ghost Valley were reflected, otherwise, Ether Shici's reckless and impulsive character would not take the initiative to observe the situation at all, and it would definitely be a burst of indiscriminate killing.
The narrow city gate cave has become the second battlefield for the soldiers of both sides, and the fierceness of the battle is not much worse than the battle on the city wall. Because of the narrow terrain, neither side can invest too many troops, even so, the people on both sides have already crowded the city gate hole, let alone turn around, even it is a little difficult to swing the knife, and only near the inverted triangle formed by Huang Zhong and the other three can barely move freely.
On the outer wall, looking at the two battles up and down the inner city, Ao Lie thought for a moment, and then said: "Come on, go and inform Youwei, stop shooting, and turn to besiege the gates of the inner city, but if Yuan Jun intends to go out of the city, shoot immediately!" Gongming, you take 20,000 troops, go to several gates in the inner city to set up defenses, and form a pinch-and-down attack with Youwei, don't let Yuan Shao go! Lao Hei, you bring two thousand blood killing brothers to stay behind to protect Kong Ming and them. Meng Qi, Tiger, Wen Chang, go into the city with a certain killing! Gong Jin, the task of guarding the prisoners of the surrendered army and the captured materials is left to you! ”
Under the promise of everyone in unison, Ma Chao, Xu Chu and Wei Yan and more than a dozen deputy generals walked down the city with Ao Lie, and there were already elites of the bloody killing army carrying Ao Lie's overlord gun and waiting under the city, and the snow dragon horse was also brought over.
Ao Lie shook his cloak, turned over and jumped on the back of the horse that was shining in the night, stretched out his hand to take the overlord gun, pointed in the direction of the inner city, and shouted: "Erect the Loyal Martyrs' Monument!" Kill into the city and kill Yuan Shao! The 18,000 elites of the Blood Killing Army, together with 20,000 Tiger Warriors, who had already been assembled, shouted loudly: "Kill into the city and kill Yuan Shao!" ”
The shouts of nearly 40,000 warriors showed the high fighting spirit in their hearts, and then, led by Ao Lie, they raised their weapons and rode towards the gates of the inner city. As long as Huang Zhong and the others repelled the Yuan army guarding the cave at the city gate, they would drive straight into the city and fight to the death with the Yuan army in the city!
After Ao Lie left the city, Zhou Yu silently spread out the map, carefully looked at the structure of the inner city for a while, and then turned his head and called Xu Sheng and Chen Wu, and said in a low voice: "King Yan is reluctant to send our Jiangdong disciples to the battlefield, but we can't repay the favor. Now is the time for us to repay the favor, the houses and buildings in the city are staggered, very mixed, not suitable for cavalry charges, I am afraid that Yuan Shao will start a street battle. Most of King Yan's subordinates are cavalry, and I am afraid that they will not be able to exert full combat effectiveness. The two of you each led 5,000 foot soldiers, climbed into the city along the ladder erected by General Xingba, and then divided into two ways, together with the two generals Xingba and Wenyuan, to kill from the city and help King Yan. ”
Xu Sheng and Chen Wu glanced at each other, and then said in unison: "Don't worry, the two of us will not let Yuan Shao's conspiracy succeed." With that, the two turned around side by side. A moment later, their figures appeared under the walls of the inner city, and they commanded their troops to begin to climb up the ladder.
The battle of the city gate cave was fought after the city head, but it ended before the city head. Under the charge of the three generals Huang Zhong, Tai Shici and Zhou Tai, the Yuan army, which was not led by a general, was quickly killed and forced to hand over control of the city gate. Huang Zhong made a color to Tai Shi Ci and Zhou Tai, and the three of them were divided into three directions, each leading thousands of Yan troops to kill in the city.
Not long after the three of them left the city gate cave, Ao Lie's figure appeared in the city gate cave, and he said loudly to Wei Yan: "Bring 10,000 tiger warriors to support General Huang, if the old general has a little accident, this king will ask you!" "Huang Zhong is Ao Lie's favorite general, the older he is, the older he is, the kind of person who is strong, Ao Lie doesn't want to see him make any mistakes, so he aggravated his tone and ordered Wei Yan in the tone of King Yan. Wei Yan didn't dare to slack off, responded loudly, and then immediately led his troops to chase after him.
"Meng Qi, you go to support Ziyi." Ao Lie continued to shout: "Tiger, come with so-and-so, let's go to support Youping." At this moment, the 38,000 elites were divided into three, presenting a second triangle, each superimposing the first triangle of the three divisions of Huang Zhong in front of them.
In Xinhe City, Yuan Shao, as Zhou Yu expected, scattered most of his troops into various alleys, wanting to rely on his geographical advantage to give the Yan army a head-on blow. Only a small part of Yuan Jun was left behind as Yuan Shao's personal guard, guarding Yuan Shao's side, and hiding with Yuan Shao in the largest alley in the city.
Initiating a street battle is also Yuan Shao's decision as a last resort, this is no way out, Yuan Shao didn't expect Gan Ning and Zhang Liao to be so brave, they could forcibly conquer the inner city in a short period of time, causing Yuan Shao to not even have time to escape, the outer city was given to Ao Lie by Yuan Shao, I thought it was a wonderful move, which could restrain the two major killing weapons of the red-clothed ballista and the heavenly maiden scattered flowers, but I didn't expect that the most self-defeating thing turned into a turtle in the urn. Now even if Yuan Shao wants to escape, I'm afraid he won't be able to break through the condescending Zhang Xiu in the outer city, not to mention, Yuan Shao knows that with Ao Lie's wisdom, he will definitely send people to strengthen the blockade and block all his retreats.
Since there is no way back, Yuan Shao can only make a heart and fight to the death with Ao Lie. Whether the catcher caught the turtle in the urn, or whether the turtle fought back and bit the catcher, everything is still unknown. (To be continued......) (To be continued......)
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