Chapter 164 On the reward of meritorious deeds
Yes, standing behind Zhang Liao at this time was the most elite Zhang Jiajun heavy cavalry of Zhang Chao's department.
This black cavalry heavy armor, which is invincible on the battlefield and has never been defeated, has long been eager to try. Now after hearing the order of the main general Zhang Liao, he suddenly rushed forward with thousands of horses.
Zhang Jiajun's heavy cavalry was still the same as before, and did not make a sound on the way to charge. Rushing from afar, an extremely depressing feeling also came with the wind.
The powerful murderous aura rushed towards the army led by Zheng Gu like a gust of real wind. Before they could fight each other, they first felt a chill in their hearts.
The chill slowed down the Lord's solid form. He didn't really intend to rush forward, he would do this, but it was just to cheer up the soldiers below.
It's just that the other young generals didn't pay attention to this, and still rushed forward with a shout, and soon caught up with Zhang Liao, the general who rushed to the front.
Holding a halberd in his hand, Zhang Liao's shot was a sudden spear stab, which hit a young general of the Montenegrin Army who couldn't dodge. Immediately, the blood stained the halberd red, and it was originally a big living person, but it was taken away.
The halberd shrank and struck it backwards, and the back of another young Black Mountain Army general seemed to be slapped by a heavy weight, and the strong force made him fall off his horse, and then he was trampled to death by the rushing thousand troops.
After killing two young generals one after another, Zhang Liao Wuyong is still the same, and the halberds in his hands are like life-threatening locks, continuing to harvest any enemies who dare to come to him.
Compared with Zhang Liao's martial arts, the performance of the thousands of Zhang Jiajun heavy cavalry behind him is also extraordinary.
Relying on the bravery of the horses, under a wave of impact, I don't know how many enemies have been knocked away. And once he came into close contact with the enemy, he relied on the hardness of the armor on his body and was not afraid of the characteristics of ordinary swords and guns, and began to kill.
Whenever a black-clothed heavy horse appeared, it was like the king of Hades locking his life, accompanied by the scene of one after another black mountain army being knocked down and killed on the ground.
After Zhang Liao killed more than a dozen people in a row, his eyes began to look for Zhengu, this person is his target today.
It's just that because it was dark, his vision was very limited, and he didn't even let him find the figure of Zhenggu, but he shouted to let him know that it turned out that Zhenggu had escaped first.
Originally, under the chaos of the war, no one would pay attention to more movements around them, even if they wanted to escape, they could take advantage of the chaos. However, the direction he fled in was behind, which made him coincide with the Montenegrin army behind him.
Under the darkness, when they saw a single horse coming, the infantry of the Montenegrin Army habitually stepped forward to block it, and even took out their weapons to fight. In order not to let these people block him, he had to declare his identity.
This is really effective, at least no one will stop him, but at the same time, the matter of his escape is well known, and there is a loud Black Mountain Army shouting, "Oh no, Su Gu fled." ”
The Montenegrin army, which had no will to fight and was killed, immediately became a mess as soon as they heard that the main general had abandoned them and fled. Under the attack of the heavy cavalry of the Zhang family's army, the speed of the rout was only faster.
Hearing that Zheng Gu had fled, Zhang Liao immediately rolled his eyes and shouted: "We fools, the main generals have all fled, who are we still working for?" If you don't surrender quickly, you can save your life, and you can still live a life with a field and a house, isn't it beautiful? ”
The Black Mountain Army, which had no fighting intentions, couldn't help but slow down the speed of waving weapons in their hands after hearing Zhang Liao's shout. And taking advantage of this time, Zhang Liao is fast horse galloping, repeating the words just now, while chasing in the direction of Zhenggu's escape.
Zhang Liao's goal is this Zhenggu, although he has made a lot of meritorious contributions after killing Bai Huan last time. But in his opinion, the lord Zhang Chao is a fierce general in his hands, and if he wants to be respected and get ahead, it is not enough to kill a white man, but he also needs to make new contributions. This stubbornness became his new goal.
Zhang Liao rushed through the Montenegrin army all the way with a tone of persuasion, and under his influence, these Montenegrin army gangs composed of ordinary people who did not want to fight in the first place turned out to be unstoppable, allowing him to rush through the thousands of armies and see the shadow of Zhenggu fleeing.
Although Zheng Gu fled first, the level of the war horse was far inferior to the Yiqun horse ridden by Zhang Liao, and he was blocked by many of his own soldiers when he fled, which made Zhang Liao able to catch up quickly.
After Gu Gu, who was riding on a horse, just glanced back, and saw a horse coming behind him, and after recognizing that the person who came was Zhang Liao by the moonlight, he panicked, and he fled like a headless fly, and he accidentally faced a dirt slope.
He only looked back, not paying attention to the terrain, but only realized after the horse had gone uphill, but it was too late, and when the horse was rushing up, he leaned forward and fell off his horse.
After falling off his horse, he shouted that he was not good, and then his body hurriedly stood up, and he wanted to flee with his legs. It's just that at this moment, Zhang Liao has already arrived on horseback, and seeing the opponent fall from the horse, the halberd in his hand is swinging and smashing forward.
In a panic, he saw something smashing at him, and out of instinct, he raised the scimitar in his hand to block it. It's just that he didn't know at all, this was just Zhang Liao's false move, and at the same time as the halberd was smashed, he had already changed direction, dodged the scimitar in front of him, and turned a corner and stabbed on the shoulder.
The halberd in the shoulder, and the blood poured into it, which caused him to howl and fall to the ground.
The solid body that fell to the ground kept spinning, and he was very painful at the stabbing site, and rolling was a matter of habit. Second, he also wanted to use this method to avoid Zhang Liao's halberd attack.
It's just that Zheng Gu still underestimated Zhang Liao himself. In history, he was the head of Cao Cao's five good generals, how could his force be too bad, even if he covered his eyes, he could still listen to the position, only to see his halberd stabbed forward, and he was hit by the position of the solid chest that was rolling on the ground.
Pity this stubborn man, who is also quite famous in the Montenegrin army, did not show any heroism when he died, and was killed by a halberd piercing the front heart.
As soon as Zheng Gu died, Zhang Liao cut off his head and rode back.
When Zhang Liao returned to the place of the great battle with his solid head, all the Montenegrin troops saw that the main general was dead, and one by one they had no will to fight, so they threw down their weapons and fell to their knees.
Similar to Zhang Liao's battle, Tai Shici led a thousand Zhang Jiajun light cavalry to fight with the right flank and rear flank of Su Gu's subordinates.
With 1,000 battles and 10,000, the disadvantage in numbers is too great, but Tai Shici, as the main general, does not have the slightest fear of war, because he knows that he is only facing a group of rabble of third-rate troops, and he only needs to defeat their earliest sharpness, and he will win to a great extent.
In fact, the situation was even better than Tai Shici expected. It is said that the Montenegrin army is 10,000 people, but in fact, it has long been different, not to mention that everyone yearns for a life with land and houses, but at least it is seven or eight out of ten. For this reason, when an army of 10,000 appeared, only 2,000 people actually participated in the charge.
Two thousand people were killed by a wave of bows and arrows from the Zhang family's army. Then Tai Shi Ci took the lead, entered the battle with an iron spear, and after picking several generals, he pressed the opponent's soldiers down. When the thousands of Zhang's soldiers behind them rushed violently, the entire team stepped over in an instant, except for hundreds of people who fled, the others surrendered to the ground and became the people of the future state city.
With 5,000 against 5,000, although Song Xian was not brave enough, the number of people was the same, which made it very easy for him to fight there. As soon as the infantry of the first class of combat power attacked, the soldiers of the Montenegrin Army were completely suppressed, and finally achieved the record of killing 1,000 enemies and capturing 4,000 enemies.
In the first battle at night, under the planning of Jia Xu and Lu Su, and under the leadership of Zhang Liao, Tai Shici, Gao Shun, and Song Xian, the enemy's main general Zheng Gu was killed, as well as more than 4,000 subordinates, and 35,000 enemies were captured, laying a good foundation for the labor required for the development of the state in the future.
After waiting for three days, Zhang Chao returned to Jinyang City with the main force, the whole city was in danger, the four city gates were opened, and the people returned to the previous busy image.
This time, Zhang Chaobing Yanmen shared nearly two months before and after, and now it is the time when the year has passed, and it is time to be busy in the spring.
In the herdsman's mansion, after Zhang Chao rushed back, he summoned a group of generals and listened to a general report on the battle situation.
After learning that the Montenegrin army had lost troops and lost nearly 40,000 prisoners on this trip, Zhang Chao was overjoyed and immediately rewarded and praised the relevant personnel.
Among them, Zhang Liao received the most praise, he was promoted to division commander on the spot after killing Bai Huan and Zheng Gu in a row, and became the fifth division commander after Zhao Yun, Lu Bu, Tai Shici, and Huang Zhong.
To say that this is also because the strength of Zhang Chao's group is still insufficient, once the military strength is sufficient in the future, there will be a commander who leads 50,000 troops, and a commander who leads 200,000 troops.
Zhang Liao's promotion illustrates a problem to the outside world, that is, no matter who you used to be? As long as the brave people in battle, they will definitely be used.
Zhang Chao is also telling everyone that you don't have to worry about anything. As long as you have the ability, you can come to me, and I will create a stage for you to play.
With this incident, Zhang Chao also thought of a way to select talents.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was no imperial examination at that time, and the capital of the scholars was the comment of the famous people. This also makes it difficult for some people from cloth clothes to get the opportunity to get ahead, and at the same time, it also makes some people with good backgrounds but not high education have the fact of deceiving the world and stealing their reputation.