The drums of war exploded, and the earth shook.

The Wei army, which had the heart of death, launched the most fierce attack from the beginning, Cao Zhi's battle flag whistled in the wind, and every soldier who walked through the battle flag took a deep look at the battle flag, and then resolutely walked towards the battle formation of the Shu Han army.

They all knew that walking through this battle flag, there was not much chance of survival, either they died heroically in front of the battle, or they died humiliating under Cao Zhi's knife. And Cao Zhi himself will follow in their footsteps, facing the arrows and swords and spears of the Shu Han army, and go to death.

No one had the luxury of surviving unless they could defeat two or three times as many enemies as they were, all they wanted was to kill as many enemies as possible before they died, so that they would die less at a loss.

Under the support of this belief in death, and under the gaze of Cao Zhi's resolute gaze, 500 Wei soldiers pushed the large shield converted from a baggage cart and walked onto the battlefield without hesitation.

Cao Zhi built a lot of ordnance in Chencang, and now, he brought all of them to Wangxian. When he entered Guanzhong, he brought some baggage carts, defeated Ma Jian at Hongmen, and captured a lot of baggage carts and a lot of heavy ordnance, all of which he took with him. It's not easy to rush with these things, but even Cao Zhi himself is on foot, who dares to complain?

It was the captives who paid the greatest price, and along the way, they carried the heaviest labor and received only the least rations. If anyone falls to the ground due to physical exhaustion, or can't keep up with the pace of the army, there is only one result, they are ruthlessly killed by the Wei army and thrown on the side of the road.

There were more than 3,000 captives, and now there are less than 500. Everyone else has been dumped in the wilderness. And the Wei army paid almost the same number of lives to bring these ordnance to Wangxian.

Now, the ordnance, which had been paid for thousands of lives, came into play, and the baggage shield carts were pushed to the front of the battle to form a movable fortress, behind which the ballista carts were placed in place, and the thunderbolt carts, disassembled for parts transport, were reassembled and stood in front of the formation.

The two armies were only three hundred paces apart, and they were already within the range of the crossbow's attack. The Wei army advanced another hundred and fifty steps. The two sides have actually been in contact. By the time the Wei army was assembling the thunderbolts, the Shu Han army had already begun to attack, roaring together with the ballista and the thunderbolts, sending sharp arrows and stones into the sky. Then smash into the position of the Wei army.

The Wei army hid behind the shield cart. Wait patiently.

The ballista began to return fire. With a roar, a sharp arrow galloped out, whistling towards the position of the Shu Han army.

The soldier assembling the Thunderbolt is covered by a shield car. Under the attack of the dense arrow rain of the Shu Han army, they still paid a heavy price, and one after another the soldiers were shot by sharp arrows, and every thunderbolt was stained with blood.

One after another Wei soldiers fell, but no one retreated, and the thunderbolts assembled at an incredible speed under the fierce blows of the Shu Han army, and then began to roar.

After the thunderbolt began to wield, the Wei army began a real attack, and two hundred men pushed the shield cart and roared and rushed towards the position of the Shu Han army. They bowed their waists, shields over their heads, swords in their hands, blood-red eyes staring at the approaching enemy.

The arrows and feathers galloped, the stone bullets broke through the air, and the sound of war drums became more and more urgent, deafening.

Arrows pierced through the gaps in the shields and pierced the armor of the Wei soldiers, piercing their flesh and skin, and blood splattered. Some fell, while others persisted and continued to walk, leaving a trail of bloody footprints behind them.

A stone bullet smashed on the shield, making a crisp sound, the shield flew apart, and the soldiers under the shield were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood. The soldiers behind let go of their companion's corpse and continued in silence.

One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred steps, eighty steps, fifty steps!

Half of the two hundred Wei soldiers had fallen, and two of the four shield carts had been smashed, but the pace of the Wei soldiers was getting faster and faster. They roared in unison, pushing the shield cart and running. The heavy shield cart made a creaking sound, faster and faster, faster and faster, with a loud rumbling sound, and rushed towards the battle formation of the Shu army.

"Kill!" The Wei sergeant behind the shield cart roared and rushed over.

With a "boom", the shield car collided with the rejected horses of the Shu Han army in front of the formation, and it was torn apart, and the Shu Han sergeant who was hiding in the formation subconsciously blocked his face with a shield. However, those Wei soldiers rushed over regardless of it, brandishing their swords, and pounced on the Shu Han soldiers in the formation.

As they ran, some of them were stabbed by the huge spikes of the rejected horses, some were shot by the galloping arrows, and some were stabbed by the spears in the hands of the Shu Han soldiers who were lying in ambush behind, but they were undaunted and roared in, even in the face of several enemies at the same time, they did not retreat.

The two sides kill together.

The Shu Han army waited for work, and had to resist horses to protect themselves, and there were crossbow carts behind them to cover, but the Wei army only had the belief that they would die, and they paid a heavy price and fought desperately into the position of the Shu Han army, sacrificing their lives to fight. Slashing with knives and smashing with shields, even if they were seriously wounded, they refused to fall, pounced, let the enemy's weapons pierce their bodies, held the enemy, and fought desperately.

They are no longer ordinary people, but crazy beasts.

Before the first batch of 200 soldiers rushed to the front of the Shu Han army, Cao Zhi sent a second group, and a third group was pulled in. The Wei army faced the dense showers, one after the other. They rushed through the arrow array of the Shu Han army, rushed into the formation of the Shu Han army, and fought for their lives.

In the face of the crazy enemy, the Shu Han soldiers did not dare to slack off, they forcibly suppressed the fear in their hearts, manipulated the crossbow carts, thunderbolt cars, and constantly fired to suppress the attacks of the Wei army. The warriors in the horse rejection formation relied on the geographical advantage, constantly counterattacked, and cut down the enemy one by one in the formation.

The two sides fought bloodily.

Cao Zhi stood under the battle flag, looking at the bloody battlefield with an expressionless face, constantly giving orders to attack. In front of him, there were three shield carts, and by his side, more than two hundred warriors. Some of them are Cao Zhi's personal guards, some are Cao Rui's arrangers to protect Cao Zhi's tiger ben, and some are Cao Zhen's personal guard battalion handed over to Cao Zhi. No matter which camp they came from, they all had only one belief now, and they could not let His Royal Highness King Chen suffer any injuries before they died in battle.

Cao Zhi's position is in the front, already within the attack range of the Shu Han army's strong crossbows and thunderbolts, under the command of Zhuge Liang, the Shu Han army has concentrated more than ten strong crossbows and thunderbolts, and the arrows are mixed with stone bullets, constantly bombarding this position, a shield car was pushed up, and it was smashed into pieces in less than a meal, and many guards were shot by arrows before they had time to gain a firm foothold, and fell to the ground with a miserable grunt, or were hit by stone bullets, and died in an instant.

But Cao Zhi did not move, perhaps because of the sacrifice of the guards, or perhaps because of the protection of the gods, he was not slightly injured, and although the battle flag flying above his head was hit by several arrows and was shot with thousands of holes, it was still high.

In just half a day, the Wei army lost more than 2,000 people, but they successfully broke through the first position of the Shu Han army, hacked to death most of the 500 Shu Han troops hidden in the horse rejection array, and pulled out this thorn alive. The corpses were all over the place, disgusting blood, arrows like thatch all over the ground, stone bullets that smashed the earth out of pits everywhere, and the water on the side was already red with blood.

Cao Zhi took another one hundred and fifty steps forward and planted it on the position of the Shu Han army that had just been captured.

The morale of the Wei army was greatly shaken, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

Looking at the broken battle flag and the figure of Cao Zhi under the battle flag, Yang Yi was shocked and pale.

"Don't worry." Zhuge Liang shook the feather fan in his hand and said unhurriedly: "Cao Zhi is fighting for his life like this, which shows that he has no other choice but to die." One drum, then decline, three exhaustion, he couldn't hold on for long. ”

Xiang Lang laughed and echoed: "What the prime minister said is very true, he broke through one of our army's horse rejection formations, and he paid about 2,000 people, and our army still has five horse rejection formations, and his more than 10,000 people can't even touch our army's main formation, and they will probably all be folded here." ”

Zhuge Liang smiled slightly, but his eyes were still vigilant: "But I believe that Cao Zhi will not be so simple and brutal, maybe he still has some killer moves, just waiting for us to reveal their flaws." ”

"At this point, what other killer moves can there be?" Yang Yi asked in surprise.

"That's the problem, we don't know what kind of tricks he's going to use." Zhuge Liang's gaze was cast into the distance, where there was Xiahou Ba's battle flag: "However, I think his killing move should fall on those cavalrymen." Xiang Gong, what do you think? ”

Xiang Lang nodded with a smile: "What the prime minister said is very true, and I think the same way." ”

In the distance, Xiahou Ba sat on a stone, chattering on a grass stalk in his mouth, the grass stalk had been bitten by him, and a faint bitter taste permeated his mouth, stimulating his nose. Listening to the sound of war drums that had not stopped before the battle, he did not dare to look up, for fear of seeing the most terrible scene. He knew where Cao Zhi was, and he was afraid of seeing Cao Zhi's battle flag fall.

He was waiting for the order to attack, and he had carefully selected two thousand knights and three thousand war horses, waiting for the beginning of Zuihou's blow. But he didn't want to hear this order, because when Cao Zhi gave this order, it often meant that he was facing death.

Xiahou Ba spent his childhood in the military camp, the battle of Dingjun Mountain, he saw his father Xiahou Yuan and younger brother Xiahou Rong die in battle, he felt that he had looked down on life and death, but now, when he watched Cao Zhi step by step towards death, he felt a burst of nervousness.

With his status and political knowledge, he certainly knew that Cao Zhi had to die, and dying here might be his best choice. And whether Cao Zhi's death can be made meaningful depends on whether he Xiahou Ba can complete Cao Zhi's goal, successfully defeat Jiang Wei, and accept Zhang He to enter the customs.

In fact, if it weren't for Niu Jin's serious injuries and no one else would be able to take on this heavy responsibility, he would rather fight side by side with Cao Zhi, even if he died here together.

He believes that this is not only his wish, but the wish of all soldiers...... (To be continued......)