Chapter 528: Detour to Hedong

"It hurts! It hurts me! Just as everyone was looking at the old man with suspicion, the man with a broken leg lying on the ground suddenly let out a howl of pain, and he, who was almost out of breath, turned around again.

The people around looked at the man with a broken leg who had walked around the Yama Hall and came back to life in amazement, and their faces were full of disbelief.

They saw with their own eyes that the man with the broken leg was trampled by the war horse and vomited blood, and the horse's hooves were heavy, and he stepped on the human body, and he was trampled by the war horse, no matter who looked at him, the man could not be saved.

To everyone's surprise, the old man actually just fed the man a pill, which had the effect of bringing the dead back to life.

"Immortal Chief!" Everyone was looking at the man with a broken leg who woke up in amazement, an old woman squeezed out of the crowd, suddenly knelt down in front of the old man, kowtowed to him, and cried and said: "My daughter is seriously ill and has been bedridden for two years, and I ask the fairy chief to save her!" ”

The old woman knelt down, and among the people who watched around, there were also seriously ill patients in the family, and one by one they woke up like a dream, and knelt in front of the old man, begging the old man to help.

"Folks, please get up!" The old man stroked his snow-white beard with one hand, and raised his hand to the kneeling people, and said to the people: "Yu Ji, a person who is an outsider, does not want to participate in the affairs of this world. Helpless people's suffering, really make a certain heart unbearable, since the villagers have a request for a certain one, then a certain will go to the villagers to solve the crisis! ”

Yu Ji promised to save everyone's danger, and the people who knelt on the ground cheered together, stood up one after another, pulled Yu Ji, and rushed to invite him to his home.

A few days later, far away in the north, outside Yuyang City, a large army with red armor was slowly advancing towards the south.

Riding a snow-white horse, Liu Wei was wearing a golden battle armor, and while slowly moving forward, he turned his head to look at Yuyang City behind him.

"Gongsun Du has already led the army back to Liaodong!" Following behind Liu Bian, seeing Liu Bian turn his head to look at Yuyang, Pang Tong got closer and said to Liu Bian: "Yuan Benchu won Youzhou, His Royal Highness doesn't have any scruples about him?" ”

On the city wall of Yuyang, the battle flags of the Jizhou army flew in the wind, making Yuyang, which had lost a lot of vitality in the war, regain a bit of its former momentum.

"It's better to have more powerful allies than many powerful adversaries!" Turning his head back and looking ahead, Liu Wei threw such a sentence to Pang Tong, and asked Pang Tong: "Does Cao Mengde have any news?" ”

"Back to Your Highness!" Liu Wei mentioned Cao Cao, Pang Tong rode a horse, hugged his fists and said to him: "The Yanzhou army has forced Guo Yan into Hanoi, Guo Yan's army is short of food, and in a few days, Cao Mengde can break it!" ”

Knowing that Cao Cao was about to defeat Guo Yan, Liu Wei reined in his horse, looked up at the blue sky, muttered for a moment, and shouted to the soldiers who followed him: "Pass the order, the army will march southwest, detour to the east of the river, and return to Luoyang!" ”

Liu Wei led the Luoyang army, made a detour to Hedong, and returned to Luoyang from Hedong. Two or three days later, Cao Cao, who was besieging Guo Yan in Hanoi, got the news, but his heart suddenly tightened.

"Duke Ming, the king of Luoyang should have passed through Hanoi and returned straight to Luoyang!" Cheng Yu stood behind Cao Cao, looked at Cao Cao who was looking into the distance, lowered his voice, and said to Cao Cao: "I just got the news that the king of Luoyang not only did not lead the army to the direction of Hanoi, but made a detour to the east of the river......

"In Zhongde's opinion...... Cao Cao did not look back, still looking at the remnants of Guo Yan's army surrounded by the Yanzhou army in the distance, and asked Cheng Yu: "What does the king of Luoyang want to do?" ”

"I don't want Your Majesty to enter Luoyang!" Clasped his hands into fists and bowed to Cao Cao, Cheng Yu said to Cao Cao: "If the King of Luoyang leads his army to Hanoi, even if the Ming Duke defeats Guo Yan, no matter what the reason, His Majesty will definitely return to Luoyang with the King of Luoyang......"

"But the king of Luoyang did this...... frowning tightly, Cao Cao's tone was a little puzzled, as if talking to himself: "What is the intention?" ”

"Ming Gong knows it in his heart, why do you need to say it!" Maintaining a posture of clenching his fists, Cheng Yu said to Cao Cao: "The king of Luoyang wants Duke Ming to bring His Majesty back to Yanzhou......"

"Yanzhou ......" Cao Cao pouted and smiled slightly, and said to Cheng Yu: "I don't want to return to Yanzhou, if I save Your Majesty, I want to lead the army to Xuchang!" ”

"Xuchang is located in the Central Plains, and it is a place where soldiers must fight!" Cao Cao proposed to go to Xuchang, Cheng Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said to Cao Cao: "When Duke Ming goes to Xuchang, he can take the opportunity to recuperate, strengthen the army, conquer the world in the future, and support the prestige of the Han Dynasty!" ”

"What Zhongde said is not bad!" The corners of his mouth maintained an indifferent smile, Cao Cao nodded slowly, looked at the remnants of Guo Yan who were surrounded in the distance, raised his arm, and shouted loudly: "Order the whole army, defeat Guo Yan in one fell swoop!" ”

After receiving Cao Cao's order, a Yanzhou officer standing not far behind him hurriedly raised the order flag in his hand and waved it vigorously a few times.

As the flag waved, four or five shirtless men, holding drumsticks in their hands, beat the war drums in front of them vigorously.

The war drums "dong dong", the sound was earth-shattering, Xiahou Dun, who led the army to surround Guo Yan, heard the sound of war drums from the main formation, raised the big sword in his hand high, and shouted to the soldiers of the Yanzhou army behind him: "Soldiers, kill with this general!" ”

Behind Xiahoudun, there were also Li Dian and Le Jin, hearing Xiahoudun's shout, the two of them also raised their weapons high in their hands and shouted: "Kill!" ”

With a shout, Xiahoudun clamped his legs towards the horse's belly, held a big knife in one hand, pointed obliquely at the ground behind him, and rushed towards Guo Yanjun.

Le Jin and Li Dian followed closely behind, rushing towards Guo Yanjun's horse.

Tens of thousands of Yanzhou troops followed closely behind, and while letting out an earth-shattering shout, they held their blades and pounced on Guo Yanjun.

"Defense! Defense! Xiahoudun led the army to launch a charge, and fought against the Yanzhou army for several days, and Guo Yan, who had never won a single victory, saw this, and hurriedly issued an order to the army behind him to defend.

A group of heavy infantrymen with torn armor and even some of their shields had their shields cut off the corners, got Guo Yan's order, and hurriedly lined up a defensive formation, holding a shield in one hand, forming several rows of thick shield walls, and the other hand held a short spear, the tip of which pointed at the Yanzhou army that was rushing towards them.

As soon as the heavy infantry set up the array, a group of archers immediately ran behind the heavy infantry array, put their arrows on the bowstring, and aimed at the Yanzhou army that was still charging.

"Shoot the arrows!" The Yanzhou army's charge was too sudden, and the officer who commanded the archers of Guo Yan's army had no chance to let the archers release the arrows to locate them, so they could only rely on experience and give the order to release the arrows when they felt that the Yanzhou army at the front rushed within range.

The arrow was on the bowstring, and the archers of Guo Yanjun's army, after receiving the officer's order, let go of the hand that pulled the bowstring and shot the arrow out of the bowstring.

With the sound of the bowstring, the arrows flew towards the Yanzhou army that was charging rapidly.

Following Xiahou Dun to the front, it was the heavy cavalry of the Yanzhou army.

The Yanzhou cavalry is slightly different from the cavalry of the Luoyang Army. The stirrups that Liu Wei assembled in the cavalry of the Luoyang Army did not spread to the other heroes. The Yanzhou cavalry, which was not equipped with stirrups, was relatively unstable on horseback.

Facing the arrows flying like raindrops, Xiahoudun stirred the big knife with both hands, dancing the big knife like a wind leaf, and Li Dian and Le Jin, who rode their horses on his left and right sides, bent down and dodged the rain of arrows shot by Guo Yanjun with the help of the body of the war horse.

Thousands of Yanzhou cavalry who rushed to the front, holding a cavalry round shield in one hand and a short spear in the other, kept their legs between the horse's belly, urging the horse to rush forward quickly.

Arrows flew towards the Yanzhou cavalry, many arrows hit the round shield in the hands of the cavalry, with the roar of the horse's hooves stepping on the ground, the Yanzhou cavalry also sounded a burst of shields and arrows collided with the "snap" crisp sound.

The arrows were too dense, and in addition to the arrows blocked by the shields, there were also some tricky feathered arrows that hit the Yanzhou cavalry hiding behind the shields, knocking the unlucky cavalry off their horses.

There were also many arrows that flew towards the Yanzhou cavalry, although they did not hit the Yanzhou army on horseback, but they shot the horses like hedgehogs.

The war horse that was shot by the arrow let out a mournful roar, and in the fast running, the front hooves went weak, turned over his heels, and even the man and the horse fell out of the road.

The hooves of countless war horses smashed on the ground, and the dust on the ground flew high, filling the air with an earthy yellow smoke screen like a thick fog.

One by one, the Yanzhou cavalry and the war horses who were hit by the arrows rolled and fell into this thick smoke and dust, raising some of the smoke and dust that was already invisible.

Wielding a broadsword, Xiahou Dun, who was the first to rush to the front of Guo Yan's army, roared and lifted the reins violently when he reached the array of Guo Yan's heavy infantry.

The reins of the rushing war horse were suddenly lifted, and under the pain, the two front hooves were raised high, and the hind legs kicked suddenly, and jumped towards the array of Guo Yan's heavy infantry.

The war horse jumped up, and the heavy infantry of Guo Yan's army below hurriedly pointed their short spears into the sky, and more than a dozen short spears pierced into the belly of Xiahou Dun's mount.

With the momentum of the war horse's volley, the sharp short spear cut its belly through long openings, and the horse's blood and internal organs fell like rain, and Guo Yanjun's face below was all over his body.

The mount was stabbed to death by Guo Yanjun, and Xiahoudun on horseback took advantage of the situation to press his hand on the saddle, and his body jumped in the air, and the big knife in his hand drew a circular arc of light around him as he fell.

Seeing Xiahoudun jumping up from his horse, more than a dozen Guo Yanjun hurriedly rushed up and raised their short spears, trying to stab Xiahoudun to death as if they were stabbing a war horse, and stringing Xiahoudun on the short spear.

But Xiahoudun was not a horse after all, and as soon as the more than ten Guo Yanjun troops rushed up, the arc of light drawn by the big knife in Xiahoudun cut towards them.

With a miserable howl, more than a dozen Guo Yanjun, who rushed towards Xiahoudun, were stabbed one after another, blood gushed out of their chests one by one, and they were knocked to the ground and lost their breath.