Tomb of Impermanence Chapter 6: The Civilian War
The next day, the four gates of Nanpi City were opened, and countless ordinary people poured out from the city gates, regardless of men, women, old and children, all holding knives, guns and weapons, shouting all the way out.
After the lineup of the people, Yuan Tan's army spread its banners and armor, and followed the people to kill together, like a tide, flocking to Cao Cao's military camp in all directions.
When Cao Cao heard this, he immediately ordered the whole army to go into battle and wait at the gates of the major villages.
The two armies handed over, and there was a scuffle. From dawn to noon, the two sides did not win or lose, killing people everywhere, and blood flowed like a river.
Cao Cao saw that he had not won a complete victory, and said to the generals Xu Chu and Le Jin beside him: "You wait for the two to lead the iron cavalry of the headquarters, bypass the people's formation, do not engage in battle, and directly attack Nanpi City behind the Yuan army's formation, and be sure to take the city outline." Xu Le and the others took the order and left.
Cao Cao personally abandoned his horse and went up the mountain, took the war drum from the sergeant's hand, rolled up his sleeves, waved the drumstick, and beat the war drum to cheer for the whole army.
Seeing this, the soldiers of Cao Ying were encouraged, and the whole army struggled forward, but after all, half of Yuan Tan's army were untrained civilians, and after a long war, countless people were killed, and people were panicked, so they only cared about fleeing for their lives.
Cao Hong, the vanguard general of Cao Ying, broke through the battle, slapped the horse and danced the knife, and the chaotic army was welcoming Yuan Tan.
Cao Hong shouted, raised his knife and slashed, Yuan Tan resisted a few times, his strength was exhausted, and he was slashed and killed by Cao Hong in the formation.
When the Yuan army saw that the main general was killed, they couldn't help but be in chaos. It was Guo Tu who pressed the formation in Yuan Tan's rear army, and when he saw the chaos in front of him, he was about to stop, when he suddenly saw Xu Chu, the fierce general of Cao Ying, in the chaotic army on the right, leading a team of cavalry, as if entering a no-man's land, and suddenly attacked in the direction of the city gate of his rear formation.
Guo Tu knew that it was difficult to resist the enemy, so he ordered the rear army to retreat into the city to defend, turned around and galloped into the city.
Le Jin, the commander of the other Cao army assault cavalry, saw Guo Tu's figure from a distance, drew his bow and arrows, and swished, aiming at Guo Tu's vest is an arrow.
That Le Jin is the sharpshooter in Cao Ying's array, and this arrow is impartial in the back, shooting through the armor of the vest and penetrating deep into the flesh and bones.
Guo Tu had just run onto the suspension bridge on the moat, when he suddenly felt a chill on his back, and immediately his eyes were in pain, and he fell from the horse and fell into the trench with a scream.
In Nanpi City, a baby's cry resounded throughout Yuan's mansion.
Yuan Tan's wife, Fan, failed to look at the baby and died of dystocia. In due course, the Jiading battle report was reported to the inner hall, saying that Yuan Tan had been killed in the chaos and that Cao's army would soon attack the city gate.
Mrs. Guo Tu, Xie Dingfang, snatched the baby that was still in swaddling clothes, rushed out of Yuan's mansion, flew on a war horse, tied the newborn baby boy to his chest, danced an embroidered long knife, killed on the street, and rushed straight to the city gate.
At this time, the main gate fell due to the drawbridge, and the retreating Yuan army had no time to retreat into the city, so Cao general Xu Chu took the lead, boarded the drawbridge, and the big knife flew to kill the Yuan army at the city gate. Suddenly, I saw a horse in the city, and a female general immediately sat down, rushing over like a gallop, holding a bright silver long knife, and slashing the head and covering the face.
Xu Chu was caught off guard, and hurriedly turned his horse to the side, the female general was Xie Dingfang, who rushed in front of Xu Chu, did not love to fight, and walked away.
Xu Chu shouted loudly: "This woman, where are you going!" The nine-ring machete brought a wind whistle and slashed straight at the buttocks of Mrs. Xie's war horse. The horse was drunk by Xu Chu's thunderous voice, and he was excited, and after a slight pause, his buttocks were slashed by a big knife, and with a click, he was split in half.
Xie Dingfang's whole person was thrown forward, her eyes were quick, she put the long knife in her hand on the ground, borrowed most of her strength, and turned over in the air before landing safely.
Xie Dingfang secretly said in his heart: "It's so dangerous!"
At this moment, Mrs. Xie caught a glimpse of her husband Guo Tu, who had fallen into the trench and was wounded by an arrow, and even his horse and horse fell in a pool of blood, and couldn't help screaming: "Husband is panicking, Dingfang is coming!" An arrow stepped forward, reversed the head of the knife, and stretched out the handle of the long knife in his hand to Guo Tu.
Guo Tu saw his wife being cut down on his back in a pool of blood, but he knew his wife's ability and was prepared, standing on the corpse of his war horse, grabbing the handle of the knife with both hands, and kicking the horse's head with all his strength, he jumped up and was pulled up from the moat.
When the husband and wife saw each other in the chaos of the army, they didn't have time to hug and comfort each other, so they each raised their weapons and rushed under the suspension bridge. But Cao Jun has arrived, how can the two of them fight their way out of the encirclement on foot.
Mrs. Xie stood in front of her husband, and the long knife danced in the wind, slashing over more than a dozen Cao soldiers one after another, and the blood-stained robes were stained.
Although Guo Tu's martial arts skills are not as good as his wife, at this time, he also kills the enemy side by side with Mrs. Xie regardless of his life, and it is not easy to break through half a step forward.
At this moment, a girl of about fifteen years old suddenly appeared in the chaos army, riding a tall black-maned war horse and carrying a red-tasseled spear, killing from the melee and galloping towards him. Guo Tu recognized Xin Yuan, the daughter of Xin Ping, and the horse she rode was Yuan Tan's mount, the black-maned horse. I don't know if it was the weak girl on the back who didn't tame the black-maned horse after losing its owner, or whether Xin Yuan was a young girl after all, and her strength couldn't last, and the horse suddenly shook her hip while avoiding the enemy's attack, and Xin Yuan couldn't sit still on the horse's back, and was thrown off the horse alive.
The surrounding Cao Jun saw that the enemy had fallen off his horse, and he didn't care that the other party was just a girl on the battlefield, so he raised his sword and gun at the same time, and slashed straight at Xin Yuan. Xin Yuan danced the red tassel spear, struggled to resist twice, and knew that he was invincible, while turning back to Guo Tu and shouting, "Uncle Guo, go away!" Before the words fell, Cao Bing's knife and gun had already slashed into Xin Yuan's delicate body. Poor Xin Yuan Fanghua died tragically on this bloody battlefield at an age, following in his father's footsteps.
Guo Tu has always had a deep relationship with Xin Ping, and when he saw this, he felt great pain in his heart, and exclaimed sadly: "Good niece!"
Mrs. Xie next to her also wiped a handful of tears, but in the chaos of the army, Xie Dingfang jumped in front of the black-maned horse with an arrow step, his eyes were clear, and he jumped on the horse's back at the right time. The black-maned horse knew human nature very well, and knew Guo Tu and Xie Dingfang and his wife, so he let out a long neighing and stabilized his footsteps. Guo Tu then also got on horseback, sat behind Mrs. Xie, and the two rode a war horse together, fighting and retreating, and flew out of the city.
At this time, the two armies were fighting, coupled with hundreds of people crying and fleeing, the situation was chaotic, and the couple was unhindered, fought their way out of the encirclement, and fled in the direction of the snow-capped mountain.
On the battlefield of the two armies outside Nanpi City, I don't know how many inexplicable souls sacrificed in this cruel battle, especially a young girl like Xin Yuan, who withered in the sunset like an epiphany, how could it not make people cry, even if it was impermanence in the underworld, they would feel extremely pity......