Chapter 44: A Critical Moment
Yan Liang turned his head and saw that a strategist was sleeping lazily, and that person was Xu Yu Xu Ziyuan!
"I don't know what Ziyuan's good plan is?" As soon as he saw Xu You, Yan Liang was even more upset, because Yan Liang hated Xu You very much, and Yan Liang was very reluctant to ask Xu You for advice at this time.
It's not just that Yan Liang hates Xu You, in fact, almost all the strategists and generals under Yuan Shao's account, including Yuan Shao, are like this, because Xu You is too arrogant. If Xu You hadn't contributed a lot of strategies to Yuan Shao's pacification of Yizhou, he might have been cut down by Yuan Shao a long time ago.
Xu You smiled mysteriously, attached to Yan Liang's ear and whispered his strategy, Yan Liang's eyes lit up when he heard it, and the more he listened, the more happy he became, and the anger just now was swept away. "Hahaha! This plan is wonderful, and the plain can be broken! ”
A cavalry approached the south gate of the plain, numbering about 2,000 people, waving the banner of Xie, the war horses had no horses, and the soldiers wore Xie army armor, but they did not use long-handled broadswords. In a short time, the cavalry had reached the city under the plain, and the thousand defenders on the city wall immediately drew their bows and arrows, ready to release their arrows at any time.
"I am General Zhang's subordinate, I am ordered by the general to come to support first, please open the city gate!" Among the cavalry, a man dressed as a general came out, stepped forward to show his token, and shouted at the top of his voice. Because it was too far away and the token was only the size of a palm, the goalkeeper couldn't see it clearly, and he vaguely felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he didn't know what the problem was for a while. "Your Excellency will wait a moment, and someone will be sent to report it."
"Yuan's army is attacking the city, and the army is urgent, if the city is lost because of a moment's delay, so that the king is to blame, can you afford it?" When the generals outside the city heard this, they were so angry that they questioned the gatekeepers. The general guarding the gate hesitated, and after a short ideological struggle, he gritted his teeth and ordered the city gate to be opened.
"Coax......ing" the city gate was heavy, and the soldiers who opened the city gate took great pains to slowly open the city gate. When the generals outside the city saw that the city gate was finally opened, they immediately showed an imperceptible smile, waved their hands quietly, and signaled the soldiers to continue to move forward.
The gatekeeper on the city wall watched the other party get closer and closer, and just as the other party was about to enter the city, he instantly remembered the problem and was shocked. "Shoot the arrows! Shoot back the enemy with arrows! Close the gates! ”
Hearing this, the generals outside the city hurriedly took the lead and rushed inside, and the subordinates behind followed closely.
The soldiers who were responsible for opening and closing the city gate just now finally opened the city gate, and now they suddenly heard that the city gate was going to be closed, although the soldiers were exhausted, but seeing the other party getting closer and closer, they all knew that the slow closing might not be guaranteed, and they all tried their best to slowly close the city gate. "Coax ......"
Many of the soldiers on the city wall relaxed their vigilance when they heard the opening of the city gate just now, put down their bows, and put the arrows back into the quiver, and now the generals suddenly shouted to release the arrows, and the soldiers hurriedly put their bows and arrows in a hurry, and they didn't need to aim, and fired arrows indiscriminately at the enemy.
Most of the bows and arrows flew towards the general who was at the front, and the general was so skilled at riding that he could let go of the reins even without horses, and with both hands brandishing his spear to pull away the dense rain of bows and arrows, he did not lose the slightest degree towards the city gate. Some of the more unlucky soldiers behind the generals were unfortunately hit by arrows and fell off their horses, and were immediately trampled to death by friendly horses.
10 meters, 9 meters, 8 meters...... As the enemy forces get closer, the gates are about to close. Just when the city gate was only half a meter closed, it was still rushed in by the enemy!
The enemy general did not hesitate to sweep the spear, and with a "woo" sound, the gun hit the back of several soldiers who pushed the city gate on the left! Several soldiers immediately spewed out a mouthful of blood mist, and then fell to the ground softly, and the blood stained the city gate red. Seeing that the situation was not good, several soldiers who pushed the city gate on the right turned around and ran away, but they were killed by the enemy cavalry before they could run a few steps!
In the north of the plain, Yu Ban and his guards ran around, but no matter how hard Yu Ban tried to kill the enemy, there were more and more Yuan troops on the city wall, and he couldn't kill them all. Seeing the soldiers around him fall one after another, Yu Ban's heart was full of grief and indignation, he gritted his teeth, and his long sword slashed left and right in Yuan's army, avenging the dead soldiers!
"Report ......!" Yu Ban turned his head to look at it, and saw a herald covered in blood running towards him, and secretly screamed in his heart! Generally speaking, the heralds do not need to participate in the battle, since the heralds are covered in blood, it can only mean that a certain position on our side has been breached!
"General Qiyu, the Yuan army has broken through the south gate and has entered the city!" The herald came to Yu Ban and clenched his fist at Yu Ban. No one came to the south gate to report the attack of the enemy army, how can you say that it is broken? Faced with such a situation, Yu Ban was incredulous, and put his long sword on the herald's neck and questioned sharply. "What crime should I be guilty of daring to lie about the military situation?!"
The herald could feel the coldness of the long sword, as long as Yu Ban pulled it gently, there was no doubt that he would die, and the herald trembled in fright. "The general will spare his life, and he will not dare to talk nonsense, so Yuan Jun disguised himself as our army and opened the city gate by fraud......"
As for what the herald said behind him, Yu Ban couldn't hear it anymore, not only what the herald said, but also the shouts of the soldiers fighting. For a while, the whole world began to shake violently, and the more I shook, the more dizzy I became, and I felt that my whole body was weak, so weak that I couldn't hold the long sword, let it fall to the ground, I couldn't stand steadily, and let my body fall weakly. His subordinates gathered around and shouted something in front of him, but he really couldn't hear it. Yu Ban just wanted to stand up and continue to fight, but his body didn't obey the call, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, and he struggled to open them a few times, and finally closed them unwillingly.
"The general is fine, but he will be unconscious because he is overworked and his body is overdrawn." One of the guards probed his fingers into Yu Ban's nostrils and came to a conclusion, looking up at the rest of the guards. "The top priority is to send the general away, and if you come to carry the general, you must not let the general be injured after the break!"
The rest of the guards turned around in tacit agreement, helped to send Yu Ban onto the man's back, and surrounded Yu Ban to get down the city wall.
There are more and more Yuan troops on the city wall, the city gate is opened, the Yuan army soldiers under the city are rushing in, the Xie army soldiers are fleeing and surrendering, the resistance on the city wall is getting smaller and smaller, and the victory scale is tilting towards the Yuan army. More than 100 soldiers guarding the flag of the Xie army on the city wall were brutally killed, and those who were not dead were pierced into a honeycomb by spears, and the Xie Zi banner was thrown into the moat outside the city and replaced with the Yuan Zi flag!
The city is sparse and the remnants of the Xie army are resisting, but it is only a matter of time before they are surrounded and suppressed by the Yuan army.
Just at the end of the battle, Shanshan's late Xie army iron cavalry rushed in from the south gate of the plain! The officers and soldiers of the Yuan Army, who were competing for the rank of Xie Jun's generals, saw that the situation was not good, and they left their ranks and fled. (Except for Xie Chengbin, the other warlords all rewarded or promoted based on the enemy's head)
Seeing the corpses of friendly soldiers lying all over the ground will make people feel angry, not to mention that some of the iron horsemen are natives of the plains, and it is even more unforgivable to see their hometown ruined like this! They all urged Ma Jia to catch up, and it didn't take long to catch up with the soldiers of the Yuan army, or wield a long-handled broadsword to kill or directly hit it with a war horse!
The street was about thirteen meters wide, and the iron cavalry was divided into three parallel rows, and the non-combatants carrying flags or something were in the middle. Almost all of the iron horsemen on the outside are pedaled with both feet, and they are ready to slash with knives in both hands. Some of the soldiers of the Yuan army were able to avoid the long-handled broadsword of the iron horseman, but they were hacked to death by the next long-handled broadsword in less than a second. Some of the soldiers of the Yuan army saw that it was impossible to escape death, so they simply fought with the iron cavalry, holding guns in both hands, and risking death to poke the iron cavalry war horse with all their might! As a result, the knight killed the soldiers of the Yuan army and fell with the war horse.
Because the street is too narrow, the iron cavalry cannot spread the formation, and if you look down from the angle of high altitude, the iron cavalry of the Xie army is like the flooding of the Yellow River, and everywhere you go, the soldiers of the Yuan army are all submerged by it. On the surface, the iron cavalry is very powerful, but in fact, the iron cavalry is not suitable for rushing and killing in such a narrow place, which Xie Chengbin knows very well, the reason why he does this is not because Xie Chengbin is hot-headed, but because he wants to find Yu Ban. After all, there are too few talents available to Xie Chengbin now, and it is easy to get thousands of troops, but it is difficult to find one!
Zhang Fei led the iron cavalry all the way forward, and now he has rushed to the location of the county government, and has gathered hundreds of remnants, who claim to be the defenders of the east gate and the west gate, and do not know where Yu Ban is at the moment.
After passing the county government, the Yuan army was much denser, and the casualties of the iron cavalry began to increase, and the casualties were only a dozen when they ran from the south gate to the county government, and it was not long after the county government, the casualties were already more than 100, and it was estimated that at least more than 1,000 casualties were killed and injured at the north gate, and it was difficult to say what happened after the north gate.
Something unexpected happened! When the iron cavalry is about to come to the north gate, the Yuan army here is dense and can be said to be very crowded, no matter how the iron cavalry urges the horse, it can't be added, and the north gate is closed by the Yuan army! The Yuan army from all directions in the city emerged from all the alleys and was gathering in this direction, and the iron cavalry and the remnants following behind were surrounded by regiments, and the casualties rose sharply while in a dilemma! What surprised Xie Chengbin even more was that a tavern next to him suddenly opened the door, and dozens of Xie soldiers surrounded Yu Ban and carried it out.
Xie Jun, whether it was an iron horse or a remnant, fell in a pool of blood one after another.
Looking at the ground and walls stained red with blood, Xie Chengbin suddenly remembered the bag that Zuo Ci had given him, which he could use if he faced the disaster of blood light! Fortunately, Xie Chengbin has always carried it with him.
Piercing the spear on the ground, he hurriedly took out the bag in his arms, and then the bag turned out to be tied with a dead knot! Xie Chengbin tried to calm his feelings and tried to untie the bag, but the bag was tied too tightly, and no matter how Xie Chengbin untied it, he couldn't untie it! His subordinates were killed and wounded one by one, but they couldn't open the bag when life and death were at stake, which made Xie Chengbin so anxious that he pulled hard, but it still had no effect.
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