Chapter 15: The Barbarian King
Just when Zhang An was worried about his life, the space around the three thousand tigers and leopards rode up with the slightest ripple.
The figure of a barbarian soldier turned from virtual to real and appeared in front of everyone.
Different from the previous cavalry configuration, this time, in addition to the cavalry cruising on both flanks, the soldiers who were facing the front of the tiger and leopard cavalry, and the soldiers blocking the mountain pass in the rear were all replaced by other troops.
Layers of giant shieldmen in front, spearmen in the center, and archers in the back.
In addition to the more reasonable configuration of the troops, Zhang An raised his eyes and looked into the distance, but he couldn't see the end of the army.
Lu Bu and Cao Chun's faces were only a little solemn at first, but when they saw the whole picture of the barbarian army, Rao Yi sighed silently in his heart.
Today's battle is just afraid that it will be difficult to get better.
"I'm afraid there are 60,000 people in this army, right?" Cao Chun muttered to himself.
Zhang An said with an ugly face: "We are only 3,000 people, as for putting up such a big battle? ”
Speaking of this, Zhang An's face was a little ugly.
He thought to himself, it couldn't be because he took the stone, right?
Lu Bu exhaled and said lightly, "Their purpose is not to ride these three thousand tigers and leopards, but to be so-and-so." ”
"You?" Zhang An rolled his eyes, "Come on, what did you do to them?"
Lu Bu didn't answer, and after Cao Chun carefully looked at the barbarian army, he said, "I'm afraid of today's situation, it's really specially set up for Feng Xian." ”
Zhang An looked at Cao Chun in confusion.
Cao Chun pointed to the opposite side with his chin and said, "Just now, I was rough and sensed, and among the barbarians, there are only no less than twenty people who are not inferior to me. They should want to use the sea of people to exhaust Feng Xian alive. ”
Then Cao Chun pointed at himself, then at Zhang An, and finally at the soldiers beside him, and said with a little helplessness in his tone, "If there is no us, when Feng Xian wants to leave the battlefield, the number of people is not a problem for Feng Xian, but now we have all become a burden, before all of us die in battle, even if there is only one person left, according to Feng Xian's temperament, he will definitely not leave alone." ”
Lu Bu didn't speak, but his silence was an attitude in itself.
"But why do you want to target Feng Xian?" asked Zhang An, puzzled.
"If you take the head of the first military general of the Central Plains with you when you go south, you think it will make many people fearful, right?" Cao Chun smiled and teased, "Fengxian, they are willing to exchange 60,000 troops for your life, how do you feel?"
Zhang An sighed and said, "Fengxian, don't be dead, how can you save all of us alone, we are all dead, you might as well break through the battle alone and leave it for the future." ”
Cao Chun also echoed, "Zhang An is right, Feng Xian, one of us must go out alive to tell the lord about today's battle, the barbarians actually have a way to hide the 100,000 army, and with our perception, we actually walked into the ambush circle and found that this is important information, which is related to the victory or defeat of our army in the real battle with the barbarians." ”
Glancing at Lu Bu, who was holding the reins in his right hand, Cao Chun continued, "And the most terrifying thing is that iron ore has always been scarce, and now the barbarians have the ability to create so much equipment, it must be someone who secretly funded it, and even joined forces with the barbarians to harm the Han people, such sinners must be found out with a thousand cuts!"
Although Lu Bu was in pain in his heart, he was not a person who was willful, so he naturally knew the priorities.
"Okay, I'll go. He gritted his teeth and said, "But before leaving, so-and-so will kill 10,000 people!"
Looking at Zhang An and Cao Chun, who still wanted to speak, Lu Bu said in a cold tone, "A certain intention has been decided, there is no need to persuade again!"
Taking a deep look at Zhang An, Cao Chun, and the surrounding tigers and leopards, Lu Bu rode his horse to the front of the formation, and shouted, "A certain is Lu Bu Lu Fengxian, who dares to fight?!"
Even though he already had the intention of leaving, Lu Bu still came to the front of the battle to invite battle.
In addition to the 10,000 soldiers who were martyred for the tiger and leopard cavalry, if he didn't kill a few barbarian generals before leaving, Lu Bu felt that he would definitely die of humiliation.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the barbarian soldiers in front of Lu Bu parted like a tide.
One person and one rode in front of Lu Bu.
Zhang An looked at the general with a strange expression.
The man who came rode a tall war horse with a pitch-black body and only four snow-white hooves.
He was small and had a pointed beak, but he was wearing a dazzling gold armor, which looked extremely ridiculous.
Especially when he was holding a Fang Tian painting halberd with the same style as Lu Bu in his hand, Zhang An couldn't help but pout.
Fang Tian's painting halberd was originally just a weapon used as a guard of honor, there have been so many fierce generals throughout the ages, but there are only a few people who can use the painting halberd superbly, and Lu Bu is undoubtedly the best among them.
But what Zhang An didn't know, Lu Bu, who was facing away from them, had his pupils shrank slightly when he saw the barbarian general.
He could clearly feel the murderous intent on the enemy opposite, and the powerful momentum that was about to be unleashed.
Obviously, the enemy is not as superficial as he appears on the outside, but a strong man worthy of Lu Bu's full strength.
"Come to the common name, a certain will never kill the nameless. Lu Bu said coldly.
"Thirteen in the lower barbarians, but nobodies. "The enemy general who called himself the Thirteenth Man spoke Chinese in a correct manner," General Lu is famous and famous, and he has heard of it a long time ago. ”
"I've been looking forward to this battle for a long time. Man Thirteen smiled.
"Then fight!" Lu Bu clamped the back of the horse, held the halberd with both hands, and slashed at the brute thirteen.
Man Thirteen was still smiling, and he also slashed at Lu Bu.
The twin halberds intersected and made a loud noise, and the fierce energy cut the ground into traces of different shades.
In the roar, both of them retreated with their men and horses.
It's just that to Zhang An's surprise, Lu Bu took three steps back, while Man Thirteen only took two steps back.
This barbarian's strength is even better than Lu Bu's?
Seeing that their own generals had the upper hand, the barbarians shouted one after another.
Cao Chun listened to the barbarian's shout, and his face showed a complicated expression.
"What's wrong with General Cao, is there anything wrong?" Zhang An glanced at Cao Chun's expression and hurriedly asked.
"The barbarians shouted that our king was mighty. Cao Chun said in disbelief.
Zhang An was dumbfounded.
The man who wears the golden armor like a skinny monkey is the barbarian king?!
Lu Bu naturally heard the barbarian's shout, and his eyes when he looked at the barbarian thirteen became a little colder, "I didn't expect the barbarian king to fight in person, but it's okay, our army has won today's battle!"
"General Lu, doesn't he want to capture and kill this king on the spot?" Barbarian Thirteen's tone was gentle, his smile was full, and his appearance with his sharp-beaked monkey cheeks gave people a strange feeling, "I'm afraid that General Lu is powerless." ”
"Yes or no, you will know in a battle!" Lu Bu rode his horse again and rushed towards the Barbarian Thirteen.
Not to be outdone, the Thirteen Man was head-on.
The halberds in the hands of the two turned into brilliant light and shadow, intertwined, and the sound of weapons intersecting continued to sound.
"Bell!" the brute thirteen blocked the oncoming blow, "the famous Lu Fengxian is nothing more than that." ”
Lu Bu didn't answer, but attacked with a burst of headwork.
When the thirteenth man was parrying Lu Bu, he still had the strength to turn his head and issue Taoist orders in an orderly manner in a language that Zhang An couldn't understand.
Zhang An immediately looked at Cao Chun, and Cao Chun's face became gloomy little by little with the words of Man Thirteen.
"The archers in the rear fired a volley, the shieldmen pressed forward, the cavalry harassed on both flanks, and the spearmen prepared to throw stones. ”
"Don't be afraid of accidental injury, the war dead, your wife and I will raise them. Even if there is only one person left in the whole army, as long as the Han people in front of you are killed, it will be a great victory for our army!"
Listening to Cao Chun translating the words of Man Thirteen little by little, Zhang An even took a cold breath and thoroughly realized the determination of Man Thirteen.
"Zhang An, I want to lead the army to charge, and fight a bloody way before they completely restrict our army's movement. Cao Chun took out his sword and glanced at Zhang An, "I may not be able to take care of you in the chaos." ”
"Isn't it just death? Zhang An didn't care, "Just pull a few more pads before you die." ”
Zhang An is now a kind of broken jar and broken mentality.
However, his senseless attitude of life and death made Cao Chun quite appreciative.
And after hearing the military order of the Barbarian Thirteen, Lu Bu's offensive became more and more crazy, as if he wanted to take down the Manjue Thirteen as soon as possible and let those barbarians throw a mouse.
"Feng Xian was anxious. Cao Chun glanced at Lu Bu, shook his head and said, "If it continues like this, I'm afraid that it will definitely be defeated." ”
"Then it looks like we're going to have to die soon. Zhang An squeezed his eyes at Cao Chun.
Cao Chun smiled and nodded, and then his face straightened.
He raised his long knife in the air, pointed it at the enemy directly in front of him, and shouted, "Gentlemen, charge with me!
"I'm invincible!" the tiger and leopard riders shouted in unison, and under the leadership of Cao Chun, they launched a decisive charge towards the barbarians.
In the process of charging, with Cao Chun as the arrow, a sharp arrow formation was gradually formed.
And Zhang An was intentionally or unintentionally protected in the middle position.
"You people. Zhang An sighed silently, he raised the long knife in his hand, and silently thought, "How many people can I kill before the explosion?"
Zhang An's thoughts only flashed in his mind, and Cao Chun, who was in the position of the arrow, had already arrived in front of the barbarian shield soldiers.
Cao Chun waved the battle knife in his hand vigorously, and a ten-meter-long pale black sword qi shot towards the enemy, splitting the two layers of giant shield soldiers at the front into two halves like mowing grass.
Cao Chun took a deep breath, drank heavily, and once again swung seven or eight sword qi to sweep away the enemy in front of him.
However, the barbarians were unmoved, and just looked at the tiger and leopard riders who were about to rush in front of them with cold eyes.
The barbarian cavalry that had been cruising on both flanks shouted and rushed towards the tiger and leopard cavalry, trying to slow down the tiger and leopard cavalry.
Cao Chun stared at the shield soldiers who had been thinned by one layer, and was about to take advantage of the momentum to pursue, when at this moment, the barbarian archers finally made a move.
Arrows that obscured the sky flew into the sky, revealing a hideous killing intent towards the charging tiger and leopard riders.
"Form an army formation!" Cao Chun ordered unhurriedly.
He urged the qi in his body with all his strength, forming a set of black armor on the surface of his body.
It was like a signal, and the rest of the tigers and leopards shouted in unison, and their bodies also lit up with colorful light.
To Zhang An's surprise, the qi that these tigers and leopards rode out of the way actually merged together in an instant.
A black phoenix appeared above the tiger and leopard, and it seemed to flapp its huge wings slowly, and the strong air currents blew all the arrows away.
"Kill!" Cao Chun pointed ahead, and the phoenix let out a silent chirp, fell headlong from the sky, and smashed heavily into the military formation in front of the tiger and leopard rider.
Like a volcanic eruption, the phoenix exploded violently after it landed, raising a rain of blood.
"Collect!" Cao Chun ordered again.
The aura exuded by many soldiers was quickly restrained.
However, from the appearance of the phoenix to the end, although it was only a few seconds, Zhang An noticed that the faces of many soldiers were a little pale, and even the slashing action was a little slower.
It seems that this move consumes a lot of physical strength and energy.
Cao Chun looked at the barbarian who finally showed a panicked look, and shouted with a hideous face: "If you want to annihilate my tiger and leopard rider, just 100,000 people is not enough!"
General Cao was really domineering, and Zhang An silently praised it.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a black shadow rushed out from among the barbarians and headed straight for Cao Chun.
The speed of this black shadow was extremely fast, Zhang An just blinked, and the black shadow exchanged moves with Cao Chun, and floated away again, disappearing among the many barbarians.
Something unbelievable happened to Zhang An.
After the black shadow left, Cao Chun's body shook slightly, and he fell off the horse's back.