Chapter 52: Breaking the Ten Thousand Armies Again

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou and Zhang Bao rushed towards Xu Huang together, Xu Huang picked up the big axe, his momentum rose, and it seemed that he was about to split at Zhang Bao.

"Yikes!" Xu Huang let out a breath and picked up the big axe like the Pangu Open Heaven God Axe, and the momentum had been stored to the highest. Zhang Bao raised his spear in both hands weakly, he was completely desperate that he could catch the axe. Seeing that Xu Huang could use a lightning-like blow to split Zhang Bao and his spear in half, at this time, he only heard "Bang bang bang!" "6 gunshots in a row.

It turned out that Liu Hou took out the revolver in the holster in his arms, opened the safe, and fired 6 shots at Xu Huang, directly emptying the bullets in the wheel. Because he was afraid that Xu Huang's fine armor could block the bullets, he aimed at Xu Huang's head, chest, and abdomen and fired two shots each.

Xu Huang screamed miserably, and was directly hit by the impact of the bullet and fell from behind the horse's butt to the ground. The reason why Liu Hou ran to such a close distance before shooting was to ensure the hit rate, and secondly, to increase the lethality of the pistol. After all, Xu Huang is such an important target, and he can't be too cautious.

Since I got this giant revolver, I have been practicing hard almost every day to quickly draw the gun, shoot, and reload, and after a long time of hard training, I finally got the rewards today. Although the anti-shock force of this gun is also huge, under the grip of Liu Hou's hands, it still shot 6 bullets in a short period of time, except for one of the ones that hit the head, and the other 5 all hit Xu Huang.

Poor generation of famous general Xu Huang, one of the five good generals of Cao Wei, once followed Yang Feng and Cao Cao to conquer the world; participated in several heavy battles such as the Battle of Guandu, the Battle of Chibi, the Guanzhong Expedition, and the Hanzhong Expedition; defeated Guan Yu in Wei Zhenyu in the Battle of Fancheng; Xu Huang, who was also praised by Cao Cao for "having the style of Zhou Yafu" because of his strict management of the army, died silently, without heroic or worthless. was killed by someone at once, there was no room for resistance, the death was so abrupt, so crisp, that everyone did not react, except for the murderer.

The murderer Liu Hou inserted the giant revolver back into the holster in his arms, controlled the war horse, circled around Xu Huang's war horse, took the reins of Xu Huang's war horse with one hand, and pulled it away, not even looking at Xu Huang on the ground, because he knew that Xu Huang's end was doomed. Zhang Bao saw Liu Hou turn the horse's head, and he also knew what to do and what not to do at this time, after all, although he was a little short-tempered, he was not a fool, not to mention that he had experienced Zhao Yun's strict military training since he was a child, and he was not a rookie for war.

The two of them galloped back to their camp, and at this time, Wei Jun came to his senses from the loud noise and the shock of Xu Huang falling to the ground.

"Despicable!" Xu Shang rushed out first, and Xu Huang's own soldiers also rushed out, although they didn't know what happened between the lightning and flint, but it was certain that Liu Hou must have used despicable and shameless means such as hidden weapons to kill his own general. At this time, they were all anxious to get the general back and see how he was injured.

However, what is the difference between them rushing out like this, without covering up or stopping them, and looking for death?

Sure enough, as soon as Liu Hou ran back into his military formation, he shouted loudly: "Fire, fire!" "Bang bang! After the voice, Xu Shang's people, horses, and dozens of personal soldiers turned into a hornet's nest.

Needless to say, the result of this battle was that the stupid Xu Shang ordered Liu Hou's beheading operation to be carried out more thoroughly and perfectly. The generals and partial generals were all dead, and the 12,000 soldiers were leaderless, and they were shot by the Shu army in a row, and they scattered and fled.

This time, there were not many people killed, and the number of people killed and wounded by the Guan Xing Department who intercepted behind was estimated to be only about 1,000, because the main general was killed at the beginning, so the Wei army also broke and fled at the first time. The deserters all over the mountains, the Shu army has nothing to do, the musketeers are not good, if you want to pursue, you can't load, you have to stand in place obediently when you load the bullets, and when you load the bullets, people will already run out of range.

Liu Hou ordered the soldiers to pursue with bayonets, and the Shu army pursued all the way for 10 miles before Mingjin withdrew his troops. The result of the battle was more than 2,000 casualties, more than 1,000 prisoners, and the rest fled. The biggest gain was to kill Xu Huang and Xu Shang, two generals, Lu Jian saw that the situation was not good, and fled without a trace in the chaos.

Liu Hou still doesn't know that after this war, he became infamous. Both Wei and Wu have legends of Liu Chan's despicable and shameless use of vicious weapons to kill people among the dignified and upright fighting generals.

No one will ever fight him alone, and those who fight against him will not be averse to the use of intrigues, and his enemies will do whatever it takes to deal with him. If he knew that this incident would have such an impact, I don't know if he would cry, and I don't know if he would regret killing a famous general in this way.

This battle also marked the official advent of the era of hot weapons, and from then on, martial arts were meaningless, and combat bravery became a joke. From then on, no one would come out to fight with the Shu army, not only the fighting generals, but all the generals did not even dare to be exposed to the range of the Shu army, only dared to hide behind the soldiers to command, and even they did not even dare to ride a tall horse, because this kind of behavior that stood out from the crowd was no different from a live target.

After collecting the troops, Liu Hou ordered the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield, and then moved back with the prisoners and booty. He really didn't dare to stay in place for longer, he had been entangled with Xu Huangbu for many days, and the delay was too long, and the enemy's Chinese army should almost arrive. At this time, when will you not apply oil to the soles of your feet?

On this day, they retreated 30 miles, and did not set up camp until the second watch. The soldiers were too tired to look good. But Liu Hou didn't dare to relax, and although he won two battles, the feeling of uneasiness in his heart still lingered.

Fortunately, there were a lot of dry rations in the army, so everyone hurriedly ate some dry rations and then seized the time to rest, Liu Hou planned to continue to retreat at full speed tomorrow. After arranging the sentry and scouts, Liu Hou also went to rest.

When he slept until the fourth watch, he was suddenly awakened by the sound of horses' hooves. Liu Hou got up in his clothes, his head was still groggy and not very clear, and before he could ask, a personal soldier hurriedly ran in to report: "Qi Qi Shizi, our scouts were attacked by a large force of the enemy's cavalry, and suffered heavy losses, and the enemy's cavalry approached the camp. ”

"What?" Liu Hou brushed the ground and felt a surge of blood rushing to his head, and he suddenly sobered up a lot. Hurriedly put on his clothes while saying, "Immediately issue an order, wake everyone up, and enter a state of imminent battle." ”

Naturally, there was a herald around to issue orders, and he continued to say to the pro-soldier, calling the scout who reported the news, I will ask him carefully, and then go and call Mr. Guo, Zhang Bao, and Guan Xing.

"No!" The soldiers retreated as soon as they agreed, and the scouts who were waiting outside the tent came in immediately. I saw that he looked very miserable, his clothes and armor were not much different from those of a beggar, the blood stains were still dripping with blood, his hair was unkempt, there were black soot on his face, and red blood stains, and the most terrifying thing was that there were two arrows stuck in his back. It is estimated that the distance of the archer is far away, and he is blocked by the leather armor on the scout's body, so it does not penetrate deeply, so that he can still hold on to this day.

"Call the doctor!" Liu Hou ordered the soldiers on duty outside the tent to get the answer that they had already gone to ask for a doctor. Liu Hou was relieved at this time, and hurriedly helped the scout to sit on the stool and asked him what happened.

The matter is very simple, not long ago, the scout's team met the Wei army's scouts 20 miles away from the camp, and the two sides, as usual, fought without saying much. Relying on the advantage of firearms, the Shu army was caught off guard by the Wei army, and killed most of their men and horses as soon as they came up, thinking that the rest of the people would definitely lose morale as usual, and they could quickly solve the battle by waiting for others to go up to close combat.

Who knows, these scouts are completely different from the previous encounters, they are strong in martial arts, tenacious in will, desperate to fight, and finally caused 5 casualties in the Shu army. In this way, one of the Wei scouts escaped.

The scout captain was very curious, Xu Huang's army was almost wiped out, and even the main general and a deputy general were killed, where would there be such an elite scout team? So he didn't bother cleaning up the battlefield, and ordered to chase after the fleeing scouts to see what was going on.

After escaping and chasing, five Shu soldiers chased a Wei scout and soon ran 10 miles. Soon, they almost returned to the battlefield where they fought against Xu Huangbu during the day yesterday, with the bright moonlight, the scouts of the Shu army saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of them from a distance, they all knew what it meant, and they didn't need the captain to give orders, everyone tightened the reins and stopped their horses.

At this time, they have time to take a look at each other's camp. I couldn't see the banners on the flags fluttering in the distance, but these people were definitely Wei Jun. The distance was still far away, and they couldn't see the details clearly, but the smoke and dust that were raised covered the sky and the moon were drifting wide, and the rumbling horses' hooves were already faintly audible, and they were rapidly becoming louder.

"It's the enemy's brigade of cavalry!" The scout of the Shu army was taken aback, "It must be reported to the prince immediately." The scout captain gave the order, and the five of them turned their horses around and galloped along the road.

However, it was too late, and a team of Wei scouts had already picked up the fleeing scouts, and after a brief conversation with him, this group of scouts quickly chased after the five members of the Shu army.

The hunter just became the prey, and that's how ironic things are. The scouts of the Shu army fled for their lives, sparing no horsepower, desperately stabbing the horse's belly with the spurs on the riding boots, and some even stabbed the horse's buttocks with daggers. The captain gave a death order, someone must be alive to bring the news back, this news is related to the life and death of the Shu army, and the safety of the son.

Scouts of the Wei army continued to join the pursuit, and soon there were forty or fifty people behind the Shu army. No matter how they urged the war horses, the scouts of the Shu army just couldn't get rid of the tracking behind. The war horses of these Wei army scouts are all rare horses, and their speed and endurance are superior to the Shu army's war horses, and the knights on the horses are not only superb in riding, but also first-class in archery.

Even if the two sides were still so far apart, even on horseback running at high speed, these people could accurately shoot arrows at the Shu army or their mounts. From time to time, a Shu army fell to the ground with an arrow, and the Shu army did not have time to load ammunition, and the muskets were useless, but fortunately, each of them still had a thunderbolt on their bodies.

Relying on throwing a thunderbolt from time to time to block the pursuit of these Wei troops, he finally escaped back to the person in front of Liu Hou. Listening to the scout's account, Liu Hou could imagine how fierce the battle was at that time. Although the scout's narrative was very plain and there were no words to exaggerate the atmosphere, Liu Hou could imagine how critical the situation was at that time, since only one person came back and was still the one with two arrows stuck in his back.

As soon as the doctor was arranged to treat the scouts, Guo Youzhi and they came one after another, and Liu Hou gave them a general explanation of the situation, and everyone was worried. Although I don't know why there are so many cavalry, there is no doubt that these cavalry are from Cao Wei's camp, and their number is not less than two thousand.

"It's very likely that it's a tiger and a leopard ride, and only a tiger and leopard ride can be so elite." Guo Youzhi said with a frown. If the tiger and leopard cavalry arrived, they would be in trouble, the cavalry had a strong impact, fast speed, and strong mobility, and if they could not stop the cavalry charge, it was very likely that they would not even be able to escape.