Chapter Twenty-Six: Fighting from Two Sides

Niu Zhu was heavy, the sound of killing shook the sky, the fire was shining, Tai Shici and Chen Wu struggled to take the lead, and they were completely bright red under the firelight, like a rebel official. led less than 10,000 soldiers from Xuzhou to kill Zhang Ying Dazhai from behind Niu Zhu. Although the soldiers fought in two battles and traveled long distances, their physical strength was extremely high, but their morale was high, they were brave enough to kill the enemy bravely. Gu Ran's usual training factor is very great, but what cannot be ignored is that they all know that the soldiers and horses on Jiangjin will come to support them immediately, as long as they can survive this hurdle, they will be rewarded, and maybe they can be promoted and make a fortune. With the strong support of such a belief, although the Xuzhou soldiers did not have the upper hand in numbers and were physically weak, their combat effectiveness did not decrease at all. The two sides are stalemate.

Zhang Ying complained bitterly, he went to Dazhai on land, surrounded by mountains and rivers, arranged in an orderly manner, attacking and retreating. In order to facilitate the supply, it can be said that the back door is open, and he never thought that the Xuzhou army would attack and kill each other from the back door. When I learned that the reinforcements were defeated, I faintly felt bad, if I changed the defensive line of Dazhai in a hurry, I would suffer first when I saw its benefits, and the army had not yet started fighting, and it would be very chaotic. In desperation, he had to stiffen his head and lead the army to fight Tai Shici, while although the Xuzhou army was not excellent, they were all extremely brave, one fell, and the other immediately pounced. On the other hand, morale is low and there is a lot of fear of war.

In every corner of Niuzhu Dazhai, there were soldiers from both sides who rushed to kill, screaming again and again for a while, and flesh and blood were flying.

The moonlight shone on this hell on earth, the sea breeze blew through every nerve with the smell of blood, and every sword waved dripped blood from time to time.

Several camp tents were on fire, and the smoke was billowing out, and Zhang Ying's soldiers had no time to extinguish them, so they could only fight numbly against the Xuzhou soldiers.

Tai Shi Ci led a team of more than a hundred soldiers, and this was his subordinate. After training with iron will, he is unusually fierce. Niuzhu Dazhai, into the realm of no one, as sharp as a blade unstoppable, straight to the Chinese army Dazhai, God blocks and kills God, Buddha blocks and kills Buddha. All of them were covered in blood, as if they had crawled out of the mouth of the Red River. This not only did not make them afraid, but more exciting, a soldier backhanded, cut a rushing Liu Xuan soldier in half, when the blood flew to his face, he actually licked the blood on the side of his lips with a wicked smile. In the firelight, it is even more magnificent. As if he was at the end, he pounced like a wolf on the side and the soldier who was fighting with his teammates, and slashed mercilessly from behind. The soldier screamed, and the sword flew into the air, rolled on the ground twice, stood up, and died on the spot.

Chen Wu is also extremely strong, although he is only eighteen years old, he is a successful young man and has extraordinary martial arts. In addition, his face is yellow and red, his appearance is strange, and he is more like a ghost in the dark night, his eyes are faint and red, like a wolf, and many of Zhang Ying's soldiers are scattered, and then he shouts, like a huge thunder, the evil spirit is reincarnated, and the enemies who intersect are all distracted, and they run away without a fight, and the timid are even foaming at the mouth and fainting.

Niuzhu Dazhai has long been in chaos. The morale of the crying father and the voice of the mother, the sound of the weapon Jin Ge Iron Horse, and the performance of a bloody blood that makes people crazy boiling.

However, Zhang Ying finally took advantage of the advantage of his strength to stabilize the situation in a short time and began to slowly gain the upper hand.

And Tai Shi Ci Chen Wu fell into such a tragic and bitter battle since he joined the army. Especially Chen Wu, it is even more exciting and nervous.

Although the 10,000 soldiers led by Tai Shi Ci were brave and not afraid of death, they gradually showed signs of being unable to resist, with countless casualties and a sharp reduction in personnel. However, what made Zhang Ying angry and afraid was that no one in the Xuzhou army had retreated and was afraid of evasion, how did Zhang Lang train such a brigade of steel divisions? Zhang Ying was very envious in his heart, and at the same time had a very uneasy feeling, which made him extremely irritable.

The Xuzhou soldiers, from the beginning of the strong attack, slowly turned back to the defense. The formation is quite tightly organized. One fell, and the other stepped on the corpse of his companion strongly, filling the gap, and not retreating. Because they have a strong belief in their hearts. This is the fruit of confidence, since Zhang Lang took off, invincible, invincible, exhaustive, as long as the soldiers who came down from Xuzhou, they are full of confidence in their own coach. firmly believes that his army is a hundred victories, and the main reinforcements are coming soon, and he also firmly believes that the final victory must be his own. As long as you can persevere, and if you persist, you will be able to proudly come out of this hell on earth.

Tai Shici and Chen Wu supported hard for nearly two hours, and finally ushered in the news of victory.

Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai led an army of 3,000 sailors, and in the midst of all the sailors' full efforts, they took the lead in rushing to land on the beach and join the battle. Rush in from the front of Dazhai. At first, the outpost of Zhang Ying's army resisted, but soon let Jiang Qin rush in unstoppably under the strong cover of Zhou Tai's crossbow archers full of arrows. The defenders were defeated and retreated, and in the blink of an eye, they lost control of the sentry tower, the water tower, and the gate.

Chiang Qin and Zhou Tai began to abandon the boat and land, and flanked Zhang Ying's army in front and rear.

The troops of Taishi Ciqi, who were caught in a bitter battle, relied on perseverance and perseverance to grit their teeth and persevere.

Finally, under the moonlight, it was found that the army behind Niu Zhu seemed to be in chaos, and then there were also loud killing sounds, which were getting deeper and deeper.

I don't know who shouted excitedly, "Our reinforcements are coming." Brothers, hold on, kill them all. ”

One to ten, ten to hundred, each soldier's tired face, sweat and blood intertwined with each other, but all of them were in high spirits, and their eyes flashed with excitement. I don't know where the strength came from, but it was as brave and tenacious as it was at the beginning. The morale of Tai Shi Ci's army has rebounded strongly, and they are all making a last stand. On the other hand, the Niuzhu army had a lot of stirring, and when they learned that the Jiangjin army was attacking across the river and attacking themselves from both sides, they panicked and began to be unstable.

Zhang Ying didn't expect that after only a while, the situation changed dramatically and went straight down. At the same time, he learned that Zhang Lang's troops had arrived before crossing the river, and the building gate was lost, and the army was in a rather bad situation. His face would be very gloomy, and he looked extremely scheming, with a cold aura shining in the firelight. Zhang Ying's personal guard regiment surrounded him, let him command the soldiers to fight left and right in the Zhongjun Village, and calmly ordered his troops to go out to spread the news.

After Zhang Yingqu's department received the order, they all went to the outside of the village and shouted loudly: "Brothers, support it, the lord has sent General Fan Neng to lead troops to support, I believe it will be there soon." I'm holding on. Victory is ours. ”

Sure enough, these words had a great effect, and the Niu Zhu soldiers were also a lot more excited, and the soldiers were divided into two ends, resisting Tai Shici and Jiang Qin's troops, and fighting hard with each other.

Just when the two sides were shouting and killing, it was difficult to distinguish, and the battle situation was stalemate, the 30,000 Danyang troops led by Zhang Lang finally successfully landed on the shore and came up after a tiring boat. didn't take a break, and followed the soldiers led by Ling Dian Wei and rushed forward with all his might. And he and Yang Rong, Zhao Yu, Yan Ming, and Han Juzi, five hundred eagle guards, watched the battle from afar, commanded.

The 30,000 fresh troops led by Dian Wei, tiger into the wolves, and Zhang Ying's brigade melee together, and soon joined forces with Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's scattered teams to fight together, and rushed Zhang Yingzhong's army village with all their might. Under the internal and external attacks of Tai Shi Ci Chen Wu, the Niu Zhu defenders saw that there were more and more people on the other side, and the reinforcements that had been said by the other side were nowhere to be seen, and the defense line was finally opened.

In Zhang Ying's village, the lights are as bright as day, and the guards on both sides are stomping back and forth, sweat is wet all over their faces. Everyone obviously felt his anxiety, and their hearts were dark. When the generals have lost faith in their own army, let alone the soldiers. Zhang Ying's face was bruised and faint, he rubbed his hands a little nervously, and he had to stand upside down, while muttering: "Why hasn't Fan Neng's reinforcements come yet, they should have arrived under normal circumstances?" He frowned, and suddenly said in shock: "Could it be that there was some accident?" "My heart is in turmoil, cold sweat is flowing, my own life-saving straw. Thinking of Zhang Lang's methods, the more he thought about it, the more likely it became, his mood was extremely bad, and his face was like earth, "Could it be that the reinforcements have been ambushed halfway?" ”

Although the general on the side was uncertain, he still comforted Zhang Ying and said: "The general doesn't have to worry, maybe there will be a delay on the road." ”

Zhang Ying suddenly sneered, his eyes flashed gloomily, and he said a little angrily: "Fan Neng is already dissatisfied with a certain person, and he must want to see Zhang Ying's good end." ”

All the soldiers were angry and scolded Fan Neng for being a villain, regardless of the severity of the matter, in order to avenge his personal revenge, he abandoned the enemy.

It's hard for Zhang Ying and his personal generals, in fact, Fan Neng is very arrogant, and Zhang Ying's unpleasant things, he has already looked at everything, but although the 10,000 soldiers he led were not ambushed, but halfway through the march, suddenly there were soldiers rushing to the news, and a large number of enemy troops were found on the Moling River, about 30,000 or 40,000 people, and there may be more. It is very likely that the main force of Zhang Lang's brigade is rushing here. Liu Miao ordered Fan Neng to support Niuzhu's army to retreat quickly and protect Moling first.

At first, Liu Miao pondered and meditated, how could so many people and horses appear on the Moling River, didn't they all attack Niuzhu? Suddenly, my mind flashed, and I thought worriedly: Could it be that Zhang Langming repaired the plank road and secretly crossed Chen Cang? Attacking Niu Zhu secretly stealing Moling, attacking Niu Zhu Zhang Ying's men and horses is just a pretense, but the real intention is to take advantage of its emptiness when the Moling army comes to aid Niu Zhu? The more I thought about it, the more it made sense, and after thinking about it again, it was still Lao Wojia's life that mattered, and he urgently sent someone to recover Fan Neng and his soldiers, and after repelling the Xuzhou attack on Moling's army, he recaptured Niuzhu. Moreover, Zhang Ying is familiar with military books, and Zhang Lang's main force is in Moling, so it should not be so easy to be captured.

In fact, Jiang Shang is just 10,000 soldiers led by Lian Rong, just to make the containment effect better, to suppress Liu Xuan's army can not be transferred, Xu Shu used a large number of suspicious soldiers, more fake straw men on the bamboo raft, and then put on military uniforms, and then sent a few soldiers to take charge of the pulp, the front is all genuine, and most of the back is seepage, but in the dark night, Liu Miao was really fooled and urgently transferred back to the Fan Neng army.

Zhang Lang had already gone ashore, leading Yan Ming and Han Juzi and a group of eagle guards to climb the sentry tower and pavilion together, watch the battle from a distance, and have a bird's-eye view of Niuzhu. A fishy sea breeze came to the face, and everyone's hot minds were cleared up a lot, the boiling blood suddenly stabilized a lot, and the noise in the bones began to subside, just smelling the pungent smell of blood, and an indescribable excitement flooded their hearts.

The sea breeze blew a few locks of bangs on Zhao Yu and Yang Rong's foreheads, which was very charming. The faces of the two of them are like flowers and jade, and under the reflection of the torches burning on the side, they are simple and lovely, like watertight peaches about to drip juice, and they are watery. The heavy silver-white chain mail on their bodies not only failed to hide their graceful curves, but instead set off their infinite and feminine temperament, like two goddess warriors.

Zhang Lang was quite calm, with a confident smile on his resolute face, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, his head was held high, and not a drop of the Niuzhu war was reflected in his eyes. With their strong strength, their own soldiers are eating away at each other step by step. A corner of Zhang Ying's defense line has been broken through, and in the firelight, he faintly saw a general leading the troops to rush to the center of the enemy's heart, sweeping left and right, and the end was strong. I believe that within an hour, Niu Zhu is actually holding it.

Broken in one place, broken everywhere, the defense line of Zhang Ying's army began to collapse, and the Xuzhou army saw that the balance of victory was tipping over, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became.

The main general, Zhang Ying, finally despaired, and no longer had any expectations and illusions about the Moling reinforcements. Knowing that it won't be long before the Xuzhou Army relies on its high morale and strong combat effectiveness, it is a foregone conclusion that Niu Zhu will change hands. Only then did he be unwilling to begin to secretly prepare to evacuate and retreat to Moling. After the defenders fought hard and struggled, and after the line of life and death, the army was full of news of the retreat of the Moling reinforcements, which made the soldiers, who had still a little hope for life, suddenly waver strongly, and all of them were sad about victory, and war-weariness began to breed, and the form took a sharp turn for the worse, and there was a rout on the whole line.

Tai Shi Ci Chen Wu, Dian Wei Jiang Qin Zhou Tai, led the extremely high-pitched soldiers, and began to carry out the final battle.

Tai Shi Ci stood up with a steel spear, and in the midst of many fighting soldiers, the fish penetrated the edges, his face was as heavy as ice, his beautiful temples fluttered, and shouted: "Surrender and don't kill." The voice was extremely loud, and the soldiers on the periphery who had ended the battle were rushing to the inner line, and they also shouted together: "Surrender or kill." ”

Under the attack from both sides, the Niu Zhu guards ran away with their feet quickly, and the slow ones began to defect in an all-round way, throwing their weapons and surrendering. The Xuzhou Army has long been famous in the Jianghuai area, and the treatment of the surrendered troops seems to be very good. Seventy-seven-eighty-eight who surrendered for a time.

The first battle of Niuzhu, after several hours of earth-shattering hand-to-hand combat with each other, ended with a great victory for the Xuzhou army.

Seeing that the war was over, Zhang Lang immediately ordered Cheng Yu to start cleaning up the after-dinner work, dividing the troops and lowering the troops, tidying up Dazhai, and so on.

In this battle, Xuzhou killed 5,000 and wounded nearly 10,000, and each soldier who participated in the battle was slightly injured to varying degrees, which shows how fierce the battle between the two armies was at that time. At this time, the sky has been five watches, the east is slowly white, and the victorious Xuzhou army, especially Tai Shici's team, when the victory comes, they all cheer, once the tense nerves are relaxed, only to find that the pain in their whole body is unstoppable, red, swollen and blistered, muscle soreness and numbness, and some people fall asleep on the spot, depending on the degree of fatigue.

And Zhang Ying only took dozens of scholars and cronies to flee and return to Moling, which is not a problem.

Lian Rong was in front of Moling Dazhai, waving the flag and shouting, and did not attack at first, but ordered the soldiers to shoot at the water tower with a strong crossbow outside the water village, and the arrow rain was quite dense, and from time to time he tried to light the fire with a burning rocket. The two sides intersected with arrows, held each other for some time, and simply fought for who had the most arrows. When the enemy archers seemed to be scarce for a long time, Lian Rong suddenly led a soldier with the surname of Shui to attack for a while, but he couldn't fight and retreated.

And Niu Zhu's situation is getting worse and worse, Liu Miao has nothing to do, but he just sends troops to fight, wanting to fight to the death with Lian Rong. If you want to lose, you will lose a fine light, and if you win, you can also go back to the division to save Niu Zhu. And at this time, the Xuzhou army did not rush up, but quickly retreated, the Moling army at the beginning of the chase was relentless, did a few soldiers who fell behind, and then did not dare to chase too far, I don't know who Mingjin collected the troops, helplessly sighed and sent away, hastily collected the troops, and soon after the Moling soldiers returned to the village, Lian Rong ordered the sailors to turn the course, so that the navy rushed past, and the new kills to Moling, and the busy Liu Xuan, completely dispelled the plan to send the army to support Niu Zhu again.

Zhang Ying's defeated army finally retreated to Moling, Liu Miao scolded needless to say, and Lian Rong chose the best time to lead the troops to retreat.