In the past ten days since the Seventh Army entered Haowan County, it has successively broken through 31 Red Army checkpoints, 15 fortresses, and 7 camps.

However, the Seventh Army Corps captured quickly, and the speed of the Red Army's construction was not slow, and often the Seventh Army Corps had just finished a checkpoint, and the Red Army built another checkpoint several miles away.

Such repeated capture and construction made the soldiers of the Seventh Army also overwhelmed. The only consolation is that no matter how quickly the Red Army's checkpoints and fortresses are built, they are retreating step by step, while the Seventh Army is advancing step by step.

At this time, Guan He also saw that the Red Army was using delaying tactics, but he didn't care, but he wanted to see how long the Red Army could drag on, and sooner or later his army would reach Pufeng, the county seat of Haowan County.

The Seventh Army Corps stopped and fought in Haowan County, and it was not until twenty days later that it advanced to Zhixian where Pufeng was located.

Just as the Seventh Army continued to advance, the spies in front reported that ten miles ahead, there was a small camp of the Red Army.

After Guan He heard this, he snorted and laughed, this way down, he no longer remembered how many camps and fortresses and checkpoints he had captured the Red Army, and he felt that this section of the road was quite peaceful, but there were camps in front of him, he asked absentmindedly: "Who wants to take the lead and take the enemy camp?"

Without waiting for others to speak, for fear of falling behind, Shi Lexuan urged the horse to come out, and arched his hand: "General, the last general is willing to take the lead!"

He is the deputy commander of the Seventh Army, and it stands to reason that he should not go to such a thing as taking the lead, but all along, the battle has been very easy, and the Red Army has little resistance, Guan He didn't think much about it, and then nodded and responded: "Okay." Le Xuan, you take 10,000 brothers to break the camp first, and I will arrive later!"

"The last general obeys the order!" Shi Lexuan smiled and took the order, still muttering in his heart, this time his merit book was going to be recorded again.

Zhang Shun and Wu Tao, who were also the deputy commanders of the Seventh Army, looked at Shi Lexuan's back and said worriedly to Guan He: "General. The spies reported that the scale of the enemy camp encountered this time was not small, and General Shi only led 10,000 brothers to break the camp, isn't it...... It's too dangerous. ”

"Hey?!" Guan He waved his hand nonchalantly and said: "That's just a bluff of the Red Army, if Ben Shuai's expectations are right, Xu Fang and the main force of the Red Army should be in the county town of Pufeng now, and they want to use delaying tactics to buy time for them." Hoard as much grain, grass and supplies as possible, so that Pufeng can fight a decisive battle with our army!"

Guan He's analysis is not unreasonable, and the tactics used by the Red Army seem to have been exactly what it was intended to do since they entered Haowan County.

But Zhang Shun always vaguely felt that the war was going too smoothly, so smoothly that it was not normal, and he said worriedly: "The fact that the Red Kingdom can transfer the commander of the First Water Army shows that his people must be outstanding, and the general should not be careless!"

Although I hate to hear such things the most. But Guan He still said patiently: "Ben Shuai understands, General Ye can rest assured!"

Zhang Shun and Wu Tao glanced at each other. He stopped talking, but his worries did not diminish at all.

Let's talk about Shi Lexuan, who took the lead, he led the second corps of the Seventh Army Corps to approach the camp of the Red Army in formation, and watched while moving forward. Seeing the whole picture of Chiying clearly, Shi Lexuan also gasped.

This camp was very different from the ones they had conquered before. The camp built in the past was obviously improvised, very rough, and even the wall was not complete. This piece, that piece, as if it has been gnawed by a dog, but in front of this big camp, the wall is as high as two zhang three, the whole is ring-shaped, the huge camp is tightly wrapped, and outside the wall, there is a ring of rejection of horses, after the rejection of horses, there is another half-zhang high earthen wall, these are used to block the cavalry.

Where does this look like a makeshift camp? It looks more like it has been carefully arranged and specially prepared to block your own army.

At this time, Shi Lexuan's heart gradually rose, and he deliberately slowed down his horse, shouting loudly to the soldiers around him: "Everyone raise their spirits, the enemy camp in front is a little unusual!"

The people on both sides were relieved: "Don't worry, general, the Red Army can't hurt us, if there are really heavy troops in the camp, we just have to retreat!"

Shi Lexuan nodded, said no more, and when there were only three hundred steps left from Chiying, he squinted his eyes and looked ahead carefully.

The walls of Chiying were full of flags and embroidered ribbons, but surprisingly, there was not a single soldier in sight, and even the gate was open, and there was not even a single soldier guarding the door.

Seeing this, Shi Lexuan couldn't cry or laugh a little, thinking that this time the Red Army was not bluffing, and wanted to fight a tough battle with his own side here, but in the end, he still overestimated the Red Army, and they set up an empty camp for themselves.

He took a deep breath and yelled left and right: "The Red Army is hateful, all the brothers charge, kill into the enemy camp, and sweep away the enemy army!

"Kill—"

Under the call of Shi Lexuan, the Second Corps changed from a slow advance to a full charge, the war horses threw off their hooves and galloped with all their might, and the scene of ten thousand horses galloping at that moment was extremely spectacular.

Shi Lexuan thought that the camp of the Red Army was empty again, but this time he was wrong. When he led 10,000 heavily armored cavalry to charge less than fifty paces away from the red camp, inside the red camp, suddenly the drums were noisy and the shouts were everywhere, and at the same time, countless red soldiers stood up on the wall.

Before the hoplites could figure out what was going on, the Red Army on the walled wall had already set up the broken crossbows that had been prepared in advance.

At the gate of the camp, there were many Red Army crossbows, which were arranged horizontally in a row. Then, under the shouting order of the red general, the crossbows of the broken army at the wall and the gate were launched in unison.

The power of the broken army crossbow is not as good as the city-breaking crossbow, but at such a close distance, the crossbow arrows it shoots are enough to pass through the armor of the heavy cavalry, and what is more terrible is that the broken army crossbow is fired three times at a time, and the three arrows are scattered together, and now the red army has hundreds of broken army crossbows, and a round of salvo is fired, and the crossbow arrows issued are close to two thousand.

Just in an instant, a scream came from the heavy cavalry camp that was rushing forward, and the crossbow arrows that flew from the bottom pierced the horse's head, and even pierced the horse knight's chest and abdomen, and even the man and the horse were nailed to the ground. The corpse was in a standing position, and it couldn't fall down even if it wanted to.

The heavy armor of the hoplites looked so vulnerable in front of the broken crossbows, like paper silks, and in an instant, hundreds of hoplites were killed and wounded by crossbow arrows.

Shi Lexuan never dreamed of it. The Red Army actually used the Broken Army Crossbow, and at that time, only Jin Guo had such a powerful weapon as the Broken Army Crossbow, and he really couldn't understand how the Red Army got so many Broken Army Crossbows.

In fact, this is the result of Lechen's successful sneak attack on Changdu, in the sneak attack on Changdu, Lechen captured hundreds of broken crossbows of the Jin Army, but he didn't hide his selfishness at all. sent his subordinates to Xu Fang.

Xu Fang also values the powerful and multi-shot crossbow of the broken army, and it is a sharp weapon to restrain the heavy cavalry, and its actual combat effect on the battlefield is really surprisingly good, and it knocked the heavy cavalry of the Jin Kingdom unconscious at once.

Using the Jin Army's broken army crossbow to beat the Jin Army's heavy cavalry, Xu Fang's move was hateful and desperate enough, which was much beyond the expectations of the Jin Army.

On the battlefield, the Red Army's arrows continued. The heavy cavalry who fell from their horses with arrows rose one after another, a short distance of fifty paces. The hoplite cavalry rushed to a group and was shot a group, and in front of the red camp, the Jin soldiers and corpses and horse corpses were mixed together, stacked on top of each other, and they were all built up high.

Since the Red War. The Seventh Army had never suffered such a big loss, Shi Lexuan's eyes were red, and he ordered the soldiers under his command to continue to rush forward and kill, break through the Red Army's crossbow array with all their might, and start a hand-to-hand fight with the Red Army no matter what.

As long as you can start close combat with the Red Army. The crossbow will be useless, and then it will be your own world.

Shi Lexuan's idea is not wrong, but the key is that the Red Army has too many crossbows to break the army, and the crossbow arrows are pouring down like raindrops, endlessly, and although the heavy cavalry is cavalry, the speed is not fast, where can it break through the crossbow array of the Red Army?

Seeing his brothers rushing towards a ride, falling a horse, rushing to a group, and falling down a group, Shi Lexuan was in a hurry, and took the lead in rushing forward regardless of it. Shi Lexuan can be reused by Guan He, being a confidant is only one aspect, and his own martial arts are also very strong.

Shi Lexuan took the lead, which naturally attracted the attention of the Red Army, and soon, the Red Army concentrated its firepower on him. At that moment, all the crossbow arrows that flew from all directions were concentrated on him, Shi Lexuan did not avoid it, urged the horse to roar, and wheeled the big knife, first releasing a whirlwind of knives, and then releasing the light god to extinguish, fighting to consume the dark qi, and continuously released a wide range of attacks of the dark martial arts.

He used all his strength to solve the problem, but he only advanced to forty steps away from Chiying, and at this time, if he wanted to rush forward, he no longer had the strength.

Just when he felt the emptiness of the spiritual qi in his body, the strength of the front was exhausted, and the strength of the back was insufficient, a crossbow arrow shot down diagonally from directly in front of him.

Shi Le Xuange couldn't stop it, this crossbow arrow was shooting at the head of his war horse, and he heard a flutter in the ear chakra, and the crossbow arrow pierced through the horse's head, and then nailed it to his stomach. Even if Shi Lexuan had armor to protect his body, he couldn't withstand such a powerful impact, he was directly knocked out of the horse and flew out, until he flew upside down more than two meters away, and then sat on the ground, at this time, looking at his lower abdomen, the armor was broken, and the crossbow arrow almost punctured his belly.

"General, be careful—" The heavy cavalry behind them changed their faces in fright, and they all screamed.

Shi Lexuan threw the big knife in his hand to the ground, and while struggling to stand up, he roared angrily: "It's just a broken crossbow, it's far from hurting me......

Before he could finish speaking, another crossbow arrow struck like lightning, Shi Lexuan didn't even see it clearly, and with a muffled thud, this crossbow arrow was shooting at his stomach.

The arrow pierced through the armor, entered his front abdomen, and peeked out from behind him, and his newly rising body was struck like a lightning strike, first shocked, paused for two seconds, and then, straight backwards.

"Save the general!" The hoplites below seemed to be crazy, completely ignoring the crossbow arrows in front of them, stepping on the corpses of their comrades, and stubbornly stepping out of a bloody path, rushing to the front of Shi Lexuan, who fell to the ground.

Looking at him now, he has more breath and less breath, and his limbs are twitching, and he can't do it now.

The people cried and forcibly pulled him on his back, and a large number of cavalry formed a circle around him, escorting the seriously wounded Shi Lexuan down with their own flesh and blood.

Pity the hoplites, retreat, chased by crossbow arrows, dead and wounded.

The Second Corps of the Seventh Army Corps came with a thunderous momentum, but the result was a heavy casualty and a hasty retreat. When Guan He heard the news of the fiasco of Shi Lexuan's army, he almost couldn't believe his ears, and when he asked carefully, his 10,000 soldiers only came back with less than 5,000 people. Guan He's eyebrows were erected, and he roared and asked, "Where is Shi Lexuan, tell him to come and see me!"

Just to attack a small red camp, but lost more than 5,000 brothers on his side, since the establishment of the Seventh Army to the present, the total number of troops lost is not as much as his loss in this battle, Guan He wanted to ask Shi Lexuan. How the hell did he fight this battle?

After he finished speaking, he saw that the remnants of the defeated soldiers standing in front of him were drooping their heads one by one, and they didn't dare to raise their heads or move, but the bean-sized droplets kept dripping down everyone's faces.

Seeing this, Guan He suddenly gasped, and suddenly a sense of foreboding suddenly arose in his heart.

He looked left and right, and carefully checked in the crowd, but did not find Shi Lexuan's figure. He sniffed and asked, "What about Le Xuan, won't this guy dare to come to see me because he lost a battle?"

"......" No one dared to answer, and the heads of the people hung lower. People are very clear about the relationship between Guan He and Shi Lexuan, who are called subordinates and are actually brothers.

Guan He took a step forward, grabbed the commander of the Second Corps, stepped back, and shouted, "Ben Shuai asked you." What about others?"

The corps commander gave up his legs and fell to his knees with a thud. said in a trembling voice: "General, he ...... General he ...... He ......"

At this time, the crowd automatically and consciously separated, and the four Jin sergeants carried the stretcher high, slowly walked to the front of Guan He, and then carefully put the stretcher down.

Guan He looked down, and his heart was half cold. The stretcher was covered with a blood-red cloak, and he couldn't see who was lying underneath, but he could recognize this cloak, and it was Shi Lexuan's.

He stood in place for half a minute, and then. Slowly crouch down, reach out, and pick up a corner of the cloak.

Guan He, who was so brave and good at fighting, was so iron-clad, his hands were shaking badly at this time, he grabbed the corner of his cloak for a long time, and he still didn't have the courage to lift it after all, but big tears had rolled down from his eyes.

The brothers should have shared weal and woe, and they have survived the hard days together, and now they have just lived a good life, but they are separated by heaven and man, and Guan He's heart is like a knife. I don't know how long it took, he let go of the hand holding the cloak, and said in a hoarse voice: "Pass my general, the whole army is ready, and go to battle with me!"

"The general can't ......" Zhang Shun and Wu Tao both stopped in front. Guan He's current mood, the two of them can understand, but the Red Army is obviously prepared, using the broken army crossbow to deal with their own heavy armor, even if the whole army attacks, it may not be able to bargain, but will only increase casualties.

But at this time, Guan He, who was full of grief and resentment, could still listen to the persuasion of Ye and the second general, he didn't even look at the two of them, holding the hilt of the sword at his waist, and said coldly while riding a horse: "If anyone dares to stop me now, I will kill him!"

Guan He's words blocked Zhang Shun and Wu Tao's following words back, and the two frowned, in a hurry, there was no way.

Let's talk about Guan He, cross the war horse, lead the whole of the Seventh Army, and rush directly to the Red Army camp.

In the ensuing battle, just like the remake of the fierce battle just now, the Red Army used the broken army crossbow against the heavy cavalry, and the condescending fierce shooting made the soldiers of the Seventh Army a live target.

In this situation, if the Seventh Legion is a light cavalry legion, it may only need to pay a slight price to break through the crossbow array of the Red Army, but the Seventh Legion is a heavy cavalry legion, and the slow speed of the war horse has become the most fatal weakness.

At this time, even if Guan He personally commanded the battle, a corps would only lose most of it in an instant, and it would not be able to get close to the Chiying camp at all.

Guan He was already furious, and completely commanded the soldiers under his command to rush forward at all costs, and did not participate in the battle, Zhang Shun and Wu Tao, who were watching from the rear, shook their heads again and again, if they continued to fight like this, the entire army would have to be consumed.

As soon as the two discussed, they simply didn't know that they would close the river, and directly ordered the soldiers around them, beat the gong and ring the gold, and summoned all the soldiers who were fighting in front of them back, and this battle could not be fought by their own side no matter what.

Zhang Shun and Wu Tao did not ask Guan He's consent, and privately ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, in his opinion, if they did not retreat, their own side would be annihilated.

Beat the drums to advance and Mingjin to withdraw the troops, this is an unchanging military order for the ages. Even if Guan He is the commander of the whole army, he has to retreat obediently when the sound of Jin Ming starts in the rear.

Let's say that the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, hearing the sound of Jin Ming behind them, made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately changed the rear team to the front team, and all of them withdrew from the formation.

Guan He was annoyed, and was the first to run back to his main formation, and when he saw Zhang Shun and Wu Tao, he shouted and asked: "Who is the Jin of Ming? This marshal did not give the order to retreat!"

Zhang Shun urged the horse and said: "General, it is the order of the last general!" Seeing Guan He's eyebrows erected, he continued: "General, the Red Army has prepared a large number of crossbows to break the army, which is a sharp weapon to restrain our army, and if we continue to fight, our army will not only not be able to bargain, but will only increase casualties, the general thinks twice, must not hurt the lives of the whole army because of impulsiveness!"

Guan He knew that Zhang Shun's words made sense, but he just couldn't swallow this breath, not to mention, his good brother Shi Lexuan died at the hands of the Red Army opposite, and now let him give up revenge, how can he accept it?

Before he could speak, Wu Tao also walked over, and said: "General, the Seventh Legion is the first cavalry corps of my Dajin, and it is also the only cavalry corps, it is very important, even if the general does not care about his own life and future prospects, but he must also think about the soldiers of the whole army and leave this cavalry blood for Dajin!"

Wu Tao's words were like a basin of cold water poured on his head, which made Guan He completely calm down. (To be continued......)