Chapter 840: The Great Counteroffensive III
Xun Xiu was still in a coma, but Zhao Ming received the information, and he understood after a little thought, and immediately ordered people to retreat, wanting to let out the south gate.
If this is an ordinary person, he naturally knows the truth that he will not worry about leaving Qingshan without firewood, but is Zhixiong an ordinary person?
He ignored the way to escape, and when he found that he couldn't get back to Mengxian, he would be chased by the Zhao family army after he consciously went out, and when he fled all the way, he directly led people to spend a lot of effort to arrange fire oil and other things, and directly ordered the burning of the city when Zhao Hanzhang approached him, and then took people to escape from the open south gate.
It was the end of summer and July, and after the hottest June and successive droughts, the houses that had been doused with fire oil were set on fire, and they burst into flames, and the oil snaked like a fiery snake.
Zhao Hanzhang was furious when he saw the fire that ignited instantly, and immediately ordered, "One team and two teams will put out the fire, three teams and four teams will break the fire, and five teams and six teams will order the whole city to withdraw the people in the city from Mengxian, and the rest of the people will follow me to chase Zhixiong, Zhao Ze." ”
"The end will be."
"You go to the north of the city and take Tinghan over to protect him in the camp."
Zhao should go down.
Zhao Hanzhang asked Xun Xiu to inform Xun Xiu again, and immediately sent troops and divided troops to intercept Zhixiong, and said: "Let Xun Xiu send 20,000 people to Xiayi County to support Zhao Ju." ”
Calculate the time, Shi Le should have arrived a long time ago, he didn't arrive, he must have been dragged by Zhao Ju, and she had to send troops to support him.
Zhao Ming took the order instead of Xun Xiu, and immediately divided the troops into two routes, considering the military spirit and loyalty of the Xun family army now, he ordered Qiu Wu to take 20,000 people to support Zhao Ju, and Xun Ming led the troops to chase Zhixiong and encircle Zhao Hanzhang.
Hmph, he didn't believe it, Xun Ming dared to make trouble in front of Zhao Hanzhang.
Xun Ming really didn't dare, and immediately ordered troops to chase Zhixiong after receiving the order.
Because of his stubborn desire to set fire, Zhixiong missed the opportunity and was tightly held behind by Zhao Hanzhang.
Zhao Hanzhang was very angry, approaching Shi Jun, while beating the horse to speed up the approach, while leaning forward, pressing the back of the horse, throwing the spear in his hand, and then holding it, charging a throw, the spear flew out, and plunged into the chest of a team leader in the back row of Shi Jun......
Zhao Hanzhang Pegasus crossed the panicked Shi Jun, reached out and grabbed the barrel of the gun when he approached, and took it out after flicking it, without looking at the team leader who had fallen to death with his eyes open, the spear stabbed through the neck of a person and pierced the chest of a person.
Shi Jun trembled, Zhao Hanzhang raised his gun and shouted: "Kill me!" ”
"Kill—"
Zhao Jiajun caught up with the Shi Army, the morale was majestic, the Shi Army was fleeing, and the morale was already low, but at this time, the momentum of the Zhao Army was suppressed, and the fighting spirit was suddenly completely lost, and he just wanted to escape quickly.
Zhi Xiong still had the heart to turn around and kill, and when he saw that the defeat was so rapid, he immediately turned his horse around and ran with his henchmen.
When Zhao Hanzhang was killed, Zhixiong had already gone away, but she was not in such a hurry, and when most of the stone army left behind was taken, Xun Ming also chased after her, she left some people to escort the prisoners, and the rest of the people went to chase in two ways.
Follow the direction he fled all the way, and take a detour all the way.
At this time, most of the land of the Central Plains is wilderness and mountain forests, only around the city there are more people, and in the rest of the places, there may not be villages in ten miles and eight miles, so as long as Zhixiong doesn't want to attack the city, avoid crowded places and go, and get rid of the chasing soldiers behind, it is really difficult to be discovered.
Originally, Zhao Hanzhang asked Xun Xiu to open the south city gate, just to give him a chance to escape, but who knew that he didn't cherish it, and he would burn the city if he died.
Zhao Hanzhang stood at the fork in the road, and after a little thought, she planned to gamble, she gambled that Zhixiong wanted to go southeast to Xiayi County to find Shile, instead of going east to bypass Yuzhou.
Zhao Hanzhang turned his head and took a team of men and horses onto the trail, directly to the southeast, where is the junction of Meng County, Xiayi County and Sui County.
After running for more than an hour, there was no one on the road, and when they reached the fork in the road, Zhao Hanzhang signaled everyone to stop, she took out the map from her arms, carefully compared it, calculated her speed, and said after a little thought: "Let's go this way, let everyone hurry up and rest, eat something, and be sure to stop Zhixiong before dark tonight." ”
Zhao Hanzhang gritted his teeth, "If he dares to burn my city and slaughter my people, I will let him pay for his blood debts!" ”
All the soldiers should go down.
After running in the direction chosen by Zhao Hanzhang for another half an hour, they came out of the small road and walked onto the official road.
Zhao Hanzhang and Zhao looked at the traces on the ground, and made sure that the army had not walked before, so they said: "Rest, eat, ambush." ”
Zhao Zeying should go down, and when everyone pulled up the tripping rope and hid in the woods on both sides of the road, Zhao Ze was a little worried, "Envoy, Zhixiong, will they really take this road?" ”
Zhao Hanzhang said confidently: "Yes!" ”
Can't wait, now lying on her stomach is considered to be resting, Yanzhou she has also recovered more than ten counties, and she will always recover the remaining counties, so she can always meet Zhixiong, if you can't take revenge today, you will report it tomorrow.
It doesn't matter, she holds a grudge very much, the gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late, she will always remember him, and she will take him with her when she dies.
Zhao Hanzhang was indifferent on his face, but he was gritting his teeth in his heart.
She suppressed the hatred in her heart, took out a piece of dry food from her arms, broke a small piece and stuffed it into her mouth to quench her hunger.
They don't have much dry food with them, and if they can't find anyone tomorrow, they will have to go back.
When he was thinking, there was a messy sound of horses' hooves in his ears, Zhao Hanzhang's eyes lit up, and he immediately listened with his ears close to the ground, "It's coming, everyone prepare!" ”
Zhao Ze responded, while passing down the order, he followed the ground to listen, he felt that the king was too nervous, so he heard it wrong, and was hesitating, his ears finally caught the sound of the horse's hooves on the ground.
Zhao Ze was slightly flustered, raised his head and looked at Zhao Hanzhang with admiration.
Zhao Hanzhang saw him raise his head, so he raised his hand and pressed his head into the grass fiercely, "Give me an honest lie on my stomach, no one is allowed to miss his tracks." ”
One by one, the orders were passed down, and the soldiers were lying on their stomachs with their weapons drawn, and even their horses were comforted and lay on the ground.
There was also a group of 100 cavalry led by Wu Liang to hide above the official road, hiding their bodies by trees, and charging down just for orders.
After a while, everyone saw Zhixiong running towards them with a team of men and horses in embarrassment.
They fled for a day, the people were tired, and the horses were also tired, so the speed was not very fast, obviously, Xun Ming was not chasing very tightly.
Zhao Hanzhang waited for the cavalry led by him to approach, calculated the speed at which their horses' hooves were raised, waved his hand after letting go of the seven or eight horses, and shouted: "Stumble-"
More than a dozen ropes were pulled up in an instant, and with the small pits buried in the ground, dozens of horses were tripped in an instant, and the people on the horses fell......
Most people are good at riding and shooting, and most people quickly turn sideways when the horse falls forward, choose to fly out with their shoulders or backs, and stand up after rolling twice on the ground......
But not everyone can safely roll twice on the ground when they fall to the ground, and there are many people who are trampled by horses and fall down and break their necks.
Zhixiong has both ability and luck, he successfully stood up, but before he could stand up, Zhao Hanzhang had already led people to rush into the team.
The two armies instantly scuffled together.
Zhao Hanzhang saw Zhixiong and killed him.
Zhixiong also saw Zhao Hanzhang.
The two of them can be said to be old rivals, when Zhao's Wubao fought, he followed Shi Le's side, and he gritted his teeth against her for a long time, this time he simply didn't run, and he raised the big knife and killed Zhao Hanzhang.
The place where the two fought was vacated after a while, mainly because of the ferocity, Zhao Hanzhang did not blink an eye when he killed, and the two of them were killed whenever the enemy came close, and gradually everyone gave them a vacant space, but they all tacitly stopped each other from approaching to support.
Zhao really wanted to go to support, but he couldn't get close, so he could only lead people to stop the stone army who kept trying to rush forward and kill.
But the fleeing army can be killed but difficult to stop, and soon there are 100 people scattered and rushed out of the circle, not paying attention to the main general, and they want to run, at this time, a cavalry flew out of the corner in front, rushed all the way over, and harvested directly.
They rushed into the melee team to fight, and Zhao Hanzhang also inserted a shot into Zhixiong's chest, pushing him back again and again with one hand, until the person was penetrated with a shot, and then he pulled out the gun violently.
Zhixiong was still holding a big knife, he stared at Zhao Hanzhang with big eyes, knelt on the ground with weak knees, and wanted to speak, but blood kept gushing out, and the sound was almost inaudible.
Zhao Hanzhang didn't mean to listen closely, but raised his chin and said arrogantly: "I will return your head to Shi Le." ”
Zhixiong was so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out, and when he finally spoke, he looked at Zhao Hanzhang resentfully and said, "The general will avenge me, he will definitely avenge me!" ”
Zhao Hanzhang's eyes sharpened, and the spear in his hand quickly slashed at his neck, Zhixiong's eyes widened instantly, and he slowly lowered his head.
Zhao Hanzhang stepped forward and took his big knife, waved it fiercely, picked up the head after cutting off his head, and shouted: "Zhixiong is dead, do you still have to resist?" ”
Shi Jun, who was red-eyed from killing, came back to his senses and slowed down, so Zhao Jun also slowed down and began to close and surround people in the middle.
Zhao Ze killed the enemy who was fighting against him with a single sword, stepped forward and said loudly: "Disarm and don't kill!" ”
The soldiers followed the noise, Shi Jun looked left and right, someone carefully dropped his weapon, and immediately a Zhao Jun quickly dragged the person over and made him squat on the ground......
Seeing that the surrendered people were really not killed, the others slowly put down their weapons.
At this time, the sunset had set, and the entire official road was covered with blood and scattered corpses, Zhao Hanzhang stood on the battlefield that was even redder than the remnant sun, the emotions in his chest that were colliding with the fight slowly cooled down with the afterglow of the sunset, and the impulse to tear everything apart in his mind gradually subsided, leaving only physical and psychological exhaustion.
Zhao Hanzhang stood in the darkness of dusk and pursed his lips, for the first time he was tired of the war, if he couldn't calm the world, then the war would be endless.
If you want to be alone in Yuzhou, it's a fool's dream.
"Envoy, the battlefield has been cleared, three hundred and ninety-eight people have been captured, and a total of ...... beheadings have been taken."
Without waiting for Zhao Ze to finish reporting, Wu Liang suddenly shouted, "Who is spying?" ”
Zhao Hanzhang immediately turned his head, and the whole army stood up in an instant, holding weapons and standing guarded.
Several bird calls immediately came out of the forest, and everyone heard that this was Zhao Jiajun's communication signal, and couldn't help but look at Zhao Hanzhang.
Zhao Hanzhang did not relax, stepped forward and said, "Call the code and let him come out and reply." ”