Chapter 191: Sacrifice
Looking at the Han army on Gao Mountain from afar, Xie Bi is urging his five hundred soldiers to resist horses and dig trenches, and he wants to guard here and wait for the main force of the rear army to arrive.
With the military system of the Taishan army, all marches must send whistles and ride three roads, and the army must form a formation. Because the army was often stopped in a hurry, it was too late to set up camp, so it was necessary to prepare the wood on the cart in advance and then assemble it on the ground.
Unlike most people who think that there are only armor battles in the army, the army actually has everything. Because the officers and men in the army regard the army as their home, there is no shortage of taper knives, nails, pegs, and hammers.
At this moment, Xie Bi commanded two generals, Xie Guang and He Chengzheng personally connected the cart into a circle array, with a trench and a horse rejection outside, a tripping horse rope in the middle, and a cart nailed inside. Then in the circle are 500 soldiers of Xie Bi's department, 300 ironclad soldiers, and 200 leather armor soldiers, and they are lined up in ten under the banner of their respective generals. Under each team flag, there are five flags, and next to the flags, a canopy supported by bamboo poles covers these armor soldiers.
On the one hand, this canopy is to shade the Taishan soldiers, and on the other hand, it is to block the enemy's arrow rain. Before the Taishan army and Liu Yanbu of Jibei fought against each other, the lesson learned was that it was necessary to prevent the arrow rain on the opposite side, and this canopy was just a cloth, as if it would be broken with a shot, but this kind of tent is indeed an effective way to block the arrow rain, and the general defense on the city wall is also used for this.
At this time, Xie Bi had time to look at the enemy soldiers opposite.
At this time, the Han soldiers had come down from Gao Mountain one after another, and saw several big flags on the opposite side, with the books "Li", "Zhang", "Gao", "Liu", "Wu", and "Huang".
The smoke and dust were billowing out, and he couldn't see it really, and he didn't know how many soldiers there were on the opposite side, but Xie Bibing didn't panic, because the army was behind, and he was confident that his brother could hold it.
After a while, there was the sound of a horn moving the sky on the opposite side, and then I saw a soldier holding a banner with the word "Zhang" in the smoke and dust and killed him.
Xie Bi shouted loudly:
"The teams are steady, and the flag is lost with me."
Then, when the enemy was less than 150 paces, Xie Bi waved the letter flag, and the 100 archers in his department were lost according to the order, and directly poured their heads into the enemy soldiers on the opposite side.
But the results of the battle were not great, and the opposite side was obviously elite, and there was no shortage of big iron armor in the front row. They braved the rain of arrows and jumped directly over the trench dug by Xie Bi's department. After all, there is too much time, and I can't dig deep.
The soldier who rushed was Zhang Chaobu, who was provoked by Dongping Minister Li Zan to be the striker.
In the end, he was brave and sharp, wearing three layers of armor, holding a big sword all the way to the horse, and the Taishan army on the opposite side saw the enemy, and immediately poked, but was caught by Zhang Chao.
As soon as Zhang Chao pouted, he broke the spearhead on the opposite side, and was about to climb over the rejection horse, and the two Taishan troops over there poked over. Zhang Chao's heart tightened, and he immediately blocked a soldier on the side, only to see that the two spearheads were on this person.
The two Taishan armies had to pull out, and they were directly cut off by Zhang Chao with the hundred refinements in his hand, and then his people kicked over the rejection horse, and the rejection horse was hanging on the back of the chariot.
The Taishan army behind was unprepared, and the eyes were injured by the turned rejection horse, and they were covering and crying. Taking advantage of this kung fu, Zhang Chao jumped into the car formation, and his majestic figure and iron armor directly smashed over the three Taishan troops in front of him.
These Taishan spearmen are all wearing iron armor, yes, the Taishan army is so arrogant. So he was not afraid of the thief in front of him who jumped into the battle.
As soon as the spearmen in the back row put the spear, they were about to smash it at Zhang Chao, Zhang Chaowan didn't expect that the tactical literacy and courage of the thief army on the opposite side were so high, and he was directly smashed on the pocket by this spear.
If it was an ordinary person, this smash would directly burst his head, but Zhang Chao not only brought a hood, but also a first-class head iron, because he was just dizzy, he let out a bigger roar, and burst into the group of Taishan thieves in front.
As soon as these people put down their spears, Zhang Chao on the opposite side had already rushed through the range of the spears and stuck to the front of the spearmen, who were most worried about being close to the sword.
Zhang Chao rushed and immediately stabbed the thief in front of him, and the thief still had surprise on his face, so he cut off his head with a knife.
But this group of thieves really can't be underestimated, they must all be veterans, seeing that their companions were cut off their heads, the two spearmen on the side did not panic, but lost their spears, and pulled out their ring knives to fight Zhang Chao.
But before the two of them could rush over, they were cut down by the soldiers who followed behind Zhang Chao. Yanzhou's Shou Zhang Bing is following the gap opened by Zhang Chao, and a steady stream of people is pouring in.
At this time, the soldiers of Xie Bi's subordinates were fighting hard with the enemy in front of them, and they couldn't spare time to help, seeing that the side of Zhang Chao's attack was about to collapse.
Xie Bi, who was in command in the inner formation, saw it and immediately jumped off the mound, and was about to take his soldiers to block that side, but at this moment, Xie Bi saw that his brave general He Cheng had already led people to rush over.
Seeing He Cheng slashing and killing the Han thief and blocking the gap forcefully, Xie Bi was agitated in his heart and roared:
"Color!"
He Cheng was the first Taishan Liao warrior to be collected by Zhang Chong, and when he was recruited, he directly knocked over three armor soldiers, and the stabbing was not good, but Zhang Chong felt that the person was a brave general, so he forced him and promised him a captain. Later, in the battle with Gongsun Qiyi, he won the first three ranks, moved to a general, and was transferred to the cross-collision team. In the next few major battles, there were first wins. Later, in the expansion of the army, he became a general and was subordinate to Xie Bi.
It's just that later Xie Bi's troops stayed behind, and it was not their turn to fight several times, He Chengcheng was in a hurry, and he is still a general. Xie Bi wanted He Cheng to fall to other departments several times, feeling that he had delayed He Cheng, but He Cheng was unmoved. He just wanted to follow Xie Bi, because he respected Xie Bi and felt that he had learned more from Xie Tou than he had combined for more than 20 years. He thanked Bi as a teacher and stayed in Xie Bi's department with peace of mind.
He Cheng rushed over, killed three thieves in a row, and met Zhang Chao.
Zhang Chao may have been stunned by the spear pocket before, but he was stunned quite late. He didn't dodge when he saw He Cheng rushing over, so he looked at it in a daze.
He Cheng was overjoyed when he saw this man like this, and he swung his knife in three steps and two steps.
But Zhang Chao was pretending at all, he saw He Cheng's knife raised, he immediately jumped over, and stabbed He Cheng in the chest with a knife, fortunately He Cheng had armor, otherwise this knife would have killed him.
He Cheng was staggered by the momentum of this knife, but he was not afraid, and his backhand was a knife. Zhang Chao blocked it with a knife, and a sound of gold and iron came, He Cheng's knife broke, and Zhang Chao's hundred refining knife knocked out a gap.
He Cheng was stunned for a moment, but it was this stunned that Zhang Chao cut on the thin slit of his armor, which directly made He Chen cut a long cut in his left chest, and his heart spurted blood.
He Cheng's soldiers were still fighting with Zhang Chao's soldiers, and in a blink of an eye, he saw his own Qu general falling in a pool of blood, his eyes were shattered, and he couldn't care about the other side, so he hurriedly snatched He Cheng back.
He Cheng's younger brother He Kang is his commander of the army, and at this moment, he took the soldiers back to his brother, and watched his brother's blood touch wildly, and clumsily blocked it with his hand.
With tears in his eyes, he cried and hugged He Cheng:
"Brother"
He Chengqiang struggled his eyes, looked at his younger brother, and read:
"If you don't break the thief, don't take me."
The words were closed, He Cheng died, and the soldiers cried.
Xie Bi in the distance heard the place where He Chengchong had just cried, his heart suddenly tightened, and the joints of his bones that were pinching the military were white, and he muttered:
"He Cheng, you must be fine."
Zhang Chao didn't get a good deal just now, when Zhang Chao stabbed He Cheng, He Cheng subconsciously stabbed Zhang Chao with a broken blade, this knife, the short place was blocked by the armor, but the long place, about a few inches, was pierced in Zhang Chao's abdomen along the fine seam of the armor.
Zhang Chao felt a burst of warmth, and he knew that he was bleeding in his heart. But he had already killed the excitement, and he didn't care at all, he had to pick off the head of the thief just now.
Just when he was about to defeat the previous wave of soldiers, take the head of the thief general, and add another stroke to his martial arts. The soldiers behind him stopped, and then pointed to the south direction for Zhang Chao.
I saw a cavalry army holding high the banner of the word "Chong" galloping from behind, and in a flash of lightning, it crashed into Zhang Chao's troops outside the circle formation, these parts have no formation, how can they stop these cavalry, it is directly a massacre.
At this time, Zhang Chao threw away the part, and the shortcomings of being in the battle in person became apparent. Before, how much he inspired morale in armor, but now that there is no commander in the army, how collapsed he is.
Outside this mountain pass, Zhang Chong took the assault horseman, flew with a long blow, and killed the warriors of the Han army in front of him one by one. He saw Xie Bi in the circle array, and when he saw that he was fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He only glanced at it, and now the circle was mostly still maintained, and only one place had been captured, so it seemed that he had arrived in time.
When Xie Bi sent a military report saying that there was an ambush in front, Zhang Chong immediately decided to come with a sudden horse, but when crossing Wenshui, because the bridge could not run the horse, he could only lead it, and the time was delayed.
But luckily, it came just in time, didn't it.
Zhang Chong saw the military formation placed on the opposite side of the mountain pass, and just looked at the banner to know that the soldiers of the seven counties of Jibei Kingdom came directly to the four counties, and the leading general was surnamed Li, and the rest of the formations were bound to line up the strong formation.
But Zhang Chong didn't plan to break the formation just by relying on cavalry, just like he taught Tian Jun, this cavalry can't be too upright, it's completely unnecessary to break this kind of strong army, and now it is completely possible to slaughter these chaotic Zhang soldiers.
At this moment, Zhang Chong has no pressure at all to kill these soldiers surnamed Zhang, sometimes they are all surnamed Zhang, and they are not necessarily a family. Not only that, Zhang Chong also consciously drove away those Han soldiers who had lost their hearts and drove them back to rush the strong formation behind his house.
If the main general on the opposite side is a soldier who doesn't know how to fight, and he is disrupted by his own rout, then he Zhang Chong doesn't mind directly taking advantage of the situation to harvest another wave.
But it's a pity that the other side is not stupid, but also ruthless, and directly under the orders of their own generals, they shot at the router. In this way, in the wilderness outside the Gao Mountain Pass, the Han soldiers were killed and wounded, and they were a purgatory on earth.
Zhang Chao, the commander of this Shou Zhang Bing, couldn't care about grieving for his hometown children, and at this moment he had stripped off his armor and ran desperately towards Wenshui with twenty naked men.
As long as he swims through Wenshui, he Zhang Chao can live.