Chapter 448: East Wall

When Ma Wu led the Tiande army slowly north, Zhou Zhong, the captain of the Han army Yue cavalry on the northern slope, also saw this roundabout enemy cavalry.

Originally, he didn't take this cavalry seriously, because the dense forest they were going to attack was exactly where Ma Teng, the fierce general of the army, was stationed.

Zhou Zhong didn't look down on this border general from Xizhou, and felt that he was vulgar and not like a Han, but despite his prejudices, he still had to admit that this Ma Teng was a capable fighter.

So Zhou Zhong turned his attention back to the east wall, where the situation of the Han army was quite bad.

Even though he had already overestimated the Taishan Army, he didn't expect that the first wave of offensive would be almost unbearable on his side. The two infantry battalions on the periphery could soon only retreat to the warehouse outside the east wall to resist, and the Taishan army had surrounded the east wall from three sides.

Just when Zhou Zhong was hesitating whether to send troops to support Dongbi now, he saw a scene of vomiting blood.

Ma Tengbu, who was supposed to fight with the enemy cavalry, took the initiative to run out of the dense forest for some reason, and then after communicating with the opposite side, he took the initiative to hand over the flag to the Taishan cavalry general on the opposite side, and threw all the blades on the ground.

After doing this, Ma Tengbu was actively guided by a small group of enemy cavalry to withdraw from the battlefield.

Seeing this, Zhou Zhong still didn't understand that the dog-like Ma Teng was on the verge of apostasy? At this time, Zhou Zhong hated not to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin, but now he couldn't take care of this, and he had to take the initiative to fill the defense loopholes caused by Ma Teng's apostasy.

So, he ordered his general Zhao Wei to lead the Santun armor soldiers south to support the infantry in the dense forest.

The appearance of Zhao Wei's department really stabilized the thousands of Han soldiers in the dense forest. They were losing the six gods because of Ma Teng's sudden surrender, but now that reinforcements have arrived, it means that the above already knows the situation here.

Outside the forest, Ma Wu was also confused.

Just now, a cavalry army of the Han army of the same size as his own suddenly rushed out of the forest, which caught Ma Wu, who was still slowly galloping, a little unprepared. But just as he was about to give the order to raise the speed of his horse, a cavalry general rushed out of the cavalry on the opposite side.

The rider wore a cloak and looked like a Qiang man, with a banner in his hand, and shouted there:

"A certain Ma Teng, Mu Guijun is noble, and he has come to defect."

Ma Wu felt deceitful at first, but later saw that these knights began to discard their blades one after another, so he stepped forward in disbelief.

After that, Ma Wu and Ma Teng had a conversation, and Ma Teng on the opposite side immediately said that they were Tianding's brothers after learning that Ma Wu was Ma Cheng in the past. Because Ma Teng is also a descendant of Ma Yuan, his ancestor is Brother Paoze.

Ma Tengaert's enthusiasm for the Qianghu style is quite unbearable for Ma Wu. But Ma Wu also knew that if Ma Teng really surrendered sincerely, it would definitely be an excellent weapon to hit the morale of the Han army, so Ma Wu also responded in vain.

Then let a team evacuate the battlefield with the Ma Tengbu who had discarded the blade, and assemble behind the Taishan army.

This is the standard procedure of the Taishan army for the Han soldiers who surrender in battle, although they will not be taken prisoner, but they will still not be allowed to participate in the next battle.

Marten and Pound didn't say much, and they were happy to leave the place.

So the two of them withdrew from the east with five hundred Qin Huyi.

After Ma Teng left, Ma Wu still felt a little unreal. He shook his head, remembered Ma Teng's "brother", and once again focused on the dense forest in front of him.

There, you can still see countless flags mixed in the jungle, one after another.

Ma Wu then ordered:

"All the armies will walk with me into the woods to fight."

The Tiande army sang loudly, dismounted one after another, and began to line up in a small circle to prepare for the forest.

At this time, Zhao Wei of the Han army made a mistake, he decided to abandon this dense forest when he saw the cavalry of the Taishan army rushing and the infantry of the Taishan army on the flank.

Zhao Wei was a native of Hanoi, and his family had a close relationship with the Sima family in the same county. He was originally a county official in Hanoi, and he joined the army when Lu Zhi went north to Hanoi, and then he has been fighting in Hebei.

At this time, Zhao Wei judged that it was difficult to continue to hold on to the dense forest with the current military strength and morale of the Han army in the forest, so in order to prevent the thousand-man battalion in the forest from being defeated and captured, he decided to retreat to the east wall outside the forest in the west, and he could also flank the Taishan army with the friendly forces there.

However, because of the problem of vision and level, Zhao Wei failed to understand the importance of this dense forest at all, and simply regarded it as a defensive means to hinder the enemy's cavalry from making a detour.

In fact, this dense forest stretches across the south and north slopes of the slope, in other words, once the Taishan army occupies here, it can use the cover of the dense forest to directly attack and harass the Han army behind the slope, so that it can not rest.

But Zhao Wei didn't understand what he meant, and just made the decision to give up the dense forest from the perspective of the strength of the troops.

In this way, Ma Wu once again entered the forest in a daze, and successfully occupied this key transportation point.

Ma Wu was also wondering if he had taken some great luck, first a Ma Teng surrendered to the battle, and then a Han soldier retreated without a fight, allowing him to complete the initial task of the right wing without a single soldier.

But Ma Wu's side of the operation is smooth, but it is difficult for Han Hao's side.

The two battalions of Han soldiers attacked by Han Hao and Wei Chong were both the backbone of the Northern Army, and the border of Youzhou County was the core old battalion supplemented.

One of the two battalion generals is named Zhao Wei and the other is called Yang Huai, both of whom are officials of the Northern Army. One of the two is from the Brazilian clan, and the other is from Jingzhou Lingling, both of whom are brave generals.

This Yang Huai is just that, but he has ordinary bravery. But this Zhao Wei is quite extraordinary, his father is a Brazilian marshal, Emperor Huan had pacified the Qiang Rebellion with the Han army, and then Zhao Wei was a boy with his military exploits, when Zhao Wei was only six years old.

Later, his father died in the war due to the rebellion in Brazil, and Zhao Wei was raised by the state, with Chen Fan as his teacher. Later, in the year of the crown, Zhao Wei joined the Northern Army as a boy and participated in almost all the wars in the Liu Hong period.

After Zhao Wei joined the army, he continued to make meritorious contributions, and even in the Northern Expedition of Xianbei in the sixth year of Xiping, he was stabbed in the stomach, and finally he crawled out of the pile of dead people.

But such a loyal and good Yulin orphan of the Han family, but because his teacher was Chen Fan, he was hated by the eunuchs, and he served in the army for more than ten years, and finally became a general. Later, after going out with Lu Zhi, in the Battle of Jize, the officials of the Northern Army collapsed, and he had the opportunity to be promoted to the battalion general to lead the first battalion.

Although Zhao Wei's official fortunes were ruined, he had a high prestige among the lower-level officials. Whether it is his resume or the tradition of being a hero in the army, the officials love him very much.

At this time, Zhao Wei sat on his horse and constantly commanded two battalions of Han soldiers, and Yang Huai of the other battalion also handed over the command to Zhao Wei and asked him to take unified command.

Zhao Wei was wrapped in a wound on his head, which was injured in the previous battle in Dingting, but this still did not prevent him from giving full play to his excellent command skills.

Originally, these two battalions of the Han army had been defeated and retreated by Han Hao and Wei Chong, but after Zhao Wei took over the command, he stubbornly blocked the continuous offensive of the Taishan army.

You must know that the two departments of Han Hao and Wei Chong on the opposite side combined, the strength of the army has almost reached 4,000, which is twice that of Zhao Yun here.

Both Han Hao and Wei Chong lacked sufficient scheduling talents, and they often rushed for a while with sharp soldiers, and then found themselves surrounded by Han soldiers, and then they could only break through again.

Obviously, they are on the side of the big forces here, but they have become a minority. The grievance in Han Hao's heart can be imagined.

But Han Hao is a famous seed in the end, and he quickly grew up in frustration. After discovering that the flexible tactics of the opposite side relied on the sluggish cooperation between him and Wei Chong, he took the initiative to contact Wei Zhou and decided that the two armies would fight together to strangle the enemy.

It worked quickly. In the increasingly narrow battlefield space, the strength advantage of the Taishan army was quickly brought into play. They continued to alternate battles, and the Han army was exhausted.

Finally, the Han army began to crumble. They originally wanted to retreat to the east wall, but the Taishan army pursued too quickly. In the end, these routs could only hug Zhao Wei and flee to the north.

And another battalion general, Yang Huaixian, was not so lucky, and ran into Wei Chong headlong in a panic.

Wei Chong cut down the Han general with only three swords, and then carried his head to show off to Han Hao who was not far away.

But the pursuit of the Taishan army also came to an abrupt end here.

The Han army from the east wall frantically fired arrows at the nearby towns of Hanoi and Zhao County.

Previously, in order to cover the Han soldiers outside the wall, the eastern side sent Zhou Zhong all the archers to his son Zhou Hui and asked him to defend the east wall.

Zhou Hui is a twenty-year-old young military officer, and his appearance is much more mediocre than his younger brother Zhou Yu in his hometown. But the mediocrity of his face has created his calm character.

He meticulously carried out his father's military orders, and with more than 1,000 crossbowmen, he firmly guarded the east wall.

The Hanoi town soldiers didn't know that the arrows of the Han army were so fierce, and the pursuit was urgent, so the cards in their hands had long been lost. Therefore, under the cover of the arrows of the Han army, the people fell to the ground like wheat.

At a battlement on the east wall, Li Hu, a handsome man, was excitedly shooting the Taishan soldiers below with a horn bow. He thought to himself:

"This Han people don't have any respect, don't you shoot an arrow or die?"

Di and Zhao Wei, like them, were all recruited by the Han family to send troops all year round to obtain exemption from taxes. They call it the blood tax.

Li Hu and his people were recruited when Lu Zhi led the northern army north, and then remained in the army because the roads were cut off.

In this battle, Zhou Zhong concentrated the whole army of crossbowmen who were good at shooting to garrison the east wall, and people like Li Hu, who lived and grew up in the mountain roads, were naturally among them.

Li Hu shot happily here, except for a majestic target who dodged quickly because of his quick dodge, he had already shot eight Taishan soldiers.

But Li Hu's happiness soon disappeared, because the Taishan army below quickly rushed to the bottom of the wall with the support of the card players behind him, and directly began to climb.

Hanoi is mountainous, so many of the town's garrisons come from the mountains, and they can climb dangerous mountains with just one rope, not to mention the dock wall converted from a manor.

Soon the Hanoi soldiers climbed the east wall with short daggers and ring-headed knives, and then fought with these crossbowmen.

Although Li Hu is a slave-like figure on the side of the Han people, he has a noble status on the side of the Di people. So immediately, three Diren warriors ran to Li Hu's side and wanted to protect him from the wall.

But the four of them had barely taken a few steps when they were stopped by a bloodied armorer. It was Han Hao, who was angry.

Li Hu also recognized this person as the warrior of the Taishan Army who had just dodged his arrows.

He opened his mouth to ask the name of the other side, but how could Han Hao understand what he said in Qiang language. So Han Hao directly returned a flying axe to the opposite side, right in the middle of the door.

The huge force of the axe directly smashed Li Hu's facial bones, and Ho Ho spurted blood, and Li Hu died like this.

This is not over, Han Hao pulled out the iron gun again, and knocked the three stupid Diren warriors to death.

Looking at the sparse head, Han Hao didn't have any desire to cut it, but just squirted and scolded:

"Let you shoot Naigong, let you shoot Naigong. Who do you kill if you don't kill you? ”

Then, Han Hao left, killing deeper into the east wall.

But Han Hao didn't know who he was killing, so with a casual throw, the flame of the rise of a nation was extinguished by Han Hao.

On the ridge in the rear, Lu Zhi saw all the situation here.

Ma Tengbu surrendered in battle, Zhao Wei abandoned and left, Zhao Wei was wrapped in the rout and fled to the north, and a corner of the east wall also fell.

He didn't expect to engage in the battle, and Zhou Zhong, the eastern general of the front slope, gave him such an explanation.

He was disgusted and ordered to the gentleman camp official Shi Lien on the side:

"You go to Zhou Zhong and ask if the face of the Zhou family in Luzhou will be lost in his hands? I'll give him two more battalions to take the dense forest and defend the east wall. If you can't do it, draw your sword and kill yourself. ”

Lu Zhi said that the murderous spirit was so strong that Li En didn't dare to raise his head, and led the military order to ride to the front slope of Zhou Zhong's Daxu place.

And after Lu Zhi explained this, he really sent 2,000 people from Gongsun Zhan's department behind Zhou Zhong to support Zhou Zhong.

After arranging these, Lu Zhi asked his personal general Yu Shi to take the iron soldiers to cut down the fleeing Zhao Wei.

Of course, Lu Zhi has heard of Zhao Wei and knows that he is a talent. But what about talent? Is there a shortage of talent in this world? Not to mention that after being a man, he has neither heels nor value, and has violated our military law, and killing is killing.

Yu Shi has also heard of Zhao Wei and knows that he is a good man. He wanted to intercede for Zhao Wei, but when he saw Lu Zhi's red cheeks, he swallowed it again.

Yu Shi received the order, put down his grimace and iron mask, and took Lu Zhi's iron army to enforce the law.

And in the distance, Zhao Wei, who was being wrapped, suddenly felt cold, and he saw Lu Zhi's ghost face running towards him. What is its purpose or guess?

So Zhao Wei roared:

"Brothers, kill back, let's kill back. The dog thing Iron Mask is coming to march us. We Zhao Wei think that he is a good man, how can a good man die in the hands of his own people? Brothers, if you still recognize me, you will kill me with us. I have to let the Taishan thieves on the opposite side take a look, our Han army also has a kind. ”

After speaking, Zhao Wei once again led the Han soldiers to the east wall to kill again.

Over there, Yu Shi saw that Zhao Yun knew the opportunity, and gradually slowed down, he looked at their backs:

"I can only help you get here."

At this time, the bloody battle for the east wall continued.