Chapter 498: Tiger Army
Tai Shi Ci spurs and beheaded him. The whole process is like an antelope hanging its horns, and there is no trace to be found.
And Guo Shu, who had been standing on the horse to dispatch the battle array, naturally saw this scene.
He recognized Tai Shici.
This official is the traveling of the foreign army of the flying army, and he was ordered by him to send the army to the northern plain. I didn't expect this person to be alive!
Yes, when Guo Shu encountered an ambush by the Han army here, he understood that most of the wanderers sent out before were dead.
was already remorseful for his decision-making mistakes, but he was saved by Tai Shici again, and this guilt was even deeper.
In addition to guilt, what Guo Shu didn't expect was that this person named Tai Shici would be so brave.
Inspired by this martial bravery, Guo Shu whipped and shouted to the crowd:
"Reinforcements have arrived, follow me and kill!"
Then the flag soldiers waved the flags, and the commanders of each song team obeyed the order to change the formation.
Soon, Guo Shubu, which was originally arranged in a phalanx, expanded into a zigzag attack formation. Among them, Guo Shu's Zuo Qu took Tian Jin as the head of the arrow and began to counterattack the Han army.
And over there, Guan Yu laughed heroically after seeing Tai Shici successfully kill and capture the flag.
Then, he raised his iron lance to the sun, pulled the reins with one hand, and the blood dragon foal under his crotch stood up, and then without waiting for urging, he rushed towards the chaotic battlefield.
Behind Guan Yu's single ride were the hundred-man cavalry, and they began to gallop with their commander without saying a word.
There is no slow step, and it is the fastest speed to run.
Guan Yu held the fine iron horse lance, and stabbed into Cao He's five hundred elite soldiers with a shout, and only the first blow killed the two Cao army veterans in front of him.
Then there was a bloody rain falling in the Han army's military formation.
It's just that compared to the number of enemies killed by Guan Yu, what made the morale of the Han army even more demoralized was the appearance of Guan Yu.
Although the Han soldiers around him had not seen Guan Yu before, when Guan Yu's iconic costume appeared, everyone recognized him.
The blood dragon horse like a heavenly horse, the green robe and armor, the face like a heavy jujube, and the majestic appearance like the sky.
Everyone knows that he is Guan Yu of Fenggao. And this result immediately caused even deeper panic.
Since Guan Yu settled in Fenggao last year, he has been making frequent sorties in the central and southern parts of Shandong, although he has not expanded much of the base area, but it really shows the presence of the Taishan Army.
Previously, there was Xuzhou Assassin Shi Taoqian who bullied Guan Yu's unknown people and entered the Taiyimeng area, but was defeated by Guan Yu and his cavalry.
Not to mention the defeat of more than 10,000 troops, even Tao Qian's elite Danyang soldiers were all captured by Guan Yu after losing 3,000.
Since then, Guan Yu has vibrated the East and effectively maintained the base in the Tailu region.
And now, seeing the commander of the first army of the Taishan Army coming to the battlefield in person, how can these Han army officials not panic?
And here, the soldiers of Guo Shu's Taishan Army, who were counterattacking, shouted excitedly when they saw this:
"Guan Shuai personally helped, let's kill happily."
The nearby Taishan soldiers also saw it, and their morale was high, and they shouted without wiping the blood:
"Kill, kill the majesty of my Taishan army!"
Guo Shu's department is subordinate to the Captain Department of the Later Military Academy. And the school in charge of Jinquan is the pillar of the rear army, and Guo Shu is the elite of Jinquan's captain's department.
So there is already a sense of pride. But now they were forced to abandon the city and flee, and then they were ambushed. They didn't understand whether this was Guo Shu's problem or not, but this grievance and anger have been accumulating until now.
And now, seeing that Guan Shuai actually came to their aid, what else are they afraid of? Now it is natural to have revenge! Blood debt and blood repayment!
As a result, all the Taishan officials fought bravely, and they were full of spirit. Some of them killed their temperament, and they directly took off their armor and naked clothes, and howled.
At this time, the main generals of the Han army at the head of the other battalions already knew that the rout on the battlefield was inevitable.
These people were originally at both ends of the snake and rat, and Cao He could still restrain them, but now Cao He is also dead, and since then these rabble have collapsed.
At this time, the thousand cavalry of the riding headquarters that fell behind Guan Yu's hundred cavalry also rushed over, and as soon as they arrived, they were thrown into the battlefield.
This area belongs to the hills of Mount Tai, which are densely forested and have complex terrain. It is quite beneficial to the Han soldiers who are on the run.
But it was only those foreign soldiers of Cao He's army who chose to escape, but Cao He's own 500 soldiers were still guarding that hill.
It's not that these people don't know how to run, but even if they run back, they will be engaged in Cao Cao's military law.
Don't look at Cao Cao's style of debauchery, but his strictness in governing the army can be called a famous general in ancient times.
Previously, Cao Cao marched and accidentally stepped on the green seedlings on the side of the road because his mount was out of control. Cao Cao cut off his long hair without saying a word.
Lao Cao cut his hair in Qishui before, and he hasn't grown it yet, and now he has cut his long hair.
Parents of the body's hair and skin.
Now Lao Cao has done these things one after another, which makes some people in the Cao family and the Xiahou family very dissatisfied. How many times did you Cao Cao do this kind of unethical thing, did you want to cut off with the Cao family?
Of course, the core Cao Ren, Cao Hong and others still support Cao Cao. It can be said that it is the support of these relatives that Cao Cao has where he is now.
So naturally, in the Cao army, these personal generals of the Cao family and the Xiahou family are naturally the top priority.
And now Cao He, the core confidant, will be directly begged for their heads, with the strictness of Cao Jun's military law, these people will die when they go back.
Since they are all dead, why should they be driven away for their lives like birds and beasts?
So, when the friendly forces were scattered, these Cao army veterans staged a heroic scene.
On this nameless hill, Cao He's headless body had been placed on the chariot, and his subordinates raised a military flag again, which was the military flag of Cai Yang, the adjutant general of the army.
On the outskirts of the hill, corpses were pillowing everywhere, and banners and blades were thrown to the ground.
There are also some war horses that have fallen in pools of blood that are not yet dead, and they are chirping sadly, adding color to the tragedy of this battlefield.
Cai Yang stood in the position of Cao He just now, and shouted to a group of officials:
"The matter has come to this, whether to choose to live on your knees or choose to die standing up, you decide for yourself. Those who are willing to die with me Cai Yang, please hold your blades high! ”
As soon as these words fell, the old soldiers below all raised their troops clamoringly. They shouted as they tapped their cards or armor.
Seeing this scene, Cai Yang cried speechlessly.
These are the essence and courage of Cao Jun in front of them, but now they are going to die here.
But Cai Yang had no choice.
He looked at the battlefield ahead, where a large number of foreign soldiers, except for a few who fled, were mostly chased into the circle by the enemy's cavalry.
Those poor foreign soldiers still wanted to kneel down and surrender, but the officials of Guo Shu's department had already killed red eyes, and they didn't pay attention to it at all, so they just killed them.
There is not so much truth on the battlefield, whoever drops the blade will be decided.
Looking at these miserable scenes, Cai Yang couldn't help but close his eyes and sighed:
"Why is this so?"
Two quarters of an hour later, Cai Yang's head was cut off by Lu Dai and sent to Guan Yu's tent. The veteran soldiers of the Cao army of his department were also easily slaughtered by the Taishan army when their strength was exhausted.
Nearly 4,000 Cao troops were thus gathered and annihilated in this hilly area.
After the war, Tai Shici was covered with blood on his hands, sleeve armor, and military uniform, and there were several wounds on the back of his hand that were cut by a sword. When Lu Dai saw it, he was busy asking people to bandage him.
But Tai Shi Ci didn't care, and went directly to the battlefield to find his former brothers in robe.
Today, the six of them set off together, and now only he Tai Shi Ci and Sun Wang, who was seriously injured and unconscious, were left.
Tai Shi Ci could not accept that his brothers had died without their bodies, so the first thing he did after the war was to find their bodies.
But alas, this is a very difficult thing to do.
This will be a battlefield full of corpses, layer upon layer, where can they be found.
When the heads of the four brothers who died in battle were found by Tai Shici, they were put on Cao He's chariot.
Near the chariot, Tai Shici also found the armbands and military badges of the four wanderers, as well as their armor.
As for their corpses, there is still nowhere to be found.
In the end, Tai Shi Ci could only bury the heads, military uniforms, military badges and other things of the four robes, and then put all the twelve heads he had beheaded in this battle in front of the grave of the four robes.
Then, Tai Shici jumped back to the army, where Guan Shuai had already commanded Guo Shu to set off again, this time to take Zhu'a again.
So the army poured out to the south.
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At the same time, Jinan Guotai County.
An army of several thousand men is gathering here, preparing to march north from here to support the plains.
The Hubu army lined up Xue Zhouzheng with his troops on the side of the road, and let the baggage vehicles behind cross the river first.
Xue Zhou is not a stranger, he is the gate official of Dongpingling before, because he was excluded by his boss, and he saw the fake morality of the team leader Gao Jin and Gao Yu, so he drifted away and threw himself into the rivers and lakes.
Later, as expected, the brothers Gao Jin and Gao Yu were ambitious and talented, and they thought they had the life of a hero, but they were only killed in the battle of entering Mount Tai to encircle and suppress Zhang Chong.
Those who looked down on Xue Zhou and wanted to take advantage of Xue Zhou all died in the end, and only he was alive and well.
It wasn't until Cao Cao came that Xue Zhou, after observing the behavior of the new prince, decided that this person was the male lord and could rebuild the state.
So Xue Zhou took the road of seeking the talent hall, appreciated by Cao Ren, and joined the Tiger Infantry Army as a general. Later, when he went south to attack Qi and other places, he accumulated three levels of merit and was the general of the Hubu army.
The Tiger Infantry Army and the Leopard Cavalry Army are the two elites of Cao's army. Among them, the captain of the Tiger Infantry Army is Cao Ren, and the captain of the Leopard Cavalry Army is Shi Huan.
Qingzhou is a populous state, after pacifying Jinan, Le'an, and Qi, it began to touch the plains again, and it can be said that it almost occupies the most densely populated part of Qingzhou.
With this solid foundation, plus absorbing a large number of surrendered troops.
Today's Cao army has 20,000 guards and ten captains; There are 30,000 foreign leaders, and the establishment is different. Later, if he can absorb more than 10,000 Hebei elite soldiers in the hands of Liu Yu of Pingyuan County, then Cao Cao's wings will be really full.
Especially the Youzhou Raid in Gai Tong's hand, if he can successfully collect his command, then Cao Jun's last shortcoming will be made up.
So this time, Cao Cao attached great importance to the support of the plains.
As long as he succeeds in showing his ability and strength to Liu Yu in this Pingyuanjin conflict, there will naturally be Gai Tong and the trial match to advise him to let Pingyuan and Jinan merge as a family.
But the premise is that Cao Cao has to show his own value in this battle.
Let the plains and the exiled warriors of Hebei see hope in him Cao Cao. That is, only I, Cao Cao, can protect you and fight the territory with the Taishan army. In this way, are you still worried that Hebei Shixin will not rush south and take refuge in him Cao Cao?
It was precisely this battle that was raised to such a strategic height that Cao Cao took so much pains.
……
Just when Xue Zhou was still in Daozuo, he received a new military order.
The time of their departure was set, that is, at three o'clock in the afternoon.
For this schedule, Xue Zhou is not satisfied. Because the weather is the hottest at this time, it is now the middle of June, and the temperature is already very high.
At this time of marching, the brothers under his command have to carry their bags, and the heat is unbearable, how can they stand it?
But a military order is a military order, and he Xue Zhou is just a general, and he can only obey orders.
It's just that Xue Zhou thought about the hard work behind the brothers, so he let them sit on the side of the road and chew dry food first. He himself went to talk to his superiors to see if he could get more supplies with the brothers.
Later, it will be difficult to get sufficient supplies.
With Xue Zhou's order, his team of fifty people reflexively took out dry food, and then began to gobble it up.
Obviously, Xue Zhou has a very high prestige for his subordinates, and he is already a strong army if he can do the ban.
Xue Zhou's subordinates didn't need to say much, they also knew the difficulties they might encounter in the future, so they ate the reserves of the past two meals in one go.
Xue Zhou looked at the appearance of his subordinates and nodded contentedly:
"That's it, let's eat more here, only when we eat in our stomachs, we won't panic later."
After that, Xue Zhou left.
And his team waited in Daozuo for two hours, and it was getting hotter and hotter.
The scorching sun of June was not ordinary, and the officers of this team were a little shaky when they stood under the sun. But even so, without Xue Zhou's military order, this team still stood here, and no one wanted to escape to the shade to escape the heat.
For example, Xue Zhou's team did not stop one or two, but the entire Hubu Army. It can be seen that Cao Jun's elite is really extraordinary.
In the rear, the officers drank water, and they also took the time to watch the baggage convoy on the road.
These wagons, full of military supplies and grain, kept moving through the straights, crowding the fairly open road.
The shouts, the sparkling wheels, and the neighing of cows and horses were mixed together, majestic and vibrant, showing the great power of the militaristic system.
Some large trucks were accidentally planted under the roadbed, and military funds fell to the ground. The drivers shouted in fear for Xuezhou's team, begging them to help them.
But it's a pity that Xuezhou and their team just watched the excitement indifferently. After all, without a military order, they can't go anywhere.
Soon, the coachman's pleas grew desperate, and he saw the officers of the baggage camp approaching.
Then the coachman's desperation turned into resistance, and he no longer cared about the military supplies on the ground, and was about to flee towards the dense forest by the roadside.
But does it work?
Soon he was dragged to his place, and the officer who had arrived drew his sword, and without saying a word, beheaded the coachman.
Blood was splashed on the floor, and it was hot.
Nobody cares.
Today is really thrilling. First, Hemu closed the village with heavy snow, and then in the afternoon, it was planted under the roadbed, and the back was pulled up by tourists' cars. Hey, this snow today is the biggest I've ever seen. It's white, it's so clean.