Chapter 181: This battle allows Yuan Shao to have a good year
Yan Liang was forced into the valley near Yanjin helplessly, Xu Zhen sent out three troops and horses to intercept and chase, forcing him in the mountain and unable to get out, not to mention that people escaped from the sky, it is estimated that he can't even send the news, so he can only see if Tianying should ask for help.
Fortunately, this mountain is also big enough, they are easy to ambush and Xu Zhen can only chase the tracks, and the other side should be Yanjin, although he is not very familiar with the road, but after a few trips, it is not unfamiliar.
Yan Liang traveled all night, and rested with hundreds of people at dawn, leaning on the side of the mountain wall of a three-person wide road, surrounded by mountains and forests, and on the other side of the road was a cliff, and falling down was a cliff top of more than ten zhang.
Sitting with hundreds of people, they deeply felt what happened this night, and reflected on how they fell into the trap.
"If you can't defeat Xu Zhen, you can't frustrate his spirit, and the army will still tremble in the future, and it will be difficult to defeat him."
"Now, I have fallen into its trap, not unnoticed, but as a last resort, and this trap is a sure solution!"
At this time, although Yan Liang was defeated, he still stood straight against the mountain wall, his bearing was still extraordinary, his face was very solemn and serious, but the situation was not good, so his hands were behind his back and trembled slightly.
In fact, he has not really admitted that he was defeated until now, and he has already thought in his heart that if he gave up Yanjin and let the entire bank of the river out, it would not be like this. However, in front of his own soldiers and horses, he couldn't say such words, so he could only use a must-hit plan to tie up the current army's heart.
"I have to sigh, Xu Zhenguo is very human, he can capture Lu Bu, he naturally has extraordinary skills, I am afraid that Lu Bu was also ambushed by mistake at the beginning, and he was forced to such a situation before he was defeated, even so, if we can escape, doesn't it prove that I am not under Lu Bu?"
Of course, Yan Liang's words did not come to echo the words of the deputy general, but he was sighing in a decadent manner, these ten days and Xu Zhen's soldiers and horses have been fighting, although there are victories, most of them are defeats, and after going back, the south is criticized, and the fame accumulated in Youzhou in the past is almost all lost.
Now trapped in the mountains, and if you escape further, you can only reach Yanjin, I don't know if there will be soldiers and horses to respond, and the cavalry who have escaped don't know if they can send the news to the camp.
"General, it's almost over, we must continue to move, let's get out of this mountain first!"
The soldiers and horses with the banner had already urged, which made Yan Liang's heart uneasy, and he was quite irritable, but he couldn't help it when he thought about it, now was not the time to think too much, he must go out of the mountains first.
"Everyone, remember my words, as long as you can go back alive, it will be done, we have seen Xu Zhen's wonder, and his miracle will no longer be useful in the future!"
Yan Liang suddenly shouted loudly, the last time to boost morale, it doesn't matter if he can cheer them up a little, probably he is just looking for a reason to cheer himself up, so that he can turn around.
But this sentence obviously has a lot of effect, many soldiers are nodding their heads again and again, and some even talking, and going back alive is a success!
Xu Zhen is nothing more than two elites, all-round armored cavalry and peace-shooting archers! At this time, the vanguard army can poke out the hole cards, and what are you afraid of when the army comes to attack in the future?!
Although they were defeated, they could also benefit from the defeat and accumulate for future victories, so they regained some confidence and marched quickly.
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At the same time, outside Liyang City, the fire in the camp had been extinguished, but the number of people killed in the camp last night plus the number of soldiers burned to death exceeded 2,000, but there were not many enemy corpses left, and there were almost no armaments.
I just remember that the knife can cut through their armor, the shield is a thick wooden and iron shield, and everyone's fighting style is extremely brave, and the coordination is very exquisite, and it has the ability to climb mountains and mountains.
Among the 2,000 dead and wounded alone, there were three lieutenants who were hacked to death with knives, but they couldn't ask why, only knew that the commander of this army of soldiers and horses was like a madman, a horse took the lead like a crowd, there was no complete body under the blade, like a tiger out of the cage and fighting like drinking blood and devouring, even if the body was seriously injured, he would not retreat, his will was as strong as a beast, and when he commanded, he was like an arm and a finger, and he only needed to order the flag to constantly change formations, which made Wen Chou quite shocked.
"Xu Zhen's soldiers and horses came from the south, and he was good at climbing over many mountainous places, he should have been practicing this technique in order to have a surprise attack tonight, and it happened to take advantage of General Yan Liang's absence, which means that the general has been tricked, was transferred to the camp, and destroyed the camp," Zhang He, who withdrew from outside, stroked his beard, his eyes were deep, and his expression could not hide his deep worry, none of them thought of the battle last night, and when he reacted, the camp had been destroyed.
What is known now is that Xu Zhen has such a force of soldiers and horses, which can climb over the mountains and forests and march, and once drilled in, the chasing soldiers are unattainable, and at dawn it is not that no one chases, and the army of 10,000 foot soldiers pursues and kills them, but they can't catch up with the footsteps of others, and they don't even see a shadow, and the vanguard troops who go deep into it die hundreds of people, so they can only withdraw very quickly, and there is no movement after a day.
In this way, the shadow existed above the heads of all the vanguard troops, like a difficult ghost, they would not dare to approach the mountains and forests in the future, such emotions could not be stopped, how badly they lost that night, only Yan Liangjun himself knew in his heart.
In Guandu, he first lost to the first cavalry, and then was raided by a group of ghost soldiers and horses who crossed the mountains and mountains, allowing people to come and go freely, burning all the marching grain and grass, and now it is impossible not to retreat, they may not even dare to come out of Liyang, after all, there are many mountains from Liyang, unless the army arrives here, send troops into the mountains and forests to check immediately, otherwise no one dares to rest assured that they will camp boldly by the mountains and rivers.
"What now? Several generals have been on the battlefield for a long time, should there be some countermeasures? ”
"Encamped outside, in a protective posture, guarding the main roads in various places," Zhang He opened his eyes and said in a deep voice: "At this time, it is obviously unwise to attack, only to take care of each other and defend to the death, so that Xu Zhen stopped the offensive first, since his soldiers and horses are strange soldiers, there is an obvious weakness, dare not enter the frontal battlefield, only strange tricks can have miraculous results, judging from the speed of his retreat, he is unwilling to leave us too many clues to investigate, the more nervous he is, the more he has to do it, in exchange for the military momentum, this is Xu Zhen's approach, as long as he holds this place, Waiting for General Yan Liang to come back, Xu Zhen will not have the next offensive. ”
"As for Yanjin, you can also let him go, let their camp come in first, our army can still occupy the high slope in the future, relying on the terrain to throw stones and arrows with armaments, this terrain is very few people, it is impossible for him to occupy all such a wide camp, the real big war is not at this time, you don't want to fight for a while."
Zhang He's words made many generals on the ruins of Yan Liang's camp look a little more uplifted at this moment, and the light in their eyes returned, at this time, it was indeed necessary for a general to stand up and hold the army's heart.
Zhang He, whose reputation in the army is not much weaker than Yan Liang, has this ability, and he also tried his best at this time, and the vanguard soldiers and horses were defeated, if they were transmitted back to Jizhou, I don't know how much storm it would set off.
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In the mountain range behind Yanjin, the sword and shield soldiers did not stop, and they came to this mountain with inhuman strength, and everyone was extremely tired and almost sleepy.
However, he rushed to the previously agreed route, entered the mountains and forests to hide, and soon ran into Yan Liang's soldiers and horses who rushed out, at first glance, Gao Shun could already tell that the people who came were only hundreds, so he changed into battle armor again, and just rested for less than a quarter of an hour, and then went down the mountains and forests to fight.
Kill it from both sides.
"I have already ambushed here, Yan Liang, you have fallen for the plan of my family's prince!"
The Gaoshun people are tall and large, and they come out of the mountains and forests, and their unique armor covers most of their faces, and their true faces are not visible, but the appearance of this excellent armament is enough to make people despair.
The hundreds of war horses snatched from Yan Liang's army just came in handy at this moment, and at this time, he heard the sound of shouting and cheering all around, which was really deafening, and Yan Liang's whole army almost instantly looked up and looked around, looking left and right and couldn't find a way out, there was only a cliff on one side to go down into the valley, and he didn't know life or death when he went down.
Encountering on such mountain and forest roads can only be said to be in a desperate situation! I don't know how to escape.
Yan Liang was flustered, as if he had been hit by another arrow in his heart, Xu Zhen actually forced me to take this road? He's dead, I'm going to come here?
"God is going to kill me!!"
Yan Liang's face changed greatly, and he stubbornly pulled the reins to keep his war horse from being too flustered, in fact, he was really affected by Gao Shun's words, Gao Shun just said casually temporarily, Xu Zhen decided this route for them to come back when he was discussing with Jia Xu, saying that he would do his best to see if he could contain this net, if he wanted to block Yan Liang, he needed to run fast enough, plus Gao Shun was marching non-stop to this point.
It is very likely that he will not be able to lock him up, everything depends on his fate, but he didn't expect that Gao Shun's life is good, but Yan Liang's life is not good, if he doesn't stop to boost morale and stabilize his prestige image, maybe he will come here a quarter of an hour earlier, then he will go out, now Gao Shun is shouting, he doesn't want to break out of the encirclement, he just feels that he was killed by Xu Zhen early.
At this moment, the cavalry and war horses in the distance galloped, and the swords, shields, soldiers and horses on the mountains and forests also rushed down, and they were killed in a chaotic manner, and Gao Shun was also riding a war horse, forcibly rushing, and knocked out a bloody way in the crowd to bully Yan Liang, blocking the big knife with a shield, and at the same time handed out the Su Iron Knife to cut Yan Liang's neck, ready to take the merit, but he didn't expect to be slashed by that knife and fell off the horse.
This came down too suddenly, in fact, Yan Liang had just killed two sword and shield soldiers, and immediately felt a wind coming, so he immediately fought back, he himself was extremely powerful, and he didn't see who it was, and he actually slashed him out after a knife, but this time, Yan Liang's heart trembled, and he left a scarlet eye-catching blood mark on his neck.
And it's deep! It is very likely that if Fang Cai didn't push people out with his strength, now the head has been taken, and now he has no time to react, and there are sword and shield soldiers holding shields and surrounding him, Yan Liang dodged left and right, and only then did he get a little free to flash out of a little gap, pull the reins and leap away, and come out of the encirclement, and then enter the encirclement again.
There are so many sword and shield soldiers here!
"It's over! Finished! Where are the guards?!! ”
Yan Liang stood on the back of the war horse, stepped on the stirrup and raised his eyes, all he saw was the sword and shield soldiers approaching the war horse with shields, so that the horses could not move forward, and the soldiers could not immediately break the shield formation, and everyone was blocked again.
At this moment, his peripheral vision glimpsed that at the corner of the mountain road in the distance, a rider wearing a mask and riding a handsome war horse jumped over the obstacle and rushed out, followed by more than a dozen horsemen, rushing straight towards Yan Liang.
The war horse under his command, although fully armed and wearing a horse mask, can also see the blood red color from the exposed legs and feet, the speed is like chasing the wind, carrying such a heavy object, it can also sweep like the wind, a few steps to the front, a knife cut down the horse cavalry, horizontal and hit the back of a person, cut through the armor at the same time can knock people off the horse, great strength.
This horse chopping knife, there is a layer of white lines on the blade, as if glaze, the size of the whole blade tends to be small, the blade is broken rather than the arc top, the tip of the knife has a slight angle of the outer arc, sharp and easy to stab.
Waving like the wind in his hands, every time he falls, he can open the way and break the blood, Yan Liang has already been dumbfounded at this time, this person's martial arts are extremely high, but he doesn't know why he pretends to be a ghost and wears a mask.
He wrapped himself in iron armor all over his body, only a few parts were weak, so he couldn't be afraid of death, right?
The blood-red war horse, make good use of the long soldiers...... Could it be that Lu Bu didn't die and secretly came to the battlefield to lead the troops? In addition to this, Yan Liang couldn't think of the second possibility, at this time, the iron-masked man had already killed in front of him, and the horse chopping knife was slashed horizontally like hitting the water, and it came in an instant, in fact, it was a single wave of his right hand, and his left hand touched his waist, and after the ring head knife was unsheathed, he shook Yan Liang between the electric lights and flints, even if he knew that he had been deceived, he didn't have time to react.
After blocking the first knife, the ring-headed knife fell on the neck, and with a snort, he suddenly fell off the horse, and his sight returned to silence and nothingness in the whirlwind of the sky, and there was no movement anymore, compared to Lu Bu, Yan Liang was going to die a lot quieter.
Cutting off the head with a knife, Yan Liang's body fell in a pool of blood, and he could hear the shouts and wails one after another, Xu Zhen wanted to persuade them to surrender, who knew that after the wailing, these hundreds of people suddenly broke out, pushed off the sword and shield soldiers, and rushed towards Xu Zhen like crazy, so Xu Zhen swallowed it directly before he could speak, and killed a few more back and forth, letting Gao Shun and others suppress the foot rider with a big shield, and see if they were hacked to death in the encirclement.
None of the soldiers and horses begged for mercy and retreated, almost all of them begged for death, and hundreds of people actually killed a full stick of incense before they completely swept the battlefield, this was the first time he encountered a big battle in which no one surrendered to the last man.
At least, this is enough to prove that Yan Liang is definitely a good hand at leading the troops, and the soldiers and horses under his command are all people who have sacrificed their lives and forgotten to die, so that his sword and shield battalion has dozens of casualties, which is really brilliant.
After the battle, Xu Zhen squatted on a boulder, took off his mask and sweated profusely, I don't know if it was blood or sweat that wet the back of his clothes, and let out a long sigh of relief, "Sure enough, no matter how high the kung fu is, I am afraid of the machete, and this armor has to be thickened a little more." ”
"As long as I have enough strength, I can carry the armor, and on the battlefield, everything must be safe."
"Prince!" Gao Shun's limbs were extremely tired, but he still came with Yan Liang's head and sent it to Xu Zhen, he also understood that if he had this victory, it didn't matter if he exposed all his hole cards to Jizhou, such a battle was enough for them to have a good year.
(End of chapter)