Chapter 90: Mentor

In order to avoid the bows and arrows on the wall, the phalanx blocking the gate was an arrow away from the wall, and Guan Peizhong rode his horse to the gate in this safe gap. Twisting his face to look at the one-sided slaughter scene, thinking about the challenge of the enemy general just now, the resentment and anger in Guan Peizhong's chest burned more fiercely than the fire of those trains, and it was worthy of reaching the gate, this anger finally broke out, Guan Qian let the horses that had slowed down into a trot turn dozens of steps towards the enemy formation on the west side, and shouted angrily: "Medium"! The splitter throws his spear into the bandits!

"Ahh

"Okay!" The defenders on the wall saw Guan Qianzong's thunderous blow and burst into a short cheer. However, the brutal battlefield in front of them soon made them silent again.

The quality of the cavalry of the officers and soldiers varied: some were cavalry, and some were "mounted infantry": they were elite infantry, who used horses to walk in peacetime and dismounted in wartime, and many of the later invincible Manchurian Eight Banners were such mounted infantry (they can be understood as modern assault infantry riding in Bradley chariots). Seeing that the low-hanging fruit was close at hand, all the mounted infantry who had been assigned to the reserve rushed out - due to the essential difference in professionalism, the vast majority of them, like Yuan Wu, saw Gu Baisong's horse team rushing towards him, and made a low-level mistake that cost him his life: reining in his horse and running back. And most professional cavalry made the right choice to hedge quickly and then try to avoid it.

Of course, not everyone can get away with it. After the first round of confrontation, under the continuous attacks of the opposing columns one after another, 100 officers and men and horsemen fell off their horses, and by this point, about half of the officers and men's horse team had been lost.

The riders who had narrowly escaped this first hurdle had not had time to calm down their panic a little, and they were immediately seized by a new fear: a large group of thieves were opening out of the east gate of Xin'an City, and there were swords and guns! After these thieves left the city in the form of columns, they quickly assembled in infantry units and lined up in phalanxes, and as soon as each phalanx was assembled, they marched towards the battlefield without hesitation under the command of their respective officers!

The front row and both wings of the infantry were pikemen, and even though there was only a thin layer, the glittering tips of the spears were enough to keep the horses out, and when they were busy parrying the stabbing spears, the sword players behind would pounce on them...... Thinking of this, none of the riders who had just escaped had the idea of forcibly charging into battle, and all of them drove their mounts towards Hangu Pass - and on the opposite side, the thief's horse team also completed the turn and collided head-on again!

Sun Fugui had already rushed up to the Guan Tower, and shook his head heavily in the face of Qi Xiaoguang's hopeful searching gaze. Qi Xiaoguang suddenly felt a buzz, and his mind went blank. Cai Wenying stood beside him, at a loss.

Sun Fugui walked quickly to the wall, put his hand on the pergola and looked west. I saw that under the reflection of the sun, the cold light flickered, one after another, flashing closer and closer, and drove firmly to the east. He knew that this was the enemy's hammer - the phalanx before closing the door was the enemy's anvil! The hammer is about to fall, and everything in between will be powdered. Then, the hammer and anvil are united, and the once majestic and majestic pass under the feet is about to collapse!

"My lord, I ...... The turtle grandson surnamed Kou ...... I ......" Guan Peizhong also limped onto the wall, stammered a few words and choked up.

"If only I could escape." Of course, Sun Fugui knew what was going on, but he didn't know how to appease this beloved general, so he reached out and patted him on the shoulder, "Get ready, let's go back to Luoyang." ”

"Huh? Back to Luoyang? Could it be ......" Qi Xiaoguang's eyes widened and stared at Sun Fugui in disbelief.

"Well, I can't keep it." Sun Fugui looked directly at Qi Xiaoguang and said, "My lord, the gate has been destroyed, and the military spirit has been dispersed, this battle cannot be fought." You see," he said, pointing to the small array of armor soldiers who were driving in the distance, "the sons and daughters of the pass can't see the thieves now, and they can hold out for a while, and when they see them, they will run in all directions, and the thieves will directly enter the pass." At that time, we could only hope that the fire on these trains would be stopped. This fire can burn for half an hour at most, and then, even if you want to leave, you can't get out! ”

Cai Wenying escaped death and was rescued by Qi Xiaoguang, and at this time she broke into a big disaster, although she was deceived by Kou Zhizhang, she was still ashamed, and said with a heart: "Lord Fuzun, stay in Qingshan, you can go quickly." The grace of the adult to save his life is unrecompensable, and he has committed a heinous crime. ”

Sun Fugui is a person from the palace, and he can't interfere in local affairs, but his subordinates are in exactly the same situation as Cai Zhixian, they are all pitted by Kou Zhizhang, if Cai Wenying has three longs and two shorts, it is likely that Guan Peizhong will not be able to keep it, so he can't take too much care of it, and persuaded: "My lord, Luofu City is high and deep, and you still need adults to take these sons and daughters to guard, and Lord Cai's Ding Zhuang is also very useful." are all trapped here, and there will be no one to defend Luofu. Let's go together, it's too late! ”

After speaking, without waiting for Qi Xiaoguang to speak, he turned his head and ordered Sun Monkey: "Order." Prepare a horse and escort Lord Qi and Lord Cai to the city! Guan Qian gathered the brothers on the wall to follow and go back to Luofu! The flags are all left, and the thieves will be hindered for a while. ”

As soon as Sun Monkey waved his hand, several guards rushed up, picked up Qi Xiaoguang and Cai Wenying and walked towards the horse road. Qi Xiaoguang's guards all knew that this was for the good of adults, so they pretended to stop it, but no one really stepped forward to tear it up. Qi Xiaoguang struggled, sighed and said, "That's the only way." Let go of the official, and the official will go by himself. Wenlan (Cai Wenying's words) don't need to say much, let's go together. Everyone went down the wall together.

No one noticed that these words were listened to by Kou Zhizhang's personal soldiers on the horse road. Without waiting for Qi Xiaoguang to take a step, this guy ran away.

The officials had just gotten off the wall and were about to get on their horses, when they saw a general in iron armor and bronze helmets standing majestically beside the road, and more than a dozen guards stood behind them, all of them looking at death as if they were at home-looking at it, it was Kou Zhizhang!

Qi Xiaoguang rubbed his eyes in disbelief and before he could speak, Kou Zhizhang clenched his fists and said: "Lord Fuzun, the last will defend the city after the end of the adult, and fight the thieves to the end!" After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for Qi Xiaoguang to reply, waved his hand, and led the guards to go up the wall!

Not only Qi Xiaoguang was dumbfounded, everyone was stunned!

Sun Fugui helped Qi Xiaoguang to get on the horse, and said hesitantly: "Could it be that this guy Tianliang found out that he knew that he had caused trouble and wanted to atone for his sins? ”

Qi Xiaoguang snorted: "How is it possible!" Who knows what he's going to do. ”

Cai Wenying shook his head, he didn't know how long his life could be saved, and he didn't have the heart to guess what kind of nerve Kou Zhizhang had again.

When Kou Zhizhang went up the wall, the defenders were retreating in formation. Adjutant General Kou walked straight to the Golden Drum Team and stopped the team officer: "The war drums are all left." This will be ordered by the prefect to be the queen of the army! ”

The team officer has been in this fight once, and he was almost cut off by Sun Fugui, and he is still afraid at this time, where is he willing to listen? Several of Kou's adjutancies couldn't help but say that they would rush forward to grab it. How dare the soldiers really do it with the adjutant general's own soldiers, in the blink of an eye, several people had nosebleeds, and even the drums and hammers were robbed. Kou Zhizhang shouted triumphantly to the backs of the head rats: "Toast and don't eat and drink!" Ben will sacrifice his life to resist the enemy, but how dare you stop it? Don't be afraid to kill your dog's head! ”

Then he ordered: "Sons, beat the drum for Ben General!" ”

The golden drum is the most important means of communication on the battlefield, and different drum beats have their own meanings. However, where do Kou Zhizhang's family guards know this? Everyone is knocking around!

Crooked. As with all fireworks, the non-stop drumbeat represents the overall attack!

At this point, the warring sides were in complete confusion.

Zhang Ding thought that the Guannai was going to send reinforcements, so he hurriedly transferred manpower from the front line in the west to supplement the side facing the pass in the east, and the officers and soldiers besieging the phalanx originally wanted to open a retreat and escape back to the Guannai, but at this time, they breathed a sigh of relief and no longer desperately broke through - reinforcements are coming, who wants to die at the moment? The second time they escaped Gu Baihua's head-on beheading, the dozens of cavalry officers and horses who escaped could have ridden into the city to pick up their lives, but when they heard the general attack order, they were worried that they would collide head-on with the "reinforcements" and disrupt the team, and they were even more afraid of being beheaded as a deserter, so they turned their horses' heads and galloped to the direction of Xin'an again to do a desperate fight, and the Xiaoxiao battalion had been taken over by Guan Shengyun, and when he heard the sound of the drums, he accelerated the attack, and Jia Yanzi, the temporary battalion officer of the Gangfeng Battalion, was worried about falling behind and losing face to Gu Baihua, so he would inevitably suffer a big mouth that didn't want money, plus two good legs from nature, I don't want to save any physical strength, take the lead in the charge, and even run in front of the Breaking Sky Camp, Gu Baihua Gu Baisong Brothers' horse team has only lost three or five people against the official army twice, and at this time, seeing that the three dozen horsemen on the opposite side actually dare to kill again, they can't help but be angry, and they all roared and pounced. This time it was seven or eight cuts, and there was no more suspense: after the third round of impact, the horse team of the officers and troops out of the city was completely wiped out......

The drums beat for about half a cup of tea and then fell silent, but everyone on the battlefield was more focused on what was in front of them, and no one noticed. In short, this drum, in addition to speeding up the process of the battle, did not play any other role!

In the phalanx, Zhang Ding stared intently at the two half-closed doors, worried that they would suddenly open at any time, and then rush out of the team. Zhang Guerrilla licked his dry lips and turned his head nervously from time to time to look west, praying that Da Shuai and Gu Manzi would come sooner and faster. The soldiers of the two battalions have fought from the morning to the present, and although it is a feint, they have paid more than 100 lives for the sake of the trick, and many more have been wounded. For most of the day, the grain of rice has not entered, everyone's water hyacinth has also bottomed out, and their physical strength has almost reached the limit, and the frequency of rotation is becoming more and more frequent, and now the main force in the front row is the half of the Zhenyong battalion that pretends to be the marshal guard - even they have been rotated once. If a new force suddenly emerges from the gate at this time, Zhang Ding estimates that the phalanx is likely to not last longer than a stick of incense.

Fortunately, the dog officers and soldiers who were blocked out of the pass relaxed a little when they heard the sound of the drums, and no longer desperately wanted to rush out of the retreat, and made fierce expressions one by one, and issued various threatening curses in their mouths:

"The dog thief has already descended, and grandpa will spare you"!

"Wait until your father catches you, peel the skin first, and then kill it!"

"After a while, I will dig out your heart and liver and drink"!

However, Zhang Ding knew that they were just bluffing, in fact, they were waiting for reinforcements, and after the city killed a large number of people, these guys would pounce on them with more force, so they became more and more nervous.

The bamboo whistle has been held in the mouth. Zhang Ding decided that as long as the reinforcements were killed in the pass, he would shrink the front and change it to a thick multi-layered defensive circle: since it can't be stopped, then simply let go of the official road and try to protect itself, and the rest depends on the strength of the marshal and the barbarian's new force and the dog officers and soldiers!

Zhang Ding ventured and jumped a few times in the formation: Great! I can already see friendly troops from afar!

Well, the dog officers and soldiers should be in the whole team, so they are about to come out, right? Zhang Ding spat out the bamboo whistle and shouted: "Sons, cheer up!" The dog officers and soldiers will come out immediately, as long as they carry half a stick of incense, the handsome will arrive! ”

"Half a stick of incense, the handsome will arrive!" The soldiers in the formation shouted in response, cheering up their companions and themselves.

Half of the time for the half-burnt incense has passed, and the noisy shouts of the west can be heard, and the friendly forces are closer!

Why haven't the dog officers and soldiers come out yet? I can see it myself, and I can see it more clearly from the top of the city! Why hasn't it come out yet? Well, it may be that the family guards are wearing double armor and doing a decisive assault. Definitely! Looking at the flags on the wall, there are commanders, adjutant generals, and civil officials, and there are always one or two hundred guards in total, can the Perak battalion withstand it? Once the front is defeated, even if the rear does not lose its fighting spirit, the formation will be disrupted by the rout, and it is often uncontrollable...... Zhang Ding's back was soaked in cold sweat: life and death are at this moment!

"Sons, the dog officers and soldiers are coming! Dashuai is only a hundred feet away from us, it doesn't take a while, just carry this wave, and we will win! Zhang Ding shouted hissed, and once again pulled out dozens of shield soldiers from the west and stuffed them to the side of the gate, staring at the blood-red eyes and shouting: "Wait for the dog officers and soldiers to come out, they will all be hard for Lao Tzu!" If the front dies, the back will go up, and whoever dares to take a step back, Lao Tzu will split him alive! ”

"Hold on to one round and win!" The soldiers' hoarse throats fell to the ground. Everyone who greeted the door was silently praying in their hearts that they would not be rushed by the enemy in the gate.

The voice from the west became clearer. Listen, I can vaguely distinguish the big voice of "Wang Ba Lamb" and "Dog Day", is it not Lao Gong or which? It's only twenty or thirty feet, right? Why haven't the dog officers and soldiers come yet? Depend on! Don't you want to push a knife cart to rush over and open the way? It's definitely too late to change formations, and the dog officers and soldiers will definitely take advantage of this break to rush over! Forget it, take human lives, and spare dozens of lives, there is no other way!

"Sons, be careful! The dog officer and army will rise up this time, resist it, and enter the customs to make a fortune! Zhang Ding wiped the cold sweat on his hands on his trouser legs, and immediately clenched the long knife in his hand again, staring at the swarthy doorway and shouting again, "Sons, squat down in the front row, resist the front row in the back row, take a step back and kill your head!" ”

Hey?

How did your voice become so loud? Why are the sons and daughters silent? What about the drums, why can't you hear the drums? Why is it so quiet outside the formation? Before I had time to think about it, there was a series of miserable screams in front of the battle! Zhang Ding hurriedly turned his head and looked back.

Yikes!

A few war horses emerged from the smoke and dust, and galloped to the front of the battle in the blink of an eye. The dust from the horses' hooves rushed to the front row of soldiers, and several people were choked and bent down and coughed.

Darn! You stabbed you with a gun, and if you hold on a little longer, you'll win...... Zhang Ding was so angry that he was about to scold, and a familiar laugh came: "The private baby can beat it"!

The valley birch has arrived!