Chapter 255 Crush, Slash!
The terrain on Taihang Mountain is actually very open, and the average width of the entire mountain range is more than fifty miles, so it is not easy to find a place to set up an ambush here.
This point of descending Longgang is definitely the only place where there is a chance to annihilate a force in many ambush places, overlooking from a high place, it looks like a bowl without a base under the upside down, and the entrance is very dense because of the bamboo on both sides, resulting in only a passage of five or six zhang in the width of the hill more than ten miles.
But after entering, it is a very empty flat land, only there are hills on both sides to block, to get out of the hills, you can only continue to march forward for more than ten miles, in order to completely get out of this hill.
In Zhao Yun's imagination, Xiahoudun should have hoped that Zhang Yan would lead his troops into this hill, and when the army had completely entered, he would let some of the sergeants who were ambushed outside the post block this retreat, and then flank his own army back and forth.
Zhao Yun thought so, in fact, there was nothing wrong, after all, his understanding of Zhenlonggang was only limited to the sketches drawn by Zhang Yan on the ground, but Xiahoudun was not, he had really surveyed this hill.
In fact, when he went up the mountain, his thoughts were the same as Zhao Yun's, but after he finished walking around the entire mountain, he had other thoughts.
He hopes to hide more than 10,000 people on both sides of the hill, anyway, there are deep forests and lush leaves, it is a cold winter, in April, many branches and leaves have not grown, but with the camouflage on the ground and some boulders, hiding a dozen or so people can really not be discovered, after all, the Lu army pursued for more than 200 miles, all the way was calm, and it was inevitable that there would be lax thoughts.
Just wait for Zhao Yun to lead the troops in, he is igniting the entrance, and at the same time Zhang Yan is lighting the exit, so that the entire mountain will become a big furnace, and all Zhao Yun's 20,000 Lu troops will be burned here, which is the best policy.
When Zhang Yan showed Xiahoudun's letter to Zhao Yun, the latter fell into a difficult situation, and he didn't know how to deal with it.
If you don't enter Longgang and do it directly outside, the Taihang Mountain that extends in all directions can escape everywhere, although it can also thwart Xiahoudun, but the number of kills and injuries will not be too amazing.
If he went in according to his request, when the fire was over, Xiahoudun didn't even need to enter the hill in person, as long as he sent troops to survey the situation in the post, he could easily see through the idea of calculating.
"This old boy has a lot of thoughts!" Yan Liangqi directly burst into foul language.
Wen Chou frowned and said in a deep voice: "This guy can monopolize the military and political power of the state, and take charge of Cao Cao alone, so he is naturally not an idle person." β
The two brothers would never be merciful to Cao Jun, and they all wanted to let them bury all their bones in Taihang Mountain, but Xiahoudun's strategy of using troops was destined not to put him in a desperate situation, which made Zhao Yun feel a little admiration in his heart.
In such a situation, where can an ordinary martial artist think so carefully, he must let go of the fight with the idea of victory, no wonder he can still hit Zhang Liao and these two brothers after An Feng's defeat, it is really not simple.
"What should I do?" Zhang Yan has always fought if he can fight over the years, and he runs if he can't fight, and his real attainments in the art of war are not necessarily very high, he looked at Zhao Yun helplessly.
decided to surrender to Lu Bu, naturally he wanted to press Xiahoudun to death in this Taihang Mountain, the reason is very simple, the worse Cao's army is defeated, the greater his credit, and the smaller the crisis will naturally be.
"Can't go back to Longgang"
Zhao Yun stood straight, clenched the bright silver spear, his eyes were half-narrowed, and he sighed: "I can only lure Xiahoudun out outside the hill." β
Then, he looked at Yan Liang and Wen Chou, "Brother, this battle is about whether you can successfully take the state, remember, when fighting, the first priority is to kill, especially Xiahoudun." β
"Don't worry, we've all seen him and recognize him!" Yan Liang patted his chest and reassured.
Zhao Yun bowed slightly, and then looked at Zhang Yan, "If you want to force Xiahou out of it, you have to rely on General Zhang." β
"General Zhao, don't worry, now you and I share honor and disgrace, and use soldiers!" Zhang Yan arched his hand.
According to Xiahoudun's request, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army could not be too far away from the Lu Army, and he must give Zhao Yun the illusion that he could catch up immediately, which was in line with Zhao Yun's intentions.
The two armies are one in front of the other, and when the distance is far away, it can be more than ten miles, and when it is close, it is only four or five miles, and even sometimes the front army can see Zhang Yan's rear army.
The main one: he escapes, he chases, he can't fly with wings.
But in the process, the two sides always maintained a safe distance, and not a single battle occurred.
Moreover, because of the lack of communication on the mountains, Xiahoudun could no longer obtain news of the scouts, so he really didn't know whether they had ever fought.
Otherwise, in this case, Zhao Yun could still chase more than 200 miles, which was unreasonable.
"General, the Black Mountain Thief has arrived three miles away!"
When a sentry came back to report the Xiahoudun who was hiding on the hillside, the latter breathed a long sigh of relief, and finally arrived, he tightened the silver hook flying spear in his hand, and looked intently to the north.
The figure was not seen, and the sounds of fighting and wailing could be heard.
Xiahoudun's heart began to get excited, and it seemed that he could see the fire burning in the entire Jinlonggang.
With the sound of the battle getting closer and closer, but Xiahoudun couldn't see what was happening clearly, after all, this place was still relatively open, and the width of this area was really eight miles.
Time, minute by minute, second by second, theoretically the Black Mountain thieves should have drilled into Jinlonggang, why did the fighting intensify?
He just wanted to poke his head out to find out, but he heard a loud voice, "Brothers, since you can't escape, the fish are dead and the net is broken, fight with them, kill!" β
Immediately afterwards, you can clearly hear the sound of the charge, the screams and the sound of Jin Ming mixed together, even if you can't see the situation in the battle circle, you can also hear that the two sides are completely fighting together.
"Bastard! It's just such a little distance, why doesn't he enter Longgang! Xiahou gritted his teeth angrily, isn't this going to be sent to death? The trap he had set up was waiting for Zhao Yun to jump down, how could he let people catch up in this place!
"General Xiahou save me! If I don't come out again, my cubs will run out! An eager roar came to his ears, Xiahou Xuan's heart sank, it was really a pig teammate, so shouting seemed to have completely cut off Zhao Yun's idea of entering Longgang, he was about to rush out with a spear, but was stopped by Cao Zhen.
"Uncle, something is wrong!"
"What's wrong?" Xiahoudun looked at Cao Zhen suspiciously.
"Zhang Yan's black mountain thieves have been crawling and rolling on Taihang Mountain for so many years, these people should be extremely good at mountain running, and they know the terrain in this area well, how can they be so easily entangled by Zhao Yun's people?"
Hearing this, Xiahoudun's brows furrowed, it made sense.
But he quickly shook his head with relief, "Zidan only knows one thing and doesn't know the other, although the Black Mountain thieves are good at mountain warfare, but after all, they are not elite soldiers, and their endurance is not comparable to that of the Lu army. β
"My nephew just thinks that even if he is really entangled, it should not be such a coincidence, but he is under our noses."
"Zidan!"
Xiahoudun reprimanded solemnly, "The way of using troops is to speculate on all kinds of unexpected situations, but you shouldn't be suspicious, not to mention that now that the arrow is ready to be sent, our army will not be able to lead them into the valley, and it can also severely damage the Lu army, don't talk nonsense, give orders!" β
From Xiahoudun's point of view, in fact, there is nothing wrong with such an idea, and it is naturally good news to subvert the battle situation by beheading Zhao Yun, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, but it can't be done, and we can't forget what the purpose of this trip is.
At first, Cao Cao gave him the task of disrupting the situation in the northern kingdom and preventing Lu Bu from easily taking Youzhou.
As long as Zhao Yun is defeated here for a while, then Lu Bu will have to continue to divide his troops and even retreat to help, otherwise Jizhou will become a backyard with wolf smoke.
Cao was really a little reluctant, but Xiahoudun spoke, and could only wave his hand to the herald on the side, who took out the horn on his waist, and in an instant, a melodious horn sound resounded through the hill.
"Kill!" On the hillsides on both sides, the Cao army rushed to the battle circle like a tide, and if you look from above, the Cao army on the periphery of the battle circle formed a tight encirclement, and the big sword in his hand waved towards the Lu army.
However, when they approached the Lu army, they found that this originally messy team was not as chaotic as they thought because of the ambush.
For a time, the mud and grass splashed on the Taihang Mountain, and the two armies fought directly in close hand-to-hand combat, and the battle was in a white-hot state at the beginning.
"I'm Xiahou Yuanrang, who dares to stop me!" Xiahoudun, who was striding forward, swung a silver hook flying spear and pierced the chest of a LΓΌ army centurion, provoking him to knock down three LΓΌ soldiers on the side.
Although Xiahoudun was very surprised by Lu Jun's unexpected imminent danger, he was not only not panicked, but very excited.
Because the more tenacious they became, it proved that Zhao Yun brought precisely Lu Bu's most elite troops, as long as they were all annihilated here, the Lu army would be like a spear breaking the spearhead.
He has the capital of self-confidence, because his 15,000 men have surrounded them, waiting for their work and surprise, plus they are far away, how can they not be defeated?
The only pity is that they can't all be burned in the fire.
This was Xiahoudun's idea for this breath, but the next breath he roared angrily: "You are crazy! β
Che Xuan originally rushed to the battle circle with people from the other end, and he took the lead in hand-to-hand combat with Lu Jun, before he put down two Lu Jun, but the black mountain thieves behind him slashed towards him, if it weren't for the sharpness of years of fighting, the blow just now would have killed him.
This scene was fully watched by Xiahoudun, and he was a little stunned for a while, are these people red-eyed, are they not the enemy?
When he saw clearly that the Black Mountain thieves around him began to kill his own sergeants, he finally reacted, where are these people killing red-eyed enemies and I don't distinguish between them, and their goals are clear.
"Uncle! We've been tricked! Cao Zhen hissed and roared, but he did not dare to order the withdrawal.
Xiahou's back molars were about to be crushed, how could this be possible, he obviously sent more than 10,000 people to attack Changshan and Zhongshan, and he was chased and killed by the Lu army all the way, and even the cottages were burned down more than a dozen
On the battlefield, Xiahoudun was no longer allowed to delve into the ins and outs of this matter, because it was visible to the naked eye that his own men and horses were in chaos for a while because they suddenly encountered black mountain thieves from behind.
The panic that should have appeared in Lu Jun is now permeating his own soldiers, and it is spreading rapidly like a plague.
"The thief has no faith, break through to the west!"
Xiahoudun probably couldn't accept that he was calculated by a mountain bandit, so he directly shifted the target, slashed and killed the black mountain thief, and at the same time yelled his name to stabilize the army's heart.
It's not that he doesn't want to escape, but in the current situation, there are no war horses, and it is a lonely mountain top, if he can't tear a hole and let the army retreat in an orderly manner, he is afraid that there will be a complete rout.
Xiahoudun became more and more fierce as he killed, and when his body turned, the mountain bandits or Lu Jun within three steps were all filled with blood and mist, and they fell to the ground in response.
When he was about to make a cut, a cold killing machine struck, and Xiahoudun almost reflexively raised his gun to block.
Before he could see the comer clearly, he could only see clearly that it was a golden-backed broadsword, and when he was about to return fire, a gun shadow struck him at the front door, forcing him to bow his head and dodge.
Keng~
With a crisp sound, Xiahoudun's tasseled helmet was knocked over, and when he looked up again, two long-lost faces came into view, he was dumbfounded, and clenched the silver hook flying spear, "You."
"I was almost besieged and killed in the battle from the water, and today I want to see if you are so lucky!" Yan Liang snorted coldly, picked up the knife and slashed, Wen Chou was not to be left behind, and responded from the side.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, complemented each other with swords and guns, and forced Xiahoudun back into the chaos from the hole that was about to be torn apart.
At this time, Xiahoudun was no longer able to roar his name, because the attacks of Yan Liangwen and Chou were like flowing water together, one was as fierce as a dragon going to sea, and the other was as fast as a cheetah pounced, he parried and used all his strength, and if he was slightly distracted, his body and head were separated, where did he dare to shout.
In fact, Xiahoudun's peak state did not dare to say that he could defeat these two, but he must not be weak to either of them.
But what's going on now?
There were no war horses on both sides, and the combat power could not be brought into full play, coupled with the fact that it was two to one, Xiahoudun could not support their fierce offensive at all.
Hell, how did Xu Chu and Dian Wei capture this Yan Liang alive, they only said that the name of the general of the 700,000 army in the northern country was touted, but they didn't want him to be so brave.
The silver hook flying spear wandered between the golden back knife and the soul breaking spear, Xiahoudun only hated that he couldn't have three heads and six arms, he was known for his speed, even if he could catch the opponent's attack with the naked eye at this time, it would be very difficult to deal with it.
It's good to face Wen Chou alone, but Yan Liang's strength is so great, every collision makes his arm hurt like a tear, and he just wanted to fight back and was attacked and killed by Wen Chou from the side, so he could only be beaten passively.
"Zidan, Che Zhou save me!" Finally, Xiahoudun still shouted out the soft words.
Yan Liangwen is ugly, and the martial arts of any one person are not under me, it is really difficult to defeat one, and this time it is difficult for Lu Bu to resist!
Therefore, he does not think that it is a shame for him to ask for help.
But the battle circle was so big, there were sounds of fighting, wailing and weapons colliding everywhere, and his cry for help was swallowed up in an instant.
To say that Xiahoudun is indeed brave, or that the desperate situation stimulates people's potential, he actually withstood the onslaught of more than 30 rounds of Yan Liangwen's ugly brothers.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the absence of war horses, weapons are an inch long and an inch strong, but when it comes to hand-to-hand combat, more people are willing to use swords, just because there is no war horse to assist, many killing skills cannot be used.
Even so, Xiahoudun knew that there was no one to rescue him, and he was afraid that he would die.
Finally, after he shouted more than a dozen times, he got a response, "The general is not panicking, and the car is coming!" β
Suddenly, Xiahoudun only felt that his body was about to be exhausted and filled with a lot of strength, because he saw the hope of living.
The car ran in stride, and he didn't even want to deal with the Black Mountain thieves and Lu Jun who surrounded and killed, but he just wanted to rescue Xiahoudun as soon as possible, and on the way to follow the sound, he suddenly encountered a little star slashing at his throat, and he instinctively leaned back to dodge.
Before he could react, a white figure flew over in the illusion, and the chariot raised his knife to block, but was shocked back a few steps by this domineering force.
"Zhao Zilong!" He shouted a name that made his heart palpitate.
Today's Zhao Yun no longer needs to use the name of 'Changshan Zhao Zilong' to take the lead, he has a bright silver spear in his right hand, a green sword in his left hand, and a silver armor and white robe, and his prestige is only under Lu Bu.
Zhao Yun didn't talk to him, first retracted the Qingyu sword from its scabbard, and then rushed towards the chariot with both hands in his hand.
The bright silver spear whirred through the wind, stabbing towards the chariot like a storm, and in the chariot's field of vision, it was as if there were more than a dozen sharp arrows flying head-on, and while retreating, he raised his knife to block.
Is this Zhao Zilong of Megatron Xiaoguan, just two rounds, Che Xuan was stunned by Zhao Yun's dazzling marksmanship.
Zhao Yun was getting closer and closer, and the car was in the midst of retreat, stepping on the air, staggering and falling to the ground, and his heart sank.
When the car was sitting on the ground, he didn't raise his head, and subconsciously raised his knife to block, he guessed that Zhao Yun should give him a head-on crit.
His instinct was correct, but the hands holding the knife suddenly lost weight, and the blade of the big knife in his hand was split in two, and the Qingyu Sword simply cut off the hilt, leaving a clear blood mark on the center of the car's eyebrows to the lower jaw.
The car's mouth opened, and he couldn't say a word, and fell on his side.
From Zhao Yun's appearance to the violent death of the car, it sounds like it has been fighting for a while, but in real terms, it is only a dozen breaths of time.
Xiahoudun was one against two, waiting for the chariot that would never come, in a collision of weapons, the silver hook flying spear was dragged by the soul breaking gun, and in the face of the golden back knife chopped by Yan Liang, he had to offset it with the barrel of the gun.
At this moment, the silver hook flying spear withstood the strength of Yan Liangwen and Chou, the body of the spear was bent, Xiahoudun's teeth were about to break, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out, exerting all the strength of his body.
Che Guan, I won't be able to stand it if you don't come again!
Puff~
He didn't wait for the carriage to come, but waited for the pain in his abdomen.
Between Yan Liangwen and Chou, a silver spear stabbed over, directly penetrating Xiahoudun's armor and piercing into his abdominal cavity.
He raised his eyes and saw that it was Zhao Yun under Xiao Guan City, who could still retreat with one enemy and four enemies.
Sou~
When Zhao Yun withdrew the bright silver spear, Xiahoudun only felt that the strength of his whole body was passing, he was very tired, sleepy, and his eyelids were very heavy.
His legs finally couldn't support him and he knelt down, looking at the three people in front of him, his body shaking.
In the end, he used all his strength to shout: "Zidan, retreat!" β
As soon as the words fell, the golden-backed knife flashed, and Xiahoudun's head rolled directly to the ground.
Wen Chou grabbed a handful of hair, pulled up Xiahoudun's head, ran to a high ground and shouted: "Xiahoudun is dead, those who descend will not be killed!" β
This shout resounded throughout the valley, which greatly shocked the morale of the Black Mountain Thieves and the Lu Army, and also made the swaying military heart of the Cao Army collapse at this moment.
Ladies and gentlemen, it will definitely be more before 12 o'clock every day, but there is no guarantee of the exact time
(End of chapter)