Chapter 678: The War in the Imperial Capital (19)

"Report, emergency war report, emergency war report!" The black oppressive banner covered the sky, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers walked on the earth with neat steps, and their heavy footsteps made a loud bang sound on the earth. The cavalry slowly drove their horses and slowly followed the team, and the banner of the Xiliang army commander was erected in the middle of the army, and a big red golden ox character was printed on the banner.

"General, General Guo Yan's cavalry and the cavalry of the Shenwu Army met, and the two sides were fighting for blood. The scout jumped cleanly from his horse and knelt in front of Ushisuke. Niu Fu is the first fierce general under Dong Zhuo, but he has been hiding in the shadows to handle military affairs for Dong Zhuo all these years, and rarely appears in everyone's sight, so few people know Niu Fu's name, only a few old people in the Xiliang Army know Niu Fu's existence.

"How's the battle going?" Niu Fu looked coldly at the scout in front of him with an unchanged face for thousands of years, dressed in golden chain mail and holding a golden dragon knife in his hand. Sitting down held a black drake and leopard beast, its four fangs exposed, and the sound of humming kept coming from his throat. The black dragon beast helmet was on his head, the black helmet naturally hung down, and the dragon beast shoulder armor on both sides made Niu Fu even more heroic.

"General Qiqi, our 300,000 army is fighting a bloody battle with the enemy's 100,000 army, and now the battle is in full swing, and neither the enemy nor our army is showing a decline, General Guo Yan asked General Niu Fu to block the enemy's follow-up reinforcements. The scout shouted to Niu Fu. The scout's words suddenly made Niu Fu's brows furrow, Guo Yan is a fierce general, and he rarely takes the initiative to ask for reinforcements. And this time, he actually asked Niu Fu to help him block the enemy troops in the rear. This is the first time Niu Fu has met Guo Yan.

"Keep asking for information. The order was given to go down and prepare for war with all arms. Li Su, Sun Xiu, Bo Hai, the three of you led 100,000 cavalry to support Guo Yan, and the rest of the generals immediately reorganized the officers and soldiers of the various armies under their command to prepare for battle, preparing to meet the Yongzhou army. Niu Fu loudly ordered the troops under his command, and as soon as the soldiers under his command agreed, the armies immediately moved. Operation Grand Army. This time, Dong Zhuo made a bloody investment, not only personally led a large number of troops to attack the imperial capital from the direction of Qingzhou, but also sent his best confidant Niu Fu to attack the imperial capital from the direction of Yongzhou with a large number of troops.

And Niu Fu's army has not yet been discovered by the scouts of Yue Fei's department, and the scouts are running back and forth on the battlefield. A large amount of information from the two sides was sent back and forth to the hands of the generals of the two sides, which was the benefit of the Xiliang Army hidden in the shadows. The Xiliang army has always hung the tail of the team in front of it from a distance, and the two sides rely on scouts to communicate. And Yue Fei's department came from Yongzhou, although the scouts were everywhere along the way, but the distance of the Xiliang Army was really a little far, and the direction from which the Xiliang Army came was not the focus of the Shenwu Army's reconnaissance, so this large force of the Xiliang Army was not discovered by the scout troops of the Shenwu Army.

The changes caused by the movement of large armies are naturally not small. What's more, the rear army of the Xiliang Army has the number of 600,000 troops in two corps. 100,000 cavalry came from afar from the north, which soon aroused the idea of the scouts of the Shenwu Army. The scouts of the army immediately dispersed, and soon the army of the Xiliang Army, which was mobilizing for battle, was discovered. The information was urgently sent to Yue Fei's hands, and Yue Fei was also frowning at the moment, it seemed that the Xiliang Army was lonely for the sake of the imperial capital this time, and it actually sent such a large army from the direction of Yongzhou.

"The scouts have spread over three hundred miles around, and any disturbance must be reported immediately. Yue Fei's brows furrowed instantly after hearing the information, and he hurriedly ordered the scouts under his command to expand the scope of investigation, and at the same time scolded himself for being careless, the scout team only put a hundred miles away, if the scout's detection range can be expanded, there will be no such sudden tension now, 500,000 Xiliang army, this is a powerful combat force.

"Meng Gong, if you only give you 200,000 people, can you stop the 500,000 Xiliang army?" Yue Fei hurriedly found the generals in the army to discuss the military situation, at present, the best at defensive warfare under Yue Fei's command is Meng Gong, this Meng Gong, who is known as the master of mobile defensive warfare, is almost all of Yue Fei's hope now. The troops in Yue Fei's hands are now less than 500,000 troops, and these troops will also be used to deal with the 300,000 elite iron cavalry of Liangzhou and the miscellaneous team composed of 100,000 bandits and bandits, and the 500,000 Xiliang army behind them has put heavy pressure on Yue Fei.

The Shenwu Army is weaker than the Xiliang Army in terms of combat effectiveness, not to mention that the Xiliang Army is prepared, and the most combat-effective unit of the Shenwu Army is not the Yongzhou Corps that followed Yue Fei all the way from the north to the south, but the 11th Praetorian Guard Regiment that was incorporated in Tongguan. The battle of the Xiliang army has been dominated by cavalry, and almost all the cavalry in Yue Fei's army has been sent to the front line to fight with the cavalry of the Xiliang army, no one would have thought that an elite Xiliang army with a number of 500,000 would emerge here. Yue Fei must block this Xiliang army, otherwise with the combat effectiveness of this Xiliang army, he defeated Yue Fei's corps and rushed straight to Beipingmen, at that time, even if there was an extra million troops in the imperial capital, it would definitely not be the opponent of the Xiliang army, not to mention that Dong Zhuo was able to send these two elite corps, it was difficult to ensure that other military methods had no ideas, you must know that Dong Zhuo was not the only one who was eyeing the imperial capital.

"The Grand Governor, 200,000 soldiers and horses are enough. Meng Gong said confidently to Yue Fei, 200,000 to 500,000, Meng Gong has no timidity at all, not to mention that the 200,000 army led by Meng Gong is also a force with strong combat effectiveness and will to fight. In Meng Gong's view, whether an army can win a war does not depend on whether the army has strong combat effectiveness, but whether the army has an indestructible will to fight.

"Okay, I'll give you 200,000 elite troops, ten generals, you must block these 500,000 troops for me for a day. Although Meng Gong is very confident, it does not mean that everyone is confident, Yue Fei only asks Meng Gong to be able to hold on for one day. It only takes one day for Yue Fei to take his troops to destroy the cavalry of the Xiliang Army, and then kill a horse gun, and turn back to clean up the 500,000 Xiliang Army. Yue Fei's purpose was not to defeat the 500,000 Xiliang army, but to block the 500,000 Xiliang army on the way to the imperial capital, so that the imperial capital had enough time to deploy troops.

"Please rest assured that the last general will definitely hold the enemy back for a day, and will never let the enemy move forward. Meng Gong arched his hand and said to Yue Fei. At the same time, he turned around and ordered 200,000 horses and killed them in the direction where the Xiliang army was. And Niu Fu on the other side also killed with an army of 500,000 under his command. This time, both sides have the same purpose. As long as the cavalry of one side is defeated, they will inevitably be defeated, and in Niu Fu's opinion, it is impossible for the Xiliang army to be defeated with absolute superiority in strength and combat effectiveness.

Dududu, the cavalry of the Shenwu Army who was fighting bloodily suddenly changed their faces when they heard this long horn, and the cavalry of the 300,000 Xiliang Army had made the cavalry of the Shenwu Army very difficult, and now there was a team of enemy cavalry to support, which was simply to fight the Shenwu Army to the death. Ma Chao and the others, who were fighting fiercely, also changed their faces, and hurriedly shouted in their own team. The reinforcements of the Western Liang Army were divided into two. One of them went straight to Ma Chao, while the other part of the 60,000 elite cavalry went towards the 100,000 cavalry under Li Sheng.

"General, the enemy army is coming to reinforcements again!" Huang Zhong tightly held the knife in his hand and slashed an enemy general in front of him to the ground, the Xiliang army transferred 100,000 cavalry from the direction of besieging Ma Chao's department when the 100,000 cavalry was about to be defeated, 200,000 against 100,000, almost pressing Li Sheng's troops, and now there are 60,000 elite cavalry, this is the 100,000 cavalry troops of Li Sheng's Li Sheng, who is going to be annihilated in one fell swoop.

Li Sheng watched the enemy cavalry split into two, and his face suddenly changed, this time he came to rescue Ma Chao. But not only did he not save Ma Chao, but he was stopped by the enemy's elite cavalry. Seeing the 40,000 cavalry slaughtering in the direction of Ma Chao's army, Li Sheng's heart suddenly became anxious. Ma Chao's command has a total of only 10,000 troops, facing more than ten times the elite cavalry siege of the Xiliang Army, and now tens of thousands of enemy troops are rushing in, if the battle here is not ended as soon as possible, Ma Chao's army has no hope of survival. What's more, when the battle was raging here, the enemy's reinforcements arrived, and it was only 100,000 cavalry, so there must be reinforcements in the rear, and Li Sheng was most afraid of this.

"Come on, beat the drum!" Li Sheng's face changed, he raised the long knife in his hand high, and the cavalry behind him turned his horse's head and galloped in the middle of the team, shouting and beating the drum. The drummer raised the drumstick in his hand and rumbled the war drum, the sound of the war drum changed from slow to slow, more and more urgent, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Army who were fighting fiercely were suddenly startled, waving the weapons in their hands and fighting frantically towards the enemy.

"Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, capture the thief and capture the king, follow me!" Li Sheng had already seen that the only way to quickly resolve the battle at present was to get rid of Guo Yan, who had been staying in the rear. With a wave of the long knife in Li Sheng's hand, Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong, who were not far away, said yes, followed closely behind Li Sheng, waving the weapons in their hands and flying up and down, constantly knocking the enemy in front of them to the ground. With three people as arrowheads, forming a sharp chisel formation, hundreds of cavalry gathered behind them followed closely behind the three and rushed to the deepest part of the enemy formation, and the enemy troops along the road were picked up by the three people and knocked to the ground.

Zhao Yun and Zhang Ji on the other side are also fighting evenly together, and neither side has the strength to win the other party in a short period of time, but the strength of the two sides has already been decided. Zhao Yun had been fighting fiercely with the enemy for a long time, Liliang was very depleted, and although Zhang Ji was also rushing around in the army, he was not able to kill a single general of the Shenwu Army. The generals of the Shenwu Army left a deep impression on Zhang Ji, and their generals were not afraid of death and were strong.

Guo Yan coldly looked at the arrow array on the battlefield with Li Sheng and the three of them as arrows, and a sneer hung on the corner of his mouth. Although Guo Yan is brave and ruthless, he is definitely not reckless. As soon as Guo Yan raised his hand, the guards behind him blew the horn on his body with a promise. The cavalry of the Xiliang Army, which had been fighting with the Shenwu Army, began to move continuously according to the order of the horn, and countless cavalry gathered from all directions to stop Li Sheng and the others.

"General, are we going to increase the intensity of the attack, General Niu Fu's reinforcements have arrived, and the enemy's rear reinforcements should arrive soon. A bloodied general came to Guo Yan and said, it's not that the Xiliang Army can't take the 100,000 cavalry, but that Guo Yan is simply playing with the cavalry of the 100,000 Shenwu Army. How did he know that although Guo Yan still had the confidence to destroy the enemy's cavalry, he no longer had the confidence he had before the battle.

"The Shenwu Army really deserves its reputation, and it seems that it is not unreasonable for the Xiliang Army to flee after being defeated by the Shenwu Army in Yongzhou. Guo Yan's face was solemn and said to the generals under his command, and a trace of unwillingness flashed on everyone's faces. The Xiliang Army, who was beaten in Yongzhou with a blue nose and a swollen face, is not in the same system as them at all. Although the Xiliang Army is a whole. But there is also competition between the whole. Guo Yan belonged to the first line of Niu Fu, but the first line of Li Yu, who attacked Yongzhou with another line, was not so dealing. Now Guo Yan described them as like those fish belly under Li Yu, which naturally made the faces of the generals very angry, and their combat effectiveness was not comparable to those wastes under Li Yu.

As soon as Guo Yan's words were finished, all the generals turned red, and then they took a few steps out of the horse and said loudly to Guo Yan: "General Hugh wants to insult us and others, and I will go down to exterminate these enemy troops." ”

Toot, the long horn of attack sounded again in the middle of the array. The generals of the Xiliang Army, who had been following Guo Yan without moving, shook the reins of their horses and rushed towards the Shenwu Army with the army under their command along with the horn. The battle on the battlefield suddenly became fierce, as the horn became more and more urgent, the Xiliang soldiers who came from everywhere frantically pounced on the army of Li Sheng's three who were attacking Guo Yan, Li Sheng and the three fought bravely, but there were fewer and fewer soldiers who could follow behind, and there were more and more soldiers of the Xiliang army around.

"Kill!" A general of the Xiliang Army slashed down a cavalryman of the Shenwu Army, and with a flick of the long knife in his hand, he fell from the sky and slashed towards Huang Zhong, who was in a triangular formation. This knife carried Liliang, which opened the mountains and broke the sea, and the powerful aura turned into a powerful aura and slashed towards Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong's complexion changed. The treasure knife in his hand shook the long knife in the hand of the general of the Xiliang Army, and the cavalry general of the Xiliang Army was blocked by this knife. But his face did not change in the slightest, and the war knife in his hand swept straight towards Huang Zhong.

As soon as the treasure knife in Huang Zhong's hand was retracted, the bell once again blocked the long knife of the general of the Xiliang Army. The general of the Xiliang Army just wanted to attack, but this time Huang Zhong would not give him a chance, as soon as the war knife in his hand was retracted, his body moved, and the knife of the bell smashed into the general of the Xiliang Army. The general's face changed suddenly, the blade was still a long way away from him, and he could clearly feel the powerful murderous aura on the knife in Huang Zhong's hand.

Poof, Huang Zhong slashed into two pieces with the long knife in the hand of the general of the Xiliang Army, and the mount under him was cut into two pieces before he could even scream. Huang Zhong's bravery did not make those brave Xiliang soldiers feel any fear, and immediately two more generals waved their weapons to kill Huang Zhong, while Zhang Fei and Li Sheng on the other side were also stopped by several brave generals of the Xiliang army.

The bravery of the Xiliang Army became more and more courageous with the sound of the horn, and Li Sheng's four people also fought bloody battles in this battle, everyone was tired and abnormal, although the soldiers under his command were fighting desperately. However, the gap in numbers and combat effectiveness has doomed the Shenwu Army to defeat this battle. The combat effectiveness of the Shenwu Army is unusually strong, and the will to fight is also unusually firm, but none of these can make up for the gap between the strength of the two sides.

Knock knock, the situation on Ma Chao's side is no longer good, and the gap in strength and strength makes the cavalry of the Shenwu Army have no hope of victory. Ma Chao led the most elite cavalry under his command to rush left and right, killing the opponent's leading general, but the enemy's combat effectiveness was too strong. Ma Chao was covered in blood, completely became a bloody man, if no reinforcements arrived, Ma Chao already planned to break through with the army under his command, so they would only be annihilated.

"General, if we continue to fight like this, we will all be finished, and the soldiers will no longer be able to fight. A pro-soldier general rushed to Ma Chao's side and said with a worried face, less than 3,000 of the 10,000 cavalry are still alive, and there is no way to make up for the gap in numbers, even if Ma Chao is bravely rushing to kill. The pro-soldier general easily cut down two enemy cavalry, and before he could free his hand, several cavalry surrounded him.

"Meng Qi, if we continue to fight like this, we will be completely wiped out by the enemy. Zhu Yao was also covered in blood, came to Ma Chao's side, and said anxiously to Ma Chao. Although Zhu Yao's martial arts cultivation is not low, there are too many enemies, if it weren't for Ma Chao who rescued Zhu Yao from danger several times. Even so, Zhu Yao was injured a lot, and the cloak behind Zhu Yao had been cut off by the enemy, and even the battle helmet on his head was gone.

Ma Chao looked at the cavalry fighting around him, his face changed very thickly, there were not many cavalry left under his command, but none of the soldiers put down the weapons in their hands and surrendered, and every soldier who died was cut at least a few times. There was not a single wounded soldier on the ground, all the soldiers who had fallen from their horses had been killed, and not a single soldier was alive. These soldiers have fulfilled their oath and fought to the end.

"If we want to break through, the troops of the Metropolitan Governor in the rear will face heavy pressure, and now we have only one way left, to kill the imperial capital!" Ma Chao looked at the generals with a solemn face and said, the faces of the generals changed, and they nodded heavily one by one. (To be continued......)