The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Immediately afterwards, thousands of arrows flew rapidly from the cliffs on both sides.

Chapter 213 Ambush

In the blink of an eye, the arrow landed in the army behind Zhu Fu, and immediately screams were heard endlessly.

"No, there is an ambush!"

Only then did Zhu Fu realize that there was really an ambush here.

After realizing that he had been tricked, Zhu Fu's face immediately turned ugly, but as the coach, he quickly calmed himself down and began to issue orders to calm down the soldiers and horses under his command. direction, form a defense, and start a counterattack.

"Everyone, don't panic, hold your sword and shield with your shield!"

"Archers strike back!"

Zhu Fu immediately screamed loudly, trying to calm his soldiers and horses, but his voice was like a drop of water falling into the sea.

Soon it was covered by bursts of screams, and the army behind them didn't hear it at all.

After being shot by the arrows under Huang Zhong's command, the army suddenly turned into a riot. Many soldiers who had not experienced battles panicked at this time and could only flee in all directions.

Find a place to hide from the rain of arrows.

And even if some soldiers did not panic and raised their shields at the critical moment, they were unable to maintain the battle formation because the panicked teammates kept rushing into their bodies.

The troops under Zhu Fu's command barely recovered after experiencing a period of panic and scattered and fled.

But at this time, the gradual rain on both sides of the mountain road also stopped, and instead, huge stones and giant trees with a length of one or two feet were continuously thrown from both sides.

These props were temporarily prepared by Huang Zhong's people nearby during this period, with the purpose of laying an ambush here to severely injure the enemy.

Although the number is small, it can cause great damage at this time.Especially those giant trees, rolling down from the side of the mountain.He directly knocked down a large row of soldiers under the red talisman. Although he failed to kill them directly, he also knocked many people to the ground and lost their combat effectiveness.

The successive attacks immediately made the soldiers under the Zhu Fu even more terrified.Many people have even begun to have the idea of ​​fleeing timidly.At this time, they didn't even realize how many troops there were in the enemy army. Naturally, many people were already overwhelmed by the fear of this kind of attack, and they didn't dare to easily fight against Huang Zhong's troops.

After all the preparations were completed, Huang Zhong stood up, waved the big knife in his hand, and shouted at the soldiers and horses around him.

"Soldiers, the enemy army has already fled, and it is time to make achievements, go!"

Liu Zheng implements the military merit system, and his soldiers are eager for war. After all, only war can improve their status. At the same time, they can also obtain Zheng's trophies and get rich rewards. Therefore, when encountering wars, they always regard death as home. The expression, following Huang Zhong's order, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses swarmed up in an instant.

At this time, the two armies officially fought.

When Huang Zhong's hidden soldiers and horses rushed out, Zhu Fu never expected that there were so many people here. Looking at this posture, Liu Zheng seemed to have arranged all his troops here.

But Zhu Fu, who knew how many troops Liu Zheng had, didn't show any panic even though he knew that he was ambushed by Liu Zheng at this time.

"Counterattack! Counterattack!"

Zhu Fu began to command the generals around him hoarsely, and then asked those generals to guide the soldiers around him. After this time, he gradually calmed down the army under his command from the panic.

Shi Wu and Shi Hui also followed Zhu Fu, guided by Zhu Fu's scolding, and began to reorganize their troops around here.

At the same time, Shi Wu and Shi Hui also gathered together, looking at the surrounding situation, feeling a little uneasy in their hearts.

"Uncle, why are there so many ambushes here? When we came, there was no one here."

"Most of these people are the people who besieged our Guangxin City before."

Shi Wu didn't pay too much attention to these people, but Shi Hui paid more attention than Shi Wu. He saw at a glance that the soldiers and horses who set up an ambush here didn't seem to be the group that besieged Guangxin City before. people.

"No, Uncle, these people don't seem to be the ones who besieged Guangxin before. There are several leaders among those people, but I haven't seen them."

Shi Hui was just skeptical, but not very sure.

And his doubts were quickly overruled by Shi Wu.

"Impossible. Didn't the governor of Zhu Fu say that Liu Zheng's troops are only more than ten thousand? When he was in Guangxin City, he could tell that there were already all his troops there."

"If you look at the ambushes here, there are already more than ten thousand people. If it wasn't the same group that besieged Guangxin, wouldn't it mean that Liu Zheng had more than twenty thousand men? Against Liu Zheng's men, the chances of winning are not great."

"Uncle, I'm not sure, but it seems that Liu Zheng didn't appear here. It's hard for me to let go of the idea that all Liu Zheng's troops are here."

"Forget it, now is not the time to think about it. Let's listen to Zhu Fu's order and block these people first."

At this time, Shiwu was not in the mood to argue with Shihui here. The soldiers of Liu Zhengjun, who rushed from all around, were already close in front of them, and they would soon face a fierce life-and-death fight. How could Shiwu have the mood to care about these things? something.

On Zhu Fu's side, after a short period of panic, he rearranged his troops. Although the ambush caused him to lose a lot of troops, there are still nearly 3 troops still here.

With 3 people, Zhu Fu still has confidence in dealing with the 1 people ambushing here, so he raised his sword and shouted to charge.

Make your lieutenant general start fighting with Huang Zhong's men at this time.

Huang Zhongjun, a uniform team, began to appear in groups.

The phalanx of 100 people composed of ten teams began to charge gradually and formed an encirclement circle. Three thousand saber shieldmen and three thousand long spearmen, one in front and one behind, began to enter the battlefield.

The shooter in the rear no longer scatter indiscriminately, but has turned into a precise burst of fire, a brave man who specializes in killing the enemy.

The remaining [-] cavalry formed a cavalry phalanx to charge and kill on the periphery of the battlefield.

The cavalry can exert more powerful force only if they have a large number of cavalry and form a powerful cavalry phalanx. The killer weapon against Zhu Fu is the two thousand cavalry.

There are no horses in Jiaozhou. To be precise, there are no war horses. The soldiers here have never even seen cavalry in their lives.

Chapter 214 The Defeat Is Set

Therefore, these people under Zhu Fu didn't even understand the horror and horror of cavalry.

After restoring morale, Zhu Fu's [-] soldiers began to fight with Huang Zhong's troops.

In a battlefield of tens of thousands of people, personal bravery is not a huge factor in winning or losing.

But personal bravery can ensure that you have a greater chance of surviving in battle.

Although these people under Huang Zhong's command are all recruits, nearly half of them are recruits from the Zhou Dynasty and other mountain tribes.

In fact, these recruits didn't have much combat effectiveness, but they were trained by Huang Zhong for a month or two.

Some people who have no combat experience will still feel a little timid in the face of such a battlefield where tens of thousands of people are fighting.

But Huang Zhong's order made them dare not disobey, and they did not dare to retreat. In addition, there were a group of teammates who charged bravely around them. Those recruits who were originally timid were quickly infected by their passionate companions. Joined in the fierce battle.

The four phalanxes planned by tens of thousands of people, sword and shield players, pikemen, and archers, each perform their duties.

As for the killer cavalry, they stayed outside the battlefield all the time, and only after the battle entered a stalemate, they rushed into the battlefield in one fell swoop, completely smashing the morale of Zhu Fu and others.

It didn't take long for the battle between the two sides to reach a fierce state.

At the beginning, Huang Zhong lost several team members.In the blink of an eye tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, hundreds of people died.

This is because many of Huang Zhong's new recruits are still afraid of the battlefield. When fighting with Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses, if they hesitate a little, they will be killed by the frantically rushing enemy troops.

But with the death of some soldiers and horses at the beginning, after the remaining people gradually adapted to the tragic situation on the battlefield, they began to exert their potential in order to survive.

The death toll began to slow down gradually, and gradually stabilized after being overwhelmed by the enemy's superiority in numbers at the beginning, and using the advantages of one's own battle formation, it began to slowly change the battle situation and gain the upper hand.

As for Zhu Fu's side, because of the superiority in numbers, they didn't feel any fear at first.

After several charges against Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses, they also caused considerable losses. Of the 2 soldiers and horses, in the blink of an eye, only more than [-] people remained.

However, Zhu Fu saw that the opponent's number was also decreasing, so he didn't feel anything wrong. Instead, he continued to intensify his efforts and let his soldiers and horses charge.

Not long after that, the battle between the two sides came to a stalemate.

At this time, Zhu Fu realized that something was wrong. They obviously had a great advantage in the number of soldiers and horses, but they couldn't completely wipe out the enemy army after fighting.

On the contrary, the enemy army was still able to stalemate with them, fighting them regardless of the outcome in a short period of time, and even faintly gaining the upper hand.

Although this is due to the narrow terrain here, the same opponent's soldiers are obviously superior to those under his command individually, which is also an important reason.

Although Zhu Fu felt that something was wrong at this time, he did not intend to give up, and still sent his troops to attack Huang Zhong's people.

As long as Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses can be beheaded to another 3000 to [-] people, so that the opponent's people will suffer greater casualties, he knows that the opponent's morale will definitely drop, and then he will be able to turn defeat into victory and defeat the ambush in one fell swoop.

Zhu Fu fantasized and looked forward to his own victory, but what happened next really made him feel desperate.

The two thousand cavalry who had been hovering around the periphery of the battlefield finally entered the main battlefield at this time.

Although there were only less than 8000 horses, the combat effectiveness of these two thousand cavalry was much more terrifying than the remaining [-] men.

Two thousand war horses galloped and trampled on the battlefield, causing the earth to shake, the mountains to shake, and the thunder to shake. These people and horses in Jiaozhou have never seen it before.

The sound of the cavalry trampling immediately caught the attention of Zhu Fu's soldiers and horses. They just turned their heads and saw the two thousand horses galloping towards them. Countless soldiers were crushed by these horses as they passed by. The horse's hoof stepped on it, fell to the ground and was easily beheaded by the soldiers on the horse.

Some are afraid of the height of the horse, so they back away in fright, but they also have the same fate of being unable to be killed. The soldiers on the horse, holding long and sharp spears, can directly penetrate their chests with a single thrust.

No matter how thick the armor is, it cannot be avoided.

These two thousand cavalry charged forward, and they were able to kill a large number of soldiers among the crowd in one round trip.In just three or four charges, more than 5000 of Zhu Fu's subordinates were beheaded. In less than a quarter of an hour, nearly [-] soldiers and horses were killed by the cavalry.

After the cavalry joined the battlefield, in the blink of an eye, more than half of the [-] army under Zhu Fu had been lost.

There are less than 2 people left who are still struggling. After seeing the casualties of those troops, these 2 people can no longer gather the lost morale, and all of them collapsed.

Especially when they saw the cavalry running towards them, they didn't care about fighting at all and started to flee.

The defeat of the entire battle started from the soldiers at the very edge. Seeing that the number of casualties in the core battlefield was too large, and there was no chance of winning, some soldiers and horses changed their minds and began to flee gradually.

It quickly spread to all the troops under Zhu Fu's command. Originally, there were still [-] troops left, but after being washed away by Huang Zhong's cavalry for several rounds, the number of people on the battlefield dropped sharply again. More than ten thousand people.

At this time, Huang Zhong's troops only lost more than a thousand people.

At this time, the number of soldiers and horses on both sides is close to a balance.

At this time, Zhu Fu finally realized.This sudden blow made him understand that even if he had an army of [-], after being ambushed by the enemy, his morale had plummeted and he was unable to recover, and it was impossible to have an evenly matched battle with the opponent.

Not to mention evenly matched, I'm afraid they will be forcibly crushed by the opponent.

Seeing such a result, Zhu Fu himself panicked. After all, he is not his father Zhu Jun. Zhu Jun has experienced hundreds of battles and fought on the battlefield for decades. Even in this situation, Zhu Jun can turn the tide and calm down the troops under his command. , and then broke the boat and fought Huang Zhong's manpower again.

But Zhu Fu is still much younger than his father, Zhu Jun, and lacks experience on the battlefield.There is no such domineering ability to command so many soldiers and horses, and they are soldiers and horses from Jiaozhou. These soldiers and horses do not completely obey Zhu Fu's dispatch.

So looking at the soldiers and horses fleeing one after another, Zhu Fu knew that he was powerless.

210 Chapter Five Setbacks Zhu Talisman

Zhu Fu, who was full of anger, could only look at the defeated battlefield with hatred.After a while, Zhu Fu spat out the word withdraw from Zhu Fu's mouth.

Then Zhu Fu started to escape under the cover of his cronies.

He didn't let everyone escape with him, but he took his cronies and escaped from here, because only by letting those soldiers and horses cover him, can he escape from this battlefield, otherwise everyone will follow If he escapes, the chances of him escaping will be much smaller.

It is even easy to become the target of hunting and killing, chasing and killing all the way.

And once the commander escaped, the soldiers and horses under him naturally became even more unwilling to fight, and a defeat was set.

The cavalry charged back and forth again here, and there were more than [-] men and horses. There were not many people left who could continue to fight. Even if there were still some people, they were the ones who could not escape and simply surrendered on their knees.

For those who surrendered, Huang Zhong did not kill them all. He knew that Liu Zheng's purpose was to occupy the entire Jiaozhou. If he did too much to the soldiers in Jiaozhou, Liu Zheng's control of Jiaozhou in the future would also cause dissatisfaction from all over the country. If the hearts of the people are not gathered together, it will be easy to cause accidents and cause various rebellions.

In the end, there were about 2000 people who surrendered voluntarily. Some of them had no chance to escape, and the other part were frightened and surrendered on their knees after being chased by Huang Zhong's cavalry.

As for how many people escaped from the battlefield, Huang Zhong really didn't have time to count them.

But what he saw was that the main general Zhu Fu and many major generals were not found in the corpses on this battlefield.Presumably he took advantage of the chaos and escaped.

But at this time, Liu Zheng's men came from Guangxin City to support Huang Zhong's [-] troops, and it was long overdue.

Liu Zheng brought his own troops and galloped non-stop from Guangxin City to Wuyangling.

It was precisely because he was worried that Huang Zhong's mere [-] soldiers would not be the opponent of Zhu Fu's army, and many of Huang Zhong's [-] soldiers were recruits who had hardly participated in battles, while Zhu Fu had four soldiers. Wan Da's army, the numbers were very different, he was worried that Huang Zhong's men would not be Zhu Fu's opponents.

That's why he tried his best to support Huang Zhong in the shortest possible time. In case Huang Zhong loses, he can also come to support from the rear and deal a heavy blow to Zhu Fu.

But when Liu Zheng arrived on the battlefield, he found that the ground was full of wreckage, all of which were corpses. At first glance, there were definitely more than ten thousand corpses lying on the ground.And lying here and there in a mess, if you really have to do a careful calculation, there may be more than 2 people.

And beside Huang Zhong, there is estimated to be a group of people standing, the number must be 8000 to [-] people.

Liu Zheng was stunned by this scene. He never expected that Huang Zhong not only defeated Zhu Fu, but even defeated Zhu Fu with a very small loss, allowing Zhu Fu to escape from here in a hurry.

Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Liu Zheng didn't even have time to look at them, but went directly to Huang Zhong to ask what happened on the battlefield.

"General Huang Zhong, what happened here, where is Zhu Fu's army?"

Huang Zhong pointed to the corpse on the ground with his finger.

"Shuai Qu, those on the ground are Zhu Fu's army, but Zhu Fu himself was not killed, so he probably escaped with the army."

"What? The [-] army was defeated by your [-] troops?"

At this time, not only Liu Zheng, but Xu Huang and Gan Ning who were standing beside Liu Zheng were all excited.