Three Kingdoms Eschatology

The captain who came to report said: "My lord, the soldiers who came are not the soldiers of General Xu Zhu, but the defeated soldiers from Huyang City. After they escaped from the city, they ran here to report to our army. The minister ordered his subordinates to check them carefully, and they are indeed soldiers from the Gaolan Department of our army."

Cao Cao clapped his palms and said with a half cry and a half smile: "I will come here for whatever I'm afraid of, and I really got what I said. This is really a prophecy!"

At this time Xu Huang stepped forward and asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, do we still need to continue attacking Wancheng?".Cao Cao's expression darkened and he said, "Yes, of course I must, pass on my military order to attack Wancheng quickly, and then massacre the city for three days to vent my hatred!"

Xu Huang thought to himself, Cao Cao must have been confused, there should be no civilians in Wancheng now, only the Liang army guarding the army, why would he massacre the city.

At this time, the soldiers around Cao Cao broke out in small noises.It turned out that several "lift-off lights" were also raised in Wancheng.It's just that Liang Jun's hot air balloon airship is much larger than Wei Jun's, and the materials are different.The latter is made of paper, while the former is made of animal leather.

Wei Jun's arrows shot towards the city like a shower, but they couldn't reach Liang Jun's airship.Even if there are occasional arrows that can hit, those arrows are at the end of their strength, and they can't penetrate the airbag made of leather at all.

The battlements at the head of the city had been destroyed long ago, but at this time, there were many more scull shields to serve as battlements.These scull shields were temporarily made by Liang Jun with thick wooden boards, and there were brackets behind them to support the ground.Obviously, there must be a large number of Liang Army soldiers crouching behind these scull shields.Under the dense rain of arrows from the Wei army, all these simple scull shields were shot like hedgehogs in a short while.

"Quick! Blast these scull shields with a ballista!" Zhang Yun, who directed the Wei army's attack, ordered hastily.The Wei Army ballista, which had stopped shooting for fear of accidentally injuring its own people, started again.It's just that these ballistas are not as accurate as Liang Jun's ballistas.There was a loud bang, and a certain stone bomb just hit a ladder on the city wall. There were still several Wei soldiers climbing on the ladder.The ladder was destroyed at the sound, and several Wei soldiers screamed and fell from the sky several battles high.These ballistas bombarded for a quarter of an hour. Seeing that they destroyed more ladders than shields at the top of the city, Zhang Xi had to order to stop the bombardment.

At this time, many soldiers of the Wei army had already climbed to the top of the city. Unsurprisingly, Liang Jun's spears pierced through the gaps between the scull shields or above the scull shields like poisonous snakes spitting out letters.The Wei army with dense spears and guns could not dodge at all. They would be stabbed into a beehive almost as soon as they entered the city, and then fell from the top of the city.

But Cao Cao didn't care about this. His attention was all on the gap in the city wall that was more than two hundred steps wide. The Wei soldiers attacking the city in other places were just to attract the troops of Liang Jun.Wei Jun's real main attack direction is on this gap.

At this time, the auxiliary soldiers of the Wei army who advanced to the ruins of the gap resisted the bullets from time to time, and insisted on paving a simple road with wooden boards on the ruins of the city wall.Some of these bullets came from the sniper shots of Liang Jun's archers on the airship, and some came from the lobbing shots of ballistas behind the ruins.At the top of the city at both ends of the ruins, from time to time, Liang Jun used a portable ballista erected behind the shield to project stone bullets downward.

Cao Cao saw that he had successfully opened a road through the ruins, and thought that his side was in sight of victory.His plan was to carve his way to the top of the ruins first, but he was in no rush to rush into the city.Instead, let a large number of soldiers board and hold the top of the ruins.Then they used their bows and crossbows to cover the auxiliary soldiers and continued to open up the road downhill from the ruins. In the end, tens of thousands of Wei troops poured into Wancheng along this wide passage.

Only in this way can the advantages of Liang Jun's strong military strength be brought into play.Otherwise, in the face of the stubborn enemy's strong city, no matter how superior the troops are, there is no place to use them. They can only attack continuously and fight a war of attrition that will cause huge losses on both sides.

This siege strategy was not thought up by Cao Cao himself, but someone else.Just yesterday when the Wei army pretended to attack Wancheng, Sima Yi, who was in Pingshi County and supervised the grain and grass with his son Cao Pi, sent him a letter offering this strategy.

Seeing the hope of success, Cao Cao heard another exclamation.He looked around, but found that there were a few more fireballs in the sky above his army formation.Wei Jun's launch lights caught fire!

Chapter 619

Huang Zhong took out an arrow from the quiver. Although it was not a heavy arrow, it was specially made for longbows, and it was about two feet longer than ordinary arrows.Moreover, the arrow was still a rocket. He put the front end of the arrow into the stove of the airship he was riding on and lit it, then bent his bow and set the arrow.

With a bang, the rocket shot towards the Wei Jun lift-off light closest to Huang Zhong like a shooting star.The range of the rocket is only able to reach the lift-off light, but it is enough.The paper-stuffed lift-off lights immediately ignited and turned into a falling ball of fire, and the soldiers of the Wei army in the hanging basket let out heart-piercing cries for help.

The longbowmen in the other airships did the same, shooting down Wei Jun's lift-off lights one by one.Without these lift-off lights, Wei Jun became semi-blind to the situation in the city and at the head of the city.Cao Cao was naturally aware of this, and his heart tensed up.

However, at this time, the soldiers of the Wei army in front had successfully climbed to the top of the ruins, and some soldiers of the Wei army who had already prepared their shields quickly set up their shields as a wall.The rest of the soldiers put the tiger-head round shield on their heads and crouched behind the shield wall.The crossbowmen continued to shoot randomly from the gap in the shield wall to the ruins.

Liang Jun began to bombard the ruins with various types of crossbows, and more and more arrows were targeting here.The sawdust of the scull shield hit by large and small stone bullets splashed everywhere, and the arrows hit the scull shield with a puffing sound.

With a muffled bang, a conventional stone bomb just hit one side of the scull shield.The shield split into several pieces in an instant.The back bracket also broke and collapsed.Immediately afterwards, another fist-sized stone bullet fired from a portable ballista flew over the damaged scull shield.With a bang, it smashed into the chest of a Wei soldier, and the soldier's entire chest collapsed immediately.

However, the ballistas that Liang Jun gathered here seem to be limited, and each time a stone bullet is fired, it takes a long time to prepare for the next one.Therefore, although the casualties caused by the ballista stone bombs are horrifying, the actual number of casualties is relatively small.

Within a quarter of an hour, more than [-] Wei soldiers were shot and wounded, but compared to the tens of thousands of Wei soldiers, the more than [-] Wei soldiers were no different from a drop in the ocean.

Seeing that Liang Jun had no further reaction, Wei Jun's auxiliary soldiers took the opportunity to start paving the way again.Against Liang Jun's arrow rain, they sorted out a relatively flat slope on the inside of the ruins and paved them with wooden boards.

They had just been working for less than a quarter of an hour when they heard shouts erupting in unison from the alleyway opposite the ruins.Hundreds of Liang Army infantry rushed out, and dense spears were projected towards these Wei Army auxiliary soldiers.

Many Wei army auxiliary soldiers who opened the way were caught off guard and fell on the ruins.The Wei army gathered on the ruins also responded immediately.After a general shouted loudly, a large number of Wei army archers rushed up from under the ruins, stood behind the shield wall, and fired bows and arrows at the Liang army crowd.

There were nearly a thousand of these crossbowmen, and those who were throwing spears and unable to cover themselves with shields were shot with arrows in an instant.Wei Jun's arrows were so dense that one or two of these arrows always hit Liang Jun's vital parts, which made Liang Jun lose the advantage of the ring piece of fine armor.Hundreds of Liang Jun infantry fell down in an instant, and dozens of them fell.

However, these hundreds of Liang soldiers did not back down. Seeing this situation, they simply set up their shields as a wall and rushed towards the ruins. The target they wanted to kill was not the Wei army's crossbowmen, but those who were still lingering on the inner slope of the ruins. Those Wei troops paved the way for auxiliary soldiers.

Wei Jun obviously had a way to deal with this. Amidst the bursts of orders, the crossbowmen quickly retreated from the ruins, but a group of spearmen replaced them.Paired with a shield wall, the spears faced the rushing Liang soldiers and pushed into the city along a small slope that had been paved.

Liang Bing, who was charging upwards, was limited by the ruined terrain of chaotic bricks and potholes. He walked forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and soon the formation became chaotic.

Gao Shun was commanding the defense at a nearby high place. When he saw these Liang soldiers launching a countercharge, he knew something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly send the order, the brothers at the gap must only defend and not attack, and do not charge back. , or you will suffer a lot!"

The horn of order blew quickly, and those Liang soldiers hurriedly stopped their steps, and slowly retreated towards the ruins.At this time, they were less than two battles away from the tip of Wei Jun's dense spears.Fortunately, the spearmen of the Wei army did not chase after them, because they had reached the end of the "road", and if they went down, their formation would be destroyed by the ruins and they would become a group of stragglers.Wouldn't the stragglers armed with spears become fish on the chopping board in this kind of terrain?

However, under the order of the general, the auxiliary soldiers of the Wei Army became busy again.They simply carried out their work with shields under the barrels of long guns.Behind the rows of spears, there are still a large number of crossbowmen on guard at all times.The two sides returned to the stage of projecting confrontation with each other again. Liang Jun threw spears from time to time, but at the moment when the spear throwing showed a flaw, Wei Jun's arrows would also be thrown over Liang Jun's shield wall.

Gao Shun, who was watching the battle from a height, was secretly anxious.He never expected that the Wei army would use this step-by-step strategy. Once the Wei army succeeded in paving the way, the Wei army's tiger and leopard cavalry, iron cavalry, and countless infantry would pour into Wancheng like a torrent.Even if the soldiers of the Liang army are elite, they can only guarantee that they will cause heavy casualties to the Wei army, but they cannot guarantee that Wancheng will not be lost.

Gao Shun said solemnly: "A certain military order has been sent to move all the ballistas and longbowmen in the city around the gap. Even if all the projectiles, including the hot bombs at the bottom of the box, are fired, all the heavy arrows must be fired. Drive Wei Jun off the top of the ruins."

The last time they attacked Wancheng, the Liang army consumed too much explosive bombs, and before the next batch of explosive bombs arrived, Wancheng was besieged by the Wei army again.Fortunately, when Feng Yu's main force withdrew to camp in the southwest of Wancheng, he left all the remaining hot bombs to Gao Shun.From the time Cao Cao's troops came to Wancheng until now, Gao Shun was not very willing to use these explosive bombs.

When Gao Shun's personal guards promised to leave, Gao Shun added: "Wait, transfer a certain personal guard battalion to help defend!"

"General..." The guard hesitated for a moment.

"Do whatever you want! This is a military order!" Gao Shun shouted loudly.Now he only has this personal guard battalion to mobilize.His personal guard battalion is about [-] elite soldiers who are said to be trapped in the camp.Although the Wei army was making an auxiliary attack on the rest of the city wall, people had to be garrisoned, otherwise the auxiliary attack used to attract troops would become the main attack.

After a while, Gao Shun noticed that the large and small ballistas in the rest of Wancheng were moving towards the gap in various forms.The trapped camp that he was most proud of also lined up and rushed quickly behind the ruins of the gap.

On the side of the Wei army, there were also cavalry gathered under the ruins one after another.On the inner slope of the ruins with a width of more than two hundred steps, nearly a thousand soldiers of the Wei Army's auxiliary soldiers are still busy like ants.

Cao Cao also watched the battlefield closely. He knew that he was getting closer and closer to breaking the city, but now he couldn't see the situation in the city.

Chapter 620

At the broken gap in Wancheng, Wei Jun's spears, sculls and shields pushed forward two more battles against the continuous attack of slingshots, lead bullets and arrows.This means that the auxiliary soldiers who paved the road extended the simple road with a width of [-] steps into the city for two more battles, and it was almost completed.The infantry and cavalry of the Wei army outside the city were almost assembled, and Cao Cao could only swarm into the city with an order.

At this moment, orders came one after another in the city, and the order was simply a word "Let go!".Hundreds of large and small stone bullets flew all over the sky, hitting Wei Jun on the top of the ruins of the gap.Among the Wei army, some were smashed into a puddle of mud by boulders, and some were bloody and bloody by small stone bullets, and died on the spot.Even so, Wei Jun still stood up his shield and carried it hard.

When Cao Cao saw it, he immediately understood why Liang Jun's crossbow guns suddenly stopped firing at various places on the battlefield just now. It turned out that it was to concentrate on attacking this point.He thought that he couldn't delay any longer, otherwise all previous efforts would be wasted, so he immediately ordered: "Pass my military order, the whole army will attack and enter Wancheng! Kill everyone in the city, not even a dog!"

The sound of the drums and trumpets of Wei Jun's charge suddenly sounded, and the Wei Jun army that had already lined up rushed towards the ruins in an orderly manner.The Wei army's spear phalanx, which was already on the top of the ruins, also shouted in unison, rushing down the ruins with bullets.And the auxiliary soldiers who were paving the way under the gun barrels in front of them avoided to both sides.

However, the front of Wei Jun's army formation is three battles wide, with jagged bricks and rocks, and it is impossible to walk normally.The shield wall at the front immediately cracked countless gaps and flaws.Those Liang Jun archers who were lying on the roofs and alleys in the city, composed of long archers and flying feathers on foot, shot arrows at them densely.On the street facing the front of the ruins, hundreds of Liang soldiers who were lying behind the shield wall also pulled their slingshots to shoot lead bullets.

These arrows and lead bullets got into the cracks and holes in the Wei Jun's shield wall one after another, and then mercilessly got into the bodies of Wei Jun's soldiers.These three battle-wide brick and gravel ruins are like a dead zone. As soon as Wei soldiers enter, they will be shot or shot, and they will collapse on the ground amidst screams and howls.

But there were still a few sword and shield fighters and pikemen who rushed through the ruins and got close to Liang Jun's shield wall.However, in the narrow streets, the pikemen fighting in the narrow streets are no different from the fish on the chopping board.The scull shields of those Wei army sword and shield hands are too bulky, and they are not suitable for skirmishing.In the moment of the sound of weapons clashing, they fell on this street close to the city wall.

However, when they threw themselves into the street, a whole phalanx of soldiers from the Wei Army came up behind them, rushing down the ruins like a torrent.Those soldiers of the Liang army who had just finished fighting with the Wei soldiers became nervous when they saw so many Wei soldiers rushing forward.They knew that it was almost impossible for people like themselves to stop this torrent.

Suddenly, hundreds of javelins flew past behind them in their line of sight, throwing them at the Wei soldiers who were less than six or seven battles away from them.Gao Shun's trapped camp has arrived!The intensive throwing of about [-] spears stopped the charge of Wei Jun.A large number of Wei soldiers in the front row fell down, and those behind continued to step on their bodies and charge forward.

"Vote!" General Liang Jun who led the team yelled again, and another round of [-] spears fired in volley, just as the crossbows deployed by Liang Jun nearby also started a new round of salvo.The large and small stone bullets blasted several gaps in the shield wall of the Wei army's formation in an instant, and then the spears poured down like torrential rain, and the Wei army fell down again.

The Wei army's formation rushing to the forefront has become fragmented.Those Liang soldiers who fought with their first knives seized the opportunity and suddenly launched a countercharge, breaking into the Wei army formation in the form of skirmishers.Fight with Wei Jun at close range.

Seeing Liang Jun rushing forward, a Wei army spearman rushed away with his gun.With a bang, the tip of the gun pierced Liang Bing's thigh and knocked him to the ground.The spearman had just returned his gun, but unexpectedly another Liang Jun had already rushed to his side.At this distance, the gun in Wei Bing's hand was useless, and he couldn't retreat or move left and right on the ruins, so he used the barrel of the gun as a stick to hit the opponent's head in a hurry.But Liang Jun cut off his neck with a single knife.

Although there were many Liang Jun casualties when they broke into the Wei Army's formation, as long as Liang Jun can successfully break into the Wei Army crowd, it will be like a tiger entering a flock of sheep.The big shield in his left hand blocked up and down, and the two-foot-long dagger in his right hand flew up and down.Constantly cut the necks of Wei soldiers, pierced their abdominal cavity, or cut the major arteries on their limbs.Amid the howling ghosts and howling wolves, Wei Jun was almost wiped out in this wave.

Immediately afterwards, with the sound of horseshoes, these Liang Jun spear and shield soldiers all showed terrified expressions.On the top of the ruins appeared the figures of the tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei army. There were nearly a hundred cavalry, lined up in a row.Liang Bing retreated quickly, behind the forest of large shields and guns trapped in the camp.

The tiger and leopard cavalry rushed down almost at the same moment.Each of the soldiers trapped in the camp still has the last spear in their hands. If they throw them all together, it will not be a problem to stop these tigers and leopards.But then it will be difficult to deal with the Wei army infantry following behind the tiger and leopard cavalry like a tide.The face of the captain trapped in the camp was tense and distorted, and he wanted to make a correct decision in the blink of an eye. The word "vote" was on his lips but he didn't utter it.

"Let go!" A shout came from nearby, and the captain looked up, it turned out that it was Huang Zhong.Following his order, hundreds of longbows and heavy arrows shot at these tiger and leopard riders from various positions such as the roof, the laneway, and the tops of the two ends of the city.At a distance of a hundred steps, the heavy arrow easily penetrated the armor of the tiger and leopard rider or horse.In the neighing and howling, most of them turned on their backs before rushing down the slope of the ruins.A few riders rushed down, but were hindered by the rocky area, and their speed slowed down.

They managed to get close to the shield wall trapped in the camp, but they were stabbed down by the spears from behind the shield wall.Behind the shield wall, some Liang soldiers from the non-trapped camp even rushed out, pulled the tiger and leopard riders off the stalled horses, and cut their short knives into their necks.

A tiger and leopard rode around on horseback, knocking down Liang Bing who was close to him, and beheaded Liang Bing with a saber.But his war horse was stabbed in the hip by a spear.The warrior was immediately startled in pain, spread his hooves, and galloped along the streets close to the city. The rider who was knocked off his horse was quickly pierced through the neck by Liang Jun.

After the tiger and leopard rode, another wave of Wei army infantry rushed in. Gao Shun, who was standing on a high place, and the lookout soldiers in the Liang army's airship all turned pale.Because they could see clearly that this wave of Wei army was stretched forward and backward, with a depth of one hundred and fifty or sixty steps and a width of more than a hundred steps. Mao estimated that there were at least 6000 soldiers and horses.Cao Cao is betting big!Gao Shun now thinks that he can't hold Wancheng anymore!

Chapter 621

There are tens of thousands of people, connecting the sky and the earth.Now tens of thousands of Wei soldiers rushed down from the ruins like opening a gate to release a flood.Whether it's arrows, ballistas, or slingshots of spear and shield soldiers, it's like a drop in the bucket to attack such a sea of ​​people.

The infantry of the Wei army turned over the mountain of corpses and rushed to the shield wall of the trapped camp. "Kill!" With a loud shout from the captain of the trapped camp, five hundred spears shot out, and at least three to four hundred Wei army infantry were shot and killed instantly.But this can't stop the surge of Wei Jun's tide at all.Some people didn't even fall down when they died, and the Wei Jun flood behind them pushed their bodies on the Liang Jun shield wall.

"Kill!", "Kill!" The frequency of the spear stabbing was getting faster and faster, but these soldiers who were trapped in the camp felt that the strength of the shield was getting stronger and stronger, as if it was endless.The soldiers of the Liang army from other battalions also hurriedly supported their backs, trying to stop the tide of Wei soldiers.

Liang Jun's efforts to stop them could only temporarily make Wei Jun's army formation tighter, but it seemed that he could not change the final result.Wei Jun's swords, guns, swords and halberds also looked for any loopholes that could be exploited, and stabbed at Liang Bing behind the shield wall.Both sides were suffering heavy casualties.But these casualties are nothing to the Wei army with fifteen or six thousand troops participating in the battle, but they are fatal to the Liang army.

At this critical moment, Gao Shun ordered: "Let it go!" The arrows shot up into the sky one after another, and then fireballs all over the sky appeared above the gap.Liang Jun finally used the hot bomb that he had been reluctant to use.

Because there is a proofreading of the drop point of the stone bullet of the same weight before.Hundreds of explosive bombs, large and small, all landed relatively accurately within the range of the gap.To be more precise, it fell into the tide of Wei Jun.Hundreds of flames soared into the sky, and then the fire was connected by hundreds of points into a sea of ​​flames.Amidst howling ghosts and howling wolves, countless soldiers of the Wei army turned into burning men.

For the Wei army, what was more fatal than being killed by the fire was the chaos in the army.People were desperately looking for a place to avoid the fire, scrambling to crowd and stampede, and far more people were crushed and trampled to death than burned by the flames.

Those Wei soldiers who had crossed the "sea of ​​fire" area were also squeezed to the ground in large numbers, and those who did not fall were also turned into a mess.Liang Junchang's archers and gun shield soldiers took the opportunity to fire bullets and arrows, and carried out intensive shooting.The crossbowman didn't stop either, and continued to throw explosive bombs round after round.Soon, the wooden planks that were used to level the road also burned blazingly, and the fire temporarily blocked the gap in the city wall.The soldiers of the Wei army outside the city were still huddled together, unable to recover for a long time...

At this time, Cao Cao, who was watching the battle from a distance, had a very rich expression on his face, from nervousness to joy, from joy to fear, and now to sadness.Cao Cao beat his feet and said, "Why didn't I think of this! I really regret it!".The generals beside him were silent, and they dared not make a sound. No one knew the meaning of Cao Cao's words, and no one wanted to attract the attention of Cao Cao who was full of anger at this time.

In fact, what Cao Cao blamed himself was that he should have thought that Liang Jun would concentrate on using hot bombs for the last fight.Because since he came to Wancheng, Liang Jun has not used this thing much from beginning to end.This is completely unreasonable for Liang Jun, who must use this kind of firearm in every battle.

It took a long time before Cao Cao's mood recovered.Let someone count the loss.As a result, according to the statistics, the Wei army lost another six to seven thousand people.

Cao Cao looked at Wancheng, unable to speak for a long time.The raging fire at the gap has become much smaller.The air was filled with the disgusting smell of burnt flesh.At this time, Zhang Yun cautiously stepped forward to advise, "Your Majesty, this is not a place to stay for a long time. It is the best policy for us to quickly retreat to Fangcheng."

With Zhang He taking the lead, the rest followed suit.Even Xu You, who had been opposed to retreating to Fangcheng, didn't say a word at this time.

Cao Cao frowned and said: "Just now, Liang Jun was lucky enough not to break through the city with sharp firearms. But they didn't use this thing on purpose before. Based on my inference, they must have not many of this thing. After this battle, they didn't use this thing. Must be exhausted. We..."

When everyone heard this, they secretly said in their hearts, come on, this is still unwilling to admit defeat, and they have to bite the bullet and fight on.

At this time, the scouts on the outside brought a message!Feng Yu's army has already arrived, but they did not drive directly to Wancheng, but the cavalry and chariots continued to rush northeastward.The infantry and a small number of war cavalry began to form an formation seven miles south of Wancheng, and now the army formation should move to Wancheng.

This news shocked Cao Cao and his ministers.Originally, this should be a good thing for Wei Jun, because Cao Cao originally wanted to lure Liang Jun to come to Wancheng for a decisive battle.

But this time and that time.At that time, Cao Cao calculated that Feng Yu would first dispatch fast-moving cavalry and chariots to rush to the rescue of Wancheng, and set up a large number of traps.But this is a set specifically for cavalry and cavalry, cavalry and longbow chariots in melee.It doesn't have much effect on the regular army formation composed of infantry and cavalry.At the same time, the Wei army has suffered setbacks one after another, its strength has been greatly damaged, and its morale has plummeted.Now the chances of winning a face-to-face battle with Liang Jun have become extremely small.

But these were not enough to shock Cao Cao and the generals of the State of Wei. What frightened them was the news that a large number of Liang Junzhan rode chariots to the northeast!The northeast is the location of Fangcheng.This means that Liang Jun may attack Fangcheng, if not to cut off the retreat of Wei Jun to Fangcheng.But now, because Huyang is also occupied by Liang Jun, Liang Jun is tantamount to encircling Wei Jun in a triangle shape!

Cao Cao didn't hesitate any longer, and without waiting for the ministers and generals to speak, he said: "I pass on my military order, and the whole army will retreat to Fangcheng."

As soon as his words fell, the sound of drums and trumpets was faintly heard from the south, followed by countless banners and figures rising from the southern horizon.It is really connected to the sky and the earth, without boundaries.Liang Jun has seven legions with a total of more than [-] troops.A large formation with a front width of three miles and a depth of more than [-] rows was formed and swept towards Wancheng.

The generals of the Wei army hurried to command all the ministries to line up and prepare to evacuate.Liang Jun was stepping on the drums to this trip, and in a hurry, Wei Jun's various ministries barely formed a march and fled to the northeast in a hurry.All the tents and supplies were gone, and those who had the heart set them on fire, and those who were in a hurry simply gave them to Liang Jun.

Gao Shun saw the Wei army hastily retreating from a distance, and also found that his reinforcements were coming, and immediately ordered: "Mobilize all the available war cavalry and chariots in the city, and go out of the city to pursue the Wei army!"

In the distance, Feng Yu, who was leading the huge army, also noticed Wei Jun's movements, and said with a sneer, "If we don't attack with the tail at this time, when will we wait?" He continued to ask Zhao Yun, "We still have to stay." How many cavalry and longbow chariots?"

"Your Majesty, there are two battalions of light and heavy cavalry, and one battalion of longbow chariots!"

Feng Yu nodded and said: "Command, all the cavalry and chariots should go out and chase the main force of the fleeing Wei army with all their strength!"

Chapter 622

On the wilderness in the northeast of Nanyang, about [-] Liang troops rode light and heavy cavalry, and more than [-] rode longbow chariots to attack the Wei army from the tail.For tens of thousands of years, the Wei army was also divided into several square formations, trying to retreat in an orderly manner with alternate cover.It's just that the retreat was too hasty, and the formation organization seemed quite chaotic.Under the impact of Liang Jun's longbow shooting, light cavalry shooting, and heavy cavalry, the infantry at the tail of the Wei Army's army were defeated one by one.

Cao Cao, who was walking in the middle army, received battle reports from the rear one after another, knowing that sooner or later the whole army would be defeated if this continued.He immediately summoned Xia Houyuan, who was in charge of the cavalry of the whole army, and explained to Xia Houyuan alone. Xia Houyuan replied: "I obey!"

On Liang Jun's side, Xu Rong, who was temporarily in charge of the pursuit force, was still galloping on horseback, with three thousand cavalry and three hundred chariots following behind him and dashing forward.

Soon they entered the area between two mounds.These are two sandy mounds that are very common in the Nanyang Plain. They are less than ten ridges high and thirty or forty ridges wide, but they are several miles or even tens of miles long.When Xu Rong went to the opening of these two mounds, one of his personal guards reminded: "General, the two mounds are sandwiched here, so it is easy to ambush. We must guard against it."

In fact, without this person's reminder, Xu Rong also had this doubt in his heart.He looked at the large number of Wei soldiers who were still fleeing in the distance, then looked at the hills on both sides, and said, "No problem, it is important for us to pursue the Wei army. Although it is easy to ambush here, the narrowest point between the two mounds is also two feet wide." Here, such a large space is enough for us cavalry and chariots to move around even if we encounter an ambush. Moreover, our army has also specially trained for this kind of terrain. I believe that the Wei army will do nothing to us .”

After Xu Rong finished speaking, he led thousands of war cavalry and continued to pursue Wei Jun.They had only penetrated into the area between the two hills for two or three miles, and they heard the sound of Wei Jun's horn.A large number of Wei army cavalry appeared on the top of the mound.Xu Rong sneered and said:

"The Wei army really set up an ambush here! No matter what, we killed their infantry before. It's not a big deal. Today, we will fight with them here today! Listen up, soldiers! Our daily training has never The combat method of riding and riding in this kind of terrain, everyone should follow the tactics in daily training!"

As soon as his words fell, the Wei riders on the two mounds poured down like a torrent of glory.These Wei cavalry consisted of [-] tiger and leopard cavalry and [-] ordinary war cavalry, and their strength was more than twice that of Xu Rong's in terms of numbers.

Liang Jun's Qingqi Feiyu and the arrows on the longbow chariot flew to both sides. At the same time, the Qingqi Feiyu split into two strands and spread towards the two entrances between the two posts, while the longbow chariot quickly He galloped to the middle of the most open area between the two posts and stopped. The heavy cavalry of the two battalions stood in place, motionless.

When Xia Houyuan was wondering what kind of strange tactics Liang Jun was using, dense arrows rushed towards his face with the sound of piercing through the air.Among the Wei riders, from time to time someone screamed and rolled off the horse.Xia Houyuan danced his own spears into a ball, swung away several arrows, and shouted: "The tiger and leopard cavalry will kill those chariot soldiers first. Between these two posts, they can't use the same tactics as before. The rest of the soldiers We will kill those enemy cavalry who use bows. As for those enemy heavy cavalry, let them not move, if they intercept us, just let a small number of soldiers and horses entangle them, and we will surround and kill them in the end!"

The soldiers and school lieutenants around him made a promise in unison, leading all the troops and horses to go their own way.Most of the Wei cavalry rode their horses to chase those Liang army chariot soldiers.The rest went to intercept Qingqi Feiyu spreading to both sides.The heavy cavalry who were standing still were left alone.

At this time, most of the Wei cavalry, including the three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry, were still more than two hundred steps away from the three hundred longbow chariots.The longbow and heavy arrows were still being shot continuously, and the hit rate was extremely high.Almost three arrows will hit two people, and the casualties of Wei soldiers are still continuing.However, Wei Jun was getting closer and closer to these longbow chariots.

Although Xia Houyuan was distressed by the continuous loss of his soldiers, every time his cavalry took a step closer to the opponent, he was one step closer to victory.

When his tiger and leopard cavalry had stopped at that distance, but the Liang Jun chariots with bows and arrows were less than a hundred paces away, the Liang Jun heavy cavalry a little further away suddenly started to speed up, and under Xu Rong's personal leadership, they galloped towards this side. come.Thousands of lances stand forward like a forest.Some tiger and leopard cavalry immediately separated from the home team and came up to meet them.

Boom, Xu Rong took the lead, and the cavalry shot up, piercing the body of a tiger and leopard cavalry in an instant.At the same time, the tip of another tiger and leopard rider's spear was still a few feet away from him. Xu Rong had no time to close his gun, but another Liang Junzhong's mace hit the tiger and leopard rider's sky cap. Without saying a word, the victim collapsed under the galloping mount, and was trampled to pieces by the galloping horses.

Another two tiger and leopard cavalry spears came towards Xu Rong. He had already taken off his four-foot long horse-chopping sword, and swung one of the cavalry spears away with a clang with the back of the saber, and the other cavalry spear But no matter what, I couldn't prevent it anymore.At the very moment, a longbow and heavy arrow pierced through the tiger and leopard rider's helmet at just the right time, and stuck deeply in his head, as if his spine had been pulled out, he slumped backward and fell off the horse.

More than a thousand tiger and leopard riders, relying on their invincible impact and the assistance of the longbow chariot, pierced through the tiger and leopard rider's cavalry formation in a short while, dividing it into two parts, the front and the back, and making them into a mess.However, the small number of tiger and leopard cavalry in the front continued to gallop towards the longbow chariot, as if Xu Rong's Liang Jun heavy cavalry did not exist.

At this time, those longbow chariots suddenly moved again, of course moving in a direction that distanced them from the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and the arrows continued to fly towards the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Xia Houyuan looked at the hills not far in front of them, and said with a sneer, "I'll see where you are going to escape this time! Boys, pull the formation away!" Following his order, Qian Qian who was still following him Yu Hubao cavalry quickly dispersed into a line of cavalry, and surrounded the hundreds of Liang army chariots with a wide front.

Sure enough, the longbow chariot was stopped by the mound, and more than a thousand tigers and leopards pressed up with huge casualties. It seemed that the longbow chariot had no way to escape.But at this moment, more than a thousand Liang Jun heavy cavalry swept over like a whirlwind, digging a big hole in the line of cavalry like a chisel.Three hundred longbow chariots swiftly and skillfully rushed out of the opening, and jumped to the open area again.

Next, Liang Jun's tactics evolved into heavy cavalry accompanying the longbow chariot, and there was chaos everywhere, with Wei cavalry rushing back and forth everywhere.People shouted and horses neighed, and the sound of weapons colliding resounded throughout the world...

Chapter 623 Fang Cheng Difficult to Return

In the wide "valley" formed by the two mounds, there are scattered corpses everywhere.As time went by, the tiger and leopard cavalry suffered more and more casualties, Liang Jun gradually reversed the initial disadvantage, and instead became the stronger side, and the advantage became bigger and bigger.

Xia Houyuan was dumbfounded by Liang Jun's unpredictable tactics.He was very anxious, hoping that the ordinary Wei Qi who was fighting against Qingqi would end the battle soon and return to reinforce him.Only enough cavalry and horses, and only an overwhelming force superiority can break Liang Jun's weird tactics.