Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Sima Yi, who had been paying close attention to the battle situation, found that his cavalry was a little behind, but his spear phalanx made Liang Jun's phalanx appear to be defeated.

Sima Yi thought that if he worked harder, he would be able to defeat Liang Jun's tens of thousands of infantry phalanxes, and he would surely win.So he shouted an order: "Quickly pass on the commander's military order, let the infantry phalanxes who are in charge of the guards and the retreating sabers and shields intersperse the gaps between the Liang army phalanxes, and attack the flanks of each phalanx!"

Chapter 695 The overall situation has been decided

More than 13 infantrymen fought fiercely between Liang and Wei, and the Wei army had [-] phalanxes, while the Liang army had only [-] phalanxes.The gap between the Wei Army phalanx and the phalanx is very small, with an average distance of only two or three battles.There were more than ten battles between Liang Jun's phalanx and the phalanx.

In this way, many Wei army spearmen had no enemies in front of them at all, but even so, in order to ensure the integrity of the spear phalanx, they would not rush into the gap like stragglers to kill Liang Jun.What's more, the long pole weapons in their hands are inconvenient to go directly into the enemy's formation for close hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the Wei Army phalanx, which was the rear guard of Sima Yi's phalanx of guards, and the sword and shield fighters who were withdrawn from the first row in front of each spear phalanx, were divided into several groups under Sima Yi's order, and passed through the gaps in the phalanx. pass by.They tried to insert directly into the gap between Liang Jun's phalanxes, and then attacked the flanks of each Liang Jun's phalanxes.

At this moment, a horn with a very strange rhythm suddenly sounded in Liang Jun's formation. The sound of the horn originally only came from one place, but immediately every corner of Liang Jun's formation blew horns with the same rhythm to echo it.Soon, such trumpets sounded in Liang Jun's formation.

Sima Yi immediately saw Liang Jun's very strange behavior.The Liang army's spear and shield soldiers moved closer together in different columns in the horizontal direction, making them appear denser. Therefore, the entire phalanx was divided into three to four pieces vertically, revealing two to three gaps of five or six battles.Those spearmen of the Wei army who were stabbing forward desperately and advancing gradually, some of their targets suddenly disappeared in front of them, so they had to be in an "idle" state.Some front shields have become more dense and airtight, and it is more difficult for the tip of the spear to find a hole to penetrate the enemy soldier's body.

When Sima Yi was wondering, he suddenly felt that the ground seemed to be trembling slightly.He couldn't help but wondered in his heart, the two war cavalry were fighting fiercely ten miles away, and they were already in the midst of hand-to-hand combat, the war horses hadn't galloped yet, why did the ground tremble?Immediately afterwards, he heard the sound of Xia Tian's rolling thunder, which was far more shocking than the sound of ordinary warriors galloping ten thousand horses.

Sima Yi hadn't seen the situation ahead clearly yet, but he could clearly see the phalanx of spears ahead and the infantry of the Wei army rushing towards Liang Jun through the gaps in the phalanx.Some huge "iron bulls" with metallic luster all over their armor and a spear blade on their heads were rushing towards the Wei army formation at a very high speed.The iron bull was also riding a knight in the same strange iron armor.

Most of the Wei army are from the north, so most of them have never seen a rhinoceros.In fact, even people who have seen rhinos may not necessarily recognize these monsters, and recognizing these monsters will not prevent their calves from shaking.

The generals of the Wei army knew better than anyone what their army was facing, that is, the morale collapsed in an instant, and the entire army immediately dissipated.They all shouted loudly, not only to cheer up the soldiers under them, but also to remind them of the actions they should take.

"Don't be afraid of enemy cavalry! Just keep your formation and don't panic, they don't have the guts to hit the spear point!"

"Facing the enemy cavalry, all of them have their guns straightened, and put their guns on the ground! Don't worry, they don't dare to rush into the formation with their lives broken!"

"Keep calm, do what you usually do, and those who fear the enemy and retreat will be killed without mercy!"

What these generals said is not unreasonable. If ordinary cavalry, even tiger and leopard cavalry or even Liang Jun's heavy armored cavalry, if they want to forcefully charge into the dense phalanx of long spears, they may be hit by the bodies of men and horses under the huge inertia. Kill two or three spearmen at the front, but you will definitely be stabbed into a honeycomb.And even if people are willing to bump into it, a war horse with a little bit of spirituality and IQ will not take the initiative to bump into the forest of guns.Therefore, there is only one possibility for cavalry to break this spear phalanx, which is to use the cavalry to charge like thunder, psychologically disintegrating the opponent's morale and formation.

Although the commanders and gunmen of the Wei army were terrified, they still showed no signs of breaking up under the command of many generals.Most pikemen still believed that the rushing beam army monster would stop before hitting the point of the spear.A small number of people who didn't have this confidence panicked, but the big formation that didn't collapse also restrained them to their respective positions. There were people in the front, back, left, and right, with nowhere to run, so they could only perform their duties.When these spearmen saw that these iron bulls were only a short distance away from them, it was too late to run away.

There was only a crackling sound coming from a gap in the Liang Jun phalanx. It turned out that the spears with their rear ends on the ground were either broken or bounced into the air.Immediately afterwards there was another muffled bang, and seven or eight pikemen who had been in a daze were knocked into the air, and a soldier of the Wei army was pierced through his chest by a metal-wrapped rhinoceros horn like a sharp blade, and his body was hung on the rhinoceros. flying overhead.

The sharp iron cavalry, which was six feet high and weighed five thousand catties, tore apart the Wei army's spear phalanx like an indestructible sharp blade.Its head and shoulders were strewn with broken lance blades, but none of these blades could pierce the armor or its own hard armor.Those spearmen of the Wei Army fell down like rice and wheat crossed by a sickle, and then were trampled to pieces by the huge iron hooves of the rhinoceros.The four-foot saber in the rhinoceros knight's hand also cut off the heads of the soldiers of the Wei army on the right.

A brave general of the Wei army took advantage of the gap, jumped up from the left, and rushed towards the rhinoceros knight. As long as he could grab an object or hug the opponent, at such a high relative speed, he would definitely be able to drag the opponent. Get off your horse.

Unexpectedly, the other party just swung his left hand forward violently, and with a muffled bang, the arm guard with metal thorns just hit the Wei Jun general's head.At such a high speed, the long thorn pierced his head in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, this sharp iron cavalry pierced through the ten-row long spear phalanx.Behind him were two heavy cavalrymen.After these heavy cavalry followed the rhino cavalry to penetrate the Wei army phalanx, they immediately turned around and attacked the rest of the positions from behind the spear phalanx, trying to open more gaps.

Under the orders of the generals, Liang Jun's spear and shield soldiers, armed with large shields and short knives, no longer maintained their formation, and poured into these gaps in the form of skirmishers. The spearmen engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Such attacks occurred simultaneously at nearly a thousand points along the [-]-mile front.The [-] Wei army's long spear phalanx suddenly became chaotic. In addition to being massacred by the Liang army's sharp iron cavalry and heavy armored cavalry, more casualties came from the Liang army's spear and shield soldiers who rushed into the formation.It was impossible for the Wei soldiers with long spears to launch a close-range attack on the spear and shield soldiers. Because of the rush of time, most of them did not even have short-handled weapons, and they became fish on the chopping board at this time.In less than half a quarter of an hour, twenty phalanxes and more than [-] Wei troops began to disintegrate and flee.

As for Sima Yi and the others, after the Xirui Iron Cavalry pierced through the avant-garde guards guarding him, they just woke up from their stunned stunned, and hurriedly let the coachman flee on horseback.

Feng Yu in the distance let out a long sigh of relief. Although the battle is not over yet, the overall situation has been decided, and he has become the winner of this decisive battle.

Chapter 696 Break through the wall

A Liang Jun lookout soldier riding in a hot air balloon looked down and found that on the wasteland north of Wocangang, large numbers of people were rushing northward like ants.There were hair-like things scattered everywhere on the ground. They were the spears thrown by the infantry of the Wei army.

The Wei army formation, which was torn into countless strips by nearly a thousand sharp iron cavalry, was killed by Liang army infantry pouring into the gap at close range, causing a large number of casualties in an instant.When Sima Yi and the generals of the Wei army did not respond, they collapsed suddenly.Almost all the infantry of the Wei army threw away the cumbersome spears in their hands, and fled northward for their lives, trying to escape back to the company camp.

At this time, Liang Jun's infantry chased and shouted: "Kneel on the ground to surrender, and those who surrender will not be killed, and if they do not surrender, they will be beheaded!"Those Wei army infantry who heard these words and reacted quickly fell to their knees and put their heads in their hands.Sure enough, Liang Jun soldiers with large shield blades passed directly by them and did not harm them.Those soldiers of the Wei army who didn't have time to kneel down and surrender, no matter whether they really wanted to be enemies of the Liang army or not, as long as they were caught up by these Liang army spear and shield soldiers, they would be beheaded with a single blow.

The Wei cavalry, who were still fighting fiercely with Liang Jun's iron cavalry on both sides, were already at a disadvantage and barely maintained by virtue of their numerical advantage.Xiahoudun and Cao Zhenjian, who are now commanding these cavalry of the Wei army, are the main force of the infantry phalanx completely collapsed, and there is no love for battle.When Xiahoudun was about to pull his horse away, a heavy cavalry from Liang Jun stopped in front of his horse.

Xiahou Dun shot a shot with a very fast reaction speed, and the opponent hurriedly blocked it with a mace. Riding that hard breastplate.The two sides rushed towards each other at such a high speed that Xiahou Dun's lance pierced the opponent's chest.

Xiahou Dun tried to pull out the cavalry spear, but the speed of the horse was too fast, and the blade of the spear was caught by the opponent's armor, and he couldn't pull it out in a split second.The corpse of Liang Jun knight was pierced on the gun shaft and dragged off his mount.Xiahou Dun couldn't get rid of the corpse on the gun shaft for a while, so he had to discard the lance, and pulled out the waist knife with a clang.At this time, he came and shouted loudly: "Order! The whole army evacuates! Withdraw!"

In fact, without him shouting, some of these Wei cavalry under his command have already fled away one after another, and more and more.The situation on the right-wing Cao Zhen's side was similar to that of Xiahou Dun, and the whole army had already begun to flee.As soon as Xiahou Dun clamped his horse's belly, he was about to speed up and run towards the victim, but was stopped in front of the horse again by a Liang Jun heavy cavalry.Without saying a word, he rode his horse and charged forward, slashing with his knife, and the opponent swung the mace in his hand, and knocked his waist knife away.

Xiahou Dun knew that his waist knife could not cut through the opponent's armor, so it was just a false move.He endured the numb tiger's mouth, and continued to gallop, trying to pass by the heavy cavalry of Liang Jun.There was a muffled sound from the canopy, and the opponent's mace still smashed on his back vest, and his blood was boiling immediately.Fortunately, his horse was extremely fast, which eliminated a lot of force on the mace, otherwise he would have been knocked off the horse.

Xiahoudun, who was already bare-handed, hurriedly called for a few personal guards, who surrounded and guarded him and fled to Juechen at the company camp of the Wei army.Not long after he escaped, a Liang general galloped here with a lance.He looked at the back of Xiahoudun who was leaving in the dust, and regretted that he was one step late, otherwise Xiahoudun would never have escaped back to the camp so safely.

Hua Xiong was about to order his war cavalry to follow the retreating Wei cavalry and attack the Wei army camp in one go.However, a soldier of the Habayashi Legion next to Feng Yu flew to report.

When Hua Xiong, who was in command of Liang Jun's war cavalry and Xiahou Dun, was about to pursue Wei Jun's cavalry, the Habayashi Army Commander from the Chinese Army brought Feng Yu's military order.

"There is an order from the Holy Spirit. If the Wei army's war cavalry retreats to the company camp, our army's war cavalry does not need to follow and chase, but should directly pass through the Wei army company camp. Make a surprise attack on the Wei army formation on the back of the company camp. These Wei troops are sitting in the south and north rows As long as our war cavalry attack them in time, we should be able to defeat them in one fell swoop. But if these Wei army spear phalanx immediately change direction, our army cavalry should not attack easily!"

Hua Xiong immediately promised, and he personally carried the army flag of his headquarters, leading thousands of war cavalry to charge north.

It turned out that Feng Yu had already received the news that Deng Ai's [-] infantry and [-] Wei soldiers were regularly arrayed north of the company battalion, and he immediately understood.He thought that Sima Yi must have known about Liang Jun's chariot and cavalry troops detouring to the rear of Wei Jun's company battalion, and misjudged his intentions.This was a surprise, Feng Yu decided to seize this opportunity to defeat the Wei army in advance and completely, so he hastily ordered his soldiers to bring such orders to Hua Xiong and Xu Rong who commanded the cavalry.

After Sima Yi hurriedly fled into his camp, he shouted loudly: "All soldiers, no matter swordsman, crossbowman, or cavalry, all stepped forward to defend the camp. No matter what, we must keep the camp. As long as Liang Jun can't break through Our company, we still have a chance to save the situation..."

Sima Yi paused, because at this moment he suddenly remembered that the remaining [-] soldiers had already been handed over to Deng Ai to defend against the Liang army attacking from the north.Immediately afterwards, he thought of Liang Jun's terrifying rhinoceros cavalry. He slapped his thigh and said, "Not good!" He hurriedly said to the soldiers around him: "Pass on the commander's order, and quickly pass on Deng Ai's soldiers to the north of the camp." Defense in the camp..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a loud noise.A gap suddenly appeared on the wooden camp wall, and fragments of broken wooden fence sticks were scattered everywhere.It turned out that a rhino soldier broke through the wall, and then it smashed through the horse behind the wall. The knight wrapped in a metal shell on the rhino swung a four-foot long knife, and the panicked Wei beside him The soldiers were easily killed on the ground.Such loud noises came one after another, and Liang Jun's rhinoceros cavalry continued to break through the wall and break into the camp.

Sima Yi hurriedly said to the group of guards beside him, "There is no need to send orders. It's too late. This company will definitely not be able to hold on. Let's go quickly and join Deng Ai." Surrounded by them, they swarmed towards the north gate of the camp.At the same time, a large number of Liang Jun infantry poured into the Liang Jun camp from the gap in the wall of the camp.

Except for Sima Yi's large camp of the Chinese army, the situation encountered by the rest of the company's camp was similar to this.There were not many soldiers left in the company battalion, and there were not many soldiers who fled into the company battalion, and they were all broken soldiers who were too frightened to fight.Therefore, when the infantry of the Liang army poured into the various camps of the Wei army, some of them knelt down to beg for surrender, and some, like Sima Yi, fled to the north.In order to compete for the road, some generals who were born in the Wei army even brandished their weapons and slashed and killed the rest of the Wei soldiers on the road.Hundreds of Wei army camps were all in chaos.

Chapter 697

The fifty battles to the north of Wei Jun's company battalion.Under Deng Ai's command, another [-] Wei army infantry plus [-] Wei cavalry have set up an army formation.

The twelve spear phalanxes are five rows deep and nearly forty miles wide.This width is enough to ensure that the Liang army chariots who may attack cannot pass through the company battalion, so as to launch a surprise attack on the back of Sima Yi's main force.The other six spear phalanxes are divided into two rows, which block the left and right wings to prevent enemy attacks from the flanks.

Deng Ai knew that the Liang army, consisting of two thousand chariots and two thousand light cavalry, had no time or ability to attack both ends of his formation.What he was worried about was that there would be Liang Jun cavalry sneaking past both ends of the company and battalion, and then attacking his two wings.Although this possibility is very low, he has to guard against it.

It's just that Deng Ai never dreamed that Liang Jun could defeat Wei Jun's tens of thousands of troops in a very short period of time.At this time, Deng Ai, who was standing in the army formation and looking into the distance, vaguely heard the sound of people behind him shouting horses neighing and weapons clashing.He wondered in his heart, this place is not considered a camp from the frontal battlefield, and it is also a hundred battles away. How can the noise of fighting be so loud?

Thinking of this, Deng Ai immediately ordered a personal guard to go to the south to check the situation.Less than a quarter of an hour later, the soldiers flew back. Before Deng Ai came and asked him why he came back so soon, he hurriedly reported: "Report!...Report...Liang Jun is Attack all the camps in the company battalion, and some Liang troops have rushed into the camps of the Chinese army camp!"

When Deng Ai heard this, he was shocked at first, and then he scolded: "Nonsense, even if Liang Jun can break through our main force formation, it will not only take so little time, let alone break into our Wei army camp in such a little time! Ru Could it be that a small group of Liang troops attacked a certain camp, saying that Liang Jun broke through all the camps of the big camp?"

"Back... back to the general, no. The little one... When the little one entered one of the camps, he did see Liang Jun aggressively attacking the camp. A mount tamed by an unknown beast broke through the wall and broke into the camp. , and then a large number of soldiers from the Liang army poured in from the breakthrough gap, and the younger one rushed out on horseback, and then turned into the adjacent camp. Seeing a large number of our troops retreating towards the camp, it is obvious that the Liang army has defeated the large formation in front of our army."

After Ling Bing finished speaking out of breath, Deng Aiben still didn't quite believe it.But he had seen countless Wei soldiers running out of the camps fifty battles away, so he believed what Ling Bing said was true.At the same time, a cavalry team of hundreds of people rushed in front of him. Deng Ai could see clearly that the leader was Sima Yi.He was about to bow his hands to bow, but Sima Yi waved his arms from a distance and shouted: "Shi Zai, the general quickly turned around, there is no time to say more, just do as you say."

Deng Ai didn't dare to hesitate, and immediately ordered the soldiers to send an order to make all the army formations turn around.But it was too late to turn the army formation. Even if it was the simplest way for everyone to turn backwards, it would take two to three quarters of an hour for the military order to reach the various departments of the army formation that were tens of miles long.

At this time, the cavalry of the Liang army led by Hua Xiong and Xu Rong had already passed through the Wei army company battalions on both sides, and then dispersed into dozens of groups, attacking the back of each Wei army phalanx.

Sima Yi and Deng Ai saw that two torrents of iron cavalry were rolling in from the gap between the camp and the army formation, and they continued to separate small groups of cavalry to attack the various Wei army spear formations.The last two small groups of cavalry rushed towards themselves.

Sima Yi's face suddenly turned desperate. He knew that today's defeat was already settled, and now the 36-point strategy is the best strategy, and escape is the most important thing.Therefore, he hurriedly said to Deng Ai: "Shi Zai, I will leave this place to you. Try to block the Liang army. If you can't stop it, you will retreat to Yecheng."

After all, he didn't wait for Deng Ai to answer, so he rode his horse and continued to flee northward with a hundred guards.Before Deng Ai came back to his senses, he heard a series of loud noises in his ears. It turned out that the phalanx he was in had just turned around and hadn't put down his spear yet.Those heavy cavalry and light cavalry of the Liang army had galloped into the phalanx, and dozens of spearmen of the Wei army in the front row had been knocked out by the tall war horses.

Deng Ai shouted anxiously: "Put down the spear! Although they are war cavalry, they are not many in number. We can wipe them out with our concerted efforts. Otherwise, we will die without a place to die."

Deng Ai is right. Each phalanx of the Wei army has about [-] to [-] infantry.However, there were only two or three Liang Jun war cavalry that broke into each phalanx, each with a hundred cavalry.Even if there is no army formation, as long as Liang Jun's war cavalry fails to penetrate the army formation, when the speed of Liang Jun's war cavalry slows down, all the pikemen will swarm up and kill them with random stabbing.

In the Chinese army phalanx where Deng Ai was located, the regular soldiers of the Wei army accounted for a considerable proportion.Therefore, compared with other phalanxes, they are stronger in combat power, and they were the first to receive Deng Ai's military order. Compared with the Wei soldiers in the other phalanxes, they were not so caught off guard and lost their souls.

A Liang army cavalry team collided with the phalanx of Deng Ai's headquarters. The heavy armored cavalry at the front knocked down three rows of Wei soldiers one after another. Swing away and smash your head.The heavy cavalry and light cavalry behind them also waved their maces and sabers, killing the Wei soldiers on both sides.

But at this time, the speed of the horses in the front row of Liang Jun's cavalry had completely slowed down.The last two rows of spearmen of the Wei army retreated quickly, and at the same time dropped their spears, pointing the dense spear points at the Liang army cavalry.

"Kill" With a burst of courageous shouts, dozens of long spears stabbed at Liang Jun's heavy cavalry.The fine armor on the heavy cavalry blocked the stabbing of more than a dozen spear blades, but more than a dozen spear blades still passed through the armor, stabbing to the ground the horses and knights who were rushing forward by the five cavalry.The spearmen of the Wei army on both sides also got rid of the temporary panic, and retreated one after another to make room for leveling their spears.At this moment, three more heavy-armoured cavalry rode forward. Before the two rows of Wei Army spearmen had time to close their guns, several of them were pushed to the ground by the huge war horses and then trampled by them. The club crushed the skull or shattered the internal organs.

The three heavy cavalry took the opportunity to ride their horses to stand out from the crowd, and the Liang Jun war cavalry followed them through the formation, and finally tore another hole in the Wei Army formation.In fact, at this time, the spearmen of the Wei army were already out of formation because of dodging and retreating.Those Wei soldiers who had retreated to make room stabbed their spears at the Liang Army cavalry who passed through the formation, and a dozen more Liang Army cavalry were picked off their horses.

At this moment, a large number of defeated Wei troops rushed out of the camp, making the already out-of-form Wei army phalanx even more chaotic.Liang Jun's infantry followed closely, and quickly rushed into the crowd of Wei Jun's spearmen, slashing and stabbing them. These Wei soldiers with spears seemed to be unarmed and could only let their opponents kill.The entire phalanx collapsed in the blink of an eye, and Deng Ai also ran away.In fact, those phalanxes that did not receive Deng Ai's military orders in time, were not fully prepared, and had lower combat strength and morale than Deng Ai's headquarters, collapsed under the assault of Liang Jun's war cavalry before Liang Jun's infantry entered the formation.

The scene of the previous war was repeated again, and hundreds of thousands of troops fled northward like a tide.And Wei Qi's defeated army had run away from the gap between the phalanx and the phalanx long before.

Chapter 698

The autumn rain in Hebei is not like that of Bashu in the south of the Yangtze River. After only two days of falling, it cleared up and the sun was shining brightly again.Covered with sunshine, on the Hebei plains mixed with green and yellow, strands of defeated Wei soldiers are running away one by one.These are pawns, and those tiger and leopard cavalry and regular cavalry with mounts have long since left regardless.

Among them, a group of about 40 to [-] Wei Jun routs was running panting.Except for the old soldier who was the leader who was carrying a sword, the rest of them were pike soldiers trained urgently from the auxiliary soldiers. Now they have thrown away their pikes long ago, and their hands are empty.

Behind them, hundreds of Liang army cavalry were chasing after them.In addition to the sound of horseshoes, there were also voices shouting and persuading to surrender: "Kneel down to surrender! Those who surrender will not be killed! If they surrender, they will be beheaded!"

Some Wei soldiers who couldn't move fell to their knees with a plop.But the leader who was named the leader encouraged the soldiers under him: "Run! If you don't run, you will die if you are caught by Liang Jun... Ah." Before he could finish his sentence, several arrows shot by Qingqi Feiyu were gone. After sinking into his body, he screamed and fell to the ground.The other two Wei soldiers beside him were also hit by arrows and fell to the ground.

The cheers of Liang Jun's war cavalry in the rear continued. "Kneel down to surrender! Those who surrender will not be killed..." Immediately, these Wei soldiers who were running for their lives all knelt down, panting heavily.The more than a hundred Liang army war cavalry quickly chased them up, ignoring them, the war horses passed by the kneeling bodies one by one, and continued to pursue north.These soldiers of the Wei army who knelt and surrendered were taken in by the infantry of the Liang army who followed behind.

The tiger and leopard cavalry and Chang cavalry who fled in Wei Jun did not suffer any losses because they fled early and quickly.Deng Ai and his personal guards, who also rode their horses all the way north, gathered many such Wei cavalry along the way, and soon nearly a thousand war cavalry gathered around Deng Ai.

They galloped on the wilderness for another quarter of an hour, when they suddenly heard the sound of drumming horseshoes behind them, Deng Ai wondered in surprise, how did Liang Jun catch up so quickly.He turned his head and looked away, letting out a sigh of relief.It wasn't Liang Jun who came, but four or five hundred Wei cavalry, and the leading general was wearing a blindfold. Who else could it be if it wasn't one-eyed Xiahou Dun.Deng Ai hurriedly ordered the cavalry to slow down, and then joined forces with Xiahou Dun.After the two met, Deng Aifang knew the reasons and details of the defeat of Sima Yi's main army and the breach of the company battalion after a conversation of pleasantries and sighs.

Xiahou Dun sighed: "Now our army of 25 troops has been destroyed, and it is difficult to preserve Yecheng. Could it be that our Great Wei has run out of strength?"

Deng Ai replied blankly: "In any case, the General and the Holy Master are both in Yecheng. Let's rush back to Yecheng now and find a way to save Wei from danger. Maybe a considerable part of these fleeing cavalry can escape back to Yecheng. That way we still have a glimmer of hope."

In fact, Deng Ai himself didn't believe these words. Even if some Wei soldiers fled back to Yecheng on foot, they couldn't hold Yecheng.Even if the city of Ye can be saved for the time being, it doesn't make much sense, the fall of Wei is almost a foregone conclusion.Xiahou Dun also knew this well, and the two stopped talking, and rushed towards Yecheng with [-] or [-] war horses.

All of a sudden, several screams came from the cavalry. Deng Ai looked up and saw that two or three tiger and leopard knights had fallen off their saddles.Someone already shouted: "Liang Jun's chariot is coming! Everyone, spread out! Spread out... ah"

There were a few more screams, and more Wei Qi knights were pierced through their bodies by heavy arrows.Deng Ai and Xiahou Dun were startled and looked up.Sure enough, the figure of the four Liang Army longbow chariots appeared in the distance.

Deng Ai immediately ordered: "Everyone, don't panic, they just ride in chariots here three or four times. Let's surround them and drive or kill them." However, the hundred and ten personal guards surrounded him tightly around him, followed by nearly a thousand Wei cavalry who had collapsed.Xiahou Dun also led another five or six hundred tiger and leopard riders and regular riders to surround these longbow chariots from both sides.

Those longbow chariots were unhurried, and continued to shoot heavy arrows at the approaching enemy cavalry quickly and steadily.In front of Deng Ai and on the left and right, arrows from riders fell off their horses one after another.Deng Ai began to deliberately slow down the speed of the horse, in order not to scare the longbow chariot away, and buy time for the friendly troops who surrounded him from both sides.It wasn't until the distance of more than thirty battles that he relied on that he stepped on his horse and tried to approach the opponent as quickly as possible.

Those longbow chariots had already turned their heads, and now they suddenly started and fled to the distance, and the distance between them and Deng Ai's cavalry suddenly widened again.

However, Deng Ai believed that Xiahou Dun was able to intercept the opponent at this time.At this moment, the sound of continuous arrows suddenly came from a little far away, and two longbow chariots surged from the sky, as many as several times.But this is not over yet, more and more chariots gathered here one after another, and more and more heavy arrows were shot at the Wei army.

Deng Ai's soldiers in front and left and right were soon running out. When he was hesitating whether to stop chasing, there was a sound of arrow piercing armor.His right shoulder was pierced by a heavy arrow, and the lance he was holding fell off the horse.Deng Ai groaned in pain, shook three times, and managed to stabilize his figure on the saddle without falling off.But the Wei cavalry behind him, who had been gathered by the defeated army, dispersed and fled in all directions.

Deng Ai wanted to turn the horse's head around, trying to find a space to escape, but suddenly found himself flying into the air. It turned out that a general Liang grabbed his left arm from behind and lifted him up out of thin air.Deng Ai's right hand seemed useless, how could he break free.In this way, he was captured alive by the opponent.This general Liang was none other than Dian Qing who was ordered to lead his chariots and cavalry to the rear of the Wei army to carry out the mission of sniping the Wei army's rout.

In the distance, Xiahou Dun was taking his troops to the Liang army's longbow chariots, but unexpectedly, a large group of longbow chariots flashed in front of him, and there were a large number of Liang soldiers accompanying the longbow chariots. Army light cavalry.More than a dozen heavy arrows also shot at Xiahou Dun and his guards. In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen of Xiahou Dun's personal guards were pierced through the armor and body by the heavy arrows, and fell off the horse.

When Xiahou Dun was startled, he saw a black shadow flying towards him, and he had no time to dodge. With a bone cracking sound, his horse sank forward and downward, and the man jumped off the saddle in an instant. Come.Xiahou Dun rolled forward reflexively, to relieve the force of falling off the horse.But as soon as he got up, before he had time to stand still, a Liang Jun Qingqi rushed towards him brandishing a saber.The gleaming blade was pointed at his neck, and just when Xiahou Dun thought he was going to die, a tiger and leopard rider from his personal guard rushed over and stabbed the flying feather of the light rider off the horse with one shot, but the tiger and leopard immediately The rider was also shot off his horse by a longbow and heavy arrow.

Xiahou Dun didn't dare to love to fight, so he jumped up in a hurry, jumped on the horse that had just lost its owner, and hurriedly fled to one side alone. His personal guards didn't follow him, but they also joined Deng Ai's There are almost no soldiers left.The Wei cavalry behind him were still being sniped and killed by longbow chariots and Qingqi flying feathers.

Chapter 699

In Yecheng, the sun has set to the west.Sima Yi's body cast a long shadow on the city wall, and dozens of exhausted guards stood beside him.It was less than two hours since he fled into Ye City.

After Sima Yi entered the city, he didn't even have time to take a breath, and he didn't even have time to report the news of the defeat to Cao Pi, so he hurriedly boarded the tower of Yecheng.As a general, he commanded all the soldiers to close most of the gates of Yecheng, pull up the suspension bridge, and all the defenders in the city climbed to the top of the city to maintain the highest vigilance.At the moment, only the city gate under his feet is still open, and it is used to accommodate the infantry of the Wei army that fell from the front line.

The strange thing is that time passed, not to mention infantry, there were not many Wei army cavalry who fled into the city.He suddenly thought of the Liang army's chariot and cavalry troops that penetrated behind the Wei army before the war.Wei Jun's defeated army must have been intercepted and killed by them, and he himself was able to escape back to Yecheng safely, but because he had few soldiers and horses, the target was small, and he was lucky. city.

At this time, he saw in the distance a Wei general in ragged clothes and a tattered cloak, riding a tired horse trotting towards the south gate.Sima Yi squinted his eyes and took a closer look. This person was still wearing a blindfold, who else could it be if it wasn't Xiahou Dun.Apart from Xiahou Dun himself, he was followed by more than a dozen remnants of the same desolate cavalry.

Sima Yi hurriedly ordered them to be welcomed into the city, and then summoned them to the top of the city to listen to the situation.When Xiahou Dun and the dozen or so soldiers came to him with a limp, the question did not differ much from what he had guessed.

The vast majority of Wei Qi failed to escape the sniper interception of Liang Jun's two thousand longbow chariots.At first, there was a small group of Wei Qi who managed to escape their interception by chance.

But later Dianqing saw that Wei Qi had divided into countless small cavalry teams and fled, so he divided the two thousand longbow chariots into nearly [-] units, each unit ranging from three to four longbow chariots to dozens of longbow chariots. With the cooperation of Fei Yu, Wei Qi was completely intercepted.Often they can successfully defeat hundreds of Wei cavalry teams with a dozen longbow chariots.

After these cavalry troops of the Wei army were defeated and scattered, if they still fled towards Yecheng, they would still be shot and killed by chariots and Qingqi who kept speeding and shooting, unless they got off their horses and knelt down.

Sima Yi listened to Xia Houdun and others' narration, rubbing his hands together and sighing, suddenly he thought of another person, and asked, "Where is Deng Ai, have you seen Deng Ai?"

Xiahou Dun said with a bitter face: "Deng Ai was with someone at first, but then he disappeared. He must have been captured by Liang Jun, or surrendered to Liang Jun. Hey, Grand Master, what time is it now? Are you still here?" Thinking about a young general? You should think about how my great Wei survived the danger of subjugation."

Xiahou Dun's words were obviously disrespectful to Sima Yi, and he didn't even call him a general anymore.Although the generals of the Xiahou family of the Cao family and the Sima family were opposing factions within the Wei State, on the surface, they still have to show respect and obedience to Sima Yi, after all, the latter is a person trusted by the emperor Cao Pi.

However, after this defeat, no matter what the reason for the defeat, it is impossible for Sima Yi to maintain his original prestige in the Wei army.In fact, Wei Jun is now dead in name only.

Sima Yi frowned inadvertently, and just about to speak, a man dressed as a servant of the yellow gate had already climbed up the tower, hurried up to Sima Yi and said, "General, why don't you go to the palace to have an audience when you return to Ye City? The Holy Majesty has just heard about the defeat ahead through other channels, and hastily summoned you to the palace to face the Holy Majesty."

It turned out that half an hour ago, Cao Pi, who was drinking and having fun with several concubines Zhaoyi, got the news from the general surnamed Cao who was defeated and retreated into Yecheng.He turned pale with shock at first, then became furious, and hurriedly ordered the eunuch of Huangmen to summon Sima Yi into the palace.

Without further ado, Sima Yi followed the Huangmen eunuch into the palace and came before Cao Pi.Only then did he discover that in addition to Cao Pi, there were more than a dozen important officials and generals of the Wei court standing in the palace, including several generals of the Cao family and Xiahou family who had just fled back to Yecheng from the front line.

As soon as Cao Pi met, he shouted: "Sima Yi, you have lost your army and lost your generals. It's all right if you lose your master. Why didn't you come to see me immediately after you fled back to Yecheng and report the military situation? If it weren't for a few of my Cao family's lovers Let me tell you, I still don't know that you have killed more than [-] troops of our Great Wei!"

Before Cao Pi could finish speaking, Sima Yi knelt down in the tunnel and said, "Your Majesty, because Liang Jun's pursuit is pressing, they may approach the city at any time, so as soon as I enter the city, I have to go up to the city to direct the defense, and I can't come to see the Holy Majesty. As for Wo Cangang In the First World War, I was helpless in the face of Liang Jun's ghostly cavalry and heavy armor, which led to our army's defeat, and more than [-] troops were wiped out. I should have been punished by the military law, and I dare not ask for forgiveness from the Holy One. But Now that the Liang army has reached Yecheng, His Majesty should wait for the minister to properly deploy the defense of Yecheng before punishing him."

When Sima Yi spoke like this, he blocked all the words that Cao Pi had prepared to reprimand Sima Yi. Cao Pi was so angry that his face was flushed, and he kept rubbing his hands and stomping his feet, but he didn't know where it came from.There were bursts of sneering sounds from Cao Pi's side, and then he thought of a voice and said:

"Sima Yi, do you think that if we are a big Wei country, you alone will be able to command the army? Without you and your Sima family members, my great Wei will not be able to send a single general or move a single soldier? Your Majesty just Is it because I trusted you too much, and let you command the overall situation, that my army suffered a series of disastrous defeats, until now almost all the troops have been lost?!"

Sima Yi recognized this voice, it was Wei General Cao Chun.Cao Pi, who didn't know where to reprimand Sima Yi and wanted to vent his anger, was very happy when he heard this, and was about to order Sima Yi to be taken down.Another report came from the Lantern Hall, which was in charge of the order: "Report! The big thing is not good. Liang Jun's war cavalry appeared at the south gate and west gate of Yecheng!"

When Cao Pi heard the news, his heart trembled again, and he said quickly: "Which Qing family is willing to command all the soldiers in Yecheng and defend the city without losing it?"

Cao Zhen, who had just fled back to Yecheng, bowed to Cao Pi: "I am willing to lead the army to defend the city. If the minister is in the city, the city will die and the minister will die!"

Cao Pi waved his sleeves and frowned and said: "What is perishing is not perishing. Even if you die in battle, what's the use of martyrdom? I... what I want is that the city of Ye will not be lost, and the great Wei will not perish! Dear friends, who can hold on to you?" Yecheng?" Cao Pi said at the end, almost crying.