Chapter 157 - Divine Arrow Breaks the Enemy
Zhang Rao, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal in Beihai, was resting in the tent. In December last year, he took the initiative to surrender to King Donglai. Unexpectedly, he was roughly stopped by the King of Donglai. Lu Zhi, the prime minister of Donglai. Why did Lu Zhi stop his surrender? It was not because it was the remnants of the Yellow Turban Party.
But why didn't he understand, if there was a good life to live, who would be willing to cause trouble? Is it true that as the great wise and good teacher, General Zhang Jiao of Heaven, said, even if he was a wise man, he was a meat eater. He only had his own power and ignored the life and death of the leader of the world?
Zhang Rao couldn't help but feel angry and vowed to let Lu Zhi know what regret is. So when Lu Zhi arrogantly sent troops to fight against the thieves, Zhang Rao immediately refused to be weak and confronted him. He picked out more than 25,000 strong men under Guan Hai and went to Ye County to fight him.
Unexpectedly, Lu Zhi was a famous scholar in the world and was well versed in the battle formation. Although it took only two months, the soldiers of Donglai County were completely renewed and were happy to succeed. In the battle of Ye County, Lu Zhi led three thousand soldiers to block ten. Even though Zhang Rao had a large army in his hand and a fierce general Guan Hai as a helper, he could not stop the attack of Donglai's soldiers and lost a big loss.
Later, Lu Zhi took advantage of the victory and fought with Zhang Rao in the northern border of Dangli County, and won a great victory. Zhang Rao was panicked at this time. Although the Yellow Turban soldiers were large, most of them did not understand the way of fighting formations. How could they block Lu Zhi's elite soldiers?
In an emergency, Zhang Rao suddenly thought of Sun Bin, a famous military advisor in the legend of Qi, and immediately asked Guan Hai to lead 10,000 Jingzhuang to take a small road to Donglaihuang County, and also surrounded Huang to rescue him. Then he led the remaining Jingzhuang to join Lu Township, and 50,000 elderly, weak women and children from two places, forced Lu Zhi and his army to hide signs of Guan Hai's departure.
Finally, after Zhang Rao forced 50,000 elderly, weak, women and children to confront each other, like moths to a fire, the soldiers of Donglai County were finally frightened. Although they won a small victory, they stopped their attacks, and then they heard the bad news about Huang County being surrounded.
Lu Zhi led his troops back in a hurry and went to rescue Huangxian, but left behind Yexian, Qucheng and Xianxian people exposed to Zhang Rao's troops. Zhang Rao proudly led his troops to attack the city with ants, and led to the city of the three counties, and seized a large amount of money and grain for military use. He also wrapped up 70,000 or 80,000 people as thieves, and looked at Huangxian together.
Lu Zhi urgently attacked the camp guarded by Guan Hai. When Zhang Rao was holding more than 100,000 people, he immediately realized that his host and guest positions had already changed. He had no choice but to retreat into the city and defend himself, hoping for He Bai's rescue from Beihai.
Zhang Rao was full of energy and led an army of 140,000 to encircle Huang County. Although the Ant Attachment failed several times, more than 20,000 people were killed or injured, it also greatly consumed the strength of Huang County's defenders and the materials for the city defense. Zhang Rao believed that as long as he attacked for another one, Huang County would definitely be able to take action in two days.
However, unexpectedly, the Prime Minister of Beihai He Bai personally led 5,000 elite cavalry to break the bandits' siege. Zhang Rao also found out that the army had arrived in Xian County. A brave general from Beihai rode a horse and charged through the formation and spread the news to Huangxian guards one step earlier, and said that He Bai would definitely arrive at noon on the day.
For a moment, the morale of Huangxian County rose sharply, but the morale of the Yellow Turban Thief outside the city plummeted. Yesterday's attack was immediately broken, and it was difficult to climb to the top of the city. Zhang Rao retreated in panic and returned to the camp, thinking hard to deal with it. A wise man was so difficult to deal with, let alone another wise man with five thousand elite riders in his hands. He would definitely lose this battle.
Zhang Rao thought for the middle of the night, but still had no idea. A clever wife couldn't cook without rice and a large number of elite soldiers in her hands. How could she resist the continuous army in the court? After thinking for a long time, she decided to send Guan Hai to Beihai to make trouble. She would gather outside Huang County tomorrow morning to defend her. After the Beihai incident was in a hurry, He Bai would definitely retreat, and then he would show his power. Thinking about this, Zhang Rao then fell asleep peacefully. But after less than an hour of sleep, he was awakened by the roar of the camp.
"Is it because the camp was bombed?"
This was Zhang Rao's first idea, because he was in a safe place and could not be attacked. What's more, the screams came from behind the camp, but behind the camp was the sea. How could the enemy kill him from behind? Maybe it was because the first few ** forced the ants to attack the city too much, and the casualties were mostly injured, which made the soldiers' hearts break.
Zhang Rao thought so, and immediately came out of the tent, shouting that the Yellow Turbans were guarding the left and right, preparing to light a torch and suppress it. Otherwise, once it hits the front camp, it will be the time when the entire army collapses.
Unexpectedly, before Zhang Rao could see the situation clearly, he heard a loud shout among the chaotic army, "Zhang Rao thief..." When Zhang Rao turned his head to look, a bowstring collapsed, and a sharp arrow with wolf teeth suddenly shot up. Before Zhang Rao could pounce on him, he had already pierced into his neck. Zhang Rao was shocked, his hands were stroking the sharp arrow, his blood was filled with blood, and he fell to the ground silently.
Huang Zhong raised his bow in the fire and shouted, "The thief Zhang Rao is dead, he will not descend quickly, so when will he wait?"
The thief turned his head to look at the main tent of the central army. He saw that the powerful Yellow Turban soldiers around the main tent were running around like headless flies at this time. Zhang Rao was really dead. The thiefs did not know how many officers and soldiers were, and they had no intention of following the Yellow Turbans to make trouble, and immediately knelt down and surrendered.
Huang Zhong ignored the surrendered thieves, stepped forward and cut off Zhang Rao's head with a knife, ordered people to hang them with flag bars, and led their troops to continue to kill the thieves in the front camp, vowing to kill all the thieves in the northern camp. Huang Zhong ran rampantly, killing no less than a hundred Yellow Turbans with his hand. The entire northern thief village was in chaos and fled everywhere, and many people even fled desperately to the sea.
When Lu Zhi, who was sitting in the city in troubled city, heard the thieves in the north, was immediately overjoyed. Although he didn't know how He Bai arrived in advance, and how he avoided the thieves and launched an attack from the north, Lu Zhi, who was skilled in military affairs, immediately knew that it would be tonight to destroy the thief.
So he gathered his troops and looked north of the city. First, he looked up at the city carefully and saw that the entire northern camp of the thieves were in full bloom, and the thieves fled in scattered. Immediately opened the city gate and led the soldiers of Donglai County to take the opportunity to cover up and kill him.
Lu Zhi saw a general in the chaos, holding a golden back and phoenix-mouthed sword, and was quite surprised when he looked so arrogant, so he shouted: "I am Donglai, Fanyang Lu Zhi is like this, who is the general? Who is the order of whom to come to rescue my Huang County?"
Huang Zhongyu immediately responded: "Duke Lu is above, and the last general of Nanyang Huang Zhong, who is the prime minister of Beihai and the general of He Jun, the Marquis of Longchi Township, was ordered to lead 4,000 infantrymen to rescue King Donglai."
Lu Zhi was overjoyed and bowed and shouted, "Do you still have any strength to do? You and I can join forces to defeat the enemy in the east. After dawn comes, Fang Yi will encircle and suppress the remaining thieves."
Huang Zhong shouted: "The General of the Last One has just risen and is about to continue to push forward. Duke Lu can command in the rear to see that the General of the Last One will charge and defeat the thief."
After saying that, Huang Zhong, Guan Cheng and Jiang Qin rushed forward, and Lu Zhi led the army behind to command and cover the kill. Although there were 30,000 enemies in the east, there were not many true loyal followers of the Yellow Turbans. Most of them were ordinary people who had just been brought in, and they were completely unarmed. Now, seeing that the thief Zhang Rao's head was in front, he suddenly scattered, which made Huang Zhong unbelievable.
The three generals Huang Zhong were in a fierce battle. Seeing that the 30,000 thieves in the east had been broken, they turned around and looked to kill them in the south. The 30,000 thieves in the south were commanded by the thief general Guan Hai. In addition, it was dawn at this time and the enemy situation was clear. Guan Hai heard that Zhang Rao was dead, and immediately led a large army to fight.
However, although Guan Hai was brave, he did not know the way to lead the troops, and he did not know the method of fighting formation. These 30,000 thieves could not control them at all, and could only face the officers and soldiers in a mess. When he could not walk two miles, most of the thieves were still in the camp, but Guan Hai had only more than 2,000 people beside him.
When Guan Hai saw the head on the flag bar of the officers and soldiers, his eyes immediately turned blood red. He shouted loudly and raised his sword to fight against Huang Zhong under the banner. Huang Zhong sneered, Zhang Rao was dead, and if he killed Guan Hai again, the Yellow Turban of Donglai would be completely defeated. So he ordered Guan Cheng and Jiang Qin to kill the thieves from left to right, and himself to fight Guan Hai alone.
With a "dang" attack, Huang Zhong's hands numb and he couldn't help but be surprised. His strength was already good, but Guan Hai's strength was even better. It seemed that this person was born with divine power. Huang Zhong did not dare to ignore it and fought intently.
The two generals fought to the death in the chaos. After twenty rounds of battle, Huang Zhong couldn't help laughing. Although Guan Hai had great strength, his swordsmanship was not good, and he had many flaws, so it was easy to kill him. However, his fierceness and fearlessness and exchanged life for life made Huang Zhong unwilling to fight him to death. After several rounds of battles, Huang Zhong deceivingly retreated, and used the speed of the Huang Feima to open the distance from Guan Hai's thirty steps.
Guan Hai was furious and continued to look at Huang Zhong chasing him desperately. Huang Zhong put the knife across the saddle, picked up the bow and arrow, and turned around and looked at Guan Hai who was chasing him. When the arrow came out, Huang Zhong turned aside and the sharp arrow came in an instant, and Guan Hai, who was unprepared, was right shoulder. Guan Hai stroked his shoulder and cried out in pain. The big sword almost landed on the saddle. He knew that he could not kill Huang Zhong today, so he wanted to turn around and run for his life.
Unexpectedly, Huang Zhong, who was prepared, took advantage of the speed of the outbreak of the yellow horse and rushed to the outside twenty steps. Guan Hai was already injured, and he didn't expect that Huang Zhong's war horse would be so fast. He was caught off guard and was beaten by Huang Zhong with a sword. Immediately, several soldiers eyeing him rushed up and captured Guan Hai tightly.
The two main players of the Yellow Turban Thief were killed and captured, and the rest were all mobs, and the next one was to pursue the victory. At this time, the sound of horse hooves came to the west, and countless official cavalrymen also joined the battlefield, becoming the last straw that crushed the Yellow Turban Thief.
With no leader in the group of dragons, the thieves were unable to resist and had to kneel down and surrender. As the prime minister of Donglai, Lu Zhi immediately sent county soldiers and officials to prepare for surrender, and divided the newly captured Donglai people, as well as the Beihai people who were previously held, and all the Taiping Taoists believers were escorted away. Finally, we came to find the Beihai Prime Minister He Bai and other generals who came to support him.
Chapter completed!