Chapter 76: Attack
Lei Yuan walked forward quickly and passed by several soldiers who were frightened and retreated.
There were dense footsteps behind him. He turned his head and looked at it. Fan Hong and his personal guards rushed up first.
Fan Feng irritably pushed down the retreating soldiers and scolded: "Get out of coward! We will die with the little man!"
This statement was really unlucky. Fan Hong kicked Fan Feng with a busy schedule, and the delay was surpassed by several people.
Tao Wei panted and chased Lei Yuan, pressing against Lei Yuan's left side. When he strolled forward, his body was slightly up and down, and the spear was slightly up and down, and the spear was rising and falling more powerfully than others. That was because he had an arrow on his knee a long time ago, which hurt his hamstrings. He could not see anything wrong, but when he ran quickly, his left knee seemed stiff.
Lei Yuan remembered Tao Wei mentioned that this arrow was shot by Cao's army in Pengcheng when he was young.
It is said that Tao Wei's family had some distant relatives with Tao Qian, the governor of Xuzhou, so he found a minor official position in Pengcheng. Later, Cao Gong attacked Xuzhou, and the Tao Wei family was overthrown, so he had to escape with barely injured. After Guo Jing served as chief of Qu and Wang Yan was sent back to contact, the taciturn warrior took more responsibilities in Lei Yuan's escort team, and now he led more than ten subordinates, with his status as Fan Hong.
Running on the other side of Lei Yuan was Fu En. This yellow-faced man often boasted about his cooking skills, so whenever Lei Yuan summoned his followers to go out, he was always busy eating in the wilderness. However, Lei Yuan did not think that the food he made was delicious, and the cooking methods were nothing more than stewing and roasting in the big pot.
There is one thing: Like Guo Jing, he has served under King Chen's subordinates, so the two are friendly. Guo Jing praised Fu En's outstanding sword skills, so the cut fish sashimi was very thin, probably because he had tasted it. Unfortunately, Lei Yuan didn't like raw food, so he didn't have such a good taste.
After walking a few more steps, more people caught up.
"Stay! Stay!" Guo Jing shouted.
Lei Yuan slowed down slightly to facilitate the officers to rectify the queue. Due to the restrictions of the terrain and fences, the battles between the two sides were usually presented in the scale of more than ten to dozens of people. However, this time, Lei Yuan completely invested all his entourages and Guo Jing, He Song and Ding Feng’s three Qu, with a force of more than 600, which was three times that of Cao’s army on the other side!
I don’t know when, many people’s steps gathered into rhythmic roars. Such roars were like rumbling war drums, making everyone in the queue feel the power of the group strongly. Many people were originally afraid and hesitant because of the fierce progress of the enemy, but at this moment, when everyone gathered into a tight team to advance, they immediately strengthened their belief: it’s just a battle. As the commander, the little Langjun himself was right in front of him. Are the soldiers who were like ants still afraid of death? Some of the broken soldiers who fled halfway also turned around and followed the brigade.
Because the arrow tower in front was overthrown, many archers failed to retreat in time and fell into the strangle near the first and second fences. The arch covers obtained by Lei Yuan and others were significantly reduced. Not to mention, the arch arrows accumulated by the Huainan Haoyou over the years were ultimately difficult to compare with the strong arch arrows equipped by the elite soldiers of the imperial court. When Lei Yuan stepped forward twenty steps further, they began to be suppressed by the archers of Cao's army.
Last night, Guo Jing found several pairs of armor from the treasury behind the platform, which were obviously good things that were filled with plums. The most exquisite pair was now worn on Lei Yuan. Seeing the rain of arrows falling in the sky, Lei Yuan raised his arm in time. With a few tinging sounds, the two tributaries of arrows were bounced away, and the elbows were slightly hurt. He took an arrow, but the arrow cluster could not penetrate deeper.
Fu En, who was standing on the right side of Lei Yuan, was stabbed in the abdomen by an arrow. He roared loudly, pulled out the arrow and continued to move forward, but he fell to the ground after walking a few steps.
Standing behind Fu En were the two brothers Fan Hong and Fan Feng. Fan Hong held a spear, while Fan Feng held a sword and shield to cover his brother. When Fu En fell down, Fan Feng's front row suddenly became empty. He could directly see that the battlefield was as chaotic as boiling water rolling. Suddenly, cold sweat broke out all over his body, and fear controlled his body, allowing his legs to move mechanically, but refused to move forward quickly to fill the gap. Fan Hong looked at Fan Feng, ran two steps without saying a word, and advanced close to Lei Yuan's right.
There were two groups of arrows gathered, and they fell into the queue of Lei Yuan and others one after another, causing bleeding spots, causing many casualties. Amid the screams, the originally tight queue was missing several pieces in an instant. But this was not enough to stop them from moving forward, and even many injured soldiers insisted on urging forward courageously. Soon, when the queues of both sides became closer and closer, the bow and arrow had no skills.
Lei Yuan chose the counterattack direction to the left of the platform, close to the end of the cliff. There was a collapsed arrow tower behind this fence as an obstacle, and Cao's army was relatively small. Between every two fences, there were soldiers on their own to continue fighting based on the rugged terrain. Lei Yuan attacked along the cliff and could meet with him, without any risk of being attacked from three sides. At this moment, this direction was the flaw of Zhang Liao's troops, and it was the key to Lei Yuan's ability to hit one blow!
This was Lei Yuan's decision during the running process, and he did not discuss it with anyone. Lei Yuan firmly believed that if he defeated the enemy's ranks from here, he would definitely win. This seemed to be based on instinctive judgment. It was also possible to say that it was a talent, but there was no reason, he just knew it.
The blood vessels on his forehead were beating, and a lot of sweat oozed out of his skin, because the heat brought by the heart when he pumped blood into his brain at full speed. At this time, his thinking was much more agile than usual and much more accurate and effective than usual.
At this moment, in Lei Yuan's sight, the direction of the Cao soldiers' rushing forward was so clear, and their trajectory appeared in Lei Yuan's mind like a mess. Lei Yuan used the fastest speed to find the few blank spaces in the mess.
That's right, that's right! It's this direction! Lei Yuan is sure that he can break through the Cao army's array in front of him like he did a few days ago, and then tear it apart!
Although the platform became wider the further back, the area was still limited. When Lei Yuan and others' counterattack team approached, Zhang Liao shouted repeatedly and immediately re-drawn gathering people on the battlefield where the troops were connected in a close battle.
On the battlefield, it is the most difficult to maintain an orderly organization of the troops. Not to mention defeat, it is common to lose the army after a defeat; even during the battle, it is very difficult to maintain the organization.
Because each grassroots unit is attacking and defending against the enemy in front of him, its own queue is inevitably chaotic. Sometimes the superiors who should be responsible for command fall into direct battles and leave the subordinates behind; sometimes the subordinates rushed too far to receive the order from the superiors; sometimes, different grassroots units are intertwined and scattered, and the comrades around them do not know each other, let alone talk about orderly organization.
But Zhang Liao was able to do this. Although more than 200 black-armored elites under his command had been fully spread along the third fence, so that every corps and every army faced the enemy, when he shouted and signaled, an army immediately retreated from the battlefield where the hand-to-hand combat was fought without hesitation, and on both sides of the retreating troops, the other troops instantly moved horizontally to make up for the gap in the front line, and the mobilization was smooth and free, as if there was no sense of stagnation as water flow.
Zhang Liao is worthy of being a famous general in the world. Such battlefield command ability is truly amazing.
The attack route initiated by Lei Yuan refers to the flaw that can lead to the defeat of Cao's army; but if Zhang Liao himself was here... unless Zhang Liao was defeated in the battle, the flaw would not exist!
Lei Yuan gradually accelerated forward. He saw the general standing out among the black armored knights without any obstacles, and the fluttering red tail feather dotted on the croaker.
Either the corpse is bleeding, or the sharp edge is destroyed. This situation has been accustomed to by his elder brother Lei Feng, and Lei Yuan must also get used to it in the future!
Lei Yuan shouted with all his strength: "Follow me! Come with me!"
As soon as the words were finished, the two teams collided with one place.
Within the last few steps, several entourages roared and ran, and finally rushed to Lei Yuan. As the dead soldiers whom Lei Yuan had been grateful to for a long time, at this moment, their only thought was to die on behalf of the Lord.
Zhang Liao stood upright with a long sword easily, and his subordinates around him did not come up to cover him. In countless battles in the past, Zhang Liao was not only the sharpest bloodthirsty blade during attack, but also the most solid mainstay during defense. All of them had already believed in Zhang Liao's martial arts.
Tao Wei rushed forward and raised his spear and slammed Zhang Liao's chest.
Zhang Liao's tongue burst into spring thunder, shouted loudly, and waved his long sword to sweep across.
As a general who charges and has a life of excellent weapons, Zhang Liao naturally never ignores this. Although his favorite short spear has been discarded, the long sword he carries is also a rare fine product. It is about five feet long, more than one foot longer than the ordinary ring-headed sword, and nearly twice the heavier. The blade reflects the sunlight, like a pool of autumn water. Zhang Liao attacks back and forth with this sword, and has cut off dozens of enemy heads in front and back, which is invincible.
The swords and spears hit each other, and the spear rod of the spear was broken instantly, and Tao Wei's arms were numb, as if they were struck by lightning. He screamed, threw the remaining half of the spear rod towards Zhang Liao's face, and pounced on him.
Tao Wei's pounce was so fast that he didn't think about a way out for himself.
This is not because Tao Wei is so brave. Most people have the instinct of being greedy for life and fear of death, and not everyone is a hero. However, in the military formation, Tao Wei cannot do anything without rushing forward. Countless people behind him rush into him, which is both encouragement and forced. Anyway, you can't hesitate.
At this moment, Tao Wei only thought that Zhang Liao swung his knife and cut the spear from above, and his arm was hanging down. If he could pounce on him and hug his arm holding the knife, the soldiers in the back row could kill Zhang Liao with just one shot!
However, Zhang Liao exerted force with his waist and waved his backhand, and smashed Tao Wei's chest with the iron ring at the end of the long knife hard. This knife was a special big knife, and the ring head used for counterweight was forged with the blade body. It was thicker and heavier than the ordinary ring head, and it was much stronger. This impact immediately caused Tao Wei's ribs to break, blood from his mouth squirting wildly, and he almost flew into the air for several steps.
Chapter completed!