The two armies were fighting in a melee, and Guan Yu, Zhang Liao, and their subordinates were all furious. No one wanted to retreat easily at this time. The brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. Once one side takes the initiative to retreat, it will inevitably have an impact on morale, and the army will be defeated like a mountain.
Otherwise, the situation may become unmanageable.
The result of this melee was not what Guan Yu and Zhang Liao wanted to see, but when things got to this point, the two of them could only bite the bullet and risk the lives of the soldiers.
As soon as Guan Yu separated from Zhang Liao, he was surrounded by Chinese soldiers who came up. The Qinglong Yanyue sword was raised, and he harvested the heads of the enemy soldiers at will. The blood penetrated the armor, and the whole person became a bloody man. His bravery must be
To a certain extent, he made up for the shortcomings of the Han army in armor. Originally, the Chinese army was overwhelmingly superior. After his appearance, the soldiers of the Han army felt the same and their courage doubled.
The steel swords of the Huaxia Army were sharp and the steel armor was strong, which did have a negative impact on the Han Army. However, the Han Army began to attack the lower walls of the Huaxia Army. For a time, countless soldiers of the Huaxia Army had their legs broken, and their wailing was even louder.
Through the wilderness.
Zhang Liao also rose up to kill the enemy. Seeing that the Han army gradually began to counterattack under Guan Yu's influence, he immediately shouted: "Form up!"
After giving the order, the Chinese army retreated 20 meters, leaving an open space. The cavalry spread out on both wings, and a thousand soldiers holding iron shields poured out from behind, blocking the front line.
They lined up in a circular shape and placed the iron shields side by side to form an iron wall. The infantrymen who retreated from the front took out their repeating crossbows and fired fiercely at the opposite side.
The Chinese Army's repeating crossbow has been improved. It is no longer the previous repeating crossbow that only shoots one crossbow with each shot. Instead, it shoots five at a time. In principle, it still maintains the automatic loading function of the crossbow.
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The archers formed a small target behind them and shot arrows in the sky. The arrows they shot were far and dense, which made up for the range problem of the repeating crossbow.
Repeating crossbows are characterized by accuracy, ruthlessness, and speed, but their range is short. Bows and arrows are characterized by density and distance. They scatter to carry out area-based strikes. Once the two different long-range weapons are combined, they immediately organize into an extremely dense arrow network.
, flying towards the Han army overwhelmingly.
After one wave of arrows was shot, the second wave of arrows was shot, followed by the third wave...
Faced with this situation, the Han army could only retreat and gradually moved away from the shooting range of the Chinese army. After the first confrontation, many corpses and mutilated limbs were left in the open space in the middle.
"Charge!" Zhang Liao ordered immediately when he saw the Han army retreating.
The cavalry launched an attack from both wings, and the iron shield array in the middle suddenly opened. The infantry rushed out from the gap and pursued the Han army directly, shooting arrows as they chased.
Seeing this, Guan Yu thought to himself: "The enemy has the advantage of armor, so we can only lead them into a narrow area, and then gather superior forces to encircle and annihilate them together."
When he thought of this, Guan Yu asked Huo Jun and Lu Chang to each lead two thousand men to retreat first. After giving the order, he divided the army into three groups. He personally led the army to break up the rear and let the shield soldiers gather at the rear to withstand the intensive attack of the Chinese army.
Arrow.
Unexpectedly, before Huo Jun and Lu Chang left, the Han army's rear army was in chaos. A general led two thousand Chinese cavalry and came from behind.
Guan Yu turned to look at him and saw that it was none other than General Wenpin of the Huaxia Army. He was stunned to see that the rear army was killing him and crying for his father and mother. There was chaos.
With Zhang Liao in front and Wenpin behind, the two armies were attacking. Even Guan Yu was here and could not stop the Han army's fear. The Han army, which was already afraid of the Han army, began to panic.
"Don't panic! Steady! Steady!" Guan Yu shouted hurriedly when he saw the whole army was in chaos.
However, the situation got out of control from the beginning. First there was a melee, and now it was chaos. The soldiers just ran for their lives. Many people fled into the mountains and forests to the east, or fled to the banks of the Feishui River in the west, and retreated along the river banks.
When Zhang Liao saw this, he was overjoyed and thought: "I may not be an opponent in a single fight, but when it comes to commanding troops and horses, I am by no means inferior to anyone!"
"Attack the whole army!" Zhang Liao concluded that Guan Yu had no way to retreat, so he ordered loudly.
At the same time, he still galloped on his horse. When he saw the Han soldiers blocking the way, he immediately killed them, hoping to take advantage of this momentum to kill Guan Yu.
However, things were not as simple as Zhang Liao thought. Guan Yu naturally had his charisma. When he was about to be defeated, a loud roar suddenly gathered Huo Jun, Lu Chang and all the cavalry around him, a total of more than a thousand people. He
He personally led it, turned the horse's head, and killed Wenpin behind him.
"Get out of the way!" Guan Yu shouted, "If you don't want to die, just follow me!"
Following his loud shout, the Han soldiers opened a gap one after another for Guan Yu and his accompanying cavalry to pass. After waiting for the cavalry to pass, the Han soldiers followed the cavalry and rushed back.
Wenpin was about to start his killing spree when he suddenly saw Guan Yu galloping towards him majestically. He just cheered up, but he didn't expect Guan Yu to rush in front of him. With a flash of cold light, the Qinglong Yanyue Sword slashed down like a rainbow and fell directly on him.
on his shoulder. He ate it
Startled, he raised his steel gun to resist, but he didn't know that the force of the sword was very strong. Instead, his steel gun fell on his shoulder, and the sharp blade swiped across his shoulder. He could only
I felt a heartbreaking pain, and blood started flowing from my shoulder.
A heavy blow from Guan Yu was struck by Wenpin's steel spear. If it were an ordinary weapon, it would have broken long ago. However, the hardness of the steel spear in Wenpin's hand exceeded his imagination. No matter how sharp the Qinglong Yanyue Sword is, it is still made of fine steel.
After colliding with the steel gun, it could not be cut off.
"Po Yuan Strike!" Guan Yu saw that Wenpin could not be killed with one sword, so he made up for it with the second sword, slashed horizontally with the sword, and took away Wenpin's head.
Wenpin was frightened, so he hurriedly hid in a stirrup and escaped. Unfortunately, he was unable to stop Guan Yu. Guan Yu cut a bloody path from behind him, followed closely by Huo Jun, Lu Chang and others who were also brave and brave.
Directly following Guan Yu, he opened a gap, and the surviving Han troops behind him followed like wolves and tigers, constantly widening the gap.
The Chinese army could not resist Guan Yu, so they had no choice but to let him go back and lie on the roadside to cover up the enemy.
Zhang Liao came from behind to cover him up. Seeing that Wenpin was injured and Guan Yu escaped, he hurriedly reined in his horse and asked loudly: "Zhongye, are you not in the way?"
"It's okay. The skin injury is nothing. The Han army is defeated. General, please pursue me quickly." Wenpin said loudly, covering his shoulder that was bleeding continuously.
Zhang Liao nodded and led his troops to pursue Guan Yu. He covered the road for more than ten miles and killed more than 2,000 people. He was about to catch up with Guan Yu.
Unexpectedly, an ambush suddenly arose on both sides of the road. Du Xi led his troops out and blocked Zhang Liao's path. Dong He and Wang Fu on the east and west sides also ordered the soldiers to release arrows one after another. The dense rain of arrows blocked Zhang Liao's advance.
, could only watch Guan Yu escape.
Zhang Liao had no choice but to temporarily retreat his troops and horses, leaving the range of the Han army's arrows. Looking ahead, the Han army was spread over the mountains and plains, with banners standing everywhere, and there were more than 20,000 people. However, the men he brought with him only had 3,000 light cavalry, and the infantry behind him had not yet caught up.
After arriving, after some thought, he slowly retreated.
Because he was afraid of being pursued by the Han army, Zhang Liao personally led 500 cavalry to break off the rear and retreat bit by bit. When he saw that the Han army was not pursuing him, he retreated in full and returned to the main camp again.
As soon as Zhang Liao retreated, Zhuge Liang emerged from the woods. Seeing that Zhang Liao retreated in an orderly manner, he couldn't help but admired: "Zhang Wenyuan is indeed both wise and courageous. He is also so particular about retreating. He deserves to be the Huya General of China!"
Du Xi rode his horse to Zhuge Liang's side and asked, "Supervisor, won't you pursue me?"
"It's useless to pursue him. Let's withdraw our troops. Tomorrow will be the day to defeat the enemy. By then, let the Chinese army know how powerful I am!" After Zhuge Liang finished speaking, he turned and left. Du Xi, Wang Fu, and Dong He withdrew their troops and returned to the camp.
Zhang Liao returned to the camp and counted the gains and losses. In this battle, more than 3,000 people were killed, more than 1,000 were injured, and more than 5,000 enemies were annihilated. Although he had an advantage in the number of enemies annihilated, Zhang Liao was still happy.
If you don't get up, according to the superiority of the Chinese army's armor, one should be equal to ten. However, today's melee was because he was so hateful that he lost his reasonable command. For this reason, Wenpin almost died.
Now the war situation is not clear. Lu Heng was captured, Wenpin was injured, and even Zhang Qian was injured. There were many casualties among his subordinates, which made Zhang Liao continue to blame himself. Finally, Zhang Liao personally wrote a letter of guilt and sent someone to deliver it.
Go to the imperial capital of Luoyang and ask for severe punishment.
He first went to visit Zhang Qian, and seeing that Zhang Qian was fine, he went to visit Wenpin again. As soon as he entered the tent, he saw Wenpin putting on his armor, and he hurriedly asked: "Zhongye, what are you...
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"General, my army is still on the other side. We must go. If we are attacked by the Han army, we will lose more than we gain. Looking across the river today, I saw the fierce battle between the general and Guan Yu, so I led a light cavalry across the Feishui River.
Killed from behind, I thought
He was able to kill Guan Yu, but he didn't know that Guan Yu escaped... Hey!" Wenpin and Zhang Liao have been together for several years. Over the past few years, the two have become as close as brothers. How could they not know that Zhang Liao wanted to kill him in his heart?
Guan Yu’s thoughts?
Zhang Liao nodded and said: "That's fine, after you go back, we will continue to be each other's horns. The Han army is not defeated today, and we are not victorious. Tomorrow, you will be recovering in the camp, and you will echo with me on the other side.
I will lead my troops to detour behind the Han army and attack the Han army's grain garrison. As long as the Han army's grain and grass are burned, they will retreat. The specific actions will be sent tomorrow by flying pigeons."
"promise!"
Zhang Liao asked people to help Wenpin and used a ferry to ferry Wenpin and more than a thousand riders to the other side. After watching Wenpin cross the river, he returned to camp and began to think about how to burn the Han army's food and grass.
While he was thinking about it, a scout immediately came to report that Du Xi was leading troops and horses to garrison Guan Yu's camp. There were less than 2,000 soldiers escorting grain and grass, and they were garrisoned at Gaziling, twenty miles behind the Han army.
Zhang Liao was overjoyed when he heard the news, and seeing that Du Xi had indeed led his troops to intercept his return route and meet Guan Yu, he gathered his staff and began planning to burn the enemy's food and fodder.