Wen Yi'an continued to be his own Qiangxing prefect, but the latter's soldiers were so hungry that they directly 'revolted'. As soon as the generals were all 'captured', the soldiers surrendered the city.
As for whether the truth of the matter is like this, who is the real leading person? Zhu Biao is not interested in 'taking the truth'. They have already been 'captured', and he has to consider the safety of these people's families, right?
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Don't do everything naked, naked, naked!
However, Zhongmu still failed to win.
Because it hasn’t rained recently and it hasn’t been cloudy either.
Zhu Biao once broke into the city to burn down the granary, but God seemed to be really partial to Zhongmu City, and sixty-five years ago he gave birth to a master with particularly outstanding hearing in this city.
He was gifted with extraordinary talent since he was a child and had an excellent ear, so he was nicknamed "Shunfeng Er". As an adult, he practiced martial arts and entered the world, and this nickname stuck with him all his life.
Now in his mid-sixties, he is a famous martial arts legend in Dezhou and settled in his hometown of Jiamu. It was he who foiled Zhu Biao’s plan to set fire at night. Then the city’s defenders scattered and transported the hundreds of thousands of stones of grain stored in the granary to various locations.
Although Biao killed Shunfeng Er, it was too late to set fire to him again.
The Zhongmu garrison currently has no shortage of food and fodder, and there are more than 20,000 regular soldiers and horses in the city, including 40,000 young men and women. It is not easy to capture such a city with the help of security forces.
Rushing to build more equipment and attacking slowly is the best way to remove a nail like Zhongmu. But Zhu Biao had no time to waste anymore. He directly ordered the transfer of Dawan and Qiangxing's surrender army. Together with Qiangxing's three
The Ten Thousand Public Security Army. Excluding wounded soldiers, some middle and high-ranking officers who were transferred away, and the soldiers and horses left behind for "security", this patchwork army has a total of 70,000 people.
Qiangxing County and Dawan County drove away tens of thousands of carriages and marched all the way to Zhongmu.
In this way, the number of Zhu Biao's troops under Zhongmu City reached more than 150,000 on foot and cavalry.
Under Zhen'an City.
Zheng Guoxiong's face was gloomy and ugly, and Zhongmu sent another letter asking for help. To make matters worse, Hu Jili, the governor of Dezhou, reported the letter to King Jin by flying pigeons. The urging sent by King Jin had been delivered to him.
Now, even if Zheng Guoxiong wants to shirk the blame, he has no choice. Unless he dares to truly disobey!
Zhen'an City is not far from Zhongmu County, because Zhongmu County City is in the southeast of Zhongmu County. The straight-line distance from Zhen'an is only more than 400 miles, and the official road connection is only 600 miles.
The army marches quickly and will arrive within five days.
Zhu Biao's main force is now divided into three. One is monitoring the 100,000 Dezhou troops in Weining and Pingling in the north, the other is besieging Luodong, and the third is 78,000 to 80,000 people below Zhongmu City. Together with the 70,000 troops, there are no
The total number of troops reduced to 150,000 was quite impressive. However, compared with the 150,000 cavalry under Zhu Biao's original command, one was in the sky and the other was underground, which was a huge difference.
But Zheng Guoxiong's strength is not enough. He originally had an army of 600,000, but now only one of his troops can move. However, with more than 300,000 troops, after repeated damage during the siege, it is faintly approaching the 300,000.
The army can attack Zhongmu, but here in Zhen'an, soldiers and horses must be left to watch. There are 60,000 infantry in the city. To watch, 100,000 people can only be more or less. In this way, the army of 300,000 will stop after three stops.
With one stop and only 200,000 infantry and cavalry, Zheng Guoxiong felt uncertain when facing Zhu Biao's 150,000 troops. Even if half of Zhu Biao's 150,000 troops were useless, he was not sure of victory.
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However, the military orders were overwhelming, and Zheng Guoxiong had to obey them. Besides, he was also afraid that Zhongmu would be lost.
Once Zhongmu was finished, Zhu Biao's control over the four central and southern counties was greatly enhanced. He could also go from Zhongmu Dongfang and directly rush to Yanzhou, where Zheng Guoxiong's army came from.
By that time, Zheng Guoxiong should be mobilized back and forth, while Zhu Biao's main force was made up of cavalry, and they were marching very quickly. Who suffered the loss in the end? It is self-evident.
Two hundred thousand Jin troops marched north from Zhen'an City. Zheng Guoxiong, who had no confidence in his heart, gritted his teeth and embarked on a head-on battlefield with Zhu Biao.
The duel started under Zhongmu City. Zhu Biao gave up on a river a hundred miles away.
After traveling back and forth in central and southern Texas for the past few months, Zhu Biao was tired of this kind of life. He wanted to have a good time and have a smooth battle. In one battle, he would wipe out 200,000 Jin troops!
The heaviest blow to the Zhongmu garrison. Add the final achievement to the upcoming system review.
Today is the seventh day of May.
The matter has come to this, and it is useless to say more. Looking at the Jin army on the opposite side, General Zhu Biao waved his spear and said, "The cavalry will attack with me!"
Thirty thousand elite cavalry faced the Jin army's battle formation without reservation, like tigers coming out of the fence!
Zheng Guoxiong looked at the cavalry of the Han army rushing towards him like a sea of red, and at the flag of Zhu Biao flying at the forefront. His jaw almost dropped to the ground in surprise. Oh my God, as the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Zhu Biao was the first to fall into battle. How could he?
Thought?
Zheng Guoxiong immediately mobilized his army to meet him.
In the center, in front of the surging Han cavalry, is a phalanx of 50,000 elite infantrymen consisting of 1,000 men. On both wings, there is a heavy armored force of 10,000 men on each side to assist in the attack.
Zheng Guoxiong didn't know that Zhu Biao was eager to vent his anger, but the enemy's general was too weak, which in his opinion was a great thing.
However, the premise is that Zhu Biao must not be allowed to break through the battle formation with his kung fu. If the 30,000 Han army elite cavalry were to break through the front and kill the advancing army, it would be a mess.
The best way to deal with cavalry is always cavalry. If there are no cavalry, you can only use infantry to form a dense array to meet and carry them.
The 30,000 Hedong cavalry who attacked head-on may not be as elite as the 500 bodyguard cavalry behind Zhu Biao, but they are definitely the second most powerful army in the world. Facing the heavy shields, crossbows, and spears of the Jin army,
No fear.
This was led by the commander himself. Attack with all your strength and defeat everything.
Zhu Biao is the God of War in their hearts! He will always be invincible.
"Good man! Kill thieves and serve the country! Come on!——"
Someone in the formation shouted: For the sake of the Northern Han Dynasty, kill the "thieves" and serve the country——
Zhu Biao took the lead, thrust his spear forward, and among the leaping horses, the countless arrows and crossbows that hit him were like blown catkins, so weak and inert. Together with the billowing iron current, they crashed into the Jin army's battle formation.
"Kill!——" Shen Wanshan shouted loudly and came forward without showing any weakness.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Dang!——"
After intensive collisions, the weapons exploded. Zhu Biao rode the horse with both legs and raised the spear in his hand, like a mace or a cool saw, slashing horizontally and vertically, hitting and smashing, directly facing the Jin army officer.
The head was broken and the iron helmet was in tatters. The red and white stuff underneath was exposed...
"Crack!" The gun blade cut off the opponent's hammer handle like cheese, and continued to cut through the opponent's armor without hindrance, piercing deeply into the opponent's chest and abdomen. When the spear swept across, the body flew out backwards, knocking down the opponent head-on.
Generals of the two Jin armies.
Xing Mao's Xuanhua ax circled left and right, like a black cloud, all those who caught it fell off their horses. A thoroughfare was opened on the left side of Zhu Biao, and Dou soldiers came on the right, shoulder to shoulder. Zhu Biao only had to deal with the enemy in front of him.
But where the spear started, the bright shadow filled the sky, like a boat breaking through the waves. It penetrated directly into the core of the Jin army's battle formation.
In a few hundred steps, the spear turned as desired, the spear body transformed into thousands of shapes, and the spear point disappeared. Only bright and colorful silver meteors could be seen, shining like stars, hitting the Jin soldiers head-on. So no matter it was
Heavy infantry or heavy shield infantry. They are all as fragile as paper.
Zhu Biao does not need to show off his own skills. Like Zhao Fei behind him, his shooting skills are different from Qian Bao's one-legged bronze man. Instead, he can break them with one touch. The tip of the spear will find a gap to enter and pierce the opponent's neck or chest.
The vital point in the belly is actually a general without three combinations!
Zhao Fei is not an immediate general, he only touches slightly on the marksmanship. To say that he has learned some tricks is pure nonsense. He can behave like this just because he is very strong and can control the power of the gun. In his hand, now a gun
The spear is no different from a wooden stick. It doesn't have the flexibility and agility of a spear from a true marksman.
Zhu Biao's blood-stained robe was really satisfying. All the anxiety and impatience he had felt over the past ten months were vented with this fight.
The 30,000 cavalrymen from Hedong, with Zhu Biao as their cone head, broke through the middle of the 50,000 elite infantry formation of the Jin army that came forward from the front, and almost broke through the formation within a few breaths. The heavy infantry of the Jin army on both wings rushed to support, and Shen Wanshan was in the formation.
Hu Xiaoming urged the battle, but the 70,000 Jin soldiers were no match for the 30,000 Hedong cavalry. It was just a confrontation, and the defeat was obvious.
Zheng Guoxiong's eyelids jumped when he saw it, and he was horrified in his heart.
He never expected that the Han army would be so powerful. He was afraid of Zhu Biao before, but it was Zhu Biao's strategy rather than a head-on confrontation. In Zheng Guoxiong's heart, Zhu Biao's Han and Tang cavalry were always on par with
The Jin cavalry is equal.
Who knew that Zhu Biao's frequent victories really depended on the combat power of the army, not his so-called strategy.
As a general, even though Zhu Biao was venting his anger, he would not just focus on killing himself, no matter what the overall situation was. He had a huge advantage in battle formations.
Seeing that another large number of Jin troops were approaching, and a group of Jin cavalry attacked and killed him behind him. Behind him, 30,000 fine cavalry were already fighting with the Jin troops. In front were heavy shields and powerful crossbows. They were ready, so why not continue to charge forward?
Good choice.
"Commander, which way should we charge first?" Xing Mao was covered in blood and his eyes were as big as bells, but he didn't know whether Zhu Biao planned to continue to charge forward or turn back to fight.
"Kill back! Let's go!——"
The generals around him were ordered to follow on horseback, which made the nervous Zheng Guoxiong breath a sigh of relief. The infantry shield bearers in the Jin army's central array also breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhu Biao raised his gun and charged into the Jin army's formation again. There were 100,000 Jin army infantry and cavalry. He just wanted to kill where his own soldiers and horses were trapped, and to reunite the gradually fragmented Hedong cavalry army, like a wild dragon entering the sea.
, the waves split wherever he passed, and became bigger and bigger, and the number of cavalry accompanying him gradually increased to ten thousand.
During the cavalry charge in Hedong, the organization gradually became chaotic. The Jin army's infantry was rushed by the cavalry group, and there was already chaos. The officers of the various ministries could no longer restrain their sergeants calmly.
Zheng Guoxiong, Zhu Wu and others who knew the war well watched the battle from a distance. One couldn't help but have a toothache, and the other burst out laughing.
Zhu Biao's spear pointed at the most intense fighting point in the formation. Those small groups that were blocked by the Jin army's abundant troops were rescued by Zhu Biao and escaped one after another, their murderous intention increased greatly.
A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find!
Zhu Biao's current performance is in support of this sentence. Wherever he goes, it is the Shura hell of the Jin army!
Half an hour into the battle, the 30,000 Hedong cavalry once again had the upper hand over the 100,000 Jin infantry cavalry.
"Drumming!——"
Zhu Wu had reached a critical moment in the battle and immediately shouted: "The whole army listens to the order and follows me to attack -"
The banner with Chinese characters in Chinese characters was raised, and more than 40,000 cavalrymen let go of their reins. The horses began to run slowly, faster and faster, faster and faster... The sound of thundering hoofs sounded.
"Tang Jun is coming!——"
"The entire rebel army has launched an attack——"
The fighting spirit of the Hedong cavalry in the formation surged! The Jin army's infantry and cavalry in the formation were trembling with fear.
Where the dark cavalry group was, there were only more than two thousand bodyguards left, like poisonous snakes, ready for a fatal blow.
The Jin army was harassed and killed several times by Zhu Biao, and the generals and generals were already out of sight, and they were in chaos.
Wherever a long spear passed through, there were mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the soldiers of the Jin army had to avoid them for fear of not being able to reach them.
What's more, now more than 40,000 Tang cavalry were killed. Morale plummeted for a while, and one after another the Jin army collapsed and fled.
Zheng Guoxiong was furious and ordered the drums and trumpets to be beaten, and the remaining 100,000 troops rushed forward.
The two sides were strangled together, and on the battlefield, corpses lay everywhere, and blood flowed everywhere!
"Zheng Guoxiong, the soul of the dead under the gun. Let me see where you can escape this time -"
More than ten cavalrymen were all killed by one shot. Zhu Biao looked at Zheng Guoxiong who was retreating from the crowd, shouted and cursed, slapped his horse and killed him.
"Fire the arrow——"
With a crash, the hundreds of Jin soldiers in front of Zhu Biao dispersed as if the tide had receded, revealing a crossbow formation under their cover.
Yes, a crossbow formation. A crossbow formation of five hundred people!
It was not easy for the Jin soldiers to maintain such a crossbow array in their inner circle under such a chaotic battle situation. Obviously, Zheng Guoxiong's appearance just now to lure Zhu Biao to kill was part of a conspiracy.
"No room for dog meat." Using such a bad trick——
Zhu Biao ignored it and continued to attack the horse. The spear in his palm was just lightly moved, and the bursts of internal force that followed blocked all the crossbow arrows.
When the crossbow arrow fired from the big yellow crossbow plunged into the area more than ten feet in front of Zhu Biao, it was like being suddenly involved in the whirlpool of the sea. The flying speed became as slow as a turtle crawling until the strength was exhausted.
Bows and crossbows were the court's greatest means of suppressing the Jianghu people.
"Damn it!" A middle-aged man dressed as a soldier yelled hatefully. "You are obviously not innate, so why is your internal strength so great? Even five hundred crossbowmen can't shoot through it?"
"kill--"
Xing Mao's shout of killing came. Five hundred bodyguard cavalry cut through the Jin army's obstruction like knives and appeared on the side of the crossbow formation.
Zheng Guoxiong's expression changed, and the soldiers on the side had already reached out and grabbed the reins of his war horse. "Captain Zheng, the situation has changed and we must withdraw——"
When the crossbow formation shattered and Zhu Biao came out, Zheng Guoxiong had disappeared. His shadow was blocked by numerous Jin soldiers, and only the big flag was still erected in front of Zhu Biao.
Of course, it was interrupted by a shot. The fall of the handsome flag greatly reduced the fighting spirit of the entire Jin army on the battlefield. But what Zhu Biao and all the soldiers of the two armies did not expect was that in the rear formation of the Jin army, they only paused for a moment and shot
A new banner was set up again.
"kill--"
The 2,500 personal guard cavalry who had been lingering outside the battlefield rushed out. They were Zhu Biao's army's last sharp arrows, which would pierce the enemy's heart.
Zheng Guoxiong was well prepared for this battle. He had prepared an ambush for Zhu Biao and had a second set of commands set up in advance. But he did not believe that Zheng Guoxiong would have a third set of commands prepared.
Moreover, even if he prepares to place the third set, will the third set of command points still be command points at that time? Does he still have the majesty and strategy to command an army of 200,000?
The last ray of light in the sky dispersed, and the dusk covered the battlefield. The sound of fighting disappeared, and the only thing that rang in the ears was the cry of father and mother.
All 200,000 Jin troops were wiped out. Zhu Biao's formation killed Zheng Guoxiong and also killed a master.
After counting the generals of the Jin army, Zhu Biao's old rivals Ning Daosi and Zhang Bianjun were not found. Shen Wanshan was shot in the heart by an arrow from someone unknown, and half of his body was trampled into mud.
There were more than 130,000 prisoners. Except for a small number of Jin soldiers who escaped by chance, the rest were all killed in battle.
Zhu Biao pressed 130,000 prisoners and carried Zheng Guoxiong's head and the banner of the Jin army to the gate of Zhongmu City. He thought that with this appearance, the defenders of Zhongmu were discouraged and took the city without a single blow. Unexpectedly, the commander of the Zhongmu Army would It's really just a bastard who eats the weight and resists with determination to the end.
"Looking for death——"
Zhu Biao, who was anxious to send troops to kill Zhen'an, had no intention of spending more time under Zhongmu City, so he immediately took out a hundred thunderbolt bombs and blasted the city wall.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise that shook the earth.
The city walls collapsed instantly, and a city brick fell to the ground, leaving a deep dent and causing dust to fly.
The solid city wall turned into rubbish, countless cracks were growing, countless gravel fell down, and a huge gap appeared in the city wall.
Zhu Wu immediately ordered the war drums to be beaten. A regular drumbeat, one after another, struck directly into the hearts of the enemy and ourselves.
The 50,000-strong security force formed a huge formation, roaring and roaring, and rushed towards the gap in the city wall like a tide. Suddenly, the sound of killing broke out.
"Quick, stop them from entering the city!"
"We can't stop it, they've already come in!"
"No retreat, no retreat! Charge forward and resist them!"
"Kill!"
On the battlefield filled with murderous intent, the two armies were fighting each other.
Although some Texas troops were fighting desperately, most of the soldiers were panicked and lost their fighting spirit.
There is a huge difference between the numbers of 20,000 people and more than 100,000 people. People's hearts are very delicate. Before, they still had the Jin army to rely on. Now that Zheng Guoxiong is dead, the only thing that can be relied on is the city wall. But now the city wall is no longer there. It was over, most of the Texas troops had no fighting spirit, let alone the belief in victory.
Zhu Wu was riding on his horse, looking at the battlefield, and sneered a few times. Instead of toasting, he had to drink wine as a penalty! After a while, he had to take a good look at the defending general——
"How is the situation?" He asked the general who had just returned.
"General, all the defenders at the city gate have been killed. The enemy surrendered heavily. The remaining troops retreated to the strongholds in the city to defend. Are they all wiped out or surrendered?" the general asked.
"We've already called for surrender. If these people dare to refuse at this moment, it's not a pity to die! There's no need to call for surrender anymore. Let me continue to pursue the troops and crush all resistance!" Zhu Wu said sinisterly. "Either surrender yourself, Or die—"
"No!" A military flag waved and a cruel order was issued.
