Chapter 59: The Eastern Army collapsed thousands of miles away
Dian Wei's death in battle had a devastating effect on the Dongren army, which can hardly be accurately described as collapse. The soldiers lost their courage, and they still knew how to run for their lives, but at this moment, the Dongren soldiers seemed to have lost their will.
Lost, they stood there as blankly as grass and trees. It was only after Sun Guan and other generals shouted angrily that they woke up from a dream. They held the long silk in their hands and wanted to move forward, but their arms couldn't help trembling and they wanted to step back.
, but at a loss where to go.
Only then did they realize that due to their haste in arriving, the queues between the marching troops had been disrupted. The soldiers could not find their leader, but the leader had difficulty finding his infantry, making it difficult to direct them. And Dong Dong
General Zuo Duo of the army marshal's office retreated with Cao Cao, leaving no senior general with enough prestige to hold down the position under the command of the dignified commander.
Chaos spread like a plague to everyone's heart. When Guan Yu launched another charge, I don't know who took the lead. The people of the East all wanted to let go of the war and knelt down and surrendered to Guan Yu. The most important yellow sky snake flag in Cao Cao's mansion
, and thus fell into Guan Yu’s hands.
Seeing this, Guan Yu simply knocked down the flagpole with a knife. The three-foot-high flag suddenly fell down, splashing dust all over the ground. Cao Cao, who was retreating, saw it from a distance and secretly screamed in his heart. Then he looked at Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Xun or around him.
, Lu Zhao and others all looked ashen and had no fighting spirit. They all knew in their hearts that this battle would probably end in a huge defeat.
Chen Chong, who was on Baishan Mountain, also clearly saw the Snake Flag falling to the ground. He immediately knew that Guan Yu had succeeded and said with great joy: "It's done!" He immediately ordered the marching drums to be beaten, and ordered the soldiers on the mountain to shout in unison: "The thief Cao is crowned!"<
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The sound of the drums on the mountain was like a golden snake dancing wildly. When the soldiers of the Western Army who were fighting all over the mountain heard it, they were all happy. A force burst out from their tired bodies, making them straighten their bodies and charge forward with all their strength, waving their long swords.
While shouting loudly: "The thief Cao is crowned! The thief Cao is crowned!"
The shouts of the Westerners are spontaneous, so the rhythm is not uniform, and the volume is not amazing. But their shouts come and go, like the waves of the sea, endless, echoing in the valleys, under the sky, and tens of miles away.
All the soldiers heard it clearly, so no matter who was fighting, no matter whether they could see it in the dust, the Eastern people looked back anxiously to see the formation. As a result, what they saw was a patch of black flags.
The ground, red flags swaying like flying flames.
The morale of the Eastern Army suddenly collapsed. The soldiers of various departments evacuated to the east regardless of the large number of Western Army soldiers rushing forward in front of them. At first, there was order, and they could take the initiative to break away from the fight and dismount while using their bows to lose cover.
The knights fought and retreated, trying to find the horses left behind.
The Westerners were also eager to pursue, so the soldiers from both sides who were originally crowded in the battlefield quickly began to spread out like smoke blown away by a gust of wind. The soldiers who were originally crowded together, stabbing each other, were now being chased and retreated in chaos.
Instead, the few knights among Chen Chong's men were already galloping among the crowd, most of which were still on foot. Some knights were pulled off their horses by the crowd and lost their lives, but some others waved their horses into the battle, like
It is the shepherd who is driving his sheep as if into a deserted land.
Ma Chao was ordered by Guan Yu to raid the formation in the southeast, forcing Cao Cao's formation to escape eastward. But at this time, he heard the sound and saw that there were a huge number of Easterners escaping from the northwest. The black flags were as numerous as the sea of clouds, and he couldn't help but feel sad.
He was startled, and then thought: "So many people are rushing over. If I don't strike first, I'm afraid I will be overwhelmed too!" In the flash of lightning, he decided to let go of the Shuaifu main formation, which had so many noble people at the moment.
Instead, he ordered his subordinates to organize themselves into formations. Thousands of people were divided into three groups, and they quickly attacked most of the Eastern Army in waves.
Because he and the Easterners were facing each other, they moved closer extremely quickly. Compared with the main force of the Eastern Army, which numbered more than 100,000, the thousands of people were just a wave in the tide, but this wave became
The last straw for the total collapse of order in the Eastern Army.
The people in the back didn't know what was going on, but saw their comrades in front stopped inexplicably, and then saw a stream of smoke and dust sweeping from east to west, colliding with their own side, followed by countless screams.
With wailing, many miscellaneous soldiers who have not experienced a bloody battle, see their fellow countrymen and blood relatives being driven and killed by Liang people like cutting grass, how can they have any fighting spirit?
The Western cavalrymen at the back quickly caught up and fought the dismounted knights in the back row again. However, the difference from before was that those who had fought bloody battles no longer saw any hope of survival at this time, so
After reaching it symbolically for two or three times, he stopped struggling and leaned on the ground, closing his eyes and waiting for the enemy to kill him.
In addition, some Westerners shouted: "The general has an order, and those who abandon the troops will not be killed!" So among the Eastern left army who engaged in the battle, except for a few who were still lucky, most of the infantry were abandoned.
Flagpole, put down his weapons, sat slumped on the ground, bowed his head and surrendered to the pursuers.
For a moment, Chen Chong saw countless black flags falling to the ground at the foot of Baishan Mountain, and the sound of weapons falling to the ground was continuous. The scene was extremely spectacular. The Westerners gathered these weapons and placed them in long rows from north to south. Under the sunlight,
It seems like a long silver river, constantly overflowing with dazzling ripples.
For those Easterners who were unwilling to surrender, the Westerners were merciless and surrounded them with heavy troops. The soldiers in the front row used long knives and wooden poles to organize their breakout, while the archers in the back row shot arrows directly into them. Speaking of which,
Because they were sure of winning, they did not aim, but kept drawing arrows from their quivers and throwing them. Missing arrows fell in like hailstones. The screams of the Easterners continued until the archers' fingers were so weak that they could not stretch out, and the quivers were empty.
, by this time, there was no one left standing in the siege.
The situation on the northern front at the foot of Cailiang Mountain was different. After the Quyi tribe fell into a stalemate, he was shocked when he learned that Wen Chou had been killed by Zhang Fei, and he had a bad premonition about the outcome of the battle. Waiting for the Western Army
After shouting wildly that Cao Cao had been crowned and the commander's flag had been lowered, he immediately reacted and said to the soldiers around him: "Fighting any longer will not be in vain, we must withdraw our troops quickly for the sake of the future!"
Having said that, he reined in his horse and ignored the soldiers who were still fighting on the front line. Before the sound of ringing gold could be heard, he led his followers and galloped away to the east. Once the red crow flag retreated, the surroundings
The Eastern cavalry also collapsed in an instant. They whipped their whips and ran eastward in a single file. The speed was completely beyond the expectations of the Westerners. By the time Liu Bei from Cailiang Mountain gave the order, more than half of the Eastern cavalry had already withdrawn.
battlefield.
But for the remaining Dongren, the moment they left late determined their fate.
When Zhang Fei led the cavalry into the battle again, the direction was towards the heart of the defeated Eastern Army. Although they were led by only a thousand cavalry, their charge with a desperate spirit raised yellow dust into the sky, like a roiling cloud.
The huge waves swept down from the south, frightening the onlookers. In a moment, they quickly rushed into the huge and loose camp of the Easterners.
Seeing this, the knights of the Western Dynasty in the north also launched a charge from the Liang Mountains. As a sharp sword corresponding to Zhang Fei's troops, the two teams intersected like sharp blades tearing silk, cutting the entire Eastern Dynasty cavalry into two sections.
When they each cut through the Eastern Army, the following cavalry troops also joined in continuously. Each group of Western cavalry formed a column and weaved in and out of the Eastern Army formation like snakes.
The Easterners tried to counterattack with bows and arrows to stop their offensive, but in the chaos, the arrows missed their targets and hit more of their own people, which exacerbated their collapse. Even though a few people wanted to gather in formation to resist, the Westerners
But he was not eager to fight, he just kept driving away the defeated soldiers who had no time to react, forming one larger wave of defeat after another. In this way, the soldiers of the East who tried to resist were also swept away.
After several rounds of continuous circling and killing, the number of Western cavalry who entered the battle was estimated to be tens of thousands. They galloped across the valley, speeding like the wind, and few slowed down to fall into siege. The loud sound of horse hooves shook the mountains.
, the dust raised was overwhelming, and the sound of weapons clashing made even veterans who had been in battle for a long time feel as if two sharp iron tools were rubbing against the apex of their hearts, which made people feel heartbroken.
Under such circumstances, it became a luxury for the Easterners to surrender. After all, if anyone stopped for a moment, they would be squeezed to the ground by the people behind them, and then they would be trampled endlessly. Many people would turn into a puddle of flesh in this way.
The deep-seated hatred between the Eastern and Western armies for several years also caused the Westerners to completely ignore the cries of the Easterners. They simply kept raising and swinging their swords, cutting down the enemies in front of them to the ground, and then went to look for them.
New enemies sometimes get so excited that they even forget to cut off their heads to receive merit after the battle.
When some dignified Easterners, led by Zang Ba, saw this situation, they couldn't help but thought sadly: "People are human beings precisely because they know honor and disgrace. How can you be considered a man if you die like this?" So they gathered together.
Together, they found some places where trees and dead branches gathered, sat around, and then lit the fire sickle and lit the dead grass and clothes. Suddenly the fire burst out and burned the pine forest, and the nearby people who were searching and killing were
People looked here for a moment, but they couldn't tell how many people were inside, so they had to avoid them and continue chasing forward.
And on these lands that have been burned by flames, soaked in blood, and trampled by horse hooves, clusters of bright yellow flowers are still blooming brilliantly. They are like the setting sun that is gradually setting in the west at this moment and will return to the western soil.
The brilliance is not dimmed at all because of people's disputes. Speaking of which, maybe it will also be because of this war, right here, on today next year, the fragrance of the yellow flowers will make people even more intoxicated! But at this moment
, people will definitely not be able to notice it.