Tens of thousands of troops were intertwined together. Because they were ambushed, the Yellow Turban soldiers were not very motivated to fight. Many soldiers did not even dare to fight back and turned around and ran back.
Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and three others led their 300 elite troops to charge into the formation on horseback, slashing and killing in all directions.
In the chaos, Guan Yu noticed an enemy general galloping more than ten feet away. He was quite powerful, wielding an iron sword like a tiger, and assassinating him everywhere. No less than ten officers and soldiers were already dead around him.
Seeing that this man had great fighting prowess, Guan Yu narrowed his narrow red phoenix eyes, his murderous intention arose, clamped his legs tightly on the horse's belly, and drove his horse towards the enemy general.
Almost no one dared to block the charging horses on the battlefield, because the collision force of the horses was enough to smash a person's internal organs. Therefore, Guan Yu went on a rampage. He only had to pay attention to whether there were cold spears or hidden knives on both sides from time to time. No one dared to stop him.
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The enemy general was Yang Feng, the commander of the Yellow Turban Canal. While he was killing, he suddenly heard the guards on the left and right calling the general to be careful. When he looked back, he saw a red-faced man rushing towards him with a sword drawn, but he was already less than three feet away from him.
"Well done!"
Yang Feng relied on force and immediately stabbed him with his spear.
As the saying goes, a spear that is eight feet long is called a spear. Zhang Fei's eight-foot steel spear is exactly one foot and eight inches long, so it can be called a spear or a spear.
The normal spear is a little longer than the spear, about nine feet, which is four meters two.
Many people think that it will be difficult to use a four-meter-two-meter weapon in their hands, but in fact, the four-meter-three-meter iron spear is not as heavy as imagined. If it is a hardwood spear, the spear pole is made of iron wrapped in hardwood.
The total weight is about 8 kg.
If it is an all-iron gun, including the iron rod, the total weight can reach 24 kilograms. However, few people can use such a heavy weapon, so there are relatively few pure iron guns.
Moreover, fighting immediately relies mainly on the inertia of the horse's sprint to kill the enemy, so the longer the weapon, the better.
Therefore, starting from the Warring States Period, the length of spears and spears used in ancient wars was generally 3-5 meters, and the spears used to form formations to resist cavalry could even reach 10 meters. By the Western Han Dynasty, the 4-meter-long horse spears were already very popular.
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Guan Yu's Qinglong Yanyue Sword is only nine feet and five inches, which is about two meters and two meters, and weighs 16 kilograms. It will suffer a lot in terms of the length of the weapon.
Yang Feng stabbed him, and Guan Yu was in the position of charging. It was impossible to avoid him, so he had to use his knife to block it.
There are eight sides to the sword, and each side is edged. Even if you dodge the stab, you can immediately change your move, from stabbing to teasing, splitting or blocking. There are many different moves you can change.
It's difficult for you to move around on a horse. Even if you can dodge continuously, your attack will be suppressed by the enemy, leaving you with almost no power to fight back.
Therefore, it is impossible to avoid, you can only fight or block.
Although Guan Yu was young, he had been practicing martial arts since he was a child and was experienced. When he saw the horse stabbing him, he leaned back slightly to make room for his own sword. At the same time, he raised the knife with one hand and used the blade to deflect the stabbing horse.
Ding!
The swords and blades collided, making a crisp sound.
Seeing that the first blow missed, Yang Feng immediately changed her moves, waving the horse pole with both hands and slashing horizontally.
Although the horse spear is a spear, it is mainly used for stabbing. In fact, the blade does not have two sides, but has several sides. Some spears are even equipped with iron nails around them, which can be smashed like a hammer.
At this time, the war horse had come close, and the two sides were only a foot away. Guan Yu clamped his legs tightly on the horse's belly, released the reins of the horse, handed the knife to his left hand with his right hand, rotated the handle of the knife with his left hand, and struck behind him.
With a move, the Qinglong Saber was handed back to his right hand, and his body leaned back to avoid Yang Feng's second attack.
Ma Shan was two meters longer than the Qinglong Saber. In this instant, Yang Feng had two chances to attack.
But the second time, after one move was dodged, there was no chance to block again.
I saw the green dragon blade shining like frost and snow, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, two horses passing each other, and there seemed to be a silver dragon roaring among the lightning flints. After a second, everyone saw the Yellow Turban general Yang Feng covering his neck.
He fell off the horse with a look of disbelief on his face.
one move!
Yang Feng, a general with a reputation for bravery among the Yellow Turban Army, was beheaded from his horse with just one move!
The morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly shaken, and they cheered: "The thief is about to die! The thief is about to die, the general is brave, the general is brave."
When several yellow turban generals around saw Guan Yu's bravery, they couldn't help but feel frightened. They originally wanted to try to stabilize the battle, but their thoughts of counterattack were suddenly extinguished and they all reined in their horses and ran away.
"Where can the thief go!"
Zhang Fei saw that his second brother was so brave and invincible that he had already killed an enemy general. He couldn't help but become eager to win. With a roar, he mounted his horse and charged into the battle, aiming directly at his old enemy Zuo Mouzhangba.
Zuo Zhuzhangba couldn't care about him, it was too late to escape, so he turned his horse and ran to the east. There were few officers and soldiers there, and there was no fence in the school grounds. As long as he ran over, he could escape back to the city along the Mingshui River.
inside.
But Zhang Fei was sure that he wouldn't let go, and he bit him tightly.
Neither of their horses are good horses, just ordinary war horses with about the same speed. However, firstly, the distance between the two of them is not too far, only more than ten feet apart. Secondly, Zuo Mouzhangba was constantly being beaten in the chaos of the soldiers and horses.
My own people and officers and soldiers were running back and forth, blocking the way. I would bump into people from time to time, so I couldn't run very fast.
Zhang Fei only needs to follow him closely. In this way, Zuo Zhangba is equivalent to opening the way for Zhang Fei. When he breaks out of the encirclement and starts running at full speed, he suddenly feels a strong wind coming from behind him. Looking back, the leopard
The giant man with ringed head and eyes was already behind him.
"It's you again!"
Zuo Zhaozhangba was furious and turned around to chop with his sword.
But at this time, Zhang Fei no longer needed to hold back. He roared angrily, and used a spear to deflect the knife that was coming, and then stabbed it like lightning. The Zhangba steel spear spat out like a snake's letter, and pierced Zuo Miao Zhangba's heart.
He was killed on the spot.
As the commander of the expedition, Zhang Bao was horrified when he saw that two generals had been killed in an instant, and immediately shouted: "Retreat, retreat quickly!"
But at this moment, an arrow suddenly came from behind and hit Zhang Bao's left arm.
Zhang Bao screamed in pain and almost fell off his horse.
Fortunately, he could bear it, threw away the weapon in his right hand, gritted his teeth, pulled out the arrow from his left arm, stabbed the horse's butt, boasted that the bay horse was in pain, ran as if risking his life, and rushed out with him.
Encircled and fled to Guangping City.
When Liu Bei saw this scene, he could only sigh a pity.
However, although Zhang Bao was not killed or captured, all the generals ran away. The Yellow Turban Army was naturally defeated. They abandoned their helmets and armor and fled in the direction of Guangping. The morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted. They took advantage of the victory to pursue them, killing the bandits or bandits along the way.
Countless prisoners were captured.
When the war finally calmed down, only 10,000 or 20,000 of the Yellow Turban Army's 30,000 to 40,000 troops fled back to the city. Adding in the more than 10,000 people left behind in the city, the entire Guangping City instantly became much empty.
"boom!"
Guangping Prefecture, as a county seat in a county, Zhang Jiao moved his residence into the Prefecture. Now, the table with various sacred incense burners has been kicked to the side, and the ashes are scattered on the kneeling
There were people on the ground, but no one dared to clean it up.
Zhang Jue suppressed his cough and took several breaths before saying coldly: "What did I tell you? Don't pursue me too deeply. If the situation goes wrong, evacuate immediately. Do you think I'm dead?"
Liu Shi trembled and said: "Good Master, I persuaded Zuo Xiaozhangba, and many people in the army can testify for me. It was he who was provoked by the man named Zhang Fei and chased him. We were helpless.
We had no choice but to follow him and charge all the way, killing thousands of officers and soldiers. Who would have thought that Lu Zhi actually didn't care about the life and death of these officers and soldiers and laid an ambush in the rear."
This is also the ruthlessness of Lu Zhi. If he did not conceal the information that the enemy might rob the camp and let the auxiliary soldiers and craftsmen continue to build the camp, Zhang Jiao would not be fooled. If he had not arranged these baits, then Zuo Mou
Zhang Ba and Liu Shi would not continue to pursue them, but they would keep chasing Zhang Jiao to death.
Zhang Bao's left arm had been simply bandaged. Seeing that Liu Shi had put all the blame on the dead Zuo Mouzhangba, he immediately followed suit and said: "Brother, you really can't blame us for this matter. When we went
, Zuo Zhuzhangba had already started fighting with the officers and soldiers, and we had to go to respond, and then we were surrounded."
Zhang Jue snorted coldly and said, "You will go out later, and my second brother will stay."
Everyone left the hall as if they had received an amnesty.
Zhang Bao asked: "Brother, we lost a lot of troops this time. The strength in the city is quite empty. It's time to retreat."
Zhang Jiao shook his head: "Originally, I wanted to airlift Guangping first and leave an empty city for Lu Zhi. I didn't expect that his offensive was so fast. He had already attacked in just a few days. It's too late to retreat now, so we can only fight with the officials.
military negotiations.”
"Peace talks?"
Zhang Bao's eyes widened: "Will the officers and soldiers accept it?"
Zhang Jiao sneered and said: "Yes, you can go and bring Liu Xu, the fat as a pig."
As early as yesterday, Zhang Jiao received a letter from Lu Zhi, asking them to negotiate whether money could be used to redeem Liu Xu.
Zhang Jiao originally wanted to wait for the price to sell, first to whet Lu Zhi's appetite and see if he could exchange Liu Xu for some other benefits later.
Lu Zhi also knew that Zhang Jue would not let go easily, so he had to mobilize all his troops to besiege Guangping.
Firstly, it was to satisfy the urging of officials and celebrities from all over Jizhou who surrounded him, and secondly, it was to put some pressure on Zhang Jiao and let him make a choice as soon as possible.
But such a forced march was also a great pressure for Lu Zhi.
Don't think that marching and fighting in ancient times was an easy matter. It only took more than a month since Lu Zhi set off from Luoyang. From Wei County to Guangping County, there were more than ten battles of various sizes. The march also covered a distance of nearly a thousand miles. The soldiers were quite
Tired and war-weary.
The most important thing at this time is not to pursue the victory, but to improve the morale of the soldiers. After all, everyone has his own ideas. Soldiers fight either for officialdom, for wealth, or for food.
After winning countless battles in the past few days, the soldiers now have no shortage of money, and of course they are not willing to continue to fight hard.
If morale cannot be improved, the battle will be easily defeated.
Therefore, Lu Zhi garrisoned in Guangnian County. Firstly, he wanted to wait for the opportunity to eliminate Zhang Jiao in Jize in one fell swoop. Secondly, he also wanted to recuperate and not make the soldiers too nervous. Otherwise, if there was a mutiny or camp roar, he would be very self-conscious.
blow.
Unfortunately, there were pig teammates like the imperial court and officials from all over Jizhou who gave him a lot of constraints.
However, Lu Zhi himself did not expect that God seemed to be kind to him. When he arrived in Guangping, Zhang Jiao actually came to rob the camp, giving him a good opportunity.
Now that nearly half of the 50,000 Yellow Turban troops in Guangping City have been wiped out, the defense force is seriously insufficient. Even if Zhang Jiao wants to occupy the city and defend it, he may not be able to.
As mentioned before, Guangping City is not as high as Julu because it is built along the Ming River. There are many water gates around the city and water systems extend in all directions. Although it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it requires a large number of manpower to carry out all-round defense. Nowadays, there are fewer manpower.
Half, it would be difficult to cover everything.
Even if Lu Zhi didn't use the water attack strategy and attacked forcefully, Zhang Jiao wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
Therefore, the two cards in Zhang Jiao's hand were directly missing one.
For Zhang Jiao, he was not sure that the court would make a choice between him and Liu Xu.
Is Liu Xu's life more important or his life as the leader of the rebel army is more important? He can't gamble, and he doesn't dare to gamble.
So after losing half of his troops and lacking the power to defend the city, he had to sacrifice Liu Xu's card to protect himself.