Shu Chen

Chapter 122 Death
Xiao Guan said.

It is not easy for Wei Jun, who can already claim to be victorious.

Wei Ping and Dai Ling combined [-] troops out of Xiaoguan, defeated Ma Su's troops and lost more than [-] men.He fought with Zheng Pu's troops for five consecutive days, and over [-] people died in the battle, and countless people were disabled and unable to fight anymore.

Even if Zhang Yun arrived in time with more than [-] cavalry, there are only more than [-] cavalry that can fight again.

With such a large casualty, any general knows that in terms of the morale of the soldiers or the mixed formation of the various ministries, it is urgent to leave the camp to rest.

This is also the reason why Zhang Yun wanted to quickly attack the Han army on both sides of the mountain road.

As long as the Han army blocking the road is defeated, Wei Ping and Dai Ling can rest here and guard the Wei army's road to Longyou.

And he led more than a thousand cavalry soldiers, and drove into Longyou to harass, delaying the time for the Han army to come to Saidao again.

However, before he gave the order, three hundred paces away to the south of Xiao Guan Road, there was the sound of thunderous drums.

It is a Han army shouting "recover the Central Plains", and it is approaching rapidly.

It can be inferred from the spread of the flag for two or three miles that the force is not less than 5000 people!

The Han army came to help, so fast?

Sitting on the horseback, Zhang He glanced slightly at the soldiers whose morale was a little unstable due to the enemy's reinforcements, and couldn't help feeling a little helpless in his heart.He An Neng didn't know the odds of winning the battle against the Bashu reinforcements with comparable strength for the exhausted army who had fought hard for five days.

However, realizing something in his heart does not mean that he will retreat.

Or rather, he had to fight!

He came by detour from Jieting, and he knew that Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Shu, personally led an army to guard the Longguan Road, and it would be very difficult for the general Cao Zhen to supervise the battle in person.As for the Weishui River Valley, he was familiar with every terrain in Yongliang, let alone thinking about it.

The ownership of Longyou has already been decided by Xiao Guandao!
Wei Guo has already lost countless soldiers, and it is absolutely impossible to give up halfway.

Even if it is to put the lives of all the cavaliers in this place on a desperate gamble, he will not hesitate!

Moreover, he joined Cao Wei as a general, and now he is an official general of the left.

Deeply favored by the country, An Neng spared his life and refused to give it a go!
Zhang He, determined to make up his mind, quickly adjusted his formation.

He asked Dai Ling and Wei Ping to lead their troops to attack the Han army on the gentle slope, while he himself took the cavalry without horses and formed an formation on the spot to face the Bashu reinforcements.

As for the morale of the Han army on the gentle slope was greatly boosted by the arrival of reinforcements, and Wei and Dai attacked from the bottom up, it would be difficult to completely attack them in a short while.
He asked his eldest son, Zhang Xiong, to lead [-] cavalry, and he was driving his horse back.

After retreating to a distance sufficient for the horse to accelerate, it is time to charge forward on horseback.

Of course!

He wants to buy time for Wei and Dai with the lives of his eldest son and nearly two thousand cavalrymen!

To occupy this Xiaoguan Road for Wei Guo, buy time!

However, on a road more than [-] feet wide, nearly two thousand cavalry soldiers can be divided into seven or eight groups. The continuous charge can hold back Bashu reinforcements for at least an hour.

An hour is enough for him to clear the Han army here and build a defensive front.

And with the remaining pawns, it is enough to hold on to this way for a while.

It is also enough for him to send messengers to find General Cao Zhen.

As for whether Cao Zhen still had extra troops to help, or whether he would arrive in time, he didn't think about it.

I don't want to think about it either.

He only knew that this was the only chance for Wei Guo's reinforcements to enter Longyou.

There is still a glimmer of hope.

If you don't fight, all your previous efforts will be wasted!

"Bang the drum!"

"Array!"

After Zhang Yun made a decision in an instant, the various ministries of the Wei Army took orders and got busy.

The Han army rushing from a distance also slowed down when they saw this, and regrouped to meet the enemy.

The person standing under the banner is Chen Shi.

In the past, after he received the general order from the prime minister "you must rush to Xiaoguan Road within six days, and those who violate the marching law", he marched lightly and hurriedly.

Two days ago, on the way, I encountered Ma Di's defeated army.

After inquiring about the military situation, and knowing that Zheng Pu's troops were in danger, he ordered all the soldiers to carry two days' food and only carry their own ordnance.Throw all the food, fodder, army tents and other supplies to Ma Di, and let him escort him behind.

In the middle of the night last night, I ran into Fu Qian and Li Qiu again.

Knowing that Zheng Pu was ready to die in battle, he couldn't help being anxious.

Nai ordered to throw away the bows and crossbows and arrows, unload the armor and other loads, and once again the whole army rushed forward at an accelerated speed.

Fortunately, he is a veteran in the army.

The soldiers under his command are either experienced veterans or barbarian soldiers who surrendered in Nanzhong in the past, and their discipline and marching speed are comparable to elite troops.

Speeding up abruptly, traveling hundreds of miles a day, arriving at the nick of time.

Naturally, there is a saying in the art of war, "The one who has the advantage for a hundred miles will be defeated by the general, and the one who will be able to gain the advantage for fifty miles will have half the army."

The disadvantage of rushing to march is also unavoidable.

Excluding those who kept falling behind, the soldiers who rushed here were only more than three thousand, and everyone was exhausted.

Zhang He thought that there were more than [-] troops coming, but the narrow and long mountain road prevented him from witnessing the entire army of Chen Shibu, so he could only rely on the number of banners to estimate.

Therefore, when he heard the sound of drums urging the battle in the Wei army formation, Chen Shi's eyes also had a bit of bitterness.

Facing the battle with a tired army, he didn't have much chance of winning.

Or in other words, he has a faint awareness that rushing to help becomes death.

However, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.

He could only order the soldiers to line up and fight to the death.

Regarding this, Zheng Pu and others, who were already prepared to die, did not know about it.

They heard the thunder of war drums coming from behind, and seeing the military flag with the Chinese character "Han" standing between the sky and the earth, everyone couldn't help shouting, "Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

Many people even wept with joy.

After all, if they could survive, few people would rush to die.

Therefore, without the orders of Zheng Pu, Huo Yi and other generals, they spontaneously waited in full force, relying on each other for defense.

In order not to die on the eve of rescue.

However, they wereted their efforts.

Wei Jun did not attack, and even Chen Shibu was not rushed.

Just when Zhang Yun asked his eldest son Zhang Xiong to lead the cavalry back to buffer the speeding distance of the horses, there was a muffled sound of thunder behind him, from far to near!
There are cavalry!

Hearing the sound, the soldiers of the Wei army looked forward to it.

They thought they had cavalry again, and they came to help from Liangzhou.

Also a little surprised.

Rescue is at stake, why did the new cavalry come a day later than General Zuo?
It's just that when they cast their suspicious eyes on Zhang He, they found that the Great Wei Zuo General had closed his eyes and raised his head to the sky.

Like, sighing?

"General, hurry up!"

Withdrew Wei Ping and Dai Ling who were about to attack on the gentle slope, ran to Zhang Xi's side, grabbed the reins of the horse, and headed towards Xiao Guan.

Both of them are generals of the Wei Dynasty.

And having been stationed in the Guanlong area for a long time, he is also qualified to know the dispatch of troops from all sides of the Wei army.

Naturally, I also know that Liangzhou in the Great Wei Dynasty did not have any cavalry to help!
And Zhang Yun's sigh was that he knew that Wei would not be able to occupy Xiaoguan Road.

With the thought of breaking the boat, he arrayed all his troops facing the south of the mountain road. In a hurry, he couldn't turn to defend against the incoming attack from the north.

Even if he asked his eldest son Zhang Xiong to lead the cavalry to block the road first, he could not turn the situation around.

After all, the cavalry who didn't let the horses complete the acceleration are just a group of cattle and sheep waiting to be slaughtered!

Moreover, if one's own cavalry blocked the rear, who could stop the Bashu infantry in front?

In particular, how many soldiers of our army who have been fighting hard for days can die without fighting
I, Dawei, have lost the right~~~~
Zhang He, who had a clear understanding of the situation, murmured these words in his heart.

The same is true, let Wei Ping and Dai Ling run wildly back to Xiaoguan while holding the reins of the horses, while yelling at the trilogy supervisors and soldiers to resist after breaking.

Because, his heart is ashamed.

Yu Jieting attacked and defended with Shu Zhuge Liang, and he killed nearly ten thousand soldiers in battle, but to no avail.

After galloping for more than ten days and detouring nearly a thousand miles, he finally arrived at the rear of Xiaoguan, saw the dawn of Wei's retaking Longyou, and was full of hope of driving the Shu army out of Longyou.

However, God is thinner than him.

It first gave him hope, and then extinguished all hope.

Back in the day, in the battle of Guandu, he led the people to vote for Emperor Wu.Emperor Wu held his hand and said: "In the past, Zixu didn't get married early, and put himself in danger. How could it be like Wei Zi went to Yin and Han Xin returned to Han?"

Seeing the letter is very important, and the device is inexplicable.

It also made him feel that Wu Nei has fought for the Great Wei for nearly [-] years without hesitation!
Now the official is General Zuo of the Great Wei Dynasty, and he is also over sixty years old.I thought that in this life, I would live up to the kindness of the late emperor and pass away with the name of hundreds of battles behind me.

But she didn't want to, and watched Longyou being snatched by Nishu from her own hands!

How can you not hate evil!
Although, winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs.

He has experienced many defeats in his life.

However, at that time, he was still able to open a bow of two stones, fight hard for a day without getting tired, ride a horse for ten days without getting tired, and eat a meal of rice and seven catties of meat!
Even if you lose for a while, you can win again!
But now, he is very old!

If there is still a chance, can I report the favor of Emperor Wu Long?

Under the mixture of anger and grief in his heart, Zhang He faintly felt that the chest tightness and shortness of breath when he was in the street pavilion before became more uncomfortable after more than ten days of riding on the road and today's helpless retreat.

It was like a boulder had been pressed on my heart.

Can't move it, can't unload it.

And with the bumping of the horse, the weight gradually increased.

Or rather, he didn't want to move away either.

At this time, to the north of the mountain road, the cavalry pawns wearing the armor of the Han army finally emerged from the ground, broke through the rain curtain formed by the continuous drizzle, and galloped towards them.

"Nothing before!"

The first rider, wearing fish scale armor and holding a double-edged spear, roared like thunder.

He is the only general in command of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Guang and Zhao Yihong.

During this trip to Longyou, Wei Yan's duty was to go north to Pingxiang City to stop the reinforcements from Liangzhou against the Wei Dynasty.

The prime minister transferred Zhao Guang to his command on the grounds that Liangzhou had more riders.He also made some achievements before, setting up an ambush in Changlishui (Hulu River) and repelling the cavalry in Luzhai, the general against the Wei Dynasty.

At the beginning, Zheng Pu entered Xiaoguan with Ma Su's troops and sent people to Wei Yan for help.

After Wei Yan got the report, he immediately spat hard on the ground.

Angrily denouncing Ma Di for his wrongdoing is really a disaster for the country.

He also turned over the old accounts, and in front of many generals, listed all kinds of things that the two of them worked together in Hanzhong in the past.

He also thought that the soldiers and horses who rebelled against Wei Liangzhou did not dare to come to fight, and the general Hao Zhao transferred to Xiping County to intimidate the Qiang and Hu tribes in the Huangshui River Valley.So he took Zhao Guang's cavalry as the forerunner, and Zhang Bao, who led the "蜑獽" army, as the follow-up, came to Xiao Guandao to help in the battle.

It can be seen from the selection of candidates for rushing aid that it was no accident that the first emperor Liu Bei used him to town Hanzhong.

For example, Zhao Guang is from Zheng Pu's former department, and he strongly recommended him to be the cavalry supervisor. Because of his feelings and reason, Zhao Guang will spare no effort in this rescue, regardless of his own safety.

Not to mention Zhang Bao.

The daughter of the Zhang family was married to Zheng Pu by the emperor Liu Chan!
Why not be anxious?
This is also the reason why Zhao Guang came so quickly.

After summing up with Zhang Bao, he sent all the supplies, food and fodder to be carried by the pawns, and he led the horses first.Along the way, they met the cavalry pawns of Zhang Yun's troops who were behind, and only [-] cavalry were assigned to guard them.

After rushing to this place, seeing that the Wei army's rear was not prepared, he took the lead without thinking about it, galloping through the formation and destroying the front.

The thousands of riders behind him were all selected by his father, General Zhao Yun, from the army, and their morale was like a rainbow.

"kill!"

"kill!"

Followed by it, the ground trembled with the hooves of the horses, the valley trembled with the roar, and the drizzle curtain was torn apart with the raised ring-headed knife.Transformed into an ancient giant python, galloping past the soldiers behind the palace of the Wei army with the momentum of thousands of troops and the power of invincibility.

With horsepower, people only need to swing their blades at the moment when the two sides approach, and then use the huge inertia to chop anyone's head to pieces.Like peeling cocoons, the lives of the guards were harvested layer by layer.

In about twenty or thirty breaths, more than a thousand cavalry rushed to the other side.

Zhao Guang immediately turned his horse's head and prepared for the second round of charge, shouting loudly, "Turn the horse! Turn the horse! Speed ​​up! Speed ​​up!"

"Nothing before!"

More than a thousand Han riders uttered a slogan neatly.

Immediately turned the horse around, the whole team was completed in less than ten breaths, and accelerated again suddenly.

Fei Wu circled the first knife in his hand, and kept drawing a trajectory in mid-air. With a cold light, he smiled deathly at Wei Jun's broken army formation.

Wei Ping and Dai Ling's trilogy governor looked at the heavy casualties under their command, and their eyes were cracked.

Staying behind is a mortal situation.

They have already realized it.

That's why, no longer spare your life.

"Close!"

"Close!"

"Shield forward!"

"Hand in hand, listen to my orders!"

They had been in the northwest frontier county for a long time and were familiar with cavalry warfare. They roared, drove the spearmen to prepare, and stared viciously at the Han cavalry who attacked again.

The sound of horseshoes was like thunder, and the two sides were drawn closer.

When the distance was about ten feet away, they shouted, "Hit the horse!"

Immediately, the spear turned into an arrow and shot straight out.

It directly caused nearly ten war horses to kneel down with mournful legs, and continuously knocked over several horses behind them who had no time to dodge.

The pawn on horseback was even worse, being thrown into the air by the huge inertia, and flew to the ground in front of him.With only a few screams in a hurry, countless horseshoes were trampled into meat.

However, if they met the enemy hastily, their meritorious deeds would stop here.

"kill!"

"kill!"

The torrent of galloping war horses passed by again, and the whistling ring-shou knife slashed again, playing the withering song of blooming life.

The soldiers of the Wei army had their heads cut off one after another. Under the remaining power of the blade, they flew into the air, whirled and fell into the dust, and were trampled into minced meat by horseshoes.In desperation, there were also constant soldiers who dropped their swords and spears, turned their heads and fled.

No matter how bravely the two governors fought, they could not turn the tide of the battle.

By the time Chen Shibu arrived, the war had already come to an end.

Because after the two governors died in battle, the rest either surrendered or left desperately.

Although Zhao Guang, who was so daring and unstoppable, did not continue to pursue the attack even though he was motivated to kill.

He led the army and galloped all the way. After several assaults and harvests, the horses produced in Wudu County were faintly exhausted.

And the poor should not chase after them.

Who would dare to conclude that the anti-Wei soldiers who fled earlier would not take advantage of this time difference to set up an ambush along the road?

However, what he didn't know was that the result of this time of galloping the horse to kill the enemy was not limited to saving Zheng Pu's troops and letting Wei Jun withdraw from Xiaoguan Road.

Longguan Road was unable to break through the street pavilion, and Xiao Guandao had no choice but to retreat again, which made Zhang Yun vaguely predict that Wei Guo would lose Longyou.And because he had supervised the two battles, he blamed himself and felt ashamed of his past kindness to Weiwu Cao Cao.

Therefore, after days of hard work and old age, with grief and indignation, he vomited blood not long after returning to Xiaoguan.

Soon, graduate.

(End of this chapter)