Delong

Chapter 245 Array Row (11)

Sima Zheng seemed to have misjudged it, because the battle that was originally like rolling in a quagmire suddenly declared the victory or defeat like a landslide.

Following the failure of the official army's large-scale attack on Zhang Xingjun's formation, and the subsequent fleeing of the generals, countless dethroning dragon troops rushed up the official road at the foot of Li Mountain, from the water to the foot of the mountain, completely locking the preset battlefield.The nearly [-] officers and soldiers locked in their pockets were completely at a loss, and immediately began to flee wantonly.

As judged by all experienced officers, the seemingly smooth water swamp on the west side is actually impossible for a large army to pass through effectively. The muddy, thick straw and part of the area where the water is as deep as the thigh constitute a huge trap.But this trap looks so harmless, like a bait, it constantly lures the officers and soldiers to give up their resistance and swarm here.

And their escape, in turn, further destroyed the organizational ability and resistance determination of the Qilu officers and soldiers in the preset battlefield, making the Dragon Army advance smoothly, recruiting, mopping up and massacring.At this time, there still seemed to be some distance before evening. From this perspective, the most tragic incidents would appear one after another.

After sitting in the rain for an unknown amount of time, Zhang Xing finally stood up.

Interestingly, as the true energy dissipated, the Maza under his buttocks was instantly frozen into a lump, and even the red-bottomed "Depose" flag above his head seemed to be frozen to a rigid state.

A thin layer of ice had already condensed on the ground of the previous confrontation.

Zhang Xing stepped forward on the ice, and walked to the side of Bai Yousi, who was obviously at a loss and ashamed, with his hands behind his back, and then stared at him with great interest.Seeing this scene, many elites of the Dragon Clan behind them just tacitly stayed still, or avoided this place to hunt down and capture them.

"Sisi, are you ashamed?"

After Bai Yousi avoided his gaze in embarrassment again, Zhang Xing simply opened his mouth with a smile.

"Did you expect this scene?" Bai Yousi, who lowered his head halfway, almost felt resentful.

"It can't be called..." Zhang Xing shook his head while looking at Li Shan. "But I must be mentally prepared... It's just that it's rare to see you, a heroine, being so shy and weak, so I deliberately watched it for a while."

"..."

"To put it bluntly, as far as I am concerned, success or failure in this battle is up to me, gains and losses are up to me, and honor and disgrace belong to me!" Zhang Xing continued to smile slowly as he looked at the soldiers of the Dragon Army who were cheering up and down in the rain. "Of course, it can also be said that success or failure lies with the Dragon Gang, Xu Shiying's local tyrants, and even Li Shu, but it is hard to say that it is with you... because you have obviously felt a little out of it since you came here. You know that the world will You know that Wei is hopeless, you know that your father did something wrong, you also know the helplessness of farmers and common people, but because of your background and experience, you don’t know what you are. Which side... Even if I told you something, I still have doubts, don't I?"

Bai Yousi's thoughts were chaotic, and it was obvious that she was easily fooled by the other party again.

"So." Zhang Xingyou sighed, "You only participated in it because it was my battle, because of our relationship, instead of treating this battle as your own."

After saying this, the two were silent for a moment.

"I just..." After a while, Bai Yousi suddenly spoke.

"I guessed it, it's the pass your master mentioned last time, right?" Zhang Xing blurted out. "Sima Zheng should be the same, and it seems that I am no longer weird... I can only say that although you all met by chance, you participated in this battle after all. It was opened directly..."

"If you say that, after all, I shouldn't soften my heart and let Zhang Changgong go." Bai Yousi became more and more ashamed. "There's always going to be a sideline."

"That's not the case." Zhang Xing was still frank. "After I stopped Sima Zheng, the victory or defeat has been decided. Whoever lives and who dies is not considered a duel... Besides, do you really think that Zhang Changgong escaped?"

"What do you mean?" Bai Yousi felt relieved when he heard the first half of the sentence, but suddenly became nervous when he heard the second half.

"Nothing interesting." Zhang Xing answered calmly. "In this battle, you and Sima Erlong have doubts. You don't know what you are in this battle, and you don't know if this battle belongs to you. It's normal... But what about Zhang Changgong? He is a member of the Qilu Army. No. [-] in name is actually the backbone of the army, and not only Zhang Changgong, Zhang Xuguo and others also escaped? But they can't just end this battle so easily."

"You said they would come back again?" Bai Yousi's heart moved slightly, and he couldn't help turning his head to look at the fugitive officers and soldiers trekking hard in the cracks in the crop fields to the west.

"Maybe!" Zhang Xing said indifferently. "But maybe they won't come back, and those who won't come back will not stop here. Maybe they will continue to resist, maybe they will be caught up and surrender soon, maybe they will throw everything away on the surface, and then secretly brewing Make a comeback... the worst thing is, maybe you will become a dung on the side of the road, and you will be like a rotten tree from now on, living is equivalent to dying."

"Because this is their battle?" Bai Yousi couldn't ask.

"Not bad." Zhang Xing turned around and looked directly at the other party, with a condescending attitude. "This battle is theirs, it is our war with them, those of us who win will gain something from it, and those of them who lose will also lose something... This kind of thing may be life and death, it may be fame, status , but more than that..."

Bai Yousi nodded slightly, somewhat understanding something in his heart.

"Sisi, you are not settled, you are still hesitating, but don't be afraid, this is normal." Seeing this, Zhang Xing also relaxed a little. "Just keep going. Sooner or later, you will make up your mind and fight your own battle without hesitation. Sooner or later, we will fight side by side."

"Why are you so sure? Why don't you worry that I will become your enemy sooner or later?" Bai Yousi asked quickly.

"Because..." Zhang Xing paused for a moment, then his tone became affirmative. "There are some truths and things, once you understand them, it will be unbearable for you to go back and look at some bright things before."

Bai Yousi pondered for a while, but in the end he stopped talking, and just watched the endgame of the battlefield side by side with the opponent.

"I can't just leave like this!"

Not far from the foot of the mountain, just two miles away, before returning to the reserve team of the new force, Zhang Xuguo, who was surrounded by thousands of defeated soldiers and was in a mess, suddenly reined in his horse and turned back in a daze.

The rest of the generals were all stunned, and suddenly they all fell silent.

"The old man knows..." Zhang Xuguo's beard was "wiped" off by a third, exposing flesh and blood. At this time, he opened his mouth, as if speaking with blood in his mouth. "If you want to speak at this time, I'm afraid you can say countless things. When you talk about reason, there are also countless reasons. When you explain, everyone can explain... It's just that things are up to now, what is said, said, and explained. , what's the use?"

At this point, the person was heartbroken and burst into tears.

And the surrounding high-ranking officers of the Qilu Army couldn't help crying.

"If you have to say it, there is only one sentence." After a short pause, Zhang Xuguo's beard immediately trembled. "After leaving, Wuyan will return to Qi County again, because more than half of Qi County's children have been left surrounded by bandit troops... Not to mention, the life and death of General Yu is still unknown!"

At this point, Zhang Xuguo glanced over the rest of the defeated generals. Although he paused for a moment on Fan Hu, who had his head down, he still didn't say a word, and then he bowed his head and beat his horse back.

There were several knights around, but most of them moved a little and then stopped in place.

As Zhang Xuguo himself said, there are countless reasons for insisting on reasoning... The emperor abandoned the world first, and the three expeditions to Dongyi destroyed the eastern border the most. After visiting five or six counties, he was completely worthy of the Wei court; and before this battle, Qi County was exhausted to the extreme, and the conflict between Zhang Xuguo and other foreign elites and the local children of Qi County had also completely intensified; and this adventurous march It is entirely Zhang Xuguo's further advance after the temporary success of the military adventure in response to the political requirements of the Eastern Capital.

Then today's disastrous defeat, Zhang Xuguo's disgrace to see the elders of Qi County, and his own death, everyone should have nothing to say.

He seeks benevolence and obtains benevolence.

However, it's no problem for Zhang Xuguo to die, what about the others?

Mixed with rain and mud, in an indescribably desolate silence, Yiqi suddenly started, turned around, and chased after Zhang Xuguo. Everyone looked up in astonishment, and then became more and more astonished, because this person was actually Zhang Qing, a general. special.

"Old Zhang!" Someone yelled in a panic, which was another sign of surrender. "What are you going to do? You alone..."

"I'm a general!" Zhang Qingte looked back, speaking simply. "The soldiers are gone, the brothers are gone, and the boss is gone... What's the point of me living alone? Now go back and fight for your life. If you can save a subordinate, it's one... Isn't it just one life? A thief ten years ago I wasn’t afraid all the time, but now I’m afraid?”

As he said that, the person disappeared directly into the rain curtain.

If it is said that when Zhang Xuguo left, many people were in complicated moods, with a faint mentality of "you deserve to die", then when Zhang Qingte left at this time, the rest of the people could no longer maintain the most superficial calmness. All kinds of confusion, astonishment, incomprehension, and panic in everyone's hearts also completely surged... It was hard for them to understand why they had won dozens of battles in the past, and why they lost everything today?It was hard for them to imagine, how would they face everyone when they returned to Qi County after nearly 2 people died in World War I?How to face the next situation?They don't even know how to survive in troubled times without soldiers and horses?

Will the Dragon Gang take advantage of the situation and sweep away?

Will the Qilu counties, which have been suppressed to the extreme for a long time, rebel again?
Will the rebels who have not been wiped out come back?
Where will my family go by then?

The other people present were terrified, and some people suddenly kicked their horses, but they did not go in the direction of the battlefield where there were a lot of people shouting and killing, but galloped to the north or east.

Obviously, they want to return to their lair and stronghold urgently, clean up the situation, or try to escape.

Someone took the lead, and the rest left one after another...Among them, two people turned back to the battlefield.

For a while, soon there were only Jia Wugen and the Fan brothers left.

"Old Jia..." Fan Hu spoke with difficulty.

"I want to go back to Qi County." Jia Wugen remained expressionless. "I'm the new governor of Qi County. The army is defeated in front of me. I don't know whether the governor is alive or dead. I have to clean up the situation."

Fan Hu thought of Jia Runshi who he had met by Cheng Zhili's side when he was in Lu County, and smiled wryly, but didn't say anything.

Therefore, Jia Wugen also led the remnant troops to leave, but turned directly to the east from the north of Lishan Mountain... This defeated army, nine out of ten, was his subordinates, and the other defeated troops followed, although they had their own subordinates. .

For a while, there were only two brothers and a dozen of Fan's personal guards left.

"I'll go... I'll follow the manager to find General Yu."

After a while, Fan Hu swallowed dryly, and then spoke in a low voice.

At this time, Fan Bao suddenly dismounted and hugged the horse's neck: "Brother! You can't go! If you go, I can't control my little sister! And I won't deal with Cheng Zhili and those people! Me! Four thousand soldiers, half of them can be scattered immediately!"

"It's not like this." Fan Hu whispered to each other immediately, tears streaming down his face. "Listen to my second son... You are actually smarter and more refined than me, I have always known in my heart; and, do you think that at this time, everyone else has collapsed, and it is a good thing for us to keep four thousand elite soldiers from Qi County? Half of the soldiers dispersed , leave a brave husband who seems to be ignorant, and a young girl who can't be restrained, but let us be tolerated. Now I only hate that I don't have the foresight of Lao Jia, who is an official and throws his son out; We guard the stockade in front of the powerful, but we covet a bit of official position, the two brothers came out together..."

When Fan Bao heard this, he felt great grief, and immediately gritted his teeth with tears in his eyes and asked, "Why don't we lower our eyebrows and be small, and go to surrender together? Now hand over the army, and just ask us brothers and sisters to continue to live? OK?"

Fan Hu shook his head: "Who knows if the imperial court will call again? You have seen that Sima Zheng today... Today, he simply demoted the Dragon Gang, what should we do next time the imperial army comes again? We have to play by the rules! Our brothers have received Zhang Xuguo's kindness, and we have entered the court within a year, and we have to return our lives!"

Fan Bao hugged the horse's head and said nothing, but he was still unwilling to let go.

In the end, it was Fan Hu who gritted his teeth, whipped his horse vigorously, and drove the horse towards the foot of the mountain. Fan Bao did not dare to use his true energy, but was rolled on the ground by the horse and fell into the mud. It took a long time before he got up, and then he lowered his head and got on a horse, and took the remaining five or six riders to the rear.

But after walking for a long time, he saw four thousand soldiers approaching him, he couldn't help being shocked, he hurried up to greet him and asked, "Didn't I say that you are not allowed to move without my military order?"

The general replied nervously in person: "It's Zhang Junshou! He just came back and said that the main force of our army was besieged. Let us rush forward with the whole army and try to open the passage by cooperating inside and outside!"

Fan Bao was stunned on the spot, but he was stunned for a moment before he realized who Zhang Junshou was, and then his heart turned cold.

Sure enough, in just a moment, he saw Zhang Changgong personally supervising the army forward on horseback. This handsome young man from a famous family who always wore a silver-gray mask, now with disheveled hair, flashed across his handsome, fair and feminine face. There was an obvious bloodstain, and the whole person had a grim expression, and he didn't even look at Fan Bao.

How could Fan Bao dare to speak? He waited for the other party to pass by before going to the rear army to find his younger sister.

But soon, he got another bad news.

"Fan Siniang left early. She heard that the battle ahead was critical. As early as half an hour ago, when the second master had just set off, he took two hundred cavalry around Mount Li to raid the rear of the bandit camp." A familiar officer hurried forward while giving an answer.

Fan Bao stood on the side of the road, his face dazed, and then he suddenly recovered, as if he had been shocked by the rain, but he followed the main force with the last few horses and turned back to the battlefield.

At the same moment, Yu Baimei, who had the highest status in the encirclement before, was already heavy at this time, and could no longer display any qi, especially the half of the body that was hit by the arrow, almost completely unconscious. Such a predicament, but Just like Shang Huaizhi who was killed by him, he was blocked in the col at the foot of Mount Li.

"Yu Baimei!"

Wang Shuyong looked at his old opponent in front of him with a grim mouth. "I'll ask you one last time, to surrender, or not to surrender?!"

Yu Baimei, who was leaning against a small tree, looked at the other party, opened his mouth, and seemed to want to say something, but no sound came out.

"Boss Wang!"

A gallop came galloping through the muddy water. "Shang Huai'en, brother of leader Shang, went to Zhang Dalong and cried, begging to kill this person. Many other brothers said that this person killed us too much, and Zhang Datou had an order. If I find this place, this person will not surrender. There is no need to persuade any more!"

Wang Shuyong sneered, and turned to look at the other party: "Yu Baimei, did you hear that? Half a year ago, when you wantonly killed us and deposed the leader of the Dragon Gang, Erlang, did you think about this time?"

Yu Baimei spoke again, but she slowed down, and finally managed to make a sound: "You guys, everyone can... kill him! Yu...you hate that you don't kill enough!"

Hearing this, Wang Wulang raised his head and laughed loudly, the laughter shook the field, and the soldiers around the laughing were stunned, then suddenly stopped, pointing his finger at the other party: "Good momentum! If that's the case, I, the thief, will leave you alone today. corpse!"

After saying a word, he took down the iron bow from the guard's back again, and then walked forward, only came to a distance of twenty or thirty steps away from the opponent, and then stopped, but he used his true energy and raised his hand to shoot an arrow, which easily shot through The opponent's armor is deep in the middle of the abdomen.

By this time, Yu Baimei had no other reaction except for a muffled snort.

Immediately, Wang Wulang didn't deliberately aim, but fired more than ten arrows in succession until one barrel of arrows was shot in the rain... The bow string was damp and the arrow feathers were wet. Once shot, it was quite random, but Wang Wulang used Lihuo Qi , coupled with his excellent archery skills, after shooting more than ten arrows, seven or eight arrows actually hit him, nailing the opponent to the small tree.

When the big iron bow was put away, blood flowed out from seven or eight holes in the opponent's body, and spread to the puddles on the ground that were already red at some point.

Of course, Yu Baimei himself died without knowing when.

was 24 years old.

PS: Good night everyone.

　Recommending the old author's new book "Marquis of Jing'an", the academy student Chen Qing beat and killed his classmate, but the crime fell on Shen Yi. Shen Yi died unjustly in the county government prison, but the new Shen Yi woke up in the prison...

　　


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