Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 451 Kong Ming Sleeps, Kills Zhang He, Captures Xia Houba

The horns of the Han army were sounding continuously, and the Han army who were still fighting outside heard this order, threw away their helmets and armor, and fled to the rear in embarrassment.

The Han army in the middle immediately changed the way of fighting and dragged out the rear baggage vehicles.

This is the formation.

Some resemble a circular formation, but the actual formation is an umbrella formation. The front row forms a human-shaped tip defense, and the central army is thickened to resist the enemy's charge.

A large number of Han troops fighting on the periphery began to run to the rear as if defeated, while Cao Jun continued to chase and kill.

They have only one formation - no formation.

It was difficult to maintain a position in the process of chasing and killing. Although the people fighting in front of the Han army had no formation and could only be chased and killed under normal circumstances, there were behind them.

Soon the baggage carts were placed on the periphery, and the fleeing Han army ran into the baggage carts. The outer battlefield was in chaos. At least seven or eight thousand Han troops had no time to escape, and were chased and killed by Cao Jun.

But soon when the Cao army assembled and pursued, the crossbows behind the baggage carts began to show their power, covering the retreat of the Han army, which greatly reduced the losses of the regrouped Han army.

At this time, the battlefield was already full of corpses of both the enemy and us. The Cao army did not take advantage, and the Han army did not have the upper hand, and they were still entangled in the see-saw.

But the balance was broken with the offensive of the Cao army in the rear, because the main force of the Cao army had arrived. This time Xia Houyuan judged that Zhuge Liang's retreat had committed a military taboo. Except that the rear army was not sent, the left and right wings and the front main force were sent.

There are nearly 10 people under pressure, and they spread all over the wilderness.Cao Jun's soldiers were all within his field of vision. The reason why the Han Army was able to retreat was because the battlefield was too large and the various parts were scattered and fighting.

If the battlefield is compressed, even if the Han army is well-trained, the crowded situation will definitely lead to large-scale chaos in the entire formation.

If Cao Jun takes advantage of the situation to attack, he will undoubtedly be defeated.

But spreading out the battlefield was obviously within Zhuge Liang's plan long ago. The plate itself is big, and the site will not be bloated if it is spread out a little bit more.

So far, the Han army has only dragged the baggage vehicles on the outer periphery of the north. The Cao army roared in the rear and the horn blew. In the night, a large number of Cao army soldiers began to return to the cavalry, mounted their horses again, and wanted to launch an attack from the two wings.

Zhuge Liang remained unmoved and allowed the situation to change like this. Soon Cao Jun was entangled with them again. The situation in the east became more severe, and several formations were scattered due to surprise attacks.

About two quarters of an hour later, the main force of Cao Jun finally arrived. Following Xia Houshang's order, tens of thousands of Cao Jun's infantry rushed over.

At the same time, the Han army was in the middle of the line, and the high-pitched drums sounded again.

"drum?"

In traditional military operations, beating drums and horns often bear the command of active attack.

In the distance Xia Houshang had just pressed the infantry up, and the whole army was attacking, when they heard the dense drumbeat, they were shocked, wondering why the Han army dared to launch a counterattack.

But in the next second, countless arrows rained down on the dense jungle in Ziyun Mountain on the left, dispelling his doubts and making him terrified.

No wonder the Han army suddenly shrank their formation and began to fight back defensively. It turned out that the opponent had already set up an ambush in the mountains.

In fact, under normal circumstances, even if the Han army is well-trained and elite, when they encounter such a sudden pursuit, their morale will often be broken and it will be difficult to fight for a long time.

The reason why they can persevere until now is entirely because the superior officers have told them that if Cao Jun pursues them, don't be afraid. The prime minister has set up an ambush, and the reinforcements will arrive soon.

This news boosted the morale of the army, and the soldiers firmly believed that they would win, and they sacrificed their lives to entangle Cao Jun.

Otherwise, it would have already fled from the beginning.

Among the rebellious army, Cao Jun on the side of Ziyun Mountain was caught off guard and many people were shot and killed.Immediately afterwards, a large number of Han troops came out of the mountain and attacked Cao Jun's right flank.

For a while, even if Xia Houshang had immediately ordered to stop the march and gather the troops back, it still caused the right wing to be defeated.

"what happened?"

Zhang Xi, who was fighting with the enemy on the right wing of the Han army, suddenly heard the roar of the mountains and the tsunami. Just as the sky was about to dawn, he vaguely saw countless Han troops rushing down from the mountain like a tide in Ziyun Mountain in the northwest.

Oops, ambushed.

Zhang Yun suddenly felt bad, and quickly wanted to rein in his horse and flee from the battlefield, but there were Han troops all around him, and he couldn't charge out in a short time.

If you look down from a high altitude, you will see that at dawn, the corpses of Cao Jun and Han Jun are scattered everywhere on the vast land with a radius of more than ten miles.

Gan Gui and Zhang Bao were covered in blood at this time. Although they were generals, their force value was still slightly lower than that of Zhang Fei and Gan Ning, so there were actually several wounds on their bodies.

If it weren't for the desperate resistance of the guards, and the command of the Han army, I am afraid that the two brothers and sisters in trouble would have been rushed to death by the Wei army.

During the chaotic battle, the two men each brought their personal guards and happened to meet each other. After the two sides met, two teams of Wei Jun not far away held ring-shoulders in their hands and howled like wild wolves, attacking them.

Zhang Bao got up his courage and stabbed one Wei Jun to death first, and was about to stab another one next to him, when he heard Gan Gui yelled and lowered his head, he instinctively shrank back in a hurry.

With a sound of "shua", he dodged a steel knife, and then looked up to see the enemy on the left sweeping in astonishment. Before he could break out in a cold sweat, the enemy on the right had already raised his knife to attack him. Fortunately, Gan Gui's support was in time to help him Block the enemy on the right, and the enemy on the left will be stabbed to death by him.

"Brothers."

Zhang Bao shouted, and the two stood back to back, helping each other defend against the enemies on both sides.

Although they were not as powerful as Zhang Fei and Gan Ning when they were young, they often fought and practiced martial arts together, so they cooperated very closely. More than a dozen Wei troops around attacked, but they were all killed by them.

In a short time, the ground was already covered with the corpses of enemy soldiers.While they were fighting, the sound of horseshoes came from the side. Turning around, a general of the Wei army rushed over.

Zhang Bao and Gan Gui let out an angry roar, and rushed over together, one stabbing the enemy general, and the other cutting down the horse, trying to pick the Wei army general off the horse.

That general was Zhang He.

Zhang He often chooses to evacuate when he sees that the situation is not good. When he finds that the Han army is in an ambush, he wants to rush out of the killing circle and escape to the periphery, but encounters a small group of Han troops blocking him on the way.

In order to survive, he also roared and bent over to avoid Zhang Bao's prick, and split Gan Gui's attack on the horse with a knife.

Although he has armor on his body, if the enemy's powerful blow is received hard by the armor, due to the inertia of the horse's charge and the force of the impact, it is very likely that he will be poked off from the horse.

So Zhang Yun wisely avoided their sharp edge, and didn't intend to fight them at all. After avoiding Zhang Bao's stab and blocking Gan Gui's attack, he wanted to stand out from the encirclement with his sword.

However, the two refused to give up and continued to fight and intercept.Even when Zhang He wanted to rein in his horse and rush over, a Han soldier next to him chopped off the horse's leg.

The horse stumbled and Zhang He fell from the horse.

When he got up from the ground in a mess, Zhang Baogangui had already killed him again.

This made Zhang He angry.

It is true that he is afraid of death, but he can also unleash powerful force in a desperate situation. Even Zhang Fei, the peak in history, can't stop Zhang Yun who is determined to escape, let alone the two youngsters?

At that time, Zhang He roared angrily, and rushed towards Zhang Bao Gangui. The long knife in his hand was the first to strike at Zhang Bao like lightning.

Zhang Bao was caught off guard and hurried to fight the party.In the first day of junior high school, Zhang Bao felt that something was wrong the moment the swords and grasses collided. The spear in his hand was slammed by Zhang Xi and almost let go. If Gan Gui didn't help cover it, he might be defeated by the enemy in just a few rounds.

The three of them were fighting together, Zhang He swung around from left to right, his saber was swift and fierce, and he slashed at the two of them like a gust of wind and rain.

In the distance, Xia Houba was still calling for the soldiers to fight hard. At this time, the sky was already bright, and it was the time of sunrise. The sun was rising, and the earth was bright.

On the vast land in the east, billows of dust were rolled up at unknown times.

The Han army and Cao army on the eastern battlefield heard the movement here for the first time, and those who were fighting desperately had no time to look at it. Only a few soldiers who had already dealt with their opponents and took a short rest in the wilderness turned their heads.

They saw that on the distant horizon, a disc-like orange-red sun was rising, and there were countless black shadows moving under the sun, filling the entire horizon like a tide.

Because of the backlight, at first glance, I thought those people were wearing black armored Cao Wei soldier costumes, which shocked the Han army for a while and terrified them.

But soon the people over there were getting closer and closer, and their appearance and the color of their clothes were quickly exposed to their vision.

I saw that the cavalry were all wearing orange-red Han army uniforms, with small armor on the outside, like a fiery red sun, almost fused with the sun.

It's the light cavalry of the big man!
In an instant, all the Han troops boiled up, their morale soared, and they shouted to spread the news throughout the battlefield.

Zhuge Liang still stood on the chariot and looked into the distance. This battle was not the first time he had fought against Cao Jun, but it was the first time he had coordinated the overall situation as a general, so even though he had planned it long ago, he was still very nervous.

However, when the cavalry appeared, the hanging heart was finally relieved, and he felt a little tired after not sleeping all night. He slowly sat on the four-wheeled cart, and told Wang Ping: "I will take a nap for a while, and wait until we defeat the Wei army." Then, wake me up."

Wang Ping couldn't laugh or cry, at such a critical juncture, the prime minister was going to sleep.

However, he also knew that General Hussars often advised the Prime Minister not to work too hard, and try not to be trivial about state affairs. Now that he is in charge of the entire military affairs, he has not rested all night, and it is normal to be sleepy.

the most important is.

The battle is set.

The cavalry in the wilderness rushed towards Cao Jun's left flank like a tidal wave with the rolling wind and thunder.

The most terrifying thing is that there are [-] heavy cavalry mixed in.

Roaring in like a heavy tank, it rushed into the sea of ​​people and chopped melons and vegetables to defeat Xia Houshang's Cao Jun's left wing.

At that time, Gan Ning attacked Cao Jun's right flank from Ziyun Mountain, and Xia Houshang was struggling to support him. As a result, the Han cavalry came and broke through Cao Jun's left flank cleanly, and even wrapped Cao Jun like dumplings.

Two bread and butter!

Cao Jun was ambushed, and the entire army began to collapse for a while.

At this time, Zhang He didn't even know the situation, because he was in the main battlefield ahead, surrounded by soldiers fighting with the enemy and us for miles.

Zhang Fei's cavalry was even seven or eight miles away from him, attacking Cao's main force further north.

So Zhang Yun didn't know the news that the Han cavalry had arrived.

He is now preparing to kill Zhang Bao.

The two sides fought for forty or fifty rounds. Zhang Bao and Gan Gui were young and strong, and kept fighting him in a war of attrition. The elderly Zhang Xi could hardly hold on anymore.

For this reason, he made a dangerous move, planning to kill or seriously injure a person with a strategy, and then escaped in the chaos.

During the chaotic battle, he pretended to be exhausted and fell to the ground.

Zhang Bao was inexperienced, so he wanted to go up and capture Zhang He alive, but Zhang He grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it over.

"mean!"

Seeing this, Gan Gui was furious and went up to chop with a knife.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yun simply used his back to catch it, but the knife in his hand stabbed straight at Zhang Bao.

He was wearing armor.

Taking the knife hard won't hurt.

At the critical moment, Zhang Bao must die.

An arrow from the rebellious army pierced through the air like a cloud, directly piercing Zhang Xi's neck.

The knife stopped less than five centimeters in front of Zhang Bao, and when it fell down due to inertia, it scratched Zhang Bao's calf.

"what!"

Zhang Bao screamed in pain, his eyes were blurred and he could only stab wildly with his spear, and almost stabbed Gan Gui.

"Father!"

Gan Gui took a few steps back and looked to the right.

He saw Gan Ning riding on horseback, about ten zhang away from them, put away the carved bow, reined in his horse and said, "Take Zhang Bao to the rear, the army is about to charge!"

It wasn't until this time that Gan Gui looked around.

I saw that the Han army had begun to launch a full-scale counterattack in the wilderness, covering the mountains and plains, and the Han army was charging everywhere.

After the Cao army encountered an ambush, it began to be defeated in large numbers. A large number of Cao troops threw away their helmets and armor, and fled northward one after another.

Under the sun, countless Han soldiers ran past Gan Gui like a tide, still shouting cheers like wild wolves.

"Won!"

This idea suddenly came to Gan Gui's mind.

Looking back, Zhang Bao had heard the conversation between him and Gan Ning, rubbing his eyes, sitting on the ground hugging his injured leg and screaming.

After thinking for a while, he cut off Zhang Xi's head first, then went up to support Zhang Bao and retreated.

Although I don't know who this general is, this person looks very old, and he is wearing the armor of a Wei army general. He must be a famous senior general. Let's take the head back first.

And when Gan Gui brought Zhang Bao back to the rear army, Xia Houba and dozens of Cao cavalry behind him were running away like crazy on the northern battlefield.

The ambush of the Han army caught Cao Jun off guard, and the situation on the entire battlefield was suddenly reversed, so he could only choose to evacuate.

Just as his horse was galloping, dozens of Han cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance behind him. The leader saw Xia Houba at a glance, urged the horses and shouted: "Uncle Zhongquan, don't run away, dismount and accept surrender!" Come on. Come back to the south with me, and I promise not to kill you."

Hearing his words, Xia Houba ran even faster, and while frantically beating his horse, he kept turning his head to look at the giant man with all his beard and hair.

Although Xia Houba wanted to kill that person, but the situation was stronger than him.

If you don't run now, you will really be a prisoner.

However, after running for less than three miles, the war horse under his crotch neighed suddenly, and accidentally stepped on the air and fell to the ground.

Xia Houba flew out of the body, and his head fell into the mud, his head was bloody.

After he managed to stagger up from the ground, he opened his eyes again, and saw a big furry hand grabbing at him, accompanied by a devilish voice.

"Hahahahahaha, where is uncle going, obediently follow me back to the south, I guarantee you prosperity and wealth!"

(End of this chapter)