Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 745 Fighting in the Night

Yuan Xi did not have many regrets about Yu Jin, who seemed unable to surrender at present. After all, when his descendants faced Guan Yu, they did not surrender without mercy, let alone himself.

But in this way, I don’t know how many of my soldiers will die tonight.

But after so many evil battles, big and small, Yuan Xi has gradually come to realize the fact that if he wants to restore peace to the world, he will inevitably lose countless lives.

But on the other hand, I gave the soldier the income to raise a family, and the soldier sold his life to him. Both parties were willing to do so. Before going to the battlefield, everyone had already realized that they would not go back, and it was useless to think about it.

What Yuan Xi has to do now is not to waste this awareness and defeat the enemy in front of him as quickly as possible, so as to save the lives of his soldiers to the greatest extent!

When he saw that his soldiers were ready, he shouted, "One!"

When the soldier next to him who was responsible for beating the war drum heard the order, he immediately raised his arms, waved the drumsticks, and started beating the big drum fiercely.

When the archers in the rear formation heard this, they all drew their bows and pointed them diagonally in the air. When they heard the sound of the drum, they loosened their fingers and let their bows and arrows fly away!

Yu Jin heard the sound of wind above his head and quickly shouted: "Block!"

Upon hearing this, Cao's soldiers put their shields on their heads to ward off the incoming arrows.

At this time, Yuan Xi shouted: "Two!"

The soldiers beating the war drums had different beats, but the shield soldiers in the front line of Yuan's army were lying on the ground, revealing rows of crossbowmen behind them!

As soon as the drum beat stopped, hundreds of powerful crossbows shot out!

The soldiers who were defending the front line had already raised their shields above their heads. When Yu Jin saw what Yuan Xijun had done, he knew something bad was going to happen, so he quickly shouted: "Put down the shield in the front line!"

The three rows of soldiers in front of Cao Jun hurriedly raised their shields. As for the crossbow arrows above their heads, he could only leave it to fate, but smart soldiers would shrink down as much as possible to reduce the area hit by the bows and arrows.

At this time, arrows rained down from two directions, and Cao Jun's soldiers tried their best to block them. It seemed that they could still hold on, but Yuan Xi shouted at this moment: "Three!"

The soldiers of the Yuan Army in the front line got up from the ground, took out the bamboo tube from their arms, lit it, waved their hands towards the front line of the Cao Army, and threw it out!

The roar sounded, and Cao's army was caught off guard and fell down screaming.

When Yu Jin saw it, he immediately understood that this was the opponent's combined strategy!

In fact, Cao Jun already had countermeasures for using explosive bamboo tubes alone, either using shields and the corpses of his companions to suppress them, or picking them up and throwing them out. But that was an ideal situation. Now there was a rain of arrows above their heads and crossbow arrows hitting their faces. How could they escape? Take action?

Yu Jin knew that this was a critical moment, so he immediately gritted his teeth and shouted: "Aim at the enemy's front line and fire arrows with all your strength!"

Yuan Xi originally wanted the soldiers in the front line to attack after three rounds of shooting, but he did not expect that Yu Jin did not organize a defense at all, gave up his front line, and directly exchanged bows and arrows, attacking with attack. This was actually the most effective response. !

Seeing the Yu Forbidden Army's formation gradually spread out, Yuan Xi's expression became solemn. The opponent was obviously throwing in human lives regardless of the loss, and wanted to compete with him!

Yu Jin's infantry had a much greater numerical advantage, so exchanging lives for lives would be very unfavorable to Yuan Xi's situation, because if the fight continued like this, the opponent would still have Zhang Xiu, who didn't know when he would come back!

After Zhang Xiu comes back, he may help kill Cao's army, but he may also attack Yuan Xi's army. Yuan Xi cannot take this risk, so he must decide the winner before Zhang Xiu comes back!

He immediately rode forward and shouted: "Everyone, if you retreat today, you will die or not!"

"I, Yuan Xi, am here to charge into battle with you!"

Before he finished speaking, Lu Lingqi had already ridden out and led dozens of cavalry around Yu Jin's flank. Yuan Xi did not say anything to stop him, because at this time, it was time to use all his strength and no reservations!

When Yuan Xijun saw that his lord and his wife were already on the battlefield, he roared angrily, braved the rain of arrows from the opponent, and rushed towards the central army of the imperial army resolutely.

The two armies collided instantly. The sound of weapons and shields clashing resounded through the dark sky. Screams and the sound of weapons piercing flesh took turns. Blood sprayed out in the night. Yu Jin gritted his teeth and joined the battle group. He couldn't even take a step back. Only one party could survive this night!

On Zhang Liao's side, he was already fighting with Cao Chun. Both sides were cavalry, and they collided without fear of death. People kept falling off their horses and dying. Both sides were furious, and the corpses gradually piled up.

At this time, Cao Cao rode his horse to hide behind Cao's army. In the eyes of the soldiers, Cao Cao was calm and calm, and was constantly dispatching troops and generals, trying to command the tiger and leopard cavalry to completely annihilate Zhang Liao's army.

But at this moment, he was actually pretending to be calm, but in fact he was extremely guilty.

Because he didn't know whether Zhang Xiu had really betrayed him. Although it was now discovered that it was Yuan Xijun who secretly cheated on him, how could he know whether Zhang Xiu had colluded with him?

Now that Zhang Xiu has not appeared, if he arrives and surprises him, wouldn't he be doomed?

Now Yuan Xi and Cao Cao are both afraid of fighting wolves. Don't you know that Zhang Xiu himself is unwilling to make a choice. Now he is forming a formation to stop Liu Bei on the way back to Wancheng and has not continued the march at all.

Now the situation near Wancheng has fallen into a stalemate, and the struggles of all parties have formed a delicate balance, waiting for the arrival of the party that breaks the balance.

But it was Dian Wei's team that caused the situation to become unbalanced.

Dian Wei failed to get out of several conflicts, and he was not a fool. He immediately thought of it and ordered people to retreat to the north gate, pretending to attack from another direction.

Zhang Xun, who was in command at the scene, saw Cao's soldiers forming a pincer attack behind the gate of the camp. He judged that the enemy was trying to lure him into the camp. He immediately ordered the soldiers not to rush in without permission and returned to the formation.

After a while, he looked at the dark camp and found that Cao Jun was not moving in the right direction. He suddenly woke up and shouted: "It's broken!"

At that moment, he took the lead and rushed into the camp. He quickly killed Cao Cao's army who acted as a suspect, but Dian Wei and hundreds of people disappeared!

Zhang Xun was shocked, knowing that the other party had really run away, but now he had two choices, east gate or west gate?

The east gate is the direction from which Cao Cao escaped, and the west gate leads to Wancheng, where Yuan Xi is!

While he was hesitating, Zhang Fang next to him said: "Dian Wei is a very fierce person. I'm afraid he is more likely to attack the envoy directly."

Zhang Xun heard this, hesitated for a moment, and then shouted: "Pursue from the west gate!"

Cao Cao ran away and ran away. If Yuan Xi died, everything would be over for him!

Yuan Xi was attacking Cao Jun, but when he heard from the rear army that Dian Wei was leading troops to kill him, his face turned gloomy. What was Zhang Xun doing?

He had no choice but to divide his troops to resist. Yu Jin's formation was already in danger, but this way he could breathe easier. He keenly seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to counterattack and press forward.

Now Yuan Xidun felt the pressure increase, and a thought came to his mind, could it be that today's success is on the verge of failure, and he may even die here? In desperation, he had to let his soldiers shrink their defense. Under the attacks of Yu Jin and Dian Wei, Yuan Xi's main formation was slowly forced towards Wancheng.

Fortunately, Zhang Xun arrived in time and joined the battle group. The two sides were in a complete melee. Someone fell every moment. In the dark, no one knew the casualties of the enemy, but they just slashed with their swords desperately.

When Jia Xu in the city learned that Cao's army was beginning to gain the upper hand, he smiled miserably at Zhuge Liang, who was still grabbing his neck, and said, "Young man, was your bet wrong?"

"When Cao's army enters the city, I will survive, but you will die."

Zhuge Liang said calmly: "No, the prince will die before me."

He exerted slight force on his fingers, "I'm going to strangle you to death now."

Jia Xu immediately felt out of breath and shouted quickly: "Stop, stop, stop!"

"Did you hear that you often think of yourself as Guan Zhong Leyi? How do you act like a counselor now?"

Zhuge Liang continued to exert force with his fingers, "Le Yi is a general."

Jia Xu was pinched so much that she stuck out her tongue, "I'm done with it, what are you going to do?"

He was about to cry. This young man refused to accept soft words and wanted to pinch himself to death. Is that what happened?

Zhuge Liang said: "I want the prince to send troops out of the city to attack Cao's army."

"This is impossible!" Jia Xu shouted: "If Cao Jun wins and enters the city, I will die!"

Zhuge Liang continued to exert force, "You can definitely push me on top of me then.

"But if you don't agree now, you will die soon."

"One, two,"

Jia Xu finally couldn't stand it anymore and shouted: "Okay, okay, I'll send troops!"

He took out the military talisman from his arms and threw it to Zhuge Liang, "Take this and go to the city gate to mobilize troops. You can mobilize at least a few hundred people!"

Zhuge Liang looked at the token in front of him and hesitated. If he let go of Jia Xu and mobilized his own troops, could Huang Yueying be able to control Jia Xu?

He thought for a while, then lifted Jia Xu up and said, "Let's go to the city head together."

"You will take command from the top of the city."

He asked Huang Yueying to take the broken piano, pull out the strings and wrap them around Jia Xu's neck twice, "If you are not honest, your head will fall off if I exert force."

Jia Xu's face turned bitter. Why was this young man so cautious?

When Yuan Xi learned that the gates of Wancheng were open to dispatch troops, he felt for a moment that he was going to die here.

But when he saw the thousands of soldiers coming in bypassing Yuan Xi's formation and rushing towards Cao Jun, Yuan Xi was a little confused. What was going on?

The balance of victory and defeat has returned to balance again.

After another half hour of fighting, the real change finally arrived.

Cao Chun, who was fighting with Zhang Liao, was about to stab Zhang Liao with his spear when an extremely long arrow came through the air and penetrated deeply into his back.

Cao Chun screamed and almost lost his grip on the spear. He subconsciously turned his horse's head and ran away. Zhang Liao took advantage of the situation and stabbed out the halberd. Cao Chun was hit by the halberd on his shoulder. He could no longer hold the spear and immediately dropped the spear. He reluctantly bent down and fell down. He fled in panic on his horse.

His guards wanted to come to the rescue, but a dense rain of arrows came and shot them down one after another.

Everyone listened to the definition and saw that a general holding a big bow was galloping towards him in the distance. Zhang Liao was overjoyed and shouted: "General Taishi, well done!"

Taishi Ci finally arrived. He and Lu Xun had separately marched forward in a hurry, but lost many people while crossing the swamp along the road. Finally, Taishi Ci mobilized the most elite soldiers to rush on their way, and now he finally arrived first with Bai Shiqi.

However, he did not join the battle immediately, but took action at the right time. Cao Chun was seriously injured at this time. Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao attacked from both sides and went straight to Cao Jun's main formation.

Cao Cao, who was supervising the formation, saw this and knew that there was no hope of a comeback this time. He originally wanted to wait for Yu Jindian Wei to come all the way, but now he can't wait!

He made a prompt decision and fled hastily with Cao Chun. The soldiers behind him could not control it. Under the cover of Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao, almost all of Cao's army was killed and fled. Only a hundred cavalry protected Cao Cao and Cao Chun escaped.

When Taishi Ci saw Zhang Liao sending hundreds of men to pursue him, he wondered: "General, why didn't you pursue him deeply?"

Zhang Liao sighed: "It's too dark, so we may not be able to catch him. The key is that the journey will be dangerous for you!"

When Taishi Ci heard Zhang Liao's story about the battle, he was shocked and said, "Now let's hurry up. If something happens to you, where will we go?"

At this time, Yuan Xi's situation was already in danger, because Dian Wei was only thirty steps away from him!

Lu Lingqi led people up to stop him, but before he could reach Sanhe, Dian Wei's halberd hit him on his armor, and he vomited blood and retreated.

Dian Wei had a sneer on his face. He rushed in on horseback and faced Yuan Xi who was within ten steps. He galloped towards Yuan Xi and raised the big iron halberd in his hand high. "Boy, suffer death!"

The next moment, I heard someone say from behind: "You are the one who died!"

(End of this chapter)