The loud sound of the drums and horns shook the battlefield.
Lu Zhi finally knew the name of this brave general who rushed into battle, and murmured:
"Zhao Zilong from Changshan? What a pity! I, a hero from the north, was used by the south."
Lu Zhi's son Lu Yu didn't have so many complicated emotions. When he formally respected the hero before he reached the crown, he saw Zhao Yun's horse as bright as light and the war horse as dragon, and his heart was agitated.
But among the staff and military officials behind Lu Zhi, there was one person who looked strange and embarrassed.
This person was none other than Zhao Yun's elder brother, Zhao Jun. He never expected that his runaway brother would appear on the battlefield at this moment, and what was even more unexpected was that he would appear as an enemy general.
Zhao Jun's mind was in confusion. He didn't know why his always loyal brother would turn to the thieves.
But at this time, Lu Zhi’s voice came:
"Zhao Jun, you are also from Changshan, do you know this Zhao Zilong?"
What can Zhao Jun say?
That he is his brother?
Just now, his younger brother killed Xu Zhi in front of all Lu Zhi's disciples and former officials, and formed a deadly feud. If he answered truthfully, even if Lu Zhi was generous and did not pursue the case, Xu Zhi's senior brothers would definitely find him.
He is in trouble.
At this time, Zhao Jun was living under the fence, and he was not considered to be a member of the Zhenbei Army. If he turned against him, he might be killed even if he went to the toilet in the middle of the night.
So in this case, no one would know if Zhao Jun concealed it.
But Zhao Jun still told the truth, and he admitted generously:
"I dare not hide it, Commander. This man named Zhao Zilong is indeed my long-lost brother."
As soon as this statement came out, the whole audience was stunned, but Lu Yu's eyes were full of surprise and surprise.
Sure enough, when everyone realized that Zhao Jun was not joking, the Zhenbei Army generals who were friendly with Xu Ju, who had just died in battle, began to sneer and look at Zhao Jun coldly.
One even stood up and denounced:
"You, Zhao Jun, are really good at calculating. One of you is with the Han and the other with the thieves? Do you think that no matter who wins the Han thieves, your Zhao family will be invincible? If everyone is as turbulent as you, playing both sides, then what's the point?
What kind of battle are we fighting? Therefore, I ask you to kill Zhao Jun to appease the soldiers."
Zhao Jun's face darkened. He had the ability to fight with the generals, but at this time, he couldn't say anything. He could only wait for Lu Zhi's decision.
But fortunately, Lu Zhi was not stupid. He shook his head and said to the subordinate:
"Zhao Jun thinks there is another story behind it. Didn't you just say that this person has been separated from him for many years, and it is not what Zhao Jun expected that he turned into a traitor. Not to mention, Zhao Jun obviously doesn't have to talk about it.
But he still showed his sincerity to me, which shows his magnanimity."
But the general was unwilling to give up. After hearing what Lu Zhi said, he was still arguing:
"Lu Shuai, this is what makes this thief cunning. He just bullies Lu Shuai into being too sincere. He is sure that Lu Shuai will think so, so he shows his sincerity."
Lu Zhi's face had already turned down at this time, and he snorted:
"Are you saying that I, Lu Zhi, am in a coma now? A good martial artist, but I also imitate the sarcastic scholar and show off my words to sow discord?"
With that said, Lu Zhi took an arrow from the desk and asked him to take his troops to the front line to fight.
The general's face turned red and he murmured a few words to explain, but he was too frightened by Lu Zhi's fear and did not dare to speak. He took the command arrow and went down the slope.
As soon as the general left, Fuyang Hou Sunxin, who had argued with Zhao Jun earlier, rolled his eyes and added sadly:
"Lu Shuai, that Kou Zan is arrogant and rude. But there is one thing I have to say, that is, if our Zhenbei army officials all follow the example of the Zhao brothers and divide their officialdom into two families, leaving a way out for themselves, then my Han
When will the thief be eliminated? So from this point of view, regardless of whether Zhao Jun intended or knew about his brother's involvement in the thief, he will be punished. Otherwise, he cannot serve as a warning to others."
Darling, I don’t know whether Sun Xin, the Marquis of Fuyang, has any say in military strategy, but his ability with a honey-bellied sword is ruthless and old-fashioned.
It's useless to ask Zhao Jun to defend himself directly.
This is the consequence of offending a small person. At a critical moment, a word may ruin your life.
Sun Xin's words attracted the approval of all the generals, and they all clamored to kill Zhao Jun. They even wanted to take him to the front of the battle and behead him in front of Zhao Yun.
Lu Zhi frowned and hummed:
"Stop arguing, let's see how the front line goes."
At this time, in front of the formation, apricot yellow and crimson were intertwined, densely packed, and the sounds of fighting and bravery could be heard one after another.
Inside the iron coat, Zhao Yun was sweating profusely, and the heat emanating from him made him feel uncomfortable.
After just completing an achievement of slaying generals and capturing the flag, Zhao Yun led the armored cavalry for another victory.
After trampling to death a Han soldier who fell to the ground, three armored Han officials stood in front of Zhao Yun holding spears, cards, and axes.
This is already the sixth time Zhao Yun has been surrounded and killed.
The three generals attacked together as soon as they came up. The one with the spear blocked Zhao Yun's sight, the one with the marquee bent down to cover his robe, and the one with the giant ax chopped the horse's leg under the cover of the marquee.
This set of combos is so smooth that it has killed many prairie warriors.
But Zhao Yun did not block it, he just picked up the horse in his hand and smashed it over.
A crackling sound was heard, and the fine horse-steel in Zhao Yun's hand collapsed.
But at the same time, the samurai holding the talisman was directly thrown away by the heavy blow, and the talisman in his hand also exploded. As for the one with the ax, he was even carried away, and the ax rolled aside.
Zhao Yun resolved the crisis with one move, ignored the three men, and walked past them on horseback.
But just when the three of them were startled, Zhao Yun turned around, raised his long bow, and fired three arrows in a row, all of which hit the center of his eyebrows.
After doing all this, Zhao Yun stopped looking. When he turned back, the three army officers fell to the ground.
The armored cavalry that followed them stepped over the corpses of these three people, trampling them into pulp.
But that's it, Zhao Yun already felt that his physical fitness was declining rapidly, and the snoring of the war horse under his crotch was getting heavier and heavier. Considering Zhao Yun's physical fitness, it was like this, and it was conceivable that other people.
The armored cavalry at this level is already very dangerous, as was the case when the Han army's fifty heavy cavalry were wiped out in Jize.
However, the Taishan Army has long been improved in its tactics. If the armored cavalry is a heavy hammer, then the assault cavalry relying on the armored cavalry is a sickle.
When Zhao Yun's armored cavalry gradually lost their horse speed, the Tianwei Army and Tianxiong Army's sudden cavalry rushed in from both wings and took over the charge of the armored cavalry.
On the one hand, these nearly a thousand assault cavalry cleared the Han soldiers near the armored cavalry, and on the other hand, they continued to push the military line forward.
Zhao Yun made a decisive decision and blew the horn to retreat to the rear to rest.
At this moment, Zhao Yun heard the enemy formation shouting:
"Changshan Zhao Zilong, surrender quickly, your brother has been converted."
"Changshan Zhao Zilong, surrender quickly, your brother has been converted."
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This is Lu Zhi's plan. If a general general learns that his vanguard general's brother has returned to the Han army, how can he not be suspicious?
But Lu Zhi didn't know one thing. General Cai Que doubted that anyone would doubt Zhao Yun.
Because he is the king's direct brother-in-law.
Over there, after hearing this, Zhao Yun ignored him and withdrew from the battlefield with his armored cavalry.
At this time, Cai Que's armored soldiers had been moving forward along with Cai Que's banner, squeezing the space left by the Han army.
Zhao Yun and his armored cavalry withdrew from the marching road between the phalanxes and went directly to a tent area.
The attendants who had been there earlier saw A riding back and hurriedly stepped forward to pull the horse's rope.
Each armored knight was surrounded by three attendants. They first lifted the knight, who weighed more than two hundred kilograms, off his horse, and then moved him to a curtain to remove his armor.
Afterwards, buckets of clean water were brought in to wash away the blood on their armors. The knights were helplessly served by their attendants, wiping the sweat from their bodies with dry cloths.
From this set, the Taishan Army has designed and implemented a set of systematic tactics centered on armor and cavalry.
In a curtain, Zhao Yun was naked at this time, revealing his explosive muscles and lines.
Different from the standard large waist and abdomen of military generals in this world, Zhao Yun's whole body presents a sculptural beauty. His muscles are engorged with blood due to high-intensity battles, making them huge and full, and the lines between the muscles are also extremely clear.
At this time, Zhao Yun was shining with the beauty of his muscles in the steaming heat.
Among all the generals of the Taishan Army, only Zhao Yun and Zhang Chong have such a figure. However, Zhang Chong is more exaggerated than Zhao Yun, as if he is a muscular Ming Dynasty king who can suppress all evil in the world with his body.
As Zhao Yun wiped his body, he heard the horns of the drums outside changing. The originally rhythmic beats were now being beaten more and more closely.
Zhao Yun paused and hurriedly said to the attendant beside him:
"Wear armor with me, and I can still fight."
The three attendants did not dare to say anything and hurriedly put on a new lining for Zhao Yun, and then put on the armor.
Zhao Yun's judgment was correct. Cai Que's 4,000 armored guards had collided with the Han army.
These armored soldiers were divided into teams of one hundred men and were divided into multiple groups to fight with the Han army. The entire army was like a pond full of water lilies, opening up on the battlefield and then crowding it.
The number of Han troops on the front line is about eight battalions, with more than 10,000 soldiers. Among them, there are four at the Daibei camp and four at the old camp of the frontier army.
However, after being wreaked by Taishan's armored cavalry and encountering four thousand elite heavy infantry, they could no longer wait any longer. The front line retreated one after another.
Lu Zhi, who had been observing the formation on the northern slope, frowned and secretly wondered why there were so many good warriors in the Taishan Army.
He had already taken a bird's-eye view of the battlefield before, but found that the army that fought with him in Jize last year did not appear.
Originally, he thought that the division was the main force of the Taishan Army last year, but he did not expect that today in Dingting, first the armored cavalry regiment would march through the fields, and then the heavy armored infantry regiment would march through the forest.
The originally wavering mentality corrected itself once again, and Lu Zhi once again understood that this was not the place for a decisive battle.
So, he thought for a moment and then ordered the brave general Gao Fan to come out of the battle.
Gao Fan was a hero from the border area. He was a weak official in the army. He was especially good at riding and shooting. He was the first-class fighting general in Zhenbei Army.
After receiving the order, the man jumped up and ran downhill to reach his own unit.
His group were all Euphorbia warriors from the Bohai Sea. They had been defending the beacon line of the Great Wall on the northern front. This time after going south, they were deployed under Gao Fan's account.
Now that there are armored soldiers on the opposite side, the Bohai Euphorbias are needed.
The Bohai Euphorbia Knights have always been famous among the Zhenbei Legion. They have killed countless prairie cavalry and have always been a powerful force of the Han family.
Youzhou Tuqi, Jizhou Euphorbia Warriors, these powerful troops are famous for fighting in the chaos in northern Xinjiang and the interior.
Therefore, after seeing the Bohai Euphorbia warriors coming out, other troops waiting to be dispatched stepped aside one after another to make way for them.
And some officials on the roadside shouted:
"Come on, brothers, let's show off our prestige to those southerners!"
All kinds of greetings came from the mouths of these soldiers, which was a sign of respect for the strong men in the army.
Gao Fan led such an army onto the battlefield, cheered by countless comrades.
When they were resisting the right wing of the battlefield, a group of soldiers here were stumbling and retreating.
After seeing Gao Fan arriving with the Euphorbia soldiers, they no longer hesitated and withdrew directly from the battlefield along the dense forest to the west.
Due to limited time, Gao Fan only had time to set up a horizontal line formation before he collided with the infantrymen of the Taishan Army in front.
Looking at the steps that are more than a foot long, they are densely packed, and because they are long enough, the hands of the steps in the first three rows on the opposite side can move the steps apart, which makes them in a square array of the same width.
You can place more dense steps.
Seeing this, Gao Fan understood why the phalanx of Han soldiers in the eight battalions on the front line could not stop them.
With a step of this length, only the Euphorbia can withstand it.
The Taishan Army also saw a new army appearing on the opposite side. This army not only wore brand-new crimson uniforms, but also wore feathered helmets on their heads. They held lengthened and heavy-equipped spurges that were comparable to their troops.
It’s extraordinary to look at.
Therefore, the generals of this Taishan Army did not dare to be careless and ordered the longbowmen in the rear row to fire three rounds.
After three rounds of arrow rain, the military formation on the opposite side remained motionless, showing the strength of the formation.
This general's name is Shi Yan, and he is a brother of the same clan as Shi Bi, the brave general in Zhang Dan's army, and he is also a veteran in the army.
When he saw that the enemy's formation was strong, he knew that arrows alone would not be able to move them, so he pressed forward with his hands and aimed a pinpoint at the enemy.
As the flags and drum beats were passed on, six rows of riflemen clad in iron armor kept moving forward, and soon both sides were slapping each other with their rifles and halberds.
Because both sides were wearing armor and using huge weapons, there was no progress on either side for a long time.
But gradually, the heavy armored soldiers of the Taishan Army gradually opened their distance to the left, forming a half-fan shape. Coincidentally, the same was true for the Han Army's Euphorbia soldiers on the opposite side. They also opened a fan shape to their left.
Until this time, both Shi Yan and Gao Fan could be sure that the opponent was a truly strong force.
Because only elite soldiers can increase the fan base during the battle and allow more soldiers to participate in the front-line battle.
So soon, the frontline soldiers on both sides collapsed at about the same time. Because of the heavy casualties, they could only be supported by armored soldiers from the rear.
The battle on the line may not be as thrilling as the cavalry, and there may even be some noise. But the test of courage and inner suffering of the officers is no less than the charge between the cavalry.
Finally, Shi Yan gradually retreated because his formation was not as wide as the Han army's Euphorbia sergeant.
At the same time, in the north, more and more Han troops began to join the battle. They crossed the forest to the west with skirmishers and launched an attack directly from the left side of the Taishan Army.
These are the archers of the Han army, firing arrows at the unsuspecting Taishan army.
At first, Taishan's army didn't know where the arrows came from, and was a little confused. But soon they realized it and began to shrink the front line, and squads of soldiers continued to enter the woods to drive away the Han army's archers.
Although the Taishan Army is still at a disadvantage, everyone can see that as the Han Army begins to take turns fighting the entire army, the Han Army has always maintained sufficient physical strength, while the Taishan Army is getting more and more tired.