Four hundred and ninetieth chapters defeat will die
"When an egg fights with a stone, the moose will undoubtedly be broken into pieces; if it moves but regrets, it will not come out at the right time." [Yi Lin·Gen's Damage]
Qiao Rui also noticed the movement in the camp behind him. At that moment, he no longer tried to rescue Ji Ling, who was trapped in a tight siege. Instead, he immediately turned around with his troops, fought hard to fight off the pursuers, and returned to the camp at once.
Zhang Xun was taken down because of the recurrence of his old injury. Qiao Rui immediately filled the vacancy. As soon as he entered the camp, he saw Yuan Shu riding on the horse, ready to go. Qiao Rui was shocked and said quickly: "Ming Gong, please come to the tent.
Wait for a while, just hand over the enemy to the last general!"
Yuan Shu had no intention of going into battle in person. He was overjoyed when he saw Qiao Rui arriving in time. He didn't ask about Ji Ling's situation and just ordered: "Hurry, hurry!"
Although Yuan Shu said so, he did not hand over the armored elites around him to Qiao Rui. Instead, he allowed them to guard him closely, and was ready to escape south if something unexpected happened.
Qiao Rui didn't know that Yuan Shu had been frightened by the Yueqi battalion's offensive and wanted to retreat. He thought Yuan Shu was going to supervise the battle from the rear, so he didn't dare to delay and led his troops to meet them.
"Sword and Shield come forward!"
Qiao Rui waved his hand and gave an order. The soldiers holding heavy shields beside him quickly built a shield wall in front of the fence of the middle camp. Then one long spear stretched out from the shield hand's shoulder, and the tips of the spears with almost the same thickness flickered.
With an icy glimmer.
"Press up!"
The battle formation slowly advanced with firm steps. Yuan Shu crossed the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers, and the troops under his command were often mixed, but for this battle, Yuan Shu specially recruited elites from the generals, and finally managed to piece together 40,000 troops. These troops and horses can be described as
It is Yuan Shu's family background. It may not be as sophisticated as the Northern and Southern Army, but it can win with superiority when dealing with ordinary soldiers and horses, and it can also win with quantity when dealing with the Yueqi camp.
Taishi Ci keenly noticed the movement here. He rode his horse forward and gathered his cavalry like spikes, as if he wanted to take advantage of the gap in the opponent's formation to destroy it with the force of thunder!
The cavalry moved hard in the short open space of the left camp. From Qiao Rui's point of view, it was almost impossible for the cavalry camp to increase its speed in such a short distance. At this time, sprinting was like trying to hit an egg against a rock. The bridge was tight.
Holding the handle of the knife, he was even ready to fight back later.
Soon, the entire Yueqi army began to move. They once again twisted into a rope and regained their initial momentum.
The sun is getting westward, shining on their backs, but their front faces are so dark that it is difficult to see their appearance, but it adds an inexplicable majesty. Their mounts are the same, their body shapes are the same, and their movements on horseback are almost the same.
.As if carved from the same mold, the ground was shaken by the trampling of horse hooves, and everything in front of them was trampled to pieces. The skirmishers in the camp saw the cavalry in front of them charging with their horses in an orderly manner, one by one.
He was so stunned that he even forgot to escape.
Everyone on both sides thought that they would collide violently with each other, but Taishi Ci suddenly turned his horse around when he was still some distance away from the opponent, leading several cavalrymen around him, who in turn led a group of cavalry, and a group of cavalry behind him.
He also led more cavalry behind him, and more than 3,000 Yue cavalry quickly turned to the right under the guidance of Taishi Ci, and cut into the flank at a strange angle that Qiao Rui was trying to guard against the front but inadvertently ignored.
This confrontation was so sudden, there was no shouting, no calling, just the "clanging" of weapons. The person in front fell, and the person behind took over. Even the action of raising the knife was extremely simple.
On the Xiapi side, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were already fighting with the remnants of Ji Ling's troops outside the city. Facing the counterattack from Guan Yu and others, Ji Ling and other troops fell into a complete panic. The rest of his troops abandoned their military flags and retreated to the gap to the east. Some of them were too late.
Fighting against crowds of people on the road, they simply jumped into the nearby moat, or hid under the suspension bridge and pretended to be dead. The archers who were left behind at the top of the city were worried about not being able to shoot people, when they saw a star exposed in the empty moat.
He was overjoyed to find a human head. Either throwing stones or shooting arrows, he soon left hundreds of corpses in the moat.
The remaining one or two thousand remnant soldiers no longer obeyed Ji Ling's military orders, and all the battalions and units were mixed together, while Guan Yu followed behind with his horses, like driving cattle and sheep, allowing them to trample and kill each other.
Ji Ling knew that his defeat was certain, so he dropped his horse while running, jumped off his mount, abandoned his soldiers, and pretended to be a casual soldier. The sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded behind him, and even the collision of weapons and armor.
It was clearly audible that the pursuers were coming. Ji Ling was greatly embarrassed. He looked around, and when no one was paying attention, he quietly dropped his shiny armor, wiped the blood on his face with the blood splashed on his chest, and waited until Guan Yu and others arrived.
At that moment he immediately knelt down.
As expected, Shiren didn't notice anything unusual about him, a 'veteran'. He hurried over first, but didn't find Ji Ling's figure. Out of the corner of his eye, he just caught a glimpse of the kneeling soldier next to him. He walked over and shouted, "Ji Ling."
Where is the spirit?”
Ji Ling stretched out his hand and pointed somewhere randomly: "That's the one riding the yellow horse."
So Shiren didn't waste any time, left Ji Ling where he was, and led his men to chase the man on the yellow horse in front.
Ji Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Shiren didn't know him, but Guan Yu did. He had rushed to the top of the city several times before, almost captured it, and had fought with Guan Yu several times on the top of the city. At this moment, he had escaped with a glimmer of hope, in order to prevent changes.
, he quickly took advantage of the chaos and ran away.
After leaving Guan Yu to clean up the mess, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei's cavalry were soon to follow Tian Chou. He saw the surrendered soldiers of Yuan soldiers kneeling on both sides of the road, but Liu Bei only rushed towards Yuan Shu's camp and was too late.
To deal with these people, Zhang Fei became murderous. He drew his bow and arrows and shot randomly at the soldiers on both sides without even taking aim. He shot many people to death like a target.
When Liu Bei and Zhang Fei arrived to join the attack on the camp, a group of people behind them suddenly ran over cheering. The person at the head held a spear high, and at the end was holding a human head with blurred blood and indescribable blood. They shouted:
"Ji Ling has been consecrated!"
In Yuan Shu's camp, the two sides had turned from a melee to a one-sided massacre. Qiao Rui's soldiers and horses were originally responsible for blocking Tian Chou and rescuing Ji Ling. For this reason, they had just annexed Liu Xiang's deserters, but they had not yet fought against Tian Chou.
Not long after, they were hurriedly ordered by Yuan Shu to surrender the camp. They formed a hastily formation, but were broken up by Tai Shici at a tricky angle.
There was very little space in the camp for the Yueqi battalion to charge, and there was also very little space for the infantry in the bridge to line up to resist the cavalry. What's more, he returned to the camp in a hurry, and the camp plus the original troops and horses
The defeated army was in complete chaos, and it was only thanks to the help of Zhang Xunxiang that they could stand firm.
Yuan Shu's camp was not separated by solid fortifications. There were even many roads leading to and from each other in order to mobilize troops. What's more, Qiao Rui was also under pressure from Tai Shi Ci and Tian Chou at the same time.
The result can be imagined. Taishi Ci led Yueqi to charge and overthrow Qiao Rui's hastily built formation. Zhang Xun saw that the situation was not good, and regardless of the bleeding wound on his neck, he walked up with force, pulled Qiao Rui away and took command personally.