Chapter 1988: The Great Breaking of the Dragon Gate Formation (Part 2)
Chapter 1988: Breaking the Dragon Gate Formation (Part 2)
Although Bai Ying was killed by Tai Shi Ci with an arrow, the Tang army did not collapse due to his death.
With Li Shimin, the commander-in-chief of 102, commanding from the center and controlling the overall situation, the generals guarding the gate have become secondary. Even if they are all killed in battle, the Longmen Formation will not collapse. At most, it will be chaotic for a while.
As soon as Bai Ying died, the deputy general took over the command and continued to command the formation to strangle Taishi Ci's troops.
Taishi Ci was greatly surprised when he saw that the Tang army was not in chaos. He knew that the time for him to escape was running out and he must seize this opportunity to get rid of this wave of interceptions.
As soon as he thought of this, Taishi Ci immediately led the army, taking advantage of the fall of the Tang army's guard general and confusion in command, to rush towards the northwest.
Taishi Ci was very lucky. The guard at the gate he entered was just an unknown person, so he was able to kill a bloody path so easily. However, the other four paths were not so lucky.
Zhang Kui's troops lost their way as soon as they entered the battle. More than 500 of the 2,000 cavalry in his troops separated from the main force and were surrounded and strangled by the Tang army's spear formation.
Seeing this, Lieutenant General Gao Lan immediately led more than a hundred cavalry to support him. However, as he continued to kill, he found that there was no one around him, and nearly a hundred Tang Army spearmen were forming a circular formation to surround him.
Gao Lan suddenly smiled bitterly when he saw this. He never expected that Tang Jun would be so cautious and would form a formation when facing him alone.
If he doesn't form a formation, he still has the possibility to break out, but if he does, it will be difficult.
"Fight it." Gao Lan gritted his teeth and said.
[Ding dong, Gao Lan’s skill ‘Sword General’ is activated, force 2, base force 95 (3), current force has increased to 97. 】
More than ten spears were stabbed at Gao Lan, and he swung the sword in his hand with all his strength. With one blow, he not only separated all the spears that were thrust at him, but also cut off several of them. But the next moment there were dozens more
The spear came.
Gao Lan fought with him for several rounds with all his strength, and after killing more than twenty elites of the Tang Army, the front legs of his mount were chopped off by a Tang Army captain.
Gao Lan quickly turned around and killed the famous captain with one sword, but his own horse lost its front foot and was thrown off the horse.
Seeing Gao Lan's fall from his horse, the surrounding Tang soldiers were overjoyed and swarmed over to seize his head.
Hundreds of spears were stabbing into the ground like nails. Gao Lan, who had no time to get up, could only roll on the ground to avoid the spearmen's thrusts.
After another round of rolling, Gao Lan took advantage of the situation and got up, bumped into a soldier's bus, and pushed him to death. However, he was kicked in the chest and fell to the ground again. Before he stood up, there were twenty people around him.
Multiple swords were slashed at him.
Driven by the desire to survive, in order to avoid being hacked to death by random knives, Gao Lan raised the knife with both hands to block, but was forced to half kneel on the ground.
[Ding dong, Gao Lan breaks through his own limit, his force is permanently 1, his current base force is 96(4), and his current force has risen to 98.]
"ah……"
Seeing that the blade was about to cut the skin of his neck, Gao Lan roared with all his strength, and he actually blocked more than twenty people at the same time with his own strength, and even gained the upper hand.
The soldiers of the Tang Army were immediately shocked and shouted to cheer themselves up, but they still could not push Gao Lan back.
At this moment, two more Tang army spearmen raised their spears and stabbed Gao Lan, but at this time Gao Lan could not move at all.
"It's over."
Gao Lan's eyes showed despair and he closed his eyes unwillingly, but instead of waiting for death to come, he heard the screams of two Tang Army soldiers.
At the critical moment, Zhang Kui, who had lost his way, led his troops back and killed the two Tang soldiers with two arrows, narrowly saving Gao Lan's life.
After succeeding with the two arrows, Zhang Kui hung the bow and arrow on his horse, rushed towards Gao Lan with a big sword in his hand, knocked away several sword and shield soldiers who were besieging Gao Lan, and rescued Gao Lan.
"Quickly, give General Gao Lan a horse." Zhang Kui shouted.
The soldier immediately gave up a horse to Gao Lan.
After Gao Lan mounted his horse, he was completely relieved. His life was finally saved temporarily.
After Zhang Kui rescued Gao Lan, he led others to rescue the 500 stragglers, but less than half of the 500 cavalry were still alive.
"General, you can't rush in any more. The east is over there. Now we should rush south..."
Seeing that Gao Lan had figured out the direction, Zhang Kui was overjoyed and quickly followed Gao Lan's instructions and took the lead in the charge to the south.
Along the way, a large number of Tang troops came to stop them, but Zhang Kui was extremely brave and fought off several groups of Tang troops. No one could be his enemy.
Gao Lan was undoubtedly lucky. If Zhang Kui had not rescued him in time, he would have died on the spot. The other generals were not so lucky, such as Ju Yi's deputy general Xiao Baoyin.
Ju Yi is not as strong as Tai Shi Ci and Zhang Kui, and the Dragon Gate Formation is so dangerous. Ju Yi can only barely protect himself, and naturally he has no energy to distract himself from other things.
Xiao Baoyin was a famous general in the Northern Wei Dynasty. He was not only brave but also very strategic. However, in the Longmen Formation, his bravery and strategy could not be used. He finally died under the cold arrows of the Tang army after beheading thirty-eight Tang soldiers in the face.
Except for Xiao Baoyin, Huang Tianlu's two lieutenants, Li Feng and Li Hai, all died in the civil war at Longmen Formation.
In addition, Huang Tianxiang's deputy general Zhang Feng was also beaten to death by Tang army soldiers. Huang Tianxiang, a war-god-level warrior, had no time to rescue him.
Under the sound of Zhang Liao's drum beating, the generals who were lost in the formation understood the direction and continued to charge in the agreed direction. However, even though the leader of the army was extremely brave, he still failed to cause much damage to the Tang army.
Zhang Liao sent 10,000 iron cavalry to break into the Dragon Gate Formation in five groups. The five leading generals were not weak, including two god-of-war generals. However, they were unable to shake the formation at all, which shows how powerful the Dragon Gate Formation is.
Zhang Liao, who was outside the formation, saw that the 10,000 cavalrymen inside the formation suffered heavy casualties, but he did not show any distress at all. Instead, there was a hint of excitement on his face.
Naturally, it was impossible for Zhang Liao to die with 10,000 cavalry. On the surface, although the 10,000 cavalry did not kill many Tang troops, their actions in the Longmen Formation also made the entire formation move because of them, and contained most of the Longmen Formation.
function, and now it is time for the 30,000 troops outside the formation to launch a general attack.
It is impossible to crack the Longmen Formation by conventional methods. Someone must make sacrifices.
In order to create a fighter opportunity, Li Shimin did not hesitate to let 50,000 elite men stand still and act as targets for Zhang Liao to shoot at. Zhang Liao was naturally willing to sacrifice thousands of cavalry in order to create a fighter opportunity.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhang Liao did not hesitate at all, decisively waved the sword in his hand and issued a general attack order to the entire army.
"The whole army attacks."
Following Zhang Liao's order, Zhang Liao's 8,500 cavalry troops from the east, Zhang He's 7,000 cavalry troops from the west, Xu Huang's 7,000 cavalry troops from the north, and Mu Guiying's mixed army of 7,500 infantry cavalry troops from the south attacked simultaneously from the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.