"General, order the front army to retreat and the right battalion to move forward. Only then can we save General Yue's unit!"
When Zhuge Liang proposed to Xiahou Dun to merge the front and right armies, the front army was already on the verge of collapse. They were first attacked by fire ox carts and then attacked by Liu and Zhang's coalition forces.
Liu and Zhang Lianjun of the unit
The soldiers of the army rushed through the camp, leaving behind the headless soldiers of the front camp of Cao's army. They split up and attacked the central army. Now they were killed back. There were even fresh troops joining in, killing the soldiers of the front camp.
The will to resist was severely worn away.
Many soldiers of Cao's army in the front camp were running around in the camp without order and command. They were fighting on their own like a piece of scattered sand. Only in the early stage when the enemy troops passed through the camp, Le Jin tried his best to command and gathered the troops and horses.
Before Liu Bei deliberately surrounded and annihilated them, Le Jin's front camp troops could barely hold on and collect a group of remnants. But before the chaos was over, the enemy troops came back to kill them.
Forming neatly, the formation spread out across the entire front camp of Cao's army, forming five columns and thousands of fighting queues. Liu and Zhang's soldiers were full of energy and physical strength. Everyone wrapped their heads in white scarves and tied their arms. They were extremely dazzling under the night firelight.
, thousands of such white heads
It brought a white terror. Any soldiers blocking their way, as long as there was no white scarf mark on their heads, their swords, halberds and spears would be chopped down and stabbed down. The whole team moved forward at a speed of half row and half running.
Everywhere he passed was a mess of dead bodies.
At this time, Le Jin finally waited for the order from the Chinese army to retreat and move closer to the right camp. Le Jin, who could also take it up and put it down, immediately followed the order and retreated to the right without hesitation.
This night was a terrifying night for the soldiers of Cao's army. Failure was already doomed, but whether it was the most unprecedented defeat since the founding of Cao's army would not be known until dawn.
There was still an hour before daybreak. On a hillside on the right flank of Cao's army, Le Jin was half-kneeling with his sword in hand, his body stained with blood. There were only a few soldiers around him, and the range of defenses he could cover was also shrinking.
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After Le Jin led his troops to break through, they relied on the terrain they had scouted during the day to escape here. Finally, they killed the last enemy force following them and found a way to join the friendly forces on the right. But there had to be someone.
After leaving behind, Le Jin obliged and handed over the remaining soldiers who had escaped with him to the deputy general, and he chose to stay behind and break up the rear.
After they killed the last enemy soldier who could still be seen, there were only a dozen or so people left around Le Jin. He himself was covered in blood and could barely stand. If another enemy soldier appeared, it would be a big blow to Le Jin and the others.
For these dozen people, defeat can only happen in an instant.
Time passed. There was a trail behind the mountain pass they were guarding. The last two thousand troops that Yue Jin brought out of the front camp were evacuated from that trail. It was also the last trail Le Jin entrusted to his former army subordinates.
Order—Hurry up and get closer to the right camp.
While the morning sun was still hesitating in the eastern sky, a group of cavalry in different colors suddenly emerged from behind the hill not far away. Le Jin's location was immediately visible from the front. Le Jin, who had just returned to his horse, saw him appear again.
The enemy soldier's heart sank.
The faint neigh of the horse, the dazzling armor and the sharp blade all fell into Le Jin's eyes, and then he heard Le Jin say to the few remaining soldiers around him: "You all go!"
"What about you, General?"
"Someone has to stay!"
After Le Jin said his farewell words, a general who looked like a corps commander yelled at his companions who had more than a dozen people left: "Everyone, the time has come to defend your dignity. The general wants us to go first."
Let’s go, he wants to hold back these enemy troops for us. Do you think, if we really obey the general’s arrangements, do we still have the nerve to go back alive to see the remaining brothers?”
"If the general doesn't leave, we won't leave either! It's a death anyway. The subordinates might as well die in front of the general first..." The soldiers who were not good at words said loudly and resolutely, then walked up to Le Jin and stood in front of him.
There.
With loud roars, the remaining dozen or so soldiers of Cao's army jumped off their horses, threw away their spears, drew out their swords and knives, and stood resolutely beside Le Jin. They knew that the opponent's number was greater than theirs.
Much more, riding a horse would affect one's agility, so one simply gave up the horse and prepared to fight on foot.
Behind these loyal soldiers, Le Jin felt anxious, his eyes were blurred, and his throat was choked, but he couldn't say a word.
"Okay... you are all Le Jin's good brothers..."
Le Jin regained his composure and said nothing more. When he straightened up, he could finally take a closer look at the enemy's cavalry. There were only a few hundred of them, but from a distance, they didn't look like regular troops at all.
Most of this cavalry has no armor, warriors
Most of them were wearing leather armor, rattan armor or other military uniforms. Some were simply wearing a thick leather jacket or cotton jacket, with a long bow hanging behind them and a worn-out weapon in their hand. Only with a belt
Only the generals of the team wore a suit of armor to distinguish themselves.
Le Jin quickly judged that this was an authentic army of Hanzhong Five Pecks of Rice Taoist instructors under Zhang Lu. It could be seen from their lack of uniforms and the various Taoist charms affixed to their bodies or heads.
out.
This enemy soldier did not charge immediately, but slowly formed a formation. It was different from the swarm of ordinary bandits who rushed in casually. A half-moon-shaped formation unfolded, with hundreds of people lined up neatly, with shields in their hands connected together, forming a line.
The thick shield wall, even if there are occasional gaps in the middle, is closely connected with the front and rear rows, and is protected at all levels! From this point, it can be seen that these people are not a bunch of people. Although their equipment and clothing are shabby, they have also received orthodox military training.
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After surrounding Yue Jin and more than a dozen people from a distance, a knight in the formation slowly took a few steps on his horse and said loudly: "Which branch of Cao's army are you on the opposite side? Tell me your name, dismount and hand over.
Bring out your weapons." This man spoke in common Mandarin, but his accent was a little stiff and weird. When he heard it, he knew that he was an aborigine who had lived in the northwest for a long time.
Le Jin took a long breath. He was not alarmed by the danger in front of him, but calmed down. He had experienced too many life and death battles in his life, and at this moment of life and death, he did not have the slightest panic. He shouted coldly: "You guys
Are they Zhang Lu’s subordinates?”
When Le Jin shouted, the other party was stunned for a moment and did not reply. He still repeated the sentence loudly. After saying this, he waved his hand and started to greet the cavalry queue behind him and walked forward slowly and neatly.
A few steps, with a vague hint of intimidation.
"Haha!" Le Jin looked around at his subordinates who shared life and death, and sneered: "What if we don't agree?"
The other party was stunned again, and then stopped talking. Under the command of the leader, "Treat the head and offer wine," the queue slowly moved forward, and the neat half-moon plastic surgery slowly pushed towards Le Jin and others. Le Jin and others.
They knew in their hearts that this was their preparation before charging. When cavalry charges, it is impossible to start running all at once. They can only drive the horses slowly first, let the horses run slowly for a few steps to warm up, and then sprint after reaching a hundred paces.
Only then can the horsepower be fully developed.
The cavalry on the opposite side suddenly shouted in unison, and then the spears in their hands no longer raised high to the sky, but all of them were pressed down and held flat. The neatly arranged spearheads pointed at the place where Le Jin and others were hiding. This was a final warning.
Le Jin sighed and reluctantly turned over and dismounted. His horse had been running all night and was already exhausted. The opponent was waiting for work. The hundreds of cavalry were all excellent horses. It was definitely too late to run away now.
When the other party saw Le Jin, who was riding last, dismounting, he thought to himself: "These Cao soldiers have figured it out and are ready to surrender!" So, the leader of the team, the "Zhitou Dajijiu", immediately ordered his subordinates to stop the attack, and then
I drank the words I just said, and just shouted for them to put down their weapons and surrender.
Le Jin sneered in his heart, he didn't say anything, he just stood upright with a long knife full of gaps in his hand, his eyes full of fighting intent, looking at the other party coldly.
Seeing his posture, the opposing cavalry general knew that he had misunderstood. It seemed that this group of people was determined not to surrender, but he was wondering why a small group of straggler Cao Junbing guards had the courage to defend themselves.
A team of hundreds of people.
In their opinion, if the other party was the commander-in-chief of an army, he would definitely not be guarded by so few soldiers, but they did not know that Le Jin standing in front of them was the former commander-in-chief.
Although it was strange that Zhang Lu led the team to "cure the head and offer wine", after all, the opponent only had a dozen people, and they actually abandoned their horses, so I didn't panic. I didn't order the cavalry to charge at the moment, but slowly pushed forward.
I think I have more than 200 people under my command, and I can squeeze that guy to death.
He did not give the order to charge, but he undoubtedly made the biggest mistake. If he gave the order and two hundred armored cavalry charged with all their strength, no matter how powerful Le Jin and others were, they would never be able to withstand it.
Le Jin saw the other party slowly approaching, knowing that the other party looked down on his group of more than a dozen people. With a faint smile on his face, he knew that today would be a bad day, but he never thought that he could break up with these loyal subordinates and die here in the end, which was considered a well-deserved death.
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Then Le Jin made another move that the other party couldn't understand. He threw away the long sword in his hand, reached out and pulled out a long sword from his waist.
Seeing Le Jin suddenly throw away the long-handled sword in his hand, the other party's "Healing Ceremony" was surprised, and felt that the courage of these guys was indeed admirable.
It's just that I'm afraid there's something wrong with my brain. To deal with cavalry enemies like them, if you abandon the powerful and heavy long sword and use the thin and long long sword, isn't that looking for death?
But just when the leader of the team was thinking about "healing the head and offering wine", he suddenly heard a shout, and a dozen Cao soldiers on the opposite side had already rushed over. They were running as fast as galloping horses.