When the cries of the old, weak, women and children of the Cao family in front of the formation stopped, I finally understood why Cao Xiu, who had been pushing himself in the back formation, was crying all the way and ran to the front formation to save his cousin. Then he was caught by the sharp eyes and quick hands.
Wang Ping urged his horse to run up, knocked him to the ground, and dragged him back to the side of the Chinese army Cao Zhi.
Cao Zhi was not much better at this time. He was standing straight on the horse, with tears streaming down his face and unable to speak. Jia Xu and other counselors, regardless of the danger, rushed forward to comfort Cao Zhi.
, reminding him to put the overall situation first. The lives of one hundred thousand soldiers in Yangzhou depended on his choice between benevolence and hard-heartedness.
At this time, Yuan Shu saw that Cao Song's wife was so stubborn. Pushing her out of the battle not only failed to intimidate Cao Zhi, but also shook the morale of his own army. How could he, a direct descendant of the Yuan family, become a thief and bandit in Xu's mouth?
So he issued an order: "Push these women into the car and get out."
The sergeants escorted Xu and others into the car and pushed them behind the formation.
Yuan Shu then ordered: "Detain Cao Song and Cao Zhi, and push the children into battle!"
After Yuan Shu gave the order, he suddenly heard the whistling bamboo whistle blowing, the sound was desolate, the army horses separated to both sides, and the two prison cars were slowly pushed out from the cracked military formation.
Some officers and soldiers in Cao's army immediately recognized Cao Song's figure in the first car. Cao Song was in extremely poor spirits. He could no longer sit upright and couldn't shout a word. But he still insisted on holding his head high so that the people in Cao's army could
I saw him. Then in the next car was a beautiful woman in white, sitting there upright, showing no signs of panic or cowardice. It was obvious that she was holding a baby in her hands. This woman had just given birth to a baby boy for Cao Zhi.
Cai Wenji. Cai Wenji's life is doomed to inescapable disputes and suffering. Her child was not yet one month old and suffered such a catastrophe and became a hostage.
Cai Wenji's appearance was not like Xu's scary eyes and angry curses. She seemed very calm, even peaceful. She glanced lovingly at the baby in her arms, then raised her head and slowly glanced around.
The officers and soldiers of Cao's army who reached the end looked as if they had transcended life and death to a certain level, and seemed so fearless and holy.
"Dad, my son, Cai Yan!" Cao Jun's voice shouted from the formation, but before it could reach a loud voice, it was artificially suppressed.
Yuan Junzhong's drums sounded, and two swordsmen strode out, their swords shining brightly. As soon as the drums stopped, the two swords were raised, aiming at Cao Song, who had untied the wooden bars of the prison car, and the baby in his arms.
Cai Wenji’s head.
Someone in Yuan's army shouted: "Cao Zhi, why are you hesitating? This is your family. Surrender to General Yuan. You are indispensable for glory and wealth. If you don't surrender, your family members will be killed together!"
After saying this, the drums started beating again.
When the soldiers of Cao's army knew that the drums had stopped beating again, they slashed down with the two shining swords. The soldiers of Cao's army in Yangzhou had always been loyal to Cao Zhi, and Yuan Shu offered "promotion" and "heavy rewards" to them, which was difficult to seduce.
, but now seeing his lord’s parents, wives, concubines, and young son waiting to be killed, how could he not be frightened?
The drums were rumbling continuously, and the hearts of Cao Zhi's soldiers were beating fast. They all turned to look at Cao Zhi, waiting for his decision.
Cao Zhi's eyes were blurry at this time, he was already biting his own arm, and he was lying on the horse silently. He could not see or hear anything at this time, but he felt that there were two pairs of determined eyes staring at him from the far side.
He looked at him. He didn't know what he had done. Suddenly, he heard someone in Cao Zhong shouting: "My Lord has an order, kill! Kill! Kill..."
Then a whooshing arrow shot out from Cao's army, hitting the man standing behind Cao Song right in the heart.
When the swordsman dropped his sword, two thousand soldiers from Cao's army, armed with dazzling halberds, took the lead in running towards the enemy formation.
"Kill, kill...kill all these sons of bitches..."
As soon as thousands of Cao's troops rushed out, the left army and the right army followed suit. The two armies were already close, and at this time, the officers and soldiers of Yuan's army focused their attention on Cao Song and Cai Wenji who were about to be slaughtered, expecting
Cao Zhi announced his surrender. Cao Zhi was suddenly rushed in. Although he drew his sword with all his strength and slashed with his sword, how could he stop it? Hundreds of people rushed in, followed by thousands. After thousands of people,
Tens of thousands, there was a huge chaos. Among Cao Zhi's five armies, fifty or sixty thousand people rushed to engage in close combat with Yuan Jun. Yuan Jun's archers didn't even have time to release the first round of arrows, and they were already
Cao's army dispersed.
Yuan Shu led his guards to a high place. When he saw this scene, he became angry. He took the flag from the guards and wanted to wave the flag to stop the chaos caused by his army following Cao's army. But at this time
As long as they could stop it, the two armies of over 100,000 men were now locked together in a melee with no formation at all.
At this time, Zhang He, the former general of Cao's army who was leading the charge, brandished his heavy halberd and was invincible along the way. He killed people when he met him and killed Buddha when he met him. He shouted everywhere: "The Lord will humiliate his ministers and die! Lord, please wait for me."
The kindness is as heavy as a mountain, today is the time for me to repay my lord, let’s kill..."
He was the first to give an order saying that he had received Cao Zhi's order to attack. But it is unclear whether he received it or not. Xu Chu and others only knew that he led 2,000 forward soldiers and shouted in unison
, rushed out from the formation. These 2,000 people were members of the newly trained Euphorbia Squadron assigned by Cao Zhi to Zhang He's subordinates. These people all used halberds and had entered Yuan's army. They all fought with one to ten, shouting to charge, and immediately
He pushed back the forwards of Yuan's army for about a hundred meters. After that, he saw tens of thousands of Cao's troops coming up, firing swords and spears. The shouts shook the heaven and earth, and blood and flesh flew everywhere. At this time, the general of Yuan's army, who wanted to break away from the melee of Cao's army,
It is also because of the weakness of the will. Tens of thousands of people have just been killed, so it is so easy to separate them.
Only he himself knew whether Zhang He received the generals attacked by Cao Zhi. However, when Jia Xu and other counselors around Cao Zhi saw the sudden chaos, they were overjoyed and immediately shouted to the left and right to take advantage of the chaos to rescue him.
Cao Song, Cai Wenji and other members of Cao Zhi's family.
Wang Ping and Tai Shici were the first to hear Jia Xu's cry for help. At this time, the entire battlefield was in chaos. The Yuan Army soldiers who were the first to collide with Cao's army had no choice but to fight blindly to save their lives.
When you have time, go and pay attention to the Cao family.
As soon as the chaos started, Wang Ping rode straight towards Cai Wenji's prison car. Seeing that he was about 200 steps away from the prison car, he drew his strong bow under the horse's belly, and with a whoosh of arrow, he shot at the prison car that had just stood up.
An enemy soldier shot him with one arrow.
The soldier raised his shield and deflected the first arrow. Wang Ping galloped on his horse and fired a barrage of arrows. The second arrow knocked down the soldier, and the third arrow shot directly into another Yuan Jun who was nearby and tried to harm Cai Wenji's mother and son.
The general's chest.
At this time, there were several Yuan Army soldiers guarding Cai Wenji around the prison car. Seeing someone coming to seize the people in the prison car, they immediately understood that the people in the prison car could not be rescued by Cao's men, so some Yuan Army soldiers wanted to get on the car and deal with it on the spot.
Cai Wenji and her son.
At this time, Wang Ping was close to dozens of steps away, which could still allow these enemy soldiers to succeed. With his sharp eyesight and quick hands, he fired a series of arrows again. This combo technique was originally Wang Ping's specialty, and he did not miss any of the three arrows.
Aiming at the head, "Puff, Puff!" sounded three times, inserting into various parts of the three enemy soldiers' bodies.
But hearing the cry "Ah yo! Ah yo!", three Yuan Army soldiers who had just activated were immediately shot and fell to the ground.
Under Wang Ping, the horse was as strong as flying. Before the men and horses arrived, another arrow came. This time the distance was closer. An arrow penetrated the left flank of a Yuan Jun cavalry and passed through the chest. The man swayed and slipped off the horse.
Wang Ping then successfully rescued Cai Wenji and her son in one fell swoop, and quickly rushed back to the Chinese army under the escort of Cao Zhi's personal guards who arrived from behind.
It should be said that there is no longer any Chinese army. In the area where the Chinese army originally stayed, only more than a thousand Cao Zhi's personal guards were still protecting Cao Zhi, Jia Xu, Deng Ai and others.
Cao Zhi was completely overcome with grief at this time and was eagerly watching the figures of his family members on the chaotic battlefield.
Cao Zhi was also in an inexplicable state. He looked up and saw this chaotic scene. He asked Jia Xu beside him urgently: "Why is this happening?"
Jia Xu reported back to Cao Zhi and said: "My lord, you gave the order for the three armies to charge and kill. Because your parents, concubine, and son were robbed, the soldiers were so excited that they all rushed forward to avenge your shame!"
Cao Zhigang wanted to say: "In what year did I issue an order, causing the three armies to attack in such an unorganized manner? Is this so shameful?"
But then he thought: "Didn't this chaos give Cao Song, Er Niang, Cai Wenji, mother and son a chance to escape!"
"Chaos, let them be more chaotic!" Cao Zhi decided not to order the troops to gather and stop the chaos. On the contrary, when he had the idea of taking back his family, Jia Xu seemed to know what Cao Zhi was thinking and hurriedly asked Cao Zhi.
Wisdom reported: "Wang Ping, Tai Shi Ci, Li Dian and other generals have gone to save the Lord's family!"
When Jia Xu said this, Cao Zhi immediately realized that he had falsely sent military orders and ordered the three armies to come out together to deliberately cause such chaos. It seemed that Jia Xu had done it intentionally. There must have been generals in the former army who cooperated with him.
accomplished.
When Cao Zhi's thoughts were like lightning, Wang Ping was the first to return with Cai Wenji and his son. At this time, Cao Zhi had no time to comfort Cai Wenji, who fell in his arms and cried bitterly, and took a closer look at the baby sleeping safely.
The child in the middle just yelled at Jia Xu: "Wen He, do a good job, take care of my family, I will gather the troops!"
At first, Jia Xu watched the changes on the battlefield nervously. When Cao Zhi suddenly pointed out the little trick he was playing, he was stunned. Then he saw that Cao Zhi had led his troops forward, leaving the concubine and his children who had just been rescued.
He blinked and smiled.
Jia Xu was a very eloquent person. From Cao Zhi's hasty instructions just now, he understood that Cao Zhi not only did not blame him for making decisions, but also trusted him.
And Cao Zhi is undoubtedly right to rush to the battlefield to control his troops. If the two armies are fighting in such a chaotic manner, if it is not stopped in time, it will undoubtedly end in a lose-lose situation for both sides. However, Cao Zhi's army is small, and he was initially provoked by Zhang He and others.
With the improved morale, they can still gain some advantages, but once Yuan Shu and his men take the lead and control their troops, they will be in danger.