Chapter 212 Chapter 9: Defeat

The morale was like a rainbow, and the enemy's position was not stable. The three vanguards of the Chinese army, each consisting of 2,000 men, rushed up the hillside like three long snakes, as fast as sharp arrows, as fast as thunder and lightning, and savagely rushed up the hillside like a storm. Into the enemy line. Li Mi and the generals who came to the top of the slope commanded their men to rush down the slope to intercept before the commander-in-chief's flag was erected, hoping to repel the enemy's first round of charge, and after reorganizing their positions, they will face the battle with superior forces.

Arrows shot down from the sky, and the cavalry of the two sides met in the middle of the several-mile-long hillside and killed at close range. For a while, the sky was dark and the sun and the moon were dark. The four thousand cavalry led by Yang Gongqing are still advancing steadily and slowly. Xu Ziling riding his horse on his left was the first time to officially participate in the bloody battle between the two armies on the battlefield, and it was a pure cavalry battle in which both victory and defeat were quick.I deeply feel that in such a situation of thousands of troops, no matter how skillful one is, the only thing to really rely on is the power of group cooperation.

Yang Gongqing stared at Li Mi, who was sitting high on the horse under the commander-in-chief at the top of the slope, and said to Xu Ziling: "The cavalry is also called the soldiers of separation and reunion. Because they can separate and reunite, they disperse and reunite quickly. , going in and out, running swiftly and swiftly, so they are the soldiers who will win the battle. If our side is not full of cavalry who are good at attacking and rushing, why should Li Mi be in such a mess." Xu Ziling saw that Li Mi's cavalry team could not stop falling, but due to the constant replenishment, it was almost impossible to overwhelm his own cavalry team, forming a chaotic situation.Just when they were worried, the cavalry on both sides of their own side had already attacked the enemy from both sides, and the Wagang Army was overwhelmed at once, and the whole formation was in chaos.

At this time, his emotions had almost recovered, and he was as calm as ever. Beside Li Mi was the beautiful Shen Luoyan, staring at him fiercely. At this moment, thick smoke rose into the sky from behind Li Mi, shouting to kill the sky. Yang Gongqing laughed loudly and said, "Li Mi has been tricked! Whoever can behead his head will be rewarded with a hundred taels of gold." He sent out these three sentences with luck, and the sound shook the audience. The war drums rang wildly, and Yang Gongqing's most elite cavalry team finally entered the battlefield, kicking off the situation of an all-out decisive battle.

Xu Ziling remembered the blood feud between Zhai Rang's Longtou Mansion and Ren En's group, so he rushed out and ran up the slope. Wagang's exhausted soldiers, who had traveled all night, saw that the back camp was on fire, and they had no intention of fighting, and fled in all directions. Li Mi and nearly ten thousand of his relatives finally moved, and rushed down to Yang Gongqing's central army, hoping to turn the tide.It's a pity that since ancient times, there has never been a place that is more realistic and cruel than the battlefield. If the defeat is successful, even if Sun Wu is resurrected and Kong Ming is reborn, there will be no strength to recover.

Xu Ziling led a team of more than 500 soldiers, and they went straight to meet Li Mi like a broken bamboo. Every time the spear is shot, whether it is picking or stabbing, sweeping and unloading, the spiral force will blow the blocker to death like a torrent, and no one will be spared. The characteristics of this kind of attacking long-distance weapon are brought into full play. At this moment of confrontation, either you die or I die, and there is no place for kindness. "when"! A long sword was like a divine sword falling from the sky, and it blocked the shot he thought would kill him.

Xu Ziling took a look, and realized that the sword wielder was Pei Renji, who was known as the Wagang Double Tiger General with the same name as Wang Bodang. The Wagang Army was densely packed in front of them, and the pressure suddenly doubled. Soldiers on the left and right fell down one after another, and their vacancies were instantly filled by their successors. Xu Ziling let out a long roar, and the blood vengeance of the tragic death of his allies who fought side by side surged in his heart. Thousands of gun shadows appeared from the spear in his hand, and his air glowed, and he attacked Pei Renji like a strong wind and huge waves.

Kou Zhong and others led by Zhai Jiao, who was as fierce as a lion, gathered more than 200 people from scattered, and stabbed straight into the enemy's rear like a sharp knife. At this moment, there is already thick smoke in the rear, and there is no retreat, and sometimes the morning wind blows up the smoke dust, making people want to stay away as soon as possible.When they fought desperately up the long hillside, the enemy, without knowing their reality, tried to evade to both sides, which greatly increased their power and influence. Two people are of the same heart, and their benefits can cut gold.

These two hundred people are all soldiers of Zhai Rang's sons. They have been following Zhai Rang since the Wagang Uprising. They have been waiting for this opportunity of revenge. They have longed for this opportunity, and they know that if they can't join up with their own army in front, they will only die. One, more and more people desperately. On one side are the exhausted soldiers in a panic, and on the other side are the revenge troops determined to die. The Wagang Army has entered a panic like the spread of the plague, and it is difficult to organize effective resistance. Kou Zhong and others dispersed a cavalry regiment sent by Li Mi to stop their cavalry regiment, and finally arrived at the top of the mountain.

I saw scattered enemy troops all over the mountains and plains, and fierce battles were fought in the middle of the hillside and on the hills on both sides. Some Yanshi troops who broke through the enemy's defense line rushed left and right in the defeated enemy formation, killing the enemy vertically and horizontally. . The hillside was covered with dead and wounded, which fully demonstrated the ruthlessness of the war. The blood dyed the grass and slopes blood red, which was shocking. Zhai Jiao caught a glimpse of Li Mishuaiqi, and shouted: "Zhai Rang's daughter is begging for her life today!"

He flattered his horse and rushed towards Li Mi's personal troops below. They all have red hair on their heads to identify them. When the people from our side saw them, they immediately gave way; as for Li Mi's specially selected elite soldiers, most of them were Zhai Rang's former troops, and the one who recognized them was the young lady Zhai Jiao. Seeing that she led a large number of dead soldiers to kill her, she immediately felt terrified, and only knew how to flee in a hurry. The last remaining fighting spirit of the Wagang Army finally collapsed. When the crowd rushed to the back of Li Mi's personal army as if entering no one's land, more than a hundred people came up the slope, and the leaders recognized Xu Shiji and the "Changbai Twins" brothers Fu Zhen and Fu Yan. The former carried a long halberd, while the latter two still used long ax and fishing swords. All three had blood-stained war robes, with ferocious but tired expressions. Kou Zhong burst out laughing, leaped off his horse, looked at the three of them in the air, and shouted: "Kou Zhong is here!" Kou Zhong's name was known all over the world at this time, someone among Li Mi's personal soldiers immediately became frightened and left the group to escape. "Dang! Dang! Dang!" Kou Zhong couldn't help bouncing up and down, Jing Zhongyue in his hand struck down with lightning, forcibly intercepting the three of them. Zhai Jiao and the others also came to kill them, and immediately smashed the counterattack army to pieces. Fu Zhen and Fu Yan lost all courage, they couldn't use half of their usual skills, so they fled to the side first. Xu Shiji couldn't support himself alone, turned over and fell off the horse, narrowly avoiding Kou Zhong's sure-kill move. Zhai Jiao leaned over and swiped the Guan knife, slashing his chest horizontally. Xu Shiji was also amazing, in such a situation, he was still able to throw away the halberd, draw out his saber, and forcibly block her Guan Dao. "when"! Xu Shiji, with his sword in hand, was thrown downhill by the hack, but he also saved his life. Over the past few years, Zhai Jiao has practiced hard day and night, just for this moment, if she has to talk to other people, she yells and kills Li Mi. When Xuan Yong, Tu Shufang and a group of subordinates hurriedly chased after him, the unstoppable Kou Zhong put his toes on Xu Shiji's empty horse, jumped up, and flew towards Li Mi, Pei Renji and Shen Luoyan who were fighting with Xu Ziling and others. , Zu Junyan, etc., look like heavenly soldiers descending to earth. Under normal circumstances, such a volley that completely exposes the enemy's arrows, knives and guns is no different from suicide, but at this moment, the enemies are too busy to take care of themselves and avoid them, so there is still time to attack him. After Xu Ziling injured Pei Renji, he finally confronted Li Mi head-on. After a while in the deserted village, Xu Ziling confronted this famous overlord again. Li Mi is tall and majestic, with an old-fashioned face. His long hair hangs over his broad shoulders, lining his gleaming armor stomach. When he swings the heavy steel spear in his hand, his long hair flutters. His eyes are like cold lightning. He really has an incomparable heroic spirit . However, he was injured in many places, he stabbed dozens of spears in a row, Xu Ziling tried his best to block them, the battle was inextricable. Every time Xu Ziling blocked his spear, it was like being hit by a heavy stone, which made his blood churn. Fortunately, his true qi from the "Longevity Formula" and "Heshibi" did not go the wrong way. It not only dissipates the opponent's qi, but also regenerates new energy. One shot is as heavy as a shot. However, his riding skills are obviously inferior to the opponent's, so he can only be on the defensive, which is comparable to Li Mi's. Kou Zhong rushed towards him in the air, immediately turning the whole situation around. Although Li Mi has less than 2,000 soldiers left by his side, he still has twice as many troops as the enemy, and they also occupy the advantage of the high place on the hillside. For a period of time, at that time, it may be possible to fight and retreat at the same time, instead of running around like now, it is difficult to form an army. However, the Yanshi troops have not yet been able to weaken the Wagang Army to a situation of gathering and annihilating them. They just gained the upper hand and continued to expand the battlefield as they intercepted and fled the enemy, causing the battle to spread to the long grasslands and sparse forest areas below the hillside. go. If you don't leave at this time, when will you wait? Li Mi sighed secretly. If it's not a battle to the death, but a fight in the rivers and lakes, even in the face of a team as strong as Xu Ziling and Kou Zhong, he can still do his best to win. But in the current situation, he has become the target of public criticism. Thousands of enemies are coming to him one after another. At any time, he has to deal with many kinds of weapons. At the same time, you have to choose whether to take the knife or go to the point of the gun, so as to avoid the really deadly attack. Naturally, he didn't dare to attack with all his strength, lest his true essence be depleted so much that his strength would be exhausted. All the simple, direct and effective moves are used, and the usual methods to lure and confuse the enemy cannot be used here. He knew that if he let Kou Zhong come to the top of his head, and was entangled by an expert like Xu Ziling, it would be a dead end if he continued to fight. When Li Mi was about to call out to retreat, Shen Luoyan rode his horse and cut between him and Xu Ziling, calling softly: "Mr. Mi, go!" Li Mi knew that this was the only chance to escape, so he finally yelled out a sentence he had never said since he debuted to fight for world supremacy: "Let's go!" Leaping up from his horse, he shot at Kou Zhong with the steel spear in his hand. "when"! The two threw away in opposite directions at the same time. "call"! Zhai Jiao's Guan Dao flew out of her hand, across the three-foot-long battlefield, and swung it towards Li Mi. Pei Renji and others exclaimed at the same time: "Mr. Mi, be careful!" "Clang"! Li Mi swung his spear back and swiped his saber, and then flew up with his strength. When he landed, he kicked an enemy off his horse, and rode eastward. Xu Ziling blocked Shen Luoyan's more than ten swords at this time, but he didn't return half of the spear, and said with a wry smile: "Beauty, please, military advisor!" Tears welled up in Shen Luoyan's eyes, and he cried out, "Hello, Xu Ziling!" Reining in his horse and chasing after his retreating soldiers, he galloped away. Zhai Jiao frantically led the men and horses, and chased after them. Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling knew very well that the poor should not chase after her, fearing that she might lose something, they hurriedly followed her. The horn of retreat finally sounded to indicate the direction of defeat. The scuffle turned into a chasing battle, chasing and killing for more than ten miles, Yang Gongqing began to retreat because of concerns about Shan Xiongxin's army. Since the war between Wang Shichong's army and the Wagang Army, this is the first victory for the first time. Li Mi was defeated and fled to Luokou. Only 10,000 of the 40,000 cavalry remained, causing heavy casualties. However, the Yanshi army only lost more than 2,000 yuan, and won easily and beautifully. Kou Zhong's upper body was bare, and he sat on a stone beside the Luo River like a big horse with a golden knife, and asked the doctor accompanying the army to heal the wounds on his left arm, right waist and chest. Yang Gongqing has led the army back to Yanshi to prevent Shan Xiongxin from attacking the city when Yanshi's defense is weak, leaving only a thousand soldiers to prevent Li Mi from turning around and attacking, or to join forces with Shan Xiongxin's troops to reorganize the army. Xu Ziling had been properly bandaged earlier, and his injuries were lighter than Kou Zhong's, because he had the upper hand from the beginning, unlike Kou Zhong who penetrated deep into the enemy's formation with a meager force. The sun fell above the western mountain, and the soldiers rested in formation on several nearby hills, looking at the plains on both sides of the river in the direction of Luokou downstream. Four warships were moored by the shore, and they brought them rations, medicine, and workers to clean up the mess. The remains of one's own soldiers will be sent back to Yanshi for burial, and the remains of the enemy will be dug and buried on the spot to avoid causing plague and diseases. Zhai Jiao, Xuan Yong and the others are still searching for the enemy nearby, but have not turned back yet. Kou Zhong smiled wryly at Xu Ziling: "While your martial arts are world-class on the battlefield, it is still impossible not to be injured. The problem is how to avoid the fatal blow. Now my body is in pain, even if I fight Zhu Yuyan fiercely, it will not be so difficult." Xu Ziling was speechless for a while as he watched four carpenters struggling to push a cart full of wrecks towards the warship. At this moment, Ling Longjiao, who was scouting out Li Mi's defeated army, came back with more than ten riders, kicked off her horse, and came to the room between the two of them in a heroic manner, and reported: "Li Mi's defeat was terrible this time. Even the commander-in-chief has fallen. I am afraid that when he raised his troops, he never dreamed that there would be such a tragic battle." Kou Zhong inspected her exquisite and protruding body several times, and said with a smile: "Only like Jiaojiao who can control the whole situation on the bloody battlefield can be unscathed, ha!" Linglong Jiaoqiao blushed and said: "If you mock me for not being able to contribute in the battlefield, I will never let you go. But seeing that you call me Jiaojiao so nicely, and seeing that your face is blue and your lips are white with injuries, I will spare you for the time being." .” Kou Zhong laughed and said, "I'm just glad to see you in good health! Has Li Mi gone back to his hometown Luokou? This old boy slipped away so fast." Zhai Jiao also came back, jumped off the horse with an excited expression on her face, and shouted: "We will attack Luokou immediately." Xuan Yong and Tu Shufang both frowned and winked at Kou Zhonglian. Kou Zhong unexpectedly said: "It turns out that the hero sees the same thing, now we go back to Yanshi by boat and discuss with General Yang about the plan to attack Luokou." Everyone was stunned. You must know that Shan Xiongxin still has nearly 60,000 troops stationed beside Beiman Mountain in Yanshi. No matter how bad these new troops are, how can they rush to attack Luokou without any worries. But now everyone is convinced by Kou Zhong's ingenious plan, if he must have a well-thought-out plan, he can say this. Kou Zhong picked up Jing Zhongyue who was put aside, looked in the direction of Luokou, and said calmly: "Li Mi will never be reconciled to fleeing to Luokou like this, and will try to join up with Shan Xiongxin's troops, hoping to turn defeat into victory. So as long as we If it can prevent them from joining forces and make Shan Xiongxin not dare to act rashly, then Bing Yuanzhen, who is guarding Luokou, has no choice but to surrender, and Wang Bodang is even more powerless to keep Jin Yong. Taking advantage of the victory to pursue the attack is the way to expand the results of the battle, the young lady thinks otherwise." It was the first time that Zhai Jiaoshang sincerely felt Kou Zhong's words to his ears, and he said happily: "Xiao Zhong, you are indeed a rare general in this world. If Dad met you instead of the traitor Li Mi, the world would be my Wagang Army It's over!"