While a battle was going on a few miles away, Fang Xuanqiao and Su Jingfang began to discuss political ideas, which was really weird. However, considering that Li Ding, the deputy commander of the army, and Qu Tuda, the reinforcement general, were just sitting and chatting in the barracks behind, it didn't seem that exaggerated.
However, whether it is Li Ding or Qu Tuda, whether it is Fang Xuanqiao or Su Jingfang, or Duan Wei-Zheng Shanye who is watching the fire from the other side, including the previous Zhang Xing-Xiong Bonan-Cui Suchen, as well as Bai Hengqiu-Dou Qi, Everyone knows that this battle will eventually be decided by violent confrontation.
No matter how much they think about it, they still have to use the result of the battle to make a follow-up decision. "The camp is broken! The camp is broken!"
"Charge forward, charge forward! Whoever breaks the camp first and captures the flag will be rewarded with a hundred gold coins!"
"The Duke has an order. Whoever kills the three Zhang thieves will be made a marquis! Whoever kills the leader of the dragon thieves will be promoted to general! This battle has three hundred meritorious deeds!"
As the two battalions of reinforcements arrived at the front line, suddenly, huge cheers erupted in front of the Deposed Dragon Army camp, and countless Taiyuan troops cheered. It turned out that in front of the camp supervised by Xu Shiying, the deposed general of the Dragon Army, a fence several feet wide was suddenly pulled down, revealing a wide marching passage.
Moreover, everyone could see that the Deposed Dragon Army was hurriedly mobilizing troops and trying to form a human wall to block the gap. And this further stimulated the Taiyuan Army's desire to attack.
All of a sudden, there were cheers, shouts, the vibration of soldiers and armor, and the sound of drums, and countless Taiyuan troops rushed towards the gap.
"Stand still! Hold still, hold still!"
At the gap, a general with a whale bone on his head was giving orders in a tone that was almost roaring, and the deposed dragon army beside him was arranging with their best spears.
The formation of only three rows had just begun to take shape, and the impatient Taiyuan Army had already poured into the gap and rushed directly. The team would see that the opponent's formation was scattered and the equipment was mixed, but before their own formations were neatly formed, both sides As soon as they met, they couldn't wait to give the order:
"Push it out!!!"
One hundred deposed dragon soldiers held long spears and lined up in three rows. Although they were panicked, they still followed the instinct during training when they heard the military order. They lowered their heads and pressed their spears, forming a forest of spears and pushing forward hard. The Taiyuan Army was caught off guard, and a dozen people were stabbed on the spot. The rest fled in confusion. The formation became more and more scattered, which gave the spearmen a chance to push past more easily.
It was not that there was no resistance. A Taiyuan Army officer who had just arrived at the gap did not retreat but instead advanced. Instead, he raised his long knife and slashed directly at the gun formation. A pale white light glowed on the long knife, and two spears sprouted out of thin air. Chi seems to be a master of magical scriptures.
However, the long knife rolled down and cut off the two spears, but it was difficult to cut. Instead, the knife holder was stabbed into the abdomen by an iron spear from the bottom layer through the side seam of the armor.
The man yelled, not daring to act like a hero anymore. He dropped his weapon on the spot, then strode back, trying to pull out the spear from his belly. However, when the spear blades were drawn back, they were blocked by the armor, while the array of spears in front of him continued to attack. Then he stabbed in again.
In this way, the stomach of this Taiyuan Army officer was repeatedly dug out. Before he could retreat to the gap, his intestines were already leaking all over the floor. He lost all his strength and finally lay down directly. The spear-destroying dragon soldier who stabbed the opponent simply gave up his spear and drew out his saber. He didn't rush to retaliate. He just lowered his head and waited for the spear formation to pass by before engaging the dozens of short-handed dragon-destroying soldiers behind him. Together, go deal with the injured and lone Taiyuan Army.
The Taiyuan Army officer's internal organs were already empty, and the ground was covered with blood. There was still a spear in his stomach, and he was trampled by Liuhe Boots. He was still alive. When he saw the Deposed Dragon Army coming to kill him, he just cried out for mercy.
The leader of the deposed dragon army actually hesitated, but immediately, someone came from behind, held down the spear with one hand, then stepped forward and stabbed the opponent's neck, then leaned down again, cut off the head and helmet together, and returned the sword. Pull back the spear.
By this time, the Deposed Dragon Army had retaken the gap, and even rushed out of the gap because of the embarrassment of the Taiyuan Army in front.
"Get back! Get back quickly!
Seeing this, the officer of the Deposed Dragon Army hurriedly shouted after him.
In the chaos, some sergeants turned back immediately after hearing the military order, while others were confused due to the killing and counterattack, and some even did not hear the military order at all in their excitement and nervousness, which caused the three rows of spear formations themselves to fall into chaos. , and then some of them paid the price with blood.
A shower of arrows appeared almost as soon as the Deposed Dragon Gang sergeants arrived at the gap. Because the Zhenqi formation was not covering them, this shower of arrows fell, causing several soldiers to be directly injured by arrows.
At the same time, a group of Taiyuan troops who had reacted had already lined up in order, holding up large shields and braved the rain of arrows to fight back again.
The deposed dragon army instantly fell into the position of its previous opponent. No less than a dozen of them had no time to retreat. They were overtaken and hacked to death on the spot in front of the gap.
Not to mention, the awakened Taiyuan Army has obviously been effectively commanded. They no longer compete for the "Tiao Dang Kung" with only 300 places. Instead, they regrouped, charged in formation with large shields, and braved the enemy's fire with their bows and crossbows. The high altitude advantage forced them to move forward to suppress the formation, but it really worked. The shield formation quickly pushed into the gap, and it was the spear formation of the Deposed Dragon Army. They just tried to assemble again, but they were also pushed away.
More than a hundred Taiyuan troops entered the gap.
Then, the situation suddenly became very strange, because there was cheering inside, but it was not the volume of a mere hundred people, but a bigger cheering, obviously coming from the Deposed Dragon Army.
The Taiyuan Army who subsequently rushed over quickly realized the situation and reported back in embarrassment.
"It's an urn city inside!" A Taiyuan Army officer accurately expressed the situation behind the gap in the camp with an absolutely wrong description.
"Tsk!" Sun Shunde touched his face with his hands and understood immediately. "I know it's not that simple." "Do you want people to evacuate?"
"Aren't we going to attack Wengcheng?" Sun Shunde was furious. "I'll go and supervise the battle myself! Send the soldiers and horses in!"
After saying that, the former general of the Taiyuan Army held his sword upside down and led his guards straight towards the gap. When he led the crowd to the position of more than a hundred steps in front of the gap, he could see clearly with his cultivation. Behind the gap in the broken fence, there were three earthen barriers with a height of one person. It was flat, the deposed dragon army stood high and set up large shields and spears, and there were bows and crossbows at high places on the outside.
The more than a hundred Taiyuan troops below could only gather in a group and raise their shields to resist. If anyone had a mental breakdown and tried to escape to the gap, they would be shot at intensively, including the flaw in the shield array.
If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before these hundreds of people are devoured alive by the Dragon Army. "Sun Shunde is here."
The team general who had been responsible for advancing and luring the enemy was now standing beside Xu Shiying, and then pointed a gun in one hand at the flag outside from the observation platform with the other. "Would it be self-defeating if this guy leads a group of people to rescue him? He has at least three alchemy masters under his command, plus himself and his bodyguard?????? We may not be able to stop him."
"It's not that we may not be able to stop it, but we definitely can't." Xu Shiying looked at it coldly and answered coldly. "But he will never come.
"Why?" The team general was confused.
"He didn't even dare to take Wang Wulang's arrows. He ran hundreds of steps away, as if he was afraid of his own life. How dare he come to fight me?" Xu Dalang sneered even more. "It's okay for these people to escape from the Three Expeditions. Everyone wants to escape if they die in vain. But since they have surrendered to Bai Hengqiu, who doesn't want to take advantage and save energy? They can eat most of Kansai in a single turn. Who is willing to die in Hebei?"
At this point, Xu Dalang turned to look at his close subordinate: "If these people really want to go all out, given the current situation, we can only escape, but we don't have to think too much."
"Is there a way to escape?" the team leader continued to ask. "Can you call me back?" "It's hard to say!"
"It's hard to say, can't you????" The team general finally changed his expression. "If I really can't fight back, I'll be defeated. Then I can still go back and sell cooking cakes. What about you, Dalang? What should I do?"
Xu Shiying glanced at the other party, without saying a word, but suddenly took the spear from the other party's hand, and with just a shake, the gray-white ice energy under his feet surged out of thin air from the ground, and turned into green immortality energy under his feet. Looking at the whole person, he was wrapped in true energy and became a ball.
Immediately, Xu Dalang just jumped up and smashed the entire Taiyuan Army shield array below. After landing, his true energy exploded and the entire shield array immediately collapsed. However, an officer still shouted loudly, asking the troops to form a formation and not disperse. Wait. rescue.
But at this time, the general who had been selling cooking cakes in Baima a few years ago also shouted an order, and the soldiers around him shouted for kill, and rushed down with long spears, attacking from three sides.
At this moment, the Taiyuan army no longer had the will to fight. The elite troops who had entered first threw away their shields and fled to the gap in a hurry. However, they had neither shields nor formation, and were surrounded from three sides. What could be the outcome? It's nothing more than being hunted in the "Weng City".
More than a hundred steps away, Sun Shunde, who was originally planning to send his subordinates to go to Jiuyuan, saw this scene. His eyes were splitting. No matter how unbearable it was, he couldn't help but look back: "As a general, you can be afraid of death, but how can you abandon your subordinates?" Go to hell?"
As soon as he said this, he personally walked forward with a big sword in his hand, and the surrounding cronies no longer hesitated, including a captain and a battalion general.
However, when this famous general from Guanlong came to the gap in the Deposed Dragon Army camp, he saw a scene he would never forget - Xu Shiying, the deposed Dragon Thief general who had previously captured his own general alive in front of the formation, was standing in the gap with an iron gun. Behind him, a team general stood holding a banner with the word "Xu". Behind him, dozens of sergeants from the Deposed Dragon Army were seizing the gap, but they were divided into two columns, one facing inward and one facing outward.
At the same time, those Taiyuan troops who broke into the gap were still being slaughtered.
Sun Shunde looked at the opponent, watching the immortality energy that was constantly escaping around the opponent's body. He felt uneasy and moved slower and slower. However, he suddenly stopped dozens of steps away from the opponent, and then waved his sword and ordered his subordinates. Continue to rush and kill.
Xu Shiying sneered and raised his spear, but felt relieved. After all, this guy didn't dare to fight his hardest.
At this time, it was about an hour before sunset.
After Xu Shiying succeeded in luring the enemy, about a quarter of an hour later, a new round of fighting appeared on the banks of the Qingzhang River. The scale of the fighting here was initially limited by the battlefield??????The plum blossoms of the Dragon Army were deposed. The distance between Zhuangda camp and Qingzhangshui is limited, and there are not many troops that can be filled. But soon, just like the previous camp, when the outermost fence here was breached, a large number of troops poured into the gaps between the plum petals, and the deposed dragon army here quickly fell into a bitter battle.
The reason couldn't be simpler. The leader here is Niuda. He has the lowest cultivation level and has been seriously injured. More importantly, his headquarters suffered heavy losses in the battle half a year ago. He was selected as an elite, but he didn't get along well with the general.
Correspondingly, the person in charge of the two battalions of the Taiyuan Army is the younger Bai Liben. Although his cultivation is not enough, he dares to fight and kill. In addition, he has nearly 6,000 soldiers and horses in the two battalions. Among the crowd, two generals and two captains, all four of them were masters of condensing pills or above, one of them was even a master of forming pills. Naturally, Niuda was so overwhelmed that he couldn't breathe and could only rely on the large formation to support himself.
At this time, Niuda requested reinforcements from the Chinese army.
"Tell Niuda to wait for a quarter of an hour. After a quarter of an hour, I will send out Zhou Xingfan's cavalry, and then in half an hour, I will send out King Xiongtian." Zhang Xing thought for a moment and immediately gave the answer.
Chuanqi was relieved and turned back immediately.
After the people left, all the people on the stage were silent. Even Xiong Bonan, who was a little anxious before, didn't say a word either.
Without him, time is running out.
The battle started in the afternoon, with 30,000 people versus just over 10,000 people. One duel in front of the formation, two large-scale offensives, mixed with simple luring the enemy and counterattack, enough time has been spent.
Next, Niuda may be able to hold on, or he may not be able to hold on, it doesn't matter.
Because we don’t know when Bai Hengqiu will take action, and before that, there is no need to hold back any force in the deposed Long Army.
Zhang Xing believes that among the more than 10,000 deposed dragon troops, there must be some who have doubts, and there must also be many people who have given up thinking long ago and are waiting for the possible outcome of the war with a risk-taking mentality.
After all, as I said before, this battle came too suddenly for the Deposed Dragon Gang.
In this way, watching Chuanqi leave the general platform, I don’t know what Xiong Bonan, Cui Suchen and others were thinking, but Zhang Xing began to wander. He was thinking about a question, a question that was related to life and death, but there was no room for it. , a question that made him fearful, puzzled and somewhat hopeful.
That is, why on earth can he stop Bai Hengqiu?
Or to put it another way??????As a time traveler, Zhang Xing trusts the compass very much, but why? Why does the compass point clearly and neatly here? Why does Luo Pan think that by staying here, he can bring vitality to the Deposed Dragon Gang?
Escape will directly lead to failure, but what about staying? Is it alive? If so, where is the hope?
This problem is not completely traceable, because the world is generally materialistic, and even the idealistic Qi is materialistic from a macro perspective and has laws to follow. In fact, Zhang Xing had some insights the moment the Zhenqi formation was erected. He instantly realized that the stability of this Zhenqi formation, his control over the army, and the existence of the Deposed Dragon Gang in Hebei There is a clear relationship.
The human heart and the truth itself are power. This is a wise saying, and in this world, this statement is especially wise, because these things that seemed illusory before time travel and need to be transformed through people's actions, in this world, through magical "Qi" can be directly transformed into the most obvious power.
If you control people's hearts, if you control the truth, you can obtain and control power, and you can stop Bai Hengqiu. So here comes the question again, do you, Zhang San, have a grasp of the people's hearts and principles?
To be fair, Zhang Xing still felt a little guilty, which was the fundamental reason why he still felt uneasy until now. What have you done that qualifies you as a master of human hearts and principles?
It has been six years since I came to this world. Not to mention the previous two and a half years, it has been three and a half years since I rebelled.
In the past three and a half years, he established the Deposed Dragon Gang and recruited nearly a hundred so-called heroes to rebel. Among them were powerful men, criminals and fugitives in exile, petty officials, surrendered officials, and farmers. , there were traders, even eunuchs and nobles.
Then, this organization eventually grew to have fifty military camps and two hundred thousand field soldiers. It then occupied fifteen and sixteen counties, led tens of millions of people, and effectively ruled for several years. Recently, the Deposed Dragon Gang promulgated laws, put forward a so-called political program, and even captured Liyangcang, saving the entire Hebei from famine.
This is amazing, really amazing. Zhang Xing feels amazing when he thinks about it. However, it seems that these achievements are far beyond his personal scope. The achievements belong to the entire Deposed Dragon Gang, not him personally.
Is he qualified to control this power?
Apart from that, there seemed to be something missing. There was something missing that could make Zhang Xing completely relieved. He was missing the determination that made him desperately pull out the sheathless sword in his hand and strike hard.
Does he have this determination?
"It's been a quarter of an hour." Xiong Bonan reminded him proactively. "Let leader Xiao Zhou take action!
Zhang Xing nodded. Through the formation, he could clearly detect the tension and weakness on Niuda's petal.
After the military order was passed, hundreds of armored cavalry who had been waiting for a long time immediately poured out from Huaxin, went east along the main road inside the camp, and poured out from several side doors half a quarter of an hour later, trying to drive away, Divide the Taiyuan army that is besieging the camp.
But the effect is very poor.
The narrow battlefield and dense infantry formation made it impossible for the armored cavalry to speed up and there was not enough room for maneuver. Xiong Bonan no longer hesitated and stood up immediately.
This time Zhang Xing did not stop him.
At this moment, the purple-faced king suddenly changed his expression, and then turned his head to look due south, causing Cui Suchen and others to also look there. Zhang Xing slowly turned his head and saw a three-person figure who was not dazzling. The figure wrapped in Huizhen Qi slowly rose from the battlefield, and then "fell" into the huge chessboard in the sky.
As this scene happened, the entire chessboard surged again, quickly covering the Deposed Dragon Gang's camp.
Obviously, Bai Hengqiu is too lazy to wait. He wants to use his own way, use absolute power, and have the greatest chance of winning to end today's war?????? This raid, which has been intensively planned since half a month ago, Now we have reached the point of close combat.
Xiong Bonan no longer hesitated, immediately grabbed the flag, jumped up high, and the entire plum blossom-shaped formation also started to stir up.
Zhang Xing looked at these situations expressionlessly, and then touched his waist.
He wanted to touch the Fulong Seal, but he touched the compass first, and then his heart moved slightly. However, in this situation, he thought of something that seemed unrelated - he seemed to have never searched for the return through the compass. The road home. there has never been.
Why?
