Yu Jin's army rushed to the shore to seize the bridge, but found that the pontoon bridge had been demolished by the enemy.
The enemy troops on the boats and on the stone walls in the river were still shooting arrows towards the shore. Because of the darkness of the night, it was difficult to distinguish the flying arrows. Many people were caught off guard and were shot to death by arrows on the beach.
Yu Jingqi's eyes were about to burst, and he ordered to fire arrows to fight back. However, the night was too dark and the bows and arrows were not accurate at all. Most of the arrows fell into the river, rarely injuring the enemy.
The big man looked at the sparse arrows shot by Yu Jin in panic and couldn't help but laugh and shouted: "Yu Jin, you died here!!"
After speaking, he waved his hand, and several huge lanterns rose up, very dazzling in the night.
Soon after the lanterns were raised, bursts of golden drums and shouts could be faintly heard from the nearby mountains and rivers.
Yu Jin's scalp went numb instantly when he heard the sound, "No! I've fallen into a trap!"
At this moment, a scout with an arrow wound on his shoulder rushed to Yu Jin, crawling and shouting: "Report! Enemy reinforcements are coming from the west! They are fighting with our army!"
Yu Jin nodded and deployed his troops on the western main road. After all, he was a battle-hardened general. He quickly recovered from the panic and asked calmly: "How many people are there in the enemy army?"
The scout gritted his teeth and endured the arrow wound, gasping and saying: "Count... countless, there are torches all over the mountains and plains."
Yu Jin raised his eyebrows slightly, and at this time another scout came running, "Report! The enemy troops from the east are approaching our army!"
"What!? How many people are there!?" The beads of sweat on Yu Jin's forehead were blown by the night wind, sending a chill all over his body. To the east was the road he took back to his base camp, and it was actually blocked by the enemy.
At this time, he also understood that he was ambushed by the enemy. At this time, there was only no news from the north. He also left a thousand Taishan Army veterans to guard the northern key road. "General, there is a mountain road to the north, you can take a detour back to our army camp."
He had already made up his mind to take the northern road back to camp to rest and fight another day. Thinking of this, Yu Jin immediately gave an order to his son Yu Gui: "Ruifang, your front army becomes a rear guard and covers our army's retreat to the north."
Although Yu Gui was a playboy, he did not dare to be vague at this time of life and death, and immediately organized troops to resist and cover the retreat of the army.
Seeing Yu Jin retreating, the big man on the stone wall laughed loudly, and then raised his chin to a soldier beside him. The man picked up his bow and arrow, and shot a loud arrow, which landed among Yu Gui's soldiers.
In an instant, arrows flew out from behind the stone wall and hit the crowd like hailstones. Yu Gui was caught off guard and was hit by an arrow in his arm.
Yu Gui finally couldn't hold himself any longer. The severe pain in his arm made him forget his father's military order and frightened him even more. Without saying a word, he abandoned his soldiers and galvanized his horse and fled northward. When his soldiers saw him fleeing, they were thrown into chaos.
Seeing his son running away regardless, Yu Jin couldn't help but feel disappointed.
Yu Gui's rearguard troops retreated, which was like a heavy hammer that severely shattered the morale of Yu Jin's entire army. Someone shouted, "Run away!" The whole army dispersed like a crumbling sandcastle.
Yu Jin couldn't stand the scolding and had no choice but to run away. However, before he could run for long, a group of ragged soldiers with blood-stained robes came running towards them. He took a closer look and saw that they were actually a group of old Taishan brothers.
"What's going on!?" Yu Jince immediately stepped forward and asked.
A Taishan soldier said with a sad face: "The general is in trouble, a large number of enemy troops suddenly came from the north, as many as... five or six thousand, our numbers are too small and we can't resist it!"
"What, five thousand!?" Yu Jin was shocked when he heard this, why were there so many enemy troops. Yu Gui was so frightened that he almost fell off his horse.
"Father, what should we do?" Yu Gui asked with a sad face.
"Why panic!" Yu Jin yelled angrily, wishing he could slap a whip on his face. If it weren't for this useless son, how could he have been defeated! But Yu Jin knew that this was not the time to punish Yu Gui. He suppressed his anger and made a quick calculation in his mind. Currently, the enemy troops were the largest in the north, and fewer in the east and west. He ordered: "Concentrate our forces and break out to the east!"
Yu Jin's old Taishan County brothers were all elites. Although they were caught off guard, they gradually stabilized the situation. They immediately formed a team and started heading east.
Breakout.
At this time, the enemy troops in the sandbank camp also chased them by boat along the river, firing arrows to harass them all the way, and were slow to move behind the forbidden army. The enemy troops to the west and north behind him also joined forces and began to chase Yu Jin's soldiers and fight fiercely.
On the top of the mountain, Chen Lan and Mei Cheng sat in front of a small tea table, watching the battle at the bottom of the mountain.
I saw Chen Lan pointing at the foot of the mountain and laughing proudly, "How about it? General Hu Might is banned, that's all!"
Mei Cheng laughed and cupped his hands and said, "General Chen's military skills are like a god, I admire you. It's just that the Taishan soldiers under Yu Jin are brave and good at fighting in the mountains. I'm afraid they still escaped." He lowered his head and looked down the mountain. Yu Jin's men and horses It has broken through the blockade on the east and is about to escape.
"Escape?" Chen Lan smiled contemptuously and said arrogantly: "He has strong soldiers and generals, and I also have ambushes from all sides. Brother Mei, be careful, I will capture this man alive today!"
Before he finished speaking, he waved his hand, and the soldiers on the mountain raised a huge lantern, waved it three times toward the east, and made a large circle.
In an instant, a fire suddenly lit up on the hillside in front of Yu Jin's army, and the drums of war seemed to beat on the hearts of Yu Jin and his son. Before they could react, they saw a hail of arrows falling from the sky. The soldiers of the Taishan Army raised their shields to block the arrows, but many people were shot to death alive.
"Father! There is an ambush!"
Yu Jin looked towards the hillside and saw the enemy shooting arrows, but no one rushed down, and the arrows were also sparse. Years of experience in combat allowed him to quickly make a judgment, "The enemy troops are not large in number, so pass quickly!"
"No!" Everyone shouted in response and accelerated their marching speed.
As he expected, there were only a few hundred crossbowmen on the hillside. After several rounds of arrow rain, Yu Jin's army was still able to escape. However, these enemy troops did not pursue them, but hid in the mountains and forests again.
"Huh, it's so dangerous! I thought it was the main force of the enemy army." Yu Gui wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with lingering fear.
At this time, a scout came and reported that the pursuers behind him had disappeared without a trace. This news made Yu Jin and his son breathe a sigh of relief. Yu Gui patted his chest, trying to slow down his racing heart. "It seems that those enemy soldiers are all suspicious soldiers. They are just lighting more torches to confuse us."
Yu Jin rolled his eyes at him and said angrily: "Stop chatting, return to the camp quickly, regroup and fight again!"
As they spoke, they walked into a valley between two low mountains. Through here, they could easily return to the camp to rest. The soldiers fought hard all night and were exhausted, but they couldn't help but feel excited when they thought of being able to return to the camp. He quickened his pace.
"This is a dangerous place, be careful!" During the march, leaders from time to time reminded the soldiers.
However, they had just walked less than two miles when there was a sudden dull sound of drums on the top of the mountains on both sides, and then they saw countless torches lighting up. Yu Jin was shocked, and his heart suddenly sank to the bottom, "Oops! Ambush!"
As he feared, Chen Lan also arranged an ambush here. When the soldiers heard the drums, their originally stable morale became restless again, and their feet became faster and faster. Gradually, they became running away. But before I ran a mile, I found that the road in front of me was already blocked by gravel and large vehicles.
The soldiers in the front shouted loudly, but the soldiers in the back still pushed forward desperately, cursing why the front was running so slowly!
After a while, the remaining thousands of people and horses in the valley were like a pot of porridge.
"Fire... fire dragon!!" At this time, someone suddenly pointed at the hillside and shouted. Everyone looked around and saw a red light. The so-called fire dragon was made of rice and wheat straw tied into a round ball shape, with stones stuffed inside. , sulfur, and fire oil jars. When the defenders see the enemy approaching, they light the dead grass and then push it down from above. When it hits the enemy, it will explode due to violent collision. When the fireball rolled down, it would leave a long line of fire. When the soldiers saw it, it was like a fire dragon rushing towards them, and the morale of the soldiers was suddenly in chaos.
Yu Jin saw the mountain full of fire dragons rolling down, and his heart sank to the bottom. He watched as several fire dragons smashed into the crowd, cutting through the crowd like sharp knives. Fire splashed everywhere, sand and gravel flew, kerosene exploded, and figures were screamed and thrown into the air. The leather armor used by the soldiers to protect themselves burned when it was touched by kerosene. It stuck to the body and could not be taken off at all.
The skin can be burned off in a matter of seconds.
The fire dragons in the pupils of Yu Jin and his son grew bigger and bigger. He said in despair, "I will die here!" After saying that, Yu Jin looked at his son and shouted: "Ruifang, my father and son must not be prisoners!"
Yu Gui was stunned and understood what his father meant. He looked at Yu Jiyu and wanted to draw his sword. Yu Gui's heart was filled with despair.
At the moment of despair, I heard an angry shout, "Wen Ze, don't panic, Zhang He is here!"
On the top of the mountains on both sides of the east side, a large flag was raised in the light of the fire. When Yu Jin saw the four characters "Du Ting Waiting for Zhang", they were like heavenly soldiers descending, and he was immediately overjoyed!
Then Zhang He was seen taking the lead and rushing into the enemy formation. The enemy troops on one side of the hillside obviously did not expect Zhang He to come for reinforcements. They were beaten to pieces by Zhang He's army before they could set up their formation.
A ray of dawn burst out from the horizon in the east. In the dawn, a new force came from east to west. This army numbered only a thousand people, but it was extremely brave. It rushed into the enemy like a thousand tigers and killed the enemy by surprise.
The Di warriors led by Zhang Hu and Zhou Zhong have arrived!
Zhang Hu and Zhou Zhong each led 500 Di soldiers to surrender and fight out. Although these were surrendered soldiers, they all rushed to be the first and rushed into the enemy's army, hacking and killing indiscriminately. They also suffered a lot of ridicule from Taishan soldiers today, and they all held their breath. For a while, the enemy army couldn't care about Yu Jin in the valley, and desperately resisted Zhang Hu and Zhou Zhong.
When Yu Jin saw the reinforcements coming, he pulled out his sword with a swish and shouted, "Quick! Move the roadblock!"
"Taishan tribe members, follow me to attack the mountain!" He found that there were few people on Zhang Hu's side, so he ordered an attack on the hill where Zhang Hu and others were.
As the saying goes, survival comes from desperate situations, and Yu Jin's originally despairing heart seemed to be brought with hope by a ray of dawn. The Taishan soldiers were good at fighting in the mountains. Regardless of the steep slopes and slippery roads, they charged towards the hills with their swords raised and shouts. The enemy troops on the mountain were attacked from both sides, and their morale was suddenly in chaos.
At this time, the Di men under Zhang Hu and Zhou Zhong suddenly began to shout loudly in Di language, "Chen Lan has been defeated! Chen Lan has been defeated!"
These shouts dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's morale, which was about to collapse. I don't know who yelled to run away. The morale of the defeated enemy troops collapsed instantly, and they collapsed like ants all over the mountains and plains.
On the top of Tianzhu Peak, Chen Lan punched the tea table and cursed: "I'm so angry! Someone's coming! Get ready to go down the mountain! I'm going to attack Zhang Liao's camp!" As he said this, he threw the tea bowl to the ground. , shattered into powder. I planned to catch a big fish tonight, but when I was about to close the net, I let the other party escape!
Meicheng hurried over to dissuade him. He knew that once he went down the mountain to fight Zhang Liao's army, he would not get much benefit.
Chen Lan vented her anger, calmed down and felt that going down the mountain would not help. She sat down on the ground with a thud, whipped a rock hard with her horse whip, and said feebly: "Ming Jin."
At this moment, a scout rushed over and shouted: "The general is in trouble, the camp of the soldiers' family members was robbed, and they were all rescued!"
"What!" Chen Lan was furious when she heard this and kicked the scout who was delivering the message, "Say it again!"
"...The camp where the Jiangsu family members were held was robbed, and all the Jiangsu family members were robbed."
"ah!!!"
Chen Lan shouted angrily, drew his sword and was about to kill the scout to vent his anger. The scout was so frightened that he just lowered his head and begged for mercy, but did not dare to escape.
Mei Cheng quickly came up and grabbed his arm tightly, allowing the scout to escape. They imprisoned Zou Yi and other descended soldiers' family members in a camp. First, they used them as laborers to move mountains and cut trees to build forts. Second, they used them as human shields to block the enemy's arrows when they came. Of course, he also had another plan, which was to kill these women and children to use as military rations if the army rations were insufficient.
"General, calm down, they are just some women and children who have no power to restrain a chicken!" Mei Cheng quickly persuaded, hoping to appease Chen Lan's anger.
