Dian Wei's death in battle caused a mountain-shattering effect on the Eastern Army, which can hardly be accurately described as collapse. The soldiers lost their courage, and they still knew how to run for their lives, but at this moment, the Dongren soldiers seemed to have lost their will and stood there as blankly as grass and trees. It was only after Sun Guan and other generals shouted angrily that they just woke up from a dream. They held the long silk in their hands and wanted to move forward, but their arms couldn't help trembling. They wanted to step back, but they didn't know where they were going.
Only then did they realize that due to their haste in arriving, the queues among the troops had been disrupted. The soldiers could not find their leader, but the leader had difficulty finding his infantry, making it difficult to direct them at all. However, General Zuo Duo of the Eastern Army Marshal's Mansion retreated with Cao Cao, leaving no senior general with enough prestige to hold down the position under the command of the dignified commander.
Chaos spreads like a plague into everyone's hearts. When Guan Yu launched another charge, I don't know who took the lead. The Easterners immediately gave up the fight and knelt down to surrender where Guan Yu was. And the most important Huang Tianteng Snake flag in Cao Cao's mansion fell into Guan Yu's hands.
Seeing this, Guan Yu simply knocked down the flagpole with his knife. The three-foot-high flag suddenly fell down, splashing dust all over the ground. Cao Cao, who was retreating, saw it from a distance and secretly screamed in his heart. Looking at Cao Xiu, Cao Zhen, Xun Yu, Lu Zhao and others around them, they all looked ashen and had no fighting spirit. They all knew in their hearts that this battle would probably end in a huge defeat.
Chen Chong, who was on Baishan Mountain, also clearly saw the Snake Flag falling to the ground. He suddenly knew that Guan Yu had succeeded, and said with great joy: "It's done!" He immediately ordered the marching drums to be beaten, and ordered the soldiers on the mountain to shout in unison: "The thief Cao is crowned!"
The sound of the drums on the mountain was like a golden snake dancing wildly. When the soldiers of the Western Army who were fighting all over the mountain heard it, they were all happy. A force burst out from their tired bodies, making them stand upright and charge forward with all their strength, waving their long swords. While shouting loudly: "The thief Cao is beheaded! The thief Cao is beheaded!"
Westerners' shouting is spontaneous, so the rhythm is not uniform and the volume is not amazing. But their cries came and went, as endless as the waves of the sea, echoing between the valleys and under the sky. The Eastern soldiers who were more than ten miles away heard it clearly, so no matter which one was fighting, and whether they could see it in the dust or not, the Eastern soldiers looked back anxiously to see the formation. As a result, what was seen was black flags falling to the ground, and red flags swaying among them like flying flames.
The morale of the Eastern Army suddenly collapsed, and the soldiers of various tribes evacuated to the east regardless of the large number of Western Army soldiers rushing forward in front of them. At the beginning, there was still order. They could use their bows to take cover while taking the initiative to break away from the fight. The dismounted knights fought and retreated, trying to find the horses left behind.
The Westerners were also eager to pursue, so the soldiers of both sides, who were originally crowded in the battlefield, quickly began to spread like smoke blown away by a gust of wind; the soldiers who were originally crowded together, stabbing each other, were now being chased and retreated in chaos. replaced. The few knights among Chen Chong's men were already galloping among the crowd, most of which were still on foot. Some knights were pulled off their horses by the crowd and lost their lives, but others waved their horses into the battle, just like shepherds driving their sheep, as if they were in a deserted land.
Ma Chao was ordered by Guan Yu to raid the formation in the southeast, making it difficult for Cao Cao's formation to escape eastward. But at this time he heard the sound and saw that there were a huge number of Dongren fleeing from the northwest, and there were as many black flags as a sea of clouds. He couldn't help being surprised, and then thought: "With so many people rushing over, if they don't strike first, , I'm afraid I will be overwhelmed too!" In the flash of lightning, he decided to let go of the Shuaifu main formation, which had so many noble people at the moment, and instead ordered his subordinates to organize their formations. Thousands of people were divided into three groups, forming waves. Quickly launched an attack on most of the Eastern Army.
Since he and Dongren were facing each other, they got closer very quickly. Compared with the main force of the Eastern Army, which numbered more than 100,000, thousands of people were just a wave in the tide, but this wave became the last straw for the total collapse of order in the Eastern Army.
The people in the back didn't know what was going on, but saw their comrades in front stopped inexplicably, and then saw a stream of smoke and dust sweeping from east to west, colliding with their own side, followed by countless screams. With wailing, many miscellaneous soldiers who have not experienced a bloody battle, see their fellow villagers and blood relatives being driven and killed by the Liang people like cutting grass, how can they have any fighting spirit?
The Western cavalrymen at the back quickly caught up and fought again with the dismounted knights in the back row. However, what was different from before was that those who had fought bloody battles no longer saw any hope of survival at this time, so After just two or three symbolic attempts, he stopped struggling and leaned on the ground, closing his eyes and waiting for the enemy to kill him.
In addition, some Westerners shouted: "The general has an order, and those who abandon the army will not be killed!" So among the Eastern left army who engaged in the battle, except for a few who were still lucky, most of the infantry were abandoned. Flagpole, put down his weapons, sat slumped on the ground, bowed his head and surrendered to the pursuers.
For a moment, Chen Chong saw countless black flags falling to the ground at the foot of Baishan Mountain. The sound of swords falling to the ground was continuous. The scene was extremely spectacular. The Westerners gathered these weapons and placed them in long rows from north to south. Under the sunlight, they looked like a long silver river, constantly overflowing with dazzling ripples.
For those Easterners who were unwilling to surrender, the Westerners were merciless and surrounded them with heavy troops. The soldiers in the front row used long knives and wooden poles to organize their breakout, while the archers in the back row shot arrows directly into them. Speaking of which, because they were sure of victory, they did not aim, but kept drawing arrows from their quivers and throwing them. Missing arrows fell in like hailstones. The screams of the Easterners continued until the archers' fingers were so weak that they could not stretch out. The quiver was empty, and by this time there was no one left standing in the siege.
The situation on the northern front at the foot of Cailiang Mountain was different. After Qu Yi's tribe fell into a stalemate, he was shocked when he learned that Wen Chou had been killed by Zhang Fei, and he had a bad premonition about the outcome of the battle. After the Western Army shouted the news that Cao Cao had been crowned the leader and the commander's flag had been lowered, he immediately reacted and said to the soldiers around him: "Fighting any longer will be in vain. We must withdraw our troops quickly for the future!"
After saying that, he reined in his horse and ignored the soldiers who were still fighting on the front line. Before the sound of gold could be heard, he led his followers and galloped away to the east. Once the red crow flag retreated, the surrounding Eastern cavalry troops also collapsed instantly. They whipped their whips and ran eastward in a single file, so fast that the Westerners had not expected it. By the time Liu Bei on Cailiang Mountain gave the order, more than half of the Dongren's cavalry had already withdrawn from the battlefield.
But for the remaining Dongren, the moment they left late had already sealed their fate.
When Zhang Fei led the cavalry into the battle again, the direction was towards the heart of the defeated Eastern Army. Although they were led by only a thousand riders, their desperate charge raised up yellow dust into the sky, like a huge billowing wave, sweeping down from the south, frightening the onlookers. In a moment, they quickly rushed into the huge and loose camp of the East people.
Seeing this, the knights of the Western Dynasty in the north also launched a charge from Liangshan. As a sharp sword corresponding to Zhang Fei's troops, the two teams intersected like sharp blades tearing silk, cutting the entire Eastern Dynasty cavalry into two sections. When they each cut through the Eastern Army, the following cavalry troops also joined in a steady stream. Each group of Western cavalry weaved in and out of the Eastern Army formation in columns like snakes.
The Easterners tried to counterattack with bows and arrows to stop their offensive, but in the chaos, the arrows missed their targets and hit more of their own people, which exacerbated their collapse. Even though a few people wanted to form a formation to resist, the Westerners But he was not eager to fight, he just kept driving away the defeated soldiers who had no time to react, forming larger waves of defeat. In this way, the soldiers of the East who tried to resist were also swept away.
After several rounds of continuous turning and killing, the number of Western cavalry who entered the battle was estimated to be tens of thousands. They galloped across the valley like the wind, and few of them slowed down and fell into siege. The loud sound of horse hooves shakes the mountains, the dust raised is overwhelming, and the sound of weapons clashing makes even veterans who have been in battle for a long time feel as if two sharp iron tools are rubbing against the apex of their hearts, which makes people feel heartbroken.
Under such circumstances, it was a luxury for the Easterners to surrender. After all, if a person stopped for a moment, they would be pushed to the ground by the people behind them, and then they would be trampled endlessly. Many people would turn into a puddle of flesh in this way. Mud. The deep-seated hatred between the Eastern and Western armies for several years also caused the Westerners to completely ignore the cries of the Easterners. They simply kept raising and swinging their swords, cutting down the enemies in front of them to the ground, and then looking for new enemies. , sometimes he gets so mad that he even forgets to cut off his head to receive merit after the war.
When some dignified Easterners, led by Zang Ba, saw this situation, they couldn't help but thought sadly: "People are human just because they know honor and disgrace. How can you be considered a man if you die like this?" So they gathered together. Together, they found a place where some trees and dead branches gathered, and sat together. Then they lit a fire sickle and set fire to the dead grass and clothes. Suddenly the fire burst out and set the pine forest on fire. The Westerners who were searching for people nearby looked here for a moment, but they couldn't tell how many people were inside, so they had to avoid them one after another and continue to chase.
And on these lands burned by flames, soaked in blood, and trampled by horse hooves, clusters of bright yellow flowers are still blooming brilliantly. They are like the setting sun that is gradually setting in the west at this moment and will return to the western soil. Their brilliance is not dimmed in the slightest by people's disputes. Speaking of which, maybe because of this battle, right here, on this day next year, the fragrance of yellow flowers will make people even more intoxicated! But at this moment, people certainly can't notice it.
