Let's talk about Chen Shi Gao Xiang's side. More than 3,000 of his men have also arrived. They are all veterans of many military campaigns in the north and south. They are dressed in iron armor, raised their bows and lost their swords, and gathered inside Wangchun Gate. At the appointed ugly hour, with an order, Wangchun Gate slowly opened, and the troops of Chen Shi and Gao Xiang suddenly came out of the city and rushed straight to the Han military camp.
When the Shu people came out, the guards on duty at the Han military camp noticed it. They were panicked and hurriedly sounded the gong to warn the enemy, while running behind the fence to release arrows. Relying on their thick armor, the Shu people waved their swords to block and then pounced on him. Like a sudden flash flood in the middle of the night, it instantly overflowed the first fence and engulfed the Han archers in the rolling torrent.
With the experience of building a camp for the first time, the Shu people had already prepared pine trees and other items this time, lit them and threw them into the camp. Suddenly, horses neighed and people shouted, causing chaos in the Han camp. The Shu camp was gradually deepening, but the Han soldiers rushed to fight and could not form a complete battle formation. Although they all held weapons and fought bravely against the enemy, they had no choice but to fight sporadically. Under the fierce attack of the Shu people, it was like an egg hitting a stone, and the former suffered no casualties. Calculate.
In the formation of the Shu army, Chen Shi's troops were in the front, Gao Xiang and Fan You's troops were on the sides and behind, and Chen Shi led dozens of soldiers who dared to kill themselves to the front. He was holding a bloody sword, which was tangled with the hair of four people. The ground under his feet was littered with discarded weapons and corpses lying on pillows. He jumped over the pile of corpses and landed right in front of Sima Wang Ling of the Han army.
This Wang Ling is also an extraordinary person. He comes from a wealthy family in Wudu, and he served as a knight under Ma Chao during the Battle of Pingcheng. When the Eastern Army saw that the commander's flag had fallen and the entire army collapsed, Ma Chao led Wang Ling and other thousands of soldiers to counterattack from behind, causing great chaos to the Eastern Army's formation. Later, he was promoted to Army Sima by the North. .
At this moment, Wang Ling lost his bow, and the sword with the ring head was still inserted in the scabbard. He and Chen Shi met unexpectedly. Seeing the Shu man rushing towards him like a wild beast, he had no weapon in his hand to resist immediately. He knew that he would die if he took action, so he had an idea. As soon as he moved, he tried to deceive him first, and waited for the opportunity before taking action. He faced him without hiding, and shouted in a half-baked Shu accent: "Don't kill me, I'm willing to surrender!"
Helpless, Chen Shi couldn't hear his murmurings clearly amid the noise. He casually slashed his head and covered his face with a knife, cutting Wang Ling's shoulder into two pieces. Hot blood spurted out like a pillar and splashed onto the murderer's face. His eyes were bloodshot. , couldn’t see the direction for a while.
Gao Xiang was also known as a powerful general in the Shu army. He actually believed in the Five Pecks of Rice Dao. He hung a talisman around his neck and a consecrated jade around his waist, which was wrapped in a brocade bag. Although he is sincere and indifferent, he kills people without mercy. He cut everyone he met on the battlefield where the flames were flickering, and broke two knives in succession. Then he took off the four-foot-long ring-headed sword from the north, held it with both hands, pointed it at the oncoming enemy's head, and slashed it. When the sword was swung, no one could get close, and the trusted soldiers nearby had to move away to avoid accidental injury.
In fact, the soldiers around him were all running away, and there was no decent resistance in front of Gao Xiang. He rested his sword on the ground so that he could observe the situation of the camp. He realized that Chen Shi was trapped too deeply and had lost contact with the rear, so he ordered people to go to the front to find Chen Shi and ask him to move back.
Gao Xiang looked back in the direction of Chunmen, but saw no reinforcements coming out. Is it time to retreat? Or continue to search and kill to expand the results? Gao Xiang hesitated for a moment. Most of the Shu army soldiers stopped killing and stood still, waiting for the general's order. In the middle of the night in early autumn, the armored soldiers were soaked through from a fierce battle. At this moment, he suddenly stopped, his sweat cooled down quickly, and his wet clothes stuck coldly to his skin, making people finally realize that it was autumn, and then they couldn't help but shiver.
However, the ground beneath his feet shook slightly, making people suddenly suspicious. The veterans with keen sense of smell began to gather together and looked warily into the dark night. Sure enough, the sound of horse hooves hitting the ground became more intense. The suspicious people looked towards the sound of horse hooves and saw a team of horses suddenly jumping out of the night and jumping to the edge of the burning camp. The cavalry consisted of about ten or twenty riders, most of whom were lightly dressed, looking at the battle formation from a distance.
Seeing that there were only a dozen or twenty people on horseback, most of the Shu army officers and soldiers were relieved. Many of them let out a sigh of relief and simply squatted on the ground wearing armor to catch their breath.
Gao Xiang saw that the Han troops on horseback had no intention of engaging in battle. They just rode their horses back and forth, and then a horseman whistled harshly. Just like birds hearing the chirping of birds, the knights who had been riding suddenly turned their horses' heads and ran into the distant night with a puff of smoke.
Seeing the Han army leaving on horseback, Gao Xiang woke up from a dream and hurriedly stood up and shouted: "Retreat! Retreat! Come back!" People didn't know what was happening, and hurriedly gathered behind them, dragging their swords and swords with them.
Almost at the same time, a thunderous sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded, and the ground trembled with dull terror. Suddenly, from the darkness beside the east moat of Wangchun Gate, countless iron cavalry rushed out and charged directly at the Shu army from the side.
This is exactly what Ma Chao is leaving in preparation!
The first to arrive was Ma Tie's troops, like a whirlwind, cutting into the Shu army's formation from the side along the river. Wherever he went, there was a scream and the sound of iron tools clashing. Subsequently, Ma Xiu led the cavalry to charge diagonally into the Shu army's formation from the southwest, separating Chen Shi's army from Gao Xiang's army behind them.
The Fufeng cavalry entered the formation in columns. Before the cavalry behind them could engage in the battle, the leading cavalry had already rushed out of the enemy formation, leaving a bloody gash behind them. Immediately, they circled into the formation again, breaking up the Shu people's formation again and again. After doing this for more than ten times, the Fufeng cavalry had dispersed into countless small teams of more than ten cavalry, charging and killing repeatedly in the Shu formation. In fact, the Shu people had no formation to speak of, and any attempt to form a formation was interrupted by repeated attacks and ravages from the enemy cavalry. The Shu army had dispersed into one piece, like a ragtag group of people wearing iron armor, fighting each other in the chaos of flying horseshoes all around, and kept falling on the wet muddy ground of the autumn night.
Unable to withstand the repeated strangleholds of the cavalry, the Shu army soldiers gave out cries like landslides and earth shattering, and ran desperately towards the city gate not far away. In an infantry-cavalry battle, once the infantry loses its will to resist and turns to run for its life, this is what the cavalry most wants to see. They can chase and kill from behind and on the sides like cattle. For Ma Chao and his subordinates, this is something they are familiar with and comfortable to do.
Gao Xiang was well aware of the horror of being driven to death like livestock. In order to save more people from entering the city, he immediately led dozens of his followers to fight and retreat behind, trying his best to prevent Ma Chao's troops from approaching the city gate. He took off his bag and held a four-foot broadsword. Facing the enemy cavalry, he shouted forward without hesitation. A cold light flashed and the approaching war horse was immediately chopped to the ground. When the people on the left and right saw it, their courage doubled, and they rushed in like a blockade with their swords. The Fufeng Knight who couldn't escape was instantly thrown off his back. The Han cavalry had to retreat slightly and shoot arrows from a distance. On the retreating open space, there were left more than ten corpses of humans and horses. The horses were either stabbed in the face or had their legs cut off. There are also horses that have lost their owners and are running disorderly in front of the formation.
The Han army fired arrows at random, but the Shu army was able to hold on due to their thick armor. At the moment of the counterattack, hundreds of defeated troops rushed to the city gate.
Seeing that people on the left and right were shot dead or injured by arrows, Gao Xiang hurriedly put on his iron bag again, turned around and ran towards the door. When he reached the door, he was so angry that he couldn't help but get angry. It turned out that instead of shooting arrows to respond, the people in the city were anxious to close the city gate immediately, regardless of the fact that there were hundreds of people outside the city who had not entered. In the swaying light of the city's fire, I saw someone untying the iron ropes and closing the door on hinges. Gao Xiang roared angrily, drew his arrow and bow, aimed it at the city, and hit the gatekeeper. The soldiers under the city followed suit one after another, and a burst of arrows shot at the city gate, killing the Shu people one after another. The gatekeepers on the city fled in panic, and then the city gate was squeezed open again to let people in.
In fact, Ma Chao's troops were content to kill people outside the city and had no intention of venturing into the city. Gao Xiang stuck his knife on the ground and raised his bow to meet him at the door. The defeated soldiers took the opportunity to enter the city one after another. But he didn't see Chen Shi. Some people who came back at the end said that they saw Chen Shi being caught with arrows all over his body. In the dark night in the distance, the Fufeng Cavalry was cleaning up. There are still scattered defeated soldiers who are returning with their swords. It seems that the killing is over. Fortunately, the Shu army was fighting near the city and had support. If they encountered Han cavalry in the wilderness, there would be no hope of survival.
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, wrapped the wound with a cloth, collapsed on the ground and gasped. This time when they left the city to cut the camp, they were unexpectedly ambushed by the cavalry. After the surprise attack, most of the elite soldiers had been lost. Only about 600 people returned to the city, and most of them were injured.
Gao Xiang sat on the ground and thought about it, thinking about other ways to defeat the enemy. Now he leads the elite out of the city to attack at night, but the losses have reached this level. If he holds on any longer, he may not be able to hold on for long. It's a pity that if we could strengthen the walls and clear the country before this, and move all the surrounding people into the city, at least there would be no shortage of people's power to mobilize! Liu Zhang is so benevolent as a woman that he missed the great cause of King Shu!
He thought for a while, and in the end he was left with only cold resentment, and it took him a long time to stand up. Gao Xiang told himself helplessly that he had no choice but to fight hard. This was the norm in the battlefield. The worst he could do was to die! Thinking this way, he felt much better, so he staggered towards Liu Zhang's house. Even if he was defeated, he still had to report to his superiors.
