"put!"
At the top of Xingyang City, an order was given.
Bows and crossbows fired in volleys, and arrows filled the sky like heavy rain.
Because they were sprinting with all their strength and running at the front, the Wei army's chariots and cavalry were unable to stop in time and were baptized by arrows.
In an instant, more than ten cavalrymen screamed and fell down. Even the driver of one of the ten chariots was shot down on the spot. There was also a chariot that collided with a cavalryman in the panic, causing the man to flip over.
In just a short moment, Wei's cavalry troops lost nearly one-tenth.
The remaining chariots and cavalry turned their horses around in panic, moving away from the city's arrow-missing range.
"Captain Lieutenant, this Wei army has failed to attack our Xingyang City and has panicked. The general will ask for orders to go out of the city to attack. We will definitely defeat them!"
"Yes, the last general will also go to war. We must capture the Wei general and present it to the captain!"
At the top of Xingyang City, Tu Sui's army of military officials asked for orders one after another.
Tu Sui laughed at first, then glared and cursed: "I'll fight your stinky ass."
"The military order I received is to protect the food and grass in Xingyang City. As long as you hold on here, it will be a credit. I am sick, why should I go out to fight them? If you want to go out to fight, just jump down from here. Yes, this can come sooner!"
After being scolded by Tu Sui, the military officers were not afraid, and they all laughed.
After scolding his men, Tu Sui squinted his eyes and looked at the chaotic Wei troops below the city.
"If it weren't for the fact that there were only five thousand people in the city, who had to guard the food, grass and baggage, Nai Gong would have gone out and chopped off the Wei general's head to urinate, so why would it be the turn of these brats to come to ask for help. But General Xiao Wang's messenger is not Said, will he send someone to intercept? Why are these fools running slower than the Wei people? They must be a group of lame jocks. A lame chasing a lame is really ridiculous. "
Under the city, the Wei army was slightly confused.
"Impossible! How could Xingyang City be on alert? Could it be that the news that our army planned to raid this place was leaked?"
Zhou Shi's face was filled with shock, as he watched the chariots and cavalrymen who went to seize the city gate were shot and fled away, while the top of the city was filled with black-armored Qin troops, fully armed, and they looked like they were well prepared.
"Weekly market!"
Wei Bao's sharp voice sounded, his face was twisted, he pointed his finger at the city of Zhou and shouted: "Didn't you say that if we raid Xingyang, the Qin army will be unprepared and will definitely succeed? I ran so far with you, and this is what I'm waiting for. The result? What happened? Tell me!"
Wei Bao was so high-spirited just now, and now he is so frustrated.
Not only did the raid on Xingyang fail, but also because the heroic dream that Wei Bao had longed for was shattered at this moment, and he felt extremely heartbroken.
"Sir, I don't know..."
Zhou Shi opened his mouth with difficulty.
They were extremely cautious along the way and deliberately avoided the main cities controlled by the Qin army as they marched.
All the Qin people they met on the road were killed. The Wei people either killed the old, weak, women and children, or recruited young and strong men into the army, trying not to leak any news, but they were still a step late.
The Qin army closed the city gates and the soldiers were waiting at the top of the city.
Is this the cautious approach of the Qin general stationed in Xingyang?
Or did he know in advance that he would raid?
While commanding his troops to control the chaos, Zhou Shi said: "Sir, the walls of Xingyang City are high and thick. If it is a surprise attack, we still have a chance to seize the city. But now that the city is on defense, with the state of our army and the battle It is absolutely impossible to take down the force. The only solution for now is to retreat temporarily."
Wei Bao laughed angrily and said, "Retreat? Where to retreat? Are you going to run back to Hufu Township for another ten days?"
Zhou Shi shook his head and was about to speak when he heard the soldiers making noise again.
"Qin Jun!"
He looked sideways and saw an army holding a black flag appearing on the main road south of Xingyang City.
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"Commander Zuo, our army has been marching continuously for thirty miles. Our soldiers are physically and mentally exhausted, and one of the three men has fallen behind. Our army is not in a suitable state to launch an attack at this moment!"
Qin Army
Among them, a master of two or five hundred couldn't help admonishing Huan Zhao.
Huan Zhao was standing in the car at the moment, looking at the chaotic Wei army under Xingyang City in the distance. He was feeling proud that he had arrived at the right time. When he heard the words of the two to five hundred masters, his face suddenly turned cold.
"Our army is indeed tired from the journey, but the condition of the Wei army is probably not much better."
"The conditions of the two armies are similar, but their morale is far different. Our army is eager to fight, and will fight bravely to achieve success. The Wei army failed to attack Xingyang, and it was at a time of panic. When our army came here to pursue us, it must have been chaotic. . In this case, it is time to go all out and annihilate them!"
"Not to mention that we still have our reinforcements in Xingyang City. As long as the city's defenders leave the city and join forces to attack, what kind of trouble can these Wei people cause? Don't say anything!"
Huan Zhao looked at the Wei army under the city with red eyes.
These are all his upgraded military achievements!
After Yang Xiong reported the incident, Huan Zhao sent a message to the general of Daliang, while arranging the defense of his men in various places in Chenliu. He finally managed to squeeze out two thousand soldiers and led the troops to Daliang in person to ask Wang Ben for a battle.
Wang Ben was also shocked when he heard the news that the Hanoi army was defeated and that the Wei army's surprise troops might raid Xingyang.
If Xingyang was lost, something big would happen. In addition to sending an urgent messenger to order Xingyang to defend Xingyang to the death, Wang Ben also sent 3,000 people under Huan Zhao to bring support to Xingyang.
As a result, Huan Zhao set off several days later than the Wei army.
He was afraid that the Wei army would invade Xingyang in advance and the Qin army's food supplies would be burned. He was also afraid that the defenders of Xingyang would be too strong and annihilate the Wei army, so that he would not get any credit in the end. He traveled day and night all the way, and finally arrived at the critical moment.
"That idiot Zhao Tuo, didn't he lead a thousand men to follow the Wei army? Why did the Wei army still run so fast and there were so many people? Could it be that all Zhao Tuo's thousand men were annihilated?"
Thinking of this, Huan Zhao said proudly: "Sure enough, this hairless boy is unreliable. I still have to take action personally to capture this Wei army."
Huan Zhao stood on the command car, raised his arms and shouted: "Beat the drums with me on the left and right to encourage the soldiers to march!"
winter! winter! winter!
The Qin Army's war drums were beating. The soldiers of the Qin Army who had just marched thirty miles to this place were finally able to take a breath. Suddenly they heard the sound of the drums, and they were all miserable.
After running thirty miles in one breath, I immediately had to fight with others desperately. I really didn’t regard people as human beings.
The soldiers cursed in a low voice, but they had no choice but to hold the spears and halberds in their hands. Under the urging of the military officials, they moved their tired bodies and charged towards the Wei army.
Listening to the beating of war drums and seeing the Qin army appearing on the south side launching an attack on itself, there was a commotion in the Wei army.
Wei Bao turned pale with fright, and secretly hated himself for being so stupid as to believe Zhou Shi's surprise attack plan and run to Qin to die. While shouting: "Retreat quickly, don't be caught up by the Qin army."
Zhou Shi shouted: "Young Master, please don't do it. The morale of our army is already unstable. Now that we are facing the Qin army's attack, if we order a retreat, we will definitely be defeated thousands of miles away. No one can escape!"
Wei Bao yelled, "Then what do you think we should do?"
Zhou Shi gritted his teeth and said: "Encourage the soldiers to fight with them. Now the Qin army in Xingyang City has no sign of leaving the city. Our army is facing only this new Qin army."
"It seems to me that they have just arrived and must be exhausted. Moreover, their numbers are about the same as our army. The only way our army can survive now is to defeat the Qin army in the city before they leave the city, so that we can retreat calmly!"
At this time, Chen Ping, who had been led by Wei Bao, suddenly said: "Sir, General Zhou is right, this way our army can have a chance of survival. But the Qin army in the city may also go out of the city to form a pincer attack with the opponent. In my opinion, you can let General Zhou lead three thousand soldiers to defeat the Qin army. The young master will lead a thousand young men from Hufu Township to guard in front of the city gate to form a deterrent to the city and prevent them from leaving the city easily."
When Chen Ping said this, he quietly winked at Wei Bao.
Wei Bao understood and said hurriedly: "That's it. I will lead a thousand people to block the city and intimidate the Qin army in the city. General Zhou, I will leave it to you to defeat the enemy."
At this moment, the Qin army launched an attack, and the Wei army might collapse at any time. Although Zhou Shi felt that Wei Bao's thousand men were of no use staying here, he had no time to argue, so he nodded and left, scolding the soldiers to prepare for battle.
Seeing Zhou Shi leave, Wei Bao asked: "Chen Ping, what did you mean by asking me to stay with my troops just now?"
Chen Ping came over and whispered in Wei Bao's ear: "Sir, if the Qin army on the south side does not show up, the Qin army in the city will probably not leave the city for the sake of conservatism. We can retreat calmly."
"But now that they have reinforcements outside the city, they will not sit idly by. As soon as our army engages with the Qin army in the south, the Qin army in the city will definitely follow them out and attack from both inside and outside. In this way, our army will definitely be overwhelmed. defeat!"
Wei Bao said: "These thousand people..."
"These thousand people are escorting the young master away. There is no way that a mere thousand people can be the opponent of the Qin army. I am afraid that the opponent will collapse on the spot if they charge. We will do this when the time comes..."
"The military judge will kill all those who retreat! Anyone who dares to retreat will die!"
Zhou Shi rode his horse and roared. Facing the Qin army that was attacking from the south, he relied on the prestige he had accumulated along the way to suppress the three thousand Wei soldiers. The Wei army reluctantly deployed their formations to the south. open.
"Our army has penetrated deep into the enemy's territory. If we lose this battle, we will be dead or alive!"
"Don't expect the cruel Qin people to pity your lives. If you lose today, your heads will be piled at the gate of the city tomorrow, stinking and rotten!"
"If you want to live, just fight to the death!"
"Come on!"
The Wei soldiers were encouraged. They had already been told that they were now in the Qin territory, still ten days away from the Hufu Township controlled by the Wei army. Even if they escaped now, there was no way to survive, so they all cheered up and fought for their lives against the Qin army. The army greeted him.
When we meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!
At this time, the distance between the two sides had no time to release arrows. The Wei and Qin armies were in close combat and collided with each other.
Seeing the battle between the two armies, Zhou Shi from the Central Military Department shouted: "Where are the people who dared to die first?"
"The brave men are here!"
Fifty people responded loudly, holding their swords and halberds high.
They were die-hard Wei loyalists selected by the Zhou market from these three thousand people, and they were loyal and brave men who died for the country. They came all the way in the back carriage, and they were very energetic and energetic. They were the warriors who were specially used by the Zhou Dynasty to attack the city first.
This is also his trump card!
It's a pity that the raid on Xingyang failed and they were not needed to get there first, but now they can be used as a surprise force to attack the Qin army!
"Huaizhuang, lead your troops to attack the Qin army's banner from the side!"
"only!"
The eight-foot-five-inch Wei soldier Huaizhuang roared angrily. He led his men who dared to die, bypassed the front battlefield, and rushed straight to the Qin army's banner from the side. Behind him, there were also soldiers sent by Zhou Market. Five hundred soldiers followed.
He wants to use these fifty brave warriors as arrows to break through the Chinese army and directly kill the Qin army commander!
At this moment, Huan Zhao was standing in the command car, his eyes wide open and his face full of disbelief.
Because in his imagination, shouldn't the Wei army collapse and flee when he launches an attack?
How could he still have the courage to engage in battle with his own troops, and their morale was so high that they actually fought on par with their own troops.
No, to be precise, the Qin army was being beaten and retreated steadily.
A long journey of thirty miles, without repairs and formations, would not be able to exert much combat power at all.
Huan Zhao even saw a Wei army rushing towards him from the side.
The Wei soldiers at the front were very brave, especially the big man. Every time he swung the halberd in his hand, he could knock a Qin soldier to the ground. It seemed that he had endless strength. The Wei soldiers behind him All of them were not afraid of life and death. Even if Qin soldiers stabbed their vital parts with swords, they still howled and rushed forward to fight with flesh and blood.
"Those who dare to die!"
Huan Zhao's face turned blue, and these words popped out from his teeth. He knew that he was careless this time and advanced rashly for the sake of greed. As a result, the Wei army in front of him was not the same.
It was not a soft persimmon as imagined, but a hard-to-gnaw fleshy bone. Not only did it knock his teeth, but now it also used the hard bone spurs to poke into Huan Zhao's throat.
But Huan Zhao couldn't run away. Even if the Wei army's death squad was charging towards him, he couldn't leave. If he ran away and the flag moved, the whole army would be defeated!
But if you don't run, then...
"The defenders of the city come out quickly!"
Huan Zhao was anxious and looked longingly at Xingyang City in the distance, hoping that his colleagues in the city would leave the city quickly and save him.
"These are the people General Xiao Wang sent to intercept the Wei army? Whose subordinates are these people?"
"The general's brain must have been eaten by dogs, right? Even if we want to attack, we have to wait until the Wei army begins to retreat, and then pursue it all the way. That can easily turn into a pursuit of death and north. How can we do it now? The leader of the army will not only He is a lame jian and a brainless fool."
Tu Sui cursed on the city wall, but he couldn't really sit idly by and watch the friendly troops being destroyed by the Wei people before his eyes.
"Play the drum for me!"
"Ren Xiao, you lead a thousand people out of the south gate..."
At the same time, when he heard the exciting drumbeats coming from the city, Chen Ping, who had been waiting, hurriedly said to Wei Bao: "Sir, the Qin army is coming out of the city. General Zhou cannot stop it. Let's take the opportunity to retreat. If there is a chance, If these people stay behind as bait, the thousand of us will definitely be able to escape!"
Wei Bao also heard the sound of drums in the city, but he hesitated, because at this moment, the Wei army, led by Zhou Shi, was very brave, and actually suppressed the Qin army to retreat steadily, and there was a glimmer of hope of victory.
In this case, Wei Bao didn't want to escape.
The Wei army led by Zhou Shi was actually so powerful!
This made Wei Bao ambitious. If he could lead these thousand people forward, he might be able to help Zhou Shi completely defeat the Qin army outside the city and recreate the great victory at Jiyang City.
Even if this surprise attack on Xingyang fails, with this great victory, Wei Bao will definitely become famous all over the world.
However, just when Wei Bao was about to speak, he froze and stared fixedly at the back of Chen Ping, the direction they had just marched in.
"Master?"
Chen Ping noticed something was wrong and turned around to look. His mouth was opened wide enough to fit an egg.
On the top of the city, Tu Sui's eyes widened before he could finish his orders. He pointed to the outside of the city and shouted, "Old mother, where did this army come from?"
On the road leading to Yangwu and other eastern counties.
A well-organized Qin army was approaching.
Black flags fluttered in the wind, spears and halberds pointed to the sky, and copper swords and long beryllium reflected brilliant light in the sun.
A chariot drove slowly in front of the army.
On the chariot, a young Qin general wearing armor and sword stood proudly.
Zhao Tuo looked at the battlefield in the distance and said with a smile: "Where did this friendly army come from? They are so good."