Chapter 171: The Bloody Way Back (3)
Seeing Ao Lie leading his army to retreat to Sha County, Yuan Shao smiled coldly and said, "It's useless, Ao Mohan, today, you must die!"
Just like in order to verify Yuan Shao's prediction, Ao Lie led his army to escape the range of the ambush, and the sound of yelling killing came from in front of him and on both sides.
In Sha County, ten thousand soldiers arranged by Yuan Shao in advance, they tore off their disguise and wield their weapons to kill them. On both sides of the road, there were ambushers with more than 10,000 people, which had obviously been in line. It seemed that Yuan Shao and others were planning to capture Ao Lie and his elite troops in one place. Fortunately, because of the appearance of Kada, the fire was ignited on the official road in front, and the fire started instantly, not only preventing Ao Lie and others from this fire, but also blocking the ambush in that direction. Otherwise, Ao Lie and others would face the danger of encirclement from all directions.
Ma Chao raised his tiger-headed golden spear and shouted angrily: "It's better to fight to the death!" The people of Xiliang are already brave, and Ma Chao is even more young and energetic. Being forced to retreat has aroused endless anger in his heart.
"Brothers, come in line!" Ao Lie yelled and issued an order to prepare for a counterattack.
The elite are elites, and no matter how dangerous the situation is, they are still not panic at all. After hearing Ao Lie's orders, the elites of the Blood Kill and Hu Ben immediately adjusted their steps, cooperated with the generals to form a square formation, and guarded Ao Lie in the middle.
In the center of the formation, Xu Chu and Dian Wei two tiger generals, one sitting on the horse and the other standing on the ground, guarding Ao Lie on the left and right; three steps away beside Xu Chu Dianwei, Xu Rong and one hundred elite blood killing camps formed a circle, surrounding Ao Lie and the other two strategists, Jia Xu and Li Ru, were responsible for defending Ao Lie and passing on the orders given by Ao Lie; five steps away from outside. Zhao Yun led two thousand elite blood killing camps to form a square.
The formation was blocked outside; outside Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci led the four thousand tigers to form another round formation, which was placed outside Zhao Yun's square formation; after Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong led all the remaining elite blood killing camps to arrange them into a square formation again. He raised the crossbow in his hand and aimed at the direction of the ambush; Ma Chao led most of the elite tigers to form another round formation at the outermost periphery, just like a shield erected with his body, protecting all the comrades behind him.
One square set, one round, one round protects the other. The essence of the square formation was displayed to the fullest by the elites of the two battalions. Just as the formation was arranged, the ambushers under Yuan Shao and others had already reached their sight. Huang Zhong, who was standing on the second front, bent his bow and arrow, aimed slightly, and the arrow in his hand left the string. With a whimpering whistling, he pierced the head of an ambush general. With one arrow, Huang Zhong did not stop, and his right hand seemed to be playing the pipa, quickly plucking the arrow, placing the string, and finally shot out. In the ambush formation, another side general fell off his horse. Huang Zhong's purpose was very clear. He was to try his best to shoot the middle and lower levels of officers, so that the ambush who were about to rush over would lose direct command.
With Huang Zhong's move, the elites of the Blood Killing Camp around him locked in the target and shot out the crossbow arrows that had been prepared in the hand crossbow. The Blood Killing Camp is a unique army under Ao Lie's command, not a cavalry in the traditional sense. Their weapons are seven-foot-long sabers, suitable for fighting in various battles. Ao Lie also equipped the elites of the Blood Killing Camp with Xizi crossbows. These Xizi crossbows were brought out by Ao Lie in the Guangwu secret treasure, and later Wang Hun improved it. Shortening the crossbow body can be directly buckled on the arm, and it will not have any impact on the wave of the crossbow elites. Correspondingly, because of the shortening of the crossbow body, the crossbow that could have been five consecutively fired was reduced to three consecutively fired. An improved Xizi crossbow can only accommodate three crossbow arrows at most. You can choose to fire a single point or shoot all three crossbow arrows at one time.
Facing the influx of enemy troops, the elite blood killing camp chose to shoot continuously, and shot all the crossbow arrows in the crossbow in one go. After improvement of the Xizi crossbow, the range of the shooting is greatly improved, but the effective range will not exceed fifty steps. If it is farther away, there will be a deviation in accuracy. Therefore, the elite blood killing camp's time to launch crossbow arrows is very good, and they will wait until the enemy rushes into the front twenty steps before shooting at the enemy. Twenty steps are the greatest distance of the Xizi crossbow. From this detail, it can also be seen that the Blood Killing Camp's grasp of subtle changes on the battlefield has reached the level of encountering it as you wish, and indirectly reflects the name of the Blood Killing Camp's elite, which is well deserved.
The coalition forces that came from three directions were shot down by the scattered crossbow arrows. The coalition forces could not be as tough as Blood Killing and Hu Ben. So screams rang out one after another in the coalition. Nearly a thousand coalition forces were taken away by the crossbow arrows and fell to the ground weakly. They were trampled into flesh mud by the comrades who came from behind. Some new recruits in the coalition, screamed and stopped moving forward after seeing a large amount of blood bursting, but unexpectedly they were hit on the ground by the people rushing up behind them and were trampled to death. For a moment, the shouts of killing, screams, screams and various painful "shenyin" sounds and the collision of weapons and armor were connected. Before the official confrontation was made, the coalition forces had already become confused.
Seeing the opportunity, Ma Chao leaped over the horse and shouted hard: "Where is the Hu Ben! Counterattack!" Ma Chao was the direct commander of the Hu Ben Camp. The Hu Ben elites had long been impressed by Ma Chao's martial arts and followed Ma Chao's orders. After hearing Ma Chao's shouting, more than 5,000 Tiger elites on the outermost side shouted out loud: "The power of the Hu Ben is dead but not alive!" After roaring, the Tiger elites raised their swords in their hands and took five steps forward together. The sharpness of the slashing swords fell from the air. Relying on the advantage of the length of the slashing swords, they slashed diagonally towards the coalition forces that were pounced on.
The hands were raised and the sword fell. With the sudden appearance of blood shadows, the soldiers in the front row of the coalition army screamed in unison and were chopped into both ends by the falling sabers. The colorful intestines flowed out of their chests and abdomen, which made people disgusted. The ferocity of the Hu Ben Camp immediately shocked the coalition forces under Yuan Shao and others. These coalition forces looked at their comrades who were still alive the moment before, and subconsciously slowed down their pace.
The coalition forces were stunned, but the elite Tiger Ben would not be dazed. The elite Tiger Ben was selected from thousands of troops and had experienced countless baptisms. They knew that being dazed on the battlefield was equivalent to giving up resistance and being slaughtered. They raised the saber to kill the horse again, and the elite Tiger Ben told the rookies with their actions that when the two armies fought, the fate of dazed was death!
The sword flashed by, and the coalition rookie in a daze was cut off by the elite tiger sabre. They learned the principle that they should never be idle on the battlefield at the cost of their lives.
Yuan Shao, on the top of the mountain in the distance, saw the indomitable momentum of the Tiger Ben elites, was very angry and shouted: "Hurry, hurry up, bypass the fireplace and throw all the troops into the battlefield!" Not only Yuan Shao, but other princes also saw that the ambushed soldiers who had been ambushed in advance would not be able to kill Ao Lie, and perhaps they would be killed by the elites under Ao Lie. Once Ao Lie escaped from heaven, his conspiracy would be revealed to the world. At that time, not only would he face Liu Xie's criticism, Ao Lie's anger also became the object of sneering in the world, and he would be disgraced. I am afraid that the rest of the gentry families who did not participate in the ambush Ao Lie will take the opportunity to take the opportunity to take the power in his hands and take the opportunity to take over the power in his hands. This ending is something that Yuan Shao and others cannot accept.
At the critical moment, no one dared to hide his own private forces, and ordered his subordinates or personally to go to the battlefield with their most elite troops, and rushed to the battlefield. Among the ambushed in advance, the princes of all the same vacancies hid the elite troops, and only sent out ordinary soldiers and even miscellaneous soldiers and auxiliary soldiers. They all knew that Ao Lie's elite troops were abnormal, and these ambushed soldiers might become cannon fodder, so no one was willing to throw their elite troops into the ambush queue. However, they did not expect that all the princes did this, and no one sent a regular army to fight, at most they just sent a few irrelevant generals and supervisors. Now seeing that Ao Lie's troops had a vague tendency to counterattack and break the siege, Yuan Shao and others were anxious and could no longer care about anything else, so they put their true combat power into the battlefield.
The first one to arrive on the battlefield was Zhang Yang, the prefect of Shangdang. Zhang Yang's troops were very similar to Lu Bu's Bingzhou Army. Both were mainly cavalry. Relying on the advantage of speed, Zhang Yang's army left behind several other princes and first came to the battlefield. After a brief observation of the battlefield, Zhang Yang began to order: "Become a scattered line, harass the enemy on the periphery, and stop the enemy formation from operating!" After receiving Zhang Yang's order, nearly 10,000 cavalrymen were divided into two teams, one running from west to east, and the other running from east to west, surrounding the square formation formed by Ao Lie's troops, and began harassment similar to the later sparrow war.
After Zhang Yang, he was a soldier under Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao was guilty of his four generations and three kings, so he did not come to the front line to supervise the battle in person, but sent his general Ju Yi and his counselor Shen Pei to command the battle together. After the two arrived at the battlefield with more than 10,000 troops, Ju Yi saw Xu Rong, who was surrounded by elite troops of the Blood Killing Camp at a glance. As the saying goes, his enemies were particularly jealous. Ju Yi was defeated in the battle formation with Xu Rong outside Luoyang City. Ju Yi always kept this humiliation in mind, turned to Shen Pei and said, "I will command this battle." Shen Pei heard the determination in Ju Yi's words, and did not argue, and nodded and agreed. Shen Pei knew that Ju Yi's ability to command combat was not inferior to him, and even was even more vague than him. The previous defeat was just because he was born at the wrong time and met Xu Rong.
PS: PS: Today's fourth chapter is here, and it will be updated tomorrow. Sun Jian led his army to rescue Ao Lie. Shang Xiang almost died in order to save Ao Lie. More exciting things will be presented to everyone tomorrow.
Chapter completed!