What about after dark?

Maybe Cao Cao can stabilize his formation and continue heading north, maybe Cao Ren will take the risk and send a large army to respond successfully... Maybe there is an opportunity for a comeback that he doesn't know about in the whole war, but in that case, what does it have to do with his lord Liu Bei?

Without these ten thousand core elite soldiers, without Zhou Gongjin, without Xuzhou, no matter what the final outcome of this battle is, our lord will have no choice but to retreat to Huainan, or even Jiangnan.

At this thought, Zhou Tai looked seriously at the white horse flag directly in front, and then slid his gaze to the arrow transport team in front of the formation. For Cao Cao, there may be other ways to go, but for him Zhou Tai

To me, this is the only goal to survive in death!

"Send the order!" As another obviously targeted arrow passed by and killed his own bodyguard, Zhou Youping finally spoke without changing his expression, but his words were still concise. "The whole army raised their shields and charged forward.

! Take the white horse flag straight ahead!"

The officers passed the orders layer by layer, and then as Zhou Tai silently drew his sword and walked forward, the entire military formation followed the banner with the word "Zhou", directly raised the shield, and then slowly walked towards the west!

This is a new force, probably the most elite infantry on this battlefield. At this time, they suddenly gave up their formation and moved forward, but it was completely different from Xu Sheng's unit's collapse suicidal charge! At the same time, his unit moved forward, although they encountered

The surrounding light cavalry fought hard to kill people from a distance, and their numbers were reduced quickly, but without any chaos, basically maintaining a formidable melee heavy infantry formation!

Zhou Tai's sudden action immediately shocked the entire battlefield and triggered a series of chain reactions. Naturally, the first to suffer a heavy blow was Du Xibu, who was originally hiding behind Zhou Tai's troops. His troops rushed forward to try to take over Zhou Tai's troops.

position, but was the first to fall into a situation where it was natural to be attacked from three sides; at the same time, after Chen Wubu noticed Zhou Tai's advance, he did not hesitate and chose to take the initiative to charge. This is an even more speechless situation.

This choice put Cao Jun's town and the Civil Service Department behind him into trouble.

He took the initiative to attack, and as soon as he started, Cao Cao's army formation, which had only collapsed at one corner, collapsed in half. Cao Cao was naturally furious, but he had nothing to say, because after all, he was not directly under his subordinates! Moreover,

He figured out the stakes earlier than Zhou Tai - there was no problem with Zhou Youping's move, the problem was that the coalition could only fight against Gongsun Xun's Central Plains Alliance.

At this time, compared to the helplessness and determination of Cao's army being divided into two, Yan's army also encountered some troubles.

Zhou Tai's troops naturally need to try their best to block it, and this formation requires a large group of armored cavalry to fight desperately to stop the advance of his troops. However, the 12,000 armored cavalry that can effectively block the attack are extremely scattered at this time - Zhang Liochenglian

The four thousand armored cavalry were scattered to hunt the defeated Xu Sheng's tribe, and some of the troops were directly involved in the siege of Du Xi's tribe. The two generals were in a hurry and had no time to prepare their troops, so they could only lead several hundred armored cavalry towards Zhou Tai's tribe.

The five or six thousand cavalry of Yang Kai, Tian Chou, and Tian Yu were very similar. They encountered Chen Wu's desperate counterattack, and they couldn't break free for a while. They couldn't give up the opportunity to completely defeat Chen Wu, so they split into two. Tian Chou

Yang Kai and Tian Yuze, who stayed here to prevent Chen Wu's black armor soldiers from dealing with them, also hurriedly returned with hundreds of armored cavalry each to support them.

In other words, Zhou Tai launched the assault at this time because he saw this opportunity.

The four generals came bravely and rushed into Zhou Tai's army from the rear regardless of life and death. Zhou Tai had already advanced halfway, and Yuwen Heita and Yu Fuluo also hurriedly led the last two thousand armored cavalry to stand out bravely.

Divided into two, they attacked from the flanks, and countless light cavalry galloped left and right to shoot and harass without any military orders... Under such an all-out blockade, although Zhou Tai's troops were fully equipped with large shields and armor, and although their troops were unparalleled in bravery, they could hardly move forward.

In one step, you have to peel off a layer of skin.

The battle entered its most intense phase with Zhou Tai's advance, and it was also the stage that cost the most lives on both sides.

But having said that, because he wanted to show off those pack horses, Gongsun Xun was too close to Zhou Tai's army at the beginning, only a few hundred steps away, so Zhou Youping was gradually forced to the front despite huge casualties.

Gongsun Xun laughed for a moment, but without waiting for Jia Xu, Xun You and other staff, Yi followed the advice and took the initiative to give the order: "I know that the overall situation has been decided at this time. There is no need to fight for the moment and retreat with these 'arrows'!"

"

Now that they had received the order, Pang De and others naturally heaved a sigh of relief, and the three thousand white horse retinues protected the white horse flag and hurriedly retreated together with the so-called pack horse team carrying arrows, but in fact most of them were half-tubes of sand.

After a hundred steps, he stopped for a moment.

The flag was set up again, and everyone looked back. They saw that Zhou Tai's military formation could no longer maintain its phalanx posture. Countless Danyang soldiers were scattered in all directions, fighting bravely with armored cavalry and light cavalry. Both sides suffered casualties. But unexpectedly, Zhou Tai was so powerful.

There was still a tribe of about a thousand people near the flag. Under the flag, a general wore heavy armor with countless arrows stuck in it, but he still held a spear and a large shield and charged forward personally.

Everyone on the left and right also shouted to obey, and those who stood in his way were invincible!

Although his steps were slow, he moved forward step by step and never retreated... Needless to say, this was naturally Huainan Tiger General Zhou Youping!

Seeing this, Gongsun Xun half sighed and half felt helpless, but he took the initiative to rein in his horse again and ordered: "This time, leave the things on the pack horse to him!"

After Pang De and others breathed a sigh of relief, they quickly threw down those 'precious arrows' and moved slightly west again.

Standing still again, Gongsun Xun turned around and saw the subordinates beside Zhou Tai falling off at a very fast speed. There seemed to be less than four or five hundred of them, but they still kept moving forward.

Not only that, Gongsun Xun saw with his own eyes that Zhou Tai had lost his shield at this time, and his spear broke directly into the body of Qu Junhou, a Yan army cavalry within his sight range, but he still raised the barrage.

Huanshou Dao kept fighting forward.

When a horse came back, he held down the spear, inserted a knife into his neck with his backhand, and then grabbed the spear and moved forward!

A horseman came from the flank, but before he could reach him, a Danyang soldier jumped up bravely and collided with him from the side through the shield. The knight fell off his horse, and the Danyang soldier was repelled by the huge force of the horse and fell to the ground without a trace.

The surrounding staff members all changed their expressions, and then instinctively looked at their own Lord Yan.

Gongsun Xun originally wanted to give an order, but suddenly saw that the opponent had already reached the pile of scattered arrows, so he tolerated it a little and did not retreat in a hurry.

However, Zhou Youping came to those arrows bundled in quivers. He made a little movement and discovered the secret. He only hesitated for a moment, and then he ignored them and went straight over those things without stopping.

, continue to move towards the White Horse Flag.

Under the banner of the white horse, the generals looked at their Duke Yan again.

Gongsun Xun, as always, smiled slightly, but suddenly changed his expression and became angry: "On the battlefield, it is normal for the cavalry to advance and retreat slightly, but it only takes three things. How can the general and flag of the leader of a country retreat three times without stopping?!"

Everyone was panicked for a moment, but Gongsun Xun pulled out the broken blade again, pointed it at Zhou Tai, who was already more than a hundred steps away, and could vaguely see the blood dripping on his body, and ordered sternly: "Recite the number of hundreds silently here, and after the number of hundreds, you guys

If you can't kill this person, I will kill him myself!"

The surrounding righteous officers did not dare to delay at all. From Pound down, dozens of officers rushed out one after another and headed straight for Zhou Tai.

The one with the fastest horse speed was of course Pang Lingming. He relied on the extraordinary ugly horse under his crotch. He saw the right moment and actually accelerated temporarily. With just one blow, he thrust his spear away from the hands of Zhou Tai, who was actually a little exhausted.

Spear!

Wang Ling followed closely behind him. When he saw that Zhou Tai had lost his weapon, he was naturally overjoyed, so he also thrust his spear at him.

Without saying a word, Zhou Tai ducked sideways on the ground and held down the opponent's spear. Then he used his waist strength to twist violently. Not only did he succeed in grabbing the spear, but he threw Wang Ling off his horse!

Then, Zhou Youping, who had almost never looked back since the attack, finally turned around, but regardless of the dense crowd of white-horse generals coming from the west, he directly stabbed Wang Ling to death on the ground with a spear.

Gongsun Xun watched this scene from a distance, but his eyelids twitched, inexplicably remembering the time when Zheng Chengpu saved his wife.

However, after Zheng Pu killed several Xianbei soldiers with his bare hands, a large number of Liaoxi and Han cavalry reinforcements followed, and after Zhou Tai killed the Yan Army knights in succession, more came

The knights of the Yan army are each stronger than the last.

Ma Dai came next. He probably saw the opponent's ability to grab the spear with his bare hands, so he didn't dare to lift it up even if the opponent hadn't turned around. He thrust out the spear and hit Zhou Tai's unprotected armpit, and then let go.

, abandoned the spear and drew the sword, reined in the horse, turned around, and rushed directly into the Danyang formation behind the opponent to kill him!

Zhou Tai's shoulder was pierced. The pain was unbearable for a moment, but he still gritted his teeth and said nothing. He just knelt down on one knee to use his strength and struggled to pull out the spear through his armor. Blood gushed out like a fountain.

However, at this moment, Ma Chao also came from a little distance away. He also used a spear with great strength, but it easily pierced Zhou Youping's lower leg, which was exposed due to his kneeling posture! He then stabbed the opponent who was about to stand up.

On the ground!

Immediately, he followed suit and also abandoned his spear for a sword. No matter what Zhou Tai did, he raised his sword and charged into the Danyang army... Behind Ma Chao, dozens of officers on white horses saw the two brothers doing this, and they all

In this way, a full seven or eight cavalrymen were able to successfully take out swords or spears, leaving extremely obvious injuries to Zhou Tai.

For a time, his shoulders, armpits, arms, calves, and neck were stabbed by spears and slashed by knives, and he suffered no less than ten serious injuries. Anyone else would have fallen to the ground and died, but Zhou Youping actually leaned on

The spear that was taken from Wang Ling tried to get up! It was also a matter of fate!

In this situation, Gongsun Xun's originally angry face temporarily restrained, appearing expressionless, but he held his hand and broke the blade, which also made the people around him more and more confused, and they didn't know how to deal with it.

At this time, suddenly, a horseman came west from the Danyang army with a ring-shou sword. His posture was awkward, but when the horse passed by Zhou Tai's side, he made a sideways sword with all his strength, connecting the spear that Zhou Youping was holding to him.

My head was cut off in two pieces together.

Zhou Tai, who seemed to be bleeding endlessly, lost his head and support, and finally fell to the ground. But at the same time, Tian Yu, who had succeeded, also fell off his horse!

However, everyone was stunned and saw that although Tian Guorang's helmet fell to the ground, he did not fall off the horse because his body was tied to the horse.

A moment later, Yi Cong, who stepped forward to rescue him, brought the frightened Tian Yu back to the White Horse banner. Only then did everyone realize that the youngest two thousand stone cavalry general in the army, a native and disciple of Gongsun Xun, had directly destroyed the army.

Rong——One of his ears was cut off directly by some exposed weapon on the ground.

The incident happened right in front of everyone, the cause and effect were obvious, and no one had anything to say.

However, Gongsun Xun, who had been looking at the motionless corpse of Zhou Tai in front of him, and felt something stirring in his heart, couldn't help but turn around, pointed at the battlefield in front of him that was full of broken limbs, and faced Jia Xu next to him,

Xun You, Tian Yu and others who had narrowly escaped death twice today said plainly:

"This is the reason why Gu must choose to attack today and end this battle as soon as possible! Send an order to the entire army for me. Today I don't ask for Cao Cao's head, nor do I ask for any full merit, but the bow and arrow will be delivered soon, and the battlefield is clear.

There are so many broken troops to drive away... Before dark, I must see at least three more enemy formations broken up!"

————I am the dividing line with a plain tone————

"In this battle, Taizu gathered 20,000 men on horseback and fired arrows like rain. The Confederate army held up their shields and hid, and could not raise their heads, just waiting for the arrows to be exhausted. By mid-afternoon, the Confederate army's front line was dead, with 23 out of 10 dead.

They were about to collapse, but the bows and arrows of the galloping cavalry were all exhausted, so they raised their formations and circled to return north. At that time, Taizu called the camp to send arrows but they had not arrived, so he secretly returned to the galloping cavalry with all the quivers carried by the armored cavalry, and the firing did not change.

Hundreds of war horses were mounted again, carrying empty tubes filled with earth, with some feathered arrows on top, and displayed them in front of the formation. The southern army was exhausted and shaken from a distance. The front army couldn't help but abandon the formation and move forward, where they were strangled by the armored cavalry.

The three camps of Xuan, Zhou Tai, Chen Wu and Xu Sheng were all defeated, but Yu Ya had arrived from Guandu and was advancing on Cao's army." - "Dian Lue". Annotation by Yan Pei Song.
Chapter completed!