Chapter 229 Covering the Sun
On July 20, the sixth year of Guanghe, many people's lives stopped on this day, and many people will never forget this day in their lives, but more people will be grateful for this day.
But no matter what, the gear of fate paused on this day, and then quickly rotated towards another angle.
The Yellow Turban Army on the battlefield on the west bank of Yingshui River were first horrified to find that the large banner of the Chinese army representing Qu Commander Peng Tuo was cut off, but then the banner of the Han army on the opposite side, representing the old thief Huangfu, also fell.
What is going on? But they all know that this war is over. Both sides are consciously disengaging, and the expected collapse of either side has not happened.
On the Runan Yellow Turban side, seeing what happened to Peng Tuo in Qu Kui, the Yellow Turban Army commanders on the left and right wings all wanted to rush to the central army as soon as possible, where the biggest legacy of the Runan Yellow Turban was waiting for someone to inherit it.
The one closest to the Chinese army was He Yi. Because all his troops were entangled with the Han army, he threw away the banner and ran over with only a dozen guards.
Gong Du came next, and with Gong Du came a spear team of nearly a thousand people. This was a preparation that Gong Du had left in hand. He didn't expect to use it here now.
The worst person on the right wing is Wu Ba. At this moment, he is fighting on the east bank of Yingshui River with ten thousand Taiping Dao. In the competition for the successor of the Runan Yellow Turban, Wu Ba is undoubtedly out.
Among the three strong players on the left, the situation is actually similar. Huang Shao was prepared to charge to the death, but he was still trapped in the Han army's formation. He Man was still free, but he didn't think about seizing the position at all, and was still arranging his men to maintain the front.
The only person from the left wing who rushed to the central army was Liu Pi, but he knew as soon as he arrived that he was out of luck.
Beside the broken banner, Peng Tuo, the leader of Ququ, was lying there with a withered face. Several of his soldiers covered Peng Tuo with apricot-yellow flags.
Kneeling beside Qu Kui was He Yi. He grabbed Peng Tuo's hand and kept sobbing. And outside them was Gong Du. He also looked solemn at this moment, as if he was constantly weighing something.
Liu Pi understood it immediately. He knelt down in front of Peng Tuo and cried loudly:
"Commander Qu, God will not forget your years, but you will die young and heroic. Now that you are gone, you will leave your brothers behind. What should we do?"
A guard on the side helped Liu Pi up sadly and said:
"Liu Kui, before his death, Commander Qu made an order to pass the Liujie Battle to Huang Shao Dakui."
Liu Pi was shocked. He glanced at He Yi quietly and said with a smile:
"Okay, it's good if someone takes the lead."
After saying that, he stopped talking. As for Huang Shao being surrounded by Han soldiers, he didn't say a word.
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After Zhang Chong cut off the Han army's banner, he didn't have much time to confirm Huangfu Song's death. A cavalry was already galloping from the north. It was Huangfu Li, Huangfu Song's nephew. He finally rushed over at this time.
Zhang Chong had no time to pay attention to Huangfu Li, who was already crazy. Instead, he joined Guan Yu and other assault cavalry behind him and began to bypass the retreating Han army's formation to expand the victory.
To the northwest, Yu Jin led 3,000 Taishan soldiers with long swords and halberds to continuously defeat and squeeze the rear line of the Han army. They were like a chopping board, and the retreating Han soldiers were just a piece of fish. As for Zhang Chong and other thousands of cavalry, they were Anvil hammer, hammer this piece of fish into four pieces.
There were a total of five captains of the Han army fighting in the front. Among them, Bao Hong, the captain of the left army, had short contact with the Runan Yellow Turbans and was far away from the Taishan Army. Not long after Huangfu Song's banner was broken, he led the captains with him. Withdrew.
Bao Hong didn't have time to count the exact number of troops he had lost. He only looked at the flags and saw that only two troops were still in the organic ranks. After he withdrew from the battlefield, he did not move closer to Huangfu Songzhong's army. Instead, he continued to retreat north and soon disappeared from sight.
Chinese Military Academy Lieutenant Zhao Rong and former Military Academy Lieutenant Feng Fang withdrew together. Because the Yellow Turban Army in the middle had been defeated, the two troops retreated easily. However, because Feng Fang had been carrying Peng Tuo's fierce attack before, the losses were too great and they were no longer able to fight anymore. However, Zhao Rong, the commander of the Central Military Academy, The local losses are very small. After the two troops retreated, Zhao Rong took the remaining soldiers of Feng Fang's tribe and returned to the Chinese army barrier.
When the Second Division arrived, they saw that the guard Huangfu Li had found a carriage and placed the seriously injured Huangfu Song there. The last few people discussed it and decided to evacuate to Yangdi, taking a long-term view. As for Zhu Jun's tribe on the east coast, no one mentioned them anymore. The gap was already there, and it was useless to talk more.
The worst offenders were Chun Yuqiong, the captain of the right military academy, and Xia Mou, the rear army commander. Originally, Chunyu Qiong's tribe was surrounded by Liu Pi, Huang Shao, and He Man, and was in despair. However, suddenly the Yellow Turban army collapsed in the middle, and Chunyu Qiong saw a chance of survival. But then his own army also fell, and then he saw that Sima Xia Mou, the rear army who was still on the periphery to rescue him, actually retreated.
But Liu Pi, Huang Shao, and He Man were still biting him here, especially Huang Shao, who was like a lunatic and refused to let go.
But Chunyu Qiong survived in the end. He hid among the corpses on the ground and crawled out with difficulty after the fighting was gone. Then he found a war horse wandering on the battlefield, but a seriously injured Yellow Turban soldier grabbed the reins. Chunyu Qiong cut off his forearm, but the Yellow Turban army coming from all directions surrounded him. A messy meal.
One knife hit Chun Yuqiong's helmet, swollen his forehead; another knife hit his right leg, directly cutting through the skirt and armor, leaving a deep bloody gash. Another knife hit Chun Yuqiong's shoulder blade. Fortunately, his armor blocked it, otherwise one of his arms would have been removed. The other knives were blocked by Chun Yuqiong's armor. The last knife hit the saddle and stabbed directly into the horse's back.
Chunyu Qiong should be grateful for this sword. It was this sword that shocked him off his horse, otherwise countless hands would have pulled him off his horse. The frightened horse jumped up and escaped from the Yellow Turbans' revenge. Chun Yuqiong, who was bleeding, unconscious but still alive, arrived at the Chinese Army. Finally, Lieutenant Zhao Rong placed him on an empty carriage so that he could escape and ascend to heaven.
Chunyu Qiong was in misfortune. All his troops were wiped out and he suffered several wounds. But compared with Sima Xia Mou of the rear army, he was much luckier. It turned out that Chunyu Qiong himself was greedy for power and advanced rashly. Sima Xia Mou of the rear army tried to persuade him several times but to no avail. Chun Yuqiong was surrounded behind him, and Sima Xia Mou of the rear army also tried his best to support him.
But in the end, Chunyu Qiong lived and Xia Mou died.
Just because Xia Mou's troops were at the right rear of the battlefield, right where the Taishan Army's infantry and cavalry were attacking. So Xia Mou was miserable. He had a strengthened school captain's force of 4,000 men. In the end, all of them, from Xia Mou to the generals, were killed in the battle. After the war, less than a thousand people surrendered to the Taishan Army on their knees. It can be described as tragic.
At the end of the war, there were no complete Han troops on the battlefield. There were always those who surrendered on their knees, or those who desperately ran eastward, trying to swim across the Yingshui River to reach Zhu Jun's tribe on the east bank.
After Huangfu Song's three lieutenants withdrew from the battlefield, the Han army on the west bank of Yingshui River was completely defeated. On the battlefield, the corpses of the Han army were crowded like mountains. Among the Sanhe Knights, the Hedong Knights had collapsed, and the other two troops also evacuated the battlefield along with Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Rong. Groups of deserters followed, but they had to face the cover-up of Taishan's sudden cavalry.
This journey of escape will be littered with corpses.
Under the apricot-yellow banner of Dao for Heaven, Zhang Chong looked at the battlefield, silent and speechless. He did not pursue them, but stayed on this battlefield to observe the movements of the Runan Yellow Turban Army.
At this time, Zhang Chong did not know about the death of Runan Qushuai Peng Tuo, but he had already guessed that something was wrong with the Runan Yellow Turban Army. To be honest, Zhang Chong was not very satisfied with this battle.
He took a huge risk to go south, not to defeat one or two Han army captains, but to try his best to kill the effective strength of the Han army. Compared with this campaign goal, even killing Huangfu Song was not as good as this.
Because even if Huangfu Song dies, Hanting can appoint another border commander at any time as long as the main force is still there. This is easy for Hanting, which is full of talents. But if he could destroy Huangfu Song's main army in this battle, within a few months, the Han army would not be able to recover at all. This campaign goal was about to be achieved, but when he gave up the opportunity to confirm Huangfu Song's death and raced against time to kill the retreating Han army, the Han army was about to stage a collapse.
But at this time, the Runan Yellow Turban Army on the opposite side was shrinking its troops and did not take advantage of the situation to cover up the attack. Finally, the three Han army captains were allowed to withdraw from the battlefield.
What a pity!
Just when Zhang Chong was still regretting, the pile of corpses on his side shook for a while, and one hand stretched out, and then the other hand. Finally, a Han military official with an iron pocket stretched out his head. , panting vigorously. After Xu finally recovered, he struggled to push away the corpses that were crowding him, and finally crawled out of the pile of corpses.
During this process, Zhang Chong kept watching without saying anything or stopping him. When the soldier finally climbed out and rested beside the pile of corpses, Zhang Chong said:
"Do you think the cluster of iron arrows in your right hand can kill me?"
The Han army's armored soldier did not panic when he was called out. He just threw the iron arrow cluster aside and continued to breathe expressionlessly.
The guard next to Zhang Chong was about to come down and looked at the soldier's head, but was stopped by Zhang Chong.
Zhang Chong looked down at the Han soldier and said coldly:
"What's your name."
The soldier leaned on the pile of corpses and looked absently to the northwest, where his home was. When the person above asked, he replied in a dead voice:
"Hedong Xu Huang."
After Xu Huang said this, he felt his vision dim. He raised his head and saw a tall figure blocking the sun behind him. The man pulled out a ring-shou knife, put it on his neck, and asked:
"Are you willing to surrender?"
A trace of confusion flashed through Xu Huang's dead eyes. He saw this man clearly. During the previous battle, he pressed his armor against this man's armor, but then he was knocked off his horse by the man's armor.
Zhang Chong asked again:
"Are you willing to surrender?"
Xu Huang swayed and started to fight. He looked to the northwest and laughed.
Then he pushed the golden mountain, toppled the jade pillar, and knelt down in front of the man hidden in the sun.
At this time, this scene could be seen everywhere on the battlefield. Countless Han soldiers knelt down to their former slaves Guizhou. And all of this has been frozen in time into an oil painting.
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The tragedy of war is that individual efforts seem to have nothing to do with the overall trend of the war.
At this moment, the auxiliary army Sima Sunjian on the battlefield on the east bank of Yingshui sadly discovered that he was really destined to have a bad fate? Since the Yellow Turbans raised their troops, he has been marching eastward and westward with Zhu Jun, the commander of the right army, for three months, but in the wilderness of Yingyang, he suddenly became empty.
He and the Jianghuai soldiers under his command fought hard and finally defeated the 10,000 Taipingdao in front of the formation, but suddenly Huangfu Song's army on the other side of the river collapsed.
He could already imagine the embarrassed expression on coach Zhu Jun's face. After all, it would happen to anyone who was abandoned on the battlefield. To be honest, Sun Jian still respects Huangfu Song very much. In other words, Jianghuai warriors like them have an inexplicable respect or to put it bluntly, awe for Xizhou warriors.
It has been two hundred years since the founding of this dynasty, and the warriors of Xizhou have been fighting on the border for a hundred years. Sun Jian and other warriors in the deserted Jianghuai land have not grown up listening to the legends of these predecessors.
And now, Commander Huangfu Song has such a great reputation, and then this? Was he defeated by a group of Yellow Turban thieves from Runan?
Obviously, until now, Zhu Jun's regiment on the east bank of Yingshui River did not know the existence of the Taishan Army, and did not even know about the series of arrangements made by the old commander Huangfu Song before the war.
How can a stream of Yingshui cut off the connection between the two armies? What separates them is the human heart.
Sun Jian was saddened by his ill-fated fate. In the Yellow Turban Village in front of Sun Jian, Ma Yuanyi's sorrow also flowed into a river.
At this time, Ma Yuanyi sat dejectedly on the bed, and next to him were Bocai's soldiers who were soaked and sobbing. Listening to the statements of the Bocai clansmen, Ma Yuanyi looked at the withered head of Bocai on the table and burst into tears.
Ma Yuanyi had the kindness to know and support Bo Cai. Ma Yuanyi, who has always taken the cause of Taiping Taoism as his mission, has always been willing to discover the elites in the sect, and this wave of talents was discovered by him, Ma Yuanyi. He has always been regarded by Ma Yuanyi as a natural general, and he is to protect the sect in Huangtian Daye.
But now, there is a direct separation between yin and yang, which makes people sad and sad.
In the end, Ma Yuanyi held Bo Cai's body and cried for a while, and finally recovered with the comfort of the generals.
Seeing the generals hesitating to speak, how could Ma Yuanyi not know what they were going to say?
That’s it!
A moment later, a sharp golden sound sounded from the Yellow Turban Army camp.
In this war, Ma Yuanyi gave up.
In this battle, Ma Yuanyi sent out 10,000 troops, but only returned less than 3,000. Bocai led his troops to the battle with 10,000 troops. Not only did he lose his life, but after 10,000 troops were routed, he retreated to the northeast.
In other words, at this time, Yingyang City was connected to the fortress, and Ma Yuanyi only had more than 10,000 people at full count, and he was no longer able to fight the Han army.
But accidents always come so suddenly. After the Yellow Turban Army called gold, Zhu Jun's army on the opposite side also called gold and retreated.
In less than an hour, after the Han army on the opposite side reorganized their troops, they did not even clean the battlefield. They broke out of camp and bypassed the Yellow Turban Army's company camp and Yingyang City, heading towards Runan behind them.
Ma Yuanyi was puzzled that Zhu Jun's army on the opposite side retreated in such a hasty manner.
(End of chapter)