Chapter 761 Tragic
In the third year of Taiwu, on May 28th, at noon, Bao Tao's army took up its main formation.
Half an hour ago, Guo Mo led the Bao Tao Army's main formation to move to the side of Zhang He's troops. After a short rest, Guo Mo galloped in front of the formation with his sudden cavalry, imitating the king's posture and began to encourage the three armies.
Guo Mo held a yellow flag in his hand, and the riders behind him each held a vertical flag, each writing a paragraph:
"The establishment of the army and the defense of Youyan have made great achievements, and the long march to the Central Plains will make further achievements."
These two sentences were given by Zhang Chong when Bao Tao's army captured the three cities of Heyang, and they have been used as the battle words of Bao Tao's army ever since.
At this moment, when the merit table is established, it is as if the king is here in person.
As a result, Bao Tao's army was as powerful as a rainbow, raising its arms and shouting from the mountains.
Seeing the enthusiastic atmosphere among the officials, Guo Mo jumped off his horse and walked to the front of the array.
He looked around first, and then saw a sturdy warrior with his head held high and his chest high, and he walked over.
Guo Mo tapped the warrior with his riding whip and asked:
"What a strong man, when did you join the army?"
The warrior with his chest held high grinned and said:
"Military leader, we are soldiers from Heyang. General Zhang Ying found us pleasing to the eye, so he accepted us."
Guo Mo was stunned after hearing this. No wonder he had never seen this warrior before. It turned out that he had surrendered troops from Heyang.
He knew this. When they broke Heyang City that day, the guard Zhu Fu had five hundred tooth soldiers assigned by his old father.
These people were all elites, and later they all joined the Leopard Tao Army.
At this moment, Guo Mo saw that the warrior seemed not to care about Jiang Bing's background, so he asked:
"Oh, do you think our Taishan Army is good?"
The warrior looked at the serious face of the general standing in front of the team and hurriedly replied:
"Of course we, Taishan, are good soldiers and can eat meat."
As soon as these words came out, the armored warriors in this team nodded, yes, if you follow our Taishan Army, you will have meat to eat.
Guo Mo didn't expect this pure martial artist to say anything witty, but after hearing this, he still laughed:
"Okay, okay, if you join our Taishan Army, you will have meat to eat. And not only can we eat meat ourselves, but we also want everyone in the world to eat meat."
However, these words did not attract much cheers. After all, the armored soldiers in the front row were mostly Zhu Jun's tooth soldiers, and they did not care too much about the so-called principles and righteousness.
Even the warrior at the beginning said that there was meat to eat, which was just some kind of flattery, because in the Han army, even if it was difficult for ordinary people to eat meat, as Zhu Jun's tooth soldiers, there would never be a shortage of these people.
But behind this flattery is actually a sincere surrender.
Eight years have passed since the troubled times. For most people, this is one-third of their lives, so the rules of the troubled times have begun to be imprinted on the hearts of people in this world over time.
What are the rules in troubled times? That is, whoever is stronger will listen to whoever is strong. Whoever wins is absolute justice.
These warriors didn't have much thought about talking about the Han family or ideals. They only recognized one thing, that is, if they were given the opportunity to serve as soldiers, they would do it until the next boss was replaced.
As martial artists, they are professionals.
Guo Mo understood this to some extent, so he looked around again, and then said to the armored warriors in the front row:
"Our army will definitely win this battle. How great your merits are, I will give you great rewards. Remember, our Taishan Army never treats its meritorious officials badly."
The warriors sang Hey loudly.
After that, Guo Mo said a few words of encouragement, then mounted his horse and prepared to go around the formation from the north.
At this moment, a group of knights suddenly ran out from the opposite formation. These people, wearing iron armor and shining bright lights, suddenly rushed towards Guo Mo.
Obviously, when Guo Mo was encouraging his troops in front of the formation, the enemy formation on the opposite side also saw it and thought this was an excellent opportunity to capture and kill Guo Mo.
The enemy came very quickly, and the Leopard Tao Army's assault cavalry were deployed on both wings, so there was no time to support them.
So the five horsemen behind Guo Mo hurriedly protected Guo Mo in the middle, preparing to cover his retreat.
But Guo Mo swung the iron spear and cursed angrily:
"Give them all to me and kill these bastards."
Guo Mo was very angry. He was angry that the enemy looked down on him and wanted to capture and kill him with fifty cavalry. What did they think of him, Guo Mo?
Guo Mo smiled evilly. It seemed that he had not taken action for a long time, and the enemies had forgotten his reputation as Guo Mo.
So, without waiting for a response, Guo Mo turned his horse's head and ran toward the enemy cavalry with an iron spear in hand.
There were elite knights in the cavalry on the opposite side, and some of them threw arrows at Guo Mo during the attack, but they were either deflected away by Guo Mo with their iron spears, or they were dodged by him.
On Guo Mo's side, two of the five knights behind him ran to both sides of Guo Mo with their horses, forming a small riding formation with him.
The remaining three knights drew their bowstrings directly, and shot arrows in their hands, causing thunderbolts to strike.
These three people are all solemn warriors, and the arrows they use are all heavy arrows. The arrows are like small shovels. With the blessing of the composite horn bow in their hands, they are simply a knight's nightmare.
These three solemn warriors alone shot ten arrows in a moment, knocking off all the knights in the front row of the enemy's cavalry.
While running, those in front fell off their horses, and those behind had no time to dodge. They all stepped over. Some of them bumped into the horses and fell down in succession.
At this time, the fifty enemy cavalry had not even reached halfway.
When the enemy cavalry was overturned, Guo Mo had already rushed up like lightning. With a sweep of the iron spear in his hand, he directly knocked the two cavalry in front of them under their horses.
Then, without stopping at all, he struck with the iron spear in his hand like a whip. Behind him, two veteran Taishan Army cavalrymen directly protected Guo Mo's sides, and from time to time they used the iron bones in their hands to hit the fallen enemy cavalrymen.
The three of them were like a piece of burning iron. The pole was inserted into a piece of grease, and it was so smooth that there was no obstruction.
After they killed the enemy cavalry, Guo Mo still held an enemy cavalry in his arms. That man was the cavalry commander of this team of knights. He was a wealthy warrior from the Liang Kingdom. His force was also commendable in the army.
But within one round, Guo Mo was pulled off his horse and strangled in his arms.
At this moment, Guo Mo had time to take a look at this man, but he saw that his face was livid, his lips were white, and his hands and feet were drooped, like a dead fish.
Guo Mo felt his breath and found that this person had been strangled to death by him, secretly cursing the bad luck. He originally wanted to ask about the enemy's formation.
But even if he dies, Guo Mo doesn't intend to let him go.
When the last enemy rider was shot through the neck by Knight Su Shen, Guo Mo looked at the corpses on the ground and the scattered war horses, raised the enemy rider above his head with one arm, and then shouted:
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"Power!"
The armored warriors in the front row of Leopard Tao's army were dazzled by this moment. These tooth soldiers from Zhu Jun's side were really impressed by the bravery of their leader.
So, they all shouted:
"Power!"
"Power!" They originally thought that Guo Mo, like Zhu Jun, was a general in command rather than a fighting general. In fact, this is also the regulation of the Taishan Army. It is almost impossible for military leaders like Guo Mo to have a chance to go out. Their task is to dispatch and command troops from the rear. This is the general the Taishan Army wants.
At this moment, Guo Mo, who was showing off his skills, was extremely satisfied. He looked at the group of tooth warriors who were still unruly and screaming like crazy at this moment, and he smiled in his heart:
"We still like your original unruly look."
But it wasn't over yet. Then Guo Mo did another thing. He rushed towards the enemy's formation on horseback, and then before the enemy could react, he directly threw the enemy general in his hand over.
Guo Mo's side was facing Zhang He's Liang Peijun, whose quality was very different. They had already been frightened by the battle just now, so when their own cavalry general was thrown over, many of the infantrymen had no time to let go.
As a result, the long-dead cavalryman was strung up on his own horse after his death.
For a time, Liang Peijun's morale dropped to the bottom.
At this moment, Guo Mo has withdrawn to the main formation. He is really high-spirited and truly feels that fighting in front of the formation like this is a wonderful show for a martial artist.
But just when Guo Mo was about to rush to the two knights, he saw that the two knights turned pale, and then threw Guo Mo to the ground without hesitation.
The next moment, hundreds of arrows were thrown directly from the enemy's formation, covering the entire space where Guo Mo was.
Everything happened so fast. The three solemn warriors behind them chatted with each other for a while, then jumped off the horse, pulled out a card holder from the side of the horse, and then ran towards Guo Mona.
The enemy's arrows stopped for a while, so the three Su Shen warriors were able to pull Guo Mo out.
At this moment, the two horsemen around him had already been shot into hedgehogs, but Guo Mo survived, but his right leg was hit by an arrow, bleeding profusely.
A solemn warrior cut off the arrow on Guo Mo's leg with a sword, and then carried Guo Mo on his back with the help of another person. Then the other two people each held up a card to protect Guo Mo and retreated into the formation.
At this time, Liang Peibing's second round of arrows struck again.
In the rain of arrows, Guo Mo roared:
"Bring back the two brothers."
But these three solemn warriors didn't care at all and continued to run towards the Bao Tao Army's main formation.
At the same time, on the side of the Leopard Tao Army's main formation, the armored warriors in the front row had already reacted. They held up the banners and cheered up.
One group of people joined Guo Mo into the formation, and another four or five dragged back the Chinese cavalry who were already hedgehogs, while the rest directly launched an attack on the enemy formation.
Thus, the initial formation of Leopard Tao Army broke out.
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Guo Mo was lucky. Two of his followers blocked all fatal injuries for him. Even the arrow in his leg was blocked by his skirt, and only the arrow penetrated his skin.
In other armies, this kind of injury would still be quite troublesome, but the Taishan Army uniformly wears a layer of silk under the iron armor for all middle- and senior-level officers and above.
Originally, after this kind of injury was treated, he would have to be sent to rest behind the battle line, but Guo Mo was the commander-in-chief of an army, and the battle had already begun, and he could never leave the command area, so the doctors told Guo Mo not to go into battle again. After fighting, someone sent Guo Mo back.
In order to ensure Guo Mo's physical condition, they also dispatched one of the most experienced medical craftsmen to follow him, just in case.
When Guo Mo returned to the banner with his wounds wrapped up, his two dead cavalry had already been buried under the banner.
Looking at his brothers with wounds all over their bodies, Guo Mo's heart was drawn to the point of bleeding.
None of his guards and cavalry live and eat together. Rather than saying they are masters and slaves, they are more like brothers who share life and death. But just now, two brothers died. A moment ago they were joking, but at this moment, there is a separation between yin and yang.
Guo Mo looked ahead with red eyes. He wanted to make the enemy pay with blood.
In order to facilitate Guo Mo's command, the soldiers moved a bed to stand on the military vehicle, and then moved Guo Mo to lie on the bed.
At this moment, Guo Mo was observing the battle ahead from a distance, and his frown began to relax.
The reason is simple. The front is really overwhelming. As far as the eye can see, the khaki color represented by this formation has completely covered the ground formation. They are like a flood, washing away the enemy.
Soon, a horse came running from the horse racing track. He rode up and shouted:
"The thief array has been broken ahead!"
"The thief array has been broken ahead!"
Guo Mo laughed loudly, patted his cheeks, and said happily:
"Well done boys!"
At this moment, he saw that the enemy army had collapsed, and knew that this was a good time to completely destroy the enemy army, so he drew a silver arrow and gave the order to Shu Zuo and Lingqi below:
"Order the left battalion of the sudden cavalry to attack and dig in along the enemy's collapse point!"
Under the curtain, Shuzuo knelt on the ground and wrote, and then the commanding cavalry went straight to the north with the commanding arrows and military orders.
After a while, the three hundred cavalry troops deployed on the left wing of Bao Tao's army received the order from the central army and began to charge towards the collapsed Liang Peibing army formation.
At this moment, seeing the overwhelming strength of our troops, the enemy's military flags being cut off from time to time, and the singing of a certain warrior formation's reward for killing the enemy general everywhere, Guo Mo felt great pleasure in his heart.
That's it, kill all these bastards.
But at this time, several Yuqi came running over from the north. Their numbers were written on the flags on their backs. They were the Wei Bojun to which Xie Bi belonged.
Guo Mo saw it and felt strange. Did Xie Bi have something important to inform him?
Soon, those feathered knights ran under Guo Mohu's bed, their faces covered with sweat. They first handed the silver arrows in their hands to the guards beside them, then raised their heads and reported to Guo Mo:
"My military leader said that the enemy's formations were very strange. There were antlers and wooden stakes between each formation, and there were crossbowmen between them. Commander Guo must defeat the formation with foot, and never launch a sudden cavalry charge."< br>
As soon as the response fell, Guo Mo stood up from the bed and roared:
"Hurry up and let the Tuqi Zuoying withdraw."
But it was too late. A burst of cheers suddenly broke out in Liang Pei's army formation, and then dozens of war horses rushed out from the enemy's formation.
These war horses all belonged to the Leopard Tao Army, but they had no masters and were neighing back towards their own formation.
At this moment, the enemy's morale suddenly surged, and they began to drive out the Taishan Army infantry in the formation, and the front line began to visibly move towards our own side.
Guo Mo looked at what happened and laughed angrily:
"Okay, okay, Zhang He is a man who knows how to use soldiers. He is a man who knows how to use soldiers."
He crushed the military mate in his hand to pieces, then turned to the armored general and said coldly:
"You take the trappers under my tent and let these bastards know what my anger is!"
The armored general who received the order was nine feet two inches tall, making him stand out among all the tall military generals.
At this moment, he was speaking awkward and stiff Chinese, and after singing "E", he walked onto the marching road holding a heavy axe.
Behind him, eight hundred armored soldiers filed out.