Chapter 243 Array (9)

"General Fan, General Yu are pressed in front by the bandit army. Life or death is uncertain. Even the general manager is working hard to move forward!"

In the chaos, Fan Hu, who led his army back, never thought that the first person to stop him would be Zhang Qingte, who belonged to the same party. Moreover, this man spoke righteously and seemed to be really angry and puzzled. "It's just a few hundred people."

They are just thieves, why do they have to turn back the entire army?"

Fan Hu was furious. If the opponent was not a general, and had already fought hard today, but went out of his way to fight again, he almost wanted to chop the opponent with a knife.

"Captain Zhang." Fan Hu wiped the rain off his face and immediately suppressed his anger to explain. "Everyone in our army, except for the four thousand men in my own army who are staying behind for my second son, almost all of us are here."

Here, if we don’t take care of it after being cut off, are we going to watch the bandit army make dumplings and annihilate our entire army?!”

At the end of the day, I still couldn't suppress my anger.

"General Fan, are you kidding me?" Zhang Qingte was still not afraid, but pointed back to his horse with sharp words. "The west side is full of crop fields. They are empty. You can leave whenever you want... This doesn't count. The thieves only have

Hundreds of people, facing the official road with several miles of space left and right, just want to retreat back the same way, how can he stop them?"

Fan Hu was stunned for a moment.

This is not to say that he was speechless by the other party, but that the other party was so stupid that he didn't know where to refute it, or even whether he should refute or explain it.

However, after realizing that the opponent was really not good enough, Fan Hu lost his temper and could only explain quickly:

"Captain Zhang... you don't know the information. It is said that the water in the west may be relatively deep, almost a swamp..."

"Can we walk in the swamp?" Zhang Qingte was still puzzled.

"Go away!" Just when Fan Hu couldn't breathe, a general nearby rushed to the side and shouted angrily on the spot. It was Deputy General Wang who replaced Zhang Changgong in charge of the army. "One person can leave, how can the army leave? Once the army leaves,

, must not form a team, and then they will be the prey of the thieves who know the terrain! Do you think you led a few people to rob houses when you were a thief?"

Zhang Qingte was slightly startled and at a loss.

"The same goes for the rear." Lieutenant General Wang was obviously angry and just continued to scold. "Although there are hundreds of rebels, as long as we stand in the middle of the official road, we can escape, but the return of the army will inevitably be delayed... tens of thousands

If people fail to delay, they are actually risking their lives to the pursuers behind them! What you said is as stupid as someone asking before why they can't abandon Yuncheng and march directly! An army is an army! People are people! The army retreats and marches with one person.

Not the same thing!"

Zhang Qingte seemed to be a little awakened, but he was still a little confused.

At this time, Fan Hu finally regained his breath and gave a reason that Zhang Qingte could understand: "Zhang Xiaowei, I don't want to say any of this, I just want to say one thing. If this bandit army cannot be eradicated quickly,

The rebel army will inevitably follow up continuously, and both the rear passage and the road in the swamp to the west will be completely blocked..."

Zhang Qingte finally nodded, but when he turned his head, he was stunned again.

Fan Hu followed the opponent's gaze and suddenly saw that in the crop fields to the west, a small but not small army was marching in parallel from south to north. The flags were clear, the movement was fast, and there was no cover.

"you go!"

Fan Hu's face turned livid when he saw this, and without hesitation, he issued an order almost similar to Zhang Xuguo's. "Zhang Qingte, take your people from the west and find out how deep and shallow the water is, where you can and cannot go."

, try your best to find a way! It’s best to find a way to support the rebels and stop them from advancing to support!”

Zhang Qingte finally stopped hesitating and immediately called his troops to head west and rush into the crop fields.

At the same time, Fan Hu did not hesitate and continued to urge the surrounding reinforcements to move northward... For a time, the Qilu Army blocked by the Deposed Dragon Army was roughly divided into two parts, the front army moved forward, the rear army moved backward, and then

Inadvertently, a small group of troops were dispatched to explore the area to the west of the battlefield that was obscured by waist-deep crops.

It can be said that after Zhang Xingrao's successful raid, the officers and soldiers responded appropriately and there were no mistakes or omissions.

In fact, it was Xu Shiying who made the mistake.

Zhang Xing suddenly inserted himself into the back of the army. Because the number was too small, there was no immediate overall response. Only senior officers and commanders from both sides responded.

Among them, Xu Shiying saw Zhang Xing's success and couldn't wait to order the entire army to move out, leave the fortifications, and use an offensive posture to suppress the officers and soldiers. However, Zhang Xuguo made a decisive decision before most of the middle-level and grassroots soldiers realized that their retreat was cut off.

, ordered the main force of the headquarters to go forward to respond to the enemy, and even personally joined the battle.

Moreover, the battles in the previous half afternoon have proven many times that the Qilong Army, which had broken away from the fortifications, was no match for the Qilu Army.

Therefore, in the biggest and most intense confrontation since the war began, the Dragon Army was completely at a disadvantage, and because at this point in the battle, both sides were so exhausted that they lost very quickly and suffered extremely heavy losses. It was a chaotic battle.

In the middle, the first to engage the army in the middle, they did not wait for Xu Shiying's retreat order, and then retreated in embarrassment... I can't say whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. In the previous half-day battle, these soldiers had learned to withdraw from the fortifications when the battle failed.

Even the officers and soldiers would instinctively stop in front of the fortifications.

"Butler! Butler!"

During the chaotic battle, Yu Baimei looked at the front of his army like a tide and took advantage of the situation to pounce forward, while the deposed dragon army could only leave countless corpses and turn back in embarrassment. Not only was he unhappy, but he became more serious and serious.

After observing the battlefield, he immediately noticed a better fighter plane, then simply abandoned his horse and took to the air. After a few leaps, he came to Zhang Xuguo and shouted with all his strength. "The bandit army was defeated too quickly in the middle, but the two wings were not affected."

The attack is still moving forward to outflank...our soldiers will stop in front of the fortifications, why not lead them along the fortifications to attack on both sides, and in turn encircle the two wings, completely crippling the enemy in front of them?!"

"Okay!" Zhang Xuguo just took one look and immediately realized that what Yu Baimei said was true, and then immediately agreed. "You take people to the east to fight Shang Huaizhi, and I will go to the west to fight that man named Niu!"

After saying that, he turned the horse's head directly and led his troops to turn around.

However, Yu Baimei ignored him and pulled off his horse a cavalryman who should be Zhang Xuguo's personal guard, and headed eastward, calling his own soldiers along the way to follow him.

"Quick! Wave the flag!"

Xu Shiying failed to attack and was in a state of embarrassment. At this time, standing on the earthen base, he saw the officers and soldiers counterattacking very quickly, and then splitting up to attack the two wings. He was also shocked and immediately followed the order. "Let Monk Niuda Huaizhi come back!"

Come back quickly!"

On the earthen base, the yellow flag representing the withdrawal was swaying vigorously, and the corresponding gong sound also sounded in the formation, which immediately attracted the attention of the attacking generals on both wings.

Among them, Niuda was in the west, along the water, and Shang Huaizhi was in the east, along the Lishan Mountain. From the beginning, they were responsible for outflanking and attacking in the counterattack. When they heard and saw the withdrawal signal, they naturally became familiar with the route and quickly turned back.

But it is a pity that they were defeated too quickly this time, and Zhang Xuguo and Yu Baimei each tried their best to mobilize the troops, but they seemed to be a little too late.

Zhang Xuguo and Yu Baimei personally led the team, cutting to the left and right sides at all costs, just like two axes. Suddenly they gave up attacking the shield in the middle, and then attacked the two hands that were stretched out recklessly.

Chop them apart. Before they could react, the two generals were isolated outside the fortifications. In the central fortification area, the Dragon Army was still in the ebb stage of retreat and could not be commanded at all. Xu Shiying could only watch this scene in stunned silence.

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To be precise, it's two acts.

Niu Da and Shang Huaizhi were both heartbroken, but they could only force the troops to withdraw. However, how could Zhang Xuguo and Yu Baimei, who had long realized the overall danger, let them go back? The army brigade had already squeezed to both sides.

They pressed over and tried to completely surround and eat the two groups with more than a thousand people each. Moreover, the effect was remarkable.

Here on the west side, following Niuda's urging, the tribesmen struggled to go back and tried to return. However, the army turned around, and the front was blocked and the flanks were besieged. Naturally, the formation deformed. Many sergeants were caught off guard and stepped directly into the connected fortifications.

In the muddy water.

In the panic, Niu Da, who had already fallen into panic, trembled, and then without hesitation, he waved the spear in his hand and shouted: "Don't accept the fight, go directly to the swamp to the west! No more armor! Use the weapon as a crutch and go west quickly

Let’s run away! They don’t dare to chase, and they can’t catch up!”

Of course, Niuda had a horse, but he didn't need to take off his armor and just stepped onto it, setting an example of how to escape.

The deposed dragon soldiers around him who were his subordinates suddenly woke up, turned around and walked towards the swamp.

The water used to connect the fortifications was not deep, and there was no mud below. Many soldiers were so panicked that they didn't even take off their armor, but they were able to march hard in it... Zhang Xuguo's headquarters, who followed closely behind, saw the hunting heart and couldn't help it.

Live and chase into it.

When Zhang Xuguo saw this scene, he unexpectedly did not stop him, but looked forward to it.

But soon, the expression of the military commander changed from expectation to disappointment, and even panic - the water was not deep, and it could not be called muddy, but the area of ​​​​water on the west side of the battlefield was far greater than imagined, and it collapsed into

There were close to a thousand of the deposed dragon troops in Mizusawa, and they were all obviously still trudging through the water. A few officers on horseback had even walked hundreds of steps, and the splash under the horses' hooves was still very obvious.

Soon, the excited pursuers quickly lost their organization and mobility and turned into a difficult trek before retreating on their own.

Zhang Xuguo's eyelids jumped in the rain. He immediately asked his troops to shout and formally ordered the troops to turn back. He no longer looked at the defeated army under the banner of "ox", because he had verified what he was worried about. This

Not to mention, if from the fortifications to the point where the rebels suddenly appear to cut off the retreat, the entire west side of the battlefield is covered with such a deep swamp area, then the trouble will be even greater!

However, judging from the arrangement of the bandit army and the details of Sima Zheng's previous intelligence description, it is likely that this is how they arranged it.

In other words, most of the main force of the Qilu army should have been trapped in a large pocket that was several miles long and several miles wide by the fortifications and the bandits' surrounding troops.

This pocket is too big, so most grassroots soldiers haven't felt it yet.

But it doesn't matter, as the blockade on both ends becomes tighter, as the sky gets darker, and as they get more and more tired, the soldiers who have only eaten breakfast will gradually panic, and then they will attack the trap set by the rebels, that is, the west

Escape into the swamp... if only one-third of the people can escape, our army will lose its ability to organize, and the bandit army will take advantage of the situation to launch a general attack.

When the time comes, let alone the person in this pocket, he will not be able to escape even if he falls into the swamp.

In other words, what if you run away if you really get to that point? After this defeat, what details can delay the death of this Qilu disciple army that you created with your own hands?

On this side, Zhang Xuguo was frightened, but on the other side, his beloved general Yu Baimei achieved the greatest military exploits and gains so far in this battle.

The leader of the deposed dragon army on the other side was Shang Huaizhi. He came out along Lishan Mountain and was also cut off and divided. In addition, his army was already weaker than Niuda. In fact, he was allowed to lead his troops to rely on Lishan Mountain.

The attack itself was the result of his special request because he believed that his troops were weak, but at this time it became the most fatal point - Niuda's troops could escape into the swamp, but it was difficult for his Shang Huaishi troops to go up the mountain.

How can the troops climb up the mountain that just collapsed and almost caused a mudslide?

Of course, one can go up alone. With the eight meridians and the six meridians connected, Shang Huaizhi can go up the mountain by himself. But he is reluctant to give up. He is afraid that the headquarters will collapse immediately after going up the mountain and he will be lost.

maximum capital.

So, he launched a literal desperate resistance, and then was discovered by Yu Baimei.
To be continued...