220 total annihilation of the enemy
Zhang Liao gave an order, and the three thousand cavalry were divided into five, and Zhang Liao personally led a thousand cavalry and rushed into the city.
Zhang Liao and the others walked for about half a mile, and suddenly encountered a patrol team of ten people, because Zhang Liao and the others were still wearing the armor of the Yuan army, so the patrol team did not take Zhang Liao seriously, thinking that it was their own defeated army, and passed by Zhang Liao and others.
However, Zhang Liao suddenly attacked, brandished the blade in his hand, and killed nine of the soldiers, leaving one alive to ask him about the situation in the city.
The soldier was so frightened that his face was like earth, and he was afraid of death, and he answered everything truthfully when Zhang Liao asked.
Zhang Liao learned that the 4,000 cavalry brought by Ji Ling from Shouchun were crowded into the barracks in the east of the city, so he asked the soldier to lead the way to the barracks.
The other three cavalry teams galloped to the three city gates at the fastest speed, and suddenly attacked the soldiers guarding the city gates, Yuan soldiers could not resist, and many people were killed, and the rest all surrendered.
Due to Zhang Liao's lightning attack, the battle at the city gate was quickly ended, and no one was spared, and it was the dead of night, and the soldiers and people in the city were immersed in a deep sleep.
Zhang Liao, under the leadership of the soldier, soon came to the barracks, because the barracks were located in the city, so there was no one to guard them, and the stables were not in the barracks, so Zhang Liao could kill with confidence, and there was no need to worry about the frightened horses colliding indiscriminately.
He cautiously came to the door of the barracks, and could vaguely hear thunderous snoring coming from the barracks, and couldn't help but secretly exclaim: "God help me!" ”
He regrouped his ranks and shouted to the thousand soldiers behind him: "The merit is today." Kill me in! ”
"Kill!"
Zhang Liao and a thousand soldiers shouted in unison. The sound was like rolling thunder. Deafening.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Liao rode his horse and rushed into the barracks with a thousand cavalry.
In the barracks, Chen Lan, Lei Bo and four thousand soldiers were sleeping soundly in the barracks, and all four thousand war horses were tied to the stables. So that many soldiers were sick, and those who were not sick were tired enough, except for the thousand soldiers that Ji Ling forcibly took away, the rest of the people fell asleep after enjoying dinner.
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and there was a feeling of vibration on the ground, and many people woke up from their sleep, and as soon as they opened their hazy eyes, they saw a bloody man standing in front of them, and their faces were as pale as earth. I thought I had encountered a ghost, but I didn't have time to open my mouth and shout. A cold light hit him, and he only felt that his neck was cold, and he was directly cut off by something sharp.
A fresh human head was cut off to the ground, and hot blood continued to gush out of the cavity, splashing the soldiers in the same barracks.
The 1,000 cavalry led by Zhang Liao were divided into two groups, 500 people turned over and dismounted, starting from the first barracks at the entrance of the barracks, ten soldiers entered each barracks, raised the steel knives in their hands, and directly killed those Yuan soldiers who were sleeping.
Zhang Liao led 500 cavalrymen, galloped to the deepest part of the barracks, did not dismount, and threw torches directly into the barracks, wanting to set fire to these Yuan soldiers.
Soon, the barracks burned a raging fire, the fire took advantage of the wind, spread rapidly, many Yuan soldiers were burned by the flames, after waking up, they found themselves surrounded by the flames, very frightened, the only thing to do was to quickly run out of the barracks.
However, when Yuan Bing escaped from the barracks, death awaited them.
Zhang Liao and his soldiers were guarding outside the barracks, and they had already drawn their bows and arrows, and once they saw someone coming out, they would shoot a burst of arrows.
In addition, hundreds of soldiers with steel knives stood guard at the door of the barracks, and if they were not killed by arrows, they swarmed up and hacked them all to death.
The fire spread quickly, and in a moment, the fire turned into dragons, opening its huge mouth, sticking out its tongue of fire, devouring everything around it.
Chen Lan and Lei Bo were located in the middle of the barracks, and when they saw the flames outside and the shouts came and went, they looked around and saw that there was no way out, so they rushed out with only 500 relatives, trying to break through from here!
"Whoosh ......"
The arrows kept coming from the air, Chen Lan and Lei Bo pushed away the arrows and were lucky not to die, but the soldiers behind them were not spared, and as many as half of them were killed by the arrows.
Zhang Liao saw that Chen Lan and Lei Bo wanted to break out of the siege, so he moved the spear in his hand, and the three hundred cavalry behind him gathered around him, and immediately rode forward.
Two shots, Zhang Liao waved his spear, and when he made the first move, a shot stabbed at Chen Lan, Chen Lan wanted to use a knife to block, but Zhang Liao made a move too quickly, and before he could swing his blade, the sharp tip of the spear pierced his soft body.
"Yikes!" Seeing this, Lei Bo shouted, jumped forward, rose into the air, raised the saber in his hand, and slashed towards Zhang Liao.
Zhang Liao quickly withdrew his spear and directly blocked Lei Bo's slash, and at the same time leaned back, his left leg suddenly stretched out, and kicked Lei Bo's heart, kicking Lei Bo directly.
Immediately afterwards, with a flick of his wrist, the spear in his hand flew out with a whoosh, directly stabbing Lei Bo's heart, Lei Bo screamed, and fell heavily to the ground, struggled a few times, and then stopped moving.
The whole action is done in one go, like a cloud of peers.
Chen Lan was stabbed, Lei Bo was stabbed to death, and Zhang Liao's war horse was still rushing forward, he drew his sword, and slashed out at Chen Lan who was approaching.
Chen Lan just got up from the ground, clutching her injured chest, and she hadn't reacted yet, but before she met, a cold light flashed, and there was an extra blood mark on her neck, and a human head rolled directly to the ground.
Zhang Liao rode on horseback, suddenly leaned down, stretched out his long arm, and pulled out the spear inserted in Lei Bo's corpse, and then quickly returned the long sword into the scabbard with his left hand, grabbed the reins of the horse, and stopped directly.
At this moment, three hundred cavalry passed by him, directly colliding with the people led by Chen Lan and Lei Bo, borrowing the rapid impact of the horses to knock many people directly into the air.
After half an hour of fierce fighting, the Yuan soldiers were completely annihilated, and Zhang Liao's department still had zero casualties!
Subsequently, Zhang Liao led the army to kill the county government, the county commander was afraid of Zhang Liao, led his troops to flee, but the four gates were occupied by Zhang Liao's subordinates, and none of the people in the city could escape, so he had no choice but to surrender to Zhang Liao.
The sky was dark, Zhang Liao had completely occupied Xiquyang City with 3,000 troops, and completely annihilated the 4,000 soldiers in Xiquyang City with zero casualties, including the defenders in the city, a total of more than 4,800 enemies.
Zhang Liao climbed the city tower, asked the soldiers to pull out the military flag of Yuan Jun, and planted Zhang Yan's military flag on the head of the city.
After a stick of incense, Xu Huang led two thousand cavalry to arrive at Xiquyang City, and saw his own military flag planted on the city tower, and his own soldiers were also wandering around the city, and he couldn't help frowning.
"General, General Zhang seems to have captured this city!" A military Sima beside Xu Huang said.
"I'm not blind yet!"
Xu Huang roared angrily, scaring the military Sima beside him half to death, and he didn't know why Xu Huang suddenly became so irritable.
"Damn, let Zhang Liao rob the credit!" Xu Huang said indignantly.
Only then did the military Sima know why Xu Huang was angry, so he said to Xu Huang: "General, in the next battle, the general can ask the lord for his life, and the credit cannot be taken by General Zhang!" ”
The rest of the soldiers echoed: "Yes, General, we all want to follow the general to make contributions!" ”
Xu Huang frowned, and said loudly: "You can rest assured, in the next battle, I will definitely lead you to make meritorious contributions, and I will never let Zhang Liao steal the limelight again!" ”
As soon as the words fell, Xu Huang led the army to slowly drive towards Quyang City in the west.
When the soldiers defending the city saw Xu Huang leading the army to arrive, they immediately told Zhang Liao, who then ordered someone to open the city gate and personally go out of the city to greet him.
After two looks, Zhang Liao stood at the door, hugged his fist at Xu Huang and said, "General Xu, where is the lord?" ”
Xu Huang turned over and dismounted, and also hugged Zhang Liao, and said, "The lord is still behind, but it's not too far from here, and it is estimated that he will be able to arrive at noon." General Zhang, within this day, you will first kill Ji Ling, and then break Xiquyang, this credit is not small! I heard that when General Zhang killed Ji Ling, he didn't kill a single person, I don't know if there was any damage in this battle? ”
"Thanks to the good command of the lord and the ability to anticipate the enemy's opportunity, I was able to lead the army to attack when the enemy was tired and careless, not only won the city gate, but also annihilated all 4,800 soldiers in the city, except for more than 50 people who were injured to varying degrees, not a single one was killed." Zhang Liaodao.
When Xu Huang heard this, he was taken aback, and he never expected that Zhang Liao would not die a single person in this battle.
Although he was jealous of Zhang Liao's successive military exploits, he also had great admiration for Zhang Liao. If he led the army to attack, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would not be able to kill a single person, this battle was a miracle!
In this battle, Zhang Liao did not lose a single person, and he had to make Xu Huangda feel awe in his heart.
Xu Huang arched his hand and said: "I really didn't expect that General Zhang would be so brave, which made Gongming admire it!" ”
"In fact, it is all the lord's command, and Wen Yuan is just executing." Zhang Liao said modestly.
In Xu Huang's view, even if all the operations were formulated by Zhang Yan, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, and any situation can happen, and it is really unimaginable to be able to annihilate 4,800 soldiers in the city with 3,000 troops, and not a single person is killed.
Xu Huang raised his hand, pointed to the military flag on the city tower, and asked, "General Zhang, when was the flag planted?" ”
"About the time of a stick of incense."
"Quickly order someone to pull it down, still put on the banner of Yuan Jun, the lord still doesn't want Yuan Jun to know that Xiquyang City has been occupied by our army, and the lord has other arrangements." Xu Huang said.
Zhang Liao nodded, and immediately asked someone to change the flag again, while he walked side by side towards Xu Huang and walked towards the city.
Xu Huang's subordinates also entered the city, and together with Zhang Liao, they were in Xiquyang City, quietly waiting for the arrival of Zhang Yan's army. (To be continued......)