Chapter 101 [In the White Gate Tower]
"Lu Mou told you today that as long as I, Lu Bu, still have a breath, I will not allow the six counties of Xuzhou to fall into the hands of you!"
Lu Bu's loud shout resounded through the wilderness, overshadowing the howling wind and rumbling thunder, causing the officers and men of the two armies facing each other outside the east gate to be deafened and buzzing in their heads.
"Is there a breath left? What's so hard about being alone and letting you not breathe! ”
Just when the soldiers were still immersed in Lu Bu's loud shouts, Li Li was furious, and the Jinqi war knife in his hand pointed straight at the sky, and then the war knife fell, and the blade was facing Lu Bu who was four hundred steps away.
"Charge the battle cavalry, kill!"
With Li Li's order, the generals Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Qubei and Kebineng who were in front of the formation jumped out of the battle, followed by the 30,000 Shuofeng Battalion Iron Cavalry. What is different from the past is that Li Li is standing still at the moment, his body is not moving at all, and the Jin Qiwei war cavalry that follows him at all times is also waiting for the whole thing, not moving like a mountain.
In the loud sound of "boom", 10,000 horses galloped, and more than 20 Xiliang generals led 30,000 iron horsemen to gallop, fiercely rushing towards Lu Bu's army on the bank of the moat.
The distance of four hundred paces between the two armies is drastically decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye, three hundred and fifty paces, three hundred paces, two hundred and fifty paces??????
When the two armies were close to two hundred paces apart, the cavalry of the Shuofeng Battalion, who were galloping, took off their crossbows and crossbows one after another, and rode their horses while stringing their bows, and their movements were extremely skillful.
In the sound of "bang", the bows and crossbows that were shot at the gallop of horses shook violently. Suddenly, the thunderbolt was shocked. A series of sharp arrows flashed with an eerie cold light under the lightning that suddenly crossed the sky, and suddenly pounced on the uproar of Lu Bu and the 30,000 horsemen behind him.
Indeed, Lu Bu's face did change dramatically at this moment. He never expected that Li Li would disagree, so he did not hesitate to attack and kill. The speed of this face turning was inevitably too fast, and the fast Lu Bu didn't have time to react at all, and he was suddenly caught off guard.
After being stunned for a moment, Lu Bu immediately came back to his senses, and happened to see the Xiliang Iron Cavalry rushing through more than a hundred steps and then taking out their bows and arrows, and shooting them with their bows galloping.
This moment. Lu Bu instinctively raised Fang Tian's halberd and was about to order the wolf cavalry to meet him, but at this moment, an extremely strange scene appeared. But the moment he saw Lu Bu raise Fang Tian's halberd, it was not a horse charge. Instead, he hurriedly reined in his horse and turned around, brandishing Fang Tian's halberd, and shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat, retreat back to the city!" ”
"Whoosh -- swish!"
Arrows rained down. The horse's hooves are fast.
A fragmented arrow screeched down on the heels of the hastily retreating wolf cavalry. A team of Xiliang Iron rode on prancing horses and galloped, chasing after them like mercury. Under the dense rain of arrows like locusts, the wolf cavalry war cavalry was not unable to shoot back, but was powerless. In the previous battles against Han Xian, Yang Feng and other rebels, they had exhausted the arrows they carried, and they were shooting with the bows of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry at this moment, and they turned around and retreated in addition to shooting down the arrows head-on. Moreover, the speed of retreat must be fast. Hurry up and cross the drawbridge before the Xiliang Iron Cavalry catches up and retreats to the city gate.
Electrifying and flint. The 30,000 Xiliang Iron Cavalry charged like a stormy wave, while Lu Bu and his wolf cavalry hurriedly reined in their horses and turned around, hurriedly turning around and withdrawing. It was just a moment for the horse to turn around, and the Xiliang army that was rushing forward had already crossed a distance of dozens of steps, narrowing the original distance of two hundred steps between each other to more than one hundred steps.
It's too late, it's too soon. At the moment when the two sides were separated by more than 100 steps, they saw that the third round of arrow rain from Xiliang Tieqi accurately landed in the army of Lu Bu by the moat. The rain of arrows roaring like a terrible ghost instantly engulfed the thousands of riders who had not yet stepped onto the drawbridge, and forcibly carved out a large clearing, but the corpses and remains of corpses like hills were suddenly piled up in the clearing, blocking the end of the drawbridge leading to the city gate.
Suddenly, nearly 10,000 infantry troops under Lu Bu's tent who were cut off by the waist were blocked by the moat, and hundreds of wolf cavalry cavalry who were left behind could not stop their horses, and were tripped head-on by the corpse that suddenly fell to the ground with an arrow, and the people fell on their backs. Suddenly, the already extremely narrow suspension bridge passage was smashed to pieces, sawdust flew everywhere, corpses were stuffed with pallets, and the northern end of the bridge was completely blocked.
Suddenly, tens of thousands of Lu Bu's infantry on the east bank of the moat were blocked at the mouth of the suspension bridge, and the road ahead was blocked.
It is worth mentioning that Wei Xu, who was in charge of pressing the formation behind the palace, was also blocked by the moat and became the supreme general of this lone army in a dilemma. He thought that he had enough time to retreat to the city gate, so he pretended to stay at the bridgehead to clear the passage road so that Lu Bu could pass Guò as soon as possible, and then commanded the wolf cavalry to take the lead in crossing the suspension bridge. Unexpectedly, the wolf cavalry army had not yet been fully cleared, and a group of infantry soldiers rushed up into the suspension bridge, causing the suspension bridge to be congested, and the retreat speed was paused, and then they were killed by the Xiliang army's random arrows, completely blocking the suspension bridge.
"Kill!" Just when Wei Xu was so anxious that he jumped up and down, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry suddenly arrived and met the Xuzhou army that fell behind. Forced into desperation, Wei Xu had no choice but to lead more than 10,000 foot cavalry stranded on the east bank to fight back, and sent more than 100 personal soldiers to climb the suspension bridge, move the corpses, and make a passage. Although Wei Xu is not hopeful about this, it is better than nothing, and he must try it no matter what, and he should comfort himself.
"Wei Xu'er will die!"
In the midst of the sudden shouting, the east bank of the moat once again staged a massacre without resistance. But seeing Huan Fei, Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Qubei and Kebineng and other Xiliang warriors taking the lead, they rushed left and right, galloping across the country as if entering a no-man's land, and wantonly harvested the lives of more than 10,000 Xuzhou foot riders. Huan Feiduan, who was as majestic as an iron tower, was brave and incomparable, wielding a sledgehammer like a demon possessing a body, smashing the Xuzhou soldiers in front of him, flesh and blood flying, and rushed to the bridge in the blink of an eye, shouting loudly while raising the wolf's tooth sledgehammer and rushing straight to Wei Xu to kill.
"Bang-poof!"
With a loud bang, Wei Xu, who was in a hurry to fight, resisted with a horizontal knife, but at the moment when the weapons collided, he was shocked out by Huan Fei's hammer like a kite with a broken line. In the volley flip of his body, Wei Xu vomited blood, and the weapon in his hand was lost from his hand, and he slammed into the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
"Whew!" Wei Xu, who fell to the ground, tried to struggle to get up, but the moment he looked up, Huo Ran saw a sledgehammer full of wolf teeth spikes hanging in front of him, the cold and shining spikes were only half an inch away from his cheeks, and the strong air flow scraped his cheeks painfully. Suddenly, Wei Xu trembled, his bones were terrified, his back was cold, the corners of his mouth were half-open and half-closed, and he forcibly swallowed the blood in his mouth back into his stomach, his Adam's apple moved, and he rolled his eyes, and his pupils were bloodshot.
Fortunately, the wolf's tooth sledgehammer did not fall, otherwise Wei Xu's head would have burst like a broken watermelon, and his brains would have splashed everywhere. Maybe he can see with his own eyes what color his brain is, why do he pretend to be smart and stay behind the bridgehead hall to suppress the formation, otherwise he can incur the disaster of death?
"Do you want to die or live?" Huan Fei sat on the back of the Golden Lion Beast, shielded Wei Xu who was lying on the ground under his burly and strong figure, leaned over to look at Wei Xu, who was trembling all over, and said in a low voice: "If you want to die, as long as the sledgehammer in Huan's hand falls gently, it can fulfill you." If you want to live, you can be let go??????"
"I want to live!" Without waiting for Huan Fei to finish speaking, Wei Xu hurriedly interjected: "I beg the general's subordinates to show mercy, if you can spare my life, Wei Xu is willing to listen to the general's drive and go to the soup to fight the fire!" These words are very simple, concise and straightforward, so that people can understand them at first listen.
Huan Fei was not surprised at all when he heard this, and immediately leaned over to Wei Xu and said in a low voice, "Okay, very good." If you want to live, listen to me??????" Immediately Huan Fei whispered, Wei Xu nodded again and again, and when Huan Fei turned around, Wei Xu was already nowhere to be seen.
?????? The fighting on the east bank of the moat quickly subsided, half of the more than 10,000 Xuzhou troops were killed, half knelt and begged to surrender, and only a hundred people took the opportunity to climb through the pile of dead people on the drawbridge and fled back to the city in a hurry.
"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows! Raise the drawbridge and close the city gates! ”
At the end of the battle, Lu Bu, who led the army to retreat to the city, appeared on the tower of the East Gate, roaring angrily as the archers from releasing arrows to prevent the Western Liang Army from cleaning up the corpses on the drawbridge, and ordered the city gate to be closed as soon as possible, lest the Western Liang Army seize the city gate in one go.
Immediately afterward, the gates clanged and closed suddenly. But the falling suspension bridge could not be raised, the trestle of the bridge deck was full of corpses, it was extremely heavy, and the rope on the side of the suspension bridge was cut at some point. At this point, the east gate of Xiapi is facing the direct attack of the Xiliang army at any time, which makes the pressure on the defenders of the east gate great, and they dare not relax for a moment, lest the Xiliang army take advantage of the situation to attack.
"Ding, ding, ding!"
As soon as the sound of gold started, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who was eager to try on the east bank of the moat, retreated when they heard the gold, quickly regrouped their military formations, and retreated in an orderly manner.
"Why didn't the lord let me wait to kill and seize the city gate?" Huan Fei, Xu Chu and Qubei and other generals withdrew from the military formation and asked in confusion.
Li Li shook his head lightly, and said with an unfathomable smile: "Lu Bu's army has withdrawn back to the city, and the defenders of the city gate are very well defended. Look at the moat in front of you, the river is wide and the water level is quite deep, which directly communicates with Surabaya. In such a situation, will we not increase casualties in vain by storming the city gates? What's more, in this battle, we have already achieved our goal by forcing Lu Bu back to the city, and there is no need to attack the city. ”
Before the words fell, Li Li ordered: "Kebineng and Xu Huang listen to the order, you two lead 10,000 war cavalry to stay at the east gate, and you can only besiege without attacking the city!" Xu Chu led 5,000 cavalry to reinforce the West Gate, and the rest of the soldiers followed me to the North Gate??????"
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