Chapter 215 The whole army was annihilated
Although the wooden raft was pulled out of the soles of the feet, the heart-wrenching pain had not been relieved at all. The blood was dripping down. Liu Bei was sweating all over his body, gritted his teeth, desperately suppressing the tears that were flowing out of the pain, and his face turned miserable due to the severe pain.
Zhang Fei raised his head and saw the enemy general holding a longbow from afar, preparing to shoot the sharp arrows. He hurriedly picked up Liu Bei, strode to the shore, and ran forward wildly.
The sound of sharp arrows breaking through the air behind him sounded. Zhang Fei hugged Liu Bei and lying down on the ground. The arrow passed by his head, causing a chill behind Zhang Fei's neck.
After the arrow shot through, Zhang Fei got up, hugged Liu Bei who was unable to walk, and rushed forward with great strides.
The sound of horse hooves behind him sounded, but among the personal soldiers, three of them were excellent in riding. They rode on the horses of Liu Bei, Zhang Fei and Taishi Ci, and rushed over. The injured and dying Taishi Ci was also held by them and placed on the horse, catching up with them.
When Zhang Fei saw a horse riding, he quickly jumped onto the horse, hugged Liu Bei, and ran all the way, escaping from the range of Fengshaqiang Bow.
The Qingzhou army stood on the bank of the Yellow River. Although it had killed most of the enemy troops, it fled to the enemy chief. It couldn't help but sigh, regretting that the big-eared thief escaped too quickly and had not had time to cut off his head.
A large number of wooden rafts floated down the upper reaches of the Yellow River again. This time, there were people riding on the wooden rafts, all wearing the armor of Qingzhou soldiers, each carrying a branch of bamboo artemisia and going down the river.
First, a general bowed and said loudly: "Master, I am following the order of the King of the Army and leading the army here. It's a pity that it came too late, causing the big-eared thief to leave. Please forgive me!"
The soldiers looked up and saw that the general was Hao Meng. They were very surprised. Only then did they realize that all of this was from King Wuwei's trick.
The wooden rafts floating down the upper reaches of the Yellow River were ordered by King Wuwei to rush to make a raft overnight and stationed in the upper reaches, waiting for the enemy to make a plan to burn the boats and let the wooden rafts go down, and the enemy would be escaping and would not fight to the death together, resulting in excessive casualties from our army.
Everyone's admiring eyes shot at King Wuwei, and they all thought to themselves: "The king is indeed powerful. He can predict the enemy's opportunity first. He knows that the enemy will use such a cunning plan. He has ordered General Hao to lie upstream in advance. As expected, he has broken the enemy's tricks, but he has taught them to suffer. Half of the more than 10,000 enemy countries died in the river. Our army has defeated the enemy without much damage. It is all thanks to the king's trick!"
The sand sealed the sand rushed forward, waded across the river, came to a large wooden raft, turned around and shouted: "Come up, come up and spend it with me, and fight against the thieves together!"
When the soldiers saw him standing majestic on the wooden raft, they all admired him. According to the general's instructions, they climbed onto the wooden raft in an orderly manner. At the bamboo wormwood point of the soldiers supporting the wooden raft, the wooden rafts carried Qingzhou soldiers and lined up to the other side of the river.
When they climbed to the south bank, they saw the enemy running around the ground, all of whom had just snatched the wooden throne and fled to the south bank. Only dozens of people came to greet him with swords and guns, but the leaders of the personal soldiers who had just taken Liu Bei to the south bank were shot by archers, and they were all shot by several arrows, and they fell to the ground like hedgehogs and died.
Seeing that no one dared to resist the advance of the army, Gao Shun immediately asked for an order, led the infantry to pursue and surrender the enemy's defeated troops. Feng Sha himself led Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, and Murong Lin to command two thousand cavalry and chased towards Liu Bei's escape.
At this time, Zhang Fei was running wildly with Liu Bei in his arms, and a personal soldier beside him was holding Taishi Ci, beating horses Rufei, followed closely behind.
Around them, seven hundred cavalry rushed towards the southwest with them, but their target was not Mount Tai, but towards Jibei, Yanzhou.
If you can escape there, you can still form a team, either support Mount Tai, or go north to fight against King Wuwei, there is still something big to do!
Zhang Fei was thinking, and suddenly heard the sound of killing behind him. The sound of horse hooves sounded. When he looked back, he saw that the Qingzhou army had already reached the south bank by the river in the distance. Under Gao Shun's leadership, he was chasing the defeated soldiers everywhere. The King of Wuwei Liu Sha actually led two thousand cavalry and chased him straight to him.
Zhang Fei was shocked and angry, and quickly turned around and shouted, "Little ones, what do you think of the lord, how are you treating you?"
The seven hundred cavalrymen shouted in unison: "I will never forget you!"
Zhang Fei shouted: "Okay! Today is when the eldest brother uses you, and the enemy will chase you from behind. If you catch up, the eldest brother will be dead! If you still remember the kindness of your elder brother treating you, turn around and block the pursuers, so that we have time to run to Jibei!"
The seven hundred cavalry responded in unison, turned their horses to face the enemy soldiers chasing from afar, and looked passionate on their faces.
Liu Bei was held in his arms and was left with him. Blood was flowing from his right foot and dripped down the arrow shaft. Just as he was in pain, he was shocked and shouted wildly: "No! This matter must not be done. How can I leave seven hundred heroes in a dangerous place for me?"
This epoch-making heavy cavalry was trained by him exhausting all the financial and material resources of the plains and working hard. If this army was left here to die for him, Liu Bei would rather die by himself!
Thinking of this, Liu Bei felt heartbroken and hissed, shouting loudly, and ordered the soldiers to escape quickly. If one of them was injured, he would die in front of them!
No matter what he said, Zhang Fei hugged his body tightly, beat the horses, and ran straight to the southwest, hoping to lead his elder brother away from the dangerous land, and no time to care about his loyal subordinates behind him.
Seeing the loyal soldiers raising their long swords from afar, watching themselves leave from afar, with loyalty and favor on their faces, Liu Bei's heart was like a knife, howling like a wild beast, struggling desperately in Zhang Fei's arms, two lines of blood and tears flowed down from his eyes.
Two thousand Qingzhou cavalrymen rode their horses and chased Liu Bei. On the river beach, they saw seven hundred iron cavalry blocking the road. Each of them held a big sword and glared at him, and the desire to die was overwhelmed.
Feng Sha was far away and was also frightened. He shouted loudly: "The enemy has ambition to die, so you should not fight in close combat! The troops can take out powerful crossbows and attack the enemy from afar!"
Two thousand Qingzhou cavalry responded to the promise, picked up the horse-stiff and was about to shoot in front of the arrow, but suddenly saw the heavy cavalry coming to rush over, afraid that before they were ready, the enemy would be approaching!
Feng Sha shouted: "All the troops are back! Run and hang the strings!"
As he spoke, he shot an arrow forward, and the arrow broke through the air, hitting the chest of a cavalry in front, penetrated through the armor, and shot through the armor on his back with the sound of gold and iron clashing.
The cavalry screamed, fell down to the sky and fell heavily to the ground, stirring up a cloud of smoke and dust.
Feng Shale left and led 2,000 cavalry back. Although the cavalry did not want to lose their momentum in front of the enemy, the military orders were as high as a mountain and no one dared to disobey them. They had to follow him, galloping and rushing on the crossbow while quickly turning it on.
His troops dismounted quickly, and there was no heavy iron armor pressing on his body. His speed was far faster than that of the Iron Cavalry of the Plain. He instantly threw the Plain Cavalry away and opened a long distance.
Murong Lin, with three hundred Xianbei warriors, also ran with the troops, and was shocked.
He was originally a brave general who galloped on the battlefield, but he admired King Wuwei very much. Unexpectedly, this great hero of the Han people actually asked his subordinates to escape in front of the enemy, which surprised him greatly.
But if the King of Wuwei was afraid of death, no one would believe it. If he rode alone, he would dare to break into the base camp of Yuan Shao in Jizhou and assassinate him alone by the surrounding thousands of troops. Would he be afraid that these mere seven hundred cavalry would not be able to do this?
While thinking, Murong Lin led his 300 subordinates to flee east with King Wuwei, and at the same time he was busy lifting the powerful crossbow that King Wuwei gave in his hand.
They were not familiar with the method of winding this new type of strong crossbow. However, the Qingzhou cavalry had been trained for a long time. Even if they closed their eyes, they could lift sharp arrows onto the crossbow. Moreover, because of the exquisite design of this strong crossbow, they worked hard to increase the firing rate, winding and speed of the strong crossbow. Soon, they were already running away and stringing the crossbow.
As soon as he put the string on, he heard King Wuwei shout loudly: "Stop the horse, turn around, and shoot arrows!"
Two thousand cavalrymen tied their horses, turned their heads, raised their powerful crossbows, and turned the rain of arrows all over the sky towards the enemy troops galloping from afar. Murong Lin and his subordinates only had a dozen people to get crossbow arrows. After hearing the order from King Wuwei, they also shot out crossbow arrows in panic, but due to insufficient training, most of them missed.
Seven hundred iron cavalry, who saw the rain of arrows flying in the air from afar, was shocked, but without even dodging, was shot on the body by the arrow, screaming sounded throughout the field. More than one hundred cavalrymen were shot through sharp arrows, and were penetrated with heavy armor. They fell to the ground and howled. More than 200 other war horses were attacked by sharp arrows, and they fell to the ground with long neighs and thrown off the heavy armored cavalry and fell to the ground. Because their armor was heavy, they could not get up for a while.
Hundreds of cavalry remained, but regardless of the safety of their comrades, they desperately beat the war horses, held up their swords, and rushed towards the enemy soldiers on the opposite side.
Feng Sha shook his head slightly and ordered again: "Turn around and gallop south! The crossbow bow is wound!"
Under his leadership, two thousand cavalry and three hundred Xianbei people turned around and galloped south. After the crossbow bow was well stringed, Feng Sha turned around again, and shot an enemy soldier who was rushing to the front on the horse with one arrow, shouting loudly: "Shoot the arrow!"
The crossbow arrows ran away all over the sky, covering the rushing enemy cavalry in the rain of arrows.
This time, the cavalry and Xianbei warriors were familiar with the tactics that King Wuwei said. They aimed with their hearts, and most of the powerful crossbow arrows were shot on the enemy, and immediately shot through the thick armor. The enemy soldiers screamed and fell down to the sky, and blood flowed out of the arrow hole.
In this round of volleys, only hundreds of cavalry left suffered heavy damage, and only dozens of cavalry were saved.
Chapter completed!