The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms

Xun Zhen stood up calmly and ordered the soldiers to stand up and prepare for battle.

Xin Ai and the knights finished raising the flag and ran down the high ground. The knight in charge of taking care of the horses had already prepared their mounts. They flew on their horses and galloped back.

"how many people?"

"One hundred and ten people."

After crossing the Henan, I encountered three groups of enemies, all in the 20s and 30s. This group of hundreds of people is the most enemy group I have encountered so far.

"In which direction?"

"It's coming in our direction."

"Okay!"

Xun Zhen immediately called Jiang Qin, Chen Bao, and Liu Deng over, assigned tasks, and ordered: "Bo Qin, A Deng, you two bring your Benqu men and horses to the left and right of this hill. When they arrive, Follow me to kill the thieves! Abao, take your people to the forest over there, don't come out without my order, your mission is to cover us, and if there are more thieves coming, you are responsible for intercepting them."

Jiang Qin, Chen Bao, Liu Deng Yingnuo.

You can't just see the enemy in front of you, you have to think about everything, they are fighting in an "enemy environment", and you can't be careless. Therefore, Xun Zhen arranged for Jiang Qin and Liu Deng to kill the enemy, and also arranged for Chen Bao's people to lie in ambush in the forest not far away, so that even if there were more enemies coming, they would be able to cope with support.

After ordering the three of them, Xun Zhen ordered Xin Ai again: "Send a few horses out, pretend to be our horses, sway the passage, attract this band of thieves, and then take the rest of the knights out to ambush in the distance. Tanaka, after the bandit soldiers are drawn over, you don't need to worry about it, just surround the battlefield, and if the bandit soldiers escape, you will hunt them down."

Xin Ai complied with the promise, chose someone to lure the enemy, and took the rest of the horses to ambush in the distance.

Xun Zhen looked around, and the soldiers all stood up and got ready.

Although Xun Zhen's army had also fought and captured Xiangcheng and Jiaxian counties, Jiaxian was captured by Xin Ai with fifty cavalry, and had nothing to do with the infantry. During the siege, the soldiers of the Yellow Turbans were either in their sleep or not in the battalion at all. They were caught off guard, and the battle was over in just two hours, so this army was actually equivalent to having never fought a battle. of. After crossing the river today, there were only 20 or 30 soldiers of the Yellow Turbans that I met on the road. They were not able to win by force, and they were basically the military exploits of Xin Ai and other cavalrymen, and they did not count as formal battles of the infantry. It can be said that this upcoming battle is the first official field battle for these infantrymen.

Although the enemy has a hundred and ten people and more than 600 cavalry on his own side, the victory is almost certain, but it is also the first field battle, and it is in the "enemy realm", and the upcoming enemy is no better than the few just now. , there are a hundred and ten people. 600 people plus dozens of cavalry to beat 20 or 30 people is very easy, but it may take some effort to beat 100 people. In addition, the few enemy groups of twenty or thirty people that I encountered before were mainly Xin Ai and other cavalry attacking, and the infantry basically did not make a move, but looking at the current battle, Xun Zhen apparently used the infantry as the main force to attack the enemy this time. . There was no lack of nervousness among the infantrymen. Some held the handles of spears and halberds tightly, some looked at Xun Zhen uneasily, and waited for his orders, while others unconsciously moved their legs or swallowed saliva.

Xun Zhen took all the performances of the soldiers in his eyes and said with a smile: "This battle is the same as the last time we fought Xiangcheng. I will go first, and you will follow me!"

The commander takes the lead in attacking the enemy is the best way to boost morale. To be honest, Xun Zhen didn't want to be the first to charge every time, but there was nothing he could do about it. Who told his minions to be new soldiers, not veteran soldiers who had experienced many battles? Sure enough, after hearing what he said, the performance of the soldiers was much better.

Chen Bao made a military salute to Xun Zhen, and ran under the hills with the assembled Benqu soldiers on their waists, crossed a field, and went to ambush in the forest not far away. From Xun Zhen's position, the sunlight penetrated into the forest through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the trees, and shone on their weapons, and a reflective shadow could be faintly seen from the forest.

After seeing this scene, just before the battle, when the enemy was about to arrive, Xun Zhen actually thought to himself: "When you have time to practice soldiers in the future, you should add the precautions for ambush and remind the soldiers. Pay attention to the reflection of the blade." It's too late to tell Chen Bao, and even if he does, it won't do much, and it will make the soldiers in a hurry. This is also because Xun Zhen attaches great importance to this army, so he will think of these things when he is about to fight.

Liu Deng and Jiang Qin each organized Benqu soldiers to ambush on both sides of the hill. Xun Zhen took Cheng Yan, Xuan Kang, and a few personal guards through their music to check their preparations for battle. As he passed by, Xun Zhen reminded his soldiers: "Put down the spear and halberd, and use the sword. Spear and halberd are sharp for distant combat, not suitable for melee combat. Don't be nervous, if your hands are sweating, wipe the soil and save the weapons when killing thieves later. If you lose it, you won't be able to kill the thief, it's not worth it if you lose your life!" The general is the courage of an army. His composure affected the soldiers, and the nervous soldiers gradually calmed down.

Xun Zhen’s song for Jiang Qin, after checking it out, gave Jiang Qin specific combat tactics and said, “When the bandit soldiers arrive, don’t rush to do it first. The 100 people of the Yellow Turbans came from the west along the Rushui along the official road, and Xun Zhen and others were ambushed on the south side of the official road. Jiang Qin is to the west of the hill, and Liu Deng is to the east of the hill. To hit the left side of the enemy, you need to go around behind the enemy. Jiang Qin promises.

Xun Zhen then performed Liu Deng's music.

Compared with Jiang Qinqu, Liu Dengqu's situation is much better. After all, the soldiers in this song are either brave and brave soldiers, or have revenge with the Yellow Turbans, so when I hear that there is a hundred and ten Yellow Turbans When the army is about to arrive, most of them are not nervous, but full of desire to kill the enemy, either for meritorious service or for revenge.

Xun Zhen first encouraged this soldier who had made great contributions in the Battle of Xiangcheng County at night, and then said to Liu Deng: "When the thieves arrive, you should attack them first, and use Zuotun to attack first. Hit the bandits directly, and then use the right side to attack, attacking from the front of the bandits."

Liu Deng replied, "No."

In Liu Deng's song, one of the soldiers was "old soldiers", and the other was compiled in Xiangcheng not long ago. Zuotun is the old pawn, while the right tun was compiled in Xiangcheng. Therefore, Xun Zhen reminded him to use the old **** first, so as to be more sure, and then use the new pawn. This is also a way of using old pawns to lead new pawns.

Xun Zhen took the trouble to go through the two Qu Yi who were preparing to participate in the war, check the preparations before the war, do pre-war mobilization in a targeted manner, relieve the nervousness of the soldiers, inspire the fighting spirit of the brave soldiers, and give Jiang Qin, Liu Deng assigned combat tasks. He did not learn this set of practices from military books, but from revolutionary film and television in his previous life.

The few horses that were sent out to lure the enemy ran back and shouted, "The thieves are here!"

The trees planted on both sides of the official road are every few feet. They have been planted for many years and are very tall. In the spring of February, all things are green, and these trees grow green leaves, looking from a distance like two long crowns standing on both sides of the road. The wind rustled through the branches and leaves. The young crops in the wheat field are not high, and from a distance, I can only see a layer of cyan in the distance, which seems to be absent. This place is only ten miles away from Rushui, the soil is moist, and the fragrance comes with the wind. Looking far and near, there is no one in the large and large wheat fields. The cavalry that rushed over did not stop. After reminding Xun Zhen and other troops in ambush, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the Yellow Turban soldiers, they continued to run forward, leaving behind a cloud of smoke. At the beginning of the official road, it was still empty, and there was no traveler, but soon someone appeared in front. First one, then a dozen, then a hundred and ten. This group of people all wore yellow scarves on their foreheads, and their clothes were different. They were clutching weapons of various colors, including spears, halberds, and hoes. It's over! Master's decree: If you capture one thief, you will be rewarded 600 yuan!"

Before Xun Zhen conquered Xiangcheng and Jiaqian, the reward given by the Yellow Turbans was: five hundred money for the first class. After Xun Zhen defeated Xiangcheng and Jia, Bo Cai immediately raised the reward to 600 coins.

Xuankang looked in the direction where the Yellow Turban soldiers were coming, and retracted his body, excited, excited and a little nervous, and whispered to Xun Zhen, "Mr. Xun, the bandit soldiers are here!"

"Calm down, don't be chaotic. Wait until they get there." Xun Zhen finished speaking to Xuan Kang, and ordered Cheng Yan, "Pass on my words!"

Cheng Yan agreed to the promise, and it was passed from one person to another. Soon, Liu Deng and Jiang Qin, the two soldiers, knew what Xun Zhen said. They both held their breath and crouched among the young crops in the field under the hills, motionless, only staring at each other with their eyes. far away. Their gazes moved gradually with the running of the hundred and ten Yellow Turban soldiers, getting closer, closer, closer, getting closer.

In order to prevent the Yellow Turban soldiers from giving up chasing because they felt that they could not catch up, the horses that lured them slowed down, and one of them pretended to fall off the horse accidentally, rolled on the ground, and pretended to be injured, which successfully stimulated When the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were stopped, they shouted louder: "Six hundred dollars! Six hundred dollars! Whoever catches it belongs to whoever catches it! Whoever catches it belongs to him!"

Five hundred paces from the ambush.

Fifty paces from the ambush.

There are ten steps to the ambush!

Some people found something wrong with the 100 Yellow Turban soldiers who were in front of them. After all, hundreds of people were ambushed in the fields under the hills, although there was still some distance from the official road, and the attention of the Yellow Turban soldiers was mostly attracted by the horses that tempted them. Be smart and notice when something isn't right.

Xun Zhen discovered this keenly. Before the Yellow Turban soldier who noticed the wrong situation could react, he supported the ground with his hands and exerted strength with his feet, jumped up from the green crops in the field, and pulled out the clothes he was wearing around his waist. Bailian shook his head and shouted, "Kill the thief!" With the voice, as he had promised to the soldiers earlier, he was the first to charge up again.

Cheng Yan was afraid that he would be in danger, so he took his guards and followed him with knives.

Xuan Kang had already made up his mind that he would be the first to rush up this time, but was left behind again.

This time he went south from Xunzhen, and because he might encounter an enemy at any time, he did not wear a Confucian clothes, but a leather armor. When the event came to an end, he was a little anxious. He rushed out two steps, and he didn't know what he stepped on. He only felt that his foot was loose, and he fell to the ground on his head. His head hit the ground under the young crops, just touching a piece of hard soil. Kela, screaming in pain, got up and put a mold on his forehead, which was full of blood, but was knocked out in a hole, dripping with blood. The first injury he suffered in his first battle was not at the opponent, but at his own feet.

He looked up and saw that Xun Zhen, Cheng Yan and the others had already rushed out, pulling him down twenty or thirty steps. Not only Xun Zhen and Cheng Yan were in front of him, but Liu Deng also passed him, followed closely behind Xun Zhen, Cheng Yan, etc., and the soldiers in Quzuotun who were trapped in the formation rushed to him one by one, shouting loudly. , kill the yellow turban soldiers.

Xuankang couldn't care about the hole in his forehead. In fact, he only touched the blood. At this moment of blood boiling, he didn't feel the slightest pain, and hurriedly took the sword and ran again. At this moment, there was no enemy in his eyes, only Xun Zhenying's strong and vigorous back.

Xun Zhen took the knife and rushed into the team of the yellow turban soldiers, raised the knife and fell, and chopped the yellow turban soldier on the outermost side. This Yellow Turban soldier was running along the official road. He heard movement in the field. He turned his head to look while running, and saw Xun Zhen rushing out. He didn't react at first. After Yan, Xuankang, Liu Deng and other ambush soldiers jumped up and rushed, they realized that they were ambushed by the enemy, and hurriedly stopped. The first thought was to fight, but as more and more Xun The soldiers of Zhen's subordinates jumped up, shouted and charged. He was timid and changed his mind. He wanted to turn around and run away, but was hit by a yellow turban soldier who didn't hold his feet behind him, and almost fell, waiting for him to stand. Steady, Xun Zhen is already in front of you. Xun Zhen swung his sword and chopped him down. The last impression this Yellow Turban soldier gave him was a horrified face.

After cutting down this yellow turban soldier, Xun Zhen kept on his feet, and with the help of the speed of the charge, he crashed into the group of 100 yellow turban soldiers.

He was wearing armor, plus his own weight and speed, the impact was not small, and he knocked over two or three yellow turban soldiers in front of him. After knocking them over, he ignored them and continued to charge forward. Cheng Yan and other personal guards and Liu Deng rushed behind him, regardless of the yellow turban soldiers who were knocked over, they just followed him and guarded his back and sides.

Afterwards, some of the soldiers who rushed up followed Xunzhen and continued to charge forward, while others stopped to pick up their knives and hacked to death the yellow turban soldiers who had been knocked over and had not yet got up. The hundred people from Zuotun followed Xun Zhen and rushed to the official road, instantly chasing the hundred and ten Yellow Turban soldiers. The two sides are in contact, entangled together, swords are exchanged, fighting and shouting, this official road that was quiet and silent not long ago has become a life-and-death asura field of life and death. Blood sputtered, stumps flew, swords collided with armor, and screams and screams were mixed.

Xuan Kang rushed up.

He has been looking forward to this battle for a long time, and when he was young and strong, he fell down Tanaka just now and was seen by many soldiers. He felt embarrassed. She hurried a few steps and followed the figure of Xun Zhen in front of her. Seeing Xun Zhen rushing forward and rushing to the right, she was invincible. She felt a breath rise from her chest and rushed to her throat. She could not stretch her chest without shouting. Followed by a cry: "Kill", suddenly hearing the wind, a stick was hit in front of him.

He took a sharp breath and leaned back, raised his sword to parry, and while he was busy, he squinted at a dozen paces away, Xun Zhen was surrounded by four or five yellow turban soldiers. Xun Zhen raised the knife and dropped it, splashing a burst of blood, chopped down the person in front of him, then chopped back with the knife, and hit the arm of the other Yellow Turban soldier who was trying to attack him from the side, and then raised his left arm. He parried the wooden **** smashed by a yellow turban soldier on the left. Thanks to the excellent armor, not only was it not smashed, but the **** of the wooden **** collapsed because the yellow turban soldier used too much force. Xun Zhen then returned to the sword again, the blade swept past his abdomen, and pierced the chest and abdomen of this yellow turban soldier. The yellow turban soldier had no armor and was only wearing tattered clothes. Inserting it straight into his abdomen, Xun Zhen pulled out the knife and brought out blood like a spring. The Yellow Turban soldier gave a cry, threw away the wooden **** with only one handle left, covered the wound in horror, and fell softly to the ground, seeing that he could not live. Xun Zhen had armor and a hundred refined knives, and he killed three people in an instant. The remaining two soldiers of the Yellow Turbans surrounding him were killed by Cheng Yan and Liu Deng.

Seeing Xun Zhen's heroic appearance, Xuan Kang rose up bravely and tried his best to stab the yellow turban soldier with a stick to death. He tried his best to charge inward, trying to get close to Xun Zhen and protect his flank with Cheng Yan, Liu Deng and others. Behind, but Xun Zhen killed more and more bravely, the conflict moved forward, he never caught up, he could only follow Xun Zhen's back, forward, forward, and then forward.

A dozen or twenty Yellow Turban soldiers gathered together, back to back, trying to fight back in formation.

Xun Zhen saw their intentions and shouted, "Don't let them get close! Divide them into pieces!"

Under the protection of Liu Deng and Cheng Yan, he stopped temporarily, no longer rushed forward, but took up the command of the battlefield with a knife, organized dozens of soldiers, and stormed the small formation. Liu Deng personally rushed up with a knife. With him, an unstoppable general, joining in, the small formation was soon destroyed. Liu Deng's face was covered in blood, and after leading someone to break through the small formation formed by the ten or twenty Yellow Turban soldiers, he brought a knife to Xun Zhen's side, wanting to continue to guard his flank. Xun Zhen said angrily, "What are you?"

Liu Deng was stunned: "Huh?"

"You are Chief Qu! Not my bodyguard! Your mission is to direct your subordinates to kill thieves, not to follow me around! Go and direct your people!" Xun Zhen pointed with the front of the knife, one or two to the right Ten paces away, another four or five soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army tried to get closer together. He ordered, "Go and kill those thieves! Pay attention to the overall situation! As long as there are thieves trying to get closer to form a formation, they must be the first Time to fight!"

Liu Deng agreed loudly and ordered the names of more than a dozen surrounding soldiers, and ordered them to kill the four or five Yellow Turban soldiers who were trying to get closer to the formation. Soldiers cooperate to kill the enemy.

Xun Zhen's subordinates had a great advantage in armament, most of them had light or leather armor, and they used a ring-shaped sword. Light armor or leather armor enhances defense, and the ring-headed sword is suitable for close combat. Few of the Yellow Turban soldiers have armor, not many have swords, and many use hoes and bamboo spears. The number of people is small, and the armament is not as good as it is, and they are losing ground.

In fact, Xun Zhen's troops also carried bows and crossbows, but in order to make better use of this opportunity to train troops, Xun Zhen didn't even use bows and crossbows. His purpose is to take this opportunity to practice the courage of the part. The army usually drills, what is it drilled for? In addition to the skill of killing the enemy, there are two more important things: discipline and courage. The Art of War says: "To gather troops together, the task is to excite qi", and it also says: "Victory is to gain power, defeat is to lose qi", what is "qi"? It's morale. What is morale? Dare to kill the enemy, dare to attack fortifications, dare to fight tough battles, whether you can go all out when you encounter an enemy, and not be afraid of death, this is morale. Morale is courage. "Soldiers have no courage, even though they are brave and useless. Therefore, those who are good at training soldiers must have the courage to practice soldiers." So how do you practice courage? Kill the enemy and practice courage! Those who have killed tigers will no longer be afraid of tigers, and those who have killed enemies will no longer be afraid of enemies.

The soldiers who were trapped in Quyoutun also rushed out under the leadership of the colonel, and started intercepting in front of the yellow scarf soldiers.

The knights who had lured the enemy just now turned around, dragged the knight who pretended to fall to the ground onto his own mount, and galloped to the vicinity of the battlefield. Because of Xun Zhen's order, they did not go forward to fight, but spread out. Wander, chase down the fleeing Yellow Turban soldiers with Xin Ai and others, and observe whether there is any movement of the enemy in the distance.

Jiang Qin took his soldiers from the field to Shangguan Road, and went around behind the yellow scarf soldiers, leaving a group of people behind to intercept them. Jiang Qin took another group of people to attack from the left. .

So far, the overall situation has been set.

Four hundred people beat a hundred and ten people, which had an advantage in numbers, but they waited for work, and they were unprepared. The rest scurried out, trying to leave the battlefield to escape for their lives, but were either stopped or overtaken by the foot soldiers of Jiang Qin and Liu Deng, or were stopped and killed by the cavalry of Xin Ai who were wandering outside. . At the end, there were still 10 or 20 people left, desperate, lying on the ground in despair and surrendering.

Jiang Qin and Liu Deng led their men to pick them up, drove them together, made them crouch down, and asked Xun Zhen, "How to deal with the prisoners?"

In the later battles, Xun Zhen didn't kill the enemy much, just like he reprimanded Liu Deng. Liu Deng was the leader of Qu, and his duty was to direct Quanqu's minions to kill the enemy. Morale, after the morale boosted up and the battle situation prevailed, he didn't need to do this, so in the later stage, he was escorted by Cheng Yan and others and retreated to the side, mainly in command of the overall situation. He looked at the ten or twenty prisoners~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and said, "Kill them! Send two calls and report to Pocai. After cleaning the battlefield, the wounded thieves will also be killed."

They fought "behind the enemy lines" and couldn't take prisoners, let alone let them go, so they had to kill them all. Kindness can't be kind to his soldiers, let alone be kind to the enemy, even if he sympathizes with the soldiers of the Yellow Turbans, but this is war, and there can be no kindness of women. Liu Deng and Jiang Qin agreed and released two prisoners to report the news, commanding their soldiers to kill the remaining prisoners and the wounded enemy.

At this point, the battle is over.

Xun Zhen leaned on the knife and stood on the side of the road, watching the soldiers clean the battlefield. In addition to continuing to observe whether there is any invincibility outside, Xin Ai and the other riders also came back, riding their horses and standing behind him.

The soldiers who cleaned the battlefield from time to time made up for the wounded and fallen Yellow Turban soldiers. Corpses were strewn all over the official road, blood spilling into the fields.

A man in leather armor got up from the ground, and the soldier walking by was startled, and hurriedly raised his sword to cut, the man shouted, "It's me!" . I saw him covered in blood, sitting in the corpse and blood, sweating profusely, panting heavily.

Xuankang has also learned the art of clicking the sword, but "talking about soldiers on paper" can't be compared with "real swords and real guns". After the battle, he just lay on the ground regardless, rested for a while, and got better, but he was still out of breath.

Xun Zhen laughed uncontrollably.

The soldiers on the battlefield, whether they were resting or cleaning the battlefield, could not help laughing when they heard Xun Zhen laugh. Xuankang was inexplicable and touched his head, wondering why he was ridiculous? He didn't know that the laughing people seemed to be laughing at him, but in fact it was because of the joy of victory and the sudden relaxation after the war. Drunk on the battlefield, Lord Grim, several people have returned to battle in ancient times.