Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1214 Killing with a knife kills everyone

   Fei Qian guessed that Gongsun Zan would receive a lunch box at the end of this year or early next year, but in fact the speed of Gongsun Zan's downfall exceeded everyone's imagination.

When Gongsun Zan was strong, in addition to the carefully selected 3,000 white horses, there were more than 10,000 infantry under his command. If Wuhuan's 50,000 people were counted, the total war power that could be mobilized reached as high as the entire army. The North is second to none. Even the local Haoyou in northern Jizhou and most of Youzhou supported Gongsun Zan from the beginning.

However, after Gongsun Zan killed Liu Yu and clearly showed the momentum of losing to Yuan Shao, the entire political structure quickly fell apart, and even brought a strong sense of crisis to Gongsun Zan, making Gongsun Zan no longer trust people. Heren didn't even trust the generals and soldiers who had been under his command.

  As a result, the generals under Gongsun Zan gradually became eccentric, and finally abandoned Gongsun Zan.

   Among them are Tai Shici and Chen Hao.

In the first battle for Yijing, Tai Shici led the troops to defend on the front line, and repeatedly competed with Ju Yi. During this period, not to mention the support of soldiers, there was no supply of supplies. Fortunately, Sili, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Jizhou A large-scale locust plague occurred in the south and other areas, and Yuan Shao's army could not supply enough food. In the end, Yuan Shao's army ran out of food, and the temporary retreat came to an end.

  Gongsun Zan took advantage of Yuan Shao's retreat, took advantage of the situation to attack, defeated the broken Ju Yi, captured some supplies and equipment, and boasted of his merits, completely forgetting the hard work of the previous generals...

After all, Tai Shici's heart was shattered. On the one hand, guarding Yi Jing for Gongsun Zan was considered to have done his best. On the other hand, he saw that Gongsun Zan seemed to be a different person, becoming more and more arrogant and domineering. He also realized that Gongsun Zan would eventually lose, so he stayed. After leaving the seal, he resigned and left, and then turned to Feiqian.

   After all, there is Tai Shiming here in Pingyang, and he had some friendship with Fei Qian before, and it was always relatively better.

Chen Hao, whose name is Zixin, was originally a good son of Baima Yicong under Gongsun Zan's account. ", seems to have become a joke that carries a lifetime. After confirming that Gongsun Zan had no intention of reorganizing the Baima Yicong, the last bones of these originally proud Baima Yicong were taken out, and they completely lost their energy. After accidentally learning that Tai Shici was going south, Chen Hao and several disheartened Baima Yicong followed into the Taihang Mountains, traveled to Taiyuan, and then went to Pingyang, where they met Tai Shiming and Xun Chen.

Xun Chen felt that Guanzhong was vast and lacked manpower, so he warmly welcomed Taishici and Chen Hao, and then let Taishici and Chen Hao go to Guanzhong, but he never thought that not long after they arrived in Guanzhong, they met On the Zheng family's rebellion, Hu Chuquan strikes!

   Zuo Fengyi.

   Lin Jin.

   Linjin City, once the seat of Zuo Fengyi, has a high city and deep ditch, so it naturally became the most important node to resist Huchuquan's invasion.

The fall of Diaoyin was indeed unexpected, and Sucheng is small, one is the administrative officials directly under the jurisdiction of Feiqian, and the other is probably related to the Zheng family of Zuo Fengyi, so when Huchuquan arrived, there was basically no resistance , then surrendered to Huchuquan, it seemed that Huchuquan could drive straight in and push Linjin. If Linjin falls, Chang'an is to the west and Tongguan is to the east. Basically, Zuo Fengyi will fall into the hands of others.

Since Xu Shu accepted the prefect of Zuo Fengyi, he used various excuses to gradually replace and transfer the officials and even the military academy who were originally entrenched in Linjin and involved with the local rich and powerful, and replaced them with Fei Qian. Perhaps it was this kind of behavior of some personnel and soldiers in the North that finally touched Zuo Fengyi and Zheng's nerves, and it may be that they finally made up their minds.

  However, it is precisely because of Xu Shu's actions that Linjin City is still standing under the siege of Huchuquan for three consecutive days.

  Chen Hao stood up staggeringly, feeling that his whole head was terribly heavy, his head was buzzing, and the whole world seemed to be spinning, his body couldn't help but staggered, and he fell to the ground again, feeling somewhat better.

"Bah!" Chen Hao's mouth was fishy, ​​and he spit out a mouthful of blood foam. He suddenly felt that the breath in his chest and abdomen became smoother, and the roar in his ears was also relieved, but the sounds of fighting near and far increased sharply. It's filled Chen Hao's entire sense of hearing.

  A person rushed over with a blood-stained long knife, and a hoarse voice sounded, asking repeatedly: "Brother Zixin! Great, great, you woke up! How do you feel? How do you feel?"

  Chen Hao raised his eyelids, it was another Baima Yicong who followed him to Guanzhong, called Chen Gong, and his name was Shoubai.

   "It's okay!" Chen Hao gritted his teeth, stood up again with Chen Gong's help, only to realize that he was actually under the city wall, "Huh? Why am I below? How is the city wall? How did you come down?"

   "Brother Zixin, have you forgotten? You fell from the city wall!" Chen Gong looked Chen Hao up and down, "I heard that you woke up, so I came down to take a look..."

   "Huh? Did I fall?" Chen Hao said blankly.

The city wall of Linjin is more than three feet high. Of course, this is the "zhang" in the Han Dynasty. The Han ruler is about 23 to 24 centimeters. One foot is about two meters four, and three feet is seven or eight meters. , close to the height of a three-story building in later generations, if you fall from such a height, normally, even if you don't die, you will be injured.

   Chen Hao stretched out his hands to touch his body, then moved his arms and legs, and found that there was nothing serious except for some muscle pain, so he said, "I'm fine, I'm fine!"

When Hu Chuquan's soldiers arrived at Zuo Fengyi, they launched a large-scale attack on Linjin City almost without stopping. On the three gates of the mound. Among them, Xuanfengmen, which is located in the middle, is particularly fierce.

  Although the city of Linjin City is relatively strong, it does not have an urn city. That is to say, once the city gate is breached, it means that there is no room for buffering. Therefore, the competition for the city gate and wall has entered a fierce stage from the beginning.

Chen Hao led his troops on the Xuanfeng Gate, fighting with Huchuquan's Huns soldiers, but he never wanted to fight with a fierce Huns leader rushing up the ladder. The blue bricks were already wet and slippery with blood, and the two of them couldn't hold back their momentum, and fell down from the city wall together while tearing.

Fortunately, there happened to be a material vehicle under the city wall that was ready to be transported to the top of the city. When the two fell, the head of the Xiongnu made Chen Hao's meat pad. After a while, he woke up without any serious injuries.

  But right now is not the time to rejoice at his own fate. After Chen Hao got up, he and Chen Gong rushed to the city again almost immediately.

Since the founding of Gongsun Zan, Baima Yi has always received the best military pay and the best training. Naturally, Chen Hao and Chen Gong are not bad. After the Battle of Qiao, Baima Yicong's reputation was ruined, but when faced with the invasion of the barbarians, even if he didn't have any reputation, as a man from northern Xinjiang, he never flinched!

  On the city wall, soldiers are running.

Someone carried the boiling water that had just boiled and poured it on the ladder, watching the Xiongnu fall from the ladder like a hot red fish and shrimp; The Huns on the ladders pushed away from the city wall struggled to chop the poles with their knives, and finally fell down with the ladders helplessly; Shooting, ignoring the fact that his finger was worn out, and the blood was dripping...

  Xu Shu was dressed in military uniform, standing in front of the city gate, dispatching soldiers, although his face was heavy, but there was no panic, and the voice of giving orders was accurate and loud, which made the soldiers on the city feel at ease.

  Huchuquan came suddenly, and Xu Shu and others defended in a hurry. Many city defense equipment were not stocked. After three days of fierce fighting, there were not many defensive weapons such as kerosene, so they could only rely on human defense.

   Seeing Chen Hao and Chen Gong, Xu Shu didn't have any spare time to go up to him to say hello, but just cupped his hands at the two of them and nodded his condolences.

Chen Hao didn't say much, and returned to his original position. He picked up a shield dropped by someone who didn't know who it was, and slapped it with the saber in his hand, shouting loudly: "Yeah! You're back! See you! Yeh!" Yeah fell off the wall, nothing happened! That Hun **** turned into meat! Yeah yeah he ate a couple of bites!"

   Chen Hao said it humorously, and the surrounding soldiers also responded with a smile: "It's all meat, did you eat two bites?"

"Hahaha! Of course!" Chen Hao didn't take it seriously, and said with a big laugh, "But the meat of the **** is stinky, and it almost made Yeye sick! When you win these bastards, Yeye invites everyone to eat." Roasted Lamb!"

"it is good!"

"That's a deal!"

  The soldiers replied in a hurry, and the fatigue on their bodies seemed to have eased a bit.

Due to the problem of the angle, most of the arrows shot by the Huns crossed the parapet wall, flew over the soldiers, and fell into the city. Only a small part just landed on the city wall. Holding the shield, Chen Hao could hardly see the arrows. It's not dodging at all, just covering it with a shield, and then re-arranging the soldiers to stand.

   Seeing Chen Hao's return, the surrounding soldiers were still fierce and inconvenient, and their morale was also boosted. They either used city defense equipment, or used knives and guns in their hands to resist the Huns soldiers who rushed up like a tide.

After all, a ladder was spared from the defense of the soldiers on the city wall, and it was successfully placed on the battlements. Within a few breaths, a crazy Hun soldier bit his sword, rushed up, jumped out of the crenel, and roared Shouting and slashing.

  Chen Hao greeted immediately, raised his knife and led the reserve queue to meet him.

   Hand-to-hand combat immediately started on the congested and narrow city walls.

Chen Hao originally used spears, but spears are good for horse battles. When fighting on foot, Zhang Er's spears are somewhat inconvenient to operate, so he switched to ordinary swords, but even so, the ones produced in Pingyang Workshop Zhengxi-style war knives are still several times better than steel knives made by ordinary iron workshops. In fierce battles, the blades are still sharp and not easy to roll. A lot of advantages.

For these Xiongnu soldiers in Huchuquan, they also knew that as long as they captured Linjin, they could basically attack Tongguan on both sides. It's really hot.

  As soon as the two sides in the hand-to-hand combat came into contact, both fell down.

  Chen Hao used his shield to deflect a sword hacked by a Hun soldier, and then before the Hun soldier had time to retract the knife, he stabbed his chest and abdomen with a knife, ripped open his belly, and kicked him over.

A young Xiongnu soldier roared, rushed past Chen Hao, stabbed a Hun soldier in the stomach with a knife, then pushed the Hun soldier with red eyes, holding the knife in both hands, trying to push him back. Falling on the city wall.

  The Xiongnu soldier who was stabbed didn't die for a while, screamed and grabbed the soldier who conquered the west tightly, staggering, seeing the two entangled together, about to fall to the city wall together.

Chen Hao rushed forward fiercely, cut off the arm of the Hun who was holding onto the young soldier tightly, then hit the Hun soldier with his shield, turned around, stopped the young soldier, and shouted slightly: "Yeah is fate! You kid, don't learn how to jump over the city wall! Knives are for chopping, chopping!"

Before he finished shouting, Chen Hao rushed forward again, and slashed on the back of the Xiongnu who was fighting with another soldier who conquered the west, cutting off more than half of his shoulders and back, and the soldier fell down screaming. , blood splashed as high as a person.

"understand!"

   Chen Hao roared as he continued to slash.

"Understood!"

  The young Zhengxi soldiers responded, and then imitated Chen Hao's posture, raised their swords and slashed at the Xiongnu soldiers.

The stench of blood permeated the entire city wall. Chen Hao took care of what he could take care of, and he had no choice but to take care of what he couldn't. The ladder was like a branch stuck in a pile of ants, immediately attracting a steady stream of Huns soldiers along the ladder to Climb up!

   "Poof!"

A pool of hot blood was poured on the side of Chen Hao's face. From the corner of his eye, he saw that the young soldier who had just rescued was cut off by a Hun and his shoulder and neck. Blood spurted and splashed, and fell down.

   "Zixin! Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Before Chen Hao could be sad or angry, he heard Chen Gong shouting loudly behind him.

Chen Hao hurriedly withdrew to one side, only to see that Chen Gong had already rushed over from the other side with a group of backup pikemen. All the Xiongnu soldiers on the city wall were killed, and then the ladder on the city wall was pushed down.

  Seeing that the successive attacks were blocked and the sky was getting darker, Huchuquan finally blew the horn to withdraw the troops, and the Huns dropped their corpses on the ground and retreated slowly.

   "The Huns retreat! The Huns retreat!"

  The surrounding soldiers could not help but raise their swords and guns and cheered.

  Chen Hao squatted beside the corpse of the young soldier who conquered the west, stared at the young and immature face, sighed softly, and then reached out to caress his still wide eyes...

  (end of this chapter)