Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 480 Sword Ranbu

The rear camp of the Han army is food and grass, and the middle camp is tents and defense equipment.

But apart from allowing the soldiers to carry arrows, Shen Chen didn't want anything, just a fire to burn them all.

Because both sides are already in stud, food and grass are meaningless, today either you die or I die, why do you need so much food?
If Cao Zhen wins, even if Ma Dai and Pound take over his back camp, as long as he can win Shen Chen and open up the road to Leishou Mountain, he can transport food from Tongguan again.

The same goes for Shen Chen, if he wins, he can also transport food from Puban.The distance between the two places is not very far, so there is no need to keep so much food.

So both sides are sprinting.

At this moment, Shen Chen shouted and ordered the defenders of the middle camps to set fire to the camps.

Tents and materials in the camp were set on fire, especially fish paste and high-concentration spirits. These things were used for arson.

When Guanzhong was in the southeast wind, the fire took advantage of the wind, and the battalions burned raging flames in an instant, burning tents and wooden towers.

The flames soared to high altitudes, and in less than two quarters of an hour, under the blessing of kerosene, alcohol and wind, a sea of ​​flames ignited in the middle camp of the Han army, like a solid iron wall, blocking the Attacking Cao Jun.

At this time, Sun Li and Zhou Sheng were dumbfounded, and Cao Jun was very embarrassed now.

They were blocked by the outer fence of the middle camp before, and they were unable to fight for a long time. When the Han army retreated, they threw a fire and they had already attacked.

But now there are flames everywhere.

The most important thing is that they are all cavalry, and horses are naturally afraid of flames. Even if there are some places where they can walk, the horses dare not rush over before the fire is burning, resulting in a stalemate here.

Sun Li was also a ruthless man, he ordered all the soldiers to get off their horses with a yell, some left behind to guard the horses, and rushed into the sea of ​​fire with thousands of dead men.

The fire in the camp that stretched for several miles must not be burned all at once, and there are still some ways to go.But the further they walked back, Sun Li knew that there was no way out, and the monstrous flames behind them were spreading rapidly, cutting off their way of retreat, so they could only keep moving forward.

There were even unlucky soldiers at the end of the line. At the beginning, the flames were far away from them. After the people in front walked over, the flames quickly approached them in just a few minutes. Some people were burned, some were choked, and lost some manpower.

As a result, as soon as they came out of the sea of ​​flames, the middle camp and the front camp were in front of them. The retreating Han troops in the distance were retreating into the front camp through the back gates of the camps. Sun Li shouted and led the soldiers to continue chasing them, hoping to keep them.

However, when they arrived, the Han army had already retreated into the front battalion and closed the gate of the village tightly. Then, thousands of arrows from bows and crossbows rained down, shooting and killing more than a hundred people, leaving the exhausted Unbearable, Cao Jun, whose morale was low to the bottom, was forced to retreat more than 200 steps before stopping again.

At this moment, the battle in the front battalion has also entered a fierce battle. Cao Zhen is supervising the battle on the front line and ordering the soldiers to fight hard.At the beginning, the Han army was still able to do a job with ease, but as the battle went from noon to afternoon, and then from afternoon to evening, their resistance became more and more exhausted.

Not only the physical and mental exhaustion, but also the near depletion of supplies.The rolling stones and crossbows and arrows that were originally prepared were almost used up, because there was a serious shortage of manpower, and there was no way to move them from the middle camp one by one.

Now the middle battalion has been burned directly. Even if the front battalion has stored hundreds of thousands of arrows and countless rocks, wood, lime, and kerosene, it still cannot withstand such unlimited consumption.

In addition, there are few Han soldiers, and each person has to deal with at least four or five Cao troops.On the other hand, Cao Jun is taking his life to fill in, regardless of the cost.If the two sides continue to fight like this, the final result will probably be a loss for both sides, but Cao Jun relies on a large number of people, and the possibility of victory is still very high.

If you look down from the sky, you will see that starting from the Han army camp under the easternmost mountain of Leishou Mountain, and scanning the past all the way to the west, there are densely packed Cao soldiers flocking outside the wall of the Han army camp.

A large number of rolling stones and wood were scattered on the battlefield, stained with blood, and underneath lay the corpse of Cao Jun in black leather armor.The flames were burning, and the smell of the burnt corpse was volatilized, which was disgusting. At this moment, the white lime seemed to have turned into sand covering the corpse.

At this moment, loud cheers suddenly came from outside Dou Mao's camp on the west side. Someone shouted "Broken, broken!" struggling to support the broken camp.

It turned out that as the battlefield continued, a huge gap was opened in the fence around Dou Mao.In fact, the Han army camp was already dilapidated, and many places were damaged, either burned or cut open, with some cracks.

But normal fence camps not only have wooden walls, but also walls made of rammed earth. Therefore, even with fire attack, it is difficult to widen the gap, so that even if there are only a dozen or so Cao troops to kill from the hole each time Going in, the Han army can also use chariots or rolling stones to quickly fill the gap.

However, Dou Mao's camp was already crumbling under the impact of Cao Jun's tide. With the sound of houses collapsing, the Han army wailed like ghosts and wolves, not only the gate of the camp, but also the surrounding fences and walls. It fell down in an instant.

The dust was flying all over the sky, and Cao Jun on the periphery rushed into the dust happily like a shark smelling blood.Some of the soldiers of the Han army inside fell from the wall and were smashed to death and injured. Some were hacked and killed by Cao Jun without knowing what happened. Also disgraced.

Dou Mao crawled out of the mud, his body covered in dust, and before he could figure out the situation, he was hurriedly dragged away by his guards. At this time, Cao Jun had already poured in like a tide, surrounded by a group of leaderless Han fleeing in all directions. Army soldiers have no defensive position at all.

At this time, Shen Chen had already returned from the middle camp. After the middle camp was abandoned, only Sun Li led about five or six thousand Cao troops through the sea of ​​flames and ran to the front camp. Their number was reduced by half, and there were about 3000 on Yan Zhi's side. People should be able to hold on.

Now that he heard the news, he hurried to Dou Mao's camp to support him. He happened to meet Dou Mao and other guards covered in blood. He ordered, "Stop, what's going on ahead?"

Dou Mao's face was ashamed, and the armor on his body was also covered with a layer of dust. Shen Chen didn't recognize it, and thought it was a collapsed Han army.

"Great Governor!"

Dou Mao recognized his voice, quickly wiped his face and said, "It's me."

Shen Chen didn't care to greet him, and immediately asked, "What's the matter? Why was the gate of the village broken? Did Cao Jun come in?"

Dou Mao wiped the blood from his eyelids, panted and said, "Suddenly there were more soldiers in Cao's army. Dozens of charging chariots caught our camp and ran into it. The last general was commanding on the wall of the camp, but when the wall fell I was also pressed down and was roared out by the guards, and when I retreated here, I found that the soldiers had all scattered."

Shen Chen already understood that it should be that Cao Zhenxue was smart enough to gather all the remaining siege equipment to deal with one camp, planning to break through one camp first, and then attack other camps from inside the breached camp. Go to the camp.

After thinking about this, he turned his face to look at Dou Mao and said, "What are you going to do now?"

Not only is Dou Mao's head covered in ashes, but his body is also full of wounds. He is bleeding profusely. He is panting for breath with a straight knife in his hand. When Shen Chen asked him, he opened his mouth before he uttered a word, but just coughed and coughed. He asked in a hoarse voice: "At the end of the day, I will bring people back to kill, even if I die, I will take back the camp!"

Shen Chen glanced at Cao Jun who was constantly pouring in from the dusty sky not far away, and listened to the roaring shouts outside, and said in a deep voice: "We must form an formation and retreat slowly, otherwise everyone They are all dead. It doesn’t matter if the camp can’t be defended, you can retreat to other camps, as long as you control the gate of the camp, don’t give Cao Jun a chance to break in.”

As he said that, he looked around, and then said: "Now the wall of the village has just collapsed, and the sky is full of dust. Cao Jun's soldiers' vision is blocked, and they dare not rush to attack. They should be slowly poking inside. I will take people to stop them first. Hurry up and blow the whistle to gather all the remnants, Wang Gan and Li Zhou."

"exist."

Shen Chen's two personal guards stood up.

"Let's go to the camps of Jiang Wei and Deng Ai respectively. These two boys should have some reserves, let them send them over."

"only!"

The two guards left quickly.

Now the manpower is extremely tight. Under normal circumstances, in order to prevent accidents, the messenger must not only send two people, but at least two five people, but now there is no other way, it can only be this way.

For the sake of the battle, Shen Chen missed the Huangmen soldiers a little bit. If three thousand Huangmen soldiers were there, they could probably put out fires anywhere and easily resist Cao Jun's attack.

But when he first came to Guanzhong, he left the Huangmen pawns as the elite to Liu Bei in Nanyang. Shen Tao is now a general of Anbei, including Zhoutai, who has been promoted to a senior general, and he will soon follow Zhuge Liang in the Northern Expedition. I can only hope that they will achieve better results in the Northern Expedition.

The thought in Shen Chen's mind passed in a flash, and then he raised the gallbladder knife in his hand, and led his three or four hundred personal guards to rush forward. He is actually very tired now, and he went around to fight the fire. He helped Lei Ding first and then went Zhongying has to help Dou Mao right now, he is extremely busy.

A Cao Jun had already rushed through the yellow mist of dust, and met a tall general in steel armor head-on. With a strange cry, he stabbed forward with a spear. Shen Chen turned his head to avoid it, and then the saber did not change. Immediately, he slashed down against Cao Jun.

With a "bang", Cao Jun was probably a low-level officer, wearing a helmet, and the sharp tiger knife smashed his helmet, embedded it in half of his head, and got stuck on the blade by the skull.

Before Shen Chen could pull out the knife, several Cao Jun came out of the yellow mist on the other side. Shen Chen, who was pulling out the knife, heard the sound, and simply let go of the handle of the knife, and took the spear that was stabbed out from the enemy's hand. With a sharp stab to the right, he slammed into the chest of an enemy, knocking him a few steps away.

Immediately afterwards, Shen Chen didn't even look at the enemy, he touched the hilt of the sword on his left waist, held it with his right hand and swung it diagonally from top to bottom, one with his back facing Cao Jun who was fighting with another guard There was a long opening in his long robe immediately, and blood gushed out instantly.

This sword is one of the Zhangwu Nine Swords given to him by Liu Bei.

But as a scholar, the sword also retains its proper status as a ritual instrument.

That's why Shen Chen always kept the Tiger Sword and Chenxing Sword close to his body, and if the Tiger Sword got stuck and couldn't pull it out for a while, he used the Chenxing Sword to kill people.

On the other side, three or four Cao Jun soldiers came to besiege. Shen Chen slashed left and right. After killing them first, he slammed on the Cao Jun who had hacked to death with his head in front of him, and held the gallbladder knife. handle, pull it out.

In an instant, white brains and blood splashed all over Shen Chen's body. He was like a demon, vicious, with a star sword in his left hand and a bloody tiger gallbladder knife in his right hand. There were more than a dozen Cao soldiers lying around him, their eyes scanning In the past, dozens of Cao Jun around suddenly felt terrified, and unconsciously took a few steps back.

"kill him!"

A Cao Jun officer roared.

Shen Chen also roared angrily, and charged forward with a knife in one hand and a sword in the other.

In the interlacing of swords, lights and swords, more than a dozen Cao Jun soldiers were killed by him. Although he was not alone, but was covered by his personal guards, this combat power was obviously not something that ordinary Cao Jun soldiers could resist.

Only now did Cao Jun around know that he had encountered a hard stubble, and he was afraid of dying and did not dare to trouble him again, so he rushed to other Han soldiers with a shout.

At this moment, the dust and mist that had filled the sky due to the collapse of the wall had gradually dissipated, and the Cao army behind them had already rushed in like a tide.

The huge gap caused thousands of Cao troops from outside to swarm in, while Shen Chen only had three or four hundred personal guards.

Seeing that there were many people on the other side, Shen Chen didn't bother. He took a few steps back and summoned his personal guards to gather with him. Then three or four hundred people blocked the camp like an iron wall, buying time for Dou Mao to gather the remnants behind.

At this time, the surrounding situation has undergone some changes.

Cao Zhen rode on horseback and looked at the battlefield. He saw that Dou Mao's camp had indeed been breached by means of concentrating equipment, and the defensive pressure on the Han army's side suddenly increased. The car went further to the left, and Shen Chen's other troops rushed to the camp where Yang Qun was located.

He kept yelling orders and giving various instructions, and soon the Cao troops on the outskirts of Dou Mao rushed into the camp. After less than half an hour, the camp on the other side of Yangqun was indeed breached. The situation has reached a critical point.

"Hahahahahaha!"

Seeing this situation, Cao Zhen laughed happily and said: "The fate is in Wei Ye. The enemy's camps have been broken one after another. Soon I will be able to capture Shen Chen alive. If I can capture or kill him alive, it will be worth 30 lions!"

Before the words were finished, a messenger ran over behind him and shouted: "General Governor, it's bad, all our camps have been breached, and the enemy is coming to kill us!"

"what?"

Cao Zhen was shocked, turned his head and looked far away, and saw that his camp had been occupied by the Han army in the distance, and only some of the remnants of the more than 1 troops sent to rescue him escaped and fled towards his main force.

Obviously, Pang De and Ma Dai had broken through his camp first, and at the same time defeated the soldiers and horses he sent to rescue. I am afraid that within a quarter of an hour, the opponent will raid his rear!
At that moment, Cao Zhen was a little panicked. He turned his head and looked at the Han army camp that was about to be broken, but it was still standing. , to buy time for the former army to break through the Han army camp!"

"only!"

The messenger hurried back again.

Cao Zhen thought about it and was still a little worried, so he arranged for two other generals to go there, and he himself urged the horses to the frontline battlefield. The big banner was less than a hundred steps away from the Han army camp, cheering for the soldiers!
(End of this chapter)