The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 307 Death of Gou Xi

Shao Xu watched Liu Tai's army appear on the horizon. The sunlight shone on the silver armor like fish scales, making Shao Xu couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Although he knew that he was fighting Liu Tai, Shao Xu could only really feel Liu Tai's naked power at this moment. Armored soldiers, armored soldiers, armored soldiers...everywhere he looked were armored soldiers!

"General, why didn't you go for a sneak attack yesterday!" Shao Xu couldn't help but ask Gou Xi as he looked at Liu Tai's army in front of him.

"Even you, are you shaken by Liu Tai's military appearance?!" Gou Xi heard Shao Xu's words and said,

"It's useless. For a general who takes the route of running an army, a sneak attack will only cause the attacking side to further damage the soldiers and morale.

Moreover, if victory cannot be achieved even in a sneak attack, the morale of the soldiers who are fighting today will be even lower. "

"But can we really defeat Liu Tai's army?!" Shao Xu raised his head and looked at Gou Xi and said, "So many soldiers stretching as far as the eye can see are all soldiers! I never thought that one day I would have to face such a situation head-on. An army!”

As long as you are a soldier, you will clearly feel the power of the armor, and it is not the armor wearing leather armor, but the armor actually wearing fish scale armor or even heavy armor, giving anyone a sense of strength and beauty just by looking at it.

Because basically, those who can wear this kind of armor in Gou Xi's army are mostly generals above the rank of commander, and even centurions may not have the opportunity to wear fish scale armor.

But Liu Tai's army on the opposite side seemed to be wearing armor alone, which made Shao Xu almost lose his desire to fight.

After all, you have to win the battle before you are willing to fight, but you have to defeat the opposing army head-on and fight with the head!

"They are not all soldiers!" Gou Xi looked at the cavalry galloping on the battlefield. It was obvious that some cavalry chose to wear leather armor instead of fish scale armor in order to be light.

However, when Shao Xu followed Gou Xi's gaze and saw a group of cavalry, Shao Xu still smiled helplessly. Facing the cavalry, he would rather face the soldiers.

To be honest, not only Shao Xu felt the overwhelming sense of oppression brought by the armor of Liu Tai's army, but even his soldiers also felt the sense of oppression brought by Liu Tai's army approaching step by step.

The most important thing is that Liu Tai's army is too quiet. There is no noise of ordinary troops, only the sound of drums and horns and other military instruments.

And in the rhythm of Liu Tai's army, Liu Tai's army pressed forward neatly and majesticly towards his subordinates. It looked as if the crumbling mountains were crushing towards him.

At this time, Shao Xu turned his head and looked at the dense army behind him. There were obviously hundreds of thousands of people, but he felt like he was alone and alone.

Since being defeated by Liu Tai, Gou Xi has regrouped and trained his soldiers. Now he has killed Xu Gong and absorbed Xu Gong's soldiers, thus allowing Gou Xi's army to truly expand to 100,000 people.

But with an army of this size, Shao Xu had the confidence to fight Liu Tai, but the armor worn by Liu Tai's soldiers completely destroyed the confidence he had finally accumulated. These are armored soldiers. !

Shao Xu raised his head and looked at the towering and motionless Gou Xi. At least he felt good that Gou Xi was there. If it had been him, he would have knelt in front of Liu Tai and begged to surrender!

At this time, Gou Xi calmly ordered his soldiers to press forward, even though they were facing Liu Tai's soldiers.

Gou Xi has no fear, all he wants is to do his best to fight this war.

The person in charge of Liu Tai's side is still Zhou Ping. Not to mention Zhou Ping's own Qingzhou Five Schools, this time even Liu Ming's headquarters and Liu Xia's heavy cavalry have been handed over to Zhou Ping for command.

As for Liu Tai himself, he controls 10,000 cavalry and has the right to enter the battlefield at any time.

However, Liu Tai usually would not use such power. After all, to a certain extent, he was protecting Zhou Ping!

As the war progressed, Zhou Ping gradually advanced from an ordinary general to the commander of an army of 100,000 people.

Facing Gou Xi now, he was no match for Gou Xi at first, but this time Zhou Ping wanted to clear his name.

Under Zhou Ping's control, the first ones to go up were not only the ones wearing fish scale armor, but also the fortress camp who had solid shields in their hands.

Sun Wei, the commander of the barrier camp, shouted, and the soldiers moved forward one after another!

The two-handed shields of the soldiers in the fortress camp, only a few of them were born with divine power, the shields were made of pure steel.

For the vast majority of the remaining fortress camp warriors, the large shields in their hands are basically made of solid wood, and then covered with steel shells of varying degrees depending on their strength.

However, unless heavy weapons are used to strike, the damage that can be done to them is extremely limited. At least the first batch of Gou Xi's soldiers who rushed forward in front of them cannot break through the defense of the barrier camp.

But Zhou Ping then asked Liu Yin's Changshui camp to shoot the soldiers in their hands directly in the direction of the soldiers in the barrier camp.

Anyway, your army is wearing armor, and the damage that ordinary arrows can cause is quite limited. If you have the ability, you can all wear armor and fight with your army!

Gou Xi calmly watched the army in front of him being hindered. One after another dispatch orders were passed from Gou Xi's hands. The soldiers in front either raised their shields or set up shields, but they also took the initiative to choose defense. This in turn caused the barrier camp to Somewhat difficult to move forward.

But there were more soldiers infiltrating Liu Tai's army from both sides.

Zhou Ping was indeed able to command an army of more than 100,000 people with his experience, but Zhou Ping had never really encountered such an opponent. Faced with Gou Xi's more precise instructions, what Zhou Ping could do was beyond the control of the original. Detachments of reserves under Liu Tai's command were thrown into the frontal battlefield to intercept Gou Xi's command.

However, Zhou Ping may be inferior to Gou Xi in terms of command ability and judgment of the situation, but as soldiers trained by Liu Tai, in terms of basic quality, they are much better than Gou Xi's soldiers. .

This kind of strength is not only in terms of equipment, but also in terms of morale, confidence, organization and individual quality at the bottom. In almost every aspect, they are better than the soldiers under Gou Xi's command.

This made Gou Xi's command more accurate and decisive than Zhou Ping's, but he also had to bear a heavier burden.

Because Liu Tai's army was victorious in every battle, they had no doubt that they would lose. The veterans under Gou Xi's command knew how Liu Tai's army treated prisoners. Under Gou Xi's leadership, although they would not surrender after a fight, they would It is inevitable that there will be some work done but no efforts made.

In other words, their first choice on the battlefield was not to win, but to survive. The difference between the two made some of Gou Xi's soldiers choose to escape when they should be desperate, and choose to give up when they needed to persevere.

This added some unnecessary variables to the battlefield, and Gou Xi had some expectations for his men.

After all, how did he and Liu Tai lose the second time? The most important reason was that these guys refused to contribute.

Therefore, I have never dared to face Liu Tai's army. It was not until I killed Xu Gong and promoted new soldiers that I really dared to touch Liu Tai's army. Otherwise, I would not even be qualified to do so. .

As for the new recruits who have been promoted and become the new backbone, where did the veterans go? Of course they went to supervise the battle team!

In other words, Gou Xi knew very well that his team was fine under normal circumstances, but if there was a real defeat, the team would probably not be the first to vote.

But even so, Gou Xi still hates that the number of places in the Supervisory Team is limited. He cannot kick all the veterans who follow him into the Supervisory Team. There are still many fish that slip through the net.

Naturally, these veterans of the supervising team would not have any objections to Gou Xi's arrangement. After all, there is no one on the battlefield who is safer than this army. When it comes time to supervise the battle team, it actually doesn't matter if you surrender.

In any case, because this group of veterans who have been following Gou Xi are somewhat unable to work, this inevitably makes Gou Xi's army as a whole somewhat fragile. It is impossible to expect this army to defeat Liu Tai's army. realistic.

In fact, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed as Zhou Ping adapted to the offensive rhythm of Gou Xi's army.

The most important thing is that Liu Xia's heavy cavalry began to trample on the battlefield under Zhou Ping's command,

When the rampaging heavy cavalry appeared on the battlefield, it directly changed the situation of the entire battlefield. The situation carefully arranged by Gou Xi was directly out of balance.

Gou Xi originally had many command and dispatch plans in mind, but when the heavy cavalry appeared and ravaged the battlefield with an impact like a mudslide, Gou Xi found that many of the arrangements he had made in advance were meaningless.

Wang Jun's lesson, Liu Yuan's lesson, and Shi Le's lesson. From the battle reports, it is really difficult for Gou Xi to imagine the changes that heavy cavalry brought to the war.

After all, they are just a group of heavily armored horses. Is it true that no one can stop them when they arrive on the battlefield? !

Really do not have!

The cold reality made Gou Xi know clearly that even though he had tried his best to overestimate such a new unit, he thought he could successfully contain the heavy cavalry unit in front of him, but was directly rushed to pieces by the heavy cavalry.

Gou Xi understood that it was not difficult to contain heavy cavalry, but what was difficult was that it required an army that was not afraid of death and extremely thick armor.

The most ironic thing is that the opponent has such a configuration, and he clearly has an army of 100,000, but he cannot choose an army that can curb the ravages of heavy cavalry, because his army does not have the same belief as the opponent.

The war began the moment this heavy cavalry launched its charge, and it inevitably entered garbage time.

"General, let's escape and return to Xuzhou City!" Shao Xu looked at the battlefield in confusion.

To be honest, it was clearly evenly matched at the beginning, and Shao Xu even vaguely felt that Gou Xi's commanding ability was stronger than that of the opponent's army.

Even at that moment, Shao Xu had a glimmer of hope that he and others might really be able to win over Liu Tai.

But as the heavy cavalry of the Han army entered the scene, the unrivaled cavalry tore apart Gou Xi's line almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then overwhelmingly eliminated all obstacles in front of them, trampling them all. Turn into mud!

There were clearly an army of 100,000, but at this time even he had to admit that he had been defeated.

With an army of one hundred thousand, more people are escaping than are staying to resist, and the supervising team is the fastest!

No one dared to resist the heavy cavalry. The appearance of this army directly refreshed everyone's new understanding of field warfare.

They were more terrifying than any other army he had originally expected, and they took away everyone's courage as soon as they appeared on the scene.

"There is no need to escape!" Gou Xi said to Shao Xu, "Even if you escape to Xuzhou City, you will just die later!"

Shao Xu looked at Gou Xi but felt that Gou Xi was particularly generous, as if he had expected this defeat.

"General, do you know that you will be defeated?" Shao Xu looked at Gou Xi and asked with a bit of confusion.

"I just didn't expect to lose so miserably. I didn't even see Liu Tai's face!" Gou Xi looked at her wrinkled hands and said:

"Sure enough, I can't keep up with the times. Although I tried my best to imagine the heavy cavalry in the intelligence, I never expected that this heavy cavalry was more powerful than I thought. All preparations were overturned by it! "

Shao Xu wanted to say something else. Gou Xi turned his head and said to Shao Xu:

"After I die, surrender to Liu Tai. He is a good monarch, at least better than Sima Yue!"

Shao Xu was stunned for a moment but decisively jumped on Gou Xi's body, held down the sword in Gou Xi's hand, and said:

"General, what are you doing? With the character of the King of Han, the general may not have no way out!"

"Is it really possible to capture and escape three times!" Gou Xi looked at Shao Xu and sighed, "Death in battle should be my destiny. When I was in Qingzhou, I decided to die instead!"

Gou Xi didn't say much, pushed Shao Xu away, and decisively wiped his own neck, defending his own dignity with death.

Shao Xu watched Gou Xi commit suicide. Only then did Shao Xu realize that Gou Xi was here to die this time.

In this battle with Liu Tai, Gou Xi integrated the entire Xuzhou force. With this defeat, it can be said that Xuzhou has no power to intercept Liu Tai at all. No one can resist Liu Tai in Xuzhou. Rampant.

But the most important thing is that Gou Xi still chose to die on the battlefield, which is more worthy of Sima Yue's kindness to Gou Xi.

It can be said that Gou Xi knew that he was no match for Liu Tai, so he chose this battlefield as his cemetery.

At this moment, Liu Xia led the heavy cavalry to charge all the way to the commander's flag. However, he saw that although the enemy troops here were waiting solemnly, they did not attack him with swords. He could not help but stop the momentum of the charge, looked at Shao and continued: "You guys who?!"

"We are General Gou Xi's bodyguard. We are here to protect General Gou Xi's body from being destroyed by the rebels!" Shao Xu said.

"Gou Xi is dead?!" Liu Xia was stunned, but said solemnly, "It doesn't matter if he is dead, this war is over!"

"Yeah, it's over!"

(End of this chapter)