My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 427: Separation, the final wave of Soochow

The sky turned dim, flames burned in the forest, blood lines spread among the grass, the entire wilderness was filled with figures of people fighting, and the ground was dyed crimson red.

Arrows kept flying and falling in the sky.

On the left side of the fighting battlefield, two miles away, a group of two thousand soldiers and horses, half on foot and on horseback, jumped out from the mountains and forests. The flag with the word "Zhang" was flying. The leader was Zhang Bao. He hung a snake spear upside down and led the army. The army came to cover up and kill them.

"What? Where did the army come from!"

When Zhou Tiansheng heard the scout's report, he suddenly understood that the trapped camp had been trying to drain the physical strength of his men from the beginning, leaving the other troops to wait and work.

"Why is there still a force of soldiers and horses? Didn't Commander Zhao say that every song will entangle the opponent? Where did Xia Guo's soldiers and horses come from?"

He galloped for a few steps, then stopped: "Let the rear team fill in, and the front team retreat slowly, don't panic!"

"Yes!"

"We must maintain our formation!"

Soldiers are unpredictable, and water is unpredictable. The situation on the battlefield can change for the better at any time. The opponent is a veteran on the battlefield, so he is more powerful than him and is more or less prepared.

Zhou Tiansheng panicked for a moment and then calmed down, immediately giving the signal to withdraw his troops.

Various orders were gradually carried out in an orderly manner, which made Zhang Bao, who had come to cover up the attack, not find a chance, and felt quite regretful and emotional.

However, Gao Shun still blew the horn of attack.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Bao immediately believed Gao Shun's judgment and led his cavalry to charge forward and cut into the left rear of the retreating army!

Sure enough, when Zhang Bao led a thousand light cavalry to kill, the troops on this side were retreating, and there was an opening, so he immediately led his troops to charge towards it.

"Assemble the cavalry!"

Zhou Tiansheng, who was watching the battlefield, quickly issued an order to have nine hundred cavalry waiting at the foot of the hillside to cross up from the flanks, trying to block Zhang Bao's charge.

However, in the past tense, the retreating army over there was harassed by Xia's light cavalry and was already in a retreat.

As this newly formed leading army retreated, each battalion and team tried their best to cover each other, but in the end it was too late. The defeated front army was mixed with the rest of the troops who wanted to cover and protect themselves. The entire battlefield, with more than 10,000 people on both sides, was thrown into chaos.

The trapped camp rushed forward, Zhang Bao's light cavalry covered them from the side, and then a thousand infantry rushed over, creating even greater chaos.

Densely packed corpses fell on the field, and rockets ignited nearby woods. The retreating leading army also organized its troops under Zhou Tiansheng's order, while resisting and stabilizing its position.

Fortunately, there were two thousand people inside who were his direct descendants brought from the border. After being defeated for a while, they stabilized their position, leaving no chance for the two Xia armies on the opposite side to take advantage of them.

When daylight fell, Zhou Tiansheng saw that there were only more than 3,000 troops left, almost everyone was injured. His eyes turned red, he clenched his fists, and soon returned to the military camp where he was stationed. Immediately, he took his own soldiers and rushed to the center. Over there at the military camp.

"Shuai Zhao, come out!"

He shouted as he walked, and when the soldiers in the camp looked over, Zhao Kangzhi's personal guards came to meet him from the Chinese army's commander's tent, "General Zhou, why are you shouting in the camp?"

Zhou Tiansheng, who was in sight, did not answer these soldiers of the commander's tent. He stretched out his hand to push them away. With his eyes full of bloodshot eyes, he walked straight to the commander's tent and said: "Commander Zhao, why did a Xia army appear on my side of the battlefield? Why?" No advance notice!”

As the voice resounded, he opened the curtain and strode in.

In the big tent, several generals were already sitting, all direct descendants of the border army. Seeing Zhou Tiansheng come in, a familiar general stood up to greet him: "I'm back, come and sit down!"

"Get out of the way." Zhou Tiansheng's voice was low, and he looked at the figure at the top of the table who was looking at the map. He was about in his early fifties, wearing armor, and his temples were already gray.

He raised his hands: "Commander Zhao, why did a Xia army suddenly appear on my battlefield?"

In the big tent, the voices stopped. Among the people, a general lowered his head with a guilty conscience, his heart agitated.

Then, he raised his face again and whispered: "General Zhou, what tone are you talking to the coach in?"

"you shut up!"

Zhou Tiansheng turned his head and growled at him, recognizing this man as Zhao Kangzhi's brother-in-law.

Over there, Zhao Kangzhi, the first case officer, looked away from the map and smiled at Zhou Tiansheng, who was roaring and angry, "There are always omissions on the battlefield, not to mention that the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom are the strongest soldiers in the world, and their fighting methods are changeable. Suddenly abandoning the opponent and attacking elsewhere is normal on the battlefield." In the big tent, the generals also agreed and helped to speak.

"Commander Zhao, don't think that the last general is a farmer. You can't tell!" Zhou Tiansheng moved his eyes to the general who was burying his head just now, and raised his finger, "You favor your own people! He neglected his duty and let his opponent go, but my soldiers , but suffered heavy casualties!”

No one in the tent was surprised. They seemed to have known about it for a long time.

The general who bowed his head suddenly stood up: "Zhou Tiansheng!" Then he yelled: "How dare you talk to my brother-in-law like that?!"

Zhao Kangzhi also yelled at his brother-in-law.

"You have no right to speak here, shut your mouth!"

The surrounding generals came over one after another to smooth things over and make peace, "General Zhou, this is war time, forget it now, it's not too late to talk about it later!"

"That's right, let's repel the Xia people first!"

Zhou Tiansheng took a step back and was surrounded by the crowd. He gritted his teeth and said, "To put it lightly, those are the people I, Zhou Tiansheng, brought out from Yue. Among them, they are from the same village as me. Do you know how many people died in today's battle?" ?!"

"Then what do you want!" Zhao Kangzhi also slammed the desk at this time and stood up: "Can you win the Xia Kingdom's soldiers and horses?! Do you think they are the Yue Kingdom's army?"

"I fought with him for more than two hours. Even if I couldn't win, I wouldn't necessarily lose. I still lost so miserably!"

Zhou Tiansheng yelled back, then shook his head and glanced at the generals in the tent: "I finally understand why we can't defeat the Xia army. They are all a group of people who are greedy for life and afraid of death. They keep each other and protect each other. ."

"presumptuous!"

Zhao Kangzhi's face turned red with anger. He patted the desk and said, "What do you know?! What if we put all the troops up and fight them all?"

"Your brothers are human beings. Do you deserve to lose all my brothers?!" Zhou Tiansheng wanted to draw his sword, but he understood that once he waved his hand and made this move, these generals inside the tent, as well as the handsome tent relatives outside, The soldiers would rush in and chop him into pieces.

A general with a brown complexion came over from the side: "General Zhou, the matter has come to an end. It's better for everyone to talk."

Zhou Tiansheng took a breath and closed his eyes.

"You are keeping the army because you want to bargain and do business with the Emperor of Xia. You have actually wanted to surrender for a long time. You just need to fight harder to show the value!"

His voice was low, and Zhao Kangzhi was silent for a long time, which was regarded as acquiescence to his words.

Several generals around him did not speak. Zhou Tiansheng could be seen with his eyes closed and a low chuckle coming from his throat, but most of the laughter was helpless and sad.

"My brothers are all your stepping stones...hehe..."

With that said, Zhou Tiansheng wiped the corners of his eyes, bowed his hands to the head coach, turned around and strode away from the tent.

Zhao Kangzhi's brother-in-law slumped down from his tight body and let out a heavy breath, "I thought he was going to draw his sword. He is also a bastard without eggs. I am ready to draw my sword and fight with him!"

Immediately, he walked over and said to his brother-in-law Zhao Kangzhi: "Thank you very much, brother-in-law. Can we surrender to the Xia army next? There is no point in continuing to fight."

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Zhao Kang's gaze, which looked at him fiercely.

The sound is vicious.

"If you say one more word, I'll kill you!"

After saying this, he walked out of the long case, and all the generals in the tent lined up, "Commander Zhao, give the order!"

Zhao Kangzhi took a letter from the long case and gave it to a general, asking him to send his confidants to take the letter to the Xia State military camp. "When I get the confirmation from there, I will immediately change the flag and follow the emperor Kang Chengqian to counterattack Shengkang." !”

The generals all laughed immediately, cupped their hands, and immediately turned around and left the tent, heading to their respective military camps to convey the commander's wishes.

Soon, countless voices responded, and tens of thousands of people boiled, waiting for a reply from the Xia army. At this moment, the fate of many people has changed in their choices.

(End of this chapter)