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Chapter 508 Bloody Battle by the River

Before Gongsun Zan started provoking, he saw the gate of the opponent's city was wide open, and knights rushed out from the gate. Guishuang was different from the big man in that they were all dressed in light armor and had no armor. In this way, Gongsun Zan did not give the order to retreat at all. He turned around and fled on his horse. Sure enough, the soldiers of the Valiant Battalion did not wait for his order, and they all started to flee.

Gongsun Zan was still lagging behind. Seeing them fleeing, the Guishuang people ignored them and chased them one after another. The leader took out his strong bow and shot towards the brave camp. Outside the killing range, he fled the moment he saw the opponent's attack. The distance was even further, and his riding and shooting did not play any role.

The city gate was still open, and the knights rushed out one by one. In such a chaotic pursuit, Gongsun Zan couldn't see how many people were following behind him. He ran at full speed towards the mountain where Sun Jian was. And then, when the Valiant Battalion had just turned over the mountain, Sun Jian let out a roar, and the Southern Army soldiers behind him stood up one after another, and pointed their bows and crossbows at the enemy.

"Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!"

The soldiers of the Southern Army stood on the top of the hill, and the yellow crossbows were aimed at the charging enemy troops below. Under such circumstances, the crossbow arrows were several times stronger than the strong bows. All the soldiers in the front row were shot down, and they were shot through together with their horses, and fell to the ground one after another. Under such a powerful force, Hay, who was leading the charge, was also frightened.

At first, he thought that the other party was just a group of horse bandits fleeing from nowhere. It was ridiculous to set up an ambush on a whim, but now he understands his mistake. This is definitely not a horse bandit. With such elite soldiers and horses, that iron block shining with cold light, and that bow and arrow, why is there such a powerful bow and arrow in the world?Even a horse can shoot through it! !
Guishuang people don't have armor, and they can suffer a lot from a strong bow alone, not to mention these yellow crossbows.

Immediately, the vanguard army led by Hay suffered heavy casualties. The most fatal thing was that the horses in front fell down and blocked the road, and even hit the soldiers behind. Because this is an upward mountain, Sun Jian is indeed He chose the best place to ambush. In such a dangerous situation, Hay just came to his senses and hurriedly calmed down the anger in his heart. He shouted: "The rear army is the front army, retreat!"

With the flag raised, the Guishuang people were ready to retreat.

Xu Chu led the soldiers and rushed out of the woods, blocking the retreat of the Guishuang people. Xu Chu was very brave, took the lead, rushed directly into the Guishuang people's formation, and began to fight, just because of his stature , so frightened the people of Guishuang that they did not dare to approach. Sun Jian looked at the chaotic battlefield and still sat in the town. He could no longer lead the team to fight in person. Now he doesn't need to command the whole army anymore!
The yellow crossbow is still tearing apart the enemy's formation. Although the yellow crossbow is stronger than the strong bow, it also has shortcomings. First, he cannot shoot continuously like the strong bow. Second, he is likely to accidentally injure his own people. Most of the time, the crossbow is shot flat, because it is bulky, so the soldiers cannot throw it like a strong bow.

When there were their own people in front, the Han army used strong bows to shoot from a long distance to avoid accidentally injuring their own people and attacking the opponent's rear army. But now, there is no such problem. The Guishuang people will use this road It was so blocked that the soldiers of the Han army could kill a large area as long as they aimed their crossbow arrows at the bottom and shot with their eyes closed.

However, Sun Jian didn't expect that the opponent's general had some brains. He didn't fight Sun Jian head-on. He also saw Sun Jian's terrain advantage, so he turned around and started fighting with Xu Chu instead. With his own troops, plus Guishuang's many cavalry, they were repelled a little. No matter how brave Xu Chu was, he had no way to resist the opponent's army!
And this group of Guishuang people are also heroic and unstoppable. They are all elite soldiers who followed the old General Hayi in the South and North. After fighting to the death, they vaguely broke through Xu Chu's block. , he saw soldiers rushing out of the opponent's city gate again, and these soldiers quickly charged towards Xu Chu!
Sun Jian wanted to support, but the main force was on the mountain, and there was no way to go down to support. When the Guishuang people attacked back and forth, Xu Chu's army couldn't stand it anymore. The Guishuang soldiers rushed from behind, stabbing fiercely with their spears. Go, one after another the Southern Army fell. After Xu Chu found himself surrounded, he stopped charging towards the enemy's formation, and wanted to gather the soldiers and defend!
"Captain Ma!!" Sun Jian shouted.

Ma Chao, who was supposed to be chasing and killing the bandits, immediately rushed to the rear after receiving Sun Jian's flag order to support Xu Chu. Sun Jian ordered again, and the main force of the southern army launched an attack!

Xu Chu's troops were double-teamed from front to back, and the casualties were extremely heavy. Fortunately, Xu Chu quickly gathered them together and fought back and forth. This prevented Hayi's rear men from continuing to kill unscrupulously, and Ma Chao's rapid attack changed the situation again. In the battle situation, Ma Chao directly ran into Guishuang's ambush army. Most of these people were infantry. Ma Chao charged like this with cavalry, directly digging a gap in their formation!

The main force of the southern army has already turned down from the mountains and directly engaged with the Guishuang army. Sun Ce was at the forefront, stabbing with spears in his hand, stabbing one after another Guishuang soldiers from their horses, and the battle situation became tense. It became chaotic, and there were shouts of killing everywhere. When Hai retreated to the plain, everyone had already started fighting chaotically.

It is no longer clear who is surrounding who, and can only be distinguished vaguely through the armor. In such a close fight, the armored Han army is obviously stronger than the Guishuang soldiers. When the battle lasted for nearly half an hour, At that time, the corpses of both sides were already piled up in this mountain range, and many horses were galloping around. They lost their masters, and they looked extraordinarily irritable.

There are often injuries lying on the ground, trampled to death by horses!

"Ah!!" In the rebellion, a spear stabbed towards Hay, and Hay quickly fell back. The spear did not pierce Hay's chest, but it still passed through his shoulder. , Hay gritted his teeth, pulled out the long knife at his waist, seemed to ignore the wound on his shoulder, and slashed across with the knife. The young general on the opposite side was startled, quickly let go of the spear, and ran back.

"Pfft!"

Another spear pierced Hay's back. Hay roared in pain, and leaned over with a knife. The soldier of the Southern Army who was holding a spear was directly decapitated by him, and a feathered arrow flew towards Hay's abdomen. Hai held the horse's mane tightly with both hands, bent his body to prevent himself from falling down, and blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.

The shouts of killing gradually faded away. Hay's surroundings were filled with corpses, blood flowing like rivers. He looked around, but there was no one standing there. In the distance, Sun Ce looked at him in surprise. Just now, he was full of confidence to kill the enemy general, but he didn't want this fellow to be so brave and fearless that he almost chopped off his own hands!
Before the official battle with Guishuang, he did not expect that the Guishuang people had such a powerful combat power. He couldn't help thinking in his heart, how did Captain Gongsun defeat those rebels?And Captain Hua?

Sun Jian rode a horse and walked out unhurriedly. Looking at the cruel scene around him, he also felt a little pain in his heart. Earlier, he really underestimated the Guishuang people, thinking that they were the same as the horse bandits and Qiang people outside the Great Wall. There is no difference, they are all uneducated barbarians, but today, he has learned a lesson here, and cannot underestimate any enemy.

The Southern Army has never suffered such a serious injury since it became an army. This is still under an ambush. If he rashly storms the city, he is afraid that it will be difficult to win. Sun Jian's heart became more and more heavy. In this way, his face was full of sorrow, although he won, he didn't have any joy, and the battlefield was quiet.

Sun Jian looked at the enemy general and said, "Surrender! I'll spare you!"

The surrounding soldiers shouted, "I'll spare you! I'll spare you! I'll spare you!"

Hay slowly raised his head, looked at Sun Jian, wiped the blood on his face indiscriminately, stretched out his left hand, pointed at Sun Jian, and pointed at himself, slowly raised the long knife in his right hand, the blade was still Trembling, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, Sun Jian looked at him, nodded, and pulled out the Han sword from his waist. Sun Ce said from the side, "Father."

"Go away!" Sun Jian cursed unceremoniously.

"Heh!" Hay yelled, and galloped towards Sun Jian on his horse, and Sun Jian did the same. The two quickly approached, and raised their swords, "Shua!", Sun Jian bent down to avoid the opponent's horizontal attack Zhan, the Han sword in his hand directly sliced ​​open the opponent's abdomen, the two passed by, stopped the horse again, Sun Jian turned around, and looked at the opponent.

Hai fell off the horse and remained motionless. His steed kept hitting its master with its head, and its hooves rubbed against the ground restlessly.

"Give this guy a good burial. He is still a warrior."

Afterwards, Gongsun Zan ordered people to clean up the battlefield. Facing this bloody battle, the soldiers of the Valiant Battalion were terrified. They had never seen such a tragic battle. They were moving the body of their comrades. Everyone was a little silent. Sun Jian looked at the In the distant city, the city gates were closed tightly. It seemed that there were not many soldiers in the city, but they were still unwilling to surrender.

Sun Jian directly ordered Ma Chao to surround the city. Afterwards, the whole army was repaired, and Gongsun Zan scouted around to prevent the enemy from rushing.

After repairing for a day, the next day, Sun Jian began to build siege equipment. On the third day, Sun Jian launched the final storm. Sure enough, there were not many soldiers left in the city. Without any decent resistance, just after a few rounds of bow and arrow shooting, Xu Chu was already standing at the top of the city, and there were less than 400 people left in the city.

Sun Jian captured Xinha and was stationed here, but Gongsun Zan left. He went to report to Dong Zhuo about the situation here.

(End of this chapter)