Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 587 Life or death
The mountain path could not accommodate too many people, so the tens of thousands of reinforcements from Jizhou climbed up the mountain, then came from the forests on both sides, and even went around to the rear of the battlefield, to surround and kill. For a while, shouts from Jizhou's troops could be heard from all directions.

"The thousand gold is mine, mine!"

"Kill them all, and I'll be rich..."

The Jizhou soldiers, whether they had been fighting before or had just arrived as reinforcements, all looked ferocious and murderous.

Nearly 80,000 people surrounded Cheng Liang and others in three layers inside and three layers outside.

The original plan to kill Yuan Xi was hindered by the sudden influx of too many enemy troops. Not only was it difficult to get in front of Yuan Xi, but even to move forward a few steps became extremely difficult. The enemy troops continued to come one after another, especially Cheng Liang and Zhu Ye who were together. They became a piece of fat meat in the eyes of tens of thousands of enemy troops. As soon as an enemy was chopped down by them, successors would immediately rush up, and they could not be killed all.

Yuan Xi now became too proud of himself. He looked at Yuan Shang with pride and contempt, and snorted coldly from time to time.

"If I had used my tactics earlier, how could I have allowed them to be so rampant until now? The gap in strength is so huge, what's the point of ambushes and strategies? It's simply unnecessary, haha..."

After fighting for a while, Ye Xiang saw the encirclement getting smaller and smaller, and he became anxious.

"Brothers, hold on at the front. My Shenji Battalion will use the crossbows to clear the way. Break out first, only then will you have a chance of survival!"

As soon as these words were spoken, thousands of melee soldiers consciously and quickly divided into four teams.

With a force of only one or two thousand, these people relied on the geographical advantages of the mountain road and their own strong combat power, and actually blocked the attacking tens of thousands of enemy troops in a short period of time.

"I, Jiang Yiqu, am here!"

A general suddenly rushed out from the Jizhou army, holding a big axe in his hand, and chopped it hard, splitting a Bingzhou soldier in half. Blood splattered everywhere, it was a horrible sight.

Compared with Zhang Yong's axe, his axe was naturally vulnerable, but facing these ordinary soldiers, he could still be very powerful for a while. After his chopped and killed, many Bingzhou soldiers died under his axe in a short period of time.

"Haha... They all praise the Bingzhou Army for being so brave, but I don't think so. Soldiers, follow me and charge in to capture Ye Xiang alive!"

After he turned his hand and chopped down two more Bingzhou soldiers, he leaped to the position where the two men had originally stood. The Jizhou soldiers behind him also rushed over quickly.

Seeing that the enemy formation had been broken, the soldiers of Jizhou were overjoyed. They launched a fierce attack on the gap, trying to break through the defense of the Bingzhou army in one fell swoop.

Jiang Yiqu swung his axe and said, "Hey, that must be Ye Xiang. The credit goes to me, Jiang."

He suppressed the urge to laugh wildly towards the sky, swung his axe, chopped left and right, and slowly killed Ye Xiang in the center of the formation.

"Mr. Ye, your grandfather from the Jiang family is here..."

"Whoosh..."

A sharp arrow came out of nowhere and pierced through Jiang Yiqu's wide-open mouth, carrying him back several steps and hitting the Jizhou soldiers who were following him and charging in.

When the Jizhou soldiers saw how he died, their hair stood on end.

However, next, they heard an even more desperate voice.

"put!"

"Crack...knock..."

Thousands of ten-shot crossbows fired tens of thousands of powerful crossbow arrows at once, either at the enemy troops that had already rushed into the formation or at the Jizhou soldiers who were still charging outside the formation. The enemy troops that first rushed into the formation were wiped out in the blink of an eye, and the tens of thousands of Jizhou soldiers outside the formation were also forced to dodge and flee far away by the endless crossbow arrows.

This divine crossbow was so powerful that it could not only penetrate the human body, but it could also hit a tree trunk first, then pass through the trunk and hit a soldier. The power was so great that the Jizhou soldiers were terrified.

"Waste, why are you hiding? Do you think that there is no one in Jizhou with just a crossbow? Look at me, Han Meng, who will defeat them."

Han Meng held a shield in his hand, held it in front of him, dodged left and right, and jumped forward. Although the crossbow arrows could penetrate some small tree trunks, the shield was carefully made, and many crossbow arrows hit the shield, leaving only small pits, making a "thump thump thump" sound, and then fell to the ground.

Soon, he jumped in front of the Bingzhou soldiers. How could a few spearmen let him attack the formation at will? Spears stabbed at him at the same time.

Han Meng suddenly pulled out the big knife hidden behind the shield, and leaped forward at high speed. The shield blocked all the spears and pushed them aside. He swung the big knife forward and knocked down three Bingzhou soldiers to the ground.

"General Han is mighty! General Han is mighty!"

Han Meng's move rekindled the morale of the Jizhou troops.

As the saying goes, "When it rains, it pours." At this moment, the crossbow arrows were all used up.

This divine crossbow can fire ten crossbow arrows at a time, and although it is extremely powerful, the number of bows and crossbows that a soldier can carry is limited. The divine crossbow only fired ten times or so before all the crossbow arrows of the soldiers were used up. It is precisely because of this that Ye Xiang kept the divine crossbow until now.

When Han Meng saw the crossbow arrows stopped, he was overjoyed. He threw the heavy shield forward to clear a way for himself.

"Soldiers, the enemy's crossbows are empty. Now is the time for us to kill them. Charge..."

Tens of thousands of Jizhou troops attacked again in a black mass.

Qu Hang looked at Ye Xiang anxiously: "General, what should we do?"

Although Ye Xiang's forehead was covered with cold sweat, he did not look nervous at all. He threw away the magic crossbow and stared at Han Meng closely.

"Jizhou does have many brave generals. I thought that after the elimination of Lu Bu, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, Jizhou no longer had any decent generals. It was us who underestimated them. However... Han Meng, hehe, it's not that difficult to eliminate another of your generals."

A cold light flashed in his eyes, and he took the Broken Cloud Bow from his back and put a sharp arrow on it.

"Whoosh..."

The sharp arrow hit Han Meng's head. After a flash of blood exploded, Han Meng fell to the ground.

However, his death only frightened the Jizhou soldiers slightly, but their formation had been disrupted. These tens of thousands of enemy soldiers looked at Ye Xiang who was surrounded in the center. The way they looked at Ye Xiang was no longer as if they were looking at an enemy general, but as if they were looking at a reward of one thousand gold. The enthusiasm brought by the reward of one thousand gold quickly washed away the fear in their hearts, and everyone rushed towards Ye Xiang frantically.

Ye Xiang took the Fire Dragon Spear, shook the spear head, and nailed it to the ground: "We archers are not easy to bully, follow me to kill the enemy!"

“Kill the enemy, kill the enemy!”

On this mountain road, on the battlefield that stretched for several miles, the battle had completely entered its most intense stage. From generals to soldiers, everyone was blood-thirsty.

Yuan Xi was so excited that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw that his side had clearly gained the upper hand. He completely ignored the fact that his side had already paid a price of no less than 20,000 casualties in order to deal with a mere 15,000 people.

"We're sure to win, we're sure to win. The encirclement is getting smaller and smaller. In less than two hours... oh no, in an hour and a half, the heads of Cheng Liang and the others will become stepping stones for me to secure my position as the heir. Haha, hahaha..."

(End of this chapter)