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Chapter 172 Disgusting Dong Zhuo [22]

"How long has it been?" Wei Zhe asked expressionlessly in the formation.

Upon hearing this, the guards on both sides bowed and said, "General, we have already burned two incense sticks."

There's no other way. I can't see the sun clearly and I can't use a clepsydra, so I can only use this to tell time.

Even if it is a rainy day, it doesn’t matter, you can just set up a small tent.

Although the accuracy is a bit off, one stick of incense equals one hour.

After hearing what the personal guard said, Wei Zhe's eyes flashed, and he finally said, "Change the formation!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the messengers around did not dare to delay even a little.

At the same time, after hearing the sound of war drums and the waving of black flags in the rear, Taishi Ci and others finally laughed.

The Wei army, which had been holding its ground, quickly formed a curved formation and launched a fierce counterattack.

Taishi Ci was on the left wing, Zhong Hu was on the right wing, and Wei Zhe led the central army to slowly and steadily push back.

"Attack!"

In front of the Wei army, when Mao Kun heard the order, he led his troops out without hesitation.

He seemed to have no fear at all, and at this moment his face showed only bloodthirsty excitement and madness.

"Kill~" He was seen roaring crazily while excitedly chopping off the head of a Dong Jun soldier.

The other party might be forced to do so, but Mao Kun didn't care at all.

Anyone standing in front of him at this moment is an enemy.

If you are an enemy, you should die!
Perhaps they had been holding back for too long. When this group of Wei troops suddenly counterattacked, the front line of Dong's army was caught off guard and was directly defeated.

Seeing this, Mao Kun and others immediately became more excited and chased after the retreating enemy troops, hacking and killing them wantonly.

The Jingnan Yi, who had once been somewhat immature, no longer looked like new recruits at all.

Continuous high-intensity fighting has caused them to transform at an astonishing speed.

After experiencing several major battles, those who are still alive with their hands and feet intact are all emotionless killing machines.

Of course, the price was also very painful, that is, more than 4,000 people were buried forever on this land.

But there is one thing that the Jingnan Yizong never forgot, and that is - to serve the people in the Jingnan Campaign!
It can be said that Dong Zhuo's existence indirectly made this new army more cohesive.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo frowned as he heard the dull drumbeats coming from the depths of the fog.

But before he could ask, Niu Fu came over with a grim expression and reported: "Prime Minister, the front line has been broken. The Wei army has switched from defense to offense. Our men are struggling."

As soon as these words were spoken, Dong Zhuo's expression suddenly became gloomy.

How to say it, before this battle, he had imagined all kinds of situations, but he never thought it would be so disgusting.

From the beginning of the battle, Dong Zhuo felt uncomfortable all over, as if he was fighting in mud and swamp.

Wei Zhe on the opposite side clearly said that he wanted to fight him, but when it came to the battle, he was like a turtle.

This guy is so young but he has none of the sharpness of a young man or the arrogance of a famous general from the northern border!

Dong Zhuo even felt that the commander on the opposite side was not a young man, but an old man who was in his twilight years.

But what made Dong Zhuo feel most aggrieved was that Wei Zhe actually got the chance to fight!

However, Dong Zhuo was a veteran who had experienced many battles. After quickly analyzing the situation on the battlefield, he immediately came up with an idea.

"Pass on my order. Don't worry about the formation anymore. All camps should attack."

Dong Zhuo gnashed his teeth and shouted, "Send a message to Lü Bu, Guo Si, Zhang Ji, Duan Wei, and Xu Rong. Ignore everything else and focus on Wei Zhe. I want his head!"

Upon hearing this, the messenger immediately hurried down to deliver the message.

It's true, Dong Zhuo's tactic of using chaos to disrupt the enemy and even actively creating chaos actually worked.

As Lü Bu, Guo Si, Zhang Ji and others recklessly charged forward, they caused considerable trouble for the Wei army. However, just as Dong Zhuo thought this battle would end in a draw, the rumble of horse hooves suddenly rang out from behind Dong's army, accompanied by a familiar horn sound.

Before Dong Zhuo could react, he heard someone in the fog behind him shouting in unison:

"Ma Teng is here, who dares to fight me?"

"Han Sui is here, why don't you surrender?"

"Huangfu Song is here, why don't you abandon the dark and join the light?"

All he could hear was the shouts, one louder than the other, deafening and making Dong Zhuo's heart tremble.

For a moment, Dong Zhuo really suspected that the rebel army in Liang Province was colluding with Huangfu Song.

He even worried that Chang'an had been captured by Huangfu Song's troops.

But when Zhao Yun led his cavalry to charge into the rear of Dong's army, Dong Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief.

Even though Zhao Yun and his group were carrying flags with names like "Huangfu," "Ma," and "Han," Dong Zhuo could tell at a glance that they were not cavalrymen from Liang Province.

However, Dong Zhuo could tell the difference, but ordinary soldiers of Dong's army did not have this ability.

They only knew that the Liangzhou army had been causing chaos for several years and that it was very fierce, and that General Huangfu Song was also very powerful.

As a result, the order that had been barely maintained suddenly fell into chaos under the attack of Zhao Yun and others.

Although Zhao Yun and his entourage only had a thousand elite cavalry, Dong's army seemed to be attacked by tens of thousands of Liangzhou rebels.

However, in the blink of an eye, Dong's army was in panic and fell apart.

Wei Zhe, who had been waiting for a long time, naturally would not miss this opportunity and immediately launched a full-scale counterattack.

A chaotic fight? Haha~ Now he wants nothing more than that!
As the Wei army struck hard, the Dong army inevitably fell into disarray.

The various tribes that had been forcibly incorporated by Dong Zhuo were now completely out of order in the fog.

Either intentional or unintentional.

After passing a certain critical point, someone shouted "We're defeated! We're defeated" first, and the news of defeat quickly spread among Dong's army, and many of their soldiers turned around and fled.

Even if there were some brave men who were not prepared to desert, they lost their courage after seeing this scene and turned around and followed closely. For a moment, a large number of Dong's troops began to flee in all directions.

What does it mean to fall apart? This is it!

Previously, when the army was also in adversity, Wei Zhe was able to better resist the situation by rallying the army's morale through his "Feng Yi Jing Nan" campaign.

Until this moment, Dong Zhuo finally gave up the last glimmer of hope.

Under the central army flag, he looked back at the battlefield with an unwilling look on his face, and then led the reserve troops in his hands away without hesitation.

However, Lu Bu stayed where he was with a grim expression.

After cursing for a while, he led his troops towards the Wei army with an angry look on his face.

Because Dong Zhuo had just ordered him to cover the rear and buy time for himself to gather the defeated troops.

No matter how reluctant Lu Bu was, he had no choice but to obey the order at this moment.

Unfortunately, Lu Bu is not Xiang Yu after all. If Wei Zhe can defeat him once, he can defeat him a second time.

This time, Taishi Ci led his army to defeat Lu Bu's troops without even needing the help of Zhao Yun and Jiao Shan.

After all, the outcome of this battle has been decided, so how could Lu Bu's troops still have the will to fight?

The winner's strength increases, while the loser's strength decreases, and the gap in combat effectiveness naturally widens.

What’s the use of Lu Bu fighting alone, no matter how good he is at it? Can he really defeat a thousand cavalrymen alone?

However, Lu Bu was not so stupid. After a brief struggle at Xuanping Gate, he fled directly.

A moment later, looking at the ruined Luoyang City before him, Wei Zhe finally smiled from the bottom of his heart...

(End of this chapter)