Chapter 2324 The death of a hero
Seeing Zhang He's battle flag appear behind Pang De and keep approaching, Liu Bei was overjoyed.
Cavalry, especially those who rush to rush with spears and halberds, are most taboo to be followed and chased by others. Spears and halberds are mainly assassination, and they need to use horsepower to break armor to facilitate frontal impact and to fight behind the enemy. Turning around on the bumpy horseback is a challenge for most knights. Even with stirrups now, the stability is greatly enhanced, so it is still the case.
Zhang He is worthy of being a famous general in Hebei. He actually seized such an opportunity. It is really a matter of heaven that I will never destroy me.
Liu Bei was inexplicably excited, raised his sword and let out a long roar.
"Kill! Those who block me will die-"
Most of the personal guards around him were experienced soldiers, and they knew that Zhang He's life and death were of great importance. Seeing that Zhang He was not only alive, but also successfully seized the favorable situation, he was ecstatic, with high morale and high fighting spirit. They all roared in unison, raised their spears, and rushed towards Pang De.
One hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps...
Seeing that the two sides were about to collide, Liu Bei tightly held the sword in his hand and was about to fight. The two personal guards in front of him suddenly fell off their horses and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Liu Bei's eyes were empty and he suddenly found Pang De holding a bow, his arms spread out like a baby.
The next moment, Liu Bei's eyes were in front of him, and a feather arrow shot through his breastplate. The arrowhead pierced deeply into his left shoulder. Less than a punch in his heart, the arrow shaft trembled and kept buzzing. The rest of his body led Liu Bei to tilt and almost fell off the horse's back. Then, a severe pain spread and quickly covered half of Liu Bei's side. The pain made him heart-wrenching, and then he was angry again.
He was seriously injured in the first battle, which meant that his chances of surviving the next fierce battle were greatly reduced, which meant that he had just seen the hope of victory and was in a blink of an eye again. This made him extremely sad and angry, and all the resentment that had accumulated for too long suddenly burst out.
"Qiang Dog, it's too much!" Liu Bei opened his eyes wide, roared fiercely, threw out the Chixia sword in his hand, then pulled out the Qingyun sword at his waist, and chopped towards Pang De.
Within a hundred steps, Pang De shot three arrows in a row, but the arrows also stuck himself in a dangerous place. Looking at the long sword rolling in, he didn't have time to think about it and waved his bow to block it. "Do!" The sword bows intersected, the sword was knocked away, and the sword blade flew, and the bow string was cut off. The long bow shook violently. Pang De's arm numb, unable to hold the bow, and took off his hand. Fortunately, he tied a leather rope between the bow and wrist, but although the bow was removed, he was not disappointed.
Immediately afterwards, Liu Bei arrived in front of him, and a green Hong came to him. Thinking of the light red sword shadow just now, Pang De knew that this was the Qingyun created by Huang Chengyan, Chixia's two swords, and he couldn't help but sneer, raised his left arm to patrol, and slammed his spear with his right hand.
The Qingyun Sword slashed on the small shield on Pang De's left arm, sparks flew everywhere, metal squirming, the small shield was cut out a deep hole, the Qingyun Sword was also broken, and half of the long sword disappeared in a flash. The two horses crossed, and Liu Bei and Pang De looked at each other, and they wanted to pounce directly on the horse's back and capture the opponent, but in the end they gave up this unwise choice and quickly stayed away.
Liu Bei looked at the half-sword body in his hand and felt a sense of relief. Over the years, these long swords have been like Sun Ce's shadow, which not only helped him charge into battle, but also made him feel the pressure of Sun Ce at all times and could not breathe. Now that the sword is broken, his contact with Sun Ce is gone, leaving only hostility.
Liu Bei threw away the broken sword, like throwing away a piece of waste.
He raised his spear and rushed towards the next opponent. With his roar, the spear hit him left and right, killing two people in a row.
A Wu cavalry ran towards him with a spear, his eyes flashing with excitement, like a beast seeing prey. Liu Bei sneered and stabbed his spear hard. The two spears intersected. Liu Bei was injured in his left shoulder. His left hand could not use force and could not grasp the direction of the spear. He was snatched into the middle door by Wu cavalry. The spear pierced Liu Bei's pneumatic armor, and the spearhead pierced from the front and came out from the back.
Liu Bei flew up from the horse's back and then hit a personal guard again, and both of them were dismissed at the same time.
The Wu cavalry was overjoyed and cheered. Before the cheers could be heard, two Zhongshan knights rushed to the scene, and two spears stabbed almost at the same time. The Wu cavalry was lifted away, and blood poured out of his mouth and landed on the ground with a bang. Then they were trampled by war horses, and they were in a state of excitement.
The two Zhongshan army knights had no time to cheer, and more Wu cavalry rushed over and picked them off one after another.
The war horses were galloping rapidly, and spears were thrust, and the knights were falling off, the sound of horse hooves, metal hits, screams, and heavy bodies fell to the ground, mixed together, blood splashed, dyeing the loess red, and the sound of killing shook the sky, shaking back and forth in the valley.
Liu Bei fell off his horse when he was caught in the spear. Both knights could see clearly. One side wanted to cut off Liu Bei's head and compete for the greatest contribution of this battle. The other side wanted to protect Liu Bei and fulfill his mission as a personal guard. Everyone rushed forward and rushed forward desperately. The team became increasingly dense, and even if they had good riding skills, they could not get out. One war horse was hit together. The knights on the horse held a spear and stabbed hard. The fallen knights rolled around and rolled among the chaotic horse hooves, and many people were injured and trampled to death by the war horses.
The knight who was lucky enough to die stood up, endured the fascination of his eyes, choked the loess that made people breathless, and continued to fight. The Wu Qi knew that the spear was not conducive to melee combat, so some people gave up the spear, pulled out the ring knife around their waists, attacked closely, and shouted loudly at the same time.
"Form a formation, form a formation!"
"The first team of Danyang Qu Zuodu leads Wang Hong here!" A young knight waved his sword with both hands, slashing and yelling loudly.
"The third team Liu Dahei reported to you!" A knight held a long sword and grabbed Wang Hong's side, and promptly opened a spear that stabbed Wang Hong. Wang Hong took advantage of the situation to snatch it in. The long sword followed the spear and cut off the finger of the Zhongshan knight. The Zhongshan knight screamed in pain and threw the spear. As soon as the scream came out, another Wu army knight arrived and rushed forward with his spear, piercing his chest with a spear.
"Sun Xiaoyu of the fourth team reported to him!" Wu Jun knight blew his spear and shouted loudly.
"Liu Dahei and I are in front, Sun Xiaoyu is behind." Wang Hong flew up and kicked the Zhongshan knight who was in the spear, helping Sun Xiaoyu pull out the spear. "Triangular array, Triangular array!"
"Here!" Liu Dahei and Sun Xiaoyu agreed at the same time and cooperated with Wang Hong to form a formation. One stood beside Wang Hong and the other stood behind Wang Hong.
Not far away, another voice sounded. "The third team of Danyang Quyoudu led Tian Zhuang here!"
"The first team stayed in Wu to report!"
"Chen Yong of the second team came here!"
"The first team Yu Qiang reported to you!"
Liu Bei lay on the ground, listening to the familiar Wu Yu, watching a Wu army knight standing side by side with another Wu army knight, and then saw another forming a three-person formation. A tall Zhongshan knight rushed up and stabbed with a spear. The spear was cut open by a Wu army knight and pressed to the ground. Before he could react, the Wu army knight in the back row pierced his chest with a spear, and another Wu army knight took advantage of the situation and stepped forward, slashed his neck. In a blink of an eye, the Zhongshan knight fell in a pool of blood and fell in front of Liu Bei.
More and more Wu army knights gathered together to form small formations and rushed over from different directions. Some used spears and war horses to form formations to block the Zhongshan knights who were rushing to fight, while others surrounded Liu Bei and his personal guard knights, and killed the Zhongshan knights who were trying to break through. In front of these Wu army knights who had cooperated tacitly, one Zhongshan knight after another fell in a pool of blood.
The encirclement became more and more. Although the Wu Qi was covered in blood, the formation became thicker and tighter, gradually surrounding Liu Bei. They waved their swords and spears and ruthlessly killed the enemies in front of them. The blood on their bodies became more and more, but their eyes became brighter and more steady, and even on the chaotic battlefield, they were like rocks and unshakable.
Looking at Wu Jun's familiar small formation, skillfully cooperating, and looking at the personal guards in front of him who were cut down like reeds, becoming thinner and shaky defensive formation, Liu Bei sighed and closed his eyes.
My life is over, and I will die today!
Liu Bei gasped, pulled out a battle knife from the waist of a knight beside him, stood up with force, and laughed and said, "The great Han clan, Liu Bei, the king of Zhongshan, is here, and has a great head, who can kill him?"
"How dare you be a dog with a broken family?" A Wu army knight sneered and rushed with a spear. The only two remaining guards around Liu Bei rushed forward and used a cavalry shield to break the spear. Liu Bei took advantage of the situation to break in, waved his sword, and cut off with one knife. Two Wu army knights with swords stepped forward and attacked Liu Bei's sword, and the other stabbed him with a knife. Liu Bei was injured first, exhausted his strength and could not avoid it, and was stabbed by a knife. He was ruthless, grabbed the knight with one hand, pulled off his helmet, waved the knife with the other hand, and pulled it open, cutting his neck.
Blood splattered Liu Bei's face and mixed with Liu Bei's own blood. The knight also became fierce, holding the sword tightly in both hands, and regardless of it, pushed Liu Bei forward for two steps, snatched into Liu Bei's defensive formation, stirred hard, and cut horizontally. Liu Bei screamed, his abdomen opened, blood flowed over the intestines, and fell to the ground. Several Zhongshan knights rushed up, chopped down the Wu cavalry by random swords, and dragged Liu Bei backwards. I don't know who made a mistake in his hurry and stepped on Liu Bei's intestines, causing Liu Bei's hissings to roar.
Hearing Liu Bei's desperate roar, more Wu army knights rushed up, killing the surviving Zhongshan knights, carrying out the final encirclement and annihilation, and competing for this tempting credit.
Liu Bei was so painful that his whole body was exhausted, and cold sweat was like slurry, and his mind was particularly clear. His life of more than 40 years flashed through his eyes one by one. He thought of his mother, his son, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and the big mulberry tree that had been scattered up, and suddenly felt relieved.
Sun Ce even knew this mulberry tree, what else did he not know? He was either a saint or a monster. People could not be enemies of saints or monsters. No matter how hard I struggled, I could not escape Sun Ce's palm and could not escape the fate of being manipulated by Sun Ce.
Did I do something wrong? If I can be an enemy of such a person, I will still be honored even if I am defeated. At least, I am much better than Yuan Shao, Yuan Tan and his son.
Liu Bei opened his eyes and his tense face slowly relaxed. He looked at the loess all over the sky, looked at the bleak sun in the sky, let out a long sigh, and a faint smile appeared on his face.
The sky is dead!
On the battlefield, the cavalry were still rushing. Although the equipment of the Zhongshan Army's personal guards was not bad, their ability to assault melee combat was obviously not as good as that of the Hordes, and they could not be compared with the Knights of the Central Army of Wu. In front of the spear and armor that was 15 feet long, they were at a disadvantage and suffered heavy losses.
Pang De was not in love with the battle, so he led his troops to quickly break through the Zhongshan Knights, ran to the dirt slope on the upper side, took advantage of the slope to slow down, turn the horse's head, and look down high, observing the situation on the entire battlefield. Seeing that Liu Bei's battle flag stopped, a large group of people were fighting around the battle flag, Pang De was overjoyed. Liu Bei was caught, which was a great opportunity to kill him. He immediately ordered the knights to divide into two teams, and good shooting skills were good to participate in the siege of Liu Bei, and the rest followed him to fight Zhang He.
The knights responded and quickly divided into two teams. Pang De took out a bowstring and re-wind it. After following Ma Chao for many years, his shooting skills were not weak. In recent years, he followed Sun Ce without distraction and focused on martial arts. His shooting skills were even more superb. When he confronted the battle, he used a bow at a distance and a spear at a distance. It was a double excellence, which was enough to make the opponent unable to defend.
Pang De held the bow and held the arrow, kicked the horse again and accelerated, facing Zhang He. He knew that Zhang He was seriously injured and his combat power was greatly reduced. The personal guards around him were enough to deal with it. There was no need to fight by himself. The big halberd also suffered heavy losses. He could expand the killing and injury in order to wipe out the entire annihilation. He ordered his knights to line up horizontally and arranged several personal guards to cover him so that he could concentrate on shooting arrows, just like he did when he covered Ma Chao.
The sound of horse hooves rose again, and the knights rushed down the hillside. Pang De raised his bow and took an arrow, and looked at Zhang He who was getting closer and closer, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Although Zhang He caught up with some Wu army knights and brought them down, he failed to catch up with the main force of the Wu army knights, and the results were limited. He secretly complained that the Zhongshan knights' combat power was still too weak and did not play the role they deserve. When he found out that Liu Bei was caught and surrounded by Wu army knights, he was shocked and did not bother to pursue Pang De and rushed to rescue him, hoping to steal Liu Bei.
When he arrived, he happened to see Liu Bei cut off his lower abdomen by the Wu army knights and fell to the ground on his back. He was completely disappointed.
Liu Bei was dead. After suffering such severe injuries, even if he was not killed by the Wu army, he would die of injuries. Even if Hua Tuo had good medical skills, he would not be able to cure his injuries. Zhongshan Kingdom was destroyed, and A Dou, who was not yet one year old, could not maintain the reign of Zhongshan Kingdom.
Why do I still have to fight and for whom? Although the world is big, where can I have a foothold?
Zhang He felt confused, empty and had no support.
In the distance, Pang De was speeding under the cover of his personal guards, and the arrows on the string were aiming at Zhang He.
Zhang He was indifferent, lowered his head, and even the halberd in his hand was weakly hung down.
The moment he released the bowstring, Pang De suddenly felt that the figure in the distance looked familiar, as if familiar. He moved his heart, his finger turned a little in a direction, and shouted loudly: "Capture Zhang He alive!"
The arrow left the string and hit Zhang He's battle horse's forehead. The battle horse neighed and fell to the ground.
Zhang He fell off his horse.
Pang De kicked the horse and rushed past the side, rushing towards the halberd who wanted to save Zhang He. The two knights jumped off the horse, pressed Zhang He down, and tied it up with the rope he carried with him.
Zhang He did not move, his eyes closed, and his anger was as if he was a wandering spring.
Chapter completed!