Chapter 71 The Encirclement
Zhou Bo led the cavalry to wait for the fork at the fork outside the south gate. At this intersection, there were three forks, divided into three directions east and south. Zhou Bo divided the troops into four parts, and arranged one route in the depths of the three intersections, and he personally led the intersection. In doing so, although the troops were relatively scattered, no matter which direction Zhang Er escaped from, he could not escape the fate of being attacked from front and back.
Zhang Er did not disappoint Wang Ben. He indeed chose to break through the South Gate and escape to Jiyuan. After Zhou Bo's team settled, he vaguely saw the fire on the city walls on the east and west sides. It was not very real, and he thought it might have started. After waiting for an hour, the quiet South Gate gate suddenly opened and a team of about five or six thousand cavalry rushed out from inside, rushing towards this side like a pack of wolves. Zhou Bo whispered, "General Wang is really a clever plan. Zhang Er is indeed here, and he is here to send orders to meet the enemy." The three commanders sent orders in three directions, and a large net of death opened to Zhang Er in full.
Although Zhang Er was depressed, he was still a little lucky! He thought to himself that although Wang Ben is a famous general, he still let me escape with great swagger. From this point of view, I, Zhang Er, is not much worse than you, Wang Ben. When Zhang Er saw that the road ahead was pitch black and boundless, he immediately sent an order; "Don't light a torch for the time being, just move forward in the darkness." He was afraid of exposing his target too early and being pursued by the Qin army. Unexpectedly, this would help Zhou Bo a great help.
What Zhou Bo is most afraid of is that the soldiers exposed their target and scared Zhang Er away. When he saw Zhang Er's soldiers coming in the dark, he was overjoyed and told the soldiers, "Don't do it first. After half of the troops pass, we are going out and cutting them in half, so that he can't look after each other and trample on each other."
Zhang Er ran away desperately, but he didn't even think about whether there was an ambush. He rushed through the intersection first and turned to the fork in the south.
Zhou Bo and his soldiers lay in the reed marsh on both sides of the road. The north wind blew, and the reeds swayed and rustled, and the sound of horse hooves of tapping covered all the sounds. The Zhao army did not notice any strangeness at all. Just after the Zhao army half passed the fork in the road, Zhou Bo gave an order and followed a clapper. Two Qin cavalry quickly squeezed into the middle of the road like a tide. Zhao army suffered a sudden change and immediately shouted loudly, and people were overturned.
"Don't leave Zhang Er, General Zhou Bo is here, and he won't get off the horse and surrender!" Zhou Bo rushed out of the reed marsh on a white horse, galloping in the chaos, killing all the way, and heading towards Zhang Er. According to the setting in advance, hundreds of archers have shot out rockets and ignited all the reed marsh on both sides of the road. The fire immediately burned the sky, like millions of blood-red giant pythons entangled together and rushed to the sky. The battlefield is as bright as daytime.
The Zhao army, who was raided, was even more panicked when they saw the fire. The front and rear teams were cut off by Zhou Bo's subordinates and lost contact. The Qin army cut in from the middle, galloped on horseback, wielding swords and guns to fight with the Zhao army. The Zhao army's rear team was no one to command, and even Zhang Er's shadow was not visible. He was still at ease with the war, and they turned around and ran away, trying to escape from the south gate. Zhou Bo commanded the cavalry all the way, followed by the chopping and slaughtering, chasing to the edge of the moat. In the darkness, the Zhao cavalry was panicked and threw hundreds of people into Hanoi drowned and killed. The Qin army was extremely cruel to chop along the river.
Seeing that the Zhao army's rear team had collapsed, Zhou Bo immediately followed Zhang Er to the south and ran out about ten miles away. Fires surged into the sky in the distance, and shouted loudly. Zhou Bo knew that Zhang Er was stopped by his ambush, so he immediately activated the war horse and shouted: "Catch Zhang Er alive, capture Zhang Er alive." He ran over frantically.
Zhang Er was indeed intercepted here. At this time, there were only two or three thousand soldiers around him. Although they were all elite soldiers and powerful generals, the Qin army seemed to have enough 20,000, and he could still calculate the amount of 10. Zhang Er did not dare to respond, so he quickly turned his horse's head and escaped from death. It didn't matter if he turned his head, and he stepped on more than twenty of his soldiers to death. When the team saw the main general fleeing, they immediately scattered and fled from all directions.
At this time, Zhou Bo happened to arrive and started a fight from behind. He made Zhang Er into a "sandwich".
Zhang Er was sandwiched in the middle, and he could not die, and he could not live. There was no way to go to the earth and there was no way to enter the earth and could not be called the earth and the earth was not effective. Zhou Bo happened to see Zhang Er's fat body through the fire, and whistled in a long voice. "Zhang Er, don't surrender yet, when will he wait?" He shook the iron halberd in his hand, picked up two Zhao troops, and drilled the Zhao army like a sharp blade, rushed straight towards Zhang Er. Zhang Er didn't know much martial arts at first, and although he was holding a big knife, he could deal with a soldier and a small soldier. When he met a master like Zhou Bo, he would just wait for death.
Zhang Er would not be so stupid as to fight Zhou Bo. He found a gap and avoided it. But Zhou Bo recognized him and chased him all the way. The Zhao soldiers who ran to the place Zhang Er was unlucky with him. Zhou Bo killed all the way, and the dead bodies behind him were blocked. Zhang Er only cared forward, not knowing that Zhou Bo had reached behind him. Suddenly, the cold wind suddenly popped up behind his ears. Before he could react, a long hole was already broken by a sharp blade on his right arm, and blood rose high. The scales on the armor were picked up by a powerful force.
Zhang Er looked back and saw that Zhou Bo was sending a small pawn blocking his sight to the west. Seeing Zhang Er escape with his wounds, Zhou Bo carried the iron halberd on the saddle bridge, picked up the bow and arrow, and pulled the bow string, which looked at Zhang Er's war horse with an arrow. Zhang Er thought Zhou Bo wanted his life, so he closed his eyes and waited for death. Unexpectedly, the war horse fell down at the sound of the bow string. His body also threw out, and Peng's head hit a big tree on the side of the road with a sound, losing consciousness.
Zhou Bo lifted his horse over, gently stretched out his ape's arms, lifted up the limp Zhang Er upside down, placed it on the horse's back, and rode back on the horse's back, shouted in the chaos of the army, "I have captured Zhang Er by Zhao, so you can surrender quickly." As he said that, he raised Zhang Er's 150 or 60 pounds with his boundless divine power.
The soldiers of the Zhao army were already killed by enemies who were several times more than their own. Many people wanted to surrender but did not dare to surrender, because the Qin soldiers who fought with them were already red in their eyes. They didn't care about it at all. They only knew that they would raise their swords and harvest the heads. They still care whether you surrender or not. At this time, they heard Zhou Bo's shouting, and it was like getting a general amnesty, and the sound of surrender was endless. They dismounted and threw their weapons and threw them on the side of the road. A few of the loyal people were chopped into meat sauce and threw them on the side of the road to feed wild dogs.
Zhou Bo cleaned the battlefield for a while and rode his horse back to the city. When he arrived at the city, this small-scale street battle was still being carried out. When Zhang Er left the city, he took away the defenders at the south gate, so no one came to close the city gate. Zhou Bo took Zhang Er's troops and walked onto the suspension bridge, rushed into the city and headed straight for the east gate.
Along the way, Zhou Bofeng swept away the rebellious Zhao army, and made the soldiers shout to promote the news of Zhang Er's capture. Many soldiers who had long wanted to surrender put down their weapons. Zhou Bo's cavalry was like a death corps, sweeping countless heads all the way, and came outside the East Gate to meet with Wang Ben's main army. At this time, Ren Ao and E Qianqiu's troops had also attacked the city. The Zhao army, who were defending the two gates, fled to death, and chaos began to occur in the city.
Wang Ben dispatched all troops to carry out street fighting, and stipulated that surrender was exempt from death and that the people should not disturb the military order. Those who dared to violate the crime would be killed. The Qin soldiers then launched a killing on the streets and alleys in the city, searching out the Zhao army who fled into the city one by one. Those who surrendered were exempt from death. As long as the people did not go out to watch the fun, basically no one dared to rush into the house and chop him to death. However, if there were really those who were not afraid of death standing in the middle of the road to appreciate the war situation, it would be more worthy of death.
The battle ran from midnight to noon the next day. The strong north wind brought a rare snow early in the morning. Each six-petal snowflake was almost the size of a goose feather. In the hazy and yellow sky, the world quickly turned into a piece of silver. The silver covered the plasma and corpses, but could not cover the choking blood. In the most intense street battle, the snowflakes were melted by blood. The blood formed a stream, forming winding rivers on the snow-white earth.
The shouts of killing became less and less. The Qin army had already taken the initiative in the war. Stepping on blood and snow, King Bo of Zhou entered the palace of King Zhao together. Wang Ben's handsome flag was also inserted into every corner of the head of Julu City. Although there were some fighting outside, it was just E Qianqiu and Ren Ao who led the soldiers to clean the battlefield.
"General Zhou Bo, you worked hard all night and should have given you a rest, but the military situation is urgent and urgent, so you have to work harder." Wang Ben was happy and his muscles, which had been broken on his old face for more than ten days, finally relaxed. Zhou Bo made great contributions again, and was very excited and bowed to his salute. "The old general has something to do, so Zhou Bo can hold on." Wang Ben thought to himself that this kid is not only a general but also a lucky general, and he is extremely lucky. He will be extremely lucky in the future, so he nodded. "This general is worried that Luo Shen's troops are too small and cannot seize the corridor. You can help him, brothers Tian, are timid and afraid of things. If you seize the corridor, you probably will escape. Don't let them run away. These two are bargaining chips for the alliance between the king and the King of Qi. We want to live."
Zhou Bo understood Wang Ben's meaning. Tian Jiao and Tian Jian were the brothers of the old King Tian Jiao of Qi. Although Tian Jiao was squeezed out of Qi by Tian Rong and Tian Heng's brothers, a large number of Qi people still favored Tian Jiao's legal status. Because Tian Jiao was the direct descendant of the Tian family of Qi. Therefore, Tian Jiao and Tian Jian were very valuable.
"I will obey the order!" Zhou Bo went to make a contribution again.
Luo Shen and Jiang Ji easily crossed the Zhang River according to the route designated by Wang Ben and quietly approached the corridor. In order to facilitate the water supply of soldiers who transported food, there were three gaps in the corridor. They usually had heavy troops, and they were on the riverside, so they were not easily attacked by the enemy. Luo Shen and Jiang Ji encountered similar situations to Wang Ben and others. The ambushers here could not withstand the severe cold and were almost crazy. I heard that the Qin army had been having partying for several days, so the Tian brothers simply retreated the people. To put it bluntly, Tian Jiao and the fields were a pair of waste, which was a 100,000 miles away from Zhang Er, Tian Rong and Tian Heng.
Luo Shen and Jiang Ji were overjoyed when they found that there were no ambushes in the corridor. After they decided to divide the troops into two groups, one by one, one by one, and one by one, along the corridor, heading towards Jiyuan, eighty miles away.
Tian Jiao and Tianma didn't know that Zhang Er was over. He heard that Luo Shen's army was approaching and sent someone to deliver a letter to Zhang Er. When the sender came outside the city, he immediately disappeared without a trace.
Luo Shen and Jiang Ji had few soldiers, only 15,000. Tian Jiao Tianma had more than 30,000 people. At first, they didn't take Luo Shen and Jiang Ji seriously. They wanted to wait for Zhang Er's reinforcements to arrive and attack inside and outside to kill all the Qin army. However, they didn't expect that from night to early morning of the next day, and at noon of the next day, they didn't even see the shadow of a reinforcement. Luo Shen and Jiang Ji were very arrogant. They attacked the city all night with just over 10,000 people. Tian Jiao and Tianma began to be a little scared and already had the idea of running away.
Just after noon, in the snow, in the direction of Julu, a group of people rolled up snow and rushed towards the city. Tian Jiao saw it at the top of the city and shouted happily: "Second brother, look, King Zhao has sent reinforcements, we have won." The fields were waving a big knife to kill the Qin soldiers. More than a dozen Qin army ladders were already laid on the city wall. Qin army archers holding shields were still shooting towards the city on the other side of the moat, and the sky was densely filled with life-threatening arrows. Soldiers fell down from time to time. The frozen stubble stubble was blood-red and the smell was swaying.
The Qin army was still under the city, howling on the ladder.
The fields were very happy, and stabbed a Qin army into the lower abdomen, pushed the people down the city tower, and laughed loudly, "You are finished, King Zhao has sent reinforcements."
The large group of people and horses moved like lightning. When they came closer, the smiles of the Tian brothers disappeared bit by bit. In the cavalry formation, the word "Qin" was written on the black battle flag that was stretched and swept. In fact, as soon as the moment they saw the black flag, the fields had realized that it was not good. The people of Zhao hated black the most, and they would not plant the black flag.
Luo Shen and Jiang Ji were also a little scared at first, thinking it was Zhao's troops. When they sent spies to see, they realized that it was Zhou Bo's reinforcements. Zhou Bo came to the city, and when he saw that the battle had reached a heightened height, he immediately added a fire and ordered his infantry to attack the city with all their strength.
Tianjiao saw a black armored and red robe coming in awe, with wind and rain, with a majestic weapon, with 30,000 soldiers and horses behind him, with spears and swords and guns covering the sun, and the formation was like a sea. He was immediately discouraged. There was a shout of killing, and a clanging sound, Tianjiao shot Qin Bing's forehead, carrying a bow and arrow to the field, and said, "Second brother, I can't do it anymore, I'd better run, I can't stand it."
It is decisive to do things in the fields. After calming down for a moment, an invincible look ejaculated in his eyes, he said in an unquestionable tone; "Run, run from Ximen, and go to Dingtao." (To be continued)
Chapter completed!