Chapter 16: Calamity

"Fire! Fire! Fire!" Han Sui suddenly screamed, turned over and sat up, almost knocking over the lampstand next to him. When the sleepy guards heard his scream, they rushed over. Some helped Han Sui up, while others were shaking the lampstand.

Han Sui was sweating coldly, looking at the door of the tent that was blown by the wind in fear, listening for a moment, but the footsteps of the guards in the tent were heard, and he could not hear anything.

"Please come to Growth History." Han Sui calmed down and waved his hand tiredly.

The guard turned around and went out. As soon as he left the tent, he saw Cheng Gongying strode with pale faces. Cheng Gongying couldn't help but be surprised when he saw Han Sui's tent was brightly lit, but he didn't bother to think about it and asked anxiously: "Are you awake?"

"Sir, the general has woken up and is asking Beizhi to find him. But he happened to be here." Before the personal guard could finish his words, Cheng Zai Gongying had already rushed into Han Sui's tent.

"Pengying, what's wrong with you?" Han Sui, who was sweating profusely, looked at Cheng Gongying with sweat profusely and asked in confusion.

"General, the scout from Cao's camp has returned." Cheng Gongying took a breath, his face looked ugly. Han Sui suddenly became nervous and grabbed Cheng Gongying's arm: "What's the situation? How many of them are there?"

"About 15,000 people." Cheng Gongying swallowed with difficulty, looked at Han Sui who had just breathed a sigh of relief, and said again: "But the camp is empty now, with only two hundred people guarding the baggage. Deng Ai and Xiahou all have battle flags, but... people are not in the camp."

Han Sui's scalp suddenly became numb, and 15,000 elite soldiers were not in the camp. What could he do? One possibility was to support Xiahou Yuan. However, the journey was too long, and they could not put the baggage here to serve as a large army. People who were a little crazy could not think of such crazy things. Another possible possibility was that they came to attack themselves. It was only about ten miles away and there were mountains and forests, so it was easier to hide.

However, weren’t they just arrived? When they arrived, their camp had not been established yet. It is conceivable that the iron army rushed to the scene. At this time, they did not rely on the camp to rest well, but they dared to attack them in a sneak attack? Han Sui was a little unbelievable, but he looked at Cheng Gongying with a little busy look. Without asking, he knew that Cheng Gongying had thought of going with him.

"Where are the scouts nearby?" Han Sui asked hurriedly.

"I just returned half an hour ago, and there were more than twenty left. However, none of the ten people sent to the northwest hillside were back." Cheng Gongying said a few words and had calmed down. He pulled Han Sui up and said, "General, I have woken up the general's personal guard camp. Please immediately order to wake up all the generals and let them be careful. Judging from the signs, Deng Ai and Xiahou said that the ten-way ** were ambushing in the ravine in the northwest."

While Han Sui opened his arms and asked his personal guard to put on his armor, he listened to Cheng Gongying's words. His face turned blue and white, and a huge fear made him feel breathless. He opened his mouth wide and inhaled desperately, just like a dying fish.

"Hurry up, call them all, be careful..." Han Sui's order was halfway through, and suddenly stopped. He stretched out his hand to signal everyone to stop the sound. Cheng Gongying and others immediately closed their mouths, and the big tent suddenly became quiet, and even the sound of gasping was clearly heard.

A sharp roar came out of the howling north wind, and it was vaguely heard. Han Sui and Cheng Gongying looked at each other, their faces changed drastically, and Cheng Gongying's figure spread out like a leopard suddenly jumped out of the big tent. The scene outside the tent immediately shocked him.

Thousands of long arrows, with twinkling flames, flew up from the northwest hillside like a dazzling star. They instantly pounced on the big tent, nailed to the cowhide tent, and nailed to the ground. The feathers were still trembling. The torch tied to the shaft of the arrow quickly ignited everything that could burn. The weather was dry, and the fire soon spread out.

The soldiers who were awakened by the fire exclaimed, jumped up and slapped the fire, and exclaimed loudly with the soldiers watching the night. The camp was in chaos. Cheng Gongying's eyes saw six black dragons with cold light on the distant hillside, quietly winding down from the top of the mountain, and soon approached the camp.

"The situation is gone!" Cheng Gongying slapped his forehead, lamented, turned his body back to the tent, pulled Han Sui and left. Han Sui was still a little confused. When he saw outside the tent, his face turned pale immediately. Without saying a word, he shook Cheng Gongying's hand, flew away with agility that he could not see normally, and shouted: "Go away quickly."

The personal guard camp had already been ready to stop. They were still a little dissatisfied when they were called out by Cheng Gongying, but this dissatisfaction soon disappeared. Cheng Gongying's alertness gave them half an hour to prepare. When the other camps were still in chaos, Han Sui's own troops had already been packed up and prepared for the battle. Ten thousand soldiers stood next to his war horses in full armed manner, waiting for Han Sui's orders.

Han Sui glanced at the battlefield and immediately issued a simple and effective order: "Get out of the camp and line up in the west."

Ten thousand soldiers rolled over their horses, quickly withdrew from the camp, and set up an attack formation along the south slope of Guanshan Mountain. At this time, the camp was already in chaos. The camp was already in chaos. The candidates and others rode on the horse, shouting and clamoring, and they were killed by the Cao army who had taken advantage of the chaos to break back step by step. They could not organize effective blockades at all, and could only rely on the soldiers' personal courage to fight against the six people who entered the camp, like small stones in front of a mountain torrent, turning a little blood flower, and were quickly taken away by the rapids.

However, after a meal, Cao's army had already reached the center of the camp, lit almost everything that could be ordered, and killed everyone in front of them. But their charge ended here. Almost at the same time, Deng Ai, Xiahou Cheng Cheng Yin and others saw the cavalry lined up in the west of the camp.

"Retreat!" Deng Ai immediately ordered.

The messenger behind him immediately rang the golden gong in his hand. The crisp sound of the gong was like an elf in the noisy and hustle and bustle camp. They flexibly penetrated into the ears of Cao's army, which was fighting in full swing, woke up their minds, which were stimulated by blood and killing. They stopped the sword and spear in their hand, and raised their heads to see the situation around them.

Han Sui's ten thousand cavalry raised the weapons in his hand silently and angrily, tightened the reins in his hand, and tried his best to control the excited squirting war horse.

The candidate and others finally had a chance to take a breath, but they had been killed so much that they could no longer resist on the spot. They all rushed west with the remaining defeated soldiers and rushed straight to Han Sui, who was not damaged. Without Han Sui's greeting, they also knew to move out of the charge route of the cavalry and lined up behind the cavalry.

"Transfer the order, Liu Pan's subordinates will retreat." Deng Ai issued an order.

"Transfer the order behind Xu Yi's house, retreat to the camp south." Xiahou said that he issued an order at the same time.

Liu Pan, who was fighting with blood, was excited when he heard the order. He held the sword in his hand tightly, raised the sword and shouted wildly: "Prepare on the spot, and the crossbow is wound..."

To his north, Xu Yi also roared and issued the same order. He led two hundred Jingshan Guards to stand at the front of the team. The soldiers behind him quickly used all the available things around him to form a simple protective formation, one left and one right square formation, like two huge shields on both sides, facing the murderous Xiliang cavalry.

Xiahou said that Deng Ai and his remaining troops were withdrawing from the mess. The camp was flying into the air and set up a stopping formation at the valley entrance to the south. Then he notified Liu Pan and Xu Yi that they could retreat.

Han Sui had a dark face and looked at the four thousand people waiting for the fire in the camp, feeling endless chills. In an hour, only half of the 30,000 troops were left, and only one thousand of them were complete. Most of the other generals were left with only the personal guard camp. They stood behind the formation with burnt to the dust, looking depressed, and completely lost their usual arrogance and arrogance. Cao Jun, who was slowly retreating, had the fierce murderous aura, seemed to be able to penetrate the distance of three or four hundred steps straight to the front.

"General, if you don't rush up, they will all run away." The candidate couldn't help it, ran over from behind the formation, bent down to salute Han Sui.

Han Sui glanced at the candidate whose hair was scattered and whose face was blackened, and a burst of pleasure suddenly arose in his heart. The voice of the candidate usually spoke the most, but today his camp was the first to suffer the most losses, with more than 5,000 people and only more than 100 guards left. His helmet fell off and his iron armor didn't have time to put on, and even the sheepskin coat was tilted on his body. Not to mention how miserable it was.

"General Hou, did you drink too much again yesterday?" Han Sui said indifferently: "You can sleep peacefully without any precautions. You really have it."

The candidate was stunned for a moment and did not dare to say anything. He knew that he had made a mistake. If he hadn't drunk too much last night, neglected to prevent him from organizing some resistance in time and preventing Cao's army from entering the camp so quickly, the others would not have been so embarrassed.

"If General Hou still has the courage and ability, he will be a vanguard. If he is tired, he should go to the back and take a rest." Han Sui said calmly. The candidate lost his temper. He only had a hundred people left and even beat the vanguard, so he turned around and left.

"Gongying, it's better to rush for a while and then retreat, otherwise you can't speak." Han Sui's expression suddenly became relaxed and he looked at Cheng Gongying with satisfaction. Cheng Gongying understood it. He raised the spear in his hand, and two thousand cavalrymen jumped out of the line, forming a sharp arrow behind Cheng Gongying, slowly accelerating, and when he rushed to the front of the camp, he had already raised his speed to the highest level.

When Cheng Gongying lifted the reins of the horse, the horse lightly jumped over the burned fence. The knight behind him followed suit and leaped over the fence smoothly, like the Yangtze River rushing through a small dam, and continued to rush forward smoothly.

Xu Yi and Liu Pan, who were retreating, looked at the cavalry that were about to rush toward each other, watched them kicking dust all the way, lifting the tent blocking the way, sneered, and stopped at the same time, pointed the long sword straight, and the spear soldiers stepped forward, and the front row was on the ground, inserted the spear into the soil, stepped on it with force, holding the handle of the spear, and pointed the sharp spear forward. The shield soldiers rushed to their front, set up a shield, held the hand tightly and listened to the long sword. The archers behind pulled out the strong bow, and the arrow pointed directly in front.

Eighty steps!

"Let me go!" The long sword in Xu Yi's hand slashed down suddenly.

"Buzz--" The loose bowstring made a dull sound.

"Swoosh--" The long arrow flew away from the strings, and instantly flew over an eighty step away, plunging into the cavalry team that was charging, splashing blood. The knight who was caught in the arrow fell under the horse, and then was stepped into meat paste by the war horses behind, leaving only the war horses following the brigade to charge forward.

Cheng Gongying leaned on the horse's back, raised his hand to the small round shield in his left hand, shook his spear in his right hand, and shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrow!"

A rain of arrows rushed up from the formation and rushed towards the Cao army in front. Most of the long arrows were shot on the shield, and a large number of long arrows crossed the shield and poured into the formation, shooting down a piece of Cao army. However, the cavalry's bows were weak and the Cao army's armor was thick, so the damage was much less than that of the cavalry.

After the arrows were shot, the cavalry were about to rush to the spear formation and had no chance to shoot the arrows. They hung up their bows, raised the weapons in their hands, clamped the war horse, leaned forward, and rushed forward at the speed of the war horse.

Cheng Gongying was the first to rush to the front of the formation, and a spear in his hand shook, and he picked up a spear. The war horse ran into the front row with a powerful impact force. The shield soldiers were knocked into the air. The sprayed blood foam flew over five or six steps with his body, and landed on the ground, hitting the soldiers, knocking them to the east and west.

Before he landed, Cheng Gongying stabbed out three spears and killed three Cao soldiers. At the same time, the war horse was stabbed by five spears. After rushing out ten steps, he fell to the ground. Cheng Gongying jumped up, shook his spear in the air, and killed two Cao soldiers in succession. Then he landed on the ground. The spear swept across, swept away the three spears and seven swords that were stabbing forward unstoppable.

After withstood the impact of war horses in more than ten consecutive zones, the spear formation could no longer bear it. The formation was chaotic and a large gap spread out. The cavalry kept rushing into this gap, slashing with a knife, stabbing with a spear, hitting with a horse, and impacting with a body, making the gap bigger and bigger.

Although the Cao army was in chaos in the spear formation, they did not give up. They formed a small scattered formation and used the weapons in their hands to stubbornly attack the cavalry rushing in, stabbing people with their spears, chopping horses with a long sword, or directly pulling the cavalry's legs, pulling them off from the horse and killing them with a random knife.

Cheng Gongying grabbed another war horse. On the crowded battlefield, he used his superb cavalry to barely increase some speed and continued to rush forward. There were still twenty steps ahead to rush through the formation. As long as he could penetrate the formation, the cavalry would become smooth, and the scattered infantry would be vulnerable to the cavalry that increased the speed.

The Cao army also discovered Cheng Gongying's intentions. They rushed towards Cheng Gongying like crazy, cut down randomly, and attacked Cheng Gongying regardless of their lives. Although the spear in Cheng Gongying's hand killed several Cao troops one after another, the war horse was still cut down by the crazy Cao army and was taken down again. The personal guard behind him was also seriously injured after being besieged by Cao's army.

Despite this, Cheng Gongying fought with all his might, passing the orders out, and ordered the cavalry to continue to rush forward. The cavalry found Cheng Gongying who was still charging forward and rushed towards him. Although their speed decreased, they still insisted on moving forward disdainfully. The cavalry that was in contact with Cao's army was constantly chopping and killing, while the cavalry on the inner layer could not reach the cavalry, so they kept shooting with the bows and arrows in their hands.

As each step forward, there are layers of flesh and blood.

Xu Yi saw Cheng Gongying shouting loudly, and saw the precarious battle formation. He sneered and pulled out his long sword, and rushed up with Jingshan Guards. Jingshan Guards were different from those Cao troops who were yelling loudly. They all remained silent and quickly formed a formation behind Xu Yi.

The magic sword created by Pu Yuan flashed, and the ring-headed swords in the hands of two Qiang soldiers were cut off and their heads flew up.

Xu Yi flew up and kicked a Qiang soldier in front of him in the chest. The magic knife in his hand slashed with all his strength, slashing another Qiang soldier and his shield into two halves. In between breaths, he rushed to Cheng Gongying. Jingshan Guard immediately spread his wings behind Xu Yi, headed by Xu Yi, like an eagle with open wings, and killed the Qiang soldier headed by Cheng Gongying.

"Hao!" Xu Yi suddenly shouted loudly, and the long sword was like thunder in the sky, and the lightning came. Cheng Gongying was shouted loudly by his voice, and his mind trembled. Subconsciously, he greeted the spear in his hand, and the flashing spear tip pierced Xu Yi's throat.

"Click!" With a muffled sound, Xu Yi's divine sword slashed on Cheng Gongying's spear handle and bounced up. Xu Yi's eyes tightened, and the shield in his left hand blocked the tip of Cheng Gongying's spear, but his eyes were fixed on his spear handle, and suddenly laughed: "Bamboo handle!"

Cheng Gongying's spear was nailed to the shield in Xu Yi's hand with a "du". He shouted loudly and stabbed it hard, but he couldn't get in. The spear handle in his hand burst out with a crackling sound. More than a dozen bamboos broke, like a blooming flower. Cheng Gongying was shocked. The spear in his hand was different from the spear used by ordinary soldiers. It was a bamboo shank tied together with dozens of bamboos. It was painted with raw paint. It was extremely tough and not much worse than an iron spear. If an ordinary long sword was cut up, it could not be cut at all. It would only be rebounded. Unexpectedly, Xu Yi slashed a little half with one knife, and then stabbed forward with force. The injured spear handle was too hard to hold on, and more than a dozen bamboos broke immediately.

"Know the goods!" Cheng Gongying looked at Xu Yi with appreciation, and abandoned his spear. He pulled out the long sword from his waist in an endless stream, drew the bow and arrow, and fired three arrows in a row. Xu Yi was about to step forward and kill Cheng Gongying, but when he saw him shoot arrows at such a short distance, he was shocked, roared wildly, and took a step forward to the left, and the long sword slashed down like lightning.

Three long arrows were cut off by the sword light like a train. The remaining half of the arrows were slightly weakened and pounced into the chest of a Jingshan Guard. Before the Jingshan Guard could react, he stood there, staring foolishly at the arrow rod that was only one finger long on his chest.

Xu Yi was furious, strode forward, swept across the long sword, and then slashed the two of them, and rushed straight towards Cheng Gongying.

Cheng Gongying sighed, picked up a spear from the ground, and retreated quickly under the escort of his personal guards.

The tenacity of Cao's army played a huge obstacle. Two thousand cavalry were blocked when they were about to rush through Xu Yi's battle formation. The cavalry lost their speed and immediately fell at a disadvantage. At this moment, the fierce Liu Pan, regardless of the possibility of being hit by the subsequent iron cavalry, crashed into the cavalry formation that had lost its speed. His long sword flew, roared like thunder, and killed people in a row, and broke through five steps, like an iron fist, hitting hard on the waist of the cavalry formation. The cavalry had no speed, and was hit in the waist, and then collapsed softly like a person's backbone.

Han Sui shook his head, feeling a little incredible. The four thousand infantry soldiers of Cao army actually blocked the two thousand cavalry. If he continues to kill like this, he is afraid that Cheng Gongying will still be broken inside. He sighed, waved his hand, and was about to send cavalry to charge forward, and then the personal guards next to him screamed: "Growth History has come out."

Han Sui looked up in surprise and saw Cheng Gongying as strong as a tiger. His spear in his hand looked like a strong dragon. He successively killed several Cao soldiers, grabbed a bossless war horse, flew onto a horse, and turned around and overturned a Cao soldiers who followed him, rushing towards Liu Panjun. While accelerating, he shouted: "Revolve, turn, accelerate-"

The horn soldier who had been following him all the time blew the order to fight out.

When the cavalry, who were extremely killed by Cao's army, they abandoned their opponents, turned their horses and rushed west. The two armies quickly separated. Cao's army was seriously damaged and could not keep up with the speed of the cavalry. When they saw the cavalry retreating, they stopped chasing them, and immediately turned around. After a brief contact, the cavalry lost more than 1,000 people, Xu Yi's army lost more than 1,500 people, and Liu Pan's army also lost nearly half. Xu Yi and Liu Pan did not dare to fight again, and took advantage of the opportunity of the cavalry reorganizing their formation and quickly retreated into the valley.

Cheng Gongying came to Han Sui and lowered his head in shame. Two thousand cavalry attacked 4,000 infantry that had fought fiercely for most of the hour, but they did not even break through the formation, and almost broke the entire army inside. This was a very shameful and humiliating person for the Xiliang people.

"Pongying, don't feel guilty. Cao's army's combat power is already strong, so it's not embarrassing to fight like this." Han Sui smiled and was in a good mood: "Don't chase, there are mountains ahead, and the cavalry cannot charge, but the losses will be greater. Let's go back to Longxian."

"No!" Cheng Gongying returned to the team with the remaining cavalry and quietly looked at Cao Jun opposite him.

"The impact of the cavalry is strong." Xiahou said patted Xu Yi on the shoulder: "It's a good thing that you are a powerful general, otherwise, I'm afraid that these two thousand people would not even have any bones left."

Xu Yi wiped the blood from his face, shook his head and said, "This time I'm here to thank Zi Ju for killing in from half of their waists, which disrupted their momentum. Secondly, the other party's equipment is not good. Many soldiers have no stirrups, and the leather armor on their bodies cannot block our crossbows. They were injured first. If it were replaced by two thousand dragon cavalry, I'm afraid Zi Ju and I will die in it today."

Xiahou Cheng nodded with a smile: "You are right, but there is another most important reason. Han Sui doesn't want to fight. If he sends another team of cavalry up, will you still run away? It seems that what you lost today is the strength of other people. Han Suifa feels it was early, and he escaped the disaster and has almost no losses. It's a pity."

Xu Yi nodded and followed her head, looked up into the distance, and saw Han Sui's army standing there quietly, without any intention of rushing up, so she couldn't help laughing. Xiahou said that after observing Han Sui for a while, discussed with Deng Ai, and covered each other and retreated back to the camp.

Han Sui did not follow him. He only had more than 15,000 people now, which did not have a significant advantage compared to Cao's army. More importantly, his baggage was basically burned out. There would be no good result if he could hold on. It would be better to retreat and go back to Xianqian when Cao's army was not very casualties. Everyone has seen the strength of Cao's army, and he has done his best, not afraid of the generals who have no manpower.

Deng Ai and Xiahou said that when they returned to the camp, more than 14,000 people went out, and less than 10,000 people came back, losing more than 4,000 people, most of whom died in the resistance of the cavalry. They also sighed for a moment and sent a scout to inquire. After learning that Han Sui had retreated, they immediately gave the battle report to Cao Chong and Xiahou Yuan.
Chapter completed!