Chapter 292

"My lord, retreat quickly; I will block Dian Wei for you!"

Shouting, Han Dang immediately led the soldiers beside him to charge at the incoming iron-clad spiral-pattern troops!

"Yigong!"

"My lord, retreat quickly!"

With bloodshot eyes, watching Han Dang lead the soldiers into the spiral-pattern troops, Sun Jian felt as if his heart were being cut by a knife!

These iron-clad spiral-pattern troops were the elite under Lin Yang!

He had witnessed them with his own eyes before Hulao Pass years ago!

Using infantry to fight the Xiliang iron cavalry, they were incomparably brave!

"My lord, retreat quickly!"

Zu Mao, standing nearby, could no longer care about anything else!

Now that they had encountered an ambush, they had to fight their way out!

As he spoke, he pulled Sun Jian, Zhou Yu, and others, leading the great army toward the rear!

As long as they escaped this Xianxialing, they could safely withdraw!

As Sun Jian's army fled, Guo Jia, on the hillside, frowned slightly!

"My lord, Sun Jian still has quite a few troops; should we leave him a way out?"

Guo Jia looked at Lin Yang with slight concern!

For this ambush, Lin Yang only had a total of thirty thousand troops!

Taishi Ci led fifteen thousand, currently fighting Sun Jian's vanguard!

Of the ten thousand troops Lin Yang brought, Dian Wei was currently leading four thousand spiral-pattern troops, along with two thousand others, charging Sun Jian's center army!

The remaining four thousand were guarding their safety on the hillside while ready to support all sides!

Thus, the troops responsible for cutting off the rear numbered only five thousand!

And!

They were led by two young generals, Xu Sheng and Ling Cao!

Guo Jia felt particularly unconfident!

Sun Jian's rear army still had ten thousand men, plus the fleeing center army, totaling about twelve thousand!

Could five thousand soldiers wearing fish-scale armor really hold them off?

This was not defending a city!

A force disparity of more than two to one was extremely difficult!

"Fengxiao, rest assured, these are all my elite troops!" Lin Yang looked at the direction Sun Jian fled and spoke with full confidence, "Even if we can't wipe out Sun Jian, we will crush his army!"

Guo Jia looked at Lin Yang; he really wanted to ask where this confidence came from!

But after hesitating, Guo Jia did not ask!

Looking at the stalemate below, Guo Jia sighed, "It's a pity that my lord's fierce fire oil is used up; otherwise, the outcome would have been decided by now!"

In this terrain, if they had rolling logs, giant rocks, and fierce fire oil, the outcome would have been decided in an instant!

Why would they need to send soldiers to fight to the death!

Although the situation on the battlefield was one-sided!

Casualties were inevitable!

Especially Sun Jian's rear army!

If they couldn't be stopped and Sun Jian's troops escaped, there might be future trouble in the battle for Yuzhang Commandery!

Now!

Guo Jia could only hope that Lin Yang had a backup plan!

Just as Guo Jia was thinking, on the other side of the Xianxialing hillside, Ling Cao and Xu Sheng led five thousand troops, lying in ambush in the forest!

"Wenxiang, the lord's side has already started fighting!"

Hearing the intense sounds of slaughter in the distance, Ling Cao and Xu Sheng understood that the battle had begun!

Their mission was to wait here for Sun Jian's fleeing troops and then completely crush them!

Although they only had five thousand men, they were elites specially selected by Lin Yang from the army!

The five thousand soldiers were all clad in fish-scale armor and held shields!

And!

They also had the special weapons given by the lord!

Whether they could achieve total victory in this battle depended on them!

"Boom... boom...."

Just then, in the mountain range in the distance, ten thousand troops came quickly, rushing out of the mountains!

Seeing Sun Jian's great army fleeing, Xu Sheng and Ling Cao looked at each other!

There were quite a few troops!

But they could not be cowards!

"Soldiers, the lord has entrusted us with a heavy responsibility; if we win this battle, Yangzhou can be secured!"

"For the lord, brothers, kill!"

As Xu Sheng and Ling Cao took the lead, the five thousand elite soldiers shouted and welcomed Sun Jian's fleeing army!

"For the lord, kill!"

"For the lord, kill!"

"For the lord, kill!"

"......."

Battle cries rang out, and Sun Jian, Zu Mao, Zhou Yu, and others, who were fleeing, saw that Lin Yang had also set an ambush on their retreat route, and their hearts skipped a beat!

Only!

When they saw that there were only five thousand troops, anger appeared in Sun Jian's eyes!

"Dayong, lead the troops and charge them!"

A mere five thousand soldiers dared to block their army of more than ten thousand!

Did they really think he, the Tiger of Jiangdong, dared not draw his sword?

"Yes, soldiers, kill with me!"

Zu Mao, standing nearby, received the order, and his troops rushed toward Xu Sheng and Ling Cao like a tide!

Seeing the ten thousand troops charging in a vast manner, Xu Sheng and Ling Cao were not afraid at all!

In a narrow path, the brave win!

"Soldiers, raise shields, draw swords!"

Following the shouts of Ling Cao and Xu Sheng, in an instant, the five thousand soldiers raised their wooden shields with one hand and drew the long swords from their waists with the other!

However, as the swords were drawn, Zu Mao, who was charging, looked at the weapons of this group and a disdainful smile appeared on his face!

"Haha, a mere troop of kitchen-knife soldiers dares to block my army!"

The appearance of five thousand kitchen knives made Zu Mao unable to help but smile!

Soldiers of the Han Dynasty generally used long swords, spears, and long lances!

Situations like this, where kitchen knives were drawn to fight!

Zu Mao had only seen it on the Yellow Turban rebels years ago!

"Soldiers, kill this kitchen-knife squad!"

Zu Mao shouted, and the soldiers behind him, who were originally fleeing, relaxed upon seeing the enemies opposite them wielding kitchen knives!

They originally thought that because the opponent wore fish-scale armor, they were Lin Yang's elites!

But they did not expect the opponent's weapons to be so trashy!

Wooden shields, kitchen knives?

In a fight between ordinary soldiers, using this, they could completely crush the opponent!

Just as the ten thousand soldiers under Zu Mao were excited, Zhou Yu, in the rear, frowned deeply!

"Something is wrong, this is wrong!"

Having suffered a loss from Lin Yang once, Zhou Yu could not suffer another!

These kitchen knives and wooden shields looked very ordinary, even a bit embarrassing!

But the more so, the more uneasy Zhou Yu felt!